BAR Publishing, 2015. — 633 p. — (BAR International Series 2735). The Valley of Sagittarius and the Peligna Dell between the fourth and first centuries BC: Trends and Delvelopments of Romanization. In the Peligna Valley, there is a poor understanding of Romanization as a phenomenon. The state of the documentation is very substantial but it is fragmentary and unsystematic in...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 261 p. — (BAR International Series 2740/British Foundation for the Study of Arabia Monographs 16). Two silver vases of Greco-Roman style from the ‘treasure of wādī Ḍuraʾ’ (Yemen) Qatabanian jars in the port of Sumhuram: notes on the trade by sea in South Arabia Snake, copper and water in south-eastern Arabian religion during the Iron Age: the Bithnah and...
Philipp von Zabern, 2005. — 431 S. — (Archaeologie in Eurasien 18/Studien im Thrakien-Marmara-Raum 2). Band 2 der Reihe „Studien im Thrakien-Marmara-Raum“ befasst sich mit der wichtigsten Fundgruppe des Siedlungshügels, der Keramik. Im ersten Teil unterzieht Hermann Parzinger die gesamte zwischen 1993 und 1998 aus den mittel- und spätneolithischen Schichten von Asagi Pinar...
Edition Topoi, 2021. — 287 p. — (Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 67). Glas ist das erste von Menschen hergestellte Material, das nicht in der Natur vorkommt. Als Endprodukt eines komplexen Herstellungsprozesses hat Glas auch keine Ähnlichkeit mit den Ausgangsmaterialien. Glas wird in der Bronzezeit im östlichen Mittelmeerraum erfunden und als künstlicher Edelstein u.a. für...
Archaeopress, 2025. — 368 p. Iron and the Iron Age presents a comprehensive account of the adoption of ironworking in Europe and Western Asia. The study is mainly based on archaeological evidence, but the early introduction of iron in the Near East also takes account of the written sources. After the fundamental innovation of iron production by smelting iron ores, iron use...
Archaeopress, 2025. — 304 S. Im 6. Jhd. v.u.Z. etabliert sich mit dem Zusammenbruch des Neuassyrischen Reiches an vielen Stellen in Nordmesopotamien und dem angrenzenden Zagros-Gebirge eine neue Form des Zusammenlebens: Squattersiedlungen. Einst monumentale Strukturen scheinen ihre Bedeutung als elitäre Orte zu verlieren und nun für häusliche Zwecke genutzt zu werden. In dieser...
Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, 2024. — 682 S. — (Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle 31). 16. Mitteldeutscher Archäologentagvom 5. bis 7. Oktober 2023 in Halle (Saale) 16th Archaeological Conference of Central German October 5–7, 2023 in Halle (Saale) Welchen Wert hatten Beile und Äxte in prähistorischen Gesellschaften – waren sie...
Poznan Archaeological Museum, 2013. — 268 p. — (Studies in African Archaeology 12). Key issues in and the current state of research The Nile Delta in the Predynastic period Southern Levant in the Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age I Lower Egyptian settlement system Lower Egyptian economy and social system The Lower Egyptian ceramic assemblages Other assemblages of the Lower...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2022. — 243 p. — (RGZM – Tagungen 48). Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi Siracusa Palazzolo Acreide 12-13 Novembre 2021 Azzurra Scarci, Raimon Graells i Fabregat, Fausto Longo - Introduzione: Dalla Magna Grecia alla Sicilia, ancora sul dono di armi nei santuari greci e indigeni Mario Lombardo - Le armi nei santuari greci:...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2018. — 337 p. — (RGZM – Tagungen 35). "Retouching the Palaeolithic: Becoming Human and the Origins of Bone Tool Technology" Conference at Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover, Germany, 21.- 23. October 2015 This volume is a collection of papers from the conference titled “Retouching the Palaeolithic: Becoming Human and the Origins of...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2020. — 154 p. — (RGZM – Tagungen 40). Eine Session mit dem Titel »From the Atlantic to beyond the Bug River– Finding and defining the Federmesser-Gruppen / Azilian on the North European Plain and adjacent areas« fand beim 17. Kongress der Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques im September 2014 in...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2022. — 226 S. — (RGZM – Tagungen 47). International Workshop within the Framework of the DFG Project »The Thracian harbour city Ainos in Roman and Byzantine times – the development of a traffic hub in a changing environment« Trotz seiner Randlage war das Mare Thracium ein integraler Bestandteil der Mittelmeerwelt. Der Reichtum...
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 2008. — 484 p. — (Anejos de Archivo Español de Arqueología 46). Presentamos el resultado del encuentro científico que tuvo lugar en Mérida con el título "SIDEREUM ANA I. El río Guadiana en época Post-Orientalizante", el primero de una serie de reuniones que tratarán diversos aspectos de la Protohistoria del Suroeste y del Valle...
Brill, 2002. — 197 p. — (Monumenta Graeca et Romana 9). This book constitutes the first comprehensive publication of a cache of eight bronzes from east-central Gaul. The types of objects and accompanying inscriptions suggest that these bronzes originally came from a sanctuary of a god named Cobannus. The first part of the book describes, analyzes, and interprets the individual...
Brill, 1996. — 164 p. — (Monumenta Graeca et Romana 8). This is the first study of the particularly interesting network of quarries and roads in southern Euboea. The quarries were a major source of Cippolino marble in Roman times. The study presents a survey and examination of the quarries and roads serving them and analyses of samples of marble collected there. The...
Brill, 2011. — 324 p. — (Monumenta Graeca et Romana 17). Setting as a starting point the introduction of the black-figure technique in Attic workshops at around 630 BCE, this book attempts a contextual analysis of Attic pottery until late in the first quarter of the sixth century BCE. The shapes and their functions, as well as the iconographic themes are explored through this...
Brill, 2019. — 233 p. — (Monumenta Graeca et Romana 22). This is the third out of eight projected volumes making available to the public the contents in the collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities in one of Canada’s most prestigious museums. Here are presented a variety of metal objects (mostly bronze figurines, medical instruments, brooches, weaponry and a lead sarcophagus),...
Brill, 2019. — 452 p. — (Monumenta Graeca et Romana 23). Edited by G. Papantoniou, D. Michaelides and M. Dikomitou-Eliadou, Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas is a collection of 29 chapters with an introduction presenting diverse and innovative approaches (archaeological, stylistic, iconographic, functional, contextual, digital, and physicochemical) in the study of ancient...
Brill, 2008. — 269 p. — (Monumenta Graeca et Romana 13). This catalogue raisonné describes a little-known but very interesting collection originally assembled by one of the important Canadian collectors of the early 20th century. After an account of the collection's history and a brief discussion of the techniques of ancient glass-making, the catalogue proper presents 191...
Brill, 2010. — 177 p. — (Monumenta Graeca et Romana 15). This catalogue raisonné describes the lamps and statuettes in terracotta of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, to which are added two lamps made of bronze. The collection, small but eclectic, has mostly been assembled in recent years and represents a wide variety of types in these two categories. After an introduction...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2025. — 321 S. — (Der römische Limes in Österreich 52). Die interdisziplinäre Auswertung von Bestattungen des 1. bis 3. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. im Kontaktbereich nord- und süddanubischer Traditionen. Mit Beiträgen von Aida Andrades Valtueña, Selina Carlhoff, Andreas G. Heiss, Kristin von Heyking, Franziska Immler, Thiseas C....
Routledge, 2024. — 401 p. This volume brings together the latest results and discussions from research carried out in the eastern Fertile Crescent, the so-called hilly flanks, and adjacent regions, as well as providing key historical perspectives on earlier fieldwork in the region. The emergence of sedentary food producing societies in southwest Asia ca. 10,000 years ago has...
Routledge, 2024. — 401 p. This volume brings together the latest results and discussions from research carried out in the eastern Fertile Crescent, the so-called hilly flanks, and adjacent regions, as well as providing key historical perspectives on earlier fieldwork in the region. The emergence of sedentary food producing societies in southwest Asia ca. 10,000 years ago has...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 139 p. — (BAR International Series 2746). During recent years new excavations at a number of Neolithic locations in the Central Zagros by German, British and Iranian archaeologists have revealed a series of important results. Notable are the Early Neolithic sites of Choga Golan, Jani, Sheikh-e Abad, and East Chia Sabz, all discovered and excavated within...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 407 p. — (BAR International Series 2747). A collection of archaeological materials and burial remains, recovered during large scale excavations or by accidental discovery by travellers and locals, are presented in this volume on sixth- to seventh century mortuary and funerary practices in duringthe Achaemenid and Sasanian period in Iran. Much of this...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 283 S. — (BAR International Series 2749). Das Hauptziel dieser Untersuchung der Grabbefunde ist der Identifizierung gesellschaftlicher Strukturen der späteren Dark Ages, der Früheisenzeit bzw. der protogeometrischen und geometrischen Zeit auf der Insel Kreta. Die älteste Forschung auf Kreta konzentrierte sich auf die Hinterlassenschaft jener Kultur, die...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 169 p. — (BAR International Series 2753). This book is the result of a large-scale research undertaking Trade Routes of the Near East, examining Egyptian-Levantine interaction in the 4th Millennium BC. Chapters explore many issues related to copper and trade in the long period covering the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages, but also Roman period, with a...
Sidestone Press, 2025. — 282 p. — (OSPA: Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology 6). In the 5th millennium BCE, the first farming societies in the Western Alps developed unique burial practices characterized by Chamblandes-type graves. These box-shaped graves, constructed from stone slabs or wooden planks, have intrigued archaeologists since the 19th century, particularly around...
Zaphon, 2023. — 398 p. — (marru 7). This Festschrift is a tribute to Zeidan Kafafi in appreciation for his lifelong commitment and contribution to the field of Near Eastern archaeology and in particular that of Jordan with the Archaeology Department at the al-Yarmouk University. In accordance with his focus of interest, the 18 contributions assembled in this volume...
Zaphon, 2023. — 281 p. — (Ägypten und Altes Testament 122). Tell Es-Safi/Gath is one of the largest pre-classical sites in the ancient Levant, continuously settled from the Protohis- toric periods until Modern times and is identified as ancient Canaanite and Philistine Gath (known from the el Amarna letters, Assyrian texts, and the Bible), Medieval Blanche Garde, and the modern...
Archaeopress, 2025. — 262 p. Revelations in Japanese Archaeology presents a selection of articles from the BSEAA (Bulletin of the Society for East Asian Archaeology). All articles represent important research questions that have retained their relevance to the present day. Many have been updated for inclusion in this volume. Especially important are the chapters on the Japanese...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 181 p. — (BAR International Series 2759). The Middle Euphrates Region, encompassing ancient Syria, enjoyed a period of rapid and complex socio-political development during the third millennium BC. These developments are archaeologically reflected in changes to burials and funerary rituals duringthis time. This important category of evidence lay largely...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 247 S. — (BAR International Series 2763). Neolithic cultural groups are traditionally determined on the basis of pottery distribution, and ceramic clusters have therefore been conflated with cultural ones. Though there has been general acknowledgement of the methodological and theoretical problems with this practice, it is still common. This volume aims...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 247 p. — (BAR International Series 2770). Collet Est was a Roman pottery workshop located on the Catalonian coast near Calonge. In active use from the 1st century BC to the middle of the 1st century AD, the workshop was used to produce dolia, local amphora, domestic pottery and building materials. In a later phase the site was reused as a necropolis by...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 271 p. — (BAR International Series 2772). With a strong emphasis on data, the two volumes of this book demonstrate that mobility was essential to the European Bronze Age by exploring the shared cultural expression of Bronze Age societies in contrast to their simultaneous development of new local and regional characteristics. During this seminal époque,...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 273 p. — (BAR International Series 2771). With a strong emphasis on data, the two volumes of this book demonstrate that mobility was essential to the European Bronze Age by exploring the shared cultural expression of Bronze Age societies in contrast to their simultaneous development of new local and regional characteristics. During this seminal époque,...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 220 p. — (BAR International Series 2778). Five basic Solutrean point types from the Iberian Peninsula are analysed at local, regional and Pan-Iberian scales in this book. The author reports new results concerning production process and object biography in relation to raw material procurement, technological strategies during production and use-life, site...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 223 p. — (BAR International Series 2779). A complete analysis of matt-painted pottery from Segesta, Sicily is presented in this volume. The analysis is based on direct examination of thousands of pottery fragments excavated from different contexts, both public and domestic, and from which the author derives a detailed typological and chronological order....
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 297 p. — (BAR International Series 2782). Around 9500 BC, a number of changes take place in the life ways of human groups that, henceforth, will be designated as Mesolithic. These changes set them apart, behaviourally, from the preceding periods. Even though the ancestral know-how was passed across the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary, new solutions were...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 85 p. — (BAR International Series 2785). Prehistoric connections and interactions across the Baltic Sea are discussed through pottery and ceramic materials in this volume. Included are nine articles by thirteen authors from the countries around and connected to the Baltic Sea. The articles cover a timescale ranging from the Neolithic to the late Iron Age...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 129 p. — (BAR International Series 2788). A new chapter on the material heritage of the Nabataean culture is opened in this book. The clay lamps, and the artificial lighting they provided, prove that daily activities in this prominent proto-Arabic kingdom did not cease after sunset or in dark environments. The studied items shed light on the different...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2025. — 149 S. — (Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 21). Drei Felsreliefs zieren eine Felswand am Sirkeli Höyük, einem bronze- und eisenzeitlichen Fundort im Ebenen Kilikien. Sie tragen Darstellungen hethitischer Könige aus dem 13. Jahrhundert v.u.Z., deren am besten erhaltene Großkönig Muwattali II., Gegner des Pharao Ramses II., in der...
Sidestone Press, 2025. — 264 p. In Britain, Ireland and Southern Scandinavia, the Early Neolithic is characterised by monumental constructions (e.g. causewayed enclosures, dolmens) and by specific traditions of depositional practice. Some aspects of these practices are similar in both regions, for example the shapes and use of monuments, their overall developmental sequences,...
Sidestone Press, 2025. — 327 p. This volume collects papers on the pre-Corded Ware horizon in central Europe and adjacent areas (i.e. from c. 3500 – 2800 BC). This phase is very patchily researched, partly also because certain kinds of evidence, notably domestic architecture and burials, are rare or absent in many regions. This has occasionally been interpreted as signs of a...
Oxbow Books, 2011. — 117 p. This volume of 15 papers is a tribute to Petros Themelis for his significant contribution to Greek archaeology and especially to the excavation, study and conservation to the ancient site of Messene in the Peloponnese. An international cast of scholars has contributed essays on a wide range of subjects (Greek sculpture, epigraphy and architecture),...
Oxbow Books, 2011. — 117 p. This volume of 15 papers is a tribute to Petros Themelis for his significant contribution to Greek archaeology and especially to the excavation, study and conservation to the ancient site of Messene in the Peloponnese. An international cast of scholars has contributed essays on a wide range of subjects (Greek sculpture, epigraphy and architecture),...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 251 p. — (BAR International Series 2795). Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Proceedings of the International Conference) San Vito al Tagliamento, 14 Febbraio 2013 The international conference Funerary in Friuli and the neighbouring regions between Iron Age and Late Antiquity (San Vito al Tagliamento (Pordenone, Italy), February 14, 2013) was organized as...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 181 p. — (BAR International Series 2797). Ancient rivers have altered many Palaeolithic sites, obfuscating our ability to understand early human behavior. Building on previous models characterizing fluvial disturbance, the research presented in this volume focuses on identifying new ways ofunderstanding how lithic assemblages are affected by rivers...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 786 p. — (BAR International Series 2798). Catálogo de sitios del VI al II milenio cal. BC, análisis tecno-tipológico de las industrias líticas y cerámicas, y organización funcional del poblamiento The rich Pleistocene and Holocene archaeological and palaeontological records in the Sierra de Atapuerca caves (Burgos, Spain) have aroused major interest in...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 406 p. — (BAR International Series 2799). Report of the archaeological rescue excavations carried out in 2005 and 2006 by the joint Iranian-Italian mission of the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research and the University of Bologna, with the collaboration of IsIAO, Italy This volume contains the final report of a rescue excavation carried out in 2005...