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The Bau de l'Aubesier is a multi-layer rock shelter site, with deposits mainly from the later Middle Pleistocene and the Late Pleistocene, very abundant faunal and lithic remains, intense and extensive use of fire in some levels, and hominin remains from Neandertals and their predecessors. This book provides the geographic and geologic context of the site, then describes each layer within the stratigraphy in detail, with emphasis on the hominins, how they used the site, and how they used the surrounding territory. Rigorous analysis is interspersed with stories of the excavations themselves, and abundant figures and tables. The final chapter addresses the ultimate question: what does the Bau de l'Aubesier tell us about the Middle Palaeolithic? Of interest to specialists, students and amateurs, this book unites all available published and previously unpublished data about this important Middle Palaeolithic site in southern France.

Following the recent upsurge of interest in ancient geography and astronomy, together with the ever-present fascination with myth, this book offers a fresh study of what is commonly but erroneously known as 'solar myth'. This subject has been at the margins of scholarly interest, mainly due to the now-outdated theories of myth that used solar phenomena as an interpretative key to explain most traditional narratives. This book offers a more rigorous methodology and more selective interpretation applicable to a group of myths referencing solar phenomena. The class of 'solar' myths discussed in this book is thus formed out of traditional narratives that either explicitly include references to solar movement or the recognition of such references does not require strained interpretations.

Il presente volume sottolinea le peculiarità di un area, la valle del Sinni in Basilicata, in cui coesistono elementi di continuità insediativa. I dati della ricerca, che si estende dalle coste ioniche alle pendici del Monte Sirino, non sono una riproposizione di scritti precedenti, bensì veri aggiornamenti. L'indagine ha preso in considerazione un arco cronologico compreso tra X e XV sec. d.C., epoca in cui lungo il fiume Sinni si conservano significative tracce di insediamenti medievali. Territorialmente comprendeva le aree del Mercourion e del Latinianon, coinvolti nello sviluppo di insediamenti religiosi di rito greco e latino, oltre ad essere interessata dal fenomeno parallelo dell'incastellamento. Dall'XI sec. d.C. la tipologia insediativa in questo territorio muta rispetto al periodo precedente, transitando da un modello di insediamento sparso a carattere rurale verso l'intensificarsi dell'insediamento demico sui colli sommitali. Ai complessi monasteriali verrà affidato lo sfruttamento delle risorse del territorio rurale, con il ripopolamento di aree abbandonate. This volume studies the peculiarities of the Sinni valley in Basilicata, where evidence of secular and religious settlement continuity coexists. The data extends from the Ionian coasts to the slopes of Mount Sirino from the 10th to the 15th century AD, and the author analyses the significant traces of medieval settlements preserved along the river Sinni.

This monograph focuses on one of the most interesting sections of the Main Forum of Ostia Antica, the ancient commercial port of Rome, during the 2nd-6th centuries AD. With a detailed 3D reconstruction of all collected information, it is possible to gain detailed insights into the development and destruction of the city centre during the transition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. The applied 3D volume map in this study makes this possible by combining 2D, 2.5D and 3D solid objects inside a real geo-space. It completes the 3D space, generally filled with hollow objects, with content. With this work, Undine Lieberwirth gives archaeologists a free and open ready-to-use tool. The resulting space-time model of archaeological stratigraphy, geophysics and pedology opens new perspectives on 3D documentation and 3D analysis of archaeological and archaeology-related data. Her intention is not only to preserve archaeological excavation data in the best way possible but also to prepare them for future 3D and 4D analysis. The digital 3D cartography offers the perfect framework for this. To represent these 3D models appropriately, the usual 2D images in this monograph are replaced with 8 videos.

Questo libro intende fornire una nuova interpretazione della città romana di Volterra contribuendo a far emergere l'importanza delle élite locali per l'integrazione della comunità nel mondo Romano. Integrando dati letterari, archeologici, epigrafici, toponomastici, questo libro vuole ricostruire le strategie familiari economiche, politiche, culturali, la società e lo sviluppo del paesaggio antico per approfondire la conoscenza degli aspetti storico-archeologici della città romana e del suo territorio. Per il lungo arco cronologico dei secoli I a.C.-V d.C., parentele, alleanze matrimoniali, interessi economici, strategie politiche e culturali, vengono ricostruiti per alcune famiglie chiave. Il risultato è il quadro complesso di una comunità etrusca in transizione nel mondo imperiale romano, fra tradizione e innovazione. This book presents a new interpretation of the Roman town of Volterra from the 1st century BC to the 5th century AD. Combining historical written sources, archaeological and epigraphic materials, and toponymy, the author studies 'Romanization' through the local elite families.

This book focuses on the manufacturing techniques of Corinthian potters during the Archaic Period, as well as the relationships established with their natural environment. The results of this research show that the advent of the Black Figure pottery style was intrinsically related to the adoption by Corinthian potters of new manufacturing techniques and recipes for their paints and slips. This change of the paint and gloss recipes required the use of new raw materials, which takes the discussion on pottery production at the site from purely technical issues to social and economic ones, such as access and control of these scarce resources or the relationships between potters and their local community. The significance of this discovery also sheds new light upon the diversity of local styles in Greece.

L'analisi diacronica del paesaggio geografico fisico consente di comprendere come le caratteristiche del territorio abbiano influenzato le scelte insediamentali passate e, conseguentemente, come le attività antropiche abbiano modificato il naturale sviluppo del territorio. La ricerca presentata in questo volume consiste in uno studio di archeologia del paesaggio in Pianura Padana centrale (Italia) tra tarda età romana (V sec. d.C.) e il Basso Medioevo (XV sec. d.C.). L'impiego di strumenti di ricognizione remota, analisi statistiche spaziali e tecniche geoarcheologiche hanno permesso di realizzare uno studio interdisciplinare in grado di quantificare come le interazioni tra fattori ambientali e attività antropica abbiano influenzato l'evoluzione del paesaggio post-romano. Questo contributo rappresenta una delle prime complete applicazioni nel panorama europeo e mediterraneo della 'Digital Geoarchaeology', un approccio interdisciplinare che combina geoscienze e scienze umanistiche attraverso strumentazione informatica per indagare gli aspetti storici e culturali derivanti dall'interazione tra uomo e ambiente nel passato. This book investigates the interaction between humans and the environment during the Middle Ages in Northern Italy using the tools and principles of Digital Geoarchaeology. The study uses a digital methodology combining geosciences and humanities to present a reconstruction of the central Po Plain's landscape genesis. Each chapter has a summary in English.

This study focuses on Neolithic period Majiayao-style painted pottery from Northwest China, which is known for its high quality and beautiful décor. While much is known about the pottery, research on the associated Majiayao Culture has previously been limited to cultural histories that emphasize chronology and trait-list classification, leading to a static and simplistic view of past realities. This study instead focuses on the long-overlooked social and economic processes behind the production of these vessels. Attribute and physicochemical analyses of hundreds of ceramic vessels and samples selected from multiple sites in Gansu, Qinghai, and Sichuan provinces are combined with settlement pattern and mortuary analyses of thousands of sites and burials. By synthesizing these data, this study illustrates a positive correlation between regional density of settlement distribution, intensification of pottery production, and degree of social inequality in each phase. Rather than showing a simple linear process of increasing social complexity, however, distinct regional variations in each phase and significant regional fluctuations over time can be seen. The results of this study demonstrate that economic and social patterns related to Majiayao ceramics were far more complex than previously thought.

This collection of essays promises to make an important contribution to the field of Roman studies, particularly, by its concentration on monuments, to that of Roman art history. The current high level of interest in problems of identity, including studies of colonialism, Romanization, ethnicity, social class, gender and a host of related topics creates a vital intellectual context for the study of the art of provincials and the lower classes. The monuments themselves contribute a critical dimension to this discourse, the more so because the textual evidence for the non-elites of Roman society, apart from inscriptions, is relatively scarce.

Il libro si concentra sulle dinamiche che intercorrono tra i diversi approcci epistemologici e teorici in archeologia, all'interno di specifiche tradizioni accademiche e filosofiche. In particolare il discorso affronta quattro temi generali: il problema della teorizzazione della condizione postmoderna, nel suo significato per la storia del pensiero archeologico; la possibilità di percepire i cambiamenti egemonici nel pensiero archeologico attraverso dati empirici raccolti da riviste accademiche, per comprendere le tendenze teoriche più recenti nate nelle archeologie mediterranee e anglo-americane; il sorgere di alcuni paradigmi in archeologia nel quadro del tardo postmodernismo, cercando di spiegare più profondamente alcune differenze teoriche nei due ambienti filosofici e accademici; infine il ruolo dell'archeologia classica nell'ambito di questo posizionamento ermeneutico, cercando di indagare anche la questione della tradizione e della funzione etica e civile dell'archeologia nella società contemporanea. This book focuses on the relationship between diverse epistemological and theoretical advances in archaeology within different academic and philosophical traditions.

The main aim of this study is to examine the methods through which the managers of Nigeria's past have presented the country's heritage to the Nigerian public, how effectively this has been done, and how the current situation can be improved by 'marketing' archaeology to the public. The book's nine sections cover an examination of those institutions responsible for Nigeria's past, an ethnohistory of the Igbo, a review of the archaeological discoveries, conclusions and suggestions.The main aim of this study is to examine the methods through which the managers of Nigeria's past have presented the country's heritage to the Nigerian public, how effectively this has been done, and how the current situation can be improved by 'marketing' archaeology to the public. The book's nine sections cover an examination of those institutions responsible for Nigeria's past, an ethnohistory of the Igbo, a review of the archaeological discoveries, conclusions and suggestions.

La vallée du Rhône, grand couloir de circulation Nord-Sud, lieu de passage entre l'Europe du Nord et le monde méditerranéen, a joué un rôle majeur dans le peuplement de toutes les gorges et vallées affluentes. Sa position charnière, entre le domaine tempéré continental à l'Ouest (Massif-Central) et le domaine montagneux à l'Est (Vercors et Alpes de Haute-Provence), explique son rôle d'enclave où les microclimats ont favorisé la persistance des occupations humaines tout au long des périodes glaciaires successives (apparition tardive du renne par exemple). Riche en cours d'eau, gorges et plateaux calcaires renfermant de nombreux abris, cette région fut propice à l'installation des hommes du Paléolithique. Elle concentre en effet un très grand nombre de sites moustériens, la plupart se trouvant en contexte karstique, sous la forme d'abris-sous-roche et de porches de grottes. En ce qui concerne les sites étudiés dans ce travail, la plus grande partie est regroupée en Ardèche méridionale, excentrant au Nord le site de Payre (Ardèche du Nord), et au Sud-Est le site des Peyrards (Vaucluse). Dans la partie aval des gorges se situent la grotte Saint-Marcel, l'abri du Maras, la grotte du Figuier, le Ranc Pointu et la Baume d'Oullens et, à quelques kilomètres à vol d'oiseau, la Baume Flandin s'ouvre dans un petit vallon du plateau d'Orgnac, à la limite avec le département du Gard et enfin, plus au Nord, dans la Moyenne vallée de l'Ardèche, on trouve la grotte des Barasses (Balazuc). Le contexte chronologique de ces sites est le Paléolithique moyen, lié, dans le Sud-Est, aux premières grandes vagues de peuplements humains. Le peuplement qui nous intéresse est donc celui de l'homme de Néanderthal, qui semble avoir occupé la région jusqu'à la veille de l'arrivée des premiers hommes modernes (Chauvet, intervalle de 32 000-30 000 BP pour les plus anciennes, Valladas et al., in Clottes (Ed.), 2001). Les études archéozoologique et taphonomique menées ici sur les assemblages osseux des petits, moyens et grands herbivores et quelquefois des Carnivores, permettent d'analyser l'état de conservation des ossements et la part de responsabilité des hommes et des Carnivores dans les dépôts et dans les modifications de surface, de restituer le contexte climatique, environnemental et chronologique existant lors des nombreuses venues des hommes grâce à la diversité des espèces représentées, et enfin d'aborder les stratégies de chasse et les habitudes alimentaires, concernant la matière carnée, des groupes de Néanderthaliens. Par-delà les inégalités, tant dans la représentativité des séries que dans les cadres environnementaux, il a été possible de discerner trois grandes tendances dans leurs types d'exploitation du milieu animal et de fait dans leurs modes d'occupation des sites. Reste à savoir quelle a été l'emprise des contraintes environnementales, des pratiques culturelles et des critères fonctionnels sur ces différents styles d'approvisionnement.

The diplomat and writer on Persia, Sir Denis Wright developed his interest in intagli while serving in Trebizond in 1941. His collection of 59 items, catalogued in depth here for the first time, is of particular importance and interest as the provenance of about 40 of the engraved gems is known: more than 30 were acquired in Turkey and 8 come from Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia. There are also several unusual gems among those without a provenance. The Turkish material includes the earliest gem in the collection, a rare 5th century BC Phoenician green jasper scarab from the Black Sea area. The catalogue features indices on materials, provenances, subjects, and inscriptions.The diplomat and writer on Persia, Sir Denis Wright developed his interest in intagli while serving in Trebizond in 1941. His collection of 59 items, catalogued in depth here for the first time, is of particular importance and interest as the provenance of about 40 of the engraved gems is known: more than 30 were acquired in Turkey and 8 come from Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia. There are also several unusual gems among those without a provenance. The Turkish material includes the earliest gem in the collection, a rare 5th century BC Phoenician green jasper scarab from the Black Sea area. The catalogue features indices on materials, provenances, subjects, and inscriptions.

Il volume raccoglie i contributi di un convegno organizzato nel 2019 presso l'Università di Pisa in sinergia con la Consulta Universitaria di Topografia Antica. Gli interventi propongono una panoramica molto ampia sulle metodologie applicate allo studio del paesaggio antico. Vengono poste a confronto metodologie più tradizionali - che si inseriscono nel solco della tradizione italiana inaugurata da Rodolfo Lanciani - e tecnologie recenti come il LIDAR, le prospezioni geofisiche e le analisi di laboratorio. Le ricerche presentate sono frutto delle indagini di giovani dottorandi provenienti da università italiane e europee, raccolte in quattro sessioni. Ogni sessione è introdotta da un docente di rilevanza internazionale.This volume collects chapters based on papers presented during a conference held at the University of Pisa in 2019. It offers a wide-ranging overview of the methodologies applied to the study of the ancient landscape through the results of doctoral researchers from Italian and European universities.

Il ritrovamento agli inizi del XX secolo di un deposito votivo nelle campagne di Monticchio resta a lungo dimenticato negli archivi e nei magazzini della Direzione Provinciale per le Antichità della Basilicata. La riscoperta avviene combinando la ricerca documentale e la reindividuazione delle cassette, con una catalogazione minuziosa del materiale archeologico seguita da una nuova verifica sul campo nella presunta area di ritrovamento. L'indagine si estende poi al Monte Vulture, per inquadrare le forme di sacralità attive in quest'area, e cerca confronti tra fenomeni naturali e santuari nel contesto italico.This book is an archaeological study of an unpublished votive deposit (IV-III centuries BC) found at the beginning of the twentieth century in the northwest of Basilicata in Italy. It includes an overview of the volcanic Mount Vulture area and presents evidence of natural phenomena and sanctuaries.

Papers from a symposium held Dec. 17-18, 1980, at the Archaeological Institute, Free University of Amsterdam.

Spine title: L'art rupestre du Sahara Central.

Third-Seventh Century CE. Proceedings of Symposium, University of Haifu, May 1987.

La conoscenza archeologica della Calabria nel Medioevo è ancora poco approfondita rispetto al resto dell'Italia meridionale, e questo rende difficile giudicare il ruolo che questa regione ha assunto nella crescita del nuovo Mediterraneo medievale dopo la disgregazione del mondo antico. L'area denominata "Altopiano del Poro", nell'odierna provincia di Vibo Valentia, è al centro di questo studio. Questo libro presenta una serie di dati raccolti per ricostruire le caratteristiche di questo territorio in fasi storiche omogenee. Lo studio definisce le tipologie degli insediamenti, le reti di siti esistenti al suo interno, le loro relazioni ed evoluzioni nel corso dei secoli. È accompagnato da uno studio campionato di materiale ceramico importato e locale. The archaeological knowledge of Calabria in the Middle Ages is still not very thorough compared to the rest of the Southern Italy, and this makes it difficult to judge the role that this region assumed in the growth of the new medieval Mediterranean after the shattering of the ancient world. The area called "Hilltop of Poro", in the modern province of Vibo Valentia, is the focus of this study. This book presents a series of data collected to reconstruct the features that characterized this territory in homogeneous historical phases. The study defines the types of settlements, the networks of sites existing within it, and their relationships and evolutions over the centuries. It is accompanied by a sampled study of imported and local ceramic material.

An account of the pre-Islamic hill top fortress of Shahr-i Zohak and its many turrets as recorded by Allchin and Professor Codrington in 1951, and these and other defensive sites in the Bamiyan Area visited by Baker in 1975 and 1988. Numerous photos, a few plans and sections; some pottery.

An examination of the assumption that there were extensive trade links along the western coasts of the British Isles. Particular attention is focussed on the links between Britain and Ireland, Gaul and beyond. Wooding argues that the links were sporadic and small scale. Full use is made of archaeological and textual sources. Details of routes, cargoes, links with Gaul and the Meditteranean and sites like Whithorn and Tintagel.

A reprint with updated material of the author's 1991 research into villas and farms and rural economy in the Late Roman era (Britain, Gaul, Italy, Spain and Gallia Belgica in the 3rd to 5th centuries AD). The volume challenges the assumption that the period studied was one of dramatic decline, and analyses the archaeological evidence in a wide-ranging survey.