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Rock Art Studies Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 229
ISBN: 9781900188210
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1997
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: with numerous figures
Description:
Essays on recent developments and recent discoveries in Rock Art research around the world, based on the proceedings of the 1995 Rock Art conference held in Italy. This is the third in the five-yearly surveys of what is happening in rock art studies around the world, which builds upon the exciting contributions made in the first two volumes of this series. As always, the texts reflect something of the great differences in approach and emphasis that exist in different regions.
EAA 77: Barrow Excavations in Norfolk, 1984-8 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 94
ISBN: 9780905594194
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1996
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 30 b&w plates
Description:
^Aby J J Wymer ^DA number of sites excavated in advance of mineral extraction during the 1980s are described in this report. The Early Bronze Age round barrow with an outer bank and ditch at Bawsey, near King's Lynn, contained traces of a tree-trunk bier but no evidence of the body, plus a satellite burial and seven secondary cremations, one of which was buried beneath a complete, inverted collared urn. A mound and a possible ring-ditch in the parishes of Longham and Beeston with Bittering were found to be of periglacial origin, but the range and quantity of prehistoric material recovered indicates settlement from the Neolithic to the Iron Age in an area where little has been recorded before.
EAA 78: The Fenland Project, No. 11 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 194
ISBN: 9780905594200
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1996
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 113 figs, 12 plates, 14 fiche
Description:
^Aby Frances Healy ^DThe latest volume of the series on the archaeology of East Anglia attempts to document and synthesise the mass of evidence for pre-Iron Age activity between the rivers Wissey and Little Ouse. The sites are thoroughly surveyed and the finds examined, including four human skeletons which have been radio-carbon dated to the Early Bronze Age. Substantial Early or Middle Neolithic settlement is indicated, with significant Beaker and Early Bronze Age settlement after it.
Guernsey Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 129
ISBN: 9780947816445
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1996
Illustrations: num figs
Description:
This volume is largely composed of a report of excavations in St. Peter Port in 1980-83, which revealed a later Iron Age settlement with a smithy and stone covered graves. Not only Iron Age material was discovered, Bronze Age pottery also appeared, as well as later finds from Medieval and Roman times.
RRP: £18.00
On the Track of a Prehistoric Economy Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 315
ISBN: 9788772884394
Pub Date: 31 Jan 1996
Illustrations: b/w illlus
Description:
Basing this study of South Scandinavia's Maglemosian economy on a selection of the faunal assemblages of the period, this book uses spatial analysis and multivariate correspondence analysis to draw together theories on human movements of the time.
EAA 73: The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Spong Hill, Part 7 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9780905594163
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1995
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: with illus, 4 fiche and site-plan
Description:
Sparse Iron Age occupation was followed by extensive rural occupation, building up over three phases in the Roman period to a large 2nd-4th AD farmstead. In the late 4th century AD this was abandoned for no archaeologically discernible reason to lay the ground for the famous Anglo-Saxon cemetery. Ecofactual evidence for crop-processing (including flax) and artefactual evidence for many craft activities are presented.
EAA 75: North Shoebury Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 196
ISBN: 9781852811303
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1995
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 25 pl 122figs, fiche
Description:
The North Shoebury Project was mounted in response to the accumulating evidence for settlement in the Southend Peninsula during virtually all periods from the prehistoric to the present day, especially widespread and possibly continuous from the Neolithic. The site itself lay on a brickearth covered gravel terrace, whose calcareous nature resulted in the preservation of bone and shell. This excavation report includes discussion of the evidence for occupation in each period, and a gazetteer of antiquities of the region.
Excavations by K M Kenyon in Jerusalem, Volume 4 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 278
ISBN: 9780197270059
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1995
Illustrations: with many figs and illus
Description:
Kathleen Kenyon died in 1978 without having published final reports on her excavations in Jerusalem. These are being now published in five volumes. This volume concentrates on finds outside the walls of the Iron Age city, and particularly on the enigmatic, pottery-rich depositis in Caves I and II to the south east of the city.
RRP: £45.00
Well Built Mycenae Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 55
ISBN: 9780946897841
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1995
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Well Built Mycenae
Illustrations: figs, 11 pls, 3 fiche, fold-out map
Description:
The structures, building techniques, distribution of finds, function of the complex and parallels with similar sites. NO FICHE LEFT
Ancient Akamas, Part 1 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9788772884813
Pub Date: 31 Mar 1995
Illustrations: illus
Description:
This study is the first of two volumes describing the history and development of the Akamas Peninsula in Northwestern Cyprus during the Roman and early-Byzantine period, based on studies carried out by the Danish Akamas Project during the years 1989-1994.This volume includes inventories of literary and cartographic sources, a survey of the ancient road system, and a full report on underwater excavations in the Roman harbour at Kioni, on the west coast of the peninsula.The book contains contributions from: Tonnes Bekker-Nielsen, Peter Crabb, Lise Hannestad, Niels Hannestad, Peter P Hayes, Jan Heinemeyer, John Leonard and Ole Thomsen.
EAA 57: Excavations at Redgate Hill, Hunstanton, Norfolk; and at Tattersall Thorpe, Lincoln Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9780905594101
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1993
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: with 25 plates, 64 figs, 65 tables and microfiche.
Description:
^Aby R. Bradley, P. Chowne.
EAA 65: Settlements on Hill-tops Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 67
ISBN: 9780860552147
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1993
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: with 8 plates, 43 figs and 3 tables.
Description:
Report on excavations and discussion of artefacts and zoological evidence from seven prehistoric sites in Suffolk: an Iron Age enclosure at Barnham; two first millennium BC settlements at Barnham; three prehistoric hill-top settlements in south-east Suffolk; an Early Iron Age hill-top site at Framlingham.
The Prehistoric Landscape and Iron Age Enclosed Settlement at Mingies Ditch Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9780947816827
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1993
Series: Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph
Illustrations: with illus
Description:
The 1977-1978 excavation of the Middle Iron Age enclosure at Mingies Ditch and the prehistoric evidence from the 1980 excavation of Smithfield, the adjoining field. It includes a 90-page technical appendix of figures and tables.
RRP: £28.00
EAA 53: Excavations in Theford 1980-82, Fison Way Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 213
ISBN: 9780905594057
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1992
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: text, 156 figs, 42 tables, 2 microfiche.
Description:
The discovery of the Thetford treasure (a spectacular hoard of late Roman gold and silver jewellery), a mass of late Roman finds from metal detecting and a striking multiple enclosure cropmark led to the decision to excavate 5ha of this site in advance of development. The principal use of the site belongs to the Iron Age and Early Roman period, ending in the mid 60s AD. A series of hilltop enclosures dating back to the Middle Iron Age is replaced, at about the time of the Roman conquest, by a single substantial circular building within a double-ditched enclosure, surrounded by smaller peripheral enclosures containing possible graves.
Well Built Mycenae, Fascicule 27 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 44
ISBN: 9780946897353
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1992
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Well Built Mycenae
Illustrations: with figs and photo
Description:
This fascicule describes the ground stone objects from the 1959-69 excavations at Mycenae. Don Evely describes the vases (36 complete and fragmentary pieces including `Minoan' birds' nest bowls and Mycenaean piriform jars,, fragments of rhyta and legged mortars) and other objects (inlays in valuable stones such as lapis lazuli and lapis lacedaemonius , mushroom shaped pommels, a steatite jewellery mould and other items). Curtis Runnels discusses sixteen domestic millstones.
RRP: £24.00
An Iron Age and Romano-British Enclosed Settlement at Watkins Farm, Oxon Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 130
ISBN: 9780947816803
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1991
Series: Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph
Illustrations: 36 illus
Description:
Report on 1983-5 excavation of a low-lying gravel site close to the Thames. A mid Iron Age ditched enclosure with four huts, and evidence suggesting horse-breeding rather than arable cultivation is followed, after a break, by Roman period enclosures that initially respect the earlier ditches but later become rectangular; no structures but R-B domestic refuse up to mid 4th century. Later use in Middle Ages.
RRP: £12.00