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  BAR S2141 2010: Pharmacy and Medicine in Ancient Egypt Proceedings of the conferences held in Cairo (2007) and Manchester (2008) edited by Jenefer Cockitt and Rosalie David. ISBN 9781407306827. £34.00. iv+147 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
This monograph comprises the Proceedings of The Pharmacy and Medicine in Ancient Egypt Conferences, jointly organised by The University of Manchester, Britain, and the National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt, and held at The National Research Centre (March 19-21, 2007) and The University of Manchester (September 1-3, 2008). Contents; 1) The ‘Pharmacy in Ancient Egypt Project’ at the KNH centre for biomedical Egyptology (A.R. David); 2) Complementary medicine in ancient and modern Egypt (R. Baligh); 3) How the success of the ancient Egyptians depended on plants (J. Bellinger); 4) Do the formulations of ancient Egyptian prescriptions stand up to pharmaceutical scrutiny? (J.M. Campbell, J.R. Campbell and A.R. David); 5) The application of archaeobotany, phytogeography and pharmacognosy to confirm the pharmacopoeia of ancient Egypt 1850 -1200 BC) (J.M. Campbell and A.R. David); 6) A reassessment of Warren Dawson’s ‘Studies in Ancient Egyptian Medical Texts’ 1926-1934 in the light of archaeobotanical and pharmacological evidence (J.M. Campbell, E. El Saeed and A.R. David); 7) A grain of truth? determining the diet of the ancient Egyptians (J.A. Cockitt); 8) Supporting evidence: the potential role of stable isotope data in investigating the ancient Egyptian pharmaceutical tradition (J.A. Cockitt); 9) The x-ray plates of Tutankhamen: a reassessment of their meaning and significance (R.C. Connolly); 10) Blue lotus: ancient Egyptian narcotic and aphrodisiac? (D.J. Counsell); 11) Cocaine and nicotine in ancient Egypt? (D.J. Counsell); 12) Dead men tell tales: what we can learn from the courtier skeleton. A multidisciplinary study (B.L. Dement); 13) Histological examination of ancient pomegranate and wheat (J. Denton and S. Wassef); 14) Porotic hyperostosis in ancient Egyptians from the Bahriyah Oasis, Graeco-Roman period (M.Erfan Zaki, A. El-Sawaf, M. Al-Tohamy Soliman and A. Azab); 15) Were the dentists in ancient Egypt operative dental surgeons or were they pharmacists? (R.J. Forshaw); 16) Skull injuries discovered in the tomb of Djehutimes, Thebes (tt 32) (E. Fóthi and Z. Bernert); 17) Jdt rnpt or the ‘pestilence of the year’ (H. Győry); 18) Similarity of fracture treatment of workers and high officials of the pyramid Builders (F. Hussien, R. El Banna, W. Kandeel and A. Sarry El Din); 19) A study of punica granatum l. (pomegranates) (S.W.Y. Lee); 20) The man who knows bulls – veterinary practice in ancient Egypt (C. Lord); 21) A primacy in history: the doctors of the pharaohs (S. Malgora); 22) A cure for baldness: ancient Egyptian pharmacological remedies for the hair and scalp (N.N. McCreesh, A.P. Gize and A.R David); 23) Good for what ales you – a prospective study into the role of beer in ancient Egyptian medicine (R.J. Metcalfe); 24) Molecular methods for the study of ancient pharmacy (R.J. Metcalfe); 25) Palaeopathological - radiological evidence for cerebral palsy in an ancient Egyptian female mummy from a 13th dynasty tomb (A.G. Nerlich, S. Panzer, E. Hower-Tilmann and S. Lösch); 26) Surgery in ancient Egypt – palaeopathological evidence for successful medical treatment by surgery (A.G. Nerlich, S. Panzer and S. Lösch); 27) ‘Other than’ - Egyptology as science? A selective history (P.T. Nicholson); 28) Ancient Egyptian headaches: ichthyo - or electrotherapy? (R. Park); 29) Healing measures: dja and oipe in ancient egyptian pharmacy and medicine (T. Pommerening); 30) The historical treatment of mummies and the impact upon museums today. (G. Scott); 31) Stomatological investigation of Egyptian mummies from the Ptolemaic period in Hungary (I. Szikossy, H. Győry, B. Tolnai and I. Pap); 32) The Ebers Papyrus’ treatise on tumours 857-877 and the phyto-pharmacopoeia prescribed (P.A. Veiga).
BAR S2140 2010: Pithoi Technology and history of storage vessels through the ages by Mimika Giannopoulou. ISBN 9781407306810. £60.00. 296 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs in colour and black and white.
This major study of pithoi storage vessels has two aims: To present in detail the technology of making storage vases without the use of a potter’s wheel, as this survived in the area of the Gulf of Messenia (SW Greece), and to compare it with other techniques which have been used to make storage vases over time. Data from original fieldwork by the author on the subject of storage vases are presented also from Crete, Chios and Siphnos. The other aim is to present the technology and dating of the sherds coming from storage vases found in ancient Messene. To facilitate an understanding of the subject, the author gives an historical retrospection on the presence and use of storage vases in different periods, through citing indicative examples. The analytical presentation of the technology of storage vases starts from the types of workshops, the kinds of clays, the techniques of extracting, processing and preparing the raw materials, the different techniques of making, decorating and firing the vases. The study focuses on the presence of non-plastic materials (temper) as integral elements of the technology of large storage vases. The study then goes on to present, date and comment on the technology or the material from ancient Messene, as well as material from other regions of Greece for which there is technological commentary. This is followed by the presentation of the results of research in the Gulf of Messenia, which focuses on the manmade and the natural environment, the technology of making the vases and the ways in which they are distributed. The resultant data, in combination with the presentation of the techniques, sketch all the facets of the climax and decline of vase making activity, while the technological choices and the differentiations in the storage vases in the specific place and time are evaluated and interpreted.
BAR S2139 2010: Pastoralists, Warriors and Colonists: The Archaeology of Southern Madagascar by Mike Parker Pearson with Karen Godden, Ramilisonina, Retsihisatse, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Georges Heurtebize, Chantal Radimilahy and Helen Smith. With contributions by Irene de Luis, David Barker, Seth Priestman, Lucien Rakotozafy, Bako Rasoarifetra, Alan. ISBN 9781407306803. £95.00. xxxv+725 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
This book presents the results of archaeological research in the extreme south of Madagascar between 1991 and 2003, and provides a synthesis of the region’s archaeology. Madagascar is an island with many unique species of fauna and flora; its extreme south is a semi-arid region with remarkable vegetational adaptations. Before the arrival of humans, there were many species of megafauna of which the most extraordinary were the flightless elephant birds, the largest avian species in the world. Today the inhabitants of the south have adapted to this aridity with a vibrant culture and strong traditions. The dating of the first colonisation of Madagascar is not certain, but certain sites in the southwest have provided radiocarbon dates towards the end of the first millennium BC. From the tenth to thirteenth century, there was a well-developed civilisation in the south. During the fourteenth century, population numbers fell in the far south and the majority of settlements from this period are found in locations chosen for their defensive aspects. The way of life that evolved in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries is similar to that of recent times and today. Europeans arrived at the beginning of the sixteenth century and, by the mid-seventeenth century, the French had established a colony at Fort-Dauphin on the southeast coast. The people of the south are well known today for their large and elaborate stone tombs and standing stones. However, this is not a particularly ancient tradition. Before the appearance of these monumental funerary constructions, burials were marked by arrangements of small stone uprights or by wooden palisades. The large stone tombs that are such a dominant feature of today’s landscape have their origins in standing-stone monuments around the end of the eighteenth century.
BAR S2138 2010: Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Miniature Figures in Eurasia, Africa and Meso-America Morphology, materiality, technology, function and context edited by Dragos Gheorghiu and Ann Cyphers. ISBN 9781407306797. £35.00. vi+158 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
The present volume is mainly the result of two symposia held at the European Archaeological Association meetings in Krakow (2006) and Zadar (2007), respectively, which gathered studies on the function, morphology, materiality, technology, ritual, function and context of figurines, whether made of clay, wood, metal, stone, bone or shell. Contents: Introduction: Small Worlds (Dragos Gheorghiu and Ann Cyphers); 1) Beyond ‘Venus’ figurines: technical production and social practice in Pavlovian portable art (Rebecca A. Farbstein); 2) Dissentions: magnitude, usability and the oddness of Neolithic figures (Christina Marangou); 3) Neolithic ceramic figurines in the shape of a woman–house from the Republic of Macedonia (Nikos Chausidis); 4) Cult artifacts from the Neolithic and chalcolithic settlement of Leceia, Oeiras, Portugal (João Luís Cardoso); 5) The ‘god-dolly’ wooden figurine from the Somerset levels, Britain: the context, the place and its meaning (Clive Jonathon Bond); 6) Anthropomorphic antler sculptures in Abora Neolithic settlement (lake Lubāns wetland, Latvia) (Ilze Biruta Loze); 7) Ritual technology: an experimental approach to Cucuteni-Tripolye chalcolithic figurines (Dragos Gheorghiu); 8) Problems of identity for Mycenaean figurines (Andrea Vianello); 9) Go figure! Creating intertwined worlds in the Scandinavian late Iron Age (AD 550–1050) (Ing-Marie Back Danielsson); 10) A cognitive approach to variety in the facial and bodily features of prehistoric Japanese figurines (Naoko Matsumoto and Hideaki Kawabata); 11) Fragmentation practices in central Japan: middle Jōmon clay figurines at Shakadō (Ilona Bausch); 12) Awaking the symbolic calendar: animal figurines and the conceptualisation of the natural world in the Jomon of northern Japan (Liliana Janik); 13) Can clues from Egypt’s dynastic period shed light on its predynastic figurines? (Aloisia de Trafford); 14) Artificial cranial vault modification in Olmec figurines: identity, ancestry and politics in early Mesoamerica (Ann Cyphers); 15) The solid terracotta and stone figurines from central region of the Bolaños Canyon in the state of Jalisco, Mexico (Ma. Teresa Cabrero); 16) Figurines in the heart of the Aztec Empire (Cynthia L. Otis Charlton and Thomas H. Charlton).
BAR S2137 2010: Die Funktion und Bedeutung der Reiter-und Pferdeführerdarstellungen auf attischen Grab- und Weihreliefs des 5. und 4. Jhs. v. Chr. by Angelos Tillios. ISBN 9781407306780. £36.00. ix+170 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs. With catalogue. In German.
The present study aims to define the function and meaning of images of horsemen and horse leaders on Attic grave and votive reliefs in the religious, political and social context of Attica in the fifth and fourth century B.C. The funerary reliefs are examined within the context of the socio-political development of the image and mentality of the equestrians. Beyond their social and religious dimensions, these reliefs convey the anthropological dimension of death and illustrate positive social roles and ideals. The image of the horseman is signified semantically and generalized to represent the body of citizens collectively on the basis of the ideal of Athenian citizenship as formulated by the city-state and accepted by the Athenian citizens. The image of the horse is herein revealed as a special semiotic and iconographical element of Attic imagery which can be fully understood only when examined within its operational context. Therefore, it may serve to designate public space, represent democratic values and ideals of both the polis and of conflicting social groups, display the integration of horsemen in Athenian citizenship, or indicate particular religious beliefs of hero cult.
BAR S2136 2010: Ancient and Modern Bone Artefacts from America to Russia Cultural, technological and functional signature . ISBN 9781407306773. £53.00. ix+324 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
Contents: Introduction (Alexandra Legrand-Pineau and Isabelle Sidera); 1) Down to the Bone: Tracking Prehistoric Bone Technology in Southern Patagonia (Vivian Scheinsohn); 2) The Impact of Insularity on Morphologies and Techniques. The Aceramic Neolithic Bone Tools from Khirokitia (Cyprus) (Alexandra Legrand-Pineau); 3) The Neolithization in Southern Levant: Impact of Animal Herding on the Exploitation of Bone Materials, from Reticence to Adoption of Domestic Herds (Gaëlle Le Dosseur); 4) Worked Bone, Tooth and Antler Objects from the Early Neolithic Site of Asparn/Zaya-Schletz (Lower Austria) (Daniela Fehlmann); 5) Bone Artefacts from the Neolithic and Medieval Site of Karancsság – Alsó-rét (Northern Hungary) (Erika Gal); 6) Worked Bone Remains from Godin Tepe, Iran - Chalcolithic to Iron Age (Pam Crabtree and Douglas V. Campana); 7) Bone-Working in Roman Dacia (Lóránt Vass); 8) Socio-economic and Cultural Implications in Medieval Society: the Unpublished Collections of the Region of Douai (France) (Dorothée Chaoui-Derieux); 9) Iroquoian Bone Artifacts: Characteristics and Problems (Christian Gates St-Pierre); 10) Bone Working and Productions in the Medieval Castle of Guetrat (Salzburg) (Felix Lang); 11) Tortoiseshell in the 17th and 18th Century Dutch Republic (Marloes Rijkelijkhuizen); 12) Technological Signature Non-Utilitarian Transformation of Horse Mandibles. Magdalenian Examples from Pekárna (Moravia, Czech Republic) and La Vache (Ariège, France) ( Martina Lázničková-Galetová); 13) Palaeolithic Portable Art and its Relation to Ungulate Bones (Metapods) (Éva David); 14) Mesolithic Zoomorphic Perforated Antler Staff Heads from Central Russia and Eastern Urals: Ceremonial Weapons or Shaman’s Staves? (Mikhail Zhilin); 15) Experiments on Manufacturing Techniques of Mesolithic and Early Neolithic Slotted Bone Projectile Points from Eastern Urals (Svetlana Savchenko); 16) Ribs as a Raw Material in Roman Bone Artefacts from Virunum (Southern Austria) (Kordula Gostenčnik); 17) Antler Manufacturing in the Eastern Carpathian Regions in the Time of Sântana de Mureş-Černjachov Culture (Late Roman Period) (Sergiu Musteaţă and Alexandru Popa); 18) Highland Tunes in the Lowlands: a Medieval Vulture Bone Flute from Northern Germany (Hans Christian Küchelmann); 19) Archaeological Evidence of Pre-Industrial Worked Bone Activity in 18th Century Seville, Spain (Marta Moreno-García et al.); 20) Functional Signature. Reconstructing the “Chaîne Opératoire” of Skin Processing in Pavlovian Bone Artifacts from Dolní Věstonice I, Czech Republic (Michaela Rašková Zelinková); 21) Sewing With or Without a Needle in the Upper Palaeolithic? (Penelope Amato); 22) Technology and Use-wear Analysis of the Non-utilitarian Bones Objects from the Russian Upper Paleolithic Site of Byki-7(I) (Natalia Akhmetgaleeva); 23) Testing Functional Hypothesis of Late Holocene Bone Bipoints from the Lower Parana Wetands (Argentina) (Natacha Buc); 24) Early Neolithic and Chalcolithic Crude Adzes. A Technological and Use-wear Focus on an Unknown Artefact Type from Near-East to Western Europe (Isabelle Sidéra); 25) The Complete and Usable Tool: Some Life Histories of Prehistoric Bone Tools in Hungary (Alice M. Choyke and Márta Daróczi-Szabó); 26) Hafted Points and their Functional Interpretation on the Basis of their Horizontal Distribution at the Neolithic Site of Arbon Bleiche 3 (3384 – 3370 BC), Switzerland (Jörg Schibler et al.); 27) Tracing the Function of the Antler “Points” from the Late Bronze Age Fortified Settlement of Asva in Estonia (Heidi Luik); 28) Use-wear or Butchery Marks: a Borderline Case. Bone Objects from Roman Carnuntum, Lower Austria (Günther Karl Kunst); 29) Pierced Metapodials from al-Ândalus: Some Observations Towards their Understanding (Marta Moreno-García and Carlos M. Pimenta); 30) Late Pleistocene Technology in the New World: Bone Artifacts from Cueva del Medio and Other Sites in the Southern Cone of South America (Hugo G. Nami); 31) Functional Analysis of Prehistoric Bone Instruments from the Uruguayan Atlantic Coast (Federica Moreno Rudolph and Ignacio Clemente Conte); 32) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Prehispanic Harpoon Heads from Beagle Channel, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego (Patagonia, Argentina) (Vivian Scheinsohn); 33) Linking Evidences: from Carcass Processing to Bone Technology. The Case of the Lower Paraná Wetlands (Late Holocene, Argentina) (Alejandro Acosta et al.); 34) Bone Technology and Archaeological Interpretation in Prehispanic Colombia (Elizabeth Ramos-Roca).
BAR S2135 2010: Sargonic and Presargonic Texts in The World Museum Liverpool by Eric L. Cripps. ISBN 9781407306766. £33.00. 138 pages; 49 tablet illustrations.
A new study of the Old Akkadian tablets in the collection of the World Museum Liverpool (Liverpool, UK). This presentation comprises three sections. Chapter 1 recounts the modern history of the tablets. It deals with the acquisition of the tablets in the early twentieth century and surveys scholarly treatments of the texts following their first publication in the 1950s and 1960s. Chapter 2 fixes the chronological position of the texts within the context of the history of the Old Akkadian period and offers some interpretations of their historical context from the perspective of the information contained in them. The final section presents the texts themselves. Contents: Chapter 1. The modern history of the Sargonic texts in the World Museum Liverpool (WML): Hon. Arnold Keppel and the Norwich Museum. A first incomplete and unpublished edition. First publications of the WML Old Akkadian tablets. More recent publications of the WML tablets. Three Old Akkadian letters. Land and the ‘completed court case(s)’. Earlier publications of some WML Sargonic tablets. The WML collection and the CDLI. Chapter 2. Sargonic history: a perspective from the Liverpool cuneiform texts. The historical time frame. A brief political history. Aspects of the late Sargonic land economy in Sumer. Agriculture and the harvest. Rations, bread and beer and the Akkadian army in Umma. The corvée and conscription. Other food disbursements. At the temple gate. The Sargonic legal system and a court record. An Old Akkadian gift. Conclusion. Chapter 3. Sargonic and Presargonic texts in the World Museum Liverpool; Autographs, Transliterations, Translations Î a new edition. A note on the metrology of the texts. Concordance with Museum Accession Numbers; Texts 1-49; Indexes of Personal Names, Professions and occupations, Place Names, Names of Deities, Bibliography.
BAR S2134 2010: De Pesués a Pejanda: Arqueología de la Cuenca del Nansa (Cantabria, España) edited by E. Muñoz Fernández and J. Ruiz Cobo. ISBN 9781407306759. £55.00. illustrated throughout with maps, figures, drawings and photographs. In Spanish.
The Nansa Valley, in many ways the westernmost drainage basin in Cantabria (N Spain), has traditionally been a blank page in archaeological terms, an area where only a few particular sites were known. The archaeological surveying carried out by the CAEAP group, both at cave sites and in the open air, has succeeded in showing that its archaeological record is comparable with that of the central valleys in the region. The results of the study of this record, presented in this book, suggest the existence of more or less subtle differences with the eastern part of the region. These divergences vary greatly in the different prehistoric and historic periods. Thus, at some times this valley is seen to form part of a wider area, while at others it displays traits belonging to its own character and appears to be occupied by a single human group. Otherwise, it can be included within the processes of change that affected the rest of the central part of northern Spain, with the diffusion of ideas coming from the south and west, and a powerful influence from the area of the Marina of Cantabria. This volume, a kind of “corpus” of sites, presents a full catalogue of all known sites in the valley, together with a study of the evolution of human settlement in the area. It is the starting point for future, more detailed, studies examining in depth the cultural adaptations developed by the human groups who lived along this river.
BAR S2133 2010: South Asian Archaeology 2007: Proceedings of the 19th Meeting of the European Association of South Asian Archaeology in Ravenna, Italy, July 2007. Volume II: Historic Periods edited by Pierfrancesco Callieri and Luca Colliva. ISBN 9781407306742. £56.00. 375 pages; illustrated throughout.
Proceedings of the 19th Meeting of the European Association of South Asian Archaeology in Ravenna, Italy, July 2007. Volume II: Historic Periods. Contents: 1) Contextualising Bodhgaya: A Study of Settlements and Monastic Sites in the Bodhgaya Region (A.A. Amar); 2) Desert Temples: Archaeology in Present Time (L.A. Babb et al.); 3) Devotional Figures on Buddhist Images from Ancient Mathura (C. BASU); 4) New Element of Fantasy and Rhythm Introduced in Gupta Art (G. Bhattacharya); 5) Cave 2 at Aurangabad: Buddhist Art at the Threshold of the 7th Century (P. Brancaccio); 6) The Evolution of the Goddess with the Cornucopia (M.L. Carter); 7) The Buddha’s Doorways and the rGya.dpag.pa’i lha.khang of Nako (M. Di Mattia); 8) ‘Early Terracotta - Figures from Kanauj: Chessmen?’ (M.A.J. Eder); 9) Hoysaḷa Temples (Karnātaka, Southern India) Built in the Northern Style of Architecture (G. Foekema); 10) Sculptures of Sūrya’s Attendants from Mathurā (M. Frenger); 11) From the Achaemenids to the Sasanians. Dāhān-e Gholāmān, Qal’a-ye Sam, Qal’a-ye Tapa: Archaeology, Settlement and Territory in Sīstān (Iran) (B. Genito); 12) Kantanagar Temple (North-East Bengal): a Carefully Planned Iconographic Universe? (S. Gill); 13) New Epigraphic Data from the Excavations of the Ghaznavid Palace of Mas’ūd III at Ghazni (Afghanistan) (R. Giunta); 14) Bharhut and its Wider Regional Context (J. Hawkes); 15) Conservation, Restoration or Reconstruction? The Case of a Wooden Temple in the Indian Himalayas (Maheshvar Temple at Sungra, Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh). Preliminary Research 9 A.-C. Juramie); 16) Yaksas or Portraits? A Re-Evaluation of the so-Called ‘Yak•a Statues’ from the Maurya-Śuṅga Period (V. Lefèvre); 17) Parthian Nisa. Some Considerations Based on New Research (C. Lippolis); 18) Unpublished Terracotta Figurines from the Bukhara Oasis (C.L. Muzio); 19) Peculiar and Unknown Iconographies of the Nāyaka Period in Tamil Country (T. Lorenzetti); 20) Newari Influence in Tibetan Paintings between the 11th and 14th Centuries (K. Meahl-Blondal); 21) Hitherto Unidentified Metal Sculptures of the Pañcarak•ā Goddess Mahāsāhasrapramardanī from Nepal and Tibet (G.J.R. Mevissen); 22) Through Ports, Passes and Junctions: Reconsideration of the Excavational Patterns of Minor Buddhist Caves in Western India with Special Reference to Junnar (N. Nakatani et al); 23) 11th Century Wall Paintings of Zhwa lu (H.F. and H.A. Neumann); 24) Aspects of Buddhist Artefacts and Features from the Excavation of Garab-Dzong, District Mustang, Nepal. The case of the Room 2 in House 5 (C. Pohl-Thiblet); 25) Tantra in Asylum – the Veiovis of Monterazzano’s Thunderbolt: Harbinger of Indian Tantric Vajra? (M.A. Polichetti); 26) The Seated Lady and the Gupta King (E.M. Raven): 27) Subsistence and the Samgha: the Rock Cut Monastery at Karāp and its Hinterland (G. Rees); 28) Tracing a Neglected Heritage of Play: Report from a Field Documentation of Engraved Game Boards at the Ancient Site of Vijayanagara, Karnataka, South India (c. AD 1350-1565) (E. Rogersdotter); 29) Marble from the Palace of Mas’ūd III in Ghazni (M. Rugiadi); 30) Dwellings in the Snow: Living Traditions in the Braldu Valley (Baltistan) (I.E. Scerrato); 31) Ongoing Typological Studies of Bodhisattva Images from Greater Gandhāra: Four Jatamukuta Conventions for Images of the Maitreya-type (C.W. Schmidt); 32) Road Networks and Trade Routes in the Golconda Kingdom (AD 1518-1687) (R. Simpkins); 33) Investigations at the Early Historic City of Sisupalgarh, India 2005-07 (M.L. Smith & R.K. Mohanty); 34) Festivity and Sacred Aura Thoughts on the Origins and Meaning of the Garland Moulding in the Ornamentation of Gandhāran stūpas (M. Stoye); 35) A Link between the Darel Valley and Gilgit, the Khanbery Valley. Field Research in Northern Pakistan Tracing Faxian’s Route from Pamir to Darel 2005 & 2006 (H. Tsuchiya); 36) The Citadel of Tissamaharama and the Torrents of Spring (H.-J. Weisshaar & S. Dissanayake); 37) The Purchase of Jetavana in an Amaravati-Relief (M. Zin).
BAR S2132 2010: The Gilund Project: Excavations in Regional Context Proceedings of the 19th Meeting of the European Association of South Asian Archaeology in Ravenna, Italy, July 2007 edited by Teresa P. Raczek and Vasant Shinde. ISBN 9781407306735. £25.00. ii+61 pages; illustrated throughout.
The proceedings of the 19th Meeting of the European Association of South Asian Archaeology in Ravenna, Italy, July 2007. Contents: 1 Introduction: A Review of the Gilund Excavations and Related Research (Vasant Shinde and Teresa P. Raczek); 2) Development from Mesolithic to Chalcolithic in the Mewar Region of Rajasthan: Contribution of Gilund Excavation (Vasant Shinde); 3) An Overview of the Antiquities from the 1999-2005 Excavations at Gilund, A Chalcolithic Site in Southeast Rajasthan (Julie A. Hanlon); 4) Cultural Developments at the Chalcolithic Site of Gilund, Rajasthan (Matthew J. Landt); 5) An Insight into the Economy of the Chalcolithic People of Gilund (Debasri Dasgupta Ghosh); 6) Contextualising Gilund: A Comparative Analysis of Technology (Teresa P. Raczek); 7 Middle Asian Interconnections at the Turn of the Second Millennium BC: Locating the Foreign Elements in the Gilund Seals and Seal Impressions (Marta Ameri); 8) Indices of Interaction: Comparisons between the Ahar-Banas and Ganeshwar Jodhpura Cultural Complex (Uzma Z. Rizvi).
BAR S2131 2010: Commerce and Economy in Ancient Egypt Proceedings of the Third International Congress for Young Egyptologists 25-27 September 2009, Budapest edited by András Hudecz and Máté Petrik. ISBN 9781407306728. £38.00. iv+187 pages; illustrated throughout.
Proceedings of the Third International Congress for Young Egyptologists held in Budapest in September 2009. Contents: Foreword: Earning a Living in a New Kingdom Village (Jac. J. Janssen); 1) The Olive Tree Cultivation and Trade in Ancient Egypt (Jose M. Alba Gómez); 2) The Economic Component of the Title jmy-r(A) Hmw-nTr ‘Overseer of the God’s Servants’? (Vessela Atanassova); 3) Use and Symbolism of Stone in Statuary: the Imitation of Painted Stones (Dania Bordignon); 4) An Economic Perspective on Relationships between Near Eastern Kingdoms during the Late Bronze Age (Alessandro Cappellini and Sara Caramello); 5) At the Intersection of Trading Routes. Commerce and Economy of Pre- and Early Dynastic Tell el-Farkha (Eastern Nile Delta) (Marcin Czarnowicz); 6) The Oracular Inscription of the High Priest of Amun Menkheperre in the Khonsu Temple at Karnak (Gabriella Dembitz); 7) Business with Gods: The Role of Bargaining in Demotic Letters to Gods and Graeco-Roman Judicial Prayers (Kata Endreffy); 8) Under the Protection of the Gods: the Divine Role for the Good Outcome of Trade and Mining Expeditions (Barbara Gilli); 9) On Egyptian Wine Marketing (Maria Rosa Guasch); 10) High-status Industries in the Capital and Royal Cities of the New Kingdom (Anna Kathrin Hodgkinson); 11) The Early Egyptian Rulers in the Nile Delta: a View from the Necropolis at Tell el-Farkha (Mariusz A. Jucha); 12) Two Egyptian Private-Law Documents of the Old Kingdom (Evgeniya Kokina); 13) Storage in the Ancient Egyptian Palaces (Giulia Pagliari); 14) Pottery as an Economic Indicator in Egypt’s Marginal Sites (Virpi Perunka); 15) The Grain Trade and the Importance of Egypt for the Economy of the Hellenistic-Roman World: Some Remarks (Marco Rolandi);16) Inscribed Stone Vessels as Symbols of the Egypto-Achaemenid Economic Encounter (Ian Shaw); 17) Customs Duty in the New Kingdom (Birgit Schiller); 18) Food and Luxury Goods – Animal Remains as an Indicator for Trade Connections Based on the Example of Faunal Material from Ancient Syene/Aswan, Egypt (Johanna Sigl); 19) Maritime Study on North- and Southbound Trade: the Red Sea Harbours (Alessandra Siragusa); 20) Gifts Exchange and Tribute in the Amarna Correspondence (Hanadah Tarawneh); 21) Commercial Routes in Upper Egypt from Naqada II to the Protodynastic: Defining Patterns of Interaction (Elena Valtorta); 22) Lead Weights and Ingots from Heracleion-Thonis: an Illustration of Egyptian Trade Relations with the Aegean (Elsbeth van der Wilt); 23) The Egyptian Economy: Sources, Models and History (David A. Warburton); 24) Trade and Money in Ramessid Egypt: the Use of General Equivalents in Economic Transactions (Andrea Zingarelli).
BAR S2130 2010: The Road Inns (Khāns) in Bilād al-Shām by Katia Cytryn-Silverman. ISBN 9781407306711. £58.00. vi+290 pages; 100 plates of maps, drawing and figures in colour and b/w; Gazetteer.
The term khan can refer to urban and rural hostelries, relay stations of the Mamluk royal mail, fortresses, farmhouses, warehouses, and others. This multiplicity of meanings naturally complicates a study that aims at analysing only one of these functions—in this case the rural hostelries. The first comprehensive study on Near Eastern inns (Die Karawanserai im vorderen Orient) was published by K. Müller in 1920. Since then relatively few works have been dedicated to the subject of en route architecture in the Islamic lands and the road inns in particular. This study focuses mainly on an integrated survey of historical and archaeological evidence, presented in three sections, dealing respectively with issues of terminology, patronage, and architecture. These discussions relate to the gazetteer of surveyed buildings, presented in chapter 5. The danger lies in the inclusion of invalid samples in the research environment. Chapter 2 aims to avoid taking misinterpreted structures into consideration by establishing clear parameters before commencing a proper classification of the structures. Chapter 3 deals with the period and region under discussion. Against the background of patronage, this chapter treats the probable reasons, as well as patterns, for a relative boom in the construction of such monuments. Chapter 4 summarises the main architectural issues of the khans of Syria, both in the course of the archaeological survey undertaken between 1998 and 2002. The Gazetteer in chapter 5 approaches the same issues, i.e., architecture, history and patronage, but treats each site separately. It combines field, library and archival work, and aims at a comprehensive corpus of Mamluk khans in the southwest of Greater Syria. This work is intended to be part of a long-term study of the inns of Greater Syria, encompassing sites dating from early Islamic to Ottoman times and dealing, among others, with their architectural and functional transformations.
BAR S2129 2010: The Hunter-Gatherer Use of Caves and Rockshelters in the American Midsouth A geoarchaeological and spatial analysis of archaeological features at Dust Cave by Lara K. Homsey. ISBN 9781407306704. £35.00. viii+101 pages; illustrated with 7 tables and 38 figures in colour and b/w; data Appendices.
This study investigates the form, function, and organization of features at the Late Paleoindian through Middle Archaic site of Dust Cave, Alabama (US), using a multidisciplinary approach combining macromorphological, micromorphological, and chemical analyses. Previous studies have relied on observations made at the macroscopic level using morphological and/or content attributes, severely masking the diversity of activities they represent. A more robust method conceptualizes features as sedimentary deposits and reconstructs their depositional history as a means of identifying feature function. At Dust Cave, an integrated method combining micromorphology and geochemistry with more traditional studies of morphology and content highlights the importance of several activities not previously recognized, including broiling, smoking, nut processing, storage, and refuse disposal. Use of Dust Cave as a place in the hunter-gatherer landscape of the Middle Tennessee Valley did not remain constant through time, but rather changed over the millennia. During the Late Paleoindian and early Early Archaic, Dust Cave functioned as a short term residential camp which was occupied fairly intensively during the late summer through fall. During the late Early Archaic, the site shifted to a residential base camp. During the Middle Archaic, the site shifted again to a logistical extraction camp where groups processed hickory nuts on such a large scale that the copious amounts of refuse generated give one the impression of a longer term base camp. The changes seen at Dust Cave mirror changes at other regional cave and rockshelter sites at which numerous nut processing pits, nutting stones, and enormous quantities of nut charcoal indicate a general shift in site use as plant extraction camps—sites where nuts were boiled and parched for transport to base camps located at lower elevations. The increased reliance on mast resources corresponds to warming and drying associated with the middle Holocene. These vegetation changes played a key role in the increasingly logistical mobility strategy of Middle Archaic hunter-gatherer groups.
BAR S2128 2010: Religious Architecture in the Czech Republic in the Light of Geophysical Prospection and Archaeological Excavation by Vladimír Hašek and Josef Unger. ISBN 9781407306698. £50.00. vii+90 pages; 121 maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs in colour and b/w.
A representational survey of sites of religious architecture in the present Czech Republic using geophysics and non-destructive archaeological methods. Chapter 1) Introduction; Chapter 2) Basic characteristic features of religious buildings from the 9th to the 18th century in Bohemia and Moravia; Chapter 3) Geophysical Research (including an historical survey of applying geophysical methods in the prospection of religious buildings; fieldwork methodology; other non-destructive methods of prospection); Chapter 4) Discussion of practical results and observations (including church buildings from the 11th to 12th century; church Buildings from the 13th to 15th century; village parish churches; city parish churches; monasteries; Benedictines; Cistercians; Augustinians; Church buildings from the 16th to 18th centuries; village parish churches and chapels; Jewish monuments; Chapter 5) Conclusions.
BAR S2127 2010: Il tesoro di Desana. Una fonte per lo studio della società romano-ostrogota in Italia by Marco Aimone with a Preface by Dieter Quast, with Appendices by Birgit Arrhenius, Paola Comba e Marco Aimone. ISBN 9781407306681. £60.00. 457 pages; illustrated throughout, including 12 colour plates. In Italian with English abstract .
The Desana Treasure has been well known since its discovery, or rather, since it was purchased on the antiques market in 1938 by the ‘Museo Civico di Arte Antica’ in Turin. The composition of the Desana treasure shows that is was ‘collected’ over centuries. A ring with gemstone and a chain from the 2/3rd century are the oldest elements and objects from early 6th century the most recent. The latter give the date for the burial. Though, most objects are from the late 5th / early 6th century AD, that is from the reign of Theoderich the Great. The composition of the Desana treasure is interesting from another point of view as well. There are male and female dress adornments and silverware in the form of spoons. This new analysis of the Desana treasure allows a fresh view on this complex and offers insights into society in Ostrogothic Italy, especially into the relationship between old Latin landowners and Ostrogothic nobility. The detailed description and photographs of the 51 objects give valuable information regarding the goldsmith’s art, which is extremely important because of the lack in Italy of burials of the same value belonging to that period. So, this description is crucial for future research about goldsmith’s workshops in the late antique Mediterranean.
BAR S2126 2010: Corduba durante la Antigüedad tardía Las necrópolis urbanas by by Isabel Sánchez Ramos. ISBN 9781407306674. £35.00. 167 pages; illustrated throughout with Catalogue. In Spanish.
This research seeks to understand the process of transformation of the city of Cordoba (Andalusia, southern Spain) during Late Antiquity, with a special focus on the material evidence indicative of the Christianization of funeral and urban topography of this city belonging to the ancient Roman province of Baetica. In so doing, this study goes beyond an understanding of the strict context of the necropolis itself, which forms the core of the project.
BAR S2125 2010: La ceramica, l'alimentazione, l'artigianato e le vie di commercio tra VIII e XIV secolo Il caso della Toscana meridionale by Francesca Grassi. ISBN 9781407306667. £41.00. 216 pages; illustrated throughout, including 12 colour plates; with catalogue. In Italian.
A study of medieval ceramics (8th to 14th centuries AD) from 15 sites in the Tuscany region, central Italy. Analyses includes production, distribution and consumption.
BAR S2124 2010: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 36 Session C11: Ancient Cultural Landscapes in South Europe - their Ecological Setting and Evolution. Session C22: Gardeners from South America. Session S04: Agro-Pastoralism and Early Metallurgy Sessions. Session WS29: The Idea of Enclosure in Recent Iberi Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006), Vol.36 edited by José Eduardo Mateus and Paula Queiroz (C11), Angela Buarque (C22), Ana Rosa Cruz (S04), António Carlos Valera and Lucy Shaw Evangelista (WS29), Laurent Carozza, Didier Galop, Michel Magny and J. Guilaine (C88), Cláudia Fidalgo and Luiz Oosterbeek. ISBN 9781407306650. £38.00. 188 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs. Papers in English, French and Spanish.
Papers from Sessions C11, C22, WS29 and C88 from the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006); Contents: 1) Landscape development in North-central littoral Portugal; Influenced by climate,
anthropogenically induced or both? (Randi Danielsen); 2) Sulla scia dei Micenei: due produzioni specializzate nel sito del bronzo finale di Archi (Provincia di Chieti, Italy) (Tomaso Di Fraia); 3) La peinture sur céramique tupiguarani: expression des valeurs régionales et éthiques des horticulteurs préhistoriques tardifs du sud et de l’est brésiliens (André Prous); 4) Os horticultores guaranis: problemáticas, perspectivas e modelos (André Luis R. Soares); 5) L’occupation Tupinambá à Rio de Janeiro, Brésil (Angela Buarque); 6) The exploitation of Ursus arctos on the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age site of Villiers-sur Seine (Seine-et-Marne, France) (C. Pautret-Homerville, G. Auxiette and R. Peake); 7) La formación de las sociedades protourbanas en el ne de la Península Ibérica a partir de los contextos funerarios (1100-550 Ane cal.) (Enriqueta Pons, Raimon Graells, Mariona Valldepèrez); 8) Dwelling of ancient people as form of adaptation to cold climate conditions (Based on materials of Early Iron Age in Western Siberia) (Natalia Matveeva, Svetlana Berlina); 9) Food production in the Southeast of the Iberian Peninsula (1500-900 Cal Ane) (Joaquim Oltra Puigdomènech); 10) El complejo Marcavilca: Movilidad ciclica y territorio en las poblaciones tempranas del Morro Solar, Chorrillos (Luisa Díaz Arriola); 11) Tourism, Archaeology and Sustainable Development – A Model for Archaeological Areas Management (Fabio Carbone, Carlos M.M. Costa); 12) Mapping the Cosmos – A cognitive approach to Iberian prehistoric enclosures (António Carlos Valera); 13) The ditched enclosures of the Middle Guadiana Basin (Víctor Hurtado); 14) Neolithic enclosures as power expression in Mediterranean Spain (Teresa Orozco Köhler et al.); 15) Montenegro, a Neolithic enclosure in Galicia – Insights into Megalithic space (Camila Gianotti García et al.); 16) Ten keys to think Southern Iberian ditched enclosures (José E. Márquez Romero, Víctor J. Jiménez Jáimez); 17) El Lugar de Marroquíes Bajos (Jaén, España) – Localización y ordenación interna (Marcelo Castro López et al.); 18) Spatial Organisation of the Alcalar Copper Age Settlement (Algarve, Portugal) (María Elena Morán Hernández); 19) Scaling the social context of Copper Age Aggregations in Iberia (Pedro Díaz-del-Río); 20) Sicilian Anthropization in the Mediterranean Background (Angelo Vintaloro); 21) Etablissements et Parcours: L’influence de l’environnement sur les strategies d’installation et sur les parcours pendant le Chalcolithique en Italie Centre-Septentrionale (Neva Chiarenza et al.).
BAR S2123 2010: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 8 Session C68 (Part II): Monumental Questions: Prehistoric Megaliths, Mounds, and Enclosures Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006), Vol.8 edited by David Calado, Maxiliam Baldia and Matthew Boulanger. ISBN 9781407306643. £36.00. 173 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs. Papers in English, French and Spanish.
Papers from Session C68 (Part II) of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006); Contents: 1) Notes sur quelques structures funéraires de la région de Tindouf (Sud-sud-ouest, Algérie) (I. Amara and C. Yass); 2) Conceptual framework and archaeological data of the initial classist society in the Atlantic Band of Cadiz (SW Spain) in 3rd and 2nd millennia BC (José Ramos et al.); 3) Archaeometric analyses of pottery from TRB barrows and hilltop enclosures (Matthew T. Boulanger & Michael D. Glascock); 4) Megaliths of the Vera Island in the Southern Urals (Stanislav A. Grigoriev & Julia V. Vasina); 5) Memories of a megalithic landscape: mortuary practices and gallery graves in western Sweden during the Late Neolithic (Eva Stensköld); 6) Monumental questions: prehistoric megaliths, mounds and enclosures of Central and Northern Europe (Maximilian O. Baldia); 7) Approaching the dead – social and architectural interaction reflected in a megalithic tomb (Lars Larsson); 8) Earthen architecture in Classic period Central Veracruz, Mexico: development and function (Annick Daneels); 9) Monumentality and complex hunter-gatherers in southeast coastal Brazil (Suzanne K. Fish & Paul R. Fish); 10) From Moundville to Angel: a comparison of the organization of monumental architecture and central places at three points in space and time in the Mississippian world (Christopher S. Peebles & Staffan Peterson) 11) Sambaquieiros of the Southeastern coast of Brazil: the beginning of settlement, functioning and collapse (Maria Dulce Gaspar and Márcia Barbosa); 12) New perspectives on moundbuilding societies – from coastal southern Brazil natural dynamics and regional archaeology (Paulo DeBlasis); 13) Shellmidden formation at the Beagle Channel (Tierra del Fuego, Argentine) (Ernesto Luis Piana & Luis Abel Orquera); 14) Homogeneity ideology versus status distinction: changes in burial system in the southwestern Korean Bronze Age (Jangsuk Kim & Jaehoon Hwang); 15) Megalithic tombs, power, and social relations in West Sumba, Indonesia (Ron L. Adams); 16) Gurdadaguji stone arrangements: late Holocene aggregation locals? (Fiona Hook & Adrian Di Lello); 17) Small things in big places – coloration and fabric structure of selected polychrome textiles from the Seip Mound Group in Eastern North America (Christel M. Baldia et al.).
BAR S2122 2010: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 7 Session C68 (Part I): Monumental Questions: Prehistoric Megaliths, Mounds, and Enclosures Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006), Vol.7 edited by David Calado, Maxiliam Baldia and Matthew Boulanger. ISBN 9781407306636. £35.00. 167 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs. Papers in English, French and Spanish .
Papers from Session C68 (Part I) of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006); Contents: 1) Megalithisme et sédentarisation en Europe occidentale (Jean-Pierre Mohen); 2) Some stones can speak! The social structure, identity and territoriality of SW Atlantic Europe complex appropriator communities reflected in their standing stones (David Calado et al); 3) Time and signs: Southern Portuguese megalithic art diachrony (Mário Varela Gomes); 4) Megaliths as rock art in Alentejo, Southern Portugal (Manuel Calado & Leonor Rocha); 5) “The-teeth-under-the-sky”: mountain steles and green stone workings in the Kuznetskii Alatau, Southern Siberia (Khakassia, Russia) (S. Cassen et al.); 6) Neolithic rock art at the Avebury stone circles in Southern England (Terence Meaden et al); 7) Ciertos aspectos funerarios en la necropolis del III milenio de Valencina-Castilleja (Sevilla) (Rosario Cruz-Auñon et al.); 8) Estudio geoarqueológico del conjunto de los dólmenes de Antequera (Málaga, España) (Francisco Carrión Méndez et al.); 9) More than big stones! Peripheral and confined or resistant lineage societies in the pristine class-society territorial framework of the South-Western Iberian Peninsula (2900-2000 BC) (Francisco Nocete & Ana Peramo); 10) Moon, spring and large stones – landscape and ritual calendar perception and symbolization (Catarina Oliveira & C. Marciano Da Silva); 11) Megaliths, memory and the power of stones (Chris Scarre); 12) Landscape, architectural and ritual aspects of the Chalcolithic (Calcolithic) sanctuaries in the Lombardy Alps (Italy) (Raffaella Poggiani Keller); 13) Anonymous ancestors? The Tilley/Shanks hypothesis revisited (Karl-Göran Sjögren); 14) Two Neolithic enclosures at Sormás-Török-Földek (Southwest-Transdanubia, Hungary) and their possible geometrical and astronomical role: a case study (Judit P. Barna & Emília Pásztor); 15) Houses of living and houses of dead in the Neolithic and Copper Age of Central Europe (Jan Turek); 16) La region de Tagrera (Tassili-wan-Ahaggar, Ahaggar, Algerie) – representations rupestres et monuments funeraires protohistoriques (Iddir Amara et al.); 17) Structured deposition and ditched enclosures in the Late Prehistory of Southern Iberia (IV-III millennia B.C.) (Víctor Jiménez Jáimez & José Enrique Márquez Romero).
BAR S2121 2010: Minería y metalurgia romana en el sur de la P. Ibérica Sierra Morena oriental by Luis Arboledas Martínez. ISBN 9781407306629. £40.00. ix+203 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs. In Spanish with English abstract.
This research focuses on the area known as the mining district of Linares-La Carolina, located on the eastern foothills of the Sierra Morena, N/NE province of Jaén, Andalucia, Spain. Geologically, this area is located in the southern border of the hesperic massif, a lithologic area with a prevailing presence of metamorphic rocks. This area is rich in mineralized faults grouped in high-density networks of veins abounding in copper minerals. Remains of mines and settlement ascribed to the Copper Age and Bronze Age on the basin of the Rumblar river show that extractions in this area started in late Prehistoric. It extended over the Iberian period and survived under the Punic period. However, after the Roman conquest, in the context of the II Punic War, there began intensive exploitation of plumb-silver and copper mines in the mining area of the western Sierra Morena. The author began investigations in 2004, comprising archaeological prospecting, literature reviews and source analyses, and a study of inscriptions and coins. So far 69 ancient mining-metallurgy sites (mines, slagheaps, smelting sites, etc.) have been explored, allowing the author to draw a range of conclusions regarding the administrative, fiscal, political and social organisation of mining within the Romanization process in the Iberian Peninsula.
BAR S2117 2010: From Tribe to Province to State A historical-ethnographic and archaeological perspective for reinterpreting the settlement processes of the Germanic populations in western Europe between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages by Paolo de Vingo. ISBN 9781407306582. £52.00. xxi+303 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, and figures.
This study focuses on the diversity with which early medieval society formed not only among macro European zones but also within individual areas, and thus on the need to look beyond the models elaborated during a phase in which archaeological sources were still fragmentary and inadequate. Through a combination of historical and documented-based investigation and the most recent extensive archaeological data, the author makes a comparative analysis of the different results of the movements of Germanic groups, especially in the particularly representative area of northern Italy and the Alpine system, during various periods: in the 5th century as auxiliary troops under the control of the same Roman Empire (Burgundians), then as the new military élites and finally as the new ruling class (Ostrogoths and Langobards), revealing how the cultural evolution of the new sites appears to be strictly correlated to different situations and often common to the new Germanic element and to the local Romanised components. Interesting and stimulating concepts that underscore the formation of a shared culture are presented in this contribution along with a refreshing new perspective of certain aspects, such as the evolution of clothing and funerary rituals, already considered expressions of simple ethnic preservation.
BAR S2116 2010: The Conservation of Archaeological Materials Current trends and future directions edited by Emily Williams and Claire Peachey. ISBN 9781407306575. £44.00. vi+244 pages; illustrated throughout.
The genesis for this conference, and its subsequent proceedings, came from discussions held in the newly formed Archaeological Discussion group, a subgroup of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works’ Objects specialty group, about the definition of an archaeological conservator and the directions in which the field was evolving. Contents: 1) Conservation: concepts and reality (Chris Caple); 2) The elements of conservation: a conceptual model (John R. Watson); 3) A clear case of profiling: defining archaeological conservators in the U.S. (Claire Peachey); 4) Training archaeological conservators (Virginia Greene); 5) Research and training in a field conservation laboratory: Kaman-Kalehöyük (Glenn Wharton); 6) Archaeological conservation in the U.S. Navy (Claire Peachey); 7) Getting the job done: challenges presented by continuity, change, and controversy in the conservation of artifacts in shipwreck archaeology (Sarah Watkins-Kenney); 8) Fieldwork and artifact stabilization a woodland burial study: developing methodologies for monitoring and modeling the burial environment (Karla Graham and Peter Crow); 9) Excavating soil blocks at Sylvester Manor (Dennis Piechota); 10) The use of cyclododecane in field stabilization and storage of archaeological finds (Sanchita Balachandran); 11) New perspectives regarding the stabilization of terrestrial and marine archaeological iron (Paul Mardikian, Néstor G. González, Michael J. Drews, and Philippe de Vivies); 12) Conservation of waterlogged cork using supercritical CO2 drying (Michael J. Drews, Jessica Green, Jason Hemmer, Philippe de Viviés, Néstor G. González, and Paul Mardikian; 13) Documentation and the technical record documenting Mongolia’s deer stones: application of 3D laser scanning technology to archaeological conservation (Basiliki Vicky Karas, Harriet F. Beaubien, and William W. Fitzhugh); 14) Documentation and laser scanning of the ‘cavates’ (cliff dwellings) in Bandelier national monument, New Mexico (Jim Holmlund, Angelyn Bass Rivera, and Lauren Meyer); 15) Collaborative programs for ‘USS Monitor’ conservation (Marcie Renner and Steve Hand); 16) Saving the Ferryland Cross: 3D scanning, replication, and anoxic storage (Judith A. Logan, Robert L. Barclay, Paul Bloskie, Charlotte Newton, and Lyndsie Selwyn); 17) Mimbres ceramics analysis: integrating conservation with archaeological research (Landis Smith); 18) Non-invasive technological study of archaeological iron objects (Evelyne Godfrey); 19) Archives and repositories. A change in philosophy for the care of archaeological collections? (Hedley Swain); 20) The work of the archaeological archives forum in the United Kingdom (Kathy Perrin); 21) Creating and maintaining a digital archive for Maryland’s archaeological collections (Rebecca Morehouse, Sara Rivers-Cofield, and Julia A. King); 22) Lost towns project archaeological archives: preserving the records of a destructive science at a small institution (Caralyn Roviello Fama); 23) A tale of three surveys: creating a flexible condition survey for mixed archaeological collections (Howard Wellman); 24) Revisiting metal artifacts from old excavations: storage problems and solutions (Kathy Hall); 25) Assessment of dry storage microenvironments for archaeological iron (David Thickett and Marianne Odlyha); 26) Collaboration and community involvement in archaeological conservation (Glenn Wharton); 27) Community involvement and conservation education (Betty L. Seifert); 28) Collaboration for preservation, use, and knowledge: examples from the Gordion Project (Jessica S. Johnson); 29) Homol’ovi research program: archaeology, conservation and community involvement (Teresa Moreno, E. Charles Adams, and Nancy Odegaard); 30) Archaeological archives – who cares? The volunteer program at the London Archaeological Archive and Research Center, Museum of London (Jannicke Langfeldt and Helen Ganiaris); 31) Renovating the conservation facilities at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt: a collaborative effort (Eric Nordgren); 32) Collaboration and education: the excavation and conservation of two 19th-century tombstones in Williamsburg, Virginia (Emily Williams and Andrew Edwards); 33) The role of archaeological conservation in armed conflict (Catherine Sease).
BAR S2115 2010: The History of Archaeological Research in the Melfese, Southern Italy by Pasqualina Iosca. ISBN 9781407306568. £27.00. 79 pages; 15 figures; text in English and Italian.
A study of the neglected Malfese regions of southern Italy and the archaeological work undertaken in the area. The objective is to organize an excursus on the history of archaeological research carried out in the territory of the Vulture-Melfese, drawing on most recent analyses. It will includes summaries of the conclusions that have been presented and which are seen as particularly useful regarding the study of the archaeology of the region, beyond supplying the bibliography of the publications of such archaeological activity. This is organised by territory; each part of the Vulture-Melfese having the history of research described, with a discussion of the finds and a complete bibliography of all published material, including not only scholarly works but articles published in popular journals and newspapers in the Provincial and National Libraries of Potenza.
BAR S2114 2010: Campfires in Context: Hunter-Gatherer Fire Technology and the Archaeological Record of the Southern High Plains, USA by Paul N. Backhouse. ISBN 9781407306551. £40.00. xxiii+189 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, and figures.
This monograph although concentrating on the Southern High Plains area (USA) represents a tremendous step forward in understanding fire technology and hot rock technology and their role and relationship within hunter-gatherer societies. It not only elevates the status of hearths and hearthstones as worthy of study within hunter-gatherer research but equally important, also presents new avenues for that research. Contents: 1) Introduction; 2) Background; 3) Approach and Methodology; 4) Geographic Focus; 5) Theoretical Framework; 6) Ethnographic Context; 7) Experimental Approach; 8) Archaeological Results and Analysis; 9) Discussion and Potential for Application to Other Regions; 10) Conclusion.
BAR S2113 2010: University of Southampton Series in Archaeology 2 Lake Mareotis: Reconstructing the Past Proceedings of the International Conference on the Archaeology of the Mareotic Region Held at Alexandria University, Egypt 5th-6th April 2008 edited by Lucy Blue assisted by Emad Khalil. ISBN 9781407306544. £35.00. ix+156 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, and figures.
Papers representing the final synthesis of a conference entitled The International Conference onthe Archaeology of the Mareotic Region. Lake Mareotis: Reconstructing the Past hosted by the University of Alexandria, Egypt between 5th and 6th April 2008. Contents: 1) Fawzi el-Fakharani: Pioneer excavator at Mareotis (Mona Haggag); 2) The Mareotic region in ancient sources (Mohamed S. Abd-el-Ghani); 3) A note on Lake Mareotis in Byzantine times (Mostafa el Abbadi); 4) A study of the evolution of the Maryut Lake through maps (Ismaeel Awad); 5) Lake Mareotis Research Project (Lucy Blue); 6) The results of a preliminary survey at Mareotis Island (Dylan Hopkinson); 7) The city of Marea/Philoxenité (reflections on the Alexandria University excavations, 1977-1981 (Mona Haggag); 8) Marea Peninsula: occupation and workshop activities on the shores of Lake Mariout in the work of the Center d’études Alexandrines (cealex, cnrs usr 3134) (Valérie Pichot); 9) On interpretations of archaeological evidence concerning Marea and Philoxenite (Mieczyslaw D. Rodziewicz); 10) Marea or Philoxenite? Polish excavations in the Mareotic region 2000-2007 (Krzysztof Babraj & Hanna Szymańska); 11) The lake structures at Taposiris (Marie-Françoise Boussac & Mourad el Amouri); 12) Schedia, Alexandria’s harbour on the Canopic Nile. Interim report on the German Mission at Kom el Giza/Beheira (2003-2008) (Marianne Bergmann, Michael Heinzelmann & Archer Martin); 13) Recent survey work in the southern Mareotis area (Penelope Wilson); 14) Wineries of the Mareotic region (Dorota dzierzbicka); 15) Waterfront installations and maritime activities in the Mareotic region (Emad Khalil); 16) Lake Mareotis Research Project. Phases of outrage and destruction (Sameh Ramses & Ahmed Omar).
BAR S2112 2010: La Annona y la política agraria durante el Alto Imperio romano by Gustavo Sanz Palomera. ISBN 9781407306537. £38.00. v+186; illustrated with maps, plans, and figures. In Spanish with English abstract.
A study of the food supply of the Roman army and the local populations. Food provision, principally wheat, was in the hands of an institution known as Annona. This institution mainly oversaw the adequate supply of food supplies for the city of Rome (annona civica) and the army (annona militaris). Both were the beneficiaries of the redistribution system promoted by the emperors in terms of agrarian policy.
BAR S2111 2010: Building Identities: Socio-Political Implications of Ancient Maya City Plans by Matthew S. Mosher. ISBN 9781407306520. £27.00. 81 pages; 3 tables, 32 figures.
This study examines, through a variety of evidence, Late Classic (c. 250-900 AD) Maya political organization, specifically the existence of large-scale political structures as evidenced through specific patterns of city plans and architectural similarities. This particular exercise draws upon such interconnected aspects of current and past Maya scholarship as epigraphic reconstructions of political history, elite architecture, the nature of the ancient Maya state, and research into the less tangible aspects of the ancient Maya civilization, such as the cosmological and ideological frameworks within which such issues were conceived, negotiated, and imbued with meaning.
BAR S2110 2010: The Collapse of Palatial Society in LBA Greece and the Postpalatial Period by Guy D. Middleton. ISBN 9781407306513. £34.00. vi+142 pages; illustrated with maps, plans, and figures.
This monograph deals with the destruction and disappearance of the palaces and palace societies of Late Bronze Age or Mycenaean Greece c.1200 and aspects of continuity and change in the subsequent Postpalatial period of the twelfth and eleventh centuries (LHIIIC). It is primarily concerned with mainland Greece and the islands, excluding Crete. An emphasis in this work, where analysis of the Greek material itself or theories based upon it is attempted, is the potential for differences between palatial and non-palatial areas. In order to set in context the discussion of collapse and of Postpalatial society, Chapter 1 is a brief introduction to Mycenaean material culture and interpretations of Mycenaean society. A limited survey is also offered, in order to clarify the extent and chronology of the collapse. Chapter 2 reviews developments in general collapse theory as drawn from recent and major publications. It further examines recent discussion of specific examples of collapse to identify current trends in interpretation. Chapter 3 critically examines theories of the Mycenaean collapse, concentrating on major styles of interpretation and ending in a discussion of the present consensus. Chapter 4 uses recent discussions of the Hittite, Maya and Roman collapses and continuities to suggest possible analogies for processes at work in LBA Greece. Chapter 5 examines the evidence for migrations and population mobility in Postpalatial Greece, discussing settlements and sites, and noting the contribution of survey. Chapter 6 deals with changes in rulership and social structure in the Postpalatial period, emphasising distinctions between areas of Greece that had palaces and non-palatial regions. The conclusion draws together the preceding discussions.
BAR S2109 2010: Sacred and Civic Stone Monuments of the Northwest Roman Provinces by S. L. McGowen. ISBN 9781407306506. £35.00. vii+159 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, and figures. Catalogue.
This study examines Roman sculpture across the provinces extending from the Rhine to the Pyrenees and Britain to understand better both regional similarities and local peculiarities, to contextualize them historically, culturally, and geographically, and to set them within wider patterns across the Empire. Chapter 1) Introduction; Chapter 2) The Monuments’ Chapter 3) The Interplay of Agency, Material, and Style; Chapter 4) Form and Iconography; Chapter 5) Comparing Trends; Chapter 6) Sacred and Civic Stone Monuments of North Africa and the East; Chapter 7) Conclusion.
BAR S2108 2010: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 35 Session C74: Methods of Art History Tested against Prehistory; Session C81: Spirals and Circular Forms: the Most Common Rock Art in the World? Session C85: European Cave Art; Session S02: Euro-Mediterranean Rock Art Studies; Session S07: Global State edited by Marc Groenen and Didier Martens (C74), Jane Kolber; John Clegg and Alicia Distel (C81), Kevin Sharpe and Jean Clottes (C85), Mila Simões Abreu (S02), Giriraj Kumar and Robert Bednarik (S07), James Keyser and Mavis Greer (WS37). ISBN 9781407306490. £37.00. x+177 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans.
Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), Vol. 35. Contents: Introduction (Marc Groenen & Didier Martens); 1) Application de la méthodologie de l’Histoire de l’art à l’étude de l’art paléolithique: l’attribution des oeuvres anonymes à ses auteurs (Juan-María Apellaniz) ; 2) Les peintures de la grotte de la Pasiega A (Puente Viesgo, Cantabrie) à l’épreuve de la méthode de l’attribution (Marc Groenen, Didier Martens); 3) The recognition of diversity through style in the Saharan rock-art research: an historiographic approach from the Western Sahara (Joaquim Soler Subils); 4) The rock art of South-Morocco revisited: On surprising stylistic and thematic characteristics of the so-called ‘Pseudo-Bovidien’ and ‘Tazinien’ rock art from the mid valley of Wadi Draa (Renate Heckendorf); 5) Spirals in Humahuaca and in the NW of Argentina (South America) Alicia Ana (Fernández Distel, José Luis Mamaní); 6) Spirals at Sturt’s Meadows (John Clegg); 7) Circular elements in the rock art of the State of Bahia, Brazil (Guilherme Albagli de Almeida); 8) Spirals of the prehistoric Open Rock painting from Kosova (Edi Shukriu); 9) To be or not to be Palaeolithic, that is the question (Robert G. Bednarik); 10) The Margot Cave (Mayenne): a new palaeolithic sanctuary in West France (Romain Pigeaud et al.) 11) Fluted Animals in the Zone of Crevices, Gargas Cave, France (Kevin Sharpe, Leslie Van Gelder); 12) Schematic panel with paleolithic punctuation and other questions of Paleoastronomy and Philosophy of Antiquity (José Fernández Quintano); 13) Epipaleolithic and Mesolithic Burial’s from 12.000 to 7.000 BP in Llevantin Territory Art Rock (Carme Olària, Francesc Gusi, José Luís López); 14) Gravuras serpentiformes na região de Trás-os-Montes (Maria Fernanda Ferrato Melo de Carvalho); 15) The Camera Obscura and the Origin of Art: The Case for Image Projection in the Paleolithic (Matt Gatton, Leah Carreon, Madison Cawein, Walter Brock, and Valerie Scott); 16) Etude et présentation de l’art rupestre en Iran (exemple d’étude dans les régions du province central et Kermân d’Iran) (Elyas Saffaran; 17) Archeological Use of Caves on the Northwestern Plains, USA (John Greer and Mavis Greer); 18) Mogollon rock art and the status of the ‘flute player’ (Maarten van Hoek); 19) The findings of the presence of the sabre toothed tiger (Beltrão, M. C. M. C. and Locks, M.).
BAR S2107 2010: Society for Arabian Studies Monographs 10 Death and Burial in Arabia and Beyond Multidisciplinary perspectives edited by Lloyd Weeks. ISBN 9781407306483. £55.00. x+372 pages: illustrated throughout with maps, plans, and figures.
This volume represents the proceedings of the conference entitled ‘Death, Burial and the Transition to the Afterlife in Arabia and Adjacent Regions’ that was held at the British Museum from November 27th to 29th, 2008. Contents: Introduction to the contributions on burial archaeology (Lloyd Weeks); 1) Remarks on Neolithic burial customs in south-east Arabia (Adelina U. Kutterer); 2) Ornamental objects as a source of information on Neolithic burial practices at al-Buhais 18, UAE and neighbouring sites (Roland de Beauclair); 3) On Neolithic funerary practices: were there “necrophobic” manipulations in 5th-4th millennium BC Arabia? (Vincent Charpentier and Sophie Méry) ; 4) The burials of the middle Holocene settlement of KHB-1 (Ra’s al-Khabbah, Sultanate of Oman) (Olivia Munoz, Simona Scaruffi and Fabio Cavulli); 5) Results, limits and potential: burial practices and Early Bronze Age societies in the Oman Peninsula (S. Méry); 6) Life and Death in an Early Bronze Age community from Hili, Al Ain, UAE (Kathleen McSweeney, Sophie Méry and Walid Yasin al Tikriti); 7) Patterns of mortality in a Bronze Age Tomb from Tell Abraq (Kathryn Baustian and Debra L. Martin); 8) Discerning health, disease and activity patterns in a Bronze Age population from Tell Abraq, United Arab Emirates (Janet M. Cope); 9) Early Bronze Age graves and graveyards in the eastern Ja’alan (Sultanate of Oman): an assessment of the social rules working in the evolution of a funerary landscape.(J. Giraud); 10) An inventory of the objects in a collective burial at Dadna (Emirate of Fujairah) (Anne Benoist and Salah Ali Hassan); 11) Collective burials and status differentiation in Iron Age II Southeastern Arabia (Crystal Fritz); 12) Camelid and equid burials in pre-Islamic Southeastern Arabia (Aurelie Daems and An De Waele); 13) The emergence of mound cemeteries in Early Dilmun: new evidence of a proto-cemetery and its genesis c. 2050-2000 BC (Steffen Terp Laursen); 14) Probing the early Dilmun funerary landscape: a tentative analysis of grave goods from non-elite adult burials from City IIa-c (Eric Olijdam); 15) The Bahrain bead project: introduction and illustration (Waleed M. Al-Sadeqi); 16) The burial mounds of the Middle Euphrates (2100-1800 B.C.) and their links with Arabia: the subtle dialectic between tribal and state practices (Christine Kepinski); 17) Reuse of tombs or cultural continuity? The case of tower-tombs in Shabwa governorate (Yemen) (Rémy Crassard, Hervé Guy, Jérémie Schiettecatte and Holger Hitgen); 18) A reverence for stone reflected in various Late Bronze Age interments at al-Midamman, a Red Sea coastal site in Yemen (Edward J. Keall); 19) The Arabian Iron Age funerary stelae and the issue of cross-cultural contacts (Jérémie Schiettecatte); 20) Sabaean stone and metal miniature grave goods (D’arne O’Neil); 21) Excavations of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Yemen: a Minaean necropolis at Barāqish (Wadi Jawf) and the Qatabanian necropolis of Hayd bin Aqil (Wadi Bayhan) (Sabina Antonini and Alessio Agostini); 22) Funerary monuments of Southern Arabia: the Iron Age – early Islamic tradition (Juris Zarins); 23) Burial contexts at Tayma, NW Arabia: archaeological and anthropological data (Sebastiano Lora, Emmanuele Petiti and Arnulf Hausleiter); 24) Feasting with the dead: funerary MarzeaΉ in Petra (Isabelle Sachet); 25) Biomolecular archaeology and analysis of artefacts found in Nabataean tombs in Petra (Nicolas Garnier, Isabelle Sachet, Anna Zymla, Caroline Tokarski, Christian Rolando); 26) The monolithic djin blocks at Petra: a funerary practice of pre-Islamic Arabia (Michel Mouton); 27) Colouring the dead: new investigations on the history and the polychrome appearance of the Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rostam, Fars (Alexander Nagel and Hassan Rahsaz); 28) Introduction to the contributions on Arabia and the wider Islamic world (Janet Starkey); 29) The intercessor status of the dead in Maliki Islam and in Mauritania (Corinne Fortier); 30) Cairo’s City of the Dead: the cohabitation between the living and the dead from an anthropological perspective (Anna Tozzi Di Marco); 31) Observations on death, burial, graves and graveyards at various locations in Ra’s al-Khaimah Emirate, UAE, and Musandam wilayat, Oman, using local concerns (William and Fidelity Lancaster); 32) Shrines in Dhofar (Lynne S. Newton); 33) Wādī HaΡramawt as a Landscape of Death and Burial (Mikhail Rodionov); 34) Attitudes, themes and images: an introduction to death and burial as mirrored in early Arabic poetry (James E. Taylor); 35) Jewish burial customs in Yemen (Dina Dahbany-Miraglia); 36) ‘In anima vili’: Islamic constructions on life autopsies and cannibalism (José Mª Bellido-Morillas and Pablo García-Piñar); 37) Instituting the Palestinian dead body (Suhad Daher-Nashif).
BAR S2106 2010: Las Producciones Metálicas del III y II Milenio Cal ANE en el Suroeste de la Península Ibérica by Manuel Eleazar Costa Caramé. ISBN 9781407306476. £37.00. 189 pages; 212 tables and graphs; 15 figures. Text in Spanish with English abstract.
An investigation into the prehistoric mining and metallurgy of the southwest Iberian Peninsular.
BAR S2105 2010: The Values of Community Archaeology: A Comparative Assessment between the UK and US by Faye A. Simpson. ISBN 97814073064609. £29.00. viii+96 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, and figures.
Does community archaeology work? Worldwide over the last decade, there has been a boom in projects utilising the popular phrase ‘community archaeology’. These projects take many different forms, stretching from the public-face of research and developer-funded programmes to projects run by museums, archaeological units, universities and archaeological societies. Many of these projects are driven by the desire for archaeology to meet a range of perceived educational and social values in bringing about knowledge and awareness of the past in the present. They are also motivated by the desire to secure adequate funding for archaeological research. However, appropriate criteria and methodologies for evaluating the effectiveness of these projects have yet to be designed. This research sets out a methodology based on self-reflexivity and ethnology. It focuses on community excavations, in a range of contexts both in the UK and US and assesses the values these projects produce for communities and evaluates what community archaeology actually does.
BAR S2104 2010: Attic Pinakes: Votive Images in Clay by by Kyriaki Karoglou. ISBN 9781407306438. £47.00. viii+215 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs in colour and black and white; catalogue.
In modern studies pinax refers to a flat, rectangular, painted slab of clay placed in a sanctuary or tomb. In this study the author presents the various occurrences and possible meanings of the word pinax in the sources and examines the representation of pinakes on vases. A synthesis of pinakes is much needed since it can provide valuable information about ancient Greek religious and social practices. To this end, this book by concentrating on Attic pinakes fills a substantial gap in scholarship since Attic pinakes have not been methodically studied before, although they form one of the largest corpora of pinakes, and are hence a rich and reliable source of information. Chapter one examines the terminology, usage, and placement of pinakes drawing upon ancient testimonia found in literary sources, inscriptions, and representations in vase-painting. This chapter focuses on pinakes as a special category of offering regardless of the material of manufacture, be it wood, metal, or clay. Chapter two presents the corpus of surviving Attic pinakes. A discussion of their archaeological context is followed by an analysis of their iconographic themes in relation to Attic vase-painting in general and in conjunction with various contemporary Attic cults. Chapter three considers the inscriptions, techniques of manufacture, and decoration of Attic pinakes, as well as the attributions to Attic black-figure and red-figure painters. Questions of import, circulation, and dating are also addressed. Chapter four places the dedication of pinakes in the context of Athenian ‘votive religion’ and society by correlating them with other classes of votives dedicated in Attic sanctuaries, notably the Athenian Acropolis. By examining the iconography of genre scenes on Attic pinakes in light of current modes of representation of specific social groups, chapter four contributes to a sociology of dedication in ancient Greece, an under-explored subject of inquiry. Finally, an appendix correlates the Corinthian pinakes from Penteskouphia and the Potters’ Quarter with the Attic material.
BAR S2103 2010: Perspectives in Landscape Archaeology Papers presented at Oxford 2003-5 edited by edited by Helen Lewis and Sarah Semple. ISBN 9781407305790. £31.00. 119 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
This book derives from a seminar series held at the Oxford University Institute of Archaeology in 2003-2004
and a second brief series in spring 2005. The idea was to bring the students together with academic and professional archaeologists engaged in doing interesting work in landscape archaeology, who could present recent thinking about ancient landscapes from a variety of perspectives, using various approaches, and with a number of different aims. Contents: Preface and acknowledgments (Helen Lewis and Sarah Semple); 1) Sarsen Stories (Joshua Pollard and Mark Gillings); 2) Syncretism of space: the Christianisation of the Ethiopian landscape? (Niall Finneran); 3) Connotations of arable land use in landscape archaeology (Helen Lewis); 4) Sustaining prehistoric agricultural landscapes in southern Spain, highland Yemen and northern New Mexico: the geoarchaeological perspective (Charles French); 5) ‘Where the cattle went, they went’: towards a phenomenological archaeology of cattle mustering in the Kunderang ravines, New South Wales, Australia (Rodney Harrison); 6) The nature and distribution of early medieval woodland and wood-pasture habitats (Della Hooke); 7) Wetting the fringe of your habit: medieval monasticism and coastal landscape (Joe Flatman); 8) Still living with the Dobunni (Stephen Yeates); 9) The Gray Hill Landscape Archaeology Project, Llanfair Discoed, Monmouthshire, Wales (Adrian M. Chadwick, with contributions by Joshua Pollard); 10) The topography of outdoor assembly sites in Europe with reference to recent field results from Sweden (Alexandra Sanmark and Sarah Semple).
BAR S2102 2010: Society for Arabian Studies Monographs 9 Ports and Political Power in the Periplus Complex societies and maritime trade on the Indian Ocean in the first century AD by Eivind Heldaas Seland. ISBN 9781407305783. £29.00. viii+ 97 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
In the centuries around the turn of our era, long distance trade based on the monsoon winds connected all coasts of the western Indian Ocean. Ships from India, Arabia, Egypt, East Africa and Mesopotamia conveyed luxuries such as silk, spices and slaves, but also subsistence goods including grain and inexpensive textiles between coasts separated by thousands of kilometres of water. In the same period the first complex societies emerged in parts of Africa and Southern India. In other regions existing states reorganised or were replaced or marginalised by new polities. This study aims at exploring the significance of maritime commerce to societies on the Indian Ocean rim, by examining how rulers adjusted their policy in order to control and profit from trade. The point of departure is the anonymous Greek first century AD Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. This is a guide to navigation and trade on the Indian Ocean, covering the coasts of the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, East Africa and India. The unknown author, who to a large extent relied on personal experience, included not only sailing directions, but also a wealth of information on local products, markets and political conditions. Chapter 1 introduces the subject and the setting. Chapter 2 discusses how to measure the impact of trade on complex societies. Chapter 3 deals with the content and reliability of the Periplus. Other chapters survey the situation along the coasts of Arabia, Africa and western / southern India in detail, and argue that rulers and states utilised a range of policies in order to profit from the monsoon trade.
BAR S2101 2010: Tecnología lítica del Paleolítico inferior del noreste de la Península Ibérica y sureste de Francia by by Joan Garcia Garriga. ISBN 9781407305776. £39.00. 210 pages; illustrated with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs. In Spanish with English abstract.
The scientific objectives of this research are to study the technological processes during the Middle and initial Upper Pleistocene in the northeastern Iberian Peninsular and southwestern France, and their implications for the behaviour of prehistoric human societies. The research studies of the lithotechnical records of archaeological sites located in different ecosystems (the Corbières Massif, the river basins of Roussillon, the river Ter terrace system, la Selva depression, and lacustrine basin of Banyoles), and their industries found in the sedimentary deposits preserved in caves (G level of the Caune de l’Arago), rock-shelters (lower levels of Mollet I), or in ancient paleosoils (Puig d’Esclats, Casa Nova d’en Feliu and Can Burgés), fluvial flood plains (Domeny Industrial), the deposits dismantled by erosional action on slopes (Costa Roja, Mas d’en Galí and Puig d’en Roca III), and in ancient fossil fluvial terraces/open-air sites (Mas Ferréol, Plane d’en Bourgat and Butte du Four-Llabanère). The results of the lithotechnical analyses allow for the documentation of the differentiated adaptive patterns of mesopleistocene hominids, reflected in the industries’ level of technological variability between the geographical areas. The data obtained is assessed within three parameters: the areas where the necessary raw materials for knapping were obtained; the study of the technical production systems characteristic of each regional unit; and the diachronic interval of these settlements obtained both by relative chronology as well as through the application of absolute dating techniques.
BAR S2100 2010: Living with Animals: a Zooarchaeological Study of Urban Human-Animal Relationships in Early Modern Tornio (northern Finland), 1621-1800 by by Anna-Kaisa Puputti. ISBN 9781407305769. £26.00. 74 pages; illustrated with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
In this work the author describes the animal husbandry practices and the use of wild resources in early modern Tornio (northern Finland) based on zooarchaeological evidence. The animal bone assemblages from Tornio have not previously been published or reported, and the urban animal husbandry practices and the use of wild resources have not been analysed archaeologically, apart from a preliminary analysis of the seventeenth-century faunal materials from two plots. The author uses these results to consider the connections between animals and urban social interaction, and the changing human-animal and human-environmental relationships in early modern Tornio. In this sense, the study also contributes to the understanding of the emerging modern worldview and social order in the northern European periphery during the early modern period.
BAR S2099 2010: The Stone Age of Chukotka, Northeastern Siberia (New Materials) by by Margarita A. Kiryak (Dikova) . Edited by Translated and edited by Richard L. Bland and Yaroslav V. Kuzmin. . ISBN 9781407305752. £47.00. ix+270 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
This work introduces all the multicomponent artifact complexes from the Stone Age Chukotkan archaeological sites (north-eastern Siberia) discovered by the author so that researchers can have a broad access to them. Illustrative material has been selected (including those objects that are few in number, as well as isolated finds) in order to give this work the character of a primary source.
BAR S2098 2010: Der bunte Himmel: Untersuchungen zu den Tondächern westgriechischer Typologie by by Matthias Lang. ISBN 9781407305745. £39.00. iii+198 pages; illustrated plates section; catalogue. In German.
BAR S2097 2010: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 48 Neolithic and Chalcolithic Architecture in Eurasia: Building Techniques and Spatial Organisation Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006), Vol 48, Session C35. edited by edited by Dragoş Gheorghiu. ISBN 9781407305738. £37.00. vii+172 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
Papers from Session C35, Neolithic and Chalcolithic Archaeology in Eurasia: Building Techniques and Spatial Organisation, presented at the XV UISPP World Congress, Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006. Contents: Introduction (Dragos Gheorghiu); 1) The early sedentism in Mesolithic Japan: towards a comparative study for Neolithization (Makoto Tomii); 2) Les cycles d’occupation des abris Natoufiens (Mallaha-Eynan, Israel) (Nicolas Samuelian); 3) The transition from the round plan to rectangular (Mehmet Özdoğan); 4) Proto-historic courtyard buildings in the Southern Levant (Yosef Garfinkel); 5) Méthode d’analyse spatiale des vestiges architecturaux du site neolithique ancien stratifié de Kovacevo (Bulgarie) (Cynthia Jaulneau); 6) Building techniques during the Neolithic and Eneolithic in Eastern Slavonia (Jacqueline Balen); 7) Architecture of the Linearbandkeramik settlement at Balatonszárszó–Kis-Erdei-Dűlő in Central Transdanubia (Krisztián Oross); 8) Human activity zones around the house of the Linearbandkeramik culture in southeastern Poland (site: Zwieczyca) (Maciej Debiec and Aleksander Dzbynski); 9) Detecting social complexity among the Neolithic hunter-gatherers in Finland. The example of Pattijoki Kastelli (Jari Okkonen); 10) Socio-economic structure of the Lengyel culture reflected by two settlements (Judit Regenye); 11) The technology of building in Chalcolithic southeastern Europe (Dragoş Gheorghiu); 12) New data regarding the architecture of Precucuteni buildings (Nicolae Ursulescu and Adrian Felix Trencariu); 13) Sur l'architecture de la civilisation Chalcolithique Ariuşd-Cucuteni-Tripolye. techniques de construction, types de maison (Attila László) ; 14) Neo-eneolithic cult constructions from southeastern Europe: Techniques of building and spatial organization (Gheorghe Lazarovivi and Cornelia-Magda Lazarovici); 15) Intentional firing of southeastern Europe Chalcolithic houses? A perspective from experimental archaeology (Dragoş Gheorghiu and Romeo Dumitrescu); 16) Structural evidences and interpretable features in Early Neolithic Northern Italy (Fabio Cavulli); 17) L’Architecture domestique en Sardaigne (Italie) entre la fin du Néolithique et le Chalcolithique (Maria-Grazia Melis); 18) The VSW variant Chalcolithic house on the Titelberg, Luxemburg (Ralph M. Rowlett).
BAR S2096 2010: Navigare necesse est: Lighthouses from Antiquity to the Middle Ages History, architecture, iconography and archaeological remains by Baldassarre Giardina. ISBN 9781407305721. £56.00. vi+348 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs, 2 colour maps. Text in English and Italian.
Baldassarre Giardina’s book is the fruit of many years of research. Since the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century and the historical and archaeological studies of E. Allard, L.A. Veitmeyer and He. Thiersch, little work has been done on the subject of lighthouses. No up-to-date or systematic scholarly research has been produced until now. Drawing on the rich accumulation of existing research, the author has in addition brought together evidence from historical and literary sources from the ancient, medieval and modern periods. Together with this, he has researched new evidence, data and scientific discoveries, and from these he has assembled a framework that sheds light on hitherto unpublished aspects of these structures, identifying their archaeological and typological characteristics. With this book, the author has given us a systematic exploration of the subject, its results arranged in such a way as to demonstrate the earliest form of these structures and their evolution in time.
BAR S2095 2010: An Early Pottery Neolithic Occurrence at Beisamoun, The Hula Valley, Northern Israel The Results of the 2007 Salvage Excavation by by Danny Rosenberg with contributions by Nurit Shtober, Iris Gorman-Yeroslavski, Vered Eshed,Noa Raban-Gerstel, Guy Bar-Oz, Yotam Tepper and Ariel Berman. ISBN 9781407305714. £34.00. xi+138 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
In the autumn of 2007 a large-scale salvage excavation took place on the western margins of Beisamoun in the Hula Valley in northern Israel, as part of the development of the Rosh Pina–Qiryat Shmona highway. Excavation in the western part of the greater area of the Beisamoun site, formerly known for its Pre-Pottery Neolithic B finds, revealed a wealth of a archaeological objects attributed to an early phase of the Pottery Neolithic period. This volume presents the final reports of the 2007 salvage excavation, and it discusses relevent issues concerning the Prehistory of the Hula Valley during the earliest stages of the Pottery Neolithic period. Chapter 1) The site and the 2007 salvage excavation (Danny Rosenberg); Chapter 2) Geological and geomorphological settings (Nurit Shtober ); Chapter 3) The stone component of the pits and pavements (Danny Rosenberg and Nurit Shtober); Chapter 4) The pottery assemblage (Danny Rosenberg); Chapter 5) The lithic assemblage (Iris Groman-Yeroslavski and Danny Rosenberg); Chapter 6) The obsidian assemblage (Danny Rosenberg); Chapter 7) The stone assemblage (Danny Rosenberg); Chapter 8) The Skeletal Remains (Vered Eshed); Chapter 9) The faunal remains (Noa Raban-Gerstel and Guy Bar-oz); Chapter 10) Cremation from the Hellenistic period at Beisamoun and other finds of historic periods (Yotam Tepper); Chapter 11) The Early Pottery Neolithic of Beisamoun and the Neolithic of the Hula Valley - Summary and Discussion (Danny Rosenberg).
BAR S2094 2010: Hearts and Bones: Bone Raw Material Exploitation in Tierra del Fuego by Vivian Scheinsohn. ISBN 9781407305707. £30.00. 114 pages; illustrated with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
The intention of this work is to explain how bone was used as a raw material on the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Three main lines of research are followed by the author: 1) The determination of the mechanical properties of bones used for tools; 2) the proposal and evaluation of a model derived from a Darwinian Evolutionary Theory; 3) metric and morphological analysis of Fueguian bone tools. The temporal scale chosen for this work is from the earliest arrival of humans on the island – archaeologically recorded as some 10,000 years bp, up to the 19th century. As a way of approaching this work, and in order to be able to discuss the model which will be proposed in Chapter 6, a history of Bone tool research (with a special focus on Europe, where the main trend in such studies was developed) is presented in Chapter 2. The following chapters are devoted to specifying and analyzing the way in which these factors appear in Tierra del Fuego. Firstly (Chapter 3), the mechanical properties of bone material are referred to. In Chapter 4 the environmental and geological setting of Isla Grande is presented. In Chapter 5 a synthesis of all that is known about the Fuegian populations from an archaeological point of view is presented. Chapter 6 develops the theoretical framework used for the study. A bone raw material model is discussed and methods and materials employed are discussed in Chapter 7. Chapter 8 gives results of the determination of mechanical properties of Tierra del Fuego bones. Chapter 9 gives the results of tool morphological analysis, and Chapter 10 discusses these results. Conclusions and further paths for research follow in Chapter 11.
BAR S2093 2010: Architecture rupestre et décor sculpté en Cappadoce (Ve-IXe siècle) by Nicole Lemaigre Demesnil. ISBN 9781407305691. £51.00. X+306 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs; in French.
A study of the plans and architectural details of the important 5th – 9th century Cappadocian churches
BAR S2092 2010: Tradition and Originality: A Study of Exekias by E. Anne Mackay. ISBN 9781407305684. £75.00. xiii+413 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs in colour and black and white. Catalogues and chronological charts..
Exekias inscribes his signature on several of his vases, and so he is one of the relatively few archaic painters whose real name is known to us. He is arguably one of the most accomplished and innovative of all black-figure vase-painters working in Athens in the sixth century BC, and also one of the most intriguing. Although his corpus of extant works is rather small, his impact on his contemporaries and immediate successors can be judged to have been disproportionately large. His painting style is not idiosyncratic, and so may be described as distinguished rather than distinctive; it is nevertheless readily identifiable as much for its technical quality as for the creative conceptualization of the scenes. His range of subjects, the exquisite precision of his execution, and above all his technical and conceptual innovation are the hallmarks of his personal style, and there is scarcely a book on Greek vase-painting that does not use one of his vases to illustrate the peak of achievement in the black-figure technique, yet there is a dearth of monograph studies of his work. This extensive work pays homage to this great artist, including the construction of a persuasive chronology of Exekias’ extant paintings through a comprehensive process of comparative analysis.
BAR S2091 2010: Archaeological Investigations of Marae Structures in Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia Report and discussions by Paul Wallin and Reidar Solsvik. ISBN 9781407305677. £36.00. 176 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs. With CD .
This publication is based on new fieldwork carried out on the island of Huahine, French Polynesia, in the years 2001-
2004. The aim of the project was to establish a chronological framework of the marae structures mainly on the island of Huahine in the Leeward Society Islands. However dates were also conducted on earlier collected charcoal from excavated marae structures on the Windward Islands to control the wider context of our local results. Other questions of interest to this study were how the marae structures were located on the landscape, as well as, aspects of their extended uses and modern changes.
BAR S2090 2010: The Upper Tisza Project. Studies in Hungarian Landscape Archaeology. Book 5: Upland Settlement in North East Hungary: Excavations at the Multi-Period Site of Regéc 95 by John Chapman, Magdolna Vicze, Robert Shiel, Steve Cousins, Bisserka Gaydarska and Chris Bond with contributions by Eniko Magyari, David Passmore, Denise Telford, Ferenc Gyulai, Edina Rudner, Keri Brown and Alan Biggins, illustrations by Sandra Rowntree an. ISBN 9781407305660. £43.00. xi+230 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs. With CD .
Book 5 in the reports series on the Upper Tisza Project, north-eastern Hungary. This volume covers the summer 1995 excavations at the multi-period site of Regéc 95, located in an upland basin in the South Zemplén Mountains. Contents: 1) Introduction to the archaeology of the South Zemplén Mountains and the Regéc Basin (John Chapman & Magdolna Vicze); 2) Site environment and land use (Robert Shiel, David Passmore & Eniko Magyari); 3) Surface collection, phosphate analysis and sampling strategy (John Chapman, Keri Brown & Alan Biggins); 4) The stratigraphic sequence (John Chapman, Robert Shiel & Magdolna Vicze); 5) The pottery (Magdolna Vicze & John Chapman); 6) The chipped stone (Steve Cousins & John Chapman); 7 The small finds (Denise Telford & John Chapman); 8) The plant remains (Ferenc Gyula & Edina Rudner); 9) Absolute dating (John Chapman & Sarah Krywicky); 10) Interpretation and summary (John Chapman & Magdolna Vicze).
BAR S2089 2010: The Upper Tisza Project. Studies in Hungarian Landscape Archaeology. Book 4: Lowland Settlement in North East Hungary: Excavations at the Neolithic Settlement Site of Polgár-10 by John Chapman, Mark Gillings, Robert Shiel, Bisserka Gaydarska and Chris Bond with contributions by Eniko Magyari, David Passmore, Eniko Félegyháza, Ian Lumley, Rhodri Jones, Jerome Edwards, Karen Hardy, Denise Telford, David Brighton, Keith Dobney, Ferenc. ISBN 9781407305653. £54.00. xviii+335 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs. With CD .
Book 4 in the reports series on the Upper Tisza Project, north-eastern Hungary. This volume covers the summer 1995 excavations at the Neolithic site of Polgár-10. Contents: 1) Introduction (John Chapman et al.); 2) Sequence, zone and context type at Polgár-10 (John Chapman & Robert Shiel); 3) Context descriptions and interpretations (John Chapman); 4) Phases (John Chapman); 5) Zones (John Chapman); 6) Context Types (John Chapman); 7) Pottery (John Chapman, Ian Lumley, Rhodri Jones & Jerome Edwards); 8) Lithics (Karen Hardy, Leanne Stowe, Denise Telford & John Chapman); 9) Small finds (Denise Telford & John Chapman); 10) Faunal remains (David Brighton, with Keith Dobney and John Chapman); 11) Plant remains (Ferenc Gyulai and Edina Rudner, with John Chapman); 12) The burials (Beth Rega & Keri Brown); 13) The AMS radiocarbon dates (Tom Higham with John Chapman; 14) Interpretation and summary (John Chapman).
BAR S2088 2010: The Upper Tisza Project. Studies in Hungarian Landscape Archaeology. Book 3: Settlement Patterns in the Zemplén Block by John Chapman, Mark Gillings, Robert Shiel, Eniko Magyari, Bisserka Gaydarska and Chris Bond with contributions by József Laszlovszky, Steve Cousins, Denise Telford, Katalin Biró, Karen Hardy and David Brookshaw, illustrations by Sandra Rowntree and Chris . ISBN 9781407305646. £39.00. xii+193 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs. With CD .
Book 3 in the reports series on the Upper Tisza Project, north-eastern Hungary. This volume investigates the settlement patterns in the Zemplén Block. Contents: 1) Introduction to the Upper Tisza Project (John Chapman); 2) The environment of the Zemplén Block (Robert Shiel & Eniko Magyari); 3) Land use potential of the Zemplén Block (Robert Shiel); 4) The Gazetteer (John Chapman, Mark Gillings, Denise Telford & Steve Cousins); 5) Interpretation of prehistoric field survey data (John Chapman, Mark Gillings, Katalin Biró & Karen Hardy); 6) Interpretation of Early Modern forest prospection (John Chapman & Mark Gillings); 7) Summary of main results, Zemplén Block (John Chapman & Mark Gillings).
BAR S2087 2010: The Upper Tisza Project. Studies in Hungarian Landscape Archaeology. Book 2: Settlement Patterns in the Bodrogköz Block by John Chapman, Mark Gillings, Enikő Magyari, Robert Shiel, Bisserka Gaydarska and Chris Bond with contributions by József Laszlovszky, Steve Leyland and David Brookshaw, illustrations by Sandra Rowntree and Chris Bond. ISBN 9781407305639. £43.00. xvi+230 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs. With CD .
Book 2 in the reports series on the Upper Tisza Project, north-eastern Hungary. This volume investigates the settlement patterns in the Bodrogköz Block. Contents: 1) Introduction to the Upper Tisza Project (John Chapman & József Laszlovszky); 2) The environment of the Bodrogköz Block (Robert Shiel, Eniko Magyari, Basil Davis & John Chapman); 3) Land use potential of the Bodrogköz Block (Robert Shiel); 4) The Gazetteer (John Chapman, Mark Gillings, Steve Leyland, Leanne Stowe & Denise Telford); 5) Analysis and interpretation of field survey data (John Chapman, Mark Gillings, Robert Shiel & Steve Leyland); 6) Summary of main results, Bodrogköz Block (John Chapman, Mark Gillings & Steve Leyland).
BAR S2086 2010: Aspects of the Cult of Cybele and Attis on the Monuments from the Republic of Croatia by Aleksandra Nikoloska. ISBN 9781407305622. £29.00. 106 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs. With catalogue.
The cult of Cybele and Attis is a spiritual phenomenon of wide chronological and geographical range. There is abundant documentation of its existence, but even more numerous are the works of scholars engaged in the interpretation of the cult and the divine figures around it. It is a field of interest for linguists, classicists, archaeologists, historians and art historians, ethnologists, and even psychoanalysts. To try to display all the aspects of the cult, its rituality and manifestation in iconography and epigraphy is a hard assignment: countless studies have been made trying to portray the character and evolution of the cult of the Phrygian Great Goddess, the timeless Mother of Gods, and her lover Attis. The work presented here is another interpretative drop in a vast cultural legacy that these deities have left behind, focusing on one particular corner of the Roman Empire.
BAR S2085 2010: La bonne pierre : définition, nature et vertus du jade, gisements et techniques dans les textes anciens de la Chine by Laurent Long. ISBN 9781407305615. £31.00. iv+110 pages; illustrated with maps, plans, drawings and photographs in colour and black and white. In French with English summary.
A new study of ‘The Fair Stone’, defining jade, its nature, virtues, deposits and carving techniques according to ancient Chinese texts. Analysis of ancient sources with a critical mind may supplement archaeological finds and modern scientific studies, but others still present scholars with quite a few riddles, such as metal jade carving implements. This study attempts to provide an analysis of the multifaceted meanings, connotations and echoes of a single word, concept and symbol. It also allows a better grasp of matters of concern for mineralogists and gemmologists: jade’s origin and deposits, mining and carving technology. Two appendices include a chart of “jade” producing places according to the Shanhaijing (Books of mountains and seas) and a full translation of Song Yingxing’ chapter on jade in the Tiangong kaiwu (Exploitation of the works of Nature). Illustrations draw on reproductions of old Chinese books from the Yuan (1279-1368) to the Republic. Maps in late commentaries to the Classics, geographical monographs on Xinjiang or drawn by the author show jade and abrasive deposits and the “jade road” from Khotan to Xi’an.
BAR S2084 2010: The Rock Art of Ometepe Island, Nicaragua Motif classification, quantification, and regional comparisons by Suzanne M. Baker. ISBN 9781407305608. £37.00. vi+175 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs. With CD .
This study presents a motif classification, quantification, and regional comparisons for engraved rock art from the Maderas Volcano on Ometepe Island, Nicaragua. Maderas has the largest concentration of petroglyphs thus far reported in Central America. A formal analysis was conducted, which included construction of a typology for, then quantitative analysis of motifs found on over 700 boulders—only a portion of that known to exist on the island.
BAR S2083 2010: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 34 Session C32: Contemporary Issues in Historical Archaeology; Session C55: Romanization and Indigenous Societies. Rhythms, Ruptures and Continuities; Session S01: History, Archaeology and Society; Session WS07: Public Archaeology Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006), Vol 34 edited by Pedro P. Funari, Nanci Oliveira, Andrés Zarankin, Ximena Senatore and Lourdes Dominguez (C32) João Pedro Bernardes (C55) Fábio Vergara Cerqueira and Luciana Peixoto (S01) Fábio Vergara Cerqueira; Laurent Caron; Tony Waegeman (WS07). . ISBN 9781407305592. £35.00. v+162 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
Papers from Session C32: Contemporary Issues in Historical Archaeology; Session C55: Romanization and Indigenous Societies. Rhythms, Ruptures and Continuities; Session S01: History, Archaeology and Society; Session WS07: Public Archaeology, presented at XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006). Contents : 1) The material construction of culture contact at Floridablanca (San Julian, eighteen century) (Silvana Buscaglia & M. Victoria Nuviala); 2) To whom belongs Brazilian archaeological remains: the role of Public Archaeology (Pedro Paulo A. Funari); 3) Romans and residents: the historic and linguistic evolution; from about 300 b.c. to 300 a.c. (Herbert Sauren); 4) Citânia de Briteiros – perspectivas recentes sobre a romanização (Francisco Sande Lemos & Gonçalo Correia da Cruz); 5) The proto-historic and roman settlement of Terronha de Pinhovelo (Macedo de Cavaleiros): new advances on the Romanization of the Zoelae territory (João Pedro Tereso & Helena Barranhão); 6) The Romanization of the extremity west of empire: mutations and persistences (João Pedro Bernardes); 7) Clarissimi Lvsitani en los círculos dirigentes de Roma – contribución al studio del proceso de romanización de Lusitania (Marta Herrero); 8) Introduction: Historical and Public (Fábio Vergara Cerqueira); 9) À la table du roi Hammurabi de Babylone – d’après les tablettes de la Yale Babylonian Collection (Liliane Plouvier); 10) Ancient Egypt and the Phoenician connection (Alicia Meza); 11) History, image, and music: the aulos in the vineyards. Historical archaeology and multidisciplinarity in the study of ancient Greek culture (Fábio Vergara Cerqueira); 12) The beginnings of the Christianity in Dacia and Dacia Roman provinces in I-V centuries A.D. (Elena Baciu); 13) Le Codex Rohonczi – un monument historique de l’ancien Roumain et de l’ancienne litterature Roumaine aux XIe– XIIe siecles de notre ere (Viorica Enăchiuc); 14) Local and crusaders castles in Livonia during the 13th-14th centuries (Ēvalds Mugurēviès); 15) Public archaeology and cultural heritage: the Memoriar program, an experience in heritage education in the south of Brazil (Fábio Vergara Cerqueira et al.) 16) Patrimonial Education and forms of social inclusion in projects of archaeology in Brazil (Katianne Bruhns); 17) Salvamento arqueológico do centro histórico de Pelotas RS / Brasil (2002 – 2008) (Luciana da Silva Peixoto et al); 180 Mapeamento Arqueológico da Região Sul do Rio Grande do Sul (Fábio Vergara Cerqueira et al.).
BAR S2082 2010: Death Management and Virtual Pursuits: A Virtual Reconstruction of the Minoan Cemetery at Phourni, Archanes Examining the use of tholos Tomb C and burial Building 19 and the role of illumination, in relation to mortuary practices and the perception of life and death by the Living by Constantinos Papadopoulos. ISBN 9781407305585. £46.00. xx+156 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs in colour and black and white. With CD .
A virtual reconstruction of the Minoan Cemetery at Phourni, Archanes (Crete), examining
the use of Tholos Tomb C and Burial Building 19 and the role of illumination, in relation to mortuary practices and the perception of life and death by the living. This computer-based research provides scientists with an alternative reading of the dataset from the Minoan cemetery at Phourni, Archanes; the analysis attempts to evaluate the tomb architecture, use, visual impact, and capacity over different time periods, as well as the contribution of light to determine not only practical purposes, but also philosophical and religious beliefs.
BAR S2079 2010: Making History Interactive. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA). Proceedings of the 37th International Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States of America, March 22-26, 2009 edited by Bernard Frischer, Jane Webb Crawford and David Koller. ISBN 9781407305561. £60.00. ix+408 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs; with CD.
The proceedings (48 papers) of the 37th International Conference Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology held at Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, from March 22-26, 2009. Includes a CD of all papers with colour figures and tables.
BAR S2078 : Archaeolingua Central European Series 5 “The True and Exact Dresses and Fashion” Archaeological Clothing Remains and their Social Contexts in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Hungary by Dóra Mérai. ISBN 9781407305554. £46.00. 97 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs in colour and black and white.
The author’s main aim in this study is to look at how and within what framework the elements of costume from Ottoman period burials in Hungary have been treated by previous research, and to suggest some new directions of interpretation. The information on the ethnic and geographical origins of the population interred in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cemeteries in Hungary, as provided by historical sources, has determined the questions formulated within previous archaeological scholarship: the analysis of burial customs and finds, mostly remains of clothing, has focused on an ethnic interpretation. This study has two main aims. First, to look for factors other than ethnicity which could contribute to the formation of clothing and of the way it appears in the archaeological record, taking a closer look at the archaeological and various aspects of the social and cultural context of certain objects. Second, to see how historical archaeology can modify our understanding of clothing in the past: the way it was treated by contemporary peoples, and the social and cultural structures that produced it.
BAR S2077 2010: Integrating Social and Environmental Archaeologies; Reconsidering Deposition edited by James Morris and Mark Maltby. ISBN 9781407306384. £31.00. v+118 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
This volume is a collection of papers presented at the Association of Environmental Archaeologists conference in Exeter, 2006. The nine papers within this volume consider how social archaeological questions can be investigated utilising environmental remains. Contents: 1) Introduction: Integrating social and Environmental Archaeologies (James Morris and Mark Maltby); 2) The use of archaeological and zooarchaeological data in the interpretation of Dún Ailinne, an Iron Age royal site in Co. Kildare, Ireland (Pam Crabtree, Susan Johnston and Douglas Campana); 3) Associated bone groups: beyond the Iron Age (James Morris); 4) Pits and wells (Mark Maltby); 5) New light on an old rite: reanalysis of an Iron Age burial group from Blewburton Hill, Oxfordshire (Robin Bendrey, Stephany Leach and Kate Clark); 6) Structured Deposition or Casual Disposal of Human Remains? A Case Study of Four Iron Age Sites from southern England (Anna Russell); 7) Bone modification and the conceptual relationship between humans and animals in Iron Age Wessex (Richard Madgwick); 8) More ritual rubbish? Exploring the taphonomic history, context formation processes and ‘specialness’ of deposits including human and animal bone in Iron Age pits (Clare Randall); 9) The politics of the everyday: exploring ‘midden’ space in Late Bronze Age Wiltshire (Kate Waddington).
BAR S2076 2010: Culture Contact in Southern Mediterranean France 7th to 2nd Centuries BC by Daryn Reyman. ISBN 9781407306377. £26.00. iv+68 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
This study analyzes the gradual “acculturation” of the Celtic peoples in southern Gaul (, taking as central themes ‘Hellenisation’, ‘Romanisation’, and ‘Gallic identity’. Contents: 1) Hellenism and the Greek Colonization of Southern Gaul; 2) Trade; 3) Gallo-Greek Relations, Seventh Century – Fifth Century BC; 4) Consumption, Production and Southern Gaul; 5) Urbanism in Southern Gaul; 6) Art and Cult Sanctuaries; 7) Overview of Gallic Relations with the Greek World.
BAR S2075 2010: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 79 Historical Archaeologies of Nineteenth-Century Colonial Tanzania: A Comparative Study by Daniel Rhodes. ISBN 9781407306360. £51.00. ix+314 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
By conducting a study of archaeology and the built environment within an East African context, this monograph aims to actively promote the conservation of culturally important and endangered environments, and to use archaeology to address fundamental questions of identity within the process of colonialism in East Africa in the nineteenth century. Through a comparison of material remains the study places an emphasis upon Tanzania with comparative analyses drawn from Kenya and in so doing it is proposed that methods of colonial subjugation through landscape and seascape use can be better understood. The work aims to offer an essential insight into the origins of contemporary East African identities and address questions of ideological intent versus practice on the part of colonial powers. By concentrating primarily upon the Tanzanian towns of Tanga, Pangani, Bagamoyo, Dar es Salaam, Chole, Kilwa Kivinje and comparing these to the Kenyan town of Mombasa it is intended that a better understanding of the nineteenth-century colonial experience and its legacy can be achieved. The research adopts a landscape approach, which takes as its lead the interaction between humans and the non-human environment, as well as assessing the development of architecture and town morphology. The study furthers the development of archaeology within the maritime sphere by approaching the physical remains of maritime peoples with regard to their position in the wider landscape and seascape. It also addresses the implications of colonial involvements in the activities of indigenous peoples and the global implications of trade and development of East African states and identities. From a theoretical perspective this research develops further the growing awareness of the important relationship between those periods and practices considered ‘historical’ and those ‘archaeological’. By embracing the multivocality of both and looking more deeply at the context and environment in which different sources are manufactured, the project not only develops further understandings of the East African colonial periods but also adds to the growing development of interdisciplinerary archaeo-historic research.
BAR S2074 2010: Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology 6 Wild Signs: Graffiti in Archaeology and History edited by Jeff Oliver and Tim Neal. ISBN 9781407306353. £30.00. v+103 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
This, the sixth volume in the series ‘Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology’, assembles a series of innovative studies in the historical archaeology of graffiti. Contents: 1) Wild Signs: An Introduction (Jeff Oliver and Tim Neal); 2) Basque Aspen Carvings: The Biggest Little Secret of Western USA (Joxe Mallea-Olaetxe); 3) Elbow Grease and Time to Spare: The Place of Tree Carving (Jeff Oliver and Tim Neal); 4) Magic Markers: The Evocative Potential of Carvings on Stanton Moor Edge, Derbyshire, UK (Stella McGuire); 5) Traces of Presence and Pleading: Approaches to the Study of Graffiti at Tewkesbury Abbey (Kirsty Owen); 6) Signs of the Times: Nineteenth – Twentieth Century Graffiti in the Farms of the Yorkshire Wolds (Katherine Giles and Melanie Giles); 7. ‘What the Frak is F**k?’ A Thematic Reading of the Graffiti of Bristol (Travis G. Parno); 8) ‘Theo Loves Doris’: Wild-Signs in Landscape and Heritage Context (John Schofield); 9) Painting The River’s Margins (Tiago Matos Silva); 10) In London You’re Never More Than 10 Feet from a Rat (Stencil): The Rat and Urban Folklore (Paul Cowdell); 11) Afterword (Victor Buchli).
BAR S2073 2010: Mysterious cup marks: Proceedings of the First International Cupule Conference edited by Roy Querejazu Lewis and Robert G. Bednarik. ISBN 9781407306346. £31.00. ii+121 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
Papers from the International Cupule Conference held in Cochabamba, central Bolivia, from 17 to 23 July 2007. Contents: The first cupule conference: introduction and summary (Robert G. Bednarik); 1) Estimating the age of cupules (Robert G. Bednarik); 2) Cupules in Qatar: potential for determining minimum ages (Marvin W. Rowe and Brandon Chance); 3) Lower Palaeolithic cupules obtained from the excavations at Daraki-Chattan in India from 2002 to 2006 (Giriraj Kumar); 4) Relevance of site lithology and taphonomic logic to cupules (Robert G. Bednarik); 5) Discriminating between cupules and other rock markings (Robert G. Bednarik); 6) Robert G. Bednarik: The technology of cupule making (Robert G. Bednarik); 7) Understanding the creation of early cupules, with special reference to Daraki-Chattan in India (Giriraj Kumar); 8) The interpretation of cupules (Robert G. Bednarik); 9) Circular concavities in the rock art of the Cachiyacu River basin, Loreto, Peru (Gori Tumi Echevarría López); 10) Pashash (Peru) cupules and significant figurations (Alberto Bueno Mendoza); 11) The ambiguity of depressions in rock art (Maarten van Hoek); 12) Cupules in Bolivia (Roy Querejazu Lewis); 13) A short ethnography of cupules (Robert G. Bednarik); 14) About lithophones (Robert G. Bednarik); 15) Thok’os or thoketos (cupules) (David Camacho).
BAR S2072 2010: Sauromatisches und sarmatisches Fundgut nordöstlich und östlich des Kaspischen Meeres Eine Bestandsaufnahme bisheriger Forschungen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Waffengräber by Rebecca Wegener. ISBN 9781407306339. £45.00. 260 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs. In German.
This volume is an overview of Sarmatian finds previously only published in Soviet/Russian journals and monographs. The author also includes other written sources and discusses the links between them and the work is an advance of the difficult question of looking for ethnical characteristics in the assemblages. The many cemeteries and weapon-burial sites from the Urals, Volga estuary and central Asia, are reviewed and aspects of chronology investigated. The result is a pioneering study of use to scholars in the fields of ancient history, classics, and prehistoric archaeology who were unable to access the material when originally published.
BAR S2071 2010: Infantry Combat in Livy’s Battle Narratives by Sam Koon. ISBN 9781407306322. £34.00. ii+149 pages; with Appendices .
The period known as the mid-Republic, ranging roughly from the beginning of the second Punic War to tribunate and murder of Tiberius Gracchus in 133BC, was a time of great expansion in the Roman world. In order to comprehend better the nature of Roman imperialism in this period, it is important to understand how the Romans fought in battle. For decades scholars have argued over the mechanics of mid-Republican infantry combat. In the early twentieth century there was fierce debate among the great German military historians and building on this debate, throughout the last century, a general consensus arose over the mechanics of infantry combat. These models were grand-tactical and produced rather static images of massed groups of highly disciplined soldiers relentlessly advancing against any enemy which crossed their path. So pervasive were these models that this remains the most popular image of the Roman heavy infantry. In the mid ‘70s pioneering new work sparked a new school of thought in ancient military history and inspired a number of soldier’s-eye-view histories, particularly in the field of Greek battle, where there are contemporary accounts, but also some on Roman warfare. Although these new models are persuasive they have not convinced all scholars working on ancient military history and have not yet filtered down into popular consciousness. This book is an attempt to bring these debates back further into the literary field by analysing the combat narratives of the most prolific writer on mid-Republican battle: Livy. In addition it will try both to restore Livy’s reputation as a military source and to bridge the current conceptual gap between the literary, archaeological and theoretical approaches to mid-republican infantry combat. The initial two chapters form an extended introduction and justification of the methodology employed. The first discusses the source-based, archaeological, theoretical and psychological parameters of Roman infantry battle, against which any model of combat must be judged. It examines the traditional model and introduces some of the newer ones proposed over the last decade. The second chapter primarily offers a defence of Livy against the charge of crippling military ignorance and a justification for using his accounts as the focus of my analysis. Livy’s methodology, use of sources and method of constructing his battle accounts will be examined and briefly contrasted with the techniques of some of his predecessors. The third, fourth and fifth chapters form the bulk of the literary analysis.
BAR S2063 2010: Trade and Market in New Kingdom Egypt Internal socio-economic processes and transformations by Andrea Paula Zingarelli. ISBN 9781407305547. £33.00. 141 pages; 10 figures and 5 tables.
In this study the author focuses on trade and markets in New Kingdom, Egypt. Contents: 1) Introduction and overview of internal exchange systems and the Egyptian economy; 2) Theoretical approaches to the Egyptian economy; 3) Local markets; 4) Economic transactions of movable goods (in particular relation to Thebes; 5) The ‘Swtyw’ (‘traders’; 6) Real estate and land exchange; 7) Trade in slaves.
BAR S2062 2010: Por una arqueología agraria. Perspectivas de investigación sobre espacios de cultivo en las sociedades medievales hispánicas edited by Helena Kirchner. ISBN 9781407305530. £65.00. iv+202 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs in colour and black and white; in Spanish.
A collection of papers presented at the seminar series held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in November 2008. The papers mainly deal with the theme of agrarian field systems in Medieval Spain. Although there is a notable tradition in the study of medieval agrarian field systems throughout Europe, this subject has received little attention amongst historians and archaeologists working within Spanish contexts. The name given to the seminar series derives from the translation of the title from Jean Guilaine’s 1991 book, Pour une archéologie agraire. À la croissée des sciences de l'homme et de la nature. Like Guilaine had done nearly two decades earlier, the contributors too wanted to stress the importance of agrarian landscapes, plants and cultivation systems, within what is generally known as rural settlement. The main objective of the work is to bring together in a single book diverse methodologies and research experiences as well as to assess and contrast the quality of the results obtained. Above all, the book looks to establish research strategies which may constitute a guide for those who have an interest in contributing to historiographic debates. Such debates may be centered around the formation of village networks between the 5th – 10th centuries, the processes of ‘incastellamento’ and the consolidation of the feudal settlement system, the organization of peasant settlement in al-Andalus and finally the impact of Christian conquests and colonization on al-Andalus from the 12th century onwards. We believe that one of the keys to fully understanding these issues lies with a better understanding of agrarian spaces, the fields themselves, and so we have initiated our own project with this very subject. Contents: Presentación (H. Kirchner, F. Retamero); 1) Formas de parcelario en las aldeas altomedievales del Sur de Madrid. una aproximación arqueológica preliminary (Alfonso Vigil-Escalera Guirado); 2) De la arqueología agraria a la arqueología de las aldeas medievales (Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo); 3) Arqueología rural y la contrucción de un paisaje agrario medieval: el caso de Galicia (Paula Ballesteros Arias); 4) Campos de cultivo en la Cordillera Cantábrica. La Agricultura en zonas de montaña (Margarita Fernández Mier); 5) Espacios Agrarios y redes de asentamientos andalusíes en Manacor (Mallorca) (Eugènia Sitjes); 6) Redes de asentamientos andalusíes y espacios irrigados a partir de qanât(s) en la sierra de Tramuntana de Mallorca: una reconsideración de la construcción del espacio campesino en Mayûrqa (Helena Kirchner); 7) Los espacios agrícolas de Madîna Manûrqa (Ciutadella de Menorca). Siglos X-XIII (Fèlix Retamero, Bernat Moll); 8) Arqueología de los espacios agrarios andalusíes en el sureste peninsular: nuevas perspectivas desde la periferia (Jorge A. Eiroa Rodríguez); 9) La agricultura de los vencedores y la agricultura de los vencidos: La investigación de las transformaciones feudales de los paisajes agrarios en el valle del Ebro (siglos XII-XIII) (Julián M. Ortega Ortega); 10) Espacios drenados andalusíes y la imposición de las pautas agrarias feudales en el Prado de Tortosa (segunda mitat del siglo XII) (Antoni Virgili); 11) Tierras ganadas. Aterrazamiento de pendientes y desecación de marjales en la colonización cristiana del territorio valenciano (Josep Torró); 12) Repartimientos castellanos del occidente granadino y arqueología agraria: El caso de Torrox (Virgilio Martínez Enamorado); 13) Por una arqueología agraria de las sociedades medievales hispánicas. Propuesta de un protocolo de investigación (Paula Ballesteros Arias, Jorge Eiroa, Margarita Fernández Mier, Helena Kirchner, Julián Ortega Ortega, Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo, Fèlix Retamero, Eugènia Sitjes, Josep Torró, Alfonso Vigil-Escalera).
BAR S2061 2010: Archaic Greek Culture: History, Archaeology, Art and Museology Proceedings of the International Round-Table Conference June 2005, St-Petersburg, Russia edited by Sergey Solovyov. ISBN 9781407305523. £53.00. 63 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs in colour and black and white.
The proceedings of the international round-table conference held from 23–25 June 2005 at the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. The topics related to the culture, history and archaeology of Archaic Greece. Attention was also devoted to questions of exhibiting ancient Greek monuments in museums. Contents: 1) Archaic Greek Culture (John Boardman); 2) A Kore in Amber (Faya Causey); 3) Greeks and the Local Population in the Mediterranean: Sicily and the Iberian Peninsula (Adolfo J. Domínguez); 4) The Contribution of Archeometric Results to Our Understanding of Archaic East-Greek Trade (Pierre Dupont); 5) Greeks in the East: A View from Cilicia (Charles Gates); 6) The Collection of Works in Archaistic Style in the Hermitage Museum’s Department of Classical Antiquities (Alexander Kruglov); 7) Greek-Ionian Necropoleis in the Black Sea area: Cremation and Colonisation (Vasilica Lungu); 8) Greeks and the Local Populations in Magna Graecia and in Gaul (Jean-Paul Morel); 9) Greek Gems and Rings of the Archaic Period. The Formation of the Hermitage Collection (Oleg Neverov); 10) Archaic Greek Culture: The Archaic Ionian Pottery from Berezan (Richard Posamentir); 11) Black-Figure on the Black Sea: Art and Visual Culture at Berezan (Tyler Jo Smith); 12) Borysthenes and Olbia: Greeks and Natives Interactions on the Initial Stage of Colonisation (Sergey Solovyov); 13) Die Beziehungen zwischen Borysthenes, Olbia und Bosporos in der archaischen Zeit nach den epigraphischen Quellen (Sergey R. Tokhtasev); 14) Аrchaic Bronzes. Greece – Asia Minor – North Pontic Area (Mikhail Treister); 15) The Program of the Rearrangement of the Classical Antiquities Galleries. The Display of Archaic Art in the State Hermitage Museum (Anna Trofimova); 16) The Polis in the Northern Black Sea Area (Yuryi Vinogradov).
BAR S2060 2010: Ginecología y patología sexual femenina en las Colecciones Médicas de Oribasio by Mercedes López Pérez. ISBN 9781407305516. £40.00. x+207 pages; tables. In Spanish.
Oribasius of Pergamum (fl. AD 300) was the Emperor Julian’s personal physician and author of a considerable canon of medial literature. In this study, the author has collected and presented a bilingual translation of a selection of Oribasius’ writing concerning female sexual pathology. In addition the author looks at Oribasius within the broader historical context – from the Corpus Hippocraticum, through Aristotle, to the great Hellenistic doctors Galenus and Soranus Ephesius.
BAR S2059 2010: The Complex of Tumuli 9, 10, and 11 in the Necropolis of Apollonia (Albania) by Maria Grazia Amore Special studies by V. Dimo, L. Bejko, and L. Schepartz with Contributions by S. Aliu, P. Pearce, A. Bardho, E. Bitri, L. Buchet, B. N. Damiata, V. Grimes, A. Powell, M. P. Richards, J. Southon, and J. Stallo. ISBN 9781407305509. £114.00. x+878 pages in two volumes; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs in colour and black and white; with catalogue and conservation reports..
Between 2002 and 2006 the Albanian Rescue Archaeology Unit excavated at Apollonia, one of the most important Archaic Greek colonies in the Mediterranean, and one of the three major sites of Albania, with Butrint and Durres. The city is located approximately 10 km from the Adriatic coast. This work presents the findings of this extensive site. Contents: Volume I: 1) Introduction; 2) The importance of Apollonia in history; 3) The physical anthropological analysis. 4) Methodology of excavation and processing of finds. 5) Burial rites and grave types; catalogue of graves; 6) Animal deposits and ceramic deposits; catalogue of ceramic deposits; 7) Datings. Volume II: 8) Grave goods; 9) Finds; pottery catalogue; small finds catalogue; 10) Conclusions; technical reports; conservation; faunal analysis; documentation and database structure; bibliography; index.
BAR S2058 2010: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 41 Conceptualising Space and Place On the role of agency, memory and identity in the construction of space from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Iron Age in Europe edited by Ana M. S. Bettencourt, M. Jesus Sanches, Lara B. Alves and Ramon Fábregas Valcarce . ISBN 9781407305479. £36.00. vii+167 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
Papers from Sessions C41: ‘The creation of “significant places” and “landscapes” in the Northwestern half of the Iberia, during Pre and Proto-historic times and C72: ‘Space, Memory and Identity in the European Bronze Age’ from the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: INTRODUCTION: Conceptualizing space and place. On the role of agency, memory and identity in the construction of space from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Iron Age in Europe: an introduction (Ana M. S. Bettencourt et al) PART 1 (Sceneries for death and the social role of the dead): 1) The inner scenography of the decorated Neolithic dolmens of North-western Iberia: an interplay between broader communitarian genealogies and more localized histories (Maria de Jesus Sanches); 2) Engendering burial place and the formation of individual identity - an aspect on social change from the Late Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age in South Germany (Jong-Il Kim); 3) Burials, corpses and offerings in the Bronze Age of NW Iberia as agents of social identity and memory (Ana M. S. Bettencourt); 4) The princely grave and cultic monument from Hüsby (Northern Germany): a place of memory and identity (Mechtild Freudenberg); 5) Inventory of oblong and keyhole-shaped burial ditches of Bronze Age between the rivers Aller (Northern Germany) and Dordogne (Southern France): preliminary report of the state of the project (Otto Mathias Wilbertz) PART 2 (The creations of places through the depositions of signs and metalwork) 6) Confronting two sceneries on the same stage: from Gravettian-Solutrean to Magdalenian in Penascosa/Quinta da Barca (Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Portugal) (António Martinho Baptista & André Tomás Santos); 7) Metal and the symbols of ancestors in Northern Iberia (Primitiva Bueno Ramirez et al.); 8) Space of memory and representation: Bouça da Cova da Moura (Ardegães, Maia, NW of Portugal): a case study (André Tomé Ribeiro et al.); 9) Space and memory at the mouth of Ulla River (Galicia, Spain) (Beatriz Comendador Rey); 10) “Melting the Power”. The foundry area of Fraga dos Corvos- Hut 4 (Macedo de Cavaleiros, NE Portugal) (João C. Senna-Martinez et al.); 11) Bronze Age spaces and symbols. The Paramuna settlement and rock engravings (Penalva do Castelo): a case study from Central Portugal (João M. Perpétuo & Filipe J. C. Santos); 12) Between the engraving and the sculpture: a phenomenological approach to the prehistoric rock place of Lampaça (Valpaços - NW Iberian Peninsula) (Joana C. Teixeira); 13) New approaches to the configuration and the spatial distribution of prehistoric rock art in the North of the Barbanza Peninsula (Galicia, NW of Spain) (Ramón Fábregas Valcarce et al.) PART 3 (Architectures for the living) 14) Unlike communities: domestic architectural duality in Late Prehistory of the western Mediterranean (Pedro V. Castro Martínez et al.); 15) The place of Cividade. An approach to Late Bronze Age/IronAge Transition in the Arouca valley (NW Portugal) (António Silva & Joana Leite); 16) Ceremonial spaces from Late Bronze Age to Roman Period in Western Cantabrian hillforts (Angel Villa Valdez).
BAR S2057 2010: The Large Egyptian Pyramids Modelling a complex engineering project by H. J. de Haan. ISBN 9781407305462. £36.00. xi+125 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs, including 4 in colour.
The building process of the Egyptian pyramids has been the subject of many publications. However, a thorough review of this literature reveals that only certain aspects of this process have been studied in isolation, without taking into account the interaction between various activities involved, such as quarrying, transportation and building and without a sound quantitative basis. The present study aims at filling this gap by means of an integrated mathematical model. Attention is focussed on the largest pyramid, the one built by Cheops. The model simulates an efficient project co-ordination by balancing supply and demand of the building material, with all the activities related to the growth of the pyramid and by assuming a constant total workforce. It enables the reader to determine the effects of different building methods and of the productivity of the workers. Three building methods have been studied, successively making use of a linear ramp, of a spiral ramp and of levers. These methods are compared in terms of the number of men and man-years required. Calculations have been carried out for two sets of input data, indicated as base case and maximum case. In addition to the development of a comprehensive model for the construction of the pyramids, this work also contains a comparative analysis of other publications dealing with this subject.
BAR S2056 2010: Archaeological Investigations at Yaxuná, 1986-1996 Results of the Selz Foundation Yaxuna Project by Travis W. Stanton, David A. Freidel, Charles K. Suhler, Traci Ardren, James N. Ambrosino, Justine M. Shaw, and Sharon Bennett. ISBN 9781407305455. £49.00. xi+296 pages illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs. With DVD.
This volume represents the final report of the Selz Foundation Yaxuná Archaeological Project at the Precolumbian Maya center of Yaxuná, Yucatán, Mexico from 1986 to 1996. This volume contains summaries of all survey data, excavations, artifact analyses, and current interpretations. Contents: 1) Introduction; 2) Background to the investigations; 3) The natural setting; 4) Chronology (Yaxuná Ia (750/500 B.C.-250 B.C.), Yaxuná Ib (250 B.C.-A.D. 250), Yaxuná IIa (A.D. 250-A.D. 400), Yaxuná IIb (A.D. 400-A.D. 550), Yaxuná IIc (A.D. 550-A.D. 600), Yaxuná III (A.D. 600-700/730), Yaxuná IVa (A.D. 700/730-A.D. 900/950), Yaxuná IVb (A.D. 900/950- A.D. 1100/1200), Yaxuná V (1100/1200-1400?), Yaxuná VI (?)), 5) Excavations; 6) Conclusions; Appendices.
BAR S2055 2010: Pietre da Macina, Macine per Mulini Definizione e sviluppo delle tecniche per la macinazione nell’area del Vicino Oriente e del Mediterraneo orientale antico by Luca Bombardieri.. ISBN 9781407305448. £61.00. iii+571 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs. In Italian.
A study of the development patterns of grinding and milling techniques in the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean (III-I millennia BC)
BAR S2054 2010: Nabataean Settlement and Self-Organized Economy in the Central Negev Crisis and renewal by Tali Erickson-Gini. ISBN 9781407305431. £53.00. viii+330 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
This study examines the transformation that took place in the central Negev (Israel) during the Late Roman
and Early Byzantine periods by addressing questions such as: What do existing historical records and past
archaeological research tell us about the transformation that took place in the Negev and in neighbouring regions during this period? What can the material finds from recent excavations in the area, for the purposes of this study at Mampsis, Oboda, and Mezad ‘En Hazeva, provide to supplement that information? What factors contributed to the greatest population increase and permanent settlement activity to have ever taken place in such an inhospitable desert environment as occurred in the Byzantine period between the fourth and the seventh century CE? In the first chapter the geographical setting, including the geology, climate, hydrology and vegetation are discussed. In the second chapter a summary of archaeological research of the region under discussion, including surveys and excavations, is presented. In chapters three through six the historical background in the early centuries of the first millennium CE is presented together with historical and archaeological evidence pertaining to the region. In the second part of this work, the material finds from sealed deposits found in recent excavations from Mampsis, Oboda and Mezad ‘En Hazeva are presented and discussed in their archaeological and historical contexts. Attention is directed to the ceramic evidence and the implications that this evidence holds with regard to demographic and economic developments in the region in the period under discussion.
BAR S2053 2010: Dawn of Discovery: The Early British Travellers to Crete Richard Pococke, Robert Pashley and Thomas Spratt, and their contribution to the island’s Bronze Age archaeological heritage by Dudley Moore. ISBN 9781407305424. £46.00. iv+174 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
This work focuses on three important British travellers to Crete during the 18th and 19th centuries to establish whether or not they made any significant contribution to the field of research with regard to the archaeological heritage of Bronze Age Crete. It brings these ‘lost pioneers’ of antiquity to the fore and to recognize their efforts as part of the foundation of the discovery of the island’s Bronze Age archaeology prior to the groundbreaking excavations of Sir Arthur Evans. They are Richard Pococke (1704-65), Robert Pashley (1805-59) and Thomas Spratt (1811-88). Having dealt with the terms that these travellers used in describing ancient remains, the work looks briefly at the background to Bronze Age Crete itself. Thereafter the development from antiquarianism into archaeology is followed to establish the motives behind these travellers’ wanderings in Crete. Consideration is given to whether any sites they described might have been of the Bronze Age and, in addition, various views of the mythical Labyrinth are looked at in an attempt to compound the theory that there may have been a certain belief in a period prior to the known Classical era (of the 5th century BC Greece). Questions answered include: How do the travellers’ ‘field surveys’ and discoveries compare with what is now known today from excavation? Were some of their references to ‘Cyclopean’ stonework an identification of Bronze Age architecture? Do they deserve recognition for the identification of a prehistory of Crete? Why are their names missing from so many books on the history of archaeology and the discovery of Cretan archaeology? This work brings together, for the first time, an understanding of the views and comparative discoveries of three 18th and 19th century travellers of the, then, unknown ancient pre-history of Bronze Age Crete.
BAR S2052 2009: Society for Arabian Studies Monographs 8 Connected Hinterlands: Proceedings of Red Sea Project IV held at the University of Southampton September 2008 edited by Lucy Blue, John Cooper, Ross Thomas and Julian Whitewright. ISBN 9781407306315. £43.00. x+232 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, photographs.
Papers from the conference Connected Hinterlands (Proceedings of Red Sea Project IV) held at the University of Southampton in September 2008. Contents: 1) Ancient polities and interrelations along the red sea and its western and eastern hinterlands (Kenneth Kitchen); 2) History and use of an ethnonym: ichthyophágoi (Oscar Nalesini); 3) The identification of the ancient pastoral nomads on the north-western Red Sea littoral (Hans Barnard); 4) Patterns of trade in the red sea during the age of the Periplus Maris Erythrae (Federico de Romanis); 5) Glass, glassworking and glass transportation in Aksum (Jacke Phillips); 6) Adulis and the Eritrean coast in museum collections and Italian and other European travelers’ accounts (Chiara Zazzaro); 7) The linguistic situation on the Dahlak Islands in Eritrea (Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle); 8) Roman policy in the red sea between Anastasius and Justinian (Dario Nappo); 9) The roman port of Alia: economic connections with the Red Sea litoral (S. Thomas Parker); 10) A Palestinian Red Sea port on the Egyptian road to Arabia: Early Islamic Aqaba and its many hinterlands (Kristoffer Damgaard); 11) ‘Amr B. Al-‘ās’s refurbishment of Trajan’s canal: Red Sea contacts in the Aphrodito and Apollōnonas Anō papyri (Frank Trombley); 12) The expansion of Muslim commerce in the Red Sea basin, c. AD 833-969 (Tim Power); 13) Transcontinental trade and economic growth in the early Islamic Empire: the Red Sea corridor in the 8th-10th centuries (Maya Shatzmiller); 14) From the Tihamah plain to Thailand and beyond: preliminary analysis of selected ceramics from Quseir al-Qadim (Rebecca Bridgman); 15) Textiles with writing from Quseir al-Qadim – finds from the Southampton excavations 1999-2003 (Fiona Handley and Anne Regourd); 16) Thieves or sultans? Dahlak and the rulers and merchants of Indian Ocean port cities, 11th to 13th centuries AD (Roxani Margariti); 17) Jiddah: Port of Makkah, gateway of the India trade (William Facey); 18) Shipwreck, maroons and monsters: the hazards of ancient Red Sea navigation (Eivind Seland); 19. Early Christian pilgrimages, the Sinai Peninsula and the Red Sea (Walter Ward); 20) Egypt’s Nile/Red Sea canals: chronology, location, seasonality and function (John Cooper); 21) João de Castro’s Roteiro Do Mar Roxo (1541) (Paul Lunde); 22) Trans-national practices and sanitary risks in the red sea region: the case of the pilgrimage to Mecca (Sofiane Bouhdiba).
BAR S2050 2009: A History of the Greek City edited by Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos. ISBN 9781407306261. £72.00. iv+376 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, photographs and colour plates.
The present volume is an extension of the periodical Archaiologia kai Technes (Archaeology and Arts) 1997. The complete volume was first published in Greek in 2004 by the journal in association with Hermes publishing house, and now appears in an English translation. The subject of the special edition and of the present volume as follow-up is the ‘city’, as well as – more broadly – any type of settlement, regardless of size. The time-span covered commences with the first appearance of permanent settlements in Greece, during the Neolithic Age, that is from the early seventh millennium BC, and concludes with the metropolises and metropolitan areas of the country today. The geographical area covered encompasses Greece and the wider region of the Mediterranean and the Balkans to which Hellenic civilization spread at various times in its history. Contents: 1) The City, the Village and the Social Sciences (A.P. Lagopoulos); 2) The Prehistoric Settlement: Quantities and qualities (G.C. Chourmouziadis); 3) Historico-Geographical Views on the City and Urbanism from Prehistoric to Modern Times (M. Billinge); 4) The Neolithic Settlement: Space of production and ideology (K. Kotsakis); 5) Built Space and Neolithic Builders (G.C. Chourmouziadis); 6) Early Urbanization in Mainland Greece (D.N. Konsola); 7) Early Urbanization in the Aegean Islands (C.G. Doumas); 8) The Cities of Crete During the Minoan Age (C. Palyvou); 9) Representations of Cities in Aegean Art of the Second Millennium BC: Mute narratives of prehistory (C. Boulotis); 10) Habitation in the Mycenaean Period (S.E. Iakovidis); 11) The Settlements of the Dark Ages (N. Kourou); 12) City-Polis in the Late Geometric and the Archaic Period (A. Gounaris); 13) The City in the Greek Colonial World (G.R. Tsetskhladze); 14) Urban Planning in the Classical Period (W. Hoepfner); 15) The Hellenistic City (E.J. Owens); 16) The Religious and Political Symbolism of the City in Ancient Greece (A.P. Lagopoulos); 17) The Transformation of the Classical City in Greece during the Roman Age (C. Mantas); 18) The Transformation of the Hellenistic City in the Roman East (E.J. Owens); 19) Major Early Christian Ecclesiastical Centres in Macedonia (B. Aleksova); 20) The Early and Middle Byzantine City (N.K. Moutsopoulos); 21) The Late Byzantine City (T. Kiousopoulou); 22) The Religious Symbolism of the Byzantine City (A.P. Lagopoulos); 23) The Effects of the Turkish Conquest on the Cities of Asia Minor and the Balkans (N.K. Moutsopoulos); 24) Cities and Villages in the Early Ottoman Period (D.N. Karydis); 25) Greek Highland Refuges of Northern Greece in the Early Ottoman Period (N.K. Moutsopoulos); 26) The Rebirth of Settlements in Greece During the Late Ottoman Period (E.P. Dimitriadis) 27) The Greek City and Neoclassicism: Greek urban planning in the nineteenth century (P. Tsakopoulos); 28) The Greek City and Modernism: 1900-1940 (E.V. Marmaras); 29) Social and Urban Transformations Before and After the Asia Minor Catastrophe (V.D. Gizeli); 30. The Contemporary Greek City: Transformation trends in the spatial diffusion of urbanization (P.K. Loukakis).
BAR S2049 2009: The First Neolithic Sites in Central/South-East European Transect Volume V: Settlement of the Linear Pottery Culture in Southeastern Poland by Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny. ISBN 9781407306254. £35.00. 131 pages; illustrated throughout with maps (including 2 fold outs), plans, figures, tables, photographs and colour plates.
Volume V in a series of inventories of ‘First Neolithic Sites’ in Europe. The series will consist of I) Bulgaria, II) Romania, III) Eastern Hungary, IV) Eastern Slovakia, V) Southeastern Poland. The main themes of each volume will be: 1) General information about cultural evolution at the onset of the Neolithic, 2) Additional data on cultural and economic problems specific for a given region, 3) A list of radiometric dates, 4) A catalogue of sites in alphabetical order. Contents of volume V: 1) Introduction; 2) Linear Pottery Culture in Southeastern Poland; 3) Settlement of earliest farming communities; 4) Funerary rite of the Linear Pottery Culture; 5) Final remarks; 6) Catalogue of Linear Pottery Culture sites in Southeastern Poland. (See also BAR S2048
BAR S2048 2009: The First Neolithic Sites in Central/South-East European Transect Volume I: Early Neolithic Sites on the Territory of Bulgaria edited by Ivan Gatsov and Yavor Boyadzhiev. ISBN 9781407306247. £33.00. 84 pages; illustrated throughout with maps (including 1 fold-out), plans, figures, tables, photographs and colour plates.
The first in a series of five volumes of inventories of ‘First Neolithic Sites’ in Europe. The series will consist of I) Bulgaria, II) Romania, III) Eastern Hungary, IV) Eastern Slovakia, V) Southeastern Poland. The main themes of each volume will be: 1) General information about cultural evolution at the onset of the Neolithic, 2) Additional data on cultural and economic problems specific for a given region, 3) A list of radiometric dates, 4) A catalogue of sites in alphabetical order. Contents of volume I: 1) Early Neolithic Cultures on the territory of Bulgaria (Yavor D. Boyadzhiev); 2) Lithic production of the earliest Neolithic on the territory of Bulgaria (Ivan Gatsov and Petranka Nedelcheva); 3) Flint raw materials in Bulgaria (Chavdar Nachev); 4) Plant economy and vegetation during the Early Neolithic of Bulgaria (Elena Marinova); 5) Catalogue of the Early Neolithic settlements on the territory of Bulgaria (Ekaterina Stamboliyska and Zhivko Uzunov).
BAR S2047 2009: Arqueología de la Boca del Riachuelo. Puerto urbano de Buenos Aires, Argentina by Marcelo Norman Weissel. ISBN 9781407306230. £39.00. xiv+192 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, photographs; in Spanish.
A study of the urban archaeology (employing contemporary landscape theories) of the city port areas of Buenos Aires, in particular the port known as ‘La Boca’. The chronological record takes in a time span of some 300 years (AD 1700 to 2000) and study topics include commercial and domestic space usage.
BAR S2046 2009: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 46 Archaeologists without Boundaries: Towards a History of International Archaeological Congresses (1866-2006) / Archéologues sans frontières : Pour une histoire des Congrès archéologiques internationaux (1866-2006) edited by Mircea Babes and Marc-Antoine Kaeser. ISBN 9781407306223. £24.00. iii+51 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, photographs and colour plates. Papers in English and French .
Papers from session C75, Archaeologists without Boundaries: Towards a History of International Archaeological Congresses (1866-2006) presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006). Contents : 1) Establishing Prehistory. The Foundation of the International Congress (1865/1866) (Marc-Antoine Kaeser); 2) The 15th Congrès international d'Anthropologie et d'Archéologie préhistorique (Portugal, 1930) (Ana Cristina Martins); 3) A Portrait of Flóris Rómer in the frame of Budapest-Lisbon CIAAPs 1876 – 1880 Congresses (Erzsébet Marton); 4) The International Congress of Prehistoric Anthropology and Archaeology and German Archaeology (Ulrike Sommer); 5) Les congrès internationaux d’anthropologie et d’archéologie préhistoriques (1866-1912) et la question de l’éveil d’une conscience patrimoniale collective (fouilles, gisements, collections) (Arnaud Hurel, Amélie Vialet); 6) A Scandinavian view of the beginning of congress times (Jarl Nordbladh); Le début de la culture de cucuteni dans l’archéologie européenne (Nicolae Ursulescu, Mădălin-Cornel Văleanu).
BAR S2045 2009: Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 32 Defining a Methodological Approach to Interpret Structural Evidence edited by Fabio Cavulli. Archaeometry edited by Maria Isabel Prudêncio and Maria Isabel Dias Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006, Vol 32, Sessions WS28, C69, C70 and C71 . ISBN 9781407306216. £34.00. vii+148 pages; 131 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, photographs.
Papers from Session WS28 'Defining a Methodological Approach to Interpret Structural Evidence', AND papers from Sessions C69, C70 and C71 'Archaeometry', presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: 1) Defining a methodological approach to interpret structural evidence: an introduction (Fabio Cavulli); 2) Scant Structural Evidences of Mesolithic Sites in High Alpine Regions (Walter Leitner); 3) U-Shaped Scatters: Struggling between Theoretical Models and Archaeological Facts (Matteo Pilati); 4) Unearthing the hearths. Preliminary results on the Takarkori rockshelter fireplaces (Acacus Mts, Libya) (S. Biagetti, G. Poggi, S. di Lernia); 5) Structures d’habitat nord-africaines : la fouille de la rammadiya côtière holocène de SHM-1 (Hergla, Tunisie) (S. Mulazzani et al.); 6) Infilling processes of large pit features at Catignano – Neolithic (Italy) (Giovanni Boschian, Marta Colombo); 7) Experimental Archaeology as a Methodology to Understand the Formative Processes of ‘Pits’ (Fabio Cavulli); 8) Invisible Features and the Uses of Indirect Evidence (Dragos Gheorghiu); 9) Sleeping, eating, meeting, working: problems and methods in the study of structures in southern Italy settlements during the Bronze Age (A. Cazzella, G. Recchia); 10) Luminescence dating applied to stratigraphic definition of pre-historic occupations in urban contexts (Lisbon, Portugal) (M. I. Dias et al); 11) Luminescence dating of a fluvial deposit sequence: Ribeira da Ponte da Pedra – Middle Tagus Valley, Portugal (M. I. Dias et al.); 12) Luminescence date and archaeological ages: An epistemology of the luminescence dating (Antoine Zink); 13) Funerary Pottery in the Late Neolithic: Los Churuletes, Purchena Almería (Aixa Vidal and Ruth Maicas); 14) Phase and Chemical Composition Analysis on Cucuteni Neolithic Painted Ceramics Sherds Using SR-XRD – A Promising Tool in Ancient Pottery Research (R. Bugoi et al); 15) Pottery production during the Late Iberian Chalcolithic period: insights from the mineralogical and chemical analyses of Spanish Middle Guadiana River Basin (Badajoz, Spain) Bell Beaker pottery (Carlos Odriozola).
BAR S2044 2009: The Mamasani Archaeological Project Stage One A report on the first two seasons of the ICAR - University of Sydney expedition to the Mamasani District, Fars Province, Iran by Members of the Mamasani Archaeological Project Team . Edited by D. T. Potts, K. Roustaei, C. A. Petrie and L. R. Weeks. ISBN 9781407306209. £95.00. xiv+700 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, photographs and colour plates.
This large volume presents the results of the first stage of the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (ICAR)-University of Sydney field research in Mamasani, south-western Iran. This comprised test soundings at Tol-e Nurabad and Tol-e Spid, and a regional survey of the Dasht-e Rostam-e Yek and Do plains. The research was conducted over two six-week seasons in 2003, with a subsequent one-month study season in 2004.
BAR S2043 2009: Grabados rupestres de la fachada atlántica europea y africana / Rock Carvings of the European and African Atlantic Façade edited by Rodrigo de Balbín Behrmann, Primitiva Bueno Ramirez, Rafael González Antón and Carmen del Arco Aguilar. ISBN 9781407306193. £54.00. i+349 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, photographs. Papers in English, Spanish and French .
A collection of papers on the rock carvings of the European and African Atlantic façade 1) Introduction: rock carvings of the European and African Atlantic façade; 2) Living stones: decoration and ritual in 4th and 3rd millennium bc Ireland (Muiris O’sullivan); 3) Nuevas reflexiones sobre el arte rupestre de Inglaterra, Gales y Escocia (Richard Bradley); 4. L’art gravé a l’air libre durant la prehistoire et la protohistoire en Bretagne (France) (Michel le Goffic); 5) Un nuevo milenio para el arte rupestre Galaico (Antonio de la Peña Santos); 6) A context for Galician rock art (Ramón Fábregas Valcarce); 7) Cien años de investigación de arte rupestre al aire libre en la Meseta Castellano-Leonesa. De las pinturas del “Peñón de Mirabueno” a los grabados de la comarca de la somoza 1908-2008 (Juan a. Gómez-Barrera); 8) The post-paleolithic rock art in Beira Alta (central Portugal) (André Tomás Santos); 9) rock art as land art. A diachronic view of the Côa Valley (n/e Portugal) post-palaeolithic rock art (Luís Luís); 10) Constructores de megalitos y marcadores gráficos. Diacronías y sincronías en el Atlántico Ibérico (Primitiva Bueno Ramirez et al.); 11) L’art rupestre du haut atlas marocain : sa place sur la façade Atlantique (Alain Rodrigue); 12) Manifestaciones rupestres protohistóricas de lanzarote: viejas y nuevas iconografías en un diferente contexto cronológico, cultural e interpretativo (Pablo Atoche Peña and M. Ángeles Ramírez Rodríguez); 13) Grabados y poblamiento prehistórico en el Archipiélago Canario (Rafael González Antón et al.); 14) Grabados rupestres en Tenerife. Espacios de culto (M. Carmen del Arco Aguilar et al.); 15) Sea-land relationships in the rock art of the prehispanic Canary Islands (Rodrigo de Balbín Behrmann et al.); 16) L’art rupestre post-paleolithique en plein air du presahara Marocain (Renate Heckendorf ); 17) Les manifestations rupestres dans la region de Smara (Sahara Occidental) et sa problematique. Un exemple: Asli Bukerch (Agnès Louart); 18) Recuperacion de un yacimiento del Sahara Occidental: Leyuad (Rodrigo de Balbín Behrmann and Primitiva Bueno Ramirez).
BAR S2042 2009: Reconstructing Late Pleistocene Human Behavior in the Jordan Rift Valley: The Middle Paleolithic Stone Tool Assemblage from Ar Rasfa by Ghufran Sabri Ahmad and John J. Shea. ISBN 9781407306186. £28.00. viii+83 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, photographs.
Ar Rasfa is a Middle Paleolithic open-air site located in the Rift Valley of Northwest Jordan excavated between 1997-1999. This book presents a detailed technological, typological, and paleoanthropological analysis of the stone tool assemblage from Ar Rasfa. Artifacts reflecting the initial preparation and exploitation of local flint sources dominate the Ar Rasfa assemblage. Typologically, the assemblage is most similar to Levantine Mousterian assemblages such as those from Naamé, Skhul and Qafzeh. Patterns of lithic variability and contextual evidence suggest Ar Rasfa was visited intermittently by human populations circulating between lake/river-edge resources in the Rift Valley bottom and woodland habitats along the ridge of the Transjordan Plateau.
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