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Cambridge University Press The Methods and Ethics of Researching Unprovenienced Artifacts from East Asia
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Cambridge University Press Anthropological Archaeology Underwater
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Cambridge University Press Edom in Judah
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Cambridge University Press Worked Bone Antler Ivory and Keratinous Materials
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Cambridge University Press Economies of the Inca World
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Cambridge University Press Traces of the Distant Human Past
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Cambridge University Press The Roman Republic to 49 BCE
Book SynopsisThe narrative of Roman history has been largely shaped by the surviving literary sources, augmented in places by material culture. The numerous surviving coins can, however, provide new information on the distant past. This accessible but authoritative guide introduces the student of ancient history to the various ways in which they can help us understand the history of the Roman republic, with fresh insights on early Roman-Italian relations, Roman imperialism, urban politics, constitutional history, the rise of powerful generals and much more. The text is accompanied by over 200 illustrations of coins, with detailed captions, as well as maps and diagrams so that it also functions as a sourcebook of the key coins every student of the period should know. Throughout, it demystifies the more technical aspects of the field of numismatics and ends with a how-to guide for further research for non-specialists.Table of Contents1. Money; 2. Monuments; 3. Mutinies?; 4. Mobilization; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean
Book SynopsisThe ancient Mediterranean basin was a multicultural region with a great diversity of linguistic, religious, social and ethnic groups. This study provides a new understanding of it by examining identity construction in multiethnic commercial settlements located throughout the region and explores literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence to investigate cross-cultural interactions.Trade Review'The strength of the book lies in its successful integration of archaeological, literary, and epigraphic evidence, together with an impressive command of the bibliography relevant to each of the sites … this is a very useful book that has the virtue of presenting clear and concise syntheses of five emporia throughout the Mediterranean and of identifying evident patterns between them, thereby advancing further our understanding of the nature of Greek settlements overseas.' sehepunkte.de'… this book will be a welcome addition for researchers interested in the Ancient Mediterranean and, in particular, in the role of trade and religion in the organization of multicultural spaces.' Meritxell Ferrer-Martín, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Emporion; 2. Gravisca; 3. Naukratis; 4. Pistiros; 5. Peiraieus; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Campus Martius
Book SynopsisThe Campus Martius began as a military training ground but later became filled with some of the most extraordinary republican and imperial structures conceived by Roman patrons and architects. This book explores the factors that contributed to the transformation of the site from an occasionally visited space to a crowded center of daily activity.Trade Review'Campus Martius by Paul W. Jacobs, II and Diane Atnally Conlin expertly reveals how the ancients transformed this expansive plain outside Rome into an architectural showcase. Strabo said the region 'affords a spectacle that one can hardly draw away from'; the same could be said of this well-written, engaging book.' Diane Favro, University of California, Los Angeles'Jacobs and Conlin have produced a meticulously researched and richly detailed account of the Campus Martius' topographical history and development from the regal period through its decline and transformation in the medieval and early modern eras. Their book is the first definitive assessment in English of this vibrant component of ancient Rome's monumental landscape.' Eric R. Varner, Emory University, Atlanta'This useful contribution to the study of ancient Roman topography provides a highly readable assessment of one of the city's most important regions, tracing its dramatic evolution from the regal period to the late empire.' Penelope Davies, University of Texas, AustinTable of Contents1. 'The size of the plain is remarkable': defining the limits of the Campus Martius in time and space; 2. Gathering troops in the war god's field; 3. 'Very costly temples': the Campus Martius and republican temple construction; 4. 'Chariot races', 'three theatres', 'an amphitheatre' and more: entertainment in the Campus Martius; 5. 'Colonnades about it in very great numbers': the porticoes of the Campus Martius; 6. Between the Aqua Virgo and the Tiber: water and the Field of Mars; 7. 'A zeal for buildings': reshaping of the space by the emperors; 8. Conclusion: 'the rest of the city a mere accessory'; Appendix A: chronology of development in the Campus Martius to the early fourth century CE; Appendix B: glossary of architectural terms.
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Cambridge University Press The Hellenistic West
Book SynopsisAlthough the Hellenistic period has become increasingly popular in research and teaching in recent years, the western Mediterranean is rarely considered part of the ''Hellenistic world''; instead the cities, peoples and kingdoms of the West are usually only discussed insofar as they relate to Rome. This book contends that the rift between the ''Greek East'' and the ''Roman West'' is more a product of the traditional separation of Roman and Greek history than a reflection of the Hellenistic-period Mediterranean, which was a strongly interconnected cultural and economic zone, with the rising Roman republic just one among many powers in the region, east and west. The contributors argue for a dynamic reading of the economy, politics and history of the central and western Mediterranean beyond Rome, and in doing so problematise the concepts of ''East'', ''West'' and ''Hellenistic'' itself.Trade Review'… this valuable volume can be studied by scholar and student alike for its examination of the Hellenistic and Hellenism. With its different methodological approaches, places, and periods examined, [it] could provide a rich and far-reaching foundation for examining and re-examining our notions of the Hellenistic West, perhaps in a graduate course. That would be a course I would want to take.' Barbara Tsakirgis, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Jonathan R. W. Prag and Josephine Crawley Quinn; 1. The view from the East Andrew Erskine; 2. Hellenistic Pompeii: between Oscan, Greek, Roman, and Punic Andrew Wallace-Hadrill; 3. The 'Hellenistics of death' in Adriatic central Italy Ed Bispham; 4. Hellenistic Sicily, c.270–100 BC Roger Wilson; 5. Trading across the Syrtes: Euesperides and the Punic world Andrew Wilson; 6. Strangers in the city: élite communication in the Hellenistic central Mediterranean Elizabeth Fentress; 7. Monumental power: 'Numidian royal architecture' in context Josephine Crawley Quinn; 8. Representing Hellenistic Numidia, in Africa and at Rome Ann Kuttner; 9. Hellenism as subaltern practice: rural cults in the Punic world Peter van Dommelen and Mireia López-Bertran; 10. Were the Iberians Hellenized? Simon Keay; 11. Epigraphy in the western Mediterranean: a Hellenistic phenomenon? Jonathan R. W. Prag; 12. Heracles, coinage, and the West: three Hellenistic case-studies Liv Yarrow; 13. On the significance of East and West in today's 'Hellenistic' history Nicholas Purcell.
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Cambridge University Press Middle Egyptian Literature Eight Literary Works of the Middle Kingdom
Book SynopsisThis companion volume to the third edition of the author's popular Middle Egyptian contains eight literary works from the Middle Kingdom, the golden age of Middle Egyptian literature. Included are the compositions widely regarded as the pinnacle of Egyptian literary arts, by the Egyptians themselves and by modern readers.Trade Review'A rich resource for students to enhance their reading of eight classics of Middle Egyptian literature in the original language. It will surely become a standard in Middle Egyptian courses.' Mark Collier, University of Liverpool'A marvellously authoritative and accessible new resource for anyone wanting to read these classics of world literature in the original language.' R. B. Parkinson, University of Oxford'This book gives the reader access to one of the true surviving treasures of ancient Egypt: Middle Kingdom literary texts, presented in their original wording. An essential companion for students and lovers of ancient literature.' Andréas Stauder, École Pratique des Hautes Études, ParisTable of ContentsIntroduction; Text 1. The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor; Text 2. The Story of Sinuhe; Text 3. The Loyalist Instruction; Text 4. The Instructions of Kagemni's Father and Ptahhotep; Text 5. The Discourses of the Eloquent Peasant; Text 6. The Debate between a Man and his Soul; Text 7. The Herdsman's Tale; Text 8. Hymns to Senwosret III.
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Cambridge University Press The Mesolithic Settlement of Northern Europe
Book SynopsisSir John Grahame Douglas Clark (190795) was a British archaeologist and prehistorian who worked extensively on the Mesolithic period. In this book, which was first published in 1936, Clark presents a study of 'the cultural development, during the earlier half of the post-glacial time, of the food-gathering peoples of the western end of the plain of Northern Europe'.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. The natural history of the area of settlement; 2. The tanged-point cultures; 3. The axe cultures of the lowland forest area; 4. The art of the Maglemose culture; 5. The microlithic cultures of the sand areas and the highlands; 6. General summary and retrospect; Appendix I. Fauna lists; Appendix II. Find-list of objects of the Lyngby culture; Appendix III. List of Maglemose sites and finding-places, arranged alphabetically under countries; Appendix IV. Key to the distribution map (Fig. 47) of certain forms of bone points; Appendix V. Summary of pollen-analyses correlating the Maglemose culture with the development of forest history; Appendix VI. List of decorated objects of the Maglemose culture; Appendix VII. List of Tardenoisian sites; List of works to which reference is made in the text; Index.
£32.99
Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt
This book presents the latest archaeological evidence that makes a case for Egypt as an early urban society. It traces the emergence of urban features during the Predynastic period up to the disintegration of the powerful Middle Kingdom state (c.35001650 BC).
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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of Elam
Book SynopsisThis book examines the formation and transformation of Elam's many identities through both archaeological and written evidence. It brings to life one of the most important regions of ancient Western Asia, re-evaluates its significance, and places it in the context of the most recent archaeological and historical scholarship.Table of Contents1. Elam: what, when, where?; 2. Environment, climate, and resources; 3. The immediate precursors of Elam; 4. Elam and Awan; 5. The dynasty of Shimashki; 6. The grand regents of Elam and Susa; 7. The kingdom of Susa and Anshan; 8. The Neo-Elamite period; 9. Elam in the Achaemenid empire; 10. Elymais; 11. Elam under the Sasanians and beyond; 12. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Migration Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy
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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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of Lydia from Gyges to Alexander
Book SynopsisIn The Archaeology of Lydia, from Gyges to Alexander, Christopher Roosevelt provides the first overview of the regional archaeology of Lydia in western Turkey, including much previously unpublished evidence as well as a fresh synthesis of the archaeology of Sardis, the ancient capital of the region.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The cultural and historical framework; 3. Lydian geography and environment; 4. Settlement and society at Sardis; 5. Settlement and society in central and greater Lydia; 6. Burial and society; 7. Conclusions: continuity and change at Sardis and beyond.
£38.94
Cambridge University Press The Prehistoric Cultures of the Horn of Africa An Analysis Of The Stone Age Cultural And Climatic Succession In The Somalilands And Eastern Parts Of Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1954, this book was based on various periods of fieldwork undertaken in the region of the Horn of Africa between 1941 and 1946. Written by prominent archaeologist John Desmond Clark (1916â2002), the text presents a detailed analysis of the relationship between physical geography and stone age culture within the area. Numerous illustrative figures, maps, appendices and a bibliography are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in historical geography, anthropology and archaeology.Table of ContentsList of plates; List of text-figures; Foreword; Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Physical geography; 2. The work of previous investigators; Part II. The General Geology of the Special Areas and Stratigraphy: 3. Introduction. Western British Somaliland and the Nogal Valley; 4. The Webi Shebeli and its tributaries; 5. The Danakil rift; 6. The north and east coasts; 7. Correlation of geological deposits, events and cultures within the Horn; Part II. The Prehistory of the Special Areas: 8. Terminology; 9. The Acheulio-Levalloisian culture; 10. The Somaliland Stillbay culture; 11. The Doian culture; 12. The Somaliland Wilton culture and its variants; 13. Prehistoric art in the Horn of Africa; Part IV. A Tentative Correlation of Cultures and Climates: 14. A tentative correlation of cultures and climates in the Horn with other areas of the African continent and with Southern Arabia; Appendix A. Details of collections (not previously described) made by civil and military personnel in the Somalilands and Abyssinia; Appendix B. Tool lists for additional Somaliland Magosian culture sites; Appendix C. Tool lists for additional Hargesian culture sites; Appendix D. Tool lists for additional Doian culture sites; Appendix E. Tool lists for additional Somaliland Wilton culture sites; Appendix F. Report on the faunal remains collected by J. D. Clark from sites in the Somalilands D. M. A. Bate; Appendix G. List of marine molluscs collected by J. D. Clark from raised beaches and other sites in the Somalilands L. R. Cox; Appendix H. List of charcoals collected by J. D. Clark from prehistoric sites in the Somalilands. By Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Bibliography; Maps; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Lithic Technology
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together essays that measure the life history of stone tools relative to retouch values, raw material constraints and evolutionary processes. Collectively, they explore the association of technological organization with facets of tool form such as reduction sequences, tool production effort, artifact curation processes and retouch measurement.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'The different approaches to lithic analysis proposed by the authors will be of great value in broader archaeological interpretation as issues raised in the volume are explored in the future … The authors in this volume present us with interesting ideas and a healthy debate.' GeoarchaeologyReview of the hardback: 'Lithic Technology succeeds in its goal of combining unique temporal and cultural examples to demonstrate a link between technological organization theory and the reconstruction of lithic retouched tool life histories … It should be required reading for any upper division undergraduate or graduate lithics class where its chapters can be discussed, debated and used as reference points for future research. Lithic Technology is also highly recommended for anyone interested in reading about diverse analytical measures for retouched lithic tools and theoretical arguments regarding lithic production trajectories currently debated by lithicists around the globe.' PaleoAnthropologyTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction, Background and Review: 1. An introduction to stone tool life history and technological organization William Andrefsky, Jr; 2. Lithic reduction, its measurement, and implications: comments on the volume Michael J. Shott and Margaret C. Nelson; Part II. Production, Reduction and Retouch: 3. Comparing and synthesizing unifacial stone tool reduction indices Metin I. Eren and Mary E. Prendergast; 4. Exploring retouch on bifaces: unpacking production, resharpening, and hammer type Jennifer Wilson and William Andrefsky, Jr; 5. The construction of morphological diversity: a study of Mousterian implement retouching at Combe Grenal Peter Hiscock and Chris Clarkson; 6. Reduction and retouch as independent measures of intensity Brooke Blades; 7. Perforation with stone tools and retouch intensity: a Neolithic case study Colin Patrick Quinn, William Andrefsky, Jr, Ian Kuijt and Bill Finlayson; 8. Exploring the dart and arrow dilemma: retouch indices as functional determinants Cheryl Harper and William Andrefsky, Jr; Part III. New Perspectives on Lithic Raw Material and Technology: 9. Projectile point provisioning strategies and human land use William Andrefsky, Jr; 10. The role of lithic raw material availability and quality in determining tool kit size, tool function, and degree of retouch: a case study from Skink Rockshelter (46NI445), West Virginia Douglas H. MacDonald; 11. Raw material and retouched flakes Andrew P. Bradbury, Philip J. Carr and D. Randall Cooper; Part IV. Evolutionary Approaches to Lithic Technologies: 12. Lithic technological organization in an evolutionary framework: examples from North America's Pacific Northwest region Anna Marie Prentiss and David S. Clarke; 13. Changing reduction intensity, settlement, and subsistence in Wardaman Country, Northern Australia Chris Clarkson; 14. Lithic core reduction techniques: modeling expected diversity Nathan B. Goodale, Ian Kuijt, Shane J. Macfarlan, Curtis Osterhoudt and Bill Finlayson.
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Cambridge University Press Boiotia in Antiquity
Book SynopsisBoiotia was - next to Athens and Sparta - one of the most important regions of ancient Greece. Albert Schachter, a leading expert on the region, has for many decades pioneered and fostered the exploration of it and its people through his research. His seminal publications have covered all aspects of its history, institutions, cults, and literature from late Mycenaean times to the Roman Empire, revealing a mastery of the epigraphic evidence, archaeological data, and the literary tradition. This volume conveniently brings together twenty-three papers (two previously unpublished, others revised and updated) which display a compelling intellectual coherence and a narrative style refreshingly immune to jargon. All major topics of Boiotian history from early Greece to Roman times are touched upon, and the book can be read as a history of Boiotia, in pieces.Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. Boiotian beginnings: the creation of an ethnos; Part II. History: Boiotian: 2. Kadmos and the implications of the tradition for Boiotian history; 3. Boiotia in the sixth century BC; 4. The early Boiotoi: from alliance to federation; 5. Politics and personalities in classical Thebes; 6. Tanagra: the geographical and historical context; 7. From hegemony to disaster: Thebes from 362 to 335; 8. Pausanias and Boiotia; Part III. History: Boiotian and Other: 9. The politics of dedication: two Athenian dedications at the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoieus in Boiotia; 10. The seer Tisamenos and the Klytiadai; Part IV. Boiotian Institutions: 11. Gods in the service of the state: the Boiotian experience; 12. Boiotian military elites (with an appendix on the funereal stelai); 13. Three generations of magistrates from Akraiphia; Part V. Literature: 14. Simonides' elegy on Plataia: the occasion of its performance; 15. The singing contest of Kithairon and Helikon: Korinna fr. 654 PMG col. i and ii.1-11: content and context; 16. Ovid and Boiotia; Part VI. Cult: 17. The Daphnephoria of Thebes; 18. Reflections on an inscription from Tanagra; 19. Egyptian cults and local elites in Boiotia; 20. Evolutions of a mystery cult: the Theban Kabiroi; 21. The Mouseia of Thespiai: organization and development; 22. Tilphossa: the site and its cults; 23. A consultation of Trophonios (IG 7.4136).
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Cambridge University Press Religion at Work in a Neolithic Society Vital Matters
Book SynopsisThis book tackles the topic of religion, a broad subject exciting renewed interest across the social and historical sciences. The volume is tightly focused on the early farming village of ÃatalhÃyÃk, which has generated much interest both within and outside of archaeology, especially for its contributions to the understanding of early religion. The volume discusses contemporary themes such as materiality, animism, object vitality, and material dimensions of spirituality while at the same time exploring broad evolutionary changes in the ways in which religion has influenced society. The volume results from a unique collaboration between an archaeological team and a range of specialists in ritual and religion.Trade Review'Ian Hodder presents Çatalhöyük in a new perspective and invites an exciting interdisciplinary group to respond. It is like a particle accelerator in action, as their collisions spin off all sorts of new insights from a site at a pivotal Neolithic moment in human history.' Trevor Watkins, University of Edinburgh'Çatalhöyük has long stimulated the imagination and provoked bold ideas. Continuing an innovative project already remarkable for its daring, Ian Hodder has again put into conversation scholars bringing an impressive range of disciplinary perspectives.' Webb Keane, University of Michigan'This innovative and path-breaking book provides indispensable insights into the material and immaterial worlds of Neolithic community, ritual, and religion. The essays of these international scholars will quickly draw readers into the exciting worlds of Neolithic life in general, and Çatalhöyük in particular, and reshape debate and discussion of daily life within Neolithic communities for years to come.' Ian Kuijt, University of Notre DameTable of Contents1. The vitalities of Çatalhöyük Ian Hodder; Part I. Vital Religion: The Evolutionary Context of Religion at Çatalhöyük: 2. Different strokes for different folks: Near Eastern Neolithic mortuary practices in perspective Nigel Goring-Morris and Anna Belfer-Cohen; 3. Excavating theogonies: anthropomorphic promiscuity and sociographic prudery in the Neolithic and now LeRon Shults; 4. Religion as anthropomorphism at Çatalhöyük Stewart Guthrie; 5. The historical self: memory and religion at Çatalhöyük J. Wentzel van Huyssteen; 6. Modes of religiosity and the evolution of social complexity at Çatalhöyük Harvey Whitehouse, Camilla Mazzucato, Ian Hodder and Quentin D. Atkinson; Part II. Vital Materials at Çatalhöyük: 7. Relational networks and religious sodalities at Çatalhöyük Barbara Mills; 8. Using 'magic' to think from the material: tracing distributed agency, revelation, and concealment at Çatalhöyük Carolyn Nakamura and Peter Pels; 9. 'Motherbaby': a death in childbirth at Çatalhöyük Kimberley Patton and Lori Hager; 10. The hau of the house Mary Weismantel; 11. Material register, surface, and form at Çatalhöyük Victor Buchli; 12. The use of spatial order in Çatalhöyük material culture Anke Kamerman; Part III. Vital Data: 13. Theories and their data: interdisciplinary interactions at Çatalhöyük Ian Hodder.
£28.99
Cambridge University Press Delphi and Olympia
Book SynopsisInvestigates the physical remains of both Delphi and Olympia to show how different visitors interacted with the sacred spaces during the archaic and classical periods; the oracle and the games being but two of the many activities ongoing at both sites.Trade Review'… this new book on monumental dedications and spatial politics fully deserves a place among the basic publications on Delphi and Olympia, and should not be missed by scholars interested in pan-hellenic identity and sanctuary spaces.' Histara: Les Comptes Rendus'This handsome and readable volume belies its origin in the PhD research of Michael Scott, a rising star of Ancient History in Cambridge.' Anglo-Hellenic Review'It is the particular merit of [the book that it] has turned to the archaeology, monuments, dedications and buildings of these sanctuary sites to test the nature of panhellenism as it changed over the archaic and classical periods.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Athletes and oracles - but what else?; 2. Dedicating at Olympia and Delphi; 3. Delphi 650–500 BC; 4. Delphi 500–400 BC; 5. Delphi 400–300 BC; 6. Olympia 650–479 BC; 7. Olympia 479–300 BC; 8. Comparing spaces; 9. Panhellenic sanctuaries and panhellenism in context.
£42.74
Cambridge University Press Everyday Life in the Classic Maya World
Book SynopsisUsing the most up to date information from a variety of disciplines, Ardren uses stories of individual Maya people, to create a narrative that takes the reader from rural homestead to agricultural field and forest, and on to the marketplace, palace, and trading port of a royal Maya city.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The domestic world; 3. Fields and forests; 4. Into the city; 5. Palace life; To the coast; 7. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region
Book SynopsisSir Cyril Fox (18821967) was an archaeologist and Director of the National Museum of Wales. This book, first published in 1923, is his pioneering doctoral thesis, in which he developed the geographical approach to analysing changes in ancient settlement patterns. This approach influenced later environmental and landscape archaeology.Table of ContentsList of illustrations and maps; Contractions; Introduction; 1. The Neolithic Age; 2. The Bronze Age; 3. The Early Iron Age; 4. Earthworks and trackways possibly or certainly prehistoric; 5. The Roman Age; 6. The Anglo-Saxon Age; 7. Conclusion; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids Temples Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia
Book SynopsisGiovanni Belzoni (17781823) was famous in his day, and notorious afterwards, for his 'treasure-hunting' approach to the study of ancient Egypt, which included blasting his way into tombs with gunpowder. His narrative of his adventures was enormously popular at the time, and remains readable and entertaining today.Table of ContentsPreface; Preface to the second edition; First journey; Second journey; Third journey; Journey to the Red Sea; Account of the taking of the obelisk from the island of Philoe to Alexandria; Journey to the oasis of Ammon; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press The Tomb of TutAnkhAmen
Book SynopsisHoward Carter (18741939) was an English archaeologist, renowned for discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun. Originally published between 1923 and 1933, this three-volume study contains Carter's account of the sensational discovery, excavation and clearance of Tutankhamun's tomb. Volume 1 describes the original discovery and the opening of the Antechamber.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction Lady Burghclere; 1. The King and the Queen; 2. The valley and the tomb; 3. The valley in modern times; 4. Our prefatory work at Thebes; 5. The finding of the tomb; 6. A preliminary investigation; 7. A survey of the antechamber; 8. Clearing the antechamber; 9. Visitors and the press; 10. Work in the laboratory; 11. The opening of the sealed door; Appendix; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Tomb of TutAnkhAmen
Book SynopsisHoward Carter (18741939) was an English archaeologist, renowned for discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun. Originally published between 1923 and 1933, this three-volume study contains Carter's account of the sensational discovery, excavation and clearance of the tomb. Volume 2 describes the opening of the triple coffin, and Tutankhamun's mummy.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. Tut-Ankh-Amen; 2. The tomb and burial chamber; 3. Clearing the burial chamber and opening the sarcophagus; 4. The state chariots; 5. The opening of the three coffins (season 1925–1926); 6. Points of interest in Egyptian burial customs; 7. The examination of the royal mummy; Appendices; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Tomb of TutAnkhAmen Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter Volume 3 Cambridge Library Collection Archaeology
Book SynopsisHoward Carter (1874â1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, now renowned for discovering the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun. Published between 1923 and 1933, this three-volume study contains Carter's detailed account of the sensational discovery, excavation and clearance of Tutankhamun's tomb and its treasures. The tomb was almost fully intact when discovered and remains the most complete burial discovered in the Valley of the Kings. Each volume of Carter's book is richly illustrated with over 100 photographs of the tomb and objects found in it, showing their original state and how they appeared after reconstruction. Carter's meticulous recording and conservation techniques are faithfully documented in his account, providing a vivid and engaging description of the work which occurred during the excavation of this famous site. Volume 3 describes the recording and conservation of objects in the Treasury and Annexe rooms and puts forward Carter's interpretation of their use.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The room beyond the burial chamber (a treasury); 2. The funerary equipment found in the room beyond the burial chamber; 3. The annexe (a store-room); 4. The objects found in the annexe (a store-room); 5. The main cause of deterioration and chemical changes among the objects in the tomb; Appendices; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Accidents of an Antiquarys Life
Book SynopsisThe archaeologist D. G. Hogarth (18621927) became the keeper of Ashmolean Museum and president of the Royal Geographical Society. This 1910 account of his travels and excavations in Turkey, Egypt, and Crete, intended for a popular audience, remains a highly readable account of the practicalities behind his intellectual career.Trade Review'Hogarth's writing is lively, conversational and charmingly self-effacing … a fascinating insight into the beginnings of his long and remarkably eventful career.' Current ArchaeologyTable of ContentsPreface; Introductory - apology of an apprentice; 1. An interlude; 2. Lycia; 3. Crete; 4. Nile fens; 5. The Satalian Gulf; 6. Cyrene; 7. Digging; 8. The Sajur; Hittite Problems and the Excavation of Carchemish (1911).
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Cambridge University Press The Palace of Minos
Book SynopsisPioneer of Cretan archaeology, Sir Arthur Evans (18511941) won fame for discovering Minoan civilisation. His highly illustrated multi-volume report of major excavations at Knossos, published between 1921 and 1935, develops his theories about the Bronze Age palace he uncovered and the society to which it belonged.Table of Contents50. 'House of the Chancel Screen' and 'Royal Villa'; 51. The 'North-East House' and the import of its contents; 52. The 'House of the Frescoes'; 53. Influence of natural and other designs of M.M. III wall-paintings on late Minoan ceramic decoration; 54. 'The Little Palace' and its pillar cult; 55. Extension of the town of Knossos; 56. The 'Broad Knossos' of Homeric tradition; 57. State approach to palace from north and west; 58. North-west corner entrance to palace, and sanctuary hall; 59. The west court: its causeways and altars; 60. Palatial bronze hoard from north-west treasure house and contemporary deposits from private houses; 61. West porch and entrance system, earlier and later; 62. The 'South Propylaeum', earlier and later , and 'cup-bearer fresco'; 63. The procession fresco, with comparative materials; 64. Ceremonial south-north corridor, I; 65. Ceremonial south-north corridor, II; 66. Double façade of palace on central court; 67. Lion's head 'rhytons' of Minoan rhea.
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Cambridge University Press The Palace of Minos
Book SynopsisPioneer of Cretan archaeology, Sir Arthur Evans (18511941) won fame for discovering Minoan civilisation. His highly illustrated multi-volume report of major excavations at Knossos, published between 1921 and 1935, develops his theories about the Bronze Age palace he uncovered and the society to which it belonged.Table of Contents90. Plans for structural re-constitution carried to completion; 91. The Minoan goddess as patroness of the palace bull-ring; 92. Discoveries of 1930 - outer line of enceinte wall and entrance system to the west; 93. Fresh lights on polychrome pottery of the Great Age; 94. A 'snake room' of domestic cult; 95. The sacred 'adder mark' and a stone statuette of goddess as 'snake mother'; 96. Altars and ritual of the Knossian goddess; 97. Architectural friezes and other reliefs from the 'Middle Palace' at Knossos; 98. Anticipations of later 'palace style'; 99. The 'palace style' pottery of L. M. II.
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Cambridge University Press The Palace of Minos
Book SynopsisPioneer of Cretan archaeology, Sir Arthur Evans (18511941) won fame for discovering Minoan civilisation. His highly illustrated multi-volume report of major excavations at Knossos, published between 1921 and 1935, develops his theories about the Bronze Age palace he uncovered and the society to which it belonged.Table of Contents100. The 'camp-stool' fresco of the 'North-West Sanctuary Hall'; 101. Long-robed priestly and royal personages on seals from Knossos and Vapheio; 102. Discovery in the 'initiatory area' of lapis-lazuli cylinder with early Chaldaean connexions; 103. The Minoan genii and their relation to the Egyptian hippopotamus goddess; 104. Fresh discovery of a chryselephantine image of boy-god; 105. Retrospect of Minoan bead-seals and signet-rings; 106. Indigenous sphragistic tradition; 107. Hunting and other animal types on late Minoan seals; 108. The late palatial deposits of clay seal impressions at Knossos; 109. Later phase of west magazines, upper and lower; 110. First discovery of large hoards of clay tablets in Advanced Linear Script (B); 111. Tablets of the Linear Script B (continued); 112. Knossian Script B in mainland Greece; 113. Supplementary to preceding: the Minoan remains at Ras-Shamra; 114. Deposits of tablets depicting chariots; 115. Armature in the last palatial age; 116. The latest palatial age of Knossos; 117. Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press Seventy Years in Archaeology Cambridge Library Collection Egyptology
Book SynopsisAmong the leading Egyptologists of his day, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853â1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. He is credited with bringing his subject to a much wider audience, and his talent for exposition is reflected in this accessible autobiography, first published in 1931 and illustrated throughout. It describes life on digs in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, providing rich insights into developing archaeological methods. Petrie's most important discoveries are recounted, including his unearthing of the Merneptah Stele, some of the earliest evidence of mummification, and elements of Greek and Roman cultural influence in Egypt. Furthermore, he reflects here on his innovative practice of recording and preserving every artefact, not just obvious museum pieces. Petrie wrote prolifically throughout his long career, and a great many of his other publications are also reissued in this series.Table of ContentsForeword; 1. Preparation, 1853–80; 2. The pyramids, 1880–2; 3. In the delta, 1883–6; 4. Up the Nile, 1886–7; 5. In the Fayum, 1887–90; 6. Palestine and Meydum, 1890–1; 7. Amarna, 1891–2; 8. Koptos, Naqada, and Thebes, 1893–7; 9. Deshasheh, Dendereh, Hu, Abydos, 1897–1902; 10. Ehnasya, Sinai, Yehudiyeh, 1902–6; 11. Rifeh, Memphis, Qurneh, Hawara, 1906–11; 12. Tarkhan, Lahun, the war, 1911–14; 13. Lahun, Sedment, Oxyrhynkhos, Qau, 1919–26; 14. Egypt over the border, in the Negeb, 1926–31; Bibliography; Index; Tell-el-Ajjul.
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Cambridge University Press Nineveh and Its Remains
Book SynopsisThe excavations of Sir Austen Henry Layard (181794) provided important evidence about ancient Assyrian civilisation. Placing Mesopotamian history in the context of the more familiar biblical and classical worlds, this two-volume illustrated work of 1849 is a combination of archaeology, ancient history, anthropology and travel writing.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Part I: 1. First journey in Assyria; 2. Mohammed Pasha; 3. Return to Mosul; 4. Preparations for a journey to Al Hather; 5. Discovery of small objects; 6. Departure for the Tiyari mountains; 7. Asheetha; 8. Introduction of Christianity into Assyria; 9. Invitation to the feast of the Yezidis; 10. Excavations on a large scale undertaken by the British Museum.
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Cambridge University Press Researches in Sinai
Book SynopsisA pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (18531942) made Near Eastern archaeology a much more rigorous and scientific discipline. This 1906 account of archaeological work in the Sinai Peninsula, with additional chapters by Charles T. Currelly (18761957), describes the discovery of the Proto-Sinaitic script at Serabit el-Khadim.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. On the Sinai road; 2. The Bedawy and the desert; 3. Wady Maghareh and its sculptures; 4. The miners of Wady Maghareh; 5. Serabit el Khadem and the bethels; 6. The temple of Serabit; 7. The history and purpose of the temple; 8. The mining expeditions; 9. The lesser and foreign monuments; 10. The altars and the offerings; 11. The mines of Serabit el Khadem; 12. The revision of chronology; 13. The worship at Serabit el Khadem; 14. The conditions of the exodus; 15. Tor to Maghareh; 16. Gebel Musa and the Nawamis; 17. Mount Sinai and Gebel Serbal; 18. Tor to Aqabah; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians
Book SynopsisA pioneer of British Egyptology, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (17971875) published this well-illustrated three-volume work in 1837. Writing in a popular genre normally focused on contemporary societies, Wilkinson covers areas ranging from daily life to funerary beliefs. His imaginative approach underpinned the book's considerable success.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; List and explanation of the plates; 1. Egypt, the land of Ham or Khem; 2. History of Egypt and list of kings; 3. Egypt properly so called.
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Cambridge University Press Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians
Book SynopsisA pioneer of British Egyptology, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (17971875) published this well-illustrated three-volume work in 1837. Writing in a popular genre normally focused on contemporary societies, Wilkinson covers areas ranging from daily life to funerary beliefs. His imaginative approach underpinned the book's considerable success.Table of ContentsList and explanation of the plates; 4. The other members of the second caste; 5. Houses of the Egyptians; 6. Apartments for guests; 7. Vases.
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Cambridge University Press A Handbook to the Palace of Minos at Knossos With its Dependencies Cambridge Library Collection Archaeology
Book SynopsisThis short handbook on the Palace of Minos at Knossos in Crete was published in 1933 by archaeologist John Pendlebury (190441), who had worked for several seasons at Knossos. It provides an architectural history of the Palace of Minos, and a guide to the site, with photographs and maps.Table of ContentsForeword; Preface; An architectural history of the palace; Note; The palace; The dependencies of the palace; Plates; Plans.
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Cambridge University Press Operations Carried On at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837 Volume 2
Book SynopsisThis influential three-volume work, published 18402, narrates in detail, with illustrations, important excavations on the pyramids at Giza, as carried out by Richard William Howard Vyse (178453). Volume 2 (1840) contains detailed descriptions of the excavation of several pyramids and their contents, and appendices with extensive measurements.Table of ContentsThe pyramids of Gizeh (cont.); Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press The Great Pyramid Why Was It Built And Who Built It Cambridge Library Collection Egyptology
Book SynopsisThe publisher and author John Taylor (1781â1864), who took an interest in various antiquarian matters, published this work in 1859. Using the measurements taken by the seventeenth-century archaeologist John Greaves and by the French savants who had examined the Great Pyramid at Giza during Napoleon's Egyptian expedition, he deduced the existence of a 'pyramid inch' (fractionally longer than the British inch), which was one twenty-fifth of the so-called 'sacred cubit' and was derived from ancient astronomical and time-measurement observations; and as a convinced Christian, he concluded that the British inch was therefore divinely inspired. His work was very influential and had a considerable following (the astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth's 1864 book on Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid is also reissued in this series), but was later debunked by the more accurate surveys and measurements of Flinders Petrie, whose interest in Egypt was partly aroused by reading this book.Table of ContentsPart I. Exterior of the Great Pyramid: 1. The pyramids of Gizeh; 2. Earliest measures of the base of the pyramid; 3. Various heights ascribed to the great pyramid; 4. Various estimates of the Greek foot; 5. The measure of the great pyramid according to Herodotus; 6. The cubit of Karnak; 7. The royal or Philetaerian foot; 8. The sacred cubit of the Jews; 9. Degrees, minutes, and seconds in the table of constants; 10. Diameter of the earth; Part II. Interior of the Great Pyramid: 11. General description of the interior of the great pyramid; 12. The king's chamber; 13. The pyramid coffer the standard of all measures; 14. The pyramid coffer the measure of the laver; 15. The pyramid coffer the standard of Grecian measures; 16. The pyramid coffer the standard of English measures; 17. English weights derived from English measures of capacity; 18. Grecian weights derived from Grecian measures of capacity; 19. English and French systems of metrology compared; 20. Etymological illustrations; Part III. The Founders of the Great Pyramid: 21. Introductory remarks; 22. The founders not the race of Ham; 23. These shepherds were an abomination to the Egyptians; 24. The founders of the great pyramid were the race of Shem; 25. Noah the probable originator of the work; 26. The earth divided in the days of Peleg; 27. The canal of Joseph; 28. The builders of the tower of Babel were of the race of Ham; 29. The great pyramid alluded to in the Book of Job; 30. The great pyramid alluded to in the Book of Psalms; 31. Origin of the Arabian language; 32. Arabian numerals preceded alphabetic writing; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt Volume 3
Book SynopsisVivant Denon (17471825), a dilettante and diplomat under the Ancien Régime, survived the Revolution and accompanied Napoleon's army to Egypt. The publication in 1802 of this lively, illustrated three-volume account (translated a year later) is regarded as the chief stimulus for the so-called 'Egyptian Revival' style of architecture and interior design.Table of Contents19. Arab council; 20. Balasse, and the porous earthen vessels manufactured there; 21. Embark at Keneh for Cairo; Explanation of the plates; Index; List of plates; Contents.
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Cambridge University Press Travels and Researches in Asia Minor Mesopotamia Chaldea and Armenia Volume 1 Cambridge Library Collection Archaeology
Book SynopsisThe surgeon William Ainsworth (1807â96) acted as the geologist of the 1835 Euphrates Expedition, his account of which is also reissued in this series. Great interest was aroused by the scientific and archaeological findings of that journey, and a further expedition was funded, ostensibly to make contact with the Nestorian Christians of the region, but covertly to make further mineralogical investigations. Ainsworth was the leader of the expedition, and his two-volume account was published in 1842. Starting from Istanbul in 1839, Ainsworth took a route through Asia Minor, northern Syria, Kurdistan, Persia and Armenia, returning to Istanbul in 1840. The expedition was regarded as unsuccessful, as Ainsworth had massively overspent on the budget originally allotted by the sponsors, and his secret activities were discovered by the Ottoman authorities, but the work remains a vivid account of the area. Volume 1 covers events up to the battle of Nezib in 1839.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Suburb of Constantinople; 2. Ismid; 3. The hero's stone; 4. The hollow rock; 5. Upland of Iflani; 6. Virgin's castle; 7. Town of Osmanjik; 8. Town of Changri; 9. A French instructor of cavalry; 10. Quit Angora; 11. Deserted mines and foxes; 12. Utch Ayak; 13. Christians of Nev Shehr; 14. Koch Hisar; 15. Iron village; 16. Kaiseriyeh; 17. Viran Shehr; 18. Start from Derendah; 19. Passage of the Taurus; 20. Vale of Gergen Kafehsi; 21. Retrospective; 22. Town of Birehjik; 23. Prisoners of water; 24. Position of the Turks turned by the enemy; 25. Line of retreat.
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Cambridge University Press The Power of Ritual in Prehistory
Book SynopsisThe Power of Ritual in Prehistory is the first book in nearly a century to deal with traditional secret societies from a comparative perspective and the first from an archaeological viewpoint. Providing a clear definition, as well as the material signatures, of ethnographic secret societies, Brian Hayden demonstrates how they worked, what motivated their organizers, and what tactics they used to obtain what they wanted. He shows that far from working for the welfare of their communities, traditional secret societies emerged as predatory organizations operated for the benefit of their own members. Moreover, and contrary to the prevailing ideas that prehistoric rituals were used to integrate communities, Hayden demonstrates how traditional secret societies created divisiveness and inequalities. They were one of the key tools for increasing political control leading to chiefdoms, states, and world religions. Hayden''s conclusions will be eye-opening, not only for archaeologists, but also for anthropologists, political scientists, and scholars of religion.Trade Review'This is a strong book and a fascinating account of practices … It gives us clear examples of secret societies in a variety of cultures and helps us get an appreciation for how they might have functioned in the past as well as how this undermines perceived notions of the role of religion in ancient societies.' Joanne M.A. Murphy, American Journal of ArchaeologyTable of Contents1. The secret; Part I. The New World: 2. The complex hunter/gatherers of the American Northwest; 3. California; 4. The American Southwest and Mesoamerica; 5. Plains secret societies; 6. The Eastern woodlands and others; Part II. The Old World: 7. Oceania; 8. Chiefdoms in Central Africa; 9. West Africa; Part III. Implications For Prehistory: 10. Archaeological applications; 11. Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Papyri and the Social World of the New Testament
Book SynopsisIn this book, Sabine R. Huebner explores the world of the protagonists of the New Testament and the early Christians using the rich papyrological evidence from Roman Egypt. This gives us unparalleled insights into the everyday lives of the non-elite population in an area quite similar to neighboring Judaea-Palestine. What were the daily concerns and difficulties experienced by a carpenter''s family or by a shepherd looking after his flocks? How did the average man or woman experience a Roman census? What obstacles did women living in a patriarchal society face in private, in public, and in the early Church? Given the flight of Jesus'' family into Egypt, how mobile were the lower classes, what was their understanding of geography, and what costs and dangers were associated with travel? This volume gives a better understanding of the structural, social, and cultural conditions under which figures from the New Testament lived.Table of Contents1. Egypt and the social world of the New Testament; 2. The social milieu of the early Christians in Egypt: who were the first readers of the Gospels?; 3. 'In those days a decree went out …': the Herodian Kingdom and the Augustan provincial census system; 4. 'But these words seemed to them an idle tale': discrimination and the struggle for women's equality in early Christianity; 5. 'The carpenter's son': the family and household of a craftsman; 6. 'In those days Mary set out …': travel by the lower classes in Roman times; 7. 'In that region there were shepherds living in the fields': an occupation on the margins of society; 8. Afterword.
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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of Food
Book SynopsisThe Archaeology of Foodexplains how archaeologists reconstruct what people ate, and how such reconstructions reveal ancient political struggles, religious practices, ethnic identities, gender norms, and more. Balancing deep research with accessible writing, Katheryn Twiss familiarizes readers with archaeological data, methods, and intellectual approaches as they explore topics ranging from urban commerce to military provisioning to ritual feasting. Along the way, Twiss examines a range of primary evidence, including Roman bars, Aztec statues, Philistine pig remains, Nubian cooking pots, Mississippian squash seeds, and the bones of a medieval king. Her book introduces both archaeologists and non-archaeologists to the study of prehistoric and historic foodways, and illuminates how those foodways shaped and were shaped by past cultures.Trade Review'Engaging examples drawn from published research are provided throughout, supported by an extensive, up-to-date bibliography. Even though this text is written in a style that seems intended primarily for students, faculty and other researches are likely to find it useful as well.' W. Kotter, Choice'The Archaeology of Food takes a global perspective on the centrality of food. In this short but exceptionally well-written volume, Twiss shows how food can be used to understand economic systems, social inequality, politics, religion, identity, and human–environment relationships in the past and present.' Matthew E. Hill Jr, American Anthropologist'With its wide variety of case studies and outstanding bibliography, The Archaeology of Food should be on the bookshelves of researchers working on issues of cuisine, foodways, and zooarchaeology. Its modest length and exceptionally clear writing also make this volume a must-read in various undergraduate and graduate seminars. With her often witty prose, and a commitment to make even the most arcane academic debate understandable to beginning students, Twiss has produced an engaging book that will help both the student and professional alike better understand how archaeologists study food.' Matthew E. Hill, Jr, American AnthropologistTable of Contents1. What is food, and why do archaeologists study it?; 2. How do archaeologists study food? Data sets and methods; 3. Food and economics; 4. Food and inequality; 5. Food and politics; 6. Identity: food, affiliation, and distinction; 7. Food, ritual, and religion; 8. Archaeology, food, and the future.
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Cambridge University Press The Cosmos in Ancient Greek Religious Experience
Book SynopsisA nuanced study for students and researchers of ancient Greek religion and archaeology. It reveals the importance of cosmological tenets in the performance of ritual and the importance of their location and time for religious education. Also of interest to historians of science, as it explains how astronomy permeated ancient daily life.Trade Review'An undoubtedly interesting book, well-researched and rich in new conceptions, that is to be recommended to all students and researchers in ancient Greek religion, architecture, and archaeoastronomy, as well as to anyone, non-expert, interested in these subjects.' Panagiota Markoulaki, Journal of Hellenic ReligionTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Methodological Advances, Approaches, and Considerations; 3. Worship in Space and Time; 4. Astronomy and Perceptual Cognition in Apolline Cults; 5. The Cosmos in Manifestations of Identity, Memory, and Remembrance; 6. Cosmic Time in Greek Mystery Cults; 7. Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press The Brothel of Pompeii
Book SynopsisThis book provides a provocative and authoritative analysis of the only definitive brothel from Greco-Roman antiquity. Scholars and fans of the Greco-Roman world, women's history, and the history of prostitution will find this an essential read. All readers will appreciate the accessible writing style and numerous illustrations.Trade Review'… richly illustrated (and) accompanied by thoughtful analysis.' Sarah E. Bond, History Today'… invites readers to consider the famous Pompeiian brothel in the context of the gender and class of clients and prostitutes, as a window to understanding social hierarchy in the ancient city.' L. De Danaan, Choice'If Sarah Levin-Richardson is right that this brothel was an economic anomaly, rather than a representation of common Roman practice, this turns our understanding of ancient prostitution on its head. The Brothel of Pompeii brings home the value of stopping to listen to the unheard voices of the past.' Rebecca Langlands, The Times Literary Supplement'With this definitive publication, Levin-Richardson makes a lasting contribution to our knowledge of ancient prostitution and to ancient social history in general.' Marilyn Skinner, CJ OnlineTable of ContentsPart I: 1. Architecture; 2. Material finds; 3. Graffiti; 4. Frescoes; 5. Upper floor; Part II: 6. Male clients; 7. Female prostitutes; 8. Male prostitutes.
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Cambridge University Press Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt
Book SynopsisThe only substantial and up-to-date reference work on the Ptolemaic army. This book illuminates how state-formation and the changing structures of the army in Egypt after Alexander's conquest had an effect on settlement, land distribution and the development of social networks between Greeks and Egyptians.Trade Review'Fischer-Bovet has written the first full-scale study of the Ptolemaic military in over a century. Few books have the potential to change the direction of scholarship; this is such a book … This well-written, clearly argued study belongs in all university libraries.' S. M. Burstein, Choice'Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt offers a wide-ranging analysis of Ptolemaic military institutions, particularly as a social vehicle for stability and integrative activity. It features a comprehensive bibliography, numerous sources in translation, several helpful maps, charts and diagrams, and thorough indices.' Paul Johstono, Bryn Mawr Classical Review'… [the book] is filled with a great deal of useful and highly interesting information and, as such, it amply repays the time taken to make a considered read.' Victor Blunden, Ancient EgyptTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The army in Late Period Egypt (664–332 BC); Part I. Structure and Role of the Army: 3. Military challenges faced by the Ptolemies: power, money, crisis and reform; 4. Military organization and hierarchy; 5. Military recruitment and ethnic composition; Part II. Economic Status and Social Networks of Soldiers and Officers: 6. Settling soldiers; 7. Soldiers and officers in the Egyptian countryside; Part III: The Army and Egyptian Temples: 8. Priests in the army: a politico-ideological explanation; 9. The army and Egyptian temple-building; 10. Conclusion; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean
Book SynopsisThe Celtic-speaking communities of Southern Gaul interacted with the ancient Mediterranean world during a period of constantly evolving cultural configurations. Using sociolinguistics and archaeology, this book investigates evidence for multilingualism and multiple identities from the foundation of Greek Marseille in 600 BC to the final phases of Roman Imperial power.Trade Review'Scholarly studies of Gaul are not readily available in English, so this work provides a plethora of material (also detailed in tables and appendixes) for students to digest.' ChoiceTable of ContentsPart I. Multilingualism and Multiple Identities: Interdisciplinary Methodologies: 1. Multiple voices; 2. Language contact and community dynamics; 3. Bilingual texts and community dynamics; 4. Scripts as indicators of contact; 5. Names as indicators of contact; Part II. Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in Southern Gaul: 6. Gallia in Graeciam translata? Investigating Gaulish-Greek linguistic contacts; 7. 'La Celtique méditerranéenne'? Investigating the influence of the Mediterranean koine; 8. 'D'où rayonna en Occident la civilisation'? Investigating the loci of cultural change; 9. Being Greek, becoming Roman, staying Celtic? Ethnolinguistic vitality from the Augustan period; 10. Conclusions; Appendices.
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