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Book SynopsisThe present bibliography of contributions in French to Mesoamerican studies aims to serve several purposes. For more than a century, Spanish, English and French were the three official languages of the International Congresses of Americanists. This situation stems from historical reasons: the first Congresses took place in Nancy, Luxemburg and Brussels. Since the fifties, the steady growth of Mexican and Central American national researches and the ever-growing weight of United States investigators slowly occulted the French contributions. Conversely, the establishment of research institutions in Belgium, Switzerland, France and Canada facilitated the multiplication of investigation projects in the whole continent, with their correlative publications. With this essay, we wish, 1) to make an assessment of the existing situation; 2) to provide our colleagues with the most complete number of references and draw their attention on unknown contributions frequently illustrated with forgotten objects; 3) to evaluate the contribution of the most recent formations; 4) last but not least, to insist upon the necessary confrontation of methods and points of view. We consider as fundamental this confrontation of methodological approaches, not to underestimate the diversity of interpretations. A language is not only a linguistic vehicle. It implies also a way of thinking, of reasoning. Each researcher answers a question, a problem according to his formation, his prejudices, his culture, his methods and his possibilities. From their confrontation, we may obtain better results, new tools and henceforth a better understanding of these civilizations.Table of ContentsAvant Propos / Foreword / Prólogo ; Abréviations utilisées / Used Abbreviations/ Abreviaciones ; Principales revues pertinentes pour la recherche américaniste francophone / Main pertinent French publications for Mesoamerican archaeology / Principales revistas pertinentes para las investigaciones en francés ; Bilan des publications en Français / An assessment of French contributions / Una evaluación de las contribuciones en francés ; Mésoamérique et généralités / Mesoamerica and general works / Mesoamérica y generalidades ; Une discipline ? / A specific approach? / Una disciplina? ; Géographie et milieux / Geography and environments / Geografía y medios naturales ; Chroniqueurs et codices / Chroniclers and codex / Cronistas y códices ; Ecritures, littérature et déchiffrements / Writing, literature and decipherments / Escritura, literature y desciframiento ; La découverte et la conquête / Discovery and conquest / El descubrimiento y la conquista ; Origines, comparatisme et hypothèses / Origins, comparatism and hypothesis / Orígenes, comparatismo e hipótesis ; Art, collections, expositions, musées / Art, collections, exhibitions, museums / Arte, colecciones, exposiciones y museos ; Les Chichimèques, le nord du Mexique et la Californie / The Chichimecs, Northern Mexico and California / Los chichimecas, el norte de México y Baja California ; Occident et Centre-nord / Western and North Central Mexico / El Occidente y el centro norte ; Le Mexique central / Central Mexico / El centro de México ; Oaxaca et le Guerrero / Oaxaca and Guerrero / Oaxaca y Guerrero ; La côte du Golfe: des Olmèques aux Huastèques / The Gulf Coast: from Olmecs to Huaxtecs / La costa del Golfo: de los olmecas a los huastecos ; Les Mayas / The Mayas / Los mayas ; L’Amérique centrale et les marges méridionales / Central America and the southern margins / La América central y la frontera meridional ; L’héritage colonial: une perspective anthropologique / The colonial heritage: an anthropological perspective / La herencia colonial: una perspectiva antropológica ; Thèses soutenues dans les universités francophones / Thesis and PhD in French-speaking Universities / Tesis de doctorado presentadas en las universidades francófonas

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Book SynopsisScholars each have their own rationale as to the ‘site’ of this momentous battle. Their thirst for recognition has created diverse arguments, some flooding the media, others proposing to the point of acrimony that they have this ‘site’. The ‘conundrum’ is whether any identification of the ‘site’ is correct for all, apart from the circumspect, have taken assorted place-names similar to Brúnanburh as their starting point. The author chose to disregard the place-name approach and look at the topographic references in the manuscript. The first references were maritime then latterly landscape leading to field-names which have a more stable base than the constantly changing place-names. He found inconsistences in various positions held by some scholars to that of historical record about Brúnanburh. One major stumbling block was the phrase “ón dingesmere” which has created controversy, some scholars totally dismissing it but the ‘sea of noise’ appears to have some scientific foundation. Obviously it had some special significance to the Anglo-Saxon’s and their Christian allies and may well have been a kenning. Importantly, ‘who were these allies?’ The challenge for the author was to unearth the correct locale of these historic events. As an archaeologist he decided to interpret the topographic phrases in the manuscript evidence as material culture. The results were surprising.

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Book SynopsisRegarded as the secondary source advocated by some scholars for this battle around Brúnanburh in AD 937, Egil’s Saga Skalla-Grímssonar (collated c. AD 1242-3) becomes problematical when compared with literary, historic and archaeological evidence. Thus, this argument places the saga in a rather awkward position. In addressing the general veracity of this saga, allegedly ‘written’ by Snorri Sturluson in 1240/1 we must draw a comparison to distinguish reality from fiction. For this article highlights not only the questionable traditions of Egil fighting at Brúnanburh but whether Snorri’s interpretation was motivated by self-interest. More importantly, could other people have gathered together Snorri’s notes and produced Egil’s Saga? Doubts arise as to its authenticity as many scholars have previously expressed the differing literary anomalies within the narrative. Was the saga written by more than one person? Was it embellished by Snorri or others? Where did the Brúnanburh traditions come from? Is it accurate enough to be used as a historic source – a factual reference? The author suggests this approach may identify the incongruities within this saga demonstrating a correct analysis.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; RAISON D'ÊTRE; SNORRI’S CHARACTER AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND; HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE LITERARY EVIDENCE; PAGAN RITUAL CONTRASTED TO EARLY CHRISTIAN BELIEFS; HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; THE SOCIO-RELIGIOUS SPHERE; PRIOR TO ‘THE GREAT BATTLE’; THE CHRISTIAN BEHAVIOUR OF ÆTHELSTAN; THE FYLDE: THE PLAIN OF DEATH; THE ‘PATHS OF THE DEAD’; GENEALOGICAL EVIDENCE - Jarl Gunnar Hlífrsson’s family relationship with Thorsteinn Egilsson; MARITIME AND LANDSCAPE SUMMARY IN THE BRÚNANBURH MSS.; APPENDIX A - Christian Relationships in Iceland and England; CHRONOLOGY; BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisThurrock’s Deeper Past: A Confluence of Time' looks at the evidence for human activity in Thurrock and this part of the Thames estuary since the last Ice Age, and how the river crossing point here has been of great importance to the development of human settlement and trade in the British Isles. It is a book about the archaeology of Thurrock. It takes in all periods and most of the sites which have been excavated in the borough of Thurrock over the last sixty or more years. The account opens at a time when Britain is still joined to the continent and the inhabitants are using flint tools and weapons. The author follows through the impact of the succeeding ages on the locality: the melting of the ice, the Neolithic period bringing the farming of crops and stockholding, the first appearance of worked metal in the Bronze Age, through the widespread use of iron in the Iron Age; and then the dramatic impact of Rome and its gradual dissolution to the English kingdoms whose traces are still recognisable today. All is set in the context of the author’s lasting interest in the subject, first nurtured at his Tilbury school.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Thurrock today ; The stone crafters ; The monument builders ; The metal workers ; Tribes and tribulation ; Invasion ; From ‘THE Britons’ to ‘THE English’ ; Epilogue ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe objective of this book is the reconsideration of the practices of personal adornment during the Neolithic period in Greece, through the assemblage, extensive bibliographic documentation, and critical evaluation of all the available data deriving from more than a hundred sites in the mainland and the Aegean islands –an archaeological archive of wide geographical and chronological scope. In addition, a thorough study of the personal ornament corpus from the Middle-Late Neolithic Dispilio in Kastoria, an important lakeside settlement in north-western Greece, was conducted. The book begins with an overview of the anthropological and archaeological literature on theoretical and methodological issues concerning practices of personal adornment. Then follows an examination of the problems and key points of study regarding personal adornment in Neolithic Greece, as well as a critical evaluation of the methodological approaches and classification schemes that have been applied in previous archaeological works. Subsequently, the technologies and processes of production, consumption, recycling, deposition, and distribution of personal ornaments in Neolithic Greece are discussed. Finally, the social correlates of personal adornment are explored, as they are reflected in the choice of different raw materials (shell, clay, bone, stone, and metal) and ornament types (beads, pendants, annulets, and so forth).Table of ContentsCatalogue of figures / plates; English Summary; Introduction; 1. ANTHROPOLOGIES & ARCHAEOLOGIES OF PERSONAL ADORNMENT; 2. PERSONAL ADORNMENT IN NEOLITHIC GREECE: HISTORY OF RESEARCH; 3. PERSONAL ADORNMENT IN NEOLITHIC GREECE: PRODUCTION & FUNCTION; 4. PERSONAL ADORNMENT IN NEOLITHIC DISPILIO; 5. DISCUSSION: POTENTIALS AND RESTRICTIONS OF INTERPRETATION; 6. PERSONAL ORNAMENTS FROM NEOLITHIC GREECE; 7. CATALOGUE OF PERSONAL ORNAMENTS FROM NEOLITHIC DISPILIO; 8. PERSONAL ORNAMENTS FROM NEOLITHIC ANATOLIA, THE BALKANS & EUROPE; 9. Spondylus gaederopus | Glycymeris sp. IN ANATOLIA, THE BALKANS & EUROPE; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAïn Wassel is the only rural site of Africa Proconsularis which has been excavated using the stratigraphic method and the detailed results are published in this volume thanks to an archaeological field survey of the surrounding rural region. The interpretation of the stratigraphic sequence of the excavated area was able to determine a precise chrono-typology of pottery and amphoras, and to outline the importance of the Vandal and Byzantine period, which was confirmed by additional data from the survey. The excavation provided evidence of sustainable intensive mixed farming: an oil mill and press, a grain hand mill, a sundial, bones of cattle and dromedaries raised for labour, transport, milk, meat, skins, wool. Remains of fowl, such as a partridge and fragments of ash tree, pine and olive stones were found and analyzed. Local imitations of African Red Slip (ARS) wares were identified for the first time, and three new types of amphoras of large dimensions were discovered and classified as Aïn Wassel 1, 2 and 3. The excavation proved that in the 7th c. AD North Africa was still very active and dynamic, where regional trade used both fluvial and ground transportation. Until recently, this was considered a period of crisis, abandonment of the countryside and ruralization of cities; it was not so.Table of ContentsCapitolo 1. Il sito di aïn wassel e il contesto rurale: inquadramento della ricercar - by Mariette de Vos Raaijmakers Capitolo 2. Lo scavo archeologico - by Barbara Maurina Capitolo 3. La ceramica domestica - by Martina Andreoli, Silvia Polla Capitolo 4. Contenitori da trasporto e per la conservazione - by Barbara Maurina Capitolo 5. Materiale edilizio fittile - by Martina Andreoli Capitolo 6. Reperti vitrei - by Martina Andreoli Capitolo 7. Reperti di metallo - by Martina Andreoli Capitolo 8 – Monete - by Silvana Abram Capitolo 9. Reperti lapidei - by Mariette de Vos Raaijmakers Capitolo 10. Resti faunistici - by Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin, Silvia Eccher, Stefano Marconi, Anna Paterlini, Umberto Tecchiati, Amedeo Luigi Zanetti Capitolo 11. Resti archeobotanici - by Daniela Moser

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Book SynopsisMOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) undertook evaluation and subsequent excavation at Wollaston Quarry, near Wellingborough through the 1990s. These excavations took place in advance of gravel extraction on land to the north and south of Hardwater Road, Wollaston. The archaeological work found Iron Age and Roman farms arranged along a single routeway and the remains of at least two Roman vineyards. A single late 7th century grave, the Pioneer burial, lay alongside a long-lived routeway at the southern end of the quarry, close to the floodplain and any burial mound would have overlooked the River Nene. The burial was an isolated feature; the only other Saxon artefacts recovered from other parts of the quarry were limited to two scatters of pottery and two fragments of small long brooch recovered by metal detection. All were located some distance from the grave. The Pioneer burial was adjacent to the south-western corner of the later Saxon Higham Hundred boundary where it meets the River Nene. It is probable the burial had originally been within a barrow, but no evidence was found for it. Within the grave there was an individual adult of slender build probably in their early to middle 20s equipped with a boar-crested iron helmet, a pattern-welded sword, a copper alloy hanging bowl with enamelled escutcheon, an iron knife, a copper alloy clothing hook and three iron buckles. The burial contained artefacts indicative of very high status, with the early to middle Saxon helmet being at the time only the fourth to have been recovered from a burial in England.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Excavation; Chapter 3 Artefacts; Chapter 4 Human remains; Chapter 5 Discussion by Rob Atkins and Ian Meadows; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIt has been abundantly demonstrated that theories and paradigms in the humanities are influenced by historical, economic and socio-cultural conditions, which have profoundly influenced archaeology’s representation of migration. This was mostly conceived as the study of the movement of large and homogenous population groups, whose identity was often represented as ethnically characterized. The present-day shift of attention from collective to individual agency and the countless facets of migration goes hand in hand with new socio-political and cultural scenarios such as the extraordinary migratory flows into Europe, shifting boundaries, alternative forms of citizenship and identity, and the emergence of emotive reactionism. The third volume of Ex Novo gathers multidisciplinary contributions addressing mobility to understand patterns of change and continuity in past worlds; reconsider the movement of people, objects, and ideas alongside mobile epistemologies, such as intellectual, scholarly or educative traditions, rituals, practices, religions and theologies; and provide insights into the multifaceted relationship between mobile practices and their shared meanings and how they are represented socially and politically.Table of ContentsEditorial: Practices, Representations and Meanings of Human Mobility in Archaeology – by Maja GORI, Martina REVELLO LAMI & Alessandro PINTUCCI; Mobility during the Upper Palaeolithic Greece: Some Suggestions for the Argolid Peninsula – by Paraskevi ELEFANTI & Gilbert MARSHALL; Greek Migrations along the Ionian Coast (Southern Italy) – by Maurizio CRUDO; Variation in Material Culture: Adoption of Greek Ceramics in an Indigenous Sicilian Site (8th century BC) – by Anna RAUDINO; The Jewish Diaspora in the Roman Empire. Diaspora, Social Agents and Social Networks: Towards the Creation of a New Analytical Toolkit – by Maria ALVAREZ-FOLGADO; A Road to Firuzabad – by Domiziana ROSSI; Exploring Immigrant Identities: The Link between Portuguese Ceramics and Sephardic Immigrants in 17th Century Amsterdam – by Marijn STOLK; From War Material Culture to Popular Heritage, and Beyond. The PSP “Cancelli di Venosa” as paradigms of Object Biography Theory – by Jesus GARCIA SANCHEZ; Review: A. Falcone & A. D’Eredita (eds.) ARCHEOSOCIAL L’Archeologia Riscrive il Web: Esperienze, Strategie e Buone Pratiche, Rende (CS): Dielle Editore, 2018, 195 pp. – reviewed by Paola DI GIUSEPPANTONIO DI FRANCO

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a full up to date account of the evidence relating to the Middle Stone Age in Nigeria and the other countries of West Africa. It relies upon the author’s own fieldwork and extensive personal knowledge of the region and its archaeology. It is abundantly illustrated with maps, photographs, and drawings. The emphasis is on stratigraphy, chronology, site situation, and artefact characteristics, with such general background information about the countries concerned as is required. A summary account is also provided of the current situation in relation to this topic (covering climate, archaeology, and human evolution) in the African continent as a whole, so that a judgement can made as to how the West African evidence fits in with the rest. In general accounts of the African palaeolithic record up to now, West Africa tends to be neglected, so this book goes a long way to fill a gap in the available literature.Trade Review‘'This is a very well-researched text on the Middle Stone Age (MSA) of Nigeria in particular and West Africa in general... It is a text that every archaeologist, irrespective of their area of specialization, should have on the bookshelf as a reference material.’ – Raphael A. Alabi (2020): African Archaeological Review‘Although it declares to speak only of the Middle Stone Age of Nigeria in the West African context, this work will become the reference work on the Middle Stone Age of a West Africa stretching from Senegal to Cameroon.’ – Alain Marliac (2022): Journal des Africanistes 2021, 91-2Table of ContentsList of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Chapter 1: The Middle Stone Age in West Africa: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Middle Stone Age of Nigeria; Chapter 3: The Middle Stone Age in West Africa; Chapter 4: West Africa: regional summary; Chapter 5: A wider perspective

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Book Synopsis‘Artistic Practices and Archaeological Research’ aims to expand the field of archaeological research with an anthropological understanding of practices which include artistic methods. The project has come about through a collaborative venture between Dragos Gheorghiu (archaeologist and professional visual artist) and Theodor Barth (anthropologist). This anthology contains articles from professional archaeologists, artists and designers. The contributions cover a scale ranging from theoretical reflections on pre-existing archaeological finds/documentation, to reflective field-practices where acts of ‘making’ are used to interface with the site. These acts feature a manufacturing range from ceramics, painting, drawing, type-setting and augmented reality (AR). The scope of the anthology – as a book or edited whole – has accordingly been to determine a comparative approach resulting in an identifiable set of common concerns. Accordingly, the book proceeds from a comparative approach to research ontologies, extending the experimental ventures of the contributors, to the hatching of artistic propositions that demonstrably overlap with academic research traditions, of epistemic claims in the making. This comparative approach relies on the notion of transposition: that is an idea of the makeshift relocation of methodological issues – research ontologies at the brink of epistemic claims – and accumulates depth from one article to the next as the reader makes her way through the volume. However, instead of proposing a set method, the book offers a lighter touch in highlighting the role of operators between research and writing, rather entailing a duplication of practice, in moving from artistic ideas to epistemic claims. This, in the lingo of artistic research, is known as exposition. Emphasising the construct of the ‘learning theatre’ the volume provides a support structure for the contributions to book-project, in the tradition of viewing from natural history. The contributions are hands-on and concrete, while building an agenda for a broader contemporary archaeological discussion.Table of ContentsContents; Introduction: Exposition and Transposition. Seeking an Ontologic Sensoriality in Contingencies – by Theodor Barth; Convergences: Archaeology and Art – by Giulio Calegari; Art as Entangled Material Practices. The Case of Late Iron Age Scandinavian Gold Foil Figures in the Making – by Ing-Marie Back Danielsson; The Mediality of Rock and Metal. Exploring Formal Analyses of Rock Art through Graffiti – by Fredrik Fahlander; The Diverse Sense of Frontality of Prehistoric Pottery: At the Time of Production, Deposition, and Publication/Exhibition – by Makoto Tomii; Art or Creativity? From Archaeological Photo-Ethnography to Art: Approaches to Two Contemporary Sites – by José Ant. Marmol Martinez; Heidegger at Work. An Archaeological Employment of a Theory of Truth in Art – by Ylva Sjostrand; Art and Thought – by Marcel Otte and Hans Lemmen; Experimenting the Art of Origins: Animating Images by Blowing Colours and Sounds – by Dragoş Gheorghiu; ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ Art, Archaeology and Forensic Anthropology – by Theodor Barth and Ane Thon Knutsen; Epigraphy in the Landscape: Intersections with Contemporary Ink Painting and Land Art – by Lia Wei; Magnetic Boulders. Unfolding Stone with Gestures and Light – by Geir Harald Samuelsen; PORØS: A Model of Resistance as Material Communication – by Neil Forrest and Theodor Barth; Virtual Art in Teaching and Learning Archaeology: An Intermedia to Augment the Content of Virtual Spaces and the Quality of Immersion – by Dragos Gheorghiu and Livia Stefan

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Book SynopsisLa raccolta e la distribuzione dell’acqua a Ventotene in età romana is presented in two parts. The first examines the topographical and technical problem of the water supply on the island of Ventotene, where there is an absence of natural springs. The second, consisting of separate entries, analyses the individual components of the water supply system built by the Romans on the island. The Roman installation developed in two phases alongside changes in life at the villa located at Ventotene: the first connected to a residence used for otium, the second to an official site of relegatio ad insulam. The Roman architect exploited the island’s natural slope to collect rainwater in a large initial reservoir, later known as the ‘Cistern of the Prisoners’, surmounted by a vast catchment basin: from here a conduit departed which, through various branches, reached the ‘heart’ of the villa extending over the promontory of Punta Eolo and the port facilities. The water was channelled from the cistern by an extensive network of tunnels, dug, depending on the height, either wholly or partially into the tufa or built on the surface. Even during the second phase, when the villa was turned into a large and elaborate residential complex used throughout the year, it could rely only on rainwater as a resource. The Roman architect was thus forced to increase the collection areas, attempting to capture as much water as possible. This was achieved by increasing the number of large initial collection tanks, dislocating them strategically around the island to ensure that each of the sectors with the highest residential density and main infrastructure installations had its own independent resource alongside the standard existing resources. The number of catchment basins also multiplied considerably along the route of the main conduit and its branches.Table of ContentsLista delle immagini Premessa L’impianto generale 1. Serbatoio iniziale della “Cisterna dei Carcerati” 2. La cisterna di Villa Stefania 3. Il condotto e le sue diramazioni 4. Impianto C per l’”utilitas” a Punta Eolo: a-o 5. Impianto D e D1 per l’”amoenitas” a Punta Eolo: 1-5 6. Diramazione II, nn. 32-39 7. Diramazione III, nn. 40- 54 8. Diramazione IV nn. 55- 60 9. Serbatoio di Parata Grande 10. Serbatoio di Piazza Castello 11. L’invaso delle Fontanelle Bibliografia Referenze grafiche e fotografiche

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Book SynopsisDans le cadre du projet CBDAMM (Renforcement des capacités des méthodes d’acquisition de données en vue de promouvoir les pratiques de gestion du patrimoine naturel et culturel au Maroc), un ensemble de recommandations pour les processus d’acquisition de données dans les milieux marins et les zones humides côtières a été établi pour les parties prenantes marocaines. Cette brochure, intitulée ‘Recommandations pour les bonnes pratiques en matière de méthodes d’acquisition de données pour la gestion du patrimoine naturel et culturel des zones humides côtières marocaines’, vise à décrire les procédures fonctionnelles pour mener des études côtières scientifiques dans le contexte marocain. Cette brochure décrit les exigences, les méthodes et les pratiques des quatre domaines scientifiques qui reposent sur des données partagées provenant de ces investigations: hydrographie, géologie marine, biologie marine et toxicologie, archéologie maritime et gestion du patrimoine. Le contenu résume les ateliers, les séjours scientifiques et les recherches sur le terrain menées au cours du projet CBDAMM, avec pour étude de cas spécifique: Oued Bouregreg, une rivière à marée semidiurne de type mésotidal et une zone humide qui s’étend entre les centres urbains de Rabat et Salé, sur la Côte Atlantique du Maroc.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEGEMENTS/REMERCIEMENTS (Athena Trakadas, Nadia Mhammdi); 1. INTRODUCTION/INTRODUCTION (Athena Trakadas, Nadia Mhammdi); 2. BEST PRACTICES IN HYGROGRAPHIC SURVEYS/LES BONNES PRATIQUES DANS LES ÉTUDES HYDROGRAPHIQUES (Lloyd C. Huff); 3. BEST PRACTICES IN MARINE GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS/LES BONNES PRATIQUES DANS LES ÉTUDES GÉOLOGIQUES MARINES (Nadia Mhammdi, Zyad Al-Hamdani, Jørn Bo Jensen); 4. BEST PRACTICES IN MARINE BIOLOGICAL AND TOXICOLOGICAL SURVEYS/ LES BONNES PRATIQUES DANS LES ÉTUDES BIOLOGIQUES ET TOXICOLOGIQUES MARINES (Martin M. Larsen, Ayoub Filali Zegzouti, David Gregory); 5. BEST PRACTICES IN MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYS/ÉTUDES ARCHÉOLOGIQUES MARITIMES ET LA GESTION DU PATRIMOINE (Athena Trakadas, Azzedine Karra, David Gregory); APPENDICES/ANNEXES; A. CBDAMM PROJECT PARTNERS/PARTENAIRES DU PROJET CBDAMM; B. PHD & MA THESES THE CBDAMM PROJECT/THÈSES DOCTORANTES; ET MASTER DU PROJET CBDAMM

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Book SynopsisDuring November and December 2014, Cornwall Archaeological Unit undertook a programme of archaeological excavation in advance of construction of a road corridor to the south of Newquay. Evidence for Middle Bronze Age occupation took the form of a hollow-set roundhouse; however, the majority of the excavated features have been dated to the Iron Age and Roman periods. The area was enclosed as fields associated with extensive settlement activity throughout the last centuries cal BC into the third century AD. The excavations revealed the character of settlement-related activity during the later prehistoric and Roman periods. The evidence strongly suggests growing intensification of agriculture, with ditched fields and enclosures appearing in the landscape from the later Iron Age and into the Roman period. The results shed light on later prehistoric and Roman practices involving the division of the landscape with ditched fields and enclosed buildings. Many of the structures and pits were found to be set within their own ring-ditched enclosures or hollows, and the field system ditches were in some instances marked by ‘special’ deposits. As has previously been demonstrated for Middle Bronze Age roundhouses, structures could be subject to formal abandonment processes. Gullies and hollows were deliberately infilled, so that they were no longer visible at surface. However, unlike the abandoned Bronze Age roundhouses, the later structures appear to have been flattened and not monumentalized. In other words, buildings could be both etched into and subsequently erased from the landscape and thereby forgotten. This volume takes the opportunity presented by investigations on the Newquay Strategic Road to discuss the complexity of the archaeology, review the evidence for ‘special’ deposits and explore evidence for the deliberate closure of buildings especially in later prehistoric and Roman period Cornwall. Finally, the possible motives which underlie these practices are considered. Includes contributions by Ryan S Smith, Dana Challinor, Julie Jones, Graeme Kirkham, Anna Lawson-Jones, Henrietta Quinnell and Roger Taylor.Table of ContentsSummary SECTION 1: BACKGROUND TO THE PROJECT Chapter 1: Introduction to the project – Andy M Jones SECTION 2: INVESTIGATIONS Chapter 2: Results from the fieldwork – Andy M Jones and Ryan S Smith SECTION 3: THE ANALYSES Chapter 3: The ceramics – Henrietta Quinnell with petrological comment by Roger Taylor Chapter 4: The stonework – Henrietta Quinnell with petrological comment by Roger Taylor Chapter 5: The flint – Anna Lawson-Jones Chapter 6: The plant macrofossils – Julie Jones Chapter 7: The charcoal – Dana Challinor Chapter 8: The radiocarbon dating – Andy M Jones SECTION 4: INTERPRETATION AND CONCLUSIONS Chapter 9: Introduction: Themes for discussion – Andy M Jones Chapter 10: Structures and boundaries: The wider later prehistoric and Roman period context – Andy M Jones Chapter 11: Inscribing the landscape and hiding in plain view – Andy M Jones and Graeme Kirkham Chapter 12: Review and overview – Andy M Jones

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Book SynopsisContributions by Lawrence Brown, Sue Colledge, Robert Giegengack, Thomas Higham, Vladimir Hrsak, Anthony Legge†, Drago Margus, Sarah McClure, Carol Palmer, Emil Podrug, Kelly Reed, Jennifer Smith, and Josko Zaninovic. The origins and spread of farming are vital subjects of research, notably because agriculture makes possible our modern world. The Early Farming in Dalmatia Project is investigating the expansion of farming from its centre of origin in western Asia through the Mediterranean into southern Europe. This multidisciplinary ecological project combines comprehensive recovery of archaeological materials through excavation with landscape studies. It addresses several key questions, including when and how farming reached Dalmatia, what was the nature of this new economy, and what was its impact on the local environment. Excavations at Danilo Bitinj and Pokrovnik have demonstrated that their inhabitants were full-time farmers. The two sites were among the largest known Neolithic villages in the eastern Adriatic. A comprehensive program of AMS dating indicates that together they were occupied from c. 8,000 to 6,800 cal BP. Our research has begun to illuminate the details of their farming system, as well as the changes that took place in their way of life through the Neolithic. Their economy was derived from western Asia and it is likely that their ancestors came from there also. It was these people who brought agriculture and village life to the Adriatic and to the rest of the central and western Mediterranean. Once in place, this farming economy persisted in much the same form from the Neolithic down to the present.Trade Review'A summary chapter on the lifeways of the people of these villages is a thoughtful conclusion to the work. Their economy was based on full-time mixed farming and transhumance, with little dependence on wild foods, and with some trade in goods including obsidian. The likely cycle of the year for these farmers and herders is eloquently described in a way that gives the reader a feeling of having at least a small window of insight into the lives of people in these long-lost cultures. This research should be of interest to anyone studying Neolithic Eurasia.' -- Wendy L. Applequist * Economic Botany *Table of ContentsPreface; Summary in English; Summary in Croatian; Background to the research; Inception of the project; History of research at Danilo Bitinj and Pokrovnik; Excavations at Danilo Bitinj and Pokrovnik 2003-2006; Danilo 2003-2005; Pokrovnik 2004-2006; Chronology of Pokrovnik and Danilo; Pottery from Pokrovnik and Danilo; Pottery and the Early Farming in Dalmatia Project; The chipped stone, stone tools and other artefacts; The plant remains from Danilo Bitinj and Pokrovnik; Animal husbandry and environment; The faunal remains; The mammalian species found at Pokrovnik and Danilo; The wild species; The fauna of Pokrovnik and Danilo: environmental and economic considerations; Marine shells; Geomorphology and soils in the vicinity of Danilo and Pokrovnik; Contemporary vegetation around Danilo and Pokrovnik; The agricultural survey; Commentary on results achieved thus far and their significance; References

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Book Synopsis‘Tanbûr Long-Necked Lutes Along the Silk Road and Beyond’ explores the origin, history, construction, and playing techniques of tanbûrs, a musical instrument widely used over vast territories and over many centuries. The diffusion of the tanbûr into the musical cultures along the Silk Road resulted in a variety of tanbûrs with two or more, occasionally doubled or tripled courses, a varying number and variously tuned frets, each having its own characteristic sound, playing technique, and repertory. Since the last century, tanbûrs spread beyond the Silk Road while new versions continue to appear due to changing musical and tonal demands made on them. Similar or identical instruments are also known by other names, such as saz or bağlama, dotâr or dutâr, setâr, dömbra, and dambura.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements ; The Tanbûr Tradition; General Introduction; Chapter 1: Historical background; Chapter 2: Construction; Chapter 3: Playing technique; Chapter 4: Tanbûr; Chapter 5: Dotâr; Chapter 6: Saz; Chapter 7: Setâr; Chapter 8: Dömbra; Chapter 9: Dambura; Glossary of Musical Instruments; Discography; Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index

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Book SynopsisARTICLES; Notes on a Hellenistic Milk Pail – by Yannis Chairetakis; Chasing Arsinoe (Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus): A Sealed Early Hellenistic Cistern and Its Ceramic Assemblage – by Brandon R. Olson, Tina Najbjerb & R. Scott Moore; Hasmonean Jerusalem in the Light of Archaeology – Notes on Urban Topography – by Hillel Geva; A Phoenician / Hellenistic Sanctuary at Horbat Turit (Kh. et-Tantur) – by Walid Atrash, Gabriel Mazor & Hanaa Aboud with contributions by Adi Erlich & Gerald Finkielsztejn; Schmuck aus dem Reich der Nabatäer – hellenistische Traditionen in frührömischer Zeit – by Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom; ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS AND PROJECT; Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project: Excavations at Pyla-Vigla in 2018 – by Thomas Landvatter, Brandon R. Olson, David S. Reese, Justin Stephens & R. Scott Moore; Bookmark: Ancient Gems, Finger Rings and Seal Boxes from Caesarea Maritima. The Hendler Collection – by Shua Amorai-Stark & Malka Herskovitz; BOOK REVIEWS; Nina Fenn, Späthellenistische und frühkaiserzeitliche Keramik aus Priene. Untersuchungen zu Herkunft und Produktion – by Susanne Zabehlicky-Scheffenegger; Raphael Greenberg, Oren Tal & Tawfiq Da῾adli, Bet Yerah III. Hellenistic Philoteria and Islamic al- Ṣinnabra. The 1933–1986 and 2007–2013 Excavations – bY Gabriel Mazor; Mohamed Kenawi & Giorgia Marchiori, Unearthing Alexandria’s archaeology: The Italian Contribution – by Carlo De MitriTable of ContentsARTICLES; Notes on a Hellenistic Milk Pail – by Yannis Chairetakis; Chasing Arsinoe (Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus): A Sealed Early Hellenistic Cistern and Its Ceramic Assemblage – by Brandon R. Olson, Tina Najbjerb & R. Scott Moore; Hasmonean Jerusalem in the Light of Archaeology – Notes on Urban Topography – by Hillel Geva; A Phoenician / Hellenistic Sanctuary at Horbat Turit (Kh. et-Tantur) – by Walid Atrash, Gabriel Mazor & Hanaa Aboud with contributions by Adi Erlich & Gerald Finkielsztejn; Schmuck aus dem Reich der Nabatäer – hellenistische Traditionen in frührömischer Zeit – by Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom; ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS AND PROJECT; Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project: Excavations at Pyla-Vigla in 2018 – by Thomas Landvatter, Brandon R. Olson, David S. Reese, Justin Stephens & R. Scott Moore; Bookmark: Ancient Gems, Finger Rings and Seal Boxes from Caesarea Maritima. The Hendler Collection – by Shua Amorai-Stark & Malka Herskovitz; BOOK REVIEWS; Nina Fenn, Späthellenistische und frühkaiserzeitliche Keramik aus Priene. Untersuchungen zu Herkunft und Produktion – by Susanne Zabehlicky-Scheffenegger; Raphael Greenberg, Oren Tal & Tawfiq Da῾adli, Bet Yerah III. Hellenistic Philoteria and Islamic al- Ṣinnabra. The 1933–1986 and 2007–2013 Excavations – bY Gabriel Mazor; Mohamed Kenawi & Giorgia Marchiori, Unearthing Alexandria’s archaeology: The Italian Contribution – by Carlo De Mitri

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Book SynopsisWhen Ferdinand Magellan first anchored off the island of Guam in 1521, the inhabitants of the small Chamorro village at Afetna Point on the southwest coast of Saipan were likely unaware. Archaeological investigations of the traditional village yielded Latte Period burials, ceramics, stone and shell tools, microfossils from food remains, and charcoal from cooking features dating between A.D. 1450 and 1700. No direct evidence of Spanish Contact before forced abandonment of the island circa 1730 was encountered, after which time Saipan remained virtually unpopulated until the arrival of Carolinian and Chamorro settlers from Guam nearly a century later. Spanish settlement in 1668, the German occupation from 1898-1914, and the Japanese sugarcane period from 1914-1944 left few traces at the site until WWII and subsequent American administration. Afetna Point and Saipan have therefore been a contested landscape for centuries, but the island’s prehistory has deep roots that tie the Mariana Islands and its modern culture to ancestral SE Asia.Table of ContentsPreface; Chapter 1 Introduction to Afetna Point on Saipan; Chapter 2 Environmental Context of Afetna Point; Chapter 3 Research Design and Methods Employed; Chapter 4 Latte Period Village: Historic Context; Chapter 5 Latte Period Results; Chapter 6 Osteological Analysis; Chapter 7 Discussion of Research Questions; Chapter 8 Larger Research Implications; Chapter 9 References Cited by Major Topics

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Book SynopsisLocated at the margins of the Rub Al-Khali desert, a place of interactions between settled and nomadic populations, the Adam oasis occupies a pivotal role in the history of Oman. However, almost nothing was known about its foundation and early developments. In 2006, the French Archaeological Mission in Central Oman began the exploration of the area. After ten years of field research using innovative methods and technologies, much is now revealed about the importance of Adam in the prehistory and early history of Oman. This is the first monograph about the research carried out at Adam and it includes seven chapters written by specialists directly involved in the field activities. Each major period is described in detail, including evidence of Palaeolithic occupation, Neolithic settlements, Early and Middle Bronze Age necropolises, Iron Age ritual sites and also an ethnographic study of the traditional water sharing within the oasis.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgments Archaeology in Adam from the first steps to the latest discoveries and methods. Ten years of research - by Guillaume Gernez Geoarchaeological investigation in the Adam region. A regional study of past human-environment interactions - by Tara Beuzen-Waller and Guillaume Gernez Palaeolithic period in the Sufrat Valley. The first inhabitants of Adam - by Stéphanie Bonilauri, Tara Beuzen-Waller and Guillaume Gernez Neolithic sites near Jabal Salakh - by Marion Lemée, Guillaume Gernez, Jessica Giraud and Tara Beuzen-Waller The new funerary landscape during the beginning of the Early Bronze Age in Adam, Jabal Salakh and Jabal Qarah - by Jessica Giraud and Guillaume Gernez A tale of two graveyards. The excavations of protohistoric funerary sites in Adam - by Guillaume Gernez and Jessica Giraud The Iron Age in Adam. The discovery of a ritual complex near Jabal Mudhmar - by Guillaume Gernez, Anne Benoist, Mathilde Jean Water-sharing techniques of Falaj Al-Māleh in Adam - by Julien Charbonnier Prehistoric and protohistoric heritage in Adam. A challenge for the future - by Guillaume Gernez Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is the Tekenu? What was its function? What are its origins? These are questions upon which Egyptologists have long pondered. However, Egyptologists, until now, have avoided any major work on the topic. Previous treatments of the Tekenu largely adopt a selective approach focusing on a specific form. Rarely has the Tekenu been examined profoundly in all of its forms or contexts with its possible origins commented upon merely in passing. The aim of The Tekenu and Ancient Egyptian Funerary Ritual is to provide a provocative examination and interpretation of the Tekenu in an endeavour to proffer plausible answers hitherto eluding scholars. Attested from the Fifth Dynasty until, and including the Saite Period, the Tekenu is a puzzling icon which is depicted within the funerary scenes in the tombs of some ancient Egyptian nobles. In this work four distinct types of Tekenu are identified and classified and then a Corpus Catalogue is formed. The Tekenu is appraised within the context of the wall scene. Two tombs are dealt with in greater detail.Trade Review'The great worth of this volume is that it gathers all the sources for the tekenu in one place and presents them with copious illustrations, many of them in colour. The catalogue is certainly the longest and most-detailed part of the book and will be of considerable use to anyone who is interested in Egyptian funerals and their representation on tomb walls.' -- Christian Knoblauch * Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Volume 56 *Table of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chronology code used throughout the work ; Part 1 Formulation of the corpus catalogue: Chapter 1 Introduction and literature review; Chapter 2 Aims and method; Chapter 3 Typology: criteria and creation; Chapter 4 Corpus catalogue; Part 2 Evaluating the primary sources: Chapter 5 Textual references, pictorial representations and context; Chapter 6 Special complex scenes: the Tekenu in TT 20 and TT 100; Part 3 The search for the origins of the Tekenu: Chapter 7 Cattle culture, early dynastic figures and standards; Chapter 8 The Tekenu and The Opening of the Mouth Ceremony; Chapter 9 Summary and conclusions; Appendix A Tombs containing Tekenu images; Appendix B Tekenu Traits; Appendix C Chronology of scholars’ views of the function of the Tekenu; Appendix D Pictorial context: diagrammatical interpretation; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisExcavations at the Castillo de Huarmey archaeological site brought to light the first intact burial of female high-elite members of the Wari culture. It was found beneath a large adobe mausoleum, a landmark and focal point of the lower Huarmey Valley. Abundant grave goods, among which were precious metal artefacts, luxurious pottery, beautifully decorated bone and wooden objects, as well as spinning and weaving utensils, leave no doubt about the social status of individuals buried within the main chamber. The very unique character of the find was additionally emphasized by the fact that all of the buried individuals were women, accompanied by two grave guardians, and the remains of ancestors. This book presents the results of bioarchaeological analyses performed to date, and focuses on reconstructing the funeral rite and social status of the deceased.Table of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 - The Site and the Excavations; Chapter 2 - A brief introduction to Wari; Chapter 3 - Archaeological Context; Chapter 4 - State of Preservation and Taphonomic Issues; Chapter 5 - Results of Bioarchaeological Analyses and Their Interpretation; Chapter 6 - Funerary Rite Reconstruction (from the bioarchaeological point of view); Chapter 7 - Who were the women of Castillo?; Epilogue; Technical Notes; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis publication presents the defense of the city of Valencia during the years 1936-1939 under two premises; whether Valencia was strategically bombed and which were the targets. The second premise is whether the city was efficiently organized to protect its civilians. The methodological proposal is based on the use of the classical parameters of the archaeological intervention, with the possibility of elaborating catalogs of goods, thematic, temporary, etc. Those derived in tools for urban planning, archaeological charts, and other documents. It also carries out a comparative analysis of the current legislative framework at national and regional level (Murcia, Valencia and Catalonia). A classification is made of the elements that make up the different heritages and their main characteristics. It Analyzes the documentation from 1936 to 1939 collected in the different archives: the Municipal of Valencia, the Diputación, the Historical Military of Ávila, the Intermediate Military of Valencia, the Military Library "Center of Cultures", the Hemeroteca Municipal and The Library of the City of Valencia. All this is done through extensive prospecting and GPS, with planimetric surveys of the localized remains and the digitalization of the entire planimetry of the time. A planimetric map of all shelters in the city is elaborated and the village of Puig. Moreover, a glossary of military terminology is added with the purpose of helping the reader, in addition to a daily list of the bombings that the city suffered during the years 1937 to 1939.Table of Contents1. INTRODUCCIÓN; 2. LA CIUDAD DE VALENCIA ENTRE LOS AÑOS 1936-1939; 3. MARCO LEGISLATIVO; 4. LA DEFENSA; 5. LOS BOMBARDEOS; 6. LOS ELEMENTOS-ESTUDIOS ARQUEÓLOGICOS; 7. CONCLUSIONES; 8. BIBLIOGRAFIA; 9. LISTADOS; 10. GLOSARIO DE TERMINOS; 11. REFUGIOS; 12. MAPAS

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Book SynopsisIncludes contributions from Rob Atkins, Andy Chapman, Mary Ellen Crothers, Val Fryer, Rebecca Gordon, Tora Hylton, Rob Perrin and Yvonne Wolframm-Murray; illustrations by Olly Dindol and Rob Reed. MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) has undertaken archaeological work at Monksmoor Farm on the north-eastern edge of Daventry in six different areas. The earliest archaeological features lay in Area 6 at the southern end of the development area, where two pits were radiocarbon dated to the early Neolithic. They contained a moderate assemblage of worked flints along with sherds of early Neolithic pottery. In the middle Iron Age a settlement was established in the same location comprising a roundhouse and several enclosures. Two other contemporary settlements are thought to have originated in the late Iron Age/ early 1st century BC and were identified in Areas 1 and 2 between c0.2km and 0.5km apart and 500m to the north of Area 6. Area 1 contained evidence for a cluster of eight roundhouses with associated enclosures clearly showing sequential activity, while in Area 2, a large ditched enclosure defined as a Wootton Hill type, within which another roundhouse was present. It is possible that the Wootton Hill type enclosure in particular may have a slighter earlier origin than the limited pottery assemblage suggests. Sparse early Roman features were also found in Areas 3, 4 and 5. This settlement continued in use through the later 1st to 2nd century AD. During the early Roman period the settlement in Area 6 was greatly expanded with large rectilinear ditched enclosures along with smaller enclosures and paddocks being established on either side of a routeway indicating movement of livestock was important.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The archaeological evidence; Chapter 3 Finds; Chapter 4 The faunal and environmental evidence; Chapter 5 Discussion; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSearching through interdisciplinary research to recover echoes of the human condition ingrained as they may be in the skeletal record of the ancients, there have been few cases in the forty year experience of the author which in defiance to the relentless passage of Chrόnos and even the chthonic potency of the waters of Léthe to dissolve all strings relating to Mnenosỳne could offer compelling evidentiary data, critical for generating meaningful interpretive answers as a nexus to life pathways and experiences in antiquity, reflective of dynamics and circumstances, that were not always possible to be recorded or spoken of by the attendants of Cléo. And yet in rare cases, millennia later, ostensibly through the works of Láchesis, a synergy between the fields of Archaeological Anthropology and Bioarchaeology may offer a unique portal whereby the dictum mortui vivos docent may be reiterated. Sharing in the objectives of an ongoing archaeo-anthropological endeavor, aiming to better decipher and elucidate facets of the human condition while carrying out funerary archaeological research of Hellenistic to Roman periods family graves at the extensive ancient necropolis of Thasos, the most northern Aegean island, this essay addresses a case of unique forensic / bioarchaeological interest involving an older male individual, a member of one of the clusters of burials, who had been placed as a single interment in a most conspicuous limestone cyst grave of the Hellenistic period. While odontological, cranio-infracranial skeleto-anatomic manifestations and palaeopathologies revealed a detailed rostrum on aspects of his developmental growth, of acquired and degenerative somatic changes, reflective of his life experiences which involved long term most active participations in physically demanding yet specialized activities, a staggering ‘through and through’ sternal trauma of astonishing preservation, provided for a distinct opportunity to conduct a unique cross-disciplinary investigation on the nature of the weapon reconstructed in bronze, the archaeometry on the trajectory and factors of speed and force at the deliverance of the strike, along with the diagnostic assessments of the thoracic tissues pierced consecutively and their moribund consequences. A review of historical references on the implementation of capital punishment either through the decision of a dicastic or ephetic court, and/or execution carried out as a result of outlawry are evaluated in relevance to funerary practices as these pertained to the interment of the Thasian male within the context of the burial ground, offering in retrospect assessments on the probable cause of his violent death.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Archaeo-anthropological research in Thasos island; Aspects of the human condition decoded through analysis of the osteological record; Palaeopathological differential diagnosis: Not a sternal foramen; Identification and reproduction of the weapon type and component which was used to pierce through the corpus sterni; The anatomic consequences of the trauma impact by the thrusting of the styrax into the mediastinum, and assessment on the cause of death; Experimental archaeometry through Physics, testing for data relevant to a styrax thrusting into the thorax; Trauma interpretation and discussion of causes for the execution of the Thasian; Epilogue

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Book SynopsisCurrent Research in Egyptology 2018 is a collection of papers and posters presented at the nineteenth symposium of the prestigious international student conference, held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague on 25th–28th June 2018. The Prague conference was attended by more than 100 people from various countries and institutions. The range of topics discussed was wide, covering all periods of ancient Egyptian and Nubian history and various topics concerning their society, religious life, material culture and archaeological excavations. The event also included six keynote lectures by experts from the Czech Institute of Egyptology, the FA CU (Prof. Mgr. Miroslav Bárta, Dr., Doc. PhDr. Hana Vymazalová, Ph.D., Doc. PhDr. Jana Mynářová, Ph.D., Prof. PhDr. Ladislav Bareš, CSc., and PhDr. Filip Coppens, Ph.D.) and the University of Vienna (Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter-Christian Jánosi). The Egyptological meeting was enriched with a visit to the Karolinum, historical buildings of Charles University.Table of ContentsList of paper presentations List of poster presentations Introduction 1. The crew of the sun bark before the first appearance of the Amduat. A new perspective via the Pyramid and Coffin Texts – by Abdelhaleem Awadallah 2. ‘Hail you, Horus jm.j-Cn.wt’. First thoughts on papyrus Leiden I 347 – by Susanne Beck 3. Some thoughts on Nubians in Gebelein region during First Intermediate Period – by Wojciech Ejsmond 4. A few remarks on the persistence of native Egyptian historiolae in Coptic magical texts – by Krisztina Hevesi 5. Under the lion’s shadow. Iconographic evidence of Apedemak in the Meroitic Royal District at Napata – by Francesca Iannarilli, Silvia Callegher, Federica Pancin 6. Brief notes about regional elements of the pottery assemblage from the Byzantine site of Manqabad (Asyut) – by Ilaria Incordino 7. Development of purification scenes in the Graeco-Roman Period. Detecting distinct styles in temple decoration – by Konstantin Ivanov 8. Late dynastic reuse of Theban tombs – by Marta Kaczanowicz 9. The title ‘overseer of the house/estate, the Steward’ during the Old Kingdom – by Věra Nováková 10. A second unpublished version of the so-called Joseph Laporte’s notebook on the French Expedition in Egypt and Syria. Preliminary study and remarks – by Renaud Pietri 11. Being the son of a Goddess. The claim for legitimacy of the Bubastite kings – by Perrine Poiron 12. Time measuring and time units in the kiosk on the roof of the temple of Dendera – by Alexa Rickert 13. Deleterious outcomes of vernacular housing at el-Tarif cemetery – by Rasha Soliman 14. Illustrations of temple rank on 21st dynasty funerary papyri – by Marissa Stevens 15. Lapis lazuli in Sinai and indigenous black copper during the 18th Dynasty – by Kimberley Watt 16. Berenike of the Ptolemies. A Hellenistic desert city/fortress – by Marek Woźniak

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Book SynopsisJohn J. Dobbins, Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology, taught at the University of Virginia in the Department of Art from 1978 until his retirement in 2019. His legacy of research and pedagogy is explored in A Quaint & Curious Volume: Essays in Honor of John J. Dobbins. Professor Dobbins’ research in the field of Roman art and archaeology spans the geographical and chronological limits of the Roman Empire, from Pompeii to Syria, and Etruria to Spain. This volume demonstrates some of his wide-reaching interests, expressed through the research of his former graduate students. Several essays examine the city of Pompeii and cover the topics of masonry analysis, re-examinations of streets and drains, and analyses of the heating capacity of baths in Pompeii. Beyond Pompeii, the archaeological remains of bakeries are employed to elucidate labor specialization in the Late Roman period across the Mediterranean basin. Collaborations between Professor Dobbins and his former students are also explored, including a pioneering online numismatic database and close examination of sculpture and mosaics, including expressions of identity and patronage through case studies of the Ara Pacis and mosaics at Antioch-on-the-Orontes. A Quaint & Curious Volume not only demonstrates John Dobbins’ scholarly legacy, but also presents new readings of archaeological data and art, illustrating the impact that one professor can have on the wider field of Roman art and archaeology through the continuing work of his students.Table of ContentsPreface: J.J. Dobbins e il Foro di Pompei (Pier Giovanni Guzzo) ; Introduction: John Dobbins as Archaeologist, Teacher, and Mentor (Dylan K. Rogers and Claire J. Weiss) ; Masonry Analysis at Pompeii: The Maturation of a Stratigraphic Method (Eric Poehler) ; Disentangling the via del Foro Colonnade at Pompeii (Claire J. Weiss) ; Drain Outlets and the Pompeian Street: Evidence and Meaning (Janet S. Dunkelbarger) ; Heating the Stabian Baths at Pompeii (Ismini Miliaresis) ; Pistore Panem Petimus: Specialization in the Late-Roman Baking Industry (Jared Benton) ; The Fralin Numismatic Collection: Ten Years Later (Ethan Gruber) ; Dynamic Identity: Dynamis on the Ara Pacis Augustae (R. Benjamin Gorham) ; The Mosaics of the House of the Boat of Psyches: Reexamining Identity in Antioch (Elizabeth M. Molacek and Dylan K. Rogers)

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Book SynopsisCeramics in Transition focuses on the utilitarian ceramic traditions during the socio-political transition from the late Byzantine into the early Islamic Umayyad and ‘Abbasid periods, c. 6th–9th centuries CE in southern Transjordan and the Negev. These regions belonged to the Byzantine province of Palaestina Tertia, before Islamic administrative reorganisation in the mid-7th century. Cooking ware and ceramic containers were investigated from five archaeological sites representing different socio-economic contexts, the Jabal Harûn monastery, the village of Khirbet edh-Dharih, the port city of ‘Aqaba/Aila, the town of Elusa in the Negev, and the suburban farmstead of Abu Matar. The ceramics were typo-chronologically categorised and subjected to geochemical and micro-structural characterisation via X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (ED-XRF) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM-EDS) to geochemically ‘fingerprint’ the sampled ceramics and to identify production clusters, manufacturing techniques, ceramic distribution patterns, and material links between rural-urban communities as well as religious-secular communities. The ceramic data demonstrate economic wealth continuing into the early Islamic periods in the southern regions, ceramic exchange systems, specialized manufacture and inter-regional, long-distance ceramic transport. The potters who operated in the southern areas in the formative stages of the Islamic period reformulated their craft to follow new influences diffusing from the Islamic centres in the north.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Southern Transjordan and the Negev in the late Byzantine and early Islamic periods Chapter 3 Archaeological sites Chapter 4 Ceramic technologies, provenance and exchange Chapter 5 Catalogue of the analysed ceramic artefacts Chapter 6 Geochemical and microstructural ED-XRF and SEM-EDS data Chapter 7 From production centres to regional and inter-regional ceramic transport Chapter 8 Ceramic data in context: analytical, archaeological and historical evidence Bibliography Appendices I-VIII

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Book SynopsisMegaliths of the Vera Island in the Southern Urals presents the results of the study of the largest megalithic complex in the Urals, located on Vera Island. The complex is represented by three chambered megaliths and sanctuaries dated to the Eneolithic period (mid-4th - 3rd millennium BC). The book discusses the features of the architecture and building technologies, their astronomical orientation, chronology, religious context, and explores their relation to social organisation and the possible migration of peoples. Small finds – especially the ceramic assemblages – are presented. The authors discuss problems associated with the origin of megaliths, the approaches of European researchers and the possibilities of applying these approaches to the Ural megaliths. Against the background of the lack of agriculture – in contrast to Europe – there was no demographic basis in the Urals for the emergence and existence of the megalithic phenomenon. In addition to the megalithic complex, there are many unexplored objects on the island, the purpose of which remain, as yet, unclear. Ancient settlements of the same period have also been discovered on the island. The complex on Vera Island is unique precisely due to the combination of objects with so many different functions found within a relatively small area (6 ha).Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Vera Island and Localisation of Objects and Constructions Chapter 2. Megaliths Chapter 3. Excavations of Settlements Chapter 4. Origins of Megaliths Chapter 5. Chronology of Megaliths in the Urals Chapter 6. Archaeoastronomy and Religion Chapter 7. Problem of Social Organization in the Eneolithic Period Conclusion Appendix 1. Fauna from the settlements of Vera Island 7 and Vera Island References

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Book SynopsisMOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) undertook extensive excavations during the construction of two separate, but adjacent road schemes, some 4.5km apart near Houghton Regis and Toddington, in south Central Bedfordshire. Taken as a whole, the excavations provide a detailed multi-period dataset for regional and national comparison. The first evidence for occupation occurred in the middle/late Bronze Age comprising pits and clusters of postholes, including four-post and six-post structures. Two pit alignments, more than 2km apart, also indicate that land divisions were being established, and in the late Bronze Age/early Iron Age a significant new settlement emerged in the valley bottom. Parts of a further contemporary earlier-middle Iron Age settlement lay at the top of the valley but neither settlement extended into the Roman period. In the late Iron Age or early Roman period three or four new settlements emerged with occupation continuing into the late Roman period in at least one of these. Of particular interest was the recovery of two significant Aylesford-Swarling type cemeteries as well as a third cemetery which largely comprised unurned burials, including some busta, but with few accompanying grave goods. In the late 7th-century a small probable Christian conversion open-ground inhumation cemetery was established with burials accompanied by a range of objects, including a rare work box, knives, brooches, chatelaine keys and a spearhead. Parts of three medieval settlements were uncovered including one with a potters' working area.Table of ContentsChapter 1: INTRODUCTION ; Location and circumstances of the fieldwork ; Landscape character, topography and geology ; Aims and objectives of the fieldwork ; Research themes and the significance of results ; Organisation of this report ; Summary of chronology within this report ; Textual and graphical conventions ; Arrangements for the archives ; Community engagement and public dissemination ; Chapter 2: MIDDLE–LATE BRONZE AGE PITS AND UNDATED PIT ALIGNMENTS ; Middle-late Bronze Age pits in the upper valley ; Middle–late Bronze Age pits in the lower valley ; Late Bronze Age/early Iron Age pits at Site C ; The Bronze Age pit alignment, south of Site M ; Pit alignments and other features at Site P ; Specialist studies ; Regional landscape context and discussion ; Chapter 3: IRON AGE FARMING BESIDE THE OUZEL BROOK ; Iron Age settlement evidence at Sites D, G and M ; Middle Iron Age settlement and activity at Sites K and N ; Late Iron Age settlement, 1st century BC, at Site G, D and M ; An Iron Age roundhouse at Thorn overbridge, Site G ; Late Iron Age boundaries, 1st century BC, at Site D ; Iron Age ditches south of Site M ; The alluvial sequence beside the Ouzel Brook at Site M ; Specialist studies ; Regional landscape context and discussion ; Chapter 4: A LATE IRON AGE/ROMAN CREMATION CEMETERY AND SETTLEMENT FEATURES AT HARLINGTON ROAD, TODDINGTON ; The Iron Age/Roman funerary remains and nearby boundaries ; Cremation cemetery at Site M1A ; Cremation cemetery at Site M1A ; The pyre site and possible cairn at Site M1B ; Roman boundaries at TWB3, Site M1Cand Site M1B ; Specialist studies ; Regional landscape context and discussion ; Chapter 5: IRON AGE/ROMAN FUNERARY SITES IN THE VALLEY OF THE OUZEL BROOK ; Summary of the funerary chronology ; A middle-late Iron Age inhumation from Site Q ; A late Iron Age/early Roman urned cremation burial cemetery at Site F ; A late Iron Age/early Roman pyre site and unurned cremations at Site H ; Early Roman cremation burials and inhumations at Site Q ; A charnel burial pit of the late 4th to 5th centuries AD at Site F ; Specialist studies ; Regional landscape context and discussion ; Chapter 6: LATE IRON AGE/ROMAN TRACKWAYS, BOUNDARIES AND ENCLOSURES ; Summary of the late Iron Age/Roman chronology ; Trackways and enclosures at Site H ; Boundaries and enclosures at Site Q ; Four-post structures at Site F ; Boundary ditches at Site P ; Boundary ditches and pits at Site J ; Specialist studies ; Regional landscape context and discussion ; Chapter 7: SAXON FUNERARY REMAINS, PITS, CULTIVATION SOILS AND MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT ; Summary of Saxon and medievalsettlement and funerary remains ; Saxon inhumation cemetery at Site H ; Medieval settlement at Site Q ; Medieval activity at Site G ; Medieval settlement at Site F ; Specialist studies ; Regional landscape context and discussion ; Chapter 8: A LATE MEDIEVAL POTTERS’ WASTE DUMP NEAR NUPPINGS GREEN, NORTH OF TODDINGTON ; Summary of the medieval and post-medieval chronology ; Medieval potters’ working area at Site M1C ; Medieval ditches at Site M1B ; Post-medieval buildings and a cob wall at Site ; Agricultural evidence ; Specialist studies ; Regional landscape context and discussion ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; DIGITAL DATA PACKAGE ; A5-M1 Link Road ; Archaeological reports ; Detailed Design ; Specific Detailed Designs ; Methodologies ; Specialist analysis ; M1 Junction 12 ; Archaeological reports ; Detailed Design ; Methodologies ; Specialist analysis

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Book SynopsisEn Sofía mathitéfsantes: Essays in Byzantine Material Culture and Society in Honour of Sophia Kalopissi-Verti contains a collection of thirty studies dedicated to Sophia Kalopissi-Verti by her students which celebrate the multifaceted academic and teaching career of Professor Kalopissi-Verti, Emerita of Byzantine Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The contributions cover a large variety of topics presenting unpublished archaeological material, suggesting new approaches to various aspects of Byzantine archaeology, material culture and art history. Geographically topics span a vast area from Constantinople to South Sinai and from Cyprus and Antiocheia to the Aegean Islands, continental Greece and Italy. Covering the period from the Early Byzantine to the Post-Byzantine period, they are organised in seven thematic sections: Urbanism and Architecture; Painting and Iconography; Stone Carving and Sculpture; Ceramics; Bone, Metal and Textiles; Coinage and Sigillography; Inscriptions, Portraits and Patronage. The broad thematic, chronological and geographic scope of the volume’s essays reflects the wide range of Kalopissi-Verti’s pioneering research and her own interests, to which she introduced her students and with which she inspired them.Table of Contents‘Aspects of Medieval Secular Imagery’: Representations of Warriors in Byzantine Glazed Pottery from Argos and Nauplio (12th-13th centuries) (Anastasia Vassiliou) [Open Access: Download]

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Book SynopsisThe Nebrodi mountains run along the central-northern part of Sicily. It is an area characterised by high ground that rises abruptly from the Tyrrhenian coast, separated by narrow valleys crossed by creeks and a few flat areas. Human presence there is very old due to the abundance of natural resources (water, wood, fertile land) and a favourable climate. In classical times, many cities prospered here, usually on well-defended hilltops; the archaic indigenous settlements encountered Greek culture from the 6th century BC, but they can be defined as totally Hellenized only after the middle of the 4th century BC. The phase of greatest prosperity was the Hellenistic age, especially following the Roman conquest of Sicily. Important centres were, among others, Tyndaris, Halaesa, Kale Akte and Herbita. Their wealth derived from the great availability of natural resources and from direct or indirect trade with the rest of the island, the Italian peninsula and other areas of the Mediterranean, especially those overlooking the sea. The birth of many of these settlements often dates back to prehistory and the existence of some of them has continued until today. The physical characteristics of this mountainous part of Sicily, along with its remoteness from the main cities of antiquity, affected the forms of human occupation and the growth of an autonomous culture. The Nebrodi have long remained archeologically unexplored: research and excavations were few and concentrated mainly on certain sites (particularly Tyndaris and Halaesa). Therefore, the history of these districts is still almost unknown. This volume presents the author’s many years of research, hoping to increase the knowledge of many aspects of this part of the island: the meeting between indigenous and Greek cultures, their coexistence, the types of settlement and the organization of cities, the trade and the local productions.Table of ContentsIntroduzione 1. I Nebrodi nell’antichità, tra notizie storiche e dati archeologici 2. Greci, Punici e Siculi lungo la costa tirrenica siciliana in età arcaica. L’emporion di Kalè Akté. 3. Modelli urbanistici di età ellenistica nei centri di area Nebroidea 4. Modalità abitative di età ellenistica ad Apollonia di Sicilia (San Fratello, ME) 5. L’insediamento indigeno ellenizzato di Monte Scurzi (Militello Rosmarino, ME) 6. Un bollo su laterizi dal territorio di Caronia (ME) 7. Archeologia dei Nebrodi meridionali. Alcune proposte di identificazione di centri antichi e prospettive di ricerca 8. Le Tabulae Halaesinae. Un’immagine del paesaggio antico nebroideo English Summary: Nebrodi in Antiquity. Cities, Cultures, Landscape

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a tribute to the career of Professor Olivier Rouault who has conducted extensive research in the fields of both Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern archaeology. The book is composed of 25 papers written by his colleagues, friends and former students from Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, Poland, Syria and the United States. The contributions presented here combine archaeological, iconographic and Assyriological studies from the Neolithic to the 1st millennium BC, covering whole of Mesopotamia and regions of Anatolia and the Levant. Nine papers deal with the data of Terqa, Mari and Qasr Shemamok, sites close to Professor Olivier Rouault’s main field of research. He published cuneiform tablets from Mari and Terqa and worked as a director of archaeological missions at Terqa and Qasr Shemamok. The book is divided into six main topics: Palace and Administration, Temples and Cults, Families and Societies, Literatures and Historiography, Representation and Symbolic Aspects, Cultural Markers and Stratigraphy – all the topics that attracted Professor Olivier Rouault during his fruitful career. More intimate texts recounting memories of moments shared with Olivier punctuate the reading of these contributions.Table of ContentsListe des figures et des tableaux Introduction Tabula gratulatoria 1ÈRE PARTIE: PALAIS, TEMPLES ET SOCIÉTÉS PALAIS ET ADMINISTRATION Amical souvenir de Terqa - by Agnès Spycket Remarques iconographiques et épigraphiques concernant des empreintes de sceaux-cylindres inscrits de Mari – Ville II - by Laurent Colonna d’Istria Nouveaux cas d’ordalie à Mari - by Antoine Cavigneaux Sal(a)hum and the Urban Landscape in the Old Babylonian Letters - by Shigeo Yamada Communication administrative par messager dans la documentation de Nuzi - by Philippe Abrahami TEMPLES ET CULTES A Small Ninevite 5 Period Shrine from Tell Arbid - by Piotr Bieliński Fragment de maquette architecturale ou de figurine en terre cuite? - by Jean-Claude Margueron, Béatrice Muller Une brique inscrite d’Adad-apla-iddina provenant de Larsa Camille Lecompte et Régis Vallet Shalmaneser III and the Harp of Arbail - by John MacGinnis L’Ezida de Kalhu et son clergé au VIIe siècle av. J.-C. d’après la documentation textuelle - by Pierre Villard Walking among the Camels with Olivier - by Mark W. Chavalas FAMILLES ET SOCIÉTÉS Architecture and Social Continuity at Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad III, Syria - by Peter M. M. G. Akkermans, Merel L. Brüning De la difficulté à établir les prix des maisons: méthodes, marchés, prix, valeur réelle, valeurs vénales et incohérences variées dans la ville de Larsa paléo-babylonienne - by Laura Battini Family Members, Neighbors, and a Local Shrine in Terqa, Syria, in the Late Old Babylonian Period - by Amanda H. Podany Des monuments et des hommes de Tabal - by Clelia Mora 2ÈME PARTIE: LITTÉRATURES, ASPECTS SYMBOLIQUES ET MARQUEURS CULTURELS À mon professeur - by Juliette Mas LITTÉRATURES ET HISTORIOGRAPHIE Telling a Story, Giving the Time in Mesopotamia: A Literary Point of View - by Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault The Pseudo-Hieroglyphic Inscriptions from Byblos, Their Elusive Dating, and Their Affinities with the Early Phoenician Inscriptions - by Benjamin Sass Wit, Banter and Sarcasm in Mari Letters - by Jack M. Sasson REPRÉSENTATIONS ET ASPECTS SYMBOLIQUES A Look at a Miniature Universe: ‘Small Performed Deeds’? - by Rita Dolce On Contrasting Black-and-White Chromatic Decoration: a New Interpretation - by Paola Poli Tuer un dieu dans la mythologie mésopotamienne - by Virginie Muller La tombe 755 de Meskalamdu, une tombe royale : mythe ou réalité? - by Catherine Lazzarini Notes d’Archéologie Levantine LX. A propos d’une tête royale syrienne de Mishirfeh-Qaṭna au Musée du Louvre - by Michel Al-Maqdissi, Eva Ishaq ‘To deal rightly with the pot…’ Quelques observations sur l’ensevelissement des immatures à Terqa (Ashara) aux IIIe et IIe millénaires av. J.-C Constance - by Anne Frank MARQUEURS CULTURELS ET STRATIGRAPHIE Fragments of a Hidden History: The Third Millennium BC at Qasr Shemamok - by Elena Rova La céramique côtelée de Djézireh à la fin du Bronze ancien: un type de décor, un type de pâte, un répertoire morphologique et/ou un marqueur chrono-culturel? - by Juliette Mas À propos de l’occupation d’époque assyrienne à Mari. Quelques observations préliminaires sur la documentation sigillographique - by Dominique Beyer Brève contribution à un hommage à Olivier Rouault. Une campagne de prospection géophysique particulière - by Rémy Chapoulie ANNEXE Bibliographie d’Olivier Rouault

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Book SynopsisIn 2012, fieldwork began at two large sites in the Beheira Province in the western Nile Delta: Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit (ancient Metelis). Being close to the important ports of Thonis-Heracleion, Alexandria, and Rosetta meant that they had been ideally placed to take advantage of the trade between the Mediterranean and Egypt. The sites are being thoroughly investigated to reveal their archaeological significance. Kom al-Ahmer – Kom Wasit I Excavations in the Metelite Nome, Egypt presents the results of the Italian archaeological mission between 2012 and 2016. It provides details of the survey and excavation results from different occupation phases. A complete town beneath the Nile silt was revealed using a combination of modern scientific techniques. Hellenistic houses and a temple enclosure wall were investigated at Kom Wasit; while at Kom al-Ahmer, a Late Roman house, an amphora storage building, a cistern and an early Islamic cemetery were revealed. Dating from the Late Dynastic to the Early Islamic period, the remains found at Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit demonstrate for the first time the rich archaeological heritage of this region. Edited by Mohamed Kenawi, this volume contains contributions by Cristina Mondin, Michele Asolati Louise Bertini, Audrey Eller, Urška Furlan, Ole Herslund, Israel Hinojosa Baliño, Marie-Caroline Livaditis, Giorgia Marchiori, Marcus Müller, Benjamin T. Pennington and Amy Wilson.Table of ContentsForeword ; Preface ; Introduction ; The Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit Archaeological Project First Phase: 2012–2016 – Mohamed Kenawi ; Chapter 1 Metelis and the Metelite Nome – Audrey Eller and Mohamed Kenawi ; Chapter 2 La lagune d’Edkou de l’Antiquité à nos jours – Marie-Caroline Livaditis ; Chapter 3 Archaeological and Topographic Survey at Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit – Israel Hinojosa Baliño ; Chapter 4 Palaeoenvironments of the Northwest Nile Delta: The Ancient Landscape Context of Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit – Benjamin T. Pennington ; Chapter 5 The House of the Horses: A Tower House in Kom Wasit – Ole Herslund ; Chapter 6 The Finds from the House of the Horses – Urška Furlan ; Chapter 7 Catalogue of Finds from the House of the Horses – Urška Furlan, Mohamed Kenawi, Amy Wilson ; Chapter 8 The Temple Area of Kom Wasit – Marcus Müller and Mohamed Kenawi ; Chapter 9 The Finds from the Temple Enclosure at Kom Wasit – Urška Furlan ; Chapter 10 Catalogue of Finds from the Temple Enclosure at Kom Wasit – Urška Furlan, Mohamed Kenawi, Amy Wilson ; Chapter 11 A Late Roman House and an Amphora Storage Building – Giorgia Marchiori ; Chapter 12 Late Roman Cistern – Mohamed Kenawi and Giorgia Marchiori ; Chapter 13 The Early Islamic Presence – Mohamed Kenawi and Giorgia Marchiori ; Chapter 14 The Finds from Kom al-Ahmer – Urška Furlan ; Chapter 15 Catalogue of Finds from Kom al-Ahmer – Urška Furlan ; Chapter 16 Faunal Remains from Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit – Louise Bertini ; Bibliography ; Social Life on the Site

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

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Book SynopsisWeaving in Stones: Garments and Their Accessories in the Mosaic Art of Eretz Israel in Late Antiquity is the first book to trace and document the garments and their accessories worn by some 245 figures represented on approximately 41 mosaic floors (some only partially preserved) that once decorated both public and private structures within the historical-geographical area of Eretz Israel in Late Antiquity. After identifying, describing and cataloguing the various articles of clothing, a typological division differentiating between men’s, women’s and children’s clothing is followed by a discussion of their iconographic formulae and significance, including how the items of clothing and accessories were employed and displayed and their ideological and social significance. The book is copiously illustrated with photographs of mosaics and other artistic media from throughout the Greek, Roman and Byzantine world, with particular emphasis on the examples from Eretz Israel.Table of ContentsPart I: Men’s Clothing: The Typological Context of Dress and Costume Accessories in the Mosaics of Eretz Israel in Late Antiquity Chapter 1: The Tunic (Tunica) and Its Decoration Chapter 2: The Exomis Chapter 3: Garments Worn on the Lower Torso Chapter 4: Garments Made of Animal Skin: Nebris Chapter 5: Overgarments Part II: Men's Clothing: The Iconographic Context Chapter 6: Huntsmen Chapter 7: Soldiers Chapter 8: Diners and Servants Chapter 9: Laborers: Pipers and Shepherds, Vintners, Fishermen and Sailors, Herders, Builders and Horsemen Chapter 10: Clothing Worn by Biblical Figures in Synagogue Mosaics in Eretz Israel Chapter 11: Clothing Worn by Figures in Church Mosaics in Eretz Israel Chapter 12: Clothing Worn by Mythological Figures Chapter 13: Personifications Part III: Women’s Clothing: The Typological Context Chapter 14: Women’s Clothing as Reflected in Ancient Sources Chapter 15: Tunics Chapter 16: Garments in Greek Style Chapter 17: Items of Clothing Covering the Lower Torso Chapter 18: Overgarments Part IV: Women’s Clothing: The Iconographic Context Chapter 19: Nursing Women Chapter 20: Mythological Figures and Their Garments Chapter 21: Personifications Part V: Garments Worn by Babies, Infants and Youths: The Typological Context Chapter 22: Children’s Tunics Chapter 23: Garments Worn over the Lower Torso Chapter 24: Garments Worn over the Upper Torso Part VI: Garments Worn by Babies, Infants and Youths: The Iconographic Context Chapter 25: Garments Worn by Babies, Infants and Youths Part VII: Clothing Accessories Chapter 26: Jewellery Chapter 27: Head and Neck Coverings Chapter 28: Belts Chapter 29: Shoes General Summary Appendix I

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Book SynopsisMuch of what is known about Malta’s ancient material culture has come to light as a result of antiquarian research or early archaeological work—a time where little attention was paid to stratigraphic context. This situation has in part contributed to the problem of reliably sourcing and dating Maltese Roman-period pottery, particularly locally produced forms common on nearly all ancient Maltese sites. This book presents a comprehensive study of Maltese pottery forms from key stratified deposits spanning the first century BC to mid-fourth century AD. Ceramic material from three Maltese sites was analysed and quantified in a bid to understand Maltese pottery production during the Roman period, and trace the type and volume of ceramic-borne goods that were circulating the central Mediterranean during the period. A short review of the islands’ recent literature on Roman pottery is discussed, followed by a detailed contextual summary of the archaeological contexts presented in this study. The work is supplemented by a detailed illustrated catalogue of all the forms identified within the assemblages, presenting the wide range of locally produced and imported pottery types typical of the Maltese Roman period.Table of ContentsIntroduction Past ceramic research Methodology and method The sites and their assemblages Bulebel, Malta (compiled together with N. Cutajar) Foreman Street, Rabat, Gozo (compiled together with N. Cutajar) Melita Esplanade excavations, Rabat, Malta (compiled together with D. Cardona) Local Maltese potteries Chronology and a discussion of the import trends General conclusion Local Maltese fabrics Catalogue of pottery Catalogue entry concordance Pottery quantification

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Book SynopsisLes pratiques funéraires en Pannonie de l’époque augustéenne à la fin du 3e siècle aims to give an overview of Roman burial practices in Pannonia during the Early Roman period. Among the different approaches proposed by R. Reece for the study of Roman cemeteries, this work focuses on the grave treatment and grave furnishing. The funerary practices are thus apprehended through the study of tomb structure, the selection and treatment of grave goods and human remains. The book proposes a synthesis of the published finds to serve as a base for future research. The analysis consists of a documentary review (presented in the catalogue and numerous tables) as complete as possible from the published data, accompanied by a detailed analysis of the information available today to highlight the trends regarding the entire province but also the peculiarities that can be distinguished at the regional level. The analysis is supported by many graphics and maps. Many general trends, common to the western provinces of the Roman Empire, were detected but also many particularities linked to the economic and social situation of the communities, the different components of the population of Pannonia and the political and military history of the province.Trade Review'The description of the difficulties concerning the compilation of the corpus is followed by the chronology and history of research. It is followed by the analysis of inhumation and cremation burials and then the discussion of grave cult. To separate the primary and secondary grave-goods and their interpretation by groups is a logical step at the description of the grave furniture. The author was capable to control the huge material and the aspects of his analyses composed many details.' – Dénes Gabler (2021): Acta Archaeologica'András Márton has compiled an immense collection of material and presented an impressive work. This collection of material will be indispensable for future research on Roman burials in the Pannonian provinces and will serve as an important reference for other geographical areas of the Empire.' – Stephan Berke (2021): Germania 99 Table of ContentsRemerciements ; Introduction ; Historique des recherches ; Bilan documentaire (Figure 2-9 ; Carte 1-33) ; Etude ; Les inhumations (Tableau 4 ; Carte 24 et 34-51) ; Les crémations (Carte 25 ; Carte 88-101) ; Les tombes d’enfants (Tableau 76) ; Pratiques autour de la fermeture des sépultures ; Le « culte » de la tombe ; Le mobilier ; Les interventions faites sur le mobilier ; Récipients ; Éclairage (Tableau 93 ; Carte 315-327) ; Meubles (Tableau 94-95) ; Chaises (Tableau 95) ; Autour du corps ; Militaria (Tableau 99 ; Carte 354-361) ; Religion personnelle/domaine de la Religio privata ; Offrandes animales et végétales ; Curiosités (Tableau 115) ; Mobilier dans les sépultures d’enfants ; Conclusions ; English Summary ; Bibliographie ; Liste des cartes ; Cartes ; Annexe I : Catalogue des sarcophages du Haut-Empire en Pannonie ; Annexe II : Catalogue des ossuaires en Pannonie ; Tableaux : Avaliable online

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Book SynopsisThe Atlantic Seaboard has attracted increasing interest as a zone of economic complexity and social connection during Late Antiquity and the early medieval period. A surge in archaeological and, in particular, ceramic research emerging from this region over the last decade has demonstrated the need for new models of exchange between the Mediterranean and Atlantic, and for new understandings of links between sites along the Western littoral of Europe. Ceramics and Atlantic Connections: Late Roman and Early Medieval Imported Pottery on the Atlantic Seaboard stems from the Ceramics and Atlantic Connections symposium, hosted by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University, in March 2014. This represents the first international workshop to consider late Roman to early medieval pottery from across the Atlantic Seaboard. Reflecting the wide geographical scope of the original presentations by the invited speakers, these nine articles from ceramic specialists and archaeologists working across the Atlantic region, cover western Britain, Ireland, western France, north-west Spain and Portugal. The principal focus is the pottery of Mediterranean origin which was imported into the Atlantic, particularly East Mediterranean and North African amphorae and red-slipped finewares (African Red Slip and Late Roman C and D), as well as ceramics of Atlantic production which had widespread distributions, including Gaulish Dérivées-de-Sigillées Paléochrétiennes Atlantique/DSPA, céramique à l’éponge’ and ‘E-ware’. Following the aims of the Newcastle symposium, the papers examine the chronologies and relative distributions of these wares and associated products, and consider the compositions of key Atlantic assemblages, revealing new insights into the networks of exchange linking these regions between c. 400-700 AD. This broad-scale exploration of ceramic patterns, together with an examination of associated artefactual, archaeological and textual evidence for maritime exchange, provides a window into the political, economic, cultural and ecclesiastical ties that linked the disparate regions of the Late Antique and early medieval Atlantic. In this way, this volume presents a benchmark for current understandings of ceramic exchange in the Atlantic Seaboard and provides a foundation for future research on connectivity in this zone.Trade Review'Based on a symposium held at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University in 2014, Ceramics and Atlantic Connections, edited by Maria Duggan, Sam Turner, and Mark Jackson, contains a sequence of case studies of the imported ceramic assemblages of the Atlantic sectors of Ireland, Britain, Gaul, and the Iberian peninsula in the period c. 400-700 CE. It has been produced to a very high standard: big, glossy pages, overflowing with high-quality illustrations (many in color); precise, large-scale drawings of many different ceramic vessels; detailed maps; and an abundance of tables and charts with the underlying empirical data presented in sharp resolution. The individual essays are a little eclectic and the volume as a whole sometimes has the feel of an “interim report” meant for specialists (there is no index, for example), but the information presented here should be of interest to all students of the late-Roman and post-Roman west.' -- Carlos Noreña * University of California, Berkeley *'All of the papers are extremely well written (all are in English) and illustrated, and my only quibble is the lack of an index. Overall, this is an important collection of papers which highlights the importance of late antique trade all the way along Europe’s Atlantic seaboard.' -- Stephen Rippon * University of Exeter *Table of ContentsFOREWORD – Maria Duggan, Sam Turner and Mark Jackson ; CERAMICS AND ATLANTIC CONNECTIONS 250-700 AD: THE AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE – Michel Bonifay ; A HANDFUL OF SHERDS: A RETROSPECTIVE LOOK AT IMPORTS IN ATLANTIC BRITAIN – Ewan Campbell ; BRITAIN IN THE ATLANTIC: LATE ANTIQUE CERAMICS AND CONNECTIONS – Maria Duggan ; A RED SLIP FLANGED RIMSHERD DISCOVERED IN IRELAND: AN EXPLORATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL DEPOSITION AND PROVENANCE USING AUTOMATED SEM-EDS ANALYSIS (QEMSCAN) – Amanda Kelly, Martin Feely, Edward P. Lynch and Gavyn K. Rollinson ; MEDITERRANEAN POTTERY IMPORTS IN WESTERN GAUL DURING THE LATE ROMAN PERIOD (MID 3RD-EARLY 7TH CENTURY AD): STATE OF KNOWLEDGE – Joachim Le Bomin ; A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU! A NEW APPROACH TO DOMESTIC CERAMICS OF LATE ANTIQUITY (4TH–6TH CENTURIES AD) IN THE HEART OF AQUITANIA SECUNDA (SOUTH WEST GAUL) – David Guitton ; LATE ANTIQUE ATLANTIC CONTACTS THROUGH THE CASE OF GALICIA – José Carlos Sánchez Pardo ; LATE CONTEXTS FROM OLISIPO (LISBON, PORTUGAL): ESCADINHAS DE SÃO CRISPIM – José Carlos Quaresma ; LATE ROMAN IMPORTED POTTERY IN THE SOUTHWEST OF LUSITANIA: THE CASE OF TRÓIA (PORTUGAL) – Ana Patrícia Magalhães, Inês Vaz Pinto and Patrícia Brum

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Book SynopsisAt first sight, it seems that ancient Egyptian history and culture have no meaningful ties with present-day Croatia. However, when we scratch beneath the surface of the common idea of Egypt, that of a distant and ancient civilisation, we notice that its elements have been present in Croatia ever since antiquity. Egypt in Croatia provides a closer look at many aspects of the presence and fascination of ancient Egyptian culture in Croatia, from antiquity to the present. The topics explored are the artefacts discovered in present-day Croatia (mostly from the early 19th century), Croatian travellers to Egypt from the 16th to the middle of the 20th century, Egyptian collections in Croatia and early collectors from the 1820s until the 1950s, an overview of the development of Egyptology of study within Croatia as well as the various elements of ‘Egyptomania’ found in Croatia, mostly from the beginning of the 19th century.Table of ContentsPreface ; Chapter I: Ancient Egyptian culture in Croatia in Antiquity – Mladen Tomorad ; 1. Early penetration of ancient Egyptian artefacts and Aegyptiaca (7th–1st centuries BCE) ; 2. Diffusion of ancient Egyptian cults in Istria and Illyricum (late 1st–4th centuries BCE) ; 3. Possible sanctuaries of Isaic cults in Croatia ; 4. Professions related to the diffusion of Egyptian cults in Croatia and surrounding regions (central and south-eastern Europe) ; 5. Presence of ancient Egyptian gods and artefacts in Croatia ; 6. Ancient Egyptian decorative and architectural elements along the eastern Adriatic coast ; 7. Catalogue of selected artefacts related to the early penetration and diffusion of ancient Egyptian cults in Istria, Dalmatia and Pannonia (1st millennium BCE – 4th century CE) ; Chapter II. Croatian travellers to Egypt from the 16th to the middle of the 20th century ; 1. Croatian travellers to Egypt: from the early modern period to the tours of the ‘Yugoslav Lloyd’ shipping company of the 1930s – Mladen Tomorad ; 2. The Croatian traveller George Husz from Rascinia: his life in Egypt and the Near East (1532–1541) – Mladen Tomorad ; 3. Jakov Šašel (1832–1903) and his travels to Egypt in 1853/4 – Sanda Kočevar ; 4. The photographs of Antonio Beato in the Dubrovnik archaeological museum – Mladen Tomorad ; 5. Fran Gundrum Oriovčanin in Egypt at the end of 1902 – Mladen Tomorad ; 6. Croatian emigration to Egypt in the 19th and 20th centuries – Mladen Tomorad ; 7. Ivan Meštrović in Egypt, May 1927 – Zorana Jurić Šabić ; 8. Ivan Meštrović: his fascination with ancient civilisations, as reflected in his postcards sent to Ruža Meštrović in May 1927 – Sabina Kaštelančić ; 9. The ‘Yugoslav Lloyd’ shipping company and cruising around the Mediterranean in the 1930s – Mladen Tomorad ; 10. Grga Novak and his first research trip to Egypt (December 1932 – February 1933) – Mladen Tomorad ; Chapter III. Egyptian collections in Croatia ; 1. Early collectors and the genesis of the most important Egyptian collections in Croatia (1820 – 1950s) – Mladen Tomorad ; 2. Egyptian collections in Croatia – Mladen Tomorad ; 3. History of Egyptian objects in the Osijek archaeological museum – Marina Kovač ; 4. Catalogue of selected artefacts from institutional collections in Croatia – Mladen Tomorad ; Chapter IV. Egyptology in Croatia – Mladen Tomorad ; 1. Development of Egyptology in Croatia ; Chapter V. The Egyptian revival and ‘Egyptomania’ in Croatia ; 1. Egyptian revival and modern ‘Egyptomania’ in Croatia – Mladen Tomorad ; 2. Egypt as imaged by 19th- and 20th-century Zagreb: buildings, monuments and street furniture – Marina Bagarić ; 3. Ivan Meštrović – creating art for eternity: Meštrović’s fascination with ancient Egypt as illustrated by the family mausoleum in Otavice – Zorana Jurić Šabić ; 4. Influences of Egyptian style in furniture making: examples from the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb – Vanja Brdar Mustapić ; 5. ‘Egyptomania’ and clock production: examples from the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb – Vesna Lovrić Plantić ; 6. Project Croato-Aegyptica – Mladen Tomorad

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Book SynopsisThe Busy Periphery: Urban Systems of the Balkan and Danube Provinces (2nd – 3rd c. AD) considers the reconstruction of the urban geography of the Balkan and Danube provinces at the time of the Severan dynasty. Four basic parameters governed the focus of research: the origin and socio-economic character of the settlements, their size, micro-location, and the size of their administrative territories. The principal goal was to map the variable developments of the urban network, both between and within the sub-regions that constituted this part of the Roman Empire. This line of inquiry helped in bridging the gap between the regional and the general. In the process of explaining the apparent gaps in the urban map of the study-region or the differential growth of the individual towns and settlements, we were inevitably faced with the question of the role of towns in Roman provincial society and in the economy in general, and with the interpretation of the basic prerequisites for their emergence and prosperity.Trade Review‘Based on the rich material used in his sophisticated methodological approach, this book will remain an important contribution in the problematic and booming field of urban and spatial studies as well.’ – Csaba Szabó (2021): Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology'Intermediate students and established scholars of Roman and Balkan archaeology will find The Busy Periphery a useful springboard for their own research into particular provinces and urban centers. This research stands to further underscore the Balkans’ importance to wider narratives of urban life and Roman imperialism in the ancient Mediterranean.' – Matthew Schueller (2022): American Journal of Archaeology'In conclusion, Donev offers to the readers a very thorough investigation of a diverse and sometimes uneven range of data for the archaeology of Roman towns and territories in the Balkan and Danubian provinces during the Early Roman Empire, introducing new concepts and analysis tools and also opening up new research directions.' – Adriana Panaite (2022): Dacia LXV'In conclusion, Damjan Donev’s book is an important contribution to the urban history of the Roman empire. It vastly surpasses earlier attempts of analyses made on “extra-provincial” level (for example, Mocsy 1974 includes only Moesia Inferior and Pannonia). The book forms a solid basis which can be expanded further as the archaeological research (and publications) progresses.' – Vladislav Zhivkov (2022): Archaeologia Bulgarica ХХVI, 3‘All in all, the book is a useful addition to the historiographical landscape not only of the Danube and Balkan provinces but of the Roman Empire overall,9 dealing with a fragmented and heterogeneous territory in a holistic manner. The thorough analysis, the interdisciplinary methods, and the synthetic graphs, tables and maps all contribute to the book’s value for future research.’ – Rada Varga (2022): Journal of Roman Archaeology (2022)Table of ContentsChapter I: Introduction ; Chapter II: The Genesis of the Roman Settlement Network in the Balkan Provinces and on the Danube. Settlement Chronology. ; Chapter III: The Genesis of the Roman Urban Network in the Balkan Provinces and on the Danube. Newly Founded Settlements ; Chapter IV: Settlement Size Distribution ; Chapter V: Agricultural Territories ; Chapter VI: Administrative Territories ; Chapter VII: Conclusions ; Bibliography ; Appendix: A Catalogue of Towns and Settlements, Built-up Area, Agricultural and Administrative Territory

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a discussion of the culture history of ancient West Mexico from the time of the first human inhabitants until the last cultural developments that took place before the Spanish invasion in the 16th century. The overall narrative is played out within the context of the Mesoamerican ecumene; that is, the universe of cultural and social interactions that coalesced into one of the few pristine civilizations of the ancient world. The book presents a long-overdue synthesis and update of West Mexican archaeology aimed at scholars, students and the general public. Ancient West Mexico in the Mesoamerican Ecumene is the first book about West Mexican archaeology written by a single author. Another unique feature of this book is that it follows a holistic approach that includes data and perspectives from sociocultural anthropology, ethnohistory, ethnoarchaeology, and general analogy with many ancient cultures within the Mesoamerican ecumene and beyond (including several of the Old World). The focus of interest is the relationship between West Mexico and the rest of the ecumene, and the role played by the ancient West Mexicans in shaping the culture and history of the Mesoamerican universe. Ancient West Mexico has often been portrayed as a ‘marginal’ or ‘underdeveloped’ area of Mesoamerica. This book shows that the opposite is true. Indeed, Williams convincingly demonstrates that West Mexico actually played a critical role in the cultural and historical development of the Mesoamerican ecumene.Trade Review'For far too long, west Mexican prehistory has been the poor stepchild of Mesoamerican studies. Eduardo Williams’ book demonstrates the connections between this neglected region and the better-known areas of the Mesoamerican world. One of the strengths of Eduardo’s book is that he puts the history of archaeological and ethnographic research into perspective… Williams links west Mexican cultures and sites to the wider world of Mesoamerica. Other writers have either ignored the subject or only touched on it lightly. Eduardo documents the important connections. For those learning about the Mesoamerican world, these specific, documented connections are invaluable… I think this will be the “go-to” volume for anyone who wants either a broad overview or to compare different regions and developments (e.g. settlement, trade, social organization) through time…' - Prof. Robert B. Pickering, The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma'Williams’ bridging of the past and present through ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and ethnoarchaeological data centered on the importance of aquatic lifeways is a much-needed thread of continuity and identity where none previously existed. Critiques noted previously aside, this a solid piece of work and one that I am excited to hopefully see make its way into classrooms and onto bookshelves.' - Anthony DeLuca (2021), Ethnoarchaeology'There is no doubt that this is the book my students have been asking for in the way of a comprehensive overview of the archaeology of western Mexico.' - Christopher Beekman (2021), Latin American AntiquityTable of ContentsPreface ; Chapter I Introduction ; Mesoamerica: Debates and Perspectives over Time ; The Mesoamerican Ecumene ; West Mexico in the Mesoamerican Ecumene ; Discussion and Conclusions ; Chapter II History of Archaeological Research in West Mexico ; Part 1. History of Archaeological Research in Michoacán ; Part 2. History of Archaeological Research in Jalisco, Colima, Nayarit and Sinaloa ; Final Remarks ; Chapter III First Inhabitants and Early Cultural Development ; Geographical Background of West Mexico ; Paleoindian Period: West Mexico’s First Inhabitants ; Archaic Period: First Examples of Settled Life ; Final Remarks ; Chapter IV The Formative Period (ca. 1500 BC-AD 300) ; The Mesoamerican Ecumene during the Formative Period ; The Middle Formative Period in West Mexico ; The Late Formative Period in West Mexico ; Cultural Relations between West and Central Mexico in the Formative ; Final Remarks ; Chapter V The Classic Period (ca. AD 250/300-900) ; The Mesoamerican Ecumene during the Classic Period ; The Classic Period in West Mexico ; Cultural Relations between West and Central Mexico during the Classic Period ; Final Remarks ; Chapter VI The Postclassic Period (ca. AD 900-1521) ; Part 1. The Central and Southern Areas of the Mesoamerican Ecumene in the Postclassic Period ; Part 2. The Postclassic Period in West Mexico ; Final Remarks ; Chapter VII The Tarascan Empire in the Mesoamerican Ecumene ; The Tarascan Empire in the Protohistoric Period (ca. AD 1450-1530) ; The Lake Cuitzeo Basin: A Key Economic Area of the Tarascan Empire ; Trade, Tribute and Transportation within the Tarascan Empire ; Final Remarks ; Chapter VIII Discussion and Conclusions ; References Cited

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Book SynopsisExcavation, Analysis and Interpretation of Early Bronze Age Barrows at Guiting Power, Gloucestershire covers the full excavation, analysis and interpretation of two early Bronze Age round barrows at Guiting Power in the Cotswolds, a region where investigation and protection of such sites have been extremely poor, with many barrows unnecessarily lost to erosion, and with most existing excavation partial, and of low quality. One monument, Guiting Power 1, typical of many others in the region in terms of general form, was investigated to assess how far surviving evidence could be used to indicate original structure, as a basis for discussion of function as a funerary and ritual site. The project is paired with the full excavation of a larger round barrow, of similar date, nearby, at Guiting Power 3 in the valley below. Both sites have been considered within their local environment and as part of the general pattern of settlement. The monuments have also provided data for a programme of experimental investigation of prehistoric cremation. Discovery of a post ring with well-preserved basal structures, sealed under an early bronze age round barrow at Guiting Power 3, enables detailed analysis of its structure, associations, and place in the sequence. This review of a sample of other post rings from southern and western Britain places the example from Guiting Power within its archaeological context.Table of ContentsAnalysis of an Early Bronze Age Round Barrow: A Case Study at Guiting Power 1, Glos. (UK) ; SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE SITE ; SECTION 2: OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT ; SECTION 3: METHODS FOR INVESTIGATION OF THE SITE ; SECTION 4: STRUCTURAL SEQUENCE AT THE SITE ; SECTION 5: GENERAL DISCUSSION OF THE SITE ; SECTION 6: FINDS AND SAMPLES FROM THE SITE ; SECTION 7: SUPPLEMENTARY STUDIES ; SUPPLEMENTARY STUDY A: Round barrows in the northern Cotswolds: current state of preservation in a selected study area ; SUPPLEMENTARY STUDY B: Summary of published data on excavated round barrows from the Cotswold region ; SUPPLEMENTARY STUDY C: Other round barrows in the area: data from geophysical survey ; SECTION 8: APPENDICES ; SECTION 9: SUPPORTING INFORMATION/SOURCES ; SECTION 10: FIGURES AND PLATES ; Interpretation of an Early Bronze Age Round Barrow: Excavation of the Monument at Guiting Power 3, Glos. (UK) ; SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE SITE ; SECTION 2: OBJECTIVES AND METHODS FOR INVESTIGATION OF THE SITE ; SECTION 3: STRUCTURAL SEQUENCE AT THE SITE ; SECTION 4: GENERAL DISCUSSION OF THE SITE ; SECTION 5: FINDS AND SAMPLES FROM THE SITE ; SECTION 6: SUPPORTING INFORMATION/ SOURCES ; SECTION 7: FIGURES AND PLATES ; A Brief Review of Post Rings Associated With Earlier Bronze Age Round Barrows in Southern Britain: A Context for the Example at Guiting Power 3, Glos. (UK) ; SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION ; SECTION 2: REVIEW OF PUBLISHED INFORMATION ; SECTION 3: SUMMARIES OF INDIVIDUAL POST RINGS ; SECTION 4: GENERAL DISCUSSION ; SECTION 5: SOURCES OF INFORMATION ; SECTION 6: FIGURES

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Book SynopsisThe Development of an Iron Age and Roman Settlement Complex at The Park and Bowsings, near Guiting Power, Gloucestershire outlines the excavation of a small Iron Age and Roman settlement complex near Guiting Power in the Cotswolds. A relatively undefended farmstead of middle Iron Age date was abandoned, to be followed by an adjacent, more substantial, ditched enclosure of the mid to later Iron Age, which appears to have been a stronghold of higher status, with less directly agrarian associations. This latter site became dilapidated or was perhaps slighted during the latest Iron Age or early Roman period, with a Romanised farmstead developing over the traditional habitation area, thus providing evidence for occupation until the late 4th century AD. The sequence of settlement indicates social, economic, and environmental changes occurring in the area from the 'proto-Dobunnic' to late Roman periods. Excavation of pits at the site has provided the basis for experimental investigation of grain storage.Table of ContentsSECTION 1: LOCATION OF THE SITES; SECTION 2: OBJECTIVES AND METHODS FOR INVESTIGATION OF THE SITE; SECTION 3: EXCAVATION AT THE PARK; SECTION 4: EXCAVATION AT THE BOWSINGS; SECTION 5: GENERAL DISCUSSION OF THE SITE; SECTION 6: FINDS AND SAMPLES FROM THE SITES; SECTION 7: SUPPORTING INFORMATION / SOURCES; SECTION 8: FIGURES AND PLATES; SECTION 9: ONLINE CONTENT

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Book SynopsisEphyra-Epirus: The Mycenaean Acropolis presents the results of the 1975-1986 and 2007-2008 excavations on the prehistoric-Mycenaean acropolis of Ephyra, one of the most important Bronze Age sites of Epirus. Ephyra is a small coastal fortified site in the region of the lower Acheron valley and the only one that has been systematically excavated, producing impressive and, in some cases, unique Bronze Age remains (architectural, burial, pottery, artefacts). It stands on a high hill, in an exceptional position that overlooks and commands the lower Acheron valley and provides easy access both to the nearby Glykis Limin, the Ionian sea and the hinterland. Moreover, it is surrounded by three successive perivoloi, two of which (middle and lower) belong to LH III times, with a monumental south entrance gate. Ephyra fits the criteria of a major fortified settlement, as it covers an important and strategic prehistoric citadel, cemetery, residence and port of call for those travelling to the West. Strictly based on the archaeological data presented, this study suggests that the acropolis had a permanent Mycenaean population during the entire LH III period and continued to thrive after the collapse of Mycenaean centres until (and including) the Archaic period. Finally, it is tempting to suggest a correlation of the archaeological record with the Homeric tradition (Homeric Efýra, Od.a..259,b.238).Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements ; Introduction ; I. EPIRUS ; Topography, Geomorphology, Climate and the history of previous research. ; II. EPHYRA ; 1: Environment, myth, literary evidence and history of the excavation ; 2: Description of the acropolis and architectural remains ; 3: Tombs and burial customs in Epirus ; 4: The Prehistoric cemetery of tumuli at Ephyra ; 5: Pottery: ; The prehistoric pottery of Epirus. Fabric and technique, Typology ; The prehistoric pottery of Ephyra. Fabric and technique. Typology ; 6: Indicative catalogue of prehistoric pottery and artefacts of Ephyra: ; Pottery ; Artefacts ; 7: Classical and Hellenistic pottery ; 8: Conclusions ; 9: Selected Bibliography ;

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Book SynopsisInvisible Archaeologies: hidden aspects of daily life in ancient Egypt and Nubia brings together eight of the papers presented at a conference held in Oxford in 2017. The theme aimed to bring together international early-career researchers applying novel archaeological and anthropological methods to the ‘overlooked’ in ancient Egypt and Nubia – and included diverse topics such as women, prisoners, entangled communities and funerary displays. The papers use a range of archaeological and textual material and span from the Predynastic period to the Late Period. By applying methodology used so successfully within the discipline of archaeology over the past 20 years, they offer a different perspective on Egyptological research, and demonstrate how such theoretical models can broaden scholarly understanding of the Nile Valley.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Loretta Kilroe ; Tortured, Banished, Forgotten (and frequently Ripped Off)? Experience of Ancient Egyptian Criminal Judgment and its Consequences through the 2nd Millennium BCE – Alex Loktionov ; Communities of Glyptic Practice in Predynastic Egypt – Siobhan Shinn ; Family Associations Reflected in the Materiality of 21st Dynasty Funerary Papyri – Marissa Stevens ; Practising Craft and Producing Memories in Ancient Nubia – Kate Fulcher ; (Re)Shaping Identities: Culture-Contact Theories Applied to the Late Bronze Age “Egyptian” Pantheon and People – Jacqueline M.Huwyler ; Elite and Common People: Redefining Burial Practices in Ancient Egypt – Ilaria Davino ; Displayed Graves: A Study of Predynastic Naqada Burials as the Device for the Mortuary Ceremony – Taichi Kuronuma ; Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, a Landscape for the Afterlife: Reciprocity in Shaping Life Histories – Antonio Muñoz Herrera

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Book SynopsisResearch on common earthenware from the first half of the 17th century is very elementary, when it exists at all. This study seeks to bring back to life the ceramics, the inhabitants and the site where the objects were used. The collection includes 1602 fragments from 277 common earthenware objects coming from the period of occupation of Fort La Tour (1631-1645) in Portland Point, New Brunswick. These pieces were mostly made in France, but some are probably of English origin. Mostly through the visual identification of the features included in the ceramic body, a classification system was developed with four main groups, 28 types, and 10 variations. With this classification system, earthenware objects were able to be grouped based on the activities for which they were used and related to their uses and functions. This process enabled links to be established with the daily use of the earthenware objects on a French site in the first half of the 17th century.Table of ContentsRésumé/Abstract Avant-propos Remerciements Table des matières Table des graphiques et tableaux Table des figures Table des dessins et photographies Introduction Chapitre 1: Contexte historique de l’Acadie et du fort La Tour Chapitre 2: Typologie et classification des terres cuites communes Chapitre 3: Description, comparaison et analyse fonctionnelle Conclusion Bibliographie Figures Dessins et photographies Annexe A: Tableau des correspondances typologiques Annexe B: Tableau des céramiques du fort La Tour et de Pentagouet Annexe C: Diagramme des types cérames du fort La Tour et de Pentagouet Annexe D: Différentes formes de reference Annexe E: Liste numérique des terres cuites communes du fort La Tour

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Book SynopsisFollowing the collapse of Roman Britain, early medieval England shows little evidence for complex hierarchy or supra-regional socio-political units for nearly two hundred years, until the turn of the 7th century, when the documented emergence of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms is seemingly confirmed by the sudden appearance of the first high-status settlements – the so-called great hall complexes. This book explores the role of great hall complexes in kingdom formation through an expansive and ambitious study, incorporating new fieldwork, new quantitative methodologies and new theoretical models for the emergence of high-status settlements and the formation and consolidation of supra-regional socio-political units. This study begins with a comparative analysis of all known great hall complexes, through which evidence is presented for a broad chronological development, paralleling and contributing to the development of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. The wider context of great hall complexes is then explored through a regional case study, charting the development of socio-economic power in the burials and settlements of the Upper Thames Valley, before situating the great hall complexes within this development. Ultimately, an overarching theoretical explanation is proposed for the emergence, development and abandonment of the great hall complexes, linking these sites with the development of a new elite ideology, the integration of new supra-regional communities and the consolidation of the newly formed Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.Table of ContentsList of Figures ; Preface and Acknowledgements ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Part I: Great Hall Complexes in Comparison ; Chapter 2: The Characteristics and Functions of Great Hall Complexes ; Chapter 3: The Emergence, Development and Obsolescence of Great Hall Complexes ; Part II: Great Hall Complexes in Context ; Power and Place in the Upper Thames Valley ; Chapter 4: Burial Methodology ; Chapter 5: Power in Burial ; Chapter 6: Settlement Methodology ; Chapter 7: Power in Settlement ; Chapter 8: Great Hall Complexes in Context ; Appendix 1: The Cemeteries ; Appendix 2: The Burials Methodology ; Appendix 3: The Settlements (including cropmark sites) ; Bibliography ; Primary Sources ; Secondary Sources

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Book SynopsisThis special edition of Aramazd: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Republic of Armenia and summarises the studies conducted in Armenia in the field of archaeology (1991-2016). Contributions included in this volume cover a significant time span, from Lower Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. The articles summarise the archaeological surveys conducted by joint international expeditions and partly by Armenian archaeologists. The volume also introduces the bio-bibliography of several outstanding representatives of Armenian archaeologists of the past whose activities enhanced the establishment and development of the Armenian archaeological school.Table of ContentsEditorial – Aram Kosyan ; Foreword: The present and the perspectives of Armenian archaeology – Pavel Avetisyan ; Study of the Stone Age in the Republic of Armenia (Part 1 – Lower Palaeolithic) – Boris Gasparyan, Daniel S. Adler, Keith N. Wilkinson, Samvel Nahapetyan, Charles P. Egeland, Philip J. Glauberman, Ariel Malinsky-Buller, Dmitri Arakelyan, Makoto Arimura, Roberto Dan, Ellery Frahm, Hayk Haydosyan, Hayk Azizbekyan, Artur Petrosyan and Andrew W. Kandel ; Project ArAGATS 1998-2018: Twenty years of archaeological investigations into the Bronze and Iron Ages of Armenia – Badalyan, Alan F. Greene, Armine Harutyunyan, Lori Khatchadourian, Ian Lindsay, Maureen Marshall and Adam T. Smith ; Gleanings from the history of Armenian-German archaeological relations – Arsen Bobokhyan ; Recent Investigations in the Province of Lori – Michael Herles and Ruben Davtyan ; The archaeological mission of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia and the National Research Council of Italy, 1994-2014 – Raffaele Biscione and Simon Hmayakyan ; The Vayots Dzor Project (VDP): a preliminary overview of the first three years’ activities (2016-2018) – Boris Gasparyan, Roberto Dan, Artur Petrosyan and Priscilla Vitolo with contributions from Hayk Haydosyan, Ani Adigyozalyan, Hayk Azizbekyan, Karen Azatyan, Chiara Zecchi, Ghasem Moradi, Tommaso Saccone, Annarita Stefania Bonfanti and Faezeh Dadfar ; Comprendre l’évolution de l’Arménie entre la fin de la période ourartéenne et le début de celle Achéménide : Une collaboration entre les équipes française et arménienne Beniamin et Erebuni (1999-2019) – Deschamps et François Fichet de Clairfontaine avec la collaboration de Vincenzo Mutarelli, Anna Azizyan, Miqayel Badalyan et Mary Karapetyan ; The Kotayk Survey Project (KSP): an overview of the first six years of activities (2013- 2018) – Artur Petrosyan, Roberto Dan and Priscilla Vitolo with the collaboration of Varduhy Melikyan, Ghasem Moradi, Chiara Zecchi, Tommaso Saccone ; The Armenian-German excavations in Oshakan – Michael Herles and Hayk Avetisyan ; Excavations at Metsamor, seasons 2013-2018 – Ashot Piliposyan, Krzysztof Jakubiak, Ruzan Mkrtchyan, Hasmik Simonyan, Mateusz Iskra and Artavazd Zaqyan ; Ervandashat : résumé d’une étude archéologique de 2005-2014 – Arevik Parsamyan et Armine Gabrielyan ; Study of the Classical sites of Armenia during the years of the Third Republic (1991- 2018) – Mkrtich H. Zardaryan ; Tigranakert of Artsakh – Hamlet Petrosyan ; The Achievements of medieval archaeology in the past fifty years – Husik Melkonyan ; Obituaries ; Babken Arakelyan (1912–2004) In Memory of the Teacher – Mkrtich H. Zardaryan ; Vahan E. Hovhannisyan (1956-2014) – Ashot S. Piliposyan and Gregory E. Areshian ; Aram Kalantaryan – Husik Melkonyan ; Telemak Khachatryan – Frina Babayan ; Zhores Khachatryan – Inesa Karapetyan and Hasmik Margaryan ; Emma Khanzadyan – Arsen Bobokhyan ; Harutyun Martirosyan – Arsen Bobokhyan ; Felix Ter-Martirosov – Lilit Mikayelyan ; Gevorg Tiratsyan – Garegin Tumanyan ; Rafik Torosyan – Anzhela Tadevosyan ; Stepan Yesayan – Hayk Avetisyan ; Summaries (in Armenian) ; Abbreviations

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Book SynopsisKom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit were ideally placed to take advantage of the Mediterranean trade given their close proximity to the Egyptian ports of Thonis-Heracleion, Alexandria, and Rosetta during the Hellenistic, Roman, Late Roman, and early Islamic period. The social and economic vitality of the sites has been revealed during investigations undertaken by the Italian archaeological mission between 2012 and 2016 and published in Kom al-Ahmer – Kom Wasit I: Excavations in the Metelite Nome, Egypt ca. 700 BC – AD 100. This volume presents over 1070 coins (ca. 310 BC–AD 641) and 1320 examples of Late Roman and Early Islamic pottery, testimony to the considerable commercial activity in the region during the Late Antique period. Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit emerge as centers of an exchange network involving large-scale trade of raw materials to and from the central and eastern Mediterranean.Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction ; The Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit Archaeological Project II ; First Phase: 2012–2016 ; Part 1: Coin Finds 2012–2016 (Michele Asolati and Cristina Crisafulli) ; Introduction ; Conditions of the Coins and the Metallographic Analyses ; Coin Finds at Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit ; The Late Imperial Coins from Kom al-Ahmer, Unit 4: The Finds and their Distribution ; The Late Imperial Coins from Kom al-Ahmer: The Distribution of Types and Mints ; The Latest Evidence ; Catalogue ; Bibliography ; Part 2: Late Roman and Early Islamic Pottery from Kom al-Ahmer (Cristina Mondin) ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Methodology ; 3. Pottery Quantification (C. Mondin, M.L. Patanè) ; 4. Contexts ; 4.1 Unit 4 ; 4.2 Unit 1 – The Cistern and Late Roman Structures ; 4.3 Unit 2 – The Early Islamic presence ; 4.4 Summary Chronology of the Contexts ; 5. Pottery Corpus ; 5.1 Imported Fine Ware ; 5.2 Egyptian Fine Ware ; 5.3 Imported Utilitarian Ware ; 5.4 Egyptian Utilitarian Ware ; 5.5 Imported Amphorae ; 5.6 Egyptian Amphorae (M. Kenawi, C. Mondin) ; 5.7 Miscellaneous ; 6. Conclusions ; Plates ; Bibliography ; Appendix 1: Fine Ware Quantification ; Appendix 2

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