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Archaeopress Amphorae from the Kops Plateau (Nijmegen): trade
Book SynopsisIn the year 19 BC, Roman legions arrived in Nijmegen with the aim of conquering the Rhenish territories from the local populations. In addition to the legionaries themselves, the Roman army required a regular provision of staple supplies in order to keep such a war machine in top condition. The archaeological evidence for this provision is a myriad of organic remains (i.e. seeds, bones, pollen) as well as ceramic containers such as amphorae. One of the first military camps at Nijmegen, together with that on the Hunerberg, was Kops Plateau. This timber fortress – the most northerly military site of the Julio-Claudian period – dating from 12 BC to AD 69, has provided an extraordinary amphora assemblage. At a time when most Roman roads were still only projects, this distant military outpost received amphora products from all over the Mediterranean basin – from Palestine to Greece in the east to Baetica and northern Africa in the west as well as from the Italian core. In addition to amphorae, Kops Plateau also provided a wide repertory of regional vessels whose contents are unknown. The amphorae from Kops Plateau represent a singular example of Roman military supply in northern Europe at a very early date. Their analysis sheds light on trading routes in the Atlantic regions, and from Gaul to Germany; indeed also on the Claudian invasion of Britain.Table of ContentsPreface (David Williams) ; Chapter 1. Introduction (Cèsar Carreras & Joost van den Berg) ; Chapter 2. Methodology (Cèsar Carreras, F. S. Beijaard & N. Polak) ; Chapter 3. Amphorae from the West: Hispania (Spain and Portugal) (Horacio González Cesteros, Rui Roberto de Almeida & Cèsar Carreras) ; Chapter 4. Amphorae from the West: Gaul (Florian Schimmer & Joost van den Berg) ; Chapter 5. Amphorae from the Roman Heartland: Imports from Italy (Florian Schimmer) ; Chapter. 6. Amphorae from Africa, the Aegean and the Levant (Joost van den Berg & Florian Schimmer) ; Chapter. 7. Regional Amphorae from pre-Flavian Nijmegen: a new Group of Intra-Regional Containers (Joost van den Berg) ; Chapter 8. Amphorae-Epigraphy: Stamps, Graffiti and Tituli Picti from Roman Nijmegen (Piero Berni Millet & Stephan Weiß-König) ; Chapter 9. Excursus: Amphorae from the Early-Augustan Legionary Camp on the Hunerberg, Nijmegen (Joost van den Berg, Horacio González Cesteros & Ryan Niemeijer) ; Chapter 10. Conclusions (Cèsar Carreras & Joost van den Berg) ; Chapter 11. References
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Archaeopress Recent Investigations in the Puuc Region of
Book SynopsisThe scholarship assembled in this volume was first presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in Austin, Texas, in April 2014. Some of the authors have chosen to publish their conference papers while others have expanded their topics. As a collection, the papers demonstrate a myriad of approaches to understanding the history of the Puuc region, incorporating archaeological, architectural, epigraphic, and iconographic studies. The geographic scope is also broad. Many of the recent and ongoing archaeological projects in the eastern Puuc region and its periphery are represented, including Dzehkabtún, H’wasil, Kabah, Kiuic, Labná, Sayil, Uxmal, and Xcoch, as well as the Chocholá ceramic tradition from the western Puuc. The projects are at various stages—some preliminary, others a portion of a larger investigation, while still others are revisiting older data—all with the aim to advance our field of study. It has been more than 10 years since a volume dedicated solely to the Puuc region has been published. While Puuc research frequently appears in collected volumes on the Yucatán peninsula or the Terminal Classic period, we are pleased to offer this representative example of ongoing work.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Archaeology: An Enigmatic Maya Center: Climate Change, Settlement Systems, and Water Adaptations at Xcoch, Puuc Region, Yucatán (Michael P. Smyth, Nicholas P. Dunning, Eric M. Weaver, Philip van Beynen, and David Ortegón Zapata) ; In Search of Kilns: The Forms and Functions of Annular Structures in the Bolonchén District (Ken Seligson, Tomás Gallareta Negrón, Rossana May Ciau, and George J. Bey III) ; From Temple to Trash: Analysis and Interpretation of a Dismantled Stucco Façade and its Deposit from Kiuic, Yucatán (Melissa Galván Bernal, George J. Bey III, and Rossana May Ciau) ; Un Acercamiento al Patrón de Asentamiento de Kabah, Yucatán (Luis Raúl Pantoja Díaz) ; Investigación y Restauración Arquitectónicas en el Codz Pop de Kabah, Yucatán (Gustavo Novelo Rincón) ; Terminaciones Rituales en los Principales Edificios de la Región Puuc (Lourdes Toscano Hernández y José Huchim Herrera) ; ‘Archaeological Fieldwork in the Transitional Zone Between Puuc and Chenes (Campeche, Mexico)’ (Iken Paap) [Open Access: Download] ; Part II: Art and Writing: The Nunnery Quadrangle at Uxmal: Creation, Captive Sacrifice, Ritual, and Political Authority in a Puuc Maya Palace Complex (Jeff Karl Kowalski) ; The Hieroglyphic Platform at Kabah (Meghan Rubenstein and Philipp Galeev) ; Making it a Date: Positioning the Chocholá Style in Time and Space (Maline D. Werness-Rude) ; The Hieroglyphic Doorway and Other Monuments from H’Wasil, Campeche (Carlos Pallán Gayol and Antonio Benavides Castillo) ;
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Archaeopress Stone Vessels in the Near East during the Iron
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the characteristics and the development of the stone vessel industry in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian period (c. 1200 – 330 BCE). Three main aspects of this industry are investigated. First, the technology behind the manufacture of stone vessels, the tools and techniques, and how these changed across time. Second, the mechanisms of exchange of stone vessels and how these were affected by the changing political landscape through time. Third, the consumption patterns of stone vessels in both elite and non-elite contexts, and how these patterns changed through time. The aim is to evaluate how the formation of new regional states, occurred in the Iron Age I-II, and their subsequent inclusion within large-scale empires, in the Iron Age III and Persian period, transformed the Near Eastern societies by exploring how the stone vessel industry was affected by these transformations. For the period and area under analysis, such a comprehensive study of stone vessels, covering a wide area and connecting this industry to the broader socioeconomic and political landscapes, has never been attempted before.Trade Review'To his credit [the author] has successfully broken new ground in the field of research on the history and development of stone vessels. The book's historical spectrum is admirably extensive, and because of this, will undoubtedly serve as the primary reference authority for future work on the subject.' -- Jeffrey D. Lerner * Ancient West & East *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Methodology and Data; Chapter 3: Chronological Framework and Historical Outline; Chapter 4: Raw Materials for Stone Vessels; Chapter 5: Stone Vessel Typology; Chapter 6: Stone Vessel Manufacture and Related Technologies; Chapter 7: The Mechanisms of Exchange of Stone Vessels; Chapter 8: Stone Vessel Consumption; Chapter 9: General Conclusions and Future Lines of Research; Appendix A: Catalogue; Appendix B: Bibliography
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Archaeopress Narratives and Journeys in Rock Art: A Reader
Book SynopsisWhy publish a Reader? Today, it is relatively easy and convenient to switch on your computer and download an academic paper. However, as many scholars have experienced, historic references are difficult to access. Moreover, some are now lost and are merely references in later papers. This can be frustrating. This book provides a series of papers from all over the world that extend as far back as the 1970s when rock art research was in its infancy. The papers presented in the Reader reflect the development in the various approaches that have influenced advancing scholarly research.Table of Contents1. Seeing and Construing: The Making and ‘Meaning’ of a Southern African Rock Art Motif – by J.D. Lewis-Williams; 2. An Introduction to the Problems of Southern African Rock Art Regions: The Rock Art of Bongani Mountain Lodge and its Environs – by Jamie Hampson, William Challis, Geoffrey Blundell and Conraad De Rosner; 3. Fluvial erosion of inscriptions and petroglyphs at Siega Verde, Spain – by Robert G. Bednarik; 4. The Location of Prehistoric Rock Art in North-East England: An Experimental Approach to Field Survey – by Richard Bradley, Tess Durden and Nigel Spencer; 5. Beyond Art and Between the Caves: Thinking About Context in the Interpretive Process – by Margaret W. Conkey; 6. Transculturation, Rock Art and Cross-Cultural Contact – by Thomas Heyd; 7. The Cultural Context of Hunter-Gatherer Rock Art – by Robert Layton; 8. Who Thought Rock Art Was About Archaeology? The Role of Prehistory in Algeria’s Terror – by Jeremy Keenan; 9. The power of a place in understanding southern San rock engravings – by Janette Deacon; 10.Acoustic elements of (pre)historic rock art landscapes at the Fourth Nile Cataract – by Cornelia Kleinitz; 11. Unsettled times: shaded polychromes and the making of hunter-gatherer history in the southeastern mountains of southern Africa – by Aron D. Mazel; 12. Engraved in Place And Time: A Review of Variability in the Rock Art of the Northern Cape and Karoo – by David Morris; 13. Rock art and the material culture of Siberian and Central Asian shamanism – by Ekaterina Devlet; 14. Chronological Trends in Negev Rock Art: The Har Michia Petroglyphs as a Test Case – by Davida Eisenberg-Degen and Steven A. Rosen; 15. Making sense of obscure pictures from our own history: exotic images from Callan Park, Australia – by John Clegg; 16. Religious Spatial Behaviour: Why Space is Important to Religion – by Matthew Kelleher; 17. Bedrock notions and isochrestic choice: evidence for localised stylistic patterning in the engravings of the Sydney region – by Jo McDonald; 18. Rainbow Colour and Power among the Waanyi of Northwest Queensland – by Paul S. C. Taçon; 19. Caves as Landscapes – by Jean Clottes; 20. Landscape representations on boulders and menhirs in the Valcamonica-Valtellina area (Alps, Italy) – by Angelo Fossati; 21. Roaring Rocks: An Audio-Visual Perspective on Hunter-Gatherer Engravings in Northern Sweden and Scandinavia – by Joakim Goldhahn; 22. Rock Art and Archaeological Excavationin Campo Lameiro, Galicia: A new chronological proposal for the Atlantic rock art – by Manuel Santos Estévez and Yolanda Seoane Veiga; 23. The Shore Connection: Cognitive landscape and communication with rock carvings in northernmost Europe – by Knut Helskog; 24. Rock art as visual representation – or how to travel to Sweden without Christopher Tilley – by Liliana Janik; 25. A discovery of possible Upper Palaeolithic Parietal art in Cathole Cave, Gower Peninsula, South Wales – by George Nash, Peter van Calsteren, Louise Thomas and Michael J. Simms; 26. Images as Messages in Society: Prolegomena to the Study of Scandinavian Petroglyphs and Semiotics – by Jarl Nordbladh; 27. Approaches to Passage Tomb Art – by Muiris O’Sullivan; 28. Ritual Landscapes: Toward a Reinterpretation of Stone Age Rock Art in Trøndelag, Norway – by Kalle Sognnes; 29. Excavation of a rock art site at Hunterheugh Crag, Northumberland – by Clive Waddington with Benjamin Johnson and Aron Mazel; 30. From natural settings to spiritual places in the Algonkian sacred landscape: an archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic analysis of Canadian Shield rockart sites – by Daniel Arsenault; 31. In Small Cupules Forgotten: Rock Markings, Archaeology, and Ethnography in The Deep South – by Johannes H. N. Loubser; 32. Shamanism, Natural Modeling and the Rock Art Hunter-Gatherers – by David S. Whitley; 33. Tsagiglalal, She Who Watches: Rock Art as an Interpretable Phenomenon – by James D. Keyser; 34. Rocks in the landscape: managing the Inka agricultural cycle – by Frank Meddens; 35. On-Site and post-site analysis of pictographs within the San Pedro Viejo de Pichasca rock shelter, Limarí Valley, North-Central Chile – by Francisca Moya, Felipe Armstrong, Mara Basile, George Nash, Andrés Troncoso and Francisco Vergara
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Archaeopress Coventry’s Medieval Suburbs: Excavations at Hill
Book SynopsisHill Street, Upper Well Street and Far Gosford Street comprise three suburban streets which stood directly outside the city gates of Coventry for much of the medieval period. As a result of the 2003-2007 excavations an extensive body of archaeological, environmental and documentary evidence has been brought together to allow comparison in terms of land planning, construction methodologies, character and relative fluctuations in the long-term economy of two of the city’s medieval and post-medieval suburbs. As well as evidence for street frontage occupation, the sites contain substantial portions of the city’s defences, never before looked at in such detail. The new data is of great value in comparing the results with those previously gained from a variety of smaller sites in Coventry and comparable sites elsewhere in the country. The work has, in some detail, married up excavated data and documentary sources for the working of the defences over a period of 250 years. In addition the immediate suburban environment has come under scrutiny and an unprecedented level of botanical data has come to light in a programme of sampling for both seeds and pollens as a guide to the changing character of the suburbs. At Hill Street, excavation uncovered two medieval and post-medieval frontage properties 50m wide and their rear yards adjacent to the city ditch. While upstanding structural remains were scant, analysis of contemporary pits has highlighted mainly domestic but also some industrial aspects of the properties and given an insight into the diet, economy and changing face of suburban Hill Street from the 13th to 19th centuries. Excavation also uncovered some 55m of the city ditch adjacent to Bond Street, into which four large sections were cut, three close to Hill Street and one at the junction with Upper Well Street. The excavations highlight the huge investment made in digging and maintaining the ditch as a defensive line for the first half of the 15th century before it was gradually misused for fly-tipping and eventually lost beneath a welter of dumping by the later 17th century. It was probably indefensible long before the Civil War. A varied and rich environmental profile of the site has been constructed, which paints a picture of a suburban, semi-rural habitat which was increasingly spoiled in the 16th and 17th centuries by unrestricted dumping of refuse and cess. A wide variety of finds was recovered, indicative of both domestic and industrial occupation and use. This range was dominated by a large group of well-preserved late medieval leather shoes. The Far Gosford Street excavations revealed evidence for some 800 years of human activity. The earliest remains comprised a solid timber post, possibly related to a bridge over the River Sherbourne, for which tree-ring dating established a felling date of 1162-1212. A frontage was first occupied in the early 14th century when buildings were laid out along the street. A hoard of silver pennies found buried beneath the floor of one of the buildings probably represents the savings of one of the street’s earliest residents. These structures were replaced in the first half of the 15th century, probably at the same time as the city wall was built a short distance to the west. A second medieval frontage lasted until 1643 when it was again dismantled during the Civil War. Entrenchments dating to this period were also excavated. In the 18th century a third frontage was built, replaced in the 19th century and finally demolished to make way for Singer Motors car showroom after they acquired the site in 1926.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Historical background; 3. Archaeological background; 4. Hill Street and Upper Well Street excavations; 5. Finds and environmental evidence from Hill Street and Upper Well Street; 6. Far Gosford Street excavations; 7. Finds and environmental evidence from Far Gosford Street; 8. Discussion; Bibliography
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Archaeopress Saxa loquuntur: Roman Epitaphs from North-Western
Book SynopsisThis book examines Roman funerary material from three Roman cities of the south-western regions of the Roman province of Pannonia (modern-day north-western Croatia): Andautonia (Ščitarjevo near Zagreb), Siscia (Sisak), and Aquae Balissae (Daruvar). The material chosen reflects the potential of Roman funerary monuments and gravestones for gaining an insight into the historical, social and psychological aspects of Roman provincial society. It enables a perception of the gradual development of the Romano-Pannonian milieu from the 1st to the 4th centuries in its various social aspects: civilian, military, and religious. Within this frame, the focus is on the interaction between the individual and the community as reflected in monologues or even dialogues between the deceased and the living, conveyed through epitaphs and depictions. The deceased more often than not strove to represent themselves on their monuments in a ‘wished-for’ rather than a realistic manner. All of the examples illustrated here reflect in one way or another the Roman obsession with the eternal preservation of the deceased’s memory. This volume is one of the ‘deliverables’ (dissemination of the results prevalently among the non-professional readers) of the project entitled: Roman funerary monuments of south-western Pannonia in their material, social, and religious context (IP-2014-09-4632), headed by B. Migotti. Its publication was partly supported by the Croatian Science Foundation.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Trade and war; 2. Prospects for veterans; 3. The Pannonian military ‘elite’; 4. Centenarians; 5. Slaves; 6. ‘The world of women’ – the Roman woman between self-confidence and patriarchy; 6. ‘The world of women’; 7. Death and mythology; 8. From myth to Christianity; Epilogue; Uvod; 1. Trgovina i rat; 2. Veterani i njihove sudbine; 3. Panonska vojnička „elita“; 4. Stogodišnjaci; 5. Robovi; 6. „Ženski svijet“ – rimska žena izmedu samosvijesti i patrijarhata; 7. Smrt i mitologija; 8. Od mita prema kršćanstvu; Epilog; A selected bibliography / Kratak izbor iz korištene literature; Sources of Images / Izvor ilustracija
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Archaeopress Due antiche diocesi dello stretto di Messina:
Book SynopsisThis monograph is a comparative study of the Saline area and of the Aeolian Islands dioceses’ settlement in Late Antiquity and in the Early Middle ages. Both regions overlook the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily. The Saline area is located in Southern Tyrrhenian Calabria, and in the Middle Ages it is mentioned as an “Eparchy”, a Byzantine administrative division. The Aeolian archipelago is in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the North-Eastern coast of Sicily. It includes seven islands, the biggest of which is Lipari. The aim of the book is to reconstruct the settlement layout of these areas in an historical period that has been studied relatively little in Southern Italy. The settlement reconstruction was carried out by examining topographical features, patterns and dynamics, material culture, degree of continuity and discontinuity – especially compared to the Roman habitat – as well as agricultural and manufacturing systems and the road network.Table of ContentsIntroduzione; Parte I – Fonti e inquadramento delle aree; Realtà geografica e fonti scritte. Le Saline; Realtà geografica e fonti scritte. Le Eolie; L’organizzazione episcopale nelle Saline e nelle Eolie tra Tardoantico e alto Medioevo; Viabilità di terra e di mare; Produzione e infrastrutture; Parte II – Elementi insediativi; Centri urbani e città episcopali. Topografia e manufatti. Le Saline; Centri urbani e città episcopali. Topografia e manufatti. Le Eolie; Insediamento rurale. Le Saline; Insediamento rurale. Le Eolie; Insediamento monastico. Le Saline; Insediamento monastico. Le Eolie; Parte III – Elementi conclusivi; Bibliografia; Abstract
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Archaeopress Interpreting the Seventh Century BC: Tradition
Book SynopsisThis book has its origin in a conference held at the British School at Athens in 2011 which aimed to explore the range of new archaeological information now available for the seventh century in Greek lands. It presents material data, combining accounts of recent discoveries (which often enable reinterpretation of older finds), regional reviews, and archaeologically focused critique of historical and art historical approaches and interpretations. The aim is to make readily accessible the material record as currently understood and to consider how it may contribute to broader critiques and new directions in research. The geographical focus is the old Greek world encompassing Macedonia and Ionia, and extending across to Sicily and southern Italy, considering also the wider trade circuits linking regional markets. The book does not aim for the pan- Mediterranean coverage of recent works: given that much of the latest innovative and critical scholarship has focused on the western Mediterranean in particular, it is necessary to bring old Greece back under the spotlight and to expose to critical scrutiny the often Athenocentric interpretative frameworks which continue to inform discussion of other parts of the Mediterranean.Table of ContentsEditors’ Preface ; Notes on Contributors ; 1. Introduction: interpreting the seventh century BC (Xenia Charalambidou and Catherine Morgan) ; 2. Introduction: can one speak of the seventh century BC? (Roland Étienne) ; 3. Ceramics, analytical scales and cultural histories of seventh-century Crete (Antonis Kotsonas) ; 4. The birthplace of Greek monumental sculpture revisited (Georgia Kokkorou-Alevras) ; 5. On women and on lions (Eva Simantoni-Bournia) ; 6. Greek art in the seventh century BC: the example of bronzes from Delphi (Hélène Aurigny) ; 7. Al Mina and changing patterns of trade: the evidence from the eastern Mediterranean (Alexander Vacek) ; 8. Cypriot evidence in seventh-century Rhodes: discontinuity or change? (Giorgos Bourogiannis) ; 9. Faience in seventh-century Greece: egyptianizing ‘bric a brac’ or a useful paradigm for relations with Egypt? (Virginia Webb) [Open Access: Download] ; 10. A sea of luxury: luxury items and dyes of marine origin in the Aegean during the seventh century BC (Tatiana Theodoropoulou) ; 11. Coarse, plain and cooking ware: seventh-century innovation for old-fashioned pots (Jean-Sébastien Gros) ; 12. East Greek pottery workshops in the seventh century BC: tracing regional styles (Michael Kerschner) ; 13. Old Smyrna: a window onto the seventh-century painted wares from the Anglo-Turkish excavations (1948-1951) (Stavros A. Paspalas) ; 14. Euboea and the Euboean Gulf region: pottery in context (Xenia Charalambidou) ; 15. Parian ceramics of the seventh century BC in Cycladic cemeteries and sanctuaries (Photini Zaphiropoulou) ; 16. Beyond Athens and Corinth. Pottery distribution in the seventh-century Aegean: the case of Kythnos (Maria Koutsoumpou) ; 17. Conservatism versus innovation: architectural forms in early Archaic Greece (Alexander Mazarakis Ainian) ; 18. Fortifications in the seventh century. Where and why? (Rune Frederiksen) ; 19. Corinthian sanctuaries and the question of cult buildings (Catherine Morgan) ; 20. Achaian interaction and mobility in the area of the Corinthian gulf during the seventh century BC (Anastasia Gadolou) ; 21. The sanctuaries of Herakles and Apollo Ismenios at Thebes: new evidence (Vassilis Aravantinos) ; 22. A group of small vases with Subgeometric – early Archaic decoration from the sanctuary of Herakles at Thebes (Kyriaki Kalliga) ; 23. Cult in Attica. The case of the sanctuary of Artemis Mounichia (Lydia Palaiokrassa-Kopitsa) ; 24. Athenian burial practices and cultural change: the Rundbau early plot in the Kerameikos cemetery revisited (Anna Maria D’Onofrio) ; 25. Special burial treatment for the ‘heroized’ dead in the Attic countryside. The case of the elite cemetery of Vari (Alexandra Alexandridou) ; 26. Cumae in Campania during the seventh century BC (Matteo D’Acunto) ; 27. Cultural dynamics in the seventh-century Sibaritide (southern Italy) (Jan Kindberg Jacobsen, Sine Grove Saxkjær and Gloria Paola Mittica) ; 28. From innovation to tradition: seventh-century Sicily (Gillian Shepherd) ; 29. An early orientalizing spouted krater from Naxos on Sicily (Maria Costanza Lentini) ; 30. The city of Mende during the late eighth and seventh centuries BC (Sophia Moschonissioti) ; 31. Panhellenes at Methone, Pieria (c. 700 BC): new inscriptions, graffiti/dipinti, and (trade)marks (Yannis Tzifopoulos, Manthos Bessios and Antonis Kotsonas) ; 32. Frontiers in seventh-century epigraphy: aspects of diffusion and consolidation (Alan Johnston) ; 33. Skilled in the Muses’ lovely gifts: lyric poetry and the rise of the community in the seventh-century Aegean (Jan Paul Crielaard)
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Archaeopress The Archaeology of Kenilworth Castle’s
Book SynopsisAs part of the Property Development Programme for Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire, English Heritage created an ambitious reconstruction of the Elizabethan garden which formerly stood on the north side of the castle keep. In order to achieve a reliable representation of the original garden, a programme of archaeological trenching, open area excavation and watching brief was carried out by Northamptonshire Archaeology (now MOLA) from 2004 to 2008. This report discusses the results of the excavations which uncovered for the first time the foundation and culverts of an octagonal fountain basin, described by Robert Langham in a contemporary letter relating to Queen Elizabeth I’s visit in 1575. The results of the excavation also clarified to some extent the original dimensions of the garden and the foundation level upon which the fine surfacing detail would have been applied. Contributions to understanding the geometry of the garden’s architectural features are made by the identification of a series of rubble-and-mortar-filled pits, which probably formed bases for plinths for structures or other structural elements. The terrace which formed a viewing promenade over the garden was shown to have undergone substantial alteration. The impact of Civil War defences and slighting on the north of the keep and outer bailey wall were investigated. Following this, the area was subsequently cultivated as a kitchen garden and orchard from at least the beginning of the eighteenth century. Twentieth-century activity included consolidation of the castle fabric, the construction of paths and the remodelling of the terrace, and the remains of an ornamental knotwork garden created in 1975. The archaeology of the garden and its surroundings are discussed from the remnants of medieval features through to the present day.Trade ReviewThis volume is a worthy edition to the field of garden archaeology and will be a valuable source for those tasked with similar projects. Inevitably it will be overshadowed by its glossy sibling, but here we have the detail and here we have the archaeology. -- Jonathan Finch * Medieval Archaeology *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. Background ; 3. Aims, Objectives and Methodology ; The Excavated Evidence ; 4. The medieval castle (1120-1563) ; 5. The Elizabethan garden (1563-1605) ; 6. Seventeenth-century developments and subsequent slighting (1605-1650) ; 7. Late seventeenth-century abandonment and the later orchard and kitchen garden ; The finds, faunal and environmental evidence ; 8. The pottery ; 9. Other finds ; 10. Ceramic building materials ; 11. The worked stone ; 12. The animal bones ; 13. Environmental evidence ; 14. Conclusions ; Bibliography
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Archaeopress Continuity and Change in Etruscan Domestic
Book SynopsisEtruscan architecture underwent various changes between the later Iron Age and the Archaic period (c. 800-500 BC), as seen in the evidence from several sites. These changes affected the design and style of domestic architecture as well as the use of raw materials and construction techniques. However, based on a supposed linear progression from inferior to superior building materials, explanations and interpretations often portray an architectural transition in Etruria from ‘prehistoric’ to ‘historic’ building types. This perspective has encouraged a rather deterministic, overly simplified and inequitable view of the causes of change in which the replacement of traditional materials with new ones is thought to have been the main factor. This book aims to reconsider the nature of architectural changes in this period by focussing on the building materials and techniques used in the construction of domestic structures. Through a process of identification and interpretation using comparative analysis and an approach based on the chaîne opératoire perspective, changes in building materials and techniques are examined, with special reference to four key sites: San Giovenale, Acquarossa, Poggio Civitate (Murlo) and Lago dell’Accesa. It is argued that changes occurred in neither a synchronous nor a linear way, but separately and at irregular intervals. In this monograph, they are interpreted as resulting mainly from multigenerational habitual changes, reflecting the relationship between human behaviour and the built and natural environments, rather than choices between old and new materials. Moreover, despite some innovations, certain traditional building techniques and their associated materials continued into the Archaic period, indicating that Etruscan domestic architecture did not undergo a complete transformation, as sometimes asserted or implied in other works. This study of building techniques and materials, while not rejecting the widely held view of a significant Etruscan architectural transition, argues for a more nuanced reading of the evidence and greater recognition of the nature of behavioural change during the period in question.Table of ContentsAbstract; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Theory, methods and a review of the literature; Chapter 3: The foundations of early Etruscan buildings, 800-625 BC; Chapter 4: The foundations of Orientalising and early Archaic period Etruscan buildings, 625-500 BC; Chapter 5: The walls and roofs of Etruscan domestic structures, 800-500 BC; Chapter 6: Material Procurement, Production and Use; Chapter 7: Conclusions; Glossary; Bibliography
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Archaeopress Egypt 2015: Perspectives of Research: Proceedings
Book SynopsisThe Seventh Central European Conference of Egyptologists. Egypt 2015: Perspectives of Research (CECE7) was held at the University of Zagreb in Croatia in 2015. It was co-organised by two scholarly institutions: the Department of History at the Centre for Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb, Croatia (Dr Mladen Tomorad), and the Department of Ancient Cultures of the Pułtusk Academy of Humanities in Pułtusk, Poland (Dr Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska). This book presents a selection of papers which were read at the conference. The volume is divided into six sections in which thirty-two scholars from fourteen European countries cover various fields of modern Egyptological research. The first group of five papers is devoted to language, literature and religious texts; in the second section three authors describe various themes related to art, iconography and architectural studies; the third group contains four contributions on current funerary and burial studies; in the fourth (largest) section, ten authors present their recent research on material culture and museum studies; the fifth is concerned with the history of Ancient Egypt; and in the last (sixth), two authors examine modern Egyptomania and the 19th century travellers to Egypt.Table of ContentsPreface ; Section 1: Language, Literature and Religious Texts ; Time(s) in Ancient Egyptian: Perspectives of a Broad Lexical Study. The Case of dwA.t and dwA (Gaëlle Chantrain) ; Nu, Continuity and Everlastingness in the Pyramid Texts (Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska) ; ‘Children of Weakness’ in the Book of Gates (Mykola Tarasenko) ; Is There an Egyptian Hero? – the Contributions of Mythological and Literary Studies to an Egyptological Subject (Bárbara Botelho Rodrigues) ; The Study of Sacred Space in Ancient Egypt: an Example of Interaction Between Egyptology and Other Fields of Knowledge (Guilherme Borges Pires) ; Section 2: Art, Iconography and Architecture Studies ; An Examination and Analysis of the Role of the Iconographic Rosette Motif in the Egyptian Artistic Repertoire: a Case Study (Cheryl Hart) ; A Note on the Late Middle Kingdom Stelae ‘Workshop’ at Thebes (Danijela Stefanović) ; Domestic Architecture and Daily Life in Meroitic Nubia (Marco Baldi) ; Section 3: Funerary and Burial Studies ; The Earliest Source of the So-called Book of Two Ways as a Coffin Floorboard Decoration from the Early Middle Kingdom (Wael Sherbiny) ; Egyptian Coffins at the Fitzwilliam Museum: a Case Study in Collection Formation (Helen Strudwick) ; The History of the Main Burial Shaft of Theban Tomb 99 from 1450 BC to the Present Day (Nigel Strudwick) ; Provenancing Roman Period Mummy Masks: Workshop Groups and Distribution Areas (Asja Müller) ; Section 4: Material Culture and Museum Studies ; The Decorated Pottery from Proto- and Early Dynastic Periods at Tell el-Farkha (Western Kom), Egypt (Magdalena Sobas) ; The Sunshade after the Old Kingdom – Female Attribute with Hathoric Connotation? (Lubica Hudáková) ; Settlement Pottery from the Old Kingdom Period at Tell El-Murra Trench T5 (Magdalena Kazimierczak) ; Some Ramesside Appropriations of Ancient Memphis (Steven Snape) ; A Stelophorous Statuette from the National Archaeological Museum of Athens: an Adorer Offering a Hymn–Stele to the Solar God Rē‛ [aiγ Λ 108] (Alicia Maravelia) ; The Cult of Bastet during the First Millennium BC: some Bronzes from the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest (Maria Diletta Pubblico) ; Shabtis from the Museum and Private Collections in Croatia: Dating and Typological Study (Mladen Tomorad) ; Shabtis and Pseudo-Shabtis from the Roman Provinces of Pannonia, Dacia and Moesia. An Overview (Dan-Augustin Deac) ; The Egyptian Collection at the Civico Museo di Storia ed Arte of Trieste: its History and Some Highlights (Susanna Moser) ; Excavating an Archive. The Borgia Collection of Egyptian Antiquities in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN) (Stefania Mainieri) ; Section 5: Historical Studies ; The Neolithic Period in Lower Egypt – Research Problems and Priorities (Agnieszka Mączyńska) ; Meret-Neith: in the Footsteps of the First Woman Pharaoh in History (Jean-Pierre Pätznick) ; Regional Administration in Late Middle Kingdom Egypt (Alexander Ilin-Tomich) ; Enemies Hanged Upside (Head) Down (Uroš Matić) ; Egypt and the Southern Levant Nomadic Populations: the Dynamics of Relations During Late Bronze/Early Iron Age (Eva Katarina Glazer) ; Section 6: Egyptomania and Modern Travellers to Egypt ; Wonderful Things: Thematic Transmission in Egyptian Revival Jewellery (Joyce Tyldesley) ; Eight Years Following the Traces of Giuseppe and Amalia Nizzoli: Preliminary Results of the Nizzoli Project (Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo and Irene Guidotti)
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Archaeopress Greek Art: From Oxford to Portugal and Back Again
Book SynopsisOne of the most fascinating topics in the study of ancient art concerns artistic practices and models and the means of transmission of iconographic designs and decorative compositions. This phenomenon, although well known, has not drawn much attention of scholars of the ancient art. Apart from copies of originals, the practice dates back to the first civilizations and may be even older. The media used could be painted vignettes on papyri, paint on leather, or sketches painted on ostraca, used as pattern books. This issue is practically unheard of regarding ancient Greece, although a few media have been found which may have facilitated the transmission of iconographic designs and decorative compositions. In this study we present some examples that suggest the existence of pattern books in the Greek world. If the media used in the Greek world are insofar unknown, the same cannot be said of the Roman world. Written sources mention the existence of manuals in the form of papyrus scrolls (stemmata, imagines) which served as models as well as inspiration for the artists.Table of ContentsForeword by Delfim Leão: Maria Helena da Rocha-Pereira: the Suitable Kairos Back Again; The Transmission of Iconographic Designs and Decorative Compositions: ; 1. Prolegomena; 2. The Transmission of Iconographic Designs and Decorative Compositions in the Greek World; 3. Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio; 4. Case Studies; Bibliography
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Archaeopress The Beau Street, Bath Hoard
Book SynopsisThe Beau Street Hoard is one of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries ever to be made in Bath: the Roman town of Aquae Sulis. The discovery captured the public imagination and it became the focus for a major scientific investigation and a significant learning and public engagement programme. Carefully excavated by professional archaeologists the hoard was recovered intact and removed to the British Museum for more detailed examination and study. It was found to have been deposited in a cist in at least eight bags. Micro-investigation of the hoard in a conservation laboratory and further scientific analysis revealed more fascinating details and information reported on here. The Beau Street, Bath Hoard provides a thorough and complete publication and analysis of the hoard, which is one of the largest yet found in a Roman town in Britain. The high quality of the recovery and investigation process means that it makes a significant contribution to both archaeological and numismatic studies.Table of ContentsForeword and Acknowledgments ; Beau Street, Bath: Overview – Richard Abdy ; The Beau Street Hoard: A Summary Account of the Archaeological Context – Mark Corney ; The Composition of the Hoard – Benedict Sayers ; Laboratory Excavation and Conservation – Julia Tubman ; A Third Century Crisis? The Composition and Metallurgy of Roman Silver Coinage; Septimius Severus to Valerian and Gallienus – Kevin Butcher and Matthew Ponting ; Catalogue of the Bags – Benedict Sayers, with Richard Abdy, Verity Anthony, Eleanor Ghey and Rachel Wilkinson ; Bag 1 ; Bag 2 ; Bag 3 ; Bag 4 ; Bag 5 ; Bag 6 ; Bag 7 ; Bag 8 ; Loose Coins ; Plate Concordance ; Plates
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Archaeopress Birds, Beasts and Burials: A study of the
Book SynopsisThe human-animal relationship is one that has been pondered by scholars for ages. It has been used to define both what it means to be human and what it means to be animal. Birds, Beasts and Burials examines human-animal relationships as found in the mortuary record within the area of Verulamium that is now situated in the modern town of St. Albans. Once considered a major centre, the mortuary rites given to its people suggest high variabilities in the approach to the personhood of certain classes of both people and animals. While 480 human individuals were examined, only a small percentage was found to have been afforded the rite of a human-animal co-burial. It is this small percentage that is examined in greater detail. Of major concern are the treatments to both the human and animal pre- and post- burial and the point at which the animal enters into the funerary practice.Table of ContentsChapter One: Animals and Their Fuzzy Role in Death ; Chapter Two: Challenging Burial Interpretations - A Theoretical Approach ; Chapter Three: Sites of St. Albans ; Chapter Four: Approaching the Skeletal Data ; Chapter Five: Examination of Burial Practices ; Chapter Six: Animals in the Romano-British Period ; Chapter Seven: The Death of a Roman or non-Roman ; Chapter Eight: Objects and Their Role in Romano-British Burials ; Chapter Nine: Animals and Evidence (or Lack Thereof) for Mortuary Feasting ; Chapter Ten: Comparing Human - Animal Relationships in Life and Death ; Chapter Eleven: Theoretical Conclusions ; Chapter Twelve: Furthering the Field with Osteological Data ; Appendix A1: Ageing Criteria for Mammals ; Appendix A2: Background Site Research ; Appendix A3: Site Referencing ; Appendix A4: Raw Data Final Thesis ; Appendix A5: Faunal Remains Photo Catalogue
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Archaeopress New Perspectives on the Bronze Age: Proceedings
Book SynopsisThe Nordic Bronze Age Symposium began modestly in 1977 with 13 participants, and has now expanded to over 120 participants: a tenfold increase that reflects the expanding role of Bronze Age research in Scandinavia, not least amongst younger researchers. From having taken a back seat in the 1970s, it is now in the driver’s seat in terms of expanding research themes, publications and international impact. This collection of articles helps to explain why the Bronze Age has come to hold such a fascination within modern archaeological research. By providing new theoretical and analytical perspectives on the evidence new interpretative avenues have opened, it situates the history of the Bronze Age in both a local and a global setting.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Sophie Bergerbrant and Kristian Kristiansen) ; New perspectives on Nordic Bronze Age graves (Kristian Kristiansen) ; Mjeltehaugen: Europe’s northernmost Bell Beaker expression? (Anette Sand-Eriksen) ; Bronze Age burials in megalithic graves in Falbygden (Malou Blank) ; Identifying commoners in the Early Bronze Age: burials outside barrows (Sophie Bergerbrant, Kristian Kristiansen, Morten E. Allentoft, Karin M. Frei, T. Douglas Price, Karl-Göran Sjögren and Anna Tornberg) ; Visible ships were the graves of Bronze Age ritual specialists (Gisela Ängeby) ; From bird wings to fool’s gold. Organic materials and stone from burials of the Late Bronze Age (Karen Margrethe Hornstrup) ; Craft and materials in the Bronze Age (Nils Anfinset) ; On the behaviour of potters and metalworkers at the Narkūnai hillfort (Vytenis Podėnas and Evaldas Babenskas) ; Castelluccio painted pottery: shared repertoires and local identity: A case study from Early Bronze Age Sicily (Valentina Copat, Annalisa Costa and Paola Piccione) ; Bronze Age metal workshops in Denmark between 1500–1300 BC: elite-controlled craft on Zealand (Heide Wrobel Nørgaard) [Open Access: Download] ; Bronze casting specialists during the Late Bronze Age in the Lake Mälaren region of East Middle Sweden (Reidar Magnusson) ; Crafts and resources — western Norway in the Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age (Nils Anfinset) ; New currents in Scandinavian Bronze Age settlement and landscape archaeology (Mette Løvschal and Kristian Brink) ; Time warps and long-term structures: images of Early Bronze Age landscape organisation in south-west Denmark (Marianne Rasmussen) ; Settlements, political economy and social organisation: a study from the Únětice Circumharz Region (Claes Uhnér) ; Continuity and change in settlement from LN II to EBA II. New results from a southern Jutland inland region (Martin Egelund Poulsen) ; Tanum 1821 — Examining cooking pits in landscape studies (Stig Swedberg, Annika Östlund and Oscar Jacobsson) ; Introduction to the rock art session at the 13th Nordic Bronze Age symposium (Johan Ling) ; ‘It’s a man’s world’? Sex and gender in Scandinavian Bronze Age rock art (Christian Horn) ; Carved ship images from the Bronze Age barrows of north-eastern Zealand: on the trail of Bronze Age farmerfishers and seafarers (Liv Appel) ; Materiella bilder: Visuella uttryck bland Mälarvikens hällbilder (Fredrik Fahlander) ; Re-cut rock art images (with a special emphasis on ship carvings) (Gerhard Milstreu) ; The Kivik tomb: Bredarör enters into the digital arena — documented with OLS, SfM and RTI (Ulf Bertilsson, Johan Ling, Catarina Bertilsson, Rich Potter and Christian Horn) ; The northern perspective 2000 BC – AD 1 (Marianne Skandfer and Joakim Wehlin) ; Textiles from the peripheries? Upland evidence from Norway (Christopher Prescott and Lene Melheim) ; Stone Age appearances in the south-eastern Arctic Bronze Age (Jarkko Saipio) ; Different Bronze Ages — the emergence of diverging cultural traditions in the southern inland, Norway (Hilde Rigmor Amundsen) ; Nordic-Mediterranean relations in the second millennium BC (Serena Sabatini and Lene Melheim) ; The wheel and the sun: ‘Glocal’ symbologies of wheel-pendants across Europe (Sara De Angelis and Maja Gori¹) ; Danish beads of Egyptian and Mesopotamian glass in context, and the amber connection (Flemming Kaul and Jeanette Varberg) ; Mortuary rituals at Mycenaean Dendra: the Baltic connection and the role of amber (Ann-Louise Schallin) ; The North from the perspective of the Greek mainland in the Late Bronze Age (Helène Whittaker) ; Identity, individuals and agency in the Bronze Age (Sophie Bergerbrant) ; Communicating identity through built space — Concise-sous-Colachoz (CH), a case study (Markus Spring) ; Tracing boundaries of local group identities in the Early Bronze Age — south-west Norway (Knut Ivar Austvoll) ; Intentionally made: objects as composite indexes of agency and the case of the Late Bronze Age house urns (Serena Sabatini)
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Archaeopress Bronze Age Monuments and Bronze Age, Iron Age,
Book SynopsisOpen area excavation on 14.45ha of land at Cambridge Road, Bedford was carried out in 2004-5 in advance of development. A background scatter of Early Neolithic flint, including a Langdale stone axe, may be related to the nearby presence of the Cardington causewayed enclosure. Two Early Bronze Age ring ditches sat on a low lying gravel ridge between the River Great Ouse and the Elstow Brook. A causewayed ring ditch, 30m in diameter, had a broad entrance to the southwest, where a shallow length of ditch either silted or had been filled in. Adjacent to the shallow ditch was a pit containing three crouched burials, probably in an oak-lined chamber, radiocarbon dated to the early Middle Bronze Age. A nearby small round barrow enclosed a deep central grave containing the crouched burial of a woman, probably within an oak-lined chamber. An L-shaped ditch to the east, radiocarbon dated to the Middle to Late Bronze transition, may have been the final feature of the monument group. It parallels the addition of L-shaped ditches/pit alignments at other contemporary ring ditch monuments. Shallow linear ditches formed a land boundary extending north and south from the Bronze Age ring ditch, and other contemporary ditches were remnants of a rectilinear field system, contemporary with a scatter of irregular pits and a waterhole. This phase came to an end at the Late Bronze Age/ Early Iron Age transition, when a large assemblage of decorated pottery was dumped in the final fills of the waterhole. By the Middle Iron Age there was a new linear boundary, comprising three near parallel ditches, aligned north-south; a rectangular enclosure and a complex of intercut pits. The pottery assemblage was sparse, but the upper fills of both the deepest linear boundary ditch and the pit complex contained some Roman pottery. To the south-east an extensive Romano-British ladder settlement is dated to the 1st to 4th centuries AD. Only the northern fringe lay within the excavated area, comprising successive boundary ditches, along with pits, a stone-lined well, an inhumation burial and animal burials. In the early Anglo-Saxon period (5th-6th centuries AD), there was a loose cluster of three sunken featured buildings with another to the south. In the middle Saxon period (8th-9th centuries AD) a small rectangular mausoleum contained a single inhumation burial, with a second inhumation to the immediate west. Subsequent land use comprised truncated furrows of the medieval ridge and furrow field cultivation and post-medieval quarry pits.Table of ContentsSummary; 1. Introduction; 2. The Bronze Age Monument Complex; 3. Middle/Late Bronze Age to Iron Age settlement; 4. The Roman Settlement; 5. The Anglo-Saxon settlement; 6. Medieval to Modern; 7. Discussion by Andy Chapman; Bibliography
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Archaeopress Arqueología urbana en el área central de la
Book SynopsisThis work is part of a line of action proposed by the Institute of Anthropology of Córdoba (IDACOR), doubly dependent executing unit of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and the National University of Cordoba (UNC). This action requires the intervention of professional archaeologists in order to evaluate the impact produced by subsurface excavation in cases related to the development of real estate projects. Within this framework, in February 2014, there was the need to implement an archeological impact study on land under cadastral nomenclature 04-04-020-023 in the city of Cordoba, Argentina. The study was conducted in two instances. The first took place between the months of April and June 2014, consisting of various actions related to the systematic archaeological excavation, registration, conservation and interpretation of material culture recovered in depths between the surface and about 2.5 / 3m deep. The second stage, implemented between February and August 2015, consisted of the monitoring of the excavation while using heavy machinery allowed archaeologists to reach greater depths. The results of these tasks were submitted to the local authorities in five partial reports presented collectively here in order to have all the information available in one volume. As a result of the excavations it was possible to retrieve information about land use in the last two hundred years. Previous occupations have been masked or destroyed mostly by architectural interventions in the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth century. However more than 30,000 objects recovered during the archaeological project help us to interpret the life of the people who inhabited these spaces, as well as local and international production and trade networks where they were integrated. Along with this, it was possible to recover significant portions of architectural structures that probably correspond to the eighteenth century, being the oldest constructive feature found on the parcel. This action, perhaps the most difficult due to the sheer scale of the objects, allowed the implementation of a novel technique for the recovery of archaeological objects in the city of Córdoba.Table of Contents1. Resumen / Abstract ; 2. Agradecimientos ; 3. Introducción: el patrimonio arqueológico y los estudios de impacto en la provincia de Córdoba ; 4. Metodología de trabajo: campo y laboratorio ; 5. Excavaciones arqueológicas en el Lote 2 ; 6. Excavaciones arqueológicas en el Lote 3 ; 7. Excavaciones arqueológicas en el Lote 9 ; 8. Excavaciones arqueológicas en el Lote 11 ; 9. Excavaciones arqueológicas en el Lote 12 ; 10. Excavaciones arqueológicas en los Lotes 13-14 ; 11. Excavaciones arqueológicas en el Lote 18 ; 12. Recuperación de muro histórico ; 13. Bibliografía
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Archaeopress Le guerrier, le chat, l’aigle, le poisson et la
Book SynopsisThe Phaistos Disc is one of the most studied documents of Minoan civilization, enticing scholars and simple enthusiasts with the mysterious aura that envelops it and with its singularity among Minoan scriptures. It has entered the collective imagination, both at academic and popular levels. Archaeologists digging at Phaistos are often asked ‘Where was the Disc found?’ Representations of the Disc can be found abundantly in popular culture, from appearances in Mickey Mouse comics to props amidst the curios on the tables of television magicians. It is this very overexposure that risks undermining the understanding of an object that is, first and foremost, an archaeological artefact found in a chronological and cultural context. Much has been said and much has been written about the Disc. Collet brings a new approach. It is not a deciphering but an interpretation, a depiction of the Minoan Weltanschauung through the symbols on the Disc and their connections with reality. This begins with the spiral-shaped construction of the inscription and its possible temporal allusions, and moves on to a structuralist view of use of the signs, in which the repetitions take on almost ritual significance. Hence it is a pictorial interpretation rather than syllabic, whereby the pictograph is not intended as a rigid reproduction of logical discourse, but rather a path.Table of ContentsPremessa /Foreword (Pietro Militello); I. Du pouvoir des signes comme entités relationnelles; II. La spirale et le ruban des signes; III. Le bricolage inconscient et savant des séquences de signes pictogrammes; IV. La voie des pictogrammes; V. De L’analyse des atomes de signification à celle des groupements de signes; VI. Engouement- enjouement pour une spirale de signes; Bibliographie; Abstract (English); Liste des figures et des tableaux; Figures et Tableaux; Excursus: De la sémiologie à de nouveaux questionnement archéologiques; Retour sur quelques signes, remarques techniques et archéologiques sur le Disque de Phaistos; Destructions naturelles et ripostes rituelles; Bibliographie complémentaire; Serge Collet (Pietro Militello)
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Archaeopress Excavations at the Mycenaean Cemetery at Aigion –
Book SynopsisIn this monograph the authors present the finds of four Mycenaean chamber tombs, from the rescue excavation of Ephor Mastrokostas at Aigion in 1967. Unfortunately, no diary or any other information, regarding the architecture or the burial customs, was found. However, it is highly possible that they were similar to eleven tombs which were systematically excavated by Papadopoulos in 1970. In contrast with them, the four tombs produced a much greater number of finds, indicating richer burials. Furthermore, some of these finds are unique (e.g. “thronos”-straight-sided alabastron with unusual paneled decoration), rare (e.g. askoi) and exceptional (e.g. cylindrical stirrup jars) in the Achaean Mycenaean ceramic repertory, while the total absence of terracotta figurines as well as the rarity of small objects is surprising. Taken together the excavated tombs make a total of 15, but the actual number may be greater. It is noteworthy that the material is stylistically different and generally earlier from that of western Achaea. The supplementary information, provided by this publication, strengthens the evidence that this important Achaean cemetery was used for a long time (LHII-IIIC) and that the inhabitants had connections with the Argolid as well as with other areas to the east, especially with the Dodecanese.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Tombs and Their Contents; Catalogue – Description of Finds; Tomb A; Tomb B; Tomb C (3); Tomb D (4); Unprovenanced Tomb; Commentary on The Finds; General Comments and Conclusions; Bibliography; Plates and Figures
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Archaeopress Palaeolithic Pioneers: Behaviour, abilities, and
Book SynopsisArchaic humans were present for over a million years in western Mediterranean Europe where they left very many traces of their early stone-age activities and behaviour, and sometimes even human skeletal remains. This book evaluates archaeological findings about their life-ways at many important sites in Italy, southern France, and Spain, from the earliest ones 1,300,000 years ago, to those of Neanderthals fifty-thousand years ago, just before they were superseded by skeletally-“modern” humans. The cognitive and manual skills of archaic humans in western Mediterranean Europe are considered in the Pleistocene contexts of major climatic fluctuations and changing environmental circumstances. The book focusses on their remarkable capacity to adapt, frequently reinvent themselves, and persist for long periods of time, even though finally they did not endure. Their achievements and abilities withstand comparison to those of ancient humans in Africa or Asia during Early, Middle, and early Late Pleistocene times.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. Significant Matters of Quaternary Early Human Palaeobiology; 4. Early Homo: Life-History, Stone artifacts, Stone tools, Dispersal; 5. Evidence from southern Europe before the Jaramillo sub-chron; 6. Humans in southwestern Europe between the Jatamillo sub-chron and the Matuyama-Brunhes boundary; 7. After the Matuyama-Brunhes boundary: the Early Middle Pleistocene in western Mediterranean Europe; 8. The later Middle Pleistocene and onset of the early Late Pleistocene in western Mediterranean Europe; 9. Problems of MIS-4 and MIS-3; 10. Whatever happened to…?; 11. References
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Archaeopress Kratos & Krater: Reconstructing an Athenian
Book SynopsisAthenian governance and culture are reconstructed from the Bronze Age into the historical era based on traditions, archaeological contexts and remains, foremost the formal commensal and libation krater. Following Mycenaean immigration from the Peloponnesos during the transitional years, changes in governance are observable. Groups under aristocratic leadership, local and immigrant, aspired to coexist under a surprisingly formal set of stipulations that should be recognized as Athens’ first constitution. Synoikismos did not refer to a political union of Attica, sometimes attributed to Theseus, but to a union of aristocratic houses (oikoi). The union replaced absolute monarchy with a new oligarchical-monarchy system, each king selected from one of the favoured aristocratic houses and ruling for life without inheritance. The system prevailed through the late eleventh to the mid-eighth c. and is corroborated by Athenian traditions cross-referenced with archaeological data from the burial grounds, and a formerly discredited list of Athenian Iron Age kings. Some burial grounds have been tentatively identified as those of the Melanthids, Alcmeonids, Philaids and Medontids, who settled the outskirts of Athens along with other migrant groups following the decline of the elite in the Peloponnesos. While the Melanthids left during the 11th c. Ionian Migration other aristocratic houses remained and contributed to the evolution of the historical era polis of Athens. One noble family, the Alcmeonids preserved their cemetery into the Archaic period in a burial record of 600 years’ duration. Incorporated into this work is a monograph on the Athenian formal krater used by these primarily Neleid aristocratic houses in assembly and ritual. Some Homeric practices parallel those found in Athens, so the Ionic poets may have documented customs that had existed on the Mainland and were transferred to Ionia during the Ionian Migration. The demise of both the constitution and the standard, ancestral krater in Athens following a mid-eighth c. watershed is testimony to an interval of political change, as noted by Ian Morris, before the systematized establishment of annual archonship in the following century. The support this research has given to the validity of the King List has resulted in a proposed new chronology, with an earlier onset for the Geometric period at 922 BC, rather than the currently accepted 900 BC. The relative chronology of Coldstream based on style is generally accepted here, but some intermediate stages are revised based on perceptible break data, such as the onset of a new kingship, a reported war, or the demise of a governance system.Table of ContentsForeword; Terms & Abbreviations; Chapter I Kratos & Krater – Introduction & Summary; Chapter II The Bronze Age Antecedents; Chapter III The Kratos of the Transitional Era; Chapter IV The Kratos of the Iron Age; Chapter V The Athenian Iron Age Krater; Chapter VI The Krater Catalogue
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Archaeopress A Time of Change: Questioning the “Collapse” of
Book SynopsisThis book reassesses the apparent collapse of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, through explicit reference to the archaeological record. The study of Anuradhapura’s terminal period has long been dominated by an over-reliance upon textual sources, resulting in the establishment of a monocausal and politically charged narrative that depicts a violent eleventh century invasion by the South Indian Chola Empire as the primary cause of Anuradhapura’s collapse, bringing to an end over a millennium of rule from Sri Lanka’s first capital. Such is the dominance of this narrative that few alternative explanations for the abandonment of Anuradhapura have ever been posited, with just two alternative models ever described; epidemic malaria, and an imperial economic model. Synthesising and analysing archaeological data from over a century of investigation, this book first tests whether or not Anuradhapura can truly be said to have “collapsed” at all, before moving on to then test the existing explanations for this apparent collapse through reference to the physical archaeological record of Anuradhapura, before finally proposing a new synthetic model for the polity’s collapse.Table of ContentsPreface; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Anuradhapura: Geography, Environment and History of Research; Chapter 3: Collapse; Chapter 4: Methodology; Chapter 5: The Citadel; Chapter 6: The Sacred City; Chapter 7: The Hinterland; Chapter 8: The Discussion; Chapter 9: Conclusion
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Archaeopress Road Archaeology in the Middle Nile: Volume 2:
Book SynopsisThe first season of survey work in 1993 was undertaken in advance of the construction of the North Challenge Road initially between Geili and Atbara. This work was carried out in the SARS concession area from BM98, opposite the Pyramids of Meroe, to Atbara. A total of 170 sites were recorded and this was published in the first volume of Road Archaeology in the Middle Nile (Mallinson et al. 96). In addition, a report was prepared advising the Sudan National Committee for Roads and Bridges of areas which were likely to be damaged by the road construction. The following year it was indicated that due to the advanced development of the road design no rerouting would be possible. In response to this a rescue season was proposed to excavate the sites clearly at risk in the remaining few months before construction and grading began. A limited amount of funds was provided by the Haycock Fund and within this resource a project was assembled with SARS directed by Laurence Smith and Michael Mallinson. As a total of eight sites with 30 archaeological structures appeared directly on the road line a methodology was needed that would permit these to be properly excavated and recorded in the available time of three weeks that the funds would accommodate.Table of ContentsPreface (Michael Mallinson); Site List ; 1. Introduction and Summary of the Test Excavations (Michael Mallinson) ; 2. Site Descriptions (Fathi Abdel Hamid Salih Khidr, Salima Ikram, John MacGinnis, Joyce Filer and Francis Thornton) ; 3. Small Finds from the Surface Survey and from Test Excavations excluding Gabati Cemetery (Laurence Smith) ; 4. Report on the Pottery from the Test Excavations: Sites 101.4, 112.3, 112.4, 118FS2, 153.8, 155.4, 165BM, 166.2 and 170.1 (Laurence Smith) ; 5. Gabati Basketry and Cordage (Willemina Wendrich) ; 6. The Leather Samples from Test Excavations at Gabati (site 159.2) (Barbara Wills) ; 7. Analysis of tanning agents from the excavated leather samples (David Thickett) ; 8. Gabati grave goods from the Test Excavations and the consideration of funerary practices (Laurence Smith) ; 9. Bioarchaeological Report from the Excavations from Meroe to Atbara 1994 (Rebecca Whiting) ; 10. The Animal Remains (Jane Sanford Gaastra with a contribution by Salima Ikram) ; 11. Environmental Material from the Begrawiya-Atbara Survey 1994 (Chris Stevens and Dorian Q Fuller) ; Bibliography ; Arabic summary
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Archaeopress The History and Archaeology of Cathedral Square
Book SynopsisNorthamptonshire Archaeology, now MOLA Northampton, was commissioned by Opportunity Peterborough (Peterborough City Council) to undertake archaeological work ahead of an improvement scheme centred on Cathedral Square, the historic centre of Peterborough. The construction of two triangular arrays of fountains in the central part of Cathedral Square formed the core of the archaeological investigation, which was undertaken from November 2008 to August 2011. The archaeological work identified a succession of stone surfaces from the creation of the market square in the 12th century through to the 19th century. The cobbled surface of the original market square was overlaid by an accumulation of dark organic silts, containing finds dating through to the 16th century. At the start of the 15th century the parish church of St John the Baptist was constructed over the western half of the medieval market square with a cemetery immediately to the west of the church. Following the closure of this cemetery by the later 16th century, a small area of floor surfaces were the probable remains of a building, perhaps the Sexton’s house, at the north end of Butchers Row. On the south side of the market square there were the remains of a rectangular stone building, dated to the late 15th to 17th centuries, perhaps containing shops. Between this building and the church, a raised area of rubble was probably a remnant of the plinth for the recorded market cross. The late 17th century saw the construction of the still extant Guildhall to the east of the church. The raising of the ground level and resurfacing of the square was probably contemporary with the Guildhall. This would have involved the removal of all existing buildings on the south side of the square, as well as the removal of the market cross. In the late 18th or early 19th centuries the square was again raised and resurfaced, now with pitched limestone. Shallow gutters between the pavement and the road facilitated drainage. A surface of granite sets of the 19th-century survived in a few places below the late 20th-century slab pavement, which has now been replaced by the fountain development.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Historical background; 3. The Archaeology of Cathedral Square; 4. The finds and environmental evidence; 5. Discussion; Conclusions; Bibliography
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Archaeopress Substantive Evidence of Initial Habitation in the
Book SynopsisAt the Unai Bapot Site of the Mariana Islands, new excavation has clarified the oldest known instance of a residential habitation prior to 1500 B.C. in the Remote Pacific, previously difficult to document in deeply buried layers that originally had comprised near-tidal to shallow subtidal zones. The initial habitation at this site, as well as at others in the Mariana Islands, pre-dated the next Remote Oceanic archaeological evidence by about four centuries and in an entirely different part of the Pacific than previously had been claimed. The newest excavation at Unai Bapot in 2016 has revealed the precise location of an ancient seashore habitation, containing dense red-slipped pottery, other artefacts, food midden, and arrangements of hearths, pits, and post moulds in three distinguishable archaeological layers all pre-dating 1100 B.C. and extending just prior to 1500 B.C. The new discoveries are presented here in detail, as a substantive basis for learning about a rarely preserved event of the initial cultural inhabitation of a region, in this case in the Remote Oceanic environment of the world with its own set of unique challenges.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Unai Bapot and Earliest Remote Oceanic Settlement; Chapter 2 Project Context and Questions; Chapter 3 Investigative Procedures; Chapter 4 New Findings: Stratigraphy and Dating; Chapter 5 New Findings: Overall Archaeological Contents; Chapter 6 New Findings: Traces of Structural Features; Chapter 7 New Findings: Pottery Artefacts; Chapter 8 New Findings: Non-Pottery Artefacts; Chapter 9 New Findings: Midden of Animal Food Remains; Chapter 10 Answering the Initial Research Questions; Chapter 11 Larger Research Implications; References
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Archaeopress The Hunting Farmers: Understanding ancient human
Book SynopsisThe transition from foragers to farmers and the role of intensive rice agriculture have been among the most controversial subjects in Korean archaeology. However, the relatively high acidity of sediment in the Korean peninsula has made it impossible to examine faunal/floral remains directly for tracing the subsistence change. For this reason, many of the studies on the transition heavily relied on the shell middens in coastal areas, which reflect only a small portion of the overall subsistence in the Korean Peninsula. The subsistence behaviors recorded in numerous large-scale inland habitation sites have been obscured by the overall separation between hunter-gatherer and intensive rice farmer. This research investigates the role of intensive rice farming as a subsistence strategy in the central part of the prehistoric Korean peninsula using organic geochemical analysis and luminescence dating on potsherds. The central hypothesis of this research is that there was a wide range of resource utilization along with rice farming around 3,400-2,600 BP. This hypothesis contrasts with prevailing rice-based models, where climatically driven intensive rice agriculture from 3,400 BP is thought to be the dominant subsistence strategy that drove social complexity. This research focuses on four large-scale inland habitation sites that contain abundant pottery collections to evaluate the central hypothesis as well the prevailing rice-centred model. This research produced critical data for addressing prehistoric subsistence in the Korean peninsula and established a detailed chronology of subsistence during 3,400-1,800 BP.Table of ContentsForeword; 1. Subsistence change, Emergence of agriculture, and Rice; 2. Background and Central Hypothesis; 3. Methodological background, Research design and analytical procedure of the Luminescence dating; 4. Methods, Research design and analytical procedure of the organic geochemical analysis; 5. The Results; 6. Discussion; 7. Conclusion; 8. Bibliography
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Archaeopress AP2017: 12th International Conference of
Book SynopsisThis volume is a product of the International Conference of Archaeological Prospection 2017 which was hosted by the School of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences at the University of Bradford. This event marked a return to the location of the inaugural conference of archaeological prospection which was held in Bradford in 1995. The conference is held every two years under the banner of the International Society for Archaeological Prospection. The Proceedings of 12th International Conference of Archaeological Prospection draws together over 100 papers addressing archaeological prospection techniques, methodologies and case studies from around the world. Including studies from over 30 countries distributed across Africa, North America, South America, Asia and Europe; the collection of articles covers a diverse range of research backgrounds and situations. At this particular ICAP meeting, specific consideration has been given to emerging techniques and technologies in the fields of inter-tidal and marine archaeological prospection, and low altitude archaeological prospection. The papers within this volume represent the conference themes of: Techniques and new technological developments; Applications and reconstructing landscapes and urban environments; Integration of techniques and inter-disciplinary studies, with focus on visualisation and interpretation; Marine, inter-tidal and wetland prospection techniques and applications; Low altitude prospection techniques and applications; Commercial archaeological prospection in the contemporary world.Table of ContentsIntroduction – by Ben Jennings, Chris Gaffney, Tom Sparrow and Sue Gaffney ; The use of digital mobile technologies for geoarchaeological survey: the examples of the Pinilla del Valle raw materials project – by Ana Abrunhosa, João Cascalheira, Alfredo Pérez-González, Juan Luís Arsuaga and Enrique Baquedano ; A multi-methodological approach on a historic wall structure of Heptapyrgion fortress thessaloniki greece: a case study – by Dimitrios Angelis, Panagiotis Tsourlos, Gregory Tsokas, George Vargemezis and Georgia Zacharopoulou ; Settling selection patterns and settlement layout development in the Chalcolithic Cucuteni culture of northeastern Romania. Interpretation and presentation of prospection results – by Andrei Asăndulesei, Felix-Adrian Tencariu, Mihaela Asăndulesei and Radu-Ștefan Balaur ; Monitoring marine construction zones through the iterative use of geophysics and diving – by P A Baggaley, L H Tizzard and S H L Arnott ; Geophysical studies in Maya sites of the Caribbean coast, Quintana Roo, Mexico – by Luis Barba, Jorge Blancas, Agustín Ortiz, Patricia Meehan, Roberto Magdaleno and Claudia Trejo ; Investigations of Esie steatite structures using geophysical, petrological and geotechnical techniques – by A M Bello, V Makinde, O Mustapha and M Gbadebo ; Revealing the topography of the Ancient Kition (Larnaka, Cyprus): an integrated approach – by Christophe Benech, Marine Audebert, Antoine Chevalier, Lionel Darras, Sébastien Flageul, Sabine Fourrier, Alexandre Rabot, Fayçal Réjiba, Cyril Schamper and Alain Tabbagh ; 3D induced polarization and electrical resistivity tomography surveys from an archaeological site – by Meriç Aziz Berge and Mahmut Göktuğ Drahor ; Looking for the ancient Nile banks and their relationship with a Neolithic site: the example of Kadruka (Sudan) – by Yves Bière, Pierrick Matignon, Ludovic Bodet and Julien Thiesson ; The forgotten castle of the Ciołek family in Żelechów, Mazowieckie province, Poland – by Wojciech Bis, Tomasz Herbich and Robert Ryndziewicz ; Living in a post-workhorse world: observations learnt from rapidly acquired electromagnetic induction surveys in Ireland (…when magnetometry just won’t do…) – by James Bonsall ; The magnetic signature of Ohio earthworks – by Jarrod Burks ; Three hundred miles in the footsteps of Vespasian ... and the Ancient Monuments Laboratory – by Paul Cheetham, Dave Stewart and Harry Manley ; Identification of buried archaeological features through spectroscopic analysis – by Yoon Jung Choi, Johannes Lampel, David Jordan, Sabine Fiedler and Thomas Wagner ; Integration of ground-penetrating radar and magnetic data to better understand complex buried archaeology – by Lawrence B Conyers ; Archaeological prospection of Medieval harbours in the North Atlantic – by Joris Coolen, Natascha Mehler, Dennis Wilken, Ronny Weßling, John Preston, Tina Wunderlich and Peter Feldens ; Re-visiting Sutton Hoo: revealing new elements of the princely burial ground through ground and aerial remote sensing – by Alexander Corkum, Cathy Batt, Jamie Davis, Chris Gaffney, Mike Langton and Thomas Sparrow ; Using geophysical techniques to ‘dig deep’ at Grave Creek mound for cultural resource management – by Alexander Corkum, Cathy Batt, Jamie Davis, Chris Gaffney, and Thomas Sparrow ; Geological and pedological artefacts within UK magnetic gradiometer data for archaeological prospection – by Edward Cox and Rebecca Davies ; Moving beyond an identification of ‘ferrous’: a re-interpretation of geophysical surveys over WW1 practice trenches on salisbury plain – by Nicholas Crabb, Paul Baggaley, Lucy Learmonth, Rok Plesničar and Tom Richardson ; In search of the lost city of Therouanne: a new integrated approach – by Michel Dabas, François Blary, Laurent Froideval and Richard Jonvel ; Subsurface geophysical approaches to understanding Northern Plains earthlodges – by Rinita A Dalan, George R Holley, Kenneth L Kvamme, Mark D Mitchell and Jay Sturdevant ; Geophysics in Iraqi Kurdistan: discovering the origins of urbanism – by Lionel Darras, Christophe Benech and Régis Vallet ; Augmenting the interpretative potential of landscape-scale geophysical data - a case from the Stonehenge landscape – by Philippe De Smedt, Henry Chapman and Paul Garwood ; Mediterranean sites in archaeological prospection: the case study of Osor, Croatia – by Nives Doneus, Petra Schneidhofer, Michael Doneus, Manuel Gabler, Hannes Schiel, Viktor Jansa and Matthias Kucera ; Transforming the search for human origins using new digital technologies, low altitude imaging, and citizen science – by Adrian Evans, Thomas Sparrow, Louise Leakey, Andrew Wilson, Randy Donahue ; Magnetometer prospection of Neo-Assyrian sites in the Peshdar Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan – by Jörg W E Fassbinder, Andrei Asăndulesei, Karen Radner, Janoscha Kreppner and Andrea Squiteri ; Integrated geophysical prospection in a Hittite Empire city (Šapinuwa) – by Mahmut Göktuğ Drahor, Meriç Aziz Berge, Caner Öztük, Buket Ortan, Atilla Ongar, Aygül Süel, Sedef Ayyildiz, Önder Şeref Avsever and Funda İçke ; Marine seismics along the Kane Peninsula – by Annika Fediuk, Dennis Wilken, Tina Wunderlich and Wolfgang Rabbel ; Out of the blue: exploring Lost Frontiers in Doggerland – by Simon Fitch ; Investigation and virtual visualisation of a probable burial mound and later motte-and-bailey castle from Lower Austria – by Roland Filzwieser, Leopold Toriser, Juan Torrejón Valdelomar and Wolfgang Neubauer ; Archaeologicla validation of geophysical data: risks of the archaeological interpretation – by Ekhine Garcia-Garcia, Antonietta Lerz, Roger Sala, Arantza Aranburu, Julian Hill and Juantxo Agirre-Mauleon ; The planning of Daskyleion (Turkey), the Achaemenid capital of the Hellespontine Phrygia: report on three survey campaigns (2014-2016) – by Sébastien Gondet ; Automation, automation, automation: a novel approach to improving the pre-excavation detection of inhumations – by Ashely Green, Paul Cheetham and Timothy Darvill ; Non-invasive investigations at early medieval strongholds in Lubuskie province (western Poland) – by Bartłomiej Gruszka and Łukasz Pospieszny ; Geophysical and geochemical definition of a rural medieval churchyard at Furulund, Hedmark, Norway – by Lars Gustavsen,Rebecca J S Cannell, Monica Kristiansen and Erik Nau ; Assessing the effect of modern ploughing practices on archaeological remains by combining geophysical surveys and systematic metal detecting – by Lars Gustavsen, Monica Kristiansen, Erich Nau and Bernt Egil Tafjord ; Nebelivka, Ukraine: geophysical survey of a complete Trypillia mega-site – by Duncan Hale, John Chapman, Mikhail Videiko, Bisserka Gaydarska, Natalia Burdo, Richie Villis, Natalie Swann, Patricia Voke, Nathan Thomas, Andrew Blair, Ashley Bryant, Marco Nebbia, Andrew Millard and Vitalij Rud ; Geophysical prospection in the Natal landscape of the Buddha, southern Nepal – by Duncan Hale, Robin Coningham, Kosh Prasad Acharya, Mark Manuel, Chris Davis and Patricia Voke ; A largescale simultaneous magnetometer and electromagnetic induction survey at Stična Hillfort, Slovenia – by Chrys Harris, Ian Armit, Finnegan Pope-Carter, Graeme Attwood, Lindsey Büster and Chris Gaffney ; Geophysical surveying in Egypt and Sudan periodical report for 2015-2016 – by Tomasz Herbich ; Not-so good vibrations: removing measurement induced noise from motorized multi-sensor magnetometry data – by Alois Hinterleitner, Immo Trinks, Klaus Löcker, Jakob Kainz, Ralf Totschnig, Matthias Kucera and Wolfgang Neubauer ; Electrostatic and GPR survey: case study of the Neuville-aux-Bois church (Loiret, France) – by Guillaume Hulin, François Capron, Sébastien Flageul, François-Xavier Simon and Alain Tabbagh ; Medieval monks seen through a modern landscape – by Freya Horsfield ; Changing faces: archaeological interpretations and the multi-stage archaeological prospection of the Roman town of Aregenua – by Karine Jardel, Armin Schmidt, Michel Dabas and Roger Sala ; From large- to medium- to small- scale geophysical prospection – by Jakob Kainz ; The auxiliary castrum at Inlăceni (Énlaka), Romania: results of the geomagnetic survey 2016 – by Rainer Komp and Ingo Petri ; The results of magnetometer prospection as an indicator of the extent and intensity of soil erosion of archaeological sites – by Roman Krivanek ; When geology plays a major role in the results of archaeological prospection - case studies from Bohemia – by Roman Krivanek ; Geophysical insights and problem solving at Chief Looking’s Village, North Dakota, USA – by Kenneth L Kvamme ; The iron-age burial mounds of Epe-Niersen, the netherlands: results from magnetometry in the range of ±1.0 nT – by Lena Lambers, Jörg W E Fassbinder, Karsten Lambers and Quentin Bourgeois ; Meninx – geophysical prospection of a Roman town in Jerba, Tunisia – by Lena Lambers, Jörg W E Fassbinder, Stefan Ritter and Sami Ben Tahar ; The application of semi-automated vector identification to large scale archaeological data sets considering anomaly morphology – by Neil Linford and Paul Linford ; ‘Over head and ears in shells’ recent examples of geophysical survey of historic designed landscapes and gardens – by Neil Linford, Paul Linford and Andrew Payne ; Geophysical survey at bronze age sites in southwestern Slovakia: case studies of fortified settlement in Hoste and burial ground in Majcichov – by Zuzana Litviaková, Roman Pašteka, David Kušnirák, Michal Felcan and Martin Krajňák ; From magnetic SQUID prospection to excavation – investigations at Fossa Carolina, Germany – by S Linzen, M Schneider, S Berg-Hobohm, L Werther, P Ettel, C Zielhofer, J Schmidt, J W E Faßbinder, D Wilken, A Fediuk, S Dunkel, R Stolz, H-G Meyer and C S Sommer ; Multi-method prospection of an assumed early medieval harbour site and settlement in Goting, island of Föhr (Germany) – by Bente Sven Majchczack, Steffen Schneider, Dennis Wilken and Tina Wunderlich ; Ripples in the sand: locating a complete aircraft in the inter-tidal zone – by Peter Masters ; Built to last: building a magnetometer cart - advantages and disadvantages in the construction of a bespoke system – by Peter Masters and Gary Cooper ; How to make sense out of incomplete geophysical data sets - cases from archaeological sites in north-eastern Croatia – by Cornelius Meyer ; The story of two ceramic vessels: geophysical prospection and excavation in the premises of Volkswagen Slovakia – by Peter Milo, Tomáš Tencer and František Žák Matyasowszky ; Geophysical survey for understanding Dousaku-Kofun structure – by Chisako Miyamae, Yuki Itabashi and Hiroyuki Kamei ; An Achaemenid site in south-east Iran. A magnetic survey at Afraz (Bam-Baravat fault), Kerman – by Kourosh Mohammadkhani and Raha Resaleh ; Archaeological Seismic survey: a Case study from Millmount, Drogheda, Ireland – by Igor Murin and Conor Brady ; Motorized archaeological geophysical prospection for large infrastructure projects – recent examples from Norway – by Erich Nau, Lars Gustavsen, Monica Kristiansen, Manuel Gabler, Knut Paasche, Alois Hinterleitner and Immo Trinks ; Sussing out the super-henge: a multi method survey at Durrington Walls – by Wolfgang Neubauer, Vincent Gaffney, Klaus Löcker, Mario Wallner, Eamonn Baldwin, Henry Chapman, Tanja Trausmuth, Jakob Kainz, Petra Schneidhofer, Matthias Kucera, Georg Zotti, Lisa Aldrian and Hannes Schiel ; Urban prospections in The Netherlands, successes and failures – by Joep Orbons ; Ultra shallow marine geophysical prospection in the prehistoric site of Lambayanna, Greece – by Nikos Papadopoulos, Julien Beck, Kleanthis Simyrdanis, Gianluca Cantoro, Nasos Argyriou, Nikos Nikas, Tuna Kalayci and Despoina Koutsoumpa ; Recent trends in shallow marine archaeological prospection in the eastern Mediterranean – by Nikos Papadopoulos, Kleanthis Simyrdanis and Gianluca Cantoro ; Dynamic 3D electrical resistivity tomography for shallow off-shore archaeological prospection – by Nikos Papadopoulos and Kleanthis Simyrdanis ; Designing workflows in the Paphos Agora project: first results of an integrated methodological approach – by Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka, Tomasz Kalicki, Wojciech Ostrowski, Martina Seifert, Łukasz Miszk, Weronika Winiarska, Nikola Babucic and Michael Antonakis ; A new semi-automated interpretation of concave and convex features in digital archaeogeophysical datasets – by R Pašteka, S Hronček, M Felcan, P Milo, D Wilken and R Putiška ; Integrated geophysical, archaeological and geological surveys for the characterization of Tusculum archaeological site (Rome, Italy) – by Salvatore Piro, Elisa Iacobelli, Enrico Papale and Valeria Beolchini ; Integrated geophysical and archaeological surveys to study the archaeological site of Cerveteri (Rome, Italy) – by Salvatore Piro, Enrico Papale, Daniela Zamuner and Vincenzo Bellelli ; The challenges of reconstructing the archaeological landscape around the castle in Gołuchów, Poland – by Michał Pisz and Inga Głuszek ; The Wenner array not as black as it is painted - surveying shallow architectural remains with the Wenner array. A case study of surveys in Szydłów, Poland, and Tibiscum, Romania – by Michał Pisz and Tomasz Olszacki ; Live-streaming for the real-time monitoring of geophysical surveys – by F Pope-Carter, C Harris, G Attwood and T Eyre ; Urban archaeology in Affile (Rome-Italy): preliminary results of the ground penetrating radar survey – by Valeria Poscetti and Davide Morandi ; The late-Roman site of Santa Margarida d’Empúries. Combining geophysical methods to characterize a settlement and its landscape – by Roger Sala, Helena Ortiz-Quintana, Ekhine Garcia-Garcia, Pere Castanyer, Marta Santos and Joaquim Tremoleda ; Exploring the urban fabric of ancient Haliartos, Boetia (Greece) through remote sensing techniques – by Apostolos Sarris, Tuna Kalayci, Manolis Papadakis, Nikos Nikas, Matjaž Mori, Emeri Farinetti, Božidar Slapšak and John Bintliff ; Revealing the structural details of the minoan settlement of Sissi, eastern Crete, through geophysical investigations – by Apostolos Sarris, Meropi Manataki, Sylviane Déderix and Jan Driessen ; What you see is what you get? Complimentary multi-scale prospection in an extant upland landscape, Yorkshire Dales National Park, UK – by Mary K Saunders ; A king and his paradise? A major Achaemenid garden palace in the Southern Caucasus – by M Scheiblecker, J W E Fassbinder, F Becker, A Asăndulesei, M Gruber and K Kaniuth ; Large-scale high-resolution magnetic prospection of the KGAs Rechnitz, Austria – by Hannes Schiel, Wolfgang Neubauer, Klaus Löcker, Ralf Totschnig, Mario Wallner, Tanja Trausmuth, Matthias Kucera, Immo Trinks, Alois Hinterleitner, Alexandra Vonkilch and Martin Fera ; When the time is right: the impact of weather variations on the contrast in earth resistance data – by Armin Schmidt, Robert Fry, Andrew Parkyn, James Bonsall and Chris Gaffney ; SQUID-based magnetic geoprospection: a base technology of multimodal approaches in applied geophysics – by M Schneider, S Linzen, M Schiffler, S Dunkel, R Stolz and D Baumgarten ; Investigating the influence of seasonal changes on high-resolution GPR data: the Borre Monitoring Project – by Petra Schneidhofer, Christer Tonning, Vibeke Lia, Brynhildur Baldersdottir, Julie Karina Øhre Askjem, Lars Gustavsen, Erich Nau, Monica Kristiansen, Immo Trinks, Terje Gansum, Knut Paasche and Wolfgang Neubauer ; A ghostly harbour? How delusive gradiometric data can be and how seismic waveform inversion might help – by Michaela Schwardt, Daniel Köhn, Tina Wunderlich, Dennis Wilken, Wolfgang Rabbel, Thomas Schmidts and Martin Seeliger ; Testing boundaries: integrated prospection from site to lanscape in western Sicily – by Christopher Sevara, Michael Doneus, Erich Draganits, Rosa Cusumano, Cipriano Frazzetta, Barbara Palermo, Filippo Pisciotta, Rosamaria Stallone, Ralf Totschnig, Sebastiano Tusa and Antonina Valenti ; Potential of multi-frequency electromagnetic induction in volcanic soils for archaeological prospection – by François-Xavier Simon, Alain Tabbagh, Bertrand Douystessier, Mathias Pareil-Peyrou, Alfredo Mayoral and Philippe Labazuy ; 3D electrical resistivity imaging in shallow marine environment: case study at the harbor “KATO pafos”, cyprus – by Kleanthis Simyrdanis, Nikos Papadopoulos and Gianluca Cantoro ; Skills and protocols for archaeological interpretation in a multispectral geophysical survey world – by Lewis Somers ; The status, role and acceptance of geophysical methods in Norwegian archaeology – by Arne Anderson Stamnes ; Integrating GPR and excavation at Roman Aeclanum (Avellino, Italy) – by Guglielmo Strapazzon, Ben Russell and Girolamo F De Simone ; Prospection at the Medamud (Egypt) site: building archaeological meaning from the geophysical in situ measurements – by Julien Thiesson, Felix Relats Montserrat, Christelle Sanchez, Roger Guérin and Fayçal Réjiba ; Results of the GPR survey of former Roman churches in Slovakia – by J Tirpak, M Bielich, M Martinak and D Bešina ; From integrated interpretative mapping to virtual reconstruction - a practical approach on the Roman town of Carnuntum – by Juan Torrejón Valdelomar, Mario Wallner, Klaus Löcker, Christian Gugl, Wolfgang Neubauer, Michael Klein, Nika Jancsary-Luznik, Tanja Trausmuth, Alexandra Vonkilch, Tomas Tencer, Lisa Aldrian and Michael Doneus ; Extensive high-resolution ground-penetrating radar surveys – by Immo Trinks, Alois Hinterleitner, Klaus Löcker, Mario Wallner, Roland Filzwieser, Hannes Schiel, Manuel Gabler, Erich Nau, Julia Wilding, Viktor Jansa, Petra Schneidhofer, Tanja Trausmuth and Wolfgang Neubauer ; The challenge of investigating the tumulus of Kastas in Amphipolis (northern Greece) – by G N Tsokas, P I Tsourlos, J-H Kim, M-Z Yi and G Vargemezis ; Deserted fortified Medieval villages in South Moravia – by Michal Vágner, Tomáš Tencer, Petr Dresler, Michaela Prišťáková, Jakub Šimík and Jan Zeman ; The Guaquira-Tiwanaku project (Bolivia): a multidisciplinary approach of ancient societies/environment interactions – by M-A Vella, G Bievre, R Guerin, J Thiesson and C Camerlynck ; Semi-automated object detection in GPR data using morphological filtering – by Lieven Verdonck, Alessandro Launaro, Martin Millett, Frank Vermeulen and Giovanna Bellini ; The diverse role of electromagnetic induction survey in development-led alluvial (geo-)archaeology: prehistoric and (post-)Medieval landscape archaeology at Prosperpolder Zuid (north-west Belgium) – by Jeroen Verhegge, Timothy Saey, Pieter Laloo, Machteld Bats and Philippe Crombé ; Multi-channel GPR surveys for the detection of buried Iron-Age settlement remains: a case study from Bårby ring fort, Öland, Sweden – by Andreas Viberg ; Unique details on the structural elements of a Neolithic site in Velm, Lower Austria - the necessity of integrated prospection and visualization in archaeological prospection – by Mario Wallner, Juan Torrejón Valdelomar, Immo Trinks, Michael Doneus, Wolfgang Neubauer, Hannes Schiel, Tanja Trausmuth, Alexandra Vonkilch and Alois Hinterleitner ; Castra Terra Culmensis - results of non-invasive surveys of the Teutonic Order’s strongholds in the Culmerland (Poland) – by Marcin Wiewióra, Krzysztof Misiewicz, Wiesław Małkowski and Miron Bogacki ; Imaging a Medieval shipwreck with 3D marine reflection seismics – by Dennis Wilken, Hannes Hollmann, Tina Wunderlich, Clemens Mohr, Detlef Schulte-Kortnack and Wolfgang Rabbel ; Seeing is believing? Non-destructive research of the western Lesser Poland upland, 2010-2017 – by Piotr Wroniecki
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Archaeopress Encounters, Excavations and Argosies: Essays for
Book SynopsisRichard Hodges is one of Europe’s preeminent archaeologists. He has transformed the way we understand the early Middle Ages, and has put the past to work for the present, through a sequence of paradigmatic excavations in England, Italy and Albania. Encounters, Excavations and Argosies pays tribute to him with a series of reflections on some of the themes and issues which have been central to his work over the last forty years. The contributors are colleagues, many his students, above all friends of the man whose ideas, example, trust, and loyalty have touched and inspired us all.Table of ContentsIntroduction (John Mitchell and John Moreland); Richard Hodges (Mother Miriam Benedict); Richard a San Vincenzo al Volturno, il 23 settembre 1985* (Franco Valente); An ode to New Light on Early Medieval Monasticism (Neil Christie); Looking beyond the local: Richard Hodges’ extraordinary journey from Box to Butrint (Jim Symonds); Cutting history in slices. Periodization and the Middle Ages: an archaeological perspective (Andrea Augenti); Stone Age Economics: a new audit (Graeme Barker); Richard Hodges and Tuscany: from the pioneering excavations of the 80s to the ERC-Advanced nEU-Med Project (Giovanna Bianchi); From villa to minster at Southwell (Will Bowden); Islamization and trade in the Arabian Gulf in the age of Mohammad and Charlemagne (Jose C. Carvajal López); Remembering the early Christian baptistery, the Venetian castle and Art-Deco Saranda: a personal view of the future of heritage and development in Saranda and Butrint (Prue Chiles); The popes and their town in the time of Charlemagne (Paolo Delogu); The rebirth of towns in the Beneventan principality (8th-9th centuries) (Alessandro Di Muro); The monastery of Anselm and Peter. The origins of Nonantola between Lombards and Carolingians (Sauro Gelichi); Farfa revisited: the early medieval monastery church (Sheila Gibson, Oliver J. Gilkes and John Mitchell); Butrint’s death and resurrection: the medieval lime-kiln in the Roman forum (David Hernandez); ʿAnjar: An Umayyad image of urbanism and its afterlife (Bea Leal); Lively columns and living stones - the origins of the Constantinian church basilica (John Mitchell); The survival and revival of urban settlements in the southern Adriatic: Aulon and Kanina in the early to late Middle Ages (Nevila Molla); Powerful matter – agency and materiality in the early Middle Ages (John Moreland); We do it indoors and sitting down, but still call it archaeology – unravelling and recording blocklifted hoards (Pippa Pearce); Albanian Archaeology in the New Millennium and The British Contribution (Luan Përzhita); ‘Moi Auguste’ – Les images de l’empereur Auguste dans les collections des musées albanais (Iris Pojani); Butrint in the late 6th to 7th centuries: contexts, sequences and ceramics (Paul Reynolds); Athens, Charlemagne and Small Change (Alessia Rovelli); From villa to village. Late Roman to early medieval settlement networks in the ager Rusellanus (Alessandro Sebastiani); Scandinavian monetisation in the first millennium AD – practices and institutions (Dagfinn Skre); Philosophiana in central Sicily in the late Roman and Byzantine periods: settlement and economy (Emanuele Vaccaro); Appunti, grezzi, per un’agenda di Archeologia Pubblica in Italia (Marco Valenti); Leiderdorp: a Frisian settlement in the shadow of Dorestad (Arno A. A. Verhoeven and Menno F. P. Dijkstra); Saranda in the waves of time: some early medieval pottery finds from a port in the Byzantine Empire (Joanita Vroom); Richard Hodges and the British School at Rome (BSR) (Christopher Smith); Richard Hodges: an intellectual appreciation (Chris Wickham)
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Archaeopress Imágenes de centauros en los vasos áticos de
Book SynopsisThe centaur, a hybrid being with the body of horse and a human head and torso, first appeared in the mountains of Thessaly. This was the Greek horse-breeding region and it seemed natural for the centaur to have originated there, in the heart of this exclusive heritage of the landed gentry. Centaurs belonged to the spheres of heroic mythology, with clear ties to the values of the aristocracy. This book is composed of a catalogue divided into nine chapters. Each chapter comprises catalogue entries for a number of black-figure and red-figure Attic vases. The division into chapters is based on the various types of centaurs and different conflicts, either among themselves or against a hero. In addition to the catalogue is a chapter on images and statistics. Each of these nine chapters corresponds to a section of catalogue entries and statistics, as the information refers to two examples in each section, one in black figures and another in red figures. The highlighted examples illustrate the variety of different vase types (amphorae, lekythoi, etc.) and their chronology (550-500 BC, 500-450 BC). The statistics are likewise divided into black and red figures, and various themes, such as the centaur Pholos and the banquet, or Herakles and Nessos. For each of these themes or groups of examples, a table is given showing the number of vases (amphorae, lekythoi, etc.) and their place in the chronology (550-500 BC, 500-450 BC, etc.).Table of ContentsPreface (in English); 1. Introducción; 2. Catálogo; 3. Gráficos y estadísticas; 4. Abreviaturas; 5. Bibliografía
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Archaeopress For the Gods of Girsu (ARABIC EDITION):
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.
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Archaeopress Elements of Continuity: Stone Cult in the Maltese
Book SynopsisStones can serve an infinite array of functions both when they are worked and when they are left in a ‘raw’ state. Depending on their function, stones can also be meaningful objects especially when they act as vehicles of ideas or instruments of representation. And it is, therefore, in their functional context, that the meaning of stones can be best grasped. The stones dealt with in this study are non-figural (or aniconic) or, sometimes, semi-figural. They come from ritual contexts and, as such, act as a material representation of divine presence in their role as betyls. But it is not mainly the representational aspect of these stones that this study seeks to highlight. As material representations of divine presence that are also worshipped, these particular stones form part of a phenomenon that seems to know no geographical or temporal boundaries. They are of a universal character. It is this universal character of theirs that seems to qualify these stones as elements forming part of the phenomenon of continuity: continuity across different cultures and in different places along several centuries. It is this phenomenon which this study seeks to highlight through a study of these stones. The Maltese islands are presented as a case study to demonstrate the phenomenon of continuity through a study of these stones. Worship of stones in representation of divine presence is found on the Maltese islands since prehistoric times. But the practice survived several centuries under different cultures represented by unknown communities during the islands’ prehistory and the Phoenicians / Carthaginians and the Romans in early historic times.Table of ContentsPreface; 1.0 Introduction; 1.1 Aims and methodology; 1.2 Defining and identifying sacred stones; 1.3 Earliest known literary and iconographic evidence; 2.0 Stone cult in prehistoric Malta and Gozo; 2.1 Aniconic cults in relation to figurine-based cults in prehistoric Malta; 3.0 Tripillar shrines or altars; 4.0 Betyl amulets?; 5.0 More betyls from Tas-Silġ; 6.0 Stone worship at Ras il-Wardija, in Gozo; 7.0 A pair of ‘twin’ betyls; 8.0 A gilded betyl in the temple of Proserpina at Mtarfa; 9.0 Conclusion; Appendix I; Appendix II; Appendix III; Appendix IV; Bibliography; General Index
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Archaeopress The Mycenaean Cemetery at Agios Vasileios,
Book SynopsisThe Mycenaean chamber-tomb cemetery at Agios Vasileios, near Chalandritsa in Achaea, was first investigated by Nikolaos Kyparissis in the late 1920s, followed by small-scale research in 1961 by Efthimios Mastrokostas. In the years 1989–2001 more rescue excavations were conducted by the Greek Archaeological Service, revealing 30 chamber tombs, some looted. Based mostly on the latest research, this study is the first major presentation of the cemetery and its finds. The topographical data are presented in chapter A, including the most important ancient sites in the region. Chapters B to E deal with the 45 chamber tombs and with the assemblage of the 260 artefacts found in them. The chipped stone assemblage and the ground stone implements are presented in chapter F by Vivian Staikou. Chapter G, by Olivia A. Jones, deals with the human skeletal remains, focussing on burial customs and practices. Chapters H and I handle the discussion and the concluding remarks, respectively. A series of 3D representations and photorealistic illustrations are presented, based on the original plans and architectural drawings of the tombs, to produce a visual appreciation of the important cemetery, unfortunately no longer visible.Table of ContentsPreface; Chapter A.1. The Topography of the Chalandritsa – Katarraktis Region; Chapter A.2. Remarks Regarding the Topography of the Chalandritsa – Katarraktis Region; Chapter A.3. Remarks Regarding the Mycenaean Sites of Western and Eastern Achaea; Chapter A.4. The Mycenaean Settlement at Stavros and the Cemetery at Agios Vasileios, Chalandritsa; Chapter A.5. Chalandritsa in Medieval and Modern Times; Chapter B. Catalogue of Tombs and Finds; Chapter C. The 1989 Excavation; Chapter D.1. The 1991 Excavation; Chapter D.2. The 1993 Excavation; Chapter D.3. The 1994 Excavation; Chapter D.4. The 1995 Excavation; Chapter D.5. The 1999-2000 Excavation; Chapter E. The 2001 Excavation; Chapter F. The Small Finds of Stone and Shell (Vivian Staikou); Chapter G. A Bioarchaeological Approach to the Human Remains and Burial Practices (Olivia A. Jones); Chapter H. Discussion on Pottery and Finds; Chapter I. Discussion on the Topography and the Tombs of the Cemetery; Epilogue; Bibliography
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Archaeopress Bridging Times and Spaces: Papers in Ancient Near
Book SynopsisBridging Times and Spaces is composed of papers written by colleagues of Professor Gregory E. Areshian on the occasion his 65th birthday reflecting the breadth and diversity of his scholarly contributions. The range of presented papers covers topics in Near Eastern, Mediterranean and Armenian archaeology, theory of interpretation in archaeology and art history, interdisciplinary history, historical linguistics, art history, and comparative mythology. The volume opens with an extensive interview given by Gregory Areshian, in which Gregory outlines the pathways of his academic career, archaeological discoveries, different intellectual quests, and the organic connections between research questions that he explored across different social sciences and the humanities, stressing the importance of periodizations in interdisciplinary history as well as his views on holism and interdisciplinary studies.Table of ContentsForeword – by Pavel S. Avetisyan and Yervand H. Grekyan; Of Pathways Taken and Not Taken: between Archaeology, History, and Interdisciplinarity - An Interview with Gregory E. Areshian Conducted by Levon H. Abrahamian and Emily Uyeda Kantrim; Menhirs of Harzhis – by Hayk Avetisyan, Artak Gnuni, Arsen Bobokhyan and Henrik Danielyan; The Kurgans of Gegharot: A Preliminary Report on the Results of the 2013-14 Excavations of Project ArAGATS – by Ruben S. Badalyan and Adam T. Smith; Capacity Marks on Depata from Troy – by Arsen Bobokhyan; Iconology in the Light of Archaeological Reason – by Giorgio Buccellati; Doctrinal Union or Agreement to Disagree? Armenians and Syrians at the Synod of Manazkert (726 CE) – by S. Peter Cowe; A Note on the ‘Great King of Armenia’ – by Touraj Daryaee; The Study of East Asian Art History in Europe: Some Observations on Its Early Stages – by Lothar Von Falkenhausen; The Settlement Size and Population Estimation of the Urartian Cities – by Yervand H. Grekyan; Achaemenids and the Southern Caucasus – by Michael Herles; Quarlini – Teišebaini – Kavakert – Karmir Blur – by Simon Hmayakyan, Mariam Melkonyan and Armine Zohrabyan; Wine in Libation Ritual – by Suren Hobosyan; Two Types of Nominal Compounds in Archaic Indo-European Anatolian Names and Words in the Old Assyrian Documents from Asia Minor (XX-XVIII c. BC) – by Vyacheslav V. Ivanov; New Insight into the Agglomerated Houses/Agglomerated cells in Armenia: Arteni, Aragats Massif – by Irena Kalantaryan, Bérengère Perello and Christine Chataigner; Political Economy of Carthage: The Carthaginian Constitution as Reconstructed through Archaeology, Historical Texts, and Epigraphy – by Brett Kaufman; Excavations of the Cave Settlement of Ani – by Hamazasp Khachatryan; The Emergence of Burial Mound Ritual in the Caucasus, the 5th-4th Millennia BC (Common Aspects of the Problem) – by Sergei N. Korenevskiy; A Note on Hittite Toponymy: the Case of Pittiyariga – by Aram Kosyan; Fortified Kura Arax Settlements in North-Western Iran – by Ernst Stephan Kroll; From Aramus to Sevaberd, on the Gegham Mountain Route – by Walter Kuntner, Sandra Heinsch-Kuntner and Hayk Avetisyan; Royal Capital: Gagik I Bagratuni and the Church of Gagkašēn – by Christina Maranci; Notes on Anatolian Loanwords in Armenian – by Hrach Martirosyan; Main Results of the Excavations at the Fortress of Getap in 2009-2014 – by Husik Melkonyan, Inesa Karapetyan and Hasmik Margaryan; ‘Proto-Iliad’ in the Context of Indo-European Mythology – by Armen Petrosyan; The Sale and Lease of Vineyards in Media Atropatene – by Daniel T. Potts; Greek and Anatolian Parallels of Palatalization – by Jaan Puhvel; Notes on the Representation of the Face of Cyrus the Great – by David Stronach; Probable Reasons for the Occurrence of Comparable Abstract and Figurative Designs in the Art Inventories of Different Ancient Cultures Since Prehistory – by Jak Yakar; The Early Bronze Age Shrine of Mets Sepasar – by Larisa Yeganyan; The Agriculture of Western Syunik, Armenia in the Light of Archaeological and Archaeobotanical Data (Preliminary Study on the Economy of Early Yervandid Settlements) – by Mkrtich H. Zardaryan and Roman Hovsepyan
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Archaeopress The Cutting Edge: Khoe-San rock-markings at the
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the rock engravings on the wonderstone hills just outside Ottosdal, North West province, South Africa. Wonderstone is remarkable rock that is smooth, shiny and very easy to mark. The wonderstone occurs only on two adjacent farms, Gestoptefontein and Driekuil, and thus the rock art on the wonderstone outcrops is referred to as the Gestoptefontein- Driekuil complex (GDC). This rock art is now the only remaining trace of what must once have been a much larger complex of engravings. Sadly, much of the rock art has been destroyed in the course of mining activities, with very few records. The largest remaining outcrop is still threatened by potential mining activities. The study attempts to bring this disastrous and unacceptable situation to the attention of the public and the heritage authorities, who have so far failed to respond to applications to grant the sites protection. It therefore has two main aims: to locate and record as much of the rock art as possible and to understand the significance of the outcrops in the lives of the people who made them. Based on the rock art itself, as well as what little historical evidence is available, it is argued that the rock art was made by Khoe-San people during the performance of important ceremonies and other activities. The rock art has two main components: engravings of referential motifs and a gestural, or performative, element. The referential motifs depict a range of things: anthropomorphs and zoomorphs, decorative designs, items of clothing, as well as ornaments and decorations. The gestural markings were made by rubbing, cutting and hammering the soft wonderstone, probably in the course of a range of activities that people carried out on the outcrops.Table of ContentsPreface; I Introduction; 1 What this all means; 2 Research context; II The rock art of the GDC; 3 Gestural markings; 4 Anthropomorphs and zoomorphs; 5 Decorative designs and patterns; 6 Ethnography; 7 Depictions of clothing in the GDC; 8 Ornaments and decorations; III Khoe-San womanhood; 9 Girls’ puberty rites; IV Back to the hills; 10 The significance of gestural markings; 11 Themes in referential art; V Conclusion; 12 The value of the GDC study; Bibliography; Appendix: A kind of torture: the GDC survey
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Archaeopress Foreigners and Outside Influences in Medieval
Book SynopsisForeigners and Outside Influences in Medieval Norway results from an international conference held in Bergen, Norway, in March 2016, entitled ‘Multidisciplinary approaches to improving our understanding of immigration and mobility in pre-modern Scandinavia (1000-1900)’. The articles in this volume discuss different aspects of immigration and foreign influences in medieval Norway, from the viewpoint of different academic disciplines. The book will give the reader an insight into how the population of medieval Norway interacted with the surrounding world, how and by whom it was influenced, and how the population was composed.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Stian Suppersberger Hamre); Who were they? Steps towards an archaeological understanding of newcomers and settlers in early medieval Trondheim, Norway (Axel Christophersen); The population in Norway, a long history of heterogeneity (Stian Suppersberger Hamre); Foreigners in High Medieval Norway: images of immigration in chronicles and kings’ sagas, twelfth and thirteenth centuries (Thomas Foerster); The universal and the local: religious houses as cultural nodal points in medieval Norway (Synnøve Myking); Foreign envoys and resident Norwegians in the Late Middle Ages – a cultural clash? (Erik Opsahl); Scandinavian immigrants in late medieval England: sources, problems and patterns (Bart Lambert)
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Archaeopress Palmyrena: Palmyra and the Surrounding Territory
Book SynopsisThis book is the first investigation of the relationship between Palmyra and its surrounding territory from the Roman to the early Islamic period since D. Schlumberger’s pioneer campaigns in the mountains northwest of Palmyra in the late 1930s. It discusses the agricultural potential of the hinterland, its role in the food supply of the city, and the interaction with the nomadic networks on the Syrian dry steppe. The investigation is based on an extensive joint Syrian-Norwegian surface survey north of Palmyra in 2008, 2010 and 2011 and on studies of satellite imagery. It contains a gazetteer of 70 new sites, which include numerous villages, estates, forts, stations and water management systems.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Survey. Survey area, methodology and implementation; Chronology of the sites; Topography and climate; Water supply. Wells, springs and cisterns; Villages and estates. The food supply of Palmyra; Forts and stations. Lines of communication.Palmyrene control of the territory; Conclusion; Gazetteer of surveyed sites: Wadi Abyad; Jebel Abyad; Wadi al-Takara; Jazal; Jebel Chaar; Wadi Jihar – Wadi Masaadé – Wadi Khabar; Jebel Merah; North of Jebel Chaar; Appendix: Safaitic inscriptions mentioning Tadmur; Bibliography
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Archaeopress Parian Polyandreia: The Late Geometric Funerary
Book SynopsisThis book centres on the anthropological study of two late 8th century BC monumental graves, designated as T144 and T105, at the ancient necropolis of Paroikia at Paros. The study investigates inter-island features of the human record, observable as ingrained traces in the skeletal record. These have particular significance as they may relate to Parian endeavours in the northern Aegean to colonise Thasos. Through the ‘Paros Polyandreia Anthropological Project,’ it was possible to gain insights into aspects of the human environment and experience in the Parian context. A considerable population sample of cremated male individuals was available, shedding light on trends that would have involved Thasos; and discerning further facets of the human condition during the Late Geometric to the Early Archaic periods in the ancient Hellenic world. The report integrates the basic anthropological data, evaluations and assessments derived from the study of the human skeletal record of Polyandreia T144, and T105. Bioarchaeological and forensic anthropological research results include the morphometric analyses of biological developmental growth and variability in relation to manifestations of acquired skeleto-anatomic changes, along with inquiries into the demographic dynamics, and the palaeopathologic profile of the individuals involved. Such intra-site juxtaposition afforded the possibility to deliberate on issues of the intended purpose, function, and symbolic meaning of the two funerary activity areas, and to reflect on the organizational abilities and capacities of the Parians in political and military affairs. Moreover, inter-site evaluations of the burial grounds of Orthi Petra of Eleutherna-Crete, Plithos of Naxos, Athenian Demosion Sema, Pythagoreion of Samos, and Rhodes make possible comparisons of taphonomic conditions, with cremated materials’ metric analyses, and reflections on aspects of the funerary customs and practices of the interring of cremated war dead.Table of ContentsPreface; Archaeologikόn Prolegόmenon; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Methods; Chapter 3 ‘Vase Contexts’ Recovered from Monumental Tomb T144; Chapter 4 Metric Studies of Cremated Human Remains Retrieved from T144 ‘Vase Contexts’; Chapter 5 Bone Elements and Other Materials Recovered from T144 ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Chapter 6 Metric Studies of Cremated Human Remains Retrieved from ‘Non-Vase Contexts’ of T144; Chapter 7 Regarding a Select Number of T144 Archaeological Contexts’ Osteo-Anthropological Study Results; Chapter 8 ‘Archaeological Contexts’ with Human Cremains Recovered from Monumental Tomb T105; Chapter 9 Metric Studies of Cremated Human Remains Retrieved from ‘Archaeological Contexts’ of T105, along with Intra- and Inter-site Comparisons; Chapter 10 Toward a Synopsis of Results on the Anthropological Materials Studied from Monumental Tombs T144 and T105; Postface (On matters of an unfinished discussion); Select Bibliographical References; Appendix 1 Human Skeletal Map with Anatomic Directions; Appendix 2 Human Deciduous and Permanent Dental Map; Appendix 3 Laboratory Form for the Inspectional & Metric Study of Human Cremated Materials and for Recording Relative Artifacual and Ecofactual Remains; Appendix 4 Excerpt (pages 2 and 11 of 11) of field form for the excavation, documentation, and recovery of burial features; emphasis on cultural materials and taphonomic conditions; Appendix 5 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of Weight Values (in grams) per ‘Vase Context’ for the Sample of 67 ‘Vase Contexts’; Appendix 6 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Distribution of 328 Cranial Male Measurements out of a Sample of 74 Homini from within ‘Vase Contexts’; Appendix 7 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Distribution of 326 Postcranial Appendicular Male Measurements out of a Sample of 68 Homini from within ‘Vase Contexts’; Appendix 8 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of 74 Cases of Male Individuals’ Cranial Average Values from within ‘Vase Contexts’; Appendix 9 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of 68 Cases of Male Individuals’ Postcranial Appendicular Average Values from within ‘Vase Contexts’; Appendix 10 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of Weight Values (in grams) per ‘Non-Vase Context’ for the Sample of 10 ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 11 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Distribution of 17 Cranial Male Measurements out of a Sample of 9 Homini from within ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 12 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Distribution of 24 Postcranial Appendicular Male Measurements out of a Sample of 11 Homini from within ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 13 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of 9 Cases of Male Individuals’ Cranial Average Values from within ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 14 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of 11 Cases of Male Individuals’ Postcranial Appendicular Average Values from within ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 15 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Distribution of 345 Cranial Male Measurements from ‘Vase’, and ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 16 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Distribution of 350 Postcranial Appendicular Male Measurements from ‘Vase’, and ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 17 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of Weight Values (in grams) per Burial Context for the Sample of 77 Burial Contexts; Appendix 18 Polyandreion T105: Ascending Distribution of 131 Cranial Male Measurements out of a Sample of 20 Homini from within Archaeological Contexts; Appendix 19 Polyandreion T105: Ascending Distribution of 103 Postcranial Appendicular Male Measurements out of a Sample of 20 Homini from within Archaeological Contexts; Appendix 20 Polyandreion T105: Ascending Range of 20 Cases of Male Individuals’ Cranial Average Values from within Archaeological Contexts; Appendix 21 Polyandreion T105: Ascending Range of 20 Cases of Male Individuals’ Postcranial Appendicular Average Values from within Archaeological Contexts; Appendix A Table 3 Polyandreion T144: Archaeological and Anthropological Contextual Information of 68 (86.08%) out of 79 Archaeological Contexts Submitted for Osteo-Anthropologic Analysis; Appendix B Table 21 Polyandreion T144: Archaeological and Anthropological Contextual Information of 11 ‘Non-Vase Contexts’ (13.92%) out of 79 Archaeological Contexts Submitted for Osteo-Anthropologic Analysis; Appendix C Table 44 Polyandreion T105: Archaeological and Anthropological Contextual Information of 11 (100.0%) out of 11 Archaeological Contexts Submitted for Osteo-Anthropologic Analysis
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Archaeopress La ceca de Ilduro
Book SynopsisThe minting of coinage in a territory without previous monetary history or tradition reflects a series of political, social and cultural changes that took place in order to make it possible. Such changes can be traced in the archaeological record thanks to elements apparently as different as coins, ceramics, epigraphy, funerary rites or architecture; these changes thus emerge as some of the most significant points in the colonization process that took place throughout the second century B.C. and at the beginning of the next century in the valley of Cabrera de Mar (ancient Ilduro) and the Laietani territory. This book is exclusively devoted to the mint of Ilduro, its main goal being to study not only the issues produced by the workshop in detail, but also the role that this coinage had in the monetarization of a changing society, that of the Laietani, which had never previously needed to use coinage. To do so, the author of this study endeavours to answer the following questions in as much depth as possible: Who minted the coins? Why? What for? How? Where? When? How many? With the aim of answering the aforementioned questions, this volume has been organized into ten chapters divided in three broader sections dedicated to studying, specifically, each one of the aspects involved in the production of this mint. The chapters considering the location of the workshop and the legends used are fundamental to answer the questions of who minted the coins and where. On the other hand, aspects such as metrology, typology and the technique (metallographic analysis) used by the mint are essential to understand how the coins were minted, and also to put forward a hypothesis as regards the use given to the coin issues discussed in the present study. Finally, the chapters dedicated to the production, classification and chronology of the issues should answer such important questions as when and how much money was put into circulation. This is a book that, in addition to increasing our knowledge of Iberian numismatics, brings us closer to the evolution and production of the coin issues minted in present-day northeastern Spain in general and to the Ilduro workshop in particular.Trade ReviewThis monograph is undoubtedly a fundamental contribution that goes beyond the study of an Iberian mint to offer an in-depth analysis of the evolution of indigenous monetary issues in their final period. - Víctor Revilla (2018): PYRENAETable of ContentsPRÓLOGO ; 1 INTRODUCCIÓN ; 2 HISTORIOGRAFÍA DE LA CECA ; 3 UBICACIÓN DE LA CECA ; 4 LA LEYENDA ; 5 TIPOLOGÍA ; 6 ASPECTOS TÉCNICOS DE LA PRODUCCIÓN ; 7 METROLOGÍA Y DENOMINACIONES ; 8 PRODUCCIÓN Y VOLUMEN DE EMISIÓN ; 9 DISPERSIÓN ; 10 CRONOLOGÍA Y ORDENACIÓN DE LAS EMISIONES ; 11 CONCLUSIONES ; SUMMARY ; BIBLIOGRAFÍA ; CATÁLOGO ; LÁMINAS
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Archaeopress Immagini del tempo degli dei, immagini del tempo
Book SynopsisA characteristic shared by the Roman and Byzantine illustrated calendars is that they represent the twelve months of the year, referable to an iconographic repertoire which is divided into three themes: the astrological-astronomical, the festive-ritual and the rural-seasonal. With regard to the first type, the months are depicted through images of the signs of the zodiac, often associated with images of the guardian deities of the months; the second category includes depictions of the months that refer to some important religious festivals; finally, the third theme includes images of the months that allude to the most important work activities performed in the countryside. The figurative calendars, which in most cases are made on mosaics, are characterized by a wide distribution in terms of time, concentrated between the 3rd and 6th century, and geography, with the areas of greatest attestation consisting of Italy, Africa Proconsularis, Greece and Arabia. With regard to the architectural context, the calendars from the West are prevalently documented in the domus, while those from the East are particularly attested in ecclesiastical buildings. The aim of research presented in this volume is the in-depth study of the connections between the meaning of the iconography of the Roman and Byzantine illustrated calendars and their historical and cultural context. Italian description: La caratteristica comune dei calendari figurati romani e bizantini consiste nella rappresentazione dei dodici mesi dell’anno, riferibile a un repertorio iconografico articolato in tre temi: quelli di tipo astrologico-astronomico, festivo-rituale e rurale-stagionale. Per quanto riguarda la prima tipologia, i mesi sono raffigurati mediante le immagini dei segni zodiacali, spesso associate a quelle delle divinità tutelari mensili; la seconda categoria include quelle raffigurazioni dei mesi che si riferiscono ad alcune importanti festività religiose; la terza tematica, infine, comprende quelle immagini dei mesi che alludono alle più rilevanti attività lavorative svolte in ambito campestre. I calendari figurati, realizzati nella maggioranza dei casi su mosaico, si contraddistinguono per un’ampia distribuzione in senso temporale, con una concentrazione cronologica fra il III e il VI secolo d.C., e geografico, con le aree di maggior attestazione costituite dall’Italia, l’Africa Proconsularis, la Grecia e l’Arabia. In merito invece al contesto architettonico, i calendari di provenienza occidentale sono documentati in prevalenza presso le domus, mentre per quanto concerne quelli orientali, sono attestati in particolare negli edifici ecclesiastici. L’obiettivo della ricerca presentata in questo volume si focalizza sull’approfondimento delle connessioni esistenti tra il significato dell’iconografia dei calendari figurati romani e bizantini e il loro contesto storico- culturale.Table of ContentsPrefazione; Premessa; Introduzione; Parte prima: Il sistema calendariale romano; Capitolo I. Il calendario romano: storia, struttura, strumenti; Parte seconda: Tempi, spazi e immagini dei calendari figurati romani e bizantini; Capitolo II. Lo stato della ricerca sui calendari figurati; Capitolo III. Analisi iconografica dei manufatti con immagini di mesi; Capitolo IV. I temi di tipo astrologico-astronomico; Capitolo V. I temi di tipo festivo-rituale; Capitolo VI. I temi di tipo rurale-stagionale; Capitolo VII. L’iconografia dei mesi: sovrastrutture semantiche e temi complementari; Capitolo VIII. Distribuzione cronologico-geografica, contesti architettonici di riferimento e committenza dei calendari figurati; Capitolo IX. Saeculum Augustum. Il princeps e i calendari figurati: un’ipotesi di lavoro; Considerazioni conclusive; Parte terza: Apparati; Manufatti con iconografie corrette dei mesi; Manufatti con iconografie non corrette dei mesi; Carte dei siti di provenienza dei manufatti con iconografie corrette dei mesi; Figure del Catalogo A; Figure del Catalogo B; Indice dei nomi e dei luoghi notevoli; Bibliografia; Summary (English)
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Archaeopress Archaeological Heritage Policies and Management
Book SynopsisThis volume presents proceedings from sessions A15a, A15b, A15c of the XVII UISPP World Congress (1–7 September 2014, Burgos, Spain). The sessions covered are: ‘Archaeological Heritage Policies and Management Strategies’, where international management models focused on legislation, public policies, management systems, and institutional contexts for research were presented; ‘Management and use of science data from preventive archaeology: quality control’, where reflections on the range of quality control in projects of applied science, including environmental topics and social standards were developed; ‘Cultural resources, management, public policy, people’s awareness and sustainable development’, which focused on local traditional crafts, many of which exist continuously from prehistory to the present day. Collectively this volume presents perspectives of archaeological heritage management in various countries and continents. It is hoped, through this, to contribute to the exchange of experiences, the sharing of solutions, and the broadening of Archaeology’s role in the sustainable development of people.Table of ContentsForeword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition – Luiz Oosterbeek ; Foreword – Erika M. Robrahn-González ; ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE POLICIES AND MANAGEMENT STRUCTURES (Session 15 A) ; Public policies for the management of the Angolan archaeological heritage – Ziva Domingos ; The Legal Protection of Archaeological Heritage in Mozambique (1994-2014) – Solange L. Macamo and Leonardo Adamowicz ; L’archéologie dans la nomenclature des sciences: approche structurelle et nouvel ordre en Côte d’Ivoire – Kouassi Kouakou Siméon ; The role of civil society in preservation of archaeological heritage in the Republic of Moldova – Sergiu Musteaţă ; MANAGEMENT AND USE OF SCIENCE DATA FROM PREVENTIVE ARCHAEOLOGY: QUALITY CONTROL (Session 15 B) ; Quality management organisation in Inrap (France) – Alain Koehler ; Quality control in preventive archaeology in France: a review of the question – Pascal Depaepe ; Archaeology in Russia today – the system of scientific control over the quality of rescue archaeology work – Asya Engovatova ; Trois cas de prospections relatifs à des diagnostics archéologiques en Côte d’Ivoire (2008-2010): les entreprises d’extraction minière levier pour un nouvel ordre archéologique en Côte d’Ivoire? – Kouassi Kouakou Siméon and François Guédé Yiodé ; CULTURAL RESOURCES, MANAGEMENT, PUBLIC POLICY, PEOPLE’S AWARENESS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Session 15 C) ; A study of the Archaeological sites of the Birbhum District, Bengal – Its management and sustainable development – Asmita Basu ; A Study of Prehistoric Cultural Heritage and Management in Odisha, India – Debasis Kumar Mondal ; Heritage of skill in making clay ornaments in India – Koyel Chakraborty, Debasis Kumar Mondal and Ranjana Ray ; Indigenous Knowledge and Skills of the Bhotiya Women of Uttarkashi – Subhadra Mitra Channa ; Mask of Chhau – A Tribal Heritage through the Ages in West Bengal: An Ethno-Archaeological Study in Charida Group of People – Banani Bhattacharyya
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Archaeopress The Lamps of Late Antiquity from Rhodes: 3rd–7th
Book SynopsisThe city of Rhodes was an important harbour in the Hellenistic period, and although its political role in the Roman period was significantly diminished, it never ceased to be a key hub for trade. The catastrophic earthquake of 515 AD marked the transition from the Late Roman to the Early Byzantine period in Rhodes. The glorious ancient city shrunk in size; its streets, which had been laid out according to the Hippodamian grid, were encroached upon and large basilicas were founded on the sites of ancient sanctuaries. A significant portion of the city has been uncovered over the past few years by rescue excavation, revealing houses, mansions, streets and extensive cemeteries, all yielding a large quantity of finds. This study focuses on the recording, study and publication of the corpus of the Late Antique lamps dating from the 3rd to the 7th centuries as found in these rescue excavations in the town of Rhodes. The lamps of this period from Rhodes and the other Dodecanesian islands are nearly unknown in the bibliography. The aim here is to present the diachronic changes in the artistic sensibility and preferences of this particular market. An integral component in this process are topographical observations regarding the Early Byzantine town of Rhodes, giving some details about the extent of the building remains. In addition, facets of the economic and commercial activities of the island during Late Antiquity are highlighted. Subjects such as the transformation/adaptation of the ancient city to new circumstances are also debated. For some lamps, analyses of the clay have been undertaken and the results are presented.Table of ContentsA. 1. Introduction; A. 2. The Historical Context; B. THE LAMPS; B. 1. The Corinthian Lamps; B. 2. The Cypriot Lamps; B.3. The Attic Lamps; B. 4. The ‘Rhodian’ Lamps; B. 5. The So-called Asia Minor and the Asia Minor-type Lamps; B. 6. The Knidian Lamps; B. 7. The ‘Samian-type’ Lamps; B. 8. The ‘Aegean type’ Lamps; B. 9. The North African Lamps; B. 10. Unplaced: The Greek East Lamps; B. 11. The Wheel-made Lamps; B. 12. The Lamps of a Copper Alloy; C. Epilogue – Conclusions; D.1. Topographic map of Rhodes and location of excavation work (a list of the land-plots from which the lamps came); D.2. List of signatures, inscriptions and symbols; D.3. List of plates (signatures, inscriptions and symbols); D.4. Plates; D.5. List of Illustrations; D.6. Illustrations; D.7. Concordance of registration numbers and catalogue numbers; D.8. Bibliography-Abbreviations; E.1. NAA Analysis of Late Roman Lamps from Rhodes; E.2. The Preparation of a Preliminary XRF Database and the Comparison of Provenanced and Unprovenanced Lamps from Rhodes: An XRF Study Conducted by the University of Hartford Research Group; E.3. Some comments on the NAA and XRF analyses results
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Archaeopress Durovigutum: Roman Godmanchester
Book SynopsisThis publication presents the results of over 30 years of investigation into Roman Godmanchester, (Cambridgeshire), by Michael Green. The book accurately locates the 25 “sites” investigated, and pinpoints the trenches against the modern street layout. Although some sites covered large areas, many often had to be conducted as small trenches undertaken by volunteers. The origins for Durovigutum include evidence for Iron Age settlement which preceded two Roman forts during the 1st century AD. After its initial military establishment the book goes on to reveal the development of the Roman civic community and its cemeteries along Ermine Street adjacent to its crossing of the Great Ouse. The town was surrounded by defences in the 2nd century and a wall in the 3rd century, its public buildings included a mansio, bath-house and brewery, aisled barns, basilica and several temples, and the socio-economic foundation of the community is explored with specific examples from excavated evidence including different types of domestic housing and workshops. A tavern, glassware-shop, dairy equipment, pottery manufacture and a smithy are detailed in this book, as well as analysis of land organization, infield and outfield agriculture, and a villa estate at Rectory farm. Specialist analyses include samian and coarse wares, vessel and window glass, coins, animal bone, dairy production, belief systems and burial practices, as well as the exceptional finds of a hoard of jewellery from one of the mansio pits, and a burial casket of wood and bronze. Although partial or full reports of various excavations have been published in journals and monographs previously, this is the first time Green’s full body of work on Godmanchester has been collated and presented in one comprehensive volume. The book has not tried to include more recent investigations, and most illustrations are by Michael Green, drawn contemporary with his excavations.Trade Review‘…[It] is impossible not to be in awe of Green’s commitment to Roman Godmanchester and we have cause to be grateful to Tim Malim for bringing the volume together. As a result of this publication we are undoubtedly better informed about this important site, but it is also clear that much potential remains to be realized from the sites and material presented (or not) in the volume – a mine for postgraduate dissertations and theses perhaps?’ – Pete Wilson (2019): Archaeological Journal, DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2018.1555125Table of ContentsPreface ; Foreword ; PART 1 EXCAVATIONS AT DUROVIGUTUM ROMAN GODMANCHESTER ; Chapter 1 Introduction ; Chapter 2 Chronological and Thematic Summary of the Town ; Chapter 3 The forts, road network, and town development ; Chapter 4 Public Buildings and cemeteries ; Chapter 5 The Town: The Economic Base ; Chapter 6 The Economic Basis of the Rural Hinterland ; Chapter 7 Domestic Buildings and continuation into Anglo-Saxon times ; PART 2 SPECIALIST STUDIES ; Chapter 8 Samian, coarse pottery, kiln and catalogues ; Chapter 9 Mortaria and lamps ; Chapter 10 Faunal remains ; Chapter 11 Coins, special assemblages and slag ; PART 3 APPENDICES ; Appendix 1 Site reports arranged chronologically by excavation date ; Appendix 2 Collected Publications on Roman Godmanchester ; Appendix 3 Small Finds Catalogue and Drawings ; Bibliography
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Archaeopress New Home, New Herds: Cuman Integration and Animal
Book SynopsisThe Cumans, a people that inhabited the steppe zone in the medieval period and actively shaped the fate of the region from the Black Sea to the Carpathian Basin, have been primarily known to history as nomadic, mounted warriors. Some of them arrived in the Hungarian Kingdom in the midthirteenth century as a group of refugees fleeing the invading Mongol army and asked for asylum. In the course of three centuries they settled down in the kingdom, converted to Christianity, and were integrated into medieval Hungarian society. This study collects all available information, historical, ethnographic and archaeological alike, on the animal husbandry aspect of the complex development of the Cuman population in medieval Hungary. Although this medieval minority has been in the focus of scholarly interest in the past decades, no attempt has been made so far to study their herds using interdisciplinary methods. The research of faunal assemblages through archaeozoological methods has the potential to reveal direct, and by other means, unavailable information on animal keeping practices, although this source of evidence often escapes scholarly attention in Central and Eastern Europe. This book combines a primary scientific dataset with historical information and interprets them within the framework of settlement history in order to investigate the manifold integration process of a medieval community.Table of ContentsPreface; Chapter 1: Cuman history in perspective; Chapter 2: Methodological concerns; Chapter 3: Cuman economic orientation in Hungary; Chapter 4: Exploitation of the environment; Chapter 5: Processing the animal body; Chapter 6: Caring for sick beasts: pathologies, livestock health and veterinary treatment; Chapter 7: Conclusions; Bibliography; Appendix
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Archaeopress Who Owns the Past?: Archaeological Heritage
Book SynopsisWho owns the past? Archaeological heritage between destruction and idealization. This volume, part of the wider Ex Novo series, hosts papers exploring the various ways in which the past is remembered, recovered, created and used. In particular, contributions discuss the role of archaeology in present-day conflict areas and its function as peacekeeping tool or as trigger point for military action.Table of ContentsMaja GORI, Alessandro PINTUCCI & Martina REVELLO LAMI – Editorial: Who Owns the Past? Archaeological Heritage between Idealisation andDestruction ; Caroline A. SANDES – Remembering Beirut: lessons for archaeology and (post-)conflict urban redevelopment in Aleppo ; Nour A. MUNAWAR – Reconstructing Cultural Heritage in Conflict Zones: Should Palmyra be Rebuilt? ; Augusto PALOMBINI – The rights of reproducing Cultural Heritage in the digital Era. An Italian Perspective ; Emily R. HANSCAM – Frontiers of Romania: Nationalism and the Ideological Space of the Roman Limes ; Ivan MARINOV & Nicolas ZORZIN – Thracology and Nationalism in Bulgaria – Deconstructing Contemporaneous Historical and Archaeological Representations ; Reviews
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Archaeopress Excavation of the Late Saxon and Medieval
Book SynopsisMOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) undertook excavations over 2003-4 at the former St Martin’s churchyard, Wallingford, Oxfordshire. St Martin’s, one of perhaps eight churches of late Saxon Wallingford, was located in a prominent position in the centre of the burh. No middle Saxon activity was found and the earliest remains consisted of a layer sealing the natural subsoil which contained a probable late Saxon lead cross. Earliest use of the churchyard has been dated to the late 10th to early 11th century by radiocarbon dating, and burials continued until the end of the 14th century, serving a dwindling parish population, before the cemetery rapidly fell out of use thereafter. No burials post-date 1412. Part of the cemetery has not been disturbed by the present development. The unexcavated areas and previous post-medieval and modern disturbances has meant the original size of the cemetery remains unknown. A late Saxon mortar mixer found on the site has added to a growing number of this distinctive early constructional feature. While its presence indicates the vicinity of the late Saxon church, no foundations of St Martin’s church appear to have survived cellar digging and quarrying for gravel that occurred in the early 18th century. Osteological analysis of 187 of the 211 excavated skeletons of the cemetery has depicted a lay population which was almost equally split between males and females, with only a slight bias towards males. Their distribution showed no observable cluster within the churchyard by age or gender. A high proportion of children is notable but newborns and very young children were comparatively rare. The significance of this is unclear since so many disarticulated remains were also present due to later disturbance. Both degenerative pathologies and inherited conditions affecting bone were noted, as were a high frequency of trauma, some of it violent. Generally the population could be shown to have led healthy early lives compared to other urban assemblages, although evidence of tuberculosis and iron deficiency suggest that living conditions and diet at the heart of medieval Wallingford were far from ideal. Within the excavated area of the cemetery, a number of the burials demonstrated known pre-Conquest burial rites and there are some aspects which may be peculiar to the area, suggesting local variations to common rites. Eight pre-Conquest burials had their heads supported mostly by stones, but one had his head supported by two disarticulated skulls. One 30-40 year old male was buried wearing a pierce scallop-shell, presumably a pilgrim badge from Santiago de Compostella. Four burials were interred in stone-built cists and these ranged from a c1 year old to adults of both sexes. A further six burials lay in stone-built cists without a cover. All post-Conquest burials were earth-cut examples.Trade ReviewWallingford has recently benefitted from a period of intense archaeological and documentary research, the outcomes of which include Iain Soden's monograph on St Martin's churchyard. It records the most extensively excavated graveyard in the town, which was centrally located close to the intersection of the two main streets before it was lost to later development. The publication provides an important source for later Anglo-Saxon and medieval burial practises for the region. -- Grenville Astill * Oxoniensia *Table of Contents1: Introduction; 2: Historical and archaeological background; 3: Objectives and strategies; 4: Excavations; 5: Artefacts; 6: Human remains; 7: Discussion; Bibliography
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Archaeopress Life on the Edge: The Neolithic and Bronze Age of
Book SynopsisThe discovery of archaeological structures in North Uist in 1974 after storm damage led to the identification by Iain Crawford of a kerb cairn complex, with a cist and human remains. Six years later he went back, and over the next three years excavated another cist with human remains in its kerbed cairn, many bowl pits dug into the blown sand, and down to two late Neolithic structures and a ritual complex. He intensively studied the environmental conditions affecting the site and was among the first archaeologists in Scotland to understand the climate changes taking place at the transition between late Neolithic and the early Bronze Age. The deposition of blown sand and the start of the machair in the Western Isles, including the rise in sea-level and inundations into inhabited and farmed landscapes, are all part of the complex story of natural events and human activities. Radiocarbon dating and modern scientific analyses provide the detail of the story of periods of starvation suffered by the people that were buried on the site, of the movement away of the community, of their attempts of bringing the ‘new’ land back into cultivation, of a temporary tent-like structure, and of marking their territory by the construction of enduring monuments to the dead.Trade Review'...Ballin Smith and her colleagues have produced a worthy volume that answers many questions concerning the complex transition period between the Neolithic and Bronze Age within an area of the British Isles that would have been seen by late prehistoric pastoralists as the edge of the known world.' – George Nash (2019): Current ArchaeologyTable of ContentsForeword - Malcolm Burr ; Preface - Beverley Ballin Smith ; Summary (English/Gaelic) ; PART 1 Introduction - Beverley Ballin Smith ; PART 2 The excavation record - Beverley Ballin Smith ; PART 3 Dating and human remains ; PART 4 The changing natural environment and subsistence farming ; PART 5 Exploitation of natural resources and the uses of artefacts ; PART 6 Discussion - Beverley Ballin Smith ; PART 7 Conclusion - Life on the edge - Beverley Ballin Smith ; Afterword – Iain and Imogen Crawford ; Appendices: ; 1: Marine shell samples quantified by species ; 2: Pottery catalogue ; Bibliography ; Index
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Archaeopress Between History and Archaeology: Papers in honour
Book SynopsisBetween History and Archaeology: Papers in honour of Jacek Lech is a collection of forty-six papers papers in honour of Professor Jacek Lech, compiled in recognition of his research and academic career as well as his inquiry into the study of prehistoric flint mining, Neolithic flint tools (and beyond), and the history of archaeology. The papers explore topics on archaeology and history, and are organised into three sections. The first contains texts on flint mining dealing with well-known mining sites as well as previously unpublished new material. The reader will find here a wide spectrum of approaches to flint mining, ways of identifying raw materials used by prehistoric communities, and an impressive overview of the history of research, methodology and approaches to flint mining in Europe, North America and Asia. The following group of papers deals with the use of flint by Neolithic and younger communities, including typological studies on trace evidence analyses as well as theoretical papers on prehistoric periods in Europe and the New World. The final section consists of papers on the history of archaeology in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some deal with the beginnings of archaeology as a scholarly discipline, while others present significant research from different countries. Readers will also find papers on the development of archaeology in the second half of the 20th century, both in political and institutional contexts. The book ends with the memories, which bring the Jubilarian closer to the reader by viewing him through the eyes of his co-workers and friends.Table of ContentsEditorial Preface – by Dagmara H. Werra and Marzena Woźny; Early Prehistoric Flint Mining in Europe: a Critical Review of the Radiocarbon Evidence – by Susana Consuegra and Pedro Díaz-del-Río; Twenty-five Years Excavating Flint Mines in France and Belgium: an Assessment – by Françoise Bostyn, Hélène Collet, Emmanuel Ghesquière, Anne Hauzeur, Pierre-Arnaud de Labriffe, Cyril Marcigny in collaboration with Philippe Lavachery; Flint Mining in Northern France and Belgium: a Review – by Françoise Bostyn, Hélène Collet, Jean-Philippe Collin and François Giligny; Flint Mining and the Beginning of Farming in Southern England – by Robin Holgate; Women´s Work? Findings from the Neolithic Chert Mines in the ‘Krumlovský les’, South Moravia – by Martin Oliva; New research at Tata-Kálváriadomb, Hungary – by Katalin T. Biró, Erzsébet Harman-Tóth and Krisztina Dúzs; News from the Eastern Fringe – The Baunzen Site near Vienna, Austria – by Michael Brandl, Oliver Schmitsberger and Gerhard Trnka; Siliceous Raw Materials from the Eastern Part of the Polish Carpathians and Their Use in Stone and Bronze Ages – by Andrzej Pelisiak; Ongar: a Source of Chert in Lower Sindh (Pakistan) and Its Bronze Age Exploitation – by Paolo Biagi and Elisabetta Starnini; The Chocolate Flint Mines in the Udorka Valley (Częstochowa Upland) – a Preliminary Report on the Field and Lidar Surveys – by Magdalena Sudoł-Procyk, Janusz Budziszewski, Maciej T. Krajcarz, Michał Jakubczak and Michał Szubski; Exploitation and Processing of Cretaceous Erratic Flint on the Polish Lowland. A Case Study of Sites in the Vicinity of Gorzów Wielkopolski – by Przemysław Bobrowski and Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka; The Latest Knowledge on Use of Primary Sources of Radiolarites in the Central Váh Region (the Microregion of Nemšová – Červený Kameň) – by Ivan Cheben, Michal Cheben, Adrián Nemergut and Marián Soják; The Prehistoric Bedrock Quarries Occurring within the Chert Bearing Carbonates of the Cambrian-Ordovician Kittatinny Supergroup, Wallkill River Valley, Northwestern New Jersey-Southeastern New York, U.S.A. – by Philip C. LaPorta, Scott A. Minchak and Margaret C. Brewer-LaPorta; Methodical Concepts and Assumptions Underlying Research Methods for Studies on the Erratic Raw Material of the Polish Lowland. Geology versus Archaeology – by Piotr Chachlikowski; Why Foragers Become Farmers: Development and Dispersal of Food Producing Economies in Comparative Perspective – by Andreas Zimmermann; Acquisition and Circulation of Flint Materials in the Linear Pottery Culture of the Seine Basin – by Pierre Allard; The Organisation of Flint Working in the Dutch Bandkeramik: a Second Approach – by Marjorie E.Th. de Grooth; Jurrasic-Cracow Flint in the Linear Pottery Culture in Kuyavia, Chełmno Land and the Lower Vistula Region – by Joanna Pyzel and Marcin Wąs; Morphological and Functional Differentiation of the Early Neolithic Perforators and Borers – a Case Study from Tominy, South-Central Poland – by Marcin Szeliga and Katarzyna Pyżewicz; A Danubian Raw Material Exchange Network: a Case Study from Chełmno Land, Poland – by Dagmara H. Werra, Rafał Siuda and Jolanta Małecka-Kukawka; Lithic Workshops and Depots/Hoards in the Early/Middle Neolithic of the Middle Danube Basin and of the Northern Balkans – by Małgorzata Kaczanowska and Janusz K. Kozłowski; Considerations on the Topic of Exceptionally Large Cores of Chocolate Flint – by Anna Zakościelna; Romancing the Stones: a Study of Chipped Stone Tools from the Tisza Culture Site of Hódmezővásárhely-Gorzsa, Hungary – by Barbara Voytek; Flint Knapping as a Family Tradition at Bronocice, Poland – by Marie-Lorraine Pipes, Janusz Kruk and Sarunas Milisauskas; The Cucuteni – Trypillia ‘Big Other’ – Reflections on the Making of Millennial Cultural Traditions – by John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska; A Neolithic Child Burial from Ciemna Cave in Ojców National Park, Poland – by Paweł Valde-Nowak, Damian Stefański and Anita Szczepanek; The Settlement of Bodaki – a Tripolian-Culture Centre of Flint Exploitation in Volhynia – by Natalia N. Skakun, Vera V. Terekhina and Boryаna Mateva; Late Bronze Age Flint Assemblage from Open-pit Mine Reichwalde in Saxony, Germany – by Mirosław Masojć; Workshops in the Immediate Vicinity of a Mining Field of Flint Sickle-Shaped Knives from the Foreland of the Outcrops of Świeciechów Flint – by Jerzy Libera; Mining for Salt in European Prehistory – by Anthony Harding; Late Pre-Hispanic Stone-tool Workshops at Cayash Ragaj, Central Andes, Peru – by Andrzej Krzanowski and Krzysztof Tunia; From the History of Polish Archeology. In the Search for the Beginnings of Polish Nation and Country – by Adrianna Szczerba; Towards a Common Language: the Plan to Standardise Symbols on Archaeological Maps in 19th-century Europe – by Marzena Woźny; Izydor Kopernicki (1825–1891) and Czech Archaeology – by Karel Sklenář; From Poetry to Prehistory: Mary Boyle and the Abbé Breuil – by Alan Saville; The Life and Work of Bohdan Janusz (1887–1930) in the Context of the Intellectual Environment of the Galicia Region – by Natalia Bulyk; Albin Jura (1873–1958): Social Activist, Teacher and Stone Age Researcher – by Elżbieta Trela-Kieferling; Striped Flint and the Krzemionki Opatowskie Mine, Poland. The Beginnings – by Danuta Piotrowska; Archaeological Research at the Lvov University: Interwar Period – by Natalia Bilas; Archaeology and Art: the Relationship of Karel Absolon (1877–1960) and Czechoslovak Artists in the Period Between the World Wars – by Petr Kostrhun; The Basket Workshop Warehouse Manager: Memory by Alfred Wielopolski on Józef Kostrzewski’s Fate During the German Nazi Occupation Time (1941–1943) – by Andrzej Prinke; Konrad Jażdżewski (1908–1985) – Pupil and Friend of Professor Dr Józef Kostrzewski – by Maria Magdalena Blombergowa; Polish Archaeology Under Communism. The Trial of Massive Corruption of Clever Minds – by Andrzej Boguszewski; Forgotten History of Zespół do Badań Dziejów Szkła w Wielkopolsce (the Group for the Study of History of Glass in Greater Poland) – by Jarmila E. Kaczmarek; Professor Jacek Lech’s Archaeological Interest in Ojców and the Sąspowska Valley – by Józef Partyka; Do you remember?... – by Franciszek M. Stępniowski
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Archaeopress Augustus: From Republic to Empire
Book SynopsisAugustus: From Republic to Empire is the product of a conference entitled AUGUSTUS. 23 September 63 BC – 19 August 14 AD – 2000 years of divinity organised on 12 December 2014 by the Institute of Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University, the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations at the Jagiellonian University and the National Museum in Krakow. The conference was hosted by the Emeryk Hutten- Czapski Museum – a branch of the National Museum in Krakow – and commemorated the anniversary of Augustus’s death. The volume offers readers articles that deal with a variety of topics ranging from architecture, urban issues and painting to fine art represented by glyptics and numismatics. It includes papers devoted to the publication of previously unknown objects, articles presenting iconographic research, deliberations on propaganda, and analyses of the political situation and source texts. Chronologically, some of the papers go beyond the age of August, yet are relevant to the understanding of the transformations that took place in art and architecture during the reign of the first princeps, the widely-understood middle and late periods of the Republic, and the early Empire. The geographic scope of the articles covers the entire territory of the Empire. This diverse topic allows a variety of research themes on the epoch of August to be presented from a broad perspective.Table of ContentsPreface ; IMP XV/SICIL – The debate over the Augustus golden quaternion of Pompeii – Katarzyna Balbuza ; Propaganda of victory in iconography on gems from Novae – Grażyna Bąkowska-Czerner ; An attempt at identifying the location of the ancient agora in Chersonesus Taurica – Andrzej B. Biernacki and Elena Klenina ; Changes in the urban layout and architecture of the ancient town in Marina el-Alamein at the turn of eras – Rafał Czerner ; The Augustan inspirations for the decoration of the chimney place in the Tyszkiewicz-Potocki Palace in Warsaw. presented to mark the occasion of the University of Warsaw bicentennial – Piotr Dyczek ; Octavian/Augustus’s propaganda messages encoded on ancient engraved gems from the Constantine Schmidt-Ciążyński collection – Paweł Gołyźniak ; Capricorn and the star: the astrological symbols of Augustus – Szymon Jellonek ; Between greatness and divinity. Augustus in ancient tradition and medieval legend – Agata A. Kluczek ; Octavian in Egypt. Propaganda and graffiti – Adam Łukaszewicz ; The villa of Livia on the Via Flaminia and its restoration at the bimillenarius of Augustus (2014) – Marina Piranomonte ; Plundered art in the galleries of Augustan Rome – Tomasz Polański ; Residential villas in Italy in the Augustan age: the case-study of the Sabina Tiberina – Carla Sfameni ; Augustus and Cyrenaica – Jerzy Żelazowski
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