The forgotten scholar : Georg Zoëga (1755-1809) : at the dawn of Egyptology and Coptic studies /
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Renowned for his work within the fields of Numismatics, Archaeology, Egyptology and Coptic studies, Georg Zoëga was a figure of outstanding importance both in Rome and in Europe, at the end of the eighteenth century. Although highly valued by his contemporaries, Zoëga's scientific legacy fell almost entirely into oblivion with the end of the Enlightenment. The Forgotten Scholar: Georg Zoëga (1755-1819): At the Dawn of Egyptology and Coptic Studies represents an exceptional occasion to rediscover the largely unknown scientific legacy of this Danish scholar consisting of hundreds of letters, drawings, sketches, notes, and other documents, mainly preserved in the Royal Library and in the Thorvaldsen Museum of Copenhagen.
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1 online resource (ix, 267 pages) :
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9789004290839 :
1566-2055 ; :
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The adventure of the illustrious scholar : papers presented to Oscar White Muscarella /
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The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar: Papers Presented to Oscar White Muscarella , edited by Elizabeth Simpson, is a Festschrift celebrating the career of one of the foremost archaeologists of the ancient Near East. Oscar Muscarella is a former curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a formidable scholar who has excavated at sites in Turkey, Iran, and the United States. He has published eight books and nearly 200 articles, excavation reports, and reviews on topics ranging from the arts of antiquity and the importance of connoisseurship, to the difficulties of dating and the problems of forgeries, the looting of ancient sites, and the antiquities trade. The forty-seven contributors are experts in the areas of Muscarella's interests and are major scholars in their fields. This volume constitutes an unusual, important, and timely addition to the archaeological and art historical literature.
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1 online resource. :
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9789004361713 :
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The maritime transport of sculptures in the ancient Mediterranean /
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With a focus on the underwater context of sculptures retrieved from beneath the sea, this volume examines where, when, why and how sculptures were transported on the Mediterranean Sea during Classical Antiquity through the lenses of both maritime and classical archaeology.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (166 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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9781803273310 (PDF ebook) :
The European archaeologist.
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This volume gathers together the first 10 years of 'The European Archaeologist', from Winter 1993 through to the 10th Anniversary Conference Issue, published in 2004 for the Lyon Annual Meeting.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) :
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9781784910136 (PDF ebook) :
Ceramiche vicinorientali della Collezione Popolani /
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This volume illustrates the Popolani Collection at the Archaeological Museum of Florence, consisting of ancient pottery vessels, terracotta oil-lamps, glazed Islamic tiles, Romano-Byzantine glassware, as well as various objects from the Damascene antique market.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784914653 (ebook) :
The affect of crafting : third millennium BCE copper arrowheads from Ganeshwar, Rajasthan /
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'The Affect of Crafting' presents an interrogation of materiality and crafting, a consideration of the situatedness of the technological practice of crafting itself, and the forms of relationships that exist between all things transformed in the act of crafting: bodies, minerals and landscapes.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
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9781789690040 (ebook) :
Brass from the past : brass made, used and traded from prehistoric times to 1800 /
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Brass from the Past is a history of the use and production of brass, and more broadly an insight into the journey of this metal in the context of a changing and modernising world. The book follows the evolution of brass from its earliest forms around 2500 BC through to industrialised production in the eighteenth century. The story is told in the context of the people, economies, cultures, trade and technologies that have themselves defined the alloy and its spread around the world. It explores innovations, such as the distillation of zinc, that have improved the quality and ease of production. From national or religious priorities to exhaustion of raw material supplies, the themes from the past are echoed today. In the later centuries, the book shines a light on some of the more personal aspects of people,businesses and relationships that have influenced industry and its progress.
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1 online resource (viii, 358 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781789691573 (PDF ebook) :
Estudios antracológicos en los espacios de combustión del Alero Deodoro Roca - Ongamira (Córdoba) /
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This paper deals with the study of the archaeological remains of charcoal to further understand the usage and handling of fire by human hunter-gatherer groups who inhabited, over time, the Ongamira valley, located in the Ischilin and Totoral provinces of Cordoba, Argentina.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). :
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9781784913441 (ebook) :
Archaeological rescue excavations on packages 3 and 4 of the Batinah Expressway, Sultanate of Oman /
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This report presents the results of rescue excavations conducted during the spring and summer of 2014 in preparation for the construction of the Batinah Expressway (packages 3 and 4) on the Batinah coastal plain in al-Batinah North Governate.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
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9781784913960 (ebook) :
Un sistema per la gestione dell'affidabilità e dell'interpretazione dei dati archeologici : percezione e potenzialità degli small finds : il caso studio di Festòs e Haghia Triada /...
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This work aims to identify methodological problems associated with the digital management of archaeological data and to introduce viable solutions that embrace interpretative aspects and the reliability concept. A prototype system is presented, managing small finds data from early 20th century excavations at Phaistos and Ayia Triada.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (165 pages) : illustrations. :
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9781789696646 (ebook) :
The plague cemetery of Alghero, Sardinia (1582-1583) : the bioarchaeological study /
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This study presents a bioarchaeological analysis of the individuals exhumed from the cemetery of Alghero (Sardinia), which is associated with the plague outbreak that ravaged the city in 1582-83. The results shed light on a population which lived during a period of plague, revealing lifestyles, activity patterns and illnesses.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
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The Watlington Hoard : coinage, kings and the Viking Great Army in Oxfordshire, AD875-880 /
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Presenting the complete publication of the objects and coins in the Watlington Hoard, the authors discuss its wider implications for our understanding of hoarding in late 9th-century southern Britain, interactions between the kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia, and the movements of the Viking Great Army after the Battle of Edington in 878.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) :
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9781789698305 (PDF ebook) : :
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Objects of the past in the past : investigating the significance of earlier artefacts in later contexts /
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How did past communities view, understand and communicate their pasts? And how can we, as archaeologists, understand this? In recent years these questions have been approached through studies of the extended occupation and use of landscapes, monuments and artefacts to explore concepts of time and memory. But what of objects that were already old in the past? Interpretations for these items have ranged from the discard of scrap to objects of veneration. Evidence from a range of periods would suggest objects of the past were an important part of many later societies that encountered them, either as heirlooms with remembered histories or rediscovered curiosities from a more distant past. This volume brings together a range of case studies in which objects of the past were encountered and reappropriated.
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1 online resource (x, 180 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789692495 (PDF ebook) :
From ritual to refuse : faunal exploitation by the elite of Chinikihá, Chiapas, during the Late Classic period /
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'From Ritual to Refuse' explores the faunal exploitation by the Maya elite at the site of Chinikihá, Chiapas, during the end of the Late Classic period (AD 700-850) by applying zooarchaeological and statistical analyses to a faunal assemblage located in a basurero or midden behind a palatial structure at the core of the site.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (viii, 229 pages). : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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9781803270258 (PDF ebook) :
Antiquity and Enlightenment culture : new approaches and perspectives /
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"This volume represents the first move towards a comprehensive overview of the place of antiquity in Enlightenment Europe. Eschewing a narrow focus on any one theme, it seeks to understand eighteenth-century engagements with antiquity on their own terms, focusing on the contexts, questions, and agendas that led people to turn to the ancient past. The contributors show that a profound interest in antiquity permeated all spheres of intellectual and creative endeavour, from antiquarianism to political discourse, travel writing to portraiture, theology to education. They offer new perspectives on familiar figures, such as Rousseau and Hume, as well as insights into hitherto obscure antiquarians and scholars. What emerges is a richer, more textured understanding of the substantial eighteenth-century engagement with antiquity. Contributors are: Anthony Ossa-Richardson, Maria Giulia Franzoni, Thomas Hopkinson, Maeve O'Dwyer, Miriam Al Jamil, Kelsey Jackson Williams, Alan Montgomery, Marta Dieli, Tim Stuart-Buttle, Flora Champy".
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"This volume proceeds from an international conference held at the University of Edinburgh on 2 April 2016 entitled "Antiquity and the History of Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Europe."--Acknowledgments.
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9789004412675
Ancient documents and their contexts : First North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (2011) /
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Ancient Documents and their Contexts contains the proceedings of the First North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (San Antonio, Texas, 4-5 January 2011). It gathers seventeen papers presented by scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia at the first formal meeting of classical epigraphists sponsored by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. Ranging from technical discussions of epigraphic formulae and palaeography to broad consideration of inscriptions as social documents and visual records, the topics and approaches represented reflect the variety of ways that Greek and Latin inscriptions are studied in North America today. Contributors are: Bradley J. Bitner, Sarah Bolmarcich, Ilaria Bultrighini, Patricia A. Butz, Werner Eck, John Friend, Peter Keegan, Jinyu Liu, Kevin McMahon, John Nicols, Nadya Popov-Reynolds, Carolynn E. Roncaglia, Stephen V. Tracy, Dennis E. Trout, Georgia Tsouvala, Steven L. Tuck, and Arden Williams.
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1 online resource. :
9789004273870 :
1876-2557 ; :
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Epigraphica Boeotica II : further studies on Boiotian inscriptions /
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In Epigraphica Boeotica II John Fossey continues to treat results of his nearly 50 years of research into the archaeology and inscriptions of Ancient Boiotia ( Epigraphica Boeotica I, Amsterdam, 1991). The first part of the volume discusses the relations between Boiotia and other parts of the Greek world as seen in acts of proxenia and agonistic victor lists. After a section on dedications both religious and civic, there follows a series of studies of ancient tombstones, many of them spolia used in more recent buildings, with prosopographic and onomastic commentary on the names contained in them. Discussion throughout features letter forms and one specific example of this is an epigramme by the Roman philhellene emperor Hadrianus. An unusual rupestral text concludes the volume.
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1 online resource (pages) :
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9789004267923 :
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Community archaeology : working ancient Aboriginal wetlands in eastern Australia /
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This volume presents the results of an investigation of wetland heritage in eastern Australia, with important contributions to the archaeology of the Tasmanian Midlands and the New England Tablelands.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (xxxii, 430 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789694819 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.