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Book SynopsisGolden Mummies of Egypt presents new insights and a rich perspective on beliefs about the afterlife during an era when Egypt was part of the Greek and Roman worlds (c. 300 BCE–200 CE). This beautifully illustrated book, featuring photography by Julia Thorne, accompanies Manchester Museum’s first-ever international touring exhibition. Golden Mummies of Egypt is a visually spectacular exhibition that offers visitors unparalleled access to the museum’s outstanding collection of Egyptian and Sudanese objects – one of the largest in the UK.Trade Review‘Golden mummies of Egypt presents a rich perspective on Egyptian mummies and western approaches to them. Based around an exhibition of Manchester Museum’s collection and informed by the history of its development, Campbell Price’s treatment, with beautiful photographs by Julia Thorne, offers many new insights into ancient practices and their modern interpreters.’John Baines, Emeritus Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford -- .Table of ContentsForeword – Esme Ward1 Gold, Sex, Art, Death2 Egypt, Europe and Manchester3 Hawara4 Aegypto Capta: Life in Graeco-Roman Egypt5 Papyri and Provenance – Roberta Mazza6 Scintillating Flesh: The Divine Deceased7 Facing the Dead8 Modern Technology and the Manchester Mummies – Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin9 Receptions: Between Rapture and RevulsionIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book explores what the Book of the Dead was to the ancient Egyptians, what it means to us today, what it was believed to do, how it worked, how it was made, and ultimately what happened to it. Edited by Foy Scalf, PhD, this volume includes fourteen essays showcasing the latest research on the Book of the Dead written by thirteen internationally renown experts as well as a complete catalog of the forty-five objects on display in an associated exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum. Two famous Book of the Dead papyri, Papyrus Milbank and Papyrus Ryerson, are reproduced in their entirety with full-color photographs among nearly 400 illustrations for the first time. Discover how the ancient Egyptians controlled their immortal destiny and sought close association with the gods through the Book of the Dead.

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Book SynopsisNew edition with a new Prologue by the author An Archaeology of Elmina examines a complex African settlement on the coast of present-day Ghana from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries using the archaeological record, European narratives and indigenous oral histories. Placing the site in broader context as the first European trading post in sub-Saharan Africa, Christopher DeCorse explores the developments there in light of Portuguese, Dutch, and British expansion and illustrates remarkable cultural continuity in the midst of technological change. Originally published by Smithsonian Institution Press in 2001.Trade Review“[A] work of impressive scholarship. Scholars working in Ghanaian and West African history, Atlantic World studies, trans-Atlantic slave trade studies, and word-systems studies, and historical archaeology will find it a rich source of information and many new insights.” Ray A Kea in Journal of African Archaeology “[A]n exceptionally well-written and well-sourced study of life in an evolving African coastal community during the era of the trans-Atlantic trade. The book will doubtlessly become a classic study of culture contact and change in Africa.” J. Cameron Monroe in International Journal of African Historical StudiesTable of ContentsPrologue Introduction 1. Historical Background 2. The Elmina Settlement 3. The Archaeology of an African Town 4. Subsistence, Craft Specialization, and Trade 5. The European Trade 6. Culture, Contact, Continuity, and Change Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAt the heart of this book is a comparative study of the stone rows of Dartmoor and northern Scotland, a rare, putatively Bronze Age megalithic typology that has mystified archaeologists for over a century. It is argued that these are ‘symbols’ of Neolithic long mounds, a circumstance that accounts for the interregional similarities; other aspects of their semantic structures are also analysed using rigorous semiotic theory. The research presented here takes an evolutionary approach, drawing on biological theory to explain the active role of these monuments in social evolution and to investigate the processes at work in the development of prehistoric landscapes. New theory is developed for analysing such archaeological sequences, and for understanding and explaining material culture more generally. The local sequences are contextualised by examining European megalithic origins, tracing the long mound concept back to the LBK longhouses. It is argued that all of these related forms — longhouses, long mounds, and stone rows — are implicated in a process of competitively asserting ancestral affinities, which explains the constraint on cultural variation, and thus the formation of remarkably stable monument traditions, that led to the convergence between Dartmoor and northern Scotland in the Early Bronze Age.Table of ContentsPreface ; Chapter 1 Introduction ; Chapter 2 The Stone Rows of Dartmoor and Northern Scotland ; Chapter 3 The Semantic Structure and Function of the Dartmoor Rows ; Chapter 4 Tulach an t-Sionnaich and Battle Moss: A Semiotic Evaluation of a Transition ; Chapter 5 Structure, Function, and Motive in the Cairn Clusters of Northern Scotland ; Chapter 6 A Theoretical Interlude: People, Adaptation, and Environment ; Chapter 7 The Competitive Assertion of Ancestry in Neolithic Sequences ; Chapter 8 Two Dartmoor Complexes and Aspects of Landscape Theory ; Chapter 9 Conclusion ; Appendix A ; Appendix B ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis volume, edited by Rogério Sousa, is part of the scholarly ferment which has wheeled around the subject of ‘coffin’ during the last twenty years. Its magic and religious evaluation identifies it from time to time as body container, but at the same time substitute body for the deceased, a maternal womb in which the regeneration will occur, a microcosm, tomb, funerary temple, as well as a conduit to the dead, a powerful tool activated by means of the Opening of the Mouth ritual. -From the Foreword, by Alessia Amenta In February 2013, the Symposium Body, Cosmos and Eternity: the Symbolism of Coffins in Ancient Egypt convened at the historical building of the University of Porto to debate conceptual frameworks underlying the contemporary study of Egyptian coffins. Rising from the close association with the depiction of the mummified body, the anthropoid coffins soon absorbed a rich mythological imaginary related to the constellation of Nut, the mother goddess of the sky supposed to give birth to Osiris, and evolved continuously, integrating larger and more complex sets of beliefs, mirroring the increasingly bolder use of coffins in the funerary rituals. It was this complex set of beliefs involving the coffin that we proposed to explore in this series of symposia. Following our original purpose, the studies presented in this volume display an excellent overview on the new trends of research on coffin studies, with diverse contributions concerned either with symbolism or social significance of coffins, museums´ collections or archaeological finds. These studies superbly showcase the richness of coffins as documental sources for the study of Egyptian religion, economy and society.Trade Review'The individual contributions are well structured and clearly laid out. A particular highlight is the extensive photographic material... In summary, the present volume is an appealing and successful publication. It is highly recommended for professional scientists, but is likely to be difficult for the Egypt-interested layman.' – von Manuela Gander M.A., Berlin, http://www.antikewelt.de (translated from German)Table of ContentsForeword ; Introduction ; Part I : Studies on Coffin Symbolism: From skin wrappings to architecture: The evolution of prehistoric, anthropoid wrappings to historic architectonic coffins/sarcophagi ; separate contrasts optimally fused in single Theban ‘stola’ coffins (±975-920 BC). (René van Walsem) ; Permeable containers: Body and cosmos in Middle Kingdom coffins (Rune Nyord) ; Ancient Egyptian funerary arts as social documents: social place, reuse, and working towards a new typology of 21st Dynasty coffins (Kathlyn M. Cooney) ; Representations of passage in ancient Egyptian iconography (Éva Liptay) ; Crossing the landscapes of eternity: parallels between Amduat and funeral procession scenes on the 21st Dynasty coffins (Cássio de Araújo Duarte) ; ‘Spread your wings over me’: iconography, symbolism and meaning of the central panel on yellow coffins (Rogério Sousa) ; Resurrection in a box: the 25th Dynasty burial ensemble of Padiamunet (Cynthia May Sheikholeslami) ; Gods at all hours: Saite Period coffins of the ‘eleven-eleven’ type (Jonathan Elias and Carter Lupton) ; Part II : Studies on Museums’ Collections and Archaeological Finds: Continuity in times of transition: the inner coffin of the mistress of the house Gem-tu-es in Vevey (Switzerland) (Alexandra Küffer) ; Egyptian coffins in Portugal (Luís Manuel de Araújo) ; Cercueils jaunes des XXIe et XXIIe Dynasties dans les collections Françaises (Alain Dautant) ; Lot 14 from Bab el-Gasus (Sweden and Norway): the modern history of the collection and a reconstruction of the ensembles (Anders Bettum) ; The coffins of the priests of Amun: a socio-economic investigation on Bab el-Gasus cachette (Elena Paganini) ; Coffins without mummies: the Tomb KV 63 in the Valley of the Kings (Rogério Sousa)

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Book SynopsisMuch has been written about the history of Northern Ireland, but less well-known is its wealth of prehistoric sites, particularly burial sites, from which most of our knowledge of the early inhabitants of this country has been obtained. This work brings together information on all the known sites in Northern Ireland that are in some way associated with burial. It has been compiled from a number of sources and includes many sites that have only recently been discovered. A total of 3332 monuments are recorded in the inventory, ranging from megalithic tombs to simple pit burials. In addition to providing an inventory of all known sites, along with a selection of photographs and plans, the work also includes an introduction to the prehistory of Northern Ireland, an explanation of terms and a full bibliography. The aim is to provide a foundation for more specific research projects, based on a standardised information format of this largely untapped resource. For example, the work highlights several large and previously unrecognised clusters of prehistoric burial monuments, some located at unusual landscape features. Hopefully, further analysis will lead to a greater understanding of why this should be and stimulate a renewed interest in the prehistory of Northern Ireland. Enhanced awareness of this should complement knowledge of the historical period to provide a more balanced picture of human activity here.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Background and acknowledgements ; A short history of prehistoric archaeology in northern ireland ; Inventory of Sites and Monuments ; Conclusion ; Glossary ; Radiocarbon Dates ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisStelae dating to the Epiclassic (650-900 CE) and Early Postclassic (950-1150 CE) from Tula, Xochicalco, and other sites in Central Mexico have been presented in the archaeological and art historical literature of the last four decades—when they have been addressed at all—as evidence of Classic Maya ‘influence’ on Central Mexican art during these periods. This book re-evaluates these claims via detailed comparative analysis of the Central Mexican stelae and their claimed Maya counterparts. For the first time the Central Mexican stelae are placed in the context of often earlier local artistic traditions as well as other possible long-distance connections. Comparison of Tula and Xochicalco stelae with earlier and contemporary stelae from Oaxaca and Guerrero demonstrates connections equally as plausible as those posited with the Maya region, and supported by archaeological evidence. While it is clear that some Central Mexican stelae, especially Stela 4 from Tula, reflect Maya contacts, this has to be balanced by consideration of local and other long distance developments and connections.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction: Stela Stories; Chapter 2: Classic Maya Stelae: Current Perspectives on Origins, Function and Meaning; Chapter 3: Central Mexican Stelae of the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic Periods; Chapter 4: Central Mexican Artists Under The Influence? A Critical Review of The Literature On Maya-Mexican Interactions At The Classic – Postclassic Transition ; Chapter 5: Forgotten Forebears? Stelae in Central Mexico Before the Epiclassic; Chapter 6: Go West (and South)? Stelae of Oaxaca and Guerrero; Chapter 7: Stone Trees Transplanted? A Comparison of Central Mexican Stelae with their Suggested Maya Counterparts at Piedras Negras, Dos Pilas, Aguateca, Ceibal, And Copan; Chapter 8: In Place of a Conclusion, or More Questions; Appendix 1: Catalog of Central Mexican Figural and Associated Stelae of the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic; Appendix 2: A (Very) Brief Summary of the Tula/Chichen Itza Debate/Acle; References Cited

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Book Synopsis"This volume gathers together the first 10 years of The European Archaeologist (ISSN 1022-0135), from Winter 1993 through to the 10th Anniversary Conference Issue, published in 2004 for the Lyon Annual Meeting. In reality, like the Journal of European Archaeology, The European Archaeologist (TEA) was born before the official foundation of the EAA at Ljubljana in September 1994, and began publication the year before. The first issue announces the Ljubljana Inaugural Meeting, and documents the work of the International Steering Committee which promoted the Association. Readers can then trace the initial development of their brainchild, from the euphoria of a post-1989 Europe where Archaeologists could at last freely communicate to the consolidation of the Association as a key player in the Archaeology of the continent. Perhaps the most striking thing, reading through these early issues of TEA, is how the central concerns of the EAA, for heritage, commercial and academic archaeology have remained central to its content. This volume is published as the Association meets in Istanbul for its 20th Annual Meeting." –from the preface by Mark PearceTable of ContentsPreface by Mark Pearce; The European Archaeologist: No 1, December 1991; No 2, August 1994; No 3, May 1995; No 4, December 1995; No 5, August 1996; No 6, February 1997; No 7, Summer 1997; No 8, Winter 1997; No 9, Summer 1998; No 10, Winter 1998; No 11, Summer 1999; No12, Winter 1999; No 13, Summer 2000; No 14, Winter 2000/2001; No 15, Summer 2001; No 16, Winter 2001/2002; No 17, Summer 2002; No 18, Winter 2002; No 19, Summer 2003; No 20, Winter 2004; No 21, Summer 2004; 10th Anniversary Conference Issue

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Book SynopsisThe “Begram ivories” are widely considered to be miniature masterpieces of Indian art and are one of the largest archaeological collections of ancient ivories. They were excavated at the site of Begram, in northern Afghanistan, in 1937 and 1939 and belong to a period when Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India were united under rulers of the Kushan dynasty. Divided soon afterwards between the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul and the Musée national des arts asiatiques–Guimet in Paris, the collection in Kabul suffered a disaster during the civil war which ravaged the country during the early 1990s. Some of the pieces were successfully concealed by museum staff but most were stolen, hundreds have since been reported in different collections and very few have yet been recovered. In 2011 a group of twenty bone and ivory plaques was generously acquired for the National Museum of Afghanistan by a private individual. These were scientifically analysed, conserved and exhibited at the British Museum and returned to Kabul in 2012. This book describes their story from excavation to display and return, with individual object biographies and detailed scientific analyses and conservation treatments. It also discusses how these objects have attracted very different interpretations over the decades since their discovery, and how the new analyses shed a completely fresh light on the collection. It is lavishly illustrated in full colour, and includes many previously unpublished views of the objects when they were originally exhibited in Kabul. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the archaeology of Afghanistan, Indian art, polychromy, museum studies, object biographies or the history of conservation.Table of ContentsForeword (Dr Omara Khan Masoudi); Preface by the Sponsor; Introduction: from Archaeological Discovery to Museum Display (St J. Simpson); The Scientific Analyses: Analysis of Original and Conservation Materials, Pigments and Metal Pins Associated with a Group of Ivory and Bone Plaques from Begram, Afghanistan (Emma Passmore, Janet Ambers, Catherine Higgitt, Giovanni Verri, Caroline Cartwright and Duncan Hook); The Conservation Treatments: Conservation of the Ivory and Bone Panels from Begram, Afghanistan (Clare Ward and Barbara Wills); Catalogue, Scientific Analyses and Conservation Treatment Records; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn der Ägyptologie werden ökonomische Fragen stiefmütterlich behandelt. Diese Studie beschreibt die Ökonomie der ersten Hälfte des 2. Jahrtausends und die Umwelt, in die diese Ökonomie eingebettet ist, als Mosaik. Die Metapher ‚Mosaik‘ verwendet Mosaiksteine, welche Teile eines Bildes darstellen können. Einzelne Mosaiksteine sind offen für eine Integration in andere mögliche Bilder. Wo immer möglich beruhen Mosaiksteine auf Daten aus der betrachteten Periode, andere Mosaiksteine tragen als Modelle zum Mosaik bei. Verschiedene Mosaiksteine bestehen aus Schätzungen z.B. zu Produktion und Konsum. Das Mosaik soll ermöglichen, das Ägypten der betrachteten Periode als lebende Gesellschaft darzustellen. Es ist kaum überraschend, dass verschiedene Facetten des Bildes hypothetischen Charakter haben und das Mosaik zu einem beträchtlichen Teil unvollständig ist. Das Feld, fehlende oder auch konkurrierende Mosaiksteine in weiteren Studien zu entwickeln, ist weit offen. Heqanachts Papyri bilden die Basis für den Versuch, einen konkreten Haushalt im Bild der wirtschaftlichen Struktur des Landes darzustellen, als fragmentarische Emergenz einer Momentaufnahme, einer Mikrogeschichte.Table of ContentsSection A: Zu Ziel und Methode ; 1: Zum Ziel der Studie ; 2: Zur vorgeschlagenen Methode ; 3: Zur Okonomie vorindustrieller Gesellschaften: Polanyi - North - Parsons ; 4: Zusammenfassung: Methode und Theorie ; Section B-1: Der aussere Rahmen ; 1: Geographische Aspekte und Klima ; 2: Der Nil und sein Wasser ; 3: Zur Bevolkerung ; 4: Zum Weltbild als kulturelle Umwelt ; 5: Veranderungen in der ausseren Umwelt ; Section B-2: Die Ebene Gesellschaft: die Okonomie und ihr sozio-kulturelles Umfeld ; 1: Einleitend einige Begriffe ; 2: Ein Modell fur die Struktur des agyptischen Staates in der betrachteten Periode ; 3: Ein Modell fur die Struktur der agyptischen Gesellschaft in der Mittleren Bronzezeit ; 4: Okonomie und telische, politische sowie gesellschaftliche Aspekte ; 5: Veranderungen ; 6: Quantifizierungsversuche zur Gesellschaft ; Section B-3: Die Ebene Okonomie ; 1: Zum Rahmen fur produktive Prozesse ; 2: Nahrungsmittel und Nahrwerte ; 3: Produktion in der Landwirtschaft ; 4: Anderungen in den Bedingungen fur den Ackerbau ; 5: Ubrige Produktion ; 6: Beschaffung und Transport ; 7: Zu Konsum ; 8: Der Staat als Arbeitgeber ; 9: Zusammenfassung: Ebene Okonomie ; Section C: Heqanachts Hauswirtschaft (Fallstudie) ; 1 Zu den einzelnen Dokumenten ; 2 Heqanacht ; 3 Das pr in Nebsyt .134 ; 4 Der Haushalt in Tjaw-wr ; 5: Heqanachts Getreidekredite ; 6: Zusammenfassung: Heqanacht ; Section D: Zusammenfassung und Anhange ; 1: Zusammenfassung ; 2: Anhange ; English Summary ; Zitierte Literatur ; Indices

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Book SynopsisDuring the international conference ‘Settlement, Communication and Exchange around the Western Carpathians’ held in Kraków in October 2012, attention was focused on the complex issues of long-term cultural change in the populations surrounding the Western Carpathians, with the aim of striking a balance between local cultural dynamics, subsistence economy and the alleged importance of far-reaching contacts, and communication and exchange involved in this process. Specialists from Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the United States met and discussed for two days their archaeological findings relating to questions of (Trans)Carpathian communication, settlement patterns, and agricultural and technological changes that occurred (mainly) during the Neolithic and Bronze Age. Additionally, case studies from Northern Poland and Eastern Germany were included to provide a perspective on the variability of traditions and economic strategies in different natural environments and topographical settings. Drawing on a broad spectrum of methods (including anthropological, archaeobotanical, geochemical, and geophysical), and adhering to different theoretical approaches, the objective was to contribute to a more holistic understanding of prehistoric settlement strategies, adaptation to marginal (and not so marginal) environments, and the role of communication for prehistoric populations to the north and south of the Western Carpathians.Table of ContentsPreface (Tobias L. Kienlin - Pawel Valde-Nowak - Marta Korczynska - Klaus Cappenberg - Jakob Ociepka); The Western Carpathian Highlands During the Neolithic (Peter Bogucki); TransCarpathian Contacts in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age (Slawomir Kadrow); Long Houses on Hilltop - Camps in the Mountains: Some Aspects of the Neolithic in the Dunajec Project (Pawel Valde-Nowak); Landscape as a Feature: Using GIS and Statistics to Compare Two Types of Early Neolithic Sites in Lesser Poland (Klaus Cappenberg); One Too Many Settlements: Das bandkeramische Eythra im Kontext weiterer Siedlungsregionen in Nordwestsachsen (Harald Stauble); Technology of the Earliest Vessels in the Upper Vistula River Basin - Imports against Local Production (Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny - Anna Rauba-Bukowska); Long-Distance Exchange at the End of the 5th Millennium calBC - Bodrogkeresztur Culture Pottery at the Baltic Coast (Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny - Jacek Kabacinski - Thomas Terberger); Settlement and Economic Transformations in Western Little Poland between 3500 BC and 2500 BC: Internal Development vs. External Implantation (Marek Nowak); Settlement, Economy and Climate between 3200 and 2500 BC: Late Neolithic Transformations in South-Eastern Poland (Andrzej Pelisiak); ‘Alternative Trajectories in Bronze Age Landscapes and the ‘Failure’ to Enclose: A Case Study from the Middle Dunajec Valley (Tobias L. Kienlin, Marta Korczyńska & Klaus Cappenberg) [Open Access: Download] ; Erwagungen zur geomagnetischen Prospektion im mittleren Dunajectal, Kleinpolen (Jakob Ociepka); Plant Remains Found in Archaeological Sites in the Carpathian Foothills - Preliminary Report (Maria Litynska-Zajac - Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo - Katarzyna Cywa); Stones Collecting and Preliminary Discrimination on the Archaeological Site - Janowice (AZP 106-65 no. 61) Case Study (Michal Wasilewski); Dynamics of the Depositional Processes: The Example of the Tree Windthrow Structure at the Graveyard in Janowice, site 44 (AZP 106-65/103) (Marta Korczynska); Preliminary Results of the Anthropological Analysis of Human Bones from Janowice (AZP 106-65 No. 103) (Anita Szczepanek); The Remains of the Medieval Settlement in Janowice, Comm. Plesna, Site 44 (Michal Wojenka); The Bronze Age Settlement in Maszkowice (Western Carpathians) - Analyses and Interpretations (Marcin S. Przybyla - Magdalena Skoneczna); The West Carpathians as a Contact Zone in the Bronze Age in Light of Hoards and Isolated Finds of Metal Objects (Wojciech Blajer); Transcarpathian Influences on the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age Settlement at Wierzchoslawice Site 15 (Ireneusz Miras - Lukasz Oleszczak); Magnetic Prospection and Excavation Verification of a Site from the Late Pre-Roman Period in Wielka Wies (District Tarnow) (Artur Buszek); Settlement Strategies in the Early Bronze Age in South-Western Slovakia (Jozef Batora - Peter Toth); Tard-Tatardomb: An Update on the Intensive Survey Work on the Multi-Layer Hatvan and Fuzesabony Period Settlement (Klara P. Fischl - Tobias L. Kienlin - Tamas Pusztai - Helmut Bruckner - Simone Klumpp - Beata Tugya - Gyorgy Lengyel); New Geophysical Data on the Internal Structure of the Gava Sites of Andrid-Corlat and Cauas-Sighetiu in North-Western Romania (Tobias L. Kienlin - Liviu Marta) ;

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together the scientific contributions of a wide panel of Sicilian and mainland Italian specialists in prehistory. Taking inspiration from a conference organised by the Soprintendenza ai Beni Culturali e Ambientali of Agrigento and by the municipal council of Sciacca in November 2011, the decision was taken to broaden and deepen some of the main themes discussed on that occasion. Therefore this book focuses on the Sciacca region and its landscape which is extraordinarily rich in natural geological phenomena and associated archaeological activity, for example the Grotta del Kronio and the numerous dolmens present nearby. This volume seeks to explore the various aspects – habitational or ritual – of the prehistoric use of the numerous caves present in the region and to analyse the many features of the island’s megalithic architecture. The text includes an historical review of the processes of discovery of the archaeological evidence, also an account of the current research projects and research activities.Table of ContentsFrom cave to dolmen. Ritual and symbolic aspects in the prehistory between Sciacca, Sicily and the central Mediterranean. The reasons for a volume (Domenica Gulli); Sciacca terra di prodigy (Ernesto De Miro); The prehistory of Sciacca between old acquisitions and new research (Domenica Gulli); The 'Progetto Kronio': history and problems of an extreme exploration in an intact archaeological deposit (Giovanni Badino - Louis Torelli); The stratigraphic sequence of the Grotta del Kronio and the neolithization of Sicily and Calabria A brief chrono-cultural summary (Vincenzo Tine); The cultic presence at Stufe di S. Calogero complex: the historical levels (Donatella Pian); Notes on naturalistic archaeological documentaries: the example of Monte Kronio (Tullio Bernabei); Ad Aquas. Historical sources and archaeological evidence about Sciacca's thermalism in antiquity (Valentina Caminneci); I luoghi degli zolfi selinuntini Architettura, miti e simboli delle 'macchine naturali' di Monte San Calogero a Sciacca (Bernardo Agro - Antonino Frenda); Cracks, crevices and caves in the Serraferlicchio hill (Ornella Adamo - Domenica Gulli); The meanings of caves in the prehistory and protohistory of the Agrigento territory (Domenica Gulli); Forme di popolamento nella Sicilia centro-meridionale durante l'eneolitico (Rosalba Panvini); The social significance of caves and rock-shelters in the prehistory of the Erei (Central Sicily) archaeological investigations at the Riparo 1 di Contrada San Tommaso near Enna (Enrico Giannitrapani); The ritual use of caves in Sicily between the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic burial and figurative practices of the hunter-gatherers (Domenico Lo Vetro - Fabio Martini - Zelia Di Giuseppe); Contestualizzazione delle grotte nell'archeologia del paesaggio della provincia di Palermo prospettive di ricerca (Giuseppina Battaglia); Caves from the Tyrrhenian side of the Messina province (North-Eastern Sicily) (Maria Clara Martinelli - Gabriella Mangano); The Grotta del Vecchiuzzo (Petralia Sottana, Palermo): a multi-purpose cave in a karst system (Massimo Cultraro); Caves and environment: the case of Etna (Francesco Privitera); Child burials in the Grotta Petralia at Catania (Orazio Palio); The Sanctuary of the Palikoi at Rocchicella (Mineo): the Copper Age structures and the 'boiling waters' phenomenon (Laura Maniscalco); Exploring underground paths. Caves and human landscape in the Siracusa district during prehistory (Anita Crispino- Massimo Cultraro); Strategie insediative nella Sicilia sud-orientale: le grotte dei Monti Iblei nella preistoria (Dalma Cultrera); Grotte sepolcrali dell'area iblea fra il Neolitico e l'eta del bronzo (Lorenzo Guzzardi); Il fenomeno del Bicchiere Campaniforme in rapporto alle culture della Sicilia centro-occidentale (Primo Veneroso); Apporti megalitici nelle architetture funerarie e abitative della preistoria siciliana (Sebastiano Tusa); L'enigma del muro megalitico e dello pseudo-dolmen di Mura Pregne (Stefano Vassallo); Old and new dolmens for the Hyblean elites of the Castelluccio culture? (Giovanni Di Stefano); 'Ex Occidente lux': considerazioni sull'antica eta del bronzo nel Mediterraneo central (Enrico Procelli); L'occupazione delle grotte in epoca preistorica e protostorica nell'Italia centro-settentrionale (Daniela Cocchi Genick); Lighting up the dark. The role of Ghar Mirdum in Maltese prehistory (Davide Tanasi)

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Book SynopsisClimate variability and human management strategies on crop stands were major factors that frequently affected agricultural yields among indigenous populations from central Mexico. This work seeks to model food production in ancient Tepeaca, a Late Postclassic (AD 1325-1521) and Early Colonial (16th century) state level-polity settled on the central highlands of Puebla, by applying a model that recognizes the presence of two independent and interconnected forms of food production: subsistence agriculture and institutional agriculture. Crop stands within this region depended heavily on rainfed conditions, a form of agriculture that often generates unstable interannual fluctuations in yields. Archaeology acknowledges the effects of such variations on the economy of households and institutions, but attention has been largely put on estimating average productivity values over long periods rather than focusing on interannual divergences. Such instability of agricultural production was recorded among modern Tepeaca’s agriculturalists through an ethnographic survey. This crucial information, along with archaeological data and local 16th century historical sources, is used for modeling the effects of climate variability among prehispanic populations and serves to better comprehend the organization of past agrarian structures, tribute systems and land tenure organization at the household and regional levels.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Agriculture And Theory; Chapter 3: The Natural Setting; Chapter 4: Regional History and the Tepeaca Altepetl ; Chapter 5: Traditional Agriculture in the Study Region; Chapter 6: Agricultural Production for the Year 2009: the Ethnographic Survey; Chapter 7: From Prehispanic Macehualli to Colonial Terrazgueros; Chapter 8: Agricultural Productivity and Tribute in 16th Century AD Tepeaca; Chapter 9: Conclusions and Directions for Future Research.

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Book SynopsisLarge numbers of Greco-Italic and Dressel 1 amphorae were exported to many parts of Gaul during the late Iron Age and they provide a major source of information on the development and growth of the Roman economy during the late Republican period. This volume examines in detail this trade to the Auvergne region of central France and provides a typological and chronological study of the main assemblages of Republican amphorae found on the farms, agglomerations, oppida, and funerary sites, dating from the second century BC until the early first century AD. Other topics examined include the provenance of the amphorae, the stamps, painted inscriptions and graffiti, the distribution of Republican amphorae in the Auvergne, and the evidence for their modification and reuse. Finally, a gazetteer of Republican amphora findspots from France is also provided.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: The Auvergne and the Arverni ; Chapter 3: Greco-Italic Amphorae ; Chapter 4: Dressel 1 Amphorae ; Chapter 5: Other Types of Republican Amphorae ; Chapter 6: Methodologies ; Chapter 7: The Republican Amphora Assemblages from the Auvergne ; Chapter 8: Assemblage Comparisons ; Chapter 9: Provenance ; Chapter 10: Stamps ; Chapter 11: Distribution ; Chapter 12: Modification, Reuse, and Deposition ; Chapter 13: Associated Material Culture ; Chapter 14: Conclusion ; Appendix 1: Catalogue of Stamps, Painted Inscriptions, and Graffiti ; Appendix 2: Gazetteer of Republican Amphora Findspots in France ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Archaeology and Epigraphy of Indus Writing is a detailed examination of the Indus script. It presents new analysis based on an expansive text corpus using revolutionary analytical techniques developed specifically for the purpose of deciphering the Indus script. This exploration of Indus writing examines the structure of Indus text at a level of detail that has never been possible before. This advance in analytic techniques is combined with detailed linguistic information to suggest a root language for the Indus script. Further the syntax of the Indus script is demonstrated to match a Dravidian language. In the process of analysis the place name for the ancient Indus site of Dholavira is identified. This leads to the eventual identification of 17 signs with various levels of certainty. These readings lead to the partial definition of the Indus system of affixing. Using innovative analytical techniques Indus signs can be defined functionally as logographic or syllabic. Further, specific sign sequences are identified as verbs or nouns. The volumetric system used at Harappa during the Indus period is demonstrated. This discovery gives us a good idea of the scale and process of Indus exchange. The Indus inscriptions are analyzed with an emphasis on their archaeological contexts. The analysis presented in this book represents a significant advancement in our understanding of Indus writing.Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: The Indus Valley Script ; Chapter 2: The Indus Sign List ; Chapter 3: Patterns of Sign Use and the Syntactic Structure of Indus Texts ; Chapter 4: Tablets, Pots and the Volumetric System of Harappa ; Chapter 5: Numerals in the Indus Script and their Uses ; Chapter 6: Proto-Dravidian and the Indus Script ; Appendix I: Automated Segmentation Of Indus Texts ; Appendix II: Positional Analysis of Indus Signs ; Appendix III: Classifying Undeciphered Writing Systems Literature Cited

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Book SynopsisThe Roman Cemetery at Nemesbőd belonged to a settlement or a villa which was located on the territory of the Roman colony of Savaria (present day Szombathey, Hungary) in Pannonia. The book deals with thirty-seven graves, which consisted of mainly cremation but also of some inhumation burials. Detailed analysis of grave goods (bronze vessels, pottery, glass, personal accessories, lamps etc.) provides a study of burial customs and their evolution. In addition, specialist reports on human remains and animal bone as well as on epigraphic material are presented.Table of ContentsIntroduction; The Szombathely – Vát project and the excavation of the Roman cemetery at Nemesbőd (Gábor Ilon) ; Studies on the cemeteries of Savaria and its ‘territorium’ (Endre Norbert Fülöp, András Radics) ; The site within the landscape (András Radics) ; The finds (András Márton, Endre Norbert Fülöp and András Radics) Pottery Glass vessels Bronze vessel Oil lamps (lucernae) Clothing accessories Jewellery Writing implements Iron knives The box Coins Carved bone objects Nails, hooks Indeterminable bronze and iron objects ; The dating of the graves and related features (András Márton and Endre Norbert Fülöp) ; Cemetery structure (András Márton and Endre Norbert Fülöp) ; Burial customs (András Márton, Endre Norbert Fülöp and András Radics) ; Terminology of cremation burials Primary cremations Secondary cremations Terminology of inhumations Defining the rituals of the excavated graves Primary cremations Secondary cremations Inhumations Features not identifiable as burials Grave types Cremation and the handling of cremated remains Position of the corpse in the inhumations The fill of the graves Position of grave goods Rites conducted on the grave goods Custom of grave furnishing Summary ; Catalogue of graves, enclosure ditches and their finds (András Márton, Endre Norbert Fülöp and András Radics) ; Interpretation of the graffiti (Andrea Barta) ; Roman graves at the Szombathely – Vát sector of Main Road 86: results of the anthropological analysis (Gábor Tóth) ; Materials and methods Nemesbőd – Irtás-dűlő Nemesbőd – Általúton kívül-dűlő Vép – Surányi-patak nyugati oldala ; Analysis of the archaeozoological material from the three sites at the Szombathely – Vát sector of Main Road 86 (Éva Ágnes Nyerges) ; Description of the animal bone material Assessment of the roman period animal bone material ; Summary (Gábor Ilon, András Márton) ; Résumé (Gábor Ilon and András Márton)

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Book SynopsisMesoamerica is one of the cradles of early civilizations in the ancient world, featuring a wide diversity of cultures exhibiting a high degree of social inequality and stratification. At the pinnacle of the society was the ruler, the court and the high elite. This social segment was responsible for the creation and consumption of the hallmarks of civilizations, including monumental architecture, great monolithic monuments and a wide array of highly decorated, exotic and exceptional material culture. As such royal courts defined the very tastes and styles that characterise entire civilizations. This volume collects eight recent and innovative studies on the subject rulership, palatial compounds and courtly culture by staff and students of the American Indian Languages and Culture studies programme at Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Together these studies span the breadth of Mesoamerica, from the Early Classic metropolis of Teotihuacan (ad 200-550), to Tenochtitlan, the Late Postclassic capital of the Aztec (ad 1300-1521), and from the arid central Mexican highlands in the west to the humid Maya lowlands in the east.Table of ContentsPalaces and Courtly Culture in Ancient Mesoamerica: An Introduction (Julie Nehammer Knub, Jesper Nielsen & Christophe Helmke) ; 1. Where Kings Once Ruled? Considerations on Palaces and Rulership at Teotihuacan (Jesper Nielsen) ; 2. Identifying the Provenance and Dating of Maya Influences at the Cacaxtla Court (Christophe Helmke & Jesper Nielsen) ; 3. Rekindling the Past: Mexica‐Toltec Relations as a Source of Power and Prestige (Helle Hovmand‐Rasmussen) ; 4. The Center of Power: Tasks and Strategies of the Mexica Court (Casper Jacobsen) ; 5. Courtly Etiquette and Eloquent Speech in Ancient Mesoamerica (Rosa‐Maria Worm Danbo & Christophe Helmke) ; 6. How the Other Half Lives: The Role and Function of Body Paint at Maya Courts (Julie Nehammer Knub) ; 7. The Late Classic Maya Court of Namaan (La Florida, Guatemala) (Mads Skytte Jørgensen & Guido Krempel) ; 8. Royal Bundle Ceremonies at Yaxchilan (Rikke Marie Søegaard)

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Book SynopsisThis volume is the first in a series of works detailing the archaeological investigations of the ager Rusellanus, in coastal southern Etruria, undertaken by the Alberese Archaeological Project. It focuses on the Roman temple and sanctuary dedicated to Diana Umbronensis, located at Scoglietto (Alberese – GR) on the ancient Tyrrhenian coast. In so doing it adds to the study of trade and settlement networks in ancient Italy, and provides new data on the character of Roman and late antique Etruria. The book discusses the changing aspect and character of the sanctuary over approximately eight centuries – from its foundation in the mid-2nd century BC and substantial refurbishment in the Antonine period, to its destruction in the 4th century AD and the varied use and reuse of the site through the following two centuries. It includes archaeological, historical and landscape studies, as well as detailed architectural and material culture studies for a composite interpretation of the site and its history.Table of ContentsLo Scoglietto nel paleo-paesaggio della piana di Grosseto Le indagini archeologiche di età romana nel territorio di Alberese Diana e la religione romana Periodo I Età Ellenistica e Repubblicana (II secolo a.C. – I secolo a.C.) Periodi II - III Dal Primo Impero al Regno di Commodo (Fine I secolo a.C. – Ultimo quarto del II secolo d.C.) Periodo IV Età Severiana - Tarda Età Imperiale (Fine del II secolo d.C. - Metà del IV secolo d.C.) Periodi V – VII La piena età tardoantica (Fine del IV secolo d.C. – Metà del VI secolo d.C.) Periodo VIII Il Medioevo e l’Età Moderna (Metà del VI secolo d.C. – XX secolo d.C.) I reperti ceramici La suppellettile da illuminazione Catalogo lucerne I reperti vitrei I reperti numismatici Small Finds I resti umani individuati nella cisterna a Scoglietto analisi preliminari I piani pavimentali dell’area religiosa di Scoglietto I reperti marmorei I bolli laterizi L’epigrafe di Diana Ombronense alla foce del fiume Ombrone (Alberese-Grosseto) L’ager Rusellanus e la città di Rusellae dalla romanizzazione all’età imperiale III secolo a.C. – II secolo d.C. L’ager Rusellanus e la città di Rusellae nel periodo tardoantico (200-549 d.C.) Ancora su Rutilio Namaziano e l’archeologia delle coste tirreniche Paesaggi etruschi, romani e tardo antichi lungo la via Aurelia: l’area di Talamone Conclusioni

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Book SynopsisIn a world without plastics, ceramics, alongside organic containers, were used for almost every substance which required protection or containment: from perfume to porridge. The experience of an Etruscan person, living day to day, would have been filled with interactions with ceramics, making them objects which can recall intimate transactions in the past to the archaeologist in the present. Characterising that experience of Etruscan pottery is the concern of this book. What was it like to use and live with Etruscan pottery? How was the interaction between an Etruscan pot structured and constituted? How can that experience be related back to bigger questions about the organisation of Etruscan society, its increasingly urban nature and relationship with other Mediterranean cultures? More specifically, this volume aims to unpick both the physical encounter between vessel and hand, and the emotional interaction between the user of a pot and the images inscribed upon its surface.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Traditions and Trajectories; Thinking 'things' through: a phenomenology of objects; Quantifying Experience - Methodologies; Touching and Feeling: Vessel Bodies; Seeing and Revealing: Images on Pots; Experiencing Bodies: Bodies in Images on Pots; From Being to Doing: Actions of Bodies on Pots; Pots, People, and Experience: Conclusions; Pottery Corpus; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the proceedings of the workshop ‘Archeologia a Firenze: Città e territorio’, organized by CAMNES, Centre for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, in collaboration with the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana, in April 2013. This event experienced an extraordinary participation by experts in the field, and resulted also in a significant success in terms of public archaeological awareness. Almost twenty years after the exhibition ‘Alle origini di Firenze’ and the publication of its Catalogo, which is considered a signal point in Florentine archaeology, the workshop provided an opportunity for discussion between all those who conducted research, protection and enhancement of the archaeological heritage of Florence thanks to the presentation of the most recent excavations. Moreover, the origins of the city that took the leading role during the Renaissance were discussed, finding in its roots the very reasons for its glorious destiny. The sessions, organized in chronological order – from prehistoric to medieval topics – were supplemented by contributions concerned with conservation and enhancement of the historic landscape whose reconstruction through research and excavation activities constantly requires new discussions and often additional reflections.Table of ContentsRELAZIONI INTRODUTTIVE ; Prima di Firenze: dal Paleolitico all'Eta del Bronzo (Fabio Martini, Lucia Sarti) ; Gli Etruschi di Firenze (Giovannangelo Camporeale) ; Florentia (Giuseppina Carlotta Cianferoni) ; Florentia: archeologia di una citta medievale (Guido Vannini) ; IL PERIODO PREROMANO ; Materie prime, mobilita e scambi in area fiorentina fra Neolitico ed Eta del bronzo (Francesco Trenti, Lorenzo Nannini, Fabio Martini, Lucia Sarti, Nicoletta Volante) ; Il Bronzo antico nella pianura fiorentina: considerazioni e nuovi dati (Federica Romoli) ; Mobilita e interazioni culturali: l'Eta del Bronzo nella Piana Fiorentina (Laura Morabito) ; Vie di comunicazione e scambi in area fiorentina tra Bronzo finale e prima eta del Ferro. Ipotesi sulla base della produzione metallurgica (Alberto Agresti, Stefania Poesini, Lucia Sarti, Marco Zannoni) ; Strutture evidenti e paesaggi nascosti dell'area fiorentina nella Preistoria (Giovanna Pizziolo) ; Fornaci di eta etrusca sotto l'ex Cinema Apollo, in via Nazionale a Firenze (Giuseppina Carlotta Cianferoni, Raffaella Da Vela) ; LA CITTA' ROMANA ; Il nodo viario di Firenze in eta romana (Giovanni Uggeri) ; La fattoria ellenistica di viale Nenni-via Arcipressi a Firenze (Carlotta Cianferoni, Laura Pellegrineschi) ; Il teatro e l'anfiteatro di Florentia (Giuseppina Carlotta Cianferoni) ; Firenze, via Brunelleschi (Giuseppina Carlotta Cianferoni, Giovanni Roncaglia, Maddalena Vacca) ; Le tombe di via Brunelleschi a Firenze: analisi antropologica e paleopatologica degli inumati (Elsa Pacciani, Filiberto Chilleri, Beatriz Garcia Cossio) ; L'Iseo fiorentino (Carlotta Bigagli, G. Carlotta Cianferoni, Alessandro Palchetti, Giovanni Roncaglia) ; La necropoli extramoenia di Sant'Apollonia (Carlotta Bigagli, G. Carlotta Cianferoni, Donatella Croci, Sylvia di Marco, Elsa Pacciani, Alessandro Palchetti, Giovanni Roncaglia) ; Produrre per Florentia (Elizabeth J. Shepherd) ; Gli archivi di Florentia (Elena Sorgeii) ; Un caso di collezionismo internazionale (CIL XI 1645) (Chantal Gabrielli) ; LA TARDA ANTICHITA' ; Firenze tardoantica: istituzioni e societa (Giovanni Alberto Cecconi) ; Ridefinizione degli spazi urbani nella Firenze tardoantica (Paolo Liverani) ; Florentia 'ostrogota' (Francesco Maria Petrini) ; MEDIOEVO E POSTMEDIOEVO ; Florentia carolingia e le difese urbane altomedievali (Guido Vannini, in collaborazione con Emiliano Scampoli) ; Tra la citta e il fiume.L'area degli Uffizi tra tarda Antichita e Medioevo (Federico Cantini, Jacopo Bruttini) ; Torri e campane: archeologia dello spazio urbano nella Firenze medievale (Chiara Marcotulli, Laura Torsellini) ; La cerchia muraria di XII-XIII secolo (Carlotta Bigagli, G. Carlotta Cianferoni, Sara Lotti, Alessandro Palchetti, Laura Pellegrineschi, Giovanni Roncaglia) ; Il complesso di Sant'Orsola a Firenze.Lo scavo stratigrafico nella chiesa 'di fuori' (Valeria d'Aquino) ; Cantiere Grandi Uffizi.Il complesso della Zecca fiorentina in eta basso medievale (Giuseppina Carlotta Cianferoni, Paolo Lelli, Giovanni Roncaglia) ; Archeologia dell'architettura a Firenze.La prima stagione (1986-1999): esperienze tra restauro e storia della citta (Andrea Vanni Desideri) ; Alimentazione nella Firenze medievale: analisi dei residui organici nelle ceramiche (Alessandra Pecci) ; Beccherie fiorentine: pratiche di macellazione e consumi alimentari nel Rinascimento (Chiara Assunta Corbino) ; Firenze, borgo del Pignone.Un approdo fluviale d'eta leopoldina (Giuseppina Carlotta Cianferoni, Paolo Lelli, Valeria Montanarini, Giovanni Roncaglia) ; PROGETTI DI FRUIZIONE E VALORIZZAZIONE ; Archeologia urbana a Firenze: piazza della Signoria 1982-1989 (Monica Salvini) ; ARCHEOFI (archeologia.comune.fi.it) un sistema informativo per la gestione e la condivisione dei principali dati archeologici di Firenze (Emiliano Scampoli, Annica Sahlin, Gabriele Andreozzi) ; Firenze prima di Florentia.Per un modello di Museo Archeologico Virtuale dell'area fiorentina (Domenico Lo Vetro, Lucia Sarti, Fabio Martini) ; Il progetto museografico di qualificazione del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze (MAF) a sette anni dal suo avvio (Lucrezia Cuniglio) ; Potenziale didattico e di valorizzazione dell'archeologia preistorica dell'area fiorentina (Lucia Sarti) ; Pro Civium Utilitate.Note sul razionalismo, Firenze, l'ex Manifattura Tabacchi (Ettore Janulardo)

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Book SynopsisEgyptian Cultural Identity in the Architecture of Roman Egypt (30 BC–AD 325) considers the relationship between architectural form and different layers of identity assertion in Roman Egypt. The Roman province of Aegyptus was a peculiar province such that many scholars have generally assumed that it was given a special status in the Roman Empire. The text covers the period from the Roman conquest of Egypt under Octavian in 30 BC to the official recognition of Christianity in AD 325. It stresses the sophistication of the concept of identity, and the complex yet close association between architecture and identity. This monograph is the outcome of four years of research at the Department of Classics and Ancient History, the University of Durham. The book will be of interest and value for both Classicists and Egyptologists working on the archaeology of Egypt under Roman rule and the concept of identity.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter I: City Layout, Urban Space, and Public Buildings Chapter II: Monumentality of the Pylon and Egyptian Cultural Identity Chapter III: Houses and Egyptian Cultural Identity Chapter IV: Tomb Iconography and Egyptian Cultural Identity Chapter V: Architectural Ornament and Egyptian Cultural Identity General Conclusion Appendix 1: Catalogue of Roman-Period Temple Pyla Appendix 2: Catalogue of Roman-Period Houses Appendix 3: Catalogue of Roman-Period Tombs Appendix 4: Typology of Eyptian Composite Capitals Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book seeks to address the journeying context of pilgrimage within the landscapes of Medieval Britain. Using four case studies, an interdisciplinary methodology developed by the author is applied to four different geographical and cultural areas of Britain (Norfolk, Wiltshire/Hampshire, Flintshire/Denbighshire and Cornwall), to investigate the practicalities of travel along the Medieval road network including the routes themselves, accommodation, the built environments and natural topographies encountered. An introduction, assessment of current theory and scholarship is provided, followed by an explanation of the methodology used. The four case studies are then presented (Ely to Walsingham, Salisbury to Winchester, St Asaph to Holywell, and Camelford to Bodmin). Within each case study, both the selected starting point for the pilgrimage (typically either a locale confirmed in the historical record as linked to the pilgrim destination, or a settlement of some significance within the local area and thus well connected to the route network), and the site of the saint cult itself are analysed for their growth, reaction and accommodation to the pilgrim phenomenon. Also addressed are the route networks of the county as a whole, relationships to economic centres and their impact on travel possibilities, the topography, the distribution patterns for saint dedications in parish churches within the area, material culture and the ecclesiastical built environment (for example pilgrim badges, monasteries), and the physical landscapes through which the pilgrim travels. Here, the interaction between the pilgrim and the environments through which they move is addressed. Considerations include fatigue, exertion, panoramas and way-finding, route visibility, sight lines to monuments, folklore within the landscape, and the potential echoing of Christian scriptural motifs within certain landscape types/features (e.g. wilderness and sanctuary).Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Purpose and the Pilgrim; Chapter 2: The Pilgrim's Presence in Scholarship; Chapter 3: Ely to Walsingham; Chapter 4: Salisbury to Winchester; Chapter 5: St Asaph to Holywell; Chapter 6: Camelford to Bodmin; Chapter 7: Responses, the Pilgrim Experience and Cultural Comparisons; Bibliography; Appendix A: Shortlist of Data Recorded for Each Case Study; Appendix B: Detailed Maps of the Route Taken for Each Case Study; Appendix C: Digitised Data Sheets Recorded for Each Site; Appendix D: Individual Surviving Pre-Reformation Church Dedications; Appendix E: Religious houses in Norfolk, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Cornwall, as recorded by Knowles & Hadock in 'Religious Houses of England & Wales' (1953); Appendix F: Catalogue of Ampullae from Portable Antiquities Scheme Database with Motifs Relating to Walsingham; Appendix G: Catalogue of Pilgrim Badges from Portable Antiquities Scheme Database with Motifs Definitely Relating to Walsingham (Excluding the London Waterfront Cluster)

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Book SynopsisThe bearded and mature figure of Christ stands majestically raising his right hand, open palm facing the viewer. In his left he holds an unfurled scroll. Saints Peter and Paul appear on either side, Peter approaching to catch or protect the dangling bookroll. This image, the so-called traditio legis, first appeared in late fourthcentury Rome in a variety of media, from the monumental to the miniature, including mosaic, catacomb painting, gold-glass and, the most numerous group, marble relief carving on sarcophagi. This monograph engages in a close reading of the traditio legis, highlighting its novelty and complexity to early Christian viewers. The image is analyzed as a conflation of two distinct forms of representation, each constructed of unusual and potentially multivalent elements. Iconographical details like the hirsute Christ, his gesture, Peter’s covered hands and the unorthodox positioning of the two saints are examined in isolation and as elements of the whole. The synthetic composition invited alternative and over-determined meanings.Table of ContentsPreface Part I. An introduction to the image Chapter 1: The invention of the traditio legis 1.1 Nomenclature 1.2 Definition Chapter 2: The corpus of monuments 2.1 Sarcophagi 2.2 Other media 2.3 Summary Chapter 3: Dating Chapter 4: Visibility Part II. Meaning and reception Chapter 5: The three men Chapter 6: The Lord’s right side 6.1 Paul 6.2 Christ 6.3 The Lord omnipotent Chapter 7: The Lord’s left side 7.1 Christ 7.2 Peter 7.3 The book Chapter 8: Framing and context 8.1 Structures and cities 8.2 Other figures and scenes 8.3 Symbolic forms 8.4 Family representations Chapter 9: Synthesis 9.1 Left and right 9.2 This world and the next 9.3 Eschatological, Apocalyptic or apocalyptic 9.4 Epilogue Abbreviations Sources Bibliography Figures Index of Objects and Monuments

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Book SynopsisThe history of Ancient Egypt has been studied in the region of Southeast Europe since the end of the nineteenth century. In some of the countries this was not the case for various reasons, but mainly because of the undeveloped scholarly capabilities and institutions, insufficient funds for archaeological research in Egypt, and the lack of cooperation with scholars from other countries. From the 1960s, however, this situation has changed for the better, firstly with the numerous publications of the diffusion of the Ancient Egyptian cults during Graeco-Roman period, and then with publications (articles, catalogues, books) on Ancient Egyptian collections in various museum institutions located in Southeast Europe. From the early 1990s one can trace the increased production of various scholarly papers in which researchers from Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Romania, and Bulgaria not only researched the Egyptian cults in the Roman Empire, but also on the various aspects of history, religion and literature of Ancient Egypt. Their work, however, was mostly unknown to the scholars outside the region primarily because the results were written in the native languages. This book will try to give a review of the history of the studies of Ancient Egypt done in Southeast Europe, and present some of the latest research. A History of Research Into Ancient Egyptian Culture in Southeast Europe comprises a selection of papers in which scholars from various institutions of the region reviewed the different aspects of past studies and the development of the research of the Ancient Egypt in some countries, along with recent research in the field. We hope that this publication will be useful for all scholars who are unfamiliar with the historiography of this region.Table of ContentsChapter I: A History of Research into Ancient Egyptian Culture Conducted in Southeast Europe ; 150 Years of Egyptological Reseach in Croatia (1862-2012) (Mladen Tomorad) ; The Borderline between Predynastic and Dynastic Egypt (4000–3000 B.C.) in the Works of Croatian Egyptologists and Scholars (Porin Šćukanec Rezniček) ; The History of Egyptology in Bulgaria (Emil Buzov) ; Chapter II: The Ancient Egyptian collections in Southeast Europe ; Josef Schwegel (1836–1914) and His Ten Years in Egypt (Tomislav Kajfež) ; The Ancient Egyptian Antiquities in Institutional and Private Collections in Croatia (Mladen Tomorad) ; The Collection of Egyptian Artifacts in the Mimara Museum in Zagreb (Croatia) (Ivana Čukman Nikolić, Mladen Tomorad) ; The Ancient Egyptian Glass Collection in the Mimara Museum (Lada Ratković Bukovčan) ; The Egyptian Collection in the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb: History and Research (Porin Šćukanec Rezniček) ; Egyptian Collection of the Museum of Slavonia in Osijek (Croatia) (Marina Kovač) ; Formation and Composition of the Egyptian Collections in Serbia (Branislav Andelković) ; Ancient Egyptian Artifacts from Romania. Their Research and Future Perspectives (Dan-Augustin Deac) ; Chapter III: The current Egyptological research ; CT and MR Research on Two Egyptian Mummies from the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb (Mislav Čavka, Igor Uranić) ; A Case of Egyptian Revival at the Turn of the 18th Century: the Painter Franc Kavčič Caucig and His Oeuvre D’Egitto (Vesna Kamin Kajfež) ; The Cult of the Sacred Bull Apis: History Of Study (Nenad Marković) ; Was There Ever a ‘Minoan’ Princess on the Egyptian Court? (Uroš Matić) ; The Studies of the Ancient Egyptian Language in Croatia and Serbia (Kristina Šekrst) ; Development of the ‘Croato-Aegyptica’ Database (Mladen Tomorad, Goran Zlodiii) ; Chapter IV: The reseach of the Egyptian cults in Graeco-Roman world ; The Early Penetration of Ancient Egyptian Artifacts and Dissemination of the Cults of Egyptian Divinities in Istria and Illyricum (1St Millennium B.C.-1st Century A.D.) (Mladen Tomorad) ; Isis and Her Affiliates in Dalmatia. Some Reflections on Isiac Religious Communities (Kornelija A. Giunio) History of the Research of the Ancient Egyptian Cults in Pannonia (Dejan Pernjak, Danijel Štruklec, Mladen Tomorad) ; Evidence of the Cults of Isis on the Territory of the Republic of Macedonia (Aleksandra Nikoloska) ; Chapter V: Bibliographies ; Slovenia: Bibliographia Aegyptiacae Slovenicae (from the middle of the ninetheenth century till the end of 2012) (Compiled by Vesna Kamin Kajfež Supplemented by Mladen Tomorad and Ivana Štimac) ; Croatia: Egyptological Bibliography (1856-2014) (Compiled by Mladen Tomorad) ; Bosnia and Herzegovina: Egyptological Bibliography (1889-1993) (Compiled by Ivana Štimac) ; Serbia: Egyptological and Ancient Near Eastern Bibliography (1928-2013) (Compiled by Branislav Andelković and Milena Gošić) ; Romania: Egyptological Bibliography (1959-2014) (Compiled by Dan Augustin Deac) ; Bulgaria: Egyptological Bibliography (1983-2013) (Compiled by Emil Buzov Supplemented by Mladen Tomorad and Ivana Štimac)

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Book SynopsisThis volume is focused on the cataloguing of glass conserved in the Archaeological Museum of Tripoli. This is so far an unpublished corpus of objects identified from investigations into the necropolis and other burials in Tripoli and its suburbs, in conjunction with the activities of the Italian Government in Libya during the first twenty years of the last century. The main objective of the work is filling the gaps in the state of knowledge concerning the production of glass of the North-African area by providing as complete as possible a documentation on the findings from Oea and its territory.Table of ContentsLista di figure nel testo Presentazione Prefazione Introduzione e inquadramento della ricerca Il vetro romano nel Maghreb Storia degli studi e future prospettive I vetri del Museo di Tripoli Attestazioni, areali di distribuzione, diffusione Catalogo I vetri e i loro contesti Ruolo e significati simbolici del vasellame in vetro nei corredi funerari di Oea Concordanze Figure Tavole Abbreviazioni Bibliografiche

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a selection of papers proposed for the Proceedings of the 42nd Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology conference (CAA), hosted at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University from 22nd to 25th April 2014. The program was divided into different themes and this structure has been maintained in the arrangement of articles in the various chapters of this book. Chapter headings include: Historiography; Field and Laboratory Data Recording; Ontologies and Standards; Internet and Archaeology; Archaeological Information Systems; GIS and Spatial Analysis; Mathematics and Statistics in Archaeology; 3D Archaeology and Virtual Archaeology; Multi-Agent Systems and Complex System Modelling.Table of ContentsForeword: Computers and Mathematics in Archaeology, Anatomy of an Ineluctable Success! (François DJINDJIAN) ; Chapter 1 Historiography ; Towards a History of Archaeological Computing: An Introduction (Paola MOSCATI) ; A Retrospective on GIS and AIS Platforms for Public Archaeology in Italy Searching Backward for Roots and Looking Onwards for new Methodological Road-Maps (Mirella SERLORENZI, Ilaria JOVINE, Giorgia LEONI, Andrea DE TOMMASI, Andrea VARAVALLO) ; Art History of the Ancient Near East and Mathematical Models. An Overview (Alessandro DI LUDOVICO and Sergio CAMIZ) ; Archaeology and Computer Applications: The Automatic Cataloging of Italian Archaeological Heritage (Alessandra CARAVALE) ; Chapter 2 Field and Laboratory Data Recording ; Practical Assessment of a Multi-Frequency Slingram EMI for Archaeological Prospection (François-Xavier SIMON, Alain TABBAGH, Apostolos SARRIS) ; Utilizing Magnetic Prospection and GIS to Examine Settlement Organization in Neolithic Southeastern Europe (Alexis NIEKAMP, Apostolos SARRIS) ; Historic Forest Change: New Approaches to Land Use Land Cover (Charlotte E. STANCIOFF, Robert G. PONTIUS Jr, Scott MADRY, Elizabeth JONES) ; Challenges and Perspectives of Woodland Archaeology Across Europe (Hauke KENZLER, Karsten LAMBERS) ; Archaeological Mapping of Large Forested Areas, Using Semi-Automatic Detection and Visual Interpretation of High-Resolution Lidar Data (Øivind Due TRIER, Lars Holger PILØ) ; Laser scanning and Automated Photogrammetry for Knowledge and Representation of the Rupestrian Architecture in Cappadocia: Sahinefendi and the Open Air Museum of Goreme (Marco CARPICECI, Carlo INGLESE) ; Advantages and Disadvantages of Digital Approach in Archaeological Fieldwork (Carlo BIANCHINI, Francesco BORGOGNI, Alfonso IPPOLITO) ; From Survey to Representation of the Model. A Documentation of Typological and Chronological Sequences of Archaeological Artefacts: Traditional and Innovative Approach (Alfonso IPPOLITO, Luca J. SENATORE, Barbara BELELLI MARCHESINI, Gabriella CEROLI) ; Archaeology in the Third and Fourth Dimensions: A Case Study of 3D Data Collection and Analysis From Prince Rupert, BC, Canada (Alyssa PARKER, Morley ELDRIDGE) ; Integrated RTI Approaches for the Study of Painted Surfaces (Eleni KOTOULA, Graeme EARL) ; Survey, Documentation and Analysis of the Archeological Architecture: the House of the Knights of Rhodes in the Forum of Augustus (Carlo BIANCHINI, Gaia Lisa TACCHI) ; Digital Research Strategies for Ancient Papyri: A Case Study on Mounted Fragments of The Derveni Papyrus (Eleni KOTOULA, Graeme EARL) ; Chapter 3. Ontologies and Standards ; Towards Linked-Data in Numismatics: How the DIANA Approach can Improve the Diachrony Integrating Heterogeneous Pieces of Data (Maria CALTABIANO, Mariangela PUGLISI, Antonio CELESTI, Grazia SALAMONE) ; Celtic Coins in Context, a New Database (Katherine GRUEL, Agnes TRICOCHE, Philippe CHARNOTET) ; Uncertainty Handling for Ancient Coinage (Karsten TOLLE, David WIGG-WOLF) ; Interoperability of the ArSol (Archives du Sol) Database Based on the CIDOC-CRM Ontology (Emeline LE GOFF, Olivier MARLET, Xavier RODIER, Stéphane CURET, Philippe HUSI) ; Find the Balance - Modelling Aspects in Archaeological Information Systems (Franz SCHWARZBACH, Felix F. SCHÄFER, Alexander SCHULZE) ; Integration of Archaeological Datasets Through the Gradual Refinement of Models (Cesar GONZALEZ-PEREZ, Patricia MARTÍN-RODILLA) ; Linked Open Greek Pottery (Ethan GRUBER, Tyler Jo SMITH) ; The Digital Archaeological Workflow: A Case Study from Sweden (Marcus J. SMITH) ; Exploring Time and Space in the Annotation of Museum Catalogues: The Sloane Virtual Exhibition Experience (Stephen STEAD, Dominic OLDMAN, Jonathan Whitson CLOUD) ; Building Comprehensive Management Systems for Cultural – Historical Information (Chryssoula BEKIARI, Martin DOERR, Dimitris ANGELAKIS, Flora KARAGIANNI) ; Managing Time Dimension in the Archaeological Urban Information System of the Historical Heritage of Rome and Verona (Alberto BELUSSI, Sara MIGLIORINI, Piergiovanna GROSSI) ; Towards an Archaeological Information System: Improving the Core Data Model (Muriel van RUYMBEKE, Cyril CARRÉ, Vincent DELFOSSE, Pierre HALLOT, Michelle PFEIFFER, Roland BILLEN) ; Chapter 4. Internet and Archaeology ; Archaeological Open Access Journals: The Case of ‘Archeologia e Calcolatori’ (Alessandra CARAVALE, Alessandra PIERGROSSI) ; Massive Open Online Opportunity: MOOCs and Internet–Based Communities of Archaeological Practice (Jeffrey P. EMANUEL) ; Moving Instruction Beyond the Museum’s Walls: Priorities in Online Public Education at the Oriental Institute (Kathryn GROSSMAN, Catherine Kenyon, Megaera LORENZ, Brittany HAYDEN) ; Crowd- and Community-Fuelled Archaeology. Early Results from the MicroPasts Project (Chiara BONACCHI, Andrew BEVAN, Daniel PETT, Adi KEINAN-SCHOONBAERT) ; The ACCORD Project: Archaeological Community Co-Production of Research Resources (Stuart JEFFREY, Alex HALE, Cara JONES, Sian JONES, Mhairi MAXWELL) ; Chapter 5. Archaeological Information Systems ; 12000 Years of Human Occupation, 3 Meters Deep Stratigraphy, 12 Hectares… A Geographical Information System (GIS) for the Preventive Archaeology Operation at Alizay (Normandie, France) (Sylvain MAZET, Cyril MARCIGN, BrunoAUBRY, Isabelle COMTE, Philippe BOULINGUIEZ) ; Records and Spatial Representations in the Context of a Rescue Excavation: The Case of Quincieux (Rhône-Alpes, France) (Ellebore SEGAIN, Veronique VACHON, Bernard MOULIN, Cécile RAMPONI, Wojciech WIDLAK) ; Cartography and Heritage: Past Practice and Future Potential for Mapping Scotland’s Cultural Heritage (Peter MCKEAGUE) ; Visualization Based on the Norwegian University Museum Database (Espen ULEBERG, Mieko MATSUMOTO) ; An Inventory of Lucanian Heritage (Alain DUPLOUY, Vincenzo CAPOZZOLI, Alessia ZAMBON) ; Integrating Complex Archaeological Datasets from the Neolithic in a Web-Based GIS (Kai-Christian BRUHN, Thomas ENGEL, Tobias KOHR, Detlef GRONENBORN) ; Enhanced 3D-GIS: Documenting Insula V 1 in Pompeii (Giacomo LANDESCHI, Nicolò DELL’UNTO, Daniele FERDANI, Stefan LINDGREN, Anne-Marie LEANDER TOUATI) ; MAPPA Open Data Metadata. The Importance of Archaeological Background (Francesca ANICHINI, Gabriele GATTIGLIA) ; A Simple Way to Formalize the Dating of Stratigraphic Units (Bruno DESACHY) ; Recognizing Temporalities in Urban Units from a Functional Approach: Three Case Studies (Julie GRAVIER) ; OH_FET: A Computer Application for Analysing Urban Dynamics Over Long Time Spans (Laure SALIGNY, Ludovic GRANJON, Thomas HUET, Gaël SIMON, Xavier RODIER, Bastien LEFEBVRE) ; An ‘Alphabet’ to Describe the Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Settlement Systems: A Relevant Representation of Time? (Marie-Jeanne OURIACHI, Frédérique BERTONCELLO, with the collaboration of Pierre NOUVEL, Laure NUNINGER, Elise FOVET, Stephane ALIX) ; Chapter 6. GIS and Spatial Analysis ; ArkeoGIS, Merging Geographical and Archaeological Datas Online (Loup BERNARD, Damien ERTLEN, Dominique SCHWARTZ) ; Counting Sheep Without Falling Asleep: Using GIS to Calculate the Minimum Number of Skeletal Elements (MNE) and Other Archaeozoological Measures at Schöningen 13Ii-4 ‘Spear Horizon’ (Alejandro GARCÍA-MORENO, Jarod M. HUTSON, Aritza VILLALUENGA, Elaine TURNER, Sabine GAUDZINSKI-WINDHEUSER) ; Looking for the Best. A Comparison Between GIS and PageRank Based Algorithms for Preventive Archaeology in Urban Areas (Dubbini NEVIO, Gabriele GATTIGLIA, Augusto PALOMBINI) ; Analyses of Bone Modifications on Human Remains: A GIS Approach (Elsa CIESIELSKI, Hervé BOHBOT) ; Territorial Organisation of the Terramare Culture (Bronze Age, Italy): Use of GIS Methodology to Tackle Societal Issues (Julie BOUDRY) ; From the Excavation to the Territory: Contributions of GIS Tools to the Study of the Spatial Organization of the Archaeological Site of Argentomagus (France, Indre, Saint-Marcel/Argenton-sur-Creuse) (Emeline LE GOFF, Laure LAÜT, Yoann RABASTÉ, Françoise DUMASY) ; The Integration of Landscape Processes in Archaeological Site Prediction in the Mugello Basin (Tuscany/Italy) (Elmar SCHMALTZ, Michael MÄRKER, Hans-Joachim ROSNER, Adrew-Williams KANDEL) ; The Use of Burgundy Stone from Ancient Times to the Present Day (Stéphane BÜTTNER, Delphine MONTANGE, Laure SALIGNY, Marion FOUCHER with the collaboration of Eric LECLERCQ, Marinette SAVONNET) ; Exploring Intervisibility Networks: A Case Study From Bronze and Iron Age Istria (Croatia and Slovenia) (Zoran ČUČKOVIĆ) ; Chapter 7. Mathematics and Statistics in Archaeology ; Intentional Process Modeling of Statistical Analysis Methods (Charlotte HUG, Rebecca DENECKÈRE, Ammar AYMEN) ; Ancient Mesopotamian Glyptic Products, Statistics and Data Mining: A Research Proposal (Alessandro DI LUDOVICO, Sergio CAMIZ) ; Intrasite Spatial Analysis Applied to the Neolithic Sites of the Paris Basin: From the Archaeological Feature to Global Analysis (François GILIGNY) ; Statistical and Mathematical Models for Archaeological Data Mining: A Comparison (Nevio DUBBINI, Adam LODOEN) ; Chapter 8. 3D Archaeology and Virtual Archaeology ; Measuring and Describing 3D Texture (Vera MOITINHO DE ALMEIDA, Juan Antonio BARCELÓ) ; Old Versus New – Introducing Image-Based 3D Modeling into the General Documentation Workflow of Archaeological Rescue Excavations. Case Studies: the Čachtice and Bratislava castles, Slovakia (Jan ZACHAR, Seta ŠTUHEC) ; Beyond Spreadsheets: Digitising the Archaeological Artefact Inventory Process (Arianna TRAVIGLIA, Stephen WHITE, Andrew WILSON) ; Potentialities of 3D Reconstruction in Maritime Archaeology (Elisa COSTA, Carlo BELTRAME, Francesco GUERRA) ; Cultural Heritage Documentation in Cave Environnement Using Low-Cost Means for Archaeologists. Case Study of the Larchant Caves in the Fontainebleau Forest in France (Aurelia LUREAU, Mehdi BELARBI, Pascal RAYMOND, Régis TOUQUET) ; Forum Romanum: A 3D Model for Self-Service Educational Purposes (Philippe FLEURY, Sophie MADELEINE, Nicolas LEFÈVRE) ; The Virtual Reconstruction of a Small Medieval Town: The Case of Briviesca (Spain) (Mario ALAGUERO, Andres BUSTILLO, Blanca GUINEA,Lena IGLESIAS) ; 25 Years of Experience in Virtual Reconstructions - Research Projects, Status Quo of Current Research and Visions for the Future (Mieke PFARR-HARFST) ; The Archaeological Excavation of the Early Neolithic Site of Portonovo as a Case Study for Testing a 3D Documentation Pipeline (Cecilia Conati BARBARO, Eva Savina MALINVERNI, Anna Nora TASSETTI, Chiara LA MARCA) ; Chapter 9. Multi-Agent Systems and Complex System Modelling ; A Density-Based Simulation Approach for Evaluating Prehistoric Population Fluctuations in Finland (Tarja SUNDELL, Juhana KAMMONEN) ; Multi-Agent Modelling of the Neolithic LBK (Jean-Pierre BOCQUET-APPEL, Richard MOUSSA, Jérôme DUBOULOZ) ; Explaining the Adoption of ‘Innovations’ in Western Europe During Bronze Age: Towards an Agent-Based Simulation (Juan A. BARCELÓ, Florencia DEL CASTILLO BERNAL, Giacomo CAPUZZO, Berta MORELL, Joan NEGRE) ; Spatial Interaction Simulation Methods for Ancient Settlement Distributions in Central Italy (Taylor OSHAN, Carson FARMER, Eoin O’DONOGHUE) ; Interactions and Network Analysis of a Rock Art Site in Morro do Chapéu, Bahia, Brazil (Carlos ETCHEVARNE, Grégoire VAN HAVRE)

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Book SynopsisThe theme of this study is the large-scale exploitation of different stone products that took place in Norway during the Viking Age and the Middle Ages (c. AD 800–1500). The research is based on analyses of two different quarry landscapes in Western Norway: the quernstone quarries in Hyllestad, Sogn og Fjordane, and the bakestone quarries in Ølve and Hatlestrand, Hordaland. The centre of attention is the production of utility artefacts: quernstones, millstones and bakestones, and more symbolic products such as stone crosses. The production landscapes are also assessed within wider socio-economic perspectives related to organisation, control and landownership. Following the different products, from production in the quarries to their distribution and use in both urban and rural contexts in Northern Europe, questions regarding trade and networks are addressed. The material is also discussed and assessed in wider methodological and theoretical contexts, and an aim is to illuminate the control and right of use related to the quarrying, also to examine the groups of actors behind production as well as distribution and trade.Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 State of Research 3 Theoretical Perspectives 4 Methodological Approaches 5 Archaeological Investigations of Quarries at Hyllestad 6 Archaeological Investigations of the Quarries of Ølve and Hatlestrand 7 Spatial and Chronological Distribution of Products 8 Who Controlled the Quarries? 9 Organizing Production 10 Forms of Transaction 11 Conclusions Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe story of the duel of David and Goliath, the Philistine champion, is narrated in the Bible in several versions. While its symbolic importance in Judaism and later in Christianity gradually came to represent the battle between good and evil, true faith and paganism, attempts were made since ancient times to solve its ambiguities. In modern research, the story arouses many disputes. There is controversy about the degree of realism and fantasy in it and there is also no agreement as to the time it was composed. Some claim that this was close to the time when the event occurred at the beginning of the monarchy period. Others postpone the time of its writing to the end of the Judaean monarchy and even to Second Temple times by pointing out its similarities to Greek literature and the characteristics of Goliath as an Aegean hoplite. The purpose of the study is not only to shed light on the enigmas about the protagonists and the time of the story, but also to understand why the importance of its message did not lessen and in what circumstances the interest in it was prolonged. The study employs a textual analysis (literary and philological) of the story together with its comparison to Greek, Egyptian and Mesopotamian literary sources, historical analysis, and also a comparative analysis with archaeological findings. It examines sources which until now have not been included in research and suggests a new date, place and motive for the compilation of the duel story.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Aegean mercenaries and their role in the Near East and in Egypt since the 8th century BCE ; 2. Aegean mercenaries in the Bible ; Research approaches to the story of the duel between David and Goliath and the figure of Goliath ; Who were the opponents in the duel and when did the event take place? ; The defensive armament of Goliath and conclusions about his identity and name ; The name is the message: four proofs ; Who was the enemy represented by Goliath? The Saites and their Aegean mercenaries ; Saite-Aegean myths in a distorted mirror ; The story of the duel in light of the biblical attitude to the Babylonian exiles and the Egyptian diaspora ; Conclusion ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe number and density of megalithic chambered cairns in the Isles of Scilly, a tiny archipelago that forms the most south-westerly part of the British Isles, has been remarked upon since the 18th century. Isles of the Dead? examines these sites, generally known as entrance graves, and the associated cist graves. Their physical structure and contents, as well as their landscape setting, orientation and inter-visibility, are discussed. The origins and functions of the monuments and their significance to the communities that built and used them are also considered. The findings indicate that the entrance graves were indeed used for burial and that a wide range of grave goods, including prestige items, were placed in them. The pottery, in particular, shows the development of a specific island identity. The first radiocarbon determinations from the graves suggest a period of use between c2000 and 1250 cal BC. This coincides with the inundation of large areas of low-lying land in the islands and suggests that the construction of entrance graves may have been regarded as a way of ‘holding the line’ against the depredations of the sea.Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Recent approaches to the study of megaliths and their application to Scilly 3 Previous research on the entrance graves and cists of Scilly 4 The physical characteristics of the scillonian entrance graves and cists 5 The contents of the Scillonian entrance graves and cists 6 The setting of the Scillonian entrance graves and cists 7 The function of the Scillonian sites 8 Dating the entrance graves and cists 9 Comparisons with chambered cairns and cists elsewhere in the British Isles and Brittany 10 Conclusions Appendix 1: Catalogue of Scillonian entrance graves and cists and their contents Appendix 2: Concordance of sites. Appendix 3: Extracts from the notebooks of George Bonsor Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAlthough world-renowned, Pompeii, the first Roman site to be excavated and one of the most visited and best-studied archaeological sites in the world, still has unanswered questions to yield, especially in terms of its long-term development from pre-Roman times. The extensive excavations (1995–2006) by the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii (AAPP) has provided a rare insight into chronological change within the city of Pompeii. This research was significant as an insula block within the city of Pompeii had never previously been excavated in its entirety. The analysis of all the recovered seeds, fruits and cereal remains has provided a unique research opportunity to undertake a diachronic study of urban Roman plant food consumption and discards. Over the past two centuries of excavations at Pompeii only a handful of published works dealing with botanical evidence have been published. The results from this study demonstrate a standard Mediterranean archaeobotanical assemblage recovered from Insula VI.1 which included wheat, barley, legumes, olives, grapes and figs. A wider diversity of fruits, pulses, and additional cereals, especially broomcorn millet were also found. These results support the established view that Pompeii was a fully urbanised city in the 1st century B.C.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Historical Background Chapter 3: Methodology Chapter 4: Results Chapter 5: Comparison of Archaeological Evidence Chapter 6: Food and Roman Culture Chapter 7: Discussion: Rubbish, Floors and Food Chapter 8: Conclusions Bibilography

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Book SynopsisIn this book Philip Bes summarises the results of his PhD thesis (Catholic University of Leuven) on the analysis of production trends and complex, quantified distribution patterns of the principal traded sigillatas and slipped table wares in the Roman East, from the early Empire to Late Antiquity (e.g. Italian Sigillata, Eastern Sigillata A, B and C, Çandarli ware, Phocean Red Slip Ware/LRC, Cypriot Red Slip Ware/LRD and African Red Slip Wares). He draws on his own work in Sagalassos and Boeotia, as well as an exhaustive review of archaeological publications of ceramic data. The analysis compares major regional blocks, documenting coastal as well as inland sites, and offers an interpretation of these complex data in terms of the economy and possible distribution mechanisms.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Aims and Methodology Chapter 2: Definition of the Topic Chapter 3: The Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods: Discussion and Chronological Phasing Chapter 4: Framing Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Tablewares Chapter 5: The Mid- and Late Roman Periods: Discussion and Chronological Phasing Chapter 6: Interpretation of the Quantitative, Chronological, and Geographical Evidence for the Mid- to Late Roman Period Chapter 7: Thoughts on the Socio-Economic Significance of Red Slip Tablewares

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Book SynopsisThe Artuqids were one of the successor dynasties that rose to power in the aftermath of the eleventh-twelfth century invasion of Western and Central Asia by the Seljuq Turks. While the political power of the Artuqids was limited to the Diyar Bakr, a small region in northern Jazira corresponding to Southeastern Turkey, their artistic legacy is noteworthy. The many surviving Artuqid monuments, built over three hundred years (early 12th – early 15th century), and their decoration exemplify the mastery of stone carving which is reflected in intricate designs and motifs. Mardin, alongside other Artuqid centers such as Amid, Mayyafariqin and Hisn Kayfa, was set within a larger zone of diverse Christian and Islamic artistic traditions. This book defines Mardin’s artistic context in relation to the other Artuqid centers, as well as the neighboring zones that encompass Anatolia, the Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Egypt. During the Artuqid period an original style developed in Mardin and the Diyar Bakr, which itself was rooted in a well-established local school of stone carving. Connected with Christian traditions found in the Syriac Tur ‘Abdin and in Late Antique Syria, the decoration also compares with that of monuments in Armenia and Georgia, and resonates with artistic practices seen in areas controlled by the regional Muslim powers of the time: the Zangids, Ayyubids, Mameluks, Great and Anatolian Seljuqs and the Ilkhanids. The Artuqid buildings reflect the spirit of the time, when the Jazira served as an artistic platform, fostering the circulation of ideas that led to new inspiration, and open-minded rulers and patrons, curious and receptive to new creations, stimulated the creative efforts of architects, stone carvers and craftsmen. The decorated monuments also attest to the existence of significant economic wealth and the need to commission sophisticated buildings that magnified the political and social status of the ruling elite’s.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; 1. SOURCES; 2. CONTEXTE GEOGRAPHIQUE ET HISTORIQUE; 3 MONOGRAPHIES DES MONUMENTS ARTUQIDES DECORES; 4 TAILLER ET SCULPTER LE DÉCOR : MATERIAUX ET TECHNIQUES DE PIERRE; 5 ELEMENTS ARCHITECTURAUX DECORES; 6 ANALYSER MOTIFS ET COMPOSITIONS; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHIE; PLANCHES

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Book SynopsisTransformationpresents a diachronic investigation providing a rich case study as well as an approach tracing the contours of a category of Roman material culture defined by the Roman period technique of openwork carving. As the first comprehensive assemblage of openwork vessels from Classical to late Antiquity, this work offers primary evidence documenting a key example of the fundamental shift from naturalism to abstraction in which inscriptions are transformed and word becomes image. A glass blower herself, Hallie Meredith poses questions about process, tactility and reception providing a clear picture of the original contexts of production and reception demonstrated by the Roman technique of openwork carving. In an in-depth analysis of the corpus as a whole, typologies (old and new), imagery, geometric patterning and inscriptions as the major divisions among openwork decorative elements, basic design principles are identified, non openwork carving and its relation to openwork decoration are discussed, as are the function, handling, display, movement and provenance of openwork vessels throughout the Roman Empire. Art historians and archaeologists working on the transition from Classical to late Antiquity, as well as scholars focusing on these and later periods of study, can fruitfully apply this approach to visual culture. This work shows how openwork vessels are a reflection of a wide-reaching Roman cultural aesthetic.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Word becomes Image Inscriptional Art Animating Ancient Art The Emergence of a Late Antique Tradition Case Study Reflects Cultural Transformations Chapter Overviews I. Crafting the Value of Glass: Non-Narrative Texts: Reception of Craft in Late Antiquity Archaeological and Textual Evidence of Three Stages of Glass Trade and Production The Cold-Working Stage: the Tertiary Production of Glass Vessels The Value of Craftsmanship II. Openwork Vessels: A Roman Category: High Relief Material Culture: A Late Roman Cultural Aesthetic Blurring the Boundaries between Text and Image in the Fourth Century Re-Viewing Open Work Vessels: Reflections of a Roman Cultural Aesthetic III. Inscribing Openwork Vessels with Meaning: Previous Typologies Schematic Typology of Openwork Vessels The Movement of Openwork Vessels throughout the Roman Empire Openwork Vessels in Grave Assemblages Conclusion Bibliography Appendix: Contemporaneous, Regionally Distributed Inscribed Glassware Glossary Catalogue: Country (Provenance or Currently), Figure Number, Present (or Last) Location, Descriptive Title Known as Catalogue Figure Sample Catalogue Figures CD: Full catalogue with images in colour

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Book SynopsisSoil and water management is a major stake for the current Mediterranean countries. It was also an important challenge for past societies, especially since the Neolithic and the early well-established farming communities. the mastery of these vital resources accompanied the complexification of social organization. It also widely contributed, if not to impulse it, at least to structure it. This volume presents the results of the CEDRE multidisciplinary project NAHR IBRAHIM that was led on the Lebanese mountain centered around the Nahr Ibrahim valley (the famous Adonis valley in Antiquity), in the hinterland of the ancient city of Byblos. the mountain has been under-researched by archaeology and history due to the attractiveness of the prestigious coastal phoenician cities. The history of settlement patterns and the construction of agricultural mountainous landscapes since the Early Bronze Age is examined with comparisons from other regions surrounding the Mediterranean Basin.Table of ContentsDES CHANGEMENTS PASSÉS A LA PRÉPARATION DE L’AVENIR (Romana HARFOUCHE et Pierre POUPET) LES ANCIENS ÉGYPTIENS SUR LE CHEMIN DES « TERRASSES-DU-CÈDRE » Terres étrangères et modalités d’échanges (Catherine CHADEFAUD) L’OCCUPATION ET LE RÉSEAU ROUTIER DANS LE MONT LIBAN ENTRE L’ÉPOQUE HELLÉNISTIQUE ET LA FIN DE LA PÉRIODE MAMELOUKE. L’exemple du Haut Chouf (Wissam KHALIL) ÉVALUATION DES CARACTÉRISTIQUES PHYSIQUES ET DES RISQUES NATURELS DANS LE BASSIN VERSANT DU NAHR IBRAHIM (Amin SHABAN, Talal DARWICH, Aurore ASSAKER, Pierre POUPET et Romana HARFOUCHE) ÉVALUATION DE L’INSTABILITÉ HISTORIQUE DES TERRAINS AU LIBAN : LE CAS DU NAHR IBRAHIM (Chadi ABDALLAH, Nicolas BAGHDADI et Rouba ZIADE) NOUVEAUX REGARDS MULTIDISCIPLINAIRES SUR LA MONTAGNE DE L’HINTERLAND DE L’ANTIQUE BYBLOS (JBAIL) (Romana HARFOUCHE, Pierre POUPET, Talal DARWICH, Pascal VERDIN, Amin SHABAN, Carla KHATER, Tomasz GOSLAR et Ghaleb FAOUR) ESSAI DE CARACTÉRISATION DE SOLS CULTIVÉS DE L’ GE DU BRONZE SUR LE SITE DE TELL EL-KHARAYEB, LIBAN. Évaluation du potentiel de l’analyse de phytolithes (Pascal VERDIN) LES FORÊTS DU LIBAN : UN HÉRITAGE D’AVENIR (Carla KHATER, Rima EL-HAJJ, Georges HADDAD, Adam ALI, Talal DARWICH et Michel KHOUZAMI) FORÊTS, SOLS ET SOCIÉTÉS : UNE LONGUE HISTOIRE COMMUNE (Romana HARFOUCHE, Pierre POUPET, Carla KHATER et Talal DARWICH) UTILISATION DE LA TÉLÉDÉTECTION ET DES TECHNIQUES SIG POUR L’ÉVALUATION ET LA CARTOGRAPHIE DES RISQUES DE FEUX DE FORÊTS DANS LE BASSIN VERSANT DU NAHR IBRAHIM (Talal DARWICH, Aurore ASSAKER, Ghaleb FAOUR, Mahmoud NOUN, Pierre POUPET et Romana HARFOUCHE) PÉDOGENÈSE ET TAPHONOMIE D’UN ESPACE AGRICOLE DE LA GRÈCE ANTIQUE : LES SOLS ET L’EAU SUR L’ÎLE DE DÉLOS (Pierre POUPET) DE L’ART D’ARROSER SUBTILEMENT LES JARDINS. Agronomes et économies d’eau entre Antiquité et Renaissance (Pierre DUBUIS) L’EAU DANS LA LITTÉRATURE AGRONOMIQUE ARABO-BYZANTINE (Bouraoui TRABELSI) GESTION DE L’EAU ET ESPACES IRRIGUÉS EN AL-ANDALUS (Helena KIRCHNER) LES BISSES VALAISANS DANS L’HISTOIRE. Une présentation générale (Denis REYNARD et Pierre DUBUIS) L’EAU ET LA TERRE. Exploitation et gestion des ressources dans les zones minières au nord-ouest de l’Hispanie (Almudena OREJAS et María RUIZ DEL ÁRBOL) UNE AGRICULTURE À HAUTE ALTITUDE DANS LA MONTAGNE MÉDITERRANÉENNE. Regards pédoarchéologiques sur le Massif du Carlit (Pyrénées-Orientales, France) (Romana HARFOUCHE) DÉVELOPPEMENT DE POLITIQUES PUBLIQUES POUR LA PRÉSERVATION DE L’AGRICULTURE EN TERRASSES DANS L’UNION EUROPÉENNE (Sabina ASINS-VELIS et Joan ROMERO-GONZÁLEZ)

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Book SynopsisThis study challenges current modelling of Bronze Age tell communities in the Carpathian Basin in terms of the evolution of functionally-differentiated, hierarchical or ‘proto-urban’ society under the influence of Mediterranean palatial centres. It is argued that the narrative strategies employed in mainstream theorising of the ‘Bronze Age’ in terms of inevitable social ‘progress’ sets up an artificial dichotomy with earlier Neolithic groups. The result is a reductionist vision of the Bronze Age past which denies continuity evident in many aspects of life and reduces our understanding of European Bronze Age communities to some weak reflection of foreign-derived social types – be they notorious Hawaiian chiefdoms or Mycenaean palatial rule. In order to justify this view, this study looks broadly in two directions: temporal and spatial. First, it is asked how Late Neolithic tell sites of the Carpathian Basin compare to Bronze Age ones, and if we are entitled to assume structural difference or rather ‘progress’ between both epochs. Second, it is examined if a Mediterranean ‘centre’ in any way can contribute to our understanding of Bronze Age tell communities on the ‘periphery’. It is argued that current Neo-Diffusionism has us essentialise from much richer and diverse evidence of past social and cultural realities. Instead, archaeology is called on to contribute to an understanding of the historically specific expressions of the human condition and human agency, not to reduce past lives to abstract stages on the teleological ladder of social evolution.Table of ContentsI. Approaches to Neolithic and Bronze Age Tell Settlement in the Carpathian Basin ; I.1 Introduction: Stone Age, Bronze Age and Archaeological Perception ; I.2 Neolithic Tell Settlement in the Carpathian Basin ; I.3 Bronze Age Tell Settlement in the Carpathian Basin ; II. Europe and the Mediterranean: Dependency or Delusion? ; II.1 ‘Fault Lines’ and the Bronze Age ‘Other’ ; II.2 Homer, Heroes and the Bronze Age ; II.3 Bronze Age ‘Centre’ and ‘Periphery’? ; II.4 The ‘Emergence of Civilisation’, or just: Contingency and Culture Change in Bronze Age Greece? ; III. Epilogue ; III.1 Exploring Divergent Trajectories in Bronze Age Europe

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Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to approach Ptolemaic and Imperial royal sculpture in Egypt dating between 300 BC and AD 220 (the reigns of Ptolemy I and Caracalla) from a contextual point of view. To collect together the statuary items (recognised as statues, statue heads and fragments, and inscribed bases and plinths) that are identifiably royal and have a secure archaeological context, that is a secure find spot or a recoverable provenance, within Egypt. This material was used, alongside other types of evidence such as textual sources and numismatic material, to consider the distribution, style, placement, and functions of the royal statues, and to answer the primary questions: where were these statues located? What was the relationship between statue, especially statue style, and placement? And what changes can be identified between Ptolemaic and Imperial royal sculpture? From analysis of the sculptural evidence, this book was able to create a catalogue of 103 entries composed of 157 statuary items, and use this to identify the different styles of royal statues that existed in Ptolemaic and Imperial Egypt and the primary spaces for the placement of such imagery, namely religious and urban space. The results, based on the available evidence, was the identification of a division between sculptural style and context regarding the royal statues, with Egyptian-style material being placed in Egyptian contexts, Greek-style material in Greek, and Imperial-style statues associated with classical contexts. The functions of the statues appear to have also typically been closely related to statue style and placement. Many of the statues were often directly associated with their location, meaning they were an intrinsic part of the function and appearance of the context they occupied, as well as acting as representations of the monarchs. Primarily, the royal statues acted as a way to establish and maintain communication between different groups in Egypt.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Textual Sources Chapter 3: Cult Statues Chapter 4: Categories and Contexts Chapter 5: Environment of Royal statues and Egyptian Statues with Greek Features Chapter 6: Functions of Royal Statues Chapter 7: Alexandria Chapter 8: Outside Egypt Chapter 9: Conclusion Bibliography Catalogue

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive repertory of the stamps decorating the rims of Christian African lamps. This volume will be an indispensable tool to Mediterranean archaeologists for identifying even small fragments of lamps. French description: Fruit d’un travail de plus de dix ans ce répertoire de 1383 fleurons sur bandeaux de lampes Hayes II marque une avancée significative par rapport aux onze répertoires existants. Celui d’Ennabli, le plus souvent utilisé avec ses 126 fleurons seulement, ne répond pas toujours aux attentes du chercheur. Les auteurs présentent leur classement alphanumérique et justifient leur choix de rendre les reliefs des dessins en noir et les creux en blanc contrairement à la convention qui pour les dessins de décors sur céramique inverse ces valeurs : les fleurons de lampes Hayes II, issus de moules d’appliques, sont en relief et rendre leur contour en blanc suppose nécessairement un trait de contour en noir qui souvent prête à confusion. Ceci est particulièrement visible dans le cas de cercles concentriques ou de damiers. Une base de données entrant plus de 5000 lampes Hayes II dont les fleurons ont été identifiés grâce au répertoire, permet, en faisant jouer l’association des décors de disques avec ceux des bandeaux et avec les provenances, d’ouvrir d’intéressantes perspectives de recherches ultérieures sur les productions des grands ateliers tunisiens actuellement connus.Table of ContentsAvant-propos Remarques préliminaires: Introduction; La décoration d’une lampe: divers modes d’exécution; Le classement des fleurons; L’illustration des fleurons; Perspectives de recherches ultérieures; Conclusion; Bibliographie II - Répertoire Annexe

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Book SynopsisRitual landscapes and borders are recurring themes running through Professor Kalle Sognnes' long research career. This anthology contains 13 articles written by colleagues from his broad network in appreciation of his many contributions to the field of rock art research. The contributions discuss many different kinds of borders: those between landscapes, cultures, traditions, settlements, power relations, symbolism, research traditions, theory and methods. We are grateful to the Department of Historical studies, NTNU; the Faculty of Humanities; NTNU, The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and The Norwegian Archaeological Society (Norsk arkeologisk selskap) for funding this volume that will add new knowledge to the field and will be of importance to researchers and students of rock art in Scandinavia and abroad.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Ragnhild Berge and Heidrun Stebergløkken); Knowing by learning by being there – the course which formed a new generation of rock art researchers (Jarl Nordbladh); Contested worlds – a chronotopic essay about mortuary monuments and cultural change in Northern Europe in the second millennium BC (Joakim Goldhahn); Art and intimacy within the prehistoric landscapes of Norway: how hunter/fisher/gatherers organised their ritual and political worlds through art (George Nash and May-Tove Smiseth); Making community: rock art and the creative acts of accumulation (Mark Sapwell and Liliana Janik); Bow and errors (Paul G. Bahn); The method and physical processes behind the making of hunters’ rock art in Western Norway: the experimental production of images (Trond Klungseth Lødøen); Boundless rock art – symbols, contexts and times in prehistoric imagery of Fennoscandia (Ulf Bertilsson); Subsistence in central Norway elucidated through rock art excavation and documentation (Eva Lindgaard); Between land and water: the ship in Bronze Age West Norway (Melanie Wrigglesworth); The motif of the boat in Valcamonica rock art – problems of chronology and interpretation (Angelo Eugenio Fossati); Contrasts of the maritime environment – possible implications in prehistory – A very short course of cognition in the ancient maritime cultural landscape (Christer Westerdahl); Rock art and the importance of style – style complexes and group identity – South-Western United States and Mid-Scandinavia – a comparable approach (David Vogt); Memory and destruction – pictorial practices surrounding red ochre paintings in late neolithic Northern Sweden (Ylva Sjöstrand); Bibliography Kalle Sognnes 1971-2015 (Eva Lindgaard)

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Book SynopsisGnathia ware is a painted Hellenistic type of ware with yellow, red and white decorations on the black surface of the vessels. Due to a decoration technique simpler than that on the previous Red-figure vases, Gnathia ware became the most widespread type of Hellenistic ware, and also the first type of south Italian ware that was exported in large quantities outside of the main area of production. Gnathia ware takes its name from ancient Gnathia, today Egnazia (a town on the Adriatic coast between Bari and Brindisi) in south-east Italy, where it was first discovered in 1845. The aims of this study are fourfold: to present Gnathia ware on the East Adriatic coast, to define local Issaean Gnathia production from manufacturing to distribution (including the typology of shapes and decorations), to identify other pottery workshops along the East Adriatic coast and, finally to understand the trade and contacts in the Adriatic during the Hellensitic period. Although the aims of the study may seem ambitious, once all of the material was gathered into a single study, it provided sufficient information to set the objective. It is noteworthy that the study presents the current state of research, so additional work needs to be done. However, work on the default task and the information obtained by the analysis of Gnathia and related ware facilitated greater insight into the history of the Adriatic area in the Hellenistic period. Further, the provenance of the material allowed for the reconstruction of contacts in the Adriatic and neighbouring regions. The questions of contacts and trade may seem peripheral to the main objective of the study, i.e., Gnathia and related ware, but they are vital to an understanding of the historical context of this area. So an additional aim of the study is to open up the East Adriatic region to scholars who are studying the history and economy of the Mediterranean basin in the Hellenistic period.Table of ContentsIntroduction Aims of the study Methodology I. Gnathia ware in southern Italy II. Gnathia ware on the East Adriatic III. Related Hellenistic ware on the East Adriatic coast IV: The East Adriatic coast from the 4th to 1st c. BC V. Catalogue of Gnathia ware from Greek and Hellenistic Collection at Archaeological Museum in Split Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis monograph is devoted to small forms of engraving on stone. It summarizes the archaeological material obtained during the course of excavations at the Rauchuvagytgyn I site (dated to 2500 years ago) in northern Chukotka. The book analyzes the content and semantics of the pictorial resources, and ethnic identification is made. The interpretive part of the study raises issues of an ideological character and brings one closer to the inaccessible realm of ideas and concepts of the ancients. This well-illustrated book is directed primarily toward archaeologists, ethnographers, historians, and fine art experts but will also be of interest to a broad range of readers.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Introduction Preface Introduction Chapter I. Cultural and Chronological Characteristics of the Rauchuvagytgyn I Site Chapter II. The Semantic Interpretation of the Graffiti Chapter III. Ethnic Identification of the Ymyyakhtakh Culture Conclusion Postscript References Appendix

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Book SynopsisThe honorand of this volume, Matti Egon, has been a great benefactor to museums, schools, universities and hospitals in the UK and also in Greece: all areas that her background and life’s interests have made dear to her. One of these is the Greek Archaeological Committee UK, that she helped found in 1992: an organization dedicated to informing academe and the public in Britain of archaeological work carried out in Greece, and of enabling the ‘brightest minds’ of Greece and Cyprus to pursue post-graduate research at British institutions, to the mutual enrichment of both. Some fifty-five graduates have so benefited. This volume offers essays by a good half of those so assisted: roughly split between the sexes, they range between post-graduates still completing their studies in the UK, up to those with doctorates, almost half the group, now successfully in employment at Universities and similar Institutions in the UK, Greece, Cyprus and the USA, with rather fewer working in Museums, within the Greek Ephorates and even at a Foreign School in Athens. The hugely varied topics they offer cover the entire range of prehistory and history down to the modern day on Greek and Cypriot soil. Neolithic animal butchery rubs shoulders with regional assessments of the end of the Mycenaean era, investigations into Hellenistic sculptors and lamps, life in Byzantine monasteries and the politics behind modern exhibitions; the Phoenicians and even an Islamic general make cameo appearances. This startling range of subjects accurately reflects the depth of scholarship Matti Egon has nurtured into being; the affection and gratitude expressed by the graduates equally mirrors the deep appreciation they acknowledge for the opportunities so given.Table of ContentsForeword ; The value of digital recordings and reconstructions for the understanding of three-dimensional archaeological features (Constantinos Papadopoulos) ; The contribution of systematic zooarchaeological analysis in understanding the complexity of prehistoric societies: The example of late Neolithic Toumba Kremastis-Koiladas in northern Greece (Vasiliki Tzevelekidi) ; The Heraion of Samos under the microscope: A preliminary technological and provenance assessment of the Early Bronze Age II late to III (c. 2500–2000 BC) pottery (Sergios Menelaou) ; Time past and time present: the emergence of the Minoan palaces as a transformation of temporality (Giorgos Vavouranakis) ; Palaepaphos during the Late Bronze Age: characterizing the urban landscape of a late Cypriot polity (Artemis Georgiou) ; ‘What would the world be to us if the children were no more?’: the archaeology of children and death in LH IIIC Greece (Chrysanthi Gallou-Minopetrou) ; The Late Helladic IIIC period in coastal Thessaly (Eleni Karouzou) ; The Bronze Age on Karpathos and Kythera (Mercourios Georgiadis) ; East Phokis revisited: its development in the transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age in the light of the latest finds (Antonia Livieratou) ; Early Iron Age Greece, ancient Pherae and the archaeometallurgy of copper (Vana Orfanou) ; Representations of western Phoenician eschatology: funerary art, ritual and the belief in an after-life (Eleftheria Pappa) ; Piraeus: beyond ‘known unknowns’ (Florentia Fragkopoulou) ; The casting technique of the bronze Antikythera ephebe (Kosmas Dafas) ; A brief, phenomenological reading of the Arkteia (Chryssanthi Papadopoulou) ; Cylindrical altars and post-funerary ritual in the south-eastern Aegean during the Hellenistic period: 3rd to 2nd centuries BC (Vasiliki Brouma) ; Lamps, symbolism and ritual in Hellenistic Greece (Nikolas Dimakis) ; In search of the garden-peristyle in Hellenistic palaces: a reappraisal of the evidence (Maria Kopsacheili) ; Damophon in Olympia: some remarks on his date (Eleni Poimenidou) ; Entering the monastic cell in the Byzantine world: archaeology and texts (Giorgos Makris) ; Discovering the Byzantine countryside: the evidence from archaeological field survey in the Peloponnese (Maria Papadaki) ; On a Fāṭimid Kursī in the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai (George Manginis) ; The discovery of ancient Cyprus: archaeological sponsorship from the 19th century to the present day (Anastasia Leriou) ; Showcasing new Trojan wars: archaeological exhibitions and the politics of appropriation of ancient Troy (Antonis Kotsonas)

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Book SynopsisThe remarkable preservation of the Early Bronze Age village of Afragola on the Campania Plain of Southern Italy is unmatched in Europe. The site was buried under nearly a meter of volcanic ash deposited by the Avellino eruption of Vesuvius ca. 3945+10 cal. BP. The site boasts a large number of well-preserved structures, built features and organic materials and thus provides a laboratory-type setting in which to investigate variability in artifact distribution and activity areas across a single village. This research utilizes micromorphological analysis of thin sections of undisturbed sediment collected at the site to understand how people used living spaces, organized daily activities and, when possible, to connect village life to broad issues related to the emergence of social complexity on the Campanian Plain. In particular, micromorphology is used to identify the type and range of human activities, the function of features and buildings, and the intensity of site occupation. The micromorphological analysis at Afragola provides a unique example of a briefly occupied agricultural village with what appears to be minimally stratified social organization during the Early Bronze Age of southern Italy.Table of ContentsChapter 1: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2: THE EARLY BRONZE AGE VILLAGE OF AFRAGOLA; Chapter 3: METHODS; Chapter 4: MICROMORPHOLOGICAL RESULTS; Chapter 5: DISCUSSION; Appendix; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis work explores the many factors underlying the extended popularity of the cliff tomb, a local burial form in the Sichuan Basin in China during the Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25-220). The development of the cliff tomb was linked to a complex set of connections involved with burial forms, and continued through associations with many other contemporary burial practices: brick chamber tombs, stone chamber tombs, and princely rock-cut tombs. These connections and links formed to a large extent through the incorporation of the Sichuan region within the Empire, which began in the fourth century BC. It was as part of this overall context that a series of factors contributed to the formation and popularity of the cliff tombs in Sichuan. The hilly topography and the soft sandstone, easy to cut, provided a natural resource for the development of cliff tombs. The present book, therefore, analyses the decisions behind the exploitation of this natural resource, which were also affected by many complexities rooted in the social background. The inherent nature of the cliff tomb structure is fully explored, followed by an investigation into the corresponding innovations involving pictorial carvings and burial objects. The meanings behind the seemingly continuous ‘family’ associated with the cliff tomb structure are also explored, as the construction of the tomb resulted from the continuous endeavours of many generations, and the physical appearance of the cliff tomb becomes a metaphor for family prosperity.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Tomb Structure Chapter 3: Pictorial Carvings Chapter 4: Burial Objects Chapter 5: Conclusion Bibliography Appendix 1 Stories of Filial Sons and Eminent Men and Women Carved in the Cliff tombs in Sichuan Appendix 2 Eastern Han High Officials of the Areas Outside Sichuan from the Sichuan Area Appendix 3 Eastern Han Cliff Tombs Excavated in the Sichuan Area

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Book SynopsisProfessor Rodrigo de Balbín has played a major role in advancing our knowledge of Palaeolithic art, and the occasion of his retirement provides an excellent opportunity to assess the value of prehistoric art studies as a factor in the study of the culture of those human groups which produced this imagery. The diverse papers in this volume, published in Professor de Balbín’s honour, cover a wide variety of the decorated caves which traditionally defined Palaeolithic art, as well as the open-air art of the period, a subject in which he has done pioneering work at Siega Verde and elsewhere. The result is a new and more realistic assessment of the social and symbolic framework of human groups from 40,000 BP onwards.Table of ContentsPrehistoric Art as Prehistoric Culture (Primitiva Bueno-Ramírez and Paul Bahn); ‘Science’ versus Archaeology: Palaeolithic Rock Art at the beginning of the 21st century (José-Javier Alcolea-González and César González-Sainz); Raman spectroscopy of prehistoric pictorial materials (Antonio Hernanz); Prehistoric rock art and non-invasive analysis. Rouffignac as a case study (Patrick Paillet); Reasoning processes in prehistoric art interpretation (Sophie A. de Beaune); Are hand stencils in European cave art older than we think? An evaluation of the existing data and their potential implications (Paul Pettitt, Pablo Arias, Marcos García-Diez, Dirk Hoffmann, Alfredo Maximiano Castillejo, Roberto Ontañon-Peredo, Alistair Pike and João Zilhão); Regional ontologies in the Early Upper Palaeolithic: the place of mammoth and cave lion in the ‘belief world’ (Glaubenswelt) of the Swabian Aurignacian (Shumon T. Hussain and Harald Floss); Aurignacian art in the caves and rock-shelters of Aquitaine (France) (Brigitte and Gilles Delluc); Fuente del Trucho, Huesca (Spain): Reading interaction in Palaeolithic art (Pilar Utrilla and Manuel Bea); Open-air Ice Age art: the history and reluctant acceptance of an unexpected phenomenon (Paul G. Bahn); Decorated sites and habitat: social appropriation of territories (Denis Vialou); Deep caves, ritual and graphic expression: a critical review of the archaeological evidence on hypogean human activity during the Upper Palaeolithic/Magdalenian (Pablo Arias); Magdalenian settlement-subsistence systems in Cantabrian Spain: contributions from El Mirón Cave (Lawrence G. Straus, Manuel González Morales, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo and Lisa M. Fontes); The Upper Palaeolithic rock art of Portugal in its Iberian context (André Tomás Santos, Maria de Jesus Sanches and Joana Castro Teixeira); Old panels and new readings. La Pileta and pre-Solutrean graphics in Southern Iberia (Miguel Cortés Sánchez, María D. Simón Vallejo, Rubén Parrilla Giráldez, and Lydia Calle Román); Palaeolithic art in the Iberian Mediterranean region. Characteristics and territorial variation (Valentín Villaverde); Small seeds for big debates: Past and present contributions to Palaeoart studies from North-eastern Iberia (José María Fullola, Ines Domingo, Didac Román, María Pilar García-Argüelles, Marcos García-Díez and Jorge Nadal); Throwing light on the hidden corners. New data on Palaeolithic art from NW Iberia (Ramón Fábregas Valcarce, Arturo de Lombera-Hermida, Ramón Viñas Vallverdú, Xose Pedro Rodríguez-Álvarez, and Sofia Soares Figueiredo)

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Book SynopsisIn the 1960s a great new barrier dam was built across the Peneios Valley in Elis in the N.W. Peloponnese to create an artificial lake for irrigation purposes. In 1967 the Greek Archaeological Service organised a preliminary survey of the areas to be affected and also asked all the Foreign Archaeological Schools to assist and allocated specific sections to each. The British School at Athens sent a small team in late 1967 to survey part of the south-west fringes of the area to be flooded; this team identified many sites and opened test-trenches at six of them. In 1969 further work was undertaken in that area for the British School: a small team from Birmingham University and from Bangor undertook excavations at two of the identified sites, ‘Kostoureika’ and ‘Keramidia’. This account describes the results in detail. ‘Kostoureika’, identified as a likely Hellenistic ‘villa’ proved structurally disappointing (the 1967 test-trench had located the only surviving wall), but revealed a deposit of Early Helladic pottery, which supplements very usefully evidence for early occupation in the north-west Peloponnese. ‘Keramidia’ proved to be a site occupied, at least at times, from the Hellenistic to the late Roman imperial period.Table of ContentsIntroduction; British School at Athens Survey, 1967; British School at Athens Excavations, 1969; Kostoureika; Keramidia; Catalogues of Finds; Catalogue I: Kostoureika Early Helladic (KTR EH); Catalogue II: Kostoureika Hellenistic (KTR H); Catalogue III: Kostoureika III and IV; Catalogue IV: Keramidia; Catalogue V: 'Keramidia Hill' (KER.HILL / KH)

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Book SynopsisThis research explores the development of the Maya writing system in Middle–Late Formative and Early Classic period (700 BC–AD 450) Mesoamerica. It seeks to correlate script development with interregional interaction and diachronic changes in material culture, and proposes a new methodological template for examining script development via material remains. In doing so, it contributes to anthropological debate regarding the role and effects of interregional interaction in processes of development and change of material and symbolic culture. This investigation posits that Maya writing developed in late Middle Formative through Early Classic period Mesoamerica as a correlate of interregional sociopolitical and economic interaction. Scholars working in many areas of the world have long claimed that interaction is central to cultural innovation, especially in relation to the development of writing. If the emergence of the Mayan script is a correlate of systemic interaction, then its developmental process should be traceable archaeologically through artifactual evidence. This hypothesis is tested by exploring archaeological indicators of interaction against a backdrop of previously-documented transformations in the emerging Mayan script. The methodological model proposed here builds on current models of the development of Mesoamerican writing systems and models of interregional interaction and cultural development to associate archaeological remains with the development of the Mayan script.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: Theoretical Framework and Methodological Premises ; Chapter 3: The Northwest Maya Lowlands: Site Selection and Regional Background ; Chapter 4: Ceramic Sample and Analytic Methods ; Chapter 5: Interpreting the Results of the Comparative and Statistical Ceramic Analyses ; Chapter 6: Comparative Analysis of Iconographic and Linguistic Evidence ; Chapter 7: Interpretation and Discussion: The Relationship Between Material Interaction, Innovation, and Script Development ; Chapter 8: Conclusions ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a detailed gazetteer of fish-salting production in the northwest Maghreb in antiquity. It consists of a catalogue of fish-salting sites in addition to catalogues of other related resources that are necessary for the production and trans-shipment of the industry's products: salt and amphorae kilns. The gazetteer is intended to serve as a comprehensive source book, and as such, it builds upon previous studies and current research on the region's fish-salting industry.Table of ContentsForeword; Introduction; 1. Fish-salting in the northwest Maghreb: a brief review of the research; 2. The present volume; Section I. Fish-Salting: Production, Sites, and Resources; Section II. The Gazetteer; Catalogue 1. Fish-Salting Sites; Catalogue 2. Salt Sources; Catalogue 3. Kiln Sites; Section III. Discussion and Summary; Bibliography; Maps List; Figure Permissions; Index

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Book SynopsisRock paintings and petroglyphs are a record of human memories. No doubt, this function defines in essence all archaeological objects. Yet some objects such as tools, beyond their symbolic value, are clearly fashioned for their utility. How does rock art as an object fashioned by human hands then differ from tools? What utility does it have beyond its symbolic value? The Vindhyan corpus of rock paintings has provided us with a very valuable opportunity to be answering such questions.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Methodology; Chapter 3 The Field Survey; Chapter 4 Discussing the Rock Art Data; Chapter 5 Post-depositional Processes and Rock Art; Chapter 6 Analyzing Chronology; Chapter 7 Analyzing Style; Chapter 8 Interpreting Function; Chapter 9 Archaeological interpretation; Bibliography; Index

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