Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Written Artefacts, Transmitted Literature and Missing Evidence: An Introduction 1
4. Absence of Evidence: Lost or Neglected
5. The Lost Libraries: An Archaeology of Maya Books 13
6. Missing Evidence and Clues to Evidence, a Dialectic Process: The Apostolic Tradition 65
7. Reconstructing the Book of Zambasta: The Role of ‘Missing Evidence’ 95
8. Quantity of Evidence: Too Little or Too Much
9. Identifying Missing Evidence in an Abundant Cuneiform Corpus 119
10. Minding the Gap: The Administrative Documents of the Old Kingdom and the Wadi el-Jarf Archive 147
11. Some Methodological Reflections Concerning Ancient Chinese Manuscripts 161
12. Quality of Evidence: Fragmentary or Contradictory
13. Missing Evidence and Evidence Dismissed: Mycenaean Archaeology and Its Struggle with Contemporary Written Sources 201
14. Direct and Indirect Evidence about Etruscans: Partial and Contradictory Views 221
15. In Lieu of a Conclusion
16. Missing, Lost, and Forgotten Sources: Some Thoughts on the Situation in Ancient India 253
17. Contributors
18. Indices