Multidisciplinary Old and New World research, using high quality paleoenvironmental and archaeological data, looks for correlations between climatic oscillations and socio-cultural adjustments in noma
This book reviews Samian ware chronology, c. AD 150-275. A dating scheme is proposed, based upon the stratigraphic association of Samian ware with coins, and using the statistical strength of associat
Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Central China was the scene of important cultural developments which impacted on agricultural practices and local vegetation. Using phytolith data from archaeologic
Grand public buildings and opulent villas more often than not steal the limelight from more mundane structures such as shops and workshops which, nevertheless, played a vital role in catering for t
A wide variety of organizations are both creating and retaining digital data from archaeological projects. While current methods for preservation and access to data vary widely, nearly all of these or
Media structures play an important role in explaining media performance. The research on media systems, institutions and organizations developed significantly over the last decade.
This edited volume focuses on long-term economic structures refl ected in material culture, analysing the emergent processes that aff ected production mechanisms and embedded economic behaviour.
It has been estimated that over 90% of England's figurative medieval art was obliterated in the image destruction of the Reformation. Medieval angel roofs, timber structures with spectacular and ornat
The Corded Ware Culture (c. 2900-2300 BC) is found in a large area, from Russia to the Netherlands and from Scandinavia to Switzerland. Supra-regional elements include beakers decorated with cord and/
A study of the Neolithic in Macedonia. Chapter 1. Geographical environment, Geological data, Geography, Flora, Fauna; Chapter 2. Research methods, Analytical data, Early Neolithic database, Descriptio
Focusing on the Middle East, a collection of recent research on dolmens and standing stones. Contents: 1) Structures cultuelles et funeraires des IV et III millenaires dans le Sud jordanien desertique
In a substantially revised version of the doctoral dissertation at the University of Manchester in 2008, Bowskill (Hispanic studies, Swansea U., Wales) examines the mechanisms, power structures, and v
This colorful volume examines extravagant and practical structures built for animals of all types over the last several centuries in the UK. The work provides a detailed discussion of important histor
The Isles of Scilly have been the frontline of England's defenses since the 16th century, and are still home to structures from various conflicts over the past 450 years, from ancient forts to WWII pi
Ban Non Wat is one of the many moated and banked settlements in Thailand's upper Mon Valley that are remains of structures that predated the current civilization there. This volume introduces the resu
The book examines each of Barnes's novels under his own name, indicating how his treatment of common themes in inventive structures helps to invigorate both the themes and the novel form itself. Focus
Presents the architecture and associated finds from 39 locations in Areas B, C, D, and F in the Minoan town of Pseira, the Bronze Age settlement off the coast of Crete that was excavated between 1985
The Stoa of Attalos now covers the remains of several centuries of previous occupation: Mycenaean burials, houses, shops, and from the late fifth century, a succession of structures here associated wi
New geoinformatic technologies have recently had a transformative effect on landscape archaeology, particularly by facilitating the high resolution acquisition and analysis of data over large areas. T
The theme of this study is the large-scale exploitation of different stone products that took place in Norway during the Viking Age and the Middle Ages (c. AD 800-1500).
For both Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662) and Jurgen Moltmann (b. 1926) understanding what it means to be human springs from a contemplative vision of God. This comparative study explores surprising
Over 150 years of research in the Circum-Alpine region have produced a vast amount of data on the lakeshore and wetland settlements found throughout the area.
The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Indus Writing is a detailed examination of the Indus script. It presents new analysis based on an expansive text corpus using revolutionary analytical techniques devel
The archaeological site of Tell Nebi Mend, a tell on the Homs plain in present-day Syria, is universally recognised as the location, first, of Qadesh (or Kadesh), where, in c.
Keegan's analysis, a dissertation, of the ways in which the Roman emphasis on gender roles affected the burial of both sexes is based on data from four cemeteries which were all in use during the late
In this book an analysis of over 300 animal bone assemblages from English Saxon and Scandinavian sites is presented. The data set is summarised in extensive tables for use as comparanda for future arc
This study, covering the period c.1000 to c.1800 AD, is of the medieval and early modern houses of Bristol, England’s second city in the later middle ages and again in the 18th century.
This book is the result of the processing of the excavation data and of the pottery coming from the stratigraphy underneath the cathedral of Siena. The surveys were conducted between August 2000 and M
Mist (Niebla), published in 1914, is one of Miguel de Unamuno's key works; a truly Modernist work of Europe-wide significance which aims to shatter the conventions of fiction, using the novel as a veh
Mist (Niebla), published in 1914, is one of Miguel de Unamuno's key works; a truly Modernist work of Europe-wide significance which aims to shatter the conventions of fiction, using the novel as a ve
This study investigates the grave assemblages of the non-elite during the New Kingdom, using several different burial sites. Based on the author's database of over 3,000 artefacts, the statistical res
This volume in the Catalhoyuk series reports on the results of excavations from 2000 to 2008 that have provided a wealth of new data on the ways in which the Catalhoyuk settlement and environment were
The aim of this study is to interpret the scale and nature of the economy of the Eastern Mediterranean in the latter period of the LBA. It does this by using a quantitative approach that estimates the
The Church of England and the First World War (first published in 1978) explores in depth the role of the church during the tragic circumstances of the First World War using biographies, newspapers, m
Collective nouns such as majorite or foule have long been of interest to linguists for their unusual semantic properties, and provide a valuable source of new data on the evolution of French grammar.
Local and family historians are often afraid to use numerical data (Statistics) in their research and writing. Yet numbers are an essential part of much historical work, obviously in population histor
The analysis of animal bone assemblages from archaeological sites provides much valuable data concerning economic and husbandry practices in the past, as well as insights into cultural and symbolic or
This book provides reflections on the Sunday Bible readings in the Roman Catholic Lectionary for Years A, B, and C of the liturgical cycle. They previously appeared in separate volumes of Sunday Matte
