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EAA 97: Monument 97; Orton Longueville, Cambridgeshire Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 89
ISBN: 9780952810513
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2001
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 13 b/w pls, 43 b/w figs, tbs
Description:
Identified from cropmarks and excavated in 1974, the site consisted of three enclosures belonging to a small farmstead lasting from at least the later 1st century BC to the middle of the 2nd century AD. The evidence of the houses is that the site had been inhabited by a single family group at all times and had developed in tandem with the growing complexity of landscape division, and almost certainly was closed down in favour of another site nearby. After it was abandoned, its earthworks were incorporated into the Roman field system and, eventually, the corner of an enclosure was used for a small cemetery of nine burials
RRP: £10.50
Excavations at Tepe Guran in Luristan Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 155
ISBN: 9788788415070
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2001
Illustrations: 70 plates
Description:
Luristan in Western Iran was largely inaccessible to foreigners until the early 1960s when a new road linking the Great Khorasan Road with Susiana or Elam was built by the Danish engineering firm, Kampsax. This volume presents the settlement and tombs and graves of the centuries around 1000 BC, and includes identifications of animal and human remains, and teeth found there.
Islamic Remains in Bahrain Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 207
ISBN: 9788788415100
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2001
Description:
The initial aim of the Danish archaeological campaigns in Bahrain was to look for settlements contemporary with the "Hundred Thousand Gravemounds". After the first few campaigns it was evident, however, that the island was such a rich archaeological field that investigation of all periods from the earliest flint-using culture to the later Islamic world was called for. Among the Islamic remains was an exceptionally fine collection of Early Islamic pottery and glass recovered from the rubbish which filled up a well at the Barbar site where a temple from around 2000BC was excavated.
A Very Remote Period Indeed Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781842170564
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2001
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus and figs throughout
Description:
This is a volume no Palaeolithic archaeologist should be without. It is offered to Derek Roe by his friends and colleagues as a tribute to his enthusiasm, support and encouragement over many years. The twenty-seven papers range from Africa to the Near East and beyond, to Kazakhstan and Korea, and across southern Europe to Britain, the Thames Valley, East Anglia and Pontnewydd.
Catalogue of the 'Germanic' Antiquities from the Klemm Collection in the British Museum Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 174
ISBN: 9780714123189
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2001
Illustrations: plus 137 b/w pls, 5 b/w illus, 4 maps
Description:
Gustav Friedrich Klemm was a 19th century scholar and collector of antiquities. Part of his collection which was purchased by the British Musuem in 1868, forms the subject for this book. It largely comprises a catalogue of material from the Old Germanic Confederation, with objects dating from the Neolithic to post-Medieval period.
Excavations at 25 Cannon Street, City of London Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 73
ISBN: 9781901992229
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2001
Series: MoLAS Archaeology Studies Series
Illustrations: 51 b/w illus
Description:
This report provides a chronological account of excavation findings at 25 Cannon Street, supported by many illustrations and specialist contributions. The dig revealed a long sequence of occupation, and adds to findings made on the site in 1954. Redeposited pottery provided rare evidence for Middle Bronze Age activity in the area of the City of London.
RRP: £7.95
Excavations at Tell Brak Volume 2 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 643
ISBN: 9780951942093
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2001
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Illustrations: 100s of b/w figs and illus
Description:
Tell Brak, ancient Nagar, was one of the most important cities in northern Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC and a focus of long-distance trade. It was also, for about a century, a provincial capital of the Akkadian Empire founded by Sargon of Agade. This is the second of four volumes on the 1976-93 excavations at Tell Brak.
Tell Kosak Shamali Vol I Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 233
ISBN: 9781842170526
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2001
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w figs and pls
Description:
This first volume in a series of works on Tell Kosak Shamali focuses on the Chalcolithic deposits at the site, or the Ubaid period. Located on the east bank of the Euphrates the site held an important strategic position and one which had a diverse set of resources available. Investigated since the 1980s and most recently by the University of Tokyo, this volume reports on the results of the excavations, detailing the geographical and cultural setting of the site, the architecture and stratigraphy, the radiocarbon dates, the nature of the finds and the history of the site in the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Chalcolithic.
The Nimrud Letters, 1952 Cover
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780903472203
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2001
Illustrations: 327 pages, plus 64 b/w plates
Description:
In 1952 in one wing of the North-West Palace at Nimrud, ancient Kalhu, Max Mallowan excavated an archive room containing royal correspondence from the reigns of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II of Assyria. Subjects include Assyrian military activity in Babylonia and on the northern frontier, royal building projects, events on the Phoenician seaboard, and relations with King Midas of Phrygia. Some texts were published in Iraq between 1955 and 1974; the majority have remained unpublished until now.
Economy and Exchange in the East Mediterranean during Late Antiquity Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9781842170441
Pub Date: 01 Aug 2001
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
The results of recent archaeological excavation, systematic rural survey and detailed studies of pottery distributions have revealed the extent and complexities of the economy in the eastern empire. The eight papers in this volume demonstrate this complexity and prosperity, examining several types of product and how the economy evolved over time.
Meals in a Social Context Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9788779340060
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2001
Series: Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity
Illustrations: illus
Description:
This collection of outstanding essays gives an in-depth look at the role of meals in creating a sense of family and community in the Mediterranean world in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. By looking at the dining habits of Greeks and Romans, Jews and Christians, Essenes and Therapeutes, an international cadre of scholars provides insight into how social mores and etiquette were passed on to children, how family life increased in importance for Christians, the conflict in styles when Greeks and Romans met, and how meals attained and sustained religious significance. Other topics include funerary banquets; the etiquette of a formal dinner; the position of women at meals; royal feasts; the development of the Eucharist as a separate ritual; the architecture of the Greek andron and the Roman triclinium, early synagogues and temples; the diets of each culture.
Africa Proconsularis Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 339
ISBN: 9788772888286
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2000
Illustrations: illus
Description:
From 1987 to 1990, in collaboration with several Danish research institutes, the Tunisian Institut National de Patrimoine carried out an extensive archaeological survey in the valley known as the Segermes basin, in Tunisia. The results of that work are contained in three volumes entitled 'Africa Proconsularis' This volume reviews the information and looks at the historical conclusions.
EAA 91: Excavations on the Norwich Southern Bypass, 1989-91, Part 1 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 253
ISBN: 9780905594293
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2000
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 181 b/w figs, 53 b/w pls
Description:
The first part of the final synthesis of excavations which took place in advance of the southern bypass in Norwich. The report focuses on six main excavations as well as providing details on the context and history of the project, the research aims and methodology. The evidence recovered ranges from the Mesolithic through to the Late Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and modern periods and includes sites at Bixley, Harford Farm at Caistor St Edmund, Valley Belt in Trowse, Markshall Borrow Pit, Frettenham Lime Co.
RRP: £27.50
Fruehes Kupfer im Norden Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 358
ISBN: 9788788415056
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2000
Series: Jutland Archaeological Society
Illustrations: 32 tbs, many illus
Description:
The first comprehensive study of the use of copper in the northernmost TRB cultures of Scandinavia. One hundred years of intensive research has been collated in this book which includes a typology of material finds, especially metal artefacts, details on chronology and of the relationships with TRB cultures of Central Europe. Text in German.

Pyrrhonian Inquiry

Format: Paperback
Pages: 72
ISBN: 9780906014240
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2000
Description:
"Pyrrhonian scepticism tells us that answering is not a feature of philosophy in general but a feature of dogmatism." "The Pyrrhonist keeps on inquiring but his inquiry never ends with a result." "Pyrrho had difficulty coping with life by himself and needed to rely on the judgement of others" Every sentence in this book is a gem!
RRP: £15.00
Celti (Penaflor) Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781842170359
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2000
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: University of Southampton Department of Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: many b/w figs
Description:
Southern Spain's archaeological record is a rich one but for the Roman period archaeological research has yielded limited results. The major settlement of Penaflor, the site of ancient Cleti, was selected for excavation for its good epigraphic and historical record and its excellent uncluttered stratigraphic sequence. The excavations aimed to establish, amongst other things, the date and cultural context for the first establishment of the site, the site'ss regional context and the Romanisation of the town during the late Republican period.