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Subtitled An ethnoarchaeologica; study of pottery production, trade and use in the Andes', this study explores the role of pottery within the wider cultural setting of present-day Andean society. Sillar shows that economic, social and ritual aspects of Andean society are completely interrelated, equiring archaeology to widen its scope.

A specialised study, based on the author's thesis, of Bronze Age jewellery found in burial contexts on mainland Greece and Crete. Konstantinidi looks at the technology and craftmanship involved in the production of jewellery before presenting a typology and catalogue of examples: head, hair and neck ornaments; arm/hand ornaments.

A study of the Beaker phenomenon in the Central Meseta of the Iberian peninsula based on the author's doctoral thesis. Following an introduction to the history of investigation into the Beaker period, Garrido-Pena looks at the sites and their characteristics, tomb types, human remains, grave goods and funerary ritual.

Studies of the Late Pleistocene period, approximately between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago, vary considerably in their interpretations of human activity, mobility and cultural complexity.

Theoretical and technical analysis of pottery from archaeological contexts, largely based on practical experimentation. In particular, Naschinski looks at how signs of alterations or damage, as well as residue analysis, may indicate a vessel's changing function.

A detailed analysis of data relating to the subsistence of early humans in the Iberian peninsular from the Lower Palaeolithic through to the Magdalenian.

A study of the centres of production and diffusion of a type of Iron Age pottery known as ceramica a tenda', focusing especially on the regions of Basilicata, Campania and Puglia in southern Italy. Italian text.

Italian, with abstract and resumâe in English.

The Swiss Canton Ticino had at its heart the Roman town of Cosmo and Lake Maggiore, the shores of which were lined by a succession of Roman settlements and rich cemeteries. This examination of Roman coarse and thin-walled pottery from the Canton is based on detailed analyses of assemblages which were largely recovered from datable graves.

A report on the findings of the Recent Prehistory of Matienzo Project where British and Spanish scholars present the results of explorations at various cave sites in the northern province of Cantabria.

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, artefacts, archaeology, textual material, boats and boat models and experimental work. French text.

A synthesis of evidence, particularly architectural and documentary, on the fortified sites of Strasbourg during Late Antiquity. Bastien Gissinger presents the evidence and an interpretation of the nature, occupation and use of various buildings, with illustrations of their plan, location and defences. French text.

Sixteen papers designed to reflect the work of the project Emergence and Growth of Centres: A Case Study in the Santa Maria Valley .

An inventory with technological descriptions. Numerous drawings.

The first in a new BAR sub-series of Monographs on Spanish and Portuguese Archaeology is concerned with `la transicin al estado en las campinas del Alto Guadalquivir' in the period 30001500 BC.

"The papers in this volume were initially prepared for a symposium held in 1987 at the Fifty-second annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Toronto"--P. v.

A reconstruction of settlement and subsistence during the Younger Stone Age undertaken as a Cambridge doctoral thesis.

Based on a project carried out from 1985-1992 investigating the history of Bronze Age communitities in the Upper Guadalquivir Valley of Jaen, this report explores the archaeological evidence for social hierarchies in the Bronze Age (2100-1100 BC) and, in particular, at the fortified site of Penalosa.

This study combines ethnohistorical and archaeological evidence to investigate the social and political development of the region of Chacalapan during the Classic and Post-Classic periods (AD300-1520). The ethnohistorical evidence is taken from both Mexico and Spain and reveals the extent of imperial control in the Post-Classic period.

Through a combination of GIS modelling and evidence from hieroglyphic inscriptions, Anaya forms a cartographic reconstruction of the political organisation of the Upper Usumacinta region of the Maya Lowlands.

A detailed analysis of lithic assemblages from the sites of the Grand Banks, Lone Pine and Young 1 sites in northeastern North America. Dating to c.AD 500-1000, Shen uses the evidence to assess lithic production strategies and its relationship to food production.

A highly detailed analysis of stone tools recovered from excavations at two sites on the coral island of Ambergris Caye, off the coast of Belize, which revealed evidence for continuous occupation on the island from c.100 BC until well into the Historic period.

A study of the evolution of settlement patterns in the Vera Basin and Almanzora river valley in Almeriá, south-east Spain. The surveys carried out in the late 1980s and early 1990s provided the material on which this study is based and helps to reconstruct the development of settlement from the early Phoenician colonisation of the area in the 8th century BC to Late Antiquity and the early 8th century AD. Appendices contain the archaeological data. Spanish text; summaries in English and French.