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Oxbow Books Inhabiting the Promised Land: Exploring the
Book SynopsisFor many people it is clear: the actions and beliefs of Ancient Israel are described in the Bible. The stories about its peoples and kings, struggles and wars, deities and shrines, are supposed to have been told and retold throughout the ages and recorded in ancient archives. At a certain moment in time these stories have been assembled in the Bible which becomes history. However, from the 19th century at least, scholars have doubted the historical reliability of many biblical stories, and archaeological research has hardly been able to confirm their historicity.The aim of this book is to describe the often-complicated relationship between archaeology and the Bible. It is not a book on `biblical archaeology’, and archaeology is not used to illustrate the biblical stories, let alone to prove that the Bible is right. On the contrary, it focuses on the information that archaeology can provide of the lives and beliefs of the ancient peoples that inhabited the land in which the Bible was written, and on the question of how this information relates to the biblical stories. It aims at providing some examples of how this interplay of archaeology and biblical stories works, and how to interpret the discrepancy that may exist between the results of archaeological research and the biblical narrative. It thus offers an introduction into the field from the standpoint of an archaeologist.The book is intended for the general public, and will also be of interest to biblical scholars, historians and teachers, as well as archaeologists in other fields. It differs from the average non-scholarly book on this subject in that it is more personal, more eclectic, more archaeological. Reviews of the Dutch edition praise the passionate style and the way it focuses on the scientific process of researching problems, instead of on finding answers and presenting the solution.Trade ReviewA good acquisition for archaeology collections. * Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews *Table of ContentsList of figures Prologue 1. In search of … archaeology and the Bible 2. In search of … Abraham and his descendants 3. In search of … Saul and the days of the Judges 4. In search of … Goliath, the Philistine 5. In search of … David and Solomon 6. In search of … Jezebel and the House of Omri 7. In search of … Mesha of Moab 8. In search of … Jehoiachin and the Exile 9. In search of … the prophet Balaam 10. In search of … the goddess Asherah 11. In search of … the temple of Jerusalem Epilogue Further reading
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Oxbow Books Re-imagining Periphery: Archaeology and Text in
Book SynopsisThis edited volume delves into the current state of Iron Age and Early Medieval research in the North. Over the last two decades of archaeological explorations, theoretical vanguards, and introduction of new methodological strategies, together with a growing amount of critical studies in archaeology taking their stance from a multidisciplinary perspective, have dramatically changed our understanding of Northern Iron Age societies. The profound effect of 6th century climatic events on social structures in Northern Europe, a reintegration of written sources and archaeological material, genetic and isotopic studies entirely reinterpreting previously excavated grave material, are but a few examples of such land winnings. The aim of this book is to provide an intense and cohesive focus on the characteristics of contemporary Iron Age research; explored under the subheadings of field and methodology, settlement and spatiality, text and translation, and interaction and impact. Gathering the work of leading, established researchers and field archaeologists based throughout northern Europe and in the frontline of this new emerging image, this volume provides a collective summary of our current understandings of the Iron Age and Early Medieval Era in the North. It also facilitates a renewed interaction between academia and the ever-growing field of infrastructural archaeology, by integrating cutting edge fieldwork and developing field methods in the corpus of Iron Age and Early Medieval studies. In this book, many hypotheses are pushed forward from their expected outcomes, and analytical work is not afraid of taking risks, thus advancing the field of Iron Age research, and also, hopefully, inspiring to a continued creation of new knowledge.Trade ReviewThis affordably priced catch-up on some exciting new work was a pleasure to read and review. The volume adopts a commendably interdisciplinarian approach, at its broadest combining two aspects of material culture, archaeology and text and, at a more micro-level, bringing together several sub-disciplines within archaeology. These fruitful combinations are directed towards exploring (and unsettling) the long-debated concept of centre–periphery. ... [I]t remains an excellent contribution to the field. * Medieval Archaeology *…consider new ways of understanding archaeological landscapes as they use works of art created by Poraj-Wilczynska to question conventional perspectives on landscape. * Antiquity *Table of ContentsIntroduction by Charlotta Hillerdal & Kristin Ilves Settlement and Spatiality 1.Marianne Hem Eriksen - Dream-houses of the Late Iron Age: The house and the self 2.Marte Spangen & Johan E. Arntzen - Sticky Structures and Opportunistic Builders. The Construction and Social Role of Longhouses in Northern Norway 3.Susanna Eklund & Anneli Sundkvist - The Tale of three Tuna Sites. A Classic scholarly problem enlightened by new archaeological material 4.Helena Hulth - Ultuna – a late Iron Age gateway to Uppsala 5.Anders Andren - A new central place in Southwest Scania? Field and Methodology 1.Elin Engström - In the archaeological house 2.Kristin Ilves & Kim Darmark - Striking a blow for the plough layer. Exploring diverging interpretations of a Late Iron Age site 3.Andreas Hennius & John Ljungkvist - Correlations and conflicts between 14C dates and find chronologies in a transition phase – exemplified by the Ottar's mound in Vendel 4.Daniel Löwenborg & Åsa Larsson - The Bright New (Digital) Future of the Past 5.Helena Victor – Sandby Borg – a frozen moment of the Migration Period Text and Translation 1.Bosse Gräslund - Beowulf. The Scandinavian background 2.Jhonny Therus - Rebooting the Gospel for a Germanic audience. A structural analysis of Heliand the Saxon Gospel, an acculturation poem from the 9th century 3.Anne-Sofie Gräslund - “Björn and Torkel they raised all these kumls” 4.Lotte Hedaeger - Knowledge systems of the past? Iconography, typology and change from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages 5.Alex Sandmark – Bog bodies: Iron Age law in the landscape Interaction and Impact 1.Jan-Henrik Fallgren - Settlement reduction or continuity? Reflections on the Early Medieval Åland 2.Charlotta Hillerdal - Negotiating narratives in a newly settled Norse landscape. An emic perspective on the reuse of ancient monuments in the Scottish Isles. 3.Neil Price and Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson - War music: martial funerals from the Viking-Age Scandinavian world 4.Olof Sundqvist - Female Cultic Leaders in Germanic and Ancient Scandinavian Sources 5.Svante Fisher - The Solidus from Slättäng
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Oxbow Books The Birsay Bay Project Volume 3: The Brough of
Book SynopsisThe Brough of Birsay was the power-centre of the Viking earldom of Orkney and is one of Historic Environment Scotland’s key monuments and visitor attractions on the islands. This publication is the culmination of 60 years of investigations that took place on the site between 1954 and 2014.This new volume incorporates comprehensive accounts of work undertaken by Dr Ralegh Radford and Mr Stewart Cruden between 1954 and 1964, excavations by the Viking and Early Settlement Research Project under the direction of the author on site between 1974 and 1981, a rescue excavation in 1993, a geophysical survey in 2007 and archival research up to 2014.Specialist artefactual and palaeobiological studies of metallurgical material, ogham inscriptions and a gilt-bronze mount of Insular origin are included, together with re-analysis of the radiocarbon dates from all sites in Birsay Bay, and a re-assessment of the architecture and dating of the church and related buildings on the Brough itself.The final two chapters put the Brough, as both a Pictish power-centre and the hub of the Viking earldom, in the overall context of Birsay Bay and Viking and late Norse Orkney, and the wider world between the Pictish and late Norse/Medieval periods.As well as being the author’s third and final volume reporting on work for the Birsay Bay Project, this volume completes a trilogy of studies of the Brough itself, alongside Mrs Cecil Curle’s and Prof John Hunter’s earlier monographs.Table of ContentsList of illustrations List of tables Preface Acknowledgements Part I. Background and context for investigations 1946–2014 1. Background by Christopher D Morris 2. The Birsay Bay Project and the Brough of Birsay by Christopher D Morris Part II. Area I: The church and churchyard 3. Historical background to the 1950s–1960s investigations at the church, associated buildings and churchyard on the Brough of Birsay by C A Ralegh Radford 4. Investigations by Ralegh Radford and Stewart Cruden on the church compiled by Christopher D Morris 5. Investigations by Ralegh Radford and Stewart Cruden on the buildings north of the church compiled by Christopher D Morris 6. An architectural analysis of the church and related buildings on the Brough of Birsay by Richard Fawcett 7. The graves, churchyard enclosures and notable stone monuments compiled by Christopher D Morris 8. Reassessment of the ‘Celtic Enclosure’ in 1981 by Christopher D Morris Part III. Area II: The buildings east of the churchyard 9. Investigations by Radford and Cruden on the area to the east of the churchyard (‘The Viking House’) and excavations in ‘Room 5’ of the ‘Small buildings’ in 1973/4 10. Explorations in 1993 on the cliff-side to the south-east of the churchyard by Christopher D Morris Part IV. Area III: The buildings west of the churchyard 11. Investigations by Radford and Cruden on the buildings to the south-west of the churchyard by Christopher D Morris 12. Area excavations 1974–80 in and around Structure N by Christopher D Morris 13. Area excavations in 1974–5 in and around Structure L and trial excavations in 1977 on features around Structure M by Christopher D Morris 14. Area excavations in 1976–80 in and around Structure E to the west of the churchyardby Christopher D Morris 15. Area excavations in 1977–81 in and around Structures ‘S’ and B to the west and north-west of the churchyard and re-assessment of the dating of Structures F, P and R to the north 16. Specialist studies relating to Area III Part V. The south-western cliff-side area 17. Survey and trial investigations 1979 and re-assessment of the dating of Sites VIII and IXby Christopher D Morris 18. Investigations on the Peerie Brough 1979–81 by Christopher D Morris Part VI. Economy, landscape and analysis 19. The artefactual assemblage by Colleen E Batey 20. The biological assemblage by Christopher D Morris based on work by D James Rackham with others 21. Geophysical prospection 2007 on the Brough of Birsay by Susan Ovenden and David W Griffiths 22. Overall re-assessment of radiocarbon dates from Birsay by Zoe Outram 23. Birsay Bay landscape geophysical surveys, 2003–6 by David W Griffiths with Susan Ovenden Part VII. Drawing the threads together 24. The Brough of Birsay and Birsay Bay in retrospect by Christopher D Morris 25. An overview and final assessment by Christopher D Morris Appendices Bibliography Index
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Oxbow Books Markets and Exchanges in Pre-Modern and
Book SynopsisMarkets emerge in recent historical research as important spheres of economic interaction in ancient societies. In the case of ancient Egypt, traditional models imagined an all-encompassing centralized, bureaucratic economy that left practically no place for market transactions, as many surviving documents only described the activities of the royal palace and of huge institutions, mainly temples. Yet scattered references in the sources reveal that markets and traders were crucial actors in the economic life of ancient Egypt. In this perspective, this volume aims to discuss the role of markets, traders and economic interaction (not necessarily organized through markets) and the use of "money" (metals, valuable commodities) in pre-modern societies, based on archaeological, anthropological and historical evidence. Furthermore, it intends to integrate different perspectives about the social organization of transactions and exchanges and the different forms taken by markets, from meeting places where exchanges operated under ritualized procedures and conventions, to markets in which profit-seeking activities were marginal in respect with other practices that stressed, on the contrary, community collaboration. The book also deals with social forms of pre-modern exchanges in which trust and ethnic solidarity guaranteed the validity of commercial operations in the absence of formal codes of laws or accepted authorities over long distances (trade diasporas, guilds, etc.). Finally, the volume analyzes a critical aspect of small-scale trade and markets, such as the commercialization of agricultural household production and its impact on the peasant economic strategies. In all, the book covers a diversity of topics in which recent research in the fields of economic sociology, archaeology, anthropology, economics and history proves invaluable in order to analyze the role of Egyptian trade in a broader perspective, as well as to suggest new venues of comparative research, theoretical reflection and dialogue between Egyptology and social sciences.Table of ContentsPreface by Gianluca Miniaci and Juan Carlos Moreno García 1. Markets and transactions in pre-modern societies Juan Carlos Moreno García 2. A key commodity: The role of cowries in West Africa Anne Haour 3. Marketplaces and market exchanges in the pre-colonial Americas Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas 4. The enchanting scale: Magic and morality in the Bronze Age economic balance Chris Monroe 5. Markets, efflorescence, and political economy in the Ancient Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East Reinhard Pirngruber 6. Peasants, rural economy, and cash crops in medieval Islam Bethany J. Walker 7. Markets in the shadows, trade diasporas, and self-organizing trading/smuggling networks John B. Owens 8. Market performance in the grain market of late medieval Western Europe (c. 1300–1650) Bas van Leeuwen and Robin C.M. Philips 9. Two tales of pre-modern contraction: Wage differentials in late medieval and early modern Japan Osamu Saito 10. Markets, transactions, and ancient Egypt: New venues for research in a comparative perspective Juan Carlos Moreno García
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Oxbow Books Maritime Archaeology on Dry Land: Special sites
Book SynopsisThis book is about two islands off the coast of Continental Europe, the seas that surrounded them, and the ways in which they were used over a period of three thousand years. Instead of the usual emphasis on finds in the intertidal zone, it focuses on parts of Britain and Ireland where traces of the prehistoric shoreline survive above sea level. It explores a series of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age sites which were investigated in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and have been largely forgotten. These places were very different from the Iron Age ports and harbours studied in recent years. How can we identify these special sites, and what are the best ways of interpreting them?The book considers the evidence for travel by sea between the settlement of the earliest farmers and the long distance movement of metalwork. It emphasises the distinctive archaeology of a series of coastal locations. Little of the information is familiar and some of the most useful evidence was recorded many years ago. It is supplemented by new studies of these places and the artefacts found there, as well as reconstructions of the prehistoric coastline. The book emphasises the important role of 'enclosed estuaries', which were both sheltered harbours and special places where artefacts were introduced by sea. Other items were made there and exchanged with local communities. It considers the role played by these places in the wider pattern of settlement and their relationship to major monuments. The book describes how the character of coastal sites changed in parallel with developments in maritime technology and trade.The main emphasis is on Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages uses of the seashore, but the archaeology of the Middle and Later Bronze Age provides a source of comparison.Trade ReviewThis thought-provoking book reimagines how we approach maritime archaeology - demonstrating that it is not solely for the adventurous diver, but can, and should, be practised from the comfort of dry land. * Current Archaeology *[A] thought-provoking book … full of interesting interpretations and worthwhile reflections that are of value to anyone considering the archaeology of our coastal zones. * Archaeology Ireland *Table of ContentsPrelims Part One The Sea, the Sea Chapter One Fluid Dynamics: a brief introduction Chapter Two Seas without ships Part Two Landing Places Chapter Three The riddle of the sands Chapter Four Comparisons and complications Part Three Ocean Terminals Chapter Five Long distance Chapter Six Coastal archaeology in perspective – a brief conclusion
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Oxbow Books Tell Ahmar on the Syrian Euphrates: From
Book SynopsisTell Ahmar – also known as Masuwari, Til Barsib and Kar-Shalmaneser in the first millennium BCE – was first inhabited in the sixth millennium during the Ubaid period, and progressively developed to become a regional centre, and in the eighth and seventh centuries, a provincial capital of the Assyrian empire. Remains from the third millennium (a temple and a funerary complex), the second millennium (an administrative complex and well-preserved houses) and the first millennium (an Assyrian palace and elite residences) are particularly impressive.The book offers an archaeological and historical synthesis of the results obtained by the excavations of François Thureau-Dangin (1929–1931) and by the more recent excavations of the universities of Melbourne (1988–1999) and Liège (2000–2010). It presents a comprehensive and diachronic view of the evolution of the site, which, by its position on the Euphrates at an important crossroads of ancient communication routes, was at the heart of a game of cultural and political interference between Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean world and Asia Minor.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Abbreviations Prologue: The site and its exploration Part One: Tell Ahmar from its origins to the end of the second millennium: East meets west on the Euphrates 1. Tell Ahmar and the origins of urban life 2. Tell Ahmar in the second millennium Part Two: Tell Ahmar between Luwians, Aramaeans and Assyrians: Birth of a regional capital 3. Tell Ahmar/Masuwari/Til Barsib and the Aramaean tribe of Adini (c. 1200–856) 4. From Til Barsib to Kar-Shalmaneser – The beginnings of Assyrian domination (c. 856–750) Part Three: Tell Ahmar in the Assyrian empire: birth of an imperial koine 5. Ashur imposes its mark – The palace and the high dignitaries 6. Urbanism and residential buildings 7. Images in everyday life 8. People and crafts Epilogue: The end of Tell Ahmar Fieldwork at Tell Ahmar — Selected bibliography
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Oxbow Books Excavations Along Hadrians Wall 20192021
Book SynopsisThe Hadrian's Wall Community Archaeology Project (WallCAP) conducted a series of fieldwork projects along the Hadrian's Wall corridor between 2019 and 2021. The work focused on sites that were poorly understood or under particular threat and aimed to improve understanding of them so they could be better managed in future. At several sites excavation was followed by conservation and consolidation work.This volume brings together the final reports of these excavations, at seven Roman sites in the Wall corridor. As the sites were spread along the length of the Wall the character and afterlife of the Wall in very different landscape locations could be compared. An assessment of the Vallum at Heddon on the Wall identified how earthwork archaeology survived in a sloped, heavily ploughed landscape. Three excavations investigated the condition of the stone Wall curtain at Port Carlisle, Walltown Crags, and Steel Rigg and Cats Stairs. At each site the Wall builders had responded to the demands
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Oxbow Books Limited Archaeology of Britains Oldest Church Doors Westminster Hadstock and DaneSkins
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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Oxbow Books Wild Harvest: Plants in the Hominin and Pre-Agrarian Human Worlds
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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Oxbow Books Scientific Dating in Archaeology
Book SynopsisA variety of techniques have been developed to provide scientific chronologies of archaeological sites and material culture. These chronologies underpin the narratives that are generated for prehistoric and other periods. The application of Bayesian statistical analysis to scientific chronologies has been hailed as ‘a revolution in understanding’, and has brought renewed emphasis onto how we generate scientific chronological data, how these data are applied into wider narratives, and the epistemological importance of these data. This volume will provide a timely review of the methods, applications and challenges of applying different scientific dating techniques to archaeological sites and material culture. It will then provide an introduction to Bayesian modelling, and highlight a series of considerations in the application of scientific dating techniques.Table of ContentsFigure List Table List Contributors Abstract Conventions used Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Radiocarbon Seren Griffiths and Thomas Higham Chapter 3 Dendrochronology Martin Bridge and Seren Griffiths Chapter 4 Luminescence – Optically Simulated Luminescence and Thermoluminescence Abi Stone and Seren Griffiths Chapter 5 Archaeomagnetic dating Sam Harris and Seren Griffiths Chapter 6 Palaeoenvironmental chronologies Seren Griffiths and Benjamin Gearey Chapter 7 On Site — designing and implementing chronometric sampling strategies Seren Griffiths Chapter 8 Analysing Datasets – Bayesian inference and archaeological chronometric data Seren Griffiths and Richard Staff Chapter 9 Scientific dating and narrative Seren Griffiths
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Oxbow Books A Welsh Landscape through Time: Excavations at
Book SynopsisHoly Island is a small island just off the west coast of Anglesey, North Wales, which is rich in archaeology of all periods. Between 2006 and 2010, archaeological excavations in advance of a major Welsh Government development site, Parc Cybi, enabled extensive study of the island’s past. Over 20 hectares were investigated, revealing a busy and complex archaeological landscape, which could be seen evolving from the Mesolithic period through to the present day. Major sites discovered include an Early Neolithic timber hall aligned on an adjacent chambered tomb and an Iron Age settlement, the development of which is traced by extensive dating and Bayesian analysis. A Bronze Age ceremonial complex, along with the Neolithic tomb, defined the cultural landscape for subsequent periods. A long cist cemetery of a type common on Anglesey proved, uncommonly, to be late Roman in date, while elusive Early Medieval settlement was indicated by corn dryers. This wealth of new information has revolutionised our understanding of how people have lived in, and transformed, the landscape of Holy Island. Many of the sites are also significant in a broader Welsh context and inform the understanding of similar sites across Britain and Ireland.Trade ReviewThe volume is a valuable addition to the burgeoning canon of archaeological publications resulting from large-scale infrastructure projects on Anglesey and the mainland opposite * Archaeologia Cambrensis - Cambrian Archaeological Association *Providing a fascinating long view of settlement in a slice of Welsh landscape, this publication, well illustrated with site photographs, clear plans and reconstructions, will offer an interesting point of comparison to some excavated landscapes on the western side of the Irish Sea. * Archaeology Ireland *Jane Kenney’s volume offers a detailed window on the transformation of a landscape that has provided a home for human populations for over 8000 years. * Antiquity *Table of ContentsList of figures List of tables Summary Crynodeb 1. Introduction 2. A landscape through time 3. Mesolithic Period 4. Neolithic period – houses, halls and huts 5. Beaker period and earlier Bronze Age – ceremony and settlement 6. Later Bronze Age and Iron Age – settlement and politics 7. Roman and Early Medieval periods – industry, burial and corn dryers 8. Medieval and post-medieval periods – a farming landscape 9. Conclusion Appendix I: Radiocarbon dates from Parc Cybi Appendix II: Project background and methodology Bibliography
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Oxbow Books Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic,
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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Oxbow Books Life in the Limes: Studies of the people and
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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