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Book SynopsisBetween 2014 and 2015 in the excavations of the church of San Calocero in Albenga (Savona - Italy) two burials of young post-medieval women with particular and anomalous characteristics were brought to light. The first inhumation was prone and placed in a deep grave isolated from the cemetery; the second had partially burnt bone remains and was covered by an accumulation of large stones. The find immediately had a vast international echo, which already during the excavation led to the organization of a first in-depth scientific meeting. Sit tibi terra gravis - Anomalous burials between the medieval and modern ages publishes the proceedings of a 2016 international conference of the same name. The contributions explore the phenomenon of anomalous burials on a European scale, with an interdisciplinary reading between archaeology, history, physical and cultural anthropology. Thirty-three contributions by sixty-two scholars are divided into four sessions: “Deviant burials”: case studies from the Italian territory; “Deviant burials” from European contexts; Anthropology and Archaeology compared; The indicators in the tombs, allowing to develop a broad and articulated study path on this phenomenon.Table of ContentsPresentazioni ; Introduzione alle tematiche del Convegno ; Le ragioni di un convegno anomalo sulle sepolture anomale – Philippe Pergola, Giuseppina Spadea, Stefano Roascio, Elena Dellù ; Dallo studio delle ossa umane ai comportamenti funerari: anomalo vs. normale – Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Valentina Mariotti ; Il rito, la morte, le sepolture: la dimensione sociale e culturale – Carmen Bilotta ; Prima Sessione - Le “Deviant burials”: casi di studio dal territorio italiano ; Duri a morire: comportamenti persistenti intorno al defunto. Sepolture “anomale” di epoca romana e medievale dell'Emilia Romagna – Valentina Mariotti, Marco Milella, Maria Giovanna Belcastro ; La tomba della “donna dei gioielli” nella basilica di papa Marco sulla via Ardeatina a Roma. Analisi archeologica e antropologica – Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai, Romina Ciaffi ; San Calocero al monte di Albenga: tra ricerche passate e ripresa degli scavi – Philippe Pergola, Stefano Roascio, Elena Dellù, Gabriele Castiglia ; Le sepolture anomale di Albenga tra Antropologia Fisica e Culturale – Elena Dellù, Stefano Roascio, Viola Tanganelli, Maria Giovanna Belcastro ; Rilievo digitale applicato all’archeoantropologia: la documentazione delle sepolture di S. Calocero ad Albenga – Riccardo Valente ; Una sepoltura anomala da Quiliano (SV), San Pietro in Carpignano e altri casi dal Savonese – Francesca Bulgarelli, Silvana Gavagnin ; Isola del Cantone (GE): sepoltura prona nel contesto cimiteriale della chiesa di S. Stefano – Paolo de Vingo, Gian Battista Parodi, Ilaria Sanmartino, Valeria Fravega, Andrea Bruna, Alessandra Cinti ; Due sepolture anomale dagli scavi della necropoli longobarda "della ferrovia" a Cividale del Friuli – Angela Borzacconi, Paola Saccheri, Luciana Travan ; Sepolture anomale nel cimitero medievale di Villamagna (FR) – Caroline Goodson ; L'inumata prona del battistero San Giovanni Battista di Settimo Vittone (TO) e le sepolture anomale in Piemonte fra medioevo ed età moderna – Francesca Garanzini, Alessandra Cinti, Giovanna Viano, Rosa Boano ; Una sepoltura privilegiata e una sepoltura anomala nel cimitero della Pieve di Pava in Val d’Asso (Siena) – Stefano Campana, Cristina Felici, Valeria Mongelli, Gino Fornaciari ; Corpi santi e sepolture anomale in Sardegna attraverso i dati d’archivio – Mauro Dadea ; Sepolture anomale nel cimitero medievale e postmedievale di Bisarcio (Ozieri - Sassari) – Marco Milanese, Anna Bini ; Un antico omicidio ad Albenga? La sepoltura anomala presso il Pontelungo alla luce delle analisi antropologiche e geoarcheologiche – Marta Conventi, Michela Tornatore ; Ancora una sepoltura anomala dal Palazzo Vescovile di Albenga? – Giuseppina Spadea, Stefano Roascio, Elena Dellù, Elisa Grassi ; Sepolture eccezionali dalla Sicilia occidentale – Giuseppe Falzone ; Deviant burials nel sepolcreto medievale di S. Michele in Sallianense a Trezzo sull'Adda (MI) – Elena Dellù, Silvia Lusuardi Siena ; Il cimitero medievale di San Lorenzo di Nonantola (MO): il caso di una tomba inusuale di infante – Francesca Bertoldi, Fiorella Bestetti, Alessandra Cianciosi ; I putridaria: memento homo qui pulveres es et in pulverem reverteris. Un approccio archeologico alla pratica sepolcrale dei sedili scolatoio dell'Italia Meridionale – Isabella Marchetta ; Seconda Sessione - “Deviant burials” da contesti europei ; Sepolture anomale oltreconfine: uno sguardo internazionale – Angela Sciatti, Elena Dellù, Stefano Roascio ; Making a Deviant: Intentional Skeletal Dislocations in Reopened Graves from the Medieval Balkans – Petar Parvanov ; Sepolture anomale: un censimento tra Italia, Francia, Svizzera ed Isole Britanniche – Letizia Cavallini, Francesco Coschino, Antonio Fornaciari ; Elaborazione di un database multimediale ad accesso libero per il censimento delle sepolture anomale – Francesco Coschino, Letizia Cavallini, Antonio Fornaciari, Valentina Giuffra ; Terza Sessione - Antropologia e Archeologia a confronto ; La suggestione ed il maleficio in Albenga: realtà o credenza moderna? Documenti di vita civile ed ecclesiastica nel Trecento – Giovanni Puerari, Francesca Giraldi ; Streghe ad Albenga? Le sepolture anomale di San Calocero e la lunga durata della stregofobia nel Ponente ligure – Paolo Portone ; Considerazioni conclusive sulle ultime linee di tendenza nel dialogo tra Antropologia e Archeologi – Valentino Nizzo ; Quarta Sessione - Gli indicatori nelle tombe ; Subadulti con rituali deposizionali inconsueti: il caso di Nocetum (MI) – Silvia Lusuardi Siena, Federica Matteoni, Elena Dellù ; Le monete in sepoltura: oltre "l'obolo di Caronte" (nel tempo e nello spazio) – Claudia Perassi ; Un fabbro del XII secolo? La sepoltura anomala degli Ex Laboratori Gentili di Pis – Francesco Marco Paolo Carrera, Francesco Coschino, Letizia Cavallini, Marilina D’Andretta ; Quinta Sessione - Malattie ed emarginazione sociale ; La patocenosi nel Tardo medioevo a partire da una fonte di area genovese – Giuseppe Palmero † ; Seppellire al tempo del colera: casi toscani di “sepolture anomale” del XIX secolo – Antonio Fornaciari, Francesco Coschino, Letizia Cavallini, Giuseppe Vercellotti ; Conclusioni ; Interdisciplinarietà per la complessità – Stefano Roascio, Elena Dellù ; La voce dei morti e il linguaggio dei vivi – Luigi M. Lombardi Satriani †

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Book SynopsisThe Human Brain in Ancient Egypt provides a medical and historical re-evaluation of the function and importance of the human brain in ancient Egypt. The study evaluates whether treatment of the brain during anthropogenic mummification was linked to medical concepts of the brain. The notion that excerebration was carried out to rid the body of the brain continues to dominate the literature, and the assumption that the functions of the brain were assigned to the heart and therefore the brain was not needed in the afterlife persists. To assess the validity of these claims the study combines three investigations: a radiological survey of 33 subjects using the IMPACT mummy database to determine treatment of the cranium; an examination of the medical papyri for references to the human brain; and an inspection of the palaeopathological records to look for evidence of cranial injuries and ensuing medical treatments. The results refute long held claims regarding the importance of the human brain in ancient Egypt. Many accepted facets of mummification can no longer hold up to scrutiny. Mummification served a religious ideology in which the deceased was transformed and preserved for eternity. Treatment of the brain was not determined to be significantly different from the visceral organs, and the notion that the brain was extracted because it served no purpose in the afterlife was found to be unsubstantiated.Table of ContentsChronology ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: Literature review ; Chapter 3: A re-evaluation of mummification and treatment of the brain ; Chapter 4: Trauma care and neurosurgery in Ancient Egypt ; Chapter 5: Palaeopathological evidence of cranial surgery ; Chapter 6: Conclusion ; Appendix A ; Appendix B: Book of the Dead: Spell 30b (Faulkner, 2010) ; Appendix C: Book of the Dead: Spell 166: Spell for a headrest (Faulkner, 2010) ; Appendix D ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisRoman Funerary Rituals in Mutina (Modena, Italy) presents the results of a research project undertaken in collaboration with the University of Huddersfield. The project sought to identify and reconstruct the funerary space and rituals of the necropolis in Mutina (now Modena) in the period between the first century BC and second century AD. The research is a key example of integrated analyses, linking the different results in the same interpretative system and supporting traditional strategies (archaeology and archaeobotany) with advanced technology (SAXS, CT-scan). The archaeobotanical remains (seeds and fruit) and the objects involved in the ceremonies constitute an important investigatory lens to reconstruct the mortuary rituals and attendance at the funerary space.Table of ContentsContents ; List of Figures and Tables ; Introduction ; Project ; Religious thought ; Rituals ; Plants ; Gardens ; The Roman funerary ritual ; Cremation and burial ; Epigraphic, literary, and iconographic evidence ; Literary sources ; Epigraphic sources ; Iconographic evidence ; Mutina: The city and the Necropolis ; North of the Via Emilia ; South of the Via Emilia ; The Necropolises ; Site A – Novisad ; Site B – Ferrari ; Site C – Via Cesana ; Site D – Via Pica ; Site F – Fer-Mo-Sa ; Site G – Marzaglia Corpus Domini ; Site I – Spilamberto ; Material and methods ; The Mutina necropolis ; Necropolis of the ager mutinensis ; Archaeobotanical analysis ; Seeds/fruits ; Charcoals ; Results ; Archaeological remains ; Cooking and table ware ; Oil lamps ; Nails ; Decorated bones ; Archaeozoological remains ; Coins ; Archaeobotanical remains ; Charcoals ; CT-scan and Saxs analysis ; SAXS Results ; Discussion ; CT-scan discussion ; Conclusion ; Tombs analysed by funerary ritual aspects ; Site A ; Site B ; Site G ; Conclusion ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisGrowing Up in the Cis-Baikal Region of Siberia, Russia analyses the dietary life histories of prehistoric hunter-gatherers from six cemeteries in the Lake Baikal region of Siberia, Russia. The overarching goal was to better understand how they lived by examining what they ate, how they utilized the landscape, and how this changed over time. Recent archaeological advances offer new ways to gain insight into the lives of people who died many years ago. With the application of biochemistry, archaeologists can study an individual’s dietary choices from the time they were born up until the last few months of life, providing a fuller picture of how people lived, the challenges they may have faced, and the choices they made. This study tests the application of a technique known as dentine micro-sampling, in which the inner part of a tooth is sectioned into thin strips, each representing roughly nine months of development. These strips were subjected to stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis, unveiling the chemical markers of different foods. The results show that the dietary contribution of terrestrial and aquatic food sources varied within and between cemeteries and cultural periods, which can be viewed as evidence of dietary independence among groups occupying the same area. The results also show that the movement of these individuals around the Lake Baikal region is observable in the chemical markers from their teeth. In conjunction with other methods, dentine micro-sampling helps us understand the interplay of personal choice and ecological constraint that makes up the dietary behaviour of these prehistoric peoples.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ; Preface ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: Geographic and archaeological background ; Chapter 3: Stable isotope analysis for dietary reconstruction ; Chapter 4: Tooth formation ; Chapter 5: Materials and Methods ; Chapter 6: Dietary life-histories in the Upper Lena ; Chapter 7: Dietary life-histories in the Angara ; Chapter 8: Dietary life-histories in the Little Sea ; Chapter 9: Discussion ; Chapter 10: Conclusions ; Appendix A: Images of the molar occlusal surfaces ; Appendix B: Molar wear assessment of all 49 Cis-Baikal individuals ; Appendix C: Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values for all micro-samples ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisGallaecia Gothica offers a new interpretation of the Argimundus rebellion, one of the most difficult challenges of Reccared’s reign. There are no specific details of how the conspiracy came about, but the throne was seriously threatened. The Chronicle of John of Biclaro underlined the gravity of this menace in his description of the punishment suffered by the rebel and his collaborators. His categorical condemnation of the attempted overthrow of the monarch is unlike that given to any other uprising narrated in the Chronicle, and it shows the importance that the abbot of Biclaro gave it in his narration. The fact that the Chronicle notes that Argimundus was not only a member of the Aula Regia but also a dux prouinciae (duke of a province), combined with the status of Gallaecia as a newly conquered province, suggests that this was not just a palace conspiracy, but a genuine provincial revolt which could have ruined the political settlement established by Leovigild and Reccared. However, it is difficult to prove Argimundus’ ultimate aim: to replace Reccared on the Visigothic throne or, on the contrary, to restore the old Suevic kingdom in Gallaecia. This book uses numismatic and archaeological evidence seems to suggest the latter view.Table of ContentsIntroduction Conspirators and Conspiracies in the Reign of Reccared Interpreting the Plot of Argimundus The Scene of the Rebellion Possible Suevian Origin of Argimundus Argimundus and Paulus: Parallel Lives of Two Usurpers in Visigothic Spain Gallaecia during the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo: From Submission to Conquest The Rise of the Duchy of Gallaecia: Resurgence of Local Aristocracies and Struggling for Real Power Conclusion: From the Suevic Kingdom to the Duchy of Gallaecia Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe 10th century in Western Europe includes eleven essays, ranging from Portugal to Iceland, including Spain, England, Ireland, France and Italy, embracing a variety of methodological approaches and scrutinizing numerous and diverse types of sources, including archaeological finds along with textual evidence such as historical narratives, hagiography, and cartularies. The contributions revise, challenge and enhance the existing scholarship on early medieval societies and their political and social complexities, while making readers aware of the wide-ranging and intertwined processes which defined change and continuity in tenth-century Western Europe. Essays from both historians and archaeologists achieve a re-reading of a the tenth century, which has been central to the interpretation of the historical development of Europe over the past decade.

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Book SynopsisThe Roman fort of Trimontium, near the village of Newstead in the Scottish Borders, is renowned internationally thanks to the work of James Curle (1862–1944), a solicitor in nearby Melrose. He led the excavations of 1905–1910, with their spectacular discoveries, and produced an exemplary publication. This volume brings together key sets of his correspondence which illuminate his intellectual networks and connections. They reveal a web of local, national and international contacts and travels that equipped him with an impressively broad knowledge of Roman provincial archaeology and turned him into a sought-after advisor for his expertise and knowledge of a range of topics, especially Roman pottery. Yet his interests went beyond the Roman military. His early interests in Swedish archaeology were rekindled after the Trimontium excavations, with a series of papers on aspects of Viking brooches, while a long-running interest in finds of Roman material beyond the frontiers of the empire shows his concern to understand the Iron Age societies of Scotland and Scandinavia. The letters are provided with a critical apparatus to explain their context, while introductory chapters consider Curle’s background, his local links, his connections with the great Romano-British archaeologist Francis Haverfield, and his wider antiquarian networks. The letters cast fresh light on the intellectual networks of the early 20th century, when professional archaeology was still in its infancy and gifted amateurs such as James Curle played a key role in laying the foundations on which scholarship still builds today.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. James Curle and his Letters Chapter 3. An Introduction to Trimontium Chapter 4. James Curle and his Archaeological World Chapter 5. Curle and Haverfield Chapter 6. James Curle: A Man of Melrose Chapter 7. Glimpses of the Dramatis Personae Chapter 8. Letters to Hercules Chapter 9. From Greece and Rome Chapter 10. My Dear Haverfield Chapter 11. From Home and Abroad Chapter 12. Miscellanea Appendix. Letters between the British Museum and A.O. Curle Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a selection of papers given at the General Session 5 (Metal Ages / ges des métaux) of the XIX UISPP World Congress, originally planned to take place in early September 2020 in Meknes (Morocco), but postponed due to the outbreak of the worldwide Covid pandemic and eventually held as a virtual on-line event from 2 to 7 September 2021. Despite those challenging circumstances, and very much to the credit of the Meknes organizing committee, the Congress turned out to be a resounding success, with many scholars, particularly from African countries attending who would not previously have had an opportunity to participate in such a forum. The eight papers provide a vivid and representative cross section of the wide range of subjects covered in this session and range from the Chalcolithic in Northwest Africa and Iberia to the Late Bronze Age in Ireland and the Iron Age in Central Europe. They include artefact as well as landscape studies and attempt to shed light on issues as diverse as the principles of chronology building, the role of alleged ‘defensive’ enclosures, pottery studies, use-wear analysis of Iron Age weaponry and the Hallstatt/La Tène transition in the eastern Alps.Table of ContentsForeword to the XIX UISPP Congress Proceedings Introduction Les objets en coquilles d’œufs d’autruche du Chalcolithique en Espagne – Linda Boutoille The painted pottery from the Chalcolithic mega-site of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain) and its possible relationship with Gar Cahal, northern Morocco – Alfredo Mederos Martín, Thomas X. Schuhmacher, Juan Manuel Vargas Jiménez, Charles Bashore Acero and Lorena Garvin Arcos Dérive chronologique ou changement de paradigme ? Le cas du Bronze ancien en Europe centrale – Mireille David-Elbiali Between defensive and symbolic. ‘Fortified’ hilltop sites in the Irish Late Bronze Age – Dirk Brandherm, Cormac McSparron and Linda Boutoille Analyses chimiques et pétrographiques des céramiques du premier âge du Fer dans le Sud-Ouest de la péninsule Ibérique : bilan et perspectives – Michał Krueger, Dirk Brandherm et Violeta Moreno Megías The emergence of Celtic culture in Styria – Florian Mauthner On the symbolic values of the Iron Age walls in the western Iberian Plateau: an approach to the landscape archaeology of warfare – Luis Berrocal Rangel, Lucía Ruano, Pablo Paniego Díaz, Gabriel Bartolomé and Luis Berrocal Maya Celtic swordplay: the contribution of the use-wear analysis of swords and scabbards from the La Tène site – Guillaume Reich Authors / Auteurs

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Book SynopsisArt as Ritual Engagement is examined through a case study of feminised funerary representation in the repertoire of Watetkhethor, an elite woman interred in the mastaba tomb of her spouse, Mereruka, at Saqqara, c.2345-2181 BCE. The focus is centred upon the functionality of a particular form of gendered imagery in a ritualised, funerary context. The spaces and images in which Watetkhethor is featured alone, or in support of her spouse, indicate something of an elite woman’s expectations of the afterlife at this particular time. Contemporaneous examples as detailed as Watetkhethor’s are rare, and her status may have permitted Watetkhethor’s personal involvement in designing the funerary programme. Her. The arrangements would have been ‘state-of-the-art’, meeting the requirements of a woman identified as the eldest daughter of King Teti, c. 2300-2181 BCE. However, to date, the assumptions of twentieth century anachronisms, attitudes and biases have all but dismissed the rich iconographical programme of specifically feminised arrangements within this shared tomb.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Introduction Aims and Objectives The role of visual culture in ancient Egypt Contextualising the early 6th Dynasty: An Overview Security and harsh men? Archaeological Background: The Tomb of Mereruka The Funerary Chambers of Watetkhethor The Research Focus Rationale: Why this study? Contextualising terms: Art and Ritual The Structure of the Study: Chapter Overview Chapter 2: Literature Review Early Perspectives New Perspectives Chapter 3: Methodology Panofsky’s Iconological System Malafouris’s Material Engagement Theory Chapter 4: Art as Ritual Engagement Watetkhethor as facilitator Watetkhethor’s presence in Mereruka’s chambers Watetkhethor and autonomous funerary cult The Pillared Hall (B1) The staircase in the chambers of Watetkhethor (B2) The Serdab Room, B3, B4 The Burial Chapel, B5 Chapter 5: Study Synthesis Looking forward: Art as Action, Art as Gendered The limitations of this study Directions for future research Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book makes a brief history of historical archeology in Latin America and then its shift towards urban archaeology, highlighting the difference between the two. Then it analyzes the process of formation of the urban land of Buenos Aires, its fillings and cuts of the topography in the search for a flat and horizontal surface to satisfy idealized literary desires. The use of garbage and rubbish in large quantities is analyzed, to later divide the land and sell it, generating problems in the future with uncontrolled landfills. Then the three cases are analyzed: that of the town-neighborhood of Belgrano and its garbage dumps, the construction fills with rubble and the areas whose level has been lowered.

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Book Synopsis1975. Las pinturas murales de Cacaxtla se descubren de manera fortuita. Provocan emoción en la comunidad mesoamericanista por su original estilo, en el cruce de tradiciones del Altiplano Central, de la zona maya y de la costa del Golfo. Vibrantes referencias policromas, también hacen eco a los paneles esculpidos de la Pirámide de la Serpiente Emplumada de Xochicalco (Morelos), conocida desde finales del siglo XVIII. Estos conjuntos visuales híbridos constituyen el punto de partida de una discusión sobre las interacciones culturales y la fabricación del prestigio. Tras la desintegración del sistema Teotihuacán, hacia el 550 d.C. cómo transformaron su cultura material las ciudades-estado del Altiplano Central para construir nuevos discursos políticos que les permitieran asentar su nueva autoridad a nivel local? Gracias a la aportación conjunta de la antropología, la antropología del arte y la arqueología, el propósito de este libro es explorar de manera holística la forma en que estas sociedades mesoamericanas pensaron y crearon su otredad y la expresaron en su universo visual y material.

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Book SynopsisGöreme and Sahinefendi collects the results of surveys conducted by the Team for Underground Studies in Turkey in these two specific areas of Cappadocia, complemented by documentation produced in collaboration with Ukrainian, French and Turkish researchers. The object was the identification and documentation of underground architecture complementary to the best-known and most substantial Byzantine rock-cut churches. This research, conducted through speleological techniques and archaeometric survey, has allowed, in particular, the discovery of numerous defensive structures, previously completely unknown, and of related underground hydraulic systems. A completely new picture of the areas investigated emerges, in which the liturgical and funerary structures carved into the rocks represent only the tip of a stone iceberg', that is, the most evident and closest part to the surface of an underground world that has proved to be much more extensive and diverse than previously imagined.The full text is presented in English and Italian.

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Book SynopsisBerkeley Castle Tales presents the outcomes of the 15-year-long University of Bristol excavations and landscape research at the Berkeley Castle estate in South Gloucestershire. The project, which in 2016 won the prestigious Current Archaeology award for the Archaeology Project of the Year, aimed at writing, through material culture and extensive archival and geophysical research, the narrative behind the construction of Berkeley Castle, the corresponding town, and the area of the Severn valley that overlooks the borders with Wales. By combining the results of archaeological fieldwork with information contained in the castle's impressive collection of 20,000 historical documents, the project adds greatly to our knowledge and understanding of the early medieval period and the subsequent changes in landscape and society that occurred with the coming of the Normans, with the erection of a castle on the former minster site. Throughout the publication the advances that the Berkeley Castle project offered to archaeological practice, to excavation and geophysics methodology, and to the community and public archaeology are evident, since the editors intend the volume to be a milestone not only for the study of a castle landscape but also for archaeological method and practice.Table of ContentsForeword by Charles Berkeley Foreword by Professor Graeme Were Chapter 1: Tales from an Excavation: University of Bristol and the Berkeley Castle Project 2005–2019 – Stuart J. Prior Chapter 2: Tales from the Land: An Account of the Landscape and Geophysical Research of the Berkeley Castle Project – Konstantinos P. Trimmis, Gareth Dickinson, and Jennifer Muller Chapter 3: Tales from the Castle: A Biography of the Fortifications and the Castle in Berkeley – Rachel Morgan and Stuart J. Prior Chapter 4: Tales from the Ground: Stratigraphic Narratives from the University of Bristol Research at Berkeley – Stuart J. Prior Chapter 5: Tales from the Clay: Notes on the Pottery Fabrics from Berkeley, Gloucestershire – Paul Blinkhorn and Stuart J. Prior Chapter 6: Tales from the Objects: Small Finds from Berkeley Castle Project – Emma Firth Chapter 7: Tales from the animals: a preliminary account of the zooarchaeological assemblage from Berkeley Castle Project – Sarah Gosling Chapter 8: Tales from the People: Analysis of the Articulated Human Skeletal Remains from Berkeley Castle – Christianne L. Fernée Chapter 9: Berkeley Castle Tales: Narratives from Minster, Manor and Town – Stuart J. Prior and Konstantinos P. Trimmis The Photographic Tales from Berkeley

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Book SynopsisThe Significance of Doorway Positions in English Medieval Parochial Churches and Chapels analyses the positions of external church doorways in England to investigate the significance that positioning had for the function and design of these buildings. Until the eleventh century, churches tended to have a single external western nave doorway. This design changed in the next two centuries. New churches tended to have north and south, laterally opposing, nave doorways. From the thirteenth century to the end of the Middle Ages, new churches continued the two-doorway trend but typically added western towers and doorways as well. The book also examines chapels, which differed from churches as they had a different function and status. Non-parochial chapels usually had a single southern doorway whilst parochial chapels often had two opposing nave doorways. This book proposes that liturgical reasons lay behind the changes both at the turn of the eleventh century and again in the later thirteenth. Gender and clerical segregation are considered in relation to the provision of a second nave doorway in churches and parochial chapels. It is also shown that the widespread idea of the ‘Devil’s Door’ was only developed in the nineteenth century though it had roots in late medieval liturgy. The author concludes that there is a link between the design and function of parochial churches and chapels with the number and attributes of their doorways.Table of ContentsList of Figures The Significance of Doorway Positions Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: Doorway Positions in English Churches Chapter 2: Eleventh and Twelfth-Century English Parochial Churches and Chapels Chapter 3: Doorway Positions of Thirteenth to Early Sixteenth-Century Chapter 4: Chapels Chapter 5: Liturgy Chapter 6: Gender and Segregation Chapter 7: The Devil’s Door? Conclusion Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn ancient Egyptian thought, the funerary procedure played a key role in the transition to the afterlife. As early as the Old Kingdom (c. 2700-2200 BCE), the Pyramid Texts and representations and inscriptions in private tombs show a highly developed funerary ritual with a large number of individual rites intended to ensure a safe transition to the realm of the dead and a pleasant afterlife for the deceased. One of these is the so-called breaking the dšr.t-vessels' (Egyptian s? dšr.wt), a rite that involved the intentional damaging of a certain type of ceramic vessel. The aim of this study is to gain a better understanding of the rite through a re-evaluation of the primary sources and previous research and to provide the first study devoted entirely to the rite. While the rite of breaking the dšr.t-vessels' has been associated with several different archaeological contexts and primary sources, this monograph argues that a careful distinction needs to be made between the evidence identified as such. This study aims to demonstrate that there is a significant discrepancy between textual, iconographic, and archaeological sources which calls into question the identification of a large number of sources as s? dšr.wt contexts. A number of different ritual and non-ritual practices in ancient Egypt involve the deliberate fragmentation of pottery, each of which should be addressed in context.

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Book SynopsisThe site of Rakhigarhi, situated in Hisar District, Haryana, India, is one of the largest metropolises of the Harappan Civilization found so far, to be mentioned alongside the iconic sites of Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa and Dholavira. Between the years 2011 and 2017 extensive explorations and excavations were carried out by teams from the Deccan College P.G.R.I., Deemed University, Pune, Seoul National University and Haryana State Archaeology Department. Mounds 4, 6 and 2 were habitation deposits where cultural sequences of Early and Mature Cultural layers were found. Among the major finds were classical Harappan ceramic assemblages; beads of terracotta, faience, stones and steatite; seals; shell and terracotta bangles; terracotta figurines, etc. Mound 7 was a cemetery, representative of the Mature Harappan period, where systematic excavation was carried out. After chapters introducing the excavations at Rakhigarhi and setting out the objectives of the project, the book focuses on the cemetery, with detailed analysis and inventories of the burials. Data on the physical and pathological traits of the Harappan population are presented in full, with specialist chapters on craniofacial reconstruction, and on parasitological analysis. The volume is completed with analysis of the faunal remains from Rakhigarhi habitation area.

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Book SynopsisDe l'objet à la société romaine brings together some twenty contributions grouped into five parts: - De l''atelier à l''objet: artisanats, productions et instrumentum; - Croyances et cultes; - Iconographie, épigraphie et archéologie funéraire; - Habiter et organiser un territoire; - Décorer un édifice, which reflect many of the research themes of Prof. Jean-Claude Béal, to whom these studies are offered. They are mainly centred on Roman Gaul, and more generally on the western Roman provinces, reflecting the geographical areas in which he works.

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Book SynopsisThe frontiers of the Roman empire together form the largest surviving monument of one of the worlds greatest states. They stretch for some 7,500 km through 20 countries which encircle the Mediterranean Sea. The remains of these frontiers have been studied by visitors and later archaeologists for several centuries. Many of the inscriptions and sculpture, weapons, pottery and artefacts created and used by the soldiers and civilians who lived on the frontier can be seen in museums. Equally evocative of the lost might of Rome are the physical remains of the frontiers themselves. The aim of this series of booklets is not only to inform the interested visitor about the history of the frontiers but to act as a guide-book as well.Austria is particularly fortunate in the survival along the Danube of the remains of many military installations. These include forts and towers, some parts surviving up to two stories high. They are a most remarkable survival and deserve to be better known and more visited. I certainly hope each reader of this book will enjoy learning more about Austria's Roman heritage.From the Foreword by David J. Breeze.

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Book SynopsisHow did the Maltese and Gozitans fare under Roman occupation? How were they treated by their new masters? And what did they do to appease them? What changes did the new political situation bring about in their lives? How did they respond and / or adapt? Was their religious identity in any way affected? How did they manoeuvre their loyalties to their own benefits? And how did they manage their own domestic affairs within the new political set-up? Though based essentially on epigraphical evidence, this study seeks to address the above and other questions through an exercise in which epigraphy and the archaeological record supplement each other. The results shed new light on the governing bodies of the Maltese islands in Roman times and the models they followed, those who administered them, the latter’s role and status, and also their relationship with and their significance for the rest of the population.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: The Romanisation of the Maltese islands Chapter 2: The Vallii in Gozo Chapter 3: Quintus Lutatius Longinus and his wife Iunia Chapter 4: Reading CIL, X, 7506. A case of elite friendships? Chapter 5: Publicia Irene and her daughter Publicia Glycera: their social status, religious identity and perceptions of afterlife Chapter 6: Iulia Domna and her maternal ideology in the perception of the Gozitan municipes Chapter 7: Religion in the exercise of power: the religious and political context of a priestly dedication to Iulia Augusta Chapter 8: Sponsoring a temple to Apollo Chapter 9: The initiative of the islands’ procurator to preserve the temple of Proserpina Chapter 10: The Gozo municipium in late Roman times Bibliography General Index

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Book SynopsisGeoffrey Taylor and David Heys together and separately over a 25 year period amassed a huge amount of prehistoric material (almost 20,000 worked pieces and some 250,000 pieces of waste) in flint, jet, stone, glass and metal, gathered mostly off the North York Moors. The present book aims to introduce the collections to the archaeological world and to give the reader a clear impression of their contents.The book begins with brief biographies of the two collectors and outlines the areas in which they collected, principally the North York Moors, and their method of working, before attempting to set their work into its wider prehistoric context. It then explains how the over 18,000 worked pieces in the combined collections are each individually identified, and presents illustrations of selected groups of pieces, such as arrowheads, knives, axeheads, and so on. This is followed up with a more detailed look at some of the more notable classes of artefacts, such as discoidal knives, Iron Age glass bangles, and jet pieces, including a superb undamaged Early Bronze Age jet wristguard (bracer), of which only one other example is known in Britain. To correct the impression that Taylor and Heys only ever collected casual finds off the surface of the moors and farmland, details of several excavations, most never before published, are given. These included pioneering work on the Early Mesolithic of the North York Moors, and the discovery of an Early Bronze Age grave with cremated human remains complete with a Collared Urn and a perforated battle-axehead. At long last, the hitherto unheralded work of these two remarkable individuals is given the credit it undoubtedly deserves.

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Book SynopsisCultural contacts and exchange are constituents of human behavior – ancient and modern. Within archaeology, particularly in that of Western Asia, the topic and related phenomena have been intensively studied during the last decades, leading to a re-evaluation of the cultural and economic, as well as physical landscapes throughout the ancient Near East. The eleven contributions in this book were delivered at a workshop held in 2016 at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World by renowned experts in their fields. They address the history of contacts and exchanges in the Bronze and Iron Ages using case studies from different regions and based on different types of sources. The contributions illustrate that the geographical dimension of cultural contacts and exchange networks within West Asia extends far beyond the boundaries of the previously defined contact zone of the ‘Ancient Near East’ and that other systems existed in adjacent regions (Egypt, Arabia as well as Iran, Central Asia, Africa, India, and South Asia), suggesting that the West Asian networks were also part of larger ones. At the same time, it has become clear that a closer look at single case studies of specific material culture datasets is important to better understand the dynamics, scale(s), and extent of contacts and exchanges. Contributing authors: Gojko Barjamovic (Harvard University), Celia J. Bergoffen (Fashion Institute of Technology, New York), Lorenzo D’Alfonso (NYU, New York), Nancy A. Highcock (The British Museum, London), Robert W. Homsher (San Francisco), Alice M. W. Hunt (University of Georgia, Athens), Marta Luciani (University of Vienna), Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris), Beate Pongratz-Leisten (NYU, New York), Lisa Saladino Haney (Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh), Jonathan Valk (University of Helsinki).Table of ContentsIntroductory Remarks – Arnulf Hausleiter I. Old Assyrian Trade Introduction to the Old Assyrian Trade Session – Nancy A. Highcock States, Markets and Overland Trade in the Early and Middle Bronze Age – Gojko Barjamovic Dynamism and Scale in Western Asian Bronze Age Trade Networks – Lorenzo D’Alfonso and Nancy A. Highcock II. Cuneiform Knowledge Production in Contact Zones Reflections on the Dynamics of Cuneiform Knowledge Production in the Ancient Near East – Jonathan Valk Production of Knowledge in Contact Zones: Mari and Tigunānum in the Old Babylonian Period – Beate Pongratz-Leisten III. Transitions and Transformations in the Levant and Northern Arabia The MBA/LBA Transition at Tell el-ʿAjjul in the Light of Exchanges between Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean – Celia J. Bergoffen Transitions in Material Culture of the 2nd Millennium BCE: the Middle Bronze to Late Bronze Age Shift Seen from Northwest Arabia – Marta Luciani Connections and Transformations in the Southern Levant during the 2nd Millennium with a View from Megiddo – Robert Homsher IV. Egyptian Red Sea Trade Power and Prestige: Egyptian Red Sea Trade during the Old and Middle Kingdoms and its Place within the Royal Redistributive Network – Lisa Saladino Haney V. Middle Grounds, Contact Areas and Social Identity in the Iron Age Middle Grounds, Contact Areas, and the Assyrian Empire: the Case of the Syrian Lower Euphrates Valley, Iron II Period – Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault Tell Jemmeh: Social Identity at a Cultural Crossroads – Alice M. W. Hunt

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Book SynopsisLondon's Waterfront and its World, 16661800 presents the results of archaeological excavations of 1974 to 1983 in the central waterfront area of the City of London. The archaeology of the port of London is considered on a wide scale, from the City down the Thames to Deptford. The Great Fire of London in 1666 prompted some changes to the topography of streets and buildings, but there were also many continuities in life and work. The waterfront changed during the 18th century as warehousing replaced houses. This process is illustrated by archaeological excavation, documentary study and the survival of plans of properties surveyed for land-owning institutions. The artefacts and pottery recovered from these sites include many pieces from overseas, and London's waterfront can be compared with those of other port cities in Europe, North America and the Caribbean. Perhaps in late 17th- and 18th-century London we can study urban tastes and consumption from an archaeological viewpoint. During this period London became the hub of the new British empire, but contributed to the exploitation of people from other lands known as slavery. The waterfront on both sides of the Thames was at the centre of the new empire.

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Book SynopsisOur volume opens on a very sad note, the sudden passing of that great scholar of Greek Art, Andrew Stewart (1948-2023). A scholar of immense knowledge and energy, Andy was also greatly loved and admired by his students as well as innumerable colleagues in international scholarship. He supported this Journal from its creation, peer-reviewed papers, contributed his own pathbreaking articles, and encouraged others to successfully offer their work to us. Over many books and papers he gave us unique insights into Greek artistic culture, a contribution to the field which is irreplaceable. This volume is dedicated to him, while our first article is an appreciation by his close friend and colleague Tonio Hölscher. Later in this volume the article by Maria Panagiotonakou is also dedicated to Andy’s memory. Moving on to the other contents of this volume, as always we have encouraged and succeeded in spanning the millennia of Greek Archaeology in its fullest sense. We begin with Copper Age and Early Bronze Age lithic industries and food economies in Attica and Cyprus respectively, before diving into the complexities of the dating of the immense eruption of Santorini in the early Late Bronze Age. A detailed geographic study of Cretan settlement history over the Late Bronze Age and into Protohistoric times is complemented by an article on the existence or not of a Dorian invasion of the island over the same period. For the Early Iron Age, an innovative exploration of Geometric vase decoration deploys the patterning of chess moves. With Classical-Hellenistic times we learn about houses and group dining in Sicily and a contextual analysis of the construction of the Segesta theatre on the same island. In the absence of Roman-era offerings (readers and prospective authors please note!), we jump to two papers on Medieval ceramics. One focusses on their production in Messenia, the other is a response to a review on architectural ceramics (bacini) in Crete that appeared in Volume 7. Finally we give you a study of physical landscape transformation by geoarchaeologists from the Valley of the Muses in Boeotia, and a very insightful report on public outreach initiatives undertaken by an archaeological project in the Xeros valley on Cyprus. Following on these articles there appears our usual wide-ranging set of book reviews, compiled by our Assistant Editor Damjan Donev. John Bintliff, General EditorTable of ContentsJournal of Greek Archaeology Volume 8: Editorial Encounters with Andrew Stewart – Tonio Hölscher Prehistory and Protohistory Chipped Stone Industries of Attica, Southern Greece: the assemblages of a Bronze Age (Early Helladic II) site at Phaleron Bay – Odysseas Kakavakis Foodways in prehistoric Cyprus: a view from the Kouris valley during the 5th and 4th millennia cal BC – Ioannis Voskos, Dimitris Kloukinas, Anastasios Georgotas, Antonia Marda-Stypsianou, Maria Roumpou, Efrossini Vika and Eleni Mantzourani Minoan eruption chronology: a synthesis for the non-initiated – Tiziano Fantuzzi The history of settlement in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Crete: a review and synthesis – Dominic Pollard Beware of Greeks bearing gifts: Cretan archaeology and the Dorian invasion – Catharine Judson Modelling the decorative patterns of a Geometric oinochoe. An interpretative approach using chess-related terminology and metaphors – Gioulika Christakopoulou Archaic to Hellenistic Houses, convivial meals and tableware at Himera in the 5th century BC – Oscar Belvedere Reassessing evidence: a new proposal for the dating of the theatre of Segesta – Maria Panagiotonakou Medieval Late medieval glazed painted wares from Messenia and the question of local pottery production – Alexandra Konstantinidou Review response: Anastasia G. Yangaki, Ceramics in Plain Sight: The Bacini of the Churches of Crete – Anastasia G. Yangaki Multiperiod Geoarchaeological evidence of landscape degradation in the Valley of the Muses (Boeotia, Greece) during classical antiquity – José Luis Peña-Monné and María Marta Sampietro-Vattuone Landscape archaeology in a contested space: Public engagement and outreach in the Xeros River valley in Cyprus – Athanasios K. Vionis, Giorgos Papantoniou and Niki Savvides Book Reviews Prehistory Natalie Abell, Keos XII. Ayia Irini: Area B – Oliver Dickinson Jack L. Davis (with contributions by Sharon R. Stocker). A Greek State In Formation. The Origins of Civilization in Mycenaean Pylos – Oliver Dickinson Joanne M.A. Murphy and Jerolyn E. Morrison (eds), Kleronomia: Legacy and Inheritance. Studies on the Aegean Bronze Age in Honor of Jeffrey S. Soles – Laura E. Alvarez Yannick Boswinkel, Labouring With Large Stones. A Study into the Investment and Impact of Construction Projects on Mycenaean Communities in Late Bronze Age Greece – Oliver Dickinson Daniel R. Turner, Grave Reminders. Comparing Mycenaean tomb building with labour and memory – Oliver Dickinson Karina Grömer with contributions by R. Hofmann-de Keijzer and H.R. Mautendorfer. The Art of Prehistoric Textile Making. The Development of Craft Traditions and Clothing in Central Europe – Kalliope Sarri Classical Jenifer Neils and Dylan K. Rogers (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens – Roel Konijnendijk A. Konecny and N. Sekunda (eds), The Battle of Plataiai 479 BC – Oliver Dickinson Malcolm Bell iii, The City Plan and Political Agora (Morgantina Studies VII) – Oscar Belvedere Angelika Kellner, Die griechische Archaik. Konstruktion einer Chronologie im Wechselspiel schriftlicher und archäologischer Quellen – Rebecca Klug Roman Scotton, P.D., C.D.G. Vanderpool and C. Roncaglia. The Julian Basilica: Architecture, Sculpture, Epigraphy – Dylan K. Rogers Valentina Di Napoli, Francesco Camia, Vasilis Evangelidis, Dimitris Grigoropoulos, Dylan Rogers, and Stavros Vlizos (eds), What’s New in Roman Greece: Recent Work on the Greek Mainland and the Islands in the Roman Period – Andrew Erskine Multiperiod Nikolas Dimakis and Tamara M. Dijkstra (eds), Mortuary Variability and Social Diversity in Ancient Greece: Studies on ancient Greek death and burial – Robin Osborne John W. Hayes and Kathleen Warner Slane, Late Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Pottery (Isthmia XI) – Philip Bes Sir John Boardman, James Hargrave, Alexander Avram, Alexander Podossinov, Connecting the Ancient West and East: Studies Presented to Prof. Gocha R. Tsteskhladze – Richard Kendall Stella Demesticha and Lucy Blue with Calliope Baika, Carlo Beltrame, David Blackman, Deborah Cvikel, Helen Farr and Dorit Sivan. Under the Mediterranean I: Studies in Maritime Archaeology ; Elpida Hadjidaki-Marder with contributions by Philip P. Betancourt, Thomas M. Brogan, Joanne E. Cutler, Heidi C. M. Dierckx, Eleni Nodarou and Todd Whitelaw. The Minoan Shipwreck at Pseira, Crete – Saro Wallace Heritage Management Helene Simoni, Geographical Information Systems in Urban Archaeology and Urban Planning. A case study of a modern Greek city, built on top of an ancient city – Kostas Sbonias Historiography Kim Beerden and Timo Epping (eds), Classical Controversies. Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century – Ulrike Roth

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Book SynopsisDespite a resurgence in Scottish fort studies, few sites have been investigated, and fewer still at the scale reported in this volume. Over 2014-17, Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust, working with AOC Archaeology Group, excavated three hilltop forts on the Tay estuary to explore both their enclosing works and internal buildings, and uncovered an impressive assemblage of small finds.At Moredun fort on Moncreiffe Hill, a previously unknown monumental roundhouse, a rare La Tène bird-head brooch, and evidence of shale bangle industry were uncovered. At Castle Law, Abernethy, excavated in the 1890s and the type-site of Childe's Abernethy complex', re-excavation prompted reassessment of the artefacts from original excavations to reveal new evidence of the deposition of artefacts and animal bones within its cistern. Excavation of the enclosing works of these sites, and Moncreiffe fort, suggest an evolution of fort defences from simple earth and stone ramparts to massive timber-laced walls the murus Gallicus described by Caesar reflecting high status sites with restricted access for a social elite.Hillforts of The Tay was part of the Tay Landscape Partnership Scheme, a community heritage initiative and the results of this citizen science project make a significant contribution to establishing Tayside as a well-studied area for the site type both within Scotland, and further afield.

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Book SynopsisOver the past few decades, there has been a significant amount of research on the Roman Lower Danube frontier by international teams focusing on individual forts or broader landscape survey work; collectively, this volume represents the best of this collaboration with the aim of elevating the Lower Danube within broader Roman frontier scholarship.The Lower Danube, running between Singidunum (modern Belgrade) and Halmyris in the Danube Delta, was one of the most densely fortified regions of the Roman Empire. The region has long been a border zone, today forming part of the border between Serbia and Romania, and the majority of the border between Romania and Bulgaria. Despite its importance for understanding both Roman frontier policy and the relationship between ancient and modern borderscapes, the region has not yet made its full contribution to international Roman scholarship. Bridging the theoretical divide that exists between different regional research traditions, chapters in this volume focus on sites like Ratiaria, in modern north-western Bulgaria, while other contributors examine the complex landscape from a wider perspective oriented around roads, temporary camps, or early Christian sites. The Roman Lower Danube Frontier emphasises the importance of engaging with Roman frontier landscapes, particularly in regions such as East-Central Europe, where they remain part of a contemporary borderscape.

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Book SynopsisLa industria ósea en la Hispania romana considers, for the first time in detail, the work of the bone industry in a specific province of the Roman Empire. Until now, only the material deposited in a museum, or from a specific site, has been analysed in a particular way. It is hoped, therefore, that through this work we may obtain a global and general vision of this industry in a wide territory, Hispania. In this aspect, this book shows the peculiarities found in each territory, as well as the local and regional influences and connections, and with the rest of the Empire.The first part provides an overview of the current state of research, both nationally and internationally. From here, we focus on the Hispanic workshops and their production, and develops a simple and open classification (so that new pieces can be incorporated), offering a detailed analysis of the different objects. Abundant images are provided in which the characteristics described and the

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Book SynopsisSouth Asian Goddesses and the Natural Environment is a multidisciplinary collection of 11 essays ranging from the pre-Vedic to the modern era and incorporating research on Hindu, Buddhist and tribal cultures. The authors ask whether the worship of goddesses, strongly linked to fertility rituals, might have mitigated the ecological decline of South Asia in the pre-British and post-colonial eras.The manifold powers of the Devi, whether nurturing or destructive, could be constructed as companions to the unstoppable forces of Nature. This binary paradigm, however, is misleading. For millions of South Asian people, the Devi is Nature and Nature is She. Amongst scholars, the connections between the South Asian Goddesses and the natural environment have been debated and contested for centuries. This collection of essays, the last of a trilogy on the Devi or iconic female by Australian scholars and their collaborators, interrogates the paradoxes of worshipping the feminine divine and yet ignoring the natural environment that validates Her existence. Historical and cultural sources, many of them in Sanskrit, point to the Devi-Nature complex but in ignoring the role of human agency, appear to exonerate society from taking responsibility for the ecological devastation manifested throughout the South Asian region. The Devi is omnipotent but in the role of the nurturing Mother she will not intervene if we remain passive. South Asian deities teach us to respect the environment, a necessary but insufficient condition for compelling us to behave in a manner that respects the wonders of the universe.

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Book SynopsisLas domus de Bulla Regia (Tunisia): arquitectura y decoración musiva represents a contribution to the study of the architecture and decoration of the mosaic floors of the Roman private spaces of Bulla Regia, located in the northwest of Tunisia, in a rich and prosperous region thanks to its agriculture and olive oil production. The book is divided into six chapters which offer a complete overview of both the city in general and the domestic architecture and mosaic decoration of each of the domus.

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Book SynopsisApotropaia and Phylakteria: Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece is the outcome of the conference held in Athens in June 2021 and hosted by the Swedish Institute at Athens.The belief in the existence of evil forces was part of ancient everyday life and a phenomenon deeply embedded in popular thought of the Greek world. Fear of such malevolent powers generated the need for protection and we find clear traces of these concerns in both textual and archaeological sources. From the beginnings of literature, there is mention of ghosts and other daemonic beings that needed appeasement, and of ways of repulsing evil, such as the use of baskania and antibaskania (apotropaia). Repeatedly, we meet rituals of an apotropaic or prophylactic character conducted as part of everyday and family life, as for example on the occasion of a birth, marriage or death in the oikos (the cleansing of the house and household, libations and sacrifices in honour of oikos ancestors), and o

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Book SynopsisArchaeological excavations at Little Paxton Quarry, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire were undertaken by MOLA between 2017 to 2021 and these were located near to both the River Great Ouse and the A1 (Great North Road).Small quantities of pitting occurred in both the early and late Neolithic periods, followed by a single cremation deposit that dated to the early Bronze Age and a moderate sized middle Bronze Age cremation cemetery with 12 cremations deposits, one of which was urned. Two parallel late Bronze Age to early Iron Age pit alignments were recorded. Permanent occupation took place from the middle Iron Age period, with two settlements located 0.5km apart. One of these settlements continued into the middle Roman period.Post-Roman evidence included two graves that formed part of a Saxon early medieval cemetery excavated in 2016 by Phoenix Consulting. In the medieval period the southern extent of the DMV Boughton settlement was found and these previously unknown remains were directly beyond the southern extent of the core of the hamlet, which is a Scheduled Monument. In the excavation this part of the hamlet dated from the 11th to at least the 14th century and comprised fields, paddocks and connecting routeways as well as a small area of possible domestic occupation.

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Book SynopsisHow is Portuguese archaeological cultural Heritage reflected today as traces of its colonial expansion through the World? The editors gathered 25 contributors from a wide variety of countries to explore this theme: Brazil, Cape Verde Islands, China, India, Japan, México, Morocco, Namibia, Portugal, Saint Thomas & Prince Islands and Spain.

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Book SynopsisThis is the third book on material studies in this series on medieval Novgorod and its territory, and deals with a substantial body of animal bones that has been recovered over the last decade. The zooarchaeological evidence is discussed by the editor and a number of other British and Russian specialists looking at the remains of mammals, birds and fish. Topics discussed include diet, butchery practices, the exploitation of fur and skins, mortality patterns of mammals, and metrical analyses of a wide range of species. Detailed data sets are provided to enable the reader to make comparisons with their own research, but the book is also suitable for those with a more general interest in medieval Russian archaeology.

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, which is the outcome of the four-year long collaboration project SARA (Scandinavian and Atlantic Rock Art) between the archaeology department at University of Gothenburg and the Laboratory of Heritage of Spanish National Research Council, nine papers summarize new excavation and survey results, advanced studies of iconography and intriguing landscape studies. It addresses topics such as human activities in the vicinity and surroundings of rock-art panels, movement and communication, ritual and symbolism, and finally representations and constructions of landscapes. The book is a sophisticated study of the rock art of two major regions of prehistoric Europe, but one with implications for research over a much wider area. It is wide-ranging, topical and will no doubt also be controversial. Contributors include Per Nilsson, Manuel Santos Estévez, Yolanda Seoane Veiga, Johan Ling, Åsa C. Fredell, Marco García Quintela, Kristian Kristiansen, Lasse Bengtsson and Felipe Criado Boado.Trade Review'an interesting and stimulating book for any researcher working on rock art in general and Bronze Age Europe in particular. After all, it is a vivid expression of the plurality of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches that exist and are being applied to gain knowledge about past societies using their rock art as a point of departure.' -- European Journal of Archaeology European Journal of ArchaeologyTable of Contents1. A Life Aquatic? Looking at the relationships between settlements, rock art and sea levels in the Himmelstalund region of eastern Sweden (Per Nilsson) 2. Rock Art and Archaeological Excavations in Campo Lameiro, Galicia: A new chronological proposal for the Atlantic rock art (Manuel Santos Estévez And Yolanda Seoane Veiga) 3. Elevated Rock Art: Maritime images and situations (Johan Ling) 4. A Mo(ve)ment in Time? A comparative study of a rock-picture theme in Galicia and Bohuslän (Åsa C. Fredell) 5. Bodily Attributes and Semantic Expressions: Knees in rock art and Indo- European symbolism (Åsa C. Fredell And Marco V. García Quintela) 6. Rock Art and Religion: The sun journey in Indo-European mythology and Bronze Age rock art (Kristian Kristiansen) 7. To Excavate Images: Some results from the Tanum Rock Art Project 1997–2004 (Lasse Bengtsson) 8. Perspectives in European Rock Art: The archaeology of glance (Felipe Criado Boado) 9. The Spaces of Representation and the Domestication of Landscape in Rock Art Societies (Manuel Santos Estévez)

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Book SynopsisSince 1985, Spanish archaeology has radically improved its organisation and effectiveness, supported by law and the transfer of powers to deal with archaeology from central to regional governments. There have been many excavations on development sites in towns and the countryside, but also new studies of rural landscapes and monuments. As in other European countries, this has produced a mountain of as yet undigested information about the history and archaeology of this fascinating country over four centuries. Now two Spanish archaeologists, aided by a large number of colleagues in Spain, France, Germany and Britain, have produced the first survey in either English or Spanish of the last 30 years of investigations, new discoveries and new theories. Chapters deal with the rural and urban habitat, daily life, trade and technology, castles and fortifications, the display of secular power and all three religions of medieval Spain: Islam, Christianity and Judaism. This is a major contribution to the archaeology of medieval Europe and a handbook for archaeologists and travellers.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Foreword by John Schofield 1. THE STUDY OF MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY Magdalena Valor and Avelino Gutierrez 2. RURAL SETTLEMENT AND LANDSCAPE Magdalena Valor and Inaki Garcia Camino 3. URBAN SETTLEMENT Magdalena Valor and Avelino Gutierrez 4. HOUSING AND DOMESTIC LIFE Magdalena Valor and Avelino Gutierrez 5. TECHNOLOGY, CRAFT AND INDUSTRY Ricardo Cordoba 6. TRADE, TRANSPORT AND TRAVEL Magdalena Valor and Avelino Gutierrez 7. FORTIFICATIONS Magdalena Valor and Avelino Gutierrez 8. THE DISPLAY OF SECULAR POWER Magdalena Valor and Avelino Gutierrez 9. RELIGIONS AND RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS Magdalena Valor and Fernando Miguel 10. LIFE, DEATH AND MEMORY Fernando Gil and Magdalena Valor 11. CONCLUSIONS AND HOPES FOR THE FUTURE Magdalena Valor, Avelino Gutierrez and John Schofield

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Book SynopsisThis book adopts an integrative approach to investigate the role of monumental architecture in shaping social dynamics and power relations on the island of Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age (LBA; c.1700-1050 BCE). Using such an approach, archaeologists studying ancient societies elsewhere can analyze the relationship between the built environment and human behaviour. Monumental buildings on Late Bronze Age Cyprus provided contexts for social interactions, such as ceremonial feasting and cultic rituals, that created social bonds and forged wider community identities, while also materializing social boundaries and inequalities. More than just spaces, these contexts were socially-constructed places, imbued with identity and memory, that played an integral role in social organization during this transformative period. This integrative approach emphasizes the role of buildings in configuring movement and encounter and in serving as the contexts for interactions through which sociopolitical relations are developed, maintained, transformed and reproduced. It investigates this using an interdisciplinary methodology that integrates access analysis with the study of the materiality of built environments and how they encode and communicate meanings and shape the experiences of those who interact with them.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction: Building Power Chapter 2. Society and Built Environment in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: Changing Perspectives Chapter 3. The Social Dynamics of Built Environments Chapter 4. An Integrative Approach to Analyzing Past Built Environments Chapter 5. Toward a Biogrpahy of the Ashlar Building at Enkomi Chapter 6. Toward a Biography of the “Fortress” at Enkomi Chapter 7. Court-centred Buildings at Kalavasos, Maroni and Alassa Chapter 8. Spaces Become Places: Monumental Place-making and Social Interaction in the Late Cypriot Bronze Age Chapter 9. The Bigger Picture: Monumentality in Context

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Book SynopsisSince the early 1970s the increasingly effective conduct of archaeological work in the City of London and surrounding parts of the conurbation have revolutionised our view of the development and European importance of London between 1100 and 1600. There have been hundreds of archaeological excavations of every type of site, from the cathedral to chapels, palaces to outhouses, bridges, wharves, streams, fields, kilns, roads and lanes. The study of the material culture of Londoners over these five centuries has begun in earnest, based on thousands of accurately dated artefacts, especially found along the waterfront. Work by documentary historians has complemented and filled out the new picture. This book, written by an archaeologist who has been at the centre of this study since 1974, will summarise the main findings and new suggestions about the development of the City, its ups and downs through the Black Death and the Dissolution of the Monasteries; its place in Europe as a capital city with great architecture and relations with many other parts of Europe, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean. London has been the most intensively studied medieval city in Europe by archaeologists, due to the pace of development especially since the 1970s. Thus although this will be a study of a single medieval city, it will be a major contribution to the Archaeology of Europe, 1100-1600.Trade Review'..an expert account. the book is well designed, expertly illustrated and manages to bridge the gap between an accessible and popular account, with a scholarly framework with full references and an extensive bibliography. This is a book that readers can turn to again and again in order to refresh their knowledge of the archaeology of this medieval metropolis' Terry Barry, Medieval Archaeology 56, 2012 'This is an important and useful book. And, crucially it's a good read.' British Archaeology, May-June 2012 'John Schofield snythesises a huge volume of archaeology to produce this coherent account packed with detail and fascinating visual evidence, and much enlivened by the author's own observations -- for example, on exotic imported food and whether Londoners had different diets from other parts of England, or on the impact of communities of 'aliens' on the city, including Jewish financiers, and Italian, French and Spanish merchants, or on the effect of London on its hinterland.' SALON number 267, December 2011 'It works very well indeed as an affordable entry point for students of London's medieval archaeology; as a resource assessment it refines and fleshes out many of the broad themes developed in The Archaeology of Greater London (MoLAS 2000); and it poses new and interesting questions to be considered in future research programmes.' Barney Sloane, English Heritage, Transactions of London & Middlesex Archaeological Society, forthcoming 'His detailed knowledge of projects both famous and unsung paints a potent picture of London between 1100 and 1600.' Current Archaeology, June 2012 'This is a stimulating book, opening one's eyes to many facets of the past. It can be highly recommended to anyone who wants to find out what archaeology has to offer about London's history, and where future research might lead' Bridget Cherry, London Topographical Society Newsletter, May 2012Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Public Buildings and Concerns 3. Castles, Palaces and Royal Houses 4. Houses, Daily Life and Neighbourhoods 5. Selling and Making 6. Religion and Religious Ways of Life 7. Human Health and the Environment 8. London's Region 9. Medieval and Tudor London after 1600

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Book SynopsisThe Boxford Mosaic has been described as the most spectacular and innovative Roman mosaic ever found in Britain. Yet it lay hidden beneath a Berkshire field for some 1,600 years until it was fully uncovered in the Summer of 2019. Dating from around 350 AD and set amid the ruins of a villa, the mosaic depicts tales of famous heroes from Greek mythology. Hercules slays the half-man, half-horse Centaur. Pelops wins the hand of a king's daughter by sabotaging the wheel linchpin of his racing chariot. And the handsome Bellerophon kills the fire-breathing Chimaera monster with the help of his flying horse Pegasus - a legend that became our very own St George and the Dragon. The full description of this artistic masterpiece and its excavation, by local enthusiasts working under professional supervision, is told here by the three who played key roles in the operation. JOY APPLETON is Chairwoman of the Boxford History Project. MATT NICHOL is a leading archaeologist with Cotswold Archaeology. ANTHONY BEESON is one of the UK's leading authorities on mosaics and Roman and Greek architecture. He is also the archivist of the Association for Roman Archaeology.

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