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Book SynopsisIan Shaw is Professor of Archaeology, University of Chester, UK. His books include Egyptology: A Very Short Introduction (2004) and Hatnub: Quarrying Travertine in Ancient Egypt (2008).Trade ReviewThis is a readable and thought-provoking volume from which students and professional Egyptologists will benefit. The use of theory is welcome, but the main impact of the book is its continuation of the theme of establishing an "Egyptological" theory of materials and technology. -- Paul T. Nicholson, Cardiff University, UK * The Historian *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of illustrations Chronology Introduction: towards an explicitly anthropological analysis of technological change and innovation in ancient Egypt Analysing Egyptian Technological Dynamics - was Egyptian technology underpinned and framed by 'science'? Writing: human communication as social technology Medicine, Magic and Pharmacy: the fusion of science and religion Stone-working: the synthesis of traditional chaînes opératoires and ideological innovations Mummification and Glass-working: issues of definition and process Chariot Production: technical choice and socio-political change Military Hardware: the east Mediterranean knowledge economy and the emergence of the Iron Age in Egypt Technology Embedded in Urban Society: finding the individual in the general Conclusion Appendix 1: Measuring space Appendix 2: Measuring time Appendix 3: Astronomy and astrology Abbreviations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRoberta Tomber is Visiting Fellow in the Department of Conservation, Documentation and Science at the British Museum. She specialises in Roman and Indian Ocean pottery and is co-author of The National Roman Fabric Reference Collection (1998). She was awarded the Antiquity 2007 prize forher article Rome and Mesopotamia importers into India in the first millennium AD'.

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Book SynopsisStephen Quirke is Curator of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and Professor of Egyptian Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London.Trade ReviewHidden Hands provokes much thought for the future of archaeology. * TLS *‘From any point of view, this book is a detailed and fascinating insight into the Petrie Museum archives, and the social context of Petrie's excavations.' * Egyptian Archaeology *‘This is a densely-argued text, which will prove a source for future investigation, not only by archaeologists, but also by students of social history.' * Ancient Egypt *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Setting a Stage 2. Labour and name in the Petrie publications 3. Names in the Petrie Journals 4. Acts of excision: anonymity in the Petrie Journals 5. The Petrie Notebooks: individual issues 6. Discovery names and object biographies: individual features and finds 7. Find-group records with finder names 8. Notebook base: name-lists 9. Faces and names: the photographs 10. Parallel lives in the archaeology of Egypt Biography List of illustrations and sources Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis important and original study, with the rather unlikely selection of twentieth-century representatives, reaches far beyond that era to explain the historical and cultural significance of a vessel type poorly understood by westerners." —Sea History"This monograph is rather unusual, not because it deals with old-fashioned Chinese ships but because it treats surviving ships as living records of China’s pre-modern shipbuilding and shipping practices at an archaeological and anthropological juncture. This is a welcome move in scholarship." —Mariner’s Mirror"It is Van Tilburg’s goal to broaden our understanding of Chinese nautical technology, to explore the evolution of Chinese vessels between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, to investigate the differences between Chinese and Western ships and, in the absence of historical documents, to read the vessels themselves as cultural artefacts [sic] or texts that contain historical information regarding their construction and functions that would otherwise be lost to history." —International Journal of Maritime History"Seeks to introduce Chinese agency into Pacific history by focusing on the voyage of ten junks that crossed the Pacific between 1905 and 1989…. Reveals the multifarious history behind these vessels and the stereotypes held by an intrigued American public witnessing their arrival." —Bulletin of the Pacific Circle

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Book SynopsisJ.T. Hooker was Reader in Greek at University College London, UK. His publications include Homer: Iliad III, also published by Bloomsbury.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preliminary note List of abbreviations Part One 1: The Aegean Bronze Age 2: Writing in the Aegean Bronze Age 3: The decipherment of the Linear B script 4: The Linear B inscriptions 5: The language of the Linear B texts Part Two 1: Knossos sword tablets: the Ra set 2: Sheep and wool tablets from Pyles and Knossos: PY Cn and KN D 3: Knossos cloth and wool tablets: the L series 4: Groups of women: the Pyles A series 5: The assessment and distribution of bronze: PY 6: The o-ka set: Pyles An tablets 7: Inventories: Pyles Ta tablets 8: L~nd tablets: E texts from Pyles and Tiryns 9: Religious texts from Knossos, Pyles, and Thebes 10: Wheel and chariot tablets: the Knossos S series 11: Spice tablets: the Mycenae Ge set 12: Assessments of various commodities: M and N tablets from Pyles and Knossos 13: Inscribed jars, sealings, and labels Part Three Index 1: Linear B words Index 2: Greek words Index 3: Linear B inscriptions discussed Plates

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Book SynopsisMigration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy challenges prevailing conceptions of a natural tie to the land and a demographically settled world. It argues that much human mobility in the last millennium BC was ongoing and cyclical. In particular, outside the military context ''the foreigner in our midst'' was not regarded as a problem. Boundaries of status rather than of geopolitics were those difficult to cross. The book discusses the stories of individuals and migrant groups, traders, refugees, expulsions, the founding and demolition of sites, and the political processes that could both encourage and discourage the transfer of people from one place to another. In so doing it highlights moments of change in the concepts of mobility and the definitions of those on the move. By providing the long view from history, it exposes how fleeting are the conventions that take shape here and now.Trade Review'… highly important and innovative … Isayev's book is undoubtedly a major contribution to the entire field of Classics. Apart from making its case quite brilliantly, it breaks with a number of self-imposed limitations and restrictions (of disciplines, methods, periods, regions …) that have shaped and continue to shape much of Classical scholarship. This book is groundbreaking in the way it engages with the past by taking up current research from other fields and by formulating new models that will stimulate further debate - hopefully also beyond the scope of ancient Italy. It is worth adding that the book, although very scholarly, might also prove useful for undergraduate teaching, as it is written in a very understandable language … In short, it is a must-have for all scholars in this field, and a book which, to my eyes, ranks among the works that have offered a sweeping (and controversial) vision of Mediterranean mobility and connectivity, from Braudel to Horden and Purcell and D. Abulafia.' Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPart I: 1. Introduction; 2. Statistical uncertainties: mobility in the last 250 years BC; Part II: 3. Routeways, kinship and storytelling; 4. Mixed communities: mobility, connectivity and co-presence; 5. Why choose to come together and move apart? Convergence and redistribution of people and power; Part III: 6. Plautus on mobility of the every-day; 7. Polybius on mobility and a comedy of The Hostage Prince; 8. Polybius on the moving masses and those who moved them; Part IV: 9. Social war: reconciling differences of place and citizenship; 10. Mapping the moving Rome of Livy's Camillus speech; 11. Materialising Rome and Patria; 12. Conclusion: everyday and unpredictable mobility; Appendices A, B and C. Mobility in Plautus; Appendix D. Livy's Camillus Speech and translation.

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Book SynopsisThe Great Oasis of Egypt provides the first full study of the Dakhla and Kharga Oases in antiquity, written by participants in several of the current archaeological projects in this region. The oases were closely tied to Egypt and to each other, but not always easy to control, and their agricultural productivity varied with climatic conditions. The book discusses the oases'' geology, water resources, history, administration, economy, trade connections, taxation, urbanism, religion, burial practices, literary culture, and art. New evidence for human health and illness from the cemeteries is presented along with a synthesis on the use of different types of cloth in burial. A particular emphasis is placed on pottery, with its ability to tell us both about how people lived and how far imports and exports can be seen from the shapes and fabrics, and both literature and art suggest full participation in the culture of Greco-Roman Egypt.Table of Contents1. Introduction Roger S. Bagnall and Gaëlle Tallet; Part I. Living in the Oasis: Humans and the Environment: 2. Water resources and irrigation in two oases of the Western Desert of Egypt, Kharga and Dakhla Jean-Paul Bravard; 3. The ancient population of the Kharga Oasis Françoise Dunand and Roger Lichtenberg; 4. Trimithis: a case study of Proto-Byzantine urbanism Paola Davoli; Part II. Managing the Oasis: 5. The Great Oasis: an administrative entity from Pharaonic times to Roman times Roger S. Bagnall and Gaëlle Tallet; 6. Land and resource administration: farmers, managers, and soldiers in the Great Oasis Rodney Ast; 7. What remains in the hands of the Gods: taxation in Kharga Oasis through the Demotic Ostraca (fifth century BC–first century AD) Damien Agut-Labordère; Part III. Trade and Mobility in a Connected Environment: 8. The North Kharga Oasis Darb Ain Amur Survey (NKODAAS): surveying the tracks between the two Oases Salima Ikram; 9. And the potsherds? Some avenues of reflection and synthesis on the pottery of the Great Oasis Pascale Ballet; 10. Egyptian and imported amphorae at Amheida Clementina Caputo; 11. Kegs from Amheida Irene Soto Marin; 12. El-Deir as a switching point Yaël Chevalier; Part IV. An Oasis Culture?: 13. Temple building on the Egyptian margins: the geopolitical issues behind Seti II and Ramesses IX's activity at Amheida Olaf E. Kaper; 14. Funerary practices in the Great Oasis during Antiquity Françoise Dunand and Fleur Letellier-Willemin; 15. Was there an interest in literary culture in the Great Oasis? Some answers Raffaella Cribiore; 16. The House of Serenos and wall painting in the Western Oases Susanna McFadden.

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Book SynopsisCorisande Fenwick is Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London, UK. She is co-editor of The Aghlabids and their Neighbours (2017) and the Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology (2020). She co-directs excavations at Bulla Regia, Tunisia and Volubilis, Morocco.Trade ReviewFenwick’s ‘new perspective’ delivers a concise and erudite overview of an understudied period and region. * The Muslim World Book Review *Corisande Fenwick succeeds admirably in presenting a coherent perspective which re-appraises known sources, presents new data and makes original, yet solid proposals for a coherent narrative. ... this publication is a phenomenal achievement * Medieval Archaeology *Fenwick’s definitive study offers a bold and refreshing account of the arrival and assimilation of Islam in North Africa. By integrating textual and archaeological sources both old and new, her book displays an urgent freshness in rigorously challenging old narratives with modern discoveries. -- Alan Walmsley, Honorary Professor of Ancient History, Macquarie University, AustraliaTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments A Note on Arabic and Terminology Introduction: The Problem of North Africa. Ch 1. Foundations: Evidence and Interpretation Ch 2. From Conquest to Muslim Rule Ch 3. Cities Ch 4. The Countryside Ch 5. Economic Life Ch 6. Social Life Epilogue: North Africa and the Islamic World Timeline Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAmelia Brown is a senior lecturer at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She has published widely on ancient Greece in the late antique and early Byzantine periods.Trade ReviewCorinth in late antiquity is an outstanding overview of the late antique development of one of the most important cities of the classical world. It is a must-have for anyone interested in the history of Corinth, late antique Greece or late antique urbanism. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *A work of immense practical value ... Brown has offered scholars of Late Antiquity and students of the Corinthia an immensely useful resource. * Studies in Late Antiquity *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Sources 3. People of Corinth 4. Administration & Civic Amenities 5. Religion 6. Public Entertainments from arenas to obsolesence 7. Residential, productive and commercial space 8. Fortifications 9. Conclusions 10. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic offers a diversity of perspectives to explore how differing approaches and methodologies can contribute to a greater understanding of the formation of the Roman Republic.Trade Review“As a collection, the volume’s essays demonstrate the rich variety of archaeological approaches to this period and indicate their future directions. It rightfully deserves to remain a standard work for some time to come.” (American Journal of Archaeology, July 2015, 119.3) “However, this does not detract from the overall achievement of the Companion, the scholarly content and impressive scope of which ensures that it will be of use to those studying a range of disciplines.” (History & Archaeology, 1 October 2014) Recipient of a PROSE Awards 2013 Honorable Mention “This collection punches well above the weight of most of similar editorial enterprises. D. E. has impressively succeeded in gathering a body of work that does justice both to the complexity of the material and the diversity of the scholarly debate . . . Readers will encounter, as a rule, reliable and often insightful overviews of complex problems, with plenty of engagement with the ancient evidence and invaluable bibliographical information.” (Journal of Classics Teaching, 1 June 2013) Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors xiv Abbreviations xxi Preface xxii Introduction 1 Jane DeRose Evans PART I Material Culture and Its Impact on Social Configuration 13 1 Development of Baths and Public Bathing during the Roman Republic 15 Fikret K. Yegül 2 Public Entertainment Structures 33 Mantha Zarmakoupi 3 Republican Houses 50 Shelley Hales 4 Tombs and Funerary Monuments 67 Sylvia Diebner 5 Before Sigillata: Black-Gloss Pottery and Its Cultural Dimensions 81 Roman Roth 6 Amphoras and Shipwrecks: Wine from the Tyrrhenian Coast at the End of the Republic and Its Distribution in Gaul 97 Fanette Laubenheimer 7 Coins and the Archaeology of the Roman Republic 110 Jane DeRose Evans 8 Weapons and the Army 123 Andrew L. Goldman 9 Bodies of Evidence: Skeletal Analysis in Roman Greece and Cyprus 141 Susan Kirkpatrick Smith 10 Population and Demographic Studies 155 Elio Lo Cascio PART II Archaeology and the Landscape 167 11 Looking at Early Rome with Fresh Eyes: Transforming the Landscape 169 Albert J. Ammerman 12 Survey, Settlement and Land Use in Republican Italy 181 Helena Fracchia 13 Agriculture and the Environment of Republican Italy 198 Helen Goodchild 14 No Holiday Camp: The Roman Republican Army Camp as a Fine-Tuned Instrument of War 214 Michael Dobson 15 Reconstructing Religious Ritual in Italy 235 Alison B. Griffith PART III Archaeology and Ancient Technology 251 16 The Orientation of Towns and Centuriation 253 David Gilman Romano 17 Scientia in Republican Era Stone and Concrete Masonry 268 Marie D. Jackson and Cynthia K. Kosso 18 Aqueducts and Water Supply 285 A. Trevor Hodge 19 Roads and Bridges 296 Ray Laurence 20 Villas and Agriculture in Republican Italy 309 Jeffrey A. Becker 21 Ports 323 Steven L. Tuck PART IV The Archaeology of Identity 335 22 Material Culture, Italic Identities and the Romanization of Italy 337 Tesse D. Stek 23 The Importance of Being Elite: The Archaeology of Identity in Etruria (500–200) 354 P. Gregory Warden 24 Greeks, Lucanians and Romans at Poseidonia/Paestum (South Italy) 369 Maurizio Gualtieri 25 Central Apennine Italy: The Case of Samnium 387 Marlene Suano and Rafael Scopacasa 26 Early Rome and the Making of “Roman” Identity through Architecture and City Planning 406 Ingrid Edlund-Berry PART V The Archaeology of Empire during the Republic 427 27 Material Culture and Identity in the Late Roman Republic (c. 200–c. 20) 429 Miguel John Versluys 28 The Archaeology of Mid-Republican Rome: The Emergence of a Mediterranean Capital 441 Penelope J.E. Davies 29 The Late Republican City of Rome 459 Jane DeRose Evans 30 Cosa 472 Stephen L. Dyson 31 Becoming Roman Overseas? Sicily and Sardinia in the Later Roman Republic 485 R.J.A. Wilson 32 The Archaeology of Africa in the Roman Republic 505 David L. Stone 33 Hispania: From the Roman Republic to the Reign of Augustus 522 Isabel Rodá 34 The Archaeology of Palestine in the Republican Period 540 J. Andrew Overman 35 Greece and the Roman Republic: Athens and Corinth from the Late Third Century to the Augustan Era 559 Michael C. Hoff PART VI Republican Archaeology and the Twenty-First Century 579 36 Computer Technologies and Republican Archaeology at Pompeii 581 Michael Anderson 37 Archaeology and Acquisition: The Experience of Republican Rome 598 Margaret M. Miles References 611 Index 711

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