The wisdom of Thoth : magical texts in ancient Mediterranean civilisations /
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This volume represents a selection of contributions on Mediterranean themes from a wider international interdisciplinary conference on Magical Texts in Ancient Civilizations, organised by the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilizations at Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784912482 (PDF ebook) :
Mediterranean landscapes in post antiquity : new frontiers and new perspectives /
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The study of landscape has in recent years been a field for considerable analytical archaeological experimentation. Although the Mediterranean is the home of classicism, it has seen the implementation of projects of this new kind, and in regions of Spain and Italy, after some delay, the proliferation of landscape archaeology studies.
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1 online resource (iv, 200 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789691917 (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) :
Aoypmata : critical essays on the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean in honour of E. Susan Sherratt /
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Over her career Susan Sherratt has questioned our basic assumptions in many areas of the later prehistory of the Mediterranean and Europe, deploying a canny eye for detail, but never losing sight of the big picture. Her collected works include contributions on the relationship between Homeric epic and archaeology; the economy of ceramics, metals and other materials; the status of the `Sea Peoples' and other ethnic terminologies; routes and different forms of interaction; and the history of museums/collecting (especially relating to Sir Arthur Evans). The editors of this volume have brought together a cast of 32 scholars from nine different countries who have contributed these 26 papers to mark Sue's 65th birthday.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784910198 (PDF ebook) :
Ships, saints and sealore : cultural heritage and ethnography of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea /
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Just as the sea has played a pivotal role in the connectivity of people, economies and cultures, it has also provided a common platform for inter-disciplinary cooperation amongst academics. This book is a selection of conference papers and other contributions that has seen the coming-together of scholars and researchers from backgrounds as diverse as archaeology, history, ethnography, maritime and heritage studies of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. Its strength lies in the way such diversity has been harnessed to provide an engaging and insightful study of the sea and its influences on various factors of life - both past and present.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781905739967 (PDF ebook) :
Maritime-related cults in the coastal cities of Philistia during the Roman period : legacy and change /
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This title questions the origins and the traditions of the cultic rites practised during Roman times along the southern shores of the Land of Israel. This area was known since biblical times as 'Peleshet' (Philistia), after the name of one of the Sea Peoples that had settled there at the beginning of the Iron Age. Philistia's important cities Jaffa, Ashkelon, Gaza and Rafiah were culturally and religiously integrated into the Graeco-Roman world. At the same time, each city developed its own original and unique group of myths and cults that had their roots in earlier periods. Their emergence and formation were influenced by environmental conditions as well as by ethno-social structures and political circumstances. Philistia's port cities served as crossroads for the routes connecting the main centres of culture and commerce in ancient times.
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Also issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (ii, 212 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789692570 (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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9781789694031 (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) :
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) :
Die vermeintlich pergamenische Importkeramik in Ephesos : Studien zur Typologie, Provenienz und Herstellungstechnik von so genannter Weißgrundiger Ware, Applikenkeramik und Pergame...
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This text presents comparative studies of three ceramic ware groups found at Ephesos (modern day Turkey): Appliqué Ware, White-grounded ware and Pergamene Sigillata. Until now they were considered to be products made in and imported from Pergamon, but intensive archaeometrical analysis demonstrate that they were produced locally.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (314 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781789696103 (ebook) :
Palaeolithic pioneers : behaviour, abilities, and activity of early homo in European landscapes around the western Mediterranean basin - 1.3-0.05 Ma /
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Archaic humans were present for over a million years in western Mediterranean Europe where they left very many traces of their early stone-age activities and behaviour, and sometimes even human skeletal remains. This work evaluates archaeological findings about their life-ways at many important sites in Italy, southern France, and Spain, from the earliest ones 1,300,000 years ago, to those of Neanderthals fifty-thousand years ago, just before they were superseded by skeletally-'modern' humans.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
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9781784916213 (ebook) :
SOMA 2016 : proceedings of the 20th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology /
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'SOMA 2016' focused on the archaeology of the Northern Black Sea; while rich in archaeological sites, the region is also subject to active industrial development. In addition to archaeological finds in various parts of the Mediterranean, papers focus on new ideas for the conservation and management of sites of historical and cultural heritage.
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Also issued in print: 2022.
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1 online resource (126 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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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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AEGIS : essays in Mediterranean archaeology : presented to Matti Egon by the scholars of the Greek Archaeological Committee UK /
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The honourand of this volume, Matti Egon, has been a great benefactor to museums, schools, universities, and hospitals in the UK and also in Greece. One of these is the Greek Archaeological Committee UK, that she helped found in 1992 - an organization dedicated to informing academe and the public in Britain of archaeological work carried out in Greece, and of enabling the 'brightest minds' of Greece and Cyprus to pursue post-graduate research at British institutions, to the mutual enrichment of both. Some fifty-five graduates have so benefited. This volume offers essays by a good half of those so assisted and is roughly split between the sexes.
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9781784912017 (PDF ebook) :
The ovoid amphorae in the Central and Western Mediterranean : between the last two centuries of the Republic and the early days of the Roman Empire /
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Based on the proceedings of a workshop held at Seville University in 2015, this book looks at several series of amphorae created in the Late Republican Roman period, sharing a generally ovoid shape in their bodies - a group of material which, until now, has rarely been studied.
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Also issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (xii, 414 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789692976 (PDF ebook) :
Ceramics and Atlantic connections : late Roman and early medieval imported pottery on the Atlantic seaboard : international symposium, Newcastle University, March 26th-27th 2014 /
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Papers focus on the pottery of Mediterranean origin imported into the Atlantic, as well as ceramics of Atlantic production which had widespread distribution. They examine chronologies and relative distributions, and consider the composition of key Atlantic assemblages, revealing new insights into the networks of exchange between c. 400-700 AD.
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1 online resource (vi, 150 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789693386 (ebook) :
The maritime transport of sculptures in the ancient Mediterranean /
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With a focus on the underwater context of sculptures retrieved from beneath the sea, this volume examines where, when, why and how sculptures were transported on the Mediterranean Sea during Classical Antiquity through the lenses of both maritime and classical archaeology.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (166 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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9781803273310 (PDF ebook) :
Living with seismic phenomena in the Mediterranean and beyond between antiquity and the Middle Ages : proceedings of Cascia (25-26 October, 2019) and Le Mans (2-3 June, 2021) confe...
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In a Mediterranean area characterised by strong seismic activity, the earthquake that struck central Italy in 2016 caused considerable damage to the archaeological and historical heritage. This catastrophic event, as well as recent archaeological fieldwork and palaeoseimological research in the same area, led to the organisation in 2019 of the first International Conference Living with seismic phenomena in the Mediterranean from Antiquity to the Middle Ages in Cascia (Italy). In 2021, a second Conference, devoted to the same topic, was held at Le Mans University (France). The articles collected in this work constitute a selection of the oral presentations or posters presented during the two Conferences.
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Also issued in print: 2022.
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1 online resource (436 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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9781803272368 (PDF ebook) :
From hydrology to hydroarchaeology in the ancient Mediterranean /
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This volume is devoted to the study of water management in ancient cities. It compares the approaches and methods adopted by researchers from different disciplinary sectors to identify the water conditions of past societies and to highlight the measures they have taken to adapt to their water resources.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (ii, 160 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) :
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9781803273754 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
SOMA 2014 : proceedings of the 18th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Wrocław - Poland, 24-26 April 2014 /
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Since prehistoric times the Mediterranean has acted as a stage for intense interactions between groups inhabiting regions that are now studied mainly within various sub-fields of ancient studies. In recent years, however, the development of research techniques and analytical models of archaeological evidence have identified similar historical paths that are similar, if not, in some cases, common to these disparate areas of the ancient world from West (Iberian peninsula) to East (Anatolia and Levant), from North (Europe, Black Sea Coast) to South (Maghreb and Egypt). The 18th SOMA provided a forum for presentations related to the above-mentioned topics, as well as general themes such as the role of the sea, trade, colonization, even piracy, using archaeological data collected within contexts associated with the Mediterranean Basin and the area referred to as the Ancient Near East.
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Previously issued in print: 2016.
Selected conference papers. :
1 online resource (vii, 192 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784914950 (ebook) :