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Book SynopsisThe Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey has been world famous since the 1960s when excavations revealed the large size and dense occupation of the settlement, as well as the spectacular wall paintings and reliefs uncovered inside the houses. Since 1993 an international team of archaeologists, led by Ian Hodder, has been carrying out new excavations and research, in order to shed more light on the people who inhabited the site. Çatalhöyük Excavations presents the results of the excavations that took place at the site from 2000 to 2008 when the main aim was to understand the social geography of the settlement, its layout and social organization. Excavation, recording and sampling methodologies are discussed as well as dating, ‘levels’, and the grouping of buildings into social sectors. The excavations in three areas of the East Mound at Çatalhöyük are described: the South Area, the 4040 Area in the northern part of the site, and the IST Area excavated by a team from Istanbul University. The description of excavated units, features and buildings incorporates results from the analyses of animal bone, chipped stone, groundstone, shell, ceramics, phytoliths, micromorphology. The integration of such data within their context allows detailed accounts of the lives of the inhabitants of Çatalhöyük, their relationships and activities. The integration of different types of data in the excavation account mimics the process of collaborative interpretation that took place during the excavation and post-excavation process.Table of ContentsIntroduction and history of research – Ian HodderSummary of methods and results – Ian Hodder and Shahina FaridAn interim report on the dating of Çatalhöyük – Alex BaylissThe South Area excavationsIntroduction – Ian Hodder and Shahina FaridThe stratigraphic sequence in the South Area – Shahina FaridThe sequence of Buildings 75, 65, 56, 44 and 10 and associated Spaces 144, 314, 329, 333 and 427 – Roddy Regan and James TaylorThe sequence of Buildings 53 and 42 and associated Spaces 129, 130, 229-305, 319, 339 – Freya SadaranganiBuilding 43 – Shahina FaridBuilding 50 – Shahina FaridBuilding 68 – Roddy Regan and James TaylorBuilding 69 – Roddy Regan and James TaylorThe Foundation Trenches for the South shelter – Shahina FaridThe 4040 Area excavationsIntroduction – Ian Hodder and Shahina FaridThe excavations zones and stratigraphy of the 4040 Area – Shahina FaridBuilding 45 – Lisa YeomansBuildings 46 and 48 – Daniel EddidsfordBuildings 47 and 67 – Michael HouseBuilding 49 – Daniel EddisfordBuildings 51 and 52 – Shahina FaridBuilding 54 – Freya SadaranganiBuilding 55 – Lisa YeomansBuilding 57 – Freya SadaranganiBuilding 58 – Freya SadaranganiThe sequence of Buildings 59 and 60 – Michael HouseBuilding 64 – Lisa YeomansBuilding 66 – Lisa YeomansBuilding 77 – Michael HouseBuilding 82 – Lisa Yeomans and Shahina FaridBuilding 88, Space 309 – Lisa YeomansExternal area - Spaces 60, 133, 279 and Buildings 70 and 71 – Lisa Yeomans and Shahina FaridExternal area – Space 226 – Freya SadaranganiSpace 1003 – eroded burials – Lisa YeomansThe Foundation Trenches for the 4040 shelter – Shahina FaridThe post-Neolithic occupation of the 4040 Area Building 41 – Lisa YeomansBurials – Mark JacksonThe IST Area excavations – Mihriban Özbaşaran and Güneş DuruCD – Matrices and Videos

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Book SynopsisThe Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey has been world famous since the 1960s when excavations revealed the large size and dense occupation of the settlement, as well as the spectacular wall paintings and reliefs uncovered inside the houses. Since 1993 an international team of archaeologists, led by Ian Hodder, has been carrying out new excavations and research, in order to shed more light on the people who inhabited the site. The present volume reports on the results of excavations in 2000-2008 that have provided a wealth of new data on the ways in which humans became increasingly engaged in their material environment such that ‘things’ came to play an active force in their lives. A substantial and heavy involvement was with alluvial clays that surrounded the site. In the absence of large local stone, humans became increasingly involved in the extraction and manipulation of clay for a wide range of purposes – from bricks to ovens, pots and figurines. This heavy use of clays led to changes in the local environment that interacted with human activity, as indicated in the first section of the volume. In the second section, other examples of material technologies are considered all of which in various ways engage humans in specific dependencies and relationships. For example, large-scale studies of obsidian trade have drawn a complex picture of changing interactions between humans over time. The volume concludes with an integrated account of the uses of materials at Çatalhöyük based on the analysis of heavy residue samples from all contexts at the site.Table of ContentsIntroduction: becoming entangled in things – Ian Hodder 8,000 (word length)A settlement of claySourcing clays – Chris Doherty 12,000An archaeology of mudbrick houses – Serena Love 10,000Building materials – Mirjana Stevanovic 12,000Biographies of architectural materials and buildings: integrating high-resolution micro-analysis and geochemistry - Matthews, W., Almond, M.J., Anderson, E., Wiles, J., and Stokes, H. 10,000Ovens and hearths – Sonya Atalay and Sheena 5,000Floor chemistry – Bill Middleton 4,000Ceramics – Nurcan Yalman et al (including section on sourcing by Chris Doherty) 14,000Pottery residues – Sharmini Pitter 4,000Figurines – Lynn Meskell and Carrie Nakamura 12,000Stamp seals – Ali Umut Türkcan 5,000Clay balls – Sonya Atalay 8,000Clay objects – Lucy Bennison-Chapman 5,000Demanding technologiesGroundstone – Katherine Wright 10,000Chipped stone – Tristan Carter and Marina Milic 14,000Worked bone – Nerissa Russell 6,000Baskets – Willeke Wendrich 3,000Metal – Thilo Rehren and Tom Birch 4,000Pyrotechnology – Karl Harrison 4,000Paints – Duygu Çamurcuoğlu 5,000Beads – Rose Bains 8,000ConclusionAn integrated perspective on the uses of materials at Çatalhöyük based on the analysis of heavy residues – Milena Vasic and Slobodan Mitrovic 12,000CD – additional figures (50) and images (50) and tables (25)

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Book SynopsisThe Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey has been world famous since the 1960s when excavations revealed the large size and dense occupation of the settlement, as well as the spectacular wall paintings and reliefs uncovered inside the houses. Since 1993 an international team of archaeologists, led by Ian Hodder, has been carrying out new excavations and research, in order to shed more light on the people who inhabited the site. The present volume discusses general themes that have emerged in the analysis and interpretation of the results of excavations in 2000-2008. It synthesizes the results of research described in other volumes in the same series. The volume commences with accounts of the recent work on community collaboration at the site, and with discussions of the methods used at the site. It then synthesizes the work on landscape use and mobility, integrating the work of subsistence analysis and the analysis of human remains. The storage and sharing of food is a related topic. The ways in which houses were constructed, lived in and abandoned leads to a broad discussion of settlement and social organization at Çatalhöyük and of their change through time. For example, shifts in the themes that occur in paintings in houses change through time as part of a wider set of social, economic and ritual changes in the upper levels. The social uses of materials and technologies are explored and the roles of materials in personal adornment. Finally, the discussion of variation through place and time is recognized as dependent on scales of analysis and social process.Table of ContentsIntroduction: some integrated themes – Ian HodderCollaborative community archaeology at Çatalhöyük – Sonya AtalayEvaluating reflexive methodologies at Çatalhöyük – Asa Berggren and Bjorn NilssonLandscape and mobility at Neolithic Çatalhöyük – Kathy Twiss, Amy Bogaard, Mike Charles and othersStorage and sharing of food – Arzu DemirergiConstructing buildings – Mira Stevanovic, Eleni Asouti, Shahina Farid, Duygu ÇamurcuoğluAbandonment and closure – Nerissa RussellInside/outside – Amy BogaardSocial and settlement organization – Ian HodderTemporal change – Tristan CarterPaintings and change through time – Agata CzeszewskaThe social uses of colour – Karen Wright, Graeme EarlSocial materials and technologies – Serena LovePersonal adornment – Karen Wright, Nerissa Russell, Rose Bains, Daniella Bar Yosef, Milena VasicQuestions of scale – Slobodan Mitrovic

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Book SynopsisSutton Common in South Yorkshire is one of the best-known Iron Age multivallate sites in lowland Britain. This volume describes the results of the large-scale excavations undertaken there between 1998 and 2003, which have provided unparalleled insights into the function and meaning of this 4th-century BC 'marsh-fort'. Sutton Common is described as a place where the social identity of the local community was reinforced through the construction of the physical representation of the idea of community, using a bank-and-ditch arrangement that resembles the defences used elsewhere, particularly at hillforts. No houses were found within the enclosure, but some 150 four-post structures were excavated, many containing deposits of charred grain in one or two of their postholes. This well-dated site makes significant contributions to the debates on prehistoric enclosure, cosmology, food storage, and mortuary practices in prehistoric Britain and Europe.

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Book SynopsisBritain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 did not end the traffic of human beings across the Atlantic. Indeed, for many decades to come, hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans continued to be shipped into slavery. From 1840 to 1872 the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena played a pivotal role in Britain's efforts to suppress the slave trade, and over this time it received over 25,000 'liberated Africans', taken from slave ships by Royal Navy patrols. Conditions aboard the slavers were appalling, and many did not survive the journey. Rupert's Valley therefore became a graveyard to many thousands of Africans - 'a valley of dry bones' in the words of a visiting missionary. In 2008 archaeological excavations uncovered a small part of that graveyard, revealing the burials of over 300 victims of the slave trade. It was disposal on a massive scale, with the dead interred in a combination of single, multiple and mass graves. This book presents the finding of the archaeological and osteological study, and in so doing brings the inhumanity of the slave trade into vivid focus. It tells the story of a group of children and young adults who had lived in Africa only a few weeks prior to their death on St Helena, and whose remains bear witness to the cruelty of their transportation. However, the archaeology also shows them as more than just victims, but also as individuals with a sense of their own identity and culture. The slave trade continues to this day, and although this book is a study of the past it also serves as a reminder of evils that persist into the modern day.Trade ReviewThis is a timely and important work, essential reading for cultural historians of the nineteenth century, historical archaeologists, human remains specialists, those with an interest in funerary archaeology and indeed those like the current reviewer with an interest in the archaeology of the African Diaspora. Away from the undoubted value of this report as an archaeological research document, it retains a rare capacity among archaeological literature to provoke shocking and strong human emotions. The impact of this work is impressive on many levels. -- Archaeological Journal Archaeological Journal

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Book SynopsisSet in the context of this project's innovative landscape surveys, four extraordinary sites excavated at Haddenham, north of Cambridge chart the transformation of Neolithic woodland to Romano-British marshland, providing unrivalled insights into death and ritual in a changing prehistoric environment. The highlight of Volume I is the internationally renowned Foulmire Fen long barrow, with its preserved timber burial chamber and façade. The massive individual timbers allow detailed study of Neolithic wood technology and the direct examination of a structure that usually survives only as a pattern of post holes.

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Book SynopsisSet in the context of this project's innovative landscape surveys, four extraordinary sites excavated at Haddenham, north of Cambridge chart the transformation of Neolithic woodland to Romano-British marshland, providing unrivalled insights into death and ritual in a changing prehistoric environment. Volume II moves on to later periods, and reveals how Iron Age and Romano-British communities adapted to the wetland environment that had now become established.

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Book SynopsisThe Boeotia Survey in Greece is widely recognised as a milestone in Mediterranean landscape archaeology in the sophistication and rigour of its methodologies, and in the scale of the 25-year investigation. This first volume of the project's publication deals with the landscape that formed part of the territory of the ancient city of Thespiai. This landscape acted as the laboratory in which the project refined its methodology: the entire territory was traversed systematically by survey teams, and artefacts were collected not only from every archaeological site located but also as 'off-site' material indicative of land use practices such as manuring. The methodology made possible the construction of detailed period and density maps of rural activity, throwing unprecedented light on the interaction of the city with its hinterland particularly in its period of maximum size between the 5th century BC and the 6th century AD, as well as providing an exemplar for Mediterranean landscape archaeology more generally.Trade Review...it has been a pleasure to read this important volume, which is sure to be much quoted for both its methodological and historical conclusions.' -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn Mawr Classical Review [This volume] is significant for demonstrating the analytical potential of using intensive artifact-level data to produce more nuanced studies of settlement and land use.' -- AJA Online Book Reviews AJA Online Book Reviews

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the experience of the Temper project ( Training, Education, Management and Prehistory in the Mediterranean ) and wider examples from the Mediterranean, this volume explores the issues inherent in managing, interpreting and presenting prehistoric archaeological sites. The first section of the book contains thematic chapters on conservation, visitor management and interpretation, public participation, and issues of managing sites within their cultural landscape; the second section focuses on archaeology and education and the politics of national curricula, and presents detailed case studies. Written by academics and those working in the fields of archaeology, architecture, heritage management and education, this volume will be invaluable to students and practitioners alike.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Ian Hodder and Louise Doughty); Management Plans for Prehistoric Sites (Peter Chowne et al); Prehistoric Sites in the Regional Context: Management of the Setting and Cultural Landscape (Michael Turner); Protection and Conservation at Excavated Sites (Philip Grover and Yaacov Schaffer); Visitor Management and Interpretation at Prehistoric Sites (Louise Doughty and Aylin Orbasli); Community Involvement in the Management of Prehistoric Sites (Joseph Magro Conti); Guidelines for Preparing Management Plans for Prehistoric Sites (Aylin Orbasli); Educational Activities on Prehistoric Sites (Anne Chowne); Developing Educational Programmes for Prehistoric Sites: the Aatalhy k Case (Ayfer Bartu Candan et al); Developing Educational Programmes for Prehistoric Sites:the Greek Case Study - Paliambela, Kolindros (Kostas Kasvikis et al); Developing Educational Programmes for Prehistoric Sites: the Maltese Case Study (Jonathan Borg); National Curricula and the Politics of Archaeology (Kostas Kasvikis et al); Recommendations on Developing Educational Programmes for Prehistoric Sites (Louise Doughty).

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Book SynopsisThe site of Dhaskalio Kavos, on the remote Cycladic island of Keros, was extensively looted in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Investigations starting in1963 then revealed large quantities of fractured marble bowls, broken marble figures and smashed pottery of the Early Cycladic period from around 2500 BC. This report of the subsequent survey and rescue excavations of 1987-88 reveals the extraordinary richness of the site, now confirmed as one of the most prolific in Èlite goods of the entire Aegean early bronze age. Was it an unprecedentedly rich Early Cycladic cemetery, recently wrecked by looters? Or was the damage deliberately produced during early bronze age times in some procedure of ritual breakage and ceremonial deposition? Here the survey of the site and the rescue excavations undertaken within the looted area are documented in detail, with a full account of the finds. Alternative explanations for this extraordinary deposit are explored. What has been termed 'the Keros Enigma', in the light of the finds at the site, can now be reconsidered with the full documentation which this volume offers.Table of ContentsForeword (Photeini Zapheiropoulou); Preface and Acknowledgments (Colin Renfrew, Christos Doumas, Lila Marangou Giorgos Gavalas); Introduction (Colin Renfrew); Keros And The Islands Around (Lila Marangou); Earlier Work: (A) The 1963 Surface Collection (Colin Renfrew), (B) The 1963 Excavation (Christos Doumas), (C) The 1967 Rescue Project (Photeini Zapheiropoulou), (D) Earlier Work On Keros (Photeini Zapheiropoulou), (E) Other (Looted) Materials (Colin Renfrew); The 1987 Surface Survey: An Overview (Todd Whitelaw); Trenches Excavated In The Disturbed Area Of The Special Deposit (Colin Renfrew et al); The Pottery (Cyprian Broodbank, with an appendix by Jill Hilditch); The Marble Figurines (Colin Renfrew); The Stone Vessels: Introduction (Colin Renfrew), (A) The Marble Open Bowls (Sophia Voutsaki), (B) The Other Marble Vessels (Giorgos Gavalas), (C) The Grey Marble And Limestone Vessels (Kiki Birtacha), (D) Vessels Of Chlorite Schist (Colin Renfrew); Other Finds Of Stone: (A) The Obsidian (Tristan Carter, With Colin Renfrew, Paula Geake And Anastasia Angelopoulou), (B) The Stone Pestles (Chris Scarre), (C) Stone And Emery Tools (Kiki Birtacha), (D) Ornaments (Kiki Birtacha), (E) Miscellaneous Objects (Kiki Birtacha); Other Finds Of Clay: The Animal Protomes And Theriomorphic Vases (Christos Doumas), The Leaf, Mat And Cloth Impressions (Jane Renfrew), The Spindle Whorls (Giorgos Gavalas); The Metal Finds: (A) The Metal Artefacts (Kiki Birtacha); (B) The Metallurgical Remains (Myrto Georgakopoulou); Thraumatology (Breakage Patterns) (Colin Renfrew); Dhaskalio Kavos: Preliminary Discussion (Colin Renfrew); Summary In Greek; Index; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis volume concerns the palaeo-environmental and archaeological investigations of the upper Allen Valley of Cranborne Chase, Dorset, between 1998 and 2003, which revealed sequences of landscape development which contrast with those previously put forward for the region. A programme of valley-wide geoarchaeological survey and palynological analyses of the relict palaeo-channel system was conducted, along with sample investigations and open area excavations of a variety of prehistoric sites in the area. Among the many excellent illustrations, GIS modelling techniques have been used to interrogate and visualise some of this new data which has provided possible independent corroboration.Trade ReviewThis important study establishes a more complex, and more satisfactory, model for chalkland ecology between the fifth and the first millennia BCE than has previously been available. It is likely to set the agenda for landscape research for some years to come.' -- The Holocene 18.8 The Holocene 18.8

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Book SynopsisThe cathedral-like Niah Caves of Sarawak (Borneo) have iconic status in the archaeology of Southeast Asia, due to the excavations by Tom and Barbara Harrisson in the 1950s and 1960s which revealed the longest sequence of human occupation in the region, from (we now know) 50,000 years ago to the recent past. This book is the first of two volumes describing the results of new work in the caves by a multi-disciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers aimed at clarifying the many questions raised by the earlier work. This volume is a closely integrated account of how the old and new work combines to provide profound new insights into the prehistory of the region: the strategies developed by our species to live in rainforests from the time of first arrival; how rainforest foragers engaged in forms of ‘vegeculture’ thousands of years before rice farming; and how rice farming represented profound transformations in the social (and spiritual?) lives of rainforest dwellers, far more than being the dietary staple that it is today.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the companion volume to Rainforest Foraging and Farming in Island Southeast Asia: the Archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak. Together they present the results of new fieldwork in the caves and new studies of finds from earlier excavations, a project that has involved a team of over 70 archaeologists and geographers. Rainforest Foraging and Farming told the story of human activity in the caves over the past 50,000 years and how that story throws light on the history of our species in Island Southeast Asia from the time when modern humans first arrived to recent centuries. Archaeological Investigations in the Niah Caves describes the very wide range of methodologies used by the project to collect its evidence, and the key information from those studies about the changing nature of the rainforest over the past 50,000 years and how it sustained the lives of the people who used the caves for shelter or burying their dead. Together, these volumes affirm the unique importance of the Niah Caves for world heritage.

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Book SynopsisQuoygrew - a settlement of farmers and fishers on the island of Westray in Orkney - was continuously occupied from the tenth century until 1937. Focusing on the archaeology of its first 700 years, this volume explores how 'small worlds' both reflected and impacted the fundamental pan-European watersheds of the Middle Ages: the growth of population, economic production and trade from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries and the subsequent economic and demographic retrenchment of the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries. Concurrently, it addresses the nature of island societies, with distinctive identities shaped by the interplay of isolation and interconnectedness.Trade ReviewOverall, this monograph is an exemplary contribution to environmental archaeology in general, and to medieval North Atlantic studies in particular. -- David Griffiths Medieval Archaeology Vol. 57 (2013)Table of Contents1. Introduction: the Study of Island Societies (J.H. Barrett) 2. Viking Age and Medieval Orkney (J.H. Barrett) 3. Quoygrew and its Landscape Context (J.H. Barrett, L.R. Farr, D. Redhouse, S. Richer, J. Zimmermann, L. Sharpe, S. Ovenden, J. Moore, T. Poller, K.B. Milek, I.A. Simpson, M. Smith, B. Gourley & T. O’Connor) 4. The Quoygrew Sequence (J.H. Barrett & J.F. Gerrard) 5. Ecofact Recovery and Patterns of Deposition (J.H. Barrett & J.F. Harland) 6. The Maritime Economy: Mollusc Shell (N. Milner & J.H. Barrett) 7. The Maritime Economy: Fish Bone (J.F. Harland & J.H. Barrett) 8. Animal Husbandry: the Mammal Bone (J.F. Harland) 9. Fowling: the Bird Bone (J.F. Harland, R.A. Bennett, J.I. Andrews, T. O’Connor & J.H. Barrett) 10. Arable Agriculture and Gathering: the Botanical Evidence (C.T. Adams, S.L. Poaps & J.P. Huntley) 11. Feeding the Livestock: the Stable Isotope Evidence (J.H. Barrett & M.P. Richards) 12. Local Availability and Long-range Trade: the Worked Stone Assemblage (C.E. Batey, A.K. Forster, R.E. Jones, G. Gaunt, F.J. Breckenridge, J. Bunbury & J.H. Barrett) 13. Evidence of Exchange Networks: the Combs and other Worked Skeletal Material (S.P. Ashby with a contribution by C.E. Batey) 14. The Metal Finds and their Implications (N.S.H. Rogers, C.E. Batey, N.M.McQ. Holmes & J.H. Barrett) 15. Interpreting the Ceramics and Glass (D.W. Hall, L. Blackmore, G. Haggarty, S. Chenery, D. Gallagher, C.E. Batey & J.H. Barrett) 16. Being an Islander (J.H. Barrett)

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Book SynopsisSpong Hill, with over 2500 cremations, remains the largest early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery to have been excavated in Britain. This volume presents the long-awaited chronology and synthesis of the site. It gives a detailed overview of the artefactual evidence, which includes over 1200 objects of bone, antler and ivory. Using this information, together with programmes of correspondence analysis of the cremation urns and the grave-goods, a revised phasing and chronology of the site is offered, which argues that it is largely fifth-century in date. The implications of this revised dating for interpretations of the early medieval period in Britain and further afield are explored in full.Trade ReviewThe volume is dense reading but highly informative, and includes a wealth of detailed tables, maps and appendices for anyone interested in conducting additional analysis on the raw data. Catherine Hills and Sam Lucy should also be applauded for making good use of continental scholarship on artefact typologies central to their interest in measuring migration, spatial and social patterning, and genderand age-associations of goods included in cremation and inhumation graves. * Antiquity *“…what a triumph it is. At last it is possible to see, in this splendid book, the cemetery as a whole.” “This important publication changes our perceptions of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of England. Get a copy and read it.” * British Archaeology *

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Book SynopsisThis is the first volume charting the CAU’s on-going Barleycroft Farm/Over investigations, which now encompasses almost twenty years of fieldwork across both banks of the River Great Ouse at its junction with the Fen. Amongst the project’s main directives is the status of a major river in prehistory – when a communication corridor and when a divide? Accordingly, a key component throughout has been the documentation of the lower Ouse’s complex palaeoenvironmental history, and a delta-like wet landscape dotted with mid-stream islands has been mapped.This book is specifically concerned with the length of The Over Narrows, whose naming alludes to an extraordinary series of mid-channel ‘river race’ ridges. With their excavation generating vast artefact sets and unique palaeo-economic data, these ridges saw intense settlement sequences, ranging from Mesolithic camps, Grooved Ware, Beaker and Collared Urn pit clusters (plus field plots) to Middle Bronze fieldsystems and their attendant settlements, a massive Late Bronze Age midden complex and, finally, an Iron Age shrine. The latter involved extensive human bone or body-part deposition and bird sacrifice. Four upstanding turf barrows and two accompanying waterlogged pond barrows feature among the main excavations reported here. With more than 40 cremations (including in situ pyres), the resultant detailing of Early Bronze Age mortuary practices and the insights into the period’s monument construction are ground-breaking.This is an important book, for the scale of The Narrows’ excavations and palaeoenvironmental studies, its comprehensive dating programmes and, particularly, the innovative methodologies and analyses undertaken. Indeed, a commitment to experiment has lain at the project’s core.Trade ReviewThis is a great example of an important interpretative collaboration between archaeologists and artists, and something that hopefully will be seen increasingly in books and exhibitions… I cannot conclude this review better than to quote from Richard Bradley’s foreword to Twice-crossed River, ‘If it has the influence that it and its companion volumes deserve, prehistoric archaeology cannot be the same again.’ * Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society *It is a big, complicated book with equally big (and complicated) aims, offering more than the sum of its parts. It thinks ambitiously on subjects such as the nature of culture change, even if, at the final count, the evidence for such was not always forthcoming… There is also a degree of honesty in the writing that is not normally found in technical monographs. * Antiquity *

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Book SynopsisThis is the first volume describing the results of the CAUs excavations in Cambridge and it is also the first monograph ever published on the archaeology of the town. At 1.5 hectares the Grand Arcade investigations represent the largest archaeological excavation ever undertaken in Cambridge, significantly enhanced by detailed standing building recording and documentary research.Trade ReviewThis handsomely produced volume […] represents the first major publication of [Cambridge's] later archaeology, and much is covered in this highly detailed, but very readable publication. * The Archaeological Journal *

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Book SynopsisAlexander's conquest of the Persian empire had far-reaching impact, in space and time. But Macedonian power also brought with it Greeks and Greek culture. This book explores the creation of this Hellenistic world, its cultural, political and economic transformations, and how far these were a consequence of Alexander's conquests.

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Book SynopsisAddresses strategies of vituperation and eulogy within the Republic, and examines the mechanisms and effects of praise and blame.

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the results of the Bryn Mawr College excavations of the Early Bronze Age site of Karatas in the plain of Elmali in northern Lycia. It is a final report of the pottery, except for miniature vessels. The occupation at Karataş has been divided into six main periods (I–VI) on the basis of stratigraphy of the Central Mound. Periods I–III date to EB I, Periods IV and V to EB II, and Period VI to EB III. The pottery showed continuous development during the entire span of settlement, mainly in the addition of new features to a basically conservative repertoire.

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Book Synopsis"ROMAN AND LATE ANTIQUE MEDITERRANEAN POTTERY". In November 2008, an ICREA/ESF Exploratory Workshop on the subject of late Roman fine wares was held in Barcelona, the main aim being the clarification of problems regarding the typology and chronology of the three principal table wares found in Mediterranean contexts (African Red Slip Ware, Late Roman C and Late Roman D). The discussion highlighted the need to undertake a similar approach for other ceramic classes across the Mediterranean provinces. In addition, it was perceived that ceramic studies are often dispersed and in such a variety of publications that it is difficult to follow progress in this vast field. Therefore, a series devoted to Roman and late Antique pottery in the Mediterranean was proposed to serve as a reference point for all potential authors devoted to pottery studies on a pan-Mediterranean basis. The creation of such a series would not only serve as a means of publishing the results of the ICREA/ESF workshop but also as a network for publication of in-depth monographs devoted to archaeological ceramics of the Mediterranean in the Roman and late Antique periods. With this first volume on ceramic assemblages and the dating of late Roman fine wares, Archaeopress launch this new series devoted to the publication of ceramics in the Roman Mediterranean and outlying territories from the late Republic to late Antiquity.Table of ContentsIntroductions (a) (M.A. Cau, P. Reynolds, M. Bonifay) ; (b): LRFW Working Group (text by M.A. Cau, P. Reynolds and M. Bonifay), An initiative for the revision of late Roman fine wares in the Mediterranean (c. AD 200-700): The Barcelona ICREA/ESF Workshop ; (c) LRFW Working Group (text by P. Reynolds, M. Bonifay and M.A. Cau), Key contexts for the dating of late Roman Mediterranean fine wares: a preliminary review and ‘seriation’ ; 1) Ceramica e contesti nel Quartiere Bizantino del Pythion di Gortina (Creta): alla ricerca della “complessità” nella datazione (E. Zanini and S. Costa) ; 2) Coins, pottery and the dating of assemblages (R. Reece) ; 3) Late Roman D. A matter of open(ing) or closed horizons? (J. Poblome and N. Firat) ; 4) A note on the development of Cypriot Late Roman D forms 2 and 9 (P. Reynolds) ; 5) Chronologie finale de la sigillée africaine A à partir des contextes de Chãos Salgados (Mirobriga?): différences de facies entre Orient et Occident (J.C. Quaresma) ; 6) Sigillatas africanas y orientales de mediados del VI d. C. procedentes de los rellenos de colmatación de una cisterna de Hispalis (Sevilla). Los contextos de la Plaza de la Pescadería (J. Vázquez Paz and E. García Vargas) ; 7) A 7th century pottery deposit from Byzantine Carthago Spartaria (Cartagena, Spain) (P. Reynolds) ; 8) Contextos cerámicos del siglo VI d.C. de Iluro (Hispania Tarraconensis) (V. Revilla Calvo) ; 9) Note sur les sigillées orientales tardives du port de Fos (Bouches-du-Rhône, France) (F. Marty) ; 10) L’agglomération de Constantine (Lançon-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône): deux contextes du VIe siècle (G. Duperron and F. Verdin) ; 11) Un dépôt de céramiques du début du Ve s. apr. J.-C. sur le site de la rue de la Douane à Porquerolles (Hyères, Var) (E. Pellegrino) ; 12) Un ensemble de céramiques de l’extrême fin du IVe s. apr. J.-C. sur le site du n°43 de l’avenue du XVe Corps à Fréjus (Var) (E. Pellegrino) ; 13) Campiani: un ensemble du IIe siècle à Lucciana (Haute-Corse) (S. Lang-Desvignes) ; 14) Fine wares from Beirut contexts, c. 450 to the early 7th century (P. Reynolds) ; 15) Le mobilier céramique de la citerne C4 de la Maison de la Rotonde à Carthage (A. Bourgeois)

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Book SynopsisThe Mycenaean Linear B tablets include numerous references to religion, such as details of offerings, banqueting foodstuffs or land-tenure relating to cult personnel. While contributing significantly to our understanding of early Greek religion, the documents are exclusively economic and administrative records and the limitations of such sources have long been recognised. Few attempts have been made, however, to analyse the purely economic information about religion we do have in Linear B. Such analysis is essential to understanding the place of religion in Mycenaean palace society. This book asks a simple but important question: What proportion of the resources available to the palaces was directed towards support for religion?Trade ReviewIn this publication, [Bendall] has done Aegean prehistory a huge service... anyone who reads Bendalls book will agree on its value, meticulous attention to detail, and engaging reanalysis. I very much look forward to the next installment.' -- American Journal Of Archaeology American Journal Of Archaeology

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Book SynopsisAnglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History is an annual series concerned with the archaeology and history of England and its neighbours during the Anglo-Saxon period. ASSAH offers researchers an opportunity to publish new work in an interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary forum which allows for a diversity of approaches and subject matter. Contributions focus not just on Anglo-Saxon England but also its international context.Table of ContentsReport on excavations of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Updown, Eastry, Kent (Martin Welch) The date and nature of Wat's Dyke: a reassessment in the light of recent investigations at Gobowen, Shropshire (Laurence Hayes and Timothy Malim) The Middle and Late Anglo-Saxon defences of western Mercian towns (Steven Bassett) The significance of OE Burh in Anglo-Saxon England (Simon Draper) The distribution of the 'Winchester' style in Late Saxon England: metalwork finds from the Danelaw (Jane Kershaw) Warriors, heroes and companions: negotiating masculinity in Viking-Age England (Dawn Hadley)

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Book SynopsisThe aim of this volume is to explore Anglo-Saxon perceptions of form and order in their different manifestations, through two main strands texts of all kinds, and art, architecture and archaeology. Contributors come from many different specialisms, enabling wide-ranging discussion, as well contributions from other Insular cultures and a continental European perspective.Table of ContentsPreface (Leslie Webster) Medium and message in early Anglo-Saxon animal art: some observations on the contexts of Salin’s Style I in England (Tania M. Dickinson) ‘…and pretty coins all in a row’ (Anna Gannon) Anglo-Saxon art: some forms, orderings and their meanings (Richard Bailey) The church triumphant: the figural columns of early ninth-century Anglo-Saxon England (Jane Hawkes) From metalwork to manuscript: some observations on the use of Celtic art in Insular manuscripts (Susan Youngs) Framing the Book of Durrow inside/outside the Anglo-Saxon world (Nancy Netzer) The sign at the cross-roads: the Matthean sacrum in Anglo-Saxon gospel books before Alfred the Great (Carol Farr) The last Chi-rho in the West? From Insular to Anglo-Saxon in the Boulogne 10 Gospels (Richard Gameson) On the distribution of verse types in Old English Poetry (Geoffrey Russom)

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Book SynopsisAnglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History is an annual series concerned with the archaeology and history of England and its neighbours during the Anglo-Saxon period. ASSAH offers researchers an opportunity to publish new work in an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary forum which allows for a diversity of approaches and subject matter. Contributions focus not just on Anglo-Saxon England but also its international context. Volume 17 includes papers on iron smelting in Cambridgeshire, Flixborough and King Alfred, as well as a major report on Anglo-Saxon Eastry in Kent which sets out a full review and presentation of the antiquarian record, publishes the new burial finds and sets these findings into the context of other evidence for Anglo-Saxon settlement in Eastry and its neighbourhood.

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Book SynopsisThe present volume provides a much needed contribution to island archaeology by examining the characteristics of the initial occupation of the Mediterranean islands. It enhances our understanding of the mechanisms, strategies, cultural contingencies and social alliances that enabled the consolidation of a permanent human presence in these settings. Particular attention is given to small islands, which can present increased demands on people to adapt and survive due to their more marginal environments, and on islands where recent research has led to a reassessment of the date and character of initial occupation. The research presented draws on examples from Cyprus, the Cyclades, the Adriatic, the Aeolian islands, and Malta, together with overviews of the Mediterranean and in comparison to Oceania.The volume throws into relief the multi-layered and multi-dimensional theatre provided by the Mediterranean, drawing attention to the complexities of island occupation. The notion

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Book SynopsisAlfred’s Castle is a small enclosed site south of the Ridgeway on the Berkshire Downs, excavated between 1998 and 2000 by a team from Oxford University. This was the third site excavated by the Hillforts of the Ridgeway project (after White Horse Hill and Segsbury). Although small, Alfred’s Castle displayed a long and complex history, starting with early Bronze Age round barrows on which later Bronze Age linear ditches were aligned, these in turn were used to form enclosures in the Iron Age. In the early Roman period a small villa house was built inside the smaller enclosure, which then shows some use in the early medieval period. The long use of the site raises questions of memory, history and continuity, leading us to wonder how earlier phases of use affected later ones. This volume contains the results of excavations at Alfred’s Castle and an account of an art project by Simon Callery. This is the third volume dedicated to our hillfort excavations on the Berkshire Downs and it ends with an account of the area more broadly, which sees complicated developments from the Bronze Age into the medieval period through the constructions of barrows, field systems, linear ditches and sites of various forms and sizes. How these combined into communities of the living and of the dead are considered using all the evidence currently available.

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Book SynopsisAnglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History is a series concerned with the archaeology and history of England and its neighbours during the Anglo-Saxon period.ASSAH offers researchers an opportunity to publish new work in an inter- and multi-disciplinary forum that allows for a diversity of approaches and subject matter. Contributions placing Anglo-Saxon England in its international context are as warmly welcomed as those that focus on England itself.

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Book SynopsisAnglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 20. Early Medieval Monasticism in the North Sea Zone: Recent Research and New Perspectives edited by Gabor Thomas and Alexandra Knox. ASSAH 20 is based upon the proceedings of an international conference held to celebrate the results of excavations targeting the Anglo-Saxon royal centre and monastery of Lyminge, Kent, 2008-15. Drawing upon the contributions of leading historians and archaeologists, the volume provides a fresh examination of monasticism in Anglo-Saxon Kent framed within its wider north-west European context, together with a range of complementary perspectives on the interlinked themes of Christianisation, kingdom formation and monastic expansion vividly illuminated through the archaeology of Lyminge.

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Book SynopsisThis work explores the theological defences conceived by the Egyptians at Thonis-Heracleion to guard the Canopic gate, which in the Saïte period was the main entrance to the port of Thonis-Heracleion, the entry-point to Egypt for foreign vessels. The divine forces, including Khonsu-Thoth and Neith, were deployed alongside military forces that were also located at the Canopic gate. The temple to Khonsu-Thoth, Lord of the Gezirah, was dedicated by Amasis, and also served to legitimate the power of the Saïte kings. This study brings together a range of material evidence for these theological defences.

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Book SynopsisA selection of papers on the Anglo-Saxon period, including papers on non-ferrous dress-accessories from early medieval Lincoln; The Anglo-Saxon settlement at Catholme, Staffordshire; transformation and use of insular mounts from Viking-Age burials in TrØndelag central Norway, and evidence from two rural Anglo-Saxon sites in Suffolk.Table of Contents1. Ethnic identity or something else? The production and use of non-ferrous dress-accessories and related items from early medieval Lincoln Letty Ten Harkel 2. What was the basis for Bede’s list of overlords in Historia Ecclesiastica 2.5? Richard Shaw 3. The Anglo-Saxon settlement at Catholme, Staffordshire: a re-assessment of the chronological evidence and possible re-interpretation John Hines 4. Objects from a distant place: transformation and use of insular mounts from Viking-Age burials in TrØndelag central Norway Aina Heen Pettersen 5. Two rural Anglo-Saxon sites in Suffolk: archaeological excavations at Church Road, Snape and Lime Avenue, Oulton Antony Mustchin

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Book SynopsisSark came briefly to prominence in 1719 when the Sark hoard was found – a pot containing Gaulish coins and embossed silver plaques. It was brought to England and disappeared. The Archaeological Survey of Sark began in 2004 with a view to studying the island in the context of Atlantic maritime networks to explore the themes of remoteness and connectivity. Fieldwork organized through the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford has been carried out annually and continues. A complete gazetteer of nearly 100 sites has been compiled together with a full listing of all the artefacts recovered. Notable are the large number of Neolithic stone axes, many made from the local dolerite, and the widespread use of local serpentine to make amulets Sark: a sacred island contains full reports on eight archaeological excavations including details of an early Neolithic settlement, a middle Neolithic ritual site, a Beaker cist burial a Mid–Late Bronze Age settlement, a Gallo-Roman ritual site (from which the Sark hoard came) and an early Medieval farm. Results of surveys of a Dark Age monastery and 16th century French fortifications are also given.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Part 1 Sark through time 1.1 Introduction 1.2 The Island 1.3 The Island Story in Outline 1.4 The Discovery of the Island’s Archaeological Heritage 1.5 The Archaeology of Sark: the Sites 1.6 The Archaeology of Sark: Material Culture 1.7 Sark in the Wider World: Remoteness and Connectivity Part 2 The Excavations 2.1 Tanquerel Field (Site GS22): 2005–8 and 2011–14 2.2 Gaudinerie Field (Site GS21): 2009–11 2.3 The Seigneurie (Site GS67): 2013–16 2.4 Little Sark Standing Stone (Site LS3): 2015–17 2.5 The Mill Mound (Site GS2.3): 2015 2.6 Clos de La Tour (Site GS27): 2015 2.7 Eperquerie Quarry (Site GS11.1): 2007 2.8 The Plaisance (Site GS63): 2016 . Part 3 Supporting Data 3.1 Gazetteer of Sites and Finds by Barry Cunliffe and Andrew Prevel 3.2 Geophysical Surveys: 2005 and 2009 by Andy Payne 3.3 Radiocarbon Dates by Mike Dee 3.4 Petrographical Sampling of Artefacts and in situ Rocks from Sark by R.A. Ixer 3.5 Analysis of an Early Bronze Age axe from Little Sark by Peter Bray and Brian Gilmour 3.6 Chemical analysis of Late Bronze Age Metalwork from Tanquerel Field by Peter Northover 3.7 The Discovery of the Sark Hoard by Richard Axton Bibliography Part 4 Online data prepared by Wendy Morrison

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Book SynopsisThe creativity of artistic production during the Middle Kingdom is vast and highly appreciated, but still far from fully understood. The studies presented in this volume aim to present this extraordinary output of two and three-dimensional artworks in a critical reevaluation of old ideas and convictions while advancing new methods and exchanging ideas. The core of “Change and Innovation” is looking at traditions, seeking answers to changes, and hoping to provide a better understanding of the concept of the salient characteristics of Middle Kingdom art.

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Book SynopsisThis study is the evaluation of more than 1000 stelae dating to the late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period (1800 to 1550 BC). The stelae are grouped into workshops. The place of production for these workshops is discussed.

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Book SynopsisA catalogue of the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period Egyptian stelae in the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. Many of them are lost in WWII. The publication uses old archive photographs. Includes full translations. Presented as 153 loose pages and a 28-page booklet, all elegantly held in a fine paper wrapping.Trade ReviewMasterful work… another welcome addition to the Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum […] series, from two scholars whose incontestable expertise in presenting objects in museum collections is well known. * Journal of Egyptian Archaeology *

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Book SynopsisThis volume serves as a catalog and handbook for the description for Pan-Grave ceramics, and that considers the Pan-Grave tradition and its ceramic production within the broader socio-cultural framework of Ancient Egypt and Nubia during the mid-Second Millennium BC.

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents an evaluation of late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period (c. 1850 to 1550 BC) sculpture. Style, material and dating are discussed in length. The book is well illustrated (more than 100 b/w plates) and includes a catalogue of all statues of the period.

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume presents a series of reviews, overviews and unpublished archives from several historic expeditions in the Naqada region of Upper Egypt. This includes nineteenth-century fieldwork led by Gaston Maspero, Jacques de Morgan and Flinders Petrie through to surveys conducted in the twentieth century and new initiatives in the region in the 2010s. It encompasses not just the better-known Predynastic finds, but also later Pharaonic era material as well as Coptic heritage. Together the volume argues that the Naqada region in worthy of renewed critical attention and is a more dynamic and complex landscape than has generally been acknowledged.

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Book SynopsisThis Festschrift contains current research about the symbolism of hieroglyphs, religious texts, depictions and graffiti from the royal tomb KV 11 and museum objects from Leyden, Chicago, Cambridge, Paris and Berlin. It covers i.a. the virtual reunion of the sarcophagus of Ramesses III and of a statue of Ramesses VI.This Festschrift in honour of Willem Hovestreydt contains 13 articles on current research, mainly focusing on the Egyptian New Kingdom. The honoured one and several contributors work on a project recording the tomb of Ramses III. Therefore several articles focus on the symbolism of hieroglyphs, religious texts, depictions and graffiti from the royal tomb KV 11 (the burial place of king Ramses III in the Valley of the Kings) . Further contributions include discussions on museum objects from Leiden, Chicago, Cambridge, Paris and Berlin. There is a virtual reunion of the sarcophagus of Ramesses III and of a statue of Ramesses VI. Other studies focus in the sun sign in hieroglyphic script, a discussion of the word 'fox' in ancient Egyptian, as well as as new look at the relief of Merymery now in Leiden.

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Book SynopsisSituated in what now seems a remote corner of south-west Scotland, Wigtown was once an important county town. With its harbour and location at the lowest fording point of the River Cree, Wigtown was at one time part of a major network of land and sea routes, including a pilgrim route to Whithorn. The layout of the town is notable for its large market square, a reflection of its importance in the cattle trade in the medieval period. The town achieved burgh status in the thirteenth century, by which time it was an important trading centre, and the present arrangement of streets and burgage plots dates to this time. Today the principal access route is from the north, rather than through the East and West Ports which controlled access to the great market place. The burgh arms depict a three-masted sailing ship, demonstrating the importance placed on its maritime trade. This book examines both the town’s political history, as it passed between the earldoms of Wigtown and Douglas, and its economic history, as it competed with Whithorn, before its eventual decline in the later nineteenth century. The authors use the surviving buildings to examine the development of the town from the medieval to the modern period. This book is part of the Scottish Burgh Survey – a series funded by Historic Scotland designed to identify the archaeological potential of Scotland’s historic towns.

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Book SynopsisExcavations at Collingbourne Ducis revealed almost the full extent of a late 5th7th century cemetery first recorded in 1974, providing one of the largest samples of burial remains from Anglo-Saxon Wiltshire. The cemetery lies 200 m to the north-east of a broadly contemporaneous settlement on lower lying ground next to the River Bourne.

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Book SynopsisArchaeological excavation during the construction of a new supply line for the electrification of the Great Western Railway Main Line, uncovered part of a large, previously unknown, Romano-British settlement along the main road between the Roman towns of Aquae Sulis and Cunetio. The full extent of the settlement is unknown but evidence from metal detector finds and field names suggests that it may have extended for at least 0.9 km along the Roman road.

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Book SynopsisIreland is home to some of the world’s oldest astronomically-aligned structures, giant stone monuments erected over 5,000 years ago. Despite their apparent simplicity, these megalithic edifices were crafted by a scientifically knowledgeable community of farmers who endeavoured to enshrine their beliefs in a stellar afterlife within the very fabric of their cleverly-designed stone temples.Finally back in print, this reissued edition presents evidence suggesting the builders of monuments such as Newgrange and its Boyne Valley counterparts were adept astronomers, cunning engineers and capable surveyors. Their huge monuments are memorials in stone and earth, commemorating their creators’ perceived unity with the cosmos and enshrining a belief system which resulted from a crossover between science and spirituality.As investigation of this awe-inspiring civilisation of people continues on many levels, evidence is emerging that significant archaeological sites dating from deep in prehistory are linked – not just through mythology, archaeology and cosmology – but through an arrangement of complex, and in some cases astonishing, alignments. Some of these alignments of ancient sites stretch from one side of Ireland to another.While the accounts of the lives of some prominent Irish saints appear to be steeped in folklore and mystery, it seems from new interpretations of the literature that the cosmic world view which existed in Neolithic Ireland experienced a continuity right into the Early Christian period.Join us on this fascinating exploration of stones, stars and stories."The sheer amount of information contained within the book is mind-boggling. It is well thought out and structured… The more you read the evidence the more convinced you become." – Astronomy& Space magazine"Refreshing and fascinating . . . a wonderful magical book, sumptuously illustrated and a must for anyone who loves to delve deep into our past." – Kenny’s Irish Bookshop"A fascinating insight into Ireland’s ancient burial sites" – Irish Independent"A monument" – Drogheda Independent“It is a beautiful book and very well written. The information that you collected is outstanding.” – Barbara Carter, co-author, The Myth of the Year and The Goddess and the Bull“The authors… reach interesting and challenging conclusions about the significance of ancient astronomical knowledge. The book is jammed with colour illustrations, maps and photographs. A thoroughly interesting read!” – Archaeology Ireland"An essential book that demonstrates just how much the beliefs and practices of our ancestors were influenced by the movement of the stars, in particular those of the constellation Cygnus - the celestial swan and Northern Cross - once seen as a source of life and the destination of the soul in death. A must have tome for all those passionate about what remains of our fast disappearing ritual monuments of the prehistoric age." - Andrew Collins, author of The Cygnus MysteryTrade Review"A fascinating insight into Ireland's ancient burial sites" - Irish Independent; "A monument" - Drogheda Independent; "The sheer amount of information contained within the book is mind-boggling. It is well thought out and structured . . . The more you read the evidence the more convinced you become." - Astronomy & Space magazine; "It is a beautiful book and very well written. The information that you collected is outstanding." - Barbara Carter, co-author, The Myth of the Year and The Goddess and the Bull; "The authors . . . reach interesting and challenging conclusions about the significance of ancient astronomical knowledge. The book is jammed with colour illustrations, maps and photographs. A thoroughly interesting read!" - Archaeology Ireland; "An essential book that demonstrates just how much the beliefs and practices of our ancestors were influenced by the movement of the stars, in particular those of the constellation Cygnus - the celestial swan and Northern Cross - once seen as a source of life and the destination of the soul in death. A must have tome for all those passionate about what remains of our fast disappearing ritual monuments of the prehistoric age." - Andrew Collins, author of The Cygnus Mystery; "Refreshing and fascinating . . . a wonderful magical book, sumptuously illustrated and a must for anyone who loves to delve deep into our past." - Kenny's Irish Bookshop; "What an amazing adventure it is to read this precious book!" - A reviewer on www.amazon.co.uk, one of a number who gave it five stars.

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