The So Pots of Central Africa
The So Pots of Central Africa

Author: Graham Connah

Publisher: BAR International Series

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 108

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African Archaeology, Volume 91 This book is an original study of very large pots in parts of Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria. Found in excavations and surface fieldwork, they have been attributed to the So, a group of pre-Islamic inhabitants of the area before the sixteenth century AD, who have become mythologised as giants. Originally for burial, in some cases the pots have been dug up by villagers and reused: for brewing beer or as dye pits for indigo cloth. The book focuses on a group of these pots that survived until the late twentieth century in villages in a small part of Borno, north-eastern Nigeria. With the passage of time and terrorist activities in the region, their fate is now unknown and the photographs from 1963 to 1993 reproduced in this book have become a major archive of an unusual pottery group.

Design and Connectivity
Design and Connectivity

Author: Joana Valdez-Tullett

Publisher: BAR International Series

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 292

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Archaeology of Prehistoric Art, Volume 1 Atlantic Rock Art is a rock art tradition which includes emblematic motifs such as cup-marks, cup-and-rings and lines, known to several countries on the Atlantic seaboard. Design and Connectivity springs from an inter-regional study of this tradition, based on an original and innovative methodology applied to an empirical dataset. The project builds on Richard Bradley's work, investigating differences and similarities in Atlantic Art over study areas in five countries: Scotland, England, Ireland, Spain and Portugal. It applies a multi-scalar methodology developed under the principles of Relational Ontology and Assemblage Theory, providing a dynamic perspective on the empirical data. A thorough categorical scheme was scrutinised using a Presence/Absence Matrix, spatial analysis (fieldwork and GIS) and the development of Social Network Analysis (SNA) to relate and explore the relationships and connectivity between study areas. Concepts of developmental psychology support the idea of intentional teaching and cultural transmission.

Lucid Transformations
Lucid Transformations

Author: Tamar Winter

Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited

Published: 2019-08-30

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9781407316987

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The book investigates the contribution ofglass finds to understanding the nature of the transition from Byzantine toIslamic rule in Syria-Palestine, by analysing numerous glass assemblages fromJerusalem and its environs. This original synthesis explores the nature ofnumerous types of glass objects, and their distinct distribution in varioustypes of sites. Furthermore, the identification of trends of continuity andchange in the fabrics, technologies, typologies and styles of the glass findsthroughout this turbulent period, illuminates the nature of the processesundergone by the various communities in the Jerusalem area. Themonograph comprises a newly established, comprehensive, up-to-datetypo-chronology, based on hundreds of glass wares of the Byzantine and EarlyIslamic periods from scores of excavations, in and around Jerusalem and inneighbouring regions. Additionally, a holistic study of lighting devices, glasslamps and windowpanes, includes a novel assessment of Christian, Muslim andJewish written sources regarding lighting in religious buildings in Jerusalemin the relevant periods.

Late Bronze Age Social Landscapes of the Southeast Balkans
Late Bronze Age Social Landscapes of the Southeast Balkans

Author: Denitsa Nenova

Publisher: BAR International Series

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 196

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The book explores settlement and burial patterns across the southeastern corner of the Balkan Peninsula during the second millennium BC and offers a new, detailed cross-border examination of the local pottery data. The volume offers a comprehensive analysis based on the existing cultural-historical framework and calls into question established constructs such as the 'Plovdiv-Zimnicea' culture. The work offers a chronologically structured analysis of pottery sequences and is methodologically innovative in the way it applies a rare combination of settlement-scale analysis using advanced spatial-statistical methods alongside artefact-scale typological and stylistic study on local ceramics also subjected to spatial-statistical mapping. As a result, the research highlights clusters of attributes and cycles of micro-regional interaction. On that basis it also addresses the formation, development and decline of the Late Bronze Age tradition(s) in Thrace and examines the degree to which this trajectory was influenced by wider patterns of regional development.

Persepolis West (Fars, Iran)
Persepolis West (Fars, Iran)

Author: ʻAlī Riz̤ā ʻAsgarī Chāvardī

Publisher: BAR International Series

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 316

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This book represents the final report on the field work carried out in 2008 and 2009 by the Iranian-Italian Joint Archaeological Mission at the archaeological site of Persepolis West, where parts of the town adjacent to the well-known Achaemenid monumental terrace of Persepolis have been located. The eleven trial trenches excavated in areas indicated by the results of Iranian and Iranian-French geophysical surveys represent the first stratigraphic excavations ever carried out on this site, the dating of which is supported by a rich series of radiocarbon datings. Illustration of the excavations is preceded by an accurate geophysical study of the topographical context and accompanied by a detailed and richly illustrated analysis of pottery and other finds: the safe stratigraphic context makes these finds a particularly important source of evidence for our knowledge of the ceramics of Fars during the historic pre-Islamic age. The excavations largely confirm the location of the built-up area of Parsa indicated by geophysical surveys.

The Zeebrugge Shipwreck
The Zeebrugge Shipwreck

Author: Hendrik Lettany

Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9781407316048

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In the 1990s, large numbers of mainly metal objects were discovered off the Belgian coast near the port of Zeebrugge, indicating the location of an early modern wreck-site. Though at this time no appropriate legislation in regard to such a procedure existed in Belgium, the discoverer of the finds nonetheless initiated the excavation and study of this underwater site with a team of professional divers and amateur archaeologists. Unfortunately, the project was never finalised and the data related to the excavation ended up unpublished and dispersed among several members of the excavation team. Now, more than 25 years later, the author of this book aims to collect, analyse, and reassess the initial data related to the excavation, in order to propose a substantiated interpretation of this forgotten site. In order to understand the available data, Hendrik Lettany first explores the circumstances of the excavation. The resulting data, together with the actual archaeological collection from the excavation, are then carefully discussed and interpreted.

Sasanian Clay Sealings in the Bandar Abbas Museum
Sasanian Clay Sealings in the Bandar Abbas Museum

Author: Kamal Aldin Niknami

Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 9781407314877

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This book presents the newly discovered assemblage of 800 Sasanianclay sealings which is now kept in the Persian Gulf Museum of Bandar Abbas,Iran. In 2012, this collection was confiscated in Bandar Khamir, HormozganProvince when in transit from Iran to UAE, and was delivered to the HormozganCenter of Cultural Heritage Organization. Unfortunately the provenance of thecollection is still unknown, but in comparison with the large Sasanian archivesof Qasr- ? Abu Nasr and Taxt- i Soleyman, which comprise 505and 241 clay sealings, respectively, such a large number of clay sealings isremarkable. The book introduces this new and hitherto unpublished archive ofSasanian clay sealings and we hope that the archive in question will expand ourknowledge of Sasanian economic systems.