In this important and timely publication, top international scholars present current research and developments about the art, archaeology, and history of the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Syria. Palmyra became tragic headline news in 2015, when it was overtaken by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), which destroyed many of its monuments and artifacts. The essays in this book include new scholarship on Palmyra's origins and evolution as well as deve...
Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington
by Charles Henry Hart and De Vinne Press Bkp Cu-Banc
'Adolf Island' offers new forensic, archaeological and spatial perspectives on the Nazi forced and slave labour programme that was initiated on the Channel Island of Alderney during its occupation in the Second World War. Drawing on extensive archival research and the results of the first in-field investigations of the 'crime scenes' since 1945, the book identifies and characterises the network of concentration and labour camps, fortifications, burial sites and other material traces connected to...
Excavating the Sutlers' House - Artifacts of the British Armies in Fort Edward and Lake George
by David Starbuck
David Starbuck and his colleagues have been excavating British military sites in Fort Edward and Lake George, New York, for two decades. This region housed the largest British forts and encampments of the French and Indian War (1754-1763), with as many as 16,000 soldiers and officers garrisoned there. In 1996, on the east bank of the Hudson River, Starbuck's team unearthed the remarkable remains of a sutlers' (or merchants') house which had supplied goods to the British armies throughout the lat...
Annales de la Societe Archeologique de Namur, 1859-1860, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint)
by Societe Archeologique De Namur
State and society of Tel River Valley, Orissa : from C. 300 BC to C. 600 AD
by Ranvir Singh
Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding harems to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century castrati singers. Metaphoric castration pervadesa number of medieval literary genres, particularly the Old French fabliaux - exchanges of power predicated upon the exchange or absence of sexual desire signified by genitalia - but the plain, literal act of castration and its implications are often overlooked. This co...
Memoires de l'Institut National de France, Academie Des Inscriptions Et Belles-Lettres, 1898, Vol. 36 (Classic Reprint)
by Institut National De France
Man Who Thought Like a Ship (Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology)
by Loren C Steffy
J. Richard "Dick" Steffy stood inside the limestone hall of the Crusader castle in Cyprus and looked at the wood fragments arrayed before him. They were old beyond belief. For more than two millennia they had remained on the sea floor, eaten by worms and soaking up seawater until they had the consistency of wet cardboard. There were some 6,000 pieces in all, and Steffy's job was to put them all back together in their original shape like some massive, ancient jigsaw puzzle. He had volunteered fo...
The Genesis in Egypt (Caribbean Classics, #2) (Egyptology: Yale Egyptological studies, Vol II)
by James P. Allen
Archiving Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing Data
by Robert Bewley, Danny Donoghue, Vincent Gaffney, and Martijn Van Leusen
This guide aims to set out the principles of 'good practice' in the creation and maintenance of digital resources related to aerial photography (including both optical and infra-red images), satellite and airborne remote sensing and the archaeological interpretations made form such data. The suggestions offered here aim to ensure that these digital resources can be re-used, and consequently archiving advice is included. Available on-line and in print, the core of this guide consists of detailed...
Cosa (The Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, v. 39)
by Cleo Rickman Fitch and Norma Wynick Goldman
The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world's earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BC. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urban, literate world. But is this picture correct? Paul Collins reveals how the idea of a Sumerian people was assembled from the archaeological and textual evidence uncovered in Iraq and Syria over th...
Anthropology, Development and Modernities: Exploring Discourses, Counter-Tendencies and Violence
This collection of three essays by one of the great early-twentieth-century anthropologists of the American Southwest brings back early research at what is now Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. The excavations of the most significant ruins of Cliff Palace, Spruce Tree House, and the Mummy Lake mounds are reported here. Cliff Palace, the most impressive ruin at Mesa Verde, was discovered in 1888 by Richard Wetherill, a local rancher now considered a forefather of Southwest archaeology. Fewkes c...
Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Vol. 8
by William Salt Archaeological Society