This study focuses on the Lower Palaeolithic archaeology of China. It examines early hominid adaptive behaviour based on the new evidence from the Luonan Basin, northern China. Unlike past Chinese Palaeolithic studies the study takes a regional approach emphasising the palaeoenvironmental, palaeoecological, and taphonomic information brought together from studies of faunal remains, spatial analysis of stone artefacts and bones, and lithic artefact refitting studies. Detailed analyses consist of lithic typology and technology which is then compared at a regional and global scale. The study...

These nine papers are derived from the fourth meeting of the U.K. Chapter of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology' held at Cardiff, 1999. Contents: Preface (Caitlin Buck); The sigillographic database: easier artefact analysis (Eric Cooper); Landscapes in Motion: interactive computer imagery and Neolithic landscapes of the Outer Hebrides (Vicky Cummings); BCal: the development of an interactive Internet application (G N James); An approach for integrating multisensory data: Sesklo and the Teleorman Valley (Steve Mills); Developing an archaeology soapbox and marketplace...

This study deals with Roman imperialism and the stand made by some conquered peoples in the face of Roman expansion, as exemplified by that of the Arab Nabataeans (modern Jordan) who lost their autonomy at the hands of the Romans in 106 CE. The study is divided into six chapters. The first is concerned with the development of the idea of history (historiography). The second chapter looks specifically at the case of the Nabataeans. Imperial discourse is the subject of the third chapter. Here, the theory of post-colonialism is introduced. Three sections are dealt with under this chapter. First...

This study, based on the author's thesis, studies and compares the lithic assemblages of two Upper Palaeolithic sites in Central Europe: Dolni Vestonice and Willendorf. More especially it discusses the means by which these assemblages have been classified and the issues and problems surrounding the use of typologies. Silvia Tomaskova argues that applying standardised labels to the prehistoric material fails to adequately describe it and that often these labels are used, not just to organise the material, but to interpret it as well. A history of the two sites and their investigation preceeds...

An attempt to establish a chronology for seventeenth century Dutch ceramics in order create a comparative framework for the pottery from the New Netherlands. It studies vessel forms, material, decoration, and place of manufacture and concentrates on utilitarian earthenwares and compares them with Dutch products in the American colonies.

This work explores current IT applications that allow the design and construction of information systems for cultural resources management. The author analysis a range of information systems that have been developed and which seem to indicate that they are often set up by non-specialists with insufficient technical support. The projects that result, irrespective of their success of failure, often call for excessive resources - time, manpower, and cost. To address this, the author looks at a wide theoretical framework that allows for the insertion, at a mid-abstraction level, of appropriate...

In order to understand fully Plio-Pleistocene hominid migrations, a whole gamut of interacting factors must be examined. It has been hypothesised that the most important variables affecting hominid migrations out of Africa would have been environmental, since in most respects hominids would have acted in the same manner as any other large land mammal of the time. For this work, therefore, as far as language barriers permitted, as many published sources as could be traced from palynological and palaeontological sites from the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene within east and northern Africa...

6 papers from the 15th Congress of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences. Essays look at lithics, human responses to environmental change and social and cultural integration, principally in the northeastern Adriatic.

In commemoration of the work of Mervyn Popham this festschrift contains 22 essays concerned with the archaeology of Crete and Euboea. Studies include an examination of the role of Crete in Homeric epic, a consideration of the role of the little palace' and some ofthe Middle Minoan pottery found by Evans at Knossos is reexamined. Essays on Euboea include Knossos and Lefkandi: the Attic connections' and Euobean Phylla and greek barracks'. Contributors are: Sinclair Hood, Colin F Macdonald, Elizabeth Schofield, Eleni Hatzaki, Peter Warren, Hugh Sackett, Doniert Evely, H W Catling, Judith...