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The Neolithic of Europe

Presents 18 commissioned papers on the Neolithisation of Europe, with new insights into settlement, subsistence, mobility, monumentality, lifestyle and dating.

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The Anglo-Saxon Fenland

New interdisciplinary history of the Anglo-Saxon fenland combining historical, ecological and archaeological data

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Street Trees in Britain

The trees that line our streets represent ‘living history’ in the midst of our modern streetscapes. This is the first book on the history of Britain’s street trees and it gives a highly readable account of their story, from the tree-lined promenades of the seventeenth century to majestic city centre boulevards to the suburbs.

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Molluscs in Archaeology

A new overview of molluscs in archaeology for archaeologists, ecologists and anyone studying the natural environment, this is a broad-based and comprehensive textbook.

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The Ancient Greek Farmstead

A new study of ancient Greek farmsteads from the Classical to the Hellenistic periods combining archaeological and textual data to demonstrate the fundamental role these sites played in ancient Greek agriculture.

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Death as a Process

This volume draws on large-scale fieldwork from across Europe, methodological advances and conceptual innovations to explore new insights from analysis of the Roman dead, concerning both the rituals which saw them to their tombs and the communities who buried them.

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Understanding Relations Between Scripts

Examines the relationships between the writing systems of the ancient Aegean and Cyprus in the second and first millennia BC, principally Cretan ‘Hieroglyphic’, Linear A, Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and the Cypriot Syllabary, demonstrating the great advances made by inter-disciplinary studies.

Flora Trade between Egypt and Africa in Antiquity

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Flora Trade between Egypt and Africa in Antiquity

Examination of the evidence for sources, acquisition and trade in aromata (the fragrant exotic flora essential to rituals in ancient Egypt), and ancient terminology.

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Economic Zooarchaeology

Discusses key research issues concerning hunting, herding and early agriculture through the analysis of zoological and archaebotanical remains

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Excavations at the British Museum

This volume presents the results of the studies undertaken by Pre-Construct Archaeology during redevelopment of the British Museum, and in so doing details the evolution of this area of London from the Roman period into modern times.

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Pudding Pan

For more than 300 years commercial fishermen working in the outer Thames estuary have recovered Roman pottery from the seabed in the vicinity of Pudding Pan. This book Assesses the recovered assemblage to attempt to determine the nature and location of the elusive site of the material’s source.

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The Art of Devastation

This is the exhibition catalogue for the joint exhibition of the American Numismatic Society hosted by the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, featuring the medallic art and posters of the Great War.

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Treasures in Trusted Hands

This pioneering study charts the one-way traffic of cultural and historical objects during five centuries of European colonialism. Former colonies consider this as a historical injustice that has not been undone.

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A Rothschild Renaissance

Presents the findings from new specialist studies of the Waddesdon Bequest, a collection of nearly 300 objects from the New Smoking Room at Waddesdon Manor, bequeathed to the British Museum in 1898 by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild.

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Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 20

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Woven Splendour

The first in-depth study of the set of magnificent series of tapestries treasured at St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta.

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Amaravati

The papers in this book bring together leading specialists from around the world to address aspects of Amaravati and its sculpture. Subjects covered in this volume include the rediscovery of the stūpa at the end of the 18th century as well as its recreation in the 21st century.

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Votive Reliefs

This volume includes all of the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman votive reliefs found to date in the excavations of the Athenian Agora. In addition to providing a catalogue of the reliefs, the author discusses the history of their discovery, their production and workmanship, iconography, and function.

Spotlight on Roman Society Monographs

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The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain

In this volume, a new regional framework for the study of rural Roman Britain is proposed with the farmstead, rather than the villa, taking centre stage.

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The Towns of Roman Britain

This volume presents an assessment of the contribution that developer-funded archaeology has made to knowledge of the major towns of Roman Britain.

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A Late Roman Town House and its Environs

This report publishes the 1937–8 excavations in Colliton Park, Dorchester, Dorset, which revealed one of the best preserved late Roman town houses so far discovered in Roman Britain.

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Silchester

Characterising urban life, City in Transition is the second volume reporting on the archaeology of the continuing excavation of Silchester Insula IX, taking the story down to the early 2nd century.

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Elginhaugh

Elginhaugh is the most completely excavated timber-built auxiliary fort in the Roman Empire.

Life and Labour in Late Roman Silchester

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Life and Labour in Late Roman Silchester

The Society of Antiquaries' excavation of Silchester's Insula IX in 1893-4 left most of the stratigraphy undisturbed. A new programme of work has shown that the Insula underwent radical change, c.

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Excavations in Roman Carmarthen

The Roman town of Moridunum , on the site of modern-day Carmarthen, lay at the very edges of Roman Wales and little is known about it.

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Fosse Lane, Shepton Mallet 1990

A detailed excavation report on the Shipton Mallet site excavated on the edge of the Mendip Hills in 1990.

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Longthorpe II

This volume describes the pottery-making depot attached to the pre-Flavian vexillation fortress of Longthorpe near Peterborough and and throws light on the problems of supply of the Roman army during the conquest campaigns.

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Seabed Prehistory

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My Roman Britain

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Life in the Limes

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