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Published 2006
Greek colonisation : an account of Greek colonies and other settlements overseas /

: The 3-volume handbook is dedicated to one of the most significant processes in the history of ancient Greece - colonisation. Greeks set up colonies and other settlements in new environments, establishing themselves in lands stretching from the Iberian Peninsula in the west to North Africa in the south and the Black Sea in the north-east. In this colonial world Greek and local societies met, influenced and enriched each other. The handbook brings together historians and archaeologists, all world experts, to present the latest ideas and evidence. The principal aim is to present and update the general picture of this phenomenon, showing its importance in the history of the whole ancient world, including the Near East. The work is dedicated to the late Prof. A.J. Graham. This second volume contains chapters on Central Greece on the eve of the colonisation movement, foundation stories, colonisation in the Classical period, the Adriatic, the northern Aegean, Libya and Cyprus.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789047442448 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2016
Syria's monuments : their survival and destruction /

: Syria's Monuments: their Survival and Destruction examines the fate of the various monuments in Syria (including present-day Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine/Israel) from Late Antiquity to the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. It examines travellers' accounts, mainly from the 17th to 19th centuries, which describe religious buildings and housing in numbers and quality unknown elsewhere. The book charts the reasons why monuments lived or died, varying from earthquakes and desertification to neglect and re-use, and sets the political and social context for the Empire's transformation toward a modern state, provoked by Western trade and example. An epilogue assesses the impact of the recent civil war on the state of the monuments, and strategies for their resurrection, with plentiful references and web links.
: 1 online resource. : 9789004334601 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2023
Bronze age barrow and Anglo-Saxon cemetery : archaeological excavations on land adjacent to Upthorpe Road, Stanton, Suffolk : November 2013-March 2014 /

: Revealing the remains of a prehistoric round barrow and a cemetery containing the remains of 67 inhumations with associated grave goods, this book provides detailed analysis of the archaeological features, skeletal assemblage and other artefacts.
: Also issued in print: 2023. : 1 online resource : illustrations : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781803273198 (PDF ebook) :

Published 2022
Sasanian archaeology : settlements, environment and material culture /

: This collection of essays offers an examination of the Sasanian empire based almost entirely on archaeological and scientific research, much presented here for the first time. The book is divided into three parts examining Sasanian sites, settlements and landscapes; their complex agricultural resources; and their crafts and industries.
: Also issued in print: 2022. : 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9781803274195 (PDF ebook) :

Published 2017
La Phrygie Paroree et la Pisidie septentrionale aux epoques hellenistique et romaine : geographie historique et sociologie culturelle /

: La Phrygie Parorée et la Pisidie septentrionale deals with the history, the historical geography and the cultural sociology of Phrygia Paroreios and Northern Pisidia during the Hellenistic and Roman periods (IVth century BC - IVth century AD). This region of inner Anatolia, mostly inhabited by Pisidians and Phrygians, faced gradually the settlement of Greek, Macedonian, Jewish, Thracian, Lycian and Roman colonists who deeply modified the local cultures and geopolitics. With an approach based on epigraphic, archaeological, literary and numismatic sources, this work is the first historical synthesis devoted to a region showing strong cultural identities, which makes it essential to the understanding of the Graeco-Roman East. La Phrygie Parorée et la Pisidie septentrionale traite de l'Histoire, de la géographie historique et de la sociologie culturelle de la Phrygie Parorée et du Nord de la Pisidie aux époques hellénistique et romaine (IVe s. av. J.-C.-IVe s. ap. J.-C.). Cette région de l'Anatolie intérieure, surtout peuplée par les Pisidiens et les Phrygiens, eut successivement à faire face à l'installation de colons grecs, macédoniens, juifs, thraces, lyciens et romains qui modifièrent en profondeur les cultures et la géopolitique locales. Grâce à une approche fondée sur l'examen des sources épigraphiques, archéologiques, littéraires et numismatiques, cet ouvrage constitue la première synthèse historique sur une région aux identités culturelles marquées, essentielle à la compréhension de l'Orient gréco-romain.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004337404 : 2352-8656 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2019
Current research in Egyptology 2018 : proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium, Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 25-28 June 2018 /

: 'Current Research in Egyptology 2018' is a collection of papers and posters presented at the nineteenth symposium of the prestigious international student conference, held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague on 25th-28th June, 2018.
: 1 online resource (x, 252 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781789692150 (ebook) :

Published 2015
Evolution of a community : the colonisation of a clay inland landscape : Neolithic to post-medieval remains excavated between 1995 and 2011 at Longstanton in Cambridgeshire /

: The movement of people from the fen edge and river valleys into the clay lands of eastern England has become a growing area of research. The opportunity of studying such an environment and investigating the human activities that took place there became available 9 km to the north-west of Cambridge at the village of Longstanton. The archaeological excavations that took place over a 16 year period have made a significant contribution to charting the emergence of a Cambridgeshire clayland settlement and its community over six millennia. 'Evolution of a Community' chronologically documents the colonisation of this clay inland location and outlines how it was not an area on the periphery of activity, but part of a fully occupied landscape extending back into the Mesolithic period.
: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781784910877 (PDF ebook) :

Published 2015
Sharma : un entrepôt de commerce médiéval sur La Côte du Hadramawt : (Yémen, ca 980-1180) /

: Cited by al-Muqaddasi in c.985 and then by al-Idrisi in c.1150, the medieval port of Sharma was discovered in 1996 at the extremity of the Ra's Sharma, 50km east of al-Shihr on the Hadramawt coast of Yemen; it was excavated in 2001-2005. This unique site was actually a transit entrepôt, a cluster of warehouses probably founded by Iranian merchants and entirely devoted to the maritime trade. It knew a rather short period of activity, between around 980 and the second half of the 12th century, which may be acknowledged as the Sharma horizon. Excavations proved that this settlement experienced six occupation phases, which are closely related to the political and economic developments in the region at that time.
: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9781784911959 (PDF ebook) :

Published 2016
Medieval rural settlements in the Syrian coastal region (12th and 13th centuries) /

: This text is the result of more than a dozen years of research in the field of the hitherto unstudied medieval settlement pattern of the Syrian coastal region in the 12th and 13th centuries.
: Previously issued in print: 2016. : 1 online resource : illustrations, maps. : Specialized. : 9781784912055 (ebook) :

Published 2015
Hoards, grave goods, jewellery : objects in hoards and in burial contexts during the Mongol invasion of Central-Eastern Europe /

: This monograph examines one specific hoard horizon, which is connected to the Mongol invasion of Hungary (1241-42). With this catastrophic event, the historical context is both well-known and much discussed by contemporaries and modern scholars. This opportunity to examine material connected to a sole event, but across a broad spectrum of geographical space and social class, is unique for hoard horizons in Hungary, and, for that matter, in Europe. Though this study focuses on hoards connected to the Mongol invasion, it is also relevant beyond this specific context. The work addresses issues concerning hoard finds and material culture, and examines how finds are related when found in different contexts (a hoard, grave, or settlement feature), thus the questions raised and conclusions reached are important for other medieval hoard finds.
: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781784912031 (PDF ebook) :

Published 2016
Castles, siegeworks and settlements : surveying the archaeology of the twelfth century /

: This volume comprises thirteen reports detailing fieldwork undertaken by a research project which sought to assess the archaeological evidence of the period of conflict that took place in mid-twelfth-century England popularly known as `the Anarchy'.
: Previously issued in print: 2016. : 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781784914776 (ebook) :

Published 2017
Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlement along the Empingham to Hannington pipeline in Northamptonshire and Rutland /

: This volume brings together reports on excavations by Northamtonshire Archaeology (now MOLA) in the south-east Midlands region. 19 sites were investigated, dating primarily to the Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods.
: Previously issued in print: 2017. : 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781784915353 (ebook) :

Published 2017
The death of the maiden in classical Athens /

: This 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. The iconography of funerary reliefs focuses on the idealised image of the deceased maiden, as well as the powerful bonds of love and kinship that unite her with the members of her family, whereas the iconography of vases emphasises the premature death of the maiden, the pain of loss and mourning felt by her family, as well as the observance of the indispensable funerary rites concerning her burial and 'tomb cult'.
: Previously issued in print: 2017. : 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781784915476 (ebook) :

Published 2017
Road archaeology in the Middle Nile.

: Reports on the findings of rescue excavations carried out by SARS in 1994 in advance of the construction of the North Challenge Road, Sudan. The excavation area encompassed from opposite the Pyramids of Meroe to Atbara.
: Previously issued in print: 2017. : 1 online resource (xii, 182 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781784916473 (ebook) :

Published 2018
Excavation of the late Saxon and medieval churchyard of St Martin's, Wallingford, Oxfordshire /

: MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) undertook excavations over 2003-4 at the former St Martin's churchyard, Wallingford, Oxfordshire. St Martin's, one of perhaps eight churches of late Saxon Wallingford, was located in a prominent position in the centre of the burh. No middle Saxon activity was found and the earliest remains consisted of a layer sealing the natural subsoil which contained a probable late Saxon lead cross. Earliest use of the churchyard has been dated to the late 10th to early 11th century by radiocarbon dating, and burials continued until the end of the 14th century, serving a dwindling parish population, before the cemetery rapidly fell out of use thereafter.
: Previously issued in print: 2018. : 1 online resource(xii, 86 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781784917678 (ebook) :

Published 2018
Special place, interesting times : the island of Palagruža and transitional periods in Adriatic prehistory /

: Palagruža is a remote Croatian archipelago in the middle of the Adriatic Sea, unexpectedly abundant in high-grade archaeological evidence, dating precisely from the three periods of later Adriatic prehistory marked by radical change. This book explores the archaeology and history of Palagruža.
: Previously issued in print: 2018. : 1 online resource (x, 194 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781784918507 (ebook) :

Published 2018
Composite artefacts in the Ancient Near East : exhibiting an imaginative materiality, showing a genealogical nature /

: This volume represents a first attempt to conceptualise the construction and use of composite artefacts in the Ancient Near East by looking at the complex relationships between environments, materials, societies and materiality.
: Previously issued in print: 2018. : 1 online resource (vi, 96 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). : Specialized. : 9781784918545 (ebook) :

Published 2018
Iron oxide rock artefacts in Mesopotamia c. 2600-1200 BC : an interdisciplinary study of hematite, goethite and magnetite objects /

: The flourishing civilisations of Mesopotamia imported all kinds of materials from the surrounding regions. Iron oxide rock was very popular for weight stones and cylinder seals around 2000 BC. This research aims to determine the region of origin for the raw material, what made people start using iron oxide rock, and what led them to stop using it.
: Previously issued in print: 2018. : 1 online resource (vi, 258 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) : Specialized. : 9781784919658 (ebook) :

Published 2018
Une archéologie des provinces septentrionales du royaume Kongo /

: This text presents in detail the results of archaeological research carried out by the KongoKing project in the former northern provinces of the Kongo Kingdom, currently located in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
: Previously issued in print: 2018. : 1 online resource (500 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781784919733 (ebook) :

Published 2018
Loaves, beds, plants and Osiris : considerations about the emergence of the cult of Osiris /

: The emergence of the cult of Osiris is generally posited to have occurred quite suddenly at the end of the 5th dynasty. This study considers evidence to suggest this appearance was preceded by a period of development of the theology and mythology of the cult.
: Previously issued in print: 2018. : 1 online resource (xxx, 220 pages) : illustrations (black and white). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781784919672 (ebook) :