The study of secondary centres is crucial to understanding how a state functions, as they are important points of interaction between state authorities and ordinary households. In this work the author focuses on the nature of the political organization of the lower-level centres of the Early Classic Period (A.D. 200- 500) in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico. A previous comparative analysis of architectural arrangements at secondary centers between the Valley of Oaxaca and the Mixteca Alta indicated that single plaza groups were the major form of public architecture. The author interprets...
The study of secondary centres is crucial to understanding how a state functions, as they are important points of interaction between state authoritie...
Roman Africa. Until recently, scholars have tended to study architecture and decoration of Roman houses as separate, visual forms of classical art to be analysed in terms of description, classification, and typological survey. This new work follows recent scholarship, in contrast, by examining domestic buildings as a source of information about certain aspects of Roman social realities. Specifically, the author looks at questions such as: How can the function of a room be identified? Can architectural details and floor mosaics tell us something about the activities carried out in domestic...
Roman Africa. Until recently, scholars have tended to study architecture and decoration of Roman houses as separate, visual forms of classical art to ...
This study centres upon a database of some 50,000 examples of imported material in the Italian peninsula, Sardinia, and Sicily dating from approximately 800 to 500 BC, which has been constructed in order to study the beginnings of trade with this region. Fletcher's conclusions tackle a few sacred cows - that metals were the items which lured people westward to trade, and that primacy in this early trade fell to the Phoenicians.
This study centres upon a database of some 50,000 examples of imported material in the Italian peninsula, Sardinia, and Sicily dating from approximate...
Dynasties 21-24 saw Libyan dominance in Ancient Egypt. This study examines a corpus of funerary stelae produced during this time to determine the effect of this period on the ways in which people projected their identity, particularly in terms of gender and ethnicity. Ultimately it concludes that many changes which can be identified in the funerary stelae reflect trends already existing in Egyptian culture, and that the single greatest concern in the stelae continues to be presentation of social status.
Dynasties 21-24 saw Libyan dominance in Ancient Egypt. This study examines a corpus of funerary stelae produced during this time to determine the effe...
The collection of almost 1,000 clay pipes from the quarantine port of PomEgues provides a unique insight into pipe production and use throughout the Mediterranean and further afield. The author's exhaustive study makes a significant contribution to knowledge both of pipe production and circulation in a number of different ways. Although these have already been recognised and published from a range of sites throughout the Mediterranean basin, the PomEgues collection, arriving off Marseilles on ships from many ports of origin, is by far the...
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The collection of almost 1,000 clay pipes from the quarantine port of PomEgues provides a unique...
Cesar Fornis is Professor of Ancient History at Seville University. This monograph examines the ancient sources (literary, archaeological, epigraphical, numismatic) and historiographical trends relating to the Corinthian War at the beginning of the fourth century BC. Text in Spanish.
Cesar Fornis is Professor of Ancient History at Seville University. This monograph examines the ancient sources (literary, archaeological, epigraphica...
Chipped stone tools are a truly dynamic medium of material culture. From initial reduction to contemporary excavation, lithic artifacts undergo continuous change. The role of the properties of raw materials in determining rates of use-wear accrual is poorly understood and has rarely been assessed quantitatively. This study offers such quantification regarding four materials exploited for the production of short-term use implements at the Late Archaic FA2-13 site located just outside the city of Farmington, New Mexico. Both experimental and archaeological use-wear evidence was assessed in...
Chipped stone tools are a truly dynamic medium of material culture. From initial reduction to contemporary excavation, lithic artifacts undergo contin...
This study examines the archaeology of the Puna oasis of the Antofalla area during the first and second Millenia BP. The work is related to the environment throughout and includes sections on domestification, settlement, pottery, the underground burial chambers, trade and links with the world beyond the Oasis and closes with a more general reconstruction of the history of the Oasis landscape.
This study examines the archaeology of the Puna oasis of the Antofalla area during the first and second Millenia BP. The work is related to the enviro...
Collaboration by the universities of Sheffield and Kalmar and Stockholm in Sweden led to two conferences being held. The second, held at Sheffield in 2006, sought collaboration and the sharing of information on archaeological data and theoretical thought on material culture diversity in the third millennium BC. Nineteen papers are presented in this volume arranged under three headings: material culture diversity in the Baltic; British Beaker burials and the Beaker People Project; Stonehenge and the Stonehenge Riverside Project. General overviews and wide-ranging discussions are joined by...
Collaboration by the universities of Sheffield and Kalmar and Stockholm in Sweden led to two conferences being held. The second, held at Sheffield in ...
