Quarrying in western Norway : an archaeological study of production and distribution in the Viking period and Middle Ages /
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The theme of this study is the large-scale exploitation of different stone products that took place in Norway during the Viking age and the Middle Ages (c. AD 800-1500). The research is based on analyses of two different quarry landscapes in western Norway: the quernstone quarries in Hyllestad, Sogn og Fjordane, and the bakestone quarries in Olve and Hatlestrand, Hordaland. The centre of attention is the production of utility artefacts: quernstones, millstones and bakestones, as well as more symbolic products such as stone crosses.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784911034 (PDF ebook) :
Stone carving of the Hospitaller period in Rhodes : displaced pieces and fragments /
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This work presents 230 stone carvings of the Hospitaller period in Rhodes (1309-1522), which for various reasons are no longer in their original setting.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781784914790 (ebook) :
The death of the maiden in classical Athens /
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This study examines the death of maidens in classical Athens, combining the study of Attic funerary iconography with research on classical Attic maiden burials, funerary inscriptions, tragic plays, as well as the relevant Attic myths. The iconography of funerary reliefs focuses on the idealised image of the deceased maiden, as well as the powerful bonds of love and kinship that unite her with the members of her family, whereas the iconography of vases emphasises the premature death of the maiden, the pain of loss and mourning felt by her family, as well as the observance of the indispensable funerary rites concerning her burial and 'tomb cult'.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784915476 (ebook) :
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) :
Considering creativity : creativity, knowledge and practice in Bronze Age Europe /
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The papers in this volume view Bronze Age objects through the lens of creativity in order to offer fresh insights into the interaction between people and the world, as well as the individual and cultural processes that lie behind creative expression.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (x, 164 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784917555 (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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9781784918200 (ebook) :
Iron oxide rock artefacts in Mesopotamia c. 2600-1200 BC : an interdisciplinary study of hematite, goethite and magnetite objects /
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The flourishing civilisations of Mesopotamia imported all kinds of materials from the surrounding regions. Iron oxide rock was very popular for weight stones and cylinder seals around 2000 BC. This research aims to determine the region of origin for the raw material, what made people start using iron oxide rock, and what led them to stop using it.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (vi, 258 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784919658 (ebook) :
Cultural interactions during the Zhou period (c. 1000-350 BC) : a study of networks from the Suizao corridor /
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This volume concerns the cultural interactions during the Zhou period of China (c. 1000-350 BCE) between the Suizao corridor (near the present-day Yangtze River region) and its contemporaries within or outside the Zhou realm. It mainly, but not exclusively, concentrates on bronze ritual vessels from the Suizao corridor.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (vi, 140 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789690552 (ebook) :
Thurrock's deeper past : a confluence of time : the archaeology of the borough of Thurrock, Essex, from the last Ice Age to the establishment of the English kingdoms /
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This volume looks at the evidence for human activity in Thurrock and this part of the Thames estuary since the last Ice Age, and how the river crossing point here has been of great importance to the development of human settlement and trade in the British Isles.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (vi, 200 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps :
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9781789691122 (ebook) :
The pioneer burial : a high-status Anglian warrior burial from Wollaston Northamptonshire /
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Excavations at Wollaston Quarry, near Wellingborough, uncovered a single late 7th century grave, the Pioneer burial. The burial contained artefacts indicative of very high status, with the early to middle Saxon helmet being at the time only the fourth to have been recovered from a burial in England.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (viii, 70 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789691207 (ebook) :
Practices of personal adornment in Neolithic Greece /
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The objective of this text is the reconsideration of the practices of personal adornment during the Neolithic period in Greece, through the assemblage, extensive bibliographic documentation, and critical evaluation of all the available data deriving from more than a hundred sites in the mainland and the Aegean islands.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (xxxvi, 596 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789691146 (ebook) :
Late prehistoric fortifications in Europe : defense, symbolic and territorial aspects from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Age : proceedings of the International colloquium 'FortMetal...
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This book presents 19 papers from the International Colloquium 'FortMetalAges' (Portugal, 2017); they discuss different interpretive ideas for defensive structures whose construction had necessitated large investment, present new case studies, and conduct comparative analysis between different regions and periods (Chalcolithic to Iron Age).
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"Available both in print and Open Access"--Home page.
Conference proceedings. :
1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) :
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9781789692556 (ebook) : :
Open access.
The lost abbey of Eynsham /
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Eynsham was one of the few religious foundations in England in continuous use from the late Saxon period to the Dissolution. This book aims to rescue this important abbey from obscurity by summarising its history and examining its material remains, most of which have never been published before.
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1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations :
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9781789692518 (PDF ebook) :
La naissance des cités-royaumes Cypriotes /
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This book analyses the causes, characteristics and chronology behind the emergence of Iron Age Cypriot city-kingdoms. It suggests the received autochthonous theory is not supported by archaeological or textual evidence, and posits a more nuanced variant of the Phoenician theory, placing Cyprus as a relay point between the Levant and Aegean worlds.
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Also issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (168 pages) :
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9781789693485 (ebook) :
The genesis of the textile industry from adorned nudity to ritual regalia : the changing role of fibre crafts and their evolving techniques of manufacture in the ancient Near East...
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The Genesis of the Textile Industry from Adorned Nudity to Ritual Regalia documents and evaluates the changing role of fibre crafts and their evolving techniques of manufacture and also their ever-increasing wider application in the lives of the inhabitants of the earliest villages of the Ancient Near East. It is a broad-spectrum enquiry into fibre working in a broad swathe from Mesopotamia across Persia and Anatolia to the Nile Valley. It focuses, however, on the southern Levant from incipient sedentism in the Natufian culture, c. 13,000 cal BCE to the Ghassulian culture, c. 4500-3800/3700 cal BCE. This is the first comprehensive study addressing the fibre technologies of the southern Levant on a long chronological axis. Currently, fibre crafts play only a minor role in archaeological thinking.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (x, 323 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789694499 (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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9781789696486 (PDF ebook) :
Ex Asia et Syria : Oriental religions in the Roman Central Balkans /
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This title examines the cults of Asia Minor and Syrian origin in the Roman provinces of the Central Balkans. The author analyses all hitherto known epigraphical and archaeological material attesting to the presence of the cults in that region, a subject yet to be the object of serious scholarly study.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789699142 (PDF ebook) :
Man and bird in the Palaeolithic of Western Europe /
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This text considers the nature of the interaction between birds and hunter-gatherers in Western Europe. It examines aspects of avian behaviour and the qualities targeted at different periods by hunter-gatherers, who recognised the utility of the diversity of avian groups in various applications of daily life and thought.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (iv, 149 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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9781789699104 (PDF ebook) :
Tres usurpadores godos : tres estudios sobre la tiranía en el reino visigodo de Toledo /
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This text presents a study of three famous usurpations of the Visigothic period: the uprising of Prince Hermenegild (579-585); the rebellion of Duke Argimundo at the beginning of the reign of Recaredo; and Duke Theudemirus and the role he played in the transmission of power between Visigoths and Arabs after the fall of the kingdom of Toledo.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage. :
1 online resource (xii, 428 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789699609 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Archeologia dell'architettura religiosa e forme di potere all'Isola d'Elba tra XI e XII secolo /
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This study is a historical archaeological analysis of a territorial area including the Island of Elba, Monte Pisano and the neighboring plain, using the methodology of 'light' archeology: stratigraphic reading of the elevations and reading of the historical landscape.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (xi, 123 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803271989 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.