{"title":"Oxbow Books","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"resistance-at-the-edge-of-empires-the-archaeology-and-history-of-the-bannu-basin-from-1000-bc-to-ad-1200-9781785703034","title":"Resistance at the Edge of Empires: The","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 1985 to 2001, the collaborative research initiative known as the Bannu Archaeological Project conducted archaeological explorations and excavations in the Bannu region, in what was then the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. This Project involves scholars from the Pakistan Heritage Society, the British Museum, the Institute of Archaeology (UCL), Bryn Mawr College and the University of Cambridge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the third in a series of volumes that present the final reports of the exploration and excavations carried out by the Bannu Archaeological Project. This volume presents the first synthesis of the archaeology of the historic periods in the Bannu region, spanning the period when the first large scale empires expanded to the borders of South Asia up until the arrival of Islam in the subcontinent at the end of the first and beginning of the second millennium BC. The Bannu region provides specific insight into early imperialism in South Asia, as throughout this protracted period, it was able to maintain a distinctive regional identity in the face of recurring phases of imperial expansion and integration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. At the edge of empires: the Bannu basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 2. Environment and settlement in the Bannu basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 3. Historical context of the Bannu basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 4. Empire and resistance in the borderlands from 1000 BC to AD 1200 5. The Bannu Archaeological Project excavations at Akra and Ter Kala Dheri 6. Ceramics from Akra: raw materials and fabrics 7. Ceramics of the first millennium BC from Akra 8. Ceramics of the first and early second millennium AD from Akra 9. Small finds from Akra 10. Chronology of Akra and Ter Kala Dheri 11. Resistance at the edge of empires: the Bannu basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 Index ","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48868337025367,"sku":"9781785703034","price":72.18,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785703034.jpg?v=1722287551"},{"product_id":"iron-age-and-roman-coin-hoards-in-britain-9781785708558","title":"Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore coin hoards have been recorded from Roman Britain than from any other province of the Empire. This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume provides a survey of over 3260 hoards of Iron Age and Roman coins found in England and Wales with a detailed analysis and discussion.Theories of hoarding and deposition and examined, national and regional patterns in the landscape settings of coin hoards presented, together with an analysis of those hoards whose findspots were surveyed and of those hoards found in archaeological excavations. It also includes an unprecedented examination of the containers in which coin hoards were buried and the objects found with them. The patterns of hoarding in Britain from the late 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD are discussed. The volume also provides a survey of Britain in the 3rd century AD, as a peak of over 700 hoards are known from the period from AD 253–296. This has been a particular focus of the project which has been a collaborative research project between the University of Leicester and the British Museum funded by the AHRC. The aim has been to understand the reasons behind the burial and non-recovery of these finds. A comprehensive online database (https:\/\/finds.org.uk\/database) underpins the project, which also undertook a comprehensive GIS analysis of all the hoards and field surveys of a sample of them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe online database is here analysed with informative maps, diagrams and tables, seeking answers to what, when, where and why. * British Archaeology *\u003cbr\u003eFilled with maps, graphs, and imagies of both spectacular and not-so-spectacular hoards, this is clearly an ambitious piece of work and should be considerd essential reading for anyone interested in the phenomenon. * Current Archaeology *\u003cbr\u003eAltogether the work is an exceptional illustration of the successes that digital approaches to the ancient world can produce. Bland, Chadwick, Ghey, and Haselgrove deserve the highest praise for their contributions to hoard studies and for advancing understanding of the complexities of Iron Age and Roman Britain. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *\u003cbr\u003eThe presentation is excellent and the treatment of the subject is comprehensive and exhaustive...sets a model for other studies from other periods and for this alone the team who have produced this volume are to be thanked and congratulated. * Archaeologia Cambrensis - Cambrian Archaeological Association *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword 1. Introduction 2. Overview and analysis of the dataset 3. Theories of Hoarding and Deposition 4. National and regional patterns in the landscape settings of coin hoards 5. Analysis of excavated hoards 6. Coin hoards as archaeological objects: material and context 7. Coin hoards and society: chronological syntheses 8. Coin hoards and society: debating the third century: crisis or continuity? 9. Summary and conclusionsBibliographyIndex","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48868337058135,"sku":"9781785708558","price":77.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785708558.jpg?v=1722287551"},{"product_id":"new-light-on-the-neolithic-of-northern-england-9781789252668","title":"New Light on the Neolithic of Northern England","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese papers highlight recent archaeological work in Northern England, in the commercial, academic and community archaeology sectors, which have fundamentally changed our perspective on the Neolithic of the area. Much of this was new work (and much is still not published) and has been overlooked in the national discourse. The papers cover a wide geographical area, from Lancashire north into the Scottish Lowlands, recognising the irrelevance of the England\/Scotland Border. They also take a broad chronological sweep, from the Mesolithic\/Neolithic transition to the introduction of Beakers into the area.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe key themes are: the nature of transition; the need for a much-improved chronological framework; regional variation linked to landscape character; links within northern England and with distant places; the implications of new dating for our understanding of the axe trade; the changing nature of settlement and agriculture; the character of early Neolithic enclosures; and the need to integrate rock art into wider discourse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe authors, editors and contributors are to be congratulated and commended on bringing these excellent volumes to publication. * Antiquity *\u003cbr\u003eThis fine volume … [is] a fine counterbalance to the biases at the very core of the historical narrative of the Neolithic in Britain. * Archaeological Journal *\u003cbr\u003eUntil recently, archaeologists took a broad-brush, sometimes ignoring local and regional nuances, so it is refreshing that Hey, Frodsham, and their team look at the Neolithic in terms of a northern tradition … The editors have skilfully integrated the academic, commercial and community sectors to provide a multi-interpretive approach to this dynamic period … This book is a much-needed addition to the Neolithic bookshelf and will be a useful reference for ongoing and future research. * Current Archaeology *\u003cbr\u003eThis book, like the 2016 conference in Carlisle from which it derives, is an explicit bid to sing the glories of stone axe quarries, rock art, stone circles and other landscape features which proclaim the intense regionality of Britain’s earliest farming communities. * British Archaeology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of contributors List of figures List of tables and appendices Introduction \u003cem\u003eGill Hey and Paul Frodsham\u003c\/em\u003e Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Langdale and the Northern Neolithic \u003cem\u003eRichard Bradley and Aaron Watson\u003c\/em\u003e Chapter 2: Stainton West: a Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic Site on the Banks of the River Eden \u003cem\u003eFraser Brown\u003c\/em\u003e Chapter 3: The last hunter of a wise race: evidence for Neolithic practices in northern England \u003cem\u003eSeren Griffiths\u003c\/em\u003e Chapter 4: ‘\u003cem\u003eWeird and atypical, even degenerate\u003c\/em\u003e’… or then again, maybe not? 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The key to this incredible accomplishment and to the survival of structures in the hostile environment of the sea for two thousand years was maritime concrete, a building material invented and then employed by Roman builders on a grand scale to construct harbor installations anywhere they were needed, rather than only in locations with advantageous geography or topography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book explains how the Romans built so successfully in the sea with their new invention. The story is a stimulating mix of archaeological, geological, historical and chemical research, with relevance to both ancient and modern technology. It also breaks new ground in bridging the gap between science and the humanities by integrating analytical materials science, history, and archaeology, along with underwater exploration. 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The Dyer's Handbook concerns a unique manuscript from the eighteenth century; a dyers memoirs from Languedoc, containing recipes for dyes with corresponding colour samples. It is an exceptional document, hugely rare and of great significance not only to textile historians but dyers and colourists today, as thanks to the information in the manuscript the colours can be reproduced exactly, with the same ingredients, or reproduced using modern techniques by matching the colour samples. To the English translation of the text, together with facsimile pages reproduced in colour from the original manuscript, are added essays meant to situate it in its historical, economic and technological contexts. For those historians who have long been fascinated by the change in scale and the amount of innovation that occurred in woollen cloth production in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries, The Dyer's Handbook brings first-hand insight into the daily preoccupations and tasks of a key actor in the success story of the Languedocian broadcloth production specially devised for export to the Levant. Even non-specialists may be interested in understanding the clever management and technical organisation that made it possible for the author to produce, dye, finish, pack and export up to 1,375 pieces of superfine broadcloth per year, representing nearly 51 km of cloth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e...the author of the memoirs emerges as a highly competent and innovative dyer, for he created new colourways, and managed a successful manufacturing business. His ability to record accurately his recipes in one place and that the manuscript was preserved until the time Cardon became acquainted with it and brought it to our attention is like finding treasure. * Journal of Dress History *","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48868478091607,"sku":"9781789255492","price":28.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789255492.jpg?v=1722288231"},{"product_id":"growing-up-in-the-ice-age-fossil-and-archaeological-evidence-of-the-lived-lives-of-plio-pleistocene-children-9781789252941","title":"Growing Up in the Ice Age: Fossil and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2023 European Association of Archaeology Book of the Year Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn prehistoric societies children comprised 40-65% of the population, yet by default, our ancestral landscapes are peopled by adults who hunt, gather, fish, knap tools and make art. 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[…] It was the most important work to have been published on Norse magic when I first read it in 2002. In this second, revised and expanded edition, Price sets the benchmark for research on the Viking Way for at least another twenty years. * Time \u0026amp; Mind: the Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture. *\u003cbr\u003eThe Viking Way is a precious and detailed handbook in every respect […] the book is a first-rank culture history of the Vikings. * Shaman *\u003cbr\u003ePrice’s easy-to-read writing style allows the study to clearly present and explain an assortment of complicated subject matters, which in turn makes these intricate topics more accessible for a varied audience […] Ultimately, this book remains one of the most influential studies on the Viking Age… * Kyngervi *\u003cbr\u003eIn summary, readers will be pleased by this new edition in that it largely preserves the much sought-after first edition while simultaneously updating some pieces of information and adding over 500 new references to relevant works published since the first edition, some new photographs and illustrations, and an index. * Journal of English and Germanic Philology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of figures and tables Abbreviations Preface and acknowledgements to the first edition Preface and acknowledgements to the second edition A note on language A note on seid 1. Different Vikings? Towards a cognitive archaeology of the later Iron Age A beginning at Birka Textual archaeology and the Iron Age The Other and the Odd? An archaeology of the Viking mind? 2. Problems and paradigms in the study of Old Norse sorcery Entering the mythology Research perspectives on Scandinavian pre-Christian religion Gods and monsters, worship and superstition The shape of Old Norse religion The double world: \u003cem\u003eseiðr\u003c\/em\u003e and the problem of Old Norse ‘magic’ \u003cem\u003eSeiðr\u003c\/em\u003e in the sources \u003cem\u003eSeiðr\u003c\/em\u003e in research 3. \u003cem\u003eSeiðr\u003c\/em\u003e Óðinn Freyja and the magic of the Vanir \u003cem\u003eSeiðr\u003c\/em\u003e and Old Norse cosmology The performers The performance Engendering \u003cem\u003eseiðr\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eSeiðr\u003c\/em\u003e and the concept of the soul The domestic sphere of \u003cem\u003eseiðr\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eSeiðr\u003c\/em\u003e contextualised 4. \u003cem\u003eNoaidevuohta\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eSeiðr\u003c\/em\u003e and the Sámi Sámi-Norse relations in the Viking Age Sámi religion and the Drum-Time Rydving’s terminology of \u003cem\u003enoaidevuohta\u003c\/em\u003e Women and \u003cem\u003enoaidevuohta\u003c\/em\u003e The rituals of \u003cem\u003enoaidevuohta\u003c\/em\u003e The ethnicity of religious context in Viking-Age Scandinavia 5. Circumpolar religion and the question of Old Norse shamanism The circumpolar cultures and the invention of shamanism The shamanic world-view Shamanism in Scandinavia \u003cem\u003eSeiðr\u003c\/em\u003e and circumpolar shamanism 6. The supernatural empowerment of aggression \u003cem\u003eSeiðr\u003c\/em\u003e and the world of war \u003cem\u003eValkyrjur,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eskaldmeyjar \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e hjálmvitr\u003c\/em\u003e Supernatural agency in battle The projection of destruction Battle magic \u003cem\u003eSeiðr\u003c\/em\u003e and the shifting of shape \u003cem\u003eBerserkir\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eulfheðnar\u003c\/em\u003e Ecstasy, psychic dislocation and the dynamics of mass violence Weaving war, grinding battle: \u003cem\u003eDarraðarljóð\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGrottas˛ongr\u003c\/em\u003e in context 7. The Viking way A reality in stories Viking women, Viking men 8. Magic and mind Receptions and reactions Cracks in the ice of Norse ‘religion’ Walking into the \u003cem\u003eseiðr\u003c\/em\u003e: contested interpretations of Viking-Age magic Queering magic? The social world of war The Viking mind: a conclusion References Primary sources, including translations Pre-nineteenth-century sources for the early Sámi and Siberian cultures Secondary sources Sources in archive Index","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48868661887319,"sku":"9781842172605","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781842172605.jpg?v=1722289117"},{"product_id":"english-orchards-a-landscape-history-9781914427190","title":"English Orchards: A Landscape History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOld orchards have an irresistible appeal. Their ancient trees and obscure fruit varieties seem to provide a direct link with the lost rural world of our ancestors, a time when the pace of life was slower and people had a strong and intimate connection with their local environment. They are also of critical importance for sustaining biodiversity, providing habitats, in particular, for a range of rare invertebrates. Not surprisingly, orchards and the fruit they contain have attracted an increasing amount of attention over the last few decades, from both enthusiastic bands of amateurs and official conservation bodies. But much of what has been written about them is historically vague, romanticised and nostalgic. Orchards have become a symbol of unspoilt, picturesque rural England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book attempts, for the first time, to provide a comprehensive review of the development of orchards in England from the Middle Ages to the present day. 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It fully deserves the wide readership that it will doubtless receive. * Worcestershire Recorder *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements List of Illustrations 1. Introducing Orchards 2. Types of Orchard: Farmhouse and Commercial 3. Types of Orchard: Gardens and Institutions 4. The Orchard Countries: Western England 5. The Orchard Countries: South-East England 6. The Orchard Countries: East Anglia and the Fens 7. The Recent History of Orchards 8. Studying Old Orchards 9. The Importance of Orchards: Biodiversity 10. The Importance of Orchards: Culture and History 11. 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The fighting that marked this event barely compares to the massive campaigns and terrible carnage that marked the conflict that was taking place in the eastern states but it was a significant event at the opening on the ensuing Indian Wars. Operating on terrain they knew well, Cheyenne warriors and other Native forces encountered the US Cavalry who operated within a modern network of long distance migration and pony express trails and military stations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe North Platte Campaign offers a good basis for the application of landscape approaches to conflict archaeology if only because of its scale. This fighting is both easily approached and fascinatingly encompassed. There were probably far fewer than 1000 fighters involved in those skirmishes, but before, after, and between them, they involved substantial movements of people and of equipment that was similar to the arms and gear in service to other Civil War era combatants. They also seem to have used approaches that were typical of America’s western warfare. Like many of the conflicts of interest to modern observers, the North Platte fights were between cultural different opponents. Archaeological consideration of battlefields such as Rush Creek and Mud Springs, bases, and landscapes associated with this fighting expose how the combat developed and how the opposing forces dealt with the challenges they encountered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis study draws on techniques of battlefield archaeology, focusing on the concept of ‘battlespace’ and the recovery, distribution and analysis of artifacts and weaponry, as well as historical accounts of the participants, LiDAR-informed terrain assessment, and theoretical consideration of the strategic thinking of the combatants. 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This question has been asked in biblical scholarship since its origin as a modern science. The desire to resolve the question scientifically was a key component in the funding of archaeological excavations in the nineteenth century. Egyptian archaeologists routinely equated sites with their presumed biblical counterpart. Initially, it was taken for granted that the Exodus had occurred. It was simply a matter of finding the archaeological data to prove it. So far, those results have been for naught.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Exodus: An Egyptian Story \u003c\/em\u003etakes a very real-world approach to understanding the Exodus. It is not a story of cosmic spectaculars that miraculously or coincidentally occurred when a people prepared to leave Egypt. There are no special effects in the telling of this story. 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Landscape scale survey and excavation enables the dating of trackways using spatial relationships with dated features and many examples indicate long-term continuity of routeways. Where fields flank routeways a range of methods, including scientific approaches, provide dates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrehistorians have often assumed that Ridgeways provided the main axes of early movement but there is little evidence for their early origins and rather better evidence for early routes crossing topography and providing connections between different environmental zones. The book concludes with a case study of the Weald of South East England which demonstrates that some axes of cross topographic movement used as droveways, and generally considered as early medieval, can be shown to be of prehistoric origin. One reason that dryland routes have proved difficult to recognise is that insufficient attention has been paid to the parts played by riverine and maritime longer distance communication. It is argued that understanding the origins of the paths we use today contributes to appreciation of the distinctive qualities of landscapes. Appreciation will help to bring about effective strategies for conservation of mutual benefit to people and wildlife by maintaining and enhancing corridors of connectivity between different landscape zones including fragmented nature reserves and valued places. In these ways an understanding of past routeways can contribute to sustainable landscapes, communities and quality of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[…] this important book […] could not be more topical. * British Archaeology *\u003cbr\u003eThere is a good deal of novel thought and synthesis in this essentially stall-setting book; a research agenda that will intrigue many. * Northern Earth *\u003cbr\u003eIt’s incredibly wide ranging, detailed and thorough. All the things I’d hoped to read about were there in spades along with an entire tranche of evidence and opinions that were new to me and kept me happily turning pages, right to the end. I’d definitely advise this book for anyone with an interest in prehistory. * The Prehistoric Society *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an interesting and incredibly readable book examining the physical environmental evidence for the most basic of human needs, subsistence mobility and community interaction. The text is supported by well-chosen illustrations, it is extremely well-referenced and though descriptive in parts, it is critical throughout and delivers much food for thought. * Archaeologia Cambrensis - Cambrian Archaeological Association *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables List of Supplementary Tables (on WWW) Chapter 1: Steps towards understanding: routeways in practice, theory and life Chapter 2 Walks in the temperate rainforest: developing concepts of niche construction and linear environmental manipulation Chapter 3 Niche construction and place making: hunter-gatherer routeways in north west Europe Chapter 4 Footprints of people and animals as evidence of mobility Chapter 5 Early farmers: mobility, site location and antecedent activities Chapter 6 Wetland trackways and communication Chapter 7 Barrow alignments as clues to Bronze Age routes Chapter 8 Trackways in later prehistoric agricultural landscapes Chapter 9 Maritime and riverine connectivity: the allure of the exotic Chapter 10 A case study of the Wealden District in South East England Chapter 11 Conclusions: why routes matter Bibliography Index","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084407251287,"sku":"9781789254020","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789254020.jpg?v=1725552059"},{"product_id":"ecology-of-a-tool-the-ground-stone-axes-of-irian-jaya-indonesia-9781789253863","title":"Ecology of a Tool: The ground stone axes of Irian","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew Guinea, and especially Papua New Guinea, is the last country in the world where ethnologists were able to closely observe, film and photograph the whole manufacturing chaînes opératoires of polished stone felling tools, from quarry extraction to finished tool use. Research on the polished blades of PNG has evolved over the years, following changing philosophies and research agendas. While it is clear that an exceptional sum of information has been gathered, it remains centered on that small part of the Highlands where conditions for field research were more pleasant than elsewhere. Our presentation of Irian Jaya axes therefore tackles a topic that remains mostly unexplored. Until now, stone tool research in New Guinea has followed an anthropocentric approach, in which tools are seen more as vectors for social exchanges than as means of acting on the environment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis monograph will take a different approach. Here, polished stone blades are placed at the center of the world, between, on one side, the transformed natural environment, and, on the other, the social and economic environment. This approach will allow us to suggest new avenues of inference in archaeology, as well as to test and abandon existing ones.In this volume, the stone blade is considered as a living being, existing in balance within its biotope. This idea is not far removed from the beliefs of Irian Jaya farmers, for whom life animates certain objects of their material culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing a brief presentation of Irian Jaya, we will describe the function of polished stone blades in Irian Jaya societies and the distribution of hafting styles, define and study the quarrying zones and the areas of diffusion and use of their production, and, if possible, the different trends noted in each area of polished blade production and exchanges. Finally, we will conclude with a discussion of the ethnoarchaeological potential of these contemporary observations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Preface (by Polly Wiessner) Introduction Foreword to the English edition 1. Polished stone blades as means of social and technical reproduction 1.1. An island open to global economies 1.2. Raw material determinisms 1.3. Axes and Adzes 2. The Yeleme quarries (Kp. Paniai) and the polished blades of Central Irian Jaya 2.1. Rocks from the upper Ye-I River 2.2. The Wang-Kob-Me quarry 2.3. The Brahire quarry in Ye-Ineri 2.4. Blocks from the bed of the Ye-I River 2.5. From roughout to axe in Wano country 2.6. The Axe Trail 2.7. Accessing roughouts: the Yamo Dani perspective 2.8. From roughout to axe among the Yamo Dani 2.9. The expansion of the Western Dani and the acceleration of exchanges 2.10. The Baliem and the realm of adzes 2.11. Axes and adzes, the prestige of stone blades 2.12. Partners and strangers: the limitation of exchanges 3. Material and social techniques of the Dani: black rocks and greenschists 3.1. The black rocks of Gomburu (Kp. Paniai) 3.2. The black rocks of Tagi (Kp. Jayawijaya) 3.3. Black rock axes and sacred objects 3.4. The quarries of Awigobi and greenschist blades 3.5. Ye-yao, the exchange axes 4. Adzes of the Eastern Highlands (Kp. Jayawijaya) 4.1. From rock to adze in Langda 4.2. Stone blade production in the Phu Valley and the westward expansion of adzes 4.3. Yamyhl, Red Digul and the Seashell Trail 5. Ormu-Wari and the Lowland axes 5.1. The Mumugo Valley and schist axes 5.2. Ormu and marriage axes 6. The polished blades of Irian Jaya, a synthesis 6.1. A shared background: the balance between natural environment, modes of subsistence and population density 6.2. Rocks and types of sources 6.3. Quarry access and the social context of quarrying 6.4. Quarrying techniques 6.5. Duration of the quarrying events 6.6. From rock to polished blade: segmentation of the chaîne opératoire 6.7. Shaping roughouts: raw material determinisms 6.8. Manufacture and specialization 6.9. Polishing and polishing stones 6.10. Axes and adzes 6.11. Intensity of polishing 6.12. Length of the stone blades 6.13. Handles for felling tools 6.14. Circulation of the blades 6.15. Stone blades for the living 7. Postface","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084407284055,"sku":"9781789253863","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789253863.jpg?v=1725552056"},{"product_id":"current-approaches-to-tells-in-the-prehistoric-old-world-9781789254860","title":"Current Approaches to Tells in the Prehistoric","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeeply stratified settlements are a distinctive site type featuring prominently in diverse later prehistoric landscapes of the Old World. Their massive materiality has attracted the curiosity of lay people and archaeologists alike. Nowadays a wide variety of archaeological projects are tracking the lifestyles and social practices that led to the building-up of such superimposed artificial hills. However, prehistoric tell-dwelling communities are too often approached from narrow local perspectives or discussed within strict time- and culture-specific debates. There is a great potential to learn from such ubiquitous archaeological manifestations as the physical outcome of cross-cutting dynamics and comparable underlying forces irrespective of time and space. This volume tackles tells and tell-like sites as a transversal phenomenon whose commonalities and divergences are poorly understood yet may benefit from cross-cultural comparison. Thus, the book intends to assemble a representative range of ongoing theory – and science –based fieldwork projects targeting this kind of sites. With the aim of encompassing a variety of social and material dynamics, the volume’s scope is diachronic – from the Earliest Neolithic up to the Iron Age–, and covers a very large region, from Iberia in Western Europe to Syria in the Middle East. The core of the volume comprises a selection of the most remarkable contributions to the session with a similar title celebrated in the European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting held at Barcelona in 2018. In addition, the book includes invited chapters to round out underrepresented areas and periods in the EAA session with relevant research programmes in the Old World. To accomplish such a cross-cultural course, the book takes a case-based approach, with contributions disparate both in their theoretical foundations – from household archaeology, social agency and formation theory – and their research strategies – including geophysical survey, microarchaeology and high-resolution excavation and dating.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Introduction: Learning from Prehistoric Tells by Antonio Blanco-González and Tobias L. Kienlin Chapter 2. 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Results of a Research Project by Florin Gogâltan, Alexandra Găvan, Marian A. Lie, Gruia Fazecaș, Cristina Cordoș and Tobias L. Kienlin Chapter 7. Talking Trash. Reconstructing Activities, Discard and Abandonment at Late Bronze Age Tell Sabi Abyad (Syria) by Victor Klinkenberg Chapter 8. Domesticаtion of Tells: Settlements of the First Farmers in Pelagonia (Macedonia) by Goce Naumov Chapter 9. Tells (and Flat Sites) as Social Agents: A View from Neolithic Greece by Stella Souvatzi Chapter 10. Human Activities on a Late Neolithic Tell-like Settlement Complex of the Hungarian Plain (Öcsöd-Kováshalom) by András Füzesi, Knut Rassmann, Eszter Bánffy and Pál Raczky Chapter 11. The Practice of Everyday Life on a European Bronze Age tell: Reflections from Százhalombatta-Földvár (Hungary) by Joanna Sofaer, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Magdolna Vicze Chapter 12. Social Life on Bronze Age Tells. Outline of a Practice-oriented Approach by Tobias L. Kienlin Chapter 13. Architecture, Power and Everyday Life in the Iron Age of North-eastern Iberia. Research from 1985 to 2019 on the Tell-like Fortress of Els Vilars (Arbeca, Lleida, Spain) by Joan B. López, Emili Junyent and Natàlia Alonso Chapter 14. Then, Now, to Come – A Commentary by John Chapman","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084407349591,"sku":"9781789254860","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789254860.jpg?v=1725552056"},{"product_id":"monumentalising-life-in-the-neolithic-narratives-of-change-and-continuity-9781789254945","title":"Monumentalising Life in the Neolithic: Narratives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the principal characteristics of the European Neolithic is the development of monumentality in association with innovations in material culture and changes in subsistence from hunting and gathering to farming and pastoralism. The papers in this volume discuss the latest insights into why monumental architecture became an integral part of early farming societies in Europe and beyond. 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An ethnographic study of megaliths in Nagaland discuss monument building as an act of social construction. Other studies look into the role of monuments as expressions of cosmology and active loci of ceremonial performances. Also, a couple of papers analyse the social processes in the transformation of society in the aftermath of the initial boom in monument construction and the related changes in subsistence and social structure in northern Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe aim of the publication is to explore different theories about the relationship between monumentality and the Neolithic way of life through these studies encompassing a wide range of types of monuments over vast areas of Europe and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Gebauer, A. B., Sørensen, L., Teather, A. \u0026amp; A. C. Valera. List of contributors. 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Some comments about the special buildings of Göbekli Tepe in relation to chapter 2 and 3\u003c\/em\u003e Chapter. 6. \u003cem\u003eResponse to comments by Ian Hodder and Christian Jeunesse by Trevor Watkins\u003c\/em\u003e Chapter. 7. \u003cem\u003eResponse to comments by Ian Hodder and Christian Jeunesse by Lee Clare and Moriz Kinzel with notes on a potential Upper Mesopotamian “Late PPNA Hunter-Crisis”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMonuments and social change\u003c\/strong\u003e Chapter. 8. Sørensen, L. \u003cem\u003eMonuments and social stratification within the early Funnel Beaker Culture in South Scandinavia\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e Chapter. 9. Behrens, A. \u003cem\u003eDo Hundreds of megalithic monuments signify a full Neolithic way of life? The establishment of Neolithic societies on Rügen Island, Germany\u003c\/em\u003e Chapter. 10. Brozio, J. P. \u003cem\u003eFrom hierarchies in balance to social imbalance - transformation processes in the later Funnel Beaker north societies in the western Baltic Sea region (3100-2900 BCE)\u003c\/em\u003e Chapter. 11. Müller, J., J. P. Brozio, W. Dörfler and W. Kirleis \u003cem\u003eNarratives of third millennium transformations: new biographies of Neolithic societies, landscapes and monuments\u003c\/em\u003e Chapter. 12. Nobles, G. \u003cem\u003eSettling the Monumental Issue in the Dutch Wetlands\u003c\/em\u003e Chapter. 13. Wunderlich, M. \u003cem\u003eCelebrating stones – Megalith building traditions among Angami-Naga, Northeast-India\u003c\/em\u003e Chapter. 14. Wadskjær, A.V. \u0026amp; G. Hjortlund \u003cem\u003eMegalithic structures and settlements in the Valley of Posic, Amazonas, Northern Peru\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFunerary monuments\u003c\/strong\u003e Chapter. 15. Larsson, L. \u003cem\u003eStones as Boundaries – Stones as Markers. 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Interpretation of this material is often considered in terms of whether such acts should be considered ritual offerings, or functional acts for storing, scrapping and recycling the metal. This book approaches this debate from a fresh perspective, by focusing on how the metalwork was destroyed and deposited as a means to understand the reasons behind the process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo achieve this, this study draws on experimental archaeology, as well as developing a framework for assessing what can be considered deliberate destruction. Understanding these processes not only helps us to recognise how destruction happened, but also gives us insights into the individuals involved in these practices. Through an examination of metalwork from south-west Britain, it is possible to observe the complexities involved at a localised level in the acts of destruction and deposition, as well as how they were linked to people and places. 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Each inscription is presented in the original (in Latin, except for eight in Greek), followed by a translation and informal commentary; they are linked by the narrative which they illustrate, and more than half (236) are accompanied by photographs. All Latin terms in the narrative and commentary are translated and explained. The author demonstrates his unrivalled ability to read and understand Roman inscriptions and their importance as a source of historical knowledge. They are treated by chronology or theme in 14 chapters. The first eight take the narrative from Claudius’ invasion (AD 43) to the death of the last emperor to attempt the conquest of Britain, Septimius Severus (AD 211). The next four cover the general themes of soldier and civilian, economy and society, government, religion. 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The reach of power of Winchester was felt throughout England and into the Continent through the relationships of the bishops, the power fluctuations of the Norman period, the pursuit of arts and history writing, the reach of the city’s saints, and more. The essays contained in this volume present early medieval Winchester not as a city alone, but a city emmeshed in wider political, social, and cultural movements and, in many cases, providing examples of authority and power that are representative of early medieval England as a whole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[T]his volume is a stimulating and insightful collection. * Medieval Archaeology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditors' Preface List of Contributors List of Illustrations 1. 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The main examples are taken from the Neolithic and Iron Age periods, but this account also draws on the archaeology of the first millennium AD. The book emphasises the importance of comparing archaeological sequences with one another rather than identifying ideal social types. 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It combines centuries of search and speculation about human antiquity in Ireland with a review of what is known today about the Irish Mesolithic. This is, in part, provided in the context of the author's 50 years of personal experience searching to make sense of what initially appeared to be little more than a collection of beach rolled and battered flint tools.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story is embedded in how the island of Ireland, its position, distinct landscape and ecology impacted on when and how Ireland was colonised. It also explores how these first settlers evolved their technologies and lifeways to suit the narrow range of abundant resources that were available.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume concludes with discussions on how the landscape should be searched for the often ephemeral traces of these early settlers and how sites should be excavated. 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Life, death, the universe and everything Bibliography","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084407939415,"sku":"9781789256888","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789256888.jpg?v=1725552058"},{"product_id":"roman-butrint-an-assessment-9781789257335","title":"Roman Butrint: An Assessment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eButrint, ancient Buthrotum , has taken many forms in different ages, shaped by the near-constant interaction between the place, its lagoonal landscape and the Mediterranean. Though Butrint does not appear on any of the records of early Greek colonisation to identify it as a Corcyrean settlement, strong links must have existed between it and the metropolitan Corinthian colony of Corfu. Blessed with springs that possessed healing qualities, a small polis was created - extended to incorporate a healing sanctuary dedicated to Asclepius. Julius Caesar, harbouring at Butrint in urgent need of supplies to sustain his struggle against Pompey, must have viewed the sanctuary, ringed by largely dried-out marshland, as the perfect site to settle veterans as a colony. It was an obvious cornerstone in controlling the passage from the Adriatic to the Aegean. The early settlers seem to have been limited in number and possibly mainly of civilian status. However, the political changes to the city's magistrature were immediate, and within a relatively short time-span fundamental changes to the physical make-up of the city were set in motion. 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Roman religion and its sacralised places are presented in macro-, meso- and micro-spaces of a dynamic empire, which shaped Roman religion in the 1st-3rd centuries AD and created a large number of religious glocalizations and appropriations in Raetia, Noricum, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Moesia Superior, Moesia Inferior and Dacia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining the methodological approaches of Roman provincial archaeology and religious studies, this work intends to provoke a dialogue between disciplines rarely used together in central-east Europe and beyond. The material evidence of Roman religion is interpreted here as a dynamic agent in religious communication, shaped by macro-spaces, extra-provincial routes, commercial networks, but also by the formation and constant dynamics of small group religions interconnected within this region through human and material mobilities. 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Cultural processes on how value is attached to things, and how value is re-established, are still little understood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe case studies in this volume, originating from anthropology and archaeology, provide innovative and differentiated answers to these questions. However, for all contributions there are some common basic assumptions. One of these concerns the understanding that it is rarely the value of the material itself that matters for high valuation, but rather the appreciation of the (assumed or constructed) origin of certain objects or their connection with certain social structures. A second of these shared insights addresses the ubiquity of phenomena of 'value in things'. There is no society without valued objects. As a rule, valuation is something negotiated or even disputed. Value arises through social action, whereby it is always necessary to ask anew which actors are interested in the value of certain objects (or in their appreciation). 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Selective and misleading this vision may be, but it speaks to the continuing importance these ancient cities have had in the centuries that followed and the extent to which they define the period in subsequent memory. Although there is much that is mysterious about them, the cities of the Roman Mediterranean are, for the most part, historically known. That the names and pasts of these cities remain known to us is the product of an extraordinary process of remembering and forgetting stretching back to antiquity that took place throughout the former Roman world. 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Focusing on a well-preserved 14th-century pottery production centre which was excavated in 2006 at Highhays, outside the walls of the renowned Anglo-Norman town of Kilkenny in south-east Ireland, the authors describe its kiln, workshops and working areas, as well as its ‘Highhays Ware’ products: jugs, jars, cooking-pots, money-boxes and ridge tiles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForemost amongst the outputs from the kiln site were high-quality, wheel-thrown, green-glazed jugs that were closely modelled on French Saintonge and Bristol Redcliffe archetypes and the volume describes the distinctive processes, kiln-firing technology and raw materials that were employed to produce these, and the other wares, represented on the site. The book also presents the results of an innovative plasma spectrometry and petrological analysis of Highhays Ware, which facilitated identification of the source for the raw potting clays areas – located at a considerable distance from Highhays in north county Kilkenny – used in its production, in addition to allowing for a study of the uncharacteristically broad distribution of the ware throughout the south-east of Ireland. The authors also place the production of pottery at Highhays in its broader context by presenting an overall review of the archaeological and historical evidence for pottery making and consumption in medieval Ireland, as well as by exploring the cultural background and social status of potters in the Anglo-Norman colony. Supporting the analysis and interpretation of the Highhays site and its assemblage are specialist and scientific contributions on the pottery, tiles, ceramic production material, metal finds, coins and archaeobotanical and animal bone remains from the site, archaeomagnetic and radiocarbon dating and plasma spectrometry and petrological analysis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is well illustrated throughout and provides an informative overview of Medieval Kilkenny * Ulster Archaeological Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements List of figures List of tables Authors and contributors Note on conventions Archaeological excavation archive Abbreviations Preface Foreword Summary 1. Introduction, by Emma Devine and Cóilín Ó Drisceoil 2. The pottery production centre excavations (Area 1, Period 1), by Emma Devine, Cóilín Ó Drisceoil and Niamh Curtin 3. Bake-yard excavations (Area 2, Period 1), abandonment and subsequent land-use (Areas 1 and 2, Periods 2 and 3), by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil 4. The products of the Highhays pottery, by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Clare McCutcheon and Joanna Wren 5. Highhays Ware, a provenance and distribution study, by Niamh Curtin, Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Michael J. Hughes and Richard Unitt 6. Non-ceramic finds, by Órla Scully, Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Joe Norton, Jimmy Lenehan and Paul Rondelez 7. Archaeobotanical and charcoal analysis, by Mary Dillon and Ingelise Stuijts 8. Highhays and the archaeology of medieval pottery production and town suburbs in Ireland, by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Bibliography Appendix 1: Archaeomagnetic dating of the pottery kiln at Highhays, Kilkenny, by Vassil Karloukovski and Mark W. Hounslow Appendix 2: Radiocarbon dates Appendix 3: Post-medieval pottery, by Clare McCutcheon Appendix 4: Post-medieval clay building material, by Joanna Wren Appendix 5: Animal bone, by Karin Ilseth Appendix 6: Disarticulated human remains, by Karin Ilseth","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084408398167,"sku":"9781789258530","price":73.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789258530.jpg?v=1725552061"},{"product_id":"clachtoll-an-iron-age-broch-settlement-in-assynt-north-west-scotland-9781789258479","title":"Clachtoll: An Iron Age Broch Settlement in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClachtoll broch is one of the most spectacular Iron Age settlements on the northern mainland of Scotland. When it became clear that the structure was threatened by coastal erosion, community heritage group Historic Assynt launched a major programme of conservation and excavation works designed to secure the vulnerable structure and recover the archaeological evidence of its occupation and use. The resulting excavation provided evidence of a long and complex history of construction and rebuilding, with the final, middle Iron Age occupation phase ending in a catastrophic fire and collapse of the tower by the early years of the first century AD. The internal deposits span perhaps 50 years of the broch’s final occupation and were remarkably well preserved, with no evidence for secondary re-use or disturbance after the fire. As a result, the excavation provides a remarkable snapshot of life in Iron Age Scotland, with an artefact assemblage attesting to daily agricultural life as well as long-range contacts that sets the broch within a wider Atlantic community. 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Utilising data from a variety of sources, including the 'Istanbul Rescue Archaeology Project', created to record material threatened with destruction, the analysis proposes a new model of Byzantine Constantinople. A range of themes are explored including social, economic and cognitive development, Byzantine perceptions of the city, the consequences of imperial ideology, and the impact of 'self-organization' brought about by many minor decisions. \u003cem\u003eConstantinople \u003c\/em\u003ecasts new light on the transformation of an ancient Roman capital to an Orthodox Christian holy city and will be of great importance to archaeologists and historians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSubstantially packaged with sensible and informative generalisation, above all in the history of archaeology in Istanbul, and in the explanation of the project’s methodology. These introductory sections are worth reading for their own sake. 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In order to uncover such processes of hybridisation, contributors to this volume were encouraged to focus on the historical, archaeological and numismatic material from several areas within the region, and to incorporate aspects of interdisciplinary methodologies in order to address the region’s military, political, social and economic interconnections with Italy, Rome and each other within the overall period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of contributors Introduction: The Agency of Integration and Connectivity in the North-Western Mediterranean \u003cem\u003eToni Ñaco del Hoyo, Jordi Principal and Mike Dobson\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eROME, ITALY AND THE WEST\u003c\/strong\u003e 1. Rome and the Western Mediterranean (150–70 BC): Empire and War \u003cem\u003eFrançois Cadiou\u003c\/em\u003e 2. Non-Roman Coins in Italy: the Influence of Western Connections (3rd–1st Centuries BC) \u003cem\u003eMarleen K. 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Rome and the Political Dimension of Piracy in the North-Western Mediterranean \u003cem\u003eAlfonso Álvarez-Ossorio \u003c\/em\u003e 19. Between Traders and Pirates. Connectivity in the Balearic Islands from the Second Punic War to the Mid-First Century BC \u003cem\u003eBartomeu Vallori-Márquez \u003c\/em\u003e 20. Rome and the North–Western Mediterranean: Ports-of-Call and Sea Routes \u003cem\u003eGerard Cabezas-Guzmán and Gerard R. Ventós \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eEPILOGUE\u003c\/strong\u003e 21. The Roman and Italian Economic Diaspora as a Factor of Connectivity between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean, 150–70 BC \u003cem\u003eSophia Zoumbaki and Michalis Karambinis \u003c\/em\u003e 22. A Message in a Bottle Crossing the North-Western Mediterranean \u003cem\u003eJordi Principal and Toni Ñaco del Hoyo \u003c\/em\u003e Index","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084408562007,"sku":"9781789257175","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789257175.jpg?v=1725552062"},{"product_id":"sacred-nature-animism-and-materiality-in-ancient-religions-9781789259179","title":"Sacred Nature: Animism and Materiality in Ancient","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSacred Nature: Animism and Materiality in Ancient Religions\u003c\/em\u003e is the second volume of the series Material Religion in Antiquity (MaReA). The book collects the proceedings of the international online workshop carrying the same title organized by CAMNES, SoRS on 20–21 May 2021. 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