Tinqueux 'la haubette' (Marne, France) : un site exceptionnel du Néolithique ancien /
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This volume presents the results of archaeological work at the Neolithic site of Tinqueux 'la Haubette' (Marne) dated to the 'Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain' (5000-4700 cal. BC). The site comprises five houses, a series of pits, and the remains of an oven. The analyses reveal hitherto unknown facets of the BVSG culture.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
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1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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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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1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations, maps :
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Challenging preconceptions of the European Iron Age : essays in honour of Professor John Collis /
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This collection of essays by leading researchers in the archaeology of the European Iron Age pays tribute to Professor John Collis who, since the 1960s, has been involved in investigating and enriching our understanding of Iron Age society and, crucially, questioning the status quo of our narratives about the past.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (172 pages) : illustrations :
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Fractures in knapping /
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This text is for students and practitioners of not only knapping, lithic technology and archaeology, but also of fractography and fracture mechanics.
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Dissent with modification : human origins, palaeolithic archaeology and evolutionary anthropology in Britain 1859-1901 /
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The author's original aim in writing this work was to chronicle the story of a very specific debate in human evolutionary studies that took place between the late 1880s and the 1930s - the 'eolith' debate that had to do with small, natural stones whose shape and edges suggested to our earliest ancestors their use as tools. These were the most primitive of tools, thought to date to the very beginning of human cultural evolution, and therefore suited to our very earliest ancestors. The more the author researched this topic the more he realised that its explanation was rooted in a number of research questions which today are considered separate subjects, and, gradually, a book that was to be about a forgotten Palaeolithic debate became a book that was just as much about 'Morlocks', stone tools, racial difference, and the Anthropological Society of London.
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Beyond the ice : Creswell Crags and its place in a wider European context /
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Since the discovery of Britain's first Ice Age cave art in 2003, the site of Creswell Crags has gained international recognition as one of Britain's leading Ice Age sites. For the first time the history of the site is brought together in one accessible volume. Documenting the early fieldwork at the site it uncovers antiquarian discoveries such as the famous horse engraving, excavations in the 1920s that saw our understanding of our early ancestors take shape, discusses the demise of the Neanderthals and the emergence of Modern Man, and looks at how Creswell Crags grew as a heritage attraction of potential World Heritage Status.
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Creating the human past : an epistemology of pleistocene archaeology /
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This text examines systematically both the theoretical and practical issues that have characterized the discipline over the past two centuries. Some of the historically most consequential mistakes in archaeology are dissected and explained, together with the effects of the related controversies. The theoretical basis of the discipline is deliberated in some detail, leading to the diagnosis that there are in fact numerous archaeologies, all with different notions of commensurability, ideologies, and purposes. Their various perspectives of what archaeology is and does are considered and the range of views of the human past is illuminated in this book.
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World archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum : a characterization /
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'World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum' introduces the range, history and significance of the archaeological collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. In 29 newly-commissioned essays written by a specialist team, the volume explores more than 136,000 artefacts from 145 countries, from the Stone Age to the modern period, and from England to Easter Island. Pioneering a new approach in museum studies, this landmark volume is an essential reference work for archaeologists around the world, and a unique introduction to the archaeological collections of one of the world's most famous museums.
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Derelict stone buildings of the Black Mountains Massif /
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This volume is based on several years of author's fieldwork in the valleys of the Black Mountains in South East Wales. Hodges had personal knowledge of the area having worked there in his professional capacity as a drystone waller. The aim of the fieldwork was to locate all the sites of derelict stone buildings within the designated upland study area of approximately 140 square kilometres. Initial research indicated that the area had not been previously surveyed to any great extent and the presence of derelict stone buildings that existed in the valleys was not a characteristic of the surrounding lower terrain. Using a combination of documentary evidence and fieldwork, a total of 549 potential sites were identified comprising houses, barns, other ancillary buildings and sheepfolds; 499 separate structures were located on the ground.
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Connecting networks : characterising contact by measuring lithic exchange in the European neolithic /
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This volume brings together a group of peer reviewed papers, most of them presented at a workshop held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. The event took place on 15-17 October 2011 and was part of the European Research Council (ERC) funded project Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe (EUROEVOL 2010-2015).
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Cannibalism in the linear pottery culture : the human remains from Herxheim /
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The Herxheim enclosure, located in the German region of Palatinate, is one of the major discoveries of the last two decades regarding the Linear Pottery Culture, and probably one of the most significant in advancing understanding of how this culture ended. The spectacular deposits, mostly composed of human remains, recovered on the occasion of the two excavation campaigns carried out on the site, grabbed people's attention and at the same time raised several questions regarding their interpretation, which had so far mostly hesitated between peculiar funerary practices, war and cannibalism. The authors provide here an extensive study of the human remains found at Herxheim, focusing mainly on those recovered during the 2005-2010 excavation campaign.
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Ritual in Late Bronze Age Ireland : material culture, practices, landscape setting and social context /
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This text develops a new perspective on Late Bronze Age (LBA) Ireland by identifying and analysing patterns of ritual practice in the archaeological record. The bookends of this study are the introduction and proliferation of iron technology beginning around 600 BC. Therefore, it is societal change related to new technology which defines the period discussed as the Irish Late Bronze Age (LBA) herein.
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Analysis of the economic foundations supporting the social supremacy of the Beaker groups : proceedings of the XVII UISPP World Congress (1-7 September, Burgos, Spain).
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Proceedings of the UISPP 2014 session 'Analysis of the economic foundations supporting the social supremacy of the Beaker groups'. Papers presented at this session suggesting that Beaker groups may have controlled certain products and technologies.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
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A dignified passage through the gates of Hades : the burial custom of cremation and the warrior order of Ancient Eleutherna /
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This work examines the burial customs of cremation of the Warrior Order of Ancient Eleutherna.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
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Late Bronze Age flintworking from ritual zones in Southern Scandinavia /
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This work is devoted to flintworking encountered in the so-called cult houses and ritual zones from the Late Bronze Age in southern Scandinavia, where thousands of barrows were built in the period from the Neolithic to the end of the Early Bronze Age.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
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Enfoques metodológicos en el estudio de los asentamientos fortificados de la edad del hierro : aproximación teórica a la metodología de estudio sobre la defensa del territorio en l...
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This volume focuses on the main methodological perspectives currently existing in studies on Iron Age fortified settlements.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
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9781784914493 (ebook) :
Les sépultures mésolithiques de Téviec et Hoedic : révisions bioarchéologiques /
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This work presents the long lacking bioarchaeological review study of the Teviec and Hoedic graves, located in Brittany and excavated from 1928 to 1934 by Marthe and Saint-Just Péquart.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
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Narratives and journeys in rock art : a reader /
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Why publish a reader? Today, it is relatively easy and convenient to switch on your computer and download an academic paper. However, as many scholars have experienced, historic references are difficult to access. Moreover, some are now lost and are merely references in later papers. This can be frustrating. This text provides a series of papers from all over the world that extend as far back as the 1970s when rock art research was in its infancy. The papers presented in the reader reflect the development in the various approaches that have influenced advancing scholarly research.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xiv, 686 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784915612 (ebook) :
Le massif de Lovo, sur les traces du royaume de Kongo.
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Unlike the Sahara or Southern Africa, the rock art of Central Africa is still largely unknown today. Crossing ethnological, historical, archaeological and mythological points of view, this book illustrates that rock art played an important part in Kongo culture.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (xiv, 196 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784916350 (ebook) :
Current approaches to collective burials in the late European prehistory : proceedings of the XVII UISPP World Congress (1-7 September 2014, Burgos, Spain).
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The articles in this volume provide examples of different approaches currently being developed on Prehistoric collective burials of southern Europe, mostly focusing on case studies, but also including contributions of a more methodological scope.
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Previously issued in print: 2017.
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9781784917227 (ebook) :