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Thames & Hudson Ltd The Oldest Book in the World
Book SynopsisA brand-new translation of a philosophical classic of the ancient world, The Teaching of Ptahhatp, written in Egypt 4,000 years ago. The Teaching of Ptahhatp, composed two millennia before the birth of Plato, is the oldest surviving statement of philosophy in the ancient world and the earliest witness to the power of the written word. It ought to begin the list of the world's philosophy classics, yet it has been largely forgotten since it was rediscovered in the nineteenth century. Bill Manley's new translation corrects this oversight, rendering into approachable modern English Ptahhatp's profound yet practical account of the meaning of life', providing a new perspective on the Pyramid Age and overturning traditional prejudices about the origins of writing and philosophy. A testament to a common thread connecting humanity across time, Ptahhatp grapples with the pitfalls of greed, ambition, celebrity, success, confrontation, friendship, sex and even the office environment, and his teachings remain remarkably relevant in the modern day.
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Cambridge University Press Ranking Resource and Exchange
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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of Early China
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Cambridge University Press Eating and Drinking in Roman Britain
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Cambridge University Press Viking Empires
Book SynopsisViking Empires, first published in 2005, is a definitive history of the Viking World and the first study of the global implications of its expansion, integration, and reorientation. From the first contact in the 790s the book traces the political, military, social, cultural and religious history of the Viking Age from Iceland to Lithuania.Trade Review'… this bold new history of the Vikings.' Scotland on Sunday'The evocative 'empires' of this book's title draws attention to the Scandinavians' exceptional range of operations and should raise interesting questions about the nature of political power in the Viking Age.' The Times Literary Supplement'This is an important book and will force many to look again at their understanding of British and European history in this formative period.' Contemporary Review'… a great deal of information … well worth the attention of readers …' The Mariner's MirrorTable of Contents1. Viking raiders, Scandinavian Kingdoms and the wider world; 2. The Beginnings; 3. First contact: England and the continent; 4. Ireland and Scotland; 5. A Water World; 6. Conquest and integration, c. 950–1260; 7. The second Viking age in England, c. 970–1066; 8. The Irish Sea; 9. Scotland and the Vikings; 10. Orkney and Shetland; 11. Crossing the North Atlantic; 12. Sailing the North Atlantic; 13. Scandinavia and European integration: reform and rebirth; 14. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Lord Elgin and Ancient Greek Architecture The Elgin Drawings at the British Museum
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British Museum Press Greek inscriptions
Book SynopsisAn accessible introduction that reveals the importance of Greek inscriptions in the understanding of ancient Greek culture. Inscriptions are an important form of evidence for our interpretation of past human societies. They are outstanding sources as they offer direct snapshots into the behaviour of humans and their aspiration to make a permanent and public record of themselves. Greek inscriptions in particular combine word and image in a multitude of ways, meaning they are rich in terms of the insights they offer into the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean and the mindsets of their peoples. They give us views of inter-state relations, historical narratives, the political administration of city-states and honorific culture; and at the same time offer perspectives on the significance of ideas about democracy, citizenship, gender, ethnicity, religion and the supernatural. This book, based on the collection of ancient Greek inscriptions on stone and metal held at the British Museum,
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The History Press Ltd Prehistoric Pottery in Britain and Ireland
Book SynopsisIt can be precisely dated, can tell us about the diet, economy, and even ritual acts of prehistoric people, and it is often richly decorated. As this new study convincingly shows, pottery can tell us more about prehistoric society than any other artifact.
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The History Press Ltd Roman York
Book SynopsisThe great historic city of York owes its origins to the Roman army which built a fortress here on the banks of the River Ouse in AD 71. By the early third century York had also became the site of a major urban center and the capital of the northern half of Britain when what had been a single Roman province was divided into two. York's importance is reflected in the fact that two Roman emperors died in the city: Septimius Severus in the year 211, and Constantius I in 306, his son Constantine was then acclaimed emperor here by his father's troops. Roman York tells the story of the fortress and town from their foundation until the early fifth century when Britain ceased to be part of the Roman Empire. Particular emphasis is placed on the results of recent excavations and research which have added great deal to our knowledge and understanding of the people who lived in a place the Romans knew as Eboracum.
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The History Press Ltd Searching for the Silures
Book SynopsisThe Silures, the Iron Age tribe of south-east Wales, are described by Roman sources as among the most implacable foes of Roman expansion. The remarkable Silurian War, a protracted and surprisingly successful guerrilla campaign, saw the advancing legions kept at bay for a quarter of a century. In this important new book, Dr Ray Howell examines our current knowledge of these fascinating but enigmatic people. The Silures emerge as a resilient and sophisticated clan-based tribal confederation. Their martial traditions, reflected in their material culture including artefacts such as the red enamelled trappings of their chariots, found expression in their remarkable resistance to Roman seizure of their lands. Elements of their traditions survived the extended period of occupation which followed the Roman conquest to be reasserted in post-Roman south-east Wales. The story of the Silures is one of the most gripping to have come down to us from later British prehistory. This fully illustrated new account tells that story.
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The History Press Ltd Prehistoric Rock Art in the North York Moors
Book SynopsisThis revised edition is an accumulation of two decades of research and fieldwork by the authors, and presents a comprehensive account of the little known prehistoric rock art within the North York Moors area.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Iran and Persianate Culture in the Indian Ocean
Book SynopsisThe first interdisciplinary study of the history of contact between Iranians and the peoples and polities of the Indian Ocean.Most of the historiography of the Iranian world focuses on interactions and migrations between Iran, Central Asia and India. Nonetheless, this Iranian world was also closely connected to the maritime one of the Indian Ocean. While scholarship has drawn attention to diverse elements of these latter interactions, ranging from the claims to Shirazi descent of East African communities, to Persian elements in Malay literature, and Iranian communities of merchants in China, such studies have remained largely isolated from one another. The consensus of historiography on the Indian Ocean presents it as an Arabic cosmopolis', or, in earlier times, a Sanskrit one. The aim of this book is thus to bring together scholars working on disparate aspects of Persianate interactions with the Indian Ocean world from antiquity to modern times to provide a more roun
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Taylor & Francis Inc The Angkorian World
Book SynopsisThe Angkorian World explores the history of Southeast Asia's largest ancient state from the first to mid-second millennium CE. Chapters by leading scholars combine evidence from archaeology, texts, and the natural sciences to introduce the Angkorian state, describe its structure, and explain its persistence over more than six centuries.Comprehensive and accessible, this book will be an indispensable resource for anyone studying premodern Asia. The volume's first of six sections provides historical and environmental contexts and discusses data sources and the nature of knowledge production. The next three sections examine the anthropogenic landscapes of Angkor (agrarian, urban, and hydraulic), the state institutions that shaped the Angkorian state, and the economic foundations on which Angkor operated. Part V explores Angkorian ideologies and realities, from religion and nation to identity. The volume's last part reviews political and aesthetic Angkorian legacies in aTrade Review“From the urban sprawl of the ancient city to the minutiae of pottery and temple bas-reliefs, The Angkorian World succeeds in offering a multi-dimensional, polyvocal account of this South East Asian polity. While this volume is a dense and comprehensive insight into the state of Angkorian studies at present, prospective readers, be they scholars of premodern Asia or lay enthusiasts, need not be daunted. This important collection makes the intricate tapestry of Angkor an accessible and rewarding read.” Joanna Wolfarth - South East Asia ResearchTable of ContentsPrologue: An Introduction to the Angkorian World; PART I: CONTEXTS; 1 An Environmental History of Angkor: Beginning and End; 2 Texts and Objects: Exploiting the Literary Sources in Mediaeval Cambodia; 3 ‘Invisible Cambodians’: Knowledge Production in the History of Angkorian Archaeology; 4 The Mekong Delta Before the Angkorian World; 5 The Early Capitals of Angkor; 6 Angkor’s Multiple Southeast Asia Overland Connections; 7 Angkor and China: 9th–15th Centuries; PART II: LANDSCAPES; 8 Forests, Palms, and Paddy Fields: The Plant Ecology of Angkor; 9 Angkor and the Mekong River: Settlement, Resources, Mobility, and Power; 10 Trajectories of Urbanism in the Angkorian World; 11 Angkor's Temple Communities and the Logic of Its Urban Landscape; 12 Angkor as a "Cité Hydraulique"?; PART III: STATE INSTITUTIONS; 13 Angkorian Law and Land; 14 Warfare and Defensive Architecture in the Angkorian World; 15 Āśramas, Shrines, and Royal Power; 16 Education and Medicine at Angkor; PART IV: ECONOMIES; 17 Angkor’s Economy: Implications of the Transfer of Wealth; 18 The Temple Economy of Angkor; 19 Angkor’s Agrarian Economy: A Socio-Ecological Mosaic; 20 From Quarries to Temples: Stone Procurement, Materiality, and Spirituality in the Angkorian World; 21 Crafting With Fire: Stoneware and Iron Pyrotechnologies in the Angkorian World; 22 Food, Craft, and Ritual: Plants From the Angkorian World; PART V: IDEOLOGIES AND REALITIES; 23 Gods and Temples: The Nature(s) of Angkorian Religion; 24 Bodies of Glory: The Statuary of Angkor; 25 ‘Of Cattle and Kings’: Bovines in the Angkorian World; 26 An Angkor Nation? Identifying the Core of the Khmer Empire; 27 The Angkorian House; 28 Vogue at Angkor: Dress, Décor, and Narrative Drama; 29 Gender, Status, and Hierarchy in the Age of Angkor; PART VI: AFTER ANGKOR; 30 Perspectives on the ‘Collapse’ of Angkor and the Khmer Empire; 31 Uthong and Angkor: Material Legacies in the Chao Phraya Basin, Thailand; 32 Mainland Southeast Asia after Angkor: On the Legacies of Jayavarman VII; 33 Early Modern Cambodia and Archaeology at Longvek; 34 Yama, the God Closest to the Khmers; 35 Inarguably Angkor
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The University of Alabama Press Tenahaha and the Wari State A View of the Middle
Book SynopsisFive hundred years before the Inca, the Middle Horizon period (A.D. 600-1000) was a time of sweeping cultural change in the Andes. Archaeologists have long associated this period with the expansion of the Wari (Huari) and Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco) states in the south-central Andes and the Pacific coasts of contemporary Peru and Chile. Tenahaha and the Wari State contains a series of essays that challenge current beliefs about the Wari state and suggest a reassessment of this pivotal era in Andean history. In this collection, a picture emerges of Wari power projected across the regionâs rugged and formidable topography less as a conquering empire than as a source of ideas, styles, and material culture voluntarily adopted by neighboring peoples. Much of the previous fieldwork on Wari history took place in the Wari heartland and in Wari strongholds, not areas where Wari power and influence were equivocal. In Tenahaha and the Wari State, editors Justin Jennings and Willy YÃpez Ãlvarez set
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University of Alabama Press Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction
Book SynopsisPetrography is the minute examination by microscope of rock and mineral samples for the purpose of determining precisely their mineralogical composition. In this groundbreaking work, James B. Stoltman applies quantitative as well as qualitative methods to petrography of Native American ceramics.
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Egypt Exploration Society The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Volume LXXI
Book SynopsisPapyri nos 4803-4843. This volume adds to previously published early Christian texts four new papyri of the Gospel of John and also includes fragments of a lost play by Sophocles (Epigonoi), two prose works on Hellenistic historians and Hellenistic kings, a rhetorical exercise on speeches in Thucydides, and a lost novel with an Ionian setting.
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Egypt Exploration Society The Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol. LXXXVI
Book SynopsisAmin Benaissa is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. He has published numerous literary and documentary papyri from various collections and takes special interest in the society and culture of Roman and Late Antique Oxyrhynchus.Michael Zellmann-Rohrer is a researcher in the Institute for the History of Knowledge in Antiquity, Free University of Berlin. He specializes in magical and astrological papyri and related texts in the late ancient and medieval tradition.Table of ContentsContents Preface Table of Papyri List of Plates Numbers and Plates Note on the Method of Publication and Abbreviations TEXTS I. Theological Texts (5532–4) II. New Literary and Subliterary Texts (a) Biography, Commentary, and Grammar (5535–41) (b) Magic (5542–8) III. Documentary Texts (5549–72) INDEXES I. Theological Texts (5533–4) II. Biography, Commentary, and Grammar (5535–41) III. Magic (5542–8) IV. Rulers V. Consuls VI. Months VII. Days VIII. Dates IX. Personal Names X. Geographical XI. Religion XII. Official and Military Terms and Titles XIII. Professions, Trades, and Occupations XIV. Measures (a) Weights and Measures (b) Money XV. Taxes XVI. General Index of Words XVII. Corrections to Published Papyri
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American School of Classical Studies at Athens The Great Bath on the Lechaion Road
Book SynopsisThe large Roman bath situated on the Lechaion Road must have been conspicuous in the architecture of ancient Corinth at the beginning of the third century A.D. and for several centuries afterward. The author relates the history of the site and its excavation.
£80.75
American School of Classical Studies at Athens On the Edge of a Roman Port 2volume set
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the final results of an investigation of an array of Early Roman buildings and burials at Kenchreai, the eastern port of ancient Corinth. It paints a picture of a Corinthian community, small but prosperous, actively participating in an urban elite culture expressed through decorative art and monumental architecture.
£116.38
American Society of Overseas Research Taanach II
Book SynopsisThis book uses Walter Rast's ceramic chronology in his 1978 work on the Iron Age pottery at Tell Ta'annek as the basis for the periodization of the Iron Age strata, originally excavated by Paul Lapp. It presents the Iron Age stratigraphy area by area, period by period, based on the excavators' field notes, reports, plans and photographs.
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The British School of Archaeology in Iraq Nineveh Papers of the XLIXe Rencontre
Book SynopsisThe XLIXe Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale convened in London to celebrate the British Museum's quarter millennium. Nineveh, the last great imperial capital of the Assyrian Empire, was a topic well suited to the occasion. On the museum's behalf excavations were conducted at the site intermittently for more than 80 years, from 1847 to 1932.
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Oxford Archaeology Road to the Manor
Book SynopsisOxford Archaeology undertook a series of excavations in 201516 at Graven Hill on the former site of MoD Bicester, a large military storage and distribution centre built during the Second World War. The archaeological works revealed evidence of prehistoric, Roman, medieval and post-medieval activity, as well as finds relating to the use of the military site during the 1940s and 1950s.Ephemeral signs of early prehistoric activity were limited to stone tools, including an impressive Neolithic axe head, and a Bronze Age cremation burial. The first sign of occupation dated to the middle Iron Age in the form of a small settlement on the northern slope of the hill. A late Iron Age settlement to the north-west appeared to have been abandoned shortly after the Roman invasion, perhaps as a direct consequence of the arrival of the army at Alchester, 1.6km west of Graven Hill. This coincided with the construction of Akeman Street, the alignment of which was discovered to circumnavigate the north s
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Yale University Press Continuity and Authority on the Mongolian Steppe
Book SynopsisThe first published archaeological survey of the Egiin Gol valley of Mongolia, spanning the last 30,000 years and centering on the integration of local sites and landscape
£38.00
Van Siclen Books Studies in The Instructions of King Amenemhet I
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Van Siclen Books A Preliminary Report on the ReExcavations of the
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Second Hand Book Houses in Roman Cirencester
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Cotswold Archaeological Trust Ltd A RomanoBritish and Medieval Settlement Site at Stoke Road Bishops Cleeve Gloucestershire
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Cotswold Archaeological Trust Ltd TwentyFive Years of Archaeology in Gloucestershire
Book SynopsisTwenty-five years is a long time in the study of prehistory and these papers, given at a conference in Cheltenham in 2004, seek to review the excavations, surveys, chance finds and serious investigations carried out over two and a half decades.Table of ContentsIntroduction and acknowledgements (Neil Holbrook); Early prehistory (Timothy Darvill); The Iron Age (Tom Moore); The Roman period (Neil Holbrook); The early Medieval period (Andrew Reynolds); East is east and west is Gloucestershire (Richard Reece); The Medieval countryside (Mark Bowden); Bristol (Robert H Jones); Gloucester (Carolyn Heighway); The view from the Gloucestershire Archaeology Service (Jan Wills); The south Gloucestershire Historic Environment Record (David R Evans); Archaeology in Gloucestershire: Looking backwards but mostly forwards (Alan Saville); Index (Susan Vaughan).
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Archaeopress The Cyclades or Life Among the Insular Greeks
Book SynopsisJames Theodore Bent (1852-1897) was an Oxford-educated archaeologist, historian and explorer who dedicated his short life to researches in the Levant and Africa. In the winters of 1882-84 he and his wife, Mabel Hall-Dare, made extended tours of the Cycladic islands and in 1885 Bent published what has become a classic account of their wanderings and discoveries in what is now one of the best-loved regions of Greece. His island-by-island journals are a fascinating insight into Greek community living at the turn of the 19th century, and the work established Bent as a traveller of note. As might be expected, most of the major sites and sights are detailed, as well as references to customs and costumes, hospitality and hardship, history, folklore and myth. No account in English, then or since, has come close in terms of scope and achievement. (On a scholarly level, Bent was the first English archaeologist to undertake serious excavation work in the region and his findings on the small islan
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Archaeopress Athens and Attica Journal of a Residence there
Book SynopsisChristopher Wordsworth (1807-85), the Great Christopher of Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge, was a nephew of William the poet, and brother to the student who launched the University Boat Race. In 1832 he took a gap-year, after his brilliant studies in ancient Greek and Latin classics, to travel back in time over two thousand years to Pericles' Athens. The account of his tour, Athens and Attica (1836), is still the perfect scholarly companion to the history, topography, and myths of an area compact in dimension yet vast in terms of its contribution to Western civilization. The Bazaar or Market at Athens is a long street. Looking up you command a view of the commodities. Barrels of black caviar, small pocket-looking-glasses in red pasteboard cases, onions, tobacco piled up in brown heaps, black olives, figs strung together upon a rush, pipes with amber mouthpieces and brown clay bowls, silver-chased pistols, dirks, belts, and embroidered waistcoats. Such is the present state of Athensa few Turks still doze in the archways of the Acropolis, or recline while smoking their pipes, and leaning with their backs against the rusty cannon. A few days ago the cannon of the Acropolis fired the signal of the conclusion of the Turkish Ramazam the last which will ever be celebrated in Athens. Christopher Wordsworth, 1832Table of ContentsIntroduction – Gerald Brisch ; Chronology ; Chapter headings ; Athens and Attica ; Preface ; List of Plates ; Contents ; Text ; Appendix ; Endnotes ; Bibliography ; Sidetrack 1: Itinerary ; Sidetrack 2: Contexts ; Sidetrack 3: Gazetteer ; Index
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Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies v
Book SynopsisRémy Crassard & Pierre Bodu, Préhistoire du Hadramat(Yémen): nouvelles perspectives; Burkhard Vogt, Towards a new dating of the great dam of Mārib. Preliminary results of the 2002 fieldwork of the German Institute of Archaeology; Norbert Nebes, A new Abraha inscription from the Great Dam of Mārib; Mohammed Maraqten, The processional road between Old Mārib and the Awām temple in the light of a recently discovered inscription from MaΉram Bilqīs; Peter Stein, A Sabaic proverb. The Sabaic minuscule inscription Mon.script.sab. 129; Anne Regourd & Noha Sadek, Nouvelles données sur la topographie de Zabīd (Yémen) au dix-huitième siècle; Nancy Um, Eighteenth-century patronage in Sana: building for the new capital during the second century of the Qāsimī imamate; Mikhail Rodionov, Mashhad Alī revisited: documents from Hadramat; Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper, An exceptional type of Yemeni necklace from the beginning of the twentieth century as an example of introducing artistic novelty into a traditional craft; William D. Glanzman, Beyond their borders: a common potting tradition and ceramic horizon within South Arabia during the later first millennium BC through the early first millennium AD; Barbara Davidde, Roberto Petriaggi & David F. Williams, New data on the commercial trade of the harbour of Kan&; through the typological and petrographic study of the pottery; Alexandra Porter, Amphora trade between South Arabia and East Africa in the first millennium BC: a re-examination of the evidence; Roberta Tomber, Rome and South Arabia: new artefactual evidence from the Red Sea; Carl Phillips, François Villeneuve & William Facey, A Latin inscription from South Arabia; Anne Regourd, Trade on the Red Sea during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. The QuΒeir paper manuscript collection 1999&;2003, first data; Vincent Charpentier, Trihedral points: a new facet to the "Arabian Bifacial Tradition" ?; Mark Beech, Heiko Kallweit & Peter Hellyer, New archaeological investigations at Abu Dhabi Airport, United Arab Emirates; Heiko Kallweit, Lithics from the Emirates: the Abu Dhabi Airport sites Jürgen Schreiber & Jutta Häser, Archaeological survey at Tīwī and its hinterland (Central Oman); Caroline Cartwright, Reconstructing the use of coastal resources at Rams al-Hadd, Oman, in the third millennium BC; Ralph K. Pedersen, Traditional Arabian watercraft and the ark of the Gilgamesh epic: interpretations and realizations; A. Benoist, V. Bernard, A. Hamel, F. Saint-Genez, J. Schiettecatte, M. Skorupka, L''Age du Fer à Bithnah (Emirat de Fujairah): campagnes 2001&;2002; Tom Vosmer, Qalhāt, an ancient port of Oman: results of the first mission; H. Stewart Edgell, The myth of the "lost city of the Arabian sands"; Valeria Fiorani Piacentini, The mercantile empire of the Tībīs: economic predominance, political power, military subordination; William & Fidelity Lancaster, with a technical report by Martin Bridge, Tree cores from Ras al-Khaimah; Birgit Mershen, Pots and tombs in Ibrā, Oman. Investigations into the archaeological surface record of Islamic cemeteries and the related burial customs and funerary rituals; Yaqoub Salim al-Busaidi, The protection and management of historic monuments in the Sultanate of Oman: the historic buildings of Oman; Mashary A. al-Naim, The dynamics of a traditional Arab town: the case of Hofūf, Saudi Arabia; François de Blois, Qurān IX:37 and CIH 547; Yosef Tobi, The orthography of pre-Saadianic Judaeo-Arabic compared with the orthography of the inscriptions of pre-Islamic Arabia; Samia Naïm, Le traitement syntaxique des relations inaliénables en arabe yéménite de Sana; Janet C.E. Watson, On the linguistic archaeology of Sana Arabic; Salah Said & M. al-Hamad, Three short Nabataean inscriptions from Umm al-Jimāl.Table of ContentsRémy Crassard & Pierre Bodu, Préhistoire du Hadramat(Yémen): nouvelles perspectives ; Burkhard Vogt, Towards a new dating of the great dam of Mārib. Preliminary results of the 2002 fieldwork of the German Institute of Archaeology ; Norbert Nebes, A new Abraha inscription from the Great Dam of Mārib ; Mohammed Maraqten, The processional road between Old Mārib and the Awām temple in the light of a recently discovered inscription from MaΉram Bilqīs ; Peter Stein, A Sabaic proverb. The Sabaic minuscule inscription Mon.script.sab. 129 ; Anne Regourd & Noha Sadek, Nouvelles données sur la topographie de Zabīd (Yémen) au dix-huitième siècle ; Nancy Um, Eighteenth-century patronage in Sana: building for the new capital during the second century of the Qāsimī imamate ; Mikhail Rodionov, Mashhad Alī revisited: documents from Hadramat ; Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper, An exceptional type of Yemeni necklace from the beginning of the twentieth century as an example of introducing artistic novelty into a traditional craft ; William D. Glanzman, Beyond their borders: a common potting tradition and ceramic horizon within South Arabia during the later first millennium BC through the early first millennium AD ; Barbara Davidde, Roberto Petriaggi & David F. Williams, New data on the commercial trade of the harbour of Kanẽ through the typological and petrographic study of the pottery ; Alexandra Porter, Amphora trade between South Arabia and East Africa in the first millennium BC: a re-examination of the evidence ; Roberta Tomber, Rome and South Arabia: new artefactual evidence from the Red Sea ; Carl Phillips, François Villeneuve & William Facey, A Latin inscription from South Arabia ; Anne Regourd, Trade on the Red Sea during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. The QuΒeir paper manuscript collection 1999–2003, first data ; Vincent Charpentier, Trihedral points: a new facet to the "Arabian Bifacial Tradition" ? ; Mark Beech, Heiko Kallweit & Peter Hellyer, New archaeological investigations at Abu Dhabi Airport, United Arab Emirates ; Heiko Kallweit, Lithics from the Emirates: the Abu Dhabi Airport sites Jürgen Schreiber & Jutta Häser, Archaeological survey at Tīwī and its hinterland (Central Oman) ; Caroline Cartwright, Reconstructing the use of coastal resources at Rams al-Hadd, Oman, in the third millennium BC ; Ralph K. Pedersen, Traditional Arabian watercraft and the ark of the Gilgamesh epic: interpretations and realizations ; A. Benoist, V. Bernard, A. Hamel, F. Saint-Genez, J. Schiettecatte, M. Skorupka, L'Age du Fer à Bithnah (Emirat de Fujairah): campagnes 2001–2002 ; Tom Vosmer, Qalhāt, an ancient port of Oman: results of the first mission ; H. Stewart Edgell, The myth of the "lost city of the Arabian sands" ; Valeria Fiorani Piacentini, The mercantile empire of the Tībīs: economic predominance, political power, military subordination ; William & Fidelity Lancaster, with a technical report by Martin Bridge, Tree cores from Ras al-Khaimah ; Birgit Mershen, Pots and tombs in Ibrā, Oman. Investigations into the archaeological surface record of Islamic cemeteries and the related burial customs and funerary rituals ; Yaqoub Salim al-Busaidi, The protection and management of historic monuments in the Sultanate of Oman: the historic buildings of Oman ; Mashary A. al-Naim, The dynamics of a traditional Arab town: the case of Hofūf, Saudi Arabia ; François de Blois, Qurān IX:37 and CIH 547 ; Yosef Tobi, The orthography of pre-Saadianic Judaeo-Arabic compared with the orthography of the inscriptions of pre-Islamic Arabia ; Samia Naïm, Le traitement syntaxique des relations inaliénables en arabe yéménite de Sana ; Janet C.E. Watson, On the linguistic archaeology of Sana Arabic ; Salah Said & M. al-Hamad, Three short Nabataean inscriptions from Umm al-Jimāl
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Archaeopress Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies
Book SynopsisProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 2004.
£42.75
Cotswold Archaeological Trust Ltd Prehistoric and Medieval Occupation at MoretoninMarsh and Bishops Cleeve Gloucestershire
Book SynopsisTwo reports are published in this volume: excavations in 2003 at Blenheim Farm, Moreton-in-Marsh (by Jonathan Hart and Mary Alexander) and excavations in 2004 at 21 Church Road, Bishop's Cleeve (by Kate Cullen and Annette Hancocks).
£16.37
Cotswold Archaeological Trust Ltd Iron Age and RomanoBritish Agriculture in the North Gloucestershire Severn Vale 6
Book SynopsisTwo reports are published in this volume: Prehistoric and Early Historic Activity, Settlement and Burial at Walton Cardiff, near Tewkesbury: Excavations at Rudgeway Lane 2004-2005 (by Jonathan Hart and E.R.Table of ContentsForeword; Abstracts; 1. Prehistoric and Early Historic Activity, Settlement and Burial at Walton Cardiff ; Introduction; Excavation Results; The Finds; The Biological Evidence; Discussion; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; 2. Romano-British Agriculture at the Former St James's Railway Station, Cheltenham ; Introduction; Excavation Results; The Finds; The Biological Evidence; Discussion; Acknowledgements; Bibliography
£20.77
Pre-Construct Archaeology Limited Friars Quakers Industry and Urbanisation
Book SynopsisThe development of Cabot Circus shopping centre presented a rare opportunity for the archaeological investigation of a large part of the Broadmead suburb of Bristol.
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Caique Publishing Ltd Ziyaret Tepe Exploring the Anatolian frontier of
Book SynopsisZiyaret Tepe, the ancient city of Tušhan, was a provincial capital of the Assyrian Empire, in its day the greatest the world had ever seen. The excavations captured in this innovative book - the governor''s palace, military barracks and mansions of the rich - chart the empire''s history from its expansion in the early 9th century BC to its dramatic fall three centuries later, providing insights into the daily lives of both the commoners and Assyrian elites who inhabited this ancient frontier city.Fieldwork over 18 seasons uncovered areas of both the lower town and the great mound of Ziyaret Tepe which looms 22 metres above it, a record of thousands of years of human occupation. Today in southeast Turkey, near the Syrian border, Tušhan yielded exceptional finds, such as elaborate wall paintings, a hoard of luxury items burned in a cremation ritual 2,800 years ago, and a cuneiform tablet that hints at a previously unknown language. The story of the project is told by the specialists who dedicated years of their lives to it. Geophysicists, ceramicists, readers of cuneiform, experts in weaving, board games and Neo-Assyrian politics joined archaeologists, zooarchaeologists, archaeobotanists and many others. But this is no dry field book of dusty digging. Both accessible and scholarly, it is a lively, copiously illustrated record of teamwork, a compelling demonstration of the collaboration - the science, artistry and imaginative reconstruction - that makes modern archaeology so absorbing.Table of Contents1: The origins of Assyria and its Culture; 2: The excavation team gets to work; 3: Work on the Tušhan excavation begins; 4: Ziyaret Tepe reveals its rich and varied finds; 5: Conservation and communication
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Genius Loci Publications The Shaft Tombs of Wadi Bairiya
Book SynopsisShaft Tombs which had only been noted in two brief paragraphs by Howard Carter in 1917 have now been revealed to be desecrated burial places of hitherto unrecognised members of the family of Amenhotep III.
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Francis Cairns Publications Ltd Roman History in Roman Poetry
Book SynopsisIn Roman History in Roman poetry (the 19th volume of PLLS) distinguished international scholars explore aspects of how historical and historiographical concerns were represented in or affected by Roman poetry. The essays, ranging chronologically from Roman pre-history through the late Republic and early Empire up to the Flavian age, look at the topic in Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Lucan, and Silius, with a concluding paper on the female poet Sulpicia, commenting circumspectly on the politics of the reign of Domitian.
£81.00
Cambridge University Press Scribal Culture in Ancient Egypt
Book SynopsisThis Element seeks to characterize the scribal culture in ancient Egypt through its textual acts, which were of prime importance in this culture: writing, list-making, drawing, and copying.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Defining; 2. Writing; 3. (En)listing; 4. Drawing; 5. Copying; 6. Reading; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Lives of Ancient Villages
Book SynopsisOur conception of the culture and values of the ancient Greco-Roman world is largely based on texts and material evidence left behind by a small and atypical group of city-dwellers. The people of the deep Mediterranean countryside seldom appear in the historical record from antiquity, and almost never as historical actors. This book is the first extended historical ethnography of an ancient village society, based on an extraordinarily rich body of funerary and propitiatory inscriptions from a remote upland region of Roman Asia Minor. Rural kinship structures and household forms are analysed in detail, as are the region''s demography, religious life, gender relations, class structure, normative standards and values. Roman north-east Lydia is perhaps the only non-urban society in the Greco-Roman world whose culture can be described at so fine-grained a level of detail: a world of tight-knit families, egalitarian values, hard agricultural labour, village solidarity, honour, piety and loveTable of Contents1. Hieradoumia; 2. Commemorative cultures; 3. Demography; 4. Kinship terminology; 5. Household forms; 6. The circulation of children; 7. Beyond the family; 8. Rural sanctuaries; 9. Village society; 10. City, village, kin-group.
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Cambridge University Press Etruria and Anatolia
Book SynopsisExplores what the striking similarities in Etruscan and Anatolian material culture reveal about contact and exchange between these distant regions in the Mediterranean. Identifies shared practices, common visual language and movements of objects and artisans in both directions and presents a complex picture of connectivity's modes and implications.
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Cambridge University Press Archaeology Nation and Race
Book SynopsisArchaeology, Nation, and Race is a must-read book for students of archaeology and adjacent fields. It demonstrates how archaeology and concepts of antiquity have shaped, and have been shaped by colonialism, race, and nationalism. Structured as a lucid and lively dialogue between two leading scholars, the volume compares modern Greece and modern Israel two prototypical and influential cases where archaeology sits at the very heart of the modern national imagination. Exchanging views on the foundational myths, moral economies, and racial prejudices in the field of archaeology and beyond, Hamilakis and Greenberg explore topics such as the colonial origins of national archaeologies, the crypto-colonization of the countries and their archaeologies, the role of archaeology as a process of purification, and the racialization and ''whitening'' of Greece and Israel and their archaeological and material heritage. They conclude with a call for decolonization and the need to forge alliances withTrade Review'This is one of the most interesting and thought-provoking archaeology books that I have read in a long time. It is truly a meeting of two deep-thinking minds – Yannis Hamilakis musing on Greece and Rafael Greenberg musing on Israel. Universally regarded as two of the most thoughtful, intellectual, and politically active archaeologists working today, both with impeccable credentials, one couldn't ask for two more devoted and opinionated (in a good way) scholars, who don't fear to speak their minds and advocate for the causes that they hold dear.' Eric Cline, George Washington University'We get to eavesdrop on two accomplished archeologists as they discuss the high stakes of the interplay of nationalism with notions of antiquity. This comparison of the Israeli and Greek instances is ultimately about the meaning of archeology itself, as a discipline that is no less concerned with the present than it is with the past.' Katherine Fleming, New York University'National archeology stands out as a field in which politics is both uniquely dominant and entirely suppressed. Two top experts offer a frank discussion of archeology's role in the history of nationalism in their respective countries and of its costs. They uncover the various manners in which archeology functions as both a means and an end in struggles of liberation and conquest, which are often driven by spatial imagination and fantasies no less than by material aspirations. A must-read for anyone interested in archeology, in ancient and modern Israel and Greece, and in critical thinking about nationalism. This is a uniquely original contribution to the ever-urgent question: who owns the past.' Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Tel Aviv University'These two scholars provide fascinating insight into how and why archaeology has been a critical tool in building two very different nations - Greece and Israel. Using conversation rather than dry exposition, Greenberg and Hamilakis also show that science, no matter how entangled with religion and nationalism, can upset our narrow ideas about history. An essential book for anyone curious about the way we create our past to control the present-and future.' Andrew Lawler, author of Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City'Archaeology, Nation and Race is a serious pleasure-a smart, wide-ranging, and spirited conversation, not just between two highly knowledgeable and thoughtful interlocutors, but between the Hellenic and Hebraic, local and global, seen and unseen, dead and living. Greenberg and Hamilakis each come steeped in the particulars of the national archaeologies to which they've devoted their lives; both are also deeply open, and committed to challenging themselves and the cultural and political assumptions that surround them. This book has a refreshing urgency about it.' Adina Hoffman, Yale University, author of Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City'Archaeology, Nation, and Race explores the political dimensions of archeology through a historical and sociological-anthropological analysis. It is structured as a vivid dialogue between two scholars that explores the ways in which archaeology was employed by both Hellenic and Zionist nationalism. Even more radically, this book explores how archaeology has been shaped by crypto-colonization, colonialism and race. Greenberg and Hamilakis have written a transformative account of utmost importance that should be read by every archaeologist.' Rina Talgam, Hebrew University of Jerusalem'Two leading scholars have a fascinating conversation comparing the contribution of archaeology to the mythical constitution, racialization, and crypto-colonialism of Israel and Greece. Shedding new light on the Eurocentric models of Hebraism and Hellenism, they conduct a masterful critique of purification and idealization, and invite us to envision a decolonizing scholarship that forges activist alliances.' Vassilis Lambropoulos, University of MichiganIt may seem paradoxical that it should be archaeologists who unravel the ideological underpinnings of global modernity, but Greenberg and Hamilakis are uniquely qualified to perform this long-overdue task of conceptual excavation. Taking the twin cases of Greek and Israeli nationalism – and emphasizing their sometimes unexpected and even shocking commonalities – they deploy a disarmingly dialogical format to expose the intersections of race, antiquity, territoriality, and cultural hegemony in a formulation that the world has, for far too long, largely taken as the natural order of things.' Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, author of Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage'Through parallel texts combined in a dialogue, a format rarely encountered in the published work of scholarly literature, this book brings together two archaeologists, one from Greece, the other from Israel, who confront the history and ethics of their discipline. They address how the Western world has seen itself reflected through the dual heritage of classical Greece and of the Holy Land, the backbone of the religions of the Bible. This ideological outlook about origins has weighed heavily on the archaeology of Greece and that of Palestine. As a result, the archaeological record has been used to sustain a nationalistic narrative that gives little importance to rational inquiry. This book calls for a critical distance that questions the place of arché - antiquity and its authority - as the foundation of archaeology. In so doing, it opens a debate, as urgent as it is necessary, that reminds us about the relevance of Volney's long forgotten 1791 pamphlet, Les ruines (The Ruins), with its polemic against the colonization of the Past.' Alain Schnapp, Emeritus Professor, University of Paris I, Panthéon-SorbonneTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The Colonial Origins of National Archaeologies; 3. Archaeology in the Crypto-colony; 4. Archaeology as Purification; 5. Whitening Greece and Israel: Nation, Race, and Archaeogenetics; 6. Decolonizing our Imagination; 7. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press An Archaeological Perspective on the History of
Book SynopsisThis volume represents an introduction to a new world-wide attempt to review the history of technology. It takes an explicit archaeological focus to the study of the history of technology and adopts a more explicit socially-embedded view of technology than has commonly been the case in mainstream histories of technology.Table of ContentsPreface; Setting the Scene; What is technology?; Earlier Approaches to the History of Technology; Varying Theoretical Approaches to the History of Technology; Cultural Logics and Materials; Spatial and Temporal Orders of Technology; How Does Technology Change?; Technology Transfer; Technological Choice and 'Intentionality'; Final Thoughts.
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Cambridge University Press From Ritual to God in the Ancient Near East
Book SynopsisThis book traces the transformation of the belief systems that shaped life in ancient Near Eastern communities, from prehistoric times until the advent of religious monotheism in the Levant during the first millennium BCE. It offers new insights into the symbolic value embodied in the religious materiality produced in the ancient Near East.
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Taylor & Francis Rethinking the Roman City
Book SynopsisThe spatial turn has brought forward new analytical imperatives about the importance of space in the relationship between physical and social networks of meaning. This volume explores this in relation to approaches and methodologies in the study of urban space in Roman Italy.As a consequence of these new imperatives, sociological studies on ancient Roman cities are flourishing, demonstrating a new set of approaches that have developed separately from traditional historical and topographical analyses. Rethinking the Roman City represents a convergence of these different approaches to propose a new interpretive model, looking at the Roman city and one of its key elements: the forum. After an introductory discussion of methodological issues, internationally-know specialists consider three key sites of the Roman world â Rome, Ostia and Pompeii. Chapters focus on physical space and/or the use of those spaces to inter-relate these different approaches. The focus then moves tTrade Review"...The book offers an excellent collection of thought-provoking essays, each foregrounding firm perspectives on the study of space of antiquity. They illustrate robust ways to gauge the nucleation and evolution of ancient space in the Roman period." - Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsList of figuresList of contributors AcknowledgementsPART 1Methodological approachesChapter 1Topography between two worlds: William Gell and Antonio NibbyAndrew Wallace-Hadrill with Martin MillettChapter 2Some thoughts on current trends in the archaeology of urban contexts and rural landscapes in the Mediterranean worldStefano CampanaPART 2Cities with optimal data: Rome, Ostia and PompeiiChapter 3Topography and Classical Archaeology: Landscape biography Paolo CarafaChapter 4Sensory-spatial history at Ostia: The embodied space of street porticoesJeffrey D. VeitchChapter 5Rethinking Relationships between Ostia and PortusSimon KeayChapter 6Visual communication in the streets of PompeiiAnnette van Haug and Philipp KobutschPART 3A key public space in the Roman city: The ForumChapter 7Archaeologists in the Roman ForumDunia FilippiChapter 8Historians in the ForumNicholas PurcellChapter 9Children and Public Space in Early Imperial RomeRay LaurenceChapter 10Transformations of public space in the cities of Italy under the Principate: the case of the ForumJohn PattersonIndex
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Taylor & Francis Birds in Roman Life and Myth
Book SynopsisThis book explores the place of birds in Roman myth and everyday life, focusing primarily on the transitional period of 100 BCE to 100 CE within the Italian peninsula.A diverse range of topics is considered in order to build a broad overview of the subject. Beginning with an appraisal of omens, augury, and auspices â including the âsacred chickensâ consulted by generals before battle â it goes on to examine how Romans farmed birds, hunted them, and kept them as pets. It demonstrates how the ownership and consumption of birds were used to communicate status and prestige, and how bird consumption mirrored wider economic and social trends. Each topic adopts an interdisciplinary approach, considering literary evidence alongside art, material culture, zooarchaeology, and modern ornithological knowledge. The inclusion of zooarchaeology adds another dimension to the work and highlights the value of using animals and faunal remains to interpret the past.Studying the Roman view
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Taylor & Francis Dynamics and Developments of Social Structures
Book SynopsisThis volume substantiates the island of Cyprus as an important player in the history of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, and presents new theoretical and analytical approaches.The Cypriot Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age are characterised by an increasing complexity of social and political organisation, economic systems, and networks. The book discusses and defines how specific types of material datasets and assemblages, such as architecture, artefacts, and ecofacts, and their contextualisation can form the basis of interpretative models of social structures and networks in ancient Cyprus. This is explored through four main themes: approaches to social dynamics; social and economic networks and connectivity; adaptability and agency; and social dynamics and inequality. The variety and transition of social structures on the island are discussed on multiple scales, from the local and relatively short-term to island-wide and eastern Mediterranean-wide and the longue durÃe. The focus of study ranges from urban to non-urban contexts and is reflected in settlement, funerary, and other ritual contexts. Connections, both within the island and to the broader Eastern Mediterranean, and how these impact social and economic developments on the island, are explored. Discussions revolve around the potential of consolidating the models based on specialised studies into a cohesive interpretation of society on ancient Cyprus and its strategic connections with surrounding regions in a diachronic perspective from the Neolithic through the end of the Bronze Age, i.e. from roughly the seventh millennium to the eleventh century BCE.Dynamics and Developments of Social Structures and Networks in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus is intended for researchers and students of the archaeology and history of ancient Cyprus, the Aegean, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the Eastern
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together the latest results and discussions from research carried out in the eastern Fertile Crescent, the so-called hilly flanks, and adjacent regions, as well as providing key historical perspectives on earlier fieldwork in the region. The emergence of sedentary food producing societies in southwest Asia ca. 10,000 years ago has been a key research focus for archaeologists since the 1930s. This book provides a balance to the weight of work undertaken in the western Fertile Crescent, namely the Levant and southern Anatolia. This preference has led to a heavy emphasis on these regions in discussions about where, when and how the transition from hunting and gathering to plant cultivation and animal domestication occurred. Chapters assess the role of the eastern Fertile Crescent as a key region in the Neolithization process in southwest Asia, highlighting the key and important contributions people in this region made to the emergence of sedentary farming sociTable of ContentsPart 1 General Perspectives 1. Revisiting the Hilly Flanks of Iran: New Data and Shifting Paradigms 2. Emergence and Dispersal of Neolithic Lifeways: From Core to Peripheries 3. From Cradle to Mosaic: The Metaphors We Live By 4. Human Dimensions of the Transition from Hunting-Gathering to Agro-Pastoralism Part 2 New Fieldwork/Regional Perspectives 5. Epipalaeolithic Campsite at the Bawa Yawan Rockshelter, Nawdarwan Valley, Kermanshah Region, West-Central Zagros Mountains 6. Environment and Subsistence in the Zagros Epipalaeolithic: New Insights from Palegawra Cave 7. The TCEC Project and its Implications for Investigating Neolithisation of the Eastern Fertile Crescent 8 Körtik Tepe in the Origin and Development of the Neolithic in Upper Mesopotamia Part 3 Lithic Industries 9. The Earliest Neolithic Lithic Traditions: Evidence from Chogha Golan in the Western Foothills of the Zagros Mountains, Iran 10. Multiperiod Chipped Stone Assemblages: Preliminary Report on Caves and Rock Shelters in Izeh Plain, Khuzestan, Iran 11. Aceramic Neolithic Flaked Stone Assemblages from Trench III, East Chia Sabz, West Iran Part 4 Ceramics 12. Fars as a Multi-Cultural Zone during the Neolithic Period 13. Tell Begum, Shaikh Marif and Shakar Tepe: The Late Neolithic Pottery in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan 1 4. The Dung Among Other Tempers in Zagros and Mesopotamia Neolithic Pottery Part 5 Miscellaneous 15. Ganj Dareh Burial Practice and Social Memory 16. ‘DomestiSensation’: Current State of Plant Analyses in Göbekli Tepe, Southeast Turkey 17. Testing the Palaeolithic Harvesting Hypothesis at Ghar-E Boof with Improved Botanical Recovery
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