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  • DAMJILI CAVE
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    DAMJILI CAVE
    YOSHIHIRO NISHIAKI, AZAD ZEYNALOV, AND YAGUB MAMMADOV
    Presents archaeological evidence from the Azerbaijan–Japan excavations, revealing insights into Mesolithic to Neolithic transition and farming communities in the South Caucasus. Modern archaeological research carried out since the late 19th century has sufficiently demonstrated that the beginning of the food production economy and the establishment of a farming society had a si...

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  • THE HIDDEN LIVES OF VIKING WOMEN
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    THE HIDDEN LIVES OF VIKING WOMEN
    MICHÈLE HAYEUR SMITH AND ALEXANDRA SANMARK
    Analyzes the lives, roles, and experiences of Viking women, highlighting their societal contributions through interdisciplinary perspectives. This edited volume brings together an international group of scholars to address the lives, roles, myths, mythology, and lived experiences of Viking women as well as the impacts of change on women during the turbulent period of the Viking...

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  • NEW VOICES IN IRANIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
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    NEW VOICES IN IRANIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
    KARIM ALIZADEH AND MEGAN CIFARELLI
    In championing the work of local scholars, especially female, this volume begins to fill a politically imposed lacuna in the English language reporting of high quality research in one of the most formative regions for the development of human civilization. This volume highlights the excellent, wide-ranging work of a diverse collection of Iranian archaeologists, the new voices i...

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  • SOUTHEAST ARABIA AT THE DAWN OF THE SECOND MILLENNIUM
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    SOUTHEAST ARABIA AT THE DAWN OF THE SECOND MILLENNIUM
    DEREK KENNET / ALYSON CAINE / ANNA HILTON / LLOYD WEEKS / CHRISTIAN VELDE
    First full publication of a cemetery of the Bronze Age Wadi Suq period (2000-1650 BC) in the region of the UAE, a period marked by large scale cultural and economic changes. The end of the 3rd millennium was a time of significant transformation in south-east Arabia (the United Arab Emirates and northern Oman). The cultural homogeneity of the preceding Early Bronze Age, Umm an-N...

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  • WATER DISPLAYS IN DOMESTIC SPACES ACROSS THE LATE ROMAN WEST
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    WATER DISPLAYS IN DOMESTIC SPACES ACROSS THE LATE ROMAN WEST
    GINNY WHEELER
    Analyzes the use of water features in late antique homes across the Western Roman Empire, highlighting their aesthetic, social, and practical significance. For ambitious late antique homeowners seeking to demonstrate their status and taste, water and its display offered almost infinite possibilities. Water Displays in Domestic Spaces across the Late Roman West: Cultivating Livi...

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  • COINS, RICHES, AND LANDS
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    COINS, RICHES, AND LANDS
    FERNANDO LÓPEZ SÁNCHEZ, MARISA BUENO, AND DAVID MARTÍNEZ CHICO
    A study of how coins, riches and lands were gained and distributed among the soldiers, warriors, and mercenaries in the Antiquity and Early Medieval times. Land was the ideal store of wealth in the ancient Mediterranean world. It brought social respectability, and its possession allowed participation in the politics of the cities governed by landowning elites. Crucial defense o...

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  • ISLANDS AND COMMUNITIES
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    ISLANDS AND COMMUNITIES
    ANASTASIA CHRISTOPHILOPOULOU
    Major re-examination of issues of island identity and interaction with case studies from Crete, Cyprus and Sardinia covering a long time span and key cultural periods. Water may separate islands and the mainland, but the sea also offers a vital link. This volume is one of three major outputs of the research and public engagement project ‘Being an Islander’: Art and Identity of ...

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  • FORSAKEN RELICS
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    FORSAKEN RELICS
    ALESSANDRO BUONO, GIANLUCA MINIACI, AND ANNA ANGUISSOLA
    Uses case studies to examine the social context and cultural and political management of appropriating abandoned objects and assets. Forsaken Relics is the result of an interdisciplinary dialogue between history, archaeology, and ethnography on the topic of the appropriation of disputed goods and places. Scholars with diverse backgrounds convened to address this common challeng...

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  • EXPLORING ANCIENT SOUNDS AND PLACES
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    EXPLORING ANCIENT SOUNDS AND PLACES
    MARGARITA DÍAZ-ANDREU AND NEEMIAS SANTOS DA ROSA
    Archaeoacoustics studies historical sound, merging archaeology, anthropology, and psychology to reveal insights about ancient music and acoustic environments. Exploring Ancient Sounds and Places: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Archaeoacoustics brings together scholars from diverse academic fields – including archaeology, anthropology, architecture, classics, histo...

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  • BRITISH POTTERY: THE FIRST 3000 YEARS
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    BRITISH POTTERY: THE FIRST 3000 YEARS
    ALEX GIBSON
    First comprehensive account of the sequence, development and use of early prehistoric pottery in over 20 years. Pottery was at the heart of the ‘Neolithic package’ appearing in Britain with the first farmers around 4000 BC. It arrived as a mature technology and was essential to the new, largely sedentary, lifestyle and economy. It transformed storage and cooking practices, and ...

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  • ROCKS IN MOTION
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    ROCKS IN MOTION
    PAWEŁ L. POLKOWSKI
    First, fully illustrated, presentation of a large but generally little known assemblage of petroglyphic rock art from the Western Desert of Egypt. Rock art in Dakhleh was produced for perhaps as long as 10 millennia, resulting in the formation of hundreds of sites displaying thousands of images. In some places, petroglyphs form a true melting pot of iconographic creations, else...

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  • BRONZE AGE ROCK ART IN IBERIA AND SCANDINAVIA
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    BRONZE AGE ROCK ART IN IBERIA AND SCANDINAVIA
    JOHAN LING / MARTA DÍAZ-GUARDAMINO / CHRISTIAN HORN / JOHN KOCH / ZOFIA ANNA STOS-GALE
    Discusses new evidence of interactions between Scandinavia and Iberia during the Bronze Age and cross references warrior iconography in both societies. Recent research has uncovered new evidence of long-distance interactions between Scandinavia and Iberia during the Late Bronze Age. Advances in various lines of inquiry, such as 3D recording of rock art, iconography, metals and ...

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  • THE TOMB AND BEYOND
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    THE TOMB AND BEYOND
    NAGUIB KANAWATI
    Provides a much needed summary overview of the key elements of Egyptian tomb form, use and decoration over time. The tombs, with their scenes, inscriptions, objects and human remains, represent our richest source of information for the understanding of Egyptian beliefs and practices, art and architecture and of many aspects of daily life. Detailed, scholarly reports on individu...

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  • THE TOMB OF AMENEMHAB
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    THE TOMB OF AMENEMHAB
    HASSAN EL-SAADY
    Reissue of first publication of a lesser known but important decorated tomb of the Ramesside Period at Thebes. This volume is a facsimile reissue of the full publication of the tomb identified as that of Amenemhab, a middle ranking priest of Amon. The tomb lies within the lower enclosure of the major cemetery of Elwet Sheikh-Abdel Qurnah in Thebes. It is cut into a perpendicula...

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  • THE TOMB OF THE VIZIER RĒ‘-WER AT SAQQARA
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    THE TOMB OF THE VIZIER RĒ‘-WER AT SAQQARA
    SAID EL-FIKEY
    Provides a detailed description and interpretation of a lesser-known tomb forming part of the major pyramid and temple complex of Teti at Thebes. The tomb of Re‘-wer lies in the south-eastern corner of the mortuary temple of King Teti, first King of the 6th Dynasty, beside the pyramid of Teti, in the Old Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara. Excavations in 1906–7 and in the early 1920...

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  • NORTHWOLD MANOR REBORN
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    NORTHWOLD MANOR REBORN
    WARWICK RODWELL
    Presents a fascinating, superbly illustrated, account by one of the UK's leading architectural historians, of the history, dereliction and restoration of a complex, originally Tudor, manor house. Northwold Manor is a multi-period listed building (grade II*), about which almost nothing was known. Uninhabited since 1955, it had fallen into a state of extreme dereliction, and was ...

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  • TUTANKHAMUN AND CARTER
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    TUTANKHAMUN AND CARTER
    ROGÉRIO SOUSA, GABRIELE PIEKE AND TINE BAGH
    First scholarly, multi-disciplinary re-assessment of Howard Carter’s discovery and excavation of Tutenkhamun’s tomb and the impact of the find on our understanding of the material culture of Ancient Egypt. The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 stands out as one of the most important finds of modern archaeology, revealing an enormous wealth of objects encapsulating te...

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  • THE LATE NEW KINGDOM IN EGYPT (C. 1300–664 BC)
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    THE LATE NEW KINGDOM IN EGYPT (C. 1300–664 BC)
    M. L. BIERBRIER
    The period of Egypt’s Ramesside empire is best known for its foreign wars and monumental buildings but the chronological history of many of its rulers and pre-eminent priests and their genealogies was poorly understood. While it was not possible to fi x the chronology exactly, a combination of known dates or date ranges, such as for the accession of Ramesses II, and the determi...

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  • DOMESTIC PLANTS AND ANIMALS
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    DOMESTIC PLANTS AND ANIMALS
    DOUGLAS J. BREWER / DONALD B. REDFORD / SUSAN REDFORD
    The first comprehensive study of the range of plants and domestic animals exploited by the ancient Egyptians. This facsimile edition of a much acclaimed volume brings back into print a major study of the evidence for the domesticated plants and animals exploited by the ancient Egyptians. The rise of agriculture must be amongst the most important steps that humans have taken on ...

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  • GIZEH AND RIFEH
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    GIZEH AND RIFEH
    W.M. FLINDERS PETRIE / HERBERT THOMPSON / W.E. CRUM
    An important examination of Coptic monastery ruins producing many fragments of Coptic manuscripts. This is a facsimile reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1907 account of excavations at Gizeh and at Dier Rifeh in Upper Egypt, just south of Asyut. At Gizeh excavations focused on a cemetery lying on a ridge about 1 km south of the Great Pyramid while work at Rifeh extended from a well-k...

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  • ECOLOGIES OF BRONZE AGE ROCK ART
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    ECOLOGIES OF BRONZE AGE ROCK ART
    FREDRIK FAHLANDER
    A consideration of the rock art of the Mälaren bay region exploring the potential efficacy of petroglyphs as physical devices through organization, design, and articulation. The Bronze Age (1700–500 BCE) petroglyphs of southern Scandinavia comprise a unique tradition of rock art in northern Eurasia. Despite a limited repertoire of motifs such as cupmarks, boats, anthropomorphs,...

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  • CONTEXTUALIZING IMPERIAL DISRUPTION AND UPHEAVALS AND THEIR ASSOCIATED RESEARCH CHALLENGES
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    CONTEXTUALIZING IMPERIAL DISRUPTION AND UPHEAVALS AND THEIR ASSOCIATED RESEARCH CHALLENGES
    JANE E. FRANCIS & MICHAEL J. CURTIS
    The first in a major new series exploring the archaeology and early historic records of Crete from the Roman to the Byzantine periods. This volume follows on from papers presented at the 13th International Cretan Congress in 2022 and covers the period from the 1st century BC to 4th–5th centuries AD, with the articles in the volume set around the topic of upheavals and disruptio...

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  • THE GATEWAY OF RAMESSES IX IN THE TEMPLE OF AMUN AT KARNAK
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    THE GATEWAY OF RAMESSES IX IN THE TEMPLE OF AMUN AT KARNAK
    AMIN A. M. A. AMER
    Amin Amer’s 1999 study of the Gateway of Ramesses IX at Karnak, Egypt, is presented here in a facsimile reissue. The Gateway is a little-known major work, part of the great temple at Karnak, built by one of the last kings of the Egyptian empire after a long period that saw little building work in the temple complex. The rather modest, by Karnak’s standards, construct lies at th...

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  • STONE AND METAL VASES
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    STONE AND METAL VASES
    W.M. FLINDERS PETRIE
    This facsimile edition of Flinders Petrie’s 1937 typo-chronological catalogue of Egyptian stone vessels and Egyptian and Greaco-Roman metal vessels has been long out of print. It was a first attempt by Petrie to take an overview of the vessels recovered from numerous locations housed in major collections of the time, principally his own in University College London and over 700...

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  • THE MAMMALS OF ANCIENT EGYPT
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    THE MAMMALS OF ANCIENT EGYPT
    DALE J. OSBORN / JANA OSBORNOVÁ
    Various attempts have been made to systematize the mammals depicted in Egyptian tomb paintings, inscriptions, carvings, figurines and other objects, and as mummies, but there are many discrepancies, variable spellings and names, including now obsolete Latin names, and mis-identifications. The Egyptian artists themselves sometimes used the wrong hieroglyph or drew some parts of ...

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  • ARCHAEOLOGY OF SYMBOLS
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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...

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  • EXCAVATIONS AT TLACHTGA, HILL OF WARD, CO. MEATH, IRELAND
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    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...

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  • THE LATE MINOAN III NECROPOLIS OF ARMENOI
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    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. ...

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  • EXTRACTING STONE
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    EXTRACTING STONE
    ANNE S. DOWD / MARY BETH D. TRUBITT
    A comprehensive view of quarrying activities from three key regions in North America. This exciting new addition to the the American Landscapes series provides an in-depth account of how flintknappers obtained and used stone based on archaeological, geological, landscape, and anthropological data. Featuring case studies from three key reg ...

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  • ARTIFACTS OF MOURNING
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    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...

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