Sometime in the late 16th century an armed merchantman foundered in the Thames Estuary. Forgotten for over four centuries, it was rediscovered in 2003 during an operation by the Port of London Authori
Rescue excavations were carried out along the terrace north of Ancient Corinth by Henry Robinson, the director of the Corinth Excavations, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens on beh
This technical book of archeological findings is the sixth in the series of Corinth XVIII. The series publishes the results of the excavations made by the American School of Classical Studies in the S
Excavations at Green Park Reading Business ParkPhase 3 and Moores Farm Burghfield Berkshire. This volume presents the results of two excavations on the gravel terraces of the Lower Kennet Valley, at G
This comparative study of Greek and Scythian jewellery manufacturing in the North Pontic region is based on a new technique developed by the author over a number of years to produce high-quality image
Groups of burial mounds may be among the most tangible and visible remains of Europe's prehistoric past. Yet, not much is known on how "barrow landscapes" came into being . This book deals with that t
Hieatt (emeritus, English, U. of Western Ontario) has prepared many medieval cookbooks for modern scholars and adventurous cooks, and here presents another. The manuscript is housed at Oxford, she exp
This volume presents an inventory of all seed, fruit and beverage remains from 130 years of excavations in Hungary and stretching back some 8000 years. Ferenc Gyulai's accompanying analysis traces the
18 papers from the 1st Red Sea Project, held at the British Museum in October 2002. Contents: The Red Sea: the wind regime and location of ports (W. Facey); Arabian trade with ethiopia and the Horn
"The excavation of and objects from the Late Bronze Age town of Gournia in eastern Crete is presented along with finds from other Minoan sites located nearby the Isthmus of Hierapetra"--Provided by pu
Since their initial discovery in the nineteenth century, the enigmatic prehistoric lake-dwellings of the Circum-Alpine region have captured the imagination of the public and archaeologists alike.
This book is about philosophical influence on theological articulations. Specifically, Latta claims that C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and W.H. Auden’s post-conversion works that have time as a theological
Found a few kilometres from Stonehenge, the graves of the Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen date to the 24th century BC and are two of the earliest Bell Beaker graves in Britain. The Boscombe Bo
Cases of trauma-related violent death among the Anasazi culture of the American Southwest have been documented since the beginning of archaeological study in the region. Researchers have reported thes
Lambrianides and Spencer with several colleagues have prepared the first volume of the results of geo/eco/archeological work done in the Madra River Delta in eastern Turkey. Influenced by the Annales
The study of ritual practice in the past is an accepted part of archaeological research these days. Yet, its theoretical basis is still not fully mature. This book aims at making a contribution to the
During the international conference ‘Settlement, Communication and Exchange around the Western Carpathians' held in Krakow in October 2012, attention was focused on the complex issues of long-term cul
During the later part of the last century there was rapid development of the study and understanding of the changing environments of the last 2 million years. This came to provide a firm background fo
The so-called Chronica urbis Romae has long been valued for the exact year-month-day figures that it gives for the reign of every Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to Licinius, especially those for the
This volume is the seventh catalogue of the Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland series dedicated to the collection of Coptic manuscripts belonging to the Staatsbibliothek zu Be
Egyptian mathematical texts are known from 2nd millennium BC papyri., but it is clear that the knowledge preserved there is often much older. The book looks at evidence for mathematics in the 4th and
This work investigates the contribution of economic activity to Chinese early urbanization, through a case study of the lithic production at the Neolithic Taosi site in Shanxi, China (c. 2500-1900BCE)
Contributions on the current state of archaeological research in the Croatian part of the Roman province of Pannonia: Contents: Introduction (Branka Migotti); 1) Literary Sources Before the Marcom
The result of a March 2007 conference organized by the International Scientific Committee on Theory and Philosophy of Conservation and Restoration; the International Centre of Study for the Conservati
37 essays on the christianisation of the Roman world and Christian culture up to the later Middle Ages. As might be expected there is a particular emphasis on Roman Britain and on Christian art.
Seven papers explore features and applications of Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms. Among their topics are myth and religion; his and Oswald Spengler's philosophies of culture in the ligh
Address the question of the emergence of social complexity in the Yangshao culture (ca. 4900-3000 BC) in Central China based on analysis of settlement patterns and faunal remains from Lingbao, western
This volume publishes forty-five inscriptions from Gebel Tjauti and forty-five inscriptions from Wadi el-Hôl, two major concentrations of rock inscriptions and rock art on pharaonic caravan routes of
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
'Assembles a series of innovative studies in the historical archaeology of graffiti. A rich variety of case studies range from figures carved into the bark of aspen trees in upland Nevada made during
"The conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin in 583/1187, after nearly nine decades of Frankish rule, opened a new era of cultural, socio-economic and architectural changes. The renewed political fervour tha
This study is primarily concerned with computer-generated reconstruction models of architecture. It offers a collection of possible methodologies for dealing with individual problems concerning visual
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
Mark Grahame's study, originally based around his doctoral thesis, discusses a new theoretical and methodological approach to interpreting the use of space and the `meaning' of buildings, how peopl
The material presented here is derived from an extensive survey conducted by the Polis-Pyrgos Archaeological Project (PAP) in 1992-1994, 1996-1997, and 1999 in the area between the western bank of the
This monograph is concerned with understanding the behaviours and land use practices associated with earlier Palaeolithic hominins in Syria, through consideration of key archaeological assemblages
