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Table Settings: The Material Culture and Social Context of Dining, AD 1700-1900
edited by James Symonds
Fernand Braudel famously observed that the 'mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization'. The way that food is prepared, served, and eaten reveals a great deal about the structure and workings of any society. It is therefore not surprising that food, and the culturally specific etiquettes and equipment that surround the act of eating, have been studied by scholars from a wide range of disciplines.

The papers in this volume ...
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War and Worship: Textiles from 3rd to 4th-Century AD Weapon Deposits in Denmark and Northern Germany
by Susan Möller-Wiering
War and Worship concerns textile deposits from the bog sites of Thorsberg in Germany and Nydam, Vimose and Illerup Ådal in Denmark. All four sites are well-known for containing a substantial amount of archaeological materials, particularly weapons, but they also contain, as integral parts of the weapon deposits, a smaller number of preserved textiles, which nevertheless constitute outstanding assemblages. With the exception of ...
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North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles X
edited by Eva B. Andersson Strand, Margarita Gleba, Ulla Mannering, Cherine Munkholt and Maj Ringgard
The NESAT symposium has grown from the first meeting in 1981 which was attended by 23 scholars, to over 100 at the tenth meeting that took place in Copenhagen in 2008, with virtually all areas of Europe represented. The 50 papers from the conference presented here show the vibrance of the study of archaeological textiles today. Examples studied come from the Bronze Age, Neolithic, the Iron Age, Roman, Viking, the Middle Ages and post-Medieval, ...

From Bann Flakes to Bushmills: Papers in Honour of Professor Peter Woodman
edited by Nyree Finlay, Sinead McCartan, Nicky Milner and Caroline Wickham-Jones
This volume of edited papers is dedicated to Peter Woodman in celebration of his contribution to archaeology, providing a glimpse of the many ways in which he has touched the lives of so many. The 21 papers cover many aspects of predominantly Mesolithic archaeology in Ireland, mainland Britain and North-west Europe, reflecting the range and breadth of Peters own interests and the international esteem in which his work is held. His particular ...
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The Invisible Diggers: A Study of British Commercial Archaeology
by Paul Everill
Since the increasing reliance on developers to fund archaeological work through the 1980s, and the implementation of Planning Policy Guidance Note 16 (PPG16) in 1990, British 'commercial' archaeologists have become increasingly distanced from their academic colleagues. This monograph examines the situation within contemporary 'commercial' archaeology and considers the challenges faced by those employed within that sector, including the impact of ...
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Archaeology Meets Science: Biomolecular Investigations in Bronze Age Greece
edited by Yannis Tzedakis, Holley Martlew and Martin K Jones
This book has come out of a project that pioneered, and is continuing to pioneer, the in-depth application of state of the art scientific analyses to ceramic artefacts and skeletal material. The vases and skeletons of Bronze Age Greece which are the subjects of this comprehensive study, do not appear as they do in their usual format - illustrations in a book with descriptions of contexts. In this project, and therefore in this book, each object ...
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The Archaeology of Politics and Power: Where, When and Why the First States Formed
by Charles Maisels
Archaeology is not just about the past, but the present and future too. Much of our present condition and future prospects are inevitably bound up with what states do and what they fail to do.

To understand the inner-workings and motivations of states one must understand how and why they came into existence in the first place. This book describes how states formed in Egypt and Mesopotamia, China and the Andes, and also how the Indus ...
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Experimentation and Interpretation: The Use of Experimental Archaeology in the Study of the Past
edited by Dana C.E. Millson
In December 2008, a session on Experimental Archaeology was held at the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) meeting in Southampton, England. Although at first it seemed out-of-place to discuss a topic stemming from science at a theory-based conference, the contributions demonstrated that many of the best archaeological projects today are those which use methodology and interpretation from both the sciences and the arts. The contributions from the ...
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Great Excavations: Shaping the Archaeological Profession
edited by John Schofield
Great excavations inspire and capture the imagination of both the public and archaeologists alike; sites like Danebury, Sutton Hoo, Maiden Castle, Mucking and York conjure images of great discoveries and leaps in knowledge. But what was it like to participate in these excavations? What is the story of these projects, and what made them great? This is a fascinating and entertaining retrospective documenting some of the seminal British excavations, ...
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Plants, People and Places: Recent Studies in Phytolithic Analysis
edited by Marco Madella and Débora Zurro
Phytoliths - rigid microscopic bodies that occur in most plant species - have gone a long way since that day when Darwin became curious about a fine powder deposited on the instruments of the HMS Beagle. This fascinating subject started because of curiosity, and in that respect it was a good start since curiosity is probably the most important drive behind first-rate research. Fortunately curiosity is still present in phytolith research; the ...
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