Oxbow Books started life in 1983 in a shed in the garden of St Cross College, Oxford. It was founded by academic and museum archaeologist, David Brown, whose vision was to publish archaeology, ancient history andEuropean history: medieval period, Middle Ages as high quality, reasonably priced books and to distribute and retail the widest range of titles possible.
They publish in many areas and series such as Cretan Studies Greek & Roman Pottery From Sphakia and Oxbow Classics in Egyptology
Book SynopsisCelebrates the academic career and major influence of Alasdair Whittle on European prehistory as seen through his publications with Oxbow Books. Papers are selected to demonstrate his key areas of research and reflect the development of his ideas and interpretations. Includes an introduction by the author.
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Book SynopsisThis latest volume of the journal focuses on the production of Roman pottery, presenting new data on production sites in Britain and Romania, and exploring how the potters in the Nene Valley embedded the technology of the potterâs wheel into their traditions and practices.
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Book SynopsisCombines case studies with specific national and regional approaches to compare different ways of managing archaeological cultural heritage at various scales within and beyond Europe.
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Book SynopsisPresents a detailed study of the two oldest doors in England, both originally covered with hide (allegedly human skin) and painted red. The Westminster door pre-dates the Norman Conquest (1050s); the Hadstock Church door dates from the 1060sâ70s. Several 11th- and 12th-century hide covered doors are discussed.
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Book SynopsisDetailed report on archaeological investigations at Llanbedrgoch, Anglesey of an internationally important early medieval entrepÃt and Vikingage economic hub on the southern coast of the Irish Sea.
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Book SynopsisA comprehensive analysis of the architectural and chronological evolution of Roman maritime villas in southern Latium, employing a range of survey and fieldwork methods and archival research. Offers new perspectives on the chronology and emergence of the maritime villa typology in a region of considerable historical importance for Romeâs history.
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Book SynopsisLife and Death in Asia Minor combines contributions in both archaeology and bioarchaeology in Asia Minor in the period ca. 200 BC – AD 1300 for the first time. The archaeology topics are wide-ranging including death and territory, death and landscape perception, death and urban transformations from pagan to Christian topography, changing tomb typologies, funerary costs, family organization, funerary rights, rituals and practices among pagans, Jews, and Christians, inhumation and Early Byzantine cremations and use and reuse of tombs. The bioarchaeology chapters use DNA, isotope and osteological analyses to discuss, both among children and adults, questions such as demography and death rates, pathology and nutrition, body actions, genetics, osteobiography, and mobility patterns and diet. The areas covered in Asia Minor include the sites of Hierapolis, Laodikeia, Aphrodisias, Tlos, Ephesos, Priene, Kyme, Pergamon, Amorion, Gordion, Boğazkale, and Arslantepe.The theoretical and methodological approaches used make it highly relevant for people working in other geographical areas and time periods. Many of the articles could be used as case studies in teaching at schools and universities. An important objective of the publication has been to see how the different types of results emerging from archaeological and natural science studies respectively could be integrated with each other and pose new questions on ancient societies, which were far more complex than historical and social studies of the past often manage to transmit.Trade ReviewThese articles offer the possibility, especially to historians reliant on written sources, to have valuable data quantitative and objective information for better estimation of diet, living conditions, structure of families and the relationship to death of populations of Asia Minor during Antiquity and the Middle Ages, in particular in the city of Hierapolis of Phrygia. * Antiquité Tardive *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Authors and Addresses ix Introduction. Dead bodies – Live data: Some reflections from the sideline xiii J. Rasmus Brandt PART I: From life to death. Death and the social and funerary setting The Sanctuary of St Philip in Hierapolis and the tombs of saints in Anatolian cities Francesco D’Andria 2. Necropoleis from the territory of Hierapolis in Phrygia: New data from archaeological surveys Giuseppe Scardozzi 3. The South-East Necropolis of Hierapolis of Phrygia: Planning, typologies and construction techniques Donatella Ronchetta 4. Tomb 163d in the North Necropolis of Hierapolis of Phrygia. An insight into the funerary gestures and practices of the Jewish Diaspora in Asia Minor in Late Antiquity and the Proto-Byzantine period Caroline Laforest, Dominique Castex, and Frédérique Blaizot 5. Tomb ownership in Lycia; site selection and burial rights with selected rock tombs and epigraphical material from Tlos Gül Işın and Ertan Yıldız 6. The sarcophagus of Alexandros, son of Philippos. An important discovery in the Lycian city of Tlos Taner Korkut and Çilem Uygun 7. ‘Till death do them part’: Reconstructing Graeco-Roman family life from funerary inscriptions of Aphrodisias Esen Öğüş 8. Social status and tomb monuments in Hierapolis and Roman Asia Minor Sven Ahrens 9. New evidence for non-elite burial patterns in central Turkey Andrew L. Goldman 10. Reflections on the mortuary landscape of Ephesus. The archaeology of death in a Roman Metropolis Martin Steskal 11. Christian burials in a pagan context at Amorium Christopher S. Lightfoot 12. Romans, Christians, and pilgrims at Hierapolis in Phrygia. A funerary journey of mental changes Camilla Cecilie Wenn, Sven Ahrens, and J. Rasmus Brandt PART II: From death to life. Man and ancient life conditions 13. Analysis of DNA in human skeletal material from Hierapolis Gro Bjørnstad and Erika Hagelberg 14. Isotopic investigations of human diet and mobility at the site of Hierapolis, Turkey Megan Wong, Elise Naumann, Klervia Jaouen, and Michael Richards 15. Diet in Roman Pergamon using stable isotope (C, N, S), osteoarchaeological and historical data – preliminary results Johanna Propstmeier, Olaf Nehlich, Michael Richards, Gisela Grupe, Gundula H. Müldner, and Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen 16. Pergamon – Kyme – Priene: Health and disease from the Roman to the Late Byzantine period in different locations of Asia Minor Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen 17. Toothache, back pain, and fatal injuries – what skeletons tell about life and death at Roman and Byzantine Hierapolis Henrike Kiesewetter 18. Health and disease of infants and children in Byzantine Anatolia between AD 600 and 1350 Michael Schultz and Tyede H. Schmidt-Schultz 19. Infant and child skeletons from the Lower City Church at Byzantine Amorium F. Arzu Demirel 20. The wrestler from Ephesus: Osteobiography of a man from the Roman period based on his anthropological and palaeopathological record Jan Nováček, Kristina Scheelen, and Michael Schultz General Index
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Book SynopsisLindsay Allason-Jones has been at the forefront of small finds and Roman frontier research for 40 years in a career focussed on, but not exclusive to, the north of Britain, encompassing an enormous range of object types and subject areas. Divided into thematic sections the contributions presented here to celebrate her many achievements all represent at least one aspect of Lindsay’s research interests. 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.Trade ReviewThis 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 *
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Book SynopsisFirst ever national synthesis of the Neolithic Impressed Ware ceramic tradition that dominates the Middle Neolithic period in Britain and Ireland, arranged by region, and written by acknowledged experts in their field.
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Book SynopsisRecently, a travel account and 700 photographs came to light by the hand of Leo Boer, a former student of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem who, at the age of 26 in 1953–4 visited many archaeological sites in the area of present-day Israel and the Palestinian Territories. These documents inspired 20 internationally-renowned scholars – many of whom excavated at the sites they describe – to report on what we know today of nine particular sites chosen from the many that Leo Boer visited 60 years ago: Jerusalem, Khirbet et-Tell (Άi?), Samaria & Sebaste, Tell Balata (Shechem), Tell es-Sultan (Jericho), Khirbet Qumran, Caesarea, Megiddo, and Bet She’an. Rather than focusing on the history of these sites, the contributors describe the history of the archaeological expeditions. Who excavated these sites over the years? What were the specific aims of their campaigns? What techniques and methods did they use? How did they interpret these excavations? What finds were most noteworthy? And finally, what are the major misconceptions held by the former excavators? Several themes are interwoven amongst the contributions and variously discussed, such as‘identification of biblical sites’, ‘regional surveys’, ‘underwater archaeology’, ‘archaeothanatology’, ‘archaeology and politics’, ‘archaeology and science’, and ‘heritage management’. This unique collection of images and essays offers to scholars working in the region previously unpublished materials and interpretations as well as new photographs. For students of archaeology, ancient or Biblical history and theology it contains both a detailed archaeological historiography and explores some highly relevant, specific themes. Finally, the superb quality of Boer’s photography provides an unprecedented insight into the archaeological landscape of post-war Palestine for anyone interested in Biblical history and archaeology.Trade ReviewThis is an unusual book, centring on photographs and travel notes by the late Leo Boer in the 1950s.[...]There is an additional feature on the PEF website of complementary Qumran photographs taken by Boer, at http://www.pef.org.uk/qumran/. There is a Preface by J. Zangenberg, a memoir of Boer by Wagmakers, a list of the photographs and several indexes. The editor has paid Boer a magnificent tribute, and the book deserves a wide readership. Review by Philip Davies in Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 147, Vol 2 (2015) -- Current Archaeology Current Archaeology "...the portraits of these sites, accompanied by individual bibliographies, will provide useful introductions to the history of work at these major sites" -- Robert Witcher Antiquity Wagemakers and his expert collaborators have done Leo Boer proud. The production values of this book are high, matching the quality of the text and photographs. I found it engrossing. -- Bulletin of the History of Archaeology Bulletin of the History of ArchaeologyTable of ContentsPreface (Jürgen Zangenberg) A Chance Meeting in a Museum (Bart Wagemakers) Chapter 1– Leo Boer (Bart Wagemakers) Chapter 2– Jerusalem (Margreet L. Steiner) Chapter 3– Khirbet et-Tell (Άi?) (Lucas P. Petit) Chapter 4– Samaria & Sebaste (Shimon Gibson, Ron E. Tappy) Chapter 5– Tell Balata (Shechem) (Edward F. Campbell, Jr., Gerrit van der Kooij, Hamdan Taha and Monique H. van den Dries) Chapter 6– Tell es-Sultan (Jericho) (Maura Sala, Fanny Bocquentin and Bart Wagemakers) Chapter 7– Khirbet Qumran (Joan E. Taylor, Jan Gunneweg) Chapter 8– Caesarea Maritima (Kenneth G. Holum) Chapter 9– Megiddo (Norma Franklin) Chapter 10– Bet She’an (Yoram Tsafrir and Benjmain Arubas, Gabriel Mazor and Walid Atrash, Nava Panitz-Cohen) Chronological Table List of Contributors Index
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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays begins with the premise that violence, in its relationship to order, is a central element of history. Taking a broad definition of violence, including structural and symbolic violence, the contributions move beyond the problematic of civilization’s mitigating or foundational role, instead seeing violence as inherently social, and, perhaps, socially inherent (if variable). The question then becomes what forms of harm are authorized or banned in which social orders and how they change over time. Beginning with a theoretical introduction, this interdisciplinary volume includes seven papers representing cultural anthropology, history, archaeology and international relations. The papers range from China to the Americas and from the 2nd millennium BCE to the 21st century CE. Some deal with long-term developments while others focus on a single time and place. Many treat the issue of the visibility/invisibility of violence, while all in one way or another deal with the role of violence in the re-production of community. Together, the volume aims to paint, with a few strokes, the outlines of a deep historical anthropology of social violence. The volume is based on the proceedings of a symposium hosted at Brown University.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Toward a Deep History of Violence and Civilization (Roderick Campbell) Part I: Sacrifice Introduction to Part I 2. Dramas of the Dialectic: Sacrifice and Power in Ancient Polities (Edward Swenson) 3. (Un)dying Loyalty: Meditations on Retainer Sacrifice in Ancient Egypt and Elsewhere (Ellen F. Morris) 4. Transformations of Violence: On Humanity and Inhumanity in Early China (Roderick Campbell) Part II: Community Introduction to Part II 5. Histories of Violence: Notes from the Roman Empire (Ari Z. Bryen) 6. On Torture in Societies Against the State (Severin Fowles) Part III: Terror Introduction to Part III 7. The Military Normal: Feeling at Home with Counterinsurgency in the United States (Catherine Lutz) 8. Violence, Terrorism, Otherness: Reshaping Enmity in Times of Terror (Philippe Bonditti) Index
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Book SynopsisThe 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. This volume of 37 papers brings together a truly international group of pre-eminent specialists in the field of Celtic art and Celtic studies. It is a benchmark volume the like of which has not been seen since the publication of Paul Jacobsthal’s Early Celtic Art in 1944. The papers chart the history of attempts to understand Celtic art and argue for novel approaches in discussions spanning the whole of Continental Europe and the British Isles. This new body of international scholarship will give the reader a sense of the richness of the material and current debates. Artefacts of rich form and decoration, which we might call art, provide a most sensitive set of indicators of key areas of past societies, their power, politics and transformations. With its broad geographical scope, this volume offers a timely opportunity to re-assess contacts, context, transmission and meaning in Celtic art for understanding the development of European cultures, identities and economies in pre- and proto-history. Essays in honour of Vincent Megaw on his 80th birthday.Trade ReviewWith the huge amount of bibliographical references put together here, this book will prove very useful for all future research on Celtic art. * Germania *“The arrangement is thoughtful and thematic, not alphabetic… Large format, generously illustrated (including plentiful colour plates).” * Ancient West & East *In summary, this important collection represents a well-deserved tribute to Vincent’s life-long work, and is mandatory reading for all scholars and students interested in the European Iron Age in general, and Celtic art in particular. * Antiquity *Table of ContentsTable of Contents1. Introduction to Celtic Art in Europe: making connections. Chris Gosden, Sally Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider.2. Once again, Herodotus, the Κελτοί, the source of the Danube, and the Pillars of Hercules. John T. Koch. 3. The Sheffield origins of Celtic Art. John Collis.4. Theorie der keltischen Kunst. Ein Versuch. Felix Müller.5. Les codes de représentation visuelle dans l’art celtique ancien. Laurent Olivier.6. Hidden faces and animal images on Late Iron Age and Early Roman horse harness decorated using the champlevé technique. Jennifer Foster7. The human masks of unknown provenience. Mitja Guštin.8. Heads, masks and shifting identities: a note about some Danubian kantharoi with anthropomorphic decoration. Mariana Egri.9. Off with their heads…! once again: images of daggers and severed heads on an Iberian falcata sword. Fernando Quesada Sanz.10. A Celtic severed head, or Lazarus in the arms of Abraham? Natalie Venclová and Jan Royt.11. Zur Attachenzier der Schnabelkannen von Basse-Yutz. Otto-Herman Frey.12. The not so ugly duckling – an essay on meaning. Flemming Kaul.13. Fragments of a carnyx from Leisach (Austria). Paul Gleirscher.14. Between ruling ideology and ancestor worship: the mos maiorum of the Early Celtic ‘Hero Graves’. Thomas Stöllner.15. Alfred and Alexander. John Boardman.16. 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.17. Zum Wenden: der Halsring aus Gehweiler-Oberlöstern im Saarland. Rudolf Echt.18. Late Hallstatt and Early La Tène gold and silver beads in southeast Pannonia. Hrvoje Potrebica and Marco Dizdar.19. East meets West... The stamped pottery from the La Tène cemetery at Fântânele-Dealul Popii (Transylvania, Romania). Aurel Rustoiu.20. A vessel with stamped decoration from the Želiezovce collection. Gertrúda Březinová.21. Balkan Kantharoi. Petar Popović.22. La Tène and Przeworsk strap shield bosses from Poland. Tomasz Bochnak.23. 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.24. A mould for Celtic-type rings from Sanzeno in the Valle di Non, Trentino. Franco Marzatico.25. ‘Leopold Bloom I’ and the Hungarian Sword Style. Paul Jacobsthal, with introduction by Katharina Ulmschneider and Sally Crawford.26. The Celtic mercenary reconsidered. Jan Bouzek.27. The Dragon from Oberleiserberg. Maciej Karwowski.28. A l'aube du IIIe s. av. J.-C.: les fourreaux d'épée à décor estampe sur fer. Thierry Lejars.29. ‘…to boldly go where no man has gone before.’ Dedicated to Ruth and Vincent… Boris Kavur and Martina Blečić Kavur.30. Art and Craftsmanship in elite-warrior graves: from Boii to Parisii and back again… Nathalie C. Ginoux and Peter C. Ramsl.31. Ascot hats: an Iron Age leaf crown helmet from Lincolnshire. Andrew Fitzpatrick and Martin Schönfelder.32. Snettisham swansong. I. M. Stead.33. The Iron Age open-air ritual site at Hallaton, Leicestershire: some wider implications. Colin Haselgrove and Vicki Score.34. Brit-art: Celtic Art in Roman Britain and on its Frontiers. Jody Joy.35. Art in context: the massive metalworking tradition of north-east Scotland. Fraser Hunter.36. The Torrs Chamfrein or Head-piece: restoring ‘A very curious relic of antiquity’. C. Stephen Briggs.37. Vincent, in appreciation. Mansel Spratling.
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Book SynopsisNearly 2000 years ago, people living in the river valleys of southern Ohio built earthen monuments on a scale that is unmatched in the archaeological record for small-scale societies. The period from c. 200 BC to c. AD 500 (Early to Middle Woodland) witnessed the construction of mounds, earthen walls, ditches, borrow pits and other earthen and stone features covering dozen of hectares at many sites and hundreds of hectares at some. The development of the vast Hopewell Culture geometric earthwork complexes such as those at Mound City, Chilicothe; Hopewell; and the Newark earthworks was accompanied by the establishment of wide-ranging cultural contacts reflected in the movement of exotic and strikingly beautiful artefacts such as elaborate tobacco pipes, obsidian and chert arrowheads, copper axes and regalia, animal figurines and delicately carved sheets of mica. These phenomena, coupled with complex burial rituals, indicate the emergence of a political economy based on a powerful ideology of individual power and prestige, and the creation of a vast cultural landscape within which the monument complexes were central to a ritual cycle encompassing a substantial geographical area.The labour needed to build these vast cultural landscapes exceeds population estimates for the region, and suggests that people from near (and possibly far) travelled to the Scioto and other river valleys to help with construction of these monumental earthen complexes. Here, in the first American Landscapes volume, Mark Lynott draws on more than a decade of research and extensive new datasets to re-examine the spectacular and massive scale Ohio Hopewell landscapes and to explore the society that created them.Trade ReviewMark Lynott has given us a successful account of the earthwork centers of southern Ohio and one that complements previous treatments focusing on grave lots, ritual production, and artifact-based interaction. It is a useful addition to our understanding of Ohio Hopewell and it will be read by generations to come. * Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology *Well illustrated with photos and drawings. A must for those interested in Hopewell and for scholars around the world researching ceremonial earthworks. * CHOICE *Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes of Ohi is, in my estimation, the most authoritative, up-to-date, and attractive overview of ancient North America’s allimportant Hopewellian world (c. 150 b.c.–a.d. 350). The book’s authority and up-to-date quality rest on the late author’s decades-long experience with the archaeology and archaeologists of this all-important indigenous cultural phenomenon. * Landscape History *Table of ContentsI. More than Mounds and Ditches, an Introduction to Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes Ohio and the Beginning of North American Archaeology Mortuary Mounds and Artifacts Expanding Research Interests in earthworks and ceremonial centers Ohio Hopewell Constructed Landscapes and the Digital Revolution Ohio Hopewell – an iconic name and iconic sites, but what is it?II. Current Issues in the Construction of Ohio Hopewell ceremonial landscapes Hopewell Variation and Distribution Time and Hopewell ArchaeologyEnergy analysis: How many people did it take to build Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes Sedentary Farmers or Mobile Foragers? Mensuration, Geometry, Alignments and Reading the Heavens Alignments and Reading the Heavens The Great Hopewell Road Were ceremonial landscapes planned designs? Models and hypotheses.III. The Hopeton Earthworks ProjectGeophysical Survey and Trench ExcavationsEmbankment Wall Features GeoarchaeologyRadiocarbon ResultsNon-embankment wall featuresNear The Earthworks: Triangle, Red Wing, Overly, and Cryder sitesWhat have we learned about the Hopeton Earthworks?IV. Studies of Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes Southeastern Ohio Newark Earthworks Marietta Scioto River Valley Seip High Bank Earthwork Anderson Earthwork Mound City Hopewell Mound Group Shriver CircleSouthwest Ohio – Brush Creek, The Great Miami and Little Miami River drainagesFort Hill, Highland CountyFort AncientFoster’s CrossingPollock WorksMiami FortTurner Group of EarthworksStubbs EarthworkV: What do we know about Hopewell ceremonial landscapes?Constructed Landscapes, Site Preparation and PlanningMaterial Selection and the Placement of material: art or engineering?Landscape Features - Unique and DiverseTime and Landscape Construction How Were Ceremonial Landscapes Used? Ritual Refuse Pits at the Riverside Site, Hopewell Mound Group The Moorehead Circle Craft Houses and Other Wooden Structures A Great Post Circle and Many Buildings Beyond the Enclosure at Mound City Some additional thoughtsVI. Some Final Thoughts: What We Still Need to Learn Landscapes and Time The Meaning Behind Landscape Forms Beyond Southern Ohio Future studies and final thoughtsVII. References
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Book SynopsisWhat have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuous virgins, marvellous maidens, and fierce feminists of the Middle Ages who trail-blazed paths for women today. Without those first courageous souls who worked in fields dominated by men, women might not have the presence they currently do in professions such as education, the law, and literature. Focusing on women from Western Europe between c. 300 and 1500 CE in the medieval period and richly carpeted with detail, A Medieval Woman’s Companion offers a wealth of information about real medieval women who are now considered vital for understanding the Middle Ages in a full and nuanced way. Short biographies of 20 medieval women illustrate how they have anticipated and shaped current concerns, including access to education; creative emotional outlets such as art, theatre, romantic fiction, and music; marriage and marital rights; fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, contraception and gynecology; sex trafficing and sexual violence; the balance of work and family; faith; and disability. Their legacy abides until today in attitudes to contemporary women that have their roots in the medieval period. The final chapter suggests how 20th and 21st century feminist and gender theories can be applied to and complicated by medieval women's lives and writings. Doubly marginalised due to gender and the remoteness of the time period, medieval women’s accomplishments are acknowledged and presented in a way that readers can appreciate and find inspiring. Ideal for high school and college classroom use in courses ranging from history and literature to women's and gender studies, an accompanying website with educational links, images, downloadable curriculum guide, and interactive blog will be made available at the time of publication.Trade Review...a wonderfully illustrated and pleasant read, touring its audience through short biographies of notable women of the Christian, European Middle Ages while simultaneously providing context and historical overview… Morrison succeeds in her project to present an accessible and relevant group of medieval women to her audience… The book as a whole provides a friendly, accessible user experience. * Medieval Review *If you’re writing about medieval women or teaching medieval history or literature, this book is an essential. What a resource!Morrison does a superb job of making medieval women accessible to mainstream audiences, and tying in traditional and digital sources. * Medieval Magazine *A Medieval Woman's Companion is—I'm not exaggerating here—the best introduction I know of to the widely-varied lives of medieval women. * Story Circle Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: PIONEERS 1.Gudrun Osvifsdottir: Viking Vixen 2. Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir: Fearless Explorer 3. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: First Woman Playwright 4. Anglo-Saxon and Norman Women: Political Power Dynasties and Steadfast Sovereigns Emma of Normandy; St. Margaret of Scotland; Matilda of Scotland 5. The Importance of Language Part II: FEARLESS FEMALES 6. St. Christina of Markyate: Resolute Virgin 7. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Cougar 8. Margaret of Beverley: Fighting Crusader Part III: WOMEN OF WISDOM 9. Anna Komnene: Dutiful Daughter 10. Understanding the Female Body: Misogyny and Sympathy 11. Trota of Salerno: Compassionate Physician 12. Hildegard von Bingen: Audacious Innovator 13. Heloise d’Argenteuil: Scandalous Nun 14. Marie de France: Rhyming Romancer Part IV: NON-CONFORMISTS 15. Women Troubadours/Trobairitz: Clever Composers 16. Marguerite Porete: Heroic Heretic 17. St. Birgitta of Sweden: Righteous Reformer 18. Margery Kempe: Peerless Pilgrim Part V: “MOST HONORED LADIES” 19. Christine de Pizan: Vocal Feminist 20. Joan of Arc: Savior of France 21. Textile Concerns: Holy Transvestites and the Dangers of Cross-Dressing Part VI: “EXPERIENCE IS RIGHT ENOUGH FOR ME” 22. Teresa de Cartagena: Foremother of Deaf Culture 23. Margaret Paston: Matchless Matriarch 24: Looking Forward: Contemporary Feminist Theory and Medieval Women Acknowledgements Glossary Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Websites
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Book SynopsisPlants are fundamental to life; they are used by all human groups and most animals. They provide raw materials, vitamins and essential nutrients and we could not survive without them. Yet access to plant use before the Neolithic can be challenging. In some places, plant remains rarely survive and reconstructing plant use in pre-agrarian contexts needs to be conducted using a range of different techniques. This lack of visible evidence has led to plants being undervalued, both in terms of their contribution to diet and as raw materials. This book outlines why the role of plants is required for a better understanding of hominin and pre-agrarian human life, and offers a variety of ways in which this can be achieved.Wild Harvest is divided into three sections. In section 1 each chapter focuses on a specific feature of plant use by humans; this covers the role of carbohydrates, the need for and effects of processing methods, the role of plants in self-medication among apes, plants as raw materials and the extent of evidence for plant use prior to the development of agriculture in the Near East. Section 2 comprises seven chapters which cover different methods available to obtain information on plants, and the third section has five chapters, each covering a topic related to ethnography, ethnohistory or ethnoarchaeology, and how these can be used to improve our understanding of the role of plants in the pre-agrarian past.Trade ReviewI heartily recommend this publication to anybody interested in plants, their use in past and present non-agrarian societies, and he methodologies required to study them. * European Journal of Archaeology *This unique collection is valuable for paleoanthropologists and their graduate students seeking new perspectives on paleo-ecology and the evolution of hominin diet. It clearly summarizes the current Bstate of the profession. As a text, the price is reasonable and worth the investment. * Economic Botany *This book is a noteworthy attempt to bring archaeobotany into the archaeological discourse and is useful for the student, the non-specialised archaeologist and the general reader. * Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1. Setting the scene 1. Food carbohydrates from plants, by Les Copeland 2. Why protein is not enough: the role of plants and plant processing in meeting human needs for dietary diversity, by Peter J. Butterworth, Peter R. Ellis and Michele Wollstonecroft3. An ape’s perspective on the origin of medicinal plant use in humans, by Michael Huffman4. Plants as raw materials, by Karen Hardy 5. Hunter-gatherer plant use in south west Asia: the path to agriculture. Amaia Arranz Juan Jose Ibanez and Lydia ZapataPart 2. Plant foods, tools and people. 6. Scanning Electron Microscopy and starchy food in Mesolithic Europe: the importance of roots and tubers in Mesolithic diet, by Lucy Kubiak-Martens7. Tools, use wear and experimentation: extracting plants from stone and bone, by Annelou van Gijn and Aimée Little8. Buccal dental microwear as an indicator of diet in modern and ancient human populations, by Laura Mónica Martínez, Ferran Estebaranz and Alejandro Pérez-Pérez9. What early human populations ate. The use of phytoliths for identifying plant remains in the archaeological record at Olduvai, by Rosa Maria Albert and Irene Esteban10. Phytolith evidence of the use of plants as food by Late Natufians at Raqefet Cav, by Robert C Power, Arlene M Rosen and Dani Nadel11. Evidence of plant foods obtained from the dental calculus of individuals from a Brazilian shell mound, by Célia Helena C. Boyadjian; Sabine Eggers and Rita Scheel-Ybert 12. Stable isotopes and mass spectrometry, by Karen Hardy and Stephen BuckleyPart 3. Providing a context: Ethnography, ethnohistory, ethnoarchaeology13. Prehistoric fish traps and fishing structures from Zamostje 2, Russian European Plain: Archaeological and ethnographic contexts, by Ignacio Clemente Conte, Vladimir M. Lozovski, Ermengol Gassiot Ballbè, Andrey N. Mazurkevich and Olga V. Lozovskaya14. Plants and archaeology in Australia, by Sally Brockwell, Janelle Stevenson and Annie Clarke15. Plentiful scarcity: plant use among Fuegian hunter-gatherers, by Marian Berihuete Azorin, Raquel Piqué Huerta and Maria-Estela Mansur 16. Ethnobotany in evolutionary perspective: wild plants in diet composition and daily use among Hadza hunter-gatherers, by Alyssa N. Crittenden17. Wild edible plant use among the people of Tomboronkoto, Kédougou region, Senegal, by Mathieu Guèye and Papa Ibra Samb The development of Neolithic house societies in Orkney: Investigations in the Bay of Firth, Mainland, Orkney (1994–2014), edited by Colin Richards and Richard Jones
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Book SynopsisThe NESAT symposium has grown from the first meeting in 1981 which was attended by 23 scholars, to over 100 at the tenth meeting that took place in Copenhagen in 2008, with virtually all areas of Europe represented. The 50 papers from the conference presented here show the vibrance of the study of archaeological textiles today. Examples studied come from the Bronze Age, Neolithic, the Iron Age, Roman, Viking, the Middle Ages and post-Medieval, and from a wide range of countries including Norway, Czech Republic, Poland, Greece, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia and the Netherlands. Modern techniques of analysis and examination are also discussed.Trade ReviewThe NESAT volumes continue to be an essential resource showcasing advances in the field, from finds to analysis to reconstruction.' -- Medieval Clothing and Textiles, vol 6 Medieval Clothing and Textiles, vol 6 ...[a] handsome, well-edited, and amply illustrated volume...Its editors have assembled an eloquent testimony to the health and vibrancy of European textile studies and thereby created a model which New World scholars could profitably emulate.' -- Journal of Anthropological Research Journal of Anthropological ResearchTable of ContentsA Brief History of the North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT) (Lise Bender Jørgensen) Experimental Textile Archaeology (Eva B. Andersson Strand) The Perfect Picture – A Comparison between 13th-century Art and Two Preserved Tunics (Eva I. Andersson) Loom-Weights, Spindles and Textiles –Textile Production in Central Europe from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age (Tereza Belanová Štolcová and Karina Grömer) Difference in the Elaboration of Dress in Northern Europe during the Middle Bronze Age (Sophie Bergerbrant) Avoiding Nasty Surprises: Decision-Making based on Analytical Data (Lena Bjerregaard, Ute Henniges and Antje Potthast) Archaeological Textiles from Prague Castle, Czech Republic (Milena Bravermanová) The Virtual Reconstruction of Archaeological Textiles (Maria Cybulska, Tomasz Florczak and Jerzy Maik) Terminology Practice in Scandinavian Costume History: Approach to a Methodology for Source based Terminology (Camilla Luise Dahl) Haberdashery Elements made of Metal Thread: Conservation Problems (Anna Drazkowska) Current Examinations of Organic Remains using Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscopy [VP-SEM] (Andrea Fischer) Textiles, Wool, Sheep, Soil and Strontium – Studying their Paths: a Pilot Project (Karin Margarita Frei) Not so much Cinderella as the Sleeping Beauty: Neglected Evidence of Forgotten Skill (Ruth Gilbert) Die Rekonstruktion des Vaaler Bändchens – ein archäologisches Kammgewebe aus Ditmarschen: Gemeinschaftsarbeit der Wollgruppe des Museumsdorfes Düppel, Deutschland (Annelies Goldmann und Eva-Maria Pfarr) The Magdalensberg Textile Tools: a Preliminary Assessment (Kordula Gostencnik) Silk Ribbons from Post-Medieval Graves in Poland (Dawid Grupa) Silks from Kwidzyn (Poland) (Malgorzata Grupa) Norwegian Peat Bog Textiles: Tegle and Helgeland Revisited (Sunniva Wilberg Halvorsen) Smooth and Cool, or Warm and Soft: Investigating the Properties of Cloth in Prehistory (Susanna Harris) Oriental Influences in Viking Age Denmark: a Kaftan with Belt and Pouches (Anne Hedeager Krag) A Study of Two Medieval Silk Girdles: The so-called ‘Eric of Pomerania’s Belt’ and the Dune Belt (Viktoria Holmqvist) Nettle and Bast Fibre Textiles from Stone Tool Wear Traces? The Implications of Wear Traces on Archaeological Late Mesolithic and Neolithic Micro-Denticulate Tools (Linda Hurcombe) Construction and Sewing Technique in Secular Medieval Garments (Katrin Kania) Tiny Weaving Tablets, Rectangular Weaving Tablets (Lise Ræder Knudsen) Warrior’s Clothing in the RigsÞula Poem (Annika Larsson) Potentials and Limitations on the Application of FTIR Microscopy to the Characterisation of Textiles excavated in Greece (Christina Margariti, Paul Wyeth, Dinah Eastop and Georgianna Moraitou) Evidence of War and Worship: Textiles in Roman Iron Age Weapon Deposits (Susan Möller-Wiering) Bewahren und Erfassen – Anmerkungen zum Umgang mit mineralisierten Strukturen auf Metallen in der Denkmalpflege (Britt Nowak-Böck) Medieval Textiles from Trondheim: An Analysis of Function (Ruth Iren Øien) Curry-comb or toothed weft-beater? Serrated iron tools from Roman Province of Pannonia (Judit Pásztókai-Szeöke) Textiles from the 3rd-12th Century AD Cremation Graves found in Lithuania (Elvyra Peceliunaite-Bažiene) Patterned Tablet-Woven Band – In Search of the 11th Century Textile Professional (Silja Penna-Haverinen) Social and Economic Aspects of Textile Consumption in Medieval Tartu (Estonia) (Riina Rammo) Garments for a Queen (Antoinette Rast-Eicher) Textiles in their Scientific Context –Interdisciplinary Cooperation during the Evaluation of Burial Textiles (Nicole Reifarth) Our Threads to the Past: Plaited Motifs as Predecessors of Woven Binding Structures (Eva Richter) The Neolithic Mats of the Eastern Baltic Littoral (Virginija Rimkute) The Impact of Dyes and Natural Pigmentation of Wool on the Preservation of Archaeological Textiles (Maj Ringgaard and Annemette Bruselius Scharff) Wear on Magdalenian Bone Tools: A New Methodology for Studying Evidence of Fiber Industries (Elisabeth Ann Stone) A Bronze Age Plaited Starting Border (Amica Sundström) Textile Craftsmanship in the Norwegian Mirgation Period (Synnøve Thingnæs) Textilfunde aus Ausgrabungen in Heidelberg (Vortrag) (Klaus Tidow) Textile Remains on One Roman Bronze Vessels from Repov (Czech Republic) (Kristýna Urbanova and Helena Brezinova) Dyes, to be or not to be. Dyeing investigation on Early Iron Age Danish Peat Bog Textiles (Ina Vanden Berghe, Beatrice Devia, Margarita Gleba and Ulla Mannering) Dressing the Dead: Customs of Burial Costume in Rural Norway (Marianne Vedeler) The Moment of Inertia: a Parameter for Functional Classification of Worldwide Spindle Whorls from all Periods (André Verhecken) Elite and Military Scandinavian Dress as Portrayed in the Lewis Chess Pieces (Elizabeth Wincott Heckett) Headwear, Footwear and Belts in the Íslendingasögur and Íslendingaþættir (Anna Zanchi) The Use of Horsehair in Female Headdresses of the 12th-13th Century AD (Irita Zeiere) Two Early Middle Age Caps from the Dwelling Mounds Rasquert and Leens in Groningen Province, the Netherlands (Hanna Zimmerman) Studies of the Textiles from the Excavation of Pskov in 2006 (Elena S. Zubkova, Olga V. Orfinskaya and Kirill A. Mikhailov)
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Book SynopsisArt in England fills a void in the scholarship of both English and medieval art by offering the first single volume overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Early Renaissance England. Grounded in history and using the chronology of the reign of monarchs as a structure, it is contextual and comprehensive, revealing unobserved threads of continuity, patterns of intention and unique qualities that run through English art of the medieval millennium. By placing the English movement in a European context, this book brings to light many ingenious innovations that focused studies tend not to recognize and offers a fresh look at the movement as a whole. The media studied include architecture and related sculpture, both ecclesiastical and secular; tomb monuments; murals, panel paintings, altarpieces, and portraits; manuscript illuminations; textiles; and art by English artists and by foreign artists commissioned by English patrons.Trade ReviewThe abiding sense is one of ostentatious display - from the golden glamour of the Sutton Hoo grave goods to the imposing portraits of Tudor monarchs - and what an impressive display it is. * Current Archaeology *
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Book SynopsisFrom 1985 to 2001, the collaborative research initiative known as the Bannu Archaeological Project conducted archaeological explorations and excavations in the Bannu region, in what was then the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. This Project involves scholars from the Pakistan Heritage Society, the British Museum, the Institute of Archaeology (UCL), Bryn Mawr College and the University of Cambridge.This is the third in a series of volumes that present the final reports of the exploration and excavations carried out by the Bannu Archaeological Project. This volume presents the first synthesis of the archaeology of the historic periods in the Bannu region, spanning the period when the first large scale empires expanded to the borders of South Asia up until the arrival of Islam in the subcontinent at the end of the first and beginning of the second millennium BC. The Bannu region provides specific insight into early imperialism in South Asia, as throughout this protracted period, it was able to maintain a distinctive regional identity in the face of recurring phases of imperial expansion and integration.Table of Contents1. At the edge of empires: the Bannu basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 2. Environment and settlement in the Bannu basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 3. Historical context of the Bannu basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 4. Empire and resistance in the borderlands from 1000 BC to AD 1200 5. The Bannu Archaeological Project excavations at Akra and Ter Kala Dheri 6. Ceramics from Akra: raw materials and fabrics 7. Ceramics of the first millennium BC from Akra 8. Ceramics of the first and early second millennium AD from Akra 9. Small finds from Akra 10. Chronology of Akra and Ter Kala Dheri 11. Resistance at the edge of empires: the Bannu basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 Index
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Book SynopsisWhile traditional studies of dress and jewellery have tended to focus purely on reconstruction or descriptions of style, chronology and typology, the social context of costume is now a major research area in archaeology. This refocusing is largely a result of the close relationship between dress and three currently popular topics: identity, bodies and material culture. Not only does dress constitute an important means by which people integrate and segregate to form group identities, but interactions between objects and bodies, quintessentially illustrated by dress, can also form the basis of much wider symbolic systems. Consequently, archaeological understandings of clothing shed light on some of the fundamental aspects of society, hence our intentionally unconditional title.Dress and Society illustrates the range of current archaeological approaches to dress using a number of case studies drawn from prehistoric to post-medieval Europe. Individually, each chapter makes a strong contribution in its own field whether through the discussion of new evidence or new approaches to classic material. Presenting the eight papers together creates a strong argument for a theoretically informed and integrated approach to dress as a specific category of archaeological evidence, emphasising that the study of dress not only draws openly on other disciplines, but is also a sub-discipline in its own right. However, rather than delimiting dress to a specialist area of research we seek to promote it as fundamental to any holistic archaeological understanding of past societies.Table of Contents1. Introduction: dress and society Toby F. Martin and Rosie Weetch 2. Combination, composition and context: readdressing British Middle Bronze Age ornament hoards (c.1400-1100 cal. BC) Neil Wilkin 3. Personal objects and personal identity in the Iron Age: the case of the earliest brooches Sophie Adams 4. ‘Doing brooches’: theorising brooches of the Roman Northwest (first to third centuries AD) Tatiana Ivleva 5. The Roman military belt – a status symbol and object of fashion Stefanie Hoss 6. Middle Anglo-Saxon dress accessories in life and death: expressions of a worldview Alexandra Knox 7. ‘Best’ gowns, kerchiefs and pantofles: gifts of apparel in the north east of England in the 16th century Eleanor Standley 8. Redressing the balance: dress accessories of the non-elites in Early Modern England Natasha Awais-Dean 9. Cultural presumptions and curatorial context” reassessing the ‘highland brooch’ of early modern Scotland Stuart Campbell
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Book SynopsisDuring the late 1st millennium BC into the early 1st millennium AD, the small island of Unst in the far north of the Shetland (and British) Isles was home to well-established and connected farming and fishing communities. The Iron Age settlement at Milla Skerra was occupied for at least 500 years before it was covered with storm-blown sand and abandoned. Although part of it had been lost to the sea, excavation revealed many details of the life of the settlement and how it was reused over many generations. From the middle of the 1st millennium BC people were constructing stone-walled yards and filling them with hearth waste and midden material. Later inhabitants built a house on top, with a paved floor and successive hearths, and more domestic rubbish accumulated inside it. Outside were new yards and workshops for crafts and metalworking, which were remodelled several times. The buildings fell into disrepair and became a dumping ground for domestic waste until the 2nd or 3rd century AD, when sand buried the settlement. Within a few generations, a man was buried beside the ruins along with some striking objects. Thousands of artefacts and environmental remains from Milla Skerra reveal the everyday practices and seasonal rhythms of the people that lived in this windswept and remote island settlement and their connections to both land and sea.Trade ReviewThe report is far from a dry description of contexts and discoveries. When we read that before construction of a yard commenced, 'someone set a painted pebble on the surface', or that a well-worn paving slab 'may have been a favourite warm seat', the past is brought intimately to life. Who needs reconstruction drawings when there are wonderfully evocative desceriptions such as these? * Current Archaeology *Table of ContentsList of figures List of tables Acknowledgements Summary 1. Uncovering Milla Skerra Olivia Lelong 2. The life and death of Milla Skerra Olivia Lelong 3. Refining interpretations of the archaeological deposits Brendan Derham, Clare Ellis and Jo McKenzie 4. Fires and food at Milla Skerra Ruby Cerón-Carrasco, Brendan Derham, Jennifer Miller, Susan Ramsay and Catherine Smith 5. The making, using and breaking of pots Olivia Lelong and Beverley Ballin Smith 6. Craftwork at Milla Skerra: metalworking and bone, stone and iron tools Beverley Ballin Smith, Torben Bjarke Ballin, Ann Clarke, Amanda Forster, Martin Goldberg, Fraser Hunter, Richard Jones, Olivia Lelong, Dawn McLaren and Anthony Newton 7. Technologies of the self: painted pebbles, ornaments and the burial Martin Goldberg and Fraser Hunter, with contributions by Paul Duffy, Katharina Dulias, Ceiridwen J. Edwards and Amanda Forster 8. Rhythms of life at Milla Skerra Olivia Lelong Bibliography Index
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Book SynopsisThis book brings together a series of ground-breaking studies on human bones and artefacts recovered from Irish caves principally between 1870 and 1990. Until now these assemblages had either been completely neglected or had not been examined with modern techniques. The 15 expert contributions presented here shine a light on the use and perception of caves at different times in the past, from the Early Mesolithic through to post-medieval times.The book opens with osteoarchaeological analyses of human bones from 24 caves, revealing complex and varied funerary practices and rituals. Shell beads and animal tooth pendants provide insight into the status of those whose skeletal remains were placed in caves. Studies on lithics, stone axes and prehistoric pottery highlight the changing roles of caves as places for shelter, occupation, burial and ritual practices during the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age. An examination of the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age metalwork contributes to wider evidence of votive deposition at natural places in the landscape. Several chapters focus on the wealth of early medieval and Viking-age activities, drawing on pottery assemblages from caves along the north coast, to ecclesiastical shrine fragments from sites in the south, as well as Viking material from a growing number of caves.These studies will be of interest to osteoarchaeologists; to those who specialise in particular archaeological periods; to museumologists and artefact specialists; to cave archaeologists; and to everyone interested in Ireland’s past.Trade ReviewI would recommend this book to anyone who was intrigued by Dowd’s The archaeology of caves in Ireland and who is interested in the primary data that she used for her broader synthesis presented therein… specialists from the Mesolithic to the Viking Age will be pleased and inspired by the wealth of data included here. This book will be an important reference work for generations of archaeologists to come. * Journal of Irish Archaeology - Reviewer 2 *This is a worthy counterpart to Dowd's earlier volume, and it is there that readers should look for the broader discussion that draws together the wide-ranging material presented here. * Medieval Archaeology *This volume is an essential reference for anyone studying the human and artefactual assemblages from British and Irish caves, and in terms of the osteology chapters, human bone assemblages more widely. It is also a necessary addition to the Irish archaeological literature, in allowing this once understudied material to be woven into broader landscape narratives. * Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society *A volume to turn to where you will find hard data and discussion… this is a valuable work of documentation and more kudos to Marion and her fifteen contributors for bringing it into existence. * Descent *The 15 expert contributions presented in Underground Archaeology shine a light on the use and perception of caves at different times in the past, from the Early Mesolithic through to post-medieval times. The studies in this volume provide many valuable insights and will be of interest to osteoarchaeologists; to those who specialize in particular archaeological periods; to museumologists and artifact specialists; to cave archaeologists; and to everyone interested in Ireland’s past. * www.sirreadalot.org *Table of ContentsList of figure List of plates List of tables Introduction and acknowledgements Marion Dowd PART I: HUMAN REMAINS 1. Osteoarchaeological analysis of human skeletal remains from 23 Irish caves Linda Fibiger 2. Osteoarchaeological analysis of human skeletal remains from Dunmore Cave, Co. Kilkenny Linda G. Lynch PART II: ARTEFACT ASSEMBLAGES 3. Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age lithics from Irish caves Peter C. Woodman 4. Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery from Irish caves Helen Roche 5. Polished stone axeheads from Irish caves Stephen Mandal, Emmett O’Keeffe and Gabriel Cooney 6. Prehistoric perforated marine shells from Irish caves Rory Connolly 7. Prehistoric perforated and worked animal teeth from Irish caves Fiona Beglane 8. Late Bronze Age and Iron Age metalwork from Irish caves Katharina Becker 9. Early medieval and medieval pottery from sea caves along the Antrim coast Alison Kyle 10. Early medieval shrine fragments from Park North Cave, Co. Cork and Kilgreany Cave, Co. Waterford Griffin Murray 11. Viking-age artefacts from Irish caves John Sheehan PART III: SITE-SPECIFIC ARTEFACT REPORTS 12. Stone rings from Robber’s Den, Co. Clare Alison Sheridan 13. Medieval pottery from Carrigmurrish Cave, Co. Waterford Clare McCutcheon 14. Late seventeenth century material from Kilgreany Cave, Co. Waterford Clare McCutcheon 15. Coarse stone objects from Ballynamintra Cave, Co. Waterford Stephen Mandal
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Book SynopsisOver the last 20 years a vast number of new and important Swedish Mesolithic sites have been excavated and published in different ways as articles, books and site reports. As yet there has been no study that tries to bring the loose ends together and so the main task of this important new work by one of Sweden’s leading prehistorians is to provide an extensive overview of some of the main sites and results. The timespan is long: c. 10 000-4000 BC and the amount and choice of data very large so rather than attempt to describe everything in detail Mats Larsson focuses on a series of fundamental research perspectives concerning Mesolithic lifeways and settlement patterns and chooses key sites to illustrate them. The emphasis is on southern and middle Sweden, though the country’s northern regions are in no way forgotten. This companion piece to the author’s recent successful volume Paths Towards a New World: Neolithic in Sweden, written for a general audience is also a must for all those archaeologists interested in the Mesolithic of Northern Europe and would be students of prehistory.Trade ReviewDistilling the scattered field notes and site reports of the entire Swedish Mesolithic (9700-4000 BC) into a slim volume is an impressive task never previously accomplished. Yet with his simple and salient writing style, Larsson – one of the country’s premier prehistorians – manages just that, employing a chronological and thematic approach to make sense of the diverse stone tools, bone-filled pits, and rogue post-holes peppered through Sweden's dense forests and Baltic shoals. * Current World Archaeology *Overall, this is a very interesting book which provides a very thorough overview of Mesolithic sites in Sweden, and especially highlighting a lot of the important new discoveries made within the last couple of decades… a really important source for students of the Mesolithic * Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. The Mesolithic in Sweden: an introduction Mesolithic on the move 2. Hunters in the Forest Agerödmosse (bog) Settlement patterns and hunting/collecting strategies Life and death The end of the Mesolithic in Scania Segebro-an Early Atlantic Settlement at the coast Ageröd V-An Atlantic bog site Tågerup- Settlement and Burials Yngsjö and Årup The Last Hunters- The Ertebølle Culture Soldattorpet, Limhamn Löddesborg Tågerup Bredasten Yngsjö 3. BLEKINGE: NEW DISCOVERIES Bro 597 Damm 6 Norrje Sunnansund: Tons of fish 4. HUNTERS ALONG THE KALMAR STRAIT AND ON ÖLAND Tingby, a much discussed house New excavations at Tingby Concluding remarks Öland 5. SEALHUNTERS ON GOTLAND Taking care of the dead 6. INTO THE FOREST: EARLY HUNTERS IN THE SOUTH SWEDISH INLAND 7. PIONEERS: HUNTERS IN EASTERN MIDDLE SWEDEN Östergötland. New discoveries The Mjölby sites Mörby Sand covered houses Högby Storlyckan: Another site with a dwelling structure The hut Spatial distribution Western Östergötland, Lake Tåkern Sites around Linköping Life and death around Motala Death in the Lake The Late Mesolithic in Östergötland Pioneering hunters: some remarks 8. PIONEERS IN THE EARLY ARCHIPELAGOS OF EASTERN MIDDLE SWEDEN Early sites Late sites 9. MOVING INLAND 10. THE WESTERN PART OF SWEDEN The earliest sites Hensbacka Culture Inland sites Sandarna Culture The dead The Late Mesolithic Lihult Lihult inland sites Transverse arrowheads 11. MOVING NORTH Leksand Along the coast-further north 12. PIONEERS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTHERN SWEDEN The earliest sites Later Mesolithic Epilogue References
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Book SynopsisThis, the final title to be published from the sessions of the 2002 ICAZ conference, focuses on the role of man's best friend. As worker or companion, the dog has enjoyed a unique relationship with its human master, and the depth and variety of the papers in this fascinating collection is a testament to the interest that this symbiotic arrangement holds for many scholars working in archaeology today. The book covers an eclectic range of subjects, such as considering dogs as animals of sacrifice and animal components of ancient and modern religious ritual and practice; dogs as human companions subject to loving care, visual/symbolic representation, deliberate or accidental breed manipulation; as working dogs; and finally as co-inhabitors of uman dwelling paces and co-consumers of human food resources. While many of the papers in this volume have a predominant focus, they also demonstate that the relationships between humans and dogs are rarely, if ever singular or simple. Instead these relationships are complex, often combining the practical, the ideological and the symbolic.
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Book SynopsisThis is an important study of the new types of warships which evolved in the navies of the Mediterranean in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, and of their use by Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans in the fleets and naval battles in the second and first centuries, culminating in the Battle of Aktion. The book includes a catalogue and discussion of the iconography of the ships with over fifty illustrations from coins, sculptures and other objects. John Coates discusses reconstructions, crews, ships and tactics illuminated by the recent experiments with the reconstructed trireme Olympias . Complete with gazetteer, glossary, bibliography and indexes.
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Book SynopsisIn this third volume Dr Killen investigates how woodworking in ancient Egypt developed in the 19th and 20th dynasties. It establishes the range of wooden furniture manufactured during this period by surveying examples depicted in Ramesside Theban and Memphite tombs.Ancient records show how the procurement of furniture occurred at Deir el-Medina while the design and manufacturing of these furniture forms can be traced through a series of furniture sketches that are annotated with a range of marks and signs. These designs are seen in surviving examples of furniture from settlements such as Medinet el-Gurob. To facilitate the manufacture of furniture, procedures were developed that were managed by cooperatives of Egyptian artisans. These groups established a recognisable Egyptian furniture style that was employed throughout the Ramesside world. Depictions of furniture used by the ruling Ramesside elite are examined including a remarkable collection of furniture used by Rameses III, illustrations of which could once be found in a painted wall scene in his tomb (KV11) and still seen carved on the walls of his temple at Medinet Habu. These illustrations show how royal furniture was used as a symbolic tool to promote the Ramesside Empire at the edges of its sphere of influence. Temple furniture was also used to serve a religious purpose in the rituals performed by Ramesside priests, these forms are also analysed in this volume. This third volume contains a catalogue of known Egyptian furniture preserved in world museums that augments those catalogues found in the first two volumes of this series.The author also provides a distribution list with illustrations of a number of replica pieces of woodwork made by him that can now be found preserved in several museums and collections. The purpose of these replica pieces has been to analyse the design and construction techniques used by Egyptian carpenters using a range of replica woodworking tools.
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Book SynopsisThis book is the first in a series of volumes which form the published proceedings of the 9th meeting of the International Council of Archaeozoology (ICAZ), held in Durham in 2002. The 35 papers present a series of case studies from around the world. They stretch beyond the standard zooarchaeological topics of economy and ecology, and consider how zooarchaeological research can contribute to our understanding of human behaviour and social systems. The volume is divided into two parts.Part 1, Beyond Calories, focuses on the zooarchaeology of ritual and religion. Contributors discuss ways to approach questions of ritual and religion through the faunal record, and consider how material culture depicting and/or associated with animals can provides clues about ideology, religious practices and the role of animals within spiritual systems.Part 2, Equations for Inequality, looks at questions of identity, status and other forms of social differentiation in former human societies. Contributors discuss how differences in food consumption, nutrition, and food procurement strategies can be related to various forms of social differentiation among individuals and groups.
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Book SynopsisIn this major, highly illustrated, new study Tim Perttula explores the cultural and social landscape of the Caddo Indian peoples (hayaanuh) for about 1000 years between face=Arial size=2>ca. A.D. 850-1850. There were continual changes in the character and extent of ancestral landscapes, through times of plenty, risk, and hardship, as well as in relationships between different communities of Caddo peoples dispersed or concentrated across the landscape at different points in time. These ancestral peoples, in all their diversity of origins, material culture, subsistence, and rituals and religious beliefs, actively created their societies by establishing connected places on the land that became home and lead to the formation of social networks across environments with a diverse mosaic of resources. Established places lent order to the chaotic worlds of people and nature, and they embodied history and the cosmos here on earth. Caddo Landscapes explores the ancestral Caddo constructed landscape, providing detailed information on earthen mounds, specialized non-mound structures, domestic settlements and their key facilities as well as associated gardens and fields, and places where salt, clay, lithic raw materials, and other materials were obtained and the social ties that linked communities in numerous ways. The character and key sequences of ceramics are discussed and radiometric dating evidence provided.
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Book SynopsisJerusalem Throne Games explores the political battle for power to succeed David expressed through selected stories from the beginning of the Book of Genesis. In these confrontations, combatants wielded a new weapon of war that was changing the course of human history, the alphabet prose narrative. With this weapon, competing factions battled for throne not with the blog, the op ed, the tweet or the essay, but through storytelling. In this book six of those stories from Gen. 4-11 are analysed through the lens of the succession of Solomon and the collapse of his kingdom. These stories are identified as “son” stories or supplements to the existing alphabet narrative from the time of David. They were written by the various factions or priesthoods vying for power and are political in nature. Each story, the Sons of Cain, the Sons of Seth, the Sons of God, the Sons of Noah, the Son of Cush (Nimrod), and the Sons of men (Tower of Babel), is reviewed through selected commentaries from ancient times to the leading ones of the 20th century. These tensions raised highlight the need to revise the Documentary Hypothesis, the traditional scholarly approach for understanding the writing of these stories. A new Documentary Hypothesis is proposed for the writer known as J, the traditional author of these six stories. It presents the creation of supplemental and interactive writing by the Levites, Zadokites, and Aaronids who battled for power to name, dominate, and influence the person on the throne. The story of Jerusalem throne games began with the death of David and continued for centuries. The goal in this book is to understand the creation and meaning of those stories in their original political context in the time of Solomon.Trade Review...an excellent resource for students just entering the field. Ultimately, regardless of whether one finds Feinman’s answer to “Who wrote the Bible?” convincing, he has done us all a great pedagogical favor with this book. * Journal of Bible and Theology *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Documentary Hypothesis Part I: Interpreting the Stories Chapter 1 The Battlefield Stories Chapter 2 Sons of Cain Chapter 3 Sons of Seth Chapter 4 Sons of God Chapter 5 Sons of Noah Chapter 6 Nimrod, Son of Cush Chapter 7 Tower of Babel, Sons of Men Chapter 8 Setting the Jerusalem Stage Part II: Writing the Stories Chapter 9 The J Documentary Hypothesis Chapter 10 Zadok, Jebusite J Chapter 11 Abiathar, Shiloh J Chapter 12 Phinehas, Mesopotamia J Chapter 13 Ahijah, Prophet J Conclusion: Redacting the Js
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Book SynopsisThe articles included in this volume were all presented at the 15th annual British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) conference held at the University of York on the 13th and 15th of September 2013. Ten papers are presented, on a range of topics and themes, including that of ‘Constructing Identities: Ethnicity and Migration’ exploring theoretical approaches to the multiple identities of the body and multidisciplinary approaches to investigating the African origin of African American communities in parts of South America. Papers exploring the theme ‘Treatment of the Body: Understanding and Portrayals’ focus on the visibility of prehistoric burial practice in Britain and the Levant (the ‘invisible dead’), and evidence for diversity in late medieval Christian burial practice in Taunton, Somerset. Three papers are incorporated in the theme ‘Investigating Lifeways: Diets, Disease and Occupations’, focusing on ancient DNA to investigate Mycobacterium tuberculosis from 18th century mummies from Hungary; a bioarchaeological perspective on military communities in Roman London; and a methodological approach to testing a faster method for recording past activity-patterns in skeletal remains. The final three papers of the volume have both archaeological and methodological aspects, using osteological and archaeological evidence to investigate health in Roman York; exploring ostoarchaeological sampling strategies in the presentation of data from a large-scale sieving programme of a 19th century crypt and detailing a methodological study of estimating age of non-adults.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Introduction (Malin Holst and Michelle Alexander) 1. Matryoshki, Masks and Identities: Bioarchaeology and the Body Sonia Zakrzewski 2. Revisiting Genetic Ancestry in African Diaspora Communities from Atlantic South America César Fortes-Lima and Jean-Michel Dugoujon 3. The ‘Invisible Dead’ Project: The Database as a Work-in-Progress Mandy Jay, Chris Scarre, Charlotte Roberts, Graham Philip, Jennie Bradbury and Douglas Davies 4. Diverse Burial Practices from a Late Medieval Cemetery in Somerset Heidi Dawson-Hobbis 5. Whole Genome Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 18th-Century Natural Mummies from Vác, Hungary Helen D. Donoghue, Mark Spigelman, Ildikó Pap, Ildikó Szikossy, Oona Y-C Lee, David E. Minnikin, Gurdyal S. Besra, Andrew Millard, Martin J. Sergeant, Jacqueline Z.-M. Chan, Mark J. Pallen 6. From Soldiers to Military Communities in Roman London: A Bioarchaeological Perspective Rebecca Redfern 7. 3D Recording of Normal Entheses: A Pilot Study Charlotte Y. Henderson 8. A Biocultural Assessment of Health in Roman York Lauren McIntyre and Andrew T. Chamberlain 9. The Riddle of the Sands: Sieving Methodology in the Recovery of Human Remains Don P. O’Meara 10. Biological Age Estimation of Non-Adult Human Skeletal Remains: Comparison of Dental Development with the Humerus, Femur and Pars Basilaris Carla L. Burrell, Carole A.L. Davenport, Raymond J. Carpenter and James C. Ohman
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Book SynopsisThis exciting new addition to the American Landscapes series provides an in-depth account of how flintknappers obtained and used stone based on archaeological, geological, landscape, and anthropological data. Featuring case studies from three key regions in North America, this book gives readers a comprehensive view of quarrying activities ranging from extracting the raw material to creating finished stone tools. Quarry landscapes were some of the first large-scale land modification efforts among early peoples in the New World. The chronological time periods covered by quarrying activities show that most intensive use took place during parts of the Archaic and Woodland periods or between roughly 40001000 years ago when denser populations existed, but use began as early as the Paleoindian Period, about 13,0009000 years ago, and ended in the Historic or Protohistoric periods, when colonists and Native Americans mined chert for gunflints and sharpening stones or abrasives. From the procu
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Book SynopsisThis beautifully illustrated volume examines American Indian rock art across an expansive region of eastern North America during the Mississippian Period (post AD 900). Unlike portable cultural material, rock art provides in situ evidence of ritual activity that links ideology and place. The focus is on the widespread use of cosmograms depicted in Mississippian rock art imagery. This approach anchors broad distributional patterns of motifs and themes within a powerful framework for cultural interpretation, yielding new insights on ancient concepts of landscape, ceremonialism, and religion. It also provides a unified, comprehensive perspective on Mississippian symbolism. A selection of landscape cosmograms from various parts of North America and Europe taken from the ethnographic records are examined and an overview of American Indian cosmographic landscapes provided to illustrate their centrality to indigenous religious traditions across North America. Authors discuss what a cosmogram-based approach can teach us about people, places, and past environments and what it may reveal that more conventional approaches overlook. Geographical variations across the landscape, regional similarities, and derived meaning found in these data are described. The authors also consider the difficult subject of how to develop a more detailed chronology for eastern rock art.Trade ReviewOrganised into seven thought-provoking chapters, each accompanied by high-quality images, this book will be an important contribution into understanding regional rock-art trends in a continent that has a complex, dynamic and distinct range in its rock-art assemblages. * Current World Archaeology *I commend the editors for their daring vision and timely contribution to American rock art scholarship. * Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society *...this is a thought-provoking and informative book on the fascinating subject of rock art in the southeastern United States. * Time & Mind: the Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture. *...challenge[s] archaeologists to think beyond customarily considered relationships among people, portable objects, and architecture and to consider rock art as one of many contexts through which native peoples of eastern North America expressed their understandings of animate landscapes. * American Antiquity *Table of ContentsList of Illustration and Tables Preface Materiality and Cultural Landscapes in Native America George Sabo and Jan Simek Missouri: West Mississippi River Valley 2. The Big Five Petroglyph Sites: Their Place on the Landscape and Relation to Their Creators James R. Duncan and Carol Diaz-Granados 3. Landscape, Cosmology, and the Old Woman: A Strong Feminine Presence James R. Duncan and Carol Diaz-Granados Arkansas: Ozark Escarpment West of the Mississippi River 4. Petroglyphs, Portals, and People: Along the Eastern Ozark Escarpment, Arkansas George Sabo III, Jerry E. Hilliard, Jami J. Lockhart, and Leslie C. Walker Illinois: East Mississippi River Valley 5. Transformed Spaces: A Landscape Approach to the Rock Art of Illinois Mark J. Wagner, Kayeleigh Sharp, and Jonathan Remo Appalachian Plateau 6. Prehistoric Rock Art, Social Boundaries, and Cultural Landscapes on the Cumberland Plateau of Southeast North America Jan F. Simek, Alan Cressler, and B. Bart Henson Appalachian Mountains 7. Betwixt And Between: The Occurrence of Petroglyphs Between Townhouses of the Living and Townhouses of Spirit Beings in Northern Georgia and Western North Carolina Johannes Loubser, Scott Ashcraft, James Wettstaed References Index
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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Relations Between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems arises from a conference held in Cambridge in 2015. The question of how writing systems are related to each other, and how we can study those relationships, has not been studied in detail and this volume aims to fill a gap in scholarship by presenting a number of case studies focused on the writing systems of the Bronze Age Aegean. These include Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A and Linear B, used predominantly in Crete and mainland Greece, as well as the Cypro-Minoan script of Cyprus. Most of these systems (the only major exception being Linear B) remain undeciphered to some degree but we nevertheless have considerable evidence for their development and use.Each contributor focuses on a different theoretical problem and/or set of scripts. Important questions include: How and why did writing emerge in Crete in the Middle Bronze Age? What is the relationship between writing and art? Why did different writing systems co-exist with each other? What changes were made when a new system was developed from an old one? Can our understanding of how different systems are related to each other help us to reconstruct the values of script signs? The contributors tackle such questions by employing a variety of methods, from epigraphic and palaeographic analysis to typological comparison and contextual study.The result is a coherent volume that will not only enrich our understanding of the ancient Aegean writing systems in particular, but will also provide an important example for future studies of writing across the world.Trade Review...all [chapters] lead to conclusions that are important for our understanding of the development of writing in the Aegean […] a collection that provides much food for thought. * Journal of Greek Archaeology *With its wide-ranging topics and methodologies, this volume makes an outstanding contribution to the current state of research. It is a pioneering undertaking encouraging further future collaborations. These studies have definitely paved the way for turning this ‘no man’s land’ that is the study of writing systems into a promising autonomous discipline in its own right, while being connected to neighbouring fields of research through interdisciplinary bridges * Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie *All of the essays contain contributions of real interest and value […] * Journal of Hellenic Studies *Table of ContentsList of figures Preface Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction: the Aegean writing systems Philippa M. Steele Chapter 2. Another beginning’s end: secondary script formation in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean Silvia Ferrara Chapter 3. Cretan ‘Hieroglyphic’ and the nature of script Roeland P.-J.E. Decorte Chapter 4. Linear B script and Linear B administrative system – different patterns in their development Helena Tomas Chapter 5. Reconstructing the matrix of the ‘Mycenaean’ literate administrations Vassilis Petrakis Chapter 6. From Linear B to Linear A: the problem of the backward projection of sound values Philippa M. Steele and Torsten Meißner Chapter 7. Processes of script adaptation and creation in Linear B: the evidence of the ‘extra’ signs Anna P. Judson Chapter 8. Script comparison in the investigation of Cypro-Minoan Miguel Valério Chapter 9. Is there anything like a Cypro-Minoan 3 script? Yves Duhoux Chapter 10. Script and language on Cyprus during the Geometric Period: an overview on the occasion of two new inscriptions Markus Egetmeyer Bibliography
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Book SynopsisArchaeology of East Asia constitutes an introduction to social and political development from the Palaeolithic to 8th-century early historic times. It takes a regional view across China, Korea, Japan and their peripheries that is unbounded by modern state lines. This viewpoint emphasizes how the region drew on indigenous developments and exterior stimuli to produce agricultural technologies, craft production, political systems, religious outlooks and philosophies that characterize the civilization of historic and even modern East Asia. This book is a complete rewrite and update of The Rise of Civilization in East Asia, first published in 1993. It incorporates the many theoretical, technical and factual advances of the last two decades, including DNA, gender, and isotope studies, AMS radiocarbon dating and extensive excavation results. Readers of that first edition will find the same structure and topic progression. While many line drawings have been retained, new colour illustrations abound. Boxes and Appendices clarify and add to the understanding of unfamiliar technologies. For those seeking more detail, the Appendices also provide case studies that take intimate looks at particular data and current research. The book is suitable for general readers, East Asian historians and students, archaeology students and professionals.
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Book SynopsisThis volume charts the radical transformation of an inner city neighbourhood in late antique Carthage which was excavated over a five-year period by a team from the University of Cambridge. Bordering the main thoroughfare leading from the Brysa Hill to the ports, the neighbourhood remained primarily a residential one from the second century until 530s AD when a substantial basilica was constructed over the eastern half of the insula. Further extensive modifications were made to the basilica half-a-century later when the structures on the western half of the insula were demolished and the basilica greatly enlarged with the addition of a new east-west aisles, a large monumental baptistery and a crypt. By carefully reconstructing the complex architectural plan of this innovative building, this study shows how the re-modelled Bir Messaouda basilica was transformed into a major pilgrimage centre overturning established tradition that located such complexes outside the city walls. The Bir Messaouda basilica provides important insights into the transition between Vandal and Byzantine control of the city, the development of a new Christian inter-mural urban landscape in the sixth century AD, and the significance of the pilgrimage in reinforcing ecclesiastical authority in post-Justinianic North Africa.Trade Review…provides very thoughtful assessment of current approaches to the archaeology of 6th-century Christianity within North Africa. * Medieval Archaeology *Table of ContentsBackground and acknowledgments Richard Miles 1. Late Antique Carthage: archaeological and historical contexts Richard Miles 2. The early history of Bir Messaouda: Punic and Roman Simon Greenslade and Richard Miles 3. The transition of Bir Messaouda in the early to mid-6th century AD Simon Greenslade and Richard Miles 4. The transition of Bir Messaouda in the later 6th century AD Simon Greenslade and Richard Miles 5. The baptistery and crypt Simon Greenslade and Richard Miles 6. The later history of the basilica Simon Greenslade and Richard Miles 7. The 6th-century mosaics at Bir Messaouda Jane Chick 8. Plaster Claudia Goodbrand 9. The glass from the excavation at Bir Messaouda Sylvia Fünfschilling 10. The Bir Messaouda pottery Claudia Goodbrand Appendix 1 11. The coins Stefan Krmnicek 12. Metal building materials, personal and utilitarian objects and other small metal finds Ralf Bockmann 13. Ceramic building material from the Bir Messaouda Excavations 2000–2002 Philip Mills 14. The stone finds Ben Croxford Appendix 1: The marble typology Appendix 2: Catalogue of illustrated finds 15. Conclusions Richard Miles Appendix: The search for the Maritime Forum of Carthage John Whitehouse and Sami Harize Bibliography
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Book SynopsisAntiquarianism and collecting have been associated intimately with European imperial and colonial enterprises, although both existed long before the early modern period and both were (and continue to be) practiced in places other than Europe. Scholars have made significant progress in the documentation and analysis of indigenous antiquarian traditions, but the clear-cut distinction between “indigenous” and “colonial” archaeologies has obscured the intense and dynamic interaction between these seemingly different endeavours. This book concerns the divide between local and foreign antiquarianisms focusing on case studies drawn primarily from the Mediterranean and the Americas. Both regions host robust pre-modern antiquarian traditions that have continued to develop during periods of colonialism. In both regions, moreover, colonial encounters have been mediated by the antiquarian practices and preferences of European elites. The two regions also exhibit salient differences. For example, Europeans claimed the “antiquities” of the eastern Mediterranean as part of their own, “classical,” heritage, whereas they perceived those of the Americas as essentially alien, even as they attempted to understand them by analogy to the classical world. These basic points of comparison and contrast provide a framework for conjoint analysis of the emergence of hybrid or cross-bred antiquarianisms. Rather than assuming that interest in antiquity is a human universal, this book explores the circumstances under which the past itself is produced and transformed through encounters between antiquarian traditions over common objects of interpretation.Trade Review[…] a collection of ten papers that approach the complex question of antiquarianism in a variety of ways. * Antiquity *Antiquarianisms is a significant contribution to current scholarship on antiquarian traditions. Not only does the volume add to Schnapp’s blueprint for comparing varying antiquarian practices, it also challenges its own goals and asks the reader to do the same in existing and future scholarship. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *...a demonstration of the historical dynamism within two discrete locales of antiquarian endeavour is very welcome, particularly as it underscores an important truth: that antiquarianism can provide a more conducive space to explore, in concert with people who are not specialists, the diverse connections between past and present. * European Journal of Archaeology *
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Book SynopsisUroš Matić and Bo Jensen have brought together a team of both young and senior researches from many different countries in this first volume that aims to explore the complex intersection between archaeology, gender and violence. Papers range from theoretical discussions on previous approaches to gender and violence and the ethical necessity to address these questions today, to case studies dealing on gender and violence from prehistoric to early medieval Europe, but also including studies on ancient Egypt, Persia and Peru. The contributors deal both with representations of violence and its gendered background in images and text, and with bioarchaeological evidence for violence and trauma with a gendered background. The volume is rich both in examples and approaches and includes opening and closing chapters by senior scholars in the field assessing the current state of work and addressing the scholarship to continue on the line of this volume.Table of ContentsPreface Uroš Matić and Bo Jensen 1. Introduction: Why do we need archaeologies of gender and violence, and why now? Bo Jensen and Uroš Matić 2. Revisiting the myth of matriarchy”, rethinking determinism, seeing anew Stephanie Koerner 3. The honoured and the sacrificed? Gender and violence at a sanctuary of the late 3rd millennium BC in Central Germany André Spatzier, with anthropological analyses by Marcus Stecher and Kurt W. Alt 4. The role of violence in the construction of prehistoric masculinities Lisbeth Skogstrand 5. “Her striking but cold beauty”: Gender and violence in depictions of Queen Nefertiti smiting the enemies Uroš Matić 6. Les demoiselles d’Entremont: Violence, gender and headhunting in Iron Age Europe Ian Armit 7. Violence against women in Graeco-Roman Egypt: the contribution of Demotic documents Christine Hue-Arcé 8. Death and the maiden: Late antique images of nubile females as agents and victims of lethal violence Susanne Moraw 9. Heaven for me, hell for the “others”: An agenda on sex and body from Sasanid Persia Maryam Dezhamkhooy and Leila Papoli Yazdi 10. Skull-cups and snake-pits: Men’s revenge and women’s revenge in Viking Age Scandinavia Bo Jensen 11. The weapons make the man? A re-analysis of Early Anglo-Saxon weapon burial and interpretation Laura M. Whitehouse 12. Gender and structural violence in Prehistoric Peru Julie Farnum 13. Gender and violence in archaeology: Final commentary Louise Hitchcock
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Book SynopsisSince the earliest use of pottery, vessels have been associated with both the general shape and specific parts of the human body. The production of human-shaped pottery might be understood as one element of the spectrum of figural art in prehistoric communities. The idea of studying anthropomorphic pottery and the return of human beings into a body made of clay, which forms the core theme of this collection of 12 papers, stems from work on anthropomorphic features of Neolithic communities between the Near East and Europe. Contributors are engaged in questions about the analysis of human features and characteristics on vessels, their occurrence, function and disposal. Beginning with the European Neolithic and moving on through the Bronze and Iron Ages, papers focus on diachronic archaeological patterns and contexts as well as on the theoretical background of this particular type of container in order to shed light on similarities and differences through the ages and to understand possibilities and limits of interpretation.Trade Review...the strongest point in the volume’s contributions is the detailed presentation of factual data, accompanied by good quality and elucidating illustrations. * Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society *Table of ContentsWater into wine? Carrying vessels in the European Neolithic and Chalcolithic H. Schwarzberg The anthropomorphism of human-like-pots: Circular paths in the archaeological thought E. Voulgari The corporeality of vessels: Neolithic anthropomorphic pottery in the Republic of Macedonia G. Naumov Face vessels and anthropomorphic representations on vessels from Neolithic Italy V. Becker The Vase, the Body: Between Filial Relationship and Original Complex J. Recchia-Quiniou The social role of Neolithic face pots I. Pavlů Figurines and other bodies: a matter of scale D. Hofmann Post-LBK anthropomorphic vessels from Poland J. Pyzel Clay anthropomorphous images of the Jomon period, Japan E. Solovyeva Vessels decorated with stylised "pillar-like" anthropomorphic representations from the Precucuteni settlement of Baia - În Muchie (Suceava county, Romania), 2012-2014 C.-E. Ursu, S. Ţerna and C. Aparaschivei Human-shaped pottery from the tell settlement of Sultana-Malu Roşu V. Opriș, Th. Ignat and C. Lazar Faces from the past. Face urns of the Pomeranian Culture and an idea of humans in early Iron Age K. Ślusarska
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Book SynopsisPublic Archaeology and Climate Change promotes new approaches to studying and managing sites threatened by climate change, specifically actions that engage communities or employ ‘citizen science’ initiatives. Researchers and heritage managers around the world are witnessing severe challenges and developing innovative mechanisms for dealing with them. Increasingly archaeologists are embracing practices learned from the natural heritage sector, which has long worked with the public in practical recording projects. By involving the public in projects and making data accessible, archaeologists are engaging society in the debate on threatened heritage and in wider discussions on climate change. Community involvement also underpins wider climate change adaptation strategies, and citizen science projects can help to influence and inform policy makers. Developing threats to heritage are being experienced around the world, and as this collection of papers will show, new partnerships and collaborations are crossing national boundaries.With examples from across the globe, this selection of 18 papers detail the scale of the problem through a variety of case studies. Together they demonstrate how heritage professionals, working in diverse environments and with distinctive archaeology, are engaging with the public to raise awareness of this threatened resource. Contributors examine differing responses and proactive methodologies for the protection, preservation and recording of sites at risk from natural forces and demonstrate how new approaches can better engage people with sites that are under increasing threat of destruction, thus contributing to the resilience of our shared heritage.Trade ReviewI found this volume to be very readable, informative and enjoyable. I greatly appreciated the uniqueness of the intersection of public archaeology, cultural-heritage management and climate change. The editors have done an excellent job assembling the papers... I agree with the editors that ‘this volume will make a key reference for those involved in climate change and heritage studies’. I go further in saying that the relevance of this volume to cultural-heritage managers and public archaeologists will only increase in the future. * International Journal of Nautical Archaeology *Given that many of these approaches could be tailored to local conditions, this book will be useful to archaeologists, heritage practitioners, or even policy-makers working on the preservation and protection of any heritage site impacted by climate change. While archaeological heritage is an underutilized field in awareness-raising about our changing climate, this edition demonstrates how it can spur engagement in diverse communities and potentially change national and international policy addressing contemporary climate change. * Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology *...an urgent wake-up call about the significant, accelerating, and widespread threats that climate change poses for archaeological sites and other cultural heritage resources on a global scale […] essential reading for all archaeologists. * California Archaeology *...a very important contribution to our field because it offers practitioners encouragement and inspiration as they race climate change to identify, record, and understand impacts on cultural heritage sites, and then to a respond to those threats and impacts. * Sustainable Museums *This important volume highlights the threats facing cultural heritage sites and offers strategies for their preservation addressed through public archaeology programs… Recommended. * Choice *Table of Contents Introduction. Courtney Nimura, Tom Dawson, Elías López-Romero & Marie-Yvane Daire The growing vulnerability of World Heritage to rapid climate change and the challenge of managing for an uncertain future. Adam Markham A central role for communities: limate change and coastal heritage management in Scotland. Tom Dawson Improving management responses to coastal change: utilising sources from archaeology, maps, charts, photographs and art. Garry Momber, Lauren Tidbury, Julie Satchell & Brandon Mason Community recording and monitoring of vulnerable sites in England. Eliott Wragg, Nathalie Cohen, Gustav Milne, Stephanie Ostrich & Courtney Nimura Challenged by an archaeologically educated public in Wales. Claudine Gerrard The men and women behind the MASC Project (Monitoring the Archaeology of Sligo's Coastline): engaging local stakeholder groups to monitor vulnerable coastal archaeology in Ireland. James Bonsall & Sam Moore Recovering information from eroding and destroyed coastal archaeological sites: a crowdsourcing initiative in Northwest Iberia. Elías López-Romero, Xosé Ignacio Vilaseco Vázquez, Patricia Mañana-Borrazás & Alejandro Güimil-Fariña Coastal erosion and public archaeology in Brittany, France: recent experiences from the Alert project. Pau Olmos Benlloch, Elías López-Romero & Marie-Yvane Daire Climate change and the preservation of archaeological sites in Greenland. Jørgen Hollesen, Henning Matthiesen, Christian Koch Madsen, Bo Albrechtsen, Aart Kroon & Bo Elberling Gufuskálar: a medieval commercial fishing station in Western Iceland. Lilja Pálsdóttir & Frank J. Feeley Every place has a climate story: finding and sharing climate change stories with cultural heritage. Marcy Rockman & Jakob Maase Racing against time: preparing for the impacts of climate change on California’s archaeological resources. Michael Newland, Sandra Pentney, Reno Franklin, Nick Tipon, Suntayea Steinruck, Jeannine Pedesen-Guzman & Jere H. Lipps Threatened heritage and community archaeology on Alaska’s North Slope. Anne M. Jensen Cultural heritage under threat: the effects of climate change on the small island of Barbuda, Lesser Antilles. Sophia Perdikaris, Allison Bain, Rebecca Boger, Sandrine Grouard, Anne-Marie Faucher, Vincent Rousseau, Reaksha Persaud, Stéphane Noël & Matthew Brown Archaeological heritage on the Atlantic coast of Uruguay: heritage policies and challenges for its management in coastal protected areas. Camila Gianotti, Andrés Gascue, Laura del Puerto, Hugo Inda & Eugenia Villarmarzo Australian Indigenous rangers managing the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage sites. Bethune Carmichael, Sally Brockwell, Greg Wilson, Ivan Namarnyilk, Sean Nadji, Jacqueline Cahill & Deanne Bird. With contributions by Victor Rostron, Patricia Gibson, Jonathon Nadji, Jeffrey Lee, Fred Hunter, Jimmy Marimowa, Natasha Nadji & Kadeem May Perception of the relationship between climate change and traditional wooden heritage in Japan. Peter Brimblecombe & Mikiko Hayashi
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Book SynopsisChildren, Death and Burials assembles a panorama of studies with a focus on juvenile burials; the 16 papers have a wide geographic and temporal breadth and represent a range of methodological approaches. All have a similar objective in mind, however, namely to understand how children were treated in death by different cultures in the past; to gain insights concerning the roles of children of different ages in their respective societies and to find evidence of the nature of past adult–child relationships and interactions across the life course.The contextualisation and integration of the data collected, both in the field and in the laboratory, enables more nuanced understandings to be gained in relation to the experiences of the young in the past. A broad range of issues are addressed within the volume, including the inclusion/exclusion of children in particular burial environments and the impact of age in relation to the place of children in society. Child burials clearly embody identity and ‘the domestic child’, ‘the vulnerable child’, ‘the high status child’, ‘the cherished child’, ‘the potential child’, ‘the ritual child’ and the ‘political child’, and combinations thereof, are evident throughout the narratives. Investigation of the burial practices afforded to children is pivotal to enlightenment in relation to key facets of past life, including the emotional responses shown towards children during life and in death, as well as an understanding of their place within the social strata and ritual activities of their societies.Trade Review…a collection of valuable contributions put together by researchers from all over Europe. The enthusiasm of the authors for their topics is obvious throughout the proceedings. * IANSA *...an interesting set of papers contributing new data to our picture of medieval childhood, and a faithful reflection of the papers and discussion that enervated the original conference session. * Medieval Archaeology *The case studies in Murphy and Le Roy offer new evidence and data for a range of archaeological periods, as well as new insights into renowned sites, such as Çatahöyük, and should be valuable to students and scholars alike. * Antiquity *…this volume would not only appeal to those with a general interest in the diversity of child burial practices over time, but becomes an essential resource for those interested in childhood, death and burial within prehistoric societies. * Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Approaches to Archaeological Juvenile Burial Eileen Murphy and Mélie Le Roy 2. How Were Infants Considered at Death during the Neolithic Period in France? Mélie Le Roy 3. Perinatal Death and Cultural Buffering in a Neolithic Community at Çatalhöyük Belinda Tibbetts 4. Burying Children and Infants at Kadruka 23: New Insights into Juvenile Identity and Disposal of the Dead in the Nubian Neolithic Emma Maines, Pascal Sellier, Philippe Chambon and Olivier Langlois 5. Children’s Burials in the Eneolithic Cemetery of Sultana-Malu Roşu, Romania Catalin Lazar, Ionela Craciunescu, Gabriel Vasile and Mihai Florea 6. Late Chalcolithic Skeletal Remains and Associated Mortuary Practices from Çamlıbel Tarlası in Central Anatolia Jayne-Leigh Thomas 7. Processed Babies: Early Bronze Age Infant Burials from Bulgarian Thrace Kathleen McSweeney and Krum Bacvarov 8. ‘Missing infants’: Giving Life to Aspects of Childhood in Mycenaean Greece via Intramural Burials Katerina Kostanti 9. Bronze Age Child Burials in the Southern Trans-Urals (Twenty-first – Fifteenth Centuries cal. BC) Natalia Berseneva 10. Juvenile Burial and Age as a Social Category in Funerary Contexts of Pre- and Protopalatial Crete Nathalja Calliauw 11. Geto-Dacian Child Burials in the Second Iron Age Valeriu Sîrbu and Diana-Crina Dăvîncă 12. Out of the Cradle and into the Grave: The Children of Anglo-Saxon Great Chesterford, Essex, England Christine Cave and Marc Oxenham 13. Emotional Act, Superstition or Ritual? – Evidence from Child Burials in the Medieval period. A Case Study from St Clemens Churchyard, Copenhagen, Denmark Jane Jark Jensen 14. Interpreting Cultural and Biological Markers of Stress and Status in Medieval Subadults from England Heidi Dawson 15. Atypical Burial Practice and Juvenile Age-at-death in Later Medieval Gaelic Ireland: The Evidence from Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal Eileen Murphy 16. Interring the ‘Deserving’ Child: The Archaeology of the Deaths and Burials of Children at the Kilkenny Workhouse during the Great Famine in Ireland, 1845-52 Jonny Geber
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Book SynopsisThe question of how to conceptualize the role of technological innovations is of crucial importance for understanding the mechanisms and rhythms of long-term cultural change in prehistoric and early historic societies. The changes that have come about have often been modelled as gradual and linear, innovations have been considered positively as a progress in the development of humankind and the focus has been on the localisation of the origin of innovations and the routes of their spread.Appropriating Innovations goes beyond the current discussion by shedding light on condition that may facilitate the rapid spread of technological innovation and on processes involved in the integration of new technologies into the life world of the appropriating societies. In particular, papers concentrate on two key innovations, namely the transmission of the various components of the so-called “Secondary Products Revolution” in parts of the Near East and Europe during the 4th millennium BCE and the appropriation of early bronze casting technology, which spread from the Near East to Europe and China in the late 3rd and early 2nd millennium BCE.Of particular interest is non-technological knowledge that is transmitted together with the technological, the latter being always deeply interconnected with the communication of social practices, ideas and myths. The acceptance of new technologies, therefore, requires the willingness to change existing world views and modify them due to the potentials and problems which are connected with the new technology.Contributions, therefore, concentrate on the conditions facilitating or hindering the spread of innovations and the transformative power of these innovations in the appropriating society. They analyse how the introduction of novel technologies and the associated non-technological knowledge led to a transformation of existing economic systems and the underlying social orders in Late Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Eurasia by integrating innovative methodological approaches and contextual studies.Table of Contents1. Introduction Joseph Maran and Philipp Stockhammer 2. Innovation Minus Modernity? Revisiting Some Relations of Technical and Social Change Cornelius Schubert 3. From Counting to Writing: The Innovative Potential of Bookkeeping in Uruk Period Mesopotamia Kristina Sauer 4. Uruk, Pastoralism and Secondary Products: Was it a Revolution? A View from the Anatolian Highlands Maria Bianca D’Anna and Giulio Palumbi 5. The ‘Green Revolution’ in Prehistory: Late Neolithic Agricultural Innovations as a Technological System Maria Ivanova 6. The Spread of Productive and Technological Innovations in Europe and Near East: An Integrated Zooarchaeological Perspective on Secondary Animal Products and Bronze Utilitarian Metallurgy Haskel J. Greenfield 7. Early Wagons in Eurasia: Disentangling an Enigmatic Innovation Stefan Burmeister 8. Contextualising Innovation: Cattle Owners and Wagon Drivers in the North Caucasus and Beyond Sabine Reinhold, Julia Gresky, Natalia Berezina, Anatoly R. Kantorovich, Corina Knipper, Vladimir E. Maslov, Vladimira G. Petrenko, Kurt W. Alt and Andrey B. Belinsky 9. Innovation, Interaction and Society in Europe in the 4th Millennium BCE: The ‘Traction Complex’ as Innovation and ‘Technology Cluster’ Maleen Leppek 10. Wheels of Change: The Polysemous Nature of Early Wheeled Vehicles in 3rd Millennium BCE Central and Northwest European Societies Joseph Maran 11. Appropriating Draught Cattle Technology in Southern Scandinavia: Roles, Context and Consequences Niels N. Johannsen 12. Key Techniques in the Production of Metals in the 6th and 5th Millennia BCE: Prerequisites, Preconditions and Consequences Svend Hansen 13. The Diffusion of Know-How within Spheres of Interaction: Modelling Prehistoric Innovation Processes between South-West Asia and Central Europe in the 5th and 4th Millennia BC Florian Klimscha 14. A Comparative Angle on Metallurgical Innovations in South-Western Asia: What Came First? Barbara Helwing 15. The Role of Metallurgy in Different Types of Early Hierarchical Society in Mesopotamia and Eastern Anatolia Marcella Frangipane 16. The Use of Bronze Objects in the 3rd Millennium BC: A Survey between Atlantic and Indus Lorenz Rahmstorf 17. Appropriation of Tin-Bronze Technology: A Regional Study of the History of Metallurgy in Early Bronze Age Southern Mesopotamia Ulrike Wischnewski 18. Gonur Depe (Turkmenistan) and its Role in the Middle Asian Interaction Sphere Federica Lume Pereira 19. The Appropriation of Early Bronze Technology in China Jianjun Mei, Yongbin Yu, Kunlong Chen and Lu Wang 20. Patterns of Transformation from the Final Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age: A Case Study from the Lech Valley South of Augsburg Ken Massy, Corina Knipper, Alissa Mittnik, Steffen Kraus, Ernst Pernicka, Fabian Wittenborn, Johannes Krause and Philipp W. Stockhammer 21. Yet Another Revolution? Weapon Technology and Use Wear in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Southern Scandinavia Christian Horn
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Book SynopsisThe House of the Surgeon represents the first major publication of an important series of excavations undertaken by the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii (1994-2006) at the ancient city of Pompeii in a city block known as Insula VI 1. This is one of the largest, most comprehensive, and most important sub-surface, pre-79 AD excavations ever to have been undertaken at Pompeii. The methodology employed to the systematic examination of an entire city block, involving extensive artefact and ecofact recovery, using the latest scientific methods, has generated one of the single largest bodies of archaeological data ever produced on the development of ancient Pompeii, from the earliest traces of human habitation until its destruction. The first major section of this data is now made available in form of a study of the most famous and prominent of the houses on the block. The Casa del Chirurgo (House of the Surgeon) has been one of the most frequently cited houses in the ancient city since its discovery in 1771. The results of the exhaustive study of the house within its urban context not only challenge many of the conclusions of previous research, but also make it possible at last for this important property to contribute information to the full history of Pompeii’s urban development, illuminating the chronology of urban change, the processes involved in ancient domestic construction, aspects of the ancient environment, and changing socio-political and economic conditions within Italy throughout the middle to late Republic and early Empire.Trade Review…this is an excellent report, containing a wealth of new data expertly martialled, described and illustrated. * Antiquity *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Foreword: The Old Certainties are Crumbling Rick Jones 1. Pompeii’s Insula VI 1 and the Casa del Chirurgo Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson 2. The Anglo-American Project in Pompeii Damian Robinson, Michael A. Anderson, H.E.M. Cool, Robyn Veal, and Charlene Murphy 3. Digging the Casa del Chirurgo Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson 4. The Stratigraphic and Structural Sequence of the Casa del Chirurgo Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson 5. Room by Room Discussion of Stratigraphy and Architecture Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson 6. Glass Vessels and Small Finds H. E. M. Cool 7. Report on the Coinage Recovered from the AAPP Excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo Richard Hobbs 8. Plaster Fragments from the Cisterns of the Casa del Chirurgo: a window onto the house’s lost decoration Helen White 9. Pavements of Mortar, Mosaic and Marble Inlay Will Wootton 10. The Faunal Remains Jane Richardson 11. Archaeobotanical Remains Charlene Murphy 12. Fuel and Timber in the Casa del Chirurgo Robyn Veal 13. The Ancient Campanian Environment and Results from the Casa del Chirurgo Robyn Veal and Charlene Murphy 14 Conclusions Michael A. Anderson Appendix I: Stratigraphic Unit Listing and Chapter 5 Concordance Appendix II: Harris Matrices for Areas Excavated Bibliography Index
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Book SynopsisThe wool trade was undoubtedly one of the most important elements of the British economy throughout the medieval period - even the seat occupied by the speaker of the House of lords rests on a woolsack. In The Wealth of England Susan Rose brings together the social, economic and political strands in the development of the wool trade and show how and why it became so important. The author looks at the lives of prominent wool-men; gentry who based their wealth on producing this commodity like the Stonors in the Chilterns, canny middlemen who rose to prominence in the City of London like Nicholas Brembre and Richard (Dick) Whittington, and men who acquired wealth and influence like William de la Pole of Hull. She examines how the wealth made by these and other wool-men transformed the appearance of the leading centres of the trade with magnificent churches and other buildings. The export of wool also gave England links with Italian trading cities at the very time that the Renaissance was transforming cultural life. The complex operation of the trade is also explained with the role of the Staple at Calais to the fore leading to a discussion on the way the policy of English kings, especially in the fourteenth century, was heavily influenced by trade in this one commodity. No other book has treated this subject holistically with its influence on the course of English history made plain.Trade ReviewHer coverage...can be described as comprehensive and thematic. * Parergon *Wool has been the life blood of England for millennia. Yet while we are fascinated by stories of Empire, War and Conquest, we have not given the attention necessary to understanding the trade, industry and politics involved in our most important commodity. This book is essential reading for appreciating how bound up the wool trade was with the history of England, and it weaves major individuals, events and ideas into the story of the material that made England wealthy - Wool. * Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations list of maps tables and Illustrations Introduction Part One Production Chapter 1 The good shepherd and his flock Chapter 2 The evidence of Estate Accounts Part Two Trade Chapter 1 The organisation of the market for wool Chapter 2 The direct Intervention of the Crown in the market Chapter 3 Prices and Quantities Chapter 4 Wool Merchants and Clothiers c.1400-c.1560 Part Three Politics Chapter 1 The Crown’s attitude to trade Chapter 2 The wool trade and royal finances Chapter 3 The Crown and the Company of the Staple 1399-1558 Part Four Decline Chapter 1 Excessive numbers of sheep? Chapter 2 A ‘disorderly market’ in wool Chapter 3 Did the wool trade make England rich? Index and Bibliography
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Book SynopsisThe Kyrenia Ship, a Greek merchantman built around 315 BC, which sank off the north coast of Cyprus was excavated between 1968 and 1972 under the direction of Michael L. Katzev of the University of Pennsylvania and Oberlin College. The importance of this ship lies in the exceptionally well-preserved hull that provided new insights into ancient shipbuilding, as well as the cargo it carried. The hold was stacked with transport amphoras of various types made on Rhodes, with a few examples from Samos, Kos, Knidos and Cyprus (?), supplemented by a consignment of millstones, iron billets and almonds.The cabin pottery from Rhodes also suggests this was the vessel’s home port, a conclusion supported by most of the scientific ceramic analyses. Its trade route included Rhodes, Cyprus and the Levant with perhaps Egypt as a final destination.This volume provides a detailed history of the excavation followed by definitive studies of the amphora cargo and the pottery associated with shipboard life. Some of the amphora stamps suggest that the ship sank between 294 and 291 BC, dates corroborated by the cabin wares. The repetition of four drinking cups (kantharoi), oil containers (gutti), wine measures (olpai), as well as bowls and saucers, suggests that the ship was sailed by a crew of four. Seven bronze coins were recovered, five minted in the name of Alexander the Great and one well-known type of Ptolemy I produced only on Cyprus.Table of ContentsList of figures and tables Preface Susan Womer Katzev 1. Introduction 1.1. Introduction Susan Womer Katzev 1.2. Dedication to Michael and Susan W. Katzev from excavation members Helena (Laina) Wylde Swiny with contributions from David I. Owen, Robert K. “Chip” Vincent, Stephen J. Scheifele, Owen Gander, and Robin C. M. Piercy 1.3. Thanks to Laina Susan Womer Katzev 1.4. In thanks to all who helped Susan Womer Katzev with Helena (Laina) Wylde Swiny and Robin C. M. Piercy 2. The excavation 2.1. How it began Michael L. Katzev† [assembled by Susan Womer Katzev and Mary C. Sturgeon] 2.2. Kyrenia shipwreck remote sensing analysis Jeremy N. Green 2.3. Kyrenia Ship data 2.3a. Labeling excavation objects Helena (Laina) Wylde Swiny and Susan Womer Katzev 2.3b. Data explanation: creating the amphora plans Helena (Laina) Wylde Swiny and Susan Womer Katzev 2.3c. The Kyrenia Ship Application Thomas Myette 2.4. Evidence for Octopodia activity on the wreck site Helena (Laina) Wylde Swiny and Susan Womer Katzev 3. Amphoras 3.1. The transport amphoras Mark Lawall 3.2. Observations on amphora distribution Helena (Laina) Wylde Swiny and Susan Womer Katzev 3.3. Analysis of resins from the Kyrenia Ship Curt Beck† and Dorreen J. Ossenkop 3.4. Tales from taphonomic amphoras: marine biofouling as interpretive ecological tool on wreck-site formation Carlos Jimenez, Katerina Achilleos, Antonis Petrou, and Louis Hadjioannou 3.5. Wreck site formation process: the wse of bryozoans Katerina Achilleos, Carlos Jimenez, and Antonis Petrou 4. Goods of the crew 4.1. The goods of the crew Andrea M. Berlin 4.2. Graffiti on the ship’s ceramics Helena (Laina) Wylde Swiny, Susan Womer Katzev, Alan Johnston, Christopher Rollston, and Jo Ann Hackett 4.3. Wood identifications of objects in Volume I Nili Liphschitz† 4.4. Plotting shipboard life: observations from the find spots of objects related to life on board the Kyrenia Ship Helena (Laina) Wylde Swiny and Susan Womer Katzev 5. Ceramic analyses 5.1. Neutron Activation Analysis of ceramic samples from the Kyrenia Ship Michael D. Glascock and Leslie G. Cecil 5.2. Petrographic analysis of the ceramics from the Kyrenia Ship Yuval Goren 5.3. Organic residue analysis of pottery recovered from the Kyrenia Ship Joseph A. Palatinus with Ruth F. Beeston 5.4. GC-MS analysis of contaminated Kyrenia Ship ceramic samples Vic Garner† and Holley Martlew 5.5. Organic residue analysis of ceramic vessels from the Kyrenia Ship: searching for past contents Lisa Briggs and Léa Drieu 6. Coins 6.1. The coins Paul W. Keen 7. Conclusions 7.1. Summary closing wrap-up: what’s to come in Volumes II and III Susan Womer Katzev Glossary
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Book SynopsisAs one of the few surviving artefacts from the late prehistory of north-east Africa, pottery serves as an essential material category by which to explore long-term human development. This book presents a major study on the ceramics recovered from early and mid-Holocene sites in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis, which come from 96 registered sites and five other findspots and comprise more than 10,000 sherds. In addition, there is little proxy evidence to support the manufacture of pottery in the form of kilns, clay firedogs, and other firing equipment. None of the ceramic objects come from burials. They derive instead from settlement sites that display evidence of living activities (hut circles, hearths, chipped stone scatters, etc.), or sites for which there is no other evidence of human activity. Through detailed description, classification and quantification, a detailed cultural sequence has been determined, demonstrating descrete stylistic variations between sites and over time, and highlighting growing diversity and innovation in local pottery-making from the late seventh to mid-third millennia cal. BC. These shifts help to refine the characterisation of local cultural units within the Holocene sequence for Dakhleh Oasis, and to compare against parallel pottery traditions elsewhere in the desert. A firmer grounding in the oasis ceramics, as detailed here, offers inroads to examine social practices and the interconnectedness of desert groups of the ancient Eastern Sahara.Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements 1. Introduction 1.1 Methodology and structure of study 1.2 Research history on the pottery collection 1.3 Points of clarification Part I 2. Technology, terminology and description 2.1 Methods of analysis 2.2 Fabric description 2.2.1 Groundmass 2.2.2 Inclusions 2.2.3 Technological properties 2.3 Surface treatment description 2.3.1 Plain 2.3.2 Coated 2.3.3 Compacted 2.3.4 Textured 2.3.5 Decorated 2.4 Shape description 2.4.1 Vessel shape 2.4.2 Vessel contour 2.4.3 Proportion 2.4.4 Miscellaneous objects 3. Classification 3.1 Fabric classification 3.1.1 Fabric Family 1: sand-and-shale 3.1.2 Fabric Family 2: shale-rich 3.1.3 Fabric Family 3: sand 3.1.4 Fabric Family 4: vegetal 3.1.5 Fabric Family 5: fine sand and limestone 3.1.6 Fabric Family 6: gypsum 3.1.7 Fabric Family 7: clay aggregates 3.1.8 Fabric Family 8: marls 3.1.9 Fabric Family 9: silts 3.2 Ware classification 3.2.1 Plain (Hp) wares 3.2.2 Compacted (Hm) wares 3.2.3 Coated (Hc) wares 3.2.4 Textured (Hx) wares 3.2.5 Decorated (Hd) wares 3.2.6 Compacted-and-coated (Hmc) wares 3.2.7 Compacted-and-textured (Hmx) wares 3.2.8 Compacted-and-decorated (Hmd) wares 3.2.9 Textured-and-decorated (Hxd) wares 4. Quantitative analysis 4.1 Methods of analysis 4.2 Analysis using multidimensional scaling and similarity percentage 4.3 Accounting for pottery from Masara sites 4.4 Characterising the Bashendi pottery tradition 4.4.1 Bashendi A 4.4.2 Bashendi B 4.5 Accounting for pottery from sites 401, 407, 409, 420, 422 and 423 4.6 Characterising the Sheikh Muftah pottery tradition 4.6.1 Early Sheikh Muftah 4.6.2 Late Sheikh Muftah 4.7 Handmade pottery from sites that are not registered on the Holocene prehistory index 4.8 Handmade pottery from findspots 5. Long-term change in the ceramic record 5.1 Summary of fabrics 5.2 Summary of surface treatments 5.3 Summary of vessel forms: shape and size 5.4 Comments on ware and shape cross-tabulation Part II 6. Provenance 6.1 Distinguishing locally made and imported pottery 6.2 Thin-section analysis (by Mark Eccleston) 7. Conclusions 7.1 Pottery variation and classification: reaching a compromise 7.2 Towards a better understanding of the early and mid-Holocene cultural units 7.3 Future directions for study Appendix Bibliography Plate list Plates
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Book SynopsisCityscapes consist of houses, streets, civic buildings, sanctuaries, tombs, monuments and inscriptions created by multiple generations of citizens and foreigners with an interest in the city; they are interpreted and reinterpreted as expressions of past lives, changing relations of power, memories and various identities.The present volume publishes 25 contributions written by scholars specializing in the history and archaeology of western Asia Minor. New and well-known material – literary, epigraphical, numismatic, and archaeological – is presented and analyzed through the twin lenses of memory and identity.The contributions cover more than 1000 years of cultural diversity during changing political systems, from the Lydian and Persian hegemony in the Archaic period through Athenian supremacy and Persian satrapal rule in the Classical period, then autocratic kingship in Hellenistic times until, finally, more than half a millennium of Roman rule. Identities are voiced through several media and visible at many levels of the ancient societies. So are the places of memory – the Lieux de Mémoire – and the studies presented here provide new insights into how human beings chose, deliberately or subconsciously, to commemorate their past and their ancestors, and how identity was displayed and expressed under shifting political rule.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Eva Mortensen and Birte Poulsen Preface Introduction Martina Seifert Constructing Memories: Gateways between Identity and Socio-Political Pluralism in Ancient Western Asia Minor Cityscapes of Remembrance Eva-Maria Mohr and Klaus Rheidt Cityscape and Places of Memory in Assos Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan Nothing to Remember? Redesigning the Ancient City of Assos in the Byzantine Era Anthony Shannon Glory be to (Insert Name Here): Civic Memory, Political Discourse, and Municipal Ruler Cult in Hellenistic Teos Orhan Bingöl Das Stadtbild von Magnesia am Mäander nach den 30-jährigen Ausgrabungen (Kurzfassung) Eva Mortensen Narratives and Shared Memories of Heroes in the Aphrodisian Cityscape Jacques des Courtils The City of Xanthus: “Lieu de mémoire” of the Lycians Kai Töpfer Expressing Civic Self-Perception and Constructing Identity – Public Imagery in Roman Asia Minor Recollections of the Past in Public Civic Monuments Ulrich Mania Gymnasia: From a Space to an Institution of Remembrance Günther Schörner Representing and Remembering Rituals in Public Space: Depictions of Sacrifice in Roman Asia Minor Ute Lohner-Urban Aspects of Public Memory at the East Gate of Side Representations of Memories and Identities in the Private Sphere Elisabeth Rathmayr Identity in the Private Sphere: Interpreting Houses as Loci Reflecting the Identity of Their Inhabitants Christoph Baier A P(a)lace of Remembrance? Reflections on the Historical Depth of a Monumental Domus in Ephesos Narratives of Remembrance in a Religious Context Ergün Lafli Die Sitzstatue eines Dichters aus Klaros Helene Blinkenberg Hastrup Ephesus and the Amazons: Remembering or Recreating the Early History of a Greek Polis in the 5th Century BC Monica Livadiotti and Giorgio Rocco Building the Route Over Time: Memory of a Processional Road in Kos Luigi Caliò Building Memory on the Route: for a Visual Reconstruction of Festive Processions in Kos Mustafa Şahin Der Apollo Archegetes Heiligtum auf der Asar Insel bei Myndos Katy Opitz Two Cities – One Goddess? The Transfer of Ancient Cities in the Hellenistic Period and the Reinterpretation of Older Cults: The Example of Heracleia under Latmus Commemoration of the Dead Benedikt Grammer Material Culture as Marker of Ethnicity? The Burial Mounds of Kolophon and the Question of “Lydian”, “Greek”, and “Ionian” Identity Martin Steskal Defying Death in Ephesus: Strategies of Commemoration in a Roman Metropolis Poul Pedersen The Totenmahl Tradition in Classical Western Asia Minor and the Maussolleion at Halikarnassos Ilaria Romeo A Distant Memory: New Seleucid Portraits in Roman Hierapolis Laurence Cavalier Memorials to the Lycian Dead Veronika Scheibelreiter-Gail MNHMA. Commemorative Inscriptions – Mirrors of Common Identity: The Epigraphic Habit in Ancient and Modern Funerary Spaces Compared
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Book SynopsisThe nineteenth century was a time when the world was becoming increasingly connected through global forces and networks. Colonial and capitalist expansion was bringing the world into closer contact, while nationalism and forms of indigenous resistance were shaping and moulding the world on more local and regional scales. This dynamic environment was the backdrop for a time when childhood was becoming significantly elaborated as a cultural category of identity. Institutions, objects, and places specifically designed for children were multiplying at an unprecedented rate; writing about children in fiction and non-fiction became increasingly prolific; and the concern for children’s health and well-being in life and death was paramount in many communities. Scholarship on the nineteenth century spans many disciplines and areas of interest and utilizes diverse and abundant source material to study a period recognized as foundational for our modern, globalized world. This volume brings together scholars from archaeology, art history, bioarchaeology, educational history, history, literary studies, and theatre history to present studies of nineteenth century children and childhood in Australia, the Bahamas, Canada, England, Ireland, Native North America, Romania, Russia, and the United States. The interdisciplinary focus of this volume illustrates the wealth of sources, methods, and perspectives that can be used to develop our understandings of childhood in the nineteenth century, and the international scope of the studies offers a platform to engage commonalities in an increasingly globalized world alongside an appreciation for local, regional, and national variations in the cultural creation and experiences of childhood.Table of ContentsForeword Sally Crawford List of Contributors and Author Biographies Acknowledgements Introduction: Nineteenth Century Childhoods in Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives Jane Eva Baxter and Meredith Ellis Part 1: Children, Nationalism, and Dimensions of Identity The Manipulation of Indigenous Imagery to Represent Canadian Childhood and Nationhood in 19th Century Canada Loren Lerner Laying the foundation of ‘modern childhood’ in Russia: the child protection movement and the changing symbolic value of children, 1861-1917 Natalia Chernyaeva Imagining Futures: Margaret Fuller and Nathaniel Hawthorne on Women, Children, and History Gina Ocasion Part 2: Children on the Move: Immigration, Emigration, and Deportation British Children, Canadian Adults: Childhood Emigration to Canada in the Late-Nineteenth Century. Steven J. Taylor Transported beyond the Seas: Criminal Juveniles Emma Watkins Part 3: Children, Consumerism, and Advertising “He knows a good thing when he sees it!”: Advertising to Children in the U.S., 1850-1900 Jaclyn N. Schultz Creating Desire and Little Consumers: Doll Advertising in U.S. Newspapers, 1860-1900 Katherine Mumma and Jane Eva Baxter Part 4: Institutions for Children and Children in Institutions Education, Race and Nation-building in an Archipelago: Nineteenth-Century Bahamian Out Island Schools John Daniel Burton It Takes a Village: Raising Patriots in 19th-Century Romania Ana Fumurescu The Bedford Asylum: Building for the ‘Industrious Child’ in early-nineteenth century Dublin. Katherine Fennelly Nineteenth century institutional “education”: A spatial approach to assimilation and resistance at Hoopa Valley Indian School Paulina F. Przystupa Part 5: Children’s Bodies and Children’s Lives ‘The lowness of stature, the leanness and the paleness’: childhood nutritional health in 19th-century England Holly Hunt-Watts, University of Leeds A Tool for Moral Uplift: The Sacralization and Commemoration of a 19th-Century Child Actress Shauna Vey, NYC College of Technology/City University of New York
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Book SynopsisWINNER OF BEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL BOOK AT THE 2018 BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL AWARDS.In November 2013 two mass burials were discovered unexpectedly on a construction site in the city of Durham in north-east England. Over the next 2 years, a complex jigsaw of evidence was pieced together by a team of archaeologists to establish the identity of the human remains. Today we know them to be some of the Scottish prisoners who died in the autumn of 1650 in Durham cathedral and castle following the battle of Dunbar on the south-east coast of Scotland. Fought between the English and the Scots, this was one of the key engagements of the War of the Three Kingdoms. Using the latest techniques of skeleton science, this book gives back to the men a voice through an understanding of their childhood and later lives. Archaeological and historical evidence also allows us to reconstruct with vivid accuracy how and why these men vanished off the historical radar. Of the prisoners who survived their ordeal after Dunbar, new evidence has emerged about their involvement in local industries and in one of the great infrastructural projects of the day, the draining of the Fens. Others were sent far away, transported to the colonies as indentured servants to begin a new life at the edge of the known world. Following the trail of their biographies takes us across the Atlantic where the Dunbar men supported each other throughout their lives on the frontiers of New England. Here they worked in ironworks and sawmills, farmed and fished and adapted to the vast forested landscapes which they named ‘Scotland’ and ‘Unity’, after the vessel they had sailed in. None returned to the country of their birth. Lost Lives, New Voices is a collaboration between academic researchers and professional archaeologists working on the Scottish Soldiers Research Project.Trade ReviewThis book will be of interest to both specialist and non-specialist readers.[…]It is well written, clearly structured and very accessible. It is impossible not to be moved by the evocative dedication to the living descendents of the surviving men who were transported to the colonies. * Archaeological Journal *Rich with first-hand accounts of extraordinary events and individuals this is a real rarity among archaeological reports: a page-turner. * British Archaeology *[Lost Lives, New Voices] contains highly valuable and new information that historians of early modern Britain and Ireland will find useful. It is packed with illustrations and is written in an accessible manner. Attractively produced, it should appeal to a cross-section of professionals who work in the history and heritage sectors […] This book is a fresh and valuable contribution to the literature on the English Republic: it provides a rare glimpse into the lives of ordinary men whose fortunes were changed utterly on the 3 September 1650. * Northern History *Table of Contents1. Discovery and themes 2. The archaeology 3. The Human Bone Analysis 4. Skeleton Science 5. Historial Context 6. The Survivors' Tales 7. Themes and Descendants
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