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Book SynopsisThis latest volume in the TRAC Themes in Theoretical Roman Archaeology series takes up posthuman theoretical perspectives to interpret Roman material culture. These perspectives provide novel and compelling ways of grappling with theoretical problems in Roman archaeology producing new knowledge and questions about the complex relationships and interactions between humans and non-humans in Roman culture and society. Posthumanism constitutes a multitude of theoretical positions characterised by common critiques of anthropocentrism and human exceptionalism. In part, they react to the dominance of the linguistic turn in humanistic sciences. These positions do not exclude “the human”, but instead stress the mutual relationship between matter and discourse. Moreover, they consider the agency of “non-humans”, e.g., animals, material culture, landscapes, climate, and ideas, their entanglement with humans, and the situated nature of research. Posthumanism has had substantial impacts in several fields (including critical studies, archaeology, feminist studies, even politics) but have not yet emerged in any fulsome way in Classical Studies and Classical Archaeology. This is the first volume on these themes in Roman Archaeology, aimed at providing valuable perspectives into Roman myth, art and material culture, displacing and complicating notions of human exceptionalism and individualist subjectivity. Contributions consider non-human agencies, particularly animal, material, environmental, and divine agencies, critiques of binary oppositions and gender roles, and the Anthropocene. Ultimately, the papers stress that humans and non-humans are entangled and imbricated in larger systems: we are all post-human.Table of ContentsI. Irene Selsvold and Lewis Webb (University of Gothenburg, Sweden): Introduction II. Linnea Åshede (University of Gothenburg, Sweden): Priapus can be anything: Bodies without borders in Roman art. III. Filippo Carlà-Uhink (PH Heidelberg, Germany): Posthuman ambitions and forms of self-representation in the Roman Principate: The cases of Caligula and Nero. IV. Vladimir Mihajlovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia): The agency of Roman funerary monuments: from human to incarnated (biographical) entity? V. Ariana Zapelloni Pavia (University of Michigan, USA): The materiality of ritual: the use of votive offerings to unravel ancient ritual practices. VI. Lewis Webb (University of Gothenburg, Sweden): Semiviri vates: Posthuman visions of early Roman encounters with the Galli. VII. Naomi Sykes and Holly Miller (University of Nottingham, UK): Animals of Empire – the trade, management and cultural meaning of fallow deer. VIII. Lisa Lodwick (University of Reading/University of Oxford, UK): Exploring plant agency in the Roman world: Plants and people in Roman Britain. IX. Jay Ingate (University of Kent, UK): Two parts Hydrogen, Oxygen one? Re-evaluating the nature of water in the Roman city. X. Irene Selsvold (University of Gothenburg, Sweden): Roman archaeology and the Anthropocene. XI. Oliver Harris (University of Leicester, UK): Closing discussion.

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Book SynopsisThe human body serves as a symbolic bridge between communities of the living and the divine. This is clearly evident in mythological stories that recount the creation of humans by deities within ancient and contemporaneous societies across a very broad geographical environment. In certain circumstances, parts of selected humans can become an ideal proxy for connecting with the supernatural, as demonstrated by the cult of human skulls in Near Eastern Neolithic communities, as well as the cult of relics of Christian saints from the early Christian era.To go deeper into this topic, this volume undertakes a cross-cultural investigation of the role played by both humans and human remains in creating forms of relationality with the divine in antiquity. This approach highlights how the human body can be envisioned as part of a broader materialisation of religious beliefs that is based on connecting different realms of materiality in the perception of the supernatural by communities of the living.Table of ContentsContributors 1. The Sacred Body: introduction Nicola Laneri 2. Materializing what matters. Ritualized bodies from a time before text Liv Nilsson Stutz 3. Inscribing bodies in Bronze Age Cyprus Louise Steel 4. Manufacturing relics: the social construction of the ‘sacred things’ Arianna Rotondo 5. You’re in or you’re out: the inclusion or exclusion of sacred royal bodies in the tomb of the 21st Dynasty High Priests of Amen Kathlyn Cooney 6. Materializing the ancestors: sacred body parts and fragments in the ancient Near East Melissa S. Cradic 7. Modified bodies: an interpretation of social identity embedded into bones Yilmaz Selim Erdal and Valentina D’Amico 8. Feeding the divine. Body concepts and human sacrifice among the Classic period Maya Vera Tiesler and Erik Velásquez García About the Material Religion in Antiquity (MaReA) series

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Book SynopsisThis new collection of papers from leading experts provides an overview of cutting-edge research in Old World zooarchaeology. The research presented here spans various areas across Europe, Western Asia and North Africa – from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. Several chapters focus on Iberia, but the eastern Mediterranean and Britain are also featured.Thematically, the book covers many of the research areas where zooarchaeology can provide a significant contribution. These include animal domestication, bone modifications, fishing, fowling, economic and social status, as well as adaptation and improvement. The investigation of these topics is carried out using a diversity of approaches, thus making the book also a useful compendium of traditional as well as more recently developed methodological applications. All contributions aim to present zooarchaeology as a discipline that studies animals to understand people, and their richly diversified past histories. This will be a valuable source of information not just for specialists, but also for general archaeologists and, potentially, also historians, palaeontologists and geographers, who have an interest for the research themes discussed in the book.The book is dedicated to Simon Davis, who has been a genuine pioneer in the development of modern zooarchaeology. It presents hugely stimulating case studies from the core areas where Davis has worked in the course of his career.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic: Simon Davis’ exceptional contribution to the world of zooarchaeology (Umberto Albarella) METHODS AND THEORY IN THE ZOOARCHAEOLOGY OF THE OLD WORLD 2. Taphonomy of carnivores: Understanding archaeological small prey accumulations (Luis Lloveras) 3. Fish Bone studies in Iberia: An overview of 40 years of research (Arturo Morales Muñiz, Laura Llorente Rodríguez & Eufrasia Roselló Izquierdo 4. On the use of micromammals for paleoenvironmental reconstruction: Qesem Cave as a case study (Orr Comay & Tamar Dayan) 5. Traditional sheep and goat husbandry in Cyprus: the effects of scale and its identification in archaeological assemblages (Angelos Hadjikoumis) EARLY PREHISTORY 6. Among hyenas: Nery Delgado, Albert Gaudry, Edouard Harlé and the hyenas of Furninha cave (Portugal) (João Luís Cardoso) 7. Sheepish bones, sheepish dates, sheepish logic and the neolithization of Iberia (João Zilhão) LATE PREHISTORY 8. Astragali and their archaeological contexts in the Iberian Peninsula. Significance, meanings and historical implications (Ana Margarida Arruda) 9. Origins of metallurgy in the southern Levant: microscopic examination of butchering marks on animal bones at Tell Yarmuth, Israel (Haskel Greenfield, Annie Brown & Pierre de Miroschedji) 10. The food chain at the palace of King Amenhotep III at Malqata (Egypt) (Salima Ikram) 11. Caprine husbandry at the Iron Age settlement of A Lanzada (Pontevedra, Spain) (Marta Moreno-García) HISTORIC TIMES 12. Cattle from the East, cattle from the West: diversity of cattle morphotypes in the Iberian Peninsula during late prehistoric and Roman times (Ariadna Nieto-Espinet, Angela Trentacoste, Sílvia Guimarães & Silvia Valenzuela-Lamas) 13. Animal remains from 17th century Carnide, Lisbon, Portugal (Cleia Detry, Ana Beatriz Santos, Tânia Casimiro, Ana Caessa & Nuno Mota) 14. The contribution of Islamic culture to the medieval faunistic redefinition of the Iberian Peninsula (Marco Masseti) 15. Hovering over hawking in Early Medieval Iberia (Laura Llorente Rodríguez, Arturo Morales Muñiz, Leif Jonsson & Evelyne Browaeys) 16. Launceston Castle and Cornish zooarchaeology 25 years on (Polydora Baker) 17. Fodder in the city: rye for animals in the 1755 earthquake in Lisbon (João Tereso & Lídia Fernandes)

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Book SynopsisArchaeology is in crisis. Spatial turns, material turns and the ontological turn have directed the discipline away from its hard-won battle to ­ find humanity in the past. Meanwhile, popularised science, camouflaged as archaeology, produces shock headlines built on ancient DNA analyses that reduce humanity’s most intriguing historical problems to ‘just-so stories’. Today archaeology ­finds itself less able than ever to proclaim its relevance to the modern world.This volume foregrounds the relevance of the scholarship of John C. Barrett to this crisis. Twenty-four writers representing three generations of archaeologists scrutinise the current turmoil in the discipline and highlight the resolutions that may be found through Barrett’s analytical framework. Topics include archaeology and the senses, the continuing problem of the archaeological record, practice, discourse and agency, reorienting archaeological field practice, the question of different expressions of human diversity and material ecologies. Understanding archaeology as both a universal and highly specific discipline, case studies range from the Aegean to Orkney, and encompass Anatolia, Korea, Romania, the United Kingdom and the very nature of the Universe itself. This critical examination of John Barrett’s contribution to archaeology is simultaneously a response to his urgent call to arms to reorient archaeology in the service of humanity.Table of ContentsList of contributors List of tables List of figures Preface The archaeology of John C. Barrett 1. (Re)placing humanity? Responses to the crisis in archaeology Michael J. Boyd and Roger C.P. Doonan 2. Bibliography of John C. Barrett Prehistory in transition 3. The late Neolithic midden in Orkney: decay, assemblages and the efficacy of unwanted things Jane Downes and Colin Richards 4. In what way is one dead for an Eneolithic tell community? The construction of the dead body’s presence at Căscioarele-Ostrovel (Romania) Alexandra Ion 5. Conceptualising wealth and value in the Bronze Age Christopher Tilley 6. An assemblage of Early Bronze Age metalwork from the Scottish Highlands: Dail na Caraidh in retrospect Richard Bradley Fields of discourse and an archaeology of inhabitation 7. ‘Contextual archaeology’ revisited: reflections on archaeology, assemblages and semiotics Zoë Crossland 8. Making the past human: history, archaeology and myth Martial Staub 9. What future for archaeology’s past? Krysti Damilati and Giorgos Vavouranakis 10. Fragments from Minoan Crete: social practice at the EM IIA–MM IB (2650–1875 BCE) Court Building at Knossos Ilse Schoep 11. Cemeteries of discourse: re-inhabiting a social arena Mark S. Peters 12. Towards an ‘archaeology of the conditions of possibility’ Ilhong Ko 13. ‘Fields of discourse’ revisited: a Simondonian perspective Despina Catapoti and Maria Relaki Practice and record 14. ‘Ode to a treethrow’ and other reflexive thoughts: multivocal engagements at Heathrow airport Catriona Gibson 15. Project design and implementation: reflections on Framework Michael J. Boyd with Colin Renfrew 16. From fields of discourse to fields of sensoriality: rethinking the archaeological record Yannis Hamilakis 17. Critical discourse and creative labours: learning and teaching archaeology with John C. Barrett Brian Boyd Material ecologies and forms of humanness 18. Bio-socio-material entanglements: archaeology and the extended evolutionary synthesis Ian Hodder 19. To love is to nourish: a thermodynamic perspective on practice and perception Roger C.P. Doonan 20. Is the universe sentient? What implications might this have for archaeology? Chris Gosden and Mark PollardPerspective 21. Agency and life Andrew Meirion Jones Index

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Book SynopsisBefore the Military Revolution examines European Warfare in the Late Middle Ages from 1300 to 1490. It is not restricted only to well-covered conflicts, like the Anglo-Scottish Wars or the Hundred Years War, but gives due weight to all regions of Europe, including the Empire, the Baltic, the Balkans and the Mediterranean, and considers developments in naval warfare. The Hussite Wars and the wars of the Teutonic Order and the Hanseatic League are covered, as is the expansion of Moscow, the Ottomans and Venice, and battles likeAussig (1426), Copenhagen (1428), Chojnice (1454) are discussed alongside Bannockburn and Agincourt.This age witnesses fundamental change. The feudal system of the High Middle Ages crumbled everywhere in Europe due to climatic change, economic crisis and population decline. This triggered a fiscalisation of the military organisation, the establishment of taxes and representation of the estates. This book argues that these changes are the most fundamental ones in the military and political organisation in Europe until the rise of the constitutional state around 1800 and so comes closer to the original concept of a Military Revolution. It also takes a critical look at other often discussed developments of this age, like the Infantry and Artillery Revolution or the decline of cavalry. Combining a chronological and regional narrative with deeper analysis of themes like chivalry, strategy, economic warfare or military publications makes this book an indispensable read for everyone interested in late medieval history.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Medieval Warfare 1000-1300 2. War in Europe 1300-1400 3. War in Europe 1400-1450 4. War in Europe 1450-1490 5. Naval Warfare 6. Guns and Pikesquares: revolutions of medieval warfare? 7. A Revolution of Knowledge 8. From the feudal levy system to mercenary armies: A Social-Military Revolution 9. Military change and the development of the early modern state Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the role of material culture in the formation of corporeal aesthetics and beauty ideals in different past societies and thus contributes to the cultural relativization of bodily aesthetics and related gender norms. The volume does not explore beauty for the sake of beauty, but extensively explores how it serves to form and keep gender norms in place. The concept of beauty has been a topic of interest for some time, yet it is only in recent times that archaeologists have begun to approach beauty as a culturally contingent and socially constructed phenomenon. Although archaeologists and ancient historians extensively dealt with gender, they dealt less with it in relation to beauty. The contributions in this volume deal with different intersections of gender and corporeal aesthetics by turning to rich archaeological, textual and iconographic data from ancient Sumer, Aegean Bronze Age, ancient Egypt, ancient Athens, Roman provinces, the Viking world and the Qajar Iran. Beauty thus moves away from a curiosity and surface of the body to an analytic concept for a better understanding of past and present societies.Trade ReviewThe volume is well-illustrated and images are both high quality and relevant to the discussions. Archaeological data, for example the list of tools studied by Zumkley, is presented clearly and thoroughly. * Archaeological Review from Cambridge *Table of ContentsContributors Preface 1. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: an introduction to gender and corporeal aesthetics in the past Uroš Matić 2. The Queen’s beauty: leadership as an aesthetic and embodied practice in ancient Mesopotamia Helga Vogel 3. Beauty treatments and gender in Pharaonic Egypt: masculinities and femininities in public and private spaces Uroš Matić 4. An unknown ancient Egyptian tool (for wig maintenance?) Kira Zumkley 5. Fresco, fresco on the wall... changes in ideals of beauty in the Late Bronze Age Aegean Filip Franković 6. Gender, perfume and society in ancient Athens Isabelle Algrain 7. Mirrors in the funerary contexts of Moesia Superior: Roman hegemony, beauty and gender Vladimir D. Mihajlović 8. Looking for trouble: beautiful bodies in Viking Age Scandinavia, c. 750 to 1050 AD Bo Jensen 9. From moon-faced amrads to farangi-looking women: beauty transformations from the 19th to early 20th century in Iran Mariam Dezamkhooy 10. Afterword: a deep time perspective on bodily beauty Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

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Book SynopsisWhy are some things valuable while others are not? How much effort does it take to produce valuable objects? How can one explain the different appraisal of certain things in different temporal horizons and in different cultures? Cultural processes on how value is attached to things, and how value is re-established, are still little understood.The case studies in this volume, originating from anthropology and archaeology, provide innovative and differentiated answers to these questions. However, for all contributions there are some common basic assumptions. One of these concerns the understanding that it is rarely the value of the material itself that matters for high valuation, but rather the appreciation of the (assumed or constructed) origin of certain objects or their connection with certain social structures. A second of these shared insights addresses the ubiquity of phenomena of 'value in things'. There is no society without valued objects. As a rule, valuation is something negotiated or even disputed. Value arises through social action, whereby it is always necessary to ask anew which actors are interested in the value of certain objects (or in their appreciation). This also works the other way round: Who are those actors who question corresponding objective values and why?Table of ContentsList of contributors Preface 1. Introduction to Part I: Values and value: Some approaches to the concept of ‘values in things’ Hans Peter Hahn 2. Learning new styles, quickly: an examination of the Mittani–middle Assyrian transition in material culture Federico Buccellati 3. Changing exchange values in Solomon Islands Ben Burt 4. Objects with (a) history: Observations on reworking and re-using ancient bronzes Norbert Franken 5. The value of things: Textiles in the Iron Age Susanna Harris 6. Negotiating the value of ethnographic cultural heritage: Between scholarship, entertainment, sentimentality and nationalism Ivan Maksimovic 7. The gift as an open question Guido Sprenger 8. Introduction to Part II: Re-evaluations Anja Klöckner and Dirk Wicke 9. Recycling Egypt? The phenomenon of secondary re-use of Egyptian imports in the Northern Levant during the second millennium BCE Alexander Ahrens 10. Beyond the Bones. Relics in Greek Temples Andreas Hartmann 11. The ‘Altar of the Emperors’ from Carnuntum Gabrielle Kremer 12. How do materials matter? Lucy Norris 13. From antiquities to art: Why has classical archaeology ignored Marcel Duchamp? James Whitley 14. When secondary is primary: On Halbzeug and other objects of continual re-evaluation Thomas Widlok

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Book SynopsisThe Greco-Roman world is identified in the modern mind by its cities. This includes both specific places such as Athens and Rome, but also an instantly recognisable style of urbanism wrought in marble and lived in by teeming tunic-clad crowds. Selective and misleading this vision may be, but it speaks to the continuing importance these ancient cities have had in the centuries that followed and the extent to which they define the period in subsequent memory. Although there is much that is mysterious about them, the cities of the Roman Mediterranean are, for the most part, historically known. That the names and pasts of these cities remain known to us is the product of an extraordinary process of remembering and forgetting stretching back to antiquity that took place throughout the former Roman world. This volume tackles this subject of the survival and transformation of the ancient city through memory, drawing upon the methodological and theoretical lenses of memory studies and resilience theory to view the way the Greco-Roman city lived and vanished for the generations that separate the present from antiquity.This book analyses the different ways in which urban communities of the post-Antique world have tried to understand and relate to the ancient city on their own terms, examining it as a process of forgetting as well as remembering. Many aspects of the ancient city were let go as time passed, but those elements that survived, that were actively remembered, have shaped the many understandings of what it was. The volume assembles specialists in multiple fields to bring their perspectives to bear on the subject through eleven case studies that range from late Antiquity to the mid-20th century, and from the Iberian Peninsula to Iran. Through the examination of archaeological remains, changing urban layouts and chronicles, travel guides and pamphlets, they track how the ancient city was made useful or consigned to oblivion.Trade ReviewThe real power of this volume is that these changes through time are not seen as mistakes obfuscating a ‘true’ classical heritage in need of being saved from later accretions through excavation and correction, but as indicators of how thesemonuments and memories serve a dynamic role within successive generations’ cognitive maps of their environment. * Greece and Rome *Table of ContentsForeword: Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Introduction Sam Ottewill-Soulsby and Javier Martínez Jiménez Part 1. Resilient cCities 1. Resilient cities: Aspects of urban form and social function Louise Blanke (Edinburgh) and Alan Walmsley (Macquarie) 2. The Cities of Cassiodorus: The Resilience of Urban Values Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (Cambridge) 3. A fundamentis noviter: The Iidea of the Ancient cCity, the Ninth-Century Liber Pontificalis, and Civic Thought in Eearly Mmedieval Italy Thomas Langley (Cambridge) 4. The Resilience of the Late Antique City in Southern Gaul during the Romanesque Period Javier Martínez Jiménez (Cambridge) 5. Rome, Neapolis, and mModernity in late nineteenth-century Naples Sofia Greaves (Cambridge) 6. Prousa to Bursa: The Reinvention of an Ottoman Capital Suna Çagaptay (Cambridge) Part 2. Remembered Cities 7. Remembering the Rose Red City: Religion, pPilgrimage, and the Shaping of Byzantine Petra . Marlena Whiting (JGU Mainz) 8. ‘Hunting diligently through the volumes of the Ancients’: Frechulf of Lisieux on the First City and the End of Innocence Sam Ottewill-Soulsby (Cambridge) 9. Remembering the ancient Iranian city from Late Antiquity to Islam Edward Zychowicz-Coghill (Cambridge) 10. Traces of the Ancients: The pre-Islamic monuments of the Maghrib in the medieval Arabic geographical tradition Amira Bennison (Cambridge) 11. Rituals of memory at the Olympieion precinct of Athens Elizabeth Key Fowden Conclusion Javier Martínez Jiménez and Sam Ottewill-Soulsby

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Book SynopsisCyprus was a thriving and densely populated late antique province. Contrary to what used to be thought, the Arab raids of the mid-seventh century did not abruptly bring the island’s prosperity to an end. Recent research instead highlights long-lasting continuity in both urban and rural contexts. This volume brings together historians and archaeologists working on diverse aspects of Cyprus between the sixth and eighth centuries. They discuss topics as varied as rural prosperity, urban endurance, artisanal production, civic and private religion and maritime connectivity. The role of the imperial administration and of the Church is touched upon in several contributions. Other articles place Cyprus back into its wider Mediterranean context. Together, they produce a comprehensive impression of the quality of life on the island in the long late antiquity.Table of Contents1. Cyprus between the sixth and eighth centuries Panayiotis Panayides and Ine Jacobs 2. Archaeology and the making of a Cypriot Late Antiquity Marcus Rautman CYPRUS IN BETWEEN EMPIRES 3. Cypriot hagiography and the Long Late Antiquity Young Richard Kim 4. The Arab invasions of Cyprus in the middle of the seventh century: the chronographical and epigraphic evidence revisited Evangelos Chrysos 5. Contextualising the tax tribute paid by Cypriots during the treaty centuries Georgios Deligiannakis 6. The prosopography of the Cypriot archbishops during the Long Late Antiquity: a reappraisal of the evidence presented in Byzantine Lead Seals from Cyprus Olga Karagiorgou 7. Cyprus and its sisters: reassessing the role of large islands at the end of the Long Late Antiquity (ca. 600–ca. 800) Luca Zavagno URBAN AND RURAL PERSPECTIVES 8. Cypriot cities at the end of Antiquity Panayiotis Panayides 9. Kourion in the Long Late Antiquity: a reassessment Pamela Armstrong and Guy Sanders 10. Cypriot church architecture of the Long Late Antiquity Richard Maguire 11. Long Late Antiquity in the Chrysochou Valley William Caraher and R. Scott Moore 12. A boom-bust cycle in Cyprus at the end of Antiquity: landscape perspectives for settlement transformation Athanasios K. Vionis PRODUCTION AND OBJECTS IN USE 13. Local sculptural production in Cyprus at the end of Antiquity: a challenging dating? Doria Nicolaou 14. Fighting the demons and invoking the saints: prolegomenon to a study of Christian ritual texts in late antique Cyprus Paweł Nowakowski 15. Mining and smelting copper in Cyprus in Late Antiquity Vasiliki Kassianidou 16. The material culture of daily living in late antique Cyprus: a view from the metal collections of the Department of Antiquities Eftychia Zachariou-Kaila CONCLUSION 17. The ‘fuzzy’ world of Cypriot Long Late Antiquity: continuity and disruption betwixt the global and local Jody Michael Gordon INDEX

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Book SynopsisUsing archaeological sites and historic landscapes to promote mental health well-being represents one of the most significant advances in archaeological resource management for many years. Its potential contribution to health-care and wellness initiatives is boundless. Prompted by the Human Henge project working within the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site, this volume provides an overview of work going on across Britain and the near Continent at many different scales. Contributors share experiences, and discuss the outcomes, implications, and theoretical underpinnings of heritage-based well-being projects.Table of ContentsForeword – by Sara Lunt Chapter 1 Introduction: Heritage and well-being – by Timothy Darvill, Kerry Barrass, Laura Drysdale, Vanessa Heaslip, and Yvette Staelens Chapter 2 Mental well-being and historic landscapes: The heritage context – by Liz Ellis and Alice Kershaw Chapter 3 Therapeutic landscapes past and present: The mental health context – by Toby Sutcliffe Chapter 4 Inclusion and recovery: Archaeology and heritage for people with mental health problems and/or autism – by William Rathouse Chapter 5 Walking with intent: Culture therapy in ancient landscapes – by Laura Drysdale Chapter 6 Monuments for life: Building Human Henge at Stonehenge and Avebury – by Timothy Darvill Chapter 7 ‘What did you do today mummy?’: Human Henge and mental well-being – by Yvette Staelens Chapter 8 High value, short intervention historic landscape projects: Practical considerations for voluntary mental-health providers – by Daniel O’Donoghue Chapter 9 Human Henge: The impact of Neolithic healing landscapes on mental health and well-being – by Vanessa Heaslip Chapter 10 A place to heal: Past perceptions and new opportunities for using historic sites to change lives – by Martin Allfreyii Chapter 11 People making places making people – by Briony Clifton Chapter 12 ‘The archaeological imagination’: New ways of seeing for mental health recovery – by Rebecca L Hearne Chapter 13 Prehistoric landscapes as transitional space – by Claire Nolan Chapter 14 Messing about on the river: Volunteering and well-being on the Thames foreshore – by Helen Johnston Chapter 15 Between the Barrows: Seeking a spirit of place – by Christopher Howard Elmer Chapter 16 The Roman Baths: A place of recovery – by Paul Murtagh Chapter 17 ‘The People Before Us’ Project: Exploring heritage and well-being in a rapidly changing seaside town – by Lesley Hardy and Eleanor Williams Chapter 18 Landscapes of mental health: The archaeology of St Wulstan’s Local Nature Reserve, Malvern, England – by Andrew Hoaen, Bob Ruffle, and Helen Loney Chapter 19 Archaeology and mental health: War memorials survey in Ceredigion – by William Rathouse Chapter 20 Waterloo Uncovered: From discoveries in conflict archaeology to military veteran collaboration and recovery on one of the world’s most famous battlefields – by Mark Evans, Stuart Eve, Vicki Haverkate-Emmerson, Tony Pollard, Eleonora Steinberg, and David Ulke Chapter 21 Crafting, heritage and well-being: Lessons from two public engagement projects – by Zena Kamash Afterword – by Alex Coulter

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Book SynopsisAnthropomorphism could be described as a production of analogies generated by human cognition. As a result, anthropomorphism is a universal cultural trait present in all cultures at all times, and one of the cognitive fundamentals of humankind: that of projecting a human corporal image over the surrounding world. It is present in the imaginary, mythologies, religions, and material culture of all ages, being an important subject of archaeology.This book approaches anthropomorphism from the moment of anthropogenesis, tracing its presence in nature and material culture in prehistory and Antiquity.The cover image serves as a metaphor, joining together two perceptions of anthropomorphism: a rational one, that of the female columns at the Erechtheion temple in Athens; and a case of pareidolia, namely a figure with outstretched arms on a rock pillar at the Externsteine rocks in Germany.

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Book SynopsisDiscurso, espacio y poder en las religiones antiguas aims to reflect on how the wielders of power, be they religious, social or political, shape the discourses that justify their power within the framework of a society or a specific group, and how space participates in these discourses. Intellectuals, aristocrats, holy men or even the dead all needed to shape a discourse that would allow them to justify their hierarchies, whether they were internal or common to all of society, to reach a social consensus and to sustain them over time. The forms in which power used religion to express itself were quite diverse, such as ritual violence, martyrdom, sacrifice, or even divine trickery. Sometimes certain spaces became places whose political and religious control brought about conflicts, whose resolution was found through the legitimisation generated by the complex theological discourse, which reinforced the extraordinary qualities of the gods to reaffirm their authority, or through the cohesive value of the rites. This volume analyses these questions through fourteen works by sixteen researchers from different institutions. It includes studies carried out with materials from a wide range of sources: epigraphy, the archaeological record, and literary sources.Trade Review'This miscellany of studies has been enriched by his approach multidisciplinary because the contributions have been focused from a wide variety of scientific disciplines such as the History of Religions, Philology, History and Archaeology. Likewise, there is no doubt that we are dealing with a collection of innovative tests of great scientific value for scholars of societies as a whole, and that in Spanish-speaking historiography comes to fill a historiographic gap on the conceptual trinomial discourse-space-power. The different contributions, covering a wide chronology and cultural contexts diverse, facilitate the understanding of the realities and beliefs so polyhedral that they underlie the articulation of past religions. In short, from all that has been said previously it is inferred that it is a work of great quality, aspect that guarantees per se its publication in the academic publisher Archaeopress.' – Paula Arbeloa Borbón (2022): REVISTA ARYSTable of ContentsPrólogo – RAMÓN SONEIRA MARTÍNEZ ; Aspectos teóricos ; Teorizando la religión y el poder en el mundo antiguo: del discurso al espacio. Nociones introductorias – RAFAEL A. BARROSO-ROMERO & JOSÉ A. CASTILLO-LOZANO ; Senses in/of religious violence: identity, difference, privilege, and power – FRANCISCO DÍEZ DE VELASCO ; Discursos sociorreligiosos en la configuración del poder ; La influencia del período amarniense en la religión egipcia – IRIA SOUTO CASTRO ; La última cabalgada: imaginarios del tránsito psicopompo ibérico – JORGE GARCÍA CARDIEL ; Análisis del Himno Homérico a Hermes: su faceta y evolución como trickster – ANA CANALEJO PALAZÓN ; Teología negativa en el pensamiento presocrático – ALBERTO BERNABÉ PAJARES ; ¿Fue Pitágoras un chamán? – MARÍA DEL PILAR GARCÍA ARROYO ; El Satiricón 131: un rito mágico contra la impotencia sexual – DIEGO MESEGUER GONZÁLEZ ; Cicero and Augustine: a comparative pedagogy of rhetoric – GUILLERMO IZNAOLA RODRÍGUEZ ; El camino hacia la divinidad: la muerte de Alejandro Magno – SERGIO LÓPEZ CALERO ; Deshacer el cuerpo, deshacer la autoridad: corporeidad y resistencia política en el martirio de Policarpo – AITOR BOADA BENITO ; Apropiación religiosa del espacio y proyección del poder ; Aspectos de las prácticas religiosas en Tarteso: el sacrificio de animales en santuarios – JOSÉ LUIS RAMOS SOLDADO & EDUARDO FERRER ALBELDA ; Barrios romanos y religión material – JÖRG RÜPKE ; El cristianismo primitivo y su idea de la naturaleza – JOSÉ ANTONIO MOLINA GÓMEZ

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Book SynopsisNon-Intrusive Methodologies for Large Area Urban Research brings together contributions from a conference held in 2021 in association with the ERC-funded ‘Rome Transformed’ research project. The papers address a major challenge in archaeology. Non-intrusive research in pursuit of a deeper understanding of urban areas can be both richly informative and cost-effective. Multiple successes in the field have led to an impressive array of innovative methodologies, methodologies that are frequently combined for still greater insight and impact. Geophysical surveys, the use of UAVs, the study of exposed historic structures and the exhaustive examination of archival records can all play a vital role, and the development of these data capture methodologies is of the utmost importance for the future of research. As well as advances in data capture methodologies, however, the papers also present case studies in the management of the big data generated and in the integration of different methodologies. A further strength of this collection lies in the range of site types considered. While many projects have historically pursued non-intrusive research in areas relatively clear of modern buildings, a growing number of research initiatives, such as ‘Rome Transformed’ are seeking to advance them in areas which remain densely occupied. Accordingly the material presented here will also be of interest to non-archaeologists working in such diverse fields as civil engineering, urban planning and physical geography.Table of ContentsIntroduction – I. P. Haynes RT3D stratigraphies: analysis and software design to manage data – V. Bologna, M. Azzari Roman buildings on the western slopes of the Capitol. Investigations and new approach technologies – E. Bianchi, A. Pansini Combining past, present, and future. Non-invasive mapping for the urban archaeology of Ascoli Piceno (Italy) – F. Boschi, E. Giorgi, M. Silani SOS project: a new challenge for a novel approach to the understanding of an important historical city – S. Campana, S. Camporeale, J. Tabolli, R. Pansini, S. Güzel, G. Morelli, F. Pericci, M. Sordini, L. Gentili, F. Gianni, F. Vitali, G. Carpentiero, D. Barbagli Conducting archival research in an interdisciplinary context for Rome Transformed – F. Carboni, E. D’Ignazio The challenge for archaeologists using geophysics in urban areas – M. Dabas, F. Blary, G. Catanzariti Methods and techniques for the interpretation and reconstruction of the ancient landscape outside the Aurelian Walls – E. Demetrescu, C. Gonzalez Esteban, S. Morretta, R. Rea The archaeological area of S. Croce in Gerusalemme: new data for the reconstruction of the ancient landscape – A. De Santis, L. Bottiglieri, D. Colli, C. Rosa, M. Solvi From interpretation to ‘provocation’ and back again: Rome Transformed SCIEDOC and the Ospedale di San Giovanni in Laterano – I. P. Haynes, T. Ravasi, I. Peverett, M. Grellert, M. Simpson Rome Transformed: a multiple method geophysical approach for the urban investigations of the East Caelian – S. Kay, E. Pomar, G. Morelli Three coloniae and three municipia: non-invasive exploration of urban contexts in Roman Hispania – L. Lagóstena, J. A. Ruiz Gil, J. Pérez Marrero, P. Trapero, J. Catalán, I. Rondán-Sevilla, M. Ruiz Barroso The topography of Rome. An outlook for the future – P. Liverani Ground-penetrating radar survey as the linchpin of a multidisciplinary approach to the study of two Roman cities in Lazio – A. Launaro, M. Millett, L. Verdonck, F. Vermeulen A multidisciplinary approach for characterizing the shallow subsoil of the Central Archaeological Area of Rome for geohazard assessment – M. Moscatelli, M. Mancini, F. Stigliano, M. Simionato, C. Di Salvo, G.P. Cavinato, S. Piro Acquisition, integration and interpretation of multiple GPR data sets in urban areas, as part of the ERC Rome Transformed project – S. Piro, D. Zamuner, T. Leti Messina, D. Verrecchia Integrated GPR and laser scanning of Piazza Sant’Anastasia, Rome – E. Pomar, S. Kay, P. Campbell, K. Vuković GPR survey in the Punic harbour of La Martela (El Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain) and the methodology used for the processing and archaeological visualisation of the data – J.A. Ruiz Gil, L. Lagóstena Barrios, J. Pérez Marrero, P. Trapero, J. Catalán, I. Rondán-Sevilla, M. Ruiz Barroso 4D with accuracy: why bother? – A. Schmidt, T. Sparrow, C. Gaffney, V. Gaffney, A. S. Wilson, R.A.E. Coningham SITAR project. New approaches and methods for an open data archaeology of Rome – M. Serlorenzi, A. Cecchetti, A. D’Andrea, F. Lamonaca, G. Leoni, R. Montalbano, S. Picciola Marvellous metadata: managing metadata for the Rome Transformed Project – A. Turner

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Book SynopsisDesde su nacimiento en la Sierra de Cazorla hasta su desembocadura en el océano Atlántico, el río Guadalquivir ha sido a lo largo de la Historia un factor identitario de las comunidades asentadas en torno a él. Los recursos proporcionados por el propio río, sus afluentes y su extenso valle han contribuido a la supervivencia, bienestar y desarrollo de diferentes culturas. Fruto de esta relación entre el hombre y el territorio se han ido generando diversos paisajes culturales. No obstante, la situación política, económica y sanitaria de los últimos años ha provocado que la sostenibilidad de algunos de ellos se vea amenazada, al igual que sus bienes patrimoniales, condenados en muchos casos al abandono y el olvido. La presente monografía surge con el objetivo de reflexionar sobre esta compleja situación desde múltiples perspectivas, incluyendo la arqueología, el medio natural, la didáctica, las nuevas tecnologías y el turismo. Para ello hemos contado con la colaboración de reputados profesionales e investigadores procedentes de diversos ámbitos académicos. Entre todos hemos tratado de analizar diversas realidades, exponer las necesidades patrimoniales a la que nos enfrentamos hoy y sugerir propuestas para (re)activar las industrias culturales de la cuenca del Guadalquivir. Table of ContentsArqueología, patrimonio y paisaje: reflexiones desde la transversalidad – Desiderio Vaquerizo Gil ARQUEOLOGÍA El paisaje en la Antigüedad Clásica a través del mosaico romano en el Valle del Guadalquivir – Luz Neira Jiménez Gestión y difusión del patrimonio arqueológico en Écija. Evolución y perspectivas – Sergio García-Dils de la Vega Minas de agua históricas en Carmona. Inventario y patrimonialización – Juan Manuel Román Rodríguez El mundo funerario romano en la Baja Andalucía. Del registro arqueológico a su proyección social – Lucía Fernández Sutilo Los arrabales occidentales entre la sociedad cordobesa. Estado de la cuestión y propuestas de futuro – Elena Morales Zafra El Complejo Industrial de la Alianza, en Puente Genil (Córdoba). La Arqueología Industrial como recuperación de señas de identidad – Manuel Delgado Torres, David Jaén Cubero, MoniqueVetancourt León y Samuel Lahoz Morón El papel de las nuevas tecnologías en la investigación y difusión del patrimonio arqueológico – Gonzalo García Vegas Arqueología Virtual en el Metaverso – Juan Carlos Prieto Luna PAISAJES PATRIMONIALES El patrimonio litoral onubense: evolución de sus paisajes culturales y naturales a lo largo de su historia. Claves para su interpretación y divulgación – Javier Bermejo Meléndez, Luis Javier Sánchez Hernando, Juan M. Campos Carrasco y Damián Ponce González El medio natural al servicio de los asentamientos humanos: Giribaile – Luis María Gutiérrez Soler y Francisco Pérez Alba Nuevas perspectivas para el estudio de identidades patrimoniales en el Alto Guadalquivir – María Alejo Armijo Simbiosis entre paisaje natural y cultural en la Comarca de la Sierra de Cazorla (Jaén): la arquitectura defensiva medieval – F. Javier Sevilla Martínez Los bancales de Córdoba en el borde meridional de Sierra Morena – Francisco José Gamero Gutiérrez Patrimonio hidráulico en el entorno del río Guadalquivir (Córdoba). Integración en el paisaje actual y visibilización social – José Antonio López Fernández y Francisco Valverde Fernández La conservación del Patrimonio en Córdoba. Propuesta para un Mapa de Necesidades – Ana Ruiz Osuna Patrimonio cultural para el equilibrio urbano-territorial. Áreas rurales y ciudades medias en la provincia de Córdoba – Blanca del Espino Hidalgo DIDÁCTICA DEL MEDIO GEOGRÁFICO E HISTÓRICO La participación del alumnado en los procesos de reconstrucción histórica. Experiencias giennenses – Francisco Pérez Alba y Luis María Gutiérrez Soler La Villa Romana de Fuente Álamo en el Aula: Arqueología, Educación y Nuevas Tecnologías – Samuel Lahoz Morón, David Jaén Cubero y Manuel Delgado Torres La educación ambiental en la formación del profesorado: Córdoba y el Guadalquivir – Silvia Medina Quintana El patrimonio cultural en los manuales escolares de Ciencias Sociales en Educación Primaria – Ramón Martínez Medina El patrimonio paisajístico andaluz en las narrativas de los niños y niñas de Educación Primaria – Roberto García-Morís y Patricia Suárez Álvarez Entender los paisajes del Guadalquivir. Recursos y mecanismos para su asimilación entre el alumnado – Covadonga Ávila Marín La enseñanza de la historia local en los municipios del Valle del Guadalquivir en la formación del profesorado: métodos y recursos didácticos – Miguel Jesús López Serrano y Rafael Guerrero Elecalde Historicismo y didáctica en las restauraciones del Patrimonio Histórico de Córdoba – Guillermo L. López Merino TURISMO HISTÓRICO-ARQUEOLÓGICO Volver al pasado. Origen y evolución de los viajes arqueológicos por Andalucía – Belén Vázquez Navajas El turismo arqueológico en el Valle del Guadalquivir: ¿Contamos con una oferta online de calidad? – Leonor M. Pérez Naranjo y Maribel Rodríguez Zapatero La contribución de las empresas de turismo cultural a los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible en los municipios andaluces – Maribel Rodríguez Zapatero y Leonor M. Pérez Naranjo La muerte como recurso turístico en el marco andaluz – Genoveva Dancausa Millán Realidad Virtual: una nueva experiencia turística y cultural – Mercedes Alonso García OTRAS EXPERIENCIAS La chiesa di Santa Maria dei Greci nel centro storico di Agrigento (Sicilia, Italia) tra Archeologia, Patrimonio, Turismo e Didattica – Simona Sanzo

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Book SynopsisThese vibrant Mélanges bring together texts by colleagues and friends to celebrate the life and work of an exceptional scientist, Jean-Loïc Le Quellec. Through the diversity of its contributions, this book bears witness to the transdisciplinarity, rigour and benevolence that characterise this great scientist. From epistemological reflections to scientific studies, memories, drawings and poems, each author makes his or her own contribution to this passionate and fascinating figure. This collection is an ode to curiosity, open-mindedness and scientific rigour, values that Jean-Loïc Le Quellec has passionately defended throughout his career.Table of ContentsQue veut dire « Tout est document » ? Voyez l’œuvre de Jean-Loïc Le Quellec – François-Xavier Fauvelle Introduction – Julien d’Huy, Frédérique Duquesnoy et Patrice Lajoye Au globe-trotteur polygrotte – Christophe Darmangeat La vie et l’œuvre de Jean-Loïc Le Quellec – Julien d’Huy, Frédérique Duquesnoy, Patrice Lajoye Préhistoire - Prehistory Peut-on effacer les images ? – François Bon Un mythe paléolithique à la Ségognole à Noisy-sur-École (Seine-et-Marne) – Alexandre Cantin, Médard Thiry et Boris Valentin « À ce stade, le mythologue prend le relais de l’archéologue » : archéologie et cosmogonie d’une femme-poisson néolithique – Vincent Charpentier et Julien d’Huy Les mythes de la femme préhistorique – Claudine Cohen Images rupestres et narrations – Claudia Defrasne Comment prouver une migration ? – Jean-Paul Demoule De Séfar à Cosquer, itinérances rupestres – Frédérique Duquesnoy Figurations originales d’habitats sédentaires à Égénéteï (Tagant, Mauritanie) – Yves Gauthier Un désert, une rencontre – Michel Grenet Danser au néolithique – Jean Guilaine Tadi dia Mbenza : culte de Mbenza et grottes ornées – Geoffroy Heimlich « Dead or alive ? » Considérations sur des animaux prédynastiques égyptiens représentés verticalement – Stan Hendrickx et Frank Förster Taches aveugles : vision critique – Romain Lahaye Les militaires romains dans le Sahara d’Auguste à Domitien – Yann le Bohec La chasse néolithique à la baleine en Corée – Sangmog Lee Les gravures rupestres de Tamgart Isserdane (Akka, Maroc) – Faysal Lemjidi Rendez-vous à l’ombre. Souvenirs d’un lieu particulier dans le Mesāk Settafet (Libye) – Fabio Maestrucci et Gianna Giannelli Singuliers amas – Grégor Marchand L’Égypte, entre déserts et vallée. Un cheminement singulier vers l’économie de production – Béatrix Midant-Reynes, François Briois et Tiphaine Dachy De quelques peintures d’Ozan Éhéré (Tasile-n-Ăžžǝr, Algérie) – Amel Mostefaï-Ithier Trois suppressions critiques et une fiction mythologique – Dominique Pasqualini À propos d’un petit livre jaune – Romain Pigeaud Le collectif des Magdaléniens du Lussac-Angles et ses représentations pariétales : une évolution continue – Geneviève Pinçon Les stèles de Gadiloméda (Éthiopie) – Bertrand Poissonnier Des Martiens dans la selva : fantasmes archéologiques d’Amazonie – Stéphen Rostain Proof of Concept: Radiocarbon Dating Both Organic and Mineral Carbon-Containing Compounds Using Plasma-Chemical Carbon Dioxide Extraction – Marvin W. Rowe, Eric Blinman, Shelby A. Jones and Caroline Welte Transgressions vers les mythologies des premiers hommes modernes – Ludovic Slimak Rites, Wrongs and Analogies: Religion and Ritual as Explanation of Prehistoric Rock Art – Anne Solomon and Paul Bahn Therianthropes, Animals and “Symbolic Wounds” in Southern African Rock Art: An Evolutionary Development Hypothesis (EDH) – J. Francis Thackeray Mythologie et folklore - Mythology and Folklore Comparative Mythology and the Human Past – Yuri E. Berezkin Mélusine, les fées au bain et l’au-delà dans les romans médiévaux – Françoise Clier-Colombani Devenir propriétaire en construisant sa maison en une nuit sur un communal : étude d’un fait de folklore juridique – Raymond Delavigne Le loup ne peut pas être domestiqué : une rumeur du XIXe siècle en Poitou-Charentes et ses connexions – Frédéric Dumerchat « Par les admirables qualitez qu’on a vues en elles… » L’érynge : de l’herbe aux cent têtes à la racine gorgonéenne – Annick Fédensieu La Chauve-souris – Galina Kabakova Des marteaux de saints – Patrice Lajoye Pour une casuistique de l’action à distance par le regard – Jacques E. Merceron Arruns fils de Porsenna, « hypostase » de Vidura ? – Marcel Meulder Luzel et la fileuse – Françoise Morvan Les Navi, démones de la naissance en Macédoine – Anastasia Ortenzio Quelques traditions étiologiques concernant la Shannon et leurs ramifications mythologiques – Guillaume Oudaer Sitologie des bachelleries – Bernard Robreau Trois affaires non résolues à l’ombre d’un poirier – Geoffroy de Saulieu. Dionysos et Alexandre : des retrouvailles au bout du monde – Pierre Sauzeau Éléments de culture sémito-indo-européenne – Bernard Sergent Le dessous des cartes : mythologie comparée – Marc Thuillard À propos des sorcières masquées : une hypothèse à l’occasion des termes slaves provenant de larva et masca – Stamatis Zochios Anthropologie - Anthropology L’harmonie universelle est une vaste toile d’araignée – Brenno Boccadoro Partage et Ostension : réseaux sociaux et expressions collectives – Véronique Campion-Vincent Les alphabets libyques. Emprunt et création – Dominique Casajus Le Temps du mythe – Philippe Descola Écologie et extrême droite : Lectures des « racines historiques de notre crise écologique » de Lynn White – Stéphane François Sur l’apport épistémique de Jean-Loïc Le Quellec, anthropologue et préhistorien – Philippe Grosos Entretien avec Roberte Hamayon – Roberte Hamayon Des Martiens dans la montagne bourbonnaise : nouvelles chroniques d’archéologie romantique – Damien Karbovnik Il n’y a de science que critique : esprit critique et rupture avec le sens commun – Bernard Lahire La Terre creuse, entre caverne originelle aryenne et mythologie politique transnationale – Nicolas Lebourg De la beauté des marais, des îles et des reflets vocaliques sur l’eau : retour sur la phonologie du maraîchin – Jean Léo Léonard et Julien Fulcrand Fin d’une prophétie ou prophétie de la fin ? La prophétie des papes de saint Malachie – Jean-Bruno Renard Tabula gratulatoria Nous aurions pu ne pas te rencontrer – Jean-Pierre Baron et Thomas Tully Au Sahara, les fleurs, les arbres… – Anne-Catherine Benchelah bouche d’ombre – Bernadète Bidaude Les pantoufles et le violon – François Bon La globalizzazione dei vandali – Donatella Calati e Roberta Simonis Une peinture à Jabbâren – Marie-Anne Civrac Un clin d’œil – Sylvia Lucie Eva Donon Sur le chemin d’Iherǝn – Quentin Faugeras Du Collège de France au désert, un confinement avant l’heure – Pauline de Flers, en union avec Philippe de Flers Évocation – équipe éditoriale de la Grande Oreille Chacun cherche son chat – Michel Hindenoch Ti-n Tekelt, 2004, site à rituel encore utilisé : clin d’œil à l’anthropologue – Nicole Honoré Un voyage à Taǧǝlahin – Souvenirs de Suzanne et Gérard Lachaud À la rencontre des violoneux – Denis Le Vraux Tabula gratulatoria – Michel Lorblanchet Le troupeau en mouvement – Marie Maka L’ocre rouge – André Markowicz Q Un théranthrope à Imərda – Marie-Jean Nézondet Jean-Loïc Le Quellec et le muséum d’Histoire naturelle de La Rochelle – Elise Patole-Edoumba Témoignage – Myriam Pellicane « Beetles and Rock Art in Libya » : archéologie, environnement et exploration pétrolière dans le Sahara libyen – Jean-Claude Ringenbach Aux noces de ton frère le vent – Thierry Robin Jean-Loïc Le Quellec, militant de la culture du peuple – Jany Rouger Jean-Loïc Le Quellec and GIS in South African Archaeology – Karim Sadr Hommage à Jean-Loïc Le Quellec – Marco Savini - AARS Laisser passer un peu de lumière – François-Xavier Vives A curious panel of therianthropes from Iherǝn – András Zboray Autrices et auteurs / Authors

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Book SynopsisBerkeley Castle Tales presents the outcomes of the 15-year-long University of Bristol excavations and landscape research at the Berkeley Castle estate in South Gloucestershire. The project, which in 2016 won the prestigious Current Archaeology award for the Archaeology Project of the Year, aimed at writing, through material culture and extensive archival and geophysical research, the narrative behind the construction of Berkeley Castle, the corresponding town, and the area of the Severn valley that overlooks the borders with Wales. By combining the results of archaeological fieldwork with information contained in the castle's impressive collection of 20,000 historical documents, the project adds greatly to our knowledge and understanding of the early medieval period and the subsequent changes in landscape and society that occurred with the coming of the Normans, with the erection of a castle on the former minster site. Throughout the publication the advances that the Berkeley Castle project offered to archaeological practice, to excavation and geophysics methodology, and to the community and public archaeology are evident, since the editors intend the volume to be a milestone not only for the study of a castle landscape but also for archaeological method and practice.Table of ContentsForeword by Charles Berkeley Foreword by Professor Graeme Were Chapter 1: Tales from an Excavation: University of Bristol and the Berkeley Castle Project 2005–2019 – Stuart J. Prior Chapter 2: Tales from the Land: An Account of the Landscape and Geophysical Research of the Berkeley Castle Project – Konstantinos P. Trimmis, Gareth Dickinson, and Jennifer Muller Chapter 3: Tales from the Castle: A Biography of the Fortifications and the Castle in Berkeley – Rachel Morgan and Stuart J. Prior Chapter 4: Tales from the Ground: Stratigraphic Narratives from the University of Bristol Research at Berkeley – Stuart J. Prior Chapter 5: Tales from the Clay: Notes on the Pottery Fabrics from Berkeley, Gloucestershire – Paul Blinkhorn and Stuart J. Prior Chapter 6: Tales from the Objects: Small Finds from Berkeley Castle Project – Emma Firth Chapter 7: Tales from the animals: a preliminary account of the zooarchaeological assemblage from Berkeley Castle Project – Sarah Gosling Chapter 8: Tales from the People: Analysis of the Articulated Human Skeletal Remains from Berkeley Castle – Christianne L. Fernée Chapter 9: Berkeley Castle Tales: Narratives from Minster, Manor and Town – Stuart J. Prior and Konstantinos P. Trimmis The Photographic Tales from Berkeley

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Book SynopsisA dual approach, combining social anthropology and archaeology, reveals the banquet or ceremonial feast as a fully social phenomenon. In extraordinary circumstances, banquets - usually held in stratified societies with a sacrificial religion - bring together large numbers of guests, who are fed and watered on rare and expensive foods in large quantities, in order to honor someone or something, and to ostentatiously assert the power of the organizers. While this practice has been recognized in many societies around the world, living, ancient or extinct, it had not yet been the subject of a large-scale synthesis. It was therefore appropriate to take an interdisciplinary look at the ins and outs of the festive banquet in relation to the cosmogonies and social practices of the social spaces concerned. The nine essays collected here, from papers given at study days held in Strasbourg, contribute to the debate on important questions relating to the banquet, such as its temporality (cultur

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Book SynopsisThe Death of Archaeological Theory? addresses the provocative subject of whether it is time to discount the burden of somewhat dogmatic theory and ideology that has defined archaeological debate and shaped archaeology over the last 25 years. Seven chapters meet this controversial subject head on, also assessing where archaeological theory is now, and future directions. John Bintliff questions what theory is and argues that archaeologists should be freed from 'Ideopraxists', or those who preach that a single approach or model is right to the exclusion of all others. Marc Pluciennik again questions what we mean by archaeological theory and argues that the role of intellectual fashion is underestimated. He predicts pressure from outside archaeology to redirect our dominant theories towards genetic and human impact theory. Kristian Kristiansen argues that theory cannot die, but it can change direction and sees signs of a retreat from the present post-modern and post-processual cycle towards a more science based, rationalistic cycle of revived modernity. To Mark Pearce the most striking thing about the present state of archaeological theory is that there is no emerging paradigm to be discerned; he proposes that Theory is not dead, but has instead become more eclectic and nuanced. Two papers offer a different perspective from other areas of the world; Alexander Gramsch examines the issue from the German tradition and shows that in Central and Eastern Europe not only has Anglo-American Theory had limited impact, but current discussions on the future of method and theory offer a broader view of the discipline in which older traditions are seen to form the foundation. Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus demonstrate that American archaeologists do not foresee the death of a genuinely archaeological theory (which they believe has never existed) but fear the real catastrophe would be the death of anthropological theory, because some anthropology today has become decidedly anti-scientific, rejecting not only the controlled comparison and contrast of cultures, but also the use of generalisation, both of which are crucial to theories and models and without which the longue durée will always be invisible.Trade ReviewEntertaining and well written, this work contains a wealth of easily accessible information, delivered with a light touch by the contributors who draw on extensive sources. Is archaeological theory dead? Not if it continues to be debated in this fashion. * Current World Archaeology *'one of the most provocative collections I have read in years.' * European Journal of Archaeology *Table of Contents1. Introduction (John Bintliff and Mark Pearce) 2. The Death of Archaeological Theory? (John Bintliff) 3. A New World Perspective on the ‘Death’ of Archaeological Theory (Kent V. Flannery and Joyce Marcus) 4. Theory, Fashion, Culture (Mark Pluciennik) 5. Theory in Central European Archaeology: Dead or Alive? (Alexander Gramsch) 6. Theory does not die it changes direction (Kristian Kristiansen) 7. Have Rumours of the ‘Death of Theory’ been exaggerated? (Mark Pearce)

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Book SynopsisWith an introduction by Professor McGuire Gibson, this up-to-date account describes the state of the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad and chronicles the damage done to archaeological sites by illicit digging. Contributors include Donny George, John M. Russell, Katharyn Hanson, Clemens Reichel, Elizabeth C. Stone, and Patty Gerstenblith. Published in conjunction with the exhibit of the same name opening at the Oriental Institute April 10, 2008, this book commemorates the fifth anniversary of the looting of the Iraq National Museum.Table of ContentsForeword (Gil J Stein); Preface (Geoff Emberling); Map of Iraq; Time Line of Events; The Looting of the Iraq Museum in Context (McGuire Gibson); The Looting of the Iraq Museum Complex (Donny George); Efforts to Control Damage to Sites and Monuments (John M Russell); Why Does Archaeological Context Matter? (Katharyn Hanson); Cataloging the Losses: The Oriental Institute's Iraq Museum Database Project (Clemens Reichel); Archaeological Site Looting: The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Southern Iraq (Elizabeth C Stone); Legal Aspects of Controlling the International Market in Looted Antiquities: The Paradigm of Iraq (Patti Gerstenblith).

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Book SynopsisThe Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey has been world famous since the 1960s when excavations revealed the large size and dense occupation of the settlement, as well as the spectacular wall paintings and reliefs uncovered inside the houses. Since 1993 an international team of archaeologists, led by Ian Hodder, has been carrying out new excavations and research, in order to shed more light on the people who inhabited the site. The present volume reports on the results of excavations in 2000-2008 that have provided a wealth of new data on the ways in which the Çatalhöyük settlement and environment were dwelled in. A first section explores how houses, open areas and middens in the settlement were enmeshed in the daily lives of the inhabitants, integrating a wide range of different types of data at different scales. A second section examines subsistence practices of the site’s inhabitants and builds up a picture of how the overall landscape was exploited and lived within. A third section examines the evidence from the skeletons of those buried within the houses at Çatalhöyük in order to examine health, diet, lifestyle and activity within the settlement and across the landscape. This final section also reports on the burial practices and associations in order to build hypotheses about the social organization of those inhabiting the settlement. A complex picture emerges of a relatively decentralized society, large in size but small-scale in terms of organization, dwelling within a mosaic patchwork of environments. Through time, however, substantial changes occur in the ways in which humans and landscapes interact.Table of ContentsContents. Introduction: dwelling at Çatalhöyük – Ian Hodder 8,000 (word length)Dwelling at Çatalhöyük.Sampling and mapping Çatalhöyük – Camilla Mazzucato 10,000Ecology, diet and discard practices: new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of middens – integrating micromorphological, phytolith and geochemical analyses - Lisa-Marie Shillito, Wendy Matthews and Matthew Almond 12,000The 65-56-44-10 building sequence midden – a multivariate approach – David Orton 5,000Dwelling in the Çatalhöyük landscape.Archaeobotany – Amy Bogaard, Michael Charles, Alex Livarda, Müge Ergun, Dragana Filipovic and Glynis Jones 14,000Charcoal – Eleni Asouti 8,000Phytoliths – Philippa Ryan 13,000Starch – Karen Hardy and Renee van de Locht 8,000Fauna – Katheryn Twiss, Nerissa Russell, David Orton, Arzu Demirergi 10,000Microfauna – Emma Jenkins 8,000Human and animal diets as evidenced by stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis– Jessica Pearson 15,000Sheep isotopes - Elizabeth Henton 8,000Fish – Wim van Neer 6,000Birds and eggshells – Claire Christensen 6,000Shells – Daniella Bar Yosef 7,000Humans and their lifestyles.The Human Remains I: Interpreting Community Structure, Health, and Diet in Neolithic Çatalhöyük - Clark Larsen, Simon Hillson, Marin Pilloud, Jessica Pearson, Başak Boz, Emmy Bocaege, Christopher Ruff, Evan Garofalo, Joshua Sadvari, Lori Hager, Sabrina Agarwal, Bonnie Glencross, and Patrick Beauchesne 26,000The Human Remains II: Interpreting Lifestyle and Activity in Neolithic Çatalhöyük - Clark Larsen, Simon Hillson, Basak Boz, Christopher Ruff, Evan Garofalo, Joshua Sadvari 7,000Burial treatment – Basak Boz and Lori Hager 10,000Burial associations – Carrie Nakamura, Lynn Meskell, Basak Boz and Lori Hager 10,000CD – additional figures (50) and images (50) and tables (25)

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Book SynopsisThe Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey has been world famous since the 1960s when excavations revealed the large size and dense occupation of the settlement, as well as the spectacular wall paintings and reliefs uncovered inside the houses. Since 1993 an international team of archaeologists, led by Ian Hodder, has been carrying out new excavations and research, in order to shed more light on the people who inhabited the site. The present volume discusses general themes that have emerged in the analysis and interpretation of the results of excavations in 2000-2008. It synthesizes the results of research described in other volumes in the same series. The volume commences with accounts of the recent work on community collaboration at the site, and with discussions of the methods used at the site. It then synthesizes the work on landscape use and mobility, integrating the work of subsistence analysis and the analysis of human remains. The storage and sharing of food is a related topic. The ways in which houses were constructed, lived in and abandoned leads to a broad discussion of settlement and social organization at Çatalhöyük and of their change through time. For example, shifts in the themes that occur in paintings in houses change through time as part of a wider set of social, economic and ritual changes in the upper levels. The social uses of materials and technologies are explored and the roles of materials in personal adornment. Finally, the discussion of variation through place and time is recognized as dependent on scales of analysis and social process.Table of ContentsIntroduction: some integrated themes – Ian HodderCollaborative community archaeology at Çatalhöyük – Sonya AtalayEvaluating reflexive methodologies at Çatalhöyük – Asa Berggren and Bjorn NilssonLandscape and mobility at Neolithic Çatalhöyük – Kathy Twiss, Amy Bogaard, Mike Charles and othersStorage and sharing of food – Arzu DemirergiConstructing buildings – Mira Stevanovic, Eleni Asouti, Shahina Farid, Duygu ÇamurcuoğluAbandonment and closure – Nerissa RussellInside/outside – Amy BogaardSocial and settlement organization – Ian HodderTemporal change – Tristan CarterPaintings and change through time – Agata CzeszewskaThe social uses of colour – Karen Wright, Graeme EarlSocial materials and technologies – Serena LovePersonal adornment – Karen Wright, Nerissa Russell, Rose Bains, Daniella Bar Yosef, Milena VasicQuestions of scale – Slobodan Mitrovic

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Book SynopsisThe subject matter of archaeology is the engagement of human beings, now and in the past, with both the natural world and the material world they have created. All aspects of human activity are potentially relevant to archaeological research, and, conversely, the ways in which others, especially artists and anthropologists, have investigated the world are of interest to archaeologists. Archaeological artefacts and sites are also used by groups and nations to establish identity, and for financial gain, both through tourism and trade in antiquities. Colin Renfrew has actively engaged with art, with politics and with the antiquities trade, and has presented his ideas to broad audiences through accessible books and television programmes, as well as championing the cause of archaeology in many public roles. The papers in this volume, which have been written by colleagues and former students on the occasion of his retirement, relate to all of these subject areas, and together give some idea of the complexity of the issues raised by critical engagements with the material world, both past and present.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Neil Brodie & Catherine Hills); For Colin in friendship and admiration (Richard Long); A meeting of minds: art and archaeology (Antony Gormley & Colin Renfrew); 'Art makes visible': an archaeology of the senses in Minoan elite art (Christine Morris); Incavation - Excavation - Exhibition (Cornelius Holtorf); Archaeology in rock (Timothy Darvill); Flowers: New England digs 2002 (Mark Dion); The Asian art affair: US art museum collections of Asian art and archaeology (Neil Brodie & Jenny Doole); A Neocycladic harpist? (John Craxton & Peter Warren); The Parthenon Marbles as an archaeological issue (Anthony Snodgrass); But a passing moment in the long career of a monument: Colin Renfrew and Stonehenge, 1968 (Christopher Chippindale); Rejecting reflexivity? Making post-Stalinist archaeology in Albania (Richard Hodges); Material and oral records: a shamans' meeting in Pokhara (Christopher Evans).

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Book SynopsisAnimal procurement and tool production form two of the most tightly connected components of human behaviour. They are tied to our emergence as a genus, were fundamental to the dispersal of our species, and underpin the development of our societies. The interaction between these fundamental activities has been a subject of archaeological inference from the earliest days of the discipline, yet the pursuit of each has tended to encourage and entrench specialist study. As a result, our understanding of them has developed in full-view but in general isolation of one from the other. This volume begins the process of integrating what have all too often become isolated archaeological and interpretative domains. Exposing and exploring contexts spanning much of prehistory, and drawing data from a wide range of environmental settings, the book covers both sides of the complex inter-relationship between animals, the technologies used to procure them and those arising from them. In taking a more inclusive approach to the material, technological and social dynamics of early human subsistence we have returned to the earliest of those archaeological associations: that between stone tools and animal bones. In revealing the inter-dependence of their relationship, this volume takes what we hope will be a first step towards a revitalized understanding of the scope of past interactions between humans and the world around them. Krish Seetah is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Stanford University. His zooarchaeological research focuses on butchering and the socio-economic context of food. Brad Gravina is a member of the laboratory Préhistoire a l'Actuel: Cultures, Evironment et Anthropologie (PACEA) at the University of Bordeaux. His research focuses on the final Middle Palaeolithic of Western Europe with an emphasis on lithic technology and taphonomy.Table of Contents1. Combining Stones and Bones, Defining Form and Function, Inferring Lives and Roles(BRAD GRAVINA, RYAN J. RABETT AND KRISH SEETAH) Part 1: Taphonomy and Technology 2. When Bones are Not Enough: Lithic Refits and Occupation Dynamics in the Middle Palaeolithic Level 10 of Roca dels Bous (Catalonia, Spain)(IGNACIO DE LA TORRE, JORGE MARTÍNEZ-MORENO AND RAFAEL MORA) 3. Testing the Spatial Association of Lithic and Faunal Remains: a Case Study from the Lower Palaeolithic Site of Holon (Israel)(HERVÉ MONCHOT, MICHAEL CHAZAN AND LIORA KOLSKA HORWITZ) 4. The Palaeolithic Poor Relation? Taphonomic Approaches to Archaeofaunas and their Implication for the Study of European Lower Palaeolithic Subsistence(GEOFF M. SMITH) 5. Reconstructing Animal-butchering Technology: Slicing Cut Marks from the Submerged Pottery Neolithic Site of Neve Yam, Israel(HASKEL J. GREENFIELD AND LIORA KOLSKA HORWITZ) 6. Cause and Effect: the Impact of Animal Variables on Experimentally Produced Bone Lesions(SHAW BADENHORST) Part 2: Raw Materials, Operational Sequences and Decision-making 7. Guanaco Butchering by Hunter-gatherers from Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, Southern Patagonia(A. SEBASTIÁN MUÑOZ) 8. Diversity and Applications: Some Bone Tools from the Past to the Present in Southern Africa(INA PLUG) 9. Mammoth Bone Technology at Tocuila in the Basin of Mexico(EILEEN JOHNSON, JOAQUIN ARROYO-CABRALES AND LUIS MORETT) Part 3: Subsistence and Cultural Practice 10. Don’t Smash Those Bones! Anatomical Representation and Bone Tool Manufacture in the Pampean Region (Argentina, South America) (DANIEL LOPONTE AND NATACHA BUC) 11. Eating Your Tools: Early Butchery and Craft Modification of Primate Bones in Tropical Southeast Asia(RYAN J. RABETT AND PHILIP J. PIPER) 12. Prehistoric Hunter-gatherers in Transition: Environmental Adaptation or Social Transformation?(FARINA STERNKE AND LAURENT-JACQUES COSTA) Index

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