Minoan extractions : a photographic journey 2009-2016 : Sissi Archaeological Project /
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Archaeologist and award-winning photographer Gavin McGuire brings us on-site to the long-running (and ongoing) Sissi Archaeological Project, Crete, offering unique insights into every key stage of an archaeological excavation and the lives of the archaeologists living and working in often harsh conditions for several weeks at a time.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (viii, 168 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
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9781784916374 (ebook) :
SOMA 2015 : time, space and people : proceedings of the 19th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology /
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The proceedings of 'SOMA 2015' contain 18 interdisciplinary articles on themes from underwater archaeology to history, archaeometry and art history, and chronologically, the subjects of these articles range from the Bronze Age to the 20th century.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (iv, 190 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784918521 (ebook) :
Une archéologie des provinces septentrionales du royaume Kongo /
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This text presents in detail the results of archaeological research carried out by the KongoKing project in the former northern provinces of the Kongo Kingdom, currently located in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (500 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784919733 (ebook) :
TephroArchaeology in the North Pacific /
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'TephroArchaeology' (from the Japanese, kazanbai kokogaku - lit. volcanic ash archaeology), refers to a sub-discipline of archaeology developed in Japan in the last few decades. This book brings into the English-speaking world tephroarchaeological investigations by archaeologists in Japan whose results are usually only accessible in Japanese.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (xviii, 330 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789691733 (ebook) :
The archaeology of medieval villages currently inhabited in Europe /
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Archaeological interventions in European rural settlements have largely focused on villages abandoned during the last millennium. Most hamlets and villages of medieval origin remain inhabited, however, and excavations have been scarce. This book details excavations of inhabited sites in the UK, the Netherlands, France, Scandinavia, and Spain.
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Also issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (viii, 120 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789693010 (ebook) :
Ramla : city of Muslim Palestine, 715-1917 : studies in history, archaeology and architecture /
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This book presents a comprehensive overview of the history, archaeology and architecture of the city of Ramla from the time of its foundation as the capital of Umayyad Palestine around 715 until the end of Ottoman rule in 1917.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
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9781789697773 (PDF ebook) :
Sites of prehistoric life in Northern Ireland /
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This monograph brings together information on all the currently known sites in Northern Ireland that are in some way associated with prehistoric life. Compiled from a number of sources, it includes many that have only recently been discovered. A total of 1580 monuments are recorded in the inventory, ranging from burnt mounds to hillforts.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (iv, 236 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784917944 (ebook) :
The politics of the past : the representation of the ancient empires by Iran's modern states /
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This text examines the highly problematic politics of the past surrounding the archaeology of ancient empires in Iran. Discussing their personal and professional experiences, the authors exemplify the real, ethical dilemmas that archaeologists confront in the Middle East, calling for reflectivity and awareness among the archaeologists of the region.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (viii, 148 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789690941 (ebook) :
Carving interactions : rock art in the nomadic landscape of the Black Desert, north-eastern Jordan /
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The Safaitic rock art of the North Arabian basalt desert is one of the few surviving traces of the elusive herding societies that lived there in antiquity. This comprehensive study of over 4500 petroglyphs from the Jebel Qurma region of the Black Desert in North-Eastern Jordan is the first-ever systematic study of the Safaitic petroglyphs.
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"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage. :
1 online resource (xii, 206 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789693126 (PDF ebook) :
The plague cemetery of Alghero, Sardinia (1582-1583) : the bioarchaeological study /
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This study presents a bioarchaeological analysis of the individuals exhumed from the cemetery of Alghero (Sardinia), which is associated with the plague outbreak that ravaged the city in 1582-83. The results shed light on a population which lived during a period of plague, revealing lifestyles, activity patterns and illnesses.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
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9781803270777 (PDF ebook) : :
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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) :
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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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781784918200 (ebook) :
I Nebrodi nell'antichità : città culture paesaggio /
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The Nebrodi, central-northern part of Sicily, have long remained archeologically unexplored. This volume hopes to increase the knowledge of many aspects of this part of the island: the meeting between indigenous and Greek cultures, their coexistence, the types of settlement and the organization of cities, the trade and the local productions.
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Also issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (approximately 360 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781789692655 (PDF ebook) :
Living opposite to the hospital of St John : excavations in medieval Northampton 2014 /
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This volume presents the results of archaeological investigations undertaken at a building site in Northampton in 2014. The location was of interest as it lay opposite the former medieval hospital of St. John, which influenced the development of this area of the town.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (362 pages) : illustrations :
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9781789699371 (PDF ebook) :
Gifts, goods and money : comparing currency and circulation systems in past societies /
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The papers gathered in this volume explore the economic and social roles of exchange systems in past societies from a variety of different perspectives. Based on a broad range of individual case studies, the authors tackle problems surrounding the identification of (pre-monetary) currencies in the archaeological record.
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Previous edition issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (vi, 228 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784918361 (ebook) :
Ceramics in transition : production and exchange of late Byzantine-early Islamic pottery in Southern Transjordan and the Negev /
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This volume focuses on the utilitarian ceramic traditions during the socio-political transition from the late Byzantine into the early Islamic Umayyad and 'Abbasid periods, in southern Transjordan and the Negev. Production clusters, manufacturing techniques, distribution patterns, and material links between communities are analysed.
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1 online resource (vi, 196 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781789692259 (PDF ebook) :
Large scale Rhodian sculpture of Hellenistic and Roman times /
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This volume presents the large-scale Rhodian sculpture of the Hellenistic and Roman period through the publication of 60 unpublished sculptures of life size or larger than life size, together with 45 sculptures already published.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784915773 (ebook) :
Substantive evidence of initial habitation in the remote Pacific : archaeological discoveries at Unai Bapot in Saipan, Mariana Islands /
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At the Unai Bapot Site of the Mariana Islands, new excavation has clarified the oldest known instance of a residential habitation prior to 1500 B.C. in the Remote Pacific, previously difficult to document in deeply buried layers that originally had comprised near-tidal to shallow subtidal zones.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (xii, 180 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784916664 (ebook) :
Navigation et installations lacustres dans les hautes terres du Mexique : les cas mexica et tarasque /
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This research focuses on the practice of lake navigation and specific facilities that are associated with it in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica. Due to the need for a wholistic approach, this research is situated in a multidisciplinary framework that combines archaeology, ethnology and ethnohistory.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xvi, 292 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784919108 (ebook) :
SOMA 2013 : proceedings of the 17th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Moscow, 25-27 April 2013 /
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This volume presents papers from the 17th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, SOMA 2013, held in Moscow, 25-27 April 2013.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784912291 (PDF ebook) :