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Volume 3 presents the supplementary materials that support the settlement history of the Vrokastro region, derived from intensive and systematic survey. The book presents brief summaries of regional pottery of the Bronze Age, Roman, and medieval to modern periods (with tables). Illustrations include maps, plans, pottery profiles, and photographs of sites, features, and pottery. The CD-ROM pottery catalogue is divided into four main units: Neolithic-Geometric, Orientalizing-Hellenistic, Early Roman-Late Roman, and Late Byzantine through Turkish-Modern.Many of the sites have been damaged or destroyed by recent development, and this publication will remain their only record.

The Guatemalan ancient city of Piedras Negras, with its magnificent palaces, temples and other great buildings, was once the capital of a large Maya kingdom, reaching its apogee between c.450 and 810 AD.

Daniel Garrison Brinton (1837-99) was one of the founders of modern American anthropology, holder of the first professorship of anthropology in the United States, and an esteemed anthropological scholar. His personal library, the only existing intact research library of a scholar prominent in the development of late nineteenth-century American anthropology, forms the core of the anthropology library at the University of Pennsylvania.The Brinton Library consists of 4,514 items, including 162 volumes of bound collections of pamphlets or offprints, early travel narratives, colonial histories, Indian captivity tales, missionary reports, and translations of the Bible into several indigenous languages of North and Central America. Materials written in Spanish, French, Italian, and German are also well represented.Rare archival illustrations show contemporary (1870-1900) photographs of the University Museum building, the Museum library, and portraits of individual participants in the Brinton Library.

The vintage photographs in this collection range from pictures taken for record-keeping purposes to glorious aesthetic treats.

"The Guide illuminates ancient societies by explaining and contextualizing the way objects were created and used, focusing on a few overarching themes. Brief essays touch on everyday life, language, commerce and trade, religion, and death and burial among the Etruscans and Romans, and the legacy of the classical world in Western culture.

This book brings together several new ways of thinking about pigs in the past, creating a dialogue by drawing on several kinds of approaches--from geography, ethnography, zoology, history, and archaeology--to enrich the way we all understand the evidence found in archaeological sites.MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology 15