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). :
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9781789691337 (ebook) :
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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9781789693607 (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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9781789696660 (ebook) :
Invisible connections : an archaeometallurgical analysis of the Bronze Age metalwork from the Egyptian Museum of the University of Leipzig /
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The Egyptian Museum of the University of Leipzig has the largest university collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts in Germany. This volume presents an analysis of 86 of these artefacts using a range of archaeometallurgical methods in order to provide a diachronic sample of Bronze Age Egyptian copper alloy metalwork from Dynasty 1 to Dynasty 19.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789697414 (PDF ebook) :
Die Bestattungsgruben in Bat /
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A comprehensive study of two Umm an-Nar (2700-2000 BC) burial pits from the UNESCO World Heritage site Bat in the Sultanate of Oman, excavated 2010-2012. Each burial pit represents one of the largest closed finds of the Early Bronze Age in the region, including beads and other items of personal adornment, as well as pottery and human bones.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789697858 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Mediating marginality : mounds, pots and performances at the Bronze Age Cemetery of Purić-Ljubanj, eastern Croatia /
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This study draws on eight years of excavation and survey at the newly discovered Bronze Age Cemetery of Puric-Ljubanj in the county of Vukovar-Syrmia in eastern Croatia.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (xi, 142 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789699739 (PDF ebook) :
Around the Petit-Chasseur site in Sion (Valais, Switzerland) and new approaches to the Bell Beaker culture : proceedings of the International Conference held at Sion (Switzerland)...
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To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the megalithic necropolis of Petit- Chasseur in Sion (Valais, Switzerland), an international conference was organised from the 27th to the 29th of October 2011 in Sion. This book constitutes the conference proceedings.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) :
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9781784910259 (PDF ebook) :
Bronze Age tell communities in context : an exploration into culture, society and the study of European prehistory.
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This study challenges current modelling of Bronze Age tell communities in the Carpathian Basin in terms of the evolution of functionally-differentiated, hierarchical or 'proto-urban' society under the influence of Mediterranean palatial centres.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784911485 (PDF ebook) :
Micromorphological analysis of activity areas sealed by Vesuvius' Avellino eruption : the early Bronze Age village of Afragola in Southern Italy /
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The remarkable preservation of the early Bronze Age village of Afragola on the Campania Plain of Southern Italy is unmatched in Europe. The site was buried under nearly a meter of volcanic ash deposited by the Avellino eruption of Vesuvius ca. 3945+10 cal. BP. The site boasts a large number of well-preserved structures, built features and organic materials and thus provides a laboratory-type setting in which to investigate variability in artifact distribution and activity areas across a single village. This research utilizes micromorphological analysis of thin sections of undisturbed sediment collected at the site to understand how people used living spaces, organized daily activities and, when possible, to connect village life to broad issues related to the emergence of social complexity on the Campanian Plain.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784912123 (PDF ebook) :
Ritual in Late Bronze Age Ireland : material culture, practices, landscape setting and social context /
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This text develops a new perspective on Late Bronze Age (LBA) Ireland by identifying and analysing patterns of ritual practice in the archaeological record. The bookends of this study are the introduction and proliferation of iron technology beginning around 600 BC. Therefore, it is societal change related to new technology which defines the period discussed as the Irish Late Bronze Age (LBA) herein.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) :
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9781784912215 (PDF ebook) :
Late Bronze Age flintworking from ritual zones in Southern Scandinavia /
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This work is devoted to flintworking encountered in the so-called cult houses and ritual zones from the Late Bronze Age in southern Scandinavia, where thousands of barrows were built in the period from the Neolithic to the end of the Early Bronze Age.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784913809 (ebook) :
The geography of trade : landscapes of competition and long-distance contacts in Mesopotamia and Anatolia in the Old Assyrian colony period /
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A reassessment of the Old-Assyrian trade network in Upper Mesopotamia and Central Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age, this volume examines exchange networks and economic strategies, continuity and discontinuity of specific trade circuits and routes, and the evolution of political landscapes throughout the Near East.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xii, 192 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784919269 (ebook) :
Bronze age metalwork : techniques and traditions in the Nordic Bronze Age 1500-1100 BC /
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Bronze ornaments of the Nordic Bronze Age were elaborate objects that served as status symbols to communicate social hierarchy. An interdisciplinary investigation of the artefacts (dating from 1500-1100 BC) was adopted to elucidate their manufacture and origin, resulting in new insights into metal craft in northern Europe during the Bronze Age.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xii, 502 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
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9781789690200 (ebook) :
Las relaciones comerciales marítimas entre Andalucía occidental y el Mediterráneo central en el II milenio a.C /
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This volume reflects on the unique status of the Western Mediterranean in the Bronze Age, considering the independence of its development and the existence of an indigenous maritime trade. It looks at ways to establish a chronology of the period that is not based solely on ceramic typologies, and aims to clarify the cultural exclusion to which the Lower Guadalquivir is subjected.
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1 online resource (140 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789695120 (ebook) : :
Open access.
Burials and society in late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Ireland /
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This text describes and analyses the increasing complexity of later Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age burial in Ireland, using burial complexity as a proxy for increasing social complexity, and as a tool for examining social structure.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789696325 (PDF ebook) :
Funerary practices in the second half of the second millennium BC in continental Atlantic Europe : from Belgium to the north of Portugal /
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This edited volume presents a selection of essays dedicated to funerary practices from Belgium to the north of Portugal. It aims at filling gaps in the documentation and helping to better understand the relationships between these Atlantic regions during the Bronze Age.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (xvi, 213 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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9781789699395 (PDF ebook) :
Die Gräber von Bat und Al-Ayn und das Gebäude II in Bat /
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The Early Bronze Age in third-millennium-BC Eastern Arabia was a period of fundamental change, which is apparent in the development of social complexity, the exploitation of new resources and the emergence of new modes of life. Hallmarks of this period include monumental structures, so-called towers, and stone-built circular tombs. The second volume of the series Arabia Orientalis is dedicated to the archaeological investigation of the Early Bronze Age necropolises of the UNESCO world heritage sites Bat and Al-Ayn in the Sultanate of Oman, as well as the monumental tower structure Building II at Bat. It encompasses detailed reports on the architecture and stratigraphy, as well as the find assemblages from the excavated buildings, including pottery and small finds, along with anthropological as well as anthracological studies.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (335 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white). :
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9781789699500 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Travelling objects : changing values : the role of Northern Alpine lake-dwelling communities in exchange and communication networks during the late Bronze Age /
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Since their initial discovery in the nineteenth century, the enigmatic prehistoric lake-dwellings of the Circum-Alpine region have captured the imagination of the public and archaeologists alike. Over 150 years of research have identified hundreds of lacustrine settlements spanning from the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age, when apparently, they ceased to be built. Studies of Bronze Age material across Europe have often superficially identified bronze objects as being of 'Alpine lake-dwelling origin' or 'lake-dwelling style'. Through a combination of material culture studies, multiple correspondence analysis, and the principle of object biographies, the role of the Late Bronze Age lake-dwelling communities in Central European exchange networks is addressed.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781905739943 (PDF ebook) :
Building the Bronze Age : architectural and social change on the Greek mainland during Early Helladic III, Middle Helladic and Late Helladic I /
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Wiersma analyses Early Helladic III, Middle Helladic and Late Helladic I domestic architecture with reference to social organization and social change. This book covers domestic architecture from the southern and central Greek mainland up to southern Thessaly.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781905739899 (PDF ebook) :