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The Connected Caribbean Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 328
ISBN: 9789088902598
Pub Date: 31 May 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
The modern-day Caribbean is a stunningly diverse but also intricately interconnected geo-cultural region, resulting partly from the islands’ shared colonial histories and an increasingly globalizing economy. Perhaps more importantly, before the encounter between the New and Old World took place, the indigenous societies and cultures of the pre-colonial Caribbean were already united in diversity. This work seeks to study the patterns of this pre-colonial homogeneity and diversity and uncover some of their underlying processes and dynamics.
Fashionable Encounters Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781782973829
Pub Date: 30 May 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: Colour illustrated throughout
Description:
At the heart of this anthology lies the world of fashion: a concept that pervades the realm of clothes and dress; appearances and fashionable manners; interior design; ideas and attitudes. Here sixteen papers focus on the Nordic world (Denmark, Norway, Sweden Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Isles and Greenland) within the time frame AD 1500–1850. This was a period of rapid and far-reaching social, political and economic change, from feudal Europe through political revolution, industrialisation, development of international trade, religious upheaval and technological innovation; changes impacting on every aspect of life and reflected in equally rapid and widespread changes in fashion at all levels of society.
Neighbours and Successors of Rome Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9781782973973
Pub Date: 30 May 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 81 colour illus, 95 b/w figs
Description:
Presented through 20 case studies covering Europe and the Near East, Neighbours and Successors of Rome investigates development in the production of glass and the mechanisms of the wider glass economy as part of a wider material culture in Europe and the Near East around the later first millennium AD. Though highlighting and solidifying chronology, patterns of distribution, and typology, the primary aims of the collection are to present a new methodology that emphasises regional workshops, scientific data, and the wider trade culture.This methodology embraces a shift in conceptual approach to the study of glass by explaining typological change through the existence of a thriving supra-national commercial network that responded to market demands and combines the results of a range of new scientific techniques into a framework that stresses co-dependence and similarities between the various sites considered.
RRP: £50.00
Cult, Myth, and Occasion in Pindar’s Victory Odes Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 356
ISBN: 9780905205564
Pub Date: 26 May 2014
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Description:
In this pioneering study, first published in German as Pyrsos Hymnon. Festliche Gegenwart und mythisch-rituelle Tradition als Voraussetzung einer Pindarinterpretation (Isthmie 4, Pythie 5, Olympie 1 und 3) (1990), Eveline Krummen examines the related problems of the unity (or intelligibility and cohesion) and the ‘occasionality’ (the heuristic importance of the original performance situation) of Pindaric epinicia. She uses various approaches - including narratology, archaeology, and art history, as well as philology - to recover information about original performance occasions and original audience expectations, and thus to come to a clearer understanding of the structure and strategies of this sometimes baffing poetry.
Regarding the Dead Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9780861591978
Pub Date: 26 May 2014
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Illustrations: 80 illustrations
Description:
The British Museum holds approximately 6,000 human remains, the majority of which were recovered in the past century. Regarding the Dead addresses the British Museum’s approach to the ethical issues surrounding the inclusion of human remains in the Museum’s collection and presents solutions to the dilemmas relating to their curation, storage, access management and display. The holding of human remains in museums has long been a matter of academic and public discourse.
Romano-British round houses to medieval parish Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9781907586224
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2014
Series: MoLAS Monograph
Illustrations: Fully colour illustrated
Description:
Good preservation in the western part of 10 Gresham Street has led to an unusually complete picture of the archaeological sequence.The discovery here of the largest group of Romano-British round houses yet excavated in London, clustered round a rectangular building, is of considerable significance for the Iron Age–Roman transition. Moreover, the site’s main north–south road seems to have been key to determining the layout of this whole area while evidence pointing to sporadic fires in the 2nd century AD casts new light on the idea of a single, catastrophic event.
The Roman Roadside Settlement and Multi-Period Ritual Complex at Nettleton and Rothwell, Lincolnshire Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 441
ISBN: 9780956305497
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2014
Imprint: Pre-Construct Archaeology
Description:
The unremarkable arable landscape around Mount Pleasant today belies the importance of the area in the past; at the highest point of the Lincolnshire Wolds and at the head of three radial valleys, this was a highly significant locality in earlier times. The discovery of surface finds by archaeologists working ahead of a prospective gas pipeline in 1992-3 augmented a collection of finds metal-detected during the 1980s. The large number of Iron Age coins and contemporary miniatures indicative of votive material suggested the location of a shrine.
The World in the Viking Age Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 140
ISBN: 9788785180704
Pub Date: 28 Apr 2014
Description:
The Viking Age was ignited by the art of building seaworthy sailing ships and the skills to sail them on the open sea. The growth in seafaring, trade, piracy, and exploration that began to gather momentum during the 8th century CE was not limited to Europe’s northern seas, however. Ships, laden with cargo and with seafarers who met foreign cultures, created unexpected connections between people from the Arctic Circle to the oceans south of the equator.
Silk for the Vikings Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9781782972150
Pub Date: 23 Apr 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and col. illustrations
Description:
The analysis of silk is a fascinating topic for research in itself but here, focusing on the 9th and 10th centuries, Marianne Vedeler takes a closer look at the trade routes and the organization of production, trade and consumption of silk during the Viking Age. Beginning with a presentation of the silk finds in the Oseberg burial, the richest Viking burial find ever discovered, the other silk finds from high status graves in Scandinavia are discussed along with an introduction to the techniques used to produce raw silk and fabrics. Later chapters concentrate on trade and exchange, considering the role of silk items both as trade objects and precious gifts, and in the light of coin finds.
The Archaeology of Banbury Flood Alleviation Scheme, Oxfordshire Cover
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780904220742
Pub Date: 23 Apr 2014
Series: Oxford Archaeology Monograph
Description:
This volume presents the results of investigations undertaken by Oxford Archaeology between 2003 and 2011 in advance of construction of the Banbury Flood Alleviation Scheme, Oxfordshire. The main element of these investigations was an excavation at the site of a borrow pit for clay to be used in constructing the flood defences. Geophysical surveys of two other areas that revealed dense concentrations of buried archaeological remains not subsequently affected by the scheme are also reported.
RRP: £15.00
A Test of Time and A Test of Time Revisited Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 672
ISBN: 9781782972198
Pub Date: 16 Apr 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
The eruption of the Thera (Santorini) volcano in the Aegean Sea in the mid-second millennium BC was a clearly defined, specific moment in Aegean and east Mediterranean prehistory that impacted on all the major cultures of the region. The effects of the eruption have been linked with the destruction of the Minoan palace civilisation of Crete, the legend of Atlantis, and even events described in the Biblical account of the Exodus. Scientists have studied the remains of the volcano and traced eruption products and far-flung climatic impacts throughout the east Mediterranean and in ice cores and tree-ring data.
Current Research in Egyptology 14 (2013) Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9781782976868
Pub Date: 07 Apr 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Current Research in Egyptology
Illustrations: b/w images
Description:
The fourteenth Current Research in Egyptology conference, held at the University of Cambridge in March 2013 brought together speakers and attendees from six continents and hosted more than 50 presentations covering multiple aspects of Egyptology and its related fields. The aim of the conference was to cross cultural and disciplinary boundaries. The papers presented in these proceedings reflect this aim by presenting current research that draws on insights derived from anthropology, archaeology, archaeobotany, ethnography, organic chemistry, geography, linguistics, and law, amongst others.
Historic Wigtown Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 152
ISBN: 9781909990005
Pub Date: 01 Apr 2014
Series: Scottish Burgh Survey
Description:
Situated in what now seems a remote corner of south-west Scotland, Wigtown was once an important county town. With its harbour and location at the lowest fording point of the River Cree, Wigtown was at one time part of a major network of land and sea routes, including a pilgrim route to Whithorn. The layout of the town is notable for its large market square, a reflection of its importance in the cattle trade in the medieval period.
JJP Supplement 19 (2014) Journal of Juristic Papyrology Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9788392591979
Pub Date: 01 Apr 2014
Imprint: Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Description:
This work presents the newest trends appearing in the field of Roman Law particularly devoted to the fault-based liability – culpa – that were addressed at the International Conference organised by the Faculty of Law and Administration of Warsaw University in February 2010. Articles written by Merola, Rampazzo and Tucillo touch the problem of culpa in the public law. The authors concentrated on the question of liability of public officers and their culpa or negligence during the performance of their duties.
Life in the Limes Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9781782972532
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour illustrations
Description:
Lindsay Allason-Jones has been at the forefront of small finds and Roman frontier research for 40 years in a career focussed on, but not exclusive to, the north of Britain, encompassing an enormous range of object types and subject areas. Divided into thematic sections the contributions presented here to celebrate her many achievements all represent at least one aspect of Lindsay’s research interests. These encompass social and industrial aspects of northern frontier forts; new insights into inscribed and sculptural stones specific to military communities; religious, cultural and economic connotations of Roman armour finds; the economic and ideological penetration of romanitas in the frontiers as reflected by individual objects and classes of finds; evidence of trans-frontier interactions and invisible people; the role of John Clayton in the exploration and preservation of Hadrian’s Wall and its material culture; the detailed consideration of individual objects of significant interest; and a discussion of the widespread occurrence of mice in Roman art.
Medieval Haywharf to 20th-century brewery Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9781907586231
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2014
Illustrations: Fully colour illustrated
Description:
Archaeological excavation by MOLA at Watermark Place in the City of London revealed evidence for the development of the city waterfront from the 13th century onwards. The remains of substantial and well-preserved timber river walls and timber/stone dock walls were recorded, and the use of tree-ring dating enabled the construction of one large timber river wall and dock to be dated to the year 1339. Many of the recorded structures related to the medieval wharf known as the Haywharf, probably originally so-named because it was where hay was imported into the city before c 1300.