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Based on the methodology of the Principal Components Analysis technique, Shepherd proposes a model which seeks directly to relate the mergence of Style I symbolism with the contemporary evolution of a form of pagan kingship in north-west europe, which developed in parallel with a late-Roman/early Mediaeval form of kingship in some areas, which ...

A Settlement and Cemetery of Copper Age Horse Keepers on the Middle Dnieper.

"Cambridge-Peshawar Universities Joint Expedition, 1977-78."

This volume includes a description, and the results, of a field survey in the Albegna Valley and Ager Cosanus area of southern Tuscany, focusing on evidence from the first millennium BC.

This work is dedicated to the after-life beliefs and mortuary practices of the ancient Aztecs. The ultimate aim is to establish how the Aztecs understood death and to define whether the individual's life shaped his/her afterlife destiny, to analyse the rites conducted around the deceased and to establish a precise picture of the different destinations where the dead were going. Ethno-historical, archaeological, iconographical and ethnological sources were used and alaysed.

The fossil record of the Far East has been the focus of debate and confusion since the discovery of Javanese and Chinese specimen at the end of the 19th century.

The study of the structural organisation of sites, and socio-economic inferences that can be made from it, has been popular in Palaeolithic archaeology.

A study of the morphological variation of the skull in children, taking into consideration their age, sex and geographical origin. Extensive research (761 skulls were studied) has resulted in an exhaustive report which clearly fills a long-standing gap in the study of human cranial development.

The aim of this book is to provide a tool for western archaeologists in the form of an overview and to show the range of ceramics of the Volga-Don Steppe during the Early and Middle Bronze Age. The pottery is kept at the Volgograd museum and stems from forty-four cemeteries. The catalogue concentrates on the Yamma and Catacomb cultures and includes pottery excavated up to 1991.

This piece of research seeks to highlight and test a series of models for social, political, economic and settlement change in southern Mesoamerica.