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563,95 kr. The topic of the international workshop ¿Excavating the Extra-Ordinary. Challenges and merits of workings with small finds¿ was the challenging task of working with seemingly ¿ordinary¿ small objects and their processing. On this occasion in April 2019 at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, experts from Egyptological excavations, museums and institutions presented and discussed current issues. The present volume offers contributions held at the workshop, including the handling of vast amounts of material, fragmentary finds and methodological questions. The diversity of the discussed materials covers pottery, wooden and bone artefacts, as well as metal objects. Another focus lies on the scientific valuation of insufficient early documentations and disturbed find contexts.
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1.483,95 kr. Nikolaos Myrepsos¿ Dynameron, is critically edited after eight centuries. This one is the second edition. It is a text of the late Byzantine period, following the long tradition of similar medicinal and pharmaceutical manuals since antiquity. As a consequence, one can easily recognize earlier types of Greek words, but also several loans from the Latin, Arabic and Persian language. Dynameron was known in central Europe from an early translation into Latin, which had had a great influence on the edition of several Pharmacopeias, as well as on academic textbooks of therapeutics.
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323,95 kr. Many times in human history, the search for new markets has been a key driver for cultural exchange. Analyzing the economic connections within the ancient world provides a propitious basis from which to examine intercultural connections. The Iron Age, especially, was a period of increasing interconnection between different cultures in the Mediterranean, offering up a gripping chance to study an emerging economic and cultural system. But where did these new routes pass, such that the people were able to move themselves and commodities forward? How did growing demands on foreign markets influence production patterns and social structures within local communities ? How did local customs respond to foreign commodities, and how did these imports mold local cultures ? This volume comprises a collection of papers focusing on the 8th¿6th centuries BC. Long object biographies are carefully reconstructed and analyzed using up-to-date methodologies, thus offering answers to questions about production modes, trade routes, and consumption patterns. Discussing resources, commodities, and the reception of foreign products, this volume gives new details and insights to advance our understanding of the role played by the economy in cultural contacts.
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383,95 kr. The eight essays published in this volume address topics relating to the production, consumption and trade of painted pottery in the Ancient Mediterranean World, during the Archaic and Classical periods, with special emphasis on the Italian Peninsula, Greece and the Balkans. Important questions on the use, function and role of vases at a broader social or religious level have also been taken into account, by focusing on the response of individual clients to both imports and local vases, or by examining specific shapes traded in both the home market and overseas. Another goal attempted, and to a large extent fulfilled, was to present fresh material, newly excavated or recently studied. Above all, our aim was to present original studies that may be considered valuable contributions in vase scholarship.
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598,95 kr. The contributions to this collection discuss ¿ from a general perspective and on the basis of concrete examples ¿ how the epistemic potentials of the manifold current strands of image and visual culture studies on images and their perception ¿ which proliferated since the pictorial and the iconic turn ¿ can be made available for the archaeological study of image cultures. They address semiotic and perceptual, frame-semantic, affect-theoretical and cognitive approaches as well as questions of image contexts and the agency of imag
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438,95 kr. The economic importance of raw material exploitation, especially metal mining, for communities in antiquity has long since been addressed. Only during recent decades, however, have scholars increasingly focused the material remains. These include not only the primary mining remains, such as underground workings, process residues and installations for beneficiation, but also habitational sites and infrastructural remains that emerged in the course of exploitation. The intention of this panel at the 19th International Congress for Classical Archaeology was to provide an insight on existing and emerging research on landscapes that were distinctly transformed by mining. It aimed furthermore at discussing how mining could affect not only the natural but also the cultural landscape. By focusing on select case studies, the intention was to identify the material characteristics of such areas, to highlight and explain differences and to discuss possible recurring infrastructural and organisational patterns.
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343,95 kr. Ever since the Bronze Age, the geographical position of Messapia, between the Ionian and Adriatic seas, has enabled the development of relations characterised by continuity within the framework of mobility in the Mediterranean. This volume focuses on certain aspects of the economy in Messapia, with particular reference to bio-archaeological themes (including livestock rearing and the consumption of animal resources), textile production (applying archaeometric methods to residues of fabric) and imports of luxury products from Greek cities and the Greek colonies of southern Italy. The presence in grave goods of imported prestige items has been investigated with reference to the forms of self-representation adopted by the Messapian aristocracy in both funerary rituals and manifestations of power within the settlements. The variety of religious manifestations in the Messapian world constitutes a particular case study linked to cultural exchanges, which, thanks to the recent discoveries of places of worship, can now be investigated in detail. Important in this regard are the discoveries made in Castro, where the Athenaion ¿ linked to the myth of Aeneas¿s first landing on the shores of Italy ¿ was identified.
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278,95 kr. The production of military equipment is a subject that is much more complicated than often thought as Roman soldiers were not completely equipped by the state in an uniform manner. While a certain amount of ¿near-uniformity¿ was necessary in the army, it was logistically impossible to ensure complete uniformity, even within a single unit. One reason for this was that Roman soldiers owned most of the equipment themselves, which allowed them to choose their own preferences (within limits). After an introduction and overview of the subject, the three case studies look at what the tools found in a fort can say about the production of military equipment on the site, at the influence of workshop traditions on the making of mail armour and at whether state control or local production was the main impetus in the production of crossbow brooches.
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278,95 kr. Compared to other pre-modern economies, the Roman world stands out for having developed a highly specialised and very productive manufacturing sector. This development led to the widespread and large-scale extraction of raw materials. Even in a territory as large as the Roman Empire, such activities put major pressure on the land. Strategies of resource exploitation and conservation were thus essential in dealing successfully with the limited availability of these resources in the medium or long term, and to ensure the sustainability of the Roman exploitation model. This volume deals with the various ways in which natural re sources were exploited and managed in the Roman world. It focuses on if, when, where and how the Romans pursued a harmonious balance between the limited availability of a particular resource and the law of supply and demand. The case studies in this volume cover various key areas of the Western Roman world ¿ from Italy and the island of Elba, over coastal Croatia to Central-Eastern Gaul and the Pannonian limes ¿ and discuss in particular the fi sh industry, iron smelting, deforestation and forest management, the stone trade and the exploitation of thermo-mineral resources.
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