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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Preface
Section I: Introduction
1. Introduction to the Archaeology of the Night
Section II: Nightscapes
2. Upper Paleolithic Soundscapes and the Emotional Resonance of Nighttime
3. Classic Maya Nights at Copan, Honduras, and El Cerén, El Salvador
4. The Night Is Different: Sensescapes and Affordances in Ancient Arizona
5. “La Luz de Aceite es Triste”: Nighttime, Community, and Memory in the Colorado–New Mexico Borderlands
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
7. Night in Day: Contrasting Ancient and Contemporary Maya and Hindu Responses to Total Solar Eclipses
8. In the Sea of Night: Ancient Polynesia and the Dark
Section IV: Nocturnal Ritual and Ideology
9. Night Moon Rituals: The Effects of Darkness and Prolonged Ritual on Chilean Mapuche Participants
10. Where Night Reigns Eternal: Darkness and Deep Time among the Ancient Maya
11. The Emerald Site, Mississippian Women, and the Moon
Section V: Illuminating the Night
12. A Great Secret of the West: Transformative Aspects of Artificial Light in New Kingdom Egypt
13. Burning the Midnight Oil: Archaeological Experiments with Early Medieval Viking Lamps
Section VI: Nighttime Practices
14. Engineering Feats and Consequences: Workers in the Night and the Indus Civilization
15. All Rome Is at My Bedside: Nightlife in the Roman Empire
16. Midnight at the Oasis: Past and Present Agricultural Activities in Oman
17. Fluid Spaces and Fluid Objects: Nocturnal Material Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa with Special Reference to the Iron Age in Southern Africa
18. The Freedom that Nighttime Brings: Privacy and Cultural Creativity among Enslaved Peoples at Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Bahamian Plantations
Section VII: Concluding the Night
Afterword: A Portal to a More Imaginative Archaeology
List of Contributors
Index
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