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Wessex Archaeology Iron Age and RomanoBritish Settlements and
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the results of a series of fieldwalking surveys and excavations of Iron Age and Romano-British sites in two areas of the Salisbury Plain Training Area. Altogether some 18 new settlement sites were discovered of which 13 were Romano-British, three were predominantly Iron Age, and two produced evidence of Middle-Late Bronze Age occupation. Small-scale excavation was undertaken at eight enclosures and field systems, accompanied by targeted environmental sampling.An increase in enclosure through to the later Iron Age was revealed, when there was evidence for settlement abandonment followed by a further development of unenclosed settlement and the emergence of nucleated villages such as Chisenbury Warren in the Late Iron Age and through the Romano-British period.
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David & Charles Art and Archaeology of Rome
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American Academy in Rome Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome v. 42
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American Academy in Rome Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome v. 43 &
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American Academy in Rome Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Volume
Book SynopsisAmong the twelve articles included in the newest volume from the American Academy in Rome are: ""The Native Market for Greek Vases and its Implications""; ""Unpublished Documents Shed New Light on the Licinian Tomb""; ""The Chronicle of Francesco Venimbeni da Fabriano""; and ""Venice Before the Grand Canal."" Anthony Corbeill is Associate Professor of Classics, University of Kansas.
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American Academy in Rome Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome v. 50
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction; Architectural Theory and Practice: Vitruvian Principles and ""Full-scale Detail"" Architectural Drawings, Ingrid Edlund-Berry, University of Texas at Austin; Papers:; From Vitruvian Scholarship to Vitruvian Practice, Ingrid D. Rowland, University of Notre Dame; Vitruvian Critical Eclecticism and Roman Innovation,, Thomas N. Howe, Southwestern University Vitruvius and the Origins of Roman Spatial Rhetoric, Gretchen E. Meyers, Rollins College; Other Articles:; The Rhetoric of Romanitas: The ""Tomb of the Statilii"" Frescoes Reconsidered, Peter J. Holliday, California State University at Long Beach; Theodelinda's Rome: Ampullae, Pittacia, and the Image of the City, Dennis Trout, University of Missouri at Columbia Bramante's Tempietto and the Spanish Crown, Jack Freiberg, Florida State University; Rome, 1592: An Introduction to a Newly Discovered Parish Census, Thomas James Dandelet, University of California at Berkeley; The Battle of Zama after Giulio Romano: A Tapestry in the American Academy in Rome, Part I, Elfriede R. Knauer, Haverford, Pennsylvania; Reports from the American Academy in Rome Research in the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome (2004-2005).
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American Academy in Rome Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome v. 51
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTools and Scripts for Cursing in Early Modern and Medieval Ireland; Lisa M. Bitel, ""Monvmenta Romae"": An Alternative Title-Page for the Duke of Sessa's Personal Copy of the Speculum Romanum Magnificentiae; Louis Cellauro, Between Livy and Polybius: Leonardo Bruni on the First Punic War; Gary Ianziti, The Battle of Zama after Giulio Romano: Part II Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus: A Renaissance exemplum virtutis; Elfriede R. Knauer; The Woman from Frosinone: Honorific Portrait Statues of Roman Imperial Women; Molly Lindner; The Separation of Curses from Blessings in the Latin West Lester Little; ""Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba"": Martial and Morality in the Quattrocento; Marsh, David; Poussin and the Ethics of Imitation; Richard T. Neer; Public and Private Places of Worship in the Cult of Asclepius at Rome; Gil Renberg; Bramante's Hetruscan Tempietto; Ingrid Rowland; Piccolomini among the Illustrious; Francis Noel Thomas.
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University Press of Maryland Late Babylonian Texts in the Nies Babylonian
Book SynopsisVolume One, Catalogue of the Babylonian Collections at Yale
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University Press of Maryland Old Babylonian Archival Texts in the Nies
Book SynopsisVolume Two, Catalogue of the Babylonian Collections at Yale
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures The Egyptian Coffin Texts: Volume 8: Middle
Book SynopsisWith the appearance of this volume, the Oriental Institute marks the true completion of the Egyptian Coffin Texts Project , an international cooperative program begun by James Henry Breasted and Alan H. Gardiner in 1922 and edited by Adriaan de Buck from 1935 until his death in 1959. When published in 1961, Volume 7, de Buck's final volume, was announced as "the last volume of the autographed Coffin Texts in the contemplated Project" (p. vii), although the Oriental Institute had never produced the autographed edition of Pyramid Texts within the Coffin Text corpus that had been explicitly promised in the introduction to Volume 1. Assumed to comprise a "distinct" and "foreign body" within the Coffin Texts, these long-lived spells were "reserved for later" (p. xi). After a lapse of forty years, a formally renewed Coffin Texts Project was authorised by the Director of the Oriental Institute in 2001, with the goal of completing the Oriental Institute's outstanding commitments. The translation volume once envisioned and entrusted to Tjalling Bruinsma had been rendered unnecessary by the publications of Robert O. Faulkner in 1969 ( Pyramid Texts ) and 1973-1978 ( Coffin Texts ), which serve to engage scholars and laymen alike. Glossaries, bibliographies, symposia, and detailed textual studies appeared, but the critical edition of Middle Kingdom Pyramid Texts remained unaccomplished. By careful examination of the Oriental Institute's original collation sheets and unpublished sources from Lisht, James P. Allen, after years of concentrated study, has now fulfilled the task admirably. It is hoped that the new edition stimulates discussion not only of the longevity of the Pyramid Texts, but of the nature of the Coffin Texts themselves. While Breasted insisted that the Pyramid Texts were "sharply distinguished" from the Coffin Texts, the frequent appearance of "Pyramid Texts" on coffins (among the narrowly defined "Coffin Texts") leaves this opinion open to question. Ironically, the one coffin acquired in Chicago by Breasted for study by the Coffin Texts Project (OIM 12072) contained only "Pyramid Texts" and was therefore excluded from the initial seven volumes. Now at last these Middle Kingdom texts on a coffin can be examined among the "Coffin Texts" (Robert K. Ritner, Director, The Egyptian Coffin Texts Project, 2001-05).
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of
Book SynopsisWith an introduction by Professor McGuire Gibson, this up-to-date account describes the state of the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad and chronicles the damage done to archaeological sites by illicit digging. Contributors include Donny George, John M. Russell, Katharyn Hanson, Clemens Reichel, Elizabeth C. Stone, and Patty Gerstenblith. Published in conjunction with the exhibit of the same name opening at the Oriental Institute April 10, 2008, this book commemorates the fifth anniversary of the looting of the Iraq National Museum.Table of ContentsForeword (Gil J Stein); Preface (Geoff Emberling); Map of Iraq; Time Line of Events; The Looting of the Iraq Museum in Context (McGuire Gibson); The Looting of the Iraq Museum Complex (Donny George); Efforts to Control Damage to Sites and Monuments (John M Russell); Why Does Archaeological Context Matter? (Katharyn Hanson); Cataloging the Losses: The Oriental Institute's Iraq Museum Database Project (Clemens Reichel); Archaeological Site Looting: The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Southern Iraq (Elizabeth C Stone); Legal Aspects of Controlling the International Market in Looted Antiquities: The Paradigm of Iraq (Patti Gerstenblith).
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in
Book SynopsisPioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920, the catalogue of the Oriental Institute special exhibit of the same name, highlights the interconnected stories of an important figure in intellectual history - James Henry Breasted - and the beginnings of American scientific archaeology in the Near East at a crucial turning point in world history. At the end of World War I, Breasted and a small team of scholars set sail for the Near East on what would be an eleven-month odyssey across the region. The fascinating mix of politics, scholarship, and history (both ancient and modern) as seen through a focus on the larger-than-life persona of James Henry Breasted lies at the heart of Pioneers to the Past. Breasted's letters and photographs from his trip provide a window into the engagement of modern scholarship with the ancient world, in a highly charged setting of power politics in the early twentieth century. The essays in this catalogue explain the historical, legal, and political context in a way that greatly enriches our understanding of Breasted's journey and its aftermath.
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures The Oriental Institute 2010-2011 Annual Report
Book SynopsisThe Oriental Institute Annual Reports contain yearly summaries of the activities of the Institutes faculty, staff, and research projects, as well as descriptions of special events and other Institute functions. The reports are complimentary to Members and Donors of the Oriental Institute.
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Early Megiddo on the East Slope (The 'Megiddo
Book SynopsisThis report completes prior publications by Clarence S. Fisher (1929), P. L. O. Guy (1931), Robert M. Engberg and Geoffrey M. Shipton (1934a), and P. L. O. Guy and Robert M. Engberg (1938) on the earliest utilization and occupation of the slope at the southeast base of the high mound of Megiddo (Tell el-Mutesellim). That area, labeled by the excavators the "East Slope," and identified by them in their notations as "ES," was excavated by the Oriental Institute between the years 1925, when work commenced, and 1933, when the last of it was apparently cleared down to bedrock. While the primary focus of this report is on Square U16 (an area of 25 25 m), where most of the early remains (i.e., of the Early Bronze Age and earlier) excluding tombs were encountered, this work also deals with the later remains within that same, limited precinct.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Early Deposits on the East Slope Chapter 3. Artifacts from the East Slope Chapter 4. Sealings, Potters' Marks, and Potmarks from the East Slope Chapter 5. The Chipped Stone Collection from the Oriental Institute's Excavation of the East Slope and the High Mound Chapter 6. The Early Bronze Age Tombs of Megiddo - A Reappraisal Chapter 7. Human Activity on the East Slope - A Summary Appendix 1. Locations of Loci According to the 5 x 5 Meter Grid Appendix 2. Locations of Walls According to the 5 x 5 Meter Grid and in Illustrations Appendix 3. Megiddo East Slope Locus Register, Based on Notebooks and Locus/Object Cards and Photographs in the Oriental Institute
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Rose Publishing Tabernacle Pamphlet
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British Institute at Ankara Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Konya
Book SynopsisThe city of Konya (ancient Iconium) has long been one of the most important Anatolian centres. In the late first century BC it was refounded as a Roman colony, and the centuries of the Roman Empire were among the most prosperous for the region. This volume provides texts and commentaries for the 231 Greek and ten Latin inscriptions now housed in the city's archaeological museum. The collection comprises 92 inscriptions from Konya itself and 149 from the surrounding region, nearly two thirds of them previously unpublished. Almost two hundred further inscriptions from Konya are listed and indexed at the end of the volume, so that for the first time there is a complete index of all people known from the ancient city of Iconium. The texts here shed an irreplaceable light on city and country society around a major centre from the early Roman to the Byzantine period, and the photographs at the end of the volume illustrate most of the characteristic inscribed monuments for the
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Canhasan Sites 2: Canhasan 1: The Pottery
Book SynopsisThe excavations at Canhasan Höyök I in the Konya plain of central Turkey revealed a series of settlements running through the Chalcolithic period (c.5500-3000 BC). The pottery from the site, much of it of types previously unknown or not found elsewhere in stratified contexts, is of fundamental importance for an understanding of this period in Anatolia. In this volume, Dr French, the excavator of Canhasan and for many years director of the British Institute at Ankara, carefully and concisely presents both the plain and decorated wares, with detailed descriptions of their characteristic fabrics, shapes and decoration. There is a full catalogue of the best-preserved and most important pieces (which were registered finds), but a major feature of the volume are the drawings of over 2500 less well-preserved pieces, which illustrate all the characteristic shapes and types of decoration. A special feature of the study is a careful grading of the material in terms of chronological reliability. The author privileges the whole, or nearly whole, pots found on floors in each layer, as the only types which were certainly made at the time. Related pottery may be accepted as contemporary, but with less certainty, while unrelated wares must be treated with circumspection, for they may be either recycled from an earlier layer or intrusive from a later one. This rigorous methodology means that the Chalcolithic pottery provides a completely reliable relative chronology through the Chalcolithic period, and the volume will remain a basic reference for Near Eastern archaeology.Trade Reviewwe are fortunate to have Frenchs analysis of the pottery for this important site.' -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn Mawr Classical Review a daring and useful approach to assessing ceramics from archaeological sites,' -- Bibliotheca Orientalis Bibliotheca Orientalis
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara The Archaeobotany of Aşvan: Environment &
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the final publication of the archaeobotanical remains recovered from four sites at the village of Aşvan in eastern Turkey, which were excavated between 1968 and 1973 as part of the archaeological rescue project in the Keban Dam region. An extensive programme of archaeobotanical research involved detailed study of the modern flora, the observation and recording of pre-mechanised agricultural practices and large-scale recovery of ancient botanical samples by water sieving. The report traces the evolution of cultivation in the region from the Chalcolithic to the Medieval period, charting the dominance of emmer and hulled barley in the Chalcolithic period, the emergence of free-threshing wheats in the Early Bronze Age and the introduction of irrigated summer crops, especially millet, by the Hellenistic period. Detailed attention is also given to the assemblage of weed seeds as proxy evidence for environmental conditions and climate change from around 4000 BC to the present day.Trade ReviewSpecialists have been impatiently waiting for the publication of “The Archaeobotany of Aşvan”. Their long wait has been rewarded...This publication is a must for the bookshelves of archaeobotanical laboratories and specialists alike. * BiOr *
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara The Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Burdur
Book SynopsisThe Burdur Archaeological Museum holds material from a mountainous area of southwest Turkey where Pisidians in antiquity mingled with Phrygians, Lycians and other ancient peoples, coming to terms first with Greek and then with Roman culture. This volume presents its rich holdings of ancient inscriptions, ranging from Hellenistic royal letters and Roman imperial regulations to the votive offerings and gravestones of rural people. Larger cities such as Sagalassos and Kibyra are close to or just beyond the boundaries of Burdur province. The Museum collection is particularly strong in votive reliefs related to local rural cults; the most prolific is that of a club-bearing rider variously named as Herakles or Kakasbos, to which an extensive and penetrating excursus is devoted. As well as inscribed texts relief iconography is presented and discussed - indeed several items never carried an inscription. The physical form of votives and gravestones is also fully described, with more than 360 plates illustrating the range of monuments produced by local masons. Of the 350 monuments collected here, over 150 have not previously been published, and many of the rest have never been illustrated, so that the volume presents a substantial body of new evidence relating to the history, religion and culture of the area. All texts are translated into English and Turkish.Trade Review...a model example of an epigraphical corpus [...] A fine piece of work by two accomplished scholars, and should be equally welcomed by those whose focus is ancient texts and those who study ancient art.' -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Dedications; Funerary inscriptions; Public inscriptions; Other inscriptions (348-50); Excursus: The Rider god steles and related monuments at Burdur Archaeological Museum; Excursus; Bibliography; Indexes; Concordances.
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara The Madra River Delta: Environment, Society and
Book SynopsisOccupying a pivotal location on the western coast of Turkey, the Madra River Delta has always been a meeting place for the cultures of Anatolia and the Aegean, but active geomorphological processes in the area have hampered fieldwork, making it a significant challenge to reconstruct the history of the landscape and its exploitation by humans. Modern political geography has been another obstacle, encouraging the study of the area in isolation from the neighbouring islands of the northeastern Aegean, although from prehistory until the twentieth century they all belonged to one cultural area. The Madra River Delta Project called on distinguished international teams using innovative interdisciplinary approaches to meet these challenges, and the results presented here shed important new light on environmental changes in this part of the Anatolian coastal region, on their long-term impact on the inhabitants of the Delta, and on the cultural ties between the Delta and the island of Lesbos from the prehistoric to the Roman period. Two closing chapters focus on the area's medieval ceramics and its history in later Ottoman times. This volume places the story of the communities of this important coastal region in their environmental and cultural context.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Regional studies and landscape archaeology in the Madra River Delta (Kyriacos Lambrianides and Nigel Spencer); Part 1: 'GUohistoire' or the 'Longue DurUe' The physical geography of the Madra River Delta (Ilhan Kayan and Serdar Vardar); Geomorphological formation and development of the delta plain of the Madra River (Ilhan Kayan); Alluvial geomorphology and paleogeography of the Yeldegirmeni mound and its environs (Ilhan Kayan); Geophysical surveys at Yeldegirmeni mound, Altinova (Mahmut G Drahor, G Gkt rkler and E Seng l); Climatic conditions in Altinova and the Madra River Delta (Ecmel Erlat); Land-use patterns in the Altinova area (Semra Sutgibi); Part 2: 'Social time' in the Madra River Delta and the northeast Aegean: the Early Bronze Age to the Early Roman period The emergence of complexity in the Madra River Delta: the example of the EBA site of Thermi on Lesbos (Kyriacos Lambrianides); The ceramics of the northeast Aegean region from the Middle Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age (Nicholas Bayne and Nigel Spencer); The Archaic and Classical fine wares of the northeast Aegean and northwest Anatolia (Gerald P Schaus); The ceramics of the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods in the northeast Aegean: a brief survey of the evidence from Mytilene, Lesbos (Hector & Caroline Williams); Part 3: 'L'histoire UvUnementielle' A study of Byzantine and Ottoman ceramic fragments found by surface survey north and west of Yelde?irmeni mound, 1997 (Sevin
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Black Sea: Past, Present and Future - Proceedings
Book SynopsisThe papers in this book result from a conference held in Istanbul in 2004, and are the product of collaboration between the British Academy Black Sea Initiative (BABSI) and the City and Regional Planning Department of Istanbul Technical University. They cover a period from the first appearance of human settlers in the Black Sea region to the present day, and all emphasize the significance of the Black Sea itself as a source of unity, linking communities and histories in a wider regional context, extending westward along the Danube basin, northward into the Ukraine and south Russia, east into the Caucasus and southward over the Anatolian hinterland. A major introductory paper re-examines the evidence for the Black Sea flood hypothesis. A group of four papers evaluate new evidence for the economic and cultural relationships between Greeks and native populations in the Black Sea region from the seventh to the fourth centuries BC. The next group of studies is concerned with the interconnectedness of the Black Sea between medieval and modern times, highlighting Seljuk and Ottoman trade, and the roles of the ports of Odessa and Trabzon. Four papers deal with the economic and social development of the Turkish Black Sea region in recent times. The final section places Black Sea history in a long perspective both from a cultural and a political viewpoint.Trade Review... an especially good source of bibliography on almost every aspect and period of the Black Sea.' -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn Mawr Classical Review ...informative and thought provoking.' -- American Journal Of Archaeology American Journal Of Archaeology Well-printed and well-illustrated' -- Ancient West & East Ancient West & East
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara The Balboura Survey and Settlement in Highland
Book SynopsisThe Balboura Survey, conducted between 1985 and 1994, investigated the settlement history of a small district in the ancient region of Kabalia in the mountains of southwestern Turkey. Although the survey's focus was on the Hellenistic-Early Byzantine city of Balboura and its western territory, the fieldwork revealed significant prehistoric occupation, and the project included research into Ottoman and recent settlement. Vol. 1: Balboura and the history of highland settlement This first volume of the final publication analyses settlement in the survey area from the Chalcolithic to the 20th century, placing it in the context of the adjoining districts. Major themes include: - the relation of the local prehistoric sites to the long-lived cultures to the north and east, and to the sparse evidence for settlement along the coast to the south; - Balboura's foundation by immigrant Pisidians around 200BC, and the new pattern of small agricultural settlements which came with it, exploiting land up to 1700m; - the city's attachment to the Roman province of Lycia, its adoption of the civic culture of Hellenistic and Roman Anatolia, and the interplay of alternative ethnicities - Kabalian, Pisidian, Lycian and Roman; - subsistence, climate, and the stability of Balboura's rural settlement pattern through nearly 1000 years. - the balance between pastoral and settled occupation from the prehistoric period through to the present day. Vol. 2. The Balboura Survey: detailed studies and catalogues This second volume of the final publication contains detailed discussions of the prehistoric pottery and of the Hellenistic and later pottery, which provide a chronological framework for the interpretation of the survey, and a major study of Hellenistic and Roman inscriptions examined during the project, many of them unpublished. Later chapters discuss an early Balbouran soldier who died at Sidon, the fortifications and water supply of the city, funerary monuments, and churches and other early Christian remains. The final chapter discusses problems and methodological issues raised by the survey, which combined extensive and intensive fieldwork. Five detailed catalogues present the Hellenistic and later pottery, the evidence of ancient activity across the city site, the rural sites and their pottery, known inscriptions from the territory of Balboura, and Balbouran funerary monuments.
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Canhasan Sites 3
Book SynopsisThis volume, the third in the series of reports on the excavations carried out at the Canhasan I mound in south-central Anatolia in the years 1961-1968, follows the publication of the stratification and structures (Canhasan Sites 1) and of the pottery (Canhasan Sites 2). Here, the primary aim is to present a descriptive account and catalogue of the registered small-finds. The small-finds have been grouped, described and then illustrated according to material, e.g., clay, stone, bone. The separation into discrete groups and the description of individual objects have both been deliberately simplified, the intention being to provide (where possible chronologically) an orderly arrangement from which those interested are able to scan and note the range of materials and, if they wish, to take up relevant aspects or indeed to inspect the objects for further study and research. The location of the site at Canhasan is set unequivocally between East and West, close to, if not on, a major land route from the Near East to the Aegean and to Europe. Inevitably, in this geographical context, some materials, such as obsidian and copper, will catch the eye. These have a utilitarian purpose and introduce the factor of distance between source and Canhasan. One object, however, - an ivory bracelet - not only emphasises, by its presence at Canhasan, the distant source of the material but points directly to the nature and dynamics of trade/transfer/exchange in the 6th millennium. The bracelet documents the role of personal display and human vanity as an incentive for material acquisition.
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Çatalhöyük Excavations: the 2000-2008 seasons:
Book SynopsisThe Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey has been world famous since the 1960s when excavations revealed the large size and dense occupation of the settlement, as well as the spectacular wall paintings and reliefs uncovered inside the houses. Since 1993 an international team of archaeologists, led by Ian Hodder, has been carrying out new excavations and research, in order to shed more light on the people who inhabited the site. Çatalhöyük Excavations presents the results of the excavations that took place at the site from 2000 to 2008 when the main aim was to understand the social geography of the settlement, its layout and social organization. Excavation, recording and sampling methodologies are discussed as well as dating, ‘levels’, and the grouping of buildings into social sectors. The excavations in three areas of the East Mound at Çatalhöyük are described: the South Area, the 4040 Area in the northern part of the site, and the IST Area excavated by a team from Istanbul University. The description of excavated units, features and buildings incorporates results from the analyses of animal bone, chipped stone, groundstone, shell, ceramics, phytoliths, micromorphology. The integration of such data within their context allows detailed accounts of the lives of the inhabitants of Çatalhöyük, their relationships and activities. The integration of different types of data in the excavation account mimics the process of collaborative interpretation that took place during the excavation and post-excavation process.Table of ContentsIntroduction and history of research – Ian HodderSummary of methods and results – Ian Hodder and Shahina FaridAn interim report on the dating of Çatalhöyük – Alex BaylissThe South Area excavationsIntroduction – Ian Hodder and Shahina FaridThe stratigraphic sequence in the South Area – Shahina FaridThe sequence of Buildings 75, 65, 56, 44 and 10 and associated Spaces 144, 314, 329, 333 and 427 – Roddy Regan and James TaylorThe sequence of Buildings 53 and 42 and associated Spaces 129, 130, 229-305, 319, 339 – Freya SadaranganiBuilding 43 – Shahina FaridBuilding 50 – Shahina FaridBuilding 68 – Roddy Regan and James TaylorBuilding 69 – Roddy Regan and James TaylorThe Foundation Trenches for the South shelter – Shahina FaridThe 4040 Area excavationsIntroduction – Ian Hodder and Shahina FaridThe excavations zones and stratigraphy of the 4040 Area – Shahina FaridBuilding 45 – Lisa YeomansBuildings 46 and 48 – Daniel EddidsfordBuildings 47 and 67 – Michael HouseBuilding 49 – Daniel EddisfordBuildings 51 and 52 – Shahina FaridBuilding 54 – Freya SadaranganiBuilding 55 – Lisa YeomansBuilding 57 – Freya SadaranganiBuilding 58 – Freya SadaranganiThe sequence of Buildings 59 and 60 – Michael HouseBuilding 64 – Lisa YeomansBuilding 66 – Lisa YeomansBuilding 77 – Michael HouseBuilding 82 – Lisa Yeomans and Shahina FaridBuilding 88, Space 309 – Lisa YeomansExternal area - Spaces 60, 133, 279 and Buildings 70 and 71 – Lisa Yeomans and Shahina FaridExternal area – Space 226 – Freya SadaranganiSpace 1003 – eroded burials – Lisa YeomansThe Foundation Trenches for the 4040 shelter – Shahina FaridThe post-Neolithic occupation of the 4040 Area Building 41 – Lisa YeomansBurials – Mark JacksonThe IST Area excavations – Mihriban Özbaşaran and Güneş DuruCD – Matrices and Videos
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Substantive technologies at Çatalhöyük: reports
Book SynopsisThe Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey has been world famous since the 1960s when excavations revealed the large size and dense occupation of the settlement, as well as the spectacular wall paintings and reliefs uncovered inside the houses. Since 1993 an international team of archaeologists, led by Ian Hodder, has been carrying out new excavations and research, in order to shed more light on the people who inhabited the site. The present volume reports on the results of excavations in 2000-2008 that have provided a wealth of new data on the ways in which humans became increasingly engaged in their material environment such that ‘things’ came to play an active force in their lives. A substantial and heavy involvement was with alluvial clays that surrounded the site. In the absence of large local stone, humans became increasingly involved in the extraction and manipulation of clay for a wide range of purposes – from bricks to ovens, pots and figurines. This heavy use of clays led to changes in the local environment that interacted with human activity, as indicated in the first section of the volume. In the second section, other examples of material technologies are considered all of which in various ways engage humans in specific dependencies and relationships. For example, large-scale studies of obsidian trade have drawn a complex picture of changing interactions between humans over time. The volume concludes with an integrated account of the uses of materials at Çatalhöyük based on the analysis of heavy residue samples from all contexts at the site.Table of ContentsIntroduction: becoming entangled in things – Ian Hodder 8,000 (word length)A settlement of claySourcing clays – Chris Doherty 12,000An archaeology of mudbrick houses – Serena Love 10,000Building materials – Mirjana Stevanovic 12,000Biographies of architectural materials and buildings: integrating high-resolution micro-analysis and geochemistry - Matthews, W., Almond, M.J., Anderson, E., Wiles, J., and Stokes, H. 10,000Ovens and hearths – Sonya Atalay and Sheena 5,000Floor chemistry – Bill Middleton 4,000Ceramics – Nurcan Yalman et al (including section on sourcing by Chris Doherty) 14,000Pottery residues – Sharmini Pitter 4,000Figurines – Lynn Meskell and Carrie Nakamura 12,000Stamp seals – Ali Umut Türkcan 5,000Clay balls – Sonya Atalay 8,000Clay objects – Lucy Bennison-Chapman 5,000Demanding technologiesGroundstone – Katherine Wright 10,000Chipped stone – Tristan Carter and Marina Milic 14,000Worked bone – Nerissa Russell 6,000Baskets – Willeke Wendrich 3,000Metal – Thilo Rehren and Tom Birch 4,000Pyrotechnology – Karl Harrison 4,000Paints – Duygu Çamurcuoğlu 5,000Beads – Rose Bains 8,000ConclusionAn integrated perspective on the uses of materials at Çatalhöyük based on the analysis of heavy residues – Milena Vasic and Slobodan Mitrovic 12,000CD – additional figures (50) and images (50) and tables (25)
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Integrating Çatalhöyük: themes from the 2000-2008
Book SynopsisThe Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey has been world famous since the 1960s when excavations revealed the large size and dense occupation of the settlement, as well as the spectacular wall paintings and reliefs uncovered inside the houses. Since 1993 an international team of archaeologists, led by Ian Hodder, has been carrying out new excavations and research, in order to shed more light on the people who inhabited the site. The present volume discusses general themes that have emerged in the analysis and interpretation of the results of excavations in 2000-2008. It synthesizes the results of research described in other volumes in the same series. The volume commences with accounts of the recent work on community collaboration at the site, and with discussions of the methods used at the site. It then synthesizes the work on landscape use and mobility, integrating the work of subsistence analysis and the analysis of human remains. The storage and sharing of food is a related topic. The ways in which houses were constructed, lived in and abandoned leads to a broad discussion of settlement and social organization at Çatalhöyük and of their change through time. For example, shifts in the themes that occur in paintings in houses change through time as part of a wider set of social, economic and ritual changes in the upper levels. The social uses of materials and technologies are explored and the roles of materials in personal adornment. Finally, the discussion of variation through place and time is recognized as dependent on scales of analysis and social process.Table of ContentsIntroduction: some integrated themes – Ian HodderCollaborative community archaeology at Çatalhöyük – Sonya AtalayEvaluating reflexive methodologies at Çatalhöyük – Asa Berggren and Bjorn NilssonLandscape and mobility at Neolithic Çatalhöyük – Kathy Twiss, Amy Bogaard, Mike Charles and othersStorage and sharing of food – Arzu DemirergiConstructing buildings – Mira Stevanovic, Eleni Asouti, Shahina Farid, Duygu ÇamurcuoğluAbandonment and closure – Nerissa RussellInside/outside – Amy BogaardSocial and settlement organization – Ian HodderTemporal change – Tristan CarterPaintings and change through time – Agata CzeszewskaThe social uses of colour – Karen Wright, Graeme EarlSocial materials and technologies – Serena LovePersonal adornment – Karen Wright, Nerissa Russell, Rose Bains, Daniella Bar Yosef, Milena VasicQuestions of scale – Slobodan Mitrovic
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Council for British Archaeology Sutton Common: The Excavation of an Iron Age
Book SynopsisSutton Common in South Yorkshire is one of the best-known Iron Age multivallate sites in lowland Britain. This volume describes the results of the large-scale excavations undertaken there between 1998 and 2003, which have provided unparalleled insights into the function and meaning of this 4th-century BC 'marsh-fort'. Sutton Common is described as a place where the social identity of the local community was reinforced through the construction of the physical representation of the idea of community, using a bank-and-ditch arrangement that resembles the defences used elsewhere, particularly at hillforts. No houses were found within the enclosure, but some 150 four-post structures were excavated, many containing deposits of charred grain in one or two of their postholes. This well-dated site makes significant contributions to the debates on prehistoric enclosure, cosmology, food storage, and mortuary practices in prehistoric Britain and Europe.
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Council for British Archaeology Infernal Traffic: Excavation of a Liberated
Book SynopsisBritain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 did not end the traffic of human beings across the Atlantic. Indeed, for many decades to come, hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans continued to be shipped into slavery. From 1840 to 1872 the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena played a pivotal role in Britain's efforts to suppress the slave trade, and over this time it received over 25,000 'liberated Africans', taken from slave ships by Royal Navy patrols. Conditions aboard the slavers were appalling, and many did not survive the journey. Rupert's Valley therefore became a graveyard to many thousands of Africans - 'a valley of dry bones' in the words of a visiting missionary. In 2008 archaeological excavations uncovered a small part of that graveyard, revealing the burials of over 300 victims of the slave trade. It was disposal on a massive scale, with the dead interred in a combination of single, multiple and mass graves. This book presents the finding of the archaeological and osteological study, and in so doing brings the inhumanity of the slave trade into vivid focus. It tells the story of a group of children and young adults who had lived in Africa only a few weeks prior to their death on St Helena, and whose remains bear witness to the cruelty of their transportation. However, the archaeology also shows them as more than just victims, but also as individuals with a sense of their own identity and culture. The slave trade continues to this day, and although this book is a study of the past it also serves as a reminder of evils that persist into the modern day.Trade ReviewThis is a timely and important work, essential reading for cultural historians of the nineteenth century, historical archaeologists, human remains specialists, those with an interest in funerary archaeology and indeed those like the current reviewer with an interest in the archaeology of the African Diaspora. Away from the undoubted value of this report as an archaeological research document, it retains a rare capacity among archaeological literature to provoke shocking and strong human emotions. The impact of this work is impressive on many levels. -- Archaeological Journal Archaeological Journal
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McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research A Woodland Archaeology: The Haddenham Project
Book SynopsisSet in the context of this project's innovative landscape surveys, four extraordinary sites excavated at Haddenham, north of Cambridge chart the transformation of Neolithic woodland to Romano-British marshland, providing unrivalled insights into death and ritual in a changing prehistoric environment. The highlight of Volume I is the internationally renowned Foulmire Fen long barrow, with its preserved timber burial chamber and façade. The massive individual timbers allow detailed study of Neolithic wood technology and the direct examination of a structure that usually survives only as a pattern of post holes.
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McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Marshland Communities and Cultural Landscape: The
Book SynopsisSet in the context of this project's innovative landscape surveys, four extraordinary sites excavated at Haddenham, north of Cambridge chart the transformation of Neolithic woodland to Romano-British marshland, providing unrivalled insights into death and ritual in a changing prehistoric environment. Volume II moves on to later periods, and reveals how Iron Age and Romano-British communities adapted to the wetland environment that had now become established.
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McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Testing the Hinterland: The work of the Boeotia
Book SynopsisThe Boeotia Survey in Greece is widely recognised as a milestone in Mediterranean landscape archaeology in the sophistication and rigour of its methodologies, and in the scale of the 25-year investigation. This first volume of the project's publication deals with the landscape that formed part of the territory of the ancient city of Thespiai. This landscape acted as the laboratory in which the project refined its methodology: the entire territory was traversed systematically by survey teams, and artefacts were collected not only from every archaeological site located but also as 'off-site' material indicative of land use practices such as manuring. The methodology made possible the construction of detailed period and density maps of rural activity, throwing unprecedented light on the interaction of the city with its hinterland particularly in its period of maximum size between the 5th century BC and the 6th century AD, as well as providing an exemplar for Mediterranean landscape archaeology more generally.Trade Review...it has been a pleasure to read this important volume, which is sure to be much quoted for both its methodological and historical conclusions.' -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn Mawr Classical Review [This volume] is significant for demonstrating the analytical potential of using intensive artifact-level data to produce more nuanced studies of settlement and land use.' -- AJA Online Book Reviews AJA Online Book Reviews
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McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Mediterranean Prehistoric Heritage: Training,
Book SynopsisDrawing on the experience of the Temper project ( Training, Education, Management and Prehistory in the Mediterranean ) and wider examples from the Mediterranean, this volume explores the issues inherent in managing, interpreting and presenting prehistoric archaeological sites. The first section of the book contains thematic chapters on conservation, visitor management and interpretation, public participation, and issues of managing sites within their cultural landscape; the second section focuses on archaeology and education and the politics of national curricula, and presents detailed case studies. Written by academics and those working in the fields of archaeology, architecture, heritage management and education, this volume will be invaluable to students and practitioners alike.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Ian Hodder and Louise Doughty); Management Plans for Prehistoric Sites (Peter Chowne et al); Prehistoric Sites in the Regional Context: Management of the Setting and Cultural Landscape (Michael Turner); Protection and Conservation at Excavated Sites (Philip Grover and Yaacov Schaffer); Visitor Management and Interpretation at Prehistoric Sites (Louise Doughty and Aylin Orbasli); Community Involvement in the Management of Prehistoric Sites (Joseph Magro Conti); Guidelines for Preparing Management Plans for Prehistoric Sites (Aylin Orbasli); Educational Activities on Prehistoric Sites (Anne Chowne); Developing Educational Programmes for Prehistoric Sites: the Aatalhy k Case (Ayfer Bartu Candan et al); Developing Educational Programmes for Prehistoric Sites:the Greek Case Study - Paliambela, Kolindros (Kostas Kasvikis et al); Developing Educational Programmes for Prehistoric Sites: the Maltese Case Study (Jonathan Borg); National Curricula and the Politics of Archaeology (Kostas Kasvikis et al); Recommendations on Developing Educational Programmes for Prehistoric Sites (Louise Doughty).
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McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Keros, Dhaskalio Kavos: The Investigations of
Book SynopsisThe site of Dhaskalio Kavos, on the remote Cycladic island of Keros, was extensively looted in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Investigations starting in1963 then revealed large quantities of fractured marble bowls, broken marble figures and smashed pottery of the Early Cycladic period from around 2500 BC. This report of the subsequent survey and rescue excavations of 1987-88 reveals the extraordinary richness of the site, now confirmed as one of the most prolific in Èlite goods of the entire Aegean early bronze age. Was it an unprecedentedly rich Early Cycladic cemetery, recently wrecked by looters? Or was the damage deliberately produced during early bronze age times in some procedure of ritual breakage and ceremonial deposition? Here the survey of the site and the rescue excavations undertaken within the looted area are documented in detail, with a full account of the finds. Alternative explanations for this extraordinary deposit are explored. What has been termed 'the Keros Enigma', in the light of the finds at the site, can now be reconsidered with the full documentation which this volume offers.Table of ContentsForeword (Photeini Zapheiropoulou); Preface and Acknowledgments (Colin Renfrew, Christos Doumas, Lila Marangou Giorgos Gavalas); Introduction (Colin Renfrew); Keros And The Islands Around (Lila Marangou); Earlier Work: (A) The 1963 Surface Collection (Colin Renfrew), (B) The 1963 Excavation (Christos Doumas), (C) The 1967 Rescue Project (Photeini Zapheiropoulou), (D) Earlier Work On Keros (Photeini Zapheiropoulou), (E) Other (Looted) Materials (Colin Renfrew); The 1987 Surface Survey: An Overview (Todd Whitelaw); Trenches Excavated In The Disturbed Area Of The Special Deposit (Colin Renfrew et al); The Pottery (Cyprian Broodbank, with an appendix by Jill Hilditch); The Marble Figurines (Colin Renfrew); The Stone Vessels: Introduction (Colin Renfrew), (A) The Marble Open Bowls (Sophia Voutsaki), (B) The Other Marble Vessels (Giorgos Gavalas), (C) The Grey Marble And Limestone Vessels (Kiki Birtacha), (D) Vessels Of Chlorite Schist (Colin Renfrew); Other Finds Of Stone: (A) The Obsidian (Tristan Carter, With Colin Renfrew, Paula Geake And Anastasia Angelopoulou), (B) The Stone Pestles (Chris Scarre), (C) Stone And Emery Tools (Kiki Birtacha), (D) Ornaments (Kiki Birtacha), (E) Miscellaneous Objects (Kiki Birtacha); Other Finds Of Clay: The Animal Protomes And Theriomorphic Vases (Christos Doumas), The Leaf, Mat And Cloth Impressions (Jane Renfrew), The Spindle Whorls (Giorgos Gavalas); The Metal Finds: (A) The Metal Artefacts (Kiki Birtacha); (B) The Metallurgical Remains (Myrto Georgakopoulou); Thraumatology (Breakage Patterns) (Colin Renfrew); Dhaskalio Kavos: Preliminary Discussion (Colin Renfrew); Summary In Greek; Index; Bibliography.
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McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Prehistoric Landscape Development and Human
Book SynopsisThis volume concerns the palaeo-environmental and archaeological investigations of the upper Allen Valley of Cranborne Chase, Dorset, between 1998 and 2003, which revealed sequences of landscape development which contrast with those previously put forward for the region. A programme of valley-wide geoarchaeological survey and palynological analyses of the relict palaeo-channel system was conducted, along with sample investigations and open area excavations of a variety of prehistoric sites in the area. Among the many excellent illustrations, GIS modelling techniques have been used to interrogate and visualise some of this new data which has provided possible independent corroboration.Trade ReviewThis important study establishes a more complex, and more satisfactory, model for chalkland ecology between the fifth and the first millennia BCE than has previously been available. It is likely to set the agenda for landscape research for some years to come.' -- The Holocene 18.8 The Holocene 18.8
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McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Rainforest Foraging and Farming in Island
Book SynopsisThe cathedral-like Niah Caves of Sarawak (Borneo) have iconic status in the archaeology of Southeast Asia, due to the excavations by Tom and Barbara Harrisson in the 1950s and 1960s which revealed the longest sequence of human occupation in the region, from (we now know) 50,000 years ago to the recent past. This book is the first of two volumes describing the results of new work in the caves by a multi-disciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers aimed at clarifying the many questions raised by the earlier work. This volume is a closely integrated account of how the old and new work combines to provide profound new insights into the prehistory of the region: the strategies developed by our species to live in rainforests from the time of first arrival; how rainforest foragers engaged in forms of ‘vegeculture’ thousands of years before rice farming; and how rice farming represented profound transformations in the social (and spiritual?) lives of rainforest dwellers, far more than being the dietary staple that it is today.
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McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Archaeological investigations in the Niah Caves,
Book SynopsisThis book is the companion volume to Rainforest Foraging and Farming in Island Southeast Asia: the Archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak. Together they present the results of new fieldwork in the caves and new studies of finds from earlier excavations, a project that has involved a team of over 70 archaeologists and geographers. Rainforest Foraging and Farming told the story of human activity in the caves over the past 50,000 years and how that story throws light on the history of our species in Island Southeast Asia from the time when modern humans first arrived to recent centuries. Archaeological Investigations in the Niah Caves describes the very wide range of methodologies used by the project to collect its evidence, and the key information from those studies about the changing nature of the rainforest over the past 50,000 years and how it sustained the lives of the people who used the caves for shelter or burying their dead. Together, these volumes affirm the unique importance of the Niah Caves for world heritage.
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McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Being an Islander: Production and Identity at
Book SynopsisQuoygrew - a settlement of farmers and fishers on the island of Westray in Orkney - was continuously occupied from the tenth century until 1937. Focusing on the archaeology of its first 700 years, this volume explores how 'small worlds' both reflected and impacted the fundamental pan-European watersheds of the Middle Ages: the growth of population, economic production and trade from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries and the subsequent economic and demographic retrenchment of the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries. Concurrently, it addresses the nature of island societies, with distinctive identities shaped by the interplay of isolation and interconnectedness.Trade ReviewOverall, this monograph is an exemplary contribution to environmental archaeology in general, and to medieval North Atlantic studies in particular. -- David Griffiths Medieval Archaeology Vol. 57 (2013)Table of Contents1. Introduction: the Study of Island Societies (J.H. Barrett) 2. Viking Age and Medieval Orkney (J.H. Barrett) 3. Quoygrew and its Landscape Context (J.H. Barrett, L.R. Farr, D. Redhouse, S. Richer, J. Zimmermann, L. Sharpe, S. Ovenden, J. Moore, T. Poller, K.B. Milek, I.A. Simpson, M. Smith, B. Gourley & T. O’Connor) 4. The Quoygrew Sequence (J.H. Barrett & J.F. Gerrard) 5. Ecofact Recovery and Patterns of Deposition (J.H. Barrett & J.F. Harland) 6. The Maritime Economy: Mollusc Shell (N. Milner & J.H. Barrett) 7. The Maritime Economy: Fish Bone (J.F. Harland & J.H. Barrett) 8. Animal Husbandry: the Mammal Bone (J.F. Harland) 9. Fowling: the Bird Bone (J.F. Harland, R.A. Bennett, J.I. Andrews, T. O’Connor & J.H. Barrett) 10. Arable Agriculture and Gathering: the Botanical Evidence (C.T. Adams, S.L. Poaps & J.P. Huntley) 11. Feeding the Livestock: the Stable Isotope Evidence (J.H. Barrett & M.P. Richards) 12. Local Availability and Long-range Trade: the Worked Stone Assemblage (C.E. Batey, A.K. Forster, R.E. Jones, G. Gaunt, F.J. Breckenridge, J. Bunbury & J.H. Barrett) 13. Evidence of Exchange Networks: the Combs and other Worked Skeletal Material (S.P. Ashby with a contribution by C.E. Batey) 14. The Metal Finds and their Implications (N.S.H. Rogers, C.E. Batey, N.M.McQ. Holmes & J.H. Barrett) 15. Interpreting the Ceramics and Glass (D.W. Hall, L. Blackmore, G. Haggarty, S. Chenery, D. Gallagher, C.E. Batey & J.H. Barrett) 16. Being an Islander (J.H. Barrett)
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McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Spong Hill IX: Chronology and Synthesis
Book SynopsisSpong Hill, with over 2500 cremations, remains the largest early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery to have been excavated in Britain. This volume presents the long-awaited chronology and synthesis of the site. It gives a detailed overview of the artefactual evidence, which includes over 1200 objects of bone, antler and ivory. Using this information, together with programmes of correspondence analysis of the cremation urns and the grave-goods, a revised phasing and chronology of the site is offered, which argues that it is largely fifth-century in date. The implications of this revised dating for interpretations of the early medieval period in Britain and further afield are explored in full.Trade ReviewThe volume is dense reading but highly informative, and includes a wealth of detailed tables, maps and appendices for anyone interested in conducting additional analysis on the raw data. Catherine Hills and Sam Lucy should also be applauded for making good use of continental scholarship on artefact typologies central to their interest in measuring migration, spatial and social patterning, and genderand age-associations of goods included in cremation and inhumation graves. * Antiquity *“…what a triumph it is. At last it is possible to see, in this splendid book, the cemetery as a whole.” “This important publication changes our perceptions of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of England. Get a copy and read it.” * British Archaeology *
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McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Twice-crossed River: Prehistoric and
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume charting the CAU’s on-going Barleycroft Farm/Over investigations, which now encompasses almost twenty years of fieldwork across both banks of the River Great Ouse at its junction with the Fen. Amongst the project’s main directives is the status of a major river in prehistory – when a communication corridor and when a divide? Accordingly, a key component throughout has been the documentation of the lower Ouse’s complex palaeoenvironmental history, and a delta-like wet landscape dotted with mid-stream islands has been mapped.This book is specifically concerned with the length of The Over Narrows, whose naming alludes to an extraordinary series of mid-channel ‘river race’ ridges. With their excavation generating vast artefact sets and unique palaeo-economic data, these ridges saw intense settlement sequences, ranging from Mesolithic camps, Grooved Ware, Beaker and Collared Urn pit clusters (plus field plots) to Middle Bronze fieldsystems and their attendant settlements, a massive Late Bronze Age midden complex and, finally, an Iron Age shrine. The latter involved extensive human bone or body-part deposition and bird sacrifice. Four upstanding turf barrows and two accompanying waterlogged pond barrows feature among the main excavations reported here. With more than 40 cremations (including in situ pyres), the resultant detailing of Early Bronze Age mortuary practices and the insights into the period’s monument construction are ground-breaking.This is an important book, for the scale of The Narrows’ excavations and palaeoenvironmental studies, its comprehensive dating programmes and, particularly, the innovative methodologies and analyses undertaken. Indeed, a commitment to experiment has lain at the project’s core.Trade ReviewThis is a great example of an important interpretative collaboration between archaeologists and artists, and something that hopefully will be seen increasingly in books and exhibitions… I cannot conclude this review better than to quote from Richard Bradley’s foreword to Twice-crossed River, ‘If it has the influence that it and its companion volumes deserve, prehistoric archaeology cannot be the same again.’ * Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society *It is a big, complicated book with equally big (and complicated) aims, offering more than the sum of its parts. It thinks ambitiously on subjects such as the nature of culture change, even if, at the final count, the evidence for such was not always forthcoming… There is also a degree of honesty in the writing that is not normally found in technical monographs. * Antiquity *
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McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Medieval to Modern Suburban Material Culture and
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume describing the results of the CAUs excavations in Cambridge and it is also the first monograph ever published on the archaeology of the town. At 1.5 hectares the Grand Arcade investigations represent the largest archaeological excavation ever undertaken in Cambridge, significantly enhanced by detailed standing building recording and documentary research.Trade ReviewThis handsomely produced volume […] represents the first major publication of [Cambridge's] later archaeology, and much is covered in this highly detailed, but very readable publication. * The Archaeological Journal *
£45.00
Classical Press of Wales Creating a Hellenistic World
Book SynopsisAlexander's conquest of the Persian empire had far-reaching impact, in space and time. But Macedonian power also brought with it Greeks and Greek culture. This book explores the creation of this Hellenistic world, its cultural, political and economic transformations, and how far these were a consequence of Alexander's conquests.
£87.93
Classical Press of Wales Praise and Blame in Roman Republican Rhetoric
Book SynopsisAddresses strategies of vituperation and eulogy within the Republic, and examines the mechanisms and effects of praise and blame.
£78.78
Archaeopress Elmali-Karatas V: The Early Bronze Age Pottery of
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the results of the Bryn Mawr College excavations of the Early Bronze Age site of Karatas in the plain of Elmali in northern Lycia. It is a final report of the pottery, except for miniature vessels. The occupation at Karataş has been divided into six main periods (I–VI) on the basis of stratigraphy of the Central Mound. Periods I–III date to EB I, Periods IV and V to EB II, and Period VI to EB III. The pottery showed continuous development during the entire span of settlement, mainly in the addition of new features to a basically conservative repertoire.
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Archaeopress LRFW 1. Late Roman Fine Wares. Solving problems
Book Synopsis"ROMAN AND LATE ANTIQUE MEDITERRANEAN POTTERY". In November 2008, an ICREA/ESF Exploratory Workshop on the subject of late Roman fine wares was held in Barcelona, the main aim being the clarification of problems regarding the typology and chronology of the three principal table wares found in Mediterranean contexts (African Red Slip Ware, Late Roman C and Late Roman D). The discussion highlighted the need to undertake a similar approach for other ceramic classes across the Mediterranean provinces. In addition, it was perceived that ceramic studies are often dispersed and in such a variety of publications that it is difficult to follow progress in this vast field. Therefore, a series devoted to Roman and late Antique pottery in the Mediterranean was proposed to serve as a reference point for all potential authors devoted to pottery studies on a pan-Mediterranean basis. The creation of such a series would not only serve as a means of publishing the results of the ICREA/ESF workshop but also as a network for publication of in-depth monographs devoted to archaeological ceramics of the Mediterranean in the Roman and late Antique periods. With this first volume on ceramic assemblages and the dating of late Roman fine wares, Archaeopress launch this new series devoted to the publication of ceramics in the Roman Mediterranean and outlying territories from the late Republic to late Antiquity.Table of ContentsIntroductions (a) (M.A. Cau, P. Reynolds, M. Bonifay) ; (b): LRFW Working Group (text by M.A. Cau, P. Reynolds and M. Bonifay), An initiative for the revision of late Roman fine wares in the Mediterranean (c. AD 200-700): The Barcelona ICREA/ESF Workshop ; (c) LRFW Working Group (text by P. Reynolds, M. Bonifay and M.A. Cau), Key contexts for the dating of late Roman Mediterranean fine wares: a preliminary review and ‘seriation’ ; 1) Ceramica e contesti nel Quartiere Bizantino del Pythion di Gortina (Creta): alla ricerca della “complessità” nella datazione (E. Zanini and S. Costa) ; 2) Coins, pottery and the dating of assemblages (R. Reece) ; 3) Late Roman D. A matter of open(ing) or closed horizons? (J. Poblome and N. Firat) ; 4) A note on the development of Cypriot Late Roman D forms 2 and 9 (P. Reynolds) ; 5) Chronologie finale de la sigillée africaine A à partir des contextes de Chãos Salgados (Mirobriga?): différences de facies entre Orient et Occident (J.C. Quaresma) ; 6) Sigillatas africanas y orientales de mediados del VI d. C. procedentes de los rellenos de colmatación de una cisterna de Hispalis (Sevilla). Los contextos de la Plaza de la Pescadería (J. Vázquez Paz and E. García Vargas) ; 7) A 7th century pottery deposit from Byzantine Carthago Spartaria (Cartagena, Spain) (P. Reynolds) ; 8) Contextos cerámicos del siglo VI d.C. de Iluro (Hispania Tarraconensis) (V. Revilla Calvo) ; 9) Note sur les sigillées orientales tardives du port de Fos (Bouches-du-Rhône, France) (F. Marty) ; 10) L’agglomération de Constantine (Lançon-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône): deux contextes du VIe siècle (G. Duperron and F. Verdin) ; 11) Un dépôt de céramiques du début du Ve s. apr. J.-C. sur le site de la rue de la Douane à Porquerolles (Hyères, Var) (E. Pellegrino) ; 12) Un ensemble de céramiques de l’extrême fin du IVe s. apr. J.-C. sur le site du n°43 de l’avenue du XVe Corps à Fréjus (Var) (E. Pellegrino) ; 13) Campiani: un ensemble du IIe siècle à Lucciana (Haute-Corse) (S. Lang-Desvignes) ; 14) Fine wares from Beirut contexts, c. 450 to the early 7th century (P. Reynolds) ; 15) Le mobilier céramique de la citerne C4 de la Maison de la Rotonde à Carthage (A. Bourgeois)
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Oxford University School of Archaeology Economics of Religion in the Mycenaean World
Book SynopsisThe Mycenaean Linear B tablets include numerous references to religion, such as details of offerings, banqueting foodstuffs or land-tenure relating to cult personnel. While contributing significantly to our understanding of early Greek religion, the documents are exclusively economic and administrative records and the limitations of such sources have long been recognised. Few attempts have been made, however, to analyse the purely economic information about religion we do have in Linear B. Such analysis is essential to understanding the place of religion in Mycenaean palace society. This book asks a simple but important question: What proportion of the resources available to the palaces was directed towards support for religion?Trade ReviewIn this publication, [Bendall] has done Aegean prehistory a huge service... anyone who reads Bendalls book will agree on its value, meticulous attention to detail, and engaging reanalysis. I very much look forward to the next installment.' -- American Journal Of Archaeology American Journal Of Archaeology
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Oxford University School of Archaeology Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 15
Book SynopsisAnglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History is an annual series concerned with the archaeology and history of England and its neighbours during the Anglo-Saxon period. ASSAH offers researchers an opportunity to publish new work in an interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary forum which allows for a diversity of approaches and subject matter. Contributions focus not just on Anglo-Saxon England but also its international context.Table of ContentsReport on excavations of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Updown, Eastry, Kent (Martin Welch) The date and nature of Wat's Dyke: a reassessment in the light of recent investigations at Gobowen, Shropshire (Laurence Hayes and Timothy Malim) The Middle and Late Anglo-Saxon defences of western Mercian towns (Steven Bassett) The significance of OE Burh in Anglo-Saxon England (Simon Draper) The distribution of the 'Winchester' style in Late Saxon England: metalwork finds from the Danelaw (Jane Kershaw) Warriors, heroes and companions: negotiating masculinity in Viking-Age England (Dawn Hadley)
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Oxford University School of Archaeology Form and Order in the Anglo-Saxon World, AD
Book SynopsisThe aim of this volume is to explore Anglo-Saxon perceptions of form and order in their different manifestations, through two main strands texts of all kinds, and art, architecture and archaeology. Contributors come from many different specialisms, enabling wide-ranging discussion, as well contributions from other Insular cultures and a continental European perspective.Table of ContentsPreface (Leslie Webster) Medium and message in early Anglo-Saxon animal art: some observations on the contexts of Salin’s Style I in England (Tania M. Dickinson) ‘…and pretty coins all in a row’ (Anna Gannon) Anglo-Saxon art: some forms, orderings and their meanings (Richard Bailey) The church triumphant: the figural columns of early ninth-century Anglo-Saxon England (Jane Hawkes) From metalwork to manuscript: some observations on the use of Celtic art in Insular manuscripts (Susan Youngs) Framing the Book of Durrow inside/outside the Anglo-Saxon world (Nancy Netzer) The sign at the cross-roads: the Matthean sacrum in Anglo-Saxon gospel books before Alfred the Great (Carol Farr) The last Chi-rho in the West? From Insular to Anglo-Saxon in the Boulogne 10 Gospels (Richard Gameson) On the distribution of verse types in Old English Poetry (Geoffrey Russom)
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Oxford University School of Archaeology AngloSaxon Studies in Archaeology and History
Book SynopsisAnglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History is an annual series concerned with the archaeology and history of England and its neighbours during the Anglo-Saxon period. ASSAH offers researchers an opportunity to publish new work in an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary forum which allows for a diversity of approaches and subject matter. Contributions focus not just on Anglo-Saxon England but also its international context. Volume 17 includes papers on iron smelting in Cambridgeshire, Flixborough and King Alfred, as well as a major report on Anglo-Saxon Eastry in Kent which sets out a full review and presentation of the antiquarian record, publishes the new burial finds and sets these findings into the context of other evidence for Anglo-Saxon settlement in Eastry and its neighbourhood.
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