Archaeopress Autumn Catalogue 2017

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Autumn Catalogue 2017

Welcome Welcome to the Autumn 2017 edition of the Archaeopress catalogue. Archaeopress is an Oxford-based publisher run by archaeologists Dr David Davison and Dr Rajka Makjanic. Started in 1997, we are very proud to be celebrating our 20th anniversary this year. And what a varied and productive year it has been with new journals and over 75 new titles since our Spring catalogue earlier this year. Across our range of imprints and journals you’ll find a range of new titles and recent highlights in print and e-formats covering all archaeological topics, all geographic locations and all time periods. We sincerely hope you’ll find something here to interest you; if you’d like to keep up-to-date with new titles throughout the year please sign up to our monthly e-alert via our website www.archaeopress.com Important reminder for trade customers: Since 1st February 2017 all trade order fulfilment has been handled by Marston Book Services. Please see Page 41 for ordering information. If you have any questions about the changeover please do not hesitate to contact Patrick Harris, our Sales and Marketing Manager to discuss: patrick@archaeopress.com eBook pricing: PDF eBooks are available to purchase at www.archaeopress.com. Prices listed state from £16; eBooks purchased for personal private use (including those using for scholarly research) are charged at £16 (+VAT, if applicable).

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Table of Contents Publish with Archaeopress Journals Books & eBooks Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service (ADSS) Theory and Method Prehistory: Britain & Ireland Prehistory: Western, Northern and Central Europe Prehistory: Southern & Eastern Europe and the Aegean Prehistory: World Prehistory: Rock Art Ancient Egypt Ancient Near East Greece & Rome Greece & the Hellenistic World

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Rome & the Roman Provinces Late Antiquity / Byzantine Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Britain & Ireland Early Medieval / Medieval Early Modern / Modern Arabia Africa Southern Asia Far East Asia, Oceania and the Pacific The Americas Archaeological Lives Early Travellers Potingair Press Ordering Information

Cover Image: The cover illustration and the black and white photography used as background images throughout this volume were taken by archaeologist and award winning photographer Gavin McGuire, taken from his new book Minoan Extractions: A Photographic Journey 2009-2016 – Sissi Archaeological Project (see page 11). All photographs © G. McGuire, used by kind permission. Visit Gavin’s website: www.pastvirtuality.com scan the qr code to Read Gavin McGuire’s post on the new archaeopress blog about his time on site in sissi, crete.

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Journals Journal of Greek Archaeology ISSN: 2059-4674 (print); 2059-4682 (online) John Bintliff (general editor)

Edinburgh University, U.K. and Leiden University, The Netherlands

1 issue published annually in October

Successfully launched in Autumn 2016, the scope of this journal is Greek archaeology both in the Aegean and throughout the wider Greek-inhabited world, from earliest Prehistory to the Modern Era. The editorial board is headed by Prof. John Bintliff (Edinburgh University, U.K. and Leiden University, The Netherlands).

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Journal of Hellenistic Pottery and Material Culture ISSN 2399-1844 (Print); 2399-1852 (online)

Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies ISSN 0308-8421

Patricia Kögler et al. (eds)

1 issue published annually in June/July

For the Hellenistic Period ceramics and other commodities of daily life represent probably the most neglected objects in archaeological research. Research has intensified during the last twenty years, but the media landscape has been slow to catch up. Still lacking is a publication appearing regularly and at short intervals, that focusses research on Hellenistic pottery and is easily accessible. Journal of Hellenistic Pottery and Material Culture (JHP) wants to close this gap.

The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the only international forum which meets annually for the presentation of the latest academic research in the humanities on the Arabian Peninsula (including archaeology, epigraphy, numismatics, ethnography, language, history, art, architecture, etc.) from the earliest times to the present day. The Seminar meets each year in London or another British university town.

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1 issue published annually in Autumn

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Ash-sharq: Bulletin of the Ancient Near East Archaeological, Historical and Societal Studies ISSN: 2513-8529 (print); 2514-1732 (online) Laura Battini (general editor) Paris, UMR 7192-Collège de France

2 issues published each year in Spring and Autumn

Ash-sharq is a journal devoted to short articles on the archaeology, history and society of the Ancient Near East. It is published twice a year. Submissions are welcome from academics and researchers at all levels. The principal language of the publication is English.

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Institutional subscription rates 2017-2018 (2 issues): Print: £69.00 | Print & Online: £80.00* | Online only: £69.00* Aramazd Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies ISSN 1829-1376 2-2 issues published each year

Aramazd (est. 2006) is the yearly publication of the Association for Near Eastern and Caucasian Studies of Armenia, in conjunction with the Institute of Oriental Studies and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (National Academy of Sciences of Armenia). Articles in English and German; Armenian summaries.

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Theory and Method Geology for Archaeologists A short introduction J.R.L. Allen

University of Reading

viii+140 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (28 colour plates)

This short introduction aims to provide archaeologists of all backgrounds with a grounding in the principles, materials, and methods of geology.

Sections include coverage of main rock-forming minerals and classes of rocks. Geological maps and structures are introduced, and the elements of geological stratigraphy and dating are explained and related to archaeological experience. Fluvial and coastal environments are important archaeological landscapes and their formation processes, sediments and topography are outlined. Stone for building, implement-making, tool-making, and making mortar are all discussed, followed by an introduction to clays and ceramics. A final chapter introduces metallurgical landscapes: metalliferous ores, mining and smelting, and metalmaking industries. Each chapter ends with a short reading list, and many have selected case-histories in illustration of the points made. Also included is a comprehensive glossary of technical terms.

Emeritus Professor John Allen is currently a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Reading. After studying Geology at Sheffield he taught Geology at Reading for many years. In the 1980s he became increasingly interested in the archaeology of British coastal environments. In collaboration with professional archaeologists he showed that an appreciation of geological processes is essential to an understanding of the archaeological sites and their landscapes. His contributions to postgraduate courses in Geoarchaeology at Reading stress the importance of an understanding of geological principles, maps, and materials, especially rocks and minerals, to the refinement and resolution of numerous archaeological problems.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784916879 | 2017 | £25.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784916886 | 2017 | from £16.00

Working with the Past Towards an Archaeology of Recycling DragoS Gheorghiu et al. (eds)

Universitatea Nationala de Arte Bucuresti

viii+134 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (21 col plates)

Recycling is a basic anthropological process of humankind. The reutilization of materials or of ideas from the Past is a process determined by various natural or cultural causes. Recycling can be motivated by a crisis or by a complex symbolic cause like the incorporation of the Past into the Present. What archaeology has not insisted upon is the dimensional scale of the process, which operates from the micro-scale of the recycling of the ancestors’ material, up to the macro-scale of the landscape. This book invites archaeologists to approach the significant process of recycling within the archaeological record at two different levels: of artefacts and of landscape.

The Archaeology of Time Travel Experiencing the Past in the 21st Century Bodil Petersson; Cornelius Holtorf (eds) Linnaeus University

viii+206 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

This 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.

Papers discuss the implications and problems associated with the ubiquity and popularity of time travelling and whether time travel is inherently conservative because of its escapist tendencies, or whether it might instead be considered as a fulfilment of the contemporary Experience or Dream Society. Whatever position one may take, 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.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784915001 | 2017 | £38.00

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AP2017: 12th International Conference of Archaeological Prospection 12th-16th September 2017, University of Bradford Benjamin Jennings et al. (eds) University of Bradford

vi+280 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (177 col plates)

The papers within this volume represent the conference themes of: Techniques and new technological developments; Applications and reconstructing landscapes and urban environments; Integration of techniques and inter-disciplinary studies, with focus on visualisation and interpretation; Marine, inter-tidal and wetland prospection techniques and applications; Low altitude prospection techniques and applications; Commercial archaeological prospection in the contemporary world.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784916770| 2017 | £35.00

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Paperback | ISBN 9781784916299 | 2017 | £25.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784916305 | 2017 | from £16.00

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Bodies of Maize, Eaters of Grain Comparing material worlds, metaphor and the agency of art in the Preclassic Maya and Mycenaean early civilisations Marcus Jan Bajema vi+352 pages; b&w illus thr/o with 22 colour plates

This book provides a comparative study of the earliest urban civilisations of the Maya lowlands and the Greek mainland.

The focus lies on the art styles of the Late Preclassic lowland Maya and Mycenaean Greece. Building on research from previous comparative studies, the approach used here seeks to combine more traditional iconographic approaches with more recent models on metaphor and the social agency of things. By comparing Maya and Mycenaean art styles through the three aspects of metaphor, semiotics and praxis, their differences and similarities are made clear. The book shows art to have played a more active role in the development of the earliest urban civilisations, rather than passively reflecting economic and political trends. In that way, the social role of art provides a key to understanding the relations between the different factors in the development of the two societies, as they played out at different temporal and geographical scales. To understand this, the notion of distinct Maya and Mycenaean ‘material worlds’, involving both materials and ideas, is proposed, with consequences for models about the earliest urban civilisations in general.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784916916 | 2017 | £40.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784916923| 2017 | from £16.00

Archaeology with Art Helen Chittock et al. (eds) University of Oxford

xx+176 pages; b&w illus thr/o with 7 colour plates

Archaeology 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.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784914929 | 2016 | £25.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784914936 | 2016 | from £16.00

Managing Archaeological Collections in Middle Eastern Countries A Good Practice Guide Dianne Fitzpatrick

University of Melbourne

x+115 pages; b&w illus thr/o

Collections management practice is an often ignored aspect of archaeological research and salvage activities in many Middle Eastern countries, yet literally thousands of artefacts are recovered every year with no real strategies for managing them sustainably into the future. In this guide, archaeologist Dianne Fitzpatrick sees archaeological collections management as a means of integrating achievable good-practice strategies into research designs and site management plans from the start. Merging together conservation-led principles with current on-site practice in a practical manner, this book aims to be a good practice standard or checklist.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784914882 | 2016 | £26.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784914899 | 2016 | from £16.00

Forensic Archaeology The Application of Comparative Excavation Methods and Recording Systems Laura Evis

University of Exeter

viii+240 pages; b&w illus thr/o

This book evaluates current archaeological excavation methods and recording systems – focusing on those used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australasia, and North America – in relation to their use in providing forensic evidence, and their ability to satisfy the admissibility tests introduced by the Law Commission, and other internationally recognised bodies. The four defined methodological approaches were assessed experimentally, using a grave simulation of known properties to test the excavation, recording, and interpretation of material evidence, the definition of stratigraphic contexts, and understanding of stratigraphic relationships.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784914844 | 2016 | £38.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784914851 | 2016 | from £16.00

Best Practices of GeoInformatic Technologies for the Mapping of Archaeolandscapes Apostolos Sarris (ed) iv+269 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

Stefano Campana et al. (eds)

This volume collates state of the art research in the fields of geophysics, geochemistry, aerial imaging, dating, digital archaeology, GIS and marine archaeology to present a comprehensive overview of the specialised techniques which can contribute to landscape scale archaeological investigations.

2 vols, 1160 pages,b&w illus thr/o with 3 colour plates

‘The papers represent a snapshot of good practice expressed around excellent case studies...’ –Journal of Greek Archaeology

CAA2015: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology University of Siena

Paperback | ISBN 9781784913373 | 2016 | £129.00

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Paperback | ISBN 9781784911621 | 2015 | £44.00

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Fractures in Knapping Are Tsirk† xii+261 pages; b&w illus thr/o

This book is for students and practitioners of not only knapping, lithic technology and archaeology, but also of fractography and fracture mechanics. In general, understanding of fractures provides a sounder basis for lithic analysis, and use of more recent scientific tools opens new avenues for lithic studies.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784910228 | 2014 | £25.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784910235 | 2014 | from £16.00

Ceramic Petrography The Interpretation of Archaeological Pottery & Related Artefacts in Thin Section Patrick Sean Quinn

University College London

260 pages; colour throughout

Using over 200 colour photomicrographs of thin sections from a diverse range of artefacts, archaeological periods and geographic regions, this book illustrates the spectrum of compositional and microstructural phenomena that occur within ancient ceramics under the microscope and provides comprehensive guidelines for their study within archaeology.

Paperback | ISBN 9781905739592 | 2013 | £35.00

Dictionary of Archaeological Terms

This series of concise dictionaries is intended to be helpful in the reading of archaeological books and publications, and in the writing of papers and articles in both English and a variety of core European languages. The aim of this work is to help, in particular, students and on-site archaeologists to find quickly a word relating to a specific period, a specific area or a research field, in a book easy to carry everywhere.

English/French – French/English Paperback | ISBN 9781905739271 | 2009 | £9.99 English/German – German/English Paperback | ISBN 9781905739561 | 2012 | £9.99 English/Italian – Italian/English Paperback | ISBN 9781905739493 | 2012 | £9.99 English/Spanish – Spanish/English Paperback | ISBN 9781905739479 | 2011 | £9.99 English/Greek – Greek/English Paperback | ISBN 9781905739387 | 2011 | £9.99

Prehistory: Britain and Ireland Hillforts, Warfare and Society in Bronze Age Ireland William O’Brien et al.

University College Cork

x+522 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (75 col plates)

This is the first project to study hillforts in relation to warfare and conflict in Bronze Age Ireland. New evidence for the destruction of hillforts is connected to territorial disputes and other forms of competition arising from the ambitions of regional warlords, often with catastrophic consequences for individual communities. This project combines remote sensing and GIS-based landscape analysis with conventional archaeological survey and excavation, to investigate ten prehistoric hillforts across southern Ireland.

There is also a detailed landscape study of nine examples in the Baltinglass area of Co. Wicklow, often termed ‘Ireland’s hillfort capital’. The results provide new insights into the design and construction of these immense sites, as well as details of their occupation and abandonment. The chronology of Irish hillforts is reviewed, with a new understanding of origins and development.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784916558 | 2017 | £60.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784916565 | 2017 | from £16.00

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The Chambered Tombs of the Isle of Man A study by Audrey Henshall 1969–1978 Frances Lynch et al.

Bangor University

iv+178 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

The Manx chambered tomb group comprises ten archaeological sites on the Isle of Man which date to the Neolithic period. Some are amongst the most dramatic prehistoric sites in the Manx landscape. Constructed using megaliths (large stones), this monument type can be found throughout western Europe.

These monuments may also be known as megalithic tombs, passage graves, court tombs and chambered cairns. This volume presents Audrey Henshall’s work on the Manx monuments collated, reviewed and updated by Frances Lynch. Evidence from antiquarian and archaeological excavations as well as documentary and art sources is presented here, as are relationships between Manx megalithic monuments and those elsewhere.

Published in association with Manx National Heritage Paperback | ISBN 9781784914684 | 2017 | £TBC PDF | ISBN 9781784914691 | 2017 | £TBC

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Art and Architecture in Neolithic Orkney Process, Temporality and Context Antonia Thomas

University of the Highlands and Islands

xvi+258 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

The Neolithic sites of Orkney include an impressive number of stone-built tombs, ceremonial monuments and – uniquely for northern Europe – contemporary dwellings. Until recently, relatively little has been known about the decoration of these sites. This book addresses that gap to offer a groundbreaking analysis of Neolithic art and architecture in Orkney.

‘Art and Architecture in Neolithic Orkney is a handsome volume; it is well illustrated and clearly set out. It is designed to be read from cover to cover but in fact there is a lot of detail here and it also makes for an excellent ‘dipping’ book. [It provides] an overview of the amazing suite of decorated stones found within the structures of Neolithic Orkney through detailed studies of three key sites. Within each site, particular case studies are set out. It is a comprehensive piece of work, taking us first through a history of the archaeological study of art, and then providing a brief guide to the Neolithic art of Britain and Ireland…There is a lot to take in. There is a lot to think about. It is a book that will linger and enrich any exploration of the remains of Neolithic Orkney. The ‘art’ itself is just wonderful, it was clearly an integral part of the lives of our Neolithic ancestors.’ –Caroline Wickham-Jones (The Orcadian) ‘The book offers a compelling account of a little-known aspect of the Orcadian Neolithic, and will make a significant contribution to understanding the artistic endeavour of communities that settled this island archipelago some 5,000-6,000 years ago, fusing architecture with art.’ –George Nash (Current Archaeology)

Paperback | ISBN 9781784914332 | 2016 | £45.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784914349 | 2016 | from £16.00

Dress and Identity in Iron Age Britain A study of glass beads and other objects of personal adornment Elizabeth M. Foulds Durham University

xiv+338 pages; b&w illus thr/o with 16 colour plates

Studies of Iron Age artefacts from Britain tend to be dominated either by the study of metalwork, or pottery. This book presents a study not only of a different material, but also a different type of object: glass beads.

These are found in a range of different sizes, shapes, colours, and employ a variety of different decorative motifs. Through an analysis of glass beads from four key study regions in Britain, the book aims not only to address regional differences in appearance and chronology, but also to explore the role that this object played within the networks and relationships that constructed Iron Age society.

Bronze Age Monuments and Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon Landscapes at Cambridge Road, Bedford Andy Chapman; Pat Chapman Museum of London Archaeology

x+146 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (55 col plates)

This volume presents the results of open area excavation on 14.45ha of land at Cambridge Road, Bedford, carried out in 2004-5 in advance of development.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. The Bronze Age Monument Complex; 3. Middle/Late Bronze Age to Iron Age settlement; 4. The Roman Settlement; 5. The Anglo-Saxon settlement; 6. Medieval to Modern; 7. Discussion by Andy Chapman; Bibliography

Paperback | ISBN 9781784916046 | 2017 | £30.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784916053 | 2017 | from £16.00

Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon Settlement along the Empingham to Hannington Pipeline in Northamptonshire and Rutland Simon Carlyle et al.

Cotswold Archaeology

xii+132 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

Reports on 2008-2009 excavations by Northamtonshire Archaeology (now MOLA) in the south-east Midlands region; Nineteen sites were investigated, dating primarily to the Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods.

Table of Contents 1. Introduction; 2. Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (c.4000-1450BC); 3.

Middle Bronze Age to Early Iron Age (c.1450-400BC); 4. Middle to Late Iron Age (400 BC-43 AD); 5. Roman Settlement (AD43-AD450); 6. Anglo-Saxon burial and settlement (AD450-650); 7. Medieval and post-medieval field systems; 8. Discussion; Bibliography

Paperback | ISBN 9781784915346 | 2017 | £26.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784915353 | 2017 | from £16.00

Archaeological excavations in Moneen Cave, the Burren, Co. Clare Insights into Bronze Age and post-medieval life in the west of Ireland Marion Dowd

Institute of Technology, Sligo

x+98 pages; ol and b&w illus thr/o (39 col plates)

‘...[The] book is a mine of information and inspiration, and Foulds’ typology, along with the well-illustrated guide on identifying and recording glass beads in the appendices, will undoubtedly be of use to other researchers.’ –Helen Chittock (Prehistoric Society Website)

In 2011, cavers exploring a little-known cave on Moneen Mountain (Co. Clare, Ireland) discovered part of a human skull, pottery and an antler implement. An archaeological excavation followed; finds suggest that Moneen Cave was visited intermittently as a sacred place in the Bronze Age landscape. 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.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784915261 | 2017 | £50.00

Paperback | ISBN 9781784914547 | 2016 | £28.00

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Brochs and the Empire The impact of Rome on Iron Age Scotland as seen in the Leckie broch excavations Euan W. MacKie

University of Glasgow

x+122 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

The excavation of the Leckie Iron Age broch in Stirlingshire, Scotland, during the 1970’s presented surprising revelations about the expansion of the Roman Empire into southern Scotland in the late first century AD. Many of the quality and significant Roman finds appear to have been presented as gifts to the broch chief, despite the clear evidence of the violent destruction of the broch at a later date. Mackie draws links between these discoveries and the Roman author Tacitus’ detailed account of Governor Agricola’s campaigns in southern Scotland which suggests he sometimes tried to make friends with local chiefs before invading their territories, to avoid unnecessary casualties.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784914400 | 2016 | £30.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784914417 | 2016 | from £16.00

Hillforts of the Cheshire Ridge Dan Garner et al.

University Of Chester

xx+263 pages; illus. t/o in col. and b/w.

The 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. This volume details the results of the four year Habitats and Hillforts Project, and sets out how they contribute to a deeper understanding of the ordering of the landscape in western Cheshire during the later prehistoric period and beyond.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784914660 | 2016 | £30.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784914677 | 2016 | from £16.00

Iron Age Hillfort Defences and the Tactics of Sling Warfare Peter Robertson xii+132 pages; b&w illus thr/o

Was the purpose of an Iron Age hillfort to defend people and resources or was it there to show the power of the community and its leaders? This book adds to this discourse by accurately measuring sling accuracy at a hillfort for the first time, in a controlled experiment comparing attack and defence across single and developed ramparts. ‘…a very interesting account of what seems to have been a wellconducted piece of experimental archaeology, [containing] some valuable data.’ -Slingshot Magazine

Paperback | ISBN 9781784914103 | 2016 | £25.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784914110 | 2016 | from £16.00

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Archaeology of the Ouse Valley, Sussex, to AD 1500 Dudley Moore† et al. (eds) xxii+138 pages; b&w illus thr/o with 1 colour plate

The Ouse valley, East Sussex, is a key communication route from the Channel coast, via the Downs, 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.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784913779 | 2016 | £29.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784913786 | 2016 | from £16.00

Mining and Materiality Neolithic Chalk Artefacts and their Depositional Contexts in Southern Britain Anne M. Teather

University College London

viii+114 pages; b&w illus thr/o

In this book Anne Teather develops a new approach to understanding the Neolithic flint mines of southern Britain. These mines include some of the earliest – and also some of the largest – monumental constructions that transformed the landscape of Britain during the period of social change that accompanied the transition from foraging to farming 6000 years ago. The book draws together for the first time a comprehensive typology, chronology and classification system for prehistoric chalk artefacts. The concept of artefact is broadened to include natural materials whose selection and placement in specific archaeological contexts is pivotal in understanding depositional complexity and the symbolic meaning conveyed by elements of the natural world.

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Proceedings of the 17th Iron Age Research Student Symposium, Edinburgh 29th May - 1st June 2014 Graeme JR Erskine et al. (eds) University of Edinburgh

xvi+158 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

Since its conception in 1998, the Iron Age Research Student Symposium has provided postgraduates in the archaeology of Iron Age Britain an opportunity to present their current research in a friendly atmosphere. This proceedings volume, organised to reflect three general themes (migration/interaction, material culture and the built environment), accomplishes two things. First, it provides an accessible survey of emerging concepts, ideas, methods, and fieldwork. Second, it provides a broader scheme envisioned by the organisers for future events in this Symposium series.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784913571 | 2016 | £34.00

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Prehistory: Western, Northern & Central Europe Time and Stone: The Emergence and Development of Megaliths and Megalithic Societies in Europe Bettina Schulz Paulsson University of Gothenburg

xiv+376 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (71 col plates)

This analysis is concerned with the dating of megaliths in Europe and is based on 2410 available radiocarbon results from premegalithic and megalithic sites, the megaliths’ contemporaneous contexts and the application of a Bayesian statistical framework.

It is, so far, the largest existing attempt to establish a supraregional synthesis on the emergence and development of megaliths in Europe. Its aim is to assist in the clarification of an over 200-year-old, ongoing research debate.

Dr Bettina Schulz Paulsson obtained her PhD in 2013 at the ChristianAlbrechts Universität Kiel. She is currently a Research Fellow at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her main research is on the Neolithic, with a particular focus on scientific dating, megaliths, rock art studies, cognitive archaeology and symbolic systems.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784916855 | 2017 | £45.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784916862 | 2017 | from £16.00

Territoires et ressources des sociétés néolithiques du Bassin parisien le cas du Néolithique moyen (4500 – 3800 av. n. è.)

Claira Lietar

Université Paris 1

x+166 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (46 col plates).

French text; English abstract

This book studies forms of territorial patterning and resource management in the middle Neolithic I and II, between 4500 and 3800 BC in the Paris basin. Using a database of middle Neolithic occupation, integrated in a geographic information system, a multiscalar spatial analysis was undertaken. Results suggest that even in sectors which are relatively well documented through archaeological fieldwork, our vision of settlement is still biased. The models of occupation produced here show diversity in forms of territorial patterning, derived from regional development processes, between the middle of the 5th and the beginning of the 4th millennium. The diversification and densification of enclosures in some territories, around 4000 BC, reflect complexity in the organisation of communities. Yet other territories seem less highly structured and more sparsely occupied. The explanatory factors for these regional phenomena are linked to flint procurement systems, with their varying degrees of complexity, to control of communication routes, to demographic pressure and to competition between communities.

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New Perspectives on the Bronze Age Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium held in Gothenburg 9th to 13th June 2015 Sophie Bergerbrant; Anna Wessman (eds)

University of Gothenburg

x+450 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (61 col plates)

The Nordic Bronze Age Symposium began modestly in 1977 with 13 participants, and has now expanded to over 120 participants: a tenfold increase that reflects the expanding role of Bronze Age research in Scandinavia, not least amongst younger researchers.

From having taken a back seat in the 1970s, it is now in the driver’s seat in terms of expanding research themes, publications and international impact.

This collection of articles helps to explain why the Bronze Age has come to hold such a fascination within modern archaeological research. By providing new theoretical and analytical perspectives on the evidence new interpretative avenues have opened, it situates the history of the Bronze Age in both a local and a global setting.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784915988 | 2017 | £60.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784915995 | 2017 | from £16.00 Select papers available in Archaeopress Open Access

Physical Barriers, Cultural Connections A Reconsideration of the Metal Flow at the Beginning of the Metal Age in the Alps Laura Perucchetti University of Oxford

iv+180 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (34 col plates)

This volume considers the early copper and copper-alloy metallurgy of the entire Circum-Alpine region. It introduces a new approach to the interpretation of chemical composition data sets, which has been applied to a comprehensive regional database for the first time. An extensive use of GIS has been applied to investigate the role of topography in the distribution of metal and to undertake spatial and geostastical analysis that may highlight patterns of distribution of some specific key compositional element. The Circum-Alpine Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age show some distinctively different patterns of metal use, which can be interpreted through changes in mining and social choices. But there are also some signs of continuity, in particular those which respect the use of major landscape features such as watersheds and river systems. Interestingly, the Alpine range does not act as a north-south barrier, as major differences in composition tend to appear on an east-west axis. Conversely, the river system seems to have a key role in the movement of metal.

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Palaeolithic Pioneers Behaviour, abilities, and activity of early Homo in European landscapes around the western Mediterranean basin ~1.3-0.05 Ma.

Croatia at the Crossroads A consideration of archaeological and historical connectivity David Davison et al. (eds)

Michael J. Walker

iv+264 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

University of Murcia

ii+198 pages; 2 black & white maps.

Archaic humans were present for over a million years in western Mediterranean Europe where they left very many traces of their early stone-age activities and behaviour, and sometimes even human skeletal remains. This book evaluates archaeological findings about their life-ways at many important sites in Italy, southern France, and Spain, from the earliest ones 1,300,000 years ago, to those of Neanderthals fifty-thousand years ago, just before they were superseded by skeletally-“modern” humans.

The cognitive and manual skills of archaic humans in western Mediterranean Europe are considered in the Pleistocene contexts of major climatic fluctuations and changing environmental circumstances. The book focusses on their remarkable capacity to adapt, frequently reinvent themselves, and persist for long periods of time, even though finally they did not endure. Their achievements and abilities withstand comparison to those of ancient humans in Africa or Asia during Early, Middle, and early Late Pleistocene times.

Michael Walker (Colchester, 1941) is Honorific Emeritus Professor in the Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology at the University of Murcia in Spain, and directs field-work at Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar (Caravaca, Murcia) and Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo (Torre Pacheco, Murcia).

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European Union.

This volume presents 17 papers from the conference held at Europe House, Smith Square, London, 24–25 June 2013, to mark the accession of Croatia to the

‘[Papers] advance in chronological order from the Palaeolithic through to the nineteenth century AD, and thematically from stone tools to firearms... As befits a volume marking Croatia’s entry into the EU, the collection offers a ‘national’ perspective on the ‘international’. Although each chapter’s interpretation of the theme of ‘interconnectedness’ is different, all of the papers set their material in wider context, demonstrating Croatia’s long interconnectivity with the lands, and sea, around it... [This] volume provides a welcome overview of Croatian archaeology and a thoroughly appropriate way to commemorate the country’s accession to the EU.’ –Antiquity

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Materials, Productions, Exchange Network and their Impact on the Societies of Neolithic Europe Proceedings of the XVII UISPP World Congress 2014, Vol 12 Marie Besse; Jean Guilaine (eds)

University of Geneva; College de France

La ocupación humana del territorio de la comarca del río Guadalteba (Málaga) durante el Pleistoceno

This volume considers various approaches to identifying the circulation of materials or finished objects in Neolithic Europe, as well as the social networks involved.

Lidia Cabello Ligero

Paperback | ISBN 9781784915247 | 2017 | £24.00

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

x+212 pages; b&w illus thr/o. Spanish text; English abstract

This investigation exhaustively gathers the archaeological evidence of the Palaeolithic human settlement in the Guadalteba river region (Malaga, Spain) during the Pleistocene. The main objective is to show the direct relationship between the reservoirs and the sources of raw materials, located in the fluvial terraces, in the geological outcrops and in the surface deposits. An important part of the work has been the geoarchaeological and archeometric surveys and the analysis of new lithic collections from surface archaeological surveys and recent systematic archaeological excavations in the Ardales Cave and Las Palomas de Teba Sima.

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vi+82 pages; illustrated throughout in black & white

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Les sépultures mésolithiques de Téviec et Hoedic: révisions bioarchéologiques Bruno Boulestin

Université de Bordeaux

viii+308 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o. French text.

This book presents the long lacking bioarchaeological review study of the graves from Teviec and Hoedic, located in Brittany and excavated from 1928 to 1934. This review also gives us the occasion to carry out a global reflection on the circumstances under which the dead were grouped during the Mesolithic period and on the society of Atlantic Europe’s last hunters-gatherers as perceived through the filter of their funerary practices.

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Warriors and other Men Notions of Masculinity from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age in Scandinavia Lisbeth Skogstrand University of Oslo

vi+182 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (18 col plates)

Late Bronze Age Flintworking from Ritual Zones in Southern Scandinavia Mirosław Masojć

Uniwersytet Wrocławski

xi+264 pages; ol and b&w illus thr/o (5 colour plates)

What is considered masculine is not something given and innate to males but determined by cultural ideas and ideals constructed through performative practices – today and in the past. This book questions whether androcentric archaeology has taught us anything about prehistoric men and their masculinities. Starting from broad discussions of feminist theory and critical men’s studies, this study examines how notions of masculinity are expressed in cremation burials from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Roman Period (1100 BC - 400 AD) in Eastern Norway and Funen in Denmark.

This book is devoted to flintworking encountered in the so-called cult houses and ritual zones from the Late Bronze Age in southern Scandinavia, where thousands of barrows were built in the period from the Neolithic to the end of the Early Bronze Age. Considerable numbers of the barrows are still distinctly visible in the landscape of the area today.

In the Late Bronze Age, the cult houses, as well as other ritual constructions in various forms, were built into the older barrows’ mounds or were located on their edges. The excavated material from Jutland abounds in flint artefacts, which nearly always constitute the predominating category of finds.

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Prehistory: Southern & Eastern Europe and the Aegean Interpreting the Seventh Century BC Tradition and Innovation

Minoan Extractions A Photographic Journey 2009-2016

Xenia Charalambidou; Catherine Morgan (eds)

Gavin McGuire

British School at Athens; University of Oxford

viii+460pp; col and b&w illus thr/o

This book has its origin in a conference held at the British School at Athens in 2011 which aimed to explore the range of new archaeological information now available for the seventh century in Greek lands. It presents material data, combining accounts of recent discoveries (which often enable reinterpretation of older finds), regional reviews, and archaeologically focused critique of historical and art historical approaches and interpretations. The aim is to make readily accessible the material record as currently understood and to consider how it may contribute to broader critiques and new directions in research. The geographical focus is the old Greek world encompassing Macedonia and Ionia, and extending across to Sicily and southern Italy, considering also the wider trade circuits linking regional markets. The book does not aim for the pan- Mediterranean coverage of recent works: given that much of the latest innovative and critical scholarship has focused on the western Mediterranean in particular, it is necessary to bring old Greece back under the spotlight and to expose to critical scrutiny the often Athenocentric interpretative frameworks which continue to inform discussion of other parts of the Mediterranean.

Sissi Archaeological Project

viii+168 pages; 137 b&w illus.

Text in English and Greek

Archaeologist and award-winning photographer Gavin McGuire presents a seven year photographic study of the Bronze Age Minoan excavations in Sissi, Crete. The project offered an extraordinary opportunity to capture moments of human interaction during excavations as they interconnected with an ancient Minoan culture, stretching back millennia (26001200 BC). 137 black and white photographs are accompanied by a series of short essays presented in English and Greek providing an overview of the project’s photographic approach and an introduction to the long and complex relationship between archaeology and photography from their 19th century beginnings. The outcome shows that archaeological sites are not just created overnight but are the result of years of discovery, restoration and preservation. They are not just for now, but hopefully for the future. The ancient past deserves nothing less.

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Knossos and the Near East A contextual approach to imports and imitations in Early Iron Age tombs Vyron Antoniadis Academy of Athens

xii+170 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (14 col plates)

This book presents a contextual study of the Near Eastern imports which reached Crete during the Early Iron Age and were deposited in the Knossian tombs. Cyprus, Phoenicia, North Syria and Egypt are the places of origin of these imports. Knossian workshops produced close or freer imitations of these objects. The present study reveals the ways in which imported commodities were used to create or enhance social identity in the Knossian context. The author explores the reasons that made Knossians deposit imported objects in their graves as well as investigating whether specific groups could control not only the access to these objects but also the production of their imitations. Antoniadis argues that the extensive use of locally produced imitations alongside authentic imports in burial rituals and contexts indicates that Knossians treated both imports and imitations as items of the same symbolic and economic value.

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Excavations at the Mycenaean Cemetery at Aigion – 1967 Rescue Excavations by the late Ephor of Antiquities, E. Mastrokostas Thanasis I. Papadopoulos et al.

University of Ioannina

vi+124 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (26 col plates)

In this monograph the authors present the finds of four Mycenaean chamber tombs, from the rescue excavation of Ephor Mastrokostas at Aigion in 1967. Unfortunately, no diary or any other information, regarding the architecture or the burial customs, was found.

However, it is highly possible that they were similar to eleven tombs which were systematically excavated by Papadopoulos in 1970. In contrast with them, the four tombs produced a much greater number of finds, indicating richer burials. Furthermore, some of these finds are unique (e.g. “thronos”-straight-sided alabastron with unusual paneled decoration), rare (e.g. askoi) and exceptional (e.g. cylindrical stirrup jars) in the Achaean Mycenaean ceramic repertory, while the total absence of terracotta figurines as well as the rarity of small objects is surprising.

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Achaios Studies presented to Professor Thanasis I. Papadopoulos Evangelia Papadopoulou-Chrysikopoulou et al. (eds)

Praehistorica Mediterranea 6 (ISSN 1974-6040)

Le guerrier, le chat, l’aigle, le poisson et la colonne: la voie spiralée des signes Approche sémiologique, structurale et archéologique du disque de Phaistos Serge Collet

90 pages; 15 tables, 1 colour illustration. French text; English Abstract and Foreword

The Phaistos Disc is one of the most studied documents of Minoan civilization, enticing scholars and simple enthusiasts with the mysterious aura that envelops it and with its singularity among Minoan scriptures. It has entered the collective imagination, both at academic and popular levels. It is this very overexposure that risks undermining the understanding of an object that is, first and foremost, an archaeological artefact found in a chronological and cultural context. Collet brings a new approach to the study of the Phaistos Disc, one of the most studied documents of the Minoan civilization. It’s not a deciphering but an interpretation, a depiction of the Minoan Weltanschauung through the symbols on the Disc and their connections with reality.

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Catalogue of Artefacts from Malta in the British Museum Josef Mario Briffa SJ; Claudia Sagona

Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome; University of Melbourne

viii+326 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

The archaeology of the Maltese archipelago is remarkable. Lying at the heart of the central Mediterranean, ancient lives were, at times, moulded by isolation and harsh elements and the landscape is shaped by millennia of intensive land use. Ancient finds from the islands are rare, and those held in the British Museum form an important collection. Represented is a wide cultural range, spanning the Early and Late Neolithic, the Bronze Age, Roman and more recent historic periods. From the early 1880s, Malta attracted a fascinating array of historians, collectors and travellers and, on one level, the British Museum’s holdings represent their activities, but on another, the collections reflect the complex path antiquarianism has played out in Malta as it moved steadily toward fledgling archaeological investigations.

Significantly, artefacts excavated by notable Maltese archaeologist, Sir Themistocles Zammit, at the key Neolithic site of Tarxien, and those uncovered by Margaret Murray at Borġ inNadur form a crucial part of the collection.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784915889 | 2017 | £50.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784915896 | 2017 | from £16.00

xx+280 pages; b&w illus thr/o (2 col plates)

In Achaios, 35 scholars ontribute 31 papers, as a small token of appreciation, gratitude and affection to Prof. Thanasis I. Papadopoulos, a true scholar, who devoted his life studying and revealing the long journeys of the Mycenaeans and their culture.

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Catalogue of Etruscan Objects in World Museum, Liverpool

Continuity and Change in Etruscan Domestic Architecture

Jean MacIntosh Turfa; Georgina Muskett

Paul M. Miller

University of Edinburgh

University of Pennsylvania; University of Liverpool

xiv+254 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (107 col plates)

xv+272 pages; illustrated throughout in black & white with x colour plates.

One of the finest collections of Etruscan artifacts outside of Italy was begun in the 19th century by Joseph Mayer, goldsmith, of Liverpool. His donation of the collection became the core of Liverpool Museum, now World Museum, and has been augmented over the years by additional gifts and other acquisitions, such as those from the Wellcome Collection and Norwich Castle Museum. Much of the original material came from the necropolis of Vulci (Canino) when it was excavated by Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, while additional objects represent several other cities and sites.

From a Villanovan sword to Hellenistic epitaphs, the Liverpool Etruscan and Italic collection offers a rare glimpse of early civilization in central Italy.

Etruscan 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. 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.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784916381 | 2017 | £42.00

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Prehistory: World Argonauts of the Stone Age Early maritime activity from the first migrations from Africa to the end of the Neolithic

Mégalithismes vivants et passés: approches croisées Living and Past Megalithisms: interwoven approaches

Andrzej Pydyn

Christian Jeunesse et al. (eds)

viii+255 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (11 col plates)

x+294 pages; 63 col plates. Papers in French and English

Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu

‘This book gives a full account of Stone Age seafaring presenting the archaeological evidence in the context of the changing world environment and uses ethnographic sources to broaden the reader’s understanding of the world’s earliest sea craft. It is essential reading for all concerned to understand the human condition.’ – Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe, Oxford

Paperback | ISBN 9781784911430 | 2016 | £36.00

Université de Strasbourg

This volume comprises papers presented at the two multi-disciplinary round tables; they discuss how the patterns drawn from the observation of ‘living’ megalithic societies have been used to try and shed light on the functioning of European Neolithic societies.

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Prehistory: Rock Art L’arte rupestre dell’età dei metalli nella penisola italiana localizzazione dei siti in rapporto al territorio, simbologie e possibilità interpretative Renata Grifoni Cremonesi; Anna Maria Tosatti (eds) 276 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o. Italian text

Conference proceedings; papers relate to Post-Pleistocene rock art along the Apennine ridge.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784915568 | 2017 | £38.00; PDF available to download for free in Archaeopress Open Access Address: Archaeopress, Gordon House, 276 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7ED

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Myths about Rock Art Robert G. Bednarik

Rock Art Studies: News of the World V

ii+218 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

Paul Bahn et al. (eds)

Rather than considering the myths supposedly depicted in the world’s rock art, this book examines the myths archaeologists and others have created about the meanings and significance of rock art. This vast body of opinions dominates our concepts of the principal surviving cultural manifestations of early worldviews. Here these constructs are subjected to detailed analysis and are found to consist largely of misinterpretations. The book presents a comprehensive catalogue of falsities claimed about palaeoart, and it endeavours to explain how these arose, and how they can be guarded against by recourse to basic principles of science. It therefore represents a key resource in the scientific study of rock art.

This is the fifth volume in the series Rock Art Studies: News of the World. Like the previous editions, it covers rock art research and management across the globe over a fiveyear period, in this case the years 2010 to 2014 inclusive. The current volume once again shows the wide variety of approaches that have been taken in different parts of the world, although one constant has been the impact of new techniques of recording rock art. This is especially evident in the realm of computer enhancement of the frequently faded and weathered rock imagery that is the subject of our study.

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The White Lady and Atlantis: Ophir and Great Zimbabwe Investigation of an archaeological myth Jean-Loïc Le Quellec

French National Centre for Scientific Research

x+320 pages; highly illus thr/o in col and b&w

This 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?

Paperback | ISBN 9781784914707 | 2016 | £45.00

viii+364 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (102 col plates)

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Paleoart and Materiality The Scientific Study of Rock Art Robert G. Bednarik et al. (eds) ii+254 pages; b&w illus thr/o (6 col plates)

This book contains a series of selected papers presented at two symposia entitled ‘Scientific study of rock art’; as well as some invited papers from leading rock art scientists. The core topic of the book is the presentation of scientific approaches to the materiality of rock art, ranging from recording and sampling methods to data analyses. These share the fact that they provide means of testing hypotheses and/or of finding trends in the data which can be used as independent sources of evidence to support specific interpretations.

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Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 95

Le massif de Lovo, sur les traces du royaume de Kongo Geoffroy Heimlich

Université libre de Bruxelles

xiv+196; col and b&w illus thr/o (76 col plates). French text.

500+ page annex volume in Archaeopress Open Access

Unlike the Sahara or Southern Africa, the rock art of Central Africa is still largely unknown today. 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.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784916343 | 2017 | £34.00

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Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 93

Archival Theory, Chronology and Interpretation of Rock Art in the Western Cape, South Africa Siyakha Mguni

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

vi+156 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

Since 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 huntergatherer, herder and colonial era painting contexts and histories.

Rock Art of the Vindhyas: An Archaeological Survey Documentation and Analysis of the Rock Art Of Mirzapur District, Uttar Pradesh Ajay Pratap

Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

xiv+172 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (68 col plates)

Rock paintings and petroglyphs are a record of human memories.

No doubt, this function defines in essence all archaeological objects. Yet some objects such as tools, beyond their symbolic value, are clearly fashioned for their utility. How does rock art as an object fashioned by human hands then differ from tools? What utility does it have beyond its symbolic value? The Vindhyan corpus of rock paintings has provided us with a very valuable opportunity to be answering such questions.

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Ancient Egypt Archaeopress Egyptology

This ongoing numbered series is dedicated to all aspects of Egyptological research. Volumes include monographs, edited volumes, conference proceedings and more. Approximately 3-5 volumes are published each calendar year. Standing orders are welcomed.

Vol. 19: Proceedings of the XI International Congress of Egyptologists, Florence, Italy 23-30 August 2015

M. Cristina Guidotti et al. (eds)

Vol. 18: Egypt 2015: Perspectives of Research Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference of Egyptologists (2nd-7th June, 2015, Zagreb – Croatia)

Museo Egizio Firenze

Mladen Tomorad et al. (eds)

xiv+738 pages; icol and b&w illus thr/o (100 col plates) Papers in English, French and Italian

xii+358 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o.

The eleventh International Congress of Egyptologists took place at the Florence Egyptian Museum (Museo Egizio Firenze), Italy from 23-30 August 2015. The conference was organised by the International Association of Egyptologists (IAE), the Soprintendenza Archeologia della Toscana (Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo), CAMNES (Center for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies), the University of Florence (SAGAS department), and with the support of the Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici. From animal mummies to Ancient Egyptian vocabulary to Imperial Cult Temples: there was no shortage of intriguing topics. The proceedings volume presents over 125 peer-reviewed papers alongside a selection of posters.

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University of Zagreb

This book presents a selection of papers which were read at the Seventh European Conference of Egyptologists (CECE7), 2015. The volume is divided into six sections in which thirty-two scholars from fourteen European countries cover various fields of modern Egyptological research.

The first group of five papers is devoted to language, literature and religious texts; in the second section three authors describe various themes related to art, iconography and architectural studies; the third group contains four contributions on current funerary and burial studies; in the fourth (largest) section, ten authors present their recent research on material culture and museum studies; the fifth is concerned with the history of Ancient Egypt; and in the last (sixth), two authors examine modern Egyptomania and the 19th century travellers to Egypt.

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Vol. 17: Liber Amicorum–Speculum Siderum: Nūt Astrophoros Papers Presented to Alicia Maravelia

Vol. 14: Old Kingdom Copper Tools and Model Tools

Nadine Guilhou (ed)

Martin Odler

Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier

Charles University, Prague

xxvi+374 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o.

Papers in English and French

xvi+292 pages; illus. in col. and b/w

In this volume, a pleiade of Egyptologists, Archaeologists, Archaeoastronomers, Archaeoanthropologists, Historians and other scholars from fifteen countries have combined their efforts in order to honour Alicia Maravelia, whose important work in Egyptology and in the foundation of the Hellenic Institute of Egyptology are highly acknowledged. This book contains thirty original articles, two abstracts and a plethora of accompanying texts, all divided into three parts: 1. Nūt and the Realm of Stars; 2.

Ancient Egyptian Religion and its Celestial Undertones; and 3.

Ancient Egyptian Science, Medicine, Archaeoanthropology, Egyptomania, Egyptophilia, etc.

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Vol. 16: Studies on the Vignettes from Chapter 17 of the Book of the Dead I The Image of mś.w Bdšt in Ancient Egyptian Mythology

The Old Kingdom of Egypt (Dynasties 4–6, c. 2600–2180 BC) is famous as a period of the builders of the largest Egyptian pyramids. It is generally accepted that the evidence on the use of copper alloy tools from this era is meagre. Martin Odler gathers the textual, iconographic and palaeographic evidence and examines Old Kingdom artefacts in order to revise this view on the use of copper alloy tools and model tools. Furthermore, he provides updated definitions of tool classes and tool kits, together with the context of their use.

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Mykola Tarasenko

Vol. 13: Tomb Security in Ancient Egypt from the Predynastic to the Pyramid Age

viii+151 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

Reginald John Clark

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Among 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. 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 išdtree, found on a number of Book of the Dead chapter 17 vignettes.

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Vol. 15: Chronological Developments in the Old Kingdom Tombs in the Necropoleis of Giza, Saqqara and Abusir Toward an Economic Decline during the Early Dynastic Period and the Old Kingdom

Leo Roeten xiv+144 pages; illustrated in b/w

This study suggests, through investigations of the tombs in the necropolis of Giza, that economic decline attributed to the collapse of the Old Kingdom had already started in the early dynastic period.

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Swansea University

566 pages; illustrated in black & white

The architecture of tomb security has rarely been studied as a subject in its own right with scholarly publications tending to regard its role as incidental to the design of the tomb rather than perhaps being the driving force behind it. This book presents an in-depth analysis of the architecture of tomb security in Egypt from the Predynastic Period (c. 5000–4000 BC) until the early Fourth Dynasty (c. 2500 BC) by extrapolating data on the security features of published tombs from the whole of Egypt and gathering it together for the first time in one accessible database. Using the information assembled it adds new information to the current body of knowledge concerning the architecture of tomb security and explains many of the underlying reasons behind their adoption.

‘Tomb Security is as nearly perfect a publication as one could hope to find. The scholarship is impeccable, the writing lucid and concise, the organization clear and easy to access, both on first reading and for reference later. The physical product, too, is beyond reproach. The binding is solid, the illustrations bright with good contrast, the print (even the small-font footnotes) easy to see... Reg Clark has produced nothing less than a masterpiece. This is a volume sure to be a standard for years to come.’ –Kmt, A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt

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The Ancient Near East Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology 2

Stone Vessels in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian Period (c. 1200-330 BCE) Andrea Squitieri

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

iv+284 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (50 col plates)

This book focuses on the characteristics and the development of the stone vessel industry in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian period (c. 1200 – 330 BCE). Three main aspects of this industry are investigated. First, the technology behind the manufacture of stone vessels, the tools and techniques, and how these changed across time. Second, the mechanisms of exchange of stone vessels and how these were affected by the changing political landscape through time. Third, the consumption patterns of stone vessels in both elite and non-elite contexts, and how these patterns changed through time. The aim is to evaluate how the formation of new regional states, occurred in the Iron Age I-II, and their subsequent inclusion within large-scale empires, in the Iron Age III and Persian period, transformed the Near Eastern societies by exploring how the stone vessel industry was affected by these transformations. For the period and area under analysis, such a comprehensive study of stone vessels, covering a wide area and connecting this industry to the broader socioeconomic and political landscapes, has never been attempted before.

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Making Pictures of War Realia et Imaginaria in the Iconology of the Ancient Near East Laura Battini (ed) Collège de France

xi+88 pages; b&w illus thr/o

This 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. 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.

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Cedar Forests, Cedar Ships Allure, Lore, and Metaphor in the Mediterranean Near East Sara A. Rich

Appalachian State University

x+280 pages; highly illus. in col and b&w thr/o

It is commonly recognized that the Cedars of Lebanon were prized in the ancient world, but how can the complex archaeological role of the Cedrus genus be articulated in terms that go beyond its interactions with humans alone? And to what extent can ancient ships and boats made of this material demonstrate such intimate relations with wood? With a dual focus on the woods and the watercraft, and on the considerable historical overlap between them, the book takes another step in the direction of challenging the conceptual binaries of nature/ culture and subject/object, while providing an up-to-date synthesis of the relevant archaeological and historical data.

Binding physical properties and metaphorical manifestations, the fluctuating presence of cedar (forests, trees, and wood) in religious thought is interpreted as having had a direct bearing on shipbuilding in the ancient East Mediterranean.

‘This is a complex and compelling account that ranges widely across genres and ideas in pursuit—or perhaps more appropriately, under the spell—of cedar forests and the objects hewn from their wood... [The book] defies categorisation. Its varied inspirations and materials are woven into a unique account, pursuing multiple theoretical and thematic objectives. Rich confesses to being “bewitched by the seducing cedars’ power of allure”(p. 239), and her passion for her subject matter comes through on each page.’ –Antiquity

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Suyanggae and Her Neighbours in Haifa, Israel Proceedings of the 20th (1) Congress June 21–28, 2015 Sharon Gonen; Avraham Ronen Tel-Hai College; University of Haifa

156 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

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Parcours d’Orient Recueil de textes offert à Christine Kepinski Bérengère Perello et al. (eds) xiv+242 pages; b&w illus thr/o with 9 col plates. Papers in French and English.

23 papers reflect the scientific work of Christine Kepinski, who always promoted interdisciplinary approaches and developed multi-scale analysis from the object itself to regional study. ‘[The papers] not only reflect the interests of the dedicatee, but they do justice to her fine work.’ –Histara

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A History of Syria in One Hundred Sites Y. Kanjou et al. (eds)

University of Tubingen

viii+452 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

This volume presents the long history of Syria through a jouney of the most important and recently-excavated archaeological sites. The sites cover over 1.8 million years and all regions in Syria; 110 academics have contributed information on 103 excavations for this volume.

Based on these contributions the volume offers a detailed summary of the history of Syria, a history as important as any in terms of the development of human society. It is hoped that this knowledge will offer not only an increased understanding of the country but also act as a deterrent to the destruction of Syrian cultural heritage and facilitate the protection of Syrian sites.

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For the Gods of Girsu City-State Formation in Ancient Sumer Sébastien Rey

The British Museum

vi+76 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

Girsu (present-day Tello) was the sacred metropolis and central pole of a city-state that lay in the Southeasternmost part of the Mesopotamian floodplain. Because of the richness of information related in particular to the city’s spatial organization and geographical setting, Girsu stands out as a primary locale for re-analyzing through an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeological and textual evidence the origins of the Sumerian city-state.

The Archaeology of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Adjacent Regions Konstantinos Kopanias et al. (eds) University of Athens

xviii+456 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

Kurdistan is home to some of the most important archaeological sites in the world, ranging from the Stone Age to the most recent past. The past ten years has seen a burgeoning of cutting edge archaeological field projects across the region. This volume, the outcome of a conference held at the University of Athens in November 2013, presents the results of this research. For the first time the archaeological inventory of the region is being systematically documented, laying the foundations for intensive study of the region’s settlement history. At the same time the area has seen a flourishing of excavations investigating every phase of human occupation. Together these endeavours are generating basic new data which is leading to a new understanding of the arrival of mankind, the development of agriculture, the emergence of cities, the evolution of complex societies and the forging of the great empires in this crucible of mankind.

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Palmyrena: City, Hinterland and Caravan Trade between Orient and Occident Jørgen Christian Meyer et al. (eds) University of Bergen

vi+184 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (74 col plates)

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This volume presents papers presented at a conference in Athens in 2012 as a part of a Syrian-Norwegian research project.

They reflect international research and fieldwork that was going on until the outbreak of the Syrian civil war.

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Greece and Rome Die antike Münze als Fundgegenstand Kategorien numismatischer Funde und ihre Interpretation Günther E. Thüry

University of Salzburg

vi+200 pages; 11 col, 2 b&w plates. German text; English abstract

This volume offers a detailed overview of ancient coin finds and their interpretation before offering a proposal for the categorisation of future numismatic finds.

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Off the Beaten Track.

Epigraphy at the Borders Proceedings of 6th EAGLE International Event (24-25 September 2015, Bari, Italy) Antonio E. Felle; Anita Rocco (eds) Università degli Studi di Bari

vi+154 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

This conference was intended to address the issues which arise in digitizing inscriptions characterised by ‘unusual’ features in comparison with the epigraphic norm.

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The Black Sea in the Light of New Archaeological Data and Theoretical Approaches Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Black Sea in Antiquity held in Thessaloniki, 2015 Manolis Manoledakis

International Hellenic University

throughout

viii+290 pages; highly illustrated in full colour

This volume presents 19 papers on the archaeology and ancient history of the Black Sea region 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 a section on the connections between the Black Sea and northern Greece.

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Drawings in Greek and Roman Architecture Antonio Corso

SOMA 2014. Proceedings of the 18th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology Wrocław – Poland, 24-26 April 2014 Blazej Stanislawski et al. (eds) Polish Academy of Sciences

viii+192 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (35 col plates)

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.The 18th SOMA provided a forum for presentations related to the abovementioned 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.

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Houses in Graeco-Roman Egypt Arenas for Ritual Activity

Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa

Youssri Ezzat Hussein Abdelwahed

vi+112 pages; b&w illus thr/o with 1 col plate

viii+104; col and b&w illus thr/o

‘The study of ancient architectural representation in drawings is relatively new... Corso’s study succeeds in fulfilling its stated main goal, that is, to offer more literary, historical, and epigraphic testimonia for Greek and Roman architectural drawings than are found in previous treatments. This book will be most useful as a reference guide to these forms of evidence.’ –Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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‘This fascinating study uses textual and (where possible) archaeological evidence to reconstruct the structure of urban and rural houses of the period and then investigates their role as arenas for different forms of ritual activity associated with both Graeco-Roman and Egyptian cultural traditions... [This] work highlights the fundamental role of the house as a centre for the critical events in the lives of its residents, and so gives us a better appreciation of daily life in Graeco-Roman Egypt.’

–Ancient Egypt Magazine

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Greece and the Hellenistic World Artemis and Her Cult Ruth M. Léger

University of Birmingham

vi+178 pages; thirteen colour plates.

Greek sanctuaries are among the best known archaeological sites in ancient Greece. However, after over 150 years of excavations and research we know surprisingly little about some of their aspects, such as the rituals enacted in the sanctuary, the nature of original local deities and how aspects of their character were assimilated into those of the Olympians, why sanctuaries were established in certain places, and how to determine who the sanctuary was established for when no epigraphical material is present. Artemis and Her Cult provides a first attempt to bring together archaeological and literary sources from two main Artemis sanctuaries, hoping to contribute to a clearer picture of her cult.

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Kratos & Krater Reconstructing an Athenian Protohistory

Greek Art: From Oxford to Portugal and Back Again

Barbara Bohen

Rui Morais

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

xvi+250 pages; b&w illus thr/o with 1 col plate

Athenian governance and culture are reconstructed from the Bronze Age into the historical era based on traditions, archaeological contexts and remains, foremost the formal commensal and libation krater. Following Mycenaean immigration from the Peloponnesos during the transitional years, changes in governance are observable. Groups under aristocratic leadership, local and immigrant, aspired to coexist under a surprisingly formal set of stipulations that should be recognized as Athens’ first constitution. Synoikismos did not refer to a political union of Attica, sometimes attributed to Theseus, but to a union of aristocratic houses (oikoi). The union replaced absolute monarchy with a new oligarchicalmonarchy system, each king selected from one of the favoured aristocratic houses and ruling for life without inheritance. The system prevailed through the late eleventh to the mid-eighth c. and is corroborated by Athenian traditions cross-referenced with archaeological data from the burial grounds, and a formerly discredited list of Athenian Iron Age kings. Some burial grounds have been tentatively identified as those of the Melanthids, Alcmeonids, Philaids and Medontids, who settled the outskirts of Athens along with other migrant groups following the decline of the elite in the Peloponnesos. While the Melanthids left during the 11th c. Ionian Migration other aristocratic houses remained and contributed to the evolution of the historical era polis of Athens.

One noble family, the Alcmeonids preserved their cemetery into the Archaic period in a burial record of 600 years’ duration.

Incorporated into this work is a monograph on the Athenian formal krater used by these primarily Neleid aristocratic houses in assembly and ritual. Some Homeric practices parallel those found in Athens, so the Ionic poets may have documented customs that had existed on the Mainland and were transferred to Ionia during the Ionian Migration. The demise of both the constitution and the standard, ancestral krater in Athens following a mid-eighth c. watershed is testimony to an interval of political change, as noted by Ian Morris, before the systematized establishment of annual archonship in the following century. The support this research has given to the validity of the King List has resulted in a proposed new chronology, with an earlier onset for the Geometric period at 922 BC, rather than the currently accepted 900 BC. The relative chronology of Coldstream based on style is generally accepted here, but some intermediate stages are revised based on perceptible break data, such as the onset of a new kingship, a reported war, or the demise of a governance system.

Barbara Bohen has a 1979 PhD in Classical Art, Archaeology and Classics from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. From 1981 to 1997 she served as director of the University of Illinois multicultural World Heritage Museum (now Spurlock). She has taught art history, museology, and archaeological methodology, given many public lectures, and published on topics ranging from Athenian burial cult, ceramic studies, and aesthetics to a multidisciplinary study of an Egyptian mummy. Bohen has excavated Archaic Native American site Garvies Point on Long Island, Classical Greek sites on the island of Samothrace, Kalo Podi, Aphrodisias, Turkey, and from 1972 to 1981 the Kerameikos excavations of Athens, Greece. Since 2012 Bohen has held an appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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Universidade do Porto

vi+58 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

One of the most fascinating topics in the study of ancient art concerns artistic practices and models and the means of transmission of iconographic designs and decorative compositions. This phenomenon, although well known, has not drawn much attention of scholars of the ancient art. Apart from copies of originals, the practice dates back to the first civilizations and may be even older. The media used could be painted vignettes on papyri, paint on leather, or sketches painted on ostraca, used as pattern books. This issue is practically unheard of regarding ancient Greece, although a few media have been found which may have facilitated the transmission of iconographic designs and decorative compositions. This study presents some examples that suggest the existence of pattern books in the Greek world.

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The Death of the Maiden in Classical Athens

Ο ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΓΑΜΟΥ ΚΟΡΗΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΘΗΝΑ ΤΩΝ ΚΛΑΣΙΚΩΝ ΧΡΟΝΩΝ

Katia Margariti xlviii+636 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (105 col plates).

Text in Greek; 63-page English summary.

The present study examines the death of maidens in classical Athens, combining the study of Attic funerary iconography with research on classical Attic maiden burials, funerary inscriptions, tragic plays, as well as the relevant Attic myths.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784915469 | 2017 | £80.00

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Large Scale Rhodian Sculpture of Hellenistic and Roman Times Η ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΡΟΔΙΑΚΗ ΠΛΑΣΤΙΚΗ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΤΙΚΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΡΩΜΑΪΚΩΝ ΧΡΟΝΩΝ

ΤΩΝ

Kalliope Bairami

Ministry of Culture, Greece

xviii+864 pages; 222 plates, 23 in colour. Greek text; English summary.

This volume presents the large-scale Rhodian sculpture of the Hellenistic and Roman period through the publication of sixty unpublished sculptures of life size or larger than life size, together with forty-five sculptures already published. The sculptures are grouped according to their statuary type (gods, mortals and portraits). The presentation of the sculptures is further supplemented by a technical description and an analysis of stylistic characteristics according to chronological development.

Excavation data, wherever available, are also provided.

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Epigraphy of Art Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (ed) Johns Hopkins University

x+206 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

Ancient Greek vase-paintings offer broad-ranging and unprecedented early perspectives on the often intricate interplay of images and texts. By bringing together—for the first time in English-language scholarship—an international group of leading scholars in classical art and archaeology who have worked on vase-inscriptions, this book investigates epigraphic technicalities of Attic and non-Attic inscriptions on pottery as well as their broader iconographic and sociocultural significance.

This work constitutes a major contribution to the fields of Greek epigraphy and classical art and archaeology and will prove significant for epigraphists, archaeologists, and art-historians interested in the complexities of the interaction of art and text.

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El Sur de la Península Ibérica y el Mediterráneo Occidental Relaciones culturales en la segunda mitad del II milenio a.C. Juan Manuel Garrido Anguita Universidad de Córdoba

580 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (181 col plates).

Spanish text

In ancient times, the first communities, societies and civilizations in the Iberian peninsula, according to archaeological evidence, began to develop following a progressive local evolution tempered by the significance of outside contacts. Greek epics are the basis for the first speculations that link societies all along the Mediterranean coast, from east to west. In order to reconstruct our history, this volume strives to distinguish reality from myth in the pursuit of a bond of certainty between the data provided by historical and literary sources and the excavated remains.

Social Identity and Status in the Classical and Hellenistic Northern Peloponnese The Evidence from Burials Nikolas Dimakis

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

x+358 pages; illustrated throughout in black & white with 4 colour plates

Classical and Hellenistic cemeteries can give us more than descriptions and styles of pottery, art and burial architecture; they can speak of people, societies, social conventions as well as of social distinctions. This book aims to employ and illustrate the unique strengths of burial evidence and its contribution to the understanding of social identity and status in the Classical and Hellenistic Northern Peloponnese. By thoroughly reviewing published burials from the regions of Achaia, Arcadia, the Argolid and Cynouria, Corinthia, Elis and Triphylia, spatial and temporal variations which led to a change in definitions of ‘society’ and perceptions of ‘community’ on the basis of shifting reactions to death and the dead are demonstrated. Social roles of men, women, children, elite and non-elite individuals as expressed or negotiated in the mortuary record are explored. Preconceived ideas and stereotypes within and about the Classical and Hellenistic burials are challenged. In spite of the many constraints imposed by the limited previous research, what clearly emerges from this study is the wide degree of variation in what are often loosely termed ‘customary’ or unappealing Classical and Hellenistic burial practices in the Northern Peloponnese. If death was indeed an occasion or ‘opportunity’, then the meaning of this opportunity varied along the shifting dimensions, in time and space, of identity and status.

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CAMERA KALAUREIA

An Archaeological Photo-Ethnography

Yannis Hamilakis; Fotis Ifantidis

University of Southampton; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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ΠΟΤΑΜΙΚΟΝ: Sinews of Acheloios A Comprehensive Catalog of the Bronze Coinage of the ManFaced Bull, with Essays on Origin and Identity Nicholas J. Molinari et al. (eds) Salve Regina University

x+354 pages; illus. throughout in b/w

Potamikon 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.

170 pages; col illus thr/o. Text in English/Greek

How can we find alternative, sensorially rich and affective ways of engaging with the material past in the present? How can photography play a central role in archaeological narratives, beyond representation and documentation? This photo-book engages with these questions, not through conventional academic discourse but through evocative creative practice. The book is, at the same time, a site guide of sorts: a photographic guide to the archaeological site of the Sanctuary of Poseidon in Kalaureia, on the island of Poros, in Greece.

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Roman Frontier Studies 2009 Proceedings of the XXI International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies (Limes Congress), Newcastle upon Tyne, 2009 Nick Hodgson et al. (eds)

Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

xxii+726 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

The XXI International Congress of Roman Frontier studies was hosted by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums in Newcastle upon Tyne in August 2009. Papers presented here are organised into the same thematic sessions as in the actual conference: Women and Families in the Roman Army; Roman Roads; The Roman Frontier in Wales; The Eastern and North African Frontiers; Smaller Structures: towers and fortlets; Recognising Differences in Lifestyles through Material Culture; Barbaricum; Britain; Roman Frontiers in a Globalised World; Civil Settlements; Death and Commemoration; Danubian and Balkan Provinces; Camps; Logistics and Supply; The Germanies and Augustan and Tiberian Germany; Spain; Frontier Fleets. This wide-ranging collection of papers enriches the study of Roman frontiers in all their aspects.

Nick Hodgson is Archaeological Projects Manager for Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums and has excavated for many years at South Shields, Wallsend and other sites on the northern frontier of Roman Britain. He has published widely on Iron Age and Roman archaeology.

Hardback | ISBN 9781784916312 | 2017 | £120.00 Paperback | ISBN 9781784915902 | 2017 | £90.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784915919 | 2017 | from £16.00

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Bearsden: The Story of a Roman Fort David Breeze

Durham University

vi+124 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

The Roman fort at Bearsden and its annexe, together with areas beyond its defences, were extensively excavated from 1973 to 1982. This accessible account of the discoveries looks at the material recovered from the site, examining the process of archaeological excavation, the life of the soldiers at the fort based on the results of the excavation as well as material from elsewhere in the Roman Empire, the presentation and interpretation of the bath-house and latrine, and a discussion of possible future work arising out of the excavation.

David Breeze excavated Bearsden while working as an inspector of ancient monuments; he later served as Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments for Scotland. Hehas excavated on both Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall and written several books on these frontiers, on frontiers elsewhere in the Roman Empire and on the Roman army.

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Romano-Celtic Mask Puzzle Padlocks A study in their Design, Technology and Security Jerry Slocum; Dic Sonneveld 144 pages; highly illustrated in full colour throughout

This book presents a little-known and ingenious artefact of the Roman world: a small puzzle padlock whose font plate bears a face or ‘mask’ of ‘Celtic’ style. The padlocks were designed to secure small bags or pouches and their distribution extended across Europe with the majority found in the Danubian region and in the vicinity of Aquileia. The authors examine the cultural context, the origins and uses of the padlocks, and provide detailed solutions to the puzzle mechanisms. The publication provides a fully-illustrated catalog of the known 156 examples, categorises their types according to construction and style, and explores the technicalities of the subject by the process of constructing replica mask puzzle padlocks.

Jerry Slocum, a retired Aerospace executive, is a historian, collector and author specializing in the field of mechanical puzzles. His personal collection of over 40,000 mechanical puzzles is believed to be the world’s largest. It includes hundreds of puzzle padlocks including 34 Roman mask puzzle padlocks. He is the author of 16 earlier books on puzzles and their history; Dic Sonneveld was an Information and Computer Technology (ICT) professional at Leiden University until his retirement in 2011.

Hardback | ISBN 9781784915643 | 2017 | £45.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784915650 | 2017 | from £16.00

Saxa loquuntur: Roman Epitaphs from North-Western Croatia Rimski epitafi iz sjeverozapadne Hrvatske Branka Migotti

Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

vi+126 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o. Full text in English and Croatian

This 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.

Branca Migotti was born in Zagreb in 1954 and studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Zagreb University. She is currently employed at the Division of Archaeology of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb as a scholarly consultant and Head of the Division, and she is a regular collaborator in the postgraduate study programme ‘Roman and Early Christian Archaeology’ at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. Her main fields of scholarly interests are early Christianity and the funerary archaeology of Pannonia.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784915667 | 2016 | £20.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784915674 | 2016 | from £16.00

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Archaeopress Roman Archaeology

This ongoing numbered series is dedicated to archaeological, epigraphical and related studies of Rome and the Roman Provinces.

Volumes include monographs, edited volumes, conference proceedings and more. Approximately 3-7 volumes are published each calendar year. Standing orders are welcomed.

Vol. 27: Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki 1st Century BC – 6th Century AD

Anastassios Ch. Antonaras

Vol. 24: Birds, Beasts and Burials A study of the human-animal relationship in Romano-British St. Albans

Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki

Brittany Elayne Hill

viii+384 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (70 colour plates)

vi+204 pages; illustrated throughout in black & white with 35 colour plates.

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 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.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784916794 | 2017 | £50.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784916800 | 2017 | from £16.00 Vol. 26: L’artisanat

dans les cites antiques de l’Algérie (Ier siècle avant notre ère –VIIe siècle après notre ère) Touatia Amraoui Casa de Velázquez

xx+426 pages; b&w illus thr/o (1 col plate). French text; English summary.

Normally dealt with in a rather limited way, through the examination of a particular activity or geographical zone, the artisans of ancient North Africa are here, for the first time, the subject of an entire book. Focusing on urban production in Algeria during Antiquity, this critical study brings together new documentation drawn up on the basis of field data and the consultation of archives from a long history of survey in Algeria and France. This synthesis reviews the archaeological sites with workshops by defining their activities, at the same time as analyzing how they operated and looking at them typologically.

The human-animal relationship is one that has been pondered by scholars for ages. It has been used to define both what it means to be human and what it means to be animal. Birds, Beasts and Burials examines humananimal relationships as found in the mortuary record within the area of Verulamium that is now situated in the modern town of St. Albans. Once considered a major centre, the mortuary rites given to its people suggest high variabilities in the approach to the personhood of certain classes of both people and animals.

While 480 human individuals were examined, only a small percentage was found to have been afforded the rite of a humananimal co-burial. It is this small percentage that is examined in greater detail. Of major concern are the treatments to both the human and animal pre- and post- burial and the point at which the animal enters into the funerary practice.

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Vol. 23: ‘Poedicvlorvm oppida’ Spazi urbani della Puglia centrale in età romana

Custode Silvio Fioriello Università degli Studi di Bari

248 pages; illustrated throughout in black & white.

Italian text with English summary.

The 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.

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Vol. 22: Ländliche Siedlungsstrukturen im römischen Spanien Das Becken von Vera und das Camp de Tarragona –zwei Mikroregionen im Vergleich

Vol. 20: Amphorae from the Kops Plateau (Nijmegen) Trade and supply to the Lower-Rhineland from the Augustan period to AD 69/70

Jan Schneider

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Radboud University Nijmegen

Durham University

vi+214 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (35 col plates).

German text; English summary.

The present study deals with the comparison of rural settlements, aiming to compare developments in various settlements of the Iberian Peninsula during the Roman era. This is to show to what extent structures in the hinterland show parallels or are different from one another and to explore the causes of these similarities and differences. Aspects of the Roman economy must be taken into account as well as the micro-regional influences of pre-Roman settlement or topographical conditions. To achieve this goal, various aspects of rural settlements such as the dating, size or status of a place and its location and environmental conditions are analyzed and related. Archaeological, geographic and statistical methods of investigation are used. These methods, along with the complete resulting data, are fully disclosed in order to allow the comparison to be extended to other regions.

‘The structure is very clear, the procedure is clearly described and stringent... [The book] will be of interest not only to people who deal with rural Hispania but generally with urban-surrounding relationships in the Roman empire.’ –sehepunkte.de

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Cerámica Común romana en la Bahía Gaditana en Época romana Alfarería y centros de producción Lourdes Girón Anguiozar xxii+424 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o. Spanish text; English introduction.

This volumes examines Roman pottery and production centers in modern-day Cádiz. There are many innovative aspects to this research including: 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 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.

C. Carreras; J. van den Berg

x+404 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o.

In the year 19 BC, Roman legions arrived in Nijmegen with the aim of conquering the Rhenish territories from the local populations.

In addition to the legionaries themselves, the Roman army required a regular provision of staple supplies in order to keep such a war machine in top condition. The archaeological evidence for this provision is a myriad of organic remains (i.e. seeds, bones, pollen) as well as ceramic containers such as amphorae. One of the first military camps at Nijmegen, together with that on the Hunerberg, was Kops Plateau. This timber fortress – the most northerly military site of the Julio-Claudian period – dating from 12 BC to AD 69, has provided an extraordinary amphora assemblage. At a time when most Roman roads were still only projects, this distant military outpost received amphora products from all over the Mediterranean basin – from Palestine to Greece in the east to Baetica and northern Africa in the west as well as from the Italian core. In addition to amphorae, Kops Plateau also provided a wide repertory of regional vessels whose contents are unknown. The amphorae from Kops Plateau represent a singular example of Roman military supply in northern Europe at a very early date. Their analysis sheds light on trading routes in the Atlantic regions, and from Gaul to Germany; indeed also on the Claudian invasion of Britain.

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Vol. 19: The Nature and Origin of the Cult of Silvanus in the Roman Provinces of Dalmatia and Pannonia

Ljubica Perinić

Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

vi+126 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o.

The Nature and Origin of the Cult of Silvanus in the Roman Provinces of Dalmatia and Pannonia deals with the cult of Silvanus and presents the evidence and current state of research of the cult in Dalmatia and Pannonia to the wider scholarly community. New perceptions on the subject are proposed and a fresh standpoint from which certain problems may be (re)addressed is presented.

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Vol. 18: An Urban Geography of the Roman World, 100 BC to AD 300

Vol. 15: Moneda Antigua y Vías Romanas en el Noroeste de Hispania

J. W. Hanson

M. Isabel Vila Franco

University of Colorado

vii+818 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

This book provides a new account of the urbanism of the Roman world between 100 BC and AD 300. To do so, it draws on a combination of textual sources and archaeological material to provide a new catalogue of cities, calculates new estimates of their areas and uses a range of population densities to estimate their populations, and brings together available information about their monumentality and civic status for the first time. ‘[The catalogue] is the product of a huge labour for which Hanson can only be applauded with wonderment... Researchers on both the GraecoRoman world and on world urbanism have much to thank Hanson for in his data and analyses...’ –Antiquity ‘It stands alone as a quantitative study of urbanism in the Roman world...’ –BMCR

Paperback | ISBN 9781784914721 | 2016 | £65.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784914738 | 2016 | from £16.00 Vol. 17: The

Small Finds and Vessel Glass from Insula VI.1 Pompeii: Excavations 1995-2006 H.E.M. Cool

Barbican Research Associates

xii+304 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

This volume presents the vessel glass and small finds found in Insula VI.1, Pompeii.

More than 5,000 items are discussed, and the size of the assemblage has meant that the publication is in two parts. This volume consists of the discussion with associated illustrations and the catalogue entries for a subset of the data.

The remainder is available digitally on the Archaeological Data Service.

‘Cool’s report is not solely a catalogue of finds that will be of interest to those who study Pompeii, but also holds great value for archaeologists interested in the material culture of the early Roman Empire more widely, with excellent commentaries about the production, use and deposition of material culture at Pompeii.’ –Antiquity

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Vol. 16: L’artisanat de l’os À l’époque Gallo-Romaine De l’ostéologie à l’archéologie expérimentale

Marc Barbier ii+ 140 pages; highly illustrated in col and b&w thr/o. French text

Preventive archaeological excavations in Sens (Yonne) unearthed 39 Gallo-Roman bone combs. This exceptional concentration of bone artefacts incited the author to begin experimental researches into production techniques at a time when bone artefacts were not finding much interest among specialists.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784914219 | 2016 | £35.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784914226 | 2016 | from £16.00

Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

xii+574 pages; illus. throughout in col. and b/w. Spanish text

This work seeks to understand the process of monetization within the economy of the Galicians and Asturians and the cultural ways in which the phenomenon occurred. Numismatic remains are studied in depth, found in four of the roads crossing the northwestern territory of the Iberian peninsula in Roman times; the tracks studied, as referenced in the Itinerary of Antonino, were XVII, XVIII, XIX and XX. All the coins discovered were imported, and so it was possible to mark precisely where the greatest influx of individuals and materials came from, as well as areas and zones of different speeds of monetization and, thus, Romanization.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784913991 | 2016 | £75.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784914004 | 2016 | from £16.00

Vol. 14: Inter Moesos et Thraces The Rural Hinterland of Novae in Lower Moesia (1st – 6th Centuries AD)

Agnieszka Tomas

University of Warsaw

x+234 pages; b&w illus thr/o (5 col pages)

The Roman legionary base at Novae in Lower Moesia is one of the most important sites in the Lower Danubian provinces.

Towards late Antiquity, the military camp was transformed into a civil town with Episcopal residence and survived until the beginning of the 7th century.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784913694 | 2016 | £40.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784913700 | 2016 | from £16.00

Vol. 13: Diseños geométricos en los mosaicos del Conventus Astigitanus

Sebastián Vargas Vázquez vi+342; 170 col plates. Spanish text; English summary

This volume focuses on the study of the geometric designs documented in the mosaics of the Conventus Astigitanus, one of the four conventi iuridici of Roman Baetica. This study is part of a much broader undertaking, the primary objective of which is the analysis of the geometric mosaic designs of the province as a whole. The number of mosaics in the Conventus Astigitanus, and the larger number still documented in other areas of Baetica, place this province among those with the highest count of mosaics in the Roman world providing evidence of the level of cultural and economic power enjoyed by the province over the centuries. As a whole, this study makes an absolutely necessary contribution to the understanding of Roman mosaics in general and Hispanic mosaics in particular, based on an innovative and unprecedented approach in Spain.

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Amphorae in the Eastern Mediterranean

Ras il-Wardija Sanctuary Revisited A re-assessment of the evidence and newly informed interpretations of a Punic-Roman sanctuary in Gozo (Malta)

Hakan Öniz

Selcuk University

George Azzopardi

vi+198 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

Amphorae in the Eastern Mediterranean is designed to share the subject of amphorae which were found on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey with the wider scholarly community. Amphorae from the shipwrecks discovered during underwater research, as well as the amphora specimens held in the region’s largest museum, Antalya Museum, are examined.

To widen the scope of the book, the Aydın Aytuğ collection, which consists of amphorae collected in the region, is also included. Mediterranean amphorae which have not been found during excavations and underwater research undertaken by the author’s team up to now, are also presented. The amphorae and amphora-laden shipwrecks that are examined derive from the research carried out between 2011 and 2015, conducted in Antalya province in Lycia, Pamphylia and Rough West Cilicia regions, and off the coast of Silifke, which is a part of Rough East Cilicia. This research has obtained a wealth of new information, leading to a fresh look at the archaeology in this area.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784915162 | 2016 | £32.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784915179 | 2016 | from £16.00

vi+82 pages; b&w illus thr/o

This book reassesses the evidence of a secluded Punic-Roman sanctuary on the coastal promontory of Ras il-Wardija on the central Mediterranean island of Gozo (near Malta). Ritual activity at the sanctuary seems to be evidenced from around the 3rd century BC to the 2nd century AD and, possibly, even as late as the 4th century AD.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784916695 | 2017 | £19.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784916701 | 2017 | from £16.00

Statio amoena Sostare e vivere lungo le strade romane Patrizia Basso; Enrico Zanini (eds)

Università degli Studi di Verona; Università degli Studi di Siena

viii+264 pages; b&w illus thr/o. Italian text; English abstracts

The Roman road system was the main service infrastructure for administrative management, economic operation and defense of the empire. The interdisciplinary papers in this volume examine resting places more or less directly linked with vehiculatio / cursus publicus, or with a system run or controlled by the state to ensure essential services for those traveling on behalf of the public administration.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784914981 | 2016 | £40.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784914998 | 2016 | from £16.00

Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery (RLAMP)

The RLAMP series is devoted to research of the Roman and late Antique pottery in the Mediterranean. It is designed to serve as a reference point for all potential authors devoted to pottery studies on a pan-Mediterranean basis. Series editors: Michel Bonifay, Miguel Ángel Cau and Paul Reynolds.

Vol. 10: Lusitanian Amphorae Production and Distribution

Inês Vaz Pinto et al. (eds) Universidade de Coimbra

viii+464 pages; b&w illus thr/o (7 col plates)

Tomoo Mukai

Aix-Marseille University

x+434 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o. French text; English abstract

More than a century of archaeological investigation in Portugal has helped to discover, excavate and study many Lusitanian amphorae kiln sites, with their amphorae being widely distributed in Lusitania. These containers were identified in Ostia and Rome from the 1970s and thereafter in many sites around the Mediterranean, but their numbers have always seemed scarce. Were they not being recognized and therefore underestimated? Were they all fish-product amphorae? Did they ever reach a significant market share in the other provinces of Hispania? And what was their contribution to the supply of the city of Rome or to other cities in the centre of the Empire? This collective volume contributes to a better understanding of the production and distribution of Lusitanian amphorae.

This study focuses on ceramic finds from the excavations (1996-2006) of the Episcopal Group of Sidi Jdidi, the ancient city of Aradi, in the hinterland of Hammamet in Tunisia, directed by Dr Aïcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader and Prof. Michel Fixot. The aim of these excavations was to understand the processes of the (evolution and) insertion of Christian monuments into the pre-existent town and the distribution of the liturgical and economic functions within various buildings of this ecclesiastic centre. The ceramological study contributed to attaining this aim by suggesting dates for each phase of the construction, occupation and abandonment of the Episcopal group, as well as evidence for the function of each space.

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Vol. 9: La céramique du groupe épiscopal d’ARADI/Sidi Jdidi (Tunisie)

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Late Antiquity/Byzantine Late Roman to Late Byzantine/ Early Islamic Period Lamps in the Holy Land The Collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority Varda Sussman iv+635 pages; highly illustrated throughout in black and white with 10 colour plates.

This volume illustrates lamps from the Byzantine period excavated in the Holy Land and demonstrates the extent of their development since the first enclosing/ capturing of light (fire) within a portable man-made vessel.

Lamps, which held important material and religious functions during daily life and the afterlife, played a large role in conveying art, cultural, political and religious messages through the patterns chosen to decorate them. The great variety of lamps dealt with in this volume, arranged according to their various regions of origin, emphasizes their diversity, and probably local workshop manufacture, and stands in contrast to such a small country without any physical geographic barriers to cross, only mental ones (and where one basket of lamps could satisfy the full needs of the local population). The lamps of the Byzantine period reflect the era and the struggle in the cradle of the formation of the four leading faiths and cultures: Judaism (the oldest), Samaritanism (derived from the Jewish faith), newly-born Christianity – all three successors to the existing former pagan culture – and the last, Islam, standing on a new threshold.

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La Collezione Orientale del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze 3

Ceramiche vicinorientali della Collezione Popolani Stefano Anastasio et al.

Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo, Firenze

vi+200 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o.

Italian text; English summary

This volume – in Italian, with an English summary – illustrates the Popolani Collection, that was donated to the Archaeological Museum of Florence by Carlo Popolani, a physician who lived in Damascus in the early 20th century.

The collection consists of ancient pottery vessels, terracotta oil-lamps, glazed Islamic tiles, Romano-Byzantine glassware, as well as various objects from the Damascene antique market. In particular, the rich group of glazed tiles is very representative of the typical Mamluk and Ottoman production that flourished in Damascus between the XV and XVIII century.

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Due antiche diocesi dello stretto di Messina Insediamento, manufatti, infrastrutture e produzione nell’eparchia delle Saline e nelle isole Eolie tra Tardoantico e alto Medioevo Francesca Zagari iv+186 pages; b&w illus thr/o. Italian text; English abstract

This monograph is a comparative study of the Saline area and of the Aeolian Islands dioceses’ settlement in Late Antiquity and in the Early Middle ages. Both regions overlook the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily. The Saline area is located in Southern Tyrrhenian Calabria, and in the Middle Ages it is mentioned as an “Eparchy”, a Byzantine administrative division. The Aeolian archipelago is in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the North-Eastern coast of Sicily. The aim of the book is to reconstruct the settlement layout of these areas in an historical period that has been studied relatively little in Southern Italy. The settlement reconstruction was carried out by examining topographical features, patterns and dynamics, material culture, degree of continuity and discontinuity – especially compared to the Roman habitat – as well as agricultural and manufacturing systems and the road network.

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Limina/Limites: Archaeologies, histories, islands and borders in the Mediterranean (365-1556) 5

Archeologia dell’acqua a Gortina di Creta in età protobizantina Elisabetta Giorgi

Università degli Studi di Siena

x+288 pages; illustrated throughout in black & white.

Italian text; English abstracts for each chapter.

Ancient aqueducts have long commanded the attention of archaeologists, both for their intrinsic, monumental importance and for their significance as infrastructures closely related to the concept of civilisation. An aqueduct, in fact, is an artefact that has a great potential for providing information concerning at least two major aspects of ancient society: those relating to structural, technical, and engineering matters, and those relating to building and construction technology. The current study of the early Byzantine aqueduct of Gortyn (Crete) starts from a viewpoint related not so much to the aqueduct itself, as to a series of questions about the city: what was the appearance of Gortyn in the early Byzantine era? How did the inhabitants live? Where did they live and what did they do for living? The aqueduct was born with the Roman city and accompanied it for its entire lifetime, constituting the backbone around which the various forms of urban settlement were redrawn at each major historical stage. Its vital link with everyday life makes the aqueduct a key witness for the study of the transformations of the city over the long term.

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Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Britain and Ireland The History and Archaeology of Cathedral Square Peterborough Stephen Morris

Castles, Siegeworks and Settlements Surveying the Archaeology of the Twelfth Century

xii+84 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (38 col plates)

Northamptonshire Archaeology (now MOLA), was commissioned to undertake archaeological work ahead of an improvement scheme centred on Cathedral Square, the historic centre of Peterborough.

The archaeological work identified a succession of stone surfaces from the creation of the market square in the 12th century through to the 19th century. The cobbled surface of the original market square was overlaid by an accumulation of dark organic silts, containing finds dating through to the 16th century.

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Coventry’s Medieval Suburbs Excavations at Hill Street, Upper Well Street and Far Gosford Street 2003-2007 Paul Mason et al.

University College London

xii+196 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o.

Bishop Grosseteste University

xii+180 pages; illus. in col. and b/w

This volume presents twelve reports on archaeological investigations carried out at sites across England in support of a project investigating the so-called ‘Anarchy’ of King Stephen’s reign in the mid-twelfth century. Sites and their landscape settings are analysed through topographical and geophysical survey, as well as LiDAR and viewshed analysis, supported by cartographic and archival research. The reports examine sites at Burwell (Cambridgeshire), Castle Carlton (Lincolnshire), Corfe (Dorset), Crowmarsh (Oxfordshire), Faringdon (Oxfordshire), Hailes (Gloucestershire), Hamstead Marshall (Berkshire), Malmesbury (Wiltshire), Mountsorrel (Leicestershire), Rampton (Cambridgeshire), Wellow (Nottinghamshire) and Woodwalton (Cambridgeshire). The results help characterise the archaeological potential of this turbulent and controversial period, shedding new light on the castles, siegeworks and settlements of the twelfth century as well as antecedent activity and later phases of reuse.

Hill Street, Upper Well Street and Far Gosford Street comprise three suburban streets which stood directly outside the city gates of Coventry for much of the medieval period.

As a result of the 2003-2007 excavations an extensive body of archaeological, environmental and documentary evidence has been brought together to allow comparison in terms of land planning, construction methodologies, character and relative fluctuations in the long-term economy of two of the city’s medieval and post-medieval suburbs.

‘Middle Saxon’ Settlement and Society: The Changing Rural Communities of Central and Eastern England

Paperback | ISBN 9781784915629 | 2017 | £30.00

Duncan W. Wright

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The Archaeology of Kenilworth Castle’s Elizabethan Garden Excavation and Investigation 2004–2008 Brian Dix et al. iv+76 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o.

As part of the Property Development Programme for Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire, English Heritage created an ambitious reconstruction of the Elizabethan garden which formerly stood on the north side of the castle keep. In order to achieve a reliable representation of the original garden, a programme of archaeological trenching, open area excavation and watching brief was carried out by Northamptonshire Archaeology (now MOLA) from 2004 to 2008.

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Duncan W. Wright et al. (eds)

Paperback | ISBN 9781784914769 | 2016 | £45.00

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vi+205 pages; b&w illus thr/o

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Towns in the Dark: Urban Transformations from Late Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England Gavin Speed

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ix+196 pages; b&w illus thr/o

What became of towns following the official end of ‘Roman Britain’ at the beginning of the 5th century AD? Did towns fail?

Were these ruinous sites really neglected by early Anglo-Saxon settlers and leaders? This book draws together scattered data to chart and interpret the changing nature of life in towns from the late Roman period through to the mid-Anglo-Saxon period.

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Early Medieval/Medieval Encounters, Excavations and Argosies Essays for Richard Hodges John Moreland et al. (eds) University of Sheffield

iv+360 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o.

Richard Hodges is one of Europe’s preeminent archaeologists. He has transformed the way we understand the early Middle Ages, and has put the past to work for the present, through a sequence of paradigmatic excavations in England, Italy and Albania. This book pays tribute to him with a series of reflections on some of the themes and issues which have been central to his work over the last forty years.

Le décor architectural artuqide en pierre de Mardin placé dans son contexte regional: contribution à l’histoire du décor géométrique et végétal du Proche-Orient des XIIeXVe siècles Deniz Beyazit

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

xx+552 pages; illustrated throughout with 302 colour plates. French text

Social complexity in early medieval rural communities The north-western Iberia archaeological record

The Artuqids were one of the successor dynasties that rose to power in the aftermath of the eleventh-twelfth century invasion of Western and Central Asia by the Seljuq Turks. The many surviving Artuqid monuments, built over three hundred years (early 12th – early 15th century), and their decoration exemplify the mastery of stone carving which is reflected in intricate designs and motifs. Mardin was set within a larger zone of diverse Christian and Islamic artistic traditions. This book defines Mardin’s artistic context in relation to the other Artuqid centers, as well as the neighbouring zones that encompass Anatolia, the Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Egypt.

Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo (ed)

Paperback | ISBN 9781784911225 | 2016 | £80.00

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University of the Basque Country

vi+134 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (18 col plates)

Nine papers discuss the theoretical challenges posed by the study of social inequality and social complexity in early medieval peasant communities in North-western Iberia. Traditional approaches have defined these communities as poor, simple and even nomadic, in the framework of a self-sufficient economy that prioritised animal husbandry over agriculture. This picture has radically changed over the last couple of decades. Recent findings and analysis are discussed in the light of a new research agenda centred on the analysis of the emergence of villages, the formation of local elites, the creation of socio-political networks and the role of identities in the legitimation of local inequalities.

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Stone Carving of the Hospitaller Period in Rhodes Displaced pieces and fragments Anna-Maria Kasdagli ii+212 pages; illustrated in b/w with 1 col. plate

The work presents 230 stone carvings of the Hospitaller period in Rhodes (1309-1522), which for various reasons are no longer in their original setting.

Most of them are cut in local stone or reused antique marble and belong to three broad groups: decorative architectural elements, funerary slabs and markers, and heraldry from secular and religious buildings and fortifications.

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Medieval Urban Landscape in Northeastern Mesopotamia Karel Nováček et al.

Palacky University, Olomouc

viii+206 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

This volume investigates a network of more than fifteen sites of either confirmed or conjectured urban status which existed between the 6th and 19th centuries in the region of northeastern Mesopotamia, bounded by the rivers Great Zāb, Little Zāb and Tigris.

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The Archaeology and History of the Church of the Redeemer and the Muristan in Jerusalem A Collection of Essays from a Workshop on the Church of the Redeemer and its Vicinity, Jerusalem, September 2014 Dieter Vieweger et al. (eds)

Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal/Bethel

322 pages; illustrated throughout in black & white

This monograph contains fifteen chapters written by leading scholars from around the world dealing with the archaeological and historical aspects of the Muristan from the Iron Age through to Ottoman times.

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La ceramica bassomedievale a Pisa e San Genesio (San Miniato-Pi) città e campagna a confronto Beatrice Fatighenti

Limina/Limites 4

Tra Montaccianico e Firenze: gli Ubaldini e la città Atti del convegno di studi, Firenze-Scarperia, Settembre 2012 Alessandro Monti et al. (eds)

Università di Pisa

ii+150 pages; b/w illus. Italian text.

vi+228 pages; b&w illus thr/o. Spanish text.

The central theme this volume is the classic confrontation between feudal society and a resurgent urban form as the central instrument of organisation of European society, which is crucial to the origins of Europe as we know it today.

This book presents the study of pottery in two medieval contexts, Pisa (a city) and San Genesio (a central rural settlement in the Arno Valley). The research focusses on specific issues observed in the two contexts, like characters of production (type of workshops, technological characteristics and characterization of ceramic bodies), specialization of pottery and circulation of the products; characters of consumption; the role of socialeconomic indicators of some pottery classes to verify how much and when imported products from the Mediterranean were considered luxury items; movement to understand in what way, by what means and by what logic the pottery would move.

The data from this research helps define a picture of relations between town and countryside in the Arno Valley between Xth and XIVth century.

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Ricerche Archeologiche a Sant’andrea di Loppio (Trento, Italia) Il Castrum Tardoantico-Altomedievale Barbara Maurina xiv+794 pages; b/w illus. Italian text.

Presents the results of a series of summer excavations that brought to light a multi-layered archaeological site with finds ranging from the prehistoric age to late antiquity, medieval times and right through to even the First World War.

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Early Modern/Modern Cloth Seals: An Illustrated Guide to the Identification of Lead Seals Attached to Cloth

The Resurgam Submarine ‘A Project for Annoying the Enemy’

Stuart F. Elton

University of Plymouth

iv+410 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o.

We 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.

After thirty years as a Government scientist, early retirement allowed the author to indulge his hobby of metal detecting. This soon evolved into a passion for recording and researching the lead seals he and his fellow detectorists discovered. After setting up his own web site, which now contains thousands of such seals, he progressed to helping local museums and then the Museum of London with the re-cataloguing of their cloth seals.

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Peter Holt

xiv+118 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o.

For centuries inventors have been dreaming up schemes to allow people to submerge beneath the waves, stay a while then return again unharmed. The Resurgam was designed for this purpose, as a stealthy underwater weapon. The inventor was George William Garrett, a curate from Manchester who designed and built the Resurgam submarine in 1879 using the limited technology available to a Victorian engineer on a small budget. This book tells the story how the Resurgam was built, how she may have worked and what happened to her. The book introduces the inventor then puts the Resurgam in context by considering similar submarines being developed at the end of the 19th century. Garrett’s relationship with the Royal Navy is related here as they were his intended client and the tale continues with a description of how the submarine was built and how it may have worked. The end of the story relates how the Resurgam came to be lost in 1880 pieced together from documents and newspaper reports. Curiously, aspects of the tale do not fit with what was found by underwater archaeologists recording the wreck so other ideas are explored about how and why the submarine was lost.

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Portuguese Intervention in the Manila Galleon Trade The structure and networks of trade between Asia and America in the 16th and 17th centuries as revealed by Chinese Ceramics and Spanish archives

Athens from 1920 to 1940 A true and just account of how History was enveloped by a modern City and the Place became an Event Dimitris N. Karidis

National Metsovian Technical University of Athens

Etsuko Miyata

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

iv+94 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o.

viii+194 pages; illustrated throughout in black & white

During the short interwar period of the early 20th century, Athens entered into a process of meteoric urban transformation which gave her a unique place among European capital cities of the time.

In this study of the Portuguese intervention in the Manila Galleon Trade, Etsuko Miyata explores its history through a new approach: the examination of Chinese ceramics. The excavated Chinese ceramics from Mexico City shed light on the nature of Portuguese involvement in this huge sixteenth-century maritime trade network, and also help to clarify the relationship between the Portuguese and the Chinese merchants, who were considered to be rivals.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784913113 | 2016 | £34.00

‘Although academic in purpose and style, the prose is however clear and readable and is no impediment to understanding... Miyata begins with a good potted history of the development of European-Asian trade and the Manila galleon in particular. She packs a great deal of detail on goods and markets into just a few pages. For those new to the subject, these passages should serve very well.’ –Asian Review of Books

292 pages; illustrated throughout in black & white

Paperback | ISBN 9781784915322 | 2017 | £22.00

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Athens from 1456 to 1920 The Town under Ottoman Rule and the 19th-Century Capital City Paperback | ISBN 9781905739714 | 2014 | £35.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784910723 | 2014 | from £16.00

Robert Adam’s London

Set in Stone? War Memorialisation as a Long-Term and Continuing Process in the UK, France and USA

Frances Sands

Emma Login

xviii+142 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o.

xii+182 pages; illus. in black and white

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University of Birmingham

Sir John Soane’s Museum

The iconic eighteenth-century architect Robert Adam was based in London for more than half of his life and made more designs for this one city than anywhere else in the world. This book reviews a wide variety of his designs for London, highlighting lesser-known buildings as well as familiar ones. Each of Adam’s projects explored in this book is plotted on Horwood’s map of London (1792-99), enabling the reader to recognise Adam’s work as they move around the city.

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Crude Hints towards an History of my House in Lincoln’s Inn Fields Sir John Soane; Helen Dorey (introduction) Sir John Soane’s Museum

60pp; col and b&w illus thr/o.

In 1812 the architect Sir John Soane (17531837) wrote a strange and perplexing manuscript in which, in the guise of an Antiquary, he imagines his home as a future ruin, inspected by visitors speculating on its origins and function. Never published in his lifetime, the manuscript has been meticulously transcribed and provided with an explanatory Introduction and footnotes by Helen Dorey of Sir John Soane’s Museum. The text is accompanied by 19 illustrations, 17 of them in full colour.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784912154 | 2015 | £15.00

to 2014.

This book provides a holistic and longitudinal study of war memorialisation in the UK, France and the USA from 1860

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The Development of Domestic Space in the Maltese Islands from the Late Middle Ages to the Second Half of the Twentieth Century George A. Said-Zammit Universiteit Leiden

xviii+368; 132 colour plates

This study traces and analyses the evolution of domestic space in Maltese vernacular and ‘polite’ houses from medieval to contemporary times. The houses under review range from humble buildings of modest size, materials and design, like farmhouses or those for the less affluent towndwellers, to buildings of grand design, like townhouses and palazzi.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784913915 | 2016 | £65.00 PDF | ISBN 9781784913922 | 2016 | from £16.00

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Arabia The Maritime Traditions of the Fishermen of Socotra, Yemen Julian Jansen van Rensburg Freie Universität Berlin

x+186 pages; b&w illus thr/o.

The 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 alKūri, 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.

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Published annually private subscriptions start at £69.00 in print and from £16 in PDF format. Back-issues available to purchase seperately.

British Foundation for the Study of Arabia Monographs 18:

Archaeological rescue excavations on Packages 3 and 4 of the Batinah Expressway, Sultanate of Oman Ben Saunders

Wessex Archaeology

viii+212 pages; highly illustrated throughout in colour and black & white

Archaeological excavations conducted in 2014 along the route of packages 3 and 4 of the Batinah Expressway, Sultanate of Oman, recorded over 60 archaeological sites over the 200km stretch of roadway cutting through the Batinah plain, north-west of Muscat. The majority of these sites were prehistoric tombs of varying ages. These excavations have allowed a re-thinking of the dating of some of these tombs, looking particularly at the structural styles of the tombs as well as their location in the landscape.

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Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 47 2017 Papers from the fiftieth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 29 to 31 July 2016 Julian Jansen van Rensburg et al. (eds) xxviii+268 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o.

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Africa Atlas of Mammal Distribution through Africa from the LGM (~18 ka) to Modern Times The zooarchaeological record

Road Archaeology in the Middle Nile, Volume 2 Excavations from Meroe to Atbara 1994

Hélène Jousse

Michael Mallinson et al.

UMR 7209 du CNRS

University of Cambridge

316 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o.

xii+182 pages; b&w illus thr/o (7 col plates).

English text; Arabic summary

This work provides the first overview of mammal species distributions in Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, 18 ky) to modern time.

The occurrences of taxa in archaeological sites on the African continent were recorded in a database, integrating geographical and chronological information. This record offers the opportunity to produce a chronological atlas of mammalian distributions by presenting their occurrences on successive maps over the last 18 ky.

This volume reports the findings of rescue excavations carried out by SARS in 1994 in advance of the construction of the North Challenge Road, Sudan. A total of eight sites with 30 archaeological structures appeared directly on the road line so a methodology was needed that would permit these to be properly excavated and recorded within the time available.

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Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication Number 12

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In Pursuit of Ancient Cyrenaica...

Two hundred years of exploration set against the history of archaeology in Europe (1706–1911)

Vol. 94: Eastern Sudan in its Setting The archaeology of a region far from the Nile Valley

Monika Rekowska; Anna Kijak

Andrea Manzo

University of Naples

(translator) University of Warsaw

viii+82 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (38 col plates)

x+274 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

Eastern Sudan, like other regions far away from the Nile valley, has often been overlooked historically on account of a kind of prejudice towards areas lacking in monumental or urban remains or evidence of any literary production. Despite the relevance of the deserts and marginal areas becoming increasingly evident in the last year or so, in Sudan only a few research projects have been conducted in these regions. The ongoing research project in Eastern Sudan by the University ‘L’Orientale’ has provided a preliminary reconstruction of the history of the region from c. 6000 BC to AD 1500. This publication outlines this reconstruction and also considers the more general setting known for the other regions of northeastern Africa. Several issues remain to be clarified and understanding of some phases is still limited, nevertheless it can be safely stated that Eastern Sudan represented a crucial region in several respects: the spread of domestic crops and animals towards the Ethio-Eritrean highlands, the spread of the Sahelian crops towards India via the Red Sea and Arabia, as well as the long-distance trade network characterizing northeastern Africa in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784915582 | 2017 | £25.00

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Michael Jonathan Brass University College London

xii+192 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o.

Jebel Moya (south-central Sudan) is the largest known pastoral cemetery in subSaharan Africa with more than 3100 excavated human burials.

This research revises our understanding of Jebel Moya and its context.

This work examines travellers’ accounts of their journeys to Cyrenaica, focusing in the main on an analysis of these accounts within the context of their significance to topographic surveys of the region. Travelogues were replaced by scholarly studies featuring both well-known and newly discovered sites, while amateur descriptions and drawings were replaced by professional analysis and documentation.

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A Slave Who Would Be King Oral Tradition and Archaeology of the Recent Past in the Upper Senegal River Basin Jeffrey H. Altschul et al.

Statistical Research, Inc.

x+314 pages; highly illus thr/o (142 col plates)

Combining ethnographic and archaeological data, the investigations reported here yields a picture of a period of intense social change that occurred at the end of the nineteenth century and extended well into the mid-twentieth century. This involved the overturning of previous norms by social groups of mixed ethnicity, who proceeded to create new social work-arounds for previous ethnic prohibitions. It also probably involved the final end to slavery, but possibly only within living memory. It seems likely that some sites—archaeological as well as traditional sacred properties—provide tangible links between the current villages and a highly contested and emotionally charged past. ‘[The authors] provide an excellent study of cultural heritage and archaeological resources around the towns affected by a mining concession in eastern Senegal.’ –Historical Archaeology

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Holocene Prehistory in the Télidjène Basin, Eastern Algeria Capsian occupations at Kef Zoura D and Aïn Misteheyia

Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya

David Lubell (ed)

Qatar Museums Authority

University of Waterloo

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qṣar, type d’implantation humaine au Sahara: architecture du Sud Algérien

xiv+340 pages; b&w illus thr/o (12 col plates). French text; English abstract

vi+226 pages; b&w illus thr/o (4 col plates). Papers in English and French.

This volume, through the systematic analysis and comparison of some qṣūr of southeastern Algeria (Rīġ, Mzāb, Miya and alManī‘a), reveals common architectural features that can be used to identify a common type of qṣar in this region.

Reports the findings of excavations at Kef Zoura D and Ain Misteheyia - stratified Capsian escargotieres (one openair, the other a rockshelter) in the Telidjene Basin, Eastern Algeria.

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Southern Asia A Time of Change: Questioning the “Collapse” of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

Siruthavoor: An Iron Age-Early Historical burial site, Tamil Nadu, South India

Keir Magalie Strickland

Smriti Haricharan

La Trobe University, Melbourne

208 pages; illustrated throughout with 18 plates in colour

This book reassesses the apparent collapse of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, through explicit reference to the archaeological record. The study of Anuradhapura’s terminal period has long been dominated by an over-reliance upon textual sources, resulting in the establishment of a monocausal and politically charged narrative that depicts a violent eleventh-century invasion by the South Indian Chola Empire as the primary cause of Anuradhapura’s collapse, bringing to an end over a millennium of rule from Sri Lanka’s first capital. Such is the dominance of this narrative that few alternative explanations for the abandonment of Anuradhapura have ever been posited, with just two alternative models ever described; epidemic malaria, and an imperial economic model. Synthesising and analysing archaeological data from over a century of investigation, this book first tests whether or not Anuradhapura can truly be said to have “collapsed” at all, before moving on to then test the existing explanations for this apparent collapse through reference to the physical archaeological record of Anuradhapura, before finally proposing a new synthetic model for the polity’s collapse.

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x+92 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o.

Megalithic burials, which are found in vast numbers in southern and central India, are a well-known global phenomenon and their builders have left behind a landscape altered by their funereal remains. This study aims at using and understanding man-land relationships in order to better comprehend the megalithic burials of Tamil Nadu.

Funereal remains are one of the most important lingering means of understanding society, customs and religion of pre and proto historic periods. Many questions remain unanswered for the Iron Age of south India, and the megalithic burials are an important piece of this puzzle. This site specific study helps us better understand some aspects such as spatial distribution, chronology and post depositional changes of the burials at Siruthavoor.

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The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Indus Writing Bryan K. Wells x+143 pages; b&w illus thr/o

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Far East Asia, Oceania and the Pacific Rediscovering Heritage through Artefacts, Sites, and Landscapes: Translating a 3500-year Record at Ritidian, Guam

Substantive Evidence of Initial Habitation in the Remote Pacific: Archaeological Discoveries at Unai Bapot in Saipan, Mariana Islands

Mike T. Carson

Mike T. Carson; Hsiao-chun Hung

xiv+176 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (114 col plates)

xii+180 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (91 col plates)

University of Guam

The Ritidian Site in Guam contains multiple layers and components that together reveal the full scope of traditional cultural heritage in the Mariana Islands in the northwest tropical Pacific since 1500 B.C., dating from the beginning of human settlement of the Remote Pacific Islands.

The material records of changing artefacts, sites, and landscapes here have been incorporated into a cohesive narrative in chronological order to learn about the profound heritage of this special site and its larger research contributions.

At the Unai Bapot Site of the Mariana Islands, new excavation has clarified the oldest known instance of a residential habitation prior to 1500 B.C. in the Remote Pacific, previously difficult to document in deeply buried layers that originally had comprised near-tidal to shallow subtidal zones.

The new discoveries are presented here in detail, as a substantive basis for learning about a rarely preserved event of the initial cultural inhabitation of a region, in this case in the Remote Oceanic environment of the world with its own set of unique challenges.

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The Hunting Farmers: Understanding ancient human subsistence in the central part of the Korean peninsula during the Late Holocene Seungki Kwak

University of Washington

xii+118 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (45 colour plates)

The transition from foragers to farmers and the role of intensive rice agriculture have been among the most controversial subjects in Korean archaeology. However, the relatively high acidity of sediment in the Korean peninsula has made it impossible to examine faunal/floral remains directly for tracing the subsistence change. For this reason, many of the studies on the transition heavily relied on the shell middens in coastal areas, which reflect only a small portion of the overall subsistence in the Korean Peninsula. The subsistence behaviors recorded in numerous large-scale inland habitation sites have been obscured by the overall separation between hunter-gatherer and intensive rice farmer. This research investigates the role of intensive rice farming as a subsistence strategy in the central part of the prehistoric Korean peninsula using organic geochemical analysis and luminescence dating on potsherds. The central hypothesis of this research is that there was a wide range of resource utilization along with rice farming around 3,400-2,600 BP. This hypothesis contrasts with prevailing rice-based models, where climatically driven intensive rice agriculture from 3,400 BP is thought to be the dominant subsistence strategy that drove social complexity.

This research focuses on four large-scale inland habitation sites that contain abundant pottery collections to evaluate the central hypothesis as well the prevailing rice-centred model.

This research produced critical data for addressing prehistoric subsistence in the Korean peninsula and established a detailed chronology of subsistence during 3,400-1,800 BP.

Ōsaka Archaeology Richard Pearson

University of British Columbia

viii+127 pages; illustrated throughout in black & white

Ōsaka, now a city of 19 million inhabitants, was the economic powerhouse of Japan for two thousand years and remains an important international center. In an unusual archaeological treatment of regional long-term history, Richard Pearson proposes that a kind of entrepreneurial mentality motivated leaders to expand the economy through projects of all kinds. He summarizes results of decades of Japanese intensive archaeological study of these projects and introduces some local museums conserving and interpreting cultural heritage in the face of overwhelming urbanization.

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Archaeological Research at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Setting Thomas Richards et al. (eds) Monash University, Melbourne

x+200 pages; illustrated throughout with 26 plates in colour.

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In 2008 intensive archaeological surveys began at Caution Bay, located 20km to the northwest of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. This was followed by the excavation of 122 stratified sites in 2009-2010, and detailed analysis of the well preserved and abundant faunal, ceramic and lithic finds has continued ever since. The first volume of the Caution Bay monographs is designed to introduce the goals of the Caution Bay project, the nature and scope of the investigations and the cultural and natural setting of the study area.

Comparative and Global Perspectives on Japanese Archaeology 1

Paperback | ISBN 9781784915049 | 2016 | £42.00

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An Illustrated Companion to Japanese Archaeology Werner Steinhaus; Simon Kaner (eds)

Hiroshima University; University of East Anglia

v+344 pages; highly illustrated in full colour throughout

The Illustrated Companion to Japanese Archaeology provides, for the first time a comprehensive visual introduction to a wide range of sites and finds from the earliest occupation of the Japanese archipelago prior to 35,000 years ago to the early historical periods and the establishment of the Chinese-style capital at Heijō, modernday Nara, in the 8th century AD. The volume originated in the largest ever exhibition of Japanese archaeological discoveries held in Germany in 2004, which brought together over 1500 exhibits from 55 lenders around Japan, and research by over 100 specialists. The Illustrated Companion brings the fruits of this project to an English-reading audience and offers an up-to-date survey of the achievements of Japanese archaeology.

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Samoan Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Monuments and People, Memory and History Helene Martinsson-Wallin Uppsala University

x+188 pages; illustrated throughout in black & white

The overall purpose of this book is to provide a foundation for Samoan students to become the custodians of the historical narrative based on Archaeological research. The book also contains data and discussions on a threeyear programme for archaeology at the large and important Pulemelei mound in Savai’i during 2002-2004, some of which has not been published before. Results and further implications of these investigations that were followed up by an eight-year programme where the author introduced courses in Archaeology at The National University of Samoa are also presented and discussed.

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The Americas Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology Vol. 8: Recent Investigations in the Puuc Region of Yucatán

Meghan Rubenstein (ed) Colorado College

viii+164 pages; b&w illus thr/o. Papers in English and Spanish

The scholarship assembled in this volume was first presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in Austin, Texas, in April 2014. Some of the authors have chosen to publish their conference papers while others have expanded their topics. As a collection, the papers demonstrate a myriad of approaches to understanding the history of the Puuc region, incorporating archaeological, architectural, epigraphic, and iconographic studies. The geographic scope is also broad. Many of the recent and ongoing archaeological projects in the eastern Puuc region and its periphery are represented, including Dzehkabtún, H’wasil, Kabah, Kiuic, Labná, Sayil, Uxmal, and Xcoch, as well as the Chocholá ceramic tradition from the western Puuc. The projects are at various stages—some preliminary, others a portion of a larger investigation, while still others are revisiting older data—all with the aim to advance our field of study. It has been more than 10 years since a volume dedicated solely to the Puuc region has been published. While Puuc research frequently appears in collected volumes on the Yucatán peninsula or the Terminal Classic period, we are pleased to offer this representative example of ongoing work.

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Vol. 7: Mesoamerican Religions and Archaeology Essays in Pre-Columbian Civilizations

Aleksandar Bošković University of Belgrade

viii+90 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

Eduardo Williams

El Colegio de Michoacán

xii+170 pages; illustrated throughout in black & white.

Pottery 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, winemaking, 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.

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Cultural Dynamics and Production Activities in Ancient Western Mexico Papers from a symposium held in the Center for Archaeological Research, El Colegio de Michoacán, September 2014 Eduardo Williams et al. (eds) x+240 pages; b&w illus thr/o (4 col plates)

This book presents a collection of papers from the Symposium on Cultural Dynamics and Production Activities in Ancient Western Mexico. While these thought-provoking essays on key topics in Western Mexican archaeology will spark debate among scholars interested in this cultural area, they will also be of interest to students of ancient Mesoamerica as a whole.

Our understanding of ancient Pre-Columbian civilizations has changed significantly as the result of archaeological research in the last fifty years. Major projects during this period included dealing with cultural change in different contexts, regional research projects, as well as attempts to understand more general trends in interpreting Pre-Columbian art and ideology. This book presents both the changes that occurred in the last few decades, and the impact that they had on our understanding on ancient Mesoamerican religions and cultures. It also includes references to some lesser-known research traditions (such as Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia), as well as to the work of scholars like Jacques Soustelle or Didier Boremanse. With the insistence on clear methodology, based on field research, this book uses the context of specific archaeological finds in order to put Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures in a historical perspective.

vi+100 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o. Spanish text

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Tarascan Pottery Production in Michoacán, Mexico An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective

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Easter Island Archaeology A Tribute to Daniel Schávelzon on the 30th anniversary of the Center for Urban Archaeology at the University of Buenos Aires Mario Silveira (Co-ordinador)

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South American Archaeology Series Vol. 29: Arqueología urbana en el área central de la Ciudad de Córdoba, Argentina Excavaciones en la Sede Corporativa del Banco de la Provincia de Córdoba (20142016)

Andrés D. Izeta et al.

Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)

256 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (119 col plates). Spanish text; English abstract

This work is part of a line of action proposed by the Institute of Anthropology of Córdoba (IDACOR), doubly dependent executing unit of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and the National University of Cordoba (UNC). This action requires the intervention of professional archaeologists in order to evaluate the impact produced by subsurface excavation in cases related to the development of real estate projects.

Within this framework, in February 2014, there was the need to implement an archeological impact study on land under cadastral nomenclature 04-04-020-023 in the city of Cordoba, Argentina.

The study was conducted in two instances. The first took place between the months of April and June 2014, consisting of various actions related to the systematic archaeological excavation, registration, conservation and interpretation of material culture recovered in depths between the surface and about 2.5 / 3m deep.

The second stage, implemented between February and August 2015, consisted of the monitoring of the excavation while using heavy machinery allowed archaeologists to reach greater depths.

The results of these tasks were submitted to the local authorities in five partial reports presented collectively here in order to have all the information available in one volume.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784916084 | 2017 | £42.00

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María Cecilia Pallo CONICET

426 pages; illustrated throughout with 102 plates in colour. Spanish text.

Magallania defines the region between the Santa Cruz river basin to the north and the Fuegian expression of the Andes to the south. It is one of the southernmost spaces in the world and the last to be occupied by humans, a process that occurred at least at the end of the Pleistocene (11,000 to 9,000 AP) and before the complete formation of the Strait of Magellan (ca. 8000 AP).

Thereafter, the Strait functioned as a biogeographic barrier, creating conditions for divergent cultural evolution between the populations of the mainland and Tierra del Fuego. For this reason, the archeology of Magallania offers a unique possibility to inquire about the relationship between the environmental dynamics and the spatial organization of populations of huntergatherers settled on both sides of the Strait of Magellan.

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Vol. 27: Disponibilidad y explotación de materias primas líticas en la costa de Norpatagonia (Argentina) Un enfoque regional

Jimena Alberti CONICET

xxii+196 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o. Spanish text

The present book aims to study the use of lithic raw materials on the coast of the San Matías gulf (Río Negro, Argentina) during the middle and late Holocene. The understanding of this aspect of human group technology is of fundamental importance as the main archaeological materials recovered at the surface sites of the study area are lithic artefacts made from different types of rock. Thus, understanding how these were selected, reduced and finally discarded will contribute to the understanding of the way of life of the hunter-gatherer groups that inhabited the area during this period.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784914806 | 2016 | £40.00

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José María Caminoa

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

x+246 pages; col. & b/w illus. Spanish text

This study aims to produce relevant and new information that expands our knowledge of technological strategies used by the human groups in order to compare them with those produced in other areas of the Sierras. It will contribute to a process of constructing knowledge about hunter-gatherers of the valleys of Cordoba province, by studying lithic technology and therefore raising new questions for further studies.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784913496 | 2016 | £45.00

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Andrés Ignacio Robledo CONICET

xii+150 pages; b/w illus. Spanish text

This book is about how hunter-gatherer groups maintained a relationship with the use and management of fire in the Late Holocene of Southern Precordillera. The line of study developed here as part of the anthracology made use of methodologically systematic analysis of the remains of charcoal from the archaeological site Alero Deodoro Roca B. This industry focused on a time frame of ca. 1900 years AP to ca.3900 years AP.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784913434 | 2016 | £30.00

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Vol. 24: Darwin´s Legacy: The Status of Evolutionary Archaeology in Argentina CONICET

Vol. 46: Patrones de asentamiento del Malpaís de Zacapu (Michoacán, México) y de sus alrededores en el Posclásico

xii+98 pages; b/w illus.

Gérald Migeon

Proceedings of the symposium The current state of evolutionary archeology in Argentina, Buenos Aires, that celebrated the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species.

152 pages; b&w illus thr/o. Spanish text; Abstract in English and French

Marcelo Cardillo et al. (eds)

Paperback | ISBN 9781784912765 | 2016 | £25.00

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Paris Monographs in American Archaeology Vol. 48: Ancient Engineering: Selective Ceramic Processing in the Middle Balsas Region of Guerrero, Mexico

Jennifer Meanwell

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

xiv+352 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o

This volume has two main objectives: establishing a chronology of the Middle Balsas and detailing the region’s pottery production methods. The author posits that pottery intended for different functions was often deliberately made and/or decorated in ways that were chosen to make the vessels more appropriate for their intended functions. More specifically, this study determines whether any of the pottery production patterns identified in the region are linked to specific constraints imposed by the materials during the process of pottery manufacture. For example, it examines whether variables such as vessel shape and wall thickness correlate with the clay types and processing techniques determined during thin section analysis of the ancient sherds. Additionally, certain production behaviours are identified that are characteristic of the entire region and that can be used as markers of local tradition.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784916503 | 2017 | £45.00

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Catherine Lara Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense, UMR 7055

viii+240 pages; b&w illus thr/o (15 col plates). Spanish text

Located in the Northwest of South America (Ecuador), the Cuyes River Valley acts as a transition corridor between the Andean and Amazon regions. This research attempts to determine the ethnic origin of the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Cuyes valley through the application of a method of ceramic analysis completely new in the region: the technological approach.

Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne

This publication presents the results of the archaeological studies relative to the settlement pattern, realized between 1983 and 1996 within the framework of the Michoacán Projects I and III led by the researchers of the Centre of Mexican and Centro-American studies (CEMCA). The Michoacán project (1983-1987) aimed at the realization of a study of all the perceptible demonstrations of the prehispanic occupations in the region.

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Markus Eberl et al. (eds) Vanderbilt University

xii+174 pages; illus. throughout in black & white. Spanish text with English Abstract

The Watery Scroll rulers selected the ancient Maya site of Tamarindito as their capital. First settled around 300 BC, the site served as their seat from the fifth through the eighth century AD. After the collapse, people continued to live at Tamarindito for several generations. Archaeological investigations provide a comprehensive perspective on social dynamics and change in an ancient Maya capital.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784913854 | 2016 | £30.00

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Estudio antropológico de las estructuras cefálicas en una colección osteológica procedente de Chinchero (Perú) José I. Herrera Ureña University of Madrid

viii+62 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o. Spanish text with English abstract

This study presents an anthropological study of crania and mandibles from the osteological collection from Chinchero (Peru), currently housed at the American Archaeological and Ethnological Museum of the Complutense University of Madrid.

Paperback | ISBN 9781784912710 | 2015 | £24.00

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Archaeological Lives Archaeological Lives presents a series of biographies, autobiographies, journals, collected essays and monographs relating to archaeology and antiquarianism, both in past and present times.

A Life in Norfolk’s Archaeology Archaeology in an arable landscape 1950-2016 Peter Wade-Martins xviii+380 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o (87 col plates)

This 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.

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The Archaeological Activities of James Douglas in Sussex between 1809 and 1819 Malcolm Lyne vi+60 pages; b&w illus thr/o (5 col plates)

James 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 AngloSaxon burials; further illuminated by the contents of his commonplace book for 1814-16, discovered by the author in a secondhand 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.

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Shifting Sand: Journal of a cub archaeologist, Palestine 1964 Julian Berry ii+90 pages; col and b&w illus thr/o with 21 plates in colour.

Shifting 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. 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. 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.

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Percy Manning The Man Who Collected Oxfordshire Michael Heaney (ed) xviii+314pp; col and b&w illus thr/o

Percy Manning (1870-1917) was an Oxford antiquary who amassed enormous collections about the history of Oxford and Oxfordshire, which now constitute a valuable resource in Oxford University’s libraries and museums. This volume provides the first detailed biography of Manning, together with studies examining specific parts of his collections in greater detail.

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A Faith in Archaeological Science Reflections on a Life Don Brothwell† vi+226 pages; b/w illus. with 7 colour plates

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Early Travellers Lost and Now Found: Explorers, Diplomats and Artists in Egypt and the Near East Neil Cooke; Vanessa Daubney (eds)

Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE)

xx+295 pages; illustrated throughout with 42 plates in colour.

Long distance travel and mass tourism are not recent phenomena. This collection of papers from the 2015 ASTENE Conference in Exeter demonstrates that over the centuries many individuals and groups of people have left the safety of their family home and travelled huge distances both for adventure and to learn more about other peoples and places. The 18 papers in this rich and varied collection include: finding the lost diary of a member of the Prussian scientific expedition to Egypt of 1842-45 that was hiding in ‘plain sight’ among other books; the illustrated journal of a Croatian travelling through Egypt, Nubia and Sudan in 1853-4 and the hardships endured; the competition between Officers of the East India Company to find the fastest trade routes through Syria between India and the Red Sea; and identifying the Dutch artist who made paintings of Constantinople and later travelled to India before joining the Bombay Artillery as a Lieutenant-fireworker.

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General Interest Not just Porridge: English Literati at Table Francesca Orestano; Michael Vickers xii+180 pages; illustrated throughout in black & white with 8 colour pages

The essays presented in Not just Porridge address both the scholar and the bold, adventurous cook. They offer the crumbs of what might be found in great and famous works of literature. Concocted in Italy by scholars of English and sifted through the judgement of the English editor, this volume traces a curious history of English literature, from the tasty and spicy recipes of the Middle Ages down to very recent times, threatened as they are by junk food and microwaved dinners. The authors of the essays have lingered on the threshold of the kitchen rather than in the library. Each chapter provides the recipes that best describe the writers involved, and their culinary times.

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Potingair Press The Healing Springs of Argyll Alex Alexander; Allan Stroud Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white.

In introducing the ‘holy wells’ of Argyll and Bute in western Scotland, this book examines, with the aid of GIS techniques, the archaeological landscape surrounding these ‘monuments’ spanning from the Neolithic to the present day; it also provides information about their geological and hydrological setting. The second part of the book is in the form of a guidebook.

Via a number of clearly laid-out itineraries, each with a particular ‘holy well’ as its focus, the book highlights the wells’ positions with respect to known domestic, ritual or burial monuments.

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Sweet Waste: a view from the Mediterranean and from the 2002 excavations at the Tawahin es-Sukkar (Safi), Jordan Richard E. Jones et al.

245pp; col and b&w illus thr/o

This book reports on the excavation of a medieval sugar refinery, Tawahin es-Sukkar near Safi, situated south of the Dead Sea in Jordan. To place this refinery in chronological and economic context, excavation was extended to the adjacent ‘support town’ of Khirbet Shaykh ‘Isa; the book presents its results.

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