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The Guadajoz Project. Andalucía in the First Millennium BC Volume 1 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 469
ISBN: 9780947816476
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1999
Illustrations: many b/w figs and pls
Description:
This volume makes an excellent site report in its own right, but the general, multi-period overview of social and settlement history, something which has been sadly lacking in past research, makes this a valuable addition to Iberian archaeology. Trial excavations were made at the site of Torreparedones in the Guadalquivir Valley between 1987-1992. This volume presents the results of the fieldwork and specialist studies: ceramics, small finds (metal, bone, glass, baked clay, worked stone, architectural elements), figurines, fauna, botanical remains and settlement history.
RRP: £85.00
Tanagra Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9788772885919
Pub Date: 31 Mar 1999
Description:
Text in Danish.
EAA 82: Archaeology and the Landscape in the Lower Blackwater Valley, Essex Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 246
ISBN: 9781852811600
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1998
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 12 pls, 136 figs, 42 tbs
Description:
A report on the excavation of three sites which revealed evidence of change in landscape use. An extensive series was found to run along much of the North side of the Blackwater estuary. Discoveries include Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Saxon remains at Slough House, Chigborough and Howell's Farms.
Klithi Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 734
ISBN: 9780951942024
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1998
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Illustrations: 2 Volume Set
Description:
The Epirus region of north-west Greece has witnessed more dramatic changes of physical landscape than almost any other part of Europe. Tectonic activity has shaped a complex and dynamic topography, supplemented by the impact of a local ice sheet formed during the Glacial Maximum, and dramatic episodes of erosion triggered by changes of climate, vegetation and land use. These two volumes set out the history of Palaeolithic occupation over the past 100,000 years, bringing together the full range of studies carried out between 1981 and 1983 as part of the Klithi project.
RRP: £70.00
The Ottoman House Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 133
ISBN: 9781898249122
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1998
Illustrations: 194 b/w pls
Description:
Seemingly contradictory ideas of privacy and community dominate Ottoman cities. While houses are internally divided to guard female modesty behind a frontage studded with peep-holes, streets in cities like Amasya are often bridged by first-floor passageways between different houses. This book contains 17 papers by architects and archaeologists looking at how the Ottoman house was structured, how it has varied over time and space, and how surviving examples are faring in a world of breeze-block construction.
RRP: £25.00
Hama 4, Part 1 -- The Medieval Citadel & Its Architecture Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 127
ISBN: 9788789438030
Pub Date: 30 Nov 1998
Series: Nationalmuseets Skrifter, Større Beretninger
Illustrations: b/w photos & plans
Description:
Two-Volume Set. This is the last volume in the series of reports from the Danish excavations on the ancient Tall of the important Syrian site and town of Hama. It presents the medieval architecture of the mound from the Arab conquest in 636 to 1401 when the citadel of Hama was destroyed by Timur Lenk.
Hellanikos, Thukydides and the Era of Kimon Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9788772887036
Pub Date: 30 Nov 1998
Description:
This study examines how in the dispute between Thukydides and Hellanikos, scholars have long taken it for granted that the preserved historian was right and the lost one mistaken, despite the fact that the Battle of Oinoe, for example, does not fit into the chronology of Thukydides. By restoring the dates recorded by Hellanikos, Schreiner asserts that a reliable chronology can be established. The first historian to record the period from the Persian Wars to 431 BC was Hellanikos, the author of the lost "History of Athens" from its mythical origins through the fifth century BC.

Rome and Persia at War, 502-532

Format: Paperback
Pages: 301
ISBN: 9780905205489
Pub Date: 18 Oct 1998
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Series: ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
Illustrations: 14 maps and plans
Description:
The first modern account of the conflict between the eastern Roman Empire and the Sasanian kingdom. Greatrex traces the background to the war, investigating relations between Rome and Persia, the state of Roman defences in the East, and the chaotic situation in Persia at the end of the 5th century. He then examines the sources and the war itself, including the development of Roman defences, and the attempts by both powers to secure control of the Transcaucasian kingdoms.
Africa Proconsularis, Volumes 1 & 2 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 799
ISBN: 9788772887401
Pub Date: 31 Mar 1998
Description:
What was the relationship between city and country in the Roman Empire? The writings which have been preserved show an enormous empire, divided into "cells", each with a city at its centre. But the written sources are few, and focus mainly on the cities of Italy; they do not tell what life was like in the Roman provinces.
EAA 80: Arton Bendish and Caldecote Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780905594217
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1997
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 11 b/w pls, 34 b/w figs, 10 tables
Description:
This volume offers three papers detailing the results of projects in south-west Norfolk: firstly an extensive one-man fieldwalking survey of Barton Bendish parish; secondly, an area excavation within Barton Bendish; thirdly, a very detailed one-man fieldwalking survey of 6.5 hectares in one field. The surveys provided a diverse range and quality of surface scatter evidence, which in conjunction with historical sources, provide a sound basis for the understanding of human settlement and land use patterns in Barton Bendish feom the Iron Age to the seventeenth century.

EAA 81: Castle Rising Castle, Norfolk

Format: Paperback
Pages: 152
ISBN: 9780905594231
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1997
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 17 b/w pls, 97 b/w figs, 34 tabs, incl. fiche
Description:
^Aby Beric Morley and David Gurney ^DThis book starts with a wide-ranging overview of Castle Rising, going on to review the archaeological evidence, in conjunction with comment on the archaeological explorations themselves, for the site from prehistoric times up to the post-medieval period. Three chapters are devoted to finds, including coins, building materials, pottery and zoological evidence. The development of the main building and its surrounds is fully documented, and the entire text is amply supplemented by illustrations.
Excavations at Khirbet Khatuniyeh Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9780714111445
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1997
Illustrations: with 69p of line-drawings and 24p of b/w pls
Description:
As the waters of the Saddam Dam rose in 1984-5 the British Museum battled to record an important Late Assyrian site on the east bank of the Tigris. Part of a 7th-century BC building was uncovered. Specialist reports on the ceramics, bones and shells recovered provide further clues to daily life outside the Assyrian capital cities.
RRP: £30.00

Illerup Adal, Vol 8

Prachtausrustungen, Grabungsdokumentation und Fundliste
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9788772885865
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1997
Illustrations: 79 folding maps and pls
Description:
This volume presents maps and plates of the excavation area, together with additional material introduced in the previous seven volumes. German text.
A Celtic Florilegium7 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 226
ISBN: 9780964244634
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1997
Imprint: Celtic Studies Publications
Series: Celtic Studies Publications
Description:
Nineteen papers on early medieval Irish and Welsh texts. Contents include: St Patrick in Cornwall? The origin and transmission of Vita Tertia S.
Ancient Naukratis, Volume II Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781900188227
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1997
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: with 21 b/w plates
Description:
Naukratis, the first city in Egypt where Greeks were permitted to settle and one of the major centres of the ancient world, is located in the West Nile Delta south of modern Alexandria, It was first excavated by Flinders Petrie in 1884; his discoveries indicated occupation from the Archaic Period to Late Antiquity. The limited extent of Petrie's excavations and the erosion of the site inspired the American Ancient Naukratis Project to start new fieldwork in 1980. This volume contains details of an intensive surface survey (with selective drill-sampling) of the area surrounding Petrie's trenches, which have become waterlogged.
Colloquia Pontica 3 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 356
ISBN: 9781900188333
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1997
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: numerous illustrations
Description:
Landscape archaeology, a recent theoretical discovery in the west, has long been practised by eastern european scholars. This stimulating collection of papers ranges over the whole of central and eastern Europe and from the Neolithic to the early Medieval periods.