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The study of tree-rings (dendrochronology) provides a key resource for determining dates for archaeological and other contexts where wood/charcoal is present (and so cultural chronology), and for investigating past climate and environment. In the central and east Mediterranean region Peter Ian Kuniholm is synonymous with dendrochronology and dendroarchaeology. He led the creation of numerous tree-ring chronologies for the region (from forests,...

This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and they explore the meaning and importance attached to preserving memory. While previous investigations of Greek and Roman death and burial have tended to concentrate on period- or reg...

Reporting on a multi-disciplinary project this book seeks to reconstruct the history since the last glaciation of the area between and including the middle reaches of the Rivers Swale and Ure in Yorkshire. This title contains a high-resolution electronic copy of the geomorphological map, as well as written reports on the radiocarbon dating.

Published in association with the UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland.

Sunken Village is one of only c 250 archaeological sites in the USA to have been given National Historic Landmark status. This book features the well-preserved wet site of Sunken Village, on the southern end of Sauvie Island, Portland, Oregon, USA.

The aim of this book is to raise questions about the investigation of identity, community and change in prehistory, and to challenge the current state of debate in Central European Neolithic archaeology. Although the LBK is one of the best researched Neolithic cultures in Europe, here the material is used in order to further explore the interconnection between individuals, households, settlements and regions, explicitly addressing questions of...

This volume presents the proceedings of the second Athenian Potters and Painters conference, which was held at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens 2007. Together with the 1994 conference (Volume I, Oxbow 1997), these are the first of their kind - focusing purely on Athenian pottery and addressing key aspects of its study.

The site of Warren Field in Scotland revealed two unusual and enigmatic features - an alignment of pits and a large, rectangular feature interpreted as a timber building. Excavations confirmed that the timber structure was an early Neolithic building and that the pits had been in use from the Mesolithic. This report details these excavations.

The past few years have seen an upsurge in the numbers of known Neolithic settlements in Ireland. Many of these sites have been excavated by archaeologists based in field units, but few are well-known to the wider archaeological community. This papers in this volume were presented at a conference held at Queen's University, Belfast in 2001, which provided a forum for a discussion of the new Neolithic material from Ireland in its wider geograph...

The twenty-five papers in this volume cover diverse aspects of the material culture of the late Roman, Byzantine and Medieval periods, with particular emphasis on the metalwork and enamel of these times. Individual papers include major reinterpretations of objects in the British Museum's Byzantine collections as well as essays devoted to the Museum's recent acquisitions in this field. The volume celebrates the retirement of David Buckton, for ...

This Guide to Good Practice is designed to provide direction for individuals and organizations involved in the creation, maintenance, use, and long-term preservation of computer-aided drafting or computer-aided design (CAD) resources in the humanities.

Although based on research from the British Isles, this book suggests exciting new ways of looking at ceramics, which will be of relevance to all archaeologists.

This second volume of seminar papers from the Neolithic Studies Group consists of thirteen papers from the 1994 seminar entitled "Domestic Settlement and Landscape". The contributors focus on the question of how ordinary domestic communities perceived and engaged with the landscape beyond their settlements, and how wider conceptions of topography, land-use and landscape might be reflected in the form and layout of settlements themselves.

The first ever publication of the Neolithic Studies Group, containing papers on the `structures' of Neolithic Europe.Contributions include: Neolithic houses in mainland Britain and Ireland - a sceptical view (Julian Thomas), Houses in context: Building as process (Alasdair Whitlle), A Central European Perspective (Jonathon Last), Neolithic houses in Ireland (Eoin Grogan), Neolithic buildings in Scotland (Gordon Barclay), Neolithic buildings in...

Medical archaeologists and anthropologists are both interested in the cultural constructions of disease, healing and medicine, but the interpretative methods used by the two groups are often quite different and interdisciplinary discussion is rare. The papers presented in this volume aim to bridge the disciplinary gap, to widen the field of interpretation, and to reconsider the cultural complexities of medical ideologies, beliefs and practices.

Minoan' Crete is one of the most intensively investigated archaeological cultures in the world, and one that has often captured the public imagination.

This volume of the JRPS focuses on amphorae, the great long-distance travelers of the Roman pottery world. Amphorae were used to carry commodities such as wine, olive oil and fish-sauce from the rim of the Mediterranean to the extremities of the Empire. They are found throughout Britain, especially on urban sites, and have considerable potential for illuminating the date and function of Roman period settlements. This volume brings together a r...

The Journal of Wetland Archaeology is the journal of the Wetland Archaeological Research Project (WARP) and the University of Exeter Centre for Wetland Research.

These papers complement the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) project which has systematically recorded all known Neolithic enclosures in England by both analytical topographic survey techniques and aerial transcription. The detailed regional data collected has allowed a radical reinterpretation of these sites and the recognition that there are regional groups of enclosures. The papers serve to broaden the discuss...

Environmental Archaeology is the journal of the Association for Environmental Archaeology It is published for the Association by Oxbow Books The journal includes a wide range of contributions in all fields of environmental archaeology from methodology to synthesis and theory new techniques to philosophical discussions current controversies and suggestions for new research as well as conventional research papers From 2003 there will be two issu...