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Cambridge University Press headhuntingandthebodyinironageeurope
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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt Beyond Pharaohs
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Cambridge University Press Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory
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Cambridge University Press The Fall of the Roman Household
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Cambridge University Press Roman Imperialism and Local Identities
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Cambridge University Press Lithic Technology
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Cambridge University Press Farming in the First Millennium Ad British Agriculture Between Julius Caesar And William The Conqueror
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Central China
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Cambridge University Press Tokens and Social Life in Roman Imperial Italy
Book SynopsisThis is a unique and accessible introduction to an underutilised source, Roman tokens, with a focus on those found in Imperial Italy. It explains how tokens can illuminate all kinds of issues such as identity, entertainment, euergetism, imperial ideology, festivals, material culture and everyday life.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Tokens and the Imperial family; 3. Creating identities in Rome, Ostia and Italy; 4. Cult, euergetism and the imagery of festivals; 5. Tokens, finds, and small-scale economies; 6. Conclusion: Tokens and the history of Roman Imperial Italy.
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Cambridge University Press Salt
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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of Egyptian NonRoyal Burial
Book SynopsisThis Element provides a new evaluation of burial customs in New Kingdom Egypt, from about 1550 to 1077 BC, with an emphasis on burials of the wider population. It also covers the regions then under Egyptian control: the Southern Levant and the area of Nubia as far as the Fourth Cataract. The inclusion of foreign countries provides insights not only into the interaction between the centre of the empire and its conquered regions, but also concerning what is typically Egyptian and to what extent the conquered regions were culturally influenced. It can be shown that burials in Lower Nubia closely follow those in Egypt. In the southern Levant, by contrast, cemeteries of the period often yield numerous Egyptian objects, but burial customs in general do not follow those in Egypt.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Burial traditions in Ancient Egypt; 3. Space: tombs and graves; 4. Burial goods: daily life versus objects of funerary industry; 5. Summaries; 6. Concluding remarks; Abbreviations; Appendix: Examples of burials and cemeteries; Glossary; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Megasites in Prehistoric Europe
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Cambridge University Press The Methods and Ethics of Researching Unprovenienced Artifacts from East Asia
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Cambridge University Press Latin Military Papyri of DuraEuropos P.Dura 55145
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Cambridge University Press Image and Ornament in the Early Medieval West
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Cambridge University Press The Emergence of Aegean Prehistory
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Cambridge University Press The Materiality of Numbers
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Cambridge University Press Perspectivism in Archaeology
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Cambridge University Press Religious Architecture and Roman Expansion
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Cambridge University Press Economy and Commodity Production in the Aegean Bronze Age
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Cambridge University Press BetweenYahwismand Judaism
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Cambridge University Press Mobile Landscapes and Their Enduring Places
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Cambridge University Press The Methods and Ethics of Researching Unprovenienced Artifacts from East Asia
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Cambridge University Press Anthropological Archaeology Underwater
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Cambridge University Press Edom in Judah
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Cambridge University Press Worked Bone Antler Ivory and Keratinous Materials
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Cambridge University Press Economies of the Inca World
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Cambridge University Press Traces of the Distant Human Past
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Cambridge University Press The Roman Republic to 49 BCE
Book SynopsisThe narrative of Roman history has been largely shaped by the surviving literary sources, augmented in places by material culture. The numerous surviving coins can, however, provide new information on the distant past. This accessible but authoritative guide introduces the student of ancient history to the various ways in which they can help us understand the history of the Roman republic, with fresh insights on early Roman-Italian relations, Roman imperialism, urban politics, constitutional history, the rise of powerful generals and much more. The text is accompanied by over 200 illustrations of coins, with detailed captions, as well as maps and diagrams so that it also functions as a sourcebook of the key coins every student of the period should know. Throughout, it demystifies the more technical aspects of the field of numismatics and ends with a how-to guide for further research for non-specialists.Table of Contents1. Money; 2. Monuments; 3. Mutinies?; 4. Mobilization; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean
Book SynopsisThe ancient Mediterranean basin was a multicultural region with a great diversity of linguistic, religious, social and ethnic groups. This study provides a new understanding of it by examining identity construction in multiethnic commercial settlements located throughout the region and explores literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence to investigate cross-cultural interactions.Trade Review'The strength of the book lies in its successful integration of archaeological, literary, and epigraphic evidence, together with an impressive command of the bibliography relevant to each of the sites … this is a very useful book that has the virtue of presenting clear and concise syntheses of five emporia throughout the Mediterranean and of identifying evident patterns between them, thereby advancing further our understanding of the nature of Greek settlements overseas.' sehepunkte.de'… this book will be a welcome addition for researchers interested in the Ancient Mediterranean and, in particular, in the role of trade and religion in the organization of multicultural spaces.' Meritxell Ferrer-Martín, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Emporion; 2. Gravisca; 3. Naukratis; 4. Pistiros; 5. Peiraieus; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Campus Martius
Book SynopsisThe Campus Martius began as a military training ground but later became filled with some of the most extraordinary republican and imperial structures conceived by Roman patrons and architects. This book explores the factors that contributed to the transformation of the site from an occasionally visited space to a crowded center of daily activity.Trade Review'Campus Martius by Paul W. Jacobs, II and Diane Atnally Conlin expertly reveals how the ancients transformed this expansive plain outside Rome into an architectural showcase. Strabo said the region 'affords a spectacle that one can hardly draw away from'; the same could be said of this well-written, engaging book.' Diane Favro, University of California, Los Angeles'Jacobs and Conlin have produced a meticulously researched and richly detailed account of the Campus Martius' topographical history and development from the regal period through its decline and transformation in the medieval and early modern eras. Their book is the first definitive assessment in English of this vibrant component of ancient Rome's monumental landscape.' Eric R. Varner, Emory University, Atlanta'This useful contribution to the study of ancient Roman topography provides a highly readable assessment of one of the city's most important regions, tracing its dramatic evolution from the regal period to the late empire.' Penelope Davies, University of Texas, AustinTable of Contents1. 'The size of the plain is remarkable': defining the limits of the Campus Martius in time and space; 2. Gathering troops in the war god's field; 3. 'Very costly temples': the Campus Martius and republican temple construction; 4. 'Chariot races', 'three theatres', 'an amphitheatre' and more: entertainment in the Campus Martius; 5. 'Colonnades about it in very great numbers': the porticoes of the Campus Martius; 6. Between the Aqua Virgo and the Tiber: water and the Field of Mars; 7. 'A zeal for buildings': reshaping of the space by the emperors; 8. Conclusion: 'the rest of the city a mere accessory'; Appendix A: chronology of development in the Campus Martius to the early fourth century CE; Appendix B: glossary of architectural terms.
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Cambridge University Press The Hellenistic West
Book SynopsisAlthough the Hellenistic period has become increasingly popular in research and teaching in recent years, the western Mediterranean is rarely considered part of the ''Hellenistic world''; instead the cities, peoples and kingdoms of the West are usually only discussed insofar as they relate to Rome. This book contends that the rift between the ''Greek East'' and the ''Roman West'' is more a product of the traditional separation of Roman and Greek history than a reflection of the Hellenistic-period Mediterranean, which was a strongly interconnected cultural and economic zone, with the rising Roman republic just one among many powers in the region, east and west. The contributors argue for a dynamic reading of the economy, politics and history of the central and western Mediterranean beyond Rome, and in doing so problematise the concepts of ''East'', ''West'' and ''Hellenistic'' itself.Trade Review'… this valuable volume can be studied by scholar and student alike for its examination of the Hellenistic and Hellenism. With its different methodological approaches, places, and periods examined, [it] could provide a rich and far-reaching foundation for examining and re-examining our notions of the Hellenistic West, perhaps in a graduate course. That would be a course I would want to take.' Barbara Tsakirgis, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Jonathan R. W. Prag and Josephine Crawley Quinn; 1. The view from the East Andrew Erskine; 2. Hellenistic Pompeii: between Oscan, Greek, Roman, and Punic Andrew Wallace-Hadrill; 3. The 'Hellenistics of death' in Adriatic central Italy Ed Bispham; 4. Hellenistic Sicily, c.270–100 BC Roger Wilson; 5. Trading across the Syrtes: Euesperides and the Punic world Andrew Wilson; 6. Strangers in the city: élite communication in the Hellenistic central Mediterranean Elizabeth Fentress; 7. Monumental power: 'Numidian royal architecture' in context Josephine Crawley Quinn; 8. Representing Hellenistic Numidia, in Africa and at Rome Ann Kuttner; 9. Hellenism as subaltern practice: rural cults in the Punic world Peter van Dommelen and Mireia López-Bertran; 10. Were the Iberians Hellenized? Simon Keay; 11. Epigraphy in the western Mediterranean: a Hellenistic phenomenon? Jonathan R. W. Prag; 12. Heracles, coinage, and the West: three Hellenistic case-studies Liv Yarrow; 13. On the significance of East and West in today's 'Hellenistic' history Nicholas Purcell.
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Cambridge University Press Middle Egyptian Literature Eight Literary Works of the Middle Kingdom
Book SynopsisThis companion volume to the third edition of the author's popular Middle Egyptian contains eight literary works from the Middle Kingdom, the golden age of Middle Egyptian literature. Included are the compositions widely regarded as the pinnacle of Egyptian literary arts, by the Egyptians themselves and by modern readers.Trade Review'A rich resource for students to enhance their reading of eight classics of Middle Egyptian literature in the original language. It will surely become a standard in Middle Egyptian courses.' Mark Collier, University of Liverpool'A marvellously authoritative and accessible new resource for anyone wanting to read these classics of world literature in the original language.' R. B. Parkinson, University of Oxford'This book gives the reader access to one of the true surviving treasures of ancient Egypt: Middle Kingdom literary texts, presented in their original wording. An essential companion for students and lovers of ancient literature.' Andréas Stauder, École Pratique des Hautes Études, ParisTable of ContentsIntroduction; Text 1. The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor; Text 2. The Story of Sinuhe; Text 3. The Loyalist Instruction; Text 4. The Instructions of Kagemni's Father and Ptahhotep; Text 5. The Discourses of the Eloquent Peasant; Text 6. The Debate between a Man and his Soul; Text 7. The Herdsman's Tale; Text 8. Hymns to Senwosret III.
£67.44
Cambridge University Press The Mesolithic Settlement of Northern Europe
Book SynopsisSir John Grahame Douglas Clark (190795) was a British archaeologist and prehistorian who worked extensively on the Mesolithic period. In this book, which was first published in 1936, Clark presents a study of 'the cultural development, during the earlier half of the post-glacial time, of the food-gathering peoples of the western end of the plain of Northern Europe'.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. The natural history of the area of settlement; 2. The tanged-point cultures; 3. The axe cultures of the lowland forest area; 4. The art of the Maglemose culture; 5. The microlithic cultures of the sand areas and the highlands; 6. General summary and retrospect; Appendix I. Fauna lists; Appendix II. Find-list of objects of the Lyngby culture; Appendix III. List of Maglemose sites and finding-places, arranged alphabetically under countries; Appendix IV. Key to the distribution map (Fig. 47) of certain forms of bone points; Appendix V. Summary of pollen-analyses correlating the Maglemose culture with the development of forest history; Appendix VI. List of decorated objects of the Maglemose culture; Appendix VII. List of Tardenoisian sites; List of works to which reference is made in the text; Index.
£32.99
Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt
This book presents the latest archaeological evidence that makes a case for Egypt as an early urban society. It traces the emergence of urban features during the Predynastic period up to the disintegration of the powerful Middle Kingdom state (c.35001650 BC).
£35.14
Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of Elam
Book SynopsisThis book examines the formation and transformation of Elam's many identities through both archaeological and written evidence. It brings to life one of the most important regions of ancient Western Asia, re-evaluates its significance, and places it in the context of the most recent archaeological and historical scholarship.Table of Contents1. Elam: what, when, where?; 2. Environment, climate, and resources; 3. The immediate precursors of Elam; 4. Elam and Awan; 5. The dynasty of Shimashki; 6. The grand regents of Elam and Susa; 7. The kingdom of Susa and Anshan; 8. The Neo-Elamite period; 9. Elam in the Achaemenid empire; 10. Elymais; 11. Elam under the Sasanians and beyond; 12. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Migration Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy
Book SynopsisMigration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy challenges prevailing conceptions of a natural tie to the land and a demographically settled world. It argues that much human mobility in the last millennium BC was ongoing and cyclical. In particular, outside the military context ''the foreigner in our midst'' was not regarded as a problem. Boundaries of status rather than of geopolitics were those difficult to cross. The book discusses the stories of individuals and migrant groups, traders, refugees, expulsions, the founding and demolition of sites, and the political processes that could both encourage and discourage the transfer of people from one place to another. In so doing it highlights moments of change in the concepts of mobility and the definitions of those on the move. By providing the long view from history, it exposes how fleeting are the conventions that take shape here and now.Trade Review'… highly important and innovative … Isayev's book is undoubtedly a major contribution to the entire field of Classics. Apart from making its case quite brilliantly, it breaks with a number of self-imposed limitations and restrictions (of disciplines, methods, periods, regions …) that have shaped and continue to shape much of Classical scholarship. This book is groundbreaking in the way it engages with the past by taking up current research from other fields and by formulating new models that will stimulate further debate - hopefully also beyond the scope of ancient Italy. It is worth adding that the book, although very scholarly, might also prove useful for undergraduate teaching, as it is written in a very understandable language … In short, it is a must-have for all scholars in this field, and a book which, to my eyes, ranks among the works that have offered a sweeping (and controversial) vision of Mediterranean mobility and connectivity, from Braudel to Horden and Purcell and D. Abulafia.' Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPart I: 1. Introduction; 2. Statistical uncertainties: mobility in the last 250 years BC; Part II: 3. Routeways, kinship and storytelling; 4. Mixed communities: mobility, connectivity and co-presence; 5. Why choose to come together and move apart? Convergence and redistribution of people and power; Part III: 6. Plautus on mobility of the every-day; 7. Polybius on mobility and a comedy of The Hostage Prince; 8. Polybius on the moving masses and those who moved them; Part IV: 9. Social war: reconciling differences of place and citizenship; 10. Mapping the moving Rome of Livy's Camillus speech; 11. Materialising Rome and Patria; 12. Conclusion: everyday and unpredictable mobility; Appendices A, B and C. Mobility in Plautus; Appendix D. Livy's Camillus Speech and translation.
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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of Lydia from Gyges to Alexander
Book SynopsisIn The Archaeology of Lydia, from Gyges to Alexander, Christopher Roosevelt provides the first overview of the regional archaeology of Lydia in western Turkey, including much previously unpublished evidence as well as a fresh synthesis of the archaeology of Sardis, the ancient capital of the region.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The cultural and historical framework; 3. Lydian geography and environment; 4. Settlement and society at Sardis; 5. Settlement and society in central and greater Lydia; 6. Burial and society; 7. Conclusions: continuity and change at Sardis and beyond.
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Cambridge University Press The Prehistoric Cultures of the Horn of Africa An Analysis Of The Stone Age Cultural And Climatic Succession In The Somalilands And Eastern Parts Of Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1954, this book was based on various periods of fieldwork undertaken in the region of the Horn of Africa between 1941 and 1946. Written by prominent archaeologist John Desmond Clark (1916â2002), the text presents a detailed analysis of the relationship between physical geography and stone age culture within the area. Numerous illustrative figures, maps, appendices and a bibliography are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in historical geography, anthropology and archaeology.Table of ContentsList of plates; List of text-figures; Foreword; Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Physical geography; 2. The work of previous investigators; Part II. The General Geology of the Special Areas and Stratigraphy: 3. Introduction. Western British Somaliland and the Nogal Valley; 4. The Webi Shebeli and its tributaries; 5. The Danakil rift; 6. The north and east coasts; 7. Correlation of geological deposits, events and cultures within the Horn; Part II. The Prehistory of the Special Areas: 8. Terminology; 9. The Acheulio-Levalloisian culture; 10. The Somaliland Stillbay culture; 11. The Doian culture; 12. The Somaliland Wilton culture and its variants; 13. Prehistoric art in the Horn of Africa; Part IV. A Tentative Correlation of Cultures and Climates: 14. A tentative correlation of cultures and climates in the Horn with other areas of the African continent and with Southern Arabia; Appendix A. Details of collections (not previously described) made by civil and military personnel in the Somalilands and Abyssinia; Appendix B. Tool lists for additional Somaliland Magosian culture sites; Appendix C. Tool lists for additional Hargesian culture sites; Appendix D. Tool lists for additional Doian culture sites; Appendix E. Tool lists for additional Somaliland Wilton culture sites; Appendix F. Report on the faunal remains collected by J. D. Clark from sites in the Somalilands D. M. A. Bate; Appendix G. List of marine molluscs collected by J. D. Clark from raised beaches and other sites in the Somalilands L. R. Cox; Appendix H. List of charcoals collected by J. D. Clark from prehistoric sites in the Somalilands. By Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Bibliography; Maps; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Lithic Technology
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together essays that measure the life history of stone tools relative to retouch values, raw material constraints and evolutionary processes. Collectively, they explore the association of technological organization with facets of tool form such as reduction sequences, tool production effort, artifact curation processes and retouch measurement.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'The different approaches to lithic analysis proposed by the authors will be of great value in broader archaeological interpretation as issues raised in the volume are explored in the future … The authors in this volume present us with interesting ideas and a healthy debate.' GeoarchaeologyReview of the hardback: 'Lithic Technology succeeds in its goal of combining unique temporal and cultural examples to demonstrate a link between technological organization theory and the reconstruction of lithic retouched tool life histories … It should be required reading for any upper division undergraduate or graduate lithics class where its chapters can be discussed, debated and used as reference points for future research. Lithic Technology is also highly recommended for anyone interested in reading about diverse analytical measures for retouched lithic tools and theoretical arguments regarding lithic production trajectories currently debated by lithicists around the globe.' PaleoAnthropologyTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction, Background and Review: 1. An introduction to stone tool life history and technological organization William Andrefsky, Jr; 2. Lithic reduction, its measurement, and implications: comments on the volume Michael J. Shott and Margaret C. Nelson; Part II. Production, Reduction and Retouch: 3. Comparing and synthesizing unifacial stone tool reduction indices Metin I. Eren and Mary E. Prendergast; 4. Exploring retouch on bifaces: unpacking production, resharpening, and hammer type Jennifer Wilson and William Andrefsky, Jr; 5. The construction of morphological diversity: a study of Mousterian implement retouching at Combe Grenal Peter Hiscock and Chris Clarkson; 6. Reduction and retouch as independent measures of intensity Brooke Blades; 7. Perforation with stone tools and retouch intensity: a Neolithic case study Colin Patrick Quinn, William Andrefsky, Jr, Ian Kuijt and Bill Finlayson; 8. Exploring the dart and arrow dilemma: retouch indices as functional determinants Cheryl Harper and William Andrefsky, Jr; Part III. New Perspectives on Lithic Raw Material and Technology: 9. Projectile point provisioning strategies and human land use William Andrefsky, Jr; 10. The role of lithic raw material availability and quality in determining tool kit size, tool function, and degree of retouch: a case study from Skink Rockshelter (46NI445), West Virginia Douglas H. MacDonald; 11. Raw material and retouched flakes Andrew P. Bradbury, Philip J. Carr and D. Randall Cooper; Part IV. Evolutionary Approaches to Lithic Technologies: 12. Lithic technological organization in an evolutionary framework: examples from North America's Pacific Northwest region Anna Marie Prentiss and David S. Clarke; 13. Changing reduction intensity, settlement, and subsistence in Wardaman Country, Northern Australia Chris Clarkson; 14. Lithic core reduction techniques: modeling expected diversity Nathan B. Goodale, Ian Kuijt, Shane J. Macfarlan, Curtis Osterhoudt and Bill Finlayson.
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Cambridge University Press Boiotia in Antiquity
Book SynopsisBoiotia was - next to Athens and Sparta - one of the most important regions of ancient Greece. Albert Schachter, a leading expert on the region, has for many decades pioneered and fostered the exploration of it and its people through his research. His seminal publications have covered all aspects of its history, institutions, cults, and literature from late Mycenaean times to the Roman Empire, revealing a mastery of the epigraphic evidence, archaeological data, and the literary tradition. This volume conveniently brings together twenty-three papers (two previously unpublished, others revised and updated) which display a compelling intellectual coherence and a narrative style refreshingly immune to jargon. All major topics of Boiotian history from early Greece to Roman times are touched upon, and the book can be read as a history of Boiotia, in pieces.Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. Boiotian beginnings: the creation of an ethnos; Part II. History: Boiotian: 2. Kadmos and the implications of the tradition for Boiotian history; 3. Boiotia in the sixth century BC; 4. The early Boiotoi: from alliance to federation; 5. Politics and personalities in classical Thebes; 6. Tanagra: the geographical and historical context; 7. From hegemony to disaster: Thebes from 362 to 335; 8. Pausanias and Boiotia; Part III. History: Boiotian and Other: 9. The politics of dedication: two Athenian dedications at the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoieus in Boiotia; 10. The seer Tisamenos and the Klytiadai; Part IV. Boiotian Institutions: 11. Gods in the service of the state: the Boiotian experience; 12. Boiotian military elites (with an appendix on the funereal stelai); 13. Three generations of magistrates from Akraiphia; Part V. Literature: 14. Simonides' elegy on Plataia: the occasion of its performance; 15. The singing contest of Kithairon and Helikon: Korinna fr. 654 PMG col. i and ii.1-11: content and context; 16. Ovid and Boiotia; Part VI. Cult: 17. The Daphnephoria of Thebes; 18. Reflections on an inscription from Tanagra; 19. Egyptian cults and local elites in Boiotia; 20. Evolutions of a mystery cult: the Theban Kabiroi; 21. The Mouseia of Thespiai: organization and development; 22. Tilphossa: the site and its cults; 23. A consultation of Trophonios (IG 7.4136).
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Cambridge University Press Religion at Work in a Neolithic Society Vital Matters
Book SynopsisThis book tackles the topic of religion, a broad subject exciting renewed interest across the social and historical sciences. The volume is tightly focused on the early farming village of ÃatalhÃyÃk, which has generated much interest both within and outside of archaeology, especially for its contributions to the understanding of early religion. The volume discusses contemporary themes such as materiality, animism, object vitality, and material dimensions of spirituality while at the same time exploring broad evolutionary changes in the ways in which religion has influenced society. The volume results from a unique collaboration between an archaeological team and a range of specialists in ritual and religion.Trade Review'Ian Hodder presents Çatalhöyük in a new perspective and invites an exciting interdisciplinary group to respond. It is like a particle accelerator in action, as their collisions spin off all sorts of new insights from a site at a pivotal Neolithic moment in human history.' Trevor Watkins, University of Edinburgh'Çatalhöyük has long stimulated the imagination and provoked bold ideas. Continuing an innovative project already remarkable for its daring, Ian Hodder has again put into conversation scholars bringing an impressive range of disciplinary perspectives.' Webb Keane, University of Michigan'This innovative and path-breaking book provides indispensable insights into the material and immaterial worlds of Neolithic community, ritual, and religion. The essays of these international scholars will quickly draw readers into the exciting worlds of Neolithic life in general, and Çatalhöyük in particular, and reshape debate and discussion of daily life within Neolithic communities for years to come.' Ian Kuijt, University of Notre DameTable of Contents1. The vitalities of Çatalhöyük Ian Hodder; Part I. Vital Religion: The Evolutionary Context of Religion at Çatalhöyük: 2. Different strokes for different folks: Near Eastern Neolithic mortuary practices in perspective Nigel Goring-Morris and Anna Belfer-Cohen; 3. Excavating theogonies: anthropomorphic promiscuity and sociographic prudery in the Neolithic and now LeRon Shults; 4. Religion as anthropomorphism at Çatalhöyük Stewart Guthrie; 5. The historical self: memory and religion at Çatalhöyük J. Wentzel van Huyssteen; 6. Modes of religiosity and the evolution of social complexity at Çatalhöyük Harvey Whitehouse, Camilla Mazzucato, Ian Hodder and Quentin D. Atkinson; Part II. Vital Materials at Çatalhöyük: 7. Relational networks and religious sodalities at Çatalhöyük Barbara Mills; 8. Using 'magic' to think from the material: tracing distributed agency, revelation, and concealment at Çatalhöyük Carolyn Nakamura and Peter Pels; 9. 'Motherbaby': a death in childbirth at Çatalhöyük Kimberley Patton and Lori Hager; 10. The hau of the house Mary Weismantel; 11. Material register, surface, and form at Çatalhöyük Victor Buchli; 12. The use of spatial order in Çatalhöyük material culture Anke Kamerman; Part III. Vital Data: 13. Theories and their data: interdisciplinary interactions at Çatalhöyük Ian Hodder.
£28.99
Cambridge University Press Delphi and Olympia
Book SynopsisInvestigates the physical remains of both Delphi and Olympia to show how different visitors interacted with the sacred spaces during the archaic and classical periods; the oracle and the games being but two of the many activities ongoing at both sites.Trade Review'… this new book on monumental dedications and spatial politics fully deserves a place among the basic publications on Delphi and Olympia, and should not be missed by scholars interested in pan-hellenic identity and sanctuary spaces.' Histara: Les Comptes Rendus'This handsome and readable volume belies its origin in the PhD research of Michael Scott, a rising star of Ancient History in Cambridge.' Anglo-Hellenic Review'It is the particular merit of [the book that it] has turned to the archaeology, monuments, dedications and buildings of these sanctuary sites to test the nature of panhellenism as it changed over the archaic and classical periods.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Athletes and oracles - but what else?; 2. Dedicating at Olympia and Delphi; 3. Delphi 650–500 BC; 4. Delphi 500–400 BC; 5. Delphi 400–300 BC; 6. Olympia 650–479 BC; 7. Olympia 479–300 BC; 8. Comparing spaces; 9. Panhellenic sanctuaries and panhellenism in context.
£42.74
Cambridge University Press Everyday Life in the Classic Maya World
Book SynopsisUsing the most up to date information from a variety of disciplines, Ardren uses stories of individual Maya people, to create a narrative that takes the reader from rural homestead to agricultural field and forest, and on to the marketplace, palace, and trading port of a royal Maya city.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The domestic world; 3. Fields and forests; 4. Into the city; 5. Palace life; To the coast; 7. Conclusion.
£21.84
Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region
Book SynopsisSir Cyril Fox (18821967) was an archaeologist and Director of the National Museum of Wales. This book, first published in 1923, is his pioneering doctoral thesis, in which he developed the geographical approach to analysing changes in ancient settlement patterns. This approach influenced later environmental and landscape archaeology.Table of ContentsList of illustrations and maps; Contractions; Introduction; 1. The Neolithic Age; 2. The Bronze Age; 3. The Early Iron Age; 4. Earthworks and trackways possibly or certainly prehistoric; 5. The Roman Age; 6. The Anglo-Saxon Age; 7. Conclusion; References; Index.
£38.99
Cambridge University Press Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids Temples Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia
Book SynopsisGiovanni Belzoni (17781823) was famous in his day, and notorious afterwards, for his 'treasure-hunting' approach to the study of ancient Egypt, which included blasting his way into tombs with gunpowder. His narrative of his adventures was enormously popular at the time, and remains readable and entertaining today.Table of ContentsPreface; Preface to the second edition; First journey; Second journey; Third journey; Journey to the Red Sea; Account of the taking of the obelisk from the island of Philoe to Alexandria; Journey to the oasis of Ammon; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press The Tomb of TutAnkhAmen
Book SynopsisHoward Carter (18741939) was an English archaeologist, renowned for discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun. Originally published between 1923 and 1933, this three-volume study contains Carter's account of the sensational discovery, excavation and clearance of Tutankhamun's tomb. Volume 1 describes the original discovery and the opening of the Antechamber.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction Lady Burghclere; 1. The King and the Queen; 2. The valley and the tomb; 3. The valley in modern times; 4. Our prefatory work at Thebes; 5. The finding of the tomb; 6. A preliminary investigation; 7. A survey of the antechamber; 8. Clearing the antechamber; 9. Visitors and the press; 10. Work in the laboratory; 11. The opening of the sealed door; Appendix; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Tomb of TutAnkhAmen
Book SynopsisHoward Carter (18741939) was an English archaeologist, renowned for discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun. Originally published between 1923 and 1933, this three-volume study contains Carter's account of the sensational discovery, excavation and clearance of the tomb. Volume 2 describes the opening of the triple coffin, and Tutankhamun's mummy.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. Tut-Ankh-Amen; 2. The tomb and burial chamber; 3. Clearing the burial chamber and opening the sarcophagus; 4. The state chariots; 5. The opening of the three coffins (season 1925–1926); 6. Points of interest in Egyptian burial customs; 7. The examination of the royal mummy; Appendices; Index.
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