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In this work the author analyzes the imported pottery at Tell el -Ghaba (N. Sinai) in its contextual relationship, focusing on the different styles, morphology and pastes, to further conduct a comparative study with pottery coming from other archaeological contexts from settlements in the Delta, North Sinai and the Eastern Mediterranean regions during the Saite period, with the aim of knowing about the interrelations existing between Tell el-Ghaba and the mentioned areas.

This work addresses the question of the Egyptian Hegemony during the 13th century BCE: its nature and its cultural processes, and the analysis of the Egyptian-style pottery in three Canaanite City-States is used to provide the proofs of the Egyptian presence there. The author has chosen the archaeological sites of Hazor, Megiddo and Lachish for a case study. Situated in three different regions of Southern Canaan, these three cities are known to be powerful and rich during the 13th century BCE. The Egyptian pottery of these sites has been identified and classified in a typology with numerous parallels to the Egyptian contemporaneous sites. A fabric analysis has been made from description of a fresh break section taken from each sample studied and, in a few cases completed by a petrographic analysis. All the data are gathered in an electronic database and can be consulted for further studies about this corpus. From the interpretation of the corpus, the author presents a spatial analysis of the Egyptian-Style pottery for each identified building in each site in order to shed light on an Egyptian presence at these cities and to qualify this presence.

Vestland cauldrons, made of copper alloy and with a distinctive concave shape, were used in a Scandinavian context as cinerary urns, and are found in western Norway, as well as in smaller numbers in Sweden with one Danish find. Larger depositions (most usually without a funerary context) are found on the wider continent.

With the editorial collaboration of Barbara Cerasetti.The Archaeological Map of the Murghab Delta Studies and ReportsSeries Editors: Annageldy Gubaev, Gennady A. Koshelenko and Maurizio Tosi.

Proceedings of the XV IUPPS World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006)Series Editor: Luiz Oosterbeek.This book contains both English and French papers.

Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 72Series Editors: John Alexander, Laurence Smith and Timothy Insoll

13 papers which focus on the interaction between all aspects of pastoralism and agriculture in the southern Levant, from the Bronze Age to the present.

Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology 4

In addressing the subject of the representation of Islam in museums, this work undertakes to examine both its production and consumption.

Defensive Architecture of Prehistory Crete

Mycenaean Art: A Psychological Approach

Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 69Series Editors: John Alexander, Laurence Smith and Timothy Insoll

The purpose of this study is to define the nature of warfare within the Middle Iron Age of the hillfort dominated zone from the archaeological remains and ethnographic inferences relating to the social significance of weapons, within specific analogies. In the process, the work provides a new model for Middle Iron Age warfare in the hillfort dominated zone of lowland Britain, rather than using the generalised model derived from continental Classical sources and seventh/eighth century AD Irish vernacular literature. The process of model generation includes comparisons of the proposed model with another prehistoric European culture within the same temporal framework; Early Iron Age Denmark (400-50 BC) was selected as the region presents a powerful foil for the proposed model for the Middle Iron Age of the hillfort zone.

This monograph provides a synthesis of information on Greek food plants recovered mainly through archaeobotanical studies. The principal goal is to present the first diachronic study of the use of vegetal species in the Eastern Aegean region in the period spanning the millennia between the Early Neolithic (ca. 7000 BC) and Classical times (4th century BC). The data compiled here can shed light on several aspects of ancient food and diet, including the geographical and chronological distribution of cereals and legumes, the beginnings of arboriculture in Greece, and the use and symbolic meaning of plants in ancient times.

Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress University of Liège Belgium 2-8 September 2001 Colloque / Symposium 1.48 papers from Symposium 1.4 of the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Liège, Belgium, 2-8 September 2001 - Lithic Toolkits in Ethnoarchaeological Contexts.

This work isolates the nature of indigenous worship in the north-west of Roman Spain and establish to what degree it altered during the period of Roman domination. Through the various chapters the inhabitants of the Conventus Bracaraugustanus, Asturum and Lucense are shown to have worshipped a bewildering array of different divinities - Mountain, Aquatic, Protector, Warrior and other. That over half of the native divinities from the region were only recorded on one occasion suggests a religion quite different from the formalized Roman pantheon. Clearly the divinities of the north-west of Iberia were most often intimately linked to certain peoples, places or topographical phenomenon. The author illustrates her work with inscriptions and a Gazetteer of inscription sites.

The fossil site of Untermassfeld, near the town of Meiningen in Southern Thuringia, was discovered in 1978 and has been the subject of 25 field seasons. The digs have produced a stunning array of fossil vertebrate remains in stratigraphic context, making this unquestionably one of the most important Quaternary localities in Europe. In this volume the author provides the first full synthesis of the work, bringing the results up to date, and placing them in a broad context. With some 14,000 determinable vertebrate fossils, the Untermassfeld assemblage represents the most complete assemblage of the time span 1.2-0.9 Ma BP in the Western Palaearctic.Translated from German by Hans van EssenEdited by Adrian Lister

Among other important considerations, South America offers scientists an outstanding biodiversity, an excellent preservation in some particular areas and taphonomic challenges in others, a relatively long temporal depth, and a great variety of bio-cultural themes to investigate. This volume presents 12 contributions that takes the reader on a journey through a vast continent; a journey that starts at the Equator and reaches its southern tip. One in which, over great periods of time, humans and other animals have participated together in a variety of processes and particular histories.

Survey, excavation and experiment in an ancient mining landscape

The aim of this book is to provide a regional component to the study of the early medieval economy (Middle Saxon England), and from this, to re-assess trade during the period. The work looks at the archaeology of trade in middle Saxon eastern England, based around the regional analysis of a range of data intended to reflect different aspects of the Anglo-Saxon economy. In broad terms the aims are twofold. Primarily, the book works towards a new understanding of the operation of trade on a regional basis andat all levels, i.e. local to international networks of trade. Secondly, it critiques and challenges traditionally held views of an urban-centred economy based around the long-distance trade in prestige goods. These central aims are further refined into a number of research questions that are explored through the project. These are: To what level were rural regions involved in trade? How was trade organised in middle Saxon eastern England, and how might any regional differences be explained? What was the nature of the involvement of royalty and the church in early medieval trade? These questions form the core of the aims for the book. It is divided into six chapters, each chapter designed to examine an aspect of early medieval trade.

The 18 papers in this volume are derived from papers presented at the Lisbon EAA conference in 2000. The work studies the links between trade and local production and between sea routes, shipbuilding and navigation techniques in a diachronic perspective from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and Modern times, in areas of the Ancient and of the New World, through historical sources including urban and settlement archaeology, landscape and underwater archaeology.

The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe XVIIIAs early as the eighteenth century clay tobacco pipes attracted the attention of antiquaries. In more recent years clay tobacco pipes have proved to be one of the most useful artefact types that an archaeologist can recover from a Post-Medieval site.They spanned class and gender being smoked by men and women from all walks for life, and, as such, are seen by many scholars as the 'ideal type fossil' for the period 1600 to 1900. 1979 saw the establishment of the research series "The archaeology of the clay tobacco pipe", which was seen as a quick means of publishing new archaeological research. Since 1979 seventeen volumes in this series have been published by British Archaeological Reports of Oxford. In this latest volume Susan White has chosen the historic English county of Yorkshire to explore questions such as: whether it is possible to define a style of pipe that is typical of a given study area? Is it possible to define products of individual centres within a given study area? Can trading dynamics of production centres within a given study area be assessed? Can the influence of external production centres be assessed? And if patterns can be identified in, to what extent can they be explained from the historic record? Yorkshire was seen as an original and highly interesting area for research (particularly with regard to regionalisation and trade) as it is large enough for economic variables to come into play, yet small enough for evidence to be fully recorded at a reasonably detailed level. The work comprises ten chapters and a discussion of findings and proposals for future research. The three Appendices feature a list of Yorkshire pipe makers, transcriptions of selected wills, inventories and other documents relating to Yorkshire pipe makers, and summaries of collections.

The author's objective in this study was to re-assess the available textual evidence on Mesopotamian dimâtu to present a new interpretation of its meaning. This included taking into consideration all the cuneiform texts of the second millennium BC from Mesopatamia, Syria and Elam, published prior to 2001, in which the term dimtu appeared. The first part of this study considers these references, and the presence of dimtu in other regions of the Near East. The second part of the book comprises a presentation of the archaeological evidence, starting with a chapter devoted to Tell Fahar. The third part discusses the origin of dimâtu and considers the role dimâtu played in the economy and administration of Greater Mesopotamia in the second millennium BC. In addition, the work contains 9 Appendices giving, amongst other details, lists of settlements, dates of tablets, scribes, finds, and family archives.

A much-discussed topic in the studies of Alpine region lake-dwellings is their chronology and continuity. This study includes an analysis of the MBA occupational hiatus, its likely causes, and where the lake-dwellers might have moved. Environmental and cultural factors are considered, and the analysis centres on lake-level fluctuations around present-day Lakes Zurich and Constance between the 15th and 12th centuries BC.

Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit Monograph Series 2This report presents the results of two campaigns of Romano-British archaeological work at Newland Hopfields, and makes a significant contribution to studies at a local, regional, and national level. This is not only the first Severn Valley ware production site to be explored in such detail, but it is also one of the few Romano-British pottery production sites generally for which this level of information has been gathered.

A detailed typological study, in Italian, of the Roman catacombs found on the Via Appia, Via Ardeatina, Via Ostiense, and their immediate environs. The author's extensive analysis concentrates on early Christian tomb layout and planning, architecture, monuments, and iconography.

In 1967 the gates of the Sinai desert region were thrown open to Israeli researchers; the region is as diverse, archaeologically, as it is extensive. This book documents a series of excavations and surveys undertaken by the author in all four corners of this fascinating landscape. Part two reports on three particular surveys, including one on the so-called "Desert Kites" of Sinai and the Southern Negev.

Beiträge der Arbeitsgemeinschaft 'Römische Archäologie' bei der Tagung des West- und Süddeutschen Verbandes der Altertumsforschung in Wien 21.-23.5.1997

The detailed analysis of buildings has been a neglected area of research in British archaeology. This study of some buildings within the forts on Hadrian's Wall is an architect's interpretation of those buildings, as seen from the extant remains and archaeological evidence. The work begins by exploring the general architectural principles and constructional techniques used by the Roman builders. The book's central section discusses the buildings themselves and focuses on the design and form of each building type, followed by a dimensional analysis and examination of the constructional sequence of the forts and buildings. The section is followed by a discussion of the reconstruction of the buildings, with hypothetical illustrations based on archaeological evidence and architectural considerations. A highly original study, the work is extensively illustrated with maps, plans, photographs, and scaled reconstructions.

This volume publishes a selection of nine papers from the 2001 CRE conference held in Liverpool.