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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a series of studies of the wine from Hispania Citerior-Tarraconensis traded in amphorae, with the aim of demonstrating (as has recently been done for the amphora production) the existence of different trade dynamics, according to individual cases, territories and periods. While seeking to avoid descriptions of a generalised nature, the present volume aims to illustrate the complexity of the trading system, emphasizing intra- and inter-provincial commercial patterns and the way in which these evolved during the period considered. Although this work includes the results of a few highly specific case studies (which cannot replace the findings from other better or lesser known sites), they cover most of the areas of wine production and trade and all the dimensions of analysis in which archaeological, epigraphic and literary data related to the commercial distribution might be framed.Table of ContentsPrefacio - Preface (Verònica Martínez Ferreras) I: El fenómeno vitivinícola en Hispania Citerior-Tarraconensis: Agricultura, artesanado rural y territorio en el noreste de Hispania Citerior: estructuras y dinámica (Víctor Revilla Calvo) Arqueología del vino en época romana: Teoría económica, lógica productiva y comercial aplicada al envasado, la expedición, el transporte y la distribución de ánforas vinarias del noreste peninsular (s. I a.C.-I d.C.) (Antoni Martín i Oliveras) II: Dinámicas comerciales a través de los estudios epigráficos: Consideraciones sobre las marcas en ánforas tarraconenses en la Layetania septentrional. Los casos de El Mujal-El Roser (Calella) y Can Rodon y Ca l’Arnau (Cabrera de Mar) (Albert Martín Menéndez) Novedades de epigrafía anfórica en el Baix Llobregat (Piero Berni Millet) Novedades en torno a la producción y distribución de las ánforas del Ager Barcinonensis (El Baix Llobregat) (Cèsar Carreras Monfort) Exportación e importación de ánforas en el ager tarraconensis entre finales de la República y el Alto Imperio (Ramon Járrega Domínguez y Piero Berni Millet) III: El comercio intraprovincial: Empúries, puerto de recepción y redistribución del vino de la Tarraconense (Tremoleda, Pere Castanyer y Marta Santos) La dinámica comercial de Tarraco: las importaciones de ánforas vinarias (100 a.C.-100 d.C.) (Pere Gebellí Borràs) Productores y mercatores de Baetulo (Badalona). Las ánforas vinarias y la epigrafía asociada (Montserrat Comas i Solà y Verònica Martínez Ferreras) IV: El comercio interprovincial: L’épave Port-Vendres 4 (Port-Vendres, Pyrénées-Orientales, France): un exemple de commerce d’exportation à partir d’un port de Tarraconaise (Ier s. av. J.-C.) (Dali Colls, Georges Castellvi, Michel Salvat, Verònica Martínez Ferreras y Marie-Pierre Jézégou) Les amphores de Tarraconaise dans les contextes narbonnais (Corinne Sanchez) Les circuits d’exportation des vins de Tarraconaise en Gaule (Fanette Laubenheimer) L’origine des amphores de l’ensemble aristocratique d’Antran (Vienne, France) (Fanette Laubenheimer y Verònica Martínez Ferreras) Hallazgos de productos tarraconenses en la frontera germana. Un mercado secundario (Horacio González Cesteros)

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Book SynopsisTwo hundred years ago, on September 8, 1814, in the northern French city of Bourbourg, a boy was born into a family of local entrepreneurs connected to the local political or judicial elite. The young Charles-Etienne Brasseur was lucky to spend days and days in the impressive library of Alexandre Nicolas Muchembled, the son of his godmother. The reading of exciting travel books there mapped out the course of his truly adventurous life to come. Although a rebellious schoolboy, he acquired a huge knowledge in many fields by his omnivorous reading of books and journals. He was also a very curious young man, delving into the private libraries of the local grand families, resulting in him contributing many historical articles to newspapers and learned societies. At the age of 24, while still in high school, he published his first novel. This biography is the first to reveal insights into the many facets of the life of Brasseur; the extent of his secret activities for the Vatican; his advanced ideas regarding the dual phonetic and ideographic nature of Mayan writing, as early as 1843-44, and explicitly confirmed by him in May 1852, which he later dramatically rejected in 1870, thus failing to become the Champollion of Mesoamerica; his continuous attempts to preserve documents while crossing territories ravaged by civil wars; the immense value of the manuscripts he saved, like the Tzeltal vocabulary of Copanabastla or the Motul dictionary; his unique dedication in copying old manuscripts, with the help of his nephews, to be sent to other pioneers of Mayan studies in Europe and America; his short-lived pioneering work on the Huave (Wabis); details of his six expeditions to Mesoamerica, often in terrible conditions, as shown by his later severe ill health; his defence of the Indians against the academic community; details of the internal conflicts in the Quebec Catholic Church; and his ideas on certain geophysical events, such as the elevation of ocean beds and islands, which he wrongly dated to the time of the ancient Mayans, or the shifting of the Earth’s rotation axis.Table of ContentsAvant-Propos À Bourbourg Les débuts d’écrivain de Charles-Étienne Brasseur De Gênes à l’Amérique du Nord Le soudain enthousiasme pour la Mésoamérique Que savait l’Europe de la Mésoamérique dans les années 1840-1850 ? L’oeuvre “chrétienne” de l’abbé Brasseur Trois siècles de discrétion espagnole Le premier voyage en Mésoamérique (juillet 1848 - septembre 1851) Le mystérieux voyage en Californie Le retour au Mexique et son fameux coup de publicité 1853 : une année tout en contraste Le deuxième voyage en Mésoamérique (août 1854 - janvier 1857) La gloire à Rabinal La consécration française 150 Le troisième voyage en Mésoamérique (mars 1859 - octobre 1860) 1862 : une nouvelle consécration Le quatrième voyage en Mésoamérique (janvier 1863 - août 1863) 1864 : l’année Landa de Brasseur Le cinquième voyage en Mésoamérique (novembre 1864 - janvier 1866) La consécration universelle 1868 : les “Quatre lettres” autodestructrices Le sixième et dernier voyage en Mésoamérique (novembre 1870 - août 1871) Bourbourg, Madrid, Rome : les adieux Épilogue : les leçons d’un pionnier Annexe I : L’américanisme après Brasseur Annexe II : L’histoire monumentale d’une erreur Annexe III : Langues de la Mésoamérique rencontrées par Brasseur Annexe IV : L’abbé Brasseur et sa ville de Bourbourg, sa famille et sa langue Bibliographie

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Book SynopsisBased on documentary evidence, the Priory Church of St Marys in Abergavenny has been a place of worship since the late 11th century; archaeological evidence though suggests that the site has a much earlier period of use. Over the past 1000 years the church has been radically altered to reflect its wealth, status and sometimes, its decline. During the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries a number of drastic alterations were made that included the complete demolition and rebuild of the nave. This wholesale change, coupled with the Reformation of 1536 and the vandalism of the mid- to late 17th century by Cromwell's troops did not deter the people of Abergavenny from using this most beautiful of spaces. In the recent past, the late Jeremy Winston did much to add his signature onto the priory's fabric making St Mary a most splendid place of worship. An Anatomy of a Priory Church, comprising twelve thought-provoking chapters, traces the archaeology, history and conservation of this most impressive building, delving deep into its anatomy.Table of ContentsAn Anatomy of a Priory Church: Contextualising St Mary’s, Abergavenny (George Nash) ; Church and Settlement: St Mary’s Priory and the Archaeology of the Town (Frank Olding) ; Establishing Strong Roots: The Medieval History of St Mary’s Priory Church, Abergavenny (Kay Blackwell and Trefor Morris) ; The History of the Conservation of the Priory Fabric (P. M. Bartosch) ; St Mary’s Priory Church, Abergavenny – Monument Conservation (Michael Eastham) ; The History and Conservation of the Choir Stalls (Hugh Harrison) ; A 15th Century Oak Figure of Jesse: An Account of its Technical Examination and Conservation (Carol Galvin) ; Unlocking the Anatomy of a Medieval Priory Church: The Archaeology (George Nash) ; Reflections on the History, Function and Survival of St Mary’s Jesse (Muriel Adams) ; Commemoration and Culture: the monuments of Abergavenny Priory in context (Rhianydd Biebrach) ; The Structural Conservation of St Mary’s Tithe Barn (Huw Evans Johns) ; Fire, Stone and Revenge: The Archaeology behind the Turbulent History of the Tithe Barn (George Nash) ; The Way Forward: The Conservation Management Plan (Harvey Faulkner-Aston)

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the results of the Italian excavations and surveys carried out in Transjordan between 1927 and 1938. After a first excavation campaign conducted in 1927 on the Amman Citadel by Giacomo Guidi, the excavations were resumed in 1929 by Renato Bartoccini (Rome 1893–Rome 1963), who carried out four campaigns on the Citadel in 1929, 1930, 1933 and 1938. He also travelled across modern Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, taking photos and writing reports on several archaeological sites. Bartoccini published a few notes and reports, but almost all the original documentation of his work was still unpublished at the time this study was conducted. The main source of data is the Fondo Renato Bartoccini, i.e. the private archive of Bartoccini, today held by the University of Perugia, while other useful documents are kept in other archives in Macerata and in Rome. Furthermore, some decorated Islamic pottery from the excavations on the Citadel is held at the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza. The retrieved photos, excavation journals, letters, and administrative documents make it possible to understand, after almost a century, how the Citadel of Amman appeared at the time of its first excavation.Table of ContentsForeword, by S. Anastasio and L. Botarelli ; Renato Bartoccini and his Archives, by S. Anastasio ; The Amman Citadel, by L. Botarelli ; Research in Amman prior to the Italian Expedition, by S. Anastasio ; The 1927-1938 Italian Expedition, by S. Anastasio ; Investigations in Amman after the Italian Expedition by L. Botarelli ; The Excavations and the Surveys carried out by the Italian Expedition, by S. Anastasio and L. Botarelli ; The Lower Terrace, by S. Anastasio ; The Fortifications, by S. Anastasio The Roman Temple, by L. Botarelli ; The Water Cisterns, by L. Botarelli ; The Byzantine Church, by L. Botarelli ; The Audience Hall, by S. Anastasio ; The Umayyad Palace, by S. Anastasio ; Architectural Elements, by S. Anastasio ; The Theatre, by L. Botarelli ; The Odeon, by L. Botarelli ; The Nymphaeum, by L. Botarelli ; The Surveys outside Amman, by S. Anastasio ; The Pottery held at the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, by L. Botarelli ; Conclusions, by S. Anastasio and L. Botarelli ; Appendixes, by L. Botarelli ; Bibliographic References

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Book SynopsisBorġ in-Nadur, on the south-east coast of the island of Malta, is a major multi-period site, with archaeological remains that span several thousand years. In the course of the Late Neolithic, the steep-sided ridge was occupied by a large megalithic temple complex that was re-occupied in the succeeding Bronze Age. In the course of the second millennium BC, the ridge was heavily fortified by a massive wall to protect a settlement of huts. Excavations were carried out here in 1881 and again in 1959. This volume brings together a number of contributions that report on those excavations, providing an exhaustive account of the stratigraphy, the pottery, the lithic assemblages, the bones, and the molluscs. Additional studies look at other sites in Malta and in neighbouring Sicily in an effort to throw light on the late prehistory of the south-central Mediterranean at a period when connections with regions near and far were increasing. The volume forms a companion to another monograph which concentrated on the temple remains at Borġ in-Nadur (D. Tanasi and N. C. Vella (eds), Site, artefacts and landscape: prehistoric Borġ in-Nadur, Malta. Praehistorica Mediterranea 3. Monza: Polimetrica, 2011). About the Editors: Davide Tanasi (Ph.D.) is Professor of Archaeology at Arcadia University, The College of Global Studies - Arcadia Sicily Center. His research interests include Mediterranean prehistory, island archaeology, archaeometry of ancient ceramics, computer graphics in archaeology, and digital communication of cultural heritage. He has authored a hundred scientific papers in these fields and produced 3D documentaries about Sicilian archaeology and cultural heritage. His publications include La Sicilia e l’arcipelago maltese nell’eta del Bronzo Medio (Palermo, 2008) and Site, Artefacts and Landscape: Prehistoric Borġ in-Nadur, Malta with Nicholas C. Vella (Monza, 2011). He is editor of the international scientific journal Open Archaeology (De Gruyter) and since 2012, he has been directing the Field School in Archaeology of Arcadia University in Sicily. Nicholas C. Vella is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Malta, and works on Mediterranean history and archaeology. He has co-edited another volume of essays on Malta’s late prehistory called Site, Artefacts and Landscape: Prehistoric Borġ in- Nadur, Malta with Davide Tanasi (Monza, 2011) and contributed, with him, to the Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean edited by P. van Dommelen and B. Knapp (Cambridge, 2014). He edits the Malta Archaeological Review, and co-directs excavations at the Żejtun Roman Villa (Malta). He is also co-investigator of the FRAGSUS project, funded by the European Research Council, that is examining the environmental and cultural background of prehistoric Malta.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Davide Tanasi and Nicholas C. Vella) ; Part I: The site and finds ; 1. The excavations by David H. Trump, 1959 (Nicholas C. Vella) ; 2. A defensive wall with towers at Borġ in-Nadur (Giuseppe Terranova) ; 3. The pottery from excavation campaigns of David H. Trump (1959) at the settlement of Borġ in-Nadur (Davide Tanasi) ; 4. Archaeometric characterization of Middle Bronze Age pottery from the settlement at Borġ in-Nadur (Germana Barone, Paolo Mazzoleni, Simona Raneri, Davide Tanasi, Alessandro Giuffrida) ; 5. A leaf impression on a pottery sherd from the settlement at Borġ in-Nadur: a note (Giuseppe Baiamonte) ; 6. The stone artefacts from the settlement at Borġ in-Nadur (Damiano Bracchitta) ; 7. The prehistoric shells and fossils from Borġ in-Nadur (Katrin Fenech and Patrick J. Schembri) ; 8. Skeletal remains from Borġ in-Nadur (Andrea Messina and Davide Tanasi) ; Part II: Additional studies ; 9. The Early Bronze Age in the Maltese islands (Alberto Cazzella and Giulia Recchia) ; 10. The Bronze Age settlement at il-Qlegħa tal-Baħrija, Malta: notes on the rock-cut features (David Cardona and MariaElena Zammit) ; 11. Borġ in-Nadur pottery abroad: a report from the Sicilian necropoleis of Thapsos and Matrensa (Davide Tanasi) ; 12. Sacred stones: meaning visitors and spaces at Borġ in-Nadur (Iona Muscat)

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Book SynopsisThis publication honours Birgitta Hårdh on her 70th birthday. Birgitta Hårdh is one of the leading experts on European Viking Age, engaged in diverse research projects, and also a vital collaborator in various networks specializing in the period. Through time, Birgitta has extended her research to comprise other periods of the Iron Age. A feature common to all Birgitta Hårdh’s research is that she has been able, through analysis of a body of finds, to broaden the perspective, not least geographically through her profound knowledge of phenomena in Northern Europe and indeed all of Europe. Therefore, this book has been given the title Small Things – Wide Horizons. A total of fourty titles have been submitted to the volume. The presentations include a number of perspectives mainly of Iron Age. Themes as silver economy, coins, trinkets, burials, crafts, farms and fields, centrality and transformations give a view of the variation of contributions nationally and internationally.Table of ContentsPart One - Silver: The background and the early history of the neck rings of the Glazov type (also called Permian) and the beginning of East-West connections in Early Medieval Northern Europe in the 8th and 9th centuries (Johan Callmer); The social weight of silver in the Islendingasogur and the Viking Age hoards (Fredrik Ekengren & Maria Domeij Lundborg); 100 Viking Age hoards of Bornholm: Status, challenges and perspectives (Gitte Tarnow Ingvardson & Finn Ole Sonne Nielsen); Hoards and sinuous snakes: Significance and meaning of ring ornaments in Early Viking Age hoards from Gotland (Christoph Kilger); At the end of the silver flow: Islamic dirhams in Sigtuna and the shrinking Viking network (Mats Roslund); Part Two - Coins: Viking-Age coins found in Sweden (Kenneth Jonsson); The earliest coin hoard of Lund (Jens Christian Moesgaard); Nicholas of St. Albans, Anketil and Alfvini-three Danish moneyers of English origin from the 12th and 13th centuries (Jorgen Steen Jensen); Three Crowns-Coin motive and (trans-)national symbol (Cecilia von Heijne); Part Three - Trinkets: Buttons as brooches (Morten Axboe); Hand rings (Torsten Capelle +); Gold in Guleboda: A Byzantine gold coin from southern Smaland (Martin Hansson); A little piece of silver from the Romele ridge area (Bertil Helgesson); Two brooch-knobs and a handful of thoughts (Karen Hoilund Nielsen); Notices on the Notitia: A comparison between heraldic insignia of late Roman military units as depicted in Notitia Dignitatum and certain patterns on Scandinavian Migration Period jewellery like wrist clasps and relief brooches (Jan Peder Lamm); Close to Asgard - between West and South (Lars Larsson); Shield-formed pendants and solar symbols of the Migration period (Bente Magnus); "Vikings in Bavaria" An unpublished spannbuckla from Munich and its history (Sonja Marzinzik & Michaela Helmbrecht); A female statement of power?: Some reflections on the Viking Age Yelets-brooch (Michael Neiss); A Hind to your Health! (Alexandra Pesch); Part Four - Burials: Small items and major conclusions: A discussion of the findings from Gullhogen, Old Uppsala (Birgit Arrhenius with contributions by Ingmar Jansson); Uncovering more Death: Some recent excavations of graves from the Early Iron Age in Scania (Tony Bjork); Vester Galsted - an inhumation grave at P. Frey's field (Per Ethelberg); Rune-stones and the localisation of graves Burial customs in the Conversion period (Anne-Sofie Graslund); Pidgirci (Western Ukraine) and Havor (Gotland, Sweden)-two grave finds connected with Byzantine Christianity (Michael Muller-Wille); Pot and amulet pendants in the early mediaeval grave 130 of Frankfurt-Harheim (Uta von Freeden); Part Five - Crafts: Production of Scandinavian-style sword hilts on the southern Baltic coast? A stray find, presumably dating to the Late Roman Iron Age, from Lubsow / Lubieszewo in Poland (Andreas Rau, Ruth Blankenfeldt & Jan Schuster); Joining threads - a discussion of the archaeology of the tacit (Ulla Isabel Zagal-Mach Wolfe); Part Six - Farms and fields: What did the Wells conceal? Hvissinge Vest - a Village from the Germanic Iron Age (Linda Boye); Medicinal herbs-useful and fatal: Early traces of medicinal plants in Europe (Ulla Lund Hansen); Part Seven - centrality: Small things and wide horizons from a Birka perspective (Bjorn Ambrosiani & Ingrid Gustin); Detecting Vester Kaerby: Problems associated with the interpretation of metal-detector finds from the plough soil (Mogens Bo Henriksen & Helle W. Horsnaes); Early medieval trading centres and transport systems between Dorestad, Ribe and Wolin: The latest results of the Priority Research Programme "Harbours from the Roman Iron Age to the Middle Ages" (Hauke Jons); Quedlinburg before the Ottonian kings: Approaches towards an early topography of power (Babette Ludowici); The relationship between Uppakra and Lund-a status update (Ing-Marie Nilsson); The Trelleborg constructors (Anders Odman); Part Eight - Transformations: From replica to relic-Gokstad goes abroad (Bodil Petersson); Monumental make over? Remains of a long dolmen close to the ship-setting Ale's stones. (Bengt Soderberg & Bjorn Wallebom); Vikings and the Western Frontier (Jes Wienberg); Part Nine - Dust: Dust to dust: A short story of no-thing and every-thing (Jarl Nordbladh); Birgitta Hardh-a Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhat could be more evident than the concepts of oblique, horizontal or vertical? In the modern world, these concepts form the basis of our thought system, both from a mathematical and artistic point of view. Everything would suggest that these principles were known to the Greek civilization. However, the study of the surviving texts casts a different light on the matter. Homer did not know the concept of oblique - no word could translate it into the language of his time. Even later, the Greeks had five adjectives approximately meaning oblique: λοξός, πλάγιος, λέχριος, σκολιός and δόχμιος. Each discipline (cosmology, optic, geography, art, etc.) had its own way of looking at these five words. Paradoxically, what the written language had not yet synthesized was abundant in imagery. Even more surprising, the oblique in images, which we consider as a sign of movement in our own iconographic language, is found to signify both movement and rest. Two monuments of Greek art draw attention to this new paradox: the frieze of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus and the Mourning Athena. In each of them, the oblique line is present, and carries two distinct meanings. These two forms of language, written and figurative, bring a different and complementary perspective on the ancient Greeks' apprehension (or lack thereof) of the concept of oblique.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Les Grecs et Nous Premi ère Parti e. L’obli que dans la pensée grecque Chapitre I. Prolégomènes. La table des opposés « fondamentaux » et Homère Chapitre II. Macrocosme et microcosme. Des présocratiques à Proclos Chapitre III. La théorie des atomes. Épicure et Lucrèce Chapitre IV. L’oblique des vents Chapitre V. Strabon Chapitre VI. Hippocrate et les médecins grecs Chapitre VII. Les Tragiques et les poètes hellénistiques Chapitre VIII. Le rayon et le miroir : la vision d’Euclide Deuxième Parti e. L’obli que dans l’art grec Chapitre IX. La notion d’oblique dans l’art Chapitre X. Oblique en mouvement Chapitre XI. Oblique en repos Conclusion : Les descriptions antiques d’oeuvres d’art

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a group of peer reviewed papers, most of them presented at a workshop held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. The event took place on 15–17 October 2011 and was part of the European Research Council (ERC) funded project Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe (EUROEVOL 2010-2015). The aim of the EUROEVOL project is to contribute to the new interdisciplinary field of cultural evolution that has developed over the last 30 years, and at the same time use these ideas and methods to address specific questions concerning the links between demographic, economic, social and cultural patterns and processes in the first farming societies of temperate Europe. The aim of the EUROEVOL project is to do that for the first time, and in doing so to provide the basis for a new account of the role of farming in transforming early European societies, c.6000-2000 cal BCE.Table of ContentsIntroduction Key raw materials for Neolithic shoe-last celts and axes in Central Europe: their sources and distribution (Antonín Přichystal) Long-distance distribution of raw materials for chipped stone artefacts in the Neolithic of Central Europe (Moravia and eastern Austria) in the 6th and 5th millennia BC (Inna Mateiciucová and Gerhard Trnka) Raw materials exchange as part of a network: the case study of the LBK Middle Mosel area (Anne Hauzeur) The ‘Rijckholt’ Connection: Neolithic extraction and circulation of Lanaye flints (Marjorie E.Th. de Grooth) Flint exchange in time and space: a study of Middle Neolithic assemblages from Western Germany and beyond (Kathrin Nowak) Stones on the move: the contribution of microwear analysis for understanding the Neolithisation process (Annelou van Gijn) The circulation of flint raw materials in northern France and Belgium during the Early Neolithic (Pierre Allard and Solène Denis) Flint productions and distribution networks at the end of the 5th and the beginning of the 4th millennia BC in north-western France and western Belgium (Françoise Bostyn) Projet JADE 2. ‘Object-signs’ and social interpretations of Alpine jade axeheads in the European Neolithic: theory and methodology (Pierre Pétrequin, Alison Sheridan, Estelle Gauthier, Serge Cassen, Michel Errera and Lutz Klassen) Chert from the Rein Basin (Styria, Austria): Prehistoric use and distribution (Michael Brandl, Maria M. Martinez, Daniel Modl and Estella Weiss-Krejci) A radiocarbon chronology of European flint mines suggests a link to population patterns (Tim Kerig, Kevan Edinborough, Sean Downey and Stephen Shennan)

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Book SynopsisThis is an important book. Too often in the past archaeologists have ignored or underestimated sea travel in early prehistory but the evidence has been growing and now it is presented to us in full in this thought provoking study. No longer can those interested in the human achievement neglect to take into account the astonishing achievements of our palaeolithic, mesolithic and neolithic ancestors. This book gives a full account of stone age seafaring presenting the archaeological evidence in the context of the changing world environment and uses ethnographic sources to broaden the readers understanding of the worlds earliest sea craft. It is essential reading for all concerned to understand the human condition. – Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe, Oxford The book is a comprehensive study of early navigation and its place in the development of human culture from the earliest times to the late Stone Age. This subject is very timely in light of increasing archaeological and palaeoanthropological evidence that the maritime environment had been mastered in prehistory. As the author rightly points out at the beginning of his book, the maritime environment can no longer be marginalised when portraying both hunter-gatherer and early agrarian prehistoric communities. The book is a valuable and inspiring work on a subject which had hitherto not enjoyed such in-depth treatment. It greatly enhances our perception of the beginnings of human culture and enriches it with comprehensive, convincing arguments that the maritime environment had been mastered by early humans. I congratulate the author on the effect he has achieved and on unearthing so many chronologically, geographically and thematically diverse sources. – Prof. Paweł Valde-Nowak, Jagiellonian University, Krakow The title of the book intrigues the reader and promises a fascinating read about issues approached from an innovatively broad perspective. Both the global territorial scope and the chronological range covering almost two million years of human cultural development are worthy of note. What we have here is an aspect of human activity which is often neglected and marginalised in scientific research, which is that directly related to the sea. The fact that up to 90% of Pleistocene coasts, which were after all heavily populated in the Stone Age, have been flooded in modern times is not conducive to large-scale research, as underlined by the author in the Introduction. The beginnings of human activity on the high seas are the subject of research in numerous scientific disciplines, all of which are discussed here. In writing this book the author has drawn on an exceptionally wide range of literature, mostly in English, owing to which the author’s own views, as well as those of other researchers whom he cites, are credible and convincing. – Dr hab. Krzysztof Cyrek, professor of Nicolaus Copernicus University, ToruńTrade Review‘…Pydyn makes a compelling case that pre-Homo sapiens may have utilized water transport technology. Even the use of natural floats was perhaps “culturally enriched,” meaning that our ancestors consciously affected the direction of drifting or floating. He also argues that studies of early maritime activity have demonstrated the research potential of the continental shelf, because many Paleolithic and Neolithic sites are likely underwater… Argonauts of the Stone Age is a well-illustrated and engaging addition to the recent volumes on early seafaring and maritime activities.’ – Katelyn Dibenedetto (2017), Journal Of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology And Heritage StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Lower Palaeolithic seafarers – the oldest evidence of migration and sea-crossing ; Homo ergaster/Homo erectus and Out of Africa ; The first colonisation of Europe ; The first crossing of the sea ; 2. Middle Palaeolithic seafarers – the Neanderthal and the sea ; The European world of the Neanderthals ; The Neanderthal residents of the Mediterranean area ; The Neanderthals’ submerged world ; Beyond the European seas ; 3. Upper and Final Palaeolithic seafarers – the expansion of modern humans ; The first Mediterranean seagoing of modern humans ; Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic – intensification of seafaring in the Mediterranean Basin ; Travelling northwards – modern humans on the coasts of Western and Northern Europe ; Towards new continents ; 4. Maritime activity of Mesolithic communities in Northern Europe ; Maritime contacts within the Atlantic zone ; Between the North Sea and the Baltic ; The earliest settlements of the islands of the central and eastern Baltic Sea ; 5. Neolithic voyagers – farmers of the sea ; The first farmers at sea – development of the Neolithic in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea ; Seafarers of cardium-impresso culture ; Boats of the first farmers ; Farmers of the Atlantic ; Travelling eastwards ; 6. Early forms of water transport ; Floats ; Rafts ; Skin boats ; Bark boats ; Reed boats and other lashed vessels ; Logboats ; Simple plank boats ; Conclusion ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to be published from a wider research project, still in progress, about the sanctuaries of Poseidon and Athena on the promontory of Sounion (southeast Attica). The aim of this volume is to present, for the first time, a comprehensive examination and interpretation of a wide selection of unpublished small finds. These last, of different categories and materials, were discovered in the bothroi (pitdeposits) and the landfills; they are set into their contexts. The illustrations of the finds are integrated within the relevant text for easier reference and a detailed catalogue complements the discussion. The limited archaeological records concerning the work in the sanctuaries, conducted by Valerios Stais between 1897–1915, and which still remain the only extensive excavations undertaken, are re-evaluated. The author revisits the two sanctuaries, reviewing the structures within them to cast light on the early phases of their establishment and development, as well as their significance for the socio-economic growth of south east Attica. This is realized by drawing upon the evidence of archaeological data and the ancient literary sources alike. The research thus provides a fresh insight into the early cults, with emphasis on the identity of the deities worshipped at Sounion from the Late Geometric to the dawn of the Classical period.Table of ContentsPrologue Introduction Chapter 1: Problems Arising from the Excavations of 1897–1915 Chapter 2: The History of Sounion and the Sanctuaries of Poseidon and Athena: Sources and Early Chapter 3: The Finds: Analysis and Discussion Chapter 4: Cults and Cult-practices at Sounion Appendix A: Greek and Latin Testimonia Appendix B: Pottery from the Bothroi and Artificial Fills Appendix C: Scarabs, Seals and Beads from the Sanctuaries Bibliography of Works Cited and Consulted Figures

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Book SynopsisThis volume is primarily concerned with the re-analysis of the wall paintings from the Jordanian Chalcolithic period (ca. 4700-3700 BC) settlement site of Teleilat Ghassul, first excavated in 1929 by scholars from the Pontifical Biblical Institute Rome and latterly by Australians from the University of Sydney. The seven major paintings were re-analysed using a methodology based on contextualisation, digital reconstruction, experimental replication and subject analysis. A comprehensive theoretical framework was constructed from published and unpublished materials from the site, consisting of geographical and environmental datasets, topographic, settlement-location and structural contexts. These included material/artefactual associations, technological issues and a comprehensive symbolic regional comparative analysis of the artworks themselves. The interpretive structure, reconstructed and re-evaluated scenes, and replication studies, have revealed numerous insights into the artistic traditions and cultic practices of South Levantine Ghassulian Chalcolithic culture, with considerable relevance to the ongoing debate on such matters as prehistoric societal makeup and art historical scholarship. This study has provided intriguing glimpses into the lives of a brilliantly artistic and deeply ritualised society, shedding new light on this little-known and still mysterious people.Trade Review'In conclusion, this book offers a very important contribution not only to our understanding of the Teleilat Ghassul wall paintings, but also more generally to the study of socalled ‘artistic’ representations in pre- and proto-historic societies, emphasising and rigorously applying the method of integral analysis and the contextualisation of findings, which alone can bring us closer to restoring meaning to the material expressions of cultures and ideologies physically, culturally and historically very remote from ourselves.' – Marcella Frangipane (2023): BiOr no. LXXIX 3/4 Table of ContentsChapter 1.1. Introduction Chapter 1.2 History of Research Chapter 2.1 Geographical and Environmental Context Chapter 2.2 Society, culture and ritual context Chapter 2.3 Prehistoric Artistic Context Chapter 2.4 The Wall art of Ghassul: Discovery and Archaeological Context Chapter 3.1 Settlement, Structural and Ritual Context Chapter 3.2 Subject Matter: New Interpretations Chapter 4.1 Ghassulian Technological innovation Chapter 4.2 Replication Studies Chapter 5.1. Subject Analysis, Symbolism and Significance Chapter 5.2. Art History and Cultural Significance Chapter 6. Summary and general conclusions Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis publication provides the most updated information on the ceramic production (amphorae, cooking and coarse wares, ceramic building materials) of Salakta and the Ksour Essef district, in the Sahel region of Tunisia, from the 3rd century BC to the 7th century AD. This book deals with the history and the archaeology of Sullecthum/Salakta, the typology of the ceramic production (mainly amphorae), the chronology and the location of the workshops, the amphora stamps and contents, the distribution in the Mediterranean, and the organisation of production and trade. The author is Lecturer at the Institut Supérieur des Etudes Appliquées en Humanités de Mahdia (University of Monastir, Tunisia). French text with English abstract.Table of ContentsPréface Avant-propos Introduction Chapitre I. Présentation de la région et catalogue des sites prospectés Chapitre II. Typologie générale Chapitre III. Les amphores de la région de Salakta et Ksour Essef : organisation de la production Chapitre IV. Les amphores de la région de Salakata et Ksour Essef : commercialisation Conclusion Tabl. 10. Tableau synoptique de la typologie Bibliographie Annexe 1. Catalogue de la production des ateliers Annexe 2 : Caractérisation en microscopie optique des pâtes des ateliers d'Henchir ech Chekaf et Salakta par Claudio Capelli English abstract

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Book SynopsisRivers have often been the gateway to natural wilderness and the first element of a natural landscape that humans made their own. Some rivers have become the symbol of whole civilisations, such as the Nile or the Tiber to Egyptians and Romans respectively. More recently, pioneers exploring the continent of America have explored the new land from within rivers, whose names have become by extension the name of the land: 15 of the 50 states composing the United States of America are borrowed from rivers. No other natural feature has become embedded into human narratives as the river. Rivers are frequently featured prominently in natural landscapes by writers and artists, but they also turn up in unexpected places, such as the mythical Greek underworld or Dante’s Inferno. Rivers made of stars (the Milky Way) have been recognised in the sky by the Inca, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese (the “Peaceful River of Heaven”), Hindu, Maori, Aboriginal Australians as well as other cultures. The flow of a river has prompted many reflexions of its similarity to time as well as human life and consciousness, becoming a recurring theme in culture and philosophical thought. In recent archaeological literature, rivers are often ignored from narratives, or seen as part of the natural landscape. Yet, rivers and streams have shaped most cities in the world and they should be inserted more frequently, if not systematically, in archaeological interpretations and narratives. The sea is very much in the minds of scholars, especially in Europe, but rivers are denied the same interest. It is hoped that this volume will generate some fresh interest.Table of Contents1. Dugouts from North Patagonia (Center-South of Chile): Sailing on Trees – (Nicolás Lira S.) 2. Exploitation of the Aquatic Resources of Lake Lubāns and Its Hydrological Regime during the Stone Age – (Ilze B. Loze) 3. A River Runs Through It: The Semiotics of Göbekli Tepe’s Map (An Exercise of Archaeological Imagination) – (Dragoş Gheorghiu) 4. Rivers, human occupation and exchanges around the Late Bronze age settlement of Frattesina (NE Italy) – (P. Bellintani & M. Saracino) 5. People of the waters in northern Italy – (Andrea Vianello) 6. The perennial rivers and the changing settlement patterns on the two sides of the Tiber in central Italy – the case studies of Nepi and Gabii – (Ulla Rajala) 7. Bronze Age Barrow Complexes on the Lincolnshire Fen Margin – (Peter Chowne) 8. Roads, routes and ceremonies: the Fenland Superhighway – (Tim Malim) 9. Continuity of seasonal access and occupation on the turloughs of Ireland – (Amy Bunce) 10. An approach to the fluvial networks of the Papaloapan basin: the use of the lower Papaloapan, México, from the pre-Hispanic period to early XX century – (Edith Ortiz Díaz)

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Book SynopsisThis book is the result of more than a dozen years of research in the field of the hitherto unstudied medieval settlement pattern of the Syrian coastal region in the 12th and 13th centuries. The conclusions presented in this work were reached with the combined use of several source types including medieval documents, travellers’ accounts, former research, map evidence, toponymy, archive and satellite photographs, oral sources and extensive archaeological field surveys accompanied by documentation between the years 2000 and 2015. After enumerating the historical events that influenced the settlement pattern of the coast, its centres, including the towns and castles (with special regard to the smaller fortifications of the countryside that seem to have been a Frankish introduction to the area) are analysed. Following the detailed examination of the written sources and the architectural material preserved at these lesser sites, a closer look at the villages and their environment aims to draw a general picture on the density of settlements and their basic characteristics. The book also discusses communication lines and provides an assessment of the medieval population that inhabited the region in the 12th and 13th centuries. The text is accompanied by a collection of maps, plan drawings, tables and illustrations on a selected number of sites visited during the field surveys.Table of Contents1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING; 3. METHODOLOGY; 4. HISTORICAL FRAME; 5. SETTLEMENT; 6. INHABITANTS; 7. CONCLUSION; Appendix I. Fortified sites mentioned in the Latin sources; Appendix II. Fortified sites mentioned only in the Eastern sources; Appendix III. Fortified sites not mentioned in the written sources; Appendix IV. Ownership of fortified sites mentioned in the Latin sources; Appendix V. Fortified sites in possession of the Military Orders mentioned in the Latin sources; 8. BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisThis volume is the first of two reports on archaeological excavations undertaken ahead of the eastern expansion of Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) which lies in the northern watershed region of Northamptonshire at its border with Warwickshire. The excavations, covering 178 hectares, recorded one of the most extensive Iron Age farming settlements yet discovered in the British Isles. It comprised at least five individual sites of house clusters and enclosures, spread around the rim of a shallow valley overlooking around 100 hectares of open pasture. At its peak between 400 BC and 100 BC the settlement would have contained up to 100 circular buildings. Volume 1 describes the excavation of the largest of these individual sites, that at Covert Farm, Crick, excavated by the Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit. From the outset the excavations adopted an innovative approach to examine social themes in Iron Age studies, such as relationships with rubbish, fire and water, and the way life in the settlement may have been experienced by its inhabitants - themes that are presented and discussed in this book.Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ; CHAPTER 2: TOWARDS A CHRONOLOGY ; CHAPTER 3: PERIOD 1.1 TO 1.3: NEOLITHIC, CHALCOLITHIC AND EARLY BRONZE AGE ; CHAPTER 4: PERIOD 2.3: EARLY IRON AGE ; CHAPTER 5: PERIOD 3.1 AND 3.2: EARLIER MIDDLE IRON AGE ; CHAPTER 6: PERIOD 4.1 AND 4.2: LATER MIDDLE IRON AGE ; CHAPTER 7: PERIOD 5.1 AND 5.2: LATE IRON AGE ; CHAPTER 8: PERIOD 6.1 AND 6.2: ROMANO-BRITISH ; CHAPTER 9: THE SENSORY FRAMEWORK ; CHAPTER 10: FIRE, RUBBISH AND DOORWAYS ; CHAPTER 11: SYNTHESIS AND CONCLUSIONS

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Book SynopsisColour defines our material world, operates as a communication tool and creates meaning. But despite the wealth of colour present in British Iron Age archaeology, interpretative studies have concentrated mostly on the shape of material objects and their decoration, with at best fleeting references to colour. This book revisits well known and well documented sites or artefacts and explores their colours and colour connotations – whether hue or luminosity, whether natural or man-made, whether innate or deliberately applied - by looking at various contexts such as processes, landscape, iconography, body decoration or the colour connotations of death. The importance of changes in colour caused by passing of time, processing, handling or exposure, as well as the deliberate concealment or defacing of colour is looked at . Finally and most importantly, using methodologies ranging from examination of written sources, comparisons from the fields of anthropology and ethnology to experimental archaeology the author attempts to shed light on the symbolic meaning behind such colours or colour contexts and contribute to our understanding of Iron Age cosmologies.Table of ContentsList of Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Literature Review; Chapter 3: Theoretical Aspects of Colour; Chapter 4: Colour and Creation – Colour Implications in Metalworking; Chapter 5: A Whiter Shade of Pale – Chalk in the British Iron Age; Chapter 6: Weaving with Light – Luminosity and Brilliance in the British Iron Age; Chapter 7: The Power of Blood – Decorated Metal Ware; Chapter 8: Yellow Stars and Red Journeys – Colour, Iconography and Cosmologies; Chapter 9: Black White and Red – Colours of Death; Chapter 10: Transforming Skin – Body Decoration in the British Iron Age; Chapter 11: Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix 1: Sites; Appendix 2: Artefacts; Appendix 3: Human Remains; Appendix 4: Classical Sources for Body Decoration

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Book SynopsisThe research scope of this book is the human occupation of the northern Adriatic region at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (ca. 24,000- 20,000 calBP), and a point of view over the long debated occupation of the once exposed Great Adriatic Plain and the role it played within the early Epigravettian hunter-gatherers settlement system. The study relied on a comprehensive techno-economic approach to lithic technology, one among the possible means to investigate site function, mobility and land use.Table of ContentsThis study (introduction); 1. Methodological remarks; 2. The site of Madonna dell’Ospedale; 3. The site of Fosso Mergaoni; 4. The site of Grotta di Pozzo; 5. Discussion; References; Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisThis study examines Middle–Late Bronze Age (c. 1750–600 BC) domestic settlement patterns in Ireland. Recent archaeological investigations have extended the knowledge of habitation, but no detailed, systematic attempts have been made to understand the domestic evidence, or to substantially revise the existing models for the development of complex Bronze Age societies. All available data relating to settlements dating to Middle–Late Bronze Age have been collated. An evidence-based chronology for settlement is established for the first time. The data are examined at multiple scales to investigate any spatial or chronological trends in settlement character or distribution. The relationships between settlements and the surrounding environmental and social landscapes are analysed through a GIS. The new data are investigated to see how domestic settlements operated, and if traditional concepts regarding the structure of Bronze Age society can still be upheld. Agent-based modelling and social network analysis provide another dimension to the discussion regarding power, regionalism, and hierarchy within the settlement network. The results reveal a distinct rise in the visibility, and a rapid adaption, of domestic architecture, which seems to have occurred earlier in Ireland than elsewhere in western and northern Europe.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Study Overview; Chapter 2: Bronze Age Review; Chapter 3: Research Design; Chapter 4: Chronology; Chapter 5: Location, Location, Location; Chapter 6: The Use of Space and Place Within; Chapter 7: The Organized Landscape; Chapter 8: Moving Beyond the Map; Chapter 9: Discussion; Chapter 11: Conclusions; References; Appendix

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Book SynopsisThis volume represents a selection of contributions on Mediterranean themes from a wider international interdisciplinary conference on Magical Texts in Ancient Civilizations, organised by the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilizations at Jagiellonian University in Kraków in Poland between 27-28 June 2013. The meeting welcomed researchers from Hungary, Italy, Poland and Ukraine, covering various disciplines including comparative civilizations, comparative religions, linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, history and philosophy. In the past ‘magic’ was often misunderstood as irrational behaviour, in contrast to the tradition of philosophical or rational thought mostly based on Greek models. Evidence collected from ancient high cultures, like that of Pharaonic Egypt, includes massive amounts of documents and treatises of all kinds related to what has been labelled ‘magic’. Today it cannot be written off as merely a primitive or ‘lesser human’ phenomenon: the awareness of magic remains to the present day in many societies, at all social levels, and has not been generally replaced by what might be considered as more advanced thinking. The researches in this volume focus heavily on Egypt (in particular Predynastic, Pharaonic, Hellenistic, Roman and Christian evidence), but Near Eastern material was also presented from Pagan (Ugaritic) and Christian (Syriac) times.Table of ContentsPreface (Alessandro Roccati); Thoth on magical gems (Grażyna Bąkowska-Czerner, Agata Świerzowska); Magic in the sign: iconic writings in the Litany of Neith at Esna and the performative nature of the divine name(Esna 216.1–4) (Emanuele M. Ciampini); Genius loci. Some religious and magical aspects of graffiti in the ‘tomb of Memnon’ (Ramesses VI) in the Valley of the Kings (Adam Łukaszewicz); Egyptian Predynastic tokens – traces of magic or economic activity? The beginnings of abstract writing and calculating system or a relic of early magical practices (Piotr Kołodziejczyk); The protection of the body in ancient Egyptian texts (Edyta Kopp); Alphabetic magic: traces of a new version of the Cyranides (Attilio Mastrocinque); Jesus in ancient pagan magic: the Anna Perenna drawings (György Németh); Magic in the iconography of 21st Dynasty coffins and papyri (Andrzej Niwiński); The discovery of the fountain of Anna Perenna and its influence on the study of ancient magic. (Marina Piranomonte); The Pyramid Texts as Magical Texts? (Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska); Ramesside magical books in Turin (Alessandro Roccati); Magicians’ instruments in PGM and the archaeological evidence: some examples (Carla Sfameni); Egyptian Theological Lore in PGM IV: a religious-historical commentary (Giulia Sfameni Gasparro); Sorcery among powerless corpses. An interpretation of the ‘restless dead’ in Greek curses, imprecations and verse inscriptions (Andrzej Wypustek)

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Book SynopsisThis study focuses on ceramic finds from the excavations (1996-2006) of the Episcopal Group of Sidi Jdidi, the ancient city of Aradi, in the hinterland of Hammamet in Tunisia, directed by Dr Aïcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader and Prof. Michel Fixot. The aim of these excavations was to understand the processes of the (evolution and) insertion of Christian monuments into the pre-existent town and the distribution of the liturgical and economic functions within various buildings of this ecclesiastic centre. The ceramological study contributed to attaining this aim by suggesting dates for each phase of the construction, occupation and abandonment of the Episcopal group, as well as evidence for the function of each space. Furthermore, this study has documented the (strong) rural and regional characteristics of the ceramic assemblages: these are very different from those of the large-scale excavations at Carthage and indicate a pattern of self-sufficient consumption supplied by purely intra-regional trade. The author is a Research Fellow of The National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, Japan), and Research Associate of the Centre Camille Jullian (Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, MCC, CCJ, F-13000, Aix-en-Provence, France).Table of ContentsPréfaces; Avant-propos; Introduction; I. Présentation générale du site; II. Les classes de céramiques; III. Les contextes archéologiques sélectionnés; IV. L’evolution des faciès céramiques d’Aradi/Sidi Jdidi; Conclusion; Bibliographie; Tableaux; Annexe I: Céramique de l’atelier de Tefernine; Annexe II: Analyses archéométriques de céramiques de Sidi Jdidi; English abstract

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Book SynopsisThis work presents an anthropological study of crania and mandibles from the osteological collection from Chinchero (Peru), currently housed at the American Archaeological and Ethnological Museum of the Complutense University of Madrid. From 1968 to 1971, a team of archaeologists of the Spanish Scientific Mission in Hispanic America excavated the site of Chinchero, a small village located in the Andean high plateau near Cusco. As the result of this mission, remains from 8 single burials and two ossuaries dated to pre-colonial times were exhumed and brought to Spain. The excavated area included an ancient palace and several administrative and religious structures built by Tupac Yupanqui, who ruled the Inca Empire between 1471 and 1493. The surroundings of the catholic church, erected over one of these buildings, were excavated as well.Table of ContentsINTRODUCCION; MATERIAL Y METODO; RESULTADOS; DISCUSION; CONCLUSIONES; BIBLIOGRAFIA; ANEXOS; ANEXO 1: INVENTARIO; ANEXO 2.- DATOS ANTROPOMETRICOS (medidas en mm); ANEXO 3: DATOS Y ESTIMACION DE SEXO, GRUPO DE EDAD Y ASCENDENCIA; ANEXO 4: INDICE CRANEALES Y MANDIBULARES; ANEXO 5: MORFOSCOPIA 1; ANEXO 6: MORFOSCOPIA 2; ANEXO 7: MODIFICACION CRANEAL 1; ANEXO 8: MODIFICACION CRANEAL 2; ANEXO 9: DATOS DEL ESTUDIO ANTROPOLOGICO DENTAL DE LOS EJEMPLARES ADULTOS (CON DENTICION DEFINITIVA)

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Book SynopsisThe contributions to this volume address the archaeology and history of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. Bringing together papers presented at a conference in Athens in December 2012 as a part of the Syrian-Norwegian research project Palmyrena: City, Hinterland and Caravan Trade between Orient and Occident, it reflects international research and fieldwork that was going on until the outbreak of the Syrian civil war.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Jørgen Christian Meyer, Eivind Heldaas Seland, Nils Anfinset); Palmyra, Pastoral Nomads, and City-State Kings in the Old Babylonian Period: Interaction in the Semi-Arid Syrian Landscape (Kristina J. Hesse); The Venice of the Sands: Palmyrene Trade Revisited (Michael Sommer); Trade Across Frontiers: Foreign Relations of a Caravan City (Michał Gawlikowski); Palmyra and the Chinese Silk Trade (Marta Żuchowska); The Palmyrene Temple in Rome and Palmyra’s Trade with the West (Taco T. Terpstra); The Road from Palmyra to Damascus in the Tabula Peutingeriana (Paola Mior); The Stage of Palmyra: Colonnaded Streets, Spaces for Communication and Activities in the Eastern Roman Empire (Claudia Bührig); Geophysical Prospection by Ground- and Space-based Methods of the Ancient Town of Palmyra (Syria) (Roland Linck); The Palmyrene Gods in the Works of M. I. Rostovtzeff and C. Hopkins (Pavel Alipov); A Roman Residential House in the ‘Hellenistic’ Town of Palmyra: Archaeology, Function and Urban Aspects – Vessel Glass (Christine Ertel and René Ployer); Seleucid, Roman, and Mesopotamian Influence in Palmyrene Pottery and the Question of a Palmyrene Identity (Christiane Römer-Strehl); Excavation of No.129-b House Tomb at the North Necropolis in Palmyra (Kiyohide Saito); The Vessels in Palmyrene Banquet Scenes: Tomb BWLH and BWRP and Tomb TYBL (Saeko Miyashita); On the Human Skeletal Remains Excavated from the Underground Tombs in Palmyrab (Takahiro Nakahashi); Inorganic Impurities in Teeth of the Ancient Inhabitants of Palmyra (K. Yoshimura, Shiqin Wu, T. Nakahashi and S. Saito); Agriculture in Byzantine Palmyrena (Knut Krzywinski and Jonatan Krzywinski)

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents proceedings from the session ‘Monumental Earthen Architecture in Early Societies: Technology and power display’, part of the XVII World UISPP Congress, held in Burgos (Spain), the 4th September 2014. The theme of the symposium is the archaeology of earthen architecture in pre- and protohistoric cultures, with an emphasis on constructive techniques and systems, and diachronic changes in those aspects. The main interest is in monumental architecture (not domestic), where it is better possible to appreciate the building strategies that show raw earth to be as noble a material as stone or wood, but with its very own characteristics which required the development of original solutions and construction techniques. The scope on monumental buildings also allows analyzing the political, social and economical factors that made such architecture a recognized expression of societal values and political power.Table of ContentsForeword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition (Luiz Oosterbeek); Introduction (Annick Daneels); Building Power: Earthen Monuments in the Construction of Elite Identities in Pre-Columbian North America (Melissa R. Baltus); Political and Technological Significance of the Monumental Earthen Architecture of La Joya, on the Tropical Gulf Coast of Mexico (Annick Daneels); Activity areas in two ceremonial centers of the Southern Brazilian Highlands: relations between architecture and function (Jonas Gregorio De Souza); New data on the Neolithic ditches of the Tavoliere area (Apulia, Southern Italy) (Annamaria Tunzi & Tania Quero); First test for luminescence dating of ancient mud-brick buildings from Northern Mesopotamia (Jorge Sanjurjo-Sánchez & Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós); Traditional Architecture and Socio-Political Organization at Figuig Oasis, Morocco (Florencia Tatiana Azul Ultramar Ramírez-Rodríguez)

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Book SynopsisEgyptians went to great lengths to protect their dead from the omnipresent threat of robbery by incorporating specially developed architectural features in their tombs. However, the architecture of tomb security has rarely been studied as a subject in its own right and is usually treated as a secondary topic in publications of a scholarly nature, which tend to regard its role as incidental to the design of the tomb rather than perhaps being the driving force behind it. This issue had been raised in the early Twentieth Century by Reisner (1908: 11), who suggested that the rapid evolution of Egyptian tomb substructures was as a result of the desire for tomb security and more ostentatious tombs, rather than a development spurred by religious or funerary practices. Taking this premise much further, this book presents an in-depth analysis of the architecture of tomb security in Egypt from the Predynastic Period (c. 5000–4000 BC) until the early Fourth Dynasty (c. 2500 BC) by extrapolating data on the security features of published tombs from the whole of Egypt and gathering it together for the first time in one accessible database. Using the information assembled it adds new information to the current body of knowledge concerning the architecture of tomb security and explains many of the underlying reasons behind their adoption. By thematically analysing these features in order to draw conclusions it also demonstrates that many aspects of the architecture of the Egyptian tomb over this period, in both royal and private contexts–whilst subject to changing tastes, needs and ideologies–had indeed originated as the result of the need to protect the tomb or improve its security.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Substructure and access route typology; 3. The early precursors of tomb security; 4. The defence of the burial chamber; 5. The security of the access route and its blockings; 6. Mounds, mastabas and pyramids – the security of the superstructure; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Charts A-Q; Tomb Catalogue

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Book SynopsisThis work examines travellers’ accounts of their journeys to Cyrenaica, focusing in the main on an analysis of these accounts within the context of their significance to topographic surveys of the region. The dates given in the title symbolically mark their beginning and end. The starting date (1706) is that of the first journey across Cyrenaica that led to the writing of the first account extensive enough to be the subject of detailed analysis. The end date (1911) marks the beginning of the Italian occupation of Libya, when responsibility for archaeology was entrusted to the greatest Italian specialists of the period. Travelogues were replaced by scholarly studies featuring both well-known and newly discovered sites, while amateur descriptions and drawings were replaced by professional analysis and documentation. The main protagonists of the book are people who travelled to Cyrenaica or stayed there for some time, people of a variety of ages and sorts: physicians and an engineer, priests, soldiers and diplomats, artists and adventurers, scholars and archaeologists. They differed considerably in their education, personalities, itineraries and objectives of their journeys, their wealth and personal circumstances. What they did have in common was great curiosity and courage, love of adventure and the ability to survive in harsh and dangerous conditions – compensated for by unusual discoveries – and, finally, an interest in ancient ruins, which for the purpose of this book is what makes their accounts valuable.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction; Chapter I The History of Archaeological Interests in Europe (18th century – early 20th century) Selected topics; Chapter II Travellers in Cyrenaica. The History of Travels to Cyrenaica Against the Panorama of Libya (18th – 19th Centuries); Chapter III The Topography of Ancient Sites; Chapter IV ‘Transfering’ Cyrenaica to Europe; Postscript; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together all the successful peer-reviewed papers submitted for the proceedings of the 43rd conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology that took place in Siena (Italy) from March 31st to April 2nd 2015. Altogether, within the four days of the conference 280 papers were presented in 48 sections divided into ten macro topics, 113 posters, 7 roundtables and 12 workshops. That number, in itself, has prompted a thought or two. Above all it says that CAA is very much alive and kicking, that it is in robust good health, and that it remains a wholly relevant force in the scientific community, fully engaged with the questions of the day, and a continuing focal point for the profession. All of that speaks well for the motto of CAA 2015: KEEP THE REVOLUTION GOING. Although the significance of the motto is obvious, it is worth some thoughts. Few would deny that in the past 30 years or so, digital technologies have profoundly revolutionised archaeology – in the office and laboratory, in the field and in the classroom. The progressive introduction of digital techniques in the archaeological process has of course led to a general increase in efficiency. But perhaps more importantly it has provided a spur to the discussion of methodology and through that has strongly influenced not only the way we go about things but also the outcomes that we have been able to achieve. The pioneering phase in the application of digital techniques in archaeological research has clearly been fruitful and today computer applications such as GIS, databases, remote sensing and spatial analysis as well as virtual and cyber archaeology are deeply embedded within our universities. This is all good, of course, but we must not assume that the task has been completed. An intrinsic revolutionary instinct towards technological development has been awakened. But it will only survive by virtue of the results that it brings about. Or using the words of our Chairman Prof Gary Lock: ‘Computers not only change the way we do things, but more importantly they change the way we think about what we do and why we do it’. The general thrust of this statement can be summed up and reinforced by recalling a quote from the philosopher Don Ihde, who has argued we should never forget that all technologies should be regarded as ‘cultural instruments’, which as well as strategies and methodologies implemented in our researches are also ‘non-neutral’. So KEEP THE REVOLUTION GOING! is a motto that lays stress on the need to maintain innovation in archaeology through technological advances. But innovation must have at its root the fostering of critical thought and the framing of new archaeological questions. So there is much work still to be done, and fresh challenges to be faced in the months, years and decades ahead. -from the introduction by Stefano Campana and Roberto ScopignoTable of ContentsIntroduction (Stefano Campana, Roberto Scopigno) ; Introductory Speech (Professor Gabriella Piccinni) ; CHAPTER 1: Teaching and Communicating Digital Archaeology ; From the Excavation to the Scale Model: a Digital Approach (Hervé Tronchère, Emma Bouvard, Stéphane Mor, Aude Fernagu, Jules Ramona) ; Teaching Digital Archaeology Digitally (Ronald Visser, Wilko van Zijverden, Pim Alders) ; 3D Archaeology Learning at the Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne University (François Djindjian) ; How to Teach GIS to Archaeologists (Krzysztof Misiewicz, Wiesław Małkowski, Miron Bogacki, Urszula Zawadzka-Pawlewska, Julia M. Chyla) ; Utilisation of a Game Engine for Archaeological Visualisation (Teija Oikarinen) ; The Interplay of Digital and Traditional Craft: re-creating an Authentic Pictish Drinking Horn Fitting (Dr Mhairi Maxwell, Jennifer Gray, Dr Martin Goldberg) ; Computer Applications for Multisensory Communication on Cultural Heritage (Lucia Sarti, Stefania Poesini, Vincenzo De Troia, Paolo Machetti) ; Interactive Communication and Cultural Heritage (Tommaso Empler, Mattia Fabrizi) ; Paleontology 2.0 - Public Awareness of Paleontological Sites Through New Technologies (Tommaso Empler, Fabio Quici, Luca Bellucci) ; Lucus Feroniae and Tiber Valley Virtual Museum: from Documentation and 3d Reconstruction, Up to a Novel Approach in Storytelling, Combining Virtual Reality, Theatrical and Cinematographic Rules, Gesture-based Interaction and Augmented Perception of the Archaeological Context (Eva Pietroni, Daniele Ferdani, Augusto Palombini, Massimiliano Forlani, Claudio Rufa) ; CHAPTER 2: Modelling the Archaeological Process ; Principal Component Analysis of Archaeological Data (Juhana Kammonen, Tarja Sundell) ; IT-assisted Exploration of Excavation Reports. Using Natural Language Processing in the Archaeological Research Process (Christian Chiarcos, Matthias Lang, Philip Verhagen) ; A 3D Visual and Geometrical Approach to Epigraphic Studies. The Soli (Cyprus) Inscription as a Case Study (Valentina Vassallo, Elena Christophorou, Sorin Hermon, Lola Vico, Giancarlo Iannone) ; Modelling the Archaeological Record: a Look from the Levant. Past and Future Approaches (Sveta Matskevich, Ilan Sharon) ; 3D Reconstitution of the Loyola Sugar Plantation and Virtual Reality Applications (Barreau J.B., Petit Q., Bernard Y., Auger R., Le Roux Y., Gaugne R., Gouranton V.) ; Integrated Survey Techniques for the Study of an Archaeological Site of Medieval Morocco (Lorenzo Teppati Losè) ; CHAPTER 3: Interdisciplinary Methods of Data Recording ; 3-Dimensional Archaeological Excavation of Burials Utilizing Computed Tomography Imaging (Tiina Väre, Sanna Lipkin, Jaakko Niinimäki, Sirpa Niinimäki, Titta Kallio-Seppä, Juho-Antti Junno, Milton Núñez, Markku Niskanen, Matti Heino, Annemari Tranberg, Saara Tuovinen, Rosa Vilkama, Timo Ylimaunu) ; Palaeoenvironmental Records and Php Possibilities: Results and Perspectives on an Online Bioarcheological Database (Enora Maguet, Jean-Baptiste Barreau, Chantal Leroyer) ; Integrated Methodologies for the Reconstruction of the Ancient City of Lixus (Morocco) (Cynthia Mascione, Rossella Pansini, Luca Passalacqua) ; A Dig in the Archive. The Mertens Archive of Herdonia Excavations: from Digitisation to Communication (Giuliano De Felice, Andrea Fratta) ; Archaeological and Physicochemical Approaches to the Territory: On-site Analysis and Multidisciplinary Databases for the Reconstruction of Historical Landscapes (Luisa Dallai, Alessandro Donati, Vanessa Volpi, Andrea Bardi) ; Interdisciplinary Methods of Data Recording, Management and Preservation (Marta Lorenzon, Cindy Nelson-Viljoen) ; Driving Engagement in Heritage Sites Using Personal Mobile Technology (Thom Corah, Douglas Cawthorne) ; A Conceptual and Visual Proposal to Decouple Material and Interpretive Information About Stratigraphic Data (Patricia Martin-Rodilla, Cesar Gonzalez-Perez, Patricia Mañana-Borrazas) ; Recording, Preserving and Interpreting a Medieval Archaeological Site by Integrating Different 3d Technologies (Daniele Ferdani, Giovanna Bianchi) ; A 3D Digital Approach to Study, Analyse and (Re)Interpret Cultural Heritage: the Case Study of Ayia Irini (Cyprus and Sweden) (Valentina Vassallo) ; CHAPTER 4: Linking Data ; Beyond the Space: The LoCloud Historical Place Names Micro-Service (Rimvydas Laužikas, Ingrida Vosyliūtė, Justinas Jaronis) ; Using CIDOC CRM for Dynamically Querying ArSol, a Relational Database, from the Semantic Web (Olivier Marlet, Stéphane Curet, Xavier Rodier, Béatrice Bouchou-Markhoff) ; Connecting Cultural Heritage Data: The Syrian Heritage Project in the IT Infrastructure of the German Archaeological Institute (Sebastian Cuy, Philipp Gerth, Reinhard Förtsch) ; The Labelling System: A Bottom-up Approach for Enriched Vocabularies in the Humanities (Florian Thiery, Thomas Engel) ; Providing 3D Content to Europeana (Andrea D’Andrea) ; How To Move from Relational to 5 Star Linked Open Data – A Numismatic Example (Karsten Tolle, David Wigg-Wolf) ; Homogenization of the Archaeological Cartographic Data on a National Scale in Italy (Giovanni Azzena, Roberto Busonera, Federico Nurra, Enrico Petruzzi) ; The GIS for the ‘Forma Italiae’ Project. From the GIS of the Ager Venusinus Project to the GIS of the Ager Lucerinus Project: Evolution of the System (Maria Luisa Marchi, Giovanni Forte) ; GIS, an Answer to the Challenge of Preventive Archaeology? The Attempts of the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeology (Inrap) (Anne Moreau) ; Dynamic Distributions in Macro and Micro Perspective (Espen Uleberg, Mieko Matsumoto) ; CHAPTER 5: New Trends in 3D Archaeology ; Hand-free Interaction in the Virtual Simulation of the Agora of Segesta (Riccardo Olivito, Emanuele Taccola, Niccolò Albertini) ; Master-Hand Attributions of Classical Greek Sculptors by 3D-Analysis at Olympia - Some Preliminary Remarks (A. Patay-Horváth) ; Using 3D Models to Analyse Stratigraphic and Sedimentological Contexts in Archaeo-Palaeo-Anthropological Pleistocene Sites (Gran Dolina Site, Sierra De Atapuerca) (I. Campaña, A. Benito-Calvo, A. Pérez-González, A. I. Ortega, J.M. Bermúdez de Castro, E. Carbonell) ; Establishing Parameter Values for the Stone Erosion Process (Igor Barros Barbosa, Kidane Fanta Gebremariam, Panagiotis Perakis, Christian Schellewald, Theoharis Theoharis) ; The New Trend of 3D Archaeology is… Going 2D! (Giuliano De Felice) ; Documentation and Analysis Workflow for the On-going Archaeological Excavation with Image-Based 3D Modelling Technique: the Case-study of the Medieval Site of Monteleo, Italy (Giulio Poggi) ; 3D Technology Applied to Quantification Studies of Pottery: Eve 2.0 (Miguel Busto-Zapico, Miguel Carrero-Pazos) ; 3D Recording of Archaeological Excavation: the Case of Study of Santa Marta, Tuscany, Italy (Matteo Sordini, Francesco Brogi, Stefano Campana) ; Visual Space, Defence, Control and Communication: Towers and Fortresses System of the Tuscan Coastal Belt and Islands (Michele De Silva) ; CHAPTER 6: Integrating 3D Data ; Photomodelling And Point Cloud Processing. Application in the Survey of the Roman Theatre of Uthina (Tunisia) Architectural Elements (Meriem Zammel) ; Deconstructing Archaeological Palimpsests: Applicability of GIS Algorithms for the Automated Generation of Cross Sections (Miquel Roy Sunyer) ; Pompeii, the Domus of Stallius Eros: a Comparison Between Terrestrial and Aerial Low-cost Surveys (Angela Bosco, Marco Barbarino, Rosario Valentini, Andrea D’Andrea) ; Pottery Goes Digital. 3D Laser Scanning Technology and the Study of Archaeological Ceramics (Martina Revello Lami, Loes Opgenhaffen, Ivan Kisjes) ; ARIADNE Visual Media Service: Easy Web Publishing of Advanced Visual Media (Federico Ponchio, Marco Potenziani, Matteo Dellepiane, Marco Callieri, Roberto Scopigno) ; Mapping Archaeological Databases to CIDOC CRM (Martin Doerr, Maria Theodoridou, Edeltraud Aspöck, Anja Masur) ; Scientific Datasets in Archaeological Research (Nikolaos A. Kazakis, Nestor C. Tsirliganis) ; CHAPTER 7: Spatial Analysis: Theories, Questions and Methods ; Fuzzy Classification of Gallinazo and Mochica Ceramics in the North Coast, Peru Using the Jaccard Coefficient (Kayeleigh Sharp) ; Dynamics of the Settlement Pattern in the Aksum Area (800-400 Bc). an ABM Preliminary Approach (Martina Graniglia, Gilda Ferrandino, Antonella Palomba, Luisa Sernicola, Giuseppe Zollo, Andrea D’Andrea, Rodolfo Fattovich, Andrea Manzo) ; An Application of Agent-Based Modelling and GIS in Minoan Crete (Angelos Chliaoutakis, Georgios Chalkiadakis, Apostolos Sarris) ; Evaluating the Crisis: Population and Land Productivity in Late Medieval Salento, Italy (Giuseppe Muci) ; When GIS Goes to the Countryside: Detecting and Interpreting Roman Orchards from the ‘Grand Palais’ (Drôme, France) (Christophe Landry, Bertrand Moulin) ; GIS Applications and Spatial Analysis for the Survey of the Prehistoric Northern Apennine Context: the Case Study of the Mugello in Tuscany (Andrea Capecchi, Michele De Silva, Fabio Martini, Lucia Sarti) ; The Statistics of Time-to-Event. Integrating the Bayesian Analysis of Radiocarbon Data and Event History Analysis Methods (Juan Antonio Barceló, Giacomo Capuzzo, Berta Morell, Katia Francesca Achino, Agueda Lozano) ; Hypothesis Testing and Validation in Archaeological Networks (Peter Bikoulis) ; Traveling Across Archaeological Landscapes: the Contribution of Hierarchical Communication Networks (Sylviane Déderix) ; Dispersal Versus Optimal Path Calculation (Irmela Herzog) ; Visibility Analysis and the Definition of the Ilergetian Territory: the Case of Montderes (Núria Otero Herraiz) ; CHAPTER 8: Spatial Analysis: Predictivity and Postdictivity in Archaeology ; Predictivity – Postdictivity: a Theoretical Framework (Antonia Arnoldus-Huyzendveld, Carlo Citter, Giovanna Pizziolo) ; Predicting and Postdicting a Roman Road in the Pre-pyrenees Area of Lleida (Spain) (Antonio Porcheddu) ; Predict and Confirm: Bayesian Survey and Excavation at Three Candidate Sites for Late Neolithic Occupation in Wadi Quseiba, Jordan (Philip M.N. Hitchings, Peter Bikoulis, Steven Edwards, Edward B. Banning) ; Predicting Survey Coverage through Calibration: Sweep Widths and Survey in Cyprus and Jordan (Sarah T. Stewart, Edward B. Banning, Steven Edwards, Philip M.N. Hitchings, Peter Bikoulis) ; Estimating The ‘Memory of Landscape’ to Predict Changes in Archaeological Settlement Patterns (Philip Verhagen, Laure Nuninger, Frédérique Bertoncello, Angelo Castrorao Barba) ; On Their Way Home... A Network Analysis of Medieval Caravanserai Distribution in the Syrian Region, According to an 1D Approach (Augusto Palombini, Cinzia Tavernari) ; Modelling Regional Landscape Through the Predictive and Postdictive Exploration of Settlement Choices: a Theoretical Framework (Emeri Farinetti) ; Site Location Modelling and Prediction on Early Byzantine Crete: Methods Employed, Challenges Encountered (Kayt Armstrong, Christina Tsigonaki, Apostolos Sarris, Nadia Coutsinas) ; Potential Paths and the Historical Road Network between Italy and Egypt: from the Predictive to the Postdictive Approach (Andrea Patacchini, Giulia Nicatore) ; CHAPTER 9: Spatial Analysis: Occupation Floors and Palaeosurfaces in the Digital Era ; Ritual use of Romito Cave During the Late Upper Palaeolithic: an Integrated Approach for Spatial Reconstruction (Michele De Silva, Giovanna Pizziolo, Domenico Lo Vetro, Vincenzo De Troia, Paolo Machetti, Enrico F. Ortisi, Fabio Martini) ; Visualizing Occupation Features in Homogenous Sediments. Examples from the Late Middle Palaeolithic of Grotte De La Verpillière II, Burgundy, France (Jens Axel Frick) ; A New Palaeolithic Burial From Grotta Del Romito (Calabria, Italy). A Digital Restitution (Francesco Enrico Ortisi, Domenico Lo Vetro, Giovanna Pizziolo, Michele De Silva, Claudia Striuli, Pier Francesco Fabbri, Fabio Martini) ; Predicting the Accumulative Consequences of Abandonment Processes. Intra-site Analysis of Lakeside Settlements (Katia Francesca Achino, Juan Antonio Barceló, Micaela Angle) ; Reconstructing the Boom of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Population Size in Finland by Agent and Equation-Based Modelling (Tarja Sundell, Martin Heger, Juhana Kammonen) ; Archaeology, Geomorphology and Palaeosurfaces Studies: a Multidisciplinary Approach for Understanding the Ancient Laos Territory (Vincenzo Amato, Cristiano Benedetto De Vita, Francesca Filocamo, Alfonso Santoriello, Francesco Uliano Scelza) ; Intrasite Analysis in the Florentine Plain: from Data Integration to Palaeosurfaces Interpretation (Giovanna Pizziolo, Nicoletta Volante, Lucia Sarti) ; Living in a Palaeoriverbed: Intra-site Analysis of Two Prehistoric Sites in the Florentine Alluvial Plain (Rosalba Aquino, Matteo Faraoni, Laura Morabito, Giovanna Pizziolo, Lucia Sarti) ; Exploring Scenarios for the First Farming Expansion in the Balkans Via an Agent-based Model (Andrea Zanotti, Richard Moussa, Jérôme Dubouloz, Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel) ; CHAPTER 10: Spatial Analysis: Data, Patterns and Process Interpretation ; Strontium Isotope Analysis and Human Mobility from Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age in the Central Plain of China (Chunyan Zhao) ; The Iron Age in Serakhs Oasis (Turkmenistan). The Preliminary Results of the Application of Geographic Information System in the Study of the Settlement Pattern of the Earliest Confirmed Occupation of the Oasis (Nazarij Buławka, Barbara Kaim) ; Multi-Scale Approach for the Reconstruction of a Past Urban Environment. From Remote Sensing to Space Syntax: the Case of Dionysias (Fayum, Egypt) (Gabriella Carpentiero, Carlo Tessaro) ; Enhancing GIS Urban Data with the 3rd Dimension: A Procedural Modelling Approach (Chiara Piccoli) ; Structural Integrity Modelling of an Early Bronze Age Corridor House in Helike of Achaea, NW Peloponnese, Greece (Mariza Kormann, Stella Katsarou, Dora Katsonopoulou, Gary Lock) ; Discovering Prehistoric Ritual Norms. A Machine Learning Approach (Stéphanie Duboscq, Joan Anton Barceló Álvarez, Katia Francesca Achino, Berta Morell Rovira, Florence Allièse, Juan Francisco Gibaja Bao) ; Application of the ‘Bag of Words’ Model (bow) for Analysing Archaeological Potsherds (Diego Jiménez-Badillo, Edgar Roman-Rangel) ; Autonomy in Marine Archaeology (Øyvind Ødegård, Stein M. Nornes, Martin Ludvigsen, Thijs J. Maarleveld, Asgeir J. Sørensen) ; Identifying Patterns on Prehistoric Wall Paintings: a New Curve Fitting Approach (Michail Panagopoulos, Dimitris Arabadjis, Panayiotis Rousopoulos, Michalis Exarhos, Constantin Papaodysseus) ; Pottery Studies of the 4th-Century Necropolis at Bârlad-Valea Seacă, Romania (Vlad-Andrei Lăzărescu, Vincent Mom) ; A Bridge to Digital Humanities: Geometric Methods and Machine Learning for Analysing Ancient Script in 3D (Hubert Mara, Bartosz Bogacz) ; CHAPTER 11: Remote Sensing: Computational Imaging Advances and Sensor Data Integration ; The Possibilities of the Aerial Lidar for the Detection of Galician Megalithic Mounds (NW of the Iberian Peninsula). The Case of Monte De Santa Mariña, Lugo (Miguel Carrero-Pazos, Benito Vilas-Estévez) ; Reflectance Transformation Imaging Beyond the Visible: Ultraviolet Reflected and Ultraviolet Induced Visible Fluorescence (E. Kotoula) ; Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa: Introducing the EAMENA Project (Robert Bewley, Andrew Wilson, David Kennedy, David Mattingly, Rebecca Banks, Michael Bishop, Jennie Bradbury, Emma Cunliffe, Michael Fradley, Richard Jennings, Robyn Mason, Louise Rayne, Martin Sterry, Nichole Sheldrick, Andrea Zerbini) ; Enhancing Multi-Image Photogrammetric 3d Reconstruction Performance on Low-Feature Surfaces (George Ioannakis, Anestis Koutsoudis, Blaž Vidmar, Fotis Arnaoutoglou, Christodoulos Chamzas) ; Combination of RTI and Decorrelation — an Approach to the Examination of Badly Preserved Rock Inscriptions and Rock Art at Gebelein (Egypt) (Piotr Witkowski, Julia M. Chyla, Wojciech Ejsmond) ; Geophysical-Archaeological Experiments in Controlled Conditions at the Hydrogeosite Laboratory (CNR-IMAA) (Felice Perciante, Luigi Capozzoli L., Antonella Caputi, Gregory De Martino, Valeria Giampaolo, Raffaele Luongo, Enzo Rizzo) ; Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage in 6Ds: the Interdisciplinary Connections (Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Julio M. del Hoyo Melendez, Lindsay W. MacDonald, Aurore Mathys, Vera Moitinho de Almeida) ; Integrating Low Altitude with Satellite and Airborne Aerial Images: Photogrammetric Documentation of Early Byzantine Settlements in Crete (Gianluca Cantoro, Christina Tsigonaki, Kayt Armstrong, Apostolos Sarris) ; Creating 3D Replicas of Medium- to Large-Scale Monuments for Web-Based Dissemination Within the Framework of the 3D-Icons Project (Anestis Koutsoudis, Fotios Arnaoutoglou, Vasilios Liakopoulos, Athanasios Tsaouselis, George Ioannakis, Christodoulos Chamzas) ; The Lidoriki Project: Low Altitude, Aerial Photography, GIS, and Traditional Survey in Rural Greece (Todd Brenningmeyer, Kostis Kourelis, Miltiadis Katsaros) ; A Fully Integrated UAV System for Semi-automated Archaeological Prospection (Matthias Lang, Thorsten Behrens, Karsten Schmidt, Dieta Svoboda, Conrad Schmidt) ; Stereo Visualization of Historical Aerial Photos as a Valuable Tool for Archaeological Research (Anders Hast, Andrea Marchetti) ; CHAPTER 12: Open Source and Open Data ; Strati5 - Open Mobile Software for Harris Matrix (Jerzy Sikora, Jacek Sroka, Jerzy Tyszkiewicz) ; Archaeology as Community Enterprise (Néhémie Strupler) ; Digital Resources for Archaeology. The Contribution of the On-Line Projects by Isma-Cnr (Alessandra Caravale, Alessandra Piergrossi) ; A Swabian in the Orient. In the Footsteps of Julius Euting (Matthias Lang, Manuel Abbt, Gerlinde Bigga, Jason T. Herrmann, Virginia Hermann, Kevin Körner, Fabian Schwabe, Dieta Svoboda) ; GQBWiki Goes Open (Stefano Costa, Alessandro Carabia) ; Archaeological Contents: from Open Access to Open Data (Aurélie Monteil, Viviane Boulétreau) ; CHAPTER 13: Computers and Rock Art Studies ; Archaeoacoustics of Rock Art: Quantitative Approaches to the Acoustics and Soundscape of Rock Art (Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Tommaso Mattioli) ; Photometric Stereo 3D Visualizations of Rock-Art Panels, Bas-Reliefs, and Graffiti (Massimo Vanzi, Paolo Emilio Bagnoli, Carla Mannu, Giuseppe Rodriguez) ; SIVT – Processing, Viewing, and Analysis of 3D Scans of the Porthole Slab and Slab B2 of Züschen I (Stefanie Wefers, Tobias Reich, Burkhard Tietz, Frank Boochs) ; Digital Practices for the Study of the Great Rock in the Naquane National Park, Valcamonica, Italy: from Graphic Rendering to Figure Cataloguing (Andrea Arcà) ; Real-time 3D Modelling of the Cultural Heritage: the Forum of Nerva in Rome (Tommaso Empler, Barbara Forte, Emanuele Fortunati) ; Mediated Representations After Laser Scanning. The Monastery of Aynalı and the Architectural Role of Red Pictograms (Carlo Inglese, Marco Carpiceci, Fabio Colonnese)

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Book SynopsisAs part of a series of research projects on the Archaeology of hunter-gatherers societies in the Southern Pampean Hills this presents, among other things, the study of various aspects of the organization of lithic technology and strategies for the use of lithic resources by prehistoric populations. This is in order to understand the social aspects that allow us to recognize and describe habitus or ways of doing things. In this book we studied lithic assemblages, in the manner described above from stratigraphic levels of the Alero Deodoro Roca (Deodoro Roca Rockshelter) comprising chronologies between ca. 3000 years BP to ca. 3600 years BP. We propose that behind the technical movements, organization of the production, distribution of activities in space, the selection of raw materials and any other technological activity, there are people and groups who make decisions based on the context, needs, history and knowledge. We ask ourselves: What affected material selection for the production of stone tools rocks? Was there a differential selection depending on the desired end product? And if so, was it different in diachronic moments? What techniques were used in the production of what instruments? What productive activities were conducted in Alero Deodoro Roca and which were not? What role did the tools produced have? This study aims to produce relevant and new information that expands our knowledge of technological strategies used by the human groups in order to compare them with those produced in other areas of the Sierras. It will contribute to a process of constructing knowledge about hunter-gatherers of the valleys of Cordoba province, by studying lithic technology and therefore raising new questions for further studies.Table of ContentsCapítulo 1 El problema de investigación y sus antecedentes; Capítulo 2 Aspectos teóricos – metodológicos; Capítulo 3 Caracterización del Alero Deodoro Roca y procedencia de la muestra estudiada; Capítulo 4 Resultados del análisis de los materiales líticos de ADR-B; Capítulo 5 Discusión y conclusiones del análisis de los materiales líticos de ADR; Referencias bibliográficas; Anexo 1; Anexo 2

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Book SynopsisThe island of Sant’ Andrea, situated on the road that since ancient times has linked the Adige Valley with the Lake Garda, once rose impressively from the green expanse of water, but now is a small hump on the edge of a vast marshy basin. Fifteen centuries ago it was the fortified seat of a contingent of soldiers and their families. In 1998, after a long series of sporadic discoveries that started way back in the 19th century, the Archeaology Section of the Rovereto Civic Museum began a research and study project that involved a series of summer excavations, that brought to light a multi-layered archeological site with finds ranging from the prehistoric age to late antiquity, medieval times and right through to even the First World War. Along the northeastern side and the southern edge of the island the remains have been found of some buildings that can be traced to a fortified settlement and on the top part of the hump the remains of a Romanesque church have been investigated. The buildings that made up the settlement illustrate a complex series of construction periods; so far these have been dated between the 5th and 7th centuries. Numerous examples of armoury and military clothing have been found in the settlement area and this clearly suggests the military function of the site. The volume is devoted to the results of the research in the castrum: A general overview of the site is followed by a part devoted to periodization and stratigraphic analysis of the dig; then there is a large section that includes contributions on the small finds; the fourth part contains some concluding remarks.Table of ContentsCOLOPHON; GELEITWORT; PREFAZIONE; PREFACE; PARTE PRIMA; IL SITO DI SANT’ANDREA DI LOPPIO: ASPETTI NATURALISTICI E FONTI STORICO-ARCHIVISTICHE; 1. IL TRATTO OCCIDENTALE DELLA VALLE DI LOPPIO: IL PAESAGGIO OGGI E NELL’ANTICHITÀ; 2. UNO SGUARDO ALLA FLORA E ALLA VEGETAZIONE DELLA CONCA DEL LAGO DI LOPPIO; 3. IL SITO DI LOPPIO NELLE FONTI DOCUMENTARIE; PARTE SECONDA; LO SCAVO ARCHEOLOGICO: PERIODIZZAZIONE E ANALISI STRATIGRAFICA; 1. LE RICERCHE ARCHEOLOGICHE NEL SITO DI LOPPIO - SANT’ANDREA; 2. LA PERIODIZZAZIONE; 3. LA SEQUENZA STRATIGRAFICA: ANALISI E INTERPRETAZIONE; 4. EDIFICI E STRUTTURE MURARIE: TIPOLOGIA, MATERIALI, TECNICHE COSTRUTTIVE; 5. “QUID SINT SUGGRUNDARIA”: LA SEPOLTURA INFANTILE A ENCHYTRISMOS DI LOPPIO – SANT’ANDREA; PARTE TERZA; I REPERTI MOBILI; 1. CERAMICA COMUNE; 2. ANALISI IN SEZIONE SOTTILE DI CERAMICA COMUNE PROVENIENTE DA LOPPIO; 3. CERAMICHE FINI D’IMPORTAZIONE E IMITAZIONI LOCALI O REGIONALI; 4. CERAMICA INVETRIATA; 5. ANFORE; 6. ANALISI IN SEZIONE SOTTILE SU ANFORE DI LOPPIO; 7. RECIPIENTI IN PIETRA OLLARE; 8. REPERTI DI VETRO E PASTA VITREA; 9. ANALISI ARCHEOMETRICHE SU MANUFATTI VITREI; 10. REPERTI METALLICI; 11. STUDIO DEI MATERIALI LEGATI AD ATTIVITÀ METALLURGICHE DALL’ISOLA DI SANT’ANDREA: RISULTATI PRELIMINARI; 12. IL RESTAURO DEGLI OGGETTI METALLICI DI LOPPIO - SANT’ANDREA; 13. LE MONETE DEL CASTRUM; 14. MANUFATTI IN OSSO; 15. UTENSILI DI TERRACOTTA; 16. PRODOTTI LATERIZI; 17. MANUFATTI LITICI; 18. PERLINA ANULARE DI ENSTATITE: CARATTERIZZAZIONE MINERALOGICA E CHIMICA E IPOTESI SU TECNICA DI PRODUZIONE E ZONA DI PROVENIENZA; 19. PIETRE DURE E SEMIPREZIOSE; 20. MANUFATTI IN SELCE; 21. I RESTI CARPOLOGICI DELL’INSEDIAMENTO CASTRENSE DI SANT’ANDREA DI LOPPIO; 22. INDAGINI ARCHEOZOOLOGICHE SUI RESTI FAUNISTICI PROVENIENTI DAL CASTRUM DI SANT’ANDREA; PARTE QUARTA; CONSIDERAZIONI CONCLUSIVE; L’INSEDIAMENTO FORTIFICATO DI SANT’ANDREA DI LOPPIO: TIPOLOGIA, FUNZIONE, COMPONENTI SOCIALI; BIBLIOGRAFIA

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Book SynopsisIt is commonly recognized that the Cedars of Lebanon were prized in the ancient world, but how can the complex archaeological role of the Cedrus genus be articulated in terms that go beyond its interactions with humans alone? And to what extent can ancient ships and boats made of this material demonstrate such intimate relations with wood? Drawing from object-oriented ontologies and other ‘new materialisms,’ Cedar Forests, Cedar Ships constructs a hylocentric anti-narrative spreading from the Cretaceous to the contemporary. With a dual focus on the woods and the watercraft, and on the considerable historical overlap between them, the book takes another step in the direction of challenging the conceptual binaries of nature/culture and subject/object, while providing an up-to-date synthesis of the relevant archaeological and historical data. Binding physical properties and metaphorical manifestations, the fluctuating presence of cedar (forests, trees, and wood) in religious thought is interpreted as having had a direct bearing on shipbuilding in the ancient East Mediterranean. Close and diachronic excavations of the interstices of allure, lore, and metaphor can begin to navigate the (meta) physical relationships between the forested mountain and the forest afloat, and their myriad unique realities.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: An Object-Oriented Archaeology (or, Redefining the ‘Archaeological Object’); PART I: Forests, Trees & Timber – The Realities and Relations of Wood; CHAPTER 1: The Enduring Qualities and the First Relations; CHAPTER 2: The Seductive Forests; CHAPTER 3: The Allure and the Distortion; PART II: Ships, Shipbuilding, and Seafaring - The Potency of Wood on Water; Chapter 4: Ships and Transformation; CHAPTER 5: Ship Construction, Myth Construction; CHAPTER 6: The Ontology of Obsolescence; EPILOGUE: Dark Ecology; or On Pins & Needles; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Roman legionary base at Novae in Lower Moesia is one of the most important sites in the Lower Danubian provinces. Towards late Antiquity, the military camp was transformed into a civil town with Episcopal residence and survived until the beginning of the 7th century. The Polish-Bulgarian excavations carried out for more than 55 years revealed remains dated from the mid-1st up to the early Byzantine periods and more than 300 inscriptions on stone. The rural hinterland of Novae is exceptional and fascinating for the historian and archaeologist, not only due to the importance of the site itself, but also due to its location. The legionary camp at Novae was located halfway between the outlets of two rivers – the Osăm and Jantra, flowing nearly parallel to each other. This part of the Danubian Plain was inhabited by Geto-Thracians and tribes influenced by the Celts. The special position of the lands between the Osăm and Jantra rivers is well-expressed by a series of boundary stones set up in AD 136 by Emperor Hadrian, who divided the tribal territories of Moesos and Thraces. This special geopolitical situation must have caused considerable difficulties in administering the area by the Romans. At present this poses a challenge for scholars, who search for answers to various questions concerning the universal solutions applied in borderlands in the past.Trade Review'The general sense that the books offers is of thorough and solid documentation, thus seeming completely trustworthy in regard of the provided data. Even if aspects of this investigation have been revised and enhanced recently (e.g. Mihailescu-Bîrliba 2018), micromonographs for mainly rural provincial areas are scarce for this part of Europe, thus A. Tomas’s book serves as a methodological example, as well as an important source of information and data.' – Rada Varga (2020): Acta Musei Napocensis, 56/ITable of ContentsChapter 1 GEOGRAPHY OF THE REGION; Chapter 2 HISTORICAL SETTING; Chapter 3 METHODOLOGICAL REMARKS AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE SITES; Chapter 4 SETTLEMENT STRUCTURES; Chapter 5 LOCAL ADMINISTRATION AND GOVERNMENT; Chapter 6 THE LANGUAGES IN USE, ETHNIC AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES; Chapter 7 MILITARY AND CIVILIAN INTERACTION: RELATIONS, IMPACT AND DEVELOPMENT; CATALOGUE; Epigraphic monuments; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the long history of Syria through a jouney of the most important and recently-excavated archaeological sites. The sites cover over 1.8 million years and all regions in Syria; 110 academics have contributed information on 103 excavations for this volume. Based on these contributions the volume offers a detailed summary of the history of Syria, a history as important as any in terms of the development of human society. It is hoped that this knowledge will offer not only an increased understanding of the country but also act as a deterrent to the destruction of Syrian cultural heritage and facilitate the protection of Syrian sites. The following paper(s) are available to download in Open Access: Dja’de el-Mughara (Aleppo) - Eric Coqueugniot: DownloadTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Significance of Syria in Human History – (Youssef Kanjou and Akira Tsuneki) ; Chapter 1: Prehistory: 1. El Kowm Oasis (Homs) – (Reto Jagher, Dorota Wojtczak and Jean-Marie Le Tensorer) ; 2. Dederiyeh Cave (Afrin, Aleppo) – (Takeru Akazawa and Yoshihiro Nishiaki) ; 3. Wadi Mushkuna Rockshelter (Damascus) – (Nicholas J. Conard) ; 4. Baaz Rockshelter (Damascus) – (Nicholas J. Conard) ; 5. Kaus Kozah Cave (Damascus) – (Nicholas J. Conard) ; 6. Abu Hureyra (Raqqa) – (Andrew M. T. Moore) ; 7. Qarassa (Sweida) – (F. Braemer, J. J. Ibanez and X. Terradas) ; 8. Mureybet (Raqqa) – (Marie-Claire Cauvin and Danielle Stordeur) ; 9. Tell Qaramel (Aleppo) – (Youssef Kanjou) ; 10. Jerf el-Ahmar (Aleppo) – (Danielle Stordeur and George Willcox) ; 11. Dja’de el-Mughara (Aleppo) (Eric Coqueugniot) [Open Access: Download] ; 12. Tell Halula (Aleppo) – (Miquel Molist) ; 13. Tell Aswad (Damascus) – (Danielle Stordeur and Rima Khawam) ; 14. Tell el-Kerkh (Idlib) – (Akira Tsuneki) ; 15. Tell Sabi Abyad (Raqqa) – (Peter M. M. G. Akkermans) ; 16. Tell Seker el-Aheimar (Hassake) – (Yoshihiro Nishiaki) ; 17. Shir (Hama) – (Karin Bartl) ; 18. Tell Kosak Shamali (Aleppo) – (Yoshihiro Nishiaki) ; 19. Tell el-‘Abr (Aleppo) – (Yayoi Yamazaki and Hamido Hammade) ; 20. Chagar Bazar (Hassake) – (Walter Cruells and Anna Gomez Bach) ; 21. Tell Zeidan (Raqqa) – (Anas Al Khabour) ; 22. Tell Feres (Hassake) – (Régis Vallet and Johnny Samuele Baldi) ; 23. Tell Ziyadeh (Hassake) – (Frank Hole) ; Chapter 2: Ancient Syria (Bronze and Iron Ages): 24. Tell Beydar / Nabada / Nabatium (Hassake) – (Marc Lebeau and †Antoine Suleiman) ; 25. Tell Banat (Aleppo) – (Thomas L. McClellan and Anne Porter) ; 26. Tell Mozan/Urkesh (Hassake) – (Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati) ; 27. Tell Leilan (Hassake) – (Harvey Weiss) ; 28. Tell Sheikh Hamad/Dur-Katlimmu/Magdalu (Deir ez-Zor) – (Hartmut Kühne) ; 29. Umm el-Marra (Aleppo) – (Glenn M. Schwartz) ; 30. Tell Jerablus Tahtani (Aleppo) – (Edgar Peltenburg) ; 31. Tell Al-Rawda (Hama) - (Corinne Castel and Nazir Awad) ; 32. Tell Munbāqa (Raqqa) – (Dittmar Machule) ; 33. Tell el-Abd (Raqqa) – (Uwe Finkbeiner) ; 34. Tell Ali al-Hajj, Rumeilah (Aleppo) – (Kazuya Shimogama) ; 35. Mishrifeh / Qatna (Homs) – (Daniele Morandi Bonacossi) ; 36. Mishirfeh/Qatna, Syrian Excavations (Homs) – (Michel Al-Maqdissi and Massoud Badawi) ; 37. Tell Mastuma (Idlib) – (Hidetoshi Tsumoto) ; 38. Tell Sakka (Damascus) – (Ahmad Ferzat-Taraqji) ; 39. Tell Iris (Lattakia) – (Antoine Souleiman and Michel Al-Maqdissi) ; 40. Tell Toueini (Lattakia) – (Michel Al-Maqdissi, Massoud Badawi and Eva Ishaq) ; 41. Tell Sianu (Lattakia) – (Michel Al-Maqdissi) ; 42. Tell Taban (Hassake) – (Hirotoshi Numoto) ; 43. Tell Hammam el-Turkman (Raqqa) – (Diederik J.W. Meijer) ; 44. Tell Selenkahiye (Aleppo) – (Diederik J.W. Meijer) ; 45. Tell Mohammed Diyab (Hassake) – (Christophe Nicolle) ; 46. Tell Tuqan (Idlib) – (Francesca Baffi) ; 47. Khirbet Al-Umbashi, Khirbet Dabab and Hebariye (Sweida) – (Frank Braemer and Ahmed Taraqji) ; 48. Tell Masaikh and the Region around Terqa (Deir ez-Zor) – (Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault) ; 49. Tell Ashara/ Terqa (Deir ez-Zor) – (Olivier Rouault) ; 50. Tell Bazi (Aleppo) – (Adelheid Otto and Berthold Einwag) ; 51. Tell Afis (Idlib) – (Stefania Mazzoni) ; 52. Tell Fekheriye (Hassake) – (Dominik Bonatz) ; 53. Mari (Deir ez-Zor) – (Pascal Butterlin) ; 54. Tell Nebi Mend (Homs) – (Peter Parr) ; 55. Qala’at Halwanji (Aleppo) – (Jesper Eidem) ; 56. Tell Ahmar/Til Barsib (Aleppo) – (Guy Bunnens) ; 57. Chagar Bazar/Ashnakkum (Hassake) – (Onhan Tunca) ; 58. Tell Humeida (Deir ez-Zor) – (Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós and Yaroob al-Abdallah) ; 59. Tell Qabr Abu al-‘Atiq (Deir ez-Zor) – (Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós and Shaker al-Shbib) ; 60. Tulul el-Far, Tell Taouil and Tell el-Kharaze (Damascus) – (Sophie Cluzan and Ahmad Ferzat-Taraqji) ; 61. Tell Massin and Tell al-Nasriyah (Hama) – (Dominique Parayre) ; 62. Tell Arbid (Hassake) – (Piotr Bieliński) ; 63. Tell Halaf (Hassake) – (Lutz Martin) ; 64. Halawa (Raqqa) – (Jan-Waalke Meyer and Winfried Orthmann) ; 65. Tell Shiyukh Tahtani (Aleppo) – (Gioacchino Falsone and Paola Sconzo) ; 66. Ras Shamra/Ugarit (Lattakia) – (Valérie Matoïan and Khozama al-Bahloul) ; 67. Tell Chuera (Raqqa) – (Jan-Waalke Meyer) ; 68. Amrith/Marathos (Tartous) – (Michel Al-Maqdissi and Eva Ishaq) ; 69. Arslan Tash (Aleppo) – (Anas Al Khabour) ; 70. Tell Meskene/Emar (Aleppo) – (Ferhan Sakal) ; 71. Tell Barri/Kahat (al Hassake) – (Raffaella Pierobon Benoit) ; 72. Tell Kazel/Sumur – (Leila Badre) ; 73. Tell Qumluq (Aleppo) – (Youssef Kanjou and Andrew Jamieson) ; 74. The Cemetery of Abu Hamad (Raqqa) – (Jan-Waalke Meyer) ; 75. The cemeteries of Wreide, Tawi and Shameseddin (Raqqa) – (Jan-Waalke Meyer andWinfried Orthmann) ; 76. Tell Ajaja (Hassake) – (Asa’d Mahmoud and Hartmut Kühne) ; 77. Tell Bderi (Hassake) – (Hartmut Kühne) ; Chapter 3: Syria in the Classic World (Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine): 78. Jebel Khalid, (Aleppo) – (Graeme Clarke and Heather Jackson) ; 79. Palmyra, Years of Syro-German/Austrian Archaeological Research (Homs) – (Andreas Schmidt-Colinet, Khaled al- As‘ad and Waleed al-As‘ad) ; 80. Palmyra, Japanese Archaeological Research (Homs) – (Saito, Kiyihide) ; 81. Palmyrena. The Northern Hinterland of Palmyra (Homs) – (Jørgen Christian Meyer, Nils Anfinset and Torbjørn Preus Schou) ; 82. Palmyra/Tadmor (Homs) – (Michal Gawlikowski) ; 83. Cyrrhus/Nebi Houri (Aleppo) – (Jeanine Abdul Massih and Shaker Al Shbib) ; 84. Tell As-Sin (Deir ez-Zor) – (Shaker al-Shbib and Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós) ; 85. Gindaros (Aleppo) – (Ammar Abdulrahman) ; 86. El-Iss/Qinnasrin (Aleppo) – (Marie-Odile Rousset and Youssef Kanjou) ; 87. Resafa/Sergiopolis (Raqqa) – (Anas Al Khabour) ; 88. Resafa/Sergiupolis /Rusafat Hisham (Raqqa) – (Dorothée Sack and Martin Gussone) ; 89. Zenobia – Halabiya (Deir Ezzor) – (Sylvie Blétry) ; 90. Sergilla, Ruweiha and El Bâra (Idlib) – (Maamoun Abdulkarim and Gérard Charpentier) ; 91. Musaytbeh-Jableh (Lattakia) – (Massoud Badawi) ; 92. Deir Qinnsrin-Jarabulus (Aleppo) – (Mohamad Fakhro) ; 93. Tell el-Kasra (Deir ez-Zor) – (Yaroob al-Abdallah) ; 94. Syriac Inscriptions of Syria – (Françoise Briquel Chatonnet) ; 95. Sura (Raqqa) – (Ali Othman) ; 97. Tell Shayzar (Hama) – (Matthias Grawehr and Abdulsalam Albachkami) ; Chapter 4: Islamic Archaeology in Syria: 97. The Citadel of Shayzar (Hama) – (Cristina Tonghini) ; 98. Qalaat Al Mudiq/Apamean Citadel (Hama) – (Shaker al Shbib and Mathilde Gelin) ; 99. Tell Tuneinir (Hassake) – (Michael Fuller and Neathery Fuller) ; 100. Aleppo Castle (Aleppo) – (Assad Yusof and Youssef Kanjou) ; 101. Madinat el-Far/Hisn Maslama (Raqqa) – (Claus-Peter Haase) ; 102. Kharab Sayyar (Raqqa) – (Jan-Waalke Meyer) ; 103. Tell Damir (Raqqa) – (Anas Al Khabour) ; Synthesis: Syrian Archaeology in the Past, Present and Future – (Youssef Kanjou and Akira Tsuneki)

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Book SynopsisArchaeological excavations at the Eleuthernian burial ground of Orthi Petra continue to yield significant elements of the archaeo-anthropological record, the subject matter of continuous interdisciplinary research, outreach, national and international acclaim. Among a plethora of features discovered, unearthing components of a unique nexus to the Geometric-Archaic Periods, was an unspoiled time capsule in astonishing contextual preservation, a hand carved tomb with a drómos into the softer bedrock material of Orthi Petra. Designated in short as contextual association A1K1, the tomb as a funerary activity area yielded a remarkable collection of jar burials in complex internal tomb stratification, containing cremated human bones accompanied by a most noteworthy assembly of burial artifacts of exquisite wealth, along a multitude of traces of “fossilized” behavior left resolutely behind by the ancients in their transactions on the paths of their perceived realities and obligations of life norms, but also of the arcane matters of afterlife. Such evidentiary data of funerary behavior in conjunction with the rest of the archaeo-anthropological record afford the opportunity to document where possible and deduce where pertinent aspects of the transitional period, overlapping the end of life’s journey and the unfolding of death in light of a number of the principles, the values, and the modes that guided the lives of the ancients as mortuary habits may have the transcending power to be revealing of certain codes of ante mortem conduct, of main beliefs, of ideologies and viewpoints, characteristic of their ideational world and hence of their attitudes toward, and expectations of, post mortem life. Such understandings, based on critical and deductive thinking combined with the data offered through the scope of anthropological archaeology and forensics by the decoding of traces permanently recorded on bone and dental surfaces, construct a persuasive dialectic, regarding important facets of the human condition in Eleutherna from Geometric through Archaic times.Table of ContentsPrologue; Introduction; Anthropological insights on monumental tomb A1K1; The warrior order of ancient Eleutherna; Deciphering conferred funerary whispers; Standing upright in Hades; Epilogue; Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisThe Watery Scroll rulers selected the ancient Maya site of Tamarindito as their capital. First settled around 300 BC, the site served as their seat from the fifth through the eighth century AD. After the collapse, people continued to live at Tamarindito for several generations. Archaeological investigations provide a comprehensive perspective on social dynamics and change in an ancient Maya capital.Table of Contents1. Introducción – Markus Eberl y Claudia Marie Vela González; 2. Reconocimiento, creación del mapa y análisis especial – Sarah Levithol, Markus Eberl y Byron Hernández; 3. Excavaciones de pozos de sondeo – Claudia Marie Vela González, Andrea Díaz, Sven Gronemeyer, Sarah Levithol, Juan Manuel Palomo, Laura Velásquez y Markus Eberl; 4. Excavaciones extensivas – Claudia Marie Vela González, Andrea Díaz, Sven Gronemeyer, Sarah Levithol y Markus Eberl; 5. Textos jeroglíficos – Sven Gronemeyer; 6. Recursos naturales y subsistencia – Markus Eberl, Claudia Marie Vela González y Laura Velásquez; 7. Organización política y social – Markus Eberl y Sven Gronemeyer; 8. Cambios a través del tiempo – Markus Eberl, Omar Schwendener y Claudia Marie Vela González; 9. Conclusiones – Markus Eberl y Claudia Marie Vela González; Bibliografía

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Book SynopsisThis publication presents the results of the archaeological studies relative to the settlement pattern, realized between 1983 and 1996 within the framework of the Michoacán Projects I and III led by the researchers of the Centre of Mexican and Centro-American studies (CEMCA). The Michoacán project (1983-1987) aimed at the realization of a study of all the perceptible demonstrations of the prehispanic occupations in the region. After the first three field’s seasons of the year 1983, dedicated essentially to survey and test pits, we directed all our efforts to the resolution of more specific objectives, the main objective being the settlement patterns study of the very numerous postclassical sites of the south region of the Project, located in the Tarascan Sierra and Malpais of Zacapu. The excavations directly connected to this subject were made in 1984 and 1985, but various test pits and surveys realized between 1983 and 1986 brought very useful data for the study. The author presented a doctoral thesis sustained in January 1991, in Paris I University on “The sites and residential and civic-ceremonial structures of the region of Zacapu, during the Postclassic”. This thesis constituted the first synthesis in French on this subject. As a consequence of the criticisms emitted during the defense of this thesis, and of insufficient data concerning the Early Postclassic occupation of the Zacapu Region, the Michoacán III (1993-1996) project was established. Both main purposes of this Project were the study of the transition between the Palacio phase (900-1200) and the Milpillas phase (1200-1450) as well as the systematic recording of sites and various structures of these sites localized in the Zacapu Malpais and dated from the Milpillas phase. This publication will present mainly the results of the surveys, surface collections and test-pits and allow inferences on the settlement patterns of the region of Zacapu and particularly the rapid growth in the Malpais of Zacapu of large sites at the beginning of Postclassic.Table of ContentsCapítulo 1: Contexto general; Capítulo 2: Localización, jerarquización de los sitios según los datos etnohistóricos del siglo XVI; Capítulo 3: Las investigaciones arqueológicas en torno a los sitios; Capítulo 4 - Cronología Cerámica (con la Contribución de Dominique Michelet); Capítulo 5: Tipología de los sitios, evolución del poblamiento del Clásico al Posclásico temprano, estructura del habitat y estimaciones de población en el Posclásico tardío; Capítulo 6: El surgimiento de la entidad tarasca Posclásica; BIBLIOGRAFIA; GLOSARIO DE TÉRMINOS TARASCOS (O PURÉPECHAS) Y NAHUATL

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Book SynopsisThis work seeks to understand the process of monetization within the economy of the Galicians and Asturians and the cultural ways in which the phenomenon occurred. Numismatic remains are studied in depth, found in four of the roads crossing the northwestern territory of the Iberian peninsula in Roman times; the tracks studied, as referenced in the Itinerary of Antonino, were XVII, XVIII, XIX and XX. All the coins discovered were imported, and so it was possible to mark precisely where the greatest influx of individuals and materials came from, as well as areas and zones of different speeds of monetization and, thus, Romanization. -Spanish Description: A través de este trabajo hemos pretendido comprender el proceso de monetización de la economía de galaicos y astures y las vías culturales por las que el fenómeno se produjo. Para ello hemos estudiado en profundidad los restos numismáticos aparecidos en cuatro de las calzadas que atravesaban el territorio noroccidental de la península ibérica en época romana, las vías XVII, XVIII, XIX y XX del Itinerario de Antonino. Debido a que toda la moneda que encontramos en este territorio es importada, hemos podido marcar con precisión cuáles fueron los horizontes de mayor entrada de individuos y materias, así como áreas y zonas de diferentes velocidades de monetización y con ello de romanización. Seguramente las zonas cercanas a campamentos, dónde se alojaron miles de soldados cuya única economía posible era la monetaria, conocieron y dependieron pronto del valor de la moneda. Igualmente los nuevos núcleos romanos administrativos hubieron de ser centros focales de monetización, aunque desconocemos el por qué no se abrieron cecas de moneda en estas ricas ciudades con importante tráfico de mineral y de gentes, como pueda ser el caso de Astorga o Braga.Table of ContentsCapítulo I: Introducción; Capítulo II: Moneda, economía y sociedad; Capítulo III: La circulación monetaria marca territorios; Capítulo IV: El poco impacto de las primeras monedas; Capítulo V: El gran impacto económico de las monedas llegadas con el ejército augústeo; Capítulo VI: Una circulación envejecida. Los flavios; Capítulo VII: La llegada de nueva moneda y la reparación viaria del SIGLO II d.C. Los antoninos; Capítulo VIII: La quiebra del antiguo sistema monetario. Los severos; Capítulo IX: La recesión económica del siglo III d.C. Período de anarquía militar, ilirios y galos; Capítulo X: La reforma económica de Diocleciano. El gobierno tetrárquico; Capítulo XI: La política monetaria de Constantino y sus hijos; Capítulo XII: Las monedas más devaluadas. Los valentinianos y teodosianos; Capítulo XIII: Conclusiones. ¿Cómo se monetiza un territorio sin moneda propia?; Capítulo XIV: Mapas; Capítulo XV: Corpus de hallazgos: tesoros y depósitos; Capítulo XVI: Corpus de hallazgos: moneda perdida; Bibliografía; Appendix

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together the main discussions that took place at an international conference on the iconology of war in the ancient Near East, a subject never addressed at an international meeting before. The articles span the 3rd to the 1st millennium, with a special stress on the Neo-Assyrian period. They try to respond to many questions about representations of war: what is ‘warrior’ iconography and on what basis it can be defined? Did the war scenes follow a specific directory whereby they adopted the most varied forms? Can we determine the most usual conditions for the creation of pictures of wartime (such as periods of great change)? Were the war scenes referring to specific historical events or were they generic representations? What can a society accept from the representations of war? What did war images silence and why? What is a ‘just’ punishment for enemies and thus the ‘just’ representation of it? Who has control of the representation and therefore also the memory of war? Who is the real subject of war representations? What emerges from all the articles published here is the relevance of textual data in any analysis of iconological material. And this is not only true for iconology, but for all the archaeological material discovered at historical sites.Table of ContentsIntroduction: the War and its Representations; Some Observations on the War Scenes on the Seals from Mari City II; Elements Of War Iconography At Mari; Visualizing War in the Old Babylonian Period: Drama and Canon; Middle Assyrian Drama in depicting war: a Step towards Neo-Assyrian Art; “Losing One’s Head”. Some Hints on Procedures and Meanings of Decapitation in the Ancient Near East; Where is the public? A new look at the brutality scenes in Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions and art; Images of War in the Assyrian Period: What They Show and What They Hide

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Book SynopsisHow can we find alternative, sensorially rich and affective ways of engaging with the material past in the present? How can photography play a central role in archaeological narratives, beyond representation and documentation? This photo-book engages with these questions, not through conventional academic discourse but through evocative creative practice. The book is, at the same time, a site guide of sorts: a photographic guide to the archaeological site of the Sanctuary of Poseidon in Kalaureia, on the island of Poros, in Greece. Ancient and not-so-ancient stones, pine trees that were “wounded” for their resin, people who lived amongst the classical ruins, and the tensions and the clashes with the archaeological apparatus and its regulations, all become palpable, affectively close and immediate. Furthermore, the book constitutes an indirect but concrete proposal for the adoption of archaeological photo-ethnography as a research as well as public communication tool for critical heritage studies, today.Trade Review‘Camera Kalaureia is a fresh, non-conventional, creative, and highly evocative archaeological photo-ethnography, combining all in one of Hamilakis’ ideological standpoints on archaeology, heritage, and the body, and against colonialism, nationalism and modernism, with Ifantidis’ masterful craft of the lens. Aimed at a broad audience, academic and not, the book does not merely present a visual alternative for ideas and interpretations in archaeology; it is also an artefact and agent, a contributor in the cultural production of the discipline itself. As a potential research tool, it is yet to be seen whether conventional archaeology is ready to take on the challenge.’ – Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory, Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens (2019): Journal of Greek Archaeology Table of ContentsWhat is a photograph? ; Itineraries ; Boundaries ; Traces ; Producers ; Re-collections ; Encounters ; Overwritings ; Dispersals ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisInterpretation of coin finds is not quite an easy thing. How to distinguish, e. g., material of ‘hoards’ from that of ‘votive deposits’? Where are the ‘border lines’ dividing numismatic find categories from each other? Questions like these deserve a closer scrutiny. This book tries to face the problems by: proposing clear definitions for categories and sub-categories of coin finds; by collecting and interpreting written testimonies (from ancient literature, epigraphy and papyrology) casting light on reasons and circumstances of coin deposition and coin loss in antiquity; by describing differences of composition between the categories; by discussing difficulties of ‘differential diagnosis’; and the role of secondary finds. For each problem and for each find category a large number of examples is offered.Table of ContentsAbbildungsnachweis; Vorwort; 1. Einführung: Die Kategorien des numismatischen Fundes; 2. Münzschatzfunde (Münzhorte); 3. Weihefunde; 4. Münzen als Bau(?)- und Schiffsamulette; 5. Grabfunde; 6. Einzelfunde; 7. Sekundäre Funde und falsche Fundortangaben; 8. Zusammenfassung der Definitionen von Fundkategorien / Definitions of Find Categories (English Abstract); 9. Literaturabkürzungen

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Book SynopsisThe excavation of the Leckie Iron Age broch in Stirlingshire, Scotland, took place during the 1970’s after the author had been asked to organise the work by a local archaeological society. At that stage the author did not consider – despite its location – that the site might vividly reflect the expansion of the Roman Empire into southern Scotland in the late first century AD. For various reasons the final report was not written until about thirty years after the fieldwork finished and by then the quality and significance of the Roman finds was much better understood, thanks to the analysis of them by experts. Many of them seemed like gifts to the broch chief, despite the clear evidence of the violent destruction of the broch at a later date. The Roman author Tacitus gave a detailed account of Governor Agricola’s campaigns in southern Scotland and pointed out that he sometimes tried to make friends with local chiefs before invading their territories, to avoid un-necessary casualties. This also applied to the first Roman naval excursion up the west coast and explains the evidence from Dun Ardtreck, Skye, excavated in the 1960’s. This site was also destroyed later and this could reflect the later hostile voyage of the navy after the battle of Mons Graupius which occurred after a few years of campaigning. Thus Rome’s accounts can allow one to understand the history of some native sites much more vividly.Table of ContentsLIST OF FIGURES; INTRODUCTION; PART 1: THE IMPACT OF ROME ON IRON AGE SCOTLAND; PART 2: BACKGROUND TO THE EXCAVATIONS; PART 3: THE BASIC STRATIGRAPHY OF THE SITE; PART 4: OCCUPATION PHASES AND DAILY LIFE; PART 5: Bibliography and Appendices

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Book SynopsisThe Old Kingdom of Egypt (Dynasties 4–6, c. 2600–2180 BC) is famous as a period of the builders of the largest Egyptian pyramids. It is generally accepted that the evidence on the use of copper alloy tools from this era is meagre. Martin Odler gathers the textual, iconographic and palaeographic evidence and examines Old Kingdom artefacts in order to revise this view on the use of copper alloy tools and model tools. Furthermore, he provides updated definitions of tool classes and tool kits, together with the context of their use. Besides rare specimens of full-size tools, the largest corpora of the material have been preserved in the form of model tools in the burial equipment of the Old Kingdom elite and were most probably symbols of their power to commission and fund craftwork. Moreover, the size and elaboration of the model tools were probably connected to the social status of the buried persons. The long-standing division in the Egyptological literature between full-size tools and model tools is questioned. The ancient sources also enable to show that the preservation of material culture from the Old Kingdom was largely dependent on a conscious selection made within the past culture, with completely different settlement and funerary contexts and a conspicuous absence of weapons. The volume is completed by co-authored case studies on archaeometallurgy of selected Old Kingdom artefacts in the collection of the Egyptian Museum of Leipzig University, on morphometry of Old Kingdom adze blades and on the finds of stone and ceramic vessels associated with the findings of so-called Old Kingdom model tools.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Limits of subject, chronology and chorology ; 2. Tools and model tools in archaeological theory ; 3. Tools and toilet implements in Ancient Egypt – history of research ; 4. Definitions of artefacts ; 5. Research tools ; 6. Copper tools in Old Kingdom textual and iconographic sources ; 7. Archaeological sources – material culture ; 8. Tools and toilet implements ; 9. Towards a semiosis of tools in the Old Kingdom culture ; 10. Conclusion ; 11. Case studies ; Bibliography ; Web sources ; Online Catalogue bit.ly/2cT1NFz

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Book SynopsisSince absolute dating of rock art is limited, relative chronologies remain useful in contextualising interpretations of ancient images. This book advocates the archival capacity of rock art and uses archival perspectives to analyse the chronology of paintings in order to formulate a framework for their historicised interpretations. The Western Cape painting sequence is customarily accepted to include the hunter-gatherer phase from c. 10,000 BP, pastoralism from c. 2,000 BP and finally the historical-cum-colonial period several centuries ago. Painting traditions with distinct depiction manners and content are conventionally linked to these broad periods. This study evaluates this schema in order to refine the diverse hunter-gatherer, herder and colonial era painting contexts and histories. Using superimpositions as one analytical tool, the notion of datum aided the referencing and correlation of layered imagery into a relative sequence. Although broad differences separate painting traditions, and these variations are generally indistinguishable within a single tradition, it is clear that the long-spanning hunter-gatherer segment of painting in this region reflects a hitherto unrecognised sub-tradition. Some painted themes such as elephants, fat-tailed sheep, handprints and possibly finger dots occur within various levels of the sequence, which this study views as shared graphic fragments occurring between and across traditions and sub-traditions. Through the archival concept of respect des fonds such observable complexities were clarified as coherent graphic narratives that run through the entire chronological sequence of the Western Cape rock paintings. Probing archaeological, ethnographic and historical sources revealed that while these themes remained fundamentally consistent throughout the stratigraphic sequence as preferred subject matter, their meanings might have transformed subliminally from earlier to later periods, possibly reflecting layered shifts in the socio-economic, cultural and political circumstances of the region. Fundamentally, the framework of image histories shown by the choice and sustenance of specific themes is understood to mean that their significance and specific graphic contexts throughout the chronological sequence are pivoted and mirrored through the long established hunter-gatherer rock paintings which predate periods of contact with other cultures. The resulting sequence and interpretation of these painted themes is a descriptive and organisational template reflecting the original organic character in the creation of the paintings and ordered cultural continuities in the use of animal/human symbolism. This book’s agenda in part involves reviewing the Western Cape’s changing social and historical landscape to show variation in painting over time and to project possible interpretative transformations. Painting sequences and cultural (dis)continuities are thus intricately entwined and can be disentangled through a recursive analytical relationship between archaeology, ethnography and history. This amalgamated analytical approach produces historicised narratives and contextual meanings for the rock paintings.Table of ContentsAbstract ; CHAPTER ONE: CONCEIVING ROCK ART ARCHIVES ; CHAPTER TWO: SHIFTING ROCK ART PERSPECTIVES ; CHAPTER THREE: ECOLOGICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT ; CHAPTER FOUR: CAPE HISTORICAL SETTING ; CHAPTER FIVE: THEORY, METHOD AND METHODOLOGY ; CHAPTER SIX: KEY SITES AND THEIR CONSTELLATIONS ; CHAPTER SEVEN: CAPE CHRONOLOGY ; CHAPTER EIGHT: ART ON THE FRONTIER ; CHAPTER NINE: PAST TO PRESENT ; REFERENCES ; APPENDIX 1

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Book SynopsisAt the end of the 6th dynasty the 500 year old established order of the Old Kingdom fell apart, which, according to the interpretation given to various contemporary literary sources, started a period of social unrest and economic decline. The magnitude of the economic investment bestowed by the members of the higher social strata on the monuments that would be the abode for their after-life leads to the hypothesis that an economic decline could also manifest itself in the dimensions of the various architectonic elements of these monuments. The dimensions of the tombs have been chosen as the subject of this study. The preliminary part of the study is performed on the tombs in the necropolis of Giza. The results of the study are compared with the same measurements in the necropoleis of Saqqara and Abusir. The conclusion is that the economic decline started already at the early dynastic period and not as a result of the caving in of the Old Kingdom. An interesting ‘side-effect’ of the study is that the dimensions of the tombs can serve as a method to check a dating that has been proposed based on other aspect of the tomb.Table of ContentsPart I: Various Chronological Developments of Dimensional Aspects of the Tombs in the Necropolis of Giza ; Introduction ; Chapter One: Preliminary Considerations ; Chapter Two: The Necropolis of Giza ; Chapter Three: The Chronological Development of the Number of False Doors ; Chapter Four: The Chronological Development of the Dimensions of the Tombs and Their Chapels. Part I ; Chapter Five: The Chronological Developments in the Dimensions of the Tombs and Their Chapels. Part II ; Chapter Six: The Chronological Development of the Number of False Doors in Relation to the Dimensions of the Tomb ; Chapter Seven: Discussion, Analyses and Conclusions in Relation to the Necropolis of Giza ; Part II: The Necropoleis of Abusir and Saqqara. A Verification of the Chronological Tendencies in the Necropolis of Giza ; Chapter Eight: The Necropolis of Saqqara ; Chapter Nine: Various Chronological Developments in the Necropolis of Saqqara ; Chapter Ten: The Tombs in the Necropolis of Abusir ; Part III: Additional Methods for Controlling the Proposed Dating of a Tomb ; Chapter Eleven: Methods of Checking the Proposed Datings of Tombs ; Chapter Twelve: The Necropoleis of Saqqara, Giza and Abusir: Discussion and Conclusions ; Part IV: Catalogues and Tables

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Book SynopsisThis meticulous investigation, based around a famous rock image, the ‘White Lady’, makes it possible to take stock of the mythical presuppositions that infuse a great deal of scientific research, especially in the case of rock art studies. It also highlights the existence of some surprising bridges between scholarly works and literary or artistic productions (novels, films, comic strips, adventure tales). The examination of the abbé Breuil’s archives and correspondence shows that the primary motivation of the work he carried out in southern Africa like that of his pupil Henri Lhote in the Tassili was the search for ancient, vanished ‘white’ colonies which were established, in prehistory, in the heart of the dark continent. Both Breuil and Lhote found paintings on African rocks that, in their view, depicted ‘white women’ who were immediately interpreted as goddesses or queens of the ancient kingdoms of which they believed they had found the vestiges. In doing this, they were reviving and nourishing two myths at the same time: that of a Saharan Atlantis for Henri Lhote and, for the abbé, that of the identification of the great ruins of Zimbabwe with the mythical city of Ophir from which, according to the Bible, King Solomon derived his fabulous wealth. With hindsight we can now see very clearly that their theories were merely a clumsy reflection of the ideas of their time, particularly in the colonial context of the Sahara and in the apartheid of South Africa. Without their knowledge, these two scholars’ scientific production was used to justify the white presence in Africa, and it was widely manipulated to that end. And yet recent studies have demonstrated that the ‘White Lady’ who so fascinated the abbé Breuil was in reality neither white nor even a woman. One question remains: if such an interpenetration of science and myth in the service of politics was possible in the mid-20th century, could it happen today?Table of ContentsList of Figures; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Reinhard Maack and the Brandberg; Chapter 2: A few other servants of the White Lady; Chapter 3: Mary Boyle puts pen to paper; Chapter 4: In which a few doubts arise; Chapter 5: Of a hapax which isn’t one any longer; Chapter 6: The ‘Saharan connection’; Chapter 7: From Atlantis seekers to flying saucer dreamers; Chapter 8: On the role of literature and especially tales of ‘lost worlds’; Chapter 9: In which we look at bridges; Chapter 10: Ophir, the mythical city and Solomonic traditions; Chapter 11: The Queen of Sheba among the Afrikaners; Chapter 12: No photos!; Chapter 13: Knossos in Africa; Chapter 14: The future of an illusion; Chapter 15: Short biographical dictionary of the principal protagonists; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis volume comprises thirteen reports detailing fieldwork undertaken by a research project which sought to assess the archaeological evidence of the period of conflict that took place in mid-twelfth-century England popularly known as ‘the Anarchy’. The reign of King Stephen (ad 1135– 54) was characterised by a protracted struggle for power between forces loyal to the crown and those who supported the Angevin claim of his cousin and rival, the Empress Matilda. Alongside a succession of bitter rebellions the war also saw large-scale Scottish invasions into, and occupation of, large parts of northern England as well as border warfare on the marches between England and Wales and a struggle for control of Normandy. While the period is infamous for the proliferation of conflict, castle-building and siege warfare, and for a breakdown of royal government, its characterisation as ‘the Anarchy’ is now challenged by historians, however. As previous understanding of this tumultuous period had rested almost entirely upon interpretation of written sources, Anarchy? War and Status in Twelfth-Century Landscapes of Conflict was a programme of research which systematically studied the archaeology of mid-twelfth century England for the first time. A major component of the project was the targeted archaeological investigation of selected case study locations across England. Geophysical and topographic surveys were supplemented with archival, documentary and cartographic analyses in order to reveal the character and chronological development of a sample of potential Anarchy-period sites and landscapes. The current volume represents the product of these endeavours, presenting self-contained reports of the sites where these investigations took place, arranged alphabetically.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Surveying the Archaeology of Twelfth-Century England; Chapter 2 Burwell Castle, Cambridgeshire; Chapter 3 Castle Carlton, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire; Chapter 4 Corfe, ‘The Rings’, Dorset; Chapter 5 Crowmarsh Recreation Ground, South Oxfordshire; Chapter 6 Folly Hill, Faringdon, Oxfordshire; Chapter 7 Hailes Camp, Gloucestershire; Chapter 8 Hamstead Marshall, Castle I, Berkshire; Chapter 9 Malmebury, ‘Cams’s Hill’, Wiltshire; Chapter 10 Mountsorrel, Leicestershire; Chapter 11 Rampton, ‘Giant’s Hill’, Cambridgeshire; Chapter 12 Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire; Chapter 13 Wellow, Nottinghamshire; Chapter 14 Woodwalton, ‘Church End’, Cambridgeshire; Chapter 15 Conclusion; References

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Book SynopsisAncient Greek vase-paintings offer broad-ranging and unprecedented early perspectives on the often intricate interplay of images and texts. By bringing together—for the first time in English-language scholarship—an international group of leading scholars in classical art and archaeology who have worked on vase-inscriptions, this book investigates epigraphic technicalities of Attic and non-Attic inscriptions on pottery as well as their broader iconographic and sociocultural significance. The ten chapters in this book propose original and expert methodological approaches to the study of vase-inscriptions and vasepaintings, while also foregrounding the outstanding but not fully examined importance of the area of vase-inscriptions for current research on ancient Greek visual representations. Epigraphy of Art: Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings constitutes a major contribution to the fields of Greek epigraphy and classical art and archaeology and will prove significant for epigraphists, archaeologists, and art-historians interested in the complexities of the interaction of art and text.Trade Review'Lavishly illustrated, as the subject demands, and showing Archaeopress at its best.' * Volume 19 *Table of ContentsPreface: Art and Epigraphy: Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions - Dimitrios Yatromanolakis Inscriptions and Visual Representations on Attic Vases: Questions, Methodologies, Technical and Contextual Approaches Chapter One: Soundscapes (and Two Speaking Lyres) - Dimitrios Yatromanolakis Chapter Two: Hipparchos kalos - Thomas Mannack Chapter Three: ‘So-and-so καλή’: A Reexamination - Guy Hedreen Chapter Four: Inscribed Mythical Names on Attic Vase-Paintings from 570 to 530 BC: A Contextual Approach - Burkhard Fehr Chapter Five: Meaningless, But Not Useless!: Nonsense Inscriptions on Athenian Little-Master Cups - Pieter Heesen Inscriptions on Apulian Vases Chapter Six: Inscriptions on Apulian Red-Figure Vases: A Survey - John H. Oakley Chapter Seven: Some Observations on Apulian Vase-Inscriptions with a Particular Focus on the Darius Painter - Thomas H. Carpenter Visual Identities: Attic and Corinthian Vase-Inscriptions and the Significance of their Placement Chapter Eight: Instant Messaging: Dance, Text, and Visual Communication on Archaic Corinthian and Athenian Vases - Tyler Jo Smith Chapter Nine: Tracing Letters on the Eurymedon Vase: On the Importance of Placement of Vase-Inscriptions - Georg Simon Gerleigner Chapter Ten: Sophilos, Inscriptions, and the Funeral Games for Patroklos - Mary Moore Index

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Book SynopsisThe Roman fort at Bearsden and its annexe, together with areas beyond its defences, were extensively excavated from 1973 to 1982. The report on these excavations was published in 2016. This ‘popular’ account of the discoveries looks at the material recovered from the site in a different way, examining the process of archaeological excavation, the life of the soldiers at the fort based on the results of the excavation as well as material from elsewhere in the Roman Empire, the presentation and interpretation of the bath-house and latrine, and a discussion of possible future work arising out of the excavation. The excavation report was well illustrated with reconstruction drawings and the process of creating these is also discussed.Table of ContentsPreface; Finding the fort; Building the fort; Life in the fort; Bathing at Bearsden; Protecting the empire; Reconstructing Bearsden; The end – and the future

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Book SynopsisArchaeology with Art is the result of a 2013 Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference session that aimed to merge the perspectives of artists and archaeologists on making art. It explores the relationship between archaeology and art practice, the interactions between materials and practitioners, and the processes that result in the objects and images we call ‘art’. The book offers new approaches to the study of creative practices in archaeology, ranging from experimental investigations to philosophical explorations and contains a diverse set of papers that use insights from contemporary art practice to examine the making of past artworks.Table of ContentsArchaeology with Art: A short introduction to this book (Helen Chittock and Joana Valdez-Tullett) ; The paragone has gone (Andrew Cochrane) ; Making carved stone balls: art, experimental practice and archaeological research (Andrew Meirion Jones) ; The fate of a thinking animal: the role of Upper Palaeolithic rock-art in mediating the relationship between humans and their surroundings (António Batarda Fernandes) ; The rock ‘artist’: exploring processes of interaction in the rock art landscapes of the north of Ireland (Rebecca Enlander) ; Art, Materiality and Creativity: understanding Atlantic Rock Art (Joana Valdez-Tullett) ; Images and materials: The making of narrative imagery in rock art and on metalwork (Peter Skoglund) ; Categorising the Iron Age: Similarity and Difference in an East Yorkshire Assemblage (Helen Chittock) ; Imagining and Illustrating the Archaeological Record: The Power of Evocation and ; Augmentation of Linear Drawing (Dragoş Gheorghiu) ; Moving, changing, becoming: applying Aristotle´s kinesis paradigm to rock art (Andy Valdez-Tullett) ; Experiential Art and Archaeology: Vital Material Engagements (Eloise Govier) ; Living Symbols of Kilmartin Glen (John Was & Aaron Watson)

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Book SynopsisThe 18th annual meeting of the Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (SOMA) was held in Wrocław-Poland, 24th to 26th April 2014. Since prehistoric times the Mediterranean has acted as a stage for intense interactions between groups inhabiting regions that are now studied mainly within various sub-fields of ancient studies. In recent years, however, the development of research techniques and analytical models of archaeological evidence have identified similar historical paths that are similar, if not, in some cases, common to these disparate areas of the ancient world from West (Iberian peninsula) to East (Anatolia and Levant), from North (Europe, Black Sea Coast) to South (Maghreb and Egypt). The 18th SOMA provided a forum for presentations related to the above-mentioned topics, as well as general themes such as the role of the sea, trade, colonization, even piracy, using archaeological data collected within contexts associated with the Mediterranean Basin and the area referred to as the Ancient Near East, ranging chronologically from the Prehistoric to Medieval periods. This current volume contains 22 papers selected from the 90 presented.Table of ContentsPreface (Błażej Stanisławski, Hakan ÖNİZ); Reconstruction of the Lost Temples of Palmyra (Ahmet DENK ER, Hakan ÖNİZ); Circulation of Christian Relics through the Mediterranean Sea (Alessandro LUCIAN O); The Wooden Medieval Ports (Alessandro LUCIAN O); Archaeometrical Studies of Ancient Window Glass Finds from Olba (Silifke, Mersin) Excavations in Turkey (Ali Akın AK YOL, Ayşe Emel ERTEN); The Conservation Project of the Mosaics in Metropolis (Ali Kazım ÖZ); An Ostothek with Mythological Scene From Avsar (Asuman BALDIRAN); An Ostothek with Mythological Scene From Avsar Aims, Sources and Objectives of the Project: ‘Constantinople/ İstanbul-Küçükçekmece – The Port of Destination of the Varangian Way: “Byzantinization”’ of a Rus Community Centre (Błażej Stanisławski, Sengül Aydı ngün, Hakan Öniz); Northwest Anatolia from the Perspective of Travellers: Social, Cultural Life and Archaeological Remains (Güngör KA RAUĞUZ); Submerged Prehistoric Sites in Turkey: Dam Constructions (Hakan Öniz); The Coastal Quarries of Lebanon: Case Studies of Enfeh, Batroun and Byblos (Jeanine Abdul MASSIH); Private Architecture from Ptolemais (Libya) (Julia MIK OCKA); Expeditions to Turkey – First Attempts at Heritage Recognition (Katarzyna JELEŃ); Some Oil Lamp Ship Scenes from the Roman Period (Koray ALPER, Eda Güngör ALPER); The Lion as a Symbol in Mesopotamian and Greek Civilizations: Archaeological Remarks and Historical Evidence (Krzysztof ULAN OWSKI); Architectural and Artistic Changes and Developments in Transjordanian Churches under Islamic Rule (Lihi HABAS); Examining Aspects of History, Religion and Trading Contacts of Ionian Colonies of the Western Shores of ‘Euxinus Pontus’: The Case of Tomi and Orgame (Maria GI RTZI); Amphorae Ceramic Stoppers From Risan, Montenegro (Seasons 2001-2013) (Marta BAJTLER); Applied Methodology for the Terrestrial Survey of the Coastal Town of Anfeh, Lebanon (Nadine PANA YOT HAROUN); Spatial Planning of the Narlıca Baths, Antakya (Nizam ABAY); Spolia in Seljuk Buildings (Osman ERAVŞAR); Everyday Life of a Medieval Ship Crew – Ceramic Materials from a Shipwreck near Novyi Svit (Veiber ALINA)

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