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More than Meets the Eye

These twenty-three papers focus on recent research into the Upper Palaeolithic of the Levant, a murky period of human history (ca 45,000 to 20,000 years ago) during which modern patterns of human behaviour and communication became the norm.

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A Wayside Shrine in Northern Moab: Excavations in Wadi ath-Thamad

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A Wayside Shrine in Northern Moab: Excavations in Wadi ath-Thamad

Presents the results of recent excavations at a small, isolated but very important Iron Age shrine in Moab, southern Palestine. A rich assemblage of cultic objects, including figurines and statues, shed much light on religious practices in the region.

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Appropriating Innovations

Seeks to turn its head the familiar idea that the spread of innovations is a gradual and linear process bringing progress in the development of societies, especially during the late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age in the Near East and Europe.

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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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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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Not Just for Show

Major new series of studies combining latest scientific analysis techniques with archaeological data in a series of case studies coverving technological, social and symbolic attributes of beads in prehistoric cultures

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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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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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Puṣpikā Volume 4

Fourteen papers on a variety of topics related to the intellectual traditions of South Asia such as grammar, poetry and philosophy, examined from several different disciplinary perspectives, with a particular emphasis on philology, history and sociology.

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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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Drawing Lithic Artefacts

With a little perseverance anyone can learn how to make lithic artefact drawings. This book is a concise how-to guide.

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Word and Context in Latin Poetry

In this memorial volume for David West, the texts of six Latin poets (Lutatius Catulus, Catullus, Horace, Propertius, Virgil, and Hildebert of Lavardin) are analysed by seven leading scholars: Francis Cairns, Ian Du Quesnay, Bruce Gibson, Alex Hardie, Stephen Harrison, John Moles and Tony Woodman.

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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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Vikings

Viking raiders were feared across Europe for centuries. This short introduction to the world of the Vikings looks at their way of life and why their raids were so successful.

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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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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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The Wall Paintings of the West House at Mycenae

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Tombs, Burials, and Commemoration in Corinth's Northern Cemetery

This volume publishes the results of the rescue excavations along the terrace north of Ancient Corinth, and examines the evidence for changing burial practices in the Greek city, the Roman colony, and a Christian town.

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Boeotia Project, Volume II: The City of Thespiai

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The Archaeology of Underwater Caves

This is the first book to explore past use of submerged cave sites. Featuring chapters by authors such as Jean Clottes, Nic Flemming, and Dan Lenihan, and a foreword by George Bass, it offers a global review of the understudied archaeology of underwater caves, covering archaeological discoveries in springs, sinkholes, cenotes, and sea caves.

Spotlight on Roman Society Monographs

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The Rural Economy of Roman Britain: New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain Volume 2

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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.