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Book SynopsisSt Gregory’s Minster, Kirkdale, North Yorkshire: Archaeological Investigations and Historical Context is the result of c.20 years of work on and around the Anglo-Saxon church of St Gregory’s Minster, Kirkdale, North Yorkshire. It is primarily concerned with material relating to approximately the late 8th century onwards, detailing the fabric as well as excavations around the church and in the fields immediately adjacent. A succession of three church buildings are linked to a putative focus on the north side of the church, to which, it is argued, pre-Conquest elite burials were orientated. A pre-Conquest ‘building site’ to the north of the churchyard overlay an area of earlier burials. While the building is best-known for its mid-11th century inscription, the report extends the time-period of this isolated site, particularly for the post-Roman to middle Saxon period, but also as an earlier probably religious landscape. The volume integrates archaeological, landscape, place-name and historical approaches to consider the church in its wider setting, exploring the changing character of lordship from post-Roman to Anglo-Saxon and proposing an explanation for the long use of this non-settlement locale.Trade Review'This well-presented and thoughtful report will be of interest from a wide range of perspectives. The excavations show how to use targeted trenches disturbing only a fraction of the available archaeology to unravel the history of a church. The explanations of stratigraphic sequences and logical inferences from the structure of the building show how to go about distinguishing the phases of a building, and are revealing about how rebuilding was undertaken. The expert osteoarchaeological analysis of the bodies, by Lizzie Craig-Atkins, adds a valuable cemetery population to our corpus. The catalogue of individual artefacts encompasses fragments of stone sculpture, fired clay, pottery, glass, melon beads, jet, a copper alloy strap end, and metal-working slags. The final overview and interpretation shows the limits of what our broader historical models and interpretations of the Anglo-Saxon Church can do when they are confronted by the sequence of developments at a single site.'–Thomas Pickles (2021): Northern History, DOI: 10.1080/0078172X.2021.1968175 ‘…this publication is a remarkable testament as to what can be achieved by the close scrutiny of a charismatic site such as this without recourse to largescale excavation or developer funding. It benefits greatly from its authors’ deep-time perspective, who seek to place their findings in a numinous landscape of abiding cult significance rather than fixating on the upstanding early medieval remains, and who do not shy away from placing the often-fragmentary information within its broader social, political and intellectual contexts.’ – Michael Shapland (2022): Medieval Archaeology, 65/2, 2021‘The yield of significant data from this unfunded project, sustained by the enthusiasm of the excavators and local residents, exceeds that from many much larger ones. The report is straightforward, easily used, and provides all the necessary evidence. It passes the acid test for excavation reports in setting out the facts in an objective and non-dogmatic fashion and in suggesting interpretations while leaving the door open for different ones.’ – John Blair (2022): Medieval Settlement Research, Vol. 37Table of ContentsSummary ; Preface ; Chapter 1: The Site of Kirkdale ; Investigations in and around the Church ; Chapter 2: The West Exterior ; Chapter 3: The North Exterior ; Chapter 4: The South Exterior ; Chapter 5: The Chancel Exterior ; Chapter 6: The Church Interior ; Investigations in the locality ; Chapter 7: Adjacent Fields ; Assemblages ; Chapter 8: Human bones ; Chapter 9: The Artefacts ; Synthesis ; Chapter 10: Overview and Interpretation ; References

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Book SynopsisThis open-access and peer-reviewed academic publication stems from the activities of the Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory, a research network founded in April 2017 to foster and support new research on the monuments and landscapes of the Anglo-Welsh borderlands and comparative studies of borderlands and frontiers from prehistory to the present. The proceedings of a series of academic and public-facing events have informed the character and direction of the Journal. Moreover, its establishment coincides with the Cadw/Historic England/Offa’s Dyke Association funded Offa’s Dyke Conservation Management Plan as well as other new community and research projects on linear earthworks. Published in print by Archaeopress in association with JAS Arqueología, and supported by the University of Chester and the Offa’s Dyke Association, the journal aims to provide a resource for scholars, students and the wider public regarding the archaeology, heritage and history of the Welsh Marches and its linear monuments. It also delivers a much-needed venue for interdisciplinary studies from other times and places.Trade Review'Volume 1 has delivered an exceptional series of articles which illustrates the breadth of interest and variety in how people engage with dykes.' – Tim Malim, Archaeologia Cambrensis 170 (2021)'...we are presented with a journal on a single, albeit complex, monument, Offa’s Dyke... This is an exciting new development, challenging past practices whereby reports on individual monuments might be published in a range of local and national journals... The papers have met the aspirations of the editors and the journal is attractively produced.' – David J. Breeze, Current Archaeology 371 (2021)Table of ContentsThe Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory and the Offa’s Dyke Journal – Howard Williams and Liam Delaney ; Offa’s Dyke: ‘the Stuff that Dreams are Made of’ – Ann Williams ; Wat’s Dyke: An Archaeological and Historical Enigma – Margaret Worthington Hill ; Hidden Earthworks: Excavation and Protection of Offa’s and Wat’s Dykes – Paul Belford ; Llywarch Hen’s Dyke: Place and Narrative in Early Medieval Wales – Andy Seaman ; The Danevirke: Preliminary Results of New Excavations (2010–2014) at the Defensive System in the German-Danish Borderland – Astrid Tummuscheit and Frauke Witte ; Making Earthworks Visible: The Example of the Oswestry Heritage Comics Project – John Swogger

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Book SynopsisLondon’s Waterfront 1100–1666: excavations in Thames Street, London, 1974–84 presents and celebrates the mile-long Thames Street in the City of London and the land south of it to the River Thames as an archaeological asset. The argument is based on the reporting of four excavations of 1974–84 by the Museum of London near the north end of London Bridge: Swan Lane, Seal House, New Fresh Wharf and Billingsgate Lorry Park. Here the findings of the period 1100–1666 are presented. Buildings and property development on sixteen properties south of Thames Street, on land reclaimed in many stages since the opening of the 12th century, include part of the parish church of St Botolph Billingsgate. The many units of land reclamation are dated by dendrochronology, coins and documents. They have produced thousands of artefacts and several hundred kilos of native and foreign pottery. Much of this artefactual material has been published, but in catalogue form (shoes, knives, horse fittings, dress accessories, textiles, household equipment). Now the context of these finds, their deposition in groups, is laid out for the first time. Highlights of the publication include the first academic analysis and assessment of a 13th- or 14th-century trumpet from Billingsgate, the earliest surviving straight trumpet in Europe; many pilgrim souvenirs; analysis of two drains of the 17th century from which suggestions can be made about use of rooms and spaces within documented buildings; and the proposal that one of the skeletons excavated from St Botolph’s church is John Reynewell, mayor of London in 1426–7 and a notable figure in London’s medieval history. The whole publication encourages students and other researchers of all kinds to conduct further research on any aspect of the sites and their very rich artefactual material, which is held at the Museum of London’s Archaeological Archive. This is a significantly large and varied dataset for the archaeology and history of London in the period 1100 to 1666 which can be continuously interrogated for generations to come.Table of ContentsSummary ; 1. The report: introduction ; 2. Period M1 (1100–1200, 1220 on site A) ; 3. Period M2 1200–1350 ; 4. Period M3 1350–1500 ; 5. Period P1 (1500 to 1666) ; 6. Essays and specialist reports: the development and character of the waterfront of the City of London, 1100–1666, and suggestions for future research ; 7. Dating Tables and Artefact Tables ; 8. Section drawings and supporting files online ; 9. Summaries in French and German (translated by Madeleine Hummler) ; 10. Bibliography and abbreviations ; Index

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Book SynopsisThe Seminar for Arabian Studies is the principal international academic forum for research on the Arabian Peninsula. First convened in 1968 it is the only annual academic event for the study of the Arabian Peninsula that brings together researchers from all over the world to present and discuss current fieldwork and the latest research. The Seminar covers an extensive range of subjects that include anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, epigraphy, ethnography, history, language, linguistics, literature, numismatics, theology, and more besides, from the earliest times to the present day or, in the fields of political and social history, to around the end of the Ottoman Empire (1922). The 53rd Seminar for Arabian Studies was hosted by the University of Leiden and took place in the Lipsius Building from Thursday IASA. In total sixty-five papers and twenty-three posters were presented at the three-day event. On Friday 12 July a special session on the stone tools of prehistoric Arabia was held, the papers from this session are published in a supplement to the main Seminar Proceedings.Table of ContentsEditors’ Foreword ; In Memoriam Jocelyn Cecilia Orchard, 1936–2019 ; Desert tombs: recent research into the Bronze Age and Iron Age cairn burials of Jebel Qurma, north-east Jordan – Peter M.M.G. Akkermans, Merel L. Brüning, Monique Arntz, Sarah A. Inskip & Keshia A.N. Akkermans ; On the nature of South Arabian influences in Ethiopia during the late first millennium BC: late pre-Aksumite settlement on the margins of the eastern Tigray plateau – Anne Benoist, Iwona Gajda, Steven Matthews, Jérémie Schiettecatte, Ninon Blond, Saskia Büchner & Pawel Wolf ; Pottery from the al-Zubārah suq – Agnieszka Magdalena Bystron ; The dawn of the Islamic era? The excavation of Yughbī in the Crowded Desert of Qatar – Jose C. Carvajal López, Kirk Roberts, Laura Morabito, Gareth Rees, Frank Stremke, Anke Marsh, David M. Freire-Lista, Robert Carter & Faiṣal ‘Abd Allāh al-Na‘īmī ; First discoveries of the Bāt/al-Arid mission (Sultanate of Oman) – Corinne Castel, Olivier Barge, Blandine Besnard, Tara Beuzen-Waller, Jacques Élie Brochier, Lionel Darras, Emmanuelle Régagnon & Séverine Sanz ; Large-sized camel depictions in western Arabia: a characterization across time and space – Guillaume Charloux, Maria Guagnin & Jérôme Norris ; The Ras al-Jinz reloaded: resuming excavations at the edge of Arabia – Alexandre P. De Rorre, Jean-François Berger, Massimo Delfino, Jonathan M. Kenoyer, Elena Maini & Valentina M. Azzarà ; Kalbā and dāw in Khaliji art: tracing extinct dhows in Arab and Persian iconography – Mick de Ruyter ; New light on the late Wadi Suq period from the Ṣuhār hinterlands – Michel de Vreeze, Bleda Düring & Eric Olijdam ; Nothing but tombs and towers? Results of the Al-Mudhaybi Regional Survey 2019 – Stephanie Döpper & Conrad Schmidt ; Excavations at Wādī al-Sail, Bahrain 2015–2019 – Takeshi Gotoh, Kiyohide Saito, Masashi Abe & Akinori Uesugi ; Renewed research at the Iron Age II site of Hili 2 (Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) – Steven Karacic, Ali Abdu Rahman Al Meqbali, Abdulla Khalfan Al Kaabi, Dia Eddin Abdullah Altawallbeh, Hamad Ahmed Fadel & Peter Magee ; A ninth- to tenth-century pottery workshop at al-Yamāmah, Central Arabia – Fabien Lesguer & Jérémie Schiettecatte ; Les fouilles françaises de Abu Saiba (Mont 1). Données nouvelles sur la phase Tylos de Bahreïn (c.200 BC–AD 300) – Pierre Lombard, Bérénice Chamel, Julien Cuny, Marianne Cotty, François Guermont, Robert Lux & Lionel Noca ; Trade and contacts between southern Arabia and East Asia: the evidence from al-Balīd (southern Oman) – Alexia Pavan & Chiara Visconti ; Ceramic exchange in the northern UAE during the Late Bronze Age: preliminary results of macroscopic and petrographic analyses – Maria Paola Pellegrino, Sophie Méry, Anne Benoist, Sophie Costa & Julien Charbonnier ; Excavations at the Old Fort of Stone Town, Zanzibar: new evidence of historic interactions between the Swahili coast and Arabian Gulf – Timothy Power & Mark Horton with Omar Salem al-Kaabi, Mohamed Matar al-Dhaheri, Myriam Saleh al-Dhaheri, Noura Hamed al-Hameli, Henry Webber & Rosie Ireland ; Late Islamic ceramic distribution networks in the Gulf: new evidence from Jazīrat al-Ḥamrāʾ in Ras al-Khaimah – Seth M.N. Priestman ; Some thoughts on the burial space inside QA 1-1, an Umm an-Nar tomb in Wādī al-Fajj (Oman): a case of incomplete paving of the tomb’s floor – Łukasz Rutkowski ; Assessing Kalba: new fieldwork at a Bronze Age coastal site on the Gulf of Oman (Emirate of Sharjah, UAE) – Christoph Schwall & Sabah A. Jasim ; Taxation and public labour in ancient Sabaʾ: an examination of ḫrṣ using the Leiden and Munich minuscule inscriptions – Jason Weimar ; Titles of papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the University of Leiden, 11–13 July 2019

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Book SynopsisSession XXXIV-6 of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4–9 June 2018, Paris, France): ‘Stone in Metal Ages’ was divided in two parts. The first, ‘Late stone talks: Lithic industries in Metal Ages’, was concerned with knapping. The papers dealt with lithic technology, use-wear analyses and the relation between the decline of stone and the development of metallurgy. The second, ‘Let there be rock and metal: l’outillage en pierre des métallurgistes préhistoriques de la mine à l’atelier’, was designed for papers focussing on stone tools used for metallurgy. This publication combines these two parts. Despite the fact that metal took the place of stone in many spheres, the analysis of lithic products created during the Metal Ages has seen progressive development. Objects and tools made of flint, chert and other stone materials remain important components of the archaeological record, and their study has offered new perspectives on ancient societies. Not only have many aspects of the everyday life of ancient people been better understood, but the socioeconomic and cultural systems associated with the production, circulation and use of stone tools have offered new information not available from other realms of material culture.Table of ContentsForeword – by Francesca Manclossi, Florine Marchand, Linda Boutoille and Sylvie Cousseran-Néré ; Millstones and other macrolithics, the ‘eternal forgotten’ in Chalcolithic sites: Camino de las Yeseras (San Fernando de Hanares, Madrid, Spain) – by Irene Ortiz Nieto-Márquez, Patricia Ríos Mendoza, Corina Liesau von Lettow-Vorbeck and Carlos Arteaga ; Production et consommation de l’industrie lithique taillée durant l’âge du Bronze en Grèce continentale – by Marie-Philippine Montagné et Lolita Rousseau ; Bronze Age flint denticulates: A Bulgarian case study – by Maria Gurova ; Tell Arqa, Bronze Age macro-blade debitage with a lever: archaeological and experimental approaches – by Florine Marchand, Jérémie Vosges and Frédéric Abbès ; Going to the source: New perspectives in the study of the Canaanean blade technology from Iraqi Kurdistan – by Cecilia Conati Barbaro and Daniele Moscone ; Les industries lithiques de la Ville I de Mari (Tell Hariri, Syrie, 2900-2650 av. J.-C.) : chaînes opératoires et premières perspectives techno-culturelles – by Raphaël Angevin ; The decline and disappearance of chipped-stone tools: a case-study from the Southern Levant – by Francesca Manclossi ; L’outillage lithique de l’atelier de bronzier du site du Bronze final de Montélimar la rue du Bouquet (Drôme, France) : un témoin de l’activité métallurgique ? – by Cousseran-Néré, Linda Boutoille and Eric Néré ; Technologie des matériaux lithiques : l’outillage lithique utilisé en métallurgie de transformation – by Maxence Pieters

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Book SynopsisCeramic technology is a topic widely explored in archaeology, especially for its social inferences. This volume addresses the social aspects of production and the role of potters within prehistoric communities. The book focusses on the Copper Age when social complexity was incipient rather than developed, and ceramic production was not considered a formalised activity. Household and funerary pottery dated from the second half of the 4th to the end of the 3rd millennium BC unearthed from eight archaeological contexts located in the current area of Rome were analysed through a multidisciplinary study. An integrated approach of archaeometric investigation, trace analysis and experimental archaeology provided a framework of empirical data reflecting the transmission of technological choices among diverse ceramic traditions and the coexistence of different levels of expertise within productions related to household or funerary activities. Petrographic analyses, XRF and XRD, led to an understanding of the ceramic recipes, their use and the firing technology used by Copper Age potters. The reference collection of technological traces relating to forming techniques, surface treatments and comb decorations allowed characterization of the craftspeople’s expertise. A potter’s skill is inferred in terms of the technical investment required at each stage of production or in shaping specific ceramic vessels. In light of these data, the pottery from the Copper Age contexts of central Italy suggests a recurring association between skilled productions and socially valued goods, as the vessels used in funerary contexts demonstrate.Table of ContentsPrefazione ; introduzione ; Capitolo 1 - Una metodologia multidisciplinare per lo studio della tecnologia ceramica ; Capitolo 2 - Il caso di studio archeologico: le comunità calcolitiche dell'area di Roma ; Capitolo 3 - Classi macroscopiche di pasta, tessuti petrografici e temperature di cottura ; Capitolo 4 - I protocolli sperimentali: raccolta di dati comparativi ed esperienziali ; Capitolo 5 - Tecnologia ceramica nelle aree residenziali ; Capitolo 6 - Tecnologia ceramica in contesti funerari ; Capitolo 7 - Gli aspetti sociali della produzione ceramica nelle comunità calcolitiche del territorio di Roma ; Bibliografia

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Book SynopsisThe long Palaeolithic sequence of Karain (Antalya, Turkey) began around 500,000 years ago and continued until the final Palaeolithic around 10,000 BC. This volume presents all the cultural and technical variations during this immense period, situated in a context which joins Africa, Asia, and Europe. In brief, the assemblage of tools appears to belong to Asian traditions; no Acheulian bifaces were observed. The earlier half of the sequence (stages 9 and 10) corresponds to centripetal industries with thick flakes and with denticulates and racloirs, classified as 'Proto-Charentian'. 'Modern archaic' human remains were sporadically discovered there. The upper phase is by far the most important: stages 8 to 5. These are superb Levallois industries with good quality exogenous materials. The tools are made from elongated flakes and transformed into racloirs with very elegant points. They have been termed 'Karain Mousterian'. Human remains are also associated with this phase (mandible and phalanges). The final phase (stage 4) is classically Mousterian with Neanderthal human remains.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Première séquence : Berme Centrale, carrés alignés dans les séries G, H, I, selon les axes : 15, 16, 17 ; Deuxième séquence : Berme Centrale Carré H 18 ; Troisième séquence : Berme orientale (Dogu Profil), carrés orientés de G à J et de 12 à 13 ; Interprétations générales et comparaisons ; Bibliographie

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a study of the tomb of Kha-em-hat TT 57 at Qurna, West Luxor, which dates back to the 18th Dynasty⁠ – the reign of King Amenhotep III. It is considered one of the most important Egyptian tomb discoveries, containing rare scenes and revealing development of the religious rituals of the time. The tomb is still in very good condition and today is open to visitors.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Discovery ; Geographical position ; Features and the plan of the tomb ; Art characteristics ; Chapter I ; A. Titles ; Division of the titles in the tomb ; B. Facade: Court ; II. Outer court - front door ; III. Facade - stela of purification ; IV. Facade - opening of the mouth stela ; V. Facade - north wall ; VI. Entrance - door frame ; Chapter II: Transverse Hall ; Transverse Hall ; VII. East Wall ; VII. East wall - south side ; VIII. Remains of storehouse scene ; VIII. A Kha-em-hat offerings to Goddess Renenut, Mistress of harvesting ; IX. Unloading freight ships scene (lower register right-side wall) ; X. South wall ; XI. West wall ; XII. East wall - north side ; XIII. Kha-em-hat inspecting the surveying of the fields ; XIV. Hall - north wall ; XV. Hall - west wall - north side ; Chapter III: Passage ; Passage ; XVII. East wall - south side ; XVIII-XIX. South wall - funeral procession and ceremonies ; XIX. Osiris with western goddess ; Passage - east wall - north side ; XX. Deceased purified and acclaimed by priests ; XXI-XXII Passage - north wall ; XXII. Kha-em-hat in a worshipping attitude ; XXI. Kha-em-hat on the mountain ; XXIII. Door entrance ; Chapter IV: Inner Room ; Inner Room ; XXIV. South niche statues (Kha-em-hat and his Mother) ; XXV. Inner room - east wall ; XXVI. North niche statues ; XXVII. West niche statues ; Conclusion ; Scene analysis ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe reconstruction of the technical systems of ceramic production and of its ‘chaîne opératoire’ is a means of exploring certain social structures in time and space. For many years, methodological procedures based on multidisciplinarity have made it possible to analyse both materials and methods of fabrication for this purpose. Session IV-3 organised at the 18th Congress of the UISPP in 2018 aimed to highlight the contribution of technological approaches to ceramics, both in archaeology and in ethnology, to the analysis of pre- and protohistoric societies. The case studies focus on the Neolithic and the European Bronze Age, but also on the megalithism of our era in Senegal.Table of ContentsApport des approches technologiques de la céramique à l’anthropologie et à l’archéologie des sociétés pré et protohistoriques – François Giligny, Ekaterina Dolbunova, Louise Gomart, Alexandre Livingstone Smith, Sophie Méry ; La dynamique des traditions céramiques néolithiques dans la région de VolgaKama – Vybornov Aleksandr, Vasilieva Irina ; Identifying forming techniques and ways of doing from a diachronic perspective: the example of pottery production of La Dou (Ne Iberian Peninsula) during the Middle Neolithic I and Late Bronze Age – Javier Cámara Manzaneda, Xavier Clop Garcia, Jaume García Rosselló, Enriqueta Pons Brun, Maria Saña Seguí ; Les traditions techniques céramiques dans la seconde moitié du IVe millénaire. Le site de Twann « Bahnhof » (Canton de Berne, Suisse) – Marie Charnot ; Chaînes opératoires et contacts techniques : l’analyse tracéologique du mobilier céramique du Chalcolithique de Sardaigne – Maria Grazia Melis, Jaume García Rosselló ; ‘To Each His Own’. The Pottery Production of the Bronze Age site of Mursia (Pantelleria, Sicily). Some Technological and Functional assessments – Alessandra Magrì, Maurizio Cattani ; Évolutions typotechnologiques des productions céramiques de la nécropole de Wanar (Sénégal) : démarche archéologique et implications anthropologiques – Adrien Delvoye, Luc Laporte, Hamady Bocoum

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Book SynopsisNeolithic and Bronze Age Studies in Europe: from material culture to territories presents eight papers from the 2018 UISPP Congress. Topics include the neolithisation process in the Iberian Peninsula; faunal exploitation in early Neolithic Italy; the economic and symbolic role of animals in eastern Germany; Copper Age human remains in central Italy; animal figurines; spatula-idols; territories and schematic art in the Iberian Neolithic; and finally Bronze age hoards at a European scale. The diversity of the papers reflects contemporary approaches and questions in those periods.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Neolithic and Bronze Age studies in Europe: from material culture to Territories – Marie Besse, François Giligny ; Deconstructing the Neolithic: reflections from the Iberian Peninsula – Alfonso Alday, Lourdes Montes, Adriana Soto, Rafael Domingo ; Faunal exploitation in an Early Neolithic site: the assemblage from Casa Gazza (Travo, Piacenza, Northern Italy) – Chiara Messana, Maria Bernabò Brea, Marco Bertolini, Ursula Thun Hohenstein (corresponding author) ; The role of animals in the Salzmünde Society and beyond (ElbeSaale region, Germany) – Svenja Höltkemeier, Susanne Friederich ; Human skeletal remains from the Eneolithic of Spinosa Cave (GrossetoTuscany, Italy) – Antonietta Del Bove, Elsa Pacciani, Biancamaria Aranguren ; Chronologie et contextes des spatulesidoles dans les Pyrénées occidentales – Javier FernándezEraso, José Antonio MujikaAlustiza ; Symbolism in prehistoric Extremadura: a small zoomorphic figure in the natural monument ‘Cuevas de Fuentes de León’ (Fuentes De León, Badajoz) – Elena Garrido Fernández, Beatriz Gavilán, Hipólito Collado, José Ramón Bello ; Painting the Neolithic landscape of the Amblés Valley: Schematic Art, landmarks and symbolic territories of Central Iberia – Pilar Zapatero Magdaleno, Elisa Guerra Doce ; Bronze Age hoards from the Carpathian Basin to the French Atlantic coast: European similarities and regional specificities – Hélène Blitte

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Book SynopsisDuring the Seminar for Arabian Studies held in Leiden (July 2019), a special one-day session on the stone tools of prehistoric Arabia was held. Stone tools are generally associated with the oldest archaeological periods of human existence, the Palaeolithic, and are the most lasting vestiges of our ancestors’ productive activities. In Arabia, stone tools (or lithics) are found on the deflated surfaces close to raw material outcrops, high on the top of mountains and deep within valleys and terraces, on lake relics at the heart of the many sand seas, and even under water. For a long time, however, stratified archaeological records were rare and developing chronological frameworks was therefore a challenge. The discoveries made by international archaeological projects conducted across Arabia in recent years have made vital contributions to the field; the archaeological investigation of human origins in the Arabian Peninsula and a better understanding of cultural diversification throughout prehistory are good examples. The interpretation of the new finds provides alternative scenarios for how prehistoric human populations interacted with the diverse landscapes of Arabia, suggesting the Peninsula was not merely a crossroads or superhighway of expansion for anatomically modern humans but also functioned as a human habitat throughout the Pleistocene. The present Supplement to Volume 50 of the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies addresses these and many particularly emerging interests on the deep past of the Arabian Peninsula.Table of ContentsEditors’ Foreword ; New Palaeolithic sites around Al-Badʾ, north-western Saudi Arabia (Rémy Crassard, Yamandú H. Hilbert, Guillaume Charloux , Samer A. Sahlah & Waleed A. Badaiwi) ; The Palaeolithic record from the Central Region of the Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (Knut Bretzke) ; Middle and Late Pleistocene lithic technology from the region of Dûmat al-Jandal, northern Saudi Arabia (Yamandú H. Hilbert & Rémy Crassard) ; Lower and Middle Paleolithic Sites from the Rufa Graben central Saudi Arabia (Rémy Crassard & Yamandú H. Hilbert) ; The net of Nubian core and foldability: an attempt to individualize the lithic technology in the Palaeolithic (Amir Beshkani) Living and moving in Maitan: Neolithic settlements and regional exchanges in the southern Rub’ al-Khali (Sultanate of Oman) (Maria Pia Maiorano, Mohammed Al Kindi, Vincent Charpentier, Jérémie Vosges, Dominique Gommery, Grégor Marchand, Ahmed Qatan, Federico Borgi & Martin Pickford) ; Lithics of a cache-like feature at the high-elevation polje Hayl Al-Ajah inside the Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar of northern Oman (Inna Mateiciucová, Maximilian Wilding, Denis Štefanisko & Gerhard Trnka) ; Some remarks on the lithic assemblage from a coastal Ubaid-related settlement site on Delma Island, Abu Dhabi emirate, United Arab Emirates (Heiko Kallweit & Mark Jonathan Beech) ; The chipped stone assemblage from Hili 8 — Early Bronze Age innovation vs. Neolithic tradition (Norbert Buchinger, Marc Händel, Peter Magee, Ali Al Meqbali & Abdulla Al Kaabi) ; Bronze Age microliths at Saruq al-Hadid, Dubai (Mark W. Moore, Lloyd Weeks, Charlotte M. Cable, Yaaqoub Youssef Al-Ali, Mansour Boraik & Hassan Zein) [Open Access: Download] ; A Hafit-period stone tool assemblage from Al-Khashbah, Sultanate of Oman (Ullrich Ochs) ; The lithic industry from the Iron Age coastal settlement HAS1 (Inqitat), southern Oman (Yamandú H. Hilbert & Silvia Lischi)

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Book SynopsisAges and Abilities explores social responses to childhood stages from the late Neolithic to Classical Antiquity in Central Europe and the Mediterranean and includes cross-cultural comparison to expand the theoretical and methodological framework. By comparing osteological and archaeological evidence, as well as integrating images and texts, authors consider whether childhood age classes are archaeologically recognizable, at which approximated ages transitions took place, whether they are gradual or abrupt and different for girls and boys. Age transitions may be marked by celebrations and rituals; cultural accentuation of developmental stages may be reflected by inclusion or exclusion at cemeteries, by objects associated with childhood such as feeding vessels and toys, and gradual access to adult material culture. Access to tools, weapons and status symbols, as well as children’s agency, rank and social status, are recurrent themes. The volume accounts for the variability in how a range of chronologically and geographically diverse communities perceived children and childhood, and at the same time, discloses universal trends in child development in the (pre-)historic past.Trade Review'...the volume fills a gap in the childhood archaeology literature and gives new archaeological perspectives on children's social status, a topic that remains understudied.' -- Melie Le Roy * Current World Archaeology *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction. Children’s developmental stages from biological, anthropological and archaeological perspectives – Katharina Rebay-Salisbury and Doris Pany-Kucera ; Chapter 2: Weaponry and children: technological and social trajectories – Kathryn A. Kamp and John C. Whittaker ; Chapter 3: How and when life is considered to have begun in past societies: child burials at the cemetery of Durankulak, north-east Bulgaria - Ekaterina Alexandrova Stamboliyska-Petrova ; Chapter 4: Inherited rank and own abilities: children in Corded Ware and Bell Beaker communities of the Traisen Valley, Lower Austria – Daniela Kern ; Chapter 5: The little ones in the Early Bronze Age: foetuses, newborns and infants in the Únětice Culture in Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia – Lucie Vélová, Katarína Hladíková and Klaudia Daňová ; Chapter 6: Ages and life stages at the Middle Bronze Age cemetery of Pitten, Lower Austria – Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, with contributions by Patrik Galeta, Walther Parson, Doris Pany-Kucera, Michaela Spannagl-Steiner and Christina Strobl ; Chapter 7: Children in the territory of Western Hungary during the Early and Middle Bronze Age: the recognition of developmental stages in the past – Eszter Melis, Tamás Hajdu, Kitti Köhler and Viktória Kiss ; Chapter 8: Childhood in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age in the southern Carpathian Basin – Daria Ložnjak Dizdar and Petra Rajić Šikanjić ; Chapter 9: Mycenaean childhood: Linear B script set against archaeological artefacts – Beata Kaczmarek ; Chapter 10: Dumu.gaba, ṣiḫru e Guruš/sal.Tur.tur – Nadia Pezzulla ; Chapter 11: Identifying social and cultural thresholds in sub-adult burials – Francesca Fulminante ; Chapter 12: Child personhood in Iron Age Veneto: insights from micro-scale contextual analysis and burial taphonomy – Elisa Perego, Veronica Tamorri and Rafael Scopacasa ; Chapter 13: The recognition of children and child-specific burial practices at the necropolis of Spina, Italy – Anna Serra ; Chapter 14: Greek children and their wheel carts on Attic Vases – Hanna Ammar ; Chapter 15: Teeny-tiny little coffins: from the embrace of the mother to the embrace of Hades in ancient Greek society – Alexandra Syrogianni ; Chapter 16: Pueri nascentes: rituals, birth and social recognition in Ancient Rome – Irene Mañas Romero and José Nicolás Saiz López

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Book SynopsisJHP is an independent learned journal dedicated to the research of ceramics and objects of daily use of the Hellenistic period in the Mediterranean region and beyond. It aims at bringing together archaeologists, historians, philologists, numismatists and scholars of related disciplines engaged in the research of the Hellenistic heritage.Table of ContentsEditorial ; Submission Guidelines ; List of Contributors ; Abbreviations ; ARTICLES ; Pottery and Burial Customs in Hellenistic Megara, Greece – Yannis Chairetakis ; Dolphins in the Ionian-Adriatic Basin. Hellenistic Moldmade Ware from Orikos, Southern Illyria (Excavations 2012–2020) – Carlo De Mitri ; Ai Khanoum: A Case Study into Material Culture as a Marker for Ethnocultural Identity and Syncretism on the Hellenistic Frontier – David Thomas Richey-Lowe ; Contextualizing the Star-shaped Lamps in the Levant – Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom ; Lissos in Illyria, 2: A Hellenistic Fill from the Upper Town and Some Considerations on the Importance of Ceramic Debris – Patricia Kögler ; ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS AND PROJECTS ; Indroducing the Levantine Ceramic Project (LCP, www.levantineceramics.org) – Andrea M. Berlin ; BOOK REVIEWS ; S. Yu. Monakhov – J. V. Kuznetzova – N. F. Fedoseev – N. B. Churekova, Amphoras of the VI–II Centuries BC from the Collection of the East Crimean Historical and Cultural Reserve and S. Yu. Monakhov – J. V. Kuznetzova – N. B. Churekova, Amphoras of the V–II Centuries BC from the Collection of the State Historical and Archeological Museum-Reserve ›The Tauric Chersonesos‹ – Nikolai Jefremow

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Book SynopsisEstablished in 2006 by the Association for Near Eastern and Caucasian Studies in corporation with Institute of Oriental Studies and Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (National Academy of Sciences of Armenia) AJNES is the only periodical in the Republic of Armenia devoted exclusively to the investigation of ancient and medieval cultures of the Near East and the Caucasus. Articles appearing in its pages are contributions of scholars of international reputation in history, archaeology, philology, art, religion and science. This book presents Issues 1 and 2 of ARAMAZD: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies Volume XIV 2020 in one combined printed edition.

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Book SynopsisThe Sevrier kiln, discovered in 1974 on a submerged island in Lake Annecy in the Haute-Savoie region of France, is a headline find of alpine archeology. Almost fifty years later, it continues to provoke debate. This study looks back at the history of an artefact considered in turn as one of the earliest Western pottery kilns, as an enigmatic stove for domestic use, and as a technological link in the Final Bronze Age which would herald the professionalization of pottery, hitherto a purely domestic industry, seasonal and self-sufficient. It takes the form of a multidisciplinary investigation where archaeological, ethnoarchaeological and experimental approaches are brought together to consider the contradictory hypotheses, broaden the focus and put forward new perspectives. In particular the study focuses on technological history, and on the changing social structure of Bronze Age communities, which contributed to the advent of proto-artisans specialising in pottery production, a few centuries later.Table of ContentsPréfaces ; Résumé ; 1. Le four de Sévrier : de l’état de fragments à celui d’objet de référence controversé ; 2. Morphologie ; 3. Analyse fonctionnelle ; 4. Comparaisons ; 5. Discussion, perspectives ; 6. Conclusion ; Figures ; Tableaux ; Bibliographie ; Annexes en ligne

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Book SynopsisGöytepe: Neolithic Excavations in the Middle Kura Valley, Azerbaijan, publishes the first round of fieldwork and research (2008-2013) at this key site for understanding the emergence and development of food-producing communities in the South Caucasus. Situated close to the Fertile Crescent of Southwest Asia, where Neolithisation processes occurred earlier, research in the South Caucasus raises intriguing research questions, including issues of diffusion from the latter and interaction with ‘incoming’ Neolithic communities as well as the possibility of independent local Neolithisation processes. In order to address these issues in the South Caucasus, a joint Azerbaijan–Japan research programme was launched in 2008 to investigate Göytepe, one of the largest known Neolithic mounds in the South Caucasus. The results of the first phase of the project (2008-2013) presented here provide rich archaeological data from multi-disciplinary perspectives: chronology, architecture, technology, social organisation, and plant and animal exploitation, to name a few. This volume is the first to present these details in a single report of the South Caucasian Neolithic site using a high-resolution chronology based on dozens of radiocarbon dates.Table of ContentsPreface – Yoshihiro Nishiaki and Farhad Guliyev ; Chapter 1: Introduction – Yoshihiro Nishiaki and Farhad Guliyev ; Part I: Field Investigations ; Chapter 2: Geomorphological settings of Göytepe – Yuichi Hayakawa ; Chapter 3: Stratigraphy and architecture in the main excavation area of Göytepe – Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Farhad Guliyev, Fuad Hoseynov, and Kazuya Shimogama ; Chapter 4: Excavation, stratigraphy, and architecture of Square 4B at Göytepe – Seiji Kadowaki, Yui Arimatsu, and Yoshihiro Nishiaki ; Chapter 5: Soundings at the edges of Göytepe – Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Yui Arimatsu, and Saiji Arai ; Chapter 6: Mud-bricks in Neolithic architecture at Göytepe – Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Farhad Guliyev, and Emmanuel Baudouin ; Chapter 7: Geoarchaeological investigation of storage space at Göytepe: Phytolith, dung spherulite, and micromorphological analyses – Seiji Kadowaki, Lisa Maher, Marta Portillo, and Rosa M. Albert ; Chapter 8: Archaeological reconnaissance survey around Göytepe, Tovuz-Qovlar region – Kazuya Shimogama and Valeh Alakbarov ; Part II: Technology and Subsistence ; Chapter 9: Neolithic flaked stone assemblages from Göytepe – Yoshihiro Nishiaki ; Chapter 10: Use-wear analysis of chipped stone artifacts from Göytepe – Katsunori Takase ; Chapter 11: Fracture wing analysis for identification of obsidian blank production techniques at Göytepe – Jun Takakura and Yoshihiro Nishiaki ; Chapter 12: Neolithic ground stone typology and technology at Göytepe – Seiji Kadowaki ; Chapter 13: Neolithic pottery from Göytepe – Yui Arimatsu (with an Appendix by Takahiro Odaka) ; Chapter 14: Neolithic figurines from Göytepe – Kazuya Shimogama ; Chapter 15: The Neolithic bone and antler industry from Göytepe – Saiji Arai ; Chapter 16: Plant remains from Göytepe – Chie Akashi and Ken-ichi Tanno ; Chapter 17: Faunal remains from Göytepe – Saiji Arai

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Book SynopsisExcavations at Chester: Medieval and post-medieval development within the northern and eastern suburbs to c. 1900 brings together for the first time the results from archaeological investigations carried out within the suburbs to the north and east of the medieval and later City of Chester between 2002 and 2018. At sites investigated to both the north and east of the City, significant stretches of the defensive ditch cut during the Civil War of the 17th century were excavated. The results bring into question the accepted lines of these massive defensive outworks. To the northwest of the City, the findings demonstrate that the land remained agricultural until late in the 18th century and was not truly developed until the arrival of the canal network. To the north of the City, development of terraced housing had begun by the 1830s, shortly before the arrival of the railway network, in the area that would become the suburb of Newtown.To the east of the City, and north of the major route of Foregate Street, evidence for industry in the form of tanneries was uncovered on land that had otherwise been predominately agricultural. This area too witnessed an explosion in terraced housing from the beginning of the 19th century, and the remains of buildings relating to both entertainment and worship were also encountered.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction ; Summary ; The sites ; Chapter 2: Tower Wharf and Taylor’s Boatyard 2007–2016 (Sites 1 and 2) ; Introduction ; Results ; Natural deposits and features ; Roman: c. late 1st to late 2nd centuries AD (Period 1) ; Medieval: c. 12th to mid-15th centuries (Period 2) ; Late medieval to early post-medieval: c. mid-15th to mid-17th centuries (Period 3) ; Post-medieval: c. mid-17th to late 18th centuries (Period 4) ; Industrial: late 18th to 19th centuries (Period 5) ; Tower Wharf ; Taylor’s Boatyard ; Chapter 3: Sites off Trafford Street, Newtown 2015–2018 (Sites 3–6) ; Introduction ; Results: Former Newtown Bakery (Site 3) ; Results: Oakbase House (Site 4) ; Results: Land off Trafford Street (Site 5) ; Results: Northgate Fire Station (Site 6) ; Chapter 4: Witter Place, Seller Street 2002 (Site 7) ; Introduction ; Results ; Natural deposits ; Roman: c. early to mid-2nd century AD (Period 1) ; Medieval to early post-medieval: c. 12th to mid-16th centuries (Period 2) ; Post-medieval: c. mid- to late 17th century (Period 3) ; Late post-medieval: 18th to early 19th century (Period 4) ; The 19th century terraced housing B2, B3 and B4, and mill (B5) (Period 5) ; Chapter 5: City Road 2007–2008 and 2018 (Sites 8 and 9) ; Introduction ; Results: 20 City Road (Site 8) ; Natural deposits ; Roman: c. late 1st to late 2nd centuries AD (Period 1) ; Post-medieval: 18th century (Period 2) ; Post-medieval: Later 18th to 19th century (Periods 3–7) ; Results: City House (Site 9) ; Mid-19th century cottages (B5) (Period 1) ; Methodist chapel (B6) (Period 2) ; Chapter 6: Discussion ; Tower Wharf and Taylor’s Boatyard (Sites 1 and 2) ; Trafford Street, Newtown (Sites 3 – 6) ; Witter Place, Seller Street (Site 7) ; City Road (Sites 8 and 9) ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisVolume 6 maintains the journal's goal to cover the broad chronological spread of Greek Archaeology, ranging from a new review of the Mesolithic occupation at Theopetra, one of the most important hunter-gatherer sites in Greece, to a detailed analysis of how the distribution of Middle Byzantine churches in the Peloponnese enlightens us into the evolution of human settlement and land use. Prehistory is richly represented in further articles, as we learn about Middle Bronze Age society on Lefkas, the dispute over exotic primates portrayed on the frescoes of Santorini, a new Minoan-style peak sanctuary on Naxos, and Post-Palatial settlement structure on Crete. Bridging prehistory to historical times, a detailed study rethinks the burial and settlement evidence for Early Iron Age Athens, then entering the Archaic period, an original article links textual analysis and material culture to investigate dedicatory behaviour in Ionian sanctuaries. As a special treat, that doyen of Greek plastic arts Andrew Stewart, asks us to look again at the evidence for the birth of the Classical Style in Greek sculpture. Greek theatres in Sicily are next contextualised into contemporary politics, while the sacred Classical landscape of the island of Salamis is explored with innovative GIS-techniques. For the seven-hundred years or so of Roman rule we are given an indepth presentation of regional economics from Central Greece, and a thorough review of harbours and maritime navigation for Late Roman Crete. Finally we must mention a methodological article, deploying the rich data from the Nemea landscape survey, to tackle issues of changing land use and the sometimes controversial topic of ancient manuring.Table of ContentsJournal of Greek Archaeology Volume 6: Editorial – John Bintliff ; Method and Theory ; Farming on the Fringe: Diachronic Changes in Land-Use Patterns and Agricultural Strategies in Ancient Nemea – Christian F. Cloke ; Prehistoric and Protohistoric ; The Thessalian Mesolithic: Evidence from Theopetra Cave – Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika ; Middle Helladic Tombs at Nydri Plain, Lefkas Island. An Archaeological and Paleoanthropological Study – Vivian Staikou, Panagiotis D. Sianis, Despoina Vassou, Nikolaos Psonis, Morten E. Allentoft and George Iliopoulos ; A New Minoan-Type Peak Sanctuary on Stelida, Naxos? – Tristan Carter, Kristine Mallinson, Vagia Mastrogiannopoulou, Daniel A. Contreras, Charlotte Diffey, Claudette Lopez, Marie N. Pareja, Georgia Tsartsidou and Dimitris Athanasoulis ; Langurs in the Aegean Bronze Age? A Review of a Recent Debate on Archaeoprimatology and Animal Identification in Ancient Iconography – Julia Binnberg, Bernardo Urbani and Dionisios Youlatos ; Public vs Private: The Four Categories of Open-Air Spaces at the Late Minoan IIIC Middle Settlement at Monastiraki–Halasmenos (­Ierapetra, Crete) – David W. Rupp ; Reinterpreting the Diachronic Variations in the Numbers of Burials Known from Early Iron Age Athens – Maximilian F. Rönnberg ; Archaic to Hellenistic ; Shedding Light on the Matter: Evaluating Changing Patterns of Object Dedication in Ionian Sanctuaries (7th/6th – 5th/4th centuries BC) with Lexicometrical Analysis – Michael Loy and Anja Slawisch ; Continuity or Rupture? Further Thoughts on the ‘Classical Revolution’ (2500+ Years after Salamis) – Andrew Stewart ; Sicilian Theatres with Paraskenia Scene Buildings: An Updated Framework for their Chronological Integration – Maria Panagiotonakou ; Echoes of the Tragic in the Sacred Landscape of Ancient Salamis: A Geospatial Analysis of Hero Cult – Michael Delacruz ; Roman and Late Roman ; Geographies, Institutions, and Agencies: Ceramic and Socio-Economic Regions and Regionality in (Late) Hellenistic-Late Roman Boeotia, Central Greece (c. 150 BC-AD 700) – Dean Peeters ; Port and Harbour Networks in Crete during Late Antiquity (4th – mid-7th c. AD): A Modern Approach – Konstantinos Roussos ; Medieval and Post-Medieval ; Church Construction as a Proxy for Economic Development: the Medieval Settlement Expansion Phase in the Peloponnese – Maria Papadaki ; BOOK REVIEWS [OPEN ACCESS] DOI: 10.32028/9781789698886-16 ; Prehistory and Protohistory ; Sarah C. Murray, The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy. Imports, Trade and Institutions 1300–700 BCE / Chrysanthi Gallou, Death in Mycenaean Laconia. A Silent Place /James C. Wright and Mary K. Dabney (with contributions by Phoebe Acheson, Susan F. Allen, Kathleen M. Forster, Paul Halstead, S.M.A. Hoffman, Anna Karabatsoli, Konstantina Kaza-Papageorgiou, Bartłomiej Lis, Rebecca Mersereau, Hans Mommsen, Jeremy B. Rutter, Tatiana Theodoropoulou, and Jonathan E. Tomlinson), The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill (Nemea Valley Archaeological Project III) – Oliver Dickinson ; Gioulika-Olga Christakopoulou, To Die in Style! The Residential Lifestyle of Feasting and Dying in Iron Age Stamna, Greece – John Bintliff ; Archaic to Hellenistic ; Oliver Hülden, Das griechische Befestigungswesen der archaïschen Zeit. Entwicklungen – Formen – Funktionen – Hans Lohmann ; Peter van Alfen and Ute Wartenberg (eds) (with Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert, Haim Gitler, Koray Konuk, and Catharine C. Lorber), White Gold: Studies in Early Electrum Coinage – Keith Rutter ; Marta González González, Funerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece: Reflections on Literature, Society and Religion – Fabienne Marchand ; Robert S. Wagman, The Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalus. Studies on a Thessalian Country Shrine – Maria Mili ; Natascha Sojc (ed.), Akragas. Current Issues in the Archaeology of a Sicilian Polis – Johannes Bergemann ; Roman to Late Roman ; Laura Pfuntner, Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily. – Michalis Karambinis ; Walter Scheidel, Escape from Rome. The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity – Bryan Ward-Perkins ; Rinse Willet, The Geography of Urbanism in Roman Asia Minor – Mark P.C. Jackson ; Medieval to Postmedieval ; Charalambos Bouras, Byzantine Athens, 10th-12th Centuries / Nickephoros I. Tsougarakis and Peter Lock (eds), A Companion to Latin Greece / Joanita Vroom (ed.), Medieval and Post-Medieval Ceramics in the Eastern Mediterranean - Fact and Fiction. / Joanita Vroom, Yona Waksman and Roos van Oosten (eds), Medieval Masterchef. Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Eastern Cuisine and Western Foodways – John Bintliff ; Multiperiod ; María-Paz de Hoz, Juan Luis García Alonso and Luis Arturo Guichard Romero (eds), Greek paideia and local tradition in the Graeco-Roman east – Dorothea Stavrou ; John Ellis Jones and Ourania Kouka, Elis 1969. The Peneios Valley Rescue Excavation Project: British School at Athens Survey 1967 and Rescue Excavations at Kostoureika and Keramidia 1969 / Effie Photos-Jones and Alan J Hall, Eros, mercator and the cultural landscape of Melos in antiquity: The archaeology of the minerals industry of Melos – John Bintliff ; Bleda S. Düring and Claudia Glatz (eds), Kinetic Landscapes, the Cide Archaeological Project: Surveying the Turkish Western Black Sea Coast – James Crow ; J. Rasmus Brandt, Erika Hagelberg, Gro Bjørnstad and Sven Ahrens (eds), Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times: Studies in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology – Willem M. Jongman ; Caroline Arnould-Béhar and Véronique Vassal (eds), Art et archéologie du Proche-Orient hellénistique et romain. Les circulations artistiques entre Orient et Occident Vol.1 / Caroline Arnould-Béhar and Véronique Vassal (eds), Art et archéologie du Proche-Orient hellénistique et romain. Les circulations artistiques entre Orient et Occident Vol. 2 – Andrew Erskine ; Historiography and Theory ; John Boardman, A Classical Archaeologist’s Life: The Story So Far. An Autobiography – Robin Osborne

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Book SynopsisAsh-sharq is a journal devoted to short articles on the archaeology, history and society of the Ancient Near East.Table of ContentsVol 5 No 1 2021 ; The Primates of Susa: Depictions of Monkeys in Stone Statuettes from Elam – Bernardo Urbani and Dionisios Youlatos ; An Ox and a Hut: Notes on an Uruk-Period Cylinder Seal – Agnete W. Lassen ; Notes on Horses and Dogs: Two Special Animals? – Laura Battini ; 1965 Excavations of Amrit – 7th Season (Archives of Nassib Salibi) – Michel al-Maqdissi and Eva Ishaq ; Tracing the Transmission of Power – Andrea Cesaretti and Roberto Dan ; A New Analysis Protocol for the Studying of Ancient Terracottas – Laura Battini ; Vol 5 No 2 2021 ; The Assyrian Stylized Tree: A Date Palm Plantation and Aššurnaṣirpal II’s Stemma – Norma Franklin ; Mechanical Examination of Swords in the Eastern Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age – K. Kopanias, E. Vemou and K. Sidiropoulou ; The first Bronze Age bull-headed lyre from south-east Arabia? Tantalising shell inlays from the third millennium BC (Umm an-Nar) site of al-Tikha, Sultanate of Oman – St J. Simpson ; Appositive Semantic Classification in Sumerian Cuneiform and the Implementation of iClassifier – Gebhard J. Selz

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Book SynopsisVisions of the Roman North: Art and Identity in Northern Roman Britain is the first book to present an analysis of art from the northern frontier zones of Roman Britain and to interpret the meaning and significance of this art in terms of the formation of a regional identity at this time. It argues that a distinct and vibrant visual culture flourished in the north during the Roman period, primarily due to its status as a heavily militarized frontier zone. Artworks from forts and the frontier-works of Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall, along with funerary monuments from military and civilian cemeteries, are analysed and discussed. The book also explores religious sculpture depicting classical deities, Romano-British gods and goddesses and eastern deities such as Mithras in terms of the use of imagery in various belief systems and in terms of the establishment of individual and group identities.Trade Review‘…this is amongst the very best books on Roman Britain which I have ever read. It engages with what made Northern Britain special and culturally distinct in the Roman Empire. There is a real understanding for Northern Roman Britain here, and an understanding for a unique artistic culture that raises it very high indeed as a book on the provincial art of the Roman Empire.’ – Revd Professor Martin Henig, University of OxfordTable of ContentsPreface ; Chapter One: A Land Apart ; Chapter Two: Shadowplayers ; Chapter Three: Gods and Mortals ; Chapter Four: Artifice and Transcendence ; Chapter Five: The Good Soldier ; Chapter Six: Building an Image ; Chapter Seven: Image and Identity ; Chapter Eight: Remembering and Forgetting ; Chapter Nine: A Landscape of Possibilities ; Further Reading ; Index

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Book SynopsisI reperti e i motivi egizi ed egittizzanti a Pompei. Indagine preliminare per una loro contestualizzazione, rappresenta la sintesi delle ricerche svolte dal dott. Bellucci su questa complessa e articolata tematica. Partendo dal contesto storico in cui inquadrare tali fenomeni e proponendo una riflessione terminologica al fine di offrire un lessico comune per future e auspicabili ricerche, l’opera raccoglie, mette in luce, definisce e fornisce un primo e aggiornato corpus dei soggetti e dei reperti egizi ed egittizzanti nel contesto pompeiano, permettendo così anche analisi più specifiche riguardo le diverse scene nilotiche presenti a Pompei. Inoltre, primi risultati di correlazioni tra affreschi e reperti consentono ora di comprendere meglio la distribuzione generale e particolare di questa varia tipologia espressiva valutandone la diffusione tra Regiones, Insulae e domus. Composta di due sezioni per un totale di nove capitoli, con cinque appendici di dati e tre tavole di supplemento fotografico, il volume offre inoltre una ricca e aggiornata bibliografia sul tema.Trade ReviewAn extraordinary corpus of Egyptian and Egyptianizing objects at Pompeii testifies to the long, complex, and fraught history of interaction between Egypt and ancient Italy. Statuettes and amulets of Egyptian gods, wall paintings and mosaics depicting imagined Egyptian landscapes, imports (and local imitations) of valuable Egyptian luxury goods, and many other forms of ‘Aegyptiaca’ were part of the fabric of daily life in Pompeii. These objects and images provide rich evidence for the appropriation, emulation, and re-interpretation of Egyptian material culture in Roman – and pre-Roman – Italy. Accordingly, they attest first to the participation of Samnite Pompeii in a broader ‘Hellenistic’-period material koine, and, subsequently, to the lived experience of empire under Roman rule. In collecting and presenting all of the known Egyptian and Egyptianizing material culture from Pompeii, as well as the historical documentation for the earliest finds of these objects (including many artifacts and images which no longer survive today), Bellucci’s book provides an essential resource for scholarship. This important contribution will be required reading for anyone who seeks to understand the entangled history of Egypt and the Greco-Roman world. – Prof. Caitlín Eilís Barrett, Department of Classics, Cornell University – New YorkTable of ContentsPrefazione – Eric M. Moormann ; Premessa ; SEZIONE I ; Parte prima: Dal contesto storico alla riflessione terminologica ; Capitolo I: Il contesto storico ; Capitolo II: Riflessioni terminologiche e proposizione di un lessico commune ; Parte seconda: Soggetti e reperti egizi ed egittizzanti nel contesto pompeiano ; Capitolo III: Indagini sui soggetti e motivi egizi ed egittizzanti nel contesto pompeiano: pitture murali e mosaici. Un primo prospetto d’insieme ; Capitolo IV: Nilotica pompeiana. Dal contesto alle analisi sui soggetti individuate ; Capitolo V: Indagini sui reperti egizi ed egittizzanti nel contesto pompeiano ; Parte terza: Correlazioni tra affreschi e reperti. Tra dinamiche e contesti ; Capitolo VI: Exempla di correlazioni tra affreschi e reperti ; Capitolo VII: Approfondimenti di dinamiche e contesti di rinvenimento per alcuni casi pompeiani ; Capitolo VIII: Conclusioni ; SEZIONE II ; Parte prima: L'Egitto a Pompei. Tra gli archivi e i depositi ; Capitolo IX: L'Egitto a Pompei. Indagini sui reperti (tra gli archivi e i depositi del MANN e della Soprintendenza di Pompei). ; Parte seconda: Corpus dei materiali ; Appendici ; Tavole ; Bibliografia

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Book SynopsisLiving Opposite to the Hospital of St John: Excavations in Medieval Northampton 2014 presents the results of archaeological investigations undertaken on the site of new county council offices being built between St. John’s street and Angel Street, Northampton in 2014. The location was of interest as it lay directly opposite the former medieval hospital of St. John, which influenced the development of this area of the town. Initially open ground situated outside the Late Saxon burh, the area was extensively quarried for ironstone during the earlier part of the 12th century, and by the mid-12th century, a few dispersed buildings began to appear. Domestic pits and a bread oven were located to the rear of Angel Street along with a carver’s workshop, which, amongst other goods, produced high-quality antler chess pieces. This workshop is currently without known parallel. The timber workshop was refurbished once and then replaced in stone by the mid-13th century. During the late 12th and early part of the 13th centuries, brewing and baking were undertaken in the two plots adjacent to the workshop. A stone building with a cobbled floor lay towards the centre of the St. John’s street frontage, and behind the building were four wells, a clay-lined tank for water drawn from the well, and several ovens, including at least two bread ovens and three malting ovens. This activity ceased at around the time that the carver’s workshop was replaced in stone, and much of the frontage was cleared. Subsequently, although there was still one building standing on St. John’s street in the early 15th century, the former cleared ground was gradually incorporated back into the plots, perhaps as gardens adjoining the surviving late medieval tenement. The stone tenement was extended and refurbished in the late 15th century and was occupied until c. 1600. Another building was established on Fetter Street after c. 1450 but had disappeared by c. 1550. However, this is the first archaeological indication for the existence of Fetter Street, and further demarcation occurred in this period with a rear boundary ditch being established along the back of the Angel Street plot, separating the land to the south. In the 17th–18th centuries, the area was covered by the dark loamy soils of gardens and orchards until the construction of stables and terraced buildings on the site, which would stand into the Victorian period and beyond.Trade Review'This very well-produced and highly informative volume reports chiefly on medieval deposits and sequences excavated in Northampton’s southern intramural zone, close to the Hospital and chapel of St John founded c 1140 and south of the Norman town’s central All Saints market. Prominent findings relate to quarrying for ironstone in the 12th century – to supply both city walls and hospital – plus industrial units, notably a bone- and ivory-carving workshop and a maltster’s complex.' – Neil Christie (2022): Medieval Archaeology, 66/2Table of ContentsList of illustrations ; List of tables ; Contributors ; Acknowledgements ; Summary ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: The archaeological evidence ; Chapter 3: Finds reports ; Chapter 4: Faunal and environmental evidence ; Chapter 5: Discussion ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Regina Turdulorum Hoard (Casas de Reina, Badajoz) was buried with 818 imitative antoniniani of Divo Claudio type, minted in copper. The vast majority of the coins bear the reverse legend CONSECRATIO. This figure makes the Regina Turdulorum hoard one of the most important in Spain and Portugal. In numismatic terms, the most common reverse type is the funeral pyre, as opposed to the eagle. In addition to this main group, there is a second group, where there are curious imitations that follow various prototypes for the manufacture of the reverse. The study of the posthumous coinage of Claudius II and his imitations represents one of the most complex tasks in ancient numismatics. The work is considerably complicated by the fact that they are highly copied coins, which means that regular issues are very difficult to distinguish from the imitations. In this sense, the hoard provides vital information for the western monetary circulation of the Roman Empire, contributing to the debate on Gallic and African imitations. It also opens the way to the hypothesis that Hispania may have been another centre for issuing Divo Claudio imitations. Although the latter remains to be proven, the tentative and open nature of this book provides the opportunity to open new lines of study in the hope that they will be resolved sooner rather than later.Table of ContentsPrólogo ; 1. Introducción ; 2. Regina, Reina de los Túrdulos ; 3. Análisis numismático ; 4. Conclusiones ; 5. Catálogo ; 6. Bibliografía ; 7. Láminas

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Book SynopsisLater Prehistoric Settlement in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly reports on the excavation between 1996 and 2014 of five later prehistoric and Roman period settlements. Three of the mainland sites – Killigrew, Nancemere and Higher Besore – are located in central Cornwall, near Truro, with the fourth, at Porthleven, situated on the south coast in west Cornwall. The fifth settlement, Porth Killier, is on the island of St Agnes on the Isles of Scilly. All the sites were multi-phased, revealing both similar and contrasting patterns of occupation stretching from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age and beyond. Despite having broadly comparable chronological sequences, there are considerable differences in both the tempo and intensity of occupation, and significant contrasts in practices associated with them. Significantly, all four mainland sequences culminate with an enclosed settlement in the Late Iron Age and especially during the Roman period, a time of significant economic and social change following the conquest. During this period there continued to be differences in the character of occupation. Notably two of the enclosures seem to have been strongly associated with industrial activities, including metalworking at Killigrew, suggesting that the working of iron may have been a controlled or ritualized activity undertaken within a dedicated space. The volume presents the results from each of the five settlement sites, before reviewing the key themes which have emerged from the investigations.Table of ContentsSection 1: Background to the Project – Andy M Jones ; Chapter 1: Introduction to the Volume ; Section 2: Archaeological Recording during the 1996 Coast Protection Scheme at Porth Killier, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly – Charles Johns, Jeanette Ratcliffe and Andrew Young, with contributions from David Dungworth, Janice Light, Alison Locker, Henrietta Quinnell, Vanessa Straker and Roger Taylor ; Chapter 2.1: Background to the Excavations ; Chapter 2.2: The Excavation Results ; Chapter 2.3: The Artefacts ; Chapter 2.4: Mammal, Bird and Fish Bones ; Chapter 2.5: Shell ; Chapter 2.6: Plant Macrofossils ; Chapter 2.7: Radiocarbon Dating ; Chapter 2.8: Discussion ; Section 3: Excavations at Killigrew 1996: an Iron Age and Romano-British Industrial Site on the Trispen Bypass, Cornwall – Dick Cole and Jacqueline Nowakowski FSA with contributions from Rowena Gale, Sophie Lamb, Albertine Malham, Gerry McDonnell, Henrietta Quinnell, Laura Ratcliffe–Warren, Adam Sharpe, Vanessa Straker and Roger Taylor ; Chapter 3.1: Background to the Excavations ; Chapter 3.2: The Excavation Results ; Chapter 3.3: Radiocarbon Dating and Charcoal Identification ; Chapter 3.4: The Artefacts ; Chapter 3.5: Charred Plant Macrofossils ; Chapter 3.6: Discussion ; Section 4: Archaeological Investigations at Nancemere, Truro, Cornwall 2002: a Prehistoric and Romano-British Landscape – James Gossip with contributions from Rowena Gale, Andy M Jones, Julie Jones, Anna Lawson-Jones, Henrietta Quinnell, Clare Randall and Roger Taylor ; Chapter 4.1: Location and Background ; Chapter 4.2: The Excavation Results ; Chapter 4.3: The Artefacts ; Chapter 4.4: The Charcoal ; Chapter 4.5: Animal Bone ; Chapter 4.6: Radiocarbon Dating ; Chapter 4.7: Discussion ; Section 5: Life Outside the Round: Bronze Age and Iron Age Settlement at Higher Besore and Truro College, Threemilestone, Truro, 2004–5 – James Gossip with contributions from Justine Bayley, Paul Bidwell, Sarnia Butcher, Wendy Carruthers, Rowena Gale, J D Hill, Andy M Jones, Julie Jones, Anna Lawson-Jones, Roger Mcbride, Stuart Needham, Peter Northover, Cynthia Poole, Henrietta Quinnell, Roger Taylor, Anna Tyacke and Tim Young ; Chapter 5.1: Background to the Excavations ; Chapter 5.2: The Excavation Results ; Chapter 5.3: The Artefacts ; Chapter 5.4: The Plant Macrofossils ; Chapter 5.5: The Charcoal ; Chapter 5.6: Radiocarbon Dating ; Chapter 5.7: Discussion ; Section 6: Excavation of an Iron Age Settlement and a Roman Period Enclosure at Porthleven, 2014 – Andy M Jones, with contributions from Paul Bidwell, Dana Challinor, Anna Lawson-Jones, Henrietta Quinnell, Clare Randall, Ryan P Smith and Roger Taylor ; Chapter 6.1: Background to the Excavations ; Chapter 6.2: Results from the Excavations ; Chapter 6.3: The Artefacts ; Chapter 6.4: The Charcoal ; Chapter 6.5: The Animal Bone ; Chapter 6.6: The Radiocarbon Dating ; Chapter 6.7: Discussion ; Section 7: Review and Overview – Andy M Jones ; Chapter 7.1: From Beaker Pits to Living in the Round: Some Themes ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisRocks of Ages: Developing Rock Art Tourism in Israel presents the findings of an interdisciplinary project aimed at safeguarding the future of this unique resource. Cultural heritage in the Negev desert region of Israel is potentially under threat from a number of social, political and economic activities such as militarization, settlement and tourism, resulting in significant environmental change. The cultural heritage and archaeology extend back at least a quarter of a million years but also include a unique engraved rock art assemblage that dates to at least 3000 BCE. These engravings form a clear association with other relic monuments including prehistoric and protohistoric settlements, agricultural and irrigation regimes, and the remnants of a nomadic way of life. But how can this unique cultural heritage survive in the long-term? In December 2017, an international conference was held at Mitzpe Ramon attended by academics, heritage professionals and individuals from the tourism industry. The meeting centered on the dissemination of the findings from the Integrative Multilateral Planning to Advance Rock Art Tourism (IMPART) research project. Formed from an interdisciplinary team of Israeli-Italian scholars, the IMPART researchers collaborated to conduct archaeo-ecological and socio-touristic research with the goal of establishing an authoritative set of sustainable best practices for effectively valorizing Negev rock art. Based on the successful outcome of this research dynamic, the book is organized into 12 thought-provoking chapters that identify and analyze the cultural heritage, archaeology and tourism geographies that fill the multilayered Negev landscape. The focus throughout is to find ways to preserve this unique heritage for future generations while striking a balance between these fragile resources and the pressures for development of the desert.Table of ContentsForeword – Steven A. Rosen ; Preface ; Part I: The Dynamics of Negev Rock Art Tourism ; Rock Art in the Negev – IMPART ; Negev Highlands Tourism – Dan Gur and IMPART ; Quantitative Analysis of Negev Tourism Data – Sara Levi Sacerdotti and IMPART ; Qualitative Analysis of Negev Tourism Data – Sara Levi Sacerdotti and IMPART ; Establishing a Benchmark for Open-Air Rock Site Management – Sara Levi Sacerdotti and IMPART ; Notes from an Ethnographic Field Survey of the Negev Highland Bedouin – Joshua Schmidt ; Part II: Ramat Matred Surveys ; Ecological Survey at Ramat Matred – Ron Frumkin ; Archaeological Survey at Ramat Matred – Davida Eisenberg-Degen ; The Rock Art and Archaeological Surveys at Ramat Matred – Ifat Shezaf ; GIS Visualization of the IMPART Surveys (Figures 10.1 to 10.10) – Eli Cohen-Sasson ; Part III: Findings, Conclusions and Recommendations ; Conclusions – IMPART ; Recommendations – Joshua Schmidt and IMPART ; Epilogue – IMPART ; Afterword – Liora Kolska Horwitz ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA Landscape of Conflict? Rural Fortifications in the Argolid (400–146 BC) is the first systematic study of Late Classical and Hellenistic rural fortifications in the territories of ancient Argos and the city-states of the Argolic Akte (northeastern Peloponnese). Based on one of the largest regional corpora of Greek fortified sites to date, the volume investigates the function of rural fortifications by placing them in the context of their surrounding landscape. This approach – combining ‘traditional’ methods of ancient history and landscape archaeology with GIS-based data analyses – helps to readdress the long-standing tension between ‘military-strategic’ and ‘non-military’ research agendas in Greek fortification studies, and highlights that Classical and Hellenistic rural fortifications are neither a priori fortified farmsteads nor parts of military-strategic networks of territorial defence. Instead, rural fortifications emerge in this monograph as multifunctional and multifaceted sites, which open a new window into different forms of ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ conflict in the ancient countryside and bear witness to a remarkable degree of local motivation and agency. The study thus demonstrates how ancient fortifications can provide an unexpected and so far much underappreciated opportunity for writing local or regional Greek histories – political and military as well as social and economic – from archaeological sources.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: The Landscape of the Ancient Argolid ; Chapter 3: A Typology of Ancient Fortifications ; Chapter 4: Dating Ancient Fortifications in the Argolid ; Chapter 5: A Regional Study of Fortifications in the Argolid ; Chapter 6: Rural Fortifications as Territorial Defences ; Chapter 7: Rural Fortifications as Local Defences ; Chapter 8: Conclusions ; Bibliography ; Catalogue ; Appendix: The Masonry Technique and Chronology of Fortifications in the Argolid ; Index of Sources ; General Index

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Book SynopsisLe site néolithique de Tinqueux « la Haubette » (Marne) daté du « Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain » (5000-4700 cal. BC) a livré cinq maisons, ainsi que des fosses et une structure de combustion. Les éléments de la culture matérielle abondants ont permis d’approfondir différentes problématiques. La première traite de la singularité du site en raison de sa position très orientale dans l’aire d’extension du BVSG et sa place dans la séquence chronologique. Le second sujet porte sur la nature de l’habitat dans le réseau des sites « producteurs » ou « receveurs » qui caractérise le BVSG. Le troisième thème abordé est celui de la provenance des matières premières et le quatrième est celui des caractéristiques chronologiques internes au village. Les analyses menées sur la structuration du village et sur le mobilier archéologique ont permis de révéler un pan encore inconnu de la culture BVSG. Ainsi, la séquence chronologique fine de cette période dans son faciès régional a pu être établie ; comme que la périodisation interne du village. La comparaison avec des sites proches ou éloignés a été déterminante pour comprendre le rapport de cet habitat avec les sites contemporains. Elle révèle une ouverture vers l’est et une forte dynamique culturelle qui se traduit par des réseaux d’influences et de circulations variées, notamment pour l’approvisionnement en matières premières et en produits finis.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Configuration du village (L. Hachem) ; Les bâtiments et leurs fosses ; Les fosses latérales sans bâtiments ; Les fosses isolées ; 2. Les arbres et les animaux ; Les charbons de bois (J-M. Pernaud) ; La faune (L. Bedault) ; 3. Vestiges façonnés de la vie quotidienne ; La céramique (K. Meunier) ; L’industrie lithique (S. Denis) ; L’outillage en matières dures animales (Y. Maigrot) ; Les parures annulaires en pierre (N. Fromont) ; Le macro-outillage lithique (C. Hamon) ; 4. Synthèse et conclusion ; Bibliographie ; Annexes

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Book SynopsisLa necropoli romana di Melano (Canton Ticino – Svizzera), scavata nel 1957 e nel 1979, costituisce a tutt’oggi una delle poche di quest’epoca scoperte nel Sottoceneri dove i rinvenimenti sono invece perlopiù sepolture isolate o riunite in piccoli gruppi. È costituita da 26 tombe fra cremazioni e inumazioni e si distingue per la loro varietà a livello tipologico e per i materiali impiegati nella loro costruzione. Fra le sepolture a cremazione, le più numerose, vi sono quelle più semplici, a vano singolo, fino a quelle a doppia camera e a loculo cinerario multiplo. Le tombe a inumazione, generalmente pertinenti a bambini o adolescenti, hanno restituito indizi riguardo all’uso di deporre il corpo in cassa lignea o su un lettino o barella. Nei corredi funerari sono presenti tutte le principali classi materiali d’epoca romana tipiche della regione unitamente a reperti che recano l’impronta di un centro sviluppatosi lungo le rive del lago Ceresio e dedito a particolari attività ad esso collegate, come la pesca. La stratigrafia verticale della necropoli e gli oggetti di corredo ne indicano un uso continuato dal I al III sec. d.C.Table of ContentsCapitolo 1 – Introduzione ; Capitolo 2 - La necropolis ; Capitolo 3 – I corredi funerari e i loro materiali ; Capitolo 4 – Bibliografia ; Capitolo 5 – Catalogo ; Capitolo 6 – Lista delle Figure e delle Tavole ; Tavole ; Appendice– Il Castelletto e il Castellaccio di Melano

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Book SynopsisTutankhamun Knew the Names of the Two Great Gods offers a new interpretation of the terms Dt and nHH as fundamental concepts of Pharaonic ideology. The terms Dt and nHH have often been treated as synonyms reflecting notions related to the vastness of time. However, from the study of original source material – the texts and iconography compiled over some three millennia and authored by those who surely had complete understanding of their subject matter – it becomes clear that those modern interpretations are somewhat questionable. Clues to the connotations which may be ascribed to Dt and nHH are perhaps most clearly apparent in texts and imagery from the reign of Tutankhamun – a time of political upheaval during which it was more than usually important to express traditional mores with clarity to demonstrate a return to the well-established ideology underpinning pharaonic culture prior to the Amarna interlude. Testing those indications against the wider range of extant literary material confirms that Dt and nHH were neither synonyms, nor were they entirely temporal in nature, but rather referenced a duality of ontological conditions which together were fundamental to the fabric of pharaonic ideology. The reappraisal of this duality of conditions allows the many texts and iconographic depictions surviving from dynastic Egypt to be considered from a new perspective – one providing deeper insight into the character of pharaonic culture. Moreover, it becomes apparent that the influences of an ideology which evolved during times pre-dating the pyramid builders permeated the philosophical and theological treaties of the scholars of ancient Greece and Rome, and thence into more recent times. At least two great gods may live on.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter 1: Time ; Notions of Dt and nHH as presented in modern Western scholarship ; The nature of time ; The metaphysical-physical duality ; Chapter 2: Reality ; Eternity and sempiternity: echoes of the Dt-nHH duality ; Greeks in Egypt ; Practitioners in the House of Life ; Ancient Egyptian influences in the works of Plato ; Chapter 3: Contexts ; The principal texts ; Synonymity ; Dt and nHH in the age of the Pyramid Texts ; For ever and ever again: the reading of the phrase Dt Dt ; Dt and nHH in the age of the Coffin Texts ; Dt and nHH as aspects of creation ; Chapter 4: Graphics ; The components of nHH ; The constituents of Dt ; Chapter 5: Ideology ; The royal epithet ; The realisation of ma‘at ; Horus kingship in relation to Dt and nHH ; The king in time and the ever-present ideal ; The ritual landscape as a reflection of Dt in nHH ; Chapter 6: Exegeses ; The Dt-nHH duality in textual analysis ; Two Coffin Texts ; Speos Artemidos ; The Neskhons document ; Afterlife ; Chapter 7: Misdirection ; The illusion of philosophical dissociation ; The misconstrual of Dt and nHH as Egyptology evolved ; Religious doctrine and political ideology ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisThe Archaeology of ‘Underdog Sites’ in the Douro Valley brings together the best presentations from the eighth and ninth meetings of Archaeology of the Douro Valley, held in Ávila and Astorga (Spain), respectively in 2018 and 2019. However, instead of a simple collection of articles, the aim of this publication is to show the importance of projects that have been left in the background despite obtaining interesting archaeological data about the occupation of this valley and its evolution. Moreover, we must take into account that many of these projects support new activity in a rural territory that is increasingly neglected politically and economically. Hence the use of the term ‘underdog’, defined as a person or group of people with less power or money than the rest of society. Overall, the volume provides a general and interdisciplinary view of the different types of occupation in the territory of the Douro Valley. The chapters are divided into four sections, three of them chronological: Prehistory and Protohistory; Antiquity and Late Antiquity; and the medieval and modern ages. The last section is thematic and includes diachronic studies, museology, and the archaeology of mining. Therefore, the present volume is a medium to showcase the latest research carried out in this important territory and to contribute to knowledge of its history, updating the archaeological state of the art in the valley and presenting results that may be used in the most diverse types of comparative studies.Table of ContentsForeword from the meeting at Ávila – JAVIER JIMÉNEZ GADEA ; Foreword from the meeting at Astorga – JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ-LOZANO ; Ten years of giving voice to research in the Douro Valley – SONIA DÍAZ-NAVARRO AND SANTIAGO SÁNCHEZ DE LA PARRA-PÉREZ ; Prehistory and Protohistory ; Un enterramiento colectivo del Neolítico Final / Calcolítico en el Monte de La Candamia (León) – JULIO M. VIDAL ENCINAS, MARÍA NATIVIDAD FUERTES PRIETO, DIEGO HERRERO ALONSO AND MARÍA ENCINA PRADA MARCOS ; An integrated approach for the study of the Casa la Peña schematic rock-art (Castrocontrigo, León) – JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ-LOZANO, PABLO HIGUERAS, JOSÉ MARÍA ESBRÍ, ROSA MARÍ A CARRASCO, JAVIER PEDRAZA AND JESÚS CELIS SÁNCHEZ ; Nuevos testimonios funerarios en cueva del Bronce Proto-Cogotas: el complejo espacio sepulcral de Cueva Corazón (Mave, Palencia) – ANGÉLICA SANTA CRUZ DEL BARRIO, ANDREA DE LUCAS ALONSO, HÉCTOR FONSECA DE LA TORRE AND POLICARPO SÁNCHEZ YUSTOS ; The potential economy in Iron Age settlements. Los Montes de León (north-western Spain) as Case Study – ÓSCAR RODRÍGUEZ-MONTERRUBIO ; Castrum Zoelarum, la Edad del Hierro en el valle del río Aliste. El castro de la Encarnación, Mellanes (Rabanales de Aliste, Zamora) – ÓSCAR RODRÍGUEZ-MONTERRUBIO, FRANCISCO JAVIER GONZÁLEZ DE LA FUENTE, SOFÍA ROJAS MIGUEL, MANUEL VÁZQUEZ FADÓN, GONZALO GARCÍA QUEIPO, PATRICIA FUENTES MELGAR, JOSÉ CARLOS SASTRE BLANCO, PATRICIA DE INÉS SUTIL AND JAIME DE LA VEGA RAMOS ; Antiquity and Late Antiquity ; Un enterramiento infantil en contexto doméstico durante el altoimperio: la villa romana de Matabuey (Nava de la Asunción, Segovia) – RAÚL MARTÍN VELA, LIDIA FERNÁNDEZ DÍAZ, FRANCISCO GONZALO VIEJO, RAÚL SÁNCHEZ MUÑOZ, SANDRA ACEVES SANZ AND INÉS MARÍA CENTENO-CEA ; Aproximación al estudio de los materiales óseos en el yacimiento vacceo-romano de 'La Ciudad' (Paredes de Nava, Palencia) – NOELIA HOYOS GUTIÉRREZ, JAIME GUTIÉRREZ PÉREZ, FRANCISCO JAVIER PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ AND SANDRA PASTOR PAREDES ; Un grafito nominal procedente del yacimiento de 'La Ciudad' (Paredes de Nava, Palencia) – JUAN JOSÉ NERVIÓN CHAMORRO, FRANCISCO JAVIER PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ, JAIME GUTIÉRREZ PÉREZ, FRANCISCO JAVIER ABARQUERO MORAS, NOELIA HOYOS GUTIÉRREZ AND SANDRA PASTOR PAREDES ; Fases de ocupación de 'La Ciudad' (Paredes de Nava, Palencia) en época romana a través del studio tipocronológico de la terra sigillata – SANDRA PASTOR PAREDES, JAIME GUTIÉRREZ PÉREZ, FRANCISCO JAVIER PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ AND NOELIA HOYOS GUTIÉRREZ ; A Durio Lusitania incipit: Roman settlement in the coastal region between the Douro and Mondego rivers – GIL VILARINHO ; Alterações urbanísticas no quadrante sudeste da cidade de Bracara Augusta do século I ao IV – LARA RITA OLIVEIRA VIEIRA FERNANDES AND MARIA MANUELA DOS REIS MARTINS ; O tesouro baixo-imperial da domus de Santiago: contribuição para o conhecimento da circulação monetária em Bracara Augusta – DIEGO MACHADO, MANUELA MARTINS, NATÁLIA BOTICA AND FERNANDA MAGALHÃES ; El Castru de La Cuesta (Trueitas, León): un asentamiento entre los siglos IV y V d.C. en la montaña leonesa – ANDRÉS MENÉNDEZ BLANCO, VALENTÍN ÁLVAREZ MARTÍNEZ, DAVID GONZÁLEZ-ÁLVAREZ, IRENE ORDÓÑEZ BELLÓN AND AITOR MERINO VÁZQUEZ ; New perspectives on hand-built potteries on the western Cantabrian coast (Lugo, Spain) – HUGO LOZANO HERMIDA, EDUARDO RAMIL REGO AND SARA BARBAZÁN DOMÍNGUEZ ; Transformaciones en el modelo de poblamiento en las comarcas del Tormes-Corneja-Almar (Ávila) durante la Antigüedad Tardía – JOSÉ MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ SOUSA ; Medieval and Modern Ages ; …Et pertransit ipsam Cluniam: Rastreando la Clunia altomedieval – GUSTAVO CAMACHO VÉLEZ ; Primeros resultados de excavación de la Ermita y necrópolis de San Nicolás (La Sequera de Haza, Burgos) – FRANCISCO REYES TÉLLEZ, LUIS ALBERTO POLO ROMERO, DIANA MORALES MANZANARES, MARTA MERINO PÉREZ AND JULIO VILLALMANZO SANTAMARÍA ; La iglesia prerrománica de Santa Lucía (Andaluz, Soria). Resultados de las excavaciones arqueológicas – DIANA VEGA ALMAZÁN ; Excavación arqueológica de un horno cerámico de época moderna en la C/ Menéndez Pelayo n. 10 de Valladolid – MANUEL CRESPO DÍEZ ; Um quintal com muita história. Resultados da intervenção arqueológica no Solar dos Póvoas (Guarda) – TIAGO RAMOS AND VITOR PEREIRA ; Varia ; Las peñas resbaladeras de la provincia de Ávila – MARTÍN ALMAGRO GORBEA AND JESÚS CABALLERO ARRIBAS ; La Ruta Romana de Astorga: del yacimiento arqueológico a la creación de un recurso turístico y cultural de la ciudad. Evolución de los visitantes 2015 – 2019 – ALICIA GARCÍA IGLESIAS AND CLARA CHAO MARTÍNEZ ; Documentación de explotaciones mineras romanas y caracterización geológica de los placers auríferos del piedemonte de Justel (Zamora) – RODRIGO ANDRÉS-BERCIANOS, JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ-LOZANO AND GASPAR ALONSO-GAVILÁN ; Caracterización geológica e identificación de nuevas labores de minería aurífera antigua en los sectores de cabecera de los depósitos tipo raña en el valle del río Negro (Zamora – RODRIGO ANDRÉS-BERCIANOS, JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ-LOZANO AND GASPAR ALONSO-GAVILÁN ; Forgotten heritage from NW Iberia: the lime kilns of the Teleno Mountains (León Province), a geoarchaeological approach – JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ-LOZANO, ANTONIO BERNARDO SÁNCHEZ, ROSA M. CARRASCO AND JAVIER PEDRAZA

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Book SynopsisIrish Late Iron Age Equestrian Equipment in its Insular and Continental Context is the first practical archaeological study of Irish Iron Age lorinery. The volume examines the bits and bosals (Y-pieces) holistically, using practical stable-yard knowledge merged with archaeological techniques such as morphometrics, use-wear, GIS, functional comparison to European and British equipment and distribution analysis to place it within its time and place. Irish Iron Age artefacts have always been beset by issues of chronology, but by using these various analytical methods, a more precise timeframe for the objects is indicated. A complex relationship with Roman Britain and the Empire also becomes visible, with aspects of identity and belief being expressed through the sophisticated equestrian equipment. The analysis of the bridle components reveal that the Ireland of the first centuries AD shares some characteristics with other boundary zones of the Roman Empire, such as Scotland and northern Germany, but also has its own unique interpretation of introduced technology. The Ireland of the Late Iron Age, then, is a society in flux, picking and choosing which traditions it maintains. The horse and associated equipment were very much at the heart of the social changes set in motion by contact with the Roman Empire, and as such, the examination of the snaffles and bosals allows us to bring the people of the Late Iron Age in Ireland into focus.Trade Review'One of the major contributions of this volume is the exquisitely illustrated catalogue, taking up almost half the book. This book is a valuable contribution to the study of the Irish Late Iron Age and will be essential reading.' – Duncan Berryman (2022): Ulster Archaeological Society newsletter, Spring 2022'Like all good research projects, this one has raised many more questions about the arrival of equestrianism in Ireland, the people who brought it and its impact on society, the connections between this island and the rest of the Iron Age world, and even the horses themselves. In all, this is an important step forward in the study of Iron Age Ireland' – Sharon Green (2022): Archaeology Ireland, Summer 2022‘While one may hesitate to follow Maguire’s broader interpretations, she has shown what can be achieved by a practice-based assessment and questioning of equestrian finds: the detailed knowledge of how to work a horse, how this translated into metal, and what implications this could have.’ – Fraser Hunter (2022): Ulster Journal of Archaeology Vol. 77‘This is a sublime piece of work, comprehensive and original in its approach, and demonstrating a thorough knowledge of the material and its functioning.’ – Greta Anthoons (2023): OllodagosTable of ContentsList of Figures ; List of Tables ; List of Plates ; Acknowledgements ; Glossary ; Chapter 1. ‘For want of a horse, the rider was lost’: An introduction to Irish Iron Age tack ; Chapter 2. The Irish Iron Age horse in context: Literature and legend ; Chapter 3. The Irish Iron Age bridle: Form, function, use-wear, and fit ; Chapter 4. Decoration, symbolism, and evolution of Irish Iron Age tack ; Chapter 5. ‘Horses make a landscape look more beautiful’: Distribution, deposition, and landscape ; Chapter 6. Under the influence: Looking for the regional and cultural origins of Late Iron Age Irish tack ; Chapter 7. Conclusions and future directions ; Bibliography ; Catalogue

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Book SynopsisThe Neolithic settlement of Aknashen (Ararat valley, Armenia): excavation seasons 2004-2015 is the first monograph devoted to the Neolithic period in Armenia. The research is based on an Armenian-French project, in which specialists from Canada, Romania, Germany and Greece also participated. The volume concerns the natural environment, material culture and subsistence economy of the populations of the first half of the 6th millennium BC, who established the first sedentary settlements in the alluvial plain of the Araxes river. The thickness of the cultural layer of Aknashen (almost 5m), the extent of the excavated areas and the multidisciplinary nature of the research, confer great importance upon this site for the study of the Neolithic, both in Armenia and in the South Caucasus as a whole. The publication examines the similarities and differences that exist between the sites established in the 6th millennium in the basins of the rivers Araxes (Armenia) and Kura (Georgia and Azerbaijan), as well as parallels with contemporary cultures in Southwest Asia. It also examines questions concerning the characterisation and periodisation of the Neolithic in the central part of the South Caucasus, the emergence of a production economy (pottery, animal husbandry, etc.) and the Neolithisation of this region.Trade Review‘This book offers the first detailed analyses of results from 11 years of excavations at the sixth-millennium BC Neolithic site of Aknashen, Ararat Valley, Armenia. The site is close to two other Neolithic settlements, Aratashen and Masis Blur, both of which are, unfortunately, less well preserved. Besides the Introduction and the Conclusion, the book includes 15 chapters from different specialists that deal with various aspects of the site and its material culture (e.g. environment, stratigraphy and architecture, chronology, mortuary practices, artefacts and subsistence economy). The data presented here, accompanied by a great number of excellent illustrations, are crucial to understanding the development of a Neolithic culture in this part of the world.’ – Bertille Lyonnet (2022), AntiquityTable of ContentsContents ; Acknowledgements ; List of authors ; Introduction – Ruben Badalyan, Christine Chataigner and Armine Harutyunyan ; THE SETTLEMENT AND ITS ENVIRONMENTAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXTS ; The settlement of Aknashen: stratigraphy and architecture – Ruben Badalyan and Armine Harutyunyan ; Mortuary practices at Aknashen – Modwene Poulmarc’h, Levon Aghikyan and Françoise Le Mort ; Tectonic impact on the Ararat Depression during the Late Neolithic: the example of the Aknashen settlement – Arkadi Karakhanyan, Lilit Sahakyan, Ara Avagyan, Andreas Iordanidis and Tatul Stalyan ; The many geomorphic factors and responses in the reconstruction of the Aknashen landscape – Vincent Ollivier ; Bayesian analysis of radiocarbon dates from Aknashen – Christine Chataigner, Ruben Badalyan and Armine Harutyunyan ; The pottery of Aknashen – Armine Harutyunyan ; THE ARTEFACTS ; Aknashen: techno-typological and functional analysis of the lithic assemblage – Jacques Chabot, Cynthia Gosselin, Patrick Eid and Bastien Varoutsikos ; Aknashen lithic tradition in a regional context: blade-making and neolithization of the Southern Caucasus – Bastien Varoutsikos and Artur Petrosyan ; The provenance of the obsidian used at Aknashen – Bernard Gratuze, Ruben Badalyan and Christine Chataigner ; The macrolithic industry from Aknashen – Caroline Hamon and Khachatur Meliksetian ; Axes and grooved polishers from Aknashen – Caroline Hamon, Ruben Badalyan and Lilit Sahakyan ; Neolithic bone tools from Aknashen – Christine Chataigner, Ruben Badalyan and Rozalia Christidou ; Miscellaneous objects from Aknashen – Ruben Badalyan, Armine Harutyunyan, Khachatur Meliksetian, Ernst Pernicka and Rozalia Christidou ; THE SUBSISTENCE ECONOMY ; Animal subsistence economy at the Neolithic site of Aknashen – Adrian Bălășescu and Valentin Radu ; Current results of archaeobotanical studies at the Neolithic settlement of Aknashen (Ararat valley – Roman Hovsepyan ; Conclusion: The Neolithic of the Ararat valley and the South Caucasus – Ruben Badalyan, Christine Chataigner and Armine Harutyunyan ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDown the Bright Stream: The Prehistory of Woodcock Corner and the Tregurra Valley reports on a series of fieldwork projects carried out in the Tregurra Valley, to the east of Truro, Cornwall. The work was undertaken over a period of seven years between 2009 and 2015, predominantly by the Cornwall Archaeological Unit, as a response to the development of the valley. The fieldwork led to the identification of a large number of pits and hearths across the site, the majority of which that have proved dateable spanning the Early Neolithic to the end of the Early Bronze Age. One concentration of pits included one dating to the Late Neolithic containing a remarkable engraved slate disc. Other pits contained evidence for tin processing at the start of the Bronze Age. An enclosure formed by a segmented ditch was dated to the Early Bronze Age. Of considerable note was the identification of buried soils and colluvial layers pre-dating much of the prehistoric activity and found across the site. There was an apparent absence of activity in the valley between the end of the Early Bronze Age and the start of the Iron Age, when much of the valley was enclosed with field boundary ditches and activities recorded include crop processing, charcoal burning and iron smelting. The charcoal burning continued into the medieval period. Later activity in the valley including brickmaking, stone quarrying, and small-scale mineral prospection, is reported on elsewhere.Table of ContentsSummary ; 1 Background to the Investigations ; 2 Location and Setting ; 3 The Excavations ; 4 The Ceramics ; 5 The Stonework ; 6 The Flint ; 7 Archaeometallurgy ; 8 Charred Plant Remains ; 9 Charcoal ; 10 Geoarchaeology ; 11 Radiocarbon Dating ; 12 Spatial and Artefactual Analysis of the Neolithic and Bronze Age Pits ; 13 Discussion ; 14 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOutside the north gate of Venta Belgarum, Roman Winchester, a great cemetary stretched for 500 yards along the road to Cirencester. Excavations at Lankhills from 1967 to 1972 uncovered 451 graves, many elaborately furnished, at the northern limits of this cemetery, and dating from the fourth century A.D. This book, the second in a two-part study of Venta Belgarum, which forms the third volume of Winchester Studies, describes the excavations of these burials and analyses in detail both the graves and their contents. There are detailed studies and important re-assessments of many categories of object, but it is the information about late Roman burial, religion, and society which is of special interest.Table of ContentsList of plates ; List of figures ; List of tables ; List of abbreviations ; List of references ; INTRODUCTION ; I. THE EXCAVATION ; 1. Circumstances of Excavation ; 2. Archaeological Background ; 3. General Character of the Excavation ; 4. The Graves (Table 2) ; 5. Other Features (with contributions by J. L. Macdonald) ; II. ANALYSIS ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Chronology ; 3. Age and Sex ; 4. Cremations ; 5. Inhumations: The Grave ; 6. Inhumations: The Grave-Furniture ; 7. Cemetery Organisation ; Appendix. An Outline of the Computer Processing Performed by R. N. Cuff ; III. THE FINDS ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Coins by Richard Reece ; 3. Pewter Vessels by David Brown ; 4. Glass Vessels by D. B. Harden ; 5. Pottery Vessels ; 6. Animal Remains ; 7. Equipment ; 8. Cross-Bow Brooches ; 9. Belts and Belt-Fittings ; 10. Beads and Necklaces ; 11. Bracelets ; 12. Other Personal Ornaments ; 13. Hobnails and Footwear ; 14. Miscellaneous Objects ; 15. Textile Remains by Elisabeth Crowfoot ; 16. Coffin-Nails, Coffin-Fittings, And Coffins ; 17. Human Skeletons ; 18. Economic Conclusions ; IV. DISCUSSION ; 1. Late Romano-British Burial Practice ; 2. Foreign Elements ; 3. Religion by J. L. Macdonald ; CONCORDANCES by David Critchley ; i. Graves Illustrated ; ii. Objects Discussed and Illustrated ; ADDENDA ; INDEX OF SITES

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Book SynopsisLondon and Winchester were not described in the Domesday Book, but the royal properties in Winchester were surveyed for Henry I about 1110 and the whole city was surveyed for Bishop Henry of Blois in 1148. These two surveys survive in a single manuscript, known as the Winton Domesday, and constitute the earliest and by far the most detailed description of an English or European town of the early Middle Ages. In the period covered Winchester probably achieved the peak of its medieval prosperity. From the reign of Alfred to that of Henry II it was a town of the first rank, initially centre of Wessex, then the principal royal city of the Old English state, and finally `capital’ in some sense, but not the largest city, of the Norman Kingdom. This volume provides a full edition, translation, and analyses of the surveys and of the city they depict, drawing on the evidence derived from archaeological excavation and historical research in the city since 1961, on personal- and place-name evidence, and on the recent advances in Anglo-Saxon numismatics.

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Book SynopsisThe Neolithic Cemetery at Tell el-Kerkh is the second volume of the final reports on the excavations at Tell el-Kerkh, northwest Syria. The 12-year field campaigns at Tell el-Kerkh yielded several unexpected archaeological findings. The existence of the oldest cultural deposits from the early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period (c. 8700-8300 BC) in northwestern Syria was revealed. The investigations also revealed that several large and complex societies had existed from the late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to the middle Pottery Neolithic periods (c. 7600–6000 BC). One of the most conspicuous findings of the excavations at Tell el-Kerkh was the discovery of a Pottery Neolithic cemetery dating between c. 6400 and 6100 BC, which makes it one of the oldest outdoor communal cemeteries in West Asia. This book focuses specifically on this cemetery. It reports the discovery of over 240 burials and discusses the process of the formation and development of the cemetery. Initially used for traditional house burials in a corner of the settlement, the cemetery eventually became a graveyard that was physically separated from the residential buildings and consisted only of graves. In other words, burials that were deeply related to each house developed into an outdoor communal cemetery of the settlement. The Kerkh Neolithic cemetery was a precursor to the wider development of communal cemeteries in West Asia, and its investigation provides us with a deeper understanding of Neolithic society in West Asia.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction – Akira Tsuneki ; Chapter 2: Geological Conditions of Tell el-Kerkh – Ken-ichiro Hisada ; Chapter 3: The Tell el-Kerkh Site and Stratigraphy – Akira Tsuneki ; Chapter 4: Burial Types and the Transition of Kerkh Cemetery – Sari Jammo ; Chapter 5: Burial Catalogue of Kerkh Cemetery – Akira Tsuneki, Naoko Hironaga, Sari Jammo, Yuko Miyauchi and Yuki Tatsumi ; Chapter 6: The Human Remains of Tell el-Kerkh – Sean P. Dougherty ; Chapter 7: Radiocarbon Dating at Tell el-Kerkh – Yu Itahashi and Minoru Yoneda ; Chapter 8 (Discussion 1): Body Transformation: Skull Retrieval, Manipulation and Circulation of Human Remains at Kerkh Cemetery – Sari Jammo ; Chapter 9 (Discussion 2): The Meaning of Cremation – Naoko Hironaga ; Chapter 10 (Discussion 3): Stable Isotope Analyses of Human and Animal Bones at Tell el-Kerkh – Yu Itahashi and Minoru Yoneda ; Chapter 11: Conclusion – Akira Tsuneki ; Appendix: Neolithic Burials Outside of the Cemetery – Naoko Hironaga ; References ; Arabic Summary

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a detailed overview of the firearms used in Oman over the last four centuries. Portable firearms were brought into the Arabian Gulf by the Portuguese, but there is no trace of these early weapons the region. In Oman, the typical matchlock guns with decorated Indian barrels were highly esteemed and they were passed from generation to generation as a family heritage. Matchlock guns were replaced only by breech-loading Martini Henry rifles at the end of the 19th century, when Muscat became the major firearms’ entrepot in the Arabian Gulf with hundreds of thousands of breech loading rifles re-exported throughout the whole region up to Afghanistan and Persia. The Martini Henry rifle and its variants were by far the most common weapon and Belgian made Martini Henry were specifically engraved for the Muscat market. Cannon entered the country in great number mostly as ordnances on Royal Navy ships and they are now kept in forts, towers and fortified buildings across the entire Oman. The weapons described in this book are mostly from the National Museum and Bait al Zubair Museum in Muscat.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1 Gunpowder ; 2 Matchlock Guns ; 3 Flintlock and Percussion Guns ; 4 Introduction of Modern Rifles in Arabia ; 5 Martini Henry Rifles ; 6 Repeating Rifles ; 7 Pistols ; 8 Cannons ; Endnotes ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisPrehistoric Fisherfolk of Oman reports on excavations at the prehistoric site Ras Al-Hamra RH-5, located on a large promontory in the Qurum area of Muscat, conducted by the Italian Archaeological Mission in Oman with support from the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism. The site dates from the late fifth to the end of the fourth millennia BC and comprises an accumulation of superimposed food discards deriving from continuous and repeated subsistence activities such as fishing, collecting shells, hunting and herding. Dwellings and household installations, including objects of daily use and ornaments, have also been found throughout the occupation sequence. Excavations at RH-5 yielded unprecedented data on the economic and social dynamics of Neolithic societies in eastern Arabia. The exploitation of different ecological niches supplied all the necessary requirements for year-round sedentary human occupation. The lifestyle of fisher-gatherer communities during the Middle Holocene represents a fundamental step of the neolithisation process in Oman.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1 Environmental Setting ; 2 Human Occupation at Qurum ; 3 Shell Middens and Ras Al-Hamra ; 4 Stratigraphy and Chronology ; 5 Settlement Structures ; 6 Activities ; 7 Material Culture ; 8 Mobility ; 9 Society ; 10 Demography ; 11 Comparisons ; 12 Conclusions ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisTomb Families investigates the apparently random distribution of New Kingdom private tombs in the Theban Necropolis by focusing on factors which may have influenced tomb location. The Theban Necropolis contains hundreds of tombs belonging to elite individuals, dating from the end of the Old Kingdom through to the Ptolemaic Period, with the vast majority dating to the New Kingdom (c.1550-1077 BC). These tombs are scattered across the landscape at the edge of the desert between the Valley of the Kings to the west, and the row of royal mortuary temples along the edge of the cultivation to the east. GPS surveying has enabled the spatial analysis of these tombs, demonstrating that specific areas of the necropolis were popular at different times and among particular groups of people. Clusters and patterns can be identified between tombs built during the same reign(s), as well as between tomb owners with similar titles and familial connections. The orientation of specific tombs towards Karnak temple, royal mortuary temples and festival processional routes reveals their significance to certain individuals. This research provides a deeper understanding of the necropolis, and how private tombs linked to the wider sacred landscape of Thebes.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: Topography of the Theban Necropolis ; Chapter 3: The Earliest Tombs ; Chapter 4: The New Kingdom Evolution of the Theban Necropolis ; Chapter 5: Dra Abu el-Naga ; Chapter 6: Deir el-Bahri ; Chapter 7: El-Asasif ; Chapter 8: El-Khokha ; Chapter 9: Sheikh Abd el-Qurna ; Chapter 10: Qurnet Murai ; Chapter 11: Deir el-Medina ; Chapter 12: Tombs of Viziers and their Colleagues ; Chapter 13: High Priests of Amun ; Chapter 14: Final Observations ; Appendices ; Appendix 1: Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period Tomb Owners ; Appendix 2: Middle Kingdom Tomb Owners ; Appendix 3: Tomb Owners in Dra Abu el-Naga East ; Appendix 4: Tomb Owners in Dra Abu el-Naga West ; Appendix 5: Outlying Tombs in Dra Abu el-Naga West ; Appendix 6: New Kingdom Tomb Owners in Deir el-Bahri ; Appendix 7: Outlying Tomb Owners in Deir el-Bahri ; Appendix 8: Tomb Owners in el-Asasif ; Appendix 9: Tomb Owners in el-Khokha ; Appendix 10: Outlying Tomb Owners in el-Khokha ; Appendix 11: Tomb Owners in Upper Qurna ; Appendix 12: Tomb Owners in Lower Qurna ; Appendix 13: Tomb Owners in Qurnet Murai ; Appendix 14: Tomb Owners in Deir el-Medina ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisLa provincia dell’Arpione Occidentale nei testi egiziani: ricerche storiche, geografiche e religiose dalle origini all’Epoca Romana presents research on the Western Harpoon province – the seventh nome of Lower Egypt – located in the north-western Delta and a strategic region for the Egyptian economy, joining the Mediterranean, the caravan routes in the Libyan Desert and the heart of Egyptian political power exercised along the Nile valley. However, this region has not been the subject of comprehensive studies or in-depth archaeological investigations. Our archaeological knowledge of the province is greatly lacking, with the exception of the regions of Canopus and Alexandria. The scarcity of archaeological sources is contrasted by an abundance of textual documentation, mainly from priestly literature, which provides us with a kind of ‘map’ of human thought and belief that follows a topographical arrangement and allows us to define the lost archaeological landscape. This book is the first monograph devoted to a comprehensive study of the province of the Western Harpoon and aims to reconstruct its history and religious geography through textual sources, from its origins to the end of the Roman era. From this research, a more organic and structured picture has been gained of the sacred topography and cults of the Western Harpoon province within its historical landscape.Table of ContentsEnglish Abstract ; Introduzione ; Capitolo 1: Le fonti per una elaborazione di una ‘monografia regionale’ della provincia dell’Arpione Occidentale ; La documentazione regale e privata ; La letteratura sacerdotale ; Capitolo 2: La documentazione ; Metodologia ; Capitolo 3: Tra geografia sacra e geografia fisica. La VII provincia del Basso Egitto dalle origini all’epoca greco romana ; La VII provincia del Basso l’Egitto: l’Arpione Occidentale ; Questioni terminologiche: il νομος e la sp3.t ; Lo sviluppo delle province nel Delta dell’Egitto ; Le alterazioni della tradizione sacerdotale di epoca greco-romana ; Prime attestazioni delle province del Basso Egitto ; Le fonti della VII provincia del Basso Egitto dall’Epoca Predinastica all’Epoca Tarda ; La VII provincia del Basso Egitto in epoca greco-romana ; Capitolo 4: L’Arpione Occidentale e la sua regione. Studio toponimico e geografico ; Lo stendardo della provincia dell’Arpione Occidentale ; Considerazioni ed ipotesi sulla localizzazione e sui confini del distretto dell’Arpione Occidentale ; I problemi della toponimia regionale ; Toponimi della provincia dell’Arpione Occidentale ; Altri elementi geografici del distretto dell’Arpione Occidentale ; L’idrografia ; Capitolo 5: Le ‘fonti supplementari’. Le città sommerse di Canopo, Thonis-Heracleion e l’isola di Nelson ; Storia degli studi della regione canopica e obiettivi del progetto IEASM ; Le cause dell’immersione dei siti antichi stabilite dallo IEASM ; Canopo ; Snt-nfr.t, la ‘Bella fondazione’, corrisponde all’antica Canopo? ; Thonis-Heracleion ; L’isola di Nelson ; I culti nella regione canopica ; Capitolo 6: I culti, le divinità e i riti locali della provincia dell’Arpione Occidentale ; Le divinità venerate nella provincia ; Le mitologie e culti locali ; Il VII distretto del Basso Egitto e la teologia osiriana ; I sacerdoti specifici del distretto dell’Arpione Occidentale ; Gli elementi sacri del distretto e le informazioni cultuali provenienti dal Grande Testo Geografico di Edfu e dal Papiro Carlsberg 182 + PSI I 77 ; Le fonti ; Delimitazione territoriale e confini della provincia ; Arpione ‘lato ovest’ e ‘Arpione lato est’: una o due province? ; La topografia regionale ; La regione canopica e i suoi culti ; I culti, i riti regionali e i sacerdoti specifici del distretto ; Appendice I: Lista delle fonti ; Appendice II: Fonti divise per tipologia ; Bibliografia

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Book SynopsisLyde Green Roman Villa, Emersons Green, South Gloucestershire was excavated between mid-2012 and mid-2013 along with its surroundings and antecedent settlement. The excavations took place as part of the Emersons Green East Development Area, funded through the mechanism of commercial archaeology by Gardiner & Theobald LLP. The results of the stratigraphic analysis are given here along with specialist reports on the human remains, pottery (including thin sections), ceramic building material, small finds, coinage and iron-working waste. Six open-area excavations allowed the archaeologists the rare opportunity to trace a substantial part of the site’s layout. Three ancillary buildings within the villa compound, including a bathhouse, were excavated. Evidence of advanced water management was uncovered in the form of lead piping, ceramic drain tiles and an enigmatic stone structure built into a canalised spring line. The villa’s economy included stock raising, crop processing and iron and textile production. The settlement appears to have originated in the mid-1st century AD, or slightly earlier.Table of ContentsEditors’ foreword ; Chapter 1 Introduction – Richard Newman, Matthew S. Hobson, and Damion Churchill ; Chapter 2: Research objectives, methodologies and summary of results – Richard Newman, Matthew S. Hobson, and Damion Churchill ; Chapter 3: The development of the landscape before the 1st millennium AD – Richard Newman and Robert Young with contributions by Adrian Bailey, Kimberley Colman, Lynne Gardiner, David Jackson, Mike McElligott and Megan Stoakley ; Chapter 4: Dating the origins of the rural settlement at Lyde Green: a Late Iron Age enclosure system? – Richard Newman and Matthew S. Hobson with contributions by Lynne Gardiner, Mike McElligott, Ed McSloy and Megan Stoakley ; Chapter 5: The Romano-British period and the villa estate – Mike McElligott, Richard Newman, Matthew S. Hobson and Megan Stoakley with contributions by Don O’Meara and Lynne Gardiner ; Chapter 6: The Romano-British artefacts (mid-1st century AD to 5th century AD) ; Chapter 7: The development of the landscape from the Roman period to the present day – Richard Newman with contributions from Ed McSloy and Megan Stoakley ; Chapter 8: Lyde Green and the Romano-British villas of South Gloucestershire – Richard Newman ; Chapter 9: Appendices ; Appendix 1: Catalogue of Bronze Age pottery ; Appendix 2: Table of radiocarbon dates ; Appendix 3: Catalogue of decorated Samian and Samian stamps ; Appendix 4: Petrographic report of thin-section analyses ; Appendix 5: Fabric descriptions of ceramic building material ; Appendix 6: XRF methodology and tables ; Appendix 7: Methodology for analysis of the human remains ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Continuity of Pre-Islamic Motifs in Javanese Mosque Ornamentation assesses the continuity and significance of Hindu-Buddhist design motifs in Islamic mosques in Java. The research starts from a belief that typical Javanese ornaments were consistently used both in pre-Islamic Hindu-Buddhist temples and Islamic mosques in Indonesia. This phenomenon was a result of syncretic Javanese Islam, composed of mystic animism, Hindu-Buddhism, and Islam, which differed from orthodox Islam in the Near East and Arab world. The volume investigates four pre-Islamic motifs in Javanese mosque ornamentation from the 15th century to the present day: prehistoric tumpals, Hindu-Buddhist kala-makaras, lotus buds, and scrolls, all of which have symbolic connotations and are used to decorate sanctuaries. For a comparison between temple and mosque ornamentation, 10 Hindu-Buddhist temples and 30 mosques were selected, and a representative sample of each motif was taken during the researcher’s fieldwork. The findings revealed continuity in the four motifs across the pre-Islamic and Islamic periods, reflected in lines, shapes, forms, and rhythms. The symbolic connotations of the four motifs allowed them to continue, and their influence was dependent upon the creativity of the local genius in each epoch.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction and Background of the Research ; Chapter 2. Methodology ; Chapter 3. Pre-Islamic and Islamic Java ; Chapter 4. Identification of Motifs in Javanese Mosques ; Chapter 5. The Continuity of Pre-Islamic Tumpals in Javanese Mosque Ornamentation ; Chapter 6. The Continuity of Pre-Islamic kala-makaras in Javanese Mosque Ornamentation ; Chapter 7. The Continuity of Pre-Islamic Lotus Buds in Javanese Mosque Ornamentation ; Chapter 8. The Continuity of Pre-Islamic Scrolls in Javanese Mosque Ornamentation ; Chapter 9. Summary and Conclusion ; Appendix 1 ; Appendix 2

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Book SynopsisQatar: Evidence of the Palaeolithic Earliest People Revealed, with full text in both English and Arabic, tells the story of the long and difficult search to discover the identity of the first people to inhabit the sovereign State of Qatar, which is situated on a peninsula, that extends into the Arabian Gulf. The book synthesises the results of extensive fieldwork by the PADMAC Unit with the many diverse historical records and reports of investigations, beginning with Holgar Kapel’s, in the early 1950s. The archaeology of the State of Qatar is an important part of the cultural heritage of the world. The loss of archaeological sites to urban and industrial development since the 1950s has been inevitable but the loss of over 30 years of Palaeolithic research in Qatar, an area of prehistoric significance, as a result of academic dissension, is certainly regrettable. The work of the PADMAC Unit in Qatar now marks the end of this Palaeolithic research hiatus.Trade Review‘The book, bilingual in format and lavishly illustrated, will be an invaluable introduction to scholars and interested readers alike. I will go as far as to say that this book will be an ideal introduction to any university course dealing with world prehistory and the movement of modern humans.’ – George Nash (2022): Current World ArchaeologyTable of ContentsTable of Contents: Preface ; Acknowledgements ; Map ; Chronology ; Introduction: An interview with H.E. Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim Al Thani ; Investigations: Why look for evidence of Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in Qatar? ; The Pre-History of Qatar (Part 1): Traces of prehistoric occupation and the importance of Palaeolithic surface-scatters of stone-tools. ; The Hiatus in Palaeolithic Research in Qatar: Identifying the problem. ; Answers to the Question: What curtailed Palaeolithic research in Qatar for over 30 years? ; The Pre-History of Qatar (Part 2): In search of the Palaeolithic of Qatar; new investigation; new discoveries ; Found: The Palaeolithic of Qatar ; All Things Considered: Summary results of the 2009-2017 investigations in Qatar by the PADMAC Unit ; Reflections ; Further Reading: Section 1: A brief overview of Palaeolithic material cultures ; Further Reading: Section 2: The Geospatial analyses, research techniques and methodologies employed by the PADMAC Unit ; Table of Figures ; References ; Index

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Book SynopsisChange and Transition on Crete: Interpreting the Evidence from the Hellenistic through to the Early Byzantine Period is presented in honour of G.W.M. Harrison, whose academic contributions have enriched our perspective of Roman Crete and has inspired others to take on the challenge of this subject area.The study of Hellenistic and Roman Crete is, in many respects, still in its infancy. Whilst there is still much that we do not know about life on the island during these times, the past 40 years have seen a marked advancement of research and investigation into these periods at an ever-increasing pace, with the result that today we have a far better understanding and clearer perspective of the era.The theme of this volume, which was inspired by the 1st International Conference of the Colloquium on Roman Crete in 2016, is change and transition, a topic that challenges some of the earlier approaches to Hellenistic and Roman Crete, and which presents a different perspective on historical events and archaeological evidence. After an opening discussion, the papers explore aspects of change and transition in social and material archaeological contexts, with contributions on social organisation, economy and trade, health and diet, and the maritime landscape. In discussing change and transition for the Hellenistic and Roman periods, this volume also raises questions about existing interpretations of the archaeological evidence and the current chronological framework.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores pottery making and communities during the Bakun period (c. 5000 – 4000 BCE) in the Kur River Basin, Fars province, southwestern Iran, through the analysis of ceramic materials collected at Tall-e Jari A, Tall-e Gap, and Tall-e Bakun A & B. Firstly, it reconsiders the stratigraphy and radiocarbon dates of the four sites by reviewing the descriptions of excavation trenches, then presents a new chronological relationship between the sites. The book sets out diachronic changes in the the Bakun pottery quantitatively, namely the increase of black-on-buff ware and the gradual shift of vessel forms. It also presents analyses of pottery-making techniques, painting skills, petrography, and geochemistry and clarifies minor changes in the chaînes opératoires and major changes in painting skill. Finally, the book discusses the organisation of pottery production from a relational perspective. It concludes that the more fixed community of pottery making imposed longer apprenticeship periods and that social inequality also increased.Trade Review'There is no question that this book introduces in specific a major modern treatment of the Bakun painted pottery, and in general a new and detailed approach in dealing with a totality of pottery production that includes people and other materials in the process.' – Abbas Alizadeh (2023): Journal of Near Eastern StudiesTable of ContentsPreface ; Part I: Introduction and raising research questions ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Part II: Reviewing previous studies and presenting theoretical frameworks and methodology ; Chapter 2: Previous Studies ; Chapter 3: The theoretical framework for craft-production studies ; Chapter 4: Methodology ; Part III: Analyses ; Chapter 5: Chronological relations of the Bakun-period sites ; Chapter 6: Materials and analyses of wares, vessel forms, and design structures ; Chapter 7: Analysis of pottery-making techniques ; Part IV: Discussion and conclusion ; Chapter 8: Discussion: reassembling the organisation of pottery production ; Chapter 9: Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Appendix

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Book SynopsisRoman Amphora Contents: Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity gathers together the results of the RACIIC International Congress (Roman Amphora Contents International Interactive Conference, Cádiz, 2015), dedicated to the distinguished Spanish amphorologist Miguel Beltrán Lloris. The aim is to reflect on the current state of knowledge about the palaeocontents of Roman amphorae. With over 30 specialists from different countries, the text examines four elements diachronically throughout the Roman period up to the 7th century, with some insights on pre-Roman times: 1) the intimate relationships between amphorae and their contents, from an interdisciplinary perspective (from tituli picti to the evidence from underwater sites, including the problems of reuse); 2) the contribution and current state of knowledge concerning archaeometric approaches (especially organic residue analysis); 3) the evidence at regional / provincial level (from Lusitania to Egypt); and 4) recent case studies, from Corinth, Pompeii and Arles to the Fretum Gaditanum, which allow us to illustrate the different and combined study methods, necessarily interdisciplinary (archaeological, archaeobotanical, archaeozoological, epigraphic, palynological or biomolecular), in order to advance in this transcendental theme and its significance for the economic history and maritime traffic of the Ancient World.Table of ContentsPreface ; Ánforas romanas y contenidos. Notas historiográficas – Miguel Beltrán Lloris ; Historical and archaeological indicators ; Amphorae: typology and contents – Stefanie Martin‑Kilcher and André Tchernia ; Shipwrecks, amphorae and contents – Franca Cibecchini ; Amphora contents as commodities: the structure and function oftituli picti in the western Mediterranean in the 1st century AD – Enrique García Vargas ; How late antique dipinti contribute to a better knowledge of amphora contents – Jean-Luc Fournet ; The reuse of transport amphorae as packaging containersin the Roman world: an overview – J. Theodore Peña ; Archaeometric indicators: generalities and case studies ; Amphorae and residue analysis: content of amphorae and organic coatings – Nicolas Garnier and Alessandra Pecci ; GC-MS analysis of pitch from Roman amphorae from Cosa in Etruria (Italy) – Hitomi Fujii, Carole Mathe, Fabienne Olmer and Cathy Vieillescazes ; Residue analysis by GC-MS and FT-IR Spectroscopy on Roman amphorae from the archaeological site ‘Nuovo Mercato Testaccio’ (Rome) – Florinda Notarstefano and Mariateresa Lettieri ; The contents of ancient Graeco-Italic amphorae.First analyses on the amphorae of the Filicudi F andSecca di Capistello wrecks (Aeolian Islands, Sicily) – Nicolas Garnier and Gloria Olcese ; Inland trade and consumption in context. A case study on the organic residue analysis of transport amphorae from the Balkan Peninsula (Yambol District, South-eastern Bulgaria) – Silvia Polla, Andreas Springer, Birte Gruber, Petra Tušlová and Barbora Weissová ; The Beirut amphora: residue analysis and contents – Marshall Woodworth and Paul Reynolds ; Making Garum. Experimental archaeology methods – Álvaro Rodríguez-Alcántara, Ana Roldán-Gómez, Enrique García Vargas, Darío Bernal-Casasola and Víctor Manuel Palacios-Macías ; Regional and provincial syntheses ; West ; Lusitanian Amphora Contents – Inês Vaz Pinto, Rui Morais, Carlos Fabião, César Oliveira and Sónia Gabriel ; The Iberian and Roman amphorae of Hispania Citerior – Ramón Járrega Domínguez and Albert Ribera i Lacomba ; Amphora contents in Baetica: from thePunic tradition to Late Roman times – Darío Bernal-Casasola, Enrique García Vargas, Antonio M. Sáez Romero and Horacio González Cesteros ; Tituli picti on Spanish amphorae – Piero Berni and Emmanuel Botte ; The contents of amphorae produced in Gaul in the Imperial period – Fanette Laubenheimer ; Italian and Sicilian amphorae and their contents: a general overview – Simonetta Menchelli ; The content of amphorae from Adriatic Italy – Marie Brigitte Carre and Stefania Pesavento Mattioli ; African amphora contents: an update – Michel Bonifay ; Amphorae from the Byzacene coast: what did they contain? – Jihen Nacef† ; East ; The oil supply in the Roman East: identifying modes of production, containers and contents in the eastern Empire – Paul Reynolds ; Feeding the Lower Danube and Pontic areas with local wine and fish products (1st century BC‑3rd century AD) – Andrei Opaiţ ; Ephesus wines – Tamás Bezeczky† ; Egyptian amphorae from the Hellenistic to the Late Roman periods – Delphine Dixneuf ; Case studies: From the West to the East ; The contents of amphora type T-7.4.3.3 (former type Mañá C2b): ancient problematic and new research perspectives – Max Luaces ; The fish-salting production centre of Águilas:late-Roman amphora content analysis – Alejandro Quevedo, Myriam Sternberg and Juan de Dios Hernández García ; New data, new questions on the paleo-contents studies of Roman jars and amphorae in underwater contexts: salsamenta, garum, lymphatum and other fish products – Gaël Piquès, Núria Rovira, Margaux Tillier, Franca Cibecchini, David Djaoui and Carlos De Juan ; Dressel 21-22 Italic amphorae for fish: the archaeozoological confirmation from the garum shop at Pompeii – Darío Bernal-Casasola, Daniela Cottica, Ricard MarlascaCarmen Gloria Rodríguez Santana and Enrique García Vargas ; Amphorae with residues from Southern Sardinia (Cagliari and Nora) – Ignazio Sanna, Laura Soro and Cristina Nervi ; ‘De profundis’: three amphorae of unorthodox contents retrieved from the Aegean Sea – George Koutsouflakis ; Salting and consuming fish in the Classical Mediterranean. A review of the archaeological evidence from the Punic Amphora Building (Corinth, Greece) – Antonio M. Sáez Romero and Tatiana Theodoropoulou ; Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe broad valley of the Bradano river and its tributary the Basentello separates the Apennine mountains in Lucania from the limestone plateau of the Murge in Apulia in South East Italy. For millennia the valley has functioned both as a cultural and political divide between the two regions, and as a channel for new ideas transmitted from South to North or vice versa depending on the political and economic conditions of the time. Archaeology on the Apulian – Lucanian Border aims to explain how the pattern of settlement and land use changed in the valley over the whole period from Neolithic to Late Medieval, taking account of changing environmental conditions, and setting the changes in a broader political, social and cultural context. There are three levels of focus. The first is on the results of a field survey (1996-2006) in the Basentello valley by teams from the Universities of Alberta, Edinburgh, and Bari, directed by the authors. The second concerns the discoveries of earlier field surveys in the late 1960s and early 1970s undertaken in connection with excavations on Botromagno near Gravina in Puglia. The third is a much broader synthesis of the results of recent scholarship using archaeological, epigraphic and literary sources to reconstruct an archaeological history of the valley and the surrounding area. The creation of a vast imperial estate at Vagnari around the end of the 1st century BC and its long-lasting impact on the pattern of settlement in the area is a significant theme in the later chapters of the book.Table of ContentsPreface ; Acknowledgements ; Section I: General introduction ; Section II: The Basentello Valley field survey 1996-2008: An overview ; Section III: Diachronic interpretations ; Chapter I. The Palaeolithic period ; Chapter II. The Neolithic period ; Chapter III. The Eneolithic Period ; Chapter IV. The Bronze Age ; Chapter V. The Final Bronze Age (ca. 1200-1000BC) / Early Iron Age I (ca. 1000-750BC) ; Chapter VI. The Early Iron Age II (Period Gravina II) ca. 750–675 BC and Middle Iron Age (ca. 675–500 BC) ; Chapter VII. The Late Iron Age: (Lucanian/Late Peucetian period) ; Chapter VIII. The Hellenistic Period ; Chapter IX. The Roman Imperial Period ; Chapter X. The Late Roman Empire ; Chapter XI. Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages ; Chapter XII. The Middle Ages. Late 7th to 13/14th century ; Section IV: List of sites ; Section V: Catalogue of artefacts ; Section VI: The older surveys ; Figures for artefacts ; Plates for artefacts ; Bibliography ; Appendix: Le anfore dalla valle del Basentello: ricostruire la rete dei commerci e dei consumi delle derrate

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