Books published by BAR Publishing

A relatively new field of study, this work analyses 27 sites on Corsica, concentrating especially on the human remains found in 12 principal, and 5 secondary, internments dating from the Mesolithic to Iron Ages. The results present a fascinating extension to our knowledge of funerary practices and paleoanthropology in this area of the Mediterranean.

Thorough analysis of a series of small Roman bronze vessels decorated with scenes in relief, known as balsamaria. Examples found in the provinces of the Roman Empire have been examined, catalogued and illustrated. The book deals with the issues of their distribution, typology, execution, iconography, use and dating. The catalogue includes detailed entries for 62 known pieces to date and an additional 30 related, undecorated vessels. All vessels are richly illustrated.

The results of this work are based on investigations conducted over a period of four years at Tel Michal and Apollonia, and are the result of 2,300 actual underwater hours. Evidence collected from written sources and field-work brings the authors to the conclusion that the Mediterranean coastal harbour, or anchorage, at Tel Michal (on the Israeli Sharon Plain) was located in an estuary on the southern or south-eastern side of the high tell. Excavations show habitation from the Middle Bronze Age to the Persian period. Tel Michal declined during Persian rule as Apollonia (lying 3.5 km north) was founded and grew in importance. The overall objectives of the study were to determine whether the two settlements possessed their own harbours, anchorages or beaching shores, or whether their economic development was solely dependent on the hinterland and land-borne transport.Written by Eva Grossmann, with contributors.

Egyptian Studies Association Publication No.4Hierakonpolis is situated some 650 km south of Cairo and 113 km north of Aswan. The Locality 6 cemetery lies 2 km south west of the edge of cultivation in the bed of Wadi Abul Suffian, and covers an area of approximately 18,000 sq.m. The mortuary use of the site started about 3700 BC and continued until around 3050 BC. This volume studies 12 tombs, discussing geological features, tomb architecture, various finds (including human bone, floral and faunal remains), regional cemetery planning, extra-regional contacts, the site history, etc.With contributions by Theya Molleson, Ahmed Gamal el-Din Fahmy and Hala N. Barakat

Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 8A study in two parts of the important Guatemalan site of El Chagüite (Jalopa). The investigations suggest a relatively large occupation over the Pre-classical and Classical periods, and they have provided essential dating in relation to the organization and evolution of a ceremonial centre over the transitional Pre-classical-Classical eras, as well as unique ceramic and other finds.Written in collaboration with Alicia Blanco Padilla, Véronique Gervais and Stephen Rostain

This book is an archaeological study of the Jordan Valley in the Mid-Late Islamic periods, which include the Mamluk (AH 648-922/AD 1250-1516) and the Ottoman (AH 922-1333/AD 1516-1914) periods. Published material from the western side of the Jordan Valley on cultural remains dated to the Mid-Late Islamic periods is used for comparative study. Contains 14 pages of coins and kohle sticks with script reproductions.

A study of face pots found in the north-western regions of the Roman Empire (France, the Rhine, Danube, British Isles, etc.) The work looks at the form and functions of the vessels (from a large number of museum collections) as well as possible interpretations of the imagery. Includes a catalogue.

Proceedings of a Congress held at the University of Haifa November 3-9, 1996A collection of papers and discussions in both English (11) and French (5).

Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 6Through the study of pre-hispanic salt-making sites in the Basin of Sayula on the east Mexican coast, this book aims to shed further light on the major processes that affected local population and identification of the relationships between man and environment particularly by the determination of the strategies of exploitation of natural resources.

Hellenistic metal finger-rings with engraved gems from Greece, Asia Minor and south Russian graves are analyzed stylistically and typologically. Their development is followed from the late fourth century BC to the Augustan era. Iconography and function of these objects are discussed. The catalogue features 174 rings with detailed descriptions and illustrations.

This book presents an inventory and a detailed analysis of protohistorical settlements from south-western England and north-western France. The sites are classified and statistically compared according to their shape. Important questions concerning landscape organisation during protohistory in England and France are approached. Chronologically nearly ten centuries are considered, from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of Roman occupation. The analysis establishes close relationships between sites and similar ways of living.

Proceedings of the Fifth Gender and Archaeology Conference, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, October 1998This book is based on a selection of papers presented at the Fifth Gender and Archaeology Conference held at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in October 1998. The central theme was the practical application of the theoretical introspection that has characterized much of the emphasis on gender in archaeological studies. Explored is engendered archaeology by presenting concrete examples of how gender theory can be applied in archaeological praxis. Papers include: MARY ANN EAVERLY: Color and Gender in Ancient Painting: A Pan-Mediterranean Approach; PAUL REHAK: The Aegean Landscape and the Body: A New Interpretation of the Thera Frescoes; SUSAN LANGDON: Figurines and Social Change: Visualizing Gender in Dark Age Greece; ELKA WEINSTEIN: Images of Women in Ancient Chorrera Ceramics: Cultural Continuity across Two Millennia in the Tropical Forests of South America; JOEL W. PALKA: Classic Maya Elite Parentage and Social Structure with Insights on Ancient Gender Ideology; MONICA l. BELLAS: Women in the Mixtec Codices: Ceremonial and Ritual Roles of Lady 3 Flint; WILLIAM GRIFFIN: Gendered Graffiti from Madagascar to Michigan; GINA MARUCCI: Women's Ritual Sites in the Interior of British Columbia: An Archaeological Model; HELENA VICTOR: The House and the Woman: Re-reading Scandinavian Bronze Age Society; SUSANNE AXELSSON: 'Peopling' the Farm - Engendering Life at a Swedish Iron Age Farm; LILLIAN RAHTJE: Husbandry and Seal Hunting in Northern Coastal Sweden: The Amazon and the Hunter; ROBERT JARVENPA and HETTY JO BRUMBACH: The Gendered Nature of Living and Storage Space in the Canadian Subarctic; JILLIAN E. GALLE: Haute Couture: Cotton, Class and Culture Change in the American Southwest; HOLLY MARTELLE: Redefining Craft Specialization: Women's Labor and Pottery Production - An Iroquoian Example; MICHAEL J. KLEIN: Shell Midden Archaeology: Gender, Labor, and Stone Arfifacts.

The book explores the potential of geographic information systems (GIS) techniques to reduce the difficulties encountered while dealing with vast lithic data from the British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic and support analysis and interpretation of all the available archaeological evidence. The topics discussed are spatial modelling of the industrial landscape and long-term modelling of hominid behaviour.

Within the background of modern human origins debate, this book tempts to improve the knowledge of variation in cranial shape and size among later Pleistocene hominids from Europe, The Near East and Africa. The main fossil sample includes crania assigned to archaic Homo sapiens, 'classic' Neandertals and Preneandertals as well as anatomically modern Homo sapiens from the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. Also included were two Asian Homo erectus. A basic photogrammetric setup has been used to ascertain raw data acquisition. The results reveal that size varies both with regard to sex and geographic origin.

Report on excavations that took place between 1987 and 1994, in the northern part of the Insula 39, situated between the amphitheatre and a guest-house. The remains date from the outset of the colonia, shortly after the founding of the town by Trajan to the third century AD. An L-shaped building, silversmith's workshop, a tank-system indicating a tannery or dye-work, remains of smaller houses, courtyards and sheds were found.

This book investigates the topic of human imagery and hybrid human imagery rendered on metalwork of early Anglo-Saxon date recovered within eastern England (Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Suffolk and Norfolk), AD 400-680. It presents the first definitive catalogue of its kind for this region and timeframe. Taking inspiration from recent transitions in thinking on early medieval mortuary archaeology and art, the author considers such topics as the interrelationship between image, object and the user, the changing portrayal of human representation and the social implications of such developments and the emergence of new bodily gestures in representational art. These key themes may provide an understanding of how and why human imagery changed as it did, how and by whom it was deployed in life and death and the role that this type of imagery performed in the construction and presentation of social identity.

Area of Research in Studies from Antiquity, Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaProceedings of the First Workshop - December 16-19th 2007A collection of 22 papers (9 in English, 2 in French and 11 in Spanish) from the Workshop.

This work focuses on the analysis of the architecture in the Syro-Hittite centres that developed in northern Syria and south-eastern Turkey from the early Iron Age until the Assyrian conquest of the area. A circumwalled lower town and an upper fortified acropolis constituted the usual layout of these centres. These sites were excavated and most of the reports were published between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The scope of this study is to analyse the architecture of this period in relationship to all archaeological finds (decoration, inscriptions, objects and installations) as part of an organised space, with the purpose of understanding the spatial organisation of the towns and identify general patterns that may support the existence of a cultural 'koiíç'.

This volume presents a study of human settlements in the 'Calatino' district, an area in central-eastern Sicily in the period between the Imperial and the Late Roman periods.

Chipped stone tools are a truly dynamic medium of material culture. From initial reduction to contemporary excavation, lithic artifacts undergo continuous change. The role of the properties of raw materials in determining rates of use-wear accrual is poorly understood and has rarely been assessed quantitatively. This study offers such quantification regarding four materials exploited for the production of short-term use implements at the Late Archaic FA2-13 site located just outside the city of Farmington, New Mexico. Both experimental and archaeological use-wear evidence was assessed in separate but related ways. Digital image analysis of use-wear invasiveness using ClemexVision PE and GIS analysis of use-wear homogeneity using Idrisi Kilimanjaro yielded distinct but highly complementary results. Direct testing of material properties of non-archaeological samples using a Hysitron Triboindenter served to further clarify these findings in terms of the complex relationship between raw material surfacehardness and roughness. The results of the present study show that there are significant differences between rates of wear accrual among the four materials. Analysis of tools from FA2-13 indicates that while scraping activities likely did predominate, it may also be feasible to generate more detailed assessments regarding the kinds of scraping activities that were undertaken and the respective intensities with which they were performed. This increased insight can then be extrapolated for application to long-term use technologies and their more complex life histories.

Actes des journées d'étude d'archéologie précolombienne. Genève 10-11 octobre 1997This book includes papers from the First Conference organized by l'Association des etudiants pour Recherches Archaeologiques dans les Pays Andins (ARAPA) held in October 1997. From Argentina to Ecuador, from the Stone Age to the Empire of the Incas, the papers examine socio-economic, environmental, symbolic, territorial and architectural aspects of South American archaeology. Contributors come from France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Brazil.

This book examines certain aspects of the Belgian archaeological record during the Lateglacial. The known chronology and archaeology are re-evaluated; recent radiocarbon dates are discussed. The second part of the book examines a series of supposedly Lateglacial faunal assemblages from 5 cave sites. The book ends with an overview of results and exploration of the notion of ethnicity.

Eighteen papers, which were presented at the conference of West and South German archaeologists, explore problems of Late Roman defences on rivers Rhein and Danube.

Devoted to Classical and Medieval archaeology, this volume is a collection of 42 papers (20 in English, 22 in Italian) which deal with following topics: Origin and development of the 'Domus' and the 'Villa' in mid Tyrrhenian Italy; Continuity and discontinuity from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages in Europe and across the Mediterranean Basin; Islamic impact and local response in southern Europe.Edited by Mark Pearce and Maurizio Tosi with Andrea Augenti, Hugo Blake, Paolo Carafa, Cristina Tonghini, Guido Vannini

This volume presents the results from the research project entitled 'Domesticación del bosque en el Cauca medio entre el Pleistoceno final y el Holoceno medio', the objective of which was to rebuild the colonization and effective occupation in the premontane humid forests of the Colombian Cordillera Central (northern Andes). For a long period tropical rain forests have been considered geographical barriers for human dispersals, nevertheless the data presented in this book demonstrate that mountain range forests were colonized during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition. Far from the ecologically passive hunter gatherer stereotype, the human groups that peopled the Cauca medio region developed agrilocality patterns very early on their settlement, implying the anthropic transformation of the humid Andean forests. These first groups developed forest adaptations based on the manipulation of plants, through the creation of anthropic patches that in effect constituted actual plant domestication 'laboratories'. Forest management in a migrating production was the main strategy of effective occupation of the territory up to the middle Holocene.

The Peloponnesian War shows important differences compared with previous warfare since its campaigns are no longer seasonal affairs, meaning that the hoplites-landowners must leave their land and other activities. As a consequence, their presence becomes scarce as far as the cities' political life is concerned, and this will slowly open an ever deeper gulf between politics and military men. This book looks at how the phenomena and features just mentioned took shape and developed. But within the overall frame of the Peloponnesian War, particular attention is paid to the Corinthian and Argive societies, that lived through it and suffered in very different ways. Both these states are highly significant within the Hellenic world. Their importance however has been outshined by the two great hegemones of the classical period, Athens and Sparta. The conclusion is that the Corinthian society, less complex but more coherent than Athenian, enjoyed a remarkable balance among its layers: to the absence of military and social privileged elites, the existence of what nowadays we would call a significant middle class must be added; and the fact that the needs of the plethos were acknowledged by the oligarchic group in power. The Corinthian social maturity made it possible that the dominant class absorbed and channeled the fissures of its civic body in favor of the common goal of asserting themselves over Athens. On the contrary, the Argive society showed less articulation and consistency than the Corinthian's, the consequence mostly of the traumatic reconstruction of the civic body in the first third of the fifth century, based on the integration of dependants and non-Argive free population.

Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit - Monograph Series 1Written by Peter Ellis, Gwilym Hughes, Peter Leach, Catharine Mould and Jon SterenbergDescribes the results of archaeological investigations at a number of sites undertaken by Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit in 1996. New prehistoric sites were found along the length of the road corridor which, from Alconbury Hill to Norman Cross, coincides with Ermine Street. Here the major Roman road would have taken on additional importance where it skirted the fen edge. The book reports on a number of excavations along this section.

Using a multidisciplinary approach (archaeology, ethnohistory, linguistics, anthropology, and art history) Oliver explores the nature of Taino political-religious power using Caguana's ceremonial space and iconography as its primary context, and further looks into the implications of Caguana for understanding the development and functioning of chiefdom-level societies in Puerto Rico.

This study examines all the available data on mould-made terracotta lamps manufactured and/or used in Alexandria in the period from the 3rd to the 1st centuries BC. With typology and catalogue.

A case study from Vác, Hungary. It is the author's ocntention that during the late Middle Ages, the contribution of animals to urban development intensified in Hungary since animal hubandry and trading became a major form of accumulating wealth.