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Archaeopress Las domus de Bulla Regia Tunez arquitectura y
Book SynopsisLas domus de Bulla Regia (Tunisia): arquitectura y decoración musiva represents a contribution to the study of the architecture and decoration of the mosaic floors of the Roman private spaces of Bulla Regia, located in the northwest of Tunisia, in a rich and prosperous region thanks to its agriculture and olive oil production. The book is divided into six chapters which offer a complete overview of both the city in general and the domestic architecture and mosaic decoration of each of the domus.
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Archaeopress Water and the Law Water Management in the
Book SynopsisWater and the Law investigates water resource law in the statutory legislation codified by commune, oligarchic and seigneurial governments of cities and smaller municipalities in Northern and Central Italy from the thirteenth to the fourteenth centuries. It aims to shed light on the relationship between water management norms and the local environment, that is how urban governments planned the use and distribution of water, and the protection of inhabited areas from the danger of flooding. Through a careful analysis of just two hundred statutory regulations that deal with water resources, the text compares the solutions adopted in Northern Italy, presenting a relatively large water supply and a dense network of tributaries of the river Po, with the situation in central areas of the peninsula (including Rome), where smaller watercourses with torrential characteristics - such as the Arno and the Tiber - interact with important cities and manufacturing centres like Florence. F
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Archaeopress Apotropaia and Phylakteria Confronting Evil in
Book SynopsisApotropaia and Phylakteria: Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece is the outcome of the conference held in Athens in June 2021 and hosted by the Swedish Institute at Athens.The belief in the existence of evil forces was part of ancient everyday life and a phenomenon deeply embedded in popular thought of the Greek world. Fear of such malevolent powers generated the need for protection and we find clear traces of these concerns in both textual and archaeological sources. From the beginnings of literature, there is mention of ghosts and other daemonic beings that needed appeasement, and of ways of repulsing evil, such as the use of baskania and antibaskania (apotropaia). Repeatedly, we meet rituals of an apotropaic or prophylactic character conducted as part of everyday and family life, as for example on the occasion of a birth, marriage or death in the oikos (the cleansing of the house and household, libations and sacrifices in honour of oikos ancestors), and o
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Archaeopress Archaeological Excavations at Little Paxton
Book SynopsisArchaeological excavations at Little Paxton Quarry, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire were undertaken by MOLA between 2017 to 2021 and these were located near to both the River Great Ouse and the A1 (Great North Road).Small quantities of pitting occurred in both the early and late Neolithic periods, followed by a single cremation deposit that dated to the early Bronze Age and a moderate sized middle Bronze Age cremation cemetery with 12 cremations deposits, one of which was urned. Two parallel late Bronze Age to early Iron Age pit alignments were recorded. Permanent occupation took place from the middle Iron Age period, with two settlements located 0.5km apart. One of these settlements continued into the middle Roman period.Post-Roman evidence included two graves that formed part of a Saxon early medieval cemetery excavated in 2016 by Phoenix Consulting. In the medieval period the southern extent of the DMV Boughton settlement was found and these previously unknown remains were directly beyond the southern extent of the core of the hamlet, which is a Scheduled Monument. In the excavation this part of the hamlet dated from the 11th to at least the 14th century and comprised fields, paddocks and connecting routeways as well as a small area of possible domestic occupation.
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Archaeopress Multicultural Mankind An Exploration of Portugals
Book SynopsisHow is Portuguese archaeological cultural Heritage reflected today as traces of its colonial expansion through the World? The editors gathered 25 contributors from a wide variety of countries to explore this theme: Brazil, Cape Verde Islands, China, India, Japan, México, Morocco, Namibia, Portugal, Saint Thomas & Prince Islands and Spain.
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Europa Postmediaevalis 2024
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Archaeopress Publishing Hinterland Monuments of Ancient Nomads
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Oxbow Books Animals and Archaeology in Northern Medieval
Book SynopsisThis is the third book on material studies in this series on medieval Novgorod and its territory, and deals with a substantial body of animal bones that has been recovered over the last decade. The zooarchaeological evidence is discussed by the editor and a number of other British and Russian specialists looking at the remains of mammals, birds and fish. Topics discussed include diet, butchery practices, the exploitation of fur and skins, mortality patterns of mammals, and metrical analyses of a wide range of species. Detailed data sets are provided to enable the reader to make comparisons with their own research, but the book is also suitable for those with a more general interest in medieval Russian archaeology.
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Oxbow Books Representations and Communications: Creating an
Book SynopsisIn this volume, which is the outcome of the four-year long collaboration project SARA (Scandinavian and Atlantic Rock Art) between the archaeology department at University of Gothenburg and the Laboratory of Heritage of Spanish National Research Council, nine papers summarize new excavation and survey results, advanced studies of iconography and intriguing landscape studies. It addresses topics such as human activities in the vicinity and surroundings of rock-art panels, movement and communication, ritual and symbolism, and finally representations and constructions of landscapes. The book is a sophisticated study of the rock art of two major regions of prehistoric Europe, but one with implications for research over a much wider area. It is wide-ranging, topical and will no doubt also be controversial. Contributors include Per Nilsson, Manuel Santos Estévez, Yolanda Seoane Veiga, Johan Ling, Åsa C. Fredell, Marco García Quintela, Kristian Kristiansen, Lasse Bengtsson and Felipe Criado Boado.Trade Review'an interesting and stimulating book for any researcher working on rock art in general and Bronze Age Europe in particular. After all, it is a vivid expression of the plurality of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches that exist and are being applied to gain knowledge about past societies using their rock art as a point of departure.' -- European Journal of Archaeology European Journal of ArchaeologyTable of Contents1. A Life Aquatic? Looking at the relationships between settlements, rock art and sea levels in the Himmelstalund region of eastern Sweden (Per Nilsson) 2. Rock Art and Archaeological Excavations in Campo Lameiro, Galicia: A new chronological proposal for the Atlantic rock art (Manuel Santos Estévez And Yolanda Seoane Veiga) 3. Elevated Rock Art: Maritime images and situations (Johan Ling) 4. A Mo(ve)ment in Time? A comparative study of a rock-picture theme in Galicia and Bohuslän (Åsa C. Fredell) 5. Bodily Attributes and Semantic Expressions: Knees in rock art and Indo- European symbolism (Åsa C. Fredell And Marco V. García Quintela) 6. Rock Art and Religion: The sun journey in Indo-European mythology and Bronze Age rock art (Kristian Kristiansen) 7. To Excavate Images: Some results from the Tanum Rock Art Project 1997–2004 (Lasse Bengtsson) 8. Perspectives in European Rock Art: The archaeology of glance (Felipe Criado Boado) 9. The Spaces of Representation and the Domestication of Landscape in Rock Art Societies (Manuel Santos Estévez)
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Equinox Publishing Ltd The Archaeology of Medieval Spain, 1100-1500
Book SynopsisSince 1985, Spanish archaeology has radically improved its organisation and effectiveness, supported by law and the transfer of powers to deal with archaeology from central to regional governments. There have been many excavations on development sites in towns and the countryside, but also new studies of rural landscapes and monuments. As in other European countries, this has produced a mountain of as yet undigested information about the history and archaeology of this fascinating country over four centuries. Now two Spanish archaeologists, aided by a large number of colleagues in Spain, France, Germany and Britain, have produced the first survey in either English or Spanish of the last 30 years of investigations, new discoveries and new theories. Chapters deal with the rural and urban habitat, daily life, trade and technology, castles and fortifications, the display of secular power and all three religions of medieval Spain: Islam, Christianity and Judaism. This is a major contribution to the archaeology of medieval Europe and a handbook for archaeologists and travellers.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Foreword by John Schofield 1. THE STUDY OF MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY Magdalena Valor and Avelino Gutierrez 2. RURAL SETTLEMENT AND LANDSCAPE Magdalena Valor and Inaki Garcia Camino 3. URBAN SETTLEMENT Magdalena Valor and Avelino Gutierrez 4. HOUSING AND DOMESTIC LIFE Magdalena Valor and Avelino Gutierrez 5. TECHNOLOGY, CRAFT AND INDUSTRY Ricardo Cordoba 6. TRADE, TRANSPORT AND TRAVEL Magdalena Valor and Avelino Gutierrez 7. FORTIFICATIONS Magdalena Valor and Avelino Gutierrez 8. THE DISPLAY OF SECULAR POWER Magdalena Valor and Avelino Gutierrez 9. RELIGIONS AND RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS Magdalena Valor and Fernando Miguel 10. LIFE, DEATH AND MEMORY Fernando Gil and Magdalena Valor 11. CONCLUSIONS AND HOPES FOR THE FUTURE Magdalena Valor, Avelino Gutierrez and John Schofield
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Equinox Publishing Ltd Monumentality, Place-Making and Social
Book SynopsisThis book adopts an integrative approach to investigate the role of monumental architecture in shaping social dynamics and power relations on the island of Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age (LBA; c.1700-1050 BCE). Using such an approach, archaeologists studying ancient societies elsewhere can analyze the relationship between the built environment and human behaviour. Monumental buildings on Late Bronze Age Cyprus provided contexts for social interactions, such as ceremonial feasting and cultic rituals, that created social bonds and forged wider community identities, while also materializing social boundaries and inequalities. More than just spaces, these contexts were socially-constructed places, imbued with identity and memory, that played an integral role in social organization during this transformative period. This integrative approach emphasizes the role of buildings in configuring movement and encounter and in serving as the contexts for interactions through which sociopolitical relations are developed, maintained, transformed and reproduced. It investigates this using an interdisciplinary methodology that integrates access analysis with the study of the materiality of built environments and how they encode and communicate meanings and shape the experiences of those who interact with them.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction: Building Power Chapter 2. Society and Built Environment in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: Changing Perspectives Chapter 3. The Social Dynamics of Built Environments Chapter 4. An Integrative Approach to Analyzing Past Built Environments Chapter 5. Toward a Biogrpahy of the Ashlar Building at Enkomi Chapter 6. Toward a Biography of the “Fortress” at Enkomi Chapter 7. Court-centred Buildings at Kalavasos, Maroni and Alassa Chapter 8. Spaces Become Places: Monumental Place-making and Social Interaction in the Late Cypriot Bronze Age Chapter 9. The Bigger Picture: Monumentality in Context
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Equinox Publishing Ltd London, 1100-1600: The Archaeology of a Capital
Book SynopsisSince the early 1970s the increasingly effective conduct of archaeological work in the City of London and surrounding parts of the conurbation have revolutionised our view of the development and European importance of London between 1100 and 1600. There have been hundreds of archaeological excavations of every type of site, from the cathedral to chapels, palaces to outhouses, bridges, wharves, streams, fields, kilns, roads and lanes. The study of the material culture of Londoners over these five centuries has begun in earnest, based on thousands of accurately dated artefacts, especially found along the waterfront. Work by documentary historians has complemented and filled out the new picture. This book, written by an archaeologist who has been at the centre of this study since 1974, will summarise the main findings and new suggestions about the development of the City, its ups and downs through the Black Death and the Dissolution of the Monasteries; its place in Europe as a capital city with great architecture and relations with many other parts of Europe, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean. London has been the most intensively studied medieval city in Europe by archaeologists, due to the pace of development especially since the 1970s. Thus although this will be a study of a single medieval city, it will be a major contribution to the Archaeology of Europe, 1100-1600.Trade Review'..an expert account. the book is well designed, expertly illustrated and manages to bridge the gap between an accessible and popular account, with a scholarly framework with full references and an extensive bibliography. This is a book that readers can turn to again and again in order to refresh their knowledge of the archaeology of this medieval metropolis' Terry Barry, Medieval Archaeology 56, 2012 'This is an important and useful book. And, crucially it's a good read.' British Archaeology, May-June 2012 'John Schofield snythesises a huge volume of archaeology to produce this coherent account packed with detail and fascinating visual evidence, and much enlivened by the author's own observations -- for example, on exotic imported food and whether Londoners had different diets from other parts of England, or on the impact of communities of 'aliens' on the city, including Jewish financiers, and Italian, French and Spanish merchants, or on the effect of London on its hinterland.' SALON number 267, December 2011 'It works very well indeed as an affordable entry point for students of London's medieval archaeology; as a resource assessment it refines and fleshes out many of the broad themes developed in The Archaeology of Greater London (MoLAS 2000); and it poses new and interesting questions to be considered in future research programmes.' Barney Sloane, English Heritage, Transactions of London & Middlesex Archaeological Society, forthcoming 'His detailed knowledge of projects both famous and unsung paints a potent picture of London between 1100 and 1600.' Current Archaeology, June 2012 'This is a stimulating book, opening one's eyes to many facets of the past. It can be highly recommended to anyone who wants to find out what archaeology has to offer about London's history, and where future research might lead' Bridget Cherry, London Topographical Society Newsletter, May 2012Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Public Buildings and Concerns 3. Castles, Palaces and Royal Houses 4. Houses, Daily Life and Neighbourhoods 5. Selling and Making 6. Religion and Religious Ways of Life 7. Human Health and the Environment 8. London's Region 9. Medieval and Tudor London after 1600
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Countryside Books The Boxford Mosaic: A Unique Survivor from the
Book SynopsisThe Boxford Mosaic has been described as the most spectacular and innovative Roman mosaic ever found in Britain. Yet it lay hidden beneath a Berkshire field for some 1,600 years until it was fully uncovered in the Summer of 2019. Dating from around 350 AD and set amid the ruins of a villa, the mosaic depicts tales of famous heroes from Greek mythology. Hercules slays the half-man, half-horse Centaur. Pelops wins the hand of a king's daughter by sabotaging the wheel linchpin of his racing chariot. And the handsome Bellerophon kills the fire-breathing Chimaera monster with the help of his flying horse Pegasus - a legend that became our very own St George and the Dragon. The full description of this artistic masterpiece and its excavation, by local enthusiasts working under professional supervision, is told here by the three who played key roles in the operation. JOY APPLETON is Chairwoman of the Boxford History Project. MATT NICHOL is a leading archaeologist with Cotswold Archaeology. ANTHONY BEESON is one of the UK's leading authorities on mosaics and Roman and Greek architecture. He is also the archivist of the Association for Roman Archaeology.
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Four Courts Press Ltd Medieval Dublin XIV: Proceedings of the Friends
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Four Courts Press Ltd Medieval Dublin XIV: Proceedings of the Friends
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Four Courts Press Ltd Medieval Dublin XV: Proceedings of the Friends of
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Four Courts Press Ltd Epigraphy in an intermedial context
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Four Courts Press Ltd Medieval Dublin XVII: Proceedings of the Friends
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Four Courts Press Ltd Religion, landscape and settlement in Ireland,
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Four Courts Press Ltd Carrick, County Wexford: Ireland’s first
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Four Courts Press Ltd Moygara Castle, County Sligo, and the O'Garas of
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Four Courts Press Ltd Medieval Dublin XVIII
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Wessex Archaeology Iron Age and RomanoBritish Settlements and
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the results of a series of fieldwalking surveys and excavations of Iron Age and Romano-British sites in two areas of the Salisbury Plain Training Area. Altogether some 18 new settlement sites were discovered of which 13 were Romano-British, three were predominantly Iron Age, and two produced evidence of Middle-Late Bronze Age occupation. Small-scale excavation was undertaken at eight enclosures and field systems, accompanied by targeted environmental sampling.An increase in enclosure through to the later Iron Age was revealed, when there was evidence for settlement abandonment followed by a further development of unenclosed settlement and the emergence of nucleated villages such as Chisenbury Warren in the Late Iron Age and through the Romano-British period.
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David & Charles Art and Archaeology of Rome
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American Academy in Rome Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome v. 42
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American Academy in Rome Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome v. 43 &
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American Academy in Rome Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Volume
Book SynopsisAmong the twelve articles included in the newest volume from the American Academy in Rome are: ""The Native Market for Greek Vases and its Implications""; ""Unpublished Documents Shed New Light on the Licinian Tomb""; ""The Chronicle of Francesco Venimbeni da Fabriano""; and ""Venice Before the Grand Canal."" Anthony Corbeill is Associate Professor of Classics, University of Kansas.
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American Academy in Rome Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome v. 49
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American Academy in Rome Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome v. 50
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction; Architectural Theory and Practice: Vitruvian Principles and ""Full-scale Detail"" Architectural Drawings, Ingrid Edlund-Berry, University of Texas at Austin; Papers:; From Vitruvian Scholarship to Vitruvian Practice, Ingrid D. Rowland, University of Notre Dame; Vitruvian Critical Eclecticism and Roman Innovation,, Thomas N. Howe, Southwestern University Vitruvius and the Origins of Roman Spatial Rhetoric, Gretchen E. Meyers, Rollins College; Other Articles:; The Rhetoric of Romanitas: The ""Tomb of the Statilii"" Frescoes Reconsidered, Peter J. Holliday, California State University at Long Beach; Theodelinda's Rome: Ampullae, Pittacia, and the Image of the City, Dennis Trout, University of Missouri at Columbia Bramante's Tempietto and the Spanish Crown, Jack Freiberg, Florida State University; Rome, 1592: An Introduction to a Newly Discovered Parish Census, Thomas James Dandelet, University of California at Berkeley; The Battle of Zama after Giulio Romano: A Tapestry in the American Academy in Rome, Part I, Elfriede R. Knauer, Haverford, Pennsylvania; Reports from the American Academy in Rome Research in the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome (2004-2005).
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American Academy in Rome Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome v. 51
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTools and Scripts for Cursing in Early Modern and Medieval Ireland; Lisa M. Bitel, ""Monvmenta Romae"": An Alternative Title-Page for the Duke of Sessa's Personal Copy of the Speculum Romanum Magnificentiae; Louis Cellauro, Between Livy and Polybius: Leonardo Bruni on the First Punic War; Gary Ianziti, The Battle of Zama after Giulio Romano: Part II Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus: A Renaissance exemplum virtutis; Elfriede R. Knauer; The Woman from Frosinone: Honorific Portrait Statues of Roman Imperial Women; Molly Lindner; The Separation of Curses from Blessings in the Latin West Lester Little; ""Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba"": Martial and Morality in the Quattrocento; Marsh, David; Poussin and the Ethics of Imitation; Richard T. Neer; Public and Private Places of Worship in the Cult of Asclepius at Rome; Gil Renberg; Bramante's Hetruscan Tempietto; Ingrid Rowland; Piccolomini among the Illustrious; Francis Noel Thomas.
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University Press of Maryland Late Babylonian Texts in the Nies Babylonian
Book SynopsisVolume One, Catalogue of the Babylonian Collections at Yale
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University Press of Maryland Old Babylonian Archival Texts in the Nies
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures The Egyptian Coffin Texts: Volume 8: Middle
Book SynopsisWith the appearance of this volume, the Oriental Institute marks the true completion of the Egyptian Coffin Texts Project , an international cooperative program begun by James Henry Breasted and Alan H. Gardiner in 1922 and edited by Adriaan de Buck from 1935 until his death in 1959. When published in 1961, Volume 7, de Buck's final volume, was announced as "the last volume of the autographed Coffin Texts in the contemplated Project" (p. vii), although the Oriental Institute had never produced the autographed edition of Pyramid Texts within the Coffin Text corpus that had been explicitly promised in the introduction to Volume 1. Assumed to comprise a "distinct" and "foreign body" within the Coffin Texts, these long-lived spells were "reserved for later" (p. xi). After a lapse of forty years, a formally renewed Coffin Texts Project was authorised by the Director of the Oriental Institute in 2001, with the goal of completing the Oriental Institute's outstanding commitments. The translation volume once envisioned and entrusted to Tjalling Bruinsma had been rendered unnecessary by the publications of Robert O. Faulkner in 1969 ( Pyramid Texts ) and 1973-1978 ( Coffin Texts ), which serve to engage scholars and laymen alike. Glossaries, bibliographies, symposia, and detailed textual studies appeared, but the critical edition of Middle Kingdom Pyramid Texts remained unaccomplished. By careful examination of the Oriental Institute's original collation sheets and unpublished sources from Lisht, James P. Allen, after years of concentrated study, has now fulfilled the task admirably. It is hoped that the new edition stimulates discussion not only of the longevity of the Pyramid Texts, but of the nature of the Coffin Texts themselves. While Breasted insisted that the Pyramid Texts were "sharply distinguished" from the Coffin Texts, the frequent appearance of "Pyramid Texts" on coffins (among the narrowly defined "Coffin Texts") leaves this opinion open to question. Ironically, the one coffin acquired in Chicago by Breasted for study by the Coffin Texts Project (OIM 12072) contained only "Pyramid Texts" and was therefore excluded from the initial seven volumes. Now at last these Middle Kingdom texts on a coffin can be examined among the "Coffin Texts" (Robert K. Ritner, Director, The Egyptian Coffin Texts Project, 2001-05).
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of
Book SynopsisWith an introduction by Professor McGuire Gibson, this up-to-date account describes the state of the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad and chronicles the damage done to archaeological sites by illicit digging. Contributors include Donny George, John M. Russell, Katharyn Hanson, Clemens Reichel, Elizabeth C. Stone, and Patty Gerstenblith. Published in conjunction with the exhibit of the same name opening at the Oriental Institute April 10, 2008, this book commemorates the fifth anniversary of the looting of the Iraq National Museum.Table of ContentsForeword (Gil J Stein); Preface (Geoff Emberling); Map of Iraq; Time Line of Events; The Looting of the Iraq Museum in Context (McGuire Gibson); The Looting of the Iraq Museum Complex (Donny George); Efforts to Control Damage to Sites and Monuments (John M Russell); Why Does Archaeological Context Matter? (Katharyn Hanson); Cataloging the Losses: The Oriental Institute's Iraq Museum Database Project (Clemens Reichel); Archaeological Site Looting: The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Southern Iraq (Elizabeth C Stone); Legal Aspects of Controlling the International Market in Looted Antiquities: The Paradigm of Iraq (Patti Gerstenblith).
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in
Book SynopsisPioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920, the catalogue of the Oriental Institute special exhibit of the same name, highlights the interconnected stories of an important figure in intellectual history - James Henry Breasted - and the beginnings of American scientific archaeology in the Near East at a crucial turning point in world history. At the end of World War I, Breasted and a small team of scholars set sail for the Near East on what would be an eleven-month odyssey across the region. The fascinating mix of politics, scholarship, and history (both ancient and modern) as seen through a focus on the larger-than-life persona of James Henry Breasted lies at the heart of Pioneers to the Past. Breasted's letters and photographs from his trip provide a window into the engagement of modern scholarship with the ancient world, in a highly charged setting of power politics in the early twentieth century. The essays in this catalogue explain the historical, legal, and political context in a way that greatly enriches our understanding of Breasted's journey and its aftermath.
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures The Oriental Institute 2010-2011 Annual Report
Book SynopsisThe Oriental Institute Annual Reports contain yearly summaries of the activities of the Institutes faculty, staff, and research projects, as well as descriptions of special events and other Institute functions. The reports are complimentary to Members and Donors of the Oriental Institute.
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Early Megiddo on the East Slope (The 'Megiddo
Book SynopsisThis report completes prior publications by Clarence S. Fisher (1929), P. L. O. Guy (1931), Robert M. Engberg and Geoffrey M. Shipton (1934a), and P. L. O. Guy and Robert M. Engberg (1938) on the earliest utilization and occupation of the slope at the southeast base of the high mound of Megiddo (Tell el-Mutesellim). That area, labeled by the excavators the "East Slope," and identified by them in their notations as "ES," was excavated by the Oriental Institute between the years 1925, when work commenced, and 1933, when the last of it was apparently cleared down to bedrock. While the primary focus of this report is on Square U16 (an area of 25 25 m), where most of the early remains (i.e., of the Early Bronze Age and earlier) excluding tombs were encountered, this work also deals with the later remains within that same, limited precinct.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Early Deposits on the East Slope Chapter 3. Artifacts from the East Slope Chapter 4. Sealings, Potters' Marks, and Potmarks from the East Slope Chapter 5. The Chipped Stone Collection from the Oriental Institute's Excavation of the East Slope and the High Mound Chapter 6. The Early Bronze Age Tombs of Megiddo - A Reappraisal Chapter 7. Human Activity on the East Slope - A Summary Appendix 1. Locations of Loci According to the 5 x 5 Meter Grid Appendix 2. Locations of Walls According to the 5 x 5 Meter Grid and in Illustrations Appendix 3. Megiddo East Slope Locus Register, Based on Notebooks and Locus/Object Cards and Photographs in the Oriental Institute
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Rose Publishing Tabernacle Pamphlet
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara The Ottoman House
Book SynopsisSeemingly contradictory ideas of privacy and community dominate Ottoman cities. While houses are internally divided to guard female modesty behind a frontage studded with peep-holes, streets in cities like Amasya are often bridged by first-floor passageways between different houses. This book contains 17 papers by architects and archaeologists looking at how the Ottoman house was structured, how it has varied over time and space, and how surviving examples are faring in a world of breeze-block construction. Although the examples discussed are all Near Eastern, and mostly from Turkey, the revelations this book contains about structuring principles will make it a valuable companion to understanding architectural relics from all over the Ottoman Empire.
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British Institute at Ankara Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Konya
Book SynopsisThe city of Konya (ancient Iconium) has long been one of the most important Anatolian centres. In the late first century BC it was refounded as a Roman colony, and the centuries of the Roman Empire were among the most prosperous for the region. This volume provides texts and commentaries for the 231 Greek and ten Latin inscriptions now housed in the city's archaeological museum. The collection comprises 92 inscriptions from Konya itself and 149 from the surrounding region, nearly two thirds of them previously unpublished. Almost two hundred further inscriptions from Konya are listed and indexed at the end of the volume, so that for the first time there is a complete index of all people known from the ancient city of Iconium. The texts here shed an irreplaceable light on city and country society around a major centre from the early Roman to the Byzantine period, and the photographs at the end of the volume illustrate most of the characteristic inscribed monuments for the
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Canhasan Sites 2: Canhasan 1: The Pottery
Book SynopsisThe excavations at Canhasan Höyök I in the Konya plain of central Turkey revealed a series of settlements running through the Chalcolithic period (c.5500-3000 BC). The pottery from the site, much of it of types previously unknown or not found elsewhere in stratified contexts, is of fundamental importance for an understanding of this period in Anatolia. In this volume, Dr French, the excavator of Canhasan and for many years director of the British Institute at Ankara, carefully and concisely presents both the plain and decorated wares, with detailed descriptions of their characteristic fabrics, shapes and decoration. There is a full catalogue of the best-preserved and most important pieces (which were registered finds), but a major feature of the volume are the drawings of over 2500 less well-preserved pieces, which illustrate all the characteristic shapes and types of decoration. A special feature of the study is a careful grading of the material in terms of chronological reliability. The author privileges the whole, or nearly whole, pots found on floors in each layer, as the only types which were certainly made at the time. Related pottery may be accepted as contemporary, but with less certainty, while unrelated wares must be treated with circumspection, for they may be either recycled from an earlier layer or intrusive from a later one. This rigorous methodology means that the Chalcolithic pottery provides a completely reliable relative chronology through the Chalcolithic period, and the volume will remain a basic reference for Near Eastern archaeology.Trade Reviewwe are fortunate to have Frenchs analysis of the pottery for this important site.' -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn Mawr Classical Review a daring and useful approach to assessing ceramics from archaeological sites,' -- Bibliotheca Orientalis Bibliotheca Orientalis
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara The Archaeobotany of Aşvan: Environment &
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the final publication of the archaeobotanical remains recovered from four sites at the village of Aşvan in eastern Turkey, which were excavated between 1968 and 1973 as part of the archaeological rescue project in the Keban Dam region. An extensive programme of archaeobotanical research involved detailed study of the modern flora, the observation and recording of pre-mechanised agricultural practices and large-scale recovery of ancient botanical samples by water sieving. The report traces the evolution of cultivation in the region from the Chalcolithic to the Medieval period, charting the dominance of emmer and hulled barley in the Chalcolithic period, the emergence of free-threshing wheats in the Early Bronze Age and the introduction of irrigated summer crops, especially millet, by the Hellenistic period. Detailed attention is also given to the assemblage of weed seeds as proxy evidence for environmental conditions and climate change from around 4000 BC to the present day.Trade ReviewSpecialists have been impatiently waiting for the publication of “The Archaeobotany of Aşvan”. Their long wait has been rewarded...This publication is a must for the bookshelves of archaeobotanical laboratories and specialists alike. * BiOr *
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara The Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Burdur
Book SynopsisThe Burdur Archaeological Museum holds material from a mountainous area of southwest Turkey where Pisidians in antiquity mingled with Phrygians, Lycians and other ancient peoples, coming to terms first with Greek and then with Roman culture. This volume presents its rich holdings of ancient inscriptions, ranging from Hellenistic royal letters and Roman imperial regulations to the votive offerings and gravestones of rural people. Larger cities such as Sagalassos and Kibyra are close to or just beyond the boundaries of Burdur province. The Museum collection is particularly strong in votive reliefs related to local rural cults; the most prolific is that of a club-bearing rider variously named as Herakles or Kakasbos, to which an extensive and penetrating excursus is devoted. As well as inscribed texts relief iconography is presented and discussed - indeed several items never carried an inscription. The physical form of votives and gravestones is also fully described, with more than 360 plates illustrating the range of monuments produced by local masons. Of the 350 monuments collected here, over 150 have not previously been published, and many of the rest have never been illustrated, so that the volume presents a substantial body of new evidence relating to the history, religion and culture of the area. All texts are translated into English and Turkish.Trade Review...a model example of an epigraphical corpus [...] A fine piece of work by two accomplished scholars, and should be equally welcomed by those whose focus is ancient texts and those who study ancient art.' -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Dedications; Funerary inscriptions; Public inscriptions; Other inscriptions (348-50); Excursus: The Rider god steles and related monuments at Burdur Archaeological Museum; Excursus; Bibliography; Indexes; Concordances.
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara The Madra River Delta: Environment, Society and
Book SynopsisOccupying a pivotal location on the western coast of Turkey, the Madra River Delta has always been a meeting place for the cultures of Anatolia and the Aegean, but active geomorphological processes in the area have hampered fieldwork, making it a significant challenge to reconstruct the history of the landscape and its exploitation by humans. Modern political geography has been another obstacle, encouraging the study of the area in isolation from the neighbouring islands of the northeastern Aegean, although from prehistory until the twentieth century they all belonged to one cultural area. The Madra River Delta Project called on distinguished international teams using innovative interdisciplinary approaches to meet these challenges, and the results presented here shed important new light on environmental changes in this part of the Anatolian coastal region, on their long-term impact on the inhabitants of the Delta, and on the cultural ties between the Delta and the island of Lesbos from the prehistoric to the Roman period. Two closing chapters focus on the area's medieval ceramics and its history in later Ottoman times. This volume places the story of the communities of this important coastal region in their environmental and cultural context.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Regional studies and landscape archaeology in the Madra River Delta (Kyriacos Lambrianides and Nigel Spencer); Part 1: 'GUohistoire' or the 'Longue DurUe' The physical geography of the Madra River Delta (Ilhan Kayan and Serdar Vardar); Geomorphological formation and development of the delta plain of the Madra River (Ilhan Kayan); Alluvial geomorphology and paleogeography of the Yeldegirmeni mound and its environs (Ilhan Kayan); Geophysical surveys at Yeldegirmeni mound, Altinova (Mahmut G Drahor, G Gkt rkler and E Seng l); Climatic conditions in Altinova and the Madra River Delta (Ecmel Erlat); Land-use patterns in the Altinova area (Semra Sutgibi); Part 2: 'Social time' in the Madra River Delta and the northeast Aegean: the Early Bronze Age to the Early Roman period The emergence of complexity in the Madra River Delta: the example of the EBA site of Thermi on Lesbos (Kyriacos Lambrianides); The ceramics of the northeast Aegean region from the Middle Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age (Nicholas Bayne and Nigel Spencer); The Archaic and Classical fine wares of the northeast Aegean and northwest Anatolia (Gerald P Schaus); The ceramics of the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods in the northeast Aegean: a brief survey of the evidence from Mytilene, Lesbos (Hector & Caroline Williams); Part 3: 'L'histoire UvUnementielle' A study of Byzantine and Ottoman ceramic fragments found by surface survey north and west of Yelde?irmeni mound, 1997 (Sevin
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Tille Höyük 3.1. The Iron Age: Introduction,
Book SynopsisThis book presents the structures and stratigraphy of the important Iron Age sequence at Tille Höyuek, a mound at a crossing of the Euphrates in eastern Turkey. The site, which was excavated between 1979 and 1990 by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, revealed ten major structural levels of the Iron Age, spanning the period from the 11th century to the 6th-4th centuries BC, as well as earlier and later remains, and the wide exposure of architecture provides a sequence of intelligible and impressive building plans. After the initial discussion of the background and methodology of their excavation, the successive levels are carefully described and fully illustrated. The earliest Iron Age occupation, simple buildings among the ruins of the Late Bronze Age, was followed by a major settlement of the Middle Iron Age, when the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Kummuh was at its height. Most impressive architecturally are a large palatial building centred on a courtyard paved with a pebble mosaic, which was probably built after the Assyrian annexation of Kummuh in 708 BC and continued in use through the seventh, and the excellently preserved Level X with many distinctively Persian architectural features (built in the latter half of the 6th or the early 5th century and probably lasting for a substantial time). The structures and stratigraphy are also important as the context for the first rigorously established ceramic sequence in this part of Turkey, which will be presented, together with the other materials and artefacts, in the companion to this volume (already complete in draft). Lying on the fringes of the Mesopotamian world, and with contacts with North Syria, North Mesopotamia, and the Levant rather than with Anatolia or the Mediterranean, Tille casts vivid new light on the cultural and political history of the region in the Iron Age.Table of Contents1. The site and its setting 2. Historical background 3. Field methodologies: Excavation strategy and techniques 4. The analysis and presentation of the results 5. Stratification and architecture: Early Iron Age (Levels I-III) 6. Stratification and architecture: Middle Iron Age (Neo-Hittite Levels IV-VII) 7. Stratification and architecture: Later Iron Age (Neo-Assyrian and later, Levels VIII and IX) 8. Stratification and architecture: The Latest Iron Age (Level X, 'Achaemenid') 9. Bibliography for Part 1
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Black Sea: Past, Present and Future - Proceedings
Book SynopsisThe papers in this book result from a conference held in Istanbul in 2004, and are the product of collaboration between the British Academy Black Sea Initiative (BABSI) and the City and Regional Planning Department of Istanbul Technical University. They cover a period from the first appearance of human settlers in the Black Sea region to the present day, and all emphasize the significance of the Black Sea itself as a source of unity, linking communities and histories in a wider regional context, extending westward along the Danube basin, northward into the Ukraine and south Russia, east into the Caucasus and southward over the Anatolian hinterland. A major introductory paper re-examines the evidence for the Black Sea flood hypothesis. A group of four papers evaluate new evidence for the economic and cultural relationships between Greeks and native populations in the Black Sea region from the seventh to the fourth centuries BC. The next group of studies is concerned with the interconnectedness of the Black Sea between medieval and modern times, highlighting Seljuk and Ottoman trade, and the roles of the ports of Odessa and Trabzon. Four papers deal with the economic and social development of the Turkish Black Sea region in recent times. The final section places Black Sea history in a long perspective both from a cultural and a political viewpoint.Trade Review... an especially good source of bibliography on almost every aspect and period of the Black Sea.' -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn Mawr Classical Review ...informative and thought provoking.' -- American Journal Of Archaeology American Journal Of Archaeology Well-printed and well-illustrated' -- Ancient West & East Ancient West & East
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara The Balboura Survey and Settlement in Highland
Book SynopsisThe Balboura Survey, conducted between 1985 and 1994, investigated the settlement history of a small district in the ancient region of Kabalia in the mountains of southwestern Turkey. Although the survey's focus was on the Hellenistic-Early Byzantine city of Balboura and its western territory, the fieldwork revealed significant prehistoric occupation, and the project included research into Ottoman and recent settlement. Vol. 1: Balboura and the history of highland settlement This first volume of the final publication analyses settlement in the survey area from the Chalcolithic to the 20th century, placing it in the context of the adjoining districts. Major themes include: - the relation of the local prehistoric sites to the long-lived cultures to the north and east, and to the sparse evidence for settlement along the coast to the south; - Balboura's foundation by immigrant Pisidians around 200BC, and the new pattern of small agricultural settlements which came with it, exploiting land up to 1700m; - the city's attachment to the Roman province of Lycia, its adoption of the civic culture of Hellenistic and Roman Anatolia, and the interplay of alternative ethnicities - Kabalian, Pisidian, Lycian and Roman; - subsistence, climate, and the stability of Balboura's rural settlement pattern through nearly 1000 years. - the balance between pastoral and settled occupation from the prehistoric period through to the present day. Vol. 2. The Balboura Survey: detailed studies and catalogues This second volume of the final publication contains detailed discussions of the prehistoric pottery and of the Hellenistic and later pottery, which provide a chronological framework for the interpretation of the survey, and a major study of Hellenistic and Roman inscriptions examined during the project, many of them unpublished. Later chapters discuss an early Balbouran soldier who died at Sidon, the fortifications and water supply of the city, funerary monuments, and churches and other early Christian remains. The final chapter discusses problems and methodological issues raised by the survey, which combined extensive and intensive fieldwork. Five detailed catalogues present the Hellenistic and later pottery, the evidence of ancient activity across the city site, the rural sites and their pottery, known inscriptions from the territory of Balboura, and Balbouran funerary monuments.
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Canhasan Sites 3
Book SynopsisThis volume, the third in the series of reports on the excavations carried out at the Canhasan I mound in south-central Anatolia in the years 1961-1968, follows the publication of the stratification and structures (Canhasan Sites 1) and of the pottery (Canhasan Sites 2). Here, the primary aim is to present a descriptive account and catalogue of the registered small-finds. The small-finds have been grouped, described and then illustrated according to material, e.g., clay, stone, bone. The separation into discrete groups and the description of individual objects have both been deliberately simplified, the intention being to provide (where possible chronologically) an orderly arrangement from which those interested are able to scan and note the range of materials and, if they wish, to take up relevant aspects or indeed to inspect the objects for further study and research. The location of the site at Canhasan is set unequivocally between East and West, close to, if not on, a major land route from the Near East to the Aegean and to Europe. Inevitably, in this geographical context, some materials, such as obsidian and copper, will catch the eye. These have a utilitarian purpose and introduce the factor of distance between source and Canhasan. One object, however, - an ivory bracelet - not only emphasises, by its presence at Canhasan, the distant source of the material but points directly to the nature and dynamics of trade/transfer/exchange in the 6th millennium. The bracelet documents the role of personal display and human vanity as an incentive for material acquisition.
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