Archaeological Approaches to Breaking Boundaries: Interaction, Integration and Division: Proceedings of the Graduate Archaeology at Oxford Conferences 2015–2016

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This volume brings together two Graduate Archaeology at Oxford (GAO) conferences held in 2015-2016 to present the work of early-career researchers from across the globe. The papers cover a range of periods and regions, but all share the focus of bridging boundaries, whether these are theoretical, methodological or geographic. Some contributors traverse traditional divisions between subjects by integrating computational approaches with early excavation data or archaeology with historical sources to produce 'thick interpretations' of the past. Several papers approach the past as a bilateral process, examining how people shaped and were in return shaped by their interactions with the world around them. In addition, many authors have directly tackled the modern political divides that influence our research. Building on a strong tradition of novel approaches and interdisciplinary methods, these proceedings present current research on directly tackling issues of division head on. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Acknowledgements Table of Contents List of Figures List of Contributors INTRODUCTION ALTERNATIVE VIEWS IN ARCHAEOLOGY MIDDLE BRONZE AGE WEAPONRY IN SCOTLAND: A CASE STUDY IN APPLIED QUEER THEORY THE GREEK ‘COLONISATION’ OF MAGNA GRAECIA. MODERN DIVIDES, HISTORIOGRAPHY, AND ARCHAEOLOGY AGE, SEX, AND KINSHIP IN THE YOUNGER MORAVIAN ÚNĚTICE CULTURE: COMBINING ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL DATA TO RECONSTRUCT SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION AND IDENTITY NATURE, COSMOS, AND SOCIETY IN PREDYNASTIC EGYPT BRIDGING MODERN BORDERS ANIMAL AND MEAT EXPLOITATION STRATEGIES IN THE CELTIC WORLD DURING THE LATE IRON AGE: A CROSS-CHANNEL APPROACH TO FAUNAL REMAINS FROM SOUTHERN/CENTRAL ENGLAND AND NORTHERN FRANCE ASTRAL ASPECTS OF MINOAN AND MYCENAEAN RELIGION: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MINOAN GODDESS, HATHOR, AND THEIR ASTRAL MANIFESTATIONS AN EARLY ANGLO-SAXON NETWORK: LONG-DISTANCE CONTACTS AND DEVELOPMENT IN HAMPSHIRE AND IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE: CROSSING PROFESSIONAL AND DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES IN THE LAND OF BOUDICA CHANGE THROUGH TIME MUMMIFIED CROCODILES: FROM DEITY TO COMMODITY? ABORIGINAL MATERIAL CULTURE ADAPTATIONS IN RESPONSE TO CANADIAN MARITIME COLONIALISM: BRIDGING A HERMENEUTIC DIVIDE MISREADING THE MARSHES: PAST AND PRESENT PERCEPTIONS OF THE EAST ANGLIAN FENS, UK SUSTAINABLE ROMANS? EXPLORING THE FLEXIBILITY OF THE URBAN WATER CYCLE IN ROMAN OSTIA TEXT AND ARCHAEOLOGY NAVAL WARFARE OF THE MING DYNASTY (1368-1644): A COMPARISON BETWEEN CHINESE MILITARY TEXTS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOURCES THE EARLY HISTORY OF NAUKRATIS: TEXT, ARCHAEOLOGY, AND THE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY INSCRIPTIONS AND THEIR OBJECTS: APPROACHING AN ARTEFACT TYPE IN MULTIPLE TIMES AND PLACES AN ANTIQUARIAN APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF THE ROMAN PORT OF RAVENNA COMPUTATIONAL METHODS COUNTING HECTARES: AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF EARLY MEDIEVAL AGRICULTURAL ESTATES IN SOUTHERN SCOTLAND A METHOD TO DETERMINE PORTAGE ROUTES: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE SAÔNE AND MOSELLE RIVERS (FRANCE) IN ROMAN GAUL APPROACHING MULTI-SIDED AEGEAN SEALS WITH MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FORAGING RHYTHMS: MODELLING HUMAN MOBILITY AND ECODYNAMICS IN THE CARIBBEAN ARCHAIC AGE COMPUTER SCIENCE AND OLD EXCAVATIONS: THE CASE OF BYBLOS ENVIRONMENT GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT? ISSUES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR SMALL VERTEBRATE ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL DATABASES THE CONTRIBUTION OF ARCHAEOLOGY TO THE STUDY OF HISTORICAL DISASTERS SETTLEMENT HISTORY OF A LOST NICHE: THE FLOURISHING PAST OF A MODERN SOUTHWEST IRANIAN BADLAND LAND-USE AND MEDIEVAL AGRARIAN SOCIETIES: BREAKING THE DICHOTOMY OF PERIPHERY AND CORE IN APULIA, SOUTHERN ITALY PEOPLE, FIELDS, AND TERRITORIALITY IN THE PREHISPANIC PERIOD. A GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACH IN THE ZACAPU REGION, MICHOACÁN, MEXICO, BETWEEN THE SEVENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES AD ART AND THE WIDER WORLD ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION IN ICONOGRAPHY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH COMBINING ZOOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND ARCHAEOLOGY THERAN DEPICTIONS OF NATURE AND THE PHENOMENON OF MINOANISATION ‘FROM THE SEA TO THE MOON’: MARITIME INFLUENCE ON CHIMÚ ICONOGRAPHY (AD 900-1470), NORTH COAST OF PERU IDEAL, REAL AND IMAGINED – GENERATING VALUE AND IDENTITY: BOTANIC MOTIFS OF THE BRONZE AGE CYCLADIC ISLANDS