Rural cult centres in the Hauran as part of a broader network of the Near East (100 BC-AD 300) /
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This is a comprehensive multidisciplinary analysis of rural cult centres in the Hauran (southern Syria) from the pre-Roman to the Roman period (100 BC-AD 300). This volume re-evaluates the significance of contacts between the elite of the Hauran and other cultures of the Near East in shaping cult sites.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784919559 (ebook) :
Flint procurement and exploitation strategies in the late lower paleolithic levant : a view from Acheulo-Yabrudian Qesem Cave (Israel) /
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This volume examines patterns of flint procurement and exploitation at the Acheulo-Yabrudian site Qesem Cave, Israel. The results show how flint had a major impact on early human decision-making and social and cultural lifeways during the Late Lower Paleolithic of the Levant.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789699357 (PDF ebook) :
Prepared for eternity : a study of human embalming techniques in ancient Egypt using computerised tomography scans of mummies /
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Robert Loynes presents analyses of 60 CT scans of ancient Egyptian human mummies, collected from museums throughout the UK and continental Europe. The effect is that of performing 'virtual autopsies', allowing techniques of mummification to be examined. The historical age of the mummies ranges from the Middle Kingdom to the Roman period. Several observations are made regarding the preparation of mummies and confirmation of previously described themes is tempered by the observation of variations probably indicating individual workshop practices.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784911119 (PDF ebook) :
Quarrying in western Norway : an archaeological study of production and distribution in the Viking period and Middle Ages /
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The theme of this study is the large-scale exploitation of different stone products that took place in Norway during the Viking age and the Middle Ages (c. AD 800-1500). The research is based on analyses of two different quarry landscapes in western Norway: the quernstone quarries in Hyllestad, Sogn og Fjordane, and the bakestone quarries in Olve and Hatlestrand, Hordaland. The centre of attention is the production of utility artefacts: quernstones, millstones and bakestones, as well as more symbolic products such as stone crosses.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784911034 (PDF ebook) :
For the gods of Girsu : city-state formation in ancient Sumer /
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This work demonstrates Girsu is a primary locale for re-analyzing, through an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeological and textual evidence, the origins of the Sumerian city-state.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784913908 (ebook) :
Social identity and status in the Classical and Hellenistic Northern Peloponnese : the evidence from burials /
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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.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784915070 (ebook) :
Palmyrena : Palmyra and the surrounding territory from the Roman to the early Islamic period /
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This work investigates the relationship between Palmyra and its surrounding territory from the Roman to the early Islamic period since the 1930s. It discusses the agricultural potential of the hinterland, its role in the food supply of the city, and the interaction with the nomadic networks on the Syrian dry steppe.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (x, 220 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784917081 (ebook) :
Remembered places, forgotten pasts : the Don drainage basin in Prehistory /
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South Yorkshire and the North Midlands have long been ignored or marginalized in narratives of British Prehistory. In this book, unpublished data is used for the first time in a work of synthesis to reconstruct the prehistory of the earliest communities across the River Don drainage basin.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784917029 (ebook) :
London's waterfront 1100-1666 : excavations in Thames Street, London, 1974-84 /
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This volume presents and celebrates the mile-long Thames Street in the City of London and the land south of it to the River Thames as an archaeological asset. The argument is based on the reporting of four excavations of 1974-84 by the Museum of London near the north end of London Bridge: Swan Lane, Seal House, New Fresh Wharf and Billingsgate Lorry Park. Here the findings of the period 1100-1666 are presented.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xxiv, 514 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781784918385 (ebook) :
Cultural interactions during the Zhou period (c. 1000-350 BC) : a study of networks from the Suizao corridor /
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This volume concerns the cultural interactions during the Zhou period of China (c. 1000-350 BCE) between the Suizao corridor (near the present-day Yangtze River region) and its contemporaries within or outside the Zhou realm. It mainly, but not exclusively, concentrates on bronze ritual vessels from the Suizao corridor.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (vi, 140 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789690552 (ebook) :
Masters of the steppe : the impact of the Scythians and later nomad societies of Eurasia : proceedings of a conference held at the British Museum, 27-29 October 2017 /
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'Masters of the Steppe' consists of 45 papers presented at a major international conference held at the British Museum in 2017 on the occasion of the BP exhibition 'Scythians: Warriors of Ancient Siberia', both conference and exhibition being jointly organised with the State Hermitage Museum. There are 58 contributors and co-authors from 16 countries, mostly from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, but also America, Britain, France, Germany, China and Mongolia. The papers range from new archaeological discoveries, results of scientific research and studies of museum collections to reconstructions of social elites, the phenomenon of monumental tomb construction, and 'Animal Style' art.
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Also issued in print: 2020.
Conference proceedings.
Conference jointly organised by the State Hermitage Museum.
At foot of title: European Research Council. :
1 online resource (802 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789696486 (PDF ebook) :
Colonial geopolitics and local cultures in the Hellenistic and Roman East (3rd century BC - 3rd century AD) = Géopolitique coloniale et cultures locales dans l'Orient hellénistique...
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What changes in the material culture can we observe, when a state is overwhelming a local population with soldiers, katoikoi, and civil officials or merchants? What were the mutual influences between native and colonial cultures? This collection addresses these questions and many more, focusing on the Hellenistic and Roman East.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
"proceedings of a panel held during the Celtic Conference in Classics 2014 ... [and] a number of papers given previously ... under the aegis of the Symposium international le livre, la Roumanie, L'Europe2--Introduction. :
1 online resource (v, 218 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789699838 (PDF ebook) :
Ship 17 : a baris from Thonis-Heracleion /
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A study of the construction, structure and identification of Ship 17, a Late Period baris-vessel discovered during underwater excavations at Thonis-Heracleion, a sunken city in Aboukir Bay. Ship 17 is placed within the traditions of naval architecture both in Egypt and the wider Mediterranean.
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xii, 140 pages : illustrations (mostly color), color maps ; 31 cm. + 1 poster. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-133) and index. :
9781905905362
Royal statues in Egypt 300 BC-AD 220 : context and function /
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The aim of this work is to approach Ptolemaic and Imperial royal sculpture in Egypt dating between 300 BC and AD 220 (the reigns of Ptolemy I and Caracalla) from a contextual point of view.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784911522 (PDF ebook) :
Life on the edge : the Neolithic and Bronze Age of Iain Crawford's Udal, North Uist /
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Excavations in North Uist dating from 1974-1984 identified two cists with human remains in kerbed cairns, many bowl pits dug into the blown sand, two late Neolithic structures and a ritual complex.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xxxii, 270 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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9781784917715 (ebook) :
Funerary archaeology and changing identities : community practices in Roman-period Sardinia /
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This work analyses in detail the funerary evidence from burial sites in southern and central Sardinia, proposing an alternative interpretation of the island and of other Roman Provinces in which local communities played an active and creative role in shaping back the Roman-world within the specific material and historical conditions they lived in.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (210 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789690019 (ebook) :
The pioneer burial : a high-status Anglian warrior burial from Wollaston Northamptonshire /
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Excavations at Wollaston Quarry, near Wellingborough, uncovered a single late 7th century grave, the Pioneer burial. The burial contained artefacts indicative of very high status, with the early to middle Saxon helmet being at the time only the fourth to have been recovered from a burial in England.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (viii, 70 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789691207 (ebook) :
Thurrock's deeper past : a confluence of time : the archaeology of the borough of Thurrock, Essex, from the last Ice Age to the establishment of the English kingdoms /
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This volume looks at the evidence for human activity in Thurrock and this part of the Thames estuary since the last Ice Age, and how the river crossing point here has been of great importance to the development of human settlement and trade in the British Isles.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (vi, 200 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789691122 (ebook) :
Execution by Styrax in ancient Thasos /
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Sharing in the objectives of an ongoing archaeo-anthropological endeavour, aiming to better decipher and elucidate facets of the human condition while carrying out funerary archaeological research of Hellenistic to Roman periods family graves at the extensive ancient necropolis of Thasos, the most northern Aegean island, this essay addresses a case of unique forensic / bioarchaeological interest involving an older male individual, a member of one of the clusters of burials, who had been placed as a single interment in a most conspicuous limestone cyst grave of the Hellenistic period.
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Also issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (vi, 40 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789692136 (e-Pdf) : :
Open access.