The main objective of this book is to discuss the afterlife and reception of burial mounds by studying local interest in them through folklore, but also through disturbance and monument reuse. To this
This oversize volume (9.75x12") is the catalogue for an exhibition (date and venue not stated), a collaborative effort of Egypt's Supreme Council of Egyptian Antiquities, the U. of Pisa (and its libra
The present volume comprises most of the papers delivered at RICAN 4 in 2007. The focus is placed on readers and writers in the ancient novel and broadly in ancient fiction, though without ignoring re
A volume of studies in commemoration of E C L 'Inez' During Caspers who died in 1996. Forty papers on topics connecting the civilisations of the Indus and Mesopotamia, and India and the Gulf - a wide-
The Andean civilisations grew in an isolated fashion, with almost no influence from the rest of the world or indeed from further north in the Americas. The various Andean states and empires all came t
This volume reports on two main excavations at The Parks (1998) and London Road (1997-1998) carried out in Godmanchester (Cambridgeshire), plus a series of other smaller investigations. Excavations at
The first comprehensive, one-volume account of the maritime history of the British Isles from the early Middle Ages to the dawn of the 21st century. Ian Friel defines 'maritime history' broadly to enc
Excavations at Shadwell between 1974 and 1976 uncovered extensive archaeological remains, including the base of a masonry structure interpreted as a 3rd-century military signal tower by the excavator.
This collection of essays celebrates British scholarly achievements in Crete, from the early British pilgrims and travellers to the island, to the work of the first antiquarians and archaeologists.
Eighteenth-century Europe, commonly referred to as the Age of Enlightenment, witnessed a growing interest in China on the part of many great thinkers, inspired by reports of the Jesuit missionaries.
This treatise, based on data from the 1982 to 1986 excavations at Nohmul, aims to reconstruct some aspects of the cultural history and population structure, and to identify changes in that structure o
Girolamo Fracastoro (?1478-1553) was a doctor and scientist, as well as a poet. He was born in the northern Italian city of Verona, into a prominent local family.
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
As Jacques Derrida stated in Archive Fever, nothing is less reliable or less clear thanthe word "archive." Nevertheless, it is precisely within the semantic openendedness of this not
Egypt, Carthage and other African civilisations are well documented but the land and people between them are less well known yet also worthy of consideration.
The anthology was born out of a 2002-04 research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund to investigate the concept of paranormal and supranormal perception in the Buddhist epistemological traditi
Ancient Narrative Supplementum 8 is the first volume to be dedicated entirely to parallel readings of the Greek and the Roman novel. As a rule, publications taking a comprehensive look at the ancient
This volume presents the latest research on Iberian post-Palaeolithic rock art, using innovative methodologies and analyses. With six appendices of data and extensive site gazetteers, the work is esse
It has been said of the Mesolithic that this period heralded an increase in incidents of violence and warfare. These nine papers aim to evaluate whether such a statement holds any credence through a s
Brochs, roundhouses and wheelhouses are an ill-understood part of Scotland's archaeological heritage even though they are a fairly widespread phenomenon across northern and north-west Sotland and the
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
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 study recreates the intellectual climate and transatlantic setting of turn-of-the-century American reform. It examines the influence and meaning of German social thought and reform in the America
At the heart of this study of ancient bathing and bathhouses is an analysis of the culture of bathing in Roman Israel and what this reveals about the Romanisation of the Jewish population.
Published by the British Institute at Ankara and distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co., this two-volume set represents the findings of a multi-season survey project. (The dates of t
This book presents the results of archaeological research in the extreme south of Madagascar between 1991 and 2003, and provides a synthesis of the regions archaeology. Madagascar is an island with ma
Using computer reconstruction and an amazing amount of patience, the authors document the fragments of the wall paintings of bull-leaping at the two sites in meticulous detail and supply their reconst
Fifteen papers taken from a workshop held in Liege in 2001 aimed at bringing together those researching microlith industries from across Europe. Whilst new ideas and new data are presented in most pap
