A painted ridge : rock art and performance in the Maclear District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa /
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The San (Bushmen) practice of rock painting is examined in this text. David Witelson explores a suite of spatially close San rock painting sites in the Maclear District of South Africa's Eastern Cape Province. As a suite, the sites are remarkable because, despite their proximity to each other, they share patterns of similarity and simultaneous difference. They are a microcosm that reflects, in a broad sense, a trend found at other painted sites in South Africa. The bygone and almost unrecorded practice of San rock art is considered relative to ethnographically well-documented and observed forms of San expressive culture. The approach in the book draws on concepts and terminology from the discipline of performance studies to characterise the San practice of image-making as well as to coordinate otherwise disparate ideas about that practice.
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1 online resource (x, 148 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789692457 (PDF ebook) :
Anthropomorphic images in rock art paintings and rock carvings /
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In the realm of rock art, humanlike images appear widely through time and space from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, and for some continents to later, yet still prehistoric, times. The artworks discussed in 'Anthropomorphic Images in Rock Art Paintings and Rock Carvings' range from paintings, engravings or scratchings on cave walls and rock shelters, images pecked into rocky surfaces or upon standing stones, and major sacred sites (among them Gobekli Tepe, Avebury, Stonehenge, and the Palaeolithic Chauvet Cave) in which the possibility exists of recovery of the meanings intended by the artists and sculptors.
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1 online resource :
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Excavation, analysis and interpretation of early Bronze Age barrows at Guiting Power, Gloucestershire /
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Excavation, Analysis and Interpretation of Early Bronze Age Barrows at Guiting Power, Gloucestershire covers the full excavation, analysis and interpretation of two early Bronze Age round barrows at Guiting Power in the Cotswolds, a region where investigation and protection of such sites have been extremely poor, with many barrows unnecessarily lost to erosion, and with most existing excavation partial, and of low quality. One monument, Guiting Power 1, typical of many others in the region in terms of general form, was investigated to assess how far surviving evidence could be used to indicate original structure, as a basis for discussion of function as a funerary and ritual site. The project is paired with the full excavation of a larger round barrow, of similar date, nearby, at Guiting Power 3 in the valley below.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (ii, 372 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) :
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Proceedings of the 3rd Meeting of the Association of Ground Stone Tools Research /
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The papers in this volume focus especially on the relationship between ground stone artefacts and foodways and include archaeological and ethnographic case studies ranging from the Palaeolithic to the current era, and geographically from Africa to Europe and Asia.
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Also issued in print: 2022.
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1 online resource (xviii, 252 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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La séquence paléolithique de Karain E (Antalya, Turquie) : analyses techniques et typologiques (1989-2009) /
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The long Paleolithic sequence of Karain (Antalya, Turkey) began around 500,000 years ago and continued until the final Paleolithic around 10,000 BC. This volume presents all the cultural and technical variations during this immense period, situated in a context which joins Africa, Asia, and Europe.
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1 online resource (90 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Foragers in the middle Limpopo Valley : trade, place-making, and social complexity /
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Foragers were present in the Limpopo Valley (South Africa) before the arrival of farmers and not only witnessed but also participated in local systems leading to the appearance of a complex society. Despite numerous studies in the valley, forager involvement in socio-political developments has been, until now, largely ignored.
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1 online resource (viii, 125 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Bronze Age tell communities in context : an exploration into culture, society, and the study of European prehistory.
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This is the second part of a study on Bronze Age tells and on our approaches towards an understanding of this fascinating way of life, drawing on the material remains of long-term architectural stability and references back to ancestral place.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (viii, 237 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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Classification of lithic artefacts from the British Late Glacial and Holocene periods /
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This volume offers a system for the hierarchical classification of British lithic artefacts from the Late Glacial and Holocene periods, and it is hoped that it may find use as a guide book for, for example, archaeology students, museum staff, non-specialist archaeologists, local archaeology groups and lay enthusiasts.
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"The eBook edition of this publication is available in Open Access, supported by Historic Environment Scotland."--Homepage. :
1 online resource (viii, 87 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Image and identity in the ancient Near East : papers in memoriam Pierre Amiet /
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This volume, consisting of two parts, gathers papers in honour of Pierre Amiet. Part 1 analyses the body as a biological entity as well as a social, sexual and cultural identity (persona). Part 2 includes articles closely related to the specialisms of Amiet: glyptics, state formation, and the organisation of craftsmen and statuary.
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9781803271231 (PDF ebook) :
Use of space and domestic areas : functional organisation and social strategies : proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France).
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The organization of inhabited space is the direct expression of the deep integration of societies with their cultural and natural environment. Contributions in this volume show the progress of research in terms of understanding the use of space on different scales, from the household to the village, focusing on Neolithic and Bronze Age contexts.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
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1 online resource (iv, 137 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Abstractions based on circles : papers on prehistoric rock art presented to Stan Beckensall on his 90th birthday /
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Stan Beckensall is renowned for his work, done on an entirely amateur basis, discovering, recording and interpreting Atlantic rock art in his home county of Northumberland and beyond. Presented on his 90th birthday, this diverse and stimulating collection of papers celebrates his crucial contribution to rock art studies, and looks to the future.
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Also issued in print: 2022.
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1 online resource (vi, 181 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete : a perspective from archaeomythology and modern matriarchal studies /
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This text makes a compelling case for a matriarchal Bronze Age Crete. It is acknowledged that the preeminent deity was a Female Divine, and that women played a major role in Cretan society, but there is a lively, ongoing debate regarding the centrality of women in Bronze Age Crete. a gap in the scholarly literature which this book seeks to fill.
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1 online resource (xix, 255 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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Ancient weapons of Oman.
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Omani men carried personal weapons until relatively recently. Swords and daggers were part of daily life attire and are still worn in social events. This book describes all the main types of Omani edged weapons, their origin, structure and accessories, with supporting illustrations and references to examples from museums and private collections.
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1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
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9781803270319 (PDF ebook) :
Mortuary differentiation and social structure in the Middle Helladic Argolid, 2000-1500 B.C /
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In this volume the archaeological, anthropological and radiocarbon data from selected sites of the Middle Helladic period are integrated to determine if there was variation between individual burials, groupings and cemeteries and to reconstruct change through time. This work was done for selective Argive sites, namely Lerna, Asine and Aspis.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (422 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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9781789696264 (PDF ebook) :
Well met! : friends and travelling companions of Rev. Thomas Bowles : journals of travels in Egypt, Petra and the Near East, 1854 /
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This volume follows Rev. Thomas Bowles on his travels from Sri Lanka to Egypt and the Levant. His travel journals record the places seen and the often harsh travel conditions. Bowles' notes are amplified by chapters offering additional context and biographies for the broad cross-section of fascinating people encountered along the way.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
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9781803274843 (PDF ebook) :
The usage of ochre at the verge of Neolithisation from the Near East to the Carpathian Basin /
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This volume explores the cultural meaning of ochre among the societies of the Late Epipalaeolithic/Mesolithic and the Early Neolithic from the Levant to the Carpathian Basin.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) :
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Early Metallurgy of the Persian Gulf : Technology, Trade, and the Bronze Age World /
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This volume examines the earliest production and exchange of copper and its alloys in the Persian Gulf, a major metal supply route for the Bronze Age societies of Western Asia. Weeks addresses the geological and technological background to copper production in southeastern Arabia and contextualizes evidence for major fluctuations in prehistoric copper production. The core of the volume contists of compositional and isotopic analyses. The relationship between specialized copper production, exchange, and the development of social complexity in early Arabia is examined, and the author addresses the broader archaeological issue of the Bronze Age tin trade, which linked vast areas of Western Asia, from the Indo-Iranian borderlands to the Aegean, in the third millennium BC.
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The Assyrian rock relief at Yagmur (Evrihan) in the Tur Abdin /
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This study publishes a newly discovered rock relief in the Mazidagi Plain, at the western end of the Tur Abdin in southeastern Turkey. The preserved remains include an image of an Assyrian king, divine symbols and traces of three panels of cuneiform inscription.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (54 pages) : illustrations (colour), map (colour) :
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9781803274232 (PDF ebook) :
Sans sépulture : modalités et enjeux de la privation de funérailles de la préhistoire à nos jours /
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This volume gathers contributions from archaeologists, anthropologists and historians to present a rich interdisciplinary and diachronic reflection on the diversity of motivations that lead to the intentional deprivation of funerals.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (vi, 128 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) :
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Roman funerary rituals in Mutina (Modena, Italy) /
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This study presents the results of a research project undertaken in collaboration with the University of Huddersfield. The project sought to identify and reconstruct the funerary space and rituals of the necropolis in Mutina (now Modena) in the period between the first century BC and second century AD.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
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9781803274805 (PDF ebook) :