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3 kwi 2015 · The privy (or outhouse, jakes, house of office, etc.), was the standard urban and rural toilet right into the 20th century in the U.S. Since they were used for all sorts of deposits, they have revealed much about the material culture of the past.
4 cze 2020 · Throughout the paper, the term ‘cesspit’ is used to collectively denote any pit or feature from archaeological sites that contains human faecal remains and other descriptors, such as, cat holes, straddle trenches, sub-rectangular pits, latrines, and privies, will be specifically defined below.
24 mar 2014 · This relativistic perspective on the definition of law within an archaeological context mirrors classic debates of mid-twentieth-century cultural anthropology about whether law and legal practice could realistically be defined and delineated in non-western cultural contexts through the etic application of western definitions of law and their ...
Law has been very important to the development of the idea of preserving material from the past (Carman 2012): laws have always proved a key means by which that preservation was effected. Laws also serve to legitimize the idea of that preservation.
This chapter explores the intersection of the disciplines of law and archaeology, through the lens of the methodology of legal archaeology. Law and archaeology both involve physical and intellectual activity, and connections between law and archaeology can arise in different ways.
archaeology of law. First, and perhaps most familiar, is the field of texts and torts. Texts preserved into later periods or acquired through archaeological and ethnohistoric investigations can provide means for understanding the normative aspects of past legal systems and the prosecution and
18 wrz 2012 · Maritime archaeology has given rise to quite a few issues. The meaning of heritage for the society has undergone changes, and thus, ethical discussion has evolved, which is discussed in this article. Archaeological discourses include a historical review that is helpful in understanding how insights have developed.
