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Book SynopsisContents: 1) New perspectives on Minaean expiatory texts (Alessio Agostini); 2) Investigating an early Islamic landscape on Kuwait Bay: the archaeology of historical Kadhima (Andrew Blair, Derek Kennet & Sultan al-Duwīsh); 3) The early settlement of HD-5 at Ras al-Дadd, Sultanate of Oman (fourth–third millennium BCE) (Federico Borgi, Elena Maini, Maurizio Cattani & Maurizio Tosi); 4) Known and unknown archaeological monuments in the Dūmat al-Jandal oasis in Saudi Arabia: a review (Guillaume Charloux); 5) Prehistory and palaeo-geography of the coastal fringes of the Wahiba Sands and Bar al-Hikman, Sultanate of Oman (Vincent Charpentier, Jean-François Berger, Rémy Crassard, Marc Lacaze & Gourguen Davtian); 6) Unlocking the Early Bronze Age: attempting to extract Umm an-Nar tombs from a remotely sensed Hafit dataset (poster) (William Deadman); 7) Iron Age impact on a Bronze Age archaeological landscape: results from the Italian Mission to Oman excavations at Salūt, Sultanate of Oman (Michele Degli Esposti & Carl Phillips); 8) Late Palaeolithic core-reduction strategies in Dhofar, Oman (Yamandú Hilbert, Jeffrey Rose & Richard Roberts); 9) Réflexions sur les formes de l’écrit à l’aube de l’Islam (Frédéric Imbert); 10) Getting to the bottom of Zabid: the Canadian Archaeological Mission in Yemen, 1982–2011 (Edward J. Keall); 11) New perspectives on regional and interregional obsidian circulation in prehistoric and early historic Arabia (Lamya Khalidi, Krista Lewis & Bernard Gratuze); 12) The Saudi-Italian-French Archaeological Mission at Dūmat al-Jandal (ancient Adumatu). A first relative chronological sequence for Dūmat al-Jandal. Architecture and pottery (Romolo Loreto); 13) Excavation at the ‘Tree of Life’ site (Mohammed Redha Ebrahim Hasan Mearaj); 14) The origin of the third-millennium BC fine grey wares found in eastern Arabia (S. Méry, R. Besenval, M.J. Blackman & A. Didier); 15) Building H at Mleiha: new evidence of the late pre-Islamic period D phase (PIR.D) in the Oman peninsula (second to mid-third century AD) (M. Mouton, M. Tengberg, V. Bernard, S. Le Maguer, A. Reddy, D. Soulié, M. Le Grand & J. Goy); 16) An overview of archaeology and heritage in Qatar (Sultan Muhesen, Faisal al-Naimi & Ingolf Thuesen); 17) The construction of Medina’s earliest city walls: defence and symbol (Harry Munt); 18) Landscape signatures and seabed characterization in the marine environment of north-west Qatar (poster) (Faisal al-Naimi, Richard Cuttler, Ibrahim Ismail Alhaidous, Lucie Dingwall, Garry Momber, Sadd al-Naimi, Paul Breeze & Ahmed Ali al-Kawari); 19) Towards an annotated corpus of Soqotri oral literature: the 2010 fieldwork season (Vitaly Naumkin, Leonid Kogan & Dmitry Cherkashin (Moscow); AΉmad Īsā al-Darhī & Īsa Gumān al-Darhī (Soqotra, Yemen); 20) Palace, mosque, and tomb at al-RuwayΡah, Qatar (Andrew Petersen & Tony Grey); 21) The origin and development of the oasis landscape of al-ΚAin (UAE) (Timothy Power & Peter Sheehan); 22) Evidence from a new inscription regarding the goddess ΚΕ(t)rm and some remarks on the gender of deities in South Arabia (Alessia Prioletta); 23) Archaeological excavations at the settlement of al-FurayΉah (Freiha), north-west Qatar (Gareth Rees, Faysal al-Naimi, Tobias Richter, Agnieszka Bystron & Alan Walmsley); 24) The 2010–2011 excavation season at al-Zubārah, north-west Qatar (poster) (Tobias Richter, Faisal Abdulla al-Naimi, Lisa Yeomans, Michael House, Tom Collie, Pernille Bangsgaard Jensen, Sandra Rosendahl, Paul Wordsworth & Alan Walmsley); 25) The Great Mosque of Qalhāt rediscovered. Main results of the 2008–2010 excavations at Qalhāt, Oman (Axelle Rougeulle, Thomas Creissen & Vincent Bernard); 26) A new stone tool assemblage revisited: reconsidering the ‘Aterian’ in Arabia (Eleanor M.L. Scerri); 27) Egyptian cultural impact on north-west Arabia in the second and first millennia BC (Gunnar Sperveslage & Ricardo Eichmann); 28) The Neolithic site FAY-NE15 in the central region of the Emirate of Sharjah (UAE) (Margarethe Uerpmann, Roland de Beauclair, Marc Händel, Adelina Kutterer, Elisabeth Noack & Hans-Peter Uerpmann); 29) KāΞimah remembered: historical traditions of an early Islamic settlement by Kuwait Bay (Brian Ulrich); 30) Yemeni opposition to Ottoman rule: an overview (Abdol Rauh Yaccob).

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Book SynopsisIn the mid 1990s, the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum at Wroxeter, Shropshire, was subjected to one of the most intensive campaigns of geophysical survey ever carried out on a Roman town. The result was a complete plan of the city using magnetometry but also significant deployment of other technologies including resistance, GPR and more experimental technologies. Since that time, geophysical survey has continued intermittently, using the site as a geophysical laboratory. This volume reports on the archaeological interpretation of this work, marrying the extensive and nuanced geophysical data with a detailed analysis of the existing aerial photographic record created by Arnold Baker during the 1950s to 1980s. The resulting work is the first insula by insula description of all the visible buildings in the town, the first time that this has been attempted for a Romano-British town, and one of the few attempted anywhere in the Empire. The analysis has enabled a complete reinterpretation of the historical development of the town that links it to its surrounding hinterland and to wider concerns about Roman Urban development. The volume also contains detail of small-scale excavations that have been carried out since 1999 on the site, many in previously unexplored areas, and completes the publication of all outstanding archaeological work on the monumentTable of ContentsCHAPTER 1: BACKGROUND ; CHAPTER 2: EXCAVATIONS ; CHAPTER 3: THE WROXETER ATLAS ; CHAPTER 4: CHRONOLOGICAL OVERVIEW ; CHAPTER 5: BUILDING AN INTERPRETATION OF WROXETER ; SUMMARY ; RÉSUMÉ FRANÇAIS ; DEUTSCHE ZUSAMMENFASSUNG ; 6. BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisThe close relationship between photography and archaeology is widely acknowledged. Since its invention, photography has been an indispensable documentation tool for archaeology, while the development of digital technology has facilitated the growing needs of an archaeological excavation in recording and archiving. Still, both photography and archaeology are much more than documentation practices. On the one hand, photography is the most appropriate medium for creating visual art; on the other, the excavation is a locus where material and immaterial knowledges are constantly being produced, reproduced and represented; as such, it constitutes an ideal “topos” for experimentation in creating images. This entangled relationship between photography and archaeology, and art and documentation, has only recently attracted attention, emerging as a separate field of study. Archaeographies: Excavating Neolithic Dispilio consists one of the very first experimentations in printed format, dealing with this visual interplay between archaeology and photography. The case study is the excavation of the Greek Neolithic settlement of Dispilio. The book tackles archaeological practice on site, the microcosms of excavation, and the interaction between people and “things”. Archaeographies derives from an on-going, blog-based project, launched in 2006 (visualizingneolithic.com). The black-and-white photos of the book were selected from a large archive, and are loosely assembled as an itinerary. They are accompanied by a laconic commentary, in order to retain the sense of ambiguity and allow multiple interpretation of the images.Trade Review‘….today some archaeologists have transformed themselves into artists exploiting the visual grammar of the past decades.’ - Dragos Gheorghiu (2014): Antiquity'Infantidis [presents] a collection of photographs that document the ephemeral, tangential notes from the excavations at Dispilio. In this he repositions the photographer not as a passive observer, but as an active participant in the investigation of the past.' - Michael Willis (2014): Journal of Contemporary Archaeology

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Book SynopsisThis book examines systematically both the theoretical and practical issues that have characterized the discipline over the past two centuries. Some of the historically most consequential mistakes in archaeology are dissected and explained, together with the effects of the related controversies. The theoretical basis of the discipline is deliberated in some detail, leading to the diagnosis that there are in fact numerous archaeologies, all with different notions of commensurability, ideologies, and purposes. Their various perspectives of what archaeology is and does are considered and the range of views of the human past is illuminated in this book. How humans became what they are today is of profound importance to understanding ourselves, both as a species and individually. Our psychology, cognition, diseases, intellect, communication forms, physiology, predispositions, ideologies, culture, genetics, behavior, and, perhaps most importantly, our reality constructs are all the result of our evolutionary history. Therefore the models archaeology—especially Pleistocene archaeology—creates of our past are not just narratives of what happened in human history; they are fundamental to every aspect of our existence.

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Book SynopsisProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 2012.

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Book SynopsisDiscussions and scientific exchange are crucial for the advancement of a young discipline such as the study of Roman pottery in the Near East. Therefore, in addition to large conferences such as the ‘Late Roman Coarse Ware Conference’ (LRCW) where the Near East plays only a marginal role, an international workshop with 20 participants dedicated solely to the study of Roman common ware pottery in the Near East was held in Berlin on 18th and 19th February 2010. The goal of this workshop was to provide researchers actively engaged in the study of Roman common wares the possibility to meet and discuss the current state of research as well as questions and problems they are facing with their material. Some of the participants were able to bring pottery samples, which provided the possibility to compare and discuss the identification and denomination of specific fabrics on a regional and supra-regional scale. This volume presents 17 papers from this stimulating event. The Archaeopress series, Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery (RLAMP) is devoted to research of the Roman and late Antique pottery in the Mediterranean. It is designed to serve as a reference point for all potential authors devoted to pottery studies on a pan-Mediterranean basis. The series seeks to gather innovative individual or collective research on the many dimensions of pottery studies ranging from pure typological and chronological essays, to diachronic approaches to particular classes, the complete publication of ceramic deposits, pottery deposit sequences, archaeometry of ancient ceramics, methodological proposals, studies of the economy based on pottery evidence or, among others, ethnoarchaeological ceramic research that may help to understand the production, distribution and consumption of pottery in the Mediterranean basin.

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the results of a multidisciplinary archaeological and archaeometric study of the wine amphorae produced in Hispania Citerior (Tarraconensis, in Augustus’ reorganisation) between the first century BC and the first century AD. Wine production expanded in this area at the beginning of the first century BC, as new Roman towns were founded and new farms or villae gradually emerged in rural areas. However, it was during Augustus’ reign that wine production and trade reached their peak. The study aims to shed new light on the composition of the wine amphorae produced in this area as well as on the technological processes involved in their manufacture along within the period considered. For that, the study includes the characterisation of several amphora types produced in various ceramic workshops located along the Catalan coast which initiated pottery activity at different times. All the available archaeological information for each case study is reviewed, considering data referring to the production centres and also to the geology and the environment in which the pottery workshops were located. Spanish text with English summary.Table of ContentsAgradecimientos a instituciones colaboradoras en la investigación ; 1. Introducción ; 2. Metodología ; 3. La Aumedina (Tivissa, Ribera d’Ebre) ; 4. El Vilarenc (Calafell, Baix Penedès) ; 5. Barri Antic o Vila Vella (Sant Boi de Llobregat, Baix Llobregat) ; 6. Can Feu (Sant Quirze del Vallès, Vallès Occidental) ; 7. La Salut (Sabadell, Vallès Occidental) ; 8. Barcelona (Barcelonès) ; 9. Baetulo (Badalona) (El Barcelonès) ; 10. Cal Ros de les Cabres (El Masnou, El Maresme) ; 11. Ca l’Arnau y Can Pau Ferrer (Cabrera de Mar, El Maresme) ; 12. El Morè (Sant Pol de Mar, El Maresme) ; 13. El Mujal (Calella, El Maresme) ; 14. Can Viader-Palafolls (Malgrat de Mar, El Maresme) ; 15. Fenals (Lloret de Mar, La Selva) ; 16. Collet de Sant Antoni (Calonge, Baix Empordà) ; 17. Llafranc (Palafrugell, Baix Empordà) ; 18. Conclusiones ; Bibliografía ; 19. Summary (English)

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Book SynopsisDionysos carried the blessing of wine to the whole world, and his triumphant return from India became a popular subject for the arts of Greece and Rome in many media. It became associated with Alexander the Great’s comparable victories and later served as a message of immortality for any mortal prince. The iconography survived the ancient world into Renaissance and neo-Classical arts, and may even have contributed to the practices of modern circus parades with their wild animals, maenad-snake-charmers and clown-satyrs: an unusual, indeed unique, survival.Table of ContentsPreface ; THE DIONYSIAC PROCESSION IN EARLY GREECE ; THE EGYPTIAN CONNECTION: STAGING THE TRIUMPH ; DIONYSOS AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN THE EAST ; THE PROCESSION IN HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN ART AND LIFE ; THE ORIENTAL SUCCESSION ; THE RENAISSANCE ; THE MODERN WORLD

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Book SynopsisThis book is the result of the processing of the excavation data and of the pottery coming from the stratigraphy underneath the cathedral of Siena. The surveys were conducted between August 2000 and May 2003 by the Department of Archaeology and History of Arts of the University of Siena, with the scientific coordination of Prof. Riccardo Francovich and Prof. Marco Valenti and the collaboration of the Opera del Duomo di Siena. The ultimate goal is to trace a view of the settlement types and economic framework that has affected the hill of the Cathedral from the Classical age to the late Middle Ages, combining stratigraphic data and the study of materials. The limited planimetric extension of the excavations (often physiological to urban contexts) did not allow an investigation in open area, so the findings have often been compared with those coming from the deposits investigated in the immediate vicinity, both in front and below the Santa Maria della Scala, in order to obtain a more complete and articulated perspective on a diachronic context. The stratigraphy is developed over a time span ranging from the 7th century BC until the 20th century AD, unearthing a very structured sequence that represents a significant view in understanding the evolutionary dynamics of the urban fabric of Siena: in this regard, it is important to emphasize the fact that the chronological junction on which most attention is focused on is between the Augustian Age and the end of the 14th century, since the survey revealed that the archaeological deposit is better preserved in the time period between the two phases mentioned above and, as a result, the restitution of ceramics has been more complete. The settlement/economic dynamics developed over this extended period in different ways and this is what we are going to analyse: the goal is to develop a dialogue between stratigraphic deposit and material culture, with the aim of understanding the evolution of an urban reality, especially in those phases that led to the crisis of the “classical” city and its consequent transformation and reconfiguration between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.Table of ContentsForeword ; The missed opportunities of a town: Siena, excavations beneath the cathedral ; Premise ; The Excavation ; The cathedral hill from its origins to the Roman era ; Rhythms of the crisis: The contextual recession between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages ; The Early Middle Ages: new forms of settlement and economic relations between the 6th and 10th centuries AD ; A Second Transition: The rebirth of the context in the Middle Ages ; Pottery from the Excavation ; Introduction ; Coarse Ware ; Fine ware ; African Red Slip Ware (ARS) ; Red engobe ware ; Amphorae ; Lamps ; Sigillata Italica ; Maiolica Arcaica ; Glazed Ware ; Conclusions ; Appendix ; Methodological notes and analysis of mixtures ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisCultural Expression in the Old Kingdom Elite Tomb considers the material and immaterial culture left behind by the ancient Egyptian elite in their tombs starting some 5000 years ago. The book intends to understand this culture reflecting the ‘intention’ of the ancient Egyptians. All these ‘intentions’ are now inaccessible to us, a paradox indeed. The author starts by examining the ways in which other Egyptologists have understood tomb culture over the past century. Two main clusters of thought dominate the history of this topic, the literal and/or the symbolic meaning. The literal is a popular approach for the modern world; the symbolic encompasses the ancient Egyptians’ ideas about the meaning of life in this and the next world, and metaphysical perfection. The author uses a third mid-way course between the literal and the symbolic; i.e. an attempt to study the evidence in its reality and to search for common, universal factors which may be present and which may aid understanding. The result is an inventory, analysis and synthesis of the core components of Egyptian cultural dynamics as reflected in the iconographic evolution of Old Kingdom elite tombs. New horizons are opened up for describing and interpreting cultural data of many different levels (identity, ideology as social layers, and static versus dynamic as cultural mechanisms). The work goes beyond mainstream Egyptology, because the findings, apart from a specific Egyptian core, also have universal implications since comparison with other cultures shows comparable phenomena.Table of ContentsExplanation of Signs ; Chapter 1: Introductory Remarks ; Chapter 2: Methodology and Research Assumptions ; Chapter 3: The Search for the Generics in the Material Aspects ; Chapter 4: The Search for the Generics in the Immaterial Aspects ; Chapter 5: Characterizing the Generics ; Chapter 6: Criteria for the Selected Motifs ; Chapter 7: The Carrying-Chair ; Chapter 8: Officials’ Records and Taking Account ; Chapter 9: Mourning Motif ; Chapter 10: Final Observations ; Appendix A Carrying-Chair Motif ; Appendix B Empty Chairs and Carrying-Chair Fragments ; Appendix C Taking-Account ; Appendix D Mourning Motif ; Appendix E Lists of Charts, Tables and Figures ; Appendix F Attendants’ Titles (andTombs) ; Appendix G Dating Convention Used ; Appendix H ; Appendix I ; Glossary ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe special session in 2013, Languages of Southern Arabia, was the fifth in the Seminar for Arabian Studies special session series.

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Book SynopsisBuilding the Bronze Age analyses Early Helladic III, Middle Helladic and Late Helladic I domestic architecture with reference to social organization and social change. This book covers domestic architecture from the southern and central Greek mainland up to southern Thessaly. Site-specific and regional developments are explored. The results are brought together to reconstruct architectural developments during Early Helladic III, Middle Helladic I–II and Middle Helladic III–Late Helladic I. This timeframe enables us to consider how a ‘simple’ society eventually developed into a society that was socially differentiated. Architectural patterns and changes are highlighted and especially related to social and economic circumstances. In addition, the symbolical aspects of some architectural features are also emphasized.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter 1 History of research ; Chapter 2 Theory and Methodology ; Chapter 3 EH III–LH I domestic architecture on the Greek Mainland ; Chapter 4 Architectural patterns and developments during EH III, MH and LH I ; Chapter 5 Discussion ; 5.4 Domestic architecture: the household perspective ; Chapter 6 Conclusions EH III–LH I architectural and social change ; Introduction to the catalogues ; Catalogue A Thessaly ; Catalogue B Phocis and Phthiotis ; Catalogue C Boeotia ; Catalogue D Euboea ; Catalogue E Attica ; Catalogue F Corinthia ; Catalogue G Argolid ; Catalogue H Laconia ; Catalogue J Messenia ; Catalogue K Elis ; Catalogue L Arcadia ; Catalogue M Achaia ; Lerna addendum ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn the years 1983-2013, an archaeological expedition under the auspices of the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology of Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, was active on Mount Carmel, Israel. The expedition comprised archaeologists, team members, students and other professionals, as well as pupils from schools in the Sharon and Daliyat el-Carmel. This book describes ten rural mountain sites through which it seeks to reconstruct the character of all the settlements on the mountain and at its foot, from the Persian through the Byzantine periods.Trade Review'While the individual sites are well described, historical settlement trends and wider contexts are only briefly discussed. As such the volume makes accessible—most of all through plans, photographs and artefact drawings—an indicative sample of Roman and Byzantine rural sites and provides an entry point into the more specialist literature.' Rob Witcher (2020): AntiquityTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ; Geographical Outline of the Survey Sites ; Survey and Excavations by the Bar‐Ilan Expedition to the Mountainous Carmel ; Settlements of the Eastern Carmel ; The Sites ; Horvat Qelia (The Bamah Citadel) ; Horvat ‘Ala ed‐Din, H. Din ; Horvat ‘Ada, H. al Gaiyada, H. Umm al Ahmad ; Horvat Dubba, H. Duweiba ; Horvat Kerak ; Horvat Mansura, Horvat Nesura (Bir al Mansura) ; Horvat Heglon, H. Hajala. ; Horvat Dereg, Deragot ; Horvat Talimon, H. Sulemanije ; Horvat Tata, Nebi Tata ; Ariel Berman, The Mount Carmel Area – The Coin Catalogue ; The Settlement Pattern of the Rural Sites on Mount Carmel ; The Economic Structure of the Carmel Settlements ; The Historical Background of the Mt. Carmel Settlements ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Holyer an Gof Award 2022 (Leisure and Lifestyle) An illustrated guide to one hundred of the finest early Cornish stone crosses, dating from around AD 900 to 1300. These characteristic features of the Cornish landscape are splendid examples of their type, exhibiting a wide geographical spread and a certain weather-beaten beauty. The medieval stone crosses of Cornwall have long been objects of curiosity both for residents and visitors. This is the first ever accessible volume on the subject, combining detailed description and discussion of the crosses with information on access, colour images and suggestions for further reading. An approachable but academically rigorous work, it includes analysis of the decorative designs and sculptural techniques, accompanied by high-quality photographs which illustrate the subtleties of each cross, often hard to discern in situ. Ancient and High Crosses of Cornwall offers an ideal introduction for the general reader but will also prove essential to local historians, landscape historians, archaeologists and anyone working in the area of Cornish studies or connected with the Cornish diaspora. DOI: https://doi.org/10.47788/NKIP4746Trade ReviewWith its well-illustrated, information-packed catalogue and good bibliography for further reading, this volume is an excellent invitation to both specialist and the uninitiated to explore the earliest, tallest and finest medieval crosses of Cornwall, and I certainly intend to try it out. -- Michael King * Down County Museum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Historical overview Inscriptions on the crosses Cornish groups or schools of stone sculpture Dating the monuments Function of the crosses Antiquarian study and restoration Glossary Using this book to visit crosses A note on photography Catalogue of Crosses Advent, Tresinney St Allen St Blazey, Biscovey Blisland, St Pratt’s Cross Bodmin, Carminow Breage St Breock, Whitecross St Breward 1 St Breward 2 St Breward 3, Middle Moor Cross St Buryan 1 St Buryan 2, Crows an Wra Camborne 1, Fenton-Ia Camborne 2, Gwealavellan Cardinham 1 Cardinham 2 Cardinham 3, Treslea St Cleer 1, Doniert Stone St Cleer 2, Other Half Stone St Cleer 3, Long Tom St Cleer 4, Holy Well St Clement St Clether, Cross Gates St Columb Major Constantine 1, Trewardreva Constantine 2, Trevease Cury St Dennis Egloshayle 1, Pencarrow Egloshayle 2, Three Hole Cross Egloshayle 3, The Prior’s Cross St Endellion, Long Cross St Erth 1 St Erth 2 St Ewe, Lanhadron Feock Fowey, Tristan Stone St Germans, Carracawn Cross Gerrans Gulval 1 Gulval 2 Gwinear 1, Connor Downs Gwinear 2, Lanherne Cross St Juliot St Just-in-Penwith St Kew 1, Job’s Cross St Kew 2, Polrode Cross Laneast 1 Laneast 2, Laneast Downs Lanhydrock 1 Lanhydrock 2, Treffry Lanivet 1 Lanivet 2 Lanivet 3, Lesquite Lanlivery, Milltown Lanteglos by Camelford 1 Lanteglos by Camelford 2 Lelant Lesnewth St Levan Lostwithiel, Crewel Cross Ludgvan Mabe, Helland Madron 1, Boscathnoe Madron 2, Boswarthen Menheniot, Tencreek Michaelstow St Michael’s Mount Minster, Waterpit Down St Minver, St Michael Porthilly Mullion, Predannack Mylor St Neot 1, 2 St Neot 3, Four Hole Cross Padstow 1 Padstow 2 Padstow 3, Prideaux Place Paul 1 Paul 2 Paul 3, Kerris, Carlankan Pelynt, Trelay Penzance, Market Cross Perranzabuloe, St Piran’s Cross 203 Phillack 206 Quethiock 208 Roche 210 Sancreed 1 212 Sancreed 2 214 Sancreed 3, Brane 218 Sennen, Trevear 220 South Petherwin, Holyway Cross 222 Stithians, Tretheague 224 St Teath 226 Tintagel 1 229 Tintagel 2, Bossiney 232 Truro 234 Wendron 1 236 Wendron 2, Meruny 237 Wendron 3, Merther Uny 238 St Wenn, Crossy Ann Parish Pages St Allen St Buryan St Clether Lanivet Lanteglos by Camelford Lelant Ludgvan St Neot Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe numbering system for the Early Egyptian inscriptions, which was originally introduced by J. Kahl (1994) and which was expanded by I. Regulski in her Database of Early Dynastic inscriptions, is mapped on the numbering system defined by J. Kahl, N. Kloth and U. Zimmermann (1995) for the 3rd Dynasty inscription and on this of P. Kaplony (IÄF, IÄFS, KBIÄF). The numbering system has been expended to provide a unique identifier for each inscription that can be used as a reference in databases and printed publications. (German introduction.)

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Book SynopsisThe British Archaeological Association’s 2013 conference was devoted to the study of Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster. It also embraced Westminster School, which was founded at the Reformation in the Abbey precinct. Collectively, these institutions occupy a remarkable assemblage of medieval and later buildings, most of which are well documented. Although the Association had held a conference at Westminster in 1902, this was the first time that the internationally important complex of historic buildings was examined holistically, and the papers published here cover a wide range of subject matter.Westminster came into existence in the later Anglo-Saxon period, and by the mid-11th century, when Edward the Confessor’s great new abbey was built, it was a major royal centre two miles south-west of the City of London. Within a century or so, it had become the principal seat of government in England, and this series of twenty-eight papers covers new research on the topography, buildings, art-history, architecture and archaeology of Westminster’s two great establishments — Abbey and Palace.Part I begins with studies of the topography of the area, an account of its Roman-period finds and an historiographical overview of the archaeology of the Abbey. Edward the Confessor’s enigmatic church plan is discussed and the evidence for later Romanesque structures is assembled for the first time. Five papers examine aspects of Henry III’s vast new Abbey church and its decoration. A further four cover aspects of the later medieval period, coronation, and Sir George Gilbert Scott’s impact as the Abbey’s greatest Surveyor of the Fabric. A pair of papers examines the development of the northern precinct of the Abbey, around St Margaret’s Church, and the remarkable buildings of Westminster School, created within the remains of the monastery in the 17th and 18th centuries.Part II part deals with the Palace of Westminster and its wider topography between the late 11th century and the devastating fire of 1834 that largely destroyed the medieval palace. William Rufus’s enormous hall and its famous roofs are completely reassessed, and comparisons discussed between this structure and the great hall at Caen. Other essays reconsider Henry III’s palace, St Stephen’s chapel, the king’s great chamber (the ‘Painted Chamber’) and the enigmatic Jewel Tower. The final papers examine the meeting places of Parliament and the living accommodation of the MPs who attended it, the topography of the Palace between the Reformation and the fire of 1834, and the building of the New Palace which is better known today as the Houses of Parliament.Table of ContentsCONTENTS [PART I THE ABBEY]INTRODUCTION TIM TATTON-BROWN The Medieval and Early Tudor Topography of WestminsterMARTIN HENIG ‘A Fine and Private Place’: The Sarcophagus of Valerius Amandinus and the Origins of Roman WestminsterWARWICK RODWELL The Archaeology of Westminster Abbey: An Historiographical OverviewFRANCIS WOODMAN Edward the Confessor’s Church at Westminster: An Alternative ViewSTUART HARRISON AND JOHN MCNEILL The Romanesque Monastic Buildings at Westminster AbbeyRICHARD JONES Numerical Archaeology: Gleanings from the 1253 Building Accounts of Westminster Abbey RevisitedPAMELA TUDOR-CRAIG The Iconography of Henry III’s Abbey: A Note Towards Elucidation of ThemesWARWICK RODWELL The Cosmati Pavements and their Topographical Setting: Addressing the Archaeological IssuesPAUL BINSKI AND EMILY GUERRY Seats, Relics and the Rationale of Images in Westminster Abbey, Henry III to Edward IIHELEN HOWARD AND MARIE LOUISE SAUERBERG The Polychromy at Westminster Abbey, 1250–1350JANE SPOONER The Virgin Mary and White Harts Great and Small: The 14th-Century Wall-Paintings in the Chapel of Our Lady of the Pew and the Muniment RoomRICHARD MORTIMER History and Chronicles at Westminster Abbey, 1250–1450NICOLA COLDSTREAM The Abbey and Palace as Theatres for CoronationTIM TATTON-BROWN The New Work: Aspects of the Later Medieval Fabric of Westminster AbbeySTEVEN BRINDLE Sir George Gilbert Scott as Surveyor of Westminster Abbey, 1849–78RICHARD FOSTER An Historical Sketch of the North Precinct of Westminster Abbey with Special Reference to its PrisonsEDDIE SMITH Westminster School Buildings, 1630–1730

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Book SynopsisWestminster came into existence in the later Anglo-Saxon period, and by the mid-11th century, when Edward the Confessor’s great new abbey was built, it was a major royal centre two miles south-west of the City of London. Within a century or so, it had become the principal seat of government in England, and this series of twenty-eight papers covers new research on the topography, buildings, art-history, architecture and archaeology of Westminster’s two great establishments — Abbey and Palace.Part I begins with studies of the topography of the area, an account of its Roman-period finds and an historiographical overview of the archaeology of the Abbey. Edward the Confessor’s enigmatic church plan is discussed and the evidence for later Romanesque structures is assembled for the first time. Five papers examine aspects of Henry III’s vast new Abbey church and its decoration. A further four cover aspects of the later medieval period, coronation, and Sir George Gilbert Scott’s impact as the Abbey’s greatest Surveyor of the Fabric. A pair of papers examines the development of the northern precinct of the Abbey, around St Margaret’s Church, and the remarkable buildings of Westminster School, created within the remains of the monastery in the 17th and 18th centuries.Part II part deals with the Palace of Westminster and its wider topography between the late 11th century and the devastating fire of 1834 that largely destroyed the medieval palace. William Rufus’s enormous hall and its famous roofs are completely reassessed, and comparisons discussed between this structure and the great hall at Caen. Other essays reconsider Henry III’s palace, St Stephen’s chapel, the king’s great chamber (the ‘Painted Chamber’) and the enigmatic Jewel Tower. The final papers examine the meeting places of Parliament and the living accommodation of the MPs who attended it, the topography of the Palace between the Reformation and the fire of 1834, and the building of the New Palace which is better known today as the Houses of Parliament.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations -- Preface -- An Introduction to the Topography of the Medieval Palace of Westminster/john crook -- Romanesque Westminster Hall and its Roof/roland b. harris and daniel miles with an appendix by thomas hill -- The Great Hall at Caen and its Affi nities with Westminster/edward impey -- Henry III’s Palace at Westminster/virginia jansen -- St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster/john goodall -- Late-14th-Century Reconstruction of Westminster Hall/julian munby -- Parliaments, MPs and the Buildings of Westminster in the Middle Ages/david harrison -- A Monument to St Edward the Confessor: Henry III’s Great Chamber at Westminster and its Paintings/christopher wilson -- ‘The New Tower at the End of the King’s Garden’: The Jewel Tower and the Royal Treasure/jeremy ashbee with an appendix by paul everson -- The Topography of the Old Palace of We stminster, 1510–1834/mark collins -- The New Palace of Westminster/steven brindle.

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Book SynopsisThe ERC-funded FRAGSUS Project (Fragility and sustainability in small island environments: adaptation, culture change and collapse in prehistory, 201318) led by Caroline Malone has focused on the unique Temple Culture of Neolithic Malta and its antecedents. This third volume builds on the achievements of Mortuary customs in prehistoric Malta, published by the McDonald Institute in 2009. It seeks to answer many questions posed, but left unanswered, of the more than 200,000 fragments of mainly commingled human remains from the Xaghra Brochtorff Circle on Gozo. The focus is on the interpretation of a substantial, representative subsample of the assemblage, exploring dentition, disease, diet and lifestyle, together with detailed understanding of chronology and the affinity of the ancient population associated with the Temple Culture' of prehistoric Malta. The first studies of genetic profiling of this population, as well as the results of intra-site GIS and visualization, taphonomy, health and mobility, offer important insights into this complex mortuary site and its ritual. These data and the original assemblage are conserved in the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta as a resource for future study.

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Book SynopsisA translation from the original French by Tessa Dickinsonof an unpublished original manuscript dated 11 May 1862,in the possession of Robert Temple, London

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Book SynopsisThe pithos is one of the most distinctive utilitarian forms of the Cretan Bronze Age ceramic repertoire. Because of its use as a storage container, a pithos is the foremost parameter for the evaluation of the economic organization of palatial and domestic sectors of Cretan Bronze Age society. The pithoi as pottery and their significance for the understanding of the Cretan Bronze Age economy has been the focus of a research project carried out from 1989 to 1999. This book is not a pithos handbook in the narrow sense, although the study offers a typological division of the data with comments on chronology and spatial distribution. It integrates stylistic considerations with broad fabric and technological observations in order to understand the production and consumption of pithoi.Trade Review...landmark study opening new venues in the way we study and interpret coarse pottery.' -- The Classical Bulletin 82.2 The Classical Bulletin 82.2 This book is the first published monograph on ancient pithoi in the eastern Mediterranean.[...]Another important feature of Christakis contribution is that is examines Cretan Bronze Age pithoi from all periods (from EM I to LM IIIC), from most known sites of Crete (he draws from a large body of material [4,235 pieces])[...]...it is a landmark study opening new venues in the way we study and interpret coarse pottery.' -- The Classical Bulletin The Classical Bulletin ...this will be an essential volume in the libraries of pottery specialists of the Aegean Bronze Age, and excavators of Minoan Crete.' -- Mouseion MouseionTable of ContentsIntroduction; A Formal Typology for Pithoi; Decorative Patterns and Style; The Use of Pithoi; Traditions and Trends in the Production and Consumption of Pithoi.

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Book SynopsisFrom the gold of the shaft graves of Mycenae to an undecorated Late Roman lekythos and facade statuary in Roman Ephesus, this volume presents a distinct insight into the always shifting meanings, values, and relational connections of things, exploring a diversity of concepts, contexts, and material elements from prehistory to today.

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides a substantive introduction to Babylonian ceremonial script, along with a history of its modern study, and several case studies of how the script was actually used. Since the advent of Assyriology in the early nineteenth century it has been known that two distinct scripts were used in ancient Mesopotamian inscriptions and documents. One, usefully characterized as cursive, was used for the ephemeral documents of daily life as well as on most library and archival texts. The other was a deliberately archaizing script reserved for ceremonial use. This ceremonial script, of Babylonian origin, contained both archaic and archaizing signs, and was in productive use for over two millennia, not only in Babylonia but occasionally also in Assyria and beyond. Yet to date there has been no systematic study devoted specifically to this ceremonial script, nor any published syllabary of the archaic and archaizing signs it employs. This volume attempts to rectify this deficiency. The book's introduction is supplemented by an edition of the palaeographic lists of the second and first millennia BCE, which contain pedagogical inventories of the archaic and archaizing cuneiform signs, illustrating how the ceremonial script was taught, learned and transmitted in scholarly contexts.

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A long occidental tradition has regarded the Greek monastic romance Barlaam and Josaphat as the work of John Damascene, and the first critical edition of the work appears now in the corpus of his writings. In actual fact - as became apparent during the editing - it is a work from the late 10th century, and the author is almost certainly the Georgian Abbot Euthymios from Mount Athos. The story goes back to the life of Buddha and is about the son of an Indian king, who, after instruction by a devout ascetic, himself becomes a hermit; this Greek version is regarded as the most learned treatment of material which has gone through many world religions (Buddhism, Manichaeism, Islam, Judaism and Christianity).

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Book SynopsisThis essay analyses some archaeological topics, focusing on the process of interpretation of the Prehistoric past, the image archaeologists project through their work and literature, and some problems affecting the sector in the voice of researchers. Frigoli analyses the key points of interpretation, highlighting some main “characters” (sometimes unconscious) in this “play” defined today as antiquity, as well as those anonymous in this ”damaged and incomplete silent movie” (Prehistory) defined, researched and imagined by archaeologists during the last 150 years. SPANISH DESCRIPTION: Con este nuevo ensayo el autor quiere acercar el lector no especializado, el público en general, a algunas de las temáticas científicas desarrolladas por la disciplina arqueológica, enfocando su atención especialmente sobre la relación entre la arqueología y el proceso de traducción-interpretación del pasado prehistórico, la imagen que los arqueólogos reflejan en la sociedad contemporánea a través de su trabajo cotidiano y de la producción literaria, y las problemáticas reales relacionadas con el desarrollo científico de la investigación arqueológica a través de la voz de algunos de sus protagonistas. Riccardo Frigoli analiza algunos puntos clave de la interpretación del pasado prehistórico, intentando destacar algunos personajes que fueron “actores” (muchas veces de forma inconsciente) en aquella “representación dramática” que nosotros ahora definimos como antigüedad y a los anónimos individuos que fueron protagonistas en aquella “estropeada e incompleta película muda” que resulta ser el pasado prehistórico investigado, recreado o imaginado por los arqueólogos a lo largo, por lo menos, de los últimos 150 años de actividad científica.

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Book SynopsisLancaster Williams always wanted to be an archaeologist, but he didn’t know how. After finishing his studies and his PhD with great success, he had doubts about how to continue his life. He had done placements in the best universities worldwide, even hobnobbed with eminent professors. However, prospects were not good. Everything changes when he meets Edgar Bowman, an archaeologist that will introduce Lancaster in a sector unknown for him: Commercial Archaeology. A company doing archaeology? That concept was new for him; however, it opened a new door for him to continue his profession. Lancaster become part of the staff in Edgar’s company, monitoring earthworks in a highway. Soon, he would find out the lights and shadows of this sector, even questioning if he took the right decision in working there. SPANISH DESCRIPTION: Lancaster Williams siempre quiso ser arqueólogo, pero no sabía cómo. Tras terminar sus estudios y defender su tesis doctoral con gran éxito, se le presentaba la incertidumbre de qué hacer con su vida. Había disfrutado de numerosas estancias en las más prestigiosas universidades, e incluso se había codeado con los mejores profesores del mundo. Sin embargo las perspectivas que se le presentaban eran muy sombrías. El panorama cambió tras conocer a Edgar Bowman, un veterano arqueólogo que le anima a participar en un sector de la arqueología hasta entonces desconocida para Lancaster: la Arqueología de Urgencia. ¿Una empresa de arqueología? Ese concepto era nuevo para el arqueólogo. No obstante se le abría una puerta a la dedicación profesional. Obsesionado con esto, Lancaster se convierte en el técnico de control arqueológico de una importante obra civil. Con el tiempo aprenderá las virtudes y los inconvenientes de este sistema de trabajo, hasta el punto que descubrirá si su decisión había sido la acertada o no. La figura del Doctor Williams puede ser catalogada como de Quijote de la arqueología, como un arqueólogo de guerrillas o como un mártir por la causa. Dejaré al lector que se forje su propio concepto. Sin embargo estoy convencido de dos cosas: aquellos lectores que aún tienen el concepto romántico o "indianajonesco" de los arqueólogos, que sepáis que esta es la verdadera arqueología que se practica cada día; y para aquellos compañeros que practican día tras día el mismo campo de trabajo que yo, sabéis perfectamente de lo que estamos hablando. La libertad de la lectura radica en la libertad misma de identificarse con cualquier personaje. Hazlo, lector, te lo ruego. Y cuando termines de leer el libro plantéate si de verdad te gustaría ser partícipe de "El Hallazgo"... Pablo Guerra García (Madrid, 1978) es licenciado en Historia por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2002). Desde 1999 viene participando en diferentes proyectos arqueológicos por toda España. Comenzó su andadura en este mundo una mañana de agosto, eso sí, cogiendo mal un pico y haciéndose una luxación, pero eso no le achantó y siguió excavando en yacimientos prehistóricos, romanos e incluso paleontológicos de Teruel, Murcia, Cáceres o las Islas Baleares. En el año 2003 comienza a trabajar como arqueólogo profesional, compaginando las excavaciones con sus propias investigaciones sobre la viaria romana, el paisaje antiguo o las técnicas y los materiales constructivos de la Antigüedad, algo que le lleva a iniciar en el 2010 su tesis doctoral en la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Ha escrito numerosos artículos y un libro sobre arqueología (2010) y participado en diferentes congresos, algunos de ellos internacionales (Portugal, 2004; Turquía, 2011). Sin embargo, de lo que siempre se ha sentido orgulloso es de conseguir lo que siempre había soñado, desde que sus abuelos Ángel y Pilar le llevaron a ver con nueve años el castro de Santa Tecla en La Guardia. Ese día quiso ser arqueólogo. Y lo ha conseguido.

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Book SynopsisIs instrumental behaviour, or the ability to create and use tools, an achievement of humanity, or just of evolution? Did it appear with our ancestors, or already existed? Is there a non-human culture? This essay delves into these and other questions, trying to explain in a clear way and with multiple examples, concepts and topics that might be difficult to understand for the general public. This book will delve into animal behaviour and return to humans their intrinsic animal nature.

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Book SynopsisWhat is Public Archaeology? All and nothing. This book follows a broad definition of the term: as the study of the multiple relations between archaeology and society, as well as their consequences. Politics, economy, culture… everything sums in a social context in which archaeology plays fundamental role. In twenty five essays, the authors of this volume will analyse the concept of public archaeology and its different contexts of appliance, the relations forged when engaging with communities, and the use of new technologies for the management and divulgation of archaeological heritage. This is a book that does not pretend to be a handbook, but covers the current panorama of public archaeology in Spain. What we understand today as public archaeology has been ongoing for a long time. This book also tries to highlight the role of Spanish archaeologists in the development of this discipline. SPANISH DESCRIPTION: ¿Qué es la arqueología pública? Todo y nada. Este libro sigue una definición muy amplia, como ele studio de las múltiples relaciones entre arqueología y sociedad, así como de las consecuencias de esas relaciones. Política, economía, cultura... todo suma en un contexto social en el que la arqueología juega, o puede jugar, un papel cada vez más importante.

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Book SynopsisAs reflected in the title From Microcosm to Macrocosm: Individual households and cities in Ancient Egypt and Nubia, both a micro-approach introducing microhistories of individual sites according to recent archaeological fieldwork incorporating interdisciplinary methods as well as general patterns and regional developments in Northeast Africa are discussed.This combination of research questions on the micro-level with the macro-level provides new information about cities and households in Ancient Egypt and Nubia and makes the book unique. Architectural studies as well as analyses of material culture and the new application of microarchaeology, here especially of micromorphology and archaeometric applications, are presented as case studies from sites primarily dating to the New Kingdom (Second Millennium BC). The rich potential of well-preserved but still not completely explored sites in modern Sudan, especially as direct comparison for already excavated sites located in Egypt, is in particular emphasised in the book.Settlement archaeology in Egypt and Nubia has recently moved away from a strong textual approach and generalised studies to a more site-specific approach and household studies. This new bottom-up approach applied by current fieldwork projects is demonstrated in the book. The volume is intended for all specialists at settlements sites in Northeast Africa, for students of Egyptology and Nubian Studies, but it will be of interest to anyone working in the field of settlement archaeology. It is the result of a conference on the same subject held in 2017 as the closing event of the European Research Council funded project AcrossBorders at Munich.

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Book SynopsisDieses Buch bietet eine umfassende Studie zum Jungneolithikum (JN, auch Einzelgrabkultur, ca. 2850 – 2250 v. Chr.) in Schleswig-Holstein. Neben einer detaillierten Darstellung aller Funde und Befunde dieser Epoche, liegt ein besonderer Fokus auf Analysen zu den charakteristischen Streitäxten.Diese eignen sich in hervorragender Weise dazu, einen gesellschaftlichen Wandel zu erkennen, da die morphologische Variationsbreite im Laufe des JN zunimmt. So existieren im späten JN neben sehr elaboriert gestalteten Stücken auch plump wirkende Exemplare. Dies spiegelt vermutlich ein komplexer werdendes Gesellschaftssystem wider und deutet einen Bedeutungswandel der Äxte an. Die Streitäxte werden im Spätneolithikum(SN) durch die Silexdolche abgelöst, die durch ähnliche Variationsunterschiede gekennzeichnet sind. Dies deutet eine Kontinuität in der sozialen Organisation an der Wende zum SN an.Viele Streitäxte liegen im fragmentierten Zustand vor, wobei Schneiden- weitaus häufiger als Nackenhälften belegt sind. Da viele dieser Fragmente weiterhin im Besitz von Applikationen (Schälchen, pars pro toto Schaftlöcher) sind, ist anzunehmen, dass die Fragmente – und darauf aufbauend vermutlich ein Großteil aller Streitäxte aus Einzelfundkontexten – intentionale Deponierungen darstellen.Ein weiterer Fokus wurde auf die Transformation zum JN gelegt, die sich besonders im profanen Bereich als Phase kontinuierlicher Entwicklungen zeigt. Weiterhin wurde ein Unterschied zwischen dem Westen und Osten des Arbeitsgebietes aufgedeckt, der entgegen langläufiger Meinung keine chronologischen Ursachen besitzt. Vielmehr zeigt sich darin eine strukturell unterschiedliche soziale Orientierung der beteiligten Gruppen. Sowohl im JN als auch im SN ist es im Westen gängige Praxis, dem Verstorbenen Statusobjekte (Streitäxte, Silexdolche und früheBronzeartefakte) als Grabbeigabe mitzugeben, während diese Objekte im Osten des Landes äußerst selten Eingang in Bestattungen fanden, jedoch als Einzel- und im Falle der Bronzeobjekte auch als Depotfunde regelmäßig anzutreffen sind.English abstractThis book offers a comprehensive study of the Younger Neolithic period ([YN], c. 2850 – 2250 BC) of Schleswig-Holstein (SH). Apart from presenting all currently known artefacts and contexts of that period in detail, a particular focus was placed on the examination of YN battle axes. They appear to be the most common artefact that is preserved from the YN, and they are very well suited for investigating social phenomena. These artefacts furthermore changed diachronically.While battle axes of the early stage are shaped more or less equally elaborately, late specimens exhibit significant morphological variation and difference, as some specimens were shaped very elaborately whereas others were quite simple. The same difference has been observed for the subsequently used flint daggers. It is suggested that this difference reflects the emergence of a more stratified society.Many battle axes appear to have been deposited as broken pieces. As the ratio of cutting edges to butt ends is unequal (2:1) both in SH and in a wider region and as many pieces have “decorations” (Applikationen, pars pro toto shaft holes), battle axes are regarded as intentionally deposited. Accordingly, a large proportion of single finds are regarded as intentional depositions.Another focus was set on examining the transition to the YN. It is argued that many aspects that are said to characterize the YN are rooted in the preceding Middle Neolithic. A novelty is that social role becomes marked in funerary contexts. Thus, the transformation to the YN marks a certain point where already initiated societal changes become visible for first time. The examination of certain attributes revealed furthermore that there are differences between western and eastern SH which are not determined by chronological changes only. Rather, general differences appear between western and eastern regions, an in a wider geographical as well as temporal frame, which might be linked to different social orientations – either collectively or individually acting groups.Scales of Transformation SeriesThis is the publication series of the Kiel University research project “CRC 1266” which takes a long-term perspective, from 15,000 BCE to 1 BCE, to investigate processes of transformation in a crucial period of human history, from late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers to early state societies.Funded by the German Research Foundation, the CRC combines research of around 60 scientists from eight institutions and the Johanna-Mestorf-Academy of the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel as well as the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA) and the Archaeological State Museum Schloss Gottdorf.Table of Contents1. Einleitung 1.1 Forschungsgeschichte 1.2 Definitionen und Chronologien 1.3 Eingrenzung und Geomorphologie des Arbeitsgebietes 1.4 Vorgehensweise und Repräsentativität 2. Die jungneolithischen Befunde 2.1 Jungneolithische Bestattungen 2.1.1 Grabhügel 2.1.1.1 Repräsentativität und Bevölkerungsgröße 2.1.1.2 Aufbau 2.1.1.3 Ausrichtung und Geschlechtsdimorphismus 2.1.1.4 Wegesysteme 2.1.2 Nachbestattungen in Megalithgräbern 2.1.3 Flachgräber 2.1.4 Brandbestattungen 2.1.5 Sonderbestattungen 2.1.6 Fazit zu den Bestattungsformen 2.2 Jungneolithische Einzel- und Hortfunde 2.2.1 Einzelfunde 2.2.2 Mögliche Ursachen für das Anlegen von Horten 2.2.3 Jungneolithische Hortfunde 2.2.3.1 Hortfunde mit dicknackig-dickblattigen Geradbeilen 2.2.3.2 Hortfunde mit hohlgeschliffenen Silexbeilen 2.2.3.3 Verbreitung der Hortfunde mit Silexbeilen 2.2.3.4 Weitere Hortfunde 2.3 Siedlungen 2.3.1 Siedlungen in den Nachbargebieten 2.3.2 Jungneolithische Siedlungen in Schleswig-Holstein 2.3.2.1 Indirekte Siedlungsnachweise in Schleswig-Holstein 2.3.2.2 Direkte Siedlungsnachweise in Schleswig-Holstein 2.3.2.2.1 Bad Oldesloe-Wolkenwehe LA 154 2.3.2.2.2 Heidmoor LA 246 2.3.2.2.3 Stolpe-Depenau LA 17 2.3.2.2.4 Wangels LA 505 2.3.2.2.5 Groß-Waabs LA 122 2.3.2.2.6 Hemmingstedt LA 2 2.3.3 Nachnutzung Grabenwerke 2.3.4 Schnurkeramische Häuser und Siedlungsmuster 2.3.5 Pollenanalysen und Subsistenzstrategien 3. Die jungneolithischen Funde 3.1 Jungneolithische Streitäxte 3.1.1 Probleme der Streitaxttypologie 3.1.2 Synchronisation der Typologien 3.1.2.1 Synchronisation der A-Äxte 3.1.2.2 Synchronisation der B-Äxte 3.1.2.3 Synchronisation der C-Äxte 3.1.2.4 Synchronisation der D-, E- und F-Äxte . 3.1.2.5 Synchronisation der G-, H- und I-Äxte 3.1.2.6 Synchronisation der K- und L-Äxte 3.1.2.7 Synchronisationsanleitung 3.1.3 Typologie der Streitäxte und Vorkommen in Schleswig-Holstein 3.1.3.1 A-Äxte 3.1.3.2 B-Äxte 3.1.3.3 C-Äxte 3.1.3.4 D-Äxte 3.1.3.5 E-Äxte 3.1.3.6 F-Äxte 3.1.3.7 G-Äxte 3.1.3.8 H-Äxte 3.1.3.9 I-Äxte 3.1.3.10 K-Äxte 3.1.3.11 L-Äxte 3.1.3.12 Sonderformen 3.1.3.13 Unbestimmte Streitäxte 3.1.4 Chronologie der Streitäxte 3.2 Die Keramik 3.2.1 Einleitung 3.2.2 Vorbemerkungen zu A-Bechern 3.2.3 Vorkommen und Signifikanzen ausgewählter Attribute 3.2.3.1 A-Becher 3.2.3.2 B-Becher 3.2.3.3 C-Becher 3.2.3.4 D-Becher 3.2.3.5 Schalen Typ E 3.2.3.6 Amphoren Typ F 3.3 Silexbeile und Silexmeißel 3.3 Silexbeile und Silexmeißel 3.3.1 Vorbemerkungen zur Aufnahme und weiteren Vorgehensweise 3.3.2 Generelle Aspekte 3.3.3 Typologische Aspekte 3.3.3.1 Unterscheidung zu mittelneolithischen Beilen 3.3.3.2 Jungneolithische Silexbeile 3.3.3.3 Unterscheidung der jungneolithischen Silexbeile 3.3.4 Vorkommen in Schleswig-Holstein 3.4 Die Pfeilspitzen 3.5 Sonstige Silexgeräte 3.6 Sonstige Felsgesteingeräte 3.6.1 Zapfenkeile 3.6.2 Felsgesteinbeile 3.6.3 Keulenköpfe 3.6.4 Schleif-, Polier-, Mahl- und Ambosssteine 3.7 Bernsteinartefakte 3.8 Armschutzplatten 3.9 Metallartefakte 3.10 Weitere Artefakte 4. Befund und Fund – Zusammenfassende Betrachtungen 4.1 Streitäxte in Bezug auf die Kontexte 5. Analysen 5.1 Gesteinsanalysen 5.2 Analysen zu den morphologischen Attributen 5.2.1 Die Testregionen 5.2.2 Verzierungen 5.2.3 Längen 5.2.4 Schliff 5.2.5 Längen und Schliff 5.2.6 Zwischenfazit zu den Analysen 5.3 Fragmente und Applikationen 5.3.1 Entwicklung 5.4 Deutung der Analysen 5.4.1 Überlegungen zur Bedeutung von Fragmenten und Applikationen 5.4.2 Vorbemerkungen zum Bedeutungswandel der Streitäxte im Wandel der Zeit 5.4.3 Gebrauch 5.4.4 Die Bedeutung der Streitaxt im Wandel der Zeit 5.5 Zusammenfassende Deutung von Einzelfunden, Fragmenten und Schälchen 6. Das Jungneolithikum in Schleswig-Holstein 6.1 Geografische Differenzierung – Kritische Überprüfung klassischer Narrative 6.2 Wirtschaftliche und soziale Aspekte 6.2.1 Transformation vom Mittel- zum Jungneolithikum 6.2.2 Mobilität und Bedeutung des geteilten Zeichensystems 6.2.2.1 Soziale Rollen 6.3 Der Übergang zu den Metallzeiten 6.4 Schlussbetrachtungen 7. Zusammenfassung 8. Summary 9. Literaturverzeichnis 10. Katalog 10.1 Vorbemerkungen zum Katalog 10.2 Kreis Dithmarschen 10.3 Stadt Flensburg 10.4 Kreis Herzogtum Lauenburg 10.5 Stadt Kiel 10.6 Stadt Lübeck 10.7 Stadt Neumünster 10.8 Kreis Nordfriesland 10.9 Kreis Ostholstein 10.10 Kreis Pinneberg 10.11 Kreis Plön 10.12 Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde 10.13 Kreis Schleswig-Flensburg 10.14 Kreis Segeberg 10.15 Kreis Steinburg 10.16 Kreis Stormarn 10.17 Schleswig-Holstein ohne Fundortangaben 11. Abkürzungsverzeichnis 12. Tafeln

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Book SynopsisMail armour (commonly mislabelled 'chainmail') was used for more than two millennia on the battlefield. After its invention in the Iron Age, mail rapidly spread all over Europe and beyond. The Roman army, keen on new military technology, soon adopted mail armour and used it successfully for centuries. Its history did not stop there and mail played a vital role in warfare during the Middle Ages up to the Early Modern Period. Given its long history, one would think mail is a well-documented material, but that is not the case. For the first time, this books lays a solid foundation for the understanding of mail armour and its context through time. It applies a long-term multi-dimensional approach to extract a wealth of as yet untapped information from archaeological, iconographic and written sources. This is complemented with technical insights on the mail maker’s chaîne opératoire.Trade Review"Mail has been something of a Cinderella in the field of early martial equipment. Now, in this meticulous study, Wijnhoven has demonstrated and explored the extensive potential of the archaeological, iconographic and textual evidence. It makes a fundamental contribution to the study of ancient martial material culture, and has broader implications for the development and structuring of early European ironworking traditions." - Prof. Simon James, University of Leicester "Mail armour has been largely neglected by specialist literature, despite the important role that it played in Antiquity. This book fills in that research gap in an impressive manner. Not only does Wijnhoven pose the hardest questions about mail armour, but he also provides very satisfactory answers." - Prof. Thomas Fischer, Universität zu Köln "This excellent monograph provides a thorough and multifaceted exploration of mail in Europe from its development in the Late Iron Age into the Early Middle Ages, roughly 300 BCE to 1000 CE.[...]The production values are superb, replete with numerous high-resolution photographs and illustrations in colour, offering a close-up look at mail scattered across international collections and not always on active display. This definitive book will prove a cornerstone for pre-modern armour studies for decades to come."- Michael J. Taylor, The Classical Review (2022) "This volume is probably destined to be the ‘go-to’ standard work for European ring-mail armour. It is intelligently assembled and supported by much gathered evidence.[...]This is a superb piece of research, presented in an easily understood format, containing much useful information. I recommend it unhesitatingly to anyone who has an interest in ancient ring mail armour."- Dr. Michael Thomas, Ancient Warfare Magazine, Vol. XV, Iss. 4 “Martijn Wijnhoven’s book is a thoughtful and comprehensive investigation, long required, into early European mail armour. […] The book is well illustrated, supporting the overview of the technical details. This study traces a success story of an Iron Age technology that remained an important piece of defensive armour until the nineteenth century AD, with only minor modifications. If you want to know anything, or rather everything, about early mail armour, you need look no further!”- Marion Uckelmann, “New Book Chronicle,” Antiquity, 2023, Vol. 97 Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 1.1 Previous research 1.2 Research question and aims 1.3 Chaîne opératoire 1.4 A multi-dimensional approach to material studies 1.5 Scope 1.6 Mail or chain-mail? 2 The Origins of Mail Armour 2.1 Suggested precursors 2.2 Contested origins 2.3 Earliest evidence 2.4 Tracing the earliest contexts 2.5 Further dispersal 2.6 When, where and by whom 3 Distribution and Archaeological Contexts 3.1 Battlefields and accidental loss 3.2 Iron Age mail 3.3 The Roman Republic 3.4 The Roman Principate 3.5 Hybrid feathered armour 3.6 Hybrid armour beyond the roman empire 3.7 Late Antiquity 3.8 The Barbaricum and beyond 3.9 Mail for men, women and children 3.10 Social access to mail outside the Roman Empire 3.11 Centuries of archaeological evidence 4 The Iconography of Early Mail Armour 4.1 the iconographic evidence 4.2 the 3rd century bc to the end of the roman republic 4.3 early empire until the end of the 1st century ad 4.4 the 2nd century ad 4.5 the 3rd to 5th century ad 4.6 development of mail armour design in iconography 5 The Naming of Mail Armour 5.1 Classical literature on armour 5.2 Lorica hamata 5.3 Other designations 5.4 Simply lorica 6 Decoration in Mail Garments 6.1 Gold on silver 6.2 Copper alloy elements 6.3 Decorative origin 6.4 Development and distribution 6.5 Decorative trimmings 6.6 Inserted patterns 6.7 Contrasting rivets 6.8 Decoration of hybrid armour 6.9 Decoration of ‘miniature mail’ 6.10 Decorative hems 6.11 Colourful Roman army 7 Padded Garments 7.1 the advantages and disadvantages of flexible armour 7.2 himation, thoracomachus, subarmalis and cimmerian tunic 7.3 textile and leather remains 7.4 medieval analogy, gladiators and pteruges 7.5 concealed by metal armour 8 The Craft of Making Mail Rings 8.1 The mail maker’s process 8.2 The manufacture of metal wire 8.3 The manufacture of solid rings 8.4 Unravelling the use of butted rings 8.5 Loose rings 8.6 The mail making workshop 9 Weaving Patterns 9.1 Four-in-one pattern 9.2 Six-in-one pattern from tiefenau 9.3 Pinched loop-in-loop pattern from Bertoldsheim 9.4 Four-in-one pattern in hybrid armour 9.5 Favourable characteristics 10 The Construction of Mail Garments 10.1 Current knowledge based on late mail from Europe 10.2 Presence of constructional techniques in early mail 10.3 Construction of early mail by working in the flat 10.4 Construction of textile clothing and mail 10.5 Construction of the coat with shoulder guards 10.6 Mail with shoulder guards and textile clothing 10.7 The development of mail armour through the ages 10.8 Construction in cultural context 11 Ring Characteristics 11.1 The relevance of the seemingly irrelevant 11.2 Ring size 11.3 Direction of the overlap and ring types 11.4 Cross-section of riveted rings 11.5 Rivet characteristics 11.6 Shape of the overlap in riveted rings 11.7 Cross-section of solid rings 11.8 Ring characteristics typology 12 Final Considerations 12.1 Insights 12.2 Prospects 12.3 Methodological potential Bibliography Database Appendix 1. Catalogue of mail armour Appendix 2. Catalogue of hybrid armour Appendix 3. Catalogue of isolated finds of fasteners and fixtures Appendix 4. Finds excluded from the database

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