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The Mediterranean from 50,000 to 25,000 BP: Turning Points and New Directions
edited by Marta Camps and Carolyn Szmidt
The passage between the periods which we call Middle and Upper Palaeolithic has long held a special fascination for Palaeolithic archaeologists, but over the past ten years or so it has gone right to the top of the list of 'hot' research topics. Underpinning it all is genuine and apparently enduring public interest in what actually happened at this point in human history. Why so much public interest? Well, it's us, isn't it? - bright, clever, ...
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Pompeii - Art, Industry and Infrastructure
edited by Kevin Cole, Miko Flohr and Eric Poehler
Even after more than 250 years since its discovery, Pompeii continues to resonate powerfully in both academic discourse and the popular imagination. This volume brings together a collection of ten papers that advance, challenge and revise the present conceptions of the city's art, industry and infrastructure.

The discussions of domestic art in this book, a perennial topic for Pompeian scholars, engage previously neglected subjects such ...
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Urban Landscape Survey in Italy and the Mediterranean
edited by Frank Vermeulen, Gert-Jan Burgers, Simon Keay and Cristina Corsi
Field survey has been making a major contribution to our understanding of the rural landscapes of the Mediterranean for nearly forty years. During that time the techniques used to map ancient settlement patterns have grown in sophistication from being a process of simply identifying sites in the landscape, to one which provided nuanced understandings of their layouts, chronologies and contexts. This has led to a revolution in how archaeologists ...
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KOINE: Mediterranean Studies in Honor of R. Ross Holloway
edited by Derek B. Counts and Anthony S. Tuck
The Oxford English Dictionary defines koine as 'a set of cultural or other attributes common to various groups'. This volume merges an academic career over a half century in breadth and scope with an editorial vision that brings together a chorus of scholarly contributions echoing the core principles of R. Ross Holloways own unique perspective on ancient Mediterranean studies. Through broadly conceived themes, the four individual sections ...
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A Mediterranean Valley: Landscape Archaeology and Annales History in the Biferno Valley
by Grahame Barker
This extensive study documents the long-term human settlement history of the Biferno Valley in central-southern Italy, from its earliest occupation in the Stone Age right up to the present day. Integrating the techniques of archaeology, history and geography, Barker shows how settlement in the Valley is inextricably linked to the parallel story of landscape development, his themes and subjects including: Approaches to Mediterranean landscape ...
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Transport Stirrup Jars of the Bronze Age Aegean and East Mediterranean
by Halford W. Haskell, Richard E. Jones, Peter M. Day, and John T. Killen
The transport stirrup jar was a vessel type used extensively in the Late Bronze Age III Aegean world. Found in a variety of contexts, the type was used both to transport and to store liquid commodities in bulk. The peak of the production and exchange of this jar corresponded with the time of economic expansion on the Greek mainland. On Crete, stirrup jars appeared at most major centres on the island. Their presence in large numbers in storerooms ...
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Mediterranean Crossroads
edited by Sophia Antoniadou and Anthony Pace
This book contains the thirty papers delivered at the International Archaeological Conference in Athens, 10-13 May 2005. These papers are selected essays from the conference which was organised within the framework of the project Crossings: Movements of People and Movement of Cultures - Changes in the Mediterranean from Ancient to Modern Times, a project that had been initiated by the Pierides Foundation. All contributors to this volume ...
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The Saljuqnama of Zahir al-Din Nihapuri
by Aahir Al-Din Nihapuri, A.H. Morton
The Saljuqnama is a historical work written around AD 1188 for Tughril III, the last of the Saljuq dynasty to rule in Iran. Zahir al-Din Nishapuri hoped to win favour at the court by presenting his history of the great early Saljuq kings and their less powerful successors in Western Iran to the young Sultan. Written in an accessible style, with a leavening of entertaining anecdotes, the history has fourteen brief chapters covering the rise of the ...
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Mediterranean Urban Culture, 1400-1700
edited by Alexander Cohen
A collection of twelve papers that attempts to identify an urban culture amongst the many overlapping cultures of Mediterranean towns and cities during the Renaissance and early modern periods. Divided into four sections, the first essays examine the elements that constituted an urban centre, ideally and in reality. The second part looks at the religious, ethnic or minority groups that lived within the city as outsiders, such as Jews and ...
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
by David Abulafia
For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation.The Great Sea ranges stupendously across time and the whole extraordinary space of the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to Jaffa, Venice to Alexandria. The focus of the book is on places and individuals, showing the degree to which human beings have affected this extraordinary environment. Rather than imposing a false unity on the sea and the ...
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