Experiencing the frontier and the frontier of experience : barbarian perspectives and Roman strategies to deal with new threats /
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This volume considers the Roman Empire's responses to the threats which were caused by the new geostrategic situation brought on by the crisis of the 3rd century AD, induced by the 'barbarians' who - often already part of Roman military structures as mercenaries and auxiliaries - became a veritable menace for the Empire.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789696820 (PDF ebook) :
Vernacular buildings and urban social practice : wood and people in early modern Swedish society /
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Wooden buildings housed the majority of Swedish urban populations during the early modern era, but many of these buildings have disappeared as the result of fire, demolition, and modernisation. This book reveals the fundamental role played by the wooden house in the formation of urban Sweden and Swedish history.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789696783 (PDF ebook) :
Présence et influence assyriennes dans le royaume de Hamat /
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This volume assesses the importance and nature of the Assyrian presence in the kingdom of Hamat (northwest Syria) to determine whether there is a link between Assyrian control and the impact it exerted on the territories with which it came into contact.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789696882 (PDF ebook) :
L'egitto dei flavi : sintesi e prospettive d'indagine alla luce della documentazione papirologica ed epigrafica egiziana /
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Providing synthesis and new prospects of investigation, this text offers an overall review of the various information obtainable from papyrological and epigraphic sources from the Roman province of Egypt at the moment of transition from the Julio-Claudian dynasty to the new Flavian dynasty.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (184 pages). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789696745 (ebook) :
Le commerce de céramiques fines à ammaia, une ville du sud de la Lusitanie (50 - 550 Apr. J.-C.) /
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This volume presents the entire assemblage of fine wares (terra sigillata, lamps and thin-walled wares) from Ammaia, a Roman and Late Antique town located in the hinterland of southern Lusitania (presently in Portuguese territory).
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations. :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789696844 (PDF ebook) :
Santuari e spazi confessionali nell'Italia tardoantica /
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The cult of relics led to the transformation of the Late Antique Italian landscape, and of suburban areas in particular. Analysing hypogeal and subdial contexts, this book outlines the evolution of loca sancta, in a process that led the venerated tombs to become first memoriae, then places of worship and finally articulated sanctuaries.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
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9781789697551 (PDF ebook) :
Pious pilgrims, discerning travellers, curious tourists : changing patterns of travel to the Middle East from medieval to modern times /
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This volume comprises a varied collection of seventeen papers presented at the biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) held in York in July 2019, which together will provide the reader with a fascinating introduction to travel in and to the Middle East over more than a thousand years.
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Conference proceedings.
Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (422 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789697537 (PDF ebook) :
From Edessa to Urfa : the fortification of the citadel /
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The outcome of an archaeological research project focused on a specific monumental area in the city of Urfa: its citadel. Urfa is better known to the general reader by its ancient name, Edessa. Three seasons of fieldwork were carried out (2014-2016), concentrating on the study of the evidence preserved above ground and employing the methods of stratigraphic analysis to identify the building sequence of the citadel and to characterise the various building phases. Transformation of the relative sequence into absolute chronology depended primarily on inscriptions in situ, but also on typological elements (masonry type, decorative elements, specific architectural forms). Data from the written sources also contributed relevant information regarding the development of the fortification works and the establishment of an absolute sequence.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (vi, 270 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789697575 (ebook) :
Excavations at Chester : medieval and post-medieval development within the northern and eastern suburbs to c.1900 /
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'Excavations at Chester' brings together for the first time the results from archaeological investigations carried out within the suburbs to the north and east of the Medieval and later City of Chester between 2002 and 2018. At sites investigated to both the north and east of the City, significant stretches of the defensive ditch cut during the Civil War of the 17th century were excavated. The results bring into question the accepted lines of these massive defensive outworks. To the northwest of the City, the findings demonstrate that the land remained agricultural until late in the 18th century and was not truly developed until the arrival of the canal network. To the north of the City, development of terraced housing had begun by the 1830s, shortly before the arrival of the railway network, in the area that would become the suburb of Newtown.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (vi, 74 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) :
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9781789698817 (PDF ebook) :
Bioarchaeology and dietary reconstruction across late antiquity and the Middle Ages in Tuscany, Central Italy /
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This title presents the results of the first multidisciplinary bioarchaeological analysis to reconstruct living conditions in Tuscany between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. This was done through the examination of stress markers, including adult stature, periosteal reaction, cranial porosities, and linear enamel hypoplasia, and through palaeodietary reconstruction in order to explore the effects of socio-cultural and environmental factors in a diachronic perspective. The shift from Classical to Medieval times has long left its mark on the European historical consciousness. Nevertheless, the impact of this transition on living conditions and dietary practices remains a subject of debate, with a prevailing perception of these 'Dark Ages' as an impoverished phase following the collapse of the Roman agrarian villa system, particularly in the Mediterranean area.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (xii, 192 pages). : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). :
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9781789698664 (PDF ebook) :
Doors, entrances and beyond... : various aspects of entrances and doors of the tombs in the Memphite Necropoleis during the Old Kingdom /
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Doors are more than a physical means to close off an entrance or an exit; they can also indicate a boundary between two worlds. This volume considers the Memphite Necropoleis during the Old Kingdom, and proposes that porticos, false doors, niches and mastaba chapel entrances are interconnected in their function as a barrier between two worlds.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (202 pages) : illustrations (black and white). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789698725 (PDF ebook) :
New approaches to the archaeology of beekeeping /
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Seventeen papers take a holistic view of beekeeping archaeology (including honey, wax, associated products, hive construction, and trade) in one large interconnected geographic region, the Mediterranean, central Europe, and the Atlantic Façade. The book serves as a handbook for current and future researchers considering the archaeology of beekeeping.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (v, 267 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781789699944 (PDF ebook) :
Pre-Roman and Roman Winchester.
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Outside the north gate of Venta Belgarum, Roman Winchester, a great cemetary stretched for 500 yards along the road to Cirencester. Excavations at Lankhills from 1967 to 1972 uncovered 451 graves, many elaborately furnished, at the northern limits of this cemetery, and dating from the fourth century A.D. This book describes the excavations of these burials and analyses, in detail, both the graves and their contents. There are detailed studies and important re-assessments of many categories of object, but it is the information about late Roman burial, religion, and society which is of special interest.
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Previously issued in print: Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1979. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781803270098 (PDF ebook) :
Frontiers of the Roman Empire = Grenzen des Römischen Reiches : the Antonine Wall = Der Antoninus Wall : a World Heritage Site /
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The Antonine Wall lay at the very extremity of the Roman world. This volume, presented in English and German, presents a concise introduction to the wall which is, in many ways, one of the most developed frontier in Europe. Perhaps of greatest significance is the survival of the collection of Roman military sculpture, the Distance Slabs.
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This edition also issued in print: 2022.
Previous edition: 2009. :
1 online resource (76 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) :
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9781789699968 (PDF ebook) :
Use of space and domestic areas : functional organisation and social strategies : proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France).
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The organization of inhabited space is the direct expression of the deep integration of societies with their cultural and natural environment. Contributions in this volume show the progress of research in terms of understanding the use of space on different scales, from the household to the village, focusing on Neolithic and Bronze Age contexts.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
Conference proceedings. :
1 online resource (iv, 137 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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9781803271378 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
A history of the Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 1949-2022 : a retrospective to mark the 25th Congress in Nijmegen /
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This volume celebrates the twenty-fifth Congress of Roman Frontier Studies. It presents the history of the congress accompanied by photographs and reminiscences from participants, a story populated by many of the well-known archaeologists of the last 75 years and, indeed, earlier as the genesis of the Congress lies in the inter-War years.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (viii, 185 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781803273037 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete : a perspective from archaeomythology and modern matriarchal studies /
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This text makes a compelling case for a matriarchal Bronze Age Crete. It is acknowledged that the preeminent deity was a Female Divine, and that women played a major role in Cretan society, but there is a lively, ongoing debate regarding the centrality of women in Bronze Age Crete. a gap in the scholarly literature which this book seeks to fill.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (xix, 255 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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9781803270456 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Ancient weapons of Oman.
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This text presents a detailed overview of the firearms used in Oman over the last four centuries. Portable firearms, rifles and cannons are all discussed in detail with supporting illustrations. The weapons described in this book are mostly from the National Museum Oman and Bait al Zubair Museum in Muscat.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (190 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781803270333 (PDF ebook) :
Moving on from Ebla, I crossed the Euphrates : an Assyrian day in honour of Paolo Matthiae /
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Six articles by leading scholars on the culture of the Assyrian world pay homage to Paolo Matthiae, known internationally for the discovery of the site of ancient Ebla in Syria. The articles deal with different aspects of Assyrian culture, with innovative and sometimes unexpected points of view, including its reception in the modern world.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (162 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803271118 (PDF ebook) :
Mirrors of salt : proceedings of the First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt : 20-24 August 2015, 'Al. I. Cuza' University, Iași, Romania /
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'Mirrors of Salt' publishes the proceedings of the First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt, which took place at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iași (Romania).
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (478 pages) : illustrations :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784914578 (PDF ebook) :