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From the Ancient Greeks to Nietzsche and Derrida, the  dilemma about the relationship between history and memory has  filled many pages, with one important question singled out: is  the writing of history to memory a remedy or a poison? Recently,  a growing interest in and preoccupation with the issue of memory,  remembering and forgetting has resulted in a proliferation of  published works, in various disciplines, that have memory as  their focus. This trend, to which the present volume contributes,  has started to occupy the dominant discourses of disciplines such  as sociology, philosophy, history, anthropology and archaeology,  and has also disseminated into the wider public discourse of  society and culture today. Such a condition may perhaps echo the  phenomenon of a melancholic experience at the turn of the  millennium.      Archaeology and Memory  seeks to examine the diversity of mnemonic systems and their significance in different past  contexts as well as the epistemological and ontological  importance of archaeological practice and narratives in  constituting the human historical condition. The twelve  substantial contributions in this volume cover a diverse set of  regional examples and focus on a range of prehistoric and  classical case studies in Eurasian regional contexts as well as  on the predicaments of memory in examples of the archaeologies of  'contemporary past'. From the Mesolithic and Neolithic burial  chambers to the trenches of World War I and the role of  materiality in international criminal courts, a number of  contributors examine how people in the past have thought about  their own pasts, while others reflect on our own present-day  sensibilities in dealing with the material testimonies of recent  history. 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Archaeology and memory on the Western front (Paola Filippucci)  10. Terra incognita: the material world in international criminal courts (Lindsay Weiss)  11. YugoMuseum: memory, nostalgia, irony (Mrdjan Bajic)  12. Memory, melancholy and materiality (Victor Buchli)","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48742077759831,"sku":"9781842173633","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781842173633.jpg?v=1791478480"},{"product_id":"dictionary-of-classical-mythology-9781782976356","title":"Dictionary of Classical Mythology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJenny March’s acclaimed Dictionary of Classical Mythology, first published in 1998 but long out of print, has been extensively revised and expanded including a completely new set of beautiful line-drawing illustrations for this Oxbow edition. It is a comprehensive A – Z guide to Greek and Roman mythology. All major myths, legends and fables are here, including gods and goddesses, heroes and villains, dangerous women, legendary creatures and monsters. Characters such as Achilles and Odysseus have extensive entries, as do epic journeys and heroic quests, like that of Jason and the Argonauts to win the Golden Fleece, all alongside a plethora of information on the creation of the cosmos, the many metamorphoses of gods and humans, and the Trojan War, plus more minor figures – nymphs, seers, kings, rivers, to name but a few.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this superbly authoritative work the myths are brilliantly retold, along with any major variants, and with extensive translations from ancient authors that give life to the narratives and a sense of the vibrant cultures that shaped the development of classical myth.  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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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume provides a detailed history of the excavation followed by definitive studies of the amphora cargo and the pottery associated with shipboard life. 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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. 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Particular highlights of its sequence are a cremation burial ground and pyre site of the 18th–16th centuries BC and a row of three Late Bronze Age sunken-floored roundhouses constructed in the 10th century BC. Beneath these roundhouses, four inhumation graves contained skeletons, two of which were remains of composite collections of body parts with evidence for post-mortem soft tissue preservation prior to burial. They have proved to be the first evidence for mummification in Bronze Age Britain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCladh Hallan's remarkable stratigraphic sequence, preserved in the machair sand of South Uist, includes a unique 500-year sequence of roundhouse life in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain. 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The book evokes 500 years of settlement development and forms a contextualised basis for understanding the dynamic interplay between the dead and the living. [It] thus makes a highly important contribution to our understanding of Scottish and British later prehistory. * Antiquity *\u003cbr\u003eIt is one of those rare archaeological sites that transform the mundanity of everyday domestic life into something very much extraordinary, generating fascination from academic and lay audiences alike. So, it should come as no surprise that we feel [this volume] on the Bronze Age and Iron Age roundhouses at Cladh Hallan, which are presented in full alongside the buried human remains associated with them, should be very well received by archaeologists and all those interested in the later prehistoric archaeology of Britain … The monograph is also incredibly well illustrated with 575 figures, over 280 of which are in colour … While this volume will immediately appeal to people interested in later prehistoric settlement in Britain, anyone wanting to see a slightly different take on the printed archaeological monograph should also have a look between its covers. * Archaeological Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF FIGURES  LIST OF TABLES  CONTRIBUTORS  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS     1. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Cladh Hallan excavations and their context\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith\u003c\/em\u003e  1.1 The site of Cladh Hallan and its environs  1.2 The Bronze Age to Early Iron Age settlement at Cladh Hallan  1.3 Previous discoveries  1.4 Survey, test excavations and trial-trenching 1988–1996  1.5 The evolving research design  1.6 The 1997–2003 excavations     2. \u003cstrong\u003eBeaker cultivation, Cordoned Urn layers and Early Bronze Age cremation burials (phases 1–3)\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith with contributions by C.A.I. French and H. Manley\u003c\/em\u003e  2.1 Beaker-period cultivation and activity (phase 1)  2.2 Early Bronze Age settlement remains at Cladh Hallan (phase 2)  2.3 The cremation cemetery (phase 3)  2.4  The gully or ditch under Houses 1370 and 401 (phase 3)  2.5 The cremation platform and pyre (phase 3)  2.6 Area B: the stone structure (phase 3)  2.7 Area C: a disturbed inhumation burial (phase 3)  2.8 Conclusion  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson\u003c\/em\u003e      3. \u003cstrong\u003eThe first houses: Late Bronze Age occupation (phases 4–7)\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith with contributions by C.A.I. French, A. Hale and H. Manley\u003c\/em\u003e  3.1 The boat-shaped house (2835; phase 4) and its destruction (phase 5)  3.2 The sheep burial in the north-central zone of Area A (phase 4)  3.3 Ard-marks, a post-built structure and an exploratory pit (phases 5–6)  3.4 The cigar-shaped structure (2477; phase 7)  3.5 The tiny roundhouse (3260; phase 7)  3.6 The pit alignment (phases 6–7)  3.7 Pottery from the pits, Structure 2477 and House 3260 (phases 5–7)  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson\u003c\/em\u003e   3.8 Conclusion  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson\u003c\/em\u003e      4. \u003cstrong\u003eThe construction of the row of roundhouses and digging of the features beneath them (phase 8)\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith with contributions by T. Booth, A. Chamberlain, O. Craig, , J. Evans, J. Hiller, J. Montgomery and C. Willis\u003c\/em\u003e  4.1 Beneath House 801   4.2 Beneath House 401  4.3 Beneath House 1370  4.4 The double pit outside House 1370  4.5 The sub-floor human burials: a summary  4.6 Construction of House 801  4.7 Construction of House 401  4.8 Construction of House 1370  4.9 The pottery  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson\u003c\/em\u003e  4.10 Stratigraphic relationships of the skeletons, their contexts of deposition and the house floors  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson\u003c\/em\u003e  4.11 Conclusion  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson\u003c\/em\u003e     5. \u003cstrong\u003eThe primary occupation of the Late Bronze Age roundhouses (phase 9)\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith with contributions by A. Hale and H. Manley\u003c\/em\u003e  5.1 House 801: the southern roundhouse  5.2 House 401: the middle roundhouse  5.3 House 1370: the northern roundhouse  5.4 The front yard of the settlement  5.5 The area behind the houses (west of House 401)  5.6 Area D: the southern edge of the settlement and House 2049  5.7 Area C: the midden  5.8 The pottery from phase 9  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson\u003c\/em\u003e  5.9 Conclusion  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson\u003c\/em\u003e     6. \u003cstrong\u003eThe sand-blow and the second phase of roundhouse occupation (phase 10)\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith with contributions by A. Hale and H. Manley\u003c\/em\u003e  6.1 The windblown sand  6.2 Gullies, pits and spademarks over the ruins of House 801  6.3 House 2190  6.4 House 401 in phase 10: its second phase of occupation  6.5 House 1370 in phase 10   6.6 Area C: the midden  6.7  The pottery from phase 10  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson\u003c\/em\u003e  6.8 Conclusion  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson\u003c\/em\u003e     7.\u003cstrong\u003e  The third phase of roundhouse occupation (phase 11)\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith with contributions by A. Hale and H. Manley\u003c\/em\u003e  7.1 Round the back: above the ruins of House 801 and west of House 401  7.2 House 401 in phase 11: its third phase of occupation  7.3 The end of House 1370  7.4 The pottery from phase 11  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson\u003c\/em\u003e  7.5 Conclusion  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson\u003c\/em\u003e     8. \u003cstrong\u003eA single roundhouse at the bronze–iron transition (phase 12)\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith with contributions by A. Hale, H. Manley and J. Peto\u003c\/em\u003e  8.1 The southern end of Area A: above House 2190 and the deep windblown sand layer  8.2 House 401 in phase 12: its fourth phase of occupation\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e  8.3 The later use of the areas to the front and rear of House 401  8.4 The northern part of the settlement  8.5 The pottery from phase 12  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson \u003c\/em\u003e  8.6 Conclusion   \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson \u003c\/em\u003e     9. \u003cstrong\u003eThe single roundhouse into the Iron Age (phase 13)\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith with contributions by A. Hale and H. Manley\u003c\/em\u003e  9.1 House 401in phase 13: its fifth phase of occupation  9.2 After abandonment  9.3 The pottery from phase 13  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson \u003c\/em\u003e  9.4 Conclusion   \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson \u003c\/em\u003e     10. \u003cstrong\u003eThe double roundhouse in Area C (phases 13–16)\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson, J. Mulville and H. Smith \u003c\/em\u003e  10.1 House 150: the double roundhouse in Area C  10.2 The pottery from House 150  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson\u003c\/em\u003e  10.3 Conclusion  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson\u003c\/em\u003e     11.  \u003cstrong\u003eFinal occupation of the roundhouses in the Iron Age (phases 14–16)\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson, P. Marshall, J. Mulville and H. Smith\u003c\/em\u003e  11.1 House 401 in phase 14: its sixth phase of occupation  11.2 House 401 in phase 15: its seventh phase of occupation  11.3 House 401 in phase 16: its eighth and final phase of occupation  11.4 House 1500: phase 14  11.5 The pottery from phases 14–16 (House 401 and House 1500)  \u003cem\u003eM. Parker Pearson \u003c\/em\u003e  11.6 Conclusion  \u003cem\u003eM. 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In this fully-revised and  expanded second edition, Neil Price takes us with him on a tour  through the sights and sounds of this undiscovered country,  meeting its human and otherworldly inhabitants, including the Sámi with whom the Norse partly shared this mental landscape. On the way we explore Viking notions of the mind and soul, the  fluidity of the boundaries that they drew between humans and  animals, and the immense variety of their spiritual beliefs. We find magic in the Vikings' bedrooms and on their battlefields,  and we meet the sorcerers themselves through their remarkable  burials and the tools of their trade. 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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. 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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. 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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":44.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781842172605.jpg?v=1722289117"},{"product_id":"surveying-the-domesday-book-9781914427107","title":"Surveying the Domesday Book","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Domesday Book, commissioned in December 1085 by order of William The Conqueror, is generally thought to have been used to assess wealth and assets to collect taxes, and represents an incredible wealth of information on land-use, local economies, and even land disputes between neighbours.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis innovative analysis of the Domesday book from the perspective of a professional land surveyor and valuer aims to calculate a timetable for its creation, along with analysing the survey’s purpose, the nature of the data collected, and how it was used. 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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. It describes the various different kinds of orchard and explains how, and when, they appeared in the landscape – and why they have disappeared, at a catastrophic rate, over the last six decades. Chapters discuss the contrasting histories of fruit growing in different regions of England, the complex story of ‘traditional’ fruit varieties and the role of orchards in wildlife conservation. 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Conclusion  Bibliography","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48869075583319,"sku":"9781914427190","price":33.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781914427190.jpg?v=1722291006"},{"product_id":"celtic-art-in-europe-making-connections-9781782976554","title":"Celtic Art in Europe: Making Connections","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe ancient Celtic world evokes debate, discussion, romanticism and mythicism. On the one hand it represents a specialist area of archaeological interest, on the other, it has a wide general appeal. The Celtic world is accessible through archaeology, history, linguistics and art history. Of these disciplines, art history offers the most direct message to a wider audience. 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Off with their heads…! once again: images of daggers and severed heads on an Iberian falcata sword. Fernando Quesada Sanz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. A Celtic severed head, or Lazarus in the arms of Abraham? Natalie Venclová and Jan Royt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11. Zur Attachenzier der Schnabelkannen von Basse-Yutz. Otto-Herman Frey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12. The not so ugly duckling – an essay on meaning. Flemming Kaul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13. Fragments of a carnyx from Leisach (Austria). Paul Gleirscher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14. Between ruling ideology and ancestor worship: the mos maiorum of the Early Celtic ‘Hero Graves’. Thomas Stöllner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e15. Alfred and Alexander. John Boardman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e16. La fibule de Moscano di Fabriano: un jalon important de l’évolution de l’art celtique au IVe siècle avant J.-C. Luana et Venceslas Kruta.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e17. Zum Wenden: der Halsring aus Gehweiler-Oberlöstern im Saarland. Rudolf Echt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e18. Late Hallstatt and Early La Tène gold and silver beads in southeast Pannonia. Hrvoje Potrebica and Marco Dizdar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e19. East meets West... The stamped pottery from the La Tène cemetery at Fântânele-Dealul Popii (Transylvania, Romania). Aurel Rustoiu.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e20. A vessel with stamped decoration from the Želiezovce collection. Gertrúda Březinová.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e21. Balkan Kantharoi. Petar Popović.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e22. La Tène and Przeworsk strap shield bosses from Poland. Tomasz Bochnak.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e23. De l’anneau en bronze à têtes de béliers de Chermignac (Charente-Maritime) et de quelques pièces de harnais de La Tène finale de Gaule de l’Ouest. José Gomez de Soto.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e24. A mould for Celtic-type rings from Sanzeno in the Valle di Non, Trentino.  Franco Marzatico.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e25. ‘Leopold Bloom I’ and the Hungarian Sword Style. Paul Jacobsthal, with introduction by Katharina Ulmschneider and Sally Crawford.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e26. The Celtic mercenary reconsidered. Jan Bouzek.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e27. The Dragon from Oberleiserberg. Maciej Karwowski.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e28. A l'aube du IIIe s. av. J.-C.: les fourreaux d'épée à décor estampe sur fer. Thierry Lejars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e29. ‘…to boldly go where no man has gone before.’ Dedicated to Ruth and Vincent… Boris Kavur and Martina Blečić Kavur.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e30. Art and Craftsmanship in elite-warrior graves: from Boii to Parisii and back again… Nathalie C. Ginoux and Peter C. Ramsl.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e31. Ascot hats: an Iron Age leaf crown helmet from Lincolnshire. Andrew Fitzpatrick and Martin Schönfelder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e32. Snettisham swansong. I. M. Stead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e33. The Iron Age open-air ritual site at Hallaton, Leicestershire: some wider implications. Colin Haselgrove and Vicki Score.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e34. Brit-art: Celtic Art in Roman Britain and on its Frontiers. Jody Joy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e35. Art in context: the massive metalworking tradition of north-east Scotland. Fraser Hunter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e36. The Torrs Chamfrein or Head-piece: restoring ‘A very curious relic of antiquity’. C. Stephen Briggs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e37. Vincent, in appreciation. 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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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Levels of War and Battlespace in the North Platte Valley of 1865   Levels of War and Battlespace among the Cheyenne and allied tribes   Levels of War and Battlespace of the Civil War Frontier Army   Battlespace – Trails and Battlefields as Essential Elements     5. Conflict Begins – The Battle of Mud Springs   Mud Springs as Battlespace    Strategy and Tactics of the Mud Spring Operation     6. The Archaeology of the Mud Springs Battle   The Archaeological Assemblage   Firearms Artifact Distribution   The “Rifle Pit” Feature   Interpreting the Actions and Evidence of Mud Springs     7. The Road to Rush Creek   Cheyenne Movements away from the Camp on Rush Creek   The Army’s Pursuit   Discovery of the Rush Creek Camp     8. The Forces Collide at Rush Creek   Beginning of the Battle   Tactical Operations of Rush Creek Combat   Artillery at Rush Creek    Cavalry Action at Rush Creek     9. Archaeology of the Rush Creek Battle   Archaeological Expression of the Battlefield       Small Arms Evidence   Artillery Evidence       Rush Creek: A battlespace adjusted to surprise     10. 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This book is a great starting point for learning about the hierarchy and structure, the equipment used, buildings and infrastructure, and other material culture of the Roman military. It can serve as a reference work that sums up the archaeological and historical evidence. * H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eIn this work, Thomas Fischer gives an excellent overview of the buildings and equipment of the Roman military from the Republic to Late Antiquity, completed by the excellent contributions of the co-authors. All authors involved are proven experts, which is all too clear in the contributions. Numerous illustrations and the presentation of numerous finds, some of which have not yet been published, complete the book.      This is certainly a standard work on the Roman military and can only be warmly recommended to anyone who is interested. * Bonner Jahrbücher *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslator’s Preface   Acknowledgements   Introduction  The state of research   The iconographic sources   On armament, equipment, and the buildings   Basic information on the history and structure of the Roman army   Notes to introduction   Part I Iconographic sources for the Roman military by Dietrich Boschung  1. Introduction   2. Republican representations  3. The Early Empire: Augustus to Domitian   4. Representations from the middle imperial period  5. Representations from the Tetrarchic period  6. Representations from Late Antiquity   Notes to Part I  Part II General remarks on the Roman army  1. Introduction   2. A history of research  3. Armament and equipment  4. Find contexts of Roman weapons and equipment parts   5. Legionary or auxiliary equipment?   6. Rank insignia  7. On the reconstruction of Roman fighting methods  8. Comments on the re-enactment scene   9. Forgeries   Notes to Part II  Part III Costumes, weapons, and equipment of the army from original archaeological finds  1. Infantry   2. Cavalry   3. Artillery  4. Standards and instruments for signalling   5. Awards and decorations   6. Pioneer tools, tents, field pack   Notes to Part III   Part IV The buildings of the Roman army  1. Introduction   2. Roman camps and forts  3. The most important types of camps and forts   4. Late Roman fortifications   5. Military infrastructure   6. Limites and ripae  Notes to Part IV   Part V The development periods of Roman military history  1. Introduction   2. Republic  3. The early Imperial period from Augustus to Nero  4. The middle Imperial period from Vespasian to Trajan  5. The middle Imperial period from Hadrian to Septimius Severus  6. The middle Imperial period from Caracalla to the reforms of Diocletian   7. Late Antiquity   Notes to Part V   Part VI The Roman navy  1. Arming and equipping the marines  2. Bases of the Roman fleets in the Imperial period by Thomas Schmidts   3. Roman warships by Ronald Bockius   Notes to Part VI   End matter 375  Bibliography   Abbreviations   Illustration credits   Index   Persons and peoples   Places   Subjects","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084406989143,"sku":"9781789251845","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789251845.jpg?v=1725552053"},{"product_id":"death-in-mycenaean-laconia-a-silent-place-9781789252422","title":"Death in Mycenaean Laconia: A Silent Place","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Silent Place: Death in Mycenaean Lakonia\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book-length systematic study of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) burial tradition in south-eastern Peloponnese, Greece, and the first to comprehensively present and discuss all Mycenaean tombs and funerary contexts excavated and\/or simply reported in the region from the 19th century to present day. 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The text highlights the social, political and economic history of Late Bronze Age Lakonia from the evolution of the Mycenaean civilisation and the establishment of palatial administration in the Spartan vale, to the demise of Mycenaean culture and the turbulent post–collapse centuries, as reflected by the burial offerings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book also brings to publication the chamber tombs at Epidavros Limera that remained largely unpublished since their excavation in the 1930s and 1950s. Epidavros Limera was one of the most important prehistoric coastal sites in prehistoric southern Greece (early 3rd–late 4th millennium BC), and one of the main harbour towns of the Mycenaean administrative centres of central Lakonia. It is one of very few Mycenaean sites that flourished uninterruptedly from the emergence of the Mycenaean civilisation until after the collapse of the palatial administration and into the transition to the Early Iron Age. The present study of the funerary architecture and of the pottery from the tombs suggests that the site was responsible for the introduction of the chamber tomb type on the Greek mainland in the latest phase of the Middle Bronze Age (definitely no later than the transitional Middle Bronze Age\/Late Bronze Age period), and not in the early phase of the Late Bronze Age (Late Helladic I) as previously assumed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e...a comprehensive study of Late Bronze Age funerary archaeology to challenge a long held assumption that Laconia was abandoned after the decline of Mycenaean palaces. * Antiquity *\u003cbr\u003eOverall, this is a very useful and revealing survey, and anyone wishing to discuss Mycenaean burial evidence in Laconia would do well to make good use of it and follow its system of cataloguing the cemeteries and individual graves. * Journal of Greek Archaeology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface (by Professor Bill Cavanagh)  Preface and Acknowledgements  List of illustrations  List of tables  Introduction  Chapter 1 – Chronicle of explorations of the LBA  Chapter 2 – Before the Mycenaeans  Chapter 3 – The location of the graves  Chapter 4 – Architecture Chapter 5 – Burial customs and funerary rites Chapter 6 – Material Culture  Chapter 7 – Epilogue  Appendix: The development of early Epidavros Limera in historical times (late 10th c. 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These encompass social and industrial aspects of northern frontier forts; new insights into inscribed and sculptural stones specific to military communities; religious, cultural and economic connotations of Roman armour finds; the economic and ideological penetration of romanitas in the frontiers as reflected by individual objects and classes of finds; evidence of trans-frontier interactions and invisible people; the role of John Clayton in the exploration and preservation of Hadrian’s Wall and its material culture; the detailed consideration of individual objects of significant interest; and a discussion of the widespread occurrence of mice in Roman art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume… presents twenty-seven papers that focus on the primary themes found throughout [Allason-Jones’] research—Roman frontiers, the people of the Roamn world (especially women and children), and material culture * New Testament Abstracts *","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084407120215,"sku":"9781789253856","price":49.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789253856.jpg?v=1725552053"},{"product_id":"the-exodus-an-egyptian-story-9781789254747","title":"The Exodus: An Egyptian Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDid the Exodus occur? 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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Despite the importance of wool as a fiber resource contributors demonstrate clearly that its development and use can only be properly addressed in the context of a consideration of other fibers, both plant and animal. Only within a framework that takes into account historically and regionally variable strategies of procurement, processing, and the products of different types of fibers is it possible to gain real insights into the changing roles played by fibers and textiles in the lives of people in different places and times in the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith relatively rare, albeit sometimes spectacular exceptions, archaeological contexts offer only poor conditions of preservation for textiles. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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Instead, the idea that Celtic Art shares its essential forms and themes of transformation and animism with Iron Age art from across northern Eurasia has recently gained currency, partly thanks to a move away from the study of motifs in prehistoric art and towards considerations of the contexts in which they appear.    This volume explores Iron Age art at different scales and specifically considers the long-distance connections, mutual influences and shared ‘ways of seeing’ that link Celtic Art to other art traditions across northern Eurasia. It brings together 13 papers on varied subjects such as animal and human imagery, technologies of production and the design theory behind Iron Age art, balancing pan-Eurasian scale commentary with regional and site scale studies and detailed analyses of individual objects, as well as introductory and summary papers. 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Refugees, networks, politics and east–west connections in Early Celtic art: Paul Jacobsthal’s ‘History of a Monster’ in context Sally Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider  13. The history of a monster Paul Jacobsthal  Discussion: Dialogues with Jacobsthal Tim Champion","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084407316823,"sku":"9781789253948","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789253948.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. 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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":"chariots-swords-and-spears-iron-age-burials-at-the-foot-of-the-east-yorkshire-wolds-9781789255423","title":"Chariots, Swords and Spears: Iron Age Burials at","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume brings together recent excavations at two sites in Pocklington, East Yorkshire. The main focus of the volume is examination of Iron Age burials, which included chariots, swords, and spears, along with inclusion of earlier Prehistoric and later Roman activity. The excavations have enabled further scientific evidence for migration and mobility in the Iron Age population and secure chronologies for artefacts. 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Within the scope of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project, excavations have been conducted since 2012 at two Early Neolithic sites in the Kurdistan region of Iraq: Bestansur and Shimshara. Bestansur represents an early stage in the transition to sedentary, farming life, where the inhabitants pursued a mixed strategy of hunting, foraging, herding and cultivating, maximising the new opportunities afforded by the warmer, wetter climate of the Early Holocene. They also constructed substantial buildings of mudbrick, including a major building with a minimum of 65 human individuals, mainly infants, buried under its floor in association with hundreds of beads. These human remains provide new insights into mortuary practices, demography, diet and disease during the early stages of sedentarisation. The material culture of Bestansur and Shimshara is rich in imported items such as obsidian, carnelian and sea-shells, indicating the extent to which Early Neolithic communities were networked across the Eastern Fertile Crescent and beyond. This volume includes final reports by a large-scale interdisciplinary team on all aspects of the results from excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, through application of state-of-the-art scientific techniques, methods and analyses. The net result is to re-emphasise the enormous significance of the Eastern Fertile Crescent in one of the most important episodes in human history: the Neolithic transition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors Preface and acknowledgements 1. The Neolithic transition in the Eastern Fertile Crescent: project themes, aims and objectives Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Amy Richardson and Kamal Rasheed Raheem   2. Excavation, recording, and sampling methodologies Amy Richardson, Roger Matthews and Wendy Matthews   3. Palaeoclimate and environment of the Iraqi Central Zagros Matt Bosomworth, Dominik Fleitmann and Maria Rabbani   4. Intensive field survey in the Zarzi Region Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Amy Richardson and Kamal Raeuf Aziz   5. Fluxgate gradiometry survey at Bestansur David Thornley   6. Geoarchaeological borehole, sediment and microfossil analyses at Bestansur Chris Green, Rob Batchelor, Maria Rabbani, Alessandro Guaggenti and Wendy Matthews   7. Ethnoarchaeological research in Bestansur: insights into vegetation, land-use, animals and animal dung Sarah Elliott, Robin Bendrey, Jade Whitlam and Kamal Raeuf Aziz   8. Conservation Jessica S. Johnson   9. Excavations and contextual analyses: Bestansur Amy Richardson, Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Sam Walsh, Kamal Raeuf Aziz and Adam Stone   10. 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One of the topics is how we define monuments and how our arguments and recent research on temporality impacts on our interpretation of the Neolithic period. Different interpretations of Göbekli Tepe are examples of this discussion as well as our understanding of special landmarks such as flint mines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe latest evidence on the economic and paleoenvironmental context, carbon 14 dates as well as analytical methods are employed in illuminating the emergence of monumentalism in Neolithic Europe. Studies are taking place on a macro and micro scale in areas as diverse as Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Germany, the Dutch wetlands, Portugal and Malta involving a range of monuments from long barrows and megalithic tombs to roundels and enclosures. Transformation from a natural to a built environment by monumentalizing part of the landscape is discussed as well as changes in megalithic architecture in relation to shifts in the social structure. 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.  List of content.     \u003cstrong\u003eThoughts on Monumentalism\u003c\/strong\u003e  Chapter. 1. Teather, A. \u003cem\u003eNeolithic monumentality for the 21st Century\u003c\/em\u003e.     \u003cstrong\u003eOrigin of Monumentalism\u003c\/strong\u003e  Chapter. 2. Watkins, T. \u003cem\u003eMonumentality in Neolithic Southwest Asia: making memory in time and space\u003c\/em\u003e   Chapter. 3. Kinzel, M. and Clare, L. \u003cem\u003eMonumental compared to what? A Perspective from Göbekli Tepe\u003c\/em\u003e     Chapter. 4. Hodder, I. \u003cem\u003eFrom communal to segmentary: an alternative view of Neolithic ‘monuments’ in the Middle East. Comments on chapter 2 and 3\u003c\/em\u003e     Chapter. 5. Jeunesse, Chr. \u003cem\u003eElite houses or specialised buildings? 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. A megalithic tomb in Southern Portugal\u003c\/em\u003e      Chapter. 16. Pospieszny, Ł., M. Jakubczak and G. Kiarszys \u003cem\u003ePutting earthen long barrows back on map. Remarks about the Middle Neolithic monumentality of northern Poland\u003c\/em\u003e     Chapter. 17. Papiernik, P., R. Brzejszczak, D. Kacper Płaza, J. Wicha, and P. Wronecki \u003cem\u003eIn the search of the lost heritage. Non-invasive exploration of the monumental Funnel Beaker culture long barrows\u003c\/em\u003e  \u003cem\u003ein the area of Wietrzychowice in central Poland \u003c\/em\u003e     Chapter. 18. Sheridan, A. and R. Schulting \u003cem\u003eMaking sense of Scottish Neolithic funerary monuments: tracing trajectories and understanding their rationale\u003c\/em\u003e     Chapter. 19. Gebauer, A. B. \u003cem\u003eGroup benefits? The story of a cluster of megalithic monuments in Danish Funnel Beaker society\u003c\/em\u003e     \u003cstrong\u003eEnclosures and Landscapes\u003c\/strong\u003e  Chapter. 20. Parkinson, E., S. Stoddart, C. Malone, C. Brogan and R. McLaughlin \u003cem\u003eStoried Structures, Sustainability and Resilience in late Neolithic Malta: Excavations at the Santa Verna, Gozo\u003c\/em\u003e      Chapter. 21. Valera, A. C. \u003cem\u003eEphemeral and Cosmological Monumentality: the ‘strange’ ditched enclosures of Chalcolithic South Portugal\u003c\/em\u003e     Chapter. 22. Sanches, M. J. and A. M. Vale \u003cem\u003eConnecting stories of the Neolithic in North-Eastern Portugal. Walled \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eenclosures and their relationships with the genealogy of the landscape\u003c\/em\u003e.     Chapter. 23. Czerniak, L., A. Matuszewska, M. Dziewanowski, L. Pospieszny, M. Jakubczak and M. Szubski \u003cem\u003eThe Neolithic roundel and its social context on the furthest reaches of the Danubian World\u003c\/em\u003e.       Chapter. 24. Andersson, M. and M. 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Mainland Greece and its surrounding islands is a vast region, and I have chosen to focus on an area rich in early Christian remains, namely the region stretching from Athens southwards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book examines evidence relating to Christianity in New Testament times, particularly through the writings of St Paul and early theologians, and juxtaposes these texts with recent and current excavations at Corinth, with its twin ports of Kenchreai and Lechaion, and its chief sanctuary beyond the city at Isthmia, where St Paul worked during the celebration of the pan-Hellenic Games. Much of the excavation at Lechaion has been carried out underwater by divers pioneering new methods of preserving submerged material, since most of the harbour is entirely submerged.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLater, particularly from the sixth century onwards, Christian basilicas were built throughout Greece. A number of these are examined, including those at Nemea and Epidaurus. 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Phoebe of Kenchreai: a generous woman  Chapter 2. Early Christian Kenchreai  Chapter 3. Paul at Isthmia: running for a victor’s crown  Chapter 4. Early Christian Corinth: a troubled community  Chapter 5. Lechaion: a martyrs’ shrine  Chapter 6. Two rural churches: Nemea and Sikyon  Chapter 7. Athens: a daughter church of Corinth  Chapter 8. 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Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity seeks to understand these artefacts not as signals of steady, pre-existing cultural units and relations, but as important components in the active and contingent constitution of identities. Drawing on contemporary scholarship on materiality and relationality in archaeological and social theory, this book uses one genre of material culture - items of bodily adornment - to illustrate how humans and objects construct one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProviding case studies spanning 10 countries, three continents, and more than 9,000 years of human history, the authors demonstrate the myriad and dynamic ways personal ornaments were intertwined with embodied practice and identity performativity, the creation and remaking of social memories, and relational collections of persons, materials, and practices in the past. The authors’ careful analyses of production methods and composition, curation\/heirlooming and reworking, decorative attributes and iconography, position within assemblages, and depositional context illuminate the varied material and relational axes along which objects of adornment contained social value and meaning. When paired with the broad temporal and geographic scope collectively represented by these studies, we gain a deeper appreciation for the subtle but vital roles these items played in human lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving read this book, you will have a clear and up to date overview of the deep possibilities jewellery research has to offer: not just for archaeological pieces, but for any type of personal adornment. * Bedouin Silver *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   1.   Personal adornment and identity construction in archaeology: An introduction   \u003cem\u003eHannah V. Mattson\u003c\/em\u003e        2.   Continuity in ornament traditions: What details can tell us. Perforated shell from the             Mesolithic-Neolithic transition at Franchthi Cave (Greece)      \u003cem\u003eCatherine Perlès\u003c\/em\u003e            3.   Costume and identity in Pacific Nicaragua   \u003cem\u003eGeoffrey McCafferty and Sharisse McCafferty\u003c\/em\u003e        4.   Performing place-based identity: Dress, language and acculturation strategies in the     Nahua world   \u003cem\u003eJustyna Olko\u003c\/em\u003e        5.   Forging identity: The social and symbolic significance of torques in the Iron Age Castro            Culture   \u003cem\u003eNadya H. Prociuk\u003c\/em\u003e        6.   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Voudeni is one of the most significant sites of Achaea, thoroughly investigated under the direction of the Honorary General Director of Antiquities, Dr Lazaros Kolonas. Over 60 chamber tombs, spanning the entire Late Helladic III period, have been excavated, yielding an unprecedented wealth of biocultural information. This study explores the post-mortem treatment of the body in the Voudeni cemetery, through a novel interpretive approach that transcends unproductive cross-disciplinary divisions. This biosocial approach integrates traditional archaeology, current reflections in mortuary archaeological theory and cutting-edge bioarchaeological methods, primarily focused on funerary taphonomy and archaeothanatology of commingled skeletal assemblages. The author proposes that the most effective route to explore the social dimensions of mortuary data is through an emic understanding of historically situated actions and experiences, both of the living actors, the mourners, and of the dead themselves. Human skeletal remains are used as the primary strand of evidence, both as the object of the acts of the living and the subject of their own lived experiences. 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