This work examines the post-palatial phase of Late Helladic IIIC middle. During this phase in Greek prehistory, Greece undergoes important changes that will transfer the palace administrative system o
The volume covers the 2005 season of clearing and mapping at the Khentkawes Town on the Giza Plateau, ongoing work on the 4th Dynasty settlement at the Lost City of the Pyramids (Heit el-Ghurob [HeG]
This volume presents the site of Northton in the Western Isles of Scotland (at Toe Head on Harris). During excavations in 1965 and 1966 two early horizons were identified beneath and close to the base
Aims at synthesizing the available archaeological evidence for the Bell Beaker phenomenon. The core of the work consists of chapters which respectively offer synthetic regional accounts of the Bell Be
This work investigates the use of Old Red Sandstone from South Wales, Gloucestershire, Avon and Somerset during the Roman period, for rotary querns. It is based on detailed petrographic studies of the
Thomas Hardy still seems to speak to us, in fiction and in poetry, as 'our contemporary'. This second edition of Peter Widdowson's study identifies the elements in Hardy's work which enable him to be
A comprehensive overview of Burns' entire poetic career emphasizing his construction of his role as a poet and his relationship to literary and intellectual history. This book treats Burns' work chron
From Ice Age to Essex is a short history of human habitation in East London, based on archaeological findings made at gravel quarries. To find the beginning of this story we have to go back half a mil
Gabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into
The site of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, is important, from two principal points of view. In the first place it has played a significant role in the history and cultural traditions of Sri Lanka as a whole
This volume presents the results of excavations carried out between 1971 and 1983 on the site of a medieval dam and pond at the southern end of the deserted English village of Wharram Percy, North Yor
In this 35th volume of the Proceedings, held on London in July of 2004, 24 papers present recent academic research in the humanities (including archaeology, history, epigraphy, ethnography, and art) o
9 papers presented at a colloquium held in honour of J.J. Coulton at Lincoln College, Oxford on 17 April 2004, to mark his retirement from the Readership in Classical Archaeology at Merton College, Ox
Chandima Wickramasinghe provides the first comprehensive overview of historical slavery in Sri Lanka, and from a comparative perspective looks in detail at this and at the history of slavery in ancien
Examines in detail a specific group of inscribed material from the Memphite necropolis. The material dates to the late Old Kingdom-Herakleopolitan Period, and comes from tombs belonging to officials o
All of the Roman military equipment featured in this catalogue was found in Wales, reflecting the region's domination by both soldiers and forts for approximately 350 years. Many objects are catalogue
Excavations in the town of Elephantine between 1972 and 1991 uncovered more than 1600 clay seals, cylinder seals and various other sealing materials, forming one of the largest and most important seal
Aves Ditch is one of the best-preserved and yet most enigmatic of the ancient monuments in Oxfordshire, and it has remained a landmark to the present day. For over three centuries scholars have wonder
It is a common assumption that prehistory was a time of war and violence, between species of humans competing for supremacy, between cultures and within communities.
The books compares stories of Roman Catholic involvement in current and historical indigenous policy debates in Australia and New Zeland. They are stories of inconsistent and often confused applicatio
This thematic fourth Supplementum to Ancient Narrative, entitled Metaphor and the Ancient Novel, is a collection of revised versions of papers originally read at the Second Rethymnon International Con
In the remote countryside of north-central Tunisia, between the cities of Siliana and Le Kef, stands a ruined stone structure known as Kbor Klib. A thorough examination of North African archaeological
The first in a series on the origins of the civilization of Angkor, this volume reports on the 1995-96 excavation of the prehistoric settlement of Ban Lum Khao in Northeast Thailand. The book begins w
A detailed study of the lithic material from the important Aurignacian site of Abri Pataud in the Dordogne region of France comprising both technological and typological analyses. French text.
Between 1968 and 1972, ten archaeological sites were excavated in Prince Rupert Harbour on the northern coast of British Columbia. This volume focuses on the finds from nine sites, over 9,000 of which
The purpose of castles - their position and their symbolic nature - is the main focus of this study, which takes into account the importance of their context in the medieval world, as part of a many-f
These seventeen papers, from a colloquium held at the XIVth UISPP Congress at the University of Liege in 2001, combine archaeological, ethnographic and technical approaches to present the current stat
In these proceedings of the seminar held in London in July 2003, participants present papers on the general topics of southern Arabia, ceramics in Yemen and trade in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean,
These seventeen essays are written in honour of Lorraine Copeland which reflect her interest in the prehistory of the Near East and her belief that river sediments were the key to providing `a prelimi
Thirteen papers, from a conference held in York in 2003, examine the fate of Roman Britain, the nature of the Saxon immigration and the independence of western Britain in the face of refugees from the
By the late Bronze Age the Irish had become masters in metalworking anf the range of objects produced was in stark contrast to those of the earlie Bronze Age. This study presents a comprehensive analy
These are not just ordinary coins, suitable for tossing into the change jar at the end of the day. And yet, at one time they perhaps were. In these seven essays, contributors show how coins can mirror
While nineteenth-century scholars debated whether the fragmentary Satyrica of Petronius should be regarded as a traditional or an original work in ancient literary history, twentieth-century Petronian
Selected Articles B. McLachlin: Imagining the Other: Legal Rights and Diversity in the Modern World A. R. Bernstein: Rawls' Law of Peoples on Just War, Human Rights and Toleration C. Brown: Decent Peo
This volume reports in detail on the archaeological research carried out between 1990-96 by the Oxford Archaeological Unit of the Yarnton-Cassington study area for the 5th century to the post-medieval
This catalogue is the definitive publication of a mid-20th Dynasty papyrus that was discovered in the necropolis of Assiut in the early 1880s. One half of it is in the British Museum (P. BM EA 10061),
The late Mesolithic and Neolithic cemetery of Zvejnieki on the shore of Lake Burtnieki, northern Latvia, is unique. More than 300 burials have been found, spanning over three millennia. The skeletal e
Whilst campaigning to save the Baths, the Friends of Victoria Baths researched their history. This book is the result, telling the story of how the Baths were conceived, their construction in 1903-6,
