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This volume presents research that attempts to examine the potential advantages of the Levallois reduction theory that led to its long history of use. Thus the development of a model of Middle...

Excavating Classical Culture - Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Greece, the first volume in Studies in Classical Archaeology, publishes more than twenty papers on recent work in Greece from a...

Excavating Waves and Winds of (Ex)change: A Study of Maritime Trade in Early BengalAuthor: Shahnaj Husne JahanPublisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford LtdPublication Date: Dec 31, 2006Number...

This study looks at the settlement site of Arjourne, situated on a low rise overlooking the Orontes River just South of Lake Homs in Syria. This site was first settled in the middle of the 6th...

Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 66The research design underlying this work is based on attempts to try to find the archaeology of the aboriginal herding people of the Cape: Khoekhoen...

This volume presents the site of Northton in the Western Isles of Scotland (at Toe Head on Harris).During excavations in 1965 and 1966 two early horizons were identified beneath and close to the base...

Egyptian Studies Association Publication No.4Hierakonpolis is situated some 650 km south of Cairo and 113 km north of Aswan. The Locality 6 cemetery lies 2 km south west of the edge of cultivation in...

The Comet Lode Opencast and the surrounding prehistoric-modern archaeological landscape on Copa Hill has been the subject of a major long-term investigation by the Early Mines Research Group. This...

The book analyses exchange and trade in their social contexts, during the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, with a professed interest in long-term changes occurring over a...

This volume grew out of a symposium session on Experimental Archaeology that was co-organized by James R. Mathieu and Andrew W. Pelcin for the Society for American Archaeology annual meetings in...

Lithic assemblages of the Mousterian in France have a number of local and regional characteristics, as well as shared affinities between different industries. This study focuses on assemblages from...

Acknowledging problems inherent in dating Australian rock art, Natalie Franklin approaches a group of engravings known as the Panaramitee style' in terms of its spatial variation. By assessing the...

This book grew out of a symposium session entitled "Continuity and Change: The Role of Analytical Scale in European Archaeology" for the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meetings in...

Proceedings of a conference held in the Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow, April 2000.The 25 papers published in these proceedings are the outcome of a conference held at Glasgow...

Papers from a session held at the European Association of Archaeologists Sixth Annual Meeting in Lisbon 2000This volume publishes a collection of papers inspired by the sessions on "The Archaeology...

Despite many investigations in this area, ancient lamps and lighting techniques continue to fascinate. This present work includes articles from Russia, Switzerland, and Ukraine and tackles contextual...

This study concerns the economic and social history of Fundi in Roman times. Fundi is a town in southern coastal Latium and was especially active in Late-Republican and Imperial times. The author...

This work presents the extensive excavation results of two important Neolithic enclosure sites in western-central France.Written by Claude Burnez with L. Bartosiewicz, S. B?k?nyi +, J.-M. Bouchet, S...

In the last twenty years historians and social scientists have seen a veritable explosion of research into food and its consumption and social context. And yet archaeology has been slow to catch on...

In this work the author explores the pre-historic and historic influences on two Cypriot forests in order to compile a definitive record of the evolutionary ecology of the forest environments in...

This book provides the most up-to-date examination of the changing burial practices in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age South Germany, a pivotal period and region in European Prehistory. Despite...

The subject in this, Number 58 of the series of Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, is the range of fortifications on the East African coast. The author traces the development of defences...

A discussion of Late Classical and Hellenistic fortifications in Magna Graecia, looking in particular at those of southern Italy, excluding Sicily. The first in a new series of studies that present...

Written by Peter Ellis, Gary Coates, Richard Cuttler and Catharine MouldA report on four pieces of fieldwork undertaken in Cambridgeshire (Pode Hole Farm, Paston, Longstanton, Bassingbourn) in 1996...

This book attempts to bring an anthropological perspective to the historical archaeology of a complex period in the Greek past. Traditionally, discussion of the transition from Late Antiquity to the...

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop, CNR, Rome, Italy, December 4-7, 2006In 2001, UNESCO and the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the 'Open Initiative on the Use of Space Technologies...

From the Arctic to Avalon: Papers in Honour of Jim Tuck - Proceedings of the conference ""From the Arctic to Avalon - Transforming the History ofAuthor: Lisa RankinPublisher: British Archaeological...

Proceedings of the Fifth Gender and Archaeology Conference, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, October 1998This book is based on a selection of papers presented at the Fifth Gender and Archaeology...

The burial practices of Late Iron Age Finland, ninth to twelfth century AD, are complex and varied, with both cremations and inhumations, mound and flat cemeteries present. Deborah Shepherd explores...

The principal focus of this study is an analysis of "independent animal burials", as they are most often indiscriminately interpreted as early evidence for a religiously symbolic significance of the...