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Lithic artefacts were an intrinsic part of Neolithic life both in terms of everyday practical use and in ritual/symbolic mode. Archaeologists and prehistorians studying the Neolithic period recognise this, and accordingly, strive to maximise relevant data recovery and subsequently exploit the available data to the full.
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This volume brings together an international group of researchers to address how Mycenaean and Minoan states controlled the economy.
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Traditionally the study of early medieval burial practices in England has focused on the furnished burials of the early Anglo-Saxon period with those of the later centuries perceived as uniform and therefore uninteresting.
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Krinoi Kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw [eBook (PDF)]
Philip P. Betancourt (Editor); Michael C. Nelson (Editor); Hector Williams (Editor)
£38.16ISBN: 9781623031053
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Joseph and Maria Shaw received the Archaeological Institute of America's Gold Medal for a lifetime of outstanding achievement in January of 2006. This volume is a collection of the papers presented at the Gold Medal Colloquium held in their hon... .... Learn More -
The Hagia Photia Cemetery II: The Pottery [eBook (PDF)]
Costis Davaras (Author); Philip P. Betancourt (Author)
£38.16ISBN: 9781623030339
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: PREHISTORY MONOGRAPHS
Volume: 34
The publication of the Hagia Photia Cemetery is planned in three volumes. The first volume, which has already been published (Davaras and Betancourt 2004), presented the tomb groups and the architecture. The second volume about the excavation o... .... Learn More -
The Hagia Photia Cemetery I: The Tomb Groups and Architecture [eBook (PDF)]
Costis Davaras (Author); Philip P. Betancourt (Author)
£38.16ISBN: 9781623030728
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 14
The Hagia Photia Cemetery takes its name from the nearby village on the northeast coast of Crete, 5 km east of modern Siteia. This large Early Minoan burial ground with over fifteen hundred Cycladic imports was discovered in 1971. A total of 26... .... Learn More -
The Cave of the Cyclops: Mesolithic and Neolithic Networks in the Northern Aegean, Greece, Volume II: Bone Tool Industries, Dietary Resources and the Paleoenvironment, and Archeometrical Studies [eBook (PDF)]
Adamantios Sampson (Editor)
£38.16ISBN: 9781623030698
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: PREHISTORY MONOGRAPHS
Volume: 31
This book completes the two-part series that serves as the final report for the excavation of the Cave of the Cyclops on the island of Youra in the Northern Sporades of Greece, a site that was occasionally occupied from the Mesolithic through R... .... Learn More -
Transport Stirrup Jars of the Bronze Age Aegean and East Mediterranean [eBook (PDF)]
Richard E. Jones (Author); John T. Killen (Author); Halford W. Haskell (Author); Peter M. Day (Author)
£38.16ISBN: 9781623030063
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: PREHISTORY MONOGRAPHS
Volume: 33
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 ex... .... Learn More -
Moni Odigitria: A Prepalatial Cemetery and Its Environs in the Asterousia, Southern Crete [eBook (PDF)]
Andonis Vasilakis (Author); Keith Branigan (Author)
£38.16ISBN: 9781623030032
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: PREHISTORY MONOGRAPHS
Volume: 30
This volume presents the final report on the excavation of two Prepalatial tholos tombs and their associated remains at Chatzinas Liophyto near the Moni Odigitria (monastery) in south-central Crete. The grave goods and burial remains include p... .... Learn More -
Tutankhamun's Footwear: Studies of Ancient Egyptian Footwear [eBook (PDF)]
Andre J. Veldmeijer (Author)
£37.65ISBN: 9789088901430
Published by : Sidestone Press
The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 is one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of all time. It took Carter and his team 10 years to clear the contents of the tomb and among the objects found was a large c... .... Learn More -
Ayioryitika: The 1928 Excavations of Carl Blegen at a Neolithic to Early Helladic Settlement in Arcadia [eBook (PDF)]
Susan L. Petrakis (Author)
£35.65ISBN: 9781623031022
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 3
Ayioryitika, a large open-air settlement in Arcadia, in central Greece, was inhabited during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. It was excavated in 1928 by Carl Blegen under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, b... .... Learn More -
Pseira VIII: The Archaeological Survey of Pseira Island, Part 1 [eBook (PDF)]
Costis Davaras (Editor); Philip P. Betancourt (Editor); Richard Hope Simpson (Editor)
£35.65ISBN: 9781623030964
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 11
Richard B. Seager excavated the Minoan town and cemetery at Pseira in 1906-1907, but the work was not fully published. The Temple University excavations (1985-1994) under the direction of Philip Betancourt and Costis Davaras conducted an intens... .... Learn More -
Pseira VII: The Pseira Cemetery II. Excavation of the Tombs [eBook (PDF)]
Philip P. Betancourt (Editor); Costis Davaras (Editor)
£35.64ISBN: 9781623030933
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 6
This volume of the reports on the Temple University excavations at the Minoan cemetery on Pseira, a small island off the northeast coast of Crete, covers the excavation and cleaning of the 19 tombs that still exist at the Pseira cemetery. The ... .... Learn More