Books in the British Archaeological Reports International Series series

"The 1987 Computer Applications in Archaeology (CAA) conference, held at the University of Leicester"--P. xiii.

This book covers an extensive region of East Siberia, considering prehistoric ethno-cultural and social processes through the development of rock art styles and traditions. It addresses the questions of why rock art is created, why specific styles and traditions emerge and why changes in rock art occur. These questions are explored through anthropological perspectives on ethnicity, identity, and symbolism. A reader will find a comprehensive overview of the developments of rock art research in Siberia as well as detailed accounts of the regional archaeology in the Bronze/Iron ages, the Neolithic, and partially the Late Paleolithic. Importantly, this study is primarily fieldwork-based, presenting information on 108 rock art sites in Yakutia and Trans-Baikal. It is a major contribution to Siberian and global rock art research and suggests new directions for future rock art research.

Les données actuelles sur le peuplement de la péninsule italienne suggèrent un retard dans l'acquisition des autapomorphies néandertaliennes, lié à leur isolement géographique. En Europe, les premiers traits dérivés néandertaliens apparaissent il y a environ 450 ka alors qu'en Italie les spécimens présentent une morphologie archaïque par la présence de plésiomorphies et les premières autapomorphies seront individualisées qu'à partir du MIS 9 (350 ka ca.). Ce livre propose une révision des restes fossiles mandibulaires italiens attribués à Homo neanderthalensis : Guattari 2, Guattari 3, Fate 2, Fate 3 et Archi 1, afin de les replacer dans le contexte évolutif européen à travers une analyse morphologique et morphométrique. De plus, la présence de spécimens immatures amène à l'analyse de la croissance mandibulaire, sujet qui divise la communauté scientifique : certains auteurs définissent l'ontogenèse néandertalienne similaire à celle de l'homme moderne et d'autres mettent en évidence des trajectoires évolutives divergentes basées sur une précocité de maturation chez les Néandertaliens.This book proposes a revision of Italian mandibular fossil remains attributed to Homo neanderthalensis - Guattari 2, Guattari 3, Fate 2, Fate 3 and Archi 1 - in order to place them in the European evolutionary context through a morphological and a morphometrical study.

This work presents systematic and objective examination of the large corpus of Hellenistic gold Eros jewellery. By focusing on the question of the interconnections between the major centres of production - Egypt, South Italy and South Russia, Western Asia Minor, Greece and Syria a number of regional schools and new jewellery groups are identified. The keys to the discussion are the well documented find contexts from Northern Greece, South Italy and Tel Atrib (Egypt) that make it possible to arrive at a relative chronology for a particular type of Eros, found throughout the Hellenistic world. The morphological, stylistic, iconographic and technical continuities between Hellenistic jewellery and in particular the Eros motif ensure the successful use of this methodology. Evidence from Koroni in Attica and from several South Italian tomb groups has been examined in detail and dated, according to the methodology described above to ca. 240 BC. The study includes a discussion of the significance of Eros in the Hellenistic period. The study has shown the value of Eros jewellery as an indicator of the cultural life of the Hellenistic world - its values, literature and basic lore about nature and the arts. The Eros motif and its morphological lineage are traced through related depictions in contemporaneous decorative arts. The catalogue has brought together as much material as possible to establish a typology and chronology of Eros jewellery in the hope that it will provide the maximum amount of information for future studies. 32 plates, including 12 in colour, illustrate the work.

The Andean civilisations grew in an isolated fashion, with almost no influence from the rest of the world or indeed from further north in the Americas. The various Andean states and empires all came to express themselves in highly original and different art styles, not least the Moche.

The aim of this study is to infer dietary texture from dental microwear during the Natufian hunter-gatherer to pre-pottery Neolithic agricultural development in northern Israel. Microwear patterns were recorded from sixty skeletons form eight sites.

This volume looks at the development of social archaeology in Peru over the last century. The author lays aside scientific advances in archaeological interpretation, and highlights the influence of economic, social and political factors in how archaeology, as a discipline, has changed in Peru.

Friar Dolcino, the founder of a society called the Apostelic Bretheren in 1260, was condemned as a treacherous heretic' and was persecuted by the Catholic Church for his heretical teachings and writings during the early 14th century, most notably his claim that authority had passed from the Roman Church to the Bretheren.

In this study the author seeks to deconstruct any preconceived ideas we may have of the southwest part of Arcadia and rebuilds a picture of the mental and religious landscape' during the archaic and classical periods.

L'exploitation de l'espace et la mobilité des groupes humains au travers des assemblages lithiques à la fin du Pléistocène moyen et au début du Pléistocène supérieur

Although trends in anthropological thinking have gradually shifted away from considering prehistoric groups as specialists in subsistence provisioning, many scholars studying the North American Plains still consider man to be the Bison hunter'.

The 37th annual Clay Minerals Society Meeting in Chicago in 2000 brought together a range of different approaches to the analysis and interpretation of clays and ceramics from archaeological contexts.

A study of the history and cultures of the northern Black Sea region from the 3rd to 5th century AD. Beginning with the Black Sea region before the Goths, the authors focus in particular on two crucial moments: the arrival of the Goths and the fall of Attila's empire. Based on written and archaeological sources. French text.