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

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.

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.

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'.

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 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 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).

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.

An analysis of the settlement data of thirteen known bronze age sites of Palestine (Tell Abu Hawam, Tell el'Adjoul, Ashdod, Tell Beit Mirsim, Bethel, Beth Shemesh, Tell el Far'ah, Tell Halif, Hazor, Jericho, Megiddo, Tell Naglia and Tell Ta'anach). The author compares the various structures to see if a pattern for the period emerges.

The excavations at Ain Hanech in Algeria, one of the oldest archaeological sites in North Africa. Includes a report on North African Lower Palaeolithic, stratigraphy and dating, formation of the site and lithic assemblage analysis.

This thesis estabishes a chronlogy of tree-ring dates from the Paris basin from sites of all periods. This is followed by more detailed period based discussion highlighting problem areas and looking closely at the most important sites.

A study of Imperial Roman funerary altars in Northern Italy (from the ancient regions of Emilia, Venetia et Histria, Transpadana and Liguria) dating from the late Tiberian and Antonine periods. Stylistic epigraphic, chronological and typological analyses, and an illustrated catalogue of 243 examples.

The book looks at two Mayan areas in pre-Colombian times and follows the evolution of their occupation: North of Belize and Quintana Roo in today's Mexico. The first one is the least studied area that belonged Mayas. The resulting conclusion shows that the two areas had quite different patterns of occupation.

Corbeddu cave on the island of Sardinia contains Late Pleistocene sediments containing numerous fossils of a common species of deer.

The aim of this interesting study is to provide insight into some current thoughts pertaining to the field of maritime archaeology and to sketch certain developments which are in part focused on the region of South Africa and complemented with case studies on surveys and excavation of 17th century shipwrecks of the Dutch East India Company.

The Mesolithic of this region of Northern Italy is known through faunal remains and lithic material found within rockshelters and at open-air hunting camps and processing sites.

Since the division of Cyprus in 1974, fieldwork has carried on unabated in the south although relatively few excavation or survey projects have been undertaken in the north. This is therefore an important publication presenting results from field survey in the area around Kyrenia.

A history and overview of the state of archaeological research in Iran from its beginnings to the present day. Kamal Aldin Niknami assesses recent developments in western archaeology and their impact or influence on Near Eastern practices.

A report on subsistence strategies at the site of Hector Trudel in the Saint-Laurent Valley, Quebec, between 500 and 1000 BC, known locally as the Middle Sylvicole period. This study looks at the site and the faunal remains within the context of the local ecology and environment.

In this study Stefano del Lungo provides a detailed, year-by-year account of the history of Muslim presence in central and northern Tyrrhenian Sea in the High Middle Ages, 8th to 10th century.

This study of birth-rates, death-rates and demography in Medieval Italy challenges many traditional assumptions based on documentary evidence.