  BAR S1960 2009: En Quête de la Lumière / In Quest of Light. Mélanges in Honorem Ashraf A. Sadek edited by Amanda–Alice Maravelia. ISBN 9781407304441. £45.00. xvii+221 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs; in French with English summary.
BAR S1957 2009: Freiburg Dissertations in Aegean Archaeology 3 Raum und Ritus. Zur Rekonstruktion minoischer Kultpraxis by Mara Zatti. ISBN 9781407304403. £34.00. 145 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs.
BAR S1956 2009: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 38 Antiquarians at the Megaliths edited by Magdalena S. Midgley. ISBN 9781407304397. £27.00. iii+78 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs.
BAR S1955 2009: Ancient Maya Cityscapes Insights from Lagartera and Margarita, Quintana Roo, Mexico by Laura Villamil. ISBN 9781407304380. £40.00. vii+206 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs.
BAR S1954 2009: Archaeozoological Approach to Medieval Moldavia by Luminita Bejenaru. ISBN 9781407304373. £34.00. 153 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs.
BAR S1953 2009: Geoarchaeology of Lebanon’s Ancient Harbours by Nick Marriner. ISBN 9781407304366. £50.00. vii+307 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs.
BAR S1952 2009: Prehistoria de la navegación Origen y desarrollo de la arquitectura naval primigenia by Víctor M. Guerrero Ayuso. ISBN 9781407304359. £54.00. xii+352 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs; in Spanish.
BAR S1951 2009: Beazley Archive - Studies in Gems and Jewellery 4 Gem Mounts and the Classical Tradition Supplement to A Collection of Classical and Eastern Intaglios, Rings and Cameos (2003) by Claudia Wagner and John Boardman. ISBN 9781407304342. £35.00. 120 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, drawings and 22 colour plates.
BAR S1950 2009: Dollkeim-Kovrovo, Kaliningrad Region, Russia Research on the cemetery conducted in 1879 and 1992-2002 by V.I. Kulakov. ISBN 9781407304335. £55.00. iv+333 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs.
BAR S1949 2009: Procesos de formación de sitios arqueológicos: tres casos de estudio en la Puna meridional catamarqueña argentina by Débora M. Kligmann. ISBN 9781407304328. £58.00. xvi+359 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs.
BAR S1948 2009: The Archaeology of Pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela A landscape perspective by Julie Candy. ISBN 9781407304311. £35.00. vi+153 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs.
BAR S1946 2009: Roman Amphitheatres and Spectacula: a 21st-Century perspective Papers from an international conference held at Chester, 16th-18th February, 2007 edited by Tony Wilmott. ISBN 9781407304267. £44.00.
BAR S1945 2009: Étude du matériel de Hulbuk (Mā wr’al-nahr-Khuttal), de la conquête islamique jusqu'au milieu du XIe siècle (90/712-441/1050) Contribution à l'étude de la céramique islamique d'Asie centrale by M. Pierre Siméon. ISBN 9781407304250. £62.00. 428 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs; in French with English summary.
BAR S1944 2009: Ani 2004: Indagini sugli insediamenti sotterranei /Surveys on the underground settlements testi, foto e grafiche / texts, photos and graphics An examination of the underground structures of the ancient Armenian capital of Ani by Roberto Bixio, Vittoria Caloi, Vittorio Castellani and Mauro Traverso. ISBN 9781407304243. £27.00. 82 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs; in English and Italian.
BAR S1943 2009: Karia and the Hekatomnids The creation of a dynasty by Anne Marie Carstens. ISBN 9781407304236. £35.00. 168 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs.
BAR S1942 2009: The Architectural Decoration of Marina el-Alamein An analysis and catalogue of the late Hellenistic and Roman decorative architectural features of the town and cemetery by Rafal Czerner. ISBN 9781407304229. £33.00. xi+132 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 12 in colour. Catalogue of architectural features.
The present study focuses on the ancient architectural decoration of a particular form uncovered on the excavation site of modern Marina which lies on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, about 6 km east of el-Alamein. Also known as el-Bahrein, it is located 96 km west of Alexandria, 40 km west of ancient Taposiris Magna (Abu Sir), and 185 km east of Paraetonium (Marsa Matruh). For the past twenty years, Polish and Egyptian missions have been conducting archaeological research and preservation of the remains of the Hellenistic-Roman town and necropolis found on this spot and tentatively identified on the basis of descriptions of ancient destruction on the Mediterranean coast. The excavations occupy a section of the lagoon coast more than 1000 m long E-W and about 550 m wide N-S. The layout of the ancient town has been reconstructed on the basis of results of investigations conducted to date. The harbour infrastructure, including warehouses of which ruins have survived, lay immediately on the coast. Directly to the south of the port and commercial quarter, was the city centre which included baths, a civic basilica and other public buildings around a porticoed main square. Surrounding the centre were densely occupied habitation quarters. Remains of more than 50 different architectural structures have been discovered in the town and necropolis. On the basis of archaeological evidence, the town functioned from the 2nd century BC to the beginning of the 7th century AD. The earliest remains, some even from the mid 2nd century BC, were found in the necropolis. A very specific type of architectural decoration characterized by simplification and decorative geometrization appears in Marina where it also seems to have been prevalent. This kind of stylization has been associated mainly with Petra where a similar architectural decoration was commonly applied. Having been recognized first in Petra, it came to be known as Nabatean. The stylized architectural decoration discovered at Petra and Hegra is so specific and dissimilar from any of the Classical orders that it has even been described on occasion as a separate architectural order.
BAR S1941 2009: The Pottery Figurines of Pre-Columbian Peru Volume I: The figurines of the North Coast by Alexandra Morgan. ISBN 9781407304212. £62.00. 434 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, tables, drawings and photographs.
Pre-Columbian pottery figurines from Peru occur in astonishingly large numbers in museum and private collections. However in the published literature they generally occupy a place of ‘also ran’. The reason for this may be that—because of their scarcity in controlled excavations—their potential importance has been undervalued. The main purpose of this work therefore has been to fill this gap in the archaeological record by presenting a Corpus of Peruvian pottery figurines. This volume analyses material from the north coast of Peru and two subsequent volumes are planned to cover the central coast and the southern coast. For each geographic area the figurine groups are presented in chronological order. The periods covered are: The Preceramic Period; The Formative Period (subdivided into: The Lower or Early Formative, also known as Initial Period, The Middle Formative, incorporating the Early Horizon, The Epiformative, straddling Lumbreras’s Upper Formative and the beginning of the Early Intermediate Period); The Early Intermediate Period; The Middle Horizon; The Late Intermediate Period; The Late Horizon or Inca Period. Each figurine is listed on a Table, containing all the relevant data (collection, site provenance, sex, measurements, surface colour, manufacturing technique, special features and reference to publications) and illustrated on a Plate. The analytical part lists the group characteristics and discusses special features, links with other groups, context, geographic distribution and chronology of each group or sub-group. Additional data are presented in four Appendices: Appendix 1: Gives details about specific museum collections (acquisition of figurines, reliability of given provenances, etc.). Appendix 2: Describes some of the sites, with the location of successive excavations, dating of features etc. Appendix 3: Lists and briefly describes all the recorded gravelots containing figurines. Appendix 4: Quotes references to idols found in the chroniclers.
BAR S1940 2009: The Cave of Hearths: Makapan Middle Pleistocene Research Project Field research by Anthony Sinclair and Patrick Quinney, 1996-2001 edited by John McNabb and Anthony Sinclair. ISBN 9781407304205. £45.00. xii+193 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs, 2 in colour.
BAR S1939 2009: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 11 Non-Flint Raw Material Use in Prehistory / L’utilisation préhistorique de matières premières lithiques alternatives Old prejudices and new directions / Anciens préjugés, nouvelles perspectives edited by Farina Sternke, Lotte Eigeland and Laurent-Jacques Costa. ISBN 9781407304199. £45.00. xiv+248 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. Papers in English and French.
Papers from the session ‘Non-Flint Raw Material Use in Prehistory: Old prejudices and new directions’ (Vol. 11, Session C77) presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: 1) The Scar Identification of Lithic Quartz Industries (Arturo de Lombera Hermida); 2) Reflections on Prismatic Blades - The Terminology of Blades and Classification of Lithic Artefacts in Central Sweden (Per Falkenström); 3) Approche comportementale du Magdalénien d’après l’étude techno-fonctionnelle de l’outillage lithique hors silex. La grotte de Bourrouilla (Arancou, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France) (Loïc Daulny & Morgane Dachary); 4) Petrographical composition and provenance of Neolithic Black stone artefacts in the collection of the Museum der Kulturen in Basel and in archaeological excavations near the shoreline of Lake Neuchâtel Switzerland (Inge Diethelm); 5) Instrumental Methods of Obsidian Characterization and Prehistoric Obsidian Provenance Studies: the current status (Gérard Poupeau, François -X. Le Bourdonnec, Sarah Delerue, Stephan Dubernet, Rosa B. Scorzelli & Mathieu Duttine); 6) Functional analysis of macro-lithic artefacts: a focus on working surfaces (Jenny Adams, Selina Delgado, Laure Dubreuil, Caroline Hamon, Hugues Plisson & Roberto Risch); 7) The rock that rocks the rock – An experimental study with hammerstones (Elin Hansen & Lotte Eigeland); 8) Lithic Raw Material Variability and Use-wear Accrual on Short-term Use Implements: An Example from Northwestern New Mexico (Harry Lerner); 9) Formation of use-wear traces in non-flint rocks: the case of quartzite and rhyolite. Differences and similarities (Ignacio Clemente Conte & Juan F. Gibaja Bao); 10) A functional comparison of Bečov quartzite and flint tools: preliminary results (Petra Priorová, Linda Hroníková & Andrea Šajnerová-Dušková); 11) Approche fonctionnelle des tessons à bords abrasés du site néolithique ancien de Kovačevo (6200-5500 avant J.-C., Bulgarie) (Julien Vieugué); 12) Quinzano and Rivoli – two Middle Neolithic sites in the Adige Valley (Verona, North-eastern Italy): lithic choices and functional aspects of the non-flint stone implements (Anna Lunardi); 13) Les râpes Baniwa et Wai Wai, derniers instruments de pierre taillé indigènes d’Amérique du Sud (André Prous, Jorge Manuel Costa e Souza, Filipe Amorelli, Marcio Alonso, Ana Carolina Rodriguez Cunha & Angelo Pessoa Lima); 14) Matières premières “alternatives” dans le Brésil central: quartz, quartzite, agate et hématite (André Prous, Andrei Isnardis, Ângelo Pessoa Lima, Marcio Alonso, Henrique Pilo & Maria Clara Migliacio); 15) Pitted and grinding stones from Middle Palaeolithic settlements in Bohemia: a functional study (Andrea Šajnerová-Dušková, Jan Fridrich & Ivana Sýkorová); 16) Le site magdalénien Final d’Etigny le Brassot (Yonne, France) : Un exemple d’utilisation des roches non taillées pour le Tardiglaciaire du bassin Parisien (Gaëlle Dumarçay); 17) The use of non-flint raw materials by Paleoindians in Eastern South America: A Brazilian perspective (Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo & Francisco Pugliese); 18) Lithic industries and raw material in Southern Italy Mousterian: an example from the Grotta dei Giganti (Salento, Apulia) (Enza Spinapolice); 19) The First Obsidian Workshop at the Polish Lowland – a Technological and Microwear Study (Małgorzata Winiarska-Kabacińska & Jacek Kabaciński); 20) Mesolithic quartz quarrying in Eastern Middle Sweden – In the light of a quarry excavated at Stjärneberg, Linköping (Fredrik Molin, Magnus Rolöf & Roger Wikell); 21) Obsidian Economy in the Rio Saboccu Open-Air Early Neolithic Site (Sardinia, Italy) (Carlo Lugliè, François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec, Gérard Poupeau, Consuelo Congia, Thomas Calligaro, Ignazio Sanna & Stéphan Duberne); 22) The use of quartzite as a chrono-cultural marker in the Mesolithic of the Low Countries (Yves Perdaen, Philippe Crombé & Joris Sergant); 23) Quartz and other knapped raw materials of the South Indian Neolithic: A comparison of surface assemblages from three Indian ashmound sites (Ulla Rajala, Marco Madella & Ravi Korisettar); 24) What shall we leave behind ? From the mechanical analysis of rocks to stylistic variability in the Mesolithic of Brittany (Grégor Marchand & Rodrigue Tsobgou Ahoupe); 25) Irreplaceable? Or just not indispensable … Substitution and complementarity in lithic raw material management in the Maya lowland (Chloé Andrieu).
BAR S1938 2009: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) Le concept de territoires dans le Paléolithique supérieur européen edited by François Djindjian, Janusz Kozlowski & Nuno Bicho. ISBN 9781407304182. £46.00. x+262 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. Papers in English and French.
Papers from the session ‘Le concept de territoires dans le Paléolithique supérieur européen’ (Vol. 3, Session C16) presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: 1) Le concept de territoires pour les chasseurs cueilleurs du Paléolithique supérieur européen (François Djindjian); 2) Le concept de territoire au Paléolithique supérieur: la Pologne en périphérie septentrionale de l’oecumène (Janusz K. Kozlowski); 3) Le concept de territoire à partir des données des sites des régions du Dniepr au Paléolithique supérieur récent en Europe orientale (Lioudmila Iakovleva ); 4) Ukrainian Upper Palaeolithic between 40/10 000 BP: Current Insights into Environmental-Climatic Change and Cultural Development (Vadim N. Stepanchuk, Igor V. Sapozhnikov, Mikhail I.Gladkikh, Sergei N.Ryzhov); 5) Mobilité des groupes préhistoriques et approvisionnement en matières premières à la fin du Paléolithique supérieur dans le Petit Caucase : données récentes sur le site de plein air de Kalavan 1 (nord du lac Sevan, Arménie) (Liagre J., Arakelyan D., Gasparyan B., Nahapetyan S., Chataigner C.); 6) Searching for territoriality over a limited territory: the case of Greece (Eugenia Adam ); 7) Cultural regionalization in the Palaeolithic of the middle Danube basin and western Balkans (Dušan Mihailović, Bojana Mihailović); 8) Le concept de territoire dans le Paléolithique supérieur morave (Martin Oliva); 9) Methods of stone raw material characterisation and raw material origins in the Palaeolithic: State of art in Hungary (Katalin T. Biró, Viola T. Dobosi, András Markó); 10) Constancy and change in Upper Palaeolithic, Hungary (V.T. Dobosi); 11) The Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician and the limits of Aurignacian expansion on the Northern European Plain (Damien Flas); 12) Le territoire de la basse vallée du Rhin, de la Meuse et de leurs affluents à la fin du paléolithique supérieur (Belgique, Hollande, Allemagne du nord-ouest) (Marcel Otte, Pierre Noiret); 13) Provenance de diverses matières premières: un indice pour définir circulations et territoires au Magdalénien supérieur en Suisse (Marie-Isabelle Cattin, Jehanne Affolter, Nigel Thew); 14) Le territoire des chasseurs aurignaciens dans les Préalpes de la Vénétie: l’exemple de la grotte de Fumane (Stefano Bertola, Alberto Broglio, Giampaolo De Vecchi, Alessandra Facciolo, Ivana Fiore, Fabio Gurioli, Pasquino Pallecchi, Antonio Tagliacozzo); 15) Ressources lithiques en Languedoc-Roussillon et territoires d’exploitations au Paléolithique supérieur (Sophie Grégoire, Frédéric Bazile, Guillaume Boccaccio); 16) Exploitation des ressources et territoire dans le Massif central français au Paléolithique supérieur: approche méthodologique et hypothèses (Laure Fontana, Mahaut Digan, Thierry Aubry, Javier Mangado Llach, François-Xavier Chauvière); 17) Mobilité, territoires et relations culturelles au début du Magdalénien moyen cantabrique: nouvelles perspectives (Mª Soledad Corchón Rodríguz, Antonio Tarriño Vinagre, Jimena Martínez); 18) Territorial patterns during Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Cantabrian Iberia (Ordoño, Javier Arrizabalaga, Alvaro ); 19) Fashion and glamour: weaponry and beads as territorial markers in Southern Iberia (Nuno Bicho); 20) Ibex as indicator of hunter-gatherer mobility during the Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic (Paolo Boscato, Ursula Wierer).
BAR S1932 2009: Lithics in the Scandinavian Late Bronze Age Sociotechnical change and persistence by Anders Högberg. ISBN 9781407304144. £49.00. 303 pages; illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, and with fold-out plans and drawings. Indices.
Some time just after 900 BC a tool was introduced with a shaft of wood and a knife blade of flint. It was manufactured and used for cutting and reaping over a large geographical area. It was included in the ritual depositions of the age. Over time the original intention of making knife blades for a composite tool was renegotiated. The tool became part of a dynamic between old and new, for example, through manufacturing sites, use, and deposits. This original study discusses how interaction between actors and ‘actants’ during the Late Bronze Age in the area of modern southern Scandinavia created socio-technical networks of change and persistence. Flint technology was a palpable part of this, contributing to a technical shaping of society. At the same time, there was a social shaping of technology. By focusing on manufacturing sites and different ways of making large flint blade-knives the author emphasizes the dynamic between different claims in society, between two social groups – the institution of the transformer and the institution of the innovator. Large flint blade-knives were a point of reference to certain ideas about new technology in the form of the use of flint and iron. This was the dynamic that gradually marginalized older positions of power, and over a long time it had the effect of shaping society in a new way. The author’s findings show that this was not to do with a direct change between ‘Bronze Age’ and ‘Iron Age’: there was something else in between. This ‘something else’ has not been formulated before and the results demonstrate how intentions and consequences do not necessarily follow straight lines. Nevertheless, a consequence was – just before 500 BC – that society changed: iron attained widespread distribution and the large flint blade-knives disappeared.
BAR S1931 2009: Nautical Archaeology Society Monograph Series (NAS) 2 Records of Traditional Watercraft from South and West Sri Lanka by Gerhard Kapitän . Edited by Gerald Grainge in association with Somasiri Devendra. ISBN 9781407304137. £45.00. iv+191 pages; illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, and with fold-out plans and drawings. Indices.
Gerhard Kapitän, born in Meissen (Dresden, Germany) on the 23rd April 1924, is a scholar whose main field of
study is maritime archaeology and ethnography. This book is Gerhard Kapitän’s inventory of traditional Sri Lankan watercraft and his great achievement. Prepared for publication by Gerald Grainge, in association with Somasiri Devendra, the volume represents Kapitän’s collection of scale drawings and photographs of traditional watercraft from west and south Sri Lanka. The material submitted consisted of Kapitän’s drawings, photographs and captions – still the centrepiece of the book – together with a brief introductory overview by the author (Chapter 2) and an early draft of his classification of the watercraft of Sri Lanka (Chapter 4) along with brief notes on each of the drawings. The editor has written up a brief introductory comment to each of the chapters, based on what Gerhard Kapitän had previously published. Kapitän passionately believed in the importance of the traditional watercraft of Sri Lanka in terms of heritage, not only for Sri Lanka, but for the world. His vision of a maritime museum to preserve these craft was realized in 1992 in the old Dutch warehouse, situated near the Old Gate of Galle Fort, but unfortunately it was devastated by the 2004 tsunami. This volume, an important contribution to nautical archaeology, presents a unique record of the traditional craft that plied, and in many cases still plies, around the coastal waters of Sri Lanka.
BAR S1930 2009: The Harbour of Sebastos (Caesarea Maritima) in its Roman Mediterranean Context by Avner Raban . Edited by M. Artzy, B. Goodman and Z. Gal. ISBN 9781407304120. £49.00. xi+222 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, plans, drawings and photographs, including 4 colour plates.
The publication of the late Avner Raban’s wide-ranging work on the harbour of Sebastos (Caesarea Maritima), completed and edited by his colleagues under the aegis of Michal Artzy. Contents: Chapter I) Ancient Harbours of the Mediterranean; Chapter II) Straton’s Tower and its Havens; Chapter III) Sebastos and Caesarea; Chapter IV) Harbour Construction; Chapter V) Sebastos; Chapter VI) Imperial Harbours and Havens; Chapter VII) The Demise of Sebastos and Flourishing Caesarea; Ancient Sources; Bibliography.
BAR S1929 2009: A Place in Europe: Bulgaria and its Museums in ‘New’ Europe by Gabriela Petkova-Campbell. ISBN 9781407304113. £35.00. vii+157 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, plans, drawings and photographs.
This book explores the origins and development of museums and heritage sites in Bulgaria (1856-2006) in relation to societal change and major historic events. It seeks to determine the key factors that promoted museum building, and pinpoint the key individuals who were involved. Original and archival sources, interviews, observations and field visits have provided a rich dataset which has been analysed to reveal how systems of power, politics and social control affected how museums were created and subsequently managed. Furthermore the Bulgarian case is situated within a broader European context and comparisons are made with the museum institutions in different countries in order to determine any specifics and particularities of Bulgarian museum building and operation. The book demonstrates how different administrations have used museums to promote their own political views of the nation’s cultural identity, and in particular how the strategies employed by the Communist regime continue to influence the museum sector today. The major contribution of this book lies in its use of archival documents. This has resulted in a different account of the formation of Bulgarian museums, on some occasions contradicting accepted histories. It also introduces the little known Bulgarian museology to a wider audience, which is seen to be important at a point in time when Bulgarian has become part of the European Union.
BAR S1928 2009: The Portuguese City of Braga during the Modern Era Landscape and identity by Gustavo Portocarrero. ISBN 9781407304106. £30.00. v+111 pages; 36 figures, plans, drawings and photographs.
The construction of urban identities through the landscape during the Modern Era in Portugal, is an area of historical research which, so far, has been little explored. In this work, the author develops this theme with an emphasis on the city of Braga (north-west Portrugal). The study is also a ‘humanist’ alternative to the empiricism that is, presently, common in the studies of the cities of that period. Chapter 2 is a critical overview of the study of cities as it is presently conducted in Portugal. Chapter 3 delineates an alternative approach to the study of Modern Era cities in Portugal, with a focus on the concepts of identity and landscape. Chapter 4 offers a brief overview of the sources that were used in the research on Braga, with a particular focus on maps, documents and standing buildings. Chapter 5 is an analysis of what the city’s landscape looked like by the late 15th century and what can be inferred about its identity through it. Chapters 6 and 7 are about the radical changes that took place in the city’s identity and landscape in the early 16th century. Chapter 6 is about the space of the city proper and Chapter 7 discusses the outskirts. Chapter 8 relates the actions that took place in the middle of the 16th century under the initiative of the Church in order to consolidate Braga’s catholic identity. Chapter 9 deals mostly with the actions of Fr. Agostinho da Cruz in the late 16th century in order to reaffirm Braga’s primate status within the Hispanic Monarchy. Chapter 10 covers the years 1620-70, a period of strong political and social turmoil, which caused a crisis of identity in Braga. Chapter 11 argues that this crisis of identity was responsible in the late 17th century for a fragmentation of Braga’s identity into smaller ones among its inhabitants. Finally, Chapter 12 analyses the attempts by Archbishop D. Rodrigo Moura Teles in the early 18th century to create a common identity that again united Braga’s inhabitants.
BAR S1927 2009: Indigenous Archaeology in India: Prospects of an Archaeology for the Subaltern by Ajay Pratap. ISBN 9781407304090. £29.00. xi+89 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, plans, drawings and photographs.
In this book the author presents his findings connected with the archaeology of the Rajmahal Hills (Jharkhand State, north-eastern India), and discusses the wider relevance of his surface archaeology approach to the archaeology of the rest of the tribal areas of India. He also approaches the issue of a gendered study of rock-art and landscape archaeology both of which again fall within the domain of tribal archaeology proper. The author also has a keen interest in the theory of history and archaeology and writes about this subject in several of the chapters. Further sections engage in theoretical debates regarding the relationship between history and archaeology. The study concludes that it may be possible to delineate a separate domain for the archaeology of the tribal areas – called ‘subaltern archaeology’. The present work breaks further new ground in historical and archaeological research in terms of the fieldwork undertaken in the Rajmahal Hills and elsewhere in India: the novel idea being that the tribal population of India does have a long-term past – an issue thus far relatively rarely investigated.
BAR S1926 2009: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 77 Using Stone Tools: The Evidence from Aksum, Ethiopia by Laurel Phillipson. ISBN 9781407304083. £34.00. iv+149 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, plans, drawings and photographs.
In this book the author presents the results of more than ten years of systematic fieldwork and analysis
of the stone tool assemblages in the region of Aksum (Ethiopia). The result is a detailed description and interpretation of the different lithic traditions which were incorporated into the local Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite cultural traditions and represented an important component of the ancient polities in the region, providing a much more complicated picture of the social and economic development of these polities than that so far outlined on the basis of the ceramic and architectural evidence. The study is a very important contribution to the archaeology of Aksum (northern Ethiopia) as well as Ethiopian and African archaeology, as it provides scholars with the first exhaustive analysis and interpretation of the stone tools dating to historical time (1st millennium BC – 1st millennium AD) in the region of Aksum. The book, moreover, is a crucial contribution to the cultural resources management in the archaeological area of Aksum insofar as it provides a complete inventory of all assemblages with stone tools in the region. These assemblages are vanishing very quickly because of the fragility of the archaeological deposits and the urban expansion in the area. Therefore, the descriptions of the sites and their assessments are most likely the last records of this evidence.
BAR S1925 2009: The Past in the Past: The Significance of Memory and Tradition in the Transmission of Culture edited by Mercourios Georgiadis and Chrysanthi Gallou. ISBN 9781407304076. £30.00. 119 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, plans, drawings and photographs.
The present volume is the outcome of a session held at the 12th European Archaeological Association conference at Krakow in Poland, in September 2006. The purpose of this volume is to present several studies related to the issues of memory, tradition and identity, and highlight different dimensions. The aim is to offer fresh views with up-to-date approaches on specific examples which follow different theoretical and thematic paths. The papers in this volume are chronologically diverse, covering prehistory, the classical period, the middle ages and as well as modern times, and are presented in this order. Spatially, they are concentrated in the Aegean and Scandinavia, offering different geographical contexts. Contents: Introduction (Mercourios Georgiadis and Chrysanthi Gallou); 1) Memory and Cultural Values in the Middle Helladic Period Some Preliminary Thoughts (Helène Whittaker); 2) Old Bulls, New Tricks: The Reinvention of a Minoan Tradition (Kathryn Soar); 3) The East Aegean-Western Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age III: what do the tombs tell us about memory, tradition and identity? (Mercourios Georgiadis); 4) Memories of place. Bronze Age rock art and landscape in West Norway (Melanie Wrigglesworth); 5) Living in the mountains, Arkadian identity in the classical period (James Roy); 6) The Formation of Female Identity in Ancient Sparta through Kinetics (Pandelis Constantinakos and Metaxia Papapostolou); 7) Memories, practice and identity. A case of early medieval migration (Magdalena Naum); 8) The Branding of Minoan Archaeology ™ (Anna Simandiraki, Trevor Grimshaw); 9) Material Identity – Archaeology and National Identity (Charlotta Hillerdal).
BAR S1924 2009: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 1 Status of Prehistoric Studies in the Twenty First Century in India / État de l’art d’études réhistoriques au XXIe siècle en Inde Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), Vol. 1, Session C01 edited by Ranjana Ray and Vidula Jayaswal. ISBN 9781407304069. £27.00. iii+76 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
Papers from the session entitled ‘Status of Prehistoric Studies in the Twenty First Century in India’ presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: 1) Prehistoric India: Assessment & Prospects in the 21st Century (Vidula Jayaswal); 2) On the status of Indian Hominoid and Hominid Fossils (A. R. Sankhyan); 3) Understanding Acheulian Culture in the Gandheswari River Valley; Bankura; West-Bengal, India (Asok Datta); 4) Prehistoric Research in Bengal - On the threshold (Bishnupriya Basak); 5) The Neolithic Culture in the Northern Vindhyas and the Middle Gangetic Plain (Jagannath Pal); 6) Experimental Study on the Manufacturing process of the Lower Palaelithic implements from Quartz nodules (Krishnendu Polley, Ranjana Ray); 7) Dohkra Craft of West Bengali: A legacy of Indian Archaeometallurgy (Falguni Chakrabarty); 8) Studies on a human skull fossil entombed within the ferricrete (P.Rajendran); 9) Human Bio-Cultural Diversity in Prehistoric-to-Protohistoric India (A. R. Sankhyan); 10) Is Study of Stone Age Cultures Dead in India? (Manoj Kumar Singh).
BAR S1923 2009: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 31 Megalithic Quarrying: Sourcing, extracting and manipulating the stones Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), Vol 31, Session WS02 edited by Chris Scarre. ISBN 9781407304052. £28.00. iv+92 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
Papers from the session entitled ‘Megalithic Quarrying’ presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: Preface (Chris Scarre); 1) Stony Ground: outcrops, rocks and quarries in the creation of megalithic monuments (Chris Scarre); 3) The Megalithic Building Site (Torben Dehn); 4) Hunebedden and Hünengräber: the construction of megalithic tombs west of the River Elbe (Jan Albert Bakker); 5) The Gallery Graves of Hesse and Westphalia, Germany: extracting and working the stones ( Kerstin Schierhold); 6) Beyond Stonehenge: seeking the start of the bluestone trail (Timothy Darvill); 7) Architectonique et esthétique des alignements de menhirs
du sud de la Vendée (France) (Gérard Benéteau-Douillard); 8) Technologie des mégalithes dans l’Ouest de la France: la carrière du Rocher Mouton à Besné (Loire-Atlantique, France) (Emmanuel Mens); 9) Exploitation de la pierre et mise en œuvre des matériaux sur le site néolithique du Souc’h en Plouhinec (Finistère, France) (Michel Le Goffic); 10) Transforming Stone: ethnoarchaeological perspectives on megalith form in Eastern Indonesia (Ron L. Adams).
BAR S1922 2009: Fähren, Frachter, Fischerboote Antike Kleinschiffe in Wort und Bild by Arvid Göttlicher. ISBN 9781407304045. £40.00. 207 pages; 217 illustrations. In German.
A fully-illustrated study of small vessels – river and coastal – from prehistoric to Roman times, focussing on the Near East, Egypt and the Mediterranean.
BAR S1919 2009: L'eau dans les espaces et les pratiques funéraires d'Alexandrie aux époques grecque et romaine (IVe siècle av. J.-C. – IIIe siècle ap. J.-C.) by Agnès Tricoche. ISBN 9781407304021. £43.00. iii+222 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, including 4 colour plates; catalogue. In French with English abstract.
In the cemeteries of Graeco-Roman Alexandria in Egypt, archaeological investigations initiated more than a century ago discovered various water systems adapted for specific funerary purposes. From the foundation of the city in 332 B.C. to the third century A.C., over fifty hydraulic installations have been noted within the records of Alexandria itself and its vicinity. From a corpus that inventories the hydraulic structures identified to this day in the archaeological literature, the different water management systems are described and reasons put forward to explain the presence of these devices (wells, cisterns, basins, etc.). The results show that the cemeteries should not just be considered as a ‘cities for the dead’ but also as places of rebirth and life. Some of the devices discovered within the funerary context have echoes in the libation systems already known in the Mediterranean and lead towards an evaluation, from textual and iconographical documents, of the role of water in the offerings to the Alexandrian dead.
BAR S1918 2009: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading edited by Mary E. Lewis and Margaret Clegg. ISBN 9781407304014. £33.00. 135 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
The Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) held at the University of Reading in 2007. Contents: 1) A life course perspective of growing up in medieval London: evidence of sub-adult health from St Mary Spital (London) (Rebecca Redfern and Don Walker); 2) Preservation of non-adult long bones from an almshouse cemetery in the United States dating to the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries (Colleen Milligan, Jessica Zotcavage and Norman Sullivan); 3) Childhood oral health: dental palaeopathology of Kellis 2, Dakhleh, Egypt. A preliminary investigation (Stephanie Shukrum and JE Molto); 4) Skeletal manifestation of non-adult scurvy from early medieval Northumbria: the Black Gate cemetery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Diana Mahoney-Swales and Pia Nystrom); 5) Infantile cortical hyperostosis: cases, causes and contradictions (Mary Lewis and Rebecca Gowland); 6) Biological Anthropology Tuberculosis of the hip in the Victorian Britain (Benjamin Clarke and Piers Mitchell); 7) The re-analysis of Iron Age human skeletal material from Winnall Down (Justine Tracey); 8) Can we estimate post-mortem interval from an individual body part? A field study using sus scrofa (Branka Franicevec and Robert Pastor); 9) The expression of asymmetry in hand bones from the medieval cemetery at Écija, Spain (Lisa Cashmore and Sonia Zakrezewski); 10) Returning remains: a curator’s view (Quinton Carroll); 11) Authority and decision making over British human remains: issues and challenges (Piotr Bienkowski and Malcolm Chapman); 12) Ethical dimensions of reburial, retention and repatriation of archaeological human remains: a British perspective (Simon Mays and Martin Smith); 13) The problem of provenace: inaccuracies, changes and misconceptions (Margaret Clegg); 14) Native American human remains in UK collections: implications of NAGPRA to consultation, repatriation, and policy development (Myra J Giesen); 15) Repatriation – a view from the receiving end: New Zealand (Nancy Tayles).
BAR S1917 2009: The LMΙΙΙ Cemetery at Tourloti, Siteia The ‘Xanthoudidis Master’ and the Octopus Style in East Crete by Constantinos Paschalidis, with a contribution by P.J.P. McGeorge. ISBN 9781407304007. £31.00. 106 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, including 4 colour plates. Summaries in Greek and Italian.
Halfway along the mountainous route between the Ierapetra isthmus and Siteia, on the northern limits of the western mountain range of the Siteia province (eastern Crete), is the small village of Tourloti. Approximately 2.5 kilometres north of the village, on the hillside that drops down to the beach at Mochlos, on the site of Plakalona, is a LMIII chamber tomb cemetery. Richard B. Seager was the first to identify and excavate the site in 1900. He collected the LMIII stirrup-jar now in the museum of the University of Pennsylvania. In 1906, Stefanos Xanthoudidis reported that ‘Mycenaean’ copper alloy weapons and tools had been found at Metochia, Tourloti. The first brief archaeological report for investigations in the area was published in 1938 by Manolis Mavroreidis of Siteia, temporary curator of antiquities and schoolteacher, who excavated a rich grave at Plakalona, unpublished to this day. In 1959, Nikolaos Platon identified a further group of rock-hewn chamber tombs, which he never excavated, despite his original intentions. The chance discovery of seven vases from one or more tombs at the end of the 1950s or the beginning of the 1960s once again disturbed the peaceful cemetery. The vases were presented to the Archaeological Service of Siteia, as well as a LMIIIC tub larnax from the same cemetery. In June 1984, after the Town of Tourloti notified the Archaeological Service of antiquities found during construction work and a (looted) chamber tomb was explored at Plakalona, as well as a second, richly appointed chamber tomb. A third looted LMIII chamber tomb was identified in 1990 and recently (2006) another wealthy chamber tomb. This work presents the finds of the chamber tombs excavated and the vases handed over previously. The latter group includes Octopus Close Style stirrup-jar presented in the volume’s second chapter together with a discussion of its attribution to a particular workshop and a distinct vase painter conventionally dubbed the ‘Xanthoudidis Master’. In the absence of petrographic or other analysis, the hypothesis on the vase’s provenance is based on morphological and stylistic criteria and on the fabric’s macroscopic examination. A study of the human bones from the Papadakis excavation by Dr P.J. P. McGeorge completes this volume.
BAR S1916 2009: Social Interaction in the Prehistoric Natufian Generating an interactive agency model using GIS by Carla A Parslow. ISBN 9781407303994. £31.00. vi+120 pages ; 16 tables ; 58 figures; 3 data Appendices.
The objective of this research is to develop a model of social interaction for the Natufian culture in Southwest Asia through interpretation of environmental and material-culture variability. The author achieves this through the development of rigorous systematic grouping and spatial analysis of artifacts. The Natufian culture (approximately 13,000 or 12,800 BP) is critical to our understanding of the transition from mobile hunter-gatherers to sedentary hunter-gatherer-farmers. They are thought to represent one of the final periods of archaeologically known hunter-gatherers in Southwest Asia, preceding the advent of cultivation and agricultural economies. The people who we classify as Natufian are situated in the Levant, which now encompasses Israel, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. This research is limited to those Natufian sites situated in what is now modern day Israel and Jordan. Characterization of the Natufian is primarily based on the chipped-stone technology. Other distinctive characteristics include material culture of ground stone, marine shell, and bone as well as architecture, bedrock mortars, and burials. The methods for this research include two components: systematics and spatial analysis. The first part addresses the theoretical paradigm and its role in this research. Chapter two explores the origins of agency theory and reviews the history of agency-centered research in archaeology, and discusses the theoretical perspective applied for this research. Chapter three explores the vibrant history of research on the Natufian. Chapters four to six introduce the archaeological data used in this research as well as the first stage of analysis. Chapters seven to nine direct attention to the second stage of analysis: spatial analysis. The last part of this research, chapter 10, tests the previous hypotheses and outlines the construction of an agency-centered model based on the information provided in the second stage of analysis, with the aim of constructing a model proposing social relations for a prehistoric population. Overall the study attempts to incorporate a social agency dimension into Natufian research.
BAR S1915 2009: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 20 Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Evolutionary Archaeology / Questions théorétiques et méthodologiques en archéologie évolutive Toward an unified Darwinian paradigm / Vers un paradigme Darwinien unifié edited by Hernán Juan Muscio and Gabriel Eduardo José López. ISBN 9781407303987. £30.00. vi+110 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
Papers from the session ‘Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Evolutionary Archaeology’ presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: 1) The Application of Darwinian Cultural Evolutionary Theory to Ceramics: The Case of “Soft Pottery” from Luwu, South Sulawesi, Indonesia (David Bulbeck); 2) Temporal Trends in the Morphometric Variation of the Lithic Projectile Points during the Middle Holocene of Southern Andes (Puna Region). A Coevolutionary approach (Marcelo Cardillo); 3) Interdemic Selection and Phoenician Priesthood. Darwinian Reflections on the Archaeoastronomy of Southern Spain (José Luis Escacena Carrasco, Daniel García Rivero); 4) An Evolutionary Theory of Cultural Differentiation (Agner Fog); 5) A Group Selection Model of Territorial War, Xenophobia and Altruism in Humans and other Primates (Agner Fog); 5) Two Faces of Darwin: On the Complementarity of Evolutionary Archaeology and Human Behavioral Ecology (Kristen J Gremillion); 6) The Study of the archaeological record of Santa Rosa de los Pastos Grandes, Puna of Salta, Argentina, from an inclusive evolutionary perspective (Gabriel López); 7) Finding Concordance in Darwinian Archaeologies: and why an Unified Evolutionary Archaeology is both impossible and undesirable (Herbert D. G. Maschner, Ben Marler); 8) The Experimental Simulation of Archaeological Patterns: A Contribution to a Unified Science of Cultural Evolution (Alex Mesoudi); 9) A Synthetic Darwinian Paradigm in Evolutionary Archaeology is possible and convenient (Hernán Juan Muscio); 10) Niche Construction Applied: Triple-Inheritance Insights into the Pioneer Late Glacial Colonization of Southern Scandinavia (Felix Riede); 11) Acheulean Biface Refinement in the Hunsgi-Baichbal Valley, Karnataka, India (Shipton, C., Paddayya, K., Petraglia, M.); 12) Evolutionary Transitions and Co-Evolutionary Dynamics in Biology and in Culture (Mónica Tamariz).
BAR S1914 2009: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 13 Gestion des combustibles au paléolithique et au mésolithique / Fuel Management during the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Periods Nouveaux outils, nouvelles interprétations / New tools, new interpretations edited by Isabelle Théry-Parisot, Sandrine Costamagno et Auréade Henry. ISBN 9781407303970. £32.00. 133 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. Papers in French and English.
Papers from the session Fuel Management during the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Periods New tools, new interpretations presented at the XV UISPP World Congress in September 2006. Contents: 1) La gestion du bois de feu en forêt boréale: problématique archéo-anthracologique et étude d’un cas ethnographique (région de l’Amour, Sibérie) (Auréade Henry, Isabelle Théry-Parisot et Evguenia Voronkova); 2) Gestion des combustibles dans la province de Jujuy (Puna, Argentine) depuis l’Holocène ancien : croisement des résultats ethnologiques et anthracologiques (Delphine Joly, Ramiro March, Dominique Marguerie et Hugo Yacobacc io); 3) Bone as a Fuel Source: The Effects of Initial Fragment Size Distribution (Susan M. Mentzer); 4) Combustible ou non ? Analyse multifactorielle et modèles explicatifs sur des ossements brûlés paléolithiques (Sandrine Costamagno, Isabelle Théry-Parisot, Jean-Christophe Castel et Jean-Philip Brugal); 5) Mise en évidence de l’utilisation d’un combustible osseux au Paléolithique moyen: le cas du gisement de Remicourt « En Bia Flo » I (province de Liège, Belgique) (Dominique Bosquet, Freddy Damblon et Paul Haesaerts); 6) Structures de combustion, choix des combustibles et degré de mobilité des groupes dans le Paléolithique moyen du Proche-Orient (grottes de Kébara et d’Hayonim, Israël) (Liliane Meignen, Paul Goldb erg, Rosa Maria Albert et Ofer Bar-Yosef ); 7) De la forêt aux foyers paléolithiques et mésolithiques dans le sud de la France: une revue des données anthracologiques et phytolithiques (Claire Delhon et Stéphanie Thiébault).
BAR S1913 2009: The Distribution of Bronze Drums in Early Southeast Asia Trade routes and cultural spheres by Ambra Calò. ISBN 9781407303963. £51.00. xiii+206 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
This study focuses on the distribution of early Dong Son bronze drums, from their centres of production in north Vietnam throughout Mainland and Island Southeast Asia, as evidence of cultural contact and cross-regional exchange along river and maritime routes from the late Metal Age to the proto-historic period. This is the period just prior to, and overlapping with, the first Chinese and Indian influences in the wider region. The exchange of bronze drums established alliances between early centres favouring the trade of other goods. Such early centres allow us to identify early cultural spheres which set the stage for the process of state formation in the historic period. Adopting a synoptic view over the entire distribution across present national boundaries, the author analyses the implications of what types of drums are found where. As a working tool towards this goal, she identifies specific regional clusters. Each cluster of drums highlights and clarifies specific questions regarding chronology, routes of transmission, the geographical extent of trade networks, and new local bronze casting traditions arising from the influence of the imported bronze drums.
BAR S1912 2009: The Evolutionary Archaeology of Ceramic Diversity in Ancient Fiji by Ethan E. Cochrane. ISBN 9781407303956. £36.00. ii+167 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; Appendix of clay compositional data.
The research presented here investigates the evolution of material cultural diversity in the Yasawa Islands in the northwestern corner of the Fijian archipelago. This work builds upon several field seasons of basic research in the Yasawas, as well as other large-scale ceramic analyses in Fiji. This study constructs answers using an explanatory framework explicitly designed to account for the evolution of cultural diversity in prehistory. This explanatory framework combines the effects of cultural transmission, selection and other sorting processes, and innovation. Using this explanatory framework this research attempts to answer the following three questions: 1. What domains of ceramic similarity in the Yasawa Islands can be used to define culturally transmitting populations or lineages; 2. What are the spatial and temporal distributions of transmission lineages defined along different avenues of transmission; and 3. What are the possible explanations for the distribution of these lineages? Chapter 2 examines some of the previous archaeological and other research in Fiji that has attempted to explain or document cultural, biological, and linguistic diversity. Chapter 3 more completely develops the theoretical framework used to explain prehistoric ceramic similarities and difference in terms of transmission lineages. An outline of the natural and cultural history of the Yasawa Islands is presented in Chapter 4. Classifications of ceramic variation and other analyses are presented in Chapter 5. In Chapter 6 cladistic and seriation analyses generate hypotheses for the transmission history of Yasawa Islands populations. Chapter 7 reviews the results of this research in the context of other archaeological work in Fiji. The approach to explaining cultural similarities and differences employed in this research indicates that prehistoric cultural diversity can be examined using cultural transmission, selection, and innovation to produce empirically testable hypotheses regarding the historical relatedness of populations. The further development of this approach by scholars will do much to answer long-standing questions.
BAR S1911 2009: Transformation du cuivre au Moyen-Orient du Néolithique à la fin du 3ème millénaire Etude d’une chaîne technologique by Nicolas Gailhard. ISBN 9781407303949. £47.00. xii+247 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, including two in colour. In French with English summary.
This work details the origins of copper working in the Near East from the Neolithic to the end of the 3rd millennium. Both dates are significant because one marks the apparition of the first villages and the exploitation of copper and the other marks the pathway towards historic times and the beginning of ironworking. Between the two ran the great adventure of copper and bronze. Its mastery never ceased developing – from the outset of this new technological chain, it directly resulted not only in a better knowledge of the natural environment and the development of more important socio-economic ties, but also the effects and the indirect repercussions of these discoveries that required the setting up of new methods and organizations, including workshops, the outcome of which is the apparition of a complex industry at the end of the 3rd millennium. This study is based on a multi-disciplinary approach, associating a set of experimentations on technological problems around the smelting of bronze and a survey of the ethno-archaeological considerations: the near-east is very much a focal point of the project. The survey and analysis of the archaeological data relates to the technical aspects of the metallurgies involved. The three main areas of the study look at development, the concept of ‘the workshop’, and early hints of trade and even perhaps ‘industrialization’.
BAR S1910 2009: Patterns and Corporeality: Neolithic Visual Culture from the Republic of Macedonia by Goce Naumov. ISBN 9781407303932. £34.00. xi+145 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
The numerous Neolithic finds from the territory of the Republic of Macedonia show an abundance of data which can be concentrated into different relations. They all approach certain ideas through which we attempt to learn about the character of Neolithic populations and their way of life. Within the context of the explored Neolithic settlements from the Republic of Macedonia, a large number of ceramic finds (decorated vessels, figurines, seals, models of houses and ‘altars’) are discussed in this study. The first chapter gives a brief introduction and acquaintance with the territory and its condition during the time of all Neolithic phases. Chapter two elaborates the white painted vessels originating from whole territory of the Republic of Macedonia. Chapters three and four deal with the painted compositions from the Middle Neolithic. In the chapter Imprints of the Neolithic Mind the ceramic stamps and the patterns which are usually engraved on them are presented. The second part of the book elaborates the concepts of corporeality present in the several ceramic figurative forms, including burials. Subsequent chapters are dedicated to the anthropomorphic vessels, placed in a wider context with those excavated in the Neolithic from south-eastern Europe, as well as later phases. The last chapter, 'Housing the Dead', completes the concept of burials in vessels, ‘oven’ forms, and ceramic ‘houses’.
BAR S1909 2009: SOMA 2008 Proceedings of the XII Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Famagusta, North Cyprus, 5-8 March 2008 edited by Hakan Oniz. ISBN 9781407303925. £39.00. ii+206 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
Papers from SOMA 2008 Proceedings of the XII Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Famagusta, North Cyprus, 5-8 March 2008.
BAR S1908 2009: Romanesque Chevron Ornament The Language of British, Norman and Irish sculpture in the twelfth century by Rachel Moss. ISBN 9781407303918. £33.00. 137 pages; 36 pages of plates; 2 Appendices of moulding profiles.
This study deals with the form and development of a single type of architectural ornament, ubiquitous from the late eleventh to the early thirteenth centuries in northwestern Europe. Chevron ornament, or three-dimensional zigzag, has been described as the single most characteristic moulding, or indeed feature of any kind in Norman architecture in England. It is the most enduring of the decorative motifs that formed part of the so-called style géométrique, current in those areas in the earlier part of the twelfth century, and is found most typically decorating arches, stringcourses and columns in a wide variety of structures, from castles, to cathedrals to parish churches to the extent that for a period during the twelfth century its absence is more notable than its presence. Among the major preoccupations of scholarship in medieval art and architecture are the issues of authorship and chronology. Given the potential for a type of ornament such as chevron to reveal etymological characteristics it is surprising that studies of the apparent formal grammars of Romanesque ornament have not been more commonplace. It is with these issues in mind then that the current study sets out to explore the degree to which an architectural motif like chevron can be ‘read’ in a meaningful way.
BAR S1907 2009: Chemical Arts and Technologies of Indigenous Americans by B. L. Gordon. ISBN 9781407303901. £36.00. x+167 pages; 49 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
Written records of knowledge in the pre-Columbian New World are virtually non-existent (in contrast to an abundance of such records for ancient China and the Near East). Consequently chemical knowledge in the Americas, prior to the arrival of Europeans, is poorly documented. The arts and technologies discussed in this volume are those known to have existed in pre-Columbian times, as well as those thought to have been developed by native peoples (independently of foreign influence) during the five centuries since the European conquest of the Americas began. Contents 1) Fire; 2) Preparing, cooking, and preserving foodstuffs; 3) Alcoholic beverages and vinegar; 4) Drugs and poisons; 5) Treatment of plant fibers; 6) Colorants and dyeing; 7) Etching; 8) Processing rubber, chicle, and beeswax; 9) Personal beautification, perfumes and incense, and cleansing agents; 10) Hide curing and feather work; 11) Embalming and mummification; 12) Salt making; 13) Building materials and architectural decoration; 14) Pottery making; 15) Lacquers and varnishes; 16) Metal-working and metallurgy.
BAR S1905 2009: The Manufacture of Iron in Ancient Colchis by David A. Khakhutaishvili. ISBN . £30.00. 9781407303895.
A study of early Georgian smelting sites. The features described here are remarkably consistent in their layout and the results of the present publication indicate a large, well developed industry. Further survey work should give us a better idea of just how large this prehistoric iron industry was, but it is already clear from the results reported in this book that the furnaces varied in size, with some being very large.
BAR S1903 2009: The Elite Late Period Egyptian Tombs of Memphis by Michael Stammers. ISBN 9781407303857. £38.00. viii+214 pages; 9 maps; 23 tables; 164 figures; 5 data Appendices and with CD.
This study investigates the drivers for the development of the elite Late Period tombs of the necropoleis of Memphis. It studies their conceptual basis in the context of the social and political situation of the Late Period. It examines the landscape of Memphis and explores the geographic, geological and man-made features that encouraged the creation of a ‘sacred landscape’ with a view to discovering what features made this a desirable place for the building of tombs and why Late Period clusters of tombs were built in some parts of that landscape but not in others; it also considers the significance of their alignment. It sets out to discover what religious, social or ancestral factors made the elite choose the location of the individual tombs, what determined their structure and how they relate to older as well as contemporary structures. Finally, the reason for the positions of the different burial grounds of Memphis, and the interrelation between them, is explored in order to establish the socio-political factors influencing that choice.
BAR S1902 2009: Pots, People, and Politics: A Reconsideration of the Role of Ceramics in Reconstructions of the Iron Age Northern Levant by Matthew R. Whincop. ISBN 9781407303840. £70.00. xx+408 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs; 2 data Appendices and data CD.
This study aims to reconsider current reconstructions of the Iron Age Northern Levant and the role that ceramics studies have played in these interpretations. The author presents a regional ceramic typology for the Iron Age (including the Persian period) and undertakes an analysis of the distribution patterns of this typology across the Northern Levant. An alternative interpretation of the ceramic data is offered, before being compared with the conventional historical model. This alternative reconstruction focuses on theories of practice, and foodways, whilst appreciating the dynamic manner by which material culture is used to constantly negotiate and consolidate social structures. In the end, the study offers one perspective on the compatibility of archaeological data and the historical text, and makes some final recommendations for their correlation.
BAR S1901 2009: Estrategias de aprovisionamiento y utilización de las materias primas líticas en el campo volcánico Pali Aike (prov. Santa Cruz, Argentina) by Judith E. Charlin. ISBN 9781407303833. £40.00. vii+240 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs. Data Appendix. In Spanish with English summary.
The main goal of this research is the study of the strategies of provisioning and utilization of lithic raw materials within the Pali Aike volcanic field, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina (South America). The work includes an analysis of the land-use patterns and home ranges of the human populations that inhabited this region during the Late Holocene (ca. last 4000 years BP). The case-study presented here employs a methodology of lithic analysis that is regional and non-typological, which has the potential to be of value in other areas of the world and with other specific research goals.
BAR S1900 2009: SOMA 2007 Proceedings of the XI Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Istanbul Technical University, 24 and 29 April 2007 edited by Cigdem Ozkan Aygun. ISBN 9781407303826. £63.00. vi+469 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
Papers from the 11th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology held at Istanbul Technical University, 24 to 29 April 2007.
BAR S1899 2009: A Landscape of Pilgrimage and Trade in Wadi Masila, Yemen: The Case of al-Qisha and Qabr Hud in the Islamic Period by Lynne S. Newton. ISBN 9781407303819. £34.00. ii+186 pages; 8 tables; 52 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
Archaeological excavations were carried out at al-Qisha, located on the Wadi Masila in the Mahra region of the Republic of Yemen. Situated along the Northern Indian Ocean coast, the Wadi Masila is an integral part of the Hadramaut drainage system located within the geological Hadramaut Arch. Regional surveys were carried out between 1997-2000, defining Bronze and Iron Age and Islamic period sites. Al-Qisha is an Islamic period settlement site that spans over 1 km and includes an extensive village (part of which is still inhabited), a cemetery, and a mosque. Al-Qisha as an archaeological site is enmeshed in an historical and ethnographic landscape of trade and mediation. This volume has three goals. The main objective is to present the data collected from excavations at al-Qisha, the first excavated Islamic period settlement site in the Mahra region of Yemen to date. The second goal is to examine this site in its greater cultural and physical landscape. And third, getting to the “route” of the matter, al-Qisha serves as a gateway community linked with the Ba‘Abbad of Qabr Hud, the tomb of the pre-Islamic prophet Hud. This study is unique in that it presents a first attempt to integrate archaeology with the scant history and sparse ethnography of the Mahra and Hadramaut regions.
BAR S1898 2009: Okinawa; the Rise of an Island Kingdom Archaeological and Cultural Perspectives. Proceedings of a Symposium, Kingdom of the Coral Seas, November 17, 2007, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London edited by Richard Pearson. ISBN 9781407303802. £29.00. vii+106 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs, including 8 colour plates.
Papers from the Symposium, Kingdom of the Coral Seas, November 17, 2007, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The symposium and lectures brought Okinawan
archaeology to a wide audience, including many students, professionals and those with an interest in this fascinating part of the Japanese archipelago from across Europe and elsewhere. The current volume represents a full record of the proceedings of the symposium, hopefully bringing the Ryukyus to an even broader readership. Contents: Preface (Richard Pearson); 1) Archaeology of the Ryukyu Islands: Major Themes (Shijun Asato); 2) Okinawa’s Earliest Inhabitants and Life on the Coral Islands (Hiroto Takamiya); 3) Shell Exchange in the Ryukyu Islands and in East Asia (Naoko Kinoshita); 4) Kamuiyaki and Early Trade in the Ryukyu Islands (Akito Shinzato); 5) The Emergence of Ryukyu Royal Authority and Urasoe (Susumu Asato); 6) The Significance of Chinese Trade Ceramics from Ryukyu: Focusing on Yuan Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain (Meitoku Kamei); 7) The Architectural Landscape of the Kingdom of Ko Ryukyu (Takashi Uezato); 8) The Kingdom of Ryukyu: Culture, Politics, Mentality (Arne Rokkum); Appendix 1. Recent Discoveries on Kikai Island (Richard Pearson); Appendix 2. Archaeology of Sakishima (Richard Pearson); Appendix 3. Useful Reference Materials for Ryukyu Archaeology (Richard Pearson) Appendix 4. The Successive Rulers of Chuzan (Ryukyu) (Richard Pearson).
BAR S1897 2009: Shallale; Ancient City of Carmel by Shimon Dar. ISBN 9781407303796. £60.00. xxii+441 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; with data Appendices.
The results of work at Shallale on Mount Carmel, Israel. Content: 1) Shallale: History of Research; 2) Archaeological Sites in the Vicinity of Shallale; 3) Geographical and Physical Features of the Shallale Area; 4) Soil and Water in the Vicinity of Shallale; 5) Residential Building (Area 1); 6) Hewn Oil Press (Area 2); 7) Public and Residential Buildings (Area 3); 8) A Trial Section Near the Ottoman Burj (Area 4); 9) Trial Sections Near an Ottoman Period Storage Building (Area 6); 10) Trial Sections Near Caves (Areas 5, 10, 14); 11) A Potter’s Workshop (Area 7); 12) Water Cistern (Area 9) and Water Ascent Path (Area 17); 13) Lower Shallale – The Installation Area; 14) Stone Quarries on Mt. Carmel; 15) Architectural Elements; 16) Stone Implements from Shallale; 17) The Water Mill in Nahal Oren (Area 15); 18) The Burial Cave in Nahal Oren (Area 13) by Yigael Ben-Ephraim; 19) H. Shallale: Excavation Seasons 2003-2007 – List of Loci by Yigael Ben-Ephraim; 20) The Vicinity of Shallale from the Hellenistic Period to the British Mandate; Bibliography. Appendices 1) Christian Presence on Mt. Carmel in Late Antiquity by Leah Di Segni; 2) A Will that Sheds Light on the Druze Settlements on Mt. Carmel by Shimon Avivi; 3) Pottery Oil Lamps from H. Shallale by Varda Sussman and Einat Ambar-Armon; 4) The Pottery Assemblage from H. Shallale by Miriam Avissar, Yigael Ben-Ephraim and Anna de Vincenz; 5) The Glass from H. Shallale by Gusta Lehrer Jacobson; 6) The Coin Finds from H. Shallale by Ariel Berman; 7) Dendroarchaeological Excavations: H. Shallale, Mt. Carmel by Nili Liphschitz; 8) Human Remains from H. Shallale by Patricia Smith; 9) Roman Through Ottoman Period Fauna from H. Shallale by Liora Kolska Horwitz; 10) Metal Finds from H. Shallale by Shua Amorai-Stark; 11) Chemical Analysis: Results of Selected Metal Finds from H. Shallale by Shua Amorai-Stark and Michael Dvorachek; 12) Metal Weights from H. Shallale by Shimon Dar; 13) A Report Concerning the Shells from the Excavation of H. Shallale by Henk K. Mienis; 14) Terrestrial Snails from a Burial Cave in Nahal Oren near H. Shallale by Henk K. Mienis.
BAR S1896 2009: Image and Ritual in the Aztec World Selected papers of the ‘Ritual Americas’ conferences organized by the Société des Américanistes de Belgique in collaboration with the Red Europea de Estudios Amerindios Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), 2-5 April 2008 edited by Sylvie Peperstraete. ISBN 9781407303789. £30.00. 134 pages; Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures and drawings. Papers in English and Spanish.
Selected papers of the sesion Image and Ritual in the Aztec World from the ‘Ritual Americas’ conferences organized by the Société des Américanistes de Belgique in collaboration with the Red Europea de Estudios Amerindios Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), April 2008. Contents: 1) Foreword – Image in Ancient Mesoamerican Ritual (Sylvie Peperstraete); 2) Lenguaje ceremonial en los códices mixtecos (Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen and Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez); 3) El lenguaje ritual de los mexicas: hacia un método de análisis (Danièle Dehouve); 4) Ritos y rituales en torno a Mictlantecuhtli (Nathalie Ragot); 5) Los textiles y el calendario tenochca (Montserrat Bargalló Sánchez); 6) Los tocados de Tlaloc en el Códice Borgia (Karla Rámirez Rosas); 7) 4-Ollin, the Aztec Creation of a Fifth Sun 9Arnold Lebeuf); 8) Los ritos aztecas en imágenes. Textos y representaciones de los dioses y fiestas en la obra de Fray Diego Durán (Sylvie Peperstraete) 9) Importancia e interés del Códice Florentino en la medicina novohispana del XVI (Cristina López Ortego).
BAR S1895 2009: Caribou Inuit Traders of the Kivalliq Nunavut, Canada by Matthew Walls. ISBN 9781407303772. £25.00. iv+73 pages; 26 figures; 11 tables.
In 1717 A.D., the Caribou Inuit of the Kivalliq,
Nunavut were introduced to the Fur Trade through the
Hudson Bay Company. It has been previously posited
that between that time and 1900 A.D., the Caribou Inuit
were drawn out of a traditional subsistence pattern and
into an economy that was a part of a world system.
However, the actual process of how trade goods and
technologies were incorporated into Caribou Inuit society by the Caribou Inuit themselves has received little attention. Using a combination of archaeology, archival history, and oral history to examine the profiles of specific individuals, this report demonstrates the importance of Caribou Inuit families that acted as intermediaries between their culture and European trade in the process of Caribou Inuit economic transition during the early historic period.
BAR S1893 2008: The Iron Gates in Prehistory New perspectives edited by Clive Bonsall, Vasile Boroneanţ and Ivana Radovanović. ISBN 9781407303734. £42.00. iii+260 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 4 in colour.
This book had its origins in a symposium held at the University of Edinburgh from 30 March to 2 April 2000, which was attended by archaeologists with a shared interest in the prehistory of the small but distinctive region of Southeast Europe known as the Iron Gates. In the broad sense the area refers to the section of the Danube valley where the river forms the modern political border between Serbia and Romania, and this definition is adopted for the present volume. First and foremost the volume
is intended to illustrate the immense research potential of the Iron Gates region. A second objective is to provide case studies that illustrate the nature of current research and the rich possibilities offered by the growing range of scientific techniques available to archaeologists and their application to existing archaeological collections. Contents: 1) Lithic technology and settlement systems of the Final Palaeolithic and Early Mesolithic in the Iron Gates (Dusan Mihailovic); 2) The development of the ground stone industry in the Serbian part of the Iron Gates (Dragana Antonovic); 3) Sturgeon fishing along the Middle and Lower Danube (Laszlo Bartosiewicz, Clive Bonsall & Vasile Sisu); 4) The Mesolithic–Neolithic in the Derdap as evidenced by non-metric anatomical variants (Mirjana Roksandic); 5) Demography of the Derdap Mesolithic–Neolithic transition (Mary Jackes, Mirjana Roksandic & Christopher Meiklejohn); 6) Approaches to Starcevo culture chronology (Joni L. Manson); 7) Faunal assemblages from the Early Neolithic of the central Balkans: methodological issues in the reconstruction of subsistence and land Use (Haskel Greenfield); 8) Lepenski Vir animal bones: what was left in the houses? (Vesna Dimitrijevic); 9) New-born infant burials underneath house floors at Lepenski Vir: in pursuit of contextual meanings (Sofija Stefanovic & Dusan Boric); 10) DNA-based sex identification of the infant remains from Lepenski Vir (Biljana Culjkovic, Sofija Stefanovic & Stanka Romac); 11) Dating burials and architecture at Lepenski Vir (Clive Bonsall, Ivana Radovanovic, Mirjana Roksandic, Gordon Cook, Thomas Higham & Catriona Pickard); 12) Reanalysis of the vertebrate fauna from Hajducka Vodenica in the Danubian Iron Gates: subsistence and taphonomy from the Early Neolithic and Mesolithic (Haskel Greenfield); 13) Velesnica and the Lepenski Vir culture (Rastko Vasic); 14) The human osteological material from Velesnica (Mirjana Roksandic); 15) The Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in the Trieste Karst (north-eastern Italy) as seen from the excavations at the Edera Cave (Paolo Biagi, Elisabetta Starnini & Barbara Voytek).
BAR S1892 2008: The Genesis of Early Christian Art Syncretic juxtapostion in the Roman world by Yukako Suzawa. ISBN 9781407303727. £33.00. xii+163 pages; 165 figures, maps, plans, tables, drawings and photographs.
In this wide-ranging study of the beginnings of Christian art, the author takes as her starting point the question of positive assimilation between Christian and non-Christian images in early Christian art. This study attempts to determine whether the theological term of syncretism can be appropriate to the study of early Christian art. During her study of the genesis of early Christian art, the author became aware that her attitude toward the notion of syncretism differs from most of the existing literature on early Christian art history and architecture. Some scholars have avoided using the notion of syncretism, and some have used it pejoratively to describe a mish-mash of religions, perhaps taking their cue from the doctrinal discussion of the term by the Church itself. In contrast, in the literature of the history of Japanese religions and art, religious synthesis has been referred to as ‘syncretism,’ and the term in that literature is defined as a blending of the ideas or practices of different religions that results in a unity of deities.
BAR S1891 2008: Flint Mining in Prehistoric Europe Interpreting the archaeological records edited by Pierre Allard, Françoise Bostyn, François Giligny and Jacek Lech. ISBN 9781407303710. £35.00. 163 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 1 in colour.
Papers from the Flint Mining in Prehistoric Europe session held at European Association of Archaeologists 12th Annual Meeting Cracow, Poland, 19th-24th September 2006. Contents: 1) Flint extraction and processing from secondary flint deposits in the north-east of Scotland in the Neolithic period (Alan Saville); 2) Flint working at the early linearbandkeramik settlement of Geleen-Janskamperveld (Marjorie E. Th. de Grooth); 3) An economy of surplus production in the early Neolithic of Hesbaye (Belgium): Bandkeramik blade debitage at Verlaine ‘Petit Paradis’ (Pierre Allard, Laurence Burnez-Lanotte); 4) The prehistoric flint mining complex at Spiennes (Belgium) on the occasion of its discovery 140 years ago (Hélène Collet, Anne Hauzeur, Jacek Lech); 5) A new flint mine at Flins-sur-Seine/ Aubergenville (Yvelines, France) (Françoise Bostyn, François Giligny, Adrienne Lo Carmine); 6) The Krzemionki flint mines latest underground research 2001-2004 (Jerzy Bąbel); 7) Open-cast flint mining, long blade production and long distance exchange: an example from Bulgaria (Laurence Manolakakis); 8) Flint mining in early Neolithic Iberia: a preliminary report on ‘Casa Montero’ (Madrid, Spain) (Marta Capote, Nuria Castañeda, Susana Consuegra,Cristina Criado, Pedro Díaz-del-Río); 9) Intensive extraction of non-metallic minerals during the early protohistory in the northern half of Europe (Yoann Gauvry); 10) Ideology and influences behind the Neolithic flint mines of the Southern Britain (Paul Wheeler).
BAR S1890 2008: The Morocco Maritime Survey An archaeological contribution to the history of the Tangier peninsula by Elarbi Erbati and Athena Trakadas. ISBN 9781407303703. £33.00. xii+126 pages; 5 tables; 78 maps, plans, drawings and photographs. Appendices including catalogue of finds.
The Morocco Maritime Survey (MMS) was initiated in 2001 in order to investigate the coasts of the Tangier peninsula in northern Morocco. This publication serves as a final report of the project, presenting the survey’s findings from the two field seasons (2002-2003), subsequent artefact analyses and overall conclusions. The purpose of the MMS is to investigate the maritime record of Morocco through archaeological survey and historical research. Even though ancient, medieval and historical coastal sites are present, the maritime aspects of these periods remain relatively unknown. The questions for this survey ask: Who was here, and when and where were they present? Are maritime archaeological sites such as shipwrecks and anchorages present? If cultural remains are located, are they related to terrestrial sites, and if so, which ones and how are they linked? Can the survey’s findings reveal anything about the logistics and past levels of navigation and maritime-borne exchange in the region?
BAR S1889 2009: DIOSKOUROI Studies presented to W.G. Cavanagh and C.B. Mee on the anniversary of their 30-year joint contribution to Aegean Archaeology edited by C. Gallou, M. Georgiadis and G.M. Muskett.. ISBN 9781407303697. £53.00. 369 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 3 in colour.
This Festschrift celebrates the 30th anniversary of Bill Cavanagh and Chris Mee’s joint contribution to Aegean Archaeology. Contents: A message from Sparti (Metaxia Papapostolou); Bill Cavanagh: A personal appreciation (Stephen Hodkinson); Chris Mee: A personal appreciation (Matthew Fitzjohn); A Shrine - or Shrine Treasury - in the Country House at Myrtos-Pyrgos (Gerald Cadogan); Communal Ceremonies in an Early Minoan Tholos Cemetery (Keith Branigan); A Goddess in a Boat (†Nicolas Coldstream); Mycenaean Cult Practice: ‘Private’ and ‘Public’ Ritual Acts (Christina Aamont); The Tholos Tombs of Messenia: An Overview (Emily Banou); The Ever Intriguing ‘Terracotta Anchors’ of the Early Bronze Age (Jeannette Forsén); Mycenaean Figurines: 50 Years on (Elizabeth French); A Mycenaean Stirrup Jar from Enkomi O.T. 74 (Penelope Mountjoy); The Knossos "Jewel Fresco" Reconsidered (John Younger); Gender Boundaries in Late Bronze Age Greece: The Contribution of Dress (Georgina Muskett); Twin Aegean Seals in Liverpool and Manchester († John Betts); Giorgio De Chirico and Greek Prehistory (Robin Barber); Chamber Tombs, Family, and State in Mycenaean Greece (James Wright); Creation and Expression of Identity in Cyprus at the End of The Late Bronze Age (Louise Steel); Interaction of Large and Small Communities in Arkadia in the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman Periods (James Roy); Froggies Round the Pond: La Protohistoire Égéenne en France (Josette Renard); Was There Really a Trojan War? (Oliver Dickinson); A Heifer to Ithaca (George Huxley); Appearance and Reality: Thoughts on the Interpretation of Archaeological Field Surveys (Hector Catling); “In Praise Of The Ancestors”. Catchment and Territory in Agricultural Landscapes: Revisiting the Birth of a Concept in the Light of Current Research in Landscape Archaeology (John Bintliff); Kos in the Bronze Age: The Settlement Pattern and its Significance (Mercourios Georgiadis); Interpreting the Bronze Age Landscape of Kephalonia. A (Preliminary) View from the Livatho Valley Survey (Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood); Bronze Age Aphrodisias Revisited (Alan Greaves); Ahhiyawa, Argos and the Argive Plain (Joost Crouwel); Between Admetus and Jason: Pherai in the Early Iron Age (Ioannis Georganas); Pseudo-Skylax on the Peloponnese (Graham Shipley); ‘Between Scylla and Charybdis’: The Archaeology of Mycenaean Vatika on the Malea Peninsula (Chrysanthi Gallou); Ionian Influence on Spartan Architecture? (Richard Tomlinson); A Sixth-Century Kantharos from the Menelaion, Sparta (Richard Catling); Black Sparta(n)? (Paul Cartledge); Lakedaimonian Xenoi in Thessaly: The Onomastic Evidence (Nicholas Sekunda); The Monasteries of Saint Nikon: The Amyklaion, Sparta and Lakonia (Pamela Armstrong).
BAR S1888 2008: South Asian Archaeology 2007 Miscellanies about the Buddha Image edited by Claudine Bautze-Picron. ISBN 9781407303680. £28.00. 124 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
The papers included here address various issues that reflect manifold ways of approaching study of the Buddha image. Most were presented in July 2007 during the Nineteenth International Conference of the Association of South Asia Archaeologists in Europe. This volume intends to cast light on numerous possible ways of looking at the image and as such, should be considered in a sense ‘preliminary’ to further, more specific studies bearing on the topic. Contents: 1) Introduction (Claudine Bautze-Picron); 2) Seeking the Buddha in the American Museum of Natural History’s Collection (Serinity Young and Kate Bollinger); 3) The dāna, the pātra and the cakravartin-ship: archaeological and art historical evidence for a social history of early medieval Buddhism (Anna Filigenzi); 4) Aspects of the Earliest Buddha Images in Gandhāra (Akira Miyaji); The Flaming Protuberance on the Head of Tamil Buddhas, Its representations and concepts (Yuko Fukuroi); 5) New Considerations on some Gandhāran Fasting Buddhas (Anna Maria Quagliotti); 6) The Emaciated Buddha in Southeast Bangladesh and Pagan (Myanmar) (Claudine Bautze-Picron); 7) Gandhāran Bodhisattva Maitreya Image, Soteriological function of Ketos and Eros (Katsumi Tanabe); 8) Māyā, Gandhāra’s Grieving Mother, Part 2 (Doris Meth Srinivasan).
BAR S1887 2008: From Xerxes’ Murder (465) to Arridaios’ Execution (317) Updates to Achaemenid chronology (Including errata in past reports) by Leo Depuydt. ISBN 9781407303673. £26.00. iii+95 pages; 2 Appendices and Indices.
This investigation consists of updates to the chronology of Achaemenid Persia (539 BCE-304 BCE). The state of Achaemenid chronology was the subject of a series of studies published by this writer about ten to fifteen years ago. Newly emerged evidence has necessitated the present updates. Errata in those earlier studies are listed in an appendix. The focus of the present investigation is on what is new. A comprehensive statement on Achaemenid chronology that progresses from first principles and combines all that is new with all that is old remains desirable. Few historical events are as transforming in the history of nations as the death of one ruler and the accession of the next. Accordingly, the chronology of regnal transitions deserves special attention in the study of ancient chronology. This study provides updates for the chronology of nine regnal transitions in the Achaemenid empire: Xerxes I to Artaxerxes I (465); Artaxerxes I to Darius II (424-23); Darius II to Artaxerxes II (405/4); Artaxerxes II to Artaxerxes III (359/58); Artaxerxes III to Arses (338); Arses to Darius III (336/35); Darius III to Alexander III (331); Alexander III to Philip Arridaios (323); and Arridaios to Alexander IV (317). A comprehensive tabulation of the regnal years of the final years of the empire (340-304) is presented at the end.
BAR S1886 2008: Estructura demográfica, estilo de vida y relaciones biológicas de cazadores recolectores en un ambiente de desierto Sitio Chenque I (Parque Nacional Lihué Calel, provincia de la Pampa, Argentina) by Leandro H. Luna. ISBN 9781407303666. £45.00. xvi+363 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, tables, drawings and photographs; 5 data Appendices. In Spanish.
This volume is an important contribution to knowledge of the bioarchaeology of the Argentine Pampas. The author develops a rigorous application of different and actualized methodologies that improve the comprehension of a very rich bioachaeological record of hunter-gatherers, including problems of conservation conditions. The results obtained from the authors data (in part collected from Pampas cemeteries and a study of demographic questions) open a new perspective for our knowledge of these ancient societies.
BAR S1885 2008: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 26 Mountain Environments in Prehistoric Europe Settlement and mobility strategies from Palaeolithic to the Early Bronze Age edited by Stefano Grimaldi, Thomas Perrin and Jean Guilaine. ISBN 9781407303659. £33.00. viii+169 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. Papers in English and French.
Papers from the ‘Mountain Environments in Prehistoric Europe’ session (C31) of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: 1) Exploitation du milieu montagnard dans le mousterien final: la Grotte du Noisetier a frechet-aure (Pyrenees centrales Françaises) (Vincent Mourre, Sandrine Costamagno, Laurent Bruxelles, David Colonge, Stéphanie Cravinho, Véronique Laroulandie, Bruno Maureille, Céline Thiébaut, Julien Viguier); 2) Late Pleistocene Human Occupation and Large Mammal Distribution in the Eastern Alpine Region (Martina Pacher); 3) The Mousterian of the Vallicelli Cave (Monte San Giacomo, Salerno, Italy), in the pre- and protohistoric settlement framework at the slopes of Mount Cervati (Carmine Collina, Rosalia Gallotti, Marcello Piperno, Nicoletta Santangelo, Antonio Santo); 4) From Lake Chiemsee to the Totes Gebirge – on the Alpine path of the Neanderthals? (Doris Döppes, Wilfried Rosendahl); 5) Adaptation à l'environnement montagneux au Paléolithique en Hongrie (Zsolt Mester); 6) Des caches et entrepots au Paléolithique: une nécessité dans l’exploitation cynégétique saisonnière des milieux montagnards (Thierry Tillet); 7) Locating micro-refugia in periglacial environments during the LGM (Nathan Walker); 8) Processus évolutifs essentiels dans le paléoenvironnement et les industries de la fin du Tardiglaciaire dans les Alpes du Nord françaises et le Jura meridional (Gilbert Pion); 9) Prehistoric reindeer-hunting in the southern Norwegian highlands (Sveinung Bang-Andersen); 10) The first occupation of the Southern Alps in the Late Glacial at Riparo Tagliente (Verona, Italy). Detecting the organisation of living-floors through a G.I.S. integrated analysis of technological, functional, palaeoeconomic and spatial attributes (Federica Fontana, Antonio Guerreschi, Stefano Bertola, Francesca Bonci, Cristina Cilli, Jeremie Liagre, Laura Longo, Giovanna Pizziolo, Ursula Thun Hohenstein); 11) Changes of Geographical Environment in Prehistoric Azerbaijan (Upper Pleistocene and Holocene) (Malahat Farajova); 12) The Palaeolithic naturalistic art at the Dalmeri Rockshelter and climate variability (G. Dalmeri, A. Cusinato, S. Frisia, M. Hrozny Kompatscher, K. Kompatscher, M. Bassetti, R. Belli); 13) The use of mountain sectors during Epipalaeolithic and Mesolithic in the Western Switzerland Prealps (Pierre Crotti, Jérôme Bullinger); 14) Structuring a settlement model for the early Mesolithic in north-eastern Italy (Stefano Grimaldi); 15) The oldest silex and rock crystal mining traces in high alpine regions (Walter Leitner); 16) La néolithisation de la vallée du Rhône et de ses marges (Thomas Perrin); 17) Neolithic in the European Mid-Mountains. Case study from the Polish Carpathians (Paweł Valde-Nowak); 18) A view from the Apennines: the role of the inland sites in southern Italy during the Bronze Age (Alberto Cazzella, Giulia Recchia); 19) Settlement strategies in alpine valleys of Lombardy (Northern Italy) from Neolithic to Early Bronze Age: some examples (Marco Baioni, Raffaella Poggiani Keller); 20) Data on settlement views during Neolithic in prealpin lakes of NW Lombardy (northern Italy) (Daria Giuseppina Banchieri); 21) Mountain environment and landscape in prehistoric Sicily: the Madonie region (Palermo, Italy) (Vincenza Forgia).
BAR S1881 2008: Ancient German Identity in the Shadow of the Roman Empire The impact of Roman trade and contact along the middle Danube frontier, 10 BC–AD 166 by Eric Michael Vrba. ISBN 9781407303611. £48.00. xvi+355 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; with catalogue.
Slovakia is a convergent zone of three interrelated spheres of study in Roman history and archaeology. These three spheres are the frontier, Romanization, and cultural identity. The aim of the project that forms the core of this book is a greater understanding of how identity functions, as reflected in a culture’s material remains, and what affect outside agents have on identity, if any. The primary focus of this project is cultural identity and Part I outlines the ancient German culture along the Middle Danube River using ancient literary evidence and archaeological material. Part II is an account of the archaeological project conducted at Urbárske Sedliská, along with detailed descriptions of specific artifact groups, such as pottery, seen in southwest Slovakia. The final section, Part III, is a synthesis of parts I and II, bringing together the known archaeological data of the region and the theoretical discussions with the new data recovered from the excavations.
BAR S1880 2008: A Thousand Years of Farming: Late Chalcolithic Agricultural Practices at Tell Brak in Northern Mesopotamia by Mette Marie Hald. ISBN 9781407303604. £34.00. x+175 pages; 54 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; 32 tables; 2 data Appendices.
The Late Chalcolithic is a period of far-reaching changes in many aspects of life in Mesopotamia. On the southern alluvial plain (present day Iraq) the first city states appear, among them the city of Uruk, which grows to become the largest of the cities in the south. The growth of cities coincides with evidence for elaborate ritual building complexes, an increasingly class-stratified society, industrial specialisation, and multi-tiered administration, which includes the invention of writing. The present volume focuses on the agricultural developments in Late Chalcolithic northern Mesopotamia from the perspective of a major settlement in the region, Tell Brak in modern northeast Syria. Agriculture formed the basis of the economy of ancient Near Eastern communities; a study of the crop husbandry practices of Tell Brak can potentially identify the plant economy of the site, including the crops present in the settlement, and methods of crop processsing and use. Any agricultural responses to changes in the socio-political system, known from the archaeological evidence to have taken place during the Late Chalcolithic, can also be assessed. These responses may be able to give us an indication of the wider economic responses to societal change during the Late Chalcolithic.
BAR S1879 2008: Rain Harvesting in the Rainforest: The Ancient Maya Agricultural Landscape of Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico by Helga Geovannini Acuña. ISBN 9781407303598. £30.00. vii+141 pages; 62 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; 29 tables. 4 data Appendices.
The main subject discussed in this study is the way in which the ancient Maya of Calakmul (modern Mexico), who thrived between 900 B.C. to A.D. 1000, managed their landscape in order to survive in the tropical rainforest. Their lithic technology, the hot, humid climate with a prolonged dry season, the lack of permanent surface sources of fresh water, and thin soils, considered insufficient for sustained agricultural production, are factors that were addressed successfully by the Maya in developing their complex civilization. The author’s research begins with landscape, archaeological, and edaphological analyses, after which she explores the areas most advantageous to permanent habitation, suitable agricultural zones, land potential of the region and the capability of the area for supporting population. In addition, a complex agricultural channel irrigation system is explored as a critical factor for managing productive terrain for agriculture in karstic depressions (bajos). Similarly, an impressive rain harvesting system is exposed as an option to optimize hydrological resources for canalizing excessive rain during the wet season and storing water during the dry period. Finally, a reconstruction of the agricultural landscape is proposed.
BAR S1878 2008: Freiburg Dissertations in Aegean Archaeology Befestigungsanlagen im griechischen Raum in der Bronzezeit und ihre Entwicklung von neolithischer bis in archaische Zeit by Georgios Kalogeroudis. ISBN 9781407303581. £65.00. iv+486 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, tables, drawings and photographs, 3 in colour; in German.
A comprehensive study of all known fortifications in Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece has so far been lacking. This work attempts to fill the gap and, through individual examinations, to arrive at a complete picture of the development of these sites in prehistoric times. The pivotal questions are the following: Why did people build fortifications and in what conditions were they built?
BAR S1877 2008: ARCHAIA: Case Studies on Research Planning, Characterisation, Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites edited by Nicolò Marchetti and Ingolf Thuesen. ISBN 9781407303574. £65.00. 470 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, tables, drawings and photographs, including 17 colour plates.
That field archaeological research and the conservation of ancient remains are inseparable actions is now a commonly shared opinion. However, in practice this consensus does not come with a check-list of shared protocols which can help in identifying the best possible solutions in each case. The ways of presenting a site to the public are often conceived a posteriori, after the completion of an archaeological project and without taking advantage of all the data produced by secondary studies and analysis of the excavated materials. Field archaeologists have long been confronted by these problems and this work is the result of a symposium on the topic, now known as the ARCHAIA project, held by group of colleagues from the Universities of Bologna, Copenhagen and Zadar, to which some other key speakers were added. This book contains the results of their joint efforts in highlighting what they think may be some of the most promising avenues for future practice and research. Contents: 1) ARCHAIA: from excavation strategies to archaeological parks (Nicolò Marchetti); 2) Protection of cultural property and archaeological heritage in the European Union and in Italy (legislation and recent case-law) (Guglielmo Cevolin); 3) Towards an international agenda for agreeing on a standard policy of preservation, presentation and management of archaeological sites and parks (Ingolf Thuesen); 4 Survey and technical analysis: a must for understanding monuments (Carla Maria Amici); 5) Image-based 3D recording and modelling of landscapes and large Cultural Heritage sites (Armin Gruen); 6) Multiscale integrated application of geomatic techniques for Cultural Heritage documentation (Gabriele Bitelli); 7) Precise global georeferencing of sites and geodetic techniques for morphological surveys within a common reference frame (Luca Vittuari); 8) Topographi cal field operations in mapping archaeological sites (Enrico Giorgi); 9) Some aspects of close-range photogrammetric surveys for Cultural Heritage documentation (Antonio Zanutta, Gabriele Bitelli); 10) Take a look, make a sketch and re-think it: surveying and 4D models for reconstructing archaeological sites (Moritz Kinzel); 11) Traces of the past: characterising material culture (Luisa Mazzeo Saracino); 12) A mineralogical-geochemical app roach to pottery characterisation (Vanna Minguzzi, Maria Carla Nannetti); 13) A systematic approach for the damage assessment of museum metals collections based on statistics and portable techniques: the case study of ancient Messene, Greece (M. Giannoulaki, V. Argyropoulos, T. Panou, G. Michalakakos, A.G. Karydas, V. Kantarelou, D. Anglos, A. Giakoumaki, V. Perdikatsis, C. Apostolaki, P. Themelis, S. Poulimenea); 14) Characterisation and documentation of material culture (particularly pottery) (Susanne Kerner); 15) Reconstructing hi story from material culture: the case of Etruscan Marzabotto (Elisabetta Govi)16) Material evidence as a vehicle for socio-cultural reconstruction (Alan Walmsley); 17) GIS archi ves for sites and their landscapes (Maurizio Cattani); 18) Semantic profiling to supp ort multi-view and multimodal interaction (Flavio De Paoli, Glauco Mantegari); 19) Computational intelligence in archaeology: the automatic production of knowledge (Juan A. Barceló); 20) Wireless networks in archaeology and Cultural Heritage (Massimo Ancona, Davide Conte, Donatella Pian, Sonia Pini, Gianluca Quercini, Antonella Traverso); 21) NADIR – The Archaeological Research Network of the Department of Archaeology, University of Bologna (Antonio Gottarelli); 22) An introduction to Bioarchaeology through a zooarchaeological perspective (Antonio Curci); 23) Bioarchaeology: the human skeleton as a hi storical source (Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Valentina Mariotti); 24) Faces from the past: the reconstruction of human physical appearance (Niels Lynnerup, Bjørn Skaarup); 25) Palaeoenvironment and subsistence economy through the analysis of botanical macroremains (Marialetizia Carra); 26) The use of archaeobotanical assemblages in palaeoeconomic reconstructions (Mette Marie Hald); 27) An introduction to faunal remains and environmental studies: a mismatch or a match made in heaven? (Pernille Bangsgaard); 28) Conservation and presentation of historical European mining landscapes: the Rammelsberg and Goslar UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the North-Western Harz Mountains in Germany (Christoph Bartels); 29) Ten years of collaboration on cultural landscapes research (Almudena Orejas, María Ruiz del Árbol); 30) From archaeological parks to the enhancement of archaeological landscapes: new directions in Italian heritage management (Andrea Zifferero); 31) Environmental assessment of an archaeological site for the development of an archaeological park (Paola Rossi Pisa, Gabriele Bitelli, Marco Bittelli, Maria Speranza, Lucia Ferroni, Pietro Catizone, Marco Vignudelli); 32) Culture, context, communication: an essay on the museological depth of field (Tim Flohr Sørensen); 33) Global climate change and archaeological heritage: prevision, impact and mapping (Cristina Sabbioni, Alessandra Bonazza, Palmira Messina); 34) The restoration and consolidation of archaeological sites and historical buildings. Science – research – technology (Pasquale Zaffaroni); 35) Modern approaches to archaeological conservation (Giovanna De Palma); 36) The policy for the conservation of the archaeological heritage in Turkey (Abdullah Kocapınar); 37) Low impact restoration techniques, coverings and fixed devices in an archaeological park: a case study at Tilmen Höyük in Turkey (Stefano F. Musso); 38) Preservation and presentation of Neolithic sites: a case study at Shkarat Msaied, Southern Jordan (Moritz Kinzel); 39); Cultural Heritage management: the special case of the World Heritage Site of Petra (May Shaer); 40) The desert and the sown: Islamic cities as a paradigm for sites on the fringe? (Alan Walmsley); 41) The archaeological park and open-air museum at the Middle Bronze Age site of Montale (Modena, Italy) (Andrea Cardarelli, Ilaria Pulini); 42) Strategic management of enhancement projects on urban archaeological sites: the APEAR method (Anne Warnotte, Marianne Tinant, Pierre Hupet); 43) Understanding the historic urban fabric of towns: implications for archaeological research design and public archaeology (Ian Simpson); 44) Late antique mosaics and their archaeological context (Isabella Baldini); 45) Archaeology and its museums: from the excavation to multimedia dissemination (Maria Teresa Guaitoli); 46) The Croatian archaeological heritage: some introductory remarks (Nenad Cambi, Giuseppe Lepore); 47) The archaeological site of Burnum: research perspectives within a protected natural landscape (Igor Borzić); 48) Archaeological diagnostics experiences at Burnum (Federica Boschi, Alessandro Campedelli); 49) Critical approach to the exhibitions of the imperial cult in the Roman Illyricum with regard to its early stage of development (Miroslav Glavičić, Željko Miletić); 50) Archaeological heritage alongside the Krka River (Josko Zaninović); 51) Roman epigraphical monuments from Asseria and Burnum: the role of epigraphy in reconstructing the history of sites (Miroslav Glavičić, Željko Miletić).
BAR S1876 2008: Reconstruction of the Bronze Age of the Caspian Steppes Life styles and life ways of pastoral nomads by Natalia Shishlina. ISBN 9781407303567. £47.00. xiv+299 pages; 140 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; 31 tables; 3 data Appendices.
The Caspian Steppes have been attracting attention in the focus of many scholars for more than a hundred years, because the steppes that lie between the Lower Volga and the Lower Don regions, and border with the North Caucasus is an area where many cultural traditions formed and developed. Multiethnic and multicultural groups are behind such traditions. The objective of this book is to systematize the dating of Caspian Steppes’ sites to different cultures, based on new archaeological sources that have appeared recently as a result of new excavations. The detailed analysis of key features of the burial rite and general categories of the material culture, i.e. grave offerings, provides a possibility to present in Chapter 1 characteristics of archaeological cultures and cultural groups of the Caspian Steppes in the Eneolithic–Middle Bronze Age. Application of the complex method of establishing culture sequence in Chapter 2 is aimed at revealing changes of cultural traditions in the region and establishing their absolute chronology. The database obtained gives grounds to evaluate the ethno-cultural historical process in the region under discussion through models of the economic cycle and production developed by ancient population is presented in Chapter 3. Amongst others, this book is based on the Bronze Age collections from the Eurasian Steppe and the Caucasus of the Archaeology Department of the State Historical Museum in Moscow, and data obtained from the excavation of the Steppe Archaeological Expedition of the State Historical Museum.
BAR S1875 2008: Recent Approaches to the Archaeology of Land Allotment edited by Adrian M. Chadwick. ISBN 9781407303550. £60.00. vi+459 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, tables, drawings and photographs.
The idea of this volume came out of two research gatherings that focused on land allotment and field systems. The first was a day seminar on Ancient Fields, held at the National Monuments Record centre at Swindon, England, in June 2002, and organised. The second was the session on Land Allotment at the 24th annual conference of the Theoretical Archaeology Group, held at Manchester University in December 2002. Contents: 1) Land, landscape and Englishness in the discovery of prehistoric land division (Helen Wickstead); 2) From clearance plots to ‘sustained’ farming: Peak District fields in prehistory (John Barnatt); 3) Commons, fields and communities in prehistoric Cornwall (Peter Herring); 4) Encounters with place in prehistory: writing a case study for Shipman Head Down, Isles of Scilly (Eleanor Breen); 5) The place and materiality of an upland field system at Cwm Ffrydlas, North Wales (Robert Johnston); 6) After the axe: ways into the upland landscapes of Cumbria (Helen Evans); 7) An empty hole, or a meaningful whole? Approaches to the study of pit alignments (John Thomas); 8) Towards a bounded landscape. Excavations at Gonalston, Nottinghamshire, and the development of the earliest field systems in the Trent Valley (David Knight and Lee Elliott); 9) Late prehistoric and Romano-British land division in South and West Yorkshire: an overview of the evidence (Ian Roberts); 10) Fields for discourse? Towards more self-critical, theoretical and interpretative approaches to the archaeology of field systems and land allotment (Adrian M. Chadwick); 11) ‘The pleasant land of counterpane’: linking site-specific archaeological land use to the landscape of prehistoric field systems (Helen Lewis); 12) Mobile and enclosed landscapes on the Yorkshire Wolds (Chris Fenton-Thomas); 13) Stone walls in west Östergötland – their dating and its consequences (Maria Petersson); 14) Unfamiliar landscapes: infields, outfields, boundaries and landscapes in Iceland (Oscar Aldred); 15) Field-names in reconstructing late Anglo-Saxon agricultural land-use in the Bourn Valley, West Cambridgeshire (Susan Oosthuizen); 16) Not so common fields: the making of the East Anglian landscape (Edward Martin); 17) The co-axial field systems of Pembrokeshire revisited: towards an ekistic explanation (Jonathan Kissock); 18) Woodland and Champion: farming, ‘the social’, and the origins of medieval landscapes (Tom Williamson); 19) Parks and perceptions of parkland (Richard Muir); 20) Parliamentary Process: the creation of farming landscapes in eighteenth and nineteenth century Buckinghamshire (Hannah Sackett); 21) The irregularity of fields: historic piecemeal enclosure and dispersed settlement in upland England at the Upper Derwent, Peak District, and Great Langdale, Lake District (Bill Bevan).
BAR S1874 2008: Australia and the Origins of Agriculture by Rupert Gerritsen. ISBN 9781407303543. £37.00. iii+205 pages; 28 figures, maps, plans and drawings.
In this work the author explores issues of the origin of agriculture in Australia such as the “failure” of agriculture to develop indigenously, and its “failure” to diffuse into Australia, despite contact with Indonesian (Macassan) agriculturalists or New Guinean horticulturalists. Although not always explicitly stated or recognised, significant differences probably exist in the factors and dynamics that led to the pristine development of agriculture, as opposed to agriculture that arose as a result of outside influences, as a result of cultural transfers. In addition, a further question is investigated relating to the concept of Complex Hunter-Gatherers and the validity of some of the frameworks, key arguments, and critical evidence, that have been put forward concerning the development of agriculture, animal husbandry and Complex Hunter-Gatherer economies. A corollary of certain additional factors also explored, such as British colonisation, is the recognition that particular geographic, environmental, climatic, demographic and cultural factors, either singly or in concert, must have affected development in this continent.
BAR S1873 2008: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 76 The Archaeology of Tanzanian Coastal Landscapes in the 6th to 15th Centuries AD the Middle Iron Age of the Region by Edward John David Pollard. ISBN 9781407303536. £54.00. xv+367 pages; 147 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; 30 figures; 5 data Appendices, Gazetteer .
This study seeks insights into the peoples and traditions of the Tanzanian coast, East Africa, during the 6th to 15th century through the application of archaeological survey and excavation techniques in the vicinity of the two important trading centres of Kaole and Kilwa. It adopts a maritime cultural landscape perspective, an approach that has seen very limited previous application to the East African coast, despite the central role played by the sea in the development of its port settlements and exploitation of its resources. Six themes are covered, namely the identification of coastal settlement sites and establishment of their chronology; recognition of principal phases in settlement development; exploitation of maritime resources and economy; identification of settlement location in relationship to the physical environment of the coast; establishment of the hierarchical nature of coastal settlement; and recognition of the principal harbour and port types.
BAR S1872 2008: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 16 Prehistoric Art and Ideology Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006) Vol. 16, Session C27 edited by Emmanuel Anati. ISBN 9781407303529. £28.00. v+123 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; papers in English, French and Italian.
Papers from the ‘Prehistoric Art and Ideology’ session (C27) held at the XV UISPP World Congress, September 2006. Contents: 1) Prehistoric art and ideology (Emmanuel Anati); 2) Deciphering mythological narrations in the rock art of Valcamonica: the rock of the phallus (Emmanuel Anati and Ariela Fradkin); 3) Gravettian burial rites: functional analysis of the lithic grave goods (S. Arrighi and V. Borgia); 4) Animal deities and shamans, warriors and Aesir Gods – rock art of the Nothern Countries – Scandinavia, Finland and Russia (Ulf Bertilsson); 5) Dancing scenes and ideology in the Neolithic Near East (Yosef Garfinkel); 6) Patriarchy and ideology in the rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin (Mateu Escoriza); 7) The symbolism and the wearing fashion of jewellery-pendants during the Bronze Age in Hungary (Katalin Jankovits); 8) Les “arts” megalithiques d’Europe Occidentale: pourquoi une telle diversité? (Jean-Pierre Mohen); 9) How the artistic production of a Prehistoric society can suggest cultural changes and everyday life imagery: the case of the Predynastic Nile Valley (Simona Moscadelli); 10) Evidence for a Muelos belief in African and near East Neolithic mortuary rituals? (Estelle Orrelle); 11) Simboli al femminile: linee parallele e a volta nell’arte rupestre Calcolitica (Umberto Sansoni); 12) Idéologie et symbolisme dans l’art nord-thrace (Valeriu Sirbu); 13) Animals as symbols in Upper Palaeolithic art (Christian Zuchner).
BAR S1871 2008: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 9 A New Dawn for the Dark Age? Shifting Paradigms in Mediterranean Iron Age Chronology / L'âge obscur se fait-il jour de nouveau? Les paradigmes changeants de la chronologie de l'âge du Fer en Méditerranée Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006) Vol. 9, Session C53 edited by Dirk Brandherm and Martin Trachsel. ISBN 9781407303512. £34.00. vi+176 pages; v+123 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; papers in English with French and German summaries. | | | |
