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The Roman period witnessed an explosion in material culture, from everyday objects to large scale cities. The 15 papers here explore what it means to materialise Roman history, focusing on the question of what objects do in history, rather than what they represent.

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Bodies of Clay

First comprehensive consideration of the role, function, social context and significance of pots shaped to mimic the human body or parts thereof among prehistoric communities

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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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Children, Death and Burial

An important new collection of papers by leading experts in funerary archaeology, examining the particular treatment of juvenile burials in the past. In particular focuses on the expression of varying status and identity of children in the funerary archaeological record as a key to understanding the place of children in different societies.

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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.

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Jerusalem Throne Games

The question of who wrote the bible is complex, yet has deep significance for religious studies. This treatise puts forward a new assessment of the authorship of a key section of the Old Testament, and demonstrates the power of storytelling as a political weapon.

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Neolithic Stepping Stones

Exploration of key themes concerning the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in the western seaway region of Britain (Channel Islands through to Orkney) focusing on Early Neolithic island settlement based on a series of targeted major excavations

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Archaeologies of Gender and Violence

Presents major new research in a series of case studies which combine archaeological and bioarchaeological data with analysis of ancient imagery and theoretical approaches to examine evidence for gendered violence in the past.

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Empire State

Study of the Roman army as a non-military entity, and the crucial role its soldiers played as engineers, builders, administrators, policemen, a fire-fighting force and farmers.

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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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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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Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 20

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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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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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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.

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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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EAA 162 The Horningsea Roman Pottery Industry in Context

The first complete study of the Horningsea pottery industry and a commentary on Roman pottery supply in southern Cambridgeshire.

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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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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.

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.