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Book SynopsisThis guide is designed as an introduction to the basic methods for identifying mammal bones and teeth. It is intended to highlight for beginners the main points on which identifications can be made on the bulk of bones and teeth from a small range of common Old World mammals.Table of Contents1. Introduction and Aims2. Animals Included3. Terms, Abbreviations, Divisions and Directions in the Skeleton and Dentition4. Bones and Their Identification5. General Note About the Drawings6. Size and Variation7. Antlers8. Horn Cores9. Cranial Bones10. Teeth11. Tooth Sockets12. Mandible13. Vertebrae14. Ribs15. Scapula16. Humerus17. Radius-ulna18. Innominate Bone19. Femur20. Tibia-fibula21. Carpals22. Tarsals23. Bovid and Cervid Metapodials24. Horse Metapodials25. Metapodials of Cats, Dogs, Pigs, and Humans26. Phalanges27. References28. Index

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Book SynopsisIndo-European Fire Rituals is a comparative study of Indo-European fire rituals from modern folklore and ethnography in Scandinavia and archaeological material in Europe from the Bronze Age onwards to the Vedic origins of cosmos in India and today's cremations on open pyres in Hinduism.Exploring Indo-European fire rituals and sacrifices throughout history and fire in its fundamental role in rites and religious practices, this book analyses fire rituals as the unifying structure in time and space in Indo-European cultures from the Bronze Age onwards. It asks the question how and why was fire the ultimate power in culture and cosmology? Fire as an agent and divinity was fundamental in all major sacrifices. In Europe, ritual fires in relation to agriculture and fertility may also explain the enigma of cremation. Cremated remains were ground and used in fertility rituals, and ancestral fires played an essential role in metallurgy and the creation of cosmos. Thus, the rolTable of Contents1: Fire rituals and the Indo-European Heritage; 2: Hearts in hearths – ancestors and deities; 3: Seasonality and fire festivals; 4. Cremation and cultivation in the North; 5. Fires from heaven – The links between East and West; 6. The Indo-Iranian culture and its rituals of fire; 7. Cremation, sacrifice and cosmogony in Hinduism

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era explores the period between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries and reflects on the archaeological theory and practice of the recent past.This book argues that the materiality of our times, and particularly its ruins and rubbish, reveals something profound and disturbing about modern societies. It examines the political, ethical, aesthetic, and epistemological foundations of contemporary archaeology and characterizes the excess of the contemporary period through its material traces. This book remains the first attempt at describing the contemporary era from an archaeological point of view. Global in scope, the book brings together case studies from every continent and considers sources from peripheral and rarely considered traditions, meanwhile engaging in interdisciplinary dialogue with philosophy, anthropology, history, and geography. This new edition includes the latest developments in the fiel

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Book SynopsisWeirding Civilization examines the irrational foundations of civilization, from the Bronze Age to the Anthropocene. Inspired by Twin Peaks and Lovecraftian horror, it reveals how weirdness â disorienting, monstrous, and ambivalent â has shaped human society since the rise of the first complex civilizations.Taking âweirdingâ as its conceptual lens, the book examines hallmarks of civilization such as urbanism, money, and writing, uncovering their layered and often non-rational nature. While the concept of weirding has gained traction across disciplines, from literature studies to climate science, this book applies it systematically to early civilizations for the first time. Weirdness emerges as ruptures in experienced reality, arising from the complex interplay between humans and non-humans. The book explores how civilization has unfolded in relation to hidden, invisible, and unknown dimensions of reality. Accessible and thought-provoking, it broadens conceptual h

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Book SynopsisQuantitative Methods in Archaeology Using R is the first hands-on guide to using the R statistical computing system written specifically for archaeologists. It shows how to use the system to analyze many types of archaeological data. Part I includes tutorials on R, with applications to real archaeological data showing how to compute descriptive statistics, create tables, and produce a wide variety of charts and graphs. Part II addresses the major multivariate approaches used by archaeologists, including multiple regression (and the generalized linear model); multiple analysis of variance and discriminant analysis; principal components analysis; correspondence analysis; distances and scaling; and cluster analysis. Part III covers specialized topics in archaeology, including intra-site spatial analysis, seriation, and assemblage diversity.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Organization of the book; Part I. R and Basic Statistics: 2. Introduction to R; 3. Looking at data – numerical summaries; 4. Looking at data – tables; 5. Looking at data – graphs; 6. Transformations; 7. Missing values; 8. Confidence intervals and hypothesis testing; 9. Relating variables; Part II. Multivariate Methods: 10. Multiple regression and generalized linear models; 11. MANOVA and canonical and predictive discriminant analysis; 12. Principal components analysis; 13. Correspondence analysis; 14. Distances and scaling; 15. Cluster analysis; Part III. Archaeological Approaches to Data: 16. Spatial analysis; 17. Seriation; 18. Assemblage diversity; 19. Conclusions; 20. References.

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Book SynopsisBritish literature and archaeology, 1880-1930 reveals how British writers and artists across the long turn of the twentieth century engaged with archaeological discourse—its artefacts, landscapes, bodies, and methods—uncovering the materials of the past to envision radical possibilities for the present and future. This project traces how archaeology shaped major late-Victorian and modern discussions: informing debates over shifting gender roles; facilitating the development of queer iconography and the recovery of silenced or neglected histories; inspiring artefactual forgery and transforming modern conceptions of authenticity; and helping writers and artists historicise the traumas of the First World War. Ultimately unearthing archaeology at the centre of these major discourses, this book simultaneously positions literary and artistic engagements with the archaeological imagination as forms of archaeological knowledge in themselves.Table of ContentsIntroduction: 'Our real life in tombs'1 Queer archaeologies2 Archaeology and Decadent prose3 Archaeology and authenticity4 Our real life in tombs: Great War archaeologyCODA: Archaeology from a distanceIndex

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Book SynopsisThe present volume reunites most of the papers that were presented at the second meeting of the Homines, Funera, Astra Symposium on Funerary Anthropology that took place at ‘1 Decembrie 1918’ University, Alba Iulia, between 23rd and 26th September 2012. The theme of the volume is Life beyond Death in Ancient Times. The intention was to create a forum for discussing Prehistoric, Roman and Migration Period burial practices from Central and South-Eastern Europe, focusing on elements that might suggest belief in afterlife. The interdisciplinary character of the volume is provided by the varied approaches to the archaeology by the contributors, resulting in exploring the subject from multiple perspectives: archaeological, anthropological, geological, architectural, landscape, and epigraphic. Seven studies are dedicated to prehistoric burial practices, discussing discoveries dating from the Palaeolithic (one study), Neolithic and Copper Age (four studies), and Bronze Age (one study). A study focusing on methodology proposes a non-invasive method of analysis for burial mounds, with examples from the Bronze and Iron Ages. Two studies focusing on the Roman Period and another on the Migration Period complete our vision of funerary archaeology for this part of Europe. The editor’s wish to express their joy that the editorial project, which started with the publication of the first HFA volume (R. Kogălniceanu, R.-G. Curcă, M. Gligor and S. Stratton (eds.), Homines, Funera, Astra. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Funerary Anthropology, 5-8 June 2011, ‘1 Decembrie 1918’ University, Alba Iulia, Romania. Oxford, Archaeopress, BAR International Series 2410), is followed by the present book. The basis for the series dedicated to burial archaeology with the intention to be a useful, modern, interdisciplinary instrument, is thus laid.Table of ContentsVivre et mourir dans le Paléolithique de l’Europe. Les communautés humaines et leur environnement (Valentin-Codrin Chirica and Vasile Chirica) Neolithic cremation graves and grave goods from Porţ – Corău (Sălaj County, Romania) (Sanda Băcueţ Crişan) Disposal of the dead. Uncommon mortuary practices from Alba Iulia – Lumea Nouă 2003 excavation (Mihai Gligor and Kirsty McLeod) Polished stone tools as grave goods in the Hamangia cemetery from Cernavodă – Columbia D. Typological and contextual analysis (Raluca Kogălniceanu and Constantin Haită) The distortion of archaeological realities through objects: a case study (Cătălin Lazăr and Mădălina Voicu) Funerary constructions characteristic to the Komariv (Middle Bronze Age) communities of the Suceava Plateau (Bogdan Petru Niculică and Dumitru Boghian) Identifying disturbances in the case of burial mounds. Case studies (Alexandru S. Morintz) A few notes on the emergence and distribution of variously shaped ditched enclosures in the Sarmatian environment, with or without graves inside (Vitalie Bârcă) Récit de vie behind funerary texts. A few remarks on CIL VI 3419 (= IDRE 27) (Violeta-Maria Răileanu) An eques romanus and his slave in a new funerary inscription from Troesmis (Lucreţiu Mihailescu-Bîrliba)

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Book SynopsisJames Douglas (1753-1819) was a polymath, well ahead of his time in both the fields of archaeology and earth-sciences. His examinations of fossils from the London Clay and other geological formations caused him to conclude that the Earth was much older than the 4004 BC allotted to it by his contemporaries. He had come to this conclusion by 1785 and published these findings in that year, long before other researchers in the same field. His Nenia Britannica, published in 1793, reveals a remarkably accurate grasp of the dating of Anglo- Saxon burials; further illuminated by the contents of his common-place book for 1814-16, discovered by the author in a second-hand bookshop. This common-place book, correspondence with his contemporaries and other sources resulted in the present publication recounting his archaeological and other activities in Sussex during the first two decades of the 19th century.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The Excavations; 3. Megaliths in the Brighton area; 4. Sussex Placename derivations and miscellania.; 5. Epilogue; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Iron Age copper smelting site situated near the Cypriot village Agia Varvara is of particular importance among the ancient copper processing places in the Near East because it has revealed spatial as well as technological aspects of copper production in a hitherto rarely-seen depth of detail. Agia Varvara-Almyras: an Iron Age Copper Smelting Site in Cyprus presents the results of a comprehensive post-excavation analysis of the stratigraphy (part I), also of the geology, metallurgical materials (furnaces, tuyeres), finds (pottery, furnace lining, stone tools), as well as a synthesis of the copper smelting technology at Agia Varvara-Almyras (part II). The excavation analysis not only focuses on pyrotechnical information from individual furnaces, but also provides a detailed study of the spatial organisation as well as of the living conditions on the smelting site. An elaborate reconstruction of the features in a 3D model allows the visualisation of formerly-dispersed loci of copper production. Based on this virtual rebuilding of the hillock named Almyras, it becomes clear that archaeometallurgy must be unchained, and the idea of an ‘operational chain’ must be replaced by a more multidimensional research strategy labelled as an ‘operational web’. The present volume aims to stimulate future excavations which pay attention to the reasons behind the exploitation of the riches of the island, as well as to the needs of the markets where the final product was very likely to have been appreciated as a strategic commodity, by power players operating on the island as well as by ordinary people in need of a repair to an everyday commodity which had broken.Table of ContentsForeword: Agia Varvara-Almyras, an Exceptional Case Study ; Part I – Archaeological Situation, Stratigraphy, and Chronology ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Extractive Copper Metallurgy in Cyprus: A Concise Retrospective on Methods and Approaches ; 3. Archaeological Research in Agia Varvara-Almyras ; 4. Stratigraphy ; 5. Age Determination ; 6. The Features ; 7. Spatial Organization ; 8. Conclusions and Outlook ; 9. Lists ; Part II – Materials and Processes ; 1. Geology and Mineralogy of Agia Varvara-Almyras – Iphigenia Gavriel ; 2. Agia Varvara-Almyras Ceramics Report – Robert Morris ; 3. Classification of Ore Beneficiation Stone Tools from Agia Varvara–Almyras – Anne Carey ; 4. Furnace Lining – Aleksandra Mistireki ; 5. Considerations on the Process Flow of Copper Production – Walter Fasnacht ; 6. Technology of Copper Smelting at Agia Varvara-Almyras – Martina Renzi, Myrto Georgakopoulou, Christina Peege, Walter Fasnacht and Thilo Rehren

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Book SynopsisBuildings in Society: International Studies in the Historic Era presents a series of papers reflecting the latest approaches to the study of buildings from the historic period. This volume does not examine buildings as architecture, but adopts an archaeological perspective to consider them as artefacts, reflecting the needs of those who commissioned them. Studies have often failed to consider the historical contexts in which the buildings were constructed and how they were subsequently used and interpreted. The papers in this volume situate their interpretation in their social context. Buildings can inform us about past cultures as they are responsive and evolve to meet people’s needs over time. The buildings examined in this volume range from the twelfth to the twenty-first century and cross continents including case-studies from America, Australia and Europe, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Scandinavia and the Mediterranean. Themes include: Approaches to the study of buildings, Buildings of Power, Buildings in Identity, Domestic Space and Urban and Village Spaces. The essays consider building design, role, and how the buildings were altered as their function changed to coincide with the needs and aspirations of those who owned or used the buildings. This collection of papers emphasizes the need for further international multidisciplinary approaches including archaeology, architectural history and art history in order to understand how ideas, styles, approaches and designs spread over time and space. Together, these papers generate valuable new insights into the study of buildings in the historic period.Table of ContentsBuildings in Society International Introduction – Liz Thomas and Jill Campbell ; What is Building History? Emergence and Practice in Britain and Ireland – Mark Gardiner ; The Domestic, Ritual Use of ‘Salt Niches’ in Southern and Eastern England, c.1500 to 1700 AD – Jonathan Duck ; Architecture and Community at Hummingbird Pueblo, New Mexico – Evangelia Tsesmeli ; Houses and Buildings – on Physical and Social Space in Early Modern Swedish Towns – Andrine Nilsen and Göran Tagesson ; Structures and Social Order in a Medieval Italian Monastery and Village: Architecture and Experience in Villamagna – Caroline Goodson ; Ethnic Buildways: Phenomenology in the Architectural Grammar of Later Medieval Córdoba (Spain). – D.A. Lenton ; Hybrid Vernacular: Houses and the Colonial Process in the West of Ireland in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries – Eve Campbell ; The Development of the Apartment Building in 18th century Vienna – Paul Mitchell ; Store Heddinge Church – a Mystery Solved? – Leif Plith Lauritsen ; Creating a Choreographed Space: English Anglo-Norman Keeps in the Twelfth Century – Katherine Weikert ; A Convict History: The Tale of Two Asylums – Susan Piddock

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Book SynopsisThis book deals with the documentation and interpretation of the rock sites located in La Mancha center (Spain), from the detailed study of the symbols that have been engraved in the rock. These sites, from historical times, can provide valuable information for the study of the mentalities and beliefs of the popular classes during the Modern Age, strongly influenced by the atmosphere created after the Counter-Reformation. Crosses, calvaries, orbs, human and animal representations, letters, cup-marks and game boards make up an authentic symbolic universe, of clear Christian roots, whose understanding is possible to achieve even though it requires collaboration between multiple fields of knowledge such as archaeology, theology, numismatics, heraldry, architecture, sculpture, painting... Unfortunately, researchers have paid scant attention to the issue at hand, assuming paradigms that from our point of view should be reviewed, such as the authorship of the petroglyphs or their chrono-cultural affiliation. The study of the rock formations located in La Mancha center can shed light on these and other subjects, providing a good starting point in order to improve the documentation and interpretation of historical rock engravings in other parts of the world.Table of ContentsResumen ; English Abstract ; Capítulo 1: Introducción ; Capítulo 2: Estaciones rupestres de La Mancha centro: contexto y estado de la cuestión ; Capítulo 3: Metodología ; Capítulo 4: Temática e iconografía de los grabados manchegos ; Capítulo 5: Conclusiones ; Bibliografía ; Anexo I Inventario de petroglifos de La Mancha centro

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Book SynopsisJust six miles from the center of Belfast, County Down, on the plateau of Ballynahatty above the River Lagan, is one of Ireland’s great Neolithic henge monuments: the 200 m wide Giant’s Ring. For over a thousand years, this area was the focus of intense funerary ritual seemingly designed to send the dead to their ancestors and secure the land for the living. Scattered through the fields to the north and west of the Ring are flat cemeteries, standing stones, tombs, cists, and ring barrows – ancient monuments that were leveled by the plough when the land was enclosed in the 18th and 19th centuries.A great 90 m long timber enclosure with an elaborate entrance and inner ‘temple’ was first observed through crop marks in aerial photos. Excavation of the site between 1990–1999 revealed a complex structure composed of over 400 postholes, many over 2 m deep. This was a building in the grand style, elegantly designed to control space, views, and access to an inner sanctum containing a platform for exposure of the dead.By 2550 BC, the timber ‘temple’ had been swept away in a massive conflagration and the remains dismantled. Ballynahatty was one of the last great public ceremonial enterprises known to have been constructed by the Neolithic farmers in Northern Ireland, an enterprise proclaiming their enigmatic religion, ancestral rights and territorial aspirations.This report reconstructs the remarkable building complex and explains the sophistication and organization of its construction and use. The report sets the site and excavation in the wider development of the Ballynahatty landscape and its study to the present day.Table of Contents1. The landscape and historical research 2. Archaeological surveys 3. Environmental history of the Ballynahatty area 4. Cumulative interpretation landscape map 5. Ballynahatty 5 and 6: excavating the enclosures 6. The pottery 7. The lithic assemblage: chipped stone 8. Other artefacts from the excavation 9. Human remains from excavations at Ballynahatty 10. Dating and Chronology 11. Interpreting the excavation results in the wider context of prehistoric Ballynahatty 12. Digitally recreating Ballynahatty and simulating astronomical alignments in Irish timber circles 13. The Ballynahatty landscape – past, present and future

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Book SynopsisEconomic circularity is the ability of a society to reduce waste by recycling, reusing, and repairing raw materials and finished products. This concept has gained momentum in academia, in part due to contemporary environmental concerns. Although the blurry conceptual boundaries of this term are open to a wide array of interpretations, the scholarly community generally perceives circular economy as a convenient umbrella definition that encompasses a vast array of regenerative and preservative processes.Despite the recent surge of interest, economic circularity has not been fully addressed as a macrophenomenon by historical and archaeological studies. The limitations of data and the relatively new formulation of targeted research questions mean that several processes and agents involved in ancient circular economies are still invisible to the eye of modern scholarship. Examples include forms of curation, maintenance, and repair, which must have had an influence on the economic systems of premodern societies but are rarely accounted for. Moreover, the people behind these processes, such as collectors and scavengers, are rarely investigated and poorly understood. Even better-studied mechanisms, like reuse and recycling, are not explored to their full potential within the broader picture of ancient urban economies.This volume stems from a conference held at Moesgaard Museum supported by the Carlsberg Foundation and the Centre for Urban Networks Evolutions (UrbNet) at Aarhus University. To enhance our understanding of circular economic processes, the contributions in this volume expand the framework of the discussion by exploring circular economy over the longue durée and by integrating an interdisciplinary perspective. Furthermore, the volume gives prominence to classes of material, processes, agents, and methodologies generally overlooked or ignored in modern scholarship.Table of ContentsIntroduction: approaching circular economies through archaeological and historical sources I. Bavuso, G. Furlan, E.E. Intagliata, J. Steding 1. The ragpicker’s dream: notes on the continuous role of junk dealers in the past urban economies back to the Roman period Guido Furlan 2. Laws, Letters and Graves: the Organisation of Scavenging in the Early Medieval Period Irene Bavuso 3. Exploring reuse in a prestige environment: the palace city of Samarra Rhiannon Garth Jones 4. Through glass: recycling and reuse practices brought out by archaeometry and history Line Van Wersch and Alexis Wilkin 5. Beauty, utility, value. Examples of glass reuses from the Roman period to the early Middle Ages Cristina Boschetti 6. Identifying episodes of recycling in the archaeological record Jonathan Wood 7. Textile reuse in the Roman naval contexts Margarita Gleba and Maria Stella Busana 8. Functional, spiritual or aesthetic? – Investigating reuse in high-status 7th-century necklace pendants from Early medieval England Rowan S. English 9. Stars aligned: tracking the use and reuse of Viking Age metal-casting models for star-shaped brooches through 3D visualisation Derek Parrot 10. Seeking the invisible with legacy data. Notes on the use of archives for the study of ancient circular economies Emanuele E. Intagliata 11. Evolutionary Design Processes in Thermal Architecture of the Roman Empire Allyson McDavid 12. Reused columns in an ancient circular economy Jon M. Frey 13. Mind the Gap: Researching Reuse Practices in Palmyra. The example of Reused Inscriptions Julia Steding

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Book SynopsisA Painted Ridge is a book about the San (Bushmen) practice of rock painting. In it, David Witelson explores a suite of spatially close San rock painting sites in the Maclear District of South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province. As a suite, the sites are remarkable because, despite their proximity to each other, they share patterns of similarity and simultaneous difference. They are a microcosm that reflects, in a broad sense, a trend found at other painted sites in South Africa. Rather than attempting to explain these patterns chiefly in terms of chronological breaks or cultural discontinuities, this book seeks to understand patterns of similarity and difference primarily in terms of the performative nature of San image-making. In doing so, the bygone and almost unrecorded practice of San rock art is considered relative to ethnographically well-documented and observed forms of San expressive culture. The approach in the book draws on concepts and terminology from the discipline of performance studies to characterise the San practice of image-making as well as to coordinate otherwise disparate ideas about that practice. It is a study that aims to explicate the nuances of what David Lewis-Williams called the ‘production and consumption’ of San rock art.Table of ContentsPREFACE CHAPTER 1: A PAINTED RIDGE CHAPTER 2: PERFORMANCE THEORY CHAPTER 3: DANCING AND PAINTING—A PERFORMATIVE DYAD? CHAPTER 4: BEHIND THE SCENES CHAPTER 5: PAINTED AND IMPLIED INTERACTIONS CHAPTER 6: SHELTERED PERFORMANCES CHAPTER 7: COMING TO TERMS WITH DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES APPENDICES APPENDIX A: SITE MEASUREMENTS APPENDIX B: SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS APPENDIX C: IMAGE COUNTS APPENDIX D: DIGITAL ENHANCEMENT PROCEDURES

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Book SynopsisHow did past communities view, understand and communicate their pasts? And how can we, as archaeologists, understand this? In recent years these questions have been approached through studies of the extended occupation and use of landscapes, monuments and artefacts to explore concepts of time and memory. But what of objects that were already old in the past? Interpretations for these items have ranged from the discard of scrap to objects of veneration. Evidence from a range of periods would suggest objects of the past were an important part of many later societies that encountered them, either as heirlooms with remembered histories or rediscovered curiosities from a more distant past. For the first time, this volume brings together a range of case studies in which objects of the past were encountered and reappropriated. It follows a conference session at the Theoretical Archaeological Group in Cardiff 2017, in which historians, archaeologists, heritage professionals and commercial archaeologists gathered to discuss this topic on a broad (pre)historical scale, highlighting similarities and contrast in depositional practices and reactions to relics of the past in different periods. Through case studies spanning the Bronze Age through to the 18th century AD, this volume presents new research demonstrating that the reappropriation of these already old objects was not anomalous, but instead represents a practice that recurs throughout (pre)history.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Objects of the Past in the Past – by Matthew G. Knight, Dot Boughton and Rachel E. Wilkinson Chapter 2. Doubtful associations? Assessing Bronze Age ‘multi-period’ hoards from northern England, Scotland and Wales – by Matthew G. Knight Chapter 3. Connecting with the past: Earliest Iron Age multi-period hoards in Wessex – by Dot Boughton Chapter 4. The Devil or the Divine? Supernatural objects and multi-period hoards in later prehistory – by Alex Davies Chapter 5. Iron Age antiques: Assessing the functions of old objects in Britain from 400 BC to AD 100 – by Helen Chittock Chapter 6. The Antique Antique? – by Mark Lewis Chapter 7. Rethinking heirlooms in early medieval graves – by Brian Costello and Howard Williams Chapter 8. Medieval engagements with the material past: some evidence from European coin hoards, AD c. 1000–1500 – by Murray Andrews Chapter 9. Deep Time in the ruins of a Tudor Palace? Fossils from the Palace of Placentia, Greenwich – by Peter J. Leeming Chapter 10. A shifting chronology of combat damage: Reassessing the evidence for use and reuse on Irish Bronze Age swords – by David R. Bell

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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging exploration of Time as experienced and contemplated. Included are offerings on ancient Mesopotamian archaeology, literature and religion, Biblical texts and archaeology, Chinese literature and philosophy, and Islamic law. In addition, the majority of the papers specifically address issues of differences and similarities between cultures, with or without actual cultural contact. This volume is the publication of a conference designed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Midwest branch of the American Oriental Society, held at St. Mary’s University in Notre Dame, Indiana, in February 2017.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; Introduction and Editor's Time Constrained Thoughts – JoAnn Scurlock ; The Middle West Branch of the American Oriental Society at 100 – Wayne Pitard ; TIME AS A CONCEPT ; From Beyond Time and Space: Master Zhuang's Cosmogony and Modern Physics – Amelia Ying Qin ; MEASURING TIME ; A 360-Day Administrative Year in Ancient Israel: Judahite Desk Calendars and the Flood Account – Jonathan Ben-Dov ; The Gifts of Mihragān: Muslim Governors and Gift Giving During Non– Muslim Holidays – Robert Haug ; Feasting in the Garden of God: Ramat Rahel and the Origins of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur – JoAnn Scurlock ; TRAVELS THROUGH TIME ; Time, Travel and the Homesick Hero – Louise Pryke ; The Older the Better: The Critical Conception of Lateness in Song China – Xiaoshan Yang ; The Evolution of Terracottas from the First to the Second Half of the II Millennium B.C. – Laura Battini ; What Difference Does Time Make? The Deuteronomic Portrayal of the Wilderness Period – Jeffrey Stackert ; Through a Glass, Darkly? Sea-Water, Bequests, and the Textualism-Tradition Tension in Islamic Law – Suheil Laher ; WRINKLES IN TIME Converging Lines of Evidence: Archaeological and Chronological Data Supporting a 792 B.C. Date for the Iron IIA-IIB Transition in the Southern Levant – Jeffrey Hudon ; The Hyksos and the Exodus: Two 400-Year Stories – Peter Feinman ; Chinese Sovereign Revolution: Temporal Acceleration Toward A Better Future – Maria Adele Carrai ; Nippur's Galileo Problem – JoAnn Scurlock

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Book SynopsisOn the Borders of World-Systems: Contact Zones in Ancient and Modern Times draws on a diverse set of disciplines to explore historical, archaeological, and political interpretations of world-systems theory and geocivilizational analysis. The monograph has a prospective character, the main goal of which is the solution of a major problem – the study of worldwide practice, oriented towards the problems of the modern social world as a system. The principal focus is on the borderland - limes, which has been perceived variously as an impenetrable cordon, and as an open, interactive environment. In this locus of inter-world encounters, different civilizations developed, and an exchange of goods and ideas took place. Macrosociological issues of ancient and modern history are analyzed through five case studies of the Taurus-Caucasus region and its role as a contact zone in different periods.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; The Euphrates frontier in the Byzantine period: undergoing the new reality – Yervand Margaryan ; Mountainous landscapes as bounded territories: The northern gates of the Euphrates-Tigris contact zone – Pavel Avetisyan and Arsen Bobokhyan ; ‘The Caucasian Frontier’ and Terek Cossacks – Aram Kosyan & Beniamin Mailyan ; Jewish history within the framework of frontier theory – Vladimir Ruzhansky

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Book SynopsisHow should communities be engaged with archaeological research and how are new projects targeting distinctive groups and deploying innovative methods and media? In particular, how are art/archaeological interactions key to public archaeology today? This collection provides original perspectives on public archaeology’s current practices and future potentials focusing on art/archaeological media, strategies and subjects. It stems from the 2nd University of Chester Archaeology Student Conference, held on 5 April 2017 at the Grosvenor Museum, Chester: Archaeo-Engage: Engaging Communities in Archaeology.Table of ContentsForeword – Sara Perry Introduction: Public Archaeologies as Arts of Engagement – Howard Williams From Archaeo-Engage to Arts of Engagement: Conference to Publication – Howard Williams with Rachel Alexander, Robyn Bursnell, Jack Cave, Aaron Clarke, Afnan Ezzeldin, Jonathan Felgate, Bryony Fisher, Bethan Humphries, Shaun Parry, Hannah Proctor, Mona Rajput, Calum Richardson and Becky Swift The Art of Engagement: Strategies and Debates in Public Archaeology The Benefits of Archaeology – Shaun Parry ‘Dig Society’: Funding Models and Sustainability in Community Archaeology – Matt Beresford Engage thy Neighbour: Perspectives in Community Archaeology – Bethany Humphries An Archaeology of Life on the Streets – Bryony Fisher Dialogues with Early Medieval ‘Warriors – Howard Williams and Rachel Alexander Public Archaeology at Bryn Celli Ddu: Sharing Prehistory – Hijazi, Courtney Mainprize, Maranda Wareham, Sian Bramble, Ben Edwards & Seren Griffiths Evaluating Community Archaeology – Emma Stringfellow Instrumentalised Public Archaeology: Cease and Desist? – Caroline Pudney Arts in Public Archaeology: Digital and Visual Media Archaeodeath as Digital Public Mortuary Archaeology – Howard Williams Comics, Creativity and Community: Graphic Narrative in Public Heritage and Beyond – John G. Swogger Vox Archaeo: Podcasting the Past – Tristan Boyle The Art of Balancing Intrigue and Integrity: The Risks and Rewards of Public Archaeology – Marc Barkman-Astles Being Shaped by Engagement: Reflections on Academic ‘YouTubing’ – Chloë N. Duckworth Archaeogaming as Public Archaeology – Afnan Ezzeldin Art as Public Archaeology Playful Encounters: Engaging Children in Public Archaeology – Aaron Clarke Reaching Communities through the Stories on the Walls: Graffiti Surveys, Participation and Public Engagement – Ellen McInnes Visualising Heritage Complexity: Comic Books, Prehistoric Rock-Art and the Cochno Stone – Kenneth Brophy and Hannah Sackett Dig! Arts Access Project: Finding Inspiration in the Park – Melanie Giles and Karina Croucher Afterword – Seren Griffiths

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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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Book SynopsisArgiles. De la physique du matériau à l’expérimentation brings together the proceedings of four study days of the ‘Clay’ Collective Program (2018-2020) of the CNRS Joint Research Unit, Archaeology and Sciences of Antiquity (UMR 7041 - ArScAn, Nanterre), on the theme of ‘studying materiality’. The study of this polymorphic material has focused on four complementary areas: physical properties, construction, artefacts and texts relating to clay. As a forum for cross-disciplinary exchange, the meetings and then the volume itself form and opportunity to share the continuities, specifics, technical and cultural convergences or divergences of working with clay. The three parts correspond to the themes covered during these days: I. Formation, structure, characterization, definitions of a material deals with the physics of clays, the geomorphology of clay landscapes, clay construction, the restoration of architectural remains, cuneiform tablets and clay objects, and finally mentions of clay in Mesopotamian texts, Linear B and Egyptian hieroglyphs. II. Uses of clays and clay soils: from ‘unfired’ to ‘fired’ is devoted to these two states of clay: ‘unfired’ clay is explored through the geomorphology of the ‘clay country’ that is Mesopotamia, and earthen architecture from Cyprus to Western Europe, from the Neolithic to Roman times is investigated; ‘fired’ clay focuses on bricks and ceramics, which illustrate the transition between the two states, then on ovens and cooking devices, and the possible connections between Mesopotamian texts, the archaeology of the ancient Near East and experimentation. III. Reproduction in clay: reconstruction, protocol, experimentation retraces several experimental approaches around ceramics and construction in the Near Eastern, Minoan, Egyptian and Western worlds. Overall the book brings together 28 contributors, including university teachers, researchers, engineers, doctoral and post-doctoral students, attached to several teams of the Argiles unit as well as other laboratories and institutes in France and abroad. Each has enriched, through their specialism, their knowledge or their individual experience, an aspect of or an approach to clay and clay soils.Table of ContentsAvant-propos I. FORMATION, STRUCTURE, CARACTERISATION, DEFINITIONS D’UN MATERIAU 1. PHYSIQUE DU MATERIAU Les argiles : une composition chimique simple, des propriétés étonnantes - Clays: a simple chemical composition, amazing properties – Fabien Thomas Pays et paysages de l’argile. Approche géomorphologique des milieux argileux - Clay landscapes: a geomorphic introduction – Bruno Comentale 2. ARGILES ET CONSTRUCTIONS Géoarchéologie de la construction en terre crue au Néolithique : l’apport de la micromorphologie - Geoarchaeology of mud construction in the Neolithic: the contribution of micromorphology – Julia Wattez, Alessandro Peinetti, Pantelitsa Mylona 3. ARGILES ET RESTAURATIONS Terre crue et archéologie : de la physique du matériau à la restauration de vestiges architecturaux - Unbaked clay and archaeology: from the physics of the material to the conservation of architectural remains – Mathilde Gelin La conservation-restauration des tablettes cunéiformes et des objets en terre crue - A conservation treatment for unbaked cuneiform tablets – Anne Liégey 4. DES ARGILES ET DES TEXTES Les mots pour dire l’argile - The words for clay – Xavier Faivre Écrire sur argile. La matérialité des textes cunéiformes - Writing on clay: the materiality of cuneiform texts – Cécile Michel L’argile pour écrire les mots. De la confection au recyclage des tablettes cunéiformes - Clay for writing words. From making to recycling cuneiform tablets – Xavier Faivre Le matériau « argile » à l’époque mycénienne : réflexions sur les textes en linéaire B - Clay as a material in the Mycenaean period: Thoughts on the Linear B texts – Françoise Rougemont Le travail du potier d’après la Satire des métiers - The potter’s work from the Satire of Trades – Adeline Bats II. USAGES DES ARGILES ET TERRES ARGILEUSES : DU « CRU » AU « CUIT » 1. LE « CRU » : GEOMORPHOLOGIE, ARCHITECTURE ET ARTEFACTS Mésopotamie De la montagne à la tablette. Les argiles en Mésopotamie, une illustration du cycle d’érosion – From mountain to tablet. Clays in Mesopotamia, an illustration of the erosion cycle – Bruno Comentale Chypre On ne s’improvise pas maçon : la reconstitution de constructions néolithiques, Khirokitia (Chypre) - You don’t become a mason just like that: reconstructing Neolithic constructions, Khirokitia, Cyprus – Odile Daune-Le Brun Gaule Récipients et structures de stockage en terre crue au Néolithique et à l’âge du Bronze dans la moitié sud de la France (5000-800 av. J.-C.) : études de cas - Earthern containers and storage structures in Neolithic and Bronze Age in the southern half of France (5000-800 BC): case studies – Nina Parisot avec la collaboration d’Éric Thirault, Julien Cousteaux, Jean-Claude Daumas, Anne Duny et Robert Laudet Crue ou cuite… l’argile dans la construction des séchoirs et fumoirs en Gaule romaine - Raw or fired… Clay in the construction of dryers and smokers in Roman Gaul – Guillaume Huitorel 2. LE « CUIT » : BRIQUES, CERAMIQUES, FOURS ET DISPOSITIFS DE CUISSON Le passage du « cru » au « cuit » De la brique crue à la brique cuite dans la Mésopotamie ancienne - From sundried brick to baked brick in ancient Mesopotamia – Martin Sauvage De l’environnement géologique à la lame mince : retrouver le « cru » dans le « cuit » - From geological environment to thin-section: how to find the “raw” materials in “fired” vessels? – Mathilde Jean Fours et dispositifs de cuisson Dans les textes mésopotamiens Les types de fours dans les textes mésopotamiens et leur réalité matérielle dans les fouilles archéologiques : l’apport des listes lexicales - Types of kilns in Mesopotamian texts and their material reality in archaeological excavations: the contribution of lexical lists – Xavier Faivre Les fours en argile dans la Babylonie des deuxième et premier millénaires av. J.-C. : apports complémentaires de la documentation textuelle - Clay ovens in second and first millennia BCE Babylonia: Additional evidence from the textual record – Laura Cousin Dans l’archéologie du Proche et du Moyen-Orient L’épreuve du feu. Les fours à céramiques entre contraintes techniques et choix culturels : approche expérimentale aux données archéologiques et ethnographiques - Trial by fire. Ceramic kilns between technical constraints and cultural choices: an experimental approach to archaeological and ethnographic data – Johnny Samuele Baldi Construire un four – Building a kiln – Claire Padovani III. REPRODUIRE DANS L’ARGILE : RECONSTITUTION, PROTOCOLE, EXPERIMENTATION 1. CERAMIQUES Orient Façonner des pots à l’aide de l’énergie du mouvement rotatif : une expérimentation sur les logiques et les gestes opératoires – Shaping pots using the energy of rotary motion: an experiment on the logic and operational gestures – Armance Dupont-Delaleuf et Kostalena Michelaki Du geste à la forme : reproduire des vases des IIIe et IIe millénaires av. J.-­C. du bassin du Haut-­Khabur (Syrie du nord-­est) - From gesture to shape: reproducing vessels from the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC of the Upper Khabur Basin (northeast Syria) – Xavier Faivre Monde minoen Reproduire une larnax minoenne : enquête chez les potiers de Margaritès. L’extraction de l’argile et la préparation de la pâte - Reproducing a Minoan larnax: investigation with the potters of Margarites. The extraction of clay and the preparation of the clay paste – Sarah Georgel-Debedde Un protocole expérimental de reconstitution du fonctionnement des lampes minoennes en terre cuite - An experimental protocol for reconstructing the functioning of Minoan terracotta lamps – Bastien Rueff Occident Expérimentations sur l’utilisation des pots au Néolithique final dans le sud de la France. Une contribution aux études fonctionnelles - Experiments on the use of pots in the late Neolithic in the south of France. A contribution to functional studies – Pauline Debels Expérimentation de céramique sigillée - Experimentation with terra sigillata – Lucile Bolot 2. CONSTRUCTION Occident Les silos en terre crue : expérimentation sur les techniques de construction au Néolithique et à l’âge du Bronze – Earthen Silos : experiments on construction techniques in the Neolithic and Bronze Age – Nina Parisot Égypte Construction d’un réchaud domestique mobile ou « kanun » Village de Abu Musallam, région de Gizà, Égypte. 2018 - Construction of a mobile domestic stove or “kanun” Village of Abu Musallam, Giza region, Egypt. 2018 – Sylvie Marchand Reconstruction d’un four à pain par l’image. Village de Abu Musallam, région de Gizà, Égypte. 2018 - The reconstruction of a bread oven using images. Village of Abu Musallam, Giza region, Egypt. 2018 – Sylvie Marchand

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Book SynopsisConversations in Human Evolution is an ongoing science communication initiative seeking to explore the breadth and interdisciplinarity of human evolution studies. This volume reports twenty interviews (referred to as ‘conversations’ as they are informal in style) with scholars at the forefront of human evolution research, covering the broad scientific themes of quaternary and archaeological science, Palaeolithic archaeology, biological anthropology and palaeoanthropology, primatology and evolutionary anthropology and evolutionary genetics. This project features academics at various different stages in their careers and from all over the world; in this volume alone, researchers are based at institutions in seven different countries (namely the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States of America, Germany, Denmark, India, and China), covering four continents. Having arisen at the start of the COVID19 pandemic, Conversations in Human Evolution aims to encourage engagement with both human evolutionary studies and the broader socio-political issues that persist within academia, the latter of which is particularly pertinent during this time of global uncertainty. The conversations delve deeply into the study of our species’ evolutionary history through the lens of each sub-discipline, as well as detailing some of the most current advances in research, theory and methods. Overall, Conversations in Human Evolution seeks to bridge the gap between the research and researcher through contextualisation of the science with personal experience and historical reflection.Table of ContentsConversations in Human Evolution – Lucy Timbrell ; Part 1: Quaternary and Archaeological Science ; Enrico Crema ; Felix Riede ; Ben Marwick ; Chris Hunt ; Andy Herries ; Part 2: Palaeolithic Archaeology ; Shanti Pappu ; Michael Petraglia ; Shi-Xia Yang ; John Gowlett ; Eleanor Scerri ; Rob Davies ; Part 3: Biological Anthropology and Palaeoanthropology ; Emma Pomeroy ; Chris Stringer ; Katerina Harvati ; Bernard Wood ; Part 4: Primatology and Evolutionary Anthropology ; Susana Carvalho ; Isabelle Winder ; Fiona Jordan ; Part 5: Evolutionary Genetics ; Eske Willerslev ; Pontus Skoglund

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Book SynopsisPlaces of Memory takes a new look at spatialised practices of remembrance and its role in reshaping societies from prehistory to today, gathering researchers representing diverse but complementary fields of expertise. This diachronic outlook provides important insights into the great variety of human and social reactions examining memory, encompassing aspects of remembering, the loss of memory, reclaiming memories, and remembering things that may not have happened. The contributions to this volume expand upon Pierre Nora’s concept of lieux des memoire (places of memory) and the notion that memory is not just stored in these places but activated through human engagement. The volume presents a reflection on the creation of memories through the organisation and use of landscapes and spaces that explicitly considers the multiplicity of meanings of the past. Thus, social identities were created, reaffirmed, strengthened, and transformed through the founding, change, and reorganization of places and spaces of memory in the cultural landscape.Trade ReviewIn summary, despite the manageable number of 164 pages, the present volume contains a rich fund of newly conceived and further developed approaches that go well beyond the scope of the individual contributions and can also be applied to other archaeological contexts. The readers are shown stimulating possibilities to look at their own research topic from a new perspective - and at the same time to dare to think outside the box in many ways. The range of contributions clearly demonstrates the potential of including theories and concepts of memory in archaeology. -- Lukas Kerk * Archäologische Informationen 43 *Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction – Christian Horn, Gustav Wollentz, Gianpiero Di Maida and Annette Haug ; 1. Commemoration and Change: Remembering What May Not Have Happened – Richard Bradley ; 2. The Multiple Pasts of Archaic Greece: The Landscapes of Crete and the Argolid, 900-500 BCE – James Whitley ; 3. Aeneas, Romulus, and the Memory Site of the Forum Augustum in Rome – Matthias J. Bensch ; 4. The Spoils of Eternity: Spolia as Collective Memory in the Basilica of St. Peter during the 4th century AD – Christina Videbech ; 5. Were TRB Depositions Boundary Markers in the Neolithic Landscape? – Michael Müller ; 6. Memories Created, Memories Altered: The Case of Kakucs-Turján Household and Pottery – Robert Staniuk ; 7. ‘These Battered Hills’: Landscape and Memory at Verdun (France) – Paola Filippucci ; 8. Set in Stone? Transformation and Memory in Scandinavian Rock Art – Christian Horn and Rich Potter ; 9. Art and Practices of Memory, Space and Landscapes in the Roman World – Anne Gangloff ; 10. Restoring a Memory: The Case of Kowary Barrow (Lesser Poland, Poland) – Anna Gawlik and Marcin Czarnowicz ; 11. Art, Social Memory and Relational Ontology in the Kimberley, North West Australia – Martin Porr ; 12. Recursivity in Kimberley Rock Art Production, Western Australia – Ana Paula Motta, Martin Porr, and Peter Veth ; 13. An Archaeology of Reclaiming Memories – Possibilities and Pitfalls – Gustav Wollentz

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Book SynopsisGoing Underground: The Meanings of Death and Burial for Minority Groups in Israel is about the attitudes towards death and burial in contemporary society. It provides information on the attitudes of several minority groups living in Israel today, including four communities of Russian Jews, an ultra-religious Jewish community and a Palestinian-Christian community. ‘Going Underground’ has a double meaning: it refers to the actions taken by archaeologists to inquire about the past and present and involves digging and recording. Second, it considers the challenges and protests launched by the groups of immigrants and minorities mentioned in the book, against state-control over death.Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgments ; Reflections on death and burial ; Methodology: The northern cemetery ; The interviews: The northern cemetery ; The urban cemetery, kibbutz cemetery and public cemeteries ; A nominalist approach: Archaeology of remembrance and contemporary archaeology ; Conclusion: The assemblage theory, or is there an anthropology of death and burial?

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Book SynopsisThe rock art of the Americas was produced at very different times and by different cultures, both by hunter-gatherers, fishermen and by farmers from village or state societies. Each group can be characterised by diverse styles and techniques. The function of rock art depended on religious, political or social concerns that referred to a particular context and time. Peintures et gravures rupestres des Amériques: Empreintes culturelles et territoriales presents the proceedings from Session XXV-3 of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France). Papers address the following questions: How does the study of rock art make it possible to culturally characterize its authors? What does it tell us about the function of sites? How and under what circumstances does it make it possible to delimit a cultural territory? The six articles in this volume provide case studies from Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica, French Guiana and Chile.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Brigitte Faugère et Philippe Costa ; Une technique pour un peuple : Le cas d’une tradition rupestre majeure du Salvador – Philippe Costa ; Peintures et gravures rupestres du nord du Michoacán, Mexique : Caractérisation culturelle et iconographie – Brigitte Faugère ; Grottes de pétroglyphes qui “avalent” le soleil – Joseph B. Mountjoy ; Pétroglyphes, religion et organisation politique au sud du Costa Rica – Felipe Sol ; Les sites d’art rupestre de Guyane française dans les contextes local, régional et anthropologique – Gérald Migeon ; Les représentations d’objets de métal dans l’art rupestre du río San Juan del Oro (Bolivie méridionale) – Françoise Fauconnier ; Auteurs

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the proceedings of Session XXVIII-4 of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France), Caractérisation, continuités et discontinuités des manifestations graphiques des sociétés préhistoriques. Papers address the question of exchange and mobility in prehistoric societies in relation to the evolution of their environments through the prism of their graphic productions, on objects or on walls. This volume offers the opportunity to question their symbolic behaviours within very diverse temporal, chrono-cultural or geographic contexts. It also provides the framework for a discussion on cultural identity and how this was asserted in the face of environmental or social changes or constraints.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Elena Paillet, Marcela Sepulveda, Eric Robert, Patrick Paillet, Nicolas Mélard ; Les propulseurs magdaléniens de type 3 : un exemple d’association d’un même type de décor à un même type de support fonctionnel, du Magdalénien moyen au Magdalénien supérieur. Continuité et variations – Pierre Cattelain ; Expression graphique sur les objets de parure en ivoire apparaissant en série au Gravettien morave – Martina Lázničková-Galetová ; La culture magdalénienne en place dès 17 700 BP ? L’apport de l’art mobilier du Taillis des Coteaux (Antigny, Vienne) – Pascaline Gaussein et Jérôme Primault ; La place des félins dans les sociétés du Paléolithique supérieur : le cas du territoire français – Marie Gillard ; Arts rupestres préhistoriques dans les chaos gréseux du sud du Bassin parisien : Nouvelles recherches – Eric Robert, Boris Valentin, Emilie Lesvignes, Alain Bénard, Médard Thiry ; Un éléphant, ça trompe énormément… Animal fantastique ou perte de référent de Loxodonta africana – Axelle Brémont ; Auteurs

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Book SynopsisMobility and Exchange across Borders presents the proceedings of Sessions XXXIVIV and XXXIV-V of the 18th UISPP World Congress (Paris, June 2018). Over the last few decades, the study of cultural interactions in the Iron Age has been considerably renewed thanks to the application of new methods and tools, opening the way to new research perspectives. The papers provide different examples from various archaeological contexts and regions while applying new methodologies able to highlight the diversity of cultural transfers. Their purpose is to stimulate a debate on human interactions and cultural transfers in order to open up new analytical perspectives on this topic and to critically examine the markers and approaches traditionally used to identify human and object mobility during the first millennium BC. Through the different approaches and perspectives presented herein, this volume aims to contribute to the renewal of the scientific debate on mobility and interactions as important drivers of societal change and to stimulate future research and debate.Table of ContentsMobility and Exchange across the Borders. Exploring social processes in Europe during the first Millennium BCE, theoretical and methodological approaches – Veronica Cicolani ; For an archaeology of exchange networks: methodological approaches and application – Aurélia Feugnet, Clara Filet and Camille Gorin ; Biological exchanges in protohistoric Gaul: the case of the princely grave of Lavau – Dominique Frère, Elisabeth Dodinet, Nicolas Garnier, Bastien Dubuis and Delphine Barbier-Pain ; Interpréter les oscillations dans les pratiques funéraires : le genre comme outil d’analyse des évolutions des sociétés – Caroline Trémeaud ; Metal vessels in Northern Gaul: acculturation or exoticism? – Quentin Sueur ; Transferts matériels et immatériels au Ve siècle av. J.-C. : les agrafes de ceinture laténiennes en Italie du Nord-Ouest – Linda Papi ; Un exemple de référentiel graphique de l’âge du Bronze à l’âge du Fer – Vincent Georges ; Les dynamiques d’échanges sur les marges orientales du monde celtique Les dynamiques d’échanges sur les marges orientales du monde celtique : agglomérations et éléments exogènes aux IVe-IIIe siècles av. n. è. – Julie Clerc ; Auteurs

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Book SynopsisThis volume is in honor of the American scholar Rev. H. Richard Rutherford, C.S.C, Ph.D (University of Portland). It contains the papers presented at the Archaeometry Symposium in the 74th Northwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (NORM) which took place in Portland (Oregon), June 18th 2019, covering a wide range of topics. The volume includes papers about the application of different techniques in archaeology in order to comprehend some aspects during and after the excavation, for instance, physics, chemical analysis, remote sensing, LiDAR, etc. This work compiles papers about sites from different places around of the world, Spain, Canada, Thailand, Lithuania or Russia. The aim of the symposium was to facilitate communication between scholars from different places, to present current work in the field, and to stimulate future research.Table of ContentsIdentification of iron and wood through the effects of microstructures in timber-laced walls of the Celtic Iron Age of the Iberian Peninsula. Luis Berrocal-Rangel, Rosario García-Giménez, Raquel Vigil de la Villa, Carmen Gutiérrez-Sáez, Lucía Ruano & Marcos Osório ; Traction or hybrid trebuchet? The use of physical calculations to classify trebuchets. Mario Ramírez Galán, María Benítez Galán, Rafael Montalvo Laguna, Reina Inlow & Ronda S. Bard ; Blue-and-white porcelain in early South Thailand maritime trade. Angelica Kneisly, William Ayres & Maury Morgenstein ; Archaeometallography: a new look at old issues in the history of the iron industry. N. N. Terekhova & V. I. Zavyalov ; Falling from the sky. Aerial photogrammetry and LiDAR applied to the archaeology of architecture and landscape: two fortifications from the Alpujarra (Granada, Spain). Jorge Rouco Collazo, José Antonio Benavides López & José María Martín Civantos ; Early Roman Iron Age jewellery in the Northern Barbaricum: between stylistic and technological simplicity and luxury. Audronė Bliujienė, Gediminas Petrauskas, Jurga Bagdzevičienė, Sergej Suzdalev & Evaldas Babenskas ; The application and evaluation of remote sensing techniques to household archaeology on the Northwest Coast. William T. D. Wadsworth, Andrew Martindale, Colin Grier & Kisha Supernant

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Book SynopsisThis volume is the result of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference (CASA), held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research from September 13–15, 2019. CASA developed out of the Annual Student Archaeology Conference, first held in 2013, which was formed by students at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and York. In 2017, Cambridge became the home of the conference and the name was changed accordingly. The conference was developed to give students (from undergraduate to PhD candidates) in archaeology and related fields the chance to present their research to a broad audience. The theme for the 2019 conference was New Frontiers in Archaeology and this volume presents papers from a wide range of topics such as new geographical areas of research, using museum collections and legacy data, new ways to teach archaeology and new scientific or theoretic paradigms. From hunting and gathering in the Neolithic to the return of artefacts to Turkey, the papers contained within show a great variety in both geography and chronology. Discussions revolve around access to data, the role of excavation in today’s archaeology, the role of local communities in archaeological interpretation and how we can ask new questions of old data. This volume presents 18 papers arranged in the six sessions with the two posters in their thematic sessions.Table of ContentsNew Frontiers in Archaeology – Kyra Kaercher and Monique Arntz ; Session 1: Strength in Numbers: Combining Old Datasets to Answer New Questions ; Strength in Numbers: Combining Old Datasets to Answer New Questions – Lucy Timbrell ; Hunting in the Neolithic: Zooarchaeological Meta-analysis of the Role of Wild Mammals in Eastern Europe 6500-3000 BCE – Giselle F. Rainsford-Betts ; The Relevance of Çatalhöyük Reflexive Diaries – Gustavo Sandoval ; Multiple Datasets, Multiple Meanings? A Reanalysis of Multiple Internment Burials in Early Anglo-Saxon England – Caroline Palmer ; The Reuse of Archaeological Data: Grand Challenges and New Approaches to Southern Levantine Mortuary Archaeology – Sara Mura ; Session 2: Past and Future-Lifestyle and Inequality ; Past and Future-Lifestyle and Inequality – Sabrina Ki and Helena Muñoz-Mojado ; Magdalenian Minds: Evaluating the Role of Cognition in Mobiliary Art of the Magdalenian – Molly Hardman ; Gathering Practices in Eastern-Central Sweden During the Middle and Late Mesolithic – Erik Solfeldt ; Missing Objects: New Perspectives to Tackle the Problem of Textile Activity – Patricia Rosell Garrido ; Session 3: Animal-Human Interactions: Becoming, Creating, Relating ; Animal-Human Interactions: Becoming, Creating, Relating – Izzy Wisher and Kevin Kay ; Beating the Dead Horse? Using Ethnography for Middle Palaeolithic Zooarchaeological Contexts in North-West Europe – Erica Priestley ; Hounds of Hel: How Did the Mythological Significance of Viking Age Dogs Affect their Social Position? – Jessica Cousen ; Hold Your Horses – Animals in Ancient Thrace – Stella Nikolova ; Seen but not Herd: Animals in La Tène Art in England and Wales – Rebecca L. Ellis ; Wolf vs. Dragon. What if Medieval Dragons Were Wolf-Headed Snakes from Antiquity? – Giuseppe Delia ; Session 4: Public Archaeology in the Light of Global Politics: New Challenges and Opportunities ; Public Archaeology in the Light of Global Politics: New Challenges and Opportunities – Nancy Bomentre ; Rights of Cultural Objects: Gypsy Girl Reuniting with Her Company – Elvin Akbulut Dağlıer ; Papa He’e Nalu: Two Surfboards from Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum – Joanna Tonge ; Session 5: New Frontiers in the Archaeology of Buildings ; New Frontiers in the Archaeology of Buildings – Xosé L. Hermoso-Buxán ; Desert Kites: A New Frontier in Near Eastern Archaeology – Mariam Shakhmuradyan ; Peculiar Elements of the Built Environment: The Problem of ‘Special Rural Settlements’ and Identification of Rural Social Hierarchies. Archaeological Evidence from a Medieval Village in the Western Periphery of the German Central Uplands – Roman Zabolotnîi ; The Fort-Towers in La Rioja (Central-Northern Iberia): Conservation Status and Rehabilitations – Isaac Martínez-Espinosa ; Session 6: New Frontiers in Archaeological Sciences: Trowel-Blazing at the Cutting Edge? ; Introduction: Really Cool Stuff in the Future of Archaeological Sciences – Ruairidh Macleod

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Book SynopsisFrom IndyRef and Brexit to the Refugee Crisis and Trump’s Wall, the construction and maintenance, subversion and traversing of frontiers and borderlands dominate our current affairs. Yet, while archaeologists have long participated in exploring frontiers and borderlands, their public archaeology has been starkly neglected. Incorporating the select proceedings of the 4th University of Chester Archaeology Student conference hosted by the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, on 20 March 2019, this is the first book to investigate realworld ancient and modern frontier works, the significance of graffiti, material culture, monuments and wall-building, as well as fictional representations of borders and walls in the arts, as public archaeology. Key themes include the heritage interpretation for linear monuments, public archaeology in past and contemporary frontiers and borderlands, and archaeology’s interactions with mural practices in politics, popular culture and the contemporary landscape. Together, the contributors show the necessity of developing critical public archaeologies of frontiers and borderlands.Table of ContentsForeword – Rebecca H. Jones ; Public Archaeologies from the Edge – Pauline Clarke, Kieran Gleave and Howard Williams ; Breaking Down Barriers: The Role of Public Archaeology and Heritage Interpretation in Shaping Perceptions of the Past – Richard Nevell and Michael Nevell ; Roman Walls, Frontiers and Public Archaeology – An Interview with Rob Collins ; Hands across the Border? Prehistory, Cairns and Scotland’s 2014 Independence Referendum – Kenneth Brophy ; Breaking Down the Berlin Wall: Dark Heritage, Pre-Wall Sites and the Public – Kieran Gleave ; The Political Dimensions of Public Archaeology in Borderlands: Exploring the Contemporary US-México Border – Maikin Holst ; Cofiwch Dryweryn: The Frontiers of Contemporary Welsh Nationalism, as seen through the Creation of Contested Heritage Murals – David Howell ; The Discomfort of Frontiers: Public Archaeology and the Politics of Offa’s Dyke – An interview with Keith Ray ; The Biography of Borderlands: Old Oswestry Hillfort and Modern Heritage Debates – Ruby McMillan-Sloan and Howard Williams ; Interpreting Wat’s Dyke in the 21st Century – Howard Williams ; Envisioning Wat’s Dyke – John G. Swogger and Howard Williams ; Watching Walls: Frontier Archaeology and Game of Thrones – Emma Kate Vernon ; Frontiers on Film: Evaluating Mulan (1998) and The Great Wall (2016) – Sophie Billingham

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Book SynopsisThe fifth volume of Ex Novo has the pleasure to host Flaminia Bartolini as guest editor for the special issue titled Heritage in the Making: Dealing with Legacies of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. This collection of peer-reviewed papers stems in part from the successful workshop held at McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge in December 2018 under the aegis of the DAAD-Cambridge Hub. The event gathered several international heritage experts and professionals from both Germany and Italy to explore the complexities of handling Heritage related to Fascism and National Socialism. The selection of papers contribute much to the debate on the shifting conditions of the reception of dictatorial regimes, and more specifically the fate of fascist material legacies from the aftermath of WWII to the present day. The second part of this volume includes an additional contribution by Aydin Abar which keeps in with the broad theme of political reappropriation of the past lying at the core of Bartolini’s collection of papers but strays away from their geographical focus by extending the analysis to the exploitation of Achaemenian material legacies in reinforcing nationalist narratives in nineteenth and twentieth century Iran.Table of ContentsForeword – Ex Novo EDITORIAL BOARD ; PART I: Heritage in the Making. Dealing with the Legacies of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany – Flaminia BARTOLINI (ed.) ; Introduction. Difficult Heritage and its Making – Flaminia BARTOLINI ; Collecting Mussolini: The Case of the Susmel–Bargellini Collection – Susanna ARANGIO ; Fascism on Display. The Afterlife of Material Legacies of the Dictatorship – Flaminia BARTOLINI ; Edmondo Rossoni and Tresigallo. An Atypical Case of Regime’s Town – Davide BRUGNATTI & Giuseppe MURONI ; Difficult Heritage: The Experience of the Fossoli Camp Foundation – Marzia LUPPI & Francesca SCHINTU ; The Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg. A Difficult Heritage and a Public Space – Alexander SCHMIDT ; Berlin Tempelhof: From Heritage Site to Creative Industry Hub? – Dagmar ZADRAZILOVA ; PART II ; Legacy of Teispian and Achaemenian Materiality. The History and the Role of Monuments in 19th - 21st Century Iranian Nationalism – Aydin ABAR ; Costruire storie e raccontare produzioni. Riflessioni a partire da un libro recente – Enrico GIANNICHEDDA ; Interviews & Reviews ; La complessitá del reale e la sua immagine. Conversazione con Daniele Simoni – Martina REVELLO LAMI

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Book SynopsisThe sixth issue of Ex Novo explores how ‘peripheral’ regions currently approach both the practice and theory of public archaeology placing particular emphasis on Eastern and Southern Europe and extending the analysis to usually underrepresented regions of the Mediterranean.Table of ContentsEx Novo EDITORIAL BOARD: Foreword ; PART I - Making Archaeology Public. A View from the Mediterranean, Eastern Europe and Beyond. ; Jaime ALMANSA SÁNCHEZ: Paper, perception and…facts? Exploring archaeological heritage management in the Mediterranean and the weight of public archaeology ; Nicoló DONATI, Elisa GUSBERTI, Tommaso MAGLIARO & Alessandra RIVA: The Confederazione Italiana Archeologi (CIA) social media projects during the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy: changing the digital communication approach to the online community ; Anastasia SAKELLARIADI: Public Archaeology in Greece: A Review of the current state of the field ; Paraskevi ELEFANTI: The unfamiliar past: The outreach of Palaeolithic archaeology in Greek archaeological museums ; Carlos MONTALVO, Andres MOSQUERA, Eric DYRDAHL, Valeria RIVERA, Santiago SOLINES, Maria Gracia RIOFRIO & Gabriela GRANJA: Quito’s archaeological heritage protection: The “Delimitación de Áreas Arqueológicas del Bloque Quito” project as a case of study ; WANG Bo-Chiao 王柏喬, CHUNG Kuo-Feng 鍾國風 & Nicolas ZORZIN: An attempt in shifting commodified archaeological practices in Taiwan through community engagement ; PART II – Off Topic ; Valeria ACCONCIA: Superare il guado: riflessioni su archeologia, storia sociale e modelli di autorappresentazione delle comunità antiche e moderne ; Giancarlo LAGO & Andrea DI RENZONI: Il Milione. The first 14 years of ERC funding to human past studies (SH6): an Italian perspective ; Reviews & Interviews ; Manuel GAGO MARIÑO & Jesús GARCÍA SÁNCHEZ: The Iron Age looks at Rome for the first time in audiovisuals: fiction, cultural imaginary and historical reality in Barbarians and Britannia ; Marie USADEL & Francesco Corgiolu: Der Brückenbauer. Intervista con Dario Siddi ; Flaminia BARTOLINI: Rethinking places of trauma: an interview with Silvia Costa, Government Commissioner for the preservation and re-purposing of the ex-prison complex on the island of Santo Stefano ; Martina REVELLO LAMI: Disegnare per osservare, capire, caccontare. Conversazione con Agostino Sotgia ; PART III – Confederazione Italiana Archeologi (CIA) 2021 Annual Meeting ; A Conversation with: ; Felipe CRIADO-BOADO ; Yannis HAMILAKIS ; Cornelius HOLTORF ; Lynn MESKELL ; Elisabeth NICKLASSON

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Book SynopsisConversations in Human Evolution is an ongoing science communication initiative seeking to explore the breadth and interdisciplinarity of human evolution studies. This volume reports another twenty interviews (referred to as ‘conversations’ as they are informal in style) with scholars at the forefront of human evolution research, covering the broad scientific themes of Palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology and biological anthropology, earth science and palaeoclimatic change, evolutionary anthropology and primatology, and human disease co-evolution. This project features academics at various different stages in their careers and from all over the world; in this volume alone, researchers are based at institutions in eleven different countries (namely Iran, India, the United Kingdom, Greece, Australia, South Africa, the United States of America, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Israel), covering five continents. Having arisen at the start of the COVID19 pandemic, Conversations in Human Evolution aims to encourage engagement with both human evolutionary studies and the broader socio-political issues that persist within academia, the latter of which is particularly pertinent during this time of global uncertainty. The conversations delve deeply into the study of our species’ evolutionary history through the lens of each sub-discipline, as well as detailing some of the most current advances in research, theory and methods. Overall, Conversations in Human Evolution seeks to bridge the gap between the research and researcher through contextualisation of the science with personal experience and historical reflection.Table of ContentsConversations in Human Evolution – Lucy Timbrell ; Part 1: Palaeolithic Archaeology ; Sonia Shidrang ; Ravi Korisettar ; Jennifer French ; Rebecca Wragg Sykes ; Nena Galanidou ; Part 2: Palaeoanthropology and biological anthropology ; Rainer Grün ; Briana Pobiner ; Mirriam Tawane ; Trish Biers ; Tanya Smith ; Rebecca Ackermann ; Part 3: Earth science and palaeoclimatic change ; Rick Potts ; Mark Maslin ; Yoshi Maezumi ; Part 4: Evolutionary anthropology and primatology ; Duncan Stibbard Hawkes ; Ammie Kalan ; Lynne Isbell ; Part 5: Human-disease evolution ; Hila May ; Simon Underdown ; Lluis Quintana-Murci

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Book SynopsisNew Advances in the History of Archaeology presents the papers from three sessions organised by the History of Archaeology Scientific Commission at the 18th UISPP World Congress (Paris, June 2018). The first session, From stratigraphy to stratigraphic excavation in pre- and protohistoric archaeology organised by Massimo Tarantini and Alessandro Guidi, reviews the development of stratigraphical methods in archaeology in many European countries. The second session, Epistemology, History and Philosophy of Science: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the History of Archaeology, organised by Sophie A. de Beaune and Oscar Moro Abadia, is characterised by different examples of intersections between archaeology and other disciplines like history and the philosophy of science. Finally, four papers discuss the development of different types of interdisciplinarity in Europe and South America. These were presented in the third session, Archaeology and interdisciplinarity, from the 19th century to present-day research, organized by Laura Coltofean, Géraldine. Delley, Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Marc-Antoine Kaeser.Table of ContentsForeword to the XVII Uispp Congress Proceedings Series Edition – Marta Azarello ; Foreword to the volume – Alessandro Guidi ; Part I: From stratigraphy to stratigraphic excavation in pre- and protohistoric archaeology ; Introduction – Alessandro Guidi, Massimo Tarantini ; Démarche d’historien et de préhistorien ou comment pallier les manques dans l’étude de collections anciennes ? Exemples des Balzi Rossi (Ligurie, Italie) et de la grotte de l’Observatoire (Monaco) – Elena Rossoni-Notter, Olivier Notter, Patrick Simon, Suzanne Simone ; Santa Verna in 1911 and 2015: re-examining pioneering stratigraphic excavation methods in Malta – T. Rowan McLaughlin, Eóin Parkinson, Catriona Brogan, Simon Stoddart, Caroline Malone ; The multiple roots of an innovative excavation: G.A. Blanc at the Romanelli Cave, Italy (1914-1938) – Massimo Tarantini ; Paul Vouga à La Tène et à Auvernier : la stratigraphie à l’épreuve de la typologie – Gianna Reginelli Servais ; Pioneers of archaeological stratigraphical techniques: Luigi Bernabò Brea (1910-1999) and Giorgio Buchner (1914-2005) – Federico Nomi, Massimo Cultraro, Alessandro Guidi, Sebastiano Tusa ; Abstraction in Archaeological Stratigraphy: a Pyrenean Lineage of Innovation (late 19th–early 21th century) – Sébastien Plutniak ; Part II: Epistemology, History and Philosophy of Science: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the History of Archaeology ; Introduction – Sophie A. de Beaune, Oscar Moro Abadía ; Three career itineraries that linked prehistory, archaeology, and technology: Augustus Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900), André Leroi-Gourhan (1911-1986) and François Sigaut (1940-2012) – Sophie A. de Beaune ; The tragic fate of heroic precursors in the history of archaeology: the case of Boucher de Perthes – Oscar Moro Abadía ; Primitif, précurseur, contemporain. Approches de l’art paléolithique au fondement de la pensée moderne – Rémi Labrusse ; Antiquity all over the place: evolutions and revolutions in early prehistoric research in Greece during the 1960s – Giorgos Vavouranakis, Georgia Kourtessi-Philippakis ; Compelling image-worlds: a pictorial perspective on the epistemology of stone artefact analysis in Palaeolithic archaeology – Shumon T. Hussain ; Part III: Archaeology and interdisciplinarity, from the 19th century to present-day research ; Luján, l’Abbeville des pampas. Amateurs, traders, and scholars behind the search of the pampean fossil man (1865-1884) – Marcelo J. Toledo ; From mining to archaeology. An Austrian experiment in Transylvania at the beginning of the 19th century – Aurora Pețan ; Interdisciplinary research of the caves conducted by the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cracow at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries – Marzena Woźny ; Interdisciplinarity and institutions. The case of Italian prehistoric archaeology (1875-1954) – Massimo Tarantini

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Book SynopsisWalter Benjamin observed that it is precisely the modern which conjures up prehistory. From Yanagita’s ‘mountain people’ to Umehara’s ‘Jōmon civilisation’, Japan has been an especially resonant site of prehistories imagined in response to modernity. Conjuring Up Prehistory: Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism looks at how archaeology and landscapes of the archaic have been used in Japanese nationalism since the early twentieth century, focusing on the writings of cultural historian Tetsurō Watsuji, philosopher Takeshi Umehara and environmental archaeologist Yoshinori Yasuda. It is argued that the Japanese nationalist project has been mirrored by the continuing influence of broader Romantic ideas in Japanese archaeology, especially in Jōmon studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Modernity, the archaic and Japanese Nature ; Chapter 1: Huddle together, warm bodies pressing: the community of Japanese eco-nationalism ; Chapter 2: I had not seen this kind of mountain or forest before: fūdo as Gothic landscape ; Chapter 3: Deep Japan: the spectre of strata ; Chapter 4: Romantic nationalism and the new Jōmonology ; Chapter 5: Conclusions: the violence of Japanese world-shaping

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Book SynopsisArcheoFOSS XIV 2020: Open software, hardware, processes, data and formats in archaeological research collects the proceedings of the fourteenth ArcheoFOSS international conference, held online due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book gathers seventeen papers on three principal topics, the main sessions of the conference: use and application of free/libre and open-source (FLOS) tools in archaeology; creation, use and promotion of open data and open formats in archaeology; and development and customization of FLOS software and hardware solutions for cultural heritage. Forty-one scholars of very diverse age, academic affiliation and geographic location, but all actively involved in the promotion of FLOS culture, open data and open science in digital archaeology and humanities, contribute. The volume is completed by a critical analysis of the contribution of these important annual meetings to the scientific and cultural activity of the ArcheoFOSS community. The opportunity offered by the pandemic-related difficulties to widen the geographical scope of the conference has been further boosted by the decision to adopt the English language for most of the papers, with the hope that this will extend the work of the ArcheoFOSS community far beyond the Italian national borders.Table of ContentsForeword ; ArcheoFOSS 2020 Committees ; Use, Application and Development of Free/Libre and Open Source (FLOS) Tools in Archaeology ; 1. Strumenti digitali open-source per la documentazione della cultura visuale paleo-mesolitica: dati preliminari da un flusso di lavoro sulle decorazioni incise su supporto calcareo dalla Grotta di Santa Maria di Agnano (Ostuni, BR) – Michele Pellegrino, Donato Coppola ; 2. Valutazione integrata delle dinamiche di rischio di erosione del suolo in presenza di depositi archeologici. Il metodo proposto dal progetto RESEARCH (REmote SEnsing techniques for ARCHaeology) – Stefano De Angeli, Fabiana Battistin, Federico Valerio Moresi, Philip Fayad, Matteo Serpetti ; 3. Rome - NE Palatine slopes: open-source methodologies and tools for the analysis of ancient architectures – Emanuele Brienza, Giovanni Caratelli, Lorenzo Fornaciari, Cecilia Giorgi ; 4. Un workflow open source per l'elaborazione delle immagini termiche da drone – Gabriele Ciccone ; 5. Analysis of urban mobility in 18th century Rome: a research approach through GIS platform – Renata Ago, Domizia D’Erasmo ; 6. Towards FreeCAD experimentation and validation as a FOSS HBIM platform for building archaeology purposes – Filippo Diara, Fulvio Rinaudo ; 7. FLOS for Museums: open solutions to train communities and manage heritage places – Paolo Rosati ; 8. The virtual countryman. A GRASS-GIS tool for ancient cultivation recognition – Augusto Palombini ; 9. Little Minions and SPARQL Unicorns as tools for archaeology – Timo Homburg, Florian Thiery ; Creation, use and Promotion of Open Data and Open Formats in Archaeology ; 10. The ArchAIDE Archive: the open data policy and management of material covered by copyright – Francesca Anichini, Gabriele Gattiglia ; 11. SITAR: a new open-data infrastructure for a public archaeology of Rome – Mirella Serlorenzi, Riccardo Montalbano, Ascanio D’Andrea ; 12. SPARQLing Publication of Irish ᚑᚌᚆᚐᚋ – Ogham Stones as LOD – Florian Thiery, Sophie C. Schmidt, Timo Homburg ; 13. Towards an ontology of the Museum of Archaeology of the University of Catania: from the digitization of the legacy data to the semantic Web – Nicola Laneri, Rodolfo Brancato, Salvatore Cristofaro, Marianna Figuera, Marianna Nicolosi Asmundo, Daniele Francesco Santamaria, Daria Spampinato ; 14. Fieldnotes for the development and publication of open standards for the vectorisation of archaeologic and architectonic topographic legacy data – Julian Bogdani ; 15. Analysis and comparison of open and non-open spatial formats for archaeological research – Andrea D’Andrea, Francesca Forte ; 16. Open Data, Open Knowledge, Open Science: The new research group at the Institute of Heritage Science (CNR) – Alessandra Caravale, Alessandra Piergrossi, Irene Rossi ; 17. FOSS, Open Data e archeologia: qualche riflessione su passato, presente e prospettive future – Marco Ciurcina, Piergiovanna Grossi ; Appendix ; 18. An introspective, incomplete, view on the activity of the FLOS community dealing with Archaeology and Cultural Heritage – Julian Bogdani, Federico Sciacca

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Book SynopsisDiversity in Archaeology is the result of the fourth Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference (CASA 4), held virtually from January 14–17, 2021. CASA developed out of the Annual Student Archaeology Conference, first held in 2013, which was formed by students at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and York. In 2017, Cambridge became the home of the conference and the name was changed accordingly. The conference was developed to give students (from undergraduate to PhD candidates) in archaeology and related fields the chance to present their research to a broad audience. The theme for the 2020/2021 conference was Diversity in Archaeology which opened our conference to multiple interpretations, varied presentations and sundry perspectives from different regions of the world. This volume consists of 30 papers which were presented in 7 different sessions. The papers present a great variety in both geography and chronology and explore a wide range of topics such women’s voices in archaeological discourse; researching race and ethnicity across time; use of diversified science methods in Archaeology; critical ethnographic studies; diversity in the Archaeology of Death, heritage studies, archaeology of ‘scapes’ and more.

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Book SynopsisFar from being a discipline focusing on the past, archaeology has boundless potential for engaging with people in the present. Encounters between archaeologists and the public with different pasts have the potential to create diverse participative dynamics. From the involvement of citizens as excavators and re-enactors to the co-organisation of research campaigns and outreach activities, public participation in archaeology has become a well-represented practice, fully incorporated into European and national cultural policies. However, the impact of this practice remains underexplored. Unforgettable Encounters demonstrates how evaluating participation can critically influence daily practice on fieldwork, enrich the academic discussion in public archaeology, and inform the decision-making process in community-based planning. The book proposes an operational workflow, aiming to serve as a benchmark for archaeologists delivering collaborative programs in excavation-based projects. It offers a flexible set of tools, analyses, and visualisation boards which can provide a range of information about public participation and can inform the daily practice of fieldwork and the development of community projects. Three Italian case studies present the application of the operational workflow, testing its flexibility and effectiveness. By focusing on Italian community archaeology, this book aims to raise awareness of the importance of evaluating public participation in a country where this commitment has always been evident—especially in excavations—but where research on community archaeology itself has developed only in the last few years.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Participation in archaeology ; Introducing participation ; Defining the fields of study ; Exploring participation ; Excavation as a contact zone ; 2. Public and community archaeology in Italy ; Before public and community archaeology ; ‘Archeologia pubblica’ ; Excavation and participation at sites in Italian archaeology ; 3. Methodological framework ; Introduction ; Workflow ; 4. Case studies overview ; Selection of case studies ; Massaciuccoli Romana ; Poggio del Molino ; Vignale ; 5. Exploring participation ; Massaciuccoli Romana ; Poggio del Molino ; Vignale ; 6. Understanding participation ; Social Network Analysis (SNA) ; Participation polarised chart ; Understanding encounters ; From research to governance ; Conclusion ; Appendix I. Description of interviews and focus groups ; Appendix II. Data collection techniques ; Appendix III. Cross tables ; Reference list

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Book SynopsisCrisis y muerte en la Antigüedad, desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar e internacional, analiza los periodos de crisis en el Mundo Antiguo desde un punto de vista histórico y arqueológico. Para ello, los distintos autores han prestado atención a los periodos de crisis sanitaria y medioambiental, así como a las persecuciones y situaciones de hambruna e inanición durante la Antigüedad. Los dos primeros trabajos analizan estas cuestiones desde un enfoque global, proporcionando un marco perfecto introductorio al lector de los temas que se desarrollan a lo largo del volumen. Las siguientes contribuciones no solo estudian zonas concretas como la región del Bajo Guadalquivir (Andalucía) o Tierras de Barros (Extremadura) en la península ibérica, sino también otros lugares históricos emblemáticos como la ciudad egipcia de Oxirrinco. A continuación, primando un criterio cronológico, se aborda el fenómeno martirial y la persecución de personas de fe cristiana. Estos últimos temas, a pesar de estar ampliamente tratados por la historiografía contemporánea, se aportan nuevos datos a través del análisis filológico e histórico de autores como Orosio, Lactancio, Prudencio y Agustín de Hipona, así como de periodos más generales de épocas concretas como los gobiernos de Septimio Severo, Caracalla o Teodosio. El volumen finaliza con un argumento concreto centrado, en este caso, en la península ibérica, la llamada Plaga de Justiniano desde el punto de vista arqueológico, aportando una visión novedosa a lo que señalaron los autores clásicos.Table of ContentsPrólogo – Rafael González Fernández ; La concepción del desastre en el mundo antiguo. Perspectivas de estudio en torno a las plagas del pasado y pandemias del presente – José Ramón Carbó García ; Explicaciones ambientales a la crisis del Imperio romano. Apuntes historiográficos y metodologicos – Juan Manuel Martín Casado ; Cambios climáticos, crisis de subsistencia y poblamiento humano en el SW Hispano entre la Prehistoria reciente y la Edad Media: Las comarcas del Bajo Guadalquivir (Andalucía) y Tierra de Barros (Extremadura) – Luis-Gethsemaní Pérez-Aguilar, Paloma Caballero-Márquez, David Gordillo-Salguero y Valvanera Nieto-Domínguez ; La peste de Atenas como metáfora lucreciana del discidium social y las perturbaciones humanas – Liliana Pégolo y Nicolás Russo ; Persecuciones cristianas y mártires en la ciudad de Oxirrinco – José Javier Martínez García ; Septimio Severo y las persecuciones cristianas del norte de África (202-203 d.C.). Análisis de una problemática a través de las fuentes clásicas y su balance historiográfico – Pedro David Conesa Navarro ; Caracalla en Alejandría. Cuando el Nilo se tiñó de rojo – José Ignacio Sánchez Sánchez ; La peste de san Cipriano. Pandemia y muerte de emperadores durante la Crisis del siglo III (251-270) – Miguel Pablo Sancho Gómez ; Qui insultaverant deo, iacent: el castigo divino a los emperadores en Lact. Mort. Pers. – Amparo Mateo Donet y Jónatan Ortiz-García ; La instrumentalización apologética de las plagas en las Historiae adversus paganos de Orosio – Raúl Serrano Madroñal ; La masacre de Tesalónica del año 390: Historiografía e Historia – Diego Piay Augusto ; El sermón De Excidio Urbis Romae de San Agustín como relato de la devastación en el saqueo de Roma: el comienzo del fin – Manuel Ortuño Arregui ; Un cruel retrato de Herodes en la mirada de los poetas Prudencio y Sedulio – Mª Dolores Hernández Mayor ; La peste de Justiniano y sus estragos y rebrotes en Hispania – Jordina Sales-Carbonell

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Book SynopsisDogs, Past and Present: An Interdisciplinary Perspective gathers contributions from scholars from a variety of disciplines to provide a comprehensive assessment of the importance of dogs through history. Over the last decades, countless studies have examined the lives of dogs and their current place in our societies as well as their crucial part in human life and history. Data and hypotheses have progressively increased, sometimes controversially, in each field of investigation. The domestication of dogs and its success during prehistory is a fascinating theme that scholars of various disciplines are involved with. However, there has not been a real exchange between those approaches and it is extremely complex to reach a complete view of the thousands of texts which are published every year. By contrast, this volume is entirely dedicated to dogs and it is focused on the necessity of an ‘interdisciplinary perspective’ to fully understand the fundamental role that dogs have played in our past. When, where, how and why were dogs domesticated? What is their story? What was their role in the history of humankind? What is their role in traditional and non-traditional societies today? The book originated from the conference ‘Dogs, Past and Present – an Interdisciplinary Perspective’ held at CNR (National Scientific Council) and at Sapienza University in Rome (14–17 November 2018), promoted by the Italian Association for Ethnoarchaeology and organised by the editors.Table of ContentsPresentation – Adriano V. Rossi Forewords – Alberto Cazzella, Simon JM Davis, Dulam Sendenjav Introduction – Ivana Fiore and Francesca Lugli Calling on a Favour from Human’s Best Friend: Public Outreach in Science – David Ian Howe Section 1. Dog Genetics, Microtomography and Morphometric Techniques 1.1 A Molecular View on the Domestication of Dogs – Carles Vilà and Jennifer A. Leonard 1.2 Mitochondrial DNA Variation among Dogs of Mongolian, Tuvinian and Altaic Nomads – Daria Sanna, Ilenia Azzena, Piero Cossu, Fabio Scarpa, Massimo Scandura, Marco Apollonio, Francesca Lugli, Paolo Francalacci, Paolo Mereu, and Marco Casu 1.3 Ancient and Recent Changes in Breeding Practices for Dogs – Grégoire Leroy, Shi-Zhi Wang, Tom Lewis, and Sophie Licari 1.4 Using X-ray Microtomography to Discriminate Between Dogs’ and Wolves’ Lower Carnassial Tooth – Francesco Boschin, Federico Bernardini, Clément Zanolli, Antonio Tagliacozzo, and Claudio Tuniz 1.5 The Skull Shape of Canis lupus. A Study of Wolf and Dog Cranial Morphology – Raquel Blázquez-Orta, Laura Rodríguez, María Ángeles Galindo-Pellicena, Ignacio De Gaspar, and Nuria García Section 2. Wolf Versus Dog 2.1 Size Variation of the Middle-Late Pleistocene Grey Wolf (Canis lupus) from the Italian Peninsula – Dawid Adam Iurino, Beniamino Mecozzi, Davide Persico, Lucia Maimone, and Raffaele Sardella 2.2 The Advantages of Owning a Palaeolithic Dog – Mietje Germonpré, Martina Lázničková-Galetová, Mikhail V. Sablin, and Hervé Bocherens 2.3 Why Wolves Became Dogs: Interdisciplinary Questions on Domestication – Juliane Bräuer and Blanca Vidal Orga 2.4 Vector-Borne Diseases as Possible Constraints on the Spread of Dogs into the Tropics and Beyond – Peter Mitchell Section 3. Dogs through Time: Role, Task and Position 3.1 Urban Nomads and their Dogs – Christophe Blanchard 3.2 ‘The Mayor is a Dog’: The Coming of Age of Contemporary American Pet Culture – Simona Bealcovschi 3.3 Wolves, Dogs and Water – Dogs and Fishing Boats – Francesca Lugli 3.4 Dogs, Nomads and Hunters in Southern Siberia – Francesca Lugli and Galina B. Sychenko 3.5 The Dog – Human Interrelations in the Lower Amur Rural Regions (the Far East of Russia): Past and Present – Olga V. Maltseva 3.6 The Mother of Dogs: Women, Power and Dogs in First Nations Societies in Northwest North America – Lanoue 3.7 Dogs through Time: An Ethno-Evolutionary Perspective – Tiziano Latini, Luca Pandolfi, and Saverio Bartolini Lucenti 3.8 Dogs and the Afterlife in Southern Italy between Ethnology and Archaeology – Claudio Giardino and Tiziana Zappatore 3.9 Faithful unto Death. Burial, Legends and Heroism of the Dog from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age – Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin (†), Ivana Fiore, Claudia Minniti, and Antonio Tagliacozzo Section 4. Dogs: Archaeological and Archaeozoological Cases 4.1 Ur-gir and the Other Dogs from Abu Tberah (Southern Iraq): Considerations on the Role of Dogs in Sumer during the 3rd Millennium BCE – Francesca Alhaique, Licia Romano, and Franco D’Agostino 4.2 Ritual Use of Dogs in the Neolithic Cultures of China – Maria Kudinova 4.3 Neolithic Dogs in the Central Po Valley - A Review of Published Data and New Evidence – Fabio Bona, Daniela Castagna, and Raffaella Poggiani Keller 4.4 Evolution and Utilisation of Dogs in Austria: The Archaeozoological Record from the Neolithic to the Roman Period – Konstantina Saliari, Erich Pucher, and Martin Mosser 4.5 A Dog’s Head in a House Pit at the Early Iron Age Site of Verucchio. Butchery Waste or Ritual Sacrifice? – Marco Bertolini and Ursula Thun Hohenstein 4.6 The Dogs from the Cult Layers of the Ipogeo del Guardiano (Trinitapoli, Barletta-Andria-Trani, Italy) – Martina Di Matteo, Anna Maria Tunzi, Rachele Modesto, and Francesca Alhaique 4.7 Four Dogs in the Road and Other Canine Oddities from Gabii (Rome, Italy) – Francesca Alhaique 4.8 The Discovery of a Dog in the Excavations of the Rome Underground Line C in Largo Amba Aradam – Simona Morretta, Giovanni Ricci, and Francesca Santini (†) 4.9 Dog and Human Sepultures at Peltuinum (L’Aquila, Italy) – Ivana Fiore, Luisa Migliorati, Antonella Pansini, Tiziana Sgrulloni, and Alessandra Sperduti 4.10 The Dog as a Companion in Life and Death: The Case Study of Dog Burials in a Human Grave (VII - VI BC) Loc. Collina dei Gelsi - Poggio Sommavilla (RI) – Francesca Santini (†) 4.11 The Role of Dogs in the Xiongnu Society – Evgeniy S. Bogdanov 4.12 Dog Burial at the Ust-Voikarskoe-1 Settlement and its Interpretation Issues – Andrey V. Novikov and Yuri N. Garkusha 4.13 The Dog in the Castle: A Dog Skeleton from the Castle of Santa Severa (Latium, Italy) – Eugenio Cerilli and Marco Fatucci Section 5. Representation of Dogs in Different Cultures 5.1 Lupus in Fabula: The Representation of the Wolf (Canis lupus) in European Palaeolithic Art – Gianpiero Di Maida, Margherita Mussi, Alberto Lombo Montañés, and Manuel Bea 5.2 At the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship. Canid Representations in Levantine Rock Art – Manuel Bea, Alberto Lombo, Gianpiero Di Maida, and Margherita Mussi 5.3 Dog Images in the Altai Rock Art – Dmitry V. Cheremisin 5.4 Representations of Dogs in Attic Funerary Monuments: A Question of Symbolism? – Francesco Tanganelli 5.5 ‘Do Not Laugh, I Beg of You, for This Is a Dog’s Grave’: The Human-Canine Bond in the Ancient Greek World – Liubov Eliseeva and Eugenia Andreeva 5.6 The Image of the Dog on Ancient Coins in the Mediterranean Area – Alessandra Bottari 5.7 The Numismatist’s Best Friend. Images of Dogs on Roman Coins – Alessandro Crispino 5.8 Dogs in Early Imperial China: Anthropo-Zoological Reading of Iconographic Sources from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) – Frédéric Devienne 5.9 ‘Cobalt Greyhounds’. An Artistic Proof in Ceramics – Silvia Nutini and Marino Marini Section 6. Dogs: Myth and Symbolism 6.1 ‘Implore Me Not, Dog’. The Dog in the Classical World: An Apotropaic View – Marco Giuman and Miriam Napolitano 6.2 Dogs in Phoenician Culture – Giuseppe Minunno 6.3 Dog in War, Hunting, Livestock Work and Everyday Life of Greco-Roman Society – Ana Portillo Gómez 6.4 Dog in Philippine Life, Ritual and Creation Myths: In a Spirit of Hunting – Maria V. Stanyukovich 6.5 Demonic Dogs of Mongolian Stag Stones and their Chinese Counterparts – Andrey V. Varenov 6.6 A Few Days with Mongolian Dogs and their Herders – Graziano Capitini and Francesca Lugli 6.7 Dog and Wolf in the Non-Tale Prose of the Turkic Peoples of Siberia – Galina B. Sychenko

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Book SynopsisGroma stems from the Department of History and Cultures (DISCI) of the University of Bologna and focuses on the different methodologies applied to archaeology. Particular attention is paid to Mediterranean archaeology and to specific methodological aspects such as archaeological documentation and landscape archaeology.Table of ContentsArticles ; Traces around a capital: the hinterland of Ravenna through remote sensing – Michele Abballe, Marco Cavalazzi ; New considerations on the acropolis of Butrint during the Archaic age – Federica Carbotti ; Rocca Savelli (Aventine Hill). Contribution to the knowledge on defence systems for family goods in Rome during the Late Middle Ages – Andrea Fiorini ; The use of mudbricks and earth in modern Umbrian architectures: a preliminary report – Stefano Bordoni ; A diachronic multi-source approach to the study of a historical landscape in Central-Western Europe: the Blies Survey Project – S. Antonelli, J.-P. Petit, A. Stinsky, C. Casolino, S. D’Arcangelo, P. Haupt, M. Moderato, S. Occhietti, V. Ollive, D. Rieth, S. Schmit ; The 3D reconstruction model of the Roman theatre of Falerio Picenus (Falerone, Italy): promoting cultural heritage, understanding our past – Paolo Storchi ; Notes ; Architectures and urban landscapes in Pompeii: the project of Sapienza University in the Regio VII – Rosy Bianco, Sara Bossi, Maria Teresa D’Alessio ; Preliminary zooarchaeological analysis of the Phoenice and Butrint excavations (2021 campaign) – Fabio Fiori ; Geomatics and Ancient Architecture: the study of Villa San Marco and the Baths of Stabiae – Dario Saggese ; Reviews ; Julian Bogdani, Riccardo Montalbano, Paolo Rosati (eds.), Archeo.FOSS XIV 2020: Open software, hardware, processes, data and formats in archeological research, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference (15-17 October 2020), Archaeopress Archaeology, Oxford 2021 | Book review – Noemi Giovino ; Davide Gangale Risoleo, Ippolita Raimondo (eds), Landscape: una sintesi di elementi diacronici. Metodologie a confronto per l’analisi del territorio, BAR International Series 3047, Oxford, 2021 | Book review – Francesco Pizzimenti ; Custode Silvio Fioriello, Francis Tassaux (eds), I paesaggi costieri dell’Adriatico tra Antichita e Altomedioevo: Atti della Tavola Rotonda di Bari, 22–23 maggio 2017, Ausonius Editions, Bordeaux, 2019 | Book review – Frank Vermeulen

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Book SynopsisVol. 20 of Antiguo Oriente for 2022. AntOr is the annual, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal published by the Center of Studies of Ancient Near Eastern History (CEHAO). The journal publishes manuscripts related to the history of societies of the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean from the Paleolithic to the Early Islamic Period. Antiguo Oriente publishes articles and book reviews in Spanish, English and French.Table of ContentsColaboraciones / Main Papers Political Fictions, Political Realities: Aksumite-Ḥimyarite Relations in the Fourth Century CE – George Hatke Why did Inana Ascend from the Netherworld So Many Times? The Literary Growth of Inana’s Descent, 282-306 – Noga Ayali-Darshan Amon (אמון) in Prov 8:30: A Linguistic, Comparative, and Historical Approach – Stéphanie Anthonioz Who is Ili-Rapih: Brother or Son of Rib-Adda? – Mohy-Eldin E. Abo-Eleaz An Egyptian Royal Sculpture of the Ptolemaic Time in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (Inv. I, 1a 4979) – Ivan Ladynin La organización del culto funerario en una necrópolis provincial del Reino Antiguo: el caso de El-Hawawish – Raúl Sánchez Casado Reseñas bibliográficas / Book Reviews Ido Koch. Colonial Encounters in Southwest Canaan during the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age, 2021. – Por Giulia Tucci Nissim Amzallag. Psalm 29: A Cannanite Hymn to YHWH In the Psalter, 2021. – Por Pablo R. Andiñach Fritz Blakolmer (ed.), Current Approaches and New Perspectives in Aegean Iconography, 2020. – Por Jorge Cano Moreno

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Book SynopsisDo I Really Want to Be an Archaeologist? is an edited collection of letters that Karen D. Vitelli wrote from pre-EU Greece and Turkey to family during her later years of graduate school and early field work (at Franchthi Cave, Gordion, and a training session at Corinth) through to the completion of writing her dissertation in Athens during a coup (1968-1974). An introductory chapter provides background information to clarify references in the letters, additional new comments within the letters amplify points and events, and a final chapter sums up her post-dissertation years. The letters were written during lively times politically and socially, as well as archaeologically, in Greece and around the world. The author was often torn between immersing herself in the past and being involved in the upheavals of that present. The letters show her frequent questioning about whether to remain in archaeology or become an ‘activist,’ and how she eventually found ways to do both.Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Background to the Letters Chapter 2. Getting to Greece. Off to my First Dig, 1968 Chapter 3. My First Dig, Porto Cheli, 1968 Chapter 4. Fall Term at the American School, 1968 Chapter 5. Winter Term at the American School, 1969 Chapter 6. More Digs: Turkey and Back to Greece, 1969 Chapter 7. Beginning Dissertation Research, 1969-70 Chapter 8. Wrapping up the Dissertation Research. Nafplion 1970: April-August Chapter 9. Avoiding, and Finally Starting the Dissertation, Athens 1973 Chapter 10. Finishing the Dissertation, during a Revolution Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Hellenic Society for Archaeometry (HSA) was founded in 1982. It constitutes one of the oldest European associations dedicated to scientific archaeology with hundreds of registered members, both in Greece and abroad. The HSA's main concern is to promote the application of science and technology in archaeology, history of art, and other fields related to cultural heritage.The 7th Symposium of the HSA took place in autumn 2019 (October 9-12) at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens. Its theme was Archaeology-Archaeometry, 30 years on', chosen to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 1st Symposium of HSA back in 1990, which bore the emblematic title Linking Archaeology and Archaeometry'. During the 3-day symposium, more than 100 original and stimulating papers were presented orally and/or in poster form. This volume of proceedings includes a representative selection of contributions, covering a wide range of fields in archaeological science, such

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Book SynopsisHow did our current society come into being and how is it similar to as well as different from its predecessors? These key questions have transfixed archaeologists, anthropologists and historians for decades and strike at the very heart of intellectual debate across a wide range of disciplines. Yet scant attention has been given to the key thinkers and theoretical traditions that have shaped these debates and the conclusions to which they have given rise. This pioneering book explores the profound influence of one such thinker - Karl Marx - on the course of twentieth-century archaeology. Patterson reveals how Australian archaeologist V. Gordon Childe in the late 1920s was the first to synthesize discourses from archaeologists, sociologists, and Marxists to produce a corpus of provocative ideas. He analyzes how these ideas were received and rejected, and moves on to consider such important developments as the emergence of a new archaeology in the 1960s and an explicitly Marxist strand of archaeology in the 1970s. Specific attention is given to the discussion arenas of the 1990s, where archaeologists of differing theoretical perspectives debated issues of historic specificity, social transformation, and inter-regional interaction. How did the debates in the 1990s pave the way for historical archaeologists to investigate the interconnections of class, gender, ethnicity, and race? In what ways did archaeologists make use of Marxist concepts such as contradiction and exploitation, and how did they apply Marxist analytical categories to their work? How did varying theoretical groups critique one another and how did they overturn or build upon past generational theories?Marxs Ghost: Conversations with Archaeologists provides an accessible guide to the theoretical arguments that have influenced the development of Anglophone archaeology from the 1930s onwards. It will prove to be indispensable for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, and social and cultural theorTrade Review'Marx's Ghost successfully explains Marx's varied influences in the arcaeology of the formation of class and state structures...It is direct, clear and readily accessible to undergraduate audiences.'Anthropological Forum'As Marx might say: this book should change the field.'Mark P. Leone, University of Maryland'This is a wonderfully important work. Patterson's idea of wrapping the history of archaeological theory in the skeins of Marx's ideas can be seen at work in their trenches.'Carole Crumley, University of North Carolina'Patterson resurrects the lingering presence or 'ghost' of Karl Marx in archaeological discussions over the last 50 years or so Patterson's sensible overview can be profitably read by advanced undergraduates, graduate students and professional archaeologists alike.'Philip L. Kohl, Wellesley College'An important book on the many ways that archaeologists have been affected by the writings of Marx. Archaeologists are charged with developinTable of ContentsMarx's Ghost' should be read by archaeology students as part of a general training in archaeological theory. . . as a solid and honest exposition by an archaeologist who is a committed Marxist.'

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Book SynopsisLos textos de este libro son auto-biográficos. A diferencia de tantos escritos académicos no ocultan, sino más bien visibilizan todo lo que sucede entre el trabajo de campo y la escritura, ese espacio tan productivo pero tan contencioso que usualmente se elimina, se niega, se alteriza.Table of ContentsConversación en Lima – Cristóbal Gnecco y Henry Tantaleán ; Seguir la huella y curar el rastro. Memorias de una experiencia colectiva de investigación y militancia en el campo de arqueología argentina – Ivana Carina Jofré ; Arqueo-devenires, Zarankin-centrismos y presentes contaminados – Texto: Andrés Zarankin, Dibujos: Iván Zigarán ; Cuando descubres que el arqueólogo local no eres tú. Dos encuentros con la isla Pariti – Juan Villanueva Criales ; Sueño y catarsis: hacia una arqueología post- humanista – José Roberto Pellini ; La cerámica de Anuma’i y las marcas del fin del mundo – Fabíola Andréa Silva ; La arqueología en la era del multiculturalismo neoliberal: una reflexión autobiográfica desde San Pedro de Atacama (norte de Chile) – Patricia Ayala Rocabado ; Confesiones de un postarqueólogo – Cristóbal Gnecco ; Entre el Cauca y el Magdalena: una historia apócrifa de la arqueología colombiana en el último tercio del siglo XX – Wilhelm Londoño ; Cuando el “otro” eres tú. Encuentros de un empresario español en América – Jaime Almansa Sánchez ; Entrando y saliendo de la arqueología peruana: memorias presentes de un pasado reciente – Henry Tantaleán ; Arqueólogos remando entre las verdades y las injusticias – José María López Mazz ; Sobre los autores

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