Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. — 425 p. — (New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture). Each chapter of this volume provides a window into the vibrant world of Middle and Late Byzantium, offering new insights into the complexities of Byzantine ecclesiastical spaces. This illuminating exploration reaches beyond the traditional focus on churches solely as buildings, unveiling the...
2nd Edition. — Hippocrene Books, 2022. — 390 p. Now in an updated second edition, Beginner’s Russian with Interactive Online Workbook offers an innovative, easy, and thorough way to speak and read Russian confidently. This complete Russian course includes a user-friendly textbook and interactive online workbook. The carefully-paced, relevant lessons cover grammar and language...
Edizioni Chartesia, 2019. — 230 p. I palazzi del potere civile, gli edifici di culto, le torri e le dimore nobiliari, le fortificazioni e i grandi protagonisti della storia: il volto dell'antica Trevigi emerge vividamente dalle pagine di questo elegante volume da collezione, impreziosito dalle firme di sei autorevoli studiosi che illustrano in modo chiaro e approfondito la...
Archaeopress, 2025. — 262 p. Revelations in Japanese Archaeology presents a selection of articles from the BSEAA (Bulletin of the Society for East Asian Archaeology). All articles represent important research questions that have retained their relevance to the present day. Many have been updated for inclusion in this volume. Especially important are the chapters on the Japanese...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016. — 193 p. — (Turcologica 106). Ottoman Turkish so-called transcription texts are texts occasionally written in non-Arabic scripts such as Roman, Greek, Armenian, and Georgian. The authors of these texts were “mediators” between Europe and the Middle East, compilers of grammars, vocabularies, and comments for language students. The contributions to...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2025. — xxv, 555 p. — (African Language Grammars and Dictionaries 7). — ISBN 978-3-96110-504-5. This is the first modern grammar and dictionary of Sherbro, an endangered Mel language spoken by ca. 50,000 people in Sierra Leone. The language faces significant pressure being abandoned in favor of the lingua francas Mende, Themne, Krio, and English....
9. Auflage — Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, 2004. — 117 S. — (Kauderwelsch 28). Wie meist in Ländern mit sogenannten kleinen Sprachen kann man sich auch in Schweden gut auf Englisch verständigen, aber die Schweden freuen sich natürlich, wenn man einige Floskeln in der Landessprache beherrscht. Dadurch wird es viel leichter, mit den als verschlossen geltenden Nordlichtern in...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 455 p. — (BAR International Series 2756). Tell el-Ghaba project was born as part of an international project launched in the early 1990s by the Egyptian government and UNESCO to save the monuments of North Sinai threatened by the imminent construction of the El-Salam Canal and its distributaries. This is the third volume of the work undertaken by the...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 209 p. — (BAR International Series 2757/Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 43). From 1956 to 1970 excavations at Tikal, one of the most famous classical Maya sites, was carried out by the University of Pennsylvania Museum Tikal Project. Until now, much of the field research from these excavations has remained unpublished. This volume draws on the...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 208 p. — (BAR International Series 2758/Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 44). The history of European settlement of South Americas has been the subject of much historical, archaeological and anthropological research. Guianas in the Amazon region, however life and society in the pre-Columbianperiod remain comparatively neglected topics. Though the...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 181 p. — (BAR International Series 2759). The Middle Euphrates Region, encompassing ancient Syria, enjoyed a period of rapid and complex socio-political development during the third millennium BC. These developments are archaeologically reflected in changes to burials and funerary rituals duringthis time. This important category of evidence lay largely...
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...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 417 p. — (BAR International Series 2761). The study of ceramics, their movement and their changes over time is one of the most significant and fruitful areas of historical archaeology. Nonetheless, a gap in the research is evident from the limited number of projectsembracing archaeometrical methodologies. This volume, consisting of several of the papers...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 183 p. — (BAR International Series 2762). Early Polynesian social development, and its dispersal through migration, are hotly debated topics, though this development is thought to have been centred on Tonga. This thesis uses material from Tongan archaeological sites to attempt to form more definite conclusions about ancestral Polynesian society, and to...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 247 S. — (BAR International Series 2763). Neolithic cultural groups are traditionally determined on the basis of pottery distribution, and ceramic clusters have therefore been conflated with cultural ones. Though there has been general acknowledgement of the methodological and theoretical problems with this practice, it is still common. This volume aims...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 139 p. — (BAR International Series 2764). This volume presents 12 of the papers from the Ancient Cultures at Monash University post-graduate conference (2013) at Monash University, Australia, in the disciplines of archaeology, history, Classics and indigenous studies. The papers showcase research by post-graduates at Monash across a range of ancient...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 112 p. — (BAR International Series 2765). The papers included in this volume were presented at the 2011 international academic conference 'Continuity and Destruction in Alexander's East: the transformation of monumental space from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity', which took place at the University of Oxford. The conference and publication theme...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 281 p. — (BAR International Series 2766). Archaeobotanical data is used as the basis for the investigations of the subsistence economy at the Early Bronze Age settlement Küllüoba in west-central Anatolia. This work introduces new evidence from this EBA settlement located on a flat mound in the upper Sakarya Valley. For the investigation of crops and...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 85 p. — (BAR International Series 2767). In 1992, in the context of the Archaeological Project Teotihuacan 92-94 under the direction of Eduardo Matos Montezuma , two caves in the southeast of the Pyramid of the Sun were excavated. The undertaken research demonstrated the use of these caves by teotihuacanos in a ceremonial context but also by the cultures...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 151 p. — (BAR International Series 2768). The results of the excavation of two Paleolithic sites on the Nile in the Republic of the Sudan, undertaken from the autumn of 1965 into the spring of 1966, are presented in this report. Artifacts from Khor Abu Anga and Magendohli, currently housed in the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Simon Fraser...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 213 p. — (BAR International Series 2769). This book, based on the author's doctoral thesis, is focused on understanding social and economic aspects of the medieval rural world on the basis of the zooarchaeological analysis of seven different assemblages of animal remains located in the north and centre of the Iberian Peninsula. Multiple lines of analysis...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 247 p. — (BAR International Series 2770). Collet Est was a Roman pottery workshop located on the Catalonian coast near Calonge. In active use from the 1st century BC to the middle of the 1st century AD, the workshop was used to produce dolia, local amphora, domestic pottery and building materials. In a later phase the site was reused as a necropolis by...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 271 p. — (BAR International Series 2772). With a strong emphasis on data, the two volumes of this book demonstrate that mobility was essential to the European Bronze Age by exploring the shared cultural expression of Bronze Age societies in contrast to their simultaneous development of new local and regional characteristics. During this seminal époque,...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 273 p. — (BAR International Series 2771). With a strong emphasis on data, the two volumes of this book demonstrate that mobility was essential to the European Bronze Age by exploring the shared cultural expression of Bronze Age societies in contrast to their simultaneous development of new local and regional characteristics. During this seminal époque,...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 237 p. — (BAR International Series 2773). The image of Cleopatra VII Philopator, often a cause of controversy and debate, has long been of particular interest among collectors of classical antiquities and academics. Starting from the controversial identification of the Capitoline Cleopatra and critical reading of the iconographic and literary...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 115 p. — (BAR International Series 2774). The nature of disputes related to the in situ conservation of archaeological remains into the basements of contemporary buildings are explored in this study. Through a novel, interdisciplinary approach negotiation theories and models with heritage management practices are merged, and the concept of in situ...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 219 p. — (BAR International Series 2775). Edited by N. Olaya Montero, M. Montoza Coca, A. Aguilera Felipe, R. Gómez Guiu Proceedings of the Second Postgraduate Conference in Studies of Antiquity and Middle Ages, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 19-21st November 2014 This volume presents the proceedings of the II Jornadas Predoctorales en Estudios de la...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 211 p. — (BAR International Series 2776). The strategies of production and consumption of lithic artifacts implemented by the hunter-gatherer societies who participated in the first peopling (final Pleistocene - 13,000/10,000 BP - and early Holocene - 10,000/7500 BP) of the southern end of the American continent are investigated in this book. The...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 220 p. — (BAR International Series 2778). Five basic Solutrean point types from the Iberian Peninsula are analysed at local, regional and Pan-Iberian scales in this book. The author reports new results concerning production process and object biography in relation to raw material procurement, technological strategies during production and use-life, site...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 223 p. — (BAR International Series 2779). A complete analysis of matt-painted pottery from Segesta, Sicily is presented in this volume. The analysis is based on direct examination of thousands of pottery fragments excavated from different contexts, both public and domestic, and from which the author derives a detailed typological and chronological order....
BAR Publishing, 2008. — 699 p. — (BAR International Series 1746). The 4th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry was held at the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, from May 28 to 31, 2003. The 86 selected contributions presented in this volume, cover a wide spectrum of topics from novel methods in Archaeometry to applications of traditional techniques...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 237 p. — (BAR International Series 2780). In collaboration with Y. Bassiakos, E. Filippaki, A. Hein, I. Karatasios, V. Kilikoglou and E. Kouloumpi The Hellenic Society for Archaeometry (HSA) was founded in 1982 and is the professional body representing academics and research centers in Greece and within the Greek Archaeological Service who employ...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 271 p. — (BAR International Series 2781). This volume represents the first major bioarchaeological investigation of human health and behaviour in ancient northern Vietnam. Using dental and skeletal samples excavated by Vietnamese archaeologists from the 1960s through to 1990s, this study compares and contrasts the human condition in two key temporal...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 297 p. — (BAR International Series 2782). Around 9500 BC, a number of changes take place in the life ways of human groups that, henceforth, will be designated as Mesolithic. These changes set them apart, behaviourally, from the preceding periods. Even though the ancestral know-how was passed across the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary, new solutions were...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 347 p. — (BAR International Series 2783). With contributions by M.C. Gupta, V.D. Misra, Greg C. Nelson, and G. Robbins Schug A fresh and innovative approach to the skeletal biology of prehistoric South Asians is presented in this volume. It is the first comprehensive bioarchaeological study of an early Holocene human skeletal series from the Gangetic...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 85 p. — (BAR International Series 2785). Prehistoric connections and interactions across the Baltic Sea are discussed through pottery and ceramic materials in this volume. Included are nine articles by thirteen authors from the countries around and connected to the Baltic Sea. The articles cover a timescale ranging from the Neolithic to the late Iron Age...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 227 p. — (BAR International Series 2787). Proceedings of Session A11d of the 17th World Congress of the IUPPS (Actes de la session A11d du 17e Congrés mondial de l,UISPP) (Burgos 1-7 September 2014) Research on rock art conducted during the last several decades has shown the skill and knowledge demonstrated by the painters, engravers and sculptors who...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 129 p. — (BAR International Series 2788). A new chapter on the material heritage of the Nabataean culture is opened in this book. The clay lamps, and the artificial lighting they provided, prove that daily activities in this prominent proto-Arabic kingdom did not cease after sunset or in dark environments. The studied items shed light on the different...
Peeters, 2023. — 154 p. — (Papyrologica Bruxellensia 42). This catalog comprises the Coptic manuscripts from the Ilves collection, which were exhibited at the National Archives of Finland from 16 June to 14 August 2020. The exhibition also included objects from the collections of the National Archives and the Finnish Egyptological Society. Research in Coptic studies has been...
Peeters, 1976. — 116 p. Ce petit ouvrage ne prétend pas à la perfection. Pour qu'il soit de prix relativement abordable dans les conditions actuelles de l’impression et de l’édition, que les usagers ignorent trop souvent, ses dimensions sont restreintes. Nous nous sommes tenu dès lors à l'essentiel pour distinguer, à propos des divers faits grammaticaux, leur appartenance aux...
Akadémiai Kiadó, 2023. — 770 o. Szótárunk az eddigi legjelentősebb és legnagyobb terjedelmű magyar–kínai szótár: mint egy 57 000 címszót és több mint 47 000 használati példát tartalmaz, a célnyelvi megfelelők hivatalos latin betűs (pinyin) átírásával együtt. Címszóanyagának alapjául elsődlegesen az Akadémiai Kiadónál 2013-ban megjelent Magyar–orosz szótár és a 2002-ben...
Akadémiai Kiadó, 2023. — 986 o. Szótárunk az eddigi legjelentősebb és legnagyobb terjedelmű magyar–kínai szótár: mint egy 57 000 címszót és több mint 47 000 használati példát tartalmaz, a célnyelvi megfelelők hivatalos latin betűs (pinyin) átírásával együtt. Címszóanyagának alapjául elsődlegesen az Akadémiai Kiadónál 2013-ban megjelent Magyar–orosz szótár és a 2002-ben...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. — 404 p. — (Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema). Based on extended field research and meetings with members of Morocco’s film world, this book traces the development of Moroccan cinema over the past three decades. Drawing from his extensive work on Moroccan cinema, Kevin Dwyer discusses important aspects of Moroccan film culture such as freedom of...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2025. — 149 S. — (Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 21). Drei Felsreliefs zieren eine Felswand am Sirkeli Höyük, einem bronze- und eisenzeitlichen Fundort im Ebenen Kilikien. Sie tragen Darstellungen hethitischer Könige aus dem 13. Jahrhundert v.u.Z., deren am besten erhaltene Großkönig Muwattali II., Gegner des Pharao Ramses II., in der...
The Boydell Press, 2017. — 320 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 11). Examinations of the use of diagrams, symbols etc. found as commentary in medieval texts. In our electronic age, we are accustomed to the use of icons, symbols, graphs, charts, diagrams and visualisations as part of the vocabulary of communication. But this rich ecosystem is far from a...
The Boydell Press, 2020. — 265 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 20). Ground-breaking study of the enigmatic and unique tabernacles from fourteenth-century Italy, which for the first time combined relics and images. Images and relics were central tools in the process of devotional practice in medieval Europe. The reliquary tabernacles that emerged in the...
The Boydell Press, 2017. — 220 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 10). An examination of women as mothers in medieval French sculpture. What can medieval sculptural representations of women tell us about medieval women's experiences of motherhood? Presumably the work of male sculptors, working for clerical patrons, these sculptures are unlikely to have been...
The Boydell Press, 2020. — 356 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 19). Medieval tombs often depict husband and wife lying side-by-side, and hand in hand, immortalised in elegantly carved stone: what Philip Larkin's poem An Arundel Tomb later described as their "stone fidelity". This first full account of the "double tomb" places its rich tradition into...
The Boydell Press, 2019. — 380 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 16). New interpretations of an art form ubiquitious in the Middle Ages. English alabasters played a seminal role in the artistic development of late medieval and early modern Europe. Carvings made of this lustrous white stone were sold throughout England and abroad, and as a result many...
Taschen, 2016. — 96 p. From impossible staircases to tesselated birds, Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898–1972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and mathematics. Dense, complex, and structured by intricate principles, his work is at the same time decorative and playful, toying constantly with optic illusions and the limitations of sensory perception. Working...