Medieval Birmingham : people and places, 1070-1553 /
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'Medieval Birmingham' attempts to show through documentary and archaeological evidence how it evolved from a village into its present role as the second city of the United Kingdom. It looks at the lives of the Bermingham family, who owned the town and ruled the townsmen. It looks at their retinue, who held surrounding manors in the area. It tells of the various wars both served in - civil and overseas. The medieval period was a time when the Christian church had great power, and its role in the manor is told, examining the canons of the priory, the friars and the parish priests. Probably the most important element were the inhabitants of the town, for it was they that built it up through trade, and their lives, occupations and physical surroundings form the final section of the book.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (342 pages) : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) :
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9781803273099 (PDF ebook) :
Settlement, communication and exchange around the western Carpathians : international workshop held at the Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, October 27-28,...
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During the international conference 'Settlement, Communication and Exchange around the Western Carpathians' held in Kraków in October 2012, attention was focused on the complex issues of long-term cultural change in the populations surrounding the Western Carpathians, with the aim of striking a balance between local cultural dynamics, subsistence economy and the alleged importance of far-reaching contacts, and communication and exchange involved in this process. Specialists from Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the United States met and discussed for two days their archaeological findings relating to questions of (Trans)Carpathian communication, settlement patterns, and agricultural and technological changes that occurred (mainly) during the Neolithic and Bronze Age.
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Also issued in print: 2014.
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1 online resource (ii, 403 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
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9781784910372 (PDF ebook) :
The mysterious wall paintings of Teleilat Ghassul, Jordan : in context /
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This volume is primarily concerned with the re-analysis of the wall paintings from the Jordanian Chalcolithic period (ca. 4700-3700 BC) settlement site of Teleilat Ghassul, first excavated in 1929 by scholars from the Pontifical Biblical Institute Rome and latterly by Australians from the University of Sydney. The seven major paintings were re-analysed using a methodology based on contextualisation, digital reconstruction, experimental replication and subject analysis.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784911713 (PDF ebook) :
'A Mersshy Contree Called Holdernesse' : excavations on the route of a national grid pipeline in Holderness, East Yorkshire : rural life in the Claylands to the East of the Yorkshi...
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26 sites were excavated on the route of a National Grid pipeline across Holderness, East Yorkshire. These included an early Mesolithic flint-working area, near Sproatley. In situ deposits of this age are rare, and the site is a significant addition to understanding of the post-glacial development of the wider region. Later phases of this site included possible Bronze Age round barrows and an Iron Age square barrow. Elsewhere on the pipeline route, diagnostic Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age flints, as well as Bronze Age pottery, provide evidence of activity in these periods.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784913144 (ebook) :
Reinterpreting chronology and society at the mortuary complex of Jebel Moya (Sudan) /
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Jebel Moya (south-central Sudan) is the largest known pastoral cemetery in sub-Saharan Africa with more than 3100 excavated human burials. This research revises our understanding of Jebel Moya and its context.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784914325 (ebook) :
Siruthavoor : an Iron Age-early historical burial site, Tamil Nadu, South India /
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This study aims at using and understanding man-land relationships in order to better comprehend the megalithic burials of Tamil Nadu.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784914363 (ebook) :
Materials, productions, exchange network and their impact on the societies of Neolithic Europe ; proceedings of the XVII UISPP World Congress (1-7 September 2014, Burgos, Spain).
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This edited volume examines the impact on societies in Neolithic Europe of materials, productions and exchange networks.
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Previously issued in print: 2017.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784915254 (ebook) :
The nature and origin of the cult of Silvanus in the Roman provinces of Dalmatia and Pannonia /
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This volume deals with the cult of Silvanus and presents the evidence and current state of research of the cult in Dalmatia and Pannonia to the wider scholarly community. New perceptions on the subject are proposed and a fresh standpoint from which certain problems may be (re)addressed is presented.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784915131 (ebook) :
Excavations at the Mycenaean Cemetery at Aigion - 1967 : rescue excavations by the late Ephor of Antiquities, E. Mastrokostas /
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In this monograph the authors present the finds of four Mycenaean chamber tombs, from the rescue excavation of Ephor Mastrokostas at Aigion in 1967.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (colour) :
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9781784916190 (ebook) :
Tarascan copper metallurgy : a multiapproach perspective /
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This is a study which provides valuable insights into the nature of metal production and the development of technology and political economy in ancient Mesoamerica, offering a contribution to general anthropological theories of the emergence of social complexity.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (168 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784916268 (ebook) :
The lamps of late antiquity from Rhodes : 3rd-7th centuries AD /
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This study focuses on the recording, study and publication of the corpus of the Late Antique lamps dating from the 3rd to the 7th centuries as found in rescue excavations in the town of Rhodes. The aim here is to present the diachronic changes in the artistic sensibility and preferences of this particular market.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (ii, 676 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
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9781784917470 (ebook) :
The Hippodrome of Gerasa : a provincial Roman circus /
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This book presents the study of Roman circuses and the complex fieldwork for the restoration of the Jarash Hippodrome, a work in progress abruptly ended by the untimely death of Antoni A. Ostrasz in 1996. It aims to provide researchers as well as restorers of ancient monuments with unparalleled insights of architectural studies for anastyloses.
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1 online resource (504 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784918149 (ebook) :
People in the mountains : current approaches to the archaeology of mountainous landscapes /
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Mountain landscapes were first exploited by farming populations at the very beginning of the Neolithic. However, there are controversies regarding when and where these specific types of human behaviour developed as a result of adaptation processes to these special environments. The aim of this book is to present research results from different scientific contexts. To discuss these issues, and to study different aspects of human activity in the mountains and adjacent regions we incorporate archaeological, botanical, zooarchaeological and ethnological information.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784918187 (ebook) :
Cycladic archaeology and research : new approaches and discoveries /
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Recent excavations and new theoretical approaches are changing our view of the Cyclades. This volume aims to share these recent developments with a broader, international audience. Essays have been carefully selected as representing some of the most important recent work and include significant previously-unpublished material.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784918101 (ebook) :
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) :
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Includes discography and index. :
9781784918163 (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) :
How did the Persian king of kings get his wine? : the upper Tigris in antiquity (c.700 BCE to 636 CE) /
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This title explores the upper valley of the Tigris during antiquity. The area is little known to scholarship, and study is currently handicapped by the security situation in southeast Turkey and by the completion during 2018 of the Ilisu dam. The reservoir being created will drown a large part of the valley and will destroy many archaeological sites, some of which have not been investigated. The course of the upper Tigris discussed here is the section from Mosul up to its source north of Diyarbakir; the monograph describes the history of the river valley from the end of the Late Assyrian empire through to the Arab conquests, thus including the conflicts between Rome and Persia. It considers the transport network by river and road and provides an assessment of the damage to cultural heritage caused both by the Saddam dam (also known as the Eski Mosul dam) in Iraq and by the Ilisu dam in south-east Turkey.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (iv, 148 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784919573 (ebook) :
Archaeological explorations in Syria 2000-2011 : proceedings of ISCACH-Beirut 2015 /
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Syria has been a major crossroads of civilizations in the ancient Near East since the dawn of human kind. This volume brings together scholars involved in archaeological activities in Syria and focusses on the scientific aspects of each explored site, allowing researchers to examine in detail each heritage site, its characteristics and identity.
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Previously issued in print: 2018.
Conference proceedings. :
1 online resource (iv, 452 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784919481 (ebook) :
Rural cult centres in the Hauran as part of a broader network of the Near East (100 BC-AD 300) /
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This is a comprehensive multidisciplinary analysis of rural cult centres in the Hauran (southern Syria) from the pre-Roman to the Roman period (100 BC-AD 300). This volume re-evaluates the significance of contacts between the elite of the Hauran and other cultures of the Near East in shaping cult sites.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784919559 (ebook) :
Dosariyah : an Arabian neolithic coastal community in the Central Gulf /
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This monograph describes the work carried out by the joint German-Saudi Dosariyah Archaeological Research Project (DARP) between 2010 and 2014 at Dosariyah, located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xii, 498 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784919634 (ebook) :