Römisches Zaumzeug aus Pompeji, Herculaneum und Stabiae : Metallizäume, Trensen und Kandaren /
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Few regions possess so many and mainly complete Roman bridles as do the Vesuvian sites. Singular find conditions permit both comprehensive antiquarian-historian analyses of their production, functionality, and everyday use and new approaches to their typology and chronology. The 103 catalogued specimens belong to four types of bronze headstalls, namely metallic noseband, bitless metal bridle ('hackamore'), multipartite metallic bridle ('metallic halter'), and muzzle as well as two types of bits, namely snaffle bit with circular cheekpieces and curb bit. All of them occurred in more or less numerous variants of local or provincial origin. Special attention is paid to the reconstruction of application methods and combinations of types as well as the replica of a snaffle bit with circular cheekpieces.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784910358 (PDF ebook) :
Fish-salting in the northwest Maghreb in antiquity : a gazetteer of sites and resources /
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This volume is a detailed gazetteer of fish-salting production in the northwest Maghreb in antiquity. It consists of a catalogue of fish-salting sites in addition to catalogues of other related resources that are necessary for the production and trans-shipment of the industry's products: salt and amphorae kilns.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781784912420 (PDF ebook) :
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) :
Hunde in der römischen Antike : Rassen/Typen - Zucht - Haltung und Verwendung /
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This title deals extensively with the living environment of the dog in Roman antiquity, based on literary and iconographic sources as well as archaeological and archaeozoological finds. The knowledge gained from this is documented by numerous images. Older research opinions, some of which have gone unchecked for more than a hundred years, are examined and - where necessary - corrected. For the first time, a catalogue of the more than 80 dog breeds/types documented from antiquity is presented with their names, origins, appearance and the special characteristics of these animals. The ancient theories of dog breeding are compared with modern practices.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (x, 467 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789698374 (PDF ebook) :
Roman and late antique wine production in the eastern Mediterranean : a comparative archaeological study at Antiochia ad Cragum (Turkey) and Delos (Greece) /
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Wine was an ever-present commodity that permeated the Mediterranean throughout antiquity. This book analyses the viticulture of two settlements, Antiochia ad Cragum and Delos, using results stemming from surface survey and excavation to assess their potential integration within the now well-known agricultural boom of the 5th-7th centuries AD.
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1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) : illustrations. :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789694031 (ebook) :
Rainfed altepetl : modeling institutional and subsistence agriculture in ancient Tepeaca, Mexico /
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Climate variability and human management strategies on crop stands were major factors that frequently affected agricultural yields among indigenous populations from central Mexico. This work seeks to model food production in ancient Tepeaca, a Late Postclassic (AD 1325-1521) and Early Colonial (16th century) state level-polity settled on the central highlands of Puebla, by applying a model that recognizes the presence of two independent and interconnected forms of food production: subsistence agriculture and institutional agriculture.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784910419 (PDF ebook) :
Cedar forests, cedar ships : allure, lore, and metaphor in the Mediterranean Near East /
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It is commonly recognized that the Cedars of Lebanon were prized in the ancient world, but how can the complex archaeological role of the Cedrus genus be articulated in terms that go beyond its interactions with humans alone?
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784913663 (ebook) :
New approaches to the archaeology of beekeeping /
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Seventeen papers take a holistic view of beekeeping archaeology (including honey, wax, associated products, hive construction, and trade) in one large interconnected geographic region, the Mediterranean, central Europe, and the Atlantic Façade. The book serves as a handbook for current and future researchers considering the archaeology of beekeeping.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (v, 267 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789699944 (PDF ebook) :
El instrumental de pesca en el Fretum Gaditanum : catalogación, análisis tipo-cronológico y comparativa regional /
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The study of fishing tackle is an innovative area of research which is improving our understanding of one of the most important past economic activities: fishing. This book analyses fishing tackle in the region known as Fretum Gaditanum (the Strait of Gibraltar), where over a thousand pieces of evidence have been inventoried.
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1 online resource (188 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789693867 (ebook) :
Animal husbandry and hunting in the central and western Balkans through time /
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This volume presents the results of new research on animal herding and hunting in the central and western Balkans during the prehistoric and historic periods. The investigations cover a wide range of topics related to animal exploitation strategies, ranging from broad syntheses to specific case studies.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (198 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
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9781789696943 (PDF ebook) :
The hunting farmers : understanding ancient human subsistence in the central part of the Korean peninsula during the Late Holocene /
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The central hypothesis of this research is that there was a wide range of resource utilization along with rice farming around 3,400-2,600 BP. This hypothesis contrasts with prevailing rice-based models, where climatically driven intensive rice agriculture from 3,400 BP is thought to be the dominant subsistence strategy that drove social complexity.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (xii, 118 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784916763 (ebook) :
Anglo-Saxon crops and weeds : a case study in quantitative archaeobotany /
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Farming practices underwent momentous transformations in the Mid Saxon period, between the 7th and 9th centuries AD. This study applies a standardised set of repeatable quantitative analyses to the charred remains of Anglo-Saxon crops and weeds, to shed light on crucial developments in crop husbandry between the 7th and 9th centuries.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (viii, 204 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789691931 (ebook) :
Irish late Iron Age equestrian equipment in its insular and continental context /
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This is the first practical archaeological study of Irish Iron Age lorinery. The horse and associated equipment were very much at the heart of the social changes set in motion by contact with the Roman Empire; the examination of the snaffles and bosals allows us to bring the people of the Late Iron Age in Ireland into focus.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (xii, 278 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789699920 (PDF ebook) :
Fires in GunaiKurnai country : landscape fires and their impacts on Aboriginal cultural heritage places and artefacts in Southeastern Australia /
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Anthropogenic climate change is becoming a reality, and in Australia this means longer wildfire seasons with more intense fires across a wider area. The GunaiKurnai people of southeastern Victoria saw a large proportion of their land decimated by the Gippsland Fires of 'Black Summer' (2019/2020), prompting questions about both the management of country and its heritage resources moving forward and what role traditional ('cultural') burning could play. Bringing together a multi-disciplinary team, this volume investigates these twin issues.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (xii, 218 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803274829 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.