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Oxford University Press Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Great Britain Harrow School
Book SynopsisThe core of the collection of Greek vases at Harrow School is the gift of Sir John. Gardner Wilkinson, a leading Egyptologist of the mid nineteenth century whose wide range of interests is well demonstrated by his skill in collecting Greek vases, as well as his still influential books on Egypt. The collection is by no means an ordinary one, since it contains more than its share of Athenian masterpieces as well as a full range of wares from other parts of Greece and Italy. It includes the name vase of the Harrow Painter, an outstanding amphora by the Kleophrades Painter, and many hitherto unpublished pieces of more than ordinary merit.
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Oxford University Press Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum
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British Academy Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Great Britain Fascicule 23 Reading Museum Service Reading Borough Council
Book SynopsisThis catalogue completes the publication of the ancient Greek and Etruscan vases in the collection of the Reading Museum Service. It documents and illustrates chronologically more than 150 vases from across the ancient Mediterranean from Minoan to early Hellenistic. An Introduction by Jill Greenaway documents the interesting collections history.Trade ReviewAmy Smith has produced succinct and well-researched entries, including soe nicely judged descriptions, for a volume which provides an interesting contribution to the series, a useful basis for the ongoing use of the collection as a research and teaching resource. * Elizabeth Moignard, The Classical Review *The descriptions are meticulous right down to including correlation of the colour of the clat to the chips in the Munsell colour charts. * Mary B. Moore, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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Oxford University Press Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Volume XII The Hunterian Museum University of Glasgow. Part II Roman and Provincial Coins CyprusEgypt
Book SynopsisThis catalogue completes the publication of the great eighteenth-century collection of William Hunter in Glasgow University, an important stage in the British SNG project. It illustrates the remaining 2581 Roman provincial coins produced in the East from Cyprus to Egypt, about half of which were produced at Alexandria. For over three hundred years the Roman Empire had no uniform standardized ''Euro''. In addition to the Roman Imperial coins, hundreds of provincial cities stamped symbols of their own cultural identity and civic pride on the coins they issued for local use. The coins published in this substantial volume offer a wealth of information about many aspects of local life in that period, including religion, architecture and administration.Part I (978-0-19-726282-5; 2004) published the coins issued in the West and Asia Minor.
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Oxford University Press Rulers Warriors Traders Clerics
Book SynopsisWhat do we learn if we look in parallel at the past of two distinct parts of the world? Anne Haour weighs this question by considering both the central Sahel of West Africa and the European countries around the North Sea, for the period 800-1500. This is a time for which historical records are scarce, and to which archaeology is making ever-increasing contributions. It is also, and foremost, a time when the central Sahel and northern Europe alike were undergoing far-reaching changes that were to define key aspects of their identity today. New monotheistic religions were replacing the animist faiths, states and empire becoming consolidated, new trading networks being set up, new towns emerging, fortifications being erected as symbols and in defence against raiders and invaders. Do these elements of convergence mean that we can unpick much wider themes of similarity between northern Europe and Sahelian West Africa? This volume''s central argument is that we can understand one area betterTrade Review[A] thoughtful and intriguing book ... highly original. * Journal of African History *...there is much in this volume to be inspired by. The boldness of the topic is exciting and thought-provoking, as id the idea of the collision of the local and the global. * Ceri Ashley, African Achaeological Review *In an easy-to-read writing style,[Haour] has employed an innovative and challenging approach that brings in a welcome fresh ideas to a current and future archaeological and historical research * Carlos Magnavita, Journal of African Archaeology *...interesting volume...a welcome exercise in trying to extend intellectual horizons through comparative studies * David Edwards The Society for Medieval Archaeology *
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Oxford University Press Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Volume V Ashmolean Museum Oxford. Part IX BosporusAeolis
Book SynopsisThis fully-illustrated catalogue publishes 1601 ancient Greek coins issued by cities stretching from the modern Crimea to the area of Aeolis on the west coast of modern Turkey. This is a most welcome addition to the SNG''s cataloguing of the Ashmolean Museum''s rich holdings, the first since Part IV appeared in 1981. It will be of interest to numismatists, coin collectors, and scholars and students of the archaeology and history of the Greek world.
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Oxford University Press A World Upturned
Book SynopsisThe Dialogue of Ipuwer and the Lord of All is one of the major works from the golden age of Egyptian literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1980-1630 BC). The poem provides one of the most searching explorations of human motivation and divine justice to survive from Ancient Egypt, and its stark pessimism questions many of the core ideologies that underpinned the Egyptian state and monarchy. It begins with a series of laments portraying an Egypt overwhelmed by chaos and destruction, and develops into an examination of why these disasters should happen, and who bears responsibility for them: the gods, the king, or humanity. This volume provides the first full literary analysis of this poem for a century. It provides a detailed study of questions such as: its date of composition; its historicity; the identity of its protagonists and setting; its reception history within Egyptian culture; and whether it really is a unified literary composition, or a redacted collection of texts of heterogenousTrade ReviewWith full new translation at the close, this volume brings the work firmly within reach of other ancient historical disciplines as well as studies in comparative literature ... Enmarch offers meticulous and methodical literary commentary * Stephen Quirke, Orientalia *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. Literary aspects of Ipuwer ; 2.1 Description of text ; 2.2 Survey of previous research ; 2.3 Textual unity ; 2.4 Dating ; 2.5 Reception ; 2.6 Speakers, section boundaries, and setting of the poem ; 2.7 Genre and intertext ; 2.8 Literary style ; 2.9 Style, structure, and meaning ; 2.10 Towards a reading of the poem ; 3. Commentary ; 3.1 Commentary on Lament I ; 3.2 Interpretation of Lament I ; 3.3 Commentary on Lament II ; 3,4 Interpretation of Lament II ; 3.5 Commentary on Lament III ; 3.6 Interpretation of Lament III ; 3.7 Commentary on Injunction I ; 3.8 Interpretation of Injunction I ; 3.9 Commentary on Injunction II ; 3.10 Interpretation of Injunction II ; 3.11 Commentary on Injunction III ; 3.12 Interpretation of Injunction III ; 3.13 Commentary on Reproach I ; .14 Interpretation of Reproach I ; 3.15 Commentary on the Meditation ; 3.16 Interpretation of the Meditation ; 3.17 Commentary on Reply I ; 3.18 Interpretation of Reply I ; 3.19 Commentary on Reproach II ; 3.20 Interpretation of Reproach II ; 3.21 Commentary on Reply II ; 3.22 Interpretation of Reply II ; 3.23 Excursus: the jottings of 17A.1-3 ; 4. Continuous transliteration and translation of Ipuwer
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Oxford University Press Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Great Britain Fascicule 24 Oxford Ashmolean Museum Fascicule 4
Book SynopsisThis illustrated catalogue publishes the important collection of Greek Geometric and Orientalizing pottery in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. More than 200 vases and fragments are described and illustrated in detailed photographs and profile drawings. There is abundant illustration of the geometric forms of ornament from which the period takes its name, including fine examples of meticulous brushwork. The figured pieces include many elements of standard Late Geometric repertoire - male and female mourners at a bier; files of warriors with shield, helmet, and spear; processing two-horse chariots with their drivers; horses, deer, hounds, a fox, and birds of different types. The introduction gives a history of the collection and discusses the changing attitudes to pottery from the ''Greek Dark Ages''.
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Oxford University Press Corpus of AngloSaxon Stone Sculpture Volume IX
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a full analytical catalogue of all known pre-Norman sculpture from this region. As little documentary evidence survives from the area, the sculpture is vital to understanding the early development of the Church, the shifting relationships between communities, and the ways in which political affiliations gave access to a variety of cultural centers across England, Ireland, mainland Europe and Scandinavia. Among the significant carvings are the crosses at Sandbach with their elaborate figural sculpture and the delicate carvings from Halton and Hornby in the Lune valley. Much of the work is of the 10th- and 11th-century Viking period, and shows an intriguing mixture of Scandinavian-derived motifs alongside Christian iconography.Introductory chapters set the material within its historical, topographical and art-historical context.Trade ReviewThis is an impeccably researched and produced volume which makes an important contribution to our understanding of the ecclesiastical and socio-economic history of the north-west. * Grenville Astill, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *a gold mine of information and analysis... Bailey's volume is an erudite, essential reference work, and successful because it inspires more questions and research directions about the material. * Meggen M. Gondek, English Historical Review *this volume offers a very welcome addition to the CASSS series and early medieval stone sculpture studies as a whole ... the volume will encourage greater scholarly debate about the region's sculpture. The quality of the descriptive information and accompanying photographs ensures the assemblage is wholly accessible for the first time and Bailey's meticulous biographical research will enable those of us who wish to set monuments within their landscape context, the opportunity to do so on a regional and national scale. * Joanne Kirton, Early Medieval Europe *
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Oxford University Press Norwegian Collections Part 1
Book SynopsisThis volume (the first of two) publishes all Anglo-Saxon and British coins in Norwegian museum collections from the Iron Age up to 1016 (the death of Æthelred II ''the Unready''). Together, the two volumes contain images and descriptions of over 4,000 coins, making this important material available for analysis by archaeologists, historians and numismatists of the Viking Age and Anglo-Saxon England for the first time.Finds of English coins constitute some of the most important Norwegian evidence for Viking activity, and for economic life in Norway before the first royal coinage was issued by King Harald Hardrada in the mid-eleventh century. Anglo-Saxon coins made their way to Norway in such numbers through Viking raiding activity, trade and payments of tribute; consequently these collections provide a broad perspective of late Anglo-Saxon coinage as well as an outstanding series of rarities. These include historically significant early Viking-Age finds, the B. F. Brekke collection of ATrade Reviewa specialist work of high scholarship which will provide excellent reference for numismatists. Bringing together all the Norwegian hoards and finds in a single volume is quite an achievement. * John Naylor, Society for Medieval Archaeology *to award your immense and skilled labour ... as well as your commitment in bringing knowledge on numismatic material from the Norwegian Viking Age to scholars and the public. * Comments from award committee of Dr. Philos. Hans Holst's Memorial Fund 2015 *It is an invaluable gift for the involved museums to have a fully illustrated and thoroughly worked-through catalogue of their collection ... the huge material made available ... will stimulate curiosity and research. * Jens Christian Moesgaard, Collegium Medievale *a high quality sylloge of great use to those studying both finds and hoards from Norway, and Anglo-Saxon coinage in general. * John Naylor, Medieval Archaeology *Table of ContentsTHE COLLECTIONS ; FINDS ; COLLECTORS, DONORS, AND DEALERS
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Oxford University Press Corpus of AngloSaxon Stone Sculpture XII Nottinghamshire
Book SynopsisCarved and decorated stone-work is a rare survival from the period before the Norman Conquest. In Nottinghamshire it survives as large crosses and as small fragments - to be found in churches, in public spaces and in museum collections. This is the first book to provide an authoritative listing, description and illustration of all examples of this type of decorated stone sculpture in Nottinghamshire. Each example is illustrated in a substantial catalogue containing high quality photographs, maps and interpretative drawings. In the introductory chapters the authors explore the geological and historical background of the sculptures and provide an overview of the types of style and ornament.The new information revealed by the systematic study of these major survivals of Anglo-Saxon art and archaeology demonstrates the major contribution that this category of material can make to an obscure and under-investigated period in Midlands history. Nottinghamshire emerges with a distinctive identiTrade Reviewthis volume maintains all that is excellent about previous CASSS volumes, while demonstrating that, despite a formulaic methodology, new approaches and, consequently, new insights can be generated within the current scope of this long- running project. * Joanne Kirton, Medieval Archaeology *Table of ContentsChristopher F. Higgins: Foreword 1: Earlier Research 2: Regional Geology 3: Historical Background to the Sculpture 4: Style and Ornament 5: Introduction to the Monument Groupings 6: Architectural Sculpture 7: Conclusions - Sculpture and History 8: Overlap and the Continuing Tradition Catalogue: Nottinghamshire
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Oxford University Press Corpus of AngloSaxon Stone Sculpture Volume XIII Derbyshire and Staffordshire
Book SynopsisThis volume in the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Sculpture surveys the counties of Derbyshire and Staffordshire and provides an analytical catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon stone sculptures of that region. Introductory chapters set the material within historical, topographical, archaeological and art-historical contexts, as well as its scholarly framework, and there are specialist contributions concerning the geology of the monuments and the sculpture from the (originally) royal ecclesiastical site at Repton in Derbyshire. There is a full photographic record of each monument, and many of the images were taken specially for the volume.The monuments include important collections of material from Derby (St Alkmund''s) and Repton, as well as individual sculptures of the highest quality such as the Lichfield Angel, cross-shafts from Bakewell and Bradbourne, the unique column standing at Wolverhampton and the sarcophagus cover from Wirksworth. Much of the material was carved at a time when Mercian art waTrade ReviewThis is a long - awaited and magnificent addition to the now almost - complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture ... this book is a tremendous achievement that does credit to the scholars involved, and the Corpus team as a whole. * Victoria Thompson Whitworth, Early Medieval Europe *Overall, this book is a tremendous achievement that does credit to the scholars involved, and the Corpus team as a whole. * Victoria Thompson Whitworth, Early Medieval Europe *All of the Corpus volumes are collaborative productions to some degree, butthat is very much in evidence here, with important contributions from Barbara Yorke on the Anglo-Saxon history of the region and a chapter by Martin Biddleon the Repton sculptures which covers the still-debated history of St Wystan'schurch. * John Hines, MEDIUM ÆVUM *There is much useful material here, not least the discussions of the Historical Background (Barbara Yorke), Anglian Period Sculpture (Hawkes) and Scandinavian Period Sculpture (Sidebottom). * Blaise Vyner *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; CATALOGUE; DERBYSHIRE; STAFFORDSHIRE
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The University of Chicago Press American Egyptologist
Book SynopsisJames Henry Breasted (1865-1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the archaeologist. This book weaves together the disparate strands of Breasted's life, from his small-town origins following the Civil War to his evolution into the father of American Egyptology and the founder of the Oriental Institute in the University of Chicago.
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The University of Chicago Press Fossils in the Making
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The University of Chicago Press Affinities and Extremes Crisscrossing the
Book SynopsisExamining representations of Balinese culture in complex contexts of Indonesia's colonial history, Hindu ritual practice as opposed to Islam, and comparative Indo-European hierarchies, Boon offers a powerful critique of doctrinal approaches to culture, religion, literature, politics, and the history of ideas and disciplines.
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The University of Chicago Press The Great Paleolithic War
Book SynopsisFollowing the discovery in Europe in the late 1850s that humanity had roots predating known history and reaching deep into the Pleistocene era, scientists wondered whether North American prehistory might be just as ancient. And why not? The geological strata seemed exactly analogous between America and Europe, which would lead one to believe that North American humanity ought to be as old as the European variety. This idea set off an eager race for evidence of the people who might have occupied North America during the Ice Age-a long, and, as it turned out, bitter and controversial search. In The Great Paleolithic War, David J. Meltzer tells the story of a scientific quest that set off one of the longest-running feuds in the history of American anthropology, one so vicious at times that anthropologists were deliberately frightened away from investigating potential sites. Through his book, we come to understand how and why this controversy developed and stubbornly persisted for as long as it did; and how, in the process, it revolutionized American archaeology.
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The University of Chicago Press Patina A Profane Archaeology Emersion Emergent
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The University of Chicago Press The Sangamo Frontier
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The University of Chicago Press The Early History of the Ancient Near East
Book SynopsisHans J. Nissen here provides a much-needed overview of 7000 years of development in the ancient Near East from the beginning of settled life to the formation of the first regional states. His approach to the study of Mesopotamian civilization differs markedly from conventional orientations, which impose a sharp division between prehistoric and historic, literate, periods. Nissen argues that this approach is too rigid to explain the actual development of that civilization. He deemphasizes the invention of writing as a turning point, viewing it as simply one more phase in the evolution of social complexity and as the result of specific social, economic, and political factors. With a unique combination of material culture analysis written data, Nissan traces the emergence of the earliest isolated settlements, the growth of a network of towns, the emergence of city states, and finally the appearance of territorial states. From his synthesis of the prehistoric and literate periods comes a u
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The University of Chicago Press History of the Persian Empire
Book SynopsisOut of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek point of view. "The fullest and most reliable presentation of the history of the Persian Empire in existence."--M. Rostovtzeff
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The University of Chicago Press Under Osmans Tree
Book SynopsisOsman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Osman's empire grew, it, too, covered the earth. This is the most widely accepted foundation myth of the longest-lasting empire in the history of Islam, and offers a telling clue to its unique legacy. Underlying every aspect of the Ottoman Empire's epic history--from its founding around 1300 to its end in the twentieth century--is its successful management of natural resources. Under Osman's Tree analyzes this rich environmental history to understand the most remarkable qualities of the Ottoman Empire--its longevity, politics, economy, and society. The early modern Middle East was the world's most crucial zone of connection and interaction. Accordingly, the Ottoman Empire's many varied environments affected and were affected by global trade, climate, and disease. From down in the mud of Egypt's canals to up in the treetops of Anatolia, AlaTrade Review"This is an outstanding book, carefully written and timely. Mikhail has brought the tools of environmental history to bear in this fresh telling of Egyptian, Ottoman, and Middle Eastern history. He focuses on the last five hundred years, after Egypt became the crown jewel of the Ottoman Empire, and masterfully embeds his history into the complex ecologies surrounding the Nile River, an enduring source of both life and cruel natural disasters. With thoughtful thematic categories driving his analysis, Mikhail makes an important contribution not just to Middle Eastern history, but to how a new generation of historians must view the relationship between people and the changing face of our planet, particularly during the new uncertainty of the Anthropocene Epoch."--Brett L. Walker, Montana State University "Focusing on early modern Egypt, Mikhail puts power and knowledge in the Ottoman Empire in conversation with environmental relations--the movement of water, the accumulation of silt, the distribution of food, the need for wood for ships, the spread of disease, the possession and use of animals as sentient commodities, climatic fluctuations, and fundamental changes in the organization of human and animal labor. The result is a reinterpretation of the Ottoman Empire as an ecosystem that expands the possibilities of environmental history."--Richard White, Stanford University "'The Ottoman Empire was an ecosystem.' Thus, historian Mikhail concludes his rich, part socioeconomic, part environmental history of early modern Ottoman Egypt. Filling a hole in the historiography with a breathtaking array of cases, themes, and illustrations, Mikhail offers an ideal pedagogical tool for all levels of university courses. He digs into his analytical tool box and reveals an Egypt deeply integrated into the larger world, both economically and ecologically. From accounts of droughts and bubonic plagues to the aftereffects of volcanic eruptions in Iceland, Mikhail's contribution opens a new prism through which to study human interactions with nature. Perhaps the most valuable contribution is the author's charting of the vibrant synthesis of life patterns between peasants, local landowners, and imperial governors and the ebbs and flows of the natural life upon which the Ottoman Empire's wealthiest province depended. Add to the mix the equally complex (sometimes deadly) relationship Egyptians necessarily had with beasts of burden, rats, and fleas, all sharing the fate of the temperamental seasonal flooding of the Nile, and this book makes for an outstanding addition to any library. Essential."--Choice "Certainly the best work ever on Ottoman environmental history. Brings the Middle East into the global picture in as comprehensive a way as can possibly be imagined."--Roger Owen, Harvard University "In presenting the early modern Ottoman regime as relatively benign--at least environmentally benign--Alan Mikhail is upsetting a commonly held view of Ottoman rule as singularly destructive and backward looking. . . . In fact, by using the examples of Egyptian food exports to different parts of the Empire--most notably to the Hijaz--and timber imports into Egypt from Anatolia, Professor Mikhail shows how provinces were interdependent and that the centre-periphery model is misleading. Watching the author demolish such preconceptions is one of the many pleasures of reading this book. In making a notable contribution to environmental history, from Nile water, to mud, to animals, crops, and finally to humans, Professor Mikhail also helps us to understand how the Ottoman Empire worked as a political system."--Metascience "Under Osman's Tree frames the Ottoman Empire as an ecosystem. By emphasizing the complex relationships between imperial power and nature, Mikhail introduces a dizzying range of human and nonhuman actors, demonstrating how animals, water, silt, microbes, trees, and volcanoes might recast more traditional readings of sultans, bureaucrats, and peasants. . . . Mikhail offers another trailblazing contribution to the burgeoning field of Middle Eastern environmental history. It is a welcome addition to advanced undergraduate and graduate syllabi, laying out an ambitious agenda for colleagues working on Middle Eastern and global environmental histories."--Environmental History "With this rich and accessible study of the relationship between human communities and their natural environment in Ottoman Egypt, Mikhail offers us an original interpretation of Ottoman history. Rarely does a new book make us rethink completely our assumptions about a subject matter we think we know well. Under Osman's Tree does precisely that, and as such it is a worthy successor to Fernand Braudel's magisterial classic, The Mediterranean."--Resat Kasaba, University of Washington
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The University of Chicago Press Cults Territory and the Origins of the Greek
Book SynopsisCombining archaeological and textual evidence, this book examines the eighth-century settlements that became the city-states of classical Greece (the polis). The author suggests that the Athenian model was probably the exception, not the rule, in the development of the polis.
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The University of Chicago Press Localism and the Ancient Greek CityState
Book SynopsisTrade Review"By incorporating some of the key turns in the field of ancient history over the last thirty years--spatial, temporal, global, and local, as well as the move towards network based explanations--Beck has produced an important history that reads quite differently from the narrative familiar to many. He emphasizes the local not merely as a category of analysis but as a source of conflicting, resistant, alternative modes of discourse that added immeasurably to the richness of archaic and classical culture."--Jeremy McInerney, author of Ancient Greece: A New History "In creating a compelling case for the importance of the local, Beck provides a much-needed corrective to a scholarly orthodoxy that has underestimated the importance of place. Throughout, Beck displays a dazzling virtuosity with regard to his command of the scholarship and his ability to mesh literary sources--many of them drawn from relatively obscure and fragmentary authors--with numismatics, visual imagery, pottery styles, landscape archaeology, and archaeological field survey. It will certainly add a fresh new voice to the ongoing debate about connectivity."--Jonathan Hall, author of Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient HistorianTable of ContentsMap List of Illustrations Preface Chapter One: Localism and the Local in Ancient Greece Chapter Two: Attachment to the Land Chapter Three: Senses and Sensation Chapter Four: The Gods in Place Chapter Five: Big Politics, through the Local Lens Chapter Six: Toward a Local History of Ancient Greece Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Localism and the Ancient Greek CityState
Book SynopsisTrade Review"By incorporating some of the key turns in the field of ancient history over the last thirty years--spatial, temporal, global, and local, as well as the move towards network based explanations--Beck has produced an important history that reads quite differently from the narrative familiar to many. He emphasizes the local not merely as a category of analysis but as a source of conflicting, resistant, alternative modes of discourse that added immeasurably to the richness of archaic and classical culture."--Jeremy McInerney, author of Ancient Greece: A New History "In creating a compelling case for the importance of the local, Beck provides a much-needed corrective to a scholarly orthodoxy that has underestimated the importance of place. Throughout, Beck displays a dazzling virtuosity with regard to his command of the scholarship and his ability to mesh literary sources--many of them drawn from relatively obscure and fragmentary authors--with numismatics, visual imagery, pottery styles, landscape archaeology, and archaeological field survey. It will certainly add a fresh new voice to the ongoing debate about connectivity."--Jonathan Hall, author of Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient HistorianTable of ContentsMap List of Illustrations Preface Chapter One: Localism and the Local in Ancient Greece Chapter Two: Attachment to the Land Chapter Three: Senses and Sensation Chapter Four: The Gods in Place Chapter Five: Big Politics, through the Local Lens Chapter Six: Toward a Local History of Ancient Greece Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Thinking Biblically Exegetical and Hermeneutical
Book SynopsisDiscusses six crucial passages from the Old Testament, offering a commentary and new insights into their meaning. Employing a historical-critical method, this text takes account of archaeological, philological and historical research.
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The University of Chicago Press Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological
Book SynopsisThe history has resurrected from northern Europe's bogs several men, women, and children who were deposited there as sacrifices in the early Iron Age and kept intact by the chemical properties of peat. Offering an account of their modern afterlives, this title argues that the discovery of bog bodies began an extraordinary cultural journey.Trade Review"What a wonderful, wonderful book this is. I absolutely loved Bodies in the Bog and everything about it, from the thoughtful approach and beautiful writing to the well-contextualized discussions of bog bodies in psychology, poetry, art, museum display, and facial reconstruction. A truly interdisciplinary study clearly based on years of passionate research, it offers a rich and nuanced explanation of what makes these bodies so fascinating, appealing, and troubling." - Stephanie Moser, University of Southampton"
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The University of Chicago Press Thinking with Ngangas
Book SynopsisA comparative investigation of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science that aims to challenge the rationality of Western expert practices. Inspired by the exercises of Father Lafitau, an eighteenth-century Jesuit priest and protoethnographer who compared the lives of the Iroquois to those of the ancient Greeks, Stephan Palmié embarks on a series of unusual comparative investigations of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science. What do organ transplants have to do with ngangas, a complex assemblage of mineral, animal, and vegetal materials, including human remains, that serve as the embodiment of the spirits of the dead? How do genomics and ancestry projects converge with divination and oracular systems? What does it mean that Black Cubans in the United States took advantage of Edisonian technology to project the disembodied voice of a mystical entity named ecué onto the streets of Philadelphia? Can we consider Afro-Cuban spirit possession as a form of historical knowledge production? By writing about Afro-Cuban ritual in relation to Western scientific practice, and vice versa, Palmié hopes to challenge the rationality of Western expert practices, revealing the logic that brings together enchantment and experiment.Trade Review“Thinking with Ngangas is a major intellectual contribution delivered with flair, humor, and unfailing erudition. Via his ‘method of reciprocal illumination,’ Palmié offers a series of lively and richly perturbing essays offering insights into problems as diverse as the rationality debate, transplant surgery, anthropology’s ontological turn, genomic identity realization, acoustic technology, and the future of anthropology itself.” * Janice Boddy, University of Toronto *“In this highly original and thought-provoking encounter between anthropology and philosophy, Palmié thinks with some of his most dramatic ‘finds’ from decades contemplating the ethnographic interface with Afro-Cuban religion. Playful and utterly earnest, this book will have you savoring historical ironies and rethinking anthropology’s foundational questions about cultural difference.” * Kristina Wirtz, Western Michigan University *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1 EP and the Problem of Other Worlds Chapter 2 Thinking with Ngangas about Transplant Surgery, Personhood, and the Limits of “Objectively Necessary Appearances” Chapter 3 Thinking with Ifá about Genomic Ancestry Profiles and “Racecraft” Chapter 4 Thinking with Abakuá about Early Analog Acoustic Technology and the “Dialectics of Ensoniment” Chapter 5 Thinking with the Cajón pa’ los Muertos about Historicist Knowledge and Its Conditions of Impossibility Chapter 6 Thinking with Otanes about Mid-Twentieth-Century American Anthropology Epilogue Thinking with Tomás about My Own Work Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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University of Illinois Press The Paleolithic of Siberia
Book SynopsisSummarizes the archaeological data on the Paleolithic occupation of Siberia. This book traces the routes of human migration throughout Eurasia, shows Siberian lithic industries as they evolved from the Early through the Middle and Late Paleolithic, and correlates them with reports from Mongolia, China, Japan, and America.Trade Review"A major, singular contribution. . . . Several more geographically or temporally restricted texts exist, but none I've seen can match the breadth or depth of this massive work." -- John W. Olsen, coeditor of Paleoanthropology and Paleolithic Archaeology in the People's Republic of China"A much needed work marked by uniformly high scholarship and clear writing, this will be a standard reference of value for years to come." --J. M. Adovasio, Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute and Archaeology Research Program, Mercyhurst College
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University of Illinois Press Ancient Records of Egypt
Book SynopsisFocuses on the end of the self-governed era of ancient Egyptian civilization. This title contains the inscriptions from the Medinet Habu Temple, one of the most completely preserved temples of Egypt, and the great Papyrus Harris, the largest (133 feet long) and most sumptuous papyrus extant.Trade Review"In 1906, Breasted, America's first noted Egyptologist, published this series in which he presents a history of the golden age of Egypt gleaned from its records, many of which he was the first scholar to be allowed to study. This edition, the first in paperback, offers a new introduction by historian Peter A. Piccione, who places Breasted's work in a modern context. A solid series for academic libraries and priced so that public libraries also can afford them." -- "Classic Returns," Library Journal "The republication of this seminal work after nearly a century, by the University of Illinois, is as welcome as it is unexpected." -- Josef Wegner, OdysseyTable of Contentsv. 1. The first through the seventeenth dynasties -- v. 2. The eighteenth dynasty -- v. 3. The nineteenth dynasty -- v. 4. The twentieth to the twenty-sixth dynasties -- v. 5. Supplementary bibliographies and indices.
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Indiana University Press Contested Antiquity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is fitting that archaeologists, whose profession played a key role in the establishment of Greece as a client state subservient to the European colonial powers, should today be a vocal majority in this extraordinarily rich critical review of archaeology's political role in Greece and Cyprus over the past two centuries. Contested Antiquity transcends the geographical boundaries of its subject, offering a comprehensive, thoroughly documented, and meticulously argued account that will serve for years to come as a model for the investigation of the impact of ideology and politics on serious scholarship."—Michael Herzfeld, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Contested Antiquity in Greece and CyprusPart I: Between nationalism, colonialism and crypto-colonialism: Historical perspectives and current implications1. Hellas Mon Amour: Revisiting Greece's National "Sites of Trauma"2. Archaeology and Politics in the Inter-War Period: The Swedish Excavations at Asine3. Contested Perceptions of Archaeological Sites in Cyprus: Communities and their Claims on their Past4. Pressed On in Press: Greek Cultural Heritage in the Public Eye: The Post-War YearsPart II: Spatial metaphors and ethnographic observations: heritage, memory and dissonance5. The Gentrification of Memory: The Past as a Social Event in Thessaloniki of the Early Twenty-first Century6. The Oracle of Dodona: Contestation over a "Sacred" Archaeological Landscape7. Archaeological "Protection Zones" and the Limits of the Possible: Archaeological Law, Abandonment and Contested Spaces in GreecePart III: Competing pasts8. Heritage as Obstacle: Or Which View to the Acropolis?9. Eptapyrgio, a Modern Prison inside a World Heritage Monument: Raw Memories in the Margins of Archaeology10. Contemporary Art and "Difficult Heritage": Three Case Studies from AthensEndnoteIndex
£73.95
University of Notre Dame Press Indigenous Life around the Great Lakes
Book SynopsisEnormous changes affected the inhabitants of the Eastern Woodlands area during the eleventh through fifteenth centuries AD. At this time many groups across this area (known collectively to archaeologists as Oneota) were aggregating and adopting new forms of material culture and food technology. This same period also witnessed an increase in intergroup violence, as well as a rise in climatic volatility with the onset of the Little Ice Age. In Indigenous Life around the Great Lakes, Richard W. Edwards explores how the inhabitants of the western Great Lakes region responded to the challenges of climate change, social change, and the increasingly violent physical landscape. As a case study, Edwards focuses on a group living in the Koshkonong Locality in what is now southeastern Wisconsin. Edwards contextualizes Koshkonong within the larger Oneota framework and in relation to the other groups living in the western Great Lakes and surrounding regions. Making use of a canine surrogaTrade Review“Using a suite of analytical approaches, Richard Edwards’s Indigenous Life around the Great Lakes tackles many of the notions that have grown around the perceived cultural differences in cultural distinction distributed up and down the Mississippi river basin. He has drawn on an impressive array of data and research to support his arguments.” —James A. Brown, co-author of Cahokia"For the general archaeological community Edwards's demonstration that agriculture was organized among the Oneota without accompanying social complexity and hierarchy should serve as a wakeup call for all to carefully examine long-held assumptions. This is a valuable study for its methods, its comparative analysis, and its conclusions about agriculture and cultural complexity." —Choice"While Edwards’s focus looks back to a long tradition of midwestern environmental studies, his scientific rigor and comprehensive investigations mark the way forward for such research. Edwards’s Indigenous Lives sets the bar high for the new Midwest Archaeological Perspectives series." —Michigan Historical Review"Edwards's work, specifically relating to Koshkonong reliance on agriculture along with constrained mobility, is groundbreaking, and it represents an important shift from generalized Oneota paradigms with assumptions of broad diet breadth and increased logistical mobility." —American Antiquity
£31.50
Pennsylvania State University Press Christians in Caesars Household The Emperors
Book SynopsisExamines the role of the Roman emperors' slaves in the rise of Christianity, and how imperial slaves were essential to early Christians' self-conception as a distinct people in the Mediterranean.Trade Review“Flexsenhar reassesses the evidence of Philippians; he de-romanticises comparative materials from the catacombs. The result is a short, readable, and persuasive masterpiece of deconstruction.”—Cally Hammond Church Times“The book will be helpful to anyone interested in ancient slavery and the myths associated with the rise of Christianity.”—Ronald Charles Reading Religion“With an incisive, cogent, and creative application of memory studies to early Christian literature, Michael Flexsenhar III’s Christians in Caesar’s Household presents us with a critical picture of how and why early Christian authors felt it so strategically important to memorialize Christian imperial slaves. Flexsenhar’s work demonstrates aptly that early Christianity fashioned itself imperially, using slavery to shape its identity in ways that will be, without a doubt, everlasting.”—Chris L. de Wet,author of The Unbound God: Slavery and the Formation of Early Christian Thought“Debunking a popular view that Christians in the days of Paul had already infiltrated the inner circles of imperial power, Flexsenhar argues instead that stories about the household of Caesar helped Christians map their identity through late antiquity. This book deftly demonstrates the importance of material culture for the interpretation of literary sources.”—Jennifer Glancy,author of Slavery in Early Christianity“Christians in Caesar’s Household weaves a truly reformative story about Christian imperial freedpersons and thus about imperial acceptance of Christianity in the fourth century. Flexsenhar turns a critical lens on the usual triumphalist narrative, using both texts and archaeology to fundamentally shift our historical understanding to account for the brutality and messiness of slavery’s legacy in the Christian ascendancy.”—Katherine A. Shaner,author of Enslaved Leadership in Early Christianity “[A summary of this book] cannot do justice to the scope of the evidence and the richness and depth of the analysis brought to bear by Flexsenhar on this fascinating tradition. Scholars of early Christianity will henceforth need to revisit the construct of the Roman imperial court as infiltrated by Christian slaves and freedmen with closer attention to the apologetic intent of the literary sources, the ambiguity of the epigraphy, and the realities of Roman slavery.”—Mary Ann Beavis Catholic Biblical Quarterly“With its thoughtful critical readings of literary and material sources and its fresh analysis of the lived experiences of imperial slaves and freedpersons, Christians in Caesar’s Household is indispensable reading for scholars of early Christianity, the origins of religion, and the Roman Empire.”—Catherine Hezser Society of Biblical Literature“A valuable and compelling exploration of how a shard of fact was turned into a memory and elaborated into a legendary motif.”—Kyle Harper Church History“Flexsenhar’s monograph has provided a wealth of information about the history of imperial slavery as well as about how early Christians employed social memory to invent themselves.”—Isaac Blois Review of Biblical LiteratureTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1 Paul, the Philippians, and Caesar’s Household (Phil 4:22)2 Paul, Peter, and Nero’s Slaves: Martyrdoms and Apostolic Acts3 Rome’s Imperial Household in Christian Polemic and Apologetic 4 Christian Piety and a Martyred Slave of Caesar5 Material Evidence for a Christian Imperial Freedman6 Christians and Imperial Personnel in Rome’s CatacombsConclusion: The Memory of Imperial Slavery in Early ChristianityAppendixesNotesBibliographyIndex
£26.06
University of Texas Press Archaeology Volcanism and Remote Sensing in the Arenal Region Costa Rica
Book SynopsisIn this volume, experts from several disciplines explore the adaptation process of prehistoric societies in the Arenal region of Costa Rica, an area that has experienced numerous volcanic eruptions during the last several millennia.Table of Contents Chapter 1. The Proyecto Prehistórico Arenal: An Introduction (Payson D. Sheets) Chapter 2. The Eruption of 1968 and Tephra Stratigraphy of Arenal Volcano (William G. Melson) Chapter 3. Archaeological Survey in the Arenal Basin (Marilynn Mueller) Chapter 4. Tronadora Vieja: An Archaic and Early Formative Site in the Arenal Region (John E. Bradley) Chapter 5. Excavations at Sitio Bolívar: A Late Formative Village in the Arenal Basin (John W. Hoopes and Mark L. Chenault) Chapter 6. The Silencio Site: An Early to Middle Polychrome Period Cemetery in the Arenal Region (John E. Bradley) Chapter 7. Proyecto Prehistórico Arenal Excavations in the Santa Rosa River Valley (John W. Hoopes and Mark L. Chenault) Chapter 8. Remote Sensing in the Arenal Region (Brian R. McKee and Thomas L. Sever) Chapter 9. Prehistoric Footpaths in Costa Rica: Remote Sensing and Field Verification (Brian R. McKee, Thomas L. Sever, and Payson D. Sheets) Chapter 10. Ceramic Analysis and Culture History in the Arenal Region (John W. Hoopes) Chapter 11. Chipped Stone Artifacts from the Cordillera de Tilarán (Payson D. Sheets) Chapter 12. Precolumbian Ground, Polished, and Incised Stone Artifacts from the Cordillera de Tilarán (Mark L. Chenault) Chapter 13. Prehistoric Jewelry from the Arenal Basin (Marilynn Mueller and Mark L. Chenault) Chapter 14. Phytolith Records from the Proyecto Prehistórico Arenal (Dolores R. Piperno) Chapter 15. Pollen Evidence for Prehistoric Environment and Subsistence Activities (Karen H. Clary) Chapter 16. Macrobotanical Remains of the Proyecto Prehistórico Arenal (Nancy Mahaney, Meredith H. Matthews, and Aida Blanco Vargas) Chapter 17. Summary and Conclusions (Payson D. Sheets) References Cited Notes on Contributors Index
£33.30
University of Texas Press The Chora of Croton 1
Book SynopsisThe third volume of archaeological investigations in southern Italy by the Institute of Classical Archaeology that will present a wealth of new information about the region’s ancient rural economy and culture.Table of Contents Contents Acknowledgments (Joseph Coleman Carter) Foreword (Joseph Coleman Carter) Introduction (John Robb and Domenico Marino) I. The Neolithic Settlement at Capo Alfiere 1. The Site of Capo Alfiere 2. Cultural Setting 3. Environmental Setting 4. History of Research at Capo Alfiere 5. Stratigraphy Interpreted 6. Architectural and Structural Features 7. The Ceramic Assemblage 8. Stone Tools 9. Miscellaneous Objects 10. Organic Remains 11. Local Comparative Material 12. Conclusions II. Environment and Economy 13. Geomorphology (Robert Folk) 14. Faunal Analysis: Bones from Animals of Economic Importance (Erika Gál) 15. Faunal Analysis: Bones from Small Mammals (Zsófia Eszter Kovács) 16. Archaeobotany (Lorenzo Costantini and Loredana Costantini Biasini) III. Object Studies 17. Bone Artifacts (Erika Gál) 18. Thin-Sections (Jon Morter and Harry Iceland), (Reprint: “Notes on an Eastern Calabrian Assemblage in the Stentinello Tradition”) 19. Tokens (Jon Morter), Reprint: “Four pieces of clay: ‘tokens’ from Capo Alfiere, Calabria”) Catalog of Ceramic, Lithic, and Other Finds References
£55.80
University of Texas Press Climate and Culture Change in North America AD
Book SynopsisCorrelating climate change and archaeological data, an award-winning historian offers the first comprehensive overview of how the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age significantly impacted the Native cultures of the American Southwest, Southern PlTrade Review"Climate and Culture Change in North America AD 900-1600 is an ambitious synthesis of archaeological and historical evidence concerning the effects of climate on human societies...The book is suitable for a range of audiences and I think it could make a good text for a course on climate and culture change or one on North American archaeology...The book deserves to be read as a beginning point for a long, thoughtful discussion about climate and culture change in North America and is a welcome addition to the literature on the subject." -- Staff The Midcontinental Journal of ArchaeologyTable of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1. The Tenth Century Chapter 2. The Eleventh Century Chapter 3. The Twelfth Century Chapter 4. The Thirteenth Century Chapter 5. The Fourteenth Century Chapter 6. The Fifteenth Century Chapter 7. The Sixteenth Century Summary and Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£17.99
University of Texas Press Picture Cave
Book SynopsisThis extensively illustrated volume provides the first complete visual documentation and a pioneering iconographic analysis of Picture Cave, an eastern Missouri cavern filled with Native American pictographs that is one of the most important prehistoric sTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsForeword (Patty Jo Watson)Preface (Carol Diaz-Granados)AcknowledgmentsLandowners' Introductory MessagePart 1. OverviewChapter 1. Introduction to Picture Cave and the Picture Cave Interdisciplinary Project (Carol Diaz-Granados)Chapter 2. "Tracings in the Idleness of Art": Picture Cave in the Context of Southeast Prehistoric Cave Art (Jan F. Simek and Alan Cressler)Chapter 3. The Geology and Ecology of Picture Cave (Philip W. Newell)Part 2. Technical Work at Picture CaveChapter 4. Geochemical Analyses of Prehistoric Pigment Materials from Picture Cave (Sarah A. Blankenship)Chapter 5. AMS Radiocarbon Dates for Charcoal from Three Pictographs and Their Associated Iconography (Carol Diaz-Granados, Marvin W. Rowe, Marian Hyman, James R. Duncan, and John R. Southon)Chapter 6. Documenting Spatial Order in the Pictograph Panels of Picture Cave (Jan F. Simek, Nicholas P. Herrmann, Alan Cressler, and Sarah A. Blankenship)Chapter 7. The Origins of Picture Cave: An Essay on the Artists/Priests Who Made the Drawings, as Interpreted from the Salvaged Cultural Materials (James R. Duncan)Part 3. InterpretationsChapter 8. Tradition and Horizons in Southeastern Representation: Lessons from Picture Cave (James A. Brown and Jon Muller)Chapter 9. The Black Warrior Pictograph: Dating and Interpretation (James R. Duncan, Marvin W. Rowe, Carol Diaz-Granados, Karen L. Steelman, and Tom Guilderson)Chapter 10. The Cave and the Beneath World Spirit: Mythic Dragons from the North American Past (F. Kent Reilly III)Chapter 11. The Cave, Cahokia, and the Omaha Tribe (Richard F. Townsend)Chapter 12. Mortal Combat, Sacred Narratives, and Symbolic Weaponry: Mississippian Culture Heroes in Picture Cave (David H. Dye)Chapter 13. The Spider in the Cave (Kathryn Red Corn)Chapter 14. Transmogrification, Healing, and Resurrection: Extraordinary Themes in Picture Cave (Carol Diaz-Granados and James R. Duncan )Chapter 15. Color Symbolism and Preliminary Assessment of Styles at Picture Cave (Carol Diaz-Granados)Chapter 16. Visions in Picture Cave (George E. Lankford)Chapter 17. Identifying the Characters on the Walls of Picture Cave (James R. Duncan)Part 4. Artistry and ReactionChapter 18. The First Man Was an Artist: Meditations on a Prehistoric Mississippian Cave (Pala Townsend)Chapter 19. Layered Pictures, Layered Stories, Layered Lives (Anita Fields)Part 5. Osage Interviews and CommentaryChapter 20. Interviews in Picture Cave and Osage Commentary (William Samuel Fletcher, Osage Elder (Hominy, Oklahoma), Alma Jean Maker, Osage Elder (Pawhuska, Oklahoma), Charles Red Corn, Osage Elder (Norman, Oklahoma))Chapter 21. The Future of Picture Cave (Carol Diaz-Granados, James R. Duncan, F. Kent Reilly III, and Jan Simek)Appendix: Illustrated Catalogue of Picture Cave ArtAlan Cressler and Jan F. SimekReferencesList of ContributorsIndex
£56.10
University of Texas Press Maya Figurines
Book SynopsisThe first systematic analysis of ceramic figurines from multiple regions of the Southern Maya Lowlands, this book explores the construction of the Late Classic period Maya state by considering how figurines found in household refuse deposits mirror the reTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. State and Household: Articulating RelationsChapter 2. Materiality and MimesisChapter 3. State Pomp and Ceremony Writ SmallChapter 4. From Oral Narrative to Festival and Back: Tricksters, Spirit Companions, Ritual Clowns, and DeitiesChapter 5. Figurine Political EconomiesChapter 6. Figurative PerformancesChapter 7. Comments on Maya State and HouseholdAppendicesNotesReferencesIndex
£40.50
University of Washington Press Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Artifacts, Ecofacts, and Textual Facts: How Archaeology Today Can Illuminate the World of the Bible The Israelite Settlement in Canaan: New Archaeological Models Monumental Art and Architecture in Ancient Israel in the Period of the United Monarchy Archaeology Reconstructs the Lost Background of the Israelite Cult Conclusion Notes Index
£29.66
Yale University Press The Last of the Celts
Book SynopsisTravelling throughout the remote Celtic world, the author describes the pressure on Celtic communities to assimilate. He also warns that a distinct Celtic identity may not survive.Trade Review"a sensitive and up-to-date history of the language and culture of the Celtic nations... should be required reading in all schools of English history." Byron Rogers, Spectator "... always stimulating.... written in a tight and elegant style" Murrough O'Brien, Independent on Sunday "fascinating" The Scotsman "Tanner has concluded we must resign ourselves to the fact that Celticism is done, over, finis. He proves it in a very good and special book that every prodigal and true Celt should read and try to prove wrong." Malachy McCourt, Washington Post Book World "Lively... A thoughtful book." Publishers Weekly "An exceptional journey into the remarkable cultural history of the Celtic people... Tanner's experience reads like a travelogue and an insightful history with an emphasis on cultural heritage." Raymond L. Flynn, Boston Sunday Herald "An angry, elegiac and meticulously researched book." Christian Century"
£22.50
Yale University Press Archaeology of the Land of the Bible Volume I
Book SynopsisOffers a look at how archaeological research contributes to our understanding of the connections between history and the stories recounted in the Bible. This book includes photographs and illustrations of rare ancient relics ranging from household pottery to beautifully crafted jewelry and sculpture.
£40.38
Yale University Press The Archaeology of Jerusalem
Book SynopsisA sweeping and lavishly illustrated survey of nearly four thousand years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem, from prehistoric times through the Ottoman period In this sweeping and lavishly illustrated history, Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn survey nearly four thousand years of human life and material culture in Jerusalem.They have organized their book chronologically, exploringfortifications and water systems as well as key sacred, civic, and domestic architecture. Distinctive finds such as paintings, mosaics, pottery, and coins highlight each period. They providea unique perspective on the emergence and development of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and the relationship among the three religions and their cultures into the modern period.
£30.88
WW Norton & Co The Mute Stones Speak The Story of Archaeology in
Book SynopsisMacKendrick writes so enthusiastically that all laymen who have a serious interest in scholarship and antiquity will delight in following his story. --New York Times Book ReviewTrade Review"An intelligible, well-told tale that recounts . . . what excavators and scholars using the full repertory of modern skills and techniques have in recent years discovered about the remains of an ancient civilization in Italy and what the discoveries mean." -- C. H. Kraeling
£23.75
John Wiley & Sons Inc Paleoecology
Book SynopsisRevised and updated, it reflects the recent developments and changing emphasis in the field of paleoecology. While the basic organization remains the same as the original edition, there are several major changes, including an extensive reorganization and shortening of Chapter 2, focusing now on environmental parameters rather than individual taxonomic groups; greater use of tables with references to pertinent literature; inclusion of a new chapter on taphonomy; elimination of the chapter on skeletons as sedimentary particles; removal of many of the recurring examples from the Neogene of the Kettlemen Hills; and inclusion of new references on all topics. Older references have been kept and will serve to blend the historical and important milestones in the development of paleoecology with the most current research.Table of ContentsTaxonomic Uniformitarianism. Biogeochemistry. Skeletal Structure. Adaptive Functional Morphology. Ichnology. Taphonomy. Populations in Paleoecology. Ecosystems and Communities in Paleoecology. Paleobiogeography: The Provincial Level. Temporal Patterns. References. Index.
£402.26
LUP - University of Michigan Press Ceremony and Power
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between political power and public ceremonial in the Roman Republic, with particular focus on the critical months following Caesar's assassination and later as Augustus became the first emperor of Rome. The book traces the use of a variety of public ceremonies as a means for politicians in this to shape their public images and consolidate their power and prestige.Trade ReviewGeoffrey Sumi has written a book that should be on every Roman historian's shelves.""—Allen M. Ward, New England Classical Journal""This is a well-written, informative and useful book . . . an excellent example and an important one, with which those who teach this period in schools should become familiar.""—John Murrell, The Journal of Classics Teaching
£35.10
The University of Michigan Press Pompeis Difficile Est
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£73.10
The University of Michigan Press Cosa V
Book SynopsisSince excavation began in 1948, the site of Cosa has become one of our most important sources of information on Roman colonization, urbanism, and daily life. The excavations published here throw light on every phase of the site's history, from the early imperial period to the fourteenth century.
£84.95
The University of Michigan Press Cosa
Book SynopsisDetails the author's findings of Italian Sigillata pottery at the Cosa excavation site, a useful source of information on Roman colonization, urbanism, and daily life since 1948. This book is of interest to the archaeological and classical studies community.
£89.73
