Rosemary Joyce (Professor of Anthropolog Professor of Anthropology

Future of Nuclear Waste

What Art and Archaeology Can Tell Us about Securing the World's Most Hazardous Material

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, a contemporary archaeologist critically examines designs experts advising the US government suggested to mark nuclear waste sites and prevent their excavation thousands of years into the future: to build either an artificial ruin, or install a landscape scale artwork; and explores why planners thought they would work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9780190888138
• ISBN-10: 019088813X
• Artikelnr.: 58567252

Autorenporträt

Rosemary Joyce is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her previous publications include Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology and, as editor with Barry Cunliffe and Chris Gosden, The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Stonehenge in Nevada
Interlude 1: Forbidding Blocks
Chapter 2: Serpent Mound
Interlude 2: Menacing Earthworks
Chapter 3: Rosetta Stones and Cuneiform Tablets
Interlude 3: Spikes Bursting Through Grid
Chapter 4: Indelible Messages from Newgrange to Kakadu Park
Interlude 4: Australian Art in Nuclear Landscapes
Chapter 5: Enduring Meaning
Conclusion: Stories About Endings
References Cited