Perchement et réalités fortifiées en Méditerranée et en Europe, véme-xéme siecles = Fortified hilltop settlements in the Mediterranean and in Europe (5th-10th centuries) /
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The result of an international congress (Roquebrune-sur-Argens, October 2019) about the fortified hilltop settlements of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, papers present both brand new data and syntheses on wide contexts throughout the European continent, the Mediterranean basin and beyond.
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Also issued in print: 2023.
Selected conference papers. :
1 online resource (474 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803272429 (PDF ebook) :
Western Mesoamerican calendars and writing systems : proceedings of the Copenhagen Roundtable /
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Mesoamerica is one of the few places to witness the independent invention of writing. Bringing together new research, papers discuss the writing systems of Teotihuacan, Mixteca Baja, the Epiclassic period and Aztec writing of the Postclassic. These writing systems represent more than a millennium of written records and literacy in Mesoamerica.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (xii, 172 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803274867 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Homines, funera, astra 3-4 : the multiple faces of death and burial : proceedings of the International Symposium on Funerary Anthropology, '1 Decembrie 1918' University (Alba Iulia...
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The third volume of the Homines, Funera, Astra series gathers works presented at the third and fourth editions of the International Symposium on Funerary Archaeology: Death and Fire in Ancient Times (15-18 September 2013), and Time and Cause of Death from Prehistory to the Middle Ages (21-23 September 2014), both held at the '1 Decembrie 1918' University in Alba Iulia, Romania. The contributions focus on two central topics regarding past funerary behaviour in Central and South-Eastern Europe: cremation, and cause and time of death.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (182 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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9781803275260 (PDF ebook) :
Gandhāran art in its Buddhist context : papers from the Fifth International Workshop of the Gandhāra Connections Project, University of Oxford, 21st-23rd March, 2022 /
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This edited volume considers Gandharan art in relation to its religious contexts and meanings within ancient Buddhism. Addressing the responses of patrons and worshippers at the monasteries and shrines of Gandhara, papers seek to understand more about why Gandharan art was made and what its iconographical repertoire meant to ancient viewers.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (viii, 87 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803274744 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Europa Postmediaevalis 2022 : connections and networking /
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26 contributions divided into five thematic sections consider post-medieval pottery from the perspectives of local, regional and long-distance trade. Papers show the importance of connections and networking and provide an opportunity to compare concrete find situations across Europe - in both coastal as well as landlocked states.
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At foot of title: Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology of the Cas, Prague, StrategyAV21, Centre for the Processing, Documentation and Recording of Archaeological Finds.
Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
Specialized. :
9781803274904 (PDF ebook) :
TRADE : Transformations of Adriatic Europe (2nd-9th centuries AD) : proceedings of the conference in Zadar, 11th-13th February 2016 /
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Spanning the period between the 2nd and 9th centuries, this volume collects 45 papers dealing with the Adriatic area that aim to create a new dataset for the historical reconstruction of processes related to forms of settlement, aspects of production, and trade and the movement of pottery and other craft products between its two coasts.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803271736 (PDF ebook) :