Introduction: rethinking protohistories: texts, material culture and new methodologies

Introduction: Creating New Worlds out of Old Texts Introduction. Creating New Worlds out of Old Texts

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Introduction: Rethinking Science and Religion

Trepanation and Roman medicine: a comparison of osteoarchaeological remains, material culture and written texts.

Evidence for prehistoric trepanation is limited to preserved osteoarchaeological material, namely human skulls, and the occasional discovery of surgical instruments. However, the Roman empire gave rise to an abundant and diverse range of source types, including skeletal remains, material culture and detailed medical texts, each of which harbours the potential to contribute to our understanding ...

Agent-Oriented Methodologies: An Introduction

As an introduction to agent-oriented (AO) meth-odologies, we first describe the characteristics of both agents and multi-agent systems (MASs). This leads to a discussion of what makes an AO methodology that can be used to build an MAS. Finally, we briefly introduce the ten methodolo-gies that are described in the remaining chapters in this book.

Rethinking the Culture Wars Concept

Performance and Counter-Power (1): The Civil Rights Movement and the Civil Sphere1 Sociologists have written much about the social forces that create conflict and polarize society, about the fragmenting structures and compelling powers of political, economic, racial, ethnic, religious, and gender groups. But they have said very little about the construction, destruction, and reconstruction of c...