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Les données actuelles sur le peuplement de la péninsule italienne suggèrent un retard dans l'acquisition des autapomorphies néandertaliennes, lié à leur isolement géographique. En Europe, les premiers traits dérivés néandertaliens apparaissent il y a environ 450 ka alors qu'en Italie les spécimens présentent une morphologie archaïque par la présence de plésiomorphies et les premières autapomorphies seront individualisées qu'à partir du MIS 9 (350 ka ca.). Ce livre propose une révision des restes fossiles mandibulaires italiens attribués à Homo neanderthalensis : Guattari 2, Guattari 3, Fate 2, Fate 3 et Archi 1, afin de les replacer dans le contexte évolutif européen à travers une analyse morphologique et morphométrique. De plus, la présence de spécimens immatures amène à l'analyse de la croissance mandibulaire, sujet qui divise la communauté scientifique : certains auteurs définissent l'ontogenèse néandertalienne similaire à celle de l'homme moderne et d'autres mettent en évidence des trajectoires évolutives divergentes basées sur une précocité de maturation chez les Néandertaliens.This book proposes a revision of Italian mandibular fossil remains attributed to Homo neanderthalensis - Guattari 2, Guattari 3, Fate 2, Fate 3 and Archi 1 - in order to place them in the European evolutionary context through a morphological and a morphometrical study.

This survey of Kentish vessel glass begins at the end of the late Roman period, and includes Roman glass vessels found in an Anglo-Saxon context. The period covered is approximately from the middle of the fifth century to the end of the seventh, althoughcertain material is included which may run on into the eighth century.The aim of this survey is to form an index/catalogue of early medieval glass vessels found in Kent since 1956 to December 1999 and to add later acquisitions. A further aim is to recordvessels which have been lost since 1956, and where feasible, to disclose the circumstances of loss, and the possibilities of eventual recovery. A final chapter includes new vessels found since completion of this work to 2005.

This thesis sets out to re-examine, define, and explore the art-style already occasionally referred to as the Saxon Relief Style. This style developed in certain Germanic areas of the continent out of provincial Roman ornament of the later fourth century AD.

This work presents systematic and objective examination of the large corpus of Hellenistic gold Eros jewellery. By focusing on the question of the interconnections between the major centres of production - Egypt, South Italy and South Russia, Western Asia Minor, Greece and Syria a number of regional schools and new jewellery groups are identified. The keys to the discussion are the well documented find contexts from Northern Greece, South Italy and Tel Atrib (Egypt) that make it possible to arrive at a relative chronology for a particular type of Eros, found throughout the Hellenistic world. The morphological, stylistic, iconographic and technical continuities between Hellenistic jewellery and in particular the Eros motif ensure the successful use of this methodology. Evidence from Koroni in Attica and from several South Italian tomb groups has been examined in detail and dated, according to the methodology described above to ca. 240 BC. The study includes a discussion of the significance of Eros in the Hellenistic period. The study has shown the value of Eros jewellery as an indicator of the cultural life of the Hellenistic world - its values, literature and basic lore about nature and the arts. The Eros motif and its morphological lineage are traced through related depictions in contemporaneous decorative arts. The catalogue has brought together as much material as possible to establish a typology and chronology of Eros jewellery in the hope that it will provide the maximum amount of information for future studies. 32 plates, including 12 in colour, illustrate the work.

The Andean civilisations grew in an isolated fashion, with almost no influence from the rest of the world or indeed from further north in the Americas. The various Andean states and empires all came to express themselves in highly original and different art styles, not least the Moche.

This volume looks at the development of social archaeology in Peru over the last century. The author lays aside scientific advances in archaeological interpretation, and highlights the influence of economic, social and political factors in how archaeology, as a discipline, has changed in Peru.

The aim of this study is to infer dietary texture from dental microwear during the Natufian hunter-gatherer to pre-pottery Neolithic agricultural development in northern Israel. Microwear patterns were recorded from sixty skeletons form eight sites.

Friar Dolcino, the founder of a society called the Apostelic Bretheren in 1260, was condemned as a treacherous heretic' and was persecuted by the Catholic Church for his heretical teachings and writings during the early 14th century, most notably his claim that authority had passed from the Roman Church to the Bretheren.

Study on the transition from the Mesolithic to Neolithic in southwest France. Characterising the technology and typology of lithic industry, using a corpus from 22 sites, Marchand's aim is to understand the methods of industry.

In this study the author seeks to deconstruct any preconceived ideas we may have of the southwest part of Arcadia and rebuilds a picture of the mental and religious landscape' during the archaic and classical periods.

The Scottish broch - symbolized by the lonely tower on Mousa island in Shetland - has, since the early years of the 18th century, excited the curiosity of archaeologists, antiquaries, and lay persons alike. The great piles of rubble, or the green mounds covering their massive ruins (dated c.700 BC - AD 500), are everywhere to be seen in the western and northern islands and in the north-eastern counties of Caithness and Sutherland, often in upland places where there are few other signs of dynamic human habitation. Indeed, part of the fascination of the brochs is that these abundant signs of about 1200 years of human dynamic human energy and organization are concentrated in the maritime region of the far north and west of Scotland which, until the discovery of oil focused attention on the importance of the sea again, seemed remote in every sense from the centres of population of the modern UK. Most writers about brochs in the past have tended to rely for their conclusions on a relatively small number of well-known sites. Apart from the from the work of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland there has never been a systematic attempt to collate all the available data about brochs everywhere, and the finds made in them. This is one of the tasks the author set himself in 1961, soon after arriving in Scotland, and this volume is the first half of the result. This thorough study includes 329 illustrations, plans, photographs and maps, as well as an Index of site names and an Appendix of over 400 Iron Age artefacts drawn by author.

L'exploitation de l'espace et la mobilité des groupes humains au travers des assemblages lithiques à la fin du Pléistocène moyen et au début du Pléistocène supérieur

Traditional approaches to studying rock art centred on the production of gazetteers of sites and examples, but in recent years the tide has turned significantly. This study adds to the genre of research that seeks to provide meaningful interpretations of the purpose and significance of rock-art.

Although trends in anthropological thinking have gradually shifted away from considering prehistoric groups as specialists in subsistence provisioning, many scholars studying the North American Plains still consider man to be the Bison hunter'.

This Investigation into the material culture of south-east Wales during the Pre-Roman Iron Age collates artefacts from chance finds, hoards and excavations to challenge the picture of Wales during this period as impoverished and a relatively unsophisticated backwater.