BAR Publishing, 2021. — 190 p. — (BAR International Series 3020/African Archaeology 93). This research aims to reconstruct the dynamics of exploitation and management of animal resources during the Middle Iron Age in the northern part of the Limpopo region (South Africa). The book offers an interpretation of faunal remains from two sites: Mapungubwe, an important regional...
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...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. — 118 p. — (The Asyut Project 13). — ISBN13 9783447114318. — ISBN10 3447114312. Since 2003, the Egyptian-German team of The Asyut Project has been working on Gebel Asyut al-gharbi close to the modern city of Asyut. One of the areas investigated is a tomb known as Northern Soldiers-Tomb (H11.1) due to its painted decoration of marching warriors....
Archaeopress, 2022. — 388 p. Alexandria Antiqua: A Topographical Catalogue and Reconstruction is an attempt to find a way through an archaeological labyrinth of fragmentary evidence. Taking into account the last two centuries of systematic research into the topography of the ancient city while integrating the latest discoveries, the volume aims to catalogue the archaeological...
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...
Édition Errance/Centre Camille Jullian, 2014. — 416 p. — (Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine 16). Les objets du quotidien, devenus mobilier archéologique du fait de leur enfouissement dans les couches sédimentaires ou de leur insertion dans des maçonneries, font partie intégrante des données que les archéologues utilisent pour la compréhension d’un site...
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, 1965. — 252 p. This volume presents the results of archaeological field reconnaissance conducted by Robert McC. Adams in the Diyala region of Iraq between 1957 and 1958. It seeks to identify some of the converging natural and human forces that shaped successive phases of advance and decline within this small and somewhat marginal part of the...
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...
BAR Publishing, 2011. — 217 p. — (BAR International Series 2241/Sudan Archaeological Research Society 18). In 1998 and 1999 volumes II and III of the reports on the University of Kentucky excavations at Kulubnarti were published by the Sudan Archaeological Research Society as numbers 2 and 4 in its monograph series. Kulubnarti III was also available through British...
Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut, 2004. — 196 S. — (Ergänzungshefte zu den Jahresheften des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien 7). Bei der Pannonischen Glanztonware (PGW) handelt es sich um Keramikgattung, die vom Ende des 1. bis ins fortgeschrittene 3. Jh. n. Chr. in ganz Pannonien verbreitet gewesen ist. Sie ist ein Produkt lokaler Töpferwerkstätten,...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 472 p. Advances in UAE Archaeology details the results of new excavations conducted across the United Arab Emirates over the last few years. These excavations have revealed a wealth of new data on all periods of UAE archaeology from the Palaeolithic to the recent past. Some of these discoveries have filled in important gaps in our knowledge, while others...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 22 p. Archaeological excavations at the Eleuthernian burial ground of Orthi Petra continue to yield significant elements of the archaeo-anthropological record, the subject matter of continuous interdisciplinary research, outreach, national and international acclaim. Among a plethora of features discovered, unearthing components of a unique nexus to the...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 50 p. This essay presents a unique forensic/bioarchaeological investigation of the traumatised remains of an older male from Thasos, exploring the nature of the executing weapon reconstructed in bronze, the archaeometry on the trajectory and factors of speed and force at the deliverance of the deadly strike.
Archaeopress, 2016. — 94 p. This report aims to offer glimpses of the human condition on Naxos island, Greece, focusing on the archaeoanthropologic study of the human skeletal remains along with associated contexts of faunal materials recovered from the Geometric (9th -7th c BC) component of the burial ground site of Plithos in Chora at Naxos island.
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,...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2011. — 329 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 98). Obwohl die Archäologie und Geschichte der byzantinischen Krim ein gut untersuchtes Thema ist, wurden die Forschungsergebnisse jenseits des russischen Sprachraums nur schwach rezipiert. Die hier vorgelegte Monographie des international renommierten Archäologen Aleksandr I. Ajbabin, die...
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...
Sidestone Press, 2020. — 400 p. The ‘Black Desert’ begins just south of Damascus and comprises some 40,000 km2 of dark and desolate basalt fields, which stretch from southern Syria across north-eastern Jordan and reach the sand sea of the Nefud in Saudi Arabia. The rough and highly arid terrain is often difficult to access and travel through. Despite these uninviting...
Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 1978. — 522 p. The present book is a revised and enlarged edition of the archaeological guide to the ruins of Turkey, which was first published in 1969. It covers the period from prehistoric times to the end of the Roman era. The book has been written for those interested in archaeology and ancient history, as well as for the specialist. Detailed...
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...
Impresión P.A.P., 1999. — 189 p. Tiwanaku’s zenith took place between the fifth and tenth centuries of our era, five centuries of extraordinary achievements that haracterized the evolutionary trajectory of one of the most outstanding civilizations of the prehispanic world. Tiwanaku still plays a pivotal role in Andean cosmogony. It is still part of a plethora of myths that...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 222 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 27). El presente libro tiene como objetivo estudiar el uso de las materias primas líticas en la costa del golfo San Matías (Río Negro, Argentina) durante el Holoceno medio y tardío. El entendimiento de este aspecto de la tecnología de los grupos humanos es de fundamental importancia ya que los principales...
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...
BAR Publishing, 2008. — 158 p. — (BAR International Series 10784; South American Archaeology Series 4). La Cerámica Yampara Presto Puno - Orlando Tapia Matamala La Política Imperial Inka en el Norte de Chuquisaca: Cambios y Reestructuraciones en la Capital Yampara de Quila – Quila, Bolivia - María del Pilar Lima Torrez Identidad vs. Estilo: Los Yamparaes y la Ocupación...
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...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 289 p. — (BAR International Series 2760). Salt is a biological and social necessity to human life. Salt has played a significant role in many ancient and modern processes, such as trade, preservation, health and cooking, which in turn makes the production, trade, transport and use of salt visible both in archaeological and historical evidence. 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.
Oxbow Books, 2009. — 261 p. — (Prehistoric Society Research Paper 2). This volume brings together papers that address themes and landscapes on a variety of levels. They cover geographical, methodological and thematic areas that were of interest to, and had been studied by, John Evans. In some instances papers will be seen to have been inspired by John’s approaches to landscape...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1933. — 92 p. — (Fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire 9.2). Les fouilles de Tell Edfou, interrompues depuis 1928, ont été reprises par l'Institut français d'Archéologie pendant les mois de février et mars 1932. Elles font suite au travail dirigé par MM. Henne (1922-1923, 1923-1924) et Guéraud(1927-1928 ).
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 241 p. — (BAR International Series 2964). This book comprises a study of ceramic tableware and teaware remains from the outback pastoral homestead, The Old Kinchega Homestead, in western NSW, Australia, occupied from 1870 until 1955. This homestead is on the Kinchega Pastoral Estate which was a major player in Australia’s important wool industry. These...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 257 p. — (BAR International Series 2822). Este trabajo pretende ser una revisión sistemática de los principales yacimientos, con fósiles de ungulados, del Pleistoceno Superior de Castilla y León (España). Los restos se han analizado desde un punto de vista morfológico y métrico. La clasificación taxonómica se basa en los modelos utilizados actualmente en...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 204 p. — (BAR International Series 3073). En este libro se presentan los resultados obtenidos a partir del análisis arqueológico de las huellas de uso documentadas en el material lítico asociado al yacimiento achelense de Thiongo Korongo (1,353±0,35 Ma.) (Garganta de Olduvai, Tanzania), así como los datos registrados tras el desarrollo y estudio de la...
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...