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Book SynopsisThis book contains a series of selected papers presented at two symposia entitled ‘Scientific study of rock art’, one held in the IFRAO Congress of Rock Art in La Paz, Bolivia, in June 2012, the other held in the IFRAO Congress in Cáceres, Spain, in September 2015; as well as some invited papers from leading rock art scientists. The core topic of the book is the presentation of scientific approaches to the materiality of rock art, ranging from recording and sampling methods to data analyses. These share the fact that they provide means of testing hypotheses and/or of finding trends in the data which can be used as independent sources of evidence to support specific interpretations. The issue of the materiality of visual productions of the distant past, which in archaeological theory has attracted much attention recently and has stimulated much conceptual debate, is addressed through a variety of scientific approaches, including fieldwork methods, laboratory work techniques and/or data analysis protocols. These, in turn, will provide new insights into human agency and people-image engagements through the study of rock art production, display and use.Table of ContentsRelevant Issues for the Design of a Protocol for the Interdisciplinary Study of Rock Art – Eugenia P. Tomasini, Mara Basile, Marta S. Maier, Norma Ratto; Superimpositions and Attitudes Towards Pre-existing Rock Art: a Case Study in Southern Patagonia – Anahí Re; Pigments Used in Rock Paintings from the East and West of the Iberian Peninsula Analysed by X-ray Fluorescence: Analogies and Differences – A. Martín Sánchez, C. Roldán García, M. J. Nuevo, J. Oliveira, S. Murcia Mascarós, C. Oliveira; The Material Scientific Investigation of Rock Art: Contributions from non-Invasive X-ray Techniques – Jillian Huntley, Clive Freeman Galamban; Methodological Approach to the Materiality of Rock Paintings Based on Their Physicochemical Characterisation. Proposal and Reflections from Their Study in Chile – Marcela Sepúlveda; Step Forwards in the Archaeometric Studies on Rock Paintings in the Bogotá Savannah, Colombia. Analysis of Pigments and Alterations – Judith Trujillo T.; What Should We Do or Not Do for the Preservation or Remedial Action in Prehistoric Painted Caves? – F. Bourges, P. Genthon, D. Genty, M. Lorblanchet, France, E. Mauduit, D. D’Hulst, E. David, J.-L. Zimmerman, N. Ferrer; Forensic Replication Work with Australian Cave Art – Robert G. Bednarik, Yann-Pierre Montelle; Experimental Rock Art Studies. Replication of Pictographs from La Primavera Locality (Santa Cruz, Argentina) – Rocío V. Blanco, Natalia G. Barreto; Measurements and Replications of Hand Stencils: a Methodological Approach for the Estimation of the Individuals’ Age and Sex – Natalia Carden, Rocío Blanco; Time and Rock Art Production: Explorations on the Material Side of Petroglyphs in the Semiarid North of Chile – Francisco Vergara, Andrés Troncoso, Francisca Ivanovic; Taphonomy of the Early Petroglyphs at Daraki-Chattan and in the Region Around It in Chambal Basin, India – Giriraj Kumar, Ram Krishna, Robert G. Bednarik; The Tribology of Petroglyphs – Robert G. Bednarik; Understanding the Technology of Very Small Cupules in Daraki-Chattan, India – Ram Krishna, Giriraj Kumar; Evidence of Collaboration Among Art-Makers in Twelve Upper Palaeolithic Caves – Leslie Van Gelder; A Survey of Developments in Dating Australian Rock-Markings – Graeme K. Ward; A New Cold Plasma System for Pictogram 14C Sampling – Marvin W. Rowe, Eric Blinman, John C. Martin, J. Royce Cox, Mark MacKenzie, Lukas Wacker; Direct Dating of Bolivian Petroglyphs Using Indirect Microerosion Analysis – Robert G. Bednarik; Use of Theodolite and Photographic Techniques in the Recording and Analysis of the Geographical and Astronomical Entorno (surrounding) – Patricio Bustamante, Ricardo Moyano, Daniela Bustamante

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Book SynopsisThe Old Kingdom of Egypt (Dynasties 4–6, c. 2600–2180 BC) is famous as a period of the builders of the largest Egyptian pyramids. It is generally accepted that the evidence on the use of copper alloy tools from this era is meagre. Martin Odler gathers the textual, iconographic and palaeographic evidence and examines Old Kingdom artefacts in order to revise this view on the use of copper alloy tools and model tools. Furthermore, he provides updated definitions of tool classes and tool kits, together with the context of their use. Besides rare specimens of full-size tools, the largest corpora of the material have been preserved in the form of model tools in the burial equipment of the Old Kingdom elite and were most probably symbols of their power to commission and fund craftwork. Moreover, the size and elaboration of the model tools were probably connected to the social status of the buried persons. The long-standing division in the Egyptological literature between full-size tools and model tools is questioned. The ancient sources also enable to show that the preservation of material culture from the Old Kingdom was largely dependent on a conscious selection made within the past culture, with completely different settlement and funerary contexts and a conspicuous absence of weapons. The volume is completed by co-authored case studies on archaeometallurgy of selected Old Kingdom artefacts in the collection of the Egyptian Museum of Leipzig University, on morphometry of Old Kingdom adze blades and on the finds of stone and ceramic vessels associated with the findings of so-called Old Kingdom model tools.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Limits of subject, chronology and chorology ; 2. Tools and model tools in archaeological theory ; 3. Tools and toilet implements in Ancient Egypt – history of research ; 4. Definitions of artefacts ; 5. Research tools ; 6. Copper tools in Old Kingdom textual and iconographic sources ; 7. Archaeological sources – material culture ; 8. Tools and toilet implements ; 9. Towards a semiosis of tools in the Old Kingdom culture ; 10. Conclusion ; 11. Case studies ; Bibliography ; Web sources ; Online Catalogue bit.ly/2cT1NFz

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Book SynopsisThe Cheshire hillforts are some of the most conspicuous features of the prehistoric landscape in Cheshire, located on the distinctive Cheshire Sandstone Ridge. They have been subject to years of archaeological research and investigation, however this has delivered only a limited understanding of their chronology, function, occupation history, economy and status. These hillforts are major elements of the prehistory of the region, but the lack of information about them is a major gap in our understanding. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Habitats and Hillforts Landscape Partnership Project focused on six of the hillforts and their surrounding habitats and landscapes. The aim of the project was not only to develop archaeological understanding, but also to raise awareness of these special assets in the landscape and the management issues they face. The Habitats and Hillforts Project was a collaborative partnership, led by Cheshire West and Chester Council, with Historic England, the National Trust, the Woodland Trust and the Forestry Commission, as well as private landowners. These landowners and land managers came together to share approaches to managing heritage assets on the Sandstone Ridge. The project core team was assisted by university specialists and archaeological contractors in surveying, excavating and researching the hillforts. A range of techniques including archival research, geophysical survey, earthwork survey, lidar, fieldwalking, excavation and palaeoenvironmental analysis, was employed to develop our understanding of these significant sites. A large and dedicated group of volunteers and students joined in this work, which encouraged more people to enjoy these assets and take an active role in their management. The Habitats and Hillforts Project has shed new light on the Cheshire Hillforts. Their chronology can now be seen to have developed from middle/late Bronze Age origins, much earlier than traditionally accepted. The possible development of distinct architectural styles in their construction can be suggested and an enhanced understanding of their surrounding landscape has been achieved. This volume details the results of the four year project, and sets out how these contribute to a deeper understanding of the ordering of the landscape in western Cheshire during the later prehistoric period and beyond. It should form a vital resource for informing future research priorities regarding the late Bronze Age and Iron Age of both Cheshire and the wider North West region.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Background to the Habitats and Hillforts Project (Jill Collens and Dan Garner); Chapter 2 The historical study of the Cheshire Hillforts (Dan Garner); Chapter 3 The Lithic Collection from the area around Woodhouse Hillfort, Frodsham (Ian Brooks); Chapter 4 The Lost Archive of Eddisbury: Rediscovering Finds and Records from the 1936–1938 Varley Excavations (Richard Mason and Rachel Pope); Chapter 5 Earthwork surveys and investigations at Woodhouse Hill, Helsby Hill and Maiden Castle (Mitchell Pollington); Chapter 6 Geophysical Survey (Dan Garner); Chapter 7 A lidar survey of the Cheshire Sandstone Ridge (Dan Garner); Chapter 8 Excavations at Woodhouse Hillfort (Dan Garner); Chapter 9 Excavations at Helsby Hillfort (Dan Garner); Chapter 10 Excavations at Eddisbury Hillfort (Dan Garner); Chapter 11 Rescuing a scheduled monument: Recent work at Merrick’s Hill, Eddisbury Hillfort (Richard Mason and Rachel Pope); Chapter 12 Excavations at Kelsborrow Hillfort (Dan Garner); Chapter 13 Environmental changes in lowland Cheshire: Hatchmere and Peckforton Mere (Richard Chiverrell, Heather Davies and Pete Marshall); Chapter 14 Pollen and plant macrofossil analysis of peat deposits from Ince Marshes (RSK Environment Ltd.); Chapter 15 Emerging Themes (Dan Garner); Bibliography; Online Appendices

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Book SynopsisArchaeological excavation has been widely used in the recovery of human remains and other evidence in the service of legal cases for many years. However, established approaches will in future be subject to closer scrutiny following the announcement by the Law Commission in 2011 that expert evidence will in future be subject to a new reliability-based admissibility test in criminal proceedings. This book evaluates current archaeological excavation methods and recording systems – focusing on those used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australasia, and North America – in relation to their use in providing forensic evidence, and their ability to satisfy the admissibility tests introduced by the Law Commission, and other internationally recognised bodies. In order to achieve this aim, two analyses were undertaken. First, attention was directed to understanding the origins, development, underpinning philosophies, and current use of archaeological excavation methods and recording systems in the regions selected for study. A total of 153 archaeological manuals/guidelines were examined from archaeological organisations operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. This research indicated that the Stratigraphic Excavation method and Single Context Recording system, the Demirant Excavation method and Standard Context Recording system, the Quadrant Excavation method and Standard Context Recording system, and the Arbitrary Level Excavation method and Unit Level Recording system were the approaches most often used to excavate and record graves. Second, the four defined methodological approaches were assessed experimentally, using a grave simulation of known properties to test the excavation, recording, and interpretation of material evidence, the definition of stratigraphic contexts, and understanding of stratigraphic relationships. The grave simulation also provided opportunities to measure archaeologists’ narratives of the grave formation process against the known properties of the grave simulation, and to assess whether archaeological experience had any impact on evidence recovery rates. Fifty repeat excavations were conducted. The results obtained from this experimental study show that the Quadrant Excavation method and Standard Context Recording system was the most consistent, efficient, and reliable archaeological approach to use to excavate and record clandestine burials and to formulate interpretation-based narratives of a grave’s formation sequence. In terms of the impact that archaeological experience had on evidence recovery rates, archaeological experience was found to have little bearing upon the recovery of evidence from the grave simulation. It is suggested that forensic archaeologists use the Quadrant Excavation method and Standard Context Recording system to excavate and record clandestine burials. If this approach is unable to be used, the Demirant Excavation method and Standard Context Recording system, or the Stratigraphic Excavation method and Single Context Recording system should be used. Both of these aforementioned techniques proved to be productive in terms of material evidence recovery and the identification and definition of stratigraphic contexts. The Arbitrary Level Excavation method and Unit Level Recording system should not be used, as this method proved to have an extremely poor evidence recovery rate and destroyed the deposition sequence present within the simulated grave.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Background; Chapter 3 Methodology; Chapter 4 Archaeological Manual/Guideline Analysis; Chapter 5 Archaeological practitioner interviews; Chapter 6 Excavation experiment; Chapter 7 Conclusion; Chapter 8 Recommendations; Bibliography; Appendix A: List of contributors; Appendix B: Archaeological manual/guideline analytical criteria; Appendix C: Interview questions; Appendix D: Grave excavation experiment locations

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Book SynopsisCollections management practice is an often ignored aspect of archaeological research and salvage activities in many Middle Eastern countries, yet literally thousands of artefacts are recovered every year with no real strategies for managing them sustainably into the future. In this guide, archaeologist Dianne Fitzpatrick sees archaeological collections management not in terms of a last-ditch effort to solve on-site storage crises and preservation problems at the end of a project, but as a means of integrating achievable good-practice strategies into research designs and site management plans from the start, or for that matter, at any time that assist project directors and local Antiquities Directorates. Strategies designed to protect and preserve ensure the cultural significance and research potential of artefacts is maintained throughout the archaeological process and encourages those creating, managing and preserving archaeological collections to work toward the same goals. Merging together conservation-led principles with current on-site practice in a practical manner, Managing Archaeological Collections in Middle Eastern Countries aims to be a good practice standard or checklist.Table of ContentsAims and Objectives; Archaeological Collections Management Practice; Archaeological Collections Management; Recording Archaeological Collections; Short-Term: Registration, Analysis And Access; Long-Term: Archaeological Collections Storage; Implementing Archaeological Collections Management Strategies; Summary; Glossary; Bibliography; Appendix 1: Field Study: Syria and Turkey; Appendix 2: Survey: Archaeologists, Conservators and Curators

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the relevance of time travel as a characteristic contemporary way to approach the past. If reality is defined as the sum of human experiences and social practices, all reality is partly virtual, and all experienced and practiced time travel is real. In that sense, time travel experiences are not necessarily purely imaginary. Time travel experiences and associated social practices have become ubiquitous and popular, increasingly replacing more knowledge-orientated and critical approaches to the past. The papers in this book explore various types and methods of time travel and seek to prove that time travel is a legitimate and timely object of study and critique because it represents a particularly significant way to bring the past back to life in the present.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Meaning of Time Travel (Cornelius Holtorf) ; Time Travel Using 3D Methodologies: Visualising the Medieval Context of a Baptismal Font (Nicoló Dell’Unto, Ing-Marie Nilsson† and Jes Wienberg) ; The Kivik Grave, Virtual Bodies in Ritual Procession: Towards New Artistic Interactive Experiences for Time Travellers (Magali Ljungar-Chapelon) ; Time Travel Paradoxes and Archaeology (Per Stenborg) ; Taking Us to the Past and the Past to Us (Isto Huvila) ; Use the Past, Create the Future: The Time Travel Method, a Tool for Learning, Social Cohesion and: Community Building (Ebbe Westergren) ; To Make and to Experience Meaning: How Time Travels are Perceived amongst Participants (Niklas Ammert and Birgitta E. Gustafsson) ; Time Travellers Beware! Risk and Responsibility in Public Uses of History (Stefan Nyzell) ; Forming Bridges Through Time Travel (Cecilia Trenter) ; Performing the Past: Time Travels in Archaeological Open-air Museums (Stefanie Samida) ; Being There: Time Travel, Experience and Experiment in Re-enactment and ‘Living: History’ Performances (Mads Daugbjerg) ; Face-to-Face with the Past: Pompeii to Lejre (Cornelius Holtorf) ; The Power of Time Travel Roeland Paardekooper) ; Mediated and Embodied Pasts – A Comment (Carsten Tage Nielsen) ; Waterworld: Travels in Time between Past and Future Worlds (Bodil Petersson) ; A Cup of Decaf Past: An Archaeology of Time Travel, Cinema and Consumption (Dawid Kobiałka) ; On Time Travelling and Cinema (Laia Colomer) ; A Cup of Decaf Past and Waterworld (Niklas Hillbom) ; History as an Adventure: Time Travel in Late Modernity from the Perspective of a European Ethnologist (Michaela Fenske) ; Time Travel to the Present: Interview with Erika Andersson Cederholm (Cornelius Holtorf and Bodil Petersson) ; Time-Travelling Tourism: Reflections on the Past as a Place of Fascination as well as Refuge (Thomas Småberg) ; Time Travels as Alternative Futures (Britta Timm Knudsen) ; Anachronism and Time Travel (Bodil Petersson)

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Book SynopsisClassical and Hellenistic cemeteries can give us more than descriptions and styles of pottery, art and burial architecture; they can speak of people, societies, social conventions as well as of social distinctions. This book aims to employ and illustrate the unique strengths of burial evidence and its contribution to the understanding of social identity and status in the Classical and Hellenistic Northern Peloponnese. By thoroughly reviewing published burials from the regions of Achaia, Arcadia, the Argolid and Cynouria, Corinthia, Elis and Triphylia, spatial and temporal variations which led to a change in definitions of ‘society’ and perceptions of ‘community’ on the basis of shifting reactions to death and the dead are demonstrated. Social roles of men, women, children, elite and non-elite individuals as expressed or negotiated in the mortuary record are explored. Preconceived ideas and stereotypes within and about the Classical and Hellenistic burials are challenged. In spite of the many constraints imposed by the limited previous research, what clearly emerges from this study is the wide degree of variation in what are often loosely termed ‘customary’ or unappealing Classical and Hellenistic burial practices in the Northern Peloponnese. If death was indeed an occasion or ‘opportunity’, then the meaning of this opportunity varied along the shifting dimensions, in time and space, of identity and status.Table of ContentsPreface; Chapter 1 – Introduction; Chapter 2 – A Case Study: The Argolid; Chapter 3 – Death and Space in the Northern Peloponnese during Classical and Hellenistic Times; Chapter 4 – The Mortuary Record; Chapter 5 – Burial Offerings; Chapter 6 – The Funeral Ritual; Chapter 7 – Conclusions; Bibliography; Appendix A: groups of burials (GB); Appendix B: individual graves (IG)

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Book SynopsisThe scholarship assembled in this volume was first presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in Austin, Texas, in April 2014. Some of the authors have chosen to publish their conference papers while others have expanded their topics. As a collection, the papers demonstrate a myriad of approaches to understanding the history of the Puuc region, incorporating archaeological, architectural, epigraphic, and iconographic studies. The geographic scope is also broad. Many of the recent and ongoing archaeological projects in the eastern Puuc region and its periphery are represented, including Dzehkabtún, H’wasil, Kabah, Kiuic, Labná, Sayil, Uxmal, and Xcoch, as well as the Chocholá ceramic tradition from the western Puuc. The projects are at various stages—some preliminary, others a portion of a larger investigation, while still others are revisiting older data—all with the aim to advance our field of study. It has been more than 10 years since a volume dedicated solely to the Puuc region has been published. While Puuc research frequently appears in collected volumes on the Yucatán peninsula or the Terminal Classic period, we are pleased to offer this representative example of ongoing work.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Archaeology: An Enigmatic Maya Center: Climate Change, Settlement Systems, and Water Adaptations at Xcoch, Puuc Region, Yucatán (Michael P. Smyth, Nicholas P. Dunning, Eric M. Weaver, Philip van Beynen, and David Ortegón Zapata) ; In Search of Kilns: The Forms and Functions of Annular Structures in the Bolonchén District (Ken Seligson, Tomás Gallareta Negrón, Rossana May Ciau, and George J. Bey III) ; From Temple to Trash: Analysis and Interpretation of a Dismantled Stucco Façade and its Deposit from Kiuic, Yucatán (Melissa Galván Bernal, George J. Bey III, and Rossana May Ciau) ; Un Acercamiento al Patrón de Asentamiento de Kabah, Yucatán (Luis Raúl Pantoja Díaz) ; Investigación y Restauración Arquitectónicas en el Codz Pop de Kabah, Yucatán (Gustavo Novelo Rincón) ; Terminaciones Rituales en los Principales Edificios de la Región Puuc (Lourdes Toscano Hernández y José Huchim Herrera) ; ‘Archaeological Fieldwork in the Transitional Zone Between Puuc and Chenes (Campeche, Mexico)’ (Iken Paap) [Open Access: Download] ; Part II: Art and Writing: The Nunnery Quadrangle at Uxmal: Creation, Captive Sacrifice, Ritual, and Political Authority in a Puuc Maya Palace Complex (Jeff Karl Kowalski) ; The Hieroglyphic Platform at Kabah (Meghan Rubenstein and Philipp Galeev) ; Making it a Date: Positioning the Chocholá Style in Time and Space (Maline D. Werness-Rude) ; The Hieroglyphic Doorway and Other Monuments from H’Wasil, Campeche (Carlos Pallán Gayol and Antonio Benavides Castillo) ;

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Book SynopsisGreek sanctuaries are among the best known archaeological sites in ancient Greece. However, after over 150 years of excavations and research we know surprisingly little about some of their aspects, such as the rituals enacted in the sanctuary, the nature of original local deities and how aspects of their character were assimilated into those of the Olympians, why sanctuaries were established in certain places, and how to determine who the sanctuary was established for when no epigraphical material is present. Artemis and Her Cult provides a first attempt to bring together archaeological and literary sources from two main Artemis sanctuaries, hoping to contribute to a clearer picture of her cult. An account of Artemis’ different characters describes her as a mother of gods, a goddess of wilderness, animals and hunt; a goddess of birth, infants and children (and young animals); as well as a goddess of youth and marriage and rites of passage. These descriptions are followed by an up-to-date account of the archaeological record of the sanctuaries of Artemis Orthia at Sparta and Artemis Ephesia at Ephesus. For the comparison the site of Athena Alea at Tegea is examined. The three accounts offer a full study of the architectural development and the range of artefacts made of different materials. The varied character is Artemis are further analysed by looking at the archaeology relating to the cult and the rites of passage taking place at the sites. The rites of passage are reconstructed by using the literary accounts.Trade Review'Overall, [Leger] sets a fine pattern for archaeological studies on other deities that may be envisaged in the future.' -- Garry W. Trompf * Ancient West & East *Table of ContentsAbstract; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Artemis; 3. Archaeology Related to Cult Activity; 4. Common Features; 5. Cult Activity; 6. Artemis and Her Cult; Final conclusion; Bibliography; Artemis and Her Cult – Appendices: Appendix 1: A Summary of the Three Main Attic Cult Sites for Artemis; Appendix 2: Votive Objects Found at Artemis Orthia, Sparta; Appendix 3: Votive objects found at Artemis Ephesia, Ephesus; Appendix 4: Dawkins’ 1910 and 1907 Excavation Plans. Dawkins 1929; Appendix 5: Modern Overview of Artemis Orthia Site, Sparta; Appendix 6: Comparison of Dating by Dawkins and Boardman; Appendix 7: Inscription by Soixiadas Arikrateos; Appendix 8: Table of Masks Found at Artemis Orthia, Sparta; Appendix 9: Examples of the Masks from the Spartan Museum of Archaeology; Appendix 10: Wrinkled Masks: Same or Different Category?; Appendix 11: The Origin of Masks; Appendix 12: Lead Figurines; Appendix 13: Plans of the different phases of the architecture at the site of Artemis Ephesia; Appendix 14: Modern overview of Artemis Ephesia site, Ephesus; Appendix 15: Ephesian Coins (BC unless otherwise stated); Appendix 16: Artemis Ephesia Statues and their Features Tabled Based on Plate Numbers Fleischer 1973; Appendix 17: Plan of the Temple of Alea Athena, Tegea; Appendix 18: The Legend of Telephos; Appendix 19: Votive Objects Found at Alea Athena, Tegea; Appendix 20: Common features at sanctuaries of Artemis at Sparta, Ephesus, Brauron and Athena at Tegea; Appendix 21: krateriskoi depicting clothed females; Appendix 22: krateriskoi depicting naked females; Appendix 23: krateriskoi depicting musical instruments; Appendix 24: krateriskos showing a bear-like figure

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Book SynopsisFor centuries inventors have been dreaming up schemes to allow people to submerge beneath the waves, stay a while then return again unharmed. The Resurgam was designed for this purpose, as a stealthy underwater weapon which was the brainchild of an eccentric inventor realised in iron, timber, coal and steam. The inventor was George William Garrett, a curate from Manchester who designed and built the Resurgam submarine in 1879 using the limited technology available to a Victorian engineer on a small budget. This is not the story of Garrett himself as this story has already been told, instead this book tells the story how the Resurgam was built, how she may have worked and what happened to her. The book introduces Garrett the inventor then puts the creation of Resurgam in context by considering similar submarines being developed at the end of the 19th century. Garrett’s relationship with the Royal Navy is related here as they were his intended client and the tale continues with a description of how the submarine was built and how it may have worked. The end of the story relates how the Resurgam came to be lost in 1880 pieced together from documents and newspaper reports. Curiously, aspects of the tale do not fit with what was found by underwater archaeologists recording the wreck so other ideas are explored about how and why the submarine was lost.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Glossary; Timeline; George William Littler Garrett; 19th Century Submarines; Garrett and the Royal Navy; The Egg; Building Resurgam; The Resurgam Submarine in Use; The First and Last Voyage; Searching for Resurgam; Rediscovery; The SubMap Project; Later Site History; Site Formation; Resurgam Today; A Reanalysis of the Loss of Resurgam; The End?; Appendix 1: Tables; Appendix 2: The Open Letter; References

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Book SynopsisThe Seventh Central European Conference of Egyptologists. Egypt 2015: Perspectives of Research (CECE7) was held at the University of Zagreb in Croatia in 2015. It was co-organised by two scholarly institutions: the Department of History at the Centre for Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb, Croatia (Dr Mladen Tomorad), and the Department of Ancient Cultures of the Pułtusk Academy of Humanities in Pułtusk, Poland (Dr Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska). This book presents a selection of papers which were read at the conference. The volume is divided into six sections in which thirty-two scholars from fourteen European countries cover various fields of modern Egyptological research. The first group of five papers is devoted to language, literature and religious texts; in the second section three authors describe various themes related to art, iconography and architectural studies; the third group contains four contributions on current funerary and burial studies; in the fourth (largest) section, ten authors present their recent research on material culture and museum studies; the fifth is concerned with the history of Ancient Egypt; and in the last (sixth), two authors examine modern Egyptomania and the 19th century travellers to Egypt.Table of ContentsPreface ; Section 1: Language, Literature and Religious Texts ; Time(s) in Ancient Egyptian: Perspectives of a Broad Lexical Study. The Case of dwA.t and dwA (Gaëlle Chantrain) ; Nu, Continuity and Everlastingness in the Pyramid Texts (Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska) ; ‘Children of Weakness’ in the Book of Gates (Mykola Tarasenko) ; Is There an Egyptian Hero? – the Contributions of Mythological and Literary Studies to an Egyptological Subject (Bárbara Botelho Rodrigues) ; The Study of Sacred Space in Ancient Egypt: an Example of Interaction Between Egyptology and Other Fields of Knowledge (Guilherme Borges Pires) ; Section 2: Art, Iconography and Architecture Studies ; An Examination and Analysis of the Role of the Iconographic Rosette Motif in the Egyptian Artistic Repertoire: a Case Study (Cheryl Hart) ; A Note on the Late Middle Kingdom Stelae ‘Workshop’ at Thebes (Danijela Stefanović) ; Domestic Architecture and Daily Life in Meroitic Nubia (Marco Baldi) ; Section 3: Funerary and Burial Studies ; The Earliest Source of the So-called Book of Two Ways as a Coffin Floorboard Decoration from the Early Middle Kingdom (Wael Sherbiny) ; Egyptian Coffins at the Fitzwilliam Museum: a Case Study in Collection Formation (Helen Strudwick) ; The History of the Main Burial Shaft of Theban Tomb 99 from 1450 BC to the Present Day (Nigel Strudwick) ; Provenancing Roman Period Mummy Masks: Workshop Groups and Distribution Areas (Asja Müller) ; Section 4: Material Culture and Museum Studies ; The Decorated Pottery from Proto- and Early Dynastic Periods at Tell el-Farkha (Western Kom), Egypt (Magdalena Sobas) ; The Sunshade after the Old Kingdom – Female Attribute with Hathoric Connotation? (Lubica Hudáková) ; Settlement Pottery from the Old Kingdom Period at Tell El-Murra Trench T5 (Magdalena Kazimierczak) ; Some Ramesside Appropriations of Ancient Memphis (Steven Snape) ; A Stelophorous Statuette from the National Archaeological Museum of Athens: an Adorer Offering a Hymn–Stele to the Solar God Rē‛ [aiγ Λ 108] (Alicia Maravelia) ; The Cult of Bastet during the First Millennium BC: some Bronzes from the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest (Maria Diletta Pubblico) ; Shabtis from the Museum and Private Collections in Croatia: Dating and Typological Study (Mladen Tomorad) ; Shabtis and Pseudo-Shabtis from the Roman Provinces of Pannonia, Dacia and Moesia. An Overview (Dan-Augustin Deac) ; The Egyptian Collection at the Civico Museo di Storia ed Arte of Trieste: its History and Some Highlights (Susanna Moser) ; Excavating an Archive. The Borgia Collection of Egyptian Antiquities in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN) (Stefania Mainieri) ; Section 5: Historical Studies ; The Neolithic Period in Lower Egypt – Research Problems and Priorities (Agnieszka Mączyńska) ; Meret-Neith: in the Footsteps of the First Woman Pharaoh in History (Jean-Pierre Pätznick) ; Regional Administration in Late Middle Kingdom Egypt (Alexander Ilin-Tomich) ; Enemies Hanged Upside (Head) Down (Uroš Matić) ; Egypt and the Southern Levant Nomadic Populations: the Dynamics of Relations During Late Bronze/Early Iron Age (Eva Katarina Glazer) ; Section 6: Egyptomania and Modern Travellers to Egypt ; Wonderful Things: Thematic Transmission in Egyptian Revival Jewellery (Joyce Tyldesley) ; Eight Years Following the Traces of Giuseppe and Amalia Nizzoli: Preliminary Results of the Nizzoli Project (Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo and Irene Guidotti)

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Book SynopsisOne of the most fascinating topics in the study of ancient art concerns artistic practices and models and the means of transmission of iconographic designs and decorative compositions. This phenomenon, although well known, has not drawn much attention of scholars of the ancient art. Apart from copies of originals, the practice dates back to the first civilizations and may be even older. The media used could be painted vignettes on papyri, paint on leather, or sketches painted on ostraca, used as pattern books. This issue is practically unheard of regarding ancient Greece, although a few media have been found which may have facilitated the transmission of iconographic designs and decorative compositions. In this study we present some examples that suggest the existence of pattern books in the Greek world. If the media used in the Greek world are insofar unknown, the same cannot be said of the Roman world. Written sources mention the existence of manuals in the form of papyrus scrolls (stemmata, imagines) which served as models as well as inspiration for the artists.Table of ContentsForeword by Delfim Leão: Maria Helena da Rocha-Pereira: the Suitable Kairos Back Again; The Transmission of Iconographic Designs and Decorative Compositions: ; 1. Prolegomena; 2. The Transmission of Iconographic Designs and Decorative Compositions in the Greek World; 3. Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio; 4. Case Studies; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe archaeology of the Maltese archipelago is remarkable. Lying at the heart of the central Mediterranean, ancient lives were, at times, moulded by isolation and harsh elements and the landscape is shaped by millennia of intensive land use. Ancient finds from the islands are rare, and those held in the British Museum form an important collection. Represented is a wide cultural range, spanning the Early and Late Neolithic, the Bronze Age, Roman and more recent historic periods. From the early 1880s, Malta attracted a fascinating array of historians, collectors and travellers and, on one level, the British Museum’s holdings represent their activities, but on another, the collections reflect the complex path antiquarianism has played out in Malta as it moved steadily toward fledgling archaeological investigations. Significantly, artefacts excavated by notable Maltese archaeologist, Sir Themistocles Zammit, at the key Neolithic site of Tarxien, and those uncovered by Margaret Murray at Borġ in-Nadur form a crucial part of the collection.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Antiquarian and Archaeological Pursuits in Malta; The Archaeological Sequence of Malta; Catalogues: Collection 1. Joseph Becket Collings (1836); Collection 2. Sir Charles Thomas Newton (1852); Collection 3. Reverend Greville John Chester (1864–1886); Collection 4. Charles Townley (1869); Collection 5. Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks (1877); Collection 6. John Scott Tucker (1879); Collection 7. T. W. N. Robinson (1886); Collection 8. Professor Sir Themistocles Zammit (1919–1923); Collection 9. Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton (1921); Collection 10. Basil Browne (1921); Collection 11. Sir William Martin Conway, Baron Conway of Allington (1923); Collection 12. Margaret Murray (1923); Collection 13. Dr Gordon Ward (1927–1933); Collection 14. George Fabian Lawrence (1936); Collection 15. Arthur John Matthews (1937); Collection 16. Mrs Barchard (1947); Collection 17. Mrs Frank Baxter (1948); Collection 18. H. E. Coulson (1959); Collection 19. G. S. Bagley (1961); Collection 20. F.W. Robins (1963); Collection 21. Charles Taylor Trechmann (1964); Collection 22. Dr A. W. J. Houghton (1971–1974); Collection 23. Harris Dunscombe Colt (1973); Collection 24. Captain Macleod (1980); Collection 25. Mr E. de C. Tillet (1984); Collection 26. Helen Douglas Finlay (1987); Collection 27. A. H. L. F Pitt-Rivers (1991); Collection 28. John Pierpont Morgan; Collection 29. Henry Christy; Collection 30. Unknown Donors; Collection 1. Joseph Becket Collings; Collection 2. Sir Charles Thomas Newton; Collection 3. Reverend Greville John Chester; Collection 4. Charles Townley; Collection 5. Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks; Collection 6. John Scott Tucker; Collection 7. T. W. N. Robinson; Collection 8. Professor Sir Themistocles Zammit; POA 198 Series, Possibly from Zammit’s Collection; Collection 9. Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton; Collection 10. Basil Browne; Collection 12. Margaret Murray; Collection 13. Dr Gordon Ward; Collection 14. George Fabian Lawrence; Collection 15. Arthur John Matthews; Collection 16. Mrs Barchard; Collection 17. Mrs Frank Baxter; Collection 18. H. E. Coulson; Collection 19. G. S. Bagley; Collection 20. F. W. Robins; Collection 21. Charles Taylor Trechmann; Collection 22. Dr A. W. J. Houghton; Collection 23. Harris Dunscombe Colt; Collection 24. Captain Macleod; Collection 25. Mr E. de C. Tillet; Collection 26. Helen Douglas Finlay; Collection 27. Pitt-Rivers Museum; Collection 28. John Piermont Morgan; Collection 29. Henry Christy; Collection 30. Unknown Donors; Catalogue Figures; Bibliography; Appendix: 1. Correspondence between E. Magri SJ and E.A. Wallis Budge on the Bighi Inscriptions; 2. Correspondence between M.A.Murray and Mr Smith

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Book SynopsisThe Nordic Bronze Age Symposium began modestly in 1977 with 13 participants, and has now expanded to over 120 participants: a tenfold increase that reflects the expanding role of Bronze Age research in Scandinavia, not least amongst younger researchers. From having taken a back seat in the 1970s, it is now in the driver’s seat in terms of expanding research themes, publications and international impact. This collection of articles helps to explain why the Bronze Age has come to hold such a fascination within modern archaeological research. By providing new theoretical and analytical perspectives on the evidence new interpretative avenues have opened, it situates the history of the Bronze Age in both a local and a global setting.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Sophie Bergerbrant and Kristian Kristiansen) ; New perspectives on Nordic Bronze Age graves (Kristian Kristiansen) ; Mjeltehaugen: Europe’s northernmost Bell Beaker expression? (Anette Sand-Eriksen) ; Bronze Age burials in megalithic graves in Falbygden (Malou Blank) ; Identifying commoners in the Early Bronze Age: burials outside barrows (Sophie Bergerbrant, Kristian Kristiansen, Morten E. Allentoft, Karin M. Frei, T. Douglas Price, Karl-Göran Sjögren and Anna Tornberg) ; Visible ships were the graves of Bronze Age ritual specialists (Gisela Ängeby) ; From bird wings to fool’s gold. Organic materials and stone from burials of the Late Bronze Age (Karen Margrethe Hornstrup) ; Craft and materials in the Bronze Age (Nils Anfinset) ; On the behaviour of potters and metalworkers at the Narkūnai hillfort (Vytenis Podėnas and Evaldas Babenskas) ; Castelluccio painted pottery: shared repertoires and local identity: A case study from Early Bronze Age Sicily (Valentina Copat, Annalisa Costa and Paola Piccione) ; Bronze Age metal workshops in Denmark between 1500–1300 BC: elite-controlled craft on Zealand (Heide Wrobel Nørgaard) [Open Access: Download] ; Bronze casting specialists during the Late Bronze Age in the Lake Mälaren region of East Middle Sweden (Reidar Magnusson) ; Crafts and resources — western Norway in the Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age (Nils Anfinset) ; New currents in Scandinavian Bronze Age settlement and landscape archaeology (Mette Løvschal and Kristian Brink) ; Time warps and long-term structures: images of Early Bronze Age landscape organisation in south-west Denmark (Marianne Rasmussen) ; Settlements, political economy and social organisation: a study from the Únětice Circumharz Region (Claes Uhnér) ; Continuity and change in settlement from LN II to EBA II. New results from a southern Jutland inland region (Martin Egelund Poulsen) ; Tanum 1821 — Examining cooking pits in landscape studies (Stig Swedberg, Annika Östlund and Oscar Jacobsson) ; Introduction to the rock art session at the 13th Nordic Bronze Age symposium (Johan Ling) ; ‘It’s a man’s world’? Sex and gender in Scandinavian Bronze Age rock art (Christian Horn) ; Carved ship images from the Bronze Age barrows of north-eastern Zealand: on the trail of Bronze Age farmerfishers and seafarers (Liv Appel) ; Materiella bilder: Visuella uttryck bland Mälarvikens hällbilder (Fredrik Fahlander) ; Re-cut rock art images (with a special emphasis on ship carvings) (Gerhard Milstreu) ; The Kivik tomb: Bredarör enters into the digital arena — documented with OLS, SfM and RTI (Ulf Bertilsson, Johan Ling, Catarina Bertilsson, Rich Potter and Christian Horn) ; The northern perspective 2000 BC – AD 1 (Marianne Skandfer and Joakim Wehlin) ; Textiles from the peripheries? Upland evidence from Norway (Christopher Prescott and Lene Melheim) ; Stone Age appearances in the south-eastern Arctic Bronze Age (Jarkko Saipio) ; Different Bronze Ages — the emergence of diverging cultural traditions in the southern inland, Norway (Hilde Rigmor Amundsen) ; Nordic-Mediterranean relations in the second millennium BC (Serena Sabatini and Lene Melheim) ; The wheel and the sun: ‘Glocal’ symbologies of wheel-pendants across Europe (Sara De Angelis and Maja Gori¹) ; Danish beads of Egyptian and Mesopotamian glass in context, and the amber connection (Flemming Kaul and Jeanette Varberg) ; Mortuary rituals at Mycenaean Dendra: the Baltic connection and the role of amber (Ann-Louise Schallin) ; The North from the perspective of the Greek mainland in the Late Bronze Age (Helène Whittaker) ; Identity, individuals and agency in the Bronze Age (Sophie Bergerbrant) ; Communicating identity through built space — Concise-sous-Colachoz (CH), a case study (Markus Spring) ; Tracing boundaries of local group identities in the Early Bronze Age — south-west Norway (Knut Ivar Austvoll) ; Intentionally made: objects as composite indexes of agency and the case of the Late Bronze Age house urns (Serena Sabatini)

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Book SynopsisAthenian governance and culture are reconstructed from the Bronze Age into the historical era based on traditions, archaeological contexts and remains, foremost the formal commensal and libation krater. Following Mycenaean immigration from the Peloponnesos during the transitional years, changes in governance are observable. Groups under aristocratic leadership, local and immigrant, aspired to coexist under a surprisingly formal set of stipulations that should be recognized as Athens’ first constitution. Synoikismos did not refer to a political union of Attica, sometimes attributed to Theseus, but to a union of aristocratic houses (oikoi). The union replaced absolute monarchy with a new oligarchical-monarchy system, each king selected from one of the favoured aristocratic houses and ruling for life without inheritance. The system prevailed through the late eleventh to the mid-eighth c. and is corroborated by Athenian traditions cross-referenced with archaeological data from the burial grounds, and a formerly discredited list of Athenian Iron Age kings. Some burial grounds have been tentatively identified as those of the Melanthids, Alcmeonids, Philaids and Medontids, who settled the outskirts of Athens along with other migrant groups following the decline of the elite in the Peloponnesos. While the Melanthids left during the 11th c. Ionian Migration other aristocratic houses remained and contributed to the evolution of the historical era polis of Athens. One noble family, the Alcmeonids preserved their cemetery into the Archaic period in a burial record of 600 years’ duration. Incorporated into this work is a monograph on the Athenian formal krater used by these primarily Neleid aristocratic houses in assembly and ritual. Some Homeric practices parallel those found in Athens, so the Ionic poets may have documented customs that had existed on the Mainland and were transferred to Ionia during the Ionian Migration. The demise of both the constitution and the standard, ancestral krater in Athens following a mid-eighth c. watershed is testimony to an interval of political change, as noted by Ian Morris, before the systematized establishment of annual archonship in the following century. The support this research has given to the validity of the King List has resulted in a proposed new chronology, with an earlier onset for the Geometric period at 922 BC, rather than the currently accepted 900 BC. The relative chronology of Coldstream based on style is generally accepted here, but some intermediate stages are revised based on perceptible break data, such as the onset of a new kingship, a reported war, or the demise of a governance system.Table of ContentsForeword; Terms & Abbreviations; Chapter I Kratos & Krater – Introduction & Summary; Chapter II The Bronze Age Antecedents; Chapter III The Kratos of the Transitional Era; Chapter IV The Kratos of the Iron Age; Chapter V The Athenian Iron Age Krater; Chapter VI The Krater Catalogue

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Book SynopsisThe XXI International Congress of Roman Frontier studies was hosted by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums in Newcastle upon Tyne (Great Britain) in 2009, 60 years after the first Limeskongress organised in that city by Eric Birley in 1949. Sixty years on, delegates could reflect on how the Congress has grown and changed over six decades and could be heartened at the presence of so many young scholars and a variety of topics and avenues of research into the army and frontiers of the Roman empire that would not have been considered in 1949. Papers are organised into the same thematic sessions as in the actual conference: Women and Families in the Roman Army; Roman Roads; The Roman Frontier in Wales; The Eastern and North African Frontiers; Smaller Structures: towers and fortlets; Recognising Differences in Lifestyles through Material Culture; Barbaricum; Britain; Roman Frontiers in a Globalised World; Civil Settlements; Death and Commemoration; Danubian and Balkan Provinces; Camps; Logistics and Supply; The Germanies and Augustan and Tiberian Germany; Spain; Frontier Fleets. This wide-ranging collection of papers enriches the study of Roman frontiers in all their aspects.Table of ContentsForeword (David J Breeze); Introduction by the Editors; Women and Families in the Roman Army (Session organisers: Carol van Driel-Murray, Martina Meyr, Colin Wells): Women, the Military and patria potestas in Roman Britain (Lindsay Allason-Jones); Beyond von Petrikovits - artefact distribution and socio-spatial practices in the Roman military (Penelope Allison); Some thoughts about the archaeological legacy of soldiers' families in the countryside of the civitas Batavorum (Harry van Enckevort); The Families of Roman Auxiliary Soldiers in the Military Diplomas (Elizabeth M. Greene); British families in the Roman army: living on the fringes of the Roman world (Tatiana Ivleva); Women and Children in Military Inscriptions from northern Germania Superior (Michael J. Klein); The Empress and her Relationship to the Roman Army (Kai M. Topfer); Women and children at the Saxon Shore fort of Oudenburg (Belgium) (S. Vanhoutte and A. Verbrugge); Roman Roads: Decem Pagi at the end of antiquity and the fate of the Roman road system in eastern Gaul (Joachim Henning, Michael McCormick and Thomas Fischer); The planning of Roman Dere Street, Hadrian's Wall, and the Antonine Wall in Scotland (John Poulter); Some notes on the development of the military road network of the Roman Empire (Zsolt Visy); The Roman Frontier in Wales (Session organisers: Barry Burnham, Jeffrey Davies): Rewriting The Roman Frontier in Wales: an introduction (Barry C. Burnham and Jeffrey L. Davies); Recent work on the site of the legionary fortress at Caerleon (Peter Guest and Tim Young); Roman Roads in Wales (R. J. Silvester); The Cadw-grant-aided `Roman Fort Environs Project' - the contribution of geophysics (David Hopewell); Roman Frontiers in Wales: 40 years on (Jeffrey L. Davies); The military `vici' of Wales - progress since Jarrett 1969 (Barry C. Burnham); The Eastern and North African Frontiers (Session organisers: James Crow, Eberhard Sauer): Transformation patterns of Roman Forts in the Limes Arabicus from Severan to Tetrarchic and Justinianic periods (Ignacio Arce); Recent Research on the Anastasian Wall in Thrace and late antique linear barriers around the Black Sea (James Crow); New Research on the Roman Frontier in Arabia (S. Thomas Parker); The Archaeology of Sasanian Frontier Troops: Recent Fieldwork on Frontier Walls in Northern Iran (Hamid Omrani Rekavandi, Eberhard Sauer, Tony Wilkinson and Jebrael Nokandeh); Soldiers or Tribesmen: who guarded the frontiers of late Roman Africa? (Alan Rushworth); Roman-Armenian Borders, Part I: The Upper Euphrates Frontier (Everett L. Wheeler); Smaller Structures: towers and fortlets (Session organisers: Bill Hanson, Matt Symonds); Bauliche und funktionale Gliederung des Obergermanisch-Raetischen Limes anhand der Turmgrundrisse (Thomas Becker); A Roman road station on the Pannonian limes (Szilvia Biro); River frontiers or fortified corridors? (Erik Graafstaliii); A Battle of Wills: Manoeuvre Warfare and the Roman defence of the North Yorkshire Coast in the late C4th (A McCluskey); The Castelinho dos Mouros (Alcoutim) and the `casas fuertes' of southern Portugal (Thomas Schierl, Felix Teichner, Gerald Grabherr, Alexandra Gradim); Smaller structures on Hadrian's coastal frontier (Matthew F. A. Symonds); Roman Towers (David Woolliscroft); Recognising Differences in Lifestyles through Material Culture (Session organisers: Stefanie Hoss, Sonja Jilek, Eckhard Deschler-Erb): La ceramique " militaire " dans le Nord de la Gaule de la Conquete au debut du IIe siecle apres J.-C.: Facies et particularites (Cyrille Chaidron, Raphael Clotuche et Sonja Willems); Auxiliaries and their forts: expression of identity? (Julia Chorus); Military versus civilian and legionary versus auxiliary: the case of Germania Inferior (Stefanie Hoss); Die zivile Nutzung militarischen Baumaterials - Kontexte und Interpretation (Thomas Schmidts); Barbaricum (Session organiser: Thomas Grane): Barbaricum: an introduction to the session (Thomas Grane); An imported bronze casket from the Przeworsk culture cemetery in Lachmirowice, distr. Inowroclaw (Katarzyna Czarnecka); Multifunctional coins - a study of Roman coins from the Zealandic isles in eastern Denmark (Mads Drevs Dyhrfjeld-Johnsen); Medical instruments, tools and excavation locations - `The reason why...' (Annette Frolich); Patterns in Cross-frontier Relations (Marjan C. Galestin); Bemerkungen zu den Formen des Zustroms der Importguter in das germanische Siedlungsmilieu wahrend der Romischen Kaiserzeit im mittleren Donauraum (Balazs Komoroczyiv); Romische Bronzegefassgarnituren Romischer und germanischer Fundkontext im Vergleich und deren jeweilige Aussage: Wo, wann, wie, warum, wer, fur was? Sudskandinavien und die romischen Provinzen (Ulla Lund Hansen); The C3rd AD Romano-Germanic Battlefield at Harzhorn near Kalefeld, Landkreis Northeim (Michael Meyer, Felix Bittmann, Michael Geschwinde, Henning Hassmann, Petra Lonne and Gunther Moosbauer); Hacksilber inside and outside the late Roman world: a view from Traprain Law (Kenneth Painter and Fraser Hunter); Why are the South Scandinavian weapon deposits relevant for limes research? An update of research progress (Xenia Pauli Jensen); Corpus der romischen Funde im europaischen Barbaricum - Ruckblick und Ausblick (Hans-Ulrich Voss und Claus-Michael Hussen); Britain: Hadrian's Wall and the Mommsen thesis (David J Breeze); Continuing the search for an `Antonine Gap' on Hadrian's Wall (R. J. Brickstock); A late Roman military command in Britain reinstated (Roger White); A new Roman fort at Staxton in the Vale of Pickering, Yorkshire, England (Pete Wilson); Roman Frontiers in a Globalised World (Session organisers: Richard Hingley, Divya Tolia-Kelly, Rob Witcher): Does History repeat itself?- The Roman Frontiers from the viewpoint of a European Archaeologist of today (Eduard Nemeth); The attraction of opposites: Owen Lattimore and studies of the Inner Asian frontiers of China (Naomi Standen); Changing Presents Interpret the Past, AD 1500-2010: The Frontier on the Limes and the Upper Danube (Peter S. Wells); Civil Settlements (Session organisers: Edward Dabrowa, Pete Wilson): Military Colonization in the Near East and Mesopotamia under the Severi (Edward Dabrowav); The Canabae Legionis of Carnuntum: Modelling a Roman Urban Landscape from systematic, non-destructive Prospection and Excavation (Christian Gugl, Michael Doneus and Nives Doneus); Neues vom Vicus der Saalburg (Cecilia Moneta); Viminacium - Roman City and Legionary Camp: Topography, Evolution and Urbanism (Nemanja Mrdic and Bebina Milovanovic); The Veterans' Colony Aequum, the Legionary Fortress Tilurium and the Sinj Field.Re-examining Old Problems (Mirjana Sanader); Death and Commemoration (Session organiser: Maureen Carroll); Some aspects of death, ritual and commemoration in the Lower Rhineland (Germany) (Clive Bridger); Dress, self and identity in Roman funerary commemoration on the Rhine and Danube frontiers (Maureen Carroll); The Funerary Commemoration of Veterans and Soldiers at the Colony of Augusta Emerita (Merida, Spain), 25 BC - AD 235 (Jonathan Edmondson); The Roman Cemetery at Pottenbrunn.Structural Analysis of a rural necropolis (Eva Hoelbling); The Roman cemetery at Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge, Lower Austria: The late antique inhumations as an information source of the population of the C4th and C5th (Rene Ployer); Ein neue Grabinschrift fur einen Soldaten der legio VI Victrix in Novaesium/Neuss (Marcus Reuter); The Decoration of some Early Imperial Tombs of Primi Pili (Kai M. Topfer); Danubian and Balkan Provinces: Stories and Facts about the Function of Dacia's South-eastern Frontier: Forty Years of Research (I. Bogdan Cataniciu); Maximinus Thrax in Novae (Piotr Dyczek and Jerzy Kolendo); A contribution to the study of the Roman Limes in the Croatian Danube region (Mato Ilkic and Daska Osonjacki); Overlapping Phases in the defensive systems of the Roman forts and the archaeological experience: the case of Roman Dacia (Dan Isacvi); Detail eines romischen Kellers aus dem Vicus von Aquincum - Vizivaros (Budapest) (Katalin H. Kerdo); Vindobona fortress - barracks, fabrica and intervallum (Martin Mosser); The Late Roman Principia in Tarsatica, part of Claustra Alpium Iuliarum (Josip Visnjic and Luka Bekic); Romuliana - Gamzigrad in der Provinz Dacia ripensis.Kaiserpalast und Militarstation (Gerda von Bulow); The Army in the Hinterland - a case study of Pons Aeni/Pfaffenhofen (Meike B Weber); The Scythian Section of Notitia Dignitatum: A Structural and Chronological Analysis (Mihail Zahariade); Camps (Session organiser: Rebecca Jones): What is a Roman Camp? (Rebecca H. Jones); The Marching Camp at Deer's Den, Aberdeenshire: a precis of the excavations (Murray Cook); Romische Feldlager aus der Zeit der Markomannenkriege in der Slowakei (Jan Rajtar und Claus-Michael Hussen); GIS application in Roman military invasion survey within barbarian territories during the Marcomannic wars - introduction into problems and perspectives (Balazs Komoroczy and Marek Vlach); The Roman Republican Battlefield at Pedrosillo (Casas de Reina, Badajoz, Spain): New Research (2007) (Angel Morillo, German Rodriguez Martin and Esperanza Martin Hernandez); Remains of the Roman baggage train at the battlefield of Kalkriese (Achim Rost); The function of temporary camps along Hadrian's Wall (Humphrey Welfare); The battlefield of Kalkriese: The rampart at the site `Oberesch' during and after the battle (Susanne Wilbers-Rost); Logistics and Supply (Session organisers: Bill Hanson, Valerie Maxfield): Voorburg-Arentsburg: a Roman harbour with a British connection in the hinterland of the Limes (Mark Driessenvii); The grain supply for the Roman army in Hispania during the Republican period (Javier Salido Dominguez); Die romischen Steinbruchinschriften des Brohltals (Markus Scholz - unter Mitarbeit von Holger Schaaff); A sustainable frontier? Timber supply for the Roman army in the Lower-Rhine delta, AD 40-150 (Pauline van Rijn); The Germanies and Augustan and Tiberian Germany (Session organiser: Sebastian Sommer); Lahnau - Waldgirmes.Die Ausgrabungen 2007 - 2009 (Armin Becker); Neue Luftbilder zu den Militarlagern und den canabae legionum von Vetera castra I (Xanten) (Norbert Hanel und Baoquan Song); The Augustan legionary camp on the Hunerberg in Nijmegen (NL) revised.New information and re-interpretation of old data of the defence system (Elly N. A. Heirbaut); New thoughts on the so-called temple of Mars in the legionary camp of Vindonissa (Andrew Lawrence); Iupiter im Brunnen - Neues zur siedlungsgeschichtlichen Entwicklung im Nordvicus von Heidelberg (Petra Mayer-Reppert); The Roman military presence in the Rhine delta in the pre-Flavian period (Marinus Polak); Quarries on the Raetian Limes, the height and construction of the wall (C. Sebastian Sommer); Spain: The Roman fort in El Real (Campo de Criptana, Ciudad Real, Spain) (Antxoka Martinez Velasco); The Cantabrian Wars (26-25 BC campaigns): contesting old interpretations (Angel Morillo); Frontier Fleets (Session organisers: Boris Rankov, Jorit Wintjes); Antiqua ... Arte Cilix (Lucan., Phars.4.449) (Sinisa Bilic-Dujmusic); Ultro Citroque Discurrere - Operational Patterns and Tactics of Late Roman Frontier Fleets on Rivers (Florian Himmlerviii); Project Exploratio Danubiae - New Insights into Troop Transport on the River Danube in the Late Roman Period (Heinrich Konen); The Frontier Fleets: What Were They and What Did They Do? (Boris Rankov); The Northern Fleets in the Principate (Christoph Rummel); Did the Romans have a fleet on the Red Sea? (Denis B. Saddington); The Ghost Fleet of Seleucia Pieria (Jorit Wintjes); Miscellaneous Contributions: Wells and Ritual Deposition at the Newstead Roman Military Complex (Simon Clarke); A Cost-Control Model for Imperial Frontiers? (Raphael M. J. Isserlin); Der Soldat und die Gotter - wie privat war Religion? (Nina Willburger)

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Book SynopsisThe Egyptian Museum of Florence, in collaboration with the University of Florence, hosted the Eleventh International Congress of Egyptologists which took place from 23rd to 30th August 2015, under the patronage of the IAE – International Association of Egyptologists. This volume publishes 136 papers and posters presented during the Congress. Topics discussed here range from archaeology, religion, philology, mummy investigations and archaeometry to history, offering an up-to-date account of research in these fields.Table of ContentsPreface – Volume Editors ; Papers ; Development of Old Kingdom pottery: three cases studies (‘Cemetery of the Workers’, Heit el-Ghurab and the Khentkawes Town) – Sherif M. Abdelmoniem ; Of Min and moon – cosmological concepts in the Temple of Athribis (Upper Egypt) – Victoria Altmann-Wendling ; Les relations entre l’horloge stellaire diagonale et le corpus des Textes des Sarcophages Les relations entre l’horloge stellaire diagonale et le corpus des Textes des Sarcophages dans le sarcophage intérieur de Mésehti : le temps et les décans – Bernard Arquier ; The Qubbet el-Hawa casting moulds – Late Period bronze working at the First Cataract – Johannes Auenmüller ; Overlapping and contradictory narratives in Ancient Egyptian visual programs – Jennifer Miyuki Babcock ; Sāmānu as a human disease in Mesopotamia and Egypt – Susanne Beck ; The pyramid as a journey – cultic encounters between father and son in the Pyramid of Pepy I – Nils Billing ; The Ancient Egyptian dialects in light of the Greek transcriptions of Egyptian anthroponyms – Ana Isabel Blasco Torres ; Dalla sabbia alla teca: esempi di interventi conservativi eseguiti su alcuni papiri del Museo Egizio di Firenze – Paola Boffula Alimeni ; New evidence on the king’s son Intefmose from Dra Abu el-Naga: a preliminary report – Francisco L. Borrego Gallardo ; The Merenptah Sarcophagi restoration project – Edwin C. Brock and Lyla Pinch Brock ; Egyptian names and networks in Trismegistos (800 BC – AD 800) – Yanne Broux ; The Ptolemaic dedication of Archepolis in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina: materiality and text – Patricia A. Butz ; Bernard V. Bothmer and Ptolemaic sculpture: papers on Ptolemaic art from his archives held at the Università degli Studi di Milano – Giorgia Cafici ; The Tell el-Maskhuta Project – Giuseppina Capriotti Vittozzi and Andrea Angelini ; Silence in the Tale of the Eloquent Peasant: themes and problems – Ilaria Cariddi ; Progetto Butehamon. Prospettive e ricerche nella necropoli tebana – Giacomo Cavillier ; Notes on the inscribed Old and Middle Kingdom coffins in the Egyptian Turin Museum – Emanuele M. Ciampini ; Rethinking Egyptian animal worship (c. 3000 BC – c. 300 AD): towards a historical-religious perspective – Angelo Colonna ; Before and after the Temple: the long-lived necropolis in the area of the Temple of Millions of Years of Amenhotep II – Western Thebes – Anna Consonni, Tommaso Quirino and Angelo Sesana ; Papyri with the Ritual of the Opening of the Mouth in the Egyptian Museum in Turin – Federico Contardi ; Notes for a building history of the temple of Ramesses II at Antinoe. The architectural investigation – Michele Coppola ; Nouvelle lecture d’une scène de la théogamie d’Hatshepsout – Alice Coyette ; Worship and places of worship in the Greco-Roman town at Marina El-Alamein – Grażyna Bąkowska-Czerner and Rafał Czerner ; Middle Kingdom coffin of Khnum from the National Museum of Warsaw – Dorota Czerwik ; Non-destructive analysis on 11 Egyptian blue faience tiles from the 2nd and 3rd Dynasties – Joseph Davidovits and Frédéric Davidovits ; Scenes from the Amduat on the funerary coffins and sarcophagi of the 21st Dynasty – Cássio de Araújo Duarte ; Votive pottery deposits found by the Spanish Mission at Dra Abu el-Naga – Elena de Gregorio ; The building activity of Pinudjem I at Thebes – Gabriella Dembitz ; The ‘Book of Going Forth by Day’ in the funerary chamber of Djehuty (TT 11): past, present, and future – Lucía Díaz-Iglesias Llanos ; The pre-Egyptological concept of Egypt as a challenge for Egyptology and the efforts to establish a research community – Florian Ebeling ; The Gebelein Archaeological Project, 2013–2016 – Wojciech Ejsmond ; Trois nouvelles harpes découvertes à Thèbes ouest Quel apport pour l’égyptologie ? – Sibylle Emerit ; The ‘pantheistic’ deities. Report from research on iconography and role of polymorphic deities – Grzegorz First ; Études sur le cadre de vie d’une association religieuse dans l’Égypte gréco-romaine : l’exemple de Touna el-Gebel – Mélanie C. Flossmann-Schütze ; Forme di imitazione egizia nella decorazione architettonica di Nea Paphos – Leonardo Fuduli ; Ahmose-Sapair in Dra Abu el-Naga: old and new evidence – José M. Galán ; The Moon god Iah in ancient Egyptian religion – Gudelia García-Fernández ; Expression of loyalty to the king – A socio-cultural analysis of basilophoric personal names dating to the Old and Middle Kingdoms – Christina Geisen ; Love and Gold in Cross-Cultural Discourse in the Amarna Letters – Graciela Gestoso Singer ; Some unpublished inscriptions from Quarry P at Hatnub – Yannis Gourdon and Roland Enmarch ; Names of eye parts in different text genres: a contribution to technical language in ancient Egypt – Nadine Gräßler ; The transformation of Theban Tomb 39 (TT39). A contribution from a conservation viewpoint in terms of its history after dynastic occupation – Dulce María Grimaldi and Patricia Meehan ; The complete corpus of viticulture and winemaking scenes from the ancient Egyptian private tombs – Maria Rosa Guasch-Jané, Sofia Fonseca and Mahmoud Ibrahim ; Des étoiles et des hommes : peurs, désirs, offrandes et prières – Nadine Guilhou ; Cracking a code: deciphering the marks of the royal necropolis workmen of the New Kingdom – Ben Haring ; The Egyptian Dionysus: Osiris and the development of theater in Ancient Egypt – Allison Hedges ; The Abydos Dynasty: an osteoarchaeological examination of human remains from the SIP royal cemetery – Jane A. Hill, Maria A. Rosado and Joseph Wegner ; You up – I down: orientational metaphors concerning ancient Egyptian Kingship in royal iconography and inscriptions – Shih-Wei Hsu ; Image processing. Elaboration and manipulation of the human figure in the Pyramid Texts – Francesca Iannarilli ; Hieroglyphic inscriptions on precious objects: some notes on the correlation between text and support – Agnese Iob ; Predynastic precursors to the Festival of Drunkenness: beer, climate change, cow-goddesses, and the ideology of kingship – Victoria Jensen ; Crowdsourcing in Egyptology – images and annotations of Middle Kingdom private tombs – Peter Kalchgruber and Lubica Hudáková ; 3D-Reconstructions of Late Roman fortresses in Egypt – Christina Karlshausen and Thierry De Putter ; ‘To build a temple in the beautiful white stone of Anu’. The use of Tura limestone in Theban architecture – Christina Karlshausen and Thierry De Putter ; The motif of the kiosk during the first half of the 18th dynasty – Edyta Kopp ; A heritage in peril: the threat to Egypt’s urban archaeological sites – Peter Lacovara ; Le sḏm.f circonstanciel. Une forme verbale rare en néo-égyptien littéraire – Vincent Pierre-Michel Laisney ; Amduat type papyri in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow – Nika Lavrentyeva ; Carving out identities in the Egyptian desert: self-presentation styles adopted by the ancient travelers of Kharga Oasis – Nikolaos Lazaridis ; Ya-t-il une « fabrique d’albâtre » et un atelier de tissage au Ramesseum? – Guy Lecuyot ; Deux nouvelles ‘Recommandations aux prêtresʼ datées de Ptolémée X Alexandre Ier – Nicolas Leroux ; Scenes representing temple rituals on some 21st Dynasty coffins – Éva Liptay ; Building B, a domestic construction at Tell el-Ghaba, North Sinai – Silvia Lupo, Eduardo Crivelli Montero, Claudia Kohen and Eva Calomino ; The Montecelio Obelisk in Rome – Lise Manniche ; The role of e-learning in Egyptology: ‘Hieroglyphs: Step-by-Step’ website as a case study – Ahmed Mansour and Azza Ezzat ; The function and importance of some special categories of stars in the Ancient Egyptian funerary texts, 1: AxAx- and iAd-stars – Alicia Maravelia ; Chapel of the tomb belonging to Amenhotep III’s Vizier, Amenhotep Huy. Asasif Tomb No. 28, Luxor-West Bank. Excavation results: ‘Vizier Amenhotep Huy Project’ (2009–2014) – Francisco J. Martín-Valentín and Teresa Bedman ; Objets découverts dans des tombes Thébaines situées sous le Temple de Millions d’Années de Thoutmosis III à l’ouest de Louxor – Javier Martínez Babón ; Fish offerings found in Area 32 of the archaeological site of Oxyrhynchus (El-Bahnasa, Egypt) – Maite Mascort Roca and Esther Pons Mellado ; The Akh-menu of Thutmosis III at Karnak. The Sokarian Rooms – Julie Masquelier-Loorius ; The 13th Dynasty at Abydos: a royal tomb and its context – Dawn McCormack ; The transmission of the Book of the Twelve Caverns – Daniel M. Méndez Rodríguez ; A new reading of Problem No. 53 in the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. The limits of proportionality – Marianne Michel ; The ang-morphs in Coptic and their grammaticalization in Later Egyptian – So Miyagawa ; ‘Augmented Reality’ technology and the dissemination of historical graffiti in the Temple of Debod – Miguel Ángel Molinero Polo, Alfonso Martín Flores, Jorge Martín Gutiérrez, Cristóbal Ruiz Medina, Lucía Díaz-Iglesias Llanos, Fernando Guerra-Librero Fernández, Daniel Miguel Méndez Rodríguez, Luis Navarrete Ruiz, Manuel Rivas Fernández and Ovidia Soto Martín ; The Min Project. First working seasons on the unpublished Tomb of Min (TT109) and Tomb Kampp -327-: the Tomb of May and a replica of the Tomb of Osiris – Irene Morfini and Milagros Álvarez Sosa ; Figurative vase painting from the First Intermediate Period through to the Fatimid Dynasty: a continuity? – Maya Müller ; Basic considerations on the construction of pyramids in the Old Kingdom – Frank Müller-Römer ; Die Verwendung von Münzen in pharaonischer Zeit – Renate Müller-Wollermann ; In the footsteps of Ricardo Caminos: rediscovering the ‘Speos of Gebel el Silsila’ – Maria Nilsson and Philippe Martinez ; The folding cubit rod of Kha in Museo Egizio di Torino, S.8391 – Naoko Nishimoto ; The mystery of the ‘high place’ from the Abbott Papyrus revealed? The results of the works of the Polish Cliff Mission at Deir el-Bahari 1999–2014 – Andrzej Niwiński ; The mummies of the ‘Three Sisters’ in the Museo Egizio: a case study. Conservation and studies of textiles and bandages – Cinzia Oliva and Matilde Borla ; Technical aspects of faience from Hierakonpolis, Egypt – a preliminary report – Marina Panagiotaki, Elizabeth Walters, Yannis Maniatis and Anna Tsoupra ; Horus Seneferou ka-s quand le dernier souverain de la Ire dynastie devint la première femme pharaon de l’Histoire à porter un nom d’Horus – Jean-Pierre Pätznick ; The Herakleopolis Magna Project: seasons 2012–2015 – M. Carmen Pérez-Die ; The Stelae Ridge cairns: a reassessment of the archaeological evidence – Hannah Pethen ; The Italian-Egyptian Mission at the Monastery of Abba Nefer at Manqabad: results of the first four seasons’ work – Rosanna Pirelli, Ilaria Incordino, Paola Buzi and Anna Salsano ; Wedjat-eyes as a dating criterion for false doors and stelae to the early Middle Kingdom – Melanie Pitkin ; La collection égyptienne du Musée Sandelin à Saint-Omer (France) – Jean-Louis Podvin ; Some remarks on the Egyptian reception of foreign military technology during the 18th Dynasty: a brief survey of the armour – Alberto Maria Pollastrini ; Medical re-enactments: Ancient Egyptian prescriptions from an Emic viewpoint – Tanja Pommerening ; Textual layers in Coffin Texts Spells 154–160 – Gyula Priskin ; The cat mummies of the Società Africana d’Italia: an archaeological, cultural and religious perspective – Maria Diletta Pubblico ; Khnum the Creator: a puzzling case of the transfer of an iconographic motif – Maarten J. Raven ; Temple ranks in the Fayyum during the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods: documentary sources and archaeological data – Ilaria Rossetti ; Le musee de Mallawi : etat des lieux apres les destructions et projets pour l’avenir – Ashraf Alexandre Sadek ; A new light on Coptic afterlife (O.4550 from the Coptic Museum in Cairo) – Hind Salah El-Din Somida Awad ; The lost chapels of Elephantine. Preliminary results of a reconstruction study through archival documents – Daniele Salvoldi and Simon Delvaux ; Doors to the past. Rediscovering fragments in the new blockyard at Medinet Habu – Julia Schmied ; Les dépôts de fondation de la Vallée des Rois : nouvelles perspectives de recherche sur l’histoire de la nécropole royale du Nouvel Empire – François C. A. Schmitt ; Economic mentalities and Ancient Egyptian legal documents – Alexander Schütze ; Excavations in the ‘Temple of Millions of Years’ of Thutmosis III – Myriam Seco Álvarez ; Rituels funéraires au temps de Hatchepsout : le sanctuaire de la tombe de Djehouty et ses parallèles – José M. Serrano ; The so-called Book of Two Ways on a Middle Kingdom religious leather roll – Wael Sherbiny ; Ibyc. PMGF 287 and Ancient Egyptian love songs – Anna Sofia ; The Physiologus in Egypt – Marco Stroppa ; A survey of astronomical tables on Middle Kingdom coffin lids – Sarah L. Symons ; Blue painted pottery from a mid-18th Dynasty royal mud-brick structure in northwest Saqqara – Kazumitsu Takahashi ; Studies on BD 17 vignettes: iconographic typology of Rw.tj-scene (New Kingdom – Third Intermediate Period) – Mykola Tarasenko ; Were components of Amarna composite statues made in separate workshops? – Kristin Thompson ; Research on Old Kingdom ‘dissimilation graphique’. World-view and categorization – Simon Thuault ; La funzione del tempio tolemaico di Deir el-Medina alla luce dell’archeologia – Claudia Tirel Cena ; The ‘geography’ of the hierogrammateis: the religious topography of the Western Harpoon (7th Nome of Lower Egypt) – Elena Tiribilli ; The Ancient Egyptian shabtis discovered in the regions of Roman Illyricum (Dalmatia, Pannonia) and Istria: provenance, collections, typological study and dating – Mladen Tomorad ; From Egypt to the Holy Land: first issues on the Egyptian collection in the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem – Benedetta Torrini ; Tradition and innovation within the decoration program of the temple of Ramesses II at Gerf Hussein – Martina Ullmann ; The Egyptian Execration Statuettes (EES) Project – Athena Van der Perre ; A new long-term digital project on Hieratic and cursive hieroglyphs – Ursula Verhoeven and Svenja A. Gülden ; Hierakonpolis Faience, 2005–2013, with context and accompanying finds – a quest for chronology and possible use – Elizabeth J. Walters, Amr El Gohary, Shelton S. Alexander, Richard R. Parizek, David P. Gold, Recep Cakir, Marina Panagiotaki, Yannis Maniatis and Anna Tsoupra ; Elhe Berlin Plans from the New Kingdom Period – Yoshifumi Yasuoka ; The career of Nakhtmin (TT 87) as revealed by his funerary cones – Kento Zenihiro ; Object biographies and political expectations: Egyptian artefacts, Welsh Heritage and the regional community museum – Katharina Zinn ; Who am I - and if so, how many? Some remarks on the ‘j-augment’ and language change – Monika Zöller-Engelhardt ; Poster presentations ; Vocabulaire de l’Égyptien Ancien (VÉgA) Plateforme numérique de recherche lexicographique – A. Almásy, Ch. Cassier, J. Chun-Hung-Kee, F. Contardi, M. Massiera, A. Nespoulous-Phalippou, Fr. Rouffet ; South African collections – Izak Cornelius, Salima Ikram, Ruhan Slabbert, Liani C. Swanepoel, Frank Teichert and Tiffany van Zyl ; Pottery from the Early Roman rubbish dumps in Berenike harbour – Agnieszka Dzwonek ; A sequence of five 13th Dynasty structures at Memphis – Rabee Eissa ; Funerary culture of the Memphite region during the Early Dynastic Period – Barbora Janulíková ; The Roman Imperial cult temple at Luxor: its architecture and possible connection between Roman and Egyptian cultures – Irina Kulikova and Dmitry Karelin ; One of the earliest discovered houses at Memphis – Hanan Mahmoud Mohamed ; Étude Pluridisciplinaire De Têtes De Momies (Lyon) – Annie Perraud, Matthieu Ménager, Pascale Richardin and Catherine Vieillescazes ; Progetto Osiris: valorizzazione delle piccole collezioni egizie – Massimiliana Pozzi Battaglia e Federica Scatena ; Study and restoration of two mummies from the Moulins Museum – Noëlle Timbart ; List of papers presented at ICE XI – M. Franci

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a product of the International Conference of Archaeological Prospection 2017 which was hosted by the School of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences at the University of Bradford. This event marked a return to the location of the inaugural conference of archaeological prospection which was held in Bradford in 1995. The conference is held every two years under the banner of the International Society for Archaeological Prospection. The Proceedings of 12th International Conference of Archaeological Prospection draws together over 100 papers addressing archaeological prospection techniques, methodologies and case studies from around the world. Including studies from over 30 countries distributed across Africa, North America, South America, Asia and Europe; the collection of articles covers a diverse range of research backgrounds and situations. At this particular ICAP meeting, specific consideration has been given to emerging techniques and technologies in the fields of inter-tidal and marine archaeological prospection, and low altitude archaeological prospection. The papers within this volume represent the conference themes of: Techniques and new technological developments; Applications and reconstructing landscapes and urban environments; Integration of techniques and inter-disciplinary studies, with focus on visualisation and interpretation; Marine, inter-tidal and wetland prospection techniques and applications; Low altitude prospection techniques and applications; Commercial archaeological prospection in the contemporary world.Table of ContentsIntroduction – by Ben Jennings, Chris Gaffney, Tom Sparrow and Sue Gaffney ; The use of digital mobile technologies for geoarchaeological survey: the examples of the Pinilla del Valle raw materials project – by Ana Abrunhosa, João Cascalheira, Alfredo Pérez-González, Juan Luís Arsuaga and Enrique Baquedano ; A multi-methodological approach on a historic wall structure of Heptapyrgion fortress thessaloniki greece: a case study – by Dimitrios Angelis, Panagiotis Tsourlos, Gregory Tsokas, George Vargemezis and Georgia Zacharopoulou ; Settling selection patterns and settlement layout development in the Chalcolithic Cucuteni culture of northeastern Romania. Interpretation and presentation of prospection results – by Andrei Asăndulesei, Felix-Adrian Tencariu, Mihaela Asăndulesei and Radu-Ștefan Balaur ; Monitoring marine construction zones through the iterative use of geophysics and diving – by P A Baggaley, L H Tizzard and S H L Arnott ; Geophysical studies in Maya sites of the Caribbean coast, Quintana Roo, Mexico – by Luis Barba, Jorge Blancas, Agustín Ortiz, Patricia Meehan, Roberto Magdaleno and Claudia Trejo ; Investigations of Esie steatite structures using geophysical, petrological and geotechnical techniques – by A M Bello, V Makinde, O Mustapha and M Gbadebo ; Revealing the topography of the Ancient Kition (Larnaka, Cyprus): an integrated approach – by Christophe Benech, Marine Audebert, Antoine Chevalier, Lionel Darras, Sébastien Flageul, Sabine Fourrier, Alexandre Rabot, Fayçal Réjiba, Cyril Schamper and Alain Tabbagh ; 3D induced polarization and electrical resistivity tomography surveys from an archaeological site – by Meriç Aziz Berge and Mahmut Göktuğ Drahor ; Looking for the ancient Nile banks and their relationship with a Neolithic site: the example of Kadruka (Sudan) – by Yves Bière, Pierrick Matignon, Ludovic Bodet and Julien Thiesson ; The forgotten castle of the Ciołek family in Żelechów, Mazowieckie province, Poland – by Wojciech Bis, Tomasz Herbich and Robert Ryndziewicz ; Living in a post-workhorse world: observations learnt from rapidly acquired electromagnetic induction surveys in Ireland (…when magnetometry just won’t do…) – by James Bonsall ; The magnetic signature of Ohio earthworks – by Jarrod Burks ; Three hundred miles in the footsteps of Vespasian ... and the Ancient Monuments Laboratory – by Paul Cheetham, Dave Stewart and Harry Manley ; Identification of buried archaeological features through spectroscopic analysis – by Yoon Jung Choi, Johannes Lampel, David Jordan, Sabine Fiedler and Thomas Wagner ; Integration of ground-penetrating radar and magnetic data to better understand complex buried archaeology – by Lawrence B Conyers ; Archaeological prospection of Medieval harbours in the North Atlantic – by Joris Coolen, Natascha Mehler, Dennis Wilken, Ronny Weßling, John Preston, Tina Wunderlich and Peter Feldens ; Re-visiting Sutton Hoo: revealing new elements of the princely burial ground through ground and aerial remote sensing – by Alexander Corkum, Cathy Batt, Jamie Davis, Chris Gaffney, Mike Langton and Thomas Sparrow ; Using geophysical techniques to ‘dig deep’ at Grave Creek mound for cultural resource management – by Alexander Corkum, Cathy Batt, Jamie Davis, Chris Gaffney, and Thomas Sparrow ; Geological and pedological artefacts within UK magnetic gradiometer data for archaeological prospection – by Edward Cox and Rebecca Davies ; Moving beyond an identification of ‘ferrous’: a re-interpretation of geophysical surveys over WW1 practice trenches on salisbury plain – by Nicholas Crabb, Paul Baggaley, Lucy Learmonth, Rok Plesničar and Tom Richardson ; In search of the lost city of Therouanne: a new integrated approach – by Michel Dabas, François Blary, Laurent Froideval and Richard Jonvel ; Subsurface geophysical approaches to understanding Northern Plains earthlodges – by Rinita A Dalan, George R Holley, Kenneth L Kvamme, Mark D Mitchell and Jay Sturdevant ; Geophysics in Iraqi Kurdistan: discovering the origins of urbanism – by Lionel Darras, Christophe Benech and Régis Vallet ; Augmenting the interpretative potential of landscape-scale geophysical data - a case from the Stonehenge landscape – by Philippe De Smedt, Henry Chapman and Paul Garwood ; Mediterranean sites in archaeological prospection: the case study of Osor, Croatia – by Nives Doneus, Petra Schneidhofer, Michael Doneus, Manuel Gabler, Hannes Schiel, Viktor Jansa and Matthias Kucera ; Transforming the search for human origins using new digital technologies, low altitude imaging, and citizen science – by Adrian Evans, Thomas Sparrow, Louise Leakey, Andrew Wilson, Randy Donahue ; Magnetometer prospection of Neo-Assyrian sites in the Peshdar Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan – by Jörg W E Fassbinder, Andrei Asăndulesei, Karen Radner, Janoscha Kreppner and Andrea Squiteri ; Integrated geophysical prospection in a Hittite Empire city (Šapinuwa) – by Mahmut Göktuğ Drahor, Meriç Aziz Berge, Caner Öztük, Buket Ortan, Atilla Ongar, Aygül Süel, Sedef Ayyildiz, Önder Şeref Avsever and Funda İçke ; Marine seismics along the Kane Peninsula – by Annika Fediuk, Dennis Wilken, Tina Wunderlich and Wolfgang Rabbel ; Out of the blue: exploring Lost Frontiers in Doggerland – by Simon Fitch ; Investigation and virtual visualisation of a probable burial mound and later motte-and-bailey castle from Lower Austria – by Roland Filzwieser, Leopold Toriser, Juan Torrejón Valdelomar and Wolfgang Neubauer ; Archaeologicla validation of geophysical data: risks of the archaeological interpretation – by Ekhine Garcia-Garcia, Antonietta Lerz, Roger Sala, Arantza Aranburu, Julian Hill and Juantxo Agirre-Mauleon ; The planning of Daskyleion (Turkey), the Achaemenid capital of the Hellespontine Phrygia: report on three survey campaigns (2014-2016) – by Sébastien Gondet ; Automation, automation, automation: a novel approach to improving the pre-excavation detection of inhumations – by Ashely Green, Paul Cheetham and Timothy Darvill ; Non-invasive investigations at early medieval strongholds in Lubuskie province (western Poland) – by Bartłomiej Gruszka and Łukasz Pospieszny ; Geophysical and geochemical definition of a rural medieval churchyard at Furulund, Hedmark, Norway – by Lars Gustavsen,Rebecca J S Cannell, Monica Kristiansen and Erik Nau ; Assessing the effect of modern ploughing practices on archaeological remains by combining geophysical surveys and systematic metal detecting – by Lars Gustavsen, Monica Kristiansen, Erich Nau and Bernt Egil Tafjord ; Nebelivka, Ukraine: geophysical survey of a complete Trypillia mega-site – by Duncan Hale, John Chapman, Mikhail Videiko, Bisserka Gaydarska, Natalia Burdo, Richie Villis, Natalie Swann, Patricia Voke, Nathan Thomas, Andrew Blair, Ashley Bryant, Marco Nebbia, Andrew Millard and Vitalij Rud ; Geophysical prospection in the Natal landscape of the Buddha, southern Nepal – by Duncan Hale, Robin Coningham, Kosh Prasad Acharya, Mark Manuel, Chris Davis and Patricia Voke ; A largescale simultaneous magnetometer and electromagnetic induction survey at Stična Hillfort, Slovenia – by Chrys Harris, Ian Armit, Finnegan Pope-Carter, Graeme Attwood, Lindsey Büster and Chris Gaffney ; Geophysical surveying in Egypt and Sudan periodical report for 2015-2016 – by Tomasz Herbich ; Not-so good vibrations: removing measurement induced noise from motorized multi-sensor magnetometry data – by Alois Hinterleitner, Immo Trinks, Klaus Löcker, Jakob Kainz, Ralf Totschnig, Matthias Kucera and Wolfgang Neubauer ; Electrostatic and GPR survey: case study of the Neuville-aux-Bois church (Loiret, France) – by Guillaume Hulin, François Capron, Sébastien Flageul, François-Xavier Simon and Alain Tabbagh ; Medieval monks seen through a modern landscape – by Freya Horsfield ; Changing faces: archaeological interpretations and the multi-stage archaeological prospection of the Roman town of Aregenua – by Karine Jardel, Armin Schmidt, Michel Dabas and Roger Sala ; From large- to medium- to small- scale geophysical prospection – by Jakob Kainz ; The auxiliary castrum at Inlăceni (Énlaka), Romania: results of the geomagnetic survey 2016 – by Rainer Komp and Ingo Petri ; The results of magnetometer prospection as an indicator of the extent and intensity of soil erosion of archaeological sites – by Roman Krivanek ; When geology plays a major role in the results of archaeological prospection - case studies from Bohemia – by Roman Krivanek ; Geophysical insights and problem solving at Chief Looking’s Village, North Dakota, USA – by Kenneth L Kvamme ; The iron-age burial mounds of Epe-Niersen, the netherlands: results from magnetometry in the range of ±1.0 nT – by Lena Lambers, Jörg W E Fassbinder, Karsten Lambers and Quentin Bourgeois ; Meninx – geophysical prospection of a Roman town in Jerba, Tunisia – by Lena Lambers, Jörg W E Fassbinder, Stefan Ritter and Sami Ben Tahar ; The application of semi-automated vector identification to large scale archaeological data sets considering anomaly morphology – by Neil Linford and Paul Linford ; ‘Over head and ears in shells’ recent examples of geophysical survey of historic designed landscapes and gardens – by Neil Linford, Paul Linford and Andrew Payne ; Geophysical survey at bronze age sites in southwestern Slovakia: case studies of fortified settlement in Hoste and burial ground in Majcichov – by Zuzana Litviaková, Roman Pašteka, David Kušnirák, Michal Felcan and Martin Krajňák ; From magnetic SQUID prospection to excavation – investigations at Fossa Carolina, Germany – by S Linzen, M Schneider, S Berg-Hobohm, L Werther, P Ettel, C Zielhofer, J Schmidt, J W E Faßbinder, D Wilken, A Fediuk, S Dunkel, R Stolz, H-G Meyer and C S Sommer ; Multi-method prospection of an assumed early medieval harbour site and settlement in Goting, island of Föhr (Germany) – by Bente Sven Majchczack, Steffen Schneider, Dennis Wilken and Tina Wunderlich ; Ripples in the sand: locating a complete aircraft in the inter-tidal zone – by Peter Masters ; Built to last: building a magnetometer cart - advantages and disadvantages in the construction of a bespoke system – by Peter Masters and Gary Cooper ; How to make sense out of incomplete geophysical data sets - cases from archaeological sites in north-eastern Croatia – by Cornelius Meyer ; The story of two ceramic vessels: geophysical prospection and excavation in the premises of Volkswagen Slovakia – by Peter Milo, Tomáš Tencer and František Žák Matyasowszky ; Geophysical survey for understanding Dousaku-Kofun structure – by Chisako Miyamae, Yuki Itabashi and Hiroyuki Kamei ; An Achaemenid site in south-east Iran. A magnetic survey at Afraz (Bam-Baravat fault), Kerman – by Kourosh Mohammadkhani and Raha Resaleh ; Archaeological Seismic survey: a Case study from Millmount, Drogheda, Ireland – by Igor Murin and Conor Brady ; Motorized archaeological geophysical prospection for large infrastructure projects – recent examples from Norway – by Erich Nau, Lars Gustavsen, Monica Kristiansen, Manuel Gabler, Knut Paasche, Alois Hinterleitner and Immo Trinks ; Sussing out the super-henge: a multi method survey at Durrington Walls – by Wolfgang Neubauer, Vincent Gaffney, Klaus Löcker, Mario Wallner, Eamonn Baldwin, Henry Chapman, Tanja Trausmuth, Jakob Kainz, Petra Schneidhofer, Matthias Kucera, Georg Zotti, Lisa Aldrian and Hannes Schiel ; Urban prospections in The Netherlands, successes and failures – by Joep Orbons ; Ultra shallow marine geophysical prospection in the prehistoric site of Lambayanna, Greece – by Nikos Papadopoulos, Julien Beck, Kleanthis Simyrdanis, Gianluca Cantoro, Nasos Argyriou, Nikos Nikas, Tuna Kalayci and Despoina Koutsoumpa ; Recent trends in shallow marine archaeological prospection in the eastern Mediterranean – by Nikos Papadopoulos, Kleanthis Simyrdanis and Gianluca Cantoro ; Dynamic 3D electrical resistivity tomography for shallow off-shore archaeological prospection – by Nikos Papadopoulos and Kleanthis Simyrdanis ; Designing workflows in the Paphos Agora project: first results of an integrated methodological approach – by Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka, Tomasz Kalicki, Wojciech Ostrowski, Martina Seifert, Łukasz Miszk, Weronika Winiarska, Nikola Babucic and Michael Antonakis ; A new semi-automated interpretation of concave and convex features in digital archaeogeophysical datasets – by R Pašteka, S Hronček, M Felcan, P Milo, D Wilken and R Putiška ; Integrated geophysical, archaeological and geological surveys for the characterization of Tusculum archaeological site (Rome, Italy) – by Salvatore Piro, Elisa Iacobelli, Enrico Papale and Valeria Beolchini ; Integrated geophysical and archaeological surveys to study the archaeological site of Cerveteri (Rome, Italy) – by Salvatore Piro, Enrico Papale, Daniela Zamuner and Vincenzo Bellelli ; The challenges of reconstructing the archaeological landscape around the castle in Gołuchów, Poland – by Michał Pisz and Inga Głuszek ; The Wenner array not as black as it is painted - surveying shallow architectural remains with the Wenner array. A case study of surveys in Szydłów, Poland, and Tibiscum, Romania – by Michał Pisz and Tomasz Olszacki ; Live-streaming for the real-time monitoring of geophysical surveys – by F Pope-Carter, C Harris, G Attwood and T Eyre ; Urban archaeology in Affile (Rome-Italy): preliminary results of the ground penetrating radar survey – by Valeria Poscetti and Davide Morandi ; The late-Roman site of Santa Margarida d’Empúries. Combining geophysical methods to characterize a settlement and its landscape – by Roger Sala, Helena Ortiz-Quintana, Ekhine Garcia-Garcia, Pere Castanyer, Marta Santos and Joaquim Tremoleda ; Exploring the urban fabric of ancient Haliartos, Boetia (Greece) through remote sensing techniques – by Apostolos Sarris, Tuna Kalayci, Manolis Papadakis, Nikos Nikas, Matjaž Mori, Emeri Farinetti, Božidar Slapšak and John Bintliff ; Revealing the structural details of the minoan settlement of Sissi, eastern Crete, through geophysical investigations – by Apostolos Sarris, Meropi Manataki, Sylviane Déderix and Jan Driessen ; What you see is what you get? Complimentary multi-scale prospection in an extant upland landscape, Yorkshire Dales National Park, UK – by Mary K Saunders ; A king and his paradise? A major Achaemenid garden palace in the Southern Caucasus – by M Scheiblecker, J W E Fassbinder, F Becker, A Asăndulesei, M Gruber and K Kaniuth ; Large-scale high-resolution magnetic prospection of the KGAs Rechnitz, Austria – by Hannes Schiel, Wolfgang Neubauer, Klaus Löcker, Ralf Totschnig, Mario Wallner, Tanja Trausmuth, Matthias Kucera, Immo Trinks, Alois Hinterleitner, Alexandra Vonkilch and Martin Fera ; When the time is right: the impact of weather variations on the contrast in earth resistance data – by Armin Schmidt, Robert Fry, Andrew Parkyn, James Bonsall and Chris Gaffney ; SQUID-based magnetic geoprospection: a base technology of multimodal approaches in applied geophysics – by M Schneider, S Linzen, M Schiffler, S Dunkel, R Stolz and D Baumgarten ; Investigating the influence of seasonal changes on high-resolution GPR data: the Borre Monitoring Project – by Petra Schneidhofer, Christer Tonning, Vibeke Lia, Brynhildur Baldersdottir, Julie Karina Øhre Askjem, Lars Gustavsen, Erich Nau, Monica Kristiansen, Immo Trinks, Terje Gansum, Knut Paasche and Wolfgang Neubauer ; A ghostly harbour? How delusive gradiometric data can be and how seismic waveform inversion might help – by Michaela Schwardt, Daniel Köhn, Tina Wunderlich, Dennis Wilken, Wolfgang Rabbel, Thomas Schmidts and Martin Seeliger ; Testing boundaries: integrated prospection from site to lanscape in western Sicily – by Christopher Sevara, Michael Doneus, Erich Draganits, Rosa Cusumano, Cipriano Frazzetta, Barbara Palermo, Filippo Pisciotta, Rosamaria Stallone, Ralf Totschnig, Sebastiano Tusa and Antonina Valenti ; Potential of multi-frequency electromagnetic induction in volcanic soils for archaeological prospection – by François-Xavier Simon, Alain Tabbagh, Bertrand Douystessier, Mathias Pareil-Peyrou, Alfredo Mayoral and Philippe Labazuy ; 3D electrical resistivity imaging in shallow marine environment: case study at the harbor “KATO pafos”, cyprus – by Kleanthis Simyrdanis, Nikos Papadopoulos and Gianluca Cantoro ; Skills and protocols for archaeological interpretation in a multispectral geophysical survey world – by Lewis Somers ; The status, role and acceptance of geophysical methods in Norwegian archaeology – by Arne Anderson Stamnes ; Integrating GPR and excavation at Roman Aeclanum (Avellino, Italy) – by Guglielmo Strapazzon, Ben Russell and Girolamo F De Simone ; Prospection at the Medamud (Egypt) site: building archaeological meaning from the geophysical in situ measurements – by Julien Thiesson, Felix Relats Montserrat, Christelle Sanchez, Roger Guérin and Fayçal Réjiba ; Results of the GPR survey of former Roman churches in Slovakia – by J Tirpak, M Bielich, M Martinak and D Bešina ; From integrated interpretative mapping to virtual reconstruction - a practical approach on the Roman town of Carnuntum – by Juan Torrejón Valdelomar, Mario Wallner, Klaus Löcker, Christian Gugl, Wolfgang Neubauer, Michael Klein, Nika Jancsary-Luznik, Tanja Trausmuth, Alexandra Vonkilch, Tomas Tencer, Lisa Aldrian and Michael Doneus ; Extensive high-resolution ground-penetrating radar surveys – by Immo Trinks, Alois Hinterleitner, Klaus Löcker, Mario Wallner, Roland Filzwieser, Hannes Schiel, Manuel Gabler, Erich Nau, Julia Wilding, Viktor Jansa, Petra Schneidhofer, Tanja Trausmuth and Wolfgang Neubauer ; The challenge of investigating the tumulus of Kastas in Amphipolis (northern Greece) – by G N Tsokas, P I Tsourlos, J-H Kim, M-Z Yi and G Vargemezis ; Deserted fortified Medieval villages in South Moravia – by Michal Vágner, Tomáš Tencer, Petr Dresler, Michaela Prišťáková, Jakub Šimík and Jan Zeman ; The Guaquira-Tiwanaku project (Bolivia): a multidisciplinary approach of ancient societies/environment interactions – by M-A Vella, G Bievre, R Guerin, J Thiesson and C Camerlynck ; Semi-automated object detection in GPR data using morphological filtering – by Lieven Verdonck, Alessandro Launaro, Martin Millett, Frank Vermeulen and Giovanna Bellini ; The diverse role of electromagnetic induction survey in development-led alluvial (geo-)archaeology: prehistoric and (post-)Medieval landscape archaeology at Prosperpolder Zuid (north-west Belgium) – by Jeroen Verhegge, Timothy Saey, Pieter Laloo, Machteld Bats and Philippe Crombé ; Multi-channel GPR surveys for the detection of buried Iron-Age settlement remains: a case study from Bårby ring fort, Öland, Sweden – by Andreas Viberg ; Unique details on the structural elements of a Neolithic site in Velm, Lower Austria - the necessity of integrated prospection and visualization in archaeological prospection – by Mario Wallner, Juan Torrejón Valdelomar, Immo Trinks, Michael Doneus, Wolfgang Neubauer, Hannes Schiel, Tanja Trausmuth, Alexandra Vonkilch and Alois Hinterleitner ; Castra Terra Culmensis - results of non-invasive surveys of the Teutonic Order’s strongholds in the Culmerland (Poland) – by Marcin Wiewióra, Krzysztof Misiewicz, Wiesław Małkowski and Miron Bogacki ; Imaging a Medieval shipwreck with 3D marine reflection seismics – by Dennis Wilken, Hannes Hollmann, Tina Wunderlich, Clemens Mohr, Detlef Schulte-Kortnack and Wolfgang Rabbel ; Seeing is believing? Non-destructive research of the western Lesser Poland upland, 2010-2017 – by Piotr Wroniecki

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Book SynopsisThis analysis is concerned with the dating of megaliths in Europe and is based on 2410 available radiocarbon results from pre-megalithic and megalithic sites, and to the megaliths contemporaneous contexts and the application of a Bayesian statistical framework. It is, so far, the largest existing attempt to establish a supra-regional synthesis on the emergence and development of megaliths in Europe. Its aim is to assist in the clarification of an over 200-year-old, ongoing research debate.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Megaliths and megalithic societies in Europe; Chapter 2 Methodical Approach: Radiocarbon Dates and Bayesian Chronological Modelling; Chapter 3 Northwest France; Chapter 4 Catalonia; Chapter 5 Southern France; Chapter 6 Corsica; Chapter 7 Sardinia; Chapter 8 The Maltese Archipelago; Chapter 9 Southern Spain; Chapter 10 West Iberian Peninsula; Chapter 11 The other megalithic regions in Northern Europe and in the Mediterranean; Chapter 12 Synthesis: the emergence and spreading of megaliths and megalithic societies in Europe; Appendix 1 Oversight Graphic; Appendix 2 Glossary; Appendix 3 Data; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe reliefs of the column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome are used extensively for the illustration of Roman soldiers. However, despite the fact that in the last decades a number of sites at the Danube Limes have been analyzed, where numerous militaria from the Markomannic Wars have emerged, there is no comparison between this work of official Roman art and the archaeological finds. This book aims to address this lacuna. Each piece of equipment of the Roman soldier is analyzed in its sculptural representation and compared with the existing finds as well as supplementary comparisons with secondary sources. The result is a broad picture of the Roman army under Marcus Aurelius and of Rome's depiction of their forces in state propaganda. In addition, the present work comprehensively separates the antique parts of the frieze from the additions made during the late Renaissance for the first time and thus provides a solid basis for future archaeological and art historical evaluations.Table of ContentsVorwort des akademischen Betreuers ; I. Einleitung ; II. Forschungsgeschichte ; III. Die Überarbeitung der Siegessäule in der Spätrenaissance ; IV. Fundplätze markomannenkriegszeitlicher Militaria ; V. Vorgehensweise ; VI. Schwerter ; VII. Stangenwaffen ; VIII. Helme ; IX. Rumpfpanzer ; X. Schilde ; XI. Schuhe ; XII. Tuniken ; XIII. Hosen ; XIV. Gürtel ; XV. Halstücher ; XVI. Mäntel ; XVII. Panzerunterkleider ; XVIII. Irreguläre Truppen ; XIX. Standarten und Feldzeichen ; XX. Musikinstrumente ; XXI. Pionierwerkzeuge ; XXIII. Zelte ; XXIV. Beinschienen ; XXV. Dolche ; XXVI. Fazit ; XXVII. Literaturverzeichnis ; Tafeln: XXVIII Die Einzelszenen der Siegessäule ; XXIX Beispielwaffen der Spätrenaissance ; XXX Grabsteine der 2. Hälfte des 2. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. ; XXXI Bodenfunde der Markomannenkriege ; XXXII. Abbildungsnachweis

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first investigation of the relationship between Palmyra and its surrounding territory from the Roman to the early Islamic period since D. Schlumberger’s pioneer campaigns in the mountains northwest of Palmyra in the late 1930s. It discusses the agricultural potential of the hinterland, its role in the food supply of the city, and the interaction with the nomadic networks on the Syrian dry steppe. The investigation is based on an extensive joint Syrian-Norwegian surface survey north of Palmyra in 2008, 2010 and 2011 and on studies of satellite imagery. It contains a gazetteer of 70 new sites, which include numerous villages, estates, forts, stations and water management systems.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Survey. Survey area, methodology and implementation; Chronology of the sites; Topography and climate; Water supply. Wells, springs and cisterns; Villages and estates. The food supply of Palmyra; Forts and stations. Lines of communication.Palmyrene control of the territory; Conclusion; Gazetteer of surveyed sites: Wadi Abyad; Jebel Abyad; Wadi al-Takara; Jazal; Jebel Chaar; Wadi Jihar – Wadi Masaadé – Wadi Khabar; Jebel Merah; North of Jebel Chaar; Appendix: Safaitic inscriptions mentioning Tadmur; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe significant body of stone and flint axe-heads imported into Britain from the Continent has been poorly understood, overlooked and undervalued in Neolithic studies, particularly over the past half century. It is proposed, in this study, that the cause is a bias of British Neolithic scholarship against the invasion hypothesis and diffusionist model, and it is sought therefore to re-assess the significance accorded to these objects. The aim is to redress the imbalance by re-focusing on the material, establishing a secure evidence base, and exploring the probable conditions in which these often distinctive items made their way to Britain. The narrative presented here rests upon the argument that imported axe-heads came into what is today called Britain as objects of considerable significance. Specifically, they were items of high symbolic value that played a crucial role in fostering particular ways of thinking about, and addressing, social identity in the Neolithic period. These issues are the context for the study, whose main objectives are the close and detailed cataloguing of relevant material, and a documentation of the investigative work needed to establish the credentials of each artefact.Trade Review'It is excellent to see all the disparate data collected together with a persistent reminder of the problem of fakes and manuports (most axe-heads are stray finds, others form part of donated antiquarian collections, or, these days, bought on eBay); it allows, for the first time, an overview of the ‘oddities’. This clearly shows that a re-examination of the material is overdue, and the need for the original lithological descriptions/attributions to be confirmed is the author’s constant and timely cry (but for safe progress it must to be done by a competent petrographer). The questions this book (re-)raises are important and are clarified. Most notably (placing jade to one side), why, after the early Neolithic, were so very few axes imported?' – Rob Ixer (2018): Current Archaeology #343 ‘Overall, this book provides a wealth of interesting ideas and observations of the British Neolithic and its relations with its nearest neighbours. It highlights what the author has rightly identified as a greatly neglected class of objects… For those with a fascination for stone tools, this provides an enjoyable wander through the problems and pitfalls, but also the considerable potential, of axeheads with possible Continental associations.’ – Barry Bishop (2019): Archaeological Journal, DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2019.1591070 Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Re-connecting British and continental research traditions: dynamic approaches to the relationship between axe-heads and identity; Chapter Three: ‘Afterlives’; Chapter Four: An investigation into the contexts of jade axe-heads found in Britain, using GIS terrain modelling of HER data; Chapter Five: ‘Projet Breton’ and the search for Group X; Chapter Six: ‘Crudwell’ type, ‘Smerrick’ type, and marbled all-over-polished axe-heads in Neolithic Britain; Chapter Seven: The rectangular-sectioned axe-head in Britain and its implications for understanding the Neolithic; Chapter Eight: Answering the original questions; Appendix One: Table of all known published jade axe-heads with attributed British find-spot locations (correct until 2017). Shaded in grey are axe-heads with ‘precise’ find-spot locations, included in Appendix Two); Appendix Two: Find-spot locations, and archaeology of Mesolithic to Roman date within a 1000m radius, for 43 jade axe-heads found in Britain, presented as 41 GIS terrain models with accompanying text; Appendix Three: A table of all known Group X axe-heads and a table of Breton fibrolite axe-heads with attributed British find-spot locations; Appendix Four: Table of all published ‘Crudwell-Smerrick’ type axe-heads; Appendix Five: Table of all known axe-heads with rectangular sections which have British find-spot locations attributed. Highlighted in grey are axe-heads of probable Scandinavian origin. This is a summary of the information presented in Appendix Six; Appendix Six: Corpus of all known axe-heads with rectangular sections which have British find-spot locations attributed (summarised in Appendix Five); Appendix Seven: Caches and hoards of axe-heads in Britain. Please note, almost all of the data included in this corpus has been taken directly from Pitts 1996, Appendix One, with a few additions by the author; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisCreativity is embedded in human history. Indeed, it is impossible to understand material change and the development of the new without invoking creativity. The location, exploration and analysis of creativity should therefore be of particular concern to archaeologists. This volume engages with this challenge by focusing on the outcomes of creativity – material culture – and an exploration of creative practice. The European Bronze Age provides a useful focus for discussions of the outcomes of creativity because in this period we see the development of new and pre-existing materials that we take for granted today, in particular textiles and bronze. We also see new ways of working with existing materials, such as clay, to create novel forms. In both new and existing materials it is frequently possible to see the growth of technical skill, to produce complex forms and elaborate decorated surfaces. The papers in this volume view Bronze Age objects through the lens of creativity in order to offer fresh insights into the interaction between people and the world, as well as the individual and cultural processes that lie behind creative expression. Many have their origin in the international conference Creativity: An Exploration Through the Bronze Age and Contemporary Responses to the Bronze Age held at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge in 2103 as part of the HERA-funded project Creativity and Craft Production in Middle and Late Bronze Age Europe. Contributions span the early to late Bronze Age, deal with a range of materials including textiles, metal, and ceramics, and reflect on data from across the continent including Iberia, Scandinavia, Central and Eastern Europe. This breadth illustrates the wideranging importance and applicability of creativity as an heuristic concept. The volume further develops a range of theoretical and methodological directions, opening up new avenues for the study of creativity in the past.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Joanna Sofaer) ; 1. Creativity and Knowledge (Bengt Molander) [Open Access: Download] ; 2. Copying from Sherds. Creativity in Bronze Age Pottery in Central Iberia (1800-1150 BC) (Antonio Blanco-González) ; 3. Creativity versus Taboo in Late Bronze Age Central and Southeast Europe (Carola Metzner-Nebelsick) [Open Access: Download] ; 4. Dull Hues versus Colour and Glamour. Creative Textile Design in the 2nd Millennium BC in Central Europe (Karina Grömer and Regina Hofmann-de Keijzer) ; 5. The imaginary crested helmet of Vercingetorix: What is ‘Creativity’ in Bronze Age metal production? (Anne Lehoërff) ; 6. Creativity and the Making of a Pottery Decoration Style in Middle Bronze Age Transylvania: The Building of a Theory of Movement (Nona Palincaş) ; 7. The Nordic razor as a medium of creativity (Flemming Kaul) ; 8. In the Beginning was the Fibre (Antoinette Rast-Eicher) ; 9. Towards Textile Textures (Lise Bender Jørgensen) ; 10. The Apperance of Fibulae in the Late Bronze Age. Creativity in the Crafting of the First Clothes Fasteners in the South of the Carpathian Basin (Daria Loznjak Dizdar) ; 11. Creative Elaboration in Clay in the Early Bronze Age in the Carpathian Region (Jozef Bátora) ;

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Book SynopsisA second revised and updated edition of Carlos Gracia Zamacona’s Manual de Egipcio Medio [Handbook of Middle Egyptian]. The book is designed as a primer, written in Spanish, to learn Middle Egyptian (2000-1500 BC), which was considered by the Egyptians the ‘classic’ stage of their language, and a guide to read hieroglyphs. The grammatical explanation is accompanied by a full list of hieroglyphic signs (Gardiner’s plus recent refinements), basic vocabulary, gradual exercises (with translation), and a short, updated bibliography. The book’s main aim is didactic, but it also addresses the latest theoretical and methodological issues in Egyptology and Linguistics/Este libro es circunstancial. Se podrá decir que todos lo son, pero éste me llegó por pura casualidad a raíz de unos cursos de lengua y escritura egipcia organizados por la Asociación de Amigos del Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Madrid en 2007. Mi intención inicial fue la de preparar un material para los participantes de los cursos, siendo consciente de lo difícil que es empezar a leer jeroglíficos y comprender una lengua muy distinta de la nuestra o de las que nos son familiares. Debido a la misma complejidad del egipcio, que en esto no difiere de cualquier otra lengua natural, así como a mi tendencia a acabar lo que empiezo, me encontré un par de meses después de finalizados los cursos con un manual de iniciación al egipcio medio, el estado de la lengua considerado «clásico» por los propios egipcios y en el que están escritos, sobre todo, los textos del llamado Reino o Imperio Medio, que se extendió, de manera aproximada, desde el año 2000 hasta el 1500 antes de Cristo.Table of ContentsPrefacio de Pascal Vernus; Introducción a la segunda edición; Introducción a la primera edición; Parte I: Enfoque lingüístico, lectura y fonética; 0. Enfoque lingüístico; 1. La lengua egipcia y su estudio; 2. Lectura y fonética; Parte II: Gramática; 3. La proposición simple; 4. Enunciados marcados; 5. La proposición compleja; Parte III: Anexos; Anexo I. Lista de signos jeroglíficos; Anexo II. Vocabulario básico; Anexo III. Textos; Anexo IV. Soluciones de los textos; Anexo V. Bibliografía

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Book SynopsisAnthropomorphic objects from the Egyptian Predynastic have been a topic of frequent study and debate, from the time they were first excavated until today. These objects, including human figurines, hippopotamus tusks, tag amulets and combs carved with the human image, continue to fascinate and perplex scholars today. Objects such as these form part of the extensive and distinctive iconographic imagery of Predynastic Egypt, and are often interpreted solely in the context of their symbolic or iconographic significance. The aim of this study is to examine these anthropomorphic objects in terms of their original context in order to determine what role they played in Predynastic burials – a useful method, as most of these objects are found in graves. A database comprising all provenanced anthropomorphic Predynastic objects and their placement in the grave, in addition to the details of each grave, has been composed in order to conduct a detailed analysis. The analysis is geared to answer the question of whether it is possible to determine the function of these objects from the available data, and if so, what the results could tell us about burial practices and rituals in Predynastic Egypt. It became clear from the results that the context, especially the specific placement of the object in the grave, can reflect significantly the meaning and function of anthropomorphic objects. The placement and function seems to have depended on the type of object: for instance, figurines had different placements and meanings to tusks and tags. Ultimately, it appears that anthropomorphic objects, especially figurines, were personal items with which the deceased were identified and buried by their relations and friends. They may have served as magical or protective items, or as representations of ancestors or the deceased individuals themselves. This conclusion is significant, as it confirms the previous assumptions about the functions of anthropomorphic objects in Predynastic graves through a thorough analysis of available data, making a contribution to our understanding of Predynastic burial rituals.Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ; CHAPTER 2: THE STUDY OF PREDYNATIC FIGURINES ; CHAPTER 3: METHODS OF ANALYSIS ; CHAPTER 4: ANALYSIS AND RESULTS ; CHAPTER 5: DISCUSSION ; CHAPTER 6: CONCLUSION ; APPENDIX I: THE OBJECT CATALOGUE ; APPENDIX II: ADDITIONAL GRAVES ; APPENDIX III: ASSOCIATED OBJECTS ; APPENDIX IV - LIST OF OBJECTS AND FIGURES ; FIGURES ; BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisIn the United States of America, Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act requires that projects funded, authorized, or permitted by the federal government consider historic properties that may be affected by the development of those projects. To comply with Section 106, an interstate pipeline corridor in southwestern Wyoming and northwestern Colorado was surveyed to identify cultural resources and to evaluate them in terms of significance and potential listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Once sites were identified, a mitigation strategy was developed in coordination with the Bureau of Land Management. That plan prioritized important cultural resources within a regional archaeological context and included substantial excavations at 14 sites. The archaeological excavations were successful in recovering the types of data necessary to address regional research issues that were raised in the project’s alternative mitigation plan. The data recovery effort included site-specific geophysical assessments as well as providing an opportunity to analyze the geology, fauna, flora, and tens of thousands of prehistoric and historical artifacts from the sites. While there is nothing about the number of artifacts that inherently adds to our understandings of past lifeways, the analyses substantially added to regional datasets for the Paleoindian, Archaic, Formative, Protohistoric, and Historical components. Specifically, the analyses addressed prehistoric chronometric and settlement patterns (Chapter 5), subsistence strategies (Chapter 6), lithic reduction strategies (Chapter 7), as well as synthesizing information for prehistoric hearths (Chapter 8) and architecture (Chapter 9). Chapter 10 focuses on the results of remote sensing at two sites. That is followed by regional syntheses of the prehistoric (Chapter 11) and historical data (Chapter 12). When combined with existing datasets, this synthetic work substantially improves the quality of regional archaeological interpretations. Given the results presented herein, it is clear that the mitigation approach within the pipeline corridor was successful in providing important archaeological information that advances local and regional understandings of past lifeways.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction – by Alan D. Reed and Matthew J. Landt; Chapter 2: Effective Environment – by Rand A. Greubel, Jenn Mueller, Alan D. Reed, and Matthew J. Landt; Chapter 3: Culture History – by Jenn Mueller, Rand A. Greubel, Jonathon C. Horn, Alan D. Reed,and Matthew J. Landt; Chapter 4: Methods – by Matthew J. Landt, Alan D. Reed, Jonathon C. Horn, Justin P. Williams, Michael J. Prouty, Jenn Mueller, Abbie L. Harrison, Martha Bright and Stephanie L. Dudash; Chapter 5: Site Distribution and Settlement Patterns – by Jeremy Omvig and Iraida A. Rodriquez; Chapter 6: Subsistence – by Abbie L. Harrison, Jenn Mueller, and Matthew J. Landt; Chapter 7: Prehistoric Technology – by Rand A. Greubel, Jaclyn Mullen, Jeremy Omvig, Michael J. Prouty, Charles A. Reed, and Jenn Mueller; Chapter 8: Thermal Features – by Sara A. Millward; Chapter 9: Prehistoric Architecture – by Charles A. Reed and Matthew J. Landt; Chapter 10: Application of Remote Sensing – by Matthew J. Landt; Chapter 11: Utility of Prehistoric Archaeological Units – by Matthew J. Landt; Chapter 12: Historic Research Themes – by Jack E. Pfertsh and Tracy L. Hoose; Chapter 13: Project Evaluation – by Matthew J. Landt and Alan D. Reed

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Book SynopsisThe Roman Bridge between Dolni Vadin (Bulgaria) and Grojdibodu (Romania) presents all the available data on the Roman bridge over the Danube which connected Dacia and Moesia at this point. The toponyms Vadin and Grojdibodu themselves mean ‘ford’, a crossing over water, in this case over the Danube. There have been no archaeological excavations at the feet of the bridge but the author has been able to propose positioning, scale and full reconstruction on the basis of a survey of existing remains, known road alignments, old maps and drawings as well as comparison with better-known parallels. The book also includes a catalogue of small finds deriving from the area of the bridge. This bridge has been ignored for centuries primarily due to the absence of any mention of it in ancient sources, literary or otherwise. It was probably eclipsed by the fame of the bridge from Drobeta, which was constructed by Emperor Trajan between the two Dacian wars, and by the bridge from Sucidava-Oescus which was built later, in the time of Emperor Constantine the Great. Additionally, the bridge is located in a rather obscure place, hardly accessible in the modern era. This work restores this river crossing to its proper significance.Table of ContentsForeword ; Introduction ; 1. Research method and techniques ; 2. History of the research ; 2.1. Research of Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli ; 2.2. Research of Professor Dumitru Tudor ; 2.3. Research of Nicu Vintilă ; 2.4. Research of Dorel Bondoc ; 2.4.1. Exploration of the southern bank (Bulgarian) of the Danube ; 2.4.2. Exploration of the northern (Romanian) bank of the Danube ; 3. Conclusions ; 3.1. How was the bridge from Dolni Vadin-Grojdibodu built? ; 3.2. When was the bridge of Dolni Vadin-Grojdibodu built and by whom? ; 3.3. Why was a bridge Dolni Vadin-Grojdibodu needed? ; 3.4. When was the bridge of Dolni Vadin- Grojdibodu no longer functional? ; Appendix 1. About an amphora fragment discovered in the masonry work of the bridge at Dolni Vadin – Andrei Opait ; Appendix 2. Considerations on the Roman bridge over the Danube between Dolni Vadin and Grojdibodu – Cornel Rădulescu ; Appendix 3. Archaeological discoveries from the Roman period, in the area of the village Dolni Vadin – Bulgaria – Dorel Bondoc ; Appendix 4. Archaeological discoveries from the Roman period, in the area of the village Grojdibodu - Romania – Dorel Bondoc ; Appendix 5. Ancient and Byzantine coins – The Collection of Vintilă Nicu, formed in Grojdibodu area, Olt County – Delia Moisil ; Appendix 6. The diploma from Grojdibodu (CIL XVI 75 = IDR I 10) – Dan Dana and Dorel Bondoc ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisEstudios para la configuración de las facies cerámicas altoimperiales en el Sur de la Península Ibérica explores economy and trade in the south of the Iberian peninsula during the High Roman Empire. Different methodologies, techniques and approaches to archaeological research are applied in the analysis and study of ceramic contexts in several marketplaces or consumption centres in the area. Special attention is given to ceramic facies predominantly characterised by the presence of fine pottery. In addition, the examination of local ceramics points towards a complexity whose interpretation has been biased until a few decades ago by the presence of wares imported from other Mediterranean regions as a result of the intensity of Roman trade. Furthermore, exploration beyond traditional analytical parameters highlights, for example, the relevance of the phenomenon of pottery vessel imitation.Table of ContentsIntroducción - Pablo Ruiz Montes, Mª Victoria Peinado Espinosa y Mª Isabel Fernández García; La facies cerámica de Olisipo (Lisboa) en el periodo julio-claudio: una primera aproximación a partir de contextos; suburbanos seleccionados - Rodrigo Banha da Silva; Contextos alto-imperiales de Chãos Salgados, Santiago do Cacém-Mirobriga(?) (Lusitania) - José Carlos Quaresma; Contextos alto-imperiales de Ammaia, São Salvador de Aramenha (Lusitania) - José Carlos Quaresma; Las cerámicas finas de Arucci (Aroche, Huelva) - Salvador Delgado Aguilar y Juan M. Campos Carrasco; Las cerámicas finas de Onoba Aestuaria (Huelva) - Salvador Delgado Aguilar y Juan M. Campos Carrasco; Contextos cerámicos de Hispalis c. 50 a.C. al 225 d.C. Excavaciones arqueológicas en el Patio de Banderas del Real Alcázar de Sevilla (2012-2014) - Jacobo Vázquez Paz, Enrique García Vargas, Cinta Maestre Borge y Elise Arnold; Un avance al estudio de la Terra Sigillata Hispánica en Colonia Patricia Corduba - Sonia Vargas Cantos; Un contexto cerámico de época de Claudio del santuario iberorromano de Torreparedones, colonia Ituci Virtus Iulia (Baena, Córdoba) - José Antonio Morena López y Manuel Rubio Valverde; Producciones cerámicas de Isturgi en la antigua Sisapo (La Bienvenida, Almodóvar del Campo-Ciudad Real).; Aportaciones a la conformación de las facies cerámicas altoimperiales en la vertiente norte de Sierra Morena - Mar Zarzalejos Prieto, Carmen Fernández Ochoa, Germán Esteban Borrajo y Patricia Hevia Gómez; La vajilla fina romana en las facies cerámicas imperiales del área del Teatro romano de Málaga: una aproximación a su studio - Humberto Manuel, Gómez Ramos, Pilar Corrales Aguilar y José Manuel Compaña Prieto; Materiales de un contexto de época julio-claudia procedente de Isturgi (Los Villares de Andújar, Jaén). En los confines orientales de la provincia Baeticae - Mª Victoria Peinado Espinosa y Pablo Ruiz Montes; La cerámica romana en el territorio de Aurgi-Jaén - José Luís Serrano Peña; Cerámicas en la tierra, La terra sigillata hispánica en la estratigrafía de Cástulo - Marcelo Castro López, Concepción Choclan Sabina, Juan Pérez Garrido y Abel Manuel Jiménez Cruz; Un ejemplo de contextualización cerámica altoimperial: la evidencia del Área II de la colonia romana de Libisosa Foroagustana (Lezuza, Albacete) - Antonio Manuel Poveda Navarro y José Luis Fuentes Sánchez

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Book SynopsisThe Hippodrome of Gerasa: A Provincial Roman Circus publishes the unique draft manuscript by the late architect and restorer Antoni Ostrasz, the study of Roman circuses and the complex fieldwork for the restoration of the Jarash Hippodrome, a work in progress abruptly ended both in writing and in the field by his untimely death in October 1996. The manuscript is presented as it is in order to retain the authenticity of his work. It is, therefore, an unusual publication providing the researcher as well as restorer of ancient monuments with unparalleled insights of architectural studies for anastyloses. Compendia A and B have been added to supplement the incomplete segments of the manuscript with regard to his studies as well as archaeological data. This concerns the excavation and preparation for the restorations and the archaeological history or stratigraphic history of the site from the foundations to primary use as a circus to subsequent occupancies of the circus complex. The study of the architectural and archaeological remains at the hippodrome encapsulates the sequence of the urban history of the town from its early beginnings to Roman Gerasa and Byzantine and Islamic Jarash, including vestiges of the seventh century plague and still visible earthquake destructions, as well as Ottoman settlements.Table of ContentsList of Figures ; Foreword and acknowledgements ; The Hippodrome of Gerasa. A Provincial Roman Circus – Antoni A. Ostrasz (1929-1996) ; Introduction ; Chapter I: History of exploration, excavation and research ; Chapter II: The Excavation 1985-1996 ; Chapter III: The Architecture of the Hippodrome ; [Chapter IV-V unwritten at time of author’s death] ; Chapter VI: History of the building ; Chapter VII: The Hippodrome of Gerasa and Roman circuses ; Bibliography and Abbreviations ; Compendium A: Published articles and unpublished reports by Antoni A. Ostrasz 1983 to 1995 ; Published articles ; The Hippodrome of Gerasa: A report on excavations and research 1982-1987 ; Jerash – The Hippodrome ; The Excavation and Restoration of the Hippodrome at Jerash.: A synopsis ; Gerasa. Hippodrome Report ; Jerash/Gerasa: Hippodrome. Report on the anastylosis of the E-S tower ; The Hippodrome of Gerasa: A case of the dichotomy of art and building technology ; Unublished articles ; Figures 1-145. The original manuscript and Compendium A ; Compendium B: The Hippoodrome of Gerasa. Archaeological materials and their contexts ; Published Articles ; ANCIENT BURIALS AT THE HIPPODROME OF GERASA / JARASH ; A History of Occupational Changes at the Site of the Hippodrome of Gerasa ; Published articles by Ina Kehrberg[-Ostrasz] ; Selected Lamps and Pottery from the Hippodrome at Jerash ; Flaked Glass and Pottery Sherd Tools of the Late Roman and Byzantine Periods ; Sherd Tools and their Association with Workshops at the Gerasa Hippodrome ; Ceramic Lamp Production in the 4th and 5th Centuries AD ; Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Pottery of Gerasa ; Gerasa as Provider for Roman Frontier Stations ; Figurative adornment of Roman circuses: virtual presentation of the starting gate herms ; Byzantine ceramic productions ; The complexity of lamps ; Pp. 411-430 in SHAJ 12, 2016 figs 1-10 (Figures 195-205) ; Pottery and lamps from the foundation trenches and wall constructions ; Figures 146-261. Compendium B ; Bibliography and Abbreviations

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Book SynopsisThis book presents and celebrates the mile-long Thames Street in the City of London and the land south of it to the River Thames as an archaeological asset. Four Museum of London excavations of 1974-84 are presented: Swan Lane, Seal House, New Fresh Wharf and Billingsgate Lorry Park. Here the findings of the period 1100-1666 are presented.

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Book SynopsisIndonesian Megaliths: A forgotten cultural heritage' highlights aspects of Indonesian culture which are currently misunderstood and sometimes threatened by destruction. Although they are relatively recent in origin, the Indonesian megaliths offer similarities to their counterparts in the Middle East and Arabia: they reflect the rise to prominence of local chiefs in a context of acculturation which prompted the need to build megalithic monuments to bury the dead, and to honour, commemorate and communicate with ancestors. In societies of oral tradition, these stones punctuate the landscape to transmit the memory of men and social structure from one generation to the next. Based on scientific documents (articles, archaeological reports) and field visits, this new exploration clarifies various elements of the Indonesian megaliths, including their function in the daily life of the tribes and the use of certain stones for musical purposes (lithophony). In Nias, Sumba and Toraya, the megalith tradition is still alive and ethno-anthropological studies of these three regions provide a unique chance to complement the archaeological perspectives on megalithic monuments abandoned for several centuries in the rest of the Archipelago. The book includes numerous photographs documenting the monuments which were taken during the author’s stay in Indonesia (2010-2013).Trade Review'...the book succeeds in revealing the wealth of Indonesian traditions to enthusiasts and will hopefully spark a revival of interest in megaliths among professionals.' -- Véronique Degroot * Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient vol. 106 *

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Book SynopsisComposite Artefacts in the Ancient Near East: Exhibiting an imaginative materiality, showing a genealogical nature examines the complex relationship between environment, materials, society and materiality with particular reference to the composite artefacts in the ancient Near East. On the one hand are the objective and natural attributes of materials, possibly exalted from their transformation: a form of fascination immanent in all kind of technical activity which promotes the transition from the ordinary into an ‘extra-ordinary’ realm, imbuing the object with new meaning. On the other hand is the idea that properties of materials are not fixed attributes of ‘matters’, but are processual as well as relational: the qualities of artefacts are subjective and are included in the worldview of artisans making them, as well as in the mind of who observes who appreciate them. Thus, the craftsmanship is oriented towards the achievement of sophisticated products through assemblage techniques and the blending of contrasting properties and qualities of materials. The term ‘composite’ is a combination of the power of technology and the ability to form new images: the strict relationship between creativity, technology and manufacture produces novel interactions and solutions. Although the primary concern of this volume is to provide specific case studies in which theoretical assumptions and hypotheses can be applied to the ancient evidence, most of the papers take not only the general perspective, such as the relationship between materials and humans, but also a defined body of evidence – material, textual and visual through which they address the issue. This volume represents a first attempt to conceptualise the construction and use of composite artefacts: the richness of approaches, the development of new issues depending on specific case studies, and the overturning of widely accepted ideas, show the interest towards this category of objects and the opportunity to enlarge this field study in the future.Table of ContentsSilvana Di Paolo – Introduction: New Lines of Enquiry for Composite Artefacts? ; Section 1. The Planning: Materiality and Imagination ; Silvana Di Paolo – From Hidden to Visible. Degrees of Mental and Material Construction of an ‘Integrated Whole’ in the Ancient Near East ; Alessandro Di Ludovico – A Composite Look at the Composite Wall Decorations in the Early History of Mesopotamia ; Section 2. Symbols in Action ; Chikako Watanabe – Composite Animals Representing the Property of Thunder in Mesopotamia. ; Elisa Roßberger – Shining, Contrasting, Enchanting: Composite Artefacts from the Royal Tomb of Qatna ; Megan Cifarelli – Entangled Relations over Geographical and Gendered Space: Multi-Component Personal Ornaments at Hasanlu [Open Access: Download] ; Section 3. Sum of Fragments, Sum of Worlds ; Jean M. Evans – Composing Figural Traditions in the Mesopotamian Temple ; Frances Pinnock – Polymaterism in Early Syrian Ebla ; Anna Paule – Near Eastern Materials, Near Eastern Techniques, Near Eastern Inspiration: Colourful Jewellery from Prehistoric, Protohistoric and Archaic Cyprus

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Book SynopsisAtlas Of Ceramic Fabrics 1. Italy: North-East, Adriatic, Ionian. Bronze Age: Impasto presents and interprets the petrographic composition of Bronze Age Impasto pottery (23rd-10th centuries BCE) found in the eastern part of Italy. This is the first of a series of Atlases organised according to geographical areas, chronology and types of wares. In this book 935 samples from 63 sites are included, which comprise material obtained as a result of almost 30 years of interdisciplinary archaeological, technological and archaeometric research by the authors’ team. 73 petrographic fabrics (the potters’ ‘recipes’) are defined and presented, on their lithological character – a tool that can be used to compare the different components of the ceramic pastes and to check provenance of non-local pots. The volume is organised in chapters focused on methodology, fabric description and distribution, followed by the archaeological implications and the database, with contributions by Daniele Brunelli and Andrea Di Renzoni. Illustrations and descriptions of the fabrics and a complete list of the samples are included in order to provide a rigorous and transparent presentation of the data. The archaeological implications are discussed within the topics such as technology, variability, standardisation, chronology, function, social organisation, circulation, style, typology and cultural identity. It is hoped that this work will be considered as another stepping-stone in demostrating that, in archaeology, technological variability is as important as morphological and stylistic distinctions.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Q and A (Sara Tiziana Levi) ; 2 Fabrics (Valentina Cannavò and Sara Tiziana Levi) ; 3 Archaeological implications (Sara Tiziana Levi and Valentina Cannavò) ; 4 Databases (Valentina Cannavò, Sara Tiziana Levi, Daniele Brunelli and Andrea Di Renzoni) ; DB1 Samples by fabric ; DB2 Samples by site ; DB3 Fabrics (description) ; DB4 Fabrics ; 5 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisCharles Thomas (1928-2016) was a Cornishman and archaeologist, whose career from the 1950s spanned nearly seven decades. This period saw major developments that underpin the structures of archaeology in Britain today, in many of which he played a pivotal part. He campaigned for the Chair of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter, which he then held from 1972 until retirement, after teaching archaeology at Edinburgh and Leicester Universities. The ‘Intellectual Adventure in Archaeology’ was to Charles the mental stimulation of developing narratives for the past, especially in the areas in which he was a leading authority, including the early church in Britain, the early medieval period more generally, and Cornish studies. The contributions to this volume demonstrate the extent to which his scholarship and character has underpinned the work of others, in Cornwall and beyond. Contributions come from life-long friends and from archaeologists at all of stages of their careers. Their subjects are predominantly Cornish, Gwithian, Tintagel and Scilly, but also range from Scotland to Southern France. The whole is brought to life by a series of Charles’ watercolours, previously unpublished. The volume should appeal to all those interested in the development of archaeology in the later 20th century and of Cornwall from prehistory to its distinctive present.Table of ContentsForeword – Caroline Dudley ; Andy M Jones and Henrietta Quinnell – A miscellany of papers ; Nicholas Johnson – Charles Thomas 1928–2016: The sixty-year archaeological adventure of a Cornish polymath ; Andy M Jones – To the North Cliffs! ; Roger Mercer – Looking at the Cornish Early Neolithic from all directions ; Vanessa Straker and Thomas Walker – Gwithian’s environmental history: Landscape change and farming ; Henrietta Quinnell – Before the Early Christian cemetery site on Lundy Island ; Jacqueline A Nowakowski – Working in the shadows of the giants: Charles Thomas, Courtenay Arthur Ralegh Radford (and King Arthur) – past and current archaeological fieldwork at Tintagel, Cornwall ; Charles Thomas† and Charles Johns – Archaeological investigations on Teän, Isles of Scilly, 1956 ; Ewan Campbell and Adrián Maldonado – Charles Thomas in North Britain: A career in the making ; Anna Tyacke – My memorial stone to Charles ; Ann Preston-Jones – St Piran’s Cross: A Cornish Icon Re-considered ; Thomas Goskar – A little less mute: 3D capture and enhancement of Cornwall's inscribed and decorated stones ; Oliver Padel – The name of Annet (Scilly) ; Peter Fowler – Deserted Settlement in an Antique land: Elements of a post-Roman field archaeology on le Causee Méjean, Languedoc, France ; Martin Bell – Coastal Archaeology in South West England: Charles Thomas and other inspirations ; Timothy Darvill – Lift up mine eyes unto the hills: Archaeology and the uplands ; Nick Thomas – Antony Charles Thomas, the bard of Manton ; Mary-Jane Mountain – Charlie: Excavations and archaeology at the University of Edinburgh 1957-1967. ; Arthur ApSimon – Remembering… ; Adrian Rodda and Christopher Knowles – Memories of the Gwithian excavations ; Anna Lawson-Jones – ‘The weather’s fine! Do you fancy a trip to the flint fields?’ ; John Gould – Charles Thomas and Church Archaeology in Cornwall: Reminiscences of a Diocesan Archaeologist ; Adam Sharpe – Charles Thomas: Linguistic archaeologist ; Freya-Lawson-Jones – From Gwithian to York: A short saga ; Philip Marsden – End note: A man of letters ; The Complete Bibliography of Charles Antony Thomas – compiled by Nicholas Johnson

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Book SynopsisWhereas animals are a frequent depiction on gemstones within the Greek and Roman periods, and play a key role in symbolic representations on these engraved gems, they have generally been overlooked with little in the way of focussed academic study. In the present research, a large group of Greek and Roman gems (intaglios) bearing depictions of animals was selected. The gems are presented through a detailed study of the themes described in an attempt to form a comprehensive approach to the depictions of animals and their significance on Greek and Roman gems. The work examines the associations between animal depictions and the type of gemstone and its believed qualities. The study also discusses the changes in representation of animals on gems compared to other, larger media, and questions the significance of these changes. It is concluded here that as far as animal motifs are concerned, the gems could be accorded with a deeper symbolism, such as good luck, abundance and fertility, health, success, and victory. All these motifs are perceived as capable of weakening hostile forces. The animals engraved can also symbolise nature's abundance and fertility, especially when represented along with their offspring, pasturing and grazing, or accompanied by such fertility symbols as cornucopia, ears of corn, and wine goblets. Other animals are related to certain gods, and even comprise their attributes, and thus it was believed that the owner of an engraved gem was accorded divine protection.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Engraved gems: a survey: 1. The Uses of Engraved Gems, 2. The materials used for ancient gems, 3. The themes depicted on gems, 4. References to gemstones in ancient literary sources, 5. Dating methods, 6. Carving technique, 7. Artists and workshops; Animal images and their meaning: Mammals, Cattle, Deer, Goats, Horses, Boars and sows, Predatory animals, Panthers, Lions, Birds, Birds of Prey, and Fowl, Eagles, Parrots, Roosters, Geese, Swans, Insects, Ants, Marine creatures, Dolphins, Seashells, Hybrids, Sphinx, Pegasus, Capricorn, Hippocamp, Gryllos (Hippalectryon); Interactions between animal depictions in various media and their depictions on gems; Associations between animal depictions and the type of gemstone and its believed qualities; Summary; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisCurrent Research in Egyptology 2017 presents papers delivered during the eighteenth meeting of this international conference, held at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, 3–6 May, 2017. Some 122 scholars from all over the world gathered in Naples to attend three simultaneous sessions of papers and posters, focussed on a large variety of subjects: Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Egypt, Nubian Studies, Language and Texts, Art and Architecture, Religion and Cult, Field Projects, Museums and Archives, Material Culture, Mummies and Coffins, Society, Technologies applied to Egyptology, Environment. The participants attended seven keynote presentations given by Rosanna Pirelli (Egyptologist), Irene Bragantini (Roman Archaeologist) and Andrea Manzo (Nubian Archaeologist) from the University of Naples “L’Orientale”; Marilina Betrò (Egyptologist) from Pisa University; Patrizia Piacentini (Egyptologist) from Milan University; Christian Greco (Director of Turin Egyptian Museum) and Daniela Picchi (Archaeological Museum of Bologna). Delegates were able to take advantage of a guided tour of the Oriental Museum Umberto Scerrato (University of Naples “L’Orientale”), access to the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN) and guided tours of the archaeological site of Pompeii and the Gaiola Underwater Park. The editors dedicate this volume to the late Prof. Claudio Barocas who inaugurated the teaching of Egyptology and Coptic Language and Literature in Naples.Table of ContentsRecent Archaeological Discoveries in Aba Island – Sudan – Ahmed Hussein Abdelrahman Adam ; Livelihood activities and food tradition in Kushite Nubia – Marco Baldi ; The Valley of the Queens: some preliminary remarks on the social identity of the 18th-dynasty tomb owners – Emanuele Casini ; Current and past research between Tebtynis and Padua: from sand to aerospace – Giulia Deotto, Ian Begg, Alessandra Menegazzi, Carlo Urbani, Andrea Meleri, Luca Toninello, Luigi Magnini, Laura Burigana, Armando De Guio, Ivana Angelini, Cinzia Bettineschi, Gianmario Molin, Giuseppe Salemi, Paola Zanovello ; Forgotten treasures: a journey (re)discovering the amulets of the Kerma Culture in the storerooms of the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston and in the Sudan National Museum of Khartoum – Elena D’Itria ; Tahai’s Secret: a Closer Look at the Coffin Ensemble of Lady Tahai from the ‘Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig’ in Switzerland – Charlotte Hunkeler ; Three’s a Crowd: the Possibility of Polygyny in New Kingdom Thebes – Ellen Jones ; ‘They were like lions roaring upon the mountain-crests’: Soundscapes of war in New Kingdom Egypt – Uroš Matić ; The curious case of priest Iufaa. Preliminary remarks on texts on the inner side of the outer sarcophagus – Diana Míčková ; One More for the Road: Beer, Sacrifice and Commemoration in Ancient Nubian Burials of the Classic Kerma Period – Elizabeth Minor ; Old Kingdom sarcophagi – The Abusir corpus – Věra Nováková ; Coffin Text spell 246: A description of the moon in conjunction with the sun – Gyula Priskin ; Macro-lithic tools and cupules in the Gash Delta (Eastern Sudan): a preliminary study – Francesco Michele Rega ; Stone architectural elements of the monastery at Manqabad and their typological classification – Anna Salsano ; The monumental tombs of the Asasif from the 25th-26th dynasties, between «cultural archive» and place of worship – Valeria Tappeti ; Glazed terracotta decorations from the palace of Natakamani (B1500) at Napata: a typological and iconographical analysis. Italian Archaeological Mission in Sudan at Jebel Barkal (Università Ca' Foscari, Venice) – Salvatore Taurino ; Egyptian metrics: a morphological approach – Stefano Vittori

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Book SynopsisThis book presents, in sixteen papers, recent developments and some of the main topics seen in academic Medieval Archaeology studies in Spain. The papers explore some of the emergent and consolidated topics of the discipline, such as landscapes, cities, rural spaces, bio-archaeological records, archaeology of architectures, agrarian archaeology, post-Roman archaeology, colonial archaeology in the Canary Islands and the archaeology of religious minorities, opening new lines of enquiries and providing new theoretical and methodological approaches. An overview of Medieval Archaeology studies in Spain is offered, proposing a wide range of topics for discussion. Finally, the book explores the connections between Spanish Medieval Archaeology and other European traditions, specifically, English, Italian and Portuguese Medieval Archaeology.Table of ContentsPreface, Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo (Universidad del País Vasco, UPV‐EHU); Introduction: 1. The future of Medieval Archaeology in Spain. Reflections and proposals, Juan Antonio Quirós (Universidad del País Vasco, UPV‐EHU); Spanish Medieval Archaeology from a european perspective: 2. Italia e Spagna, archeologie e medioevo: riflessioni su storie, paradigmi e future (prossimo venturo), Sauro Gelichi (Università Ca`Foscari); 3. Early Medieval ‘places and spaces’. Breaking down boundaries in British Archaeology, Helena Hamerow (University of Oxford); 4. Os últimos 30 anos da Arqueologia Medieval portugesa (1987‐2017), Catarina Tente (Universidade Nova Lisboa); Trends and topics: 5. Treinta años de una nueva arqueología de al‐Andalus, Alberto García Porras (Universidad de Granada); 6. Treinta años de arqueología en el norte de la Península Ibérica, Carlos Tejerizo (Universidad de Catamarta, Argentina), Juan Antonio Quirós (Universidad del País Vasco, UPV‐EHU); 7. La ciudad durante la Alta Edad Media: balance y propuesta de nuevas perspectivas metodológicas para el estudio de los escenarios urbanos en la Península Ibérica, Julia Sarabia‐Bautista (Universidad de Alicante); 8. Ciudad andalusí y arqueología. Un espacio para la reflexión, Irene Montilla Torres (Universidad de Jaén); 9. La Arqueología del paisaje como lugar donde hacer realmente compleja nuestra disciplina, José María Martín Civantos (Universidad de Granada); 10. De la Arqueología del paisaje a la Arqueología Agraria, Margarita Fernández Mier (Universidad de Oviedo); 11. Los últimos 30 años de la arqueología del período post‐imperial y visigodo, Alfonso Vigil‐Escalera Guirado (Universidad de Salamanca); 12. De la Arqueología mudéjar a la arqueología morisca: del islam permitido al islam prohibido, Olatz Villanueva Zubizarreta (Universidad de Valladolid); 13. Arqueología medieval de las minorías religiosas de la península ibérica: el caso de los judíos, Jorge A. Eiroa (Universidad de Murcia); 14. Zooarqueología y Edad Media en la Península Ibérica, Idoia Grau‐Sologestoa (University of Sheffield), Marcos García‐García (Universidad de Granada); 15. Arqueología de la producción arquitectónica en el Altomedievo Hispánico. Tecnología y contexto, María Ángeles Utrero (CSIC); 16. Arqueología y Media aetas en el archipiélago canario. Una reflexión y dos estudios de caso, Jorge Onrubia Pintado (Universidad de Castilla La Mancha), María del Cristo González Marrero (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)

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Book SynopsisThis volume discusses the evolution of oikema, which is the most common type of commercial facility in ancient Greece. The study covers a large area including Continental Greece, the Aegean islands, the Ionian islands and the west coast of Asia Minor. The author, after a thorough analysis, proposes a new terminology for commercial and industrial facilities. The book also presents the architectural characteristics and the equipment of oikemata and discusses their location and relationship with other buildings. The ownership, use and maintenance of oikemata are also discussed. It is argued that oikemata provided merchants and craftsmen with a suitable working space and contributed to the gradual abandonment of houses as working places, especially in cities that developed in the Hellenistic period. Their characteristics corresponded perfectly well to the needs of Greek commerce.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Nomenclature; Le vocabulaire antique des installations commerciales; Les critères d’identification des pièces polyvalentes; L’apparition de la pièce polyvalente; Les activités attestées dans les pièces polyvalentes; Les caractéristiques des pièces polyvalentes; La gestion des pièces polyvalentes; Les pièces polyvalentes et l’organisation du commerce; Conclusion; Bibliographie; Index des lieux; Index des mots grecs; Index des auteurs anciens; Index des inscriptions; Origine des illustrations

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Book SynopsisThis is the first reference book that deals specifically with all types of sewing-thimble made from copper-alloy or silver, or either of these metals combined with iron or steel, and found in Britain: also included is a seemingly rare gold specimen. Domed, ring-type and open-top (here the latter classed as a new type) sewing-thimbles are described, among them unusual examples and others previously absent from the known record. From Britain the earliest reliable dating for these humble yet fascinating tools is between c.1270 – c.1350, and continues through the medieval and early post-medieval period and into the 18th and 19th centuries. Dating from at least the 17th century, subjected to detailed attention is the largely neglected sailmakers’ and sailors’ palm-iron, a heavy-duty tool made from either iron, steel or copper alloy. Also described are the two known types of silver or copper-alloy finger guard, an 18th – 19th century tool used in conjunction with finer sewing-thimbles. The majority of sewing-thimbles and other sewing-tools catalogued here are credited to metal-detectorists or members of The Society of Thames Mudlarks, who also use metal-detectors. To show constructional detail, each object is archaeologically drawn. This information is essential for metal-detectorists, archaeologists, museum curators, sewing-tool collectors and dealers, or anyone with an interest, seeking to gauge the type or age of any particular sewing-thimble or palm-iron.Table of ContentsNotes on Illustrations; Foreword; Metal Sewing-Thimbles; Metal Ring-Type Thimbles; Metal Domed Thimbles; Metal Open-Top Thimbles; Metal Finger-Guards; Metal Palm-Irons; Metal So-called Palm Guards; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisGreek myths abound in images of beauty and perfection: charming gods, attractive goddesses, and handsome heroes, all of them standards of physical and spiritual flawlessness. However, the ancient Greeks were not fond of absolutes. No god or hero is shown without blemishes in character and ethics, and some are even physically imperfect, like Hephaestus, who is ugly and lame. Another element that dominates Greek mythology is the idea of balance. Good and evil, light and darkness, hubris and punishment. What could not be missing from this world is the image of reversed beauty: monstrosity. The aim of this book is to explore the realm of the imaginary world of Greek mythology and present the reader with a categorization of monstrosity, referring to some of the most noted examples in each category.Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction, by Richard Buxton ; Introduction ; Chapter 1 Humanoid Monsters ; Chapter 2 Serpentine Creatures ; Chapter 3 Partly Human ; Chapter 4 Monstrous Animals ; Chapter 5 Ghosts and Daemons ; Works Cited

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Book SynopsisHow did the Persian King of Kings Get His Wine? the upper Tigris in antiquity (c.700 BCE to 636 CE)' explores the upper valley of the Tigris during antiquity. The area is little known to scholarship, and study is currently handicapped by the security situation in southeast Turkey and by the completion during 2018 of the Ilısu dam. The reservoir being created will drown a large part of the valley and will destroy many archaeological sites, some of which have not been investigated. The course of the upper Tigris discussed here is the section from Mosul up to its source north of Diyarbakır; the monograph describes the history of the river valley from the end of the Late Assyrian empire through to the Arab conquests, thus including the conflicts between Rome and Persia. It considers the transport network by river and road and provides an assessment of the damage to cultural heritage caused both by the Saddam dam (also known as the Eski Mosul dam) in Iraq and by the Ilısu dam in south-east Turkey. A catalogue describes the sites important during the long period under review in and around the valley. During the period reviewed this area was strategically important for Assyria’s relations with its northern neighbours, for the Hellenistic world’s relations with Persia and for Roman relations with first the kingdom of Parthia and then with Sassanian Persia.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Transport and the road network; Relief sculptures; Dams on the upper Tigris and their consequences for historic monuments; Catalogue; Sites from antiquity (700 BCE to 636 CE) on and around the upper Tigris; Conclusion; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe emergence of the cult of Osiris is, in most cases, dated to the end of the 5th dynasty, the period in which the name of Osiris appears in writing, and it is commonly held that before this period not a trace of the cult can be discerned. This study is intended to investigate whether this emergence was really so sudden, or if there is evidence to suggest this appearance was preceded by a period of development of the theology and mythology of the cult. One of the most important aspects of the mythology of the cult is the rebirth of Osiris. In the theology of the cult this rebirth was projected on mortal men, and led to the postulation that every human being, whether royal or non-royal, had the possibility to attain eternal life after death. What made this cult even more attractive is that this eternal life was not confined to the tomb, as it used to be for non-royalty. The study is concerned with the rebirth possibilities of non-royal persons and aims to determine the chronological development of the rebirth connotations of the various decoration themes that were used in the chapel of Old Kingdom tombs. The decoration themes that are the subject of the determinations are the group of bed-scenes consisting of the bed-making scene and the marital bed-scene, the development in form and length of the bread loaves on the offering table, the different aspects of the scenes in which the “lotus” flower is depicted, and the marsh scenes.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter One: The table scene, a concise discussion of its development; Chapter Two: The loaves of bread; Chapter Three: About the loaves of bread on the offering table; Chapter Four: About the loaves of bread on the offering table; Chapter Five: About the loaves of bread on the offering table; Chapter Six: The Osiris Cult; Chapter Seven: The Field of Rushes and the Field of Offerings; Chapter Eight: The rebirth of the deceased; Chapter Nine: The sustenance of the K3 of the deceased; Chapter Ten: Discussion and conclusion; Catalogues and Tables; General Index

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Book SynopsisThis book details the archaeology of burnt mounds (fulachtaí fia) in Ireland, one of the most frequent and under researched prehistoric site types in the country. It presents a re-evaluation of the pyrolithic phenomenon in light of some 1000 excavated burnt mounds. Charcoal-enriched soil, along with spreads and mounds of heat-affected stone, are one of the most common types of site found in Ireland, largely as a consequence of numerous discoveries made in the course of road building. They represent an accumulation of firing material associated with a prehistoric pyrolithic technology, which involved a process of heat transfer that centred on the use of hot stones immersed in water-filled troughs or placed in small, lined/unlined pits/ovens. During the Bronze Age, the use of this technology became widely adopted in Northern Europe, particularly Ireland, where the phenomenon is represented in the field as a low crescent-shaped mound. Even though burnt mounds are the most common prehistoric site type in Ireland, they have not received the same level of research as other prehistoric sites. This is primarily due to the paucity of artefact finds and the unspectacular nature of the archaeological remains, compounded by the absence of an appropriate research framework. This is the most comprehensive study undertaken on the use of pyrolithic technology in prehistoric Ireland, dealing with different aspects of site function, chronology, social role and cultural context.Table of ContentsPREFACE ; CHAPTER 1: BURNT MOUNDS: AN INTRODUCTION ; CHAPTER 2: A HISTORY OF BURNT MOUND RESEARCH IN IRELAND ; CHAPTER 3: PYROLITHIC TECHNOLOGY: THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT ; CHAPTER 4: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF BURNT MOUNDS IN IRELAND ; CHAPTER 5: CHRONOLOGY ; CHAPTER 6: THE USE AND SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF BURNT MOUNDS ; CHAPTER 7: SETTLEMENT CONTEXT ; CHAPTER 8: CULTURAL CONTEXT: THE LONGUE DURÉE OF THE BURNT MOUND PHENOMENON ; CHAPTER 9: RECONSIDERING THE BURNT MOUND PHENOMENON ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; APPENDIX 1: Additional tables ; APPENDIX 2: List of excavated burnt mounds in Ireland 1950−2010

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Book SynopsisThis volume, published in honour of Egyptologist Professor Rosalie David OBE, presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and medical practice. Drawing on recent archaeological fieldwork, new research on human remains, reassessments of ancient texts and modern experimental archaeology, it attempts to answer some of Egyptology's biggest questions: how did Tutankhamun die? How were the Pyramids built? How were mummies made? Leading experts in their fields combine traditional Egyptology and innovative scientific approaches to ancient material. The result is a cutting-edge overview of the discipline, showing how it has developed over the last forty years and yet how many of its big questions remain the same.Trade Review‘It should be on every amateur and professional’s bookshelf, and it is published at an extremely reasonable price in view of the high quality of its academic contents and its production.’ Peter A. Clayton, Ancient Egypt, Vol 17, No. 97, Aug/Sept 2016‘All in all the volume pays a honorific tribute the remarkable legacy of Professor Rosalie David by fully demonstrates the effectiveness of the multidisciplinary collaboration in Egyptology and the importance of adopting an integrative approach to the Egyptian material culture.’Rogério Sousa, Lusitania Sacra (Portugal) -- .Table of ContentsRosalie David: a biographical sketch - Joyce TyldesleyMy first meeting with Rosalie David - Kay HinkleyPart I: Pharaonic sacred landscapes1 Go West: on the ancient means of approach to the Saqqara Necropolis - Aidan Dodson 2 Sacred animal necropolis at North Saqqara: narrative of a ritual landscape - Paul T. Nicholson3 The Manchester 'funeral' ostracon: A sketch of a funerary ritual? - Peter Robinson4 The tomb of the 'Two Brothers' revisited - Steven Snape5 A review of the monuments of Unnefer, High Priest of Osiris at Abydos in the reign of Ramesses II - Angela P. Thomas6 Thoughts on Seth the con-man - Philip Turner7 A Psamtek ushabti and a granite block from Sais (Sa el-Hagar) - Penelope WilsonPart II: Magico-medical practices in ancient Egypt 8 A most uncommon amulet - Carol Andrews9 The sting of the scorpion - Mark Collier10 Magico-medical aspects in the myth of Osiris - Essam el-Saeed11 Trauma care, surgery and remedies in ancient Egypt: a reassessment - Roger Forshaw 12 One and the same? An investigation into the connection between veterinary and medical practice in ancient Egypt - Conni Lord 13 Bread and beer in ancient Egyptian medicine - Ryan Metcalfe14 On the function of 'healing' statues - Campbell Price15 Writings for good health in social context: Middle and New Kingdom comparisons - Stephen Quirke16 Schistosomiasis: ancient and modern. The application of scientific techniques to diagnose the disease - Patricia Rutherford17 An unusual funerary figurine of the early Eighteenth Dynasty - John H. TaylorPart III: Understanding Egyptian mummies18 The biology of ancient Egyptians and Nubians - Don Brothwell19 Further thoughts on Tutankhamun's death and embalming - Robert Connolly and Glenn Godenho20 Proving Herodotus and Diodorus? Head space analysis of 'eau de mummy' using Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry - David Counsell21 Science in Egyptology: the scientific study of Egyptian mummies - initial phase 1973-79 - Alan Curry22 Slices of mummy: a thin perspective - John Denton23 Life and death in the desert: a bioarchaeological study of human remains from the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt - Tosha Dupras et al.24 An investigation into the evidence of age-related osteoporosis in three Egyptian mummies. - Mervyn Harris25 The Egyptian mummy tissue bank - Patricia Lambert-Zazulak26 The enigma of the Red Shroud Mummies - Robert D. Loynes27 The evolution of imaging ancient Egyptian animal mummies at the University of Manchester, 1972-2014 - Lidija M. McKnight and Stephanie Atherton-Woolham28 'Eaten by Maggots': the sorry tale of Mr Fuller's Coffin - Robert G. MorkotPart IV: Science and experimental approaches in Egyptology29 Scientific studies of Pharaonic remains: Imaging - Judith E. Adams30 Education, innovation and preservation: the lasting legacy of Sir Grafton Elliot Smith - Jenefer Cockitt31 Making an ancient Egyptian contraceptive: Learning from experiment and experience - Rosalind Janssen32 Iron from the sky: the role of meteorite iron in the development of iron-working techniques in ancient Egypt - Diane Johnson and Joyce Tyldesley33 A bag-style tunic found on the Manchester Museum mummy '1770' - Susan Martin34 'Palmiform' columns: an alternative design source - Peter Phillips35 Scientific evaluation of experiments in Egyptian archaeology - Denys A. Stocks36 Snake busters: experiments in fracture patterns of ritual figurines - Kasia Szpakowska and Rich JohnstonIndex

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Book SynopsisPlants are fundamental to life; they are used by all human groups and most animals. They provide raw materials, vitamins and essential nutrients and we could not survive without them. Yet access to plant use before the Neolithic can be challenging. In some places, plant remains rarely survive and reconstructing plant use in pre-agrarian contexts needs to be conducted using a range of different techniques. This lack of visible evidence has led to plants being undervalued, both in terms of their contribution to diet and as raw materials. This book outlines why the role of plants is required for a better understanding of hominin and pre-agrarian human life, and offers a variety of ways in which this can be achieved.Wild Harvest is divided into three sections. In section 1 each chapter focuses on a specific feature of plant use by humans; this covers the role of carbohydrates, the need for and effects of processing methods, the role of plants in self-medication among apes, plants as raw materials and the extent of evidence for plant use prior to the development of agriculture in the Near East. Section 2 comprises seven chapters which cover different methods available to obtain information on plants, and the third section has five chapters, each covering a topic related to ethnography, ethnohistory or ethnoarchaeology, and how these can be used to improve our understanding of the role of plants in the pre-agrarian past.Trade ReviewI heartily recommend this publication to anybody interested in plants, their use in past and present non-agrarian societies, and he methodologies required to study them. * European Journal of Archaeology *This unique collection is valuable for paleoanthropologists and their graduate students seeking new perspectives on paleo-ecology and the evolution of hominin diet. It clearly summarizes the current Bstate of the profession. As a text, the price is reasonable and worth the investment. * Economic Botany *This book is a noteworthy attempt to bring archaeobotany into the archaeological discourse and is useful for the student, the non-specialised archaeologist and the general reader. * Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1. Setting the scene 1. Food carbohydrates from plants, by Les Copeland 2. Why protein is not enough: the role of plants and plant processing in meeting human needs for dietary diversity, by Peter J. Butterworth, Peter R. Ellis and Michele Wollstonecroft3. An ape’s perspective on the origin of medicinal plant use in humans, by Michael Huffman4. Plants as raw materials, by Karen Hardy 5. Hunter-gatherer plant use in south west Asia: the path to agriculture. Amaia Arranz Juan Jose Ibanez and Lydia ZapataPart 2. Plant foods, tools and people. 6. Scanning Electron Microscopy and starchy food in Mesolithic Europe: the importance of roots and tubers in Mesolithic diet, by Lucy Kubiak-Martens7. Tools, use wear and experimentation: extracting plants from stone and bone, by Annelou van Gijn and Aimée Little8. Buccal dental microwear as an indicator of diet in modern and ancient human populations, by Laura Mónica Martínez, Ferran Estebaranz and Alejandro Pérez-Pérez9. What early human populations ate. The use of phytoliths for identifying plant remains in the archaeological record at Olduvai, by Rosa Maria Albert and Irene Esteban10. Phytolith evidence of the use of plants as food by Late Natufians at Raqefet Cav, by Robert C Power, Arlene M Rosen and Dani Nadel11. Evidence of plant foods obtained from the dental calculus of individuals from a Brazilian shell mound, by Célia Helena C. Boyadjian; Sabine Eggers and Rita Scheel-Ybert 12. Stable isotopes and mass spectrometry, by Karen Hardy and Stephen BuckleyPart 3. Providing a context: Ethnography, ethnohistory, ethnoarchaeology13. Prehistoric fish traps and fishing structures from Zamostje 2, Russian European Plain: Archaeological and ethnographic contexts, by Ignacio Clemente Conte, Vladimir M. Lozovski, Ermengol Gassiot Ballbè, Andrey N. Mazurkevich and Olga V. Lozovskaya14. Plants and archaeology in Australia, by Sally Brockwell, Janelle Stevenson and Annie Clarke15. Plentiful scarcity: plant use among Fuegian hunter-gatherers, by Marian Berihuete Azorin, Raquel Piqué Huerta and Maria-Estela Mansur 16. Ethnobotany in evolutionary perspective: wild plants in diet composition and daily use among Hadza hunter-gatherers, by Alyssa N. Crittenden17. Wild edible plant use among the people of Tomboronkoto, Kédougou region, Senegal, by Mathieu Guèye and Papa Ibra Samb The development of Neolithic house societies in Orkney: Investigations in the Bay of Firth, Mainland, Orkney (1994–2014), edited by Colin Richards and Richard Jones

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Book SynopsisThe NESAT symposium has grown from the first meeting in 1981 which was attended by 23 scholars, to over 100 at the tenth meeting that took place in Copenhagen in 2008, with virtually all areas of Europe represented. The 50 papers from the conference presented here show the vibrance of the study of archaeological textiles today. Examples studied come from the Bronze Age, Neolithic, the Iron Age, Roman, Viking, the Middle Ages and post-Medieval, and from a wide range of countries including Norway, Czech Republic, Poland, Greece, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia and the Netherlands. Modern techniques of analysis and examination are also discussed.Trade ReviewThe NESAT volumes continue to be an essential resource showcasing advances in the field, from finds to analysis to reconstruction.' -- Medieval Clothing and Textiles, vol 6 Medieval Clothing and Textiles, vol 6 ...[a] handsome, well-edited, and amply illustrated volume...Its editors have assembled an eloquent testimony to the health and vibrancy of European textile studies and thereby created a model which New World scholars could profitably emulate.' -- Journal of Anthropological Research Journal of Anthropological ResearchTable of ContentsA Brief History of the North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT) (Lise Bender Jørgensen) Experimental Textile Archaeology (Eva B. Andersson Strand) The Perfect Picture – A Comparison between 13th-century Art and Two Preserved Tunics (Eva I. Andersson) Loom-Weights, Spindles and Textiles –Textile Production in Central Europe from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age (Tereza Belanová Štolcová and Karina Grömer) Difference in the Elaboration of Dress in Northern Europe during the Middle Bronze Age (Sophie Bergerbrant) Avoiding Nasty Surprises: Decision-Making based on Analytical Data (Lena Bjerregaard, Ute Henniges and Antje Potthast) Archaeological Textiles from Prague Castle, Czech Republic (Milena Bravermanová) The Virtual Reconstruction of Archaeological Textiles (Maria Cybulska, Tomasz Florczak and Jerzy Maik) Terminology Practice in Scandinavian Costume History: Approach to a Methodology for Source based Terminology (Camilla Luise Dahl) Haberdashery Elements made of Metal Thread: Conservation Problems (Anna Drazkowska) Current Examinations of Organic Remains using Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscopy [VP-SEM] (Andrea Fischer) Textiles, Wool, Sheep, Soil and Strontium – Studying their Paths: a Pilot Project (Karin Margarita Frei) Not so much Cinderella as the Sleeping Beauty: Neglected Evidence of Forgotten Skill (Ruth Gilbert) Die Rekonstruktion des Vaaler Bändchens – ein archäologisches Kammgewebe aus Ditmarschen: Gemeinschaftsarbeit der Wollgruppe des Museumsdorfes Düppel, Deutschland (Annelies Goldmann und Eva-Maria Pfarr) The Magdalensberg Textile Tools: a Preliminary Assessment (Kordula Gostencnik) Silk Ribbons from Post-Medieval Graves in Poland (Dawid Grupa) Silks from Kwidzyn (Poland) (Malgorzata Grupa) Norwegian Peat Bog Textiles: Tegle and Helgeland Revisited (Sunniva Wilberg Halvorsen) Smooth and Cool, or Warm and Soft: Investigating the Properties of Cloth in Prehistory (Susanna Harris) Oriental Influences in Viking Age Denmark: a Kaftan with Belt and Pouches (Anne Hedeager Krag) A Study of Two Medieval Silk Girdles: The so-called ‘Eric of Pomerania’s Belt’ and the Dune Belt (Viktoria Holmqvist) Nettle and Bast Fibre Textiles from Stone Tool Wear Traces? The Implications of Wear Traces on Archaeological Late Mesolithic and Neolithic Micro-Denticulate Tools (Linda Hurcombe) Construction and Sewing Technique in Secular Medieval Garments (Katrin Kania) Tiny Weaving Tablets, Rectangular Weaving Tablets (Lise Ræder Knudsen) Warrior’s Clothing in the RigsÞula Poem (Annika Larsson) Potentials and Limitations on the Application of FTIR Microscopy to the Characterisation of Textiles excavated in Greece (Christina Margariti, Paul Wyeth, Dinah Eastop and Georgianna Moraitou) Evidence of War and Worship: Textiles in Roman Iron Age Weapon Deposits (Susan Möller-Wiering) Bewahren und Erfassen – Anmerkungen zum Umgang mit mineralisierten Strukturen auf Metallen in der Denkmalpflege (Britt Nowak-Böck) Medieval Textiles from Trondheim: An Analysis of Function (Ruth Iren Øien) Curry-comb or toothed weft-beater? Serrated iron tools from Roman Province of Pannonia (Judit Pásztókai-Szeöke) Textiles from the 3rd-12th Century AD Cremation Graves found in Lithuania (Elvyra Peceliunaite-Bažiene) Patterned Tablet-Woven Band – In Search of the 11th Century Textile Professional (Silja Penna-Haverinen) Social and Economic Aspects of Textile Consumption in Medieval Tartu (Estonia) (Riina Rammo) Garments for a Queen (Antoinette Rast-Eicher) Textiles in their Scientific Context –Interdisciplinary Cooperation during the Evaluation of Burial Textiles (Nicole Reifarth) Our Threads to the Past: Plaited Motifs as Predecessors of Woven Binding Structures (Eva Richter) The Neolithic Mats of the Eastern Baltic Littoral (Virginija Rimkute) The Impact of Dyes and Natural Pigmentation of Wool on the Preservation of Archaeological Textiles (Maj Ringgaard and Annemette Bruselius Scharff) Wear on Magdalenian Bone Tools: A New Methodology for Studying Evidence of Fiber Industries (Elisabeth Ann Stone) A Bronze Age Plaited Starting Border (Amica Sundström) Textile Craftsmanship in the Norwegian Mirgation Period (Synnøve Thingnæs) Textilfunde aus Ausgrabungen in Heidelberg (Vortrag) (Klaus Tidow) Textile Remains on One Roman Bronze Vessels from Repov (Czech Republic) (Kristýna Urbanova and Helena Brezinova) Dyes, to be or not to be. Dyeing investigation on Early Iron Age Danish Peat Bog Textiles (Ina Vanden Berghe, Beatrice Devia, Margarita Gleba and Ulla Mannering) Dressing the Dead: Customs of Burial Costume in Rural Norway (Marianne Vedeler) The Moment of Inertia: a Parameter for Functional Classification of Worldwide Spindle Whorls from all Periods (André Verhecken) Elite and Military Scandinavian Dress as Portrayed in the Lewis Chess Pieces (Elizabeth Wincott Heckett) Headwear, Footwear and Belts in the Íslendingasögur and Íslendingaþættir (Anna Zanchi) The Use of Horsehair in Female Headdresses of the 12th-13th Century AD (Irita Zeiere) Two Early Middle Age Caps from the Dwelling Mounds Rasquert and Leens in Groningen Province, the Netherlands (Hanna Zimmerman) Studies of the Textiles from the Excavation of Pskov in 2006 (Elena S. Zubkova, Olga V. Orfinskaya and Kirill A. Mikhailov)

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Book SynopsisFrom 1985 to 2001, the collaborative research initiative known as the Bannu Archaeological Project conducted archaeological explorations and excavations in the Bannu region, in what was then the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. This Project involves scholars from the Pakistan Heritage Society, the British Museum, the Institute of Archaeology (UCL), Bryn Mawr College and the University of Cambridge.This is the third in a series of volumes that present the final reports of the exploration and excavations carried out by the Bannu Archaeological Project. This volume presents the first synthesis of the archaeology of the historic periods in the Bannu region, spanning the period when the first large scale empires expanded to the borders of South Asia up until the arrival of Islam in the subcontinent at the end of the first and beginning of the second millennium BC. The Bannu region provides specific insight into early imperialism in South Asia, as throughout this protracted period, it was able to maintain a distinctive regional identity in the face of recurring phases of imperial expansion and integration.Table of Contents1. At the edge of empires: the Bannu basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 2. Environment and settlement in the Bannu basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 3. Historical context of the Bannu basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 4. Empire and resistance in the borderlands from 1000 BC to AD 1200 5. The Bannu Archaeological Project excavations at Akra and Ter Kala Dheri 6. Ceramics from Akra: raw materials and fabrics 7. Ceramics of the first millennium BC from Akra 8. Ceramics of the first and early second millennium AD from Akra 9. Small finds from Akra 10. Chronology of Akra and Ter Kala Dheri 11. Resistance at the edge of empires: the Bannu basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the late 1st millennium BC into the early 1st millennium AD, the small island of Unst in the far north of the Shetland (and British) Isles was home to well-established and connected farming and fishing communities. The Iron Age settlement at Milla Skerra was occupied for at least 500 years before it was covered with storm-blown sand and abandoned. Although part of it had been lost to the sea, excavation revealed many details of the life of the settlement and how it was reused over many generations. From the middle of the 1st millennium BC people were constructing stone-walled yards and filling them with hearth waste and midden material. Later inhabitants built a house on top, with a paved floor and successive hearths, and more domestic rubbish accumulated inside it. Outside were new yards and workshops for crafts and metalworking, which were remodelled several times. The buildings fell into disrepair and became a dumping ground for domestic waste until the 2nd or 3rd century AD, when sand buried the settlement. Within a few generations, a man was buried beside the ruins along with some striking objects. Thousands of artefacts and environmental remains from Milla Skerra reveal the everyday practices and seasonal rhythms of the people that lived in this windswept and remote island settlement and their connections to both land and sea.Trade ReviewThe report is far from a dry description of contexts and discoveries. When we read that before construction of a yard commenced, 'someone set a painted pebble on the surface', or that a well-worn paving slab 'may have been a favourite warm seat', the past is brought intimately to life. Who needs reconstruction drawings when there are wonderfully evocative desceriptions such as these? * Current Archaeology *Table of ContentsList of figures List of tables Acknowledgements Summary 1. Uncovering Milla Skerra Olivia Lelong 2. The life and death of Milla Skerra Olivia Lelong 3. Refining interpretations of the archaeological deposits Brendan Derham, Clare Ellis and Jo McKenzie 4. Fires and food at Milla Skerra Ruby Cerón-Carrasco, Brendan Derham, Jennifer Miller, Susan Ramsay and Catherine Smith 5. The making, using and breaking of pots Olivia Lelong and Beverley Ballin Smith 6. Craftwork at Milla Skerra: metalworking and bone, stone and iron tools Beverley Ballin Smith, Torben Bjarke Ballin, Ann Clarke, Amanda Forster, Martin Goldberg, Fraser Hunter, Richard Jones, Olivia Lelong, Dawn McLaren and Anthony Newton 7. Technologies of the self: painted pebbles, ornaments and the burial Martin Goldberg and Fraser Hunter, with contributions by Paul Duffy, Katharina Dulias, Ceiridwen J. Edwards and Amanda Forster 8. Rhythms of life at Milla Skerra Olivia Lelong Bibliography Index

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