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Des les goths aux huns: Le nord de la mer noire au Bas-empire et a l'epoque des grandes migrationsAuthor: Mark SčukinPublisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford LtdPublication Date: Sep 22,...

This work describes the technology and typology of stone industries in Corsica from the Mesolithic to the Chalcolithic, and is the first major synthesis on this material. Author: Laurent-Jacques...

The region of Chihuahua in North-Western Mexico is a relatively isolated area with a barren desert landscape. There is little in the way of the Settlement Archaeology typically found in the Southern...

Archaeologists have favoured a date of 14,000-15,000 years before present (BP) for canine domestication. However, recent studies of mutations in the mitochondrial DNA sequence by molecular...

This thesis looks at local ceramic technologies at four sites in Pakistan from the Early Harappan period (ca 3500 to 2650 BC). Divided in two parts, the study describes the development of a...

Report on excavations that took place between 1987 and 1994, in the northern part of the Insula 39, situated between the amphitheatre and a guest-house. The remains date from the outset of the...

This study of the women around Dionysus' analyses a corpus of 1244 vases, including both red and black figure Attic vase paintings, dating from c.580-420 BC. The painted scenes are studied in terms...

A study of face pots found in the north-western regions of the Roman Empire (France, the Rhine, Danube, British Isles, etc.) The work looks at the form and functions of the vessels (from a large...

This volume takes as its area of study the periphery of the core areas of Hallstatt culture in Baden-Wurttemburg and Bavaria, including the so-called 'princely residences'. Through the use of a...

This book provides a detailed analysis of the Mayan pottery from Xkipch? in the Puuc area of the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico. During the 7th century, in Puuc area a regional type of Mayan culture...

Elephantine Island is the largest of the Aswan area islands, and is one of the most ancient sites in Egypt. The sealing material of the town of Elephantine was uncovered and collected by the...

This work is a study of the distinctive Leuna beaker type, a unique form of Roman silver vessel. The beakers under discussion appear in three types of find context, treasures or hoards, burials and...

These papers, from three sessions organised by the EAA between 1999 and 2001 or from the XIVth Congress of the UPSPP in 2001, have been gathered together as an anecdote to Anglo-American theoretical...

Early and Middle Palaeolithic studies have recently been greatly improved by the application of modern technological methods. These studies are very much based upon lithic production systems,...

India encompasses a lot of hidden treasures, such as amulets, pendants, etched and eye beads - distinct beads. Besides being used for decoration distinctive beads also have religious, therapeutic,...

Proceedings of the 1st ICAZ Symposium on the History of the Domestic Dog, Eighth Congress of the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ98), August 23-29, 1998, Victoria, B.C., CanadaThe...

This study is concerned with the analysis of pottery collected during the excavation campaigns conducted by the Swiss Institute of Rome in the domus Tiberiana between 1984 and 1987, as well as with...

Items of jewellery in Icelandic society traditionally have been analysed in typological, chronological and technological terms with descriptive approaches to discussing their presence in the...

Although the Nuragic civilization of Middle Bronze Age Sardinia has been well documented, the research so far has been focused on elite centres with their monumental conical dry-stone towerhouses...

The aim of this book is to provide a tool for western archaeologists in the form of an overview and to show the range of ceramics of the Volga-Don Steppe during the Early and Middle Bronze Age. The...

The fossil record of the Far East has been the focus of debate and confusion since the discovery of Javanese and Chinese specimen at the end of the 19th century. Both the paleontological and lithic...

Belt buckles have long been recognised as an integral part of the costume of early medieval men and women. As items of dress, buckles and belt suites were subject to regional diversity as well as...

Early Bronze and Iron Age faunal remains from the two sites in the northeastern region of Turkey were analysed to establish characteristics of the previously unexamined economic patterns of the...

This volume reports on ongoing fieldwork by the British Mission, plus the results of a previous season 1986-90, which focused on the Jhelum Basin in the Pabbi Hills in northern Pakistan. The aim was ...

Early Human Adaptation in the Northern Hemisphere and the Implications of TaphonomyAuthor: Marianne P. StoppPublisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford LtdPublication Date: Dec 31, 1997Number of...

This survey of Kentish vessel glass begins at the end of the late Roman period, and includes Roman glass vessels found in an Anglo-Saxon context. The period covered is approximately from the middle...

The main indicator for the presence of an ancient settlement at a certain location is the find of pottery fragments. With regard previously to the sites of continental Croatia, it has been the...

This study looks at Early Mesolithic Britain, and in particular the assemblage types known as 'Star Carr', 'Deepcar', and 'Horsham', from the point of view of six independent areas of research:...

Jian Leng's dissertation takes as its starting point the model of Hallam Movius devised in the 1940s to explain the production and distribution of stone tools in Asia and the presence of a...

The aims of this work are to provide as complete a list as possible of all the timber, motte and bailey castles, built in the counties of Gwent and Ergyng, Wales, between AD 1050 and 1250. The list...