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This volume has been produced by the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) as a result of the contributions presented by different authors during the sessions held under the general heading of...

Lettura e studio delle cavit? artificiali.Author: Gianluca PadovanPublisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford LtdPublication Date: Dec 31, 2005Number of Pages: 396 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

This book investigates for the first time the complex processes involved with the occurrence and development of Eneolithic and Bronze Age architecture over the extent of Azerbaijan. The study also...

9 papers presented at a colloquium held in honour of J.J. Coulton at Lincoln College, Oxford on 17 April 2004, to mark his retirement from the Readership in Classical Archaeology at Merton College,...

Roman 'small towns' were an important link between the urban civitas capitals and the rural population and offer an ideal case study for examining the extent of Roman influence permeating into the...

This volume represents a detailed study of the important town of Argos in the Peloponnese during Byzantine phases (4th-7th centuries AD). An introduction covers landscape and contextual history...

The author presents here a survey of over 500 examples, in 6 categories, of African traditional weapons including knives, daggers, long and short, swords, lances and throwing weapons. The items, from...

A valuable new contribution to the regional archaeology of La Payunia (Argentina), tackling issues of broader interest such as the elusive relationships between foragers and agriculturalists. The...

This study of change and continuity in the Central sierras of Argentina examines the affects of contact between the indigenous population and colonising Spaniards, at the end of the sixteenth century...

Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Li?ge, Belgium, 2-8 September 2001Art du Pal?olithique Sup?rieur et du M?solithique/Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Art. Section 8 of the Acts of the...

The main objectives of this study are: to establish an architectural sequence for the Ah Canual group of sites; to analyse the typological schemes used, the techniques of construction and the...

A memorable volume to mark number 1000 in the BAR International Series. After the most prolonged period of study and research, Ann Brown has prepared a detailed, facsimile edition of Arthur Evans's...

Mycenaean society, it is commonly asserted, was characterised by centralised decision making over an integrated and culturally homogeneous region. In matters political and economic, the local rulers...

The Swiss Canton Ticino had at its heart the Roman town of Cosmo and Lake Maggiore, the shores of which were lined by a succession of Roman settlements and rich cemeteries. This examination of Roman...

Relations between the separatist regime of Marcus Postumus (in about 260 AD) and the Central Empire have been the subject of academic speculation but notably little direct research. It has been...

This monograph represents a new step in Australian archaeology. It presents a detailed quantitative, technological analysis of flaked stone artefacts, of a kind not published previously in Australia...

This tribute volume to Oliver Dickinson marks the occasion of his retirement from his post at the University of Durham. It is a tribute by only a few (unavoidably) of his friends, colleagues and...

In this study Stefano del Lungo provides a detailed, year-by-year account of the history of Muslim presence in central and northern Tyrrhenian Sea in the High Middle Ages, 8th to 10th century. The...

Studies in the Archaeology & History of Baluchistan, Volume IThis volume is the first in a series that will ultimately provide a thorough archaeological and historical survey of Baluchistan, a vast...

Merryn Dineley's thesis is based on the premise that the biochemical laws that govern the processes of malting, mashing and fermentation remain unchanged throughout the millennia'. He therefore uses...

Basal-looped spearheads were prevalent in the British Isles during the later part of the Middle Bronze Age. Their main period of use covered the Taunton and Penard industrial phases in Britain, and...

In this volume the author studies Roman baths in Israel, including a section on the miqveh (ritual Jewish bath), which first appears in the 2nd century BCE and becomes a fairly common feature both of...

This research provides a comprehensive study of the social and psychological characteristics of modern consumer behaviour that is then used as an interpretative perspective with which to consider the...

This volume arises from a session at the EAA conference in Lisbon in 2000. Its aim was to draw together the new data from Europe on prehistoric wooden palisaded enclosures. Wood was important to...

This book includes papers from the proceedings of the Manchester Conference on Archaeology and Religion held at Ashburne Hall, The University of Manchester, in September 2002.Author: Timothy...

This book focuses upon the bio-archaeological study of the human remains recovered in a Prehistoric cave cemetery from Menorca (Balearic Islands, Spain) dated between 1450/1400 - 800 cal BC. Its...

On the northwestern Plains of North America, most archaeologists have indicated that the movement of bison, whether seasonal or otherwise, influenced the movements of the Native people. Most...

First discovered in the 19th century, the remains of a Roman settlement at the site of Kue?uek Burnaz in the eastern area of ancient Cilicia, were investigated more fully in 1991 by the ?zgen/Gates...

The subject of this volume is the corpus of 203 Bronze Age anthropomorphic clay figurines and figurine fragments recovered from various archaeological contexts at Umm el-Marra, Syria, between 1994...

In this work the author focuses on the social and other non-material dimensions of life that are increasingly integral to landscape archaeology. Although the geographical focus of the study is...