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There is a good trans-Atlantic mix in the eleven contributions to this volume whose theme is our recognition of the health of past societies, and its significance for them; developed from sessions at the 1988 Sheffield TAG meetings. Six papers consider concepts and methods, five are case-studies (demography of Medieval York, anaemia at Romano-British Dorchester, epidemics seen in teeth in Bradford and Mexico, community health in Late Prehistoric Tennessee, health changes at the agricultural transition in Europe).

Twenty-eight papers discuss new archaeological data and interpretations of evidence from the Neolithic to the Iron Age in the area encompassing Bulgaria, Turkey, Yugoslavia, the Balkans, and the Lower Danube.

A study of the exploitation and management of mineral resources in the western Alpine reigon of Italy in the medieval period.

A dissertation on the Neolithic to early Iron Age skeletal remains, looking at demographic parameters, at health, status, diet and so forth of the cemetery population and sub-groups attempting to reconstruct aspects of the lifestyle of the deceased and funerary treatment of the dead.

This book deals with the phenomenon of the heroes' cults in the Bronze-Age Greece. More than eighty different sites, from the mainland Greece to Asia Minor were analysed and primary archaeological evidence, the votives dedicated at sites of hero-cult were dealt with. Extensive catalogue lists details of sites as well as archaeological material.

This study reports on one of the largest and best dated assemblages of clay pipes recovered from the site of Port Royal in Jamaica. Many of the pipes came from Bristol and date to the 17th century AD.

This work presents a study of the pre-Hispanic occupation at the site of Ñawinpukyo (Ayacucho, Peru) during the Early Intermediate Period (EIP) (ca. 200 BC - AD 600) and the Middle Horizon (MH) (ca. AD 600-1000). A local and diachronic perspective is adopted to examine the developmental trajectory of this community, in the context of the broader regional processes that took place in the valley during those periods. These processes brought about, especially during the MH, significant cultural changes not only in the Ayacucho Valley but in the whole central Andean area, with the rise of the powerful Wari society and culture. Earlier interpretations about the site and its role in Ayacucho prehistory are reevaluated in the light of the newly acquired information and the proposed interpretations. This study contributes to our current understanding of Ayacucho EIP and MH society by presenting new empirical information about the Huarpa and Wari cultures and describing the developmental trajectory of a particular local community. The specific patterns of human activities identified at the site and their changes over time illustrate from a local perspective the socio-cultural changes brought about by broader regional processes that took place in the valley duringthe EIP and the MH.

Selected papers from a conference of the International Council for Archaeozoology, held in London under the auspices of the Institute of Archaeology, University of London, April 1982.

In this volume, Christensen outlines a new method for the identification of worked material through its physio-chemical (or mineral and organic) components. This assumes that, in modifying or making tools, micro-fragments of this material would stay at the edge of the tools.

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

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 detailed study, Liddiard examines the processes and factors which determined the number, distribution and location of castles and considers how a castle's construction altered its 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.

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.

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.

Following an archaeological assessment, geophysical survey, and evaluation trenching, a large-scale excavation covering some 30 hectares was undertaken by the Historic Environment Service projects team of Cornwall County Council at the site of Imerys Minerals Ltd's Scarcewater tip, St Stephen-in-Brannel in 2004. The archaeological excavations were focused upon the investigation of three sunken-floored roundhouses of Middle Bronze Age date, together with a range of Bronze Age pits and timber structures, aLate Bronze Age roundhouse and palisade enclosure and pits, a Middle Iron Age 'cairn', and Romano-British settlement and funerary activity. The analyses of the information from the excavated sites has provided the opportunity to investigate shifting settlement foci and changes to Bronze Age roundhouse architecture over a period between 1500 and 1000 cal BC, and to examine the relationships between settlement-related and ceremonial activity in the middle of the second millennium cal BC. Importantly, the project has also allowed a study to be made of sites rarely identified in Cornwall. These include structures of the first millennium cal BC and Romano-British activity that was associated with both unenclosed settlement and funerary practice. Overall, the project has enabled relationships, changing patterns of settlement, architectural traditions, and spatial attitudes between the living and the dead to be considered in several key periods.

This study seeks to examine how late antique culture in the Bristol Channel region changed so dramatically in the two centuries following the collapse of Roman authority.

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.

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

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.