This volume explores violence in bioarchaeological case studies from various cultures, geographic regions, and time periods throughout the Eastern Hemisphere through the lens of Neil Whitehead's concept of poetics.
The XXI International Congress of Roman Frontier studies was hosted by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums in Newcastle upon Tyne (Great Britain) in 2009, 60 years after the first Limeskongress organised in that city by Eric Birley in 1949.
The studies collected in Science in the Early Roman Empire (1986) represent key research done on the Elder Pliny - an important and difficult figure whose Natural History forms a valuable compendium at a fixed historical point in time of ancient science.
The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture, from prehistory to the present, in ways that are both accessible and engaging.
Town and Country in Roman Britain (1964) is a study of the effects of Roman rule on the lowland zone of Britain and of the relationship between town and country.
Apulian limestones constitute the historic building constructions of the Puglia region (in the south of Italy) named trulli (representing an outstanding universal value for UNESCO), but also other stone buildings of the well-known Itria Valley.
This book highlights the importance of palynology in understanding floral biodiversity, paleoclimate and depositional environments in deep time and recent sediments.
The chapters in this edited volume present multi-disciplinary case studies of prehistoric archaeological sites located on now-submerged portions of the continental shelf.
The Ionians and Hellenism (1980) presents an assessment of the art, literature and philosophy of the Asia Minor Greeks - the Ionians - in the eighth to sixth centuries B.
This book highlights the importance of palynology in understanding floral biodiversity, paleoclimate and depositional environments in deep time and recent sediments.
Greeks, Romans and Barbarians (1988) explores a number of themes that bind the regional cultural developments of mainland Europe and the Mediterranean Basin.
In recent years, walking has emerged as a methodological tool and as a conceptually exciting point of departure across a range of disciplines and practices.
A groundbreaking critical discourse analysis of everyday language, reveals the underlying racist stereotypes circulating in American culture In The Everyday Language of White Racism, prominent linguist Jane H.
Military manuals have been used as a source through a range of historical studies, but only recently has their potential to Conflict Archaeology truly been recognized.
The Ancient Explorers (1929) examines the motives of ancient exploration by the different civilizations of the time, the primary of these being the Greeks and the Romans, and looks at the means of travel at their disposal.
Greek and Roman Jewellery (1961) covers jewellery from the Classical lands from the early Bronze Age to the late Roman period, almost 3,000 years of continuous development and innovation in the craft.
For four centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire, a political system stretching from Turkey to Portugal and from the Red Sea to the Tyne and beyond.
The high-resolution palynological study of the varved sediments of Lake Montcortes has provided a unique record of the regional vegetation shifts over the last 3000 years and of the natural and anthropogenic drivers of ecological change, unparalleled in the Mediterranean.
Roman Britain (1935) is Franzero's personal but no less well-researched study of the history of Roman Britain, from conquest to withdrawal, and the archaeology that remains to this day - some of it a great deal more impressive than many would suppose.
