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Este libro investiga las sociedades célticas de la península ibérica a través de una vía comparativa y holística basada en la etnoarqueología, etnohistoria, folklore, historia del derecho y de las religiones, lingüística y literatura oral, en conjunción con los datos arqueológicos y los autores clásicos. La interconexión de fuentes de distinta naturaleza gracias a una estrategia transdisciplinar y los procesos de larga duración permite abordar numerosas prácticas y creencias presentes en las comunidades hispanocélticas. Este análisis aproxima los diferentes subsistemas económicos, sociales e ideológicos en la Hispania Céltica, desde los más contrastables arqueológicamente a aquellos menos perceptibles pertenecientes al mundo simbólico: tanto patrones de subsistencia, sistemas legales o modelos de estructura social, como la literatura céltica, los rituales o los paisajes míticos. Además, las diversas características comunes desde una punta a otra de Europa muestran la Edad del Hierro de una parte de la península ibérica como un mundo celtohispano polimórfico repleto de instituciones ancestrales y cosmovisiones de raigambre indoeuropea. Este volumen es parte de un conjunto de dos volúmenes: ISBN 9781407357485 (Volumen I); ISBN 9781407357492 (Volumen II); ISBN 9781407316703 (Conjunto de ambos volúmenes). This book studies the Celtic societies of the Iberian Peninsula based on ethnoarchaeology, ethnohistory, folklore, history of law, religions, linguistics and oral literature, in addition to archaeological data and classical literature. This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407357485 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407357492 (Volume II); ISBN 9781407316703 (Set of both volumes).

Este libro investiga las sociedades célticas de la península ibérica a través de una vía comparativa y holística basada en la etnoarqueología, etnohistoria, folklore, historia del derecho y de las religiones, lingüística y literatura oral, en conjunción con los datos arqueológicos y los autores clásicos. La interconexión de fuentes de distinta naturaleza gracias a una estrategia transdisciplinar y los procesos de larga duración permite abordar numerosas prácticas y creencias presentes en las comunidades hispanocélticas. Este análisis aproxima los diferentes subsistemas económicos, sociales e ideológicos en la Hispania Céltica, desde los más contrastables arqueológicamente a aquellos menos perceptibles pertenecientes al mundo simbólico: tanto patrones de subsistencia, sistemas legales o modelos de estructura social, como la literatura céltica, los rituales o los paisajes míticos. Además, las diversas características comunes desde una punta a otra de Europa muestran la Edad del Hierro de una parte de la península ibérica como un mundo celtohispano polimórfico repleto de instituciones ancestrales y cosmovisiones de raigambre indoeuropea. Este volumen es parte de un conjunto de dos volúmenes: ISBN 9781407357485 (Volumen I); ISBN 9781407357492 (Volumen II); ISBN 9781407316703 (Conjunto de ambos volúmenes). This book studies the Celtic societies of the Iberian Peninsula based on ethnoarchaeology, ethnohistory, folklore, history of law, religions, linguistics and oral literature, in addition to archaeological data and classical literature. This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407357485 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407357492 (Volume II); ISBN 9781407316703 (Set of both volumes).

Volume 2 of 2 volumes

With English abstract

A conference held under the auspices of the Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, The Council for British Research in the Levant and the Department of Archaeology at the University of LiverpoolEdited by Philip Freeman, Julian Bennett, Zbigniew T. Fiema and Birgitta HoffmannThe much-anticipated, two-volume proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies held in Amman, Jordan (September 2000). The 100 papers published here represent approximately two-thirds of the presentations made at this important event. The 'limits' of the discussions encompass (Volume I): 'General Themes', 'The Eastern Frontier', 'Rome and Parthia', 'The Anatolian Provinces and the Black Sea Region', 'North Africa', 'The Germanies', 'Early Roman Germany', (Volume II) 'The Danubian and Balkan Provinces', 'Dacia', 'The Spains', 'Britain', 'The Roman Army, 'Roman Fortifications', 'Fleets and Frontiers', and 'Documents and Archives'.

This work examines in detail a specific group of inscribed material from the Memphite necropolis. The material dates to the late Old Kingdom-Herakleopolitan Period, and comes from tombs belonging to officials of various ranks and social standing. Some ofthe stelae and other inscribed fragments, offering tables, side pieces, and blocks have been published, while others are looked at here for the first time. This book, however, is the first work to bring all this material together as comprehensively as possible in order to fully assess its extent and importance. It investigates the distribution of the Herakleopolitan Period cemeteries in the vast necropolis of Memphis; analyses each individual cemetery and its development through this period;and exploresthe architectural remains of the chapels of the period to cast light on their design. A major focus is the examination of the tomb stelae, their orientation, development, and their inscriptions in comparison with contemporary stelae fromprovincial cemeteries, particularly Dendara, Naga-ed Deir, Akhmim, Ashmunein, Asyut, Edfu and Thebes.This work examines in detail a specific group of inscribed material from the Memphite necropolis. The material dates to the late Old Kingdom-Herakleopolitan Period, and comes from tombs belonging to officials of various ranks and social standing. Some ofthe stelae and other inscribed fragments, offering tables, side pieces, and blocks have been published, while others are looked at here for the first time. This book, however, is the first work to bring all this material together as comprehensively as possible in order to fully assess its extent and importance. It investigates the distribution of the Herakleopolitan Period cemeteries in the vast necropolis of Memphis; analyses each individual cemetery and its development through this period;and exploresthe architectural remains of the chapels of the period to cast light on their design. A major focus is the examination of the tomb stelae, their orientation, development, and their inscriptions in comparison with contemporary stelae fromprovincial cemeteries, particularly Dendara, Naga-ed Deir, Akhmim, Ashmunein, Asyut, Edfu and Thebes.

This book examines the third century BC in South Catalonia, through thorough study of the imported black pottery into the region. The ware comes from Italy, Rhodes, Africa, Ampurias etc and throws light on the commerce and economic life of the indigenouspeoples. Thoroughly illustrated with a catalogue.

Excavations at the Ugwuagu Rockshelter and the Ugwuagu Abandoned Village Sites, all in Afikpo, form the basis of this book. The excavations were carried out in 1975 with the aims of providing some information on the Late Stone Age of the area, providing comparable material for the Ukpa rockshelter excavated by Hartle in 1966 and investigating the post Late Stone Age developments of the area in search of continuity or break in the assemblages from Late Stone Age times to the present. A definite aceramic horizon was confirmed for the rockshelter and the book presents a picture of gradual change from Late Stone Age hunting/gathering to an early agricultural economy. The village sites represent a fully agro-based community. Continuity was attested by the presence of similar types of pottery in both rockshelter and village sites, but the disparity in C-14 dates shows a hiatus of nearly 1000 years.

The papers in this volume are grouped under following headings: Oases and other forms of agricultural intensification; The visibility of nomads and herders across the archaeological record; The rise and decline of complex societies in Mediterranean Europe during the Middle and Late Bronze Age; Political and cultural frontiers; Archaeology and ethnicity. Sixty-nine authors come from all over Europe and the USA.

This is the second volume of the Adriatic Island Project. It lists the results of extensive archaeological survey of the island of Brac in the Croatian Adriatic. The fieldwork resulted in a database which includes all archaeological sites on the island, from prehistory, Greek and Roman periods to the Medieval time. Each site entry gives a precise location, description and bibliography.

Although the Nuragic civilization of Middle Bronze Age Sardinia has been well documented, the research so far has been focused on elite centres with their monumental conical dry-stone towerhouses. The excavations at Duos Nuraghes were undertaken to shedmore light on non-elite settlements and to examine the life of ordinary people who inhabited the island in the Bronze and Iron Ages. This book is the first of two volumes and is reporting the findings from nine seasons. A sufficient number of of structural deposits was excavated, enabling a reconstruction of the settlement's exceptionally long history which spanned some 2800 years, from the Middle Bronze Age to the early medieval period.

This volume synthesises the available evidence for military architecture in Liguria in the Early Middle Ages, combining archaeological and documentary evidence.

Proceedings of a 2006 conference held in Madriad. The 11 papers explore aspects of the archaeology of death and burial in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages focusing on the Iberian Peninsula and on Christian sites. Essays in Spanish, with one in French and one in English.

A conference held under the auspices of the Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, The Council for British Research in the Levant and the Department of Archaeology at the University of LiverpoolThe much-anticipated, two-volume proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies held in Amman, Jordan (September 2000). The 100 papers published here represent approximately two-thirds of the presentations made at this important event. The 'limits' of the discussions encompass (Volume I) General Themes, The Eastern Frontier, Rome and Parthia, The Anatolian Provinces and the Black Sea Region, North Africa, The Germanies, Early Roman Germany, (Volume II) The Danubian and Balkan Provinces, Dacia, The Spains, Britain, The Roman Army, Roman Fortifications, Fleets and Frontiers, and Documents and Archives.

In this, the 16th issue of The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe, the subject matter returns to the east coast of the USA, last visited by the Chesapeake Bay volume (Number XII). A new, extended, typology for Colono pipes is presented, along with a detailed analysis of their chronology. A study of the archaeological evidence at these sites, together with a comparison of the stylistic elements present on the Colono pipes with examples from Mali in West Africa and from elsewhere in the African Diaspora outside North America, strongly supports previous arguments for an African ethnicity for the Chesapeake finds. The author links the increasing social hostility towards Africans in the area, as the century progresses, with changes in the styles observed onthe pipes "investing them with...a symbolic content...as a method of communicating cultural survival and ethnic solidarity." The work is of particular significance to prehistorians who lack the means of studying past societies using historical sources.

The subject in this, Number 58 of the series of Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, is the range of fortifications on the East African coast. The author traces the development of defences from the 10th to the 19th centuries, from the beginnings of Islamicisation and the apogee of the city-states, to Portugese and Ottoman rule. This broad approach encompasses the main features of military architecture and its interaction with urban societies. As well as defensive structures, the Swahili sites also symbolise urban and non-military use. These appeared from the 10th century, a period where the employment of stone architecture became common. The Swahili centres have both a synchronous and diachronic value; they are witnesses to the political and economic relationships between contemporary settlements, and represent the evolution of urban living. Forts and fortifications reflected royal power, and their study provides a political dimension that affords an insight into the complex relations between the different city-states along this dynamic and vast coastline. The military edifices reflect the periodic tensions and grand events that have shaped the history of the African east littoral.

This volume arises from a session at the EAA conference in Lisbon in 2000. Its aim was to draw together the new data from Europe on prehistoric wooden palisaded enclosures. Wood was important to early humans yet the rarity of surviving wooden objects from prehistoric contexts means that it is a rarely studied and often ignored medium. However and wherever these wooden remains are tantalizingly discovered, there is common concern across Europe of the lack of understanding on them. However, an increasing amount of work is taking place across Europe on Neolithic palisade enclosures, in particular, and the number of sites is expanding. These sites present their own problems with horizontal stratigraphy and phasing, as well as the more obvious considerations of dating and scarcity of internal features. Questions such as 'what were they for?' are likely to remain unanswered for some while, but it is hoped that the five papers in this volume (discussing sites from Ireland to Romania) as well as presenting a large body of new data, will go some way towards shedding some light on the study of these enigmatic structures.

Ce volume fait partie d'un ensemble de deux volumes: ISBN 9781841712611 (Volume I); ISBN 9781841712628 (Volume II); ISBN 9781841712598 (Ensemble des deux volumes).

This book focuses on the functional analysis of the lithic industries of Neanderthal caves of Grotta Breuil in Italy and La Combette in France. Through use-wear analysis of the stone artefacts, the conclusions were reached on the modalities of subsistence in the course of the Middle Palaeolithic and on behaviour and mental planning capacity of the Neanderthals.

This book is related to the study of historical processes and transformations within peasant societies that occurred during recent Prehistory in the Spanish Northern Plateau. The work is focused on the Chalcolithic (3000-1900 cal BC) which remains poorlyunderstood in the area of the Arlanzón river valley because of its problematic archaeological record. The large amount of data collected over the last 30 years has led to new theoretical approach and research methodologies to explore the archaeological record. The recent finds have also generated discussion in historical terms of the material evidence.

The Corinthian Aryballos, a perfume vessel, is the subject of this book and the author examines the place of the vessel within the cultural system of ties between East and West. Through an exhaustive artistic analysis of the vessel and all its characteristics, the author attempts to prove that the Aryballos can serve as a measure of the period between the 8th and 6th centuries BC. Corinth during this period was a dominant centre of ceramic production, more so than other important centres such as Crete orCyprus.

Much of the material presented here first appeared in my doctoral thesis submitted in 1976, since when it has been updated and revised. I occasionally refer to the Thesis for more detailed documentation which has been omitted here.