Archaeology by period / region

Nur wenige Bilder beschäftigen und polarisieren die gesellschaftliche Diskussion unserer Zeit so sehr wie Darstellungen von Gewalt.

Antike Architekturteile wie Säulen, Kapitelle, Gesimse, aber auch Statuen, Sarkophage, Reliefs, Inschriften sind im Mittelalter einfallsreich wiederverwendet worden, wobei die Motive von bloßer materieller Verwertung über interpretatio christiana bis zu politischer Legitimierung reichen.

Die wichtigste Quelle für die spätantiken Verhältnisse am Oberrhein stellt die Notitia Dignitatum dar, ein Verzeichnis aller Ämter und Würden des spätrömischen Reiches.

Mit zahlreichen Karten, Illustrationen und farbigen Abbildungen gibt der weltweit renommierte Experte Neil Price einen verblüffenden Einblick in die Welt der Wikinger: Waren sie wirklich die brandschatzenden Seefahrer und gewaltsamen Eroberer aus den Legenden?

Von Wasser und Fleisch zu Bier und BrotWie kam der Mensch aufs Korn?

Das Buch von Sergei Kovalenko stellt die erste Untersuchung der Münzprägung der Taurischen Chersonesos in der spätklassischen Epoche (Ende 5.

Mit den thasischen Münzen und den Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" wird die umfangreichste Prägung der Zeit des Übergangs vom späthellenistischen zum frührömischen Finanzsystem auf dem Balkan erstmals umfassend zusammengestellt und untersucht.

In einer umfangreichen Dokumentation werden zum ersten Mal sämtliche Zeugnisse städtischer Ehrungen für hellenistische Herrscher erfaßt und kommentiert.

Im Juli 1863 erschien zum ersten Mal die Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde.

The ancient Near East is a construct defined by present-day scientific investigations, a construct whose temporal and spatial boundaries are fuzzy, constantly shifting under the weight of new empirical data and increasingly sophisticated analytical methods.

Die Stadt Rom und ihre Monumente waren in der Spätantike für Kaiser, Senatorenstand und christliche Autoren Bezugspunkt der Selbstdarstellung und Fixpunkt des eigenen Geschichtsbildes.

This book explores the function and socio-cultural significance of rural bathhouses, seeking to redefine our understanding of the relationships between these buildings and the identities of the communities residing in the countryside of Roman Britain.

Prehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Australopithecines, existed in Africa.

This book is a collective reflection on the relationship between theory and methods, as practiced by American archaeologists of the Byzantine period in Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, and Egypt between the 1990s and 2020s.

A consideration of the rock art of the Malaren bay region exploring the potential efficacy of petroglyphs as physical devices through organization, design, and articulation.

A consideration of the rock art of the Malaren bay region exploring the potential efficacy of petroglyphs as physical devices through organization, design, and articulation.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der ägyptischen Pyramiden und entdecken Sie die verborgenen Geheimnisse hinter diesen monumentalen Bauwerken.

This book compiles a series of case studies derived from archaeological excavation in Greek cultural contexts in the Mediterranean (ca.

Throughout history rivers have been a hub for human settlement and have long been a key part of local livelihoods, history and culture, as well as still playing a present-day role in providing services and leisure to people who live around them.

Throughout history rivers have been a hub for human settlement and have long been a key part of local livelihoods, history and culture, as well as still playing a present-day role in providing services and leisure to people who live around them.

This fourth volume contains a comprehensive listing of the Roman coinage of the period AD 284337 together with background information on the history of each reign and the principal characteristic of its coinage.

This historic reference work for British coins is still the only catalogue to feature every major coin type from Celtic to the present day, arranged in chronological order and divided into metals under each reign, then into coinages, denominations and varieties.

Gardom's Edge is an area of gritstone upland situated on the Eastern Moors of the Derbyshire Peak District.

Gardom's Edge is an area of gritstone upland situated on the Eastern Moors of the Derbyshire Peak District.

Archaeologies and histories of the fens of eastern England, continue to suggest, explicitly or by implication, that the early medieval fenland was dominated by the activities of north-west European colonists in a largely empty landscape.

Archaeologies and histories of the fens of eastern England, continue to suggest, explicitly or by implication, that the early medieval fenland was dominated by the activities of north-west European colonists in a largely empty landscape.

First published in 1988, The Dartmoor Reaves is a classic story of archaeological fieldwork and discovery, and a winner of the Archaeological Book Award.

This book is intended to pull together our current knowledge of the ‘lost’ group of people called the Pecsaetna (literally, meaning the ‘Peak Sitters’) by synthesising more recent historical and archaeological research towards a better understanding of their activities, territory and identity.

With its apparently complete town plan, revealed by the Society of Antiquaries of London’s great excavation project, 1890-1909, Silchester is one of the best known towns in Roman Britain and the Roman world more widely.

With its apparently complete town plan, revealed by the Society of Antiquaries of London’s great excavation project, 1890-1909, Silchester is one of the best known towns in Roman Britain and the Roman world more widely.

The British countryside is on the brink of change.