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This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407388410 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407388427 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860544265 (Volume set).The Beaker problem is one of the oldest, and most celebrated, in European prehistoric archaeology.

Dieses Volume ist Teil eines Sets mit zwei Volumes: ISBN 9781407387154 (Band I); ISBN 9781407387161 (Band II); ISBN 9780860546672 (Bands I und II).This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407387154 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407387161 (Volume II);...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on the BAR Digital platform.Delivering the Deep: Maritime archaeology for the 21st century, originated from work presented at...

Los contextos arqueológicos "tradicionales" no siempre proporcionan la información material necesaria para establecer explicaciones razonables sobre el comportamiento humano. En estos casos, los arqueólogos buscan otros campos que puedan contribuir a...

The Deer Creek site (34KA3), located next to the Arkansas River in the Southern Plains of the U.S., served as a crucial hub for exchange and interaction during the eighteenth century between ancestral Wichita peoples and French traders from Louisiana...

Current conflict in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza highlights the terrible price that is paid by civilians in war. This book focuses on the myth of the Blitz as experienced today, especially in the context of civilian deaths. It contends that the substantial...

This volume presents the results of archaeological investigations and mitigation undertaken along the route of the proposed A160/A180 Port of Immingham Road improvement scheme in 2015. Three major sites were identified along the route, with significant...

Il presente lavoro consiste in uno studio relativo ai vaghi, pendenti e sigilli in ambra, materiali vetrosi, oro, bronzo/rame e materiali litici, provenienti da contesti dell'età del Bronzo in Italia meridionale, Sicilia e nelle isole del basso Tirreno...

Reconstructing Prehistoric Communities' Mobility in Apulia presents pioneering scholarly research to illuminate the interplay between ancient societies and their physical environment during the Neolithic to Early Bronze Age. The study introduces novel...

Beyond being the first extensive work on Tangut funerary culture outside of China, this monograph offers insights into the Mi-Nia (Tangut), a Central Asian people that are little known in the West despite the splendour of their imperial cemetery near...

The essays in this volume explore questions relating to human dispersals and exchange across the varied environments of Eurasia. Part One focuses on the Neolithic and how agriculture led to new adaptive niches for human societies. This process involved...

This monograph covers the excavations conducted at the Ptolemaic-Roman city of Tell Timai by the University of Hawaii from 2009 - 2020. It is divided into four parts. Chapter 1 concerns the excavation and identification of a previously unknown...

This volume represents a collection of papers resulting from the Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia Working group meeting held in Barcelona in 2019, when early-career and well-established researchers debated on nearly 10,000 years of adaptation and change...

The sewn-plank ships that sailed the Indian Ocean during the medieval Islamic period carried people, goods, and ideas between East Africa, Arabia, India, and China. Despite their key role, we know relatively little about them. To date, archaeological...

En este libro se presentan los resultados del análisis de las representaciones sociales y la patrimonialización del registro arqueológico del pasado indígena en el Área de Ventania de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. La investigación se...

The sixth century saw a major transformation of ceramic technology. It initiated an era characterised by porcelain and polychrome decoration that overturned the earlier pattern of earthenware and stoneware production that had been used for thousands of...

A lo largo de la costa del sureste de la Península Ibérica existen numerosos restos vinculados a la producción de la purpura. Este estudio se centra en el yacimiento de Torregarcía (Almería, España), situado en el Parque Natural de Cabo de Gata-Níjar,...

Urbanism and its Impact on Human Health demonstrates how social, economic and political changes impacted the everyday lives of the people of Knossos, at the fundamental level of their health and diet, during the Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique...

En este libro se lleva a cabo un estudio de las características y la evolución de la cultura material durante la Edad del Hierro en Cantabria. Para ello se ha procedido al análisis y estudio de todo el registro material procedente de los yacimientos...

Death in the Iron Age of Eastern England explores the treatment of the non-cremated dead from 800BC - c.AD60 in what is now eastern England. The research presented identifies large-scale patterns in post-mortem treatment, furthering existing debates...

En este trabajo se analiza la relación entre los modos de vida y las herramientas líticas de dos yacimientos arqueológicos ('El Trobal' en Jerez de la Frontera y 'La Esparragosa' en Chiclana de la Frontera, ambos en la provincia de Cádiz), encuadrados en...

Esta publicación narra la historia de varias generaciones de una unidad habitacional que habitó una de las áreas más distintivas en la antigua ciudad de Dzibilchaltún. Los residuos de su historia y sus contribuciones a la vida diaria de una capital Maya...

This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407359496 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407359502 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860542995 (Volume set).

Since 2004, the Dewil Valley in El Nido, Palawan, Philippines has been home to the Palawan Island Palaeohistory Research Project (PIPRP). Dewil is a landscape dotted with limestone towers, each of which has their own archaeological story to tell...

This book addresses a paradox concerning the role of clay at Çatalhöyük that arises from conflicting material culture and landscape views of what clay truly afforded this early agricultural community. The highly-developed and...

Pueblo Viejo-Pucara is one of the coastal archaeological sites that were ruled by the Inka Empire on the central coast of Peru, inhabited by the Caringa people. Labor colonists relocated to the site as part of Inka strategies of annexation of new...

This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407389332 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407389349 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860540779 (Volume set).

The Kerma Moyen graves excavated at site P37 contained a classic assemblage ofpottery ofthat period, both local and imported. A brief comment on this pottery has previously been published (Welsby Sjostrom 1997), but this is the first time that all the...

Beginning in the early years of the 20th century numerous surveys have been undertaken along the Nile valley south­wards from Aswan. Reisner's work on the First Archaeological Survey of Nubia proved spectacularly successful and he formulated a cultural...

This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407387499 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407388625(Volume II); ISBN 9780904531978 (Volume set).

Apart from the brief blaze of glory in the late fourth and fifth centuries, with the flourishing of the Bordeaux schools and the reign of the Visigothic kings, south-west Gaul is very much a terra incognita from the time of Caesar's conquest down to the...

The Sefunim sites - a large cave and a shelter - are situated ca. 400 m. away from each other in the Carmel range, 10 km. south of Hai fa, only a short distance from the coastal plain. We believe the shelter to be a unique site. This volume is part...

Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations breaks new ground in our understanding of the challenges faced by heritage practitioners and researchers in the contemporary world of mass migration, where people encounter new cultural heritage and...

Exhibitions for Social Justice assesses the state of curatorial work for social justice in the Americas and Europe today. Analyzing best practices and new curatorial work to support all those working on exhibitions, Gonzales expounds curatorial practices...

This book examines birds in Roman life and myth, focusing primarily on the transitional period of 100 BCE to 100 CE within the Italian peninsula.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...