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Book SynopsisBetween History and Archaeology: Papers in honour of Jacek Lech is a collection of forty-six papers papers in honour of Professor Jacek Lech, compiled in recognition of his research and academic career as well as his inquiry into the study of prehistoric flint mining, Neolithic flint tools (and beyond), and the history of archaeology. The papers explore topics on archaeology and history, and are organised into three sections. The first contains texts on flint mining dealing with well-known mining sites as well as previously unpublished new material. The reader will find here a wide spectrum of approaches to flint mining, ways of identifying raw materials used by prehistoric communities, and an impressive overview of the history of research, methodology and approaches to flint mining in Europe, North America and Asia. The following group of papers deals with the use of flint by Neolithic and younger communities, including typological studies on trace evidence analyses as well as theoretical papers on prehistoric periods in Europe and the New World. The final section consists of papers on the history of archaeology in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some deal with the beginnings of archaeology as a scholarly discipline, while others present significant research from different countries. Readers will also find papers on the development of archaeology in the second half of the 20th century, both in political and institutional contexts. The book ends with the memories, which bring the Jubilarian closer to the reader by viewing him through the eyes of his co-workers and friends.Table of ContentsEditorial Preface – by Dagmara H. Werra and Marzena Woźny; Early Prehistoric Flint Mining in Europe: a Critical Review of the Radiocarbon Evidence – by Susana Consuegra and Pedro Díaz-del-Río; Twenty-five Years Excavating Flint Mines in France and Belgium: an Assessment – by Françoise Bostyn, Hélène Collet, Emmanuel Ghesquière, Anne Hauzeur, Pierre-Arnaud de Labriffe, Cyril Marcigny in collaboration with Philippe Lavachery; Flint Mining in Northern France and Belgium: a Review – by Françoise Bostyn, Hélène Collet, Jean-Philippe Collin and François Giligny; Flint Mining and the Beginning of Farming in Southern England – by Robin Holgate; Women´s Work? Findings from the Neolithic Chert Mines in the ‘Krumlovský les’, South Moravia – by Martin Oliva; New research at Tata-Kálváriadomb, Hungary – by Katalin T. Biró, Erzsébet Harman-Tóth and Krisztina Dúzs; News from the Eastern Fringe – The Baunzen Site near Vienna, Austria – by Michael Brandl, Oliver Schmitsberger and Gerhard Trnka; Siliceous Raw Materials from the Eastern Part of the Polish Carpathians and Their Use in Stone and Bronze Ages – by Andrzej Pelisiak; Ongar: a Source of Chert in Lower Sindh (Pakistan) and Its Bronze Age Exploitation – by Paolo Biagi and Elisabetta Starnini; The Chocolate Flint Mines in the Udorka Valley (Częstochowa Upland) – a Preliminary Report on the Field and Lidar Surveys – by Magdalena Sudoł-Procyk, Janusz Budziszewski, Maciej T. Krajcarz, Michał Jakubczak and Michał Szubski; Exploitation and Processing of Cretaceous Erratic Flint on the Polish Lowland. A Case Study of Sites in the Vicinity of Gorzów Wielkopolski – by Przemysław Bobrowski and Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka; The Latest Knowledge on Use of Primary Sources of Radiolarites in the Central Váh Region (the Microregion of Nemšová – Červený Kameň) – by Ivan Cheben, Michal Cheben, Adrián Nemergut and Marián Soják; The Prehistoric Bedrock Quarries Occurring within the Chert Bearing Carbonates of the Cambrian-Ordovician Kittatinny Supergroup, Wallkill River Valley, Northwestern New Jersey-Southeastern New York, U.S.A. – by Philip C. LaPorta, Scott A. Minchak and Margaret C. Brewer-LaPorta; Methodical Concepts and Assumptions Underlying Research Methods for Studies on the Erratic Raw Material of the Polish Lowland. Geology versus Archaeology – by Piotr Chachlikowski; Why Foragers Become Farmers: Development and Dispersal of Food Producing Economies in Comparative Perspective – by Andreas Zimmermann; Acquisition and Circulation of Flint Materials in the Linear Pottery Culture of the Seine Basin – by Pierre Allard; The Organisation of Flint Working in the Dutch Bandkeramik: a Second Approach – by Marjorie E.Th. de Grooth; Jurrasic-Cracow Flint in the Linear Pottery Culture in Kuyavia, Chełmno Land and the Lower Vistula Region – by Joanna Pyzel and Marcin Wąs; Morphological and Functional Differentiation of the Early Neolithic Perforators and Borers – a Case Study from Tominy, South-Central Poland – by Marcin Szeliga and Katarzyna Pyżewicz; A Danubian Raw Material Exchange Network: a Case Study from Chełmno Land, Poland – by Dagmara H. Werra, Rafał Siuda and Jolanta Małecka-Kukawka; Lithic Workshops and Depots/Hoards in the Early/Middle Neolithic of the Middle Danube Basin and of the Northern Balkans – by Małgorzata Kaczanowska and Janusz K. Kozłowski; Considerations on the Topic of Exceptionally Large Cores of Chocolate Flint – by Anna Zakościelna; Romancing the Stones: a Study of Chipped Stone Tools from the Tisza Culture Site of Hódmezővásárhely-Gorzsa, Hungary – by Barbara Voytek; Flint Knapping as a Family Tradition at Bronocice, Poland – by Marie-Lorraine Pipes, Janusz Kruk and Sarunas Milisauskas; The Cucuteni – Trypillia ‘Big Other’ – Reflections on the Making of Millennial Cultural Traditions – by John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska; A Neolithic Child Burial from Ciemna Cave in Ojców National Park, Poland – by Paweł Valde-Nowak, Damian Stefański and Anita Szczepanek; The Settlement of Bodaki – a Tripolian-Culture Centre of Flint Exploitation in Volhynia – by Natalia N. Skakun, Vera V. Terekhina and Boryаna Mateva; Late Bronze Age Flint Assemblage from Open-pit Mine Reichwalde in Saxony, Germany – by Mirosław Masojć; Workshops in the Immediate Vicinity of a Mining Field of Flint Sickle-Shaped Knives from the Foreland of the Outcrops of Świeciechów Flint – by Jerzy Libera; Mining for Salt in European Prehistory – by Anthony Harding; Late Pre-Hispanic Stone-tool Workshops at Cayash Ragaj, Central Andes, Peru – by Andrzej Krzanowski and Krzysztof Tunia; From the History of Polish Archeology. In the Search for the Beginnings of Polish Nation and Country – by Adrianna Szczerba; Towards a Common Language: the Plan to Standardise Symbols on Archaeological Maps in 19th-century Europe – by Marzena Woźny; Izydor Kopernicki (1825–1891) and Czech Archaeology – by Karel Sklenář; From Poetry to Prehistory: Mary Boyle and the Abbé Breuil – by Alan Saville; The Life and Work of Bohdan Janusz (1887–1930) in the Context of the Intellectual Environment of the Galicia Region – by Natalia Bulyk; Albin Jura (1873–1958): Social Activist, Teacher and Stone Age Researcher – by Elżbieta Trela-Kieferling; Striped Flint and the Krzemionki Opatowskie Mine, Poland. The Beginnings – by Danuta Piotrowska; Archaeological Research at the Lvov University: Interwar Period – by Natalia Bilas; Archaeology and Art: the Relationship of Karel Absolon (1877–1960) and Czechoslovak Artists in the Period Between the World Wars – by Petr Kostrhun; The Basket Workshop Warehouse Manager: Memory by Alfred Wielopolski on Józef Kostrzewski’s Fate During the German Nazi Occupation Time (1941–1943) – by Andrzej Prinke; Konrad Jażdżewski (1908–1985) – Pupil and Friend of Professor Dr Józef Kostrzewski – by Maria Magdalena Blombergowa; Polish Archaeology Under Communism. The Trial of Massive Corruption of Clever Minds – by Andrzej Boguszewski; Forgotten History of Zespół do Badań Dziejów Szkła w Wielkopolsce (the Group for the Study of History of Glass in Greater Poland) – by Jarmila E. Kaczmarek; Professor Jacek Lech’s Archaeological Interest in Ojców and the Sąspowska Valley – by Józef Partyka; Do you remember?... – by Franciszek M. Stępniowski

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Book SynopsisThe discovery of archaeological structures in North Uist in 1974 after storm damage led to the identification by Iain Crawford of a kerb cairn complex, with a cist and human remains. Six years later he went back, and over the next three years excavated another cist with human remains in its kerbed cairn, many bowl pits dug into the blown sand, and down to two late Neolithic structures and a ritual complex. He intensively studied the environmental conditions affecting the site and was among the first archaeologists in Scotland to understand the climate changes taking place at the transition between late Neolithic and the early Bronze Age. The deposition of blown sand and the start of the machair in the Western Isles, including the rise in sea-level and inundations into inhabited and farmed landscapes, are all part of the complex story of natural events and human activities. Radiocarbon dating and modern scientific analyses provide the detail of the story of periods of starvation suffered by the people that were buried on the site, of the movement away of the community, of their attempts of bringing the ‘new’ land back into cultivation, of a temporary tent-like structure, and of marking their territory by the construction of enduring monuments to the dead.Trade Review'...Ballin Smith and her colleagues have produced a worthy volume that answers many questions concerning the complex transition period between the Neolithic and Bronze Age within an area of the British Isles that would have been seen by late prehistoric pastoralists as the edge of the known world.' – George Nash (2019): Current ArchaeologyTable of ContentsForeword - Malcolm Burr ; Preface - Beverley Ballin Smith ; Summary (English/Gaelic) ; PART 1 Introduction - Beverley Ballin Smith ; PART 2 The excavation record - Beverley Ballin Smith ; PART 3 Dating and human remains ; PART 4 The changing natural environment and subsistence farming ; PART 5 Exploitation of natural resources and the uses of artefacts ; PART 6 Discussion - Beverley Ballin Smith ; PART 7 Conclusion - Life on the edge - Beverley Ballin Smith ; Afterword – Iain and Imogen Crawford ; Appendices: ; 1: Marine shell samples quantified by species ; 2: Pottery catalogue ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisThe carved stone crosses of the Isle of Man of the late fifth to mid-eleventh century are of national and international importance. They provide the most coherent source for the early history of Christianity in the Island, and for the arrival and conversion of Scandinavian settlers in the last century of the Viking Age - a century which produced some of the earliest recognisable images of the heroes and gods of the North; earlier, indeed, than those found in Scandinavia. This, the first general survey of the material for more than a century, provides a new view of the political and religious connections of the Isle of Man in a period of great turmoil in the Irish Sea region. The book also includes an up-to-date annotated inventory of the monuments.Trade Review‘In his book, David Wilson discusses the emergence, zenith, and decline of Manx crosses in six stimulating chapters, supported by a comprehensive list of sites and that all-important index. He clearly shows that major influences were brought to bear over the 600-year period, initially by early Christian missionaries, followed by Picts, and finally Vikings. His book is the first comprehensive survey to be undertaken for over a century, and provides invaluable context to their origins and use at a time when, politically, the Irish Sea (province) was experiencing great upheaval. This is a must-read for scholars interested in the religious iconography of the early medieval period.’ – George Nash (2019): Current Archaeology #339 ‘We have needed this book: an authoritative and holistic introduction to the Isle of Man’s early medieval sculpture. From the book’s Preface we get a good sense of just how hard-won its contents have been for the ‘retired’, eminent Viking scholar Sir David Wilson, who long ago made the Isle of Man his home… Throughout, Wilson draws effectively on his extensive knowledge of the early medieval, particularly Scandinavian world, to situate the Manx story, as revealed through its sculpture, in its Irish Sea and wider European context.’ – Sally Foster (2019): Archaeological Journal, DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2019.1590955Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1 An Introduction to the Island; CHAPTER 2 Early stones and sacred sites; CHAPTER 3 The Monastery at Maughold and pre-Scandinavian monuments in the Island; CHAPTER 4 The cusp of the Scandinavian settlement of the Isle of Man; CHAPTER 5 The stone sculpture of the Scandinavian settlement; Chapter 6 The Scandinavian runic inscriptions; Bibliography & Suggested Reading; Appendix: A hand-list of the Manx Crosses

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Book SynopsisThe city of Rhodes was an important harbour in the Hellenistic period, and although its political role in the Roman period was significantly diminished, it never ceased to be a key hub for trade. The catastrophic earthquake of 515 AD marked the transition from the Late Roman to the Early Byzantine period in Rhodes. The glorious ancient city shrunk in size; its streets, which had been laid out according to the Hippodamian grid, were encroached upon and large basilicas were founded on the sites of ancient sanctuaries. A significant portion of the city has been uncovered over the past few years by rescue excavation, revealing houses, mansions, streets and extensive cemeteries, all yielding a large quantity of finds. This study focuses on the recording, study and publication of the corpus of the Late Antique lamps dating from the 3rd to the 7th centuries as found in these rescue excavations in the town of Rhodes. The lamps of this period from Rhodes and the other Dodecanesian islands are nearly unknown in the bibliography. The aim here is to present the diachronic changes in the artistic sensibility and preferences of this particular market. An integral component in this process are topographical observations regarding the Early Byzantine town of Rhodes, giving some details about the extent of the building remains. In addition, facets of the economic and commercial activities of the island during Late Antiquity are highlighted. Subjects such as the transformation/adaptation of the ancient city to new circumstances are also debated. For some lamps, analyses of the clay have been undertaken and the results are presented.Table of ContentsA. 1. Introduction; A. 2. The Historical Context; B. THE LAMPS; B. 1. The Corinthian Lamps; B. 2. The Cypriot Lamps; B.3. The Attic Lamps; B. 4. The ‘Rhodian’ Lamps; B. 5. The So-called Asia Minor and the Asia Minor-type Lamps; B. 6. The Knidian Lamps; B. 7. The ‘Samian-type’ Lamps; B. 8. The ‘Aegean type’ Lamps; B. 9. The North African Lamps; B. 10. Unplaced: The Greek East Lamps; B. 11. The Wheel-made Lamps; B. 12. The Lamps of a Copper Alloy; C. Epilogue – Conclusions; D.1. Topographic map of Rhodes and location of excavation work (a list of the land-plots from which the lamps came); D.2. List of signatures, inscriptions and symbols; D.3. List of plates (signatures, inscriptions and symbols); D.4. Plates; D.5. List of Illustrations; D.6. Illustrations; D.7. Concordance of registration numbers and catalogue numbers; D.8. Bibliography-Abbreviations; E.1. NAA Analysis of Late Roman Lamps from Rhodes; E.2. The Preparation of a Preliminary XRF Database and the Comparison of Provenanced and Unprovenanced Lamps from Rhodes: An XRF Study Conducted by the University of Hartford Research Group; E.3. Some comments on the NAA and XRF analyses results

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Book SynopsisThis publication presents the results of over 30 years of investigation into Roman Godmanchester, (Cambridgeshire), by Michael Green. The book accurately locates the 25 “sites” investigated, and pinpoints the trenches against the modern street layout. Although some sites covered large areas, many often had to be conducted as small trenches undertaken by volunteers. The origins for Durovigutum include evidence for Iron Age settlement which preceded two Roman forts during the 1st century AD. After its initial military establishment the book goes on to reveal the development of the Roman civic community and its cemeteries along Ermine Street adjacent to its crossing of the Great Ouse. The town was surrounded by defences in the 2nd century and a wall in the 3rd century, its public buildings included a mansio, bath-house and brewery, aisled barns, basilica and several temples, and the socio-economic foundation of the community is explored with specific examples from excavated evidence including different types of domestic housing and workshops. A tavern, glassware-shop, dairy equipment, pottery manufacture and a smithy are detailed in this book, as well as analysis of land organization, infield and outfield agriculture, and a villa estate at Rectory farm. Specialist analyses include samian and coarse wares, vessel and window glass, coins, animal bone, dairy production, belief systems and burial practices, as well as the exceptional finds of a hoard of jewellery from one of the mansio pits, and a burial casket of wood and bronze. Although partial or full reports of various excavations have been published in journals and monographs previously, this is the first time Green’s full body of work on Godmanchester has been collated and presented in one comprehensive volume. The book has not tried to include more recent investigations, and most illustrations are by Michael Green, drawn contemporary with his excavations.Trade Review‘…[It] is impossible not to be in awe of Green’s commitment to Roman Godmanchester and we have cause to be grateful to Tim Malim for bringing the volume together. As a result of this publication we are undoubtedly better informed about this important site, but it is also clear that much potential remains to be realized from the sites and material presented (or not) in the volume – a mine for postgraduate dissertations and theses perhaps?’ – Pete Wilson (2019): Archaeological Journal, DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2018.1555125Table of ContentsPreface ; Foreword ; PART 1 EXCAVATIONS AT DUROVIGUTUM ROMAN GODMANCHESTER ; Chapter 1 Introduction ; Chapter 2 Chronological and Thematic Summary of the Town ; Chapter 3 The forts, road network, and town development ; Chapter 4 Public Buildings and cemeteries ; Chapter 5 The Town: The Economic Base ; Chapter 6 The Economic Basis of the Rural Hinterland ; Chapter 7 Domestic Buildings and continuation into Anglo-Saxon times ; PART 2 SPECIALIST STUDIES ; Chapter 8 Samian, coarse pottery, kiln and catalogues ; Chapter 9 Mortaria and lamps ; Chapter 10 Faunal remains ; Chapter 11 Coins, special assemblages and slag ; PART 3 APPENDICES ; Appendix 1 Site reports arranged chronologically by excavation date ; Appendix 2 Collected Publications on Roman Godmanchester ; Appendix 3 Small Finds Catalogue and Drawings ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe significant body of stone and flint axe-heads imported into Britain from the Continent has been poorly understood, overlooked and undervalued in Neolithic studies, particularly over the past half century. It is proposed, in this study, that the cause is a bias of British Neolithic scholarship against the invasion hypothesis and diffusionist model, and it is sought therefore to re-assess the significance accorded to these objects. The aim is to redress the imbalance by re-focusing on the material, establishing a secure evidence base, and exploring the probable conditions in which these often distinctive items made their way to Britain. The narrative presented here rests upon the argument that imported axe-heads came into what is today called Britain as objects of considerable significance. Specifically, they were items of high symbolic value that played a crucial role in fostering particular ways of thinking about, and addressing, social identity in the Neolithic period. These issues are the context for the study, whose main objectives are the close and detailed cataloguing of relevant material, and a documentation of the investigative work needed to establish the credentials of each artefact.Trade Review'It is excellent to see all the disparate data collected together with a persistent reminder of the problem of fakes and manuports (most axe-heads are stray finds, others form part of donated antiquarian collections, or, these days, bought on eBay); it allows, for the first time, an overview of the ‘oddities’. This clearly shows that a re-examination of the material is overdue, and the need for the original lithological descriptions/attributions to be confirmed is the author’s constant and timely cry (but for safe progress it must to be done by a competent petrographer). The questions this book (re-)raises are important and are clarified. Most notably (placing jade to one side), why, after the early Neolithic, were so very few axes imported?' – Rob Ixer (2018): Current Archaeology #343 ‘Overall, this book provides a wealth of interesting ideas and observations of the British Neolithic and its relations with its nearest neighbours. It highlights what the author has rightly identified as a greatly neglected class of objects… For those with a fascination for stone tools, this provides an enjoyable wander through the problems and pitfalls, but also the considerable potential, of axeheads with possible Continental associations.’ – Barry Bishop (2019): Archaeological Journal, DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2019.1591070 Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Re-connecting British and continental research traditions: dynamic approaches to the relationship between axe-heads and identity; Chapter Three: ‘Afterlives’; Chapter Four: An investigation into the contexts of jade axe-heads found in Britain, using GIS terrain modelling of HER data; Chapter Five: ‘Projet Breton’ and the search for Group X; Chapter Six: ‘Crudwell’ type, ‘Smerrick’ type, and marbled all-over-polished axe-heads in Neolithic Britain; Chapter Seven: The rectangular-sectioned axe-head in Britain and its implications for understanding the Neolithic; Chapter Eight: Answering the original questions; Appendix One: Table of all known published jade axe-heads with attributed British find-spot locations (correct until 2017). Shaded in grey are axe-heads with ‘precise’ find-spot locations, included in Appendix Two); Appendix Two: Find-spot locations, and archaeology of Mesolithic to Roman date within a 1000m radius, for 43 jade axe-heads found in Britain, presented as 41 GIS terrain models with accompanying text; Appendix Three: A table of all known Group X axe-heads and a table of Breton fibrolite axe-heads with attributed British find-spot locations; Appendix Four: Table of all published ‘Crudwell-Smerrick’ type axe-heads; Appendix Five: Table of all known axe-heads with rectangular sections which have British find-spot locations attributed. Highlighted in grey are axe-heads of probable Scandinavian origin. This is a summary of the information presented in Appendix Six; Appendix Six: Corpus of all known axe-heads with rectangular sections which have British find-spot locations attributed (summarised in Appendix Five); Appendix Seven: Caches and hoards of axe-heads in Britain. Please note, almost all of the data included in this corpus has been taken directly from Pitts 1996, Appendix One, with a few additions by the author; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents proceedings from sessions A15a, A15b, A15c of the XVII UISPP World Congress (1–7 September 2014, Burgos, Spain). The sessions covered are: ‘Archaeological Heritage Policies and Management Strategies’, where international management models focused on legislation, public policies, management systems, and institutional contexts for research were presented; ‘Management and use of science data from preventive archaeology: quality control’, where reflections on the range of quality control in projects of applied science, including environmental topics and social standards were developed; ‘Cultural resources, management, public policy, people’s awareness and sustainable development’, which focused on local traditional crafts, many of which exist continuously from prehistory to the present day. Collectively this volume presents perspectives of archaeological heritage management in various countries and continents. It is hoped, through this, to contribute to the exchange of experiences, the sharing of solutions, and the broadening of Archaeology’s role in the sustainable development of people.Table of ContentsForeword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition – Luiz Oosterbeek ; Foreword – Erika M. Robrahn-González ; ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE POLICIES AND MANAGEMENT STRUCTURES (Session 15 A) ; Public policies for the management of the Angolan archaeological heritage – Ziva Domingos ; The Legal Protection of Archaeological Heritage in Mozambique (1994-2014) – Solange L. Macamo and Leonardo Adamowicz ; L’archéologie dans la nomenclature des sciences: approche structurelle et nouvel ordre en Côte d’Ivoire – Kouassi Kouakou Siméon ; The role of civil society in preservation of archaeological heritage in the Republic of Moldova – Sergiu Musteaţă ; MANAGEMENT AND USE OF SCIENCE DATA FROM PREVENTIVE ARCHAEOLOGY: QUALITY CONTROL (Session 15 B) ; Quality management organisation in Inrap (France) – Alain Koehler ; Quality control in preventive archaeology in France: a review of the question – Pascal Depaepe ; Archaeology in Russia today – the system of scientific control over the quality of rescue archaeology work – Asya Engovatova ; Trois cas de prospections relatifs à des diagnostics archéologiques en Côte d’Ivoire (2008-2010): les entreprises d’extraction minière levier pour un nouvel ordre archéologique en Côte d’Ivoire? – Kouassi Kouakou Siméon and François Guédé Yiodé ; CULTURAL RESOURCES, MANAGEMENT, PUBLIC POLICY, PEOPLE’S AWARENESS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Session 15 C) ; A study of the Archaeological sites of the Birbhum District, Bengal – Its management and sustainable development – Asmita Basu ; A Study of Prehistoric Cultural Heritage and Management in Odisha, India – Debasis Kumar Mondal ; Heritage of skill in making clay ornaments in India – Koyel Chakraborty, Debasis Kumar Mondal and Ranjana Ray ; Indigenous Knowledge and Skills of the Bhotiya Women of Uttarkashi – Subhadra Mitra Channa ; Mask of Chhau – A Tribal Heritage through the Ages in West Bengal: An Ethno-Archaeological Study in Charida Group of People – Banani Bhattacharyya

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Book SynopsisThis year, 2017, marks 70 years since the discovery of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls at Khirbet Qumran by the Dead Sea in 1947. The Dead Sea Scrolls are one of the most well-known archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. This book addresses the proto-history and the roots of the Qumran community and of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the light of contemporary scholarship in Alexandria, Egypt. Alexandria, as the centre for Hellenistic Jews and the location of the Library of Alexandria, forms a key to understanding the theme of the book. The relationship of this context to the thoughts of the Essenes, the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria, the Jewish Therapeutae of Egypt living in the neighbourhood of Alexandria and the Pythagoreans are especially studied in this work. Historical sources (both Jewish and Classical authors) and archaeological evidence are taken into account in the wider Graeco-Roman context. The connection between the Jewish Therapeutae in the Lake Mareotis region and the Palestinian Essenes is explained by the ‘Jewish Pythagoras’ based on the idea that the movements share the same philosophical tradition based on Judaism and Pythagoreanism. The prototypes of the Dead Sea Scrolls are explained in their Egyptian context, in association with the Library of Alexandria, the Egyptian temple manuals, and the formation of libraries in the Hellenistic period including that of Qumran.Table of ContentsPreface and Introduction; I Alexandria and Jewish Philosophies; II Pythagorean Philosophy; III Background to the Organisation of the Qumran-Essene Community; IV Qumran and the Pythagorean Philosophy: The Eleven Pythagorean Tetraktys in Comparison with the DSS; V Daily Life and Religion among the Qumran-Essenes; VI The Qumran Sundial and Ancient Solar Thinking; VII Back to the Beginning; VIII Summary; Sources, Bibliography, and Index

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Book SynopsisTwo of the questions most frequently asked by archaeologists of sites and the objects that populate them are ‘How old are you?’ and ‘Where are you from?’ These questions can often be answered through archaeometric dating and provenance analyses. As both archaeological sites and objects, shipwrecks pose a special problem in archaeometric dating and provenance because when they sailed, they often accumulated new construction material as timbers were repaired and replaced. Additionally, during periods of globalization, such as the so-called Age of Discovery, the provenance of construction materials may not reflect where the ship was built due to long-distance timber trade networks and the global nature of these ships’ sailing routes. Accepting these special challenges, nautical archaeologists must piece together the nuanced relationship between the ship, its timbers, and the shipwreck, and to do so, wood samples must be removed from the assemblage. Besides the provenance of the vessel’s wooden components, selective removal and analysis of timber samples can also provide researchers with unique insights relating to environmental history. For this period, wood samples could help produce information on the emergent global economy; networks of timber trade; forestry and carpentry practices; climate patterns and anomalies; forest reconstruction; repairs made to ships and when, why, and where those occurred; and much more. This book is a set of protocols to establish the need for wood samples from shipwrecks and to guide archaeologists in the removal of samples for a suite of archaeometric techniques currently available to provenance the timbers used to construct wooden ships and boats. While these protocols will prove helpful to archaeologists working on shipwreck assemblages from any time period and in any place, this book uses Iberian ships of the 16th to 18th centuries as its case studies because their global mobility poses additional challenges to the problem at hand. At the same time, their prolificacy and ubiquity make the wreckage of these ships a uniquely global phenomenon.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Chapter 1. The Uniquely Problematic Shipwrecks of the Equally Problematic ‘Age of Discovery’; Chapter 2. Timber Samples and Dendroprovenance; Chapter 3. Sampling and Sub-sampling; Chapter 4. Legal Considerations; Chapter 5. Ethical Considerations; Chapter 6. Conclusions; Glossary; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisGlassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki: 1st Century BC – 6th Century AD is a detailed examination of the production of glass and glass vessels in the eastern Mediterranean from the Hellenistic Age to the Early Christian period, analysing production techniques and decoration. The volume establishes the socio-economic framework of glassmaking and glassmakers’ social status in the Roman world generally and in Thessaloniki specifically, while identifying probable local products. Presented are all the excavation glass finds from Thessaloniki and its environs found between 1912 and 2002. A typological classification was created for almost 800 objects – which encompass the overwhelming majority of common excavation finds in the Balkans – as well as for the decorative themes that appear on the more valuable pieces. Comparative material from the entire Mediterranean was studied, verified in its entirety through primary publications. A summary of the excavation history of these vessels’ find-spots is provided, with details for each excavation, in many cases unpublished and identified through research in the archives of the relevant museums and Ephorates of Antiquities. The uses of glass vessels are presented, and there is discussion and interpretation of the reasons that permitted, or imposed, the choice of glass for their production. The finds are statistically analysed, and a chronological overview examining them century by century on the basis of use and place of production is given. Finally, there is an effort to interpret the data from the study in historical terms, and to incorporate the results into the political-economic evolution of the region’s political history. Relatively unfamiliar glassmaking terms are explained in a glossary of glassworking technology and typology terms. The material is fully documented in drawings and photographs, and every object in the catalogue is illustrated. A detailed index of the 602 geographical terms in the work, many unknown, concludes the book.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Production – Forming – Decoration ; 2. Secondary Glass-Workshops ; 3. Glassworkers: People, Artisans and Traders ; 4. Typological Classification of the Material Under Study ; 5. Decoration of the Studied Material ; 6. Uses of Glass Vessels ; 7. Chronological Overview of the Finds – Conclusions ; 8. Catalogue of the Glass Vessels ; 9. Catalogue and Brief History of the Excavations and Find-Spots of the Glass Vessels ; Glossary of Technological Terms Related to Glassworking ; Plates ; Bibliography and Abbreviations ; Index of Places

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Book SynopsisPottery is one of humankind’s most important inventions. It is thousands of years old, and it is fair to say that without it the development of civilization as we know it would not have been possible. Food preparation and storage, religion and ritual, wine-making, trade, art, and architecture, among many other human achievements, were all aided by pottery, an artificial material that lent itself to the elaboration of all kinds of objects: vessels, figurines, roof tiles, water pipes, fishnet weights, and tablets inscribed with the earliest forms of writing, to name but a few; a veritable litany of human creativity. This book examines a contemporary pottery tradition in Mesoamerica, but also looks back to the earliest examples of cultural development in this area. By means of ethnographic analogy and ceramic ecology, this study seeks to shed light on a modern indigenous community and on the theory, method and practice of ethnoarchaeology; undoubtedly one of the most important aspects of archaeological research in Mexico today.Trade ReviewThe author’s… argument situates the ethnoarchaeological method/theory as the… outcome of a deep anthropological archaeology tradition. Furthermore, the utility of ethnoarchaeology to theory building and bridging arguments in archaeology as well as sociocultural anthropology [is] highlighted amiably. The greater value of the [book]… is the concise reporting of the fieldwork illustrating the patterned physical manifestations of routine potting in and about households valuable to archaeologists reconstructing ancient pathways… — Kirk D. Straight, Ethnoarchaeology, 2020Williams deftly weaves… a compelling argument for incorporating modern ethnographic observance as suggested bridging methods for understanding… intangible cultural components in the archaeological record to serve as points of departure for reconstructing ancient craft creation processes… — Lorraine A. Williams-Beck, Latin American Antiquity, 30(4), 2019Table of ContentsPreface; Chapter I Introduction; Chapter II Ethnoarchaeology: Archaeology as Anthropology; Chapter III Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology and Ceramic Ecology in Western Mexico; Chapter IV Tarascan Pottery as a Strategic Rescource in the Protohistoric Period (ca. AD 1450-1530); Chapter V Summary and General Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis is a history of archaeological endeavour in Norfolk set within a national context. It covers the writer's early experiences as a volunteer, the rise of field archaeology as a profession and efforts to conserve the archaeological heritage against the tide of destruction prevalent in the countryside up to the 1980s when there was not even a right of access to record sites before they were lost. Now developers often have to pay for an excavation before they can obtain planning consent. The book features progress with archaeology conservation as well as the growth of rescue archaeology as a profession both in towns and in the countryside. Many of the most important discoveries made by aerial photography, rescue excavations and metal detecting from the 1970s onwards are illustrated. The last section covers the recent growth of the Norfolk Archaeological Trust as an owner of some of the most iconic rural sites in Norfolk. The book concludes with a discussion of some issues facing British field archaeology today.Trade Review'What a life in Norfolk's archaeology! The book is destined to become an essential archaeological reference and to join other classics of archaeological autobiography, among them Sir Mortimer Wheeler's Still Digging and Philip Rahtz's Living Archaeology. An absolute must-read.' - Edward Biddulph (2018): Current Archaeology Nominated for the Current Archaeology Book of the Year Award 2019Table of ContentsNorfolk Firsts ; Time line of key events most of which feature in the Book ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: The Early Years ; Chapter 3: Excavating Deserted Medieval Villages ; Chapter 4: The Launditch Hundred Project, 1967-71 ; Chapter 5: North Elmham Park: The Excavation of a High-Status Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval Settlement, 1967-72 ; Chapter 6: Chance Finds ; Chapter 7: Societies ; Chapter 8: Amateurs in Action ; Chapter 9: Metal Detecting: ‘The Norfolk System’ ; Chapter 10: Urban Surveys ; Chapter 11: The ‘RESCUE’ Movement, The Scole Committee and Professional County Units ; Chapter 12: A New County Service for Field Archaeology, 1973-1999 ; Chapter 13: Key Norfolk Archaeological Unit Projects ; Chapter 14: The Story of ‘East Anglian Archaeology’ ; Chapter 15: County-based Conservation Projects ; Chapter 16: National Conservation Initiatives ; Chapter 17: Some Rescue Excavations, 1972-92 ; Chapter 18: Clearing the Publication Backlog from the Past, 1977-97 ; Chapter 19: Re-structuring Field Archaeology in Norfolk, 1991 ; Chapter 20: Time to Move On ; Chapter 21: The Norfolk Archaeological Trust: a property-owning conservation trust ; Chapter 22: Caistor St Edmund Roman Town ; Chapter 23: Burgh Castle ‘Saxon Shore’ Roman Fort ; Chapter 24: Two Monasteries ; Chapter 25: Other Recent Acquisitions ; Chapter 26: The Future Role of the Norfolk Archaeological Trust ; Chapter 27: A Time to Reflect ; Appendix 1: Alan Davison’s publications ; Appendix 2: Summary of progress set out in the 1996 Five-year Development Plan for Archaeology in the Norfolk Museums Service ; Appendix 3: List of those archaeologists who attended the February 1970 Barford meeting which represented the start of the RESCUE movement ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisShifting Sand is the journal of Julian Berry, then a 17-year-old archaeologist, written on-site during excavations in Deir Alla, Jordan, in 1964. The dig was organized by the University of Leiden and led by Dr Henk Franken who was looking to find a material context for Old Testament narratives, and to build a stratigraphic chronology to mark the transition from the Bronze through to the early Iron Ages based mainly around pottery finds. When the author was working on the site, three clay tablets were discovered from the late Bronze Age with early Canaanite inscriptions, that when translated in 1989 showed that Deir Alla was the Biblical Pethor, and that it had been attacked by Israelites from Pithom in Egypt. Later a wall inscription was found in Aramaic dating to 880-770BCE referencing the prophet Balaam. Berry was as much interested by what was going on above ground as below, and kept a detailed journal of the daily lives of the archaeologists and life in the camp. The dig also had many fascinating and famous archaeologists visiting, including Father Roland de Vaux, and Diana Kirkbride. During breaks from the dig Berry went on a number of journeys in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria and he describes their cities, but also the very tranquil agricultural countryside that he found at that time. He discovered adventure when a drunk taxi driver tried to murder him as he resisted his advances; later he was caught up in a revolt against Hafez al-Assad in Homs, father of Bashir, and was asked by a taxi driver if he had come to Damascus to see the public hanging. Above all this book should be read as fascinating insight into the lives of archaeologists over 50 years ago, and the very close links between the European team, the Arab workmen, and the daily life in a simple mud-brick village.Table of ContentsForeword; Introduction; Diary Entries, 1964; Appendix; Postscript

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Book SynopsisJames Douglas (1753-1819) was a polymath, well ahead of his time in both the fields of archaeology and earth-sciences. His examinations of fossils from the London Clay and other geological formations caused him to conclude that the Earth was much older than the 4004 BC allotted to it by his contemporaries. He had come to this conclusion by 1785 and published these findings in that year, long before other researchers in the same field. His Nenia Britannica, published in 1793, reveals a remarkably accurate grasp of the dating of Anglo- Saxon burials; further illuminated by the contents of his common-place book for 1814-16, discovered by the author in a second-hand bookshop. This common-place book, correspondence with his contemporaries and other sources resulted in the present publication recounting his archaeological and other activities in Sussex during the first two decades of the 19th century.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The Excavations; 3. Megaliths in the Brighton area; 4. Sussex Placename derivations and miscellania.; 5. Epilogue; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisUnlike the Sahara or Southern Africa, the rock art of Central Africa is still largely unknown today. Despite being reported as early as the 16th century by Diego del Santissimo Sacramento, the rock art of the Kongo Central, an area encompassing parts of modern day Angola, Cabinda, the Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Gabon, has never been widely researched and its age remains uncertain. Populated by the Ndibu, one of the Kongo subgroups, the Lovo massif is in the north of the ancient kingdom of Kongo. Even though this kingdom has, since 1500 AD, been one of the best documented in Africa, from historical sources as well as ethnographic and anthropological sources for the more recent periods, it remains largely unrecognized archaeologically. With 102 sites inventoried (including 16 ornate caves), it contains the largest concentration of rock art sites in the region, representing more than 5000 rock art images. Crossing ethnological, historical, archaeological and mythological points of view, this book illustrates that rock art played an important part in Kongo culture. Like historical sources or oral traditions, it can provide historians with important documentation and contribute significantly to the reconstruction of Africa's past. French description: A la difference des arts rupestres du Sahara ou d'Afrique australe, ceux d'Afrique centrale restent encore aujourd'hui largement meconnus. Bien que signale des le XVIe par Diego del Santissimo Sacramento, l'art rupestre du Kongo Central n'a jamais fait l'objet d'une recherche de grande ampleur et son age reste toujours incertain. Peuple par les Ndibu, un des sous-groupes kongo, le massif de Lovo se trouve dans le nord de l'ancien royaume de Kongo. Meme si ce royaume est, a partir de 1500, l'un des mieux documentes de toute l'Afrique tant par les sources historiques que par les sources ethnographiques et anthropologiques pour les periodes plus recentes, il reste largement meconnu sur le plan archeologique. Avec 102 sites inventories (dont 16 grottes ornees), il contient la plus importante concentration de sites rupestres de toute la region, ce qui represente plus de 5000 images rupestres. En croisant les points de vue ethnologique, historique, archeologique et mythologique, j'ai pu montrer que l'art rupestre a bel et bien une part importante dans la culture kongo. Au meme titre que les sources historiques ou les traditions orales, il peut apporter aux historiens une documentation de premier plan et contribuer a reconstruire le passe de l'Afrique.Table of ContentsRemerciments; Chapitre 1 Le Massif de Lovo, un Patrimoine Meconnu; Chapitre 2 Presentation du Massif de Lovo; Chapitre 3 Historique des Regards; Chapitre 4 Methodologie; Chapitre 5 Presentation des Sites; Chapitre 6 Apport d'une Documentation Nouvelle; Chapitre 7 Analyse de la Matiere Picturale; Chapitre 8 Elements de Datation; Chapitre 9 L'Art Rupestre en Contexte : un Etat des Lieux; Chapitre 10 Les Sources Capucines; Chapitre 11 La Croix Kongo a travers les Siecles; Chapitre 12 La Figure du Lezard : une Piste Possible ?; Chapitre 13 Les Motifs Derives de la Vannerie et du Textile; Chapitre 14 L'Art du Mythe; Chapitre 15 L'Art Rupestre du Massif de Lovo au sein des Zones Kongo et Mbundu; Chapitre 16 Le Massif de Lovo, quel Futur ?; Epilogue; Bibliographie; Volume 2 : Annexes (online)

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Book SynopsisThe Egyptian Museum of Florence, in collaboration with the University of Florence, hosted the Eleventh International Congress of Egyptologists which took place from 23rd to 30th August 2015, under the patronage of the IAE – International Association of Egyptologists. This volume publishes 136 papers and posters presented during the Congress. Topics discussed here range from archaeology, religion, philology, mummy investigations and archaeometry to history, offering an up-to-date account of research in these fields.Table of ContentsPreface – Volume Editors ; Papers ; Development of Old Kingdom pottery: three cases studies (‘Cemetery of the Workers’, Heit el-Ghurab and the Khentkawes Town) – Sherif M. Abdelmoniem ; Of Min and moon – cosmological concepts in the Temple of Athribis (Upper Egypt) – Victoria Altmann-Wendling ; Les relations entre l’horloge stellaire diagonale et le corpus des Textes des Sarcophages Les relations entre l’horloge stellaire diagonale et le corpus des Textes des Sarcophages dans le sarcophage intérieur de Mésehti : le temps et les décans – Bernard Arquier ; The Qubbet el-Hawa casting moulds – Late Period bronze working at the First Cataract – Johannes Auenmüller ; Overlapping and contradictory narratives in Ancient Egyptian visual programs – Jennifer Miyuki Babcock ; Sāmānu as a human disease in Mesopotamia and Egypt – Susanne Beck ; The pyramid as a journey – cultic encounters between father and son in the Pyramid of Pepy I – Nils Billing ; The Ancient Egyptian dialects in light of the Greek transcriptions of Egyptian anthroponyms – Ana Isabel Blasco Torres ; Dalla sabbia alla teca: esempi di interventi conservativi eseguiti su alcuni papiri del Museo Egizio di Firenze – Paola Boffula Alimeni ; New evidence on the king’s son Intefmose from Dra Abu el-Naga: a preliminary report – Francisco L. Borrego Gallardo ; The Merenptah Sarcophagi restoration project – Edwin C. Brock and Lyla Pinch Brock ; Egyptian names and networks in Trismegistos (800 BC – AD 800) – Yanne Broux ; The Ptolemaic dedication of Archepolis in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina: materiality and text – Patricia A. Butz ; Bernard V. Bothmer and Ptolemaic sculpture: papers on Ptolemaic art from his archives held at the Università degli Studi di Milano – Giorgia Cafici ; The Tell el-Maskhuta Project – Giuseppina Capriotti Vittozzi and Andrea Angelini ; Silence in the Tale of the Eloquent Peasant: themes and problems – Ilaria Cariddi ; Progetto Butehamon. Prospettive e ricerche nella necropoli tebana – Giacomo Cavillier ; Notes on the inscribed Old and Middle Kingdom coffins in the Egyptian Turin Museum – Emanuele M. Ciampini ; Rethinking Egyptian animal worship (c. 3000 BC – c. 300 AD): towards a historical-religious perspective – Angelo Colonna ; Before and after the Temple: the long-lived necropolis in the area of the Temple of Millions of Years of Amenhotep II – Western Thebes – Anna Consonni, Tommaso Quirino and Angelo Sesana ; Papyri with the Ritual of the Opening of the Mouth in the Egyptian Museum in Turin – Federico Contardi ; Notes for a building history of the temple of Ramesses II at Antinoe. The architectural investigation – Michele Coppola ; Nouvelle lecture d’une scène de la théogamie d’Hatshepsout – Alice Coyette ; Worship and places of worship in the Greco-Roman town at Marina El-Alamein – Grażyna Bąkowska-Czerner and Rafał Czerner ; Middle Kingdom coffin of Khnum from the National Museum of Warsaw – Dorota Czerwik ; Non-destructive analysis on 11 Egyptian blue faience tiles from the 2nd and 3rd Dynasties – Joseph Davidovits and Frédéric Davidovits ; Scenes from the Amduat on the funerary coffins and sarcophagi of the 21st Dynasty – Cássio de Araújo Duarte ; Votive pottery deposits found by the Spanish Mission at Dra Abu el-Naga – Elena de Gregorio ; The building activity of Pinudjem I at Thebes – Gabriella Dembitz ; The ‘Book of Going Forth by Day’ in the funerary chamber of Djehuty (TT 11): past, present, and future – Lucía Díaz-Iglesias Llanos ; The pre-Egyptological concept of Egypt as a challenge for Egyptology and the efforts to establish a research community – Florian Ebeling ; The Gebelein Archaeological Project, 2013–2016 – Wojciech Ejsmond ; Trois nouvelles harpes découvertes à Thèbes ouest Quel apport pour l’égyptologie ? – Sibylle Emerit ; The ‘pantheistic’ deities. Report from research on iconography and role of polymorphic deities – Grzegorz First ; Études sur le cadre de vie d’une association religieuse dans l’Égypte gréco-romaine : l’exemple de Touna el-Gebel – Mélanie C. Flossmann-Schütze ; Forme di imitazione egizia nella decorazione architettonica di Nea Paphos – Leonardo Fuduli ; Ahmose-Sapair in Dra Abu el-Naga: old and new evidence – José M. Galán ; The Moon god Iah in ancient Egyptian religion – Gudelia García-Fernández ; Expression of loyalty to the king – A socio-cultural analysis of basilophoric personal names dating to the Old and Middle Kingdoms – Christina Geisen ; Love and Gold in Cross-Cultural Discourse in the Amarna Letters – Graciela Gestoso Singer ; Some unpublished inscriptions from Quarry P at Hatnub – Yannis Gourdon and Roland Enmarch ; Names of eye parts in different text genres: a contribution to technical language in ancient Egypt – Nadine Gräßler ; The transformation of Theban Tomb 39 (TT39). A contribution from a conservation viewpoint in terms of its history after dynastic occupation – Dulce María Grimaldi and Patricia Meehan ; The complete corpus of viticulture and winemaking scenes from the ancient Egyptian private tombs – Maria Rosa Guasch-Jané, Sofia Fonseca and Mahmoud Ibrahim ; Des étoiles et des hommes : peurs, désirs, offrandes et prières – Nadine Guilhou ; Cracking a code: deciphering the marks of the royal necropolis workmen of the New Kingdom – Ben Haring ; The Egyptian Dionysus: Osiris and the development of theater in Ancient Egypt – Allison Hedges ; The Abydos Dynasty: an osteoarchaeological examination of human remains from the SIP royal cemetery – Jane A. Hill, Maria A. Rosado and Joseph Wegner ; You up – I down: orientational metaphors concerning ancient Egyptian Kingship in royal iconography and inscriptions – Shih-Wei Hsu ; Image processing. Elaboration and manipulation of the human figure in the Pyramid Texts – Francesca Iannarilli ; Hieroglyphic inscriptions on precious objects: some notes on the correlation between text and support – Agnese Iob ; Predynastic precursors to the Festival of Drunkenness: beer, climate change, cow-goddesses, and the ideology of kingship – Victoria Jensen ; Crowdsourcing in Egyptology – images and annotations of Middle Kingdom private tombs – Peter Kalchgruber and Lubica Hudáková ; 3D-Reconstructions of Late Roman fortresses in Egypt – Christina Karlshausen and Thierry De Putter ; ‘To build a temple in the beautiful white stone of Anu’. The use of Tura limestone in Theban architecture – Christina Karlshausen and Thierry De Putter ; The motif of the kiosk during the first half of the 18th dynasty – Edyta Kopp ; A heritage in peril: the threat to Egypt’s urban archaeological sites – Peter Lacovara ; Le sḏm.f circonstanciel. Une forme verbale rare en néo-égyptien littéraire – Vincent Pierre-Michel Laisney ; Amduat type papyri in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow – Nika Lavrentyeva ; Carving out identities in the Egyptian desert: self-presentation styles adopted by the ancient travelers of Kharga Oasis – Nikolaos Lazaridis ; Ya-t-il une « fabrique d’albâtre » et un atelier de tissage au Ramesseum? – Guy Lecuyot ; Deux nouvelles ‘Recommandations aux prêtresʼ datées de Ptolémée X Alexandre Ier – Nicolas Leroux ; Scenes representing temple rituals on some 21st Dynasty coffins – Éva Liptay ; Building B, a domestic construction at Tell el-Ghaba, North Sinai – Silvia Lupo, Eduardo Crivelli Montero, Claudia Kohen and Eva Calomino ; The Montecelio Obelisk in Rome – Lise Manniche ; The role of e-learning in Egyptology: ‘Hieroglyphs: Step-by-Step’ website as a case study – Ahmed Mansour and Azza Ezzat ; The function and importance of some special categories of stars in the Ancient Egyptian funerary texts, 1: AxAx- and iAd-stars – Alicia Maravelia ; Chapel of the tomb belonging to Amenhotep III’s Vizier, Amenhotep Huy. Asasif Tomb No. 28, Luxor-West Bank. Excavation results: ‘Vizier Amenhotep Huy Project’ (2009–2014) – Francisco J. Martín-Valentín and Teresa Bedman ; Objets découverts dans des tombes Thébaines situées sous le Temple de Millions d’Années de Thoutmosis III à l’ouest de Louxor – Javier Martínez Babón ; Fish offerings found in Area 32 of the archaeological site of Oxyrhynchus (El-Bahnasa, Egypt) – Maite Mascort Roca and Esther Pons Mellado ; The Akh-menu of Thutmosis III at Karnak. The Sokarian Rooms – Julie Masquelier-Loorius ; The 13th Dynasty at Abydos: a royal tomb and its context – Dawn McCormack ; The transmission of the Book of the Twelve Caverns – Daniel M. Méndez Rodríguez ; A new reading of Problem No. 53 in the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. The limits of proportionality – Marianne Michel ; The ang-morphs in Coptic and their grammaticalization in Later Egyptian – So Miyagawa ; ‘Augmented Reality’ technology and the dissemination of historical graffiti in the Temple of Debod – Miguel Ángel Molinero Polo, Alfonso Martín Flores, Jorge Martín Gutiérrez, Cristóbal Ruiz Medina, Lucía Díaz-Iglesias Llanos, Fernando Guerra-Librero Fernández, Daniel Miguel Méndez Rodríguez, Luis Navarrete Ruiz, Manuel Rivas Fernández and Ovidia Soto Martín ; The Min Project. First working seasons on the unpublished Tomb of Min (TT109) and Tomb Kampp -327-: the Tomb of May and a replica of the Tomb of Osiris – Irene Morfini and Milagros Álvarez Sosa ; Figurative vase painting from the First Intermediate Period through to the Fatimid Dynasty: a continuity? – Maya Müller ; Basic considerations on the construction of pyramids in the Old Kingdom – Frank Müller-Römer ; Die Verwendung von Münzen in pharaonischer Zeit – Renate Müller-Wollermann ; In the footsteps of Ricardo Caminos: rediscovering the ‘Speos of Gebel el Silsila’ – Maria Nilsson and Philippe Martinez ; The folding cubit rod of Kha in Museo Egizio di Torino, S.8391 – Naoko Nishimoto ; The mystery of the ‘high place’ from the Abbott Papyrus revealed? The results of the works of the Polish Cliff Mission at Deir el-Bahari 1999–2014 – Andrzej Niwiński ; The mummies of the ‘Three Sisters’ in the Museo Egizio: a case study. Conservation and studies of textiles and bandages – Cinzia Oliva and Matilde Borla ; Technical aspects of faience from Hierakonpolis, Egypt – a preliminary report – Marina Panagiotaki, Elizabeth Walters, Yannis Maniatis and Anna Tsoupra ; Horus Seneferou ka-s quand le dernier souverain de la Ire dynastie devint la première femme pharaon de l’Histoire à porter un nom d’Horus – Jean-Pierre Pätznick ; The Herakleopolis Magna Project: seasons 2012–2015 – M. Carmen Pérez-Die ; The Stelae Ridge cairns: a reassessment of the archaeological evidence – Hannah Pethen ; The Italian-Egyptian Mission at the Monastery of Abba Nefer at Manqabad: results of the first four seasons’ work – Rosanna Pirelli, Ilaria Incordino, Paola Buzi and Anna Salsano ; Wedjat-eyes as a dating criterion for false doors and stelae to the early Middle Kingdom – Melanie Pitkin ; La collection égyptienne du Musée Sandelin à Saint-Omer (France) – Jean-Louis Podvin ; Some remarks on the Egyptian reception of foreign military technology during the 18th Dynasty: a brief survey of the armour – Alberto Maria Pollastrini ; Medical re-enactments: Ancient Egyptian prescriptions from an Emic viewpoint – Tanja Pommerening ; Textual layers in Coffin Texts Spells 154–160 – Gyula Priskin ; The cat mummies of the Società Africana d’Italia: an archaeological, cultural and religious perspective – Maria Diletta Pubblico ; Khnum the Creator: a puzzling case of the transfer of an iconographic motif – Maarten J. Raven ; Temple ranks in the Fayyum during the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods: documentary sources and archaeological data – Ilaria Rossetti ; Le musee de Mallawi : etat des lieux apres les destructions et projets pour l’avenir – Ashraf Alexandre Sadek ; A new light on Coptic afterlife (O.4550 from the Coptic Museum in Cairo) – Hind Salah El-Din Somida Awad ; The lost chapels of Elephantine. Preliminary results of a reconstruction study through archival documents – Daniele Salvoldi and Simon Delvaux ; Doors to the past. Rediscovering fragments in the new blockyard at Medinet Habu – Julia Schmied ; Les dépôts de fondation de la Vallée des Rois : nouvelles perspectives de recherche sur l’histoire de la nécropole royale du Nouvel Empire – François C. A. Schmitt ; Economic mentalities and Ancient Egyptian legal documents – Alexander Schütze ; Excavations in the ‘Temple of Millions of Years’ of Thutmosis III – Myriam Seco Álvarez ; Rituels funéraires au temps de Hatchepsout : le sanctuaire de la tombe de Djehouty et ses parallèles – José M. Serrano ; The so-called Book of Two Ways on a Middle Kingdom religious leather roll – Wael Sherbiny ; Ibyc. PMGF 287 and Ancient Egyptian love songs – Anna Sofia ; The Physiologus in Egypt – Marco Stroppa ; A survey of astronomical tables on Middle Kingdom coffin lids – Sarah L. Symons ; Blue painted pottery from a mid-18th Dynasty royal mud-brick structure in northwest Saqqara – Kazumitsu Takahashi ; Studies on BD 17 vignettes: iconographic typology of Rw.tj-scene (New Kingdom – Third Intermediate Period) – Mykola Tarasenko ; Were components of Amarna composite statues made in separate workshops? – Kristin Thompson ; Research on Old Kingdom ‘dissimilation graphique’. World-view and categorization – Simon Thuault ; La funzione del tempio tolemaico di Deir el-Medina alla luce dell’archeologia – Claudia Tirel Cena ; The ‘geography’ of the hierogrammateis: the religious topography of the Western Harpoon (7th Nome of Lower Egypt) – Elena Tiribilli ; The Ancient Egyptian shabtis discovered in the regions of Roman Illyricum (Dalmatia, Pannonia) and Istria: provenance, collections, typological study and dating – Mladen Tomorad ; From Egypt to the Holy Land: first issues on the Egyptian collection in the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem – Benedetta Torrini ; Tradition and innovation within the decoration program of the temple of Ramesses II at Gerf Hussein – Martina Ullmann ; The Egyptian Execration Statuettes (EES) Project – Athena Van der Perre ; A new long-term digital project on Hieratic and cursive hieroglyphs – Ursula Verhoeven and Svenja A. Gülden ; Hierakonpolis Faience, 2005–2013, with context and accompanying finds – a quest for chronology and possible use – Elizabeth J. Walters, Amr El Gohary, Shelton S. Alexander, Richard R. Parizek, David P. Gold, Recep Cakir, Marina Panagiotaki, Yannis Maniatis and Anna Tsoupra ; Elhe Berlin Plans from the New Kingdom Period – Yoshifumi Yasuoka ; The career of Nakhtmin (TT 87) as revealed by his funerary cones – Kento Zenihiro ; Object biographies and political expectations: Egyptian artefacts, Welsh Heritage and the regional community museum – Katharina Zinn ; Who am I - and if so, how many? Some remarks on the ‘j-augment’ and language change – Monika Zöller-Engelhardt ; Poster presentations ; Vocabulaire de l’Égyptien Ancien (VÉgA) Plateforme numérique de recherche lexicographique – A. Almásy, Ch. Cassier, J. Chun-Hung-Kee, F. Contardi, M. Massiera, A. Nespoulous-Phalippou, Fr. Rouffet ; South African collections – Izak Cornelius, Salima Ikram, Ruhan Slabbert, Liani C. Swanepoel, Frank Teichert and Tiffany van Zyl ; Pottery from the Early Roman rubbish dumps in Berenike harbour – Agnieszka Dzwonek ; A sequence of five 13th Dynasty structures at Memphis – Rabee Eissa ; Funerary culture of the Memphite region during the Early Dynastic Period – Barbora Janulíková ; The Roman Imperial cult temple at Luxor: its architecture and possible connection between Roman and Egyptian cultures – Irina Kulikova and Dmitry Karelin ; One of the earliest discovered houses at Memphis – Hanan Mahmoud Mohamed ; Étude Pluridisciplinaire De Têtes De Momies (Lyon) – Annie Perraud, Matthieu Ménager, Pascale Richardin and Catherine Vieillescazes ; Progetto Osiris: valorizzazione delle piccole collezioni egizie – Massimiliana Pozzi Battaglia e Federica Scatena ; Study and restoration of two mummies from the Moulins Museum – Noëlle Timbart ; List of papers presented at ICE XI – M. Franci

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Book SynopsisThe indigenous persistence, texture, articulation, shape and functionality of the urban definition of the municipia in central Apulia demonstrate the nature of the complex history and settlement of this area in the long period between the age of Romanization and the third century AD. The comprehensive collection and examination of the material evidence make it possible to reconstruct – for the first time, in an organic manner and in a global framework – the profile of the urban space of ‘Poediculorum oppida’. This has been carried out according to a dynamic perspective that reveals signs of restructuring and approval, of novelty and vibrancy, of strength and interaction, to make possible the reconsideration of that stubborn idea, prevalent until recently, of an ineluctable ‘crisis’, and to draw a picture of urban geography calibrated according to an intense and morphogenetic tension in terms of the assimilation of Roman culture and adaptation to local conditions. Italian description: Persistenza indigena, consistenza, articolazione, forma e funzionalità urbanistiche dei municipia della Puglia centrale consentono di leggere la complessa vicenda storica e insediativa di questo comparto nel lungo periodo esteso fra l’età della romanizzazione e il III sec. d.C. La raccolta e disamina complessive del patrimonio documentario permettono così di ricostruire – per la prima volta, in maniera organica e in un disegno globale – il profilo dello spazio urbano dei ‘Poediculorum oppida’ secondo una prospettiva dinamica che lascia cogliere segni di ristrutturazione e di omologazione, di novità e di vivacità, di rottura e di interazione, per provare a riconsiderare quell’idea pervicace di ineluttabile ‘crisi’ tradita fino a tempi recenti e a tracciare un quadro poleografico calibrato su una intensa e morfogenetica tensione fra metabolismo e simbiosi.Table of ContentsIntroduzione; Quadro storico; RVBI; BVTVNTVM; BARIVM; CAELIA; AZETIVM; GENVSIA; Per uno sguardo sinottico; For an overall view; Indici delle fonti di tradizione manoscritta; Indici delle fonti epigrafiche

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Book SynopsisEtruscan architecture underwent various changes between the later Iron Age and the Archaic period (c. 800-500 BC), as seen in the evidence from several sites. These changes affected the design and style of domestic architecture as well as the use of raw materials and construction techniques. However, based on a supposed linear progression from inferior to superior building materials, explanations and interpretations often portray an architectural transition in Etruria from ‘prehistoric’ to ‘historic’ building types. This perspective has encouraged a rather deterministic, overly simplified and inequitable view of the causes of change in which the replacement of traditional materials with new ones is thought to have been the main factor. This book aims to reconsider the nature of architectural changes in this period by focussing on the building materials and techniques used in the construction of domestic structures. Through a process of identification and interpretation using comparative analysis and an approach based on the chaîne opératoire perspective, changes in building materials and techniques are examined, with special reference to four key sites: San Giovenale, Acquarossa, Poggio Civitate (Murlo) and Lago dell’Accesa. It is argued that changes occurred in neither a synchronous nor a linear way, but separately and at irregular intervals. In this monograph, they are interpreted as resulting mainly from multigenerational habitual changes, reflecting the relationship between human behaviour and the built and natural environments, rather than choices between old and new materials. Moreover, despite some innovations, certain traditional building techniques and their associated materials continued into the Archaic period, indicating that Etruscan domestic architecture did not undergo a complete transformation, as sometimes asserted or implied in other works. This study of building techniques and materials, while not rejecting the widely held view of a significant Etruscan architectural transition, argues for a more nuanced reading of the evidence and greater recognition of the nature of behavioural change during the period in question.Table of ContentsAbstract; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Theory, methods and a review of the literature; Chapter 3: The foundations of early Etruscan buildings, 800-625 BC; Chapter 4: The foundations of Orientalising and early Archaic period Etruscan buildings, 625-500 BC; Chapter 5: The walls and roofs of Etruscan domestic structures, 800-500 BC; Chapter 6: Material Procurement, Production and Use; Chapter 7: Conclusions; Glossary; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book examines Roman funerary material from three Roman cities of the south-western regions of the Roman province of Pannonia (modern-day north-western Croatia): Andautonia (Ščitarjevo near Zagreb), Siscia (Sisak), and Aquae Balissae (Daruvar). The material chosen reflects the potential of Roman funerary monuments and gravestones for gaining an insight into the historical, social and psychological aspects of Roman provincial society. It enables a perception of the gradual development of the Romano-Pannonian milieu from the 1st to the 4th centuries in its various social aspects: civilian, military, and religious. Within this frame, the focus is on the interaction between the individual and the community as reflected in monologues or even dialogues between the deceased and the living, conveyed through epitaphs and depictions. The deceased more often than not strove to represent themselves on their monuments in a ‘wished-for’ rather than a realistic manner. All of the examples illustrated here reflect in one way or another the Roman obsession with the eternal preservation of the deceased’s memory. This volume is one of the ‘deliverables’ (dissemination of the results prevalently among the non-professional readers) of the project entitled: Roman funerary monuments of south-western Pannonia in their material, social, and religious context (IP-2014-09-4632), headed by B. Migotti. Its publication was partly supported by the Croatian Science Foundation.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Trade and war; 2. Prospects for veterans; 3. The Pannonian military ‘elite’; 4. Centenarians; 5. Slaves; 6. ‘The world of women’ – the Roman woman between self-confidence and patriarchy; 6. ‘The world of women’; 7. Death and mythology; 8. From myth to Christianity; Epilogue; Uvod; 1. Trgovina i rat; 2. Veterani i njihove sudbine; 3. Panonska vojnička „elita“; 4. Stogodišnjaci; 5. Robovi; 6. „Ženski svijet“ – rimska žena izmedu samosvijesti i patrijarhata; 7. Smrt i mitologija; 8. Od mita prema kršćanstvu; Epilog; A selected bibliography / Kratak izbor iz korištene literature; Sources of Images / Izvor ilustracija

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Book SynopsisWe are very lucky to have small, contemporary records of history scattered throughout our soil in the form of lead seals. With a couple of notable exceptions, they have largely been ignored by archaeologists and historians, but the recent explosion in the numbers found and recorded has helped to bring their importance and potential to the attention of those interested in our heritage. This book is intended to be a repository of the salient information currently available on the identification of cloth seals, and a source of new material that extends our understanding of these important indicators of post medieval and early modern industry and trade. It is, primarily, a guide to help with the identification of cloth seals, both those found within and those originating from the United Kingdom. Most of the extra examples, referenced beneath the images, can be quickly located and viewed through access to the internet.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Cloth Seals: Aim; Sources; Introduction; Basic Identification of Cloth Seal Type; Component Parts of a Cloth Seal; The Use of Lead Cloth Seals; Alnage & Subsidy; Cloth Seal Matrices; Lead v Wax Seals; The Type of Seals Attached to a Cloth (and Woven Marks); Dating of Cloth Seals; Ordering of Presentation; Images; List and Description of Seals: Seals of Known Locations; Seals of Known Monarch; Seals with Type of Cloth Named; Seals for Faulty Cloth; Seals of Guilds and Companies; Broad Arrow Seals; Alnage Seals; Searchers’ Seals; Clothworkers’ Personal Seals; Other Seals Conventionally Grouped with Cloth Seals; Continental Seals; Cloth Seal Identification Resources; Handling, Cleaning and Obtaining Images of Lead Seals; Bibliography; Appendix 1: Time-line of Events & Legislation in the Textile Industry with Emphasis on the Use of Cloth Seals & the Information They Displayed; Appendix 2: Types of Cloth; Appendix 3: List of Known Alnagers and Their Agents; Appendix 4: Known 16th & 17th Century Clothworkers’ Privy Marks; Appendix 5: Distinctive Identification Features on Cloth Seals; Appendix 6: Tubular Cloth Seals Employed by the Dutch Immigrant Cloth Makers in 16th and 17th Century England; Index

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Book SynopsisThis volumes examines Roman pottery and production centers in the bay of Gaditana, modern-day Cádiz. The innovative aspects of this research are several but we will limit them to three: the typological classification from a closer perspective to the mentality of the old potter; the concept of ‘social measure’, which connects the dimensions of the containers with the type of consumer and social group; and, the ethnoarchaeological aspects applied to the construction of a furnace, which have enabled to better specify various aspects relating to the manufacture of common Roman ceramics. From a methodological point of view, it is proposed a debate about the concept of ‘common pottery’, which is defined as ceramics intended for a common and multipurpose use, more practical than aesthetic. Likewise, it is exposed the great problem of the typologies, seeking not only a logical classification into types and variants, but also a reference to the artisan work. The theme of the ancient name of Roman ceramic forms is faced in order to call by the old names to the Roman pottery forms found today. The concept of ‘social measure’, unprecedented in this type of analysis, pretends to reach a social accepted measure, obtained with a statistical study. This measure is that one around which the values are concentrated.Table of ContentsPrólogo; Abstract; Capítulo I: Introducción; Capítulo II: Historiografía y estado actual de las investigaciones; Capítulo III: La cerámica común en el mundo antiguo. Las fuentes; Capítulo IV: Espacio Industrial Alfarero de las Cerámicas Comunes de la Bahía Gaditana; Capítulo V: La cerámica común romana en la Bahía Gaditana; Capítulo VI: Redes de distribución de la cerámica común romana; Capítulo VII: Reconstrucción de un horno romano: investigación etnoarqueológica ; Capitulo VIII: Consideraciones Finales; Bibliografía

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Book SynopsisThe Seminar for Arabian Studies is the principal international academic forum for research on the Arabian Peninsula. First convened in 1968, it is the only annual academic event for the study of the Arabian Peninsula that brings together researchers from all over the world to present and discuss current fieldwork and the latest research. The Seminar covers an extensive range of diverse subjects that include anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, epigraphy, ethnography, history, language, linguistics, literature, numismatics, theology, and more besides, from the earliest times to the present day or, in the fields of political and social history, to around the end of the Ottoman Empire (1922). The Seminar meets for three days each year, with an ever-increasing number of participants coming from around the globe to attend. In 2016 the fiftieth meeting took place, in which sixty papers and posters were presented in London at the British Museum, where this prestigious event has been hosted since 2002. The Seminar also regularly hosts a special session focusing on a specific aspect of the Humanities on the Arabian Peninsula, enabling a range of experts to present their research to a wider audience. In 2016 this special session was entitled ‘Textiles and Personal Adornment in the Arabian Peninsula’, which provided a fascinating overview of research on dress, textiles, and adornment in the Middle East.Table of ContentsEditors’ Foreword; Textiles and personal adornment in the Arabian Peninsula: papers from the special session of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held on 29 July 2016 (Aisa Martinez); In memoriam Beatrice Eileen de Cardi OBE FSA FBA, 1914–2016; In memoriam Ernie Haerinck, 1949–2016; In memoriam Maurizio Tosi, 1944–2017; Pearl merchants of the Gulf and their life in Bombay (Saif Albedwawi); An integrated approach to surveying the archaeological landscapes of Yemen (Rebecca Banks, Michael Fradley, Jérémie Schiettecatte & Andrea Zerbini); Traces of date palm in an early third-millennium BC tomb in Zukayt, al-Dākhiliyyah, Sultanate of Oman (poster) (Eugenio Bortolini, Juan José García-Granero & Marco Madella); A niche construction approach to vegetation community development in the south-west Arabian Neolithic: preliminary results (Abigail F. Buffington, Michael J. Harrower, Joy McCorriston & Eric A. Oches); A Crowded Desert: early results from survey and excavation of nomadic sites in north-west Qatar (poster) (Jose C. Carvajal Lopez, Kirk Roberts, Gareth Rees, Frank Stremke, Anke Marsh, Laura Morabito, Andrew Bevan, Mark Altaweel, Rodney Harrison, Manuel Arroyo-Kalin, Robert Carter, Richard Fletcher & Faisal Abdullah al-Naimi); Excavation at the Bronze Age tower of al-Khutm (Bāt, Sultanate of Oman): a preliminary evaluation of the monument (poster) (Maurizio Cattani, Hassan al-Lawati, Sultan al-Bakri, Maurizio Tosi, Enzo Cocca, Alessandro Armigliato, Simone Mantellini & Giacomo Vinci); Excavations in Area 2A at Sarūq al-Дadīd: Iron Age II evidence of copper production and ceremonial activities (Fernando Contreras Rodrigo, Bernardo Vila, Pedro Albarracín, Rashad Mohammed Bukhash, Sheikha Obaid Al Abbar, Mansour Boraik Radwan Karim & Hassan Mohammed Zein); Zooarchaeological analysis of two dromedaries (Camelus dromedarius L.) from late Iron Age graves in Wādī cUyūn at Sināw (al-Sharqiyyah, Sultanate of Oman) (poster) (Antonio Curci & Elena Maini); New Iron Age funerary data from collective graves in Wādī FizΉ, northern Oman (Bleda S. Düring, Eric Olijdam & Sam A. Botan); An archaeological overview of the landscape of the al-Duqm development area, Sultanate of Oman (poster) (Francesco Genchi, Gabriele Martino, Maria Pia Maiorano, Roman Garba & Waleed Hamad Al-Ghafri); The discovery of a new Iron Age ritual complex in central Oman: recent excavations near Ādam (Guillaume Gernez, Mathilde Jean & Anne Benoist); Pre-Islamic ‘Hamāsah’ verses from north-eastern Jordan: a new Safaitic poetic text from Marabb al-al-Shurafā, with further remarks on the ΚĒn ΚAvdat inscription and KRS 2453 (Ahmad Al-Jallad); Incense and imagery: mapping agricultural and water management systems on the island of Socotra, Yemen (Julian Jansen van Rensburg & Kristen Hopper); Snake decorations on the Iron Age pottery from Sarūq al-Дadīd: a possible ritual centre? (Steven Karacic, Mansour Boraik, Hussein Qandil & Hélène David-Cuny); Chronology of stucco production in the Gulf and southern Mesopotamia in the early Islamic period (Agnieszka Lic); Indus potters in central Oman in the second half of the third millennium BC. First results of a technological and archaeometric study (Sophie Méry, Michele Degli Esposti, Dennys Frenez & Jonathan Mark Kenoyer); First campaign of survey and excavations at ShiyāΜ (Sūr, Sultanate of Oman) (Olivia Munoz, Valentina Azzarà, Pierre-Henri Giscard, Raphaël Hautefort, Fanny San Basilio & Léa Saint-Jalm); The expression h-rhwy in Thamudic B inscriptions from north-west Arabia (Jérôme Norris); Al-cAyn Oases Mapping Project: Jīmī Oasis (poster) (Timothy Power, Peter Sheehan, Fatima Nasser Al Mansoori, Maitha Saleh Al Mansoori, Mai Hareb Al Mansoori & Mariam Nabeel Mohammed); The development of complexity at third-millennium BC al-Khashbah,Sultanate of Oman: results of the first two seasons, 2015 and 2016 (Conrad Schmidt & Stephanie Döpper); The bitumen imports at Tell Abraq — tracing the second-millennium BC bitumen industry in south-east Arabia (Thomas Van de Velde, Peter Magee & Frederic Lynen); Embroidery from the Arabian Peninsula (Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood); An eighteenth-century merchantman off the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia (Chiara Zazzaro, Romolo Loreto & Chiara Visconti); Papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, on 29 to 31 July 2016

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Book SynopsisThe Black Sea in the Light of New Archaeological Data and Theoretical Approaches contains 19 papers on the archaeology and ancient history of the Black Sea region, covering a vast period of time, from the Early Iron Age until the Late Roman – Early Byzantine Periods. The majority of papers present archaeological material that has come to light during the last few years, in excavations that have been taking place in several parts of Pontus. Additionally, there are papers that present theoretical approaches to historical issues concerning the Black Sea, its local peoples, cultural aspects or specific sites, while at the end there is as well as a section on the connections between the Black Sea and northern Greece. Thus, the reader of this volume will have the opportunity to be informed about new archaeological results from excavators of some very important Black Sea sites, focus on specific categories of excavation finds or constructions, but also encounter new theories and ideas about social aspects of life in the Black Sea in ancient times. All these indicate once again the impressive acceleration of the archaeological and historical research that is being conducted in the last few decades in the Black Sea littoral, which continues to attract the unfailing interest of scholars from around the world.Trade Review‘Overall, this book provides the reader with fascinating new results of archaeological, historical and epigraphic research. Despite our relative scarcity of written sources and its depiction as an alien region in some Classical texts, the Black Sea was a thriving region that provides archaeologists with a wealth of data to compare or contrast Mediterranean contexts with. Whereas some contributions to the book might appeal more to a specialist readership of Black Sea archaeologists and historians, a number of papers will certainly interest scholars studying broader economic, political and cultural developments of the Ancient World. The book is, moreover, richly illustrated throughout with high quality images in colour.’ – Lieve Donnellan, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University (2019): Journal of Greek Archaeology Table of ContentsIntroduction (Manolis Manoledakis) ; NORTHERN BLACK SEA ; Houses of the Berezan Settlement: Some Observations on the Features of Archaic Residential Buildings (Dmitry Chistov) ; Polish excavations at Tyritake 2008-2014. A small revolution in archaic architecture (Alfred Twardecki) ; Some observations on defixiones from Olbia and Bosporus (Alexey V. Belousov) ; Greeks in the Asiatic Bosporus: New Evidence and Some Thoughts (Gocha R. Tsetskhladze) ; The Taurians in the Greek literary tradition (5th – 1st centuries BC) (Ioannis K. Xydopoulos) ; Deukalion the Scythian (David Braund) ; WESTERN BLACK SEA ; Searching for Nomads in Iron Age Thrace (Adela Sobotkova) ; The emporion of Pistiros: Hippodamean foundation and market place (Jan Bouzek) ; Βόρυζα πόλις Ποντική (Miroslav Ivanov Vasilev) ; Votive and other pottery from a sanctuary of Demeter in Apollonia Pontica (Margarit Damyanov) ; Adornments or amulets? Personal ornaments of Apollonian children in Pontic context (Mila Chacheva) ; Apollonia Pontica (Sozopol, Bulgaria): the results of the Franco-Bulgarian archaeological mission (Alexandre Baralis, Krastina Panayotova, Teodora Bogdanova, Martin Gyuzelev, Dimitar Nedev, Kostantin Gospodinov) ; Nemesis’ Cult and the Arena Spectacles. Evidence from the Black Sea Region (Georgia Aristodemou) ; SOUTHERN BLACK SEA ; Excavations at Tios: 2006 – 2015 (Sümer Atasoy) ; Sinope, new understandings of the early colony based on recent research at Sinop Kale (Owen Doonan) ; The rescue excavation of the Hacılarobası tumulus (Şahin Yıldırım and Nimet Demirci Bal) ; A Preliminary Study on the Roman Period at Komana (D. Burcu Erciyas and Mustafa N. Tatbul) ; PONTUS AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD ; Coins from the Propontis and the Black Sea found during the Metro excavations in Thessaloniki (Anna Argyri, Ioannis Birtsas and Manolis Manoledakis) ; Macedonia and the Black Sea in the era of Phillip II and Alexander the Great (Polyxeni Adam-Veleni)

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the relevance of time travel as a characteristic contemporary way to approach the past. If reality is defined as the sum of human experiences and social practices, all reality is partly virtual, and all experienced and practiced time travel is real. In that sense, time travel experiences are not necessarily purely imaginary. Time travel experiences and associated social practices have become ubiquitous and popular, increasingly replacing more knowledge-orientated and critical approaches to the past. The papers in this book explore various types and methods of time travel and seek to prove that time travel is a legitimate and timely object of study and critique because it represents a particularly significant way to bring the past back to life in the present.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Meaning of Time Travel (Cornelius Holtorf) ; Time Travel Using 3D Methodologies: Visualising the Medieval Context of a Baptismal Font (Nicoló Dell’Unto, Ing-Marie Nilsson† and Jes Wienberg) ; The Kivik Grave, Virtual Bodies in Ritual Procession: Towards New Artistic Interactive Experiences for Time Travellers (Magali Ljungar-Chapelon) ; Time Travel Paradoxes and Archaeology (Per Stenborg) ; Taking Us to the Past and the Past to Us (Isto Huvila) ; Use the Past, Create the Future: The Time Travel Method, a Tool for Learning, Social Cohesion and: Community Building (Ebbe Westergren) ; To Make and to Experience Meaning: How Time Travels are Perceived amongst Participants (Niklas Ammert and Birgitta E. Gustafsson) ; Time Travellers Beware! Risk and Responsibility in Public Uses of History (Stefan Nyzell) ; Forming Bridges Through Time Travel (Cecilia Trenter) ; Performing the Past: Time Travels in Archaeological Open-air Museums (Stefanie Samida) ; Being There: Time Travel, Experience and Experiment in Re-enactment and ‘Living: History’ Performances (Mads Daugbjerg) ; Face-to-Face with the Past: Pompeii to Lejre (Cornelius Holtorf) ; The Power of Time Travel Roeland Paardekooper) ; Mediated and Embodied Pasts – A Comment (Carsten Tage Nielsen) ; Waterworld: Travels in Time between Past and Future Worlds (Bodil Petersson) ; A Cup of Decaf Past: An Archaeology of Time Travel, Cinema and Consumption (Dawid Kobiałka) ; On Time Travelling and Cinema (Laia Colomer) ; A Cup of Decaf Past and Waterworld (Niklas Hillbom) ; History as an Adventure: Time Travel in Late Modernity from the Perspective of a European Ethnologist (Michaela Fenske) ; Time Travel to the Present: Interview with Erika Andersson Cederholm (Cornelius Holtorf and Bodil Petersson) ; Time-Travelling Tourism: Reflections on the Past as a Place of Fascination as well as Refuge (Thomas Småberg) ; Time Travels as Alternative Futures (Britta Timm Knudsen) ; Anachronism and Time Travel (Bodil Petersson)

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Book SynopsisThe 18th annual meeting of the Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (SOMA) was held in Wrocław-Poland, 24th to 26th April 2014. Since prehistoric times the Mediterranean has acted as a stage for intense interactions between groups inhabiting regions that are now studied mainly within various sub-fields of ancient studies. In recent years, however, the development of research techniques and analytical models of archaeological evidence have identified similar historical paths that are similar, if not, in some cases, common to these disparate areas of the ancient world from West (Iberian peninsula) to East (Anatolia and Levant), from North (Europe, Black Sea Coast) to South (Maghreb and Egypt). The 18th SOMA provided a forum for presentations related to the above-mentioned topics, as well as general themes such as the role of the sea, trade, colonization, even piracy, using archaeological data collected within contexts associated with the Mediterranean Basin and the area referred to as the Ancient Near East, ranging chronologically from the Prehistoric to Medieval periods. This current volume contains 22 papers selected from the 90 presented.Table of ContentsPreface (Błażej Stanisławski, Hakan ÖNİZ); Reconstruction of the Lost Temples of Palmyra (Ahmet DENK ER, Hakan ÖNİZ); Circulation of Christian Relics through the Mediterranean Sea (Alessandro LUCIAN O); The Wooden Medieval Ports (Alessandro LUCIAN O); Archaeometrical Studies of Ancient Window Glass Finds from Olba (Silifke, Mersin) Excavations in Turkey (Ali Akın AK YOL, Ayşe Emel ERTEN); The Conservation Project of the Mosaics in Metropolis (Ali Kazım ÖZ); An Ostothek with Mythological Scene From Avsar (Asuman BALDIRAN); An Ostothek with Mythological Scene From Avsar Aims, Sources and Objectives of the Project: ‘Constantinople/ İstanbul-Küçükçekmece – The Port of Destination of the Varangian Way: “Byzantinization”’ of a Rus Community Centre (Błażej Stanisławski, Sengül Aydı ngün, Hakan Öniz); Northwest Anatolia from the Perspective of Travellers: Social, Cultural Life and Archaeological Remains (Güngör KA RAUĞUZ); Submerged Prehistoric Sites in Turkey: Dam Constructions (Hakan Öniz); The Coastal Quarries of Lebanon: Case Studies of Enfeh, Batroun and Byblos (Jeanine Abdul MASSIH); Private Architecture from Ptolemais (Libya) (Julia MIK OCKA); Expeditions to Turkey – First Attempts at Heritage Recognition (Katarzyna JELEŃ); Some Oil Lamp Ship Scenes from the Roman Period (Koray ALPER, Eda Güngör ALPER); The Lion as a Symbol in Mesopotamian and Greek Civilizations: Archaeological Remarks and Historical Evidence (Krzysztof ULAN OWSKI); Architectural and Artistic Changes and Developments in Transjordanian Churches under Islamic Rule (Lihi HABAS); Examining Aspects of History, Religion and Trading Contacts of Ionian Colonies of the Western Shores of ‘Euxinus Pontus’: The Case of Tomi and Orgame (Maria GI RTZI); Amphorae Ceramic Stoppers From Risan, Montenegro (Seasons 2001-2013) (Marta BAJTLER); Applied Methodology for the Terrestrial Survey of the Coastal Town of Anfeh, Lebanon (Nadine PANA YOT HAROUN); Spatial Planning of the Narlıca Baths, Antakya (Nizam ABAY); Spolia in Seljuk Buildings (Osman ERAVŞAR); Everyday Life of a Medieval Ship Crew – Ceramic Materials from a Shipwreck near Novyi Svit (Veiber ALINA)

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Book SynopsisArchaeology with Art is the result of a 2013 Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference session that aimed to merge the perspectives of artists and archaeologists on making art. It explores the relationship between archaeology and art practice, the interactions between materials and practitioners, and the processes that result in the objects and images we call ‘art’. The book offers new approaches to the study of creative practices in archaeology, ranging from experimental investigations to philosophical explorations and contains a diverse set of papers that use insights from contemporary art practice to examine the making of past artworks.Table of ContentsArchaeology with Art: A short introduction to this book (Helen Chittock and Joana Valdez-Tullett) ; The paragone has gone (Andrew Cochrane) ; Making carved stone balls: art, experimental practice and archaeological research (Andrew Meirion Jones) ; The fate of a thinking animal: the role of Upper Palaeolithic rock-art in mediating the relationship between humans and their surroundings (António Batarda Fernandes) ; The rock ‘artist’: exploring processes of interaction in the rock art landscapes of the north of Ireland (Rebecca Enlander) ; Art, Materiality and Creativity: understanding Atlantic Rock Art (Joana Valdez-Tullett) ; Images and materials: The making of narrative imagery in rock art and on metalwork (Peter Skoglund) ; Categorising the Iron Age: Similarity and Difference in an East Yorkshire Assemblage (Helen Chittock) ; Imagining and Illustrating the Archaeological Record: The Power of Evocation and ; Augmentation of Linear Drawing (Dragoş Gheorghiu) ; Moving, changing, becoming: applying Aristotle´s kinesis paradigm to rock art (Andy Valdez-Tullett) ; Experiential Art and Archaeology: Vital Material Engagements (Eloise Govier) ; Living Symbols of Kilmartin Glen (John Was & Aaron Watson)

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Book SynopsisThe Socotra archipelago lies approximately 135 nautical miles (Nm) northeast of Cape Guardafui, Somalia and 205Nm south of Rās Fartaq, Yemen. The archipelago is made up of four main islands, Socotra, cAbd al-Kūri, Samḥa and Darsa, of which Socotra is the largest and most densely populated. The population of Socotra is divided between the interior pastoralists and the coastal fishermen and traders. While scholarly studies concerning the interior population abound, the fishermen of Socotra have received comparatively less attention and little about them or their traditions is known. This research seeks to address this balance by analysing the Socotri maritime traditions and addressing the question as to how social, environmental and technological influences have shaped the maritime traditions of the fishermen of Socotra. The primary data forming the basis of this book is author’s ethnographic fieldwork carried out on the islands of Socotra and Samḥa between 2009 and 2010. This data is incorporated within a transdisciplinary framework that looks at some of the essential factors of historical, archaeological and environmental evidence to gain a holistic insight into the spatial and temporal factors affecting the maritime traditions of the fishermen.Table of ContentsPart One: The Study; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Literature Review; Chapter 3. The Conceptual Framework and Methodology; Part Two: The Fishermen; Chapter 4. The Historical Ethnic Groups; Chapter 5. The Historical Fishing Community; Chapter 6. The Contemporary Fishing Community; Part Three: The Maritime Landscape And Climate; Chapter 7. The Maritime Landscape; Chapter 8. The Climate; Part Four: Vessels, Gear And Catch; Chapter 9. Fishing Vessels; Chapter 10. Fishing Equipment; Chapter 11. The Fisheries Economy; Chapter 12. Conclusion; Appendices: Appendix 1. The fishermen interviewed; Appendix 2. Sample interview questions in English and Arabic; Appendix 3. The fishing seasons and influence local winds and currents have on villages along the north and south coast and island of Samḥa; Appendix 4. The fishing tackle used by the fishermen, the method of its deployment, seasons in which it is used, species targeted and the locations in which these species are targeted; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis meticulous investigation, based around a famous rock image, the ‘White Lady’, makes it possible to take stock of the mythical presuppositions that infuse a great deal of scientific research, especially in the case of rock art studies. It also highlights the existence of some surprising bridges between scholarly works and literary or artistic productions (novels, films, comic strips, adventure tales). The examination of the abbé Breuil’s archives and correspondence shows that the primary motivation of the work he carried out in southern Africa like that of his pupil Henri Lhote in the Tassili was the search for ancient, vanished ‘white’ colonies which were established, in prehistory, in the heart of the dark continent. Both Breuil and Lhote found paintings on African rocks that, in their view, depicted ‘white women’ who were immediately interpreted as goddesses or queens of the ancient kingdoms of which they believed they had found the vestiges. In doing this, they were reviving and nourishing two myths at the same time: that of a Saharan Atlantis for Henri Lhote and, for the abbé, that of the identification of the great ruins of Zimbabwe with the mythical city of Ophir from which, according to the Bible, King Solomon derived his fabulous wealth. With hindsight we can now see very clearly that their theories were merely a clumsy reflection of the ideas of their time, particularly in the colonial context of the Sahara and in the apartheid of South Africa. Without their knowledge, these two scholars’ scientific production was used to justify the white presence in Africa, and it was widely manipulated to that end. And yet recent studies have demonstrated that the ‘White Lady’ who so fascinated the abbé Breuil was in reality neither white nor even a woman. One question remains: if such an interpenetration of science and myth in the service of politics was possible in the mid-20th century, could it happen today?Table of ContentsList of Figures; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Reinhard Maack and the Brandberg; Chapter 2: A few other servants of the White Lady; Chapter 3: Mary Boyle puts pen to paper; Chapter 4: In which a few doubts arise; Chapter 5: Of a hapax which isn’t one any longer; Chapter 6: The ‘Saharan connection’; Chapter 7: From Atlantis seekers to flying saucer dreamers; Chapter 8: On the role of literature and especially tales of ‘lost worlds’; Chapter 9: In which we look at bridges; Chapter 10: Ophir, the mythical city and Solomonic traditions; Chapter 11: The Queen of Sheba among the Afrikaners; Chapter 12: No photos!; Chapter 13: Knossos in Africa; Chapter 14: The future of an illusion; Chapter 15: Short biographical dictionary of the principal protagonists; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis volume comprises thirteen reports detailing fieldwork undertaken by a research project which sought to assess the archaeological evidence of the period of conflict that took place in mid-twelfth-century England popularly known as ‘the Anarchy’. The reign of King Stephen (ad 1135– 54) was characterised by a protracted struggle for power between forces loyal to the crown and those who supported the Angevin claim of his cousin and rival, the Empress Matilda. Alongside a succession of bitter rebellions the war also saw large-scale Scottish invasions into, and occupation of, large parts of northern England as well as border warfare on the marches between England and Wales and a struggle for control of Normandy. While the period is infamous for the proliferation of conflict, castle-building and siege warfare, and for a breakdown of royal government, its characterisation as ‘the Anarchy’ is now challenged by historians, however. As previous understanding of this tumultuous period had rested almost entirely upon interpretation of written sources, Anarchy? War and Status in Twelfth-Century Landscapes of Conflict was a programme of research which systematically studied the archaeology of mid-twelfth century England for the first time. A major component of the project was the targeted archaeological investigation of selected case study locations across England. Geophysical and topographic surveys were supplemented with archival, documentary and cartographic analyses in order to reveal the character and chronological development of a sample of potential Anarchy-period sites and landscapes. The current volume represents the product of these endeavours, presenting self-contained reports of the sites where these investigations took place, arranged alphabetically.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Surveying the Archaeology of Twelfth-Century England; Chapter 2 Burwell Castle, Cambridgeshire; Chapter 3 Castle Carlton, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire; Chapter 4 Corfe, ‘The Rings’, Dorset; Chapter 5 Crowmarsh Recreation Ground, South Oxfordshire; Chapter 6 Folly Hill, Faringdon, Oxfordshire; Chapter 7 Hailes Camp, Gloucestershire; Chapter 8 Hamstead Marshall, Castle I, Berkshire; Chapter 9 Malmebury, ‘Cams’s Hill’, Wiltshire; Chapter 10 Mountsorrel, Leicestershire; Chapter 11 Rampton, ‘Giant’s Hill’, Cambridgeshire; Chapter 12 Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire; Chapter 13 Wellow, Nottinghamshire; Chapter 14 Woodwalton, ‘Church End’, Cambridgeshire; Chapter 15 Conclusion; References

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Book SynopsisThe Cheshire hillforts are some of the most conspicuous features of the prehistoric landscape in Cheshire, located on the distinctive Cheshire Sandstone Ridge. They have been subject to years of archaeological research and investigation, however this has delivered only a limited understanding of their chronology, function, occupation history, economy and status. These hillforts are major elements of the prehistory of the region, but the lack of information about them is a major gap in our understanding. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Habitats and Hillforts Landscape Partnership Project focused on six of the hillforts and their surrounding habitats and landscapes. The aim of the project was not only to develop archaeological understanding, but also to raise awareness of these special assets in the landscape and the management issues they face. The Habitats and Hillforts Project was a collaborative partnership, led by Cheshire West and Chester Council, with Historic England, the National Trust, the Woodland Trust and the Forestry Commission, as well as private landowners. These landowners and land managers came together to share approaches to managing heritage assets on the Sandstone Ridge. The project core team was assisted by university specialists and archaeological contractors in surveying, excavating and researching the hillforts. A range of techniques including archival research, geophysical survey, earthwork survey, lidar, fieldwalking, excavation and palaeoenvironmental analysis, was employed to develop our understanding of these significant sites. A large and dedicated group of volunteers and students joined in this work, which encouraged more people to enjoy these assets and take an active role in their management. The Habitats and Hillforts Project has shed new light on the Cheshire Hillforts. Their chronology can now be seen to have developed from middle/late Bronze Age origins, much earlier than traditionally accepted. The possible development of distinct architectural styles in their construction can be suggested and an enhanced understanding of their surrounding landscape has been achieved. This volume details the results of the four year project, and sets out how these contribute to a deeper understanding of the ordering of the landscape in western Cheshire during the later prehistoric period and beyond. It should form a vital resource for informing future research priorities regarding the late Bronze Age and Iron Age of both Cheshire and the wider North West region.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Background to the Habitats and Hillforts Project (Jill Collens and Dan Garner); Chapter 2 The historical study of the Cheshire Hillforts (Dan Garner); Chapter 3 The Lithic Collection from the area around Woodhouse Hillfort, Frodsham (Ian Brooks); Chapter 4 The Lost Archive of Eddisbury: Rediscovering Finds and Records from the 1936–1938 Varley Excavations (Richard Mason and Rachel Pope); Chapter 5 Earthwork surveys and investigations at Woodhouse Hill, Helsby Hill and Maiden Castle (Mitchell Pollington); Chapter 6 Geophysical Survey (Dan Garner); Chapter 7 A lidar survey of the Cheshire Sandstone Ridge (Dan Garner); Chapter 8 Excavations at Woodhouse Hillfort (Dan Garner); Chapter 9 Excavations at Helsby Hillfort (Dan Garner); Chapter 10 Excavations at Eddisbury Hillfort (Dan Garner); Chapter 11 Rescuing a scheduled monument: Recent work at Merrick’s Hill, Eddisbury Hillfort (Richard Mason and Rachel Pope); Chapter 12 Excavations at Kelsborrow Hillfort (Dan Garner); Chapter 13 Environmental changes in lowland Cheshire: Hatchmere and Peckforton Mere (Richard Chiverrell, Heather Davies and Pete Marshall); Chapter 14 Pollen and plant macrofossil analysis of peat deposits from Ince Marshes (RSK Environment Ltd.); Chapter 15 Emerging Themes (Dan Garner); Bibliography; Online Appendices

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Book SynopsisAt the end of the 6th dynasty the 500 year old established order of the Old Kingdom fell apart, which, according to the interpretation given to various contemporary literary sources, started a period of social unrest and economic decline. The magnitude of the economic investment bestowed by the members of the higher social strata on the monuments that would be the abode for their after-life leads to the hypothesis that an economic decline could also manifest itself in the dimensions of the various architectonic elements of these monuments. The dimensions of the tombs have been chosen as the subject of this study. The preliminary part of the study is performed on the tombs in the necropolis of Giza. The results of the study are compared with the same measurements in the necropoleis of Saqqara and Abusir. The conclusion is that the economic decline started already at the early dynastic period and not as a result of the caving in of the Old Kingdom. An interesting ‘side-effect’ of the study is that the dimensions of the tombs can serve as a method to check a dating that has been proposed based on other aspect of the tomb.Table of ContentsPart I: Various Chronological Developments of Dimensional Aspects of the Tombs in the Necropolis of Giza ; Introduction ; Chapter One: Preliminary Considerations ; Chapter Two: The Necropolis of Giza ; Chapter Three: The Chronological Development of the Number of False Doors ; Chapter Four: The Chronological Development of the Dimensions of the Tombs and Their Chapels. Part I ; Chapter Five: The Chronological Developments in the Dimensions of the Tombs and Their Chapels. Part II ; Chapter Six: The Chronological Development of the Number of False Doors in Relation to the Dimensions of the Tomb ; Chapter Seven: Discussion, Analyses and Conclusions in Relation to the Necropolis of Giza ; Part II: The Necropoleis of Abusir and Saqqara. A Verification of the Chronological Tendencies in the Necropolis of Giza ; Chapter Eight: The Necropolis of Saqqara ; Chapter Nine: Various Chronological Developments in the Necropolis of Saqqara ; Chapter Ten: The Tombs in the Necropolis of Abusir ; Part III: Additional Methods for Controlling the Proposed Dating of a Tomb ; Chapter Eleven: Methods of Checking the Proposed Datings of Tombs ; Chapter Twelve: The Necropoleis of Saqqara, Giza and Abusir: Discussion and Conclusions ; Part IV: Catalogues and Tables

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Book SynopsisAmong the numerous deities in the ancient Egyptian mythology, whose nature and function are still vague and obscure, are mś.w Bdšt – ‘Children of Weakness’. These beings are twice mentioned in the Book of the Dead chapter 17. The text fragments contain two local versions of the myth with mś.w Bdšt – Hermopolitan (Urk. V: Abs. 1), and Heliopolitan (Urk. V: Abs. 22). Since the last text describes the combat between Re and the ‘Children of Weakness’, the same is likely to be reflected on the vignette, which depicts the battle of Re against mś.w Bdšt, metaphorically shown in the form of a serpent. This book is a comprehensive study of the ‘Children of Weakness’ myth and the scene depicting the cat, cutting off the head of the serpent under the branches of the išd-tree found on the number of Book of the Dead chapter 17 vignettes.Table of ContentsPreface; Chapter 1: The scene with the cat, serpent and sacred tree, 19th–21st Dynasties; Chapter 2: Correlation between text and visual image; Chapter 3: Mś.w Bdšt – the sources and the plot; Chapter 4: Mś.w Bdšt in the context of BD 175A, BD 123, CT Sp. 409, pBrooklyn 47.218.84 and the Book of Heavenly Cow – the Cosmogonic myth dénouement; Chapter 5: Mś.w Bdšt in the Book of Gates; Chapter 6: Mś.w Bdšt – the name and the image; Chapter 7: Essence of mś.w Bdšt in the Egyptian world view; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Catalogue of sources; Appendix 2: Selected texts; Abbreviations; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSince absolute dating of rock art is limited, relative chronologies remain useful in contextualising interpretations of ancient images. This book advocates the archival capacity of rock art and uses archival perspectives to analyse the chronology of paintings in order to formulate a framework for their historicised interpretations. The Western Cape painting sequence is customarily accepted to include the hunter-gatherer phase from c. 10,000 BP, pastoralism from c. 2,000 BP and finally the historical-cum-colonial period several centuries ago. Painting traditions with distinct depiction manners and content are conventionally linked to these broad periods. This study evaluates this schema in order to refine the diverse hunter-gatherer, herder and colonial era painting contexts and histories. Using superimpositions as one analytical tool, the notion of datum aided the referencing and correlation of layered imagery into a relative sequence. Although broad differences separate painting traditions, and these variations are generally indistinguishable within a single tradition, it is clear that the long-spanning hunter-gatherer segment of painting in this region reflects a hitherto unrecognised sub-tradition. Some painted themes such as elephants, fat-tailed sheep, handprints and possibly finger dots occur within various levels of the sequence, which this study views as shared graphic fragments occurring between and across traditions and sub-traditions. Through the archival concept of respect des fonds such observable complexities were clarified as coherent graphic narratives that run through the entire chronological sequence of the Western Cape rock paintings. Probing archaeological, ethnographic and historical sources revealed that while these themes remained fundamentally consistent throughout the stratigraphic sequence as preferred subject matter, their meanings might have transformed subliminally from earlier to later periods, possibly reflecting layered shifts in the socio-economic, cultural and political circumstances of the region. Fundamentally, the framework of image histories shown by the choice and sustenance of specific themes is understood to mean that their significance and specific graphic contexts throughout the chronological sequence are pivoted and mirrored through the long established hunter-gatherer rock paintings which predate periods of contact with other cultures. The resulting sequence and interpretation of these painted themes is a descriptive and organisational template reflecting the original organic character in the creation of the paintings and ordered cultural continuities in the use of animal/human symbolism. This book’s agenda in part involves reviewing the Western Cape’s changing social and historical landscape to show variation in painting over time and to project possible interpretative transformations. Painting sequences and cultural (dis)continuities are thus intricately entwined and can be disentangled through a recursive analytical relationship between archaeology, ethnography and history. This amalgamated analytical approach produces historicised narratives and contextual meanings for the rock paintings.Table of ContentsAbstract ; CHAPTER ONE: CONCEIVING ROCK ART ARCHIVES ; CHAPTER TWO: SHIFTING ROCK ART PERSPECTIVES ; CHAPTER THREE: ECOLOGICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT ; CHAPTER FOUR: CAPE HISTORICAL SETTING ; CHAPTER FIVE: THEORY, METHOD AND METHODOLOGY ; CHAPTER SIX: KEY SITES AND THEIR CONSTELLATIONS ; CHAPTER SEVEN: CAPE CHRONOLOGY ; CHAPTER EIGHT: ART ON THE FRONTIER ; CHAPTER NINE: PAST TO PRESENT ; REFERENCES ; APPENDIX 1

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Book SynopsisIn 2011, cavers exploring a little-known cave on Moneen Mountain in County Clare in the west of Ireland discovered part of a human skull, pottery and an antler implement. An archaeological excavation followed, leading to the discovery of large quantities of Bronze Age pottery, butchered animal bones and oyster shells. The material suggests that Moneen Cave was visited intermittently as a sacred place in the Bronze Age landscape. People climbed the mountain, squeezed through the small opening in the cave roof, dropped down into the chamber, and left offerings on a large boulder that dominates the internal space. The excavation also resulted in the recovery of the skeletal remains of an adolescent boy who appears to have died in the cave in the 16th or 17th century. Scientific analyses revealed he had endured periods of malnutrition and ill health, providing insight into the hardships faced by many children in post-medieval Ireland.Table of ContentsPart I The site, background and archaeological excavation ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Geology and geomorphology - David Drew; 3. History of investigation; 4. Cave morphology; 5. Excavation and post-excavation methodology; 6. Stratigraphic report; Part II Excavation results and specialist analyses; 7. Radiocarbon dates; 8. Mammalian faunal remains - Fiona Beglane; 9. Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) analysis of four butchered animal bones - Keri Rowsell and Matthew Collins; 10. Bird and fish bones - Sheila Hamilton-Dyer; 11. Late Bronze Age oyster (Ostrea edulis) shells - Rory Connolly; 12. Charcoal; 13. Early Bronze Age antler hammerhead/macehead - Ruth F. Carden; 14. Middle/Late Bronze Age pottery - Elaine Lynch and Helen Roche; 15. Post-medieval human skeletal remains - Catriona McKenzie; 16. DNA analysis of the human skeletal remains - Mike Taylor; 17. Metagenomic analysis and mitochondrial genome reconstruction of the post-medieval individual from Moneen Cave - Åshild J. Vågene, Johannes Krause and Kirsten I. Bos; 18. Isotopic analysis of the human skeletal remains - Thomas Kador; 19. Analysis of Growth Recovery Lines (Harris lines) in the human skeletal remains - Fran O’Keeffe; 20. Historical context of the adolescent boy from Moneen Cave - Ciarán Ó Murchadha iHis; 21. Hints of an Early Mesolithic and/or Neolithic presence; Part III Discussion and interpretation: Moneen Cave in context; 22. An Early Bronze Age horizon: an antler hammerhead/macehead and a pig pelvis; 23. Middle and Late Bronze Age deposits; 24. Moneen Cave within the wider Bronze Age landscape of the Burren; 25. A post-medieval boy; 26. Public archaeology and Moneen Cave; 27. Future work; 28. References; Appendix 1 Context register; Appendix 2 Finds register; Appendix 3 Mammalian faunal remains by context - Fiona Beglane; Appendix 4 List of human bones - Catriona McKenzie

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Book SynopsisThe excavation of the Leckie Iron Age broch in Stirlingshire, Scotland, took place during the 1970’s after the author had been asked to organise the work by a local archaeological society. At that stage the author did not consider – despite its location – that the site might vividly reflect the expansion of the Roman Empire into southern Scotland in the late first century AD. For various reasons the final report was not written until about thirty years after the fieldwork finished and by then the quality and significance of the Roman finds was much better understood, thanks to the analysis of them by experts. Many of them seemed like gifts to the broch chief, despite the clear evidence of the violent destruction of the broch at a later date. The Roman author Tacitus gave a detailed account of Governor Agricola’s campaigns in southern Scotland and pointed out that he sometimes tried to make friends with local chiefs before invading their territories, to avoid un-necessary casualties. This also applied to the first Roman naval excursion up the west coast and explains the evidence from Dun Ardtreck, Skye, excavated in the 1960’s. This site was also destroyed later and this could reflect the later hostile voyage of the navy after the battle of Mons Graupius which occurred after a few years of campaigning. Thus Rome’s accounts can allow one to understand the history of some native sites much more vividly.Table of ContentsLIST OF FIGURES; INTRODUCTION; PART 1: THE IMPACT OF ROME ON IRON AGE SCOTLAND; PART 2: BACKGROUND TO THE EXCAVATIONS; PART 3: THE BASIC STRATIGRAPHY OF THE SITE; PART 4: OCCUPATION PHASES AND DAILY LIFE; PART 5: Bibliography and Appendices

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together the main discussions that took place at an international conference on the iconology of war in the ancient Near East, a subject never addressed at an international meeting before. The articles span the 3rd to the 1st millennium, with a special stress on the Neo-Assyrian period. They try to respond to many questions about representations of war: what is ‘warrior’ iconography and on what basis it can be defined? Did the war scenes follow a specific directory whereby they adopted the most varied forms? Can we determine the most usual conditions for the creation of pictures of wartime (such as periods of great change)? Were the war scenes referring to specific historical events or were they generic representations? What can a society accept from the representations of war? What did war images silence and why? What is a ‘just’ punishment for enemies and thus the ‘just’ representation of it? Who has control of the representation and therefore also the memory of war? Who is the real subject of war representations? What emerges from all the articles published here is the relevance of textual data in any analysis of iconological material. And this is not only true for iconology, but for all the archaeological material discovered at historical sites.Table of ContentsIntroduction: the War and its Representations; Some Observations on the War Scenes on the Seals from Mari City II; Elements Of War Iconography At Mari; Visualizing War in the Old Babylonian Period: Drama and Canon; Middle Assyrian Drama in depicting war: a Step towards Neo-Assyrian Art; “Losing One’s Head”. Some Hints on Procedures and Meanings of Decapitation in the Ancient Near East; Where is the public? A new look at the brutality scenes in Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions and art; Images of War in the Assyrian Period: What They Show and What They Hide

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Book SynopsisPotamikon attempts to solve a question that has perplexed scholars for hundreds of years: Who exactly is the man-faced bull featured so often on Greek coinage? It approaches this question by examining the origin of the iconography and traces its development throughout various Mediterranean cultures, finally arriving in Archaic and Classical Greece in the first millennium BC. Within the context of Greek coinage, the authors review all the past arguments for the identity of the man-faced bull before incorporating the two leading theories (Local River Gods vs. Acheloios) into a new theory of local embodiments of Acheloios, thereby preserving the sanctity of the local rivers while recognizing Acheloios as the original god of all water. The second part of the book exhibits many of these ‘Sinews of Acheloios’ as they appear throughout the Greek world on bronze coinage, in each case paying careful attention to the reasons a specific group adopted the iconography and shedding further light on the mythos of Acheloios.Trade Review'This book will be of much importance, not only for the numismatists but for everybody who is interested in the study of mankind and its past.' - Sergei A. Kovalenko, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (2019), Ancient West and EastTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why the Man-Faced Bull? ; Part I: Concerning the Origin and Identity of the Man-Faced Bull ; Section One: On the Origin of Man-Faced Bull Iconography ; Chapter I: Paleolithic Art-Iron Age ; Chapter II: The Westward Migrations of Man-Faced Bull Iconography ; Chapter III: The Iconography and Related Traditions in Early Western Mediterranean Cultures ; Chapter IV: The Etruscan and Greek Worlds ; Chapter V: Distribution of the Iconography on Greek Coinage ; Section Two: On the Identity of the Man-Faced Bull ; Chapter VI: Past Arguments for the Identity of the Man-Faced Bull ; Chapter VII: The Identity of the Greek Man-Faced Bull ; Part II: Catalog of the Bronze Coinage of the Man-Faced Bull ; Section Three: SICILY ; Section Four: ITALY ; Section Five: AKARNANIA ; Section Six: REMAINING MINTS ; Appendix 1: Joseph Eckhel, ‘De tauro cum facie humana,’ in Doctrina Numorum Veterum, Vol. 1 (Wien: Ignatius Alberti, 1792). Translated by Curtis Clay, 2013. ; Appendix 2: ‘The Oxus River God: a man-faced Indian humped bull’ by Dr. Lloyd W. H. Taylor” after the title ‘The Oxus River God ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisThe Ouse valley, East Sussex, is a key communication route from the Channel coast, via the Downs (and the historic county town of Lewes), to the wide expanse of the Weald. It traverses and encompasses landscapes and archaeological sites of both regional and national importance – all connected by the river Ouse and its valley. This is the first review of the archaeology of this important landscape – from Palaeolithic to medieval times by contributors all routed in the archaeology of Sussex. Binding together the archaeology is a review of the geoarchaeology and palaeo-environment following which the chapters document the collective archaeology and potential from the Palaeolithic of Boxgrove vs Piltdown, via Mesolithic archaeology from the textbook excavations of Grahame Clark to recent 21st century investigations. Monuments of causewayed enclosures, long barrows and round barrows represent some of the Neolithic and Bronze Age evidence with some extraordinary finds recorded in the Bronze Age. From hillforts and villas, to medieval rural and urban excavation; the Ouse valley represents a microcosm of the wider region, the contributions collectively reveal the importance and significance of this valley to the development of landscape history and society of a quintessential English county. The narrative concludes with the first detailed research agenda for the Ouse valley.Table of ContentsDudley John Moore; an appreciation and tribute to ‘a life well lived’ (Sarah Green); Foreword. CCE (University of Sussex) and its three Sussex River Ouse Projects: teaching, learning and research (David Rudling); 1. Introduction: studying the Ouse Valley (Dudley Moore); 2. Holocene geoarchaeology and palaeo-environment; setting the scene (Michael J. Allen); 3. Palaeolithic record of the Sussex Ouse Valley (Matt Pope and Jenny Brown); 4. Mesolithic (Diana Jones); 5. Neolithic (Steve Sutcliffe); 6. Bronze Age, a north-south divide (Lisa Jayne Fisher); 7. Iron Age (Stuart McGregor); 8. Impact of Rome (David Rudling); 9. Anglo-Saxons (Simon Stevens); 10. The Upper Ouse in the Medieval period (AD 1066 to 1499) (David H. Millum); 11. Lower Ouse in the Medieval period (AD 1066 to 1499) (David J. Worsell); 12. Research priorities for the Ouse valley (Michael J. Allen and David Rudling

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Book SynopsisThe qṣar corresponds to a type of human settlement widely distributed in the Sahara desert, including many examples located today in southern Morocco, southern Algeria, southern Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania and Mali. This architectural model is characterised by its use over a wide-ranging time span – probably since the early first millennium BC according to ancient structures recorded by the archaeologist Mattingly in the Libyan Fazzān. This volume, through the systematic analysis and comparison of some qṣūr of southeastern Algeria (Rīġ, Mzāb, Miya and al-Manī‘a), reveals common architectural features that can be used to identify a common type of qṣar in this region. The analysis of the construction material shows the primary use of limestone with a local mortar (timchent) and date palm trunks (phoenix dactylifera) for the structural elements (ceilings, doors, arcs, domes). Adobe bricks (ṭūb) are used in the housing and the defence systems punctuated by towers and pierced doors. Despite a discontinuity within the historical narrative, the establishment of populations in this area of the Sahara appears to be much earlier than the medieval period and the qṣar is certainly not a creation ex nihilo of the modern era. Because of their numerous modifications and extensions over several centuries, the qṣūr problematise the dating of such settlements. However, the comparison of its main components encourages the development of a typology to identify some common characteristics that would help position the qṣar among the urban planning of the dār al-islām.Table of ContentsAbstract; Remerciements; Introduction : le qṣar, un phénomène saharien; I Présentation de la région étudiée; II Inventaire par site; III Le qṣar: une organisation urbaine complexe; Conclusion; Annexes; Glossaires; Bibliographie

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Book SynopsisThese proceedings include eight presentations. Two of them focus on the role played by the river axes and the geography of river basins as factors of circulation and settlement of Palaeolithic hunter gatherers on the European scale (Francois Djindjian) and in the surroundings of the Jura Mountains (Gérald Bereiziat and Harald Floss). José Javier Piña Abellán describes how the central valley of the River Jabalón (Ciudad Real, Spain) was peopled in the course of the second millennium B.C., and how the inhabitants still maintain a close link to the hydrography. Frederic Cruz and Christophe Petit provide new insights into the organization of the princely residences’ territories of the late Hallstatt era in the North-Western region of the Alps, taking into account their relationship to the environment, and especially the distance from the valleys. Ana Lucia Herberts documents how river crossings and related drainage structures played a crucial role in setting cattle trails in Brazil to drive the cattle from their pasture lands to the major market places in remote cities. A 3-D modelling using LiDAR altimetry has been used by Sabine Schellberg, Benoît Sittler, and Werner Konold to reconstruct water meadows that were used in historical times in the upper Rhine Valley. In their paper, Sandrine Robert and Hélène Noizet develop, as an example illustrating resilience, how an ancient meander of the River Seine, which was filled in Antiquity, still dictates the layout of the network of the streets of Paris. Lastly, Martin Orgaz and Norma Ratto addressed the social construction of landscapes by relating Inca sites to the Tinogasta region (Catamarca, Argentina) rivers whose visual features (the colour red) may be regarded as a factor that governed the selection of sites.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables; Foreword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition (Luiz Oosterbeek); Introduction (Sandrine Robert et Benoit Sittler); Introduction (Sandrine Robert and Benoit Sittler); L’importance des cours d’eau dans l’orientation, les déplacements et les colonisations des groupes de chasseurs cueilleurs du Paléolithique supérieur européen (François Djindjian); De longs fleuves tranquilles? Le rôle du couloir Rhin-Saône-Rhône dans la dynamique de peuplement à la fin du Paleolithique superieur sur le pourtour jurassien (Gérald Béreiziat et Harald Floss); Water and Settlement in the Middle Valley of Jabalón River during the second Millennium B.C. (Ciudad Real, Spain) (José Javier Piña Abellán); Le territoire de la résidence princière de Vix (Côte-d’Or, France): une approche géomorphologique (Frédéric Cruz et Christophe Petit); La gestion de l´eau dans le “Chemin des Troupeaux” dans le sud du Brésil (Ana Lucia Herberts); LiDAR surveys of irrigated meadows in South-West-Germany (Sabine Schellberg, Benoit Sittler and Werner Konold); The Resilience of the Old Course of the River Seine on the right bank of Paris (Sandrine Robert and Hélène Noizet); Aguas turbias, campos fértiles. La geografía sagrada del estado Inca en la region de Fiambalá, Tinogasta, Catamarca, Argentina (Martin Orgaz y Norma Ratto)

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the proceedings of the session ‘Intellectual and Spiritual Expression of Non-literate Peoples’ part of the XVII World UISPP Congress, held in Burgos (Spain), the 4th September 2014. The session brought together experts from various disciplines to share experience and scientific approaches for a better understanding of human creativity and behaviour in prehistory.Table of ContentsForeword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition; Introduction: A Message from the President; Decoding Prehistoric Art: The Messages Behind the Images (Emmanuel Anati and Ariela Fradkin); Primitive Religious Information Embodied in Human-Face Images of Rock Art on Zhuozishan Mountain, Wuhai, Inner Mongolia (Li An and Junsheng Wu); Prairie Economy Development seen from Rock Art in the West Range of Langshan Mountain, Inner Mongolia (Aoyungerile and Ying An); The Canadian Shield Rock Art and its Spiritual Dimension: Finding Some Tangible and Intangible Aspects of Rock Art Sites in the Canadian Shield through a Contextual Approach (Daniel Arsenault); Intellectual and Spiritual Expressions of Non-Literate Societies: Art and Culture, a Journey through the World of Mankind (Margalit Berriet); Carved Footprints and Prehistoric Beliefs: Examples of Symbol and Myth Practice and Ideology (Ulf Bertilsson); Grid Patterns in NW Iberia Rock Art Iconography, Contexts and Interpretations (Ana M. S. Bettencourt); Sexual Human Representations in the Paintings in the Serra da Capivara, Brazil: Relations in Action, Narrative Relations? (Pascale Binant); The Stargazers: The Evolution of Knowledge, Beliefs and Rock Art (Paul Bouissac); As Above, So Below: Unveiling the Truth About Stonehenge’s Sacred Landscape (Paul D. Burley); Research and Study on the Guizhou Rock Art Heritage (Bo Cao); Pre-Literate Art in India: A Source of Indigenous Knowledge, Ethno-History and Collective Wisdom (Somnath Chakraverty); The Anthropomorphic Figurine of Can SadurnÍ Cave, Begues, Barcelona (Manuel Edo, Ferran Antolín, Pablo Martínez, MªJesús Barrio, Elicínia Fierro, Trinidad Castillo, Eva Fornell, Georgina Prats, Remei Bardera, Concepció Castellana); Archeology, Rock Art, Archeoacoustics and Neuroscience: What Kind of Relation? (Fernando Coimbra); Heralding the Sun (Léo Dubal); The Treasures from the Russian City of Zaraysk (Arsen Faradzhev); Several Understandings on the Cave Paintings on the Turtle Stone in Anshan (Gang Li and Xifeng Ni); Earth and Underground in Early Sumerian Sources (Francesco Ghilotti); From Survival to Conatus: Comparative Axiology from Engraving To Painting (Lysa Hochroth); The Intellectual and Spiritual Expressions of a Nomadic Tribe, the Birhor (of Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, Eastern India) (Bulu Imam); Prehistoric Rock Art, the Information Era of Humans which has been Overlooked (Yanqing Jin and Xiaoxia Zhang); Some Aspects of the Contemporary Use of Ancient Symbols (Shemsi Krasniqi); Discovery and Pilot Study of the Jinsha River Chiselled Rock Art in Shangri-La (Gang Li); Rock Paintings in Southwest China, Focusing on the Coffin Paintings in the Rock Cave at Xianren Bridge, Huishui County, Guizhou Province (Fei Li); Survey of the Status and Protection Strategy for the Ancient Rock Paintings in Guizhou (Hao Li and Biao He); Lifestyle of Human Groups During Palaeolithic at Har Karkom (Federico Mailland); Aspects of the Nature and Purpose of Specific Symbols and Images in the Non-Literate World of Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland (Including Stonehenge) (G. Terence Meaden); The Arroyo de las Flechas’ Rock Art Engravings: Symbolic Associations in Sierra El Alamo (Caborca, Sonora, Mexico) (Beatriz Menéndez, Ramon Viñas, Martha E. Benavente, Alejandro Terrazas and Albert Rubio); Colonisation of the Upper Miera and Asón Valleys (Cantabria, Spain) in the Late Pleistocene and the Early Holocene (Mercedes Pérez Bartolomé and Emilio Muñoz Fernández); The Special Characteristics of the Zhenfeng Rock Art in Guizhou (Xiaomei Mu and Li-Na Zhang); Symbols as Persona in the Dawn of Food Production in the Alto Ribatejo, Portugal (Luiz Oosterbeek); The Portrait in Prehistory (Marcel Otte); Review of Guangxi Cliff Drawing Research (Hu Pengcheng); Research on File Construction System of Rock Art (Hua Qiao, Li Bin Gong and Hui Liu); The Dynamics of Mental Movements as a Base for the Intellectual and Spiritual Expressions of Non-Literate People and the Origin of Development of the Human Being (Andrea Rocchitelli); The Rock Art of Saracahi River Basin: The El Arco and Blanca de la Pulsera Caves, Sonora (Mexico) Albert Rubio, Ramon Viñas, Joaquín Arroyo, César Quijada, Beatriz Menéndez, Neemias Santos, Antonio Hernanz and Mercedes Iriarte; A Ritual Space with Paintings and Engravings in the La Calera Rock Art Set, Caborca, Sonora, Mexico (Albert Rubio, Ramon Viñas, Joaquín Arroyo, César Quijada, Beatriz Menéndez, Neemias Santos); The Rock Art of Indo-European Cultures: Concordances, Logics and Possible Common Values (Umberto Sansoni); A Natufian Mask-Face Figurine: An Insight into the Nature of the Supernatural Being (Dana Shaham and Anna Belfer-Cohen); Research on the Classification and Staging of Rock Art on Lusen Mountain in Qinghai (Zeming Shi and Yanqing Jin); Investigation and Research into Dahongyan Rock Art in Zhengfeng County, Guizhou Province (Zeming Shi and Xiaoxia Zhang); Field Survey and Analysis of Mask Worship in the Xiliaohe River Basin (Xiaoyong Sun and Jiaxin Zhang); The Use of Burial Space and Social Relations Between the Late Neolithic Age and the Copper Age in Sardinia (Giuseppa Tanda); 3D Reconstructions of Sculptured Emotions in the Copper Age Eastern Balkans (Tsoni Tsonev); The Beginnings of Natural Philosophy and Metaphysics in the Rock Art of Armenia (Gregor Vahanyan); A Complex Research of Paleolithic Art in Ukraine (Viktor Vetrov); Manipulation Tactics: A Cultural Interpretation of Rock Art Images Massed in Southwest China (Liangfan Wang and Xiaoming Luo); Research on the Development and Utilization of the Guizhou Ancient Petrography Resource (Xiaoping Wu and Hao Li); Discovery and Study of Two Groups of Writing on the Cliff in the Hongshan Culture Area (Jiacai Wu); Communication and Transform: In-Depth Reflection of Helan Mountain Rock Art (Huiling Yang); Research of Classification and Stages of the Rock Art on Lusen Mountain in Qinghai (Jing Yanqing and Shi Zeming); Using the Montage Technique to Read Various Cave Painting Sites on Guizhou Plateau (Qian Sheng You); Agricultural Worship in the Rock Art of Jiangjunya, Lianyungang City, East China (Jiaxin Zhang and Yaqi Huang); Image Classification and the Symbolic Structure of the Rock Art at the Zuojiang River, Guangxi (Yasha Zhang, Xiaohong Lu and Mingshui Wang); Research on Face Rock Carvings in Northern China (Wenjing Zhang and Xiaokun Wang); Discussion of Reproduction Worship in Chinese Rock Art (Jiaxin Zhang, Bo Xiao and Zhaohui Wang); An Ancient Sacrificial Place: Research Into Rock Art in Xianju (Houqiu Zhu); Significance of the Stabilization Works Which Protect the Rock Art Painting in Ningming District (Qiuping Zhu); Petroglyphs of the Northern Pacific Rim: The Rock Art of the Xiliaohe River and the Amur River (Lifeng Zhu and Xu Wang); On the Disciplines of Taking Image in Chinese Rock Art (Yuan Zhu and Zhuoran Yu)

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Book SynopsisThis book collects the contributions to the symposium "The current state of evolutionary archeology in Argentina" that was held in Buenos Aires, for celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species". The meeting was sponsored by the IMHICIHU-CONICET (Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas). Contents: PREFACE (Hernan J. Muscio and Marcelo Cardillo); INTRODUCTION (Hernan J. Muscio and Marcelo Cardillo); CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS: IS IT CONCEPTUALLY COHERENT TO APPLY NATURAL SELECTION TO CULTURAL EVOLUTION? (Santiago Ginnobili); THEORY OF CLASSIFICATION AND TAXONOMICAL SCHOOLS: A SYNTHESIS FOR ARCHAEOLOGY (Daniel Garcia Rivero); ENVIRONMENT, SPACE, HISTORY, AND TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION. THE CASE OF THE PATAGONIAN COAST (Marcelo Cardillo); ON THE PROBLEM OF IDENTIFYING HOMOLOGIES IN LITHIC ARTIFACTS (Gustavo Barrientos); LOCAL EXTINTION, POPULATION DYNAMICS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL PATTERNS OF CULTURAL EVOLUTION: A CASE STUDY IN THE NORTH PUNA OF ARGENTINA (Hernan Muscio); HUMAN HOLOCENE COLONIZATION, DIET BREADTH AND NICHE CONSTRUCTION IN SIERRAS OF CORDOBA [ARGENTINA] (Diego Rivero and Matias Medina); THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LEGACY: EVOLUTION, BIOGEOGRAPHY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES (Juan Bautista Belardi, Ramiro Barberena, Rafael Goni and Anahi Re)Table of ContentsPREFACE (Hernan J. Muscio and Marcelo Cardillo); INTRODUCTION (Hernan J. Muscio and Marcelo Cardillo); CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS: IS IT CONCEPTUALLY COHERENT TO APPLY NATURAL SELECTION TO CULTURAL EVOLUTION? (Santiago Ginnobili); THEORY OF CLASSIFICATION AND TAXONOMICAL SCHOOLS: A SYNTHESIS FOR ARCHAEOLOGY (Daniel Garcia Rivero); ENVIRONMENT, SPACE, HISTORY, AND TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION. THE CASE OF THE PATAGONIAN COAST (Marcelo Cardillo); ON THE PROBLEM OF IDENTIFYING HOMOLOGIES IN LITHIC ARTIFACTS (Gustavo Barrientos); LOCAL EXTINTION, POPULATION DYNAMICS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL PATTERNS OF CULTURAL EVOLUTION: A CASE STUDY IN THE NORTH PUNA OF ARGENTINA (Hernan Muscio); HUMAN HOLOCENE COLONIZATION, DIET BREADTH AND NICHE CONSTRUCTION IN SIERRAS OF CORDOBA [ARGENTINA] (Diego Rivero and Matias Medina); THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LEGACY: EVOLUTION, BIOGEOGRAPHY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES (Juan Bautista Belardi, Ramiro Barberena, Rafael Goni and Anahi Re)

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Book SynopsisPapers from the 17th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, SOMA 2013 held in Moscow, 25-27 April 2013. Contents: A project proposal for the construction of underwater archaeological nature routes into the Protected Marine Area of Santa Maria di Castellabate (Salvatore Agizza); A Recently Discovered Thirteenth Century Church at Myra (T. Engin Akyurek); Archaeological Findings of Thracian / Phrygian Tribes' Crossing of Bosporus (ITA) Istanbul Prehistoric Research Project (Haldun Aydingun); Routes And Harbour Archaeology: An Attempt to Identify Some Ancient Toponyms on the Eastern Adriatic Coast (Mattia Vitelli Casella); The Bath Buildings throughout the Cilician shoreline. The cases of Akkale (Tirtar) and Mylai (Manastir) and the problems of their preservation and fruition. Can the archaeological relevance help in preserving the ancient remains? (Emanuele Casagrande Cicci); Byzantine Small Finds From 'Church B' at Andriake (Myra / Antalya): First Results on the Ceramics (Ozgu Comezoglu); Management of Cultural Heritage in the Coastal Zone 'An investigation on the conservation of wooden house in Istanbul through the eyes of the population' (Pierre Emanuel Decombe); XII Scripta And Two Excavated Game Boards From Kibyra (Unal Demirer); Dionysus and Ariadne in Antiocheia and Zeugma Mosaics: a Contrastive Evaluation (Sehnaz Erarslan); Studying aspects of Pre-Roman History, Religion, Political Organization andTrading Contacts of some Ionian Colonies of 'Thracia Pontica': the case of Dionysopolis & Odessos (Maria Girtzi); 'The Time-traveler meets Emperor Justinian in Byzantine Era': an innovative museological project (Maria Girtzi and Athanasia Bountidou); Hun Originated/Influenced Objects Found In China: Ordos Bronze (Feyza Gorez); Attic Imports to the Black Sea area: the Construction of the Reference Framework (Filippo Giudice with the contribution of Elvia & Giada Giudice, Paolo Madella, Francesco Muscolino, Giuseppe Sanfilippo Chiarello, Rossano Scicolone and Sebastiano Luca Tata); Stoa Philosophy and Its Development Stages in Ancient Era (Ilker Isik); 18th and 19th Century Wall Paintings Featuring Views of Istanbul (Bilge Karaoz); Stazione Neapolis: A journey into the history of Naples from the Neolithic to the Modern Age (Alessandro Luciano); Fish sauces trade and consumption in the ager Mutinensis (Manuela Mongardi); Reconstruction of the Settlement Layout at Salat Tepe: An Interpretation of the Archaeological Evidence (A. Tuba Okse and Ahmet Gormus); Denizli - The Ilbadi Cemetery Namazgah (Kadir Pektas); The Role of the Corinthian Relief Ware in Sardinia as a Socio-Economic and Cultural Indicator of a 'Commissioned' Trade (Paola Puppo and Fabio Mosca); Underwater Archaeological Project at the Ancient City of Akra (Eastern Crimea) 2011-2012 188 (Sergey Solovyev and Viktor Vakhoneev); Management of Underwater Archaeological Heritage: An Environmental Approach to the Protection and Preservation of the Harbour Complex of Aegina (Ioannis Triantafillidis and Vassilis Tselentis); The Byzantine Castle in Akbas on Thracian Chersonessos (Ayse C. Turker); Agoras, Theaters, Baths and Gymnasia: A Case Study on the Urban Redevelopment Choices of Carian Benefactors in the Roman Age (Guray Unver); A Byzantine Monastery South-East of Jerusalem (Yehiel Zelinger); Local and Imported Art in the Byzantine Monastery Newly Discovered Near Jerusalem, Israel (Lihi Habas)Table of ContentsA project proposal for the construction of underwater archaeological nature routes into the Protected Marine Area of Santa Maria di Castellabate (Salvatore Agizza); A Recently Discovered Thirteenth Century Church at Myra (T. Engin Akyurek); Archaeological Findings of Thracian / Phrygian Tribes' Crossing of Bosporus (ITA) Istanbul Prehistoric Research Project (Haldun Aydingun); Routes And Harbour Archaeology: An Attempt to Identify Some Ancient Toponyms on the Eastern Adriatic Coast (Mattia Vitelli Casella); The Bath Buildings throughout the Cilician shoreline. The cases of Akkale (Tirtar) and Mylai (Manastir) and the problems of their preservation and fruition. Can the archaeological relevance help in preserving the ancient remains? (Emanuele Casagrande Cicci); Byzantine Small Finds From 'Church B' at Andriake (Myra / Antalya): First Results on the Ceramics (Ozgu Comezoglu); Management of Cultural Heritage in the Coastal Zone 'An investigation on the conservation of wooden house in Istanbul through the eyes of the population' (Pierre Emanuel Decombe); XII Scripta And Two Excavated Game Boards From Kibyra (Unal Demirer); Dionysus and Ariadne in Antiocheia and Zeugma Mosaics: a Contrastive Evaluation (Sehnaz Erarslan); Studying aspects of Pre-Roman History, Religion, Political Organization andTrading Contacts of some Ionian Colonies of 'Thracia Pontica': the case of Dionysopolis & Odessos (Maria Girtzi); 'The Time-traveler meets Emperor Justinian in Byzantine Era': an innovative museological project (Maria Girtzi and Athanasia Bountidou); Hun Originated/Influenced Objects Found In China: Ordos Bronze (Feyza Gorez); Attic Imports to the Black Sea area: the Construction of the Reference Framework (Filippo Giudice with the contribution of Elvia & Giada Giudice, Paolo Madella, Francesco Muscolino, Giuseppe Sanfilippo Chiarello, Rossano Scicolone and Sebastiano Luca Tata); Stoa Philosophy and Its Development Stages in Ancient Era (Ilker Isik); 18th and 19th Century Wall Paintings Featuring Views of Istanbul (Bilge Karaoz); Stazione Neapolis: A journey into the history of Naples from the Neolithic to the Modern Age (Alessandro Luciano); Fish sauces trade and consumption in the ager Mutinensis (Manuela Mongardi); Reconstruction of the Settlement Layout at Salat Tepe: An Interpretation of the Archaeological Evidence (A. Tuba Okse and Ahmet Gormus); Denizli - The Ilbadi Cemetery Namazgah (Kadir Pektas); The Role of the Corinthian Relief Ware in Sardinia as a Socio-Economic and Cultural Indicator of a 'Commissioned' Trade (Paola Puppo and Fabio Mosca); Underwater Archaeological Project at the Ancient City of Akra (Eastern Crimea) 2011-2012 188 (Sergey Solovyev and Viktor Vakhoneev); Management of Underwater Archaeological Heritage: An Environmental Approach to the Protection and Preservation of the Harbour Complex of Aegina (Ioannis Triantafillidis and Vassilis Tselentis); The Byzantine Castle in Akbas on Thracian Chersonessos (Ayse C. Turker); Agoras, Theaters, Baths and Gymnasia: A Case Study on the Urban Redevelopment Choices of Carian Benefactors in the Roman Age (Guray Unver); A Byzantine Monastery South-East of Jerusalem (Yehiel Zelinger); Local and Imported Art in the Byzantine Monastery Newly Discovered Near Jerusalem, Israel (Lihi Habas)

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Book SynopsisThis research explores the development of the Maya writing system in Middle–Late Formative and Early Classic period (700 BC–AD 450) Mesoamerica. It seeks to correlate script development with interregional interaction and diachronic changes in material culture, and proposes a new methodological template for examining script development via material remains. In doing so, it contributes to anthropological debate regarding the role and effects of interregional interaction in processes of development and change of material and symbolic culture. This investigation posits that Maya writing developed in late Middle Formative through Early Classic period Mesoamerica as a correlate of interregional sociopolitical and economic interaction. Scholars working in many areas of the world have long claimed that interaction is central to cultural innovation, especially in relation to the development of writing. If the emergence of the Mayan script is a correlate of systemic interaction, then its developmental process should be traceable archaeologically through artifactual evidence. This hypothesis is tested by exploring archaeological indicators of interaction against a backdrop of previously-documented transformations in the emerging Mayan script. The methodological model proposed here builds on current models of the development of Mesoamerican writing systems and models of interregional interaction and cultural development to associate archaeological remains with the development of the Mayan script.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: Theoretical Framework and Methodological Premises ; Chapter 3: The Northwest Maya Lowlands: Site Selection and Regional Background ; Chapter 4: Ceramic Sample and Analytic Methods ; Chapter 5: Interpreting the Results of the Comparative and Statistical Ceramic Analyses ; Chapter 6: Comparative Analysis of Iconographic and Linguistic Evidence ; Chapter 7: Interpretation and Discussion: The Relationship Between Material Interaction, Innovation, and Script Development ; Chapter 8: Conclusions ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe appearance and revival of handmade grog-tempered ware producing pottery industries during the late 3rd and 4th centuries using technology more appropriate to the Late Iron Age in the south and south-east of Britain is something of an enigma. This revival in the popularity of such primitive pottery took place on the Isle of Wight and in the Hampshire Basin, East Sussex and Kent at a time when the production of Romanised wheel-turned grey and fine colour-coated wares was still on a large scale in the south of Britain and elsewhere in the British provinces. This publication is the result of 25 years research into these grog-tempered wares: it presents corpora of forms associated with the various industries and discusses the distributions of their products at different periods. It also discusses the possible reasons for the revival of such wares, increasing popularity during the 4th century and disappearance during the 5th century AD.Table of ContentsList of Figures; Introduction and Acknowledgements; 1: The Late Iron Age and Early Roman Background; 2: Industry Group 5. East Sussex Wares; 3: Industrial Grouping 6. Hampshire Grog-Tempered Wares; 4: Industrial Group 7. East Kent Grog-Tempered Wares; 5: Industrial Group 8. West Kent Grog and Grit Tempered Wares; 6: The Late Roman Grog-Tempered Ware Industries: A Discussion; 7: The End of Roman Pottery Production in Britain; Appendix 1. Schedule of Quantified Site Assemblages including Late Roman Handmade Grog-Tempered wares; Appendix 3. The grog-tempered ware industries: gazetteer of examples seen; Appendix 4. Fabric breakdowns of quantified East Sussex Ware assemblages; Appendix 5. Breakdown of the East Sussex Ware percentages of quantified assemblages as per vessel type; Appendix 6. Breakdown of the Hampshire Grog-Tempered Ware percentages as per vessel type; Appendix 7. Breakdown of Industries 7A, 7B, 8A and 8B percentages of quantified assemblages as per vessel type; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisProfessor Rodrigo de Balbín has played a major role in advancing our knowledge of Palaeolithic art, and the occasion of his retirement provides an excellent opportunity to assess the value of prehistoric art studies as a factor in the study of the culture of those human groups which produced this imagery. The diverse papers in this volume, published in Professor de Balbín’s honour, cover a wide variety of the decorated caves which traditionally defined Palaeolithic art, as well as the open-air art of the period, a subject in which he has done pioneering work at Siega Verde and elsewhere. The result is a new and more realistic assessment of the social and symbolic framework of human groups from 40,000 BP onwards.Table of ContentsPrehistoric Art as Prehistoric Culture (Primitiva Bueno-Ramírez and Paul Bahn); ‘Science’ versus Archaeology: Palaeolithic Rock Art at the beginning of the 21st century (José-Javier Alcolea-González and César González-Sainz); Raman spectroscopy of prehistoric pictorial materials (Antonio Hernanz); Prehistoric rock art and non-invasive analysis. Rouffignac as a case study (Patrick Paillet); Reasoning processes in prehistoric art interpretation (Sophie A. de Beaune); Are hand stencils in European cave art older than we think? An evaluation of the existing data and their potential implications (Paul Pettitt, Pablo Arias, Marcos García-Diez, Dirk Hoffmann, Alfredo Maximiano Castillejo, Roberto Ontañon-Peredo, Alistair Pike and João Zilhão); Regional ontologies in the Early Upper Palaeolithic: the place of mammoth and cave lion in the ‘belief world’ (Glaubenswelt) of the Swabian Aurignacian (Shumon T. Hussain and Harald Floss); Aurignacian art in the caves and rock-shelters of Aquitaine (France) (Brigitte and Gilles Delluc); Fuente del Trucho, Huesca (Spain): Reading interaction in Palaeolithic art (Pilar Utrilla and Manuel Bea); Open-air Ice Age art: the history and reluctant acceptance of an unexpected phenomenon (Paul G. Bahn); Decorated sites and habitat: social appropriation of territories (Denis Vialou); Deep caves, ritual and graphic expression: a critical review of the archaeological evidence on hypogean human activity during the Upper Palaeolithic/Magdalenian (Pablo Arias); Magdalenian settlement-subsistence systems in Cantabrian Spain: contributions from El Mirón Cave (Lawrence G. Straus, Manuel González Morales, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo and Lisa M. Fontes); The Upper Palaeolithic rock art of Portugal in its Iberian context (André Tomás Santos, Maria de Jesus Sanches and Joana Castro Teixeira); Old panels and new readings. La Pileta and pre-Solutrean graphics in Southern Iberia (Miguel Cortés Sánchez, María D. Simón Vallejo, Rubén Parrilla Giráldez, and Lydia Calle Román); Palaeolithic art in the Iberian Mediterranean region. Characteristics and territorial variation (Valentín Villaverde); Small seeds for big debates: Past and present contributions to Palaeoart studies from North-eastern Iberia (José María Fullola, Ines Domingo, Didac Román, María Pilar García-Argüelles, Marcos García-Díez and Jorge Nadal); Throwing light on the hidden corners. New data on Palaeolithic art from NW Iberia (Ramón Fábregas Valcarce, Arturo de Lombera-Hermida, Ramón Viñas Vallverdú, Xose Pedro Rodríguez-Álvarez, and Sofia Soares Figueiredo)

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Book SynopsisIn the 1960s a great new barrier dam was built across the Peneios Valley in Elis in the N.W. Peloponnese to create an artificial lake for irrigation purposes. In 1967 the Greek Archaeological Service organised a preliminary survey of the areas to be affected and also asked all the Foreign Archaeological Schools to assist and allocated specific sections to each. The British School at Athens sent a small team in late 1967 to survey part of the south-west fringes of the area to be flooded; this team identified many sites and opened test-trenches at six of them. In 1969 further work was undertaken in that area for the British School: a small team from Birmingham University and from Bangor undertook excavations at two of the identified sites, ‘Kostoureika’ and ‘Keramidia’. This account describes the results in detail. ‘Kostoureika’, identified as a likely Hellenistic ‘villa’ proved structurally disappointing (the 1967 test-trench had located the only surviving wall), but revealed a deposit of Early Helladic pottery, which supplements very usefully evidence for early occupation in the north-west Peloponnese. ‘Keramidia’ proved to be a site occupied, at least at times, from the Hellenistic to the late Roman imperial period.Table of ContentsIntroduction; British School at Athens Survey, 1967; British School at Athens Excavations, 1969; Kostoureika; Keramidia; Catalogues of Finds; Catalogue I: Kostoureika Early Helladic (KTR EH); Catalogue II: Kostoureika Hellenistic (KTR H); Catalogue III: Kostoureika III and IV; Catalogue IV: Keramidia; Catalogue V: 'Keramidia Hill' (KER.HILL / KH)

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Book SynopsisColour defines our material world, operates as a communication tool and creates meaning. But despite the wealth of colour present in British Iron Age archaeology, interpretative studies have concentrated mostly on the shape of material objects and their decoration, with at best fleeting references to colour. This book revisits well known and well documented sites or artefacts and explores their colours and colour connotations – whether hue or luminosity, whether natural or man-made, whether innate or deliberately applied - by looking at various contexts such as processes, landscape, iconography, body decoration or the colour connotations of death. The importance of changes in colour caused by passing of time, processing, handling or exposure, as well as the deliberate concealment or defacing of colour is looked at . Finally and most importantly, using methodologies ranging from examination of written sources, comparisons from the fields of anthropology and ethnology to experimental archaeology the author attempts to shed light on the symbolic meaning behind such colours or colour contexts and contribute to our understanding of Iron Age cosmologies.Table of ContentsList of Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Literature Review; Chapter 3: Theoretical Aspects of Colour; Chapter 4: Colour and Creation – Colour Implications in Metalworking; Chapter 5: A Whiter Shade of Pale – Chalk in the British Iron Age; Chapter 6: Weaving with Light – Luminosity and Brilliance in the British Iron Age; Chapter 7: The Power of Blood – Decorated Metal Ware; Chapter 8: Yellow Stars and Red Journeys – Colour, Iconography and Cosmologies; Chapter 9: Black White and Red – Colours of Death; Chapter 10: Transforming Skin – Body Decoration in the British Iron Age; Chapter 11: Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix 1: Sites; Appendix 2: Artefacts; Appendix 3: Human Remains; Appendix 4: Classical Sources for Body Decoration

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