Archaeology by period / region Books
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Animal-Human Relationships in Medieval Iceland:
Book SynopsisA multi-disciplinary investigation of the links between people and animals, in reality and representation. Domestic animals played a range of roles in the imaginative world of medieval Icelanders: from partners in settlement and household allies, to violent offenders, foster-kin and surrogate wives, they were vital and effective members of the multispecies communities established from the ninth century onwards. This book examines the domestic animals of early Iceland in their physical and textual contexts, through detailed analysis of the spaces and places of the Icelandic farm and farming landscape, and textual sources such as The Book of Settlements, the earliest Icelandic laws, and various episodes from the Sagas and Tales of Icelanders. Taking a multidisciplinary approach to animal-human relationships, it sees animals not solely as symbols, metaphors, or objects, but as subjects in affective relationships with their human co-settlers who become the focus of intense exploration, delight, anxiety and condemnation in later textual narratives. By inviting readers to question how these sources form, embrace, or reject animal-human relationships, it provides a resource for understanding these archaeological sites and textual narratives differently: as products of multispecies communities in which animals and humans lived, worked, and died together.Trade ReviewThe book offers a rich array of evidence for the varied interactions between humans and multiple domestic animals, with horses playing a significant and distinctive part among other non-human species. -- Anastasija Ropa * Cheiron *Table of ContentsThe Animal Acts... An Animal-Human Settlement Home, Sweet Home: Meeting Points on the Animal-Human Farm The Animal-Human Community: Legal Tradition in Iceland Fostering Relations: The Animal-Human Home in the Íslendingasögur The Negative Animal: Absence, Precarity, and Danger ... and the Man Responds Bibliography
£71.25
Four Courts Press Ltd Archaeology and Celtic Myth: An Exploration
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£39.28
Gill Burren Archaeology
Book SynopsisThe Burren in County Clare contains one of the densest concentrations of archaeological remains in Ireland. Its monuments illustrate the story of human activity since it began here nearly 10,000 years ago. Many people are daunted by the prospect of reading about 'stones and bones'; this guide makes the stones and bones of the Burren understandable by telling the stories behind the monuments. Archaeology is ultimately about real people: whether they were cheeky monks at Corcomroe or arthritic farmers at Poulnabrone, people built or made these monuments and artefacts. Hugh Carthy relates what was happening in the Burren to events as far away as Iceland and Egypt and includes background information relevant to an understanding of Burren archaeology. This is followed by description of over 40 individual sites and monuments with full location information for all. This compact area contains a lot of archaeology, so it is ideal for those who want a whirlwind tour of 10,000 years of human activity.
£12.88
Whittles Publishing Caithness Archaeology: Aspects of Prehistory
Book SynopsisCaithness, the most northerly county in mainland Britain, is one of the richest cultural landscapes in Europe. The relative geographical isolation of the area, traditional landholding and the survival of large estates, combined with the use of flagstone as the main building material since earliest times, has ensured the survival of a wide range of monuments in a profusion unequalled elsewhere in Scotland. In the 19th century, Caithness was at the forefront of archaeological endeavours with many sites central to our understanding of Scottish prehistory. Since then, despite intermittent activity, the archaeology of Caithness has become somewhat marginalized and there is a perception that there are only a handful of archaeological sites for visitors to enjoy and the archaeologist to uncover and interpret. However, the county is full of hidden riches and traces of the past are visible everywhere. Caithness is dominated by landscapes rich in archaeological remains of all periods; chambered cairns, stone settings, brochs, Pictish settlements, wags, castles, harbours and post-medieval settlement, amongst many others. The authors have presented a cross section of these monument types in an attempt to re-centre the county in archaeological and early historical narratives. For the last decade, the authors have been involved in a range of heritage projects in the county, thus allowing them time to discover, observe and consider its archaeology. Their peregrinations provided opportunities for deeper contemplation of the county's archaeology, the result of which is presented in some new interpretations and perspectives which convey the excitement of working on heritage in Caithness.Trade Review`...a pioneering one for the archaeology of Caithness... What is refreshing in this work is that the more recent discoveries and work by the people who actually live in the area...are celebrated. ...this entertaining and informative volume'. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland -------------------- '...this enjoyable new book. ... An engaging introduction to a fascinating region'. Current Archaeology -------------------- '...it is indeed a marvellous record. ... Amply illustrated, the authors have imbued the text with a personal touch that lifts the title well above being a dry, scholarly tome into an immensely readable, detailed and, above all, enjoyable account of the sites found in mainland Scotland's most northerly county'. The Orcadian -------------------- '...a readable account and a study of the places and the people of this fascinating part of Scotland'. The Scots Magazine -------------------- '...it is filled with well-informed lively comment and interpretation, a good deal of which is new. ...an inportant book which campaigns on behalf of the richness and importance of the archaeological sites and landscapes of Caithness... ...marks the new beginning made for the archaeology of Caithness in recent years...' Am Bratach -------------------- '...gives Caithness archaeology a deserved spotlight. ...provides an in-depth discussion of prehistory and archaeological research in this isolated part of Britain... This in-depth understanding...makes the book particularly valuable... This excellent discussion of Caithness' archaeology is supported with a wealth of illustrations... ...the book is a splendid presentation and discussion of well-selected aspects of the prehistoric and early historic archaeology of Caithness...highly recommended to anyone interested not only in Caithness, but Scottish prehistory in general... Hopefully this publication will raise awareness about the richness and significance heritage of Caithness...' The Megalithic Portal -------------------- '...this beautifully produced and fascinating book... ...their book is an excellent starting point for anyone wanting to find out more. Anyone living in the area, and especially anyone travelling north...should read this book. You will be intrigued and inspired, and more than a little wiser'. Undiscovered Scotland -------------------- 'The reader is taken on a journey through time and is provided with a discussion of the rich heritage of monuments and archaeological landscapes. ..a cleverly woven mix of historical investigation, description and explanation. ...a well-produced authoritative text on Caithness prehistory, that is well illustrated and provides an important insight...I would strongly recommend it not only to the visitor but also to the resident. For those interested in the prehistory of Caithness, this book is for you.' SAS Bulletin -------------------- '...an engaging, readable and well-produced volume that highlights the heritage of an unfairly neglected region'. British Archaeology -------------------- `...the book's richest sessions draw on the authors' work (including experimental) on the architecture of Neolithic chambered cairns and their re-excavations at a notable cluster of Iron Age brochs around Keiss. ... an engaging presentation'. Medieval Archaeology
£16.14
Brewin Books Beneath the Bull Ring: The Archaeology of Life
Book SynopsisThere have been many books about Birmingham's history but this one is different. It is based on the archaeological evidence from the first major excavations to be carried out in Birmingham city centre. The book is written in a lively, accessible style and contains over 100 illustrations, most in colour. It provides new evidence of Birmingham's origins and its growth as a market town and industrial centre in the medieval period. The book also offers a new perspective on the transformation of Birmingham into 'the first manufacturing town in the world' in the 18th and 19th centuries. A large part of the book is devoted to the excavation of St. Martin's Churchyard, which uncovered 857 burials - in simple graves and elaborate tombs - of the people who made the Industrial Revolution. The burials are explored in fascinating detail, together with analysis of the health of the population based on scientific study of the skeletons. New research reveals intimate details of the lives of the men and women of the town of a thousand trades. If you are interested in the history of Birmingham, this book is essential reading.
£14.95
Profile Books Ltd Stonehenge
Book SynopsisStonehenge is woven into the earliest Arthurian legends and has been analysed by everyone from archaeologists, to town planners, to the Druids who have made it their spiritual home. By refusing to adopt one theoretical position, Rosemary Hill provides the most wide-ranging and expansive history of the megalithic structure to date, from its creation in 3000 BC to the threat of the thunderous main roads that flank it today.Trade ReviewHer book is a treasure: stylish, thoughtful, miraculously condensed, and as full of knowledge as megalith is full of megalith * Sunday Times *She brings genuine originality to the cultural history of Stonehenge; nobody has until now considered it as literature, poetry and art, in this comprehensive way * Times Literary Supplement *A fascinating overview * Time Out *This is a fascinating account of how Stonehenge has been written up over the years ... this is a thoroughly researched history that's both entertaining and authoritative -- Lesley McDowell * Independent on Sunday *Clear, intelligent and often highly amusing, this study achieves something new in the voluminous literature on Stonehenge ... excellent. -- Christopher Hirst * Independent *Intelligent and often witty ... refreshingly unmocking. -- Andrew Holgate * Sunday Times *A thorough examination of England's most captivating World Heritage Site. -- Julian Fleming * Sunday Business Post *Superbly researched and thoroughly entertaining account of the monument's history -- Simon Shaw * Mail on Sunday *
£10.44
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Pattern and Process: Landscape Prehistories from
Book SynopsisThe King’s Dyke and Bradley Fen excavations occurred within the brick pits of the Fenland town of Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire. The investigations straddled the south-eastern contours of the Flag Fen Basin, a small peat-filled embayment located between Peterborough and the western limits of Whittlesey ‘island’. Renowned principally for its Bronze Age discoveries at sites such as Fengate and Flag Fen, the Flag Fen Basin also marked the point where the prehistoric River Nene debouched into the greater Fenland Basin. A henge, two round barrows, an early fieldsystem, metalwork deposition and patterns of sustained settlement along with metalworking evidence helped produce a plan similar in its configuration to that revealed at Fengate. In addition, unambiguous evidence of earlier second millennium BC settlement was identified together with large watering holes and the first burnt stone mounds to be found along Fenland’s western edge. Genuine settlement structures included three of Early Bronze Age date, one Late Bronze Age, ten Early Iron Age and three Middle Iron Age. Later Bronze Age metalwork, including single spears and a weapon hoard, was deposited in indirect association with the earlier land divisions and consistently within ground that was becoming increasingly wet. The large-scale exposure of the base of the Flag Fen Basin at Bradley Fen revealed a beneath-the-peat or pre-basin landscape related to the buried floodplain of an early River Nene. Above all, the revelation of sub-fen occupation means we can now situate the Flag Fen Basin in time as well as space.Trade Review…a thoughtful and thought-provoking book. […] of value to anyone interested in the archaeology of the second and first millennia BC. * The Prehistoric Society *
£999.99
Beazley Archive Auctions, Agents and Dealers. The Mechanisms of
Book SynopsisVolume III in the Studies in the History of Collection' series, published in association with the Beazley Archive in the University of Oxford. 14 papers on The Mechanisms of the Art Market 1660-1830 presented at a symposium at the Wallace Collection, London in December 2003. Contents: Introduction (Neil De Marchi); 1) The Art Trade and its Urban Context: England and the Netherlands compared, 1550-1750 (David Ormrod); 2) The Auction Duty Act of 1777: the beginning of institutionalisation of auctions in Britain (Satomi Ohashi); 3) The Almoneda: the second-hand art market in Spain (Mari-Tere Alvarez); 4) The Market for Netherlandish Paintings in Paris, 1750-1815 (Hans J. Van Miegroet); 5) Le tableau et son prix à Paris, 1760-80 (Patrick Michel); 6) The System Governing Appraised Value in Ancien Régime France (Alden R. Gordon); 7) The Marquis de Vassé Against the Art Dealer Jacques Lenglier: a case-study of an eighteenth-century Parisian auction (François Marandet); 8) Pierre Sirois (1665-1726): le premier marchand de Watteau (Guillaume Glorieux); 9) The Purchase of the Past: Dr Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755) and the collecting of history (John Cherry); 10) John Anderson and John Bouttats: picture dealers in eighteenth-century London (David Connell); 11) Sir Godfrey Copley as Patron and Consumer, 1685-1705 (David Mitchell); 12) The Rise and Fall of a British Connoisseur: the career of Michael Bryan (1757-1821), picture dealer extraordinaire (Julia Armstrong-Totten); 13) In Keeping with the Truth': the German art market and its role in the development of connoisseurship in the eighteenth century (Thomas Ketelsen); 14) Abraham Hume e Giovanni Maria Sasso: il mercato artistico tra Venezia e Londra nel settecento (Linda Borean).
£28.50
Wooden Books Carnac: And Other Megalithic Sites in Southern
Book SynopsisWhy did the ancient Bretons erect over 20,000 menhirs at Carnac? What was the purpose of the alignments, rectangles and dolmens? Was it all just for games? Can anyone make sense of the place? Carnac is the largest megalithic site in the world. Up until now it has kept its secrets. In this book, beautifully illustrated with rare prints and new diagrams, dedicated Carnac sleuth Howard Crowhurst reveals the sophisticated geometry at the heart of this ancient temple.
£7.49
Archaeopress The Travel Chronicles of Mrs J. Theodore Bent.
Book Synopsis“Then we went to the other bath. Here I found I was being again taken to the men’s place, so I said, ‘I’m not going in here’. But a great outcry was raised and loud exclamations of invitation and constant assurances that there was nobody naked, so when T said fiercely, ‘Come in and don’t make a fuss. They all wish it’, I entered a large hall with the raised divans peopled by gentry in cloaks and turbans of towels. There was fortunately no one in the hot bath as it deserved a careful examination. The wide platform round the tanks was inlaid with beautiful marbles and there were recesses with pumps, etc., also inlaid…” (Bursa, February 1888)On August 2nd 1877, the English explorer and archaeologist James Theodore Bent married an extraordinary Irishwoman, Mabel Virginia Anna Hall-Dare, the second of the four daughters born to Mr Robert Westley Hall-Dare of Co. Wexford and Essex. Mabel was 31, Theodore 25, and within a few months they had embarked on their pattern of annual travels that continued until his early death in 1897. Their trips began fairly close to home, visiting northern Italy, but by 1883 they were in the Eastern Mediterranean (in modern Greece and Turkey), searching out the antiquities, landscapes and lifestyles of a region that was to captivate them for the next fifteen years. Their researches led to a number of highly regarded monographs, papers and articles (such as Theodore’s 'The Cyclades, or Life Among the Insular Greeks', 1885, and the many publications of their various discoveries in locations such as ‘Rugged Cilicia’, the island of Thassos, and elsewhere) that were to place the couple securely amongst the foremost British travellers of the latter half of the 19th century.The publication, therefore, of Mabel Bent’s personal notebooks from the archive of the Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies, London, represents the discovery of a lost and notable milestone for scholars and travel enthusiasts of all kinds. This series of volumes begins with Mabel’s account of the couple’s adventures around the Aegean and beyond, extracted from her fifteen-year sequence of notebooks and presented chronologically. Specifically, we follow Mabel and Theodore to the Greek mainland and the islands known now as the Cyclades and the Dodecanese, as well as the northern Aegean islands; their journeys along the Turkish littoral lead them from bustling Istanbul to provincial Mersin in the far south-west. Contents include: Chapter 1) 1883-1884: The Cyclades – Mabel’s own accounts of the couple’s two tours of the Cyclades. Theodore relied on these Chronicles for the writing up of his classic travelogue ‘The Cyclades; or Life Among the Insular Greeks’ of 1885; Chapter 2) 1885: The Dodecanese – including Rhodes, Tilos and Karpathos; Chapter 3) 1886: The Eastern Aegean – including Samos, Patmos, Kalymnos and Astypalea; Chapter 4) 1887: The Northern Aegean – including Meteora, Thessaloniki, Thassos and Samothraki; Chapter 5) 1888: The Turkish Coast – from Istanbul to Kastellorizo; Chapter 6) 1890: ‘Rough Cilicia’ – extensive explorations around south-west Turkey.
£26.12
Archaeopress Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies
Book SynopsisContents: 1) Coastal prehistory in the southern Red Sea Basin, underwater archaeology, and the Farasan Islands (Geoff Bailey, Abdullah AlSharekh, Nic Flemming, Kurt Lambeck, Garry Momber, Anthony Sinclair & Claudio Vita-Finzi); 2) Chronologie et evolution de l'architecture a Makaynun: la formation d'un centre urbain a l'epoque sudarabique dans le Hadramawt (A. Benoist, O. Lavigne, M. Mouton & J. Schiettecatte); 3) A preliminary study on the materials employed in ancient Yemeni mummification and burial practices (summary) (Stephen A. Buckley, Joann Fletcher, Khalid Al-Thour, Mohammed Basalama & Don R. Brothwell); 4) From Safer to Balhaf: rescue excavations along the Yemen LNG pipeline route (Remy Crassard & Holger Hitgen); 5) Pastoral nomadic communities of the Holocene climatic optimum: excavation and research at Kharimat Khor al-Manahil and Khor al-Manahil in the Rub al-Khali, Abu Dhabi (Richard Cuttler, Mark Beech, Heiko Kallweit, Anja Zander & Walid Yasin Al-Tikriti); 6) Flip the coin. Preliminary results of compositional EDX analyses on south-east Arabian coins from ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, UAE) (Parsival Delrue); 7) Spreading the Neolithic over the Arabian Peninsula (Philipp Drechsler); 8) Water and waste in mediaeval Zabid, Yemen (Ingrid Hehmeyer); 9) Tribal links between the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle Euphrates at the beginning of the second millennium BC (Christine Kepinski); 10) Rare photographs from the 1930s and 1940s by Yihye Haybi, a Yemenite Jew from Sana: historical reality and ethnographic deductions (Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper); 11) Stargazing in traditional water management: a case study in northern Oman (Harriet Nash); 12) Al Qisha: archaeological investigations at an Islamic period Yemeni village (Audrey Peli & Florian Tereygeol, Al-Radrad (al-Jabali): a Yemeni silver mine, first results of the French mission (2006) (Lynne S. Newton); 13) A biographical sketch of Britain's first Sabaeologist: Colonel W.F. Prideaux, CSI (Carl Phillips & St J. Simpson); 14) The Arabian Corridor Migration Model: archaeological evidence for hominin dispersals into Oman during the Middle and Upper Pleistocene (Jeffrey Rose); 15) Ceramic production in mediaeval Yemen: the Yadgat kiln site (Axelle Rougeulle); 16) The word slm/snm and some words for "statue, idol" in Arabian and other Semitic languages (Fiorella Scagliarini); 16) "Transformation processes in oasis settlements in Oman" 2005 archaeological survey at the oasis of Nizwa: a preliminary report (Juergen Schreiber); 17) Middle Palaeolithic — or what? New sites in Sharjah, UAE (Julie Scott-Jackson, William Scott-Jackson & Sabah Jasim); 18) Rites and funerary practices at Rawk during the fourth millennium BC (Wadi ‘Idim, Yemen) (T. Steimer-Herbet, J-F. Saliege, T. Sagory, O. Lavigne & A. as-Saqqaf, in collaboration with M. Mashkour & H. Guy); 19) The sources on the Fitna of Masud b. Amr al-Azdi and their uses for Basran tribal history (Brian Ulrich); 20) The beads of ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, UAE) (An De Waele); 21) Aspects of recent archaeological work at al-Balid (Íafar), Sultanate of Oman (Juris Zarins); 22) Towards a new theory: the state of Bani Mahdi, the fourth imamate in Yemen (Ahmad b. Umar al-Zaylai).
£44.65
Archaeopress The Travel Chronicles of Mrs J. Theodore Bent.
Book Synopsis“If my fellow-traveller had lived, he intended to have put together in book form such information as we had gathered about Southern Arabia. Now, as he died four days after our return from our last journey there, I have had to undertake the task myself. It has been very sad to me, but I have been helped by knowing that, however imperfect this book may be, what is written here will surely be a help to those who, by following in our footsteps, will be able to get beyond them, and to whom I so heartily wish success and a Happy Home-coming, the best wish a traveller may have.” So Mabel Bent (Mrs J. Theodore Bent) begins her Preface to Southern Arabia, one of the classic travel books written in English about this ever-fascinating region, in which she details the couple’s travels over a ten-year period. A testimony to the book’s high regard is that, since publication in 1900, it has rarely been out-of-print. Mabel Bent continues in her Preface to inform the reader that her volume is drawn in part from the note-books of her husband, her fellow-traveller, the redoubtable J. Theodore Bent (1852-97), and also “…from the ‘Chronicles’ that I always wrote during our journeys”. After more than a hundred years, and for the first time, these personal Chronicles on ‘South Arabia’ are published in World Enough, and Time: The Chronicles of Mabel Bent. Vol. III and are of significant interest to Arabists and those enthusiasts who will want to have Mabel’s on-the-spot account of their adventures and archaeological and ethnographical discoveries. Also included in this present volume is Mabel Bent’s previously unpublished Chronicle of their long journey through Persia, from south to north in 1889. Contents: Bahrein and Persia, 1889: The Hadhramaut, 1893–5; Socotra and the lands of the Fadhli and Yafai, 1896–7. Personal letters, documents, maps, and Mabel Bent’s own photographs contribute to this important insight into the lives of two of the great British travellers of the nineteenth century.Table of ContentsBahrein and Persia, 1889: The Hadhramaut, 1893-5; Socotra and the lands of the Fadhli and Yafai, 1896-7. Personal letters, documents, maps, and Mabel Bent's own photographs contribute to this important insight into the lives of two of the great British travellers of the nineteenth century.
£28.02
Archaeopress Digging up the Ice Age: Recognising, recording
Book SynopsisFor over a hundred years, sand and gravel quarrying has been of enormous benefit to geology, palaeontology and archaeology – quarries have been the main source of Ice Age fossils and finds. It is because of deep excavations into Ice Age sediments that the geological sequences, the fossil remains of plants and animals, and the stone tools of Britain’s earliest human inhabitants have come to light. This handbook, packed with practical information and guidance is written for all charged with caring for the natural and historic environment, geologists and archaeologists and anybody with an interest in our past and future, and not least those working in the quarry industry.
£14.99
Archaeopress World Rock Art: The Primordial Language: Third
Book SynopsisThis volume is a basic introduction to rock art studies. It marks the starting point of the new methodology for rock art analysis, based on typology and style, first developed by the author at the Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici. This book demonstrates the beginnings of a new discipline, the systematic study of world rock art. This edition is a revised and updated version of Anarti’s classic text, first published in English in 1993. Additions have been made and a major new category of rock art has been included.
£18.95
Archaeopress Our Cups Are Full: Pottery and Society in the
Book Synopsis38 papers on Aegean Bronze Age pottery in honour of Jeremy Rutter. They range from specific site reports, to technical reports, and issues of chronology, to analysis of the social and religious functions of particular vessel types, and studies of trade and cultural contacts.Trade ReviewThis Festschrift is remarkably rich in content, a volume full of insightful papers which illustrate well the many new directions of research in Aegean pottery studies. This is a proper tribute to Jeremy B. Rutter. -- Judit Haas-Lebegyev Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.02.41Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Jeremy Bentham Rutter: Bibliography ; Memorandum on the Occasion of Jeremy B. Rutter’s Retirement from Dartmouth College ; David A. Aston: The LH IIIA2–IIIB Transition: The Gurob and Saqqara Evidence Reassessed ; Mario Benzi: Daskalio (Vathy), Kalymnos: A Late Bronze I Sacred Cave in the East Aegean ; Philip P. Betancourt: The Diagonal Line Class Juglets: New Evidence from Hagios Charalambos ; T.M. Brogan, Ch. Sofianou, and J.E. Morrison: In Search of the Upper Story of LM I House A.1 at Papadiokampos: An Integrated Architectural and Ceramic Perspective ; William Cavanagh and Christopher Mee: Minding the Gaps in Early Helladic Laconia ; Anna Lucia D’Agata: Subminoan: A Neglected Phase of the Cretan Pottery Sequence ; Jeannette Forsén: Spoons to Fill the Cups ; Elizabeth French: The Stirrup Jar: Does the West House Evidence Help or Complicate the Problems? ; Walter GauSS, Michael Lindblom, and Rudolfine Smetana: The Middle Helladic Large Building Complex at Kolonna. A Preliminary View ; Giampaolo Graziadio: Cretan Perfumed Oils at Enkomi (Cyprus) in the 13th Century B.C.? ; Seán Hemingway: Early Helladic Vases from Zygouries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Cultural Ambassadors of an Early Age ; Stefan Hiller: Palm and Altar ; N. Hirschfeld: The Cypriot Ceramic Cargo of the Uluburun Shipwreck ; Reinhard Jung: Mycenaean Vending Cups in Syria? Thoughts about the Unpainted Mycenaean Pottery from Tell Kazel ; V. La Rosa: Preliminary Remarks about the Pottery from the So-called Grande Frana at Phaistos ; Michael Lindblom and Sturt W. Manning: The Chronology of the Lerna Shaft Graves ; Bartłomiej Lis and Štěpán Rückl: Our Storerooms Are Full. Impressed Pithoi from Late Bronze/Early Iron Age East Lokris and Phokis and their Socio-economic Significance ; Joseph Maran: Contested Pasts—The Society of the 12th c. B.C.E. Argolid and the Memory of the Mycenaean Palatial Period ; P. A. Mountjoy: An Update on the Provenance by Neutron Activation Analysis of Near Eastern Mycenaean IIIC Pottery Groups with Particular Reference to Cyprus ; John K. Papadopoulos, Brian N. Damiata, and John M. Marston: Once More with Feeling: Jeremy Rutter’s Plea for the Abandonment of the Term Submycenaean Revisited ; A. Philippa-Touchais and G. Touchais: Fragments of the Pottery Equipment of an Early Middle Helladic Household from Aspis, Argos ; Daniel J. Pullen: Picking out Pots in Patterns: Feasting in Early Helladic Greece ; Florian Ruppenstein: Early Helladic Peak Sanctuaries in Attica? ; Robert Schon: Vox Clamantis in Campo: Further Thoughts on Ceramics and Site Survey ; Maria C. Shaw: A Decorated Minoan Pyxis from House X at Kommos ; Cynthia W. Shelmerdine: The ‘Friendly Krater’ from Iklaina ; Susan Sherratt: Learning to Learn from Bronze Age Pots: A Perspective on Forty Years of Aegean Ceramic Studies in the Work of J.B. Rutter ; R. Angus K. Smith: A Unique Late Minoan III Ring-shaped Vase from the Myrsini Aspropilia Cemetery ; Sharon R. Stocker and Jack L. Davis: The Cyclades and Pylos: An Early Bronze Age Stone Pyxis from Ali Chodza ; Philipp W. Stockhammer: An Aegean Glance at Megiddo ; Patrick M. Thomas: Mycenaean Tablewares and the Curious Careers of the Angular Kylix and Shallow Angular Basin ; A. Van de Moortel: The Phaistos Palace and the Kamares Cave: A Special Relationship ; Melissa Vetters: Seats of Power? Making the Most of Miniatures—The Role of Terracotta Throne Models in Disseminating Mycenaean Religious Ideology ; Salvatore Vitale: The Late Helladic IIIA2 Pottery from Mitrou and its Implications for the Chronology of the Mycenaean Mainland ; Martha Heath Wiencke: “Ceremonial Lerna” ; Malcolm H. Wiener: Conical Cups: From Mystery to History ; James C. Wright and Mary K. Dabney: Interpreting Quantitative Analyses of Mycenaean Pottery ; Assaf Yasur-Landau, Eric H. Cline, and Inbal Samet: Our Cups Overfloweth: “Kabri Goblets” and Canaanite Feasts in the Middle Bronze Age Levant
£33.25
Archaeopress Dictionary of Archaeological Terms:
Book SynopsisThis concise dictionary is intended to be helpful in the reading of archaeological books and publications, and in the writing of papers and articles in both English and German. The aim of this work is to help, in particular, students and on-site archaeologists to find quickly a word relating to a specific period, a specific area or a research field, in a book easy to carry everywhere; but this dictionary is also intended for those with a general interest in archaeology wishing to broaden their vocabulary!
£12.00
Archaeopress World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A
Book SynopsisWorld Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization introduces the range, history and significance of the archaeological collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. In 29 newly-commissioned essays written by a specialist team, the volume explores more than 136,000 artefacts from 145 countries, from the Stone Age to the modern period, and from England to Easter Island. Pioneering a new approach in museum studies, this landmark volume is an essential reference work for archaeologists around the world, and a unique introduction to the archaeological collections of one of the world’s most famous museums.Table of Contents1 Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum. Dan Hicks ; I AFRICA: 2 Stone Age Sub-Saharan Africa. Peter Mitchell ; 3 Kenyan Stone Age: the Louis Leakey Collection. Ceri Shipton ; 4 Stone Age North Africa. Nick Barton ; 5 Egypt and Sudan: Mesolithic to Early Dynastic Period. Alice Stevenson ; 6 Egypt and Sudan: Old Kingdom to Late Period. Elizabeth Frood ; 7 Greco-Roman Egypt. Christina Riggs ; 8 Later Holocene Africa. Paul Lane ; II EUROPE: 9 Palaeolithic Britain. Alison Roberts ; 10 Palaeolithic Continental Europe. Alison Roberts ; 11 Later Prehistoric and Roman Europe. Joshua Pollard and Dan Hicks ; 12 Post-Roman Europe. Eleanor Standley, Dan Hicks and Alice Forward ; 13 Oxfordshire. Matthew Nicholas and Dan Hicks ; 14 Neolithic and Bronze Age Malta and Italy. Simon Stoddart ; 15 The Aegean and Cyprus. Yannis Galanakis and Dan Hicks ; 16 Iron Age and Roman Italy. Zena Kamash, Lucy Shipley, Yannis Galanakis and Stella Skaltsa ; III THE AMERICAS: 17 South America. Bill Sillar and Dan Hicks ; 18 Central America. Elizabeth Graham, Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson ; 19 The Caribbean. Dan Hicks and Jago Cooper ; 20 North America. Dan Hicks and Michael Petraglia ; IV ASIA: 21 Asia and the Middle East. Dan Hicks ; 22 The Levant: Palestine, Israel and Jordan. Bill Finlayson ; 23 India and Sri Lanka. Dan Hicks, Michael Petraglia and Nicole Boivin ; 24 Japan. Alice Stevenson, Fumiko Ohinta and Simon Kaner ; 25 China. Lukas Nickel ; 26 Myanmar and Malaysia. Huw Barton ; V OCEANIA: 27 Australia and Oceania. Dan Hicks ; 28 New Zealand. Yvonne Marshall ; 29 Easter Island and Pitcairn Island. Dan Hicks, Sue Hamilton, Mike Seager Thomas and Ruth Whitehouse
£37.52
Archaeopress Excavations at King's Low and Queen's Low: Two
Book SynopsisThese two barrows in the parish of Tixall, north of Stafford, were excavated by the Stoke‐on‐Trent Museum Archaeological Society between the years 1986 and 1994. They are approximately one kilometre apart with King’s Low still extant but Queen’s Low badly damaged by ploughing. The results are important because little excavation of round barrows has been carried out in this area of North Staffordshire and these add considerably to the local corpus of knowledge concerning Early Bronze Age burial practices and various categories of material culture including Collared Urns and a single faience bead at each site.Table of ContentsPreface; 1 Introduction and background; 2 The excavations; 3 People and the environment; 4 The material culture; 5 King’s Low and Queen’s Low: a wider discussion; Appendices; Bibliography
£17.50
Archaeopress El comercio tardoantiguo (ss.IV-VII) en el
Book SynopsisThis work investigates a large assemblage of potentially late-dated Roman ceramics excavated in the early 1990s during rescue interventions in Vigo (N/E Spain) and its surroundings. It is well established that much of this material originated from the Mediterranean, especially the eastern provinces of the Empire. Based on the analyses of these investigations, this study goes on to assess the extent of the Atlantic distribution route and link the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula well within the trading dynamics of the Mediterranean world.Table of ContentsPréface ; Introducción ; Introduction (English) ; PARTE I: Los yacimientos estudiados: aspectos arqueológicos cerámicos y cronológicos ; 1. Los yacimientos con estratigrafía ; 2. Los yacimientos estudiados sin datos estratigráficos ; 3. Otros yacimientos con material tardío parcialmente estudiado ; 4. Periodización y descripción de los Horizontes ; PARTE II: Las vajillas finas: aspectos cuantitativos, tipológicos y cronológicos ; 1. La Terra Sigillata Africana (ARS) ; 2. La Terra Sigillata Focense (LRC) ; 3. La Terra Sigillata Chipriota (LRD) ; 4. Vajillas orientales indeterminadas ; 5. Dérivées des Sigillées Paléochrétiennes del Grupo Atlántico: DSP A (T.S.G.T = Céramique Estampée Tardive) ; 6. La Terra Sigillata Hispánica Tardía (TSHT) ; 7. La Terra Sigillata Bracarense Tardía roja (TSBT) ; 8. Las Cinzentas Tardías (CZT) o ; PARTE III: Otros materiales cerámicos importados: Las ánforas y las cerámicas comunes y de cocina importadas de los contextos de la UARC II ; Lucernas y Ungüentarios Tardíos de Vigo ; 1. Las Ánforas y las Cerámicas Comunes y de Cocina importadas de los contextos de la UARC II (Contextos 19-22) ; 2. Lucernas y Ungüentarios tardíos de Vigo (LRU) ; PARTE IV: La evolución de los intercambios comerciales, sus protagonistas y las mercancías que circulan en el Noroeste durante la Antigüedad Tardía ; 1. La evolución de los intercambios en el noroeste durante la Antigüedad Tardía: s. IV – S. VII ; 2. Las mercancías y los protagonistas del comercio ; Conclusiones ; Conclusions (English) ; Bibliografía ; Anexo 1 Tablas de contabilización ; Anexo 2 Análisis petrográficos ; Anexo 3 Macro fotografías de pastas ; Anexo 4 Fotografías de piezas
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Archaeopress Dating the Tombs of the Egyptian Old Kingdom
Book SynopsisThe decorated tombs of the Egyptian Old Kingdom offer detailed knowledge of a society that in all probability was the first nation state in history. Yet scholars continue to find it difficult to access the full potential of this great body of data because so few of the tombs can be dated with sufficient precision to provide a relative chronology for the evidence they offer. The system of dating these monuments presented here builds on the work of previous scholars. In this volume the author explains how the dating method was devised. This required establishing ‘life-spans’ for 104 criteria, features drawn from tomb iconography. The system is then applied to Memphite and provincial monuments spanning the Fourth to the Sixth Dynasties. The findings are that the more criteria a monument contains, the closer the system can narrow its date, certainly to a particular reign and within a generation in some cases. The final chapter analyses and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the system.Table of ContentsPREFACE ; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ; CHAPTER 2 PROSOPOGRAPHY FOR TOMB GROUPS A AND B ; CHAPTER 3 ESTABLISHING DATING CRITERIA ; CHAPTER 4 TESTING THE CRITERIA ; CHAPTER 5 CONCLUDING COMMENTS ; ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Archaeopress Copper Shaft-Hole Axes and Early Metallurgy in
Book SynopsisAlthough the copper axes with central shaft-hole from south-eastern Europe have a long history of research, they have not been studied on a transnational basis since the 1960s. What has also been missing, is trying to use as many methods as possible to better understand their production, use and context. A database was compiled to find answers to questions regarding patterns of distribution, context, fragmentation and deformation. Aspects of production were considered through experimental archaeology, metallographic analysis and a re-discovered axe blank with missing shaft-hole. The typology was re-evaluated and modified to ensure comparability across modern national boundaries. The integration of these approaches yielded some interesting results. The great variability in shape clearly shows that a variety of production techniques were used, but it is difficult to relate these to specific geographic areas. In fact the typology as well as the practice of marking the axes indicate that traditional archaeological ‘cultures’ rarely correspond to axe types and marking practices. Instead there were different spheres of influence, some more localised and others much larger than specific ceramic traditions. These different levels of belonging show that it was a period of complex cultural patterns and interactions. The axes were part of these networks of daily life on many different levels from the utilitarian to the ritualised placement in burial contexts.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 2 Methodology ; 3 Theoretical Perspectives ; 4 Context and Background of the Copper Hammer-Axes and Axe-Adzes from South-Eastern Europe ; 5 History of Research ; 6 Copper Age Metallurgy and Shaft-Hole Axes from South-Eastern Europe – Evidence, Problems and Potential ; 7 The Experiments ; 8 Metallography ; 9 A New Typology for the Copper Hammer-Axes and Axe-Adzes ; 10 Patterns and Trends in the Copper Axe Assemblage ; 11 The Copper Axes and Living Practices during the Copper Age in South-Eastern Europe – Considerations and Conclusions ; Appendix I - Typology ; Appendix II – Axe Marks ; Appendix III – GIS Distribution Maps ; Appendix IV - Cluster Distribution Maps (from Krause 2003) ; Bibliography
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Archaeopress Travelling Objects: Changing Values: The role of
Book SynopsisSince their initial discovery in the nineteenth century, the enigmatic prehistoric lake-dwellings of the Circum-Alpine region have captured the imagination of the public and archaeologists alike. Over 150 years of research have identified hundreds of lacustrine settlements spanning from the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age, when apparently, they ceased to be built. Studies of Bronze Age material across Europe have often superficially identified bronze objects as being of ‘Alpine lake-dwelling origin’ or ‘lake-dwelling style’. Through a combination of material culture studies, multiple correspondence analysis, and the principle of object biographies, the role of the Late Bronze Age lake-dwelling communities in Central European exchange networks is addressed. Were the lake-dwellers production specialists? Did they control material flow across the Alps? Did their participation in exchange routes result in cultural assimilation and the ultimate decline of their settlement tradition? Travelling Objects: Changing Values offers insights and answers to such questions.Table of ContentsSection 1: Background ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: Theoretical Background ; Chapter 3: Prehistoric European Trade Routes ; Section 2: Material Culture Distributions ; Chapter 4: Non-Metal Artefacts ; Chapter 5: Metal Weapons ; Chapter 6: Metal Equipment & Tools ; Chapter 7: Metal Accessories ; Section 3: The Role of Northern Alpine Lake-Dwellings in Europe ; Chapter 8: Metal Working in the Northern Circum-Alpine Region ; Chapter 9: Artefact Deposition ; Chapter 10: The Role of Late Bronze Age Lake-Dwellings in Europe ; Summary ; Zusammenfassung ; Résumé ; Bibliography
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Archaeopress Ships, Saints and Sealore: Cultural Heritage and
Book SynopsisJust as the sea has played a pivotal role in the connectivity of people, economies and cultures, it has also provided a common platform for inter-disciplinary cooperation amongst academics. This book is a selection of conference papers and other contributions that has seen the coming-together of scholars and researchers from backgrounds as diverse as archaeology, history, ethnography, maritime and heritage studies of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. Its strength lies in the way such diversity has been harnessed to provide an engaging and insightful study of the sea and its influences on various factors of life - both past and present.Table of ContentsForeword ; Introduction: A seaman’s view of the Mediterranean (Seán McGrail) ; I. Maritime Rituals, Superstitions and Ship Images ; Maritime activity and the Divine – an overview of religious expression by Mediterranean seafarers, fishermen and travellers (Timmy Gambin) ; Hazards at sea: a case-study of two ex-voto paintings from the Church of the Karmelitani Skalzi in Bormla, Malta (Simon Mercieca) ; II. Confraternities in Maritime Culture ; The Holy Vessel: the Vascelluzzo of Messina during the early modern period (Carmelina Gugliuzzo) ; Two maritime related confraternities established at Bormla (Cospicua) parish church, Malta (Emanuel Magro Conti) ; III. Maritime Heritage: Historical Narratives ; Quatri partitu en cosmographia pratica i por otro nombre llamado Espejo de navegantes by Alonso de Chaves: a navigation manual for the instruction of Spanish pilots in the sixteenth century (Maravillas Aguiar) ; Images of pirates and slaves in traditional Greek popular songs (Efsevia Lasithiotaki) ; IV. Ethnography, Tourism and Maritime Heritage ; Sun, sand and sea: tourism and the commodification of Malta’s maritime heritage (Jeremy Boissevain) ; Work, tourism and the sea: Bulgarian experiences in Malta (Irina Atanasova) ; Lateen sails versus fibreglass boats: the contradictions of a maritime heritage process – the Platja dels Pescadors on the Catalonian coast (Eliseu Carbonell) ; The Maritime Museum of Barcelona’s approach to maritime ethnology: research and communications (Enric Garcia Domingo) ; V. Maritime Archaeology: Traditions and Practices ; Sailing the Red Sea: ships, infrastructure, seafarers and society (Cheryl Ward) ; The dgħajsa: a Phoenician survival (Alec Tilley) ; Maritime ethnography and archaeology (Seán McGrail) ; The maritime heritage of Yemen: a focus on traditional wooden ‘dhows’ (Dionisius A. Agius, John P. Cooper and Chiara Zazzaro) ; The hūrī of Socotra: cultural treasure or coastal trash? (Julian Jansen van Rensburg) ; Index
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The Department for Infrastructure Island City: The Archaeology of Derry-Londonderry
Book SynopsisFor many people the abiding image of Derry~Londonderry is its impressive 17th century walls, now included by UNESCO among their 1001 historic sites ‘You must see before you die’. But there is much more to the city than its walls. Besides a rich 17th, 18th and 19th century heritage, the island of Derry on the River Foyle hosted important medieval and Early Christian settlements, while the immediate environs are rich in archaeological remains dating back 9000 years. Utilising the information provided by numerous archaeological excavations and surveys, QUB’s Ruairí Ó Baoill examines the history of Derry~Londonderry’s settlement from earliest times to the modern era. Included are a range of monuments in and around the city, and a great wealth of archaeological objects held by Derry’s Heritage and Museum Service, all photographed (many for the first time) by Tony Corey of NIEA especially for this book.
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Wooden Books Megalith: Studies in Stone
Book SynopsisHow do you predict eclipses at Stonehenge? Why do the Carnac alignments follow geological fault lines? Was Avebury intentionally sited precisely one seventh of a circle down from the north pole? Why are so many stone circles egg-shaped or flattened? What is the meaning of the designs in ancient rock art? Do you really have to wait nineteen years to visit the remote site of Callanish? What were the ancients up to? These are our oldest buildings, our first messages, our earliest visual art. With eight authors, and packed with detailed information and exquisite rare illustrations, Megalith is a timeless and valuable sourcebook for anyone interested in prehistory.
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Spink & Son Ltd Roman Coins and Their Values Volume 4
Book SynopsisThis fourth volume contains a comprehensive listing of the Roman coinage of the period AD 284-337 together with background information on the history of each reign and the principal characteristic of its coinage. The catalogue is organised primarily by ruler with the issues then subdivided by denomination and by reverse legend and type.
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Museum of London Archaeology The New Churchyard: From Moorfields marsh to
Book SynopsisModern Liverpool Street was once on the margins of London: the story of its development – from the medieval marsh of Moorfields to municipal, non-parochial, burial ground and later suburb – is illustrated by archaeological investigations undertaken as part of the Crossrail Central development. Excavation also recovered a wealth of well-preserved artefactual evidence for the local inhabitants, from the 16th century to the 19th-century households of Brokers Row.The New Churchyard, or 'Bethlem' as it was later known, was established after the severe plague of 1563 and was in use from 1569 to 1739; archaeological evidence suggests c 25,000 people in total were buried here. Contemporary accounts and parish registers, combined with tombstones and detailed osteological analysis of one quarter of the 3354 burials excavated, enable the reconstruction of some of their lives, and their deaths. They included migrants, many of the city's poor and those on the fringes ofsociety. Some were the victims of recurrent epidemics and outbreaks of plague – confirmed by the identification of the plague pathogen in five skeletons – when mass, but orderly, graves were dugTrade ReviewThis well-writtena nd beautifully illustrated volume - priced at a very low level so it is extremely accessibly - offers a window in to London's population and mortuary culture following the Reformation, and before the undertaking business encouraged consumers to have more elaborate funerals and coffins. * British Archaeology *
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Museum of London Archaeology Time travellers tales
Book Synopsis22km of road, 232ha of land, 8 years of work the scale of the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Road Improvement Scheme necessitated one of the largest commercial archaeological projects ever to be undertaken within the UK. Archaeologically, the discoveries were even more impressive, ranging from the remains of Pleistocene woolly mammoths, Neolithic and Bronze Age ceremonial and burial monuments, dozens of Iron Age and Roman settlements, a whole new Roman pottery industry, Saxon settlements with royal connections, a deserted medieval hamlet, nineteenth century railway remains, and everything inbetween. This monograph discusses some of the project's key findings, major themes, and interesting debates, and is designed to supplement the other outputs from the project. Starting in the Bronze Age, we consider why evidence for middlelate Bronze Age settlement was not identified, and yet two of the largest cremation cemeteries in the region were. The Iron Age chapter explores the huge increase in archaeologically visible settlement during the later Iron Age, whilst the Roman chapter places the abundant evidence for Roman settlement amongst the regional dataset to provide a review of socioeconomic development in the rural hinterlands of Godmanchester and Cambridge. The Saxon chapter considers the Middle Saxon settlement revolution' and the impact this had on the A14 settlements, with the medieval chapter focusing on the deserted medieval hamlet of Houghton and its relationship with surrounding woodlands.
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Oxford Archaeology East Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, Part 1: Excavations at
Book SynopsisExtensive archaeological investigations were undertaken over two decades in Hinxton, south Cambridgeshire by OA East on behalf of the Wellcome Trust. The excavated areas lay in the Cam valley, a ‘borderland zone’ crossed by Icknield Way; the ridgeway route and the River Cam providing natural corridors of movement and communication.Hinxton’s post-glacial valley landscape of indigenous woodland, streams and seasonally flooded pools attracted Palaeolithic and Mesolithic communities to the area. Fills of one pool yielded a Terminal Palaeolithic ‘Long/Bruised Blade’ assemblage of national significance.Tree clearance to permit exploitation of the fertile valley sides began in the Early Neolithic. The increasingly ‘ritual’ or ceremonial significance of the landscape is indicated by a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age shaft containing a substantial assemblage of worked flint and Beaker pottery. During the later prehistoric and Early Roman periods, two square enclosures – the largest related to mortuary practices – were followed by a small timber shrine. Burial of selected individuals, both in graves and as disarticulated remains, occurred sporadically throughout prehistory.Agricultural exploitation of the valley seems to have been almost continuous from the Early Neolithic until the Middle Roman period, after which the land lay largely fallow. Conquest period large corrals linked to major trackways potentially demonstrate stock management on a scale commensurate with supplying the nearby fort and Roman town at Great Chesterford.The immediate landscape was not resettled until the Anglo-Saxon period. Post-Roman activity at Hinxton is the subject of a companion volume (Part II).
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Ashmolean Museum Labyrinth: Knossos Myth and Reality
Book SynopsisCrete was famous in Greek myth as the location of the labyrinth in which the Minotaur was confined in a palace at somewhere called ‘Knossos’. From the Middle Ages travellers searched unsuccessfully for the Labyrinth. A handful of clues that survived, such as a coin with a labyrinth design and numerous small bronze age items. The name Knossos had survived – but it was nothing but a sprinkling of houses and farmland so they looked elsewhere. Finally, in 1878, a Cretan archaeologist, Minos Kalokairinos discovered evidence of a Bronze Age palace. British Archaeologist and then Keeper of the Ashmolean Arthur Evans came out to visit and was fascinated by the site. Between 1900 and 1931 Evans uncovered the remains of the huge palace which he felt must be the that of King Minos, and he adopted the name ‘Minoans’ for its occupants. He employed a team of archaeologists, architects and artists, and together they built up a picture of the Bronze Age community that had occupied the elaborate building. They imagined a sophisticated, nature-loving people, whose civilisation peaked, and then disintegrated. Evans’s interpretations of his finds were accurate in some places, but deeply flawed in others. The Evans Archive, held by the Ashmolean, records his finds, theories and (often contentious) reconstructions.
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Windgather Press Monuments in the Making: Raising the Great
Book SynopsisIn this book we offer an exciting new perspective on a distinctive form of megalithic monument that is found across most areas of northern Europe. In order to achieve this we have abandoned outmoded typological classifications and re-introduced the term ‘dolmen’ to embrace a range of sites that share a common form of megalithic architecture: the elevation and display of a substantial stone. By critically assessing the traditionally assigned role of these monuments and their architecture as megalithic tombs, the presence of the dead is reassessed and argued to form part of a process generating vibrancy to the materiality of the dolmen. As such this book argues that the megalithic architecture identified as a dolmen is not a chambered tomb at all but instead is a qualitatively different form of monument. We also provide an entirely different conception of the utility of this extraordinary megalithic architecture – one that seeks to emphasise its building as articulating discourses of wonder as a broad social strategy. In this respect it is important to remember that many of these monuments were erected very early in the Neolithic and as a consequence of new people entering new lands, or social transformation. In short, dolmens are monumental constructions employing experimental and emergent technologies to raise huge stones, which, once built, enchant those who come within their spaces. Our claim is that dolmens were megalithic installations of affect, magical and extraordinary in construction and strategically positioned to induce both drama and awe in their encounter.Trade ReviewThis is a book totally of the twenty-first century. It is all about us, not only the authors and their friends, but those of us who enjoy looking at sculpture and architecture. * Archaeologia Cambrensis - Cambrian Archaeological Association *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of figures 1. The enchantment of megalithic architecture: revisiting the dolmens of northern Europe 2. An aesthetic of megalithic construction: dolmens as installations of display 3. Becoming a capstone: differentiating stones and cup-marking in anticipation of dolmen construction 4. Raising dolmens in-situ: the deployment of enchanting technologies 5. Megalithic affect and effect: encountering dolmens in northern European landscapes 6. The living dolmen: flesh, stone and the flow and exchange of vital substances 7. A monumental catastrophe: investigating the collapsed dolmens at Garn Turne, south-west Wales 8. Wondrous places: dolmens and discourses of wonder in the early Neolithic of Britain and Ireland Appendices
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Windgather Press Beacons in the Landscape: The Hillforts of
Book SynopsisOf all of Britain's great archaeological monuments the prehistoric and later hillforts have arguably had the most profound impact on the landscape, if only because there are so many; yet we know very little about them. Were they recognised as being something special by those who created them or is the ‘hillfort’ purely an archaeologist's 'construct'? How were they built, who lived in them and to what uses were they put?This book, which is richly illustrated with photography of sites throughout England and Wales, addresses these and many other questions. After discussing the difficult issue of definition and the great excavations on which our knowledge is based, Ian Brown investigates in turn the origins of hillforts, their architecture and the role they played in Iron Age society. He also discusses the latest theories about their location, social significance and chronology.The book provides a valuable synthesis of the rich vein of research carried out in England and Wales on hillforts over the last thirty years. The great variability of hillforts poses many problems, and this book should help guide both the specialist and non-specialist alike though the complex literature. Furthermore, it has an important conservation objective. Land use in the modern era has not been kind to these monuments, with a significant number either disfigured or lost. Public consciousness of their importance needs raising if their management is to be improved and their future assured.Trade ReviewIan Brown is to be heartily congratulated on having comprehensively revised and expanded his successful 2009 book and, - with the help of high editorial standards from Windgather Press - producing a useful and readable new volume which would not be out of place on the bookshelves of undergraduates, university professors, and keen ramblers alike. * Archaeologia Cambrensis - Cambrian Archaeological Association *Table of ContentsList of figures List of tables Acknowledgements to first edition Acknowledgements to second edition Notes Preface Part 1 The ‘elusive’ hillfort 1. Hillforts – an introduction 2. From antiquarian to modern Part 2 Defining the space 3. Hillfort origins 4. Enclosure – around the circuits 5. Inside the enclosures Part 3 Hillfort and society 6. Environment, society and hillfort people 7. Hillfort economy 8. Superstition, belief and ritual 9. Hillforts and Rome 10. Later use and reuse of hillforts Part 4 Hillforts – function and social significance 11. Hillforts – new theories, new questions 12. Beacons in the landscape – a synthesis of ideas Bibliography Index
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Windgather Press The Development of Neolithic House Societies in
Book SynopsisConsidering that Orkney is a group of relatively small islands lying off the northeast coast of the Scottish mainland, its wealth of Neolithic archaeology is truly extraordinary. An assortment of houses, chambered cairns, stone circles, standing stones and passage graves provides an unusually comprehensive range of archaeological and architectural contexts. Yet, in the early 1990s, there was a noticeable imbalance between 4th and 3rd millennium cal BC evidence, with house structures, and ‘villages’ being well represented in the latter but minimally in the former. As elsewhere in the British Isles, the archaeological visibility of the 4th millennium cal BC in Orkney tends to be dominated by the monumental presence of chambered cairns or tombs.In the 1970s Claude Lévi-Strauss conceived of a form of social organisation based upon the‘house’ – sociétés à maisons – in order to provide a classification for social groups that appeared not to conform to established anthropological kinship structures. In this approach, the anchor point is the ‘house’, understood as a conceptual resource that is a consequence of a strategy of constructing and legitimising identities under ever shifting social conditions.Drawing on the results of an extensive programme of fieldwork in the Bay of Firth, Mainland Orkney, the text explores the idea that the physical appearance of the house is a potent resource for materialising the dichotomous alliance and descent principles apparent in the archaeological evidence for the early and later Neolithic of Orkney. It argues that some of the insights made by Lévi-Strauss in his basic formulation of sociétésà maisons are extremely relevant to interpreting the archaeological evidence and providing the parameters for a ‘social’ narrative of the material changes occurring in Orkney between the 4th and 2nd millennia cal BC.The major excavations undertaken during the Cuween-Wideford Landscape Project provided an unprecedented depth and variety of evidence for Neolithic occupation, bridging the gap between domestic and ceremonial architecture and form, exploring the transition from wood to stone and relationships between the living and the dead and the role of material culture. The results are described and discussed in detail here, enabling tracing of the development and fragmentation of sociétés à maisons over a 1500 year period of Northern Isles prehistory.
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Helion & Company King Arthur's Wars
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Spink & Son Ltd The Rebel Emperors of Britannia: Carausius and
Book SynopsisOne of the most exciting periods of Britain’s history under the Romans remains largely unknown today. Yet, at the end of third century AD, two men successively ruled the island, together with parts of the Continental coast, as emperors of Britannia for a period of ten years. They minted their own coins, initiated Britain’s first truly integrated defence system and successfully repelled an invasion from the mighty Roman empire. This is the story of Carausius and Allectus – the rebel emperors of Britannia.
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Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean
Book SynopsisAccompanying an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, this book explores island identities in the ancient Mediterranean, questioning how ‘insularity’– being of an island – affected and shaped art production and creativity, architectural evolution, migrations and movement of people. It extends beyond the ancient, incorporating current discourses on island versus mainland cultural identities, in contemporary Art and other disciplines.Throughout history, islands have been treated as distinct places, unlike mainland and continental masses. In geographic terms, islands are merely pieces of land surrounded by water, but the perception of island life has never been neutral. Rather, the term ‘insularity’ – belonging to/being of an island – has been romanticized and associated with otherness. Islands have often been deemed to have differenthistories from the mainland and with more readily isolated socio-political, cultural and economic characteristics. Yet connectivity has also been an important feature of island life as the sea can be a linking rather than just a dividing body, motivating and maintaining informal and formal connections.Fifty unique archaeological objects – most never displayed before outside Cyprus, Crete and Sardinia – tell exceptional stories of insular identity, over a period of 4000 years. The movement of people and episodes of migration between islands and their surrounding mainlands is also explored, through architecture, material culture, crafts and technologies present in the Mediterranean islands.Islanders has a broad diachronic scope and applies integrative analytical approach, bringing together research findings from scientific fields within archaeology, as well as a multi-scalar approach to past human interaction within continental and island environments.Trade ReviewAs this new exhibition at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum shows, [the Mediterranean islands] were remarkably open to outside influence – to foreign materials, skills, fashions and legends. * The Week *
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BILNAS - British Institute for Libyan & Northern African Studies Résistance et dévotion: Anciens sanctuaires
Book SynopsisA volume presents a detailed study of the memory of ancient mosques in Djerba, with a well-illustrated corpus of 48 buildings to build the history of the Ibadites and their struggle for the preservation of their identity. The main source is Rasā’il d’al-Ḥīlātī (m. 1099/1688-1689), which demonstrates the importance of piety and study to these people. The very strong presence of religion is felt in the multiplicity of places of prayer and in the sacred meshwork of the island which al-Ḥīlātī demonstrates. At any time, in any place, whether it be by the tomb of a prestigious scholar, a small prayer square or a mosque, religion and respect for the ancestors are remembered by the faithful. An analysis of the buildings shows their particular infrastructure, with a defensive nature (buttresses, thick walls, defensive parapets, loopholds and machicolations) – demonstrating the presence of both internal struggles (between Wahbite Ibadies and Nukkārites) and external threats from Tunis or European powers. They defended their particularism in a Maghreb that is more and more Malikite and more and more Arabized.
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Lockwood Press Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh
Book SynopsisIn Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh Peter J. Brand paints with authoritative knowledge and colourful details a compelling portrait of this legendary Pharaoh who ruled over Imperial Egypt during its Golden Age. Warrior, mighty builder and statesman, over the course of his 67-year-long reign (1279-1212 BCE), Ramesses II achieved more than any other pharaoh in the three millennia of ancient Egyptian civilization. Drawing on the latest research, Peter Brand reveals Ramesses the Great as a gifted politician, canny elder statesman, and tenacious warrior. With restless energy, he fully restored the office of Pharaoh to unquestioned levels of prestige and authority, thereby bringing stability to Egypt. He ended almost seven decades of warfare between Egypt and the Hittite Empire by signing the earliest international peace treaty in recorded history. In his later years, even as he outlived many of his own children and grandchildren, Ramesses II became a living god and finally, an immortal legend. Forty years after the publication of Kenneth Kitchen's Pharaoh Triumphant, here at last is a fresh, engaging look at Ramesses II, Egypt's ultimate Pharaoh Trade Review“Dr Brand’s book is well and authoritatively written, with an excellent choice of illustrations, mainly in colour. It is to be wholeheartedly recommended, and will certainly become the standard English language work on Rameses II for the foreseeable future.” Aidan Dodson, Egyptian Archaeology Issue 63 Autumn 2023Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Chronology Map of Egypt and Nubia Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Rise of the Ramessides: The Reigns of Ramesses I and Sety I Chapter 3: Crown Prince Ramesses and His Career under Sety I Chapter 4: The Early Reign of Ramesses II Chapter 5: The Battle of Kadesh Chapter 6: Great of Victories: Ramesses II's Later Wars Chapter 7: All the King's Wives: Ramesses II's Royal Women Chapter 8: The Royal Children and their Ideological Role Chapter 9: The Path to Peace: International Diplomacy and the End of the Egyptian-Hittite Conflict Chapter 10: The Silver Treaty: The Egyptian-Hittite Peace Accords Chapter 11: Peace and Brotherhood: Diplomatic Relations Between the Egyptian and Hittite Courts Chapter 12: A Time of Wonders: The Earliest Royal Jubilees of Ramesses II and the First Hittite Marriage Alliance Chapter 13: Ramesses the Great God Chapter 14: Rich in Years: Monumental Construction and Hittite Relations during the Jubilee Period Chapter 15: Twilight of the Great God: Ramesses II's Last Years and His Descendants Chapter 16: Afterlife: The Legacy of Ramesses II Glossary Bibliography Index
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University Museum Publications Equipment for Horses from the Period IVB Level
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Lockwood Press A View from the Herd
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Univerzita Karlova, Filozoficka fakulta Living at the Wall
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Sidestone Press Stonehenge for the Ancestors: Part 2: Synthesis
Book SynopsisFor many centuries, scholars and enthusiasts have been fascinated by Stonehenge, the world’s most famous stone circle. In 2003 a team of archaeologists commenced a long-term fieldwork project for the first time in decades. The Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003-2009) aimed to investigate the purpose of this unique prehistoric monument by considering it within its wider archaeological context.This is the second of four volumes which present the results of that campaign. It includes studies of the lithics from excavations, both from topsoil sampling and from excavated features, as well as of the petrography of the famous bluestones, as identified from chippings recovered during excavations. Other specialist syntheses are those of the land mollusca. The volume provides an overview of Stonehenge in its landscape over millennia from before the monument was built to the last of its five constructional stages. It concludes with a chapter placing Stonehenge in its full context within Britain and western Europe during the third millennium BC.With contributions by:Umberto Albarella, Michael Allen, Richard Bevins, Benjamin Chan, Robert Ixer, Claudia Minniti, Doug Mitcham and Sarah Viner-DanielsTable of ContentsLIST OF FIGURES LIST OF TABLES CONTRIBUTORS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1. Introduction M. Parker Pearson et al. 2. Lithic scatters in ploughsoil from the Stonehenge landscape D. Mitcham 3. Investigating traditions of stone working and inhabitation in the Stonehenge landscape: the lithics assemblages of the Stonehenge Riverside Project B. Chan 4. Petrography of bluestones and other lithics R. Ixer and R. Bevins 5. The lived-in landscape – environment, landscape and land-use: the land snail evidence M. Allen 6. Before Stonehenge M. Parker Pearson et al. 7. Stonehenge Stage 1 M. Parker Pearson et al. 8. Stonehenge Stage 2 M. Parker Pearson et al. 9. Stonehenge Stage 3 M. Parker Pearson et al. 10. Stonehenge Stages 4 and 5 M. Parker Pearson et al. 11. Stonehenge in its context M. Parker Pearson et al.
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Sidestone Press Variant scholarship: Ancient texts in modern
Book SynopsisSince the eighteenth century, many if not most ancient and medieval manuscripts or other text-bearing or associated objects have been procured through imperial expropriation or through the antiquities market with little or no evidence of findspot or place of original deposition and with no assurance of legal provenance or authenticity. The consequences of these questionable acquisition practices for scholarship and for our understanding of the past are the focus of much enquiry. Recent high-profile acquisitions (and subsequent returns) of text-bearing objects by prominent private collectors and museums and the appearance on the market of demonstrably modern forgeries have resulted in increased scrutiny of the intellectual and commercial impacts of academic engagement. Scholarly research can abet the antiquities market directly or indirectly through identification, authentication and legitimation of illegally traded text-bearing objects. These harmful complications of well-established academic practice raise important questions about how and even if the academy should engage with ancient texts and text-bearing objects of uncertain provenance. Through a wide-ranging set of case studies, variant scholarship focuses on the methodological, theoretical, and ethical dilemmas facing scholars when working with ancient texts in modern contexts. This book is intended for those interested in the historical practices of research into ancient manuscripts, ethical quandaries in studying unprovenanced textual materials, and the unintended consequences of scholarly interactions with problematic text-bearing objects.
£85.50
BLKVLD Publishers Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt: The Mourning
Book SynopsisMourners shake and pull their hair on reliefs and paintings from ancient Egypt. They took part in funerary ceremonies in ancient Egypt, contributing to the dead’s resurrection in the afterlife. Hair played a clear role in these rites. In this publication Maria Rosa Valdesogo describes the relation between hair and these rites, and the role hair played in death in ancient Egypt. This book is the publication of her Phd research about the Hair in the funerary ceremony of ancient Egypt.
£34.20
Kapon Editions National Archaeological Museum, Athens (English
Book SynopsisThis brief guide to the collections of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens provides general information about all the collections, with an emphasis on the way they are presented in the Museum galleries. It illustrates representative works from each collection, demonstrating the artistic quality and value of the exhibits. The National Archaeological Museum of Athens is the largest archaeological museum in Greece and one of the most important museums in the world devoted to ancient Greek art. Large format paperback, lavishly illustrated in colour throughoutTable of ContentsIntroduction - Nikolaos Kaltsas Prehistoric Collection - Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki Neolithic Culture Cycladic Culture Akrotiri, Thera Mycenaean Civilization Early and Middle Bronze Age Vase Collection - Elizabeth Stasinopoulou Gold Jewellery - Elizabeth Stasinopoulou Terracotta Figurines - Christina Avronidaki and Evangelos Vivliodetis
£23.75
American School of Classical Studies at Athens Hippos: The Horse in Ancient Athens
Hippos delves deeply into all aspects of ancient Athenian horsemanship, from the scientific analysis of a horse skeleton recently excavated at Phaleron to the roles of horses in Greek religion. Major discussion is devoted to hippotrophia, the training of equines, their competitive activities in horse racing, and their important role in the cavalry. This richly illustrated book consists of over 40 short essays on diverse topics such as the practices for naming of Athenian horses, their appearance on the city's coinage, the make-up of a chariot, the advice of the Athenian cavalry commander Xenophon, the cavalry inspection, and the possible appearance of horses on the Greek stage. This bilingual volume is the result of an exhibition held at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 2022. All of the objects in the exhibit are included, from small silver coins to large marble memorials for slain cavalry officers. Many of the artifacts documenting the Athenian cavalry come from wells in the Athenian Agora. Horse racing was a passion of all Greeks, but only Athens had a hero (Hippothoon) suckled by a mare. This book makes clear that hippomania was rampant in ancient Athens, just as Aristophanes implied in his comedies.
£32.50
The American University in Cairo Press Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology: 3:
Book SynopsisThe discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing it anew, and made a lost civilization comprehensible to generations of enchanted readers and viewers thousands of years later. This, the third of a three-volume history of Egyptology, follows the progress of the discipline from the trauma of the First World War, through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, and into Egyptology's new horizons at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Wonderful Things affirms that the history of ancient Egypt has proved continually fascinating, but it also demonstrates that the history of Egyptology is no less so. Only by understanding how Egyptology has developed can we truly understand the Egyptian past.Trade ReviewThe coverage of Egyptology and its struggles to survive during the two great wars, particularly the catastrophic losses in the Great War, are a valuable insight ... Without question, this book is a major contribution to the study of Egyptology and will long remain so, for both practising Egyptologists and lay aficionados. * Ancient Egypt *This remarkable three-volume tour de force fittingly ends on Egyptology in Egypt: new museums and the long anticipated opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum. Thompson rightly notes GEM as its ‘happy acronym’. This volume is likewise a gem. * Egyptian Archaeology *Jason Thompson has written what is by far the best history of Egyptology yet. Filled with fascinating facts and characters, Thompson's book is comprehensive and eminently readable and certain to become the standard history of the field for many years to come. * Kent Weeks *“Thompson’s account demonstrates the multiple array of events, personalities, political developments and intellectual inclinations that contributed to shaping the field of Egyptology as it emerged as a self-conscious discipline. Moving beyond the familiar recounting of great discoveries in Egypt, . . . Wonderful Things seeks to demonstrate the power and complexities of Egyptological activities in fashioning the story of ancient Egypt. We learn much about the less acknowledged characters in the narratives of Egyptology, appreciating the different types of contributions individuals made beyond the practices of ‘digging and writing’. The new insights Thompson provides on those who simply ‘made things happen’ is not only fascinating but serves as an extremely valuable contribution to the evaluation of Egyptology’s legacy. This is an incisive anatomy of a discipline that challenges our all too familiar assumptions about how Egyptology came to be.” -- Stephanie MoserWonderful Things: A History of Egyptology: From Antiquity to 1881 is an excellent first installment on something the field has long been lacking--a comprehensive history of Egyptology. After surveying the Greeks and Romans, medieval writers, and the European scholars and travelers of the Renaissance and Enlightenment, Jason Thompson hits full stride with the nineteenth-century. The French expedition and Champollion’s decipherment gave birth to modern Egyptology, and this is the century in which Thompson—the author of definititve biographies of Egyptologists and Orientalists Gardiner Wilkinson and Edward William Lane—feels most fully at home. After the Description de l’Égypte and Champollion come Richard Lepsius, Heinrich Brugsch, Samuel Birch, and Auguste Mariette. All the great figures and landmarks are there, and many lesser ones as well. Both scholars and general readers will eagerly anticipate the second and third volumes to carry the story down to the present. -- Donald M. Reid"This well-researched and authoritative account of the history of Egyptology will become the definitive reference tool for anyone interested in the development of this academic discipline. In this first volume of his study, the author has delved deep into the surviving archives to undercover the growth of Egyptology from antique times until the astonishing success of Mariette. Unlike previous works which only dealt with the highlights of Egyptian archaeology, he covers both the academic and archaeological aspects of the subject and shines a light on many unsung heroes of Egyptology who had been edged out of the limelight by the more well known. When completed, this study will form a lasting memorial to the men and women who in their various ways rescued the past of Egypt. -- Morris Bierbrier“[Wonderful Things] is a remarkable achievement: a scholarly work packed with facts but one which is also genuinely readable. It is ambitious in its scope and detail. To follow the growth of an arcane but also a highly romantic branch of learning becomes in Thompson’s book something close to an adventure. The author successfully convey his infectious enthusiasm for the subject but writes with a degree of detachment that allows him to be refreshingly and occasionally almost ruthlessly trenchant and critical.” * from the Foreword by Jaromir Malek *At last a definitive history, which does justice not only to the major players but to lesser lights as well. Wonderful Things will be immensely valuable. -- Brian Fagan, author of The Rape of the NileRemarkably thorough and yet refreshingly readable, this action-packed history of Egyptology is driven by some extraordinary characters—mostly men but some notable women—who needed to learn everything they could about the culture, land, and language of ancient Egypt. As much a study of European colonialism in Egypt as a historiography of seventeenth- to nineteenth-century scholarship, this volume [1] is an absolute necessity for anybody with an interest in pharaonic Egypt. -- Kara CooneyTable of ContentsChronological Outline of Ancient Egyptian History Maps Preface Acknowledgments 1. Egyptology and the Great War 2. Resuming the Field 3. Wonderful Things 4. The Pharaoh’s Curse 5. Winds of Change 6. George A. Reisner and His Colleagues at Giza 7. Farther South: Nubia and Sudan 8. New Dimensions in Prehistory 9. Inter-War: The Library 10. Years of Uncertainty 11. Nazi Egyptology and the Second World War 12. An Egyptological Intermediate Period 13. Nubian Rescue: The Temples 14. Nubian Rescue: The Archaeology 15. Resuming the Field—Again: Saqqara and Lower Egypt 16: Resuming the Field—Again: Upper Egypt and Beyond 17. Language and Art 18. Writing Ancient Egyptian History 19. Women in Egyptology 20. Points of Departure Notes Bibliography Index
£33.25
The American University in Cairo Press Analyzing Collapse: The Rise and Fall of the Old
Book SynopsisThis book explores the long-term trends in the development of what was the first complex civilization in history, the Old Kingdom of Egypt (c. 2650–2200 BC), the period that saw the construction of eternal monuments such as Djoser’s Step Pyramid complex in Saqqara, the pyramids of the great Fourth Dynasty kings in Giza, and spectacular tombs of high officials throughout Egypt. The present study aims to show that the historical trajectory of the period was marked by specific processes that characterize most of the world’s civilizations: the role of the ruling elite, the growth of bureaucracy, the proliferation of interest groups, and adaptation to climate change, to name but a few—and the way that these processes held the germ of ultimate collapse. The case is made that the rise and fall of the Old Kingdom state is of relevance to the study of the anatomy of development of any complex civilization.Table of ContentsPreface 1. The Way Up and the Way Down Are One and the Same 2. Rivers, Climate, and History 3. Heraclitus Principle and Punctuated Equilibria Theory 4. Collapse in the Desert 5. Building Up Strength 6. The Curtain Goes Up 7. The Empire of the Sun God 8. Kings and Kinglets 9. The Land Turns Like the Potter’s Wheel Afterword Notes Bibliography
£999.99
