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The numerous portrayals of gods and humans on horseback which occur in Graeco-Roman art may appear to the unaccustomed eye to have many variations but, according to Mackintosh, are in fact based on a few stock images, which could be manipulated to fit the occasion.

This study considers the mix of peoples and local/extraneous elements of the material culture which appear in the archaeological record for the Transcaucasian region. The analysis covers site location, architecture and grave-types as well as various kinds of small finds and envirnmental material.

This study describes and illustrates, with plans, drawings and photographs, 75 of the defensive towers in the Emirate of Ras al-Khaimah, which occupies the western side of the Musandam peninsula at the entrance to the Arabian Gulf.

This mammoth study of regional trends in imports of pottery and foodstuffs in the Western Mediterranean in the late Roman, Visigothic and Early Arab periods grows out of the author's fieldwork in the Vinalopó Valley (Alicante).

This group of 15 papers, taken from a conference held at the University of Southampton in 1999, takes the issues of art, religion and folklore from the fringes of archaeological research and places it at the forefront of discussion.

This book casts a new light on the role of Southeast Asia in the ancient Indian Ocean World. It brings together data and approaches from archaeology and historical linguistics with the aim to reconstruct pre-modern cultural and language contact between Southeast Asia and South Asia, East Africa and the Middle East. The interdisciplinary approach employed in this study reveals that insular Southeast Asian seafarers, traders and settlers had left their imprint on these parts of the world through the transmission of numerous biological and cultural items. It is further demonstrated that the words used to designate these commodities often contain clues about the precise ethno-linguistic communities involved in their transoceanic dispersal. Cumulatively, thisstudy underlines that the analysis of lexical data is a strong tool to reconstruct interethnic contact, particularly in pre-literate societies. Throughout the Indian Ocean World, Southeast Asian products and concepts were mainly dispersed by Malay-speaking communities, although others played a role as well.

This study forms `an ethnoarchaeological analysis of the life cycle rituals from the funeral practice and its manifestation in the mortuary remains of Brahmans and Magars in Central Dhaulagiri zone of Nepal'.

Through an analysis of burials and funerary practices in southern Iberia, Cámara explores the wider issues of social, territorial, political and organisational change from the Neolithic through to the Bronze Age.

A unique opportunity to examine Mesolithic stone artefacts, beautifully drawn, found in Ukraine. The author gives detailed descriptions of the life of Siberian peoples who, until recently, lived and hunted as we imagine Mesolithic tribes doing.

An unadulterated report on the results of excavations and surveys in the area around Gao, Mali in western Africa.

The Glasgow Conference is published with its 40 papers divided into seven sections; Innovation, Confrontation and Transformation ( an overview of the technological state of the discipline); IT in Education and Communication; Quantitative Applications and Methodologies; Survey and GIS Applications; Regional and National Database Applications; Excavation and Post-Excavation Applications and Textual Applications.

This thesis looks at local ceramic technologies at four sites in Pakistan from the Early Harappan period (ca 3500 to 2650 BC).

This publication comprises a complete inventory of the Ashmolean Museum's holdings of metalwork in gold, silver, copper-alloy and lead, dating from the early Anglo-Saxon period (fifth to seventh century AD). Each of almost 1,200 items (including the Amherst and Monkton composite brooches, the Ixworth cross and the Tostock buckle) is described and illustrated; chemical analyses are given for numerous examples and a full bibliography is provided. Introductory chapters survey the Museum's process of accumulation from the 1780's to the present day, and analyse it on the basis of both the personalities and the archaeological sites which have contributed to the collection.

A London thesis classifying and analysing graves and their structures, contents, arrangement, orientation followed by consideration of the social implications of this evidence.

The purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which artefacts depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry reflect those of the contemporary world of the eleventh century, comparing them with archaeological evidence on the one hand and with early medieval artistic tradition on the other.

Having already published material from the Neronian reforms of the 60s AD to the mid-4th century AD (BAR 1983 and 1979), this volume presents Bosphoran coinage from the incorporation of the Bosphorus into the kingdom of Mithradates VI of Pontus up to Nero's time.

A three part volume: the first is a study of the geomorphology of the Middle Orontes valley and the Ghab plain (P Sanlaville & J Besancon); the second describes the lithic material from the river terraces, Early, Middle, Late and Late Evolved Acheulean (L Copeland, F Hours, S Muhesen); the third contains reports on fauna, and their evidence ...

This study of the mortuary arts of pre-conquest Central Panama is based on material from sites in the Tonosi valley and at Sitio Conte in the Cocle Province. Individuals are ranked in social order according to the objects in their graves, and contrasted, in analysis with the ranking structure of the US army.