Although the earliest known literary evidence for a dual-sexed divinity on Cyprus dates to the fifth century BCE, archaeological evidence indicates there was a tradition on the island of sexually a
Focusing on Bronze Age societies in Central Eurasia and North China, this book presents a new scenario of early social evolution. Essentially it integrates the Marxist production-relation concept a
Papers from the session 'The Intellectual and Spiritual Expression of Non-Literate Societies' given at the XVI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (F
This volume looks at the development of antiquarianism in Cork from its earliest manifestations at the end of the eighteenth century up to about 1880, and in particular the spread of more scientific a
This study examines archaeological evidence relating to predynastic settlement along the Nile from the 5th to 4th millennium BC. Evidence from 37 sites is presented including the remains of domestic s
Grajetzki explores a number of both published and unpublished sources to uncover the lives and work of two treasurers of the mid-13th Dynasty and the people around them. Evidence taken from stelae rev
This book comprehensively documents the hunter-gathering way of life in India from the Lower Palaeolithic to the present. It is based on the author's field work in Rajastahan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar
This book explores the theory of landscape and the possibility of conscious inclusion of landscape features in the architecture of rural sanctuaries in the Roman Near East. Concentrating on geographic
Subtitled `The interaction between Greek and Egyptian traditions', this thesis aims to establish a chronology for developments in the portrayal of the Ptolemaic royal family. Sally-Ann Ashton catalogu
This study takes as its subject matter the use of social space in early medieval Irish houses (c. AD 600-1200), with the evidence from the province of Ulster interrogated in more detail. During this p
A study, based on the author's dissertation and three seasons of archaeological investigations, of the development of centralised chiefdoms and social complexity (AD 1200-1837) and their effect on tho
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.
Mackie's specialised study aims to assess the so-called `social complexity' of hunter-gatherers based on an analysis of the spatial patterning of communities on Western Vancouver Island in Canada. Muc
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
A study of piracy in north-west Europe from the 1st century and the Julio-Claudians to the 5th century AD. Detalle's analysis is based on various sources of evidence including epigraphy, coinage, arte
Warfare has often been mentioned as a characteristic of Urnfield cultures in Late Bronze Age Europe but the nature of this conflict has not been studied in detail. Based on a survey of the literature
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
