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Book SynopsisHistorical Archaeology in a Nutshell is a textbook for students studying historical archaeology for the first time.The book presents historical archaeologyâs contribution to understanding the world in a series of bite-sized, topic-specific, and intellectually contextualized chapters that do not presuppose much prior knowledge of archaeology. Each chapter covers a theme commonly explored by historical archaeologists such as identity, race and racialization, colonization and Indigenous peoples, diasporas and transnationalism, religion, and war. Chapters can be read in any order in about 30 minutes and show why and how archaeologists explore the topic. Each starts with something about ontology (why would anyone care about this topic?), explains the range of approaches archaeologists apply to it, presents a relevant case study that synthesizes method and theory, and concludes with some thought-provoking discussion questions. Using examples from around the world, the book supports historical archaeology as a global discipline.As supplementary reading in an introductory archaeology course or as one of the main texts in a course dedicated to historical archaeology, this book will provide students with a focused and easily comprehensible introduction to the subject.

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Book SynopsisParis: The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City considers the various forces royal, monastic and secular that shaped the art, architecture and topography of Paris between c. 1100 and c. 1500, a period in which Paris became one of the foremost metropolises in the West.The individual contributions, written by an international group of scholars, cover the subject from many different angles. They encompass wide-ranging case studies that address architecture, manuscript illumination and stained glass, as well as questions of liturgy, religion and social life. Topics include the early medieval churches that preceded the current cathedral church of Notre-Dame and cultural production in the Paris area in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, as well as Paris's chapels and bridges. There is new evidence for the source of the c. 1240 design for a celebrated window in the Sainte-Chapelle, an evaluation of the liturgical arrangements in the new shrine-chTable of Contents1. Notre-Dame in Paris before the Gothic Period, 2. Abbot Suger’s Paris, 3. The Power of the Saints: Architecture and Liturgy in Abbot Suger’s Shrine-Choir at Saint-Denis in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, 4. The King’s City: The Disciplinary ‘Sense-scape’ of Paris in the Thirteenth Century, 5. The Great Thirteenth-Century Chapels of Paris, 6. City of light: Picturing the translation of the Crownof Thorns to Paris in the Gothic glass of the Sainte-Chapelle, 7. Jean Pucelle, Mahiet, and the Fauvel Master: Relationships between Manuscript Illuminators in Fourteenth-Century Paris, 8. Building Paris on its Bridges, 9. Not so vast a Solitude: Cistercians in Medieval Paris, 10. Images of Paris in the late Middle Ages: The Great Monuments.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores coinage and related object types as an important form of material culture that is crucial to interrogating interactions between coloniser and colonised.Money, Coinage and Colonialism is a much overdue treatment of coinage and money in debates around ancient and recent colonial practices. It argues that coinage offers unique opportunities to study interactions and effects of the meeting between colonisers and colonised, as well as the economic, political and ideological interactions between colonial communities and the state of origin. It is argued that the study of coins and other means of exchange may reveal less apparent and under-communicated processes, values and discourses in the study of colonial environments and projects, with commonalities informing a larger global history approach. A broad picture is built from numerous case studies, spanning from Classical Greek colonies to European colonial enterprises of the Modern period, exploring col

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a structured presentation of the progress of research into the internal history of a part of the Byzantine world Greece in the centuries before the multiple changes induced or accelerated by the Fourth Crusade. Greece is a large area (several Early andMiddle Byzantine provinces), with records, archival, literary, archaeological, architectural, and art-historical, most of which are unequalled in terms of their density and range. This creates opportunities for useful synthesis, and for dialogue with those now engaged in the rewriting, or writing, of the inner history of Byzantium, from Italy to the Caucasus, who have been stimulated by, or involved in, the editing of archives and inscriptions (including sigillographic), and in the publication of monuments, excavations, and surveys (for all of which the Greek space', the elladikê khôra, is a particular, and fertile, focus of activity, as the conference showed).Much of the material presented here can usually Table of ContentsDunn, Introduction / Part I: Late Antique Greece / 2. Zisimou, The institutional Church in Early Christian Greece / 3. Sdrolia and Didioumi, The Early Byzantine fortress of Velika on the coast of Kissavos, Thessaly / 4. Tzavella, Urban and rural settlement in Early Byzantine Attica (4th-7th centuries) / Part II: Greece in the transitional period / 5. Zanini, The “Byzantine District” of Gortyn (Crete) and the end of a/the ancient Mediterranean city / 6. Poulou-Papadimitriou, Maritime routes in the Aegean (7th-9th centuries): The archaeological evidence / 7. Raptis, The seventh-century restoration of the Acheiropoietos Basilica and its significance for the urban continuity of Thessalonike during the “Dark Age” / 8. Feist, Some remarks on the “Dark Age” architecture of Hagia Sophia, Thessalonike / Part III: Urban and rural revival / 9. Sanders, Bridging the Grande Brèche: Rethinking coins, ceramics, Corinth, and commerce in the centuries following AD 500 / 10. Vroom, Byzantine Butrint vis-à-vis “Dark-Age” Athens: A ceramic perspective / 11. Kontogiannis and Heslop, The defences of Middle Byzantium in Greece (7th-12th centuries): The flight to safety in town, countryside, and islands / 12. Izdebski, The demographic and economic history of Byzantine Greece in the longue durée: The contribution of the pollen data / 13. Tsanana, Middle Byzantine Hierissos: Archaeological research at the entrance to Mount Athos / Part IV: Patronage and sacred space / 14. Kalopissi-Verti, Patronage of religious foundations in Middle Byzantine Greece (867-1204): The evidence of inscriptions and donor portraits / 15. Makris, Art, architecture and the function of a Middle Byzantine church in Thrace / 16. Papadaki, Church-building in the Peloponnese: Reflections of social and economic trends in the countryside in the Middle Byzantine period / 17. Sigala, Hermits, monks, and nuns on Chalke, a small island of the Dodecanese from Early Christian to Middle Byzantine times / Part V: The bureaucrat, the bishop, the farmer and the merchant / 18. Shawcross, Loving the poor: Charity and justice in Middle Byzantine Greece / 19. Harvey, Economic strategies of landowners and peasant farmers during the eleventh and twelfth centuries in Greece / 20. Gerolymatou, The merchant in Middle Byzantine Greece

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays presents a synthesis of current research on the Oxus Civilization, which rose and developed at the turn of the 3rd to 2nd millennia BC in Central Asia. First discovered in the 1970s, the Oxus Civilization, or the BactriaMargiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC), has engendered many different interpretations, which are explored in this volume by an international group of archaeologists and researchers. Contributors cover all aspects of this fascinating Bronze Age culture: architecture; material culture; grave goods; religion; migrations; and trade and interactions with neighboring civilizations, from Mesopotamia to the Indus, and the Gulf to the northern steppes. Chapters also examine the Oxus Civilization's roots in previous local cultures, explore its environmental and chronological context, or the possibly coveted metal sources, and look into the reasons for its decline.The World of the Oxus Civilization offers a brTrade Review"The World of the Oxus Civilisation brings to life one of the great ‘lost civilisations’ of the ancient world, lost only because, while extraordinarily rich and extensive in its reach, its story has long been hidden from the broader world of scholarship by extreme political and linguistic barriers. This volume, telling the full story of the Oxus Civilisation for the first time, is a magnificent gift for anyone interested in the rich complexity of the ancient world and the early rise of internationalism across Asia. Its comprehensive coverage, presented as a series of specialist essays by a range of international scholars, will be warmly welcomed as a much needed authoritative work of reference filling a critical gap in the early history of Old World development." - Alison Betts, University of Sydney, Australia."This ambitious book provides a comprehensive overview by many experts of the remarkable Bronze Age Civilization of the Oxus including detailed description of the settlement systems, the archaeological evidence for a complex and unique culture as well as discussions of relations with neighboring civilizations in Iran, the Indus Valley and Mesopotamia. The astounding richness of the burials at the site of Gonur are testimony to the wealth and sophistication of this culture which flourished as part of the expansive network of trade and exchange that linked the riverine cultures of the Near East from Troy to the Indus valley." - Holly Pittman, University of Pennsylvania, USA.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I: THE OXUS CIVILIZATION BACKGROUND 1. Questioning the Oxus Civilization or Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Culture (BMAC): an Overview 2 The Oxus Civilization and Mesopotamia: A Philologist’s Point of View 3. Environmental Changes in Bactria and Sogdiana (Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan) from the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age: Interaction with Human Occupation 4. The Rise of the Early Urban Civilization in Southwestern Central Asia (from the Middle Chalcolithic to the Middle Bronze Age in Southern Turkmenistan) PART II: THE "CORE AREA" 5. The Architecture of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Culture 6. Some Thoughts on the Imaginary Representations in the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Culture 7. Myths and Gods in the Oxus Civilization 8. BMAC Glyptics: Typology, Context, Function, and Background 9. Chlorite Containers from the Oxus Civilization: Between Technical Choices and Iconographic Codes 10. The "Royal Necropolis" at Gonur Depe: an Attempt at Systematization (Plan, Constructions, Rituals) 11. Polychrome Inlayed and Painted Mosaics from Gonur Depe (Turkmenistan) 12. Animal Burials at Gonur Depe 13. Funerary Rituals and Archaeothanatological Data from BMAC Graves at Ulug-Depe (Turkmenistan) and Dzharkutan (Uzbekistan) 14. Bioarchaeology of the BMAC Population: A Short Review 15. Animal Exploitation at Gonur Depe 16. Life in the Countryside: the Rural Archaeology of the Sapalli Culture 17. Who Interacted with Whom? Re-Defining the Interaction between BMAC People and Mobile Pastoralists in Bronze Age Southern Turkmenistan 18. The End of the Oxus Civilization PART III: THE "SURROUNDING AREAS" 19. The BMAC Presence in Eastern Iran: State of Affairs in December 2018. --Towards the Greater Khorasan Civilization? 20. The Relationship between the Oxus Civilization and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands 21. Interaction between the Worlds of South Asia and Central Asia 22. The Oxus Civilization/BMAC and its Interaction with the Arabian Gulf: A Review of the Evidence 23. The Formation of the Oxus Civilization/BMAC in Southwestern Tajikistan 24. The Zeravshan Regional Variant of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex: Interaction between Two Cultural Worlds 25. The "Classical Vakhsh Culture": a Bronze Age Culture of the 3rd and early 2nd Millennium BC in Southern Tajikistan 26. The Oxus Civilization and the Northern Steppes PART IV: METALS AND METAL DEPOSITS 27. Archaeometallurgical Studies on BMAC Artifacts 28. Metal Sources (Tin and Copper) and the BMAC 29. The Acquisition of Tin in Bronze Age Southwest Asia APPENDIX: Radiocarbon Dates Related to the BMAC/Oxus Civilization

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Book SynopsisShadow Archaeologies explores the modes of knowledge production which operate where the light of mainstream, historically oriented archaeology, does not reach. It exposes the fieldâs underbelly and dwells on issues that standard practice ignores or glosses over, questioning what archaeology and the archaeological are or could be.The volume brings together scholars working at the disciplineâs theoretical cutting edge to challenge mainstream archaeology in various ways. They engage with the political dimensions of the disciplineâs mode of production, develop alternate practices and conceive of other manifestations of the archaeological object, thus illuminating various ways in which the concept of shadow archaeology can be articulated. After an introduction by the editors, the volume is organized in three sections that address from different angles, the politics, practices and objects of an archaeology that reside in the shadow of antiquity.While the book will app

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Book SynopsisThis book showcases the unique shape of urban development that took hold during the Roman Empire, beginning in the Mediterranean basin before spreading out across Europe, and offers a fresh perspective on the cities and territories of the Roman West.With the expansion of Rome came a particular form of social organisation: the Roman city. This book provides a basic introduction to Roman cities, not through the lens of architecture and urbanism, but from a social, legal, cultural, spatial, and functional perspective. It focuses on the Roman civitas the city and its territory as the spatial model par excellence of Roman colonialism and expansion. Exploring primarily the cities and territories of the Western Empire, such as the Iberian Peninsula, Gaul, and Britain, González-Villaescusa revives from their ruins those central places that facilitated the circulation of people, goods, and information, forming the large urban network of a unified imperial territory.

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Book SynopsisIn the Beginning describes the basic methods and theoretical approaches of archaeology. This is a book about fundamental principles written in a clear, engaging style, with minimal use of technical jargon, which approaches archaeology from a global perspective.This new edition includes new case studies and updated sections on the latest archaeological methods, theories, and developments in archaeological science. There are heavily updated chapters on cultural resource management, public archaeology, and the important role of archaeology in society as well as new material on multidisciplinary research, ethics, diversity, underwater archaeology, and the preservation of the archaeological record. Beginning with a broad introduction to the field, this book surveys the highlights of archaeologyâs vibrant history, then covers the basics of preservation, dating the past, and the context of archaeological finds. Descriptions of field surveys, including the latest remote-sensin

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Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Native North America provides a basic introduction to the Native peoples of North America, covering what are now the United States, northern Mexico, and Canada.In this updated and revised new edition, Mark Q. Sutton has expanded and improved the existing text, adding to the case studies, updating the text with the latest research, increasing the number of images, providing more coverage of the Arctic regions, and including new perspectives, particularly those of Native peoples. This book addresses the history of research, the European invasion, and the impact of Europeans on Native societies. A final chapter introduces contemporary Native Americans, discussing issues that affect them, including religion, health, and politics. The book retains a wealth of pedological features to aid and reinforce learning.Featuring case studies of many Native American groups, as well as some 87 maps and images, An Introduction to Native North America is

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Book SynopsisThe geographical position between the gulfs of Naples and Salerno made pre-Roman Sorrento a fundamental point of passage. Around the inhabited centre, sacred sites or scattered settlements developed, including the sanctuary of Athena on the extreme tip of the peninsula near Punta Campanella. This book explores the historical development of the sanctuary from the 6th century BC to the 1st century AD. Drawing on partly unpublished archaeological documentation and literary sources, the book provides useful elements for understanding the site and its relationship with the surrounding area. Sorrento and the Greek presence in the Gulf of Naples are linked to the sanctuary installation, perhaps first dedicated to the Sirens but surely after to Athena. Judging from literary sources, it was one of the best-known places of worship in ancient Italy. It was only in the 1980s that the discovery of an Oscan inscription with a dedication to Minerva made it possible to hypothesise the presence of aTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. History of the excavations and the research 3. The Sorrentine Peninsula based on archaeological sources 4. Access to the sanctuary: the Via Minervia 5. Punta Campanella: the archaeological record 6. Analysis of the context: the sanctuary of Athena 7. Chronological phases and clues to the nature of the cult 8. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisCulinary Technology of the Ancient Near East discusses the technical aspects of meal preparation, cooking, and baking in the ancient Near East, exploring a wide range of topics including kitchens, cooking equipment, cooking and baking vessels, and serving and eating utensils. Chapters explore and describe the culinary technologies and techniques employed by the peoples of the ancient Near East from the Neolithic to the Early Roman period, considering their unique and pioneering contributions to the development and evolution of gastronomic devices and apparatus and highlighting some of the foods prepared by them, recognizing their application and influence in contemporary cooking and baking. Baker brings together in a single volume what is known about the culinary technology of the ancient Near East based on the archaeological, textual, historic, and scientific data drawn from a wide range of studies and discusses this data in terms of its cultural, historic, and socio-

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Book SynopsisRomanesque and the Year 1000 examines the art and architecture of the Latin West between c. 970 and c. 1030, a period which witnessed crucial developments in iconography and stylistic expression across a wide range of media.Despite the complex political situation in late 10th-century Europe â a period marked by chaos in some areas and the effective exercise of authority in others â the last quarter of the century saw an apparent upsurge in artistic production in the Empire, southern Britain, Lombardy, the Alps, and the Mediterranean, albeit one whose survival rate is low. The decades after the millennium have left a larger residue of work, notably in France, Catalonia and northern Italy, but were the 1020s artistically more dynamic than the 980s? How might we describe the cultural climate of the Latin West between c. 970 and c. 1030? Individual chapters examine the influence of Carolingian art on artistic production around 1000; the emergence of new approaches to architecture in France, Germany, England and northern Italy; and the response of artists to perceived order and disorder at the turn of the millennium. There are studies of architectural sculpture in Catalonia and Castile, new town foundation in Saxony, and monastic architecture in southern Britain, together with examinations of Ottonian sarcophagi, book covers in gold and ivory, the wall-paintings at Reichenau, the patronage of Willigis at Mainz and Robert the Pious in northern France, the early Romanesque of Poland and Hungary, and the reflection of a new type of affective piety in the manuscript illumination of late Anglo-Saxon England.Romanesque and the Year 1000 presents a wealth of new research in artistic production at a critical period and is of interest to art historians, archaeologists, and historians alike.

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Book SynopsisOver the course of the fourth through seventh centuries, Rome witnessed a succession of five significant political and military crises, including the Sack of Rome, the Vandal occupation, and the demise of the Senate. Historians have traditionally considered these crises as defining events, and thus critical to our understanding of the ''decline and fall of Rome.'' In this volume, Michele Renee Salzman offers a fresh interpretation of the tumultuous events that occurred in Rome during Late Antiquity. Focusing on the resilience of successive generations of Roman men and women and their ability to reconstitute their city and society, Salzman demonstrates the central role that senatorial aristocracy played, and the limited influence of the papacy during this period. Her provocative study provides a new explanation for the longevity of Rome and its ability, not merely to survive, but even to thrive over the last three centuries of the Western Roman Empire.Trade Review'Michele Salzman's The Falls of Rome does nothing less than re-write the history of the city of Rome in the last centuries of the ancient world. Based on scrupulous attention to evidence of every kind, her account offers a new perspective on almost every aspect of the fate of this vast city and of the remarkable families who rallied again and again to rescue and renew it after every crisis. Here is no story of ineluctable Decline and Fall in the manner of Edward Gibbon, still less of the triumphant absorption of a pagan city by the popes of Rome. Instead, the Roman Senate and its members hold center stage. Seldom has an ancient aristocracy shown such tenacity and such resilience in difficult times. Nor has any recent scholar shown such a gift for conjuring up, from such scattered and easily-neglected evidence, the profile of the distinguished men and women, the emperors and the generals, the grandees and the priests whose dogged defense of the traditions of their unique city imposed their own pace of change on a crisis-ridden age. This is scholarship at its best. The book is a model and a masterpiece.' Peter Brown, Princeton University'Among the many recent studies of the fall of the Roman Empire, the city of Rome is often understood as the handmaiden to the process of decline and ruin. Michele Salzman's book is the first of its kind to place the ancient capital in proper perspective and, in doing so, breathes new life into exhausted narratives. Meticulously researched and elegantly argued, this book traces the role of the elites at Rome through the dramatic changes of the Empire's last centuries and finds that, in spite of the intimate symbiosis of city to Empire, the leading citizens of Rome were the authors of continued vitality and resilience in the face of repeated disasters. As a scholar of urban and social history, Salzman is exemplary, and The Falls of Rome is destined to become the foundation of future studies of the city for decades to come.' Shane Bjornlie, Claremont McKenna College'In The Falls of Rome, Michele Salzman offers a gripping account of the disasters that struck the Eternal City between the third and seventh centuries and the efforts Roman senators and bishops made to bring the city back from catastrophe. The city of Rome and the elites who shaped it all come alive as Salzman recounts the multiple crises and recoveries that together demonstrate how Rome's resilience grew out of the dedication of its civic leaders.' Edward Watts, University of California, San Diego'Who? What? When? Where? Why? Michele Salzman draws on her broad and deep erudition to revisit the whodunnit that is the Roman empire from Constantine to Justinian and a little after. She tracks the sometimes suspicious, often obtuse behavior of the grandly self-absorbed aristocrats of the age to tell a story far richer than mere epic narrative.' James O'Donnell, University of Arizona'We are fortunate to have in The Falls of Rome a study that raises so many questions as it answers far more.' David Ungvary, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. Approaches to the fate of the Late Antique City; 2. The Constantinian compromise; 3. Responses to the sack of Rome in 410; 4. Rome after the 455 vandal occupation; 5. Why Gibbon was wrong; 6. The fall of Ostrogothic Rome and the Justinianic reconstruction; 7. The demise of the senate.

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Book SynopsisRavenna was one of the most important cities of late antique Europe. Between 400 and 751 AD, it was the residence of western Roman emperors, Ostrogothic kings, and Byzantine governors of Italy, while its bishops and archbishops ranked second only to the popes. During this 350-year period, the city was progressively enlarged and enriched by remarkable works of art and architecture, many of which still survive today. Thus, Ravenna and its monuments are of critical importance to historians and art historians of the late ancient world. This book provides a comprehensive survey of Ravenna''s history and monuments in late antiquity, including discussions of scholarly controversies, archaeological discoveries, and interpretations of art works. A synthesis of the voluminous literature on this topic, this volume provides an English-language entry point for the study of this fascinating city.Trade Review'… in the past one had to deplore the fact that there is no comprehensive book in English on this subject. With the publication of the present book, this situation has changed dramatically, because [it] not only tells the full story of Ravenna, but also documents all the scholarly interpretations and controversies surrounding its art …' International Review of Biblical Studies'Deliyannis succeeds in her purpose to a commendable extent. Her work is scholarly, lucid, balanced and well organized throughout … The author concentrates on the great monuments of the city, offering not just meticulous and informed descriptions, but also judicious and knowledgeable examination of the context of each … This sensitive and informed treatment of the monuments combined with an impressive knowledge of secondary literature makes for a volume which should reinforce detailed understanding of an unparalleled survival from the antique world, and encourage more scholarly interest among both historians and art historians.' T. S. Brown, Early Medieval EuropeTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Roman Ravenna; 3. Ravenna and the western emperors 400–489 AD; 4. Ravenna the capital of the Ostrogothic kingdom; 5. Religion in Ostrogothic Ravenna; 6. Ravenna's early Byzantine period: AD 540–600; 7. Ravenna capital: 600–850.

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Book SynopsisThis unique book provides the student of Roman history with an accessible and detailed introduction to Roman and provincial coinage in the late Republic and early Empire in the context of current historical themes and debates. Almost two hundred different coins are illustrated at double life size, with each described in detail, and technical Latin and numismatic terms are explained. Chapters are arranged chronologically, allowing students to quickly identify material relevant to Julius Caesar, the second triumvirate, the relationship between Antony and Cleopatra, and the Principate of Augustus. Iconography, archaeological contexts, and the economy are clearly presented. A diverse array of material is brought together in a single volume to challenge and enhance our understanding of the transition from Republic to Empire.Table of Contents1. Approaching coinage in the late Roman Republic; 2. Competition, legitimacy and civil war (49–44 BC); 3. Competition and conflict after Caesar (44–36 BC); 4. The view from the East: Cleopatra and Mark Antony (38–31 BC); 5. Representing the Augustan principate (31 BC–AD 14); 6. Coins and daily life; Guide to further reading; Appendices: 1. Timeline; 2. Latin numismatic abbreviations; 3. Glossary Andrew Meadows; 4. Denominational systems Andrew Meadows; 5. The production of ancient coinage Andrew Meadows; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this two-volume work, published in 1912, the Hungarian-born archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein (1862â1943) describes his second expedition to the deserts of Chinese Turkestan in 1906â8. (His account of his first expedition, Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan (1903), is also reissued in this series.) Stein intended this account to be read by non-specialists, and, like his previous book, it is highly illustrated and full of interesting details about his journey and the people he met en route, as well as of the important archaeological discoveries which still link his name with the civilisation of this remote and dangerous area. In Volume 1, Stein describes the problems of setting up the expedition and the excitement and perils of the route, which took him through the tribal areas of the North-West Frontier and the kingdom of Afghanistan, ending with his arrival at the western extremity of the Great Wall of China.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Between Hydaspes and Indus; 2. Through Swat and Dir; 3. Across the Lowarai; 4. In Chitral; 5. Through Mastuj; 6. On the Darkot Pass; 7. In Afghan Wakhan; 8. To the source of the Oxus; 9. From Sarikol to Kashgar; 10. At Chini-Bagh, Kashgar; 11. To Yarkand and Karghalik; 12. Stay at Kök-yar; 13. Along the foot of the Kun-lun; 14. My return to Khotan; 15. To the Nissa glaciers; 16. On the Otrughul glacier; 17. In the Karanghu-tagh mountains; 18. A feast at Khotan; 19. By the desert edge of Khotan; 20. The shrines of Khadalik; 21. Sites around Domoko; 22. To Keriya and the Niya river; 23. At the Niya site ruins; 24. Records from a hidden archive; 25. Last days at a dead oasis; 26. To the Endere river; 27. From the Endere ruins to Charchan; 28. Along the Charchan river; 29. At Vash-shahri and Charklik; 30. Start for the Lop desert; 31. Across an eroded dry delta; 32. First excavations at the Lop-nor site; 33. Survey of the ancient station; 34. Records from an ancient rubbish heap; 35. Discovery of art remains; 36. Across the desert to the Tarim; 37. By the Tarim and Charchan Darya; 38. The ruined fort of Miran; 39. Finds of Tibetan records; 40. Ancient temples of Miran; 41. A dado of angels; 42. The frescoes of Miran; 43. A cycle of festive figures; 44. Mural painting of Buddhist legend; 45. The start for Tun-huang; 46. On old travellers' tracks; 47. The last of the dry Lop-nor; 48. A strange old lake bed; 49. First glimpse of an ancient frontier.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Guy D. Middleton explores the fascinating lives of thirty real women of the ancient Mediterranean from the Palaeolithic to the Byzantine era. They include queens and aristocrats, such as the Pharoah Hatshepsut and the Etruscan noblewoman Seianti;Eritha and Karpathia, Bronze Age priestesses from the Aegean;a Pompeiian prostitute called Eutychis; the pagan philosopher Hypatia and the Christian saint Perpetua, from North Africa, as well as women from smaller communities. Middleton uses a wide range of archaeological and historical evidence, including burials and funerary practices, graffiti, inscriptions and painted pottery, handprints, human remains and a variety of historical texts, as well as the latest modern research. His volume weaves together the stories of real women, placing them firmly in the spotlight of history. Engagingly written and up-to-date in its scholarship, Middleton''s book offers new insights for students and researchers in Ancient History, Archaeology Table of ContentsI. The Deep Past: 1. Women in caves; 2. A woman of Çatalhöyük; 3. A woman of Gozo; II. The Bronze Age: 4. Merneith; 5. Šimatum and Kirum; 6. The woman of Almoloya; 7. The priestess of Anemospilia; 8. Hatshepsut; 9. Puduhepa; 10. Eritha and Karpathia; 11. Hatiba; III. The Iron Age: 12. Naunakhte; 13. Herse; 14. Pkpupes; 15. Atossa; 16. The Princess of Vix; 17. Aristonice; 18. Neaira; 19. Phanostrate; IV. The Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: 20. Olympias; 21. Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa; 22. Terentia; 23. Mariamne; V. The Age of Empire: 24. Cleopatra Selene; 25. Eutychis; 26. Achillia and Amazon; 27. Perpetua; 28. Zenobia; 29. Hypatia; 30. Theodora.

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Book SynopsisThis Element offers a new approach to ancient Egyptian images informed by interdisciplinary work in archaeology, anthropology, and art history. Sidestepping traditional perspectives on Egyptian art, the Element focuses squarely on the ontological status of the image in ancient thought and experience. To accomplish this, section 2 takes up a number of central Egyptian terms for images, showing that a close examination of their etymology and usage can help resolve long-standing question on Egyptian imaging practices. Section 3 discusses ancient Egyptian experiences of materials and manufacturing processes, while section 4 categorizes and discusses the different purposes and functions for which images were created. The Element as a whole thus offers a concise introduction to ancient Egyptian imaging practices for an interdisciplinary readership, while at the same introducing new ways of thinking about familiar material for the Egyptological reader.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Image terminology; 3. Making and encountering images; 4. What can an image do?; 5. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisIn 31 chapters, this Companion systematically covers the literary and archaeological evidence for all regions of the Greek world and all aspects of archaic Greek society and culture, including their Mediterranean context and the impact of non-Greek cultures on their development.Trade Review“For those interested in Classical Greece, this volume is an essential.” (Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin, 11 December 2013) "This is a varied, wide-ranging, stimulating and exciting volume which should open the way to even further investigations of archaic Greece." Bryn Mawr Classical Review, February 2011 “Offers an unprecedented range and depth of perspectives and material, much of which has been otherwise unavailable in English.” Ancient West and EastTable of Contents List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors xii Preface xx List of Abbreviations xxiii Maps xxiv Part I Introduction 1 1 The Historiography of Archaic Greece 3 John K. Davies 2 The Mediterranean World in the Early Iron Age 22 Carol G. Thomas Part II Histories 41 3 The Early Iron Age 43 Catherine Morgan 4 The Eighth-century Revolution 64 Ian Morris 5 The World of Homer and Hesiod 81 Christoph Ulf 6 The Tyrants 100 Elke Stein-Hölkeskamp 7 Sparta 117 Massimo Nafissi 8 Athens 138 Michael Stahl and Uwe Walter 9 Greeks and Persians 162 Josef Wiesehöfer Part III Regions 187 10 Attica: A View from the Sea 189 Sanne Houby-Nielsen 11 The Aegean 212 Alexander Mazarakis Ainian and Iphigenia Leventi 12 Laconia and Messenia 239 Nigel Kennell and Nino Luraghi 13 The Peloponnese 255 Thomas Heine Nielsen and James Roy 14 Crete 273 James Whitley 15 Northern Greece 294 Zosia Halina Archibald 16 The Western Mediterranean 314 Carla M. Antonaccio 17 The Black Sea 330 Gocha R. Tsetskhladze Part IV Themes 347 18 Cities 349 Jan Paul Crielaard 19 Foundations 373 Irad Malkin 20 States 395 Hans-Joachim Gehrke 21 Charismatic Leaders 411 Robert W. Wallace 22 Sanctuaries and Festivals 427 François de Polignac 23 The Economy 444 Hans van Wees 24 Class 468 Peter W. Rose 25 Gender 483 Lin Foxhall 26 The Culture of the Symposion 508 Oswyn Murray 27 The Culture of Competition 524 Nick Fisher 28 Literacy 542 John-Paul Wilson 29 Intellectual Achievements 564 Kurt A. Raaflaub 30 War and International Relations 585 Henk Singor 31 Ethnicity and Cultural Exchange 604 Jonathan M. Hall Bibliography 618 Indices 713

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Book SynopsisThis book draws on ancient Egyptian inscriptions in order to theorize the relationship between accounting and order. It focuses especially on the performative power of accounting in producing and sustaining order in society. It explores how accounting intervened in various domains of the ancient Egyptian world: the cosmos; life on earth (offerings to the gods; taxation; transportation; redistribution for palace dependants; mining activities; work organization; baking and brewing; private estates and the household; and private transactions in semi-barter exchange); and the cult of the dead. The book emphasizes several possibilities through which accounting can be theorized over and above strands of theorizing that have already been explored in detail previously. These additional possibilities theorize accounting as a performative ritual; myth; a sign system; a signifier; a time ordering device; a spatial ordering device; violence; and as an archive and a cultural memory. Each of thesTrade Review'This book is a crowning achievement of 20 years of careful and thoughtful scholarship by Mahmoud Ezzamel. It is an amazing and substantive contribution to modern accounting thought. Who would have thought that a book on accounting and Ancient Egypt could be so engaging and relevant? It places history at the centre of attempts to understand contemporary debates about the power and role of accounting in society. Despite what the book argues, this is indeed a fundamental and original contribution to understanding religion, order, performativity and accounting.' – David J. Cooper, University of Alberta, Canada 'This is a very interesting work, the first of its kind that encompasses ancient Egyptian accounting practices. Mahmoud Ezzamel has provided details and explanations that are fresh and unexpected. The study also provides a modern perspective on the daily life of scribal bureaucrats and their methods of accounting. I wholeheartedly recommend this work for those interested in ancient economics, the bureaucratic superstructure of these societies and especially the careful methods of daily accounting practice.' – Anthony Spalinger,University of Auckland, New Zealand'Despite, or possibly because of, the narrow focus on Ancient Egyptian accounting inscriptions and how they contribute to social order, this stimulating book will be essential reading in an accounting history doctoral seminar, and belongs on the bookshelf of every cultivated accounting researcher.' -- Sudipta Basu, Temple University, USA Table of ContentsPart 1: Egypt, Order and Scribes 1. Prologue 2. Ancient Egypt: A Brief History Part 2: Accounting, Order, and Gods 3. Accounting and Order 4. Creation, Order and Divine Accounting 5. Pleasing the Gods: Order and Accounting for Offerings Part 3: Providing For the State 6. Ordering the Taxation Cycle 7. Ordering Transportation: Accounting for the Fleet 8. Accounting and Redistribution: The Palace and Mortuary Cult 9. Accounting and Ordering the Activities of the Funerary Temples 10. Accounting for Mining Expeditions 11. Accounting and the Ordering of Work Organization 21. Accounting for the Bakeries Part 4: Ordering the Private Domain 13. Ordering Private Estates and the Household 14. Ordering Lives: the Roles of Accounting and Money in Organizing Communities Part 5: Epilogue 15. Epilogue. Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisAncient Egypt: The Basics offers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the history, archaeology and influence of this fascinating civilization. Coverage includes: A survey of Egyptian history from its earliest origins to the coming of Islam Life and death in ancient Egypt Key archaeological discoveries and important characters Egypt's impact and reception through to the modern day Lively and engaging, this is an indispensable resource for anyone beginning their studies of Egyptian history, culture and archaeology, and a must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about the country's long and captivating past. Trade Review“An entertaining and informative introduction to the ancient land of the pharaohs, written with great enthusiasm and humour. New Egyptologists – start here!” - Joyce Tyldesley, The Manchester Museum, UK“Intrinsically appealing and engrossing, Ryan uses his extensive background in archaeology and Egyptology, along with a refreshing dose of humour, to take readers on an amazing journey through more than 3000 years of Ancient Egyptian history. This must-read book should find its way into every Egyptophile’s reading list, and those who have it will not be able to put it down.” - Monica Bontty, University of Louisiana, USA"...as an introductory guide for beginners or handy reference for those wishing to put their specialist knowledge into context, this is an essential volume to have on your bookshelf!" - Ancient Egypt magazine Dr. Monica Bontty, University of Louisiana at Monroe "Ancient Egypt has long captured the imagination of people because of its antiquity, glamour and exciting archaeological finds. In the eyes of many, it is shrouded in mystery and myth. The proposal offers an extremely informative introduction to ancient Egypt. It is a concise and user-friendly book, and exactly what a novice needs to explore the wonders of this fascinating culture at a reasonable price." Joyce Tyldesley, University of Manchester, UK "My overall opinion of the proposal is very positive. The proposal describes a book which is well-designed within the Basics series - within the confines of word-length, the book will provide an excellent introduction to the key aspects of ancient Egypt and its modern study.The author is an expert in the field of Egyptology, and so he is more than competent to write on the subject of ancient Egypt. In my experience of his previously published work, he does so in a clear and lively manner. As the brief CV attached to his proposal makes clear, Donald Ryan is well-experienced in producing work which explains the complexities of ancient Egypt, and the work of Egyptologists, to a wide general readership without losing authority." Stacy Davidson, Johnson County Community College "There are many introductory texts on ancient Egypt and most cover the same material. However, the author’s tone and how the material is presented are usually the most important factors for holding a reader’s attention. Dr. Ryan is a prolific author and is knowledgeable on how to sustain the interest of a general audience."Table of Contents1. Ancient Egypt: the loss and rediscovery of a civilization2. Life and death in Ancient Egypt3. Ancient Egypt: the earlier years4. The age of empire and beyond5. Some big discoveries 6. Influences and effects7. Exploring Egypt todayAppendix: Sources for further exploration

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Book SynopsisGoing West? uses the latest data to question how the Neolithic way of life was diffused from the Near East to Europe via Anatolia. The transformations of the 7th millennium BC in western Anatolia undoubtedly had a significant impact on the neighboring regions of southeast Europe. Yet the nature, pace and trajectory of this impact needs still to be clarified. Archaeologists searched previously for similarities in prehistoric, especially Early Neolithic, material cultures on both sides of the Sea of Marmara. Recent research shows that although the isthmi of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus connect Asia Minor and the eastern Balkans, they apparently did not serve as passageways for the dissemination of Neolithic innovations. Instead, the first permanent settlements are situated near the Aegean coast of Thrace and Macedonia, often occurring close to the mouths of big rivers in secluded bays. The courses and the valleys of rivers such as the Maritsa, Strymon and Axios, were perfTrade Review"...it is very useful to have this volume on bookshelves to continue the dialogue that was begun in the previous volumes on the topic." Metin I. Eren, Kent State University, USATable of ContentsIntroductionNorthwest Anatolia: A Border or a Bridge between Anatolia and the Balkans during the Early Neolithic Period?Necmi KarulAnatolia and the Balkans: The Role of the Black Sea between ‘East’ and ‘West’ during the Neolithic PeriodEylem ÖzdoğanWhither the Aegean Neolithic?Burcin ErdoğuIdentifying the Earliest Neolithic Settlements in the Southeastern Balkans: Methodological Considerations based on the Recent Geoarchaeological Investigations at Dikili Tash (Greek Eastern Macedonia)Laurent Lespez, Zoï Tsirtsoni, Pascal Darcque, Dimitra Malamidou, Haïdo Koukouli-Chryssanthaki and Arthur GlaisLithic Industries and their Role in Neolithisation Models in Southeast EuropeIvan Gatsov, Petranka Nedelcheva, Malgorzata Kaczanowska and Janusz K. KozłowskiThrace, post-6000 BCVassil NikolovThe First Balkan Neolithic in the Lower Danube Plain and the Making of a Pottery TraditionLaurens ThissenThe Beginning of the Neolithic Way of Life in the Eastern Lower Danube Area: A View from the NorthAgathe ReingruberThe Transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic between Western Anatolia and the Lower Danube: Evidence from Burial CustomsClemens LichterAppendix: 14C Database for Southeast Europe and Adjacent Areas (6600–5000 cal BC)Laurens Thissen and Agathe Reingruber

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Book SynopsisThe Mesolithic in Britain proposes a new division of the Mesolithic period into four parts, each with its distinct character. The Mesolithic has previously been seen as timeless, where little changed over thousands of years. This new synthesis draws on advances in scientific dating to understand the Mesolithic inhabitation of Britain as a historical process. The period was, in fact, a time of profound change: houses, monuments, middens, long-term use of sites and regions, manipulation of the environment and the symbolic deposition of human and animal remains all emerged as significant practices in Britain for the first time. The book describes the lives of the first pioneers in the Early Mesolithic; the emergence of new modes of inhabitation in the Middle Mesolithic; the regionally diverse settlement of the Late Mesolithic; and the radical changes of the final millennium of the period. The first synthesis of Mesolithic Britain since 1932, it takes both a chronological and aTrade Review'Conneller’s research provides a wonderful and comprehensive primer that brings the Mesolithic across Britain to life. Essential reading for anyone interested in the hunter-gather-fisher communities who settled in Britain after the last Ice Age, it deserves pride of place on any archaeological bookshelf.'Caroline Wickham-Jones, University of Aberdeen, Scotland'This is a remarkable and outstanding book. It will change the way we understand the British Mesolithic for generations to come.'Professor Graeme Warren, University College Dublin, Dublin"It is difficult for me to overstate how important Conneller’s book is for our understanding of the British Mesolithic, the British prehistoric sequence and the Mesolithic across Europe. It is instantly a key textbook for those wanting to gain an overall understanding of the character and complexity of British Mesolithic archaeology. It is also essential reading for anyone wanting to understand changes in Mesolithic societies in a particular region of Britain." Ben Elliott, British ArchaeologyTable of Contents1. Hunting and gathering time: Chronological frameworks and key themes; 2. Pioneers in the North: Preboreal and early boreal settlement, 9500-8200BC; 3. The Early Mesolithic Colonisation of the South: Deepcar and the early Boreal Mesolithic, 9300 to 8200BC; 4. A New Way of Living: Pits, hazelnuts, places and the ancestors in the Middle Mesolithic, 8200-7000BC; 5. The Forgotten People: The Late Mesolithic, 7000-5000BC; 6. The Last Hunters: The Final Mesolithic, 5000-4000BC

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Book SynopsisHistorians have long wondered at the improbable rise of the Attalids of Pergamon after 188 BCE. The Roman-brokered Settlement of Apameia offered a new map a brittle framework for sovereignty in Anatolia and the eastern Aegean. What allowed the Attalids to make this map a reality and leave their indelible Pergamene imprint on our Classical imagination? In this uniquely comprehensive study of the political economy of the kingdom, Noah Kaye rethinks the impact of Attalid imperialism on the Greek polis and the multicultural character of the dynasty''s notorious propaganda. By synthesizing new findings in epigraphy, archaeology, and numismatics, he shows the kingdom for the first time from the inside. The Pergamene way of ruling was a distinctively non-coercive and efficient means of taxing and winning loyalty. Royal tax collectors collaborated with city and village officials on budgets and minting, while the kings utterly transformed the civic space of the gymnasium.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Eating with the tax-collectors; 2. The skeleton of the state; 3. The king's money; 4. Cities and other civic organisms; 5. Hastening to the gymnasium; 6. Pergamene panhellenism; Conclusion; Appendix of Epigraphical Documents.

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Book SynopsisRichard Hingley is Professor of Roman Archaeology at Durham University, UK, and the author of numerous books on Roman Britain, including Hadrian's Wall: A Life (2012), The Recovery of Roman Britain 1586 to 1906 (2008) and Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen (2005).Trade ReviewThis book has long been needed … [A] successful selection of structural, burial, and epigraphic evidence that serves to illustrate a chronological narrative of the development of Londinium. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *[T]his book will become the go-to book for researching Roman London, to anchor and orientate, and to point toward the archives and publications … it is the essential collation of recent research that London has been crying out for. As a biography, we see Londinium’s birth and questionable parentage, its troubled Boudican infancy, then its maturity, and finally its economic wobbles as age sets in. * American Journal of Archaeology *An impressive overview of present thought ... This briskly written synthesis, packed with helpful plans, is a great overview of the Roman town, and a handy launchpad for further reading about specific sites. * Current Archaeology *The book has the feel of an intelligent directory, and will surely be on the shelves of everyone remotely engaged with London's archaeology. * British Archaeology *Well illustrated with helpful chapter summaries ... particularly valuable is the author’s ability to cross traditional (and restricting) boundaries and explore the archaeology in terms of its social, commercial, political and religious significance ... All in all an essential book for anyone studying, researching or just enjoying Roman Britain, English and Roman history, Roman archaeology or urban studies. * Classics for All *There has clearly been a significant amount of intensive research and thorough reading for this book ... The detailed descriptions of the form, location and chronology of the buildings of Londinium during the period AD 70-120 is particularly notable ... [A] detailed piece of work which has clearly involved much study. * European Journal of Archaeology *The virtue of Hingley's book is that it brings together a vast quantity of information ... Hingley is to be congratulated: not for writing the biography of Londinium, but for posing the right questions and, hopefully, for enabling other authors and excavators to stand on his shoulders, providing them with a clearer view from the data mountain. * Minerva *An extraordinary achievement. Richard Hingley guides us expertly through the remains of Roman Londinium, throwing light into the archaeological shadows. This is the benchmark and springboard for any future study. * Michael Shanks, Professor of Classical Archaeology, Stanford University, USA *Londinium: A Biography is a substantial achievement and an excellent guide to the city’s streets, buildings, cemeteries and watercourses. It highlights the value and scope of the hard work being done by the city’s archaeologists and demonstrates both the feasibility and potential of ambitious synthetic work on the resulting data … an invaluable aid to anyone approaching these tasks. * Brittania *This book deserves to be read with attention: beyond the scholarly information it provides and which makes London one of the best-known Roman agglomerations in the West today … it offers a remarkable explanatory model of the development of an ancient city, far removed from the worn out patterns that still too often structure our thinking … This brilliant work should therefore appear in all libraries interested in Roman Antiquity. * Revue des Etudes Anciennes (Bloomsbury Translation) *Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Introduction 1. Rites of Passage on the Thames in the Iron Age 2. A place of trade: Londinium from AD 45 to AD 60 3. Boudica and Londinium in AD 60 4. Re-establishing urban order from AD 60 to 70 5. Londinium from AD 70 to AD 120 6. Hadrianic fires 7. Londinium’s peak of development from AD 125 to AD 200 8. Third century stability 9. Endings and beginnings Conclusion. Beginnings and endings Appendix. Site codes and names for excavations discussed in the text Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon, Mark Woolmer presents a fresh appraisal of this fascinating, yet elusive, Semitic people. Discussing material culture, language and alphabet, religion (including sacred prostitution of women and boys to the goddess Astarte), funerary custom and trade and expansion into the Punic west, he explores Phoenicia in all its paradoxical complexity. Viewed in antiquity as sage scribes and intrepid mariners who pushed back the boundaries of the known world, and as skilled engineers who built monumental harbour cities like Tyre and Sidon, the Phoenicians were also considered (especially by their rivals, the Romans) to be profiteers cruelly trading in human lives. The author shows them above all to have been masters of the sea: this was a civilization that circumnavigated Africa two thousand years before Vasco da Gama did it in 1498. The Phoenicians present a tantalizing face to the ancientTrade ReviewExtremely exciting – beautifully designed intellectually. * Helen Castor, Fellow in History, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, UK *Table of ContentsList of Maps and Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Preface Timeline Introduction 1. Historical Overview 2. Government and Society 3. Religion 4. Art and Material Culture 5. Overseas Expansion Epilogue Further Reading Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA compendium of cutting-edge methodological approaches for the future-focused study of Roman vine-growing and winemaking.

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Book SynopsisUsing a selection of archaeological cases studies from the Roman period in the Mediterranean region, Pedro Trapero Fernández shows how GIS technologies can be employed in the creation of spatial models to reproduce historical realities. An increasing number of researchers use this digital humanities tool as a means to model both territory and landscape. This book compiles different spatial models under a unified methodology described in separated chapters, such as mobility and visibility models, and discusses their limitations and potential for implementation in archaeological contexts. The result is a detailed analysis of each method, which consequently results in an accessible manual for understanding GIS technologies. Designed for students and scholars with varying degrees of training in GIS, who intend to carry out spatial analysis and historical models, the approach of this book establishes a reference framework to work with GIS technologies in other historical

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Book SynopsisThis book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY licence.Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known for their grave goods, but this abundance obscures their interest as the creations of pluralistic, multi-generational communities. This book explores over one hundred early Anglo-Saxon and Merovingian cemeteries, using a multi-dimensional methodology to move beyond artefacts. It offers an alternative way to explore the horizontal organisation of cemeteries from a holistically focused perspective. The physical communication of digging a grave and laying out a body was used to negotiate the arrangement of a cemetery and to construct family and community stories. This approach foregrounds community, because people used and reused cemetery spaces to emphasise different characteristics of the deceased, based on their own attitudes, lifeways and live experiences. This book will appeal to scholars of Anglo-Saxon studies and will be of value to archaeologists interested in mortuary spaces, communities and social archaeology.Trade Review'This is an absolute must read for anyone interested in funerary archaeology, especially for those interested in the early medieval period.' Current Archaeology -- .Table of Contents1 Negotiating early Anglo-Saxon cemetery space2 The syntax of cemetery space3 Mortuary metre4 The grammar of graves5 Intonation on the individual6 Early Anglo-Saxon communityAfterwordIndex

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Book SynopsisIn early Christianity it was established that every church should have a light burning on the altar at all times. In this unique study, Eternal light and earthly concerns, looks at the material and social consequences of maintaining these ‘eternal’ lights. It investigates how the cost of lighting was met across western Europe throughout the whole of the Middle Ages, revealing the social organisation that was built up around maintaining the lights in the belief that burning them reduced the time spent in Purgatory. When that belief collapsed in the Reformation the eternal lights were summarily extinguished. The history of the lights thus offers not only a new account of change in medieval Europe, but also a sustained examination of the relationship between materiality and belief.Trade Review‘[A] meticulously documented survey’.The Journal of Religious History‘Paul Fouracre’s new book is a breath of fresh air. It is a rare historical study that details the “material consequences of belief” in medieval Europe, combining cultural and religious history with a study of medieval economy, agrarian production and trade, and social organisation… To read Fouracre is to witness a master medievalist at work’. English Historical Review'[for] an intellectual historian, this book’s most valuable contribution is that it inspires us to consider the material consequences of the ideas we study, just as it asks economic historians to attend to how ideas and culture may affect production and exchange. Fouracre’s investigation provides a good example of both the potential and the limitations of such an undertaking and provides methodological models. As such, it should be read by everyone interested in the interplay of ideas and social and economic realities.'Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies volume 98, number 1 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Beginnings2 Consolidation of provision: elite practice3 Light and power: the ‘Carolingian moment’4 Lighting, lords and peasants in post-Carolingian Europe5 Lights and social formation in the central Middle Ages6 Lights in the later Middle Ages: from devotion to destructionConclusionsIndex

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Book SynopsisGolden Mummies of Egypt presents new insights and a rich perspective on beliefs about the afterlife during an era when Egypt was part of the Greek and Roman worlds (c. 300 BCE–200 CE). This beautifully illustrated book, featuring photography by Julia Thorne, accompanies Manchester Museum’s first-ever international touring exhibition. Golden Mummies of Egypt is a visually spectacular exhibition that offers visitors unparalleled access to the museum’s outstanding collection of Egyptian and Sudanese objects – one of the largest in the UK.Trade Review‘Golden mummies of Egypt presents a rich perspective on Egyptian mummies and western approaches to them. Based around an exhibition of Manchester Museum’s collection and informed by the history of its development, Campbell Price’s treatment, with beautiful photographs by Julia Thorne, offers many new insights into ancient practices and their modern interpreters.’John Baines, Emeritus Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford -- .Table of ContentsForeword – Esme Ward1 Gold, Sex, Art, Death2 Egypt, Europe and Manchester3 Hawara4 Aegypto Capta: Life in Graeco-Roman Egypt5 Papyri and Provenance – Roberta Mazza6 Scintillating Flesh: The Divine Deceased7 Facing the Dead8 Modern Technology and the Manchester Mummies – Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin9 Receptions: Between Rapture and RevulsionIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book explores what the Book of the Dead was to the ancient Egyptians, what it means to us today, what it was believed to do, how it worked, how it was made, and ultimately what happened to it. Edited by Foy Scalf, PhD, this volume includes fourteen essays showcasing the latest research on the Book of the Dead written by thirteen internationally renown experts as well as a complete catalog of the forty-five objects on display in an associated exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum. Two famous Book of the Dead papyri, Papyrus Milbank and Papyrus Ryerson, are reproduced in their entirety with full-color photographs among nearly 400 illustrations for the first time. Discover how the ancient Egyptians controlled their immortal destiny and sought close association with the gods through the Book of the Dead.

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Book SynopsisNew edition with a new Prologue by the author An Archaeology of Elmina examines a complex African settlement on the coast of present-day Ghana from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries using the archaeological record, European narratives and indigenous oral histories. Placing the site in broader context as the first European trading post in sub-Saharan Africa, Christopher DeCorse explores the developments there in light of Portuguese, Dutch, and British expansion and illustrates remarkable cultural continuity in the midst of technological change. Originally published by Smithsonian Institution Press in 2001.Trade Review“[A] work of impressive scholarship. Scholars working in Ghanaian and West African history, Atlantic World studies, trans-Atlantic slave trade studies, and word-systems studies, and historical archaeology will find it a rich source of information and many new insights.” Ray A Kea in Journal of African Archaeology “[A]n exceptionally well-written and well-sourced study of life in an evolving African coastal community during the era of the trans-Atlantic trade. The book will doubtlessly become a classic study of culture contact and change in Africa.” J. Cameron Monroe in International Journal of African Historical StudiesTable of ContentsPrologue Introduction 1. Historical Background 2. The Elmina Settlement 3. The Archaeology of an African Town 4. Subsistence, Craft Specialization, and Trade 5. The European Trade 6. Culture, Contact, Continuity, and Change Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAt the heart of this book is a comparative study of the stone rows of Dartmoor and northern Scotland, a rare, putatively Bronze Age megalithic typology that has mystified archaeologists for over a century. It is argued that these are ‘symbols’ of Neolithic long mounds, a circumstance that accounts for the interregional similarities; other aspects of their semantic structures are also analysed using rigorous semiotic theory. The research presented here takes an evolutionary approach, drawing on biological theory to explain the active role of these monuments in social evolution and to investigate the processes at work in the development of prehistoric landscapes. New theory is developed for analysing such archaeological sequences, and for understanding and explaining material culture more generally. The local sequences are contextualised by examining European megalithic origins, tracing the long mound concept back to the LBK longhouses. It is argued that all of these related forms — longhouses, long mounds, and stone rows — are implicated in a process of competitively asserting ancestral affinities, which explains the constraint on cultural variation, and thus the formation of remarkably stable monument traditions, that led to the convergence between Dartmoor and northern Scotland in the Early Bronze Age.Table of ContentsPreface ; Chapter 1 Introduction ; Chapter 2 The Stone Rows of Dartmoor and Northern Scotland ; Chapter 3 The Semantic Structure and Function of the Dartmoor Rows ; Chapter 4 Tulach an t-Sionnaich and Battle Moss: A Semiotic Evaluation of a Transition ; Chapter 5 Structure, Function, and Motive in the Cairn Clusters of Northern Scotland ; Chapter 6 A Theoretical Interlude: People, Adaptation, and Environment ; Chapter 7 The Competitive Assertion of Ancestry in Neolithic Sequences ; Chapter 8 Two Dartmoor Complexes and Aspects of Landscape Theory ; Chapter 9 Conclusion ; Appendix A ; Appendix B ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis volume, edited by Rogério Sousa, is part of the scholarly ferment which has wheeled around the subject of ‘coffin’ during the last twenty years. Its magic and religious evaluation identifies it from time to time as body container, but at the same time substitute body for the deceased, a maternal womb in which the regeneration will occur, a microcosm, tomb, funerary temple, as well as a conduit to the dead, a powerful tool activated by means of the Opening of the Mouth ritual. -From the Foreword, by Alessia Amenta In February 2013, the Symposium Body, Cosmos and Eternity: the Symbolism of Coffins in Ancient Egypt convened at the historical building of the University of Porto to debate conceptual frameworks underlying the contemporary study of Egyptian coffins. Rising from the close association with the depiction of the mummified body, the anthropoid coffins soon absorbed a rich mythological imaginary related to the constellation of Nut, the mother goddess of the sky supposed to give birth to Osiris, and evolved continuously, integrating larger and more complex sets of beliefs, mirroring the increasingly bolder use of coffins in the funerary rituals. It was this complex set of beliefs involving the coffin that we proposed to explore in this series of symposia. Following our original purpose, the studies presented in this volume display an excellent overview on the new trends of research on coffin studies, with diverse contributions concerned either with symbolism or social significance of coffins, museums´ collections or archaeological finds. These studies superbly showcase the richness of coffins as documental sources for the study of Egyptian religion, economy and society.Trade Review'The individual contributions are well structured and clearly laid out. A particular highlight is the extensive photographic material... In summary, the present volume is an appealing and successful publication. It is highly recommended for professional scientists, but is likely to be difficult for the Egypt-interested layman.' – von Manuela Gander M.A., Berlin, http://www.antikewelt.de (translated from German)Table of ContentsForeword ; Introduction ; Part I : Studies on Coffin Symbolism: From skin wrappings to architecture: The evolution of prehistoric, anthropoid wrappings to historic architectonic coffins/sarcophagi ; separate contrasts optimally fused in single Theban ‘stola’ coffins (±975-920 BC). (René van Walsem) ; Permeable containers: Body and cosmos in Middle Kingdom coffins (Rune Nyord) ; Ancient Egyptian funerary arts as social documents: social place, reuse, and working towards a new typology of 21st Dynasty coffins (Kathlyn M. Cooney) ; Representations of passage in ancient Egyptian iconography (Éva Liptay) ; Crossing the landscapes of eternity: parallels between Amduat and funeral procession scenes on the 21st Dynasty coffins (Cássio de Araújo Duarte) ; ‘Spread your wings over me’: iconography, symbolism and meaning of the central panel on yellow coffins (Rogério Sousa) ; Resurrection in a box: the 25th Dynasty burial ensemble of Padiamunet (Cynthia May Sheikholeslami) ; Gods at all hours: Saite Period coffins of the ‘eleven-eleven’ type (Jonathan Elias and Carter Lupton) ; Part II : Studies on Museums’ Collections and Archaeological Finds: Continuity in times of transition: the inner coffin of the mistress of the house Gem-tu-es in Vevey (Switzerland) (Alexandra Küffer) ; Egyptian coffins in Portugal (Luís Manuel de Araújo) ; Cercueils jaunes des XXIe et XXIIe Dynasties dans les collections Françaises (Alain Dautant) ; Lot 14 from Bab el-Gasus (Sweden and Norway): the modern history of the collection and a reconstruction of the ensembles (Anders Bettum) ; The coffins of the priests of Amun: a socio-economic investigation on Bab el-Gasus cachette (Elena Paganini) ; Coffins without mummies: the Tomb KV 63 in the Valley of the Kings (Rogério Sousa)

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Book SynopsisMuch has been written about the history of Northern Ireland, but less well-known is its wealth of prehistoric sites, particularly burial sites, from which most of our knowledge of the early inhabitants of this country has been obtained. This work brings together information on all the known sites in Northern Ireland that are in some way associated with burial. It has been compiled from a number of sources and includes many sites that have only recently been discovered. A total of 3332 monuments are recorded in the inventory, ranging from megalithic tombs to simple pit burials. In addition to providing an inventory of all known sites, along with a selection of photographs and plans, the work also includes an introduction to the prehistory of Northern Ireland, an explanation of terms and a full bibliography. The aim is to provide a foundation for more specific research projects, based on a standardised information format of this largely untapped resource. For example, the work highlights several large and previously unrecognised clusters of prehistoric burial monuments, some located at unusual landscape features. Hopefully, further analysis will lead to a greater understanding of why this should be and stimulate a renewed interest in the prehistory of Northern Ireland. Enhanced awareness of this should complement knowledge of the historical period to provide a more balanced picture of human activity here.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Background and acknowledgements ; A short history of prehistoric archaeology in northern ireland ; Inventory of Sites and Monuments ; Conclusion ; Glossary ; Radiocarbon Dates ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisStelae dating to the Epiclassic (650-900 CE) and Early Postclassic (950-1150 CE) from Tula, Xochicalco, and other sites in Central Mexico have been presented in the archaeological and art historical literature of the last four decades—when they have been addressed at all—as evidence of Classic Maya ‘influence’ on Central Mexican art during these periods. This book re-evaluates these claims via detailed comparative analysis of the Central Mexican stelae and their claimed Maya counterparts. For the first time the Central Mexican stelae are placed in the context of often earlier local artistic traditions as well as other possible long-distance connections. Comparison of Tula and Xochicalco stelae with earlier and contemporary stelae from Oaxaca and Guerrero demonstrates connections equally as plausible as those posited with the Maya region, and supported by archaeological evidence. While it is clear that some Central Mexican stelae, especially Stela 4 from Tula, reflect Maya contacts, this has to be balanced by consideration of local and other long distance developments and connections.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction: Stela Stories; Chapter 2: Classic Maya Stelae: Current Perspectives on Origins, Function and Meaning; Chapter 3: Central Mexican Stelae of the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic Periods; Chapter 4: Central Mexican Artists Under The Influence? A Critical Review of The Literature On Maya-Mexican Interactions At The Classic – Postclassic Transition ; Chapter 5: Forgotten Forebears? Stelae in Central Mexico Before the Epiclassic; Chapter 6: Go West (and South)? Stelae of Oaxaca and Guerrero; Chapter 7: Stone Trees Transplanted? A Comparison of Central Mexican Stelae with their Suggested Maya Counterparts at Piedras Negras, Dos Pilas, Aguateca, Ceibal, And Copan; Chapter 8: In Place of a Conclusion, or More Questions; Appendix 1: Catalog of Central Mexican Figural and Associated Stelae of the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic; Appendix 2: A (Very) Brief Summary of the Tula/Chichen Itza Debate/Acle; References Cited

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Book Synopsis"This volume gathers together the first 10 years of The European Archaeologist (ISSN 1022-0135), from Winter 1993 through to the 10th Anniversary Conference Issue, published in 2004 for the Lyon Annual Meeting. In reality, like the Journal of European Archaeology, The European Archaeologist (TEA) was born before the official foundation of the EAA at Ljubljana in September 1994, and began publication the year before. The first issue announces the Ljubljana Inaugural Meeting, and documents the work of the International Steering Committee which promoted the Association. Readers can then trace the initial development of their brainchild, from the euphoria of a post-1989 Europe where Archaeologists could at last freely communicate to the consolidation of the Association as a key player in the Archaeology of the continent. Perhaps the most striking thing, reading through these early issues of TEA, is how the central concerns of the EAA, for heritage, commercial and academic archaeology have remained central to its content. This volume is published as the Association meets in Istanbul for its 20th Annual Meeting." –from the preface by Mark PearceTable of ContentsPreface by Mark Pearce; The European Archaeologist: No 1, December 1991; No 2, August 1994; No 3, May 1995; No 4, December 1995; No 5, August 1996; No 6, February 1997; No 7, Summer 1997; No 8, Winter 1997; No 9, Summer 1998; No 10, Winter 1998; No 11, Summer 1999; No12, Winter 1999; No 13, Summer 2000; No 14, Winter 2000/2001; No 15, Summer 2001; No 16, Winter 2001/2002; No 17, Summer 2002; No 18, Winter 2002; No 19, Summer 2003; No 20, Winter 2004; No 21, Summer 2004; 10th Anniversary Conference Issue

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Book SynopsisThe “Begram ivories” are widely considered to be miniature masterpieces of Indian art and are one of the largest archaeological collections of ancient ivories. They were excavated at the site of Begram, in northern Afghanistan, in 1937 and 1939 and belong to a period when Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India were united under rulers of the Kushan dynasty. Divided soon afterwards between the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul and the Musée national des arts asiatiques–Guimet in Paris, the collection in Kabul suffered a disaster during the civil war which ravaged the country during the early 1990s. Some of the pieces were successfully concealed by museum staff but most were stolen, hundreds have since been reported in different collections and very few have yet been recovered. In 2011 a group of twenty bone and ivory plaques was generously acquired for the National Museum of Afghanistan by a private individual. These were scientifically analysed, conserved and exhibited at the British Museum and returned to Kabul in 2012. This book describes their story from excavation to display and return, with individual object biographies and detailed scientific analyses and conservation treatments. It also discusses how these objects have attracted very different interpretations over the decades since their discovery, and how the new analyses shed a completely fresh light on the collection. It is lavishly illustrated in full colour, and includes many previously unpublished views of the objects when they were originally exhibited in Kabul. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the archaeology of Afghanistan, Indian art, polychromy, museum studies, object biographies or the history of conservation.Table of ContentsForeword (Dr Omara Khan Masoudi); Preface by the Sponsor; Introduction: from Archaeological Discovery to Museum Display (St J. Simpson); The Scientific Analyses: Analysis of Original and Conservation Materials, Pigments and Metal Pins Associated with a Group of Ivory and Bone Plaques from Begram, Afghanistan (Emma Passmore, Janet Ambers, Catherine Higgitt, Giovanni Verri, Caroline Cartwright and Duncan Hook); The Conservation Treatments: Conservation of the Ivory and Bone Panels from Begram, Afghanistan (Clare Ward and Barbara Wills); Catalogue, Scientific Analyses and Conservation Treatment Records; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn der Ägyptologie werden ökonomische Fragen stiefmütterlich behandelt. Diese Studie beschreibt die Ökonomie der ersten Hälfte des 2. Jahrtausends und die Umwelt, in die diese Ökonomie eingebettet ist, als Mosaik. Die Metapher ‚Mosaik‘ verwendet Mosaiksteine, welche Teile eines Bildes darstellen können. Einzelne Mosaiksteine sind offen für eine Integration in andere mögliche Bilder. Wo immer möglich beruhen Mosaiksteine auf Daten aus der betrachteten Periode, andere Mosaiksteine tragen als Modelle zum Mosaik bei. Verschiedene Mosaiksteine bestehen aus Schätzungen z.B. zu Produktion und Konsum. Das Mosaik soll ermöglichen, das Ägypten der betrachteten Periode als lebende Gesellschaft darzustellen. Es ist kaum überraschend, dass verschiedene Facetten des Bildes hypothetischen Charakter haben und das Mosaik zu einem beträchtlichen Teil unvollständig ist. Das Feld, fehlende oder auch konkurrierende Mosaiksteine in weiteren Studien zu entwickeln, ist weit offen. Heqanachts Papyri bilden die Basis für den Versuch, einen konkreten Haushalt im Bild der wirtschaftlichen Struktur des Landes darzustellen, als fragmentarische Emergenz einer Momentaufnahme, einer Mikrogeschichte.Table of ContentsSection A: Zu Ziel und Methode ; 1: Zum Ziel der Studie ; 2: Zur vorgeschlagenen Methode ; 3: Zur Okonomie vorindustrieller Gesellschaften: Polanyi - North - Parsons ; 4: Zusammenfassung: Methode und Theorie ; Section B-1: Der aussere Rahmen ; 1: Geographische Aspekte und Klima ; 2: Der Nil und sein Wasser ; 3: Zur Bevolkerung ; 4: Zum Weltbild als kulturelle Umwelt ; 5: Veranderungen in der ausseren Umwelt ; Section B-2: Die Ebene Gesellschaft: die Okonomie und ihr sozio-kulturelles Umfeld ; 1: Einleitend einige Begriffe ; 2: Ein Modell fur die Struktur des agyptischen Staates in der betrachteten Periode ; 3: Ein Modell fur die Struktur der agyptischen Gesellschaft in der Mittleren Bronzezeit ; 4: Okonomie und telische, politische sowie gesellschaftliche Aspekte ; 5: Veranderungen ; 6: Quantifizierungsversuche zur Gesellschaft ; Section B-3: Die Ebene Okonomie ; 1: Zum Rahmen fur produktive Prozesse ; 2: Nahrungsmittel und Nahrwerte ; 3: Produktion in der Landwirtschaft ; 4: Anderungen in den Bedingungen fur den Ackerbau ; 5: Ubrige Produktion ; 6: Beschaffung und Transport ; 7: Zu Konsum ; 8: Der Staat als Arbeitgeber ; 9: Zusammenfassung: Ebene Okonomie ; Section C: Heqanachts Hauswirtschaft (Fallstudie) ; 1 Zu den einzelnen Dokumenten ; 2 Heqanacht ; 3 Das pr in Nebsyt .134 ; 4 Der Haushalt in Tjaw-wr ; 5: Heqanachts Getreidekredite ; 6: Zusammenfassung: Heqanacht ; Section D: Zusammenfassung und Anhange ; 1: Zusammenfassung ; 2: Anhange ; English Summary ; Zitierte Literatur ; Indices

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Book SynopsisDuring the international conference ‘Settlement, Communication and Exchange around the Western Carpathians’ held in Kraków in October 2012, attention was focused on the complex issues of long-term cultural change in the populations surrounding the Western Carpathians, with the aim of striking a balance between local cultural dynamics, subsistence economy and the alleged importance of far-reaching contacts, and communication and exchange involved in this process. Specialists from Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the United States met and discussed for two days their archaeological findings relating to questions of (Trans)Carpathian communication, settlement patterns, and agricultural and technological changes that occurred (mainly) during the Neolithic and Bronze Age. Additionally, case studies from Northern Poland and Eastern Germany were included to provide a perspective on the variability of traditions and economic strategies in different natural environments and topographical settings. Drawing on a broad spectrum of methods (including anthropological, archaeobotanical, geochemical, and geophysical), and adhering to different theoretical approaches, the objective was to contribute to a more holistic understanding of prehistoric settlement strategies, adaptation to marginal (and not so marginal) environments, and the role of communication for prehistoric populations to the north and south of the Western Carpathians.Table of ContentsPreface (Tobias L. Kienlin - Pawel Valde-Nowak - Marta Korczynska - Klaus Cappenberg - Jakob Ociepka); The Western Carpathian Highlands During the Neolithic (Peter Bogucki); TransCarpathian Contacts in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age (Slawomir Kadrow); Long Houses on Hilltop - Camps in the Mountains: Some Aspects of the Neolithic in the Dunajec Project (Pawel Valde-Nowak); Landscape as a Feature: Using GIS and Statistics to Compare Two Types of Early Neolithic Sites in Lesser Poland (Klaus Cappenberg); One Too Many Settlements: Das bandkeramische Eythra im Kontext weiterer Siedlungsregionen in Nordwestsachsen (Harald Stauble); Technology of the Earliest Vessels in the Upper Vistula River Basin - Imports against Local Production (Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny - Anna Rauba-Bukowska); Long-Distance Exchange at the End of the 5th Millennium calBC - Bodrogkeresztur Culture Pottery at the Baltic Coast (Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny - Jacek Kabacinski - Thomas Terberger); Settlement and Economic Transformations in Western Little Poland between 3500 BC and 2500 BC: Internal Development vs. External Implantation (Marek Nowak); Settlement, Economy and Climate between 3200 and 2500 BC: Late Neolithic Transformations in South-Eastern Poland (Andrzej Pelisiak); ‘Alternative Trajectories in Bronze Age Landscapes and the ‘Failure’ to Enclose: A Case Study from the Middle Dunajec Valley (Tobias L. Kienlin, Marta Korczyńska & Klaus Cappenberg) [Open Access: Download] ; Erwagungen zur geomagnetischen Prospektion im mittleren Dunajectal, Kleinpolen (Jakob Ociepka); Plant Remains Found in Archaeological Sites in the Carpathian Foothills - Preliminary Report (Maria Litynska-Zajac - Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo - Katarzyna Cywa); Stones Collecting and Preliminary Discrimination on the Archaeological Site - Janowice (AZP 106-65 no. 61) Case Study (Michal Wasilewski); Dynamics of the Depositional Processes: The Example of the Tree Windthrow Structure at the Graveyard in Janowice, site 44 (AZP 106-65/103) (Marta Korczynska); Preliminary Results of the Anthropological Analysis of Human Bones from Janowice (AZP 106-65 No. 103) (Anita Szczepanek); The Remains of the Medieval Settlement in Janowice, Comm. Plesna, Site 44 (Michal Wojenka); The Bronze Age Settlement in Maszkowice (Western Carpathians) - Analyses and Interpretations (Marcin S. Przybyla - Magdalena Skoneczna); The West Carpathians as a Contact Zone in the Bronze Age in Light of Hoards and Isolated Finds of Metal Objects (Wojciech Blajer); Transcarpathian Influences on the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age Settlement at Wierzchoslawice Site 15 (Ireneusz Miras - Lukasz Oleszczak); Magnetic Prospection and Excavation Verification of a Site from the Late Pre-Roman Period in Wielka Wies (District Tarnow) (Artur Buszek); Settlement Strategies in the Early Bronze Age in South-Western Slovakia (Jozef Batora - Peter Toth); Tard-Tatardomb: An Update on the Intensive Survey Work on the Multi-Layer Hatvan and Fuzesabony Period Settlement (Klara P. Fischl - Tobias L. Kienlin - Tamas Pusztai - Helmut Bruckner - Simone Klumpp - Beata Tugya - Gyorgy Lengyel); New Geophysical Data on the Internal Structure of the Gava Sites of Andrid-Corlat and Cauas-Sighetiu in North-Western Romania (Tobias L. Kienlin - Liviu Marta) ;

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