A study of the medieval and post-medieval settlements in the area of Paliochora - the region in the north of the Greek island of Kythera. Mediterranean islands, including Kythera, look both inwards and outwards. The remains of the settlement Paliochora are evidence of the failure of co-existence between the insular and the wider world between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries on Kythera, when the settlement was in use. And the reasons for that failure can be inferred by placing the evidence in its historical context. Paliochora is, in a sense, a pirate settlementunot because it was...

A study of the region around the early historical Buddhist monastery in Bagh, in the state of Madhya Pradesh in central India; a special focus is given to the local cave art. The author argues that the visual art represents the religious assimilation by Buddhism, an approach caused by the process of transformation through three successive phases. The evolution of a Brahmanic class is also traced, together with the impact of Brahmanic ritual and class structures on the artwork of the monastery.

A stylistic study of the Chassey Culture (4th/5th millennium BC) ceramics from the famous settlement of Villeneuve-Tolosane, near Toulouse, south-western France.

18 interdisciplinary papers from Latin America on phytolith and othr microfossil studies. Essays are grouped in six sections: past and future of phytolith analysis; taphonomy and laboratory issues; current research and taxonomy of phytoliths; regional environments and palaeoecology; regional environments, human ecology and agriculture; processing, storage and consumption: microssils on artifacts and human beings. Spanish text with English abstracts.

Papers from the 'Aesthetics and Rock Art III Symposium' held at the XV UISPP World Congress, Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006. Contents: Introduction (Thomas Heyd); 1) The magic of great art: do we have the answers? What makes some rock art unforgettable to some people? Does the magic lie in the mark, the maker or the viewer? (Margaret Bullen); 2) Does aesthetics have perceptual roots? (J. B. Der?gowski); 3) Aesthetics, function, and fashion in rock art: Reactions to 'Aesthetics and Rock Art' (John Clegg and Shiv Jamwal); 4) A rock art typology: Narrative and non-narrative figurative representation...

This is the first major study on bell beaker pottery in the Middle and Lower Guadiana basin (south-western Iberian Peninsula). Recent archaeological excavations in the area, because of the construction of the Alqueva dam, have provided new and substantial information relating to the 3rd millennium BC, with 54 sites with bell-beaker pottery now identified (43 settlements and 11 funerary sites). Identifying the pots as high-status items, and mapping their distibution through the region and chronologically, Garcia Rivero is able to draw conlclusions about changing social structure in the third...

30 papers presented at the Italian ethno-archaeology conference centred around four themes: 1) Ambiguity of the historical continuity between past, present and future in the forms of social adjustments, with special regard to the transformations of material culture. 2) Documentation and technical analysis of manufacture, production, use and consumption of artefacts still in use in traditional and non-traditional social environments that might have significant repercussions onto the analysis of the archaeological contexts. 3) Ethno-archaeology meant as a study of the relationshipbetween human...

This work details the origins of copper working in the Near East from the Neolithic to the end of the 3rd millennium. Both dates are significant because one marks the apparition of the first villages and the exploitation of copper and the other marks the pathway towards historic times and the beginning of ironworking. Between the two ran the great adventure of copper and bronze. Its mastery never ceased developing from the outset of this new technological chain, it directly resulted not only in a better knowledge of the natural environment and the development of more important socio-economic...

A fully-illustrated study of small vessels river and coastal from prehistoric to Roman times, focussing on the Near East, Egypt and the Mediterranean.

This work focuses attention on the design of a renewed theoretical-methodological device on which a comprehensive Archaeology of Architecture could be based. It brings together the papers from two EAA sessions organized in San Petersburg 2003 and Lyon 2004. The interest in this line of work became evident in both sessions, with outstanding contributions from several European specialists, who at the same time, focused attention on chronological-cultural matters spanning the period from the Neolithic to the Modern Age. It follows on from BAR S1175 (2003) by the same editors. Contents: 1) The...