Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2003. — 159 p. This volume presents the results of three seasons of excavations at Chogha Bonut, Lowland Susiana, in the modern-day province of Khuzestan, southwestern Iran. Susiana was a major contributor to the cultural development of the ancient Near East and, thanks to more than a century of archaeological investigation, it...
Propylaeum, 2015. — 206 S. — (Daidalos – Heidelberger Abschlussarbeiten zur Klassischen Archäologie 4). Jahrhundertelang fuhren phönizische Schiffe, vom Wind angetrieben, von der syrischlibanesischen Küste über das Mittelmeer u nd über seine Grenzen hinaus. Die Berichte dieser Erkundungs- und Handelsfahrten wurden größtenteils nicht überliefert. Bis Mitte des 20. Jh. wurden...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 408 S. Der vorliegende Band enthält den vollständigen Katalog von 719 Gräbern der spätbronzezeitlichen Nekropole von Džarkutan 4a, Süd-Usbekistan. Nach Gonur Depe in Turkmenistan ist es das umfangreichste archäologisch untersuchte Gräberfeld des Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC). Die Nekropole wurde in den 1970er Jahren durch Wissenschaftler...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 322 p. The Bell Beaker Culture in All its Forms contains the proceedings of the 22nd meeting of the ‘Archéologie et Gobelets’ Association which took place in Geneva, Switzerland in January 2021. The book is structured in three parts: Archaeological Material demonstrates how ceramics, lithics, wrist guards, and metal artifacts contribute to our...
BAR Publishing, 2012. — 409 p. — (BAR International Series 2422). The development of settlement in the region between Chiusi and Volterra (northern Etruria, corresponding to the modern territory of Siena), from the Iron Age to the end of the Romanization period (9th-1st century BC), is a much-debated subject among Etruscan archaeologists. This comprehensive study attempts to...
Routledge, 2009. — 303 p. In 1905, John Garstang held a concession to dig at Hierakonpolis on behalf of the Liverpool University Excavations Committee. He published a brief report, which described further excavations within the temple and town enclosure of Nekhen, following those of Quibell and Green (1900 and 1902). During his first season the ground had been too hard to...
Zaphon, 2022. — 326 p. — (Ägypten und Altes Testament 109). The present volume brings together 14 papers of a workshop organized by the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research and the Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem. The objective of the workshop was to confront scholarly interpretations of the various transitional phases across the late 4th–3rd Millennium...
The University of Chicago Press, 1981. — 384 p. Adams describes the Mesopotamian environment, his surface survey, and its results in this pivitol study on the settlement patterns in Mesopotamia and the Diyala region. Adams' book describes settlements and traces some of the ancient canals and river courses from the Ubaid Period up through the Late Islamic Periods. However, only...
Édition Errance/Centre Camille Jullian, 2014. — 240 p. — (Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine 18). La spécialisation de plus en plus grande et le cloisonnement de nos domaines de recherche (histoire, histoire de l’art, archéologie...) conduisent le plus souvent à étudier et à publier séparément, malgré leur complémentarité, les sources épigraphiques et les...
Society for Libyan Studies, 2019. — 218 p. — (Society for Libyan Studies Open Access Monograph 1). This title is a key new addition to literature on the rural economy of Tripolitania during Antiquity. The chapters explore the geography and climate of the area and present the results of the author’s archaeological survey. Settlement types and their constructions are examined,...
Sidestone Press, 2023. — 208 p. During the roughly hundred years (ca. 1225 – 1125 BCE) that the Middle Assyrian dunnu at Tell Sabi Abyad was in operation, some forty-nine individuals were interred in graves of a striking diversity. In this book their burial type, location, orientation, position, grave goods and osteological data are analysed in order to generate new insights on...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 193 p. Qidfaʿ 1: Excavation of a Late Prehistoric Tomb, Fujairah Emirate, United Arab Emirates presents results from the rescue excavations of the Qidfa’ 1 site, a multi-period tomb (Wadi Suq-Late Bronze /Early Iron Age). The architecture of the two-storey structure and the material culture found in the U-shaped tomb are presented to establish a chronology...
Oxbow Books, 2013. — 193 p. Throughout the local Bronze and Iron Age, European and Mediterranean societies appear to have been involved in complex systems of exchange networks which invariably affected local customs and historical developments. Archaeological evidence suggests social and economic phenomena, cultural expressions and technological skills stemmed from multifaceted...
Augusta Raurica, 1975. — 92 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 2). One of the first clues in establishing the dating of the finds from Venusstrasse Ost came in the form of negative information in that only a few of our sherds were covered in Dr. Elisabeth Ettlingens now classic work on the excavation of the Frauenthermen in Augst. Since these baths were in use during the Second...
Brill, 2011. — 324 p. — (Monumenta Graeca et Romana 17). Setting as a starting point the introduction of the black-figure technique in Attic workshops at around 630 BCE, this book attempts a contextual analysis of Attic pottery until late in the first quarter of the sixth century BCE. The shapes and their functions, as well as the iconographic themes are explored through this...
The University of Chicago Press, 1990. — 345 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 110). Until recently, the lower Euphrates basin in southeastern Turkey had remained closed to research. The region was virtually unexplored, an archaeological terra incognita. This situation was particularly regrettable since downstream in northern Syria recent archaeological work along the...
The University of Chicago Press, 1990. — 478 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 110). Until recently, the lower Euphrates basin in southeastern Turkey had remained closed to research. The region was virtually unexplored, an archaeological terra incognita. This situation was particularly regrettable since downstream in northern Syria recent archaeological work along the...
The University of Chicago Press, 2014. — 688 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 140). After a decade-long hiatus in the years of World War II, archaeological fieldwork was resumed in Iran in 1948. In that year, the Oriental Institute returned to its long tradition of archaeological research by sending Donald McCown to the lowlands of southwestern Iran to conduct a series of...
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2008. — 485 p. The present publication is the final report on the eleven seasons of excavations at Chogha Mish. In addition to the materials and records from Chogha Mish, Alizadeh uses the data available from the excavations of the neighboring sites of Chogha Bonut and Boneh Fazl Ali to augment his reconstruction of Susiana...
University of Michigan Press, 1992. — 190 p. — (Technical Report 24). This book reports the results of an archaeological survey undertaken in southwestern Iran by a remarkable researcher: Dr. F.G.L. Gremliza. The author, Abbas Alizadeh, presents Gremliza’s survey data and provides an analysis of the developmental implications.
Archaeopress, 2021. — 336 p. — (The Archaeological Heritage of Oman 7). Numerous metallic artefacts, which anciently were deposited in a hoard, came to light per chance on the campus of the Sultan Qaboos University in Al Khawd, Sultanate of Oman. Mostly fashioned from copper, these arrowheads, axes/adzes, bangles, daggers, knives, socketed lance/ spearheads, metal vessels,...
English Heritage, 1988. — 150 p. — (English Heritage Archaeological Report 7). During the examination of a sequence of timber forts underlying the third century military base at the Roman site of Corbridge, the remains of an iron-bound wooden chest was uncovered. Although much of the wood and other organic remains had rotted away, the contents, a remarkable hoard of metalwork...
BAR Publishing, 1989. — 238 p. — (BAR British Series 201). An illustrated catalogue of ear-rings with drawings or photographs, and distribution maps of the types; discussion of fashions and their use, manufacture, materials, workshops, distribution.
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 219 p. — (BAR International Series 2876). El Prado es uno de los escasos yacimientos al aire libre del Neolítico Antiguo de la mitad norte peninsular. En la excavación arqueológica han sido documentadas cincuenta estructuras negativas asociadas a un poblado del Neolítico Antiguo con dataciones absolutas ca. 5295-4690 cal BC. Desde el punto de vista...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2006. — 334 S. Dieser Band, der die Publikationsreihe zu den österreichischen Ausgrabungen in der antiken Stadt von Aigeira in Achaia eröffnet, legt die prähistorischen sowie alle mykenischen Funde – mit Ausnahme der mykenischen Keramik – von der höchsten Erhebung des Siedlungsgebietes, der sogenannten Akropolis, vor....
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2020. — 332 S. Der zweite Faszikel zu den österreichischen Ausgrabungen der Jahre 1975-1980 auf der Akropolis von Aigeira hat zum Ziel, die postpalatiale mykenische Siedlung, basierend auf der Stratigraphie und den Befunden, zu rekonstruieren. Die anhand der Installationen, Kleinfunde, Pithoi und der in situ angetroffenen...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 257 p. Abila of the Decapolis is the largest Graeco-Roman city in Jordan with a tremendous wealth of funerary remains, and thus has the potential to improve our understanding of ancient culture and mobility. This is the first comprehensive synthesis of burial types, practices, and evidence for societal collapse in the growing field of bioarchaeology of...
The University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 364 p. — (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 71). This volume honors McGuire Gibson and his years of service to archaeology of Mesopotamia, Yemen, and neighboring regions. Professor Gibson spent most of his career at the University of Chicago's Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department and the Oriental Institute. Many of...
Peeters, 2010. — 388 p. — (Acta Iranica 49). This book is based on a study of the archaeological evidence deriving from the Arjan tomb, an undisturbed elite burial found in 1982 near the town of Behbahan in south-western Iran. The fact that this burial can be confidently dated to ca. 600-550 BC presents an exceptional opportunity to reassess former views regarding the survival...
Sidestone Press, 2022. — 214 p. This popular-science book tells the story of one of the most important, but least known major archaeological sites in Europe: Doggerland. Few people know that the beaches along the North Sea lie on the edge of a vast lost world. A prehistoric landscape that documents almost a million years of human habitation and lay dry for most of that time....
Augusta Raurica, 2011. — 486 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 46). Unsere Bemühungen, nebst einzelnen Fundgattungen auch die Befunde und Kontexte von Altgrabungen ausgewertet in Buchform vorzulegen, tragen seit einigen Jahren Früchte. Dazu gehören die Aufarbeitung der Grabungen im Trassee der Autobahn respektive in der Flur Kurzenbettli, der Glasmanufakturen in Kaiseraugst, des...
BAR Publishing, 2010. — 892 p. — (BAR International Series 2059). 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...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 323 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 101). Ce livre réunit une vingtaine de contributions regroupées dans cinq parties: - De l’atelier à l’objet: artisanats, productions et instrumentum; - Croyances et cultes; - Iconographie, épigraphie et archéologie funéraire; - Habiter et organiser un territoire; - Décorer un édifice, qui reflètent une grande partie...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 453 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 26). Abordé généralement de façon ponctuelle à travers une activité particulière ou une zone géographique donnée, l’artisanat en Afrique du nord antique fait ici pour la première fois l’objet d’un ouvrage. Centrée sur la production urbaine en Algérie durant l’Antiquité, cette étude critique rassemble une nouvelle...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1996. — 229 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 28). Two important contributions to Greek pottery studies. Aftermath, by D. A. Amyx, is a catalogue of material supplementing his work in Corinth VII.2 but found after the cutoff of 1969 or omitted for some other reason. This article and Corinth VII.2 together stand as a full compilation...
Brepols Publishers, 2010. — 197 p. — (Subartu 24). Assyrian pottery of the Iron Age is a very special topic in Near Eastern archaeology: it is widely diffused, related to the expansion of the first real "empire" in Western Asia, and it is well-characterized as far as its typology, manufacturing and decoration are concerned. Especially from the VIII Century BC, the Assyrian...
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2001. — 400 p. — (Britannia Monograph Series 19). Wanborough, near the modern town of Swindon, was a thriving small Roman town located on Ermin Street that stretched between Cirencester and Silchester. This report summarises the 1966-76 excavations that took place in advance of development and presents the finds (coins, metal objects,...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 666 p. The House of the Surgeon represents the first major publication of an important series of excavations undertaken by the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii (1994-2006) at the ancient city of Pompeii in a city block known as Insula VI 1. This is one of the largest, most comprehensive, and most important sub-surface, pre-79 AD excavations ever to have...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 664 p. The House of the Surgeon represents the first major publication of an important series of excavations undertaken by the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii (1994-2006) at the ancient city of Pompeii in a city block known as Insula VI 1. This is one of the largest, most comprehensive, and most important sub-surface, pre-79 AD excavations ever to have...
Harvard University Press, 2000. — 272 p. — (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Monographs. Book 11). The fabulous wealth of the Lydian Kingdom (in what is now western Turkey) was renowned throughout the classical world--in fact, Lydia's kings created the world's first coinage. The Harvard-Cornell Sardis Expedition has unearthed a gold refinery from the time of King Croesus...
ASCSA, 1971. — 195 p. — (Lerna, a Preclassical Site in the Argolid: Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2). The second volume of the publication of the excavations at Lerna (published jointly with the Smithsonian Institute) deals with the human bones that were found and gives a physical anthropological study of them. Skeletons...
Carlo Delfino, 2017. — 497 p. — (Corpora delle antichità della Sardegna). Il volume, parte di una collana dedicata ai “Corpora delle Antichità della Sardegna” corona il progetto di catalogazione “Corpus delle antichità romane e altomedievali” offrendo un’organica e aggiornata visione delle testimonianze della produzione materiale, artistica e epigrafica che la civiltà romana e...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 291 p. Parte I. Economías locales y contactos interculturales; Avance sobre los niveles de época Ibérica del Llanete de los Moros (Montoro, Córdoba): Registro faunístico y aproximación al modo de vida – Juan Manuel Garrido Anguita, Andrés Soler López; El color del Mediterráneo en el Centro-interior del territorio portugués: Los primeros artefactos de...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 583 p. En tiempos lejanos, ahora sepultadas bajo la caída de los años, comienzan a formarse las primeras comunidades, sociedades y civilizaciones que se irán desarrollando en la Península Ibérica, por una progresiva evolución local, sin descuidar la atención de los contactos foráneos previa contrastación arqueológica. Refugiándonos en figuras creadas por...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 399 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 27). Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki: 1st Century BC – 6th Century AD is a detailed examination of the production of glass and glass vessels in the eastern Mediterranean from the Hellenistic Age to the Early Christian period, analysing production techniques and decoration. The volume establishes the...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 184 p. In this book, Dr Vyron Antoniadis presents a contextual study of the Near Eastern imports which reached Crete during the Early Iron Age and were deposited in the Knossian tombs. Cyprus, Phoenicia, North Syria and Egypt are the places of origin of these imports. Knossian workshops produced close or freer imitations of these objects. The present study...
INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), 2021. — 217 p. — (Prehistory Monographs 66). This volume presents the salvage excavation of a Minoan settlement at Bramiana in southeastern Crete that was destroyed during the creation of a new system of agriculture in the 1980s. Excavation of the site provides new evidence for a Bronze Age economy based on trade,...
INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), 2020. — 335 p. — (Prehistory Monographs 62). One of the most important sites for the early history of dyeing ever found in Minoan Crete was discovered in 2007. A Middle Bronze Age (Middle Minoan IIB) workshop for making natural dyes and using them to color fabrics included several basins carved into the soft limestone...
INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), 2017. — 275 p. — (Prehistory Monographs 58). This handsome volume describes and illustrates the excavation of an artificial rock shelter in Crete, Greece. Minoan pottery and small finds such as stone tools, loomweights, and ecofactual remains were recovered. The ceramics elucidate the style and chronology of East Cretan...