Bronze 'bathtub' coffins in the context of 8th-6th century BC Babylonian, Assyrian and Elamite funerary practices /
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This volume is dedicated to a small number of unique bronze 'bathtub' coffins found in 8th-6th century BC Babylonian, Assyrian and Elamite burial contexts. Usually treated as an incidental aspect of the burial process, these fascinating burial receptacles have until now garnered little in the way of academic interest. Here the author takes the opportunity to further explore the coffins, drawing together the widely dispersed information on their archaeological contexts, investigating the method and place of their manufacture, and establishing a possible date range for their production and use.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784911751 (PDF ebook) :
Shipwrecks and global 'worming' /
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This paper presents an account of the marine wood-borers, together with a historical review of literature on their depredation on wooden ships, and on protective methods adopted from antiquity to modern times.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784913168 (ebook) :
Croatia at the crossroads : a consideration of archaeological and historical connectivity : proceedings of conference held at Europe House, Smith Square, London, 24-25 June 2013 to...
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These papers focus on Croatia's particular interconnectedness in terms of social and cultural relationships with the wider region as the starting point for exploring issues across a broad chronological range, from human origins to modernity.
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Conference proceedings.
Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784915315 (ebook) :
Dress and identity in Iron Age Britain : a study of glass beads and other objects of personal adornment /
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Through an analysis of glass beads from four key study regions in Britain, the book explores the role that this object played within the networks and relationships that constructed Iron Age society.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781784915278 (ebook) :
Percy Manning : the man who collected Oxfordshire /
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This volume provides the first detailed biography of Percy Manning (1870-1917), an Oxford antiquary who amassed enormous collections about the history of Oxford and Oxfordshire.
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Previously issued in print: 2017.
Includes index. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
9781784915292 (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.
Conference proceedings. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784915254 (ebook) :
Medieval urban landscape in northeastern Mesopotamia /
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The authors investigate the sites which formed an urban network from 6th to 19th centuries in the region of northeastern Mesopotamia, bounded by the rivers Great Zab, Little Zab and Tigris.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781784915193 (ebook) :
Physical barriers, cultural connections : a reconsideration of the metal flow at the beginning of the metal age in the alps /
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'Physical Barriers, Cultural Connections' considers the early copper and copper-alloy metallurgy of the entire Circum-Alpine region. It introduces a new approach to the interpretation of chemical composition data sets, which has been applied to a comprehensive regional database for the first time.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (colour). :
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9781784916152 (ebook) :
Kratos & krater : reconstructing an Athenian protohistory /
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Athenian governance and culture are reconstructed from the Bronze Age into the historical era based on traditions, archaeological contexts and remains, foremost the formal commensal and libation krater. Incorporated into this work is a monograph on the Athenian formal krater used by these primarily Neleid aristocratic houses in assembly and ritual.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784916237 (ebook) :
Working with the past : towards an archaeology of recycling /
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Recycling is a basic anthropological process of humankind. The reutilization of materials or of ideas from the past is a process determined by various natural or cultural causes. Recycling can be motivated by a crisis or by a complex symbolic cause like the incorporation of the past into the present. What archaeology has not insisted upon is the dimensional scale of the process, which operates from the micro-scale of the recycling of the ancestors' material, up to the macro-scale of the landscape. It is well known that there are direct relations between artefacts and landscapes in what concerns the materiality and mobility of objects. An additional relation between artefact and landscape may be the process of recycling. In many ways artefact and landscape can be considered as one aspect of material culture, perceived at a different scale, since both have the same materiality and suffer the same process of reutilisation.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (colour). :
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9781784916305 (ebook) :
From Cambridge to Lake Chad : life in archaeology 1956-1971 /
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This title is about how the author became an archaeologist at a time when opportunities for employment were rare and how he worked as a field researcher in West Africa and wrote about his work there. It traces his archaeological training and employment at Cambridge and his practical experience on British excavations and explains how he became one of the pioneers of Nigerian archaeology during a decade in that country. It is not so much a study of the archaeology that was done, as an account of how it was done; its circumstances, organization, and economic and social and cultural context. As a result, it is both a professional and personal account, for these two aspects of life were inseparably intertwined, his wife Beryl becoming an integral part of the story. Other archaeologists and many non-archaeologists also feature in the account.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (xxii, 270 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784919597 (ebook) :
Greek art in motion : studies in honour of Sir John Boardman on the occasion of his 90th birthday /
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Over 50 papers, first presented at the international congress 'Greek Art in Motion' (Lisbon, 2017) in honour of Sir John Boardman's 90th Birthday, are collected here under the following headings: Sculpture, Architecture, Terracotta & Metal, Greek Pottery, Coins, Greek History & Archaeology, Greeks Overseas, Reception & Collecting, Art & Myth.
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Festschrift for Sir John Boardman.
Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (iv, 510 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789690248 (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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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789690200 (ebook) :
Digital imaging of artefacts : developments in methods and aims /
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This title features the proceedings from a workshop held at Wolfson College, Oxford in 2017. In light of rapid technological developments in digital imaging, this volume will inform specialist and general readers about some of the ways in which imaging technologies are transforming the study and presentation of archaeological and cultural artefacts.
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Previously issued in print: 2018.
Selected conference papers. :
1 online resource (190 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789690262 (ebook) :
Arqueología funeraria y paleopatología de la población religiosa de Jerez en época moderna : una primera aproximación /
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The main objective of this text has been to open a line of research into the religious population of the city of Jerez de la Frontera, in southern Spain, during the 16th and 17th centuries - the 'Modern Age' - which until now has not been thoroughly investigated.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (378 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789691436 (ebook) :
Excavation of later prehistoric and Roman sites along the route of the Newquay Strategic Road Corridor, Cornwall /
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This volume presents the results of archaeological investigations on the Newquay Strategic Road and goes on to discuss the complexity of the archaeology, review the evidence for 'special' deposits and explore evidence for the deliberate closure of buildings especially in later prehistoric and Roman period Cornwall.
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1 online resource (144 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789691535 (ebook) :
Greco-Roman cities at the crossroads of cultures : the 20th anniversary of Polish-Egyptian conservation mission Marina El-Alamein /
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These papers present research from different regions ranging from ancient Mauritania, through Africa, Egypt, Cyprus, Palestine, Syria, as well as sites in Crimea and Georgia. Topics include: topography, architecture, interiors and décor, religious syncretism, the importance of ancient texts, pottery studies and conservation.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (iv, 312 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789691498 (ebook) :
Yellow Beach 2 after 75 years : the archaeology of a WWII invasion beach on Saipan and its historic context in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands /
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On June 15, 1944, Afetna Point was called 'Yellow Beach 2' by the U.S. Marines and Army infantry braving Japanese resistence to establish a beachhead before capturing As Lito airfield the following days. After 75 years, this story presents archaeological evidence, archival records, and respected elders' accounts from WWII.
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1 online resource (x, 128 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789692594 (PDF ebook) :
En Sofia mathitefsantes : essays in Byzantine material culture and society in honour of Sophia Kalopissi-verti /
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Essays in Byzantine Material Culture and Society in Honour of Sophia Kalopissi-Verti contains a collection of thirty studies dedicated to Sophia Kalopissi-Verti by her students which celebrate the multifaceted academic and teaching career of Professor Kalopissi-Verti, Emerita of Byzantine Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The contributions cover a large variety of topics presenting unpublished archaeological material, suggesting new approaches to various aspects of Byzantine archaeology, material culture and art history. Geographically topics span a vast area from Constantinople to South Sinai and from Cyprus and Antiocheia to the Aegean Islands, continental Greece and Italy.
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Title in Greek script. :
1 online resource (454 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
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9781789692631 (ebook) :
The cultures of ancient Xinjiang, western China : crossroads of the Silk Roads /
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One of the least known but culturally rich and complex regions located at the heart of Asia, Xinjiang was a hub for the Silk Roads, serving international links between cultures to the west, east, north, and south. Trade, artefacts, foods, technologies, ideas, beliefs, animals, and people traversed the glacier covered mountain and desert boundaries. This book unveils the ancient secrets of Xinjiang, western China, one of the least known but culturally rich and complex regions located at the heart of Asia.
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Also issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (viii, 206 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789694079 (ebook) :