Archaeology of the Night: Life After Dark in Ancient World [1st. ed.] 1607326779 , 9781607326779, 9781607326786

Table of contents :
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Jerry D. Moore
Preface
Nancy Gonlin

Section I: Introduction

1. Introduction to the Archaeology of the Night
Nancy Gonlin and April Nowell

Section II: Nightscapes

2. Upper Paleolithic Soundscapes and the Emotional Resonance of Nighttime
April Nowell
3. Classic Maya Nights at Copan, Honduras, and El Cerén, El Salvador
Nancy Gonlin and Christine C. Dixon
4. The Night Is Different: Sensescapes and Affordances in Ancient Arizona
Kathryn Kamp and John C. Whittaker
5. “La Luz de Aceite es Triste”: Nighttime, Community, and Memory in the Colorado–New Mexico Borderlands
Minette C. Church

Section III: The Night Sky

6. Nighttime Sky and Early Urbanism in the High Andes: Architecture and Ritual in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin during the Formative and Tiwanaku Periods
Alexei Vranich and Scott C. Smith
7. Night in Day: Contrasting Ancient and Contemporary Maya and Hindu Responses to Total Solar Eclipses
Anthony F. Aveni
8. In the Sea of Night: Ancient Polynesia and the Dark
Cynthia L. Van Gilder

Section IV: Nocturnal Ritual and Ideology

9. Night Moon Rituals: The Effects of Darkness and Prolonged Ritual on Chilean Mapuche Participants
Tom D. Dillehay
10. Where Night Reigns Eternal: Darkness and Deep Time among the Ancient Maya
Jeremy D. Coltman
11. The Emerald Site, Mississippian Women, and the Moon
Susan M. Alt

Section V: Illuminating the Night

12. A Great Secret of the West: Transformative Aspects of Artificial Light in New Kingdom Egypt
Meghan E. Strong
13. Burning the Midnight Oil: Archaeological Experiments with Early Medieval Viking Lamps
Erin Halstad McGuire

Section VI: Nighttime Practices

14. Engineering Feats and Consequences: Workers in the Night and the Indus Civilization
Rita P. Wright and Zenobie S. Garrett
15. All Rome Is at My Bedside: Nightlife in the Roman Empire
Glenn Reed Storey
16. Midnight at the Oasis: Past and Present Agricultural Activities in Oman
Smiti Nathan
17. Fluid Spaces and Fluid Objects: Nocturnal Material Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa with Special Reference to the Iron Age in Southern Africa
Shadreck Chirikure and Abigail Joy Moffett
18. The Freedom that Nighttime Brings: Privacy and Cultural Creativity among Enslaved Peoples at Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Bahamian Plantations
Jane Eva Baxter

Section VII: Concluding the Night

Afterword: A Portal to a More Imaginative Archaeology
Margaret Conkey
List of Contributors
Index

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