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  • ARCHAEOLOGY OF SYMBOLS
    GUIDO GUARDUCCI, NICOLA LANERI AND STEFANO VALENTINI
    These case studies offer new approaches to the analysis and interpretation of symbols in a variety of media and as expressed on a range of objects at different scales. This third volume in the Material Religion in Antiquity series stems from the First International Congress on the Archaeology of Symbols (ICAS I) that took place in Florence in May 2022. The archaeological proces...

    $690.99

  • EXCAVATIONS AT TLACHTGA, HILL OF WARD, CO. MEATH, IRELAND
    STEPHEN DAVIS / CAITRÍONA MOORE
    Initial remote sensing survey at Tlachtga, Co. Meath in 2011–12 highlighted the presence of multiple, partially overlapping phases of enclosure at the site. Three subsequent seasons of excavation provided critical interpretive evidence, with over 15,000 fragments of animal bone, human remains, charred plant material, evidence of metalworking, and a hoard of Anglo-Saxon silver c...

    $421.99

  • EXCAVATIONS ALONG HADRIAN’S WALL 2019–2021
    ROB COLLINS / JANE HARRISON
    This study focuses on the fabric, construction and preservation of stretches of Hadrian's Wall in its more remote locations, providing significant insights into the places between the mile castles and important forts and associated settlements. The Hadrian’s Wall Community Archaeology Project (WallCAP) conducted a series of fieldwork projects along the Hadrian’s Wall corridor b...

    $613.99

  • THE LATE MINOAN III NECROPOLIS OF ARMENOI
    YANNIS TZEDAKIS, HOLLEY MARTLEW AND MICHAEL TITE
    This is the first volume on the Late Minoan III necropolis of Armenoi in western Crete. It sets the scene, introduces the site and its topography, and offers the results of site surveys and their finds. The Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi, Crete (ca. 1390–1190 BC) is the only intact, complete Late Minoan necropolis presently known, of which 232 tombs have been excavated. ...

    $383.99

  • ARTIFACTS OF MOURNING
    GEORGE M. LEADER
    A fascinating, lavishly illustrated account, aimed at a non-specialist audience, of the excavation of over 500 burials unexpectedly discovered during development work associated with the First Baptist Church in Philadelphia. In 2016, construction workers in Philadelphia unexpectedly uncovered a long forgotten burial ground. Archaeologists quickly discovered this was the locatio...

    $352.99

  • IN THE DARKEST OF DAYS
    MATTHEW J. WALSH, SEAN O’NEILL AND LASSE SØRENSEN
    This book collects recent works on the subjects of sacrificial offerings, ritualized violence and the relative values thereof in the contexts of Scandinavian prehistory from the Neolithic to the Viking era. The volume builds on a workshop hosted at the National Museum of Denmark in 2018 which inaugurated the beginning of the research project ‘Human Sacrifice and Value: The limi...

    $421.99

  • THE EXCAVATIONS AT ISMANT AL-KHARAB
    GILLIAN E BOWEN
    The adoption of Christianity by the Egyptian populace was well underway by the late third century, but evidence for its presence in the archaeological record from the Nile valley is sparse. This is due, in part, to the loss of ancient settlement sites beneath modern cultivation. By comparison, Ismant al-Kharab, ancient Kellis, in Dakhleh Oasis, was abandoned at the end of the f...

    $728.99

  • ROMAN URBANISM IN ITALY
    ALESSANDRO LAUNARO
    This study presents new evidence for the development of commerce and inter-regional trade through survey and analysis of urban layout and architecture. The study of Roman urbanism – especially its early (Republican) phases – is extensively rooted in the evidence provided by a series of key sites, several of them located in Italy. Some of these Italian towns (e.g. Fregellae, Alb...

    $498.99

  • MONUMENTAL TIMES
    RICHARD BRADLEY
    Richard Bradley's latest thought provoking re-examination of familiar monumental archaeology drawing on latest discussions of multi-temporality and the implications of new levels of analysis afforded by developments in archaeological sciences such as DNA, radiocarbon dating and isotopes. This book is concerned with the origins, uses and subsequent histories of monuments. It emp...

    $383.69

  • JOURNAL OF ROMAN POTTERY STUDIES VOLUME 20
    ENIKO HUDAK
    The latest issue of long running, highly regarded Journal, this issue focuses on new methodological approaches and initiatives alongside reports on new discoveries at major pottery production centres. The new volume of the long-running Journal of Roman Pottery Studies will include conference proceedings of the 2019 conference held at Atherstone, Warwickshire, and the 50th anniv...

    $536.99

  • ECONOMIC CIRCULARITY IN THE ROMAN AND EARLY MEDIEVAL WORLDS
    JONATHAN WOOD
    Economic circularity is the ability of a society to reduce waste by recycling, reusing, and repairing raw materials and finished products. This concept has gained momentum in academia, in part due to contemporary environmental concerns. Although the blurry conceptual boundaries of this term are open to a wide array of interpretations, the scholarly community generally perceives...

    $614.10

  • REVISITING GROOVED WARE
    MIKE COPPER, ALASDAIR WHITTLE AND ALISON SHERIDAN
    Following its appearance, arguably in Orkney in the 32nd century cal BC, Grooved Ware soon became widespread across Britain and Ireland, seemingly replacing earlier pottery styles and being deposited in contexts as varied as simple pits, passage tombs, ceremonial timber circles and henge monuments. As a result, Grooved Ware lies at the heart of many ongoing debates concerning s...

    $537.34

  • EILEAN DONAN CASTLE
    CECILY SHAKESPEARE / JONATHAN CLARK / JUSTIN GARNER-LAHIRE / RICHARD ORAM / NICOLA TOOP
    Now hard to believe, Eilean Donan Castle was once one of the largest castles in the west Highlands, known to have featured seven towers, the remains of which lie buried on the island. This book provides a refreshed view of the lost medieval guise of the castle, of its 13th-century origins and form, and of who was responsible for building it, allowing the castle to be positioned...

    $307.05

  • EXPLORING WRITING SYSTEMS AND PRACTICES IN THE BRONZE AGE AEGEAN
    PHILIPPA M. STEELE
    Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practiced by people who have learnt its principles and acquired the tools and skills for doing it, in a particular context that affects what they do and how they do it. Nor are these practices static, as those involved exploit opportunities to adapt old features and develop new ones. The ...

    $614.10

  • EXPLANATIONS IN ICONOGRAPHY
    CAROL DIAZ-GRANADOS
    Case studies combine archaeological data and oral tradition to illustrate how the archaeological expression of beliefs and meanings passed down in the oral tradition may be interpreted. Explanations in Iconography: Ancient American Indian Art, Symbol, and Meaning is a significant contribution to the field of archaeology – a contribution in iconography studies that has gradually...

    $306.41

  • THE BIRDS OF ANCIENT EGYPT
    PATRICK F. HOULIHAN
    Hailed as a sumptuously produced and finely illustrated outstanding contribution to ancient Egyptian studies, this facsimile reprint of Patrick Houlihan’s 1986 comprehensive study makes a welcome return in the Oxbow Classics in Egyptology series. Animals of all kinds are amply illustrated in Egyptian art, none more so than birds, in both secular and religious contexts and in hi...

    $460.45

  • AMARNA CITY OF AKHENATEN AND NEFERTITI
    JULIA SAMPSON
    Tell el-Amarna is the modern name for the ancient Egyptian city of Akhenaten, situated in a bay of hills formed by the cliffs of the eastern desert about halfway between Cairo and Luxor. The city was founded in the 14th century BC by the Pharaoh Akhenaten to be a royal palace for himself and his wife Nefertiti, the capital of all Egypt and the center of the state cult of the Su...

    $383.69

  • COMMUNITY ARCHAEOLOGY ON HADRIAN’S WALL 2019–2022
    ROB COLLINS / JANE HARRISON / IAN KILLE / KATHRYN MURPHY / KERRY SHAW
    The Hadrian’s Wall Community Archaeology Project (WallCAP) was funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to promote the value of heritage – specifically of the Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site – to local communities and provide opportunities for volunteers to engage with the archaeology and conservation of the Wall to better ensure the future of the monument. This short bo...

    $165.99

  • THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF WILD BIRDS IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND
    DALE SERJEANTSON
    The Archaeology of Wild Birds in Britain and Ireland tells the story of human engagement with birds from the end of the last Ice Age to about AD 1650. It is based on archaeological bird remains integrated with ethnography and the history of birds and avian biology. In addition to their food value, the book examines birds in ritual activities and their capture and role in falcon...

    $690.99

  • DYNAMIC EPIGRAPHY
    This volume, with origins in a panel at the 2018 Celtic Conference in Classics, presents creative new approaches to epigraphic material, in an attempt to 'shake up' how we deal with inscriptions. Broad themes include the embodied experience of epigraphy, the unique capacities of epigraphic language as a genre, the visuality of inscriptions and the interplay of inscriptions with...

    $422.20

  • ROADS IN THE DESERTS OF ROMAN EGYPT
    MACIEJ PAPROCKI
    Egypt under the Romans (30 BCE–3rd century CE) was a period when local deserts experienced an unprecedented flurry of activity. In the Eastern Desert, a marked increase in desert traffic came from imperial prospecting/quarrying activities and caravans transporting wares to and from the Red Sea ports. In the Western Desert, resilient camels slowly became primary beasts of burden...

    $421.99

  • TEXTILES AND TEXTILE PRODUCTION IN EUROPE
    There is evidence that ever since early prehistory, textiles have always had more than simply a utilitarian function. Textiles express who we are - our gender, age, family affiliation, occupation, religion, ethnicity and social, political, economic and legal status. Besides expressing our identity, textiles protect us from the harsh conditions of the environment, whether as clo...

    $735.64

  • ANCIENT MINES AND QUARRIES
    ADRIAN BURKE / DAVID FIELD
    Fourteen papers explore a range of issues relating to prehistoric extraction sites, including ethnography, geochemical signatures, the application of neutron activation analysis, exploitation of erratics, excavation, survey and conservation. Topics include quernstone extraction, use of hammers, stages of extraction, geographical and social contexts, changing social regimes, the...

    $460.58

  • AFRICAN POTTERY ROULETTES PAST AND PRESENT
    ANNE HAOUR / K. MANNING / N. ARAZI / O. GOSSELAIN
    African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present considers ethnographic, museological and archaeological approaches to pottery-decorating tools called roulettes, that is to say, short lengths of fibre or wood that are rolled over the surface of a vessel for decoration. This book sets out, for the first time, a solid typology for the classification of African pottery decorated with su...

    $370.89

  • FROM SURFACE COLLECTION TO PREHISTORIC LIFEWAYS
    JOHN CHAPMAN / BISSERKA GAYDARSKA
    The communities who lived in the Balkans between 7000 and 4000 Cal. BC have now been the focus of intensive and increasingly inter-disciplinary research for the last forty years. Dwelling between the warm, dry Mediterranean zones of the Aegean and Anatolia and the cooler and snowier Central European heartlands, these communities created distinctive social formations that left e...

    $844.39

  • MATERIAL MNEMONICS
    KATINA T. LILLIOS / VASILEIOS TSAMIS
    How did ancient Europeans materialise memory? Material Mnemonics: Everyday Practices in Prehistoric Europe provides a fresh approach to the archaeological study of memory. Drawing on case studies from the British Isles, Scandinavia, central Europe, Greece, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula that date from the Neolithic through the Iron Age, the book's authors explore the implicati...

    $537.34

  • ONOMATOLOGOS
    F. MARCHAND / M. SASANOW
    Onomatologos is a term used in later antiquity to describe eminent lexicographers such as Hesychius and Pollux as 'collectors of words', but here it is used as the title for a major volume of papers prepared in honour of Elaine Matthews, recently retired long-serving editor of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names ( LGPN ): a 'collector of names'. The LGPN , conceived by Peter Fr...

    $1,381.73

  • POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF THE AEGEAN BRONZE AGE
    DANIEL J. PULLEN
    This volume brings together an international group of researchers to address how Mycenaean and Minoan states controlled the economy. The contributions, originally delivered at the 2007 Langford Conference at the Florida State University, examine the political economies of state (and pre-state) entities within the Aegean Bronze Age, including the issues of centralization and mul...

    $460.58

  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRE-STATE COMMUNITIES IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
    MAGUIRE, LOUISE C.
    This book explores the dynamics of small-scale societies in the ancient Near East by examining the ways in which particular communities functioned and interacted and by moving beyond the broad neo-evolutionary models of social change which have characterised many earlier approaches. By focusing on issues of diversity, scale, and context, it considers the ways in which economy, ...

    $582.12

  • EXPERIMENTATION AND INTERPRETATION
    In December 2008, a session on Experimental Archaeology was held at TAG in Southampton. Although at first it seemed out-of-place to discuss a topic stemming from science at a theory conference, the contributions demonstrated that many of the best archaeological projects today are those which use methodology and interpretation from both the sciences and the arts. The contributio...

    $460.58