Late Prehistoric Fortifications in Europe: Defensive, Symbolic and Territorial Aspects from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Age
Late Prehistoric Fortifications in Europe: Defensive, Symbolic and Territorial Aspects from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Age

Author: Davide Delfino

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2020-03-19

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1789692555

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This book presents 19 papers from the International Colloquium ‘FortMetalAges’ (Portugal, 2017); they discuss different interpretive ideas for defensive structures whose construction had necessitated large investment, present new case studies, and conduct comparative analysis between different regions and periods (Chalcolithic to Iron Age).

Challenging Preconceptions of the European Iron Age
Challenging Preconceptions of the European Iron Age

Author: Wendy Morrison

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2022-06-20

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1803270071

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This collection of essays by leading researchers in the archaeology of the European Iron Age pays tribute to Professor John Collis who, since the 1960s, has been involved in investigating and enriching our understanding of Iron Age society and, crucially, questioning the status quo of our narratives about the past.

Hillforts: Britain, Ireland and the Nearer Continent
Hillforts: Britain, Ireland and the Nearer Continent

Author: Gary Lock

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2019-06-27

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 178969227X

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The Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland project (2012-2016) compiled a massive database on hillforts by a team drawn from the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh and Cork. This volume outlines the history of the project, offers preliminary assessments of the online digital Atlas and presents initial research studies using Atlas data.

The Prehistoric Rock Art of Portugal
The Prehistoric Rock Art of Portugal

Author: George Nash

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-10-30

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 1000955338

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The Prehistoric Rock Art of Portugal presents significant interpretive perspectives in Portuguese rock art research and offers an excellent representation of core rock art areas, along with current thinking and interpretations. The various chapters deliver a personal approach to the many issues, themes and approaches that are embedded within the rock art of the outpost of western Atlantic Europe. Ethnographical perspectives have often dominated the study of rock art but unlike other well-studied regions, the western Iberian Peninsula is absent of an ethnographical or ethno-historical past and therefore the production of rock art can only be archaeologically assessed. Thus, the work promotes interpretive perspectives on Portuguese rock art, illustrating the richness, chronology and context of these unique artistic expressions and explores the variability of rock art imagery and the diversity of landscapes and social contexts in which it was produced. Although focusing on Portuguese rock art the book includes a number of universal themes that will appeal to a broad range of scholars researching in archaeology and anthropology, history of art, as well as professionals engaged in rock art heritage and conservation.

Enclosing Space, Opening New Ground
Enclosing Space, Opening New Ground

Author: Tanja Romankiewicz

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2019-03-31

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1789252024

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Enclosures are among the most widely distributed features of the European Iron Age. From fortifications to field systems, they demarcate territories and settlements, sanctuaries and central places, burials and ancestral grounds. This dividing of the physical and the mental landscape between an ‘inside’ and an ‘outside’ is investigated anew in a series of essays by some of the leading scholars on the topic. The contributions cover new ground, from Scotland to Spain, between France and the Eurasian steppe, on how concepts and communities were created as well as exploring specific aspects and broader notions of how humans marked, bounded and guarded landscapes in order to connect across space and time. A recurring theme considers how Iron Age enclosures created, curated, formed or deconstructed memory and identity, and how by enclosing space, these communities opened links to an earlier past in order to understand or express their Iron Age presence. In this way, the contributions examine perspectives that are of wider relevance for related themes in different periods.

Walled Up to Heaven
Walled Up to Heaven

Author: Aaron Burke

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-07-17

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9004376682

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As the first comprehensive study of fortification systems and defensive strategies in the Levant during the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 1900 to 1500 B.C.E.), this book is an indispensable contribution to the study of early warfare in the ancient Near East.

The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean
The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean

Author: A. Bernard Knapp

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-01-12

Total Pages: 1677

ISBN-13: 131619406X

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The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean offers new insights into the material and social practices of many different Mediterranean peoples during the Bronze and Iron Ages, presenting in particular those features that both connect and distinguish them. Contributors discuss in depth a range of topics that motivate and structure Mediterranean archaeology today, including insularity and connectivity; mobility, migration, and colonization; hybridization and cultural encounters; materiality, memory, and identity; community and household; life and death; and ritual and ideology. The volume's broad coverage of different approaches and contemporary archaeological practices will help practitioners of Mediterranean archaeology to move the subject forward in new and dynamic ways. Together, the essays in this volume shed new light on the people, ideas, and materials that make up the world of Mediterranean archaeology today, beyond the borders that separate Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

Crossing the Alps
Crossing the Alps

Author: Lorenzo Zamboni

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12-18

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9789088909610

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This is the first comprehensive overview on Iron Age urbanism south and north of the Alps.

The Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula
The Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula

Author: Katina T. Lillios

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1107113342

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One of the only guides to the prehistoric archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula that engages with key anthropological and archaeological debates.

The Social Archaeology of the Levant
The Social Archaeology of the Levant

Author: Assaf Yasur-Landau

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-12-20

Total Pages: 941

ISBN-13: 1108668240

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The volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of the southern Levant (modern day Israel, Palestine and Jordan) from the Paleolithic period to the Islamic era, presenting the past with chronological changes from hunter-gatherers to empires. Written by an international team of scholars in the fields of archaeology, epigraphy, and bioanthropology, the volume presents central debates around a range of archaeological issues, including gender, ritual, the creation of alphabets and early writing, biblical periods, archaeometallurgy, looting, and maritime trade. Collectively, the essays also engage diverse theoretical approaches to demonstrate the multi-vocal nature of studying the past. Significantly, The Social Archaeology of the Levant updates and contextualizes major shifts in archaeological interpretation.