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Prehistoric Mediterranean

Reconstructing Past Population Trends in Mediterranean Europe (3000BC-AD1800)
edited by John Bintliff and Kostas Sbonias
Archaeology of Populus Monograph in Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes Series 288p with illus (Oxbow Books 1999)
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Environmental Reconstruction in Mediterranean Landscape Archaeology
edited by P Leveau, Frédéric Trément, Kevin Walsh and Graeme Barker
Contents include: Introduction (K Walsh); Palynology (S Bottema); A database for the palynological recording of human activity (V Andrieu, E Brugiapaglia, R Cheddadi, M Reille and J-L de Beaulieu); The contribution of anthracology (J-L Vernet); Dendroclimatology (F Guibal); Techniques in Landscape Archaeology (A G Brown); L'apport de la micromorphologie des sols (N Fédoroff); Reconstructing ...
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The Stamp-Seals of Ancient Cyprus
by A.T. Reyes
Glyptics had a long history in Cyprus; from at least the fourteenth century BC, the island produced seals in significant quantities in a variety of shapes and styles. The cylinders from the Late Bronze Age are well documented, but the stamp-seals which came after them, and preceded the gem industry of classical times, have previously been neglected. This study examines these in order to discover what they reveal about society at the end of the ...
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Tombs, Temples and their Orientations: A New Perspective on Mediterranean Prehistory
by Michael Hoskin
This study of archaeoastronomy looks at more than 2,500 communal tombs and sanctuaries from around the Mediterranean. After a brief discussion of Hoskin's aims and the methodology for his fieldwork, individual chapters focus on evidence from particular regions: Malta, Gozo, the Balearics, Iberia, southern France, Corsica and Sardinia, Sicily and Pantelleria, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. The author concludes that in most of these regions the ...
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Sardinian and Aegean Chronology
edited by Miriam Balmuth and Robert Tykot
Balanced between the Aegean and West Mediterranean worlds, Sardinia offers a perfect laboratory for the investigation of interaction between societies from the Palaeolithic to Roman period. This work has, however, been hampered in the past by incompatible chronologies, so the 46 papers in this volume (originated at an international congress held at Tufts University in 1995) form an important stepping stone for future research. Twelve papers in ...
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The Phoenicians and the West
by Maria Eugenia Aubet
`Between the eighth and sixth centuries BC, the Phoenicians established the first trading system to encompass the entire length of the Mediterranean basin, from their homeland in what is now Lebanon, to colonies in Cyprus, Tunisia, Sicily, Sardinia and southern Spain'. This updated and expanded version of the English edition of Aubet's well-reviewed synthesis of archaeological and historical data has now become a classic work on the subject. With ...
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Mortuary Customs in Prehistoric Malta: Excavations at the Brochtorff Circle at Xaghra, Gozo (1987-94)
edited by Caroline Malone, Simon Stoddart, Anthony Bonanno and David Trump
Amongst the earliest stone architecture in the world, the Neolithic temples and hypogea of Malta testify to a sophisticated island culture. Explored in the early twentieth century, the subterranean burial temple, the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, was cleared of its burials and artefacts without detailed record. Late in the twentieth century, excavation at Xaghra on Gozo rediscovered a second cave cemetery that provides a unique comparison ...
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Archaeoseismology
edited by S. Stiros and R. E. Jones
The papers in this volume, which have sprung from collaboration between archaeologists and seismologists, investigate the social, historical and physical effects of ancient earthquakes. Sites where archaeological and historical evidence of palaeoseismic events is investigated include Mycenae, Late Helladic III Kynos, 13th century BC Tiryns and Late Minoan Crete. Others adopt a scientific approach to the effects of earthquakes such as the uplift ...
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The Power of Technology in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean: The Case of the Painted Plaster
by Ann Brysbaert
This volume explores issues of power and status in craft specialization and the transfer of technology in the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean through a detailed case study of painted plaster. 16 sites were examined in detail, with iconographic and stylistic festures treated alonside technological ones, and comparative information analysed from around the Aegean. Ann Brysbaert finds a complex picture of technological transfer, and uses her ...
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Charis: Essays in Honour of Sara A Immerwahr
edited by Anne P Chapin
This tribute to Professor Sara Immerwahr comprises a short biography, her full bibliography, and twenty articles written by fellow scholars celebrating her contributions to the field of Bronze Age painting and art history, as well as her encouragement and generous support of her students and colleagues over many years. Thirteen Bronze Age scholars present papers that address aspects of social, political, religious, and ritual significance in wall ...
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