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The symposium of this title formed part of the 44th Congreso Internacional de Americanistas which met at Manchester in 1982. The papers presented and published here provide a useful summary of the themes concerning archaeologists working at a variety of sites in Peru and particularly in the highlands. Although the original intent was to include some discussion of the use of an interdisciplinary approach by projects principally concerned with archaeological data - this was later modified to provide an open forum on currrent research.

This book presents an archaeological challenge to explain the ethnohistory of the Ainu of Japan and reappraise the Ainu culture. This challenge is posed by the existence of iron-working hearths in excavated Ainu villages dated before 1667. The Ainu culture has hitherto been thought of as largely a hunting, fishing and gathering society. The archaeological evidence, however, suggests something more complex, and leads to the hypothesis that this labelling of the Ainu may be a historical, academic and political distortion. Iron-working technology was chosen as the focus because technology is a form of social expression as well as a techno-complex. Taking account of earlier research, this book provides a more detailed understanding of the emergence of Ainu cultural identity and social change among the Ainu by examining past cultural contact and interaction between the Ainu and outsiders, and by drawing on Ainu oral tradition as well as archaeological material.

With particular reference to Channel-rim Jars

With contributions by Vronwy Hankey, Alexandru Lupu, Salo (Shiomo) Heliwing and Yitzhak Adjeman, Nil Liphschitz and Yoav Waisel, Raphael Giveon, Baruch Rosen and Aaron DemskyManuscript Editor Irene Aranne

This is the second of a projected series of five important volumes presenting the results of excavations (1963-4) carried out at the Nubian site of Meinarti (near the Second Nile Cataract, about 10km to the south of modern-day Wadi Halfa). Occupation of the site covers some 18 levels, ranging from perhaps 200 AD to the early Post-Christian periods, or approximately 1600 AD. This second volume (following on from the analysis of the two first Phases - the Meroitic and Ballaña) carries the story forward through the Early and Classic Christian periods, designated as Phases 3 and 4. The work includes a summary in Arabic, a section containing 40 pages of b/w photographs, and material online (the back-cover pocket-inserts with seven separate plans/lay-outs). A comprehensive register of finds from Phases 3 and 4 is presented as an Appendix.