Shipwrecks and provenance : in-situ timber sampling protocols with a focus on wrecks of the Iberian shipbuilding tradition /
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This work presents a set of protocols to establish the need for wood samples from shipwrecks and to guide archaeologists in the removal of samples for a suite of archaeometric techniques currently available to provenance the timbers used to construct wooden ships and boats. Case studies presented use Iberian ships of the 16th to 18th centuries.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (vi, 66 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784917180 (ebook) :
An intellectual adventurer in archaeology : reflections on the work of Charles Thomas /
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Charles Thomas (1928-2016) was a Cornishman and archaeologist, whose career from the 1950s spanned nearly seven decades. This period saw major developments that underpin the structures of archaeology in Britain today, in many of which he played a pivotal part. He campaigned for the Chair of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter, which he then held from 1972 until retirement, after teaching archaeology at Edinburgh and Leicester Universities. The 'Intellectual Adventure in Archaeology' was to Charles the mental stimulation of developing narratives for the past, especially in the areas in which he was a leading authority, including the early church in Britain, the early medieval period more generally, and Cornish studies. The contributions to this volume demonstrate the extent to which his scholarship and character has underpinned the work of others, in Cornwall and beyond.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xiv, 186 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784918620 (ebook) :
Colecciones, arqueólogos, instituciones y yacimientos en la España de los siglos XVIII al XX /
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The history of archaeological research has only recently become a research topic of interest within Spain. These 11 papers, first presented at a congress in March 2016, address several aspects from different perspectives that collectively enrich the historiography of Spanish archaeological research.
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Previously issued in print: 2018.
Selected conference papers. :
1 online resource (xii, 246 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784918644 (ebook) :
Digital imaging of artefacts : developments in methods and aims /
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This title features the proceedings from a workshop held at Wolfson College, Oxford in 2017. In light of rapid technological developments in digital imaging, this volume will inform specialist and general readers about some of the ways in which imaging technologies are transforming the study and presentation of archaeological and cultural artefacts.
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Previously issued in print: 2018.
Selected conference papers. :
1 online resource (190 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
9781789690262 (ebook) :
Archaeological heritage conservation and management /
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Archaeological heritage conservation is all too often highly conflicted. Economic interests are often at the forefront of management decision-making with heritage values given lesser, if any, consideration, but when heritage places are managed with international principles in mind the sites stand out as evidencing superior outcomes.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (viii, 330 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes discographies and index. :
9781789691061 (ebook) :
Dictionary of archaeological terms : English-Spanish/Spanish-English = Vocabulario de conceptos arqueológicos : Inglés-Español/Español-Inglés /
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This concise dictionary is intended to be helpful in the reading of archaeological books and publications from the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages, and in the writing of papers and articles in both English and Spanish. The aim of this work is to help, in particular, students and on-site archaeologists to find quickly a word relating to a specific period, a specific area or a research field, in a book easy to carry everywhere. But this dictionary is also intended for everyone fond of archaeology, from prehistory to the Middle Ages.
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Also issued in print: 2011. :
1 online resource (144 pages) :
Specialized. :
9781789691658 (ePub ebook) :
Dictionary of archaeological terms : English-Greek/Greek-English /
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Continuing the Archaeopress series of pocket-sized Dictionaries of Archaeological Terms, here is a dictionary of useful terms compiled to assist in the reading of archaeological books and publications, and in the writing of papers and articles, in both English and Greek. It covers Aegean prehistory through to Hellenistic and Roman times.
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Previously issued in print: 2011.
Parallel title in Greek script. :
1 online resource (92 pages) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789691665 (PDF ebook) :
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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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789692495 (PDF ebook) :
Experimental archaeology : making, understanding, story-telling : proceedings of a workshop in experimental archaeology : Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens with UCD Cen...
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In this text, based on the proceedings of a two-day workshop on experimental archaeology at the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens in 2017, scholars, artists and craftspeople explore how people in the past made things, used and discarded them, from prehistory to the Middle Ages.
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Also issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (vi, 106 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781789693201 (PDF ebook) :
The dialectic of practice and the logical structure of the tool : philosophy, archaeology and the anthropology of technology /
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The Dialectic of Practice and the Logical Structure of the Tool undertakes a critical review of recent trends in the archaeological and anthropological theory of technology from processual neo-positivism and postprocessual relativism to the contemporary French and American anthropology, and the symmetrical theory of material culture. On the basis of a critique of their logical premises and epistemological consequences, it draws on the tradition of Hegelian dialectics in order to propose an alternative understanding of technology as a material social practice within which the subject and the object -the socio-cultural and the natural- are produced concurrently as inter-constituted elements, and they are unified through their mutual negative relation to each other.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (92 pages). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789694055 (ebook) :
Le commerce régional et international au xe siècle en Syrie : d'après le trésor monétaire de Buseyra et d'autres trésors de l'époque /
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This volume presents a study of the treasure of Buseyra, which is preserved in the museum of Deir az-Zour in Syria. These coins offer precious information, not only about a large number of mints but also about the periods and quantities of minting activity in the region.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (420 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789695304 (ebook) :
Digging into the Dark Ages : early medieval public archaeologies /
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What does the 'Dark Ages' mean in contemporary society? Tackling public engagements through archaeological fieldwork, heritage sites and museums, fictional portrayals and art, and increasingly via a broad range of digital media, this is the first-ever dedicated collection exploring the public archaeology of the Early Middle Ages.
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"Available both in print and Open Access"--Home page. :
1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789695281 (ebook) : :
Open access.
Places of memory : spatialised practices of remembrance from prehistory to today /
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This title examines spatialised practices of remembrance and its role in reshaping societies from prehistory to today; it presents a reflection on the creation of memories through the organisation and use of landscapes and spaces that explicitly considers the multiplicity of meanings of the past.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (164 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789696141 (ebook) :
The archaeological dictionary : English-Greek, Greek-English /
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The absence of a specialized bilingual dictionary (or glossary) of terminology which would facilitate the work of both scholars and students of archaeology (and, to a lesser degree, history) has long been noted. Several dictionaries or compact encyclopaedias of archaeological terms have been published in both Greek and English since the 19th century (some of the latter have been translated in Greek as well). All of them however have been written in one of those languages, explaining (quite often with useful images) each term but not providing its equivalent in the other language. It is hoped that the present work will cover this lacuna in international bibliography.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
Parallel title in Greek script. :
1 online resource (xxv, 155 pages) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789698589 (PDF ebook) :
Thorvald's cross : the Viking-age cross-slab 'Kirk Andreas MM 128' and its iconography /
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The 'Manx Crosses', Scandinavian-style gravestones from the Isle of Man, are a unique collection of stone monuments unequalled in the medieval Viking World. Focusing on one particular example, 'Thorvald's cross', this book collates all the available information and presents a new interpretation as to how to understand this remarkable monument.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (77 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789698565 (PDF ebook) :
Ceramic petrography : the interpretation of archaeological pottery & related artefacts in thin section /
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Thin section ceramic petrography is a versatile interdisciplinary analytical tool for the characterization and interpretation of archaeological pottery and related artefacts, including ceramic building materials, refractories and plaster. Using over 200 colour photomicrographs of thin sections from a diverse range of artefacts, archaeological periods and geographic regions, this book illustrates the spectrum of compositional and microstructural phenomena that occur within ancient ceramics under the micro-scope and provides comprehensive guidelines for their study within archaeology. The book is structured according to the main steps involved in the analysis and interpretation of archaeological ceramic thin sections, including classification, characterization, the determination of provenance and the reconstruction of manufacturing technology.
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Also issued in print: 2013. :
1 online resource (251 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789699425 (PDF ebook) :
El tesoro de Regina Turdulorum (Casas de Reina, Badajoz) /
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The Regina Turdulorum Hoard (Casas de Reina, Badajoz) was buried with 818 imitative antoniniani of Divo Claudio type, minted in copper. The vast majority of the coins bear the reverse legend CONSECRATIO. This figure makes the Regina Turdulorum hoard one of the most important in Spain and Portugal. In numismatic terms, the most common reverse type is the funeral pyre, as opposed to the eagle. In addition to this main group, there is a second group, where there are curious imitations that follow various prototypes for the manufacture of the reverse. The study of the posthumous coinage of Claudius II and his imitations represents one of the most complex tasks in ancient numismatics. The work is considerably complicated by the fact that they are highly copied coins, which means that regular issues are very difficult to distinguish from the imitations.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage. :
1 online resource (ii, 87 pages) : illustrations (colour), maps (black and white). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789699418 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
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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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803270258 (PDF ebook) :
Transhumance : papers from the International Association of Landscape Archaeology Conference, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2018 /
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A collection of papers, mostly arising from the Newcastle and Durham conference of the International Association of Landscape Archaeology (2018), explore the practice, impact and archaeology of British and European transhumance, the seasonal grazing of marginal lands by domesticated livestock, usually accompanied by people, often young women.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage.
Conference proceedings. :
1 online resource (x, 128 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803271293 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Archeo.FOSS XIV 2020 : open software, hardware, processes, data and format in archaeological research : proceedings of the 14th international conference 15-17 October 2020 /
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This volume represents the editorial outcome of the 14th edition of ArcheoFOSS international conference, which took place online between 15-17 October 2020. The event has been held annually since 2006 and is dedicated to the theoretical framework and actual application of free and open source software solutions and the promotion and encouragement of the Open Data paradigm for archaeology and, more generally, for Cultural Heritage. This volume represents the approach taken at the conference and the extensive participation it received, with 18 high-level and peer reviewed papers, well distributed in two thematic sections - application cases and development, and open data - contributed by more than 40 Italian and foreign scholars, researchers and freelance archaeologists working in the field of Cultural Heritage.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage.
Conference proceedings. :
1 online resource (viii, 192 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803271255 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.