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Prehistoric Mediterranean

Greek City Walls of the Archaic Period 900-480 BC
by Rune Frederiksen
The almost ubiquitous presence of city walls in ancient Greek cities reflects the importance of interstate warfare in the lives of their citizens, and such walls remained a prominent architectural feature far into Roman times. Thanks to their monumental nature, remains of these walls are in many cases surviving or have been uncovered by archaeologists; there is also a large body of literary evidence for their existence. While much of what ...
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Our Cups Are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age
edited by Walter Gauss, Michael Lindblom, R. Angus K. Smith and James C. Wright
38 papers on Aegean Bronze Age pottery in honour of Jeremy Rutter. They range from specific site reports, to technical reports, and issues of chronology, to analysis of the social and religious functions of particular vessel types, and studies of trade and cultural contacts. 392p b/w illus (Archaeopress 2011)
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Rome: Day One
by Andrea Carandini
Historians tell us that there is no more reason to believe that Rome was actually established by Romulus than there is to believe that he was suckled by a she-wolf. But Carandini, drawing on his own excavations as well as historical and literary sources, argues that the core of Rome's founding myth is not purely mythical. In this illustrated account, he makes the case that a king whose name might have been Romulus founded Rome one April 21st in ...
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The Archaeology of the Senses: Prehistoric Malta
by Robin Skeates
Despite the fundamental importance of the senses in human experience, archaeologists have, until recently, tended to neglect the abundant sensory dimensions of the material world they investigate, with the exception of the sense of sight, which has dominated archaeological theory and practice. In this book Robin Skeates establishes a well-defined methodology for an archaeology of the senses, produces a challenging new interpretative synthesis of ...
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Material Aspects of Etruscan Religion
edited by L. Bouke van de Meer
The articles in this collection shed new light upon religious aspects of sanctuaries, cities, settlements, necropoles, and tombs in Etruria, in the Po valley and in Campania. Several, hitherto unpublished artefacts with ritual representations are discussed. A new analysis of the role, gestures and instruments of haruspices suggests that Etruscan divination is of Near Eastern origin. Interdisciplinary research on the function of litui proves that ...
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Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean: Mobility, Materiality and Identity
edited by Peter Van Dommelen and A. Bernard Knapp
This volume explores the multiple ways that material culture was used in the Ancient Mediterranean to establish, maintain and alter identities, especially during periods of transition, culture encounter and change. A new perspective is adopted, one that perceives the use of material culture by prehistoric and historic Mediterranean peoples in formulating and changing their identities. It considers how objects and social identities are entangled ...
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The Urbanization of Etruria: Funerary Practices and Social Change, 700-600 BC
by Corinna Riva
In this survey of the burial and settlement evidence of late Iron Age Etruria, Corinna Riva offers a new reading of the socio-political transformations that led to the formation of urban centres in Tyrrhenian Central Italy. Through a close examination of burial ritual and the material culture associated with it, Riva traces the transformations of seventh-century elite funerary practices and the structuring of political power around these ...
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Arachne Volume 3
edited by Iris Tzachili and Tina Boloti
Articles on Greek textile research and conservation: Atims and Objectives of the 'new' Arachne (Tzachili); Cloth from Kastelli Chania (Moulherat and Spantidaki); Archaeological textiles from Salamis: a preliminary presentation (Moulherat and Spantidaki); Archaeological textiles from Kerkyra (Metallinou, Moulherat and Spantidaki); The ritual offering of textiles and garments in the Late Bronze Age Aegean (Boloti); Specialization in textiles in ...
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Art and Society in Cyprus from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age
by Joanna S. Smith
Dramatic social and political change marks the period from the end of the Late Bronze Age into the Iron Age (ca. 1300-700 BCE) across the Mediterranean. Inland palatial centres of bureaucratic power weakened or collapsed ca. 1200 BCE while entrepreneurial exchange by sea survived and even expanded, becoming the Mediterranean-wide network of Phoenician trade. At the heart of that system was Kition, one of the largest harbour cities of ancient ...
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The Minoans in the Central, Eastern and Northern Aegean - New Evidence
edited by Colin F. MacDonald, Erik Hallager and Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier
This book features hitherto unpublished finds from the Minoan Palace periods discovered in major and minor excavations of recent years in the central, eastern and northern Aegean. The sites in the Aegean are Thera, Ios, Karpathos, Rhodes, Lemnos and Samothrace, while the west coast of Asia Minor are represented with the Urla peninsula (Cesme), Teichioussa, Iasos, Miletus and Troy. The papers discuss finds such as pottery, loom weights, other ...
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