In The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas, Davy Rothbart's stories grow out of road trips and small towns and are populated by questionable heroes and gold-hearted thugs. Full of loneliness and hope, hea
A dozen papers from the fourth biennial conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, held in San Francisco in March 2001, look at geography, travel, and communication as interlocking aspects of
Around 330 b.c., a remarkable adventurer named Pytheas set out from the Greek colony of Massalia (now Marseille) on the Mediterranean Sea to explore the fabled, terrifying lands of northern Europe. Re
A catalogue and discussion of the social meaning and family relationships behind the funerary monuments of Roman France. Hope aims to reconstruct the stories associated with monuments from their inscr
The non-monumental, `simple' graves of the Mycenaean world have not been widely studied or discussed in the literature on the Aegean Bronze Age. In this study, Kazimierz Lewartowski focuses on these `
Prehistoric and Roman settlement around the Brecon Beacons and western Black Mountains is relatively well documented although information for the eastern Black Mountains is less accessible. In this st
A detailed examination of selected stone buildings from each of the forts associated with Hadrian's Wall, with discussions of their form and construction, architectural details, construction sequence
A substantial volume geared towards theoretical approaches to burial data. The author looks at the social dimensions of mortuary evidence and the implimentation of multivariate analysis, in particular
An excavation report on this Mesolithic site discovered in 1967. Susann Palmer and a number of other contributors describe the archaeological evidence and stratigraphy, the geophysical survey and arte
A Greek who lived in Asia Minor during the second century A.D., Pausanias traveled through Greece and wrote an invaluable description of its classical sites that is a treasure trove of information on
Previously printed in hardcover in 1974. Offers a comprehensive review of ancient travel, from the first recorded voyages to Old Kingdom Egypt through Greek and Roman times to the Christian pilgrimage
The first such dictionary since that of Platner and Ashby in 1929, Richardson's defines and describes the known buildings and monuments, as well as the geographical and topographical features, of anci
