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   56 2010: Interpreting Silent Artefacts: Petrographic Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics edited by Patrick Sean Quinn. ISBN 9781905739295. £24.95. viii+295 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, tables, drawings, photographs.
This volume presents a range of petrographic case studies as applied to archaeological problems, primarily in the field of pottery analysis, i.e. ceramic petrography. Petrographic analysis involves using polarising optical microscopy to examine microstructures and the compositions of rock and mineral inclusions in thin section, and has become a widely used technique within archaeological science. The results of these analyses are commonly embedded in regionally specific reports and research papers. In this volume, however, the analytical method takes centre stage and the common theme is its application in different archaeological contexts. Contents: 1) Henry Clifton Sorby (1826-1908) and the development of thin section petrography in Sheffield (Noel Worley); 2) The provenance potential of igneous glacial erratics in Anglo-Saxon ceramics from northern England (Rob Ixer & Alan Vince); 3) Technological insights into bell-beakers: a case study from the Mondego Plateau, Portugal (Ana Jorge); 4) Indigenous tableware production during the archaic period in western Sicily: new results from petrographic analysis (Giuseppe Montana, Anna Maria Polito & Ioannis Iliopoulos); 5) Petrographic & microstratigraphic analysis of mortar-based building materials from the temple of Venus, Pompeii (Rebecca Piovesan, Emmanuele Curti, Celestino Grifa, Lara Maritan & Claudio Mazzoli; 6) Provenance & production technology of Early Bronze Age pottery from a lake-dwelling settlement at Arquà Petrarca, Padova, Italy (Lara Maritan, Claudio Mazzoli, Marta Tenconi, Giovanni Leonardi & Stefano Boaro); 7) Ceramic technology & social process in late neolithic Hungary (Attila Kreiter, György Szakmány & Miklós Kázmér; 8) Early pottery technology & the formation of a technological tradition: the case of Theopetra Cave, Thessaly, Greece (Areti Pentedeka & Anastasia Dimoula); 9) Fine-grained Middle Bronze Age polychrome ware from Crete: combining petrographic & microstructural analysis (Edward W. Faber, Peter M. Day & Vassilis Kilikoglou; 10) Pottery technology and regional exchange in Early Iron Age Crete (Marie-Claude Boileau, Anna Lucia d’Agata & James Whitley; 11) The movement of Middle Bronze Age transport jars a provenance study based on petrographic and chemical analysis of Canaanite jars from Memphis, Egypt (Mary Ownby & Janine Bourriau); 12) Petrographic analysis of EB iii ceramics from Tall al-‘Umayri, Jordan: a re-evaluation of levels of production (Stanley Klassen); 13) Comparison of volcaniclastic-tempered Inca imperial ceramics from Paria, Bolivia with potential sources (Veronika Szilágyi & György Szakmány); 14) Multi-village specialized craft production & the distribution of Hokoham sedentary period pottery, Tuscon, Arizona (James M. Heidke); 15) A preliminary evaluation of the Verde confederacy model: testing expectations of pottery exchange in the central Arizona highlands (Sophia E. Kelly, David R. Abbott, Gordon Moore, Christopher Watkins & Caitlin Wichlacz); 16) Ceramic petrography & the reconstruction of hunter-gatherer craft technology in Late Prehistoric Southern California (Patrick Quinn & Margie Burton).
 55 2009: Passionate Patron: The Life of Alexander Hardcastle and the Greek Temples of Agrigento by Alexandra Richardson. ISBN 978-1-905739-28-8. £14.99. viii, 143, b/w illustrations, paperback.
In this account, Alexandra Richardson reveals (as she says in her introduction) her quest to get to know a ‘remarkable man who wholly dedicated his later life and finances to restoring and excavating what is surely one of the finest classical Greek sites in the Western Mediterranean. I rapidly began to be drawn in to the sketchy, sometimes speculative, details surrounding the remarkable Captain Hardcastle…I thought back to his unlit villa beside the theatrically shining temples, and the more I got to know the man, the more it seemed entirely in keeping with his personality that his former home should still be not be sharing the spotlight with the great monuments he was so intimately involved with. He remained a mysterious and private person who kept his own counsel throughout life. I was to discover that he wrote very few letters home to his family from the Far East, South Africa, Italy. And when he did write to the chosen few, I had to learn to read between the lines. Luckily his own family wrote to one another making mention of him…With so little to go on, it was just the sort of challenge that a researcher relishes. The Anglo-Italian theme was yet another appeal, my instinctive habitat. No full-scale biography had ever been written about him and thus I was not stepping on any toes. I had the field all to myself, piecing together a profile from many sources, set largely in a period of modern Sicilian history, the 1920s and early ‘30s rarely “popularised” by foreign writers. That was all how the four-year journey began...’
'This book is the labour of years of research and scholarship. In Alexandra Richardson's book, the personality of Alexander Hardcastle comes to life in all its many facets. Her detailed account of the history of Agrigento is historically correct and written in a fluid style. Her descriptions of Sicily are accurate and lyrical, her cameos of Sicilians witty and a pleasure to read. Richardson's rigorous research describes his painful and determined iter from London to Girgenti, his stubborness and his resilience.' - Simonetta Agnello Hornby, 'The Almond Picker'
 54 2009: Digging up the Ice Age Recognising, recording and understanding fossil and archaeological remains found in British quarries. A Guide and Practical Handbook by Simon Buteux, Jenni Chambers and Barbara Silva. Edited by Simon Buteux with contributions by David Keen, Danielle Schreve and Mark Stephens. ISBN 9781905739240. £14.99. vi, 189, illustrated throughout in colour, index..
For over a hundred years, sand and gravel quarrying has been of enormous benefit to geology, palaeontology and archaeology – quarries have been the main source of Ice Age fossils and finds. It is because of deep excavations into Ice Age sediments that the geological sequences, the fossil remains of plants and animals, and the stone tools of Britain’s earliest human inhabitants have come to light. This handbook, packed with practical information and guidance is written for all charged with caring for the natural and historic environment, geologists and archaeologists and anybody with an interest in our past and future, and not least those working in the quarry industry.
 53 2009: Dictionary of Archaeological Terms: English–French / French–English by Tinaig Clodoré Tissot. ISBN 9781905739271. £12.99. Spiro-bound; 142 pages + 6 blank pages for notes.
This dictionary – an assemblage of more than 10,000 archaeological words and terms – is intended to assist in the reading of archaeological books and publications (from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages), and in the writing of papers and articles in both English and French. The aim is to help, in particular, students and archaeologists in the field to find quickly words relating to a specific period, a specific area, or a research field. Of course, the dictionary is also for everyone fond of archaeology, from Prehistory to the Middle Ages. Spiro-bound, this very handy work is easy to open and use on excavations and fieldwork generally and will soon find its place in every archaeologist’s backpack where the lingua may not necessarily be franca, and vice versa.
 52 2009: Bryn Mawr College Archaeological Monographs Elmali-Karatas V: The Early Bronze Age Pottery of Karatas Habitation Deposit by Christine Eslick. ISBN 978-1-905739-21-9. £50.00. Hardback; xvi, 1-296 pp.+99 plates, two in colour.
This volume presents the results of the Bryn Mawr College excavations of the Early Bronze Age site of Karatas in the plain of Elmali in northern Lycia. It is a final report of the pottery, except for miniature vessels. The occupation at Karataş has been divided into six main periods (I–VI) on the basis of stratigraphy of the Central Mound. Periods I–III date to EB I, Periods IV and V to EB II, and Period VI to EB III. The pottery showed continuous development during the entire span of settlement, mainly in the addition of new features to a basically conservative repertoire.
 50 2009: The British and Vis War in the Adriatic 1805-15 by Malcolm Scott Hardy. ISBN 9781905739158. £19.95. viii+152 pages; 42 illustrations, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, including 18 in colour.
Many years ago in the early 1970s when he was living in Zagreb, the author was intrigued by references in guidebooks to British occupation during the Napoleonic wars of the island of Vis (now modern Croatia) and the remains of British forts there. In those days foreigners were not permitted to visit Vis because of its military importance and it is only in the last few years that it has been opened up to international tourism. So it was in 1995 that the author made his first short visit. The same holiday in Dalmatia included a visit to the island of Korcula where discussion with his hosts turned to the short British presence on that island and the similarity to Martello towers of the British-built tower above the town of Korcula. Fascinated by the role of the British Navy in the region, on his return to London the author started to explore the relevant records in the Public Record Office at Kew. The result is this study which presents an integrated approach to the political and diplomatic, naval and military, economic or local aspects of the story. The work seeks to fit a detailed account using hitherto unpublished British original documents (which challenge or shed light on earlier judgements) into the context of French and Austrian/Croatian/Dalmatian perspectives.
 33 2009: Christopher Wordsworth: Six Letters from Greece Six previously unpublished letters from the archives of the British Library, London edited by Charles Plouviez. ISBN 9781905739264. £6.00. Paperback; 41 pages; 1 illustration; Published privately, available from Archaeopress.
Six previously unpublished letters from the archives of the British Library, London, by the young scholar Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885), nephew of William, detailing his travels around newly-independent Greece in 1832/3. With an introduction and notes by Charles Plouviez, these letters back to England (four to his father, Christopher, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, one to Mrs Louisa Gurney Hoare, wife of the banker, and one to his cousin Dora at Rydal Mount, Cumbria) paint a series of vivid picture of life, travel, and social conditions in a free Greece; they are also important documents for researchers and those interested in Christopher Wordsworth’s two celebrated monographs which resulted from this tour: Athens and Attica (1836) and Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, & Historical (1839). Contents: Introduction; Letter One (29 July 1832): ‘Safely in Greece!’ or rather British Corfu; Letter Two (25 August 1832): The Ionian Islands: tracking Odysseus on Ithaka; Letter Three (incomplete; October? 1832): ‘Oh! Where, Dodona! is thine aged grove?’; Letter Four (27 November 1832): Attica, Argolis and some islands; Letter Five (18 January 1833): From Mount Parnassus to Rydal Mount; Letter Six (19 March 1833): Leaving King Otho’s sad country; Notes.
 32 2007: Art as Metaphor: The Prehistoric Rock-art of Britain edited by Aron Mazel, George Nash and Clive Waddington. ISBN 9781905739165. £19.95. 256 pages; illustrated throughout in colour. 245x167mm; paperback.
Enigmatic, esoteric and fascinating, the rock-art of the British Isles has for a long time been a well kept secret at home and abroad. However, dedicated work by rock-art researchers over the last few decades has seen the discovery of hundreds of new panels and the publication of several high quality regional surveys and numerous
survey reports and academic articles, and the creation of a highly successful world-class website on Northumberland rock-art. British rock-art has arrived on the world stage. Drawing on these exciting developments, this volume brings together a carefully selected collection of papers that cover British prehistoric rock-art from over 10,000 years ago. Some of the topics addressed include: • recent discoveries of Palaeolithic cave art and probable Mesolithic; inscriptions • new perspectives on Neolithic-Early Bronze Age and Pictish rock-art • regional studies on the rock-art of Cumbria, Northumberland, North Yorkshire and South West Britain • relationships between rock-art and ritual and funerary monuments and between rock-art and landscape • experiential approaches to understanding passage grave art within
• chambered tombs • the history of British rock-art research. Contents: 1) A coming of age (Aron Mazel, George Nash and Clive Waddington); 2) Rock-art and art mobilier of the British Upper Palaeolithic (Paul Pettitt and Paul Bahn); 3) Possible Mesolithic cave art in southern England (Graham Mullan & Linda Wilson); 4) Neolithic rock-art in the British Isles: retrospect and prospect (Clive Waddington); 5) Pictish symbol stones: caught between prehistory and history (Meggen Gondek); 6) Rock-art in Cleveland and north-east Yorkshire: contexts and chronology (Blaise Vyner); 7) Exploring links between cupmarks and cairnfields (Philip Deakin); 8) Light at the end of the tunnel: the way megalithic art was viewed and experienced (George Nash); 9) Rock-art and rough outs: exploring the sacred and social dimensions of prehistoric carvings at Copt Howe, Cumbria (Kate E. Sharpe); 10 ) A scattering of images: the rock-art of southern Britain (George Nash); 11) How the study of rock-art began and developed (Stan Beckensall); 12) On the fells and beyond: exploring aspects of Northumberland rock-art (Aron D. Mazel).
 31 2007: Mapping Doggerland: The Mesolithic Landscapes of the Southern North Sea edited by Vincent Gaffney. Kenneth Thomson and Simon Finch. ISBN 9781905739141. £28.00. xii+131 pages; paperback; illustrated throughout in colour and black and white.
12,000 years ago the area that now forms the southern North Sea was dry land: a vast plain populated by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. By 5,500 BC the entire area had disappeared beneath the sea as a consequence of rising sea levels. Until now, this unique landscape remained hidden from view and almost entirely unknown. The North Sea Palaeolandscape Project, funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, have mapped 23,000 km2 of this “lost world” using seismic data collected for mineral exploration. "Mapping Doggerland" demonstrates that the North Sea covers one of the largest and best preserved prehistoric landscapes in Europe. In mapping this exceptional landscape the project has begun to provide an insight into the historic impact of the last great phase of global warming experienced by modern man and to assess the significance of the massive loss of European land that occurred as a consequence of climate change. Contents: 1) Mapping Doggerland Vincent Gaffney and Kenneth Thomson; 2) Coordinating Marine Survey Data Sources (Mark Bunch, Vincent Gaffney and Kenneth Thomson); 3) 3D Seismic Reflection Data, Associated Technologies and the Development of the Project Methodology (Kenneth Thomson and Vincent Gaffney); 4. Merging Technologies: The integration and visualisation of spatial data sets used in the project (Simon Fitch, Vincent Gaffney and Kenneth Thomson); 5) A Geomorphological Investigation of Submerged Depositional Features within the Outer Silver Pit, Southern North Sea (Simon Fitch, Vincent Gaffney and Kenneth Thomson; 6) Salt Tectonics in the Southern North Sea: Controls on Late Pleistocene-Holocene Geomorphology (Simon Holford, Kenneth Thomson and Vincent Gaffney); 7) An Atlas of the Palaeolandscapes of the Southern North Sea (Simon Fitch, Vincent Gaffney, Kenneth Thomson with Kate Briggs, Mark Bunch and Simon Holford); 8) The Potential of the Organic Archive for Environmental Reconstruction: An Assessment of Selected Borehole Sediments from the Southern North Sea (David Smith, Simon Fitch, Ben Gearey, Tom Hill, Simon Holford, Andy Howard and Christina Jolliffe); 9) Heritage Management and the North Sea Palaeolandscapes Project (Simon Fitch, Vincent Gaffney and Kenneth Thomson).
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 30 2007: Archaeology - What it is, where it is, and how to do it by Paul Wilkinson. ISBN 978-1-905739-00-4. £11.99. paperback, 255mm x 190mm, 106 pages, colour illustrated throughout.
This book has been written as a practical introduction to the subject of archaeology and as a handbook to all the most important areas of archaeological investigation and recording. The book sets out the many different kinds of evidence used in archaeological work and describes how the evidence is obtained, recorded and used.
The landscape, both rural and urban, constitutes a vital historical document. It can be unravelled by observation, excavation and recording. In this easily approachable but rigorous work, Dr Wilkinson takes his readers on a step-by-step course on how to learn to do just that.
 29 2007: Archaeology is a Brand! The meaning of archaeology in contemporary popular culture by Cornelius Holtorf. Illustrated by Quentin Drew. ISBN 9781905739066. £14.99. 196 pages, illustrated throughout and including flip cartoons.
The rise of public archaeology, the popularity of TV archaeology, and widespread stereotypes about the profession of archaeology have changed the way archaeologists relate to the public. A socially meaningful archaeology needs to take seriously where the popular demand and the appeal of archaeology actually lie. Arguably non-archaeologists know better what the subject is all about than most of its professionals do.
This is the first full-length study of the meaning of archaeology in contemporary popular culture. It is fully illustrated with cartoons by Quentin Drew.
In popular culture archaeology is associated with adventurous fieldwork, criminological clue-hunting, great revelations, and responsible care for threatened resources. The emphasis is on “doing” archaeology rather than on its actual results. Cornelius Holtorf argues in this provocative account of more than two years of research that archaeological companies and institutions are not in the business of understanding the past but of enhancing people’s lives through adventures, mysteries, and revelations and by offering a chance to care.
Archaeology may be an academic discipline but even more so it is a widely recognized, positively valued and well underpinned brand. As we can expect from Cornelius Holtorf, the book contains not only its share of facts and analysis but also more than a few controversial arguments about the present and future roles of archaeology in society. It is unmissable for professional archaeologists working in the heritage sector as well as for students of archaeology, anthropology, heritage and museum studies, cultural studies, science studies, and related disciplines.
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Dr Cornelius Holtorf is Assistant Professor in Archaeology at the University of Lund in Sweden.
Quentin Drew is a cartoonist as well as Lecturer in Archaeology and Director of Foundation Studies at the University of Wales, Lampeter.
28 2007: Beazley Archive - Studies in the History of Collections 3 Auctions, Agents and Dealers. The Mechanisms of the Art Market 1660-1830 Fourteen papers presented at a symposium at the Wallace Collection, London, on 12-13 December 2003 edited by Jeremy Warren and Adriana Turpin. ISBN 9781903767108. £30.00. 173 pages; paperback, illustrated throughout with maps, plans, tables, drawings and photographs. Papers in English, French and Italian, with English summaries.
Volume III in the ‘Studies in the History of Collection’ series, published in association with the Beazley Archive in the University of Oxford. 14 papers on The Mechanisms of the Art Market 1660-1830 presented at a symposium at the Wallace Collection, London in December 2003. Contents: Introduction (Neil De Marchi); 1) The Art Trade and its Urban Context: England and the Netherlands compared, 1550-1750 (David Ormrod); 2) The Auction Duty Act of 1777: the beginning of institutionalisation of auctions in Britain (Satomi Ohashi); 3) The Almoneda: the second-hand art market in Spain (Mari-Tere Alvarez); 4) The Market for Netherlandish Paintings in Paris, 1750-1815 (Hans J. Van Miegroet); 5) Le tableau et son prix à Paris, 1760-80 (Patrick Michel); 6) The System Governing Appraised Value in Ancien Régime France (Alden R. Gordon); 7) The Marquis de Vassé Against the Art Dealer Jacques Lenglier: a case-study of an eighteenth-century Parisian auction (François Marandet); 8) Pierre Sirois (1665-1726): le premier marchand de Watteau (Guillaume Glorieux); 9) The Purchase of the Past: Dr Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755) and the collecting of history (John Cherry); 10) John Anderson and John Bouttats: picture dealers in eighteenth-century London (David Connell); 11) Sir Godfrey Copley as Patron and Consumer, 1685-1705 (David Mitchell); 12) The Rise and Fall of a British Connoisseur: the career of Michael Bryan (1757-1821), picture dealer extraordinaire (Julia Armstrong-Totten); 13) ‘In Keeping with the Truth’: the German art market and its role in the development of connoisseurship in the eighteenth century (Thomas Ketelsen); 14) Abraham Hume e Giovanni Maria Sasso: il mercato artistico tra Venezia e Londra nel settecento (Linda Borean).
 28 2008: Unpublished Grave Inscriptions from Kos: Epitaphs (ΑΝΕΚΔΟΤΕΣ EΠΙΓΡΑΦΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΩ) by Dimitris Bosnakis with a contribution by Jaime Curbera. ISBN 9789608838734. £35.00. 232 pages, 94 plates; paperback. Published by the Ministry of Culture, Athens and the Archaeological Institute of Aegean Studies, Rhodes. Available through Archaeopress .
A catalogue of 308 hitherto unpublished epitaphs from the Dodecanese island of Kos, including a chapter in English of ‘Onomastic Notes’. The texts published in this volume, 308 tombstones of people of different origins and periods are rich in tangible and vivid details about otherwise forgotten individuals from ancient Kos in the early centuries before and after Christ. With Index and Index Grammaticus.
 27 2007: Antiquities of Karystia edited by Maria Chidiroglou and Athena Chatzidimitriou. ISBN 960 89302 0 0. £19.99. Paperback, 211 pages, illustrated throughout, papers in English and Greek.
Six papers from a symposium held in Karystos, southern Euboea, in June 2004, on recent excavations in the area. Contents: 1) The Southern Euboea Exploration Project (SEEP): 25 Years of Archaeological Research (M. Wallace, D. Keller, J. Wickens, R. Lamberton); 2) New Excavation Data from Ancient Karystos (A. Chatzidimitriou); 3) Preliminary Observations of Human Skeletal Remains from Verouchis’ site in Karystos, Euboea (A. Konstantatos); 4) Karystos in the Archaic to late Classical period. Data from the Salvage Excavations (M. Chidiroglou); 5) A Physical Anthropological Study of Human Skeletal Remains from Papachatzis’ site in Karystos, Euboea (A. Konstantatos); 6) The Ancient Mint of Karystos in the light of the Economic Development of the City (E. Tsourti).
Published 2006 by Kosmos Publications, Karystos, Evia, distributed by Archaeopress.
 25 2007: An Isle of Greece. The Noels in Euboea Prokopi Edition, Euboea, Greece, 2000 by Barbro Noel-Baker. ISBN 9609149707. £19.99. paperback; 353 pages; illustrated throughout.
This is the story, told by Barbro Noel-Baker, of the philhellene Edward Noel, his family, and his home at Achmetaga – the estate on the Greek island of Euboea, which he bought from the Turks in 1832, and which, almost 200 years later, is still owned and run by his descendants. It is the story of a young idealist, a cousin of Lady Byron (whose correspondence with Noel plays a key part in the account), caught up in the romantic movement of the early nineteenth century, and who, like many others, came to Greece with the ambition of contributing to the restoration of the country to its former glory – in his case by a dream of establishing a ‘modern’ agricultural college. The tale – as much involved with village picaresque as Athenian intrique – is told against the backdrop of the unfolding of modern Greece – from the optimism and opportunities fired by Independence to the dark days of the Colonels in the 1970s. As well as the important archive of Lady Byron’s letters, other chapters focus on the correspondence of historian and family friend George Finlay (1799–1875), on life in Athens in the early nineteenth century, on the role of Frank Noel in the infamous ‘Dilessi Murders’ crisis of 1870, and the involvement of Fridtjof Nansen and Philip Noel-Baker in the exchange of Greek and Turkish populations in 1922. This Prokopi Edition, Euboea, Greece (2000), is now available from Archaeopress.
 24 2007: Heritage Management at Fort Hood, Texas: experiments in historic landscape characterisation by Glynn Barrett, Lucie Dingwall, Vince Gaffney, Simon Fitch, Cheryl Huckerby and Tony Maguire. Edited by Lucie Dingwall and Vince Gaffney. ISBN 9781905739110. £19.99. paperback; x+126 pages; 83 figures, plates, maps, plans, drawings and photographs (60 in colour); 27 tables; with CD.
The landscape of Fort Hood, in central Texas, presents archaeologists and cultural resource managers with some of their most exacting but absorbing challenges. That much is clear from the activities of the many archaeologists and heritage managers who have sought to use the extensive cultural database and unique landscape of the base as a test bed for research and management methodologies. This project, carried out as an international collaboration between the Fort Hood Cultural Resource Management Team and the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity (University of Birmingham, UK), sought to provide a novel application of historic landscape characterisation (HLC) methodologies at the base. For decades, the effective stewardship and management of cultural resources at Fort Hood, Texas, has proven to be a formidable challenge. Balancing this responsibility with the Army mission at Fort Hood, which includes ongoing intensive mechanized training across a 217,000-acre military reservation, has tested the abilities of even the most capable of cultural resource managers. The identification of over 2,000 archaeological sites on the installation, while a great accomplishment, pales in comparison to the demands of determining site significance. Now, with this innovative historic landscape characterization study, the authors have presented us with an extraordinary opportunity to view these resources within the context of a cultural landscape that systematically considers the multiple roles of Fort Hood. It is hoped that this will facilitate the move from significance determinations that are site-specific to ones based upon, as the authors state, the concepts of group value and spatial relationships at a landscape level. The accompanying CD (displaying selected data layers provided as Google Earth layers) assists readers in viewing and interpreting the data and the value of HLC procedures and output for the purposes of heritage management. Contents: 1. The Origins and Aims of the Fort Hood Historic Landscape Characterisation Project; 2) Approaches to historic landscape characterisation; 3) Fort Hood in Context; 4) The Fort Hood archaeological database; 5) The historic landscape characterisation project.
23 2007: Arabic legal and administrative documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections Genizah Series N. 10 (2006 reprint of original 1993 edition) by Geoffrey Khan . ISBN 1905739044. £60.00. 567 pages with 24 b/w plates; softcover.
This volume, originally published by Cambridge University Press and now reprinted by Archaeopress, contains editions of over 150 rare medieval Arabic legal and administrative documents found in the Cairo Genizah, the storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat (Old Cairo) where hundreds of thousands of worn-out and unusable manuscripts were deposited over centuries by the Jewish community. The documents in Arabic script appear to have found their way into the storeroom largely by accident, but they constitute a unique source for the social and political history of medieval Egypt, especially with regard to the relations between Jews and Muslims. They offer a remarkable insight into the practice of law in medieval Islam and the administrative structure of government offices, mostly from the period of Fatimid rule in Egypt (10th–12th centuries). The documents include depositions, powers of attorney, contracts, petitions to viziers and caliphs (including the famed Saladin), chancery reports and accounts, and comprise extremely important primary source material for a number of disciplines, including Middle Eastern history, Jewish history, Arabic philology and the theory and practice of Islamic law. Geoffrey Khan, Professor of Semitic Philology at Cambridge University, is one of the world’s leading experts in medieval Arabic documents. Reviews of the first edition:‘Meticulously edited...this volume is a scholarly work of the highest order’…Daniel Frank, Le’ela 38 (1994): ‘Khan, as one has learnt to expect, has achieved wonders of decipherment’…D. S. Richards, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 58/1 (Originally published by C.U.P.)
22 2007: Targumic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections Genizah Series No. 8 (2006 reprint of 1992 first edition) . ISBN 1905739036. £30.00. 136 pages with 24 b/w plates; softcover.
This volume, originally published by Cambridge University Press and now reprinted by Archaeopress, is an essential research tool for scholars studying the Jewish Aramaic translations of the Bible. It provides a description for every Targum manuscript in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, 1600 fragments in all, from every targumic genre and type, ranging in date from the earliest known manuscripts of the Palestinian Targum to late Yemenite versions of Onqelos, including a great many previously unidentified manuscripts.
The late Michael Klein, who died in 2000, was the leading authority on the targumic manuscripts in the Genizah. Reviews of the first edition:‘[a] magnificent volume, absolutely indispensable for all who are interested in targumic literature’ (F. García Martínez, Journal for the Study of Judaism 24 (1993)) Originally published by C.U.P.
 20 2000: Stonehenge Landscapes Journeys through real-and-imagined worlds by Sally Exon, Vince Gaffney, Ann Woodward, Ron Yorston. ISBN 0953992306. £24.95. Paperback, 139 pages, black & white and colour photographs, CD included. 2000.
"Stonehenge Landscapes" is the largest digital analysis of the archaeological landscape and monuments of Stonehenge ever attempted. The study uses data from more than 1200 monuments. The contents of the Stonehenge barrows are collated for the first time and presented in a series of appendices. The result of this endeavour is a major phenomenological study of the development of the Stonehenge landscape from the Mesolithic to the Early Bronze Age. The authors explain how the landscape emerged over time, the developing relationships between the public monuments, and how these monuments created new spaces for social action in prehistory. The way monuments were used and perceived is discussed and the results are demonstrated through interactive software which displays GIS data, animations of movement along monuments and through the landscape, as well as
3-dimensional views of the landscape, panoramic photographs and videos. Uniquely, the reader can access all the data through their web browser,
permitting them to perform their own studies and produce their own reading of the landscape of Stonehenge. "Stonehenge Landscapes" is a radical step
forward in archaeological publishing, integrating computing and phenomenological study: permitting new insights into a well-known landscape and allowing the reader to participate in the study and interpretation of the results.
‘Stonehenge Lanscapes’ CD includes a software program to display various data sets. The copyright owner of this program is Ronald Yorston. Archaeopress holds a licence to distribute the program as part of the electronic version of ‘Stonehenge Landscapes’.
14 2005: The British Navy, Rijeka and A.L. Adamic War and Trade in the Adriatic 1800-1825 by Malcolm Scott Hardy. ISBN 0953992381. £9.50. Paperback, 97 pages, 1 colour map. 2005.
One of the lesser known theatres of operations in the long wars between Great Britain and Napoleon was the Adriatic, where the activities of the British navy played a vital role in controlling and limiting the extension of French power eastwards into the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire; in maintaining access, diplomatic, financial and commercial, to the Austrian Empire; and in preventing the construction of new French battleships in the Venice Arsenal from adversely affecting British naval superiority. Until now, most studies on the British side have concentrated on the exploits of the British naval officers involved, particularly Captain William Hoste; those in Croatia have been largely limited to such secondary sources and to historical traditions based mainly on French and local records.
The present work is part of a larger project of research which attempts to redress the balance by examining the original records in various British archives, and by presenting the story of the naval and military activity of the British in the wider context of political and diplomatic developments. A detailed study of British relations with the port of Rijeka is of particular interest in extending this context to give an insight into commercial activity in time of war and the problems of procurement of naval supplies, as well as the covert activity of British agents and collaborators.
Contents: The Arrival of John Leard in Rijeka, 1802; Nelson, Convoys and Naval Supplies, 1803-04; The Oak Timber Project; The War of the Third Coalition; Trade War, 1806-9; The War of 1809; Travels, 1810-12; The Timber Contract of 1812; Adamiæ’s Return to Rijeka, 1812; The Aborted Insurrection, February-April 1813; The British Attack on Rijeka, July 1813; Nugent liberates Rijeka, August 1813; Adamiæ’s Return to Rijeka, Autumn 1813; The End of the War; Leard’s Return to Rijeka, July 1814; The Last Timber Contract, 1818-20; Epilogue.
About the author: Malcolm Scott Hardy was born in 1940 and read history at UCL, graduating in 1961. His M. Phil., in combined historical studies, was completed at the Warburg Institute, London, in 1970. Between 1965 and 1968 he lectured at the University of Turku, Finland before embarking on an overseas career with the British Council in Yugoslavia, Pakistan France and Italy, culminating in the post of Visiting Arts Director in London. In addition to his researches into naval history, his other interests include the study of Jewish family history in Hungary and Croatia.
8 2003: MARE ERYTHRÆUM VOL. VI (2003) (Distributed worldwide by Archaeopress) by Stuart Munroe-Hay. ISBN 8887235287. £55.00. Hardback, 221 pages, 61 plates, numerous tables, charts and illustrations.
The coinage of the South Arabian Peninsula has not been studied in detail since 1922, when Hill published his catalogue of the British Museum collection. This work is the sixth in this series, and follows on from previous editions which examined coinage from Aksum. South Arabia is an area of study which is of great interest in terms of the historical and cultural significance of the region. The coinage of the Yemen from Pre-Islamic times is an important indicator towards learning about the iconography and symbolism of the people of this period, and displays important elements of the continuity and disturbances in the Yemen at this time. Munro-Hay links this information to known historical and archaeological developments in the Yemen in terms of religious, political and cultural factors.
Munro-Hay carried out extensive work cataloguing a large number of coins from the site of Shabwa in Hadhramawt, as well as a preliminary survey of coins from Hajar Am-Dhaybiyya. This information, along with the collection of the National Museum at Aden and other various collections, revealed several new types of coin and form the main body of work for this book. The coinage studied shows itself to be richer than previously thought, and although these new types of coin greatly improve our understanding of the coinage of Southern Arabia, this is still an area where new finds are constantly being made, such as coins of the royal series or from the copper or bronze ‘bucranium’ series. Therefore the numbering system used by Munro-Hay in this study takes into account the expectation of future finds, thereby making this a flexible catalogue of study even if circumstances in this field change radically.
Munro-Hay bases his classification on four main types of coin: 1. Imitation Athenian Series; typified by a curly-haired male on the obverse, and a bearded head or a cornucopia on the reverse. 2. ‘Bucranium’ Series; these coins have antelope or ibex heads on them in representation of local divinities. 3. Royal Series; these have the heads of royals or divinities on them. 4. Copper or Bronze coins of the Hadhramawt. There are many coins which are unclassifiable due to degradation, or which simply do not fit into this system, and these are listed at the end of the book.
A framework for this book is given by an overview of the history of the study of Arabian Coinage, and is furthered by a history and chronology of the kingdoms of Southern Arabia. The author then continues by describing the history and development of the coinage in question. Almost all of the coins discussed in this book are illustrated usually by photograph in the extensive number of plates, but where this was not possible then drawings are provided. This is the biggest photographic publication of coins from South Arabia, and extensively increases our knowledge of coinage systems and typographical studies in this region, and as such is an important work for anyone who has an interest in the history, archaeology and culture of South Arabia.
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