Prehistory & Ancient History  /  Prehistory
Unter Hügeln (band 1) Cover Unter Hügeln (band 1) Cover
Format: 
Pages: 538
ISBN: 9789464280494
Pub Date: 25 Apr 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
Illustrations: 164fc / 9 bw
Pages: 538
ISBN: 9789464280487
Pub Date: 25 Apr 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
Illustrations: 164fc / 9 bw
Description:
Mit der Bronzezeit verbreitete sich das begehrte neue Metall über ganz Europa. Es veränderte Arbeitssektoren, Netzwerke, Weltanschauungen und Gesellschaften und brachte unterschiedliche Transformationen in diversen Lebensbereichen mit sich. Mit diesem Buch werden alle Transformationsprozesse der Bronzezeit für den Raum Schleswig-Holstein in den Blick genommen.
Unter Hügeln (band 2) Cover Unter Hügeln (band 2) Cover
Format: 
Pages: 446
ISBN: 9789464280524
Pub Date: 25 Apr 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
Illustrations: 261fc / 120 bw
Pages: 446
ISBN: 9789464280517
Pub Date: 25 Apr 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
Illustrations: 261fc / 120 bw
Description:
Mit der Bronzezeit verbreitete sich das begehrte neue Metall über ganz Europa. Es veränderte Arbeitssektoren, Netzwerke, Weltanschauungen und Gesellschaften und brachte unterschiedliche Transformationen in diversen Lebensbereichen mit sich. Mit diesem Buch werden alle Transformationsprozesse der Bronzezeit für den Raum Schleswig-Holstein in den Blick genommen.
Picturing the Bronze Age Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9781789259858
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2023
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Swedish Rock Art Research
Illustrations: fully color illustrated
Description:
Pictures from the Bronze Age are numerous, vivid and complex. There is no other prehistoric period that has produced such a wide range of images spanning from rock art to figurines to decoration on bronzes and gold. Fourteen papers, with a geographical coverage from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula, examine a wide range of topics reflecting the many forms and expressions of Bronze Age imagery encompassing important themes including religion, materiality, mobility, interaction, power and gender.
The Drowning of a Cornish Prehistoric Landscape Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781789259230
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2023
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: B/W and colour
Description:
Between 2018 and 2019, Cornwall Archaeological Unit undertook two projects at Mount’s Bay, Penwith. The first involved the excavation of a Bronze Age barrow and the second, environmental augur core sampling in Marazion Marsh. Both sites lie within an area of coastal hinterland, which has been subject to incursions by rising sea levels.
The Submerged Site of La Marmotta (Rome, Italy) Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9781789258714
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2023
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: Colour
Description:
The shift from a hunting and gathering economy to a productive economy, based on the domestication of plants and animals, is one of the most important changes in human history. This change, which manifested itself in different forms and at different times in different areas of the Old and New Worlds, is still a subject of debate and discussion today. How and why does such a profound change occur in the relationship with the environment and the land?
Complexity and dynamics Cover Complexity and dynamics Cover
Format: 
Pages: 210
ISBN: 9789464270433
Pub Date: 14 Mar 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 73fc / 1bw
Pages: 210
ISBN: 9789464270426
Pub Date: 14 Mar 2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 73fc / 1bw
Description:
How did people organize their settlements in later prehistoric societies? How do architecture, spatial organization, land divisions, and landscape use relate to different modes of social organization? The papers in this book contribute to a greater understanding of the complexity and dynamics of settlement and landscape organization in the Nordic countries from the Late Bronze Age to the Renaissance.
Circuits of Metal Value Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781789259612
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2023
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology
Illustrations: B&W and Color images
Description:
This volume explores the part played by different metals in use from the fourth millennium BC to the Early Iron Age, not only in the Aegean but also in the wider Old World. It addresses the divergent uses and roles of different metals, the interrelationships of these roles and the changing values that may have been accorded to them at different times and in different places by producers and consumers. Individually, the papers in the volume contemplate the particular properties of different metals and the various issues concerning their frequent under-representation in the archaeological (but not necessarily textual) record, and also point out comparative and diachronic perspectives that may have the ability to offer insights into their important roles in wider cultural and historical changes over a period of several millennia.
Knossos: From First to Second Palace Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 238
ISBN: 9780904887747
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2023
Series: BSA Supplementary Volume
Illustrations: 51 line-drawings; 8 tables; 23 half-tone plates; 2 colour plates; 1 pocket-plan
Description:
This volume presents the pottery from a series of deposits excavated by Sir Arthur Evans in the palace at Knossos and assigned by him to the last part of the Middle Bronze Age or Middle Minoan III. The substantial architectural modifications seen in this period are examined along with stratigraphy to give proper context to the pottery deposits. Middle Minoan III was the time when Knossos appeared to expand its reach across Crete: from the First Palace Period, when palaces at Malia and Phaistos rivalled Knossos, to the Second Palace Period, when seemingly they diminished and other smaller palaces were built.
Knossos, Mycenae, Troy Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781789259476
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2023
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: B/w
Description:
This book charts the rise of and interplay between the first Mediterranean civilisations – with particular reference to the Minoan, Cycladic, Mycenaean and Trojan – and on the causes of their decline, which are identified in a jumble of natural and human causes, and in a slow, but irreversible crisis. It takes into account that the Mediterranean Dimension of the Bronze Age is a garden in which many legends flourished, clearly distinguishing between myth and history. Using written sources and archaeological evidence, it charts these civilisations' fortunes and crises, and the wars and natural disasters that led to their decline.
Temple People Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 512
ISBN: 9781913344078
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2023
Series: Fragility and Sustainability - Studies on Early Malta, the ERC-funded FRAGSUS Project
Description:
The ERC-funded FRAGSUS Project (Fragility and sustainability in small island environments: adaptation, culture change and collapse in prehistory, 2013–18) led by Caroline Malone has focused on the unique Temple Culture of Neolithic Malta and its antecedents. This third volume builds on the achievements of Mortuary customs in prehistoric Malta, published by the McDonald Institute in 2009. It seeks to answer many questions posed, but left unanswered, of the more than 200,000 fragments of mainly commingled human remains from the Xagħra Brochtorff Circle on Gozo.
Ancient DNA and the European Neolithic Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781789259100
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2022
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers
Illustrations: B/W
Description:
The current paradigm-changing ancient DNA revolution is offering unparalleled insights into central problems within archaeology relating to the movement of populations and individuals, patterns of descent, relationships and aspects of identity – at many scales and of many different kinds. The impact of recent ancient DNA results can be seen particularly clearly in studies of the European Neolithic, the subject of contributions presented in this volume. We now have new evidence for the movement and mixture of people at the start of the Neolithic, as farming spread from the east, and at its end, when the first metals as well as novel styles of pottery and burial practices arrived in the Chalcolithic.
Settlement in the Irish Neolithic Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781789258820
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2022
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: B/w
Description:
The Irish Neolithic has been dominated by the study of megalithic tombs, but the defining element of Irish settlement evidence is the rectangular timber Early Neolithic house, the numbers of which have more than quadrupled in the last ten years. The substantial Early Neolithic timber house was a short-lived architectural phenomenon of as little as 90 years, perhaps like short-lived Early Neolithic long barrows and causewayed enclosures. This book explores the wealth of evidence for settlement and houses throughout the Irish Neolithic, in relation to Britain and continental Europe.
Keramik jenseits von 'Kulturen' Cover Keramik jenseits von 'Kulturen' Cover
Format: 
Pages: 504
ISBN: 9789464280463
Pub Date: 23 Nov 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology
Illustrations: 156fc / 56bw
Pages: 4220
ISBN: 9789464280456
Pub Date: 23 Nov 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology
Illustrations: 156fc / 56bw
Description:
Mobilität ist für Formen des sozialen Zusammenlebens grundlegend. Doch welche Rolle spielte räumliche Mobilität in der Vergangenheit? Aus prähistorischen Zeitabschnitten wie etwa dem Neolithikum ist dazu noch immer wenig bekannt.
Classical Controversies Cover Classical Controversies Cover
Format: 
Pages: 210
ISBN: 9789464270372
Pub Date: 16 Nov 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 7fc
Pages: 210
ISBN: 9789464270365
Pub Date: 16 Nov 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 7fc
Description:
Modern receptions of Graeco-Roman Antiquity are important ideological markers of the ways we envisage our own twenty-first-century societies. An urgent topic of study is: what kinds of narratives – sometimes controversial – about Antiquity do people create for themselves at this moment in time, and for what reasons? This volume aims to showcase a number of illustrative examples, and thus to provide a deeper understanding of twenty-first-century reception of Antiquity.
An Introduction to Peatland Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781789257557
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2022
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: B/w and colour
Description:
Peatlands are regarded as having exceptional archaeological value, due to the fact the waterlogged conditions of these wetlands can preserve organic remains that are almost entirely lost from the majority of dryland contexts. This is certainly true, although the remarkable preservation of sites and artefacts is just one aspect of their archaeological importance. This book provides an accessible introduction to the ecology and formation processes of peatlands, and to the different archaeological and palaeoenvironmental techniques that have been developed and adapted for the study of these environments.
The Baltic in the Bronze Age Cover The Baltic in the Bronze Age Cover
Format: 
Pages: 430
ISBN: 9789464270198
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 94fc / 48bw
Pages: 430
ISBN: 9789464270181
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 94fc / 48bw
Description:
The Bronze Age is a time of increasing interaction with large-scale connections that cover vast parts of Europe. Some parts and regions of the Bronze Age are very well explored and for some very strong narratives of hierarchisation and differentiation, dependence on external raw material supplies and specialisation have been proposed. In other regions, however, only some of these aspects appear, even though networks of contact would at least have been possible.