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British School at Athens Knossos From First to Second Palace
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the pottery from a series of deposits excavated by Sir Arthur Evans in the palace at Knossos and assigned by him to the last part of the Middle Bronze Age or Middle Minoan III. The substantial architectural modifications seen in this period are examined along with stratigraphy to give proper context to the pottery deposits. Middle Minoan III was the time when Knossos appeared to expand its reach across Crete: from the First Palace Period, when palaces at Malia and Phaistos rivalled Knossos, to the Second Palace Period, when seemingly they diminished and other smaller palaces were built. These changes unfolded over the course of the Middle Minoan III period, divided by Evans into two sub-phases, MM IIIA and MM IIIB. He used many palatial deposits to define these phases. However, he did not present the pottery, stratigraphy and architecture in full, leading eventually to some ambiguity over the status of the period. This detailed study revisits more than a dozen of t
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Alan Godfrey Maps South Shields 1895 Tyneside Sheet 9 Old Ordnance
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Alan Godfrey Maps Sheffield 1903 Y29408a Old OS Maps of Yorkshire
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Crecy Publishing Evader
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Crecy Publishing Faith Hope and Charity
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Crecy Publishing If the Gods are Good The Story of HMS Jervis Bays
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Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies The Emperor Neros Pottery and Tilery at Little
Book SynopsisPreviously suspected on the basis of a tile stamped with the name and titles of the Emperor Nero found alongside other brick and tile in the ploughsoil, excavation of two tile kilns at Little London near Silchester, Hampshire confirmed production during the reign of Nero.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION (Michael Fulford) CHAPTER 2. THE GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY (Neil Linford, Paul Linford and Andrew Payne) CHAPTER 3. THE EXCAVATIONS (Nicholas Pankhurst and Daniel Wheeler with Michael Fulford) CHAPTER 4. THE POTTERY (Jane Timby with Joanna Bird and Roger Tomlin) CHAPTER 5. THE CERAMIC BUILDING MATERIAL (Sara Machin with Michael Fulford) CHAPTER 6. WOOD CHARCOAL ANALYSIS: EVIDENCE FOR SITE ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT (Catherine Barnett) CHAPTER 7. THE CHARRED PLANT REMAINS (Lisa Lodwick) CHAPTER 8. LITTLE LONDON AND SILCHESTER INSULA IX: RADIOCARBON DATING AND CHRONOLOGICAL MODELLING (Derek Hamilton) CHAPTER 9. ARCHAEOMAGNETIC INVESTIGATION OF TWO FIRED FEATURES AT LITTLE LONDON (David P. Greenwood, Sam E. Harris and Catherine M. Batt) CHAPTER 10. CONCLUDING DISCUSSION (Michael Fulford) THE APPENDICES APPENDIX 1. THE NERO TILE-STAMPS FROM LITTLE LONDON AND SILCHESTER (Peter Warry) APPENDIX 2. OTHER FINDS (Michael Fulford and Nina Crummy) APPENDIX 3. AGE OF ROUNDWOOD WHEN CUT (Catherine Barnett) APPENDIX 4. CALIBRATED AGE RANGES USING THE UK ARCHAEOMAGNETIC CALIBRATED CURVE (David P. Greenwood, Sam E. Harris and Catherine M. Batt) APPENDIX 5. AN INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOMAGNETIC DATING (David P. Greenwood, Sam E. Harris and Catherine M. Batt)
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Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies Silchester Insula IX
Book SynopsisSilchester (Calleva) experienced major disruption in the late first century A.D. as the Iron Age oppidum was transformed into the Roman city responsible for the administration of the civitas of the Atrebates. Aligned on the cardinal points, a rectilinear street grid was laid across the settlement replacing the late Iron Age network of streets and lanes oriented north-west/south-east and north-east/south-west. While the pre-existing property boundaries within Insula IX were retained there was a total re-build within them. The excavated area contained one complete property and fragments of three of its neighbours. Rather than conform to the new grid all the buildings were constructed at 45 degrees to it, reasserting the late Iron Age orientations. The timber-framed buildings within the complete property consisted of a row of three a rectangular kitchen, a town-house and a roundhouse separated by a yard from a re-built taberna, also diagonal to the street on which it fronted. The surgic
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Synergetic Press Inc.,U.S. Psychedelic Justice
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Eland Publishing Ltd Lords of the Atlas The Rise and Fall of the House
Book Synopsisthe greatest Moroccan travel book of all time:vital reading for the new upmarket Marrakesh tourism - one of the bibles of British twentieth-century Orientalism - by the author of A Ring of Bright Water - describes the extraordinary medieval nature of Morocco in the twentieth century, focussing on a family who combined the lethal elegance of gangland mobsters with the opulent charm of hereditary Indian princes, fed by a monopoly in drugs and prostitution - a perennial classic for the backlist which will sell and sell - POS material available
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Eland Publishing Ltd Journey into the Minds Eye
Book SynopsisLesley Blanch was four when the mysterious Traveller first blew into her nursery, swathed in Siberian furs and full of the fairytales of Russia. She was twenty when he swept out of her life, leaving her love-lorn and in the grips of a passionate obsession. The search to recapture the love of her life, and the Russia he had planted within her, takes her to Siberia and beyond, journeying deep into the romantic terrain of the mind's eye. Part travel book, part love story, Lesley Blanch's Journey into the Mind's Eye is pure intoxication.
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Eland Publishing Ltd A Square of Sky A Jewish Childhood in Wartime
Book SynopsisAt the age of nine Janina David was leading a sheltered life with her prosperous Jewish family in Poland. One year later they were all facing starvation in the Warsaw ghetto. In her memoirs of a wartime childhood Janina David describes the family's struggle against insurmountable odds. When it became clear that none of them was likely to survive, the thirteen-year-old girl was smuggled out of the ghetto to live with family friends - a Polish woman and her German-born husband. When their home became too dangerous, she was sent with false identity papers to a Catholic convent, where she lived in constant fear of being discovered.Trade Review"impossible to put down" Caroline Moorhead"
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Eland Publishing Ltd Warriors Life and Death Among the Somalis
Book SynopsisDuring the war, Gerald Hanley spent several years in the remote and scorching deserts of Somalia. The rigours of living in such heat, and the difficulties of attempting to control blood-feuding nomads, led to the suicide of seven fellow-officers. Despite these problems, Gerald Hanley writes with great affection for the local clans, an affection that is untainted by sentimentality. Of all the races of Africa, there cannot be one better to live among than the most difficult, the proudest, the bravest, the vainest, the most merciless, the friendliest: the Somalis.Trade Review"the foremost writer of his generation" Ernest Hemmingway"
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University of Pennsylvania Press Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
Book SynopsisThis stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excavation and preservation of these magnificent artifacts.Many of the objects are published in color and fully described for the first time—jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones, engraved seal stones, spectacular gold and lapis lazuli statuettes and musical instruments; and vessels of gold, silver, and alabaster. Curator Richard Zettler sets the stage with a history of Ur in the third millennium and the details of the actual excavations. Art historians Donald Hansen and Holly Pittman discuss the historical importance and significance of the many motifs on the most spectacular finds from the tombs.Table of ContentsEarly dynastic Mesopotamia / by Richard L. Zettler -- Ur of the Chaldees / by Richard L. Zettler -- The royal tombs of Ur / by Richard L. Zettler, with a contribution by Steve Tinney -- The burials of a king and queen / by Richard L. Zettler, with a contribution by Paul Zimmerman -- Art of the royal tombs of Ur : a brief interpretation / by Donald P. Hansen -- Cylinder seals / by Holly Pittman -- Jewelry / by Holly Pittman -- Metal vessels / by Jill A. Weber and Richard L. Zettler -- Stone vessels / by Richard L. Zettler -- Shell containers / by Kevin Dante and Richard L. Zettler -- Tools and weapons / by Jill A. Weber and Richard L. Zettler.
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Adventures Unlimited Press Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South
Book SynopsisThe author describes his travels in South America and shares his views on the Nazca lines, Machu Picchu, Cuzco, and archaeological theories about the region and its ruins
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The University of Chicago Press Imaginable Worlds
Book SynopsisA collection of essays offering a creative look at crises past, present, future, and speculative. Starting with the shared experience of crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and a planet sieged by disaster, Imaginable Worlds transforms tragedy into a framework for research and art, imagining a shared world beyond a global experience of emergency. Produced by the Smart Museum of Art and the Projects/Processes essay collection series, an initiative launched by the Serendipity Arts Foundation in New Delhi, this volume brings together the voices of artists, authors, and public intellectuals from a range of fields and locations. Suraj Yengde, named one of the 25 Most Influential Young Indians by GQ Magazine; Siyanda Mohutsiwa, the brain behind the viral hashtag #IfAfricaWasABar; and Ho Tzu Nyen, the acclaimed artist behind the ongoing Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia project, are among the diverse contributors who have come together to critically engage with ideas and pTable of ContentsPessimistic Futures: Black Worlding through Games by Patrick Jagoda and Ashlyn SparrowAssembling in Isolation: The Politics of Virtual Performance in Amitesh Grover’s The Last Poet by Trina Nileena BanerjeeUntitled by Uzodinma Iweala We Are Safe Here by Leticia BernausDalit Art by Suraj YengdeAll Women Are Workers, Not All Work is Waged: Three Tales of Surviving the Pandemic in Puducherry by Meena Kandasamy How to End It: Algeciras to Tangiers, 2019 by Jeet Thayil Texts from the End of the World by Siyanda Mohutsiwa H for Humidity – Keywords for a Project on the History of Water Engineering in Singapore by Tzu Nyen Ho
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The Dovecote Press A Short History of Lyme Regis
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Willow Publishing,Timperley Looking Back at Hulme Moss Side Chorlton on
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Willow Publishing,Timperley Underground Manchester Secrets of the City
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Willow Publishing,Timperley Below Manchester Going Deeper Under the City
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Willow Publishing,Timperley The Battle for Kinder Scout Including the 1932
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Obelisk Publications Mike and Hilary Wrefords Okehampton Collection II
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Oxford University School of Archaeology The Archaeology of Greek Colonisation Essays
Book SynopsisThis collection of eight essays on the archaeology of Greek colonisation, dedicated to Sir John Boardman on the occasion of his retirement, has now been reprinted in paperback. Greek colonisation continues to be a much debated topic among ancient historians and archaeologists of the Mediterranean region.Table of ContentsThe nature and standing of the early western colonies (A M Snodgrass); Precolonisation: early Greek contact with the East (M R Popham); Phoenicians and Greeks in the West: a view from Pithekoussai (D Ridgway); Prospectors and pioneers: Pithekoussai, Kyme and central Italy (J N Coldstream); Massalia and colonization in the north-western Mediterranean (B B Shefton): The foundation of Selinous: overpopulation or opportunities? (F De Angelis); Greek penetration of the Black Sea (G R Tsetskhladze); Settlement for trade and land in North Africa: problems of identity (J Boardman).
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Oxford University School of Archaeology Excavations at Roughground Farm Lechlade
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Newcastle Libraries & Information Service Historic Tales From Newcastle
Book SynopsisNewcastle's colourful and sometimes dramatic history is brought to life in this series of varied tales spanning several hundred years. Including some of the most fascinating accounts from his previous books, Newcastle author and historian Ken Smith presents a selection of truelife stories from the city's stirring past.Table of ContentsA New Castle The Old Tyne Bridge The Keelmen's Hospital The Siege of Newcastle A King Attempts to Escape Breakthrough at the Infirmary The Philanthropist Flooded Mines Icebreakers for Russia The Best Little Fellow Town Moor Racing The John Mawson Tragedy The Geordie Lamp Cholera and Fire Chinese Sailors Battling Engineers Great Exhibitions Earl of Newcastle
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Willow Publishing,Timperley Looking Back at Timperley
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Cotswold Archaeological Trust Ltd Excavations on the Wormington to Tirley Pipeline 2000
Book SynopsisArchaeological work in advance of pipeline construction culminated in excavation at four sites on the Gloucestershire/Worcestershire border by the Carrant Brook and River Isbourne.
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Brown & Whittaker Mull
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Polperro Heritage Press The Smugglers Banker The Story of Zephaniah Job
Book SynopsisThis text reveals the true story of Zephaniah Job, the Cornishman who masterminded the flourishing contraband trade in Polperro during the Napoleonic wars, as well as the privateers whose adventures led to the capture of handsome prizes.Trade Review"This book reveals a great deal about a number of Cornish families. Essential for historians and a delightful insight for visitors and locals alike." Cornish World "Absorbing biography" Western Morning News
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Mark Davison Chessington Remembered
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Mark Davison Tolworth Remembered
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Green Magic Publishing Isle of Avalon
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University of Washington Press Chinese Books
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Mark Davison Surbiton Bombed Second World War Air Raids in
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Mark Davison Kingston in the Fifties Mark Davisons Remembered
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AquaPress Port Royal The Sunken City
Book SynopsisThe true story of the city of Port Royal in Jamaica. In 1692 an earthquake and tidal wave caused the city to sink beneath the sea. Robert F. Marx was one of the men caught up in the legends of buried treasure and this book describes the fulfillment of his childhood dream: a two-and-a-half year exploration of the historic Jamaican port.Trade ReviewIn a month of high quality publications, this engrossing book stands out as something very special indeed. This is one of the most compelling accounts of an archaeological expedition I have ever read. Marx's ability to bring history to life is extraordinary and his account of the dangerous excavations was pure Indiana Jones stuff. DIVE Magazine The author, Robert Marx, is a colourful and controversial character in the archaeological business and not without his critics. He is well known for his treasure-hunting expeditions around the world. Some say he sails close to the wind in his navigation between archaeology and outright treasure hunting. Such a controversial approach inevitably involves dramatic 'adventures' which, while not necessarily gaining universal approval, assure the reader of a fascinating and exciting ride. John Bevan - Underwater Contractor International
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The Museum of Brands The 1930s Scrapbook
Book SynopsisFilled to the brim with images, this scrapbook of the 1930s overflows with nostalgia, for those who remember that extraordinary era. For those who do not, this wealth of imagery provides a vivid insight into a time when sliced bread had just reached the table and Butlin''s holiday camps had recently opened. Life in the 1930s for many was not easy; for others, who had known Victorian times, the pace of change was frightening, and ''modern'' life led to ''nerve tension''. Yet change brought a better standard of living and numerous new products helped the daily routine. Electrical appliances were a boon to housewives without servants, affordable motor cars made access to the countryside easier, new fun included Dinky Toys, Monopoly and a stream of delectable confectionery (Mars bars, KitKat, Black Magic, Cadbury''s Roses). The aluminium milk bottle top made its appearance. Design was memorable for the red telephone kiosk, the Anglepoise lamp and the Underground map - all still in evidence today. The Royal Family went through a turbulent year following the death of George V, when Edward VIII decided he had to abdicate. The speeding motorist was hampered by 30 mph restrictions, and pedestrian crossings were guarded by Belisha beacons. By the end of the 1930s, television held exciting promise for the future, but a growing tension focused on impending war. The 1930s Scrapbook has drawn together the best from the Robert Opie Collection. The images are as bright today as when they were purchased in the shops. Coronation souvenirs, film and fashion magazines, fireworks, comics and Christmas crackers - all survived to tell a remarkable story.
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Atmosphere Publishing A Little Book of Big Cornish Achievements
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Cotswold Archaeological Trust Ltd Cirencester Excavations VI
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the results of a number of excavations undertaken in Cirencester in the last decade which have examined houses, shops, public buildings (including the forum), town defences and cemeteries.Table of ContentsIntroductory Sections: Orpheus and the Hare: Fifty Years of Cirencester Excavation Committee and Cotswold Archaeology, 1958-2008 (Timothy Darvill and Neil Holbrook); A Rich Resource: Studying CirencesterAes Historic Buildings (David Viner); Introduction to the Excavations (Neil Holbrook); The Street System: Bingham Hall, King Street, 2002 (Tim Havard and Martin Watts); The Foresters Arms, Queen Street, 2003-4 (Derek Evans); Other Miscellaneous Observations (Neil Holbrook); Public Buildings: Excavations on the Site of the Forum (Andrew Simmonds and Alex Smith); Excavations in Insula II at Cotswold Mill, 1998-9 (Neil Holbrook and Alan Thomas); The Probable Theatre and Surrounding Area: Observations in 1969 (Peter Grace and Neil Holbrook); Houses and Shops: Excavations at Stepstairs Lane, 2002-3 (Mark Brett and Martin Watts); Investigations by the Time Team in Insula IX, 1999 (Neil Holbrook and Katie Hirst); Observations and Excavation at Cirencester Grammar School, Victoria Road, 1960 (Peter Grace and Neil Holbrook); Other Miscellaneous Investigations; The Town Defences: Excavation and Watching Brief at Cotswold District Council Offices, Trinity Road, 2001-2 (Annette Hancocks, Martin Watts and Neil Holbrook); Evaluation and Watching Brief between School Lane and Stepstairs Lane 2003-5 (Tim Havard, Kate Cullen and Martin Watts); The Western Cemetery: Excavation and Watching Brief along Old Tetbury Road, 2004-6 (Neil Holbrook, E.R. McSloy and Derek Evans); Other Miscellaneous Investigations Beyond the Walls: Evaluation at 157 Watermoor Road, 2000 (Neil Holbrook); Excavation at Queen Elizabeth Road, 1999 (Alistair Barber, Mark Collard and Neil Holbrook); Observations at Stratton Watermeadows, 2003 (Neil Holbrook); Conclusions (Neil Holbrook); References; Index
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Cotswold Archaeological Trust Ltd Medieval and postMedieval Development within Bristols inner suburbs
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the results of four archaeological projects undertaken within the historic suburbs of Bristol. Excavations at nos 2628 and at nos 5560 St Thomas Street were both within the 12th-century planned suburb of Redcliffe, just to the southeast of the medieval city.Table of Contents55-60 St Thomas Street, Redcliffe, Bristol Introduction Excavation Results The Documentary Evidence The Finds The Biological and Geoarchaeological Evidence Discussion Acknowledgements Bibliography 26-28 St Thomas Street, Redcliffe, Bristol Harbourside, Bristol Introduction Results The Finds The Biological Evidence Discussion Acknowledgements Bibliography Cabot House, Deanery Road, Bristol Introduction Results Finds Sumamry The Documentary Evidence Discussion Acknowledgements Bibliography
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Forum Books Ltd Memories of Eden
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SBP Publishing Leeds from the Air Yesterday and Today
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Wagtail Press Old Hexhamshire A Glimpse into the History of the
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UEA Publishing Project Fenwomen A Portrait of Women in an English
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1975, Fenwomen was the first non-fiction book published by Virago. A vivid social and oral history of an isolated village in the Cambridgeshire Fens, it provides a unique portrait, spanning nearly 100 years, via the previously unheard voices of the women who lived there, of a community where there were virtually no professional or middle-class people, where intermarriage was common and a single family owned all the village land. Fenwomen was in a tradition stretching through Ronald Blythe (Akenfield) and 20 years further back to the true pioneer of English oral history, George Ewart Evans, with his publication Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay (1956). In an extended new introduction to this Full Circle edition, Mary Chamberlain ecalls her original intent to write a feminist Akenfield, a history from the bottom up not of great country houses and the chatelaines who ran them but of women as labourers and labourers'' wives. She describes, too, how she revisited the village and talked to some of the original women about how their lives had changed over 35 years.By any measure, this book is essential reading, but in this handsome new edition, with Justin Partyka''s eloquent, unforgettable photographic portraits of Isleham and its people, it is a joy to own - Stephanie Cross, The Lady
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Jake Island Ltd The Lake District Quiz Book The People Places
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Destinworld Publishing Ltd Middlesbrough St Hildas Timelines
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Potingair Press Eros mercator and the cultural landscape of Melos
Book SynopsisThe island of Melos in the Cyclades has a rich archaeology having played an important part in prehistory and throughout history. But owing to its unique geology it is also home to a wide array of rocks and minerals which have been exploited since the first human occupation of the island. This book is about the archaeology of the minerals industries of Melos in antiquity. The localities of their extraction and the type of processing they may have been subject to have been reconstructed on the basis of archaeological evidence. At the site of Aghia Kyriaki, SE Melos, there is evidence for large-scale exploitation of alum in the Late Roman period, its processing in large shallow vessels and packaging into amphorae; there is also evidence for the use of geothermal energy there and in neighbouring Palaeochori Bay; there are phreatic explosions near the sulphur mines at Fyrlingos; finally, there are the egkoila of Melos, the rock-cut cavities carved out of the island's ubiquitous white altereTable of ContentsPrologue. On tradesmen, bath-attendants and men-in-business; 1. Why earths, and why earths now?; 2. Nature's own material culture on Melos; 3. Earths, the name commonly given by all Greeks...; 4. 'A cluster of niches exploited with tenacity and ingenuity...'; 5. On earths and rock-cut features: the SE Melos Survey (SEMS) methodology; 6. Mining, farming and honouring the dead in SE Melos; 7. A tale of two sites; 8. The archaeology of minerals in SE Melos: facts and hypotheses; 9. From mineralogy to microbiology ...via phenomenology, a return journey
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Potingair Press Rhesus Gold Heracles Iron the archaeology of
Book SynopsisEast Macedonia in northern Greece has rich deposits of gold and silver as well as copper and iron ores. The gold and silver were important to Classical Athens and even more so to Alexander the Great's Hellenistic world. Copper was extracted as early as the Late Neolithic, and iron was worked from the Iron Age to Ottoman times. Bringing to life the essential background to this wealth derived from metals, this book looks at the archaeological and archaeometallurgical evidence, some of it very new, for the mining and processing of the ores and the extraction of the metal. The book is written with the visitor to the region very much in mind, taking the reader closer to the landscapes where these practices took place to make sense of silent landscapes' where so much happened at one time but where nature has now taken over the remains of buildings, installations and heaps of waste rendering them mute' and meaningless for all but the expert historian of technology. Written by a native of the Table of Contents1. Rhesos, king of the Thracians and his gold; 2. The Region, its environment and geology; 3. The archaeology and history of the mining and metalworking tradition in NE Greece; 4. The making of iron, silver and gold: some technological principles; 5. Social aspects of metals technology in NE Greece: a holistic interpretation
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