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Our picture of Iron Age and Archaic Crete is constantly changing due to the increasing number of field investigations that reveal new information on these centuries. Results from many recent...

This work, for the first time, makes a systematic review of all the C 14 dates available for the prehistory of the Balearic Islands. Apart from an inventory of all the dates with precise contextual...

In-depth study of coinage minted in Theodosian times, in particular the AE2 produced AD 379-381 under Gratian, Valentinian II and Theodosius I. This report analyses the circulation, supply and...

Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of Postgraduate Researchers, The University of Liverpool, May 2002The Liverpool Interdisciplinary Symposium in Antiquity (LISA) was envisaged as a forum for...

A number of factors affected peoples choice of gods in ancient Greece, how and where they worshipped them and what they hoped to receive in return. This study focuses on the religious beliefs of...

The decline of ancient Maya civilization has resonated in both the popular and archaeological imagination. Over the years archaeologists have questioned this "collapse" with increasing detail in some...

Any attempt to understand present-day European societies and a possible "European identity" must include an historical perspective. Many of the phenomena on the road from the Stone Age to...

Contributions by Kenneth D. Thomas, Myfanwie Stewart, John D. Gale, Helen Keeley and Beverley Collinson.Report on the excavations undertaken by the author at the Culverwell site in Dorset. Finds of...

This volume is derived from a symposium entitled "Theory and Practice in Chinese Pleistocene Archaeology" at the 65th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology 2000, in Philadelphia, PA...

A selection of 17 papers from the first Symposium of "Current Research in Egyptology", held in Oxford in 2000. The Symposium was held to foster communication and exchange of ideas among students of...

This volume publishes a selection of nine papers from the 2001 CRE conference held in Liverpool. Written with the aim of fostering the exchange of ideas and presenting new research, the...

Edited by Rachel Ives, Daniel Lines, Christopher Naunton and Nina WahlbergFollowing a successful inaugural event at the University of Oxford and an expanded second at the University of Liverpool, the...

Prior to the last decade, few cylinder seals and no impressed sealings had ever been discovered in Predynastic Egyptian archaeological contexts. This monograph reviews important new finds from Abydos...

Two of Sir Cyril's notebooks describing minor earthworks of the Welsh Marches and visits to four Welsh museums, with two other unpublished papersMost of Sir Cyril Fox's papers are held in the...

This work studies copper alloy artefacts deposited in non-funerary contexts in north-west France between c. 1700-1400 BC. These finds constitute the great majority of the available documentation as...

15 papers on research (1970-2001) into Roman Dalamtia in honour of J. J. Wilkes. Author: David DavisonPublisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford LtdPublication Date: Dec 15, 2006Number of...

Volume 53 in the series of Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology focuses on the old sultanate of Darfur, in the westen part of modern Sudan, and, in particular its stone architecture from c. AD...

The focus of this thesis is the discovery of grave monuments in Xanthos which depict harpies, mythological figures with the bodies of birds and the heads of women. Rudolph uses these as a starting...

The low ridge of Phourni rises smoothly at the north-west edge of the fertile Cretan plain of Archanes, situated c.12 km south of Knossos. Uncovered along this ridge was one of the most important...

Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 16This book includes 19 papers relating to current research undertaken by the University of Paris from the High Plains of Mexico to Patagonia. Author: Cyril...

In this original work, the author aims to develop a synthetic perspective for enhancing the understanding of the roles death and life-giving waters have in the constitution of society and cosmos in...

The Bolivian high plateau, situated between the two Andean cordilleras, at an altitude of c. 3800-4000 metres above sea level. The Tiwanaku State (Tiwanaku IV and V, c. AD 500- 1150) - the heartland...

The aim of this book is to understand the development of the social structure of Germanic society in selected parts of "Germania Libera" in Europe from around c. 200 AD to 600 AD. Social structure...

The primary objective of this study was to complete a comprehensive osteological analysis of a skeletal collection of the Effigy Mound Culture (Wisconsin, c. 650-1200 AD), in order to contribute to...

This volume is concerned with the monumental stone inscriptions from Spain and Gaul during the period from 300 to 750 AD, and therefore the vast majority of these inscriptions are Christian and Latin...

The conference 'Debating Late Antiquity in Britain AD300-700' (held at the University of York in June 2003) had three principal areas of interest - What was the fate of Roman Britain? To what extent...

This study concentrates on Philistine decorated pottery, its production centres and trade patterns. These issues are examined by both archaeological and archaeometric approaches. Over recent years, a...

The aim of this study is to infer dietary texture from dental microwear during the Natufian hunter-gatherer to pre-pottery Neolithic agricultural development in northern Israel. Microwear patterns...

A report on the Neolithic settlement site of Curslak (Hamburg: c. 4100/4000 - 2900/2800 cal BC). The main focus of the analysis is the cultural classification of the TRB (Funnel Beaker) finds and the...

A study and catalogue of the silver hoard (the contents of a woman's tomb of the first century AD) from Bursa (Prusa, in the former region of Pontus and Bithynia), modern Turkey. Author: Hans V...