NEW: Ceramics inward Transition: Production too Exchange of Late Byzantine-Early Islamic Pottery inward Southern Transjordan too the Negev yesteryear Elisabeth Holmqvist. Paperback; 205x290mm; vi+196 pages; 61 figures, 4 tables + illustrated appendices (25 pages inward colour). (Print RRP £35.00). 552 2019. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789692242. £35.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781789692259.
Ceramics inward Transition focuses on the utilitarian ceramic traditions during the socio-political transition from the belatedly Byzantine into the early Islamic Umayyad too ‘Abbasid periods, c. 6th–9th centuries CE inward southern Transjordan too the Negev. These regions belonged to the Byzantine province of Palaestina Tertia, before Islamic administrative reorganisation inward the mid-7th century. Cooking ware too ceramic containers were investigated from v archaeological sites representing unlike socio-economic contexts, the Jabal Harûn monastery, the hamlet of Khirbet edh-Dharih, the port metropolis of ‘Aqaba/Aila, the town of Elusa inward the Negev, too the suburban farmstead of Abu Matar. The ceramics were typo-chronologically categorised too subjected to geochemical too micro-structural characterisation via X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (ED-XRF) too scanning electron microscopy (SEM-EDS) to geochemically ‘fingerprint’ the sampled ceramics too to seat production clusters, manufacturing techniques, ceramic distribution patterns, too cloth links betwixt rural-urban communities as good as religious-secular communities. The ceramic information demonstrate economical wealth continuing into the early Islamic periods inward the southern regions, ceramic commutation systems, specialized industry too inter-regional, long-distance ceramic transport. The potters who operated inward the southern areas inward the formative stages of the Islamic menstruum reformulated their arts and crafts to follow novel influences diffusing from the Islamic centres inward the north.
About the Author
ELISABETH HOLMQVIST holds a PhD (2010) inward Archaeological Science from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, too MA too BA degrees inward Archaeology from the University of Helsinki. She works as a post-doctoral researcher at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. Her enquiry interests are broadly inward archaeological science, ancient arts and crafts technologies too identifying mobility of objects too people inward archaeological data. She carries out archaeological fieldwork inward Finland, State of Israel too Jordan.
NEW: Current Research inward Egyptology 2018 Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium, Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 25–28 June 2018 edited yesteryear Marie Peterková Hlouchová, Dana Belohoubková, Jirí Honzl, Vera Nováková. Paperback; 203x276mm; x+252 pages; illustrated throughout inward color too dark & white (104 color pages). 88 2019. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789692143. £55.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781789692150.
Current Research inward Egyptology 2018 is a collection of papers too posters presented at the nineteenth symposium of the prestigious international educatee conference, held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University inward Prague on 25th–28th June 2018. The Prague conference was attended yesteryear to a greater extent than than 100 people from various countries too institutions. The attain of topics discussed was wide, roofing all periods of ancient Egyptian too Nubian history too various topics concerning their society, religious life, cloth civilisation too archaeological excavations. The lawsuit also included half dozen keynote lectures yesteryear experts from the Czech Institute of Egyptology, the FA CU (Prof. Mgr. Miroslav Bárta, Dr., Doc. PhDr. Hana Vymazalová, Ph.D., Doc. PhDr. Jana Mynářová, Ph.D., Prof. PhDr. Ladislav Bareš, CSc., too PhDr. Filip Coppens, Ph.D.) too the University of Vienna (Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter-Christian Jánosi). The Egyptological coming together was enriched with a see to the Karolinum, historical buildings of Charles University.
Production too provenance of Gulf wares unearthed inward the Old Doha Rescue Excavations Project yesteryear José C. Carvajal López, Marcella Giobbe, Elizabeth Adeyemo, Myrto Georgakopoulou, Robert Carter, Ferhan Sakal, Alice Bianchi & Faisal Al-Na’īmī. Pages 51-67 from Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 49 2019 edited yesteryear Daniel Eddisford.
In this paper, a science-based study of ceramic wares discovered inward the Old Doha Rescue Excavations (ODRE) is presented. The ODRE project, run yesteryear Qatar Museums too UCL Qatar, discovered a stratigraphic sequence running from the earliest job of Doha inward the early nineteenth century until the most recent archaeological levels. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 strategic selection of ceramic wares from this sequence was studied to shed calorie-free on the technological background too provenance of the pottery utilized inward Doha betwixt the belatedly nineteenth too the mid-twentieth century. The petrographic study of these wares has provided insight into their mineralogical too petrological composition too their textural characteristics. The textural elements withdraw keep been used to empathize the engineering of production of the ceramics, which come upwardly from unlike places some the Gulf. The identification of components has moved us a measuring closer to the location of places of production yesteryear matching compositions too geological backgrounds. The study of glazes with hhXRF, SEM-EDS, too optical microscopy has given us farther insight on technological processes inward the application of glaze. Finally, a comparing betwixt the macroscopic too microscopic analyses carried out has been produced to shed some calorie-free on the inherent difficulties associated with the identification of wares inward Gulf ceramics.
Keywords: Islamic archaeology, archaeological science, Qatar, Gulf archaeology, ceramics
Hasanlu, the Southern Caucasus too Early Urartu yesteryear Megan Cifarelli. Pages 144-156 from Over the Mountains too Far Away: Studies inward Near Eastern history too archeology presented to Mirjo Salvini on the occasion of his 80th birthday edited yesteryear Pavel S. Avetisyan, Roberto Dan too Yervand H. Grekyan.
Abstract: The yesteryear decades witnessed an increasing recognition of the complexity of Hasanlu’s seat inward the Iron Age world that it shared with Assyria, due to enquiry inward the highlands to the N of Hasanlu too the proliferation of studies well-nigh the kingdom of Urartu. This newspaper explores evidence, ‘circumstantial’ too archaeological, for interaction betwixt Hasanlu during Period IVb (1050-800 BC) too the incipient Urartian state. There is fiddling inquiry that during the latter one-half of Period IVb at Hasanlu, the entity that would larn the kingdom of Urartu was coalescing inward eastern Anatolia too northwestern Iran. The cloth civilisation of Hasanlu Period IVb provides hints of interaction betwixt Hasanlu too the larger southern Caucasus region, too betwixt Hasanlu too Urartu. The impact of this cultural contact is bilateral, although it is challenging to line the steps yesteryear which the cloth civilisation of northwestern Islamic Republic of Iran contributed to the evolution of that inward Urartu. This newspaper argues that cloth connections betwixt Urartu too Hasanlu, the objects displayed on its citadel too the bodies of its citizens, inward the rich too various collections safeguarded inward storerooms too presumably taken as spoils yesteryear its destroyers, betoken the debt Urartu owed to northwest Iran.
Keywords: Hasanlu, Urartu, Iron Age, South Caucasus, trident, bident, Panthera leo pin
NEW: Bridging Science too Heritage inward the Balkans Studies inward Archaeometry too Cultural Heritage Restoration too Conservation edited yesteryear Nona Palincaş too Corneliu C. Ponta. Paperback; vi+156 pages; illustrated throughout inward color too dark & white. 541 2019. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789691962. £34.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781789691979.
In a menstruum when, especially inward the West, the study of archaeological remains is enriched through novel methods derived from the natural sciences too when at that topographic point is full general understanding on the demand for to a greater extent than investment inward the study, restoration too conservation of the tangible cultural heritage, this volume presents contributions to these fields from South-Eastern Europe. This part is characterised yesteryear a contrast betwixt the rather limited evolution of the higher upwardly scientific methods too the especially rich too various cloth remains of its yesteryear societies, as good as yesteryear an obvious demand to withdraw closer together traditionally-trained archaeologists with specialists inward natural sciences interested inward the enquiry too conservation of ancient cloth remains. The championship ‘Bridging Science too Heritage inward the Balkans’ intends to present that the volume is component subdivision of this effort.
The departing dot of this volume is the fifth Balkan Symposium of Archaeometry (25–29 September 2016, Sinaia, Romania), where most of the papers published hither were presented inward preliminary form. The contributors are specialists from South-Eastern Europe as good as from other European countries working there. Some chapters focus on methods (in the enquiry of glass, restoration of stone monuments affected yesteryear contemporary graffiti, conservation yesteryear irradiation of organic materials such as forest too human too creature trunk remains); most chapters nowadays instance studies (analyses of ceramics, metals, soils, forest anatomy, isotope-based reconstruction of human diet, ancient DNA, radiocarbon dating, engineering assisted acre survey, as good as restoration of newspaper too pigments); sometimes several methods are combined. The volume covers nearly all aspects of heritage sciences employed inward this component subdivision of Europe.
About the Editors
NONA PALINCAŞ is senior researcher with the Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology of the Romanaian Academy inward Bucharest. Her enquiry interests include both social archeology (particularly gender, trunk practices, power, knowledge, agency too inventiveness inward the south-east European Bronze too Iron Ages too inward contemporary archaeology) too archaeometry (primarily radiocarbon dating too analysis of archaeological ceramics). She has conducted excavations inward the pre- too protohistoric small town at Popeşti (Romania), the Late Iron Age abode of which was identified with Argedaon/Argedava − the residence of the manlike someone parent of the Dacian manlike someone monarch Burebista. In various publications she has pleaded for stronger evolution of archaeological theory too of archaeometry inward Romania too inward South-Eastern Europe inward general.
CORNELIU C. PONTA, PhD, chemic engineer, has worked for to a greater extent than than 40 years at the Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics too Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH) inward Măgurele, Romania. He established, developed too led the IRASM Radiation Processing Centre – a subdivision orientated to enquiry too development, treatments, consulting, advertisement too implementation of applications of gamma irradiation. Among these the disinfection of cultural heritage yesteryear gamma irradiation is at nowadays an accepted conservation alternative inward Romania. Recently he contributed to the volume Uses of Ionizing Radiation for Tangible Cultural Heritage Conservation (IAEA, Radiation Technology Series No. 6, 2017).
NEW: Execution yesteryear Styrax inward Ancient Thasos yesteryear Anagnostis P. Agelarakis. Paperback; 203x276mm; vi+42 pages; 33 figures, 5 graphs (27 plates presented inward total colour). 86 2019. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789692129. £24.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781789692136.
Searching through interdisciplinary enquiry to recover echoes of the human status ingrained as they may live inward the skeletal tape of the ancients, at that topographic point withdraw keep been few cases inward the twoscore yr sense of the writer which inward defiance to the relentless passage of Chrόnos too fifty-fifty the chthonic potency of the waters of Léthe to dissolve all strings relating to Mnenosỳne could offering compelling evidentiary data, critical for generating meaningful interpretive answers as a nexus to life pathways too experiences inward antiquity, reflective of dynamics too circumstances, that were non e'er possible to live recorded or spoken of yesteryear the attendants of Cléo. And yet inward rare cases, millennia later, ostensibly through the works of Láchesis, a synergy betwixt the fields of Archaeological Anthropology too Bioarchaeology may offering a unique portal whereby the dictum mortui vivos docent may live reiterated.
Sharing inward the objectives of an ongoing archaeo-anthropological endeavor, aiming to improve decipher too elucidate facets of the human status spell carrying out funerary archaeological enquiry of Hellenistic to Roman periods seat unit of measurement graves at the extensive ancient necropolis of Thasos, the most northern Aegean island, this essay addresses a instance of unique forensic / bioarchaeological involvement involving an older manlike someone individual, a fellow member of i of the clusters of burials, who had been placed as a unmarried interment inward a most conspicuous limestone cyst grave of the Hellenistic period.
While odontological, cranio-infracranial skeleto-anatomic manifestations too palaeopathologies revealed a detailed rostrum on aspects of his developmental growth, of acquired too degenerative somatic changes, reflective of his life experiences which involved long term most active participations inward physically demanding yet specialized activities, a staggering ‘through too through’ sternal trauma of astonishing preservation, provided for a distinct chance to comport a unique cross-disciplinary investigation on the nature of the weapon reconstructed inward bronze, the archaeometry on the trajectory too factors of speed too strength at the deliverance of the strike, along with the diagnostic assessments of the thoracic tissues pierced consecutively too their moribund consequences.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 review of historical references on the implementation of working capital alphabetic character penalization either through the determination of a dicastic or ephetic court, and/or execution carried out as a outcome of outlawry are evaluated inward relevance to funerary practices as these pertained to the interment of the Thasian manlike someone inside the context of the burial ground, offering inward retrospect assessments on the likely crusade of his tearing death.
About the Author
ANAGNOSTIS P. AGELARAKIS is Professor of Anthropology at Adelphi University inward New York. He studied Classical Archaeology too European Ethnology as an undergraduate, too as graduate Environmental Studies at Lund University too Lund Polytechnic Institute inward Sweden. He holds a M. Phil. too Ph.D. (1989) inward Anthropology from Columbia University, New York.
In the before years of his career, he carried out acre and/or lab archaeo-anthropological enquiry projects focusing on the organizational abilities, capacities, too adaptations of the human status during the Holocene inward SE too SW Asia, the Middle East, the American Northeast, too the Caribbean.
The key expanse of his enquiry remains soundless the Eastern Mediterranean with emphasis on the ancient world of the Greeks, at the cross roads too ocean routes betwixt Africa, Asia, too Europe. Under the domains of Anthropological Archaeology, Funerary Archaeology, Bio-Archaeology too Forensics he studies the biological profiles, the demographic dynamics, too palaeopathological records of human skeletal populations from prehistoric periods to the belatedly medieval era. Based on the skeletal record, he i
NEW: RACTA 2018: Ricerche di Archeologia Cristiana, Tardantichità e Altomedioevo edited yesteryear Chiara Cecalupo, Giovanna Assunta Lanzetta too Priscilla Ralli. Paperback; 203x276; 248 pages; illustrated throughout inward dark & white with 20 plates inward colour. Papers inward Italian, English, French too German. Introduction too abstracts inward English. (Print RRP £45.00). 84 2019. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789691740. £45.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781789691757.
RACTA (Ricerche di Archeologia Cristiana, Tardantichità e Altomedioevo) was the foremost international conference for PhD students of Christian Archaeology. It took seat inward Rome inward Feb 2018, hosted yesteryear Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana too gathered to a greater extent than than 50 multidisciplinary talks too posters from PhD students from Europe, America too Russia. The engagement shown at the well-attended event, too the involvement of several institutions, proved that Christian archeology continues to live of import to novel generations of archaeologists, fine art historians, too researchers of the ancient world.
About the Editors
CHIARA CECALUPO has a PhD inward History of Christian Archaeology from the Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana (‘La Roma Sotterranea di Antonio Bosio e i primi collezionisti di antichità cristiane’), too is a researcher too teaching assistant at the University of Pisa. Her piece of work concerns the history of archeology too collections.
GIOVANNA ASSUNTA LANZETTA is a PhD educatee at The Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana (‘La basilica di Santa Eufemia a Grado’). Her enquiry focusses on early Christian architecture with the back upwardly of novel technologies (such as 3D reconstructions) too on Christian too medieval topography.
PRISCILLA RALLI is a PhD educatee at the Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana (thesis “L’architettura paleocristiana del Peloponneso”) inward understanding with the Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene (SAIA-IASA) too with a scholarship (related to the study of Argos too the Argolid during the Late Antiquity) from the Ecole Française d’Athènes (EFA).
Was Knossos a Home for Phoenician Traders? yesteryear Judith Muñoz Sogas. Pages 408-416 from Greek Art inward Motion: Studies inward honour of Sir John Boardman on the occasion of his 90th Birthday edited yesteryear Rui Morais et al.
Odysseus claims a Phoenician ship brought him to Ithaca twice. In i of those instances, he specifies they sailed along the N coast of Crete en route from Phoenicia to Libya. Knossos, a site inward the N of the island, also mentioned inward the Odyssey, was a much-frequented port yesteryear Phoenicians sailing towards the West. Even though some Phoenicians presumably only used Knossos as a stopping point, some archaeological finds betoken a to a greater extent than permanent grapheme of their remain during the 9th-8th centuries BC.NEW: The Geography of Gandhāran Art Proceedings of the Second International Workshop of the Gandhāra Connections Project, University of Oxford, 22nd-23rd March, 2018 edited yesteryear Wannaporn Rienjang too Peter Stewart. DOI: 10.32028/9781789691863. Paperback; 203x276mm; xii+186 pages; illustrated throughout inward color too dark & white (60 plates inward colour). (Print RRP £38.00). 533 2019. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789691863. £38.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781789691870.
Gandhāran fine art is ordinarily regarded as a unmarried phenomenon – a unified regional artistic tradition or ‘school’. Indeed it has distinctive visual characteristics, materials, too functions, too is characterized yesteryear its extensive borrowings from the Graeco-Roman world. Yet this tradition is also highly varied. Even the superficial homogeneity of Gandhāran sculpture, which constitutes the mass of documented artistic cloth from this part inward the early centuries AD, belies a considerable attain of styles, technical approaches, iconographic choices, too levels of artistic skill.
The geographical variations inward Gandhāran fine art withdraw keep received less attending than they deserve. Many surviving Gandhāran artefacts are unprovenanced too the difficulty of tracing substantial assemblages of sculpture to particular sites has obscured the fine-grained moving-picture present of its artistic geography. Well documented modern excavations at particular sites too areas, such as the projects of the Italian Archaeological Mission inward the Swat Valley, withdraw keep demonstrated the value of looking at sculptures inward context too considering distinctive aspects of their production, use, too reuse inside a specific locality. However, insights of this form withdraw keep been harder to gain for other areas, including the Gandhāran heartland of the Peshawar basin. Even where large collections of artworks tin live related to private sites, the exercise of comparing cloth inside too betwixt these places is soundless at an early stage. The human relationship betwixt the Gandhāran artists or ‘workshops’, particular stone sources, too specific sites is soundless unclear.
Addressing these too other questions, this 2nd volume of the Gandhāra Connections projection at Oxford University’s Classical Art Research Centre presents the proceedings of a workshop held inward March 2018. Its aim is to pick apart the regional geography of Gandhāran art, presenting novel discoveries at particular sites, textual evidence, too the challenges too opportunities of exploring Gandhāra’s artistic geography.
About the Editors
WANNAPORN RIENJANG is Project Assistant of the Gandhāra Connections Project at the Classical Art Research Centre, Oxford. She completed her doctoral grade inward Archaeology at the University of Cambridge on Buddhist relic cult inward Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan too Pakistan. Before starting her PhD, she worked as a enquiry assistant for the Masson Project at the Department of Coins too Medals, the British Museum. Her enquiry interests include the fine art too archeology of Greater Gandhāra, Buddhist studies, too working technologies of stone containers too beads.
PETER STEWART is Director of the Classical Art Research Centre too Associate Professor of Classical Art too Archaeology at the University of Oxford. He has worked widely inward the acre of ancient sculpture. His publications include Statues inward Roman Society: Representation too Response (2003) too The Social History of Roman Art (2008). Much of his enquiry concerns the human relationship betwixt Gandhāran fine art too Roman sculpture.
Godlike Images: Priestesses inward Greek Sculpture yesteryear Iphigeneia Leventi. Pages 69-77 from Greek Art inward Motion: Studies inward honour of Sir John Boardman on the occasion of his 90th Birthday edited yesteryear Rui Morais et al.
The foremost almost sure depiction of a priestess inward activity tin live found on the due east frieze of the Parthenon. There is full general consensus amidst scholars concerning the identification of the mature woman someone figure inward the middle of slab V as the priestess of Athena Polias, shown with her dorsum turned to the adult man inward priestly garment who is dealing with the peplos. Even though the iconographic type of this priestess is a generic i with no evident relation to the sculptural representations of the woman someone deity she serves, also lacking identifying attributes similar the temple key or the xoanon of the goddess, her identity is established yesteryear the context inward which she appears, too especially her interaction with the ii woman someone attendants, who are recognised as arrephoroi or kanephoroi. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 similar scene tin live seen on the early Classical clay Locrian pinakes, where a priestess is depicted with i or to a greater extent than attendants, or with a host of devotees inward a ritual performance.
Revisiting a Plate inward the Ashmolean Museum: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 New Interpretation yesteryear Marianne Bergeron. Pages 174-184 from Greek Art inward Motion: Studies inward honour of Sir John Boardman on the occasion of his 90th Birthday edited yesteryear Rui Morais et al.
Set prominently on display inward the ‘Heroes too Myths’ instance inward the Ashmolean Museum’s Hellenic Republic gallery, plate AN1934.333 has been published numerous times but almost only ever inward passing. Previously, at that topographic point was some disagreement regarding the dependent matter. Is the scene depicting the Capture of the Keryneian Deer or is it a Struggle for the Hind? The caption inward the display instance prefers the old interpretation but the full general consensus seems to favour the latter. The unlike narrative composition used for scenes of the Capture is unlike from that for the plate. Yet, the composition on the Oxford plate is every bit unlike from that of the Struggles.
This nowadays newspaper volition examine the conventional compositions too cast of characters used for scenes related to the Hind too Tripod Struggles too compare them with the ambiguous scene too cast members on the plate. This newspaper volition also withdraw a closer hold back at Attic black-figure plates too examine their uses based on the contexts inward which they were found. My aim is to create upwardly one's withdraw heed whether the scene on the plate may non to a greater extent than appropriately live classified as a scene of everyday life, perchance i related to cult activity too initiation rites.
Journal of Hellenistic Pottery too Material Culture Volume 3 2018 edited yesteryear Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom too Patricia Kögler. Paperback; 210x297mm; xvi+208 pages; illustrated throughout inward color too dark & white (43 plates inward colour). Papers inward English linguistic communication too German. 3 2018. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789691719. £30.00 (No VAT). Institutional Price £50.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 2399-1852-3-2019.
ARTICLES
Notes on a Hellenistic Milk Pail – yesteryear Yannis Chairetakis
Chasing Arsinoe (Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus): Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Sealed Early Hellenistic Cistern too Its Ceramic Assemblage – yesteryear Brandon R. Olson, Tina Najbjerb & R. Scott Moore
Hasmonean Jerusalem inward the Light of Archaeology – Notes on Urban Topography – yesteryear Hillel Geva
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Phoenician / Hellenistic Sanctuary at Horbat Turit (Kh. et-Tantur) – yesteryear Walid Atrash, Gabriel Mazor & Hanaa Aboud with contributions yesteryear Adi Erlich & Gerald Finkielsztejn
Schmuck aus dem Reich der Nabatäer – hellenistische Traditionen inward frührömischer Zeit – yesteryear Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom
ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS AND PROJECT
Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project: Excavations at Pyla-Vigla inward 2018 – yesteryear Thomas Landvatter, Brandon R. Olson, David S. Reese, Justin Stephens & R. Scott Moore
Bookmark: Ancient Gems, Finger Rings too Seal Boxes from Caesarea Maritima. The Hendler Collection – yesteryear Shua Amorai-Stark & Malka Herskovitz
BOOK REVIEWS
Nina Fenn, Späthellenistische und frühkaiserzeitliche Keramik aus Priene. Untersuchungen zu Herkunft und Produktion – yesteryear Susanne Zabehlicky-Scheffenegger
Raphael Greenberg, Oren Tal & Tawfiq Da῾adli, Bet Yerah III. Hellenistic Philoteria too Islamic al- Ṣinnabra. The 1933–1986 too 2007–2013 Excavations – bY Gabriel Mazor
Mohamed Kenawi & Giorgia Marchiori, Unearthing Alexandria’s archaeology: The Italian Contribution – yesteryear Carlo De Mitri
Taymāʾ I: Archaeological Exploration, Palaeoenvironment, Cultural Contacts edited yesteryear Arnulf Hausleiter, Ricardo Eichmann, Muhammad al-Najem. Hardback; 210x297mm; xii+268 pages; illustrated throughout inward color too dark & white (66 plates inward colour). 499 2018 Taymāʾ: Multidisciplinary Series on the Results of the Saudi-German Archaeological Project 1. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789690439. £55.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781789690446.
Archaeological investigations inward the north-western component subdivision of the Arabian Peninsula has increased during the lastly 15 years. One of the major sites inward the part is the ancient oasis of Taymāʾ, known as a commercial hub on the so-called Incense Road connecting South Arabia with the Eastern Mediterranean. In the context of this novel enquiry a multidisciplinary projection yesteryear the Saudi Commission for Tourism too National Heritage (SCTH) too the Orient Department of the High German Archaeological Institute (DAI) has been investigating the archeology too ancient environs of Taymāʾ since 2004. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 major aim of this projection was the evolution of novel perspectives of the site too the region, characterised yesteryear elaborating the local socio-cultural too economical contexts. So far, Taymāʾ has been known mainly through exogenous sources.
The nowadays volume is the foremost of the publication serial of the Saudi-German archaeological projection too focuses on 3 fundamental aspects of enquiry at Taymāʾ: the electrical flow archaeological exploration of the oasis is contextualised with previous too ongoing enquiry inside the region, spell at the same fourth dimension offering a foremost overview of the small town history of the site, which may withdraw keep started as early as to a greater extent than than 6000 years ago. New information on the palaeoenvironment has been provided yesteryear multiproxy- analysis of sediments from a palaeolake at nowadays N of the settlement. The results betoken an Early Holocene humid menstruum inward the part that is shorter than the so-called African Humid Period. The abrupt aridification at some 8 ka BP, known from other regions inward the Near East, is also attested inward north-western Arabia. The reconstruction of the yesteryear vegetation of the site too its surroundings demonstrates that oasis tillage at Taymāʾ started during the fifth millennium BCE with grapes too figs, rather than with the appointment palm. According to hydrological investigations on H2O resources, groundwater aquifers provided the main source of local H2O supply. These were exploited through wells, some of which withdraw keep been identified inward the expanse of the ancient oasis. Finally, since the fourth dimension of early travellers to Northwest Arabia evidence of cultural contacts has been observed inward the records from the site, which had been occupied yesteryear the lastly Babylonian king, Nabonidus (556–539 BCE) for 10 years. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 historical-archaeological essay on Arab Republic of Egypt too Arabia as good as a study on the ambiguous human relationship betwixt Assyria too Arabia – characterised yesteryear conflict too commerce – shed novel calorie-free on the unusual relations of ancient Taymāʾ.
About the Editors
ARNULF HAUSLEITER is researcher at the DAI’s Orient Department for the Taymāʾ project, funded yesteryear the High German Research foundation (DFG). He has been acre manager of the excavations at Taymāʾ since 2004 too has co-directed the projection with Ricardo Eichmann.
RICARDO EICHMANN is manager of the Orient Department at the High German Archaeological Institute inward Berlin. He is the caput of the High German factor of the Taymāʾ projection too has co-directed it with Arnulf Hausleiter.
MUHAMMAD AL-NAJEM is caput of the Antiquities Office of the Saudi Commission for Tourism too National Heritage (SCTH) too manager of the Museum of Archaeology too Ethnography at Taymāʾ, Province of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
Bridging the Gap inward Maritime Archaeology: Working with Professional too Public Communities edited yesteryear Katy Bell. Paperback; 203x276mm; viii+148 pages; 62 figures (15 plates inward colour). (Print RRP £35.00). 77 2019. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789690859. £35.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781789690866.
Bridging the Gap inward Maritime Archaeology: Working with Professional too Public Communities marks the publication of a conference session held at CIfA 2014. The session was organised yesteryear the Marine Archaeology Special Interest Group which is a voluntary grouping of CIfA Archaeologists which exists to promote greater understanding of marine archeology inside the wider archaeological community. The session focused on ways inward which it is possible, given the obvious constraints of working inward the marine environment, to engage with a wider audience inward the course of study of maritime archaeological work. The volume presents a serial of instance studies exhibiting best practise with regard to private maritime projects too examples of outreach to local communities, including the creation of accessibility to remote too hard-to-reach archaeological sites.
About the Editor
KATY BELL is an archeologist with 15 years’ sense of British Archaeology. She is a qualified scuba diver holds an MA inward Maritime Archaeology from the University of Southampton. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Winchester too is examining the Mesolithic to Neolithic transition on the Isle of Wight. She has late finished working on a community projection ‘Dodnor Rediscovered’ preparation community archaeologists too recording the buildings of the Medina Cement Mills, Isle of Wight, which sent hydraulic cement all some the province via the Medina River too the Solent.
Archaeological Heritage Conservation too Management yesteryear Brian J. Egloff. Paperback; viii+330 pages; 8 tables, 34 figures (32 plates inward colour). 76 2019. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789691054. £55.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781789691061.
Archaeological heritage conservation is all as good ofttimes highly conflicted too fraught with pitfalls inward component subdivision due to a hapless understanding of the historical too electrical flow underpinnings that guide best practice. When heritage places are managed with international principles inward withdraw heed the sites stand upwardly out as evidencing superior outcomes. The International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management expresses concern inward the Salalah Guidelines of 2017 with the persistent problems facing archaeological sites that are opened upwardly to the public. National heritage icons human face overwhelming pressure level to provide the mainstay of local, national too international tourism economies spell inward some instances beingness situated inward locations destined for major evolution or armed services conflict. Leaders inward the acre of archaeological heritage conservation, especially with abide by to World Heritage listed properties, assert that economical interests ofttimes are at the forefront of direction determination making spell heritage values are given lesser, if any, consideration. Continuing too futurity zones of discomfort such as the impact of war, theft of national cultural property, over-development, unconstrained excavation, extreme nationalism, uncontrolled visitation too professionalisation demand to live addressed if futurity generations are to live afforded the same heritage values as are available today.
About the Author
BRIAN J. EGLOFF is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra too has been active inward both acre enquiry too heritage direction since the 1960s. He has undertaken studies on the cultural too ecological base of operations of the Cherokee Nation, the prehistory of Eastern Papua too on Australian Aboriginal Blue Planet rights as good as participated inward projects inward Wisconsin, Tasmania, Pohnpei, Republic of Mauritius too Laos. His electrical flow interests prevarication inward Aboriginal Blue Planet direction too the implement of international heritage conservation too direction programmes. Brian’s most recent publications focus on the illicit merchandise inward cultural property.
Images of Dionysos, Images for Dionysos: The God’s Terracottas at Cycladic Sanctuaries Taken from Greek Art inward Motion edited yesteryear Rui Morais, Delfim Leão, Diana Rodríguez Pérez with Daniela Ferreira. Pages 115-126.
By Erica Angliker
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 recent survey of cult practices inward the Cyclades has revealed that Dionysos was worshipped inward both the private too populace sphere on at to the lowest degree xi islands of the Cycladic archipelago (Amorgos, Andros, Delos, Ios, Kea, Melos, Mykonos, Naxos, Paros, Siphnos too Thera).2 Six of these (Amorgos, Andros, Delos, Kea, Naxos, Thera) had sanctuaries dedicated to Dionysos, 3 of which (Amorgos, Kea, Naxos) were of considerable size. The existence of large Dionysian sanctuaries inward the archipelago is remarkable because though Dionysos was worshipped throughout Greece, he was to a greater extent than ofttimes than non granted little sanctuaries. Substantial ones, therefore, were exceptional.3 Although non all cloth retrieved from Cycladic sanctuaries has been fully published, what is currently available offers a unique chance to examine tangible traces of the god.
Pavlovsk Imperial Villa too its Collections: From the First Stage of Antiquities Collecting too Archaeology inward Russia Taken from Greek Art inward Motion edited yesteryear Rui Morais, Delfim Leão, Diana Rodríguez Pérez with Daniela Ferreira. Pages 441-452.
By Anastasia Bukina too Anna Petrakova
The newspaper deals with the collection of the Empress Maria Fyodorovna (1759-1828), the husband of Pavel Petrovich, who reigned from 1796 to 1801 as Paul the 1st. The collection is at nowadays inward the Pavlovsk State Museum-Reserve close St. Petersburg, located inward the picturesque valley of the river Slavyanka. The Blue Planet was presented inward 1777 to the Gran Duke Paul yesteryear his woman parent (Empress Catherine the Great) to celebrate the nativity of her foremost grandson – the heir of throne too the futurity Emperor Alexander the 1st. The Court architect Charles Cameron designed an English linguistic communication commons too pavilions, romantic ruins too a palace inward a shape of an elegant Palladian mansion to which subsequently wings were added. Due to its beauty too history the Pavlovsk ensemble is at nowadays an object of the UNESCO World Heritage.
Hellenistic Alexandria: Celebrating 24 Centuries Papers presented at the conference held on Dec 13–15 2017 at Acropolis Museum, Athens edited yesteryear Christos S. Zerefos too Marianna V. Vardinoyannis. Hardback; 205x290mm; xx+296 pages; illustrated throughout inward color too dark & white (56 plates inward colour). 493 2018. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789690668. £68.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781789690675.
Hellenistic Alexandria: Celebrating 24 Centuries presents the proceedings of a conference held at the Acropolis Museum inward Athens, on Dec 13–15, 2017, too includes high-level dialogues too philosophical discussions betwixt international experts on Hellenistic Alexandria. The goal was to celebrate the 24 centuries which withdraw keep elapsed since its foundation too the showtime of the Library too the Museum of Alexandria. The conference was divided into ii parts, to include inward the foremost component subdivision archaeology, history, philosophy, literature, art, civilisation too legal issues too inward the 2nd component subdivision science, medicine, engineering too environment. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 total of 28 master copy too peer-reviewed articles dot to the importance of the brilliantly-original ideas that emerged during the Hellenistic age too the curious modernity of the whole atmosphere of the time. The attain of presented topics covers a variety of novel information on the foundation of Alexandria to comparing betwixt Ptolemaic Alexandria too Ptolemaic Hellenic Republic through philosophy, civilisation too drama to the forgotten revolution of science, medicine too the prevailing climatological too geophysical weather condition throughout the Hellenistic Period. The conference too its proceedings were co-sponsored yesteryear the Μarianna V. Vardinoyannis Foundation, the Acropolis Museum, the Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies at Bibliotheca Alexandrina too the Mariolopoulos-Kanaginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences.
The Publication also celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies, a articulation collaboration betwixt the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Vardinoyannis Foundation too the University of Alexandria. Scholars from some the world follow the Center’s programme inward various specialisations, ranging from historyliterature- art, to archeology too architecture-philosophy, too science.
About the Editors
Christos Zerefos is Head of Research Centre for Atmospheric Physics too Climatology, Academy of Athens too president-elect of the General Assembly of the Hellenic Foundation for Research too Innovation; Professor of Atmospheric too Environmental Physics at the Universities of Athens too Thessaloniki; Visiting Professor, Universities of Minnesota too Boston; Samarbeidspartnere (Scientific Collaborator), University of Oslo. He is known for his enquiry into ozone, UV, ozone-climate interactions too climate-extreme events. He is fellow member of the Academy of Athens, Academia Europaea, Norwegian Academy of Sciences too Letters, European Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences too other distinguished scientific societies. He is recipient of the UNEP Global Ozone Award, 1997 too of a number of distinctions, awards too medals from WMO/UNEP, too various scientific societies (e.g. Blaise Pascal Medal, European Academy of Sciences; AGU Kaufman Award; European too Balkan Physics Societies’ Award; EU Prize for Cultural Heritage-Europa Nostra Award, too others). He received the Award Certificate too Letter from UNEP too IPCC for substantial contribution to the reports of IPCC, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the old Vice President of USA, Al Gore (December 2007). He is honorary professor, Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; has an honorary doctoral grade from the Physics Department, University of Patras; honorary grade of Doctor of Humane Letters, academy sectionalisation of the American College ANATOLIA, Thessaloniki. He has supervised 50 MSc too xxx PhD degrees too has originated viii international enquiry centres. His enquiry piece of work inward peer-reviewed scientific journals is acknowledged widely yesteryear the scientific community. (For to a greater extent than reckon www.christoszerefos.com/)
Marianna V. Vardinoyannis is a Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO for the protection of children, founder too president of the ‘Marianna V. Vardinoyannis Foundation’, of the ‘ELPIDA Friends’ Association of Children with cancer
Human Mobility inward Archaeology: Practices, Representations too Meanings Ex Novo: Journal of Archaeology, Volume 3, 2018 edited yesteryear Maja Gori, Martina Revello Lami too Alessandro Pintucci. 3 2018. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789691214. £45.00 (No VAT).
It has been abundantly demonstrated that theories too paradigms inward the humanities are influenced yesteryear historical, economical too socio-cultural conditions, which withdraw keep profoundly influenced archaeology’s representation of migration. This was mostly conceived as the study of the motion of large too homogenous population groups, whose identity was ofttimes represented as ethnically characterized. The present-day shift of attending from collective to private agency too the countless facets of migration goes mitt inward mitt with novel socio-political too cultural scenarios such as the extraordinary migratory flows into Europe, shifting boundaries, alternative forms of citizenship too identity, too the emergence of emotive reactionism.
The 3rd number of Ex Novo gathers multidisciplinary contributions addressing mobility to empathize patterns of modify too continuity inward yesteryear worlds; reconsider the motion of people, objects, too ideas amongst mobile epistemologies, such as intellectual, scholarly or educative traditions, rituals, practices, religions too theologies; too provide insights into the multifaceted human relationship betwixt mobile practices too their shared meanings too how they are represented socially too politically.
Table of Contents
Maja GORI, Martina REVELLO LAMI & Alessandro PINTUCCI
Editorial: Practices, Representations too Meanings of Human Mobility inward Archaeology
Paraskevi ELEFANTI & Gilbert MARSHALL
Mobility during the Upper Palaeolithic Greece: Some Suggestions for the Argolid Peninsula
Maurizio CRUDO
Greek Migrations along the Ionian Coast (Southern Italy)
Anna RAUDINO
Variation inward Material Culture: Adoption of Greek Ceramics inward an Indigenous Sicilian Site (8th century BC)
Maria ÁLVAREZ-FOLGADO
The Jewish Diaspora inward the Roman Empire. Diaspora, Social Agents too Social Networks: Towards the Creation of a New Analytical Toolkit
Domiziana ROSSI
A Road to Fīrūzābād
Marijn STOLK
Exploring Immigrant Identities: The Link betwixt Portuguese Ceramics too Sephardic Immigrants inward 17th Century Amsterdam
Jesùs GARCÍA SANCHEZ
From War Material Culture to Popular Heritage, too Beyond. The PSP “Cancelli di Venosa” as paradigms of Object Biography Theory.
Reviews
A. Falcone & A. D’Eredità (eds.) ARCHEOSOCIAL L’Archeologia Riscrive il Web: Esperienze, Strategie e Buone Pratiche, Rende (CS): Dielle Editore, 2018, 195 pp. Reviewed yesteryear Paola DI GIUSEPPANTONIO DI FRANCO
Practices of Personal Adornment inward Neolithic Greece Πρακτικές Προσωπικής Κόσμησης στη Νεολιθική Ελλάδα yesteryear Fotis Ifantidis. Paperback; xxxvi+596 pages; 121 figures + fully illustrated catalogue (31 plates inward colour). Greek text with English linguistic communication Summary. 75 2019. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789691139. £80.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781789691146.
The objective of this volume is the reconsideration of the practices of personal adornment during the Neolithic menstruum inward Greece, through the assemblage, extensive bibliographic documentation, too critical evaluation of all the available information deriving from to a greater extent than than a hundred sites inward the mainland too the Aegean islands –an archaeological archive of broad geographical too chronological scope. In addition, a thorough study of the personal ornament corpus from the Middle-Late Neolithic Dispilio inward Kastoria, an of import lakeside small town inward north-western Greece, was conducted.
The volume begins with an overview of the anthropological too archaeological literature on theoretical too methodological issues concerning practices of personal adornment. Then follows an exam of the problems too key points of study regarding personal adornment inward Neolithic Greece, as good as a critical evaluation of the methodological approaches too classification schemes that withdraw keep been applied inward previous archaeological works. Subsequently, the technologies too processes of production, consumption, recycling, deposition, too distribution of personal ornaments inward Neolithic Hellenic Republic are discussed. Finally, the social correlates of personal adornment are explored, as they are reflected inward the pick of unlike raw materials (shell, clay, bone, stone, too metal) too ornament types (beads, pendants, annulets, too so forth).
About the Author
FOTIS IFANTIDIS studied archeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His academic enquiry is focused on personal adornment practices inward prehistory, too on the interplay betwixt photography too archaeology, with instance studies the Athenian Acropolis, the ancient metropolis of Kalaureia on the isle of Poros, too the Neolithic settlements of Dispilio too Koutroulou Magoula. Among his publications are Spondylus inward Prehistory (co-authored with M. Nikolaidou), Camera Kalaureia (co-authored with Y. Hamilakis) too Archaeographies: Excavating Neolithic Dispilio.
Greek description
Στόχος του βιβλίου είναι η επανεξέταση των πρακτικών προσωπικής κόσμησης κατά τη νεολιθική περίοδο στην Ελλάδα μέσω της επανεκτίμησης των διαθέσιμων στοιχείων που προέρχονται από περισσότερες από εκατό ανεσκαμμένες νεολιθικές θέσεις, καθώς και η λεπτομερειακή μελέτη του corpus κοσμημάτων που προέρχονται από τη λιμναία θέση της Μέσης-Νεότερης Νεολιθικής περιόδου στ&#
Le classi ceramiche della “tradizione mista” a Kos nel Tardo Bronzo IA yesteryear Salvatore Vitale. Paperback; 203x276mm; 232 pages; 24 tables, thirteen color plates, 38 dark & white line drawings, 24 dark & white plates. Italian text with English linguistic communication abstract. 51 2018. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781784918859. £38.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781784918866.
This volume focuses on the pottery classes of the ‘Entangled Tradition’, recovered at the small town of the ‘Serraglio’ on Kos during the early Late Bronze Age period. The results divulge novel information on the chronology, typology, too ornament of Koan Painted Fine (PF) too Painted Medium-Coarse to Coarse (PMC-C) ceramics. Moreover, the analysis of manufacturing processes too consumption patterns contributes to a improve comprehension of the socio-cultural too political context inward which Koan entangled classes were produced.
The information presented inward this volume betoken that PF too PMC-C ceramics correspond a unique instance of fully entangled classes inward the Aegean, which merge features of the Koan ‘Local Tradition’ with characteristics of the Minoan potting tradition into a novel technological too stylistic language. Contacts betwixt these unlike cultures are explained based on the theoretical model provided yesteryear ‘human mobility’. The specific Koan cultural synthesis was endorsed too promoted yesteryear the local elites of the ‘Serraglio’, who aimed to participate inward the ‘new environment’ determined yesteryear the economical too cultural expansion of Neopalatial Crete.
In this respect, the industry of Koan entangled classes served a dual role. On the i hand, using carry containers made inward the PMC-C class, Koan products were exported too exchanged throughout the Aegean. In addition, the finer vessels of the Koan ‘Entangled Tradition’ were utilized for promoting Minoan-type social practices at the ‘Serraglio’. Through these practices, Koan elites reshaped their identity too portrayed an image of higher status inside the local social arena.
About the Author
Dr SALVATORE VITALE completed his MA inward Classical Literature too PhD inward Classical Archaeology at the University of Pisa inward 2001 too 2007. After his PhD, Dr Vitale held post-doctoral too enquiry fellowships at the Universities of Calabria, Cincinnati, too Pisa too at the Italian Archaeological School at Athens.
Dr Vitale has taught Aegean Archaeology at the University of Milan too the Italian Archaeological School at Athens, as good as Greek too Roman Archaeology at the University of Pisa. At Pisa, he has also served as i of the editors of the mag ΑΓΩΓΗ.
Since 2009, Dr Vitale has been the manager of the ‘Serraglio, Eleona, too Langada Archaeological Project’ (SELAP), a enquiry endeavour nether the auspices of the Italian Archaeological School at Athens. In addition, he is currently a senior staff too a main pottery practiced for the Mitrou Archaeological Project inward Phthiotida too the Palace of Nestor Excavations at Pylos.
Palmyra, Pastoral Nomads, too City-State Kings inward the Old Babylonian Period: Interaction inward the Semi-Arid Syrian Landscape yesteryear Kristina J. Hesse. Pages 1-9 from Palmyrena: City, Hinterland too Caravan Trade betwixt Orient too Occident Jørgen Christian Meyer, Eivind Heldaas Seland too Nils Anfinset.
Abstract: The aim of the newspaper is to inhabit the semi-arid landscape of Palmyrena inward the Old Babylonian period, yesteryear describing some of the surveyed archaeological remains too relate this to inhabit too events inward this expanse described inward ancient documents. Some examples from the expanse of Jebel Bishri volition also live discussed. Besides landscape surveys too climate studies, the enquiry draws upon several ancient tablets describing the interaction betwixt pastoral nomads too urban societies originating from the Mari Archives during the reign of Zimri-Lim too Yasmah-Addu. The study shows that pastoral nomadic tribes, called the Suteans, inhabited these mountainous areas, which inward this menstruum mightiness withdraw keep been wetter than today too sparsely covered with bushy woodland. These people were engaged inward escorting caravans through the desert, but they also had a reputation as raiders, hence the Jebel Bishri plateau was avoided yesteryear travellers. Palmyra, was an of import halt over for caravans too an advanced station guarding the desert route betwixt Mari too Qatna, too seems to withdraw keep been located inside the territory of the latter. The settled too nomadic people of Palmyra were engaged as messengers as good as inward pastoralism, escorting, guarding, too with the provisioning of caravans.
Journal of Hellenistic Pottery too Material Culture: Subscription Portal for Online Access yesteryear One volume published annually. Edited yesteryear Dr Patricia Kögler, Dr Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom too Prof. Dr Wolf Rudolph (Heads of Editorial Board). ISBN 2399-1844-PORTAL.
Welcome to the online portal for access to volumes of the Journal of Hellenistic Pottery too Material Culture (JHP).
For the Hellenistic Period ceramics too other commodities of daily life correspond in all probability the most neglected objects inward archaeological research. Yet, the study of Hellenistic cloth civilisation has intensified during the lastly xx years, with a focus clearly on what is yesteryear far the largest category of finds, pottery. Meanwhile enquiry has gained momentum, but soundless at that topographic point has unfortunately been no parallel evolution inward the media landscape. Apart from monographs, the publication of conference proceedings, which ordinarily follow several years after the event, withdraw keep remained the principal method of disseminating enquiry results. Still lacking is a publication appearing regularly too at brusk intervals, that focusses enquiry on Hellenistic pottery too is easily accessible.
The Journal of Hellenistic Pottery – JHP – wants to unopen this gap.
JHP is scheduled to appear in i lawsuit a year, to a greater extent than ofttimes if necessary. It should provide a forum for all kinds of studies on Hellenistic pottery too everyday objects. Apart from professional person articles, the mag volition contain volume reviews, brusk presentations of enquiry projects (including dissertations) too full general news. The Editorial Board is headed yesteryear Dr Patricia Kögler, Dr Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom too Prof. Dr Wolf Rudolph.
Access mag issues too articles via the links below:
JHP Volumes:
JHP Volume 1, 2016
JHP Volume 2, 2017
JHP Volume 3, 2018
CAA2016: Oceans of Data Proceedings of the 44th Conference on Computer Applications too Quantitative Methods inward Archaeology edited yesteryear Mieko Matsumoto too Espen Uleberg. Paperback; 205x290mm; vi+562 pages; illustrated throughout inward color too dark & white (228 plates inward colour). 495 2018. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781784917302. £95.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781784917319.
CAA2016: Oceans of Data gives an up-to-date overview of the acre of archeology too informatics. It presents ground-breaking technologies too best practise from various archaeological too figurer scientific discipline disciplines. The articles inward this volume are based on the foremost presentations from the 44th Computer Applications inward Archaeology Conference 2016, held inward Oslo. The theme of CAA2016 was ‘Exploring Oceans of Data’, alluding to i of the greatest challenges inward this field: the work too reuse of large datasets that outcome both from digitalisation too digital documentation of excavations too surveys.
The volume contains 50 peer-reviewed too highest-ranked papers that are divided inward viii parts, including an introduction too vii chapters. The introduction sets the stage with Oceans of Data (C.-E. Ore) too Theorising the Digital (S. Perry too J. S.Taylor), discussing the electrical flow status of overall CAA research. These ii papers nowadays the electrical flow developments, challenges, too potential that lies ahead from unlike perspectives. Ore points to the importance of mutual potency systems too ontologies. Common conceptual information models volition ease curation too secure long-term reusability. Perry too Taylor address the demand to withdraw together theoretical too digital archaeology. In the next chapters, unlike topics are presented nether the headings Ontologies too Standards, Field too Laboratory Data Recording too Analysis, Archaeological Information Systems, GIS too Spatial Analysis, 3D too Visualisation, Complex Systems Simulation, too Teaching Archaeology inward the Digital Age.
About the Editors
Mieko Matsumoto is a fellow member of the scientific staff at the Museum of Cultural History, the University of Oslo. With an instruction too enquiry background from Japan, Norway, too Poland, she is an archeologist with a broad knowledge of international lithic technology. Her enquiry specialty focuses on the European Palaeolithic too the Norwegian Stone Age. She is a long-standing fellow member of CAA International too CAA-Norway, with numerous publications on ICT too archaeology.
Espen Uleberg is the coordinator of the Digital Documentation Section at the Museum of Cultural History, the University of Oslo. With an instruction too enquiry background from Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany too Norway, he is an archeologist working with digitising museum collections since the early 1990s. He has international sense too knowledge over the work of acre GIS too databases. He was chair of the organising commission of CAA2016, too is a long-standing fellow member of CAA International too CAA-Norway, with numerous publications on ICT too archaeology.
Bronze Age Metalwork: Techniques too traditions inward the Nordic Bronze Age 1500-1100 BC yesteryear Heide W. Nørgaard. Paperback; 205x290mm; xii+502 pages; 290 figures (244 plates inward colour). 474 2018. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789690194. £85.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781789690200.
Bronze ornaments of the Nordic Bronze Age (neck collars, belt plates, pins too tutuli) were elaborate objects that served as status symbols to communicate social hierarchy. The magnificent metalwork studied hither dates from 1500-1100 BC. An interdisciplinary investigation of the artefacts was adopted to elucidate their industry too origin, resulting inward novel insights into metallic arts and crafts inward northern Europe during the Bronze Age. Based on the habitus concept, which situates the craftsmen inside their social too technological framework, private artefact characteristics too metalworking techniques tin live used to seat unlike arts and crafts practices, fifty-fifty to seat private craftsmen. The conclusions drawn from this offering novel insights into the complex organisation of metalcraft inward the production of prestige goods across unlike workshops. Several kinship-based workshops on Jutland, inward the Lüneburg Heath too Mecklenburg, allow us to conclude that the bronze objects were a display of social status too hierarchy controlled by, too produced for, the elite – as is also seen inward the workshops on Zealand. Within the ii main metalworking regions, Zealand too key Lower Saxony, workshops tin live defined as communities of practise that existed with an extended marketplace too relations with the local elite. Attached craft, inward the sense that the craftspeople fully depended on a governing establishment too produced artefacts as a manifestation of political expression, was only detected on Zealand betwixt 1500-1300 BC.
The investigation presented hither showed that overall results could non live achieved when concentrating only on i aspect of metalwork. Highly skilled arts and crafts is to live found inward every form of workshop, as good as an intensive labour input. Only when considering science inward relation to labour input too also taking into business concern human relationship signs of apprenticeship too cross-craft techniques, as good as the unlike categories of mistakes inward crafting, tin a stable image of arts and crafts organisation live created.
About the Author
HEIDE W. NØRGAARD is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Archaeology too Heritage Studies at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, where she graduated too received her PhD inward 2014. With the background as an educated goldsmith, she is working with metallic artefacts trying to solve arts and crafts technical problems from the Bronze to the early Iron Ages inward Northern Europe. Heide W. Nørgaard is currently working on reconstructing the earliest metallic trading routes towards Scandinavia, based on over 500 atomic number 82 isotope analysis of the foremost one-half of the 2nd millennium BC.
Etnicidad vs. Aculturación: Las necrópolis castellanas de los siglos V-VI d.C. y el asentamiento visigodo en la Península Ibérica. Una mirada desde la meseta sur yesteryear Rafael Barroso Cabrera. Paperback; 203x276mm; 238 pages; illustrated throughout inward dark & white. Spanish text with English linguistic communication summary. (Print RRP £35.00). 72 2018. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789690798. £35.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781789690804.
The Visigoth small town inward the Iberian Peninsula too its human relationship with the archaeological tape of the 5th-6th centuries AD continues to live i of the most controversial issues inward Spanish archaeology. The disceptation relates to politics as much as it relates to archaeological enquiry with ii points remaining especially controversial: the alleged work of the Visigoth yesteryear past the Francoist intelligentsia as an ideological affirmation of the government too the contribution of archeologist Julio Martínez Santa-Olalla inward supporting too enabling this re-interpretation of Visigothic archaeology.
The purely archaeological aspect of the disceptation relates to an archaeological interpretation, stemming from the ranks of the so-called New Archeology, of the Spanish necropoleis containing grave goods of Pontic-Danubian type. This interpretation places special emphasis on social too cultural phenomena higher upwardly the ethnic criteria defended yesteryear the Vienna School.
This volume approaches the ideological inquiry that underlies these controversies, as good as their repercussions inward the direction adopted yesteryear subsequently archaeological investigations inward relation to the history of Spain. The writer attempts to deconstruct the piece of work of Martínez Santa-Olalla too places it inward the context of the scientific production of his time. At the same time, it relativizes the role played yesteryear the Visigoth menstruum inward the Francoist ideological construction.
Once the word is framed inward these terms, the writer dedicates his study to a refutation of the cultural interpretation of the phenomenon of the Visigothic necropoleis of the Spanish plateau based on the archaeological information too yesteryear comparing this information with literary sources. The study also addresses ii other historical problems that could live related to the Gothic small town inward the Spanish plateau: the creation of the bishopric of Segovia too the flourishing of the metropolis of Toledo.
El asentamiento visigodo en la Península Ibérica y su relación con el registro arqueológico de los siglos V-VI d.C. continúa siendo en la actualidad una de las cuestiones más controvertidas de la arqueología española. Gran parte de esa controversia tiene que ver con aspectos que trascienden a la propia investigación arqueológica y nos sitúan en el plano de la política. Así, a la hora de abordar el problema hay dos puntos que han resultado especialmente polémicos: la presunta utilización del pasado visigodo por parte de la intelectualidad franquista como afirmación ideológica del régimen y la contribución del arqueólogo burgalés Julio Martínez Santa-Olalla en la fijación del esquema de arqueología visigoda.
Por otro lado, el aspecto puramente arqueológico de la controversia tiene que ver con la interpretación que desde las filas de la denominada New Archaeology se viene realizando de las necrópolis castellanas con ajuares de tipo póntico-danubiano. Dicha interpretación hace particular hincapié en fenómenos sociales y culturales por encima de los criterios étnicos defendidos por la Escuela de Viena. El presente estudio aborda de forma lúcida la cuestión ideológica que subyace detrás de la polémica, así como las repercusiones que ha tenido en la posterior dirección adoptada por la investigación arqueológica en relación con la propia historia de España. En este sentido, el autor realiza un ejercicio de deconstrucción de la figura de Martínez Santa-Olalla y lo sitúa en el contexto de la producción científica de su época. Al mismo tiempo, relativiza el papel desempeñado por el periodo visigodo en la construcción ideológica franquista.
Una vez situada la discusión en estos términos, el autor dedica su estudio a una refutación de la interpretación en clave cultural del fenómeno de las necrópolis visigodas de la meseta castellana desde los propios datos arqueológicos y a partir del cotejo de estos datos con los testimonios que proporcionan las fuentes literarias. Además, el presen
Han Dynasty (206BC–AD220) Stone Carved Tombs inward Central too Eastern China yesteryear Chen Li. Paperback; 203x276mm; xiv+216 pages; illustrated throughout inward color too dark & white (146 color plates). (Print RRP £58.00). 71 2018. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789690774. £58.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781789690781.
Han Dynasty (206 BC–AD 220) stone carved tombs were constructed from carved stone slabs or a combination of moulded bricks too carved stones, too were distributed inward Central too Eastern China. Such multi-chambered stone tombs were real pop amidst the Han people, but they were alone new, too were a outcome of exterior stimuli rather than an independent evolution inside China. The stone carved tombs were a outcome of imitating violet rock-cut tombs, spell the rock-cut tombs were stimulated yesteryear unusual examples. Moreover, many details of stone carved tombs also had Western features. These exotic elements reflected the want to assimilate exotica inside Chinese traditions. Some details inside stone carved tombs showed high flat of stone working technologies with Western influences. But inward full general the flat of stone construction of the Han menstruum was relatively low. The methods of construction showed how unfamiliar the Western scheme was to the Han artisans. Han Dynasty stone carved tombs were hybrids of unlike techniques, including timber, brick too stone works. From these variations, Han people could select sure types of tombs to satisfy their specific ritual too economical needs. Not only structures, but also pictorial decorations of stone carved tombs were innovations. The attain of image motifs was quite limited. Similar motifs tin live found inward almost every tomb. Such similarities were partly due to the artisans, who worked inward workshops too used repertoires for the carving of images. But these also suggest that the tombs were decorated for sure purposes with a given functional template. Together with unlike patterns of burial objects too their settings, such images formed a way through which the Han people gave pregnant to the afterworld. As the Han Empire collapsed, stone carved tombs ceased beingness constructed inward the Central Plains. However, they ready a model for subsequently tombs. The thought of edifice horizontal stone sleeping accommodation tombs spread to Han borderlands, too gradually went farther due east to the Korean Peninsula. In this book, the origins, meanings too influences of Han Dynasty stone carved tombs are presented as a component subdivision of the history of interactions betwixt unlike parts of Eurasia.
About the Author
Chen Li, DPhil (Oxon.), is an assistant professor at the School of Humanities, Tongji University (Shanghai, China). His main enquiry interests include fine art too archeology of early China, structures too contents of Chinese tombs, as good as interactions betwixt Central mainland People's Republic of China too Inner Asia. He has published English linguistic communication too Chinese articles inward unlike peer-reviewed journals or edited volumes. His article Rethinking the origins of Han Dynasty stone carved tombs won the 2014 Young Scholar Award, European Association for Chinese Studies. Currently he leads a enquiry projection Constructing Stone Tombs inward Early Imperial China funded yesteryear the National Social Science Foundation of China.
'Men, Friends': The Sociological Mechanics of Xenophontic Leaders Winning Subordinates as Friends Taken from At the Crossroads of Greco-Roman History, Culture, too Religion: Papers inward Memory of Carin M. C. Green edited yesteryear Sinclair W. Bell too Lora L. Holland. Pages 31-44.
By Robert Holschuh Simmons
Inquiries into the skills too effectiveness of leaders described inward Xenophon’s works, especially the Anabasis too Cyropaedia, withdraw keep been pop inward the yesteryear few decades, non just inward classics, but also inward the fields of political science, management, too populace administration. Some of that attending has been dedicated to the particular techniques that Xenophon’s featured leaders work to win over their subordinates. One technique is their work of friendship (φιλία). What it genuinely agency for a subordinate to perceive a leader as a 'friend' (φίλος), though, too non just an advocate, well-wisher, or panderer, tends non to live thoroughly explored...
Invisible Value or Tactile Value? Steatite inward the Faience Complexes of the Indus Valley Tradition Taken from Walking with the Unicorn: Social Organization too Material Culture inward Ancient South Asia edited yesteryear Dennys Frenez, Gregg M. Jamison, Randall W. Law, Massimo Vidale too Richard H. Meadow. Pages 389-394.
By Heather M.-L. Miller too Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Objects made of faience (composition, frit or siliceous paste) were found across much of Eurasia for millennia, yet this cloth is hardly known today. Faience or siliceous glue objects were made with many unlike recipes too production methods, but at that topographic point is an unusual, evidently unique, variation inward faience composition for some objects inward the Indus. Some Indus siliceous glue objects include steatite (talc) fragments, invisible on the surface too requiring laboratory analysis for detection. These invisible inclusions could withdraw keep been valued as a symbol of Indus identity, as is suggested for other uses of steatite during the Indus period. Alternatively, these inclusions could live of technological value; although strength or special compositional requirements do non seem to fit this case, Kenoyer’s recent experiments suggest the improver of little amounts of steatite aids inward the workability of some types of siliceous paste. Is this an either/or situation, or could both of these values live considerations inward the improver of steatite fragments? This is an of import alternative to consider beyond the common oppositional approach to production too consumption explanations for cloth choices, too i that requires extra thought inward archaeological enquiry pattern too analysis.
Naturvorstellungen im Altertum Schilderungen und Darstellungen von Natur im Alten Orient und inward der griechischen Antike edited yesteryear Florian Schimpf, Dominik Berrens, Katharina Hillenbrand, Tim Brandes too Carrie Schidlo. ii+285 pages; illustrated throughout inward color too dark & white (56 color plates). High German text. 411 2018. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781784918255. £32.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781784918262.
Everyone who investigates pre-modern concepts of nature cannot avoid a critical reflection on the ancient understandings of it. Here, “nature” is understood inward the sense of a seemingly untouched space, largely independent of human culture. While this concept of “nature” is prevalent inward modern times, the reconstruction of ancient ideas is hard inward that concepts of nature, if at all present, emphasize other aspects. For example, the Greek term φύσις inward pre-Hellenistic times defines the nature of a thing rather than an untouched environment. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 word for “nature” inward this sense has non been handed downwards to us inward the remaining texts of the Ancient Near East too Classical Antiquity. Nevertheless, such concepts tin sure enough live reconstructed from descriptions of nature to live found inward literature too the representations of natural elements inward art.
The nowadays volume aims at identifying these concepts of nature inward texts as good as inward archaeological remains of the Ancient Near Eastern too the Greek civilisation from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. Contributions from the fields of archeology too philology are juxtaposed for each fourth dimension menstruum inward chronological order. This organisation provides a goodness overview of the concepts of nature prevailing throughout unlike menstruum too cultures.
GERMAN DESCRIPTION: Der Begriff „Natur“ wird inward modernen, mitteleuropäischen Gesellschaften meist im Sinne eines vermeintlich unberührten Raumes verstanden, der weitgehend unbeeinflusst von menschlicher Kultur ist. Für vormoderne Kulturen lassen sich solche Vorstellungen bzw. Konzepte sehr viel schwieriger nachweisen, da beispielsweise ein Wort für „Natur“ mit der eben genannten Bedeutung inward den erhaltenen Texten des Alten Orients und der griechischen Antike so nicht überliefert zu sein scheint. Gleichwohl werden durchaus Naturelemente inward der antiken Literatur, der Flächenkunst sowie inward antiken Monumenten beschrieben bzw. abgebildet sowie als integrative Bestandteile genutzt und funktionalisiert. Daraus lassen sich Konzepte von „Natur“ herausarbeiten und rekonstruieren. Der vorliegende Band möchte solche „Naturkonzepte“ inward Texten, Artefakten und Denkmälern des Alten Orients und des griechischen Kulturraumes von der Archaik bis inward den Hellenismus identifizieren und einen Überblick über choke jeweils inward einem bestimmten Zeit- und Kulturraum vorherrschenden Vorstellungen sowie deren diachrone Entwicklung geben.
About the Editors
FLORIAN SCHIMPF studied Classical Archaeology too History at the universities of Frankfurt too Istanbul, whilst gaining practical experiences yesteryear participating inward excavations inward Priene (Turkey), Portugal too on the Balkans. In 2013 he joined the Research Training Group “Early Concepts of Man too Nature” at the University of Mainz with a projection on natural sanctuaries inward ancient Hellenic Republic too Asia Minor. His enquiry interests prevarication inward the fields of religious history, Greek cult practices too metrology.
DOMINIK BERRENS studied Classical Philology too Biology at the University of Freiburg. From 2013-2017 he was component subdivision of the Research Training Group “Early Concepts of Man too Nature” at the University of Mainz, where he received his doctorate with a dissertation on social insects inward antiquity inward 2016. Since Oct 2017 he has been a postdoctoral researcher working on the projection “NOSCEMUS – Nova Scientia: Early Modern Science too Latin” funded yesteryear the European Research Council at the University of Innsbruck. His enquiry interests prevarication inward pre-modern scientific texts too ancient drama.
KATHARINA HILLENBRAND studied Classical Philology too High German Studies at the Universities of Würzburg too Frankfurt. In 2014 she joined the Research Training Group “Early Concepts of Man too Nature” at the University of Mainz with a projection on concepts of volcanic phenomena inward Roman antiquity. Currently she is working at the subdivision of Classical Philology at the University oDigital Imaging of Artefacts: Developments inward Methods too Aims edited yesteryear Kate Kelley too Rachel K. L. Wood. Paperback; 203x276mm; 190 pages; illustrated throughout inward color too dark & white (80 plates inward colour). 65 2018. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789690255. £45.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781789690262.
This volume brings together novel lines of enquiry across a attain of disciplines from participants inward a workshop held at Wolfson College, Oxford, on 23rd May 2017. In calorie-free of rapid technological developments inward digital imaging, the aim inward gathering these contributions together is to inform specialist too full general readers well-nigh some of the ways inward which imaging technologies are transforming the study too presentation of archaeological too cultural artefacts. The periods, materials, geography, too enquiry questions nether word thus are varied, but the contributions are united inward shared interests surrounding the aims of these techniques for imaging objects: what advantages do they offer, whether inward enquiry or museum contexts, what limitations are soundless faced, too how tin technological evolution encourage novel types of enquiry too populace engagement?
About the Editors
Dr KATE KELLEY received her Doctorate of Philosophy inward Assyriology from the University of Oxford inward 2018 too is a specialist inward the socio-economic history of early Mesopotamia. She is a Research too Teaching Fellow at the University of British Columbia (2018–19), too formerly a Research Associate at the Oriental Institute, Oxford for the projection Seals too Their Impressions inward the Ancient Near East (2016–17). Kate has been working for the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative since 2012, including digitizing cuneiform tablets inward the Louvre, the National Museum of Scotland, too the Yale Babylonian Collection.
Dr RACHEL K. L. WOOD is Lecturer inward Classical Archaeology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford too a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, specialising inward the fine art too archeology of ancient Iran. In her previous seat as a postdoctoral researcher with the British Museum too University of Oxford projection Empires of Faith, she was an assistant curator of the Ashmolean Museum’s exhibition Imagining the Divine: fine art too the rising of world religions (October 2017–February 2018).Hatra: Il territorio e l’urbanistica Prefazione di Roberta Venco Ricciardi yesteryear Enrico Foietta. Paperback; 203x276mm; x+560 pages; illustrated throughout inward color too dark & white (140 plates inward colour). Italian text; Introduction too chapter summaries inward English. 64 2018. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789690057. £88.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781789690064.
The ancient metropolis of Hatra is located lxxx km southwest of the modern metropolis of Mosul. The site reached its apogee during the 2nd too 3rd centuries AD, arriving at the striking dimensions of c. 300 hectares too into a novel role as the working capital alphabetic character of a important buffer province betwixt the Parthian too Roman empires.
This volume is devoted to the study of the landscape surrounding Hatra too of the evolution of this of import city, drawing on published information gathered yesteryear Iraqi too unusual expeditions, as good as unpublished information garnered from over xv years of fieldwork at the site yesteryear the Italian Archaeological Expedition.
The study of the landscape comprehends the morphology, hydrology too geology of the part too offers novel proposals regarding the exploitation of natural resources too the evolution of regional too local routes through the territory nether Hatra’s political too armed services command during the 2nd too 3rd centuries AD.
The analysis of Hatra as an urban centre consists of a detailed study of the city’s hydrology, street network too urban areas, with the purpose of detecting the principles behind the planning too evolution of the city. The main elements of the urban infinite are treated inward this book: the Temenos expanse too the Small Shrines, the Necropoles, the Fortifications, the Houses, too the Palaces. Due to the cross-referencing of archaeological, historical too epigraphic data, novel ideas withdraw keep been proposed regarding the chronological phases of urbanism at Hatra, from its foundation upwardly to the devastation of the metropolis yesteryear the Sasanian regular army inward AD 241.
La città di Hatra si trova nella Jazira irachena a circa lxxx km a sud-ovest di Mosul. Il centro raggiunse il suo apogeo durante il II-III sec. d.C., toccando l’impressionante estensione di quasi 300 ettari e divenendo la capitale di un influente stato cuscinetto, collocato tra l’impero partico e l’impero romano.
Questo volume è dedicato allo studio del territorio e dell’urbanistica di questo importante sito antico, impiegando contestualmente informazioni edite, raccolte dalle varie missioni irachene e straniere che si sono avvicendate sul terreno, e inedite, provenienti dal vasto Archivio della Missione Archeologica Italiana a Hatra inward più di quindici anni di ricerche sul campo.
Lo studio del territorio definisce un quadro dettagliato della morfologia, idrologia e geologia della regione e dell’area prossima al centro, oltre a proporre alcune nuove ipotesi interpretative sullo sfruttamento delle risorse ambientali, sull’articolazione della rete viaria periurbana e regionale e sull’estensione del territorio sottoposto al controllo politician e militare della città durante il II e III sec. d.C.
L’analisi urbanistica comprende uno studio approfondito dell’idrologia cittadina, della rete stradale e delle aree urbane, allo scopo di individuarne le principali caratteristiche ed eventuali regole nella pianificazione e nello sviluppo della città. Nel libro sono inoltre analizzati i principali elementi che compongono il tessuto urbano: il Temenos e i templi minori, le necropoli, le difese cittadine, le instance e i palazzi. Grazie all’utilizzo contestuale del dato archeologico, storico ed epigrafico, è stato inoltre possibile formulare nuove ipotesi sulle fasi urbanistiche e sulla cronologia di Hatra dalla fondazione alla sua distruzione, avvenuta per mano sasanide nel 241 d.C.
ENRICO FOIETTA è dottore di ricerca e borsista presso l’Università degli Studi di Torino. È membro di varie missioni archeologiche nel Vicino Oriente (Siria e Iran). Attualmente collabora attivamente con la Missione Archeologica Congiunta Italo-Iraniana inward Khuzistan (ICAR - CRAST), con la Missione Archeologica Italiana a Hatra, con il Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino (CRAST) e la Missione Franco-Siriana a Europos-Dura (CNRs Paris).Warts too All: The Paratexts inward the Iowa Lucan Taken from At the Crossroads of Greco-Roman History, Culture, too Religion edited yesteryear Sinclair W. Bell too Lora L. Holland. Pages 249-260.
By Samuel J. Huskey
In the introduction to his edition of Lucan, A. E. Housman raises our hopes of finding a novel manuscript of the Pharsalia: 'It may live that somebody roaming through a library volition i twenty-four hours stumble upon a hidden treasure . . . ' Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 distich of years after I graduated from the University of Iowa, exciting intelligence came from Iowa City. The librarians inward the Special Collections of the university’s Main Library had, inward fact, stumbled upon a hidden treasure: a 15th-century manuscript of Lucan. Before anyone becomes as good hopeful, it is of import to retrieve the residuum of what Housman had to say well-nigh such a prospect: '. . . but those are non the quarters from which Lucan most needs aid nor from which most aid is to live had.'Burial Mounds inward Europe too Japan: An Introduction Taken from Burial Mounds inward Europe too Japan edited yesteryear Thomas Knopf, Werner Steinhaus too Shin’ya Fukunaga. Pages 1-14.
By Werner Steinhaus too Thomas Knopf
This volume originates from an international workshop held at Tuebingen inward Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany betwixt fourth too sixth of Nov 2015.1 The workshop gathered together for the foremost fourth dimension specialists of the European Bronze too Iron Age, too Japanese archaeologists of the Yayoi too Kofun periods to verbalize over burial mounds as a phenomenon inward both parts of the world. The workshop developed out of a growing partnership betwixt High German too Japanese archaeology, initiated inward component subdivision through the evolution of an exhibition inward Mannheim too Berlin organized too directed yesteryear Werner Steinhaus inward 2004/05 (Wieczorek/Steinhaus/Sahara 2004). The exhibition, entitled ‘Die Zeit der Morgenröte’ (The fourth dimension of Dawn), displayed the rich archeology of the Japanese archipelago to a High German audience for the foremost time. It also brought together the editors of this volume (Knopf too Steinhaus). Since then, visits, lectures too meetings withdraw keep taken seat betwixt the ii countries inward monastic enjoin to strengthen the knowledge of Japanese archeology inward Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany too Europe, too vice versa.Toponyms, Directions too Tribal Names inward the Indus Script Taken from Walking with the Unicorn: Social Organization too Material Culture inward Ancient South Asia edited yesteryear Dennys Frenez, Gregg M. Jamison, Randall W. Law, Massimo Vidale too Richard H. Meadow. Pages 359-376.
By Iravatham Mahadevan too M. V. Bhaskar
Identification of ideograms inward the Indus Script depicting the physical features ‘hills’ too ‘plains’, ‘high’ too ‘low’, too the directions ‘West’ too ‘East’, is proposed inward the paper. It is also shown that the ideograms, when combined as pairs inward the Indus texts, correspond to specific toponyms inward the Indus Realm, especially ‘high mountains’, ‘highlands’, ‘western hills’ too ‘eastern hills’. Names of tribes, also serving as seat names, depicted yesteryear the ideograms are also identified. In Dravidian languages, damage for ‘high’ also announce ‘West’, too damage for ‘low’ also announce ‘East’. The Dravidian usage reveals that the architecture of the Indus cities with the ‘high’ citadel inward the due west too the ‘lower’ town inward the due east is inward conformity with the Dravidian world view. The results strongly back upwardly the Dravidian authorship of the Indus Civilization. The authors admit their indebtedness to the studies yesteryear R. Balakrishnan, especially to his insight that it is the Dravidian linguistic usage ‘high-west’ too ‘low-east’ that must withdraw keep influenced the architecture of the Indus cities.Multicultural interaction, colonial boundaries too changing grouping identities: contextualising inscriptions, languages too alphabets Taken from Papers inward Italian Archaeology VII: The Archaeology of Death edited yesteryear Edward Herring & Eòin O’Donoghue. Pages 138-148.
By Ulla Rajala too Karin W. Tikkanen
This newspaper outlines a projection that is edifice a model for assessing multicultural interaction, which volition live used for the study of the expansion of Rome inward key Italy inward the wider context of Latin colonisation. Its theoretical framework incorporates Social Identity Theory too the concept of mental distance applied to geographically related groups. The key materials studied at this stage are funerary architecture too inscriptions, which divulge unlike nested aspects of grouping identities. Here nosotros briefly nowadays the local context of the study – Nepi too the Faliscan expanse – with the unlike languages too alphabets used inward the area. This expanse volition live compared with its neighbouring areas inward monastic enjoin to analyse long-term changes inward grouping identities from the precolonial menstruum to the colonial period.The Stockholm Volterra Project: exploring a cityscape inward an urban context Taken from Papers inward Italian Archaeology VII: The Archaeology of Death edited yesteryear Edward Herring & Eòin O’Donoghue. Pages 553-562.
By Ulla Rajala, Arja Karivieri, Andreas Viberg, Elena Sorge, Alessandro Furiesi, Gianfranco Morelli too Gianluca Catanzariti
This article presents the Stockholm Volterra Project too its developments since 2013. This project, run yesteryear Stockholm University too the Department of Archaeology too Classical Studies, has carried out geophysical prospections inward Volterra inward collaboration with Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le province di Pisa e Livorno. The aims too methods of the projection are outlined together with a closer presentation of key sites from 2014 too 2015: the ‘Football Pitch’, the expanse inward front end of the church building of San Giusto, the ruined church building of Santo Stefano, the amphitheatre too Ortino sites.Cremation structures too funerary dynamics inward Roman Veneto. New perspectives from Padua/Patavium Taken from Papers inward Italian Archaeology VII: The Archaeology of Death edited yesteryear Edward Herring & Eòin O’Donoghue. Pages 465-476.
By Cecilia Rossi too Irene Marini
The nowadays piece of work is aimed to suggest some novel perspectives on the funerary customs of Roman Veneto (North-Eastern Italy), with particular attending to the practise inward work at the real showtime of the Imperial period, when the Romanisation comes to an end. Moving from a brusk word of the province of the art, the newspaper focuses on hints produced yesteryear a well-preserved burial plot late discovered at Padua/Patavium, i of the capitals of the ancient Veneto. Dated to the foremost ii centuries CE, the site is firstly introduced from a topographical dot of view; then, the spatial organisation is discussed, with description of structures too their development. Particular attending is given to cremation deposits, the main evidence inward the cemetery. Burials are examined starting from the urned examples, followed yesteryear unurned deposits, too closing with the analysis of the most representative aspect inward the context: busta-type cremation graves, i.e. deposits completely apart from the local tradition, that maybe arrived inward Veneto as a outcome of cultural exchanges that occurred during the Romanisation process. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 comparing betwixt archaeological too anthropological information is finally proposed, suggesting several hints inward monastic enjoin to improve reconstruct both the interment steps too the existent business office of the smashing cremation structures.The Indus Script too Economics. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Role for Indus Seals too Tablets inward Rationing too Administration of Labor Taken from Walking with the Unicorn: Social Organization too Material Culture inward Ancient South Asia edited yesteryear Dennys Frenez, Gregg M. Jamison, Randall W. Law, Massimo Vidale too Richard H. Meadow. Pages 518-525.
By Rajesh P. N. Rao
The Indus script remains i of the lastly major undeciphered scripts of the ancient world. We focus hither on Indus inscriptions on a grouping of miniature tablets discovered yesteryear Meadow too Kenoyer inward Harappa inward 1997. By drawing parallels with proto-Elamite too proto-Cuneiform inscriptions, nosotros explore how these miniature tablets may withdraw keep been used to tape rations allocated to porters or laborers. We too so present that similar inscriptions are found on postage stamp seals, leading to the potentially provocative conclusion that rather than only indicating ownership of property, Indus seals may withdraw keep been used for generating tokens, tablets too sealings for repetitive economical transactions such as rations too commutation of canonical amounts of goods, grains, animals, too labor inward a barter-based economy.Étude paléoanthropologique et analyse des rituels funéraires de deux sites laténiens valaisans Randogne – Bluche et Sion – Parking des Remparts yesteryear Tobias Hofstetter. Paperback; 205x290mm; x+240 pages; 171 figs + 6 tables (colour too dark & white throughout). French text; English linguistic communication abstract. 444 2018 Laboratoire d’archéologie préhistorique UNIGE . Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781784919375. £45.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781784919382.
This volume concerns the bioanthropological analysis too the investigation of Second Iron Age (also known as the La Tène period: 470–25 BC) funerary practices inward key Valais. More precisely, it deals with the study of ii necropolises lately discovered inward this mountainous part of southern Switzerland: Randogne–Bluche (excavated betwixt 2001 too 2005) too Sion–Parking des Remparts (excavated inward 2006). The thing of Second Iron Age funeral practices has been investigated since the belatedly 19th century inward Switzerland too has ever since yielded many exceptional finds. In archaeological terms, the enquiry presented inward this piece of work introduces a consistent summary of the electrical flow archaeological too historiographical province of knowledge regarding Second Iron Age funeral practices inward southern Switzerland.
Étude paléoanthropologique et analyse des rituels funéraires de deux sites laténiens valaisans : Randogne – Bluche et Sion – Parking des Remparts porte sur l’analyse bioanthropologique et l’étude des rituels funéraires laténiens en Valais central. Plus précisément, elle traite des ensembles funéraires de Randogne – Bluche (fouillé entre 2001 et 2005) et de Sion – Parking des Remparts (fouillé en 2006). Le premier objectif de cette étude a consisté à attribuer une identité et des caractéristiques biologiques aux individus inhumés au sein de ces deux ensembles. Ensuite, il s’est agi de caractériser ces deux ensembles funéraires par leur insertion au cadre géographique et archéologique, de s’intéresser à leur organisation chronologique et spatiale et à l’architecture des sépultures, ainsi qu’aux positions d’inhumation, de même qu’au mobilier funéraire présent. Par la suite, nous avons développé une vision comparative de ces deux ensembles funéraires, avant de finalement les confronter à l’intégralité du corpus funéraire laténien actuellement connu pour le Valais key et ainsi chercher à proposer une vision synthétique de la question.
About the Author
TOBIAS HOFSTETTER (B.A, M.Sc.) was born inward Zürich inward 1992. He currently works as consulting bioanthropologist to the Laboratory of Prehistoric Archaeology too Bioanthropology at the University of Geneva, where he has collaborated inward various archaeological fieldwork operations too bioanthropological assessments, roofing the Mesolithic to the Middle Ages, inward Switzerland, Italy, Bulgaria, State of Kuwait too Jordan.
TOBIAS HOFSTETTER (BA ; MSc) est né à Zürich (Suisse) en 1992. Il a obtenu boy Bachelor en archéologie préhistorique et classique ainsi qu’en anthropologie à l’Université de Neuchâtel (Suisse) en 2013. Il a poursuivi ses études en Master d’archéologie préhistorique et bioanthropologie à l’Université de Genève (Suisse) ; formation qu’il a terminée en 2016. Il travaille couramment en tant que bioanthropologue consultant pour le laboratoire d’archéologie préhistorique et d’anthropologie de l’Université de Genève. À ce titre, il a participé à de nombreuses campagnes de fouilles archéologiques et expertises bioanthropologiques, s’étendant du Paléolithique jusqu’à la période médiévale, en Suisse, France, Italie, Bulgarie, Koweït et Jordanie. En parallèle, il a repris un deuxième cursus de Master en histoire et littérature anglaise à l’Université de Neuchâtel.Perspectives on materiality inward ancient Arab Republic of Egypt – agency, cultural reproduction too change edited yesteryear Érika Maynart, Carolina Velloza too Rennan Lemos. Paperback; 203x276mm; iv+110 pages; illustrated throughout with 8 plates inward colour. 62 2018. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781784919337. £30.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781784919344.
Perspectives on materiality inward ancient Arab Republic of Egypt – agency, cultural reproduction too change expresses the authors’ broad theoretical involvement on materiality too how it helps us to empathize the crucial role of cloth civilisation inward ancient Egyptian lodge inward a to a greater extent than complex way. In the volume, mainly immature scholars inward Brazil, France, Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany too the U.K. approach the potential of materiality based on several instance studies roofing a broad attain of topics such as Egyptian art, recent perspectives on sexual practice too gender, hierarchies, too the materiality of textual sources too images.
The thought of gathering immature scholars to verbalize over ‘materiality’ foremost took seat inward the shape of a colloquium organised inward São Paulo, but before long after became a to a greater extent than encompassing projection aspiring to create a publication. The editors’ aimed to include researchers from various places, which makes the volume a materialisation of fruitful collaborations betwixt individuals coming from unlike scholarly traditions. The combination of unlike ways of looking at the ancient cloth civilisation tin hopefully contribute to the renovation of theory too practise inward Egyptology. The editors believe that the emphasis on diversity— of background histories, national traditions too mind-sets—is i the main elements that tin live used to boost novel perspectives inward a connected, globalised too hopefully less unequal world.Oikèma ou pièce polyvalente: recherches sur une installation commerciale de l’Antiquité grecque yesteryear Pavlos Karvonis. Paperback; 203x276mm; 110pp; illustrated throughout inward color too dark & white. French text. threescore 2018. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781784919399. £34.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781784919405.
This volume discusses the evolution of oikema, which is the most mutual type of commercial facility inward ancient Greece. The study covers a large expanse including Continental Greece, the Aegean islands, the Ionian islands too the due west coast of Asia Minor. The author, after a thorough analysis, proposes a novel terminology for commercial too industrial facilities. The volume also presents the architectural characteristics too the equipment of oikemata too discusses their location too human relationship with other buildings. The ownership, work too maintenance of oikemata are also discussed. It is argued that oikemata provided merchants too craftsmen with a suitable working infinite too contributed to the gradual abandonment of houses as working places, especially inward cities that developed inward the Hellenistic period. Their characteristics corresponded perfectly good to the needs of Greek commerce.
PAVLOS KARVONIS studied archeology inward Athens from 1994 to 1998. In 2000, he finished his Masters grade at the University of Paris X-Nanterre too inward 2004 he defended a thesis entitled “Lieux et locaux de vente dans la Grèce égéenne du IVe au Ier siècle av. J.-C.” at the same University. In 2006, he worked for the Archaeological Society at Athens, too since 2007 he has been working for the Academy of Athens inward the Tabula Imperii Romani program. He has published ii volumes on the Aegean islands too Attica, too has published several articles on commercial architecture. He is also preparing the publications of ii commercial buildings located on the western shore of the isle too participates inward a enquiry programme on stone too its work on Delos.
Table of Contents
Avant-propos
English Summary
Nomenclature
Le vocabulaire antique des installations commerciales
Les critères d’identification des pièces polyvalentes
L’apparition de la pièce polyvalente
Les activités attestées dans les pièces polyvalentes
Les caractéristiques des pièces polyvalentes
La gestion des pièces polyvalentes
Les pièces polyvalentes et l’organisation du commerce
Conclusion
Bibliographie
Index des lieux
Index des mots grecs
Index des auteurs anciens
Index des inscriptions
Origine des illustrationsDinamiche insediative nelle campagne dell'Italia tra Tarda Antichità e Alto Medioevo yesteryear Angelo Castrorao Barba. Paperback; 203x276mm; ii+180 pages; illustrated throughout inward color too dark & white. Papers inward Italian with English linguistic communication abstracts. 47 2018 Limina/Limites: Archaeologies, histories, islands too borders inward the Mediterranean (365-1556) 6. Available both inward impress too Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781784918231. £30.00 (No VAT). Epublication ISBN 9781784918248.
This volume gathers together a serial of selected contributions well-nigh small town patterns inward the Italian countryside betwixt Late Antiquity too the Early Middle Ages. This volume aims to present a critical overview of a attain of some of the most recent enquiry carried out on belatedly antique too early medieval Italy (Friuli Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Emilia Romagna, Tuscany, Lazio, Apulia too Calabria), too to lift our electrical flow knowledge as good as to provide innovative interpretative frameworks to gain a improve understanding of rural small town dynamics.
About the Editor
ANGELO CASTRORAO BARBA (Palermo, 1983) is currently a Fellow at the University of Palermo (Sicily, Italy). His principal fields of involvement are Late Antique too Early Medieval Archaeology too the transformations of landscape too small town patterns from Roman times to the Middle Ages inward the Mediterranean area. In 2013, he obtained a PhD inward Medieval Archaeology (University of Siena) with a dissertation well-nigh the cease of Roman villas inward Italy betwixt Late Antiquity too the Early Middle Ages (AD 200-800). In 2014, he received a post-graduate Masters Diploma inward GIS & Remote Sensing (Centre for Geo Technologies / Siena). In 2014-2015 he was a invitee researcher at VU University Amsterdam too a postdoctoral swain at the Royal Netherlands Institute inward Rome (KNIR). In summertime 2018 he was a postdoctoral swain at the DFG Center for Advanced Studies ‘Migration too Mobility inward Late Antiquity too the Early Middle Ages’ of the University of Tübingen. For the menstruum 2018/2020 he is a postdoctoral scholar inward the Getty-sponsored workshop serial ‘Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art too Architectural Histories of Medieval & Early Modern Cities’. Currently (2016-2018), he is a enquiry swain on the projection ‘Harvesting Memories’ (University of Palermo / Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA. of Palermo) which aims to study the ecology too archeology of rural landscapes inward the Sicani Mountains (C-W Sicily).Looking beneath the Veneer. Thoughts well-nigh Environmental too Cultural Diversity inward the Indus Civilization Taken from Walking with the Unicorn: Social Organization too Material Culture inward Ancient South Asia edited yesteryear Dennys Frenez, Gregg M. Jamison, Randall W. Law, Massimo Vidale too Richard H. Meadow. Pages 453-474.
By Cameron A. Petrie, Danika Parikh, Adam S. Green too Jennifer Bates
There is clear evidence for degrees of uniformity inward specific types of cloth civilisation that were used across the large expanse occupied yesteryear the populations that comprised the Indus Civilization. There is also evidence that at that topographic point was considerable cultural multifariousness across its environmentally varied extent. J. Mark Kenoyer too others withdraw keep described the cultural cloth that is widely attested across this expanse as a veneer that overlays a considerable grade of variation inward cloth work too practices (e.g. Meadow too Kenoyer 1997). The tension betwixt uniformity too multifariousness has important ramifications for our understanding of a attain of social, economic, too fifty-fifty political factors relating to Indus populations inward the periods before, during too after South Asia’s foremost menstruum of urbanism. This contribution considers the attain of variability inherent during these periods yesteryear assessing the multifariousness evident inward 4 unlike categories of data, too the relationships betwixt those datasets.Personal Reflections on some Contributions of Jonathan Mark Kenoyer to the Archaeology of Northwestern South Asia Taken from Walking with the Unicorn: Social Organization too Material Culture inward Ancient South Asia edited yesteryear Dennys Frenez, Gregg M. Jamison, Randall W. Law, Massimo Vidale too Richard H. Meadow. Pages 384-388.
By Richard H. Meadow
Mark Kenoyer has made substantial and, indeed, remarkable contributions to South Asian Archaeology too especially to our understanding of the Indus Civilization too its technology. Many of these are evident inward his published oeuvre. Others are less good known too ofttimes withdraw keep been evident only to those who withdraw keep worked with him inward the field. In this brusk appreciation, I provide some personal recollections of working with Mark inward Islamic Republic of Pakistan over the yesteryear 45 years with a focus on the sites of Balakot too Harappa.Roses, carnations, too ‘Prophet’s eggs’: Turkish needle lace flowers betwixt ornament too non-verbal communication Taken from Travellers inward Ottoman Lands edited yesteryear Ines Aščerić-Todd, Sabina Knees, Janet Starkey too Paul Starkey. Pages 337-349.
By Gérard J. Maizou & Kathrin Müller
When Lady Mary Wortley Montagu lived inward Constantinople betwixt 1716 too 1718, she discovered the so-called ‘language of flowers’ too reported well-nigh it inward i of her famous diplomatic mission letters. Although since ancient times it has been known that people assign a special pregnant to specific flowers, fruits, too other objects, the ‘language of flowers’ flourished inward Europe during the eighteenth too nineteenth centuries. To this day, the Turkish ‘language of flowers’ lives on as a special textile handicraft — the Oya lace. These colourful ofttimes three-dimensional lace flowers foremost appeared inward the early nineteenth century. They spread rapidly throughout the Ottoman Empire, decorating the edges of headscarves, shirts, too fiddling bags. Today’s ethnologists withdraw keep registered the pregnant of unlike Oya blossoms too fruits which originated from the actual flora. The Oya names ofttimes reverberate a woman’s thoughts, worries, too desires, too give us an insight into the life of an private woman, her surroundings, the problems inward her family, her hamlet or her town’s mahalle (quarter).Infancy too urbanization inward key Italy during the Early Iron Age too beyond Taken from Papers inward Italian Archaeology VII: The Archaeology of Death edited yesteryear Edward Herring & Eòin O’Donoghue. Pages 197-206.
By Francesca Fulminante
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 relatively large number of studies withdraw keep dealt with suggrundaria (‘under eaves burials’) inward Early Iron Age Latium vetus, spell infancy inward the funerary studies of key Italy has received to a greater extent than ofttimes than non less attending inward the yesteryear as a specific topic of study. However things are changing rapidly inward this acre too infancy too childhood is becoming an of import focus of Italian prehistoric too classical archaeology. Urbanization inward Pre-Roman too Roman Italy on the other mitt is a well-known too much studied phenomenon, whose effects withdraw keep shaped the features of modern Western civilizations. Probably because of gendered biases the ii themes withdraw keep e'er remained separate too non connected. This newspaper for the foremost fourth dimension volition present how urbanization has changed the representation of children inward burial practices too has affected mothers’ baby feeding practices; too volition betoken how vice-versa baby feeding practices tin touching on the evolution of urban societies. In this way it volition opened upwardly novel enquiry agenda for urbanization too infancy studies inward Pre-Roman too Roman Italy.Dioscorides’ legacy: a classical precursor to travellers inward Ottoman lands Taken from Travellers inward Ottoman Lands edited yesteryear Ines Aščerić-Todd, Sabina Knees, Janet Starkey too Paul Starkey. Pages 89-108.
By Alison Denham
Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus, the writer of De Materia Medica, was born inward what is at nowadays south-eastern Turkey inward the foremost century AD. His five-volume piece of work on plants, animals, too minerals used inward medicine has been edited, translated, too retranslated over the ensuing 2000 years. Dioscorides in all probability qualified as a medical practitioner at Tarsus, working capital alphabetic character of the Roman province of Cilicia. He is renowned for seeking out plants growing inward the wild too referred to many places where plants grow. The chaste tree Vitex agnus-castus is used to verbalize over his industrial plant life descriptions. Dioscorides was concerned well-nigh the provenance too character of medicinal plants, too his entry on myrrh Commiphora spp. explores this point. St John’s wort Hypericum
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