Household archaeology in Ancient Israel and beyon d
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Despite the large number of well-preserved domestic contexts in Bronze and Iron Age sites, household archaeology has not been a common approach to studying the material culture of Ancient Israel. Until recently, the dictates of "Biblical Archaeology" led to a narrow set of questions that ignored issues such as gender, status and production within the household. The present volume, which grew out of a session at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, attempts to redress this issue. The seventeen papers herein reflect innovative viewpoints on the theory and praxis of household archaeology in this region. The next step in household research is presented here, with the use of tailor-made data collection strategies designed to answer specific questions posed by household archaeology. \'The neglect of households and the archaeology of the activities of its members are ambitiously attended to in this volume. Its exceptional breadth of various modes of inquiry coupled with the application thereof justifies the household as a topic of discussion. I would highly recommend this book for institutions, libraries, scholars, and students interested in any aspect of daily life in the southern Levant, and I very much look forward to the future research projects it will inspire.\' Cynthia Shafer-Elliot, William Jessup University \'...as a whole the work is impressive, and most contributions are commendable for their sophistication in engaging interdisciplinary research in order to understand the nature and function of households in ancient Israel and surrounding areas.\' Carol Meyers, Duke University
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Papers from a session at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research held in Boston, Mass, Nov. 2008. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-446) and index. :
9789004206267 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Agia varvara-Almyras : an Iron Age copper smelting site in Cyprus /
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The Iron Age copper smelting site situated near the Cypriot village Agia Varvara is of particular importance among the ancient copper processing places in the Near East because it has revealed spatial as well as technological aspects of copper production in a hitherto rarely-seen depth of detail. This title presents the results of a comprehensive post-excavation analysis of the stratigraphy (part I), also of the geology, metallurgical materials (furnaces, tuyeres), finds (pottery, furnace lining, stone tools), as well as a synthesis of the copper smelting technology at Agia Varvara-Almyras (part II). The excavation analysis not only focuses on pyrotechnical information from individual furnaces, but also provides a detailed study of the spatial organisation as well as of the living conditions on the smelting site.
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Previous edition issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xii, 294 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes discography and index. :
9781784918163 (ebook) :
Glass and glass production in the Near East during the Iron Age period : evidence from objects, texts and chemical analysis /
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This text examines the history of glass in Iron Age Mesopotamia and neighbouring regions (1000-539 BCE). This monograph covers this region and period comprehensively and in detail.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (viii, 316 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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9781789691559 (ebook) :
Irish late Iron Age equestrian equipment in its insular and continental context /
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This is the first practical archaeological study of Irish Iron Age lorinery. The horse and associated equipment were very much at the heart of the social changes set in motion by contact with the Roman Empire; the examination of the snaffles and bosals allows us to bring the people of the Late Iron Age in Ireland into focus.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (xii, 278 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789699920 (PDF ebook) :
Making a mint : comparative studies in Late Iron Age coin mould /
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This book presents the first large-scale comparative study of Iron Age coin mould. The subject of Iron Age minting techniques is an important one that reveals a great deal about Iron Age political organisation and economy but which, until now, has remained largely unreported. In addition to examining in detail approximately 20% of all the coin mould ever found, the book also addresses the lack of an agreed reporting protocol, the main and considerable obstacle to progress in this field. In addition to the detailed interpretation of all mould studied the volume also serves as a field guide to best practice in dealing with new material and finds.
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Also issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784914073 (ebook) :
Iron Age hillfort defences and the tactics of sling warfare /
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Sling accuracy at a hillfort is measured here for the first time, in a controlled experiment comparing attack and defence across single and developed ramparts.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) :
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9781784914110 (ebook) :
Controlling colours : function and meaning of colour in the British Iron Age /
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Colour defines our material world, operates as a communication tool and creates meaning. This book revisits well known and well documented sites or artefacts and explores their colours and colour connotations by looking at various contexts such as processes, landscape, iconography, body decoration or the colour connotations of death.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784912260 (PDF ebook) :
Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlement along the Empingham to Hannington pipeline in Northamptonshire and Rutland /
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This volume brings together reports on excavations by Northamtonshire Archaeology (now MOLA) in the south-east Midlands region. 19 sites were investigated, dating primarily to the Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784915353 (ebook) :
Étude paléoanthropologique et analyse des rituels funéraires de deux sites laténiens valaisans : Randogne-Bluche et Sion-Parking des Remparts /
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An investigation into Second Iron Age funerary practices in southern Switzerland through the study of two recently discovered necropolises at Randogne-Bluche and Sion-Parking des Remparts.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (x, 240 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
9781784919382 (ebook) :
Country in the city : agricultural functions of protohistoric urban settlements (Aegean and Western Mediterranean) /
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Assembles contributions on the place of agricultural and Early Iron Age Mediterranean, concentrating on the second-millennium Aegean and the protohistoric north-western Mediterranean.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (iv, 200 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
9781789691337 (ebook) :
Demography and migration : population trajectories from the Neolithic to the Iron Age : proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France).
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This volume presents combined proceedings of two complementary sessions of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (Paris, 2018). These sessions aimed to identify demographic variations during the Neolithic and Bronze Age and to question their causes while avoiding the potential taphonomic and chronological biases affecting the documentation.
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Also issued in print: 2020.
"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage.
Conference proceedings. :
1 online resource (180 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789696660 (ebook) :