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Excavations at the Ugwuagu Rockshelter and the Ugwuagu Abandoned Village Sites, all in Afikpo, form the basis of this book. The excavations were carried out in 1975 with the aims of providing some information on the Late Stone Age of the area, providing comparable material for the Ukpa rockshelter excavated by Hartle in 1966 and investigating the post Late Stone Age developments of the area in search of continuity or break in the assemblages from Late Stone Age times to the present. A definite aceramic horizon was confirmed for the rockshelter and the book presents a picture of gradual change from Late Stone Age hunting/gathering to an early agricultural economy. The village sites represent a fully agro-based community. Continuity was attested by the presence of similar types of pottery in both rockshelter and village sites, but the disparity in C-14 dates shows a hiatus of nearly 1000 years.

Re-appraises and redefines funerary literature from the Egyptian New Kingdom.

This book is a study of the agricultural economy of Limousin in France, from the Iron Age to the modern era.With contributions by Jean-Michel Beausoleil, Michel Botineau, Anne Bouchette, Patrice Conte, Isabel Figueiral, Alexandra Hanry, Guy Lintz, Christophe Maniquet, Pierre Mille and Philippe Poirier.

The research in this book is the result of work begun in the summer of 2003 when the author became involved with the research team investigating the harbour area of Classe, in a joint project of the Department of History, Culture, Civilisation (then Department of Archaeology), the Superintendence of Archaeological Heritage of Emilia Romagna with the Fondazione RavennAntica. The author carried out the cleaning and conservation of metal objects from the excavation, particularly the coins. Part of this work was realised in a postgraduate dissertation that discussed the evidence of the 2002-2003 excavation campaigns in the harbour area of Classe. The archaeological research of the harbour carried out between 2001 and 2005 brought to light a total of 2564 coins, most of which are illegible and in alloys of copper, documenting a chronological range between the 2nd century BC and the 8th century AD. The investigation of the Basilica of San Severo started in the summer of 2006 and is still ongoing (2014), however, the coins included in this work are those retrieved between 2006 and 2010 only. In this case, the excavations brought to light a total of 224 coins, in alloys of silver, copper and billon, with a large variety of emissions that witness the settlement of the site between the 1st century BC and the 14th century AD, with a few, sporadic modern and contemporary finds of the 20th century. The archaeological contexts studied represent a focal point for the reconstruction of the history of the territory and cover a wide chronological span that is useful for defining the characteristics of the settlement (housing, productive areas etc.) and its evolution.

This study looks at a variety of evidence for warfare in the Late Bronze Age in North Europe: from revealing the evidence from actual combat damage sustained or caused by some of the artifacts in the archaeological record, to the exploration of the meaning of hillforts. In the end a convincing general picture of the existence and types of warfare emerges.

This book proposes a model of skeletal analysis aimed at the reconstruction of past social composition, on the basis of analysis of two groups of skeletons from Bahrain, Arabian Gulf, dated from c 300 BC to AD 200.

A fascinating history of a family firm and their predecessors the Townesends, who over 200 years have built a significant number of architecturally important buildings in and around Oxford.

In 1995 the author conducted an archaeological survey within a 296 km2 region in eastern county Donegal, Ireland, which resulted in an investigation of the transition from Ireland's Mesolithic to the Neolithic from a regional-scale perspective in a part of Ireland with no history of systematic field collections. A hypothesis for settlement, raw material economy and subsistence during the Later Mesolithic and Neolithic is proposed.

The papers in this volume are grouped under following headings: Oases and other forms of agricultural intensification; The visibility of nomads and herders across the archaeological record; The rise and decline of complex societies in Mediterranean Europe during the Middle and Late Bronze Age; Political and cultural frontiers; Archaeology and ethnicity. Sixty-nine authors come from all over Europe and the USA.

This work is a study of the distinctive Leuna beaker type, a unique form of Roman silver vessel. The beakers under discussion appear in three types of find context, treasures or hoards, burials and in one case a cult context. The distribution of embossedsilver beakers of the Leuna type is confined to the north-western provinces of the Roman Empire and the so-called free Germanic area, and most finds are dated to the 3rd century AD. As well as the Leuna finds, the study includes the discoveries from Water Newton, Ballinrees, Rheinbach-Flerzheim, Saint-Pabu, Hågerup, Chaourse, Notre-Dame d'Allençon, and Taragnat. Chapter one is devoted to a detailed discussion of the connection of the hemispheric embossed silver beakers of the Leuna type with contemporary cut glass beakers, and further chapters consider form, design, use, and metallurgical factors. The catalogues provide detailed entries of all finds.

This volume synthesises the available evidence for military architecture in Liguria in the Early Middle Ages, combining archaeological and documentary evidence.

Although the Nuragic civilization of Middle Bronze Age Sardinia has been well documented, the research so far has been focused on elite centres with their monumental conical dry-stone towerhouses. The excavations at Duos Nuraghes were undertaken to shedmore light on non-elite settlements and to examine the life of ordinary people who inhabited the island in the Bronze and Iron Ages. This book is the first of two volumes and is reporting the findings from nine seasons. A sufficient number of of structural deposits was excavated, enabling a reconstruction of the settlement's exceptionally long history which spanned some 2800 years, from the Middle Bronze Age to the early medieval period.

This book examines the third century BC in South Catalonia, through thorough study of the imported black pottery into the region. The ware comes from Italy, Rhodes, Africa, Ampurias etc and throws light on the commerce and economic life of the indigenouspeoples. Thoroughly illustrated with a catalogue.

Proceedings of a 2006 conference held in Madriad. The 11 papers explore aspects of the archaeology of death and burial in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages focusing on the Iberian Peninsula and on Christian sites. Essays in Spanish, with one in French and one in English.