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) :
Coton Park, Rugby, Warwickshire : a middle Iron Age settlement with copper alloy casting /
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A total area of 3.1ha, taking in much of a settlement largely of the earlier Middle Iron Age, was excavated in 1998 in advance of development. The Iron Age settlement comprised several groups of roundhouse ring ditches and associated small enclosures forming an open settlement set alongside a linear boundary ditch. This title considers the physical, social, and economic structure of the settlement.
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Also issued in print: 2020.
Publication sponsored by MOLA. :
1 online resource (186 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789696462 (PDF ebook) :
Current research in Egyptology 2019 : proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Symposium, University of Alcalá, 17-21 June 2019 /
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Presents proceedings from the 20th meeting of the prestigious international student Egyptology conference, held at the University of Alcalá, 2019. 15 papers address a wide range of topics including all periods of ancient Egyptian history and different aspects of its material culture, archaeology, history, society, religion and language.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
Selected conference papers. :
1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789699081 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Current perspectives in Sudanese and Nubian archaeology : a collection of papers presented at the 2018 Sudan Studies Research Conference, Cambridge /
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This volume brings together papers presented at the 2nd Sudan Studies Research Conference, held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, 2018. The papers collected here focus on early administrative and mortuary material culture in the Nile valley and adjacent areas.
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Conference proceedings.
Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (iii, 118 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789698985 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
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) :
Crisis y muerte en la Antigüedad : reflexiones desde la historia y la arqueología /
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This text takes a multidisciplinary and international perspective to analyse periods of crisis in the Ancient World from a historical and archaeological point of view. To this end, the contributors have focused on periods of health and environmental crises, as well as persecutions and periods of famine and starvation during antiquity.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (vi, 220 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803273532 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
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) :
Sounion revisited : the santuaries of Poseidon and Athena at Sounion in Attica /
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This work is the first to be published from a wider research project, still in progress, about the sanctuaries of Poseidon and Athena on the promontory of Sounion (southeast Attica). The aim of this volume is to present, for the first time, a comprehensive examination and interpretation of a wide selection of unpublished small finds.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784911553 (PDF ebook) :
A history of Syria in one hundred sites /
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This volume presents the long history of Syria through a journey 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 book.
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1 online resource (viii, 451 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784913823 (ebook) :
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...
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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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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784914615 (pbk.) :
The archaeology of Kenilworth Castle's Elizabethan garden : excavation and investigation 2004-2008 /
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As part of the Property Development Programme for Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, English Heritage created an ambitious reconstruction of the former Elizabethan garden on the north side of the castle keep. In order to achieve a reliable representation of the original garden, a team with a broad range of specialist knowledge was brought together to advise first upon the practicality of undertaking the project and then to assist in the delivery of its design. Related detailed studies have been assembled in an English Heritage monograph edited by Anna Keay and John Watkins (2013).
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784915759 (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) :
Kymissala : archaeology - education - sustainability /
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Kymissala, on the southwest coast of Rhodes, is an area of great archaeological interest. Here, after ten years of systematic research, in terms of archaeology, education and sustainable development, 14 original studies are presented, constituting the first complete presentation of the area of Kymissala and the work in progress.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xii, 192 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784917692 (ebook) :
Current research in Egyptology 2017 : proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Symposium: University of Naples, "L'orientale" 3-6 May 2017 /
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'Current Research in Egyptology 2017' presents papers delivered during the eighteenth meeting of this international conference, held at the University of Naples 'L'Orientale', 3-6 May, 2017. Some 122 scholars from all over the world gathered in Naples to attend three simultaneous sessions of papers and posters, focused on a large variety of subjects: Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Egypt, Nubian Studies, Language and Texts, Art and Architecture, Religion and Cult, Field Projects, Museums and Archives, Material Culture, Mummies and Coffins, Society, Technologies applied to Egyptology, Environment.
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1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784919061 (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) :
Hatra : il territorio e l'urbanistica /
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The main purpose of the research presented in this volume has been the study of the city and the surrounding landscape of Hatra. To achieve this result, a multilayer GIS was created. It will remain an important resource for future excavations, which themselves may expand its dataset and verify it with additional ground control points.
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Also issued in print: 2018.
"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage. :
1 online resource (x, 560 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789690064 (ebook) : :
Open access.
Practices of personal adornment in Neolithic Greece /
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The objective of this text is the reconsideration of the practices of personal adornment during the Neolithic period in Greece, through the assemblage, extensive bibliographic documentation, and critical evaluation of all the available data deriving from more than a hundred sites in the mainland and the Aegean islands.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (xxxvi, 596 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789691146 (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) :
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 /
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'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.
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1 online resource (x, 252 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789692150 (ebook) :