Employment Law in Practice equips the reader with a thorough grounding in substantive areas of employment law which are most frequently heard in employment tribunals, including unfair dismissal which
The high officials of the Old Kingdom, professional bureaucrats and administrators, were dependent on the exploitation of rural estates as their economic basis. This study examines the funerary images
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
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
This book examines how human interactions with animals, in particular now extinct cave bears (Ursus spelaeu), affected the social lives of prehistoric hunter-gatherers (hominins - Neanderthals and
A Festschrift for Professor Vidula Jayaswal. Contents: 1) Professor Vidula Jayaswal: A Versatile Scholar in Archaeology Profile of Biographical & Academic Achievements (S. Rama Krishna Pisipaty);
This, the seventh volume in the series, brings together papers from the sixth CHAT Conference (2008), held at UCL on the theme of Heritage. Contents: Introduction: The Good, the Bad and the Unbuilt: H
The present study evolved out of an attempt to explore the mechanisms involved in the transformation of a social practice and its spatial context from one cultural, technological and architectural
This is a study on textile production in central Tyrrhenian Italy from the final Bronze Age to the Republican period. Textile production is studied here through its technological, social and econom
The main body of this volume is a comprehensive gazetteer of sites in the Roman province of Moesia Superior, providing details of settlement in the Pre-Roman Iron Age, the Roman Empire and in Late Ant
A report on excavations which provide evidence for the entire military sequence at the Roman fort of Metchley. A wide range of features and feature types were sampled, including defensive ditches and
Proceedings of Red Sea Project V held at the University of Exeter September 2010. Contents: 1) Travels with Machell in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean: the voyages of Thomas Machell and Jenny Balfour
This study re-evaluates the previous understanding of the Later Village Period in Greater Susiana (southwestern Iran) by focusing mostly on settlement and landscape. This is addressed from the perspec
Explorer Helge Ingstad set out in the 1960s to search for the much hypothesized and mythical Norse land of Vinland. Vinland, originally discovered by Leif Erikson c. 1000 CE, is described in two sagas
This collection of papers on 'Dress and Identity' arose from a seminar series held by the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham in 2005. The present volume covers a wide chr
This is the first detailed, wide-ranging report to be published on excavations in the extramural settlement of the Roman legionary fortress at Chester (north-western England), specifically those ar
The churches of St John and St Mary at Ephesos, Building D at Sardis, St John at Philadelphia, and the basilicas of Hierapolis illustrate the development of vaulted construction on the west coast of A
The papers brought together in this volume discuss the importance of large-scale archaeological projects, most often undertaken as part of heritage management practices resulting from development, and
This study examines the use of ceramic building materials in transitional architecture of the 9th-11th centuries in southeast England and northwest France, discussing parallels, and in particular aski
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
This book utilises archaeological evidence to establish that during the Late Iron Age and Roman periods there were three maritime exchange systems operating in the waters of the North Sea and Channel:
"This study examines Roman sculpture across the provinces extending from the Rhine to the Pyrenees and Britain to understand better both regional similarities and local peculiarities, to contextualize
Papers from Sessions C11, C22, WS29 and C88 from the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006); Contents: 1) Landscape development in North-central littoral Portugal; Influenced by clima
This book collects articles from two different workshops organized in 2009 and 2010, one which aimed to analyse the epistemology of cyber-archaeology in relation to state of the art methods, theory, a
This study explains the social development of archaeological settlements and artefacts related to the first sedentary societies (1400 BC- AD 350) of the Northern Titicaca Basin, Peru. Such societies p
This work is a contribution to the body of 'new' landscape history drawing on a range of sources from archives, such as documents and maps, from archaeological excavation and from field survey in r
This volume contains ten papers originally given as part of two seminar series on landscape archaeology. Topics include sarsen stones; the Christianisation of Ethipia's landscape; a comparative study
'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
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
Both because it was a valuable commodity in many prehistoric cultures, and because almost every obsidian source has its own unique geochemical portrait, obsidian provides a useful window on mobility a
This study investigates the uses of bone as a raw material on the Tierra del Fuego. Scheinshon first determines the mechanical properties of bones to be found on the island, and then traces the rates
This volume comprises a thorough review of excavations at a two mound site in southern Rajasthan. The occupation sequence is determined, from pre-Chalcolithic beginnings, to its height in the mid-Chal
This study presents the corpus of Attic pinakes from the late seventh to early fourth century. It looks at the iconography of these painted clay votive offerings, at the inscriptions they bear, the lo
This research addresses the issue of variability within the Middle Dorset (2000-1100 B.P.) culture on the island of Newfoundland and on the island of Saint-Pierre in the French Archipelago of Saint-Pi
This collection of papers is entirely devoted to cupules, a feature prominently in Peruvian and Bolivian rock art, as well as in Lower Palaeolithic India and elsewhere. The contributors examine issues
This volume discusses the role of organic residue analysis in identifying economic activities and subsistence practices associated with the first uses of pottery in the Middle East, and presents the r
This meticulous work aims to identify all of the assets of one English abbey, that of Winchcombe, founded in the 8th century. In addition to locating and plotting the actual lands and estates of the m
This book looks at the 942 artifacts of foreign origin - from Anatolia, Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, Mesopotamia, and Syro-Palestine - which have been found in the late Bronze Age Aegean area. These objects
