The Archaeology of Rabbit Warrens (Shire Archaeology, #88)
by Tom Williamson
Rabbit farming was an important part of the rural economy from medieval times through to the early twentieth century, and the archaeological remains of rabbit warrens still litter the countryside. This book describes the main archaeological features of warrens and discusses their date and function, the banks and walls used to contain the rabbits, the traps used to catch both them and their vermin predators, the lodges in which the warreners lived and kept their equipment and, above all, the buri...
Horos Dios draws on a wide variety of literary and archaeological evidence to argue that an Archaic horos inscription and other rock cuttings on the northeast slope of the Hill of the Nymphs in Athens are remnants of a shrine of Zeus Meilichios, a popular god of purification worshipped widely in Athens, Attica, and the greater Greek world.
Archaeology Major If You Don't Know What It Is It's Probably Ceremonial
by Jaygo Journals
Cultural Messages in the Graeco-Roman World (Babesch Supplements, v.15)
This volume presents the outcome of the workshop 'Cultural Messages in the Graeco-Roman World', which marked the 80th anniversary of BABESCH. It takes as its premise that looking at modes to analyse cultural messages in the classical world is a valuable approach to the study of antiquity. The main purpose of the volume is therefore to explore ways in which (and the extent towards which) one can answer substantial questions about Greek and Roman culture through analysing material sources. To this...
Musees Archaeologiques d'Istanbul Catalogue Des Figurines En Terre Cuite Grecques Et Romaines de Smyrne / Istanbul Arkeoloji Muzeleri Yunan-Roma Donemi Pismis Toprak Smyrna Figurinleri Katalogu (Varia Anatolica, #29)
by Isabelle Hasselin Rous, M Ece Isik, and Gulcan Kongaz
Man the Hunter
by Matheus van den Broeck, B. Beaujean, D. Geerts, and Johan Van Rensbergen
Jacht heeft doorheen de geschiedenis een belangrijke rol in de ontwikkeling van de mens en zijn samenlevingen gespeeld. De diversiteit van dit thema wordt weerspiegeld door een omvangrijk archeologisch bestand. Aan de hand van objecten en artikels geschreven door professoren, (post-)doctorandi, curatoren en studenten worden de vele aspecten van jacht belicht. Wat zijn de eerste sporen van een jagende mens? Waarom lieten de Assyrische heersers zich als le...
Servant of Mut (Probleme der AEgyptologie, #28) (Probleme Der Agyptologie)
Richard A. Fazzini has inspired and mentored many scholars of Egyptology through his tireless efforts as curator and then chairman of the Brooklyn Museum's Deptartment of Egyptian, Classical and Ancient Middle Eastern Art (ECAMEA); field archaeologist of the Pricinct of Mut at Karnak; scholar; and teacher, The 35 contributions to this volume in his honor represent the variety of Professor Fazzini's own research interests namely in ancient Egyptian art, religious iconography, and archaeology, pa...
This monograph provides a brief introduction to the material history of Ostia, Rome’s harbour town from ca 300 BC until ca AD 600, before centring on about one hundred Latin as well as some Greek inscriptions, some of which are previously unpublished. It focuses on inscriptions which are still present in situ, in forty-two places. They range in date from ca 100 BC until ca AD 420. They belong to and cast light upon buildings, monuments, urban spaces and...
Explorations of the Baum, Prehistoric Village Site, Vol. 15 (Classic Reprint)
by William C Mills
The Coinage of Herod Antipas (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, #102)
by Jean-Philippe Fontanille and Aaron Kogon
The Coinage of Herod Antipas provides a comprehensive, multifaceted and up-to-date re-examination of the coins of Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea between 4/3 BCE and 39/40 CE. Kogon and Fontanille classify about 800 coins by obverse and reverse dies. From this die classification they generate, for the first time ever for this tetrarch, about 300 composite die images. In addition, the authors examine both technical aspects of the coins (e.g. metrology, mint output) and non-tec...
The excavations at el-Ahwat constitute a unique and fascinating archaeological undertaking. The site is the location of a fortified city dated to the early Iron Age (ca. 1220-1150 BCE), hidden in a dense Mediterranean forest in central Israel, near the historic 'Arunah pass. Discovered in 1992 and excavated between 1993 and 2000, the digs revealed an urban "time capsule" erected and inhabited during a short period of time (60-70 years), with no earlier site below or subsequent one above it. Th...
Carchemish in Context (BANEA monograph, #4)
by T. J. Wilkinson, Edgar Peltenburg, and Eleanor Barbanes Wilkinson
The city of Carchemish in the valley of the Euphrates river can be regarded as one of the iconic sites in the Middle East, a mound complex known both for its own intrinsic qualities as the seat of later Hittite power and Neo-Hittite kings, but also because its history of excavations included well known historical figures such as Leonard Woolley and T. E. Lawrence. However, because of its location within the military zone of the Turkish-Syrian border the site itself has been inaccessible to archa...
Antiquite Tardive 11/2003 - L'Afrique Vandale Et Byzantine Part 2 (Antiquite Tardive, #11)
The Chinese and the Iron Road (Asian America)
The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The Railroad made it possible to cross the country in a matter of days instead of months, paved the way for new settlers to come out west, and helped speed America's entry onto the world stage as a modern nation that spanned a full continent. It also created vast wealth for its four owners, including the fortune with which Leland Stanford woul...
Pathways to Power (Fundamental Issues in Archaeology)
There are few questions more central to understanding the prehistory of our species than those regarding the institutionalization of social inequality. Social inequality is manifested in unequal access to goods, information, decision-making, and power. This structure is essential to higher orders of social organization and basic to the operation of more complex societies. An understanding of the transformation from relatively egalitarian societies to a hierarchical organization and socioecono...
Description of the Circus on the Via Appia, Near Rome: With Some Account of the Circensian Games (Classic Reprint)
by Richard Burgess
The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, Vol. 24: January-November, 1902 (Classic Reprint)
by Stephen Denison Peet