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Cambridge University Press Birth Gods and Origins Agriculture New Studies in Archaeology
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Cambridge University Press Stylistic Variation in Prehistoric Ceramics
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Cambridge University Press Frontinus
Book SynopsisR. H. Rodgers provides the first full commentary since the early eighteenth century.Trade Review"The edition [R. H. Rodgers] has produced, longingly anticipated and warmly heralded by many water researchers for many years now, is an impeccable example of scholarship. Its arrival is to be celebrated, as it gives us a new and exciting milestone in Frontinus studies. The volume is rich in every kind of detail that a water scholar might care to know." -Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, Brandeis University, The Classical BulletinTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Sex. Julius Frontinus; 2. The De Aquaeductu; 3. Language and style; 4. The textual tradition; 5. Editions and commentaries; 6. Editorial conventions and the apparatus criticus; Commentary; Appendices; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Maya Postclassic State Formation
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Cambridge University Press Thoughtful Foragers A Study of Prehistoric Decision Making New Studies in Archaeology
Book SynopsisThoughtful Foragers is about hunter-gatherer decision making. The author explores the implications of the human mind as a product of biological evolution for the way in which humans solve foraging problems. He draws on studies form ethology, psychology and ethnography prior to turning his attention to prehistoric hunter-gatherers. He attempts to construct explanations for patterns in the archaeological record by an explicit focus on decision making by individuals. Thoughtful Foragers will appeal to specialists in European prehistory as well as to those interested in archaeological theory and method. It makes some very significant advances, which will be of real importance for the field of evolutionary theory in relation to human evolution and the evaluation of human social systems.Table of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; 1. Introduction; Part I. Learning from the present: 2. The eco-psychology of decision making; 3. The ethnography of hunter-gatherer decision making; Part II. Mesolithic foraging and society: 4. Broken bones and buried bodies: patterns in the archaeological record; 5. Gearing up with methodological tools: building a simulation model; 6. Decision making in the Mesolithic: multiple action replays; Part III. Upper Palaeolithic Art and Economy; 7. Seeking the decision maker: faunal assemblages and hunting behaviour; 8. Through a hunter's eyes … and into his mind?; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Giles of Romes de Regimine Principum
Book SynopsisThis study uses an interdisciplinary approach towards the surviving manuscript copies of Giles of Rome's De regimine principum to show how people of the later Middle Ages read the text and appropriated it for both lay and clerical purposes.Trade Review"...his masterful account of the later medieval history of the text does a compelling job of clearing much of the historical obscurity away from such an important and underappreciated text." Albion"Its rich detail and different lines of inquiry allow the book to achieve an optimum of both information and analysis." SpeculumTable of Contents1. Giles of Rome and De regimine principum; 2. Books, contents, uses; 3. A book of kings and knighthood; 4. From Latin into English; 5. A university textbook; 6. Improving access and removing the chaff; Conclusion
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Cambridge University Press Forest Farmers and Stockherders
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Cambridge University Press Problems in Neolithic Archaeology
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Cambridge University Press Artefacts as Categories A Study of Ceramic Variability in Central India New Studies in Archaeology
Book SynopsisThe aim of Artefacts as Categories is to ask what we can learn about a society from the variability of the objects it produces. Dr Miller presents a comprehensive analysis of the pottery produced in a single village in central India, drawing together and analysing a whole range of aspects - technology, function, design, symbolism and ideology - that are usually studied separately. Using the concepts of 'pragmatics', 'framing' and 'ideology', the author points to the insufficiency of many ethnographic accounts of symbolism and underlines the need to consider both the social positioning of the interpreter and the context of the interpretation when looking at artefacts. His invigorating study cogently questions many assumptions in material culture studies and offers a whole range of fresh explanations. Archaeologists in particular will welcome the discussion of familiar materials such as pottery rim shapes, body forms and decoration. However, the book will have a broad appeal to researcheTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The context of fieldwork; 2. Creating categories: the manufacture of pottery; 3. Form and function; 4. The Dangwara potters and the distribution of pottery; 5. An analysis of the paintings; 6. The ritual context; 7. A symbolic framework for the interpretation of variability; 8. Pottery as categories; 9. Pottery and social strategy; Conclusion: archaeology and society; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Eagle and the Spade
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Cambridge University Press Island Societies
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Cambridge University Press HunterGatherer Economy in Prehistory
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Cambridge University Press Prehistoric Adaptation in the American Southwest
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Cambridge University Press Excavations At Star Carr An Early Mesolithic Site at Seamer Near Scarborough Yorkshire
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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of Prehistoric Coastlines New Directions in Archaeology
Book SynopsisThe Archaeology of Prehistoric Coastlines offers a conspectus of recent work on coastal archaeology examining the various ways in which hunter-gatherers and farmers across the world exploited marine resources such as fish, shellfish and waterfowl in prehistory. Changes in sea levels and the balance of marine ecosystems have altered coastal environments significantly over the last ten thousand years and the contributors assess the impact of these changes on the nature of human settlement and subsistence. An overview of coastal archaeology as a developing discipline is followed by ten case studies from a wide variety of places including Scandinavia, Japan, Tasmania and New Zealand, Peru, South Africa and the United States.Table of Contents1. The archaeology of prehistoric coastlines: an introduction Geoff Bailey and John Parkington; 2. Reconstructing past shorelines as an approach to determining factors affecting shellfish collecting in the prehistoric past J. C. Shackleton; 3. Holocene coastal settlement patterns in the western Cape John Parkington, Cedric Poggenpoel , Bill Buchanan, Tim Robey, Tony Manhire and Judy Sealy; 4. Tasmanian Aborigines in the Hunter Islands in the Holocene: island resources use and seasonality Sandra Bowdler; 5. Island biogeography and prehistoric human adaptation on the southern coast of Maine David R. Yesner; 6. Cultural and environmental change during the Early Period of Santa Barbara Channel prehistory Michael A. Glassow, Larry R. Wilcoxon and Jon Erlandson; 7. Variability in the types of fishing adaptation of the later Jomon hunter-gatherers Takeru Akazawa; 8. Coastal subsistence economies in prehistoric southern New Zealand A. J. Anderson; 9. Sedentary coastal hunter-fishers: an example from the Younger Stone Age of northern Norway M. A. P. Renouf; 10. A molluscan perspective on the role of foraging in Neolithic farming economies Margaret R. Deith; 11. Fishing, farming and the foundations of Andean civilisation Michael E. Mosley and Robert A. Feldman; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Prehistory and Pleistocene Geology in Cyrenaican Libya
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Cambridge University Press Hunters in Transition
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Cambridge University Press Colour and Meaning in Ancient Rome
Book SynopsisExplores how ancient Romans categorised, organised and described colours, and outlines the principal differences and similarities between ancient and modern concepts of colour. By drawing together evidence from contemporary philosophers, elegists, epic writers, historians and satirists, this text explores the definition and function of colour in Rome during the early Empire.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The rainbow; 2. Lucretius and the philosophy of color; 3. Pliny the Elder and the unnatural history of color; 4. Color and rhetoric; 5. The natural body; 6. The unnatural body; 7. Purple; Conclusion: colours triumphant; Envoi: Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 2.26.
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Cambridge University Press The Life of the Longhouse
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Cambridge University Press Peer Polity Interaction and Sociopolitical Change New Directions in Archaeology
Book SynopsisThirteen leading archaeologists have contributed to this innovative study of the socio-political processes - notably imitation, competition, warfare, and the exchange of material goods and information - that can be observed within early complex societies, particularly those just emerging into statehood. The common aim is to explain the remarkable formal similarities that exist between institutions, ideologies and material remains in a variety of cultures characterised by independent political centres yet to be brought under the control of a single, unified jurisdiction. A major statement of the conceptual approach is followed by ten case studies from a wide variety of times and places, including Minoan Crete, early historic Greece and Japan, the classic Maya, the American Mid - west in the Hopewellian period, Europe in the Early Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, and the British Isles in the late Neolithic.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction: peer polity interaction and socio-political change Colin Renfrew; 2. Polities and palaces: some problems in Minoan state formation John F. Cherry; 3. Interaction by design: the Greek city state Anthony Snodgrass; 4. Peer polity interaction in the European Iron Age Timothy and Sara Champion; 5. Peer polity interaction and socio-political change in Anglo-Saxon England Richard Hodges; 6. Jiehao, tonghao: peer relations in East Asia Gina L. Barnes; 7. Maya warfare: an example of peer polity interaction David A. Freidel; 8. Interaction among Classic Maya policies: a preliminary examination Jeremy A. Sabloff; 9. Midwestern Hopewellian exchange and supralocal interaction David P. Braun; 10. The nature and development of long-distance relations in Later Neolithic Britain and Ireland Richard Bradley and Robert Chapman; 11. Interaction and change in third millennium BC western and central Europe Stephen Shennan; 12. Epilogue and prospect John F. Cherry and Colin Renfrew; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica
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Cambridge University Press Time Energy and Stone Tools
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Cambridge University Press The Elements of Hittite
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Cambridge University Press Cuello
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Cambridge University Press Mycenaean Greece Mediterranean Commerce and the Formation of Identity
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Cambridge University Press Society and Death in Ancient Egypt
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Cambridge University Press The Body in History Europe from the Palaeolithic to the Future
Book SynopsisThis book is a long-term history of how the human body has been understood in Europe from the Palaeolithic to the present day, focusing on specific moments of change. Developing a multi-scalar approach to the past, and drawing on the work of an interdisciplinary team of experts, the authors examine how the body has been treated in life, art and death for the last 40,000 years. Key case-study chapters examine Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Classical, Medieval, Early Modern and Modern bodies. What emerges is not merely a history of different understandings of the body, but a history of the different human bodies that have existed. Furthermore, the book argues, these bodies are not merely the product of historical circumstance, but are themselves key elements in shaping the changes that have swept across Europe since the arrival of modern humans.Trade Review'This book is amazing. Robb and Harris take us on a grand tour of the human body, tracing its diverse forms and attachments over a span of 50,000 years. Rarely do so many fascinating ideas come together in one place. For scholars who study the body in Africa, Asia, or the New World, the book offers a steady stream of comparative insights. As an experiment in multiscalar analysis, The Body in History is a tantalizing, indispensable model for future work.' Andrew Shryock, University of Michigan'An encyclopedic collection of articles that addresses the crucial question of how and why bodily understandings and practices change throughout history. Wide-ranging and creative in its sources, and innovative theoretically and methodologically, The Body in History is an invaluable contribution to, and will be required reading for anyone interested in, the field of body studies.' Chris Shilling, author of The Body and Social Theory'A masterful book that brings multidisciplinary analysis to bear on the question of the social body. The focus on diachronic change – on transition and transformation – as well as on scales of practice, makes this an original and much-needed contribution that will be of interest not only to historians and archaeologists but also to scholars from diverse fields that engage with study of the body. This text is a must-read that will be used in both teaching and research.' Barbara L. Voss, Stanford University, California'This remarkable volume demonstrates how the idea of the body has been dramatically reworked in successive eras, from the Pleistocene to the present day. Spanning archaeology, history, and cultural studies, the chapters argue that, more than a concept, the body is simultaneously a collection of gestures and comportments that can vary from one era to the next. In a world transfixed by the prospects for robotic and bionic engineering, where the body/technology boundary is becoming increasingly porous and zombies are everywhere, this beautifully written study demonstrates how the body itself has always been in history.' Daniel Lord Smail, Harvard University, MassachusettsTable of Contents1. O brave new world, that has such people in it Oliver Harris and John Robb; 2. Body worlds and their history: some working concepts Oliver Harris and John Robb; 3. The limits of the body Dušan Borić, Oliver Harris, Preston Miracle and John Robb; 4. The body in its social context Oliver Harris, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, John Robb and Marie Louise Stig Sørensen; 5. The body and politics Oliver Harris, Jessica Hughes, Robin Osborne, John Robb and Simon Stoddart; 6. The body and god Oliver Harris and John Robb; 7. The body in the age of knowledge Oliver Harris, John Robb and Sarah Tarlow; 8. The body in the age of technology Oliver Harris, Maryon McDonald and John Robb; 9. The body in history: a concluding essay Oliver Harris and John Robb; 10. Epilogue Marilyn Strathern.
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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of the Holy Land From The Destruction Of Solomons Temple To The Muslim Conquest
Book SynopsisThis book provides an introduction to the archaeology and history of ancient Palestine â modern Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories â from the destruction of Solomon's temple in 586 BCE to the Muslim conquest in 640 CE. Special attention is paid to the archaeology of Jerusalem and the Second Temple period, in the time of Herod the Great and Jesus. For each period, the book offers a historical background for the Mediterranean world and the ancient Near East, as well as the events in Palestine. Major sites such as Masada, Caesarea Maritima and Petra are examined in archaeological and historical detail, along with the material culture â coins, pottery, glass and stone vessels â of each period. This book provides a thorough overview of the archaeology of this historically vibrant part of the world.Trade Review'The strength of Magness' volume are fourfold: first, it is well illustrated with maps and photographs; second, descriptions of archaeological periods are concise and salient; third, the information in the sidebars is used to debunk some of the pseudo-science that is prevalent in the media and in popular culture; fourth, this textbook is written in a manner that makes the subject matter accessible to undergraduate students. For instance, her chapter summarising archaeological methods is perhaps one of the best that I have read for an introductory textbook. It is readable and her use of contemporary analogies in order to illustrate archaeological methods is excellent.' Benjamin A. Saidel, East Carolina University'In this beautifully produced volume, Jodi Magness provides a superb introduction to the archaeology of the region of ancient Palestine, and creates a focus that is somewhat different from the usual presentations of 'biblical archaeology' … This book is an invaluable overview and full of Magness' characteristically sound and insightful judgements. It will be much used by students and scholars.' Joan Taylor, Strata: Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society'The book is written by an expert on the topic who has participated in major excavations herself. It is well written and contains a wealth of images. It is a valuable aid for scholars, students and all interested non-specialists alike.' Journal for the Study of the New Testament'It shouldn't take very long for the reader to recognize that a career's worth of knowledge has been condensed and organized into this outstanding textbook - [Magness] had wanted to write this book for 'more than twenty years'. Like a good wine, we ought to be grateful that the author waited to serve this information to us. The work is extensive, covering as much information as possible, yet it is organized as to be accessible, providing the reader with succinctly written sections. Students will benefit from the breadth of data provided. Instructors can be confident that their pupils are getting a more than adequate introduction to the subject. In fact, anyone who is interested in the topics this book discusses will benefit from reading it.' Brian Leport, Ancient Jew Review'… the publication of The Archaeology of the Holy Land is yet another feather in [Magness'] fedora, one that archaeology enthusiasts - specialists and non-specialists alike - will want to have available on their bookshelves.' Ralph K. Hawkins, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society'Jodi Magness has an unrivalled reputation for scholarship in regard to the archaeology of this extended period and an ability to convey its results attractively to a wide audience, and both qualities are paraded here to good effect.' H. G. M. Williamson, Journal of Jewish StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The topography and early history of Jerusalem (to 586 BCE); 3. The Babylonian (586–539 BCE) and Persian (539–332 BCE) periods; 4. The early Hellenistic period (332–167 BCE); 5. The late Hellenistic (Hasmonean) period (167–40 BCE); 6. The archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls; 7. The early Roman (Herodian) period (40 BCE–70 CE): Jerusalem; 8. The early Roman (Herodian) period (40 BCE–70 CE): Caesarea Maritima, Samaria-Sebaste, Herodian Jericho, and Herodium; 9. The early Roman (Herodian) period (40 BCE–70 CE): Jesus' birth and Galilean setting; 10. The early Roman (Herodian) period (40 BCE–70 CE): Masada; 11. Ancient Jewish tombs and burial customs (to 70 CE); 12. From 70 CE to the Bar Kokhba Revolt (135/136 CE) (the Second Jewish Revolt against the Romans); 13. Aelia Capitolina (Hadrianic Jerusalem) (135 to ca. 500 CE); 14. Roman and the late antique period synagogues in Palestine; 15. The Byzantine (early Christian) period (313–640 CE): Jerusalem; 16. The Byzantine (early Christian) period (313–640 CE): Palestine under Christian rule; 17. Epilogue: early Islamic Jerusalem (638–750 CE).
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Cambridge University Press Archaeoastronomy in the New World American Primitive Astronomy
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Cambridge University Press Debating the Athenian Cultural Revolution
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Cambridge University Press The Elements of Hittite
Book SynopsisHittite is the earliest attested Indo-European language and was the language of a state which flourished in Asia Minor in the second millennium BC. This introductory course comprehensively introduces Hittite grammar in ten lessons and provides ample exercises both in transliteration and in cuneiform.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Lesson 1; Lesson 2; Lesson 3; Lesson 4; Lesson 5; Lesson 6; Lesson 7; Lesson 8; Lesson 9; Lesson 10; Appendix 1. Paradigms; Appendix 2. Sources of exercise material; Appendix 3. Index of syntax and phonological phenomena; Appendix 4. Cuneiform sign list; Appendix 5. Glossary.
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Cambridge University Press Farm Equipment of the Roman World
Book SynopsisThis book is a companion volume to K. D. White's Agricultural Implements of the Roman World (Cambridge University Press, 1967). He deals here with equipment and instruments which were for the most part used in processing and storage as opposed to cultivation.Table of ContentsList of plates; Preface; Abbreviations; Part I: 1. Rolling, stamping and grinding equipment; 2. Vine-props; 3. Fencing; 4. Rope, cordage and netting; 5. Measuring instruments; 6. Water-raising devices; Part II. Equipment made of Basketry: Introduction; 7. Hard basketry; 8. Soft basketry; Part III. Utensils Made of Earthenware, Stone, Metal, Wood and Leather; Part IV. Miscellaneous; Conclusion; Appendices; Select bibliography; General index; Index of Greek words; Index of Latin words; List of passages cited.
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Cambridge University Press The Ancient Inhabitants of Jebel Moya Sudan Occasional Publication Series
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Cambridge University Press Religion in the Emergence of Civilization atalhyk as a Case Study
Book SynopsisThis book presents an interdisciplinary study of the role of spirituality and religious ritual in the emergence of complex societies. Involving an eminent group of natural scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and theologians, this volume examines ÃatalhÃyÃk as a case study. A nine-thousand-year old town in central Turkey, ÃatalhÃyÃk was first excavated in the 1960s and has since become integral to understanding the symbolic and ritual worlds of the early farmers and village-dwellers in the Middle East. It is thus an ideal location for exploring theories about the role of religion in early settled life. This book provides a unique overview of current debates concerning religion and its historical variations. Through exploration of themes including the integration of the spiritual and the material, the role of belief in religion, the cognitive bases for religion, and religion's social roles, this book situates the results from ÃatalhÃyÃk within a broader understandiTrade Review‘This collection is an excellent illustration of the current preoccupations of archaeologists interpreting lost civilizations, and of the potential fruits of a collective approach by social scientists to understanding human beliefs.’ -TLSTable of Contents1. Probing religion at Çatalhöyük: an interdisciplinary experiment Ian Hodder; 2. The symbolism of Çatalhöyük in its regional context Ian Hodder and Lynn Meskell; 3. Spiritual entanglement: transforming religious symbols at Çatalhöyük LeRon Shults; 4. Coding the non-visible: epistemic limitations and understanding symbolic behavior at Çatalhöyük Wentzel van Huyssteen; 5. Modes of religiosity at Çatalhöyük Harvey Whitehouse and Ian Hodder; 6. Is there religion at Çatalhöyük … or just houses? Maurice Bloch; 7. History houses: a new interpretation of architectural elaboration at Çatalhöyük Ian Hodder and Peter Pels; 8. Marked, absent, habitual: approaches to Neolithic religion at Çatalhöyük Webb Keane; 9. Temporalities of religion at Çatalhöyük Peter Pels; 10. The Neolithic cosmos of Çatalhöyük Paul Wason; 11. Magical deposits at Çatalhöyük: a matter of time and place? Carolyn Nakamura; 12. Conclusions and evaluation Ian Hodder.
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Cambridge University Press Clay in the Age of Bronze Essays in the Archaeology of Prehistoric Creativity
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Cambridge University Press Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece 1100700 BCE
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Cambridge University Press The Transition to Statehood in the New World
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Cambridge University Press The Political Economy of Craft Production Crafting Empire in South India c 13501650
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Cambridge University Press Roman Pottery in the Archaeological Record
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Cambridge University Press Archaeology Society and Identity in Modern Japan
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Cambridge University Press Unthinking the Greek Polis
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Cambridge University Press Delphi and Olympia
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Cambridge University Press Religion in the Emergence of Civilization atalhyk as a Case Study
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Cambridge University Press Prehistoric Rock Art Polemics and Progress
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Cambridge University Press Illyricum in Roman Politics 229 BCAD 68
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Mythological Images and their Interpretation
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Cambridge University Press Interpreting Ancient Figurines
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Cambridge University Press Geography in Classical Antiquity
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