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Collected papers presenting latest multi-disciplinary approaches to the manufacture, trade in and status of silk and other textiles between Rome and China along the Silk Roads.

Brings together recent excavations at two sites in Pocklington, East Yorkshire.

This important collection seeks ways forward at the moment in history when the genome-wide sequencing of ancient DNA has suddenly changed everything in the study of later European prehistory.

Explores the economic evidence for the settlement at Bornais on South Uist.

Between 2007 and 2012 the Department for Underwater Archaeology of the Croatian Conservation Institute from Zagreb and the Department of Humanistic Studies of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice collaborated in the recording, underwater excavation and analysis of the unusually well-preserved wreck of a 16th century Venetian merchantman in the ...

The Tortugas shipwreck excavated at a depth of 405 meters in the Straits of Florida contained a major collection of 3,800 intact and fragmentary olive jars, tablewares, cooking vessels and tobacco pipes.

Oceans Odyssey 2 presents the results of the discovery and archaeological survey of ten deep-water wrecks by Odyssey Marine Exploration.

In ten papers Odyssey Marine Exploration presents the technology, methodology and archaeological results from four deep-sea shipwrecks and one major survey conducted between 2003 and 2008. The sites lie beyond territorial waters in depths of up to 820 metres off southeastern America and in the Straits of Gibraltar and the English Channel.

A collective summary of our current understandings of Iron Age and early medieval northern Europe.

A translation and facsimile reproduction of a unique 18th century French manuscript that provides colour recipes and samples for producing dyes for the textiles of the day. With analysis and essays setting it in context.

A comprehensive examination of the tell phenomenon across Europe and the Near East from the Neolithic to Iron Age, addressing key themes of commonality and diversity.

New ways of approaching the study of writing in the past.

A real-world approach to understanding the Exodus.

Analysis of the transition to sedentary farming in the Fertile Crescent and the establishment of Neolithic culture based on major excavations in Iraq

Covers the Prehistory of Ukraine from the Lower Palaeolithic through to the end of the Neolithic period.

This, the final title to be published from the sessions of the 2002 ICAZ conference, focuses on the role of man's best friend. As worker or companion, the dog has enjoyed a unique relationship with its human master, and the depth and variety of the papers in this fascinating collection is a testament to the interest that this symbiotic arrangement holds for many scholars working in archaeology today. The book covers an eclectic range of subjects, such as considering dogs as animals of sacrifice and animal components of ancient and modern religious ritual and practice; dogs as human companions subject to loving care, visual/symbolic representation, deliberate or accidental breed manipulation; as working dogs; and finally as co-inhabitors of uman dwelling paces and co-consumers of human food resources. While many of the papers in this volume have a predominant focus, they also demonstate that the relationships between humans and dogs are rarely , if ever singular or simple. Instead these relationships are complex, often combining the practical, the ideological and the symbolic.

Major new assessment of Roman agricultural and industrial production and manufacture in the south-eastern region

The twenty-five papers in this volume cover diverse aspects of the material culture of the late Roman, Byzantine and Medieval periods, with particular emphasis on the metalwork and enamel of these times. Individual papers include major reinterpretations of objects in the British Museum's Byzantine collections as well as essays devoted to the Museum's recent acquisitions in this field. The volume celebrates the retirement of David Buckton, for over twenty years the curator of the British Museum's Early Christian and Byzantine collections and the National Icon Collection.

This is an important study of the new types of warships which evolved in the navies of the Mediterranean in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, and of their use by Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans in the fleets and naval battles in the second and first centuries, culminating in the Battle of Aktion. The book includes a catalogue and discussion of the iconography of the ships with over fifty illustrations from coins, sculptures and other objects. John Coates discusses reconstructions, crews, ships and tactics illuminated by the recent experiments with the reconstructed trireme Olympias . Complete with gazetteer, glossary, bibliography and indexes.

Divided into thematic sections, these collected papers celebrate the career and research interests of Lindsay Allason-Jones, who has been at the forefront of small find and Roman frontier research for 40 years. Newly printed into paperback.

Papers on the study of wool and other fibers in ancient textile production.

A review of the latest research into the Neolithic settlement of northern England/southern Scotland.

A broad collection of archaeological case studies and historical essays that analyze how political competition, strategic considerations, and violent encounters affected Greek Sicily.

This atlas, produced in the Historic Towns Trust's large portfolio format, traces the origins and growth of Oxford from prehistory to a city dominated by churches and university buildings.

Examines the economic, social, and political roles of Paleolithic children.

Explores how we identify and interpret patterns of movement in prehistory.

Explores Iron Age art at a Eurasian scale, as well as its long-distance connections.

"For almost the first time in Mr Battestin's book religion has its full innings in the reinterpretation of eighteenth-century literature. Perhaps his greatest contribution is his recovery of a number of divines and their writings and his employment of them as an intellectual rather than a merely antiquarian resource"" - Paul Fussell,

A major research project which examines and explores decorative elements applied to over 600 Egyptian coffins of the 21st Dynasty with a discussion on symbolism, chronology and status.

Investigates craft communities, workshop organizations and networks responsible for the sophisticated terracotta decoration of temples in Italy, 600-100 BC, in a wider Mediterranean context.