Archaeology by period / region Books
Taylor & Francis Excavating Pedregal
Book SynopsisExcavating Pedregal offers a new synthesis of household-level experiences of imperial conquest on the north coast of PerÃ, using excavations at the Late Intermediate Period farming community of Pedregal as an engaging case study of archaeological research in action. Alongside this central case study, short essays by other archaeological stakeholders highlight diverse experiences and perspectives within archaeology.This book draws on the authorâs fifteen years of experience teaching undergraduates and over twenty years as an archaeologist in Peru to offer an accessible account of how archaeological research happens. Chapters introduce key concepts from anthropological archaeology and link research questions to methods, data analysis, and findings. The book balances a discussion of the scientific processes and anthropological theories that ground archaeological research with a tangible account of the lived experiences and practical considerations of doing archaeology. Excavating Pedregalâs multivocal approach complements the central case study with vignettes by North American and Latin American archaeologists, students, and community members. These short essays enrich the main themes of the book and introduce readers to different perspectives and voices within the field, highlighting the way collaboration and conversation with multiple stakeholders enhances the study of the past.Excavating Pedregal is an approachable introduction to how archaeology works for undergraduate students and general readers. It supplements a traditional introductory text by contextualizing research questions, methods, and data in a concrete, contemporary case study, while also offering a sense of the diversity of questions, experiences, and methods that exist in archaeology today and satisfying the curiosity of those who wonder what itâs like to dig up the past.
£39.99
Cambridge University Press A History of Sinai
Book SynopsisThis 1921 narrative begins in the prehistoric period, suggesting that the inhospitable landscape and climate dissuaded large-scale permanent settlement until the first hermit and monastic communities of the Christian era (although the Egyptians had been drawn there by resources of turquoise and copper), and continues down to the nineteenth century.Table of ContentsForeword; 1. Introductory; 2. Sinai a centre of moon-cult; 3. The sanctuary at Serabit; 4. The Egyptians in Sinai, 1; 5. Early peoples and place names; 6. The Egyptians in Sinai, 2; 7. The Israelites in Sinai, 1; 8. The Israelites in Sinai, 2; 9. The Nabateans; 10. The hermits in Sinai; 11. The writings of the hermits; 12. The building of the convent; 13. Mohammad and St Katherine; 14. Sinai during the Crusades; 15. The pilgrims of the middle ages, 1; 16. The pilgrims of the middle ages, 2; 17. The convent between 1500 and 1800; 18. Sinai in the nineteenth century; Alphabetical index.
£19.94
Taylor & Francis Ltd Women in Antiquity
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers brand new essays from some of the most respected scholars of ancient history, archaeology, and physical anthropology to create an engaging overview of the lives of women in antiquity. The book is divided into ten sections, nine focusing on a particular area, and also includes almost 200 images, maps, and charts. The sections cover Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Cyprus, the Levant, the Aegean, Italy, and Western Europe, and include many lesser-known cultures such as the Celts, Iberia, Carthage, the Black Sea region, and Scandinavia. Women''s experiences are explored, from ordinary daily life to religious ritual and practice, to motherhood, childbirth, sex, and building a career. Forensic evidence is also treated for the actual bodies of ancient women.Women in Antiquity is edited by two experts in the field, and is an invaluable resource to students of the ancient world, gender studies, and women''s roles throughout history.Trade Review"Women in Antiquity is an extremely useful compilation which is intended to be, without doubt, a reference book for all those with an interest in well-written ancient history spanning all its complexity, a must that cannot go missing from any library."- Agnès Garcia-Ventura, Università degli Studi di Roma, Italy"For Budin and Turfa, the 'Ancient World' takes off in the east in Mesopotamia, runs around both shores of the Mediterranean, and ends in Iberia in the west. In a sense, it covers the areas reached, ruled, or influenced by the Roman Empire ... What we have are 74 (!) crisp chapters, each written by a specialist, many of whom are sharing with us the results of their own latest research and excavations ... Summing up Women in Antiquity, I don't care how familiar you think you are with any of these cultures, there will be plenty new to learn."- Judith Weingarten, review on 'Zenobia: Empress of the East' at http://judithweingarten.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/where-are-real-women-of-ancient-world.html "Women in Antiquity is an extremely useful compilation which is intended to be, without doubt, a reference book for all those with an interest in well-written ancient history spanning all its complexity, a must that cannot go missing from any library."- Agnès Garcia-Ventura, Università degli Studi di Roma, Italy"For Budin and Turfa, the 'Ancient World' takes off in the east in Mesopotamia, runs around both shores of the Mediterranean, and ends in Iberia in the west. In a sense, it covers the areas reached, ruled, or influenced by the Roman Empire ... What we have are 74 (!) crisp chapters, each written by a specialist, many of whom are sharing with us the results of their own latest research and excavations ... Summing up Women in Antiquity, I don't care how familiar you think you are with any of these cultures, there will be plenty new to learn."- Judith Weingarten, review on 'Zenobia: Empress of the East' at http://judithweingarten.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/where-are-real-women-of-ancient-world.html "This valuable collection of papers reveals the multifarious ways ancient women participated at all levels of their societies. Of particular value is, first, its inclusion of cultures usually overlooked in other collections of essays (the Celtic, Scandinavian, Hittite), second, its temporal spread from the early Bronze Age well into the Iron Age, and, third, its focus on archaeological realia, documents, inscriptions and the like, rather than on male-authored literature for male-audience consumption. This collection of papers is an essential library resource for programs in gender studies, ancient studies, and archaeology."- Judith Lynn Sebesta, University of South Dakota (USA) in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review"Since the volume spans a plethora of different cultures, it consequently and unavoidably treats topics that are shared among them. This allows for an interesting comparison between different cultures, time periods and geographical regions offering valuable insights into the particular topic, which is after all the intention of the series. It comprises an important contribution to archaeology in general and more specifically to the archaeology of women"-Christina Aamodt, AWE"Each of the articles in this huge volume presents a distillation of work done on the role and status of women in a particular time and place in antiquity. Particularly welcome given the huge contemporary interest in Women’s Studies and in view of the current “Me-Too” movement, the book provides a rich compendium of studies on the history of women and their roles. It will provide a useful resource to those engaging with the issue."-Lisbeth S. Fried and Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan, Journal of the American Oriental SocietyTable of ContentsGeneral IntroductionPart One: MesopotamiaIntroduction Stephanie Lynn Budin—"Female Sexuality in Mesopotamia" Erica Couto-Ferreira—"Being mothers or acting (like) mothers? Constructing motherhood in ancient Mesopotamia" Claudia Suter—"Images of Queens, High Priestesses, and Other Elite Women in 3rd-Millennium Mesopotamia" Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati—"Women's Power and Work in Ancient Urkesh" Alhena Gadotti—"Mesopotamian Women’s Cultic Roles in late 3rd – early 2nd millennia bce" Josué J. Justel—"Women, Gender and Law at the Dawn of History: The Evidence of the Cuneiform Sources" Andrew McCarthy—"Businesswomen and their Seals in Early Mesopotamia" Anna-Isabelle Langlois—"The Female Tavern-Keeper in Mesopotamia: Some Aspects of Daily Life" Saana Svärd—"Neo-Assyrian Elite Women" Janet Monge and Page Selinsky—"Patterns of Violence Against Women in the Iron Age Town of Hasanlu, Solduz Valley, Iran" Maria Brosius—"No Reason to Hide – Women in the Neo-Elamite and Persian Periods" Part Two: EgyptIntroduction Rosalie David—"Understanding The Lives Of Ancient Egyptian Women: The Contribution Of Physical Anthropology" Marc Orriols-Llonch—"Women’s role in sexual intercourse in ancient Egypt" Erika Feucht—"Motherhood in Pharaonic Egypt" Suzanne Onstine—"Women's participation in the religious hierarchy of Ancient Egypt" Jan Picton— "Living and Working in a New Kingdom 'harem town'" Deborah Sweeney—"Women at Deir el-Medîna" Katharina Zinn—"Women in Amarna: legendary royals, forgotten elite, unknown populace?" Joyce Tyldesley—"The Role of Egypt’s Dynastic Queens" Jacke Phillips—"Women in Ancient Nubia" Part Three: HittitesIntroduction Trevor Bryce—"The Role and Status of Women in Hittite Society" Gary Beckman—"Birth and Motherhood among the Hittites" Billie Jean Collins—"Women in Hittite Religion" Part Four: CyprusIntroduction Kirsi O. Lorentz—"Real bones, real women, real lives: Bioarchaeology of women in ancient Cyprus" Stephanie Lynn Budin—"Maternity in Ancient Cyprus" Jennifer M. Webb—"Women at home and in the community in prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus" Louise Steel—"The social and economic roles played by the women of Alashiya" Nancy Serwint—"Women and the Art of Ancient Cyprus" Joanna Smith—"Women in the Cities of Cyprus: Rulers and Urban Dwellers from the Late Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Period" Part Five: The Levant and CarthageIntroduction Patrick M. Michel—"Functions and personalities of "Syrian" Priestesses in the Bronze Age: Priestesses at Mari, Emar, and Ugarit" Marguerite Yon—"Women’s Daily Lives in Late Bronze Age Ugarit (2nd millennium bce)" Jennie Ebeling—"Women's Daily Life in Bronze Age Canaan" Kevin McGeough—"‘Will Womankind Now Be Hunting?’: The Work and Economic Lives of Women at Late Bronze Age Ugarit" Carol Meyers—"Women's Daily Life (Iron Age Israel)" Assaf Yasur-Landau—"Women In Philistia: The Archaeological Record Of The Iron Age" Carol Meyers—"Women's Religious Life (Iron Age Israel)" Peggy Day—""Until I Come and Take You Away to a Land Like Your Own:" A Gendered Look at Siege Warfare and Mass Deportation" Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Meritxell Ferrer Martin—"Women's Ritual Practice in the Western Phoenician and Punic World" Part Six: The Aegean, Bronze Age and HistoricalIntroduction John Prag—"From the Caves of the Wind to Mycenae Rich in Gold: the faces of Minoan and Mycenaean women" John Younger—"Minoan Women" Stephanie Lynn Budin—"Maternity in the Bronze Age Aegean" Cécile Boëlle-Weber—"I-je-re-ja, ka-ra-wi-po-ro and others... Women in Mycenaean Religion" Cynthia Shelmerdine—"Women in the Mycenaean Economy" Brendan Burke—"Beyond Penelope: Women and the role of Textiles in Early Greece" Sherry Fox—"The Bioarchaeology of Women in Greek Antiquity" James Whitley—"Women in Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece: A View from the Grave" Yurie Hong—"Mothering in Ancient Athens: Class, Identity, and Experience" Matthew P. J. Dillon—""Chrysis The Hiereia Having Placed A Lighted Torch Near The Garlands Then Fell Asleep (Thucydides Iv.133.2)." Priestesses Serving The Gods And Goddesses In Classical Greece" Allison Glazebrook—"Prostitutes, Women, and Gender in Ancient Greece" Edward E. Cohen—"The Athenian Businesswoman" Gillian Ramsey—"Hellenistic Women and the Law: Agency, Identity and Community" Part Seven: Etruria and the Italian ArchipelagoIntroduction Fulvia Lo Schiavo and Matteo Milletti—"The Nuragic women: Facts and hypotheses on Bronze Age Sardinian women" Judith Swaddling—"Seianti: portrait of an Etruscan woman" Larissa Bonfante— "Motherhood in Etruria" Jean MacIntosh Turfa— "Health and medicine for Etruscan women" Gilda Bartoloni and Federica Pitzalis— "Etruscan marriage (matrimonio etrusco)" Gilda Bartoloni and Federica Pitzalis— "The wife of the prince (la donna del principe)" Ingrid Edlund-Berry— "Etruscan goddesses & worshipers: the place of women in the context of urban and non-urban sanctuaries" Margarita Gleba— "Women and textile production in pre-Roman Italy" Jacopo Tabolli and M. DeLucia Brolli— "Faliscan women" Camilla Norman— "Daunian Women: Costume And Actions Commemorated In Stone" Enrico Benelli— "Etruria: female slaves and slave-owners" Part Eight: Rome Lena Larsson Lovén— "Roman motherhood" Emily Hemelrijk—"Women's daily life in the Roman West" Fanny Dolansky—"Strained relations, gender differences, and domestic ideals: the significance of two Roman family festivals" Hilary Wills Becker— "Roman women in the urban economy: occupations, social connections, and gendered exclusions" Linnea Åshede—"A demanding supply: prostitution in the Roman World" Elizabeth Greene—"Identities And Social Roles Of Women In Military Settlements In The Roman West" Anna McCullough— "Female Gladiators in the Roman Empire" Part Nine: At the EdgesIntroduction Adrienne Mayor—"Warrior Women: The archaeology of Amazons" Lourdes Prados Torreira— "Women in Iberian Culture: 6th–1st centuries b.c." Miranda Aldhouse-Green—"Viragos and Virgins: Women in the Celtic World" Nancy Wicker— "Women In The Roman Iron Age (A.D. 0–400) In Scandinavia" Part Ten: Coda Kathy L. Gaca— "Continuities in Rape and Tyranny in Martial Societies from Antiquity Onwards"
£228.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Incas
Book SynopsisThe Incas is a captivating exploration of one of the greatest civilizations ever seen. Seamlessly drawing on history, archaeology, and ethnography, this thoroughly updated new edition integrates advances made in hundreds of new studies conducted over the last decade. Written by one of the world's leading experts on Inca civilization Covers Inca history, politics, economy, ideology, society, and military organization Explores advances in research that include pre-imperial Inca society; the royal capital of Cuzco; the sacred landscape; royal estates; Machu Picchu; provincial relations; the khipu information-recording technology; languages, time frames, gender relations, effects on human biology, and daily life Explicitly examines how the Inca world view and philosophy affected the character of the empire Illustrated with over 90 maps, figures, and photographsTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition ix Preface to the First Edition xv 1 Introduction 1 2 The Land and Its People 33 3 The Incas before the Empire 68 4 The History of the Empire: Narrative Visions 91 5 Thinking Inca 119 6 The Politics of Blood in Cuzco 174 7 The Heartland of the Empire 198 8 Inca Ideology: Powers of the Sky and Earth, Past and Present 247 9 Family, Community, and Class 290 10 Militarism 321 11 Provincial Rule 351 12 Farmers, Herders, and Storehouses 392 13 Things and Their Masters 418 14 Invasion and Aftermath 449 References 476 Glossary of Foreign Terms 520 Index 527
£26.55
Archaeopress Anthropomorphic Representations in the
Book SynopsisDan Monah (11 February 1943 – 21 September 2013) was a specialist in the Neo-Eneolithic of Romania and, in particular, of the Precucuteni-Cucuteni-Tripolye cultural complex, last affiliated with the Iași Institute of Archaeology of the Romanian Academy. His core body of work, consisting of seven books and more than one hundred articles published, primarily deals with coroplastic analysis as a mean of insight into the religion and art of the Neo-Eneolithic communities. With a unique approach to the study of what he formally named ‘the religious life of Cucuteni-Tripolye communities’, Dan Monah was a staunch critic of the dominant cultural-historic paradigm and its natural interpretative consequences: the supremacy of typological description, the Cartesian ranking of religious systems from simple to complex, and the avoidance of ‘unclassable’ occurrences. The present volume embodies his vision applied to the analysis of the Cucuteni-Tripolye anthropomorphic representations, resting on two structural pillars: an in-depth knowledge of a large body of history of religion literature, and an almost exhaustive inventory of the Cucuteni- Tripolye anthropomorphic representations, the result of over three decades of personal, patient and meticulous examination of the archaeological data. For those in his wake, Dan Monah’s open and unprejudiced approach to the prehistoric imagery enclosed in this book constitutes a solid cornerstone on which further work can be built. Its pages should be turned, if not on account of the wealth of information inside, but for the author’s pleasant and refreshing style at least.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter I: History of Research; Chapter II: Conditions of Discovery; Chapter III: Materials and Techniques; Chapter IV: The Statuettes and Figurines of the Cucuteni A Phase; Chapter V: The Statuettes and Figurines of the Cucuteni A Phase; Chapter VI: Statuettes and Figurines of the Cucuteni B Phase; Chapter VII: Violin-shaped Pendants; Chapter VIII: Anthropomorphic Pots; Chapter IX: Ceramics with Anthropomorphic Decoration; Chapter X: Anthropomorphic Objects; Chapter XI: Garments, Footwear, Jewellery, and Hairdos; Chapter XII: Great Religious Themes; Figures; References; Index
£52.25
Archaeopress Die Anfänge des kontinentalen Transportwesens und
Book SynopsisThe earliest finds of wheeled vehicles in northern and central Europe date to 3900-3600 BC. However finds (3400–3300 BC) from the Boleráz sites of Arbon/Bleiche 3 and Bad Buchau/Torwiesen II, linked to pile-dwelling settlements, indicate methods of transport typical for higher altitudes (slides, sleds, etc.). The Boleráz and Baden cultures overlap in the Carpathian Basin between 3300–3000 BC and this period seems to have produced transport models that parallel finds in today’s Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, and other regions. These suggest that generally the Boleráz settlers inside the Carpathian Basin did not know, or use, the wheel in the fullest sense. Cart and wheel forms are indicated only from Grave 177 at Budakalász (2800–2600 BC). The Hungarian Baden finds follow the Danube and to the East there are no certain vehicle remains. It is difficult to tell whether the Boleráz finds are linked to the wider Alpine zone, and the Baden finds are perhaps associated with the mixed-culture sites along the eastern slopes of the Carpathians. The four-wheeled wagon was a development linked to the plains and the Steppes (Cucuteni–Tripolje, Pre-Yamnaja, Yamnaja). The nature of the finds relating to vehicles associated with lake and riverine settlements reveal technical and material features: there is evidence of a high degree of carving, if not decoration, and these communities pointed the way for future skills and developments in wheel and cart/wagon manufacture.Table of Contents1. Einleitung; 2. Funde und Befunde aus Europa; 3. Funde und Befunde aus; 4. Diskussion; 5. Konklusion; 6. Fazit; 7. Katalog; 8. Literaturverzeichnis; Zusammenfassung / Abstract / Аннотация / Kivonat; Danksagung
£22.80
Archaeopress Forensic Archaeology: The Application of
Book SynopsisArchaeological excavation has been widely used in the recovery of human remains and other evidence in the service of legal cases for many years. However, established approaches will in future be subject to closer scrutiny following the announcement by the Law Commission in 2011 that expert evidence will in future be subject to a new reliability-based admissibility test in criminal proceedings. This book evaluates current archaeological excavation methods and recording systems – focusing on those used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australasia, and North America – in relation to their use in providing forensic evidence, and their ability to satisfy the admissibility tests introduced by the Law Commission, and other internationally recognised bodies. In order to achieve this aim, two analyses were undertaken. First, attention was directed to understanding the origins, development, underpinning philosophies, and current use of archaeological excavation methods and recording systems in the regions selected for study. A total of 153 archaeological manuals/guidelines were examined from archaeological organisations operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. This research indicated that the Stratigraphic Excavation method and Single Context Recording system, the Demirant Excavation method and Standard Context Recording system, the Quadrant Excavation method and Standard Context Recording system, and the Arbitrary Level Excavation method and Unit Level Recording system were the approaches most often used to excavate and record graves. Second, the four defined methodological approaches were assessed experimentally, using a grave simulation of known properties to test the excavation, recording, and interpretation of material evidence, the definition of stratigraphic contexts, and understanding of stratigraphic relationships. The grave simulation also provided opportunities to measure archaeologists’ narratives of the grave formation process against the known properties of the grave simulation, and to assess whether archaeological experience had any impact on evidence recovery rates. Fifty repeat excavations were conducted. The results obtained from this experimental study show that the Quadrant Excavation method and Standard Context Recording system was the most consistent, efficient, and reliable archaeological approach to use to excavate and record clandestine burials and to formulate interpretation-based narratives of a grave’s formation sequence. In terms of the impact that archaeological experience had on evidence recovery rates, archaeological experience was found to have little bearing upon the recovery of evidence from the grave simulation. It is suggested that forensic archaeologists use the Quadrant Excavation method and Standard Context Recording system to excavate and record clandestine burials. If this approach is unable to be used, the Demirant Excavation method and Standard Context Recording system, or the Stratigraphic Excavation method and Single Context Recording system should be used. Both of these aforementioned techniques proved to be productive in terms of material evidence recovery and the identification and definition of stratigraphic contexts. The Arbitrary Level Excavation method and Unit Level Recording system should not be used, as this method proved to have an extremely poor evidence recovery rate and destroyed the deposition sequence present within the simulated grave.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Background; Chapter 3 Methodology; Chapter 4 Archaeological Manual/Guideline Analysis; Chapter 5 Archaeological practitioner interviews; Chapter 6 Excavation experiment; Chapter 7 Conclusion; Chapter 8 Recommendations; Bibliography; Appendix A: List of contributors; Appendix B: Archaeological manual/guideline analytical criteria; Appendix C: Interview questions; Appendix D: Grave excavation experiment locations
£36.10
Archaeopress Dress and Identity in Iron Age Britain: A study
Book SynopsisStudies of Iron Age artefacts from Britain tend to be dominated either by the study of metalwork, or pottery. This book presents a study not only of a different material, but also a different type of object: glass beads. These are found in a range of different sizes, shapes, colours, and employ a variety of different decorative motifs. Through an analysis of glass beads from four key study regions in Britain, the book aims not only to address regional differences in appearance and chronology, but also to explore the role that this object played within the networks and relationships that constructed Iron Age society. It seeks to understand how they were used during their lives and how they came to be deposited within the archaeological record, in order to establish the social processes that glass beads were bound within. The results indicate that glass beads were a strongly regionalised artefact, potentially reflecting differing local preferences for colour and motif. In addition, glass beads, in combination with several other types of object, were integral to Middle Iron Age dress. Given that the first century BC is often seen as a turning point in terms of settlements and material culture, this supports the possibility of strong continental exchange during an earlier period for either glass beads or raw materials. However, by the Late Iron Age in the first century BC and early first century AD, their use had severely diminished.Trade Review‘…[A] useful book which will find a place on specialists’ bookshelves and has things to offer a wider audience.’ – H.E.M. Cool (2018): Archaeological Journal, DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2018.1531596Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Previous Approaches to Glass Beads; Chapter 3: Glass Beads & Dress; Chapter 4: The Nature of the Archaeological Resource in the Regions; Chapter 5: Typological Conundrums, Quandaries, and Resolutions; Chapter 6: Form and Regional Identity; Chapter 7: Archaeological Context; Chapter 8: Regional Bodily Adornment; Chapter 9: Glass Beads in their Social Context; Appendix A: Terminology & Guide to Recording Glass Beads; Appendix B: Guido Iron Age Glass Bead Types; Appendix C: List of All New Types; Guide to the Illustrated Glass Beads; Bibliography; Index
£47.50
Archaeopress Portuguese Intervention in the Manila Galleon
Book SynopsisIn this study of the Portuguese intervention in the Manila Galleon Trade, Etsuko Miyata explores its history through a new approach: the examination of Chinese ceramics. The excavated Chinese ceramics from Mexico City shed light on the nature of Portuguese involvement in this huge sixteenth-century maritime trade network, and also help to clarify the relationship between the Portuguese and the Chinese merchants, who were considered to be rivals. The book analyzes the change of types and quantity of excavated Chinese ceramics from Mexico City over time. It references the trade depression during the mid seventeenth century, when the ceramic finds from Mexico City suddenly decreased, and the trade between Asia and America seemed to slow down; and it seeks to understand the effect on people from various social backgrounds in both regions. The study also considers the Atlantic coastal trade in Spain; this featured Chinese ceramic finds from Galician excavation sites. The author postulates a hypothesis that these ceramics did not come into Spain through the Manila Galleon Trade or via Atlantic trade with America, but from Lisbon where the coastal trade route powered a large amount of diverse commerce.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter I: The Arrival of the Portuguese and Spanish in Asian Waters ; Chapter II: Commerce and Merchants in the Manila Galleon Trade ; Chapter III: Exported Chinese Porcelain in New Spain ; Chapter IV: Distribution of Chinese Ceramics and Asian Products in Spanish Society ; Glossary ; Bibliography ; Appendix 1: AGN Contratación 1795-1802
£20.90
Archaeopress Physical Barriers, Cultural Connections: A
Book SynopsisPhysical Barriers, Cultural Connections: A Reconsideration of the Metal Flow at the Beginning of the Metal Age in the Alps considers the early copper and copper-alloy metallurgy of the entire Circum- Alpine region. It introduces a new approach to the interpretation of chemical composition data sets, which has been applied to a comprehensive regional database for the first time. An extensive use of GIS has been applied to investigate the role of topography in the distribution of metal and to undertake spatial and geostastical analysis that may highlight patterns of distribution of some specific key compositional element. The Circum-Alpine Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age show some distinctively different patterns of metal use, which can be interpreted through changes in mining and social choices. But there are also some signs of continuity, in particular those which respect the use of major landscape features such as watersheds and river systems. Interestingly, the Alpine range does not act as a north-south barrier, as major differences in composition tend to appear on an east-west axis. Conversely, the river system seems to have a key role in the movement of metal. Geostastical analyses demonstrate the presence of a remelting process, applicable also in the case of ingots; evidence that opens new and interesting questions about the role of ingots and hoards in the distribution of metal at the beginning of the Metal Age. New tools and new analysis may also be useful to identify zones where there was a primary metal production and zones where metal was mostly received and heavily manipulated.Table of ContentsForeword; 1 Introduction; 2 A History of the Archaeometallurgical Research in the Circum-Alpine Region; 3 Old and New Perspectives; 4 Introduction to the Use of Gis in Archaeometallurgy: Theoretical and Practical Issues; 5 The Circum-Alpine Region: Geology and Geomorphology of the Study Area; 6 Metallurgical Background; 7 Introduction to the Archaeology of the Region, with Special Regard to Metallurgy; 8 The Construction of the Database GIS and the Tools Used in This Book; 9 The Flow Model in The Copper Age; 10 The Flow Model in the Early Bronze Age; 11 The Appearance of Tin; 12 The Flow Model through the Landscape: the Role of Topography; 13 General Discussion; 14 Conclusions and Recommendations for Further work; References; Apendices; Appendix I: The Table of Sites; Appendix II: The Table of Objects online at http://bit.ly/2rLzVrB; Appendix III: The Table of Mines; Appendix IV: Code “Normalise”; Appendix V: Code “Grouping”; Appendix VI: Code “Percentage P1”; Appendix VII: Code “Percentage Element”
£33.25
Archaeopress Latrinae: Roman Toilets in the Northwestern
Book SynopsisLatrinae: Roman Toilets in the Northwestern Provinces of the Roman Empire' presents examples of Roman toilets from a wide area in northwestern Europe comprising Austria, Belgium, Britain, Germany and the Netherlands. Seven papers consider ‘typically Roman’ stone channel toilets, while five papers discuss the actually much more common wooden toilets of the cesspit type. Some studies concentrate on a single installation, others present a number of installations in their architectural surroundings. In addition, Roman chamber pots, which could be used either solo or in a toilet chair, are presented in two papers. A further paper on stercus, usually connected to latrine duty in the Roman army, questions this interpretation and offers a different meaning of the word. This book is the first collection on Roman toilets of the northwestern provinces, and gives a good overview of the possibilities for human waste removal in Roman times. The volume provides a fascinating introduction to this under-researched group of Roman installations.Trade Review‘Concluding, the current book is a valuable contribution, adding to a less researched aspect of life in the Roman Northwestern provinces. Also worth mentioning is the fact that all articles have images, plans, maps, reconstructions, pictures and drawings of the complexes and artefacts, which makes them very easy to use and reference. Focusing on a niched matter, all information available in the volume, as well as the general picture it offers, are welcomed contributions, with the potential of being relevant in future researches.’ – Rada Varga (2020): Studia Antiqua et Aarchaeologica 25/1Table of ContentsIntroduction – Stefanie Hoss; Sewers or cesspits? Modern assumptions and Roman preferences – Gemma Jansen; The latrine at the Roman fort on the Antonine Wall at Bearsden – David J Breeze; Flushed with success – a Roman flushing installation in the latrines of the Great Bathhouse of the Colonia Ulpia Traiana near Xanten (D) – Norbert Zieling; The latrines of Roman Aachen – Andreas Schaub; An outhouse in the garden? – Looking at a backyard in the vicus of Bonn – Jeanne-Nora Andrikopoulou-Strack, Manuel Fiedler and Constanze Höpken; A bath with public toilets in the vicus of Bonn – Gary White; The Roman public toilet of Rottenburg am Neckar – Stefanie Hoss; Latrines connected to bathhouses in Germania inferior – an overview – Michael Dodt; Roman toilets in Nijmegen, Oppidum Batavorum and Ulpia Noviomagus, the Netherlands – Elly N.A. Heirbaut; Arlon, apport des découvertes récentes dans le vicus à l’examen des latrines gallo-romaines – Denis Henrotay; A Roman latrine near St. Kolumba in Cologne and its remarkable contents – Michael Dodt; Latrine pits in the Roman vicus of Vitudurum / Oberwintherthur (Switzerland) – Verena Jauch; A Roman cesspit from the mid-2nd century with lead price tags in the civil town of Carnuntum (Schloss Petronell/Austria) – Beatrix Petznek; Roman chamber pots – Beatrix Petznek; A Roman ‘Toilet bowl’ from Speicher (Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) – Bernd Bienert; The meaning of stercus in Roman military papyri – dung or human faeces? Or: who is supposed to clean this shit up? – Kai Juntunen
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Archaeopress Autour de l’infanterie d’élite macédonienne à
Book SynopsisCes cinq études militaires résultent essentiellement de développements présentés dans le manuscrit doctoral de l’auteur, L’Armée du royaume de Macédoine à l’époque hellénistique (323-148 av. J.-C.). Les troupes « nationales », présenté en Sorbonne le 11 janvier 2007. L’idée première avait été de les publier sous forme d’articles. Mais ce projet se heurtait à une difficulté. Ces textes se faisant écho, il s’avèrerait difficile d’attendre la diffusion du premier d’entre eux pour présenter les suivants tout en faisant exactement référence à un voire à plusieurs textes en cours de publication. Aussi apparut-il qu’il valait mieux les réunir en un recueil dont la cohérence serait assurée par un thème commun : l’histoire et l’archéologie militaire de l’époque hellenistique, tout particulièrement dans le cadre de la Macédoine des Antigonides.Table of ContentsAvant-propos ; I. La nature de la phalange macédonienne ou quand la science recule ; I. 1. Leçons oubliées et leçons retrouvées ; I. 2. Quelque vraisemblable filiation ; I. 3. Les réformes militaires de Philippe II selon les sources littéraires ; I. 4. La phalange macédonienne à l’époque d’Alexandre : des textes riches de leçons ; I. 5. La phalange et un épisode des guerres des diadoques ; I. 6. La question de la sarisse à l’époque d’Alexandre ; I. 7. Quant fut introduite la phalange de piquiers, c’est-à-dire ‘la phalange macédonienne’ de la vulgate? ; I. 8. Conclusions I. Appendice. Les sources relatives à la ‘phalange macédonienne’ selon Hammond et Markle : un inventaire fallacieux ; I. 9. Bibliographie ; II. Antigonid Redcoats. L’infanterie d’élite de l’armée du royaume de Macédoine à l’époque hellénistique. Histoire et iconographie ; II. 1. Les Hypaspistes ; II. 2. L’infanterie de bataille ‘royale’ : les Peltastes ; II. 3. Conclusion. Hypaspistes et autres Peltastes, the Antigonid redcoats ; II. 4. Bibliographie ; III. ‘Infanterie lourde’ : une notion entre armement et ordonnance tactique. Le cas de la phalange macédonienne ; III. 1. De la confusion entre les notions d’armement et d’ordonnance ; III. 2. Exemples tirés de l’histoire militaire grecque ; III. 3. Conclusion ; III. 4. Bibliographie ; IV. Remarques philologiques et historiques sur l’ambivalence de termes relatifs aux institutions militaires macédoniennes chez les historiens de l’Antiquité ; IV. 1. De l’ambivalence des mots σωματοφύλαξ, σωματοφυλακία et ὑπασπιστής et sur quelques confusions qui en dérivent chez les historiens d’Alexandre le Grand ; IV. 2. La signification des syntagmes cohors regia et custodes corporis chez TITE-LIVE et chez QUINTE-CURCE rapportés aux institutions militaires macédoniennes ; IV. 3. Custodes corporis et regia cohors : l’éclaircissement de la description livienne de la cérémonie de lustration de l’armée antigonide IV. Appendice. Le statut du récit historique chez les historiens de l’Antiquité ; IV. 4. Bibliographie ; V. Deux nouvelles armes défensives de l’époque hellénistique ; V. 1. Une cuirasse particulière : la φοινικίς ; V. 2. Un nouveau type de casque : le ‘morion macédonien’ ; V. 3. Bibliographie
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Archaeopress Great Waterworks in Roman Greece: Aqueducts and
Book SynopsisIn recent years an increasing worldwide awareness of the importance of water management in the ancient civilizations has generated much new discussion on water archaeology in ancient Greece. The present volume, Great Waterworks in Roman Greece, consists the very first presentation of large scale waterworks in the Greek provinces of the Roman Empire. As a collective work, it brings together a wide body of experts from the newly emerged and expanding field of water technology and water archaeology in Roman Greece, and it fills an essential gap in archaeological research and relative bibliography regarding water management and monumental water structures in Greece during the Roman period. Among the main goals that this multi-author volume attempts to succeed is to show that great waterworks (namely aqueducts and nymphaea) not only were novelties in the Greek provinces, both in form and function, but they also changed the architectural landscape of their surrounding environments, and they introduced the concept of luxury in the urban landscapes of Roman Greece. The discussed papers deploy along a wide geographical area, covering the roman provinces of Macedonia and Thrace, Epirus, Achaia, the Aegean islands and Crete, between the 1st century BC and the 4th century AD. Collective studies such as this, not only will enlighten and promote the multifaceted significance of the archaeological remains regarding water management technology of the Roman period in the Greek regions, but they will also reveal the significant impact of the Roman technological heritage in the Greek territories.Trade Review'It is high time that a volume surveying the most prominent hydraulic structures of Roman Greece should see the light of day. Readers with a predisposition for this topic will turn to the present book with little prodding; those who study urban monuments will find much of value here as well.' —Rabun Taylor, GNOMON, Volume 93, 2021Table of ContentsPreface – by Georgia A. Aristodemou and Theodosios P. Tassios ; Introduction I. Roman Aqueducts in Greece – by Theodosios P. Tassios ; Introduction II. Roman Monumental Fountains (Nymphaea) in Greece – by Georgia A. Aristodemou ; PART I: AQUEDUCTS ; Vaulted-roof aqueduct channels in Roman Macedonia – by Asimina Kaiafa-Saropoulou ; The Aqueduct of Actian Nikopolis – by Constantinos Zachos and Leonidas Leontaris ; The water supply of Roman Thessaloniki – by Manolis Manoledakis ; The Hadrianic aqueduct of Athens and the underlying tradition of hydraulic engineering – by Eustathios D. Chiotis ; The Hadrianic aqueduct in Corinth – by Yannis Lolos ; The Roman aqueduct of Mytilene – by Yannis Kourtzellis, Maria Pappa and George Kakes ; Roman aqueduct of Samos – by Τelauges Ν. Dimitriou ; ‘A Roman aqueduct through the Cretan highlands – securing the water supply for elevated Lyttos (Amanda Kelly) [Open Access: Download] ; PART II: NYMPHAEA ; Shifting tides: approaches to the public water-displays of Roman Greece – by Dylan Kelby Rogers ; Fountain figures from the Greek provinces: monumentality in fountain structures of Roman Greece as revealed through their sculptural display programs and their patrons – by Georgia Aristodemou ; The monumental fountain in the Athenian Agora: reconstruction and interpretation – by Shawna Leigh ; New water from old spouts: the case of the Arsinoe fountain of Messene – by Mario Trabucco della Torretta ; Reflecting the past: the nymphaeum near the so-called Praetorium at Gortyn – by Brenda Longfellow
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Archaeopress Mosaici funerari tardoantichi in Italia:
Book SynopsisThe potential of tomb mosaics as an academic resource has often been underestimated and consequently they have only been partially analysed not only in Italy but also throughout the Western Mediterranean. This work is intended to shed a new light on these finds, which are often incomplete, lost, or little studied. The first part of the book presents the history of previous studies on the subject and briefly explains the structure of the corpus. The corpus, in turn, is organised according to current Italian administrative regions, specifically: Sardegna, Sicilia, Puglia, Campania, Lazio, Marche, and Friuli Venezia Giulia. Every region is then further divided following current provinces and municipalities. This work does not aim to present merely a compilation of data in a catalogue; thus the second part of the book focuses specifically on tomb mosaics found in the Italic peninsula and major islands, and provides information on their geographic distribution, dating, typology, place of discovery and iconography, and considers the potential identification of individual workshops. The purpose of the book is to bring tomb mosaics to greater consideration, since they have not survived in academic literature to the same extent as did their rich villa or domus counterparts. This work does not therefore aspire to be a complete analysis of the subject, but rather a starting point which can be both useful and a stimulus for future studies. ITALIAN DESCRIPTION: Il mosaico funerario è una particolare tipologia musiva spesso sottovalutata e poco studiata. Le origini sono da ricercarsi, probabilmente, nell’antica regione della Bizacena, attuale Tunisia, a partire dagli ultimi decenni del III secolo d.C. Nel IV secolo iniziò l’esportazione dei cartoni musivi funerari nel resto del Mediterraneo occidentale, raggiungendo l’Italia e la Spagna; in entrambi i casi però il mosaico funerario non riscosse particolare successo. La richiesta maggiore di questo nuovo monumento funerario avveniva da parte dei cristiani, e solo in minima parte dai pagani. In questo libro si cerca di fare ordine sui mosaici funerari presenti nell’odierno territorio italiano, catalogando tutte le evidenze musive, sia oggigiorno scomparse che ancora in situ, per cercare di delineare un’analisi sul fenomeno che ha, in maniera seppur ridotta, investito la Penisola italiana e le sue Isole maggiori. Infatti le testimonianze musive si concentrano in zone dove particolari condizioni hanno permesso la loro messa in posa. La prima parte è dedicata al repertorio dei sessanta mosaici funerari dell’attuale Italia, ognuno catalogato secondo una scheda pensata e studiata per rendere più agevole possibile la consultazione. La seconda parte è invece incentrata sullo studio d’insieme del fenomeno dei mosaici funerari in Italia, nella quale si cerca di fare chiarezza e dare dei punti fermi su questa categoria di mosaici. L’analisi conclusiva cerca di spiegare il perché in Italia, pur essendoci condizioni apparentemente favorevoli alla produzione delle coperture tombali musive, non si siano trovati che poche testimonianze musive funerarie se paragonate a quelle ritrovate nel Nord Africa e in special maniera in Bizacena.Table of ContentsINTRODUZIONE; SUMMARY (in English); 1. STORIA DEGLI STUDI; 2. STRUTTURA DEL CORPUS; 3. REPERTORIO MOSAICI FUNERARI TARDOANTICHI D’ITALIA; 4. IL FENOMENO DEL MOSAICO FUNERARIO TARDOANTICO: ANALISI; 5. CONCLUSIONI; 6. BIBLIOGRAFIA
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Archaeopress Commemorating Conflict: Greek Monuments of the
Book SynopsisThis study is concerned with how the Greek peoples, of primarily the classical period, collectively commemorated the Persian Wars. The data presented here are public monuments, which include both physical and behavioural commemorations. The aim of this work is to reveal and present the methods by which Greeks of the fifth century BC commemorated the Persian Wars. Several trends have drawn attention away from studies presenting commemorative practices in their entirety: the focus on singular monument types, individual commemorative places, a particular commemorating group or specific battle, and an overemphasis on Athenian commemorations. This project works towards rectifying this issue by highlighting the variations in commemorative traditions. This holistic approach to the data, which is inclusive in its remit of commemorative objects, places, and groups, allows for a more complete representation of the commemorative tradition. What emerges from this study is the compilation of all known ancient Greek monuments to commemorate the battles of Marathon, Salamis, Artemisium, Thermopylae and Plataea.Table of ContentsPREFACE; Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2: CONTEXTUALISING THE COMMEMORATIONS OF THE PERSIAN WARS; Chapter 3: COMMEMORATIVE GROUPS AND COMMEMORATIVE PLACES; Chapter 4: MONUMENTS BY TYPE; CHAPTER 5: THE MONUMENTS AND THE EVIDENCE; BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Oxbow Books Gilded Flesh: Coffins and Afterlife in Ancient
Book SynopsisEgyptian coffins stand out in museums’ collections for their lively and radiant appearance. As an involucre of the mummy, coffins played a key-role by protecting the body and at the same time, integrating the deceased in the afterlife. The paramount importance of these objects and their purpose is detected in the ways they changed through time. For more than three thousand years, coffins and tombs had been designed to assure in the most efficient way possible a successful outcome for the difficult transition to the afterlife.This book examines twelve non-royal tombs found relatively intact, from the plains of Saqqara to the sacred hills of Thebes. These almost undisturbed burial sites managed to escape ancient looters and became adventurous events of the Egyptian archaeology. These discoveries are described from the Mariette’s exploration of the Mastaba of Ti in Saqqara to Schiaparelli’s discovery of the Tomb of Kha and Merit in Deir el-Medina.Each one of these sites unveil before our eyes a time capsule, where coffins and tombs were designed together as part of a social, political, and religious order. From the Pre-dynastic times to the decline of the New Kingdom, this book explores each site revealing the interconnection between mummification practices, coffin decoration, burial equipment, tomb decoration and ritual landscapes. Through this analysis, the author aims to point out how the design of coffins changed through time in order to empower the deceased with different visions of immortality. By doing so, the study of coffins reveal a silent revolution which managed to open to the common men and women horizons of divinity previously reserved to the royal sphere. Coffins thus show us how identity was forged to create an immortal and divine self.Trade ReviewThe author has a gift for vivid writing and he writes apssionately about a subject close to his heart. […] I would not hesitate to call it a good book and I wish it a wide readership. * Chronique d'Egypte *This well-illustrateed publication is a stimulating read and contains a wealth of information relating to funerary practices and their development through the Pharaonic age […] a very useful addition to any Egyptology bookshelf. * Ancient Egypt Magazine *Table of ContentsList of figures Preface 1. A dwelling by the Nile: The Predynastic grave of “Gebelein Man A” 2. On the path to Sokar: Solar splendours in the Mastaba of Ti 3. Facing the sun: The shaft tomb of Senebtisi 4. Flying back home: The grave of the “Gurnah Queen” 5. A house on the edge of the world: The Tomb of Kha and Merit (TT 8) 6. The Garden of Heaven: The family tomb of Sennedjem (TT 1) 7. The healing light: The burial assemblage of the priestess Tabasety 8. The divine brotherhood: The Tomb of the Priests of Amun 9. Conclusion Bibliography
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Oxbow Books Growing Up in the Ice Age: Fossil and
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2023 European Association of Archaeology Book of the Year AwardIn prehistoric societies children comprised 40-65% of the population, yet by default, our ancestral landscapes are peopled by adults who hunt, gather, fish, knap tools and make art. But these adults were also parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles who had to make space physically, emotionally, intellectually and cognitively for the infants, children and adolescents around them. Growing Up in the Ice Age is a timely and evidence-based look at the lived lives of Paleolithic children and the communities of which they were a part. By rendering these 'invisible' children visible, readers will gain a new understanding of the Paleolithic period as a whole, and in doing so will learn how children have contributed to the biological and cultural entities we are today.Trade ReviewApril Nowell’s illuminating and engaging book … is important for students and professionals in physical and behavioral anthropology because it fills a gap in helping us understand the fundamental role children played, literally and figuratively, in our hominin past. * Journal of Paleoanthropology *A timely summary of the state-of-the art regarding Pleistocene youngsters, their lives, deaths and material worlds … This perspective on children as agents of change and innovation is valid and important beyond the Pleistocene. * Childhood in the Past *This is a must-read for those interested in childhood in the past, and for those seeking a rare humanistic volume on human evolution and Palaeolithic archaeology. * Current World Archaeology *This is data-driven, intellectually weighty, wide-ranging and erudite, lively, and packed full of ideas …. it goes much further than most books on human origins to humanise the Palaeolithic world, and the result is one of the best evocations of the Palaeolithic world I have read ... It should certainly be required reading for Palaeolithic and prehistoric specialists; and academics in the life sciences and social sciences and interested lay readers will find it of great value. * Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology, Durham University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword by Jane Baxter 1. Toward an archaeology of Paleolithic children 2. Birth and the Paleolithic ‘family’ 3. Toys, burials and secret spaces 4. Stone tools, skill acquisition and learning a craft 5. Children, oral storytelling and the Paleolithic ‘arts’ 6. Adolescence in the Ice Age 7. Paleolithic children as drivers of human evolution Appendix 1. Chronology of the Paleolithic and timeline of fossil hominins Appendix 2. Table of subadult fossils in the Plio-Pleistocene (perinatal–ca. 10 years) Appendix 3. Table of subadult fossils from the Plio-Pleistocene (ca. 10 years–20 years). Bibliography Index
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Oxbow Books British Historic Towns Atlas Volume VII: Oxford
Book SynopsisThe latest volume of the British Historic Towns Atlas series covers the internationally-renowned city of Oxford. Famed for its university and its many outstanding historic buildings, the volume presents in mapped form the history of its topographical development. From its prehistoric setting, through its contentious Anglo-Saxon foundation, the medieval establishment of its university, and its sporadic growth after that, the Atlas charts how it became a nineteenth-century city dominated by colleges, churches, university buildings, and its associated publishing industry.The Atlas is presented as a large-format portfolio containing a series of maps showing the city at key points in its history, many illustrations of its buildings and streets, maps to show its setting, and reproduction early maps of the city. A readable text introduces and explains the maps, giving the reader a thorough grounding in how and why Oxford developed, and an explanation of its changing fortunes. A supplementary chapter brings the situation up to date.Whilst many histories of the university have been written, the Atlas concentrates on the topographic development of Oxford as a settlement, and explains it in mapped form. A comprehensive gazetteer lists every building and street shown on the maps, with a short history and references for further reading.Trade ReviewIt is a serious work of top-quality scholarship … I for one will find the Atlas to be of immense value for my own research, and congratulate all concerned on the production of this magnificent work. * Current Archaeology *Presented as a large-format portfolio, the atlas contains fold-out maps showing the city at key points in its history, many illustrations of its buildings and streeets, maps to show its setting, and reproduction early maps of the city. * Oxford Civic Society *Table of ContentsPreface A note on cartography abbreviations General introduction Prehistoric and Roman Oxford Anglo-Saxon Oxford Medieval Oxford Early Modern Oxford Modern Oxford: 1771-1900 Afterword Gazetteer Bibliography sources of maps, plates and figures
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Oxbow Books The Exodus: An Egyptian Story
Book SynopsisDid the Exodus occur? This question has been asked in biblical scholarship since its origin as a modern science. The desire to resolve the question scientifically was a key component in the funding of archaeological excavations in the nineteenth century. Egyptian archaeologists routinely equated sites with their presumed biblical counterpart. Initially, it was taken for granted that the Exodus had occurred. It was simply a matter of finding the archaeological data to prove it. So far, those results have been for naught.The Exodus: An Egyptian Story takes a very real-world approach to understanding the Exodus. It is not a story of cosmic spectaculars that miraculously or coincidentally occurred when a people prepared to leave Egypt. There are no special effects in the telling of this story. Instead, the story is told with real people in the real world doing what real people do.Peter Feinman does not rely on the biblical text and is not trying to prove that the Bible is true. He places the Exodus within Egyptian history based on the Egyptian archaeological record. It is a story of the rejection of the Egyptian cultural construct and defiance of Ramses II. Egyptologists, not biblical scholars, are the guides to telling the Exodus story. What would you expect Ramses II to say after he had been humiliated? If there is an Egyptian smoking gun for the Exodus, how would you recognize it? To answer these questions requires us to take the Exodus seriously as a major event at the royal level in Egyptian history.Trade ReviewThe book is a reminder that myths and legends survive far longer than historical facts and can even shape the destinies of people living three millennia later. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ * Fortean Times *Table of Contents1. The Egyptological Search for the Exodus 2. Egypt, Egyptology, and the Exodus: The Egyptian Cultural Construct 3. The Hyksos: The People of the 400 Year Sojourn 4. The Hyksos: The Triumph and Defeat of Apophis 5. Ramses, the Pharaoh of the Exodus 6. The Exodus 7. Post-Exodus Stress Disorder
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Oxbow Books Exploring Celtic Origins: New Ways Forward in
Book SynopsisExploring Celtic Origins is the fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics, and archaeogenetics over the past ten years. This team works towards the goal of a better understanding of the background in the Bronze Age and Beaker Period of the people who emerge as Celts and speakers of Celtic languages documented in the Iron Age and later times. Led by Sir Barry Cunliffe and John Koch, the contributors present multidisciplinary chapters in a lively user-friendly style, aimed at accessibility for workers in the other fields, as well as general readers. The collection stands as a pause to reflect on ways forward at the moment of intellectual history when the genome-wide sequencing of ancient DNA (a.k.a. ‘the archaeogenetic revolution’) has suddenly changed everything in the study of later European prehistory. How do we deal with what appears to be an irreversible breach in the barrier between science and the humanities? Exploring Celtic Origins includes colour maps and illustrations and annotated Further Reading for all chapters.Trade ReviewThis is a complex, important book […] the volume is laudable in setting out some clear hypotheses that can be explored in further research. * Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society *All ancient linguists and prehistorians need to read this volume. * Archaeological Journal *
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Oxbow Books Thinking Through Images: Narrative, Rhythm,
Book SynopsisThis book provides a general self-reflexive review and critical analysis of Scandinavian rock art from the standpoint of Chris Tilley’s research in this area over the last thirty years. It offers a novel alternative theoretical perspective stressing the significance of visual narrative structure and rhythm, using musical analogies, putting particular emphasis on the embodied perception of images in a landscape context.Part I reviews the major theories and interpretative perspectives put forward to understand the images, in historical perspective, and provides a critique discussing each of the main types of motifs occurring on the rocks. Part II outlines an innovative theoretical and methodological perspective for their study stressing sequence and relationality in bodily movement from rock to rock. Part III is a detailed case study and analysis of a series of rocks from northern Bohuslän in western Sweden. The conclusions reflect on the theoretical and methodological approach being taken in relation to the disciplinary practices involved in rock art research, and its future.Trade ReviewThis book is a masterclass in deconstructing rock art and the landscape in which it stands. * Current World Archaeology *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Preface by Joakim Goldhahn Acknowledgements Prelude PART I: ARIAS: MOTIFS AND INTERPRETATIONS PART II: CABALETTA: LANDSCAPE SETTING AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK: THE RHYTHMIC VISUAL ARTS OF NARRATIVE PART III: FINALE: PERAMBULATING THE ROCKS Postlude References Index
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Oxbow Books The Bronze Age Collective Graves of Qarn al-Harf,
Book SynopsisThe end of the 3rd millennium was a time of significant transformation in south-east Arabia (the United Arab Emirates and northern Oman). The cultural homogeneity of the preceding Early Bronze Age, Umm an-Nar period (c. 2700–2000 BC) came to an end and gave way to the Middle Bronze Age, Wadi Suq period (2000–1600 BC). Settlements changed, and possibly began to decline in size and number, the economy changed for many and the important trade in copper ore seems to have declined. In addition, there was a marked change in funerary practices as new types of tombs appeared – both collective and individual burials. All of this took place within the context of a climatic shift that led to a decline in rainfall across many parts of the region. Much of the countryside of south-eastern Iran was abandoned and the urban period of the Indus Valley was weakening. In the midst of this turmoil, the limited agricultural plains of northern Ras al-Khaimah appear to have developed into an island where there was greater continuity than elsewhere. This book reports on the excavation of a number of monumental collective tombs that were built there and used through the early part of the 2nd millennium. The way that they were constructed and used as well as the burial goods that they contain throw light on the population of this area, and give some indication of how and why it was that life continued in this small pocket in a way that was different to surrounding regions.Table of Contents1. Introduction Derek Kennet 2. The Site and Environment Derek Kennet 3. The Excavations Derek Kennet 4. Beads Anna Hilton 5. Small Finds Anna Hilton 6. Softstone Anna Hilton 7. Metalwork Lloyd Weeks et al. 8. Human Bone Alyson Caine 9. Isotopes Janet Montgomery et al. 10. Marine Shell Hannah Russ 11. Animal Bone Cameron Smith 12. Conservation Dana Goodburn-Brown 13. Phasing and Site Interpretation Derek Kennet, Christian Velde and Michel de Vreeze 14. The Wadi Suq Period in Northern Ras al-Khaimah Derek Kennet and Christian Velde 15. The Umm an-Nar/Wadi Suq Transition Derek Kennet Appendices
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Oxbow Books Human Transformations of the Earth
Book SynopsisThis book charts and explains how human activities have shaped and altered the development of soils in many parts of the world, taking advantage of five decades of soil analytical work in many archaeological landscapes from around the globe. The core of this volume describes and illustrates major transformations of soils and the processes involved in these that have occurred during the Holocene and how these relate to human activities as much as natural causes and trajectories of development, right up to the present day. This is done in two ways: first by examining a number of major processes and impacts on the landscape such as Holocene warming and the development of woodland, clearance and agricultural activities, and second by examining the trajectories of these changes in soil systems in different palaeo-environmental situations in several diverse parts of the world. The transformations identified are relevant to prevalent themes of today such as over-development and soil, land and environmental degradation and resilience. The studies articulated relate to Britain, southeastern Europe, the Mediterranean basin, East Africa, northern India and Peru in South America.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Geoarchaeological approaches in archaeology 1.1 Endeavour 1.2 Development of the discipline of geoarchaeology as part of archaeological investigations 1.3 Importance to archaeology 2. Methodological approaches 2.1 Approaches in the field 2.1.1 Landscape to soil-scape 2.1.2 Soils and palaeosols 2.1.3 Formulating research designs 2.2 Basic characterisation techniques 2.2.1 Field prospection and soil/sediment profile description 2.2.2 pH and water quality 2.2.3 Loss-on ignition 2.2.4 Magnetic susceptibility 2.3 More involved techniques 2.3.1 Phosphorus (or phosphate) content 2.3.2 Multi-element analysis 2.3.3 Soil nutrient and fertility status 2.3.4 Micromorphology 2.3.5FTIR, XRF, EDAX, XRD and SEM 2.4 Establishing chronologies: Radiocarbon, OSL and Bayesian statistics 2.5 Scales of resolution 2.6 Soil nomenclature and classification 3. Soil transformation trajectories in temperate European landscapes 3.1 The beginnings to woodland soil development 3.2 Disturbance and degradation of woodland soils 3.3 Agricultural soil development 3.4 Woodland to pasture soils 3.5 Acidification and podzolisation 3.6 Erosion and colluviation 3.7 Alluviation, floodplains and waterlogging 3.8 Wetland soils 3.9 Cumulative soils 4. Soil transformation trajectories in southern Mediterranean landscape systems 4.1 Brown to red Mediterranean soils 4.2 Xeric calcitic soils and soil erosion 4.3 Erosion, alluviation and wadi development 5. Soil transformation trajectories in arid/semi-arid soil systems 5.1 Aridisols 5.2 Colluvial/alluvial systems 5.2.1 The Burj-Masadpur area of the Indus valley, northern India 5.2.2 The central Rio Puerco, New Mexico 5.2.3 The lower Ica valley, southern Peru 5.2.4 The Kerio-Embobut valleys in Marakwet, north-central Kenya 5.3 Terracing and irrigation 5.3.1 Aksum, northern Ethiopia 5.3.2 Konso, southern Ethiopia, 5.3.3 Engaruka, northern Tanzania 5.3.4 Sangayaico in the upper Ica valley, southern Peru 6. Timescales and longevity of soil processes 6.1 Timescales and longevity of soil properties 6.2 Soil horizonation and structural development 6.3 Within-soil illuviation and textural changes: stability, disturbance and erosion 7. Understanding long-term resilience in transformed soils Bibliography Appendices 1. Site gazeteer
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Oxbow Books Commemorating Classical Battles: A Landscape
Book SynopsisThis is a study of the commemoration of Classical Greek battles, approaching monuments and other mnemonic practices as vital elements in the creation and curation of memories. It analyses the diachronic development of battlefield, sanctuary, and city spaces, as evidenced by archaeological remains and ancient literary sources. In addition, it explores the experience of the commemorative spaces through the application of theories of space, phenomenology, and social memory. Following a biographical approach, the commemoration of each battle is organised into stages of initial commemoration, official monumentalisation, memory curation, memory lapse, and reception.The research has led to several conclusions. While the commemoration of each battle can be divided into stages, these stages are not always discrete. There is variation in the types of commemorations within the stages, dependent on time, surrounding space, and the parties involved. Single commemorations can resonate differently with multiple audiences. The processes within the stage of memory curation lead to the subsequent lapse. The final stage of commemoration for each battle begins with the rediscovery of ancient monuments and continues to this day.The battles of Marathon, Leuktra, and Chaironeia are case studies for three reasons. First, they effectively span the period of Classical Greece (Marathon in 490 BCE to Chaironeia in 338 BCE). Secondly, these battles had different participants, thus allowing a variety of perspectives of both the victorious and the defeated. Lastly, these were battles that left lasting impacts in the material and literary record, making their commemoration relevant not only in antiquity, but also in the modern world.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Battlefield of Marathon 3. The Battlefield of Leuktra 4. The Battlefield of Chaironeia 5. The Commemoration of Classical Battles in Extramural Sanctuaries 6. The Commemoration of Classical Battles in City Spaces 7. Conclusion
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Oxbow Books Circuits of Metal Value: Changing Roles of Metals
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the part played by different metals in use from the fourth millennium BC to the Early Iron Age, not only in the Aegean but also in the wider Old World. It addresses the divergent uses and roles of different metals, the interrelationships of these roles and the changing values that may have been accorded to them at different times and in different places by producers and consumers. Individually, the papers in the volume contemplate the particular properties of different metals and the various issues concerning their frequent under-representation in the archaeological (but not necessarily textual) record, and also point out comparative and diachronic perspectives that may have the ability to offer insights into their important roles in wider cultural and historical changes over a period of several millennia. After the Introduction and Chapter 1, which reflects on some of the parameters involved in the term ‘precious’ as applied to metals, the remaining six chapters cover the Aegean and the networks that link the Aegean with Italy, Cyprus and the Near East more generally, and south-east Anatolia and the Caucasus. Between them they discuss the beginnings of regular iron metallurgy, the uses of and attitudes to gold, silver and bronze and other copper-based alloys at various times between the fourth millennium BC and the Early Iron Age.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Precious Circuits: Introduction Toby Wilkinson and Susan Sherratt 1. Precious Metal Values: Reflecting on Colours, Agency, and Domination Toby C. Wilkinson 2. Interaction, Gold, and Power: Contrasting Stories from Tombs across the East Mediterranean ca. 2000–1800 BC Borja Legarro Herrera 3. Greek Silver before Coinage: Medium of Exchange, Means of Wealth Accumulation, or Commodity? Susan Sherratt 4. The Sword and the Axe. Symbols of Value in the Bronze Age Social and Economic Exchange Networks Linking the Aegean to Italy within a Diachronic Perspective Elisabetta Borgna 5. The Development of Ironworking in the 12th and 11th Centuries in Cyprus Joanna Palermo 6. Provinces of Innovation. On the Introduction of Iron in the Near East Christopher Pare 7. Graves of Power. Circulation of Elite Strategies between Caucasus and South-eastern Anatolia in the Dawn of the Bronze Age Martina Massimino
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Archaeopress The River: Peoples and Histories of the
Book SynopsisThe Omo-Turkana area is unlike any place on earth. Spanning parts of Ethiopia, South Sudan and Kenya, the area is today home to a unique diversity of peoples and cultures. Extraordinary fossil finds from the locale have illuminated the evolutionary origins of our species and archaeological and historical evidence has demonstrated it has been a dynamic crossroads of peoples, languages and identities for millennia. Over the past two decades, development interventions have transformed the environment and presented a threat to local forms of material and intangible heritage. Many local groups now face challenges to the long-term sustainability of their traditional ways of life. This sumptuously illustrated book brings together a remarkable collection of the world’s leading archaeologists, ecologists, historians and ethnographers who specialise in the locale. Recognising the Omo-Turkana area as a crucial resource of global heritage, the authors also acknowledge its current vulnerability.Trade Review‘The current socio-economic and political happenings in the Omo-Turkana Basin are profoundly disturbing. Showcasing the area’s global importance, this compilation is a timely and crucial landmark in the pages of African history and archaeology.’ – Dr Richard Leakey, Turkana Basin Institute ‘Written by eminent scholars, this book showcases the rich and unique heritage of the Lower Omo Valley from prehistory to the present.’ – Prof. Tekle Hagos, Addis Ababa University ‘This collection of essays highlights the deep history of the Omo-Turkana basin, and the material and cultural traditions of the region’s inhabitants past and present. The reader is treated to rich, textured insights into the remarkable heritage of this part of the African continent, the many environmental and political challenges facing today’s inhabitants, and their continuing resilience in the face of adversity.’ – Prof. Paul Lane, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsForeword – by Anthony, Lord St John of Bletso ; Introduction ; Part 1: Prehistoric Life and Environment ; 1. Hominins and First Humans in the Lower Omo Valley – by Alex Wilshaw and Marta Mirazón Lahr ; 2. Early Prehistory of Fauna and Environment in Mursiland – by Michelle Drapeau ; 3. The Middle Stone Age of the Omo Delta-Turkana Basin – by Huw Groucutt ; 4. The Later Prehistory of the Turkana Basin – by Alex Wilshaw and Marta Mirazón Lahr ; Part 2: Pastoral Pasts – Entering History ; 5. Environment Histories - The Last 2,000 Years – by Graciela Gil-Romera and Miguel Sevilla-Callejo ; 6. Archaeology of Pastoralism and Monumentality in the Omo Valley – by Marcus Brittain and Timothy Clack ; 7. Global Artefacts: The Pastoral Past in Museums – by Juan Salazar Bonet and Timothy Clack ; Part 3: Pastoral Presents – The Mursi ; 8. Who are the Mursi? – by David Turton and Lugulointheno Jordomo ; 9. Colour, Metaphor and Persons – by Jean-Baptiste Eczet ; 10. Clay, Cosmology and Healing – by Kate Fayers-Kerr ; 11. Nomadic Traditions of Cattle Beautification: The Mursi Example – by Timothy Insoll and Timothy Clack ; 12. Material Culture – by Juan Salazar Bonet ; 13. Lip Plates – by Shauna LaTosky ; 14. Identity Ceremony: the Duel – by Tamás Régi ; 15. Local Economics: Cattle and Crops – by Demerew Danye and Anastasia Novichkhina ; Part 4: Exceptional Diversity – Omo Cultures ; 16. Omo Autonomies: On Populations, Tribes, and Ethnicity – by Felix Girke ; 17. Linguistic Diversity – by Shiferaw Assefa and Marcus Brittain ; 18. Sacrifice and Stone Platforms in Bodi – by Lucie Buffavand and Timothy Clack ; 19. The Hamar: Living By, For and With the Cattle – by Jérôme Dubosson ; 20. The Suri – by Jon Abbink ; 21. Kwegu: Hunters of the River – by Lucie Buffavand ; Part 5: Finding the Omo – Threats and Impacts ; 22. Written Past: Explorers’ Histories – by Marco Bassi ; 23. Last Chance to See? Intangible Heritage and Responsible Tourism – by Tamás Régi and Timothy Clack ; 24. ‘Our Poverty will be Gone’: Hope for a Mursi Community Conservation Area – by Will Hurd ; 25. From Marginalization to Megadam Crisis: The Dasanech and their Northern Turkana Neighbours – by Claudia Carr ; Index
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Archaeopress Glass and Glass Production in the Near East
Book SynopsisGlass and Glass Production in the Near East during the Iron Age: Evidence from objects, texts and chemical analysis examines the history of glass in Iron Age Mesopotamia and neighbouring regions (1000–539 BCE). This is the first monograph to cover this region and period comprehensively and in detail and thus fills a significant gap in glass research. It focusses on identification of the different types of glass objects and their respective manufacturing techniques from the the Iron Age period. Both glass as material and individual glass objects are investigated to answer questions such as as how raw glass (primary production) and glass objects (secondary production) were manufactured, how both these industries were organised, and how widespread glass objects were in Mesopotamian society in the Iron Age period. Such a comprehensive picture of glass and its production in the Iron Age can only be achieved by setting archaeological data in relation to cuneiform texts, archaeometric analyses and experimental-archaeological investigations. With regard to the different disciplines incorporated into this study, an attempt was made to view them together and to establish connections between these areas.Trade ReviewKatharina Schmidt has written a much-needed volume on Iron Age glass from the Near East... this is a major contribution to the study of Iron Age glass that will be of great help to students of ancient technologies and glass for years to come. -- Julian Henderson * Antiquity *Table of Contents1. Foreword and Acknowledgements ; 2. Glass and Glassy Materials: Definitions and Material Properties ; 3. Archaeological Contexts: Sites with Iron Age Glass Finds ; 4. The Glass Objects: Manufacturing Techniques, Typology, and Function ; 5. Discussion of the Archaeological Data ; 6. The Nineveh Glass Recipes ; 7. Archaeometrical Evidence ; 8. Conclusion ; Index of Technical Terms ; Bibliography ; Catalogue ; Plates ; Appendix 1 ; Appendix 2: Chemical raw data of different sites discussed
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Archaeopress Hillforts: Britain, Ireland and the Nearer
Book SynopsisFunded by the AHRC, the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland project (2012-2016) involved a team drawn from the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh and Cork which was responsible for compiling a massive database, now freely available online at https://hillforts.arch.ox.ac, on hillforts in Britain and Ireland. This was underpinned by a major desk-based re-assessment of accessible records. These twelve studies, presented at the end of that exercise to a conference in Edinburgh, and contributed by team members and colleagues, outline the background to and development of the project (Gary Lock) and offer a preliminary assessment of the online digital Atlas (John Pouncett) as well as presenting initial research studies using Atlas data. The volume is profusely illustrated with over 140 figures, including many new maps. Ian Ralston provides a historical assessment of key stages in the enumeration and mapping of these important monuments on both sides of the Irish Sea. The hill- and promontory forts of England, Wales and the Isle of Man are assessed by Ian Brown and those of Ireland by James O’Driscoll, Alan Hawkes and William O’Brien. Stratford Halliday’s study of the Scottish evidence focuses on the impact of the application of the Atlas criteria to the records of forts in that country. Simon Maddison deploys Percolation Analysis as an example of the potential re-use of the Atlas data in analysing new distributions; Jessica Murray presents a GIS-based approach to hillfort settings and configurations. Syntheses on insular Early Historic fortified settlements in northern Britain and Ireland, by James O’Driscoll and Gordon Noble, and on hillforts in areas of the nearer Continent are included. The latter comprise an overview by Sophie Krausz on Iron Age fortifications in France and a consideration of the south German records of hillforts and oppida by Axel Posluschny, while Fernando Rodriguez del Cueto tackles the north-western Spanish evidence.Trade Review'...we should congratulate and thank the editors for producing this fine volume, and for the enormous amount of work undertaken within the Atlas project. This is a new milestone in the study of hillforts in Britain and Ireland, and can serve as a source of inspiration for similar future studies in continental Europe and beyond.' -- Dr Manuel Fernández-Götz * The Prehistoric Society *Table of ContentsPreface - Eileen Wilkes; Part 1. The Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland; 1. The Atlas: an introduction - Gary Lock; 2. The Hillforts of Britain and Ireland – the background to the Atlas Project: an overview of the number of hill- and promontory-fort sites - Ian Ralston; 3. Hillforts of England, Wales and the Isle of Man: diversity captured - Ian Brown; 4. Forts and fortification in Scotland: applying the Atlas criteria to the Scottish dataset - Stratford Halliday; 5. The Irish hillfort - James O’Driscoll, Alan Hawkes and William O’Brien; 6. Fortified settlement in early medieval northern Britain and Ireland - Gordon Noble and James O’Driscoll; 7. A GIS-based investigation of morphological directionality at hillforts in Britain: the visual perspective - Jessica Murray; 8. Using Atlas data: the distribution of hillforts in Britain and Ireland - Simon Maddison; 9. The Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland online - John Pouncett; Part 2. Continental perspectives; 10. Iron Age fortifications in France - Sophie Krausz; 11. Hillforts of the central Cantabrian area in the Atlantic context: views on their distribution and records - Fernando Rodríguez del Cueto; 12. Hillforts and oppida: some thoughts on the fortified settlements in southern Germany - Axel Posluschny
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Archaeopress Journeys Erased by Time: The Rediscovered
Book SynopsisMembers of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE), founded in 1997, continue to research, hold international conferences, and publish books and essays in order to reveal the lives, journeys and achievements of these less well-known men and women who have made such a contribution to the present day historical and geographical knowledge of this region of the world and who have also given us a better understanding of its different peoples, languages and religions. The men and women from the past who are written about in this volume are a mixture of the incredibly rich or the very poor, and yet they have one thing in common, the bravery to tackle an adventure into the unknown without the certainty they would ever return home to their families. Some took up the challenge as part of their job or to create a new business, one person travelled to learn how to create and manage a harem at his house in London, others had no choice because as captives in a military campaign they were forced to make journeys into Ottoman controlled lands not knowing exactly where they were, yet every day they were looking for an opportunity to escape and return to their homes, while hoping the next person they met would guide them towards the safest route. Apart from being brave, many of these men and women travellers have something else in common: they and others they encountered have left a collective record describing their travels and their observations about all manner of things. It is these forgotten pioneers who first gathered the facts and details that now fill numerous modern guidebooks, inflight magazines and websites.Table of ContentsIntroduction - by Neil Cooke 1: Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela: a 12th-Century Traveller to the Middle East - by Paul Starkey 2: George Husz from Rascinia in Slavonia: a Croatian traveller and his voyage around the Orient between 1532 and 1541 - by Mladen Tomorad 3: Samuel Atkins: His diary or journal for the years 1680-88 - by Hakan Yazar 4: More treasure hunting in Qurna – the ‘Amr Mosque - by Caroline Simpson 5: Soldiering in Egypt - by Sarah Shepherd 6: The French House in Luxor: Living on top of a temple - by Hélène Virenque and Sylvie Weens 7: The notorious Emil Brugsch: ‘It is said that Brugsch Bey would sell the whole museum.’ - by Heicke Schmidt 8: From Rags to Riches: the adventures of Victor Gustave Maunier in Egypt 1848-1868 - by Sylvie Weens 9: “Let’s have a beer at Gorff’s!” - by Isolde Lehnert 10: A suffragist in Palestine: Millicent Fawcett’s journeys in the 1920s - by Lucy Pollard 11: Anton Prokesch von Osten and his contribution to evolving Egyptology - by Ernst Czerny 12: What the ‘Noble Traveller’ got up to in Thebes: Lord Belmore’s ‘Herculean undertaking’ in TT 148 - by Boyo G. Ockinga 13: Americans on the river Nile in the 1874-1875 Season - by Andrew Oliver 14: Sources of inspiration: Jean-Baptiste Vanmour and other artist-travellers in Ottoman Lands - by Janet Starkey 15: In the wake of a rake: Artist Francis Smith and the 6th Baron Baltimore - by Brian J. Taylor 16: Everything I Want People to Know is in my Books: Leo Tregenza’s Journeys in the Eastern Desert - by Ronald E. Zitterkopf 17: The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) Expedition to Moab in 1872 – Ginsburg and Tristram: an old academic quarrel? - by David Kennedy 18: ‘Nothing great can be achieved except in the Orient’ said Napoleon Bonaparte - by Heba Sheta Index
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Archaeopress Mammoths and Neanderthals in the Thames Valley
Book SynopsisToday the Upper Thames Valley is a region of green pastures and well-managed farmland, interspersed with pretty villages and intersected by a meandering river. The discovery in 1989 of a mammoth tusk in river gravels at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, revealed the very different ancient past of this landscape. Here, some 200,000 years ago, mammoths, straight-tusked elephants, lions, and other animals roamed across grasslands with scattered trees, occasionally disturbed by small bands of Neanderthals. The pit where the tusk was discovered, destined to become a waste disposal site, provided a rare opportunity to conduct intensive excavations that extended over a period of 10 years. This work resulted in the recording and recovery of more than 1500 vertebrate fossils and an abundance of other biological material, including insects, molluscs, and plant remains, together with 36 stone artefacts attributable to Neanderthals. The well-preserved plant remains include leaves, nuts, twigs and large oak logs. Vertebrate remains notably include the most comprehensive known assemblage of a distinctive small form of the steppe mammoth, Mammuthus trogontherii, that is characteristic of an interglacial period equated with marine isotope stage 7 (MIS 7). Richly illustrated throughout, Mammoths and Neanderthals in the Thames Valley offers a detailed account of all these finds and will be of interest to Quaternary specialists and students alike.Table of ContentsList of Figures ; List of Tables ; Preface ; Introduction ; The excavations ; Geological context of the Stanton Harcourt Channel ; Evidence for the Contemporaneity of Bones, Wood, Molluscs and Artefacts ; Stratigraphy and sedimentology ; Bones assemblages at their death sites ; The context of wood, fresh-water molluscs and other environmental material at the excavation site ; The presence of hominins ; Dating The Stanton Harcourt Channel Deposits ; Absolute dating ; Biostratigraphy ; The Mammoths ; The compostion of the mammoth assemblage ; The sex of the Stanton Harcourt mammoths ; Interpreting the mammoth remains: death, carcass dispersal and the effect of the river ; Population structure of the Stanton Harcourt mammoth assemblage ; Large Vertebrates other than Mammoths at Stanton Harcourt ; The carnivores ; The herbivores ; Small vertebrates ; The Climatic and Environmental Evidence ; Wood and other vegetation as climatic indicators ; Climatic interpretation of the molluscs ; Large vertebrates as climatic indicators ; The local environment - wood and other vegetation ; Insects and the environment ; Molluscs and the local environment ; Vertebrates and the environment ; The Artefacts ; Descriptions of the artefacts ; Artefacts from the wider context near Stanton Harcourt ; The Stanton Harcourt artefacts and other British assemblages ; Neanderthals in the Thames Valley ; References
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Archaeopress The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia: Evolution,
Book SynopsisThe Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia is a landmark study in the origins of metallurgy. The project aimed to trace the invention and innovation of metallurgy in the Balkans. It combined targeted excavations and surveys with extensive scientific analyses at two Neolithic-Chalcolithic copper production and consumption sites, Belovode and Pločnik, in Serbia. At Belovode, the project revealed chronologically and contextually secure evidence for copper smelting in the 49th century BC. This confirms the earlier interpretation of c. 7000-year-old metallurgy at the site, making it the earliest record of fully developed metallurgical activity in the world. However, far from being a rare and elite practice, metallurgy at both Belovode and Pločnik is demonstrated to have been a common and communal craft activity. This monograph reviews the pre-existing scholarship on early metallurgy in the Balkans. It subsequently presents detailed results from the excavations, surveys and scientific analyses conducted at Belovode and Pločnik. These are followed by new and up-to-date regional syntheses by leading specialists on the Neolithic-Chalcolithic material culture, technologies, settlement and subsistence practices in the Central Balkans. Finally, the monograph places the project results in the context of major debates surrounding early metallurgy in Eurasia before proposing a new agenda for global early metallurgy studies.Table of ContentsForeword ; Stephen J. Shennan ; Evgeniy N. Chernykh ; Acknowledgements ; Authors List ; Part 1. Introduction ; 1. The birth of archaeometallurgy in Serbia: a reflection - Julka Kuzmanović-Cvetković ; 2. The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia: Evolution, organisation and consumption of early metal in the Balkans: an introduction to the project - Thilo Rehren, Miljana Radivojević and Benjamin W. Roberts ; 3. Balkan metallurgy and society, 6200–3700 BC - Miljana Radivojević and Benjamin W. Roberts ; 4. The Vinča culture: an overview - Benjamin W. Roberts, Miljana Radivojević and Miroslav Marić ; 5. Introducing Belovode and results of archaeometallurgical research 1993–2012 - Miljana Radivojević ; 6. Introducing Pločnik and the results of archaeometallurgical research 1996–2011 - Miljana Radivojević ; 7. Excavation methodology for the sites of Belovode and Pločnik - Miroslav Marić, Benjamin W. Roberts and Jugoslav Pendić ; Part 2. Belovode ; 8. Belovode landscape and settlement perspectives - Miroslav Marić ; 9. Belovode geomagnetic data as a proxy for the reconstruction of house numbers, population size and the internal spatial structure - Knut Rassmann, Roman Scholz, Patrick Mertl, Kai Radloff, Jugoslav Pendić and Aleksandar Jablanović ; 10. Belovode excavation results - Miroslav Marić, Benjamin W. Roberts and Miljana Radivojević ; 11. Belovode: technology of metal production - Miljana Radivojević and Thilo Rehren ; 12. Pottery from Trench 18 at Belovode - Neda Mirković-Marić, Marija Savić and Milica Rajičić ; 13. Chronological attribution of pottery from Trench 18 at Belovode based on correspondence analysis - Miroslav Marić and Neda Mirković-Marić ; 14. Belovode: technology of pottery production - Silvia Amicone ; 15. Figurines from Belovode - Julka Kuzmanović-Cvetković ; 16. Ground and abrasive stone tools from Belovode - Vidan Dimić and Dragana Antonović ; 17. Bone industry from Belovode - Selena Vitezović ; 18. Chipped stone industry at Belovode - Elmira Ibragimova ; 19. Chemical and technological analyses of obsidian from Belovode - Marina Milić ; 20. Plant use at Belovode - Dragana Filipović ; 21. Animal remains from the site of Belovode - Ivana Dimitrijević and David Orton ; 22. Belovode: past, present and future - Benjamin W. Roberts and Miljana Radivojević ; Part 3. Pločnik ; 23. Pločnik landscape and settlement perspectives - Miroslav Marić ; 24. Pločnik: geomagnetic prospection data as a proxy for the reconstruction of house numbers, population size and the internal spatial structure - Knut Rassmann, Roman Scholz, Patrick Mertl, Jugoslav Pendić and Aleksandar Jablanović ; 25. Pločnik: excavation results - Miroslav Marić, Jugoslav Pendić, Benjamin W. Roberts and Miljana Radivojević ; 26. Pločnik: technology of metal production - Miljana Radivojević and Thilo Rehren ; 27. Pottery from Trench 24 at Pločnik - Neda Mirković-Marić, Marija Savić and Milica Rajičić ; 28. Chronological attribution of pottery from Trench 24 at Pločnik based on correspondence analysis - Neda Mirković-Marić and Miroslav Marić ; 29. Pločnik: technology of pottery production - Silvia Amicone ; 30. Figurines from Pločnik - Julka Kuzmanović-Cvetković ; 31. Ground and abrasive stone tools from Pločnik - Vidan Dimić and Dragana Antonović ; 32. Bone industry from Pločnik - Selena Vitezović ; 33. Chipped stone industry at Pločnik - Elmira Ibragimova ; 34. Plant use at Pločnik - Dragana Filipović ; 35. Animal remains from the site of Pločnik - Jelena Bulatović and David Orton ; 36. Pločnik: past, present and future - Benjamin W. Roberts and Miljana Radivojević ; Part 4. The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia: A View from the Balkans ; 37. Relative and absolute chronologies of Belovode and Pločnik - Miroslav Marić, Miljana Radivojević, Benjamin W. Roberts and David C. Orton ; 38. The social organisation of the Vinča culture settlements. New evidence from magnetic and archaeological excavation data - Knut Rassmann, Martin Furholt, Nils Müller-Scheeßel and Johannes Müller ; 39. Belovode and Pločnik: site visibility and remotely sensed data - Jugoslav Pendić ; 40. Population size and dynamics at Belovode and Pločnik - Marko Porčić and Mladen Nikolić ; 41. Metallurgical knowledge and networks of supply in the 5th millennium BC Balkans: Belovode and Pločnik in their regional context - Miljana Radivojević, Thilo Rehren and Ernst Pernicka ; 42. The pottery typology and relative chronology of Belovode and Pločnik: concluding remarks - Neda Mirković-Marić and Miroslav Marić ; 43. Pottery technology at the dawn of metallurgy in the Vinča culture - Silvia Amicone, Miljana Radivojević, Patrick Quinn and Thilo Rehren ; 44. Belovode and Pločnik figurines in their wider context - Julka Kuzmanović-Cvetković ; 45. Ground and abrasive stone tools from Belovode and Pločnik: concluding remarks - Vidan Dimić and Dragana Antonović ; 46. Bone tool technology at Belovode and Pločnik - Selena Vitezović ; 47. Chipped Stone industries in the Vinča culture - Elmira Ibragimova ; 48. Geochemical characterisation of chipped stones from Belovode and Pločnik - Enrica Bonato, Martin Rittner and Silvia Amicone ; 49. Belovode obsidian in a regional context - Marina Milić ; 50. Plant consumption at Belovode and Pločnik - Dragana Filipović ; 51. Evidence for animal use in the central Balkan Neolithic across the early metallurgical horizon: the animal remains from Belovode and Pločnik in context - David Orton, Jelena Bulatović and Ivana Dimitrijević ; Part 5. The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia and Beyond ; 52. Balkan metallurgy in a Eurasian context - Miljana Radivojević and Benjamin W. Roberts ; 53. Where do we take global early metallurgy studies next? - Benjamin W. Roberts, Miljana Radivojević and Thilo Rehren
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Archaeopress Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Roman Army and
Book SynopsisThe frontiers of the Roman empire together form the largest surviving monument of one of the world’s greatest states. They stretch for some 7,500 km through 20 countries which encircle the Mediterranean Sea. The remains of these frontiers have been studied by visitors and later by archaeologists for several centuries. Many of the inscriptions and sculpture, weapons, pottery and artefacts created and used by the soldiers and civilians who lived on the frontier can be seen in museums. Equally evocative of the lost might of Rome are the physical remains of the frontiers themselves. The aim of this series of booklets is not only to inform the interested visitor about the history of the frontiers but to act as a guidebook as well. The Roman Empire reached its near full extent during the reign of Emperor Augustus. At that time Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the entire Mediterranean were part of it. The Hungarian part of the Empire had a river frontier that was more precisely called ripa. Pannonia province existed from the occupation during the reign of Emperor Augustus to the 20s and 30s of the 5th century A.D. Its border stretched alongside the Danube and was always one of the most important European frontiers in Roman times, as it is justified by keeping a very strong defence force there, consisting of 4 legions and an average of 30 auxiliary units. Some 420 km long section of the entire Pannonian limes from Klosterneuburg (Austria) to Belgrade (Serbia) belongs to the territory of present-day Hungary.Table of ContentsFrontiers of the Roman Empire ; The Roman Army and the Limes ; The Roman limes in Hungary ; A Római Birodalom határai ; A római hadsereg a limesen ; A római limes Magyarországon
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Archaeopress Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe
Book SynopsisPrehistoric Flint Mines in Europe presents the results of the UISPP Commission, Flint Mining in Pre- and Protohistoric Europe. It offers a review of major flint mines dating from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. The eighteen articles were contributed by archaeologists from ten countries – Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden – using the same framework in order to propose a uniform view of the mining phenomenon. At the same time the book reflects various research methods and traditions. Each article deals successively with the geographical and geological context, mining zone topography, research history, methods of exploitation of raw material, dating of archaeological features and structures, characteristics of lithic production, organization of labour, miners' settlements, distribution of products and symbolic aspects of mining activity. Part I includes the well-known flint mines at Spiennes in Belgium, Grime’s Graves in England and Rijckholt-Sint Geertruid in the Netherlands, as well as the equally fascinating Defensola mine from Italy. Part II contains presentations of other European flint mines. The book is abundantly illustrated with large, colour photographs and drawings, and is aimed not only at archaeologists, who will find valuable data and further literature, but also at any reader seeking up-to-date information on prehistoric flint mining communities in Europe.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; About the beginnings of prehistoric archaeology, studies of stone artifacts and ancient flint mines – Françoise Bostyn, Jacek Lech and Dagmara H. Werra ; Part I: Key Sites of Prehistoric Flint Mining in Europe ; Chapter 1: The Early Neolithic mine of Defensola and the Gargano Promontory (Italy) – Attilio Galiberti and Massimo Tarantini ; Chapter 2: The mining complex at Rijckholt-St Geertruid (Eijsden-Margraten, Limburg NL) – Marjorie E. Th. de Grooth , Jos Deeben*, Jan Willem de Kort and José Schreurs ; Chapter 3: The Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes (Belgium) – Hélène Collet and Jean-Philippe Collin ; Chapter 4: Grime’s Graves (England) – Frances Healy, Peter Topping and Gillian Varndell ; Part II: Some other European Flint Mines ; Chapter 5: The Flint Mine of Casa Montero (Madrid, Spain) Making Society in Early Neolithic Europe – Pedro Díaz-del-Río, Susana Consuegra, Nuria Castañeda, Enrique Capdevila, Marta Capote, Cristina Criado, Cristina Casas and Aurora Nieto ; Chapter 6: The Chocolate Flint Mine of Tomaszów (Poland) – Romuald Schild ; Chapter 7: Sąspów near Cracow (Poland). A Neolithic flint mine of the Danubian communities – Jacek Lech ; Chapter 8: Neolithic Chert Extraction and Processing on the Southeastern Swabian Alb (Asch-Borgerhau, Germany) – Lynn E. Fisher, Corina Knipper, Susan K. Harris and Rainer Schreg ; Chapter 9: The Late Neolithic opencast flint mining and axehead blank production on the Lousberg in Aachen (Germany) – Daniel Schyle and Jürgen Weiner ; Chapter 10: The Nagytevel flint mine (Hungary) – Katalin T. Biró and Judit Regenye ; Chapter 11: Flintmining at Södra Sallerup (Sweden) – Elisabeth Rudebeck, Anders Högberg, Deborah Olausson in cooperation with Åsa Berggren ; Chapter 12: Cissbury and the South Downs Flint Mines, Sussex (England) – David Field ; Chapter 13: The neolithic flint mine at Jablines, ‘le Haut-Château’ (Seine-et-Marne, France) – Françoise Bostyn ; Chapter 14: The Flint Mine of Ri-Ronai (Orne, Basse-Normandie, France) – Emmanuel Ghesquière, Cyril Marcigny with the collaboration of François Charraud, David Giazzon, Sébastien Giazzon, and Laurent Juhel ; Chapter 15: The Neolithic quarries at Plancher-les-Mines (Haute-Saône, France), 5th and 4th millennia cal BC– Pierre Pétrequin ; Chapter 16: ‘Les Orlets’ and ‘Le Grand Bois Marot’ at Villemaur-sur-Vanne (Aube): face to face in the Pays d’Othe mining complex – Pierre-Arnaud de Labriffe ; Chapter 17: Borownia (Poland). A mine of striped flint from the Early Bronze Age – Jacek Lech ; Chapter 18: Wierzbica ʻZeleʼ (Poland). A flint mine from the Bronze Age – Jacek Lech and Dagmara H. Werra
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Archaeopress Thirsty Seafarers at Temple B of Kommos:
Book SynopsisThe island of Crete was an important place for cultural and economic exchanges between Greeks and Near Easterners in the Aegean during the 1st millennium BC. Kommos and its temple provided materials that attest the connections between different populations, such as Greeks and Phoenicians. An examination of these objects and those from other Cretan sites such as Knossos, the Idaean Cave and Eleutherna is presented in this book. Moreover, the case of Kommos is compared to other Aegean cult structures with similar characteristics, such as the Sanctuary of Apollo in Eretria, the Heraion of Samos, the temple of Kition in Cyprus and the Temple of Vroulia in Southern Rhodes. These appear to be not just religious spaces but also economic and social meeting points, integrated into networks of commercial districts connected by land and sea routes. The book aims to understand the Phoenician presence and trade in Aegean temples, as well as how Crete shaped its role within the context of Mediterranean trade routes from the East to the West.Table of ContentsAbstract ; Preface and acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Contextual analyses ; Aim and methodology ; The site of Kommos ; The Commercial temple of Kommos ; Temple B ; The commercial district of Kommos ; Observations ; Kommos and its connections within Crete ; Knossos ; Eleutherna ; The Idaean Cave ; Other sites ; Land routes ; General observations on Cretan sites ; Other possible commercial sanctuaries ; Cyprus ; Rhodes ; Samos and the Temple of Hera ; Euboea ; Observations ; Further Eastern and Phoenician presence ; Sea routes ; General observations on commercial temples ; Conclusions ; Bibliography
£33.25
Archaeopress Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Hinterland of
Book SynopsisThe frontiers of the Roman Empire together form the largest monument of one of the world’s greatest ancient states. They stretch for some 7,500 km through 20 countries which encircle the Mediterranean Sea. The remains of these frontiers have been studied by visitors and later by archaeologists for several centuries. Many of the inscriptions and sculptures, weapons, pottery and artefacts created and used by the soldiers and civilians who lived on the frontier can be seen in museums. Equally evocative of the lost might of Rome are the physical remains of the frontiers themselves. The aim of this series of books is not only to inform the interested visitor about the history of the frontiers but to act as a guidebook as well. In this important and beautifully illustrated book, David Breeze elucidates the context of the most famous frontier, Hadrian’s Wall. The zone to north and south of the Wall was a heavily militarised landscape of roads, bridges, forts, fortlets and towers, but also the towns, settlements and supply infrastructure on which the army depended. As the invaluable gazetteer shows, the area is now rich in superb sites and museums, allowing modern people countless rich insights into the world of the soldiers and civilians of the period.Table of ContentsFRONTIERS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE Foreword by Kate Mavor Common cultural heritage of the Roman Empire The Roman Empire Frontiers and trade The ‘Frontiers of the Roman Empire’ World Heritage Site The definition of a World Heritage Site The task ahead History and extent of frontiers Rome´s foreign policy The location of frontiers The army and frontiers The purpose of frontiers Soldiers and civilians Military administration Research on Roman frontiers Inscriptions and documents Survey and excavation Aerial survey and remote sensong Protection and presentation of frontiers Future perspectives THE HINTERLAND OF HADRIAN’S WALL Introduction Some Ancient Geography History Military deployment A Roman soldier’s life Supply Civilians The end of Roman Britain Gazetteer Bibliography
£18.99
Archaeopress Representations of Writing Materials on Roman
Book SynopsisAncient funerary reliefs are full of representations of writing materials and instruments, the interpretation of which can help us better understand the phenomenon of ancient literacy. The eight studies in this volume were delivered as lectures at an online conference organized by the Department of Ancient History at the University of Pécs in October 2021. The comprehensive introductory study (N. Agócs, T. Grüll, J. Jusztinger, E. Szabó) is followed by two thematic studies on depictions of the Muses (E. A. Meyer) and the role of women in written culture (J. Luginbühl). Two studies address writing materials: the well-known and widespread writing tablets (B. Hartmann), and the less-known bone spatulae which nevertheless also occur frequently (A. Willi). Finally, three studies deal with depictions of writing instruments and materials in certain regions of the Roman Empire: at Palmyra (L. Sokolowski), in the two Moesiae (S. Pilipovic) and in Phrygia (T. Grüll). Each of the studies enriches our knowledge of Roman writing with many new aspects and many detailed observations.
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Exeter A Roman Legionary Fortress and Civitas
Book SynopsisExeter has long been known as a Roman city, but it was only in 1971 that its origin as a legionary fortress of the mid-first century AD was revealed. That discovery was the result of excavation work undertaken by the first professional archaeological unit to be based in the city. The author was one of those involved and this book explains how innovative archaeological techniques introduced in the 1970s were employed, not only to construct a picture of the legionary fortress, but to demonstrate with some confidence that the 5,000 strong garrison which manned it was the Second Augustan Legion. Whilst at Exeter the legion built its own stone bathhouse. Constructed only around 15-20 years after the Roman invasion in AD 43, it is the earliest known monumental masonry building in the South-West of Britain. Significantly, it was also possible to establish that Exeter became a Roman regional capital around AD 80 after the departure of the legion to Wales. The redundant bathhouse was convert
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Archaeopress Landmarks of Identity Bronze Age Towers of the
Book SynopsisFive thousand years ago, in the Early Bronze Age, monumental stone and mud-brick structures known as towers appeared on the landscape of the Oman Peninsula. Since then, they have served as distinctive landmarks of identity for the people of the region. Despite many years of archaeological research and intensive excavations of some of them, much remains unknown about these impressive structures. This book aims to update the long-standing discussions on these towers and to assess their chronological depth of more than a millennium, with the first of them constructed as early as the end of the 4th millennium BCE and the last substantial building activities at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE. The book also reassesses their possible functions, such as defence, refuge, demarcation of property, residence of elites, involvement in complex irrigation systems, arenas for cultic practices, in the light of recent archaeological research. The book will also provide a richly illustrated catalogue with extensive bibliography, research history and coordinates of all the nearly hundred towers known to date in the Sultanate of Oman and the United Arab Emirates, creating a record for researchers and visitors alike.
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Megalithic Societies Old Questions New Narratives
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£61.75
Bonnier Books Ltd Medieval Cathedral Spectacular Visual Guides
Book SynopsisMedieval Cathedral examines the incredible architectural achievements and hidden secrets held within the walls of these grand religious buildings.Discover a world of towering spires, ornate architecture and stories sealed in colourful glass. This guide goes beyond the building, exploring the lives of Medieval Cathedrals and the master artisans who brought them to life. Meet the highly-skilled craftsmen involved in the cathedrals construction at each stage, from cutting the stone to installing the iconic stained glass windows. Uncover the history behind ghoulish gargoyles, pilgrim routes and miracle plays, and how they transformed these noble cathedrals into the buildings we know today.With superb cutaway illustrations and pinpoint enlargements to accompany the text, this book is the perfect gift for history enthusiasts eager to learn more about the Medieval period, especially the development of architecture and religion during that time. Informative captions, maps, a complete glossary and an index make this title an ideal educational text for children studying the middle ages in history.
£6.99
Oxbow Books The Tribe of Witches
Book SynopsisUntil now the old religions of Britain have only been looked at in a piecemeal way. This book presents a detailed and focused investigation of the religion of the Dobunni and the Hwicce peoples who occupied the Severn valley and the Cotswolds immediately before and after the Roman occupation. It uncovers some secrets of the old religion of Britain that have lain hidden in reams of unconnected and largely forgotten information, from a variety of sources. The first part of the book concerns the deification of the natural world; the second, the deities of the tribal groups. It explores the deities of the different areas of the Dobunnic/Hwiccan territory; identifying the goddess of the Cotswolds, and describes how the worship manifested itself. Yeates demonstrates how the deification of rivers was important and how this has led to the location of a number of ancient river shrines as well as the identification of a number of monumental arrangements used by the peoples in their religious activities and folk-group identity; numerous recognisably pre-Old English folk-names are also shown to relate specifically to river-names, town-names, and folk-group-names. The religious use of the hill-forts, of which there are so many dotted over the landscape, and their shrines is discussed. These are connected with mineral extraction, warfare, nemetons, and sacred groves. The use for standing totems and burial practices is also covered. Once the associations are made between deity, river, and folk-group, and all other aspects of religion have been discussed the deity who resided over the Dobunni is revealed. Her cult, which was evident in the major Roman towns, can be traced back into the Iron Age, and can be identified as the inspiration for the tribal name Hwicce . This shows an element of continuity in British culture, not recognised previously because of the assumed obliteration of British culture due to the extent, success, and longevity of the Roman occupation and Anglo-Saxon migration. Understanding the tribal goddess also explains why this people were "the tribe of witches". Finally, it is recognised that these gods did not perish but persisted in medieval legends, traditions and place-names. Although at its core this is a study of two British tribes, the work will have a major impact on the understanding of pre-Christian religion not only in Britain but also in Western Europe generally.Trade ReviewSignificantly increases our understanding of the social and religious structures of our ancient forebears and is a worthy addition to any bookshelf.' -- http://www.twistedtree.org.uk/Bookshelf.htm http://www.twistedtree.org.uk/Bookshelf.htm A devastating assault on what everyone thought they knew. It establishes the author as one of the foremost authorities on state-formation in early Britain, and should be read by everyone interested in our region.' -- Oxoniensia 73 Oxoniensia 73 The book is highly informative. The large amount of data systematically presented could be useful for scholars researching a number of different topics and the bibliography is extensive and valuable.' -- Cambridge Archaeological Journal Cambridge Archaeological Journal A stimulating discussion of a subject that has received little concentrated attention to date... The study is a brave attempt to tackle what is a difficult subject area and it deserves to be read by those interested in the pre- and post-Roman west of England.' -- Transactions of the Birmingham & Warwickshire Archaeological Society Volume 112 Transactions of the Birmingham & Warwickshire Archaeological Society Volume 112
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Archaeopress Dictionary of Archaeological Terms:
Book SynopsisThis dictionary – an assemblage of more than 10,000 archaeological words and terms – is intended to assist in the reading of archaeological books and publications (from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages), and in the writing of papers and articles in both English and French. The aim is to help, in particular, students and archaeologists in the field to find quickly words relating to a specific period, a specific area, or a research field. Of course, the dictionary is also for everyone fond of archaeology, from Prehistory to the Middle Ages.
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Archaeopress Dictionary of Archaeological Terms: English/Greek
Book SynopsisContinuing the Archaeopress series of pocket-sized Dictionaries of Archaeological Terms, here is a dictionary of useful terms compiled to assist in the reading of archaeological books and publications, and in the writing of papers and articles, in both English and Greek. It covers Aegean prehistory through to Hellenistic and Roman times.
£12.00
Archaeopress Dictionary of Archaeological Terms:
Book SynopsisThis concise dictionary is intended to be helpful in the reading of archaeological books and publications from the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages, and in the writing of papers and articles in both English and Spanish. The aim of this work is to help, in particular, students and on-site archaeologists to find quickly a word relating to a specific period, a specific area or a research field, in a book easy to carry everywhere. But this dictionary is also intended for everyone fond of archaeology, from prehistory to the Middle Ages.
£12.00
Archaeopress Dictionary of Archaeological Terms:
Book SynopsisThis concise dictionary is intended to be helpful in the reading of archaeological books and publications, and in the writing of papers and articles in both English and Italian. The aim of this work is to help, in particular, students and on-site archaeologists to find quickly a word relating to a specific period, a specific area or a research field, in a book easy to carry everywhere; but this dictionary is also intended for those with a general interest in archaeology wishing to broaden their vocabulary!
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Archaeopress The Ancient Mediterranean Trade in Ceramic
Book SynopsisThis study (the second volume in the Archaeopress series devoted to the publication of ceramics in the Roman Mediterranean and outlying territories from the late Republic to late Antiquity) addresses the level of interregional trade of ceramic building material (CBM), traditionally seen as a high bulk low value commodity, within the ancient Mediterranean between the third century BC and the seventh century AD. It examines the impact of different modes of production, distribution and consumption of CBM and how archaeological assemblages differ from what is predicted by current models of the ancient economy. It also explores how CBM can be used to investigate cultural identity and urban form. CBM has great potential in investigating these topics. It survives in large quantities in the archaeological record; it is transported as a commodity in its own right, not as a container for other products like amphorae. The amount of CBM used in a building can be estimated, and this can be extrapolated to urban centres to model consumption in ways that are not possible for other goods. This allows the potential derivation of economic information to a higher level of precision than is the case for other materials. The material used in this study derives from stratified assemblages from two major ports of the ancient Mediterranean: Carthage and Beirut. CBM as a material is comparable to pottery, only it does not exhibit the same range of forms. This leaves fabric as a major means of analysing CBM samples. For this reason a programme of petrological thin sectioning has been carried out on these assemblages. These data have been combined with the taphonomic and dating evidence from the excavations. The results showed that the levels of imports of CBM into these two cities were much higher than would normally be expected from the orthodox model of the consumer city. They also suggest that CBM can be used as a tool to investigate cultural identity.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction and Theory ; Chapter 2: Methodology ; Chapter 3: Analysis of the Fabrics ; Chapter 4: Taphonomic and Other Analysis ; Chapter 5: The Cultural Biography of CBM ; Chapter 6: Conclusions and Further Work
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NMSE - Publishing Ltd The Late Roman Silver Treasure from Traprain Law
Book SynopsisExcavated from Traprain Law, East Lothian, Scotland, in May 1919, was one of the most spectacular discoveries of Roman silver ever made in Europe - and the biggest hoard of `hacksilver': 23kg, battered, crushed and chopped up. Blame for the destruction has hitherto been laid at the door of `barbarians' but this study changes that view. An international team of scholars has reviewed the hoard's origins and manufacture, its use as elite tableware, its hacking and later reuse. A century of new discoveries and ideas allow fresh conclusions, especially about the hacking. With wide-ranging parallels from across Europe, the authors argue that hacking was a deliberate Roman policy to create bullion at times of economic crisis, turning valued vessels into weights of silver to be used in frontier politics, to pay off groups from beyond the empire, or hire them as mercenaries.Trade Review'Traprain Law is one of Scotland's iconic sites. it has not, however, always been treated as befits its status by archaeologists. This book redresses the balance. It is a sumptuous and thoroughly academic account of the Traprain treasure by the leading authorities in the field. ... ' Archaeology ScotlandTable of ContentsForeword by Dr Christopher Breward, National Museums Scotland Acknowledgements Introduction List of contributors THE LATE ROMAN SILVER TREASURE FROM TRAPRAIN LAW Part I: The treasure since its discovery Part II: The components of the hoard Tableware: eating vessels Tableware: drinking vessels Toilet vessels and implements Furniture and fittings Vessels: varia Personal objects and non-plate items Coins Part III: The silver as objects The silver as Hacksilber Roman Hacksilber beyond the frontier and its legacy Conclusions Appendices Part IV: Catalogue of the Traprain Law Treasure Introduction Platters, dishes and bowls Other eating and serving implements Drinking equipment Toilet and bathing equipment Toilet and bathing equipment Furniture and fittings Other Bibliography Index
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