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Tell el-Hayyat, the focus of this volume, is situated in the Jordan Rift Valley approximately two kilometres east of the Jordan River on the first terrace above the present floodplain. This work...

This study examines Bronze Age settlement patterns between c.2500 and 750 BC in the Welsh Marches region of Britain. The context of Early Bronze Age settlement is examined closely as a response to a...

The ancient site of Tel Gezer (Abu-Sh?sheh/Tell Jezer/Tell el-Jazari) is located in Central Israel, approximately halfway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. It is situated in the northern section of the...

In this work the author provides a comprehensive survey of bronze-working practices during the Late Bronze Age in Ireland through six key areas of research: (1) A thorough examination of all relevant...

The bronze lamps in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, consisting of a variety of material from the Ottoman Empire - Palestine, Syria, the Lebanon and Macedonia - were acquired through confiscation,...

So far no holistic study and synthesis of Late Minoan bronze-working has been published. This study is the first attempt to collect all available data and analyze the whole bronze-working process...

This study is based on analysis of sandstone tools from thirty or so early Neolithic settlement sites from the Paris Basin, Hainaut and Hesbaye, dating to the Bandkeramik (Ruban?) and...

Built Chamber Tombs of Middle and Late Bronze Age Date in Mainland Greece and the IslandsAuthor: Nikolas PapadimitriouPublisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford LtdPublication Date: Mar 22,...

A detailed study of Byzantine Africa and its conquest by the Arabs beginning in 641/642. Professor Christides assesses the political situation on the eve of the first Arab raid, the raids themselves...

Byzantium cannot be reconstructed, but its art provides an intensely vivid picture of its official and everyday life. The author of this volume has chosen two great works to illustrate this. The...

28 papers (19 in English, 7 in French and 2 in Spanish) from C 17.1 (Change in the Andes: Origins of Social Complexity, Pastoralism and Agriculture)Coordinators: Hugo D. Yacobaccio & Daniel E...

Since very few of the papers from this conference were submitted for publication (although abstracts of these are given at the back), many of the contributions come from the CAA meeting held in...

Prehistoric (Neolithic/Mesolithic) occupation of the Northern Alps (South East France) is known through the discovery of sites that reveal lithic and bone remains, and the study of such finds can...

This study relates the significant bronze coinage of the usurper Carausius, 286-93, to the archaeological and historical evidence from the period. Since the publication of Roman Imperial Coinage...

The purpose of this monograph is to examine, primarily from a geological perspective, the distribution and use of indigenous construction materials - carrstone especially but also its competitors...

Compositional data on bronze artefacts of the European Chalcolithic and Bronze Age are now quite numerous. This study differs in that it indicates how the bronzes were made: hammered into shape or...

En este volumen se estudian las estructuras constructivas y el material mueble hallados del conjunto arquitect?nico del Olivar de Castulo, Linares (Ja?n) en la campa?a de campo de 1971. Los...

Catalogo delle Lucerne di Tolemaide (Cirenaica)Author: Emanuela FabbricottiPublisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford LtdPublication Date: Dec 31, 2001Number of Pages: 92 pagesBinding:...

This volume forms an illustrated catalogue of 430 scarabs, in the author's own collection, which are representative of types manufactured throughout the Pharaonic period. Arranged by design motif,...

This book provides a complete catalogue of the collections of Palaeolithic artefacts from Egypt housed in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. Though none of these collections derive from excavations,...

A survey of cave sites in the regions of Caceres and Badajoz, Spain. The inventory of sites includes details on site locations and distributions, the characteristics of the various caves and the...

The papers collected in this volume were, with a couple of exceptions, presented at a conference on Celtic coinage held at the Ashmolean Museum and the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, on 6th - 7th...

Just over two thousand years ago, Julius Caesar set into motion events that would culminate in the conquest of the tribes of Gaul. It is to the coins of one of these tribes that this book addresses...

A challenging piece of research that assesses the historical background to how the Inuit economy became integrated into the modern world. Drawing on a range of sources, including archaeology, oral...

An extensive typological and archaeological study of Late Roman cooking vessels and wares from major sites in the Balearic Islands (Sa Mesquida, Mallorca, Can Sor?, Eivissa, Es Cap des Port, Menorca,...

This book includes ten papers deriving from the session 'Ceramics in the New Millennium' presented at the 2002 EAA Conference in Thessaloniki.Author: Dragos GheorghiuPublisher: British Archaeological...

Section 10: ?ge du Cuivre au Proche Orient et en Europe / Copper Age in the Near East and Europe Colloque / Symposium C 10.2The main emphasis of this book is water and its importance in prehistoric...

The settlement of Ilgynly-depe is situated in the foothills of the Kopet Dag mountains approximately 240 km due south-east of Ashgabat and 110 km north-west of Meshkhed, southern Turkmenistan. The...

Joseph W Michels takes a regional perspective to examine Aksumite sites (the Horn of Africa) from 700 BC to 850 AD in their spatial and behavioural contexts. The fieldwork introduced a regional...

These thirty-eight papers, from the Second International Meeting of Anthrocology held in Paris in 2000, include both theoretical discussions of the methodologies involved in current charcoal analysis...