Egypt
Aardvarchaeology (Martin Rundkvist)
What Makes Civilization?
David Wengrow
Oxford University Press
2010
- New Book: What Makes Civilization?
OUP Blog In What Makes Civilization?, archaeologist David Wengrow provides a vivid new account of the ‘birth of civilization’ in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (today’s Iraq). These two regions, where many foundations of modern life were laid, are...
- Heritage Branding - Cleopatra's Cosmetics And Hammurabi's Heineken
EurekAlert From at least Bass Ale’s red triangle—advertised as “the first registered trademark”—commodity brands have exerted a powerful hold over modern Western society. Marketers and critics alike have assumed that branding began in the West...
- Rosetta Online Journal - Issue 02 2007
http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/Issue_02/Gregory.htm The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham released the second issue of the online journal "Rosetta" which covers a wide scope of archaeology, history and classics subjects....
- Book Review: The Archaeology Of Early Egypt
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/reviews/06_08_wengrow.htm A detailed review by Alice Stevenson of David Wengrow's The Archaeology of Early Egypt: "The Archaeology of Early Egypt is ambitious in scope covering the period from the end of the last Ice...
- Book: The Archaeology Of Early Egypt
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521543746 Thanks to Geoffrey Tassie for the information that a new book on early Egypt is forthcoming: The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North East Africa, 10,000 to 2650 BC...
Egypt
Book Review: What Makes Civilization?
Aardvarchaeology (Martin Rundkvist)
What Makes Civilization?
David Wengrow
Oxford University Press
2010
Reviewing David Wengrow's What Makes Civilization? is made difficult by the discrepancy between its title and its contents. Out of about 240 pp in total, only ~180 are intended to be read, the rest being comprised of bibliography, index etc. And these pages do not offer meditation on the necessary conditions or definition of civilisation. Instead, a series of observations on the early state societies of the Middle East and Egypt fill the first 150 pp, and then the modern reception of these cultures is covered on 30 pp.
- New Book: What Makes Civilization?
OUP Blog In What Makes Civilization?, archaeologist David Wengrow provides a vivid new account of the ‘birth of civilization’ in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (today’s Iraq). These two regions, where many foundations of modern life were laid, are...
- Heritage Branding - Cleopatra's Cosmetics And Hammurabi's Heineken
EurekAlert From at least Bass Ale’s red triangle—advertised as “the first registered trademark”—commodity brands have exerted a powerful hold over modern Western society. Marketers and critics alike have assumed that branding began in the West...
- Rosetta Online Journal - Issue 02 2007
http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/Issue_02/Gregory.htm The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham released the second issue of the online journal "Rosetta" which covers a wide scope of archaeology, history and classics subjects....
- Book Review: The Archaeology Of Early Egypt
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/reviews/06_08_wengrow.htm A detailed review by Alice Stevenson of David Wengrow's The Archaeology of Early Egypt: "The Archaeology of Early Egypt is ambitious in scope covering the period from the end of the last Ice...
- Book: The Archaeology Of Early Egypt
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521543746 Thanks to Geoffrey Tassie for the information that a new book on early Egypt is forthcoming: The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North East Africa, 10,000 to 2650 BC...