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The Somerset Levels and Moors are part of a series of coastal floodplains that fringe both sides of the Severn Estuary. These areas have similar Holocene environmental histories and contain a wealth of waterlogged archaeological landscapes and discrete monuments.
The Jordanian badia is an arid region that has been largely protected from modern development by its extreme climate and has preserved a remarkably rich record of its prehistoric past. This is the second of two volumes to document extensive surveys and excavations in the region from Al-Azraq to the Iraqi border over the period 1979-1996.
A wide variety of organizations are both creating and retaining digital data from archaeological projects. While current methods for preservation and access to data vary widely, nearly all of these organizations agree that careful management of digital archaeological resources is an important aspect of responsible archaeological stewardship.
In 1990 Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology of Tampa commenced the world’s first archaeological excavation of a deep-sea shipwreck south of the Tortugas Islands in the Straits of Florida. From a depth of 405 meters, 16,903 artifacts were recovered using a Remotely-Operated Vehicle.
This book discusses the 19th-century historic landscape of Devon though the creation, manipulation and querying of a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) database to examine physical evidence of change and development through field and settlement patterns.
This beautifully illustrated volume presents a comprehensive description and account of one of the most important surviving early churches in the country and its architectural history.
Unlike many other volumes on Roman Britain, this book focuses on the ordinary people - the farmers, shopkeepers, labourers and others - who are rarely given centre-stage.
This volume presents the findings of a major international project on the application of radiocarbon dating to the Egyptian historical chronology.
The region of Rough Cilicia (modern area the south-western coastal area of Turkey), known in antiquity as Cilicia Tracheia, constitutes the western part of the larger area of Cilicia.
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First full illustrated translation with Egyptian transliteration, aiming to present with their individual histories all the compositions on prt m hrw "Book of the Dead" papyri from the New Kingdom to Ptolemaic Period.
This book is a comprehensive, fully illustrated, two-volume catalogue of approximately 5,000 coins from the late Persian period (4th century BC) to the Crusaders in the Middle Ages.
German Description: Im Fruehjahr 1951 berichteten alle Zeitungen in den Niederlanden von einer international bedeutenden archäologischen Entdeckung: der Ausgrabung eines groáen fruehmittelalterlichen Gräberfeldes bei Rhenen in der Provinz Utrecht.
Leonardo's fame is bound up in great works whose background is obscure.
von Bomhard presents an edition of the stela found during underwater excavations in the Abukir Bay, at the site of ancient Thonis-Heracleion, and inscribed with the Decree of Sais. The text is a parallel to that inscribed on another stela found at Naucratis at the turn of last century.
Far from being the immutable ‘Rock of Ages’ He is often assumed to be, the God of Christian history and tradition has had many different and often conflicting faces.
This publication describes a relatively small excavation (by CAM ARC, now Oxford Archaeology East), whose size belies its significance. Incredibly, this is the first properly documented archaeological excavation in the core of Wisbech - an historic town long suspected to have preserved interesting medieval deposits.
The Blake Prize for religious art has now withstood 60 years of controversy as critics from many walks of life have argued as to what, in these decades of Australias history, constitutes religious art. Rosemary Crumlins richly illustrated book traces the changing styles of the literally thousands of entries to the Prize over six decades.
The nineteenth century realist author was a contradictory figure. He was the focus of literary criticism, but obscured his creative role by insisting on presenting his works as copies of reality. He was a celebrity who found himself subservient to publishers and the public, in a newly-industrialised literary marketplace.
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