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Book SynopsisAsh-sharq is a journal devoted to short articles on the archaeology, history and society of the Ancient Near East.

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Book SynopsisThe Wider Island of Pelops explores the myriad ways in which pottery was created, utilized, and experienced in the prehistoric Aegean, across a period of more than 4000 years between the Middle Neolithic and the Early Iron Age transition. Pottery is capable both of creating bonds and creating barriers. It serves as a sociocultural call and response, marking similarity and difference, collectivism and individualism, knowledge, and the absence of knowledge. Contextually-bound, it embodies identities, memories and multiple histories. It reflects choice and reinforces orthodoxy; a product of change, and a driver of it, that both creates and curates understanding of the world. Necessity and commodity, at times anachronistic, and at others, avant-garde, it is subversive and slavish, innovative and derivative; visible always, and never without value. The seventeen papers collected here provide a diachronic perspective on the value of pottery in marking and mediating cross-scale sociocultural discourse; in framing and facilitating the transmission of knowledge and meaning; in driving economies; in the preservation of memory, in the practice of cult; and, in more recent times, as a vector in the dialogue of imperialism: at once introducing key themes in the study of Aegean pottery, and providing a snapshot of recent archaeological work in Greece.Table of ContentsPreface ; Professor Christopher Mee (1950-2013) ; The Late-Final Neolithic and Early Helladic I Pottery from Midea in the Argolid: Continuity and Change – Eva Alram-Stern, Clare Burke, Katie Demakopoulou, and Peter M. Day ; Kouphovouno and the Cyclades: A Note – Robin Barber ; A Submerged EH II Settlement at Lambayanna in the Argolid: The Preliminary Results of the 2015 Survey – Julien Beck, Patrizia Birchler Emery, Despina Koutsoumba ; Tradition, Transition, and the Impact of the New in Neolithic Greece – William Cavanagh and Josette Renard ; Final Neolithic and Early Helladic Pottery from Geraki – Joost Crouwel ; Understanding Mycenae – E.B. French † ; Localism and Interconnectivity in a Post-Palatial Laconian Maritime Landscape (Late Helladic IIIC to Submycenaean/Early Protogeometric) – Chrysanthi Gallou, Jon Henderson, Elias Spondylis, William Cavanagh ; Similarities and Differences between Korakou and Kolonna in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages – Walter Gauss ; The Ceramic Assemblage of Leska on Kythera – Mercourios Georgiadis ; Regional Diversities or Occupational Gap? Pottery Styles During the Late 14th and 13th Centuries BC at Ayios Vasileios – Eleftheria Kardamaki, Vasco Hachtmann, Adamantia Vasilogamvrou, Nektarios Karadimas, Sofia Voutsaki ; The Expansion of Mortuary Behaviour and Rites Across the Coastal Caves of the Mani Peninsula, Laconia, during the Final Neolithic: Evidence from the Burial Sites of Skoini 3 and Skoini 4 – Stella Katsarou and Andreas Darlas ; Attica during the Final Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age: Regional Ceramic Traditions and Connections with Neighbouring Areas – Margarita Nazou ; The Study of Mycenaean Pottery from Cyprus: A Short Story of the 1895 British Museum Excavations at Site D, Kourion – Angelos Papadopoulos ; Filling a Gap: First Steps in the Discovery of Early Helladic III Laconia – Aris Papayiannis ; Ceramic Surprises from LH IIIC Aigeira – Jeremy Rutter ; Coarse Labours Long Continued: Cooking Vessels, Culinary Technology and Prehistoric Foodways at Phylakopi, Melos – David Michael Smith ; Ritual Pyres in Minoan Peak Sanctuaries. Reality and Popular Myths – Iphigeneia Tournavitou

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Book SynopsisThe Roman frontier with Persia in north-eastern Mesopotamia investigates the Roman city of Singara and the fortifications and roads in the surrounding area. The physical frontier between Rome and Persia has been little studied, in part because of the difficulty of access for scholars. In comparison with other parts of the Roman ‘limes’, this frontier was of great importance because it separated the two major civilisations of the early first millennium CE. Although the frontier stretched north to Armenia and the Black Sea, north-east Mesopotamia was for long periods the major area of confrontation. After a brief review of the history of north-east Mesopotamia and its role as the setting for repeated clashes between the two empires, the book focuses on Singara, its fortifications and the surrounding frontier zone. This town was one of the strongpoints on the Roman frontier as it existed up to 363 CE. The volume then addresses the ancient road network around Singara and the links to Nisibis and to the Khabur valley to the west. It makes use of old aerial photographs and satellite imagery to illustrate fortifications, roads and associated sites, in particular those mentioned in the Peutinger Table. A final chapter addresses the nature of the frontier in this region.Trade Review'In conclusion, this is a valuable and well executed book. Already with his similar article, ‘Fortresses of the Tur Abdin and the confrontation between Rome and Persia’, Anatolian Studies 67 (2017), 181-229, he had covered the region immediately to the north of that covered here. We may hope that the author continues his investigations in the coming years.' – Geoffrey Greatrex (2023): Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction ; Aerial photography, satellite imagery and maps ; Geographical and historical background ; Forts and fortresses ; Dating the fortifications ; The city of Singara ; The forts at Ain Sinu ; Alaina ; Thebeta ; Qohbol/Ghobal ; Towards the Khabur ; al-Han ; al-Hol ; Batitas ; Amostae ; Thannouris (Tell Tuneynir) ; Touloul Mougayir and Hirbet Hassan Aga ; The wall of Jebel Cembe ; The Khabur valley ; North of Circesium ; Tell Ajaja/Arban/Horoba ; Tell Brak and the Jaghjagh ; Tell Brak ; Cizre and Bezabde ; Castra Maurorum ; Eski Mosul and the Tigris ; The roads ; Roads north of Singara ; Roads east of Singara ; Roads to the west of Singara and to the Khabur valley ; Roads south-east of Singara ; The northern road from Nisibis east to the Tigris ; The frontier in north-eastern Mesopotamia ; Conclusions ; Bibliography ; Placename index

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Book SynopsisGudenus Cave summarises the author's 60 years of research (1962 to 2021) at the earliest human occupation site known in Austria. The cave had been excavated in 1883-84 without separation of sediment layers, and subsequent endeavours to clarify its stratigraphy and dating have failed. The book describes the strategies and methods of studying a Pleistocene cave site that had been regarded as fully excavated, and their long-term applications. A significant part of the fieldwork was conducted before 1967, but the use of analytical processes and literature review continued for several decades after that. Through sustained interrogation of the site's clear palynology and lithic typology, the volume succeeds in clarifying the cave's stratigraphical sequence and placing its several Palaeolithic occupations chronologically. This has significant effects on our understanding of the local Palaeolithic sequence that has been the subject of various controversies. These are discussed in the concluding chapter, which places Gudenus Cave first within its Austrian context and then into the wider picture. The book thus shows that intensive archaeological research can reinstate the scientific importance of a site even after it has been declared bereft of all sediment.Table of ContentsPreface ; Chapter 1: History of Gudenus Cave ; The pre-1962 investigations ; The post-1962 investigations ; The scientific status of Gudenus Cave in 1962 ; Chapter 2: Gudenus Cave and its environment ; Geography and geology ; The cave ; Past and present environmental settings ; The speleoclimate of Gudenus Cave ; Hydrology and sedimentation ; Chapter 3: Archaeology and palaeontology of Gudenus Cave – the data ; The 1963 to 1966 salvage excavations ; The new lithic implements ; The Occupation Layer I stone tools ; The Occupation Layer II stone tool ; The Occupation Layer III stone tools ; The Occupation Layer IV stone tools ; The palaeoart ; The palaeontology of the cave ; Bone fragmentation study of the post-1962 bone remains ; Summary — faunal remains ; Chapter 4: Sediments of Gudenus Cave ; The sedimentary analyses ; Methods of sediment analyses ; Description of the sediment samples ; Reconstructing the sediment stratigraphy ; The pollen and spore analysis ; The carbonate diffraction study ; Chapter 5: Interpretation of Gudenus Cave data ; Recapping ; The new interpretations ; The sediment stratigraphy ; The climatic and environmental sequence ; The hominin occupations ; The history of Gudenus Cave ; Chapter 6: The Palaeolithic context of Gudenus Cave ; The Lower Austrian context ; The broader Austrian context ; The central European context ; The global context ; A synopsis ; References ; Index

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Book SynopsisThe Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia: The History and Results of Research in 19401980 combines details of discoveries of Palaeolithic sites in a vast region of Northeast Asia (covering mostly the northeastern part of modern Russia), and meticulous analysis of hypotheses, ideas, and concepts related to the Northeast Asian Palaeolithic. Written in the 1980s 1990s, it is based on the author's own experience and analysis of published and archival sources. The volume is especially important for better understanding the development of knowledge on this subject, closely related to the issue of the peopling of the New World. The author presents details on the conceptual issues developed by Soviet archaeologists, not previously available to the international scholarly community. This book is for archaeologists, ethnographers, and historians of science in the USSR and worldwide. It has a special interest for students of the peopling of the Americas.

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Book SynopsisThe frontiers of the Roman Empire together form the largest monument of one of the world’s greatest ancient states. They stretch for some 7,500 km through 20 countries which encircle the Mediterranean Sea. The remains of these frontiers have been studied by visitors and later by archaeologists for several centuries. Many of the inscriptions and sculptures, weapons, pottery and artefacts created and used by the soldiers and civilians who lived on the frontier can be seen in museums. Equally evocative of the lost might of Rome are the physical remains of the frontiers themselves. The aim of this series of books is not only to inform the interested visitor about the history of the frontiers but to act as a guidebook as well. Emperor Hadrian ordered the construction of the great Wall which still bears his name ‘to separate the barbarians from the Romans’ (Historia Augusta, Life of Hadrian, 11). The complex of military installations, 117 km long, but with an extension without the linear barrier for about 40 km down the west coast, contained 74 km of stone wall, 43 km of turf rampart, 200 towers, 100 fortlets, 20 forts, took years to construct and was probably still being modified when Hadrian died in July 138. This highly illustrated book offers an accessible summary of Hadrian’s Wall, and an overview of the wider context of the Roman frontiers.Table of ContentsFRONTIERS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE Foreword by Francesco Bandarin Preface by Jane, Lady Gibson Common cultural heritage of the Roman Empire The ‘Frontiers of the Roman Empire’ World Heritage Site History and extent of frontiers The army and frontiers Research on Roman frontiers Protection and presentation of frontiers Future perspectives HADRIAN’S WALL The invasion and conquest of Britain The first plan for Hadrian’s Wall The second scheme The purpose of Hadrian’s Wall The military landscape The later history of Hadrian’s Wall Life on Hadrian’s Wall Civilians on Hadrian’s Wall Religion on Hadrian’s Wall Souvenirs of Hadrian’s Wall The afterlife of Hadrian’s Wall The importance of Hadrian’s Wall A World Heritage Site Research on Hadrian’s Wall The Pilgrimage of Hadrian’s Wall Museums on Hadrian’s Wall Where to see Hadrian’s Wall

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Book SynopsisThrace through the Ages draws attention to the importance of pottery evidence in evaluating archaeological material from Thrace. The volume considers the informative value of pottery in tracing cultural and political phases, by providing us with important data about production centres, commercial relations, daily life, religious rituals and burial customs. The first chapter examines ceramic research in Thrace from past to present. The second chapter is devoted to the interpretation of the data presented by ceramics regarding interregional commercial relations and cultural interaction. In the third chapter, ceramics are evaluated from the perspective of cult rituals. The fourth chapter includes the excavation and survey ceramics. The fifth chapter is classified according to the ceramic ware. In the last two chapters of the volume, various data presented by ceramics were evaluated by considering their qualitative and quantitative characteristics.Table of ContentsForeword ; Research History ; Ceramic Research in Turkish Thrace: Past and Present, Approaches and New Methods – Zeynep Koçel Erdem ; Pottery As Evidence of Commercial and Cultural Interactions ; Thrace’s Gateway to Anatolia and the Aegean in the Bronze Age: Maydos-Kilisetepe – Göksel Sazcı, Meral Başaran Mutlu ; Variation in Late Iron Age Thracian Ceramics from Bulgaria: A Preliminary Evaluation of Cultural Interaction on Ceramic Manufacture and Consumption – Ashlee B. Hart ; On the Terracotta Sarcophagi from Ionia and the Northern Aegean – Melike Zeren-Hasdağlı ; Remarks on the Trade in Red-Figure Pottery in Macedonia and Aegean Thrace during the Fourth Century BC – Nikos Akamatis ; Attic Vases in Thrace as Agents of Commercial and Cultural Values – Despoina Tsiafaki, Amalia Avramidou ; Attic and Atticizing Glazed Pottery in Eastern Thrace: The Evidence from the Ganos (Işıklar Dağı/Tekirdağ) Survey – Reyhan Şahi̇n ; Interprétation des Timbres Amphoriques et des Monnaies provenant des Fouilles d’Héraion Teichos – Oya Yağız ; The Impact of Imports from Asia Minor on Local Production by Northern Thracians in the Second Century BC – First Century AD – Mariana-Cristina Popescu ; Ilion and Its Role in Aegean Trade – Billur Tekkök Karaöz ; The Commercial Network of Ainos from Hellenistic Times to Late Antiquity – Asuman Lätzer-Lasar ; Pottery In Cult Rituals ; Late Bronze-Early Iron Age Pottery Artefacts in Menekse Catagi Pit Sanctuary – Fisun Frank ; Pottery and Ceramic Finds in Domestic Cult Practices of Serdica – Mario Ivanov ; Evaluating a Cult Place in the Light of the Ceramics from the Northern Propontis – H. Arda Bülbül ; Evaluating Pottery from Surveys and Excavations ; Pre- and Protohistoric Ceramics from the Thracian Side of Istanbul – Haldun Aydıngün, Şengül G. Aydıngün ; Ainos Pottery from the Early Period – Sait Başaran ; Imported pottery at Kadıkalesi (Anaia): Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Periods – Yasemin Polat, R. Gül Gürteki̇n-Demir ; Newly Discovered Hellenistic Pottery from Western Istanbul – Gülseren Kan Şahi̇n, Şengül G. Aydıngün ; Pottery from the Lower Hebros and the Kocaçay Valley Survey – Ergün Karaca ; Ceramic Ware Studies ; Gebrauchskeramik aus nordgriechischen Befunden – Maria Deoudi ; Coarse Ware Study from Ganos: A Panoramic Approach – Sevingül Bi̇lgi̇n Kopçuk ; Byzantine Glazed Pottery from Thrace – Filiz İnanan ; Byzantine Glazed Pottery from Thracian Chersonessos: Karainebeyli – Hisarlık – Ayşe Ç. Türker ; Mould-Decorated Filter Jugs Unearthed During the İznik Tile Kilns Excavation – Belgin Demi̇rsar Arlı, Şennur Kaya, Özlem Erol, Hakan Arlı

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Book SynopsisBetween Roman Culture and Local Tradition presents a detailed analysis of the Roman provincial coinage of Bithynia and Pontus during the reign of Trajan (98-117), when 14 cities struck coins. The book characterises individual mints, the rhythm of monetary production, iconography and legends, and considers the attribution and dating of individual issues. Context is provided by studies on other categories of artefacts discovered in the local area, including epigraphic and material ones, such as fine art, sculptures and architectural remains. The extent of circulation is also analysed, as well as the coinage of the border centres of neighbouring provinces such as Thrace, Asia and Galatia-Cappadocia. Reference is made to historical sources, principally the correspondence of Pliny the Younger with the emperor, which can help to show the realities of life for the inhabitants of individual centres, including ongoing construction projects or local problems. Overall the book aims to reconstruct the coinage policy of individual cities and culture and religion in various centres during this period, as well as contacts and relationships among the local communities. In turn, the studies of individual cities allow for the creation of a general picture of coinage in the province.Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction ; The Roman Empire and Bithynia and Pontus during the reign of Trajan ; Mints in the province of Bithynia and Pontus ; Chronology ; Metrology and denominations ; Iconography and legends of coins of Bithynia and Pontus during the reign of Trajan ; Coins without an ethnic with uncertain attributions ; Pseudo-autonomous coins of Bithynia and Pontus ; Production in the provincial centres ; Circulation ; The coinage of Bithynia and Pontus and issues of the neighbouring Roman provinces ; Summary ; Plates ; References ; Appendix 1: Legends on the coins of Bithynia and Pontus during the reign of Trajan ; Index of Mythological Characters ; Index of Names ; Topographical and Geographical Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume is the first of several devoted to publishing the results of the Sudan Archaeological Research Society's surveys and excavations in the region of the Fourth Cataract. This, a component of the Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project, was conducted along a 40km stretch of the river on the left bank and on the islands.Following an introduction to the project, chapters focus on the palaeoenvironment in the concession area between Amri and Kirbekan, on the flora and toponyms, and on the folklore, agricultural practices, architecture and the life styles of the Manasir and Shaqiya inhabitants immediately before the inundation of the region by the Merowe Dam.

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Book Synopsis(Not) All Roads Lead to Rome is the result of the highly engaging debate within the “Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History”, a yearly congress of young graduates and researchers held in April 2022 in the University of Barcelona. In this volume, the issue of mobility in Antiquity in its broadest sense is approached from a multidisciplinary perspective. One of the main objectives is, also, to give promising young scholars (postgraduates and PHD students) the opportunity to publish their early research on mobility and build a cohesive but thematically broad work. Although mobility is always present in studies of exchange and cultural diffusion, in this case it becomes the main subject of this collective research effort. We aim to encourage academic discussion around mobility as a key feature of societies, inherent to their functioning and where cultural, social and economic processes meet. The Mediterranean, and the Roman Empire by extension, is a dynamic area, and thus, it allows us to study mobility from many perspectives. In this volume, the movement of ideas, be they ideological or religious, is explored as it relates to underlying social and economic patterns. Likewise, the physical mobility of people across empires or within settlements is treated as a consequence of and a way to ease social relations. Social mobility too is discussed in the broader framework of socioeconomic dynamics, with case studies ranging from Egypt to Rome. Finally, the movement of goods (trade) is also part of this volume, as it was essential at bolstering interconnectivity in the Mediterranean. In that regard, archaeology holds the largest potential to provide new data regarding mobility of products, and thus long-distance contact and exchange.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Arnau Lario Devesa, Joan Campmany Jiménez, Marc Marzo Pallàs, Oriol Morillas Samaniego ; I. Migration and human mobility ; Female mobility in diplomatic and military practice during the Roman expansion in the West (III-II c. BC) – Borja Vertedor Ballesteros, Hatin Boumehache Erjali ; Understanding late antique mobility and “migrants” in modern thought – Teifion Gambold ; II. Social mobility ; Archaeological and spatial analysis of the Egyptian city of Lahun (Middle Kingdom, Fayum) – Laura Hernando Folch ; The game of land: authority and adversary from a Ptolemaic land survey (P.HAUN. IV 70) – Chenqing An ; Power and control: understanding prostitution in ancient times – Carina Mkrtchiyan ; III. Moving identities and cultural/religious interactions ; Mobility at the crossroads: careers and progression during the transition from Domitian to Trajan – Antonio Romano ; Travelling mythologies: the movement of the divine throughout the Mediterranean and beyond – Zeren Deniz Ataçocuğu ; The cult of Arsinoe II Philadelphus. The ‘international’ success of a Greek-Egyptian goddess – Anita Malagrinò Mustica ; Fashioning a sense of belonging. Place in the commemorative epigrams of Gregory of Nazianzus & Ausonius of Bordeaux – Mathijs Clement ; La dispersión del culto martirial de santos y santas locales por el territorio de Hispania entre los siglos IV-VI – Víctor Gómez Guinovart ; IV. Political trends and practices ; Whistles, applause and the welcoming of politicians by the Italic people: non-verbal expression of the crowd in the Late Ancient Republic – Agata Otranto ; Rhetoric and mobility: an innovative vision of mobility in the post-Diocletian era – Antonio Avilio ; Changes in late-antique Gaul: Gregory of Tours as an exceptional witness of social, economic and political mobility – Davide Vago ; Episcopal correspondence in fifth-century Gaul. Leadership in times of crisis – Àngel Rodríguez García ; V. Trade and movement of goods ; The journey of a ceramic shape: trading black-figure amphorae to Iberia – Alejandro Garés-Molero, Guiomar Pulido-González, Garés-Molero and Pulido-González ; Marmora and commerce: the case of the mortars in public spaces of Baetulo – Andrea Collado Padilla ; Greek amphoric epigraphy and Mediterranean trade through the study of Rhodian amphora stamps in the CEIPAC database – Oriol Morillas Samaniego ; Amphora typology and commercial mobility. Thoughts on the Tarraconensis case – Carlos Palacín Copado ; The regulation of maritime transport in the Edict on Maximum Prices, a major cause of its failure – Antoni Nieva

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Book SynopsisDespite some high-profile exceptions, the archaeology of the South Caucasus (present-day Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan) remains marginalised and often overlooked – not receiving the wider exposure it deserves. This situation is partly a consequence of decades of occupation and academic isolation, and partly because of an unfortunate (and incorrect) perception that the South Caucasus is simply peripheral to the archaeologies of Europe and Asia. The chapters collected in this volume demonstrate the diversity and vibrancy of international research collaboration in the archaeology of Georgia, while all underline the enormous potential of the country’s archaeological resource. The importance of seeing the South Caucasus in its unique context, rather than as peripheral to Europe or Asia, is evident throughout. The increasing application of scientific techniques to archaeological research and landscape archaeology features prominently in many of these chapters. However, the key element is the multidisciplinary nature of much of the work, which allows specialists drawn from a wide range of backgrounds and scholarly traditions to contribute to the better understanding and appreciation of the Georgian historic environment.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Emanuele E. Intagliata and Paul Everill Chapter 1: The Javakheti Plateau: Megaliths, Villages, and Obsidian Mines in the Prehistory of the Lesser Caucasus of Georgia – Paolo Biagi, Renato Nisbet Chapter 2: Household Archaeology and the Agricultural Economy of an Iron Age Village: The 10th–3rd Centuries BC at Grakliani Gora, Shida Kartli, Georgia – Katie Campbell, Davit Naskidashvili, Katya Turchin, Vakhtang Licheli Chapter 3: The East Georgian Sanctuaries of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages – Simone Arnhold, Paata Bukhrashvili, Felix Blocher, Shorena Davitashvili Chapter 4: Work- and Lifescapes in 1st Millennium BC Udabno – Sabina Brodbeck-Jucker, René Kunze Chapter 5: Nokalakevi–Archaeopolis: Twenty Years of Anglo-Georgian Collaboration – Paul Everill, Nikoloz Murgulia, Davit Lomitashvili, Ian Colvin, Besik Lortkipanidze Chapter 6: Lighting up Arrian’s Room. Preliminary Remarks on the Lamps Found in the Roman Fort in Apsaros (Gonio, Georgia) – Maria Jaworska Chapter 7: Early Christian (4th-6th Centuries AD) Monuments of the Kingdom of Lazika, West Georgia – Nikoloz Murgulia, Besik Lortkipanidze, Davit Lomitashvili Chapter 8: A New Late Antique Church Complex at the Foot of the Greater Caucasus – Machkhomeri Hill (Khobi Municipality) – Emanuele E. Intagliata, Revaz Papuashvili, Andrey Vinogradov, Davit Naskidashvili, Gogita Chitaia Chapter 9: The Results of Landscape Survey from Samshvilde Environs (Chivchava River and Khrami River Valleys) – David Berikashvili

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Book SynopsisRobert Koehl has long considered processions to have played an integral role in Aegean Bronze Age societies. Therefore, when assembling a volume to honor his retirement from Hunter College, contributing authors were asked to focus attention on this subject. Processions are a unique social phenomenon in that they engage large groups with a singular purpose or outcome, acting as a cohesive force in societies. Yet they are elusive both in Aegean art and texts, which has challenged the participants in this volume to approach the subject from various viewpoints, providing evidence of ritual and ceremonial places, pathways and practices, based on archaeological and, in one instance, textual evidence. Artistic depictions in a variety of media provide a means of identifying settings, participants and the possible roles they play, while specific ritual objects are the subject of some contributions, their context and imagery offering another means of enhancing our picture of processions. Papers concentrate mainly on evidence from Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland, with additional perspectives from abroad, these geographic divisions forming the basic outline of the volume.  Download the following paper in Open Access: The Pylos Ta Series and the Process of Inventorying Ritual Objects for a Funerary Banquet - Thomas G. Palaima: DownloadTable of ContentsIntroduction: Processions Tributes Robert B. Koehl: Publications Crete Processions Aplenty: From Elite Palatial Parades to Mass Population Pilgrimages in Middle and Late Minoan Crete – Malcolm H. Wiener Processions in Aegean Iconography III: Where did they Take Place? – Fritz Blakolmer The Theatral Area of Knossos – Colin Macdonald The Kilts on the ‘Cupbearer’ and Men on the Procession Fresco from Knossos – Bernice R. Jones and Valerie Bealle Minoan Processions Leading to Marvelous Destinations at Mochlos – Jeffrey S. Soles Dressed Bodies in Motion: Toward a Sensorial Understanding of Funerary Ritual in Prepalatial Crete – Cynthia S. Colburn Dance or Procession? A Ritual Scene on a Fruit-stand from Protopalatial Phaistos, Crete – Luca Girella Rhyton Clusters in Neopalatial East Crete: Identity and the Ceremonial Prerogatives of the House – Brian S. Kunkel Reaper’s Rout or Mariner’s March? Reconsidering the ‘Harvester’ Vase from Ayia Triada – J. A. MacGillivray Deimatic Display or Nature’s Apotropaia: The Meaning and Function of the Octopus Iconography in the Bronze Age Aegean – Michele Mitrovich From Deep Waters to High Places: Reassessing the Ceremonial Significance of Triton-shells at Neolithic Phaistos (Crete) – Simona V. Todaro The Cyclades The Armed Warriors Procession: 1000 Years of Iconographic Development – Philip P. Betancourt Rhyta at Bronze Age Phylakopi on Melos – Jason W. Earle Ocular Signs of Ecstatic Possession and Procession in Aegean Art – Karen Polinger Foster Greek Mainland Late Bronze Age Iklaina and Processional Architecture – Michael Nelson Tribute from the Griffin Warrior at Pylos – Jack L. Davis and Sharon R. Stocker Processions in non-palatial Contexts: Social Ambitions and Narrative Idioms in Mycenaean Greece – Iphiyenia Tournavitou Processions, Participants, People, and the Palace: Musings from Fragments – James C. Wright The Creature of the Rings: An Unusual Jug Rhyton from LH IIIC Tiryns – Eleftheria Kardamaki, Maria Kostoula, Joseph Maran, and Alkestis Papadimitriou The Pylos Ta Series and the Process of Inventorying Ritual Objects for a Funerary Banquet – Thomas G. Palaima Evoking the Deceased in Mycenaean Mortuary Ritual – Mary K. Dabney ‘… For at this Place the Sea Comes Nearest to Athens.’ Funerary Processions in Archaic Athens – Stella Chryssoulaki and Ioannis Pappas Cyprus, Syria, the Levant, and Egypt From Stasis to Repetition: Tracing Processional Movements in Prehistoric Cyprus – Eleni Mantzourani Approaching Divinity in the Near East and the Aegean: Animals, Monsters, Demons, and Masked Human Processions – Joan Aruz and Judith Weingarten A Snapshot of a Victory Procession: A Winged Deity from Alalakh Wielding a Dagger – K. Aslıhan Yener The Iron Age Adventures of the God with the Fenestrated Axe – Assaf Yasur-Landau Offerings for Eternity: Egypt, Nubia, and the Puzzle of the Egyptian Faience Vessel from Alalakh – Morena Stefanova A Courtly Affair: Proceeding from Keftiu and ‘all Islands in the Middle’ to the Theban Necropolis – Nisha Kumar Italy Clues of Bronze Age Processions in the Central Mediterranean – Marco Bettelli, Elisabetta Borgna and Sara Tiziana Levi

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Book SynopsisDimore della Cirenaica analyses urban housing in Cyrenaica (East Libya), with a specific focus on the cities of Cyrene and Ptolemais, from the early through to the late Roman imperial period.The first part, in the form of a gazetteer, comprises twenty-one case studies. An introduction to the urban layout and the main urban buildings is included in these sections. Each individual residence design is illustrated and parallels are outlined from the region and the wider imperial world. The second part draws out key themes previously treated separately to discuss them more broadly. The main topics here are floorplans and elevations, decoration and the socio-economic framework of Cyrenaica as outlined by housing features. This analysis attempts to reconstruct the history of the investigated buildings and to highlight the role of their architectural evolution as an indicator of local and wider changes over the period under examination.The book gathers information that is otherwise scattered across other publications, along with new data collected by the author during her fieldwork at the two sites and on visits to archives. It represents a corpus of evidence that will be a starting point for any future research on these topics.

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Book SynopsisRushen Abbey, now owned and managed by Manx National Heritage, was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1134 and suppressed in 1540. It was the most important religious institution on the Isle of Man wielding significant secular power as well as ecclesiastical authority. Its location in the middle of the Irish Sea and its political connections made it one of the most influential houses in western Britain and Ireland.The first known excavations were carried out in the late 1890s by Deemster Gill, one of the most senior law officers on the island. They were followed in 1912 and again in 1926 by more extensive investigations of parts of the east range the north transept of the church by William Cubbon then owner of the site. The modern study of the site began in 1978 and 1979 with excavations of the presbytery and both transepts by Dr Lawrence Butler, who followed them in 1988 and 1989 with a complete exploration of the east range. In between these two programmes of work Dr Larch Garrad of the Manx Museum carried out an important rescue excavation to the east of the church in 1984, locating a new chapel, part of the monastic cemetery and a charnel pit.Under threat of development for a hotel complex the site was purchased by the Manx Government in 1998 and the Centre for Manx Studies, University of Liverpool was asked to carry out exploratory excavations in the first place, followed by more extensive investigations of a number of areas of the site. These were carried out each year from 1998 to 2008 and succeeded in defining the plan of the church and claustral buildings together with parts of the western courtyard. In addition, to the south of the Cistercian complex an already disturbed early medieval cemetery was investigated. Alongside the excavations, medieval documentary sources were reviewed, and extensive fieldwork was carried out on the abbey's lands throughout the island.This book aims to provide a synthesis of all the available evidence for Rushen Abbey under one cover. Given the numbers of excavations, their complexity and the richness of finds, the detailed evidence on which this overview text is based is provided by a set of 20 online reports.

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Book SynopsisReconstructing the Development of Somerset's Early Medieval Church uses Somerset as a case study in order to contribute to a broader understanding of how the Church developed across the British Isles during the transition from the post-Roman Church to that in existence in the 11th century. To facilitate this a large retrogressive data set was constructed which enabled new patterns of development to be identified; this has pushed forward understanding of how Somerset and the South-West evolved, including the reconstruction of Somerset's early great estates and early medieval parochiae. Crucially, it demonstrates how the medieval archdeaconries and deaneries correlate with Somerset's early great estates.This book identifies the pastorally pre-eminent early medieval churches across Somerset by using a weighting system which enables comparative assessments of different types of evidence, including both historical and topographical, to enable the chang

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Book SynopsisThe ancient Egyptian Civilization dominated the northeast corner of Africaincluding modern-day Egypt and, at times, northern Sudanfrom about 3000 BC at the beginning of the Dynastic period to AD 642 at the end of the Roman period. Most of what it left behind consists of stones of many kinds. There were building stones for temples, pyramids, mastaba tombs, and other monumental constructions; and utilitarian stones for tools, weapons, and a wide array of mundane applications, including the raw materials for faience, glass, medicines, paint pigments, and pottery. There were also ornamental stones for decorative and structural elements in buildings, obelisks, statues, sarcophagi, stelae, vessels, shrines, offering tables, mace heads, cosmetic palettes, and other sculpted objects; and gemstones for jewellery, amulets, seals, and other small decorative items. Still more stones were processed to extract their metals, including gold, copper, iron, and lead.Two persistent p

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Book SynopsisDouble-Sided Antler and Bone Combs in Late Roman Britain offers the first detailed study and catalogue of a comb type that represents a new technology introduced into Britain towards the end of the 4th century AD and a major signifier of the late fourth- to fifth-century transition. Their end-plates were worked into a variety of decorative profiles, some clearly zoomorphic. Over time this decorative styling passed from elaborate to rudimentary, adding to the dating evidence for individual combs. As many combs survive only as small fragments, data collection has not been absolute but has concentrated on combs from burials, or with stylistically relevant end-plates, or those providing good dating or contextual evidence, the main aim of the study being to answer questions of typology, chronology and social distribution. A particularly distinctive feature within the assemblage from funerary contexts is the substantial number of these combs from Winchester, which together make u

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Book SynopsisIn the early centuries AD, the small region of Gandhara (centred on what is now northern Pakistan) produced an extraordinary tradition of Buddhist art which eventually had an immense influence across Asia. Mainly produced to adorn monasteries and shrines, Gandharan sculptures celebrate the Buddha himself, the stories of his life and the many sacred characters of the Buddhist cosmos. Since this imagery was rediscovered in the nineteenth century, one of its most fascinating and puzzling aspects is the extent to which it draws on the conventions of Greek and Roman art, which originated thousands of kilometres to the west.Inspired by the Gandhara Connections project at Oxford University's Classical Art Research Centre, this book offers an introduction to Gandharan art and the mystery of its relationship with the Graeco-Roman world of the Mediterranean. It presents an accessible explanation of the ancient and modern contexts of Gandharan art, the state of scholarship on the subject, and guidance for further, in-depth study.

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Book SynopsisFrom Wilderness to Paradise presents an in-depth study of the large mosaic pavement in the East Church at Qasr el-Lebia in Cyrenaica, Libya. The pavement, which survives almost in its entirety, consists of fifty panels, each containing a different image. Despite being described as the finest and most interesting set of Christian mosaics yet found in Libya' (Illustrated London News, December 1957), subsequent studies have generally dismissed the pavement as a random selection of images with no symbolic meaning and no overarching scheme. This book argues that the remarkably rich and complex mosaic should be understood as a coherent whole.A discussion about reading imagery in Late Antiquity precedes a meticulous iconographical study. Within the pavement's overall coherence, the grid layout allows the panels to be read in different directions, rather like a crossword puzzle, their meaning shifting with each change of focus. Particular attention is pai

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Book SynopsisDisease and Healing in the Indus Civilisation presents a synthesis of what is currently known about health, disease and healing in the Indus Civilisation in the third to early second millennia BCE, underpinned by original research. It is the result of a detailed study of published human skeletal remains and material culture, with an increasing awareness of the natural environment. When combined with a knowledge of palaeoepidemiology and the natural history of disease, ancient climate change, and what is known of healing and health in contemporary Bronze Age societies of the Near East, with which the Indus Civilisation was in contact, it has been possible to piece together a picture of diseases in the period, the practice of healing and the development of public health. For the first time, the book illustrates the health, life expectancy, and the illnesses and injuries from which those at the bottom of society suffered, both at work and at home.

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Book SynopsisBetween 1990 and 1998, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) undertook a series of archaeological excavations within Wollaston Quarry covering an area of 116ha. Eight excavation areas and a watching brief were undertaken. The proximity of the River Nene and at least four palaeochannels formed the dominant natural landscape features. This dynamic environment affected settlement and land use throughout prehistoric and Roman periods.Seventeen pits, largely in small groups, were identified containing early Neolithic to late Neolithic/early Bronze Age pottery. Some of these features were located within the area of the palaeochannels. Later, of especial interest was a notable collection of eleven different late Bronze Age to early Iron Age pit alignments, which were part of a co-axial landscape over an area of 2.5km. There was also a small area of domestic activity reflected by pits dating to the early Iron Age as well as two large watering holes in other locations. The pi

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Book SynopsisThis collective work reports on the studies and archaeological work carried out at the megalithic ruined necropolis of Wanar, Senegal, between 2008 and 2017. Along with Sine Ngayene in Senegal, and Wassu and Ker Batch in Gambia, the Wanar sanctuary is one of four sites classified as UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2006. The first part sets out the general framework for the study of paleoenvironments as well as historical and archaeological data, and concludes with a brief summary of megaliths in Africa.The second part reports on all the observations made, starting with a presentation of the Wanar site in the context of human settlements along the Bao Bolon valley, followed by an account of the main study methods used. This is followed by a detailed presentation of the six monuments studied, three to the north of the necropolis with short, squat monoliths, and three to the south with narrow, elongated monoliths, built between the 11th and 13th centuries AD. The sanct

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Book SynopsisExploring the Sacred Landscape of the Ancient Peloponnese traces the origins of the religious system of the Peloponnese to identify the factors behind its subsequent development from the Geometric to the Classical period. Which deities found favour in the Peloponnese? What factors lay behind local religious manifestations? What were their special attributes? How were the Olympian gods adapted within the context of previous religious systems and deities?Through a presentation of cult places, the deities worshipped, and the epithets used, the book explores preferences for particular deities and the reasons for this. The chthonian attributes of the deities are an important factor, and such attributes are further elucidated by the myths that accompany them. Reconstructing the ancient religious landscape and the political, economic and social context sheds light on how the cult places played their role and demonstrates how the primitive chthon

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Book SynopsisThermal establishments with mineral-medicinal waters represent a special case among Roman bath buildings, not only because of the adaptation of the space to the use of these waters for health issues, but also because of the infrastructures and engineering they developed, as well as for their function in the landscape.Thermalism in the Roman Provinces is focused on the role of thermal establishments with mineral-medicinal waters in the different territories of the Roman Empire, including their symbiosis with the landscape as well as the ways in which their construction was adapted to give greater comfort to those who came to take advantage of their health-giving properties. But, what was the role that these sites fulfilled in each province? Why was so much effort invested in the construction of these thermal complexes in the Roman period? What elements might inform us about the singularities of their construction in adapting to the characteristics of these

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Book SynopsisThis book contains a selection of fifty papers produced over the course of fifty years. The works share a common aim: to increase our knowledge of various aspects of Roman culture. They cover a wide range of topics in ancient history; Roman provincial archaeology; classical philology; epigraphy; numismatics; archaeobiology; history of medicine; and history of sexuality. The collection is not limited to a mere reprint of the articles, but supplements them with epilogues outlining the further development of the discussion of the respective topic since publication.

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Book SynopsisThis book evaluates the evidence for indirect connections between the Aegean and the Indus extending back to the third and fourth millennia BCE, particularly commodities such as tin and lapis lazuli, and discusses recently discovered objects, new methods of materials analysis techniques and topics, as well as iconographic investigation.

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Book SynopsisThe Argive Plain in the northeastern Peloponnese, Greece, was central to the Mycenaean culture during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600-1200 BCE). While known for its settlements and treasures, little is understood about its agricultural sustainability. This study examines Mycenaean farming in the Argive Plain and its societal implications, investigating if resource depletion contributed to the Bronze Age collapse. Using agricultural potential modelling, it reconstructs farming practices within the region''s political hierarchy, assessing sustainability through food consumption, energy needs, and land usage. Results indicate sustainable agriculture despite challenges like drought. However, ruling elites'' additional production needs may have strained resources. The thesis also addresses estimations of Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean subsistence space, highlighting the overlooked impact of livestock on agricultural potential. By incorporating dairy and meat production, future models can better represent food production and environmental sustainability. This research enhances understanding of Mycenaean agricultural practices before the Bronze Age collapse, illustrating how elite formation likely influenced local communities and broader society.

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Book SynopsisVolume 7 of JHP, an independent learned journal dedicated to the research of ceramics and objects of daily use of the Hellenistic period in the Mediterranean region and beyond.

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Book SynopsisThis study re-evaluates the Samad Late Iron Age (SLIA) and its context around 0 CE, highlighting its complexities and significance. It examines SLIA's relationship with Mleiha/PIR, covering burial practices, pottery, trade, and architecture, offering insights into pre-Islamic south-eastern Arabia and contributing to archaeological discourse.

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Book SynopsisAn ancient island with a romantic history and lush green landscape, Ireland’s culture stretches back to the time of St Patrick and the first Christian monks and includes the Norman invasion, clan wars, mass emigration and partition in the early 20th century. Today, remnants of the country’s heritage can be found in every corner of this fascinating land, from the thinly inhabited west coast to the modern, populated areas of Leinster. There are thousands of ruined castles, abbeys, churches, ancient sites, houses and mills spread around the island of Ireland. Abandoned Ireland offers you a substantial taste of the most intriguing of these. In Abandoned Ireland, discover Athassel Abbey on the banks of the River Suir and the largest medieval priory in Ireland; marvel at the imposing Carrigogunnel Castle, destroyed during the second siege of Limerick in 1691; explore Carrigglas Manor, a turreted fairytale exterior with a bloody history; see Hilden Mill, a former factory with ghostly sightings; explore the creepy, overgrown ruin of Ennis District Lunatic Asylum in County Clare; and wander the ruins of Rinn Dúin (“fortified headland”) overlooking the River Shannon, a key military and trading town fought over by Norman barons and Irish chieftains. Illustrated with 180 photographs, Abandoned Ireland provides a fascinating pictorial exploration of the little-known corners of this enchanting land.Table of ContentsContents includes: Castles and Houses: Dunamase Castle, County Laois Menlo castle Leamaneh Castle, County Clare Ballycarbery Castle, County Kerry Ballinskellig Castle - Ring of Kerry Carbury Castle, County Kildare Dunluce Castle, County Antrim Minard Castle, Dingle Bay, Kerry Castle MacGarrett, County Mayo Ballygrennan Castle, County Limerick Graystown Castle, County Tipperary Castle Otway, County Tipperary Lackeen Castle, County Tipperary Fiddaun Castle, County Galway Kinbane Castle - Northern Ireland Kincasslagh, County Donegal Castle Saunderson, Belturbet, Cavan Duckett’s Grove, Carlow Rock of Dunamase, Southwest of Dublin Carrigogunnel Castle, County Limerick Tyrone House, County Galway Rockstown Castle, County Limerick Carrigglas Manor, County Longford Cahercon House, County Clare Cairndhu House, County Antrim Transport, Industrial and Urban: Old Red Iron Bridge, Kilkenny Loughglynn Convent, County Roscommon O’Shea’s Pub – made famous by the Guinness commercial Connacht District Lunatic Asylum (Former) city mortuary at Forster Green Hospital, County Down Ennis District Lunatic Asylum / Our Lady’s Hospital, County Clare Logistics ship, River Shannon Parkmore narrow gauge station, N. Ireland Adare Railway Station Allihies Copper Mine, West Cork Victorian Coast Guard station at Fanad Head Castle Saunderson, Belturbet, Cavan Mayfield House, County Waterford Hilden Mill, County Antrim Religious Place & Islands: Kilkishen Church in County Clare Rathronan Church, County Tipperary St John’s Church, Ballymoe, Galway Lackagh Church, Kildare Derralossory Church, County Wicklow Newgrange, Ireland – Stone Age passage tomb Cahergal & Leacanabuile Ring Fort Ballinskelligs Abbey Muckross Abbey Fore Abbey Athassel Abbey, County Tipperary Hore Abbey Bective Abbey Mellifont Abbey Jerpoint Abbey Corcomroe Abbey Rinn Dúin, the old Gaelic name, means“fortified headland Islands: Bishop’s Island’s Ruins, County Clare Devenish, Northern Ireland Great Blasket Innisfallen Inishmurray Skellig Michael

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Book SynopsisA multi-disciplinary investigation of the links between people and animals, in reality and representation. Domestic animals played a range of roles in the imaginative world of medieval Icelanders: from partners in settlement and household allies, to violent offenders, foster-kin and surrogate wives, they were vital and effective members of the multispecies communities established from the ninth century onwards. This book examines the domestic animals of early Iceland in their physical and textual contexts, through detailed analysis of the spaces and places of the Icelandic farm and farming landscape, and textual sources such as The Book of Settlements, the earliest Icelandic laws, and various episodes from the Sagas and Tales of Icelanders. Taking a multidisciplinary approach to animal-human relationships, it sees animals not solely as symbols, metaphors, or objects, but as subjects in affective relationships with their human co-settlers who become the focus of intense exploration, delight, anxiety and condemnation in later textual narratives. By inviting readers to question how these sources form, embrace, or reject animal-human relationships, it provides a resource for understanding these archaeological sites and textual narratives differently: as products of multispecies communities in which animals and humans lived, worked, and died together.Trade ReviewThe book offers a rich array of evidence for the varied interactions between humans and multiple domestic animals, with horses playing a significant and distinctive part among other non-human species. -- Anastasija Ropa * Cheiron *Table of ContentsThe Animal Acts... An Animal-Human Settlement Home, Sweet Home: Meeting Points on the Animal-Human Farm The Animal-Human Community: Legal Tradition in Iceland Fostering Relations: The Animal-Human Home in the Íslendingasögur The Negative Animal: Absence, Precarity, and Danger ... and the Man Responds Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Burren in County Clare contains one of the densest concentrations of archaeological remains in Ireland. Its monuments illustrate the story of human activity since it began here nearly 10,000 years ago. Many people are daunted by the prospect of reading about 'stones and bones'; this guide makes the stones and bones of the Burren understandable by telling the stories behind the monuments. Archaeology is ultimately about real people: whether they were cheeky monks at Corcomroe or arthritic farmers at Poulnabrone, people built or made these monuments and artefacts. Hugh Carthy relates what was happening in the Burren to events as far away as Iceland and Egypt and includes background information relevant to an understanding of Burren archaeology. This is followed by description of over 40 individual sites and monuments with full location information for all. This compact area contains a lot of archaeology, so it is ideal for those who want a whirlwind tour of 10,000 years of human activity.

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Book SynopsisCaithness, the most northerly county in mainland Britain, is one of the richest cultural landscapes in Europe. The relative geographical isolation of the area, traditional landholding and the survival of large estates, combined with the use of flagstone as the main building material since earliest times, has ensured the survival of a wide range of monuments in a profusion unequalled elsewhere in Scotland. In the 19th century, Caithness was at the forefront of archaeological endeavours with many sites central to our understanding of Scottish prehistory. Since then, despite intermittent activity, the archaeology of Caithness has become somewhat marginalized and there is a perception that there are only a handful of archaeological sites for visitors to enjoy and the archaeologist to uncover and interpret. However, the county is full of hidden riches and traces of the past are visible everywhere. Caithness is dominated by landscapes rich in archaeological remains of all periods; chambered cairns, stone settings, brochs, Pictish settlements, wags, castles, harbours and post-medieval settlement, amongst many others. The authors have presented a cross section of these monument types in an attempt to re-centre the county in archaeological and early historical narratives. For the last decade, the authors have been involved in a range of heritage projects in the county, thus allowing them time to discover, observe and consider its archaeology. Their peregrinations provided opportunities for deeper contemplation of the county's archaeology, the result of which is presented in some new interpretations and perspectives which convey the excitement of working on heritage in Caithness.Trade Review`...a pioneering one for the archaeology of Caithness... What is refreshing in this work is that the more recent discoveries and work by the people who actually live in the area...are celebrated. ...this entertaining and informative volume'. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland -------------------- '...this enjoyable new book. ... An engaging introduction to a fascinating region'. Current Archaeology -------------------- '...it is indeed a marvellous record. ... Amply illustrated, the authors have imbued the text with a personal touch that lifts the title well above being a dry, scholarly tome into an immensely readable, detailed and, above all, enjoyable account of the sites found in mainland Scotland's most northerly county'. The Orcadian -------------------- '...a readable account and a study of the places and the people of this fascinating part of Scotland'. The Scots Magazine -------------------- '...it is filled with well-informed lively comment and interpretation, a good deal of which is new. ...an inportant book which campaigns on behalf of the richness and importance of the archaeological sites and landscapes of Caithness... ...marks the new beginning made for the archaeology of Caithness in recent years...' Am Bratach -------------------- '...gives Caithness archaeology a deserved spotlight. ...provides an in-depth discussion of prehistory and archaeological research in this isolated part of Britain... This in-depth understanding...makes the book particularly valuable... This excellent discussion of Caithness' archaeology is supported with a wealth of illustrations... ...the book is a splendid presentation and discussion of well-selected aspects of the prehistoric and early historic archaeology of Caithness...highly recommended to anyone interested not only in Caithness, but Scottish prehistory in general... Hopefully this publication will raise awareness about the richness and significance heritage of Caithness...' The Megalithic Portal -------------------- '...this beautifully produced and fascinating book... ...their book is an excellent starting point for anyone wanting to find out more. Anyone living in the area, and especially anyone travelling north...should read this book. You will be intrigued and inspired, and more than a little wiser'. Undiscovered Scotland -------------------- 'The reader is taken on a journey through time and is provided with a discussion of the rich heritage of monuments and archaeological landscapes. ..a cleverly woven mix of historical investigation, description and explanation. ...a well-produced authoritative text on Caithness prehistory, that is well illustrated and provides an important insight...I would strongly recommend it not only to the visitor but also to the resident. For those interested in the prehistory of Caithness, this book is for you.' SAS Bulletin -------------------- '...an engaging, readable and well-produced volume that highlights the heritage of an unfairly neglected region'. British Archaeology -------------------- `...the book's richest sessions draw on the authors' work (including experimental) on the architecture of Neolithic chambered cairns and their re-excavations at a notable cluster of Iron Age brochs around Keiss. ... an engaging presentation'. Medieval Archaeology

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Book SynopsisThere have been many books about Birmingham's history but this one is different. It is based on the archaeological evidence from the first major excavations to be carried out in Birmingham city centre. The book is written in a lively, accessible style and contains over 100 illustrations, most in colour. It provides new evidence of Birmingham's origins and its growth as a market town and industrial centre in the medieval period. The book also offers a new perspective on the transformation of Birmingham into 'the first manufacturing town in the world' in the 18th and 19th centuries. A large part of the book is devoted to the excavation of St. Martin's Churchyard, which uncovered 857 burials - in simple graves and elaborate tombs - of the people who made the Industrial Revolution. The burials are explored in fascinating detail, together with analysis of the health of the population based on scientific study of the skeletons. New research reveals intimate details of the lives of the men and women of the town of a thousand trades. If you are interested in the history of Birmingham, this book is essential reading.

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Book SynopsisStonehenge is woven into the earliest Arthurian legends and has been analysed by everyone from archaeologists, to town planners, to the Druids who have made it their spiritual home. By refusing to adopt one theoretical position, Rosemary Hill provides the most wide-ranging and expansive history of the megalithic structure to date, from its creation in 3000 BC to the threat of the thunderous main roads that flank it today.Trade ReviewHer book is a treasure: stylish, thoughtful, miraculously condensed, and as full of knowledge as megalith is full of megalith * Sunday Times *She brings genuine originality to the cultural history of Stonehenge; nobody has until now considered it as literature, poetry and art, in this comprehensive way * Times Literary Supplement *A fascinating overview * Time Out *This is a fascinating account of how Stonehenge has been written up over the years ... this is a thoroughly researched history that's both entertaining and authoritative -- Lesley McDowell * Independent on Sunday *Clear, intelligent and often highly amusing, this study achieves something new in the voluminous literature on Stonehenge ... excellent. -- Christopher Hirst * Independent *Intelligent and often witty ... refreshingly unmocking. -- Andrew Holgate * Sunday Times *A thorough examination of England's most captivating World Heritage Site. -- Julian Fleming * Sunday Business Post *Superbly researched and thoroughly entertaining account of the monument's history -- Simon Shaw * Mail on Sunday *

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Book SynopsisVolume III in the Studies in the History of Collection' series, published in association with the Beazley Archive in the University of Oxford. 14 papers on The Mechanisms of the Art Market 1660-1830 presented at a symposium at the Wallace Collection, London in December 2003. Contents: Introduction (Neil De Marchi); 1) The Art Trade and its Urban Context: England and the Netherlands compared, 1550-1750 (David Ormrod); 2) The Auction Duty Act of 1777: the beginning of institutionalisation of auctions in Britain (Satomi Ohashi); 3) The Almoneda: the second-hand art market in Spain (Mari-Tere Alvarez); 4) The Market for Netherlandish Paintings in Paris, 1750-1815 (Hans J. Van Miegroet); 5) Le tableau et son prix à Paris, 1760-80 (Patrick Michel); 6) The System Governing Appraised Value in Ancien Régime France (Alden R. Gordon); 7) The Marquis de Vassé Against the Art Dealer Jacques Lenglier: a case-study of an eighteenth-century Parisian auction (François Marandet); 8) Pierre Sirois (1665-1726): le premier marchand de Watteau (Guillaume Glorieux); 9) The Purchase of the Past: Dr Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755) and the collecting of history (John Cherry); 10) John Anderson and John Bouttats: picture dealers in eighteenth-century London (David Connell); 11) Sir Godfrey Copley as Patron and Consumer, 1685-1705 (David Mitchell); 12) The Rise and Fall of a British Connoisseur: the career of Michael Bryan (1757-1821), picture dealer extraordinaire (Julia Armstrong-Totten); 13) In Keeping with the Truth': the German art market and its role in the development of connoisseurship in the eighteenth century (Thomas Ketelsen); 14) Abraham Hume e Giovanni Maria Sasso: il mercato artistico tra Venezia e Londra nel settecento (Linda Borean).

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Book SynopsisWhy did the ancient Bretons erect over 20,000 menhirs at Carnac? What was the purpose of the alignments, rectangles and dolmens? Was it all just for games? Can anyone make sense of the place? Carnac is the largest megalithic site in the world. Up until now it has kept its secrets. In this book, beautifully illustrated with rare prints and new diagrams, dedicated Carnac sleuth Howard Crowhurst reveals the sophisticated geometry at the heart of this ancient temple.

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Book Synopsis“Then we went to the other bath. Here I found I was being again taken to the men’s place, so I said, ‘I’m not going in here’. But a great outcry was raised and loud exclamations of invitation and constant assurances that there was nobody naked, so when T said fiercely, ‘Come in and don’t make a fuss. They all wish it’, I entered a large hall with the raised divans peopled by gentry in cloaks and turbans of towels. There was fortunately no one in the hot bath as it deserved a careful examination. The wide platform round the tanks was inlaid with beautiful marbles and there were recesses with pumps, etc., also inlaid…” (Bursa, February 1888)On August 2nd 1877, the English explorer and archaeologist James Theodore Bent married an extraordinary Irishwoman, Mabel Virginia Anna Hall-Dare, the second of the four daughters born to Mr Robert Westley Hall-Dare of Co. Wexford and Essex. Mabel was 31, Theodore 25, and within a few months they had embarked on their pattern of annual travels that continued until his early death in 1897. Their trips began fairly close to home, visiting northern Italy, but by 1883 they were in the Eastern Mediterranean (in modern Greece and Turkey), searching out the antiquities, landscapes and lifestyles of a region that was to captivate them for the next fifteen years. Their researches led to a number of highly regarded monographs, papers and articles (such as Theodore’s 'The Cyclades, or Life Among the Insular Greeks', 1885, and the many publications of their various discoveries in locations such as ‘Rugged Cilicia’, the island of Thassos, and elsewhere) that were to place the couple securely amongst the foremost British travellers of the latter half of the 19th century.The publication, therefore, of Mabel Bent’s personal notebooks from the archive of the Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies, London, represents the discovery of a lost and notable milestone for scholars and travel enthusiasts of all kinds. This series of volumes begins with Mabel’s account of the couple’s adventures around the Aegean and beyond, extracted from her fifteen-year sequence of notebooks and presented chronologically. Specifically, we follow Mabel and Theodore to the Greek mainland and the islands known now as the Cyclades and the Dodecanese, as well as the northern Aegean islands; their journeys along the Turkish littoral lead them from bustling Istanbul to provincial Mersin in the far south-west. Contents include: Chapter 1) 1883-1884: The Cyclades – Mabel’s own accounts of the couple’s two tours of the Cyclades. Theodore relied on these Chronicles for the writing up of his classic travelogue ‘The Cyclades; or Life Among the Insular Greeks’ of 1885; Chapter 2) 1885: The Dodecanese – including Rhodes, Tilos and Karpathos; Chapter 3) 1886: The Eastern Aegean – including Samos, Patmos, Kalymnos and Astypalea; Chapter 4) 1887: The Northern Aegean – including Meteora, Thessaloniki, Thassos and Samothraki; Chapter 5) 1888: The Turkish Coast – from Istanbul to Kastellorizo; Chapter 6) 1890: ‘Rough Cilicia’ – extensive explorations around south-west Turkey.

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Book SynopsisContents: 1) Coastal prehistory in the southern Red Sea Basin, underwater archaeology, and the Farasan Islands (Geoff Bailey, Abdullah AlSharekh, Nic Flemming, Kurt Lambeck, Garry Momber, Anthony Sinclair & Claudio Vita-Finzi); 2) Chronologie et evolution de l'architecture a Makaynun: la formation d'un centre urbain a l'epoque sudarabique dans le Hadramawt (A. Benoist, O. Lavigne, M. Mouton & J. Schiettecatte); 3) A preliminary study on the materials employed in ancient Yemeni mummification and burial practices (summary) (Stephen A. Buckley, Joann Fletcher, Khalid Al-Thour, Mohammed Basalama & Don R. Brothwell); 4) From Safer to Balhaf: rescue excavations along the Yemen LNG pipeline route (Remy Crassard & Holger Hitgen); 5) Pastoral nomadic communities of the Holocene climatic optimum: excavation and research at Kharimat Khor al-Manahil and Khor al-Manahil in the Rub al-Khali, Abu Dhabi (Richard Cuttler, Mark Beech, Heiko Kallweit, Anja Zander & Walid Yasin Al-Tikriti); 6) Flip the coin. Preliminary results of compositional EDX analyses on south-east Arabian coins from ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, UAE) (Parsival Delrue); 7) Spreading the Neolithic over the Arabian Peninsula (Philipp Drechsler); 8) Water and waste in mediaeval Zabid, Yemen (Ingrid Hehmeyer); 9) Tribal links between the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle Euphrates at the beginning of the second millennium BC (Christine Kepinski); 10) Rare photographs from the 1930s and 1940s by Yihye Haybi, a Yemenite Jew from Sana: historical reality and ethnographic deductions (Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper); 11) Stargazing in traditional water management: a case study in northern Oman (Harriet Nash); 12) Al Qisha: archaeological investigations at an Islamic period Yemeni village (Audrey Peli & Florian Tereygeol, Al-Radrad (al-Jabali): a Yemeni silver mine, first results of the French mission (2006) (Lynne S. Newton); 13) A biographical sketch of Britain's first Sabaeologist: Colonel W.F. Prideaux, CSI (Carl Phillips & St J. Simpson); 14) The Arabian Corridor Migration Model: archaeological evidence for hominin dispersals into Oman during the Middle and Upper Pleistocene (Jeffrey Rose); 15) Ceramic production in mediaeval Yemen: the Yadgat kiln site (Axelle Rougeulle); 16) The word slm/snm and some words for "statue, idol" in Arabian and other Semitic languages (Fiorella Scagliarini); 16) "Transformation processes in oasis settlements in Oman" 2005 archaeological survey at the oasis of Nizwa: a preliminary report (Juergen Schreiber); 17) Middle Palaeolithic — or what? New sites in Sharjah, UAE (Julie Scott-Jackson, William Scott-Jackson & Sabah Jasim); 18) Rites and funerary practices at Rawk during the fourth millennium BC (Wadi ‘Idim, Yemen) (T. Steimer-Herbet, J-F. Saliege, T. Sagory, O. Lavigne & A. as-Saqqaf, in collaboration with M. Mashkour & H. Guy); 19) The sources on the Fitna of Masud b. Amr al-Azdi and their uses for Basran tribal history (Brian Ulrich); 20) The beads of ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, UAE) (An De Waele); 21) Aspects of recent archaeological work at al-Balid (Íafar), Sultanate of Oman (Juris Zarins); 22) Towards a new theory: the state of Bani Mahdi, the fourth imamate in Yemen (Ahmad b. Umar al-Zaylai).

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Book Synopsis“If my fellow-traveller had lived, he intended to have put together in book form such information as we had gathered about Southern Arabia. Now, as he died four days after our return from our last journey there, I have had to undertake the task myself. It has been very sad to me, but I have been helped by knowing that, however imperfect this book may be, what is written here will surely be a help to those who, by following in our footsteps, will be able to get beyond them, and to whom I so heartily wish success and a Happy Home-coming, the best wish a traveller may have.” So Mabel Bent (Mrs J. Theodore Bent) begins her Preface to Southern Arabia, one of the classic travel books written in English about this ever-fascinating region, in which she details the couple’s travels over a ten-year period. A testimony to the book’s high regard is that, since publication in 1900, it has rarely been out-of-print. Mabel Bent continues in her Preface to inform the reader that her volume is drawn in part from the note-books of her husband, her fellow-traveller, the redoubtable J. Theodore Bent (1852-97), and also “…from the ‘Chronicles’ that I always wrote during our journeys”. After more than a hundred years, and for the first time, these personal Chronicles on ‘South Arabia’ are published in World Enough, and Time: The Chronicles of Mabel Bent. Vol. III and are of significant interest to Arabists and those enthusiasts who will want to have Mabel’s on-the-spot account of their adventures and archaeological and ethnographical discoveries. Also included in this present volume is Mabel Bent’s previously unpublished Chronicle of their long journey through Persia, from south to north in 1889. Contents: Bahrein and Persia, 1889: The Hadhramaut, 1893–5; Socotra and the lands of the Fadhli and Yafai, 1896–7. Personal letters, documents, maps, and Mabel Bent’s own photographs contribute to this important insight into the lives of two of the great British travellers of the nineteenth century.Table of ContentsBahrein and Persia, 1889: The Hadhramaut, 1893-5; Socotra and the lands of the Fadhli and Yafai, 1896-7. Personal letters, documents, maps, and Mabel Bent's own photographs contribute to this important insight into the lives of two of the great British travellers of the nineteenth century.

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Book SynopsisFor over a hundred years, sand and gravel quarrying has been of enormous benefit to geology, palaeontology and archaeology – quarries have been the main source of Ice Age fossils and finds. It is because of deep excavations into Ice Age sediments that the geological sequences, the fossil remains of plants and animals, and the stone tools of Britain’s earliest human inhabitants have come to light. This handbook, packed with practical information and guidance is written for all charged with caring for the natural and historic environment, geologists and archaeologists and anybody with an interest in our past and future, and not least those working in the quarry industry.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a basic introduction to rock art studies. It marks the starting point of the new methodology for rock art analysis, based on typology and style, first developed by the author at the Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici. This book demonstrates the beginnings of a new discipline, the systematic study of world rock art. This edition is a revised and updated version of Anarti’s classic text, first published in English in 1993. Additions have been made and a major new category of rock art has been included.

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Book Synopsis38 papers on Aegean Bronze Age pottery in honour of Jeremy Rutter. They range from specific site reports, to technical reports, and issues of chronology, to analysis of the social and religious functions of particular vessel types, and studies of trade and cultural contacts.Trade ReviewThis Festschrift is remarkably rich in content, a volume full of insightful papers which illustrate well the many new directions of research in Aegean pottery studies. This is a proper tribute to Jeremy B. Rutter. -- Judit Haas-Lebegyev Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.02.41Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Jeremy Bentham Rutter: Bibliography ; Memorandum on the Occasion of Jeremy B. Rutter’s Retirement from Dartmouth College ; David A. Aston: The LH IIIA2–IIIB Transition: The Gurob and Saqqara Evidence Reassessed ; Mario Benzi: Daskalio (Vathy), Kalymnos: A Late Bronze I Sacred Cave in the East Aegean ; Philip P. Betancourt: The Diagonal Line Class Juglets: New Evidence from Hagios Charalambos ; T.M. Brogan, Ch. Sofianou, and J.E. Morrison: In Search of the Upper Story of LM I House A.1 at Papadiokampos: An Integrated Architectural and Ceramic Perspective ; William Cavanagh and Christopher Mee: Minding the Gaps in Early Helladic Laconia ; Anna Lucia D’Agata: Subminoan: A Neglected Phase of the Cretan Pottery Sequence ; Jeannette Forsén: Spoons to Fill the Cups ; Elizabeth French: The Stirrup Jar: Does the West House Evidence Help or Complicate the Problems? ; Walter GauSS, Michael Lindblom, and Rudolfine Smetana: The Middle Helladic Large Building Complex at Kolonna. A Preliminary View ; Giampaolo Graziadio: Cretan Perfumed Oils at Enkomi (Cyprus) in the 13th Century B.C.? ; Seán Hemingway: Early Helladic Vases from Zygouries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Cultural Ambassadors of an Early Age ; Stefan Hiller: Palm and Altar ; N. Hirschfeld: The Cypriot Ceramic Cargo of the Uluburun Shipwreck ; Reinhard Jung: Mycenaean Vending Cups in Syria? Thoughts about the Unpainted Mycenaean Pottery from Tell Kazel ; V. La Rosa: Preliminary Remarks about the Pottery from the So-called Grande Frana at Phaistos ; Michael Lindblom and Sturt W. Manning: The Chronology of the Lerna Shaft Graves ; Bartłomiej Lis and Štěpán Rückl: Our Storerooms Are Full. Impressed Pithoi from Late Bronze/Early Iron Age East Lokris and Phokis and their Socio-economic Significance ; Joseph Maran: Contested Pasts—The Society of the 12th c. B.C.E. Argolid and the Memory of the Mycenaean Palatial Period ; P. A. Mountjoy: An Update on the Provenance by Neutron Activation Analysis of Near Eastern Mycenaean IIIC Pottery Groups with Particular Reference to Cyprus ; John K. Papadopoulos, Brian N. Damiata, and John M. Marston: Once More with Feeling: Jeremy Rutter’s Plea for the Abandonment of the Term Submycenaean Revisited ; A. Philippa-Touchais and G. Touchais: Fragments of the Pottery Equipment of an Early Middle Helladic Household from Aspis, Argos ; Daniel J. Pullen: Picking out Pots in Patterns: Feasting in Early Helladic Greece ; Florian Ruppenstein: Early Helladic Peak Sanctuaries in Attica? ; Robert Schon: Vox Clamantis in Campo: Further Thoughts on Ceramics and Site Survey ; Maria C. Shaw: A Decorated Minoan Pyxis from House X at Kommos ; Cynthia W. Shelmerdine: The ‘Friendly Krater’ from Iklaina ; Susan Sherratt: Learning to Learn from Bronze Age Pots: A Perspective on Forty Years of Aegean Ceramic Studies in the Work of J.B. Rutter ; R. Angus K. Smith: A Unique Late Minoan III Ring-shaped Vase from the Myrsini Aspropilia Cemetery ; Sharon R. Stocker and Jack L. Davis: The Cyclades and Pylos: An Early Bronze Age Stone Pyxis from Ali Chodza ; Philipp W. Stockhammer: An Aegean Glance at Megiddo ; Patrick M. Thomas: Mycenaean Tablewares and the Curious Careers of the Angular Kylix and Shallow Angular Basin ; A. Van de Moortel: The Phaistos Palace and the Kamares Cave: A Special Relationship ; Melissa Vetters: Seats of Power? Making the Most of Miniatures—The Role of Terracotta Throne Models in Disseminating Mycenaean Religious Ideology ; Salvatore Vitale: The Late Helladic IIIA2 Pottery from Mitrou and its Implications for the Chronology of the Mycenaean Mainland ; Martha Heath Wiencke: “Ceremonial Lerna” ; Malcolm H. Wiener: Conical Cups: From Mystery to History ; James C. Wright and Mary K. Dabney: Interpreting Quantitative Analyses of Mycenaean Pottery ; Assaf Yasur-Landau, Eric H. Cline, and Inbal Samet: Our Cups Overfloweth: “Kabri Goblets” and Canaanite Feasts in the Middle Bronze Age Levant

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Book SynopsisThis concise dictionary is intended to be helpful in the reading of archaeological books and publications, and in the writing of papers and articles in both English and German. The aim of this work is to help, in particular, students and on-site archaeologists to find quickly a word relating to a specific period, a specific area or a research field, in a book easy to carry everywhere; but this dictionary is also intended for those with a general interest in archaeology wishing to broaden their vocabulary!

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