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Gadir, now the capital of the province of Cadiz, was founded by the Phoenicians possibly as early as the 10th or 9th century BC. Gadir, meaning 'walled city', was established as a trading post and soon flourished to become a major commerical and political entity.

A study of maritime trade in Bengal from the earliest times up to the first half of the 16th century AD.

Seeks to understand the factors that govern technological change by focusing on a single industry: the production of glazed ceramics in Mesopotamia.

Proceedings of the conference: "From the Arctic to Avalon, Transforming the history of Northeastern North America". St John's, Newfoundland, October 14 - 16 2004. 15 papers.

In depth study into strategies of creating 'otherness' in the Iliad . In Spanish.

Results of research into fortified and unfortified settlements ( castra and Villae ) in a specific area of Umbria - Alta valle del Tevere. Italian text.

Presents a diachronical overview of navigation routes and harbour areas, and their natural and cultural conditions, and their relationship with the eastern Valencian coastal reagions throughout the first millennium. In Spanish with English abstract.

This study looks at human skeletal remains in the Indian subcontinent, taking into account recent research developments.

Tecnología y tipología de la piedra tallada

A detailed investigation into the Neolithisation of the inhabitants of the Gunung Sewu ('Thousand Hills') area of the Indonesian island of Java.

This volume presents research that attempts to examine the potential advantages of the Levallois reduction theory that led to its long history of use.

This volume represents the papers given at a session of the 8th EAA Conference held in Thessalonike in 2002. The session was based around four themes: The links between populations of Egypt and Europe (especially Hellas) in ancient times; the impact of the advent of Alexander the Great, and the current excavations in Alexandria; the political, economic and cultural contacts between Europe, Hellas and Egypt especially during the LP, Helleno-Roman and Early Christian (Coptic) Periods; and aspects of the history of European Egyptology and those European museums holding Egyptian antiquities today.

The city of Mendoza in western Argentina, situated at the foot of the Andes, was founded in 1561. From the end of the 16th century and throughout the 17th century a slow process of colonisation to the city took place which included a number of different religious orders including the Jesuits.

The study of astronomy in ancient societies is becoming ever more popular among archaeologists as is reflected in this collection of twelve papers been taken from a session held at the European Association of Archaeologists Eighth Annual Meeting held in Thessaloniki in 2002. It becomes clear that astronomy is considered as an important motivation for the construction of many monuments across the ancient world. Divided into three sections, the contributions discuss archaeological, and astronomical, evidence from ancient Egypt, prehistoric and Hellenic Europe and, in one paper only, Mesoamerica. In addition to examining specific monuments, sites and buildings, the papers discuss what these reveal about the cosmology and technical ability of a range of cultures. Supported throughout by astronomical diagrams.

Since the rediscovery of the Canary Islands in the early 14th century, Europeans and Canarians alike have been trying to solve the question of the early colonisation of the islands.

This study aims to re-examine Greek tragedy in order to find out how it influenced and determined the attitudes and perceptions of Athenian citizens. Greek tragedy covered many cultural issues, but this study is concerned centrally with how tragedies portrayed women on stage, and how these portrayals were interpreted by audiences who were used to regarding women as second-class citizens. All of the information we have today about Greek women comes entirely from male sources, so this means that we know only of how women were perceived by Greek men, not how they perceived themselves. Subsequently this study cannot directly reveal much at all about Greek women, but it can reveal a great deal about the society in which they lived and how it regarded those women. Importantly, therefore, Syropoulos focuses this study's emphasis onto the social function of tragedy and its relevant ideological and cultural importance. The period of study of this thesis stretches from Aeschylus' first play to Euripides' last (c500-405BC), and this is an important period of time for Athens as it is widely regarded as the time in which its culture was generally defined. These three main tragedians all held the belief, according to Syropoulos, that stepping outside of one's gender boundaries, which is a major gender theme amongst Greek tragedies, is generally harmful. This trend is shown in many of these plays, and implies that this was the general consensus amongst Athenians at this time. Syropoulos therefore classifies tragedy as a sort of 'cultural propaganda', in the sense that it was meant to keep society in balance because of the fact that gender-differentiation was an important basis for Greek culture.

This volume reports on ongoing fieldwork by the British Mission, plus the results of a previous season 1986-90, which focused on the Jhelum Basin in the Pabbi Hills in northern Pakistan. The aim was `to find evidence for early hominid occupation and to place this in its environmental and chronological context'.

This dissertation examines religious motifs in the decoration of Meroitic painted and stamped pottery dating from the 4th century BC to the 4th century AD.

This fourth volume in a series devoted to medieval topography looks at issues of urbanism in a number of Byzantine cities along the eastern frontier during the reign of Justinian (AD 527-565).

In the 1930s an amateur archaeologist discovered the largest number of model[l]ed human heads from a single Maya building', which were recovered with little regard for stratigraphy.

Based on an informed reading of Greek and Latin literary sources, the author of this study examines the Roman perspective on the development of the Roman state at the end of the Republic.

Are grave memorials and graveyards as a whole a useful and reliable source for local history? This study demonstrates that the answer must be yes, as it presents a comparative analysis of evidence from churchyards at Wootton Wawen, King's Norton and a range of others in Birmingham.

This study of the presence and nature of the cult of Mithras in Roman Britain is based on literary, epigraphic and architectural evidence.

The sacred places of the Balts of Lithuania take the form of sites and monuments that are shrouded in myths and legends. This study is based on an analysis of 1200 examples and, although very few have been investigated archaeologically, Vykintas Vaitkevicius looks at the historical, linguistic, ethnological and folklore data associated with them.

This dissertation focuses on the use and significance of gemstones in Greece during the Mycenaean period, drawing largely on material from sites in the Argolid, Messenia and Attica.

This report on investigations carried out at the site of Mas Guso in Gerona, not far from the north-east coast of Spain, reveals a complex site with a series of occupation phases spanning thousands of years.

Merryn Dineley's thesis is based on the premise that the biochemical laws that govern the processes of malting, mashing and fermentation remain unchanged throughout the millennia'. She therefore uses the results of scientific experimentation to search for evidence of ale and brewing amongst Neolithic residues.

This detailed examination of the remains of 218 individuals from two late Roman cemeteries in use between the 4th and 6th century AD at Mazarron in Murcia provides important insights into a period that has not been well studied in Spain.

Richard Tabor's updated thesis analyses the relationship between regional survey sampling and the narratives, or archaeological story-telling', drawn from them. In essence he seeks to test how remote some interpretations are from the raw data through case studies based on surveys in Europe, Africa and North and South America.