Sandy Pylos

an archaeological history from Nestor to Navarino

This book traces the archaeological history of Pylos and surrounding regions in Messenia from the Palaeolithic to the present. Designed as much for general readers and travelers interested in ancient Greece as for scholars, the volume presents the findings of the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project ...

Deviant burial in the archaeological record

This edited volume contains twelve papers that present evidence on non-normative burial practices from the Neolithic through to Post-Medieval periods and includes case studies from some ten countries. It has long been recognised by archaeologists that certain individuals in a variety of archaeological cultures from ...

Rethinking celtic art

Eds. Duncan Garrow, Chris Gosden, J.D. Hill. 'Early Celtic art' - typified by the iconic shields, swords, torcs and chariot gear we can see in places such as the British Museum - has been studied in isolation from the rest of the evidence from the Iron ...

Archaeology and the crusades

proceedings of the Round Table, Nicosia, 1 february 2005

In the last few years archaeology has shed much light on the impact of the crusades on the lands around the eastern Mediterranean. These papers, by leading scholars working in this field and highlightning recent scholarship, were presented at a roudtable held in Nicosia in ...

Travel, geography and culture in ancient Greece, Egypt and the near east

This collection of essays looks beyond the focus of existing works on ancient travel and its documentation, to examine its social and cultural implications. For travel (and the reasons behind it) offers a window on to many features of ancient societies - sense of place, perceptions ...

Shell middens in atlantic Europe

The archaeological investigation of shell middens has a long and rich history. By the mid 1830s, the presence of artefacts found with large accumulations of shell along the Danish coast had successfully demonstrated that these sites were the result of human activity rather than natural ...

Calendars and years

astronomy and time in the ancient near east

Dates form the backbone of written history. But where do these dates come from? Many different calendars were used in the ancient world. Some of these calendars were based upon observations or calculations of regular astronomical phenomena, such as the first sighting of the new ...

Spanish romanticism and the uses of history

ideology and the historical imagination

Spanish Romantic historiography was characterized by ideologically significant narratives of past events. Flitter examines those narratives within the intellectual parameters that defined them, probing the conceptual strategies by which writers represented history. Central to his discussion are the competing interpretations derived from Guizot's progressive ...

Medieval islamic swords and swordmaking

kindi's treatise "on swords and their kinds"

One of the problems pervading the study of medieval Islamic technology is the lack of surviving technical treatises. Tradition tended to be handed down by example and by word of mouth, and apprenticeships could last for decades. Fortunately, however, occasional treatises do exist. The treatise ...

Diet and health in past animal populations

current research and future directions

The cultural landscape of preshhistoric mines

The architecture of Petra

This is an enormous and impressive book not only full of facts, but also solving mysteries. It provides a detailed and lavishly illustrated catalogue of the main monuments of Petra. Then, in seeking the origins of Petra's particular architecture and its close relations with ...

(un)settling the Neolithic

This book takes a fresh look at the European Neolithic and asks pertinent questions about the way in which we study it. By unsettling accepted notions regarding sedentism and the onset of farming, the contributors are able to sow that many ideas which are taken ...

The memphite tomb of Horemheb

commander-in-chief of Tut'ankhamun.T.III: th new kingdom pottery

At the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara, pottery is extremely plentiful and generally found in a good state of preservation. This work presents pottery that is the New Kingdom pottery from the tomb, found between 1975-83.

Side-by-side survey

comparative regional studies in the Mediterranean World

The dover Bronze Age boat in context

society and water transport in prehistoric Europe

Secular buildings and the archaeology of everyday life in the byzantine empire

The archaeology of everyday life is a relatively under- explored aspect of the Byzantine world, and often takes a back-seat to the more visible aspects of Byzantine history, such as works of art and ecclesiastical architecture. This book seeks to redress the imbalance by focusing ...

Medieval money matters

Human paleoecology in the Levantine Corridor

Byzantine butrint

excavations and surveys 1994-99