This work explains the rise of social and political complexity in the area of the confluence of the Shashi and Limpopo Rivers in southern Africa between around AD 900 and 1300.
The first of four volumes dedicated to publishing the results of the excavations at the site of Meinarti in the Sudan, part of the UNESCO Archaeological Survey.
This study concerns Early Bronze Age burials excavated on the mound of Tell Bia (northern Syria). The author discusses the material evidence, the theoretical basis, and the methods used for inferring
Serrano's thesis examines the relationship between kingship and festivals in Egypt between c.3380 and 2910 BC. The study uses such sources as the Palermo Stone to reconstruct festivals of enthronement
This massive volume, the proceedings of an international conference in Verona in 2005, reasseses the work of S.A. Semonov, the Soviet archaeologist and pioneer of the functional analysis.
This work examines the post-palatial phase of Late Helladic IIIC middle. During this phase in Greek prehistory, Greece undergoes important changes that will transfer the palace administrative system o
'Beazley treated the gems, rings and cameos listed in this volume as monuments deserving as much attention in description of detail, even to the forms of letters in inscriptions, as any other work of
In response to a general lack of research in the Zindar region of northern Nigeria, Ann Haour collates information and data related to one important but ill-understood site - Kufan Kanawa. Although th
This work represents a synthesis of the information available on the urban centres of the Roman province of Lusitania. The purpose of the study is to identify the most important cities of Lusitania, u
This book reports on the reconaissance and survey of the prehistoric settlement site at the modern fishing town of Puerto Lopez, Canton Jipijapa, in the southern Manabi province of Ecuador. The earlie
This volume takes as its starting point a catalogue of elite houses in Roman Africa and looks at the relationship between the mosaic decorations of particular rooms and their function. Significant pat
The papers collected in this volume were, with a couple of exceptions, presented at a conference on Celtic coinage held at the Ashmolean Museum and the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, on 6th 7th Dec
In the early 16th century Weobley was described as a market town in Herefordshire, where is a goodly castell, but somewhat in decay. Less than a century later, and based on a plan made by Silas Taylor
In 1976 a late Mesolithic Ertebolle settlement (c.5000 BC) and a slightly later male burial in a dug-out canoe, were discovered off the southern coast of Denmark. Small-scale investigations by the Lan
The first centuries BC-AD see a huge increase in Nabatean depictions of women, and using inscriptions, coins and archaeological studies this book looks at the reasons for this trend, which represents
An investigation of the cultural and ritual significance behind the placing of personal ornaments in certain contexts, notably temples, shrines and burials. Drawing throughout on archaeological and ic
Oxbow says: This study re-evaluates many of the misconceptions about the war-crazed Iron Age warrior hero, and questions anew the role of hillforts as truly, or primarily, defensive structures. Takin
