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 BAR S2034 2009: Sacred Landscapes in Anatolia and Neighboring Regions edited by Charles Gates, Jacques Morin, and Thomas Zimmermann. ISBN 9781407306117. £31.00. v+112 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, drawings and photographs.
The ritual dimension of land use in both prehistoric and historic societies is a flourishing research issue
examined by a growing number of archaeologists, historians, philologists, and anthropologists today.
Anatolia, because of the time depth of its human settlement and its geographical as well as cultural diversity, offers a great potential for such studies. The chronological span of these papers stretches from the enigmatic world of Chalcolithic cave paintings at Latmos to the contemporary yet no less mesmerizing reality of sacred spaces in the Yezidi religion. Space in terms of its geographical aspect is equally well covered, reaching from the western and southwestern shores of Asia Minor to the Anatolian highlands, Cappadocia, and the Black Sea littoral, finally touching
and crossing the easternmost borders of modern Turkey. Contents: 1) The Sacred Landscapes of Matar: Continuity and change from the Iron Age through the Roman period (Lynn E. Roller); 2) Sacred Space in Iron Age Phrygia (Susanne Berndt-Ersöz); 3) The Meaning of Shape: Pottery Innovations and Traditions in the Sanctuary at Bronze Age Miletus (Ivonne Kaiser) 4) Epigraphy versus Archaeology: Conflicting Evidence for Cult Continuity in Ionia during the Fifth Century BC (Anja Slawisch); 5) Vision and the Ordered Invisible: Geometry, Space, and Architecture in the Hellenistic Sanctuary of Athena Nikephoros in Pergamon (John R. Senseney); 6) Cult and Landscape at Pergamon (Soi Agelidis); 7) The Gods of the Latmos: Cults and Rituals at the Holy Mountain from Prehistoric to Byzantine Times (Anneliese Peschlow-Bindokat); 8) From Elyanas to Leto: The Physical Evolution of the Sanctuary of Leto at Xanthos (Jacques des Courtils); 9) Sacred Landscapes and the Colonization of the Sinop Promontory (Owen Doonan); 10) Sacred Boundaries and Protective Borders: Outlying Chapels of Middle Byzantine Settlements in Cappadocia (Veronica Kalas); 11. The Church of Mren and the Architecture of Intersection (Christina Maranci); 12) Sacred Spaces in the Yezidi Religion (Birgül Açıkyıldız).
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 S1622 2007: Bones as Tools: Current Methods and Interpretations in Worked Bone Studies edited by Christian Gates St-Pierre and Renee B. Walker. ISBN 9781407300344. £36.00. iii+182 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
The papers in this volume were originally collected for a symposium entitled “Recent Developments in Bone Tool Studies”, organized for the 69th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology held in Montreal (Canada) on April 2nd, 2004. The objective of the symposium was to illustrate how recent developments in approaches, methods and techniques in worked bone studies can contribute to our understanding of basic problems encountered in archaeological research, with case studies from Europe and North America essentially, but also from Latin America and Oceania. Contents: 1) Bone Tools and Bone Technology: A Brief History (Genevieve M. LeMoine); 2) The Importance of the Palaeontological and Taphonomical Analyses for the Study of Bone Industries (Carole Vercoutère, Marylène Patou-Mathis and Giacomo Giacobini ); 3) Technology on Bone and Antler Industries: A Relevant Methodology for Characterizing Early Post-Glacial Societies (9th - 8th Millennium BC) (Eva David ); 4) Prehistoric Bone Tools and the Archaeozoological Perspective: Research in Central Europe (Alice M. Choyke and Jörg Schibler); 5) Methods, Means, and Results when Studying European Bone Industries (Alexandra Legrand and Isabelle Sidéra); 6) The Use of Bone and Antler Tools: Two Examples from the Late Mesolithic in the Dutch Coastal Zone (Annelou van Gijn); 7) Stability and Change in Bone Tool Use Along the Middle Missouri, North Dakota (Janet Griffitts); 8) Bone Awls of the St.Lawrence Iroquoians: A Microwear Analysis (Christian Gates St-Pierre); 9) A Diachronic Study of Pre- and Post-Contact Antler, Bone and Shell Artifacts from New York State (Renee B. Walker); 10) Bone Disc Manufacturing Debris from Newfoundland to Antigua During the Historic Period (Walter E. Klippel and Bonnie E. Price); 11) Bone Tool Types and Microwear Patterns: Some Examples from the Pampa Region, South America (Natacha Buc and Daniel Loponte); 12) A Priliminary Typology of Perpendicularly Hafted Bone Tipped Tattooing Instruments: Toward a Technological History of Oceanic Tattooing 9Benoît Robitaille); 12) Bone Artifacts and their Importance to Archaeology (Sandra L. Olsen).
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