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Luminous Debris : Reflecting on Vestige in Provence and Languedoc / Gustaf Sobin; ed. by Gustaf Sobin.

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Interpreting vestige with the eloquence of a poet and the knowledge of a field archaeologist, Gustaf Sobin explores his elected terrain: the landscapes of Provence and Languedoc. Drawing on prehistory, protohistory, and Gallo-Roman antiquity, the twenty-six essays in this book focus on a particular...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Sobin, Gustaf (Author, Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2000]
Subjects:
Archaeology and history > France, Southern.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I Silex
  • Terra Amata
  • Reading Prehistory: THE SEARCH FOR ANTECEDENTS
  • The First Hunters and the Last
  • Neolithicizing Provence CARDIAL, A CULTURE THAT CAME FROM THE SEA
  • Archeological Rhetoric
  • Moon Goddess SPECULATIONS ON A PICTOGRAPH
  • The Skull with the Seashell Ear
  • West-Southwest
  • A Twilight Industry
  • Stelae THE EMERGENCE OF HUMAN FIGURATION
  • PART II Bronze, and Soon After, Iron
  • On a Bronze Age Earring
  • Echoes in Clay INTERPRETING PICTOGRAPHS IN LATE BRONZE AGE CERAMICS
  • Baby Burials DOMESTIC INHUMATION IN THE IRON AGE
  • Terremare
  • On the Longevity of Toponyms
  • The Cult of Skulls FROM SEVERANCE TO SCULPTURE
  • PART III Under the Raised Trellises
  • Negative Architecture
  • Undulant-Oblique A STUDY OF WAVE PATTERNS ON IONICO-MASSALIAN POTTERY
  • Tracking Hannibal
  • What the Thunder Said
  • Aeria the Evanescent
  • Votive Mirrors A REFLECTION
  • Dream Incubation THE TEMPLE AT RIEZ
  • Fervor and Residue CHASTELARD-LARDIERS
  • Le Pont Flavien AN INSTANCE OF PASSAGE
  • PART IV Aquaeductus
  • Aquaeductus
  • Notes
  • Index

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