PREHISTORY

New Perspectives on Early Neolithic Enclosures Edited by Jonathan Last

Discusses the range of current work on causewayed enclosures and explores recent fieldwork, academic research and community projects. The latest volume in the Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers series, this collection showcases and explores the wide range of current work on causewayed enclosures and related sites, and assesses what we still want to know about these sites in light of the monumental achievement of the seminal publication Gathering Time. Includes reports on recent developmentled fieldwork, academic research and community projects.

By John Chapman (Durham University)

A detailed and engaging memoir detailing John Chapman's career as a Balkan archaeologist. This lively memoir tells the story of a boy growing up in Plymouth, Devon, getting excited about archaeology after visits to mainland Greece and Crete, trying to get into Greek archaeology and relocating northwards into the Balkans, where he spent a career in prehistoric research. The chapters alternate between museum/university experiences and major research projects, anecdotes and stories with implications for East–West relationships which will soon disappear from living memory.

People, Place and Polity in the later Third Millennium Edited by Julie Gardiner and Alison Sheridan

20 papers address whether British prehistory featured a Chalcolithic period. The Chalcolithic, the phase in prehistory when the important technical development of adding tin to copper to produce bronze had not yet taken place, is not a term generally used by British prehistorians and whether there is even a definable phase is debated. This book brings together many leading authorities in 20 papers to address this question. The volume contains much detailed information on sites and artefacts, and comprehensive radiocarbon datasets that will be invaluable to scholars and students studying this enigmatic but pivotal episode of British Prehistory.

Time and the Mesolithic By Peter Woodman (University College Cork)

The story of the archaeology and history of the first continuous phase of Ireland’s human settlement in Ireland. This volume combines centuries of research and speculation about human antiquity in Ireland with a review of what is known today about the Irish Mesolithic. The story is embedded in how Ireland, its position, distinct landscape and ecology impacted on when and how Ireland was colonised. It also explores how these first settlers evolved their technologies and lifeways to suit the narrow range of abundant resources that were available.

Edited by Jonathan Last

Assesses the development in current work on Neolithic causewayed enclosures and their dating sequences. Originating from the Neolithic Studies Group meeting in 2019, this new volume explores the current work on causewayed enclosures and related sites across the academic and development-led sectors. This volume views the contemporary research on causewayed enclosures and the British Early Neolithic in the framework of the research published in Gathering Time and in doing so allows us to assess where our understanding of enclosures has got to and where the focus of future research should lie for what is now arguably the best-known type of Neolithic monument.

Passé, présent, futur Edited by Vincent Ard, Emmanuel Mens and Muriel Gandelin

Focuses on the past, present and future of recent studies of megalithism in Europe, including enthoarchaeology and conservation. This books explores new, innovative methods and techniques for studying megalithism - most notably 3D - that allow architectural analyses that were previously not possible and which greatly increase our knowledge base. Ethnographic research contributes to the interpretation of archaeology as is illustrated through Asian and African examples, substantially contributing as a source of interpretative scenarios for European megalithism.

Approches archéométriques, technologiques et sociales d'un artisanat du prestige au second âge du Fer By Joëlle Rolland

Highlights the complex organisation of glass-working and its trade networks. This book focuses on Iron Age glassmaking through a socio-economic perspective allows us to reconstruct, step by step, the commodity chain of this craft from the raw glass production to its transformation into items of adornments and its distribution and consumption by La Tène societies. New research reveals conspicuous consumption practises depending on the organisation of goods networks, but also specialised craftspeople and production structures.

Piecing together the urnfield mortuary process in the Lower-Rhine-Basin, ca. 1300 - 400 BC By Arjan Louwen (Leiden University)

Investigates funerary practices associated with Netherlands' urnfield graves to understand the funerary practices of the European Bronze Age. This book delves into funerary practices reflected in more than 3,000 urnfield graves excavated throughout the Netherlands in order to reconstruct the mortuary process associated with the urnfields in Holland. Together these graves tell interesting stories about how the dead related to each other, how simple objects could be used as metaphors in the creation of ancestral identities, and how the dead were inextricably linked to the land.

Ein prozesslogischer Paradigmawechsel By José Eduardo M. de Medeiros

Presents an approach showing that jewellery and vessels can carry the same importance as warriors and weapons. This work shows that jewellery, vessels and weapons constitute different kinds of depositions (a.k.a. hoards), and that in addition, when these depositions are viewed in the religious context of the period, jewellery and vessels carry the same importance as weapons. This is contrary to the more common view that emphasises warriors and their weapons, which the author demonstrates to be a male bias having psychological and sociological foundations. Finally, this book offers a reconstructive approach that clarifies the cultural significance of the jewellery hoards.

Edited by Johannes Müller (Kiel University), Cheryl Makarewicz (Christian-Albrechts University) and Lutz Käppel

Presents examples of pandemics from the perspective of prehistoric and ancient societies to understand how we can overcome crises today. Archaeology provides a crucial contribution to the social understanding of crises. Even diseases, such as pandemics in past societies, were and are observed by archaeology. This booklet presents examples of such pandemics, identifying the basic features of human behaviour for the management of crises and concluding that crises can only be managed by increasing diversity and social commitment. Learning from the past for the present – that is the task of international archaeology.

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Ice Age Discoveries from the Caves of Southwestern Germany By Nicholas J. Conard(University of Tübingen) and Claus-Joachim Kind (University of Tübingen)

Translates a seminal work into English for the first time. Over 40,000 years ago modern Homo sapiens spread across the European continent. Archaeological finds attributed to these early human beings were produced on the Swabian Jura in Southwest Germany, especially in the caves of the Ach and Lone valleys. This volume transports the reader into the world of the Ice Age, describing and interpreting these amazing

Edited by Hugo Reyes-Centeno (University of Kentucky), Katerina Harvati (University of Tübingen) and Gerhard Jäger (University of Tübingen)

New research relating to the history and cultural traditions of Eurasian human populations. Models pertaining to the antiquity and continuity of Eurasian human populations and their cultural traditions have been revised in recent years as a result of novel inter-disciplinary research. In this third instalment of the DFG Center for Advanced Studies Series, experts provide new field case studies, reviews, and original research on bio-cultural connections in Eurasia since the Paleolithic.

Boundary or Corridor? Edited by Héloise Koehler, Nicholas J. Conard (University of Tübingen), Harald Floss (University of Tübingen) and Agnès Lamotte (Université de Lille)

Explores Neanderthal adaptations, technology, settlement dynamics and cultural interactions on both sides of the Rhine. The Rhine, while separating West and Central Europe, also formed a major corridor not only for the movement of people but also of ideas during the Paleolithic. The contributors to this volume discuss Neanderthal adaptations, technology, settlement dynamics and cultural interactions on both sides of the Rhine.

Highlights of the Collection Edited by Athanasia Kanta, Costis Davaras and Philip Betancourt (Temple University, PA)

Presents the remarkable discoveries from the excavation of a shrine dedicated to the Greek Goddess Eileithyia in Crete. This book presents major discoveries from the excavation of a shrine for the Greek Goddess Eileithyia in Crete to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Filled with votive gifts, including over 100 gold items, Egyptian figurines and seal stones, bronze objects, and hundreds of clay figurines, the shrine dates from before 2000 BCE to the Roman Imperial period.

Edited by Vili Apostolakou, Philip Betancourt (Temple University, PA) and Thomas Brogan (INSTAP Study Center for East Crete)

Presents the fascinating discoveries from the salvage excavation of a Minoan settlement at Bramiana in southeastern Crete. This publication is a test case for a highly successful new system of organising all the pottery based on its petrography, sorting it by materials and workshop practices. The excavation of the Minoan Settlement in Crete provides brand new evidence for a Bronze Age economy based on trade, agriculture, and craftwork. In particular, the results show the existence of an unsuspected large trade network operating across hundreds of kilometres for the routine distribution of various clay vessels and their contents.

Fragility, change and resilience of Holocene environments in the Maltese Islands Edited by Charles French (University of Cambridge), Chris O.Hunt (Liverpool John Moores University), Reuben Grima (University of Malta), Rowan McLaughlin (Queen's University Belfast) and Caroline Malone Charles (Queen's University Belfast)

Presents the palaeoenvironmental story of early Maltese landscapes. A collection of interdisciplinary studies combined with excavated economic and environmental materials from archaeological sites allow this book to examine the dramatic and damaging impacts made by the first farming communities on the Maltese Island’s soil and resources.

Excavating cultural sustainability in prehistoric Malta Edited by Caroline Malone (Queen's University Belfast)

Research focused on the unique Temple Culture of Neolithic Malta. This volume presents the results of excavations at four temple sites and two settlements, together with analysis of chronology, economy and material culture. It focuses on the integration of three key strands of Malta's early human history (environmental change, human settlement and population) set against a series of questions that interrogated how human activity impacted on the changing natural environment and resources, which in turn impacted on the Neolithic populations.

The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur, Twentieth Anniversary Edition By Tom Rea

The story of the dinosaur skeleton that inspired public fascination with prehistoric beasts. The most complete fossil skeleton unearthed to date, and one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered, Diplodocus was displayed in a dozen museums around the world and viewed by millions of people. With the help of letters found in scattered archives, Bone Wars explains how a fossil unearthed in the badlands of Wyoming in 1899 helped give birth to the public’s fascination with prehistoric beasts.

An Exploration of Body Augmentation from the Palaeolithic to the Early Bronze Age By Emma L. Baysal (Trakya University)

Explores how and why the human relationship with ornaments developed and continued over tens of thousands of years Beads, bracelets, necklaces, pendants and many other ornaments are familiar objects that play a fundamental role in personal expression and communication. This book considers how and why the human relationship with ornaments developed and continued over tens of thousands of years, from hunter-gatherer life in the cave to urban elites, from expedient use of natural resources to complex technologies.

Edited by Colin Richards (University of Manchester) and Richard Jones (University of Glasgow)

Comprehensive discussion of Orknian Neolithic society based on major series of excavations. Considering that Orkney is a group of small islands lying off the northeast coast of the Scottish mainland, its wealth of Neolithic archaeology is truly extraordinary. Drawing on the results of an extensive programme of fieldwork in the Bay of Firth, this book explores the idea that the physical appearance of the house is a potent resource for materialising the dichotomous alliance and descent principles apparent in the archaeological evidence for the Neolithic of Orkney.

Fossil and Archaeological Evidence of the Lived Lives of Plio-Pleistocene Children By April Nowell (University of Victoria)

Examines the economic, social, and political roles of Paleolithic children. It is estimated that in prehistoric societies children comprised at least 40 to 65 percent of the population, yet by default, our ancestral landscapes are peopled by adults. Drawing on the most recent data from the cognitive sciences and from the ethnographic, fossil, archaeological, and primate records, this volume is a timely and evidence-based look at the lived lives of Paleolithic children and the communities of which they were a part.

A world perspective Edited by Ana M. S. Bettencourt (Universidade do Minho), Manuel Santos-Estévez (Universidade do Minho) and Hugo Aluai Sampaio (Universidade do Minho)

Analysis of the subjective and metaphorical value of weapons and tools in rock art. Weapons and tools are frequently found depicted in rock art in many parts of the globe and different periods and in varying social contexts. This collection of papers by leading rock art specialists examines the subjective and metaphorical value of weapons and tools in art, the actions that created them, and their contexts.

Material and immaterial modes of communication in the Bronze Age Aegean Edited by John Bennet (University of Sheffield)

Addresses the types of written and non-written communication used during the Aegean Bronze Age. A series of reflections on modes of communication in the Bronze Age Aegean, drawing on two round table workshops on 'Technologies of Representation' and 'Writing and Non-Writing in the Bronze Age Aegean'. Contributions are arranged thematically in groups: the first concerns primarily non-written communication, the second mainly written communication, and the third blurs this somewhat arbitrary distinction.

Raising the Great Dolmens in Early Neolithic Northern Europe By Vicki Cummings (University of Central Lancashire) and Colin Richards (University of Manchester)

A critical re-appraisal of the dolmen in Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia. This book provides a reappraisal of the ‘dolmen’ as an architectural entity and provides an alternative perspective on function. This is achieved through a re-theorising of the nature of megalithic architecture grounded in the results of a new research/fieldwork project covering Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia. The presence of human remains within dolmens is also critically evaluated and a new interpretation offered.

By Arleta Kowalewska (University of Haifa)

An overview of Roman bathhouses across Israel, Jordan and Syria reveals Roman, Byzantine and the Early Islamic social and cultural practices. The first comprehensive examination of the archaeological evidence from 181 Roman bathhouses from the region of Iudaea/Syria-Palaestina and Provincia Arabia (dated from the second half of the 1st century BCE to the end of the Umayyad rule). The bathing complexes of the Roman, Byzantine and the Early Islamic periods, from large public thermae to small bathing suites, are described and discussed in detail to reveal fascinating socio-cultural insights. Data used for the study will be accessible through open access.

The Third Intermediate Period in the Western Desert of Egypt By Richard J. Long

A re-examination of activity in Egypt's Western Desert which presents all of the available evidence with a particular focus on the ceramics. This volume analyses all the available evidence on the western oases during the Third Intermediate Period, with a particular focus on the ceramics. Having done so, Richard Long develops a much clearer picture of activity in Egypt’s Western Desert through extensive archaeological evidence – from an increased understanding of the Egyptian central administration to revealing the existence of an oasis culture.

The Clash of Cultures in the Ancient Near East By Simon Elliott

A history of warfare between Ancient Middle Eastern cultures in the age of the Old Testament. The period covered in the Old Testament was one of great technological development and innovation in warfare as competing cultures clashed in the Middle East. This authoritative history gives an overview of warfare in this period, from the Sumerian use of bronze to the Assyrian development of chariot warfare through to the Babylonian soldiers who were granted land for their service. Simon Elliott explores how archaeology can shed light on events in the Bible including the famous tumbling walls of Jericho, the career of David the boy warrior who faced the Philistines, and Gideon, who defeated an army that vastly outnumbered his own.

Edited by Sabine Schmidtke and Hassan Ansari

An illustrated collection of articles on Yemeni manuscript culture. This beautifully illustrated collection of articles explores various aspects of Yemeni manuscript culture.

Management of Resources and Taxation (Third-Second Millenium BC) Edited by Sergio Alivernini and Jana Mynárová (Czech Institute of Egyptology)

Essays on economic structures and management of resources in the 2nd and 3rd millennium BCE in Mesopotamia. The spread of cuneiform writing from its Mesopotamian heartland to the peripheries during the 2nd and 3rd millennium BCE represents an important historical and cultural phenomenon. Thousands of administrative documents allow us to follow the development of economic thought that was adapted to administrative realities throughout the wider regions of the Ancient Near East. These nineteen essays identify similarities, differences, and adaptations in the economic management of resources and taxation in the Ancient Near East during this time.

Studies in honor of Zahi Hawass (3 volume set) Edited by Janice Kamrin, Miroslav Bárta, Salima Ikram, Mark Lehner and Mohamed Megahed

Three volumes on renowned archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass including a biography, bibliography and contributions from Egyptologists. Dr. Zahi Hawass, soon-to-be Chief Inspector at Giza, is the most famous Egyptologist in the world. Much more than a public figure, Zahi is the living embodiment of the history of modern Egyptology, especially in the field of pyramid studies. Using testimonies from over one hundred Egyptologists, this three-part volume consists of a biography and bibliography that present a man who is not only an exceptionally experienced archaeologist and scholar, but a revolutionary in the field of archaeology.

Complex Network Analysis By Veronika Dulíková and Miroslav Bárta

An investigation into prominent officials across different periods in ancient Egypt. This volume presents an interpretation of the agency of individual officials across different periods of ancient Egyptian history. Their activity and careers are observed using diverse methods; particular attention is given to the complex network and general trends operating in the society at any given stage of its evolution.

Studies in Honour of Willem Hovestreydt on Occasion of His 75th Birthday Edited by Anke Weber, Martina Grünhagen, lea Rees and Jan Moje

Current research about the symbolism of hieroglyphs, religious texts, depictions and graffiti from the royal tomb KV 11. This volume contains 13 articles on current research, mainly focusing on the Egyptian New Kingdom. Some papers focus on KV11, the burial place of king Ramses III in the Valley of the Kings. There is also a virtual reunion of the sarcophagus of Ramesses III and of a statue of Ramesses VI. Other studies focus on the sun sign in hieroglyphic script, a discussion of the word 'fox' in ancient Egyptian, as well as the new look at the relief of Merymery now in Leiden.

The Treasure of the Egyptian Queen Ahhotep and International Relations at the Turn of the Middle Bronze Age (1600-1500 BCE)

Edited by Peter Lacovara and Gianluca Miniaci

Essays examining the identity of Queen Ahhotep through finds from her burial. The personal adornments and further objects from the burial of queen Ahhotep belong to the most spectacular finds from Ancient Egypt. The history of their discovery is still a mystery. Even the identity of the queen is not fully solved. The 12 essays in this volume tackle different problems around the objects from the tomb of the queen.