Archaeology

Conservation Skills for the 21st Century provides a much-needed update to the original Conservation Skills volume, presenting an overview of current issues facing conservators of historic and artistic works.

Reveals how the empire of Attalid Pergamon dominated the Hellenistic world by controlling culture and identity through its fiscal system.

The Shroud of Turin has been the focus of extensive study by historians and researchers since the beginning of the twentieth century.

The Shroud of Turin has been the focus of extensive study by historians and researchers since the beginning of the twentieth century.

This book asks new and interesting questions about how our prehistoric ancestors survived and how they settled the world.

The Yearbooks of Cultural Property Law provide the key, up-to-date information and analyses that keep heritage professionals, lawyers, and land managers abreast of current legal practice, including summaries of notable court cases, settlements and other dispositions, legislation, government regulations, policies and agency decisions.

The Huns, invading through Dariali Gorge on the modern-day border between Russia and Georgia in AD 395 and 515, spread terror across the late antique world.

This volume provides a state-of-the-art presentation and discussion of procedures, especially what works and what doesn't - on isotopic proveniencing, learned over the last 30 years.

This book reflects on time, space and culture in the Game of Thrones universe.

In this book, rock-cut and underground structures of Koramaz Valley on the Anatolian Plateau in Turkey are described in detail.

Over a century after his discovery, this comprehensive biography of Tutankhamun explores a wealth of evidence, including archaeological and ancient textual sources, DNA analysis and CT scanning, bringing to life a pharaoh who has remained elusive apart from his grandiose tomb treasures.

This handbook is a foundational reference point for critical heritage research about Africa and its diaspora.

Through a range of case studies, this book traces how death shaped cities, and vice versa.

The North Downs are a range of hills that run east-west from the south-east tip of England, at Dover in Kent, to Farnham in Surrey.

Cipières, in the Alpes-Maritimes, is a French upland landscape rich in archaeology and distinctive in its topography.

The North Downs are a range of hills that run east-west from the south-east tip of England, at Dover in Kent, to Farnham in Surrey.

Deer have been central to human cultures throughout time and space: whether as staples to hunter-gatherers, icons of Empire, or the focus of sport.

Of all prehistoric monuments, few are more emotive than the great stone circles that were built throughout Britain and Ireland.

Deer have been central to human cultures throughout time and space: whether as staples to hunter-gatherers, icons of Empire, or the focus of sport.

A Forged Glamour, which takes its title from a poem, is an exploration of the lives and deaths of ironworking communities renowned for their spectacular material culture, who lived in modern-day East and North Yorkshire, between the 4th and 1st centuries BC.

Cipières, in the Alpes-Maritimes, is a French upland landscape rich in archaeology and distinctive in its topography.

Of all prehistoric monuments, few are more emotive than the great stone circles that were built throughout Britain and Ireland.

The Greek and Roman novels can be seen as an important transitional moment in the trajectory from performance to reading, from oralism to textuality, that has underpinned the history of discourse in European consciousness since the 5th century BC.

This book contains most of the papers presented at the final LASHIPA workshop in St Petersburg, Russia 2-4 November 2009.

For most of us there are many masters and varied causes for intellectual peregrinations.

This thematic fourth Supplementum to Ancient Narrative, entitled Metaphor and the Ancient Novel, is a collection of revised versions of papers originally read at the Second Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel (RICAN 2) under the same title, held at the University of Crete, Rethymnon, on May 19-20, 2003.

With the publication of this special issue of Circumpolar Journal, the Arctic Centre of the University of Groningen would like to honour Piet Oosterveld as the driving force behind biological research on Edgeøya, Spitsbergen.

I, Chariton of Aphrodisias, secretary of the rhetor Athenagorus, shall relate a love story that took place in Syracuse.

Dutch description: Het Arctisch Centrum werd op 19 januari 1970 opgericht door zes hoogleraren uit de alfa- en gamma-faculteiten van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

The present volume comprises thirteen of the papers delivered at RICAN 5, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 25-26,2009.

Alexander the Great of Macedon was no stranger to controversy in his own time.

The central questions of this research are the following: What was the Antarctic policy of the Netherlands from the late 1950s until 1990?

This thesis aims to describe and interpret the effects of tourism on historic sites in Antarctica and Svalbard (also known as Spitsbergen), and to assess the implications for management.

Documents the maritime historical research and archaeological fieldwork used to identify the wreck of the notorious schooner Clotilda Clotilda: The History and Archaeology of the Last Slave Ship is the first definitive work to examine the maritime historical and archaeological record of one of the most infamous ships in American history.

This book is about the conflict which resolved the Greek-Turkish War of 1919-1922: the Great Offensive.

Explores trans-Mediterranean connections between peoples, cultures, and artistic traditions traditionally marginalized by Graeco-Roman bias.

Examines the archaeology of landscapes, environments, and rural communities that constituted the transformative Archaic period on Cyprus.

This book highlights emerging trends and new themes in South Asian history.

This book highlights emerging trends and new themes in South Asian history.

Examines the archaeology of landscapes, environments, and rural communities that constituted the transformative Archaic period on Cyprus.

A collection of articles from the Daily Telegraph's 1922 reporting on Howard Carter's discovery and excavation of the ancient Egyptian tomb of Tutankhamen.

This book contributes to the current discussion on geoethics and global ethics within the geoscience and humanities communities.

Selten schienen die Römer mit größerem Entsetzen auf ihren Kaiser geblickt zu haben: Was Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, besser bekannt als Elagabal, trieb, war in ihren Augen an Abartigkeit kaum zu überbieten.

Anin-depth and wide-ranging approach to the study of older adults in societyTaking a holisticapproach to the study of aging, this volume uses biological, archaeological,medical, and cultural perspectives to explore how older adults have functionedin societies around the globe and throughout human history.

Many hermitages and eremitic communities are recorded throughout the medieval period, yet to date, there has been no comprehensive archaeological study.

Many hermitages and eremitic communities are recorded throughout the medieval period, yet to date, there has been no comprehensive archaeological study.

This book studies Natha sampradaya through archaeological evidence for the first time.

Originally published in 1975, this book traces the subsistence methods of Mediterranean country dwellers from the mid-seventh millennium B.

Making Heritage Together presents a case study of public archaeology by focusing on the collaborative creation of knowledge about the past with a rural community in central Crete.

Originally published in 1975, this book traces the subsistence methods of Mediterranean country dwellers from the mid-seventh millennium B.