Understanding lithic recycling at the late Lower Paleolithic Qesem Cave, Israel : a functional and chemical investigation of small flakes /
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This volume uses the case study of Qesem Cave (Israel) to explore two important topics from the Middle Pleistocene: the practice of recycling old discarded flakes for the production of new objects by means of recycling, and the production of flakes and tools of small dimensions - topics that have not gained sufficient attention from the scientific community.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (162 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789691023 (ebook) :
Anglo-Saxon crops and weeds : a case study in quantitative archaeobotany /
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Farming practices underwent momentous transformations in the Mid Saxon period, between the 7th and 9th centuries AD. This study applies a standardised set of repeatable quantitative analyses to the charred remains of Anglo-Saxon crops and weeds, to shed light on crucial developments in crop husbandry between the 7th and 9th centuries.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (viii, 204 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789691931 (ebook) :
Iron Age and Roman settlement at Highflyer Farm, Ely, Cambridgeshire /
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This volume presents the results of archaeological work carried out by MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) at Highflyer Farm in 2018. Remains dating from the Neolithic to the post-medieval period were recorded, with most of the activity occurring between the early Iron Age and late Roman periods.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
Published in association with Museum of London Archaeology. :
1 online resource (154 pages) : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789698435 (PDF ebook) :
The archaeology of nucleation in the Old World : spatiality, community, and identity /
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Fourteen papers take advantage of advances in archaeological methods and theory to explore the role of the built environment in expressing and shaping community organization and identity at prehistoric and historic nucleated settlements and early cities in the Old World.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (226 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781803270913 (PDF ebook) :
Materials, productions, exchange network and their impact on the societies of Neolithic Europe ; proceedings of the XVII UISPP World Congress (1-7 September 2014, Burgos, Spain).
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This edited volume examines the impact on societies in Neolithic Europe of materials, productions and exchange networks.
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Previously issued in print: 2017.
Conference proceedings. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784915254 (ebook) :
Agia varvara-Almyras : an Iron Age copper smelting site in Cyprus /
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The Iron Age copper smelting site situated near the Cypriot village Agia Varvara is of particular importance among the ancient copper processing places in the Near East because it has revealed spatial as well as technological aspects of copper production in a hitherto rarely-seen depth of detail. This title presents the results of a comprehensive post-excavation analysis of the stratigraphy (part I), also of the geology, metallurgical materials (furnaces, tuyeres), finds (pottery, furnace lining, stone tools), as well as a synthesis of the copper smelting technology at Agia Varvara-Almyras (part II). The excavation analysis not only focuses on pyrotechnical information from individual furnaces, but also provides a detailed study of the spatial organisation as well as of the living conditions on the smelting site.
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Previous edition issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xii, 294 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes discography and index. :
9781784918163 (ebook) :
Settlement and land use on the periphery : the Bouros-Kastri Peninsula, Southern Euboia /
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This survey by the Southern Euboea Exploration Project provides a wealth of intriguing information about fluctuations in long-term use and habitation in the Bouros-Kastri peninsula at the south-eastern tip of the Greek island of Euboia, and how the peninsula's use was connected to that of the main urban centre at Karystos.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781784918200 (ebook) :
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) :
The first thousand years of glass-making in the ancient Near East : compositional analyses of Late Bronze and Iron Age glasses /
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Explores glass composition and production from the mid-second to mid-first millennia BC, the first thousand years of glass-making. Multi-element analyses of 132 glasses from Pella in Jordan, and Nuzi and Nimrud in Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia) produce new and important data that provide insights into the earliest glass production.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations, maps :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789697049 (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) :
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) :
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) :
Irish late Iron Age equestrian equipment in its insular and continental context /
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This is the first practical archaeological study of Irish Iron Age lorinery. The horse and associated equipment were very much at the heart of the social changes set in motion by contact with the Roman Empire; the examination of the snaffles and bosals allows us to bring the people of the Late Iron Age in Ireland into focus.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (xii, 278 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789699920 (PDF ebook) :
The not very patrilocal European Neolithic : strontium, aDNA, and archaeological kinship analyses /
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Two decades of strontium isotope research on Neolithic European burials - reinforced by high-profile ancient DNA studies - has led to widespread interpretations that these were patrilocal societies, implying significant residential mobility for women. This volume questions that narrative from a social anthropological perspective on kinship.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations, maps :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789699814 (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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9781803273532 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Bridging the gap : disciplines, times, and spaces in dialogue.
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Three volumes present the proceedings of the 6th Broadening Horizons Conference, which took place at the Freie Universität Berlin from 24-28 June, 2019. This volume contains 14 papers from Session 4 - Crossing Boundaries: Connectivity and Interaction; and Session 6 - Landscape and Geography: Human Dynamics and Perceptions.
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Also issued in print: 2022.
Selected conference papers.
"This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License"--Title page verso. :
1 online resource (iv, 222 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803273419 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Glassware and glassworking in Thessaloniki : 1st century BC - 6th century AD /
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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.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (viii, 384 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784916800 (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) :