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Book SynopsisStones can serve an infinite array of functions both when they are worked and when they are left in a ‘raw’ state. Depending on their function, stones can also be meaningful objects especially when they act as vehicles of ideas or instruments of representation. And it is, therefore, in their functional context, that the meaning of stones can be best grasped. The stones dealt with in this study are non-figural (or aniconic) or, sometimes, semi-figural. They come from ritual contexts and, as such, act as a material representation of divine presence in their role as betyls. But it is not mainly the representational aspect of these stones that this study seeks to highlight. As material representations of divine presence that are also worshipped, these particular stones form part of a phenomenon that seems to know no geographical or temporal boundaries. They are of a universal character. It is this universal character of theirs that seems to qualify these stones as elements forming part of the phenomenon of continuity: continuity across different cultures and in different places along several centuries. It is this phenomenon which this study seeks to highlight through a study of these stones. The Maltese islands are presented as a case study to demonstrate the phenomenon of continuity through a study of these stones. Worship of stones in representation of divine presence is found on the Maltese islands since prehistoric times. But the practice survived several centuries under different cultures represented by unknown communities during the islands’ prehistory and the Phoenicians / Carthaginians and the Romans in early historic times.Table of ContentsPreface; 1.0 Introduction; 1.1 Aims and methodology; 1.2 Defining and identifying sacred stones; 1.3 Earliest known literary and iconographic evidence; 2.0 Stone cult in prehistoric Malta and Gozo; 2.1 Aniconic cults in relation to figurine-based cults in prehistoric Malta; 3.0 Tripillar shrines or altars; 4.0 Betyl amulets?; 5.0 More betyls from Tas-Silġ; 6.0 Stone worship at Ras il-Wardija, in Gozo; 7.0 A pair of ‘twin’ betyls; 8.0 A gilded betyl in the temple of Proserpina at Mtarfa; 9.0 Conclusion; Appendix I; Appendix II; Appendix III; Appendix IV; Bibliography; General Index

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Book SynopsisThis book centres on the anthropological study of two late 8th century BC monumental graves, designated as T144 and T105, at the ancient necropolis of Paroikia at Paros. The study investigates inter-island features of the human record, observable as ingrained traces in the skeletal record. These have particular significance as they may relate to Parian endeavours in the northern Aegean to colonise Thasos. Through the ‘Paros Polyandreia Anthropological Project,’ it was possible to gain insights into aspects of the human environment and experience in the Parian context. A considerable population sample of cremated male individuals was available, shedding light on trends that would have involved Thasos; and discerning further facets of the human condition during the Late Geometric to the Early Archaic periods in the ancient Hellenic world. The report integrates the basic anthropological data, evaluations and assessments derived from the study of the human skeletal record of Polyandreia T144, and T105. Bioarchaeological and forensic anthropological research results include the morphometric analyses of biological developmental growth and variability in relation to manifestations of acquired skeleto-anatomic changes, along with inquiries into the demographic dynamics, and the palaeopathologic profile of the individuals involved. Such intra-site juxtaposition afforded the possibility to deliberate on issues of the intended purpose, function, and symbolic meaning of the two funerary activity areas, and to reflect on the organizational abilities and capacities of the Parians in political and military affairs. Moreover, inter-site evaluations of the burial grounds of Orthi Petra of Eleutherna-Crete, Plithos of Naxos, Athenian Demosion Sema, Pythagoreion of Samos, and Rhodes make possible comparisons of taphonomic conditions, with cremated materials’ metric analyses, and reflections on aspects of the funerary customs and practices of the interring of cremated war dead.Table of ContentsPreface; Archaeologikόn Prolegόmenon; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Methods; Chapter 3 ‘Vase Contexts’ Recovered from Monumental Tomb T144; Chapter 4 Metric Studies of Cremated Human Remains Retrieved from T144 ‘Vase Contexts’; Chapter 5 Bone Elements and Other Materials Recovered from T144 ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Chapter 6 Metric Studies of Cremated Human Remains Retrieved from ‘Non-Vase Contexts’ of T144; Chapter 7 Regarding a Select Number of T144 Archaeological Contexts’ Osteo-Anthropological Study Results; Chapter 8 ‘Archaeological Contexts’ with Human Cremains Recovered from Monumental Tomb T105; Chapter 9 Metric Studies of Cremated Human Remains Retrieved from ‘Archaeological Contexts’ of T105, along with Intra- and Inter-site Comparisons; Chapter 10 Toward a Synopsis of Results on the Anthropological Materials Studied from Monumental Tombs T144 and T105; Postface (On matters of an unfinished discussion); Select Bibliographical References; Appendix 1 Human Skeletal Map with Anatomic Directions; Appendix 2 Human Deciduous and Permanent Dental Map; Appendix 3 Laboratory Form for the Inspectional & Metric Study of Human Cremated Materials and for Recording Relative Artifacual and Ecofactual Remains; Appendix 4 Excerpt (pages 2 and 11 of 11) of field form for the excavation, documentation, and recovery of burial features; emphasis on cultural materials and taphonomic conditions; Appendix 5 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of Weight Values (in grams) per ‘Vase Context’ for the Sample of 67 ‘Vase Contexts’; Appendix 6 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Distribution of 328 Cranial Male Measurements out of a Sample of 74 Homini from within ‘Vase Contexts’; Appendix 7 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Distribution of 326 Postcranial Appendicular Male Measurements out of a Sample of 68 Homini from within ‘Vase Contexts’; Appendix 8 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of 74 Cases of Male Individuals’ Cranial Average Values from within ‘Vase Contexts’; Appendix 9 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of 68 Cases of Male Individuals’ Postcranial Appendicular Average Values from within ‘Vase Contexts’; Appendix 10 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of Weight Values (in grams) per ‘Non-Vase Context’ for the Sample of 10 ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 11 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Distribution of 17 Cranial Male Measurements out of a Sample of 9 Homini from within ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 12 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Distribution of 24 Postcranial Appendicular Male Measurements out of a Sample of 11 Homini from within ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 13 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of 9 Cases of Male Individuals’ Cranial Average Values from within ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 14 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of 11 Cases of Male Individuals’ Postcranial Appendicular Average Values from within ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 15 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Distribution of 345 Cranial Male Measurements from ‘Vase’, and ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 16 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Distribution of 350 Postcranial Appendicular Male Measurements from ‘Vase’, and ‘Non-Vase Contexts’; Appendix 17 Polyandreion T144: Ascending Range of Weight Values (in grams) per Burial Context for the Sample of 77 Burial Contexts; Appendix 18 Polyandreion T105: Ascending Distribution of 131 Cranial Male Measurements out of a Sample of 20 Homini from within Archaeological Contexts; Appendix 19 Polyandreion T105: Ascending Distribution of 103 Postcranial Appendicular Male Measurements out of a Sample of 20 Homini from within Archaeological Contexts; Appendix 20 Polyandreion T105: Ascending Range of 20 Cases of Male Individuals’ Cranial Average Values from within Archaeological Contexts; Appendix 21 Polyandreion T105: Ascending Range of 20 Cases of Male Individuals’ Postcranial Appendicular Average Values from within Archaeological Contexts; Appendix A Table 3 Polyandreion T144: Archaeological and Anthropological Contextual Information of 68 (86.08%) out of 79 Archaeological Contexts Submitted for Osteo-Anthropologic Analysis; Appendix B Table 21 Polyandreion T144: Archaeological and Anthropological Contextual Information of 11 ‘Non-Vase Contexts’ (13.92%) out of 79 Archaeological Contexts Submitted for Osteo-Anthropologic Analysis; Appendix C Table 44 Polyandreion T105: Archaeological and Anthropological Contextual Information of 11 (100.0%) out of 11 Archaeological Contexts Submitted for Osteo-Anthropologic Analysis

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Book SynopsisProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 1995.

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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 SynopsisThe Kyrenia Ship, a Greek merchantman built around 315 BC, which sank off the north coast of Cyprus was excavated between 1968 and 1972 under the direction of Michael L. Katzev of the University of Pennsylvania and Oberlin College. The importance of this ship lies in the exceptionally well-preserved hull that provided new insights into ancient shipbuilding, as well as the cargo it carried. The hold was stacked with transport amphoras of various types made on Rhodes, with a few examples from Samos, Kos, Knidos and Cyprus (?), supplemented by a consignment of millstones, iron billets and almonds.The cabin pottery from Rhodes also suggests this was the vessel’s home port, a conclusion supported by most of the scientific ceramic analyses. Its trade route included Rhodes, Cyprus and the Levant with perhaps Egypt as a final destination.This volume provides a detailed history of the excavation followed by definitive studies of the amphora cargo and the pottery associated with shipboard life. Some of the amphora stamps suggest that the ship sank between 294 and 291 BC, dates corroborated by the cabin wares. The repetition of four drinking cups (kantharoi), oil containers (gutti), wine measures (olpai), as well as bowls and saucers, suggests that the ship was sailed by a crew of four. Seven bronze coins were recovered, five minted in the name of Alexander the Great and one well-known type of Ptolemy I produced only on Cyprus.Table of ContentsList of figures and tables Preface Susan Womer Katzev 1. Introduction 1.1. Introduction Susan Womer Katzev 1.2. Dedication to Michael and Susan W. Katzev from excavation members Helena (Laina) Wylde Swiny with contributions from David I. Owen, Robert K. “Chip” Vincent, Stephen J. Scheifele, Owen Gander, and Robin C. M. Piercy 1.3. Thanks to Laina Susan Womer Katzev 1.4. In thanks to all who helped Susan Womer Katzev with Helena (Laina) Wylde Swiny and Robin C. M. Piercy 2. The excavation 2.1. How it began Michael L. Katzev† [assembled by Susan Womer Katzev and Mary C. Sturgeon] 2.2. Kyrenia shipwreck remote sensing analysis Jeremy N. Green 2.3. Kyrenia Ship data 2.3a. Labeling excavation objects Helena (Laina) Wylde Swiny and Susan Womer Katzev 2.3b. Data explanation: creating the amphora plans Helena (Laina) Wylde Swiny and Susan Womer Katzev 2.3c. The Kyrenia Ship Application Thomas Myette 2.4. Evidence for Octopodia activity on the wreck site Helena (Laina) Wylde Swiny and Susan Womer Katzev 3. Amphoras 3.1. The transport amphoras Mark Lawall 3.2. Observations on amphora distribution Helena (Laina) Wylde Swiny and Susan Womer Katzev 3.3. Analysis of resins from the Kyrenia Ship Curt Beck† and Dorreen J. Ossenkop 3.4. Tales from taphonomic amphoras: marine biofouling as interpretive ecological tool on wreck-site formation Carlos Jimenez, Katerina Achilleos, Antonis Petrou, and Louis Hadjioannou 3.5. Wreck site formation process: the wse of bryozoans Katerina Achilleos, Carlos Jimenez, and Antonis Petrou 4. Goods of the crew 4.1. The goods of the crew Andrea M. Berlin 4.2. Graffiti on the ship’s ceramics Helena (Laina) Wylde Swiny, Susan Womer Katzev, Alan Johnston, Christopher Rollston, and Jo Ann Hackett 4.3. Wood identifications of objects in Volume I Nili Liphschitz† 4.4. Plotting shipboard life: observations from the find spots of objects related to life on board the Kyrenia Ship Helena (Laina) Wylde Swiny and Susan Womer Katzev 5. Ceramic analyses 5.1. Neutron Activation Analysis of ceramic samples from the Kyrenia Ship Michael D. Glascock and Leslie G. Cecil 5.2. Petrographic analysis of the ceramics from the Kyrenia Ship Yuval Goren 5.3. Organic residue analysis of pottery recovered from the Kyrenia Ship Joseph A. Palatinus with Ruth F. Beeston 5.4. GC-MS analysis of contaminated Kyrenia Ship ceramic samples Vic Garner† and Holley Martlew 5.5. Organic residue analysis of ceramic vessels from the Kyrenia Ship: searching for past contents Lisa Briggs and Léa Drieu 6. Coins 6.1. The coins Paul W. Keen 7. Conclusions 7.1. Summary closing wrap-up: what’s to come in Volumes II and III Susan Womer Katzev Glossary

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Book SynopsisEconomic circularity is the ability of a society to reduce waste by recycling, reusing, and repairing raw materials and finished products. This concept has gained momentum in academia, in part due to contemporary environmental concerns. Although the blurry conceptual boundaries of this term are open to a wide array of interpretations, the scholarly community generally perceives circular economy as a convenient umbrella definition that encompasses a vast array of regenerative and preservative processes.Despite the recent surge of interest, economic circularity has not been fully addressed as a macrophenomenon by historical and archaeological studies. The limitations of data and the relatively new formulation of targeted research questions mean that several processes and agents involved in ancient circular economies are still invisible to the eye of modern scholarship. Examples include forms of curation, maintenance, and repair, which must have had an influence on the economic systems of premodern societies but are rarely accounted for. Moreover, the people behind these processes, such as collectors and scavengers, are rarely investigated and poorly understood. Even better-studied mechanisms, like reuse and recycling, are not explored to their full potential within the broader picture of ancient urban economies.This volume stems from a conference held at Moesgaard Museum supported by the Carlsberg Foundation and the Centre for Urban Networks Evolutions (UrbNet) at Aarhus University. To enhance our understanding of circular economic processes, the contributions in this volume expand the framework of the discussion by exploring circular economy over the longue durée and by integrating an interdisciplinary perspective. Furthermore, the volume gives prominence to classes of material, processes, agents, and methodologies generally overlooked or ignored in modern scholarship.Table of ContentsIntroduction: approaching circular economies through archaeological and historical sources I. Bavuso, G. Furlan, E.E. Intagliata, J. Steding 1. The ragpicker’s dream: notes on the continuous role of junk dealers in the past urban economies back to the Roman period Guido Furlan 2. Laws, Letters and Graves: the Organisation of Scavenging in the Early Medieval Period Irene Bavuso 3. Exploring reuse in a prestige environment: the palace city of Samarra Rhiannon Garth Jones 4. Through glass: recycling and reuse practices brought out by archaeometry and history Line Van Wersch and Alexis Wilkin 5. Beauty, utility, value. Examples of glass reuses from the Roman period to the early Middle Ages Cristina Boschetti 6. Identifying episodes of recycling in the archaeological record Jonathan Wood 7. Textile reuse in the Roman naval contexts Margarita Gleba and Maria Stella Busana 8. Functional, spiritual or aesthetic? – Investigating reuse in high-status 7th-century necklace pendants from Early medieval England Rowan S. English 9. Stars aligned: tracking the use and reuse of Viking Age metal-casting models for star-shaped brooches through 3D visualisation Derek Parrot 10. Seeking the invisible with legacy data. Notes on the use of archives for the study of ancient circular economies Emanuele E. Intagliata 11. Evolutionary Design Processes in Thermal Architecture of the Roman Empire Allyson McDavid 12. Reused columns in an ancient circular economy Jon M. Frey 13. Mind the Gap: Researching Reuse Practices in Palmyra. The example of Reused Inscriptions Julia Steding

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Book SynopsisRome and Barbaricum: Contributions to the archaeology and history of interaction in European protohistory asks the following questions: How did the ‘Barbarians’ influence Roman culture? What did ‘Roman-ness’ mean in the context of Empire? What did it mean to be Roman and/or ‘Barbarian’ in different contexts? The papers presented here explore the concepts of Romanisation and of Barbaricum from a multi-disciplinary and comparative standpoint, covering Germania, Dacia, Moesia Inferior, Hispania, and other regions of the Roman Empire. They deal with issues such as conceptual analysis of the term ‘barbarian’, military and administrative organization, inter-cultural and linguistic relations, numismatics, religion, economy, prosopographic investigations, constructing identities; and they present reflections on the theoretical framework for a new model of Romanisation.Table of ContentsForeword ; What the Romans really meant when using the word ‘Barbarian’. Some thoughts on ‘Romans and Barbarians’ – Alexander Rubel ; Germany East of the Rhine, 12 BC – AD 16. The first step to becoming a Roman province – Gabriele Rasbach ; The Gallo-Roman temple ‘Auf dem Spätzrech’ (Schwarzenbach/Saarland) – From a Late La Tène cult place to a Gallo-Roman pilgrim shrine? – Daniel Burger-Völlmecke ; After the ‘Great War’ (AD 166-180) – A ‘New Deal’ in internal relations within the Central and Northern European Barbaricum? – Hans-Ulrich Voß ; Inter-cultural and linguistic relations north of the Danube – Iulia Dumitrache, Roxana-Gabriela Curcă ; Prosopographic notes on Flavius Reginus from Arrubium – Lucreţiu Mihailescu-Bîrliba ; Some considerations on the coin finds in the sites of Roman Dacia – Lucian Munteanu ; Überlegungen zur Romanisierung jenseits des dako-moesischen Limes im Spannungsfeld zwischen Schulbuch, Fachwissenschaft und Politik – Alexandru Popa ; Constructing identities within the periphery of the Roman Empire: north-west Hispania – Manuela Martins, Cristina Braga, Fernanda Magalhães, Jorge Ribeiro

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Book SynopsisThe Seminar for Arabian Studies is the principal international academic forum for research on the Arabian Peninsula. First convened in 1968, it is the only annual academic event for the study of the Arabian Peninsula that brings together researchers from all over the world to present and discuss current fieldwork and the latest research. The Seminar covers an extensive range of diverse subjects that include anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, epigraphy, ethnography, history, language, linguistics, literature, numismatics, theology, and more besides, from the earliest times to the present day or, in the fields of political and social history, to around the end of the Ottoman Empire (1922). The Seminar meets for three days each year, with an ever-increasing number of participants coming from around the globe to attend. In 2018 the fifty-second meeting took place, in which fifty-seven papers and posters were presented in London at the British Museum, where this prestigious event has been hosted since 2002.Table of ContentsIn memoriam Paolo M. Costa, 1932–2019 A documentation of Old Jiddah’s Ottoman arbiṭah: selected case studies (poster) – by Hidaya M. Abbas Initial results of a research programme on Iron Age II pottery production in the al Ḥajar mountains: compositional analyses of pottery vessels used in a domestic context, in a reception building and in a ritual area at Masāfī (Fujairah, UAE) – by Anne Benoist, Sophie Méry, Steven Karacic, Maël Crépy, Louise Purdue & Sophie Costa An overview of the latest prehistoric research in Qumayrah Valley, Sultanate of Oman (poster) (Białowarczuk & Szymczak) [Open Access: Download] Pottery from al-Zubārah, Qatar: reference collection and ware typology – by Agnieszka Magdalena Bystron Production and provenance of Gulf wares unearthed in the Old Doha Rescue Excavations Project – by José C. Carvajal López, Marcella Giobbe, Elizabeth Adeyemo, Myrto Georgakopoulou, Robert Carter, Ferhan Sakal, Alice Bianchi & Faisal Al-Na’īmī Sultanate of Oman (seasons 2016–2018): insights on cultural interaction and long-distance trade – by Maurizio Cattani, Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, Dennys Frenez, Randall W. Law & Sophie Méry Al-Khutm Project 2017/2018: a Bronze Age monumental tower (Bat, Oman) – by Enzo Cocca, Giacomo Vinci, Maurizio Cattani, Alessandro Armigliato, Antonio Di Michele, Marco Bianchi & Ilenia Gennuso The Late Iron Age of central Oman (c.300 BC–AD 300) — new insights from Salūt – by Michele Degli Esposti, Enrica Tagliamonte, Marzia Sasso & Philip Ramorino The Bronze Age cultural landscape of Wādī al-Zahaimi – by Bleda S. Düring, Samatar A. Botan, Eric Olijdam & Jordy H.J.M. Aal New project on Islamic ceramics from al-Balīd: chronology, technology, tradition, and provenance – by Agnese Fusaro Triliths, the stone monuments of southern Arabia: preliminary results and a path towards interpretation – by Roman Garba The gendered household: making space for women in the study of Islamic archaeology in Qatar (poster) – by Elizabeth R. Hicks The Palaeolithic of the northern Red Sea — new investigations in Tabuk and Al-Jawf provinces, Saudi Arabia – by Robyn H. Inglis, Anthony Sinclair, Abdullah Alsharekh, Christopher Scott & Dhaifullah Al Otaibi Variation in the Dadanitic inscriptions: the case of RḌY – by Fokelien Kootstra Modern South Arabian material from the diaries of Eduard Glaser – by Anton Kungl The necropolis of Thāj (Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia): an archaeological and anthropological approach (poster) – by Marie Laguardia, Olivia Munoz & Jérôme Rohmer ‘The numerous islands of Ichthyophagi’: Neolithic fisheries of Delma Island, Abu Dhabi Emirate (UAE) – by Kevin Lidour & Mark Jonathan Beech Neolithic settlement pattern and environment evolution along the coast of the northern UAE: the case of Umm al-Quwain UAQ36 vs. UAQ2 and Akab shell-middens – by Sophie Méry, Michele Degli Esposti, David Aoustin, Federico Borgi, Claire Gallou, Chantal Leroyer, Kevin Lidour, Susanne Lindauer, Gareth W. Preston & Adrian G. Parker Rhodian amphora trade in Arabia (poster) – by Bruno Overlaet, Patrick Monsieur, Sabah Jasim & Eisa Yousif A Friday Mosque founded in the late first century A.H. at al-Yamāmah: origins and evolution of Islamic religious architecture in Najd – by Jérémie Schiettecatte, Christian Darles & Pierre Siméon The Hafit period at Al-Khashbah, Sultanate of Oman: results of four years of excavations and material studies – by Conrad Schmidt & Stephanie Döpper Early Islamic and Ancient North Arabian graffiti and petroglyphs in Tabūk province — Saudi-Japanese al-Jawf/Tabūk Archaeological Project (JTAP), March 2017 field season (poster) – by Risa Tokunaga, Sumio Fujii & Takuro Adachi Anthropomorphic figurines from Area 2A of Sārūq al-Ḥadīd, Dubai, UAE – by Tatiana Valente, Fernando Contreras, Ahmed Mahmud, Yaaqoub Yousif Ali Al Ali & Mansour Boraik Radwan Karim The origins of the traditional approach towards the jinn of poetic inspiration in tribal Arab culture – by Maxim Yosefi Papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 3–5 August 2018

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Book SynopsisLate Prehistoric Fortifications in Europe: Defensive, Symbolic and Territorial Aspects from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Age presents the contributions to the International Colloquium ‘FortMetalAges’ (10th–12th November 2017, Guimarães, Portugal), The Colloquium was organised by the Scientific Commission ‘Metal Ages in Europe’ of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP/ IUSPP) and by the Martin Sarmento Society of Guimarães. Nineteen papers discuss different interpretive ideas for defensive structures whose construction had necessitated large investment, present new case studies, and conduct comparative analysis between different regions and chronological periods from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Age.Table of ContentsLate Prehistoric Fortifications in Europe: Defensive, symbolic and territorial aspects from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Age – Davide Delfino, Fernando Coimbra, Gonçalo Cruz and Daniela Cardoso ; My home is my castle? Thoughts about the archaeological axiom of the distinction of fortified and unfortified sites, referring to ethnographical records – Andy Reymann ; A new overview of the later prehistoric hillforts of Britain and Ireland – Gary Lock and Ian Ralston ; The chronology of the defensive systems at Los Millares (Santa Fe de Mondújar, Almería, Spain) – Fernando Molina González, José Andrés Afonso Marrero, Juan Antonio Cámara Serrano, Alberto Dorado Alejos, Rafael María Martínez Sánchez and Liliana Spanedda ; Fortified and Monumentalised Landscapes of the Beira-Douro region between the 3rd and 1st millennia BC: Architecture, Scenarios and Symbology – Alexandre Canha ; Terraced-walled settlements in Bronze Age Liguria (north-western Italy): can we speak of Iron Age ‘castellari’? – Davide Delfino and Angiolo Del Lucchese ; From earth to wood: the ramparts of Ratinhos (Moura, Portugal) as an example in the transition between the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age – Luis Berrocal-Rangel, António Carlos S. Silva, Rosario García Giménez and Lucía Ruano ; Another post in the fence. Proto-urban delimitations in Final Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Northern Italy – Paolo Rondini and Lorenzo Zamboni ; The appropriation of settlement space in Western and Central Europe during the Iron Age – Caroline von Nicolai ; Some symbolic and chronological aspects of rock art of the Hillfort Culture, northwest Iberian Peninsula – Fernando Coimbra ; Fortifications of the Early Iron Age in the surroundings of the Princely Seat of Heuneburg – Leif Hansen, Dirk Krausse and Roberto Tarpini ; The fortifications of the Heuneburg lower town: A summary and evaluation of the 2000-2008 excavations – Manuel Fernández-Götz ; Compartment ramparts in the castros of northwest Iberia – Jorge Camino Mayor and Esperanza Martín Hernández ; The Iron Age hillforts of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country): settlement patterns, fortification systems and territory control – Sonia San Jose, Antxoka Martínez, Xabier Peñalver, Carlos Olaetxea, Javier Prieto Domínguez and Juncal Calvo ; Excavations at Caerau Hillfort, Cardiff: Towards a narrative for the hillforts of south-east Wales – Oliver Davis and Niall Sharples ; The oppidum of Manching: Examining the construction and defensive capability of a Late Iron Age fortification – Thimo Brestel ; The fortifications of Colle Le Case: a new study of Samnite enclosures in Molise (Italy) – Francesca Di Palma ; Walls and Castros. Delimitation structures in the proto-historic settlements of Entre Douro and Vouga region (central-north Portugal) – António Manuel S. P. Silva and Gabriel R. Pereira ; Reviewing a pre-Roman oppidum in northern Portugal. Summary of the archaeological works carried out at Citânia de Briteiros (Guimarães) – Gonçalo Cruz and José Antunes

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Book SynopsisLa callaïs désigne les pierres vertes dont sont faites les remarquables parures découvertes dans plusieurs sites néolithiques d’Europe occidentale. Terme utilisé au début de notre ère par Pline l’Ancien et repris par les premiers archéologues du début du XXème siècle lors des premières fouilles des grands tumulus de la région de Carnac (Morbihan), la callaïs regroupe plusieurs espèces minérales, surtout la variscite et la turquoise, tous deux des phosphates d’aluminium hydratés de couleur verte à bleue. Les perles et pendeloques en cette matière précieuse, associées à d’autres objets tels que haches en jade alpin, en fibrolite, perles en ambre ou en jais, provenant de sources parfois très éloignées, étaient déposés auprès des défunts, témoignant de leur haut rang au sein des premières sociétés agropastorales, ou « sacrifiées » sous forme de dépôts. La question de la nature et de l’origine de ces perles et pendeloques en callaïs a été maintes fois abordée durant le siècle dernier par les minéralogistes et les préhistoriens. Depuis les premières découvertes sur cette gemme, de nombreuses recherches ont été menées tant sur le terrain qu’en laboratoire afin d’élucider ce que certains avaient baptisé « les mystères de la callaïs ». Ce volume, préfacé par Yves Coppens, Professeur honoraire du Collège de France, regroupe les contributions des meilleurs spécialistes européens de la callaïs, variscite et turquoise, qui sont intervenus lors d’un colloque consacré à cette gemme ancienne qui s’est tenu en avril 2015 à Carnac. L’objectif de cet ouvrage est de divulguer le fruit des dernières recherches relatives à ces bijoux en balayant de multiples domaines : géologie de la variscite, gemmologie, exploitations néolithiques mais aussi romaines, caractérisation chimique, production des objets et leur diffusion, inventaire, datation, place de ces bijoux au sein de sociétés agropastorales qui occupaient une partie de l’Europe du 5ème au 3ème millénaire.Table of ContentsPréface – by Yves Coppens ; Introduction – by Guirec Querré, Serge Cassen,Emmanuelle Vigier ; CHAPITRE I : GÉOLOGIE - MINÉRALOGIE - GEMMOLOGIE ; Les minéralisations de variscite du sud-ouest de l´Europe : caractéristiques minéralogiques, géochimiques et genèse – by Agustina Fernández, Candelas Moro, Marie Pierre Dabard (Ɨ) ; Gemmology of gem phosphate: a review with particular attention to variscite – by Emmanuel Fritsch, Benjamin Rondeau, Yves Lulzac, Blanca Mocquet ; CHAPITRE II : EXPLOITATION DE LA VARISCITE EN EUROPE OCCIDENTALE ; Gavà (Barcelone), mine et atelier au Néolithique – by Josep Bosch Argilagós ; Palazuelo de las Cuevas and the exploitation of variscite in the northwest of Iberia – by Ramón Fábregas Valcarce, Carlos Rodríguez-Rellán ; Pico Centeno prehistoric variscite mines (Encinasola, Huelva, SW Spain) – by Salvador Domínguez-Bella, José Ramos-Muñoz ; Hispaniae Callais. The use of Iberian variscite in jewellery and mosaics in Roman times – by Salvador Domínguez-Bella ; CHAPITRE III : APPORT DES MÉTHODES D’ANALYSES À L’ÉTUDE DE LA DIFFUSION DES PRODUCTIONS ; Provenance des parures en variscite du Néolithique européen : élaboration d'un modèle chimiométrique – by Guirec Querré, Thomas Calligaro, Serge Cassen, Marie-Pierre Dabard (Ɨ), Salvador Domínguez-Bella ; Origine des bijoux néolithiques en Callaïs de l’ouest de la France – by Guirec Querré, Thomas Calligaro, Serge Cassen ; Iberian variscite: icp-ms-la and pixe analysis of recent prehistory beads et pendants from Spain and Portugal – by Salvador Domínguez-Bella, Guirec Querré, Thomas Calligaro, Javier Martínez López ; The use of Raman spectroscopy in the characterization of variscite provenance: the Gavà case – by Joan Carlos Melgarejo, Laia Arqués, Cristina Villanova-de-Benavent, Tariq Jahwari, Lisard Torró, Josep Bosch Argilagós, Montgarri Castillo-Oliver, Marc Campeny, Sandra Amores, Aleu Andreazini, Saleh Lehbib,Antoni Camprubí ; CHAPITRE IV : UTILISATION DE LA VARISCITE ET DE LA TURQUOISE COMME PIERRE DE PARURES AU NÉOLITHIQUE ; La parure en callaïs (variscite et turquoise) au Néolithique, dans la moitié nord de la France. Corpus et contextes – by Serge Cassen, Christine Boujot, Audrey Charvet, Valentin Grimaud, Nicolas Le Maux, Christophe Le Pennec, Guirec Querré, Emmanuelle Vigier, Christian Obeltz, Frédéric Prodéo, Alain Villes ; Les éléments de parure en callaïs dans le Midi de la France au Néolithique et au Chalcolithique – by Jean-Sebastien Vaquer ; La parure en variscite au Néolithique dans la partie est de l’Espagne – by Miquel Molist Montaña, Monica Oliva Poveda ; Going soft on green? Variscite and other green beads in Western Spain – by Carlos Rodríguez-Rellán, Ramón Fábregas Valcarce ; Archaeomineralogy of turquoise in Eurasia – by Ruslan I. Kostov ; CHAPITRE V : LES MODÈLES DE CIRCULATION DURANT LE NÉOLITHIQUE ; Production et diffusion de parures néolithiques en séricite et autres micas en quart nord-ouest de la France dans son contexte européen – by Nicolas Le Maux et Serge Cassen, avec la collaboration de Juliette Durand, Marc Laroche, Didier Le Gouestre et Emmanuelle Vigier ; Patterns of variscite acquisition and circulation in Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods in Portugal – by António Faustino Carvalho ; Rings and axeheads of Alpine jades: imports to and exports from the Gulf of Morbihan during the 5th millennium and the beginning of the 4th millennium – by Pierre Pétrequin, Anne-Marie Pétrequin, Mauro Cinquetti, Michel Errera, Ramón Fábregas Valcarce, Estelle Gauthier, Frédéric Jallet, Yvan Pailler, Frédéric Prodéo, Alison Sheridan ; Perles supposées en variscite du sud-est de la France (Arles-Fontvieille, IVe mill. av. J.-C.) : premiers résultats d’une recherche en devenir – by Laurine Viel, Sandrine Bonnardin, Maxence Bailly, Xavier Margarit ; The time of callaïs: radiocarbon dates and Bayesian chronological modelling – by Bettina Schulz Paulsson, Serge Cassen, Carlos Rodríguez-Rellán, António Faustino Carvalho, Jean-Sebastien Vaquer, Miguel Molist Montaña, Josep Bosch Argilagós, Mònica Oliva Poveda ; ANNEXE I : planches photos des perles et pendeloques en callaïs de l'ouest de la France ; ANNEXE II : carte ouest-européenne des objets Neolithiques en jades et en callaïs ; ANNEXE III : analyses chimiques des sources ouest européennes de variscite et / ou turquoises ; ANNEXE IV : analyses chimiques des objets néolithiques en callaïs de la moitié nord de la France ; ANNEXE V : analyses chimiques des objets Néolithiques en callaïs de la péninsule Ibérique ; ANNEXE VI : auteurs

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Book SynopsisThe study of deserted villages abandoned during the last millennium in Europe has been the primary focus of archaeological interventions in rural settlements over recent decades. However, most of the hamlets and villages of medieval origin remain inhabited today and excavations in these small and medium-sized settlements are more unusual. The Archaeology of Medieval Villages Currently Inhabited in Europe focuses on these locations, giving examples of sites excavated in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Scandinavia and Spain. The case studies highlight the diversity of problems and debates around this subject such as the meaning of the term ‘village’, the chronology beyond the last millennium with continuities, discontinuities and ruptures, the integration of research into residential and working areas, the role of local communities in research programmes and the need for multidisciplinary approaches to address all these issues. Deserted villages research along with currently-inhabited settlement excavation has the important potential to achieve long-lasting historical syntheses on medieval settlement networks in Europe. These five chapters offer challenging approaches to the above issues and proposals for future research in the field from Spain to the North Sea.Table of ContentsPreface – by Margarita Fernández Mier, Jesús Fernández Fernández Introduction – by Margarita Fernández Mier, Jesús Fernández Fernández Test pit excavation as a method for reconstructing the development of currently-occupied rural settlements: Evidence from England – by Carenza Lewis Village Archaeology in France. A twenty-five year retrospective – by Edith Peytremann Investigating medieval village formation in the Netherlands – by J.P.W. Verspay, H. Renes, B. Groenewoudt, J. van Doesburg Is this a village? Approaching nucleated settlements in Scandinavian contexts – by Ingvild Øye The Archaeology of Currently Inhabited Villages in Spain: The Case of Asturias – by Margarita Fernández Mier, Jesús Fernández Fernández Conclusion – by Chris Wickham

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Book SynopsisA Classical Archaeologists’s Life: The Story so Far shows that a scholar’s life is not all scholarship, though much of this book is devoted to the writing of books and, especially, travel to classical and other lands. Boardman is a Londoner, born in Ilford and attending school in Essex (Chigwell). His teenage years were spent often in air raid shelters rather than with ‘mates‘ (all evacuated). There are distinctive ‘aunties’, the rituals of daily life in a London suburb. The non-scholarly figures live large in this account of his life, marriage, children, new houses. At Cambridge he learned about classical archaeology as a necessary addition to reading Homer and Demosthenes, even being obliged to recite the latter. And those were the days of Bertrand Russell’s lectures in a university reawakening after the war. Thence to the British School at Athens to learn about excavation (Smyrna, Knossos, later Libya). His return from Greece was to Oxford, not Cambridge, at first in the Ashmolean Museum, then as Reader and Professor. A spell in New York gives an account of the city before the troubles, when Petula Clark’s Down Town was dominant. There is much here to reflect on university life and teaching, and on the reasons for and problems with the writing of his many books (some 40), with reflection on the university, colleges and their ways. Travels are well documented – a notable trip through Pakistan and China, in Persia, Egypt, Turkey – with comment on what he saw and experienced beyond archaeology. A lecture tour in Australia provides comment beyond the academic. He visited Israel often, lecturing and publishing for the Bible Lands Museum. Several tours in the USA took him to most of their museums and universities as well as many other sights, from glaciers to alligators. This book is a mixture of scholarly reminiscence, reflection on family life, travelogue, and critique of classical scholarship (not all archaeological) worldwide, illustrated with pictures of travels, friends, home life, and, for a historian, a reflection on experiences of over 90 years.Trade Review'Few who have investigated the world of classical archaeology over the past 60 years can have failed to benefit from consulting John Boardman’s many and varied publications. His central position continues to be paramount, and in this book we have his spirited account of his career, the researches he has carried out, the travels he has undertaken, and the home life and friendships he has enjoyed over the past 90 years.' - Brian A. Sparkes (2020), Classics for All'How John managed any teaching is amazing, given his travel accounts. Numerous and fascinating, whether undertaken for research or for pleasure (e.g., the Swan Hellenic Cruises), they cover most of Asia, part of the Near East and Africa, a great deal of Australia as well as Europe, and even the New World (Mexico), many of them revealing his ever expanding interest in the Greeks overseas and their (even if remote) influence on others’ arts and cultures, some as remote as India and China.' - Brunilde Ridgway (2021), Bryn Mawr Classical Review'Archaeopress has established a series on the lives of archaeologists, many of them like a recent study by David Gill of Dr John Disney who was the benefactor of the Disney Chair of Archaeology at Cambridge in the nineteenth century, long dead. In the case of the current volume we are given a lively and often entertaining account of a life, both personal and professional, by a lively and much-loved archaeologist, still active in his nineties. - Martin Henig (2021), Association for Roman Archaeology News'This book is a must for anyone interested in the ancient world and represents a unique chronicle of an extraordinary scholar.' - Mark Merrony (2021), ANTIQVVSTable of ContentsA Note to the Reader; PART I; Starters; Family and friends; Home; Redbridge School; Chigwell School: the War; A Return to Chigwell and Ilford; Cambridge: Magdalene College; Greece I (1948-50); Excavation I – Smyrna/Izmir Bayrakli; Return to Britain 1950; The Army – Marriage; Greece II (1952-5); Excavation II; Oxford, an Academic Career; Living in Oxford; Excavation III – Tocra; The United States; Homes: the Cottage, Woodstock; Other Travelling; Dreams; Films and TV; On Health and Old Age; Cars; Julia and Mark, the Wider Family; Ninety+; PART II: BOOKS AND ACADEMIA; Starting to Write Books; Oxford and Cambridge; Books; Dealers; Pupils; Conferences Overseas; Friends and Families; The Parthenon; Memberships; Glittering Prizes; Money; Religion; Poetry; PART III: GEMS, BOB AND CLAUDIA; Gems; Afterword; Bibliography; Index of People; Index of Places

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Book SynopsisIn the realm of rock art, humanlike images appear widely through time and space from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, and for some continents to later, yet still prehistoric, times. The artworks discussed in Anthropomorphic Images in Rock Art Paintings and Rock Carvings range from paintings, engravings or scratchings on cave walls and rock shelters, images pecked into rocky surfaces or upon standing stones, and major sacred sites (among them Gobekli Tepe, Avebury, Stonehenge, and the Palaeolithic Chauvet Cave) in which the possibility exists of recovery of the meanings intended by the artists and sculptors. Such prospects can relate to known or inferred legends, myths, folklore, rites and ritual, and often allude to matters that recognise the unremitting benefits of human, animal and crop fertility to humankind. Occasionally, relevant art forms are present not in whole but as pars pro toto, in which a part stands for or symbolises the whole. Images or artistic compositions often articulate, in ways more or less manifest, scenes of dramatic action as with hunting and dancing, mating and birthing, ritual and ceremony, some of which may openly or latently express yearnings for the rewards of fruitful fecundity – as with the much-loved worldview known as the hieros gamos or Sacred Marriage.Table of ContentsContinental Europe and Britain and Ireland ; Chapter 1: Fertility Petroglyphs at Drombeg Stone Circle Help Explain Through Hieros Gamos the Calendar Planning Principles of Drombeg and Other Recumbent Stone Circles Including Stonehenge - Terence Meaden ; Chapter 2: Hieros Gamos—ἱερός γάμος—Symbol of Fertility and Orphism in Thracian Ideology - Stavros D. Kiotsekoglou ; Chapter 3: An Image Description Method to Access Palaeolithic Art: Discovering a Visual Narrative of Gender Relations in the Pictorial Material of Chauvet Cave - Gernot Grube ; Chapter 4: The Grotta Palmieri of Lettopalena (Chieti, Abruzzo): Preliminary Presentation of a New Site with Rock Paintings - Tomaso Di Fraia ; Chapter 5: Representations of the Human Figure in the Anfratto Palmerini on Monte La Queglia: Engravings, Paintings, Symbols - Guido Palmerini ; Chapter 6: A Unique Example of Engraved Transfigurative Rock Art at Avebury Cove in Wessex, Southern England - Terence Meaden ; Chapter 7: Anthropomorphic Images in High Lunigiana, Massa Carrara, Italy - Angelina Magnotta Chapter 8: A Rock Art Site on the Avebury Hills in Wessex Whose Images Express a Perception of Death and Possibly a Mystical Link to the Solstice Sunsets - Terence Meaden ; Asia ; Chapter 9: Gobekli Tepe, Anatolia, Turkey – the Womb of the Mother Goddess - Anu Nagappa Chapter 10: Revelatory Style Art: The Human-plant Engagement Revealed by the Jiangjunya Petroglyph, China - Feng Qu ; Australia ; Chapter 11: Anthropomorphic Engraved Images in South-East Queensland, Australia - Marisa GiorgiChapter 12: Anthropomorphic Images in Australian Rock Art through Time and Space - Mike Donaldson ; Africa ; Chapter 13: The Postures of Childbirth in the Bovidian Women in the Rock Art of Tassili N’ajjer, Central Sahara of Algeria - Hassiba Safrioun and Louiza Belkhiri ; North America ; Chapter 14: What Can Be Learnt from Body Postures and Gestures of Anthropomorphic Figures in Petroglyphs of the Southwest USA - Carol Patterson ; Chapter 15: Some Select Vulva Rock Petroglyphs and Forms in North America - Herman E. Bender ; Chapter 16: Manitou or Spirit Stones and Their Meanings, Personification and Link to the Native American Cultural Landscape in North America - Herman E. Bender ; Chapter 17: Multi-Layered Meanings in Anthropomorphic Figures in Yokuts and Western Mono Rock Art, California - Mary A. Gorden ; Chapter 18: The Thunderbird in Native American Rock Art - Herman E. Bender ; South America ; Chapter 19: Anthropomorphic Representations in the Cave Paintings Located in the Archaeological Region of Seridó in Brazil - Nathalia Nogueira and Daniela Cisneiros ; Chapter 20: Anthropomorphic Figures at the Alto De La Guitarra Site, Moche Valley, Peru - María Susana Barrau and Daniel Castillo Benítez ; Chapter 21: Exceptional Anthropomorphic Figures at the Monte Calvario Site, Poro Poro, Cajamarca, Peru - Daniel Castillo Benítez and María Susana Barrau Index

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Book SynopsisHow can the built environment help in the understanding of social and economic changes involving ancient local communities? Arab Settlements aims to shed light on the degree to which economic and political changes affected social and identity patterns in the regional context from the Nabatean through to the Umayyad and Abbasid periods. Settlement analysis is understood to be a crucial tool for accessing the local material culture and characterising the specific identities of the concerned societies. For this purpose, the author compares eight case studies across the Middle East, considering their spatial organisation over a long period (2nd – 9th centuries AD). For the interpretation of the remains, the anthropological concepts of ‘segmented societies’ and ‘pastoralism’ are fundamental, providing possible explanations of some spatial patterns attested in the case-studies. The idea of ‘Oriental’ settlements underscores the marked continuity in the organisation of the buildings and the use of space revealed on different levels between the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods. Furthermore, the label of ‘Arab settlements’ is proposed in this context, highlighting the direct connection between social identities and built environment, with a direct reference to the development of an ‘Arab’ identity.Table of ContentsPreface ; Part 1: Methodology and Theory ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: Anthropological background and terminology ; Chapter 3: Typology ; Part 2: Comparative Analysis ; Chapter 4: The case studies ; Chapter 5: Regionalism and Transregional patterns ; Chapter 6: The “test” case-studies - The Central Jordanian Plateau ; Part 3: Archaeological data in the bigger picture ; Chapter 7: The regional historical context ; Chapter 8: Arab settlements or settlements of the “Arabs”? ; References ; Plates

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Book SynopsisThe fourth volume of the Journal of Greek Archaeology (JGA) is unusually rich and varied in content. Geographically the articles range from Sicily via Greece to Anatolia and the Near East, while chronologically they extend from the Bronze Age to the Ottoman era. Thematically there is a set of papers in landscape studies which include agricultural history, settlement geography, regional comparisons; articles on material culture which encompass metallurgy, ceramics, the links between language and artefacts, and production and trade; papers on aspects of human social science such as palaeopathology and deformity, gender studies and the representation of the supernatural; historical perspectives are finally represented by articles on fortifications and Islamisation. Of particular note is a lengthy presentation of the survey and excavation at the recently discovered Mycenaean palace in the Sparta Valley. The review section is even broader, running from the Palaeolithic through to aspects of present-day heritage studies, and covering an equally wide field of topics.Table of ContentsJournal of Greek Archaeology Volume 4: Editorial - John Bintliff ; Prehistory and Protohistory ; The context and nature of the evidence for metalworking from mid 4th millennium Yali (Nissyros) - V. Maxwell, R. M. Ellam, N. Skarpelis and A. Sampson ; Living apart together. A ceramic analysis of Eastern Crete during the advanced Late Bronze Age - Charlotte Langohr ; The Ayios Vasileios Survey Project (Laconia, Greece): questions, aims and methods - Sofia Voutsaki, Corien Wiersma, Wieke de Neef and Adamantia Vasilogamvrou ; Archaic to Hellenistic ; The formation and development of political territory and borders in Ionia from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods: A GIS analysis of regional space - David Hill ; Multi-faceted approaches and interdisciplinary narratives - regional archaeologies in Akarnania and Olympia (Western Greece) - Franziska Lang ; To include or exclude? Marginalization of the deformed in the Classical Greek World - Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver ; Personified vulva, ritual obscenity, and Baubo - Aynur-Michèle-Sara Karatas ; The Hellenistic koine as a linguistic and ceramic concept - Alexandros Laftsidis ; Roman and Late Roman ; The Roman aqueduct of Philippi - Anastasios Oulkeroglou†, Stratis Papadopoulos and Ioanna Giamali ; Medieval and Post-Medieval ; The materiality of death, the supernatural and the role of women in Late Antique and Byzantine times - Athanasios K. Vionis ; Pietra Ollare: Alpine soapstone vessels in Byzantine Corinth - Rossana Valente ; Byzantine Kastra in the Dark Ages: the case of Oria Kastro on Kythnos - Christianna Veloudaki ; Archaeological approaches to the Islamic Emirate of Crete (820s-961 CE): a starting point - Matteo G. Randazzo ; Multiperiod ; Integrating geology into archaeology: the water supply of Piraeus in Antiquity - E.D. Chiotis ; The potential of a terrace-wise economy: Hygassos’ agricultural heritage in the Hellenistic Rhodian Peraia (Bozburun Peninsula) - E. Deniz Oğuz-Kirca, Ioannis Liritzis, Volkan Demirciler and Volkan Demirciler ; Book Reviews

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Book SynopsisLandscapes of Human Evolution is an edited volume in honour of John Gowlett. John has a wide range of research interests primarily focused on the human genus Homo, and is a world leader in understanding the cognitive and behavioural preconditions necessary for the emergence of complex behaviours such as language and art. John is also a leader in investigating the early history of fire use and control in relation to social action and hominin communication. Landscapes of Human Evolution seeks to mirror John’s research profile and explores some of the most recent thinking regarding human evolution from the biological and cognitive development of our human ancestors, to the behavioural adaptations necessary to survive changing Pleistocene landscapes and environments. Specifically, Landscapes of Human Evolution focuses on the development of large hominin brains and bipedal locomotion; hominin interactions with landscape; and the amplification of complex hominin behaviours and social structures from the control of fire through to changing lithic technologies. Such an overview of the development of human ancestral species from a biological, cognitive, social, and behavioural perspective is particularly timely given the many recent advances in our understanding of the complexities of human evolution.Trade Review'... some excellent contributions and a worthy homage to the continuing career of one of the discipline’s true 'master craftsmen'. - Dave Underhill (2020): Azania: Archaeological Research in AfricaTable of ContentsForeword - James Cole, John McNabb, Matt Grove and Rob Hosfield ; A Good Man in Africa: John Gowlett’s Writings on Africa and its Hominin Archaeology from the late 1970s to the early 2000s - John McNabb ; Brain Size Evolution in the Hominin Clade - Andrew Du and Bernard Wood ; Australopithecus or Homo? The postcranial evidence - Robin H. Crompton ; Evolutionary Diversity and Adaptation in Early Homo - Alan Bilsborough and Bernard Wood ; Rift Dynamics and Archaeological Sites: Acheulean Land Use in Geologically Unstable Settings - Simon Kübler, Geoff Bailey, Stephen Rucina, Maud Devès and Geoffrey C.P. King ; How many handaxes make an Acheulean? A case study from the SHK-Annexe site, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania - Ignacio de la Torre and Rafael Mora ; An Acheulian Balancing Act: A Multivariate Examination of Size and Shape in Handaxes from Amanzi Springs, Eastern Cape, South Africa - Matthew V. Caruana and Andy I. R. Herries ; Reflections on Possible Zoomorphic Acheulean bifaces from Southwestern Algeria - Thomas Wynn, Mohamed Sahnouni, Tony Berlant and Claude Douce ; Variable cognition in the evolution of Homo: biology and behaviour in the African Middle Stone Age - Robert A. Foley and Marta Mirazón Lahr ; Initial source evaluation of archaeological obsidian from Middle Stone Age site Kilombe GqJ h3 West 200, Kenya, East Africa - Sally Hoare, Stephen Rucina and John A.J. Gowlett ; The eternal triangle of human evolution - Clive Gamble ; Climate, Fire and the Biogeography of Palaeohominins (Robin I.M. Dunbar) [Open Access: Download] ; Fire, the Hearth (ocak) and Social Life: examples from an Alevi community in Anatolia - David Shankland ; From Specialty to Specialist: a citation analysis of Evolutionary Anthropology, Palaeolithic Archaeology and the work of John Gowlett 1970-2018 - Anthony Sinclair

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Book SynopsisWonders Lost and Found: A celebration of the archaeological work of Professor Michael Vickers comprises, in all, twenty-one contributions, all on archaeological themes, written by friends and colleagues of Professor Michael Vickers, commemorating his contribution to archaeology. The contributions, reflecting the wide interests of Professor Vickers, range chronologically from the Aegean Bronze Age, to the use made of archaeology by dictators of the 19th and 20th centuries. Seven contributions are related to the archaeology of Georgia, where the Professor has worked most recently, and has made his home.Table of ContentsEarly Cycladic? Lead model boats in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford – Susan Sherratt ; Two Cushions, a Bes, a boar and a bead. New ‘discoveries’ in the Aegean collection at the Ashmolean – Helen Hughes-Brock ; Ancient Colchis and the origins of iron: interim results from recent field survey work in Guria, Western Georgia – Brian Gilmour, Marc Cox, Nathaniel Erb-Satullo, Nana Khakhutaishvili and Mark Pollard ; The structure and function of ancient metrology – John Neal ; The second stage of the Grakliani Culture – Vakhtang Licheli ; Owl skyphoi around the Adriatic – Branko Kirigin ; Gyenus on stage: civic foundation and the comedy of Aristophanes’ Birds – David Braund ; New archaeological finds at Pichvnari (November-December 2010) – Amiran Kakhidze ; A double-sided glass relief pinhead from ancient Colchis – the Pichvnari ‘Heracles – Sujatha Chandrasekaran ; Gold jewellery from Kavtiskhevi – Darejan Kacharava ; Palynological analysis of organic materials from Pichvnari (including the earliest silk in Georgia) – Eliso Kvavadze and Maia Chichinadze ; Mercurial metrics – Kenneth Lapatin ; The Erechtheion glass gems: classical innovation or Roman addition? – Despina Ignatiadou ; Carp from the Danube delta? Notes on an unusual gold-glass in the Wilshere Collection – Susan Walker ; Mediterranean drinking habits in Roman Britain: celery-flavoured wine prepared in an Iron Age bronze strainer – Eberhard W. Sauer, Mark Robinson and Graham Morgan ; From an offshore island: classical art and the Britons in Late Antiquity – Martin Henig ; The siege-drill (trypanon): new archaeological evidence from Georgia – Nicholas Sekunda ; An emphatic statement: the Undley-A gold bracteate and its message in fifth-century East Anglia – Daphne Nash Briggs ; The Levant Company and British collecting – Arthur MacGregor ; Cryptography and vasology: J.D. Beazley and Winifred Lamb in Room 40 – David W.J. Gill ; Dictators and Antiquity – Clive Foss

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Book SynopsisTales of Three Worlds collects, as a sign of gratitude and affection, a series of papers by many authors who, in different times, contexts and contingencies, had the luck to meet Sandro Salvatori, and share with him a path of knowledge and mutual personal acquaintance. The book is divided in three sections. Whatever was the apparent relevance of what he was documenting and protecting, Sandro always acted with a deep sense of personal responsibility and with the utmost care. The first section deals with his long years of work in Middle Asia, from the plains of Sistan to those of the Indus, the coasts of the Omani peninsula and southern Turkmenistan. Here, as all authors acknowledge, Sandro's papers have marked true benchmarks of archaeological research – milestones that will be used by others for many future decades for new outlines of the social evolution in the involved regions. The second tells about Sandro's activities in Italy, as an officer of the Archaeological Superintendency (Ministry of Cultural Heritage) of his region; for years, he was daily on duty for monitoring and preserving a wide range of cultural contexts, often far from the lights of the academic scenarios. Third comes a section on the prehistory of north-eastern Africa, a context in which Sandro could work in full scientific and familiar ease, as he was prevented from doing in other situations. The groundbreaking nature of his work here is self-evident. The editors and authors of the book know very well that the sign left by this book is certainly too little for what Sandro has actually done in our field and in the life of many friends and colleagues – but the sign is a long-due one, and it is sincere.

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Book SynopsisBy day, young Gilbert Bagnani studied archaeology in Greece, but by night he socialised with the elite of Athenian society. Secretly writing for the Morning Post in London, he witnessed both antebellum Athens in 1921 and the catastrophic collapse of Christian civilisation in western Anatolia in 1922. While there have been many accounts by refugees of the disastrous flight from Smyrna, few have been written from the perspective of the west side of the Aegean. The flood of a million refugees to Greece brought in its wake a military coup in Athens, the exile of the Greek royal family and the execution or imprisonment of politicians, whom Gilbert knew. Gilbert’s weekly letters to his mother in Rome reveal his Odyssey-like adventures on a voyage of discovery through the origins of western civilisation. As an archaeologist in Greece, he travelled through time seeing history repeat itself: Minoan Knossos, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Smyrna were all violently destroyed, but the survivors escaped to the new worlds of Mycenaean Greece, Renaissance Venice and modern Greece. At Smyrna in the twentieth century, history was written not only by the victors but was also recorded by the victims. At the same time, however, the twentieth century itself was so filled with reports of ethnic cleansings on such a scale that the reports brutalized the humanity of the supposedly civilized people reading about them, and the tragedy of Smyrna disappeared from public awareness between the cataclysmic upheavals of the First and Second World Wars.Trade ReviewThis is a lively account of a formidable personality, scholar and archaeologist in the making. – Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith (2020), British Ambassodor to Greece 1996 – 1999'This first of three volumes based on {Bagnani's] personal letters and news’ reports covers the momentous years from 1921-1924... We are treated to highly-entertaining sketches of leading archaeologists in Greece, and the way fieldwork was conducted, as well as the social life of the political class and wealthy elite of Athens. Informative, excellently-edited and a delight to read.' – Professor John Bintliff (2020), Edinburgh University'This book stands as a major contribution—and an accessible one—to our understanding of the history of Greece in the years 1921-1924. In bringing Gilbert Bagnani back to life through his subject’s letters and through his own careful delving into primary sources, Ian Begg joins a group of scholars (among them Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, Jack L. Davis, Susan Heuck Allen, Kostis Kourelis, Artemis Leontis, Despina Lalaki) who have examined the personal lives, attitudes and idiosyncrasies of archaeologists, artists and performers, anthropologists, and historians as entryways into the discoveries they made, using their personalities as lenses for their scholarly or artistic methods. Such approaches by later generations of scholars shed fresh light on the work of their predecessors and enlarge our understanding of the histories they wrote or performances they created.' – Robert Pounder (2021): Bryn Mawr Classical Review'The titles of some books act like magnets. They pull you towards them and command attention... It is not about the lost worlds of Ancient Greece alone but also about the lost worlds of Modern Greece... Who is Gilbert Bagnani and what adventures is he having in Greece before and after the Asia Minor Catastrophe? Any hesitation you may have had vanishes into thin air when you start reading this absorbing, literate, informative and simply wonderful book.' – James Karas (2022): Greek Press, Toronto, March 4, 2022‘In 2022 Greece will be commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe. There are only a few books in English accessible to a broad audience that consider the events of 1922. These include, for example, Michael Llewellyn Smith’s Ionian Vision (1973), Lou Ureneck’s The Great Fire (2015), and Philip Mansel’s Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean (2010). To these we should now add Begg’s Lost Worlds. Lost Worlds of Ancient and Modern Greece is also the first part of a projected trilogy that will follow Bagnani and his future wife Stewart (Mary Augusta Stewart Huston) throughout the 1920s and 1930s before they finally left Europe for a new life in Canada. We should all very much look forward to learning about the next stops in this journey...’ – Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan (2022): Journal of Modern Greek Studies‘A serious and punctilious archaeologist, culturally open to the investigation of other historical periods, an able journalistic correspondent, an incurable salon-lover and admirer of luxury, gifted with an intelligent sense of irony,12 even a secret agent. Gilbert Bagnani’s multifaceted personality emerges very well from the pages of Ian Begg’s book, which takes us not only through the history of Greece in the 1920s but also through that of the Archaeological Schools and of the Italian one in particular.’ - Stefano Struffolino (2022), Journal of Greek ArchaeologyTable of ContentsForeword – Prof. T. H. B. Symons ; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; Timeline ; Maps ; Prologue: Odysseus vs. Achilles ; Chapter 1. Vengeance ; Chapter 2. Back in Time ; Chapter 3. Imposing Ruins ; Chapter 4. Marble Sepulchres ; Chapter 5. The Arms Merchant and the Secret Agent ; Chapter 6. Foreign Correspondent ; Chapter 7. The Oracle of Apollo and St Paul ; Chapter 8. The Renaissance at a Byzantine Outpost ; Chapter 9. Exposed ; Chapter 10. The Knights of Rhodes ; Chapter 11. The King of Kos ; Chapter 12. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea ; Chapter 13. Monasteries in the Air ; Chapter 14. In the Minotaur’s Labyrinth on Crete ; Chapter 15. Inferno ; Chapter 16. Executions ; Chapter 17. The Pharaoh’s Curse ; Chapter 18. The Castles of the Giant Cyclopes ; Chapter 19. A Surviving Byzantine Republic ; Chapter 20. Karpathos: The Island of Poseidon ; Chapter 21. Paradise Lost ; Chapter 22. Mission to the Underworld: Spying for Mussolini ; Chapter 23. Lost Greek Empires ; Chapter 24. The Land of the Golden Fleece ; Epilogue ; Figures ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisBringing down the Iron Curtain: Paradigmatic changes in research on the Bronze Age in Central and Eastern Europe? presents the researches of scholars of different generations from twelve countries (Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Germany, USA, Canada, Austria) who participated in a session of the same title at the 20th Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Istanbul, 2014. The papers addressed the question of change in the approaches to Bronze Age research in the Central and Eastern European countries from different points of view. It has been a quarter of a century since the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe and the opening up of these areas to the West. With this process, archaeology saw a large influx of new projects and ideas. Bilateral contacts, Europe-wide circulation of scholars and access to research literature has fuelled the transformation processes. This volume is the first study which relates these issues specifically to Bronze Age Archaeology. The contributions discuss not only theoretical issues, but also current developments in all aspects of archaeological practice.Table of ContentsBringing down the Iron Curtain: paradigmatic changes in research on the Bronze Age in Central and Eastern Europe? Introductory thoughts – Oliver Dietrich, Laura Dietrich, Anthony Harding, Viktória Kiss, Klara Šabatová ; Part 1: Paradigmatic change? Views from the subdisciplines of Bronze Age studies ; The Hajdúsámson hoard – revisited – János Dani, Ernst Pernicka, Gábor Márkus ; Culture or ceramic style? On a long-lived and widely distributed paradigm in Romanian archaeology – Laura Dietrich ; Paradigm change, the Iron Curtain, and bronze artefacts. A view from Romania - Oliver Dietrich ; Cultural layers on lowland settlement sites – accepted or ignored? The case of Bohemia. Remarks on discussions regarding the ‘new paradigm’ – Michal Ernée ; Research on the Early Iron Age hillfort of Smolenice-Molpír in the Western Carpathians – Michal Felcan, Roman Pašteka, Susanne Stegmann-Rajtár ; From typochronology to postprocessualism: regional settlement research in the northern part of the Carpathian Basin – Klára P. Fischl, Tamás Pusztai ; Methodological changes in and new approaches to research on the Bronze Age in Bohemia since 1990 – Luboš Jiráň, Ondřej Chvojka, Tereza Šálková ; On the interpretation of Bronze Age tell settlement in the Carpathian Basin. The Borsod example – Tobias L. Kienlin, Klára P. Fischl ; ‘Europe without walls’: new directions of Bronze Age research in Hungary – Viktória Kiss, Gabriella Kulcsár ; Change or no change? Archaeology of the Middle and Late Bronze Age in Moravia, Czech Republic – Klára Šabatová ; Paradigm shift? Bronze Age tell archaeology after 1989. Reflections from the Százhalombatta-Földvár Excavation Project – Marie-Louise Stig Sørensen, Magdolna Vicze, Joanna Sofaer ; Part 2: Change or no change – experiences of working in Eastern Central Europe before and after 1989 ; Zeitgeist – David J. Breeze ; 1989 and all that – John Chapman ; Flying behind the curtain: establishing an aerial reconnaissance programme in Romania – W. S. Hanson, I. A. Oltean ; Romania and Bulgaria: transition or continuity? Changes in attitudes and methods before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain – A. G. Poulter

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Book SynopsisNorthwest Syria during the Neolithic period has been less well studied than the rest of the northern Levant, where Neolithisation first took place in the Near East. The Neolithic Lithic Industry at Tell Ain El-Kerkh presents the first attempt to unveil the Neolithisation process in northwest Syria, with the techno-typological studies of the flintstone implements from Tell Ain el-Kerkh in the Rouj basin in Idlib, which was an important large Neolithic site occupied from the from the 9th to the 7th millennium BC. Examination of the lithic record from Tell Ain el-Kerkh revealed techno-morphological changes in flint tools during the long Neolithic sequence from the Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) to the end of the Pottery Neolithic. The author interprets such changes in stone tools in the socio-economic context of the Neolithic. Through the comparison between the data obtained from Tell Ain el-Kerkh and other Neolithic sites in the northern Levant, the regional characteristics of northwest Syria during the Neolithic period are highlighted. In the end, two important issues in the Neolithic Levant, diffusion of the PPNB culture and the PPNB collapse, are discussed based on the results of this study. This volume includes substantial original data, drawings, and analysis of lithics from Neolithic sites in Syria, which will be useful for future discussion of the changes in material culture in relation with the Neolithisation process in the Near East.Table of ContentsList of Figures, Tables and Plates ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; 1. The research subject ; 2. Organisation of the research ; 3. Illustrations ; Chapter I: The research framework ; 1. Neolithisation of the northern Levant ; 2. Neolithisation of north-western Syria ; Chapter II: Methodology ; 1. The subject of analysis ; 2. Methodological framework: Reconstitution of the operational sequence in lithic production ; 3. Analytical method ; Chapter III: The lithic industries of the Pre-Pottery and the Pottery Neolithic at Tell Ain el-Kerkh ; 1. The collections ; 2. Raw material for the lithic industry at Tell Ain el-Kerkh and geological surveys for flint research ; 3. The lithic industry of the Rouj 1a period ; 4. Lithic industry of layer 6 ; 5. The lithic industry of the Rouj 1c period ; 6. The lithic industry from the Rouj 2a/2b period ; 7. The lithic industries of the later periods of the Pottery Neolithic ; 8. Discussion: Development of the lithic industries at Tell Ain el-Kerkh during the Neolithic ; Chapter IV: Comparative analysis of lithic materials from other sites in Syria ; 1. Tell Riz ; 2. Qastun ; 3. Slenfe ; 4. Tell el-Kerkh 2 ; 5. Tell Ain Dara III ; 6. Dja’de el Mughara, sector SB ; Chapter V: Comparative study of published data from other Neolithic sites in the northern Levant ; 1. Sites of the Early PPNB (the 9th millennium cal. BC) ; 2. Sites of the Middle PPNB (first half of the 8th millennium cal. BC) ; 3. Sites of the Late PPNB (second half of the 8th millennium cal. BC) ; 4. Sites of the Beginning of the Pottery Neolithic or Final PPNB (first half of the 7th millennium BC) ; Chapter VI: General conclusion ; 1. Synthesis: Development of Neolithic lithic industries in the northern Levant ; 2. Reflections on the system of lithic production during the PPNB in the northern Levant in a socio-economic context ; 3. Emergence and diffusion of the PPNB culture ; 4. The end of the PPNB culture: Was the ‘PPNB collapse’ a general phenomenon? ; Appendix: Plates ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSui resti della Villa tardoantica del Casale di Piazza Armerina, tra il X secolo d.C. e gli inizi dell’XI si era impiantato un vasto insediamento islamico che occupava una vasta area anche a sud e a nord della Villa, di cui è stato esplorato un ampio settore con una strada glareata su cui si aprivano le unità residenziali, alcune delle quali presentavano un cortile interno basolato in cui si trovavano anche un focolare e un forno, intorno a cui si dislocavano i vari ambienti e spesso anche una scala per l’accesso al piano superiore o al tetto. Improvvisamente l’abitato venne abbandonato e i suoi resti furono livellati ; mentre a partire dalla metà dell’XI secolo viene costruito un nuovo abitato normanno, in cui si trova un ambiente rettangolare con portico laterale, una torre difensiva sul lato corto e un silos all’esterno per la conservazione delle derrate. Era un quartiere artigianale ceramico sorto sulla riva del vicino torrente Nocciara.Nei primi decenni del XII secolo forse per un violento terremoto che colpì la Sicilia centro orientale o in seguito alla repressione della rivolta della popolazione islamica da parte di Guglielmo I, l’abitato venne abbandonato, ma la vita in esso continuò fino all’età federiciana.L’abitato bizantino e medievale si estendeva anche alle colline retrostanti la Villa (Monte Mangone e Colla); in particolare sulla collina di C.da Colla, durante un survay effettuato su una vasta estensione di terreno, sono state raccolte terra sigillata africana e lastrine di rivestimento in marmo pregiato, che hanno fatto ipotizzare la presenza di un esteso insediamento tardo antico sulla collina retrostante a sud della Villa del Casale. Table of ContentsIntroduzione - C. BonannoLo scavo con l’abitato a nord della Villa romana del Casale di Piazza Armerina - E. Canzonieri Il butto sulla riva orientale del fiume Gela-Nociara - C. BonannoI materiali dello scavo - C. BonannoCatalogo dei materiali - C. Bonanno, E. CanzonieriIndagini archeologiche nelle località Mangone e Colla ad est della Villa romana del Casale - C. BonannoAbbreviazioni bibliografiche - C. Bonanno, E. Canzonieri Tavole a colori I marmi di località Colla - P. BarresiSelezione numismatica - S. SantangeloRelazione antropologica preliminare inumato 1386 - R. Miccichè, P. Valenti, G. Lauria, G. Bellomo, L. SineoConclusioni - C. Bonanno

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Book SynopsisGround Stone Tools and Past Foodways brings together a selection of papers presented at the 3rd meeting of the Association of Ground Stone Tools Research, which was held at the University of Copenhagen in 2019. Ground stone artefacts are one of the most enduring classes of material culture: first used by Palaeolithic gatherer-hunters, they are still used regularly by people in many parts of the world to grind, mash and pulverize plants, meat and minerals. As such, ground stone artefacts provide a well preserved record at the nexus of interaction between humans, plants and animals. The papers in this volume focus especially on the relationship between ground stone artefacts and foodways and include archaeological and ethnographic case studies ranging from the Palaeolithic to the current era, and geographically from Africa to Europe and Asia. They reflect the current state of the art in ground stone tool research and highlight the many ways in which foodways can be studied through holistic examinations of ground stone artefacts.Table of Contents1. Making Flour in Palaeolithic Europe. New Perspectives on Nutritional Challenges From Plant Food Processing – Anna Revedin, Biancamaria Aranguren, Silvia Florindi, Emanuele Marconi, Marta Mariotti Lippi, Annamaria Ronchitelli ; 2. The Groundstone Assemblages of Shubayqa 1 and 6, Eastern Jordan - Technological choices, Gestures and Processing Strategies of Late Hunter-Gatherers in the Qa’ Shubayqa – Patrick Nørskov Pedersen ; 3. Starch Grain Analysis of Early Neolithic (Linearbandkeramik and Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain) Contexts: Experimental Grinding Tests of Cereals and Legumes – Clarissa Cagnato, Caroline Hamon, and Aurélie Salavert ; 4. Mapping Life-Cycles: Exploring Grinding Technologies And The Use Of Space At Late/Final Neolithic Kleitos, Northern Greece – D. Chondrou and S.M. Valamoti ; 5. Macro-Lithic Tools and the Late Neolithic Economy in the Middle Morava Valley, Serbia – Vesna Vučković ; 6. The Ecological Significance of Ground-stone axes in the Later Stone Age (LSA) of West-Central Africa – Orijemie Emuobosa Akpo ; 7. The New Oasis: Potential of Use-Wear for Studying Plant Exploitation in the Gobi Desert Neolithic – Laure Dubreuil, Angela Evoy, and Lisa Janz ; 8. Above and Below: The Late Chalcolithic Ground Stone Tool Assemblage of Tsomet Shoket – Daniela Alexandrovsky, Ron Be’eri and Danny Rosenberg ; 9. Grinding technologies in the Bronze Age of northern Greece: New data from the sites of Archontiko and Angelochori – Tasos Bekiaris, Lambrini Papadopoulou, Christos L. Stergiou and Soultana-Maria Valamoti ; 10. Pounding Amid the Cliffs: Stationary Facilities and Cliff Caves in the Judean Desert, Israel – Uri Davidovich ; 11. Quernstones in Social Context: the early medieval baker’s house from Wrocław – Ewa Lisowska ; 12. Stone Mortars: A Poorly Known Component of Material Culture, Used in France Since the Iron Age. Including Recent Data for Late Medieval Trading Reaching the Baltic – Geert Verbrugghe ; 13. Telling Textures: Surface Textures May Reveal Which Grains Were Ground in Northern Ethiopia – Laurie Nixon-Darcus ; 14. The Bored Stone, Nougouil: Weighted Digging Sticks in Ethiopia – Jérôme Robitaille

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Book SynopsisThe Maltese Archipelago at the Dawn of History. Reassessment of the 1909 and 1959 excavations at Qlejgħa tal-Baħrija and other essays is a collection of essays focusing on the reassessment of the multifaceted evidence which emerged by excavations carried out in 1909 and 1959 in the settlement of Bahrija, a key site for the understanding of the later stages of Maltese prehistory before the beginning of the Phoenician colonial period. The two excavations, largely unpublished, produced a large quantity of ceramic, stone and metal artefacts together with skeletal remains. The reappraisal of the material will shed light on critical moments of central Mediterranean prehistory. Main topics such as the Aegean-Sicily-Malta trade network, mass migration movements from the Balkans towards the Central Mediterranean and the colonial dynamics of the Phoenicians operating in the West are addressed in the light of new data and with the support of an array of archaeometric analyses.Trade Review'Like every good piece of research, this volume answers questions and raises new ones. It also offers a space to revisit conclusions and voice dissent where needed. The collaborative nature of the work is particularly welcome and it is hoped that this standard will be adopted across all archaeological research on the islands. This is the beginning of a new era for Bronze Age studies on the Maltese Islands.' -- Isabelle Vella Gregory * Malta Archaeological Review, Issue 12 *Table of ContentsIntroduction – Davide Tanasi, David Cardona ; Part I ; 1. Il-Qlejgħa tal-Baħrija: the story – David Cardona ; 2. Il-Qlejgħa tal-Baħrija: an archaeological survey – MariaElena Zammit ; 3. Bronze and Iron Age pottery from the 1909 and 1959 excavations at Qlejgħa tal-Baħrija – Davide Tanasi ; 4. Textile tools and terracotta figurines from Prehistoric Qlejgħa tal-Baħrija – Carlo Veca ; 5. Stone, metal and bone artefacts from Qlejgħa tal-Baħrija – Carlo Veca, Paolo Trapani, Davide Tanasi ; 6. Post-Prehistoric pottery from the 1909 and 1959 excavations at Qlejgħa tal-Baħrija – Stephan Hassam ; Part II ; 7. Non-destructive pXRF analysis of Middle Bronze and Iron Age pottery from Malta – Davide Tanasi, Robert H. Tykot, Frederick Pirone, Nicholas C. Vella ; 8. Baħrija pottery production from an archaeometric perspective – Davide Tanasi, Daniele Brunelli, Valentina Cannavò, Sara Tiziana Levi ; 9. New data on the absolute chronology of the Maltese Middle/Late Bronze Age – Davide Tanasi, Robert H. Tykot ; Part III ; 10. A critical revision of the Late Borġ in-Nadur/Baħrija-type pottery from the Thapsos settlement (Sicily) – Davide Tanasi ; 11. The Tas-Silġ sanctuary between the late 2nd and the early 1st millennia BC – Alberto Cazzella, Giulia Recchia ; 12. Zooarchaeology of Għar Mirdum. Preliminary Analysis – Roberto Miccichè

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Book SynopsisThis volume reflects on the unique status of the Western Mediterranean in the Bronze Age, considering the independence of its development and the existence of an indigenous maritime trade. It looks at ways to establish a chronology of the period that is not based solely on ceramic typologies, and aims to clarify the cultural exclusion to which the Lower Guadalquivir is subjected.Table of ContentsResumen ; Introducción ; Capítulo 1 Las dependencias tradicionales de la datación de la Edad del Bronce en la Península Ibérica ; Capítulo 2 Palaios Contexto ; Capítulo 3 Caracterización de los grupos culturales en estudio ; Capítulo 4 Análisis críticos generales de las culturas y su discusión ; Capítulo 5 El comercio en el mediterráneo occidental entre 1800 y 1200 BC. Marco de discusión y de conclusión ; Bibliografía

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Book SynopsisHuman Transgression – Divine Retribution analyses pagan concepts of religious transgressions, how they should be regarded and punished, as expressed in Greek cultic regulations from the 5th century BC to the 3rd century AD. Also considered are the so-called propitiatory inscriptions (often referred to as ‘confession inscriptions’) from the 1st to the 3rd century AD Lydia and Phrygia, in light of ‘cultic morality’, an ideal code of behaviour intended to make places, occasions, and worshippers suitable for ritual. This code is on the one hand associated with ‘purity’ (hagneia) and removal of pollution (miasma) caused by deaths, births and sexuality, and on the other with the protection of sacred property. This study seeks to explain the emphasis of divine punishments in the Lydian and Phrygian inscriptions, while rare in most Greek cultic regulations, as part of a continuum within pagan religion rather than as a result of an absolute division between Greek and Oriental religion.Table of ContentsForeword ; Part 1. Introduction and Aims of the Study ; Chapter 1. Introduction ; Chapter 2. Aims of the study ; Part 2. The Propitiatory Inscriptions ; Chapter 3. The Propitiatory Inscriptions and their Religious Context ; Chapter 4. Earlier Research on the Propitiatory Inscriptions ; Part 3. Religious Transgressions and Punishments ; Chapter 5. Greek Cultic Morality ; Chapter 6. Prohibitions and Punishments in Greek Cultic Regulations ; Chapter 7. Transgressions in the Propitiatory Inscriptions ; Part 4. Conclusions ; Chapter 8. Conclusions ; Part 5. Appendices, Bibliography and Index Of Citation ; Appendix A: Cultic Regulations ; Appendix B: Propitiatory Inscriptions ; Bibliography ; Index of Citations

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Book SynopsisThe treasure of Buseyra is preserved in the museum of Deir az-Zour in Syria. The coins in the hoard cover a large period from the Sassanian Sovereign Khusrô II (590/1-628) until the terminal date 331H/ 941. These coins offer precious information, not only about a large number of mints but about the periods and quantities of minting activity. This treasure is important because it is the first complete hoard of the 10th century discovered in the al-Djazīra area. According to Tomas Noonan, the Middle East and Central Asian hoards only amount to ten per cent of the treasures found in northern and eastern Europe and the Nordic countries. In comparing contemporaneous 10th-century silver hoards, and especially the relation between the numbers of coin dies and their representation of their products, we can obtain insights into the flows of money and the balance of payments for each area and each minting city.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapitre I ; 1. Histoire du site de Buseyra (Ḳarḳīsīya) ; 2. Structure du trésor ; 3. Cadre Historique ; 4. Les causes de la perte de ce trésor en 331H. ; 5. Les causes de l’enfouissement ; Chapitre II ; 1. Les monnaies du trésor de Buseyra jusqu’à l’an 331H/941 ; 2. Les monnaies rares du trésor de Buseyra ; 3. Les fragments ; Chapitre III ; 1. Les ateliers monétaires du trésor de Buseyra ; 2. Répartition les ateliers du trésor de Buseyra par les provinces ; 3. Les coins d’al-Raḥba ; 4. Comparaison des coins, entre les années 317H. et 318H., des ateliers monétaires du trésor de Buseyra ; Chapitre IV ; Métrologie du trésor de Buseyra ; 1. État de conservation ; 2. Les poids ; Chapitre V ; Trésors monétaires des troisième et quatrième siècles de l’islam ; 1. Composition des trésors ʿAbbāsides du dixième siècle après J.-C. ; 2 Comparaison des 12 trésors présentés avec le trésor de Buseyra ; 3. La balance des paiements ; 4. Les répartitions chronologiques des monnaies dans les trésors de 10ème siècle AD ; 5. La diffusion de l’argent d’après les trouvailles monétaires ; Chapitre VI ; Valeur financière du trésor de Buseyra à l’époque ʿabbāside ; Conclusion ; Index de noms de personnes ; Index des noms de lieux ; Index de catalogue ; Catalogue ; Bibliographie

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Book SynopsisThis volume is in honour of the Austrian scholar Prof. Dr Hannsjörg Ubl. It contains a tabula gratulatoria, a bibliography and 24 contributions covering a wide range of topics. The focus being Greek and Roman, the volume includes papers about the Langobards, renaissance replicas of classical sculpture, and the archaeology of World War I. The 'classical' papers deal with Greek and Roman art and art looting; dogs in Greek and Roman warfare; Roman looking-glasses; erotic inscriptions of Gaulish spindle whorls; military equipment and dress accessories; Roman military history and the non-military archaeology of Raetia, Noricum and Pannonia.Table of ContentsAbbildungsverzeichnis ; Vorwort ; Tabula gratulatoria ; Schriftenverzeichnis Hannsjörg Ubl ; Militärdienst für den Hund? Hunde im antiken Militär – Heidelinde Autengruber-Thüry ; Römische Kaiser des 3. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. mit Reiterhelmen – Thomas Fischer ; Vorhang auf! Fund und Bedeutung zweier „Tauvorhänge“ aus k.u.k. Sperrbefestigungen in Sexten/Südtirol – Rupert Gietl, Reinfrid Vergeiner ; Die letzte Spur von Römersteinen? Ein kurioses Aquarell des Oberen Drautals mit Darstellungen römischer Inschriften – Gerald Grabherr ; Heimlich, still und leise ... Täuschend echt wird das Original durch einen Nachguss ersetzt – Kurt Gschwantler ; Überlegungen zur Trageweise römischer scuta – Christian Koepfer ; Kunstraub bei den Griechen? Kleomenes III. von Sparta und die Stadt Megalopolis – Ernst Künzl ; Achills Nötigung. Eine römische Kleinbronzegruppe aus Neumarkt-Pfongau (Bez. Salzburg-Umgebung) – Claudia Lang-Auinger ; Die Stadtbefestigung von Ovilava-Wels – Renate Miglbauer, Magdalena Waser ; Der Charaktervogel des Laaer Berges und eine ominöse „legio Alaudarum“ in Wien – Martin Mosser ; Roman Looking-Glasses (I Cor. 13, 12) – Lawrence Okamura ; Militärische Mobilität im spätantiken Ägypten – Bernhard Palme ; Die Baugeschichte des Schlosses Petronell in Petronell-Carnuntum – Beatrix Petznek ; Zur Anbringung der Porträtnischen an Grabbauten aus Lauriacum – Erwin Pochmarski ; Was trug der römische Soldat unter dem cingulum? – José Remesal Rodríguez ; Patrimonium oder procurator regni Norici? Anmerkungen zur Verwaltungsreform der Provinz Noricum unter Marcus Aurelius – Peter Scherrer ; Einsatz im Kaukasus (CIL XIII 8213) – Michael A. Speidel ; The Myth of the Langobards. Bronzes from Civezzano and the Hamfelde Bracteate – Michael P. Speidel ; Von gestrauchelten Zieglern, Socken und Hosen. Ein Missgeschick als Ziegelabdruck aus Stockstadt am Main – Bernd Steidl ; Ein gallischer Spinnwirtel mit Liebesinschrift aus Carnuntum – Günther E. Thüry ; Der Grabstein des Flavius Festus (?) aus Annamatia-Baracs – Zsolt Visy ; „Der philosophische Altertumsforscher steigt in die düstern Wohnungen des Todes hinab.“ Bernhard Stark und die Römerforschung in Regensburg am Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts – Gerhard Waldherr ; Die cohors I Montanorum in Österreich – Ekkehard Weber ; Military Dress Accessories from the North-Western Cemetery of the Military Town at Aquincum – Paula Zsidi

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Book SynopsisFifteen centuries ago, the island of Saint Andrew (Isola di Sant’Andrea), located in the basin of Lake Loppio, drained in 1956, was the seat of a fortified settlement, and in the Middle Ages a church dedicated to St. Andrew was built on its top. After sporadic discoveries beginning in the 19th century, in 1998 the Archaeology Department of the Rovereto Civic Museum began a research and study project on the site, comprising a series of summer excavation campaigns. The archaeological investigations, completed in 2017, have brought to light a multi-layered archaeological site with finds ranging from the prehistoric age to Late Antiquity, medieval times and even until the First World War. While the first volume (published in 2016) was about the results of the research concerning the 5th-7th century castrum, this second work takes into consideration the results of the archaeological research in the area of the church (Sectors C and C1). Contains contributions by Milena Anesi, Maurizio Battisti, Cinzia Borchia, Roberto Cabella, Florence Caillaud, Sabrina Calzà, Claudio Capelli, Simone Cavalieri, Anna Maria Fioretti, Luca Gardumi, Stefano Marconi, Marco Morghen, Michele Piazza, Alberta Silvestri, Eleonora Tomasini, Fabiana Zandonai.Trade Review‘Overall, this book is an excellent example of how necessary a multi-disciplinary approach is for the reconstruction—albeit partial—of the history of a such peculiar site. The volume is well organized and includes a useful iconographic apparatus. All of the contributions are well written and, in addition to reporting specific data, they often offer clear explanations of broader issues, making the content understandable even to non-specialists. Finally, the (often very detailed) abstracts in English allow this work to reach a broad international audience. Readers will no doubt eagerly anticipate the results of future excavations in a third volume dedicated to this fascinating and still mysterious site.’ – Andrea Mariani (2022): Speculum vol. 97, issue 2Table of ContentsPrefazione ; Capitolo 1 Le indagini nell’area della chiesa di Sant’Andrea – Barbara Maurina, Carlo Andrea Postinger ; Capitolo 2 Lo scavo. Analisi stratigrafica e periodizzazione – Barbara Maurina ; Capitolo 3 Resti di sepolture e analisi dei reperti scheletrici umani – Cinzia Borchia, Sabrina Calzà ; Capitolo 4 Recipienti ceramici – Barbara Maurina, Milena Anesi, Claudio Capelli, Michele Piazza, Roberto Cabella ; Capitolo 5 Reperti in pietra ollare e manufatti litici – Barbara Maurina ; Capitolo 6 Reperti di vetro e pasta vitrea – Barbara Maurina, Alberta Silvestri, Anna Maria Fioretti, Fabiana Zandonai ; Capitolo 7 Reperti metallici – Barbara Maurina, Florence Caillaud, Simone Cavalieri ; Capitolo 8 Reperti numismatici – Marco Morghen, Carlo Andrea Postinger ; Capitolo 9 Prodotti laterizi – Luca Gardumi, Barbara Maurina ; Capitolo 10 Variae di terracotta e materia dura animale – Barbara Maurina ; Capitolo 11 Manufatti in selce – Maurizio Battisti, Fabiana Zandonai ; Capitolo 12 Indagini archeozoologiche – Eleonora Tomasini, Stefano Marconi ; Capitolo 13 Considerazioni conclusive – Barbara Maurina, Carlo Andrea Postinger ; Bibliografia

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Book SynopsisLondon’s Waterfront 1100–1666: excavations in Thames Street, London, 1974–84 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. The argument is based on the reporting of four excavations of 1974–84 by the Museum of London near the north end of London Bridge: Swan Lane, Seal House, New Fresh Wharf and Billingsgate Lorry Park. Here the findings of the period 1100–1666 are presented. Buildings and property development on sixteen properties south of Thames Street, on land reclaimed in many stages since the opening of the 12th century, include part of the parish church of St Botolph Billingsgate. The many units of land reclamation are dated by dendrochronology, coins and documents. They have produced thousands of artefacts and several hundred kilos of native and foreign pottery. Much of this artefactual material has been published, but in catalogue form (shoes, knives, horse fittings, dress accessories, textiles, household equipment). Now the context of these finds, their deposition in groups, is laid out for the first time. Highlights of the publication include the first academic analysis and assessment of a 13th- or 14th-century trumpet from Billingsgate, the earliest surviving straight trumpet in Europe; many pilgrim souvenirs; analysis of two drains of the 17th century from which suggestions can be made about use of rooms and spaces within documented buildings; and the proposal that one of the skeletons excavated from St Botolph’s church is John Reynewell, mayor of London in 1426–7 and a notable figure in London’s medieval history. The whole publication encourages students and other researchers of all kinds to conduct further research on any aspect of the sites and their very rich artefactual material, which is held at the Museum of London’s Archaeological Archive. This is a significantly large and varied dataset for the archaeology and history of London in the period 1100 to 1666 which can be continuously interrogated for generations to come.Table of ContentsSummary ; 1. The report: introduction ; 2. Period M1 (1100–1200, 1220 on site A) ; 3. Period M2 1200–1350 ; 4. Period M3 1350–1500 ; 5. Period P1 (1500 to 1666) ; 6. Essays and specialist reports: the development and character of the waterfront of the City of London, 1100–1666, and suggestions for future research ; 7. Dating Tables and Artefact Tables ; 8. Section drawings and supporting files online ; 9. Summaries in French and German (translated by Madeleine Hummler) ; 10. Bibliography and abbreviations ; Index

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Book SynopsisThe Urban Landscape of Bakchias: A Town of the Fayyūm from the Ptolemaic-Roman Period to Late Antiquity summarises the results of field research conducted on the archaeological site of Bakchias, located in the north-eastern part of the Fayyūm region. Historical, historico-religious and papyrological studies are also presented. The book provides a clear and comprehensive overview of the rise and fall of the kome of Bakchias. The settlement was a thriving centre from at least the 26th dynasty up until the ninth or tenth centuries CE, although with differing levels of economic prosperity and urban development. Equal weight is given not only to the archaeological and topographical aspects but also to the historical and the religious, whilst never forgetting the relationship between the urban settlement and other villages of the Arsinoite nomos, which is famously a peculiar exception in Egyptian geography.Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction ; Chapter I: Bakchias: Its rediscovery, its cults (P. Buzi) ; Chapter II: The genesis and urban development of Bakchias (E. Giorgi) ; Chapter III: The sacred areas of the town (E. Giorgi) ; Chapter IV: The Northern District (E. Giorgi) ; Chapter V: The buildings along the canal and the South Kom (E. Giorgi) ; Chapter VI: Bakchias in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (P. Buzi) ; Bibliography ; Captions ; Plates

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Book SynopsisAgency, Micro-History and Built Environment examines how people have been making, using and transforming buildings and built environments in general, and how the buildings have been perceived. It also considers a diversity of built constructions – including dwellings and public buildings, sheds and manor houses, secular and sacral structures. Comparisons between different regions and parts of the globe, important when addressing buildings from a social perspective, are presented with studies from the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Mexico. The chronological framework spans from the classical Byzantine period, over the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period and ends in 20th century Belfast.Table of ContentsPreface1. Reidun Marie Aasheim, Finn-Einar Eliassen and Marianne Johansson - The house that turned around and the street that wasn't: A cross-disciplinary study of the metamorphosis of the centre of a small town, c. 1680–1760.2. Gunnar Almevik and Jonathan Westin - Entering Hemse. Enacting the assemblage of a twelfth-century Gotlandic stave-church.3. Anna Bergman - Boundaries between private and public space in medieval and early modern Stockholm, c.1350–1700.4. Linn Willetts Borgen - Constructing Sacredness: The Stave Technique as Architectural Memory in Early Modern Norway.5. Jeroen Bouwmeester - Building in Stone: a brief introduction to the development of the use of stone as a building material in the Netherlands between 1000 and 1400 AD.6. Per Cornell and Adriana Velázquez Morlet - Time, Built Space and the Question of the Household in the Case of Ecab, Quintana Roo, Mexico: Maya Settlement Organization in the Late Postclassic period.7. Gunilla Gardelin - Reuse in wooden architecture.8. Antoinette Huijbers - Re-assembling domestic environments: A relational–habitus approach in studying the individuality, commonalities, continuity and change of medieval buildings.9. Sarah Kerr - Ambition and Architecture: a study of medieval lodging ranges.10. Linda Qviström - Windows and light in medieval buildings on Gotland.11. Miriam Steinborn - The hidden world behind simple structures.12. Göran Tagesson - Poor Widow Catharina Bergstedt, What Now? On Houses, Gender and Agency in Early Modern Swedish Towns.13. Liz Thomas - St Joseph’s Church – the peoples’ heartland.Biography of the authors

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Book SynopsisBetween 2002 and 2014 MOLA Northampton carried out evaluation and excavation work over an area of approximately 49.65ha ahead of mineral extraction for the quarry at the Manor Pit, Baston, Lincolnshire. The earliest activity dated to the Neolithic with the first occupation dating to the early Bronze Age, but it was within the middle Bronze Age that significant occupation took place within the site. Part of a large co-axial field system was recorded over an area approximately c800m long and up to 310m wide. Cropmarks and the results from other archaeological excavations suggest the field system continued beyond Manor Pit for c4km and was up to 1km wide. The field system was a well-planned pastoral farming landscape at a scale suggesting that cattle and other animals were being farmed for mass trade. The site was reoccupied in the early 2nd century AD when two adjacent Roman settlements were established. One of the settlements was arranged along a routeway which led from the Car Dyke whilst the other settlement connected to this routeway by a long straight boundary. In both settlements there were a series of fields/enclosures situated in a largely open environment, with some evidence for cultivation, areas of wet ground and stands of trees. Well/watering holes lay within these enclosures and fields indicating that stock management was a key component of the local economy. In the later medieval period a trackway ran across the site, associated with which was a small enclosure, which perhaps contained fowl. During the early post-medieval period the land was subject to a final period of enclosure, with a series of small rectilinear fields established aligned with Baston Outgang Road, forming the basis of the current landscape.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Project background Location, topography and geology Cropmarks and archaeological excavations Previous site investigations within Baston Manor Pit Excavation areas 2006-2014 Methodology Site phasing Chapter 2 Archaeological results Period 1, earlier prehistoric activity Period 2, early to middle Bronze Age Period 3, Roman settlement and boundary (2nd to 4th centuries) Period 4, medieval and post-medieval land use Undated features Chapter 3 Finds Worked flint – Yvonne Wolframm-Murray Prehistoric pottery – Sarah Percival Roman pottery – Margaret Darling, Ian Rowlandson and H G Fiske with samian reports by Felicity C Wild and Gwladys Monteil Writing on pottery vessels – R S O Tomlin Medieval and post-medieval pottery – Paul Blinkhorn Coins – Ian Meadows and Paul Clements Small finds - Tora Hylton with a report on a Bronze Age knife by Matthew G Knight Middle Bronze Age loomweights – Pat Chapman Querns – Andy Chapman Slag – Andy Chapman Ceramic tile and brick – Pat Chapman Stone – Pat Chapman Fired clay – Pat Chapman Roman glass – Claire Finn Worked wood – Michael Bamford with identifications to taxa by Steve Allen Radiocarbon dates – Rob Atkins Chapter 4 Environmental evidence and human and faunal remains Human skeletal remains – Helen Webb and Chris Chinnock The mammal, bird and amphibian bones – Philip L Armitage Environmental evidence from the southern excavation area and the far western part of the northern excavation area (BMP06-08) – Enid Allison, Lucy Allott, Robert Batchelor, Alex Brown and John Giorgi Environmental evidence from the northern excavation area (BMP09-14) – Val Fryer Chapter 5 Discussion Period 1: Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Period 2.1 Early Bronze Age Period 2.2 Middle Bronze Age Period 3: Roman Period 4: Medieval Period 5: Post-medieval Bibliography

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Book SynopsisEurASEAA14: Material Culture and Heritage is the second of two volumes comprising papers originally presented at the EurASEAA14 (European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists) conference in 2012, updated for publication. The aim of the EurASEAA is to facilitate communication between different disciplines, to present current work in the field, and to stimulate future research. This international initiative aims to foster international scholarly cooperation in the field of Southeast Asian archaeology, art history and philology. This volume focuses substantially on topics under the broad themes of archaeology and heritage, material culture, environmental archaeology, osteoarchaeology, historic and prehistoric archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, and long-distance contact, trade and exchange.Table of ContentsEditorial introduction to EurASEAA14 Volumes 1 and 2 – Helen Lewis ; Ceramics from the Musi riverbed – John N. Miksic ; The social dynamics of porcelain trade in the eleventh to sixteenth centuries CE Philippines: a chemical composition study – Rory Dennison and Laura Junker ; The kilns of Myinkaba – for pottery or glass? – Don Hein and W. Ross H. Ramsay ; The iron smelting technology of the Bujang Valley, Malaysia – Naizatul Akma Mokhtar and Mokhtar Saidin ; Guide to understanding Khmer stoneware characteristics, Angkor, Cambodia – Chhay Rachna, Tho Thon and Em Socheata ; New data on the chronology of Khmer stonewares – Armand Desbat ; The conical rollers of Ban Non Wat, northeastern Thailand – Christina Sewall ; Late Pleistocene/Holocene ecological and cultural transition in the Philippines – Jonathan H. Kress ; Middle Pleistocene sites in Bukit Bunuh, Lenggong, Perak, Malaysia – Nor Khairunnisa Talib, Mokhtar Saidin and Jeffrey Abdullah ; Metabolism, mythology, magic or metaphor? Animals in the rock art of Thailand – Lauren Winch ; Tooth blackening and betel nut chewing at the Early Iron Age sites of Gò Ô Chùa (Vietnam) and Prohear (Cambodia) – Simone Krais, Michael Francken and Andreas Reinecke ; The cultural and biological context of the Song Keplek 5 specimen, East Java: implications for living conditions and human-environment interactions during the later Holocene – Sofwan Noerwidi, Harry Widianto and Truman Simanjuntak ; Probable prehistoric Southeast Asian influences in New Guinea? New archaeological and anthropological approaches to former axioms – Henry Dosedla ; Ancient settlement in the lakes area of East Java Province, Indonesia: the potential for archaeological research with public benefits – Gunadi Kasnowihardjo ; The relevance of archaeology to contemporary concerns: the Department of Agriculture of the Philippines and ancient foodways – Michelle S. Eusebio ; Toward an understanding of cultural heritage and sustainable management: a case study from Phrae Province, Thailand – Mizuho Ikeda ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBefore/After explores various aspects related to transformation and change in the Roman and Late Antique world through the archaeological and historical evidence. The seven chapters of the volume range from the evolution of settlement patterns to spatial re-configuration after abandonment processes. Geographically the volume aims to cover – through case studies – the enlarged Roman world from Spain, to Cyprus, from the Rhine area borderland to the Red Sea. The book is the result of a workshop organized as part of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, held in Rome during March 2016.Trade ReviewThe volume succeeds in its stated aim of collecting ‘precise analysis of specific case studies’ (p. vi) and is an important reminder that close study of the available data is key to understanding the causes of change, both on local and on regional scales. -- Hallvard R Indgjerd * The Classical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction (Editors) ; Crisis or Transformation: the Effects of the ‘Third Century Crisis’ in the Layetania Interior. An Example from the Hispania Citerior Tarraconensis – J. O. Guzman ; The Abandonment of Myos Hormos – D. Nappo ; Hydrological Change and Settlement Dislocation along the Later Roman Rhine – T. V. Franconi ; Abandoned but not forgotten. Dynamics of Authority Negotiation in the British Sacred Landscape – A. Esposito ; Contesting Sacred Landscapes: Continuity and Abandonment in Roman Cyprus – G. Papantoniou ; Abandonment and Revival between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Facts and Fiction – A. Vionis ; Investigating Transformations through Archaeological Records in the Heart of Tuscany. The Roman Villa at Aiano between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (4th-7th c. AD) – M. Cavalieri

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Book SynopsisProcopius’ History of the Wars, and the Strategikon offer important aspects of Eastern Roman military tactical changes adopted against their enemies that brought the mounted archer-lancer to domineer in the synthesis of the army, along with concise descriptions of their training, panoply, and effectiveness in the battlefield during the later ProtoByzantine period. Yet, evidence in the archaeo-anthropological records of these highly specialized military members has remained elusive. A recent archaeological discovery at the strategically positioned, upland, site of Paliokastro in Thasos island, Greece, and the subsequent study of the human skeletal remains interred in four monumental funerary contexts, in a dedicated naiskos building, provide for the first time through the archaeological record of the region a unique insight of the mounted archers and their female kin during the turbulent ProtoByzantine period. The interdisciplinary study of the anthropological materials focusing on skeletal developmental, acquired skeleto-muscular manifestations and skeleto-anatomical changes recovered valuable evidentiary data on aspects of their in vivo long-term training and preparation, traumatisms and pathologies along with extraordinary traces of cranial and infra-cranial surgical interventions and medical regimens by the hands of a most experienced surgeon. In conjunction with the archaeological and anthropological evidence, historical and medical history records are integrated aiming toward a nexus with the human dynamics that transpired at Paliokastro within the context of the catastrophic consequences of the ‘barbarian’ invasions in the Aegean Thraco-Macedonia, and the ravages afforded by the Justinian plague during the later component of the ProtoByzantine period.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; The archaeological site, finds, relative dating, project overview ; The anthropological record and aspects of burial practices ; Taphonomy and Skeletal Preservation ; Analysis of Anthropological Material ; Dental Anthropology ; Reconstructions of ante mortem kinetics indicative of habitual/occupational tasks ; Palaeopathology of trauma cases and the footprint of an experienced physician-surgeon ; Precedents in early Greek, and Roman medical history for the treatment on limb fractures ; Palaeopathological assessments of infectious complications ; About the physician-surgeon, the Ιητρείον, and the context of Paliokastro ; Paliokastro (the old fort) and the aim for the prosopography of its female and male riders ; Mounted archers of Paliokastro ; Historical references on the Roman army and the ProtoByzantine mounted archer/lancer ; Reflections on archery, and the type and capacity of bows and arrows used by the Roman mounted archer in battle versus these of the ‘barbarian’ enemies ; Historical references on Roman enemies and their invasions in the region of Thasos: Antae, Avars, Bulgars, Huns, Sclaveni, Kutrigurs ; Historical references on barbarian raids and their consequences in Thrace and Macedonia ; Towards a chronology of events for the harassment of Thasos by enemy incursions ; Archaeological evidence of catastrophic events in Thasos during the ProtoByzantine period ; Aiming towards concluding remarks on the ProtoByzantine ‘Paliokastrétes’ ; The case study of the Wounded Caballarius’ head/neck pathology, the ways of the cranial surgery and trephination, and few palaeopathological reflections ; Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisExcavations at Chester: the northern and eastern Roman extramural settlements presents the results of fifteen archaeological investigations carried out within the canabae to the north and east of the Roman legionary fortress at Chester between 1990 and 2019. The results demonstrate that there was sparse development of the canabae to the north of the fortress during the 1st and 2nd centuries; instead, this area was predominantly used for the extraction of building materials⁠ – sandstone and clay. By the 3rd century, the final phase of usage took the form of a small cemetery, the first to be examined in this area. Subject to more constraints, the sites investigated within the eastern canabae close to the fortress produced limited evidence for urban plot divisions, whilst those further east provided evidence for the division and management of agricultural land forming the prata legionis.Trade Review'This is a lucid and business-like report on developer-funded digs in the northern and eastern environs of the legionary fortress at Chester. It brings together work by various archaeological contractors, an initiative of synthesis to be applauded, and complements recent publication of work south and west of the fortress.' -- Nick Hodgson * Current Archaeology, Issue 370 *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ; Acknowledgements ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: 51–57 Upper Northgate Street 2015 (Site 1) ; Chapter 3: Liverpool Road 2018 (Site 2) ; Chapter 4: Delamere Street 2009 (Site 3) ; Chapter 5: Gorse Stacks 2009 (Site 4) ; Chapter 6: George Street School 2013 (Site 5) ; Chapter 7: Gorse Stacks Bus Interchange 2015–16 (Site 6) ; Chapter 8: 54–60 Foregate Street 2009 (Site 7) ; Chapter 9: 83–89 Foregate Street 2017 (Site 8) ; Chapter 10: 105–109 Foregate Street 1992–93 (Site 9) ; Chapter 11: Grosvenor Park Road 2000–19 (Site 10) ; Chapter 12: The Bars (south) 1990 and 1998 (Site 11) ; Chapter 13: The Bars (south) 2002 (Site 12) ; Chapter 14: The Bars (north) 2002 (Site 13) ; Chapter 15: Dee Hills Park 2002–03 (Site 14) ; Chapter 16: Boughton Retail Centre 2012-13 (Site 15) ; Chapter 17: Discussion ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBurials and Society in Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Ireland describes and analyses the increasing complexity of later Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age burial in Ireland, using burial complexity as a proxy for increasing social complexity, and as a tool for examining social structure. The book commences with a discussion of theoretical approaches to the study of burials in both anthropology and archaeology and continues with a summary of the archaeological and environmental background to the Irish Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. Then a set of criteria for identifying different types of social organisation is proposed, before an in-depth examination of the radiocarbon chronology of Irish Single Burials, which leads to a multifaceted statistical analysis of the Single Burial Tradition burial utilising descriptive and multivariate statistical approaches. A chronological model of the Irish Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age is then presented which provides the basis for a discussion of increasing burial and social complexity in Ireland over this period, proposing an evolution from an egalitarian society in the later Chalcolithic Period through to a prestige goods chiefdom emerging around 1900 BC. It is suggested that the decline of copper production at Ross Island, Co. Cork after 2000 BC may have led to a ‘copper crisis’ which would have been a profoundly disrupting event, destroying the influence of copper miners and shifting power to copper workers, and those who controlled them. This would have provided a stimulus towards the centralisation of power and the emergence of a ranked social hierarchy. The effects of this ‘copper crisis’ would have been felt in Britain also, where much Ross Island copper was consumed and may have led to similar developments, with the emergence of the Wessex Culture a similar response in Britain to the same stimulus.Trade Review'This book is a rich source of data, with every possible aspect of burials being analysed, supported by extensive distribution maps, tables, and graphs. This means that it makes a significant contribution to our understanding of prehistoric Ireland and will be essential reading for anyone studying that period, but it is not a book for the casual reader.' – Dr Duncan Berryman (2021): Ulster Archaeological Society NewsletterTable of ContentsForeword and acknowledgements ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: Theoretical Approaches to the study of Death, Funerary Rituals and Social Structure ; Chapter 3: Ireland in the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age ; Chapter 4: Methodology ; Chapter 5: Radiocarbon Dating the Single Burial Tradition ; Chapter 6: Analysis ; Chapter 7: Analysing Complexity in the Irish Single Burial Tradition ; Chapter 8: Discussion ; Chapter 9: Conclusions ; Chapter 10: Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe MegaGeo project, under the direction of the late Rui Boaventura, aimed to analyse the raw material economy in the construction of megalithic tombs in multiple territories, showing the representation of several prehistoric communities that raised them and their relationship with the surrounding areas. Following the meeting of the previous year, it was decided to hold Mega-Talks 2, which brought together national and international experts who have developed work related to Megalithism and Geology, in its various perspectives, from the funerary depositions to the raw material construction of the tombs, as indicators of mobility and interaction with the surrounding physical environment. Megaliths and Geology: Megálitos e Geologia presents contributions from Mega-Talks 2, held in Redondo, Portugal, on 19-20 November 2015.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Megaliths and Geology: a journey through monuments, landscapes and peoples ; Moving megaliths in the Neolithic - a multi analytical case study of dolmens in Freixo-Redondo (Alentejo, Portugal). – Rui Boaventura, Patrícia Moita, Jorge Pedro, Rui Mataloto, Luis Almeida, Pedro Nogueira, Jaime Máximo, André Pereira, José Francisco Santos & Sara Ribeiro ; Funerary megalithism in the south of Beira Interior: architectures, spoils and cultural sequences. – João Luís Cardoso ; A look at Proença-a-Nova’s Megalithism (Beira Baixa Intermunicipal Community, UNESCO Global Geopark Naturtejo, Portugal). – João Caninas, Francisco Henriques, Mário Monteiro, Paulo Félix, Carlos Neto de Carvalho, André Pereira, Fernando Robles Henriques, Cátia Mendes & Emanuel Carvalho ; From matter to essence. Sourcing raw materials for the votive artefacts of the megalithic communities in Ribeira da Seda (North Alentejo, Portugal): a preliminary approach. – Marco António Andrade ; Construction materials of the monuments of Los Llanetes group, El Pozuelo cemetery (Huelva, Spain). Selection, exploitation and provenance of stone blocks. – José Antonio Linares Catela ; An approach to the Megalithic Architectures in the Douro Basin: some chrono-ypological remarks and examples about the use of different lithologies. – Cristina Tejedor-Rodríguez & Manuel Ángel Rojo-Guerra ; Geology, Landscape and Meaning in the Megalithic Monuments of Western and Northern Europe. – Chris Scarre ; Long-distance landscapes: from quarries to monument at Stonehenge. – Mike Parker Pearson, Richard Bevins, Rob Ixer, Joshua Pollard, Colin Richards & Kate Welham ; Raw material and work force in Falbygden passage graves. Identity, competition and social dynamic. – Karl-Göran Sjögren

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Book SynopsisHenry Hunter Calvert died at his family house at Çannakale in 1880 a few months after escaping from the rioting in Alexandria where he was British consul. The consulate was sacked and his collections destroyed. He had however sent an annotated list of his Greek amphora stamps to the British Museum, presumably to Charles Newton, with whom he and his brother Frank had frequent correspondence. This list was forgotten until the present writer ‘found’ it in a box-file in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (its title at the time). Henry Hunter Calvert’s Collection of Amphora Stamps and that of Sidney Smith Saunders publicly presents that material.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Catalogue ; Baetica ; Brindisi ; Thasos ; Chios ; Kos ; Knidos ; Rhodes ; Pamphylia ; Egypt ; Comment ; Kos and Knidos ; Rhodes ; Unprovenanced ; Index of names ; Rhodian seconday stamps ; Symbols (Rhodian unless otherwise stated) ; Plates ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA total area of 3.1ha, taking in much of a settlement largely of the earlier Middle Iron Age (c.450 to c.150BC), was excavated in 1998 in advance of development. Two small pit groups, radiocarbon dated to the Middle Bronze Age, produced a bronze dagger and a small pottery assemblage. The Iron Age settlement comprised several groups of roundhouse ring ditches and associated small enclosures forming an open settlement set alongside a linear boundary ditch. Its origin lay in the 5th century BC with a single small roundhouse group. Through the 4th and 3rd centuries BC the settlement expanded with the original structures replaced by a principal roundhouse group accompanied by at least a further two groups of roundhouses and enclosures and minor outlying structures. A group of structures and enclosures set apart from the main domestic area was the focus for copper alloy casting, producing an assemblage of crucibles and fragments from investment moulds for the production of horse fittings, as well as bone, antler and horn working debris. The site also produced good assemblages of pottery and animal bone, an assemblage of saddle querns and a potin coin. The settlement had been abandoned by the middle of the 2nd century BC, although the main boundary ditch survived at least as an earthwork. By the early 1st century AD a series of ditched enclosures were created to the north of the boundary ditch, perhaps a small ladder settlement, which fell out of use soon after the Roman conquest. One enclosure contained two small roundhouses and other curvilinear gullies may have formed animal pens in the corners of two enclosures. This final phase is dated by some Late Iron Age pottery, an Iron Age and a Roman rotary quern, and a small quantity of Roman roof tile. The discussion considers the physical, social and economic structure of the settlement. The distribution of finds around the ring ditches is examined as well as the size of enclosed roundhouses. There is an overview of the Iron Age roundhouse in the Midlands, using well preserved sites as exemplars for the range of evidence that can survive. A typology and chronology for Iron Age pottery is provided, and the date of introduction of the rotary quern is discussed, and the consequent effect on the size of storage jars is examined. Middle Bronze Age pits and a small cremation cemetery, and Late Iron Age to early Roman settlement on the site of the nearby deserted medieval village of Coton are also described. With contributions by Trevor Anderson, Paul Blinkhorn, Pat Chapman, Steve Critchley, Karen Deighton, Tora Hylton, Dennis Jackson, Ivan Mack, Anthony Maull, Gerry McDonnell, Matthew Ponting and Jane Timby. Illustrations by Andy Chapman, Pat Walsh and Mark Roughley.Trade Review'This well produced, extensively illustrated volume provides a significant contribution to Iron Age studies in the Midlands and is also an appropriate tribute to Andy Chapman’s involvement in the archaeology of the region over a long period.' -- Phil Andrews * The Prehistoric Society *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: Neolithic and Bronze Age activity ; Chapter 3: The Iron Age settlement: chronology and development ; Chapter 4: The Iron Age settlement: structural evidence – Andy Chapman and Pat Chapman ; Chapter 5: The Iron Age pottery – Paul Blinkhorn, Dennis Jackson and Andy Chapman ; Chapter 6: The copper alloy working debris – Andy Chapman and Matthew Ponting ; Chapter 7: Other finds – Pat Chapman and Andy Chapman with Ivan Mack, Gerry McDonnell, Steve Critchley and Karen Deighton ; Chapter 8: Animal Bone and Environmental Evidence – Karen Deighton and Rowena Gale ; Chapter 9: The medieval field system and modern field drains ; Chapter 10: Discussion ; Chapter 11: Prehistoric and early Roman activity at Coton medieval village – Anthony Maull and Andy Chapman ; Bibliography

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