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South American Archaeology Series No 16                                            

Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 31

The BajIo (West-Central Mexico) has been considered by various authors to be a key region for understanding the processes of interaction and migration among Central, West, and Northern Mesoamerica. Since the late 1990s, our knowledge of the prehispanic societies of the BajIo has benefitted from the development of several new archaeological projects carried out by various Mexican and French institutions. The principal contribution of this research has been an emphasis on extensive excavations, which were previously quite limited in the...

Excavaciones arqueolOgicas en la domus tancinus (2004-2008) (Condeixa-a-Velha, Portugal)

Archaeological Excavations & Catalogues 2

This volume collects the results of the archaeological excavations made in the so-called domus tancinus, in Conimbriga (Condeixa-a-Velha, Portugal). The work in part is based the 'Spanish Archaeological Mission' interdisciplinary research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, in Portugal between 2004 and 2008. Over 5 years a Spanish and Portuguese team worked in an intramural sector of the ancient city to understand the evolution and...

This book presents the research results carried on the metallic artifacts from the British HMS Swift, lost off Puerto Deseado (Province of Santa Cruz, Argentina) in 1770. The shipwreck - located 47 45' 12'' South, 65 54' 57'' West - was found by local divers and has been the subject of archaeological study since 1997.

En suma, este libro se propone presentar y desarrollar un estudio que fundamentado en las Admoniciones de Ipuwer, de cuenta de la literatura polItica y la sociedad del Reino Medio y de cOmo las expresiones sobre lo polItico y lo ideolOgico contenidas en dicho texto y en otras fuentes literarias del perIodo se conjugaban y articulaban con mecanismos de legitimaciOn estatal y cohesiOn social de las propias elites del perIodo.

Collet Est was a Roman pottery workshop located on the Catalonian coast near Calonge. In active use from the 1st century BC to the middle of the 1st century AD, the workshop was used to produce dolia, local amphora, domestic pottery and building materials. In a later phase the site was reused as a necropolis by the inhabitants of the nearby Roman villa of Collet. This necropolis survived until the 5th century, when the Roman villa was abandoned. The excavation of the site in 2002-2003 revealed 19 Roman furnaces, several rooms and open air spaces where the inhabitants lived and worked, and...

This volume presents the findings of the Michoacan III project, which aimed to investigate and illuminate the mysterious early post classic occupation phase in the Michoacan region, Mexico. It focuses on the settlements of the Milpillas region, particularly on group B, providing an extremely detailed and thorough catalogue of the structures here, as well as investigating what activities would have taken place there, to provide a thorough overview of the site. Accompanying it will be another volume to place this site in the wider context of the settlement patterns of the Tarascan empire...