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Book Synopsis1. The Emergence of warrior societies and its economic, social and environmental consequences. Proceedings of the XVII UISPP World Congress (1–7 September 2014, Burgos, Spain) Session A3c edited by Fernando Coimbra and Davide Delfino: Several works have been dedicated to the aim of warfare in European Bronze Age, by a point of view of bronze technology and archaeometallurgy. The present volume wants to be a short and actualized contribution to the study and interpretation of warrior societies, through a point of view of the marks of the first warfare in Europe, its causes and its consequences in all the intelligible evidences, both from a point of view of material culture, of landscape, of human behavior and artistic manifestations. 2. Aegean – Mediterranean imports and influences in the graves from continental Europe – Bronze and Iron Ages. Proceedings of the XVII UISPP World Congress (1–7 September 2014, Burgos, Spain) Session A16a edited by Valeriu Sîrbu and Cristian Schuster: There is already a ‘history’ with not only different, but sometimes contradictory opinions regarding the role played by the Aegean-Mediterranean area in the evolution of the peoples who lived in continental Europe during the age of Bronze and Iron, including burial customs. The organizers of this session proposed, through ongoing communication and the discussions that followed, to obtain new data on the influences and Aegean-Mediterranean imports found in the graves, and the possible movements of groups of people who carried them. The main area of interest focused on the ‘roads’ and the stages of their penetration, but also considered feedback from peripheral areas. The session aims to highlight the role of the southern imports in the evolution of local communities’ elites and their impact on the general development of the populations of continental Europe, the possible meanings of their deposit in the burials. Analysis of these phenomena over wide geographical areas (from the Urals to the Atlantic) and large chronological periods (the third-. first millennia BC) allow the identification of certain traits as general (eg., the continuity and discontinuity), or particular (eg., the impact of imports and southern influences on communities of different geographical areas).Table of ContentsForeword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition (Luiz Oosterbeek); Introduction – 1. The Emergence of warrior societies and its economic, social and environmental consequences (Fernando Coimbra and Davide Delfino); Introduction – 2. Aegean – Mediterranean imports and influences in the graves from continental Europe – Bronze and Iron Ages (Valeriu Sîrbu and Cristian Schuster); 1. The Emergence of warrior societies and its economic, social and environmental consequences: Walled enclosures in Western Europe as marks of conflict in Late Prehistory. A psychological, anthropological and archaeological approach (Davide Delfino); Symbols for protection in war among European societies (1000 BC – 1000 AD) (Fernando Coimbra); The emergence of war in human societies (Gabriele L. F. Berruti and Stefano Ruzza); The Bronze Age battlefield in the Tollense Valley, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Northeast Germany – Combat marks on human bones as evidence of early warrior societies in northern Middle Europe? (Ute Brinker, Annemarie Schramm, Detlef Jantzen, Jurgen Piek, Karlheinz Hauenstein and Jorg Orschiedt); The Late Bronze Age two-piece cuirasses of the Danube region in the Carpathian Basin (Katalin Jankovits); Warfare in Valcamonica rock art, new emerging data from Paspardo area (Dario Sigari); Model of metalwork and scrap’s bronze circulation during Late Bronze Age in the Middle Tagus (Davide Delfino); Settlements and Houses in Galicia in the Middle and Late Bronze Age (M. Pilar Prieto-Martínez and Mikel Díaz-Rodríguez); From the regional to the extra-regional: Wide Horizontal Rim vessels and stamping in the second half of the second millennium BC in the NW Iberian Peninsula (Laure Nonat, M. Pilar Prieto-Martínez and Pablo Vázquez); 2. Aegean – Mediterranean imports and influences in the graves from continental Europe – Bronze and Iron Ages: About the connections during the Bronze Age between the Carpatho-Danubian area and the Eastern Mediterranean space. Possible funerary proves (Cristian Schuster); Middle Tagus Region and the Autochthonous evidences in Late Bronze Age I (Central Portugal) (Ana Cruz); Southern and Pontic Amphorae Found in Several Getae Necropolises in the Lower Danube Area (5th-3th c. BC) (Valeriu Sîrbu and Sebastian Matei); The Southern Group of Tumuli of the Eastern Necropolis in the Sboryanovo reserve. Greek Amphorae and a Getic Royal burial (Diana Gergova); Early-Hellenistic barrel-vaulted tombs from Kallatis (Maria-Magdalena Ștefan and Valeriu Sîrbu)

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Book SynopsisThis is the first memoir by an internationally known archaeological scientist, and one who has been particularly research active for over fifty years in the broad field of bioarchaeology. Written with humour and a critical concern to understand the nature of his life and that of our species. It provides a very readable and original account of a life embracing field and laboratory work from Orkney to Egypt and Mongolia to Peru. The diverse research extends from human fossils, to cemetery studies and bog bodies, to dogs, hair chemistry, bone pathology, soils and vitrification. He has similarly been concerned about the nature of culture, the impact of stress on individuals, and theoretical issues in archaeological science. He argues that we are advanced primates, and can’t be divorced from a scientific and ethological perspective. Indeed, he sees culture as derived from a complex interwoven range of thought, from the usefully adaptive to the highly maladaptive creative thinking which can grade into destructive social pathology. Our limited ability to perceive accurately has resulted in the creation of a plethora of dubious beliefs, from religions to political elitism and fanaticism. Placed in the world of today, with the perspective of our long past, the author feels that it is difficult not to feel coldly sober and doubtful about the future of our species. But we are not extinct yet! Beginning life as a traumatised baby and school failure, Don retired as emeritus professor of archaeological science in the University of York.Table of ContentsIntroducing a Life; Childhood, Family and Education; War, Peace and Prison; Bog People and Other Friends; From Rocks to Protons; Bones, Teeth and People; The Nature and Antiquity of Diseases; Peoples and Places; Character Parts in a History; Aspects of the Emotions; Conclusions on a Life; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA recent trend concerning archaeological research has focused on producing a real-time methodology for 3D digital models as archaeological documentation within the excavation setting. While such methodologies have now firmly been established, what remains is to examine how 3D models can be integrated more fully alongside other forms of archaeological documentation. This work explored one avenue by developing a method that combines the interpretative power of traditional archaeological drawings and the realistic visualisation capacity of 3D digital models. An experiment was initiated during archaeological excavations at Uppåkra, Sweden where photographic data was captured to produce 3D digital models through Photoscan. These models were geospatially located within ESRI’s 3D GIS ArcScene where shapefile editing tools were used to draw overtop of their surfaces in three-dimensions. All drawings closely followed the single context method of drawing, were allotted context numbers, and given descriptive geodatabase attributes. This methodology resulted in the further integration of 3D models alongside other forms of archaeological documentation. The drawings increased the communicative powers of archaeological interpretation by enabling the information to be disseminated in a 3D environment alongside other formats of data that would have otherwise been disconnected in 2D space. Finally, the database attributes permitted the drawings complete integration within the geodatabase, thereby making them available for query and other analytical procedures. Archaeological information is three-dimensional; therefore, archaeologists must begin to approach documentation bearing this in mind. This technique has demonstrated that 3D models are a fluidic form of documentation allowing for accurate preservation of archaeology while enabling new forms of data to be derived all within a limited amount of time. Archaeologists must begin to affect change towards embracing 3D models and their associated applications as a standard tool within the excavator’s toolbox.Table of ContentsAbstract; Preface; 1 – Introduction; 2 – State of the Art; 3 – Theory; 4 – Methodology; 4.1 – Review of Established Methodologies and Associated Technologies; 4.2 – Introduction to Utilised Technologies; 4.2.1 – Camera Systems; 4.2.2 – Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4; 4.2.3 – Agisoft’s Photoscan 1.0.4; 4.2.4 – EDM Total Station; 4.2.5 – ArcGIS 10.2.1; 4.3 – Limitations; 5 – Experiment: 3D Delineation; 5.1 – General Background of Uppåkra; 5.2 – Documentation Methodology at Uppåkra since 2011; 5.3 – State of the Art: 3D Modelling at Uppåkra; 5.4 – Experiment Overview; 5.5 – Experiment Methodology; 5.6 – Results Concerning 3D Archaeological Drawings; 6 – Discussion; 6.1 – Statement of Perceived Impact; 6.1.1 – Guidelines and Symbologies for 3D Archaeological Drawing; 6.2 – Cautions and Limitations; 6.3 – Concerns Regarding the Photographic Process; 7 – Conclusion; 8 – Acknowledgments; 9 – References

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Book SynopsisThe Bell Beaker phenomenon is one of the most fascinating horizons in European Later Prehistory, due to its vast geographical distribution, the intrinsic value of some of the artefacts comprising the Beaker package, or its supposed links to certain kinds of ritual ceremonies as shown by the frequent deposition of Beaker items in burial contexts. At present, the idea that the Beaker package is best interpreted as a symbol of power common to socially-prominent individuals by the mid-to-late third millennium BC is widely acknowledged by scholars in this field. From this point of view, the Beaker phenomenon is seen as the archaeological evidence representing an ideology which was shared by a number of prehistoric societies geographically scattered throughout much of Western and Central Europe, or, more specifically, was only shared by elite individuals within these territories. The strategies employed by these individuals to attain such privileged statuses, however, are poorly known. Therefore, in the framework of the XVII World UISPP Congress, held in September 2014 in Burgos (Spain), a session entitled ‘Analysis of the economic foundations supporting the social supremacy of the Beaker groups’ (B36) was organised by this volume’s two editors. The session focused mostly on examining this issue at a European level, and less on the study of the Beaker package itself, as a way of looking at the economic foundations that helped these individuals attain their higher social statuses. The proximity of Beaker sites to natural routes of communication highlights the importance of exchange networks through which people, objects and ideas may have circulated through Europe during this time. The Amesbury Archer in southern England is one of the best examples of interaction within Beaker territories. Having said this, considering that Beaker pots themselves were not exchanged over long distances, attention must be paid to other mechanisms of diffusion. The present volume comprises the papers presented at this session suggesting that Beaker groups may have controlled certain products and technologies.Table of ContentsForeword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition (Luiz Oosterbeek) ; Introduction (Elisa Guerra Doce and Corina Liesau von Lettow-Vorbeck) ; Graves of metallurgists in the Moravian Beaker Cultures (Jaroslav Peška) ; Bell Beaker funerary copper objects from the center of the Iberian Peninsula in the context of the Atlantic connections (Concepción Blasco Bosqued, Ignacio Montero and Raúl Flores Fernández) ; Bell Beaker connections along the Atlantic façade: the gold ornaments from Tablada del Rudrón, Burgos, Spain (Andrew P. Fitzpatrick, Germán Delibes de Castro, Elisa Guerra Doce and Javier Velasco Vázquez) ; Prestige indicators and Bell Beaker ware at Valencina de la Concepción (Sevilla, Spain) (Ana Pajuelo Pando and Pedro M. López Aldana) ; Some prestige goods as evidence of interregional interactions in the funerary practices of the Bell Beaker groups of Central Iberia (Corina Liesau von Lettow-Vorbeck) ; Salt and Beakers in the third millennium BC (Elisa Guerra Doce) ; The role of flint arrowheads in Bell Beaker groups of the Central Iberian Peninsula (Patricia Ríos Mendoza) ; El Peñón de la Zorra (Villena, Alicante, Spain): change and continuity in settlement pattern during Bell Beaker (Gabriel García Atiénzar) ; Elements for the definition of the Bell Beaker horizon in the lower Ebro Valley: preliminary approaches (Anna Gómez, Patricia Ríos Mendoza, Marc Piera and Miquel Molist)

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Book SynopsisTwenty sites were excavated on the route of a National Grid pipeline across Holderness, East Yorkshire. These included an early Mesolithic flint-working area, near Sproatley. In situ deposits of this age are rare, and the site is a significant addition to understanding of the post-glacial development of the wider region. Later phases of this site included possible Bronze Age round barrows and an Iron Age square barrow. Elsewhere on the pipeline route, diagnostic Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age flints, as well as Bronze Age pottery, provide evidence of activity in these periods. Iron Age remains were found at all of the excavation sites, fourteen of which had ring gullies, interpreted as evidence for roundhouse structures. The frequency with which these settlements occurred is an indication of the density of population in the later Iron Age and the large assemblage of hand-made pottery provides a rich resource for future study. Activity at several of these sites persisted at least into the second or early third centuries AD, while the largest excavation site, at Burton Constable, was re-occupied in the later third century. However, the pottery from the ring gullies was all hand-made, suggesting that roundhouses had ceased to be used by the later first century AD, when the earliest wheel-thrown wares appear. This has implications for understanding of the Iron Age to Roman transition in the region. Late first- or early second-century artefacts from a site at Scorborough Hill, near Weeton, are of particular interest, their nature strongly suggesting an association with the Roman military. With contributions by: Hugo Anderson-Whymark (flint), Kevin Leahy (metal, glass, worked bone), Terry Manby (earlier prehistoric pottery), Chris Cumberpatch (hand-made pottery), Rob Ixer (petrography), Derek Pitman and Roger Doonan (suface residues: ceramics and slag), Ruth Leary (Roman pottery), Felicity Wild (samian ware), Kay Hartley (mortaria), Jane Young with Peter Didsbury (post-Roman pottery), Ruth Shaffrey (worked stone), Lisa Wastling (fired clay), Jennifer Jones (surface residues: fired clay), Katie Keefe and Malin Holst (human bone), Jennifer Wood (animal bone), Don O’Meara (plant macrofossils), Tudur Burke Davies (pollen) and Matt Law (molluscs). Illustrations by: Jacqueline Churchill, Dave Watt and Susan FreebreyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Summary; Section 1: Introduction; Section 2: The Excavation areas; Section 3: The Artefacts; Section 4: People, Economy and environment; Section 5: Discussion; Section 6: Conclusions; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn a career spanning more than forty years Prof. Thanasis I. Papadopoulos exhibited his intensive devotion to the Bronze Age of Greece, and especially to Mycenaean Achaea (his native land), through his excavations, publications and lessons to innumerable students in Greece and abroad. The origins, as well as the interconnections of the Mycenaeans with other civilizations, were always of great interest to Prof. Papadopoulos. This honorary volume expands to diverse eras, from Neolithic to Byzantine times, following Mycenaean paths that lead even to the distant East: to Egypt, whose culture Prof. Papadopoulos taught for many years at Ioannina University, and to Jordan, where he excavated for more than 10 years. In Achaios, thirty-five scholars from six different countries have contributed with thirty-one papers, as a small token of appreciation, gratitude and affection to a true scholar, who devoted his life studying and revealing the long journeys of the Mycenaeans and their culture, but also, to a passionate professor who, by transmitting his scientific knowledge, left an invaluable legacy for future generations.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; Thanasis I. Papadopoulos Professor Emeritus at the University of Ioannina; BIBLIOGRAPHY 1973 – 2015 ; FUNERARY MONUMENTS AND LANDSCAPE: THE EXAMPLE OF THE MIDDLE HELLADIC TUMULI IN MESSENIA (IPPOKRATIS ANGELETOPOULOS); MYCENAEAN FIGURINES ON CYPRUS († PAUL ÅSTROM); FOOT OF A BRONZE FIGURE FROM THE MINOAN PEAK SA NCTUARY AT AYIOS YEORGIOS STO VOUNO, KYTHERA (EMILIA BANOU); WARRIORS IN MOVEMENT: WARRIOR BURIALS IN EASTERN CRETE DURING LATE MINOAN IIIC (DIMITRIS G. BASAKOS); Ein Zutrunk für den Freund († HANS G. BUCHHOLZ); THE MH CEMETERY AT KOUPHOVOUNO, SPARTA, LAKONIA (WILLIAM CAVANAGH AND † CHRISTOPHER MEE); ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED CUPS FROM AMBELAKI, SALA MIS (YANNIS CHAIRETAKIS); THE PROTOGEOMETRIC SETTLEMENT AT STAMNA, AETOLIA. SOME THOUGHTS ON THE SETTLERS’ ORIGIN BASED ON THE TYPOLOGY OF THE GRAVES (GIOULIKA CHRISTAKOPOULOU); A SCARAB AND AN OVOID SEAL PLAQUE: EGYPTIAN OR EGYPTIANIZING OBJECTS FROM A CROSSROADS IN THE JORDAN VALLEY (VASSILIS CHRYSIKOPOULOS); SOME REFLECTIONS ON WESTERN GREECE IN THE LATE BRONZE AND EARLY IRON AGES (SØREN DIETZ); L’ ÉGYPTIEN, LE BEDOUIN ET LA TRANSJORDANIE (JEAN-CLAUDE GOYON); NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA FOR EARLY CHRISTIAN AND EARLY BYZANTINE SALA MIS. THE CASE OF A BURIAL COMPLEX AT AIANTEIO (GEORGE KAKAVAS AND SOPHIA ZYRBA); LARGE STORAGE JARS IN THE MYCENAEAN GRAVES OF ACHAEA: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION (SOFIA KASKANTIRI); ON MINERAL AND ARTIFICIAL PIGMENTS OF THEOPHRASTUS OF ERESSOS FROM THE LIBRARY TO THE FIELD RESEARCH (THOMAS KATSAROS); THE MIDDLE NEOLITHIC PATTERN PAINTED POTS FROM THE CAVE OF CYCLOPS: REVIEWING OLDER THEORIES (STELLA KATSAROU-TZEVELEKI); GOLD BULL’S HEAD ORNAMENTS FROM THE TIRYNS HOARD AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE TYPE IN THE LH IIIC PERIPHERY OF THE MYCENAEAN WORLD (ELENI KONSTANTINIDI-SYVRIDI); RISE IT UP! A CONTRIBUTION TO UNDERSTANDING TELL FORMATION. THE EVIDENCE FROM PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SEDIMENTS AND BUILDING MATERIALS FROM THE NEOLITHIC TELL SITE AT PALIAMBELLA (N. GREECE) (DIMITRIS KONTOGIORGOS); NEW EVIDENCE FOR MINOAN RELATIONS WITH ITHACA († LITSA KONTORLI-PAPADOPOULOU); AN OVERVIEW OF TREPANATION IN ANCIENT GREECE (MARIA A. LISTON, SHERRY C. FOX & LESLIE P. DAY); A SHRINE WITHIN THE SOVEREIGN COMPLEX ON THE MYCENAEAN ACROPOLIS OF SALA MIS (YANNOS G. LOLOS); MINOAN PREPALATIAL PERIBOLOS OF AMNISSOS, CRETE (STELLA MANDALAKI); ON MYCENAEAN HYDREA: SHERDS FROM THE ACROPOLIS AT CHORIZA (CHRISTINA MARABEA); WHO OWNS THE ROSETTA STONE? EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES AND “ELGINISM” (MARGARITA NICOLAKAKI-KENTROU); ΤΩ ΑΡΙΣΤΩ ΠΑΤΡΙ. TERRAMARE, MYCENAEAN CENTERS AND THE ROLE OF THE ADRIATIC DURING THE LATE BRONZE AGE: THE INTERCULTURAL ROLE OF THE ADRIATIC: THE “WAY OF THE AMBER” AT THE END OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE SEEN FROM A NAUTICAL POINT OF VIEW (STAVROS OIKONOMIDIS); PREHISTORIC VASES FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION IN JORDAN (EVANGELIA PAPADOPOULOU-CHRYSIKOPOULOU); TIES OF AFFECTION BURIALS OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN IN THE MYCENAEAN CEMETERY OF CLAUSS, NEAR PATRAS (KONSTANTINOS PASCHALIDIS); ACHAIA: EASTERN AND WESTERN (MICHALIS PETROPOULOS); THE SEREMETI MONKEY (JACKIE PHILLIPS); SOME FRESH THOUGHTS ON THE USE OF THE MINOAN “STRAINER” (LEFTERIS PLATON); MYCENAEAN CERAMIC VASES OF AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRIVATE COLLECTION (KOSTAS THEODORIDIS); THE IMPORTANCE OF THE IONIAN AND ALBANIAN COAST FOR MARITIME COMMUNICATION DURING THE BRONZE AGE (AKIS TSONOS); Th. Papadopoulos

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Book SynopsisThis book is about how hunter-gatherer groups maintained a relationship with the use and management of fire in the Late Holocene of Southern Precordillera. The line of study developed here as part of the anthracology made use of methodologically systematic analysis of the remains of charcoal from the archaeological site Alero Deodoro Roca B. This industry focused on a time frame of ca. 1900 years AP to ca.3900 years AP. Studies carried out in the Alero Deodoro Roca allow us to understand, on the one hand, the different methods of preservation of charcoal record in the succession of combustion events, and, secondly, to discuss the variability of species present within the composition of the flora in the paleoenvironment. Functional association is proposed for various uses; as a source of heat, cooking, and preparation of raw materials among the possibilities.Table of ContentsPrimera Parte: Capítulo 1 Introducción a la problemática de estudio y sus antecedentes ; Capítulo 2 Aspectos teóricos-metodológicos; Segunda Parte: Capítulo 3 La muestra de estudio. La colección de referencia y la colección arqueológica de ADR; Capítulo 4 Resultados del análisis de la muestra de estudio; Tercera Parte: Capítulo 5 Discusión de los resultados ; Referencias Bibliográficas; Anexo Colección de Referencia; Anexo Taxonomía ; Anexo Muestras Arqueológicas; Anexo Colección de Referencia

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Book SynopsisMegalithic monuments from Neolithic Europe have long been considered as rough copies of the monumental architectures built by the first civilizations of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. When radiocarbon dating jeopardized this diffusionist pattern, though, specialists could not but wonder why and how these Neolithic societies, usually considered as small ‘village communities’, had erected such monuments. In order to answer these questions and seek explanations in the social, political or religious contexts of recent or present megalith-building societies, the ethnological frame of references has been referred to on a regular basis. This volume comprises the papers presented by prehistorians and ethnologists at the two multi-disciplinary round tables held in Strasburg in May 2014 and May 2015. Their purpose was, with the help of both case studies and more synthetic works, to discuss how the patterns drawn from the observation of ‘living’ megalithic societies have been used to try and shed light on the functioning of European Neolithic societies, the epistemological problems raised by this transposition and the relevance of ethnology-based archeological explanations. The book is composed of three sections: the first one deals with some methodological reflections, the second and third ones with the ‘living’ or recent megalithisms of respectively the Indonesian Archipelago and Ethiopia.Table of ContentsAvant-propos : archéologues et ethnologues autour du mégalithisme, une approche interdisciplinaire; Hommage à Alain Testart (1945-2013) (Valérie Lécrivain); L’homme de l’alliance : Alain Testart (Pierre Le Roux); Mégalithismes entre passé et present:; De l’Île de Pâques aux mégalithes du Morbihan. Un demi-siècle de confrontation entre ethnologie et archéologie autour du mégalithisme (Christian Jeunesse); Quelles interrogations pour les études mégalithiques ? (Alain Gallay); Qu’est-ce que le mégalithisme ? (Bruno Boulestin); Indonésie – Madagascar:; Big Animals and Big Stones: An Ethnoarchaeological Exploration of the Social Dynamics of Livestock Use in Megalithic Societies of Eastern Indonesia (Ron L. Adams); The Ngorek of the Central Highlands and ‘Megalithic’ Activity in Borneo (Bernard Sellato); Pertinence du modèle ethnographique malgache pour l’étude des sépultures collectives du Néolithique récent-final du Bassin parisien (Somme, Marne, Aisne) (Marie Théry); Éthiopie:; François Bernardin Azaïs et les débuts de l’archéologie éthiopienne (Jean-Paul Cros); Une expédition allemande chez les Konso en 1934-1935 (Christian Jeunesse); Monumentalisme et populations de langues est-couchitiques en Éthiopie. 1 – Une approche anthropologique (Alain Gallay); Monumentalisme et populations de langues est-couchitiques en Éthiopie. 2 – Une approche historique (Alain Gallay); Sites anciens à stèles et sociétés mégalithiques récentes de la Rift Valley éthiopienne (Roger Joussaume); Aux confins de l¹Éthiopie, du Soudan et du Kenya. Un Béotien sur les traces de « mégalithismes » (Serge Tornay)

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Book SynopsisThis is the fifth volume in the series Rock Art Studies: News of the World. Like the previous editions, it covers rock art research and management across the globe over a five-year period, in this case the years 2010 to 2014 inclusive. The current volume once again shows the wide variety of approaches that have been taken in different parts of the world, although one constant has been the impact of new techniques of recording rock art. This is especially evident in the realm of computer enhancement of the frequently faded and weathered rock imagery that is the subject of our study. As has been the case in past volumes, this collection of papers includes all of the latest discoveries, including in areas hitherto not known to contain rock art. The latest dating research reported in this fifth volume, sometimes returning surprisingly early results, serves to extend our knowledge of the age of rock art as well as highlight the limits of current models for its development around the world.Table of ContentsPreface (Paul Bahn, Natalie Franklin, Matthias Strecker and Ekaterina Devlet); New Developments in Pleistocene Art, 2010-2014 (Paul G. Bahn); Rock Art Studies in the Nordic Countries 2010-2014 (Ulf Bertilsson and Johan Ling); Post-Palaeolithic and Megalithic Art in Southern Europe, 2010-2014 (Primitiva Bueno-Ramirez and Rodrigo de Balbín-Behrmann); News from the Alps (2010-2014) (Claudia Defrasne); Recent Work on Saharan rock art (2010-2014) (Jean-Loïc Le Quellec); Rock Art in Southern Africa: New Developments (2010-2014) (Jean-Loïc Le Quellec); Recent Work in the Near East (S. Lemaitre); Rock Art Studies in Northern Russia, the Urals and the Far East 2010-2014 (Ekaterina G. Devlet and Alexander S. Pakhunov); Rock Art Studies, Management and Presentation in Central Asia (2010-2014) (Boris Zheleznyakov and Ekaterina Devlet); Rock Art Research in Siberia in 2005-2014 (Elena A. Miklashevich); Mongolian Rock Art: Current Work 2010-2014 (Esther Jacobson-Tepfer); Rock Art Research in India 2010-2014 (James Blinkhorn); Recent Rock Art Studies in Southeast Asia (Victoria N. Scott and Noel H. Tan); Recent Rock Art Research in China (Paul S. C. Taçon and Qinglin Yang); Rock Art Research in Korea (2010-2014): Daegok-Ri (Bangudae) Petroglyphs in Ulsan (Seog Ho Jang); Research, Management and Conservation of Rock Art in Australia 2010-2014 (Natalie Franklin); Pacific Rock Art from 2010 to 2014: Research Trends, Conservation and Losses (Rachel Hoerman); Recent Rock Art Research in Canada (Dagmara Zawadzka); North American Rock Art Research 2010-2014 (Reinaldo Morales Jr.); Rock Art Research In Mexico (2010-2014) (William Breen Murray†, Francisco Mendiola, María de la Luz Gutiérrez and Carlos Viramontes); Recent Rock Art Studies in the Maya Region and the Intermediate Area, 2010-14 (Martin Künne and Suzanne Baker); Caribbean Rock Art 2010-2014: Documentation, Dating and Definitions (Michele H. Hayward and Michael A. Cinquino); Rock Art in Ecuador: Research 2010-2014 (María Fernanda Ugalde); Rock Art Studies in Brazil (2010-2014) (Andrei Isnardis Horta and André Prous); Rock Art Studies in Peru (2010-2014) (Matthias Strecker); Rock Art Studies in Bolivia (2010-2014) (Matthias Strecker); New Research on Ancient Images: Rock Art Studies in Argentina (2010-2014) (Dánae Fiore and Mara Basile); Rock Art in Chile (2010-2014) (Marcela Sepúlveda, Gloria Cabello and Daniela Valenzuela R.)

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a collection of papers from the Symposium on Cultural Dynamics and Production Activities in Ancient Western Mexico, held at the Center for Archaeological Research of the Colegio de Michoacán on September 18-19, 2014. While these thought-provoking essays on key topics in Western Mexican archaeology will spark debate among scholars interested in this cultural area, they will also be of interest to students of ancient Mesoamerica as a whole. The time is ripe for insightful discussions and new syntheses of archaeological research in Western Mesoamerica, and this volume represents, undoubtedly, a valuable contribution to this urgent task. These papers are grouped into three thematic areas. The first, Cultural dynamics in Western Mexico, includes essays on: The challenges of archaeology in flood-prone areas; Exploitation of local resources and imported products; Settlement systems of the Tarascan state; and Stone tools as indicators of task specialization. The second section, Production of strategic resources, analyzes the following topics: The obsidian jewelry of the Teuchitlán Tradition; Differing obsidian economies in Teuchitlán culture; Source areas and obsidian exploitation in Michoacán; The history of pottery production in Capula, Michoacán; Ethnoarchaeology of Tarascan pottery: domestic production and decoration styles; Ceramics, social status, and the Tarascan state economy; and Copper as a strategic resource in pre-Hispanic Western Mexico; while part three focuses on Trade and exchange: Circulation of goods and communication routes between Western and Central Mexico; Contrasting models of ceramic production in the Tarascan state; and Ceramic evidence of contact between Teotihuacan, the Bajío, and southern Hidalgo.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION (Eduardo Williams); THE CHALLENGES OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN FLOOD-PRONE AREAS: UNDERSTANDING OCCUPATION DYNAMICS ON THE LERMA RIVER (Véronique Darras, Vincent Bichet, Christophe Petit, Laure Deodat); THE CERRO BARAJAS SITES DURING THE EPICLASSIC PERIOD: LOCAL RESOURCES AND IMPORTED PRODUCTS (Gérald Migeon); NEGOTIATING SPACE AND LANDSCAPE IN PRE-HISPANIC LAKE PÁTZCUARO: SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS OF THE TARASCAN STATE (Christopher Stawski); SPATIAL DIFFERENCES IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF DISTINCT TYPES OF SCRAPERS IN THE TEQUILA REGION AS INDICAT ORS OF TASK SPECIALIZATION (Verenice Heredia, Camilo Mireles); THE OBSIDIAN JEWELRY OF THE TEUCHITLÁN TRADITION: STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF AN UNKNOWN LITHIC TECHNOLOGY (Rodrigo Esparza); CHANGING PLACES, CHANGING LIFESTYLES: DIFFERING OBSIDIAN ECONOMIES IN TEUCHITLÁN CULTURE (John P. Wagner); WHAT IS A ‘SOURCE AREA’? SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF OBSIDIAN EXPLOITATION IN UCAREO AND ZINAPÉCUARO, MICHOACÁN (Dan M. Healan); RECONSTRUCTING THE POTS: ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF POTTERY PRODUCTION IN CAPULA, MICHOACÁN (José Abraham García Madrigal); DOMESTIC PRODUCTION AND DECORATION STYLES IN POTTERY FROM HUÁNCITO, MICHOACÁN: AN ETHNOARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY (Eduardo Williams); CERAMICS, SOCIAL STATUS, AND THE TARASCAN STATE ECONOMY (Helen Perlstein Pollard); COPPER AS A STRATEGIC RESOURCE IN PRE-HISPANIC WESTERN MEXICO (Blanca Maldonado); CIRCULATION OF GOODS AND COMMUNICATION ROUTES BETWEEN THE ACÁMBARO VALLEY AND CENTRAL MEXICO: FROM CHUPÍCUARO TO TEOTIHUACAN (Brigitte Faugère , Karine Lefèbvre, Jean-François Cuenot); EVALUATING CONTRASTING MODELS OF CERAMIC PRODUCTION IN THE TARASCAN STATE: NEGOTIATIONS IN CLAY (Amy J. Hirshman, David L. Haskell); CERAMIC EVIDENCE OF TEOTIHUACAN CONTACT LINKING THE BASIN OF MEXICO, THE BAJÍO, AND SOUTHERN HIDALGO (Christine Hernández)

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Book SynopsisSince its conception in 1998, the Iron Age Research Student Symposium (formerly ‘Seminar’) has provided postgraduates in the archaeology of Iron Age Britain an opportunity to present their current research in a friendly atmosphere. During the course of both formal seminars and informal outings (such as field trips, dinners, and the traditional pub quiz), the Iron Age Research Student Symposium (IARSS) gives students the ability to discuss their research with colleagues and peers, in addition to a number of outstanding lecturers and professors in Iron Age studies. Previous proceedings volumes (Davis et al. 2006; Humphrey 2003; Sterry et al. 2010), also offered participants the prospect of publishing their seminar paper. As a result, IARSS has become a fixture in the development of new academics while at the same time contributing fresh perspectives to Iron Age dialogues. This proceedings volume, organised to reflect three general themes (migration/interaction, material culture and the built environment), accomplishes two things. First, it provides an accessible survey of emerging concepts, ideas, methods, and fieldwork that will shape future study of the Iron Age. Second, it is an outline, not just of what the 17th IARSS accomplished, but also of a broader scheme envisioned by the organisers for future events in this Symposium series. It is the (perhaps wide-eyed) expectation of the organisers that the IARSS can and should expand to offer further opportunities to research students of the Iron Age, and they firmly hope that this volume aids in the promotion of this annual Symposium, as well as the ideas of the contributing authors.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Paul Miller, Graeme Erskine, Piotr Jacobsson and Scott Stetkiewicz); Revisiting Migrations in Archaeology: The Aisne-Marne and the Hunsrück-Eifel Cultures (Dr Manuel Fernández-Götz); ‘My kingdom for a pot!’ A reassessment of the Iron Age and Roman material from Lagore crannóg, Co. Meath (Alexandra Guglielmi); When is a mortarium not a mortarium? Analogies and interpretation in Roman Cumbria (Jennifer Peacock); Technical Weakness or Cultural Strength? Shapeless Jars in Iron Age East Yorkshire (Helen Chittock); Divine Horsemen: equine imagery in Iron Age chariot terrets (Anna Lewis); Burials of Martial Character in the British Iron Age (Yvonne L Inall); Iron Age Iron Production in Britain and the Near Continent (Scott Stetkiewicz); Religion and society. Cave sanctuaries and votive offerings in Oretania (Cristina Manzaneda Martín); From Huts to Huts: The Early Iron Age transition in the domestic architecture of Etruria (Dr Paul Miller); A reconsideration of the distribution of crannogs in Scotland (Michael J. Stratigos); New perspectives on British territorial oppida: the examination of Iron Age landscapes in time and space (Nicky Garland); High Voltage Meets Research: The E.ON 2002 Excavations in the Oppidum of Manching (Dr Katja Winger); The forts of Western Scotland: An interim study of internal area (Simon Wood); An approach to re-examining the chronology of hillforts and other prehistoric monuments (Johnathan A. Horn); Burning Questions: New Insights into Vitrified Forts (Dr Murray Cook, Fiona Watson, Professor Gordon Cook)

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Book SynopsisThis well illustrated volume presents in its introduction a personal history of Daniel Schávelzon’s experience of Easter Island during his youth before collecting all the papers and work he produced in 2014 leading up to his retirement.Table of Contentsĺndice; Presentación; I Introducción: La Isla de Pascua en la Argentina y una historia generacional (Daniel Schávelzon); II Cerámicas del siglo XVIII en la Isla de Pascua, Rapa Nui (Daniel Schávelzon, Flavia Zorzi y Ana Igareta); III Acerca de la destrucción de la identidad y la independencia en Rapa Nui (Daniel Schávelzon y Ana Igareta); IV Las delicias del soltero: el paradigma de Pascua y una hipótesis sobre el colapso en el siglo XVII (Daniel Schávelzon); V Literature or Science: 1887, the Intriguing First Novel on Rapa Nui (Daniel Schavelzon); VI De humanos a objetos arquelogicos; Pierre Loti en la Isla de Pascua (1872) (Daniel Schávelzon); VII Las esculturas de Rapa Nui (Isla de Pascua) en el Museo Etnográfico de Buenos Aires (Daniel Schávelzon y Ana Igareta); VIII La incógnita de la colección Rapanui del Barón Du Breuil Du Pontbriand en la Argentina (Daniel Schávelzon); IX La doble vida de Pepe el moai: una anécdota (Daniel Schávelzon); X Algunas observaciones en la isla a las que no tenemos respuestas (Daniel Schávelzon); Bibliografía

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Book SynopsisThe Seminar for Arabian Studies is the only international academic forum that meets annually for the presentation of research in the humanities on the Arabian Peninsula. It focuses on the fields of archaeology, architecture, art, epigraphy, ethnography, history, language, linguistics, literature, and numismatics from the earliest times to the present day. A wide range of original and stimulating papers presented at the Seminar is published in the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies and reflects the dynamism and scope of the interdisciplinary event. The Proceedings present the cutting edge of new research on Arabia and include reports of new discoveries in the Peninsula. They are published each spring in time for the subsequent Seminar, which is held in July. The main foci of the Seminar in 2015, in descending order of the number of papers presented in each session were North Arabia, South Arabia and Aksum, Archaeological Survey and Field Methods, Bronze and Iron Ages in Eastern Arabia, Islamic Archaeology, and Neolithic Archaeology. In addition, there were sessions on Recent Cultural History in Arabia, and Heritage Management in Arabia, as well as a special session on the Nabataean world titled ‘Beyond the “rose-red” city: the hinterland of Petra and Nabatean rural sites’, which featured a total of six papers. This volume also includes notes in memoriam on Professor Andrzej Zaborski (1942–2014), Professor Ordinarius at the Jagellonian University of Cracow, who specialized in Afro-Asiatic linguistics, Semitic and Cushitic in particular.Table of ContentsEditors’ Foreword; The founding of the Seminar and the Society for Arabian Studies (Peter J. Parr); In memoriam Andrzej Zaborski (1942–2014); Trade beads of FurayΉah. Evidence of trade and connections of Qatar in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from a small-finds perspective (Ann Andersson); ΚUbaid-related sites of the southern Gulf revisited: the Abu Dhabi Coastal Heritage Initiative (Mark Jonathan Beech, Kristian Strutt, Lucy Blue, Abdulla Khalfan al-Kaabi, Waleed Awad Omar, Ahmed Abdulla al-Haj El-Faki, Anjana Reddy Lingareddy & John Martin); Investigating the eastern edge of the kingdom of Aksum: architecture and pottery from Wakarida (Anne Benoist, Julien Charbonnier & Iwona Gajda); Seashell discs from the Early Iron Age graves of Daba (Dibbā, Sultanate of Oman) (poster) (Francesco Paolo Caputo & Francesco Genchi); The Crowded Desert: a multi-phase archaeological survey in the north-west of Qatar (Jose C. Carvajal Lopez, Laura Morabito, Robert Carter, Richard Fletcher & Faisal Abdullah al-Naimi); The social significance of ceramic change at the start of the Wadi Suq period. Rethinking ceramic continuity and change based on recent evidence from the tombs at Qarn al-Дarf (Michel de Vreeze); Iron Age metallurgy at Salūt (Sultanate of Oman): a preliminary note (poster) (Michele Degli Esposti, Martina Renzi & Thilo Rehren); The Asaila depression, an archaeological landscape in Qatar (Philipp Drechsler, Max Engel, Dominik Brill & Christoph Gerber); Dennys Frenez, Michele Degli Esposti, Sophie Méry & Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, Bronze Age Salūt (ST1) and the Indus Civilization: recent discoveries and new insights on regional interaction ; The divine names at Dadan: a philological approach (María del Carmen Hidalgo-Chacón Díez); Reassessing the impact of natural landscape factors on spatial strategies in the Petra hinterland in Nabataean-Roman times (Will M. Kennedy); The Rustaq-Batinah Archaeological Survey (Derek Kennet, William M. Deadman & Nasser Said al-Jahwari); Lithic assemblage from FNS-7 (Wādī al-Дarīmah): new evidence about the fifth-millennium BC hunter-gatherers of coastal Oman (poster) (Maria Pia Maiorano); The Awām Temple cemetery in Marib (MaΜrib) revisited (Clara Mancarella); Middle to Late Neolithic animal exploitation at UAQ2 (5500–4000 cal BC): an ΚUbaid-related coastal site at Umm al-Quwain Emirate, United Arab Emirates (Marjan Mashkour, Mark Jonathan Beech, Karyne Debue, Lisa Yeomans, Stéphanie Bréhard, Dalia Gasparini & Sophie Méry); Humble beginnings? A closer look at social formation during Early Dilmun’s formative phase (c.2200–2050 BC) (Eric Olijdam); Al Ain Oases Mapping Project: QaΓΓārah Oasis, past and present (poster) (Timothy Power, Peter Sheehan, Shamsa Mohamed Al Dhaheri, Mariyam Abd Al Aziz Al Hammadi, Khuloud Ibrahim Al Hammadi & Afra Adnan Al Noaimi with Ayesha Muhsen Al Subaihi, Hamda Hasan Al Omar, Fatima Thani al-Romeithi, Muzna Khalifa Al Mansoori, Leqa Jawher Al Zaabi, Zainab Rubaiya Al Naemi, Mohamed Khalifa & Mohamed Al Dhaheri); Early Iron Age metal circulation in the Arabian Peninsula: the oasis of TaymāΜ as part of a dynamic network (poster) (Martina Renzi, Andrea Intilia, Arnulf Hausleiter & Thilo Rehren); Umm an-Nar pottery assemblages from Bāt and al-Zībā and their functional contexts (Conrad Schmidt & Stephanie Döpper); Ancient South Arabian correspondence on wooden sticks: new radiocarbon data (Peter Stein, Tobias J. Jocham & Michael J. Marx); Сabrah, a satellite hamlet of Petra (Laurent Tholbecq, Thibaud Fournet, Nicolas Paridaens, Soline Delcros & Caroline Durand); Papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, on 24–26 July 2015

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Book SynopsisFiliform rock art appears as a spontaneous technique, more simple and immediate than pecking, good either for autonomous strands of expression, or for sketches and first drafts regarding works of painting or pecking. According to the order of presentation of the session’s papers during the XVII IUPPS (UISPP) Conference in Burgos, the articles published here are the following: Late prehistoric incised rock art in southern Europe: a contribution for its typology, by Fernando A. Coimbra, where the author presents a preliminary typology of this kind of rock art, divided in two groups (geometric and figurative), approaching not only common themes to several countries, but also some examples that have only a regional character; Filiform rock art in mount Bego (Tende, Maritime Alps, France), by Nicoletta Bianchi, which analyses some cases where pecked carvings overlap filiforms, therefore pre-dating pecked engravings and studies the interaction of the two carvings tradition; Filiform figures in the rock art of Valcamonica from Prehistory to the Roman age, by Umberto Sansoni, Cinzia Bettineschi and Silvana Gavaldo, that provides a general corpus of the figurative incised rock art of Valcamonica with a quantitative and qualitative approach, by considering the typological variety, the long-lasting chronological dating and the strong relation with the local pecked rock art of the Camunian filiforms; Threadlike engravings of historical period on the rocks and plaster of churches and civic buildings. Some comparisons and proposals of interpretation, by Federico Troletti, which presents the incised engravings exclusively of historical time located in some sites of Valcamonica – the area of Campanine di Cimbergo and Monticolo di Darfo; The rock art from Figueiredo (Sertã, Portugal): typology, parallels and chronology, by Fernando A. Coimbra and Sara Garcês, focusing vi on the description of the engravings from three carved rocks with incised motives from the place of Figueiredo, in central Portugal, which were studied during different fieldworks. Two other papers of researchers that couldn’t attend the Conference were also presented: The filiform rock art from Kosovo, by Shemsi Krasniqi, which presents recent findings from Kosovo with a similar typology of figures from other European countries; The filiform rock engravings of the Parete Manzi of Montelapiano (Chieti, Italy), by Tomaso Di Fraia, which analyses the problematic of incised rock art from a rock shelter in the centre of Italy.Table of ContentsForeword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition (Luiz Oosterbeek); Post-Palaeolithic filiform rock art in Western Europe Introduction (Fernando A. Coimbra and Umberto Sansoni); Late Prehistoric incised rock art in southern Europe: a contribution for its typology (Fernando A. Coimbra); Gravures linéaires et schématiques-linéaires de la région du mont Bego (Tende, Alpes Maritimes, France) (Nicoletta Bianchi); Filiform figures in the rock art of Valcamonica from Prehistory to Roman age (Umberto Sansoni, Cinzia Bettineschi, Silvana Gavaldo); Threadlike engravings of historical period on the rocks and plaster of churches and civic buildings. Some comparisons and proposals of interpretation (Federico Troletti); The rock art from Figueiredo (Sertã, Portugal): typology, parallels and chronology (Fernando A. Coimbra and Sara Garcês); The filiform rock art from Kosovo (Shemsi Krasniqi); The filiform rock engravings of the Parete Manzi of Montelapiano (Chieti, Italy) (Tomaso Di Fraia)

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Book SynopsisKef Zoura D and Aïn Misteheyia are stratified Capsian escargotières (one openair, the other a rockshelter) in the Télidjène Basin, Eastern Algeria. They were excavated in the 1970s but have remained incompletely published. The sites are the only modern excavations of a Capsien Typique/Capsien Supérieur sequence, demonstrating that this is indeed a chronological progression related to the 8200 cal BP climate event. The technological (introduction of pressure flaking), palaeoeconomic and palaeoecological changes related to this event are examined in these contributions.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements (David Lubell); Chapter 1: Chronology and Stratigraphy of Kef Zoura D with Comparison to Relilaï (Mary Jackes and David Lubell); Chapter 2: The Lithic Assemblage (Peter Sheppard); Chapter 3: Caractérisation techno-typologique de deux assemblages sur matières dures animales capsiens: Kef Zoura D et Aïn Misteheyia (Simone Mulazzani and Jean-Philip Brugal); Chapter 4: Approche fonctionnelle des industries osseuses de Kef Zoura D et Aïn Misteheyia (Giacoma Petrullo); Chapter 5: Marine Shells from Kef Zoura D and Aïn Misteheyia (David S. Reese); Chapter 6: “Dessine-moi une autruche” La gravure de Kef Zoura D et la représentation de l’autruche au Maghreb (Noura Rahmani and David Lubell); Chapter 7: The vertebrate faunal assemblage (Mary Jackes and David Lubell); Chapter 8: Wood Charcoals of Kef Zoura D (A. Catherine D’Andrea, Sarah E. Oas and C. Thomas Shay); Chapter 9: Analyse fonctionnelle de l’industrie lithique capsienne de Kef Zoura D: premiers résultats (Bernard Gassin and Juan F. Gibaja); Addendum - Illustrations of Aïn Misteheyia lithics

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Book SynopsisThis book is devoted to flintworking encountered in the so-called cult houses and ritual zones from the Late Bronze Age in southern Scandinavia, where thousands of barrows were built in the period from the Neolithic to the end of the Early Bronze Age. Considerable numbers of the barrows are still distinctly visible in the landscape of the area today. In the Late Bronze Age, the cult houses, as well as other ritual constructions in various forms, were built into the older barrows’ mounds or were located on their edges. The excavated material from Jutland abounds in flint artefacts, which nearly always constitute the predominating category of finds.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. On The Phenomenon Of Flintworking At The End Of The Bronze Age And Beginning Of The Iron Age; 2. Temporal And Spatial Framework. Concept Of The Work. Methods; 3. Cult Houses. Definition. Idea. Chronology; 4. Specification Of Source Information; 5. Diversity Of Cult Features From The Late Bronze Age In Jutland; 6. Cult Features With Flint Assemblages From Northern Jutland; 7. Issues In Flintworking Technology And Typology; 8. Examination Of Wear Traces On Flint Artefacts From Ritual Zones; 9. Grydehøj Cult House. Results Of Biological Analyses; 10. Ritual Flintworking; 11. Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Plates

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Book SynopsisFor the Gods are the opening words or incipit of the first inscribed votive artefacts dedicated to the principal deities of the Sumerian pantheon. They commemorate the construction or renovation of cities, temples, rural sanctuaries, border steles, in sum all the symbolically charged features of archaic states belonging thus metaphorically to supernatural tutelary overlords. Girsu (present-day Tello) is one of the earliest known cities of the world together with Uruk, Eridu, and Ur, and was considered to be in the 3rd Millennium the sanctuary of the Sumerian heroic god Ningirsu who fought with the demons of the Kur (Mountain) and thus made possible the introduction of irrigation and agriculture in Sumer. Girsu was the sacred metropolis and central pole of a city-state that lay in the Southeasternmost part of the Mesopotamian floodplain. The pioneering explorations carried out between 1877 and 1933 at Tello and the early decipherment of the Girsu cuneiform tablets were ground-breaking because they revealed the principal catalytic elements of the Sumerian takeoff – that is, a multiplicity and coalescence of major innovations, such as the appearance of a city– countryside continuum, the emergence of literacy, of bronze manufacture, and the development of monumental art and architecture. Because of the richness of information related in particular to the city’s spatial organization and geographical setting, and thanks to the availability of recently declassified Cold War space imagery and especially the possibility to launch new explorations in Southern Iraq, Girsu stands out as a primary locale for re-analyzing through an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeological and textual evidence the origins of the Sumerian city-state.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Concept of the Sumerian City-State; Chapter One: Once Upon a Time in Ancient Girsu. Or Tello and the Rediscovery of the Sumerians; Chapter Two: The City of the Heroic God. The General Layout of a Sumerian Metropolis; Chapter Three: The Girsu Countryside. The Spatial Organization of a Sumerian City-State; Chapter Four: Demarcated by the Gods. Sumerian Rites and the Lagaš-Umma Border Conflict; Conclusion: Morphogenesis of an Archaic City-State; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis study traces and analyses the evolution of domestic space in Maltese vernacular and ‘polite’ houses from medieval to contemporary times. The houses under review range from humble buildings of modest size, materials and design, like farmhouses or those for the less affluent towndwellers, to buildings of grand design, like townhouses and palazzi. Owing to the complex nature of the Maltese houses a combination of enquires and a variety of sources was necessary to achieve a holistic picture. This included fieldwork in different parts of the islands, extensive research work in local archives, libraries and museums, an analysis of a sample of literary sources, national censuses and works-of-art, as well as methods of spatial analysis (Space Syntax). One of the major achievements obtained in this research concerns the development of the native dwelling. The field surveys and archival research have demonstrated that the evolution of the native dwelling was very much influenced by the political, social and economic changes that occurred locally during the period under review. In particular, it was observed that architectural and stylistic changes in the elite houses occurred at a faster rate to suit fashion, in line with what occurred in other European countries, while changes in peasant houses were slower and more sporadic as these adhered to their vernacular idiom for a longer time. Houses often served as a symbol of class and social status. The dwelling’s size and architectural style, the configuration of domestic space as well as the house furniture and contents were among the main indicators which, between the late Medieval Period and the first half of the 20th century, distinguished a wealthy from a poor dwelling. Class distinction did not occur only between houses, but also within the same building, especially in the elite dwellings. Gender was also another important aspect which directly affected the upper middle and elite Maltese houses, particularly at a time when men and women had fixed roles in society. However, the restricted space by which the lower class houses were normally characterized permitted instead the mixing of genders in work and leisure. A major shift in the relationship between the family and the house occurred in the second half of the 20th century, when the social and demographic changes of this period brought more balance between the social classes. Through the available evidence, particularly the national censuses, works-of-art, literary sources and travelogues, it was also possible to acquire knowledge about various aspects related to dining fashions, dress code, health and education in the Maltese houses. The results obtained from our Space Syntax investigations have been instrumental to acquire new knowledge and to understand better the social logic of space underpinning Maltese dwellings and settlements.Table of ContentsChapter 1 - Introduction; Chapter 2 – The Maltese Islands: Society, Class, Economy and Settlements; Chapter 3 – Maltese Domestic Architecture; Chapter 4 – The Maltese Houses: Literary Sources, Notarial Acts, Travelogues and the National Censuses; Chapter 5 – Maltese Houses and Settlements Through the Artist’s Eye; Chapter 6 – Religious Beliefs and Traditions; Chapter 7 – Diet, Dining Fashions, Health and Education; Chapter 8 – Furniture and Costumes; Chapter 10 – Decoding Maltese Houses and Settlements; Chapter 11 – The Development of the Maltese Houses since the Second Half of the Twentieth Century; Chapter 12 – Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Appendix 1 – The Malta Historic House Survey; Appendix 2 – Glossary of Terms

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Book SynopsisThe burgeoning of archaeological research in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq is one of the great success stories of world archaeology today. For twenty years it was impossible for western archaeologists to work in Iraq, and for most of this time there were also heavy restrictions on the activity of Iraqi archaeologists. In addition to this Kurdistan remains a region never systematically explored. The conference presented the first opportunity for the leading figures in this renaissance of research in the area to gather and present all the key new projects which are revolutionising our understanding of the region. The following papers are available to download in Open Access: Current Investigations into the Early Neolithic of the Zagros Foothills of Iraqi Kurdistan - Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Kamal Rasheed Raheem and Kamal Rauf Aziz: Download About Bakr Awa - Peter A. Miglus: DownloadTable of Contents'Archaeological investigations on the Citadel of Erbil: Background, Framework and Results' (Dara Al Yaqoobi, Abdullah Khorsheed Khader, Sangar Mohammed, Saber Hassan Hussein, Mary Shepperson and John MacGinnis) ; 'The site of Bazyan: historical and archaeological investigations' (Narmin Amin Ali and Vincent Deroche) ; 'Short notes on Chalcolithic pottery research: The pottery sequences of Tell Nader (Erbil) and Ashur (Qal’at Sherqat)' (Claudia Beuger) ; 'New Evidence of Paleolithic Occupation in the Western Zagros foothills: Preliminary report of cave and rockshelter survey in the Sar Qaleh Plain in the West of Kermanshah Province, Iran' (Fereidoun Biglari and Sonia Shidrang) ; 'Activities of Sapienza-University of Rome in Iraqi Kurdistan: Erbil, Sulaimaniyah and Duhok' (Carlo Giovanni Cereti and Luca Colliva) ; 'The Achaemenid Period Occupation at Tell ed-Daim in Iraqi Kurdistan' (John Curtis and Farouk al-Rawi) ; '‘Inscription D’ from Sennacherib’s Aqueduct At Jerwān: Further Data and Insights' (Frederick Mario Fales and Roswitha Del Fabbro) ; 'The Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project: A Preliminary Overview on the Pottery and Settlement Patterns of the 3rd Millennium BC in the Northern Region of Iraqi Kurdistan' (Katia Gavagnin) ; 'Animal husbandry and other human-animal interactions in Late Ubaid-Early Uruk northern Iraq: the faunal remains from the 2012 excavation season at Tell Nader' (Angelos Hadjikoumis) ; 'Hawsh-Kori and Char-Ghapi: Why the Sassanids built two monuments in the west of Kermanshah and the south of Iraqi Kurdistan' (Ali Hozhabri) ; 'Across millennia of occupation: the Land of Nineveh Archaeological project in Iraqi Kurdistan: The prehistory and protohistory of the Upper Tigris rediscovered' (Marco Iamoni) ; 'The Iraqi Institute: Education for Archaeological Research and Conservation' (Jessica Johnson, Abdullah Khorsheed and Brian Michael Lione) ; ‘Two seasons of excavations at Kunara (Upper Tanjaro): An Early and Middle Bronze Age city’ (Christine Kepinski and Aline Tenu) ; 'Excavations of the Chalcolithic Occupations at Salat Tepe on the Upper Tigris, Southeastern Anatolia (Tatsundo Koizumi, Minoru Yoneda, Shigeru Itoh and Koichi Kobayashi) ; ‘Insights into the settlement history of Iraqi Kurdistan from the Upper Greater Zab Archaeological Reconnaissance Project’ (Rafał Koliński) ; ‘Two Ottoman Trade Buildings (Qaisariya) in the Bazaar of Erbil from Building Archaeology to Refurbishment Planning’ (Dietmar Kurapkat) ; ‘Ninevite 5 – culture or regional pottery style?’ (Dorota Ławecka) ; ‘Back to the Land of Muṣaṣir/Ardini: Preliminary report on fieldwork (2005-2012)’ (Dlshad Marf) ; ‘New Researches on the Assyrian Heartland: The Bash Tapa Excavation Project’ (Lionel Marti and Christophe Nicolle) ; ‘Materials from French Excavations in Erbil Area (2011-2013): Qasr Shemamok’ (Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault and Ilaria Calini) ; 'Current Investigations into the Early Neolithic of the Zagros Foothills of Iraqi Kurdistan' (Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Kamal Rasheed Raheem and Kamal Rauf Aziz) [Open Access: Download] ; ‘About Bakr Awa (Peter A. Miglus) [Open Access: Download] ; ‘Magnetic investigations in the Shahrizor Plain: Revealing the unseen in survey prospections’ (Simone Mühl and Jörg Fassbinder) ; ‘The Bazaar of Erbil within the Context of Islamic Trade Routes and Trade Buildings’ (Martina Müller-Wiener and Anne Mollenhauer) ; ‘Halaf Settlement in the Iraqi Kurdistan: the Shahrizor Survey Project’ (Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, Takahiro Odaka and Simone Mühl) ; ‘Contextualizing Arbīl: Medieval urbanism in Adiabene’ (Karel Nováček) ; ‘Filling the Gap: The Upper Tigris Region from the Fall of Nineveh to the Sasanians. Archaeological and Historical Overview Through the Data of the Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project’ (Rocco Palermo) ; ‘Satu Qala: an Assessment of the Stratigraphy of the Site’ (Cinzia Pappi) ; ‘Helawa: A New Northern Ubaid/Late Chalcolithic Site in the Erbil Plain’ (Luca Peyronel, Agnese Vacca and Gioia Zenoni) ; ‘From the banks of the Upper Tigris River to the Zagros Highlands. The first season (2013) of the Tübingen Eastern Ḫabur Archaeological Survey’ (Peter Pfälzner and Paola Sconzo) ; ‘Gre Amer, Batman, on the Upper Tigris: A Rescue Project in the Ilısu Dam Reservoir in Turkey’ (Gül Pulhan and Stuart Blaylock) ; ‘In the Neo-Assyrian Border March of the Palace Herald: Geophysical Survey and Salvage Excavations at Gird-i Bazar and Qalat-i Dinka (Peshdar Plain Project 2015) (Karen Radner, Andrei Ašandulesei, Jörg Fassbinder, Tina Greenfield, Jean-Jacques Herr, Janoscha Kreppner and Andrea Squitieri) ; ‘New investigations at Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan’ (Tim Reynolds, William Boismier, Lucy Farr, Chris Hunt, Dlshad Abdulmutalb and Graeme Barker) ; ‘Materials from French excavations in the Erbil area (2010): Kilik Mishik’ (Olivier Rouault and Ilaria Calini) ; ‘Kurd Qaburstan, A Second Millennium BC Urban Site: First Results of the Johns Hopkins Project’ (Glenn M. Schwartz) ; ‘The Sirwan (Upper Diyala) Regional Project – First Results’ (Tevfik Emre Şerifoğlu, Claudia Glatz, Jesse Casana and Shwkr Muhammed Haydar) ; ‘Tracking early urbanism in the hilly flanks of Mesopotamia – three years of Danish archaeological investigations on the Rania Plain’ (Tim Boaz Bruun Skuldbøl and Carlo Colantoni) ; ‘The Activities of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Iraqi Kurdistan (MAIKI): The survey area and the new evidence from Paikuli blocks documentation’ (Gianfilippo Terribili and Alessandro Tilia) ; ‘The Kani Shaie Archaeological Project’ (André Tomé, Ricardo Cabral and Steve Renette) ; ‘Philological and scientific analyses of cuneiform tablets housed in Sulaimaniya (Slemani) Museum’ (Chikako Watanabe) ; ‘‘Carrying the glory of the great battle’. The Gaugamela battlefield: ancient sources, modern views, and topographical problems’ (Kleanthis Zouboulakis) ;

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Book SynopsisThe archaeological excavations along the route of packages 3 and 4 of the Batinah Expressway, Sultanate of Oman, conducted during the spring and summer of 2014, recorded over 60 archaeological sites over the 200km stretch of roadway cutting through the Batinah plain, north-west of Muscat. The majority of these sites were prehistoric tombs of varying ages. These excavations have allowed a re-thinking of the dating of some of these tombs, looking particularly at the structural styles of the tombs as well as their location in the landscape. It has also demonstrated techniques of rapid yet reliable excavation and recording techniques adapted from UK commercial archaeology for the Omani conditions. The report builds on the work of academic studies and adds a large dataset to the archaeology of the Batinah, Oman and the wider region. It is hoped that this will allow a wider scale reconsideration of the burial styles of the prehistoric Gulf.Table of ContentsSection I: Introduction; Section II: Tomb typology; Section IIIa: The excavations; Section IIIb: Package 4; Section IV: The human remains (Alyson Caine); Section V: Finds from the excavations (Andrew Blair, Cameron Clegg, Anna Hilton, Heiko Kalweit, Derek Kennet, Peter Magee, Ben Saunders, and Michel de Vreeze); Section VI: Discussion (W.M. Deadman); Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the first large-scale comparative study of Iron Age coin mould. The subject of Iron Age minting techniques is an important one that reveals a great deal about Iron Age political organisation and economy but which, until now, has remained largely unreported. In addition to examining in detail approximately 20% of all the coin mould ever found, the book also addresses the lack of an agreed reporting protocol, the main and considerable obstacle to progress in this field. In addition to the detailed interpretation of all mould studied the volume also serves as a field guide to best practice in dealing with new material and finds.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Starting point; Chapter 2: The Literature; Chapter 3: Recording coin mould: aims and methodology; Chapter 4: The Henderson Collection (Braughing) coin mould assemblage; Chapter 5: The Ford Bridge (Braughing) assemblage; Chapter 6: The PuckeridgeAssemblage; Chapter 7: The Wickham Kennels assemblage; Chapter 8: Small finds from Braughing/Puckeridge; Chapter 9: The Bagendon study sample; Chapter 10: Coin mould from Old Sleaford in the British Museum; Chapter 11: The Turners Hall Farm Assemblage; Chapter 12: Conclusions; Appendix: Some experiments in the manufacture of coin mould; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhat is considered masculine is not something given and innate to males but determined by cultural ideas and ideals constructed through performative practices – today and in the past. This book questions whether androcentric archaeology has taught us anything about prehistoric men and their masculinities. Starting from broad discussions of feminist theory and critical men’s studies, this study examines how notions of masculinity are expressed in cremation burials from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Roman Period (1100 BC - 400 AD) in Eastern Norway and Funen in Denmark. It is argued that notions of masculinity were deeply intertwined with society, and when central aspects like war systems, task differentiation, or technology changed, so did gender and ideas of masculinity and vice versa. In the Late Bronze Age, an idealisation and sexualisation of the male body related to warrior esthetic was probably essential to the performance of masculinity. In the Early Roman Period, masculinity became bounded by what it was not – the unmanly. Warrior capabilities were the most prominent ideals of masculinity and concepts of unmanliness structured society, highlighting divergences between men and women. In the Late Roman Period, society grew more complex and multiple contemporary, possibly complementary masculinities associated with the rising class of free peasants, specific roles and regional differences developed and the warrior lost the dominant position as masculine ideal.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2 Feminist Theory and the Conceptualisation of Gender; 3 The Archaeology of Masculinity; 4. The Social Archaeology of Burials; 5. Analysis Methods and Variables; 6. The Late Bronze Age in Funen, Denmark; 7. The Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Eastern Norway; 8. The Cemetery at Møllegårdsmarken in Funen, Denmark; 9. The Changes of Warriors and Other Men; Changing Masculinities

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Book SynopsisThe Muristan is situated in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem and was a prime property in medieval times with numerous churches, a hospice, and a large hospital complex. This monograph contains fifteen chapters written by leading scholars from around the world dealing with the archaeological and historical aspects of the Muristan from the Iron Age through to Ottoman times. A number of chapters also address its immediate urban surroundings, notably the complex of structures associated with the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on the north and the Church of St John the Baptist to the south-west. Key chapters in this monograph are dedicated to the history of the Church of the Redeemer and on its underlying archaeological remains. Many of the chapters are based on research that was originally presented at an international workshop held in Jerusalem in 2014.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements (Dieter Vieweger/Shimon Gibson) ; Introduction (Dieter Vieweger/Shimon Gibson) ; PART I: THE CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER ; CHAPTER 1: A Re-appraisal of the Ute Wagner-Lux Excavations beneath the Church of the Redeemer (Dieter Vieweger) ; CHAPTER 2: The Crusader Church beneath the Church of the Redeemer in Nineteenth-Century Historic Photographs (Shimon Gibson) ; PART II: THE MURISTAN ; CHAPTER 3: Dame Kathleen Kenyon’s Excavations in the Muristan, south of the Church of the Redeemer (Kay Prag) ; CHAPTER 4: New Excavations beneath the Church of St. John (Jean-Baptiste Humbert) ; CHAPTER 5: The Abbey Church of St. Mary the Great (or the Less) and its Benedictine Nunnery (R. Denys Pringle) ; PART III: THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE ; CHAPTER 6: An Overview on the Archaeological Work in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Joseph Patrich) ; CHAPTER 7: The Nineteenth-Century Excavations at the Chapel of St. Alexander Nevsky (Alla Nagorsky) ; CHAPTER 8: The Date of the Pilaster Wall in the Chapel of St. Alexander Nevsky (Shimon Gibson) ; PART IV: THE CRUSADER-PERIOD HOSPITAL AND ADJACENT MARKETS ; CHAPTER 9: The Location of the Crusader Hospital in the Muristan―a Reassessment (Ilya Berkovich/Amit Re’em) ; CHAPTER 10: Ernoul and the Muristan (Dan Bahat) ; CHAPTER 11: Crusader-Period Markets and Remains of the Byzantine Cardo in the vicinity of the Church of the Redeemer. With a List of Coins prepared (Robert Kool) ; APPENDIX: Glass Vessels from Aderet Eliyahu Yeshiva (Brigitte Ouahnouna) ; PART V: THE MURISTAN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND THE VISIT OF THE EMPEROR ; CHAPTER 12: Der Muristan von 1187 bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg (Jürgen Krüger) ; CHAPTER 13: Tobler, Sepp, and the Ruins of the Muristan (Haim Goren) ; CHAPTER 14: The German Church of the Redeemer and the Journey of Emperor Wilhelm II to Jerusalem. Symbols and Importance (Jakob Eisler) ; CHAPTER 15: The Hospital of St. John in Jerusalem―from the Architectural Remains to a 3D reconstruction (Dorothee Heinzelmann/Michael Heinzelmann/Jürgen Krüger/Markus Wacker)

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Book SynopsisMore than a century of archaeological investigation in Portugal has helped to discover, excavate and study many Lusitanian amphorae kiln sites, with their amphorae being widely distributed in Lusitania. These containers were identified in Ostia and Rome from the 1970s and thereafter in many sites around the Mediterranean, but their numbers have always seemed scarce. Were they not being recognized and therefore underestimated? Were they all fish-product amphorae? Did they ever reach a significant market share in the other provinces of Hispania? And what was their contribution to the supply of the city of Rome or to other cities in the centre of the Empire? This collective volume is a contribution to the discussion of these and other questions, and to a better understanding of the production and distribution of Lusitanian amphorae.Table of ContentsI The Production of Lusitanian Amphorae: Production during the Principate in Peniche (Portugal); Raw Materials, Kilns and Amphora Typology (Guilherme Cardoso, Severino Rodrigues, Eurico de Sepúlveda and Inês Ribeiro); Roman Pottery Workshop of Quinta do Rouxinol (Seixal): Quantification and Classification of Amphora Production (Jorge Raposo, Cézer Santos and Olga Antunes); The Roman Figlina at Garrocheira, Benavente, Portugal in the Early Empire (Clementino Amaro and Cristina Gonçalves); Roman Amphora Production in the Lower Sado Region (Françoise Mayet and Carlos Tavares da Silva); The Roman Kilns at Estrada da Parvoíce, Alcácer do Sal (Portugal) (João Pimenta, Marisol Ferreira and Ana Catarina Cabrita); Roman Amphora Production in the Algarve (Southern Portugal) (João Pedro Bernardes and Catarina Viegas); II Archaeometry, Contents and Quantification of Lusitanian Amphorae; Geochemical Fingerprints of Lusitanian Amphora Production Centres: Tagus, Sado, Algarve and Peniche (M. Isabel Dias and M. Isabel Prudêncio); Lusitanian Amphorae of the Augustan Era and their Contents: Organic Residue Analysis (Rui Morais, César Oliveira and Alfredo Araújo); Fish Bones and Amphorae: New Evidence for the Production and Trade of Fish Products in Setúbal (Portugal) (Sónia Gabriel and Carlos Tavares da Silva); The Myth of ‘Laccatvm:’ a Study Starting from a New Titulus on a Lusitanian Dressel 14 (David Djaoui); Do We Have the Capacity to Understand the Economy of Lusitanian Commodities? Volumetric Calculations of Lusitanian Amphora Types (Victor Martínez); III The Distribution of Lusitanian Amphorae: III.1 Lusitanian Amphorae in Lusitania: Amphorae at the Origins of Lusitania: Transport Pottery from Western Hispania Ulterior in Alto Alentejo (Rui Mataloto, Joey Williams and Conceição Roque); Julio-Claudian Lusitanian Amphorae: a Perspective on Selected Contexts from Olisipo (Lisbon, Portugal) (Rodrigo Banha da Silva, Victor Filipe and Rui Roberto de Almeida); Lusitanian Amphorae and Transport Common Ware from the Roman Anchorage of Praça D. Luís I (Portugal) (Jorge Parreira and Marta Macedo); Lusitanian Amphorae at a Fish-salting Production Centre: Tróia (Portugal) (Inês Vaz Pinto, Rui de Almeida, Ana Patrícia Magalhães and Patrícia Brum); On the way to Augusta Emerita. Historiographical overview, old and new data on fish-product amphorae and commerce within the trade to the capital of Lusitania (Rui Roberto de Almeida); Lusitanian and Imported Amphorae from the Roman Town of Ammaia (Portugal). A Short Overview (Caterina P. Venditti); Lusitanian Amphorae in the Roman City of Conimbriga (Ida Buraca); A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Maritime Economy and Palaeo-Environment of Southern Roman Lusitania (Felix Teichner); The Lusitanian Amphorae from the Roman Villa of Vale da Arrancada (Portimão, Algarve, Portugal) (Carlos Fabião, Catarina Viegas and Vera de Freitas); III.2 Lusitanian Amphorae in Gallaecia, Baetica and Tarraconensis: Lusitanian Amphorae in the Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (Adolfo Fernández Fernández); Amphora Circulation in the Lower Guadalquivir Valley in the Mid Imperial Period: the Lusitana 3 Type (Enrique García Vargas); Lusitanian Amphorae in the Strait of Gibraltar: Interprovincial Food Supply (Darío Bernal Casasola); Lusitanian Amphorae in Carthago Nova (Cartagena, Spain): Distribution and Research Questions (Alejandro Quevedo and Sónia Bombico); Escolletes 1. Lusitanian Amphorae and Late Roman Maritime Trade in the Iberian Southeast (Felipe Cerezo Andreo); Lusitanian Amphorae in Tarraco (3rd–5th Century AD) (Josep–Anton Remolà Vallverdù); Early Imperial Lusitanian Amphorae from the Eastern Iberian Coast (Ramón Járrega Domínguez and Horacio González Cesteros); III.3 Lusitanian Amphorae Beyond Hispania: Lusitanian Amphorae from the Dump Layer above the Arles-Rhône 3 Shipwreck (David Djaoui and José Carlos Quaresma); Lusitanian amphorae in Germania Superior, Germania Inferior and Gallia Belgica. Scarcity, identification problems, contexts and interpretations (Patrick Monsieur); Lusitanian Amphorae found on the Punta Sardegna A Shipwreck (Palau, Sardinia). A Preliminary Report on Typologies and Fabrics (Alessandro Porqueddu, Claudia Giarrusso and Pier Giorgio Spanu); Lusitanian Amphorae at Ostia and in the Vesuvian Region (Archer Martin); Lusitanian Amphorae in Naples between the 3rd and the 5th Century AD (Luana Toniolo); Lusitanian Amphorae in Rome (Giorgio Rizzo); Lusitanian Amphorae in Adriatic Italy: Commercial Routes and Distribution (Rita Auriemma and Stefania Pesavento Mattioli with an Appendix by Manuela Mongardi); Lusitanian Amphorae in the Northern Adriatic Region: the Western Part of the Decima Regio (Silvia Cipriano and Stefania Mazzocchin); Lusitanian Amphorae in Northern Adriatic Italy: the Eastern Part of Decima Regio (Dario Gaddi and Valentina Degrassi); Lusitanian Amphorae on Western Mediterranean Shipwrecks: Fragments of Economic History (Sónia Bombico)

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Book SynopsisJebel Moya (south-central Sudan) is the largest known pastoral cemetery in sub- Saharan Africa with more than 3100 excavated human burials. This research revises our understanding of Jebel Moya and its context. After reviewing previous applications of social complexity theory to mortuary data, new questions are posed for the applicability of such theory to pastoral cemeteries. Reliable radiometric dating of Jebel Moya for the first time by luminescence dates is tied in to an attribute-based approach to discern three distinctive pottery assemblages. Three distinct phases of occupation are recognised: the first two (early fifth millennium BC, and the mid-second to early first millennium BC) from pottery sherds, and the third (first century BC - sixth century AD) with habitation and the vast majority of the mortuary remains. Analytically, new statistical and spatial analyses such as cross-pair correlation function and multi-dimensional scaling provide information on zones of interaction across the mortuary assemblages. Finally, an analysis of mortuary locales contemporary with phase three (Meroitic and post-Meroitic periods) from the central Sudan and Upper and Lower Nubia are examined to show how changing social, economic and power relations were conceptualised, and to highlight Jebel Moya’s potential to serve as a chronological and cultural reference point for future studies in south-central and southern Sudan.Table of ContentsForeword; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The evolution of complexity theory and mortuary studies; Chapter 3: Ceramic assemblages and a revised chronology for Jebel Moya; Chapter 4: Implications of occupational traces and spatial use of the site over time; Chapter 5: The bioanthropology of Jebel Moya; Chapter 6: Social patterning in the Jebel Moya mortuary complex; Chapter 7: Situating Jebel Moya’s cemetery within a wider Sudanese context; Chapter 8: Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix I: Burial distribution map of Jebel Moya; Appendix II: New Register of Graves for Jebel Moya; Appendix III: British Museum sherd trays; Appendix IV: Burials with illustrated pottery sherds; Appendix V: Foreign objects from Jebel Moya at the Griffiths Institute

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Book SynopsisArchaeological artifacts such as stone tools, ceramics, coins, metal implements, and ornaments like beads, are generally used to evaluate and understand the history of humans. These artifacts are especially important for the study of periods that lack concrete literary evidence. Intangible aspects such as spiritual beliefs and ceremonies, as well as tangible but perishable objects, are lost in the passage of time but artifacts are more likely to survive the vicissitudes of time. Pollen analysis, plant ecology and not least prehistoric archaeology have contributed to the recognition of the transitional zone between uncontaminated nature and what eventually became known as a cultural landscape. Cultural landscapes are looked upon not only as products of human intervention, but also and in particular as the result of human desire to leave an imprint of control and power, often associated with territoriality and religious or political ambitions. Megalithic burials, which are found in vast numbers in southern and central India, are a well-known global phenomenon and their builders have left behind a landscape altered by their funereal remains. This study aims at using and understanding man-land relationships in order to better comprehend the megalithic burials of Tamil Nadu. Funereal remains are one of the most important lingering means of understanding society, customs and religion of pre and proto historic periods. Many questions remain unanswered for the Iron Age of south India, and the megalithic burials are an important piece of this puzzle. This site specific study helps us better understand some aspects such as spatial distribution, chronology and post depositional changes of the burials at Siruthavoor.Table of ContentsPreface; Chapter 1 Introduction ; Chapter 2 Siruthavoor: An Iron Age-Early Historic site; Chapter 3 Methodology; Chapter 4 Exploration and Excavation at Siruthavoor; Chapter 5 Results; Chapter 6 Discussion and Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAncient aqueducts have long commanded the attention of archaeologists, both for their intrinsic, monumental importance and for their significance as infrastructures closely related to the concept of civilisation. An aqueduct, in fact, is an artefact that has a great potential for providing information concerning at least two major aspects of ancient society: those relating to structural, technical, and engineering matters, and those relating to building and construction technology. These topics have enjoyed considerable attention in past studies, and in recent years they have also been integrated with a multi-disciplinary and contextual approach. They have further increased the potential of the analysis of ancient hydraulic systems, turning them into historical subjects capable of expanding our knowledge of the urban and social transformation of ancient cities and their territories. The current study of the early Byzantine aqueduct of Gortyn (Crete) follows this tradition, but starts from a viewpoint related not so much to the aqueduct itself, as to a series of questions about the city: what was the appearance of Gortyn in the early Byzantine era? How did the inhabitants live? Where did they live and what did they do for living? The aqueduct was born with the Roman city and accompanied it for its entire lifetime, constituting the backbone around which the various forms of urban settlement were redrawn at each major historical stage. Its vital link with everyday life makes the aqueduct a key witness for the study of the transformations of the city over the long term.Table of ContentsIntroduzione ; 1. Studiare e ristudiare un acquedotto protobizantino: motivi e approcci ; 2. Il contesto geografico ; 3. Il contesto storico ; 4. L’acquedotto protobizantino ; 5. L’acqua e la città ; 6. L’evoluzione del sistema idrico urbano tra VII e VIII secolo ; Catalogo ; Bibliografia

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Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on the main methodological perspectives currently existing in studies on Iron Age fortified settlements. Current investigations can be characterised according to three methodological approaches: analytic, landscape and componential analysis. These approaches can be traced since the 70s and are found all around Europe from the Baltic regions to the Mediterranean coast. They are examples of diachronic and versatile methodological procedures in use today and applicable to different contexts of the European Iron Age. We introduce digital archaeology at the end of this paper. In each one of the chapters we shall focus not only on the theoretical perspective of the approach but also on its practical application to the study of actual fortified settlements from different geographic contexts. In conclusion, and despite the difficulties of using these methods when investigating Iron Age settlements, they seem to be as versatile as they are adaptable and they have evolved adopting new methods of tele-detection and geographic information systems which update and refresh them as current methodological approaches.Table of Contents1. ESTUDIAR LOS ASENTAMIENTOS FORTIFICADOS DE LA EDAD DE HIERRO; 2. ALGUNAS CUESTIONES CRONOLÓGICAS; 3. EL MÉTODO ARQUEOLÓGICO; 4. EL ENFOQUE ANALÍTICO; 5. EL ENFOQUE COMPONENCIAL; 6. EL ENFOQUE DEL PAISAJE; 7. PROBLEMÁTICAS DE APLICACIÓN, CONTROVERSIAS, CUESTIONES A DEBATE Y NUEVAS FRONTERAS EN EL ESTUDIO DE LAS FORTIFICACIONES DE LA EDAD DEL HIERRO; 8. CONCLUSIONES SOBRE LOS ENFOQUES METODOLÓGICOS; 9. NUEVAS FRONTERAS DE INVESTIGACIÓN: HACIA UNA ARQUEOLOGÍA DIGITAL; BIBLIOGRAFÍA; ÍNDICE DE FIGURAS Y TABLAS; ÍNDICE DE AUTORES; ÍNDICE DE LUGARES

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Book SynopsisThis report presents the vessel glass and small finds found during the excavations between 1995 and 2006 that took place in Insula VI.1, Pompeii (henceforth VI.1). More than 5,000 items are discussed, and the size of the assemblage has meant that the publication is in two parts. The book you are reading consists of the discussion with associated illustrations and the catalogue entries for a subset of the data. The other half is available digitally on the Archaeological Data Service. That part contains the full catalogue of the material recorded, additional contextual information, and details about the initial excavations of the insula during the eighteenth century.Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Finds and the Site; Chapter 2: Dress Accessories and Jewellery; Chapter 3: Toilet, Pharmaceutical and Medical Equipment: the Containers; Chapter 4: Toilet, Pharmaceutical and Medical Equipment: the Utensils; Chapter 5: Household Equipment – the Vessels; Chapter 6: Household Equipment – Utensils, Furniture and Interior Decoration; Chapter 7: Craft Equipment; Chapter 8: Items Associated with Recreation; Chapter 9: Articles Associated with Religious Activity; Chapter 10: Other functions and miscellaneous; Chapter 11: Changing Patterns at Pompeii; Appendix 1: available at http:; Appendix 2: available at http:; Appendix 3: The reference set for the glass vessels from the eruption levels at Pompeii; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn 2011, cavers exploring a little-known cave on Moneen Mountain in County Clare in the west of Ireland discovered part of a human skull, pottery and an antler implement. An archaeological excavation followed, leading to the discovery of large quantities of Bronze Age pottery, butchered animal bones and oyster shells. The material suggests that Moneen Cave was visited intermittently as a sacred place in the Bronze Age landscape. People climbed the mountain, squeezed through the small opening in the cave roof, dropped down into the chamber, and left offerings on a large boulder that dominates the internal space. The excavation also resulted in the recovery of the skeletal remains of an adolescent boy who appears to have died in the cave in the 16th or 17th century. Scientific analyses revealed he had endured periods of malnutrition and ill health, providing insight into the hardships faced by many children in post-medieval Ireland.Table of ContentsPart I The site, background and archaeological excavation ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Geology and geomorphology - David Drew; 3. History of investigation; 4. Cave morphology; 5. Excavation and post-excavation methodology; 6. Stratigraphic report; Part II Excavation results and specialist analyses; 7. Radiocarbon dates; 8. Mammalian faunal remains - Fiona Beglane; 9. Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) analysis of four butchered animal bones - Keri Rowsell and Matthew Collins; 10. Bird and fish bones - Sheila Hamilton-Dyer; 11. Late Bronze Age oyster (Ostrea edulis) shells - Rory Connolly; 12. Charcoal; 13. Early Bronze Age antler hammerhead/macehead - Ruth F. Carden; 14. Middle/Late Bronze Age pottery - Elaine Lynch and Helen Roche; 15. Post-medieval human skeletal remains - Catriona McKenzie; 16. DNA analysis of the human skeletal remains - Mike Taylor; 17. Metagenomic analysis and mitochondrial genome reconstruction of the post-medieval individual from Moneen Cave - Åshild J. Vågene, Johannes Krause and Kirsten I. Bos; 18. Isotopic analysis of the human skeletal remains - Thomas Kador; 19. Analysis of Growth Recovery Lines (Harris lines) in the human skeletal remains - Fran O’Keeffe; 20. Historical context of the adolescent boy from Moneen Cave - Ciarán Ó Murchadha iHis; 21. Hints of an Early Mesolithic and/or Neolithic presence; Part III Discussion and interpretation: Moneen Cave in context; 22. An Early Bronze Age horizon: an antler hammerhead/macehead and a pig pelvis; 23. Middle and Late Bronze Age deposits; 24. Moneen Cave within the wider Bronze Age landscape of the Burren; 25. A post-medieval boy; 26. Public archaeology and Moneen Cave; 27. Future work; 28. References; Appendix 1 Context register; Appendix 2 Finds register; Appendix 3 Mammalian faunal remains by context - Fiona Beglane; Appendix 4 List of human bones - Catriona McKenzie

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains 23 articles written by 26 authors in order to express the extent of their respect and friendship for Christine Kepinski. The topics addressed in their papers reflect the scientific work of Christine Kepinski, who always promoted interdisciplinary approaches and developed multi-scale analysis from the object itself to regional study. Several papers are directly connected to fieldwork she conducted in Iraq and in Turkey: Haradum and the Middle Euphrates area, Tilbeshar and Kunara. Others are devoted to material study, notably glyptic, seals and sealing practices. Others evoke Syria: she never directed archaeological excavation there but she always integrated Syria in her studies. Finally, some are inspired by Christine Kepinski’s interest for urban life. The chronological time span of the book as well as the various specialisations of the authors clearly show the great value of her scientific background guided by her taste for the Orient.Table of ContentsPréface; Bibliographie de Christine Kepinski; Tabula gratulatoria; Souvenirs de Diniye (Hélène David-Cuny & Joël Suire); Étude croisée sur un plan d’urbanisme irrégulier du Bronze ancien : le cas de Titriş Höyük (Christophe Benech); A Sealing from Tell Arbid: once more about seal impressions on ceramic vessels (Piotr Bieliński); La période de Halaf à Kutan, Irak (Catherine Breniquet); Internal-Handled Bowls – Puzzling pots from Bronze Age Mesopotamia (Ulrike Bürger & Peter A. Miglus); L’Hinterland mariote en question : quelques réflexions (Pascal Butterlin); Des outils agricoles en pierre du Bronze ancien de Syrie : les têtes d’araires (Corinne Castel); La « maison de Riš-Šamaš » à Harradum, nouvelle approche (Dominique Charpin); Un sceau-cylindre mitannien de Tell Afis (Syrie) (Barbara Chiti); La chronologie politique du Suhu au VIIIe siècle (Philippe Clancier); Inscriptions syriaques de Tilbeşar (Alain Desreumaux); Affaires de Famille? (Jean-Marie Durand); The Middle Euphrates, Iraq: Assyrian-Babylonian interactions in an Aramaean territory in the early 1st millennium BC (Arnulf Hausleiter); À propos des pommeaux de chars (Jean-Louis Huot); By the streets of Babylon (Francis Joannès); The Sheikh Hamad / Dūr-Katlimmu Texts DeZ 2521 and DeZ 3293 and their Implications for a Middle Assyrian Supra-Regional Canal (Hartmut Kühne); Que se passait-il à Kunara il y a quatre mille ans… ? (Bertrand Lafont); 5500 av. notre ère : le vase de Marawah MR11 et l’Obeid du Golfe (Sophie Méry, Michael James Blackman, Mark Jonathan Beech et Kevin Lidour); Quelques remarques sur les bullæ inscrites de la ville basse de Kültepe (Cécile Michel); Note sur quelques sites anciens dans la région de Samarra (Alastair Northedge); L’émergence du phénomène urbain en Anatolie : état de la question (Bérengère Perello); Les briques inscrites de Qasr Shemamok migrations, réutilisations et valeur documentaire (Olivier Rouault et Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault*); La forteresse médiévale de Tilbeshar (Tell Bashir, Turbessel) (Marie-Odile Rousset); Le moyen Euphrate dans l’iconographie néo-assyrienne (Aline Tenu)

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Book SynopsisThis volume – in Italian, with an English summary – illustrates the Popolani Collection, that was donated to the Archaeological Museum of Florence by Carlo Popolani, a physician who lived in Damascus in the early 20th century. The collection consists of ancient pottery vessels, terracotta oil-lamps, glazed Islamic tiles, Romano-Byzantine glassware, as well as various objects from the Damascene antique market. In particular, the rich group of glazed tiles is very representative of the typical Mamluk and Ottoman production that flourished in Damascus between the XV and XVIII century.Table of ContentsPrefazione, di Stefano Casciu; Presentazione, di Maria Cristina Guidotti; Ringraziamenti degli autori; Storia della collezione, di Stefano Anastasio; Il catalogo delle ceramiche, di Stefano Anastasio e Lucia Botarelli: Il vasellame di età preislamica (L.B.): Le lucerne (L.B.), Il vasellame di età islamica (S.A.), Le mattonelle di età islamica (S.A.), Oggetti diversi di età islamica (S.A.); Brevi cenni sugli altri materiali della collezione, di Stefano Anastasio; Appendice: Osservazioni sulla tecnica di realizzazione; delle decorazioni cromatiche delle mattonelle, di Pasquino Pallecchi; Appendice: Elenco completo degli inventari, di Lucia Botarelli; Riferimenti bibliografici; Summary (in English)

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Book SynopsisThe Cheshire hillforts are some of the most conspicuous features of the prehistoric landscape in Cheshire, located on the distinctive Cheshire Sandstone Ridge. They have been subject to years of archaeological research and investigation, however this has delivered only a limited understanding of their chronology, function, occupation history, economy and status. These hillforts are major elements of the prehistory of the region, but the lack of information about them is a major gap in our understanding. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Habitats and Hillforts Landscape Partnership Project focused on six of the hillforts and their surrounding habitats and landscapes. The aim of the project was not only to develop archaeological understanding, but also to raise awareness of these special assets in the landscape and the management issues they face. The Habitats and Hillforts Project was a collaborative partnership, led by Cheshire West and Chester Council, with Historic England, the National Trust, the Woodland Trust and the Forestry Commission, as well as private landowners. These landowners and land managers came together to share approaches to managing heritage assets on the Sandstone Ridge. The project core team was assisted by university specialists and archaeological contractors in surveying, excavating and researching the hillforts. A range of techniques including archival research, geophysical survey, earthwork survey, lidar, fieldwalking, excavation and palaeoenvironmental analysis, was employed to develop our understanding of these significant sites. A large and dedicated group of volunteers and students joined in this work, which encouraged more people to enjoy these assets and take an active role in their management. The Habitats and Hillforts Project has shed new light on the Cheshire Hillforts. Their chronology can now be seen to have developed from middle/late Bronze Age origins, much earlier than traditionally accepted. The possible development of distinct architectural styles in their construction can be suggested and an enhanced understanding of their surrounding landscape has been achieved. This volume details the results of the four year project, and sets out how these contribute to a deeper understanding of the ordering of the landscape in western Cheshire during the later prehistoric period and beyond. It should form a vital resource for informing future research priorities regarding the late Bronze Age and Iron Age of both Cheshire and the wider North West region.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Background to the Habitats and Hillforts Project (Jill Collens and Dan Garner); Chapter 2 The historical study of the Cheshire Hillforts (Dan Garner); Chapter 3 The Lithic Collection from the area around Woodhouse Hillfort, Frodsham (Ian Brooks); Chapter 4 The Lost Archive of Eddisbury: Rediscovering Finds and Records from the 1936–1938 Varley Excavations (Richard Mason and Rachel Pope); Chapter 5 Earthwork surveys and investigations at Woodhouse Hill, Helsby Hill and Maiden Castle (Mitchell Pollington); Chapter 6 Geophysical Survey (Dan Garner); Chapter 7 A lidar survey of the Cheshire Sandstone Ridge (Dan Garner); Chapter 8 Excavations at Woodhouse Hillfort (Dan Garner); Chapter 9 Excavations at Helsby Hillfort (Dan Garner); Chapter 10 Excavations at Eddisbury Hillfort (Dan Garner); Chapter 11 Rescuing a scheduled monument: Recent work at Merrick’s Hill, Eddisbury Hillfort (Richard Mason and Rachel Pope); Chapter 12 Excavations at Kelsborrow Hillfort (Dan Garner); Chapter 13 Environmental changes in lowland Cheshire: Hatchmere and Peckforton Mere (Richard Chiverrell, Heather Davies and Pete Marshall); Chapter 14 Pollen and plant macrofossil analysis of peat deposits from Ince Marshes (RSK Environment Ltd.); Chapter 15 Emerging Themes (Dan Garner); Bibliography; Online Appendices

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book ever devoted to the chambered tombs of the Isle of Man and, though there are no more than nine surviving monuments, they are of considerable interest and importance because of the central location of the island in the north Irish Sea where cultural influences and traditions of tomb building are mixed – and no doubt populations too. These monuments, still impressive reminders of the past in our contemporary landscape, belong to the early 4th millennium BC when farming, one of the most significant movers of change in society, first came to the Isle of Man. These vast stone chambers speak of the power of ancestors, the continuity of family groups and the importance of the land and territory which sustained them. Work on this book was begun in the 1960s by Audrey Henshall, the foremost authority on these monuments in Britain. It has been edited and brought up to date for publication by Frances Lynch and Peter Davey and contains a comprehensive study of previous work on the tombs, new plans and commentary on each site, and also a review of the associated finds from excavation. Appendices provide the final reports on previously unpublished excavations at King Orry’s Grave and Ballaharra.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction: Introduction to Chambered Tombs; Previous work on Manx chambered tombs; Note on the preparation of this volume and acknowledgements; The Natural Setting; The geographical and geological background A. M. Cubbon; Recent work on the changing natural environment Philippa Tomlinson; 1. Catalogue and Commentary: Introduction to catalogue; Cashtal yn Ard; King Orry’s Grave; Ballafayle; Meayll Hill; The Cloven Stones; Llaght ny Foawr (Giant’s Grave), Kew; Croit-ny-Howe, Clay Head; Ballakelly; Ballaharra; Port St Mary; 2. The Artefacts from the Tombs: The Pottery; The Flints; Bone; Miscellaneous Later Material; 3. General summary: Mesolithic Prelude; Early Neolithic Period; Distribution of Earlier Neolithic Settlement; Significance of the Tombs; Material Culture of the Tomb Builders; Burial Rituals; Grave Offerings; Forecourt Use; The Late Neolithic Period in the Isle of Man; The Early Bronze Age; Bibliography; Appendix 1. The Excavation of King Orry’s Grave (North East) 1953 B. R. S. Megaw; Appendix 2. Excavations by Sheila Cregeen at Ballaharra, German 1969-1983; Appendix 3. The 1971 Excavation at Meayll Hill

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Book SynopsisAlthough there have been numerous studies of individual cities or groups of cities, there has never been a study of the urbanism of the Roman world as a whole, meaning that we have been poorly informed not only about the number of cities and how they were distributed and changed over time, but also about their sizes and populations, monumentality, and civic status. This book provides a new account of the urbanism of the Roman world between 100 BC and AD 300. To do so, it draws on a combination of textual sources and archaeological material to provide a new catalogue of cities, calculates new estimates of their areas and uses a range of population densities to estimate their populations, and brings together available information about their monumentality and civic status for the first time. This evidence demonstrates that, although there were relatively few cities, many had considerable sizes and populations, substantial amounts of monumentality, and held various kinds of civic status. This indicates that there was significant economic growth in this period, including both extensive and intensive economic growth, which resulted from an influx of wealth through conquest and the intrinsic changes that came with Roman rule (including the expansion of urbanism). This evidence also suggests that there was a system that was characterized by areas of intense urban demand, which was met through an efficient system for the extraction of necessity and luxury goods from immediate hinterlands and an effective system for bringing these items from further afield. The disruption of these links seems to have put this system under considerable strain towards the end of this period and may have been sufficient to cause its ultimate collapse. This appears to have been in marked contrast to the medieval and early modern periods, when urbanism was more able to respond to changes in supply and demand.Table of ContentsPreface; Part One: Text; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Urban Theory; Chapter Three: Numbers, Distributions, and Change over Time; Chapter Four: Sizes and Populations; Chapter Five: Monumentality; Chapter Six: Civic Status; Chapter Seven: Spatial Patterns; Chapter Eight: Discussion and Conclusions; Appendix; Bibliography; Figures; Index; Part Two: Catalogue; Select Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisThe present book aims to study the use of lithic raw materials on the coast of the San Matías gulf (Río Negro, Argentina) during the middle and late Holocene. The understanding of this aspect of human group technology is of fundamental importance as the main archaeological materials recovered at the surface sites of the study area are lithic artefacts made from different types of rock. Thus, understanding how these were selected, reduced and finally discarded will contribute to the understanding of the way of life of the hunter-gatherer groups that inhabited the area during this period. Spanish description: El presente libro tiene como objetivo estudiar el uso de las materias primas líticas en la costa del golfo San Matías (Río Negro, Argentina) durante el Holoceno medio y tardío. El entendimiento de este aspecto de la tecnología de los grupos humanos es de fundamental importancia ya que los principales materiales arqueológicos recuperados en los sitios de superficie del área de estudio son los artefactos líticos fabricados a partir de diferentes tipos de rocas. Así, entender la forma en que éstas fueron seleccionadas, reducidas y finalmente descartadas aportará a la comprensión del modo de vida de los grupos cazadores-recolectores que habitaron el área en el período mencionado.Table of ContentsINTRODUCCIÓN; CAPÍTULO 1 DESCRIPCIÓN DEL ÁREA DE ESTUDIO; CAPÍTULO 2 ANTECEDENTES DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y ESTADO ACTUAL DEL PROBLEMA; CAPÍTULO 3 MARCO TEÓRICO; CAPÍTULO 4 OBJETIVOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN E HIPÓTESIS DE TRABAJO; CAPÍTULO 5 METODOLOGÍA DE TRABAJO EN EL CAMPO Y EN EL LABORATORIO; CAPÍTULO 6 DISPONIBILIDAD DE MATERIAS PRIMAS LÍTICAS EN EL GOLFO SAN MATÍAS; CAPÍTULO 7 ANÁLISIS DE LOS CONJUNTOS ARQUEOLÓGICOS DE LA COSTA NORTE DEL GOLFO SAN MATÍAS; CAPÍTULO 8 ANÁLISIS DE LOS CONJUNTOS ARQUEOLÓGICOS DE LA COSTA OESTE DEL GOLFO SAN MATÍAS; CAPÍTULO 9 DISCUSIÓN; CAPÍTULO 10 CONCLUSIONES Y AGENDA DE TRABAJO; APÉNDICE; REFERENCIAS BIBLIOGRÁFICAS

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Book SynopsisThe Socotra archipelago lies approximately 135 nautical miles (Nm) northeast of Cape Guardafui, Somalia and 205Nm south of Rās Fartaq, Yemen. The archipelago is made up of four main islands, Socotra, cAbd al-Kūri, Samḥa and Darsa, of which Socotra is the largest and most densely populated. The population of Socotra is divided between the interior pastoralists and the coastal fishermen and traders. While scholarly studies concerning the interior population abound, the fishermen of Socotra have received comparatively less attention and little about them or their traditions is known. This research seeks to address this balance by analysing the Socotri maritime traditions and addressing the question as to how social, environmental and technological influences have shaped the maritime traditions of the fishermen of Socotra. The primary data forming the basis of this book is author’s ethnographic fieldwork carried out on the islands of Socotra and Samḥa between 2009 and 2010. This data is incorporated within a transdisciplinary framework that looks at some of the essential factors of historical, archaeological and environmental evidence to gain a holistic insight into the spatial and temporal factors affecting the maritime traditions of the fishermen.Table of ContentsPart One: The Study; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Literature Review; Chapter 3. The Conceptual Framework and Methodology; Part Two: The Fishermen; Chapter 4. The Historical Ethnic Groups; Chapter 5. The Historical Fishing Community; Chapter 6. The Contemporary Fishing Community; Part Three: The Maritime Landscape And Climate; Chapter 7. The Maritime Landscape; Chapter 8. The Climate; Part Four: Vessels, Gear And Catch; Chapter 9. Fishing Vessels; Chapter 10. Fishing Equipment; Chapter 11. The Fisheries Economy; Chapter 12. Conclusion; Appendices: Appendix 1. The fishermen interviewed; Appendix 2. Sample interview questions in English and Arabic; Appendix 3. The fishing seasons and influence local winds and currents have on villages along the north and south coast and island of Samḥa; Appendix 4. The fishing tackle used by the fishermen, the method of its deployment, seasons in which it is used, species targeted and the locations in which these species are targeted; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOur understanding of ancient Pre-Columbian civilizations has changed significantly as the result of archaeological research in the last fifty years. Major projects during this period included dealing with cultural change in different contexts (Valley of Mexico, Oaxaca), regional research projects (“Olmec”), as well as attempts to understand more general trends in interpreting Pre-Columbian art and ideology (Codex Cihuacoatl, Templo Mayor). This book presents both the changes that occurred in the last few decades, and the impact that they had on our understanding on ancient Mesoamerican religions and cultures. It also includes references to some lesser-known research traditions (such as Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia), as well as to the work of scholars like Jacques Soustelle or Didier Boremanse. With the insistence on clear methodology, based on field research, this book uses the context of specific archaeological finds in order to put Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures in a historical perspective. In terms of method, the author follows R. E. W. Adams, Jeremy Sabloff, Robert J. Sharer and other archaeologists in emphasizing the “field archaeology school” approach, with its insistence on using the data acquired in context. Archaeological and anthropological research is in itself fascinating enough to not need stolen artefacts, forged vases, fantastic stories and invented mythical genealogies. The main goal of this book is to produce a methodologically sound and ethically valid interdisciplinary introduction into the exciting world of ancient Mesoamerica.Table of ContentsPreface; Part One – Cultures in Context; 1. Regional Perspectives on the Olmec; 2. Comparing Changes in Mesoamerica; 3. Pre-Columbian Ceramics and the Maya; 4. Explaining Copan; 5. Vision and Revision; 6. Ancient Maya Politics and Ideology; 7. Paletin’s Discovery of the New World; 8. Codex Borbonicus; Part Two – Myths, Dreams, and Religions; 9. Religions of Mesoamerica; 10. Mesoamerican Dualism; 11. Forest of Kings; 12. The Meaning of Maya Myths; 13. Interpreting Tlaloc; 14. Templo Mayor; 15. Aztec Great Goddesses: Their Functions and Meaning; 16. Jacques Soustelle’s Studies of Aztec Religion; 17. Mayan Folklore from Lake Atitlan; 18. Lacandon Stories; 19. A Discourse-Centred Approach to Myths and Culture; Bibliography; Glossary; Index

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Book SynopsisIn 2008 intensive archaeological surveys began at Caution Bay, located 20km to the northwest of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. This was followed by the excavation of 122 stratified sites in 2009-2010, and detailed analysis of the well preserved and abundant faunal, ceramic and lithic finds has continued ever since. The Caution Bay Archaeology Project is providing new and exciting contributions to western Pacific prehistory. It has radically expanded the known geographic distribution of the Lapita Cultural Complex to include, for the first time, the southern coast of Papua New Guinea; it has established the relationship of Lapita to later cultural expressions in this area; it has pinpointed the time of arrival of domesticated animals along the southern coast of Papua New Guinea and, by inference, on the larger island of New Guinea; it has provided new insights into the impact of resident populations on local terrestrial and marine environments over a 5000 year time period; and perhaps of greatest significance, it has provided a unique opportunity to document, using multiple strands of archaeological evidence, interactions between resident and colonizing populations at a time of cultural transformation c. 2900 years ago. The first volume of the Caution Bay monographs is designed to introduce the goals of the Caution Bay project, the nature and scope of the investigations and the cultural and natural setting of the study area. To this end a series of chapters are included on the ethnographic and linguistic setting, the present and past natural environment, archaeological surveys of the study area and investigative and analytical methods. These background chapters will be repeatedly referred to in all the other monographs, as foundational reference materials for the broader study.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction to the Caution Bay Archaeology Project ; Chapter 2. Archaeology in Port Moresby and the Southern Lowlands of Papua New Guinea: Intellectual and Historical Contexts for Caution Bay ; Chapter 3. The Motu-Koita: A Cultural and Social History ; Chapter 4. Motu-Koita Contact in the Caution Bay Area of Central and Southeast Mainland Papua New Guinea: Some Linguistic Observations ; Chapter 5. Koita and Motu Landscapes and Seascapes of Caution Bay ; Chapter 6. Historicizing Motu Ceramics and the Hiri Trade ; Chapter 7. The Natural Setting of Caution Bay: Climate, Landforms, Biota, and Environmental Zones ; Chapter 8. Archaeological Surveys at Caution Bay ; Chapter 9. The Caution Bay Project Field and Laboratory Methods ; Appendix A. Comparison of Motu and Koita Vocabulary in the British New Guinea Annual Report for 1889-1890 (MacGregor 1890) with that in Dutton (1966) and Dutton (1975) ; Appendix B. Other Apparent Borrowings in Motu and Koita in Dutton (1975) not Included in Appendix A ; Appendix C. Established Borrowings in Koita with Comparative Evidence from Motu, Sinagoro and Keapara ; Appendix D. Caution Bay Project Field Staff, 2009-2010

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Book SynopsisClassical and Hellenistic cemeteries can give us more than descriptions and styles of pottery, art and burial architecture; they can speak of people, societies, social conventions as well as of social distinctions. This book aims to employ and illustrate the unique strengths of burial evidence and its contribution to the understanding of social identity and status in the Classical and Hellenistic Northern Peloponnese. By thoroughly reviewing published burials from the regions of Achaia, Arcadia, the Argolid and Cynouria, Corinthia, Elis and Triphylia, spatial and temporal variations which led to a change in definitions of ‘society’ and perceptions of ‘community’ on the basis of shifting reactions to death and the dead are demonstrated. Social roles of men, women, children, elite and non-elite individuals as expressed or negotiated in the mortuary record are explored. Preconceived ideas and stereotypes within and about the Classical and Hellenistic burials are challenged. In spite of the many constraints imposed by the limited previous research, what clearly emerges from this study is the wide degree of variation in what are often loosely termed ‘customary’ or unappealing Classical and Hellenistic burial practices in the Northern Peloponnese. If death was indeed an occasion or ‘opportunity’, then the meaning of this opportunity varied along the shifting dimensions, in time and space, of identity and status.Table of ContentsPreface; Chapter 1 – Introduction; Chapter 2 – A Case Study: The Argolid; Chapter 3 – Death and Space in the Northern Peloponnese during Classical and Hellenistic Times; Chapter 4 – The Mortuary Record; Chapter 5 – Burial Offerings; Chapter 6 – The Funeral Ritual; Chapter 7 – Conclusions; Bibliography; Appendix A: groups of burials (GB); Appendix B: individual graves (IG)

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Book SynopsisThe Black Sea in the Light of New Archaeological Data and Theoretical Approaches contains 19 papers on the archaeology and ancient history of the Black Sea region, covering a vast period of time, from the Early Iron Age until the Late Roman – Early Byzantine Periods. The majority of papers present archaeological material that has come to light during the last few years, in excavations that have been taking place in several parts of Pontus. Additionally, there are papers that present theoretical approaches to historical issues concerning the Black Sea, its local peoples, cultural aspects or specific sites, while at the end there is as well as a section on the connections between the Black Sea and northern Greece. Thus, the reader of this volume will have the opportunity to be informed about new archaeological results from excavators of some very important Black Sea sites, focus on specific categories of excavation finds or constructions, but also encounter new theories and ideas about social aspects of life in the Black Sea in ancient times. All these indicate once again the impressive acceleration of the archaeological and historical research that is being conducted in the last few decades in the Black Sea littoral, which continues to attract the unfailing interest of scholars from around the world.Trade Review‘Overall, this book provides the reader with fascinating new results of archaeological, historical and epigraphic research. Despite our relative scarcity of written sources and its depiction as an alien region in some Classical texts, the Black Sea was a thriving region that provides archaeologists with a wealth of data to compare or contrast Mediterranean contexts with. Whereas some contributions to the book might appeal more to a specialist readership of Black Sea archaeologists and historians, a number of papers will certainly interest scholars studying broader economic, political and cultural developments of the Ancient World. The book is, moreover, richly illustrated throughout with high quality images in colour.’ – Lieve Donnellan, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University (2019): Journal of Greek Archaeology Table of ContentsIntroduction (Manolis Manoledakis) ; NORTHERN BLACK SEA ; Houses of the Berezan Settlement: Some Observations on the Features of Archaic Residential Buildings (Dmitry Chistov) ; Polish excavations at Tyritake 2008-2014. A small revolution in archaic architecture (Alfred Twardecki) ; Some observations on defixiones from Olbia and Bosporus (Alexey V. Belousov) ; Greeks in the Asiatic Bosporus: New Evidence and Some Thoughts (Gocha R. Tsetskhladze) ; The Taurians in the Greek literary tradition (5th – 1st centuries BC) (Ioannis K. Xydopoulos) ; Deukalion the Scythian (David Braund) ; WESTERN BLACK SEA ; Searching for Nomads in Iron Age Thrace (Adela Sobotkova) ; The emporion of Pistiros: Hippodamean foundation and market place (Jan Bouzek) ; Βόρυζα πόλις Ποντική (Miroslav Ivanov Vasilev) ; Votive and other pottery from a sanctuary of Demeter in Apollonia Pontica (Margarit Damyanov) ; Adornments or amulets? Personal ornaments of Apollonian children in Pontic context (Mila Chacheva) ; Apollonia Pontica (Sozopol, Bulgaria): the results of the Franco-Bulgarian archaeological mission (Alexandre Baralis, Krastina Panayotova, Teodora Bogdanova, Martin Gyuzelev, Dimitar Nedev, Kostantin Gospodinov) ; Nemesis’ Cult and the Arena Spectacles. Evidence from the Black Sea Region (Georgia Aristodemou) ; SOUTHERN BLACK SEA ; Excavations at Tios: 2006 – 2015 (Sümer Atasoy) ; Sinope, new understandings of the early colony based on recent research at Sinop Kale (Owen Doonan) ; The rescue excavation of the Hacılarobası tumulus (Şahin Yıldırım and Nimet Demirci Bal) ; A Preliminary Study on the Roman Period at Komana (D. Burcu Erciyas and Mustafa N. Tatbul) ; PONTUS AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD ; Coins from the Propontis and the Black Sea found during the Metro excavations in Thessaloniki (Anna Argyri, Ioannis Birtsas and Manolis Manoledakis) ; Macedonia and the Black Sea in the era of Phillip II and Alexander the Great (Polyxeni Adam-Veleni)

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Book SynopsisAmphorae in the Eastern Mediterranean has been designed to share the subject of amphorae which were found on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey with the wider scholarly community. Amphorae from the shipwrecks discovered during underwater research, as well as the amphora specimens held in the region’s largest museum, Antalya Museum, are examined. To widen the scope of the book, the Aydın Aytuğ collection, which consists of amphorae collected in the region, is also included. Mediterranean amphorae which have not been found during excavations and underwater research undertaken by the author’s team up to now, are also presented. The amphorae and amphora-laden shipwrecks that are examined derive from the research carried out between 2011 and 2015, conducted in Antalya province in Lycia, Pamphylia and Rough West Cilicia regions, and off the coast of Silifke, which is a part of Rough East Cilicia. This research has obtained a wealth of new information, leading to a fresh look at the archaeology in this area.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. What is Amphora?; 3. The Entrance of Terracotta in People’s Lives; 4. The Potter’s Wheel and Early Amphora Examples; 5. Traditional Ceramic Production and Trade: Cyprus and Anatolia; 6. Contents Carried Inside Amphorae; 7. Graffiti, Dipinti and Pictures on Amphorae; 8. Amphora Stamps; 9. Wine-Making and Amphorae; 10. Standardization of Amphora Forms and Imitation Amphorae; 11. Sealing Techniques for Amphorae; 12. Amphora Bases and Transportation; 13. Amphora Kilns; 14. Amphora Production in Lycia, Pamphylia and Cilicia (Map 1); 15. Amphora Kilns in the North Levant-Hatay Region; 16. Underwater Research on the Coasts of Lycia, Pamphylia and Cilicia; 17 . Amphorae Found around the Coasts of Lycia, Pamphylia and Cilicia between 2011 and 2015; 18. Amphorae Kept in Storage at Antalya Museum; 19. Aydın Aytuğ Collection; 20. Examples of Mediterranean Commercial Amphorae; References

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Book SynopsisMore than fifteen sites of either confirmed or conjectured urban status existed between the 6th and 19th centuries in the particular region of northeastern Mesopotamia, bounded by the rivers Great Zāb, Little Zāb and Tigris. This present study concentrates on the investigation of this urban network. The archaeological substance of the deserted sites is mostly very well preserved in the relief of the arid steppe environment and can be excellently identified in satellite images of several types. The archaeological investigation of these settlements, augmented by a revised historical topography, offers a unique opportunity for the holistic study of the diversity, temporal dynamics and mutual relationships within the urban network that developed in the hinterland of Baghdad and Samarra, the two largest super-centres of the Old World. This collective monograph puts together archaeological and historical data available for the individual sites, including analyses of pottery obtained by surface survey. The materially rich final report of the three-year project is supplemented by an interpretative chapter that focuses on detailed topographical comparisons of the sites, their landscape contexts, and the dynamics of the urban system within the framework of studies on Near-Eastern Islamic-period cities.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Sources; 3. Site monographs; 4. Interpretation; 5. Sources and references; Appendix: Pottery classification

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Book SynopsisThe Seminar for Arabian Studies is the principal international academic forum for research on the Arabian Peninsula. First convened in 1968, it is the only annual academic event for the study of the Arabian Peninsula that brings together researchers from all over the world to present and discuss current fieldwork and the latest research. The Seminar covers an extensive range of diverse subjects that include anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, epigraphy, ethnography, history, language, linguistics, literature, numismatics, theology, and more besides, from the earliest times to the present day or, in the fields of political and social history, to around the end of the Ottoman Empire (1922). The Seminar meets for three days each year, with an ever-increasing number of participants coming from around the globe to attend. In 2016 the fiftieth meeting took place, in which sixty papers and posters were presented in London at the British Museum, where this prestigious event has been hosted since 2002. The Seminar also regularly hosts a special session focusing on a specific aspect of the Humanities on the Arabian Peninsula, enabling a range of experts to present their research to a wider audience. In 2016 this special session was entitled ‘Textiles and Personal Adornment in the Arabian Peninsula’, which provided a fascinating overview of research on dress, textiles, and adornment in the Middle East.Table of ContentsEditors’ Foreword; Textiles and personal adornment in the Arabian Peninsula: papers from the special session of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held on 29 July 2016 (Aisa Martinez); In memoriam Beatrice Eileen de Cardi OBE FSA FBA, 1914–2016; In memoriam Ernie Haerinck, 1949–2016; In memoriam Maurizio Tosi, 1944–2017; Pearl merchants of the Gulf and their life in Bombay (Saif Albedwawi); An integrated approach to surveying the archaeological landscapes of Yemen (Rebecca Banks, Michael Fradley, Jérémie Schiettecatte & Andrea Zerbini); Traces of date palm in an early third-millennium BC tomb in Zukayt, al-Dākhiliyyah, Sultanate of Oman (poster) (Eugenio Bortolini, Juan José García-Granero & Marco Madella); A niche construction approach to vegetation community development in the south-west Arabian Neolithic: preliminary results (Abigail F. Buffington, Michael J. Harrower, Joy McCorriston & Eric A. Oches); A Crowded Desert: early results from survey and excavation of nomadic sites in north-west Qatar (poster) (Jose C. Carvajal Lopez, Kirk Roberts, Gareth Rees, Frank Stremke, Anke Marsh, Laura Morabito, Andrew Bevan, Mark Altaweel, Rodney Harrison, Manuel Arroyo-Kalin, Robert Carter, Richard Fletcher & Faisal Abdullah al-Naimi); Excavation at the Bronze Age tower of al-Khutm (Bāt, Sultanate of Oman): a preliminary evaluation of the monument (poster) (Maurizio Cattani, Hassan al-Lawati, Sultan al-Bakri, Maurizio Tosi, Enzo Cocca, Alessandro Armigliato, Simone Mantellini & Giacomo Vinci); Excavations in Area 2A at Sarūq al-Дadīd: Iron Age II evidence of copper production and ceremonial activities (Fernando Contreras Rodrigo, Bernardo Vila, Pedro Albarracín, Rashad Mohammed Bukhash, Sheikha Obaid Al Abbar, Mansour Boraik Radwan Karim & Hassan Mohammed Zein); Zooarchaeological analysis of two dromedaries (Camelus dromedarius L.) from late Iron Age graves in Wādī cUyūn at Sināw (al-Sharqiyyah, Sultanate of Oman) (poster) (Antonio Curci & Elena Maini); New Iron Age funerary data from collective graves in Wādī FizΉ, northern Oman (Bleda S. Düring, Eric Olijdam & Sam A. Botan); An archaeological overview of the landscape of the al-Duqm development area, Sultanate of Oman (poster) (Francesco Genchi, Gabriele Martino, Maria Pia Maiorano, Roman Garba & Waleed Hamad Al-Ghafri); The discovery of a new Iron Age ritual complex in central Oman: recent excavations near Ādam (Guillaume Gernez, Mathilde Jean & Anne Benoist); Pre-Islamic ‘Hamāsah’ verses from north-eastern Jordan: a new Safaitic poetic text from Marabb al-al-Shurafā, with further remarks on the ΚĒn ΚAvdat inscription and KRS 2453 (Ahmad Al-Jallad); Incense and imagery: mapping agricultural and water management systems on the island of Socotra, Yemen (Julian Jansen van Rensburg & Kristen Hopper); Snake decorations on the Iron Age pottery from Sarūq al-Дadīd: a possible ritual centre? (Steven Karacic, Mansour Boraik, Hussein Qandil & Hélène David-Cuny); Chronology of stucco production in the Gulf and southern Mesopotamia in the early Islamic period (Agnieszka Lic); Indus potters in central Oman in the second half of the third millennium BC. First results of a technological and archaeometric study (Sophie Méry, Michele Degli Esposti, Dennys Frenez & Jonathan Mark Kenoyer); First campaign of survey and excavations at ShiyāΜ (Sūr, Sultanate of Oman) (Olivia Munoz, Valentina Azzarà, Pierre-Henri Giscard, Raphaël Hautefort, Fanny San Basilio & Léa Saint-Jalm); The expression h-rhwy in Thamudic B inscriptions from north-west Arabia (Jérôme Norris); Al-cAyn Oases Mapping Project: Jīmī Oasis (poster) (Timothy Power, Peter Sheehan, Fatima Nasser Al Mansoori, Maitha Saleh Al Mansoori, Mai Hareb Al Mansoori & Mariam Nabeel Mohammed); The development of complexity at third-millennium BC al-Khashbah,Sultanate of Oman: results of the first two seasons, 2015 and 2016 (Conrad Schmidt & Stephanie Döpper); The bitumen imports at Tell Abraq — tracing the second-millennium BC bitumen industry in south-east Arabia (Thomas Van de Velde, Peter Magee & Frederic Lynen); Embroidery from the Arabian Peninsula (Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood); An eighteenth-century merchantman off the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia (Chiara Zazzaro, Romolo Loreto & Chiara Visconti); Papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, on 29 to 31 July 2016

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, a pleiade of Egyptologists, Archaeologists, Archaeoastronomers, Archaeoanthropologists, Historians and other scholars from fifteen countries (Hellas, Egypt, France, Russia, Ukraine, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Turkey, Australia) have combined their efforts in order to honour Alicia Maravelia, whose important work in Egyptology and in the foundation of the Hellenic Institute of Egyptology are highly acknowledged. This book, with foreword by His Eminence the Archbishop of Sinai and Abbot of the Holy Monastery of St Catherine, Mgr Damianos, contains thirty original articles, two abstracts and a plethora of accompanying texts including Dr Maravelia’s list of publications. The book is divided into three parts: 1. Nūt and the Realm of Stars [15 contributions]; 2. Ancient Egyptian Religion and its Celestial Undertones [12 contributions]; and 3. Ancient Egyptian Science, Medicine, Archaeoanthropology, Egyptomania, Egyptophilia, etc. [5 contributions]. The reader will find papers that deal mainly with the goddess Nūt and her mythology and cosmographic notions related to her, the stars and other celestial luminaries, orientations of monuments, ancient Egyptian constellations and decans, the notion of time, calendars, religious and funerary observances related to the sky, ancient Egyptian religion, religious and amuletic artefacts, religious mythology, as well as archaeoanthropological and medicinal studies, papers on ancient Egyptian Mathematics, Egyptophilia, Egyptomania and ancient Egyptian collections.Table of ContentsPART I: NUT AND THE REALM OF STARS: Niels BILLING: The Dialogue of Geb and Nut in Relation to the Royal Sarcophagus in the Pyramid of King Pepy I; Nadine GUILHOU: Le Soleil dans les Bras de Nut dans les Tombes Thébaines; Mykola TARASENKO: The «Children of Nut» and their Rebellion in Chapter 175A of the Book of the Dead; Bernard ARQUIER: L’Astérisme du Bélier dans l’Ancienne Égypte; Azza EZZAT: Staircases in Ancient Egyptian Pools: Iconographic Attestations and Ouranographic Connotations; Brigitte VALÉE: Les Hypocéphales et la Déesse Céleste Nut; Kurt LOCHER: Gods Coming from the Left – Possible Astronomical Origins of Religious Processions; Sabine STEMMLER–HARDING: Devil in Disguise – On the Stellar Mythology of cApophis and its Potential Connection to the Constellation @tp-Rdwy; Frank GODDIO: Un Récit de la Création ressurgit des Profondeurs; Anne–Sophie VON BOMHARD: The Genesis of the Stars in Ancient Egypt, according to the Naos of the Decades; Massimiliano FRANCI: Defining Time; Gaëlle CHANTRAIN: Une Journée dans le Temps et l’Espace – Remarques Lexicales au Sujet de hrw et grH; Themis G. DALLAS: The Ancient Skyscape Over the Sanctuary of Egyptian Gods in Marathōn; Mona HAGGAG: The Tazza Farnese: An Alexandrian Vision of the Cosmos; Jean–Pierre LEVET: Les Constellations Anthropomorphes de l’Hémisphère Nord et l’Astrosophie chez Ptolémée; PART II: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RELIGION, ART, HISTORY AND THEIR CELESTIAL UNDERTONES: Jean–Pierre PÄTZNICK: La Déesse d’Éléphantine à l’Époque Thinite – Tabouisation Locale du Nom Divin; Tatjana A. SHERKOVA: Sacral Numbers in Ancient Egypt – Historical and Psychological Study; Mohammed AZZAZY & Azza EZZAT: The Sycamore in Ancient Egypt – Textual, Iconographic & Archaeopaly- nological Thoughts; Ahmed MANSOUR: Notes on the Role of #tm(w)/#tmty-NTr in Turquoise Mining Expeditions; Dina 'EL-GABRY: A Fragmentary Dyad of Penwah and of his Wife Meryt – Cairo Museum JE 27955, CG 1003; Hamdy Ahmed 'EL-SOROGY: The Flea Insect as a New Symbol for God Seth; Hedvig GYORY: On the History of Feline Amulets – A Preliminary Study of Cat Amulets; Detlev QUINTERN: The Lion and the Mouse – Travelling Ethics; Sophia TSOURINAKI: Between Dionysos and Christ – Cosmological Images on a Hellenistic Funerary Textile; Ashraf–Alexandre SADEK: De la Spiritualité des Anciens Égyptiens à la Spiritualité Chrétienne; Youhanna N. YOUSSEF: The Date of Consecration of the Sanctuary of Patriarch Benjamin; Manto PAPAÏOANNOU: Psychostasia in Byzantine Art through the Iconography of Archangel Michael; PART III: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MATHEMATICS, MEDICINE, ARCHAEOANTHROPOLOGY AND EGYPTOMANIA: Irem ASLAN–SEYHAN: Considerations on the Study of Ancient Egyptian Mathematics in Modern Turkey; Stephanos GEROULANOS: An Introduction to Alexandrian Medicine & Surgery; Constantinos TRIANTAPHYLLIDIS: The Genetic History of Hellas, Egypt and of the Near East and the DNA Study of King Tutcankhamun; Adam LUKASZEWICZ: One more Hand that rocked the Cradle of Egyptology – Count Jan Potocki; Mladen TOMORAD: Aegyptiaca and Various Forms of Egyptomania in Croatia; Antigoni MANIATI: Brief CV & List of Publications of Prof. Dr Dr Alicia MARAVELIA; Evi BATRA: Epilogue – Dr Dr Alicia MARAVELIA & the Association of Greek Women Scientists

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Book SynopsisCroatia has a unique geographical and historical position within Europe, bridging central and south-east Europe. From the Pannonian Plain to the southern Adriatic maritime landscape, interconnectedness flows through Croatia’s history. This dynamic past is increasingly being reflected upon by a new and exciting generation of Croatian scholars who are firmly embedded within a strong national tradition of archaeology but who also look outward to draw insights into the nature of material culture they encounter in Croatia and Croatian identity itself. Croatia at the Crossroads (24-25 June, Europe House, London) provided the opportunity to reflect upon such interconnectedness and Croatia’s historic place within Europe. This event typified the desire of Croatian archaeologists to engage with such matters on an international level and to situate their scholarship within broader regional dynamics. Following the foundation of the new Croatian state, the opportunities for new forms of engagement have grown. This has stimulated thinking regarding both approaches to archaeology and the potential cultural cross-fertilisation that has resulted in Croatia’s rich archaeological and historical record. This has led to in new, exciting understandings of archaeological material, and this was revealed in contributions to the Croatia at the Crossroads conference. The papers published here arise from the exceptionally interesting presentations and discussions held in London at the conference. Each of them takes Croatia’s particular interconnectedness in terms of social and cultural relationships with the wider region as the starting point for exploring issues across a broad chronological range, from human origins to modernity. Within this, contributors pick up on a variety of different fields of interconnectedness and forms of interaction including biological, cultural, religious, military, trade, craft and maritime relationships. In many ways, these papers represent opening conversations that explore ways of thinking about new and established data sets that are entering Croatian scholarship for the first time. They also act as a set of complementary discussions that transcend traditional period and national boundaries. We hope that by bringing them together the volume will provide an insight into current trends in Croatian archaeology and stimulate fruitful discussions regarding future directions.Table of ContentsInteractions in the Old Stone Age: Possible Scenarios Using the Vindija Biological Evidence (Ivor Janković and Fred H. Smith); Contacts and Connections in Late Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic Croatia (Ivor Karavanić); Adriatic Connections: Exploring Relationships from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Mesolithic (Dario Vujević); The Mesolithic in Croatia (Darko Komšo); The Development of Eneolithic Cultures Between the Sava and Drava Rivers (Jacqueline Balen); Croatia and the Crossroads of Early Greek Seafarers (Helena Tomas); Multiculturalists Before We Knew It: Keeping Pace with Bronze Age Trends (Sanjin Mihelić); Clay Birds as Religious Objects and Works of Craft in the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age of the Balkans and the Carpathian Basin (Darko Maričević); Indigenous Pottery in Dalmatia During the Last Millennium BC (Vedran Barbarić); The Princes of the Crossroads — The Early Iron Age in Northern Croatia (Hrvoje Potrebica); Salona and the Sea – Some Observations (Branko Kirigin); Interaction Between Incomers and Autochthons on Roman Funerary Stones from the Croatian Region of Pannonia (1st –4th Centuries) (Branka Migotti, PhD.); Immigrants from Other Areas of the Roman Empire Documented on Siscia Lead Tags (Ivan Radman-Livaja); New Knowledge on Certain Early Christian Dioceses in the Eastern Adriatic Region (Ante Škegro, Ph.D.); The K-type Sword from Koljane in Dalmatia as Possible Evidence for the Arrival of Croats at the End of the 8th Century (Ante Milošević); The Gnalić Shipwreck: Microcosm of the Late Renaissance World (Irena Radić Rossi, Mariangela Nicolardi and Katarina Batur); Weapons of the Military Frontier in Croatia from the End of the 17th to the End of the 19th Century – Combat Equipment and Emblems of Rank (Dora Bošković)

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Book SynopsisThis volumes examines Roman pottery and production centers in the bay of Gaditana, modern-day Cádiz. The innovative aspects of this research are several but we will limit them to three: the typological classification from a closer perspective to the mentality of the old potter; the concept of ‘social measure’, which connects the dimensions of the containers with the type of consumer and social group; and, the ethnoarchaeological aspects applied to the construction of a furnace, which have enabled to better specify various aspects relating to the manufacture of common Roman ceramics. From a methodological point of view, it is proposed a debate about the concept of ‘common pottery’, which is defined as ceramics intended for a common and multipurpose use, more practical than aesthetic. Likewise, it is exposed the great problem of the typologies, seeking not only a logical classification into types and variants, but also a reference to the artisan work. The theme of the ancient name of Roman ceramic forms is faced in order to call by the old names to the Roman pottery forms found today. The concept of ‘social measure’, unprecedented in this type of analysis, pretends to reach a social accepted measure, obtained with a statistical study. This measure is that one around which the values are concentrated.Table of ContentsPrólogo; Abstract; Capítulo I: Introducción; Capítulo II: Historiografía y estado actual de las investigaciones; Capítulo III: La cerámica común en el mundo antiguo. Las fuentes; Capítulo IV: Espacio Industrial Alfarero de las Cerámicas Comunes de la Bahía Gaditana; Capítulo V: La cerámica común romana en la Bahía Gaditana; Capítulo VI: Redes de distribución de la cerámica común romana; Capítulo VII: Reconstrucción de un horno romano: investigación etnoarqueológica ; Capitulo VIII: Consideraciones Finales; Bibliografía

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Book SynopsisProceedings of the 20th symposium: Suyanggae and Her Neighbours. The 20th symposium took place across two meetings, the first in Haifa, Israel and the second in Danyang, Republic of Korea. This proceedings volume gathers papers, abstracts and posters from the meeting in Haifa, which took place from 21–28 June 2015.Table of ContentsGoals and Constraints of Palaeolithic Archaeology (Michael Jochim); Levallois Core Method in Siberia -History and Questions (Nikolay.I. Drozdov and Denis N. Drozdov); New Analysis of Evidance for Fire-use at the Peking Man Site (Xing Gao); Technological Analysis of Bifaces in Korea (Kidong Bae, Myoungshin Cho and Kiryong Kim); New Archaeological Surveys and Excavations in the Hanzhong Basin, China (Shejiang Wang, Huayu Lu, Xuefeng Sun, Luda Xing, Hongyan Zhang, Haixin Zhuo, Wenchao Zhang, Qingyao Yu); Paleolithic assemblage and site formation process of Huaishuping site in Luonan Basin, central China (Qingyao Yu, Shejiang Wang, Huayu Lu, Chen Shen, Fuyou Chen, Feng Li, Wenchao Zhang, Luda Xing, Xiaobing Zhang); A preliminary study on the stone artifacts of Shizilukou Paleolithic locality in Luonan Basin, central China (Luda Xing, Shejiang Wang, Gaike Zhang, Tuo Liu, Xuefeng Sun, Huayu Lu, Qingyao Yu, Xiaobing Zhang); The characteristic of stone assemblages from Tonghyeon-ri Paleolithic site in Korea (Jong-yoon WOO, Seung-won LEE and Byeongil YUN); Nesher Ramla Karst Depression, Israel: A New Evidence for Middle Paleolithic Adaptations During MIS 6 and 5 (Yossi Zaidner, David E. Friesem, Amos Frumkin, Leore Grosman, Naomi Porat, Ruth Shachack-Gross, Alexander Tsatskin, Reuven Yeshurun, Lior Weissbrod, Laura Centi, Marion Prevost, Maayan Shemer, and Oz Varoner); Quaternary Geology and Matrix-forming Process of Suyangae Upper Paleolithic Sites (LOC. 1 and LOC. 6) (Juyong Kim, Yung-jo Lee and Jongyun Woo); Wolpyeong Upper Palaeolithic site, an Important Evidence for Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Korea (Gi-Kil Lee); Early ritual behavior of bear hunters of Beringia (Alexander A. Vasilevsky); New Insights from the Renewed Analysis of the 100 Layers Sequence of Tabun Cave, Israel (Ron Shimelmitz, Avraham Ronen, Steven, L. Kuhn and Mina Weinstein-Evron); Early Epipaleolithic engraved objects from Ein Qashish South Jezreel Valley, Israel (Alla Yaroshevich, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Elisabeta Boaretto, Noam Greenbaum, Naomi Porat, Yoel Roskin); The Natufian is Still a “Revolution”: Intensification and Sedentism in the Natufian Sequence of el-Wad Terrace, Mt. Carmel (Reuven Yeshurun); The upper paleolithic phonic instruments: classification and methods of research (Lbova Liudmila and Darya Kozhevnikova); Sartorial Vestments in the Southern Levant: Headwear, Footwear, Girdles, Sashes and Shrouds, 15,000-5,900 BP cal. (Janet Levy); The origins of writing (Emmanuel Anati and Ariela Fradkin Anati); The looting of archaeological patrimony in Ecuador (Ernesto Salazar); Regional ‘Coexistence Model’ in the Upper Paleolithic of Korea (Heonjong, Lee); Thinking About the Oldest Microblade at the Locality VI - Suyanggae (Yung-jo LEE, Jong-yoon WOO, Seung-won LEE, Ju-hyun AHN and Kyong-woo LEE); First agricultural colonization of the Polish Lowland in flint (Lucyna Domańska); Dwellings Evolution at the Russian Far-East During the Neolithic Period (Pavel Volkov); Burial patterns in Ecuador’s upper Amazon (Myriam Ochoa); Ancient rituals of "wine orders" in the traditional culture of east Asia: Social and Anthropological aspects (Elena Voytishek); Modern Flint Knappers’ Camp Site from Volcanic Areas of Bayuda Desert in Sudan (Mirosław Masojć and Henryk Paner); Poster session: Of Proboscidean Bone Tools and Paleoindians (Marcel Kornfeld, Mary Lou Larson and George C. Frison)

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