  BAR S1852 2008: Egyptian Tomb Architecture The archaeological facts of pharaonic circular symbolism by David I. Lightbody. ISBN 9781407303390. £25.00. xiii+88 pages; 77 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; 4 data Appendices.
The objective of this monograph is to describe and explain the meanings underlying some otherwise anomalous archaeological data drawn from the study of Ancient Egypt. An explanation for the phenomena observed has hitherto proved elusive. The data is principally concerned with royal funerary architecture from the Old Kingdom, and the underlying systems of measurement and geometry that were employed therein. As well as providing a description and explanation for the data, this work also has the objective of providing the first synthesis of related cultural information drawn from several different textual and archaeological resources. The general subject matter is pharaonic funerary architecture from Old Kingdom Egypt, and the work focuses specifically on the circular proportions deliberately incorporated into the tomb designs by the architects. Contents: Introduction; 1) Fundamentals of Ancient Egyptian mathematics and architecture; 2) The Evidence and facts of Egyptian circular proportions; 3) The symbolism; 4) Methodology, analysis and discussion of mathematics; 5) Arguments from authorities; 6) Archaeology and philology; fieldwork and deskwork; 7) Conclusions; Appendix 1: Secondary Issues; Appendix 2: Social Context of early Egyptology; Appendix 3: Egyptian and Greek Mathematics; Appendix 4: Quotes from the Greeks.
BAR S1851 2008: Wine In Ancient Egypt A Cultural and analytical study by Maria Rosa Guasch Jané. ISBN 9781407303383. £25.00. ix+72 pages; 50 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 1 in colour.
Wine is a beverage that belongs to the Mediterranean culture. A study of the origins of wine shows how deep vineyards are rooted in this area from West to East and since antiquity. The oldest and most extensive documentation about viticulture and winemaking comes from Egypt. Vineyards have been grown in the Nile Delta for five thousand years. The historical and archaeological study of documents and paintings related to winemaking coming from walls of Egyptian tombs, still presents nowadays unknown aspects. Thanks to the development of analytical techniques, we are now able to shed light on a new aspect known to us from the first Mediterranean civilization: the wine culture in Egypt. This present study has three objectives: To provide a bibliographical study of viticulture and oenology in ancient Egypt; to verify, in an analytical way, the presence of wine in amphorae of ancient Egypt; and to investigate what kinds of wine were produced in ancient Egypt.
BAR S1850 2008: Amun Temples in Nubia A typological study of New Kingdom, Napatan and Meroitic Temples by Caroline M. Rocheleau. ISBN 9781407303376. £26.00. ix+96 pages; 3 tables; 42 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; Gazetteer of sites.
The aims of this study are to observe patterns in the spatial configuration of Egyptian and
Kushite temples dedicated to Amun in Nubia; to identify architectural models; and finally, to ascribe these models to certain historical periods or specific rulers. The core of the work is a typological study based on the comparison of architectural plans of one type of building dedicated to a particular deity. Although it used two earlier typological studies of Kushite architecture as a stepping stone, this study differed in the definition of its assemblage. the present corpus includes New Kingdom temples in an attempt to follow the architectural evolution of Kushite temples from their source of inspiration. Because ancient Egyptian temples were undoubtedly the prototypes upon which Napatan and Meroitic temples were modelled, it was necessary to include them in the study and classify them together with later temples in order to properly establish patterns. Additionally, the newly uncovered temples at Doukki Gel, Hugeir Gubli, Usli, Soniyat, Dangeil, and el-Hassa offered new material that needed to be included in such a study. As much as the study of Egyptian temples contributed to our understanding of ancient Egyptian civilisation, the study of Napatan and Meroitic temples might just do the same for the Kushite kingdom.
BAR S1849 2008: Animals and People: Archaeozoological Papers in Honour of Ina Plug edited by Shaw Badenhorst, Peter Mitchell and Jonathan C. Driver. ISBN 9781407303369. £36.00. vi+228 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
This collection of papers is dedicated to Dr Ina Plug to celebrate her tremendous contributions to archaeozoology (or zooarchaeology) in a career that has so far spanned more than three decades. Contents: Preface; Ina Plug: A Tribute (Shaw Badenhorst); Zooarchaeology in Southern Africa: A View from the North (Terry O’Connor); Archaeozoology at the Transvaal Museum and Its Future in South Africa (Karin Scott); Models for Zooarchaeologists from Modern Bushmeat Studies (Jonathan C. Driver); The Contribution of Sibudu Fauna to an Understanding of KwaZulu-Natal Environments at ~60 ka, ~50 ka and ~37 ka (Lyn Wadley, Ina Plug, and Jamie L. Clark); Variability and Change in Middle Stone Age Hunting Behaviour: Aspects from the Lithic and Faunal Records (Marlize Lombard and Jamie L. Clark); Archaeobiodiversity of Ichthyofaunas from the Holocene Sahel (Nadja Pöllath, Joris Peters, and Hélène Jousse); Shrews from Ein el Gazzareen, Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt (C.S. Churcher); Human and Animal Interaction on the Shire Highlands, Malawi: The Evidence from Malowa Rockshelter (Yusuf M. Juwayeyi); Early Herders in Southern Africa: A Synthesis (Andrew B. Smith); The Canine Connection: Dogs and Southern African Hunter-gatherers (Peter Mitchell); Fishing in the Senegal River during the Iron Age: The Evidence from the Habitation Mounds of Cubalel and Siouré (Wim Van Neer); Early Iron Age Regional Settlement and Demographic Patterns along the Eastern Seaboard of South Africa: A View from the Lower Thukela River Valley (Haskel J. Greenfield and Leonard O. van Schalkwyk); A Consideration of Livestock Exploitation during the Early Iron Age in the Thukela Valley, KwaZulu-Natal (Elizabeth R. Arnold); Social Memory and the Antiquity of Snake and Crocodile Symbolism in Southern Africa (Kent D. Fowler); Symbolic Animal Burials from the Venda Region in the Limpopo Province, South Africa (Louisa Hutten); Zhizo and Leopard’s Kopje: Test Excavations at Simamwe and Mtanye, Zimbabwe (T.N. Huffman); Subsistence Change among Farming Communities in Southern Africa during the Last Two Millennia: A Search for Potential Causes (Shaw Badenhorst).
BAR S1848 2008: Lenguajes Visuales de los Incas edited by Paola González Carvajal and Tamara L. Bray. ISBN 9781407303352. £35.00. 193 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. Papers in Spanish and English. Abstract in English.
Approaching precolumbian art in all of its various forms as the material expression of interlocking systems of visual communication opens a rich terrain upon which to further our insights into the cultural and symbolic lives of Andean peoples. For archaeologists, ethnohistorians, and anthropologists interested in such studies, however, it is no simple matter to determine how the varied graphic, artifactual, architectural, and spatial systems of visual communication found in the precolumbian world can or should be interpreted. This volume focuses specifically on the various systems of visual communication created by, or associated, with the imperial Inca state. This collection of papers advances understanding of Inca forms of representation, as well Andean systems more generally, by attending to the formal, contextual, functional, and ideological processes through which they are constructed and within which they are embedded. In essence, the volume constitutes a joint reflection on the important themes of representation and material systems of communication in the Andean context. Contents: Introduction Lenguajes Visuales de los Incas/Introduction: Visual Languages of the Inca (Paola González Carvajal y Tamara L. Bray); 1) Las Dimensiones Simbólicas del Poder dentro del Imperio Inca (Tamara L. Bray); 2) Mediating Opposition: On Redefining Diaguita Visual Codes and Their Social Role During the Inca Period (Paola González Carvajal); 3) Espacios Conquistados y Símbolos Materiales del Imperio Inca en el Noroeste de Argentina (Verónica Williams); 4) Insignias para la Frente de los Nobles Incas: Una Aproximación Etnohistórica- Arqueológica al Principio de la Dualidad (Helena Horta Tricallotis); 5) Del Número al Cálculo en el Imperio Inca: El Lenguaje y sus Representaciones (Viviana Moscovich); 6) El Sistema de Ceques como Computadora (R. Tom Zuidema); 7) Arte Rupestre en Tiempos Incaicos: Nuevos Elementos para una Vieja Discusión (Marcela Sepúlveda); 8) Arquitectura, Arte Rupestre, y las Nociones de Exclusión e Inclusión: El Tawantinsuyu en Aconcagua, Chile (Rodrigo Rodrigo Sánchez Romero y Andrés Troncoso Meléndez); 9) Para que la Letra lo Tenga en los Ojos: Tocapu, Emblemas, y Letreros en los Andes Coloniales del Siglo XVII (Rocío Quispe-Agnoli); 10) Pensarse y Representarse: Aproximaciones a Algunas Prácticas Coloniales Andinas de los Siglos XVI y XVII (José Luis Martínez C.); 11) La Historia en los Queros: Apuntes acerca de la Relación entre las Representaciones Figurativas y los Signos “Tocapus” (Mariusz S. Ziółkowski, Jarosław Arabas, y Jan Szemiński); 12) Tocapu in a Colonial Frame:Andean Space and the Semiotics of Painted Colonial Tocapu (Marie Timberlake).
BAR S1847 2008: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 74 Current Archaeological Research in Ghana edited by Timothy Insoll. ISBN 9781407303345. £31.00. iv+149 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
This work presents and evaluates internal perspectives on the profile of archaeology in the University of Ghana, Legon, internationally, and nationally, and also its future.Chapter 1. Archaeology in the University of Ghana, Legon. A Survey of Emic Perspectives on its Profile and Future, with an Etic Commentary (Timothy Insoll); Chapter 2. An Investigation of a Kintampo Complex Site at Boyasi Hill, near Kumasi, Ghana (James Anquandah); Chapter 3. Molluscs in Archaeological Reconstruction: The Kpone Coastline, Ghana, as a Case Study (Fritz Biveridge); Chapter 4. Excavations at Fort Amsterdam, Abandze, Central Region, Ghana (J. Boachie-Ansah); Chapter 5. Researching the Internal African Diaspora in Ghana (Kodzo Gavua); Chapter 6. Current Archaeological Research at the Krobo Mountain Site, Ghana (William Narteh Gblerkpor); Chapter 7. Placing the Tongo Hills, Northern Ghana, in Archaeological Time and Space: Reflexivity and the Research Process (Timothy Insoll); Chapter 8. Rethinking the Stone Circles of Komaland. A Preliminary Report on the 2007/2008 Fieldwork at Yikpabongo, Northern Region, Ghana 9Benjamin W. Kankpeyeng and Samuel Nilirmi Nkumbaan); Chapter 9. The Archaeology of Slavery: A Study of Kasana, Upper West Region, Ghana (Samuel Nilirmi Nkumbaan); Chapter 10. Clay Toys of the Grandchildren of a Potter in Salaga: Insights for Archaeology in Ghana (J. Ako Okoro); Chapter 11. The Late Stone Age in Ghana: The Re-excavation of Bosumpra Cave in Context (Derek Watson).
BAR S1846 2008: Vulvae, Eyes, Snake Heads. Archaeological Finds of Cowrie Amulets by László Kovács with malacological identifications by Gyula Radócz. ISBN 9781407303338. £69.00. xx+512 pages; 196 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; with extensive catalogue.
A comprehensive study of cowries and other shells, including fossilised material. Contents: Chapter 1) Cowries; Chapter 2) Archaeological finds and parallels to cowries; Chapter 3) Summary; Chapter 4) Catalogue.
BAR S1845 2008: L’area ionico-tarantina nel quadro della diffusione neolitica Problematiche e analisi dei rapporti con le culture coeve dell’Italia sud-orientale e del Vicino Oriente edited by Patrizia Lorusso. ISBN 9781407303321. £28.00. iii+115 pages; 43 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. In Italian with English abstract.
The stratigraphic surveys periodically done since the 1980s within the Neolithic settlement of Montedoro (Grottaglie, Taranto, southern Italy), the north-eastern slope of the basin of the ‘Small Sea’ of Taranto, have highlighted aspects and problems about the process of neolithization in an area insufficiently studied. In this work the author has made a detailed analysis of the archaeological and topographic stratigraphy, including the recovery of the geo-paleoenvironmental data and of the archaeozoological data for historic and cultural reconstructions. The documentation includes ceramic and lithic objects, as well as faunal and palinological finds. The contextualized data provide a significant contribution to an area little known from the preclassical viewpoint.
BAR S1844 2008: Current Research in Animal Palaeopathology Proceedings of the Second ICAZ Animal Palaeopathology Working Group Conference edited by Zora Miklíková and Richard Thomas. ISBN 9781407303314. £26.00. vii+98 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings, tables and photographs.
Papers from the Second ICAZ Animal Palaeopathology Working Group Conference held at Nitra, Slovakia in September 2005. 1) Introduction: current research in animal palaeopathology (R. Thomas & Z. Miklíková); 2) Environmental stress in early domestic sheep (L. Bartosiewicz); 3) A developmental anomaly of prehistoric roe deer dentition from Svodín, Slovakia (M. Fabis, R. Thomas, V. Páral & D. Vondrák); 4) A possible case of tuberculosis or brucellosis in an Iron Age horse skeleton from Viables Farm, Basingstoke, England (R. Bendrey); 5) Animal palaeopathology at two Roman sites in central Britain (S. Vann); 6) Understanding past human-animal relationships through the analysis of fractures: a case study from a Roman site in The Netherlands (M. Groot); 7) Pathology in horses from a Roman cemetery (K. Lyublyanovics); 8) Animal diseases at a Celtic-Roman village in Hungary (M. Daróczi-Szabó); 9) Skeletal alterations of animal remains from the early medieval settlement of Bajč, southwest Slovakia (Z. Miklíková); 10) Animal diseases from medieval Buda (P. Csippán & L. Daróczi-Szabó); 11) Broken-winged: fossil and sub-fossil pathological bird bones from recent excavations (E. Gál); 12) Osteoporosis in animal palaeopathology (M. Martiniaková, R. Omelka, M. Vondráková, M. Bauerová, P. Massányi & M. Fabis); 13) Cranial perforations in Armenian cattle (N. Manaseryan).
BAR S1843 : Maison de l’Orient Méditerranéen Le site néolithique de Tell Mureybet (Syrie du Nord) En hommage à Jacques Cauvin edited by Juan José Ibáñez. ISBN 9781407303307. £100.00. 731 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings, tables and photographs. In French; abstracts in English and Arabic. Two volumes.
A major report on the Neolithic site of Tell Mureybet (northern Syria). Contents: Introduction (J.J. Ibánez); Jacques Cauvin, In memoriam (M. Molist ); Historique (M.-C. Cauvin); Chronostratigraphie de Mureybet. Apport des datations radiocarbone (J. Évin et D. Stordeur); Stratigraphie et répartition des architectures à Mureybet (D. Stordeur et J.J. Ibánez ); Foyers et fours du site de Mureybet (M. Molist); Les nouvelles données archéobotaniques de Mureybet et la néolithisation du Moyen Euphrate (G. Willcox); Étude archéozoologique de Mureybet (L. Gourichon et D. Helmer); L’outillage lithique: Introduction (M.-C. Cauvin); Matières premières siliceuses et comportements techniques (F. Abbès et J.A. Sánchez Priego); Analyse technologique (F. Abbès); Analyse du mobilier retouché (M.-C. Cauvin et F. Abbès); Analyse fonctionnelle de l’outillage lithique de Mureybet (J.J. Ibánez, J.E. González Urquijo et A. Rodríguez Rodríguez); Analyse technologique et fonctionnelle des herminettes de Mureybet (J.A. Sánchez Priego); Conclusion sur l’outillage lithique (M.-C. Cauvin, F. Abbès, J.E. González Urquijo, J.J. Ibáñez, A. Rodríguez Rodríguez et J.A. Sánchez Priego); L’industrie de l’os (D. Stordeur et R. Christidou); L’outillage de mouture et de broyage (M.-C. Nierlé); Les récipients en pierre (M. Lebreton); Les éléments de parure de Mureybet (C. Maréchal et H. Alarashi); Figurines, pierres à rainures, « petits objets divers » et manches de Mureybet (D. Stordeur et M. Lebreton); Conclusion (French) (J.J. Ibánez); Conclusion (English); Conclusion (Arabic) J.J. Ibáñez (translated into Arabic by Hala Alarashi); Bibliography.
BAR S1842 2008: La préhistoire du Yémen Diffusions et diversités locales, à travers l’étude d’industries lithiques du Hadramawt by Rémy Crassard. ISBN 9781407303277. £38.00. 227 pages; 168 maps, plans, drawings, tables and photographs; in French with English abstract.
Analysis, carried out within a wide chronological framework, of the variability of technological modalities for the lithic industries known from Yemen to date, has allowed a certain ‘fine-tuning’ in terms of our knowledge of the regional prehistory of Yemen. This research is founded on the definition of the environmental context of the region and the methodologies used for fieldwork and analysis. A focus on the Hadramawt region follows, which is used as a strong model for defining and orienting questions related to the transformations of the role occupied by southwest Arabia throughout prehistory. Starting with the oldest recovered prehistoric lithic artefacts (Acheulian bifaces and Levallois methods) to the youngest (South Arabian microliths), and with an intensive focus on the intermediate Early to Mid- Holocene industries, this work temporally traces a large corpus of prehistoric knapping modalities in Hadramawt and compares these to adjacent regions in Yemen. The temporal and spatial analysis of lithic technologies has enabled for a number of models of prehistoric occupation and dispersal to be proposed for Yemen. At the same time, the discovery and excavation of several stratified prehistoric sites has allowed for a reassessment and restructuring of the chronology and terminology used for the region, as well as introducing new research perspectives that have, until now, been undervalued.
BAR S1841 2008: Atti del 3o Convegno Nazionale di Etnoarcheologia, Mondaino, 17-19 marzo 2004 / Proceedings of the 3rd Italian Congress of Ethnoarchaeology, Mondaino (Italy), 17-19 March, 2004 edited by Francesca Lugli and Alessandra Assunta Stoppiello. ISBN 9781407303260. £38.00. 221 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. Papers in Italian and English.
Proceedings of the 3rd Italian Congress of Ethnoarchaeology held in Mondaino (Italy), 17-19 March, 2004. Contents: 1) Ethnoarchaeology: a new agency (S. di Lernia); Some brief notes on a survey of the Middle Indus Valley: the connection between petroglyphs, foundation myths and the ritual practices of the brok-pas (A. Benassi, I .E. Scerrato); Archetypal logic, rogations, ambarvalia, human sacrifices and … Kyoto Protocols (G. Forni); Traditional tools and techniques to produce the metal vessels: the coppersmith from Roccagorga and the archaeometallurgy (C. Giardino); Wood locks with dropping pivots. an ethnoarchaeological example from north-western Italy (O. Musso); Purun Runa. a brief essay of Andean ethno-history (M.I. Pannaccione Apa); Wool and olive oil, a winning combination in the textile industry (M.R. Belgiorno); Women potters of Notse’ (Togo). Documents in the manufacturing of globe-shaped jars (G. Calegari); Basketry: craftsmanship, experimental archaeology and archaeology (E. Cristiani, C. Lemorini, M. Massussi, I. Piccoli); The end of the typical pottery manufacture of Barrama (Tunisia) (A. Depalmas, F. di Gennaro); The kiln of Montottone (central Italy) - an ethnoarchaeological research (L. Foglini); Ethnohistorical analogies and functional contexts: grinding/pounding tools from the site of Monte Loffa (Monti Lessini, Verona) (M. Migliavacca, A. Atzori, L. Longo); The Tamberma’ Culture between Togo and Benin. Warriors entrenched in clay castles (A. Priuli); Circulation of human groups patterns and raw material strategies in the hunter-gatherer’s society (M.F. Rolfo, A. Spera, G. Reddavide); The wedding trousseau: broom material productions in textile manufacture. The renewal of an ancient tradition (R. Agostino, M. Sica); Ethnoarchaeology of rock shelters (S. Biagetti, C. Delpino, M. Tarantini); Farming in hollow structures (F. Brescia, P. Cerino); What we can learn about the archaeological record combining quantitative analysis and ethnoarchaeology: issues from a work in progress (C. Cortese); Fresh milk from “Malgas” and ethnoarchaeological research: a food for thought? (G. de Angeli, A. de Guio, S. Vicari); « su per i monti che noi andremo… » : war-paths for archaeology (A. de Guio, A. Betto); Nomadic campsites from west-central Mongolia (F. Lugli); Functional interpretation of protohistoric domestic structures remains from an ethno-archaeological research about domestic architecture of south-western Senegal's Peul groups (C. Moffa); Southern Iraq. investigating Magan’s technologies. Boats from “marsh arabs” (L. Bezzi); The fish-well ships: an ethno-archeological study (G. Boetto); Hemp’s craftsmanship in a fishing context of the Picenum region (Marche) (G. Cavezzi); Shipyards in Varazze (Savona, Italy): ethnohistorical analysis of ancient shipbuilding contracts (F. Ciciliot); The dhoni from the Maldives (P. Bell’Amico); Cyclades-Eoliian islands: piracy as a forced option for the population of the lesser islands during the Bronze Age …and in modern times (G. Giorgianni); Practical meteorology and navigation. a comparison between antiquity and tradition (S. Medas, R. Brizzi); Techniques, functions and symbols in ancient and modern ship modeling (V. Li Vigni, S. Tusa); Perforated dolia. New data on the seafaring economy in Dalmatia? (I. Radic Rossi).
BAR S1840 2008: Estudio historiográfico de las investigaciones sobre cerámica arqueológica en el Noroeste Argentino by Paola Silvia Ramundo. ISBN 9781407303253. £52.00. 365 pages; 32 tables, 27 graphs, 11 maps and 30 plans, drawings and photographs. 7 data appendices. In Spanish with English abstract .
This work provides a critical, reflexive panorama of the way archaeological pottery studies in North-western Argentina were carried out throughout the discipline’s history (from 16th century onwards). It evaluates their variation or lack of variation in the different sub-areas in the region (Puna, Valleys, Ravines and Western Forests) and analyzes the development of these studies against the theoretical-methodological changes in national archaeology (thus evaluating how and why these studies have changed). It presents the state-of-the-art view of pottery studies in North-western Argentina discussing their theoretical-methodological frameworks and evaluating the features and associated impact of world archaeological thought. In this research many sources were consulted, such as documental sources, background histories of Argentinean archaeology, printed personal reflections of the protagonists, main periodical journals of Argentinean archaeology (from its origins to nowadays), proceedings of all Argentinean archaeology national congresses, seminars, workshops, regional archaeological congresses proceedings, and proceedings of the International Congresses of Americanists held in Argentina, as well as Argentinean researchers’ papers presented in World Archaeological Congresses and in Spanish publications of the kind (to assess the impact of Argentinean archaeology in Spain), and various Ph.D. and Undergraduate Theses in Argentina. Different specialized conferences were considered and supplemented with interviews to Argentinean and Latino-American archaeologists. References to such documental sources are included, compiling a bibliographic corpus of general Argentinean archaeology.
BAR S1838 2008: Lo Stato egiziano nelle fonti scritte del periodo tinita by Simone Lanna. ISBN 9781407303222. £37.00. xiii+194 pages; 28 tables; 33 plates. In Italian with 11-page English summary.
This work presents the development of a theoretical model of land management (with its resources and inhabitants) for Thinite Egypt (the period when the kings coming from the city of This and buried in Umm el-Qaab cemeteries ruled most of Egypt). This volume is divided into three parts: textual analysis of Thinite inscriptions ; the second part is a synthesis of the data achieved with the former analysis, delineating a historical model of Early Egyptian State. The third part includes an appendix containing 28 tables with a further complete analysis of all the inscriptions in a tabular and really easy-consulting format. Finally there are 33 plates with the figures of almost all the inscription used in the volume.
BAR S1837 2008: 2008 Campaniforme y rituales estratégicos en la Cuenca Media y Baja del Guadiana (Suroeste de la Península Ibérica) by Daniel García Rivero. ISBN 9781407303215. £47.00. 311 pages; 5 tables; 28 figures; 6 maps (1 in colour); 43 plates. Catalogue of sites. In Spanish with English abstract.
This is the first major study on bell beaker pottery in the Middle and Lower Guadiana basin (south-western Iberian Peninsula). Recent archaeological excavations in the area, because of the construction of the Alqueva dam, have provided new and substantial information relating to the 3rd millennium BC. This work contributes not only to the currently known bell beaker pots, but also to information related to their archaeological contexts. There are 54 known sites with beaker pottery throughout the region under study, which is noteworthy if one takes into account that this area was considered as marginal with regards to the beaker phenomenon twenty years ago, when only a few sites had been identified.
BAR S1836 2008: A Critical Exploration of Frameworks for Assessing the Significance of New Zealand’s Historic Heritage by Sara Donaghey. ISBN 9781407303208. £36.00. viii+196; 59 tables; 10 figures; 7 data Appendices.
This study argues that considerations of value and significance are fundamental to sustainable heritage
management practice. It explores critical issues relating to the valorisation of historic heritage in New Zealand and considers whether existing frameworks for evaluation and assessment are effective and appropriate. The two frames of reference comprise: firstly, theoretical principles relating to the nature and qualities of heritage value and secondly, operational strategies relating to the process of assessment. The study integrates current policy and practice within existing epistemology with primary research data using a mixed methodology. A review of international policy and practice contrasts the various approaches used in Australia, Canada, England and the United States of America, and
identifies effective system characteristics. Existing understandings and practice within New Zealand are considered and analogies made between particular elements of the primary research drawn from surveys of professional and non-professional opinion of the heritage assessment process. The New Zealand findings are then set against the review of international evidence and the literature to identify significant strengths and shortcomings.
BAR S1835 2008: Incremental Structures and Wear Patterns of Teeth for Age Assessment of Red Deer edited by Tina Dudley Furniss-Roe. ISBN 9781407303192. £29.00. vi+131 pages; 17 tables; 81 figures, drawings and photographs; 131 pages; 17 tables; 81 figures, drawings and photographs; 5 data Appendices.
The ability to age animals accurately is of great importance both to archaeologists and to wildlife managers. Archaeologists are also particularly interested in the ability to determine the season of death of mammals, in order to reach a greater understanding of how man was exploiting or responding to his environment. A number of methods of age determination are available to wildlife managers, who have the advantage of having an entire animal in good condition at their disposal. Archaeologists, however, have more limited resources, and often wish to attempt age, and even seasonality, assessments using only bones and teeth. Teeth survive very well in the ground, and can often reveal information that would otherwise be lost, such as the species, which were available, and whether they were being hunted, scavenged, or farmed. The principal aim of this research was to examine the scientific basis and methodology of incremental analysis in order to arrive at increased understanding of the British Mesolithic. The approach includes an examination of every aspect of incremental analysis: the scientific basis, the methodology of thin section production, microscopical techniques, and interpretation, in order to obtain the greatest possible amount of information from a rather specialised technique. The species chosen was Red deer, a common animal on archaeological sites in British prehistory.
BAR S1834 2008: An Investigation of the Common Cockle (Cerastoderma edule (L)) Collection practices at the kitchen midden sites of Norsminde and Krabbesholm, Denmark by Eva M. Laurie. ISBN 9781407303185. £47.00. viii+305 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, tables, drawings and photographs; 10 data Appendices.
The aim of this work is to determine to what extent the exploitation of cockles changed across the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition in Denmark. This is an important question for three main reasons: The Mesolithic/Neolithic transition is a key topic in archaeological research; the exploitation of shellfish has been much discussed in terms of environmental and dietary changes over the transition period; wider issues of marine exploitation and human diets have been recently debated for the transition. This research examines these issues through a detailed study of cockles and addresses the following research questions: To what extent did shellfish consumption change through time? What evidence is there for changing cockle exploitation through time? Are there any patterns in the seasonality of cockle exploitation? After the introductory chapter, the first part of chapter 2 briefly explores the relationship between people and sea shells in prehistory and historic times. This is followed by information on the morphology, physiology, habitat and habits of the common cockle. The chapter closes with a review of past mollusc growth line research. Chapters 3 and 4 lays out the methodology followed in the selection and preparation of both the modern and archaeological cockle shells. Chapter 5 introduces background information on the two archaeological sites of Norsminde and Krabbesholm. The archaeological cockle analysis results are presented in chapter 6. Chapter 7 discusses the archaeological results in the context of the questions raised in chapter 1 and chapter 8 draws conclusions and suggests further avenues of research. There are 10 Appendices: 1) A full catalogue of the modern cockle collections from Essex, Lincolnshire, Scotland and Wales which includes individual shell reference numbers, shell measurements, age and growth line counts; 2) A full catalogue of the archaeological cockles containing the same information; 3 A catalogue of the modern cockle acetate peels and growth lines; 4) A full catalogue of the archaeological acetate peels and growth lines; 5) Modern and archaeological cockle age data percentage conversion tables; 6) Modern and archaeological cockle size data percentage conversion tables; 7) Norsminde and Krabbesholm bag lists showing the bag numbers from which the cockle samples were extracted; 8) Norsminde C14 dates; 9) Full cockle and oyster seasonality, age and size comparison figures for Norsminde and Krabbesholm; 10) Species list giving full latin and common names where applicable.
BAR S1833 2008: The Archaeology of Semiotics and the Social Order of Things edited by George Nash and George Children. ISBN 9781407303178. £36.00. iv+204 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
The Archaeology of Semiotics and the social order of things is edited by George Nash and George Children and brings together 15 thought-provoking chapters from contributors around the world. A sequel to an earlier volume published in 1997, it tackles the problem of understanding how complex communities interact with landscape and shows how the rules concerning landscape constitute a recognised and readable grammar. The mechanisms underlying landscape grammar are both physical and mental, being based in part on the mindset of the individual; the same landscape can thus evoke different meanings for different people and at different times. People’s perception has greatly influenced the construction of landscapes over millennia but, until recently, the potential of this area has been largely untapped.
Apart from chapters focusing solely upon human interaction with landscape, there are several which skilfully integrate artefacts and place with landscape (e.g. Gheorghiu and Sognnes). Other chapters look at the way people have marked the landscape through such mechanisms as rock-art (e.g. Clegg, Devereux, Estévez, Fossati, Kelleher and Skier). Rock-art establishes personal and communal identity in relation to landscape and it is clear that other forms of visual expression were in place which distinctively created special places within the landscape. Landscape constructs can bind cultures together; bringing the old ways of reading the landscape into contemporary life (e.g. Smiseth). Defining early and late prehistoric landscapes and segregating these into, say, mundane domestic and ritualised spaces rely on both clear and subtle archaeologies and in this volume distinct monument clustering and ritualised linearity are considered (e.g. Mason and Nash). A volume such as this cannot escape the influence of New World approaches, such as anthropology, and in many respects chapters by Bender, Muller and Merritt give context to other chapters within the book. Finally, one must consider text as a means of constructing landscape and this is considered by Heyd, who eloquently deconstructs the travel diary of a 17th century Japanese poet.
This will be an important volume for archaeologists, landscape scholars and students. The many approaches used are tried and tested, forming an invaluable resource and not just another edited book.
BAR S1832 2008: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 24 Babies Reborn: Infant/Child Burials in Pre- and Protohistory Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006) Vol. 24, Session WS26 edited by Krum Bacvarov. ISBN 9781407303161. £38.00. x+213 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, mapss, plans, drawings and photographs. Papers in English and French.
Papers from the session ‘Babies Reborn: Infant/Child Burials in Pre- and Protohistory’ held at the XV UISPP World Congress, Lisbon, September 2006. Contents: 1) Early Deliberate Child Burials: Bioarchaeological insights from the Near Eastern Mediterranean (Anne-Marie Tillier); 2) The Gravettian Infant Burials from Krems-Wachtberg, Austria (Thomas Einwögerer, Marc Händel, Christine Neugebauer-Maresch, Ulrich Simon, and Maria Teschler-Nicola); 3) Infant Burials in Pre-Pottery Neolithic Cyprus: Evidence from Khirokitia (Françoise Le Mort); 4) Suffer the Children: ‘Visualising’ children in the archaeological record (Malcolm Lillie); 5) Çatalhöyük’s Foundation Burials: Ritual child sacrifice or convenient deaths? (Sharon Moses); 6) Des morts peu fiables: les sépultures néolithiques d’immatures en Grèce (Maia Pomadère); 7) A Long Way to the West: Earliest jar burials in southeast Europe and the Near East (Krum Bacvarov); 8) Infant Jar Burials – a ritual associated with early agriculture? (Estelle Orrelle); 9) The Jar Burials of the Chalcolithic “Necropolis” at Byblos (Gassia Artin); 10) Mobilier funéraire de nouveau-nés et d’enfants: cas d’étude de la Bulgarie (Yavor Boyadžiev and Maria Gurova); 11) Late Neolithic Boys at the Gomolava Cemetery (Serbia) (Sofija Stefanović); 12) Child Burials in Intramural and Extramural Contexts From the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Romania: The problem of “inside” and “outside” 9Raluca Kogălniceanu); 13) The Changing Relationship between the Living and the Dead: Child burial at the site of Kenan Tepe, Turkey (David Hopwood); 14) Childhood in Late Neolithic Vietnam: Bio-mortuary insights into an ambiguous life stage (Marc Oxenham, Hirofumi Matsumura, Kate Domett, Nguyen Kim Thuy, Nguyen Kim Dung, Nguyen Lan Cuong, Damien Huffer, and Sarah Muller); 15) A Social Aspect of Intramural Infant Burials’ Analysis: The case of EBA Tell Yunatsite, Bulgaria (Tatiana Mishina); 16) Pre-Adult and Adult Burials of East Manych Catacomb Culture: Was infanticide really impossible? (Marina Andreeva); 17) Infant/Child Burials and Social Reproduction in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (c. 2100-800 BC) of Central Italy (Erik van Rossenberg); 18) A Biocultural Study of Children From Iron Age South Siberia (Eileen Murphy); 19) Infant Burials in Iron Age Britain (Belinda Tibbetts); 20) Special Burials, Special Buildings? An Anglo-Saxon perspective on the interpretation of infant burials in association with rural settlement structures (Sally Crawford); 21) Enfants Huaca: Sépultures en Ollas des enfants nés dans des circonstances spéciales selon les extirpateurs d’idolâtries andines du XVIIème siècle (Mariel López).
BAR S1831 2008: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 21 Space and Time: Which Diachronies, which Synchronies, which Scales? / Typology vs Technology Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006) Vol. 21, Sessions C64 and C65. edited by Thierry Aubry, Francisco Almeida, Ana Cristina Araújo, Marc Tiffagom. ISBN 9781407303154. £39.00. ix+222 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. Papers in English and French.
Papers from the session ‘Space and Time: Which Diachronies, which Synchronies, which Scales? / Typology vs Technology’ held at the XV UISPP World Congress, Lisbon, September 2006. Contents: 1) Caracterisation et discontinuites des registres pedo-sedimentaires de l’occident peninsulaire entre 30.000 et 10.000 BP : Implications sur l’interpretation archeologique (Thierry Aubry, Miguel Almeida, Luca Dimuccio, Cristina Gameiro, Maria João Neves, Laurent Klari); 2) Approche pluridisciplinare pour la reconstitution de processus pedo-sedimentaires et anthropiques pendant le pleniglaciaire superieur : Application au occupations solutreennes du site des maitreaux (France) (Thierry Aubry, Miguel Almeida, Morgane Liard, Bertrand Walter, Maria João Neves); 3) Le gisement paleolithique moyen et superieur de Combemenue (Brignac-la-Plaine, Correze). Du microvestige au territoire, reflexions sur les perspectives d’une approche multiscalaire (M. Brenet, C. Cretin); 4) Du silex, de l’os et des coquillages: matieres et espaces geographiques dans le Gravettien Pyreneen (Pascal Foucher, Cristina San Juan-Foucher); 5) L’exploitation des matieres premieres lithiques au Magdalenien final en Estremadure Portugaise : donnees sur les sites de Lapa dos Coelhos et de l’abri 1 de Vale dos Covões (Cristina Gameiro, Thierry Aubry, Francisco Almeida); 6) Big puzzles, short stories: advantages of refitting for micro-scale spatial analysis of lithic scatters from Gravettian occupations in Portuguese Estremadura (Francisco Almeida); 7) L’apport de la methode des remontages dans l’evaluation des processus de formation et d’alteration des depots archeologiques : le cas de Barca do Xerez de Baixo (Portugal) (Ana Cristina Araújo, Francisco Almeida); 8) Les structures de combustion de L’Essart (Poitiers, Vienne, France) : des epandages de pierres au fonctionnement d’un habitat mesolithique (Grégor Marchand, Sylvène Michel, Laurent Quesnel, Farid Sellami); 9) Le "bagage" des magdaléniens: indices d'arrivées et de départs a partir du materiel en silex des campements de Monruz et Champreveyres (Suisse) (Marie-Isabelle Cattin); 10) Typologie et technologie: alliees ou opposees? (Michel Lenoir); 11) Technology vs. Typology: the case for and against a transition from the MSA to the LSA at Mumba Cave, Tanzania (Anthony E. Marks, Nicholas Conard); 12) Technology vs Typology? The Cantabrian Archaic Aurignacian/Protoaurignacian example (Álvaro Arrizabalaga Valbuena, José Manuel Maíllo-Fernández); 13) Gravettian and Solutrean stone tools from Vale Boi (Algarve, Portugal): Techno-Typology vs. Function (Juan Francisco Gibaja, Nuno Bicho); 14) Interpretation techno-economique des presences et absences dans les registres archeologiques Solutreens du centre de la France (Thierry Aubry, Miguel Almeida, Javier Mangado Llach, Maria João Neves, Jean-Baptiste Peyrouse, Bertrand Walter); 15) Typologie et technologie apres le Solutreen / avant le Magdalenien. Reflexions sur la nature des deux approches et sur leur utilisation dans la definition d’une « Phase de transition » (Catherine Cretin); 16) Le Badegoulien du Bassin parisien presente-T-Il des « caracteres regressifs » ? Reflexions a partir de l’etude du gisement de plein air du Mont-St-Aubin a Oisy (Nievre, France) (Pierre Bodu, Lucie Chehmana); 17) Les industries lithiques de la fin du Solutreen et du Salpetrien ancien: apports de l'etude technologique a la comprehension de l'evolution culturelle au pleniglaciaire en Languedoc (France) (Guillaume Boccaccio, Frédéric Bazile); 18) Typologie vs Typologie (SIC !). Comment la technologie contribue a raffiner la typologie des armatures lithiques (Boris Valentin); 19) Which blanks for which tools? Techno-typological analysis of retouched Sauveterrian artefacts at Galgenbühel (Italy) (Ursula Wierer); 20) Human occupation at the Southern Po Plain margin in the Early Mesolithic: the contribution of technological and typological studies (Federica Fontana, Maria Giovanna Cremona); 21) Palimpsests, assemblages, phases & facies: the conundrum of taxonomic generalizations from particular archeological cases (Lawrence Guy Straus).
BAR S1830 2008: Performance and Agency: The DGB Sites of Northern Cameroon by Nicholas David with contributions by Judy Klassen, Scott MacEachern, Jean Maley, Gerhard Müller-Kosack, Andrea Richardson and Judy Sterner. ISBN 9781407303147. £33.00. xii+155 pages; 37 tables; 69 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; with CD.
The dry stone structures that are the subject of this book are located in the Mandara mountains of the Extreme North province of Cameroon and are known to the Mafa who live among them as diy-geδ-bay, best glossed as “ruins of chiefly residence”. From this the term “DGB site” is derived, having the advantages of brevity and of lacking implications regarding function. Following the introduction, chapter 2 presents basic information on all known DGB sites and suggests a typology. Chapter 3 is an account of the excavation and dating of DGB-2 emphasizing its complex sequence of construction and reconstruction. Chapter 4 similarly presents the excavation of DGB-8. In chapter 5 there is an analysis of the artifacts and ecofacts from the excavated sites and the light they throw upon the cultural sequences. Chapter 6 begins by extending the discussion of cultural sequence to the full set of sites. It then briefly evaluates and discards a number of the functional interpretations that were suggested prior to extensive fieldwork and excavation. Finally, by considering the archaeological evidence in the context of regional ethnology and the environmental record, a case is built for their having been centers of community ritual and performance related to water and reproduction. In chapter 7 Gerhard Müller-Kosack investigates concepts and traditions held by the Mafa regarding the population of the region and the builders of the sites. While these traditions throw little or no light on DGB culture, Judy Sterner shows that the DGB sites have had the more recent, turbulent, history of the region projected upon them. Finally, chapter 8 returns to the theoretical questions raised above and, after considering the energetics of DGB site construction, reassesses the sites in terms of the agential processes that brought them into being and the influence that they in turn exerted on their builders. A final section places the DGB culture in its broader archaeological and cultural context.
BAR S1829 2008: Comparative Island Archaeologies edited by James Conolly and Matthew Campbell. ISBN 9781407303130. £38.00. vi+217 pages; illustrated with maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
The four themes of seafaring and voyaging, colonization and abandonment, human ecology, and social interaction are explored in detail in the papers in this volume using data from the Pacific, the Caribbean, the North Sea and the Mediterranean. These papers, both individually and collectively, demonstrate why island archaeology remains a vibrant and relevant part of archaeological discourse. Clearly, islands are neither peripheral nor isolates in the context of their diverse histories, nor are they peripheral in the context of their contribution to archaeological thought. Contents: 1) Risk management and variability in irrigation and agricultural production on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands 9David J. Addison); 2) Resource competition between pigs and humans: isotopic evidence from Aitutaki, Cook Islands (Jacqueline A. Craig); 3) Insular models of technical change: Sumatra, Nias and Siberut (Indonesia) (Dominique Guillaud, Hubert Forestier and Harry Truman Simanjunta); 4) What exactly is a fish trap? Methodological issues for the study of aboriginal intertidal rock wall fish traps, Wellesley Islands region, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia (Paul Memmott, Richard Robins and Errol Stock); 5) Between the Australian and Melanesian realms: the archaeology of the Murray Islands and consideration of a settlement model for Torres Strait (Melissa Carter and Ian Lilley); 6) Colonization, environment and insularity: prehistoric island use in the Great Barrier Reef Province, Queensland, Australia (Michael J. Rowland); 7) Unravelling ‘mystery’ and process from the prehistoric colonization and abandonment of the Mediterranean Islands (Helen Dawson); 8) What may be learnt about the archaeology of islands from archaeologically derived models of the exploration of Polynesia, 1966–2001? (Doug Sutton); 9) Farmers, fishers and whalemen: the colonization landscapes of Lord Howe Island, Tasman Sea, Australia (Kimberley Owens); 10) Prehistoric sea-faring: Bronze Age sewn plank sea craft from the Humber Estuary, England, UK and their role in an island economy (Malcolm Lillie); 11) The sea is not land: comments on the archaeology of islands in the western Solomons (Peter Sheppard and Richard Walter); 12) Creating connections between Caribbean Islands: an archaeological perspective from northern Cuba (Jago Cooper); 13) Size matters, but so does distance: autochthony and external influence in the cultural development of ancient Sardinia (Stephen L. Dyson); 14) ‘The isles afar off ’: taking a new look at Ireland’s holy islands (Sharon A. Greene).
BAR S1826 2008: Society for Arabian Studies Monographs 7 Intercultural Relations between South and Southwest Asia Studies in commemoration of E.C.L. During Caspers (1934-1996) edited by Eric Olijdam and Richard H. Spoor. ISBN 9781407303123. £54.00. iii+282 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. Papers in English, French and German.
A volume in commemoration of E. C. L. During Caspers. Contents: 1) Towards an Integrated Archaeology of South and Southwest Asia: An Appreciation of E.C.L. During Caspers (Eric Olijdam); 2) Inez at Bampur, 1966 (Beatrice De Cardi); 3) A Bibliography of E.C.L. During Caspers (Eric Olijdam with the assistance of Ellen Raven and Wendy Deitch-Van der Meulen); 4) The Indus-Mesopotamian Relationship Reconsidered (Julian Reade); 5) Indus and Mesopotamian Trade Networks: New Insights from Shell and Carnelian Artifacts (Jonathan Mark Kenoyer); 6) By Land and By Sea: The Circulation of Materials and Peoples, ca. 3500-1800 B.C. (Bertille Lyonnet & Philip L. Kohl); 7) Indische Importe und Einfluße in Mittelasien (Burchard Brentjes†); 8) Central Himalayas and the Ganga Valley: Mutual Interactions (D.P. Agrawal); 9) Materials Used in the Bronze Age (Shereen Ratnagar); 10) Ethnicity or Political Ecology: Making Sense of the Bahrain Bones (Judith Littleton); 11) Trading Mesopotamian Sheep to the Lower Gulf and Beyond? (Hans-Peter Uerpmann & Margarethe Uerpmann); 12) New Discoveries of Mesolithic Sites in the Thar Desert (Upper Sindh, Pakistan) (Paolo Biagi); 13) Putting New Pieces Together: Some Reflections on Prehistoric Socio-Economic Relations in the Arabian Gulf (Richard H. Spoor); 14) Excavations and Ubaid-Period Boat Remains at H3, As-Sabiyah (Kuwait) (Robert Carter); 15) Early Religion in Ancient Arabia (Jocelyn Orchard); 16) A Unique Stone Vessel from a Third Millennium Tomb in Kalba (Hélène David & Carl Phillips); 17) The Early Indus Script at Harappa: Origins and Development (Jonathan Mark Kenoyer & Richard H. Meadow); 18) Copper Tablets from Mohenjo-Daro and the Study of the Indus Script (Asko Parpola); 19) Indus Folklore: An Unknown Story on Some Harappan Objects (Gregory L. Possehl); 20) Issues in the Determination of Ancient Value Systems: The Role of Talc (Steatite) and Faience in the Indus Civilization (Heather M.-L. Miller); 21) Deconstructing the ‘Harappan Courtiers’: A Re-evaluation of Some of the Anthropomorphic Terracotta Figurines from Harappa (Sharri R. Clark); 22) Local Evidence, Interregional Networks: Grave Goods from Bilad Bani Bu Hasan (Sharqiyah, Oman) (Christopher Edens); 23 Ein baktrischer Edelmetall-Hortfund und noch einmal zur Frage der Quellen baktrischer Compartimentsiegel (Sylvia Winkelmann); 24) New Evidence of Funerary Practices at the End of the Early Bronze Age at Hili, United Arab Emirates (Sophie Méry, Kathleen McSweeney, Jérôme Rouquet, Gautier Basset & Walid Yasin al-Tikriti); 25) Magan Shipbuilders at the Ur III Lagash State Dockyards (2062-2025 B.C.) (Juris Zarins); 26) Shipping in the Bronze Age: How Large was a 60-gur Ship? (Tom Vosmer); 27) Some Thoughts on Iconographic Relations between the Arabian Gulf and Syria-Mesopotamia during the Middle Bronze Age (Luca Peyronel); 28) Tilmuniter im Königreich Samsî-Addus (Nele Ziegler); 29) The Murghabo-Bactrian Archaeological Complex and the Indus Script (Elisabeth C.L. During Caspers†); A Possible Central Asian Origin for the Seal-Impressed Jar from the ‘Temple Tower’ at Failaka (Eric Olijdam); 30) Foreign-style Objects and the Jhukar Culture at Chanhu-daro (Heidi J. Miller); 31) Late Bronze Age Farming Communities in North-East Bactria (South Tajikistan) (Natalia M. Vinogradova); 32) Dilmun/Baḥrain und Babylonien im 15.-14. Jahrhundert v.Chr. aus assyriologischer Sicht (Leonhard Sassmannshausen); 33) Zooarchaeological Evidence for Trade in Marine Resources in South-East Arabia (Mark Beech, Peter Hogarth & Carl Phillips); 34) Die Beziehungen Südarabiens zur Halbinsel Oman im 1. vorchristlichen Jahrtausend (Burkhard Vogt); 35) Two seals of the Sasanian Dumbâwand-Wismagân (Rika Gyselen); 36) Image de la réalité politique et représentation de la diversité ethnique: une subtile combinaison donnée par le décor de la terrasse de l’Apadana à Persépolis (Alexander Tourovets); 37) Ctesias on Falconry Revisited (Klaus Karttunen); 38) A Series of Weights from Tissamaharama, Sri Lanka (Harry Falk); 39) The Western Coast of India and the Gulf: Maritime Trade during the 3rd to 7th Century A.D. (Suchandra Ghosh); 40) From Another World! A Possible Būyid Origin of the Decorated Mihrab of Central Oman? (Soumyen Bandyopadhyay).
BAR S1823 2008: Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 22 Homosexualité et imaginaire sexuel chez les Aztèques by Nicolas Balutet. ISBN 9781407303093. £35.00. 193 pages; 204 figures, maps, plans and drawings; in French.
A study of sexuality in Aztec myth and culture.
BAR S1822 2008: Royal Authority in Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty by Garry J. Shaw. ISBN 9781407303086. £31.00. xiv+136 pages.
This study highlights and debates the evidence for the king’s personal authority and power within three major spheres of influence: 1) the appointment of officials, 2) the making of commands; and 3) military leadership. The extent to which this evidence can be used to create a historically accurate picture of government practice is a major issue throughout this study. The evidence collected dates to the 18th Dynasty from the reign of Ahmose to the end of the reign of Amenhotep III. Chapter one deals with evidence for the appointment of officials by the king as evidenced by the words dhn, rdi m/r, and sxnt. Chapter two analyses this data. Chapter three presents all evidence of the king making commands, as evidenced by the word wD. Chapter four is an analysis of this evidence. Chapter five presents evidence for the king making military decisions and fighting alongside his army. This evidence is analysed in Chapter six. The final chapter puts into context the difficulties of drawing clear boundaries between the ideological and the real in such material.
BAR S1821 2008: Development of Social Complexity in the Liaoxi Area, Northeast China by Xinwei Li. ISBN 9781407303079. £35.00. viii+155 pages; 35 tables; 98 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; Glossary.
This work is a case study focusing on the long-term unique evolutionary trajectory of the prehistoric Liaoxi area, Northeast China. The emergence and dramatic decline of the Hongshan complex societies forms the core of this interpretation. Research on household and community levels are based previously excavated typical sites. The basic data for the spatial study at the regional level comes from the author’s survey in the Lower Bang River and Upper Laohushan River valleys, Aohan Banner, Inner Mongolia. The structure of the work follows the chronology of the prehistoric cultures in Liaoxi.
BAR S1820 2008: Wooden Mosques of the Samsun Region, Turkey from the past to the present in the light of surveys carried out in the years 2001-2003 edited by E. Emine Naza-Dönmez. ISBN 9781407303062. £32.00. vi+159; 1 map; 161 figures, drawings, plans, photographs.
A unique study of 26 rare wooden mosques from Samsun, in the Central Black Sea Region, and as much a travel account of the author’s personal ambition to record these vanishing structures as it is a detailed study of these charming monuments themselves. “I began this study with travelling and finished it in the same way. During the journeys I took along the Istanbul-Samsun, Istanbul-Melbourne and Istanbul-Amasya routes, my heavy bag filled up with an ever increasing number of documents that took up the most important corner of the places where I stayed. Even during the times I was not able to work for a number of weeks due to health problems and other reasons, they were always on my mind and before my eyes.” (from the author’s Foreword)
BAR S1819 2008: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 17 The Palaeolithic of the Balkans Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006) Vol. 17, Session C33 edited by Andreas Darlas and Dušan Mihailović. ISBN 9781407303055. £29.00. vi+116 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs. Papers in English and French.
Papers from the session ‘The Palaeolithic of the Balkans’ held at the XV UISPP World Congress, Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006. Contents: 1) The Palaeolithic of the Balkans (A. Darlas and D. Mihailović); 2) End of the Aurignacian and the beginning of the Gravettian in the Balkans (J. K. Kozłowski); 3) Preliminary results of the Aliakmon paleolithic/paleoanthropological survey, Greece, 2004-2005 (K. Harvati, E. Panagopoulou, P. Karkanas, A. Athanassiou, S. R Frost); 4) The mountainscapes of Upper Palaeolithic Epirus in NW Greece: a view from the bones (E. Kotjabopoulou); 5) Middle Palaeolithic exploitation of the lake Plastiras plateau, Western Thessaly – Greece (O. Apostolikas, N. Kyparissi-Apostolika); 6) Middle Palaeolithic industries of Klissoura cave, Greece (V. Sitlivy, K. Sobczyk, P. Karkanas, M. Koumouzelis); 7) Le Paléolithique supérieur dans la péninsule du Mani (Péloponnèse, Grèce) (A. Darlas, E. Psathi); 8) Environnement vegetal des neandertaliens de la grotte de Kalamakia (Areopolis, Grece) (V. Lebreton, E. Psathi, A. Darlas); 9) Upper-Pleistocene bird remains from Kalamakia cave (Greece) (Th. Roger, A. Darlas); 10) Microvertébrés, paléo-environnement et paléoclimat de la grotte de Kalamakia (Péloponnèse, Grèce) (Th. Roger, A. Darlas); 11) First Paleolithic researches in the R. Macedonia (FYROM): the cave Golema pesht near the village Zdunje – Preliminary results (Lj. Salamanov-Korobar); 12) New data about the Middle Palaeolithic of Serbia (D. Mihailović); 13) The Gravettian site Šalitrena Pećina near Mionica (Western Serbia) (B. Mihailović); 14) Middle Palaeolithic and Early Upper Palaeolithic subsistence practices at Vindija cave, Croatia (D. Brajković, P. Miracle).
BAR S1818 2008: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 10 Aesthetics and Rock Art III Symposium Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006) Vol. 10, Session C73 edited by Thomas Heyd and John Clegg. ISBN 9781407303048. £28.00. viii+102 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
Papers from the ‘Aesthetics and Rock Art III Symposium’ held at the XV UISPP World Congress, Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006. Contents: Introduction (Thomas Heyd); 1) The magic of great art: do we have the answers? What makes some rock art unforgettable to some people? Does the magic lie in the mark, the maker or the viewer? (Margaret Bullen); 2) Does aesthetics have perceptual roots? (J. B. Deręgowski); 3) Aesthetics, function, and fashion in rock art: Reactions to ‘Aesthetics and Rock Art’ (John Clegg and Shiv Jamwal); 4) A rock art typology: Narrative and non-narrative figurative representation (Livio Dobrez); 5) Visual images are not always illustrations of texts: The status of Arnhem Land rock art (Michael Eastham); 6) Variabilité stylistique dans la tradition rupestre ‘Planalto’ du Brésil Central: Un même ensemble thématique, plusieurs, esthétiques (Stylistic variability in the Planalto rock art tradition of Central Brazil: Same thematic approach, several aesthetics) (A. Isnardis, V. Linke and A. Prous); 7) Intentions in the engraved stones and standing stones of Pembrokeshire (Anne Eastham); 8) Aesthetics and function: A composite role in Borneo rock art? (Jean-Michel Chazine); 9) The Ethics of transculturation: Cultural appropriation and etiquette in the aesthetics encounter with engravings and paintings on rock (Thomas Heyd); 10) Aesthetics, ethics, and rock art conservation: How far can we go? The case of recent conservation tests carried out in un-engraved outcrops in the Côa Valley, Portugal. (António Pedro Batarda Fernandes); 11) Afterthoughts: What I have learnt (John Clegg); 12) Is there a place for aesthetics in the study of Pleistocene visual cultures? (April Novell).
BAR S1817 2008: Jebel Bishri in Context: Introduction to the Archaeological Studies and the Neighbourhood of Jebel Bishri in Central Syria Proceedings of a Nordic Research Training Seminar in Syria, May 2004 edited by Minna Lönnqvist. ISBN 9781407303031. £31.00. vi+126 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
The papers of a Nordic research training seminar that took place during a NorFA (currently NordForsk) PhD course in Syria in May 2004. These papers offer an introduction to anyone interested in archaeology, history, art history and ethnography of the neighbourhood of Jebel Bishri. They are written so that they are also approachable by a general reader or a non-specialist of a particular period. They are not scientific reports but contribute as a reference source to the previous and forthcoming archaeological publications concerning Jebel Bishri under the study by SYGIS (the Syrian GIS). The papers bring new insights, points of views, and methodological approaches to the already known sites in the vicinity of Jebel Bishri, as well as contexts to the newly studied sites in the area. Contents: Towards a Specialised Food Production – A Look at Jebel Bishri (Nils Anfinset); 2) Nomadic Life in Central and Eastern Syria, A Perspective from the Present Life on Badiyah to the Amorite Nomadism in the Bronze Age (Bonnie Nilhamn); 3) Aspects of Intercultural Relations in the Old Babylonian Period, The Contacts between Mari and Hazor as a Case Study (Kristina Josephson Hesse); 4) The Archaeological Potential of Assyro-Aramaean Hostility on the Euphrates Side of Jebel Bishri, Implications of Battlefield Archaeology (Kim Darmark); 5) Palmyra – Identity Expressed through Architecture and Art (Sermin Anadol); 6) The Tax Law of Palmyra and the Introduction of the Roman Monetary System to Syria – A Re-evaluation (Kenneth Lönnqvist); 7) Eivind Heldaas Seland: Trade Routes of Palmyra, With Special Notes on Western Routes in the Palmyrene Trade (Eivind Heldaas Seland); 8) Dura Europos, The Final Siege and Abandonment (Charlotte Stuhr Børlit); 9) Fortresses and Ecclesiae on the Imperial Frontier of Byzantium, The Architectural Influence of Constantinople on Resafa-Sergiopolis and Zenobia in Syria (Hanna-Riitta Toivanen).
BAR S1816 2008: Bucket-Shaped Pots Style, chronology and regional diversity in Norway in the Late Roman and Migration Periods by Asbjørn Engevik jr. ISBN 9781407303024. £41.00. xiv+240 pages; 19 tables; 250 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. 3 data Appendices.
A study of bucket-shaped pots from 986 Norwegian graves. These graves include altogether 1179 bucket-shaped pots or fragments of pots. Bucket-shaped pots represent a ceramic category that is special to Norway. Other than in Norway, only a few pots have been recorded in Sweden, and only a single find comes from Denmark. The premise of this study is the consideration that a thorough and careful analysis of bucket-shaped pots will provide information about manufacture, specialization and workshops, and indentify regional groups and regional identity in the Late Roman and Migration periods, aspects that so far have received little attention. It also helps better clarify the chronology of some of the important artefact categories in Norway in this period.
BAR S1815 2008: Les enceintes pré- et protohistoriques de Corse : essai de comparaison avec quelques sites de Toscane by Sylvain Mazet. ISBN 9781407303017. £55.00. viii+508 pages; 33 graphics; 43 tables; 310 figures, maps, drawings and photographs; 2 colour plates; 5 data Appendices and Glossaries. In French with abstracts in English and Italian.
This study focuses on the evolution of dry-stone techniques applied to the construction of enclosures in Corsica and Tuscany. Starting from the 5th millennium, the presence of enclosures has been observed in the Western Mediterranean basin. Used to enclose an area with various functions between the Middle Neolithic and the Iron Age, the enclosure can be a ditch, a bank or a dry-stone wall, as in Corsica. With the aim of applying the methodology of study of the Corsican enclosures to those of Tuscany, the geographical framework of this study was extended to include all Tuscany.
BAR S1810 2008: Current Research in Sasanian Archaeology, Art and History Proceedings of a Conference held at Durham University, November 3rd and 4th, 2001. Organized by the Centre for Iranian Studies, IMEIS and the Department of Archaeology of Durham University. Sponsored by the Iran Heritage Foundation with additional support by Derek Kennet and Paul Luft. ISBN 9781407302997. £33.00. x+161 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
Papers presented on Current Research in Sasanian Archaeology, Art and History from a Conference held at Durham University, November 3rd and 4th, 2001. Contents: The Functional Layout of the Fire Sanctuary at Takht-i Sulaiman (Dietrich Huff); The Discovery of a Sasanian Period Fire Temple at Bandiyan, Dargaz (Mehdi Rahbar); A Sasanian Site at Barbar, Bahrain (Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Søren F. Andersen); Sasanian Coins from ‘Uman and Bairayn (Derek Kennet); Suburb or slum? Excavations at Merv (Turkmenistan) and Observations on Stratigraphy, Refuse and Material Culture in a Sasanian City (St John Simpson); The Destruction of the Late Antique World Order (James Howard-Johnston); Bishops or Bureaucrats?: Christian Clergy and the State in the Middle Sasanian Period (Scott McDonough); History and Historiography: the Court Genre in Arabic and the Fatinamah-i Sind (Valeria Fiorani Piacentini); Iranian Society in the Sasanian Period (Hassan Karimian); The Great Families in the Sasanian Empire: some Sigillographic Evidence (Rika Gyselen); ‘Dionysiac’ Iconographic Themes in the Context of Sasanian Religious Architecture (Pierfrancesco Callieri); A Metamorphosis in Sasanian Silverwork: the Triumph of Dionysos? (Mehdi Moussavi Kouhpar and Timothy Taylor); Royal and Religious Symbols on Early Sasanian Coins (Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis); New Perspectives on Sasanian Rock Reliefs (Hubertus von Gall).
BAR S1809 2008: Dance, Dancers and the Performance Cohort in the Old Kingdom by Lesley Kinney. ISBN 9781407302966. £44.00. xvi+265 pages; illustrated with figures, drawings and photographs. 2 data Appendices.
The purpose of this volume is to reveal as much information as possible on the nature of dance in Old Kingdom Egypt. This is achieved through the thorough examination of the primary evidence pertaining to dance in the old Kingdom, which comes to us in the form of pictures, letters, captions and titles. Scenes of dance abound in tomb decoration, in particular, but can also be found in solar temples attended by the living. Indeed, when a clear definition of what constituted dance in Ancient Egypt is reached, the number of pictorial examples relating to dance became so vast that it necessitated restricting this study to material from the old Kingdom. While the study of pictures of dance reveals much about the history and development of art, much regarding the nature of dance can also be perceived. It is reasonable to assume that much of the information recorded regarding dance; the poses, costumes, props and gender of dancers as depicted in scenes of dance, should reflect the nature of dance as it was performed at the time and even the region in which it was recorded. Therefore, the developments traced in the course of this study relate to the art history record of dance as much as to dance itself.
BAR S1808 2008: Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 21 Étude de la polychromie des reliefs sur terre crue de la Huaca de la Luna Trujillo, Pérou by Véronique Wright. ISBN 9781407302959. £47.00. x+285 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, drawings and photographs. In French with abstracts in English and Spanish .
To the Mochica civilization, a pre-Inca society that developed on the north coast of Peru from the 1st to the 9th century AD, mural art represented an important form of artistic expression. Mainly reserved for cultural buildings and following a codified narrative language, these monumental painted scenes created a privileged means of communication that allowed the rulers to deliver to the people a symbolic message of the established political power and of the social order. The iconographic study of these paintings and reliefs on adobe has allowed us to understand that they were illustrating an ideological discourse essentially dedicated to the worship of divinities and to the associated ritual ceremonies. The identified mythical representations were, in this way, devoted to the Mochica religion and to the political power held by the elite. Thus, mural art not only had a decorative function but also a much more symbolic role: one of ideological vector, which was essential for this civilization without any textual writing. The importance of mural decoration within Mochica society inspired previous research on these rare relics further. In addition to the iconographic interpretations, it seemed essential to take an interest in the creation and elaboration process of these murals. By using archaeometry, rarely employed in Peru, the author has been able to answer not only archeological but also preservation problems. Thus, through the physicochemical study of the polychromy of the Huaca de la Luna on the site of Moche, of the Huaca Cao Viejo on the site of El Brujo, of the monumental complex of Castillo de Huancaco, and of the funeral platform of Sipán, it has been possible to obtain clues to the pictorial techniques used by the Mochicas artists. It was therefore possible to reconstitute the whole process followed in order to manufacture these mural paintings, from the extraction of raw materials to the final panel. By comparing the results from each site, it was possible to work on the spatiotemporal evolution of this artistic technology, to consider the organization of this handcrafted activity and to better understand the social status of Mochicas painter craftsmen. Finally, by following a multidisciplinary approach, carried out jointly in the laboratory and in the field, the author has evaluated the efficiency of the preservation treatments applied today on these relics, in order to optimize the durability of this exceptional painted heritage.
BAR S1807 2008: Charcoals From the Past: Cultural and Palaeoenvironmental Implications Proceedings of the Third International Meeting of Anthracology, Cavallino - Lecce (Italy) June 28th - July 1st 2004 edited by Girolamo Fiorentino and Donatella Magri. ISBN 9781407302942. £48.00. ix+318 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs. Papers in English and Italian.
Papers from The Third International Meeting of Anthracology, entitled “Charcoals from the Past. Cultural and palaeoenvironmental implications”, organized at Cavallino (Lecce) from 28th June to 1st July 2004. Contents: 1) Special techniques for the anatomical study of charcoal (G. Angeles, F. Ortega-Escalona, C. Madero Vega); 2) Archaeo-environmental studies of cultivation terraces in the Enveig Mountain (Cerdagne) in Eastern Pyrenees (France). Use of pedo-anthracology (M.C. Bal, R. Harfouche, P. Poupet, P. Campmajo, C. Rendu); 3) Did calcareous grasslands exist in prehistoric times? An archaeobotanical research on the surroundings of the prehistoric settlement above Kallmünz (Bavaria, Germany) (A. Baumann, P. Poschlod); 4) Charcoals in context: anthracological analysis at Muro Tenente, south-eastern Italy (G.J. Burgers, D. Lentjes); 5) Wood in arid zones’ prehistoric architecture (I. Caneva); 6) A fuoco lento: strutture di combustione nell’abitato dell’età del Bronzo di Coppa Nevigata (Manfredonia - FG) (A. Cazzella, G. Recchia); 7) An approach to Holocene vegetation history in the middle Rhone valley (France): anthracological data from the « TGV-Méditerranée » excavations (C. Delhon, S. Thiébault); 8) Environment and ritual in a late Iron Age context: an example from Raffin Fort, Co. Meath, Ireland (M. Dillon, C. Newman, K. Molloy, M. O’Connell); 9) Charred organic matter and phosphorus in black soils in the Lower Rhine Basin (Northwest Germany) indicate prehistoric agricultural burning (E. Eckmeier, R. Gerlach, U. Tegtmeier, M.W.I. Schmidt); 10) Charcoal as environmental and ethnological evidence from medieval archaeological sites in NW-Italy (I. Ferrari Fontana, B.I. Menozzi, C. Montanari); 11) Pollen and micro-charcoal evidence of vegetation dynamics and human impact along the southern Bulgarian Black sea coast (M. Filipova – Marinova, H. Angelova); 12) Rapid and accurate estimates of microcharcoal content in pollen slides (W. Finsinger, W. Tinner, F.S. Hu); 13) Arts du feu et du forgeron en Mauritanie (C. Fortier); 14) Metallurgy in ancient Lecce: new evidence from the excavations of Piazzetta Epulione and Piazzetta Castromediano (C. Giardino, A. Quercia); 15) La capanna rituale di Serra Cicora (Nardò-LE) (E. Ingravallo); 16) Recenti ricerche sulla produzione di utensili lignei a Karatepe-Aslantas, Turchia (M.R. Iovino, C. Altinbilek); 17) Experimental charcoal-burning with special regard to anthracological wood diameter analysis (T. Ludemann); 18) Gli accampamenti invernali e primaverili dei nomadi dell’Arkhangaï e dell’Ovorkhangaï settentrionale: i ricoveri per gli animali (Mongolia centro-occidentale) (F. Lugli); 19) Two long micro-charcoal records from central Italy (D. Magri); 20) The “fires” of Aeolian villages at the end of Middle Bronze Age: the case of Portella site in the Salina island (ME - Italy) (M.C. Martinelli, G. Fiorentino); 21) Combining charcoal and pollen analysis: Holocene vegetation dynamics, tree species composition and woodland use in the Bavarian Forest (O. Nelle); 22) Environment and agriculture in the early Neolithic of the Arene Candide (Liguria) (R. Nisbet); 23) A contribution to the forest history of the Markstein area in the southern Vosges (France) (W. Nölken); 24) Il controllo delle alte temperature e l’inizio della metallurgia nel Vicino Oriente (A. Palmieri); 25) Food Processing in the Levant during the Middle Bronze Age. Fire installations cooking pots and grinding tools at Tell Mardikh-Ebla (Syria)-Two Case Studies (L. Peyronel, G. Spreafico); 26) High resolution AMS radiocarbon dating of archaeological charcoals (G. Quarta, M. D’Elia, L.Calcagnile); 27) Environmental history in the Mediterranean basin: microcharcoal as a tool to disentangle human impact and climate change (L. Sadori, M. Giardini); 28) Collapsed beams and wooden remains from a 3200 BC temple and palace at Arslantepe (Malatya, Turkey) (L. Sadori, F. Susanna, F. Balossi Restelli); 29) The Use of Wood: Traditional Building Techniques in the Swat Valley (Pakistan). An Ethno-Archaeological Research (I.E. Scerrato); 30) Environmental and cultural history of South American temperate forests: an interdisciplinary approach (M.E. Solari); 31) A critical assessment and experimental comparison of microscopic charcoal extraction methods (R. Turner, A. Kelly, N. Roberts); 32) Domestic fires and vegetation cover among Neanderthalians and Anatomically Modern Human Groups (>53-30 kyr BP) in the Cantabrian Region (Cantabria, Northern Spain) (P. Uzquiano); 33) Fuel Supplies for Pompeii. Pre-Roman and Roman charcoals of the Casa delle Vestali (R. Veal, G. Thompson); 34) Anthracology and Mediterranean landscape, classical and new approaches (J.L. Vernet); 35) Solar influence on Holocene fire history (K.J. Willis, K.D. Bennett, S.G. Haberle).
BAR S1806 2008: The Archaeological Map of the Murghab Delta. Volume II. The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in the Margiana Lowlands Facts and methodological proposals for a redefinition of the research strategies edited by Sandro Salvatori and Maurizio Tosi with the editorial collaboration of Barbara Cerasetti. ISBN 9781407302935. £40.00. xiv+223 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
Volume II in the series on The Archaeological Map of the Murghab Delta focuses on The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in the Margiana Lowlands. Contents: In Memoria of Iminjan Suleymanovich Masimov 1940-2006; Introduction (Sandro Salvatori and Maurizio Tosi); 1) Transects and Other Techniques for Systematic Sampling (Maurizio Cattani and Sandro Salvatori); 2) A GIS for the Archaeology of the Murghab Delta (Barbara Cerasetti); 3) The Murghab Delta in Central Asia 1990-2001: the GIS from Research Resource to a Reasoning Tool for the Study of Settlement Change in Long-Term Fluctuations (Maurizio Cattani, Barbara Cerasetti, Sandro Salvatori and Maurizio Tosi); 4) Non-graphic Information Systems and Diachronic Transformations in Margiana (Joshua Wright); 5) The Margiana Settlement Pattern from the Middle Bronze Age to the Parthian-Sasanian: a Contribution to the Study of Complexity (Sandro Salvatori); 6) Cultural Variability in the Bronze Age Oxus Civilisation and its Relations with the Surrounding Regions of Central Asia and Iran (Sandro Salvatori); 7) Unpublished Stamp-seals from the North-western Murghab Delta (Iminjan S. Masimov † and Sandro Salvatori); 8) A New Cylinder Seal from Ancient Margiana: Cultural Exchange and Syncretism in a “World Wide Trade System” at the End of the 3rd Millennium BC (Sandro Salvatori); 9) Excavations at Sites No. 1211 and No. 1219 (Final Bronze Age) (Maurizio Cattani); 10) The Final Phase of the Bronze Age and the “Andronovo Question” in Margiana (Maurizio Cattani); 11) An Aspect of the Early Iron Age (Yaz I) Period in Margiana: Ceramic; 12) Iron-working and Ceramic Recycling on the Surface of a Late Iron Age Fort at the North-eastern Fringe of the Murghab Delta (Massimo Vidale, Enrico Battistella and Giuseppe Guida); 13) An Egyptian Vessel at Site No. 203 (Sabina Malgora).
BAR S1805 2008: Beyond Illustration: 2D and 3D Digital Technologies as Tools for Discovery in Archaeology edited by Bernard Frischer and Anastasia Dakouri-Hild. ISBN 9781407302928. £48.00. xxiv+168 pages; illustrated throughout, including 34 colour plates.
This book is timely. As the contributions in it illustrate, 2D and 3D modeling of cultural heritage is no longer used just to illustrate the location and appearance (past or present) of archaeological sites, but also as a tool to discover and recover data from archaeological remains. There are better ways of predicting where this data might be found under the surface. When applied to the legacy excavation data of a cultural heritage site—or when used to record the progress of a new excavation, 3D modeling has the potential to mitigate the irreversible and destructive nature of archaeological excavation, an unfortunate, ironic, and unavoidable central fact of archaeology as traditionally practiced. With the widespread adoption of 3D technologies to record and reconstruct archaeological sites, the archaeologist can virtually preserve the site through 3D data capture as we dig it up. And, once the 3D data gathered in the field has been modeled, it is possible to retrace decisions and test the validity of conclusions with more precision and confidence. Contents: From digital illustration to digital heuristics (Bernard Frischer); Envisioning explanation: the art in science (David C. Gooding); Virtual archaeology: communication in 3D and ecological thinking (Maurizio Forte); Reasoning in 3D: a critical appraisal of the role of 3D modelling and virtual reconstructions in archaeology (Sorin Hermon); Exploring behavioural terra incognita with archaeological agent-based models (Luke S. Premo); Cost surface DEM modeling of Viking Age seafaring in the Baltic Sea (George Indruszewski and C. Michael Barton); Visualizing DEMs: the significance of modern landscape modifications in the distribution of archaeological finds (Renate Gerlach, Irmela Herzog and Julia von Koblinski); The potential of ancient maps for quantifying slope processes – Comparison of historical and modern elevation models (Jutta Lechterbeck); LIDAR-based surface height measurements: applications in archaeology (Arjan G. de Boer, Walter N. H. Laan, Wouter Waldus and Wilko K. van Zijverden); Voxel-based 3D GIS: modelling and analysis of archaeological stratigraphy (Undine Lieberwirth); A software system to work with 3D models in cultural heritage research (Can Ozmen and Selim Balcisoy); A digital model of the Inca Sanctuary of the Sun (Chris Johanson and Bernard Frischer); Applications of 3D technology as a research tool in archaeological ceramic analysis (Avshalom Karasik); Virtual archaeology and computer-aided reconstruction of the Severan Marble Plan (David R. Koller).
BAR S1804 2008: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 19 Pleistocene Palaeoart of the World Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006) Vol. 19, Session C80 edited by Robert G. Bednarik and Derek Hodgston. ISBN 9781407302911 . £25.00. 75 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, drawings and photographs.
Papers presented at the session entitled ‘Pleistocene Palaeoart of the World’ presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: Where are the mur-el: A behavioural approach to rock art research (Yann-Pierre Montelle); PHI IN THE ACHEULIAN: Lower Palaeolithic Intuition and the natural Origins of Analogy (John Feliks); The Lower Palaeolithic rock art of India (Robert G. Bednarik and Giriraj Kumar); The origins of ‘modern humans’ and palaeoart reconsidered (Robert G. Bednarik); Neurovisual theory, the visuo-motor system and Pleistocene palaeoart (Derek Hodgson); The archaeology of graphic signs: evolutionary and systemic approaches (Paul Bouissac); Lower Palaeolithic petroglyphs from excavations at Daraki-Chattan in India (Giriraj Kumar).
BAR S1803 2008: POCA 2005. Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology Proceedings of the fifth annual meetingof young researchers on Cypriot Archaeology, Department of Classics, Trinity College, Dublin, 21-22 October 2005 edited by Giorgos Papantoniou in collaboration with Aoife Fitzgerald and Siobhán Hargis. ISBN 9781407302904. £29.00. vi+104 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
The fifth Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology (POCA) workshop took place from the 21st to 22nd October 2005, hosted by the Department of Classics, Trinity College Dublin. POCA is a workshop originally designed to provide postgraduate researchers in Cypriot archaeology with a forum in which to present their work, discuss some central themes of their research, meet people who work in the same area and exchange ideas and information in a friendly and collegial environment. Contents: Script in Context: The Cypro-Minoan Script and its Place in Late Bronze Age Cypriot Society (Daisy Knox); The Demographic Minorities of Cyprus during the 12th century (Eleni Christou); Cyprus at the Crossroads: Intercultural Contact on Frankish Cyprus (Jimmy Schryver); Manifestations of Royalty in Cypriot Sculpture (Anna Satraki); Sacred Landscapes from Basileis to Strategos: Methodological and Interpretative Approaches (Giorgos Papantoniou); Female Representation in Hellenistic Cyprus: The Ptolemaic Court (Celine Marquaille-Telliez); Aegean Origin of Aniconic Cult of Aphrodite in Paphos (Katarzyna Zeman); The Wild Goat-and-Tree Icon and its Special Significance for Ancient Cyprus (Lesley Bushnell); The Fish and its Symbolism in the Early Christian Mosaics of Cyprus (Doria Nicolaou and Evi Karyda); Music in Medieval Cypriot Iconography: Evidence from Nativity Representations (Savvas Neocleous); Agios Georgios, Pegeia – Cape Drepanon: Integrating an Excavation Site into an Archaeological Landscape (Konstantinos Raptis and Olga-Maria Bakirtzis); A Comparative Study of Heritage Management in Israel and Cyprus (Deirdre Stritch); An Analytical Approach to the Study of Middle Bronze Age Pottery from Deneia, Cyprus (Maria Dikomitou).
BAR S1802 2008: Canoes of the Grand Ocean by Anne Di Piazza and Erik Pearthree. ISBN 9781407302898. £37.00. vi+154 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs, including 13 colour plates.
If Oceanic canoes, by their very strangeness were surprising to the earliest European observers, it was not long before their descriptions shifted from being impressed, enthusiastic or fascinated and gave way to detailed observations, measurements, comparisons and representations. Canoes are also the means by which the islanders apprehend space. In this perspective, this interesting volume on the study of canoes of the ‘Grand Ocean’ remains a vehicle for discovery. Contents: 1) Canoes of the ‘Grand Ccean’ (Anne Di Piazza); 2) Early European descriptions of oceanic watercraft: Iberian sources and contexts (Carlos Mondragón and Miguel Luque Talavá); 3) Voyaging exchanges: Tahitian pilots and european navigators (Anne Salmond); 4) Traditional oceanic canoes as seen by Admiral Pâris (Eric Rieth); 5) Polynesian representations of geographical and cosmological space: Anuta, Solomon islands (Richard Feinberg); 6) Origins and relationships of Pacific canoes and rigs (Adrian Horridge); 7) Dugout and sewn plank canoe construction on Raivavae, Austral islands (Robert Veccella); 8) Simulating island discovery during the Lapita expansion (Chris Avis, Álvaro Montenegro and Andrew Weaver); 9) Simulating polynesian double-hulled canoe voyaging. combining digital and experimental data to prepare for a voyage to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) (Bradley M. Evans).
BAR S1801 2008: Time to Quarry: The Archaeology of Stone Procurement in Northwestern New South Wales, Australia by Trudy Doelman. ISBN 9781407302881. £36.00. xiv+179 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
The quarry has been considered a cornerstone in understanding lithic production systems. However, the methodological problems associated with the investigation of a quarry assemblage often leads to inadequate recording. The lack of detailed quarry research in Australia focusing on non-axe quarries has meant that they are poorly understood and for this reason a plethora of potentially valuable research regarding the role of the quarry in the organisation of lithic technology is virtually absent. There is a real need to develop quarry studies in Australia and worldwide. It is hoped that this study aides in the expansion of quarry research by providing a sound methodological and analytical approach to the study of quarry assemblages. A detailed technological and spatial analysis of quarries and occupations sites was used to determine the organisational strategies used to acquire and reduce the stone resources available in the arid zone margin of New South Wales, Australia, and identify the reasons why these particular strategies were employed during the late Holocene. Comparisons are made between quarried and non-quarried stone to identify their ‘role’ in the organisation of lithic technology. The theoretical framework incorporates aspects of non-site distributional archaeology. The individual artefact is the basic methodological and theoretical building block from which greater scales of variation in the distribution and composition of the archaeological record can be examined. This examination uses the concept of ‘risk’ as the heuristic device with which to explore the costs and benefits of employing different technological strategies. Hence the form of an artefact, its position in space and its time in the cultural system, are the key components of this study. By using a combination of these approaches it is possible to identify not only the many factors that contribute to the formation and distribution of stone resources but also the ways Aboriginal people organised their stone technology during the late Holocene.
BAR S1800 2008: La arquitectura sagrada ibérica: orígenes, desarrollos y contextos by Jesús Bermejo Tirado. ISBN 9781407302874. £33.00. 155 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs. In Spanish.
BAR S1796 2008: Beazley Archive - Studies in Classical Archaeology Essays in Classical Archaeology for Eleni Hatzivassiliou 1977-2007 edited by Donna Kurtz with Caspar Meyer, David Saunders, Athena Tsingarida and Nicole Harris. ISBN 9781407302843. £49.00. ix+329 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
A collection of essays dedicated to the memory of Eleni Hatzivassiliou (1977-2007). The range of subjects reflects her broad circle of friends. Many are her contemporaries, but many are very senior scholars; ages range from 25 to 80. It is truly remarkable that someone who had not yet reached her thirtieth birthday could have come to know so many scholars and win their admiration and affection. Contents: Editorial foreword (Donna Kurtz); Biography of Eleni Hatzivassiliou (Donna Kurtz); Tribute (John Boardman); Guide to readers; The origins of Greek myth (John Boardman); Homer and the Solymians (J.J. Coulton); Sapphos sensual world (Thomas Brisart); An early archaic sphinx from the Polis Cave, Ithaka (Stavros 59)(Catherine Morgan); The riddle of the sphinx: a Protocorinthian vase from Perachora and the sphinx in Corinthian art (Catherine Cooper); A Middle Corinthian puzzle from Isthmia (K.W. Arafat); Athens versus Attika: local variations in funerary practices during the late seventh and early sixth century BC (Alexandra-Fani Alexandridou); A chorus of women ololyzousai on an early Attic skyphos (Nassi Malagardis); Dead warriors and their wounds on Athenian black-figure vases (David Saunders); Towers, pillars or frames? (Elizabeth Moignard); Nikosthenes looking east? Phialai in Sixs and polychrome Sixs technique (Athena Tsingarida); Some fictile biographies from Naukratis (Alan Johnston) The painter of Rhodes 13472: observations on a vase-painter of the Leagros Group (Anna A. Lemos); Kalypsos conifers? (Elke Bhr); Attic, Boeotian or Euboean? An orphan skyphos from Rhitsona revisited (Victoria Sabetai); Bird-women on the Harpy Monument from Xanthos, Lycia: sirens or harpies? (Catherine M. Draycott); The asses lot (Louise Calder); The mounds associated with the Battle of Marathon in 490BC and the dating of Greek pottery (Chia-Lin Hsu) A wild goose chase? Geese and goddesses in classical Greece (Alexandra Villing); Prometheus Bound and Unbound: between art and drama (Dyfri Williams); Comedies on South Italian vases (Thomas Mannack); The Derveni Krater (Michalis Tiverios); Private sentiments in public spaces: two votive groups from Epidauros (Olympia Bobou); Cretan nymphs: an Attic hypothesis (Milena Melfi); A banquet relief from Thasos (Konstantina Panousi); Sosilos statue and nudity in public honorific portrait statues in the Hellenistic period (Stella Skaltsa); Ouaphres Horou, an Egyptian priest of Isis from Demetrias (Maria Stamatopoulou); Piecing it together: the fragmentary Hellenistic vermiculatum mosaic from Tel Dor (William Wootton); Designing the landscapes of the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta (Manta Zarmakoupi); The quality of virt and Jos Nicols de Azara in Rome, 1766-1798 (Alexandra Sulzer); Poor architecture of antiquity, what is it doing in such a climate as this? Classical archaeology and its influence on nineteenth-century London monuments (Kate Nichols); Doing business: two unpublished letters from Athenasios Rhousopoulos to Arthur Evans in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Yannis Galanakis); Early visitors to the site of the Perachoran Heraion (Thomas R. Patrick); Sappho (and Sophocles) at Kings College London (Michael Trapp).
BAR S1795 2008: Moving Heaven and Earth: Landscape, Death and Memory in the Aceramic Neolithic of Cyprus by Paula Louise Jones. ISBN 9781407302836. £32.00. vii+162 pages; 2 tables; 48 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
This monograph focuses on the Aceramic Neolithic of Cyprus, and addresses three key theoretical topics; memory, death and landscape. Sites dating from the initial colonisation of the island (the Akrotiri phase) through to Khirokitia and its contemporaries, are contextualised within their spatial and temporal settings, and are presented here taking into consideration recent theoretical developments in archaeology and anthropology. This monograph covers what have traditionally been seen as three distinctive periods: the Akrotiri phase, the Early Aceramic Neolithic and the Late Aceramic Neolithic (sometimes referred to as the Khirokitian). Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Literature Review; Chapter 3: Setting the Scene; Chapter 4: The Aceramic Neolithic of Cyprus; Chapter 5: The Enigma of Insularity; Chapter 6: Ways of Living…; Chapter 7: Ways of Dying; Chapter 8: Lest We Forget…; Chapter 9: Conclusions.
BAR S1794 2008: 2008 An Appraisal of the Skulls and Dentition of Ancient Egyptians, Highlighting the Pathology and Speculating on the Influence of Diet and Environment by Judith Miller. ISBN 9781407302829. £29.00. 143 pages; illustrated throughout with figures and plates.
When first studying Ancient Egyptian History, the author, a dental surgeon, was struck by the fact that, with the exception of a blind harpist or an occasional adipose figure, the Ancient Egyptian, was portrayed as healthy and fit with a superb physique. However, the reality was somewhat different. It has been discovered in previous studies of the mummies and the profusion of skeletal material which are available in many collections that their lives were far from ideal and many died in pain with diseases found in modern man. Then there are the many medical papyri which give prescriptions for treatments. Some were magical and were, in reality, spells to rid the sick individual of possession by a malign spirit. However some were rational and were passed on from doctor to doctor. This research was undertaken to investigate whether changes in the diet over a period of 4000 years had a direct effect on the dentition of the ancient Egyptian. The abundance of specimens in various collections made it possible to examine complete skulls to detect dental and bone pathology which may have been influenced by disease and the environment in which they lived. Analysis of the literature of past surveys carried out in tombs has revealed much information. Tomb paintings symbolised an ideal presentation of food for the afterlife. There are scenes illustrating agriculture and irrigation of the land. In museum collections there are papyri listing rations allotted to workmen and soldiers. Of particular importance are the burial goods. There are flagons containing dried remnants of wine and beer. There are mummified joints of beef. Offerings of fruit and grain are identifiable and have been analysed. Bread offerings, found in abundance, have been investigated to differentiate organic and inorganic components. From archaeological excavations, butchered bones from a variety of animals have been identified and the burial sites give clues as to the extent of the fertile area of the Nile Valley at different periods during the millennia. This historical evidence has been examined to evaluate the extent of medical knowledge at various periods and this has been related to the pathology found.
BAR S1793 2008: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 25 Symbolism in Rock Art Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006) Vol. 25, Session WS34 edited by Fernando Coimbra and Léo Dubal. ISBN 9781407302812. £22.00. vi+62 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
Papers from the Symbolism in Rock Art session held at the XV UISPP World Congress, Lisbon, in September 2006. Contents: 1) Faceless anthropomorphic symbols: The shift from men to gods (Léo Dubal); 2) The pentagram in rock art: Some interpretive possibilities (Fernando Augusto Coimbra); 3) A Contribution to the understanding of spirals and lozenges in the rock art of Neolithic Britain and Ireland (G. Terence Meaden); 4) The bull horn symbolism in Dionysus cult as coming out from the prehistoric rock art iconography (George Dimitriadis); 5) Footprint & handprint symbols: Having or Being? (Léo Dubal); 6) Cupmarks and triangles in British Neolithic art with particular attention to three triangular portable stones from Avebury’s eastern hills, each with a cupmark at the apex (G. Terence Meaden); 7) On the symbolism of net patterned and ruled rectangles from the Neolithic to the iron age (Adolfo Zavaroni); 8) Open air rock art in the Ceira and Alva river valleys: Some symbols (Nuno Miguel C. Ribeiro); 9) Mount Pindo in Galicia and the prehistoric petroglyphs (José Luis Galovart Carrera).
BAR S1792 2008: Burning Bulls, Broken Bones: Sacrificial Ritual in the by Robert James Cromarty. ISBN 9781407302805. £31.00. 157 pages; illustrated with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
Although it has received much attention, Minoan religion has never been fully reconstructed, understood or analysed. In this study, with reference to major sites, the author concentrates on the role of sacrificial ritual in the religious organisation of Crete in the Bronze Age. The work points out some of the major problems with previous studies of Minoan religion and goes some way toward indicating possible routes of investigation. Contents: Introduction; Chapter 1: Terms, Conditions and Processes; Chapter 2: Site Catalogue; Chapter 3: Interpretation; Conclusions.
BAR S1791 2008: Arqueologia e Historia del mundo antiguo: contribuciones brasileñas y españolas edited by Pedro Paulo Funari, Glaydson José da Silva and Dionisio Pérez-Sanches. ISBN 9781407302799. £26.00. 103 pages; illustrated with figures, drawings and photographs. In Spanish with English abstracts.
15 essays on the archaeology and history of the ancient world: peripheral and cross-continental approaches. Contents: 1) Antigüedad Clásica en Brasil: la Antigüedad Tardia através de las monedas del Museo Histórico Nacional de Rio de Janeiro (Cláudio U. Carlan); 2) Logos cristiano y logos griego en el universo politico cultural del siglo IV d.C.: apuntes sobre Contra Juliano (Margarida M. Carvalho); 3) El perfomance musical: entre lo sagrado y lo profano (Fábio V. Cerqueira); 4) Identidades y conflictos: la arena romana en discusión (Renata S. Garraffoni); 5) Luchando contra el tiempo: análisis de algunas construcciones severianas en la ciudad de Roma (Ana T.M. Gonçalves); 6) Un estudio hermenéutico de la egiptomanía ya la egiptología (Raquel S. Funari); 7) Brasileños y romanos: colonialismo, identidades y el rol de la cultura material (Pedro P. A. Funari; 8) Ciudadaia, esclavitud y conflicto social en los tiempos de Nerón (Fábio D. Joly); 9) La noción de frontera en Estrabón y Diodoro de Sicilia (Airton Pollini); 10) La moneda romana con mención imperatoria hasta la muerte de César (Pilar R. Gracia); 11) Historia Antigua: nuevas posibilidades de investigación (Ivan E. Rocha); 12) Plutarco y la política imperial (Maria A. O. Silva); 13) Nazismo, Fascismo y vichismo: la Historia ya la Arqueología al servicio de los regímenes autoritarios de Europa (Glaydson J. Silva); 14) Plínio, o Jovem saúda seus caros amigos e familiares: o cotidiano romano através das cartas (Renata L. B. Venturini); 15) Tierra y libertad: libertos e institores en el ager barcinonesis (Barcelona) (Oriol O. Vila/Cèsar C. Monfort).
BAR S1790 2008: Palaeoethnobotany of Princess Point, Lower Great Lakes Region, Southern Ontario, Canada by Della Saunders. ISBN 9781407302782. £27.00. viii+110 pages; illustrated with 22 figures, 89 tables and 27 plates, 3 data Appendices.
This work explores the interrelationship between humans and plants within the Princess Point culture. Princess Point is the archaeological cultural context in which a shift from an economy based on foraging to one that incorporated horticulture occurred in what is now southern Ontario. The earliest dates for evidence of corn horticulture in Ontario are from the Princess Point period (ca. 1570 to 970 B.P.). The basis of this study of the Princess Point is to explore the origins of agriculture, together with plant use generally in southern Ontario, and to gain a better understanding of a time when people were changing their subsistence pattern from one based on wild plant resources during the Middle Woodland to one that incorporated crops. Contents: Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Princess Point; Chapter Three: Plant Evidence: Sampling and Methods; Chapter Four: Identification and Quantification of Plant Remains; Chapter Five: Princess Point Plant Use; Chapter Six: Discussion and Conclusions.
BAR S1789 2008: 2008 Recherches à la grotte Walou à Trooz (Belgique) / Studies in Walou Cave in Trooz (Belgium) Second rapport de fouille / Second excavation report by I. Crevecoeur, A. Francis, L. Klaric, C. Koziel, O. Le Gall, R. Peuchot, E. Teheux, M. Udrescu and D. Vandercappel . Edited by M. Dewez. ISBN 9781407302775. £24.00. 88 pages; illustrated with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs. In French with English abstracts.
This volume presents recent findings from Walou cave, excavated by the SOWAP (Société Wallonne de Palethnologie, 1985–90), in the municipality of Trooz, about 15 km south of Liege, in Belgium. Contents: Préface (M. Dewez); Introduction. Research in prehistoric cave of Walou (D. Vandercappel and M. Dewez); L’industrie lithique gravettienne de la grotte Walou (couches B5 et B5X) (L. Klaric); Le Paléolithique supérieur final de la grotte Walou (M. Dewez, A. Francis and E. Teheux); Les Lagopèdes de la grotte Walou (I. Crevecoeur); Etude de l’évolution des biocénoses de microvertébrés du Tardiglaciaire de la grotte Walou (C. Koziel and D. Vandercappel); Ichtyofaunes et pêches à la grotte Walou (O. Le Gall); Analyse des coquilles de mollusques trouvés dans la stratigraphie de la grotte Walou (R. Peuchot and A. Francis); Trois cas de paléopathologie animale rencontrés à la grotte Walou (M. Udrescu and A. Francis); Une grande pointe de sagaie des grottes des Fonds-de-Forêt (D. Vandercappel and M. Dewez).
BAR S1788 2008: Stable Isotopic Analysis of Carbon and Nitrogen as an Indicator of Paleodietary Change among Pre-State Metal Age Societies in Northeast Thailand by Christopher A King. ISBN 9781407302768. £29.00. xi+132 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. 3 data Appendices .
Using northeast Thailand as a model, this work uses stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen to infer paleodietary change in subtropical monsoon Asia. It is hypothesized that in northeast Thailand during the pre-state Metal Age (2000 B.C. to A.D. 500) there are distinct differences among the populations during this time period which coincide with human induced environmental changes and developments of alternative subsistence technologies. It is further hypothesized that female and male diets differed, possibly from social circumstances, such as sex related food accessibility. The archaeological skeletal series is from Ban Chiang, Ban Na Di, Ban Lum Khao, and Noen U-Loke. Stable isotope analysis of local flora and fauna provide a baseline for interpreting stable isotope data from human samples for this and future studies of paleodiet. This work makes a significant contribution to studies of subsistence changes from extensive to intensive agriculture in subtropical monsoon Asia. This research is relevant to debates of agricultural change as well as the effect of cultural changes on subsistence patterns and the evolution of human diet.
BAR S1787 2008: 2008 Fluvial Dynamics and Cultural Landscape Evolution in the Rio Grande de Nazca Drainage Basin, Southern Peru by Ralf Hesse. ISBN 9781407302751. £60.00. xii+136 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, including 14 in colour and 1 A3 fold-out. 2 data Appendices.
The aim of this research is to reconstruct the landscape evolution in the lower Rio Grande drainage basin during the Late Holocene and to detect interrelations between landscape evolution, cultural development, climatic changes and extreme events. Central to this is to identify and, if possible, quantify factors of landscape change. In doing so, the author differentiates natural from anthropogenic factors, i.e. to determine both the natural and the human impacts on the landscape. An important question is whether climatic changes and extreme events have had an inƒPuence on past societies. To answer these questions, this work goes beyond physical geography approaches to paleoenvironmental reconstruction and includes the wealth of archaeological evidence and interpretations available for the research area. The volume consists of a main section and an extensive appendix containing sketches and detailed interpretations of the investigated sediment proƒOles as well as graphs showing the results of the laboratory analyses.
BAR S1784 2008: Caesarea Reports and Studies: Excavations 1995-2007 within the Old City and the Ancient Harbor edited by Kenneth G. Holum, Jennifer A. Stabler, and Eduard G. Reinhardt. ISBN 9781407302720. £43.00. xi+269 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
The present volume is the fourth to appear, after Caesarea papers in 1992, Caesarea retrospective in 1996, and Caesareav papers 2 in 1999, containing reports and studies of the Combined Caesarea Expeditions along with other scholarship on the site. Contents: The warehouse quarter (area LL) and the Temple Platform (area TP), 1996-2000 and 2002 seasons (J. Stabler, K. G. Holum, F. H. Stanley, Jr., M. Risser, Anna Iamim); Preliminary coin report, areas LL and TP, 1996-2000 and 2002 seasons (P. Lampinen); Amphoras from the abandonment layer in area LL (L 1242, 1335) (M. Oren-Paskal); The belt of Stephanos: gold belt ornaments found in area LL1, 1996 and 1998 seasons (M. K. Risser); A Byzantine/Early Islamic bath on the S flank of the Temple Platform, excavations 1995 (A. Raban, S. Yankelevitz); Ceramic assemblages from the Byzantine/Early Islamic bath (Y. D. Arnon); The Fatimid hoard of metalwork, glass, and ceramics from TPS: preliminary report (Y. D. Arnon, A. Lester, R. Pollack); A market complex on SW flank of the Temple Platform, 1995 season (A. Raban, S. Yankelevitz); Underwater excavations in the Herodian harbor Sebastos, 1995-1999 seasons (A. Raban); The Caesarea Ancient Reservoir Project (CARP): preliminary results (R. J. Fitton, E. G. Reinhardt, H. P. Schwarcz); Site formation and stratigraphic development of Caesarea’s ancient harbor (E. G. Reinhardt, A. Raban); Optical luminescence dating of sediments from Herod’s harbor (W. J. Rink, E. G. Reinhardt); The fishing economy at Caesarea (A. Fradkin, O. Lernau); Archaeobotanical remains from Caesarea: the 1997 and 1998 seasons (J. Ramsay); New inscribed lead weights from Caesarea (Alla Kushnir-Stein, Lionel Holland); The ceramic oil lamps of the transitional and medieval periods (640-1300): a chronological and typological study (Yael D. Arnon); Combined references for the three contributions on ceramics (Oren-Paskal, ‘Amphoras,’ Arnon, ‘Ceramic assemblages,’ and Arnon, ‘Oil Lamps’).
BAR S1783 2008: ‘Prehistoric Technology’ 40 Years Later: Functional Studies and the Russian Legacy Proceedings of the International Congress Verona (Italy), 20-23 April 2005 edited by Laura Longo and Natalia Skakun with the assistance of Massimo Saracino and Martina Dalla Riva. . ISBN 9781407302713. £73.00. xiii+557 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
Papers from the congress: Prehistoric Technology 40 Years Later: Functional Studies and the Russian Legacy held in Verona (Italy), 20-23 April 2005. Sessions: Methodology (seven contributions); Hunter-Gatherers (nine contributions); Food Producers (eight contributions); Complex Polities (six contributions); Burial Context (six contributions); Posters (thirty-two contributions); Round Table (eight contributions).
BAR S1782 2008: New Perspectives on the Ancient World edited by Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Renata S. Garraffoni and Bethany Letalien. ISBN 9781407302706. £40.00. iii+248 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
A volume of 26 contributions related to: The ancient world and modern perceptions: the invention of antiquity in modern times; Ancient economy, politic and society: evidences and interpretive models; Ancient representations: subjectivities and identities in interpreting gender, ethnicity, religion, literature and arts. The result is an innovative collection of chapters, from different standpoints, revealing how classics in general, and classical archaeology in particular, has reacted to the challenges of the recent past in forging a socially relevant study of the ancient world. 1) A Morphology of Ancient History from a tropical, half-European viewpoint (Norberto Guarinello); 2) Eurocentricism and theory in Roman Archaeology: a further contribution to the Romanization debate (Richard Hingley); 3) Post-colonial theory, the Art of the Western Provinces, and the Warrior Reliefs from Osuna (William Mierse); 4) Antiquity serving the “extreme rights” in France: GRECE, Front National and Terre et Peuple (Glaydson Silva); 5) The construction of archaeological identities in Lebanon: archaeology, colonialism, nationalism and Frankenstein (Tamima Orra Mourad); 6) Dom Pedro II visits antique shop in Jerusalem (a controversy around Moabite antique pieces and the “Shapira Affair”)(Reuven Faingold); 7) The Invention of Antiquity in South America through Egyptomania (Margareth Bakos); 8) Egypt and Brazil: an educational approach (Raquel Funari); 9) The symbolic meaning of the Vitruvian city (Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos); 10) Gladiator fights on the Northwestern frontier of the Roman Empire (Renata Senna Garraffoni and Pedro Paulo A. Funari); 11) Modeling the Macro-Economics of the Roman Empire, or Globalization as World-Systems Without the Guilt (Glenn Storey); 12) Agrarian systems in Roman Spain: archaeological approaches (Victor Revilla); 13) New methods for the study of the social landscape from Laietania wine production region (NE Spain)(Oriol Olesti and César Carreras); 14) The annona militaris in the Tingitana: Observations on the organization and provisioning of the Roman troops (Lluis Pons Pujol); 15) Provincial interdependence in the Roman Empire: an explanatory model of Roman economy (José Remesal-Rodríguez); 16) (Almost) forgotten complicity: Socrates (and Plato) between the Oligarchic Coup of 404 B.C. and the Democratic Restoration of 403. (André Leonardo Chevitarese and Gabriele Cornelli); 17) Power and Solar Cult in Ancient Egypt: An Iconographic and Politic-Religious approach (Júlio Gralha) 18) Concordia, Discord and political legacy: the rule of Geta and Caracalla (Ana Teresa Gonçalves); 19) The erotic collection of Pompeii: archaeology, identity and sexuality. (Marina Cavicchioli); 20) Female and male in Pompeii: Gender relations among the common people Lourdes (Conde Feitosa); 21) The Representation of Age: Towards a Life Course Approach (Mary Harlow and Ray Laurence); 22) Ethnicity and Ancient Judaism: Jewish Identities in 1st Century Alexandria and Antioch (Monica Selvatici); 23) Themistius, the Emperor Julian and a Discussion over the Concept of Royalty in the 4th century A.D. (Margarida Carvalho); 24) Religion, identity and conflict in the Later Roman Empire: Constantine and the contention for the Dominium Mundi (312-324) (Gilvan Ventura da Silva); 25) The literary existence of Polygnotus of Thasos and its problematic utilization in painted pottery studies (Pedro L. M. Sanches); 26) Characteristics and names of the extreme types of speech according to Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Marcos Martinho).
BAR S1781 2008: Beyond the Palace: Mycenaean East Lokris by Margaretha Kramer-Hajos. ISBN 9781407302690. £34.00. 118 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
archaeological sites in a well-defined area on the northwestern shore of the North Euboean Gulf, an area which roughly corresponds to the southeastern part of East Lokris (Central Greece) and which served as a corridor between northern and southern Greece over land as well as over sea. The first chapter defines the chronological and spatial framework. The following three chapters give factual information and deal respectively with the natural environment, the Mycenaean sites known in the area, and selected significant finds from the area. Part II analyzes these findings against the background of the area’s location in Central Greece, north of the palace of Orchomenos and on the North Euboean Gulf, the northern part of the strait between the Greek mainland and the island of Euboea. Chapters 5 through 7 are interpretative and combine information from the previous chapters in order to, respectively, examine the influence of the landscape on site distribution, write a settlement history of the region, and examine what the finds tell us about the actual people and the society of our area in the Late Bronze Age. The conclusions of the study are briefly summarized in a final chapter.
BAR S1780 2008: The History of Early Medieval Towns of North and Central Italy The contribution of archaeological evidence by Giacomo Gonella. ISBN 9781407302683. £25.00. 84 pages; illustrated with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
This work details current research and the knowledge of the Early Medieval town in Italy. The chronological and geographical limits of this analysis (the regions of Central and Northern Italy between Late Antiquity, c. 4th-5th century, and the end of the Early Middle Ages, c. 10th-11th century) have been selected on the basis of the changes and the solutions that emerged for political, economic, and social aspects, as a consequence of a succession of events that occurred earlier and in a more conclusive way in such contexts, trying then to point out eventual developments until the phases that precede the time of the city-states.
BAR S1779 2008: Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 20 Etude iconographique des sculptures du nord de la péninsule du Yucatán à l’époque classique by Julie Patrois. ISBN 9781407302676. £47.00. 321 page | | | |
