Archaeology

This book reorients the study of sacrifice, examining the locus of ritual action - the altars of Republican Rome and Latium.

The economic, political and historical story of the Nile in ancient times is unearthed through its landscape.

Challenges contemporary understandings of ''globalization'' by focusing on the role of non-state prehistoric societies and their vast realms of connectivity.

The reuse of architectural and sculptural materials (spoliation) was common centuries earlier than previously realized, during the Roman empire.

Provides the first global analysis of the relationship between trade and civilisation from the beginning of civilisation until the modern era.

Reviews the complex relationship between Rome''s rich archaeology, changing cultural and ideological agendas, and its urban development.

This volume brings together scholars of Mediterranean archaeology, ancient history, and complexity science to advance the study of maritime connectivity.

Secret societies in tribal societies turn out to be key to understanding the origins of social inequalities and state religions.

Explores the tremendous discoveries historical archaeologists have made about English life in the Americas during the seventeenth century.

A thought-provoking book on the archaeology of power, knowledge, social memory, and the emergence of classical tradition in early China.

This book conceptualizes butchery as an expression of technological knowledge and culture embedded in action, defining the human-animal relationship.

Examines developments in the heartland of Greece after the reign of Alexander the Great, and rejects the usual pessimistic picture.

This book presents unique new insights into the development of human ritual and society through our heritage of play and performance.

The Anthropocene narrative reproduces an ideological divide between Society and Nature and forecloses an inclusive politics of global warming.

This book focuses on the material practice of ancient literacy through a contextual examination of Roman writing equipment.

By taking a look at colonization and subalternity, this book offers a different view on Classical Greece and its modern legacy.

This anthology translates and discusses texts authored by women of ancient Mesopotamia.

The fortlet, a previously overlooked military installation type, reveals how Rome built, secured, and lost its Empire.

This book explores the nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age through developments in pottery, textiles, and metalwork.

This extraordinary selection of objects from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds illuminates the rich cultures of medieval history.

A detailed overview of the Eastern African stone tools that make up the world''s longest archaeological record.

This volume looks at the effects of interaction and the nature of identity construction in a frontier or contact zone through the analysis of material culture, especially in mortuary settings.

Redefines musical analysis for a period that marks the beginnings of composition as we know it now.

Explores the complex relationship between art and religious belief in this important genre of painting.

The first study of a crucial aspect of Roman stone sculpture, exploring the functions and aesthetics of non-figural supports.

The violence of war and sacrifice were not the antithesis of civilization at Shang Anyang, but rather its foundation.

Martin Luther was the subject of a religious controversy that never really came to an end.

Demonstrates that the pre-Islamic Sahara was a more connected region than previously thought, with trade an essential linking element.

Playful, popular visions of ruined cities demonstrate antiquity''s starring role in nineteenth-century culture, developing new models for understanding classical reception.

This book examines the poorly understood transformations in rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of ancient empires.

Takes one of the world''s longest continuously occupied urban neighborhoods and explores the trace of early development on the future space.

A detailed review of climate change and its impacts on farming systems since the Neolithic, including anticipated future changes.

This book is available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support by the Lund University Library and the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology at Lund University.

The author argues that Doric architecture originated in a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece.

The book describes a novel approach to early cities that is transdisciplinary, scientific, historical, and based on social-science knowledge.

This book explores different aspects of LA-ICP-MS (laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry).

A maritime archeologist recounts twenty years of remarkable discoveries and adventures both in and under the waters of South Carolina.

Die Publikation stellt zwei beschriftete Granitblocke aus der Zeit Amenemhets II.

Diese umfassende Monographie uber die altagyptischen Hohlmae von der Fruhzeit bis zur griechisch-romischen Zeit fuhrt in komplexer Methode erstmals Fundobjekte, bildliche Darstellungen und Textbelege zum Th ema Hohlma unter Berucksichtigung anthropologischer, metrologischer und naturwissenschaftlicher Sachverhalte zusammen.

Das Synodaldekret aus dem Jahre 243 v.

Erstmalig werden in diesem Beiheft Pyramidentexte behandelt, die den Schutz des Verstorbenen durch die Gottin Nut und seine sichere Reise ins Jenseits thematisieren.

Thema dieses Beihefts ist die Konzeptualisierung des Auges im alten Agypten von den ersten Schrift- und Bildbelegen bis in griechisch-romische Zeit.

Das Thema dieser Monografie ist die Erinnerungsarbeit der von libyschen Einwanderern abstammenden 22.

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Heft 3/2025 erzahlt anschaulich vom taglichen Leben der Menschen in den romischen Zentren Bayerns.

ALEXANDER BRAWANSKI, Die Falle 18 des Papyrus Edwin Smith ("e;Schadelhirntraumafalle"e;).

AWADALLAa, Atef: Une stele cintree de NS-Mnw Caire 22053.

Hartwig Altenmuller: Die Nachtfahrt des Grabherrn im Alten Reich.

HARTWIG ALTENMULLER: Das prasumtive Begrabnis des Siptah.