This is the keenly awaited third of a projected five volumes, presenting the results of excavations carried out at the Nubian site of Meinarti in 1963 and 1964. (Before its inundation, Meinarti was a low-lying alluvial island situated at the foot of the Second Nile Cataract, about 10km to the south of the town of Wadi Halfa.) The present volume carries the story forward through Late and Terminal Christian periods (Phases 5 and 6), and up to th...
This study examines the development of the imperial cult of Rome in Athens during the reigns of Augustus and the Julio-Claudian emperors. Based on ethnographic evidence, Fernando Lozano's study examines the social, political and economic context in which the imperial cult was introduced and accepted by the Athenians.
This short study discusses the major problems in the conservation of mobile exhibits from archaeological excavations, for example issues of temperature, humidity, absence of light and oxygen.
Based on the author's doctoral thesis, this study is the first of the Thorne and Hatfield Moors Monographs. Brian Smith looks at the development of the Humerhead Levels through pollen analysis, stratigraphic evidence and radiocarbon dating.
Based on the author's thesis, this detailed study analyses lithic assemblages from epipalaeolithic and mesolithic sites in southern and south-west France - sites such as Fontfaures, de la Balma de la Margineda and de Buholoup et de l'Abeurador.
A synthesis of evidence, particularly architectural and documentary, on the fortified sites of Strasbourg during Late Antiquity. Bastien Gissinger presents the evidence and an interpretation of the nature, occupation and use of various buildings, with illustrations of their plan, location and defences. French text.
Keegan's analysis, a dissertation, of the ways in which the Roman emphasis on gender roles affected the burial of both sexes is based on data from four cemeteries which were all in use during the late 3rd and 4th centuries AD: Lankhills cemetery in Winchester, Butt Road cemetery in Colchester, Poundbury cemetery in Dorchester and Bath Gate ...
A report on the different phases of occupation at the site of Castillejos de Pelegrina in the region of Guadalajara (Spain). Once inhabited by members of the Arevaco tribe, archaeological evidence has revealed that the site was occupied from the 7th to 2nd century BC.
A study of piracy in north-west Europe from the 1st century and the Julio-Claudians to the 5th century AD. Detalle's analysis is based on various sources of evidence including epigraphy, coinage, artefacts, archaeology, textual material, boats and boat models and experimental work. French text.
Between 1988 and 2000 a pot-holing project undertook an underground survey of the city of Tarquinia in Italy. This report comprises a catalogue of the man-made cavities that it found along with a discussion of methodology and an analysis of its findings from the Etruscan, Roman and medieval periods.
This revised doctoral dissertation examines the sociopolitical and economic transformations that took place during the transition from the Bronze to Iron Age in Southern Britain.
Based on the author's dissertation, this study discusses the evidence for the reconstruction of the palaeovegetation of northern Greece in the Late Glacial and Holocene periods.
This study combines ethnohistorical and archaeological evidence to investigate the social and political development of the region of Chacalapan during the Classic and Post-Classic periods (AD300-1520). The ethnohistorical evidence is taken from both Mexico and Spain and reveals the extent of imperial control in the Post-Classic period.
Based on a project carried out from 1985-1992 investigating the history of Bronze Age communitities in the Upper Guadalquivir Valley of Jaen, this report explores the archaeological evidence for social hierarchies in the Bronze Age (2100-1100 BC) and, in particular, at the fortified site of Penalosa.
