In 1997 Michael Flecker investigated a shipwreck in the north Java sea. The wreck comprised the remains of a mid 10th-century ship with its cargo of thousands of ceramic and non-ceramic artefacts.
A catalogue and discussion of the social meaning and family relationships behind the funerary monuments of Roman France. Hope aims to reconstruct the stories associated with monuments from their inscr
The tomb of Nikauisesi was discovered in 1979 but has remained unpublished until now. The chapel is decorated with important scenes and inscriptions in painted relief, the examination of which, togeth
Pickles focuses on descriptive documentary evidence, combining it with information from archaeology and surviving structures, historical evidence from Merovingian and Carolingian Gaul, and a number of
A remote island with a rich and ancient literature. A land of hot springs and volcanoes. A country with an extraordinary history, a challenging geography and a vibrant contemporary culture. A land of
This study's main aim is to summarise the available site and ceramic evidence upon which understanding of the Manx Neolithic currently rests, augmented with discussion of the location and topography o
This is an illustrated history, with information on food, cooking equipment, the design of kitchens, the serving of meals and the development of taste and etiquette, with recipes adapted for the moder
Mill Hill, in Kent, is one of the richest Iron Age cemeteries in England, with most of the burials dating from the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. This volume presents the results of excavations between
A full descriptive catalogue of Celtic ornamental metalwork of British provenance, along with the moulds for making lost objects, though excluding those objects already fully catalogued, such as the s
The first volume of this major commentary begins appropriately with Prolegomena, before offering a text of Ovid's Amores . The Prolegomena has eight chapters: Tenerorum Lusor Amorum; Doctrina; Recita
Aulus Persius Flaccus (A.D. 34-62) wrote in racy conversational Latin six satires countering contemporary vice with Stoic morality; he died young. This is not easy poetry, with its sudden shifts of to
Archaeological predictive modelling, Ebert argues, has stagnated in recent years with its proponents resisting the temptation to experiment with tried and tested models. Four new models for predicting
John Ruskin's training as an interdisciplinary polymath started in childhood. He learned to memorise the Bible at his mother's knee and published his first poem aged ten. His lifelong fascination with
There are about 300 archaeological open-air museums in Europe. Their history goes from Romanticism up to modern-day tourism. With the majority dating to the past 30 years, they do more than simply pre
This study focuses on the diversity with which early medieval society formed not only among macro European zones but also within individual areas, and thus on the need to look beyond the models ela
Lying in the north-east of Scotland, beyond the mountain barrier of the Mounth, the River Don drains a tract of country in excess of 1600 sq km, including both the richest farmland and many of the are
The proceedings of the 3rd International Meeting of Anthracology (2004). Papers cover techniques, reports of specific excavations and more general syntheses and theoretical work. A particular focus of
Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus and author of the first published account of a voyage to the New World, was also the owner of one of the largest private libraries assembled during the
A study of the lives of and works of Anna Barbauld and Mary Robinson, two of the most influential women poets of the late 18th and early 19th centuries giving particular attention to them as London po
A detailed and heavily annotated examination of the presentation and treatment of Roman augural matters in Greek texts, notably those derived from the works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch,
Map of Athens, The history of Athens, The environs of the Acropolis, Acropolis, Acropolis Museum, South Slope of the Acropolis, Areopagos Hill of the Nymphs, Pnyx, Hill of Philopappos, Canellopoulos M
Based on a 1997 colloquium in tandem with an exhibition on Jews in China in Sankt Augustin, Germany, these 31 papers bring two venerable civilizations into "the same semantic universe" and reflect the
Includes all Gothic texts in Biblical Gothic, and the Gothic calendar and the Deeds from Naples and Arezzo. Complete with Introduction, Texts and Concordance.
This work provides an introduction to England from the year 871 to 1074. The period starts with Alfred's reign and ends when England's last Anglo-Saxon king gave up his claim to Alfred's throne. It wi
This is a chronological and thematic description of the excavation of parts of the Calleva defences, followed by descriptions of the finds and specialist reports by various contributors, in particu
Contents of this volume include: The Significance of the 11th-century Rebuilding of Christ Church and St Augustines, Canterbury, in the Development of Romanesque Architecture (Richard Gem); Remains of
This is a complete guide to what the hieroglyph-inscribed objects found when Howard Carter opened Tutankhamun's tomb actually mean. The book is ordered by location, with sections on the Antechamber, t
The Rhetoric of Exile explores the rhetorical construction of force in indirect exile and in literary responses to it. Between banishment, a compulsory exile, and expatriation, a voluntary one, many l
Monica Rorison's thesis identifies and examines the vici of Aquitania, Lugdunensus and Belgia, dating from Caesar's victory at Alesia in 52 BC through to the Roman withdrawal in the early 5th century.
The Neolithic and Copper age monuments in Europe, consisting of stone temples and circles, standing stones, henge monuments, long barrows, megalithic graves, buildings and pyramids, are the most impre
Few records survive from Raymond-Charles Weill's excavations of the early Zionist tombs of Tel Gezer in central Israel. The finds, which have no context, are all that survive.
This book explores the social dynamics of early village societies, focusing specifically on the transition from the Neolithic to the Copper Age and the development of Early Copper Age village communit
The Mystery surrounding the disappearance of the Ninth Legion is one that, since Rosemary Sutcliffe's book The Eagle of the Ninth and the follow up radio plays, TV series and Hollywood movies, has cap
Medieval castles are, as Professor Liddiard states in his Foreword to this volume, ‘evocative monuments and perhaps more than any other building capture the ideals of the Middle Ages.' This idealizati
These essays emerge from different crucial and complex conflicts: from the memory of the sixteenth-century bishop, Bartolome de las Casas, urging the pope of his time to cleanse the church of complici
