Archaeological science, methodology and techniques Books
The Squeeze Press Ancient Metrology, Vol I: A Numerical Code -
Book SynopsisThe first of three volumes of John Neal's collected works. "Not only is the megalithic system largely ignored by archaeologists, it is opposed - even by the numerate among their ranks. This position is now untenable, as it can be shown that the megalithic yard shared an origin with the Sumerian cubit. And the foot-measure used in England - equivalent to a Greek foot - proves to have played a pivotal role in the whole metrological system. It is ironic that just as it is being thrown on the scrap heap of history, its historical importance is beginning to be recognised." Professor Michael Vickers, University of Oxford, review of Neal's work in Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science. 2001.
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Anness Publishing Practical Handbook of Archaeology
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network
Book SynopsisNetwork research has recently been adopted as one of the tools of the trade in archaeology, used to study a wide range of topics: interactions between island communities, movements through urban spaces, visibility in past landscapes, material culture similarity, exchange, and much more. This Handbook is the first authoritative reference work for archaeological network research, featuring current topical trends and covering the archaeological application of network methods and theories. This is elaborately demonstrated through substantive topics and case studies drawn from a breadth of periods and cultures in world archaeology. It highlights and further develops the unique contributions made by archaeological research to network science, especially concerning the development of spatial and material culture network methods and approaches to studying long-term network change. This is the go-to resource for students and scholars wishing to explore how network science can be applied in archTable of Contents1: Matthew A. Peeples, Jessica Munson, Barbara J. Mills, and Tom Brughmans: Introduction Part I: Archaeological Networks in Practice 2: Clara Filet and Fabrice Rossi: Network Methods and Properties 3: Matthew A. Peeples, John M. Roberts, Jr, and Yi Yin: Challenges for Network Research in Archaeology 4: Benjamin Bach and Mereke van Garderen: Beyond the Node-Link Diagram: A Fast Forward about Network Visualization for Archaeology 5: Per Östborn and Henrik Gerding: Inference from Archaeological Similarity Networks Part II: Material Culture Networks 6: Jennifer Birch: Material Networks and Culture Change 7: Elliot H. Blair: Material Culture Similarity and Co-occurrence Networks 8: Daniel Sosna: Mortuary Archaeology Networks 9: Mark Golitko: Geochemical Networks 10: Sarah M. Griffin and Florian Klimm: Networks and Museum Collections Part III: Geographical Networks 11: Diego Jiménez-Badillo: Nearest and Relative Neighbourhood Networks 12: Ray Rivers, Tim Evans, and Eleftheria Paliou: Gravity and Maximum Entropy Models 13: Irmela Herzog: Transportation Networks and Least-Cost Paths 14: Mu-Chun Wu: Space Syntax and Pedestrian Modelling 15: Zoran %Cu%ckovi'c: Visibility Networks 16: Eduardo Apolinaire and Laura Bastourre: Hydrographic Networks Part IV: Network Simulation 17: Iza Romanowska: Complexity Science and Networks in Archaeology 18: Wendy H. Cegielski: Networks, Agent-Based Modeling, and Archaeology 19: Viviana Amati: Random Graph Models Part V: Biological Networks 20: Kent M. Johnson: Biodistance Networks 21: Stefani A. Crabtree and Jennifer A. Dunne: Food Webs Part VI: Text-Based Networks 22: Claire Lemercier: Historical and Archaeological Network Data 23: Diane Harris Cline and Jessica Munson: Epigraphic Networks in Cross-Cultural Perspective 24: Valeria Vitale and Rainer Simon: Linked Data Networks: How, Why and When to Apply Network Analysis to LOD 25: Allison Mickel, Anthony Sinclair, and Tom Brughmans: Knowledge Networks 26: Vojt%ech Ka%se, Tomá%s Glomb, and Jan Fousek: Networks and Religious Transformations Part VII: Cultural Transmission and Human Evolution 27: Valéria Romano and Sergi Lozano: Perspectives on Human Behavioural Evolution from Primate Networks 28: Claudine Gravel-Miguel, and Fiona Coward: Palaeolithic Social Networks and Behavioural Modernity 29: Briggs Buchanan and Marcus J. Hamilton: Networks and Cultural Transmission in Hunter-Gatherer Societies Part VIII: Movement, Exchange, and Flows through Networks 30: Justin Leidwanger: Maritime Networks 31: Barbara J. Mills and Matthew A. Peeples: Migration and Archaeological Network Research 32: Marek Vlach: Network Modelling of the Spread of Disease 33: Shawn Graham and Damien Huffer: The Antiquities Trade and Digital Networks: Or, the Supercharging Effect of Social Media on the Rise of the Amateur Antiquities Trader Part IX: Assessing the Structural Characteristics of Networks 34: Matthew Pailes: Social Networks and Inequality 35: Erik Gjesfjeld: Networks and Catastrophes 36: Jelena Gruji'c and Miljana Radivojevi'c: Community Detection 37: Scott G. Ortman: Settlement Scaling Analysis as Social Network Analysis 38: Jacob Holland-Lulewicz: Networks and Sociopolitical Organization Part X: Looking Ahead and Beyond 39: Ulrik Brandes: Archaeological Network Science 40: John Edward Terrell: Network Models and the Past: Relational Thinking and Contingency Analysis 41: Carl Knappett and Angus Mol: Network Epistemologies in Archaeology 42: Jessica Munson, Barbara J. Mills, Tom Brughmans, and Matthew A. Peeples: Anticipating the Next Wave of Archaeological Network Research
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Berghahn Books Innovation and Implementation: Critical
Book Synopsis Providing a comprehensive set of guidance to assist researchers wishing to carry out, curate and disseminate field research at a historic burial ground, chapters offer up to date methods for surface and subsurface survey and for the recording and archiving of burial monument data. Divided into three parts considering documentary research and recording of mortuary landscapes, reflections on memorial recording projects, and archiving and wider dissemination of data and interpretations. Also included is the archaeological potential of pet cemeteries and other pet memorials. Discussions therefore include how methodologies may or may not be applicable to both human and animal subjects.Trade Review “…the chapters provide a clear description of historic cemetery archaeological practices, giving individuals a better idea of potential archaeological projects and careers and the challenges faced by those in the field.” • Heather Garvin, Des Moines University “This is a timely, well-organized volume that focuses on new and updated approaches toward cemetery studies. The 14 chapters outline different but complimentary methodologies in cemetery studies and their application over a cross section of global locations.” • Nancy E. Tatarek, Ohio UniversityTable of Contents List of illustrations List of tables Acknowledgements Introduction Harold Mytum and Richard Veit Part I: Exploring Surface, Subsurface and Documentary Evidence Chapter 1. Applying Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to Record and Interpret Mortuary Monuments Harold Mytum Chapter 2. Reevaluating Empty Sections Within Historic Cemeteries: Discovering Victims of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Mark Nonestied Chapter 3. Is Anyone Out There? Survey and Research Techniques for CRM Projects when Burial Grounds/Cemeteries Border Construction Projects Mickey Dobbin and Bob Dean Chapter 4. Who Lies Where? A Land and Air-based Survey Methodology for Documenting Historic Cemeteries Richard W. Hunter, James S. Lee III, Alexis Alemy and Evan Mydlowski Part II: Field Recording of Monuments and Burial Ground Management Chapter 5. Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Evaluating Earlier Cemetery Monument Records through Modern Recording Anne G. Giesecke and Dan Steffen Chapter 6. An International Mortuary Monument Recording System - From Site Analysis to International Comparative Studies Harold Mytum Chapter 7. “As Old as Pompeii or Herculaneum”: Kolkata, India’s South Park Street Cemetery, An Example of Rapid Recording Richard Veit Chapter 8. Standing for Sacred Spaces: NC Division of Cultural Resources and the African American Burial Ground Network Act Melissa A Timo Chapter 9. Mourning and Remembering Deceased Companion Species: Mortuary Monuments and Graves for Horses in Finland Tiina Äikäs, Janne Ikäheimo, Tuija Kirkinen, Karin Hemmann, and Päivi Laine Chapter 10. Preserving the Rainbow Bridge: Recording Pet Cemeteries Eric Tourigny Part III: Archiving and Dissemination Chapter 11. Discovering England's Burial Spaces (DEBS): Using Digital Tools in Graveyard Recording and Archiving Julian D Richards, Toby Pillatt, Debbie Maxwell, Gareth Beale and Nicole Smith Chapter 12. The Cemetery Surveyor Application: Non-paper data Collection Methods in Luxembourg Burial Grounds Christoph K. Streb, Cyrille Médard de Chardon, and Thomas Kolnberger Chapter 13. Burial Grounds on the Web: Reviewing the Role of Digital Data beyond Genealogy, and how Historical Archaeology can play its part Anna Fairley Nielsson Chapter 14. Burial Ground Recording and Analysis: Where Next? Harold Mytum and Richard Veit Index
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HarperCollins Publishers First Steps How Walking Upright Made Us Human
Book SynopsisHumans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to gain from bipedalism.First Steps takes our ordinary, everyday walking experience and reveals how unusual and extraordinary it truly is. The seven-million-year-long journey through the origins of upright walking shows how it was in fact a gateway to many of the other attributes that make us humanfrom our technological skills and sociality to our thirst for exploration.DeSilva uses early human evolution to explain the instinct that propels a crawling infant to toddle onto two feet, differences between how men and women tend to walk, physical costs of upright walking, including hernias, varicose veins and backache, and the challenges of childbirth imposed by a bipedal pelvis. And he theorises that upright walking may have laid the foundation for the traits of comTrade Review‘A book that strides confidently across complex terrain, laying out what we know about how walking works, who started doing it and when … DeSilva is a genial companion on this stroll through the deep origins of walking … Illuminating’ New York Times ‘This is breezy popular science at its best, interweaving anecdotes from the field and lab with scientific findings and the occasional pop culture reference … compelling’ Science News ‘Before our ancestors thought symbolically, before they used fire, before they made stone tools, or even entered the open savanna, our ancestors walked upright. In one way or another, this odd locomotory style has underwritten the whole spectrum of our vaunted human uniquenesses, from our manual dexterity to our hairless bodies, and our large brains. In the modern world it even influences the way other people recognise us at a distance, and it is crucial to our individual viability. In this authoritative but charmingly discursive and accessible book, Jeremy DeSilva lucidly explains how and why.’ Ian Tattersall, author of Masters of the Planet and The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack ‘Master anatomist and paleontologist Jeremy DeSilva makes no bones about the fact that when looking at fossils “I let myself be emotional …” Thus does this world expert and gifted story teller take us on a tour through the sprawling, complicated, saga of human origins. Drawing on his personal knowledge of topics ranging from sports medicine to childcare and his acquaintance with a host of colourful characters –whether lying inert in museum drawer, sitting behind microscopes or feuding with one other – DeSilva adds flesh and projects feelings onto the bones he studies, a tour de force of empathic understanding.’ Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, author of Mother Nature and Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
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Cambridge University Press Network Science in Archaeology
Book SynopsisThis book covers a vast range of network science techniques that can enhance archaeological research: network data collection and management, exploratory network analysis, sampling issues and sensitivity analysis, spatial networks, and network visualisation. It will be a key educational resource students and teachers.Table of Contents1. Introducing network science for archaeology; 2. Putting network science to work in archaeological research; 3. Network data; 4. Exploratory network analysis; 5. Quantifying uncertainty in archaeological networks; 6. Network visualisation; 7. Spatial networks and networks in space; 8. Uniting theory and method for archaeological network research; Appendix A: Answers for exercises; Appendix B: Software; Glossary.
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Cambridge University Press Knowledge Discovery from Archaeological Materials
Book SynopsisThis Element highlights the employment within archaeology of classification methods developed in the field of chemometrics, artificial intelligence, and Bayesian statistics. These operate in both high- and low-dimensional environments and often have better results than traditional methods. The basic principles and main methods are introduced with recommendations for when to use them.
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Oxbow Books Temporary Palaces: The Great House in European
Book SynopsisThe Great Houses of the prehistoric and early medieval periods were enormous structures whose forms were modelled on those of domestic dwellings. Most were built of wood rather than stone; they were used over comparatively short periods; they were frequently replaced in the same positions; and some were associated with exceptional groups of artefacts. Their construction made considerable demands on human labour and approached the limits of what was possible at the time. They seem to have played specialised roles in ancient society, but they have been difficult to interpret. Were they public buildings or the dwellings of important people? Were they temples or military bases, and why were they erected during times of crisis or change? How were their sites selected, and how were they related to the remains of a more ancient past? Although their currency extended from the time of the first farmers to the Viking Age, the similarities between the Great Houses are as striking as the differences.This study focuses on the monumental buildings of northern and northwestern Europe, but draws on structures over a wide area, extending from Anatolia as far as Brittany and Norway. It employs ethnography as a source of ideas and discusses the concept of the House Society and its usefulness in archaeology. The main examples are taken from the Neolithic and Iron Age periods, but this account also draws on the archaeology of the first millennium AD. The book emphasises the importance of comparing archaeological sequences with one another rather than identifying ideal social types. In doing so, it features a range of famous and less famous sites, from Stonehenge to the Hill of Tara, and from Old Uppsala to Yeavering.Trade ReviewA stimulating review. * British Archaeology *[T]his is wide-ranging and thought-provoking book which should be read by anyone interested in the architecture of European prehistory but equally by early-medieval archaeologists engaged in buildings and their meanings. * Medieval Archaeology *Table of ContentsPART ONE: A PROBLEM SHARED Chapter One ‘Nobody on earth knew of another building like it.’ Chapter Two From Anatolia to Zealand: an A to Z of Great Houses PART TWO: DREAM HOUSES Chapter Three From the foundations Chapter Four Castles in the air PART THREE: SETTING THE HOUSE IN ORDER Chapter Five On a larger scale Chapter Six Social distances Chapter Seven Halls of residence and Halls of Fame Chapter Eight Building societies: a summary and some conclusions
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Archaeopress Archaeology: What It Is, Where It Is, and How to
Book SynopsisArchaeology: What It Is, Where It Is, and How to Do It has been written as a practical introduction on the investigation of the material remains of the past which can be interpreted with contemporary historical and literary evidence. The book also explains where to find this evidence and what to do next. Many aspects of archaeological investigation are discussed, including aerial and ground survey, excavation and fieldwork, recording methods, soil sampling and small finds.Trade Review'A very useful basic introduction to archaeology.' – Mick Aston'I wish this book had been available when I started out in archaeology back in the 1960s. It tells you everything you need to know in order to decide what sort of archaeology you’d like to learn more about. It doesn’t just deal with digging; instead it introduces you to aerial photography, geophysics, surveying, recording, finds processing, soil science and how to take samples – in fact all the subjects you’ll need to master if you want to become a field archaeologist. It’s well written and beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout. It would be cheap at twice the price!' – Francis PryorTable of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter One: Documentary Sources ; Chapter Two: Aerial Survey for Archaeologists ; Chapter Three: Ground Survey ; Chapter Four: Archaeological Field Survey ; Chapter Five: Site Excavation and the Site Grid ; Chapter Six: Recording Methods: The drawn record ; Chapter Seven: Recording Methods: The written record ; Chapter Eight: Recording Stone and Timber ; Chapter Nine: Recording Skeletons ; Chapter Ten: Soil Sampling ; Chapter Eleven: Small Finds ; Chapter Twelve: What Next? ; Suggested Reading ; Index
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Archaeopress The Not Very Patrilocal European Neolithic:
Book SynopsisTwo decades of strontium isotope research on Neolithic European burials – reinforced by high-profile ancient DNA studies – has led to widespread interpretations that these were patrilocal societies, implying significant residential mobility for women. The Not Very Patrilocal European Neolithic questions that narrative from a social anthropological perspective on kinship. It introduces models for inferring residence and descent with isotope and genetic data and provides in-depth descriptions of archaeological kinship analysis. From social anthropological insights to reassessments of data, an alternative perspective on the social dynamics of Neolithic European societies emerges from this new guide for prehistorians working with biological and archaeological materials.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Corporate Kin Groups, Marriage, Residence, and Postmortem Location ; Neolithic European Kinship: Dental Strontium Isotope Ratios ; Neolithic European Kinship: aDNA ; ‘Supporting Evidence’ ; Archaeological Kinship Analysis ; Neolithic European Kinship: Archaeology ; The Very Bilocal, Bilateral European Neolithic ; Glossary ; References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Great British Dig: History in Your Back
Book SynopsisThe Great British Dig brings history and archaeology closer to home than ever before. Each week a team of archaeologists (led by presenter Hugh Dennis) descend on streets and gardens the length and breadth of the country to discover the treasures we have been living right on top of without realising. In this official tie-in book, on-screen expert Dr Chloë Duckworth digs deeper into the sites the show visited, as well as giving practical tips and advice for anyone who wants to have a go themselves. Uncovering a lost world of human stories just a few shovelfuls beneath our feet, Chloë explores the team’s techniques in fascinating detail, offering new insights and explanations about the discoveries made. As well as revealing the actual frontier of the Roman Empire in Britain, the Tudor palace of an Elizabethan spymaster, a revolutionary Victorian prison, a Second World War military base, and a prehistoric village under a school playing field, Chloë includes lots of information for anyone wanting to give it a go themselves. The book is packed with features, tip boxes and practical advice about digging in your own back garden, researching your local area for clues about what might have been there centuries ago, and dating things you may find. Highly illustrated, the book includes images never seen on screen, as well as archive photos and illustrations that bring history to life, and identification guides to bones, pottery, tools, coins and other things you might come across yourself. Foreword by Hugh Dennis, presenter of The Great British Dig.Trade ReviewA beautiful book, bursting with accounts of archaeological digs, practical information and rich historical context. It will be treasured by fans of history and archaeology. * Dan Snow, historian and TV presenter *My first brush with the wonderful world of archaeology was, as a child, discovering tiny pieces of pottery in my own back garden. With excavations in gardens all over the UK, this book reveals the astonishing breadth of British archaeology – in a brilliantly accessible way. * Professor Alice Roberts, anthropologist, author and TV presenter *This book gives a brilliant blow-by blow account of how archaeologists approach excavations. By using a combination of science, interpretation and research it clearly shows how the process of archaeological digging actually happens – and doubles up as a ‘how-to’ guide. * Raksha Dave, President of the Council for British Archaeology *BOOK OF THE MONTH - With fascinating explorations of sites from the show and advice on your own findings, The Great British Dig will help you to explore the fascinating history that can be found close to home. * Countryside magazine *A joy to read. Beautifully presented and crammed with colour photos. Duckworth’s brightly conversational prose zips along, offering behind-the-scenes insights and dashes of humour. * Current Archaeology *An accessible and engaging introductory handbook - a no-nonsense guide that is bound to get you thinking like an archaeologist and make you want to dive into some muddy detective work in no time. * Minerva *An engaging, accessible introduction to practical archaeology, and arms the home enthusiast with the knowledge to start their own dig. * Who Do You Think You Are? magazine *A good archaeological primer. * British Archaeology *Visually splendid. Enthusiastically written. Easy to follow. Lots of practical advice. Ground-breaking stuff. * Best of British *Practical advice… a must-read for fans of the series. * This England *This book acts as a great reminder of why many of us fall for archaeology in the first place…an accessible and engaging introductory handbook * Minerva *Table of ContentsForeword by Hugh Dennis Introduction DIG 1: Cosmopolitan Romans (Benwell, Newcastle Upon Tyne) Identification guide: Roman and prehistoric ceramics Practical guide 1: Gathering your tools DIG 2: Medieval Life and Death (Masham, Yorkshire) Practical guide 2: Researching your local area DIG 3: Rebellious Monks (Lenton, Nottingham) DIG 4: War and Peace (Trow Point, South Shields) Identification guide: Coins Practical guide 3: Digging legally and safely DIG 5: From Mill to POW Camp (Oldham, Greater Manchester) Identification guide: Porcelain and its imitations DIG 6: The Final Frontier (Falkirk, Stirlingshire) Identification guide: Glass bottles Practical guide 4: Laying out your trench DIG 7: The Conquerors’ Castle (West Derby, Liverpool) Identification guide: Medieval ceramics Practical guide 5: All about soil DIG 8: Gardens of Power (Beningbrough, York) Identification guide: Metal small finds Practical guide 6: Excavating finds and features DIG 9: Poverty and Redemption (Oswestry, Shropshire) Identification guide: Clay pipes DIG 10: Out on the Grange (Biggin Hall, Coventry) DIG 11: Crime and Punishment (Devizes, Wiltshire) Practical guide 7: Recording your findings DIG 12: Royalists and Parliamentarians (King’s Lynn, Norfolk) Identification guide: Animal bones DIG 13: The Spymaster’s House (Odiham, Hampshire) Practical guide 8: Caring for finds DIG 14: Prehistoric Mysteries (Stretton, East Staffordshire) Practical guide 9: Carry on digging!
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The History Press Ltd The Archaeology of Disease
Book SynopsisThe Archaeology of Disease shows how the latest scientific and archaeological techniques can be used to identify the common illnesses and injuries that humans suffered from in antiquity. In order to give a vivid picture of ancient disease and trauma the authors present the results of the latest scientific research and incorporate information gathered from documents, from other areas of archaeology and from art and ethnography. This comprehensive approach to the subject throws fresh light on the health of our ancestors and on the conditions in which they lived, and it gives us an intriguing insight into the ways in which they coped with the pain and discomfort of their existence.
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Royal Society of Chemistry Archaeological Chemistry
Book SynopsisThe use of chemistry in archaeology can help archaeologists answer questions about the nature and origin of the many organic and inorganic finds recovered through excavation, providing valuable information about the social history of humankind. This textbook tackles the fundamental issues in chemical studies of archaeological materials. Examining the most widely used analytical techniques in archaeology, the third edition of this comprehensive textbook features a new chapter on proteomics, capturing significant developments in protein recognition for dating and characterisation. The textbook has been updated to encompass the latest developments in the field. The textbook explores several archaeological investigations in which chemistry has been employed in tracing the origins of or in studying artefacts, and includes chapters on obsidian, ceramics, glass, metals and resins. It is an essential companion to students in archaeological science and chemistry, as well as to archaeologists, and those involved in conserving human artefacts.Trade ReviewThis is a book which must be read by all serious students of archaeology and also by those like me who would like to know more about the past. -- Edward R. Adlard * Chromatographia *Table of ContentsThe Development of Archaeological Chemistry; Analytical Techniques Applied to Archaeological; Obsidian Characterization in the Eastern Mediterranean; The Geochemistry of Clays and the Provenance of Ceramics; The Chemistry, Corrosion and Provenance of Archaeological Glass; The Chemical Study of Metals – the Medieval and Later Brass Industry in Europe; The Chemistry and Use of Resinous Substances; Amino Acid Stereochemistry and the First Americans; Lead Isotope Geochemistry and the Trade in Metals; Proteins: Haemoglobin, Immunochemistry, and Proteomics; The Chemistry of Human Bone: Diet, Nutrition, Status and Mobility; The Detection of Small Biomolecules: Dairy Products in the Archaeological Record; Summary – Whiter Archaeological Chemistry?
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Oxbow Books Ecology of a Tool: The ground stone axes of Irian
Book SynopsisNew Guinea, and especially Papua New Guinea, is the last country in the world where ethnologists were able to closely observe, film and photograph the whole manufacturing chaînes opératoires of polished stone felling tools, from quarry extraction to finished tool use. Research on the polished blades of PNG has evolved over the years, following changing philosophies and research agendas. While it is clear that an exceptional sum of information has been gathered, it remains centered on that small part of the Highlands where conditions for field research were more pleasant than elsewhere. Our presentation of Irian Jaya axes therefore tackles a topic that remains mostly unexplored. Until now, stone tool research in New Guinea has followed an anthropocentric approach, in which tools are seen more as vectors for social exchanges than as means of acting on the environment.This monograph will take a different approach. Here, polished stone blades are placed at the center of the world, between, on one side, the transformed natural environment, and, on the other, the social and economic environment. This approach will allow us to suggest new avenues of inference in archaeology, as well as to test and abandon existing ones.In this volume, the stone blade is considered as a living being, existing in balance within its biotope. This idea is not far removed from the beliefs of Irian Jaya farmers, for whom life animates certain objects of their material culture.Following a brief presentation of Irian Jaya, we will describe the function of polished stone blades in Irian Jaya societies and the distribution of hafting styles, define and study the quarrying zones and the areas of diffusion and use of their production, and, if possible, the different trends noted in each area of polished blade production and exchanges. Finally, we will conclude with a discussion of the ethnoarchaeological potential of these contemporary observations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface (by Polly Wiessner) Introduction Foreword to the English edition 1. Polished stone blades as means of social and technical reproduction 1.1. An island open to global economies 1.2. Raw material determinisms 1.3. Axes and Adzes 2. The Yeleme quarries (Kp. Paniai) and the polished blades of Central Irian Jaya 2.1. Rocks from the upper Ye-I River 2.2. The Wang-Kob-Me quarry 2.3. The Brahire quarry in Ye-Ineri 2.4. Blocks from the bed of the Ye-I River 2.5. From roughout to axe in Wano country 2.6. The Axe Trail 2.7. Accessing roughouts: the Yamo Dani perspective 2.8. From roughout to axe among the Yamo Dani 2.9. The expansion of the Western Dani and the acceleration of exchanges 2.10. The Baliem and the realm of adzes 2.11. Axes and adzes, the prestige of stone blades 2.12. Partners and strangers: the limitation of exchanges 3. Material and social techniques of the Dani: black rocks and greenschists 3.1. The black rocks of Gomburu (Kp. Paniai) 3.2. The black rocks of Tagi (Kp. Jayawijaya) 3.3. Black rock axes and sacred objects 3.4. The quarries of Awigobi and greenschist blades 3.5. Ye-yao, the exchange axes 4. Adzes of the Eastern Highlands (Kp. Jayawijaya) 4.1. From rock to adze in Langda 4.2. Stone blade production in the Phu Valley and the westward expansion of adzes 4.3. Yamyhl, Red Digul and the Seashell Trail 5. Ormu-Wari and the Lowland axes 5.1. The Mumugo Valley and schist axes 5.2. Ormu and marriage axes 6. The polished blades of Irian Jaya, a synthesis 6.1. A shared background: the balance between natural environment, modes of subsistence and population density 6.2. Rocks and types of sources 6.3. Quarry access and the social context of quarrying 6.4. Quarrying techniques 6.5. Duration of the quarrying events 6.6. From rock to polished blade: segmentation of the chaîne opératoire 6.7. Shaping roughouts: raw material determinisms 6.8. Manufacture and specialization 6.9. Polishing and polishing stones 6.10. Axes and adzes 6.11. Intensity of polishing 6.12. Length of the stone blades 6.13. Handles for felling tools 6.14. Circulation of the blades 6.15. Stone blades for the living 7. Postface
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Oxbow Books Exploring Archaeoastronomy: A History of its
Book SynopsisArchaeoastronomy and archaeology are two distinct fields of study which examine the cultural aspect of societies, but from different perspectives. Archaeoastronomy seeks to discover how the impact of the skyscape is materialised in culture, by alignments to celestial events or sky-based symbolism; yet by contrast, archaeology's approach examines all aspects of culture, but rarely considers the sky. Despite this omission, archaeology is the dominant discipline while archaeoastronomy is relegated to the sidelines. The reasons for archaeoastronomy’s marginalised status may be found by assessing its history. For such an exploration to be useful, archaeoastronomy cannot just be investigated in a vacuum but must be contextualised by exploring other contemporaneous developments, particularly in archaeology. On the periphery of both, there are various strands of esoteric thought and pseudoscientific theories which paint an alternative view of monumental remains and these also play a part in the background.The discipline of archaeology has had an unbroken lineage from the late 19th-century to the present. On the other hand, archaeoastronomy has not been consistently titled, having adopted various different names such as alignment studies, orientation theory, astro-archaeology, megalithic science, archaeotopography, archaeoastronomy and cultural astronomy: names which depict variants of its methods and theory, sometimes in tandem with those of archaeology and sometimes in opposition. Similarly, its academic status has always been unclear, so to bring it closer to archaeology there was a proposal in 2015 to integrate archaeoastronomy research with that of archaeology and call it skyscape archaeology. This volume examines how all these different variants came about and consider archaeoastronomy's often troubled relationship with archaeology and its appropriation by esotericism, to shed light on its position today.Table of Contents1. Introduction: contesting the past 2. Antiquarianism: the longue durée 3. The emergence of archaeoastronomical thought 4. ‘The great subject of orientation’ 5. Lines in the landscape 6. ‘God in the machine’ 7. Megalithic science 8. New World archaeoastronomy 9. A turning point for British archaeoastronomy 10. Archaeoastronomy and cultural astronomy in Europe 11. Archaeoastronomy in the 21st century 12. Final Thoughts Glossary Bibliography
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Oxbow Books The Archaeology of Roman Macedonia: Urban and
Book SynopsisMacedonia is a region that provides its own intriguing questions due to its position on the fringe of the classical Greek world. It is also an area that is of special interest to students of history and archaeology of Roman period Greece, since it was the first to be incorporated in the Roman state. Macedonia shared a similar path of development with Achaea during the imperial period. As provinces far from productive zones and frontiers, both played a minor role in the imperial administrative structure. Beneath this similarity, however, lie many differences: in Macedonia’s proximity to the Balkans, its early contact with Rome, its relatively low level of urbanization, its multicultural context and its sizeable economy, which played their own role in the formation of the urban and rural environments.With a focus on elements of the built environment and human habitat, this book examines old and new archaeological evidence to present a concise overview of the archaeology of the area and develop a better perception of the region in terms of archaeology of the built environment, architecture and architectural influences, urbanization and use of land and resources from the 2nd century BC to the early 4th century AD. Driven by a set of key questions that are addressed through the archaeological evidence, the book explores key issues in understanding the archaeology of the area, like the role of architectural tradition and innovation, the interdependency between practical bases of architecture and socio cultural aspects, the exploitation of local resources, and the role of external influences. Special importance is given to the interaction of Greek, Roman and local cultures and the ways that the formation of the built environment eventually led to the assimilation of ideas from East and West in terms of workmanship, use of materials, design and function.Trade Review[T]here is no other book, to my knowledge, that discusses Roman Macedonia in an overall manner… The author undoubtedly dedicated many working hours to gathering all the evidence for the built environment of the area, scattered mostly in Greek publications and thus difficult for the international public to access. Moreover, he offered useful and detailed remarks on the architecture of the region, and most importantly, having created the “big picture,” facilitated the comparison with other provinces. * American Journal of Archaeology *[T]here is much to like about this book. Evangelidis strings together the full spectrum of architectural features within a large “built environment,” and creates useful syntheses of new and ongoing archaeological work in northern Greece and elsewhere. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction by D. Grigoropoulos Part I. Roman Macedonia: history, people, cities and resources 1. The historical framework: Roman Macedonia. From the revolt of Andriscus to the reign of Galerius 2. Land and Resources: Ownership and exploitation 3. Decline and continuity of settlements: urban and rural sites 4. Via Egnatia and the provincial road network Part II. Built Environment: the archaeological evidence 5. The archaeology of Built Environment. A short history of the archaeological research of Roman Macedonia 6. The transformation of old and the construction of new public spaces: Agoras and fora 7. Public and administrative Buildings 8. Buildings for commerce and industry 9. The architecture of ritual space: temples and sanctuaries 10. An architecture of entertainment: Theatres and spectacle buildings 11. An architecture of water: aqueducts, baths, latrines, fountains 12. An architecture of movement and passage: colonnaded streets and gates 13. Housing in urban and peri-urban contexts 14. An architecture of defence: the refortification of the cities 15. Deathscapes: Urban and rural burial grounds 16. Outside the cities: villas, farms and other types of rural sites Part III. Urban and rural environments in Roman Macedonia 17. Building methods – construction techniques 18. Urban Environments: The course of development 19. Rural Environments. Villas and beyond 20. Macedonia in a wider perspective: contrasts and comparisons Epilogue Bibliography
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Archaeopress Quebrando rocas, una aproximación metodológica
Book SynopsisThis book offers a valuable contribution to the development of a methodology to address the study of archaeological quartz artifacts, combining various analytical tools to study these objects so that we might better understand the technological strategies of hunting societies who made use of this raw material. La meta de este libro es aportar al desarrollo de una metodología para abordar el estudio de artefactos arqueológicos de cuarzo, focalizándose en la combinación de diversas herramientas analíticas que permitan estudiar estos utensilios y contribuir así a una mejor comprensión de las estrategias tecnológicas de las sociedades cazadoras recolectoras que hicieron uso de esta materia prima. Ello implica, por un lado, evaluar el potencial de dicha roca para la producción de instrumentos líticos, considerando las distintas técnicas de talla, así como analizar las propiedades y cualidades de los filos para la realización de diversas actividades de incidencia sobre la materia en general, considerando a las de corte y raspado, en particular. Con el fin de someter a prueba esta propuesta, es que se abordarán como caso de estudio las estrategias tecnológicas implementadas por los grupos cazadores-recolectores que habitaron en el Valle de Calamuchita (provincia de Córdoba) durante el Holoceno medio y tardío, estudiando allí el rol cumplido por el cuarzo como materia prima, así como el uso y manufactura de artefactos de cuarzo en dicho contexto particular. Consta de tres partes principales: la primera de ellas aborda el enfoque metodológico y consta de cinco capítulos; la segunda parte comprende los resultados obtenidos luego de la aplicación de estos desarrollos metodológicos a través de programas experimentales tanto de manufactura como de uso de instrumentos sobre cuarzo ; por último, la tercer parte incluye la aplicación de los resultados obtenidos en el análisis de un caso de estudio en sitios arqueológicos de Calamuchita.Table of ContentsINTRODUCCIÓN; PARTE 1 - CONSIDERACIONES TEÓRICAS Y METODOLÓGICAS; CAPÍTULO 1 ANTECEDENTES Y PLANTEAMIENTO DEL PROBLEMA; CAPÍTULO 2 MARCO TEÓRICO METODOLÓGICO; CAPÍTULO 3 EL CUARZO; CAPÍTULO 4 LA TALLA DEL CUARZO, UNA APROXIMACIÓN EXPERIMENTAL; CAPÍTULO 5 MORFOLOGÍA MICROSCOPICA; PARTE 2 RESULTADOS; CAPÍTULO 6 RESULTADOS DEL ESTUDIO EXPERIMENTAL DE TALLA; CAPÍTULO 7 ANÁLISIS NO TIPOLÓGICO; CAPÍTULO 8 RESULTADOS DEL ESTUDIO EXPERIMENTAL DE USO DE ARTEFACTOS DE CUARZO; PARTE 3 CASO DE APLICACIÓN EL SITIO CENTRAL NUCLEAR 2; CAPÍTULO 9 SITIO CENTRAL NÚCLEAR 2 (CN2); CAPÍTULO 10 CENTRAL NUCLEAR 2 ANÁLISIS MANA Y NO TIPOLÓGICO; CAPÍTULO 11 CENTRAL NUCLEAR 2 ANÁLISIS FUNCIONAL; CAPÍTULO 12 TECNOLOGÍA DE CAZADORES-RECOLECTORES EN EL VALLE DECALAMUCHITA (Discusión); REFERENCIAS BIBLIOGRÁFICAS
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Archaeopress Imágenes y Paisajes: El Arte Rupestre del Noreste
Book SynopsisIn the Argentine Northwest, northeast of Catamarca, there are a set of shelters and caves located in the rainforest with rock art with virtually no background. Little is known about the occupants of these spaces and their past practices. In order to learn more about these, this book addresses the study and systematic analysis of the plastic-thematic-compositional repertoire of the rock art sites of ‘Los Algarrobales’ and their spatial and temporal distribution. In this way, it is possible to approach the understanding of the modalities of appropriation of the people of the inhabited area, the relationship that they would have maintained with the environment, as well as the distinction of various events and uses of different places and, in this way, contribute to the knowledge of the historical, social and cultural development of the area. Throughout the reading, we start to glimpse the archaeological landscapes related to rock art for this sector of the southern Andean area.Table of ContentsCapítulo 1 Introducción, Objetivos e Hipótesis Capítulo 2 Descripción del Área de Estudio y Antecedentes Capítulo 3 Consideraciones Teóricas Capítulo 4 Consideraciones Metodológicas Capítulo 5 El Arte Rupestre de Los Algarrobales Capítulo 6 Las Formas de los Espacios Plásticos en Los Algarrobales Capítulo 7 Los Paisajes de Los Algarrobales: paneles, tránsito y visualización Capítulo 8 Entre Imágenes y Paisajes. Conclusiones Referencias Bibliográficas Anexo I Tabla: Trabajos de campo realizados en los algarrobales Anexo II Ficha de relevamiento general Anexo III Tablas: Sitios con arte rupestre de los algarrobales Anexo IV Calcos: Diseños de camélidos y cuadrúpedos indefinidos
£57.00
Archaeopress An Educator's Handbook for Teaching about the
Book SynopsisWith the right methods, studying the ancient world can be as engaging as it is informative. Many K-12 teachers, university instructors, and museum educators use hands-on, project-based, and experiential activities in their classes to increase student engagement and learning. This book aims to bring together such pedagogical methods and teaching activities about the ancient world for any educator to use. The teaching activities in this book are designed in a cookbook format so that educators can replicate these teaching "recipes” (which include materials, budget, preparation time, levels of students) in their ancient art, archaeology, social studies, and history classes. They can be implemented online or in-person, in schools, universities, libraries, museums, or at home. Find out more about the book and the contributors at: https://pinardurgunpd.wixsite.com/teachancientTrade ReviewAn Educator’s Handbook for Teaching about the Ancient World is an exciting gift to ancient history teachers of all age groups (primary through post-secondary) looking for new ideas for hands-on, curiosity-sparking lessons. -- Erika M. Jeck * Rhea Classical Reviews *Table of ContentsEditor’s Note and Acknowledgements ; SECTION 1: Pedagogical Essays ; Introduction: Why Should We Teach and Learn about the Ancient World? – Pınar Durgun ; Activating the Ancient World with Museum Collections – Jen Thum ; Dig Doodles: Teaching Archaeology through Accessible Illustration – Hannah M. Herrick ; Open Access to Ancient Worlds: Why Open Practices Matter – Alena Buis ; Inspiring Student Motivation through Multimodal Learning – Robyn Price ; Tools for Digital Pedagogy and the Ancient World – Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod ; Collaborative Archaeology in the U.S.: Research Experiences from the American Southwest as Pedagogy – Nicholas C. Laluk and Mark R. Agostini ; SECTION 2: Teaching Activities ; Food and Agriculture ; Identifying Centers of Domestication – Christopher W. Jones ; Life on the Farm: How Can We Reconstruct Past Agricultural Choices? – Jennifer Bates ; Art, Crafts, Materials, and Makers ; Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Carving and Using Seals – Erhan Tamur and Pınar Durgun ; Carving Ancient Egyptian Reliefs – Jen Thum ; Making Lions at Babylon – Anastasia Amrhein and Elizabeth Knott ; Ancient Greek Vase Painting: Production and Conservation – Maggie Beeler, Sarah Barack, Beth Edelstein, and Chelsea A.M. Gardner ; Roman Portraiture: #veristic #classicizing – Alena Buis ; Architecture ; How and Why Did Babylonians use Quicklime? – Sandra Heinsch, Walter Kuntner, and Wilfrid Allinger-Csollich Heinsch ; Playing Architect: Designing Ancient Structures – Carl Walsh ; The Iron Age House of Graham Crackers – Cynthia Shafer-Elliott ; Language, Writing, and Texts ; How Were Clay Tablets Made and How Does Cuneiform Work? – Sara Mohr and Willis Monroe ; Writing a Cuneiform Letter – Klaus Wagensonner ; Multi-lingualism: What Language Should We Choose? – Kathryn McConaughy Medill ; Rosetta Stone – Christian Casey ; Tabula Rasa: Experiencing the Roman Wax Tablet – Nathalie Roy ; Creating Personalized Anthologies Using Primary Sources – Victoria Pichugina ; Religion, Myth, Medicine, and Magic ; The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Value of Friendship – Leticia Rovira and Cecilia Molla ; What’s Up Doc? Diagnosing & Treating Illness in Antiquity – Chelsea A.M. Gardner and Maggie Beeler ; Demon Traps! Making Late Antique Incantation Bowls – Helen Dixon ; Council of Nicaea – Nicholas Cross ; Gender and Identity ; Dolls and Archaeological Interpretation – Tine Rassalle ; Figurine Out Ancient Identities – Anastasia Amrhein ; Build Your Own Exhibition: Women at the Dawn of History – Elizabeth Knott, Agnete W. Lassen, and Klaus Wagensonner ; Games, Warfare, and Politics ; How and Why Was the Royal Game of Ur Played? – Shane M. Thompson ; Reenacting the Battle of Kadesh – Stephanie Selover ; Imperialism and Rebellion on the Roman Frontier: Boudicca’s Revolt – Gabriel Moss and Peter Raleigh ; How Were Mesoamerican Ball Games Played? – Shane M. Thompson and Carl Walsh ; Death and Burial ; Plastered Skulls and Commemoration – Pınar Durgun ; Curating a Digital Egyptian Necropolis – Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod ; Humanizing Roman History and Tragedy – Anna Accettola ; Archaeological and Digital Methodologies ; Vessel Forms and Functions – Shannon Martino ; Ethnographic Boat Recording – Sarah Ward and Ying Ying YAN ; Introduction to 2D Underwater Survey – Sarah Ward and Peter Holt ; Virtual Museum Exhibit: Humanizing the Past in the Present – Nadia Ben-Marzouk ; Podcast for Public Engagement – Nadia Ben-Marzouk and Danielle Candelora ; APPENDIX: Handouts, Translations, Examples, and Extra Materials for Printing ; Identifying the Origins of Agriculture ; Life on the Farm: How Can We Reconstruct Past Agricultural Choices? ; Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Carving and Using Seals (activity in Turkish) ; Carving an Egyptian Relief ; Making Lions at Babylon ; Roman Portraiture: #veristic #classicizing ; How Were Clay Tablets Made and How Does Cuneiform Work? ; Writing a Cuneiform Letter ; Rosetta Stone ; The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Value of Friendship (activity in Spanish) ; What’s Up Doc? Diagnosing & Treating Illness in Antiquity ; Build Your Own Exhibition: Women at the Dawn of History ; Reenacting the Battle of Kadesh ; Plastered Skulls and Commemoration (activity in Turkish) ; Ethnographic Boat Recording (materials in English and activity in Mandarin) ; Introduction to 2D Underwater Survey (materials in English and activity in Mandarin) ; Virtual Museum Exhibit: Humanizing the Past in the Present ; Podcast for Public Engagement
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Archaeopress The People of Early Winchester
Book SynopsisThe People of Early Winchester traces the lives, health, and diseases of Winchester's inhabitants as seen in their skeletal remains from the mid-third century to the mid-sixteenth century, a period of over 1,300 years. Although the populations of other British urban areas, York and London in particular, have been studied over an extended period, this volume is unique in providing a continuous chronological window, rather than a series of isolated studies. It is particularly notable for the large sample of Anglo-Saxon burials dated to the 8th - 10th centuries, which provide a bridge between the earlier Romano-British material and the later medieval samples. This study includes information on demography, physical characteristics, dental health, disease, and trauma collected from over 2,000 skeletons excavated from the Roman Cemetery at Lankhills and the Anglo-Saxon and medieval cemeteries of the Old and New Minster and Winchester Cathedral, as well as other Early Anglo-Saxon sites in neighbouring areas of Hampshire. The study establishes the underlying continuity of the population in spite of massive culture change between the Roman and Early Saxon periods, and delineates the increasing tendency to rounder skulls seen in the medieval period, a trend which is found in continental Europe at the same time. There were also significant differences through time in disease patterns and trauma. Leprosy, for example, is found only in post-Roman skeletons, while decapitations are seen only in Roman skeletons. Weapons injuries are confined to Anglo-Saxon and medieval individuals, although broken bones were common during the Roman period.Table of ContentsList of illustrations ; List of tables ; List of abbreviations ; List of references ; Part 1 Introduction – Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle ; 1:Introduction ; 2:Concept ; 3:The origin, growth, and completion of this study ; 4:The outcome: a summary ; Part 2 Romano-British Populations from Lankhills and other cemeteries in Winchester – Caroline M. Stuckert ; 1:Introduction ; 2:Demography ; 3:Physical characteristics ; 4:Dentition ; 5:Pathology ; 6:Lankhills decapitations revisited – J. L. Macdonald ; 7:Catalogue of the burials from the Lankhills 1967-72 excavations ; Part 3 The transition from Romano-British to early Anglo-Saxon in Hampshire – Caroline M. Stuckert ; 1:Introduction ; 2:Archaeological background: the Early Anglo-Saxon sites ; 3:Demography ; 4:Physical characteristics ; 5:Dentition ; 6:Discussion ; Part 4 Anglo-Saxon and medieval populations from the old and new minster and cathedral cemeteries – Theya Molleson, Rosemary Powers, John Price, and Pauline Sheppard ; 1:Introduction ; 2:Demography ; 3:Physical variation ; 4:Discontinuous variation and congenital anomalies ; 5:Dental health ; 6:General health ; 7:Injuries ; 8:Conclusions ; Part 5 The population of Winchester: A millennium of continuity and change – Caroline M. Stuckert ; 1:Introduction ; 2:Population continuity and change ; 3:Health and lifestyle ; 4:Discussion ; Appendix A: Other burial groups found 1961-71 – Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle, with a contribution by Sue Browne ; Appendix B: Statistical methods of determining sex developed for the study of the Hampshire Romano-British and Early Anglo-Saxon skeletal samples – Caroline M. Stuckert ; Appendix C: Grave concordance: Anglo-Saxon and Medieval burials from the Old Minster and Cathedral cemeteries – Caroline M. Stuckert ; Appendix D: Glossary
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Archaeopress From Photography to 3D Models and Beyond:
Book SynopsisFrom Photography to 3D Models and Beyond: visualizations in archaeology explores the history of visual technology and archaeology and outlines how the introduction of interactive 3D computer modelling to the discipline parallels very closely the earlier integration of photography into archaeological fieldwork. The incredible potential of interactive 3D computer graphics to provide new insight into cultural change, ancient settlement development, building function, and behavior make virtual heritage a must-use approach, but one that has not been fully grasped. This volume brings together for the first time several key aspects of the history of archaeology: how and where photographs became an indispensable part of excavations; when and for what purposes virtual reality began a similar journey into the field team's arsenal of documentation, publication, and visualization tools; how the common trajectory of both technologies provides clues for why virtual reality has not yet become as commonplace as photography for archaeological research, teaching, and data dissemination; and how new methods and technologies are poised to revolutionize our understanding of the past.
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Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Wales Darganfod Tai Hanesyddol Eryri / Discovering the
Book SynopsisDiscovering the Historic Houses of Snowdonia presents the results of a successful project to establish the date and social context of some of the earliest houses in Snowdonia. This partnership project between the Dating Old Welsh Houses Group and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales involved many householders and about 200 local people in an ambitious exercise in community archaeology.The project has dated houses using the scientific technique of tree-ring dating, which can be accurate to the year and even the season of felling. The book presents the revealing, and often surprising, results of the project along with many photographs and plans. There are some twenty-five house histories, researched by members of the Group, including studies of medieval houses with open halls, innovative storeyed houses, and mature complexes. The housing culture of Snowdonia is shown here to be innovative and complex rather than simple and derivative. In sixteenth-century Snowdonia people chose to build for the future, and the older houses of north-west Wales display social ambition as well as the value placed on craftsmanship.
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Nordic Academic Press Vasa II: Part 1. Martnet, whipstaff, and
Book SynopsisWhen Vasa was raised in 1961 a lost world was revealed in astonishing detail. Among the most remarkable finds were the remains of the rigging. Normally shipwrecks offer only a few clues to the structure above the waterline, but on Vasa the lower masts, a myriad of blocks and deadeyes, hundreds of metres of rope and cable and – most astonishingly – nine sails from the ship and its boat survive. The unique finds provide an unparalleled opportunity to reconstruct the rigging in detail and to form an understanding of how ships were sailed in the seventeenth century. With a sail plan, rigging, and steering gear that are substantially different to the classical full-rigged ship of the nineteenth century, the evidence from Vasa paints a vivid picture of ship-handling in the Age of Sail. Vasa II Part 1 presents more than a thousand finds of wood, metal, and cloth from the most complete rig to survive from before 1800, which form the basis for a complete reconstruction of the rig and sailing performance of a large warship of the 1620s.
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University of Utah Press,U.S. Cultural Resource Management in the Great Basin
Book SynopsisCultural Resource Management (CRM) refers to the discovery, evaluation, and preservation of culturally significant sites, focusing on but not limited to archaeological and historical sites of significance. CRM stems from the National Historic Preservation Act, passed in 1966. In 1986, archaeologists reviewed the practice of CRM in the Great Basin. They concluded that it was mainly a system of finding, flagging, and avoiding— a means of keeping sites and artifacts safe. Success was measured by counting the number of sites recorded and acres surveyed.This volume provides an updated review some thirty years later. The product of a 2016 symposium, its measures are the increase in knowledge obtained through CRM projects and the inclusion of tribes, the general public, industry, and others in the discovery and interpretation of Great Basin prehistory and history. Revealing both successes and shortcomings, it considers how CRM can face the challenges of the future. Chapters offer a variety of perspectives, covering highway archaeology, inclusion of Native American tribes, and the legacy of the NHPA, among other topics.Trade Review“This book could be used as a supplementary text in both undergraduate- and graduate-level CRM courses. An entire graduate-level course could be developed around discussing the history and perspectives presented in this volume.” —Lori Hunsaker, archaeologist
£40.50
Cambridge University Press Food Taboos in Archaeology
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£18.00
Cambridge University Press Dental Anthropology
Book SynopsisHillson provides a biological context for human teeth, a guide to key skills, and an introduction to current issues. Designed to be the core textbook for courses on bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, and palaeoanthropology, this is the definitive manual for tooth identification, variation, histology, wear, and disease.Trade Review'The field of dental anthropology has evolved rapidly since the first edition of this self-titled book, and this new edition expertly presents updated findings and technological advances across the field. Notably, it was and remains the go-to resource for the macro- and microscopic study of dental development, structure and function, including entire chapters devoted to the principal oral tissues.' Joel D. Irish, Liverpool John Moores University'I taught dental anthropology at both the graduate and undergraduate levels for 40 years and had to use three textbooks plus supplemental readings to cover the topics I wished to include: morphology, histology, growth, pathology, among others for bioarchaeological and forensic applications. Now with Hillson's Dental Anthropology I would only have to use one. Hillson challenges the teacher, student, and researcher to think in new directions and consider alternative interpretations of dental data. This book has updated illustrations; an extensive up-to-date bibliography; and further reading sections at the end of each chapter making it an ideal textbook for dental anthropology or for use by students beginning their research careers. I cannot think of a single topic dealing with teeth from an anthropological, archaeological, or forensic perspective that is not covered in Hillson's book. I wish I had all this organized information when I started my dental research as a graduate student or, even now, when students begin their own research careers.' Jerry Rose, Professor Emeritus, University of Arkansas'A well-timed fantastic revised and fully updated edition of a classic book, now including newer analytical techniques. This is an extremely useful text which will be a required staple on every bioarchaeologist's shelf. The sections on 3D morphological analysis and use of newer methods developed or made more accessible to anthropologists since the first edition are especially valuable.' Sonia Zakrzewski, University of Southampton'The new second edition of Simon Hillson's Dental Anthropology is a significant revision to the 1996 first edition and is a well-written, well-illustrated, comprehensive, treatment of the subject. Meticulously updated throughout, it reflects the many important recent advancements in the field and is at once primer, guide, textbook, and reference. Hillson's Dental Anthropology delivers in every aspect and will be an important addition to the library of anyone interested in the scientific study of teeth.' Greg Nelson, University of Oregon'The second edition is certain to become the definitive text on dental anthropology written by the leading expert in the field. Professor Hillson shares his knowledge in an accessible and absorbing manner, a style for which he is well known. The book is comprehensible to those just starting to study teeth; yet, even the most erudite dental anthropologist will come away with new knowledge from this text and will certainly turn to it regularly for reference.' Marin Pilloud, University of Nevada, Reno'This book is a journey into the fascinating and extravagant world of teeth. It is an essential starting point for the study teeth, but also a bridge to more detailed approaches. It covers a broad range of dental topics such as anatomy, morphology, histology, wear and diseases. It is an indispensable reference work for any dental researcher.' Ana Maria Silva, University of CoimbraTable of ContentsContents; List of abbreviations; Preface; 1. Dental anatomy; 2. Variation in size and shape of teeth; 3. Occlusion; 4. Sequence and timing of dental growth; 5. Dental enamel; 6. Dentine; 7. Dental cement; 8. Histological methods of age determination in adults; 9. Chemistry of dental tissues and calculus; 10. Tooth wear and modification; 11. Dental disease; Appendix A. Field and laboratory methods; Appendix B. Microscopy; Appendix C. Age estimation tables and charts for dental development; References; Index.
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Oxford University Press Inc Walking Among Pharaohs George Reisner and the
Book SynopsisIn this expansive new biography of George Reisner, Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian examines the life and work of America's greatest archaeologist. Manuelian presents Reisner's undeniable impact and considers his life within the context of Western colonialism, racism, and nationalism.Trade ReviewIn recent years, there's been an ongoing debate in the worlds of history and archaeology over the ethics of taking art and artifacts from a particular country and taking possession of it elsewhere. It's an unsettling remnant of colonialism, and its history runs deeply. Peter Der Manuelian's new book Walking Among Pharaohs offers readers an engaging account of the origins of contemporary Egyptology--and how it helps explain some of the debates we're reckoning with decades later. * InsideHook *Walking Among Pharaohs is a lively and uniquely informed biography of the most important American archaeologist of ancient Egypt and one of the founders of his discipline. Drawing expertly on a staggering range of sources, Peter Der Manuelian brings George Reisner, his ideas, and his times compellingly to life. * John Baines, University of Oxford *The definitive biography of G.A. Reisner, who is generally regarded as one of the most important and influential Egyptologists and archaeologists of his day. The story flows with no punches pulled, revealing Reisner in intimate detail, warts and all. A must read for anyone interested in the early days of American Egyptology. * Eric Cline, author of 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed *Peter Der Manuelian's Walking Among Pharaohs is a thorough examination of the life, career, and legacy of one of the most influential Egyptologists of his era, George Reisner. Presenting Reisner's legacy in all of its complexity—including the colonialist and the racist elements of his work—highlights the indelible mark he left on the field, and how he shaped it for future generations. Walking Among Pharaohs is a worthy contribution to our understanding of the history of Egyptology. * Kathlyn M. Cooney, University of California, Los Angeles *This is an amazingly rich biography of George Reisner, a giant among archaeologists working in the Nile Valley. It's also a powerful reflection on archaeology's many meanings, from celebration of ancient cultures to colonial appropriation. * Geoff Emberling, University of Michigan *George Reisner has long been one of the most influential but least known archaeologists from the 'golden age' of Egyptology. Manuelian has finally done Reisner justice, bringing his long life, extraordinary career, and contested legacy into the spotlight of critical enquiry. Walking Among Pharaohs is a prodigious work of scholarship. * Toby Wilkinson, author of A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology *[Manuelian] is the ideal author for this authoritative first biography of Reisner. It is an essential addition to any Egyptological library, bringing to light the work and accomplishments of Reisner in Egypt and Nubia during the 'golden age' of Egyptology. The extensive, meticulous notes and bibliography are indispensable. * Ancient Egypt Magazine *With this opus magnum (in every sense of the word), Peter Der Manuelian has completed a remarkable achievement, crowning more than twenty years of research... The author is indeed to be commended for truly mastering the 'staggering range of sources'...and the 'thorough examination'-at times painstakingly so-of the complexities of Reisner's biography, addressing the manifold issues of 'colonial appropriation' and 'racism'. * Orientalistische Literaturzeitung *Every chapter contains some gem about the history of Egyptology.... This book will almost certainly remain the definitive biography of Reisner. Professor Der Manuelian is a careful and thorough researcher and for a book this long (1,000+ pages) we can only say 'Thank god he can write!' * Bob Brier, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt *Table of ContentsPreface Egyptian Chronology and Nubian Comparative Chart Map Introduction I. Early Years (1867-1899) 1 Midwestern Beginnings and Endings 2 Go East, Young Man 3 Conversion in Germany 4 "Somebody Needed an Archaeologist" II. The Path to the Pyramids (1899-1905) 5 The Road Taken 6 Chance of a Lifetime: Giza 7 Devastation and Realignment: The Birth of the HU-MFA Expedition (1904-1905) III. Egypt, Palestine, Nubia, America (1905-1913) 8 Multitasking across Cultures 9 King Menkaure versus the "Pestiferous Sheikhs" of Palestine 10 Back to the Classroom 11 Giza Politics, Giza Discoveries IV. War Years (1913-1918) 12 Focus on Nubia: The Kerma Kingdom 13 Archaeology in Wartime: Kerma, Gammai, Deir el-Bersha 14 A Mystery Solved: The Nubian Pyramids of Gebel Barkal and Nuri 15 The Near-Destruction of Two American Expeditions V. Archaeology and Politics (1919-1926) 16 "The Work is his God:" Gebel Barkal, el-Kurru, and Meroe 17 (Mis)interpreting the Nubians in the Shadow of Tutankhamun 18 Secrets of a Giza Queen 19 Excursus: Showdown with Breasted over Egyptian Archaeology VI. Nubian Fortresses and Giza Tombs (1927-1937) 20 Hoisting Sarcophagi 21 Looking Back and Taking Stock 22 Septuagenarian Archaeology VII. Legacies at Home and Abroad (1938-1947) 23 Virtual and Actual Homecomings 24 Finale 25 Endgame: Transforming The HU-MFA Expedition 26 Epilogue: Revered or Reviled? Reisner and his Archaeological Impact Endnotes List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Reisner Bibliography General Bibliography Abbreviations Expedition Chronology and Staff Glossary of Arabic and other Foreign Words Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Field Archaeology An Introduction
Book SynopsisSince its first publication, Field Archaeology: An Introduction has proved to be a key handbook for all those undertaking introductory courses in archaeology or volunteering on their first excavation. In this revised second edition, key developments in technology, theory and changes in the law are included, bringing it up to date with the most recent fieldwork practices. The dig is the face of archaeology most immediately recognised by the general public, and is often what attracts both students and amateurs to the discipline. Yet there is much more to working in the field than digging alone. Peter Drewett''s comprehensive survey explores the process, from the core work of discovery and excavation to the final product, the published archaeological report. The main topics are: How an archaeological site is formed Finding and recording archaeological sites Planning excavations, digging the site and recording the results Trade Review 'In a time of uncertainty in the profession, it’s refreshing to read a book that puts archaeology in the context of the best field practice ... This is an optimistic book, with an upbeat, breezy style that reviews all the major field techniques from the formation of deposits and how to find sites, through how to record them to postexcavation. There is detailed discussion of the problems of excavation and interpretation, and the rapidly changing means of publishing the results ... [This book] remains one of the best introductions to the techniques and problems of dirt archaeology.' - Mike Nevell, British Archaeology 'In a time of uncertainty in the profession, it’s refreshing to read a book that puts archaeology in the context of the best field practice ... This is an optimistic book, with an upbeat, breezy style that reviews all the major field techniques from the formation of deposits and how to find sites, through how to record them to postexcavation. There is detailed discussion of the problems of excavation and interpretation, and the rapidly changing means of publishing the results ... [This book] remains one of the best introductions to the techniques and problems of dirt archaeology.' - Mike Nevell, British Archaeology '... it remains that Drewett’s Field Archaeology is a companionable introduction to archaeological fieldwork, with a good balance between survey and excavation.' – Antiquity Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. What is an archaeological site? How is it formed and transformed? 3. Finding archaeological sites 4. Recording archaeological sites 5. Planning the excavation 6. Digging the site 7. Recording archaeological excavations 8. Post-fieldwork planning, processing and finds analysis 9. Interpreting the evidence 10. Publishing the report
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Royal Society of Chemistry Archaeological Chemistry
Book SynopsisThe application of chemistry within archaeology is an important and fascinating area. It allows the archaeologist to answer such questions as what is this artefact made of?, where did it come from? and how has it been changed through burial in the ground?, providing pointers to the earliest history of mankind. Archaeological Chemistry begins with a brief description of the goals and history of archaeological science, and the place of chemistry within it. It sets out the most widely used analytical techniques in archaeology and compares them in the light of relevant applications. The book includes an analysis of several specific archaeological investigations in which chemistry has been employed in tracing the origins of or in preserving artefacts. The choice of these investigations conforms to themes based on analytical techniques, and includes chapters on obsidian, ceramics, glass, metals and resins. Finally, it suggests a future role for chemical and biochemical applications in archaeology. Archaeological Chemistry enables scientists to tackle the fundamental issues of chemical change in the archaeological materials, in order to advance the study of the past. It will prove an essential companion to students in archaeological science and chemistry, field and museum archaeologists, and all those involved in conserving human artefacts.Trade Review"...an excellent, up-to-date sourcebook and companion guide...""An authentic snapshot of current chemical applications in archaeology.""... a comprehensive and current textbook badly needed ...""I cannot recommend this book too highly...""Archaeological Chemistry will make a fine collection to your library of reference books on instrumental analytical techniques. Perhaps reading the book will assist in solving an unsolved mystery in archaeology.""...An excellent reference resource... this book presents a comprehensive overview of a number of chemical applications within archaeology.""In any case this book is strongly recommended as an obligatory text for all chemists, who want to understand the role of chemistry, and in particular analytical chemistry, in our past history and present culture."Table of ContentsThe Development of Archaeological Chemistry; Analytical Techniques Applied to Archaeology; Obsidian Characterization in the Eastern Mediterranean; The Geochemistry of Clays and the Provenance of Ceramics; The Chemistry and Corrosion of Archaeological Glass; The Chemical Study of Metals - The European Medieval and Later Brass Industry; The Chemistry and Use of Resinous Substances; Amino Acid Stereochemistry and the First Americans; Lead Isotope Geochemistry and the trade in Metals; Summary - Whither Archaeological Chemistry?; Appendix I: The Structure of the Atom and the Electromagnetic Spectrum; Appendix II: Isotopes; Appendix III: Fundamental Constants; Appendix IV: Atomic Number and the Approximate Weights of the Elements; Appendix V: Periodic Table of the Elements; Subject Index.
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Harvard University Press Excavations at the Lake George Site Yazoo Country Mississippi 19581960
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Cambridge University Press The Unstoppable Human Species
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Archaeopress Best Practices of GeoInformatic Technologies for
Book SynopsisNew geoinformatic technologies have recently had a transformative effect on landscape archaeology, particularly by facilitating the high resolution acquisition and analysis of data over large areas. These techniques have fundamentally changed the nature and scope of questions that can be addressed regarding the archaeological record. Despite this stimulating potential, many practising archaeologists were not trained in these methods and so are not fully aware of their capabilities or the most appropriate ways to apply them. This volume collates state of the art research in the fields of geophysics, geochemistry, aerial imaging, dating, digital archaeology, GIS and marine archaeology to present a comprehensive overview of the specialised techniques which can contribute to landscape scale archaeological investigations. It is hoped that it will serve as a “best practice” guide for their use and encourage their widespread adoption by the archaeological community.Table of ContentsIMAGES OF THE PAST: MAGNETIC PROSPECTION IN ARCHAEOLOGY - (Kayt L. Armstrong and Tuna Kalayci) ; GPR: THEORY AND PRACTICE IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION - (Meropi Manataki, Apostolos Sarris, Jamieson C. Donati, Carmen Cuenca Garcia, Tuna Kalayci) ; IDENTIFICATION OF SHAPES AND USES OF PAST LANDSCAPES THROUGH EMI SURVEY – (François-Xavier Simon and Ian Moffat) ; SEISMIC GEOPHYSICAL METHODS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION - (Pantelis Soupios) ; LOCATING GRAVES WITH GEOPHYSICS - (Ian Moffat) ; EXPLORING THE INTERIOR OF TUMULI: EXAMPLES FROM INVESTIGATIONS IN MACEDONIA AND THRACE - (Gregory N. Tsokas, Panagiotis I. Tsourlos and Georgios Vargemezis) ; OFF-SHORE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION USING ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY - (Kleanthis Simyrdanis, Nikos Papadopoulos and Theotokis Theodoulou) ; DATA INTEGRATION IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION - (Tuna Kalayci) ; OVERVIEW OF UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH WITH ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES IN GREECE – (Theotokis Theodoulou) ; AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE IN ARCHAEOLOGY – FROM ARCHIVES TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY – (Gianluca Cantoro) ; ON THE USE OF SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING IN ARCHEOLOGY – (Athos Agapiou, Dimitrios D. Alexakis, Apostolos Sarris and Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis) ; CITIES AND SATELLITES: DISCOVERING ANCIENT URBAN LANDSCAPES THROUGH REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS – (Jamieson C. Donati) ; MORE THAN LINE OF SIGHT AND LEAST COST PATH. AN APPLICATION OF GIS TO THE STUDY OF THE CIRCULAR TOMBS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL CRETE – (Sylviane Dederix) ; GEOMORPHOMETRY, MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT – (Argyriou A. V., Sarris A. & Teeuw R.M.) ; INTERPRETING THE PAST THROUGH AGENT-BASED MODELING AND GIS – (Angelos Chliaoutakis, Georgios Chalkiadakis) ; MIXED REALITY APPLICATIONS, INNOVATIVE 3D RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES & GIS DATA INTEGRATION FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE – (Lemonia Argyriou, Nikos Papadopoulos Jr.) ; ADDING A GEOGRAPHICAL COMPONENT IN CULTURAL HERITAGE DATABASES – (Poulicos Prastacos, Eleni Gkadolou) ; HISTORICAL MAPS ON THE SEMANTIC WEB – (Eleni Gkadolou, Emmanuel Stefanakis) ; ARCHAEOMAGNETIC METHOD AS A DATING TOOL: APPLICATION TO GREEK ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES FROM PREHISTORIC TO BYZANTINE PERIODS - (Despina Kondopoulou & Elina Aedona) ; GEOARCHAEOLOGY: A REVIEW IN TECHNIQUES - (Eleni Kokkinou) ; INORGANIC GEOCHEMIODS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION – (Carmen Cuenca-Garcia) ; MINERALOGICAL AND PETROGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES IN ARCHAELOGY – (Georgia Karampatsou & Theodoros Markopoulos) ; PROVENANCE OF CERAMICS: METHODS AND PRACTICES – (Nikolaos A. Kazakis and Nestor C. Tsirliganis) ; SUSTAINABLE DATA MANAGEMENT IN THE STUDY OF ANCIENT MATERIALS – USING THE EXAMPLE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL CERAMICS – (Anno Hein and Vassilis Kilikoglou) ; LASER TOOLS IN ARCHAEOLOGY AND CONSERVATION. HOW FAR CAN WE GET? – (A. Philippidis, P. Siozos, Z.E. Papliaka, K. Melessanaki, K. Hatzigiannakis, M. Vakondiou, G. Manganas, K. Diamanti, A. Giakoumaki and D. Anglos)
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Archaeopress Parian Polyandreia: The Late Geometric Funerary
Book SynopsisThis book centres on the anthropological study of two late 8th century BC monumental graves, designated as T144 and T105, at the ancient necropolis of Paroikia at Paros. The study investigates inter-island features of the human record, observable as ingrained traces in the skeletal record. These have particular significance as they may relate to Parian endeavours in the northern Aegean to colonise Thasos. Through the ‘Paros Polyandreia Anthropological Project,’ it was possible to gain insights into aspects of the human environment and experience in the Parian context. A considerable population sample of cremated male individuals was available, shedding light on trends that would have involved Thasos; and discerning further facets of the human condition during the Late Geometric to the Early Archaic periods in the ancient Hellenic world. The report integrates the basic anthropological data, evaluations and assessments derived from the study of the human skeletal record of Polyandreia T144, and T105. Bioarchaeological and forensic anthropological research results include the morphometric analyses of biological developmental growth and variability in relation to manifestations of acquired skeleto-anatomic changes, along with inquiries into the demographic dynamics, and the palaeopathologic profile of the individuals involved. Such intra-site juxtaposition afforded the possibility to deliberate on issues of the intended purpose, function, and symbolic meaning of the two funerary activity areas, and to reflect on the organizational abilities and capacities of the Parians in political and military affairs. Moreover, inter-site evaluations of the burial grounds of Orthi Petra of Eleutherna-Crete, Plithos of Naxos, Athenian Demosion Sema, Pythagoreion of Samos, and Rhodes make possible comparisons of taphonomic conditions, with cremated materials’ metric analyses, and reflections on aspects of the funerary customs and practices of the interring of cremated war dead.Table of ContentsPreface; Archaeologikόn Prolegόmenon; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Methods; Chapter 3 ‘Vase Contexts’ Recovered from Monumental Tomb T144; Chapter 4 Metric Studies of Cremated Human Remains Retrieved from T144 ‘Vase Contexts’; Chapter 5 Bone Elements and Other Materials Recovered from T144 ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Chapter 6 Metric Studies of Cremated Human Remains Retrieved from ‘Non-Vase Contexts’ of T144; Chapter 7 Regarding a Select Number of T144 Archaeological Contexts’ Osteo-Anthropological Study Results; Chapter 8 ‘Archaeological Contexts’ with Human Cremains Recovered from Monumental Tomb T105; Chapter 9 Metric Studies of Cremated Human Remains Retrieved from ‘Archaeological Contexts’ of T105, along with Intra- and Inter-site Comparisons; Chapter 10 Toward a Synopsis of Results on the Anthropological Materials Studied from Monumental Tombs T144 and T105; Postface (On matters of an unfinished discussion); Select Bibliographical References; Appendix 1 Human Skeletal Map with Anatomic Directions; Appendix 2 Human Deciduous and Permanent Dental Map; Appendix 3 Laboratory Form for the Inspectional & Metric Study of Human Cremated Materials and for Recording Relative Artifacual and Ecofactual Remains; Appendix 4 Excerpt (pages 2 and 11 of 11) of field form for the excavation, documentation, and recovery of burial features; emphasis on cultural materials and taphonomic conditions; Appendix 5 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of Weight Values (in grams) per ‘Vase Context’ for the Sample of 67 ‘Vase Contexts’; Appendix 6 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Distribution of 328 Cranial Male Measurements out of a Sample of 74 Homini from within ‘Vase Contexts’; Appendix 7 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Distribution of 326 Postcranial Appendicular Male Measurements out of a Sample of 68 Homini from within ‘Vase Contexts’; Appendix 8 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of 74 Cases of Male Individuals’ Cranial Average Values from within ‘Vase Contexts’; Appendix 9 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of 68 Cases of Male Individuals’ Postcranial Appendicular Average Values from within ‘Vase Contexts’; Appendix 10 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of Weight Values (in grams) per ‘Non-Vase Context’ for the Sample of 10 ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 11 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Distribution of 17 Cranial Male Measurements out of a Sample of 9 Homini from within ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 12 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Distribution of 24 Postcranial Appendicular Male Measurements out of a Sample of 11 Homini from within ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 13 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of 9 Cases of Male Individuals’ Cranial Average Values from within ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 14 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of 11 Cases of Male Individuals’ Postcranial Appendicular Average Values from within ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 15 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Distribution of 345 Cranial Male Measurements from ‘Vase’, and ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 16 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Distribution of 350 Postcranial Appendicular Male Measurements from ‘Vase’, and ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 17 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of Weight Values (in grams) per Burial Context for the Sample of 77 Burial Contexts; Appendix 18 Polyandreion T105: Ascending Distribution of 131 Cranial Male Measurements out of a Sample of 20 Homini from within Archaeological Contexts; Appendix 19 Polyandreion T105: Ascending Distribution of 103 Postcranial Appendicular Male Measurements out of a Sample of 20 Homini from within Archaeological Contexts; Appendix 20 Polyandreion T105: Ascending Range of 20 Cases of Male Individuals’ Cranial Average Values from within Archaeological Contexts; Appendix 21 Polyandreion T105: Ascending Range of 20 Cases of Male Individuals’ Postcranial Appendicular Average Values from within Archaeological Contexts; Appendix A Table 3 Polyandreion T144: Archaeological and Anthropological Contextual Information of 68 (86.08%) out of 79 Archaeological Contexts Submitted for Osteo-Anthropologic Analysis; Appendix B Table 21 Polyandreion T144: Archaeological and Anthropological Contextual Information of 11 ‘Non-Vase Contexts’ (13.92%) out of 79 Archaeological Contexts Submitted for Osteo-Anthropologic Analysis; Appendix C Table 44 Polyandreion T105: Archaeological and Anthropological Contextual Information of 11 (100.0%) out of 11 Archaeological Contexts Submitted for Osteo-Anthropologic Analysis
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Archaeopress CAA2016: Oceans of Data: Proceedings of the 44th
Book SynopsisCAA2016: Oceans of Data gives an up-to-date overview of the field of archaeology and informatics. It presents ground-breaking technologies and best practice from various archaeological and computer science disciplines. The articles in this volume are based on the foremost presentations from the 44th Computer Applications in Archaeology Conference 2016, held in Oslo. The theme of CAA2016 was ‘Exploring Oceans of Data’, alluding to one of the greatest challenges in this field: the use and reuse of large datasets that result both from digitalisation and digital documentation of excavations and surveys. The volume contains 50 peer-reviewed and highest-ranked papers that are divided in eight parts, including an introduction and seven chapters. The introduction sets the stage with Oceans of Data (C.-E. Ore) and Theorising the Digital (S. Perry and J. S.Taylor), discussing the current status of overall CAA research. These two papers present the current developments, challenges, and potential that lies ahead from different perspectives. Ore points to the importance of common authority systems and ontologies. Common conceptual data models will ease curation and secure long-term reusability. Perry and Taylor address the need to bring together theoretical and digital archaeology. In the following chapters, different topics are presented under the headings Ontologies and Standards, Field and Laboratory Data Recording and Analysis, Archaeological Information Systems, GIS and Spatial Analysis, 3D and Visualisation, Complex Systems Simulation, and Teaching Archaeology in the Digital Age.Table of ContentsForeword ; INTRODUCTION ; Oceans of Data: Creating a Safe Haven for Information – Christian-Emil ORE ; Theorising the Digital: A Call to Action for the Archaeological Community – Sara PERRY and James Stuart TAYLOR ; ONTOLOGIES AND STANDARDS ; Is that a Good Concept? – George BRUSEKER, Maria Daskalaki, Martin Doerr, and Stephen STEAD ; Sculptures in the Semantic Web Using Semantic Technologies for the Deep Integration of Research Items in ARIADNE – Philipp GERTH, Dennis Mario Beck, Wolfgang Schmidle, and Sebastian Cuy ; Formalization and Reuse of Methodological Knowledge on Archaeology across European Organizations – Cesar GONZALEZ-PEREZ, Patricia Mart ín-Rodilla, and Elena Viorica Epure ; Linked Open Data for Numismatic Library, Archive and Museum Integration – Ethan GRUBER ; Sustainability = Separation: Keeping Database Structure, Domain Structure and Interface Separate – Ian JOHNSON ; Systematic Literature Review on Automated Monument Detection: A Remote Investigation on Patterns within the Field of Automated Monument Detection – Karl Hjalte Maack RAUN and Duncan PATERSON ; Bioarchaeology Module Loading…Please Hold. Recording Human Bioarchaeological Data from Portuguese Archaeological Field Reports – Ana Lema SEABRA, Filipa Mascarenhas NETO, and Cristina BARROSO-CRUZ ; Methodological Tips for Mappings to CIDOC CRM – Maria THEODORIDOU, George Bruseker, and Martin Doerr ; An Ontology for a Numismatic Island with Bridges to Others – Karsten TOLLE, David Wigg-Wolf, and Ethan Gruber ; Integrating Analytical with Digital Data in Archaeology: Towards a Multidisciplinary Ontological Solution. The Salamis Terracotta Statues Case‑Study – Valentina VASSALLO, Giusi Sorrentino, Svetlana Gasanova , and Sorin Hermon ; FIELD AND LABORATORY DATA RECORDING AND ANALYSIS ; Integrated Methodologies for Knowledge and Valorisation of the Roman Casinum City – Michela CIGOLA, Arturo Gallozzi, Leonardo Paris, and Emanuela Chiavoni ; A Multidisciplinary Project for the Study of Historical Landscapes: New Archaeological and Physicochemical Data from the ‘Colline Metallifere’ District – Luisa DALLAI, Alessandro DONATI, and Vanessa VOLPI ; From Survey, to 3D Modelling, to 3D Printing: Bramante’s Nymphaeum Colonna at Genazzano. – Tommaso EMPLER and Adriana CALDARONE ; Towards a National Infrastructure for Semi‑Automatic Mapping of Cultural Heritage in Norway – Martin KERMIT, Jarle Hamar Reksten, and Øivind Due Trier ; Experiments in the Automatic Detection of Archaeological Features in Remotely Sensed Data from Great Plains Villages, USA – Kenneth L. KVAMME ; Interpolating 3D Stratigraphy from Indirect Information – Lutz SCHUBERT, Ana Predoi, and Keith Jeffery ; Closing a Gap with a Simple Toy: How the Use of the Tablet Affected the Documentation Workflow during the Excavations of the Rozprza Ring–Fort (Central Poland) – Jerzy SIKORA and Piotr KITTEL ; Supercomputing at the Trench Edge: Expediting Image Based 3D Recoding – David STOTT, Matteo Pilati , Carsten Meinertz Risager , and Jens-Bjørn Riis Andresen ; Semi‑Automatic Mapping of Charcoal Kilns from Airborne Laser Scanning Data Using Deep Learning – Øivind Due TRIER, Arnt-Børre Salberg, and Lars Holger Pilø ; Documenting Facades of Etruscan Rock‑Cut Tombs: from 3D Recording to Archaeological Analysis – Tatiana VOTROUBEKOVÁ ; Archaeological Information Systems – Fasti Online: Excavation, Conservation and Surveys. Twelve Years of Open Access ; Archaeological Data Online – Michael JOHNSON, Florence Laino, Stuart Eve, and Elizabeth Fentress ; DOHA — Doha Online Historical Atlas – Michal MICHALSKI, Robert Carter , Daniel Eddisford, Richard Fletcher, and Colleen Morgan ; Digital Archives — More Than Just a Skeuomorph – Emily NIMMO and Peter MCKEAGUE ; When Data Meets the Enterprise: How Flanders Heritage Agency Turned a Merger of Organisations into a Confluence of Information – Koen VAN DAELE, Maarten Vermeyen, Sophie Mortier , and Leen Meganck ; GIS AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS ; Crossroads: LCP — Model Testing and Historical Paths During the Iron Age in the North–East Iberian Peninsula (4th to 1st Centuries BC) – Joan Canela GRÀCIA and Núria Otero HERRAIZ ; Boundaries of Agrarian Production in the Bergisches Land in 1715 AD – Irmela HERZOG ; Geometric Graphs to Study Ceramic Decoration – Thomas HUET ; Vertical Aspects of Stone Age Distribution in South–East Norway – Mieko MATSUMOTO and Espen ULEBERG ; 3D AND VISUALISATION ; Emerging Technologies for Archaeological Heritage: Knowledge, Digital Documentation, and Communication – Martina ATTENNI, Carlo Bianchini, and Alfonso Ippolito ; New Actualities for Mediterranean Ancient Theaters: the ATHENA Project Lesson – Carlo BIANCHINI, Carlo Inglese, and Alfonso Ippolito ; Archaeology and Augmented Reality. Visualizing Stone Age Sea Level on Location – Birgitte BJØRKLI, Šarūnas Ledas , Gunnar Liestøl, Tomas Stenarson, and Espen Uleberg ; A Virtual Reconstruction of the Sun Temple of Niuserra: from Scans to ABIM – Angela BOSCO, Andrea D’Andrea, Massimiliano Nuzzolo, Rosanna Pirelli, and Patrizia Zanfagna ; A 3D Digital Approach for the Study and Presentation of the Bisarcio Site – Paola DERUDAS, Maria Carla Sgarella, and Marco Callieri ; The Role of Representation in Archaeological Architecture – Mario DOCCI, Carlo Inglese, and Alfonso Ippolito ; Digital Archaeological Dissemination: Eleniana Domus in Rome – Tommaso EMPLER ; On Roof Construction and Wall Strength: Non-Linear Structural Integrity Analysis of the Early Bronze Age Helike Corridor House – Mariza Christina KORMANN, Stella Katsarou, Dora Katsonopoulou, and Gary Lock ; An Exploratory Use of 3D for Investigating a Prehistoric Stratigraphic Sequence – Giacomo LANDESCHI, Jan Apel, Stefan Lindgren, and Nicolò Dell’Unto ; Les gestes retrouves: a 3D Visualization Approach to the Functional Study of Early Upper Palaeolithic Ground Stones – Laura LONGO, Natalia Skakun, Giusi Sorrentino, Valentina Vassallo, Dante Abate , Vera Terehina, Andrei Sinitsyn, Gennady Khlopachev , and Sorin Hermon ; Enhancing Archaeological Interpretation with Volume Calculations. An Integrated Method of 3D Recording and Modeling – Giulio POGGI and Mirko BUONO ; 3D Spatial Analysis: the Road Ahead – Martijn VAN LEUSEN and Gary NOBLES ; COMPLEX SYSTEMS SIMULATION ; Weaving the Common Threads of Simulation and Formation Studies in Archaeology – Benjamin DAVIES ; Evolving Hominins in HomininSpace: Genetic Algorithms and the Search for the ‘Perfect’ Neanderthal – Fulco SCHERJON ; An Agent‑Based Approach to Weighted Decision Making in the Spatially and Temporally Variable South African Paleoscape – Colin D. WREN, Chloe Atwater , Kim Hill, Marco A. Janssen, Jan C. DE Vynck, and Curtis W. Marean ; TEACHING ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE DIGITAL AGE ; Archaeological Education for a Digital World: Case Studies from the Contemporary and Historical US – Anna S. AGBE-DAVIES ; Teaching Archaeology or Teaching Digital Archaeology: Do We Have to Choose? – Sylvain BADEY and Anne MOREAU ; DOMUS: Cyber‑Archaeology and Education – Alex DA SILVA MARTIRE and Tatiana BINA ; Digital Data Recording at Circus Maximus: A Recent Experience – Alessandro VECCHIONE and Domenica DININNO ; Teaching GIS in Archaeology: What Students Focus On – Mar ZAMORA MERCHÁN and Javier BAENA PREYSLER
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Oxbow Books Personal Adornment and the Construction of
Book SynopsisObjects of adornment have been a subject of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic study for well over a century. Within archaeology, personal ornaments have traditionally been viewed as decorative embellishments associated with status and wealth, materializations of power relations and social strategies, or markers of underlying social categories such as those related to gender, class, and ethnic affiliation. Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity seeks to understand these artefacts not as signals of steady, pre-existing cultural units and relations, but as important components in the active and contingent constitution of identities. Drawing on contemporary scholarship on materiality and relationality in archaeological and social theory, this book uses one genre of material culture - items of bodily adornment - to illustrate how humans and objects construct one another.Providing case studies spanning 10 countries, three continents, and more than 9,000 years of human history, the authors demonstrate the myriad and dynamic ways personal ornaments were intertwined with embodied practice and identity performativity, the creation and remaking of social memories, and relational collections of persons, materials, and practices in the past. The authors’ careful analyses of production methods and composition, curation/heirlooming and reworking, decorative attributes and iconography, position within assemblages, and depositional context illuminate the varied material and relational axes along which objects of adornment contained social value and meaning. When paired with the broad temporal and geographic scope collectively represented by these studies, we gain a deeper appreciation for the subtle but vital roles these items played in human lives.Trade ReviewHaving read this book, you will have a clear and up to date overview of the deep possibilities jewellery research has to offer: not just for archaeological pieces, but for any type of personal adornment. * Bedouin Silver *Table of Contents 1. Personal adornment and identity construction in archaeology: An introduction Hannah V. Mattson 2. Continuity in ornament traditions: What details can tell us. Perforated shell from the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition at Franchthi Cave (Greece) Catherine Perlès 3. Costume and identity in Pacific Nicaragua Geoffrey McCafferty and Sharisse McCafferty 4. Performing place-based identity: Dress, language and acculturation strategies in the Nahua world Justyna Olko 5. Forging identity: The social and symbolic significance of torques in the Iron Age Castro Culture Nadya H. Prociuk 6. Disc-on-bow and penannular brooches: Exploring aesthetics, traditions and political change in the Early Viking Age Zanette Glørstad 7. Itineraries and networks of the Mission San Joseph de Sapala beads Elliot H. Blair, Richard W. Jefferies, and Christopher R. Moore 8. Material histories of African beads: The role of personal ornaments in cultural change Carla Klehm 9. The dynamism of dress items in the Period IVb mortuary assemblages at Hasanlu, Iran Megan Cifarelli 10. A relational perspective on ornaments in pre-Hispanic ritual deposits in the northern U.S. Southwest Hannah V. Mattson 11. Assembling ornament and assembling identity Julian Thomas
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Oxbow Books Cladh Hallan: Roundhouses and the dead in the
Book SynopsisThis first of two volumes presents the archaeological evidence of a long sequence of settlement and funerary activity from the Beaker period (Early Bronze Age c. 2000 BC) to the Early Iron Age (c. 500 BC) at the unusually long-occupied site of Cladh Hallan on South Uist in the Western Isles of Scotland. Particular highlights of its sequence are a cremation burial ground and pyre site of the 18th–16th centuries BC and a row of three Late Bronze Age sunken-floored roundhouses constructed in the 10th century BC. Beneath these roundhouses, four inhumation graves contained skeletons, two of which were remains of composite collections of body parts with evidence for post-mortem soft tissue preservation prior to burial. They have proved to be the first evidence for mummification in Bronze Age Britain.Cladh Hallan's remarkable stratigraphic sequence, preserved in the machair sand of South Uist, includes a unique 500-year sequence of roundhouse life in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain. One of the most important results of the excavation has come from intensive environmental and micro-debris sampling of house floors and outdoor areas to recover patterns of discard and to interpret the spatial use of 15 domestic interiors from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age. From Cladh Hallan’s roundhouse floors we gain intimate insights into how daily life was organized within the house - where people cooked, ate, worked and slept. Such evidence rarely survives from prehistoric houses in Britain or Europe, and the results make a profound contribution to long-running debates about the sunwise organisation of roundhouse activities. Activity at Cladh Hallan ended with the construction and abandonment of two unusual double-roundhouses in the Early Iron Age. One appears to have been a smokery and steam room, and the other was used for metalworking.Trade ReviewThe first of two promised monographs (the next will feature artefacts, animal bones and environmental and human remains), this rich compendium presents the site’s stunning stratigraphy – soils, structures, burials, dating and pottery. * British Archaeology *A large publication, this book contains a vast amount of information, including chapters on thin-section soil micromorphology, scientific dating and pottery, that will be of interst and use to other researchers. * Archaeology Ireland *It is not often that one opens the pages of a huge excavation report with a real sense of anticipation, awaiting the depth and detail that a monograph affords to shed light on a site that garnered much media attention … [It] finally allows the context, chronology, and interpretation of these discoveries to be explained in depth … [and] shows how flexible and evolving excavation methodologies and research questions can lead to outstanding results … There is no doubt that the understanding of later prehistoric lifeways, house building, cosmology, burial practices, metallurgical crafts, farming and ceramics have all been augmented by the work at Cladh Hallan and this wonderful volume. * Scottish Archaeological Journal *Lucid writing and communication of the highly complex site stand out throughout the publication … Much more than a primer or scene-setter for the human remains, [this] is a great asset and a superb volume supported by high production values and lavish illustrations. The book evokes 500 years of settlement development and forms a contextualised basis for understanding the dynamic interplay between the dead and the living. [It] thus makes a highly important contribution to our understanding of Scottish and British later prehistory. * Antiquity *It is one of those rare archaeological sites that transform the mundanity of everyday domestic life into something very much extraordinary, generating fascination from academic and lay audiences alike. So, it should come as no surprise that we feel [this volume] on the Bronze Age and Iron Age roundhouses at Cladh Hallan, which are presented in full alongside the buried human remains associated with them, should be very well received by archaeologists and all those interested in the later prehistoric archaeology of Britain … The monograph is also incredibly well illustrated with 575 figures, over 280 of which are in colour … While this volume will immediately appeal to people interested in later prehistoric settlement in Britain, anyone wanting to see a slightly different take on the printed archaeological monograph should also have a look between its covers. * Archaeological Journal *Table of ContentsLIST OF FIGURES LIST OF TABLES CONTRIBUTORS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1. The Cladh Hallan excavations and their context M. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith 1.1 The site of Cladh Hallan and its environs 1.2 The Bronze Age to Early Iron Age settlement at Cladh Hallan 1.3 Previous discoveries 1.4 Survey, test excavations and trial-trenching 1988–1996 1.5 The evolving research design 1.6 The 1997–2003 excavations 2. Beaker cultivation, Cordoned Urn layers and Early Bronze Age cremation burials (phases 1–3) M. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith with contributions by C.A.I. French and H. Manley 2.1 Beaker-period cultivation and activity (phase 1) 2.2 Early Bronze Age settlement remains at Cladh Hallan (phase 2) 2.3 The cremation cemetery (phase 3) 2.4 The gully or ditch under Houses 1370 and 401 (phase 3) 2.5 The cremation platform and pyre (phase 3) 2.6 Area B: the stone structure (phase 3) 2.7 Area C: a disturbed inhumation burial (phase 3) 2.8 Conclusion M. Parker Pearson 3. The first houses: Late Bronze Age occupation (phases 4–7) M. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith with contributions by C.A.I. French, A. Hale and H. Manley 3.1 The boat-shaped house (2835; phase 4) and its destruction (phase 5) 3.2 The sheep burial in the north-central zone of Area A (phase 4) 3.3 Ard-marks, a post-built structure and an exploratory pit (phases 5–6) 3.4 The cigar-shaped structure (2477; phase 7) 3.5 The tiny roundhouse (3260; phase 7) 3.6 The pit alignment (phases 6–7) 3.7 Pottery from the pits, Structure 2477 and House 3260 (phases 5–7) M. Parker Pearson 3.8 Conclusion M. Parker Pearson 4. The construction of the row of roundhouses and digging of the features beneath them (phase 8) M. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith with contributions by T. Booth, A. Chamberlain, O. Craig, , J. Evans, J. Hiller, J. Montgomery and C. Willis 4.1 Beneath House 801 4.2 Beneath House 401 4.3 Beneath House 1370 4.4 The double pit outside House 1370 4.5 The sub-floor human burials: a summary 4.6 Construction of House 801 4.7 Construction of House 401 4.8 Construction of House 1370 4.9 The pottery M. Parker Pearson 4.10 Stratigraphic relationships of the skeletons, their contexts of deposition and the house floors M. Parker Pearson 4.11 Conclusion M. Parker Pearson 5. The primary occupation of the Late Bronze Age roundhouses (phase 9) M. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith with contributions by A. Hale and H. Manley 5.1 House 801: the southern roundhouse 5.2 House 401: the middle roundhouse 5.3 House 1370: the northern roundhouse 5.4 The front yard of the settlement 5.5 The area behind the houses (west of House 401) 5.6 Area D: the southern edge of the settlement and House 2049 5.7 Area C: the midden 5.8 The pottery from phase 9 M. Parker Pearson 5.9 Conclusion M. Parker Pearson 6. The sand-blow and the second phase of roundhouse occupation (phase 10) M. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith with contributions by A. Hale and H. Manley 6.1 The windblown sand 6.2 Gullies, pits and spademarks over the ruins of House 801 6.3 House 2190 6.4 House 401 in phase 10: its second phase of occupation 6.5 House 1370 in phase 10 6.6 Area C: the midden 6.7 The pottery from phase 10 M. Parker Pearson 6.8 Conclusion M. Parker Pearson 7. The third phase of roundhouse occupation (phase 11) M. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith with contributions by A. Hale and H. Manley 7.1 Round the back: above the ruins of House 801 and west of House 401 7.2 House 401 in phase 11: its third phase of occupation 7.3 The end of House 1370 7.4 The pottery from phase 11 M. Parker Pearson 7.5 Conclusion M. Parker Pearson 8. A single roundhouse at the bronze–iron transition (phase 12) M. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith with contributions by A. Hale, H. Manley and J. Peto 8.1 The southern end of Area A: above House 2190 and the deep windblown sand layer 8.2 House 401 in phase 12: its fourth phase of occupation 8.3 The later use of the areas to the front and rear of House 401 8.4 The northern part of the settlement 8.5 The pottery from phase 12 M. Parker Pearson 8.6 Conclusion M. Parker Pearson 9. The single roundhouse into the Iron Age (phase 13) M. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith with contributions by A. Hale and H. Manley 9.1 House 401in phase 13: its fifth phase of occupation 9.2 After abandonment 9.3 The pottery from phase 13 M. Parker Pearson 9.4 Conclusion M. Parker Pearson 10. The double roundhouse in Area C (phases 13–16) M. Parker Pearson, J. Mulville and H. Smith 10.1 House 150: the double roundhouse in Area C 10.2 The pottery from House 150 M. Parker Pearson 10.3 Conclusion M. Parker Pearson 11. Final occupation of the roundhouses in the Iron Age (phases 14–16) M. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith 11.1 House 401 in phase 14: its sixth phase of occupation 11.2 House 401 in phase 15: its seventh phase of occupation 11.3 House 401 in phase 16: its eighth and final phase of occupation 11.4 House 1500: phase 14 11.5 The pottery from phases 14–16 (House 401 and House 1500) M. Parker Pearson 11.6 Conclusion M. Parker Pearson 12. House 640: a double roundhouse (phase 16) in Area A M. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith with contributions by A. Hale and S. Rhodes 12.1 House 640: a smokery and steam room? 12.2 The pottery from House 640 M. Parker Pearson 12.3 Conclusion M. Parker Pearson 13. Thin-section soil micromorphology L.E. Hamlet and I.A. Simpson 13.1 Research questions 13.2 Methodology 13.3 Descriptions and analyses 13.4 Discussion 13.5 Conclusion 14. Scientific dating P. Marshall, M. Parker Pearson, J.-L. Schwenninger and G. Cook 14.1 Dataset, objectives and sampling strategy 14.2 Methods, presentation of results and chronological modelling 14.3 The chronological model 14.4 The stratigraphic model 15. Pottery and ceramic artefacts V. Parsons, M. Parker Pearson and H. Manley 15.1 Introduction M. Parker Pearson 15.2 Pottery fabrics H. Manley 15.3 Potting clay M. Parker Pearson 15.4 The pottery V. Parsons and M. Parker Pearson 15.5 Artefacts of fired and baked clay M. Parker Pearson 15.6 Overview – chronology and change M. Parker Pearson
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Oxbow Books The Marriage Bed of Henry VII and Elizabeth of
Book SynopsisThe Henry VII and Elizabeth of York marriage bed, rediscovered in 2010, is an exceptional piece of late medieval English royal furniture: no other equivalent example of secular domestic furniture is known to have survived, and, indeed, precious little woodwork from this period remains outside of ecclesiastical settings. As a tour-de-force of medieval royal woodwork, the bed offers an unprecedented insight into elite domestic furniture from this period. Since its rediscovery, the bed has been subjected to a wide array of investigation by furniture specialists, medieval historians, design historians and scientists. Emerging from a decade-long multidisciplinary research project, this book is the first sustained account of the bed: it shows how numerous disciplines covering the arts and conservation sciences can be brought together to assess and interpret such rare historic survivals.Broken down into thematic chapters, the book explores the bed’s form and structure, context, iconography, wood, paint, physical history, provenance – including its curious reproduction by George Shaw in Victorian England – and relationship with known surviving Tudor furniture, as well as Georgian and Victorian Gothic Revival beds. Although thought to be a 19th-century fake, this book presents historical, archival and scientific evidence to show, beyond doubt, the bed’s late medieval age.Whilst grounded upon research presented at a 2019 conference funded by the Institute of Conservation and held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the book incorporates additional historical and scientific discoveries made since the conference. Written by a range of scientists, historians and specialist researchers, this volume is a multi-disciplinary work of immeasurable value to readers from numerous disciplines.Table of ContentsContributors Acknowledgements Foreword by Elizabeth Norton 1. Introduction Peter N. Lindfield 2. Discovery and Conservation Ian Coulson 3. Historical Context, Commissioning, and Provenance Peter N. Lindfield and Ian Coulson 4. Iconography and Design: Meaning, Complexity, and Context Peter N. Lindfield 5. Gothic Beds, the Antiques Trade, and Reproduction Peter N. Lindfield 6. Paint Analysis Helen Hughes 7. Dendrochronological Analysis Andy Moir 8. DNA Analysis Hilke Schroeder and Lasse Schindler 9. Afterword Appendices Bibliography
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Oxbow Books The Submerged Site of La Marmotta (Rome, Italy):
Book SynopsisThe shift from a hunting and gathering economy to a productive economy, based on the domestication of plants and animals, is one of the most important changes in human history. This change, which manifested itself in different forms and at different times in different areas of the Old and New Worlds, is still a subject of debate and discussion today. How and why does such a profound change occur in the relationship with the environment and the land? Could the arrival of foreign settlers with a mature and structured Neolithic cultural heritage be the cause of this change in the Mediterranean?The archaeological excavations conducted at the settlement of La Marmotta (Anguillara Sabazia, Rome, Italy), today submerged under the waters of Lake Bracciano, represents one of the most relevant Neolithic villages of the entire Mediterranean. The exceptional nature of this site is given by the conservation of the organic remains. Not only are the piles and architectural remains of the houses well preserved at La Marmotta, but so are small finds and fragile artefacts such as spoons, textile crafts, baskets, ropes, sickles and bows. In addition, there are a huge variety of remains of both animal and vegetal nature, such as seeds, spikelets, bundles of wheat and other plants, possible cheese and milk derivatives and other mixtures of foodstuff. This set of materials has an enormous potential for changing and deepening our understanding of the first farming societies, of their technological complexity, their know-hows, their lifestyle and food habits. Thanks to La Marmotta it is truly possible to rewrite the evolution of techniques for processing plants and wood during prehistoric times. Until now, published information on the site is very limited and partial. The main aim of this book is to make visible the extreme richness of the La Marmotta archaeological record and provide insights into Neolithic woodworking, basketry, textile production and other crafting and subsistence activities.Table of ContentsPrologue Director General of Museums of Italy Prologue Director of the Museo delle Civiltà. Acknowledgements 1. Introduction to the volume: La Marmotta, an exceptional Neolithic site Mario Mineo, Juan F. Gibaja, Niccolò Mazzucco 2. La Marmotta site in the framework of the Early Mediterranean Neolithic Niccolò Mazzucco, Juan Gibaja, Mario Mineo 3. La Marmotta: location, history, stratigraphy and cultural sequence, chronology Mario Mineo, Juan F. Gibaja, Niccolò Mazzucco, Gerard Remolins 4. First palynological contribution towards a palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Neolithic site La Marmotta Daniele Arobba1, Rosanna Caramiello, Lionello F. Morandi 5. Woodworking: Introduction to wood working and artefact crafting 5.1. Village Organization and Domestic Structures Mario Mineo, Gerard Remolins, Juan F. Gibaja, Niccolò Mazzucco 5.2. Navigation: dugout canoes, artefacts related to navigation Mario Mineo, Juan F. Gibaja, Niccolò Mazzucco, Laura Caruso 5.3. Wood Artefacts Juan F. Gibaja, Mario Mineo, Vittorio Brizzi, Niccolò Mazzucco, Laura Caruso, Miriam Cubas, Gerard Remolins, Daniele Arobba1, Rosanna Caramiello, Lionello F. Morandi 6. Working with plant fibres: textiles, basketry, cordage Juan F. Gibaja, Mario Mineo, Niccolò Mazzucco, Laura Caruso, Vanessa Forte, Millán Mozota, Christina Margariti, Eva Andersson 7. Food remains, phytotherapics and psychotropics remains Mauro Rottoli, Amaia Arranz 8. The Botanical Ornaments of La Marmotta Cristiana Petrinelli Pannocchia, Alice Vassanelli 9. Lithic Tools Analysis 9.1. Flaked Stone Tools Denis Guilbeau, Bernard Gassin, Juan F. Gibaja, Niccolò Mazzucco 9.2. Stone adzes and axes Alba Masclans 9.3. Grinding tools for plant processing and food production in La Marmotta Caroline Hamon, Marta Portillo 10. Restoration of wooden and textiles artefacts at La Marmotta Mario Mineo 11. Conclusions and future perspectives Niccolò Mazzucco, Mario Mineo, Juan F. Gibaja 12. References
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Oxbow Books Breaking Images: Damage and Mutilation of Ancient
Book SynopsisArchaeological remains are ‘fragmented by definition’: apart from exceptional cases, the study of the human past takes into account mainly traces, ruins, discards, and debris of past civilisations. It is rare that things have been preserved as they were originally made and conceived in the past. However, not all the ancient fragmentary objects were the ‘leftovers’ from the past. A noticeable portion of them was part and parcel of the ancient materiality already in the form of a fragment or damaged item. In 2000, John Chapman, with his volume Fragmentation in Archaeology, attracted the attention of scholars on the need to reconsider broken artefacts as the result of the deliberate anthropic process of physical fragmentation. The phenomenon of fragmentation can be thus explored with more outcomes for a category of objects that played an important role inside the society: the figurines. Due to their portability and size, figurines are particularly entangled and engaged in social, spatial, temporal, and material relations, and – more than other artefacts – can easily accommodate acts of embodiment and dismemberment. The act of creation symmetrically also involves the act of destruction, which in turn is another act of creation, since from the fragmentation comes a new entity with a different ontology. Breaking contains the paradigms of life: creation and reparation, destruction and regeneration.The scope of this volume is to search for traces of any voluntary and intentional fragmentation of ancient artefacts, creating, improving, and sharpening the methods and principles for a scientific investigation that goes beyond single author impression or sensitivity. The comparative lens adopted in this volume can allow the reader to explore different fields taken from ancient societies of how we can address, assess, detect, and even discuss the action of breaking and mutilation of ancient figurines.Table of ContentsContributors Preface At the dawn of a break: The agency of the damage 1. In the footsteps of Auguste Rodin: Fragmentation is not an end Gianluca Miniaci 2. The meaning of deliberate figurine fragmentation: Insights from the Old and New Worlds John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska Beyond ritual: When the whole cracks 3. In the beginning: Exploring integrity of anthropomorphic images in prehistoric Europe Elisabetta Starnini 4. When garbage is art: Broken ceramic figural objects from ancient Honduras Jeanne Lopiparo and Rosemary A. Joyce 5. Parts, not wholes: Long histories and negative space analysis Stacy Boldrick 6. Not whole yet holy: Some breakage rituals and their significance in Hinduism and other religions of India Urmi Chanda The materiality of the damage: Searching for the intentionality 7. Broken beyond repair. Reflections on the intentionality of breakage and its archaeological identification regarding Naqada period clay figurines Axelle Brémont 8. The materiality of the damage in the faience figurine corpus from late Middle Bronze Age Egypt (1800–1550 BC) Gianluca Miniaci 9. Breaking into pieces: An experimental investigation into fracture behaviours in ceramic female figurines Paulina Wandowicz 10. Intentionality in the breaking. A case study of intentional damaging of figurines at Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad (Syria) and Çatalhöyük (Turkey) Monique Arntz 11. Fragmented or intact – Mycenaean figurines and figures in cult and burial contexts Ann-Louise Schallin Inside the fragmentation: Exploring methods and technologies 12. Made it for breaking it? Assessing fragmentation of the Lahun figurines (Egypt, MBA II, c. 1800–1700 BC) Vanessa Forte 13. Displaying the fragmented: Damaged and mutilated ancient Egyptian figures from Sir Charles Nicholson’s collection Candace Richards and Michelle F. Whitford 14. Broken collections: A 3D approach to the digital reunification and holistic study of dispersed terracotta figurines assemblages Valentina Vassallo Concluding remarks Afterword: Strong at the broken places? Caitlín Eilís Barrett
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Archaeopress Aprovechamiento de vertebrados terrestres por las
Book SynopsisThis book presents the results and discussion of archaeofaunal studies which took place in the northern San Matías Gulf (Rio Negro Province) during the last six years, focussing on terrestrial mammals and birds. The general objective of this research is to determine what was the mode of operation of terrestrial vertebrates (small and big), and the importance that they had in the survival of human populations that occupied the coastline during the late Holocene (last 3000 years).Table of ContentsRESUMEN/ABSTRACT ; CAPÍTULO 1: INTRODUCCIÓN AL TEMA DE ESTUDIO ; CAPITULO 2: ANTECEDENTES GENERALES PARA EL ÁREA DE ESTUDIO ; CAPÍTULO 3: METODOLOGÍA ; CAPÍTULO 4: LOCALIDAD ARQUEOLÓGICA PAESANI ; CAPÍTULO 5: LOCALIDAD ARQUEOLÓGICA BAJO DE LA QUINTA ; CAPÍTULO 6: LOCALIDAD ARQUEOLÓGICA BAHÍA FINAL ; CAPÍTULO 7: LOCALIDAD ARQUEOLÓGICA DE SACO VIEJO ; CAPÍTULO 8: DISCUSIÓN ; CAPÍTULO 9: BIBLIOGRAFÍA
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Archaeopress Archaeological Heritage Conservation and
Book SynopsisArchaeological heritage conservation is all too often highly conflicted and fraught with pitfalls in part due to a poor understanding of the historical and current underpinnings that guide best practice. When heritage places are managed with international principles in mind the sites stand out as evidencing superior outcomes. The International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management expresses concern in the Salalah Guidelines of 2017 with the persistent problems facing archaeological sites that are open to the public. National heritage icons face overwhelming pressure to provide the mainstay of local, national and international tourism economies while in some instances being situated in locations destined for major development or military conflict. Leaders in the field of archaeological heritage conservation, particularly with respect to World Heritage listed properties, assert that economic interests often are at the forefront of management decision making while heritage values are given lesser, if any, consideration. Continuing and future zones of discomfort such as the impact of war, theft of national cultural property, over-development, unconstrained excavation, extreme nationalism, uncontrolled visitation and professionalisation need to be addressed if future generations are to be afforded the same heritage values as are available today.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Archaeology, significance and heritage; 3. Internationalism; 4. Challenges; 5. Sustainability; 6. Economics; 7. Governance and risks; 8. International reflections; References; Appendix 1 International and national instruments; Appendix 2 Salalah Guidelines for the Management of Public Archaeological Sites
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Archaeopress The Poole Iron Age Logboat
Book SynopsisThe Poole Iron Age logboat, one of the largest surviving prehistoric watercraft in Britain, is today imposingly displayed in the entrance to Poole Museum in Dorset. However, the vessel faced a difficult journey from its first discovery to the amazing artefact we can now see. Recovered from Poole Harbour in 1964, it is impossible to overestimate the international significance of this vessel. But until now it had never been fully recorded and apart from its impressive size, very little was known about it. Its dimensions made it inherently unstable and suggest it was designed for use solely in Poole Harbour. This book is the culmination of significant multi-disciplinary work carried out by a variety of specialists, from conservators to woodworking and boatbuilding experts, exploring not only the craft’s history but also its functionality – or lack of – as a vessel. Digital recording, using the latest technology, has made it possible to test its capabilities. For the first time, prehistorians, nautical archaeologists and lay people alike can understand the story of one of Britain’s oldest boats – the archaeological and historical background, the environmental context, the timber and ship science, and the challenges of conserving such an important vessel.Table of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword – Professor Seán McGrail; Chapter 1: Introduction - Keith Jarvis†; Chapter 2: Environmental and archaeological background to prehistoric Poole Harbour – Eileen Wilkes; Chapter 3: Evidence for the building of the Poole logboat – Damian Goodburn; Chapter 4: The Poole logboat: digital comparisons – Pat Tanner; Chapter 5: The conservation of the Poole logboat – Jeremy Hutchings and James A. Spriggs; Chapter 6: The display and interpretation of the Poole logboat – Katie Morton and David Watkins; Bibliography; Index
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Archaeopress Dating Urban Classical Deposits: Approaches and
Book SynopsisDating Urban Classical Deposits: Approaches and problems in using finds to date strata considers the issues surrounding the dating of archaeological strata on the basis of the assemblages recovered from them. This process is one of the most common processes in archaeology, yet it is still poorly structured theoretically, methodologically and operatively. No manuals specifically tackle the issue as a whole and consideration of useful theoretical and methodological tools is fragmentary. This book has been developed to try to correct this failing; it is based on the idea that for dating a given layer through the materials recovered from it, the embedding process of the materials must be modelled. The book reviews the present state of archaeological practice and follows this with a theoretical discussion of the key concepts involved in the issue of dating deposits; the main methodological tools which can be employed (quantitative, qualitative and comparative) are then discussed in detail. The text presents a problem-oriented taxonomy of deposits, with depositional models for assessing how different assemblages can be analysed for dating; each type of deposit is accompanied by case studies where the methodological tools used are explained. Finally, a structured working method is proposed. The topic of dating deposits crosses the chronological and spatial borders of many archaeologies, but the book focusses on Classical cities (particularly Roman), as they present specific traits (continuous occupation, high rates of residuality, high impact architecture, waste management etc.) making them unique fields for study.Trade Review'Guido Furlan's merit is to bring together the English and Italian language research and to show parallel lines of discussion that are often ignored by the other side. He also shows how easily statistical methods can be used profitably and included in the evaluation of an excavation. In classical archaeology, in particular, reflection on archaeological taphonomy should be given greater weight. In this regard, the book discussed is a contribution worth reading, which gives reason to hope that the subject will also be dealt with more intensively in German-speaking countries.' – Thomas Lappi (2021): Germania 99Table of ContentsPreface (Prof. J. Bonetto, UNIPD) ; Part I Introducing the topic ; I.1 Introductory remarks ; I.2 Notes for a literature review ; Part II Theory ; II.1 Preliminary observations ; II.2 Key concepts ; Part III Tools ; III.1 Introduction ; III.2 OSL, TL, mortar dating and non-mediated chronology ; III.3 A quantitative approach to assemblages ; III.4 Qualitative approaches to assemblages and deposits ; III.5 The contribution of ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology and literary sources ; III.6 Coping with intrusive materials ; Part IV Typology and analysis ; IV.1 The arrangement (a typology for deposits?) ; IV.2 Primary deposits with abrupt formation ; IV.3 Primary deposits with continuous formation ; IV.4 Mixed deposits ; IV.5 Secondary deposits ; IV.6 Other deposits ; Part V Synthesis and conclusions ; V.1 Towards a working method ; V.2 Conclusions ; Appendices ; 1. Self-archaeology compiled forms ; 2. The main sites ; References
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Archaeopress New Global Perspectives on Archaeological
Book SynopsisThis volume is a product of the 13th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection 2019, which was hosted by the Department of Environmental Science in the Faculty of Science at the Institute of Technology Sligo. The conference is held every two years under the banner of the International Society for Archaeological Prospection and this was the first time that the conference was held in Ireland. New Global Perspectives on Archaeological Prospection draws together over 90 papers addressing archaeological prospection techniques, methodologies and case studies from 33 countries across Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America, reflecting current and global trends in archaeological prospection. At this particular ICAP meeting, specific consideration was given to the development and use of archaeological prospection in Ireland, archaeological feedback for the prospector, applications of prospection technology in the urban environment and the use of legacy data. Papers include novel research areas such as magnetometry near the equator, drone-mounted radar, microgravity assessment of tombs, marine electrical resistivity tomography, convolutional neural networks, data processing, automated interpretive workflows and modelling as well as recent improvements in remote sensing, multispectral imaging and visualisation.Table of ContentsThe 13th ICAP and the Importance of Archaeological Prospection in Ireland (James Bonsall) 13th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection: Organisation Committee 13th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection: Scientific Committee Part One – Archaeological Prospection in Europe Harbours from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: a Geophysical Panorama (Wolfgang Rabbel, Dennis Wilken, Tina Wunderlich, Annika Fediuk, Michaela Schwardt, Daniel Köhn, Clemens Mohr, SPP 1630 Working Groups) High-resolution underwater archaeological prospection of Upper Austrian pile dwellings and lakes using multi-beam and sediment sonar (Immo Trinks, Wolfgang Neubauer, Timothy Taylor, Mario Wallner, Klaus Löcker, Jutta Leskovar) Ground-penetrating radar study of the Asaviec 2 archaeological site, Belarus (Alina Tšugai-Tsyrulnikova, Jüri Plado, Maxim Charniauski, Irina Khrustaleva, Aivar Kriiska) The Challenge of Urban Archaeological Geophysics: the Example of Grand’Place in Brussels, Belgium (Michel Dabas, François Blary, Gianluca Catanzariti, Paulo Charruadas, Sébastien Flageul, Benjamin Van Nieuwenhoeve, Philippe Sosnowska, Alain Tabbagh) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Data): 100-year Discussion over Roman Fort in Herzegovina solved with shards of information (Michal Pisz, Tomasz Dziurdzik) Geophysical surveys of Eneolithic ditch enclosures in central Bohemia (Roman Křivánek) The application of the geophysical method in forested highland terrains of Bohemia (Roman Křivánek) Non-destructive survey of early medieval ramparts in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Peter Milo, Igor Murín, Michaela Prišťáková, Tomáš Tencer, Michal Vágner) Looking for military remains of the Battle of Gergovia: Benefits of a towed multi-frequency EMI survey (François-Xavier Simon, Guillaume Hulin, Yann Deberge, Marion Dacko) First 3D reconstruction of the palaeoenvironment at the Mesolithic site of Duvensee, Germany, using geophysics and geoarchaeology (Erica Corradini, Dennis Wilken, Marco Zanon, Daniel Groß , Harald Lübke, Diana Panning, Katharina Rusch, Rebekka Mecking, Ercan Erkul, Natalie Pickartz, Ingo Feeser, Wolfgang Rabbel) Interaction of geophysical prospection, archaeological excavation and historical sources to reconstruct a medieval monastery in Southern Bavaria (Roland Linck, Florian Becker, Mario Hölzl) The sunken trade centre of Rungholt – Geophysical investigations in the German North Frisian Wadden Sea (Michaela Schwardt, Dennis Wilken, Hanna Hadler, Annika Fediuk, Tina Wunderlich, Andreas Vött, Wolfgang Rabbel) 3-D Resistivity Imaging of Rock-Cut Chamber Tombs: the case of the Mycenaean Cemetery in Prosilio, Greece (Nikos Papadopoulos, Dimitris Oikonomou, Gianluca Cantoro, Nikos Andronikidis, Apostolos Sarris) Manifestation of the urban design of ancient cities in northern Greece by archaeological prospection (Gregory N. Tsokas, Panagiotis Tsourlos, George Vargemezis) Ground-Penetrating radar (GPR) for non-destructive testing of monument walls (Gregory Tsokas, Nectaria Diamanti, Dimitrios Angelis, Panagiotis Tsourlos, George Vargemezis) From Roman Villas to 19th century gardens: case studies of geophysical surveys for built heritage in Hungary (László Nagy) Hidden Depths and Empty Spaces: the contribution of archaeological prospection to the study of early medieval Ireland (Susan Curran) Visualizing the Village: A Comparative Assessment of Remote Sensing Methods on Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland (Sean Field, Ian Kuijt) Unusual monuments, Unusual molecules: geochemical processes at work in County Limerick, Ireland (Heather Gimson, Cian Hogan, Ursula Garner) Newgrange, New Monuments and New Perspectives (Joanna Leigh, Geraldine Stout, Matthew Stout) Microgravimetry for cavity detection–an example from pilot measurements on Newgrange passage tomb (Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site, Ireland) (Roman Pasteka, Pavol Zahorec, Juraj Papco, Conor Brady, Kevin Barton) When the Norsemen return: Complementary GPR surveys at the Viking Age site of Woodstown, County Waterford, Ireland (Petra Schneidhofer) Revisiting the Segesta and the Monreale Survey Sites - The Benefits and Possibilities of Digitising Analog Archaeological Spatial Data (Doris Jetzinger, Christopher Sevara) Integrating geophysical and geoarchaeological surveys for the reconstruction of a Roman Port infrastructure: the Claudian Harbour at Portus (Stephen Kay, Elena Pomar, Simon Keay, Kristian Strutt, Stoil Chapkanski, Jean-Philippe Goiran) Extensive Geophysical Investigations to study the Archaeological Site of Norba (Norma, Central Italy) (Salvatore Piro, Stefania Quilici Gigli, Enrico Papale, Daniela Zamuner) Innovating Archaeological Investigations in Mediterranean Landscapes: Contributions from the Prospecting Boundaries Project (Christopher Sevara, Michael Doneus, Erich Draganits, Roderick B. Salisbury, Cipriano Frazzetta, Doris Jetzinger, Sheba-Celina Schilk, Sebastiano Tusa) Looking for Etruscan harbours: geophysical survey of the ancient site of Pyrgi (Quentin Vitale, Christophe Benech, Jean-Philippe Goiran) Investigating a tumulus in the Etruscan necropolis of Banditaccia – Applying multiple noninvasive prospection methods on a World Heritage Site (Mario Wallner, Immo Trinks, Ingrid Schlögel, Alois Hinterleitner, Hannes Schiel, Tanja Trausmuth, Fabio Colivicchi, Maurizio Forte, Wolfgang Neubauer) Prospecting Mesolithic buried landscapes and sites. Two case studies from two different types of landscapes in the southern Netherlands (Eelco Rensink) "Where animals were equal to humans". Surprising results of complementary geophysical survey on gallows in Lower Silesia (Poland) (Michal Pisz, Magdalena Majorek, Bartosz Świątkowski, Daniel Wojtucki, Karolina Wojtucka, Krzysztof Narloch) Back to the roots. Remote sensing techniques for rediscovering the Chalcolithic eponymous settlement of Cucuteni culture, Romania (Andrei Asandulesei, Felix-Adrian Tencariu, Radu-Ștefan Balaur, Mihaela Asandulesei) Understanding the Anomaly: Multi-Method Geoscientific Research Applied on a Roman Fort in Pojejena (Michal Pisz, Radoslaw Mieszkowski, Emil Jęczmienowski) Geophysical and archaeological research of the baroque church of Saint Nicolas in Kovarce, Slovakia (Mário Bielich, Ján Tirpák) Outlining the karst: ERT and GPR surveys to detect karstic morphologies in the Sierra de Atapuerca sites (Burgos, Spain) (Lucía Bermejo Albarrán, Ana Isabel Ortega, Roger Guérin, Lawrence Conyers, Josep M. Parés, Isidoro Campaña, José María Bermúdez de Castro, Eudald Carbonell) Archaeological feedback of a GPR survey at Labeagako Santa Maria (Navarre): confirmation of survey interpretation and few more surprises (Ekhine Garcia-Garcia, Roger Sala, Alexandre Duró, Helena Ortiz-Quintana, Rosario Mateo, Javier Nuin) Multi method investigation of submerged features at Semblister, Shetland (Claire Christie, Michael Stratiagos, Benjamin Jennings) The Archaeology of 20th Century Sports and Leisure: topophilia, interiography and texture (Chris Gaffney, Tom Sparrow, Alex Corkum, Helen McCreary, Chrys Harris, Jason Wood) A New Look at Old County Number Records: Geophysical Reassessment of Scheduled Roman Villas (Neil Linford, Paul Linford, Andrew Payne) The influence of buried archaeology on equine locomotion: results from the Burghley Horse trials cross country course (Neil Linford, Russell Mackechnie-Guire) When finding nothing is interesting (Kris Lockyear) Co-creation and archaeological prospection: LoCATE – The Local Community Archaeological Training and Equipment Project (Kate Welham, James Brown, Paul Cheetham, Mike Gill, Lawrence Shaw) Part Two – Archaeological Prospection in Africa Old Plans versus Geophysical Surveys: the case study of Gurob (Fayum, Egypt) (Lionel Darras, Tomasz Herbich, Marine Yoyotte) Geophysical surveying in Egypt and Sudan: periodical report for 2017–2018 (Tomasz Herbich, Robert Ryndziewicz) 3-D Electrical Resistivity Tomography in an Urban Environment: the case of Shallalat Gardens, Alexandria, Egypt (Nikos Papadopoulos, Dimitris Oikonomou, Nasos Argyriou, George Kritikakis, Calliope Limneos Papakosta) Going back to Medamud: Excavation feedback on processing, interpretation and planning (Julien Thiesson, Félix Relats Montserrat) Magnetic prospection close to the magnetic equator: Case studies in the Tigray plateau of Aksum and Yeha, Ethiopia (Sandra Ostner, Jörg W.E. Fassbinder, Mandana Parsi, Iris Gerlach, Sarah Japp) Surveying Kushite sites in Sudan: town and cemetery in Kawa (Tomasz Herbich, Robert Ryndziewicz) Archaeo–geophysical prospection of forts in the North Omdurman (Sudan) (Robert Ryndziewicz, Mariusz Drzewiecki) Part Three – Archaeological Prospection in Asia Magnetic signal prospecting in a former Achaemenid ‘palace’: the example of Gumbati (Georgia) (Julien Thiesson, Sébastien Gondet, Jörg W.E. Fassbinder, Florian Becker, Marion Scheiblecker, Sandra Ostner, Mandana Parsi, Solène Bourgeois Espèron, Kai Kaniuth) Venice in the desert: Archaeological geophysics on the world’s oldest metropolis Uruk-Warka, the city of King Gilgamesh (Iraq) (Jörg Fassbinder, Sandra Ostner, Marion Scheiblecker, Mandana Parsi, Margarete van Ess) Ancient Charax Spasinou (Iraq) – Interpreting a multi-phase city based on magnetometer survey data (Lena Lambers, Jörg Faßbinder, Stuart Campbell, Stefan Hauser) Revealing the Hidden Structure of the Ancient City Ur (Iraq) with Electrical Resistivity Tomography (Mandana Parsi, Jörg Fassbinder, Nikos Papadopoulos, Marion Scheiblecker, Sandra Ostner) Geophysical survey of single phase archaeological sites: Magnetometry in Wadi Shamlu, Kurdistan, Northern Iraq (Marion Scheiblecker, Simone Mühl, Jörg Faßbinder) Conclusions from Twenty Years of Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) Surveys in Israel for Archaeological Prospection (Paul Bauman, Alastair McClymont, Eric Johnson, Richard Freund, Randy Shinduke) Restoring burial mounds damaged by disasters — Contribution of archaeological prospection to collect information at the Idera burial mound, Japan (Akihiro Kaneda, Hiroshi Yamaguchi) UAV-based Airborne Laser Scanning in densely vegetated areas: Detecting Sue pottery kilns in Nakadake Sanroku, Japan (Michael Doneus, Maria Shinoto, Irmela Herzog, Naoko Nakamura, Hideyuki Haijima, Tomokazu Ōnishi, Shōhei Kita'ichi, Baoquan Song) Interpreting GPR data from Jaffna Fort, Northern Sri Lanka, using historic maps and new excavations (Armin Schmidt, Prishanta Gunawardhana, Christopher Davis, Duncan Hale, Robin Coningham, P. Pushparatnam, Richie Villis, Mark Woolston-Houshold, Mark Manuel) Common interpretation of induced polarization tomography (IPT) results with other geophysical methods in an archaeological site (Meriç Aziz Berge, Mahmut Göktuğ Drahor, Caner Öztürk, Atilla Ongar) Comparison of excavation results with GPR and magnetic gradiometer surveys at a workshop area in Šapinuwa, Central Anatolia/Turkey (Mahmut Göktuğ Drahor, Caner Öztürk, Meriç Aziz Berge, Aygül Süel, Atilla Ongar, Sedef Ayyıldız, Semih Gerçek, Murat Aydın) Archaeological interpretation of the prospection data from Ephesos (Jasmin Scheifinger) Part Four – Archaeological Prospection in Australasia Multiple processing and interpretation methods of a complex 3-D GPR dataset: An example from northern Australia (Lawrence Conyers) Urupa - burial grounds - and remote sensing in Aotearoa (New Zealand) (Hans-Dieter Bader) Part Five – Archaeological Prospection in North America Village Life in the Middle Ohio Valley, USA: Geophysical Survey and Anomaly Testing (Jarrod Burks) Geophysical Evidence for the Timing, Pace, and Complexity of Construction at the Poverty Point World Heritage Site, Louisiana, USA (Michael Hargrave, R. Berle Clay, Diana Greenlee, Rinita Dalan) The Origins of the West Plaza Rise at the Poverty Point World Heritage Site, Louisiana, USA (Rinita Dalan, Diana Greenlee, Michael L. Hargrave, R. Berle Clay, Thurman Allen, George Holley) GPR Investigations in Earthlodges of the Northern Plains, USA (Kenneth L. Kvamme) Part Six – Technical Aspects of Data Acquistion, Analysis, Processing and Visualisation Drone radar: A new survey approach for Archaeological Prospection? (Roland Linck, Alen Kaltak) The limits of a blob: geophysically informed automatic extraction of magnetometer anomalies (Armin Schmidt) Quantification of Daub Masses based on Magnetic Prospection Data (Natalie Pickartz, Robert Hofmann, Stefan Dreibrodt, Knut Rassmann, Liudmyla Shatilo, René Ohlrau, Dennis Wilken, Wolfgang Rabbel) Applying Magnetic Depth Estimation Techniques to Archaeo-geophysics (Jeremy G. Menzer) Modelling the layer between topsoil and subsoil using magnetic prospection data (Alois Hinterleitner, Ralf Totschnig, Klaus Löcker, Hannes Schiel, Bendeguz Tobias) Pathways to prediction: quantifying the impact of soil moisture variations on electric and electromagnetic contrast (Philippe De Smedt, Daan Hanssens) A 3D imaging procedure for subsurface magnetic susceptibility: application to the basaltic foundations of a Gallo-Roman villa in Auvergne, France (Julien Guillemoteau, Francois-Xavier Simon, Bertrand Dousteyssier, Marion Dacko, Guillaume Hulin, Jens Tronicke) WuMapPy an open-source software for geophysical prospection data processing: 2019 milestone (Quentin Vitale, Lionel Darras, Christophe Benech, Julien Thiesson) Automated segmentation of archaeo-geophysical images by convolutional neural networks (Melda Küçükdemıṙ cı,̇ Apostolos Sarris) Rise of the Machines: Improving the identification of possible graves in GPR data with interactive survey guidance and machine learning (Ashely Green, Paul Cheetham) Automated detection and analysis of diffraction hyperbolas in ground-penetrating radar data (Lieven Verdonck) Novel volume visualisation of GPR data inspired by medical applications (Wolfgang Neubauer, Alexander Bornik, Mario Wallner, Geert Verhoeven) Strategies for the optimization of 3-D electrical resistivity tomography data using the Jacobian matrix (Kleanthis Simyrdanis, Nikos Papadopoulos) Processing Strategies for 3-D Marine Dynamic Electrical Resistivity Tomography Data (Dimitrios Oikonomou, Nikos Papadopoulos, Kleanthis Simyrdanis, Gianluca Cantoro, Julien Beck, Meng Heng Loke) Improving the lithological significance of shear wave tomograms through coring and pressure correction (Dennis Wilken, Wolfgang Rabbel, Tina Wunderlich, Martina Karle) Aerial thermal imaging from UAV in archaeology, a case study: the abandoned medieval town of Montecorvino (Foggia, Italy) (Luca d'Altilia) Multi-spectral, multi-temporal survey in the American Midwest (Helen McCreary, Jarrod Burks, Alex Corkum, Chris Gaffney, Andy Wilson) Evaluating the capability of a SUAS mounted multispectral sensor for the mapping of archaeological resources in an alluvial landscape (Nicholas Crabb, Matthew Brolly, Niall Burnside, Andy Howard, Robin Jackson, Chris Carey) Beneath the Stains of Time: The physiochemical prospection of multiperiod sites in southern Britain - a geophysics approach to geochemistry? (Paul Cheetham) Three-dimensional modelling of petroglyphs of South Siberia (Vladislav Kazakov, Vasily Kovalev, Kair Zhumadilov, Lyudmila Lbova, Aleksandr Simukhin) Part Seven – Improving our Legacy: Reviewing the Key Outcomes of Archaeological Prospection Data Introducing the ‘Soil science & Archaeo-Geophysics Alliance’ (SAGA): a new interdisciplinary network in archaeo-geophysics (Carmen Cuenca-Garcia, Kayt Armstrong, Apostolos Sarris, Philippe De Smedt, Clare Wilson, Elina Aidona, Anne Roseveare, Martin Roseveare, Petra Schneidhofer, Jörg Faßbinder, Ian Moffat, Marion Scheiblecker, Abir Jrad, Martijn van Leusen, Kelsey Lowe, and SAGA's Management Committee) Laying the geophysical groundwork: in situ measurements as a framework for strategizing archaeological prospection (Philippe De Smedt, Ynse Declercq, Daan Hanssens, Wouter B. Verschoof-van der Vaart, Tom Hamburg, Walter Laan, Pieter Lalloo, Frédéric Cruz, Karsten Lambers) Review strategies for archaeological prospection, incorporating excavation and research (Cian Hogan) Methodological framework to automatically compare large-scale magnetometry measurements with excavation datasets (Gábor Mesterházy) Archaeological guidelines for geophysical survey in the urban environment (Guglielmo Strapazzon, Dimitrios Oikonomou, Evan Alevizos, Kleanthis Simyrdanis, Melda Küçükdemirci, Apostolos Sarris) Addressing archaeological research questions using geophysical surveys – a landscape case study (Jakob Kainz) Up-skilling and Up-scaling: the realities of adapting to the challenges of the current environment in British commercial geophysics (Chrys Harris)
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Archaeopress Architectures of Fire: Processes, Space and
Book SynopsisArchitectures of Fire attempts to present the entanglement between the physical phenomenon of fire, the pyro-technological instrument that it is, its material supports, and the human being. In this perspective, the physical process of combustion, material culture, as well as the development of human action in space, are addressed together. Fire is located at the centre of all pre-modern architecture. It creates the living or technological space. Fire creates architectures since it imposes geometry, from the simple circles of stone or clay, which control its spread (and which are the geometrical figures of its optimal efficiency), to cone trunks, cylinders, half-spheres, half-cylinders or parallelepipeds, circular geometric figures that efficiently control the air-draught process required for combustion. All these forms involving the circle are determined by the control and conservation of thermal energy. We should not imagine that the term ‘architecture’ evokes only constructed objects that delimit human action. Architecture means not only the built space, but also the experienced space, in the present case around the pyro-instruments. Pyro-instruments involve an ergonomic, kinesthetic and visual relationship, as well as the rhythmic actions of feeding or maintaining fire at a certain technological tempo. The technological agency is structured both by the physics of the combustion phenomenon, and by the type of operation to be performed.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Dragoş Gheorghiu ; A Song of Space and Fire: Is There a Pyrotechnical Architecture of the African Middle Stone Age? – Silje Evjenth Bentsen and Sarah Wurz ; Firing the Earth. The Early Neolithic Ovens of Portonovo (Marche, Italy) – Cecilia Conati Barbaro, Chiara La Marca, Vanessa Forte, Giacomo Eramo, Italo M. Muntoni and Alberto Rossi ; Architectures of Fire: The Pyro-proximities of the Chalcolithic Dwelling – Dragoş Gheorghiu ; Italian Pottery Kilns and Production Areas from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Period (2200-500 BC). A Typological Approach – Agostino Sotgia ; Shifting Focus: Expanding the Potential of Experimental Metallurgical Reconstructions – Jessica L. Slater ; Ergonomics as a Tool for Fire Structures Reconstruction. Case Study of a Kiln Located in the Garncarskie Rock Shelter in Polish Jura Chain – Michał Wojenka and Małgorzata Kot
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Archaeopress The Dialectic of Practice and the Logical
Book SynopsisThe Dialectic of Practice and the Logical Structure of the Tool undertakes a critical review of recent trends in the archaeological and anthropological theory of technology from processual neo-positivism and postprocessual relativism to the contemporary French and American anthropology, and the symmetrical theory of material culture. On the basis of a critique of their logical premises and epistemological consequences, it draws on the tradition of Hegelian dialectics in order to propose an alternative understanding of technology as a material social practice within which the subject and the object –the socio-cultural and the natural– are produced concurrently as inter-constituted elements, and they are unified through their mutual negative relation to each other. Consequently, it is argued that this dynamic practical relation is consolidated in the concept of the tool. The analysis of its logical structure shows its role as an immanent moment of technological practice. According to Hegel, a tool is not a neutral means for transmitting subjective ends to an external object but the material expression of the practical relationship between artisan and matter, and of their negative unity within practice. Concerning this point, the discussion follows a detailed reconstruction of Hegel’s theoretical reflections on the tool concept, and it evaluates their significance for the contemporary debates on the question of techniques and technology.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; PART I: A Brief History of Research: From neo-positivism to phenomenology and beyond ; Elusive technology and analytic dualism: between processual objectivism and post-processual idealism ; French and American anthropology of technology: synthetic dualism and the concept of the “process” ; The chaîne opératoire approach: some theoretical remarks ; Symmetrical theory and the phenomenology of material culture ; PART II: Hegel and the Concept of Practice: Elements for a dialectical theory of technology ; Dialectics in contemporary archaeological and anthropological theory ; The dialectic of practice: reconsidering Hegel ; PART III: The Subject, the Object, and the Logical Structure of the Tool ; Heidegger’s phenomenology or the tool as not a tool ; Hegel’s tools: relationality, universality, and effectivity ; Epilogue ; References
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Archaeopress Approaches to the Analysis of Production Activity
Book SynopsisApproaches to the Analysis of Production Activity at Archaeological Sites presents the proceedings of an international and interdisciplinary workshop held in Berlin in 2018, which brought together scholars whose work focusses on manufacturing activities identified at archaeological sites. The various approaches presented here include new excavation techniques, ethnographic research, archaeometric approaches, GIS and experimental archaeology as well as theoretical issues associated with how researchers understand production in the past. These approaches are applied to research questions related to various technological and socio-economic aspects of production, including the organisation and setting of manufacturing activities, the access to and use of raw materials, firing structures and other production-related installations. The chapters discuss production activities in various domestic and institutional contexts throughout the ancient world, together with the production and use of tools and other items made of stone, bone, ceramics, glass and faience. Since manufacturing activities are encountered at archaeological sites on a regular basis, the wide range of materials and approaches presented in this volume provides a useful reference for scholars and students studying technologies and production activities in the past.Table of ContentsPreface – Anna K. Hodgkinson and Cecilie Lelek Tvetmarken ; 1. Introduction – Anna K. Hodgkinson and Cecilie Lelek Tvetmarken ; 2. Working from Home – Middle Kingdom Daily Life on Elephantine Island, Egypt – Johanna Sigl and Peter Kopp ; 3. Production Moments and Areas in a Big House in Pompeii: The House of Ariadne from the 2nd Century BC to AD 79 – Macarena Bustamante-Álvarez and Albert Ribera i Lacomba ; 4. The Bone Workshop of the Armoury from the Chariotry of Ramesses II in Qantir-Piramesse – a Case Study – Silvia Prell and Chiori Kitagawa ; 5. Smoke Signals: The Social Dimension of Glass Production in Visigothic Iberia – David J. Govantes-Edwards, Chloë N. Duckworth, Amaya Gómez and Lauro Olmo ; 6. Finding Scarab Amulet Workshops in Ancient Egypt and Beyond: ‘Typological’ vs. ‘Material’ Workshops – Stephanie L. Boonstra ; 7. Using Spatial Analysis for Understanding the Manufacture and Manipulation of Late Bronze Age Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Glass – Anna K. Hodgkinson ; 8. Some Results of Experimental ‘Roman’ Glass Furnace Projects and Their Relevance for Archaeology – Frank Wiesenberg ; 9. Investigating Dynastic Egyptian Pottery-Making: Archaeological and Ethnographical Considerations – Sarah K. Doherty ; 10. Pottery Production in Ancient Sudan: A Case Study of the Pottery from the Slag Heaps of Meroe and Hamadab – Carmen Ting and Jane Humphris ; 11. Ground Stones: The Product as a Production Place – Adnan Baysal ; 12. What is a Workshop? – Cathy Lynne Costin
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Archaeopress New Agendas in Remote Sensing and Landscape
Book SynopsisNew Agendas in Remote Sensing and Landscape Archaeology in the Near East is a collection of papers produced in honour of Tony James Wilkinson, who was Professor of Archaeology at Durham University from 2006 until his death in 2014. Though commemorative in concept, the volume is an assemblage of new research representing emerging agendas and innovative methods in remote sensing. The intention is to explore the opportunities and challenges faced by researchers in the field today, and the tools, techniques, and theoretical approaches available to resolve them within the framework of landscape archaeology. The papers build on the traditional strengths of landscape archaeology, such as geoarchaeology and settlement pattern analysis, as well as integrating data sources to address major research questions, such as the ancient economy, urbanism, water management and the treatment of the dead. The authors demonstrate the importance of an interdisciplinary approach for understanding the impact of human activity on shaping the landscape and the effect that landscape has on sociocultural development.Trade Review'This is a book with many great studies on landscape archaeology in West Asia and I have no doubt that it will become much consulted by all scholars working on those landscapes, and on the archaeology of West Asia in general. I congratulate the authors and editors on this volume.' – Dr. B.S. Düring (2023): Bibliotheca Orientalis no. LXXX 1/2 Table of ContentsPreface – Eleanor Barbanes Wilkinson ; List of Principal Publications of Tony J. Wilkinson ; 1. Introduction – McGuire Gibson ; 2. The Search for Hidden Landscapes in the Shahrizor: Holocene Land Use and Climate in Northeastern Iraqi Kurdistan – Anke Marsh and Mark Altaweel ; 3. Social Life and Social Landscapes Among Halaf and Ubaid Communities: A Case Study from the Upper Tigris Area – Marco Iamoni ; 4. Funerary Landscapes in the Land of Nineveh: Tracking Mobile Pastoralists in the Transtigridian Piedmont of Northern Iraq – Daniele Morandi Bonacossi ; 5. Mapping and Modelling the ‘Invisible Dead’: Reconstructing Demographics in the Ancient Near East – Jennie Bradbury and Graham Philip ; 6. The Gorgān Wall’s Garrison Revealed Via Satellite Search: Sasanian Fort Design in Northern Iran – Eberhard W. Sauer, Hamid Omrani Rekavandi and Jebrael Nokandeh ; 7. Investigating Mobile Pastoralist Landscapes in North East Iran: The Contribution of Remote Sensing – Kristen Hopper and Hamid Omrani Rekavandi ; 8. The View from the Steppe: Using Remote Sensing to Investigate the Landscape of ‘Kranzhügel’ in Its Regional Context – Stefan L. Smith ; 9. How the Hollow Ways Got Their Form and Kept Them: 5000 Years of Hollow Ways at Tell al-Hawa – Michelle de Gruchy and Emma Cunliffe ; 10. Hollow Ways in Southern Mesopotamia – Elizabeth C. Stone ; 11. Remote Sensing-Based Approaches to Site Morphology and Historical Geography in the Northern Fertile Crescent – Jesse Casana ; 12. Extrapolating Ebla: Combining Remote Sensing, Survey and Textual Sources to Define an Early State – Dan Lawrence and Sébastien Rey ; 13. Carchemish and the Hittite Empire in the Middle Euphrates Valley – Michael Brown ; 14. Land of Behemoths: Re-Casting Political Territories of the Middle Bronze Age Jazirah – Rune Rattenborg ; 15. Resurrecting Tello (Ancient Girsu): The Topographical Layout of an Early Dynastic Sumerian City – Sébastien Rey and Camille Lecompte ; 16. Resilient Landscapes: The Evolution of Riparian Landscape Studies in Southern Iraq – Carrie Hritz, Nagham Darweesh Al-Hawi, Khaleel J. Al-Sudani, Badir N. Albadran, and Jennifer R. Pournelle ; 17. Subsistence Stability in Irrigating Societies: A Diachronic Perspective from the Jordan Valley – Eva Kaptijn ; 18. Recognition of Ancient Channels and Archaeological Sites in the Mesopotamian Floodplain Using Satellite Imagery and Digital Topography – Jaafar Jotheri and Mark B. Allen ; 19. Early Islamic Water Management in the Hinterland of Raqqa – Louise Rayne ; 20. Conclusion – Dan Lawrence, Mark Altaweel and Graham Philip
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