Archaeology by period / region Books
Archaeopress The Production, Use and Importance of Flint Tools
Book SynopsisThis book seeks to explore the issues of production, use and importance of flint tools in the Archaic Period, known also as the Early Dynastic Period, and the Old Kingdom of Egypt, the epoch immediately following the unification of pre-state organisms of Upper and Lower Egypt into one political body. This volume provides an in-depth study of tools made of flint, which unceasingly fulfilled a major role in the period being considered. Flint, occurring in a number of varieties, substantially outnumbers other raw materials used for manufacturing tools, to wit: chalcedony, obsidian, quartzite, carnelian or rock crystal, all found in small or even minute amounts, which attests to their minor role in the first periods of Egyptian history. Notwithstanding a growing number of implements made of copper, then bronze, flint tools constituted an essential element of a broad-based culture, and not only material culture, in the Archaic Period, the Old Kingdom and beyond.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Production of Tools; Chapter 3: Types of Flint Artefacts in the Archaic Period and the Old Kingdom Chapter 4 Flint Assemblages from Recently Investigated Old Kingdom Sites; Chapter 5: Comparison of Flint Assemblages Dated to the Old Kingdom: Sites from Dakhla Oasis, Kom el Hisn and Elephantine; Chapter 6: El Kharafish; Chapter 7: Three Lithic Complexes; Chapter 8: The Importance of Flint Tools in the Culture of Early Dynasties of Egypt; Chapter 9: The Cognitive Potential of Flint Materials; Chapter 10: Continued Interest in Flint; Chapter 11: Conclusions; Appendix: Contribution to the Functional Identification of Flint Tools used during the Old Kingdom of Egypt. A Case Study of Kom el Hisn and Ain el Gazzareen by Małgorzata Winiarska-Kabacińska
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Archaeopress Set in Stone?: War Memorialisation as a Long-Term
Book SynopsisThis book provides a holistic and longitudinal study of war memorialisation in the UK, France and the USA from 1860 to 2014. Moving beyond the social-political circumstances of a memorial’s construction, this study examines memorialisation as a continuing and transformative process. It explores the many ways in which war memorials are repeatedly appropriated, and re-appropriated, undergoing both physical and symbolic transformations. In order to study this full range of transformations, this book presents a unique analytical model that conceptualises objects of memory within three intersecting timescales: the chronological timescale, the conflict timescale and the object timescale. This new methodology facilitates an innovative, holistic approach of understanding engagement with a monument at any given moment in time, allowing meaningful comparisons to be made across both spatial and cultural boundaries. In doing so, it enables an approach to the cultural heritage conflict that moves beyond the socio-political to conceptualise war memorials within a shared cultural experience.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Background and Literature; Methodology; Early War Memorialisation Processes: O-P =1870-1914; Post-First World War Memorialisation Processes: O-P = 1914-1939; Post-Second World War Memorialisation: O-P = 1939- 2014; Discussion; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Questionnaires; Appendix 2: Historical Background to the Initial Development of the War Memorial Tradition; Appendix 3: 17th Maine Memorial, Gettysburg; Bibliography
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Archaeopress Tra Montaccianico e Firenze: gli Ubaldini e la
Book SynopsisThe central theme The Ubaldini and the City is the classic confrontation between feudal society and a resurgent urban form as the central instrument of organisation of European society, which is crucial to the origins of Europe as we know it today. The analysis starts from a reconstruction of the historical role played by the Ubaldini on the basis of a critical reconsideration of the available documentary evidence, and the results appear to be perfectly consistent with the general pattern for the Florentine aristocracy. The theme is one of ‘boundaries’: between historical and archaeological evidence, between the late Middle Ages and the birth of modernity; it concerns space with the establishment of new ‘borders’ which evolve from Terra Nuova and become completely territorial. The book takes as its subject a turning point in the history of the late Middle Ages on the threshold of the modern world: the crisis and collapse of the traditional feudal and rural world and the emergence of new territorial states based on the cities.Table of ContentsINTRODUZIONE (Guido Vannini); GLI UBALDINI NEI SECOLI X-XII PROSOPOGRAFIA, PATRIMONIO, RELAZIONI POLITICHE (Maria Elena Cortese); I POTERI SIGNORILI DEGLI UBALDINI NEL CONTESTO DELLA SIGNORIA RURALE TOSCANA (1100-1250) (Simone M. Collavini); APPENDICE I diplomi degli imperatori svevi per gli Ubaldini; OTTAVIANO UBALDINI, IL CARDINALATO, L’UNIVERSITÀ (Enrico Spagnesi); LA SIGNORIA DEGLI UBALDINI. ASSETTI TERRITORIALI TRA TARDO DUECENTO E PRIMO TRECENTO (Lorenzo Cammelli); LA RIPRESA DELLE LOTTE DI FAZIONE A FIRENZE TRA DUE E TRECENTO E LA GUERRA DI MONTACCIANICO (Vieri Mazzoni); IL LIBRO DELL’IMPOSTA DI MONTACCIANICO UN DOCUMENTO PERDUTO E LA SUA TRADIZIONE MODERNA (Alessandro Monti); PETRARCA, BOCCACCIO AND THE UBALDINI WAR, 1349-50 (William Caferro); GLI UBALDINI, COMMITTENTI DI ARCHITETTURA RELIGIOSA FRA ROMANICO E GOTICO (Marco Frati); I GUIDI SIGNORI DELLE AREE DI CAMMINO APPENNINICHE FRA X E XII SECOLO. IL CASO DELL’ANTICA VIA FAENTINA, LA STRATA FORTIFICATA PERCURRENTE FLUVIO ALIMONE (Chiara Molducci); LA VIABILITÀ DEGLI UBALDINI: IL TRACCIATO DELL’OSTERIA BRUCIATA E LE PIEVI (Elena Vannacci); MONTACCIANICO. IL CONTRIBUTO ARCHEOLOGICO ALLA “RISCOPERTA” TOPOGRAFICA E MATERIALE DEL CASTELLO (Elisa Pruno, Lapo Somigli, Pierre Drap); MONTACCIANICO: ARCHEOLOGIA DELL’ASSEDIO FRA STORIA E TESTIMONIANZE ARCHEOLOGICHE (Chiara Marcotulli, Riccardo Bargiacchi, Francesca Cheli); FRA CONSERVAZIONE E VALORIZZAZIONE: LINEE PROGETTUALI PER IL RECUPERO DI MONTACCIANICO (Alessandro Romolini); Bibliografia; Indice dei nomi di persona
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Archaeopress Diseños geométricos en los mosaicos del Conventus
Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on the study of the geometric designs documented in the mosaics of the Conventus Astigitanus, one of the four conventi iuridici of Roman Baetica. This study is part of a much broader undertaking, the primary objective of which is the analysis of the geometric mosaic designs of the province as a whole. The number of mosaics in the Conventus Astigitanus, and the larger number still documented in other areas of Baetica, place this province among those with the highest count of mosaics in the Roman world providing evidence of the level of cultural and economic power enjoyed by the province over the centuries. As a whole, this study makes an absolutely necessary contribution to the understanding of Roman mosaics in general and Hispanic mosaics in particular, based on an innovative and unprecedented approach in Spain. It includes a very significant number of designs and provides the basis for a completely open catalogue, to which new models may be added as they become available through the continual study of new mosaics. This catalogue ultimately aims to become a reference for the study of geometric mosaics and compositions in the Roman world. Moreover, the value of the present volume also lies in the contribution that is offered to a topic, the analysis of geometric composition, which is of great interest beyond the author’s specific field of study.Table of ContentsAGRADECIMIENTOS ; INTRODUCCIÓN ; SUMMARY ; 1. OBJETIVOS, PLANTEAMIENTO Y METODOLOGÍA ; 2. CONTEXTO HISTÓRICO ; 3. ESTADO ACTUAL DE LA CUESTIÓN ; 4. CATÁLOGO ; 5. DISEÑOS GEOMÉTRICOS ; 6. ANÁLISIS DE LOS DISEÑOS ; 7. TALLERES MUSIVOS Y ARTESANOS ; 8. CONCLUSIONES ; 9. BIBLIOGRAFÍA
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Archaeopress Darwin´s Legacy: The Status of Evolutionary
Book SynopsisThis book collects the contributions to the symposium "The current state of evolutionary archeology in Argentina" that was held in Buenos Aires, for celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species". The meeting was sponsored by the IMHICIHU-CONICET (Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas). Contents: PREFACE (Hernan J. Muscio and Marcelo Cardillo); INTRODUCTION (Hernan J. Muscio and Marcelo Cardillo); CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS: IS IT CONCEPTUALLY COHERENT TO APPLY NATURAL SELECTION TO CULTURAL EVOLUTION? (Santiago Ginnobili); THEORY OF CLASSIFICATION AND TAXONOMICAL SCHOOLS: A SYNTHESIS FOR ARCHAEOLOGY (Daniel Garcia Rivero); ENVIRONMENT, SPACE, HISTORY, AND TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION. THE CASE OF THE PATAGONIAN COAST (Marcelo Cardillo); ON THE PROBLEM OF IDENTIFYING HOMOLOGIES IN LITHIC ARTIFACTS (Gustavo Barrientos); LOCAL EXTINTION, POPULATION DYNAMICS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL PATTERNS OF CULTURAL EVOLUTION: A CASE STUDY IN THE NORTH PUNA OF ARGENTINA (Hernan Muscio); HUMAN HOLOCENE COLONIZATION, DIET BREADTH AND NICHE CONSTRUCTION IN SIERRAS OF CORDOBA [ARGENTINA] (Diego Rivero and Matias Medina); THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LEGACY: EVOLUTION, BIOGEOGRAPHY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES (Juan Bautista Belardi, Ramiro Barberena, Rafael Goni and Anahi Re)Table of ContentsPREFACE (Hernan J. Muscio and Marcelo Cardillo); INTRODUCTION (Hernan J. Muscio and Marcelo Cardillo); CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS: IS IT CONCEPTUALLY COHERENT TO APPLY NATURAL SELECTION TO CULTURAL EVOLUTION? (Santiago Ginnobili); THEORY OF CLASSIFICATION AND TAXONOMICAL SCHOOLS: A SYNTHESIS FOR ARCHAEOLOGY (Daniel Garcia Rivero); ENVIRONMENT, SPACE, HISTORY, AND TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION. THE CASE OF THE PATAGONIAN COAST (Marcelo Cardillo); ON THE PROBLEM OF IDENTIFYING HOMOLOGIES IN LITHIC ARTIFACTS (Gustavo Barrientos); LOCAL EXTINTION, POPULATION DYNAMICS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL PATTERNS OF CULTURAL EVOLUTION: A CASE STUDY IN THE NORTH PUNA OF ARGENTINA (Hernan Muscio); HUMAN HOLOCENE COLONIZATION, DIET BREADTH AND NICHE CONSTRUCTION IN SIERRAS OF CORDOBA [ARGENTINA] (Diego Rivero and Matias Medina); THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LEGACY: EVOLUTION, BIOGEOGRAPHY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES (Juan Bautista Belardi, Ramiro Barberena, Rafael Goni and Anahi Re)
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Archaeopress La ceramica bassomedievale a Pisa e San Genesio
Book SynopsisThis book presents the study of pottery in two medieval contexts, Pisa (a city) and San Genesio (a central rural settlement in the Arno Valley). The research focusses on specific issues observed in the two contexts, like characters of production (type of workshops, technological characteristics and characterization of ceramic bodies), specialization of pottery and circulation of the products; characters of consumption (similarities and differences in the composition of the pottery equipment and their modification); the role of social-economic indicator of some pottery classes to verify how much and when imported products from the Mediterranean were considered luxury items, if some types of local or regional pottery could have the same role, if the consumer wealth could be reflected in the specialization of ceramic forms used on the table and in the kitchen, if the desire to emulate aristocracy could be read even in the use of particular forms or pottery equipment; movement to understand in what way (whether by land or water), by what means and by what logic (market, pay census, barter) the pottery would move. The data from this research helps define a picture of relations between town and countryside in the Arno Valley between Xth and XIVth century.Table of Contents1. Introduzione; 1.1 Storia, topografia ed economia del territorio preso in esame; 1.2 Lo stato dell’arte; 2. I contesti ceramici del Valdarno Inferiore; 2.1 Nuovi dati dal quartiere di Chinzica (Pisa); 2.1.1 Inquadramento storico-topografico di Chinzica; 2.1.2 Lo scavo di un quartiere artigianale: gli ex Laboratori Gentili; 2.1.3 La sequenza stratigrafica; 2.1.4 Analisi dei contesti stratigrafici di provenienza; 2.1.5 I contesti ceramici; 2.1.6 Conclusioni; 2.1.6.1 Il materiale ceramico di un quartiere artigianale urbano; 2.1.6.2 Pisa, da emporio mediterraneo a città assoggettata; 2.2 Nuovi dati da un contesto rurale del Valdarno Inferiore; 2.2.1 Inquadramento storico-topografico del comune di San Miniato (Pisa); 2.2.2 Lo scavo di San Genesio (San Miniato-Pisa); 2.2.3 La sequenza stratigrafica (XI-XIV secolo); 2.2.4 Analisi dei contesti stratigrafici di provenienza; 2.2.5 I contesti ceramici; 2.2.6 Lo scavo del Poggione (San Miniato-Pisa); 2.2.7 La sequenza stratigrafica; 2.2.8 I reperti ceramici; 2.2.9 Conclusioni; 2.2.9.1 Contesti chiusi a confronto: la canonica, il fabbro, la taverna e il borgo; 2.2.9.2 Le indagini archeologiche sul Poggione e la chiesa di San Cristoforo; 2.2.9.3 Produzione, circolazione e consumo di ceramica bassomedievale a San Genesio; 3. Conclusioni; 3.1 I caratteri della produzione ceramica nel Valdarno Inferiore; 3.2 I caratteri del consumo; 3.3 La circolazione; 3.4 La ceramica bassomedievale e il suo ruolo di indicatore socio-economico; 3.5 Il rapporto tra città e campagna letto attraverso i caratteri della produzione, del consumo e della; circolazione dei materiali ceramici; Bibliografia; Tavole
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Archaeopress Intellectual and Spiritual Expression of
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the proceedings of the session ‘Intellectual and Spiritual Expression of Non-literate Peoples’ part of the XVII World UISPP Congress, held in Burgos (Spain), the 4th September 2014. The session brought together experts from various disciplines to share experience and scientific approaches for a better understanding of human creativity and behaviour in prehistory.Table of ContentsForeword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition; Introduction: A Message from the President; Decoding Prehistoric Art: The Messages Behind the Images (Emmanuel Anati and Ariela Fradkin); Primitive Religious Information Embodied in Human-Face Images of Rock Art on Zhuozishan Mountain, Wuhai, Inner Mongolia (Li An and Junsheng Wu); Prairie Economy Development seen from Rock Art in the West Range of Langshan Mountain, Inner Mongolia (Aoyungerile and Ying An); The Canadian Shield Rock Art and its Spiritual Dimension: Finding Some Tangible and Intangible Aspects of Rock Art Sites in the Canadian Shield through a Contextual Approach (Daniel Arsenault); Intellectual and Spiritual Expressions of Non-Literate Societies: Art and Culture, a Journey through the World of Mankind (Margalit Berriet); Carved Footprints and Prehistoric Beliefs: Examples of Symbol and Myth Practice and Ideology (Ulf Bertilsson); Grid Patterns in NW Iberia Rock Art Iconography, Contexts and Interpretations (Ana M. S. Bettencourt); Sexual Human Representations in the Paintings in the Serra da Capivara, Brazil: Relations in Action, Narrative Relations? (Pascale Binant); The Stargazers: The Evolution of Knowledge, Beliefs and Rock Art (Paul Bouissac); As Above, So Below: Unveiling the Truth About Stonehenge’s Sacred Landscape (Paul D. Burley); Research and Study on the Guizhou Rock Art Heritage (Bo Cao); Pre-Literate Art in India: A Source of Indigenous Knowledge, Ethno-History and Collective Wisdom (Somnath Chakraverty); The Anthropomorphic Figurine of Can SadurnÍ Cave, Begues, Barcelona (Manuel Edo, Ferran Antolín, Pablo Martínez, MªJesús Barrio, Elicínia Fierro, Trinidad Castillo, Eva Fornell, Georgina Prats, Remei Bardera, Concepció Castellana); Archeology, Rock Art, Archeoacoustics and Neuroscience: What Kind of Relation? (Fernando Coimbra); Heralding the Sun (Léo Dubal); The Treasures from the Russian City of Zaraysk (Arsen Faradzhev); Several Understandings on the Cave Paintings on the Turtle Stone in Anshan (Gang Li and Xifeng Ni); Earth and Underground in Early Sumerian Sources (Francesco Ghilotti); From Survival to Conatus: Comparative Axiology from Engraving To Painting (Lysa Hochroth); The Intellectual and Spiritual Expressions of a Nomadic Tribe, the Birhor (of Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, Eastern India) (Bulu Imam); Prehistoric Rock Art, the Information Era of Humans which has been Overlooked (Yanqing Jin and Xiaoxia Zhang); Some Aspects of the Contemporary Use of Ancient Symbols (Shemsi Krasniqi); Discovery and Pilot Study of the Jinsha River Chiselled Rock Art in Shangri-La (Gang Li); Rock Paintings in Southwest China, Focusing on the Coffin Paintings in the Rock Cave at Xianren Bridge, Huishui County, Guizhou Province (Fei Li); Survey of the Status and Protection Strategy for the Ancient Rock Paintings in Guizhou (Hao Li and Biao He); Lifestyle of Human Groups During Palaeolithic at Har Karkom (Federico Mailland); Aspects of the Nature and Purpose of Specific Symbols and Images in the Non-Literate World of Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland (Including Stonehenge) (G. Terence Meaden); The Arroyo de las Flechas’ Rock Art Engravings: Symbolic Associations in Sierra El Alamo (Caborca, Sonora, Mexico) (Beatriz Menéndez, Ramon Viñas, Martha E. Benavente, Alejandro Terrazas and Albert Rubio); Colonisation of the Upper Miera and Asón Valleys (Cantabria, Spain) in the Late Pleistocene and the Early Holocene (Mercedes Pérez Bartolomé and Emilio Muñoz Fernández); The Special Characteristics of the Zhenfeng Rock Art in Guizhou (Xiaomei Mu and Li-Na Zhang); Symbols as Persona in the Dawn of Food Production in the Alto Ribatejo, Portugal (Luiz Oosterbeek); The Portrait in Prehistory (Marcel Otte); Review of Guangxi Cliff Drawing Research (Hu Pengcheng); Research on File Construction System of Rock Art (Hua Qiao, Li Bin Gong and Hui Liu); The Dynamics of Mental Movements as a Base for the Intellectual and Spiritual Expressions of Non-Literate People and the Origin of Development of the Human Being (Andrea Rocchitelli); The Rock Art of Saracahi River Basin: The El Arco and Blanca de la Pulsera Caves, Sonora (Mexico) Albert Rubio, Ramon Viñas, Joaquín Arroyo, César Quijada, Beatriz Menéndez, Neemias Santos, Antonio Hernanz and Mercedes Iriarte; A Ritual Space with Paintings and Engravings in the La Calera Rock Art Set, Caborca, Sonora, Mexico (Albert Rubio, Ramon Viñas, Joaquín Arroyo, César Quijada, Beatriz Menéndez, Neemias Santos); The Rock Art of Indo-European Cultures: Concordances, Logics and Possible Common Values (Umberto Sansoni); A Natufian Mask-Face Figurine: An Insight into the Nature of the Supernatural Being (Dana Shaham and Anna Belfer-Cohen); Research on the Classification and Staging of Rock Art on Lusen Mountain in Qinghai (Zeming Shi and Yanqing Jin); Investigation and Research into Dahongyan Rock Art in Zhengfeng County, Guizhou Province (Zeming Shi and Xiaoxia Zhang); Field Survey and Analysis of Mask Worship in the Xiliaohe River Basin (Xiaoyong Sun and Jiaxin Zhang); The Use of Burial Space and Social Relations Between the Late Neolithic Age and the Copper Age in Sardinia (Giuseppa Tanda); 3D Reconstructions of Sculptured Emotions in the Copper Age Eastern Balkans (Tsoni Tsonev); The Beginnings of Natural Philosophy and Metaphysics in the Rock Art of Armenia (Gregor Vahanyan); A Complex Research of Paleolithic Art in Ukraine (Viktor Vetrov); Manipulation Tactics: A Cultural Interpretation of Rock Art Images Massed in Southwest China (Liangfan Wang and Xiaoming Luo); Research on the Development and Utilization of the Guizhou Ancient Petrography Resource (Xiaoping Wu and Hao Li); Discovery and Study of Two Groups of Writing on the Cliff in the Hongshan Culture Area (Jiacai Wu); Communication and Transform: In-Depth Reflection of Helan Mountain Rock Art (Huiling Yang); Research of Classification and Stages of the Rock Art on Lusen Mountain in Qinghai (Jing Yanqing and Shi Zeming); Using the Montage Technique to Read Various Cave Painting Sites on Guizhou Plateau (Qian Sheng You); Agricultural Worship in the Rock Art of Jiangjunya, Lianyungang City, East China (Jiaxin Zhang and Yaqi Huang); Image Classification and the Symbolic Structure of the Rock Art at the Zuojiang River, Guangxi (Yasha Zhang, Xiaohong Lu and Mingshui Wang); Research on Face Rock Carvings in Northern China (Wenjing Zhang and Xiaokun Wang); Discussion of Reproduction Worship in Chinese Rock Art (Jiaxin Zhang, Bo Xiao and Zhaohui Wang); An Ancient Sacrificial Place: Research Into Rock Art in Xianju (Houqiu Zhu); Significance of the Stabilization Works Which Protect the Rock Art Painting in Ningming District (Qiuping Zhu); Petroglyphs of the Northern Pacific Rim: The Rock Art of the Xiliaohe River and the Amur River (Lifeng Zhu and Xu Wang); On the Disciplines of Taking Image in Chinese Rock Art (Yuan Zhu and Zhuoran Yu)
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Archaeopress Giants in the Landscape: Monumentality and
Book SynopsisIn many European areas, the Neolithic period corresponds to the development of architectural monumentality which left important marks in the landscape, as well as the land clearing and the cultivation by the first agro-pastoral societies. This volume presents proceedings from the session ‘Monumentality and territory: relationship between enclosures and necropolis in the European Neolithic’, part of the XVII World UISPP Congress, held in Burgos (Spain), the 4th September 2014. The session considered the various manifestations of the relationship between Neolithic enclosures and tombs in different contexts of Europe, notably through spatial analysis; the concept of landscape appropriation, combining domestic, symbolic, economic or natural spaces; and the patterns of territorial organization, in which enclosures and tombs have a fundamental role in some Neolithic contexts.Table of ContentsForeword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition (Luiz Oosterbeek); Chapter 1 – Northern and Eastern Europe: UK and Poland: Megalithic tombs, barrows, and enclosures in fourth millennium BC Britain (Timothy Darvill); House and megalith. Some remarks on the Niedźwiedź type tombs in the Eastern group of the TRB culture (Seweryn Rzepecki); Chapter 2 – Western Europe: France: The role of enclosures in territorial organization in the Paris Basin between 4500 and 3800 BC (Claira Lietar); Late Neolithic graves and enclosures in Lower Languedoc: A phenomenon of alternation, 3200-2200 cal. BC (Luc Jallot); Chapter 3 – Southern Europe: Spain and Portugal: Prehistoric ditched enclosures and necropolises in Southern Iberia: a diachronic overview (Víctor Jiménez-Jáimez and José Enrique Márquez-Romero); Ditched enclosures and the ideologies of death in the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic South Portugal (António Carlos Valera); Towards a definition of the prehistoric landscape in the Plateau of Sigarra: visibility and territoriality between the Middle Neolithic and Bronze Age (Natalia Salazar Ortiz)
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Archaeopress Water as a morphogen in landscapes/L’eau comme
Book SynopsisThese proceedings include eight presentations. Two of them focus on the role played by the river axes and the geography of river basins as factors of circulation and settlement of Palaeolithic hunter gatherers on the European scale (Francois Djindjian) and in the surroundings of the Jura Mountains (Gérald Bereiziat and Harald Floss). José Javier Piña Abellán describes how the central valley of the River Jabalón (Ciudad Real, Spain) was peopled in the course of the second millennium B.C., and how the inhabitants still maintain a close link to the hydrography. Frederic Cruz and Christophe Petit provide new insights into the organization of the princely residences’ territories of the late Hallstatt era in the North-Western region of the Alps, taking into account their relationship to the environment, and especially the distance from the valleys. Ana Lucia Herberts documents how river crossings and related drainage structures played a crucial role in setting cattle trails in Brazil to drive the cattle from their pasture lands to the major market places in remote cities. A 3-D modelling using LiDAR altimetry has been used by Sabine Schellberg, Benoît Sittler, and Werner Konold to reconstruct water meadows that were used in historical times in the upper Rhine Valley. In their paper, Sandrine Robert and Hélène Noizet develop, as an example illustrating resilience, how an ancient meander of the River Seine, which was filled in Antiquity, still dictates the layout of the network of the streets of Paris. Lastly, Martin Orgaz and Norma Ratto addressed the social construction of landscapes by relating Inca sites to the Tinogasta region (Catamarca, Argentina) rivers whose visual features (the colour red) may be regarded as a factor that governed the selection of sites.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables; Foreword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition (Luiz Oosterbeek); Introduction (Sandrine Robert et Benoit Sittler); Introduction (Sandrine Robert and Benoit Sittler); L’importance des cours d’eau dans l’orientation, les déplacements et les colonisations des groupes de chasseurs cueilleurs du Paléolithique supérieur européen (François Djindjian); De longs fleuves tranquilles? Le rôle du couloir Rhin-Saône-Rhône dans la dynamique de peuplement à la fin du Paleolithique superieur sur le pourtour jurassien (Gérald Béreiziat et Harald Floss); Water and Settlement in the Middle Valley of Jabalón River during the second Millennium B.C. (Ciudad Real, Spain) (José Javier Piña Abellán); Le territoire de la résidence princière de Vix (Côte-d’Or, France): une approche géomorphologique (Frédéric Cruz et Christophe Petit); La gestion de l´eau dans le “Chemin des Troupeaux” dans le sud du Brésil (Ana Lucia Herberts); LiDAR surveys of irrigated meadows in South-West-Germany (Sabine Schellberg, Benoit Sittler and Werner Konold); The Resilience of the Old Course of the River Seine on the right bank of Paris (Sandrine Robert and Hélène Noizet); Aguas turbias, campos fértiles. La geografía sagrada del estado Inca en la region de Fiambalá, Tinogasta, Catamarca, Argentina (Martin Orgaz y Norma Ratto)
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Archaeopress Public Images, Private Readings:
Book SynopsisA significant number of Holocene societies throughout the world have resorted at one time or another to the making of paints or carvings on different places (tombs, rock-shelters or caves, openair outcrops). The aim of the session A11e. Public images, private readings: multi-perspective approaches to the post-Palaeolithic rock art, which was held within the XVII World UISPP Congress (Burgos, September 1-7 2014), was to put together the experiences of specialists from different areas of the Iberian Peninsula and the World. The approaches ranged from the archaeological definition of the artistic phenomena and their socioeconomic background to those concerning themselves with the symbolic and ritual nature of those practices, including the definition of the audience to which the graphic manifestations were addressed and the potential role of the latter in the making up of social identities and the enforcement of territorial claims. More empirical issues, such as new recording methodologies and data management or even dating were also considered during this session.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Ramón Fábregas Valcarce and Carlos Rodríguez-Rellán); Stones before stones. Reused stelae and menhirs in Galician megaliths (P. Bueno Ramirez, F. Carrera Ramirez, R. de Balbín Behrmann, R. Barroso Bermejo, X. Darriba and A. Paz); Illustrating the Sabor Valley (Trás-os-Montes, Portugal): rock art and its long-term diachrony since the Upper Palaeolithic until the Iron Age (Sofia Soares de Figueiredo, Pedro Xavier, Dário Neves, José Maciel, Luís Nobre and Isabel Domínguez García); Archaeological field survey in the Erqueyez site (Western Sahara): new discoveries of rock art (Teresa Muñiz López, Ahmed Khatri, David García González and Carmina López-Rodríguez); Measuring the spatially-related perceptibility of prehistoric rock art. Some initial notes (Carlos Rodríguez-Rellán and Ramón Fábregas Valcarce); The paintings of “oculadas” figures in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Northern Portugal: the study case of Serra de Passos (Maria de Jesus Sanches); Going by the numbers, a quantitative approach to the Galician prehistoric petroglyphs (Alia Vázquez Martínez, Ramón Fábregas Valcarce and Carlos Rodríguez-Rellán)
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Archaeopress The Three Dimensions of Archaeology: Proceedings
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together presentations from two sessions organized for the XVII World UISPP Conference that was held from 1-7 September 2014 in Burgos (Spain). The sessions are: The scientific value of 3D archaeology, organised by Hans Kamermans, Chiara Piccoli and Roberto Scopigno, and Detecting the Landscape(s) – Remote Sensing Techniques from Research to Heritage Management, organised by Axel Posluschny and Wieke de Neef. The common thread amongst the papers presented here is the application of digital recording techniques to enhance the documentation and analysis of the spatial component intrinsically present in archaeological data. For a long time the capturing of the third dimension, the depth, the height or z-coordinate, was problematic. Traditionally, excavation plans and sections were documented in two dimensions. Objects were also recorded in two dimensions, often from different angles. Remote sensing images like aerial photographs were represented as flat surfaces. Although depth could be visualized with techniques such as stereoscopes, analysis of relief was troublesome. All this changed at the end of the last century with the introduction of computer based digitization technologies, 3D software, and digital near-surface sampling devices. The spatial properties of the multi-scale archaeological dataset can now be accurately recorded, analysed and presented. Relationships between artefacts can be clarified by visualizing the records in a three dimensional space, computer-based simulations can be made to test hypotheses on the past use of space, remote sensing techniques help in detecting previously hidden features of landscapes, thus shedding light on bygone land uses.Table of ContentsForeword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition (Luiz Oosterbeek); The Three Dimensions of Archaeology – Introduction (Hans Kamermans, Chiara Piccoli, Wieke de Neef, Axel G. Posluschny & Roberto Scopigno); Discussing the obvious or defending the contested: why are we still discussing the ‘scientific value’ of 3D applications in archaeology? (Tijm Lanjouw); 3Di – enhancing the record, extending the returns, 3D imaging from free range photography and its application during excavation (Dominic Powlesland); Towards 3D GIS. Notes from the 2012 CAA-NL/DE chapter session ‘from 2.5 to 3 spatial dimensions’ (Martijn van Leusen & Serge van Gessel); Are we there yet? 3D GIS in archaeological research, the case of Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria (Victor Klinkenberg); Three-dimensional simulation of a fire in a simplified gallery of the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc cave (Ardèche, France) (Delphine Lacanette, Jean-Christophe Mindeguia, Catherine Ferrier, Evelyne Debard & Bertrand Kervazo); Using digital photogrammetry to produce 3D models at prehistoric ditched enclosures: Perdigões as a case study (José L. Caro, Víctor Jiménez-Jáimez & José Enrique Márquez-Romero); 3D modeling by digital photogrammetry applied to the Palaeolithic mammoth bone dwelling settlement of Gontsy (Ukraine) (Lioudmila Iakovleva, François Djindjian & Yves Egels); Archaeology and coastal erosion: monitoring change through 3D digital techniques (Elias López-Romero, Patricia Mañana-Borrazás, Alejandro Güimil-Fariña & Marie Yvane Daire); Fast 3D recording techniques: a low-cost method for the documentation and analysis of scattered architectural elements as a part of the EMCHAHE project (Patricia Mañana-Borrazás, Rebeca Blanco-Rotea & José Carlos Sánchez-Pardo); Using airborne laser scanning and historical aerial photos to identify modern age fortifications in the Minho Valley, Northwest Iberian Peninsula (Rebeca Blanco-Rotea, João Fonte, Alejandro Güimil-Fariña & Patricia Mañana-Borrazás); Devilish details – fine-tuning survey techniques for ephemeral sites (Wieke de Neef & Martijn van Leusen); Geophysical survey on “El Mazo de la Castañera” (Cantabria, Spain): looking for open-air domestic remains (Eduardo Carmona Ballestero, Cristina Vega Maeso, Oscar López Jiménez & Victoria Martínez Calvo); Electrical resistivity imaging survey around the caves of the Ojo Guareña Karst complex (Merindad de Sotoscueva, Burgos, Spain) (L. Bermejo, A. I. Ortega, R. Guérin, A. Benito-Calvo, J. M. Parés, M. A. Martín, E. Aracil, U. Maruri & J. A. Porres)
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Archaeopress Late Prehistory and Protohistory: Bronze Age and
Book Synopsis1. The Emergence of warrior societies and its economic, social and environmental consequences. Proceedings of the XVII UISPP World Congress (1–7 September 2014, Burgos, Spain) Session A3c edited by Fernando Coimbra and Davide Delfino: Several works have been dedicated to the aim of warfare in European Bronze Age, by a point of view of bronze technology and archaeometallurgy. The present volume wants to be a short and actualized contribution to the study and interpretation of warrior societies, through a point of view of the marks of the first warfare in Europe, its causes and its consequences in all the intelligible evidences, both from a point of view of material culture, of landscape, of human behavior and artistic manifestations. 2. Aegean – Mediterranean imports and influences in the graves from continental Europe – Bronze and Iron Ages. Proceedings of the XVII UISPP World Congress (1–7 September 2014, Burgos, Spain) Session A16a edited by Valeriu Sîrbu and Cristian Schuster: There is already a ‘history’ with not only different, but sometimes contradictory opinions regarding the role played by the Aegean-Mediterranean area in the evolution of the peoples who lived in continental Europe during the age of Bronze and Iron, including burial customs. The organizers of this session proposed, through ongoing communication and the discussions that followed, to obtain new data on the influences and Aegean-Mediterranean imports found in the graves, and the possible movements of groups of people who carried them. The main area of interest focused on the ‘roads’ and the stages of their penetration, but also considered feedback from peripheral areas. The session aims to highlight the role of the southern imports in the evolution of local communities’ elites and their impact on the general development of the populations of continental Europe, the possible meanings of their deposit in the burials. Analysis of these phenomena over wide geographical areas (from the Urals to the Atlantic) and large chronological periods (the third-. first millennia BC) allow the identification of certain traits as general (eg., the continuity and discontinuity), or particular (eg., the impact of imports and southern influences on communities of different geographical areas).Table of ContentsForeword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition (Luiz Oosterbeek); Introduction – 1. The Emergence of warrior societies and its economic, social and environmental consequences (Fernando Coimbra and Davide Delfino); Introduction – 2. Aegean – Mediterranean imports and influences in the graves from continental Europe – Bronze and Iron Ages (Valeriu Sîrbu and Cristian Schuster); 1. The Emergence of warrior societies and its economic, social and environmental consequences: Walled enclosures in Western Europe as marks of conflict in Late Prehistory. A psychological, anthropological and archaeological approach (Davide Delfino); Symbols for protection in war among European societies (1000 BC – 1000 AD) (Fernando Coimbra); The emergence of war in human societies (Gabriele L. F. Berruti and Stefano Ruzza); The Bronze Age battlefield in the Tollense Valley, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Northeast Germany – Combat marks on human bones as evidence of early warrior societies in northern Middle Europe? (Ute Brinker, Annemarie Schramm, Detlef Jantzen, Jurgen Piek, Karlheinz Hauenstein and Jorg Orschiedt); The Late Bronze Age two-piece cuirasses of the Danube region in the Carpathian Basin (Katalin Jankovits); Warfare in Valcamonica rock art, new emerging data from Paspardo area (Dario Sigari); Model of metalwork and scrap’s bronze circulation during Late Bronze Age in the Middle Tagus (Davide Delfino); Settlements and Houses in Galicia in the Middle and Late Bronze Age (M. Pilar Prieto-Martínez and Mikel Díaz-Rodríguez); From the regional to the extra-regional: Wide Horizontal Rim vessels and stamping in the second half of the second millennium BC in the NW Iberian Peninsula (Laure Nonat, M. Pilar Prieto-Martínez and Pablo Vázquez); 2. Aegean – Mediterranean imports and influences in the graves from continental Europe – Bronze and Iron Ages: About the connections during the Bronze Age between the Carpatho-Danubian area and the Eastern Mediterranean space. Possible funerary proves (Cristian Schuster); Middle Tagus Region and the Autochthonous evidences in Late Bronze Age I (Central Portugal) (Ana Cruz); Southern and Pontic Amphorae Found in Several Getae Necropolises in the Lower Danube Area (5th-3th c. BC) (Valeriu Sîrbu and Sebastian Matei); The Southern Group of Tumuli of the Eastern Necropolis in the Sboryanovo reserve. Greek Amphorae and a Getic Royal burial (Diana Gergova); Early-Hellenistic barrel-vaulted tombs from Kallatis (Maria-Magdalena Ștefan and Valeriu Sîrbu)
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Archaeopress A Faith in Archaeological Science: Reflections on
Book SynopsisThis is the first memoir by an internationally known archaeological scientist, and one who has been particularly research active for over fifty years in the broad field of bioarchaeology. Written with humour and a critical concern to understand the nature of his life and that of our species. It provides a very readable and original account of a life embracing field and laboratory work from Orkney to Egypt and Mongolia to Peru. The diverse research extends from human fossils, to cemetery studies and bog bodies, to dogs, hair chemistry, bone pathology, soils and vitrification. He has similarly been concerned about the nature of culture, the impact of stress on individuals, and theoretical issues in archaeological science. He argues that we are advanced primates, and can’t be divorced from a scientific and ethological perspective. Indeed, he sees culture as derived from a complex interwoven range of thought, from the usefully adaptive to the highly maladaptive creative thinking which can grade into destructive social pathology. Our limited ability to perceive accurately has resulted in the creation of a plethora of dubious beliefs, from religions to political elitism and fanaticism. Placed in the world of today, with the perspective of our long past, the author feels that it is difficult not to feel coldly sober and doubtful about the future of our species. But we are not extinct yet! Beginning life as a traumatised baby and school failure, Don retired as emeritus professor of archaeological science in the University of York.Table of ContentsIntroducing a Life; Childhood, Family and Education; War, Peace and Prison; Bog People and Other Friends; From Rocks to Protons; Bones, Teeth and People; The Nature and Antiquity of Diseases; Peoples and Places; Character Parts in a History; Aspects of the Emotions; Conclusions on a Life; Bibliography
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Archaeopress 3D Delineation: A modernisation of drawing
Book SynopsisA recent trend concerning archaeological research has focused on producing a real-time methodology for 3D digital models as archaeological documentation within the excavation setting. While such methodologies have now firmly been established, what remains is to examine how 3D models can be integrated more fully alongside other forms of archaeological documentation. This work explored one avenue by developing a method that combines the interpretative power of traditional archaeological drawings and the realistic visualisation capacity of 3D digital models. An experiment was initiated during archaeological excavations at Uppåkra, Sweden where photographic data was captured to produce 3D digital models through Photoscan. These models were geospatially located within ESRI’s 3D GIS ArcScene where shapefile editing tools were used to draw overtop of their surfaces in three-dimensions. All drawings closely followed the single context method of drawing, were allotted context numbers, and given descriptive geodatabase attributes. This methodology resulted in the further integration of 3D models alongside other forms of archaeological documentation. The drawings increased the communicative powers of archaeological interpretation by enabling the information to be disseminated in a 3D environment alongside other formats of data that would have otherwise been disconnected in 2D space. Finally, the database attributes permitted the drawings complete integration within the geodatabase, thereby making them available for query and other analytical procedures. Archaeological information is three-dimensional; therefore, archaeologists must begin to approach documentation bearing this in mind. This technique has demonstrated that 3D models are a fluidic form of documentation allowing for accurate preservation of archaeology while enabling new forms of data to be derived all within a limited amount of time. Archaeologists must begin to affect change towards embracing 3D models and their associated applications as a standard tool within the excavator’s toolbox.Table of ContentsAbstract; Preface; 1 – Introduction; 2 – State of the Art; 3 – Theory; 4 – Methodology; 4.1 – Review of Established Methodologies and Associated Technologies; 4.2 – Introduction to Utilised Technologies; 4.2.1 – Camera Systems; 4.2.2 – Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4; 4.2.3 – Agisoft’s Photoscan 1.0.4; 4.2.4 – EDM Total Station; 4.2.5 – ArcGIS 10.2.1; 4.3 – Limitations; 5 – Experiment: 3D Delineation; 5.1 – General Background of Uppåkra; 5.2 – Documentation Methodology at Uppåkra since 2011; 5.3 – State of the Art: 3D Modelling at Uppåkra; 5.4 – Experiment Overview; 5.5 – Experiment Methodology; 5.6 – Results Concerning 3D Archaeological Drawings; 6 – Discussion; 6.1 – Statement of Perceived Impact; 6.1.1 – Guidelines and Symbologies for 3D Archaeological Drawing; 6.2 – Cautions and Limitations; 6.3 – Concerns Regarding the Photographic Process; 7 – Conclusion; 8 – Acknowledgments; 9 – References
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Archaeopress Analysis of the Economic Foundations Supporting
Book SynopsisThe Bell Beaker phenomenon is one of the most fascinating horizons in European Later Prehistory, due to its vast geographical distribution, the intrinsic value of some of the artefacts comprising the Beaker package, or its supposed links to certain kinds of ritual ceremonies as shown by the frequent deposition of Beaker items in burial contexts. At present, the idea that the Beaker package is best interpreted as a symbol of power common to socially-prominent individuals by the mid-to-late third millennium BC is widely acknowledged by scholars in this field. From this point of view, the Beaker phenomenon is seen as the archaeological evidence representing an ideology which was shared by a number of prehistoric societies geographically scattered throughout much of Western and Central Europe, or, more specifically, was only shared by elite individuals within these territories. The strategies employed by these individuals to attain such privileged statuses, however, are poorly known. Therefore, in the framework of the XVII World UISPP Congress, held in September 2014 in Burgos (Spain), a session entitled ‘Analysis of the economic foundations supporting the social supremacy of the Beaker groups’ (B36) was organised by this volume’s two editors. The session focused mostly on examining this issue at a European level, and less on the study of the Beaker package itself, as a way of looking at the economic foundations that helped these individuals attain their higher social statuses. The proximity of Beaker sites to natural routes of communication highlights the importance of exchange networks through which people, objects and ideas may have circulated through Europe during this time. The Amesbury Archer in southern England is one of the best examples of interaction within Beaker territories. Having said this, considering that Beaker pots themselves were not exchanged over long distances, attention must be paid to other mechanisms of diffusion. The present volume comprises the papers presented at this session suggesting that Beaker groups may have controlled certain products and technologies.Table of ContentsForeword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition (Luiz Oosterbeek) ; Introduction (Elisa Guerra Doce and Corina Liesau von Lettow-Vorbeck) ; Graves of metallurgists in the Moravian Beaker Cultures (Jaroslav Peška) ; Bell Beaker funerary copper objects from the center of the Iberian Peninsula in the context of the Atlantic connections (Concepción Blasco Bosqued, Ignacio Montero and Raúl Flores Fernández) ; Bell Beaker connections along the Atlantic façade: the gold ornaments from Tablada del Rudrón, Burgos, Spain (Andrew P. Fitzpatrick, Germán Delibes de Castro, Elisa Guerra Doce and Javier Velasco Vázquez) ; Prestige indicators and Bell Beaker ware at Valencina de la Concepción (Sevilla, Spain) (Ana Pajuelo Pando and Pedro M. López Aldana) ; Some prestige goods as evidence of interregional interactions in the funerary practices of the Bell Beaker groups of Central Iberia (Corina Liesau von Lettow-Vorbeck) ; Salt and Beakers in the third millennium BC (Elisa Guerra Doce) ; The role of flint arrowheads in Bell Beaker groups of the Central Iberian Peninsula (Patricia Ríos Mendoza) ; El Peñón de la Zorra (Villena, Alicante, Spain): change and continuity in settlement pattern during Bell Beaker (Gabriel García Atiénzar) ; Elements for the definition of the Bell Beaker horizon in the lower Ebro Valley: preliminary approaches (Anna Gómez, Patricia Ríos Mendoza, Marc Piera and Miquel Molist)
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Archaeopress ‘A Mersshy Contree Called Holdernesse’:
Book SynopsisTwenty sites were excavated on the route of a National Grid pipeline across Holderness, East Yorkshire. These included an early Mesolithic flint-working area, near Sproatley. In situ deposits of this age are rare, and the site is a significant addition to understanding of the post-glacial development of the wider region. Later phases of this site included possible Bronze Age round barrows and an Iron Age square barrow. Elsewhere on the pipeline route, diagnostic Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age flints, as well as Bronze Age pottery, provide evidence of activity in these periods. Iron Age remains were found at all of the excavation sites, fourteen of which had ring gullies, interpreted as evidence for roundhouse structures. The frequency with which these settlements occurred is an indication of the density of population in the later Iron Age and the large assemblage of hand-made pottery provides a rich resource for future study. Activity at several of these sites persisted at least into the second or early third centuries AD, while the largest excavation site, at Burton Constable, was re-occupied in the later third century. However, the pottery from the ring gullies was all hand-made, suggesting that roundhouses had ceased to be used by the later first century AD, when the earliest wheel-thrown wares appear. This has implications for understanding of the Iron Age to Roman transition in the region. Late first- or early second-century artefacts from a site at Scorborough Hill, near Weeton, are of particular interest, their nature strongly suggesting an association with the Roman military. With contributions by: Hugo Anderson-Whymark (flint), Kevin Leahy (metal, glass, worked bone), Terry Manby (earlier prehistoric pottery), Chris Cumberpatch (hand-made pottery), Rob Ixer (petrography), Derek Pitman and Roger Doonan (suface residues: ceramics and slag), Ruth Leary (Roman pottery), Felicity Wild (samian ware), Kay Hartley (mortaria), Jane Young with Peter Didsbury (post-Roman pottery), Ruth Shaffrey (worked stone), Lisa Wastling (fired clay), Jennifer Jones (surface residues: fired clay), Katie Keefe and Malin Holst (human bone), Jennifer Wood (animal bone), Don O’Meara (plant macrofossils), Tudur Burke Davies (pollen) and Matt Law (molluscs). Illustrations by: Jacqueline Churchill, Dave Watt and Susan FreebreyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Summary; Section 1: Introduction; Section 2: The Excavation areas; Section 3: The Artefacts; Section 4: People, Economy and environment; Section 5: Discussion; Section 6: Conclusions; Bibliography
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Archaeopress Achaios: Studies presented to Professor Thanasis
Book SynopsisIn a career spanning more than forty years Prof. Thanasis I. Papadopoulos exhibited his intensive devotion to the Bronze Age of Greece, and especially to Mycenaean Achaea (his native land), through his excavations, publications and lessons to innumerable students in Greece and abroad. The origins, as well as the interconnections of the Mycenaeans with other civilizations, were always of great interest to Prof. Papadopoulos. This honorary volume expands to diverse eras, from Neolithic to Byzantine times, following Mycenaean paths that lead even to the distant East: to Egypt, whose culture Prof. Papadopoulos taught for many years at Ioannina University, and to Jordan, where he excavated for more than 10 years. In Achaios, thirty-five scholars from six different countries have contributed with thirty-one papers, as a small token of appreciation, gratitude and affection to a true scholar, who devoted his life studying and revealing the long journeys of the Mycenaeans and their culture, but also, to a passionate professor who, by transmitting his scientific knowledge, left an invaluable legacy for future generations.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; Thanasis I. Papadopoulos Professor Emeritus at the University of Ioannina; BIBLIOGRAPHY 1973 – 2015 ; FUNERARY MONUMENTS AND LANDSCAPE: THE EXAMPLE OF THE MIDDLE HELLADIC TUMULI IN MESSENIA (IPPOKRATIS ANGELETOPOULOS); MYCENAEAN FIGURINES ON CYPRUS († PAUL ÅSTROM); FOOT OF A BRONZE FIGURE FROM THE MINOAN PEAK SA NCTUARY AT AYIOS YEORGIOS STO VOUNO, KYTHERA (EMILIA BANOU); WARRIORS IN MOVEMENT: WARRIOR BURIALS IN EASTERN CRETE DURING LATE MINOAN IIIC (DIMITRIS G. BASAKOS); Ein Zutrunk für den Freund († HANS G. BUCHHOLZ); THE MH CEMETERY AT KOUPHOVOUNO, SPARTA, LAKONIA (WILLIAM CAVANAGH AND † CHRISTOPHER MEE); ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED CUPS FROM AMBELAKI, SALA MIS (YANNIS CHAIRETAKIS); THE PROTOGEOMETRIC SETTLEMENT AT STAMNA, AETOLIA. SOME THOUGHTS ON THE SETTLERS’ ORIGIN BASED ON THE TYPOLOGY OF THE GRAVES (GIOULIKA CHRISTAKOPOULOU); A SCARAB AND AN OVOID SEAL PLAQUE: EGYPTIAN OR EGYPTIANIZING OBJECTS FROM A CROSSROADS IN THE JORDAN VALLEY (VASSILIS CHRYSIKOPOULOS); SOME REFLECTIONS ON WESTERN GREECE IN THE LATE BRONZE AND EARLY IRON AGES (SØREN DIETZ); L’ ÉGYPTIEN, LE BEDOUIN ET LA TRANSJORDANIE (JEAN-CLAUDE GOYON); NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA FOR EARLY CHRISTIAN AND EARLY BYZANTINE SALA MIS. THE CASE OF A BURIAL COMPLEX AT AIANTEIO (GEORGE KAKAVAS AND SOPHIA ZYRBA); LARGE STORAGE JARS IN THE MYCENAEAN GRAVES OF ACHAEA: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION (SOFIA KASKANTIRI); ON MINERAL AND ARTIFICIAL PIGMENTS OF THEOPHRASTUS OF ERESSOS FROM THE LIBRARY TO THE FIELD RESEARCH (THOMAS KATSAROS); THE MIDDLE NEOLITHIC PATTERN PAINTED POTS FROM THE CAVE OF CYCLOPS: REVIEWING OLDER THEORIES (STELLA KATSAROU-TZEVELEKI); GOLD BULL’S HEAD ORNAMENTS FROM THE TIRYNS HOARD AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE TYPE IN THE LH IIIC PERIPHERY OF THE MYCENAEAN WORLD (ELENI KONSTANTINIDI-SYVRIDI); RISE IT UP! A CONTRIBUTION TO UNDERSTANDING TELL FORMATION. THE EVIDENCE FROM PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SEDIMENTS AND BUILDING MATERIALS FROM THE NEOLITHIC TELL SITE AT PALIAMBELLA (N. GREECE) (DIMITRIS KONTOGIORGOS); NEW EVIDENCE FOR MINOAN RELATIONS WITH ITHACA († LITSA KONTORLI-PAPADOPOULOU); AN OVERVIEW OF TREPANATION IN ANCIENT GREECE (MARIA A. LISTON, SHERRY C. FOX & LESLIE P. DAY); A SHRINE WITHIN THE SOVEREIGN COMPLEX ON THE MYCENAEAN ACROPOLIS OF SALA MIS (YANNOS G. LOLOS); MINOAN PREPALATIAL PERIBOLOS OF AMNISSOS, CRETE (STELLA MANDALAKI); ON MYCENAEAN HYDREA: SHERDS FROM THE ACROPOLIS AT CHORIZA (CHRISTINA MARABEA); WHO OWNS THE ROSETTA STONE? EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES AND “ELGINISM” (MARGARITA NICOLAKAKI-KENTROU); ΤΩ ΑΡΙΣΤΩ ΠΑΤΡΙ. TERRAMARE, MYCENAEAN CENTERS AND THE ROLE OF THE ADRIATIC DURING THE LATE BRONZE AGE: THE INTERCULTURAL ROLE OF THE ADRIATIC: THE “WAY OF THE AMBER” AT THE END OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE SEEN FROM A NAUTICAL POINT OF VIEW (STAVROS OIKONOMIDIS); PREHISTORIC VASES FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION IN JORDAN (EVANGELIA PAPADOPOULOU-CHRYSIKOPOULOU); TIES OF AFFECTION BURIALS OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN IN THE MYCENAEAN CEMETERY OF CLAUSS, NEAR PATRAS (KONSTANTINOS PASCHALIDIS); ACHAIA: EASTERN AND WESTERN (MICHALIS PETROPOULOS); THE SEREMETI MONKEY (JACKIE PHILLIPS); SOME FRESH THOUGHTS ON THE USE OF THE MINOAN “STRAINER” (LEFTERIS PLATON); MYCENAEAN CERAMIC VASES OF AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRIVATE COLLECTION (KOSTAS THEODORIDIS); THE IMPORTANCE OF THE IONIAN AND ALBANIAN COAST FOR MARITIME COMMUNICATION DURING THE BRONZE AGE (AKIS TSONOS); Th. Papadopoulos
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Archaeopress Estudios antracológicos en los espacios de
Book SynopsisThis book is about how hunter-gatherer groups maintained a relationship with the use and management of fire in the Late Holocene of Southern Precordillera. The line of study developed here as part of the anthracology made use of methodologically systematic analysis of the remains of charcoal from the archaeological site Alero Deodoro Roca B. This industry focused on a time frame of ca. 1900 years AP to ca.3900 years AP. Studies carried out in the Alero Deodoro Roca allow us to understand, on the one hand, the different methods of preservation of charcoal record in the succession of combustion events, and, secondly, to discuss the variability of species present within the composition of the flora in the paleoenvironment. Functional association is proposed for various uses; as a source of heat, cooking, and preparation of raw materials among the possibilities.Table of ContentsPrimera Parte: Capítulo 1 Introducción a la problemática de estudio y sus antecedentes ; Capítulo 2 Aspectos teóricos-metodológicos; Segunda Parte: Capítulo 3 La muestra de estudio. La colección de referencia y la colección arqueológica de ADR; Capítulo 4 Resultados del análisis de la muestra de estudio; Tercera Parte: Capítulo 5 Discusión de los resultados ; Referencias Bibliográficas; Anexo Colección de Referencia; Anexo Taxonomía ; Anexo Muestras Arqueológicas; Anexo Colección de Referencia
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Archaeopress Mégalithismes vivants et passés: approches
Book SynopsisMegalithic monuments from Neolithic Europe have long been considered as rough copies of the monumental architectures built by the first civilizations of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. When radiocarbon dating jeopardized this diffusionist pattern, though, specialists could not but wonder why and how these Neolithic societies, usually considered as small ‘village communities’, had erected such monuments. In order to answer these questions and seek explanations in the social, political or religious contexts of recent or present megalith-building societies, the ethnological frame of references has been referred to on a regular basis. This volume comprises the papers presented by prehistorians and ethnologists at the two multi-disciplinary round tables held in Strasburg in May 2014 and May 2015. Their purpose was, with the help of both case studies and more synthetic works, to discuss how the patterns drawn from the observation of ‘living’ megalithic societies have been used to try and shed light on the functioning of European Neolithic societies, the epistemological problems raised by this transposition and the relevance of ethnology-based archeological explanations. The book is composed of three sections: the first one deals with some methodological reflections, the second and third ones with the ‘living’ or recent megalithisms of respectively the Indonesian Archipelago and Ethiopia.Table of ContentsAvant-propos : archéologues et ethnologues autour du mégalithisme, une approche interdisciplinaire; Hommage à Alain Testart (1945-2013) (Valérie Lécrivain); L’homme de l’alliance : Alain Testart (Pierre Le Roux); Mégalithismes entre passé et present:; De l’Île de Pâques aux mégalithes du Morbihan. Un demi-siècle de confrontation entre ethnologie et archéologie autour du mégalithisme (Christian Jeunesse); Quelles interrogations pour les études mégalithiques ? (Alain Gallay); Qu’est-ce que le mégalithisme ? (Bruno Boulestin); Indonésie – Madagascar:; Big Animals and Big Stones: An Ethnoarchaeological Exploration of the Social Dynamics of Livestock Use in Megalithic Societies of Eastern Indonesia (Ron L. Adams); The Ngorek of the Central Highlands and ‘Megalithic’ Activity in Borneo (Bernard Sellato); Pertinence du modèle ethnographique malgache pour l’étude des sépultures collectives du Néolithique récent-final du Bassin parisien (Somme, Marne, Aisne) (Marie Théry); Éthiopie:; François Bernardin Azaïs et les débuts de l’archéologie éthiopienne (Jean-Paul Cros); Une expédition allemande chez les Konso en 1934-1935 (Christian Jeunesse); Monumentalisme et populations de langues est-couchitiques en Éthiopie. 1 – Une approche anthropologique (Alain Gallay); Monumentalisme et populations de langues est-couchitiques en Éthiopie. 2 – Une approche historique (Alain Gallay); Sites anciens à stèles et sociétés mégalithiques récentes de la Rift Valley éthiopienne (Roger Joussaume); Aux confins de l¹Éthiopie, du Soudan et du Kenya. Un Béotien sur les traces de « mégalithismes » (Serge Tornay)
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Archaeopress Rock Art Studies: News of the World V
Book SynopsisThis is the fifth volume in the series Rock Art Studies: News of the World. Like the previous editions, it covers rock art research and management across the globe over a five-year period, in this case the years 2010 to 2014 inclusive. The current volume once again shows the wide variety of approaches that have been taken in different parts of the world, although one constant has been the impact of new techniques of recording rock art. This is especially evident in the realm of computer enhancement of the frequently faded and weathered rock imagery that is the subject of our study. As has been the case in past volumes, this collection of papers includes all of the latest discoveries, including in areas hitherto not known to contain rock art. The latest dating research reported in this fifth volume, sometimes returning surprisingly early results, serves to extend our knowledge of the age of rock art as well as highlight the limits of current models for its development around the world.Table of ContentsPreface (Paul Bahn, Natalie Franklin, Matthias Strecker and Ekaterina Devlet); New Developments in Pleistocene Art, 2010-2014 (Paul G. Bahn); Rock Art Studies in the Nordic Countries 2010-2014 (Ulf Bertilsson and Johan Ling); Post-Palaeolithic and Megalithic Art in Southern Europe, 2010-2014 (Primitiva Bueno-Ramirez and Rodrigo de Balbín-Behrmann); News from the Alps (2010-2014) (Claudia Defrasne); Recent Work on Saharan rock art (2010-2014) (Jean-Loïc Le Quellec); Rock Art in Southern Africa: New Developments (2010-2014) (Jean-Loïc Le Quellec); Recent Work in the Near East (S. Lemaitre); Rock Art Studies in Northern Russia, the Urals and the Far East 2010-2014 (Ekaterina G. Devlet and Alexander S. Pakhunov); Rock Art Studies, Management and Presentation in Central Asia (2010-2014) (Boris Zheleznyakov and Ekaterina Devlet); Rock Art Research in Siberia in 2005-2014 (Elena A. Miklashevich); Mongolian Rock Art: Current Work 2010-2014 (Esther Jacobson-Tepfer); Rock Art Research in India 2010-2014 (James Blinkhorn); Recent Rock Art Studies in Southeast Asia (Victoria N. Scott and Noel H. Tan); Recent Rock Art Research in China (Paul S. C. Taçon and Qinglin Yang); Rock Art Research in Korea (2010-2014): Daegok-Ri (Bangudae) Petroglyphs in Ulsan (Seog Ho Jang); Research, Management and Conservation of Rock Art in Australia 2010-2014 (Natalie Franklin); Pacific Rock Art from 2010 to 2014: Research Trends, Conservation and Losses (Rachel Hoerman); Recent Rock Art Research in Canada (Dagmara Zawadzka); North American Rock Art Research 2010-2014 (Reinaldo Morales Jr.); Rock Art Research In Mexico (2010-2014) (William Breen Murray†, Francisco Mendiola, María de la Luz Gutiérrez and Carlos Viramontes); Recent Rock Art Studies in the Maya Region and the Intermediate Area, 2010-14 (Martin Künne and Suzanne Baker); Caribbean Rock Art 2010-2014: Documentation, Dating and Definitions (Michele H. Hayward and Michael A. Cinquino); Rock Art in Ecuador: Research 2010-2014 (María Fernanda Ugalde); Rock Art Studies in Brazil (2010-2014) (Andrei Isnardis Horta and André Prous); Rock Art Studies in Peru (2010-2014) (Matthias Strecker); Rock Art Studies in Bolivia (2010-2014) (Matthias Strecker); New Research on Ancient Images: Rock Art Studies in Argentina (2010-2014) (Dánae Fiore and Mara Basile); Rock Art in Chile (2010-2014) (Marcela Sepúlveda, Gloria Cabello and Daniela Valenzuela R.)
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Archaeopress Cultural Dynamics and Production Activities in
Book SynopsisThis book presents a collection of papers from the Symposium on Cultural Dynamics and Production Activities in Ancient Western Mexico, held at the Center for Archaeological Research of the Colegio de Michoacán on September 18-19, 2014. While these thought-provoking essays on key topics in Western Mexican archaeology will spark debate among scholars interested in this cultural area, they will also be of interest to students of ancient Mesoamerica as a whole. The time is ripe for insightful discussions and new syntheses of archaeological research in Western Mesoamerica, and this volume represents, undoubtedly, a valuable contribution to this urgent task. These papers are grouped into three thematic areas. The first, Cultural dynamics in Western Mexico, includes essays on: The challenges of archaeology in flood-prone areas; Exploitation of local resources and imported products; Settlement systems of the Tarascan state; and Stone tools as indicators of task specialization. The second section, Production of strategic resources, analyzes the following topics: The obsidian jewelry of the Teuchitlán Tradition; Differing obsidian economies in Teuchitlán culture; Source areas and obsidian exploitation in Michoacán; The history of pottery production in Capula, Michoacán; Ethnoarchaeology of Tarascan pottery: domestic production and decoration styles; Ceramics, social status, and the Tarascan state economy; and Copper as a strategic resource in pre-Hispanic Western Mexico; while part three focuses on Trade and exchange: Circulation of goods and communication routes between Western and Central Mexico; Contrasting models of ceramic production in the Tarascan state; and Ceramic evidence of contact between Teotihuacan, the Bajío, and southern Hidalgo.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION (Eduardo Williams); THE CHALLENGES OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN FLOOD-PRONE AREAS: UNDERSTANDING OCCUPATION DYNAMICS ON THE LERMA RIVER (Véronique Darras, Vincent Bichet, Christophe Petit, Laure Deodat); THE CERRO BARAJAS SITES DURING THE EPICLASSIC PERIOD: LOCAL RESOURCES AND IMPORTED PRODUCTS (Gérald Migeon); NEGOTIATING SPACE AND LANDSCAPE IN PRE-HISPANIC LAKE PÁTZCUARO: SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS OF THE TARASCAN STATE (Christopher Stawski); SPATIAL DIFFERENCES IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF DISTINCT TYPES OF SCRAPERS IN THE TEQUILA REGION AS INDICAT ORS OF TASK SPECIALIZATION (Verenice Heredia, Camilo Mireles); THE OBSIDIAN JEWELRY OF THE TEUCHITLÁN TRADITION: STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF AN UNKNOWN LITHIC TECHNOLOGY (Rodrigo Esparza); CHANGING PLACES, CHANGING LIFESTYLES: DIFFERING OBSIDIAN ECONOMIES IN TEUCHITLÁN CULTURE (John P. Wagner); WHAT IS A ‘SOURCE AREA’? SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF OBSIDIAN EXPLOITATION IN UCAREO AND ZINAPÉCUARO, MICHOACÁN (Dan M. Healan); RECONSTRUCTING THE POTS: ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF POTTERY PRODUCTION IN CAPULA, MICHOACÁN (José Abraham García Madrigal); DOMESTIC PRODUCTION AND DECORATION STYLES IN POTTERY FROM HUÁNCITO, MICHOACÁN: AN ETHNOARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY (Eduardo Williams); CERAMICS, SOCIAL STATUS, AND THE TARASCAN STATE ECONOMY (Helen Perlstein Pollard); COPPER AS A STRATEGIC RESOURCE IN PRE-HISPANIC WESTERN MEXICO (Blanca Maldonado); CIRCULATION OF GOODS AND COMMUNICATION ROUTES BETWEEN THE ACÁMBARO VALLEY AND CENTRAL MEXICO: FROM CHUPÍCUARO TO TEOTIHUACAN (Brigitte Faugère , Karine Lefèbvre, Jean-François Cuenot); EVALUATING CONTRASTING MODELS OF CERAMIC PRODUCTION IN THE TARASCAN STATE: NEGOTIATIONS IN CLAY (Amy J. Hirshman, David L. Haskell); CERAMIC EVIDENCE OF TEOTIHUACAN CONTACT LINKING THE BASIN OF MEXICO, THE BAJÍO, AND SOUTHERN HIDALGO (Christine Hernández)
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Archaeopress Proceedings of the 17th Iron Age Research Student
Book SynopsisSince its conception in 1998, the Iron Age Research Student Symposium (formerly ‘Seminar’) has provided postgraduates in the archaeology of Iron Age Britain an opportunity to present their current research in a friendly atmosphere. During the course of both formal seminars and informal outings (such as field trips, dinners, and the traditional pub quiz), the Iron Age Research Student Symposium (IARSS) gives students the ability to discuss their research with colleagues and peers, in addition to a number of outstanding lecturers and professors in Iron Age studies. Previous proceedings volumes (Davis et al. 2006; Humphrey 2003; Sterry et al. 2010), also offered participants the prospect of publishing their seminar paper. As a result, IARSS has become a fixture in the development of new academics while at the same time contributing fresh perspectives to Iron Age dialogues. This proceedings volume, organised to reflect three general themes (migration/interaction, material culture and the built environment), accomplishes two things. First, it provides an accessible survey of emerging concepts, ideas, methods, and fieldwork that will shape future study of the Iron Age. Second, it is an outline, not just of what the 17th IARSS accomplished, but also of a broader scheme envisioned by the organisers for future events in this Symposium series. It is the (perhaps wide-eyed) expectation of the organisers that the IARSS can and should expand to offer further opportunities to research students of the Iron Age, and they firmly hope that this volume aids in the promotion of this annual Symposium, as well as the ideas of the contributing authors.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Paul Miller, Graeme Erskine, Piotr Jacobsson and Scott Stetkiewicz); Revisiting Migrations in Archaeology: The Aisne-Marne and the Hunsrück-Eifel Cultures (Dr Manuel Fernández-Götz); ‘My kingdom for a pot!’ A reassessment of the Iron Age and Roman material from Lagore crannóg, Co. Meath (Alexandra Guglielmi); When is a mortarium not a mortarium? Analogies and interpretation in Roman Cumbria (Jennifer Peacock); Technical Weakness or Cultural Strength? Shapeless Jars in Iron Age East Yorkshire (Helen Chittock); Divine Horsemen: equine imagery in Iron Age chariot terrets (Anna Lewis); Burials of Martial Character in the British Iron Age (Yvonne L Inall); Iron Age Iron Production in Britain and the Near Continent (Scott Stetkiewicz); Religion and society. Cave sanctuaries and votive offerings in Oretania (Cristina Manzaneda Martín); From Huts to Huts: The Early Iron Age transition in the domestic architecture of Etruria (Dr Paul Miller); A reconsideration of the distribution of crannogs in Scotland (Michael J. Stratigos); New perspectives on British territorial oppida: the examination of Iron Age landscapes in time and space (Nicky Garland); High Voltage Meets Research: The E.ON 2002 Excavations in the Oppidum of Manching (Dr Katja Winger); The forts of Western Scotland: An interim study of internal area (Simon Wood); An approach to re-examining the chronology of hillforts and other prehistoric monuments (Johnathan A. Horn); Burning Questions: New Insights into Vitrified Forts (Dr Murray Cook, Fiona Watson, Professor Gordon Cook)
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Archaeopress Easter Island Archaeology/Arqueologia en Rapa Nui
Book SynopsisThis well illustrated volume presents in its introduction a personal history of Daniel Schávelzon’s experience of Easter Island during his youth before collecting all the papers and work he produced in 2014 leading up to his retirement.Table of Contentsĺndice; Presentación; I Introducción: La Isla de Pascua en la Argentina y una historia generacional (Daniel Schávelzon); II Cerámicas del siglo XVIII en la Isla de Pascua, Rapa Nui (Daniel Schávelzon, Flavia Zorzi y Ana Igareta); III Acerca de la destrucción de la identidad y la independencia en Rapa Nui (Daniel Schávelzon y Ana Igareta); IV Las delicias del soltero: el paradigma de Pascua y una hipótesis sobre el colapso en el siglo XVII (Daniel Schávelzon); V Literature or Science: 1887, the Intriguing First Novel on Rapa Nui (Daniel Schavelzon); VI De humanos a objetos arquelogicos; Pierre Loti en la Isla de Pascua (1872) (Daniel Schávelzon); VII Las esculturas de Rapa Nui (Isla de Pascua) en el Museo Etnográfico de Buenos Aires (Daniel Schávelzon y Ana Igareta); VIII La incógnita de la colección Rapanui del Barón Du Breuil Du Pontbriand en la Argentina (Daniel Schávelzon); IX La doble vida de Pepe el moai: una anécdota (Daniel Schávelzon); X Algunas observaciones en la isla a las que no tenemos respuestas (Daniel Schávelzon); Bibliografía
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Archaeopress Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies
Book SynopsisThe Seminar for Arabian Studies is the only international academic forum that meets annually for the presentation of research in the humanities on the Arabian Peninsula. It focuses on the fields of archaeology, architecture, art, epigraphy, ethnography, history, language, linguistics, literature, and numismatics from the earliest times to the present day. A wide range of original and stimulating papers presented at the Seminar is published in the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies and reflects the dynamism and scope of the interdisciplinary event. The Proceedings present the cutting edge of new research on Arabia and include reports of new discoveries in the Peninsula. They are published each spring in time for the subsequent Seminar, which is held in July. The main foci of the Seminar in 2015, in descending order of the number of papers presented in each session were North Arabia, South Arabia and Aksum, Archaeological Survey and Field Methods, Bronze and Iron Ages in Eastern Arabia, Islamic Archaeology, and Neolithic Archaeology. In addition, there were sessions on Recent Cultural History in Arabia, and Heritage Management in Arabia, as well as a special session on the Nabataean world titled ‘Beyond the “rose-red” city: the hinterland of Petra and Nabatean rural sites’, which featured a total of six papers. This volume also includes notes in memoriam on Professor Andrzej Zaborski (1942–2014), Professor Ordinarius at the Jagellonian University of Cracow, who specialized in Afro-Asiatic linguistics, Semitic and Cushitic in particular.Table of ContentsEditors’ Foreword; The founding of the Seminar and the Society for Arabian Studies (Peter J. Parr); In memoriam Andrzej Zaborski (1942–2014); Trade beads of FurayΉah. Evidence of trade and connections of Qatar in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from a small-finds perspective (Ann Andersson); ΚUbaid-related sites of the southern Gulf revisited: the Abu Dhabi Coastal Heritage Initiative (Mark Jonathan Beech, Kristian Strutt, Lucy Blue, Abdulla Khalfan al-Kaabi, Waleed Awad Omar, Ahmed Abdulla al-Haj El-Faki, Anjana Reddy Lingareddy & John Martin); Investigating the eastern edge of the kingdom of Aksum: architecture and pottery from Wakarida (Anne Benoist, Julien Charbonnier & Iwona Gajda); Seashell discs from the Early Iron Age graves of Daba (Dibbā, Sultanate of Oman) (poster) (Francesco Paolo Caputo & Francesco Genchi); The Crowded Desert: a multi-phase archaeological survey in the north-west of Qatar (Jose C. Carvajal Lopez, Laura Morabito, Robert Carter, Richard Fletcher & Faisal Abdullah al-Naimi); The social significance of ceramic change at the start of the Wadi Suq period. Rethinking ceramic continuity and change based on recent evidence from the tombs at Qarn al-Дarf (Michel de Vreeze); Iron Age metallurgy at Salūt (Sultanate of Oman): a preliminary note (poster) (Michele Degli Esposti, Martina Renzi & Thilo Rehren); The Asaila depression, an archaeological landscape in Qatar (Philipp Drechsler, Max Engel, Dominik Brill & Christoph Gerber); Dennys Frenez, Michele Degli Esposti, Sophie Méry & Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, Bronze Age Salūt (ST1) and the Indus Civilization: recent discoveries and new insights on regional interaction ; The divine names at Dadan: a philological approach (María del Carmen Hidalgo-Chacón Díez); Reassessing the impact of natural landscape factors on spatial strategies in the Petra hinterland in Nabataean-Roman times (Will M. Kennedy); The Rustaq-Batinah Archaeological Survey (Derek Kennet, William M. Deadman & Nasser Said al-Jahwari); Lithic assemblage from FNS-7 (Wādī al-Дarīmah): new evidence about the fifth-millennium BC hunter-gatherers of coastal Oman (poster) (Maria Pia Maiorano); The Awām Temple cemetery in Marib (MaΜrib) revisited (Clara Mancarella); Middle to Late Neolithic animal exploitation at UAQ2 (5500–4000 cal BC): an ΚUbaid-related coastal site at Umm al-Quwain Emirate, United Arab Emirates (Marjan Mashkour, Mark Jonathan Beech, Karyne Debue, Lisa Yeomans, Stéphanie Bréhard, Dalia Gasparini & Sophie Méry); Humble beginnings? A closer look at social formation during Early Dilmun’s formative phase (c.2200–2050 BC) (Eric Olijdam); Al Ain Oases Mapping Project: QaΓΓārah Oasis, past and present (poster) (Timothy Power, Peter Sheehan, Shamsa Mohamed Al Dhaheri, Mariyam Abd Al Aziz Al Hammadi, Khuloud Ibrahim Al Hammadi & Afra Adnan Al Noaimi with Ayesha Muhsen Al Subaihi, Hamda Hasan Al Omar, Fatima Thani al-Romeithi, Muzna Khalifa Al Mansoori, Leqa Jawher Al Zaabi, Zainab Rubaiya Al Naemi, Mohamed Khalifa & Mohamed Al Dhaheri); Early Iron Age metal circulation in the Arabian Peninsula: the oasis of TaymāΜ as part of a dynamic network (poster) (Martina Renzi, Andrea Intilia, Arnulf Hausleiter & Thilo Rehren); Umm an-Nar pottery assemblages from Bāt and al-Zībā and their functional contexts (Conrad Schmidt & Stephanie Döpper); Ancient South Arabian correspondence on wooden sticks: new radiocarbon data (Peter Stein, Tobias J. Jocham & Michael J. Marx); Сabrah, a satellite hamlet of Petra (Laurent Tholbecq, Thibaud Fournet, Nicolas Paridaens, Soline Delcros & Caroline Durand); Papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, on 24–26 July 2015
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Archaeopress Post-Palaeolithic Filiform Rock Art in Western
Book SynopsisFiliform rock art appears as a spontaneous technique, more simple and immediate than pecking, good either for autonomous strands of expression, or for sketches and first drafts regarding works of painting or pecking. According to the order of presentation of the session’s papers during the XVII IUPPS (UISPP) Conference in Burgos, the articles published here are the following: Late prehistoric incised rock art in southern Europe: a contribution for its typology, by Fernando A. Coimbra, where the author presents a preliminary typology of this kind of rock art, divided in two groups (geometric and figurative), approaching not only common themes to several countries, but also some examples that have only a regional character; Filiform rock art in mount Bego (Tende, Maritime Alps, France), by Nicoletta Bianchi, which analyses some cases where pecked carvings overlap filiforms, therefore pre-dating pecked engravings and studies the interaction of the two carvings tradition; Filiform figures in the rock art of Valcamonica from Prehistory to the Roman age, by Umberto Sansoni, Cinzia Bettineschi and Silvana Gavaldo, that provides a general corpus of the figurative incised rock art of Valcamonica with a quantitative and qualitative approach, by considering the typological variety, the long-lasting chronological dating and the strong relation with the local pecked rock art of the Camunian filiforms; Threadlike engravings of historical period on the rocks and plaster of churches and civic buildings. Some comparisons and proposals of interpretation, by Federico Troletti, which presents the incised engravings exclusively of historical time located in some sites of Valcamonica – the area of Campanine di Cimbergo and Monticolo di Darfo; The rock art from Figueiredo (Sertã, Portugal): typology, parallels and chronology, by Fernando A. Coimbra and Sara Garcês, focusing vi on the description of the engravings from three carved rocks with incised motives from the place of Figueiredo, in central Portugal, which were studied during different fieldworks. Two other papers of researchers that couldn’t attend the Conference were also presented: The filiform rock art from Kosovo, by Shemsi Krasniqi, which presents recent findings from Kosovo with a similar typology of figures from other European countries; The filiform rock engravings of the Parete Manzi of Montelapiano (Chieti, Italy), by Tomaso Di Fraia, which analyses the problematic of incised rock art from a rock shelter in the centre of Italy.Table of ContentsForeword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition (Luiz Oosterbeek); Post-Palaeolithic filiform rock art in Western Europe Introduction (Fernando A. Coimbra and Umberto Sansoni); Late Prehistoric incised rock art in southern Europe: a contribution for its typology (Fernando A. Coimbra); Gravures linéaires et schématiques-linéaires de la région du mont Bego (Tende, Alpes Maritimes, France) (Nicoletta Bianchi); Filiform figures in the rock art of Valcamonica from Prehistory to Roman age (Umberto Sansoni, Cinzia Bettineschi, Silvana Gavaldo); Threadlike engravings of historical period on the rocks and plaster of churches and civic buildings. Some comparisons and proposals of interpretation (Federico Troletti); The rock art from Figueiredo (Sertã, Portugal): typology, parallels and chronology (Fernando A. Coimbra and Sara Garcês); The filiform rock art from Kosovo (Shemsi Krasniqi); The filiform rock engravings of the Parete Manzi of Montelapiano (Chieti, Italy) (Tomaso Di Fraia)
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Archaeopress Holocene Prehistory in the Télidjène Basin,
Book SynopsisKef Zoura D and Aïn Misteheyia are stratified Capsian escargotières (one openair, the other a rockshelter) in the Télidjène Basin, Eastern Algeria. They were excavated in the 1970s but have remained incompletely published. The sites are the only modern excavations of a Capsien Typique/Capsien Supérieur sequence, demonstrating that this is indeed a chronological progression related to the 8200 cal BP climate event. The technological (introduction of pressure flaking), palaeoeconomic and palaeoecological changes related to this event are examined in these contributions.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements (David Lubell); Chapter 1: Chronology and Stratigraphy of Kef Zoura D with Comparison to Relilaï (Mary Jackes and David Lubell); Chapter 2: The Lithic Assemblage (Peter Sheppard); Chapter 3: Caractérisation techno-typologique de deux assemblages sur matières dures animales capsiens: Kef Zoura D et Aïn Misteheyia (Simone Mulazzani and Jean-Philip Brugal); Chapter 4: Approche fonctionnelle des industries osseuses de Kef Zoura D et Aïn Misteheyia (Giacoma Petrullo); Chapter 5: Marine Shells from Kef Zoura D and Aïn Misteheyia (David S. Reese); Chapter 6: “Dessine-moi une autruche” La gravure de Kef Zoura D et la représentation de l’autruche au Maghreb (Noura Rahmani and David Lubell); Chapter 7: The vertebrate faunal assemblage (Mary Jackes and David Lubell); Chapter 8: Wood Charcoals of Kef Zoura D (A. Catherine D’Andrea, Sarah E. Oas and C. Thomas Shay); Chapter 9: Analyse fonctionnelle de l’industrie lithique capsienne de Kef Zoura D: premiers résultats (Bernard Gassin and Juan F. Gibaja); Addendum - Illustrations of Aïn Misteheyia lithics
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Archaeopress Late Bronze Age Flintworking from Ritual Zones in
Book SynopsisThis book is devoted to flintworking encountered in the so-called cult houses and ritual zones from the Late Bronze Age in southern Scandinavia, where thousands of barrows were built in the period from the Neolithic to the end of the Early Bronze Age. Considerable numbers of the barrows are still distinctly visible in the landscape of the area today. In the Late Bronze Age, the cult houses, as well as other ritual constructions in various forms, were built into the older barrows’ mounds or were located on their edges. The excavated material from Jutland abounds in flint artefacts, which nearly always constitute the predominating category of finds.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. On The Phenomenon Of Flintworking At The End Of The Bronze Age And Beginning Of The Iron Age; 2. Temporal And Spatial Framework. Concept Of The Work. Methods; 3. Cult Houses. Definition. Idea. Chronology; 4. Specification Of Source Information; 5. Diversity Of Cult Features From The Late Bronze Age In Jutland; 6. Cult Features With Flint Assemblages From Northern Jutland; 7. Issues In Flintworking Technology And Typology; 8. Examination Of Wear Traces On Flint Artefacts From Ritual Zones; 9. Grydehøj Cult House. Results Of Biological Analyses; 10. Ritual Flintworking; 11. Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Plates
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Archaeopress For the Gods of Girsu: City-State Formation in
Book SynopsisFor the Gods are the opening words or incipit of the first inscribed votive artefacts dedicated to the principal deities of the Sumerian pantheon. They commemorate the construction or renovation of cities, temples, rural sanctuaries, border steles, in sum all the symbolically charged features of archaic states belonging thus metaphorically to supernatural tutelary overlords. Girsu (present-day Tello) is one of the earliest known cities of the world together with Uruk, Eridu, and Ur, and was considered to be in the 3rd Millennium the sanctuary of the Sumerian heroic god Ningirsu who fought with the demons of the Kur (Mountain) and thus made possible the introduction of irrigation and agriculture in Sumer. Girsu was the sacred metropolis and central pole of a city-state that lay in the Southeasternmost part of the Mesopotamian floodplain. The pioneering explorations carried out between 1877 and 1933 at Tello and the early decipherment of the Girsu cuneiform tablets were ground-breaking because they revealed the principal catalytic elements of the Sumerian takeoff – that is, a multiplicity and coalescence of major innovations, such as the appearance of a city– countryside continuum, the emergence of literacy, of bronze manufacture, and the development of monumental art and architecture. Because of the richness of information related in particular to the city’s spatial organization and geographical setting, and thanks to the availability of recently declassified Cold War space imagery and especially the possibility to launch new explorations in Southern Iraq, Girsu stands out as a primary locale for re-analyzing through an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeological and textual evidence the origins of the Sumerian city-state.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Concept of the Sumerian City-State; Chapter One: Once Upon a Time in Ancient Girsu. Or Tello and the Rediscovery of the Sumerians; Chapter Two: The City of the Heroic God. The General Layout of a Sumerian Metropolis; Chapter Three: The Girsu Countryside. The Spatial Organization of a Sumerian City-State; Chapter Four: Demarcated by the Gods. Sumerian Rites and the Lagaš-Umma Border Conflict; Conclusion: Morphogenesis of an Archaic City-State; Bibliography
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Archaeopress The Development of Domestic Space in the Maltese
Book SynopsisThis study traces and analyses the evolution of domestic space in Maltese vernacular and ‘polite’ houses from medieval to contemporary times. The houses under review range from humble buildings of modest size, materials and design, like farmhouses or those for the less affluent towndwellers, to buildings of grand design, like townhouses and palazzi. Owing to the complex nature of the Maltese houses a combination of enquires and a variety of sources was necessary to achieve a holistic picture. This included fieldwork in different parts of the islands, extensive research work in local archives, libraries and museums, an analysis of a sample of literary sources, national censuses and works-of-art, as well as methods of spatial analysis (Space Syntax). One of the major achievements obtained in this research concerns the development of the native dwelling. The field surveys and archival research have demonstrated that the evolution of the native dwelling was very much influenced by the political, social and economic changes that occurred locally during the period under review. In particular, it was observed that architectural and stylistic changes in the elite houses occurred at a faster rate to suit fashion, in line with what occurred in other European countries, while changes in peasant houses were slower and more sporadic as these adhered to their vernacular idiom for a longer time. Houses often served as a symbol of class and social status. The dwelling’s size and architectural style, the configuration of domestic space as well as the house furniture and contents were among the main indicators which, between the late Medieval Period and the first half of the 20th century, distinguished a wealthy from a poor dwelling. Class distinction did not occur only between houses, but also within the same building, especially in the elite dwellings. Gender was also another important aspect which directly affected the upper middle and elite Maltese houses, particularly at a time when men and women had fixed roles in society. However, the restricted space by which the lower class houses were normally characterized permitted instead the mixing of genders in work and leisure. A major shift in the relationship between the family and the house occurred in the second half of the 20th century, when the social and demographic changes of this period brought more balance between the social classes. Through the available evidence, particularly the national censuses, works-of-art, literary sources and travelogues, it was also possible to acquire knowledge about various aspects related to dining fashions, dress code, health and education in the Maltese houses. The results obtained from our Space Syntax investigations have been instrumental to acquire new knowledge and to understand better the social logic of space underpinning Maltese dwellings and settlements.Table of ContentsChapter 1 - Introduction; Chapter 2 – The Maltese Islands: Society, Class, Economy and Settlements; Chapter 3 – Maltese Domestic Architecture; Chapter 4 – The Maltese Houses: Literary Sources, Notarial Acts, Travelogues and the National Censuses; Chapter 5 – Maltese Houses and Settlements Through the Artist’s Eye; Chapter 6 – Religious Beliefs and Traditions; Chapter 7 – Diet, Dining Fashions, Health and Education; Chapter 8 – Furniture and Costumes; Chapter 10 – Decoding Maltese Houses and Settlements; Chapter 11 – The Development of the Maltese Houses since the Second Half of the Twentieth Century; Chapter 12 – Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Appendix 1 – The Malta Historic House Survey; Appendix 2 – Glossary of Terms
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Archaeopress The Archaeology of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Book SynopsisThe burgeoning of archaeological research in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq is one of the great success stories of world archaeology today. For twenty years it was impossible for western archaeologists to work in Iraq, and for most of this time there were also heavy restrictions on the activity of Iraqi archaeologists. In addition to this Kurdistan remains a region never systematically explored. The conference presented the first opportunity for the leading figures in this renaissance of research in the area to gather and present all the key new projects which are revolutionising our understanding of the region. The following papers are available to download in Open Access: Current Investigations into the Early Neolithic of the Zagros Foothills of Iraqi Kurdistan - Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Kamal Rasheed Raheem and Kamal Rauf Aziz: Download About Bakr Awa - Peter A. Miglus: DownloadTable of Contents'Archaeological investigations on the Citadel of Erbil: Background, Framework and Results' (Dara Al Yaqoobi, Abdullah Khorsheed Khader, Sangar Mohammed, Saber Hassan Hussein, Mary Shepperson and John MacGinnis) ; 'The site of Bazyan: historical and archaeological investigations' (Narmin Amin Ali and Vincent Deroche) ; 'Short notes on Chalcolithic pottery research: The pottery sequences of Tell Nader (Erbil) and Ashur (Qal’at Sherqat)' (Claudia Beuger) ; 'New Evidence of Paleolithic Occupation in the Western Zagros foothills: Preliminary report of cave and rockshelter survey in the Sar Qaleh Plain in the West of Kermanshah Province, Iran' (Fereidoun Biglari and Sonia Shidrang) ; 'Activities of Sapienza-University of Rome in Iraqi Kurdistan: Erbil, Sulaimaniyah and Duhok' (Carlo Giovanni Cereti and Luca Colliva) ; 'The Achaemenid Period Occupation at Tell ed-Daim in Iraqi Kurdistan' (John Curtis and Farouk al-Rawi) ; '‘Inscription D’ from Sennacherib’s Aqueduct At Jerwān: Further Data and Insights' (Frederick Mario Fales and Roswitha Del Fabbro) ; 'The Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project: A Preliminary Overview on the Pottery and Settlement Patterns of the 3rd Millennium BC in the Northern Region of Iraqi Kurdistan' (Katia Gavagnin) ; 'Animal husbandry and other human-animal interactions in Late Ubaid-Early Uruk northern Iraq: the faunal remains from the 2012 excavation season at Tell Nader' (Angelos Hadjikoumis) ; 'Hawsh-Kori and Char-Ghapi: Why the Sassanids built two monuments in the west of Kermanshah and the south of Iraqi Kurdistan' (Ali Hozhabri) ; 'Across millennia of occupation: the Land of Nineveh Archaeological project in Iraqi Kurdistan: The prehistory and protohistory of the Upper Tigris rediscovered' (Marco Iamoni) ; 'The Iraqi Institute: Education for Archaeological Research and Conservation' (Jessica Johnson, Abdullah Khorsheed and Brian Michael Lione) ; ‘Two seasons of excavations at Kunara (Upper Tanjaro): An Early and Middle Bronze Age city’ (Christine Kepinski and Aline Tenu) ; 'Excavations of the Chalcolithic Occupations at Salat Tepe on the Upper Tigris, Southeastern Anatolia (Tatsundo Koizumi, Minoru Yoneda, Shigeru Itoh and Koichi Kobayashi) ; ‘Insights into the settlement history of Iraqi Kurdistan from the Upper Greater Zab Archaeological Reconnaissance Project’ (Rafał Koliński) ; ‘Two Ottoman Trade Buildings (Qaisariya) in the Bazaar of Erbil from Building Archaeology to Refurbishment Planning’ (Dietmar Kurapkat) ; ‘Ninevite 5 – culture or regional pottery style?’ (Dorota Ławecka) ; ‘Back to the Land of Muṣaṣir/Ardini: Preliminary report on fieldwork (2005-2012)’ (Dlshad Marf) ; ‘New Researches on the Assyrian Heartland: The Bash Tapa Excavation Project’ (Lionel Marti and Christophe Nicolle) ; ‘Materials from French Excavations in Erbil Area (2011-2013): Qasr Shemamok’ (Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault and Ilaria Calini) ; 'Current Investigations into the Early Neolithic of the Zagros Foothills of Iraqi Kurdistan' (Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Kamal Rasheed Raheem and Kamal Rauf Aziz) [Open Access: Download] ; ‘About Bakr Awa (Peter A. Miglus) [Open Access: Download] ; ‘Magnetic investigations in the Shahrizor Plain: Revealing the unseen in survey prospections’ (Simone Mühl and Jörg Fassbinder) ; ‘The Bazaar of Erbil within the Context of Islamic Trade Routes and Trade Buildings’ (Martina Müller-Wiener and Anne Mollenhauer) ; ‘Halaf Settlement in the Iraqi Kurdistan: the Shahrizor Survey Project’ (Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, Takahiro Odaka and Simone Mühl) ; ‘Contextualizing Arbīl: Medieval urbanism in Adiabene’ (Karel Nováček) ; ‘Filling the Gap: The Upper Tigris Region from the Fall of Nineveh to the Sasanians. Archaeological and Historical Overview Through the Data of the Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project’ (Rocco Palermo) ; ‘Satu Qala: an Assessment of the Stratigraphy of the Site’ (Cinzia Pappi) ; ‘Helawa: A New Northern Ubaid/Late Chalcolithic Site in the Erbil Plain’ (Luca Peyronel, Agnese Vacca and Gioia Zenoni) ; ‘From the banks of the Upper Tigris River to the Zagros Highlands. The first season (2013) of the Tübingen Eastern Ḫabur Archaeological Survey’ (Peter Pfälzner and Paola Sconzo) ; ‘Gre Amer, Batman, on the Upper Tigris: A Rescue Project in the Ilısu Dam Reservoir in Turkey’ (Gül Pulhan and Stuart Blaylock) ; ‘In the Neo-Assyrian Border March of the Palace Herald: Geophysical Survey and Salvage Excavations at Gird-i Bazar and Qalat-i Dinka (Peshdar Plain Project 2015) (Karen Radner, Andrei Ašandulesei, Jörg Fassbinder, Tina Greenfield, Jean-Jacques Herr, Janoscha Kreppner and Andrea Squitieri) ; ‘New investigations at Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan’ (Tim Reynolds, William Boismier, Lucy Farr, Chris Hunt, Dlshad Abdulmutalb and Graeme Barker) ; ‘Materials from French excavations in the Erbil area (2010): Kilik Mishik’ (Olivier Rouault and Ilaria Calini) ; ‘Kurd Qaburstan, A Second Millennium BC Urban Site: First Results of the Johns Hopkins Project’ (Glenn M. Schwartz) ; ‘The Sirwan (Upper Diyala) Regional Project – First Results’ (Tevfik Emre Şerifoğlu, Claudia Glatz, Jesse Casana and Shwkr Muhammed Haydar) ; ‘Tracking early urbanism in the hilly flanks of Mesopotamia – three years of Danish archaeological investigations on the Rania Plain’ (Tim Boaz Bruun Skuldbøl and Carlo Colantoni) ; ‘The Activities of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Iraqi Kurdistan (MAIKI): The survey area and the new evidence from Paikuli blocks documentation’ (Gianfilippo Terribili and Alessandro Tilia) ; ‘The Kani Shaie Archaeological Project’ (André Tomé, Ricardo Cabral and Steve Renette) ; ‘Philological and scientific analyses of cuneiform tablets housed in Sulaimaniya (Slemani) Museum’ (Chikako Watanabe) ; ‘‘Carrying the glory of the great battle’. The Gaugamela battlefield: ancient sources, modern views, and topographical problems’ (Kleanthis Zouboulakis) ;
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Archaeopress Archaeological rescue excavations on Packages 3
Book SynopsisThe archaeological excavations along the route of packages 3 and 4 of the Batinah Expressway, Sultanate of Oman, conducted during the spring and summer of 2014, recorded over 60 archaeological sites over the 200km stretch of roadway cutting through the Batinah plain, north-west of Muscat. The majority of these sites were prehistoric tombs of varying ages. These excavations have allowed a re-thinking of the dating of some of these tombs, looking particularly at the structural styles of the tombs as well as their location in the landscape. It has also demonstrated techniques of rapid yet reliable excavation and recording techniques adapted from UK commercial archaeology for the Omani conditions. The report builds on the work of academic studies and adds a large dataset to the archaeology of the Batinah, Oman and the wider region. It is hoped that this will allow a wider scale reconsideration of the burial styles of the prehistoric Gulf.Table of ContentsSection I: Introduction; Section II: Tomb typology; Section IIIa: The excavations; Section IIIb: Package 4; Section IV: The human remains (Alyson Caine); Section V: Finds from the excavations (Andrew Blair, Cameron Clegg, Anna Hilton, Heiko Kalweit, Derek Kennet, Peter Magee, Ben Saunders, and Michel de Vreeze); Section VI: Discussion (W.M. Deadman); Bibliography
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Archaeopress Making a Mint: Comparative Studies in Late Iron
Book SynopsisThis book presents the first large-scale comparative study of Iron Age coin mould. The subject of Iron Age minting techniques is an important one that reveals a great deal about Iron Age political organisation and economy but which, until now, has remained largely unreported. In addition to examining in detail approximately 20% of all the coin mould ever found, the book also addresses the lack of an agreed reporting protocol, the main and considerable obstacle to progress in this field. In addition to the detailed interpretation of all mould studied the volume also serves as a field guide to best practice in dealing with new material and finds.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Starting point; Chapter 2: The Literature; Chapter 3: Recording coin mould: aims and methodology; Chapter 4: The Henderson Collection (Braughing) coin mould assemblage; Chapter 5: The Ford Bridge (Braughing) assemblage; Chapter 6: The PuckeridgeAssemblage; Chapter 7: The Wickham Kennels assemblage; Chapter 8: Small finds from Braughing/Puckeridge; Chapter 9: The Bagendon study sample; Chapter 10: Coin mould from Old Sleaford in the British Museum; Chapter 11: The Turners Hall Farm Assemblage; Chapter 12: Conclusions; Appendix: Some experiments in the manufacture of coin mould; Bibliography
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Archaeopress Warriors and other Men: Notions of Masculinity
Book SynopsisWhat is considered masculine is not something given and innate to males but determined by cultural ideas and ideals constructed through performative practices – today and in the past. This book questions whether androcentric archaeology has taught us anything about prehistoric men and their masculinities. Starting from broad discussions of feminist theory and critical men’s studies, this study examines how notions of masculinity are expressed in cremation burials from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Roman Period (1100 BC - 400 AD) in Eastern Norway and Funen in Denmark. It is argued that notions of masculinity were deeply intertwined with society, and when central aspects like war systems, task differentiation, or technology changed, so did gender and ideas of masculinity and vice versa. In the Late Bronze Age, an idealisation and sexualisation of the male body related to warrior esthetic was probably essential to the performance of masculinity. In the Early Roman Period, masculinity became bounded by what it was not – the unmanly. Warrior capabilities were the most prominent ideals of masculinity and concepts of unmanliness structured society, highlighting divergences between men and women. In the Late Roman Period, society grew more complex and multiple contemporary, possibly complementary masculinities associated with the rising class of free peasants, specific roles and regional differences developed and the warrior lost the dominant position as masculine ideal.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2 Feminist Theory and the Conceptualisation of Gender; 3 The Archaeology of Masculinity; 4. The Social Archaeology of Burials; 5. Analysis Methods and Variables; 6. The Late Bronze Age in Funen, Denmark; 7. The Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Eastern Norway; 8. The Cemetery at Møllegårdsmarken in Funen, Denmark; 9. The Changes of Warriors and Other Men; Changing Masculinities
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Archaeopress The Archaeology and History of the Church of the
Book SynopsisThe Muristan is situated in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem and was a prime property in medieval times with numerous churches, a hospice, and a large hospital complex. This monograph contains fifteen chapters written by leading scholars from around the world dealing with the archaeological and historical aspects of the Muristan from the Iron Age through to Ottoman times. A number of chapters also address its immediate urban surroundings, notably the complex of structures associated with the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on the north and the Church of St John the Baptist to the south-west. Key chapters in this monograph are dedicated to the history of the Church of the Redeemer and on its underlying archaeological remains. Many of the chapters are based on research that was originally presented at an international workshop held in Jerusalem in 2014.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements (Dieter Vieweger/Shimon Gibson) ; Introduction (Dieter Vieweger/Shimon Gibson) ; PART I: THE CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER ; CHAPTER 1: A Re-appraisal of the Ute Wagner-Lux Excavations beneath the Church of the Redeemer (Dieter Vieweger) ; CHAPTER 2: The Crusader Church beneath the Church of the Redeemer in Nineteenth-Century Historic Photographs (Shimon Gibson) ; PART II: THE MURISTAN ; CHAPTER 3: Dame Kathleen Kenyon’s Excavations in the Muristan, south of the Church of the Redeemer (Kay Prag) ; CHAPTER 4: New Excavations beneath the Church of St. John (Jean-Baptiste Humbert) ; CHAPTER 5: The Abbey Church of St. Mary the Great (or the Less) and its Benedictine Nunnery (R. Denys Pringle) ; PART III: THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE ; CHAPTER 6: An Overview on the Archaeological Work in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Joseph Patrich) ; CHAPTER 7: The Nineteenth-Century Excavations at the Chapel of St. Alexander Nevsky (Alla Nagorsky) ; CHAPTER 8: The Date of the Pilaster Wall in the Chapel of St. Alexander Nevsky (Shimon Gibson) ; PART IV: THE CRUSADER-PERIOD HOSPITAL AND ADJACENT MARKETS ; CHAPTER 9: The Location of the Crusader Hospital in the Muristan―a Reassessment (Ilya Berkovich/Amit Re’em) ; CHAPTER 10: Ernoul and the Muristan (Dan Bahat) ; CHAPTER 11: Crusader-Period Markets and Remains of the Byzantine Cardo in the vicinity of the Church of the Redeemer. With a List of Coins prepared (Robert Kool) ; APPENDIX: Glass Vessels from Aderet Eliyahu Yeshiva (Brigitte Ouahnouna) ; PART V: THE MURISTAN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND THE VISIT OF THE EMPEROR ; CHAPTER 12: Der Muristan von 1187 bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg (Jürgen Krüger) ; CHAPTER 13: Tobler, Sepp, and the Ruins of the Muristan (Haim Goren) ; CHAPTER 14: The German Church of the Redeemer and the Journey of Emperor Wilhelm II to Jerusalem. Symbols and Importance (Jakob Eisler) ; CHAPTER 15: The Hospital of St. John in Jerusalem―from the Architectural Remains to a 3D reconstruction (Dorothee Heinzelmann/Michael Heinzelmann/Jürgen Krüger/Markus Wacker)
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Archaeopress Lusitanian Amphorae: Production and Distribution
Book SynopsisMore than a century of archaeological investigation in Portugal has helped to discover, excavate and study many Lusitanian amphorae kiln sites, with their amphorae being widely distributed in Lusitania. These containers were identified in Ostia and Rome from the 1970s and thereafter in many sites around the Mediterranean, but their numbers have always seemed scarce. Were they not being recognized and therefore underestimated? Were they all fish-product amphorae? Did they ever reach a significant market share in the other provinces of Hispania? And what was their contribution to the supply of the city of Rome or to other cities in the centre of the Empire? This collective volume is a contribution to the discussion of these and other questions, and to a better understanding of the production and distribution of Lusitanian amphorae.Table of ContentsI The Production of Lusitanian Amphorae: Production during the Principate in Peniche (Portugal); Raw Materials, Kilns and Amphora Typology (Guilherme Cardoso, Severino Rodrigues, Eurico de Sepúlveda and Inês Ribeiro); Roman Pottery Workshop of Quinta do Rouxinol (Seixal): Quantification and Classification of Amphora Production (Jorge Raposo, Cézer Santos and Olga Antunes); The Roman Figlina at Garrocheira, Benavente, Portugal in the Early Empire (Clementino Amaro and Cristina Gonçalves); Roman Amphora Production in the Lower Sado Region (Françoise Mayet and Carlos Tavares da Silva); The Roman Kilns at Estrada da Parvoíce, Alcácer do Sal (Portugal) (João Pimenta, Marisol Ferreira and Ana Catarina Cabrita); Roman Amphora Production in the Algarve (Southern Portugal) (João Pedro Bernardes and Catarina Viegas); II Archaeometry, Contents and Quantification of Lusitanian Amphorae; Geochemical Fingerprints of Lusitanian Amphora Production Centres: Tagus, Sado, Algarve and Peniche (M. Isabel Dias and M. Isabel Prudêncio); Lusitanian Amphorae of the Augustan Era and their Contents: Organic Residue Analysis (Rui Morais, César Oliveira and Alfredo Araújo); Fish Bones and Amphorae: New Evidence for the Production and Trade of Fish Products in Setúbal (Portugal) (Sónia Gabriel and Carlos Tavares da Silva); The Myth of ‘Laccatvm:’ a Study Starting from a New Titulus on a Lusitanian Dressel 14 (David Djaoui); Do We Have the Capacity to Understand the Economy of Lusitanian Commodities? Volumetric Calculations of Lusitanian Amphora Types (Victor Martínez); III The Distribution of Lusitanian Amphorae: III.1 Lusitanian Amphorae in Lusitania: Amphorae at the Origins of Lusitania: Transport Pottery from Western Hispania Ulterior in Alto Alentejo (Rui Mataloto, Joey Williams and Conceição Roque); Julio-Claudian Lusitanian Amphorae: a Perspective on Selected Contexts from Olisipo (Lisbon, Portugal) (Rodrigo Banha da Silva, Victor Filipe and Rui Roberto de Almeida); Lusitanian Amphorae and Transport Common Ware from the Roman Anchorage of Praça D. Luís I (Portugal) (Jorge Parreira and Marta Macedo); Lusitanian Amphorae at a Fish-salting Production Centre: Tróia (Portugal) (Inês Vaz Pinto, Rui de Almeida, Ana Patrícia Magalhães and Patrícia Brum); On the way to Augusta Emerita. Historiographical overview, old and new data on fish-product amphorae and commerce within the trade to the capital of Lusitania (Rui Roberto de Almeida); Lusitanian and Imported Amphorae from the Roman Town of Ammaia (Portugal). A Short Overview (Caterina P. Venditti); Lusitanian Amphorae in the Roman City of Conimbriga (Ida Buraca); A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Maritime Economy and Palaeo-Environment of Southern Roman Lusitania (Felix Teichner); The Lusitanian Amphorae from the Roman Villa of Vale da Arrancada (Portimão, Algarve, Portugal) (Carlos Fabião, Catarina Viegas and Vera de Freitas); III.2 Lusitanian Amphorae in Gallaecia, Baetica and Tarraconensis: Lusitanian Amphorae in the Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (Adolfo Fernández Fernández); Amphora Circulation in the Lower Guadalquivir Valley in the Mid Imperial Period: the Lusitana 3 Type (Enrique García Vargas); Lusitanian Amphorae in the Strait of Gibraltar: Interprovincial Food Supply (Darío Bernal Casasola); Lusitanian Amphorae in Carthago Nova (Cartagena, Spain): Distribution and Research Questions (Alejandro Quevedo and Sónia Bombico); Escolletes 1. Lusitanian Amphorae and Late Roman Maritime Trade in the Iberian Southeast (Felipe Cerezo Andreo); Lusitanian Amphorae in Tarraco (3rd–5th Century AD) (Josep–Anton Remolà Vallverdù); Early Imperial Lusitanian Amphorae from the Eastern Iberian Coast (Ramón Járrega Domínguez and Horacio González Cesteros); III.3 Lusitanian Amphorae Beyond Hispania: Lusitanian Amphorae from the Dump Layer above the Arles-Rhône 3 Shipwreck (David Djaoui and José Carlos Quaresma); Lusitanian amphorae in Germania Superior, Germania Inferior and Gallia Belgica. Scarcity, identification problems, contexts and interpretations (Patrick Monsieur); Lusitanian Amphorae found on the Punta Sardegna A Shipwreck (Palau, Sardinia). A Preliminary Report on Typologies and Fabrics (Alessandro Porqueddu, Claudia Giarrusso and Pier Giorgio Spanu); Lusitanian Amphorae at Ostia and in the Vesuvian Region (Archer Martin); Lusitanian Amphorae in Naples between the 3rd and the 5th Century AD (Luana Toniolo); Lusitanian Amphorae in Rome (Giorgio Rizzo); Lusitanian Amphorae in Adriatic Italy: Commercial Routes and Distribution (Rita Auriemma and Stefania Pesavento Mattioli with an Appendix by Manuela Mongardi); Lusitanian Amphorae in the Northern Adriatic Region: the Western Part of the Decima Regio (Silvia Cipriano and Stefania Mazzocchin); Lusitanian Amphorae in Northern Adriatic Italy: the Eastern Part of Decima Regio (Dario Gaddi and Valentina Degrassi); Lusitanian Amphorae on Western Mediterranean Shipwrecks: Fragments of Economic History (Sónia Bombico)
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Archaeopress Reinterpreting chronology and society at the
Book SynopsisJebel Moya (south-central Sudan) is the largest known pastoral cemetery in sub- Saharan Africa with more than 3100 excavated human burials. This research revises our understanding of Jebel Moya and its context. After reviewing previous applications of social complexity theory to mortuary data, new questions are posed for the applicability of such theory to pastoral cemeteries. Reliable radiometric dating of Jebel Moya for the first time by luminescence dates is tied in to an attribute-based approach to discern three distinctive pottery assemblages. Three distinct phases of occupation are recognised: the first two (early fifth millennium BC, and the mid-second to early first millennium BC) from pottery sherds, and the third (first century BC - sixth century AD) with habitation and the vast majority of the mortuary remains. Analytically, new statistical and spatial analyses such as cross-pair correlation function and multi-dimensional scaling provide information on zones of interaction across the mortuary assemblages. Finally, an analysis of mortuary locales contemporary with phase three (Meroitic and post-Meroitic periods) from the central Sudan and Upper and Lower Nubia are examined to show how changing social, economic and power relations were conceptualised, and to highlight Jebel Moya’s potential to serve as a chronological and cultural reference point for future studies in south-central and southern Sudan.Table of ContentsForeword; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The evolution of complexity theory and mortuary studies; Chapter 3: Ceramic assemblages and a revised chronology for Jebel Moya; Chapter 4: Implications of occupational traces and spatial use of the site over time; Chapter 5: The bioanthropology of Jebel Moya; Chapter 6: Social patterning in the Jebel Moya mortuary complex; Chapter 7: Situating Jebel Moya’s cemetery within a wider Sudanese context; Chapter 8: Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix I: Burial distribution map of Jebel Moya; Appendix II: New Register of Graves for Jebel Moya; Appendix III: British Museum sherd trays; Appendix IV: Burials with illustrated pottery sherds; Appendix V: Foreign objects from Jebel Moya at the Griffiths Institute
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Archaeopress Siruthavoor: An Iron Age-Early Historical burial
Book SynopsisArchaeological artifacts such as stone tools, ceramics, coins, metal implements, and ornaments like beads, are generally used to evaluate and understand the history of humans. These artifacts are especially important for the study of periods that lack concrete literary evidence. Intangible aspects such as spiritual beliefs and ceremonies, as well as tangible but perishable objects, are lost in the passage of time but artifacts are more likely to survive the vicissitudes of time. Pollen analysis, plant ecology and not least prehistoric archaeology have contributed to the recognition of the transitional zone between uncontaminated nature and what eventually became known as a cultural landscape. Cultural landscapes are looked upon not only as products of human intervention, but also and in particular as the result of human desire to leave an imprint of control and power, often associated with territoriality and religious or political ambitions. Megalithic burials, which are found in vast numbers in southern and central India, are a well-known global phenomenon and their builders have left behind a landscape altered by their funereal remains. This study aims at using and understanding man-land relationships in order to better comprehend the megalithic burials of Tamil Nadu. Funereal remains are one of the most important lingering means of understanding society, customs and religion of pre and proto historic periods. Many questions remain unanswered for the Iron Age of south India, and the megalithic burials are an important piece of this puzzle. This site specific study helps us better understand some aspects such as spatial distribution, chronology and post depositional changes of the burials at Siruthavoor.Table of ContentsPreface; Chapter 1 Introduction ; Chapter 2 Siruthavoor: An Iron Age-Early Historic site; Chapter 3 Methodology; Chapter 4 Exploration and Excavation at Siruthavoor; Chapter 5 Results; Chapter 6 Discussion and Conclusion
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Archaeopress Archeologia dell’acqua a Gortina di Creta in età
Book SynopsisAncient aqueducts have long commanded the attention of archaeologists, both for their intrinsic, monumental importance and for their significance as infrastructures closely related to the concept of civilisation. An aqueduct, in fact, is an artefact that has a great potential for providing information concerning at least two major aspects of ancient society: those relating to structural, technical, and engineering matters, and those relating to building and construction technology. These topics have enjoyed considerable attention in past studies, and in recent years they have also been integrated with a multi-disciplinary and contextual approach. They have further increased the potential of the analysis of ancient hydraulic systems, turning them into historical subjects capable of expanding our knowledge of the urban and social transformation of ancient cities and their territories. The current study of the early Byzantine aqueduct of Gortyn (Crete) follows this tradition, but starts from a viewpoint related not so much to the aqueduct itself, as to a series of questions about the city: what was the appearance of Gortyn in the early Byzantine era? How did the inhabitants live? Where did they live and what did they do for living? The aqueduct was born with the Roman city and accompanied it for its entire lifetime, constituting the backbone around which the various forms of urban settlement were redrawn at each major historical stage. Its vital link with everyday life makes the aqueduct a key witness for the study of the transformations of the city over the long term.Table of ContentsIntroduzione ; 1. Studiare e ristudiare un acquedotto protobizantino: motivi e approcci ; 2. Il contesto geografico ; 3. Il contesto storico ; 4. L’acquedotto protobizantino ; 5. L’acqua e la città ; 6. L’evoluzione del sistema idrico urbano tra VII e VIII secolo ; Catalogo ; Bibliografia
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Archaeopress Enfoques metodológicos en el estudio de los
Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on the main methodological perspectives currently existing in studies on Iron Age fortified settlements. Current investigations can be characterised according to three methodological approaches: analytic, landscape and componential analysis. These approaches can be traced since the 70s and are found all around Europe from the Baltic regions to the Mediterranean coast. They are examples of diachronic and versatile methodological procedures in use today and applicable to different contexts of the European Iron Age. We introduce digital archaeology at the end of this paper. In each one of the chapters we shall focus not only on the theoretical perspective of the approach but also on its practical application to the study of actual fortified settlements from different geographic contexts. In conclusion, and despite the difficulties of using these methods when investigating Iron Age settlements, they seem to be as versatile as they are adaptable and they have evolved adopting new methods of tele-detection and geographic information systems which update and refresh them as current methodological approaches.Table of Contents1. ESTUDIAR LOS ASENTAMIENTOS FORTIFICADOS DE LA EDAD DE HIERRO; 2. ALGUNAS CUESTIONES CRONOLÓGICAS; 3. EL MÉTODO ARQUEOLÓGICO; 4. EL ENFOQUE ANALÍTICO; 5. EL ENFOQUE COMPONENCIAL; 6. EL ENFOQUE DEL PAISAJE; 7. PROBLEMÁTICAS DE APLICACIÓN, CONTROVERSIAS, CUESTIONES A DEBATE Y NUEVAS FRONTERAS EN EL ESTUDIO DE LAS FORTIFICACIONES DE LA EDAD DEL HIERRO; 8. CONCLUSIONES SOBRE LOS ENFOQUES METODOLÓGICOS; 9. NUEVAS FRONTERAS DE INVESTIGACIÓN: HACIA UNA ARQUEOLOGÍA DIGITAL; BIBLIOGRAFÍA; ÍNDICE DE FIGURAS Y TABLAS; ÍNDICE DE AUTORES; ÍNDICE DE LUGARES
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Archaeopress The Small Finds and Vessel Glass from Insula VI.1
Book SynopsisThis report presents the vessel glass and small finds found during the excavations between 1995 and 2006 that took place in Insula VI.1, Pompeii (henceforth VI.1). More than 5,000 items are discussed, and the size of the assemblage has meant that the publication is in two parts. The book you are reading consists of the discussion with associated illustrations and the catalogue entries for a subset of the data. The other half is available digitally on the Archaeological Data Service. That part contains the full catalogue of the material recorded, additional contextual information, and details about the initial excavations of the insula during the eighteenth century.Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Finds and the Site; Chapter 2: Dress Accessories and Jewellery; Chapter 3: Toilet, Pharmaceutical and Medical Equipment: the Containers; Chapter 4: Toilet, Pharmaceutical and Medical Equipment: the Utensils; Chapter 5: Household Equipment – the Vessels; Chapter 6: Household Equipment – Utensils, Furniture and Interior Decoration; Chapter 7: Craft Equipment; Chapter 8: Items Associated with Recreation; Chapter 9: Articles Associated with Religious Activity; Chapter 10: Other functions and miscellaneous; Chapter 11: Changing Patterns at Pompeii; Appendix 1: available at http:; Appendix 2: available at http:; Appendix 3: The reference set for the glass vessels from the eruption levels at Pompeii; Bibliography
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Archaeopress Archaeological excavations in Moneen Cave, the
Book SynopsisIn 2011, cavers exploring a little-known cave on Moneen Mountain in County Clare in the west of Ireland discovered part of a human skull, pottery and an antler implement. An archaeological excavation followed, leading to the discovery of large quantities of Bronze Age pottery, butchered animal bones and oyster shells. The material suggests that Moneen Cave was visited intermittently as a sacred place in the Bronze Age landscape. People climbed the mountain, squeezed through the small opening in the cave roof, dropped down into the chamber, and left offerings on a large boulder that dominates the internal space. The excavation also resulted in the recovery of the skeletal remains of an adolescent boy who appears to have died in the cave in the 16th or 17th century. Scientific analyses revealed he had endured periods of malnutrition and ill health, providing insight into the hardships faced by many children in post-medieval Ireland.Table of ContentsPart I The site, background and archaeological excavation ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Geology and geomorphology - David Drew; 3. History of investigation; 4. Cave morphology; 5. Excavation and post-excavation methodology; 6. Stratigraphic report; Part II Excavation results and specialist analyses; 7. Radiocarbon dates; 8. Mammalian faunal remains - Fiona Beglane; 9. Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) analysis of four butchered animal bones - Keri Rowsell and Matthew Collins; 10. Bird and fish bones - Sheila Hamilton-Dyer; 11. Late Bronze Age oyster (Ostrea edulis) shells - Rory Connolly; 12. Charcoal; 13. Early Bronze Age antler hammerhead/macehead - Ruth F. Carden; 14. Middle/Late Bronze Age pottery - Elaine Lynch and Helen Roche; 15. Post-medieval human skeletal remains - Catriona McKenzie; 16. DNA analysis of the human skeletal remains - Mike Taylor; 17. Metagenomic analysis and mitochondrial genome reconstruction of the post-medieval individual from Moneen Cave - Åshild J. Vågene, Johannes Krause and Kirsten I. Bos; 18. Isotopic analysis of the human skeletal remains - Thomas Kador; 19. Analysis of Growth Recovery Lines (Harris lines) in the human skeletal remains - Fran O’Keeffe; 20. Historical context of the adolescent boy from Moneen Cave - Ciarán Ó Murchadha iHis; 21. Hints of an Early Mesolithic and/or Neolithic presence; Part III Discussion and interpretation: Moneen Cave in context; 22. An Early Bronze Age horizon: an antler hammerhead/macehead and a pig pelvis; 23. Middle and Late Bronze Age deposits; 24. Moneen Cave within the wider Bronze Age landscape of the Burren; 25. A post-medieval boy; 26. Public archaeology and Moneen Cave; 27. Future work; 28. References; Appendix 1 Context register; Appendix 2 Finds register; Appendix 3 Mammalian faunal remains by context - Fiona Beglane; Appendix 4 List of human bones - Catriona McKenzie
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Archaeopress Parcours d’Orient: Recueil de textes offert à
Book SynopsisThis volume contains 23 articles written by 26 authors in order to express the extent of their respect and friendship for Christine Kepinski. The topics addressed in their papers reflect the scientific work of Christine Kepinski, who always promoted interdisciplinary approaches and developed multi-scale analysis from the object itself to regional study. Several papers are directly connected to fieldwork she conducted in Iraq and in Turkey: Haradum and the Middle Euphrates area, Tilbeshar and Kunara. Others are devoted to material study, notably glyptic, seals and sealing practices. Others evoke Syria: she never directed archaeological excavation there but she always integrated Syria in her studies. Finally, some are inspired by Christine Kepinski’s interest for urban life. The chronological time span of the book as well as the various specialisations of the authors clearly show the great value of her scientific background guided by her taste for the Orient.Table of ContentsPréface; Bibliographie de Christine Kepinski; Tabula gratulatoria; Souvenirs de Diniye (Hélène David-Cuny & Joël Suire); Étude croisée sur un plan d’urbanisme irrégulier du Bronze ancien : le cas de Titriş Höyük (Christophe Benech); A Sealing from Tell Arbid: once more about seal impressions on ceramic vessels (Piotr Bieliński); La période de Halaf à Kutan, Irak (Catherine Breniquet); Internal-Handled Bowls – Puzzling pots from Bronze Age Mesopotamia (Ulrike Bürger & Peter A. Miglus); L’Hinterland mariote en question : quelques réflexions (Pascal Butterlin); Des outils agricoles en pierre du Bronze ancien de Syrie : les têtes d’araires (Corinne Castel); La « maison de Riš-Šamaš » à Harradum, nouvelle approche (Dominique Charpin); Un sceau-cylindre mitannien de Tell Afis (Syrie) (Barbara Chiti); La chronologie politique du Suhu au VIIIe siècle (Philippe Clancier); Inscriptions syriaques de Tilbeşar (Alain Desreumaux); Affaires de Famille? (Jean-Marie Durand); The Middle Euphrates, Iraq: Assyrian-Babylonian interactions in an Aramaean territory in the early 1st millennium BC (Arnulf Hausleiter); À propos des pommeaux de chars (Jean-Louis Huot); By the streets of Babylon (Francis Joannès); The Sheikh Hamad / Dūr-Katlimmu Texts DeZ 2521 and DeZ 3293 and their Implications for a Middle Assyrian Supra-Regional Canal (Hartmut Kühne); Que se passait-il à Kunara il y a quatre mille ans… ? (Bertrand Lafont); 5500 av. notre ère : le vase de Marawah MR11 et l’Obeid du Golfe (Sophie Méry, Michael James Blackman, Mark Jonathan Beech et Kevin Lidour); Quelques remarques sur les bullæ inscrites de la ville basse de Kültepe (Cécile Michel); Note sur quelques sites anciens dans la région de Samarra (Alastair Northedge); L’émergence du phénomène urbain en Anatolie : état de la question (Bérengère Perello); Les briques inscrites de Qasr Shemamok migrations, réutilisations et valeur documentaire (Olivier Rouault et Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault*); La forteresse médiévale de Tilbeshar (Tell Bashir, Turbessel) (Marie-Odile Rousset); Le moyen Euphrate dans l’iconographie néo-assyrienne (Aline Tenu)
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Archaeopress Ceramiche vicinorientali della Collezione
Book SynopsisThis volume – in Italian, with an English summary – illustrates the Popolani Collection, that was donated to the Archaeological Museum of Florence by Carlo Popolani, a physician who lived in Damascus in the early 20th century. The collection consists of ancient pottery vessels, terracotta oil-lamps, glazed Islamic tiles, Romano-Byzantine glassware, as well as various objects from the Damascene antique market. In particular, the rich group of glazed tiles is very representative of the typical Mamluk and Ottoman production that flourished in Damascus between the XV and XVIII century.Table of ContentsPrefazione, di Stefano Casciu; Presentazione, di Maria Cristina Guidotti; Ringraziamenti degli autori; Storia della collezione, di Stefano Anastasio; Il catalogo delle ceramiche, di Stefano Anastasio e Lucia Botarelli: Il vasellame di età preislamica (L.B.): Le lucerne (L.B.), Il vasellame di età islamica (S.A.), Le mattonelle di età islamica (S.A.), Oggetti diversi di età islamica (S.A.); Brevi cenni sugli altri materiali della collezione, di Stefano Anastasio; Appendice: Osservazioni sulla tecnica di realizzazione; delle decorazioni cromatiche delle mattonelle, di Pasquino Pallecchi; Appendice: Elenco completo degli inventari, di Lucia Botarelli; Riferimenti bibliografici; Summary (in English)
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Archaeopress Hillforts of the Cheshire Ridge
Book SynopsisThe Cheshire hillforts are some of the most conspicuous features of the prehistoric landscape in Cheshire, located on the distinctive Cheshire Sandstone Ridge. They have been subject to years of archaeological research and investigation, however this has delivered only a limited understanding of their chronology, function, occupation history, economy and status. These hillforts are major elements of the prehistory of the region, but the lack of information about them is a major gap in our understanding. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Habitats and Hillforts Landscape Partnership Project focused on six of the hillforts and their surrounding habitats and landscapes. The aim of the project was not only to develop archaeological understanding, but also to raise awareness of these special assets in the landscape and the management issues they face. The Habitats and Hillforts Project was a collaborative partnership, led by Cheshire West and Chester Council, with Historic England, the National Trust, the Woodland Trust and the Forestry Commission, as well as private landowners. These landowners and land managers came together to share approaches to managing heritage assets on the Sandstone Ridge. The project core team was assisted by university specialists and archaeological contractors in surveying, excavating and researching the hillforts. A range of techniques including archival research, geophysical survey, earthwork survey, lidar, fieldwalking, excavation and palaeoenvironmental analysis, was employed to develop our understanding of these significant sites. A large and dedicated group of volunteers and students joined in this work, which encouraged more people to enjoy these assets and take an active role in their management. The Habitats and Hillforts Project has shed new light on the Cheshire Hillforts. Their chronology can now be seen to have developed from middle/late Bronze Age origins, much earlier than traditionally accepted. The possible development of distinct architectural styles in their construction can be suggested and an enhanced understanding of their surrounding landscape has been achieved. This volume details the results of the four year project, and sets out how these contribute to a deeper understanding of the ordering of the landscape in western Cheshire during the later prehistoric period and beyond. It should form a vital resource for informing future research priorities regarding the late Bronze Age and Iron Age of both Cheshire and the wider North West region.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Background to the Habitats and Hillforts Project (Jill Collens and Dan Garner); Chapter 2 The historical study of the Cheshire Hillforts (Dan Garner); Chapter 3 The Lithic Collection from the area around Woodhouse Hillfort, Frodsham (Ian Brooks); Chapter 4 The Lost Archive of Eddisbury: Rediscovering Finds and Records from the 1936–1938 Varley Excavations (Richard Mason and Rachel Pope); Chapter 5 Earthwork surveys and investigations at Woodhouse Hill, Helsby Hill and Maiden Castle (Mitchell Pollington); Chapter 6 Geophysical Survey (Dan Garner); Chapter 7 A lidar survey of the Cheshire Sandstone Ridge (Dan Garner); Chapter 8 Excavations at Woodhouse Hillfort (Dan Garner); Chapter 9 Excavations at Helsby Hillfort (Dan Garner); Chapter 10 Excavations at Eddisbury Hillfort (Dan Garner); Chapter 11 Rescuing a scheduled monument: Recent work at Merrick’s Hill, Eddisbury Hillfort (Richard Mason and Rachel Pope); Chapter 12 Excavations at Kelsborrow Hillfort (Dan Garner); Chapter 13 Environmental changes in lowland Cheshire: Hatchmere and Peckforton Mere (Richard Chiverrell, Heather Davies and Pete Marshall); Chapter 14 Pollen and plant macrofossil analysis of peat deposits from Ince Marshes (RSK Environment Ltd.); Chapter 15 Emerging Themes (Dan Garner); Bibliography; Online Appendices
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Archaeopress The Chambered Tombs of the Isle of Man: A study
Book SynopsisThis is the first book ever devoted to the chambered tombs of the Isle of Man and, though there are no more than nine surviving monuments, they are of considerable interest and importance because of the central location of the island in the north Irish Sea where cultural influences and traditions of tomb building are mixed – and no doubt populations too. These monuments, still impressive reminders of the past in our contemporary landscape, belong to the early 4th millennium BC when farming, one of the most significant movers of change in society, first came to the Isle of Man. These vast stone chambers speak of the power of ancestors, the continuity of family groups and the importance of the land and territory which sustained them. Work on this book was begun in the 1960s by Audrey Henshall, the foremost authority on these monuments in Britain. It has been edited and brought up to date for publication by Frances Lynch and Peter Davey and contains a comprehensive study of previous work on the tombs, new plans and commentary on each site, and also a review of the associated finds from excavation. Appendices provide the final reports on previously unpublished excavations at King Orry’s Grave and Ballaharra.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction: Introduction to Chambered Tombs; Previous work on Manx chambered tombs; Note on the preparation of this volume and acknowledgements; The Natural Setting; The geographical and geological background A. M. Cubbon; Recent work on the changing natural environment Philippa Tomlinson; 1. Catalogue and Commentary: Introduction to catalogue; Cashtal yn Ard; King Orry’s Grave; Ballafayle; Meayll Hill; The Cloven Stones; Llaght ny Foawr (Giant’s Grave), Kew; Croit-ny-Howe, Clay Head; Ballakelly; Ballaharra; Port St Mary; 2. The Artefacts from the Tombs: The Pottery; The Flints; Bone; Miscellaneous Later Material; 3. General summary: Mesolithic Prelude; Early Neolithic Period; Distribution of Earlier Neolithic Settlement; Significance of the Tombs; Material Culture of the Tomb Builders; Burial Rituals; Grave Offerings; Forecourt Use; The Late Neolithic Period in the Isle of Man; The Early Bronze Age; Bibliography; Appendix 1. The Excavation of King Orry’s Grave (North East) 1953 B. R. S. Megaw; Appendix 2. Excavations by Sheila Cregeen at Ballaharra, German 1969-1983; Appendix 3. The 1971 Excavation at Meayll Hill
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Archaeopress An Urban Geography of the Roman World, 100 BC to
Book SynopsisAlthough there have been numerous studies of individual cities or groups of cities, there has never been a study of the urbanism of the Roman world as a whole, meaning that we have been poorly informed not only about the number of cities and how they were distributed and changed over time, but also about their sizes and populations, monumentality, and civic status. This book provides a new account of the urbanism of the Roman world between 100 BC and AD 300. To do so, it draws on a combination of textual sources and archaeological material to provide a new catalogue of cities, calculates new estimates of their areas and uses a range of population densities to estimate their populations, and brings together available information about their monumentality and civic status for the first time. This evidence demonstrates that, although there were relatively few cities, many had considerable sizes and populations, substantial amounts of monumentality, and held various kinds of civic status. This indicates that there was significant economic growth in this period, including both extensive and intensive economic growth, which resulted from an influx of wealth through conquest and the intrinsic changes that came with Roman rule (including the expansion of urbanism). This evidence also suggests that there was a system that was characterized by areas of intense urban demand, which was met through an efficient system for the extraction of necessity and luxury goods from immediate hinterlands and an effective system for bringing these items from further afield. The disruption of these links seems to have put this system under considerable strain towards the end of this period and may have been sufficient to cause its ultimate collapse. This appears to have been in marked contrast to the medieval and early modern periods, when urbanism was more able to respond to changes in supply and demand.Table of ContentsPreface; Part One: Text; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Urban Theory; Chapter Three: Numbers, Distributions, and Change over Time; Chapter Four: Sizes and Populations; Chapter Five: Monumentality; Chapter Six: Civic Status; Chapter Seven: Spatial Patterns; Chapter Eight: Discussion and Conclusions; Appendix; Bibliography; Figures; Index; Part Two: Catalogue; Select Bibliography; Index
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Archaeopress Disponibilidad y explotación de materias primas
Book SynopsisThe present book aims to study the use of lithic raw materials on the coast of the San Matías gulf (Río Negro, Argentina) during the middle and late Holocene. The understanding of this aspect of human group technology is of fundamental importance as the main archaeological materials recovered at the surface sites of the study area are lithic artefacts made from different types of rock. Thus, understanding how these were selected, reduced and finally discarded will contribute to the understanding of the way of life of the hunter-gatherer groups that inhabited the area during this period. Spanish description: El presente libro tiene como objetivo estudiar el uso de las materias primas líticas en la costa del golfo San Matías (Río Negro, Argentina) durante el Holoceno medio y tardío. El entendimiento de este aspecto de la tecnología de los grupos humanos es de fundamental importancia ya que los principales materiales arqueológicos recuperados en los sitios de superficie del área de estudio son los artefactos líticos fabricados a partir de diferentes tipos de rocas. Así, entender la forma en que éstas fueron seleccionadas, reducidas y finalmente descartadas aportará a la comprensión del modo de vida de los grupos cazadores-recolectores que habitaron el área en el período mencionado.Table of ContentsINTRODUCCIÓN; CAPÍTULO 1 DESCRIPCIÓN DEL ÁREA DE ESTUDIO; CAPÍTULO 2 ANTECEDENTES DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y ESTADO ACTUAL DEL PROBLEMA; CAPÍTULO 3 MARCO TEÓRICO; CAPÍTULO 4 OBJETIVOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN E HIPÓTESIS DE TRABAJO; CAPÍTULO 5 METODOLOGÍA DE TRABAJO EN EL CAMPO Y EN EL LABORATORIO; CAPÍTULO 6 DISPONIBILIDAD DE MATERIAS PRIMAS LÍTICAS EN EL GOLFO SAN MATÍAS; CAPÍTULO 7 ANÁLISIS DE LOS CONJUNTOS ARQUEOLÓGICOS DE LA COSTA NORTE DEL GOLFO SAN MATÍAS; CAPÍTULO 8 ANÁLISIS DE LOS CONJUNTOS ARQUEOLÓGICOS DE LA COSTA OESTE DEL GOLFO SAN MATÍAS; CAPÍTULO 9 DISCUSIÓN; CAPÍTULO 10 CONCLUSIONES Y AGENDA DE TRABAJO; APÉNDICE; REFERENCIAS BIBLIOGRÁFICAS
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Archaeopress The Maritime Traditions of the Fishermen of
Book SynopsisThe Socotra archipelago lies approximately 135 nautical miles (Nm) northeast of Cape Guardafui, Somalia and 205Nm south of Rās Fartaq, Yemen. The archipelago is made up of four main islands, Socotra, cAbd al-Kūri, Samḥa and Darsa, of which Socotra is the largest and most densely populated. The population of Socotra is divided between the interior pastoralists and the coastal fishermen and traders. While scholarly studies concerning the interior population abound, the fishermen of Socotra have received comparatively less attention and little about them or their traditions is known. This research seeks to address this balance by analysing the Socotri maritime traditions and addressing the question as to how social, environmental and technological influences have shaped the maritime traditions of the fishermen of Socotra. The primary data forming the basis of this book is author’s ethnographic fieldwork carried out on the islands of Socotra and Samḥa between 2009 and 2010. This data is incorporated within a transdisciplinary framework that looks at some of the essential factors of historical, archaeological and environmental evidence to gain a holistic insight into the spatial and temporal factors affecting the maritime traditions of the fishermen.Table of ContentsPart One: The Study; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Literature Review; Chapter 3. The Conceptual Framework and Methodology; Part Two: The Fishermen; Chapter 4. The Historical Ethnic Groups; Chapter 5. The Historical Fishing Community; Chapter 6. The Contemporary Fishing Community; Part Three: The Maritime Landscape And Climate; Chapter 7. The Maritime Landscape; Chapter 8. The Climate; Part Four: Vessels, Gear And Catch; Chapter 9. Fishing Vessels; Chapter 10. Fishing Equipment; Chapter 11. The Fisheries Economy; Chapter 12. Conclusion; Appendices: Appendix 1. The fishermen interviewed; Appendix 2. Sample interview questions in English and Arabic; Appendix 3. The fishing seasons and influence local winds and currents have on villages along the north and south coast and island of Samḥa; Appendix 4. The fishing tackle used by the fishermen, the method of its deployment, seasons in which it is used, species targeted and the locations in which these species are targeted; Bibliography
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