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Pennsylvania State University Press Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel
Book SynopsisIn this book, Philip Zhakevich examines the technology of writing as it existed in the southern Levant during the Iron Age II period, after the alphabetic writing system had fully taken root in the region. Using the Hebrew Bible as its corpus and focusing on a set of Hebrew terms that designated writing surfaces and instruments, this study synthesizes the semantic data of the Bible with the archeological and art-historical evidence for writing in ancient Israel. The bulk of this work comprises an in-depth lexicographical analysis of Biblical Hebrew terms related to Israel's writing technology. Employing comparative Semitics, lexical semantics, and archaeology, Zhakevich provides a thorough analysis of the origins of the relevant terms; their use in the biblical text, Ben Sira, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and ancient Hebrew inscriptions; and their translation in the Septuagint and other ancient versions. The final chapter evaluates Israel's writing practices in light of those of the ancient world, concluding that Israel's most common form of writing (i.e., writing with ink on ostraca and papyrus) is Egyptian in origin and was introduced into Canaan during the New Kingdom. Comprehensive and original in its scope, Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel is a landmark contribution to our knowledge of scribes and scribal practices in ancient Israel. Students and scholars interested in language and literacy in the first-millennium Levant in particular will profit from this volume.
£30.56
Aarhus University Press Freunde und Feinde – Dania Slavica: Grenzgebiete
Book SynopsisThis book, written in German, presents an interdisciplinary study of the south-eastern part of Denmark – South Zealand and the islands Lolland, Falster and Møn – as a border area between Danes, Saxons and Slavs from the 9th to the 13th century. In the archaeological evidence it is evident that the Slavic-inspired Baltic ware completely displaces the local ceramic tradition on the islands. In the period concerned, there is evidence of dynastic connections between Slavs and Danes at the same time as violent conflicts were taking place across the Baltic Sea. On Lolland, Falster and Møn there are Slavic place names, and in written sources the contours of Slavic noble families on Lolland and Falster can be traced through several hundred years, but otherwise the Slavs who lived on the Danish islands into the 13th century were completely assimilated within a short time.
£36.00
Aarhus University Press Time's Up!: Acts of the Minoan Eruption
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Aarhus University Press Santorini: Volcano, Natural History, Mythology
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Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab Qala'at al-Bahrain 3: The Western and Southern
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£32.00
Taylor & Francis The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland
Book SynopsisThe Neolithic of Britain and Ireland provides a comprehensive overview of this exciting period, covering the last few hundred years of the Mesolithic, the arrival and spread of the Neolithic up to the start of the early Beaker period: roughly two thousand years of prehistory.Drawing on the latest excavations and the results of new scientific techniques, this book considers what life was like for people in the Neolithic, and how they were treated when they died. It explores in detail the monuments constructed from stone and wood, the most famous of which is Stonehenge but also includes many other sites such as chambered tombs and causewayed enclosures. It considers some of the key ways we interpret evidence from the Neolithic, to offer insights into social organisation and belief systems at this time. The new edition contains the results of the latest ancient DNA evidence which has seen this period of prehistory undergoing considerable revision in the last few years. Ex
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Cambridge University Press Middle Egyptian Literature Eight Literary Works
Book SynopsisA companion volume to the third edition of the author's popular Middle Egyptian, this book contains eight literary works from the Middle Kingdom, the golden age of Middle Egyptian literature. Included are the compositions widely regarded as the pinnacle of Egyptian literary arts, by the Egyptians themselves as well as by modern readers. The works are presented in hieroglyphic transcription, transliteration and translation, accompanied by notes cross-referenced to the third edition of Middle Egyptian. These are designed to give students of Middle Egyptian access to original texts and the tools to practise and perfect their knowledge of the language. The principles of ancient Egyptian verse, in which all the works are written, are discussed, and the transliterations and translations are versified, giving students practice in this aspect of Egyptian literature as well. Consecutive translations are also included for reference and for readers more concerned with Middle Egyptian literature tTrade Review'A rich resource for students to enhance their reading of eight classics of Middle Egyptian literature in the original language. It will surely become a standard in Middle Egyptian courses.' Mark Collier, University of Liverpool'A marvellously authoritative and accessible new resource for anyone wanting to read these classics of world literature in the original language.' R. B. Parkinson, University of Oxford'This book gives the reader access to one of the true surviving treasures of ancient Egypt: Middle Kingdom literary texts, presented in their original wording. An essential companion for students and lovers of ancient literature.' Andréas Stauder, École Pratique des Hautes Études, ParisTable of ContentsIntroduction; Text 1. The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor; Text 2. The Story of Sinuhe; Text 3. The Loyalist Instruction; Text 4. The Instructions of Kagemni's Father and Ptahhotep; Text 5. The Discourses of the Eloquent Peasant; Text 6. The Debate between a Man and his Soul; Text 7. The Herdsman's Tale; Text 8. Hymns to Senwosret III.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art New York The Control Notes and Team Marks
Book SynopsisThis volume is the second in the series of publications on the Museum''s excavations in the South Cemeteries of Lisht, Egypt. The series will eventually include contributions on a wide range of subjects, such as religious architecture, wall decoration and religious texts, works of art and funerary equipment. While the first volume described the funerary complex of an Egyptian king, the inscriptions published here supply important information about the organization of labor at an ancient construction site: the workmen, the scheduling of transport and building activities, and the control of the compulsory labor system. The inscriptions are inconspicuous, most of them were written by untrained hands with rough brushes on the coarse surface of building stones, yet they provide a behind-the-scenes view of the construction process of pharaonic architecture. Philippe de Montebello Director, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, from the director''s foreword
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Van Siclen Books Comments on the Famine Stela
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£23.02
Van Siclen Books Revolutions in Time
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£17.50
Van Siclen Books Animals of Ancient Egypt
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£17.50
Van Siclen Books Reflections of Women in the New Kingdom
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Archaeopress Middle Saxon' Settlement and Society: The
Book SynopsisThis book explores the experiences of rural communities who lived between the seventh and ninth centuries in central and eastern England. Combining archaeology with documentary, place-name and topographic evidences, it shows the way in which the settlements in which people lived provide a unique insight into social, economic and political conditions in ‘Middle Saxon’ England. The material derived from excavations within currently-occupied rural settlements represents a particularly informative dataset, and when combined with other evidence illustrates that the seventh to ninth centuries was a period of fundamental social change that impacted rural communities in significant and lasting ways. The transformation of settlement character was part of a more widespread process of landscape investment during the ‘Middle Saxon’ period, as rapidly stratifying social institutions began to manifest power and influence through new means. Such an analysis represents a significant departure from the prevailing scholarly outlook of the early medieval landscape, which continues to posit that the countryside of England remained largely unchanged until the development of historic villages from the ninth century onward. In this regard, the evidence presented by this book from currently-occupied rural settlements provides substantial backing to the idea that many historic villages emerged as part of a two-stage process which began during the ‘Middle Saxon’ period. Whilst it was only following subsequent change that recognisable later village plans began to take shape, key developments between the seventh and ninth centuries helped articulate the form and identity of rural centres, features that in many instances persisted throughout the medieval period and into the present day.Table of ContentsChapter I: Introducing Middle Saxon Settlement Chapter II: Approaches and Methods Chapter III: Northamptonshire Chapter IV: Oxfordshire Chapter V: Wiltshire Chapter VI: Cambridgeshire Chapter VII: Norfolk Chapter VIII: Discussion Chapter IX: Conclusion
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Archaeopress Bronze ‘Bathtub’ Coffins In the Context of
Book SynopsisThis volume is dedicated to a small number of unique bronze ‘bathtub’ coffins found in 8th–6th century BC Babylonian, Assyrian and Elamite burial contexts. Usually treated as an incidental aspect of the burial process, these fascinating burial receptacles have until now garnered little in the way of academic interest. Here the author takes the opportunity to further explore the coffins, drawing together the widely dispersed information on their archaeological contexts, investigating the method and place of their manufacture, and establishing a possible date range for their production and use. To progress towards an understanding of the bronze ‘bathtub’ coffin burials within the broader context of regional funerary practices, they are then incorporated into an analysis of Neo-Babylonian, Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Elamite funerary ritual and belief. Finally the coffins are placed within the historical framework of these regions’ socio-political interaction in an attempt to establish whether they represent a shared funerary tradition. Underpinning this study is the principle that mortuary evidence is the product of intentional behaviour; that the bronze ‘bathtub’ coffins represent a deliberate choice by the burying group and each would have featured in an emotionally and symbolically charged burial act.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter 1: The Bronze ‘Bathtub’ Coffins of Mesopotamia and Elam ; Chapter 2: Mortuary Remains of Mesopotamia and Elam ; Chapter 3: Death, the Afterlife and Funerary Ritual in Mesopotamia and Elam ; Chapter 4: Ideological Aspects of the Bronze ‘Bathtub’ Burials ; Chapter 5: Bronze ‘Bathtub’ Coffins in Historical Context ; Chapter 6: Concluding Remarks Bibliography ; Appendix 1: Catalogue of Bronze ‘Bathtubs’ ; Appendix 2: Nimrud Bronze ‘Bathtub’ Coffin Grave Good Inventory ; Appendix 3. Texts
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Archaeopress Origins, Development and Abandonment of an Iron
Book SynopsisThis volume is the second of two reports on archaeological excavations undertaken ahead of the eastern expansion of Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) which lies in the northern watershed region of Northamptonshire at its border with Warwickshire. The excavations, covering 178 hectares, recorded one of the most extensive Iron Age farming settlements yet discovered in the British Isles. It comprised at least five individual sites of house clusters and enclosures, spread around the rim of a shallow valley overlooking around 100 hectares of open pasture. At its peak between 400 BC and 100 BC the settlement would have contained up to 100 circular buildings. Volume 2 describes the excavations of four of these individual sites, undertaken at various times by MOLA Northampton (then Northamptonshire Archaeology) at The Lodge and Long Dole, by Foundations Archaeology at Crick Hotel, and by Cotswold Archaeology at Nortoft Lane, Kilsby. The project was managed by RPS. The site reports are followed by a wide-ranging discussion, putting the discoveries here and at Covert Farm, Crick (Volume 1) into the context of Iron Age settlement patterns and dynamics in the East Midland region.Table of ContentsChapter 1 – Introduction (Robert Masefield); Chapter 2 – Iron Age settlement at the Long Dole (Andy Chapman with contributions from Paul Blinkhorn, Pat Chapman, Sarah Cobain, Rowena Gale, Dennis Jackson, Alison Locker and Stephanie Vann. Illustrations by Pat Walsh, James Ladocha, Amir Bassir and Andy Chapman); Chapter 3 – Crick Hotel (Peter Ellis and Roy King); Chapter 4 – Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlement at the Lodge (Andy Chapman with contributions from Paul Blinkhorn, Pat Chapman, Sarah Cobain, Rowena Gale, Dennis Jackson, Alison Locker, Ed McSloy and Stephanie Vann. Illustrations by Pat Walsh, Amir Bassir and Andy Chapman); Chapter 5 – Nortoft Lane, Kilsby (John Hart & Andrew Mudd); Chapter 6 - Discussion (Robert Masefield with contributions by Andy Chapman, Charles LeQuesne, Edward McSloy and Andrew Mudd); Chapter 7 – Conclusions; Bibliography; Appendix - Petrography of Kilsby Iron Age Pots and a single Bronze Age sherd (Dr R.A.Ixer FSA 2014)
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Archaeopress Structured Deposition of Animal Remains in the
Book SynopsisAlthough most of the animal remains recorded throughout the archaeological excavations consist usually of large assemblages of discarded and fragmented bones, it is possible to yield articulated animal skeletons in some cases. Most of them have been usually picked up from sacred and/or funerary contexts, but not all of them might fit necessarily in ritual and symbolic interpretations, and not all of the structured deposit of animal remains may be explained due to anthropic factors. In addition, zooarchaeology has traditionally focused on animal domestication, husbandry and economy, and species identification above all, shutting out further discussion about these type of findings. Moreover, the limited condition of the data is also another issue to bear in mind. Thus, the aim of this study has been to draw up a literature review of the structured deposits of animal remains during the third and second millennia BC in the Ancient Near East for its subsequent classification and detailed interpretation. In this survey it has been attested that not only most of the articulated animal remains have been found in ritual and/or funerary contexts but also that all species recorded- but some exceptions-are domestic. Hence there is a broad religious attitude towards the main domesticated animals of human economy in the Ancient Near East, based on the closeness of these animals to the human sphere. Therefore, it seems that domesticated animals were powerful constituents in the cultural landscape of these regions, never simply resources.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Historical and archaeological context; 3. Structured deposition of animal remains in the Fertile Crescent during the III Millennium BC; 4. Structured deposition of animal remains in the Fertile Crescent during the II Millennium BC; 5. Discussion; 6. Conclusions; Bibliography; Appendix A. Number of articulated animal individuals recorded at each site classified by species, region and period; Appendix B. Identification of equid species classified by site and period
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Archaeopress Arqueología y Tecnologías de Información
Book SynopsisPapers from the First Iberoamerican Conference on Spatial Archaeology held in 2013 at the University of Cantabria, Spain. The subjects include theoretical contexts of spatial archaeology, relationship between archaeological and ethnographical research, micro-site studies and the interpretation of the environment from archaeo-historical contextualization.Table of ContentsEL ANÁLISIS ESPACIAL DE LAS ACUMULACIONES TEMPORALES (Katia Francesca ACHINO, Giacomo CAPUZZO, Juan Antonio BARCELÓ); POSIBILIDAD DE DETECCIÓN DE “RASTRILLADAS” Y OTROS CAMINOS ANTIGUOS A TRAVÉS DEL USO DE IMÁGENES ÓPTICAS Y DE RADAR EN LA ZONA DE TANDILIA, PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (Fabián Bognanni); ANÁLISIS ESPACIAL DE PATRIMONIO INMUEBLE USANDO UN SISTEMA DE INFORMACIÓN PARA PATRIMONIO HISTÓRICO (J. C. Torres , C. Romo, D. Martín, A. Grande); LUCES EN LA OSCURIDAD: SOFT COMPUTING Y ARTE RUPESTRE EN EL SITIO MAGDALENIENSE DE LA GALERÍA INFERIOR DE LA GARMA (OMOÑO, CANTABRIA, ESPAÑA) (Alfredo Maximiano Castillejo, Camilo Barcia García, Pablo Arias Cabal, Roberto Ontañón Peredo); EL CASTRO DE SAN CHUIS (ALLANDE, ASTURIAS, ESPAÑA): ENSAYO METODOLÓGICO PARA LA INTEGRACIÓN Y DIGITALIZACIÓN DE LA INFORMACIÓN PROCEDENTE DE ANTIGUAS EXCAVACIONES ARQUEOLÓGICAS (Jesús F. Jordá Pardo, Juana Molina Salido); LOS LÍMITES DE LA GEOESTADÍSTICA EN EL ANÁLISIS DE PATRONES DE ASENTAMIENTO Y PROCESOS ARQUEOLÓGICOS DE DISTRIBUCIÓN ESPACIAL (Joan Negre Pérez); Etnografía: ESTUDIO ESPACIAL DE LOS EDIFICIOS RELIGIOSOS EN LA BÉTICA: EL CASO DE CARTIMA (CÁRTAMA, MÁLAGA) (Mª José Berlanga Palomo , Francisco Melero García); APROXIMACIÓN A LA POTENCIALIDAD PRODUCTIVA DE SAL POR EVAPORACIÓN SOLAR EN EL SISTEMA IBÉRICO DURANTE LA EDAD DEL HIERRO: PROPUESTA PARA LA MODELIZACIÓN DE POTENCIALIDADES PRODUCTIVAS (Jonathan Terán Manrique); Micro: ESTADÍSTICA Y VISUALIZACIÓN INTRA-SITE: ANÁLISIS ESPACIAL Y SUELOS DE OCUPACIÓN EN LA GALERÍA INFERIOR DE LA GARMA (OMOÑO, CANTABRIA) (Camilo Barcia García); LA PERCEPCIÓN DEL ESPACIO INTERIOR EN LA CASA DEL ESTRÍGILO DE SEGEDA I (MARA, ZARAGOZA) (Gloria Fernández García); ¿ACCIONES ANTRÓPICAS O NATURALES EN LOS HOGARES NEANDERTALES? ARQUEOLOGÍA EXPERIMENTAL Y ANÁLISIS INTRA-SITE (Irene Ortiz Nieto -Márquez , Javier Baena Preysler); Percepción, comprensión e interpretación en S-T: BAECULA. S.I.G. APLICADOS AL ESTUDIO DE UN CAMPO DE BATALLA DE LA SEGUNDA GUERRA PÚNICA 192 (Carmen Rueda Galán, Juan Pedro Bellón Ruiz, José Valderrama Zafra); GEOARQUEOLOGÍA Y ESPELEOLOGÍA APLICADA AL ANÁLISIS E INTERPRETACIÓN DE CUEVAS CON OCUPACIÓN INDÍGENA EN TAMAULIPAS (MÉXICO) (José Antonio CARO GÓMEZ, Genaro ÁLVAREZ GARCÍA, Rafael CÁMARA ARTIGAS, José MOLINA RODRÍGUEZ); DE LAS TOLDERÍAS AL RANCHO. ARQUEOLOGÍA ESPACIAL DEL POBLAMIENTO RURAL EN EL NORDESTE DE LA PAMPA (1870-1930): MÁS ALLÁ DE LAS NUBES DE PUNTOS EN MAPAS (Carlos Landa , Alfredo Maximiano Castillejo); MENHIRES PREHISTÓRICOS EN EL SECTOR NORORIENTAL DE LA MESETA NORTE ESPAÑOLA. ANÁLISIS ESPACIAL CONCERNIENTE A LA HIPÓTESIS DE UNA ALINEACIÓN ESTRUCTURADA Y SINCRÓNICA (Rodrigo Villalobos García, Miguel Ángel Moreno Gallo , Javier Basconcillos Arce , Germán Delibes de Castro); Retos actuals: RENOVARSE O MORIR. UN NUEVO PARADIGMA PARA EL “SITE CATCHMEN ANALYSIS ” (Francisco Burillo -Mozota, Fernando Pérez -Lambán , José Luís Peña-Monne , Jesús V. Picazo Millán)
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Archaeopress Le QSAR, type d’implantation humaine au Sahara:
Book SynopsisThe qṣar corresponds to a type of human settlement widely distributed in the Sahara desert, including many examples located today in southern Morocco, southern Algeria, southern Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania and Mali. This architectural model is characterised by its use over a wide-ranging time span – probably since the early first millennium BC according to ancient structures recorded by the archaeologist Mattingly in the Libyan Fazzān. This volume, through the systematic analysis and comparison of some qṣūr of southeastern Algeria (Rīġ, Mzāb, Miya and al-Manī‘a), reveals common architectural features that can be used to identify a common type of qṣar in this region. The analysis of the construction material shows the primary use of limestone with a local mortar (timchent) and date palm trunks (phoenix dactylifera) for the structural elements (ceilings, doors, arcs, domes). Adobe bricks (ṭūb) are used in the housing and the defence systems punctuated by towers and pierced doors. Despite a discontinuity within the historical narrative, the establishment of populations in this area of the Sahara appears to be much earlier than the medieval period and the qṣar is certainly not a creation ex nihilo of the modern era. Because of their numerous modifications and extensions over several centuries, the qṣūr problematise the dating of such settlements. However, the comparison of its main components encourages the development of a typology to identify some common characteristics that would help position the qṣar among the urban planning of the dār al-islām.Table of ContentsAbstract; Remerciements; Introduction : le qṣar, un phénomène saharien; I Présentation de la région étudiée; II Inventaire par site; III Le qṣar: une organisation urbaine complexe; Conclusion; Annexes; Glossaires; Bibliographie
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Archaeopress A Slave Who Would Be King: Oral Tradition and
Book SynopsisFrom March 2009 Statistical Research Inc. (USA), Nexus Heritage (UK) and the Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire (Dakar, Senegal) jointly undertook an integrated programme of cultural heritage research and investigation in the Sabodala area of Senegal. This was part of an environmental and social impact assessment in compliance with Senegalese law and international best practice. The principal investigators were Jeff Altschul (SRI) Gerry Wait (Nexus) and Ibrahima Thiaw (IFAN). This report is the outcome of those investigations and makes a significant contribution to the archaeology and ethnography of eastern Senegal. Combining ethnographic and archaeological data yields a picture of a period of intense social change that occurred at the end of the nineteenth century and extended well into the mid-twentieth century. This involved the overturning of previous norms by social groups of mixed ethnicity, who proceeded to create new social work-arounds for previous ethnic prohibitions. It also probably involved the final end to slavery, but possibly only within living memory. It seems likely that some sites—archaeological as well as traditional sacred properties—provide tangible links between the current villages and a highly contested and emotionally charged past. To paraphrase the American novelist, William Faulkner, the past in Sabodala is never dead; in fact, it’s not even past.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Environment and Culture History in Southeastern Senegal; Chapter 3: Village Histories and Ethnography within the Oromin Sabodala Concession; Chapter 4: Archaeological Field Methods; Chapter 5: Archaeological Survey and Test-Excavation Results; Chapter 6: Artifact Analyses; Chapter 7: Geoarchaeological Investigations; Chapter 8: Where Are the Sites, and Why Are They There? A Methodological Exercise in Archaeological Predictive Modeling; Chapter 9: Settlement Dynamics in Beledougou in the Second Millennium a.d.; Chapter 10: Summary; Appendix A: Gazetteer of Sites; Appendix B: Gazetteer of Features and Sites; Appendix C: Ceramic Decorative Techniques; Appendix D: Ceramic Rim Sherd Data
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Archaeopress Les sépultures mésolithiques de Téviec et Hoedic:
Book SynopsisThe sites of Teviec and Hoedic, located in Brittany and excavated from 1928 to 1934 by Marthe and Saint-Just Péquart, have yielded twenty-odd graves dating to the end of the Mesolithic and containing almost forty individuals. Nearly a century later, they remain the most important funerary groups ever discovered in France for this period, and two major French Mesolithic sites. Until these days though, despite previous re-examinations of part of the unearthed material, no general review of the field data or of the human remains had ever been carried out, and all the debates concerning the functioning of both cemeteries relied on the interpretations once made by the Péquart and on the anthropological studies by Marcellin Boule and Henri Victor Vallois. This book presents the long lacking bioarchaeological review study of the Teviec and Hoedic graves: the field data have been reconsidered, relying in particular on a large series of pictures taken by the excavators, and the number of dead individuals, their age and sex have been reevaluated using anthropological techniques in accordance with our current knowledge. This review also gives us the occasion to carry out a global reflection on the circumstances under which the dead were grouped during the Mesolithic period and on the society of Atlantic Europe’s last hunters-gatherers as perceived through the filter of their funerary practices.Table of ContentsAvant-propos; OBJETS ET MÉTHODES: Téviec et Hoedic : pourquoi une révision bioarchéologique?; Les sources documentaires; Les méthodes; TÉVIEC: Introduction; Sépulture A; Sépulture B; Sépulture C; Sépulture D; Sépulture E; Sépulture H; Sépulture J; Sépulture K; Sépulture L; Sépulture M; Synthèse; HOEDIC: Introduction; Sépulture A; Sépulture B; Sépulture C; Sépulture D; Sépultures F et H : aménagements et relations; Sépulture F; Sépulture H; Sépulture J; Sépulture K; Sépulture L; Synthèse; SYNTHÈSE GÉNÉRALE: LES CIMETIÈRES MÉSOLITHIQUES BRETONS: Bilan comparatif des pratiques; Biologie et démographie; Le regroupement des morts; Que nous apprennent les morts sur la société téviécienne?; Lhéritage des Téviéciens; Épilogue; Bibliographie
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Archaeopress Statio amoena: Sostare e vivere lungo le strade
Book SynopsisThe Roman road system was the main service infrastructure for administrative management, economic operation and defense of the empire. Along with roads, a key element of this infrastructure were the resting places more or less directly linked with vehiculatio / cursus publicus, or with a system run or controlled by the state to ensure essential services (safe stop, supplies, maintenance of horses and other animals) to those traveling on behalf of the public administration. New archaeological research and new studies on a rich and diverse body of extra-archaeological sources have recently reported the attention of the international scientific community on the subject of parking places, within the more general theme of the smaller settlements in the Roman world and their evolution in late antiquity and early medieval times. This volume brings together contributions from scholars from three different generations, starting from different sources and methodological approaches, converging towards the construction of an area of common reflection on a theme still relatively underdeveloped. The goal is to lay the foundation for a deepening of the interdisciplinary debate and to develop new research projects.Table of ContentsI. IL PROFILO STORICO; Introduzione; Mansiones and cursus publicus in the Roman Empire / Mansiones e cursus publicus nell’impero romano (Anne KOLB); Mansiones e stathmoi nelle fonti letterarie tardoantiche: destinazione d’uso, equipaggiamento, immagini / Mansiones and stathmoi in literary sources of Late Antiquity: their destinations, equipment, descriptions (Lucietta DI PAOLA); Les mansiones et mutationes dans les textes juridiques de l’Antiquité et du Haut Moyen ge; / Mansiones and mutationes in legal texts of the Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (Sylvie CROGIEZ-PETREQUIN); Le stazioni di sosta negli itineraria romani / The road stations in Roman itineraria (Patrizia BASSO); Inter vias latrones sum passus (CIL VIII 2728, 18122): morire lungo le strade romane / Inter vias latrones sum passus (CIL VIII 2728, 18122): dying on Roman roads. (Alfredo BUONOPANE); Gli Stationarii / The Stationarii (Federica PETRACCIA); Luoghi di strada e stazioni stradali in Italia tra età tardoantica e alto Medioevo / Street villages and road stations in Italy between Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages (Cristina CORSI); II. INTERSEZIONI DELLA RICERCA; Qualche appunto per un’archeologia contestuale delle stazioni di sosta nel mondo romano e tardoantico / Some notes about a contextual archaeology of road stations in Roman; and Late Antique world (Enrico ZANINI); Identifier une auberge romaine: quelques réflexions méthodologiques / Methodological Thoughts on the Identification of Roman Inns (Marie-Adeline LE GUENNEC); Lavarsi in viaggio e in albergo: alcune osservazioni sui balnea per i viaggiatori / Baths and bathing on the road and in the city: some observations about balnea for travelers (Maura MEDRI); Edifici per animali di età romana: tra fonti, archeologia e scienza / Roman buildings for animals: between sources, archeology and science (Maria Stella BUSANA, Mara MIGLIAVACCA, Diego PIZZEGHELLO, Serenella NARDI); Alcune statistiche sulle dinamiche cronologiche degli insediamenti secondari in Italia nella lunga durata tra età romana e Medioevo / Some statistics on the chronological dynamics of secondary settlements in Italy during the long-term between the Roman period and the Middle Ages (Angelo CASTRORAO BARBA); III. CASI DI STUDIO; Una villa rustica-mansio a Brentino Belluno (VR) in Valdadige / A Roman rural villa-mansio in Brentino Belluno (VR), Valdadige (ZACCARIA RUGGIU); Lo scavo di via Cantore 18 a Verona: ipotesi di una stazione di sosta alle porte della città / The statio of the via Cantore 18 site in Verona: a hypothetical mansio at the edge of the Roman city (Tecla GOTTARDI, Cecilia ZANETTI, Elisa ZENTILINI); In viaggio verso la Valle Sabbia. Una stazione di sosta a Gavardo (BS)? I dati archeologici / A Roman mansio found in Gavardo, Brescia. The archaeological evidence (Elisa ZENTILINI); La mansio ad Solaria della Tabula Peutingeriana? Un contesto inedito di recente indagine nel comune di Calenzano (FI) / The mansio ad Solaria of the Tabula Peutingeriana? A; recently investigated site in the municipality of Calenzano (FI) (Daria PASINI, Marco BONAIUTO, Francesco CARRERA); La villa-mansio di Vignale: vivere e viaggiare nell’Etruria costiera tra il I e il V secolo d.C. / The villa-mansio of Vignale: living and travelling in the coastal Etruria between the 1st and the 5th century A.D (Elisabetta GIORGI); Santa Cristina in Caio a Buonconvento (SI): diacronia di un central place / Santa Cristina in Caio (Buonconvento - SI): diachrony of a central place (Stefano BERTOLDI, Marco VALENTI); Una probabile mansio marittima in località Columna (Civitavecchia) / A probable maritime mansio at Columna (Civitavecchia) (Carlotta BASSOLI, Teresa LEONE, Carlo PAVOLINI, Annamaria VILLARI); Blera e Sub Lupatia (It. Ant. 121,4-5): proposte per l’identificazione di due stazioni itinerarie lungo il tratto apulo della via Appia / Blera and Sub Lupatia (It. Ant. 121,4-5): proposals for the identification of two stationes of the via Appia in Apulia (Luciano PIEPOLI); Mutatio Aquilonis e Ad Pirum dagli Itineraria al riscontro sul terreno. Nuovi dati da due stationes della via Traiana / Mutatio Aquilonis and Ad Pirum from Itineraria to ground truthing. New data from two stationes along the via Traiana (Giuseppe CERAUDO, Veronica FERRARI); L’antica via Acrense e l’insediamento rurale di contrada Bagni (SR) / The ancient via Acrense and the rural settlement of Bagni (SR) (Santino Alessandro CUGNO); Stations routières, villas et ‘plurifonctionnalité’ des ‘bâtiments de bord de route’. Apport de quelques opérations d’archéologie préventive / Road stations, villas and multifunctional nature of the roadside sites. The contribution of rescue archaeology interventions (Philippe LEVEAU); Infrastrutture lungo la via dell’Ambra in Pannonia: le stationes di Nemescsó e Sorokpolány (Ungheria) / Infrastructures along the Amber Road in Pannonia: the road stations of Nemescsó and Sorokpolány (Hungary) (Stefan GROH, Helga SEDLMAYER); Raccontare una mansio in un progetto di archeologia pubblica / Building the image of a mansio in a public archaeology project (Samanta MARIOTTI, Nina MAROTTA, Francesco RIPANTI)
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Archaeopress Percy Manning: The Man Who Collected Oxfordshire
Book SynopsisPercy Manning (1870-1917) was an Oxford antiquary who amassed enormous collections about the history of Oxford and Oxfordshire, which now constitute a valuable resource in Oxford University’s libraries and museums. Manning was interested in all periods of history and prehistory, collecting Stone Age tools, Roman coins, medieval tiles, and relics of ways of life that were disappearing in his own day, such as decorated police truncheons and local pottery. He methodically documented and explored the archaeology of the county. He collected literally thousands of prints depicting Oxford and places throughout Oxfordshire as records of changes in the built environment, and moved beyond material objects to uncover and document superstitions, folklore and customs, especially where he thought they were disappearing. He sought out May songs and morris dancers, reviving the Headington Quarry Morris Dancers in 1899. There is scarcely a community in the county which is not reflected somewhere in his collections. This volume provides the first detailed biography of Manning, together with studies examining specific parts of his collections in greater detail. Other chapters demonstrate how the collections can be used as springboards for in-depth study and for fresh approaches to the history of Oxfordshire. Particular emphasis is placed on Manning’s ground-breaking research into the folklore of the county in conjunction with its material culture. Download the following papers in Open Access: The Lost Undercroft at Ducklington’s Inn and Other Medieval Oxford Tavern-undercrofts in Context – David Clark: Download Manning’s Curiosity Projected into the 21st Century – Brian Durham: Download Percy Manning’s Archaeological Survey of Oxfordshire – Alison Roberts: DownloadTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1: Percy Manning – A Life (Michael Heaney); 2: Bibliography of Works by Percy Manning (Michael Heaney); 3: Percy Manning’s Archaeological Survey of Oxfordshire (Alison Roberts); 4: The Lost Undercroft at Duckington’s Inn and other Oxford Tavern-undercrofts in Context (David Clark); 5: Percy Manning: A Collector of Medieval Earthenware Paving Tiles (Maureen Mellor); 6: Percy Manning’s Picture Collection (Julian Munby); 7: Percy Manning, Thomas Carter and the Revival of Morris Dancing (Michael Heaney); 8: Manning’s Mummers’ Plays (Peter Millington); 9: ‘Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen’: Songs, Music and Musical Instruments in the Percy Manning Collection (Alice Little); 10: Percy Manning Contextualized: How Manning’s Collection of Lighting in the Pitt Rivers Museum Tells Us More about the Man, his Collection and its Context (Faye Belsey and Madeleine Ding); 11: Manning’s Curiosity Projected into the 21st Century (Brian Durham); Index
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Archaeopress Ländliche Siedlungsstrukturen im römischen
Book SynopsisThe present study deals with the comparison of rural settlements, aiming to compare developments in various settlements of the Iberian Peninsula during the Roman era. This is to show to what extent structures in the hinterland show parallels or are different from one another and to explore the causes of these similarities and differences. Aspects of the Roman economy must be taken into account as well as the micro-regional influences of pre-Roman settlement or topographical conditions. To achieve this goal, various aspects of rural settlements such as the dating, size or status of a place and its location and environmental conditions are analyzed and related. Archaeological, geographic and statistical methods of investigation are used. These methods, along with the complete resulting data, are fully disclosed in order to allow the comparison to be extended to other regions. The Vera basin and the Camp de Tarragona were chosen as study areas. The former is located in the south-east of the Iberian Peninsula on the Spanish Mediterranean coast, and was seen in the Roman period as the hinterland of the city of Baria, today's Villaricos. Also on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, but in the north, is Camp de Tarragona. The name refers to the surrounding area of the Roman city of Tarraco, capital of the Hispania Tarraconensis province of the same name. German Description: Die vorliegende Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit dem Vergleich ländlicher Siedlungsstrukturen. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, die Entwicklungen in verschiedenen Siedlungskammern der Iberischen Halbinsel während der römischen Epoche einander gegenüberzustellen. Dies soll zeigen, inwieweit Strukturen im Hinterland Parallelen aufweisen oder voneinander abweichen und worin die diese Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede begründet sind. Dabei sind Aspekte des römischen Wirtschaftswesens ebenso zu berücksichtigen, wie mikroregionale Einflüsse der vorrömischen Besiedlung oder topographische Gegebenheiten. Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, werden verschiedene Aspekte ländlicher Siedlungsstrukturen wie Datierung, Größe oder Status eines Platzes und dessen Standort- und Umgebungsbedingungen analysiert und in Beziehung zueinander gesetzt. Dabei kommen archäologische, geographische und statistische Untersuchungsmethoden zum Einsatz. Diese werden ebenso wie sämtliche Daten und Ergebnisse innerhalb der Arbeit vollständig offengelegt, um eine Ausweitung des Vergleichs auf weitere Regionen zu ermöglichen. Als Untersuchungsgebiete wurden das Becken von Vera und das Camp de Tarragona ausgewählt. Ersteres liegt im Südosten der Iberischen Halbinsel an der spanischen Mittelmeerküste und war in römischer Zeit als Hinterland der Stadt Baria, dem heutigen Villaricos, anzusehen. Ebenfalls an der Mittelmeerküste Spaniens, jedoch in dessen Norden, liegt das Camp de Tarragona. Der Name bezeichnet das Umland der römischen Stadt Tarraco, Hauptstadt der gleichnamigen Provinz Hispania Tarraconensis.Table of Contents1. Einleitung; 2. Methodik; 3. Die Untersuchungsgebiete; 4. Analysen; 5. Exkurs: Oberer Almanzora; 6. Fazit; 7. Conclusion; I. Literaturverzeichnis; II. Tafeln; III. Katalog der Fundplätze; IV. Keramik; V. Katalog römischer Straßen; VI. Metallvorkommen; VII. Statistische Tests
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Archaeopress ‘Poedicvlorvm oppida’: Spazi urbani della Puglia
Book SynopsisThe indigenous persistence, texture, articulation, shape and functionality of the urban definition of the municipia in central Apulia demonstrate the nature of the complex history and settlement of this area in the long period between the age of Romanization and the third century AD. The comprehensive collection and examination of the material evidence make it possible to reconstruct – for the first time, in an organic manner and in a global framework – the profile of the urban space of ‘Poediculorum oppida’. This has been carried out according to a dynamic perspective that reveals signs of restructuring and approval, of novelty and vibrancy, of strength and interaction, to make possible the reconsideration of that stubborn idea, prevalent until recently, of an ineluctable ‘crisis’, and to draw a picture of urban geography calibrated according to an intense and morphogenetic tension in terms of the assimilation of Roman culture and adaptation to local conditions. Italian description: Persistenza indigena, consistenza, articolazione, forma e funzionalità urbanistiche dei municipia della Puglia centrale consentono di leggere la complessa vicenda storica e insediativa di questo comparto nel lungo periodo esteso fra l’età della romanizzazione e il III sec. d.C. La raccolta e disamina complessive del patrimonio documentario permettono così di ricostruire – per la prima volta, in maniera organica e in un disegno globale – il profilo dello spazio urbano dei ‘Poediculorum oppida’ secondo una prospettiva dinamica che lascia cogliere segni di ristrutturazione e di omologazione, di novità e di vivacità, di rottura e di interazione, per provare a riconsiderare quell’idea pervicace di ineluttabile ‘crisi’ tradita fino a tempi recenti e a tracciare un quadro poleografico calibrato su una intensa e morfogenetica tensione fra metabolismo e simbiosi.Table of ContentsIntroduzione; Quadro storico; RVBI; BVTVNTVM; BARIVM; CAELIA; AZETIVM; GENVSIA; Per uno sguardo sinottico; For an overall view; Indici delle fonti di tradizione manoscritta; Indici delle fonti epigrafiche
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Archaeopress La ocupación humana del territorio de la comarca
Book SynopsisThis investigation exhaustively gathers the archaeological evidence of the Palaeolithic human settlement in the Guadalteba river region (Malaga, Spain) during the Pleistocene. The main objective is to show the direct relationship between the reservoirs and the sources of raw materials, located in the fluvial terraces, in the geological outcrops and in the surface deposits. An important part of the work has been the geoarchaeological and archeometric surveys and the analysis of new lithic collections from surface archaeological surveys and recent systematic archaeological excavations in the Ardales Cave and Las Palomas de Teba Sima. In this sense, the methodological tools of other disciplines were used. Geoarchaeology enabled an understanding of the sedimentary and Post -depositional processes affecting the deposits and consequently its lithic industry. Archaeometry helped to see the petrographic features of lithic assemblies of deposits. These disciplines have been fundamental to propose a settlement pattern and mobility of these groups of Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers during the Pleistocene period in the interior of the province of Malaga, laying down a basic structure for future prehistoric investigations in the area. Spanish Description: Una investigación que recoge de manera exhaustiva las evidencias arqueológicas del poblamiento humano Paleolítico en la comarca del río Guadalteba (Málaga, España) durante el Pleistoceno. El objetivo principal es mostrar la relación directa entre los yacimientos y las fuentes de materias primas, localizadas en las terrazas fluviales, en los afloramientos geológicos y en los propios yacimientos. Destacar la importancia del análisis del registro arqueológico de superficie, donde la prospección se convierte en la herramienta más efectiva para detectar yacimientos que han permanecido al aire libre, sobre todo del Paleolítico inferior y medio. De igual forma cobra especial relevancia el reconocimiento y la caracterización espacial y territorial, donde el artefacto se convierte en la unidad básica de investigación. Parte importante del trabajo han sido los muestreos geoarqueológicos y arqueométricos y el análisis de los nuevos conjuntos líticos procedentes de las prospecciones arqueológicas superficiales y de las recientes excavaciones arqueológicas sistemáticas, realizadas en la Cueva de Ardales y en la Sima de Las Palomas de Teba. En este sentido, hemos utilizado herramientas metodológicas de otras disciplinas, como la Geoarqueología, para comprender los procesos sedimentarios y postdeposicionales que afectan a los yacimientos y en consecuencia a su industria lítica, y la Arqueometría, para ver las características petrográficas de los conjuntos líticos, disciplinas fundamentales para proponer un patrón de asentamiento y movilidad de estos grupos de cazadores-recolectores del Pleistoceno. Este trabajo constituye un hito en la investigación del Paleolítico en el interior de la provincia de Málaga, convirtiéndose en una estructura básica para futuras investigaciones prehistóricas en la zona.Table of ContentsAbstract (in English); 1. Introducción; 2. Metodología; 3. El medio natural de la zona de estudio; 4. Presentación de los datos; 5. Resultados; 6. Interpretación y discusión; 7. Conclusiones; 8. Bibliografía
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Archaeopress Minoan Extractions: A Photographic Journey
Book SynopsisArchaeologist and award-winning photographer Gavin McGuire's involvement with the Sissi Archaeological Project, where he conducted a seven year photographic study of the Bronze Age Minoan excavations under the auspices of the Belgian School in Athens, Universite Catholique de Louvain, offered an extraordinary opportunity to capture moments of human interaction during excavations as they interconnected with an ancient Minoan culture, stretching back millennia (2600-1200 BC). With the Sissi Photography Project, at a unique coastal landscape four kilometres from Malia Palace in Crete, McGuire follows a proud photographic tradition that is now facing yet another major technological change - from digital to virtual, from handheld cameras to drones and to live excavation access. It is also the age of the smartphone - easy for anyone to use, producing high quality images that regularly engages a global general audience. McGuire's approach revolves around being at the right place and at the right fleeting moment, making images that highlight motion and emotion from the more than 80 `players' on the archaeological stage for the excavation season during each July-August. There are images of scientists at work - archaeologists, anthropologists, technical specialists, local workmen digging (many proudly following in the wake of their forefathers) and restorers and conservators dealing with the thousands of finds housed at the apothiki or workshop. Yet the Sissi Project encompasses not only the dig period but includes images of the site throughout the year, showing, in part, the impact of the environment. 137 black and white photographs are accompanied by a series of short essays presented in English and Greek providing an overview of the project's photographic approach and an introduction to the long and complex relationship between archaeology and photography from their 19th century beginnings. The outcome shows that archaeological sites are not just created overnight but are the result of years of discovery, restoration and preservation. They are not just for now, but hopefully for the future. The ancient past deserves nothing less.Table of ContentsDedication: In the Footsteps of Harry Burton; Part One: The Journey Begins: The Minoan Settlement at Sissi; Connections; Visuality in Archaeology; Decisive Moments; Old School House Project; Part Two: Waking the Kephali; Part Three: The Land Where Death Delights; Part Four: Redeeming the Past; Part Five: Au Revoir
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Archaeopress Catalogue of Etruscan Objects in World Museum,
Book SynopsisOne of the finest collections of Etruscan artifacts outside of Italy was begun in the 19th century by Joseph Mayer, goldsmith, of Liverpool. His donation of the collection became the core of Liverpool Museum, now World Museum, and has been augmented over the years by additional gifts and other acquisitions, such as those from the Wellcome Collection and Norwich Castle Museum. Much of the original material came from the necropolis of Vulci (Canino) when it was excavated by Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, while additional objects represent several other cities and sites. Already famous for its gold jewelry and bronze vessels of the 6th to the 4th centuries BCE, the Liverpool collection includes a fine selection of Etruscan vases, especially bucchero ware and Archaic painted vases, several scarab seals in semiprecious stones, a small number of carved ivories, and funerary urns, including that of Larui Helesa, in which were found gold earrings identical to those worn by her colorful effigy on its lid. A large group of bronze fibulae (safety-pins) furnish examples of most major types of these important ornaments of the Iron Age and Archaic periods. Engraved bronze mirrors and terracotta votives in the form of heads and body parts (such as uteri) of the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE illustrate myths and offerings that were essential to Etruscan religion. From a Villanovan sword to Hellenistic epitaphs, the Liverpool Etruscan and Italic collection offers a rare glimpse of early civilization in central Italy.Table of ContentsList of Images; Preface; Introduction; On the Catalogue; Chapter One: Prehistoric and Proto-Historic Italic/Etruscan Metalwork (“B” serial numbers); Chapter Two: Jewellery (Gold) and Related Objects (“J” serial numbers); Chapter Three: Stone and Other Materials (“S”and “O” serial numbers); Chapter Four: Ceramics, Terracottas: (“C” and “T” serial numbers); Concordance; Provenance; Bibliographic Abbreviations
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Archaeopress Territoires et ressources des sociétés
Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to study forms of territorial patterning and resource management in the middle Neolithic I and II, between 4500 and 3800 BC in the Paris basin. Using a database of middle Neolithic occupation, integrated in a geographic information system, a multiscalar spatial analysis was undertaken. First, a macro-regional and diachronic approach to territorial patterning was conducted through hierarchical ordering of all the occupation evidence. A micro-regional approach was then applied to two study zones, the Vaudreuil bend (at the Seine-Eure confluence) and the Aisne valley. Predictive modelling of preferred environmental contexts of sites, together with mapping of the reliability and confidence of the archaeological evidence, enabled site distribution to be considered in a critical manner. It seems that even in sectors which are relatively well documented through archaeological fieldwork, our vision of settlement is still biased. The models of occupation that have been produced show diversity in forms of territorial patterning, derived from regional development processes, between the middle of the 5th and the beginning of the 4th millennium. The diversification and densification of enclosures in some territories, around 4000 BC, reflect complexity in the organisation of communities. Yet other territories seem less highly structured and more sparsely occupied. The explanatory factors for these regional phenomena are linked to flint procurement systems, with their varying degrees of complexity, to control of communication routes, to demographic pressure and to competition between communities. Furthermore, there may be some logic behind the forms of site location in the highly-structured territories, based on the management of arable land. French description: Territoires et ressources des sociétés néolithiques du Bassin parisien a pour objectif d’étudier les modalités de structuration des territoires et de gestion des ressources au Néolithique moyen I et II, entre 4500 et 3800 av. J-.C., dans le Bassin parisien. À partir d’une base de données des occupations du Néolithique moyen, intégrée dans un système d’information géographique, une analyse spatiale multiscalaire a été menée. Dans un premier temps, une approche macrorégionale et diachronique de la structuration des territoires, est basée sur la hiérarchisation de l’ensemble des occupations. Dans un deuxième temps, une approche micro-régionale est menée au sein de deux fenêtres d’analyse, dans la boucle du Vaudreuil (à la confluence de la Seine et de l’Eure) et dans la vallée de l’Aisne. La modélisation prédictive des contextes environnementaux préférentiels des sites, et l’élaboration des cartes de fiabilité et de confiance dans la documentation archéologique, permettent de développer une réflexion critique sur la distribution des sites. Il apparaît que même dans des secteurs relativement bien évalués archéologiquement, la vision que l’on a du peuplement reste biaisée. L’élaboration des modèles d’occupation, montrent une diversité des formes de structuration des territoires, issues de processus de développement régionaux, entre le milieu du Ve et le début du IVe millénaire.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Partie I. Cadre de l’étude et axes de recherche; 1. Autour de 4000 av. n. è. dans le Bassin parisien : état de la recherche; 2. Modèles d’occupation existants pour le Bassin parisien et l’Europe du nord; 3. Base de données des occupations du Néolithique moyen et des ressources siliceuses; 4. Problématique et axes de recherche du travail de thèse; Partie II. Structuration des territoires : hiérarchisation des occupations à l’échelle macro-régionale ; 5. Principaux choix méthodologiques; 6. Définition des classes hiérarchiques; 7. Analyse de la hiérarchisation des occupations par territoires; Partie III. Analyses micro-régionales des territoires de la boucle du Vaudreuil (Chasséen septentrional) et du secteur Aisne-Vesle (Michelsberg); 8. Méthodologie développée à l’échelle micro-régionale; 9. Analyse micro-régionale du secteur de la boucle du Vaudreuil; 10. Analyse micro-régionale de la fenêtre Aisne-Vesle; Partie IV. Synthèse : modèles d’occupation territoriale au Michelsberg du Bassin parisien et au Chasséen septentrional (4250 – 3800 av. n. è.); 11. Relativiser la vision du peuplement; 12. Modalités d’occupation des territoires et de gestion des ressources; 13. Les modèles de structuration des territoires : des processus régionaux; Conclusion générale et perspectives; Annexe 1 : Carte des sites datés entre 4700 et 4600 / 4500 av. n. è. ; renvoi au listing des sites (Annexe 6); Annexe 2 : Carte des sites datés entre 4700 et 4300 av. n. è. ; renvoi au listing des sites (Annexe 6); Annexe 3 : Carte des sites datés entre 4400 et 4300 av. n. è. ; renvoi au listing des sites (Annexe 6); Annexe 4 : Carte des sites datés entre 4300 et 4200 av. n. è. ; renvoi au listing des sites (Annexe 6); Annexe 5 : Carte des sites datés entre 4250 et 3800 av. n. è. ; renvoi au listing des sites (Annexe 6); Annexe 6 : Listing des sites; Annexe 7 : Listing des enceintes classées hiérarchiquement ; en grisé : les enceintes utilisées pour l’analyse des composantes multiples ; en blanc : les enceintes classées a posteriori
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Archaeopress Remembered Places, Forgotten Pasts: The Don
Book SynopsisSouth Yorkshire and the North Midlands have long been ignored or marginalized in narratives of British Prehistory. In Remembered Places, Forgotten Pasts, largely unpublished data is used for the first time in a work of synthesis to reconstruct the prehistory of the earliest communities across the River Don drainage basin. The author uses a relational approach to account for the complex and sophisticated interaction between people and materiality. Monuments and material culture are considered together, in relation to the diverse landscapes across which they were deposited in the distant past. The memory of significant places along lines of movement are central to the approach taken, combined with the changing character of the land which supported people. Virtually absent in recent narratives, the forgotten prehistoric pasts of the region are now able to be approached on a systematic basis. The author concludes that a region that was the centre of dynamic interaction between mobile groups in its earliest phase gave way to a pastoral lifestyle facilitated by extensive wetlands. These wetlands were connected by waterways and gorges. Thus connected, the wetlands were located to either side of its drier, centrally defining feature, the Magnesian Limestone ridge.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Regional archaeologies, Approaches to Archaeological Regions, and the Present Study; Chapter 3 A History of Archaeological Research in the Study Area; Chapter 4 Formation Processes and the Database; Chapter 5 The environment of the study area; Chapter 6 Methodology; Chapter 7 The Mesolithic; Chapter 8 The Neolithic; Chapter 9 The Bronze Age; Chapter 10 Confluence of Narratives: The Don Valley in Prehistory; References; Appendix Database notes
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Archaeopress Early Maritime Cultures in East Africa and the
Book SynopsisThe East African coast and the Western Indian Ocean are regions of global historical significance. This volume contains papers first presented at the conference, Early Maritime Cultures of the East African Coast, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on October 23-24, 2015. Rather than limiting publication to the proceedings of the conference, additional contributions were solicited to expand the scope of the research presented and to place East Africa in its broader geographic and cultural contexts. The resulting volume focuses broadly on East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean and unites the papers under the general themes of movement and connection. These papers represent a multi-disciplinary effort to examine East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean. Multiple lines of evidence drawn from linguistics, archaeology, history, art history, and ethnography come together in novel ways to highlight different aspects of the region’s past and offer innovative avenues for future research. The papers cover a diverse array of topics, including but not limited to: subsistence, watercraft traditions, trade and exchange (especially concerning the Silk Routes), migration, food ways, and familial relationships. This volume is unique in that it includes some speculative research as well, intended to present novel methods to deal with data-poor topics and to start important conversations about understudied topics. The goal of this volume is to showcase aspects of the complex cultures and histories of this vast region and to emphasize its importance to world history. Ideally, it will generate scholarly and popular interest in the histories and cultures of the region and bring to the fore Africa’s and the Western Indian Ocean’s important (yet often overlooked) role in world historical narratives. It may also serve as a more advanced introduction to East Africa’s and the Western Indian Ocean’s history of interaction with other regions of the Old World and as a survey of methods used to understand the region’s past.Trade Review'Overall the book represents a useful resource for those interested in understanding the role of East Africa and the Red Sea in global networks, acknowledges the contribution of hinterland communities in the success of these exchanges, and documents how these networks can be examined from different perspectives.' -- Annalisa C. Christie * Journal of Maritime Archaeology, Volume 15 *'Ultimately, the editor should be commended for pulling together a diverse and compelling collection of chapters. So, too, should Archaeopress be commended for the Access Archaeology initiative, which enables such eclectic volumes to find a publisher and a readership.' -- Matthew Pawlowicz * African Archaeological Review *Table of ContentsPrehistoric Settlements on the Red Sea Coast of Eritrea – by Amanuel Beyin and Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer; Interdisciplinary Approaches to Stratifying the Peopling of Madagascar – by Roger Blench; From the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean and Beyond – by Sing C. Chew; A Tradition of Large Logboats on the Save River, South-Eastern Zimbabwe? – by Rosanne Hawarden; Ancient Connections between China and East Africa – by Chapurukha Kusimba; On the Early Maritime Silk Road between China and India – by Wensuo Liu and Yanrong Wang; Australia’s Kilwa Coins Conundrum – by Ian S. McIntosh; Asian Military and Mercantile Movements in East Africa during the Nineteenth Century, a Few Notes – by Beatrice Nicolini; Zilo and Zahula – by Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer; Traditional Indian Ocean Maritime Trade and Social Organization – by Martin Ottenheimer; Shellfish Exploitation at Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar (c. 11kya – 20th cen. CE): A Preliminary Study – by Akshay Sarathi; Artistic Dynamics across the Seas – by Vera-Simone Schulz; Long-Distance Arab Sailing in the Indian Ocean before the Portuguese – by Marina Tolmacheva
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Archaeopress Huosiland: A Small Country in Carolingian Europe
Book SynopsisDiscussed here is the landscape of western Bavaria in the early-medieval period, between about 750 and 850. The title of the study derives from several indications that a noble genealogia, the Huosi, were particularly influential there during the period. Huosiland may be the best documented European landscape of this time. This is due to the extraordinary cartulary or register of deeds prepared for the diocese of Freising by the monk, Cozroh, in the second quarter of the ninth century. The first part of the study (Contexts) describes Cozroh’s codex and Huosiland and then analyzes the main political, ecclesiastical, social and economic structures and features there, based upon the available historical and archaeological evidence. The second part (Connections) explores a selection of particular issues raised by specific documents or related groups of documents from Huosiland. The third part provides all of the voluminous and highly-informative documentary evidence for Huosiland, both from Cozroh’s codex and other sources, complete in full English translation. As a result, the reader is able to construct his or her own Contexts and Connections. A full annotated Bibliography of the relevant secondary literature is included as is a complete Gazetteer of the translated documents. The publication will provide a valuable resource both for advanced teaching and for scholarly research.Table of ContentsPreface; Part 1. Contexts: Structures and Communities; Part 1/1. Introduction; Part 1/2. Huosiland?; Part 1/3. Rule and Authority; Part 1/4. Church and Piety; Part 1/5. Economy and Society; Part 1/6. Some Interim Thoughts; Part 2. Connections: Explorations in the Sources; Part 2/1. Reading a Deed in Context: Moatbert at Zolling; Part 2/2. A Private Archive: Erchanheri the Priest at Alting; Part 2/3. A Huosi Sheriff: Reginhart at Fischen; Part 2/4. Huosi Homelands? Sulzemoos and Landsberied; Part 2/5. Bishop’s Official and Family Man: Piligrim at Allershausen; Part 2/6. Pious Women: Cotania and Engilsnot at Rottbach; Deota and Hiltimari; Part 2/7. Some Final Thoughts; Part 3: Secondary References and Further Reading; Part 4. Translations: Sources for Huosiland; Part 5. Gazetteer of Huosiland Places in the Translated Document; Map and Exhibits
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Archaeopress Naturvorstellungen im Altertum: Schilderungen und
Book SynopsisEveryone who investigates pre-modern concepts of nature cannot avoid a critical reflection on the ancient understandings of it. Here, “nature” is understood in the sense of a seemingly untouched space, largely independent of human culture. While this concept of “nature” is prevalent in modern times, the reconstruction of ancient ideas is difficult in that concepts of nature, if at all present, emphasize other aspects. For example, the Greek term φύσις in pre-Hellenistic times defines the nature of a thing rather than an untouched environment. A word for “nature” in this sense has not been handed down to us in the remaining texts of the Ancient Near East and Classical Antiquity. Nevertheless, such concepts can certainly be reconstructed from descriptions of nature to be found in literature and the representations of natural elements in art. The present volume aims at identifying these concepts of nature in texts as well as in archaeological remains of the Ancient Near Eastern and the Greek culture from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. Contributions from the fields of archaeology and philology are juxtaposed for each time period in chronological order. This arrangement provides a good overview of the concepts of nature prevailing throughout different period and cultures. Der Begriff „Natur“ wird in modernen, mitteleuropäischen Gesellschaften meist im Sinne eines vermeintlich unberührten Raumes verstanden, der weitgehend unbeeinflusst von menschlicher Kultur ist. Für vormoderne Kulturen lassen sich solche Vorstellungen bzw. Konzepte sehr viel schwieriger nachweisen, da beispielsweise ein Wort für „Natur“ mit der eben genannten Bedeutung in den erhaltenen Texten des Alten Orients und der griechischen Antike so nicht überliefert zu sein scheint. Gleichwohl werden durchaus Naturelemente in der antiken Literatur, der Flächenkunst sowie in antiken Monumenten beschrieben bzw. abgebildet sowie als integrative Bestandteile genutzt und funktionalisiert. Daraus lassen sich Konzepte von „Natur“ herausarbeiten und rekonstruieren. Der vorliegende Band möchte solche „Naturkonzepte“ in Texten, Artefakten und Denkmälern des Alten Orients und des griechischen Kulturraumes von der Archaik bis in den Hellenismus identifizieren und einen Überblick über die jeweils in einem bestimmten Zeit- und Kulturraum vorherrschenden Vorstellungen sowie deren diachrone Entwicklung geben.
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Archaeopress Handel in Krisenzeiten: Ägyptische-mykenische
Book SynopsisThis book provides an overview of the sites of Mycenaean pottery finds in Egypt and Nubia. Data from thirty-six sites in Egypt and twelve sites in Nubia are presented. The context of the vessels and sherds dates from the reign of Akhenaten (18th Dynasty) to that of Ramesses VI (20th Dynasty). The imported vessels were found in the capital cities as well as in fortresses, other cities and tombs. Stirrup jars and flasks came to light frequently. Copies of Mycenaean stirrup jars made from clay, faience and stone were also found. The oldest sherd of an imitation vessel was found in Amarna; hence, the Mycenaean vessel shape (stirrup jar prevailing) was copied outside of Mycenaean Greece in the 18th Dynasty and filled with local liquids—possibly oil—and traded with Egypt. Egyptians not only imported vessels from the Levant but also produced imitation vessels themselves. Apparently, these vessels circulated only within Egypt. Chemical analyses of sherds from different sites reveal that the vessels found in 18th Dynasty contexts were made on the Mycenaean mainland. During the Ramesside period (19th–20th Dynasty) trading contacts with Mycenaean Greece shifted to Cyprus, where high quality Mycenaean pottery was produced.Table of ContentsVorwort ; Summary ; 1 - Einleitung ; 2 - Der Handel im 13. Jh. v. Chr. ; 3 - Mykenische und mykenisierende Importkeramik in Ägypten ; 4 - Mykenische und mykenisierende Importkeramik in Nubien ; 5 - Zusammenfassung: Mykenische Keramik in Ägypten und Nubien ; 6 - Imitate mykenischer Keramik in Ägypten und Nubien ; 7 - ‚Krisenzeiten‘ ; 8 - Handel mit Olivenöl im Neuen Reich ; 9 - Der Handel im 12. Jh. v. Chr. ; 10 - Schluß ; Bibliographie ; Register der Gefäßtypen ; Register der Museen und Archive ; Register der Imitate aus Ägypten und Nubien ; Abbildungsnachweis ; Appendix: Sesebi ; Katalog ; Karten ; Tafeln
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Archaeopress Rural Cult Centres in the Hauran: Part of the
Book SynopsisRural Cult Centres in the Hauran: Part of the broader network of the Near East (100 BC–AD 300) challenges earlier scholars’ emphasis on the role played by local identities and Romanisation in religion and religious architecture in the Roman Empire through the first comprehensive multidisciplinary analysis of rural cult centres in the Hauran (southern Syria) from the pre-Roman to the Roman period. The Hauran is an interesting and revealing area of study because it has been a geographical cross-point between different cultures over time. Inspired by recent theories on interconnectivity and globalisation, the monograph argues that cult centres, and the Hauran itself, are part of a human network at a macro level on the basis of analysis of archaeological, architectural, sculptural and epigraphic evidence and landscape. As a result of this multi-disciplinary approach, the text also re-assesses the social meaning of these sanctuaries, discusses the identity of the elite group that contributed financially to the building of sanctuaries, and attempts to reconstruct ritual and economic activities in cult centres. This book re-evaluates the significance of contacts between the elite of the Hauran and other cultures of the Near East in shaping cult sites; it includes a first catalogue of rural cult centres of the Hauran in the appendix.Trade Review'The volume analyzes an admirable quantity of data...F. Mazzilli's synthesis will be of great service because it brings together considerable documentation and poses important questions which the scientific community will continue to address.' -- Corinne Bonnet * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsChapter 1 - Introduction; Chapter 2 - The geographical and historical background of the Hauran; Chapter 3 - Rural cult centres in their pre-provincial political context; Chapter 4 - ‘A religious cultural identity’ of the Hauran in the pre-provincial period; Chapter 5 - ‘A rural religious cultural identity’ of the Hauran in the provincial period; Chapter 6 - Rural cult centres as meeting places for their religious and economic function; Chapter 7 - Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix; Gazetteer
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Archaeopress The Grotte du Placard at 150: New Considerations
Book SynopsisThe prehistoric site of Le Placard, located in Southwest France, was discovered and first explored 150 years ago at a time when prehistory was just emerging as a scientific discipline. Through this century and a half of explorations this site has been involved in numerous debates of prehistoric research; it has also yielded an extraordinary amount and diverse range of archaeological materials (i.e. lithics, fauna, osseous industry, body adornments, pigments, human remains, mobiliary and parietal art, hearths, etc.). Yet this site appears now poorly valued due to the devastating 19th-century excavation techniques that almost completely emptied the cavity. Subsequently it is surprisingly ill-known. This 150-year milestone gives us an opportunity to look back at this exceptional site and its associated materials in order to demonstrate that it still holds a unique potential in the debates about these Late Pleistocene hunting and gathering societies. The various chapters cover multiple aspects of the history of research and of the collections, present detailed studies on the material culture (osseous industry, spearthrowers, musical instruments), and address specific issues related to parietal art, social networks and the political nature of these prehistoric communities. The best hypothesis and explanation to account for this exceptional diversity of remains would argue that Le Placard has been a village occupied by various groups of complex (transegalitarian) hunter-gatherers.Trade ReviewThis volume constitutes an unexpected, original and often extremely interesting introduction to the publication of the latest excavations, that we hope will come out soon. - Sylvain Ducasse (2020): Bulletin de la Société préhistorique françaiseTable of Contents‘FOREWORD’ (François Bonneau) ; ‘FOREWORD’ (Jean-François Tournepiche) ; ‘PREFACE; INTRODUCING LE PLACARD’ (Christophe DELAGE) ; ‘ARTHUR DE MARET AND HIS EXCAVATIONS OF THE CAVE OF LE PLACARD (1877-1888): A NEGLECTED MOMENT IN THE PREHISTORY OF THE CHARENTE’ (Christophe DELAGE) ; ‘ADRIEN DE MORTILLET, THE AURIGNACIAN AND THE ARTHUR DE MARET COLLECTION (Philippe ROUX) [Open Access: Download] ; ‘BREUIL, LE PLACARD AND THE MAGDALENIAN’ (Christophe DELAGE) ; ‘THE COLLECTIONS OF THE LE PLACARD CAVE (VILHONNEUR, CHARENTE) AT THE MUSÉE D’ARCHÉOLOGIE NATIONALE IN SAINT-GERMAIN-EN-LAYE’ (Catherine SCHWAB) ; ‘A SENSITIVE APPROACH TO THE CAVE OF LE PLACARD’ (Anne-Paule MOUSNIER (Translation Jean Bonnin)) ; ‘THE LE PLACARD NATURAL SURROUNDINGS AND LE PLACARD 2, THE LOWER KARSTIC NETWORK (Pierre VAUVILLIER, Bruno DELAGE and Christophe DELAGE) ; ‘REVISITING THE LE PLACARD RADIOMETRIC CHRONOLOGY’ (Christophe DELAGE) ; ‘NEW ANTLER, SHELL, AND TOOTH TECHNOLOGY FROM LA GROTTE DU PLACARD (COMMUNE DE VILHONNEUR, CHARENTE)’ (Michelle C. LANGLEY and Christophe DELAGE) ; ‘CALLING FOR THE DEER. AN EUNUCH FLUTE AT LE PLACARD?’ (Carlos GARCÍA-BENITO, Carlos MAZO PÉREZ & Marta ALCOLEA GRACIA) ; ‘THE LE PLACARD SPEARTHROWERS’ (Pierre CATTELAIN); ‘THE MAGDALENIAN ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF LE PLACARD’ (Claudine GRAVEL-MIGUEL) ; ‘ART DURING THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM IN WESTERN EUROPE’ (François DJINDJIAN) ; ‘WAS LE PLACARD USED BY SECRET SOCIETIES?’ (Brian HAYDEN) ;
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Archaeopress Archaeology and Ethnography Along the Loango
Book SynopsisIn 2011 and 2012, Dr Gerry Wait (then Nexus Heritage) and Dr Ibrahima Thiaw (Institute Fundamental d’Afrique Noire: IFAN, Dakar) undertook an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) project in Kouilou Department in the southwest region of the Republic of the Congo. The initiative had been commissioned by SRK Consulting UK for Elemental Minerals Ltd relating to a proposed potash mine. These landscapes were little known in terms of the sites and monuments from the distant and more recent past. That the area was important in the understanding of migrations along the African coast had been demonstrated in a pioneering set of excavations by Denbow (2012 and 2014). This base line study was undertaken to identify and evaluate cultural resources which might need further investigation. The second part of the study reports on ethnographic surveys undertaken in the same defined area, treating intangible cultural heritage as equally as important parts of the Congo’s cultural heritage and identity. The baseline studies were systematic in that they employed standard best-practice survey techniques but structured on a landscape level. By building upon Denbow’s extensive surveys and small-scale investigations from 30 years earlier the studies have enabled a richer and more nuanced understanding of the Atlantic Coast of Congo during the past millennium.
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Archaeopress Country in the City: Agricultural Functions of
Book SynopsisThe existence of an opposition between rural and urban spaces is an important question for our societies, and one that has been posed since the radical transformations of the 20th century and the so-called ‘end of the peasants’. In this context it becomes also a question for archaeologists and historians. This book assembles contributions on the place of agricultural production in the context of urbanization in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Mediterranean. The contributions concentrate on the second-millennium Aegean and the protohistoric northwestern Mediterranean. They offer a reflection on the nature of urbanization and its consequences for rural spaces near cities and on the many ways in which rural spaces and agricultural activities may be intertwined with urban spaces – a reconsideration of the very nature of urbanism. A deliberate accent is laid on the comparative perspectives between different regions and periods of Mediterranean protohistory, and on the integration of all kinds of sources and research methods, from texts to survey to environmental archaeology. Highlighted throughout are the original paths followed in the Peloponnese or in the Troad with regard to the Minoan model of urbanization, and the many aspects and periods of Minoan urbanization (as in development in Languedoc vis-à-vis Catalonia). Thus a new perspective on Mediterranean urbanization is offered.Trade Review‘In sum, the collected papers show in a very convincing and detailed way the complexity of primary food production in the context of early urbanization and the entanglement of city and countryside, even in situations in which we might tend to think that the major raison d’être of an urban configuration was trade and commerce as in the case of coastal settlements, in this volume represented by the very interesting paper on the on-going investigations at Kalamianos on the Saronic Gulf by Daniel Pullen et al. within the ambit of Mycenae and the already mentioned paper on Iron Age Lattara.’ – Peter A. J. Attema (2022): Gnomon Bd. 94, 2022Table of ContentsIntroduction – by Raphaël Orgeolet; Elites and Farmers in Iberian Iron Age Cities (6th-2nd Centuries BC): Storage and Processing of Agricultural Products – by Natàlia Alonso and Guillem Pérez-Jordà; Are There Farmers in Lattara (lattes, France) During the Iron Age? Plant Resources Acquirement and Management Between the 5th and the 1st Centuries BC – by Núria Rovira and Natàlia Alonso; The Neglected ‘Fields’ of Proto-urban Living: A View from Bronze Age Crete – by Kostis S. Christakis; The Management of Agricultural Resources in the Minoan Town of Malia (Crete). Palace, Town and Countryside from the Middle Bronze Age to the Early Late Bronze Age – by Maria Emanuela Alberti, Sylvie Müller Celka and Maia Pomadère; Akrotiri, Thera: Glimpses of the countryside as seen through the archaeological and bioarchaeological data. Whispers of a dialogue – by Anaya Sarpaki; Feeding Knossos: Exploring Economic and Logistical Implications of Urbanism on Prehistoric Crete – by Todd Whitelaw; Beyond City and Country at Mycenae: Urban And Rural Practices in a Subsistence Landscape – by Lynne A. Kvapil, Jacqueline S. Meier, Gypsy C. Price and Kim S. Shelton; Agricultural Self-Sufficiency and Mycenaean Kalamianos on the Saronic Gulf – by Daniel J. Pullen; Farming Practice and Land Management at Knossos, Crete: New Insights from δ13C and δ15N Analysis of Neolithic and Bronze Age Crop Remains – by E. K. Nitsch, G. Jones, A. Sarpaki, M. M. Hald and A. Bogaard; Economy and Storage Strategies at Troy – by D. Thumm-Doğrayan, P. Pavúk and M. Pieniążek; The Country in and Around the City: Looking Back and Forward – by D. Garcia and J. Zurbach
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Archaeopress Magan – The Land of Copper: Prehistoric
Book SynopsisThe development of a prehistoric civilization in the Sultanate of Oman was strongly connected with the exploitation and the use of copper. The Oman Peninsula has several rich copper ore deposits that have been exploited since prehistoric times. The earliest evidence of metallurgical activities in Oman dates back to the end of the Neolithic period in the 4th millennium BC. Thanks to the availability of this precious raw material, Oman became one of the main copper sources for the entire Middle East during the Bronze Age. The cuneiform texts of Mesopotamia referred to Oman as the Land of Magan, a region where the precious copper was found in fabulous abundance. This volume describes the geography and environments of Oman, its rich copper ore deposits and the ancient mining and smelting techniques, and it also includes an overview of the physical properties of the different metals exploited in antiquity and of the analytical techniques used in archaeometallurgy. Moreover, the author presents for the first time a comprehensive and detailed typology of the metal objects discovered at sites in Oman dating to the millennia from the Neolithic up to the Early Iron Age, emphasizing the development of advanced alloying techniques in order to obtain artefacts with specific proprieties and appearance.Table of ContentsList of illustrations and tables Acknowledgments Foreword 1 – A country of environmental diversities 2 – A geological and mineralogical overview 3 – Basic elements of metallurgy 4 – Copper for Sumer 5 – The earliest appearance of metalworking 6 – Early Bronze Age: the Hafit period, ca. 3200-2800 BC 7 – Early Bronze Age: the Umm an-Nar period, ca. 2800-2000 BC 8 – The prehistoric copper mines 9 – Copper smelting in prehistoric Oman 10 – Middle and Late Bronze Age: the Wadi Suq period. ca. 2000-1300 BC 11 – Early Iron Age, ca. 1300-300 BC 12 – Chemical-Physical Analyses by Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) – by Claudio Giardino and Giovanni Paternoster Bibliographical references Index
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Archaeopress The Geography of Gandhāran Art: Proceedings of
Book SynopsisGandhāran art is usually regarded as a single phenomenon – a unified regional artistic tradition or ‘school’. Indeed it has distinctive visual characteristics, materials, and functions, and is characterized by its extensive borrowings from the Graeco-Roman world. Yet this tradition is also highly varied. Even the superficial homogeneity of Gandhāran sculpture, which constitutes the bulk of documented artistic material from this region in the early centuries AD, belies a considerable range of styles, technical approaches, iconographic choices, and levels of artistic skill. The geographical variations in Gandhāran art have received less attention than they deserve. Many surviving Gandhāran artefacts are unprovenanced and the difficulty of tracing substantial assemblages of sculpture to particular sites has obscured the fine-grained picture of its artistic geography. Well documented modern excavations at particular sites and areas, such as the projects of the Italian Archaeological Mission in the Swat Valley, have demonstrated the value of looking at sculptures in context and considering distinctive aspects of their production, use, and reuse within a specific locality. However, insights of this kind have been harder to gain for other areas, including the Gandhāran heartland of the Peshawar basin. Even where large collections of artworks can be related to individual sites, the exercise of comparing material within and between these places is still at an early stage. The relationship between the Gandhāran artists or ‘workshops’, particular stone sources, and specific sites is still unclear. Addressing these and other questions, this second volume of the Gandhāra Connections project at Oxford University’s Classical Art Research Centre presents the proceedings of a workshop held in March 2018. Its aim is to pick apart the regional geography of Gandhāran art, presenting new discoveries at particular sites, textual evidence, and the challenges and opportunities of exploring Gandhāra’s artistic geography.Table of ContentsEditors’ note ; Preface – by Wannaporn Rienjang and Peter Stewart ; Part 1 Artistic Geographies ; Gandhāran art(s): Methodologies and preliminary results of a stylistic analysis – by Jessie Pons ; Geographical differences and similarities in Gandhāran sculptures – by Satoshi Naiki ; Part 2 Provenances and Localities ; Sources of acquisition for the Gandhāran Buddhist sculptures in the former S.R.O. collection of the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Pakistan, in the light of ar¬chival documents – by Zarawar Khan ; Fresh discoveries at the Buddhist Monastic Complex Bādalpur, Taxila valley – by Muhammad Ashraf Khan ; Fresh research on the Buddhist monastic complex of Takht-i-Bāhī – by M.H. Khan Khattak ; The scope of the Buddhist 'workshops' and artistic 'centres’ in the Swat Valley, ancient Uḍḍiyāna, in Pakistan – by Abdul Ghafoor Lone ; Regional workshops and small stūpas in the Swat Valley: an analysis of the evidence from Gumbat, Saidu Sharif, and Pānṛ – by Pia Brancaccio and Luca Maria Olivieri ; Differences and similarities in Gandhāran art production: the case of the modelling school of Haḍḍa (Afghanistan) – by Alexandra Vanleene ; Part 3 Geography and Text ; A survey of place-names in Gāndhārī inscriptions and a new oil lamp from Malakand – by Stefan Baums ; Making places for Buddhism in Gandhāra: stories of previous births in image and text – by Jason Neelis
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Archaeopress Anglo-Saxon Crops and Weeds: A Case Study in
Book SynopsisThere is a growing recognition within Anglo-Saxon archaeology that farming practices underwent momentous transformations in the Mid Saxon period, between the seventh and ninth centuries AD: transformations which underpinned the growth of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and, arguably, set the trajectory for English agricultural development for centuries to come. Meanwhile, in the field of archaeobotany, a growing set of quantitative methods has been developed to facilitate the systematic investigation of agricultural change through the study of charred plant remains. This study applies a standardised set of repeatable quantitative analyses to the charred remains of Anglo-Saxon crops and weeds, to shed light on crucial developments in crop husbandry between the seventh and ninth centuries. The analyses demonstrate the significance of the Anglo-Saxon archaeobotanical record in elucidating how greater crop surpluses were attained through ecologically-sensitive diversification and specialisation strategies in this period. At the same time, assumptions, variables and key parameters are presented fully and explicitly to facilitate repetition of the work, thus also enabling the book to be used as a source of comparative data and a methodological handbook for similar research in other periods and places. It constitutes a specialist, data-driven companion volume to the author’s more general narrative account published as ‘Farming Transformed in Anglo-Saxon England’ (Windgather, 2018).Table of ContentsChapter 1: Seeds of Change; Chapter 2: Describing the Data; Chapter 3: Surveying the Species; Chapter 4: Defining the Deposits; Chapter 5: Counting the Crops; Chapter 6: The Witness of Weeds; Chapter 7: More than the Sum of their Parts; Appendix 1: Key Parameters; Appendix 2: Key Metadata; Appendix 3: Gazetteer of Sites; Appendix 4: Inventory of Samples; Appendix 5: Inventory of Plant Taxa; Bibliography
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Archaeopress Stamps on Terra Sigillata Found in Excavations of
Book SynopsisStamps on Terra Sigillata Found in Excavations of the Theatre of Aptera, Crete presents a group of stamped fragments of Italian and eastern sigillata found in excavations of the theatre of Aptera (Crete). A total of 258 stamped sherds have been discovered and identified: 28 already published by the author and another 230 included here. Aptera now yields more stamped fragments of terra sigillata than any other Cretan city to date, including Knossos. The sigillata stamps from the theatre of Aptera can be analysed so as to address a series of fundamental questions. Three of these constitute traditional uses of the evidence available from an analysis of terra sigillata: which potters supplied the theatre of Aptera and its environs; where these potters were active; when these potters were active and therefore what production centres supplied the theatre and its area over time. Two questions go further, in an effort to take advantage of this kind of material’s ability to testify to patterns of contact and exchange, as well as to details of life within the Roman imperial system: what distribution patterns might have brought terra sigillata to the theatre and its vicinity; and whether we can suggest how terra sigillata was consumed in Aptera’s theatre and its environs. Aptera’s theatre was a venue not only for performances but also for drinking, eating, and serving by the theatre-goers, spectators, actors and other performers. These activities took place during a period of prosperity for Roman Aptera in the first and second centuries, a period that coincides nicely with the production and distribution of terra sigillata. The people of Aptera and the surrounding area took full advantage of Crete’s strategic position amid crossroads of transit and exchange as well as integration into the Roman economy, to display their prosperity and status in public and in private.Trade Review'Issues with this work are few… a testament to the thorough and precise research of Baldwin Bowsky. […] The publication of the stamped sigillata from Aptera expands this knowledge, especially for the role played by the city in trade networks both on and off the island.' -- Jane Francis * American Journal of Archaeology *Table of ContentsIntroduction Analysis of the material 1. Which potters supplied the theatre of Aptera and its environs? 2. Where were the potters who supplied the theatre of Aptera and its environs active? 3. When were these potters active and therefore what production centres supplied the theatre of Aptera and its area, over time? 4. What distribution patterns might have brought Italian sigillata to the theatre of Aptera and its environs? 5. How was Italian Sigillata consumed at and around the theatre of Aptera? Catalogue Appendix 1: Stamps from Aptera’s theatre already published Appendix 2: Potters attested from Aptera’s theatre Works cited
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Archaeopress El Mesolítico en Cantabria centro-oriental
Book SynopsisThis book explores the Mesolithic period in the central-eastern area of Cantabria (Spain) as a manifestation of sociocultural evolution and change of the societies that lived in the area between the ninth and sixth millennia cal BC, until the introduction of farming. It analyses the subsistence and sociocultural transformations made by hunter-gatherer societies in their adaptation to the environment that emerged from the climate change seen during the Holocene. It also considers the evolutionary processes undergone by social groups based on their experiences and cognitive processes.
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Archaeopress Carving Interactions: Rock Art in the Nomadic
Book SynopsisThe Safaitic rock art of the North Arabian basalt desert is a unique and understudied material, one of the few surviving traces of the elusive herding societies that inhabited this region in antiquity. Yet little is known about this rock art and its role in the desert societies. Why did these peoples make carvings in the desert and what was the significance of this cultural practice? What can the rock art tell us about the relationship between the nomads and their desert landscape? This book investigates these questions through a comprehensive study of over 4500 petroglyphs from the Jebel Qurma region of the Black Desert in north-eastern Jordan. It explores the content of the rock art, how it was produced and consumed by its makers and audience, and its relationship with the landscape. This is the first-ever systematic study of the Safaitic petroglyphs from the Black Desert and it is unique for the study of Arabian rock art. It demonstrates the value of a material approach to rock art and the unique insights that rock art can provide into the relationship between nomadic herders and the wild and domestic landscape.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Jebel Qurma landscape Chapter 3 Investigating content, production, and consumption Chapter 4 Desert images Chapter 5 Traces of production and consumption Chapter 6 Places of production and consumption Chapter 7 Images and interactions Bibliography Appendix A Terms and definitions Appendix B Sigla and references for Safaitic inscriptions Appendix C Identification manual for Safaitic rock art Appendix D List of sites with Safaitic carvings
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Archaeopress Boom and Bust in Bronze Age Britain: The Great
Book SynopsisThe Great Orme copper mine on the coast of north Wales is one of the largest surviving Bronze Age mines in Europe. But where did all the copper go? Until now this remained something of a mystery. It was claimed in the 1990s that the mine only produced a low impurity type of copper that was uncommon in the British Bronze Age. These claims had marginalised the mine as an unimportant copper source, whose extensive workings were explained away as being merely the result of small-scale workings over nearly a thousand years. However, the results of this new interdisciplinary research, which combines archaeological and geological knowledge with the latest scientific analytical methods, radically changes that picture. This new evidence reveals a copper mine of European importance, which dominated Britain's copper supply for two centuries (c. 1600-1400 BC), with some metal reaching mainland Europe stretching from Brittany to the Baltic. This zenith period of large-scale production is thought to have required a full-time mining community, possibly supported or controlled by the agriculturally richer area of north-east Wales with its strategic links into wider communication networks. Overall, the new evidence suggests that Britain was far more integrated into European trade/exchange networks than was previously suspected.
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Archaeopress Art as Metaphor: The Prehistoric Rock-Art of
Book SynopsisEnigmatic, esoteric and fascinating, the rock-art of the British Isles has for a long time been a well-kept secret. However, over the last few decades hundreds of new rock art panels have been discovered and several regional surveys have been carried out. This volume brings together a carefully selected collection of papers that cover British prehistoric rock-art from over 10,000 years ago.Table of ContentsForeword (Christopher Chippindale) ; INTRODUCTION ; Chapter 1: A coming of age (Aron Mazel, George Nash and Clive Waddington) ; PERIOD STUDIES ; Chapter 2: Rock-art and art mobilier of the British Upper Palaeolithic (Paul Pettitt and Paul Bahn) ; Chapter 3: Possible Mesolithic cave art in southern England (Graham Mullan & Linda Wilson) ; Chapter 4: Neolithic rock-art in the British Isles: retrospect and prospect (Clive Waddington) ; Chapter 5: Pictish symbol stones: caught between prehistory and history (Meggen Gondek) ; REGIONAL AND THEMATIC STUDIES ; Chapter 6: Rock-art in Cleveland and north-east Yorkshire: contexts and chronology (Blaise Vyner) ; Chapter 7: Exploring links between cupmarks and cairnfields (Philip Deakin) ; Chapter 8: Light at the end of the tunnel: the way megalithic art was viewed and experienced (George Nash) ; Chapter 9: Rock-art and rough outs: exploring the sacred and social dimensions of prehistoric carvings at Copt Howe, Cumbria (Kate E. Sharpe) ; Chapter 10: A scattering of images: the rock-art of southern Britain (George Nash) ; Chapter 11: How the study of rock-art began and developed (Stan Beckensall) ; Chapter 12: On the fells and beyond: exploring aspects of Northumberland rock-art (Aron D. Mazel)
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Archaeopress The Nabataeans in Focus: Current Archaeological
Book SynopsisIntroduction - The Nabataeans in focus (Laïla Nehmé & Lucy Wadeson); 1) Landscapes north of Petra: the Petra Area and Wādī Silaysil Survey (Brown University Petra Archaeological Project, 2010-2011) (Susan E. Alcock & Alex R. Knodell); 2) Nabataean or Late Roman? Reconsidering the date of the built sections and milestones along the Petra–Gaza road (Chaim Ben David); 3) Reinventing the sacred: from shrine to monastery at Jabal Hārūn (Zbigniew T. Fiema, ); 4) Dating the early phases under the temenos of the QaΒr al-Bint at Petra (F. Renel, M. Mouton, C. Augé, C. Gauthier, C. Hatté, J-F. Saliège & A. Zazzo); 5) A Nabataean shrine to Isis in Wādī Abū Ullayqah, in the south-west of Petra (Marie-Jeanne Roche); 6) The palaces of the Nabataean kings at Petra (Stephan G. Schmid, Piotr Bienkowski, Zbigniew T. Fiema & Bernhard Kolb); 7) The funerary landscape of Petra: results from a new study (Lucy Wadeson); 8) The International Aslah Project, Petra: new research and new questions (Robert Wenning in cooperation with Laurent Gorgerat).
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Archaeopress Landscapes and Artefacts: Studies in East Anglian
Book SynopsisAndrew Rogerson is one of the most important and influential archaeologists currently working in East Anglia. The various essays in this volume, presented to him by friends and colleagues from both the university sector and public archaeology, closely reflect his diverse interests and his activities in the region over many decades. They include studies of ‘small finds’ from many periods; of landscapes, both urban and rural; and of many aspects of medieval archaeology and history. This important collection will be essential reading for all those interested in the history and archaeology of Norfolk and Suffolk, in the interpretation of artefacts within their landscape contexts, and in the material culture of the Middle Ages.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION – Tom Williamson, Steven Ashley and Adrian Marsden ; LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BY ANDREW ROGERSON – Compiled by Steven Ashley ; DIGGING A SAXON CEMETERY – Anthony Thwaite ; LATE BRONZE AGE FINDS FROM BANYARD’S HALL, BUNWELL, NORFOLK – Andrew J. Lawson ; A LATE BRONZE AGE HOARD FROM FELTWELL – Alan West ; THE BOUDICA CODE: RECOGNISING A ‘SYMBOLIC LOGIC’ WITHIN IRON AGE MATERIAL CULTURE – John Davies ; SOME ROMAN BROOCHES FROM SCOLE AND ELSEWHERE – Jude Plouviez ; SATYRS, LEOPARDS, RIDERS AND RAVENS – Adrian Marsden ; ICKLINGHAM: A PROVOCATIVE VIEW OF A CENTRE OF WEALTH AND POWER IN WESTERN EAST ANGLIA – Stanley West ; ‘SPONG MAN’ IN CONTEXT – Catherine Hills ; THE ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY AT MORNING THORPE: FURTHER THOUGHTS – Kenneth Penn ; THE COMPLEAT ANGLO-SAXONIST: SOME NEW AND NEGLECTED EARLY ANGLO-SAXON FISH (FOR ANDREW ROGERSON) – Helen Geake ; THE WICKHAM SKEITH, THWAITE OR CAMPSEY ASH COIN HOARD – Edward Martin ; NORWICH BEFORE NORWICH: AN EXPLORATION OF THE PRE-URBAN LANDSCAPE OF THE MEDIEVAL CITY – Brian Ayers ; BAWSEY – A ‘PRODUCTIVE’ SITE IN WEST NORFOLK – Tim Pestell ; THE FRANSHAMS IN CONTEXT: ISOLATED CHURCHES AND COMMON EDGE DRIFT – Tom Williamson ; THE ELMHAMS RE-VISITED – Stephen Heywood ; GREAT DUNHAM CHURCH AND ITS ELEVENTH-CENTURY CONTEXT – T.A. Heslop ; RECENT FINDS OF LATE TWELFTH OR EARLY THIRTEENTH-CENTURY SWORD AND DAGGER POMMELS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CRUSADES – Steven Ashley and Martin Biddle ; TOO MANY CHURCHES:THE ENIGMA OF A NORWICH CHAPEL OF ST ANN – Elizabeth Rutledge ; THOMAS BADESLADE: HIS LIFE AND CAREER FROM EASTERN ENGLAND TO NORTH WALES – Bob Silvester ; NEW BUCKENHAM IN 1820 – Paul Rutledge ; AN EXPERIMENT IN CONSERVATION: THE EARLY YEARS OF THE NORFOLK ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST – Peter Wade-Martins
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