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Book SynopsisThe movement of people from the fen edge and river valleys into the clay lands of eastern England has become a growing area of research. The opportunity of studying such an environment and investigating the human activities that took place there became available 9 km to the north-west of Cambridge at the village of Longstanton. The archaeological excavations that took place over a sixteen year period have made a significant contribution to charting the emergence of a Cambridgeshire clayland settlement and its community over six millennia. Evolution of a Community chronologically documents the colonisation of this clay inland location and outlines how it was not an area on the periphery of activity, but part of a fully occupied landscape extending back into the Mesolithic period. Subsequent visits during the Late Neolithic became more focused when the locality appears to have been part of a religious landscape that included a possible barrow site and ritual pit deposits. The excavations indicate that the earliest permanent settlement at the site dates to the Late Bronze Age, with the subsequent Iron Age phases characterised as a small, modest and inward-looking community that endured into the Roman period with very little evidence for disjuncture during the transition. The significant discovery of a group of seventh-century Anglo-Saxon burials which produced rare evidence for infectious deceases is discussed within the context of ‘final phase’ cemeteries and the influence of visible prehistoric features within the local landscape. The excavation of the Late Anglo-Saxon and medieval rural settlement defined its origins and layout which, alongside the artefactual and archaeobotanical assemblages recovered creates a profile over time of the life and livelihood of this community that is firmly placed within its historical context.Trade Review'This is an important book whose archaeological results deserve wide recognition...' - Susan Oosthuizen (2015): AntiquityTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction ; Part 1 ; Chapter 2: The Prehistoric and Roman Archaeology ; Chapter 3: Neolithic and Bronze Age Finds ; Chapter 4: The Iron Age and Roman Finds ; Chapter 5: Inland Incursions: Discussion of the Prehistoric to Roman Activity ; Part 2 ; Chapter 6: The Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Archaeology ; Chapter 7: Early Anglo-Saxon Burial and Ritual ; Chapter 8: Longstanton: Settlement and Economy in a Medieval Cambridgeshire Vill. ; Chapter 9: The Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Pottery ; Chapter 10: The Late Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Finds ; Chapter 11: Charred Plant Remains from the Excavations ; Chapter 12: The Archaeology of a Community: Longstanton in the Late Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Periods ; Part 3 ; Conclusions ; Acknowledgements ; References ; Appendix 1: Archaeological Project Details ; Appendix 2: Methodologies and Tables ; Appendix 3: Petrography Detailed Sample Descriptions ; Appendix 4: Animal Bone Tables ; Appendix 5: Slag Tables ; Appendix 6: Radiocarbon Dates ; Appendix 7: Human remains additional data ; Appendix 8: Small Finds Tables ; Appendix 9: Other Finds Catalogues ; Appendix 10: CPR Tables

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Book SynopsisThe ancient harbor town of Dor/Dora in modern Israel has a history that spanned from the Bronze Age until the Late Roman Era. The story of its peoples can be assembled from a variety of historical and archaeological sources derived from the nearly thirty years of research at Tel Dor — the archaeological site of the ancient city. Each primary source offers a certain kind of information with its own perspective. In the attempt to understand the city during its Graeco-Roman years — a time when Dora reached its largest physical extent and gained enough importance to mint its own coins, numismatic sources provide key information. With their politically, socio-culturally and territorially specific iconography, Dora’s coins indeed reveal that the city was self-aware of itself as a continuous culture, beginning with its Phoenician origins and continuing into its Roman present.Table of ContentsPreface ; Acknowledgments ; List of Abbreviations ; List of Classical References ; Chapter 1: Tel Dor’s Context ; Chapter 2: Material Culture, Coins and Cultural Identity ; Chapter 3: The Mint of Dora ; Chapter 4: The Iconography of Dora’s Coins ; Chapter 5: Epigraphic Analysis of Dora’s Coins ; Chapter 6: Drawing Some Conclusions ; Bibliography ; Coin Catalogue ; Coin Plates

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Book SynopsisThe principal aim of this study is to put forward a technological and typological analysis of the industries of the Early Neolithic concerned in the process of neolithisation in several regions of Southern Italy. The rooting concepts are centred on the principles of the lithic technology outlined by J. Tixier, H. Roche, and M.-L. Inizan, D. Binder, C. Perlès, N. Pigeot et J. Pelegrin. The lithic series examined belong to the different horizons concerned in the process of Neolithitisation of Southern Italy in several areas of the envisaged region. In a view to reconstruct the economy of débitage and the economy of raw materials and the possible formation of technical traditions, this research is based on the following points: the economic and petrographic analysis of the raw materials; the analysis of the technological aspects and of the technical facts; the typometrical analysis of the different products of the chaînes opératoires; the typological analysis through the creation of an inventory allowing to integrate the study of the technological criteria with that of specific characters of the lithic tools. The main targets of this research are to highlight the methods and the techniques of débitage and to identify the chaînes opératoires set up by the early groups of farmers in the South of Italy and in Sicily. Is it possible to recognize a techno-economic variability in the débitage systems of the Early Neolithic of Southern Italy? Is it possible to give a cultural value to the variability of technical facts? What is the rate of continuity and discontinuity among groups of hunters-gatherers and the first farming societies? These questions shed light on the whole of technical and cultural transformations between the seventh and sixth millennium B.C. in the South of Italy, a region that played a key role in the process of diffusion of Neolithic towards the West Mediterranean.Table of ContentsTOME 1 : TEXTE Introduction Partie I. Problématiques et méthodes Chapitre 1. Le processus de néolithisation en Italie du Sud et la tradition mésolithique. Données générales Chapitre 2. Méthodologie et méthode. Approche synoptique de l’étude de l’industrie lithique Partie II. Les sites Chapitre 1. La Grotte de l’Uzzo (Trapani, Sicile) Chapitre 2. Le village néolithique de Ripa Tetta (Lucera, Pouilles) Chapitre 3. Les autres sites analysés : La Starza (Ariano Irpino, Campanie), Rendina (Melfi, Basilicate) Bibliographie Tables Table des figures Table des tableaux Annexe 1. Base de données des dates 14C TOME 2. PLANCHES Partie II. Chapitre 1. La Grotte de l’Uzzo (Trapani, Sicile). Planches Partie II. Chapitre 2. Le village néolithique de Ripa Tetta (Lucera, Pouilles). Planches Partie II. Chapitre 3. Les autres sites analysés : La Starza (Ariano Irpino, Campanie), Rendina (Melfi, Basilicate) Table des planches

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Book SynopsisThe themes of this volume are concerned with archaeological, historical, linguistic, anthropological, geographical and other investigations across the vast area (and different regions) through which the Argonauts travelled in seeking to return from Colchis: from the eastern shore of the Black Sea and the mouth of the Danube to the Adriatic. The contributions investigate an extended time period, from Greek colonisation to the end of Antiquity, and different cultural influences involving peoples and states, Greek cities, native peoples, Roman rule and events in Late Roman times. Each particular study contributes to the ground research, helping to create a complete picture of the theoretical level of cultural and political development and interaction of different cultures. The research and general conclusions concerning the social, ethnic, cultural and political development of the peoples who lived around the Black Sea shore and along the great Danube and Sava rivers can be reliable only if based on the detailed study of particular questions related to the extensive area stretching from the Black Sea to the Adriatic, and involving the many different peoples and epochs which lasted many hundreds of years.Table of ContentsPrincipal Editor’s Preface – (Gocha R. Tsetskhladze); Message from the President of the Congress – (Sir John Boardman); Welcome by the Secretary-General – (Gocha R. Tsetskhladze); Opening Lecture: Black Sea cultures and peoples – (Miroslava Mirković); Section 1: The Black Sea Greek Colonies and their Relationship with the Hinterland ; Greeks, locals and others around the Black Sea and its hinterland: recent developments – (Gocha R. Tsetskhladze); Feasting and diplomacy in colonial behaviour in the northern Black Sea – (Ivy Faulkner); The Black Sea area in Xenophon’s Anabasis – (Luigi Gallo); Hegemony and political instability in the Black Sea and Hellespont after the Theban expedition to Byzantium in 364 BC – (José Vela Tejada); Femmes et pouvoir chez les peuples des steppes eurasiatiques – (Marta Oller); The Bosporus after the Spartocid kings – (Stefania Gallotta); Leuce Island as a part of the Pontic contact zone: constructing a sacred Topos – (Ruja Popova); Sinope and Colchis: colonisation, or a Greek population in ‘Poleis Barbaron’? – (Jan G. de Boer); Greek colonies and the southern Black Sea hinterland: looking closer into a long, complex and multidimensional relationship – (Manolis Manoledakis); Phrygia and the southern Black Sea littoral – (Maya Vassileva); Perception and the political approach to foreigners of the West Pontic Greek colonies; during the Hellenistic period – (Alina Dimitrova); The Greek colonisation of Abkhazia in the light of new archaeological discoveries: the palaeogeographic, ecological and demographic situation in Sukhum Bay – (Alik Gabelia); New data on the dynamics of relations between Greeks and Barbarians at the mouth of the Tanais river in the final stage of Scythian history (5th-3rd centuries BC) – (Viktor P. Kopylov); Greek colonisation of the European Bosporus – (Viktor Zinko and Elena Zinko); The Cimmerians: their origins, movements and their difficulties – (Ioannis K. Xydopoulos); Section 2: The Danube and the Black Sea Region; Verbindung zwischen dem Schwarzen Meer und der Adriatik durch Ozean und/oder Donau im Weltbild der archaischen Griechen – (Alexander V. Podossinov); Between the Euxine and the Adriatic Seas: ancient representations of the Ister (Danube) and the Haemus (Balkan Mountains) as frames of modern south-eastern Europe – (Anca Dan); Cultural Transfers and artistic exchanges between the Adriatic and Black seas, 4th century BC – (Cecilia D’Ercole); Celts in the Black Sea area – (Jan Bouzek); Antonia Tryphaina im östlichen dynastischen Netzwerk – (Victor Cojocaru); Wine for the Avar elite? Amphorae from Avar period burials in the Carpathian Basin – (Gergely Csiky and Piroska Magyar-Hárshegyi); Sur quelques inscriptions possiblement tomitaines – (Alexandru Avram); The ecclesiastic network of the regions on the western and northern shores of the Black Sea in late antiquity – (Dan Ruscu); Religion and society on the western Pontic shore – (Ligia Ruscu); L’Europe du sud-est chez les géographes de l’époque impériale: continuités et ruptures – (Mattia Vitelli Casella); Colonisation in the urban and rural milieu of Noviodunum (Moesia Inferior) – (Lucreţiu Mihailescu-Bîrliba); Aquileian families through Pannonia and Upper Moesia – (Leonardo Gregoratti); The city of Tomi and the Roman army – epigraphic evidence – (Snežana Ferjančić); The imperial city of Justiniana Prima as a paradigm of Constantinopolitan influence in the Central Balkans – (Olga Špehar); Empreintes et originaux: les monnaies avec monogramme BAE – (Pascal Burgunder); The Roman harbour of Ariminum and its connections with the Aegean and the Black Sea – (Federico Ugolini); L’istros dans l’horizon géographique ancien: un aperçu historique sur les traditions et les connaissances géographiques concernant son bassin – (Immacolata Balena); De la mer Égée jusqu’aux Carpates: la route du vin de Rhodes vers la Dacie – (Dragoş Măndescu); Section 3: Roman and Byzantine Limes. Varia; Women at the verge: Roman and Byzantine women on the Danubian Limes – (Il Akkad and Milena Joksimović); Funerary images of women in tomb frescos of the Late Antique and Early Byzantine period from the Central Balkans – (Jelena Andelković Grašar); Regarding the fall of the Danubian limes with special reference to Scythia Minor in the 7th century – (Gabriel Custurea and Gabriel Mircea Talmaţchi); Some East Pontic amphorae of Roman and Early Byzantine times – (Andrei Opaiţ); Some thoughts about Seleucid Thrace in the 3rd century BC – (Adrian George Dumitru); Eastern crimea in the 10th-12th centuries AD: similarities and differences – (Vadim V. Maiko); Les Romains en mer Noire: depuis les villes greques au IIe siècle après J.-C. – (Livio Zerbini); Castles made of sand? Balkan Latin from Petar Skok to J.N. Adams – (Vojin Nedeljković); Ancient coins on Bulgarian lands (1st century BC-5th century AD): the Archetype of Dominance/Power–God/Emperor/King on a Throne – (Sasha Lozanova); Ceramics from the Danubian provinces on sites of the Chernyakhov-Sîntana de Mureş culture – (Boris Magomedov); Section 4: New Excavations and Projects; Thracia Pontica: Apollonia, Mesambria et al. A comparative archaeometrical approach – (Pierre Dupont); Old digs, new data: archaeological topography of the southern part of the Acropolis of Istros during the Greek period (the Basilica Pârvan sector) – (Valentin-Victor Bottez); Stratégies coloniales et réseaux d’occupation spatiale gètes sur le littoral de la Dobroudja du Nord: les acquis du Programme ANR Pont-Euxin – (Alexandre Baralis et Vasilica Lungu); Rock-cut monuments in Thrace and Phrygia: new perspectives from the Gluhite Kamani project – (Lynn E. Roller); Deultum-Debeltos: archaeological excavation of the street spaces and structures, 2004-13 – (Hristo Preshlenov); The civic centre of Archaic Borysthenes: a new approach to localisation – (Dmitry Chistov); Changes in the structure of faunal remains at the settlement on Berezan island (northern Black Sea) during its existence – (Aleksei Kasparov); Using, reusing and repairing pottery: the example of two small Bosporan centres – Tanais and Tyritake (everyday life, economic status, wealth and the resourcefulness of the population) – (Marcin Matera); Excavation of Ash Hill 2 in Myrmekion – (Alexander M. Butyagin); Lesale, an unknown centre in western Colchis – (Annegret Plontke Lüning); Recent discoveries at Tios and its territory – (Sümer Atasoy and Şahin Yıldırım); The rescue excavation of the Selmanli tumulus in Kastamonu – (Şahin Yıldırım); New findings on the history and archaeology of the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey: the excavation of Cıngırt Kayası – (Ayşe F. Erol); On settlement problems in north-western Anatolia (Zonguldak region) from the 7th century bc to the Roman period – (Güngör Karauğuz); Achaemenid presence at Oluz Höyük, north central Anatolia – (Şevket Dönmez); New data about Roman painted pottery discovered at Cioroiu Nou, Dolj county, Romania – (Dorel Bondoc); The cooking devices of Apollonia Pontica (Bulgaria): preliminary study of the specificities of the ceramic assemblage of this Greek colony – (Laurent Claquin); The construction of Marcianopolis: local and imported stone production and the relationship with the Western Pontic colonies during the Principate – (Zdravko Dimitrov); An architectural complex in the north-western part of the Chersonesian fortress belonging to the Chaika settlement in the north-western Crimea – (Tatyana Egorova and Elena Popova); Christian buildings in the fortress of Anacopia – (Suram Sakania); Appendix 1: Programme: Fifth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities; Appendix 2: Summaries of papers: Fifth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities

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Book SynopsisCopper is the first metal to play a large part in human history. This work is devoted to the history of metallurgical production in Northern Eurasia during the Bronze Age, based on experiments carried out by the author and analyses of ancient slag, ore and metal. It should be noted that archaeometallurgical studies include a huge range of works reflecting different fields of activity of ancient metallurgists. Often, all that unites these is the term 'metallurgy'. This work considers the problems of proper metallurgy, i.e. extracting metal from ore. A number of accompanying operations are closely connected with it, such as charcoal-burning, ore dressing, furnace constructing, and preparation of crucibles. In some instances the author touches upon these operations; however the main topic of the work is the smelting process. The closing stage of the metallurgical production is metalworking including various casting and forging operations, and also auxiliary operations: making of crucibles, casting molds, stone tools for metal forging. These problems are, as a rule, out of frameworks of this research.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1. Experiments with Ancient Copper Smelting Technologies; Chapter 2. Production in the Eneolithic, Early and Middle Bronze Age; Chapter 3. Metallurgical Furnaces of Sintashta Culture; Chapter 4. Copper Ores of Sintashta and Petrovka Sites in the Transurals; Chapter 5. Mineralogical and Chemical Composition of Sintashta Slag; Chapter 6. Sintashta metalworking; Chapter 7. Chronology, Genesis and Structure of Sintashta Metallurgy; Chapter 8. Metallurgical Production in the Bashkirian Urals; Chapter 9. Metallurgy of the Late Bronze Age in the Volga and Orenburg Regions; Chapter 10. Mining and Metallurgical Production in the Don and Donets Areas; Chapter 11. Metallurgical Production in the Asian Part of the Eurasian Metallurgical Province in the Bronze Age; Chapter 12. Metallurgical Production in the Kyzyl-Kum; Chapter 13. The Problem of Iron in the Bronze Age of Northern Eurasia; Chapter 14. Metallurgical Production in the Early Iron Age; Conclusions; BibliographyRedevelopment Choices of Carian Benefactors in the Roman Age (Guray Unver); A Byzantine Monastery South-East of Jerusalem (Yehiel Zelinger); Local and Imported Art in the Byzantine Monastery Newly Discovered Near Jerusalem, Israel (Lihi Habas)

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Book SynopsisFrom Lascaux to Shanidar caves, from Malta temples to Stonenge (and the ‘new’ one...), from Serra da Capivara to Foz Coa park, from Australia to North Africa’s Rock Art, from Pechino to Isernia excavations, from the Musée de l’Homme in Paris to the Museum of Civilization in Quebéc, from Çatal Hüyük to the Varna village, from the Rift Valley to the Grand Canyon, most problems have to be fronted in a common perspective. But which perspective? Is it possible to have a common point of view on different values, different sites, different methodologies? The Scientific Commission for the Quality Management of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sites, Monuments and Museums© set up at UISPP by initiative of the author (UISPP-PPCHM) is aimed to examine these issues and propose solutions acceptable to all those who want to contribute to common understanding of our past history. The only certainty in fact is our Past. It is undoubted that it happened, it is undoubted that its consequences are in place today, it is undoubted that it is affecting persons, social groups or larger structures in some ways also when it is disregarded. The help of specialists from different Countries and the exchange of opinions with other colleagues from other fields and/or organizations is then needed in order to: discuss the reasons and possibilities for preservation and use of Sites, Monuments and Museums; let the management of Rock Art Sites and Parks, Prehistoric excavations, Museums and Interpretations Centres and related structures open to the public to be made according to criteria agreed at an International level, both in normal and critical conditions; enhance standards in preserving, communicating and using Sites, Monuments and Museums; involve the public and diffuse awareness; analyse tourism benefits and risks at these destinations; introduce new opportunities for jobs and training; develop networks on these topics in connection with other specialized Organizations. This session aimed to ask: what is your experience? Which problems would you like to address? What solutions can be considered?Table of ContentsForeword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition (Luiz Oosterbeek); Introduction (Maurizio Quagliuolo and Davide Delfino); Quality Management at World Heritage sites: challenges (Maurizio Quagliuolo); Landscape destruction and heritage mismanagement in Murujuga (Western Australia) (José Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona); Media strategies observed in the Portuguese press to save Vila Nova de Foz Côa engravings. A case study on socialization of the archaeological heritage (Cinta S. Bellmunt); Archaeological research and applied arts for Public Archaeology in a Final Bronze Age hilltop walled station of Castelo Velho da Zimbreira (Mação-Portugal) (Davide Delfino, Dragos Gheorghiu and Livia Stefan); Virtual palimpsests: augmented reality and the use of mobile devices to visualise the archaeological record (Dragoş Gheorghiu and Livia Ştefan); Conservation, Preservation and Site Management at the Neanderthal Sites at Veldwezelt-Hezerwater, Belgium (Patrick M. M. A. Bringmans); The scientific value of replicas through the analytic experience of Magdalenian portable art (Roberto Ávila)

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Book SynopsisThe Neolithic sites of Orkney include an impressive number of stone-built tombs, ceremonial monuments and – uniquely for northern Europe – contemporary dwellings. Many of these buildings survive in a remarkable state of preservation, allowing an understanding of the relationship between architectural space and the process of construction that is rarely achievable. Until recently, however, relatively little has been known about the decoration of these sites. This book addresses that gap to offer a groundbreaking analysis of Neolithic art and architecture in Orkney. Focussing upon the incredible collection of hundreds of decorated stones being revealed by the current excavations at the Ness of Brodgar, it details the results of the author’s original fieldwork both there and at the contemporary sites of Maeshowe and Skara Brae, all within the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. It provides the first major discussion of Orkney’s Neolithic carvings, and uses these as a springboard to challenge many of the traditional assumptions relating to Neolithic art and architecture. By foregrounding the architectural context of mark-making, this book explores how both buildings and carvings emerge though the embodied social practice of working stone, and how this relates to the wider context of life in Neolithic Orkney.Table of ContentsForeword; Prologue ; 1. Introduction; 2. Art, Architect ure and Archaeology; 3. Orkney; 4. Maeshowe; 5. Skara Brae; 6. The Ness of Brodgar; 7. Process; 8. Temporality; 9. Context; 10. Conclusions; 11. Epilogue; Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a little-known and ingenious artefact of the Roman world: a small puzzle padlock whose font plate bears a face or ‘mask’ of ‘Celtic’ style. The padlocks were designed to secure small bags or pouches and their distribution extended across Europe with the majority found in the Danubian region and in the vicinity of Aquileia. The authors examine the cultural context, the origins and uses of the padlocks, and provide detailed solutions to the puzzle mechanisms. The publication provides a fully-illustrated catalog of the known 156 examples, categorises their types according to construction and style, and explores the technicalities of the subject by the process of constructing replica mask puzzle padlocks.Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Types and Locations ; Chapter 2: Cultural Attributes by Vanessa Muros ; Chapter 3: Origin and Uses ; Chapter 4. Mask Puzzle Padlock Solutions and Mechanisms ; Chapter 5: Conclusions ; Appendix 1: Catalog of the 156 Mask Puzzle Padlocks ; Appendix 2: Padlock Groupings Based on Lock Covers by Vanessa Muros ; Appendix 3: Analysis of Roman Mask Padlocks in the Slocum Collection by Vanessa Muro ; Appendix 4.: Replicas of Mask Padlocks & Money Pouches ; Appendix 5: Fakes and Reproductions ; Appendix 6: Care of Roman Mask Padlocks by Vanessa Muros ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisFor centuries inventors have been dreaming up schemes to allow people to submerge beneath the waves, stay a while then return again unharmed. The Resurgam was designed for this purpose, as a stealthy underwater weapon which was the brainchild of an eccentric inventor realised in iron, timber, coal and steam. The inventor was George William Garrett, a curate from Manchester who designed and built the Resurgam submarine in 1879 using the limited technology available to a Victorian engineer on a small budget. This is not the story of Garrett himself as this story has already been told, instead this book tells the story how the Resurgam was built, how she may have worked and what happened to her. The book introduces Garrett the inventor then puts the creation of Resurgam in context by considering similar submarines being developed at the end of the 19th century. Garrett’s relationship with the Royal Navy is related here as they were his intended client and the tale continues with a description of how the submarine was built and how it may have worked. The end of the story relates how the Resurgam came to be lost in 1880 pieced together from documents and newspaper reports. Curiously, aspects of the tale do not fit with what was found by underwater archaeologists recording the wreck so other ideas are explored about how and why the submarine was lost.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Glossary; Timeline; George William Littler Garrett; 19th Century Submarines; Garrett and the Royal Navy; The Egg; Building Resurgam; The Resurgam Submarine in Use; The First and Last Voyage; Searching for Resurgam; Rediscovery; The SubMap Project; Later Site History; Site Formation; Resurgam Today; A Reanalysis of the Loss of Resurgam; The End?; Appendix 1: Tables; Appendix 2: The Open Letter; References

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Book SynopsisThe archaeology of the Maltese archipelago is remarkable. Lying at the heart of the central Mediterranean, ancient lives were, at times, moulded by isolation and harsh elements and the landscape is shaped by millennia of intensive land use. Ancient finds from the islands are rare, and those held in the British Museum form an important collection. Represented is a wide cultural range, spanning the Early and Late Neolithic, the Bronze Age, Roman and more recent historic periods. From the early 1880s, Malta attracted a fascinating array of historians, collectors and travellers and, on one level, the British Museum’s holdings represent their activities, but on another, the collections reflect the complex path antiquarianism has played out in Malta as it moved steadily toward fledgling archaeological investigations. Significantly, artefacts excavated by notable Maltese archaeologist, Sir Themistocles Zammit, at the key Neolithic site of Tarxien, and those uncovered by Margaret Murray at Borġ in-Nadur form a crucial part of the collection.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Antiquarian and Archaeological Pursuits in Malta; The Archaeological Sequence of Malta; Catalogues: Collection 1. Joseph Becket Collings (1836); Collection 2. Sir Charles Thomas Newton (1852); Collection 3. Reverend Greville John Chester (1864–1886); Collection 4. Charles Townley (1869); Collection 5. Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks (1877); Collection 6. John Scott Tucker (1879); Collection 7. T. W. N. Robinson (1886); Collection 8. Professor Sir Themistocles Zammit (1919–1923); Collection 9. Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton (1921); Collection 10. Basil Browne (1921); Collection 11. Sir William Martin Conway, Baron Conway of Allington (1923); Collection 12. Margaret Murray (1923); Collection 13. Dr Gordon Ward (1927–1933); Collection 14. George Fabian Lawrence (1936); Collection 15. Arthur John Matthews (1937); Collection 16. Mrs Barchard (1947); Collection 17. Mrs Frank Baxter (1948); Collection 18. H. E. Coulson (1959); Collection 19. G. S. Bagley (1961); Collection 20. F.W. Robins (1963); Collection 21. Charles Taylor Trechmann (1964); Collection 22. Dr A. W. J. Houghton (1971–1974); Collection 23. Harris Dunscombe Colt (1973); Collection 24. Captain Macleod (1980); Collection 25. Mr E. de C. Tillet (1984); Collection 26. Helen Douglas Finlay (1987); Collection 27. A. H. L. F Pitt-Rivers (1991); Collection 28. John Pierpont Morgan; Collection 29. Henry Christy; Collection 30. Unknown Donors; Collection 1. Joseph Becket Collings; Collection 2. Sir Charles Thomas Newton; Collection 3. Reverend Greville John Chester; Collection 4. Charles Townley; Collection 5. Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks; Collection 6. John Scott Tucker; Collection 7. T. W. N. Robinson; Collection 8. Professor Sir Themistocles Zammit; POA 198 Series, Possibly from Zammit’s Collection; Collection 9. Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton; Collection 10. Basil Browne; Collection 12. Margaret Murray; Collection 13. Dr Gordon Ward; Collection 14. George Fabian Lawrence; Collection 15. Arthur John Matthews; Collection 16. Mrs Barchard; Collection 17. Mrs Frank Baxter; Collection 18. H. E. Coulson; Collection 19. G. S. Bagley; Collection 20. F. W. Robins; Collection 21. Charles Taylor Trechmann; Collection 22. Dr A. W. J. Houghton; Collection 23. Harris Dunscombe Colt; Collection 24. Captain Macleod; Collection 25. Mr E. de C. Tillet; Collection 26. Helen Douglas Finlay; Collection 27. Pitt-Rivers Museum; Collection 28. John Piermont Morgan; Collection 29. Henry Christy; Collection 30. Unknown Donors; Catalogue Figures; Bibliography; Appendix: 1. Correspondence between E. Magri SJ and E.A. Wallis Budge on the Bighi Inscriptions; 2. Correspondence between M.A.Murray and Mr Smith

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Book SynopsisThe Egyptian Museum of Florence, in collaboration with the University of Florence, hosted the Eleventh International Congress of Egyptologists which took place from 23rd to 30th August 2015, under the patronage of the IAE – International Association of Egyptologists. This volume publishes 136 papers and posters presented during the Congress. Topics discussed here range from archaeology, religion, philology, mummy investigations and archaeometry to history, offering an up-to-date account of research in these fields.Table of ContentsPreface – Volume Editors ; Papers ; Development of Old Kingdom pottery: three cases studies (‘Cemetery of the Workers’, Heit el-Ghurab and the Khentkawes Town) – Sherif M. Abdelmoniem ; Of Min and moon – cosmological concepts in the Temple of Athribis (Upper Egypt) – Victoria Altmann-Wendling ; Les relations entre l’horloge stellaire diagonale et le corpus des Textes des Sarcophages Les relations entre l’horloge stellaire diagonale et le corpus des Textes des Sarcophages dans le sarcophage intérieur de Mésehti : le temps et les décans – Bernard Arquier ; The Qubbet el-Hawa casting moulds – Late Period bronze working at the First Cataract – Johannes Auenmüller ; Overlapping and contradictory narratives in Ancient Egyptian visual programs – Jennifer Miyuki Babcock ; Sāmānu as a human disease in Mesopotamia and Egypt – Susanne Beck ; The pyramid as a journey – cultic encounters between father and son in the Pyramid of Pepy I – Nils Billing ; The Ancient Egyptian dialects in light of the Greek transcriptions of Egyptian anthroponyms – Ana Isabel Blasco Torres ; Dalla sabbia alla teca: esempi di interventi conservativi eseguiti su alcuni papiri del Museo Egizio di Firenze – Paola Boffula Alimeni ; New evidence on the king’s son Intefmose from Dra Abu el-Naga: a preliminary report – Francisco L. Borrego Gallardo ; The Merenptah Sarcophagi restoration project – Edwin C. Brock and Lyla Pinch Brock ; Egyptian names and networks in Trismegistos (800 BC – AD 800) – Yanne Broux ; The Ptolemaic dedication of Archepolis in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina: materiality and text – Patricia A. Butz ; Bernard V. Bothmer and Ptolemaic sculpture: papers on Ptolemaic art from his archives held at the Università degli Studi di Milano – Giorgia Cafici ; The Tell el-Maskhuta Project – Giuseppina Capriotti Vittozzi and Andrea Angelini ; Silence in the Tale of the Eloquent Peasant: themes and problems – Ilaria Cariddi ; Progetto Butehamon. Prospettive e ricerche nella necropoli tebana – Giacomo Cavillier ; Notes on the inscribed Old and Middle Kingdom coffins in the Egyptian Turin Museum – Emanuele M. Ciampini ; Rethinking Egyptian animal worship (c. 3000 BC – c. 300 AD): towards a historical-religious perspective – Angelo Colonna ; Before and after the Temple: the long-lived necropolis in the area of the Temple of Millions of Years of Amenhotep II – Western Thebes – Anna Consonni, Tommaso Quirino and Angelo Sesana ; Papyri with the Ritual of the Opening of the Mouth in the Egyptian Museum in Turin – Federico Contardi ; Notes for a building history of the temple of Ramesses II at Antinoe. The architectural investigation – Michele Coppola ; Nouvelle lecture d’une scène de la théogamie d’Hatshepsout – Alice Coyette ; Worship and places of worship in the Greco-Roman town at Marina El-Alamein – Grażyna Bąkowska-Czerner and Rafał Czerner ; Middle Kingdom coffin of Khnum from the National Museum of Warsaw – Dorota Czerwik ; Non-destructive analysis on 11 Egyptian blue faience tiles from the 2nd and 3rd Dynasties – Joseph Davidovits and Frédéric Davidovits ; Scenes from the Amduat on the funerary coffins and sarcophagi of the 21st Dynasty – Cássio de Araújo Duarte ; Votive pottery deposits found by the Spanish Mission at Dra Abu el-Naga – Elena de Gregorio ; The building activity of Pinudjem I at Thebes – Gabriella Dembitz ; The ‘Book of Going Forth by Day’ in the funerary chamber of Djehuty (TT 11): past, present, and future – Lucía Díaz-Iglesias Llanos ; The pre-Egyptological concept of Egypt as a challenge for Egyptology and the efforts to establish a research community – Florian Ebeling ; The Gebelein Archaeological Project, 2013–2016 – Wojciech Ejsmond ; Trois nouvelles harpes découvertes à Thèbes ouest Quel apport pour l’égyptologie ? – Sibylle Emerit ; The ‘pantheistic’ deities. Report from research on iconography and role of polymorphic deities – Grzegorz First ; Études sur le cadre de vie d’une association religieuse dans l’Égypte gréco-romaine : l’exemple de Touna el-Gebel – Mélanie C. Flossmann-Schütze ; Forme di imitazione egizia nella decorazione architettonica di Nea Paphos – Leonardo Fuduli ; Ahmose-Sapair in Dra Abu el-Naga: old and new evidence – José M. Galán ; The Moon god Iah in ancient Egyptian religion – Gudelia García-Fernández ; Expression of loyalty to the king – A socio-cultural analysis of basilophoric personal names dating to the Old and Middle Kingdoms – Christina Geisen ; Love and Gold in Cross-Cultural Discourse in the Amarna Letters – Graciela Gestoso Singer ; Some unpublished inscriptions from Quarry P at Hatnub – Yannis Gourdon and Roland Enmarch ; Names of eye parts in different text genres: a contribution to technical language in ancient Egypt – Nadine Gräßler ; The transformation of Theban Tomb 39 (TT39). A contribution from a conservation viewpoint in terms of its history after dynastic occupation – Dulce María Grimaldi and Patricia Meehan ; The complete corpus of viticulture and winemaking scenes from the ancient Egyptian private tombs – Maria Rosa Guasch-Jané, Sofia Fonseca and Mahmoud Ibrahim ; Des étoiles et des hommes : peurs, désirs, offrandes et prières – Nadine Guilhou ; Cracking a code: deciphering the marks of the royal necropolis workmen of the New Kingdom – Ben Haring ; The Egyptian Dionysus: Osiris and the development of theater in Ancient Egypt – Allison Hedges ; The Abydos Dynasty: an osteoarchaeological examination of human remains from the SIP royal cemetery – Jane A. Hill, Maria A. Rosado and Joseph Wegner ; You up – I down: orientational metaphors concerning ancient Egyptian Kingship in royal iconography and inscriptions – Shih-Wei Hsu ; Image processing. Elaboration and manipulation of the human figure in the Pyramid Texts – Francesca Iannarilli ; Hieroglyphic inscriptions on precious objects: some notes on the correlation between text and support – Agnese Iob ; Predynastic precursors to the Festival of Drunkenness: beer, climate change, cow-goddesses, and the ideology of kingship – Victoria Jensen ; Crowdsourcing in Egyptology – images and annotations of Middle Kingdom private tombs – Peter Kalchgruber and Lubica Hudáková ; 3D-Reconstructions of Late Roman fortresses in Egypt – Christina Karlshausen and Thierry De Putter ; ‘To build a temple in the beautiful white stone of Anu’. The use of Tura limestone in Theban architecture – Christina Karlshausen and Thierry De Putter ; The motif of the kiosk during the first half of the 18th dynasty – Edyta Kopp ; A heritage in peril: the threat to Egypt’s urban archaeological sites – Peter Lacovara ; Le sḏm.f circonstanciel. Une forme verbale rare en néo-égyptien littéraire – Vincent Pierre-Michel Laisney ; Amduat type papyri in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow – Nika Lavrentyeva ; Carving out identities in the Egyptian desert: self-presentation styles adopted by the ancient travelers of Kharga Oasis – Nikolaos Lazaridis ; Ya-t-il une « fabrique d’albâtre » et un atelier de tissage au Ramesseum? – Guy Lecuyot ; Deux nouvelles ‘Recommandations aux prêtresʼ datées de Ptolémée X Alexandre Ier – Nicolas Leroux ; Scenes representing temple rituals on some 21st Dynasty coffins – Éva Liptay ; Building B, a domestic construction at Tell el-Ghaba, North Sinai – Silvia Lupo, Eduardo Crivelli Montero, Claudia Kohen and Eva Calomino ; The Montecelio Obelisk in Rome – Lise Manniche ; The role of e-learning in Egyptology: ‘Hieroglyphs: Step-by-Step’ website as a case study – Ahmed Mansour and Azza Ezzat ; The function and importance of some special categories of stars in the Ancient Egyptian funerary texts, 1: AxAx- and iAd-stars – Alicia Maravelia ; Chapel of the tomb belonging to Amenhotep III’s Vizier, Amenhotep Huy. Asasif Tomb No. 28, Luxor-West Bank. Excavation results: ‘Vizier Amenhotep Huy Project’ (2009–2014) – Francisco J. Martín-Valentín and Teresa Bedman ; Objets découverts dans des tombes Thébaines situées sous le Temple de Millions d’Années de Thoutmosis III à l’ouest de Louxor – Javier Martínez Babón ; Fish offerings found in Area 32 of the archaeological site of Oxyrhynchus (El-Bahnasa, Egypt) – Maite Mascort Roca and Esther Pons Mellado ; The Akh-menu of Thutmosis III at Karnak. The Sokarian Rooms – Julie Masquelier-Loorius ; The 13th Dynasty at Abydos: a royal tomb and its context – Dawn McCormack ; The transmission of the Book of the Twelve Caverns – Daniel M. Méndez Rodríguez ; A new reading of Problem No. 53 in the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. The limits of proportionality – Marianne Michel ; The ang-morphs in Coptic and their grammaticalization in Later Egyptian – So Miyagawa ; ‘Augmented Reality’ technology and the dissemination of historical graffiti in the Temple of Debod – Miguel Ángel Molinero Polo, Alfonso Martín Flores, Jorge Martín Gutiérrez, Cristóbal Ruiz Medina, Lucía Díaz-Iglesias Llanos, Fernando Guerra-Librero Fernández, Daniel Miguel Méndez Rodríguez, Luis Navarrete Ruiz, Manuel Rivas Fernández and Ovidia Soto Martín ; The Min Project. First working seasons on the unpublished Tomb of Min (TT109) and Tomb Kampp -327-: the Tomb of May and a replica of the Tomb of Osiris – Irene Morfini and Milagros Álvarez Sosa ; Figurative vase painting from the First Intermediate Period through to the Fatimid Dynasty: a continuity? – Maya Müller ; Basic considerations on the construction of pyramids in the Old Kingdom – Frank Müller-Römer ; Die Verwendung von Münzen in pharaonischer Zeit – Renate Müller-Wollermann ; In the footsteps of Ricardo Caminos: rediscovering the ‘Speos of Gebel el Silsila’ – Maria Nilsson and Philippe Martinez ; The folding cubit rod of Kha in Museo Egizio di Torino, S.8391 – Naoko Nishimoto ; The mystery of the ‘high place’ from the Abbott Papyrus revealed? The results of the works of the Polish Cliff Mission at Deir el-Bahari 1999–2014 – Andrzej Niwiński ; The mummies of the ‘Three Sisters’ in the Museo Egizio: a case study. Conservation and studies of textiles and bandages – Cinzia Oliva and Matilde Borla ; Technical aspects of faience from Hierakonpolis, Egypt – a preliminary report – Marina Panagiotaki, Elizabeth Walters, Yannis Maniatis and Anna Tsoupra ; Horus Seneferou ka-s quand le dernier souverain de la Ire dynastie devint la première femme pharaon de l’Histoire à porter un nom d’Horus – Jean-Pierre Pätznick ; The Herakleopolis Magna Project: seasons 2012–2015 – M. Carmen Pérez-Die ; The Stelae Ridge cairns: a reassessment of the archaeological evidence – Hannah Pethen ; The Italian-Egyptian Mission at the Monastery of Abba Nefer at Manqabad: results of the first four seasons’ work – Rosanna Pirelli, Ilaria Incordino, Paola Buzi and Anna Salsano ; Wedjat-eyes as a dating criterion for false doors and stelae to the early Middle Kingdom – Melanie Pitkin ; La collection égyptienne du Musée Sandelin à Saint-Omer (France) – Jean-Louis Podvin ; Some remarks on the Egyptian reception of foreign military technology during the 18th Dynasty: a brief survey of the armour – Alberto Maria Pollastrini ; Medical re-enactments: Ancient Egyptian prescriptions from an Emic viewpoint – Tanja Pommerening ; Textual layers in Coffin Texts Spells 154–160 – Gyula Priskin ; The cat mummies of the Società Africana d’Italia: an archaeological, cultural and religious perspective – Maria Diletta Pubblico ; Khnum the Creator: a puzzling case of the transfer of an iconographic motif – Maarten J. Raven ; Temple ranks in the Fayyum during the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods: documentary sources and archaeological data – Ilaria Rossetti ; Le musee de Mallawi : etat des lieux apres les destructions et projets pour l’avenir – Ashraf Alexandre Sadek ; A new light on Coptic afterlife (O.4550 from the Coptic Museum in Cairo) – Hind Salah El-Din Somida Awad ; The lost chapels of Elephantine. Preliminary results of a reconstruction study through archival documents – Daniele Salvoldi and Simon Delvaux ; Doors to the past. Rediscovering fragments in the new blockyard at Medinet Habu – Julia Schmied ; Les dépôts de fondation de la Vallée des Rois : nouvelles perspectives de recherche sur l’histoire de la nécropole royale du Nouvel Empire – François C. A. Schmitt ; Economic mentalities and Ancient Egyptian legal documents – Alexander Schütze ; Excavations in the ‘Temple of Millions of Years’ of Thutmosis III – Myriam Seco Álvarez ; Rituels funéraires au temps de Hatchepsout : le sanctuaire de la tombe de Djehouty et ses parallèles – José M. Serrano ; The so-called Book of Two Ways on a Middle Kingdom religious leather roll – Wael Sherbiny ; Ibyc. PMGF 287 and Ancient Egyptian love songs – Anna Sofia ; The Physiologus in Egypt – Marco Stroppa ; A survey of astronomical tables on Middle Kingdom coffin lids – Sarah L. Symons ; Blue painted pottery from a mid-18th Dynasty royal mud-brick structure in northwest Saqqara – Kazumitsu Takahashi ; Studies on BD 17 vignettes: iconographic typology of Rw.tj-scene (New Kingdom – Third Intermediate Period) – Mykola Tarasenko ; Were components of Amarna composite statues made in separate workshops? – Kristin Thompson ; Research on Old Kingdom ‘dissimilation graphique’. World-view and categorization – Simon Thuault ; La funzione del tempio tolemaico di Deir el-Medina alla luce dell’archeologia – Claudia Tirel Cena ; The ‘geography’ of the hierogrammateis: the religious topography of the Western Harpoon (7th Nome of Lower Egypt) – Elena Tiribilli ; The Ancient Egyptian shabtis discovered in the regions of Roman Illyricum (Dalmatia, Pannonia) and Istria: provenance, collections, typological study and dating – Mladen Tomorad ; From Egypt to the Holy Land: first issues on the Egyptian collection in the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem – Benedetta Torrini ; Tradition and innovation within the decoration program of the temple of Ramesses II at Gerf Hussein – Martina Ullmann ; The Egyptian Execration Statuettes (EES) Project – Athena Van der Perre ; A new long-term digital project on Hieratic and cursive hieroglyphs – Ursula Verhoeven and Svenja A. Gülden ; Hierakonpolis Faience, 2005–2013, with context and accompanying finds – a quest for chronology and possible use – Elizabeth J. Walters, Amr El Gohary, Shelton S. Alexander, Richard R. Parizek, David P. Gold, Recep Cakir, Marina Panagiotaki, Yannis Maniatis and Anna Tsoupra ; Elhe Berlin Plans from the New Kingdom Period – Yoshifumi Yasuoka ; The career of Nakhtmin (TT 87) as revealed by his funerary cones – Kento Zenihiro ; Object biographies and political expectations: Egyptian artefacts, Welsh Heritage and the regional community museum – Katharina Zinn ; Who am I - and if so, how many? Some remarks on the ‘j-augment’ and language change – Monika Zöller-Engelhardt ; Poster presentations ; Vocabulaire de l’Égyptien Ancien (VÉgA) Plateforme numérique de recherche lexicographique – A. Almásy, Ch. Cassier, J. Chun-Hung-Kee, F. Contardi, M. Massiera, A. Nespoulous-Phalippou, Fr. Rouffet ; South African collections – Izak Cornelius, Salima Ikram, Ruhan Slabbert, Liani C. Swanepoel, Frank Teichert and Tiffany van Zyl ; Pottery from the Early Roman rubbish dumps in Berenike harbour – Agnieszka Dzwonek ; A sequence of five 13th Dynasty structures at Memphis – Rabee Eissa ; Funerary culture of the Memphite region during the Early Dynastic Period – Barbora Janulíková ; The Roman Imperial cult temple at Luxor: its architecture and possible connection between Roman and Egyptian cultures – Irina Kulikova and Dmitry Karelin ; One of the earliest discovered houses at Memphis – Hanan Mahmoud Mohamed ; Étude Pluridisciplinaire De Têtes De Momies (Lyon) – Annie Perraud, Matthieu Ménager, Pascale Richardin and Catherine Vieillescazes ; Progetto Osiris: valorizzazione delle piccole collezioni egizie – Massimiliana Pozzi Battaglia e Federica Scatena ; Study and restoration of two mummies from the Moulins Museum – Noëlle Timbart ; List of papers presented at ICE XI – M. Franci

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Book SynopsisLocated in the Northwest of South America (Ecuador), the Cuyes River Valley acts as a transition corridor between the Andean and Amazon regions. This research attempts to determine the ethnic origin of the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Cuyes valley through the application of a method of ceramic analysis completely new in the region: the technological approach. Spanish description: Ubicado en el noroeste de Suramérica (Ecuador), el valle del río Cuyes constituye una zona de transición entre los Andes y la Amazonia. La presente investigación busca determinar el origen étnico de los habitantes precolombinos del valle a través de la aplicación de un método de análisis cerámico inédito en la región: el enfoque tecnológico.Table of ContentsIntroducción ; Capítulo 1: El pasado precolombino del valle del río Cuyes - perspectiva arqueológica y etnohistórica regional ; Capítulo 2: Arqueología del valle del río Cuyes ; Capítulo 3: Metodología y constitución de la muestra de estudio ; Capítulo 4: Tadiciones técnicas de la alfarería contemporánea del Austro ecuatoriano (Andes/Amazonia) ; Capítulo 5: Referencial etnográfico ; Capítulo 6: Tradiciones técnicas de la alfarería precolombina tardía del sur del Ecuador ; Capítulo 7: Tradiciones técnicas de la alfarería precolombina del valle del río Cuyes ; Capítulo 8: Interpretación de los resultados ; Conclusión ; Bibliografía ; Anexo 1: Archivos que mencionan a los caciques del Cuyes ; Anexo 2: San Francisco de Pacha (y San Bartolomé de Arocxapa - De los Ángeles [1582] 1991) ; Anexo 3: Inventario de fitolitos (porcentajes) ; Anexo 4: Formaciones geológicas del valle del Cuyes ; Anexo 5: Inventario, procedencia, formas y dimensiones de los objetos enteros analizados (fondos Pumapungo, Rivet, Gualaquiza) ; Anexo 6: Vocabulario asociado a las diferentes cadenas operativas de la tradición andina (Sierra sur del Ecuador) ; Anexo 7: Dimensiones de los golpeadores externos e internos (San Miguel y Taquil)

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Book SynopsisThe XXI International Congress of Roman Frontier studies was hosted by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums in Newcastle upon Tyne (Great Britain) in 2009, 60 years after the first Limeskongress organised in that city by Eric Birley in 1949. Sixty years on, delegates could reflect on how the Congress has grown and changed over six decades and could be heartened at the presence of so many young scholars and a variety of topics and avenues of research into the army and frontiers of the Roman empire that would not have been considered in 1949. Papers are organised into the same thematic sessions as in the actual conference: Women and Families in the Roman Army; Roman Roads; The Roman Frontier in Wales; The Eastern and North African Frontiers; Smaller Structures: towers and fortlets; Recognising Differences in Lifestyles through Material Culture; Barbaricum; Britain; Roman Frontiers in a Globalised World; Civil Settlements; Death and Commemoration; Danubian and Balkan Provinces; Camps; Logistics and Supply; The Germanies and Augustan and Tiberian Germany; Spain; Frontier Fleets. This wide-ranging collection of papers enriches the study of Roman frontiers in all their aspects.Table of ContentsForeword (David J Breeze); Introduction by the Editors; Women and Families in the Roman Army (Session organisers: Carol van Driel-Murray, Martina Meyr, Colin Wells): Women, the Military and patria potestas in Roman Britain (Lindsay Allason-Jones); Beyond von Petrikovits - artefact distribution and socio-spatial practices in the Roman military (Penelope Allison); Some thoughts about the archaeological legacy of soldiers' families in the countryside of the civitas Batavorum (Harry van Enckevort); The Families of Roman Auxiliary Soldiers in the Military Diplomas (Elizabeth M. Greene); British families in the Roman army: living on the fringes of the Roman world (Tatiana Ivleva); Women and Children in Military Inscriptions from northern Germania Superior (Michael J. Klein); The Empress and her Relationship to the Roman Army (Kai M. Topfer); Women and children at the Saxon Shore fort of Oudenburg (Belgium) (S. Vanhoutte and A. Verbrugge); Roman Roads: Decem Pagi at the end of antiquity and the fate of the Roman road system in eastern Gaul (Joachim Henning, Michael McCormick and Thomas Fischer); The planning of Roman Dere Street, Hadrian's Wall, and the Antonine Wall in Scotland (John Poulter); Some notes on the development of the military road network of the Roman Empire (Zsolt Visy); The Roman Frontier in Wales (Session organisers: Barry Burnham, Jeffrey Davies): Rewriting The Roman Frontier in Wales: an introduction (Barry C. Burnham and Jeffrey L. Davies); Recent work on the site of the legionary fortress at Caerleon (Peter Guest and Tim Young); Roman Roads in Wales (R. J. Silvester); The Cadw-grant-aided `Roman Fort Environs Project' - the contribution of geophysics (David Hopewell); Roman Frontiers in Wales: 40 years on (Jeffrey L. Davies); The military `vici' of Wales - progress since Jarrett 1969 (Barry C. Burnham); The Eastern and North African Frontiers (Session organisers: James Crow, Eberhard Sauer): Transformation patterns of Roman Forts in the Limes Arabicus from Severan to Tetrarchic and Justinianic periods (Ignacio Arce); Recent Research on the Anastasian Wall in Thrace and late antique linear barriers around the Black Sea (James Crow); New Research on the Roman Frontier in Arabia (S. Thomas Parker); The Archaeology of Sasanian Frontier Troops: Recent Fieldwork on Frontier Walls in Northern Iran (Hamid Omrani Rekavandi, Eberhard Sauer, Tony Wilkinson and Jebrael Nokandeh); Soldiers or Tribesmen: who guarded the frontiers of late Roman Africa? (Alan Rushworth); Roman-Armenian Borders, Part I: The Upper Euphrates Frontier (Everett L. Wheeler); Smaller Structures: towers and fortlets (Session organisers: Bill Hanson, Matt Symonds); Bauliche und funktionale Gliederung des Obergermanisch-Raetischen Limes anhand der Turmgrundrisse (Thomas Becker); A Roman road station on the Pannonian limes (Szilvia Biro); River frontiers or fortified corridors? (Erik Graafstaliii); A Battle of Wills: Manoeuvre Warfare and the Roman defence of the North Yorkshire Coast in the late C4th (A McCluskey); The Castelinho dos Mouros (Alcoutim) and the `casas fuertes' of southern Portugal (Thomas Schierl, Felix Teichner, Gerald Grabherr, Alexandra Gradim); Smaller structures on Hadrian's coastal frontier (Matthew F. A. Symonds); Roman Towers (David Woolliscroft); Recognising Differences in Lifestyles through Material Culture (Session organisers: Stefanie Hoss, Sonja Jilek, Eckhard Deschler-Erb): La ceramique " militaire " dans le Nord de la Gaule de la Conquete au debut du IIe siecle apres J.-C.: Facies et particularites (Cyrille Chaidron, Raphael Clotuche et Sonja Willems); Auxiliaries and their forts: expression of identity? (Julia Chorus); Military versus civilian and legionary versus auxiliary: the case of Germania Inferior (Stefanie Hoss); Die zivile Nutzung militarischen Baumaterials - Kontexte und Interpretation (Thomas Schmidts); Barbaricum (Session organiser: Thomas Grane): Barbaricum: an introduction to the session (Thomas Grane); An imported bronze casket from the Przeworsk culture cemetery in Lachmirowice, distr. Inowroclaw (Katarzyna Czarnecka); Multifunctional coins - a study of Roman coins from the Zealandic isles in eastern Denmark (Mads Drevs Dyhrfjeld-Johnsen); Medical instruments, tools and excavation locations - `The reason why...' (Annette Frolich); Patterns in Cross-frontier Relations (Marjan C. Galestin); Bemerkungen zu den Formen des Zustroms der Importguter in das germanische Siedlungsmilieu wahrend der Romischen Kaiserzeit im mittleren Donauraum (Balazs Komoroczyiv); Romische Bronzegefassgarnituren Romischer und germanischer Fundkontext im Vergleich und deren jeweilige Aussage: Wo, wann, wie, warum, wer, fur was? Sudskandinavien und die romischen Provinzen (Ulla Lund Hansen); The C3rd AD Romano-Germanic Battlefield at Harzhorn near Kalefeld, Landkreis Northeim (Michael Meyer, Felix Bittmann, Michael Geschwinde, Henning Hassmann, Petra Lonne and Gunther Moosbauer); Hacksilber inside and outside the late Roman world: a view from Traprain Law (Kenneth Painter and Fraser Hunter); Why are the South Scandinavian weapon deposits relevant for limes research? An update of research progress (Xenia Pauli Jensen); Corpus der romischen Funde im europaischen Barbaricum - Ruckblick und Ausblick (Hans-Ulrich Voss und Claus-Michael Hussen); Britain: Hadrian's Wall and the Mommsen thesis (David J Breeze); Continuing the search for an `Antonine Gap' on Hadrian's Wall (R. J. Brickstock); A late Roman military command in Britain reinstated (Roger White); A new Roman fort at Staxton in the Vale of Pickering, Yorkshire, England (Pete Wilson); Roman Frontiers in a Globalised World (Session organisers: Richard Hingley, Divya Tolia-Kelly, Rob Witcher): Does History repeat itself?- The Roman Frontiers from the viewpoint of a European Archaeologist of today (Eduard Nemeth); The attraction of opposites: Owen Lattimore and studies of the Inner Asian frontiers of China (Naomi Standen); Changing Presents Interpret the Past, AD 1500-2010: The Frontier on the Limes and the Upper Danube (Peter S. Wells); Civil Settlements (Session organisers: Edward Dabrowa, Pete Wilson): Military Colonization in the Near East and Mesopotamia under the Severi (Edward Dabrowav); The Canabae Legionis of Carnuntum: Modelling a Roman Urban Landscape from systematic, non-destructive Prospection and Excavation (Christian Gugl, Michael Doneus and Nives Doneus); Neues vom Vicus der Saalburg (Cecilia Moneta); Viminacium - Roman City and Legionary Camp: Topography, Evolution and Urbanism (Nemanja Mrdic and Bebina Milovanovic); The Veterans' Colony Aequum, the Legionary Fortress Tilurium and the Sinj Field.Re-examining Old Problems (Mirjana Sanader); Death and Commemoration (Session organiser: Maureen Carroll); Some aspects of death, ritual and commemoration in the Lower Rhineland (Germany) (Clive Bridger); Dress, self and identity in Roman funerary commemoration on the Rhine and Danube frontiers (Maureen Carroll); The Funerary Commemoration of Veterans and Soldiers at the Colony of Augusta Emerita (Merida, Spain), 25 BC - AD 235 (Jonathan Edmondson); The Roman Cemetery at Pottenbrunn.Structural Analysis of a rural necropolis (Eva Hoelbling); The Roman cemetery at Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge, Lower Austria: The late antique inhumations as an information source of the population of the C4th and C5th (Rene Ployer); Ein neue Grabinschrift fur einen Soldaten der legio VI Victrix in Novaesium/Neuss (Marcus Reuter); The Decoration of some Early Imperial Tombs of Primi Pili (Kai M. Topfer); Danubian and Balkan Provinces: Stories and Facts about the Function of Dacia's South-eastern Frontier: Forty Years of Research (I. Bogdan Cataniciu); Maximinus Thrax in Novae (Piotr Dyczek and Jerzy Kolendo); A contribution to the study of the Roman Limes in the Croatian Danube region (Mato Ilkic and Daska Osonjacki); Overlapping Phases in the defensive systems of the Roman forts and the archaeological experience: the case of Roman Dacia (Dan Isacvi); Detail eines romischen Kellers aus dem Vicus von Aquincum - Vizivaros (Budapest) (Katalin H. Kerdo); Vindobona fortress - barracks, fabrica and intervallum (Martin Mosser); The Late Roman Principia in Tarsatica, part of Claustra Alpium Iuliarum (Josip Visnjic and Luka Bekic); Romuliana - Gamzigrad in der Provinz Dacia ripensis.Kaiserpalast und Militarstation (Gerda von Bulow); The Army in the Hinterland - a case study of Pons Aeni/Pfaffenhofen (Meike B Weber); The Scythian Section of Notitia Dignitatum: A Structural and Chronological Analysis (Mihail Zahariade); Camps (Session organiser: Rebecca Jones): What is a Roman Camp? (Rebecca H. Jones); The Marching Camp at Deer's Den, Aberdeenshire: a precis of the excavations (Murray Cook); Romische Feldlager aus der Zeit der Markomannenkriege in der Slowakei (Jan Rajtar und Claus-Michael Hussen); GIS application in Roman military invasion survey within barbarian territories during the Marcomannic wars - introduction into problems and perspectives (Balazs Komoroczy and Marek Vlach); The Roman Republican Battlefield at Pedrosillo (Casas de Reina, Badajoz, Spain): New Research (2007) (Angel Morillo, German Rodriguez Martin and Esperanza Martin Hernandez); Remains of the Roman baggage train at the battlefield of Kalkriese (Achim Rost); The function of temporary camps along Hadrian's Wall (Humphrey Welfare); The battlefield of Kalkriese: The rampart at the site `Oberesch' during and after the battle (Susanne Wilbers-Rost); Logistics and Supply (Session organisers: Bill Hanson, Valerie Maxfield): Voorburg-Arentsburg: a Roman harbour with a British connection in the hinterland of the Limes (Mark Driessenvii); The grain supply for the Roman army in Hispania during the Republican period (Javier Salido Dominguez); Die romischen Steinbruchinschriften des Brohltals (Markus Scholz - unter Mitarbeit von Holger Schaaff); A sustainable frontier? Timber supply for the Roman army in the Lower-Rhine delta, AD 40-150 (Pauline van Rijn); The Germanies and Augustan and Tiberian Germany (Session organiser: Sebastian Sommer); Lahnau - Waldgirmes.Die Ausgrabungen 2007 - 2009 (Armin Becker); Neue Luftbilder zu den Militarlagern und den canabae legionum von Vetera castra I (Xanten) (Norbert Hanel und Baoquan Song); The Augustan legionary camp on the Hunerberg in Nijmegen (NL) revised.New information and re-interpretation of old data of the defence system (Elly N. A. Heirbaut); New thoughts on the so-called temple of Mars in the legionary camp of Vindonissa (Andrew Lawrence); Iupiter im Brunnen - Neues zur siedlungsgeschichtlichen Entwicklung im Nordvicus von Heidelberg (Petra Mayer-Reppert); The Roman military presence in the Rhine delta in the pre-Flavian period (Marinus Polak); Quarries on the Raetian Limes, the height and construction of the wall (C. Sebastian Sommer); Spain: The Roman fort in El Real (Campo de Criptana, Ciudad Real, Spain) (Antxoka Martinez Velasco); The Cantabrian Wars (26-25 BC campaigns): contesting old interpretations (Angel Morillo); Frontier Fleets (Session organisers: Boris Rankov, Jorit Wintjes); Antiqua ... Arte Cilix (Lucan., Phars.4.449) (Sinisa Bilic-Dujmusic); Ultro Citroque Discurrere - Operational Patterns and Tactics of Late Roman Frontier Fleets on Rivers (Florian Himmlerviii); Project Exploratio Danubiae - New Insights into Troop Transport on the River Danube in the Late Roman Period (Heinrich Konen); The Frontier Fleets: What Were They and What Did They Do? (Boris Rankov); The Northern Fleets in the Principate (Christoph Rummel); Did the Romans have a fleet on the Red Sea? (Denis B. Saddington); The Ghost Fleet of Seleucia Pieria (Jorit Wintjes); Miscellaneous Contributions: Wells and Ritual Deposition at the Newstead Roman Military Complex (Simon Clarke); A Cost-Control Model for Imperial Frontiers? (Raphael M. J. Isserlin); Der Soldat und die Gotter - wie privat war Religion? (Nina Willburger)

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Book SynopsisThe Egyptian Museum of Florence, in collaboration with the University of Florence, hosted the Eleventh International Congress of Egyptologists which took place from 23rd to 30th August 2015, under the patronage of the IAE – International Association of Egyptologists. This volume publishes 136 papers and posters presented during the Congress. Topics discussed here range from archaeology, religion, philology, mummy investigations and archaeometry to history, offering an up-to-date account of research in these fields.Table of ContentsPreface – Volume Editors ; Papers ; Development of Old Kingdom pottery: three cases studies (‘Cemetery of the Workers’, Heit el-Ghurab and the Khentkawes Town) – Sherif M. Abdelmoniem ; Of Min and moon – cosmological concepts in the Temple of Athribis (Upper Egypt) – Victoria Altmann-Wendling ; Les relations entre l’horloge stellaire diagonale et le corpus des Textes des Sarcophages Les relations entre l’horloge stellaire diagonale et le corpus des Textes des Sarcophages dans le sarcophage intérieur de Mésehti : le temps et les décans – Bernard Arquier ; The Qubbet el-Hawa casting moulds – Late Period bronze working at the First Cataract – Johannes Auenmüller ; Overlapping and contradictory narratives in Ancient Egyptian visual programs – Jennifer Miyuki Babcock ; Sāmānu as a human disease in Mesopotamia and Egypt – Susanne Beck ; The pyramid as a journey – cultic encounters between father and son in the Pyramid of Pepy I – Nils Billing ; The Ancient Egyptian dialects in light of the Greek transcriptions of Egyptian anthroponyms – Ana Isabel Blasco Torres ; Dalla sabbia alla teca: esempi di interventi conservativi eseguiti su alcuni papiri del Museo Egizio di Firenze – Paola Boffula Alimeni ; New evidence on the king’s son Intefmose from Dra Abu el-Naga: a preliminary report – Francisco L. Borrego Gallardo ; The Merenptah Sarcophagi restoration project – Edwin C. Brock and Lyla Pinch Brock ; Egyptian names and networks in Trismegistos (800 BC – AD 800) – Yanne Broux ; The Ptolemaic dedication of Archepolis in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina: materiality and text – Patricia A. Butz ; Bernard V. Bothmer and Ptolemaic sculpture: papers on Ptolemaic art from his archives held at the Università degli Studi di Milano – Giorgia Cafici ; The Tell el-Maskhuta Project – Giuseppina Capriotti Vittozzi and Andrea Angelini ; Silence in the Tale of the Eloquent Peasant: themes and problems – Ilaria Cariddi ; Progetto Butehamon. Prospettive e ricerche nella necropoli tebana – Giacomo Cavillier ; Notes on the inscribed Old and Middle Kingdom coffins in the Egyptian Turin Museum – Emanuele M. Ciampini ; Rethinking Egyptian animal worship (c. 3000 BC – c. 300 AD): towards a historical-religious perspective – Angelo Colonna ; Before and after the Temple: the long-lived necropolis in the area of the Temple of Millions of Years of Amenhotep II – Western Thebes – Anna Consonni, Tommaso Quirino and Angelo Sesana ; Papyri with the Ritual of the Opening of the Mouth in the Egyptian Museum in Turin – Federico Contardi ; Notes for a building history of the temple of Ramesses II at Antinoe. The architectural investigation – Michele Coppola ; Nouvelle lecture d’une scène de la théogamie d’Hatshepsout – Alice Coyette ; Worship and places of worship in the Greco-Roman town at Marina El-Alamein – Grażyna Bąkowska-Czerner and Rafał Czerner ; Middle Kingdom coffin of Khnum from the National Museum of Warsaw – Dorota Czerwik ; Non-destructive analysis on 11 Egyptian blue faience tiles from the 2nd and 3rd Dynasties – Joseph Davidovits and Frédéric Davidovits ; Scenes from the Amduat on the funerary coffins and sarcophagi of the 21st Dynasty – Cássio de Araújo Duarte ; Votive pottery deposits found by the Spanish Mission at Dra Abu el-Naga – Elena de Gregorio ; The building activity of Pinudjem I at Thebes – Gabriella Dembitz ; The ‘Book of Going Forth by Day’ in the funerary chamber of Djehuty (TT 11): past, present, and future – Lucía Díaz-Iglesias Llanos ; The pre-Egyptological concept of Egypt as a challenge for Egyptology and the efforts to establish a research community – Florian Ebeling ; The Gebelein Archaeological Project, 2013–2016 – Wojciech Ejsmond ; Trois nouvelles harpes découvertes à Thèbes ouest Quel apport pour l’égyptologie ? – Sibylle Emerit ; The ‘pantheistic’ deities. Report from research on iconography and role of polymorphic deities – Grzegorz First ; Études sur le cadre de vie d’une association religieuse dans l’Égypte gréco-romaine : l’exemple de Touna el-Gebel – Mélanie C. Flossmann-Schütze ; Forme di imitazione egizia nella decorazione architettonica di Nea Paphos – Leonardo Fuduli ; Ahmose-Sapair in Dra Abu el-Naga: old and new evidence – José M. Galán ; The Moon god Iah in ancient Egyptian religion – Gudelia García-Fernández ; Expression of loyalty to the king – A socio-cultural analysis of basilophoric personal names dating to the Old and Middle Kingdoms – Christina Geisen ; Love and Gold in Cross-Cultural Discourse in the Amarna Letters – Graciela Gestoso Singer ; Some unpublished inscriptions from Quarry P at Hatnub – Yannis Gourdon and Roland Enmarch ; Names of eye parts in different text genres: a contribution to technical language in ancient Egypt – Nadine Gräßler ; The transformation of Theban Tomb 39 (TT39). A contribution from a conservation viewpoint in terms of its history after dynastic occupation – Dulce María Grimaldi and Patricia Meehan ; The complete corpus of viticulture and winemaking scenes from the ancient Egyptian private tombs – Maria Rosa Guasch-Jané, Sofia Fonseca and Mahmoud Ibrahim ; Des étoiles et des hommes : peurs, désirs, offrandes et prières – Nadine Guilhou ; Cracking a code: deciphering the marks of the royal necropolis workmen of the New Kingdom – Ben Haring ; The Egyptian Dionysus: Osiris and the development of theater in Ancient Egypt – Allison Hedges ; The Abydos Dynasty: an osteoarchaeological examination of human remains from the SIP royal cemetery – Jane A. Hill, Maria A. Rosado and Joseph Wegner ; You up – I down: orientational metaphors concerning ancient Egyptian Kingship in royal iconography and inscriptions – Shih-Wei Hsu ; Image processing. Elaboration and manipulation of the human figure in the Pyramid Texts – Francesca Iannarilli ; Hieroglyphic inscriptions on precious objects: some notes on the correlation between text and support – Agnese Iob ; Predynastic precursors to the Festival of Drunkenness: beer, climate change, cow-goddesses, and the ideology of kingship – Victoria Jensen ; Crowdsourcing in Egyptology – images and annotations of Middle Kingdom private tombs – Peter Kalchgruber and Lubica Hudáková ; 3D-Reconstructions of Late Roman fortresses in Egypt – Christina Karlshausen and Thierry De Putter ; ‘To build a temple in the beautiful white stone of Anu’. The use of Tura limestone in Theban architecture – Christina Karlshausen and Thierry De Putter ; The motif of the kiosk during the first half of the 18th dynasty – Edyta Kopp ; A heritage in peril: the threat to Egypt’s urban archaeological sites – Peter Lacovara ; Le sḏm.f circonstanciel. Une forme verbale rare en néo-égyptien littéraire – Vincent Pierre-Michel Laisney ; Amduat type papyri in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow – Nika Lavrentyeva ; Carving out identities in the Egyptian desert: self-presentation styles adopted by the ancient travelers of Kharga Oasis – Nikolaos Lazaridis ; Ya-t-il une « fabrique d’albâtre » et un atelier de tissage au Ramesseum? – Guy Lecuyot ; Deux nouvelles ‘Recommandations aux prêtresʼ datées de Ptolémée X Alexandre Ier – Nicolas Leroux ; Scenes representing temple rituals on some 21st Dynasty coffins – Éva Liptay ; Building B, a domestic construction at Tell el-Ghaba, North Sinai – Silvia Lupo, Eduardo Crivelli Montero, Claudia Kohen and Eva Calomino ; The Montecelio Obelisk in Rome – Lise Manniche ; The role of e-learning in Egyptology: ‘Hieroglyphs: Step-by-Step’ website as a case study – Ahmed Mansour and Azza Ezzat ; The function and importance of some special categories of stars in the Ancient Egyptian funerary texts, 1: AxAx- and iAd-stars – Alicia Maravelia ; Chapel of the tomb belonging to Amenhotep III’s Vizier, Amenhotep Huy. Asasif Tomb No. 28, Luxor-West Bank. Excavation results: ‘Vizier Amenhotep Huy Project’ (2009–2014) – Francisco J. Martín-Valentín and Teresa Bedman ; Objets découverts dans des tombes Thébaines situées sous le Temple de Millions d’Années de Thoutmosis III à l’ouest de Louxor – Javier Martínez Babón ; Fish offerings found in Area 32 of the archaeological site of Oxyrhynchus (El-Bahnasa, Egypt) – Maite Mascort Roca and Esther Pons Mellado ; The Akh-menu of Thutmosis III at Karnak. The Sokarian Rooms – Julie Masquelier-Loorius ; The 13th Dynasty at Abydos: a royal tomb and its context – Dawn McCormack ; The transmission of the Book of the Twelve Caverns – Daniel M. Méndez Rodríguez ; A new reading of Problem No. 53 in the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. The limits of proportionality – Marianne Michel ; The ang-morphs in Coptic and their grammaticalization in Later Egyptian – So Miyagawa ; ‘Augmented Reality’ technology and the dissemination of historical graffiti in the Temple of Debod – Miguel Ángel Molinero Polo, Alfonso Martín Flores, Jorge Martín Gutiérrez, Cristóbal Ruiz Medina, Lucía Díaz-Iglesias Llanos, Fernando Guerra-Librero Fernández, Daniel Miguel Méndez Rodríguez, Luis Navarrete Ruiz, Manuel Rivas Fernández and Ovidia Soto Martín ; The Min Project. First working seasons on the unpublished Tomb of Min (TT109) and Tomb Kampp -327-: the Tomb of May and a replica of the Tomb of Osiris – Irene Morfini and Milagros Álvarez Sosa ; Figurative vase painting from the First Intermediate Period through to the Fatimid Dynasty: a continuity? – Maya Müller ; Basic considerations on the construction of pyramids in the Old Kingdom – Frank Müller-Römer ; Die Verwendung von Münzen in pharaonischer Zeit – Renate Müller-Wollermann ; In the footsteps of Ricardo Caminos: rediscovering the ‘Speos of Gebel el Silsila’ – Maria Nilsson and Philippe Martinez ; The folding cubit rod of Kha in Museo Egizio di Torino, S.8391 – Naoko Nishimoto ; The mystery of the ‘high place’ from the Abbott Papyrus revealed? The results of the works of the Polish Cliff Mission at Deir el-Bahari 1999–2014 – Andrzej Niwiński ; The mummies of the ‘Three Sisters’ in the Museo Egizio: a case study. Conservation and studies of textiles and bandages – Cinzia Oliva and Matilde Borla ; Technical aspects of faience from Hierakonpolis, Egypt – a preliminary report – Marina Panagiotaki, Elizabeth Walters, Yannis Maniatis and Anna Tsoupra ; Horus Seneferou ka-s quand le dernier souverain de la Ire dynastie devint la première femme pharaon de l’Histoire à porter un nom d’Horus – Jean-Pierre Pätznick ; The Herakleopolis Magna Project: seasons 2012–2015 – M. Carmen Pérez-Die ; The Stelae Ridge cairns: a reassessment of the archaeological evidence – Hannah Pethen ; The Italian-Egyptian Mission at the Monastery of Abba Nefer at Manqabad: results of the first four seasons’ work – Rosanna Pirelli, Ilaria Incordino, Paola Buzi and Anna Salsano ; Wedjat-eyes as a dating criterion for false doors and stelae to the early Middle Kingdom – Melanie Pitkin ; La collection égyptienne du Musée Sandelin à Saint-Omer (France) – Jean-Louis Podvin ; Some remarks on the Egyptian reception of foreign military technology during the 18th Dynasty: a brief survey of the armour – Alberto Maria Pollastrini ; Medical re-enactments: Ancient Egyptian prescriptions from an Emic viewpoint – Tanja Pommerening ; Textual layers in Coffin Texts Spells 154–160 – Gyula Priskin ; The cat mummies of the Società Africana d’Italia: an archaeological, cultural and religious perspective – Maria Diletta Pubblico ; Khnum the Creator: a puzzling case of the transfer of an iconographic motif – Maarten J. Raven ; Temple ranks in the Fayyum during the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods: documentary sources and archaeological data – Ilaria Rossetti ; Le musee de Mallawi : etat des lieux apres les destructions et projets pour l’avenir – Ashraf Alexandre Sadek ; A new light on Coptic afterlife (O.4550 from the Coptic Museum in Cairo) – Hind Salah El-Din Somida Awad ; The lost chapels of Elephantine. Preliminary results of a reconstruction study through archival documents – Daniele Salvoldi and Simon Delvaux ; Doors to the past. Rediscovering fragments in the new blockyard at Medinet Habu – Julia Schmied ; Les dépôts de fondation de la Vallée des Rois : nouvelles perspectives de recherche sur l’histoire de la nécropole royale du Nouvel Empire – François C. A. Schmitt ; Economic mentalities and Ancient Egyptian legal documents – Alexander Schütze ; Excavations in the ‘Temple of Millions of Years’ of Thutmosis III – Myriam Seco Álvarez ; Rituels funéraires au temps de Hatchepsout : le sanctuaire de la tombe de Djehouty et ses parallèles – José M. Serrano ; The so-called Book of Two Ways on a Middle Kingdom religious leather roll – Wael Sherbiny ; Ibyc. PMGF 287 and Ancient Egyptian love songs – Anna Sofia ; The Physiologus in Egypt – Marco Stroppa ; A survey of astronomical tables on Middle Kingdom coffin lids – Sarah L. Symons ; Blue painted pottery from a mid-18th Dynasty royal mud-brick structure in northwest Saqqara – Kazumitsu Takahashi ; Studies on BD 17 vignettes: iconographic typology of Rw.tj-scene (New Kingdom – Third Intermediate Period) – Mykola Tarasenko ; Were components of Amarna composite statues made in separate workshops? – Kristin Thompson ; Research on Old Kingdom ‘dissimilation graphique’. World-view and categorization – Simon Thuault ; La funzione del tempio tolemaico di Deir el-Medina alla luce dell’archeologia – Claudia Tirel Cena ; The ‘geography’ of the hierogrammateis: the religious topography of the Western Harpoon (7th Nome of Lower Egypt) – Elena Tiribilli ; The Ancient Egyptian shabtis discovered in the regions of Roman Illyricum (Dalmatia, Pannonia) and Istria: provenance, collections, typological study and dating – Mladen Tomorad ; From Egypt to the Holy Land: first issues on the Egyptian collection in the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem – Benedetta Torrini ; Tradition and innovation within the decoration program of the temple of Ramesses II at Gerf Hussein – Martina Ullmann ; The Egyptian Execration Statuettes (EES) Project – Athena Van der Perre ; A new long-term digital project on Hieratic and cursive hieroglyphs – Ursula Verhoeven and Svenja A. Gülden ; Hierakonpolis Faience, 2005–2013, with context and accompanying finds – a quest for chronology and possible use – Elizabeth J. Walters, Amr El Gohary, Shelton S. Alexander, Richard R. Parizek, David P. Gold, Recep Cakir, Marina Panagiotaki, Yannis Maniatis and Anna Tsoupra ; Elhe Berlin Plans from the New Kingdom Period – Yoshifumi Yasuoka ; The career of Nakhtmin (TT 87) as revealed by his funerary cones – Kento Zenihiro ; Object biographies and political expectations: Egyptian artefacts, Welsh Heritage and the regional community museum – Katharina Zinn ; Who am I - and if so, how many? Some remarks on the ‘j-augment’ and language change – Monika Zöller-Engelhardt ; Poster presentations ; Vocabulaire de l’Égyptien Ancien (VÉgA) Plateforme numérique de recherche lexicographique – A. Almásy, Ch. Cassier, J. Chun-Hung-Kee, F. Contardi, M. Massiera, A. Nespoulous-Phalippou, Fr. Rouffet ; South African collections – Izak Cornelius, Salima Ikram, Ruhan Slabbert, Liani C. Swanepoel, Frank Teichert and Tiffany van Zyl ; Pottery from the Early Roman rubbish dumps in Berenike harbour – Agnieszka Dzwonek ; A sequence of five 13th Dynasty structures at Memphis – Rabee Eissa ; Funerary culture of the Memphite region during the Early Dynastic Period – Barbora Janulíková ; The Roman Imperial cult temple at Luxor: its architecture and possible connection between Roman and Egyptian cultures – Irina Kulikova and Dmitry Karelin ; One of the earliest discovered houses at Memphis – Hanan Mahmoud Mohamed ; Étude Pluridisciplinaire De Têtes De Momies (Lyon) – Annie Perraud, Matthieu Ménager, Pascale Richardin and Catherine Vieillescazes ; Progetto Osiris: valorizzazione delle piccole collezioni egizie – Massimiliana Pozzi Battaglia e Federica Scatena ; Study and restoration of two mummies from the Moulins Museum – Noëlle Timbart ; List of papers presented at ICE XI – M. Franci

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Book SynopsisThe Ritidian Site in Guam contains multiple layers and components that together reveal the full scope of traditional cultural heritage in the Mariana Islands in the northwest tropical Pacific since 1500 B.C., dating from the beginning of human settlement of the Remote Pacific Islands. The material records of changing artefacts, sites, and landscapes here have been incorporated into a cohesive narrative in chronological order, mirroring the experience of visiting a museum to learn about the profound heritage of this special site and its larger research contributions. The primary data findings are presented as a translation or visitor’s guide of encountering a complex, multi-layered, and multi-vocal past.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Life, Lore, and Landscape of a Stirring Place; Chapter 2 Natural Setting; Chapter 3 Cultural Traditions; Chapter 4 Written History; Chapter 5 De-coding the Archaeological Records; Chapter 6 Ritidian at 1500–1100 B.C.; Chapter 7 Ritidian at 1100–700 B.C.; Chapter 8 Ritidian at 700 B.C. –A.D. 1; Chapter 9 Ritidian at A.D. 1–500; Chapter 10 Ritidian at A.D. 500–1000; Chapter 11 Ritidian at A.D. 1000–1700; Chapter 12 Living Legacy; References

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Book SynopsisCycladic Archaeology and Research: New approaches and discoveries' reflects the present exciting times in Cycladic archaeology. New excavations are bringing to light sanctuaries unmentioned by literary sources and inscriptions (e.g., Kythnos, Despotiko); new theoretical approaches to insularity and networks are radically changing our views of the Cyclades as geographic and cultural unit(s). Furthermore, the restoration and restudy of older sites (e.g., Delos, Paros, Naxos) are challenging old truths, updating chronologies and contexts throughout the Mediterranean and beyond. This volume is intended to share these recent developments with a broader, international audience. The essays have been carefully selected as representing some of the most important recent work and include significant previously-unpublished material. Individually, they cover archaeological sites and materials from across the Cycladic islands, and illustrate the diversity of the islands’ material culture across the Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique periods. Together, they share common themes such as the importance of connectivity, and the role of each island’s individual landscape and its resources in shaping human activity. The work they represent attests the ongoing appeal of the islands and of the islanders in the collective imagination, and demonstrates the scope for still further innovative work in the years ahead.Table of ContentsPreface by Christy Constantakopoulou: Cycladic History and Archaeology: some thoughts.; Introduction by Erica. Angliker and John Tully; Bronze Age Cyclades: 1) Heleni Hassaki: Terracotta Statues from Ayia Irini, Kea: An Experimental Replication; 2) Stephanie Martin: Abandoning Akrotiri (Thera): A comparative model approach to relocation strategies after volcanic eruptions; 3) Jason Earle: Coming to Terms with Late Cycladic II. Questions of Style and Stratigraphy at Phylakopi, Melos; Archaic and Classical Cyclades: 4) Michael J. Knight and Lesley A. Beaumont: Water supply and climate change at Zagora on Andros: new approaches and perspectives on the Early Iron Age Cyclades; 5) Aenne Ohnesor, Katarina Papajanni: The Sanctuary of Despotiko (Cyclades, Greece). The Building with Chanel and other Enigmatic Strutuctures; 6) Alexandra Alexandridou: The “Lady of Despotiko” Reconsidered: Cult Image or Cult Utensil?; 7) Dimitris Palaiotodoros: The Import of Attic Black Figure Vases in the Cyclades; 8) Robert Sutton, Yannos Kourayos, Kornillia Daifa: Naxos, the largest Cycladic island with a single polis. A survey through ancient times; 9) Yannos Kourayos, Erica Angliker, Kornillia Daifa and John Tully: The cult topography of Paros: 9th – 4th c. BC: A Synthesis; Hellenistic and later Cyclades: 10) Anna Maria Anagnostopoulou: From the Hellenistic Sculpture of Seriphos and Siphnos; 11) Gilberto da Silva Francisco: Panathenaic amphorae in Delos and Rhenea in the Hellenistic period; 12) Georgia Kokkorou-Alevras, Eir. Poupaki, D. Tambakopoulo and Υ. Maniatis: Parian Marble in Koan Statuary and Utilitarian Artifacts of the Hellenistic and Roman Period. Finds at the Sanctuary of Apollo at Kardamaina (Ancient Halasarna) on Cos; 13) Rebecca Sweetman, Alice Devlin & Nefeli Piree Ilio: The Cyclades in the Late Antique period Churches, networks and Christianization; Diachronic Approaches: 14) F. Mavridis, Ž. Tankosić and A. Kotsonas: The Irakleia Caves Exploration Project and the importance of cave research for the archaeology of the Cyclades: A brief note; 15) Frederic Herbin: Votive and Honorific Monument Practices in Delos.; 16) Yannos Kourayos: Ancient Paros: The Evidence from the Rescue Excavations; 17) Lydia Palaiokrassa Kopitsa: New Evidence from the Agora of Ancient Andros: The City of Andros; 18) Matteo Fulvio Olivieri: Sensory study of vision the panegyris of Delos: seeing the sacred landscape and sensing the god; 19) Alexandra Sfyroera: Naxos, the largest Cycladic island with a single polis. A survey through ancient times.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents and celebrates the mile-long Thames Street in the City of London and the land south of it to the River Thames as an archaeological asset. Four Museum of London excavations of 1974-84 are presented: Swan Lane, Seal House, New Fresh Wharf and Billingsgate Lorry Park. Here the findings of the period 1100-1666 are presented.

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Book SynopsisCoins in Rhodes: From the monetary reform of Anastasius I until the Ottoman conquest (498 – 1522) presents the Byzantine and medieval coins collected by Greek archaeologists in Rhodes over a period of more than sixty years. It includes lists of excavated land plots, stray finds, an illustrated catalogue of all the Byzantine and local coins up to 1309, and a representative sample of the Hospitaller petty coins as well as all the Western coins found. Hoard evidence helps sort various emissions and their dates between c. 1320 – c. 1420. After a chapter introducing the reader to the archaeology of Rhodes, the nature of the material and the way it has been handled, the coins are set against the reconsidered backdrop of local history from 498 to 1522, tracing fluctuations in circulation and attempting to explore their significance. Particular care is taken over the transitional 13th century, when fragmentation of power in the region has made the scanty documentary evidence very hard to assess. Different approaches have been applied, depending on the available evidence integral to the material and that available from other sources. The archaeology of Rhodes across ten centuries presents all the difficulties of disturbed stratigraphy and recycling of structures expected of an intensively used site. The work aspires to promote a way of dealing with quantities of finds from large-scale rescue excavation that will help other scholars date contexts more accurately and review or compare their own data from this or other sites.Trade ReviewThe book exemplifies the potential, but also the limitations, of excavation finds. Nonetheless the author has performed wonders in extracting as much information as possible from the evidence and her classification of the petty coinage of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries will surely be the standard for the foreseeable future. - Marcus Phillips (2020), The Numismatic Chronicle, Issue 180.Table of ContentsPrologue ; Introduction ; PART I. BYZANTIUM (498 - 1309): Period of the Imperial Mints (498-1204) ; The 13th century (1204 - 1309) ; Part II. HOSPITALLER PERIOD (1309-1522): The Order of St John ; Hospitaller minting ; Rhodian silver and gold ; Petty coins ; Foreign coins ; Overview - Conclusions ; Bibliography ; Appendices: List of excavated properties and sites with coin finds dated 498-1522 ; Coin finds of the period 498-1522 ; Selected contexts ; The Catalogue and Plates ; Index

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Book SynopsisComposite Artefacts in the Ancient Near East: Exhibiting an imaginative materiality, showing a genealogical nature examines the complex relationship between environment, materials, society and materiality with particular reference to the composite artefacts in the ancient Near East. On the one hand are the objective and natural attributes of materials, possibly exalted from their transformation: a form of fascination immanent in all kind of technical activity which promotes the transition from the ordinary into an ‘extra-ordinary’ realm, imbuing the object with new meaning. On the other hand is the idea that properties of materials are not fixed attributes of ‘matters’, but are processual as well as relational: the qualities of artefacts are subjective and are included in the worldview of artisans making them, as well as in the mind of who observes who appreciate them. Thus, the craftsmanship is oriented towards the achievement of sophisticated products through assemblage techniques and the blending of contrasting properties and qualities of materials. The term ‘composite’ is a combination of the power of technology and the ability to form new images: the strict relationship between creativity, technology and manufacture produces novel interactions and solutions. Although the primary concern of this volume is to provide specific case studies in which theoretical assumptions and hypotheses can be applied to the ancient evidence, most of the papers take not only the general perspective, such as the relationship between materials and humans, but also a defined body of evidence – material, textual and visual through which they address the issue. This volume represents a first attempt to conceptualise the construction and use of composite artefacts: the richness of approaches, the development of new issues depending on specific case studies, and the overturning of widely accepted ideas, show the interest towards this category of objects and the opportunity to enlarge this field study in the future.Table of ContentsSilvana Di Paolo – Introduction: New Lines of Enquiry for Composite Artefacts? ; Section 1. The Planning: Materiality and Imagination ; Silvana Di Paolo – From Hidden to Visible. Degrees of Mental and Material Construction of an ‘Integrated Whole’ in the Ancient Near East ; Alessandro Di Ludovico – A Composite Look at the Composite Wall Decorations in the Early History of Mesopotamia ; Section 2. Symbols in Action ; Chikako Watanabe – Composite Animals Representing the Property of Thunder in Mesopotamia. ; Elisa Roßberger – Shining, Contrasting, Enchanting: Composite Artefacts from the Royal Tomb of Qatna ; Megan Cifarelli – Entangled Relations over Geographical and Gendered Space: Multi-Component Personal Ornaments at Hasanlu [Open Access: Download] ; Section 3. Sum of Fragments, Sum of Worlds ; Jean M. Evans – Composing Figural Traditions in the Mesopotamian Temple ; Frances Pinnock – Polymaterism in Early Syrian Ebla ; Anna Paule – Near Eastern Materials, Near Eastern Techniques, Near Eastern Inspiration: Colourful Jewellery from Prehistoric, Protohistoric and Archaic Cyprus

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Book SynopsisCharles Thomas (1928-2016) was a Cornishman and archaeologist, whose career from the 1950s spanned nearly seven decades. This period saw major developments that underpin the structures of archaeology in Britain today, in many of which he played a pivotal part. He campaigned for the Chair of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter, which he then held from 1972 until retirement, after teaching archaeology at Edinburgh and Leicester Universities. The ‘Intellectual Adventure in Archaeology’ was to Charles the mental stimulation of developing narratives for the past, especially in the areas in which he was a leading authority, including the early church in Britain, the early medieval period more generally, and Cornish studies. The contributions to this volume demonstrate the extent to which his scholarship and character has underpinned the work of others, in Cornwall and beyond. Contributions come from life-long friends and from archaeologists at all of stages of their careers. Their subjects are predominantly Cornish, Gwithian, Tintagel and Scilly, but also range from Scotland to Southern France. The whole is brought to life by a series of Charles’ watercolours, previously unpublished. The volume should appeal to all those interested in the development of archaeology in the later 20th century and of Cornwall from prehistory to its distinctive present.Table of ContentsForeword – Caroline Dudley ; Andy M Jones and Henrietta Quinnell – A miscellany of papers ; Nicholas Johnson – Charles Thomas 1928–2016: The sixty-year archaeological adventure of a Cornish polymath ; Andy M Jones – To the North Cliffs! ; Roger Mercer – Looking at the Cornish Early Neolithic from all directions ; Vanessa Straker and Thomas Walker – Gwithian’s environmental history: Landscape change and farming ; Henrietta Quinnell – Before the Early Christian cemetery site on Lundy Island ; Jacqueline A Nowakowski – Working in the shadows of the giants: Charles Thomas, Courtenay Arthur Ralegh Radford (and King Arthur) – past and current archaeological fieldwork at Tintagel, Cornwall ; Charles Thomas† and Charles Johns – Archaeological investigations on Teän, Isles of Scilly, 1956 ; Ewan Campbell and Adrián Maldonado – Charles Thomas in North Britain: A career in the making ; Anna Tyacke – My memorial stone to Charles ; Ann Preston-Jones – St Piran’s Cross: A Cornish Icon Re-considered ; Thomas Goskar – A little less mute: 3D capture and enhancement of Cornwall's inscribed and decorated stones ; Oliver Padel – The name of Annet (Scilly) ; Peter Fowler – Deserted Settlement in an Antique land: Elements of a post-Roman field archaeology on le Causee Méjean, Languedoc, France ; Martin Bell – Coastal Archaeology in South West England: Charles Thomas and other inspirations ; Timothy Darvill – Lift up mine eyes unto the hills: Archaeology and the uplands ; Nick Thomas – Antony Charles Thomas, the bard of Manton ; Mary-Jane Mountain – Charlie: Excavations and archaeology at the University of Edinburgh 1957-1967. ; Arthur ApSimon – Remembering… ; Adrian Rodda and Christopher Knowles – Memories of the Gwithian excavations ; Anna Lawson-Jones – ‘The weather’s fine! Do you fancy a trip to the flint fields?’ ; John Gould – Charles Thomas and Church Archaeology in Cornwall: Reminiscences of a Diocesan Archaeologist ; Adam Sharpe – Charles Thomas: Linguistic archaeologist ; Freya-Lawson-Jones – From Gwithian to York: A short saga ; Philip Marsden – End note: A man of letters ; The Complete Bibliography of Charles Antony Thomas – compiled by Nicholas Johnson

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Book SynopsisWinifred Lamb was a pioneering archaeologist in the Aegean and Anatolia. She studied classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and subsequently served in naval intelligence alongside J. D. Beazley during the final stages of the First World War. As war drew to a close, Sydney Cockerell, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, invited Lamb to be the honorary keeper of Greek antiquities. Over the next 40 years she created a prehistoric gallery, marking the university’s contribution to excavations in the Aegean, and developed the museum’s holdings of classical bronzes and Athenian figure-decorated pottery. Lamb formed a parallel career excavating in the Aegean. She was admitted as a student of the British School at Athens and served as assistant director on the Mycenae excavations under Alan Wace and Carl Blegen. After further work at Sparta and on prehistoric mounds in Macedonia, Lamb identified and excavated a major Bronze Age site at Thermi on Lesbos. She conducted a brief excavation on Chios before directing a major project at Kusura in Turkey. She was recruited for the Turkish language section of the BBC during the Second World War, and after the cessation of hostilities took an active part in the creation of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara.Trade Review'Gill has produced a solid biography about one of the most important women in the history of British archaeology in Greece and Turkey during the first half of the 20th century. [The book is] destined to become a reference work for anyone studying the development of Classical studies at one of England’s premier universities or the history of British archaeology in the eastern Mediterranean.' - Natalia Vogeikoff Brogan (2019): Bryn Mawr Classical Review 'Gill’s well-researched biography is an important contribution highlighting the important role played by individuals of influence, such as Winifred Lamb, and of the British institutions that they were connected to in the development of the disciplines of classical studies and archaeology (in this case, The Fitzwilliam Museum and Cambridge University). [The book highlights] the accomplishments of one of archaeology’s great, but rather obscure protagonists, while at the same time reminding us of how far our discipline has progressed within the last two centuries, and how we, in the present, are paving the way for more changes to come.' - Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory (2022): Journal of Greek ArchaeologyTable of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter 1: The Lamb Family and Early Years ; Chapter 2: Cambridge and Classics ; Chapter 3: The Hope Vases and Naval Intelligence ; Chapter 4: The First Year in Athens (1920–21) ; Chapter 5: Prehistory and the Fitzwilliam Museum ; Chapter 6: Mycenae, Sparta and Macedonia ; Chapter 7: The Fitzwilliam Museum: Developing the Classical Collections ; Chapter 8: The Eastern Aegean: Lesbos and Chios ; Chapter 9: Anatolia and Kusura ; Chapter 10: The War Years ; Chapter 11: The British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisThe amount of 3D modelling applications in archaeology has increased enourmously over the last decade. 3D recording techniques allow researchers to quickly and accurately document archaeological evidence, and 3D reconstructions have created new possibilities to communicate the results to a larger public. In this latter case, however, numerous scholars have expressed their concern regarding the ethics of such digital representations, since they give prominence to a crystallized image of the past and do not account for the complexity of the archaeological record. The study presented here aims to make a practical contribution to a new understanding and use of 3D reconstructions, namely as ‘laboratories’ to test hypotheses and visualize, evaluate and discuss alternative interpretations. In order to do so, an analysis of visual reconstructions of the early and late modern period is presented first, followed by a discussion of current applications of 3D digital reconstructions, with a special focus on cityscapes. Lastly, a practical implementation of a research-driven, intellectually transparent and GIS-based 3D reconstruction is proposed for the urban site of Koroneia, in Boeotia, Central Greece. Specifically, the methodology developed in this work uses tools that are employed in geo-design and modern urban planning in an innovative way, integrating GIS with a rule-based modelling approach. With a strong focus on the automation and iteration of the reconstruction process, our 3D visualization provides an intuitive insight into hidden relationships and associations among data, and allows the creation and evaluation of alternative reconstruction hypotheses.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Reconstructing past cityscapes before the digital age: A view on Greek and Roman towns; 3. Three-dimensional visualizations in archaeology: An additional tool in the archaeologist’s toolbox; 4. The ancient town of Koroneia: Geographical context, historical background and synthesis of the preliminary results by the Boeotia survey; 5.The Graeco-Roman town as a physical entity: Sources for a comparison; 6. Enhancing Koroneia’s GIS survey data with the third dimension: A procedural modelling approach; 7. Conclusions; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book presents, in sixteen papers, recent developments and some of the main topics seen in academic Medieval Archaeology studies in Spain. The papers explore some of the emergent and consolidated topics of the discipline, such as landscapes, cities, rural spaces, bio-archaeological records, archaeology of architectures, agrarian archaeology, post-Roman archaeology, colonial archaeology in the Canary Islands and the archaeology of religious minorities, opening new lines of enquiries and providing new theoretical and methodological approaches. An overview of Medieval Archaeology studies in Spain is offered, proposing a wide range of topics for discussion. Finally, the book explores the connections between Spanish Medieval Archaeology and other European traditions, specifically, English, Italian and Portuguese Medieval Archaeology.Table of ContentsPreface, Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo (Universidad del País Vasco, UPV‐EHU); Introduction: 1. The future of Medieval Archaeology in Spain. Reflections and proposals, Juan Antonio Quirós (Universidad del País Vasco, UPV‐EHU); Spanish Medieval Archaeology from a european perspective: 2. Italia e Spagna, archeologie e medioevo: riflessioni su storie, paradigmi e future (prossimo venturo), Sauro Gelichi (Università Ca`Foscari); 3. Early Medieval ‘places and spaces’. Breaking down boundaries in British Archaeology, Helena Hamerow (University of Oxford); 4. Os últimos 30 anos da Arqueologia Medieval portugesa (1987‐2017), Catarina Tente (Universidade Nova Lisboa); Trends and topics: 5. Treinta años de una nueva arqueología de al‐Andalus, Alberto García Porras (Universidad de Granada); 6. Treinta años de arqueología en el norte de la Península Ibérica, Carlos Tejerizo (Universidad de Catamarta, Argentina), Juan Antonio Quirós (Universidad del País Vasco, UPV‐EHU); 7. La ciudad durante la Alta Edad Media: balance y propuesta de nuevas perspectivas metodológicas para el estudio de los escenarios urbanos en la Península Ibérica, Julia Sarabia‐Bautista (Universidad de Alicante); 8. Ciudad andalusí y arqueología. Un espacio para la reflexión, Irene Montilla Torres (Universidad de Jaén); 9. La Arqueología del paisaje como lugar donde hacer realmente compleja nuestra disciplina, José María Martín Civantos (Universidad de Granada); 10. De la Arqueología del paisaje a la Arqueología Agraria, Margarita Fernández Mier (Universidad de Oviedo); 11. Los últimos 30 años de la arqueología del período post‐imperial y visigodo, Alfonso Vigil‐Escalera Guirado (Universidad de Salamanca); 12. De la Arqueología mudéjar a la arqueología morisca: del islam permitido al islam prohibido, Olatz Villanueva Zubizarreta (Universidad de Valladolid); 13. Arqueología medieval de las minorías religiosas de la península ibérica: el caso de los judíos, Jorge A. Eiroa (Universidad de Murcia); 14. Zooarqueología y Edad Media en la Península Ibérica, Idoia Grau‐Sologestoa (University of Sheffield), Marcos García‐García (Universidad de Granada); 15. Arqueología de la producción arquitectónica en el Altomedievo Hispánico. Tecnología y contexto, María Ángeles Utrero (CSIC); 16. Arqueología y Media aetas en el archipiélago canario. Una reflexión y dos estudios de caso, Jorge Onrubia Pintado (Universidad de Castilla La Mancha), María del Cristo González Marrero (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)

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Book SynopsisFrom the mid-20th century onwards, consolidated study of the merchant archives from the Old Assyrian trading colony at Kaneš (Kültepe) has not only transformed our understanding of the social, economic and political dynamics of the Bronze Age Near East, but also overturned many preconceived notions of what constitutes pre-modern trade. Despite this disciplinary impact and archaeological investigations at Kültepe and elsewhere, our understanding of this phenomenon has remained largely text-based and therefore of limited analytical scope, both spatially and contextually. This book re-assesses the Old-Assyrian trade network in Upper Mesopotamia and Central Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1970 – 1700 BC) by combining in some analytical detail the archaeology (e.g. material culture, settlement data, etc.) of the region both on its own terms and via a range of spatial approaches. The author offers a comparative and spatial perspective on exchange networks and economic strategies, continuity and discontinuity of specific trade circuits and routes, and the evolution of political landscapes throughout the Near East in the Middle Bronze Age.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction ; Chapter 2. Theoretical approaches to landscape, political geography and trade; Chapter 3. Upper Mesopotamia and Central Anatolia in the old Assyrian colony period. A review of the documentary historical evidence; Chapter 4. Perspectives on material culture: intra and inter-regional dynamics; Chapter 5. Models of settlement hierarchy; Chapter 6. Landscape-scale models of movement and interaction; Chapter 7. Discussion: landscapes of interaction in Upper Mesopotamia and Anatolia; Chapter 8. Conclusions; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisHow did the Persian King of Kings Get His Wine? the upper Tigris in antiquity (c.700 BCE to 636 CE)' explores the upper valley of the Tigris during antiquity. The area is little known to scholarship, and study is currently handicapped by the security situation in southeast Turkey and by the completion during 2018 of the Ilısu dam. The reservoir being created will drown a large part of the valley and will destroy many archaeological sites, some of which have not been investigated. The course of the upper Tigris discussed here is the section from Mosul up to its source north of Diyarbakır; the monograph describes the history of the river valley from the end of the Late Assyrian empire through to the Arab conquests, thus including the conflicts between Rome and Persia. It considers the transport network by river and road and provides an assessment of the damage to cultural heritage caused both by the Saddam dam (also known as the Eski Mosul dam) in Iraq and by the Ilısu dam in south-east Turkey. A catalogue describes the sites important during the long period under review in and around the valley. During the period reviewed this area was strategically important for Assyria’s relations with its northern neighbours, for the Hellenistic world’s relations with Persia and for Roman relations with first the kingdom of Parthia and then with Sassanian Persia.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Transport and the road network; Relief sculptures; Dams on the upper Tigris and their consequences for historic monuments; Catalogue; Sites from antiquity (700 BCE to 636 CE) on and around the upper Tigris; Conclusion; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisExcavations over a period of eight years uncovered at least ten pottery kilns, waster heaps, ditches and pits, but only a few definite structures. The pottery from the site indicates a period of operation extending from the first half of the 1st century AD to the later 2nd century. The pottery made at the site included initially a vegetable tempered handmade ware, but subsequently the bulk of it consisted of a grog tempered ware and then pottery in a sandy fabric which is well known from assemblages in London. The type of kiln varied with the pottery fabric; there was possible evidence for a pre-Roman pit firing, and later kilns set in ditches were of the twin flued type, eventually replaced by the more familiar above ground kilns with raised floors. Changes in pottery fabric were reflected in different methods of clay preparation, which led to changes in the function of the various ditches, the stratigraphy of which, along with the variation in the fabrics, was significant in enabling the four broad phases into which the site has been divided, to be proposed. The report includes a very detailed analysis of the forms and fabrics of the pottery made at Highgate. Finds of prehistoric flintwork and pottery during the excavation, and of material of later date, together with the observation of earthworks and historical research, have been used to show the place of the pottery kilns as an element in the exploitation of the woodland of northern London over the last eight thousand years.Table of ContentsPart I: The Excavations ; 1. Introduction ; 2. The Excavation ; Part II: Highgate Wood, wider aspects ; 3. Evidence for other pottery making sites in or near Highgate Wood ; 4. Highgate Wood before and after the Roman potters ; Part III: The Pottery ; 5. The pottery from Highgate Wood ; 6. Analysis of the excavated pottery ; 7. Terra Sigillata ; 8. The Mortaria ; 9. Potter’s stamp on grey ware (no. 1245) ; 10. The Hercules Medallion in sigillée claire B (no. 1056) ; 11. Report on a Spouted Strainer Bowl (no.1049) ; 12. The reconstruction of vessel no. 174 ; 13. Petrographic Analysis of Roman Pottery ; 14. Chemical Characterization of Pottery by ICPS ; 15. The Baked Clay Objects ; Part IV: The Other Finds ; 16. The Metal Small Finds ; 17. The Stone Artifacts ; 18. The Glass ; 19. Highgate Wood and Queen’s Wood: The Flintwork ; 20. The Prehistoric Pottery ; 21. Biological Remains ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFrom 1985 to 2001, the collaborative research initiative known as the Bannu Archaeological Project conducted archaeological explorations and excavations in the Bannu region, in what was then the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. This Project involves scholars from the Pakistan Heritage Society, the British Museum, the Institute of Archaeology (UCL), Bryn Mawr College and the University of Cambridge.This is the third in a series of volumes that present the final reports of the exploration and excavations carried out by the Bannu Archaeological Project. This volume presents the first synthesis of the archaeology of the historic periods in the Bannu region, spanning the period when the first large scale empires expanded to the borders of South Asia up until the arrival of Islam in the subcontinent at the end of the first and beginning of the second millennium BC. The Bannu region provides specific insight into early imperialism in South Asia, as throughout this protracted period, it was able to maintain a distinctive regional identity in the face of recurring phases of imperial expansion and integration.Table of Contents1. At the edge of empires: the Bannu basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 2. Environment and settlement in the Bannu basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 3. Historical context of the Bannu basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 4. Empire and resistance in the borderlands from 1000 BC to AD 1200 5. The Bannu Archaeological Project excavations at Akra and Ter Kala Dheri 6. Ceramics from Akra: raw materials and fabrics 7. Ceramics of the first millennium BC from Akra 8. Ceramics of the first and early second millennium AD from Akra 9. Small finds from Akra 10. Chronology of Akra and Ter Kala Dheri 11. Resistance at the edge of empires: the Bannu basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the late 1st millennium BC into the early 1st millennium AD, the small island of Unst in the far north of the Shetland (and British) Isles was home to well-established and connected farming and fishing communities. The Iron Age settlement at Milla Skerra was occupied for at least 500 years before it was covered with storm-blown sand and abandoned. Although part of it had been lost to the sea, excavation revealed many details of the life of the settlement and how it was reused over many generations. From the middle of the 1st millennium BC people were constructing stone-walled yards and filling them with hearth waste and midden material. Later inhabitants built a house on top, with a paved floor and successive hearths, and more domestic rubbish accumulated inside it. Outside were new yards and workshops for crafts and metalworking, which were remodelled several times. The buildings fell into disrepair and became a dumping ground for domestic waste until the 2nd or 3rd century AD, when sand buried the settlement. Within a few generations, a man was buried beside the ruins along with some striking objects. Thousands of artefacts and environmental remains from Milla Skerra reveal the everyday practices and seasonal rhythms of the people that lived in this windswept and remote island settlement and their connections to both land and sea.Trade ReviewThe report is far from a dry description of contexts and discoveries. When we read that before construction of a yard commenced, 'someone set a painted pebble on the surface', or that a well-worn paving slab 'may have been a favourite warm seat', the past is brought intimately to life. Who needs reconstruction drawings when there are wonderfully evocative desceriptions such as these? * Current Archaeology *Table of ContentsList of figures List of tables Acknowledgements Summary 1. Uncovering Milla Skerra Olivia Lelong 2. The life and death of Milla Skerra Olivia Lelong 3. Refining interpretations of the archaeological deposits Brendan Derham, Clare Ellis and Jo McKenzie 4. Fires and food at Milla Skerra Ruby Cerón-Carrasco, Brendan Derham, Jennifer Miller, Susan Ramsay and Catherine Smith 5. The making, using and breaking of pots Olivia Lelong and Beverley Ballin Smith 6. Craftwork at Milla Skerra: metalworking and bone, stone and iron tools Beverley Ballin Smith, Torben Bjarke Ballin, Ann Clarke, Amanda Forster, Martin Goldberg, Fraser Hunter, Richard Jones, Olivia Lelong, Dawn McLaren and Anthony Newton 7. Technologies of the self: painted pebbles, ornaments and the burial Martin Goldberg and Fraser Hunter, with contributions by Paul Duffy, Katharina Dulias, Ceiridwen J. Edwards and Amanda Forster 8. Rhythms of life at Milla Skerra Olivia Lelong Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume charts the radical transformation of an inner city neighbourhood in late antique Carthage which was excavated over a five-year period by a team from the University of Cambridge. Bordering the main thoroughfare leading from the Brysa Hill to the ports, the neighbourhood remained primarily a residential one from the second century until 530s AD when a substantial basilica was constructed over the eastern half of the insula. Further extensive modifications were made to the basilica half-a-century later when the structures on the western half of the insula were demolished and the basilica greatly enlarged with the addition of a new east-west aisles, a large monumental baptistery and a crypt. By carefully reconstructing the complex architectural plan of this innovative building, this study shows how the re-modelled Bir Messaouda basilica was transformed into a major pilgrimage centre overturning established tradition that located such complexes outside the city walls. The Bir Messaouda basilica provides important insights into the transition between Vandal and Byzantine control of the city, the development of a new Christian inter-mural urban landscape in the sixth century AD, and the significance of the pilgrimage in reinforcing ecclesiastical authority in post-Justinianic North Africa.Trade Review…provides very thoughtful assessment of current approaches to the archaeology of 6th-century Christianity within North Africa. * Medieval Archaeology *Table of ContentsBackground and acknowledgments Richard Miles 1. Late Antique Carthage: archaeological and historical contexts Richard Miles 2. The early history of Bir Messaouda: Punic and Roman Simon Greenslade and Richard Miles 3. The transition of Bir Messaouda in the early to mid-6th century AD Simon Greenslade and Richard Miles 4. The transition of Bir Messaouda in the later 6th century AD Simon Greenslade and Richard Miles 5. The baptistery and crypt Simon Greenslade and Richard Miles 6. The later history of the basilica Simon Greenslade and Richard Miles 7. The 6th-century mosaics at Bir Messaouda Jane Chick 8. Plaster Claudia Goodbrand 9. The glass from the excavation at Bir Messaouda Sylvia Fünfschilling 10. The Bir Messaouda pottery Claudia Goodbrand Appendix 1 11. The coins Stefan Krmnicek 12. Metal building materials, personal and utilitarian objects and other small metal finds Ralf Bockmann 13. Ceramic building material from the Bir Messaouda Excavations 2000–2002 Philip Mills 14. The stone finds Ben Croxford Appendix 1: The marble typology Appendix 2: Catalogue of illustrated finds 15. Conclusions Richard Miles Appendix: The search for the Maritime Forum of Carthage John Whitehouse and Sami Harize Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAntiquarianism and collecting have been associated intimately with European imperial and colonial enterprises, although both existed long before the early modern period and both were (and continue to be) practiced in places other than Europe. Scholars have made significant progress in the documentation and analysis of indigenous antiquarian traditions, but the clear-cut distinction between “indigenous” and “colonial” archaeologies has obscured the intense and dynamic interaction between these seemingly different endeavours. This book concerns the divide between local and foreign antiquarianisms focusing on case studies drawn primarily from the Mediterranean and the Americas. Both regions host robust pre-modern antiquarian traditions that have continued to develop during periods of colonialism. In both regions, moreover, colonial encounters have been mediated by the antiquarian practices and preferences of European elites. The two regions also exhibit salient differences. For example, Europeans claimed the “antiquities” of the eastern Mediterranean as part of their own, “classical,” heritage, whereas they perceived those of the Americas as essentially alien, even as they attempted to understand them by analogy to the classical world. These basic points of comparison and contrast provide a framework for conjoint analysis of the emergence of hybrid or cross-bred antiquarianisms. Rather than assuming that interest in antiquity is a human universal, this book explores the circumstances under which the past itself is produced and transformed through encounters between antiquarian traditions over common objects of interpretation.Trade Review[…] a collection of ten papers that approach the complex question of antiquarianism in a variety of ways. * Antiquity *Antiquarianisms is a significant contribution to current scholarship on antiquarian traditions. Not only does the volume add to Schnapp’s blueprint for comparing varying antiquarian practices, it also challenges its own goals and asks the reader to do the same in existing and future scholarship. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *...a demonstration of the historical dynamism within two discrete locales of antiquarian endeavour is very welcome, particularly as it underscores an important truth: that antiquarianism can provide a more conducive space to explore, in concert with people who are not specialists, the diverse connections between past and present. * European Journal of Archaeology *

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Book SynopsisWINNER OF BEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL BOOK AT THE 2018 BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL AWARDS.In November 2013 two mass burials were discovered unexpectedly on a construction site in the city of Durham in north-east England. Over the next 2 years, a complex jigsaw of evidence was pieced together by a team of archaeologists to establish the identity of the human remains. Today we know them to be some of the Scottish prisoners who died in the autumn of 1650 in Durham cathedral and castle following the battle of Dunbar on the south-east coast of Scotland. Fought between the English and the Scots, this was one of the key engagements of the War of the Three Kingdoms. Using the latest techniques of skeleton science, this book gives back to the men a voice through an understanding of their childhood and later lives. Archaeological and historical evidence also allows us to reconstruct with vivid accuracy how and why these men vanished off the historical radar. Of the prisoners who survived their ordeal after Dunbar, new evidence has emerged about their involvement in local industries and in one of the great infrastructural projects of the day, the draining of the Fens. Others were sent far away, transported to the colonies as indentured servants to begin a new life at the edge of the known world. Following the trail of their biographies takes us across the Atlantic where the Dunbar men supported each other throughout their lives on the frontiers of New England. Here they worked in ironworks and sawmills, farmed and fished and adapted to the vast forested landscapes which they named ‘Scotland’ and ‘Unity’, after the vessel they had sailed in. None returned to the country of their birth. Lost Lives, New Voices is a collaboration between academic researchers and professional archaeologists working on the Scottish Soldiers Research Project.Trade ReviewThis book will be of interest to both specialist and non-specialist readers.[…]It is well written, clearly structured and very accessible. It is impossible not to be moved by the evocative dedication to the living descendents of the surviving men who were transported to the colonies. * Archaeological Journal *Rich with first-hand accounts of extraordinary events and individuals this is a real rarity among archaeological reports: a page-turner. * British Archaeology *[Lost Lives, New Voices] contains highly valuable and new information that historians of early modern Britain and Ireland will find useful. It is packed with illustrations and is written in an accessible manner. Attractively produced, it should appeal to a cross-section of professionals who work in the history and heritage sectors […] This book is a fresh and valuable contribution to the literature on the English Republic: it provides a rare glimpse into the lives of ordinary men whose fortunes were changed utterly on the 3 September 1650. * Northern History *Table of Contents1. Discovery and themes 2. The archaeology 3. The Human Bone Analysis 4. Skeleton Science 5. Historial Context 6. The Survivors' Tales 7. Themes and Descendants

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Book SynopsisMore coin hoards have been recorded from Roman Britain than from any other province of the Empire. This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume provides a survey of over 3260 hoards of Iron Age and Roman coins found in England and Wales with a detailed analysis and discussion.Theories of hoarding and deposition and examined, national and regional patterns in the landscape settings of coin hoards presented, together with an analysis of those hoards whose findspots were surveyed and of those hoards found in archaeological excavations. It also includes an unprecedented examination of the containers in which coin hoards were buried and the objects found with them. The patterns of hoarding in Britain from the late 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD are discussed. The volume also provides a survey of Britain in the 3rd century AD, as a peak of over 700 hoards are known from the period from AD 253–296. This has been a particular focus of the project which has been a collaborative research project between the University of Leicester and the British Museum funded by the AHRC. The aim has been to understand the reasons behind the burial and non-recovery of these finds. A comprehensive online database (https://finds.org.uk/database) underpins the project, which also undertook a comprehensive GIS analysis of all the hoards and field surveys of a sample of them.Trade ReviewThe online database is here analysed with informative maps, diagrams and tables, seeking answers to what, when, where and why. * British Archaeology *Filled with maps, graphs, and imagies of both spectacular and not-so-spectacular hoards, this is clearly an ambitious piece of work and should be considerd essential reading for anyone interested in the phenomenon. * Current Archaeology *Altogether the work is an exceptional illustration of the successes that digital approaches to the ancient world can produce. Bland, Chadwick, Ghey, and Haselgrove deserve the highest praise for their contributions to hoard studies and for advancing understanding of the complexities of Iron Age and Roman Britain. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *The presentation is excellent and the treatment of the subject is comprehensive and exhaustive...sets a model for other studies from other periods and for this alone the team who have produced this volume are to be thanked and congratulated. * Archaeologia Cambrensis - Cambrian Archaeological Association *Table of ContentsForeword 1. Introduction 2. Overview and analysis of the dataset 3. Theories of Hoarding and Deposition 4. National and regional patterns in the landscape settings of coin hoards 5. Analysis of excavated hoards 6. Coin hoards as archaeological objects: material and context 7. Coin hoards and society: chronological syntheses 8. Coin hoards and society: debating the third century: crisis or continuity? 9. Summary and conclusionsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis is the second volume arising from the 1994–2003 excavations of the Triconch Palace at Butrint (Albania), which charted the history of a major Mediterranean waterfront site from the 2nd to the 15th centuries AD. The sequence (Butrint 3: Excavations at the Triconch Palace: Oxbow, 2011) included the development of a palatial late Roman house, followed by intensive activity between the 5th and 7th centuries involving domestic occupation, metal-working, fishing and burial. The site saw renewed activity from the 10th century, coinciding with the revival of the town of Butrint, and for the following 300 years continued in intermittent use associated with its channel-side location.This volume reports on the finds from the site (excluding the pottery), which demonstrate the ways in which the lives, diet and material culture of a Mediterranean population changed across the arc of the late Roman and Medieval periods. It includes discussion of the environmental evidence, the human and faunal remains, metal-working evidence, and the major assemblages of glass, coins and small finds, giving an insight into the health, subsistence base and material culture of the population of a Mediterranean site across more than 1000 years. The findings raise important questions regarding the ways in which changes in the circumstances of the town affected the population between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. They illustrate in particular how an urban Roman centre became more rural during the 6th century with a population that faced major challenges in their health and living conditions.Trade ReviewRigour of method and intelligence of archaeological reading make this book an excellent example of how, from the 'little forgotten things' (to take up the title of a famous text by an American archaeologist), you can think about history in its broadest sense. * Archeologia Medievale *Table of ContentsPreface – William Bowden and Richard Hodges Introduction – William Bowden Summary of the excavated sequence The archaeological sequence and the material evidence An investigation of the subsistence base at Butrint: the archaeobotanical evidence – Alexandra Livarda and John Giorgi Sampling and processing methods Results Discussion Concluding remarks The faunal remains – William Bowden, Zoe Knapp, Adrienne Powell, and James Westoby Introduction Methods The assemblage The Roman/late antique period (Phases 1 to 10): 3rd century to early 7th century Age structure and husbandry practices at the late antique Triconch Palace and Merchant’s House areas The medieval period (Phases 12 to 15): early 10th century to 15th century and later Age structure and husbandry practices at the medieval Triconch Palace and Merchant’s House areas Discussion Conclusion The human skeletons from the Triconch Palace and the Merchant’s House – Jared Beatrice, Todd Fenton, Carolyn Hurst, Lindsey Jenny, Jane Wankmiller, Michael Mutolo, Christina Rauzi, and David Foran Introduction Demographic profile: the Triconch Palace and Merchant’s House skeletons The spatial arrangement of the skeletons Skeletal palaeopathology Discussion: living conditions at late antique and medieval Butrint Conclusion: life and death at late antique and medieval Butrint Metalworking at the Triconch Palace and the analysis of slags and waste – Patrice de Rijk Introduction Iron working Copper alloy working Silica-rich slag Other finds Conclusion The ancient and early medieval coins from the Triconch Palace c. 2nd century BC to c. AD 600 – T. Sam N. Moorhead Introduction The condition of the coins Coins per period Deposition of coins Mints Discussion by period Possible hoards Conclusion The middle and late Byzantine, medieval and early modern coins – Pagona Papadopoulou Byzantine coins (9th to 13th century) Non-Byzantine coins (late 10th to 12th century) Conclusion The small finds – John Mitchell Introduction 1. Silver artefacts 2. Copper alloy artefacts 3. Iron artefacts 4. The iron nails 5. Lead artefacts 6. Glass artefacts 7. Stone artefacts 8. Ceramic artefacts 9. Worked ivory and bone The vessel glass from the Triconch Palace: a catalogue – Sarah Jennings, with additional contributions from William Bowden and Karen Stark Introduction The glass as deposited The catalogue The Triconch Palace and Merchant’s House as lived environments in late antiquity – William Bowden The domus and Triconch Palace (pre-AD 425: Phases 1 to 4) The 5th-century domestic occupation (AD 425–500: Phases 5 to 6) The ‘ruralisation’ of the Triconch Palace? (AD 500–50: Phases 7 to 8) Blacksmiths and burials (AD 550–650: Phases 9–10) Living and dying in later 6th-century Butrint The Triconch Palace and the archaeology of late antiquity Conclusion Living and dying at the Triconch Palace in the Middle Ages – William Bowden Abandonment (mid-7th to early 10th century: Phase 11) Urban renewal, soldiers and stock rearing? (10th to 12th century: Phases 12 to 13a) Diminishing activity and the severing of the channel link (c. 12th to 14th century: Phases 13b to 14a) A small Venetian garrison? (c. later 14th to 16th century: Phases 14b to 15) Appendices 4.1. The human skeletal remains: supplementary material – Jared Beatrice 4.2. Summary of the human skeletal remains from the Baptistery – Jared Beatrice 6.1. Catalogue of coins from the Triconch Palace and Merchant’s House, up to c. AD 600 – T. Sam N. Moorhead 6.2. Excavated coins by context and period – T. Sam N. Moorhead 7.1. Catalogue of coins from the Triconch Palace and Merchant’s House 9th to 17th century – Pagona Papadopoulou

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Book SynopsisDespite notable explorations of past dynamics, much of the archaeological literature on mobility remains dominated by accounts of earlier prehistoric gatherer-hunters, or the long-distance exchange of materials. Refinements of scientific dating techniques, isotope, trace element and aDNA analyses, in conjunction with phenomenological investigation, computer-aided landscape modelling and GIS-style approaches to large data sets, allow us to follow the movement of people, animals and objects in the past with greater precision and conviction. One route into exploring mobility in the past may be through exploring the movements and biographies of artefacts. Challenges lie not only in tracing the origins and final destinations of objects but in the less tangible ‘in between’ journeys and the hands they passed through. Biographical approaches to artefacts include the recognition that culture contact and hybridity affect material culture in meaningful ways. Furthermore, discrete and bounded ‘sites’ still dominate archaeological inquiry, leaving the spaces and connectivities between features and settlements unmapped. These are linked to an under-explored middle-spectrum of mobility, a range nestled between everyday movements and one-off ambitious voyages. We wish to explore how these travels involved entangled meshworks of people, animals, objects, knowledge sets and identities. By crossing and re-crossing cultural, contextual and tenurial boundaries, such journeys could create diasporic and novel communities, ideas and materialities.Trade ReviewThis volume adds an excellent contribution to renewed interest in mobility and movement, particularly in going some way to bridging the theoretical gap between ‘here’ and ‘there’ and demonstrating the importance of the journey. * Antiquity *Table of ContentsList of Contributors 1. Making journeys, blurring boundaries and celebrating transience: a movement towards archaeologies of in-betweeness Catriona D. Gibson 2. The role of persistent places and landmarks in navigation Yolande O'Brien 3. Archaeology and movement one step at a time! Oscar Aldred 4. The Dover Bronze Age boat as a ‘Non-place’: Some reflections on maritime mobility in the Bronze Age of the Transmanche Peter Clark 5. From self-sufficiency to interdependence: Changes in the Cypriot socio-economic structure in the light of mobility during the second millennium BC Francesca Chelazzi 6. Travelling lines: Linear earthworks and movement on the prehistoric Yorkshire Wolds Emily Fioccoprile 7. Bronze Age wayfaring and the monumentalised landscape Catherine J. Frieman and James Lewis 8. Itineraries of pottery: Theorising mobility and movement of humans and things Caroline Heitz and Regine Stapfer 9. Theorising ‘Nomadic’ Betweenness: Movement, Contingency, and Materiality in the Pastoral Societies of the Bronze Age Eurasian Steppe James A. Johnson 10. Neolithic mobility in western Sweden: interpretations of strontium isotope ratios of the megalithic population in Falbygden Malou Blank and Corina Knipper 11. Choreography of existence: holloways and making of landscapes Dimitrij Mlekuž

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Book SynopsisThis book casts light on a much neglected phase of the UNESCO world heritage site of Palmyra, namely the period between the fall of the Palmyrene ‘Empire’ (AD 272) and the end of the Umayyad dominion (AD 750).The goal of the book is to fill a substantial hole in modern scholarship - the late antique and early Islamic history of the city still has to be written.In late antiquity Palmyra remained a thriving provincial city whose existence was assured by its newly acquired role of stronghold along the eastern frontier. Palmyra maintained a prominent religious role as one of the earliest bishoprics in central Syria and in early Islam as the political centre of the powerful Banu Kalb tribe.Post-Roman Palmyra, city and setting, provide the focus of this book. Analysis and publication of evidence for post-Roman housing enables a study of the city’s urban life, including the private residential buildings in the sanctuary of Ba’alshamin. A systematic survey is presented of the archaeological and literary evidence for the religious life of the city in Late Antiquity and Early Islam. The city’s defences provide another focus. After a discussion of the garrison quartered in Palmyra, Diocletian’s military fortress and the city walls are investigated, with photographic and archaeological evidence used to discuss chronology and building techniques. The book concludes with a synthetic account of archaeological and written material, providing a comprehensive history of the settlement from its origins to the fall of Marwan II in 750 AD.Trade ReviewThe volume is an excellent reference for the archaeological remains themselves, and an important milestone in the trend towards understanding the historically neglected later phases of the monumental Classical sites of the Near East, as is being done for Jerash, Petra – and now, Palmyra. * Current World Archaeology *

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Book SynopsisWestern Iberia has one of the richest inventories of Neolithic chambered tombs in Atlantic Europe, with particular concentrations in Galicia, northern Portugal and the Alentejo. Less well known is the major concentration of tombs along the Tagus valley, straddling the Portuguese-Spanish frontier. Within this cluster is the Anta da Lajinha, a small megalithic tomb in the hill-country north of the River Tagus. Badly damaged by forest fire and stone removal, it was the subject of joint British-Portuguese excavations in 2006-2008, accompanied by environmental investigations and OSL dating. This volume takes the recent excavations at Lajinha and the adjacent site of Cabeço dos Pendentes as the starting point for a broader consideration of the megalithic tombs of western Iberia. Key themes addressed are relevant to megalithic tombs more generally, including landscape, chronology, settlement and interregional relationships. Over what period of time were these tombs built and used? Do they form a horizon of intensive monument construction, or were the tombs the product of a persistent, long-lived tradition? How do they relate to the famous rock art of the Tagus valley, and to the cave burials and open-air settlements of the region, in terms of chronology and landscape? A final section considers the Iberian tombs within the broader family of west European megalithic monuments, focusing on chronologies, parallels and patterns of contact. Did the Iberian tombs emerge through connections with older established megalithic traditions in other regions such as Brittany, or whether they are the outcome of more general processes operating among Atlantic Neolithic societies?Trade ReviewThis is a meaty volume […] an important source of both evidence and synthesis of the megalithic monuments of western Iberia in their local, regional and international contexts. * Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society *Table of ContentsList of figures List of tables Contributors Acknowledgements 1. The megalithic chambered tombs of western Iberia Chris Scarre 2. Excavations at the Anta da Lajinha 2006–2008 Chris Scarre and Luiz Oosterbeek Appendix 2.A: Petrological identification of the slabs used at the Anta da Lajinha Vera Moleiro, Sara Cura, Artur A. Sá and Luiz Oosterbeek Appendix 2.B: Luminescence dating at the Anta da Lajinha Chris Burbidge, Guilherme Cardoso, Isabel Dias, Luiz Oosterbeek, Isabel Prudêncio and Chris Scarre Appendix 2.C: Stratigraphic characterisation and sedimentological analysis at the Anta da Lajinha Pedro P. Cunha, Hugo Gomes, Luiz Oosterbeek and Pierluigi Rosina Appendix 2.D: The ceramic assemblage from the Anta da Lajinha César Neves Appendix 2.E: The lithic assemblage from the Anta da Lajinha Joana Carrondo 3. The regional context Chris Scarre and Elías López-Romero 3.1. The megalithic tombs of Proença-a-Nova João Caninas, Francisco Henriques, Mário Monteiro, Paulo Félix, Carlos Neto de Carvalho, Fernando Robles Henriques, Emanuel Carvalho, Pedro Baptista, André Pereira and Cátia Mendes 3.2. Contemporary non-megalithic interments Nelson J. Almeida, Luís Costa and Luiz Oosterbeek 3.3. Later prehistoric funerary practices in the Nabão valley: the Rego da Murta Megalithic Complex Alexandra Figueiredo 4. Palaeoenvironmental investigations around the Anta da Lajinha and the broader regional context Charles French, William Fletcher, Marco Madella, Cristiana Ferreira, Nelson J. Almeida, Pierluigi Rosina and Chris Scarre Appendix 4.1: The trench profile descriptions Appendix 4.2: The detailed soil micromorphological descriptions Appendix 4.3: Calibration curves for the Anta da Lajinha West Trench radiocarbon dates 5. The Tagus Valley Rock Art Sara Garcês and Luiz Oosterbeek 6. Megalithic tombs in Atlantic Iberia Chris Scarre 7. The Anta da Lajinha in its international context Chris Scarre Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOften characterized as a 'lost' civilization that was 'discovered' by adventurers and archaeologists, ancient Egypt has fascin ated and inspired many other cultures. Classical Greek and Roman writers admired ancient Egyptian philosophy; in the eighteenth century, secret societies like the Freemasons still upheld the wisdom of ancient Egypt. But why? Christina Riggs introduces the history, art and religion of Egypt from its earliest dynasties to its final fall to Rome - and explores the influence ancient Egypt has had through the centuries. Today, ancient Egypt is ubiquitous in museums, television documentaries and tattoo parlours - wherever people look for a past as ancient and impressive as they come. Looking for a vanished past, Riggs argues, always serves some purpose in the present.Trade Review'2018 Outstanding Academic Title' - Choice; 'it is Riggs's apparently inexhaustible fund of examples, and the well-targeted deployment of her material, from the physical remains of ancient Egypt itself to the iconography of the Arab Spring, that engages and carries the reader through this lively and informative survey. Tracing her story from the Roman period to the present day, Riggs guides us through the influences this "lost" civilization has exerted, and the numerous reactions it has provoked . . . Accessibly written, assuming no prior knowledge on the reader's part assumed, it has an engaging tone, and never patronizes.' - TLS; 'Christina Rigg's Egypt is one of Reaktion Books' accessible and informative Lost Civilizations guides. It is, however, much more than a chronological survey of ancient Egypt; it is also an elegant and intriguing thematic interpretation of that civilisation's grip on our imagination ever since.' - Minerva magazine; 'This refreshingly different and beautifully written account of ancient Egypt goes beyond the ancient civilization itself to explore the ways in which it can be said to be lost and rediscovered.' - Gay Robins, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Art History, Emory University; 'With this book, Riggs admirably achieves the objectives of the publisher's "Lost Civilizations" series, which looks at the rise and fall of a civilization and assesses its artistic and cultural legacy, and explains why it remains relevant for readers today. Riggs concludes that ancient Egypt has been gone for two thousand years, and so is lost. While many remains from ancient Egypt have survived, she asserts that each culture, society, or generation interprets them differently . . . For those seeking a brief introduction, Riggs's book, including its chronology and bibliography, is perfect . . . Essential.' - ChoiceTable of ContentsChronology 1 Looking for Ancient Egypt 2 Forty Centuries 3 Sacred Signs 4 Taken in the Flood 5 Walking Like an Egyptian 6 Vipers, Vixens and the Vengeful Dead 7 Out of Africa 8 Counting the Years 9 Still Looking References Bibliography Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisThis second volume on Early Cycladic (and Cycladicising) sculptures found in the Aegean, examines finds from mainland Greece, along with the rarer items from the north and east Aegean, with the exception of those discovered in the Cyclades (covered in the preceding volume), and of those found in Crete. The significance of these finds is that these are the principal testimonies of the influence of the Early Bronze Age Cycladic cultures in the wider Aegean. This influence is shown both by the export of sculptures produced in the Cyclades (and made of Cycladic marble), and of their imitations, produced elsewhere in the Aegean, usually of local marble. They hold the key, therefore, to the cultural interactions developing at this time, the so-called ‘international spirit’ manifest particularly during the Aegean Early Bronze II period.This was the time when the foundations of early Aegean civilisation were being laid, and the material documented is thus of considerable significance. The volume is divided into sections wherein contributions examine finds and their archaeological, social, and economic contexts from specific regions. It concludes with an overview of the significance and role of these objects in Early Bronze Age societies of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean region. This will be the first time that this material has been systematically gathered together. Highly illustrated, it follows and builds on the successful preceding volume, Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context (Oxbow 2016).Trade ReviewAll papers are well illustrated, and the commendable practice of showing all figurine illustrations at a common scale of 1:2 is continued from the previous volumes […] Ultimately, the material presented in this volume adds interestingly to the corpus of soundly documented items [...] * Journal of Greek Archaeology *Altogether the three conference volumes on early Cycladic sculpture 'in context' are of inestimable value […] For anyone interested in early Cycladic or Cycladic idol sculpture, the book is therefore indispensable. * Gnomon *Table of ContentsList of contributors Abbreviations List of figures List of tables Preface 1 Introduction Colin Renfrew Before the Bronze Age 2 Past in the past: examples of Neolithic figurines from mainland Greece and Early Cycladic anthropomorphic imagery Fanis Mavridis Attica 3 An Early Cycladic figurine from the Acropolis of Athens Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki Appendix: optical examination of a Cycladic-type marble figurine from the Acropolis and vessels from Makronisos in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens Dimitris Tambakopoulos & Yannis Maniatis 4 Aghios Kosmas revisited: the Cycladic figurines from the Early Helladic site at Aghios Kosmas in Attica Katerina Kostanti & Alexandra Christopoulou 5 Two Cycladic figurines from subterranean Chamber III, in the Early Helladic settlement at Koropi, eastern Attica Olga Kakavogianni 6 Cycladic figurines from Tsepi, Marathon Maria Pantelidou Gofa 7 Fragment of an Early Cycladic folded-arm figurine from the acropolis of Brauron Konstantinos Kalogeropoulos 8 An Early Helladic figurine from Loutsa, Attica Maria Stathi 9 A schematic figurine from the area of Kephissos in Aegaleo, Αthens Eleni Asimakou 10 A figurine from a tomb at Mandra in western Attica Kalliopi Papangeli 11 A fragmentary Cycladic figurine from Nea Kephisia, Attica Theodora Georgousopoulou 12 Cycladic-type figurines from the Early Helladic cemetery of Asteria at Glyfada, Attica Konstantina Kaza-Papageorgiou Appendix: the bioarchaeological context of the Asteria figurines Eleanna Prevedorou Peloponnese 13 Early Cycladic sculpture from Delpriza in the southern Argolid Angeliki Kossyva 14 Cycladic figurine from the sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas in Epidauria Vassilis Lambrinoudakis 15 A Cycladic figurine from Upper Epidaurus Christos Piteros 16 An Early Cycladic figurine from a Late Protogeometric burial context in Argos Evangelia Pappi North Aegean, Boeotia, Euboea, Phthiotis and Skyros 17 Early Bronze Age schematic figurines from Thermi on Lesbos Olga Philaniotou 18 A comment on a Cycladic figurine in the Archaeological Museum of Thebes Eleni Andrikou 19 Cycladic figurines from Euboea Efi Sapouna-Sakellaraki 20 Manika revisited: a recontextualisation of Euboean Cycladica in the light of new research Adamantios Sampson & Athena Hadji 21 Cycladic marble figurines from the Early Bronze Age cemetery at Nea Styra, Euboea Maria Kosma 22 Cycladica from the settlement at Palamari on Skyros Liana Parlama 23 Conspicuous consumption in the settlement context of Early Bronze Age Proskynas in East Lokris, central Greece Eleni Zahou Dodecanese and Asia Minor littoral 24 Early Cycladic figurines from Vathy, Astypalaia Andreas Vlachopoulos & Anastasia Angelopoulou 25 Early Cycladic II and Early Bronze II finds from the Dodecanese: the case of the island of Kos Toula Marketou 26 Αn Early Cycladic anthropomorphic figurine from the Archaeological Museum of Rhodes Athena Hadji 27 Local and imported in action: western Anatolian and Cycladic figurines at Early Bronze Age Miletus Ourania Kouka 28 3rd-millennium BC anthropomorphic figurines of western Anatolia, a comparative view. Towards a better understanding of the origins and meanings of Cycladic figurines Rıza Tuncel & Vasıf Şahoğlu New discoveries in the Cyclades 29 Sculptures from the Papaoikonomou property on Ano Kouphonisi Irini Legaki, Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd & Eugenia Orfanidou Early Cycladic Sculpture in Perspective 30 Early Cycladic sculpture beyond the Cyclades: the Aegean context Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd & Marisa Marthari Index

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Book SynopsisThe Ancient Art of Transformation: Case Studies from Mediterranean Contexts examines instances of human transformation in the ancient and early Christian Mediterranean world by exploring the ways in which art impacts, aids, or provides evidence for physical, spiritual, personal, and social transitions. Building on Arnold van Gennep’s notion of universal rites of passage, papers in this volume expand the definition of “transformation” to include widespread transitions such as shifts in political establishments and changes in cultural identity. In considering these broadly defined “passages,” authors have observed particular changes in the visual record, whether they be manifest, enigmatic, or symbolic.While several papers address transitions that are incomplete, resulting in intermediary, hybrid states, others suggest that the medium itself can be integral to interpreting a transition, and in some cases, be itself transformed. Together, the volume covers not only a broad chronological span (c. 5th century BC to 4th century AD), but also an expansive geographical range (Egypt, Greece, and Italy). Reflecting upon issues central to a variety of Mediterranean cultures (Egyptians, Etruscans, Greeks, Romans, and early Christians), The Ancient Art of Transformation documents how personal, societal, and historical changes become permanently fixed in the material record.The Ancient Art of Transformation examines the visual manifestation of human transformation in the ancient and early medieval Mediterranean world, exploring the role of art and visual culture in enabling, hindering, or documenting physical, spiritual, personal, and social transitions such as pregnancy and birth, initiations, marriage, death and funerals. The definition of “transformation” is also expanded to address instances of less personal and more widespread transitions such as shifts in political establishments and changes in cultural identity in geographic locations. Additionally, although the ancient material record documents certain rites of passage such as marriage and death extensively, artifacts and their accompanying images are often studied simply to reconstruct these social processes. Authors here suggest that material evidence itself can be integral to interpreting a transition, and in some cases, be itself transformed. Further, several papers address transitions that are incomplete, resulting in intermediary, hybrid states that are very often reflected in the visual record such as Athenian vase-painting imagery forecasting the bride as a mother, displays of nudity that reflect intermediate life stages in Etruscan art and Octavian’s visual transformation into Pharaoh and Augustus in Egyptian architecture and material culture. At its core the volume establishes current methods for understanding how ancient visual culture shaped, informed, and was affected by processes of transformation. Together, these papers offer a close examination of various types of visual evidence from several cultures and periods (e.g., Etruscan, Greek, Roman, early Christian), and document how personal, societal, historical changes become permanently fixed in the material record.Trade Review…an excellent collection of essays for anyone interested in ancient art in a transitional stage and the editors should be congratulated for putting together specialists who were able to write about this topic not only eruditely but even attractively. * Ancient West & East *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Abbreviations Contributors Acknowledgements Approaching Transformation Renee M. Gondek and Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver 1. On the Threshold of Old Age: Perceptions of the Elderly in Athenian Red-Figure Vase-Painting Nicholas A. Harokopos 2. The Transformation of the Bride in Attic Vase-Painting Victoria Sabetai 3. Transitory Nudity: Life Changes in Etruscan Art Bridget Sandhoff 4. Cultural Maneuvering in the Elite Tombs of Ptolemaic Egypt Sara E. Cole 5. Octavian Transformed as Pharaoh and as Emperor Augustus Erin A. Peters 6. Ethnic Identity, Social Identity, and the Aesthetics of Sameness in the Funerary Monuments of Roman Freedmen Devon Stewart 7. Greater in Death: The Transformative Effect of Convivial Iconography on Roman Cineraria Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver 8. A Viewer Walks into a Tomb: Transformation in the Cubiculum Leonis Ethan Gannaway 9. Protoplasts and Prophets: The Stucco Reliefs in the Orthodox Baptistery in Ravenna Rachel Danford

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Book SynopsisThis latest volume in the TRAC Themes in Theoretical Roman Archaeology series takes up posthuman theoretical perspectives to interpret Roman material culture. These perspectives provide novel and compelling ways of grappling with theoretical problems in Roman archaeology producing new knowledge and questions about the complex relationships and interactions between humans and non-humans in Roman culture and society. Posthumanism constitutes a multitude of theoretical positions characterised by common critiques of anthropocentrism and human exceptionalism. In part, they react to the dominance of the linguistic turn in humanistic sciences. These positions do not exclude “the human”, but instead stress the mutual relationship between matter and discourse. Moreover, they consider the agency of “non-humans”, e.g., animals, material culture, landscapes, climate, and ideas, their entanglement with humans, and the situated nature of research. Posthumanism has had substantial impacts in several fields (including critical studies, archaeology, feminist studies, even politics) but have not yet emerged in any fulsome way in Classical Studies and Classical Archaeology. This is the first volume on these themes in Roman Archaeology, aimed at providing valuable perspectives into Roman myth, art and material culture, displacing and complicating notions of human exceptionalism and individualist subjectivity. Contributions consider non-human agencies, particularly animal, material, environmental, and divine agencies, critiques of binary oppositions and gender roles, and the Anthropocene. Ultimately, the papers stress that humans and non-humans are entangled and imbricated in larger systems: we are all post-human.Table of ContentsI. Irene Selsvold and Lewis Webb (University of Gothenburg, Sweden): Introduction II. Linnea Åshede (University of Gothenburg, Sweden): Priapus can be anything: Bodies without borders in Roman art. III. Filippo Carlà-Uhink (PH Heidelberg, Germany): Posthuman ambitions and forms of self-representation in the Roman Principate: The cases of Caligula and Nero. IV. Vladimir Mihajlovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia): The agency of Roman funerary monuments: from human to incarnated (biographical) entity? V. Ariana Zapelloni Pavia (University of Michigan, USA): The materiality of ritual: the use of votive offerings to unravel ancient ritual practices. VI. Lewis Webb (University of Gothenburg, Sweden): Semiviri vates: Posthuman visions of early Roman encounters with the Galli. VII. Naomi Sykes and Holly Miller (University of Nottingham, UK): Animals of Empire – the trade, management and cultural meaning of fallow deer. VIII. Lisa Lodwick (University of Reading/University of Oxford, UK): Exploring plant agency in the Roman world: Plants and people in Roman Britain. IX. Jay Ingate (University of Kent, UK): Two parts Hydrogen, Oxygen one? Re-evaluating the nature of water in the Roman city. X. Irene Selsvold (University of Gothenburg, Sweden): Roman archaeology and the Anthropocene. XI. Oliver Harris (University of Leicester, UK): Closing discussion.

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Book SynopsisThe current geography of north-west Europe, from the perspective of long-term Pleistocene climate change, is temporary. The seaways that separate southern Britain from northern France comprise a flooded landscape open to occupation by hunter-gatherers for large parts of the 0.5 million years since the English Channel’s formation. While much of this record is now inaccessible to systematic archaeological investigation it is critical that we consider past human societies in the region in terms of access to, inhabitation in, and exploitation of this landscape.This latest volume of the acclaimed Prehistoric Society Research Papers provides a starting point for approaching the Middle Palaeolithic record of the English Channel region and considering the ecological opportunities and behavioural constraints this landscape offered to Neanderthal groups in north-west Europe. The volume reviews the Middle Palaeolithic archaeological record along the fringes of La Manche in northern France and southern Britain. It examines this record in light of recent advances in quaternary stratigraphy, science-based dating, and palaeoecology and explores how Palaeolithic archaeology in the region has developed in an interdisciplinary way to transform our understanding of Neanderthal behaviour. Focusing in detail on a particular sub-region of this landscape, the Normano-Breton Gulf, the volume presents the results of recent research focused on exceptionally productive coastal capture points for Neanderthal archaeology. In turn the long-term behavioural record of La Cotte de St Brelade is presented and explored, offering a key to changing Neanderthal behaviour. Aspects of movement into and through these landscapes, changing technological and raw material procurement strategies, hunting patterns and site structures, are presented as accessible behaviours that change at site and landscape scales in response to changing climate, sea level and ecology over the last 250,000 years.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Contributors Abstract French Language Abstract German Language Abstract Acknowledgements 1. Repeopling La Manche: survey and encounters By Matt Pope 2. La Cotte de St Brelade: a key early Middle Palaeolithic geoarchaeological sequence in La Manche By Andrew Shaw 3. In pursuit of the mammoths By Katharine Scott 4. The early Middle Palaeolithic ‘bone heaps’ from La Cotte de St Brelade reconsidered By Andrew Shaw, Beccy Scott and Matt Pope 5. Coming home: reconstructing place and landscape during the early Middle Palaeolithic at La Cotte de St Brelade By Andrew Shaw and Beccy Scott 6. Jersey’s north facing property: the Neanderthal sequence at La Cotte à la Chèvre Cave By Josie Mills 7. Understanding the context of Palaeolithic archaeology in the Normanno-Breton Gulf: the importance of the Pleistocene coastal sequences By Martin R. Bates, John Renouf and Marine Laforge 8. La Cotte, Neanderthals and Goldilocks: investigating hominin adaptations in the submerged landscapes of the Normanno-Breton Gulf By C. Richard Bates, Andrew Shaw, Martin R. Bates, Matt Pope and Beccy Scott 9. Archaeological sequences, framework, and lithic overview of the late Middle Pleistocene of northern France By David Hérisson, Jean-Luc Locht, Émilie Goval, Pierre Antoine and Sylvie Coutard 10. La Cotte in its regional context: reconsidering La Manche By Beccy Scott and Anne-Lyse Ravon 11. Mind and society: re-imagining the archaeology of Neanderthals By Clive Gamble and Matt Pope Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Social Context of Technology explores non-ferrous metalworking in Britain and Ireland during the Bronze and Iron Ages (c. 2500 BC to 1st century AD). Bronze-working dominates the evidence, though the crafting of other non-ferrous metals – including gold, silver, tin and lead – is also considered. Metalwork has long played a central role in accounts of European later prehistory. Metals were important for making functional tools, and elaborate decorated objects that were symbols of prestige. Metalwork could be treated in special or ritualised ways, by being accumulated in large hoards or placed in rivers or bogs. But who made these objects? Prehistoric smiths have been portrayed by some as prosaic technicians, and by others as mystical figures akin to magicians. They have been seen both as independent, travelling ‘entrepreneurs’, and as the dependents of elite patrons. Hitherto, these competing models have not been tested through a comprehensive assessment of the archaeological evidence for metalworking.This volume fills that gap, with analysis focused on metalworking tools and waste, such as crucibles, moulds, casting debris and smithing implements. The find contexts of these objects are examined, both to identify places where metalworking occurred, and to investigate the cultural practices behind the deposition of metalworking debris.The key questions are: what was the social context of this craft, and what was its ideological significance? How did this vary regionally and change over time? As well as elucidating a key aspect of later prehistoric life in Britain and Ireland, this important examination by leading scholars contributes to broader debates on material culture and the social role of craft.Trade Review...a scholarly work, good reference book, and a great read. * Current World Archaeology *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age, c 2500–1700 BC Chapter 3: Later Bronze Age and earliest Iron Age, c 1700–600 BC Chapter 4: Iron Age, c. 600 BC–1st century AD Chapter 5: Discussion Appendices Catalogues of finds of metalworking equipment from different periods. Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisButrint 6 describes the excavations carried out on the Vrina Plain by the Butrint Foundation from 2002–2007. Lying just to the south of the ancient port city of Butrint, these excavations have revealed a 1,300 year long story of a changing community that began in the 1st century AD, one which not only played its part in shaping the city of Butrint but also in how the city interacted and at times reacted to the changing political, economic and cultural situations occurring across the Mediterranean World over this period. Volume II discusses the finds from the Vrina Plain excavations.This volume provides an insight into how the Vrina Plain community lived, worked and ultimately died and includes chapters on the medieval and post-medieval ceramics from the excavations, analysis of the human and faunal remains, environmental evidence, Roman and Medieval coins, a detailed study of the small finds as well as a discussion of the glass including a report on a number of glass cakes, ingots of raw glass associated with glass working that were found during the excavations.The volume also reports on five lead seals dating from the late 9th to the 10th century, an uncommon find but one which when considered with the contemporary coins suggests that for 100 years the Vrina Plain was Butrint.Trade ReviewThese volumes, which are also excellent on the editorial plan, contribute to strengthening the decisive centrality of the Butrint project in the context of Mediterranean archaeological experiences of the last thirty years, also because the quality of the scientific approach is accompanied by an updated reflection on the main themes that touch on the transformation of ancient society in its passagetowards the Middle Ages. * Archeologia Medievale *Table of Contents1. The Medieval and Post-Medieval pottery finds from the Vrina Plain excavations. Joanita Vroom 2. The Ancient and Early Byzantine Coins from Vrina Plain. Sam Moorhead 3. Byzantine and Early Modern Coins (9th – 17th centuries). Pagona Papadopoulou 4. Lead seals. Pagona Papadopoulou 5. The human skeletons from the Vrina Plain Todd W. Fenton, Angela Soler, Carolyn V. Hurst, and Jared Beatrice 6. Vrina Plain Small Finds John Mitchell Appendix: The conservation of the Vrina Plain small finds Pippa Pearce 7. The Vessel Glass of the Vrina Plain: A Catalogue Karen Stark 8. Glass cakes and glass tesserae from the Vrina Plain Nadine Schibille 9. The Faunal Remains Richard Madgwick 10. Aquatic resource exploitation at the Vrina Plain from the 1st to the 13th century AD Rena Veropoulidou 11. Hand-collected shell. Matt Law and Richard Madgwick 12. The archaeobotanical evidence of the Vrina Plain settlement Alexandra Livarda

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Book SynopsisThis study reconstructs twelfth-century sculptural and architectural finds, found during the restoration of the Perpendicular Great Cloister of Christ Church, Canterbury, as architectural screens constructed around 1173. It proposes that the screens provided monastic privacy and controlled pilgrimage to the Altar of the Sword's Point in the Martyrdom, the site of Archbishop Thomas Becket's murder in 1170.Excavations in the 1990s discovered evidence of a twelfth-century tunnel leading to the Martyrdom under the crossing of the western transept. Construction would have required rebuilding the crossing stairs and the screens flanking the crossing. The roundels, portraying lions, devils, a 'pagan', Jews, and a personification of the synagogue, are reconstructed on the south side of the crossing as a screening wall framing the entrance to this tunnel. The quatrefoils with images of Old Testament prophets are reconstructed as a rood screen on the west side of the crossing. In the Martyrdom, a screen is proposed with perhaps the earliest known sculptural representation of Thomas Becket. The rood screen, located behind the Altar of the Holy Cross, would have provided a visual focus during Mass, monastic processions, and sermons, especially during Christmas and Holy Week. The row of prophets, pointing upwards at the Rood, would have functioned as the visual equivalent of the dialogue of the ‘Ordo prophetarum’ that predicted the Messiah as proof to Jews and other unbelievers of Christian redemption. The roundels, just around the corner on the south screening wall, can be interpreted as representing the unbelieving Other and forces of evil warning pilgrims to seek penance at the altar of the newly canonized St Thomas.In addition to this new interpretation, a catalog raisonné and an account of the discovery of the finds offers material for future research that has been unavailable to previous studies. All the finds were photographed by the author as the restoration progressed;16 pieces of which have since been lost, making some of the unpublished photographs essential evidence of the archaeological record.Trade ReviewThis book will be essential for any student of late 12th-century sculpture. * Medieval Archaeology *The sculptural finds dramatically illustrate the seamless nature of European art and society in Romanesque times; a society joined, not separated, by the Channel. * Current Archaeology *This book should stimulate new discussions on the topography of this extraordinary cult, by far the most famous in western Europe. * British Archaeology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of illustrations Part I Screens and the Cult of St Thomas Introduction 1. Previous studies and the location of the finds The king reliefs Earlier scholarship Prior Chillenden’s constructions Conclusion 2. Dating of the sculpture and architectural fragments Carving techniques Figurative sculpture Foliage decoration Architectural motifs Regional impact Conclusion 3. Christ Church, Canterbury (1170–1175) Becket’s murder in the north arm of the transept Analysis of Gervase’s description Crossing of the western transept South arm of the transept North arm of the transept (the Martyrdom) Late twelfth-century alterations in the crossing Prior Odo (1168–1175) Pilgrimage (1171–1175) Conclusion 4. Reconstruction of the screens in the western transept The Martyrdom North–south partitioning screen and north screen East side of partitioning screen and north screen West side of partitioning screen Southern entrance to the tunnel Excavations South screen East side of the crossing Rood screen Conclusion 5. The quatrefoils: prophecy and the theology of redemption The gestures of the prophets The rood screen as a liturgical focus Prophetic testimony in images and texts Liturgical drama Ysagoge in Theologiam Inscribed images of prophets and liturgical texts The Incarnation: Advent and Christmas Mass at the Altar of the Holy Cross The Passion: Holy Week Conclusion 6. The roundels: the Church’s Other Lions, demons, Jews and a pagan Synagoga The unbeliever Canterbury’s Jewish community Conclusion Conclusion Plates, Reconstructions Part II Twelfth-Century Finds from the Perpendicular Great Cloister Introduction to the catalogue Catalogue A. Statue segments B. Quatrefoils C. Roundels D. Shaft-rings E. Arch elements Hood-moulds and head-stops Beaded hood-moulds Voussoirs F. String-course and related elements G. Capitals and base H. Purbeck elements Comparative charts with dimensions of the limestone finds Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA Silent Place: Death in Mycenaean Lakonia is the first book-length systematic study of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) burial tradition in south-eastern Peloponnese, Greece, and the first to comprehensively present and discuss all Mycenaean tombs and funerary contexts excavated and/or simply reported in the region from the 19th century to present day. The book will discuss and reconstruct the emergence and development of the Mycenaean mortuary tradition in Lakonia by examining the landscape of death, the burial architecture, the funerary and post-funerary customs and rituals, and offering patterns over a longue durée.The author proposes patterns of continuity from the Middle Bronze Age (even the Early Bronze Age in terms of burial architecture) to the LBA and, equally important, from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age,and reconstructs diachronic processes of invention of tradition and identity in Mycenaean communities, on the basis of tomb types and their material culture. The text highlights the social, political and economic history of Late Bronze Age Lakonia from the evolution of the Mycenaean civilisation and the establishment of palatial administration in the Spartan vale, to the demise of Mycenaean culture and the turbulent post–collapse centuries, as reflected by the burial offerings.The book also brings to publication the chamber tombs at Epidavros Limera that remained largely unpublished since their excavation in the 1930s and 1950s. Epidavros Limera was one of the most important prehistoric coastal sites in prehistoric southern Greece (early 3rd–late 4th millennium BC), and one of the main harbour towns of the Mycenaean administrative centres of central Lakonia. It is one of very few Mycenaean sites that flourished uninterruptedly from the emergence of the Mycenaean civilisation until after the collapse of the palatial administration and into the transition to the Early Iron Age. The present study of the funerary architecture and of the pottery from the tombs suggests that the site was responsible for the introduction of the chamber tomb type on the Greek mainland in the latest phase of the Middle Bronze Age (definitely no later than the transitional Middle Bronze Age/Late Bronze Age period), and not in the early phase of the Late Bronze Age (Late Helladic I) as previously assumed.Trade Review...a comprehensive study of Late Bronze Age funerary archaeology to challenge a long held assumption that Laconia was abandoned after the decline of Mycenaean palaces. * Antiquity *Overall, this is a very useful and revealing survey, and anyone wishing to discuss Mycenaean burial evidence in Laconia would do well to make good use of it and follow its system of cataloguing the cemeteries and individual graves. * Journal of Greek Archaeology *Table of ContentsPreface (by Professor Bill Cavanagh) Preface and Acknowledgements List of illustrations List of tables Introduction Chapter 1 – Chronicle of explorations of the LBA Chapter 2 – Before the Mycenaeans Chapter 3 – The location of the graves Chapter 4 – Architecture Chapter 5 – Burial customs and funerary rites Chapter 6 – Material Culture Chapter 7 – Epilogue Appendix: The development of early Epidavros Limera in historical times (late 10th c. BC to Roman times) Bibliography and Abbreviations

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Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the interaction between the natural environment, market forces and political entities in an ancient Sicilian town and its surrounding micro-region over the time-span of a thousand years. Focusing on the ancient polis of Kale Akte (Caronia) and the surrounding Nebrodi area on the north coast of Sicily, the book examines the city’s archaeology and history from a broad geographical and cultural viewpoint, suggesting that Kale Akte may have had a greater economic importance for Sicily and the wider Mediterranean world than its size and lowly political status would suggest. Also discussed is the gradual population shift away from the hill-top down to a growing harbour settlement at Caronia Marina, at the foot of the rock.The book is particularly important for the comprehensive analysis of the 1999–2004 excavations at the latter, with fresh interpretations of the function of the buildings excavated and their chronology, as well for reviewing the present state of our knowledge about Kale Acte/Calacte, and defining research questions for the future. The archaeological material at the heart of this study comes from excavations at the site conducted by the author. It is one of the few detailed publications from Sicily of Hellenistic and Roman amphora material.The conclusions about changing trends of commercial production and exchange will be of interest to those working on ceramic material elsewhere in Sicily and indeed further afield. The study also offers a fresh perspective of the economic history of ancient Sicily. The origins of Kale Akte and its alleged foundation by the exiled Sikel leader, Ducetius, in the fifth century BC, are also discussed in the light of the latest archaeological discoveries. An Italian summary of each chapter is also included.Table of ContentsList of contents Chapter 1 The Settlements Chapter 2 The territory: resources and communications Chapter 3 Archaeological research at Caronia and Caronia Marina Chapter 4 The material evidence Chapter 5 Production and supply at Kale Akte and in Sicily Chapter 6 Trade and production mechanisms ay Kale Akte and on the South Tyrrhenian Chapter 7 From trading post to rural village Appendix 1 Methodological problems and quantification of finds Appendix 2 Amphorae from Caronia and Caronia Marina: thin section analysis Catalogue of finds Catalogue of fabrics Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUntil now insular and continental material, mostly metal-work, found in pagan Viking Age graves in Norway, has been interpreted as looted material from churches and monasteries on the British Isles and the Continent. The raiding Vikings brought these objects back to their homeland where they were often broken up and used as jewellery or got alternative functions.Looting or Missioning looks at the use and functions of these sacred objects in their original Christian contexts. Based on such an analysis the author proposes an alternative interpretation of these objects: they were brought by Christian missionaries from different parts of the British Isles and the Continent to Norway. The objects were either personal (crosses, croziers, portable reliquaries etc.), objects used for baptism (hanging bowls), equipment to officiate a mass (mountings from books or reading equipment, altars or crosses) or to give the communion (pitchers, glass vessels, chalices, paten). We know from contemporary sources (Ansgar in Birka, Sweden in the ninth century) that missionaries brought this sort of equipment on their mission journeys. We also hear that missionaries were robbed, killed or chased off. Mikkelson interprets the sacred objects found in Viking Age pagan graves as objects that originate from the many unsuccessful mission attempts in Norway throughout the Viking Age. They changed function and were integrated in the pagan tradition.The conversion and Christianisation of Norway can thus be seen as a long-lasting process, at least from about 800 (but probably earlier) to the beginning of the eleventh century. As we must assume that the written sources on the subject are incomplete, the archaeological evidences are the main source. In addition to metal work and written sources, the dating and interpretation of stone crosses, rune stones, manuscript fragments and early Christian graves and churches are discussed. The main part of the manuscript regards the context of all these sources, studied in each part of Norway separately: Where do we find concentrations of objects that could support the interpretation of these being the result of mission attempts, and where can we combine archaeological and written sources to tentatively create more complete stories related to mission?One analysis is of special interest to British and Norwegian scholars and even a broader audience. It refers to the chieftain Ohthere from Northern Norway, who visited King Alfred the Great in Winchester in 890. The author finds a link between Alfred´s court and Ohthere´s farm which, it is argued, for was Borg at Vestvågøy, Lofoten, where the biggest Viking Age house in Northern Europe has been excavated. In the hall of this house were found a rare glass beaker with gold cross decorations, a Continental or British made pitcher, pieces of a bronze bowl and an æstel of gold. This last piece is only found in Northern Norway and in England, with Wessex and Mercia as the core areas. “The Alfred Jewel” (Ashmolean Museum) is also an æstel of the same main type, but much more splendid and with an inscription relating it to King Alfred. Mikkelson argues for a bishop being sent from Wessex and Alfred´s court on Ohthere´s ship back to Northern Norway as a missionary.Trade ReviewPresents a radical re-interpretation of insular material from Scandinavia … Well presented and beautifully illustrated. * Medieval Archaeology *Table of ContentsList of figures List of tables Part 1: Sources and models for missionary activity 1. Introduction The spread of Christianity in north-west Europe The change of religion in Norway – a long process, not a short event Written sources – archaeological sources Written sources to the missionary activity in Scandinavia during the Viking Age 2. Models for the missionary activity What is a mission? Model 1: Individual monks and priests as missionaries coming from The British Isles Model 2: Organized mission from the Frankish Empire and Germany – ‘the Ansgar model’ Model 3: Mission with the Norwegian kings as initiators Part 2: Tracing missionary activity in Norway based on material culture 3. Stone crosses ‘Celtic missioning’ ‘Anglian missioning’ German missioning Preliminary conclusions 4. The interpretation of insular metalwork in Norwegian Viking Age graves Sacred objects in early Christendom Secular objects of insular origin 5. Early Christian churches and graves 6. A geographical analysis of the Christianization process in Norway Western Norway The Kuli Stone at Kuløy, Edøy, Møre og Romsdal Middle Norway: Trøndelag Northern Norway Eastern Norway Contents Part 3: Summary and conclusions Bibliography Appendices A–L: Clerical objects A. Stone crosses from the Viking Age B. Croziers C. Reliquaries and shrine mountings D. Crosses and cross mountings E. Book-mountings and book-shrines F. Hanging bowls G. Bronze bowls: Doubtful and non-hanging bowls H. Bronze ladles with handle I. Bronze-covered wooden buckets J. Altar- and tabernacle mountings K. Chalices, patens and holy-water sprinkler L. Cross and crucifix amulets from the Viking Age (c. AD 900–1100) Appendices M–T: Secular objects M. Ring pins and brooches of insular origin N. Harness fittings, strap distributors and other horse fittings of insular origin O. Belt clasps, strap ends etc of insular and Carolingian origin P. Drinking horns and -mountings from the British Isles Q. Swords (mainly) from the British Isles R. Balance scales of insular origin S. Early Anglo-Saxon and Frankish coins T. Late Anglo-Saxon silver coins (tenth–eleventh century)

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