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The rich numismatic collections of Turkish provincial museums are still relatively unknown and this volume presents for the first time the coinage in the museum of Amasya, which, under its ancient name of Amaseia, was one of the major centers of north-east Anatolia. In the Hellenistic period it was capital of the powerful kingdom of Pontus, while under the Roman empire it boasted the title of `Metropolis and First City' of its province. Over 4,500 coins held in the museum are catalogued, ranging in date from the 5th century BC until the 11th century AD. Most are finds from the surrounding region, so that there are rich holdings from the mints of Amaseia, Amisus, Sinope and Cappadcian Caesarea; but over 50 other mints in Asia Minor are represented and some coins come from as far afield as Alexandria in Egypt and Arles in Gaul. ... Read more

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The most comprehensive and authoritative work ever published on The National Museum of Ireland's antiquities collection, comprising some of the most important Celtic and pre--Celtic artifacts in the world. ... Read more

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When I visited the National Museum of Ireland at Dublin, I decided against purchasing this book because of the additional weight of it in my luggage. I had too many items as it was. The museum stated that items in the museum could be purchased via the internet.

When I arrived home I was pleasantly surprised to find that the book was offered at half the price at Amazon than the price at the Museum site. An added benefit is the cost savings of not paying the higher money exchange from US dollars to Euro currency.

In the book, the pictures are absolutely beautiful. They show the treasures exactly as seen in the museum. If you have not been to the museum this book with its pictures and information is a great vicarious journey through the treasures of Ireland at the National Museum of Ireland. ... Read more

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The construction of Terminal 5 at Heathrow, today the world's busiest international airport, was preceded by one of the largest archaeological investigations ever undertaken in the UK. Its scale has for the first time allowed the complex history of the Middle Thames Valley to be explored. This volume covers over 8,000 years of human history, including early prehistoric ceremonial activity, the introduction of farming and the imposition of administrative control in the Roman period. Borne of a unique relationship between heritage and development sectors, this is a new style excavation report. Designed to provide the reader with an accessible interpretation of the findings it also allows the coherency of those interpretations to be checked through the presentation of the detailed results of the excavations. ... Read more

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Prior to the building of the new Bath Spa, in the centre of the World Heritage City of Bath, excavations were carried out to record the archaeological remains threatened by its construction. Evidence was recovered of the presence and perhaps the rituals of mesolithic hunter-gatherers, hitherto unknown official Roman buildings of the first and second centuries and some indication of activity in the late Saxon and medieval periods. An important part of the dig was a programme of geoarchaeological research to study the microstructure of the soils excavated with a view to understanding the activities that led to their formation. ... Read more

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Twenty-five years is a long time in the study of prehistory and these papers, given at a conference in Cheltenham in 2004, seek to review the excavations, surveys, chance finds and serious investigations carried out over two and a half decades. ... Read more

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This collection of 24 papers aims to reconsider the nature and significance of the Irish Sea as an area of cultural interaction during the Neolithic period. The traditional character of work across this region has emphasised the existence of prehistoric contact, with sea routes criss-crossing between Ireland, the Isle of Man, Anglesey and the British mainland. A parallel course of investigation, however, has demonstrated that the British and Irish Neolithics were in many ways different, with distinct indigenous patterns of activity and social practices. The recent emphasis on regional studies has further produced evidence for parallel yet different processes of cultural change taking place throughout the British Isles as a whole. This volume brings together some of these regional perspectives and compares them across the Irish Sea area. The authors consider new ways to explain regional patterning in the use of material objects and relate them to past practices and social strategies. Were there practices that were shared across the Irish Sea area linking different styles of monuments and material culture, or were the media intrinsic to the message? The volume is based on papers presented at a conference held at the University of Manchester in 2002. ... Read more

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These seventeen papers reflect John Lloyd's wide ranging interests in Ancient History, new technologies and methods, geomorphology and anthropology and how they can all be combined in the study of past landscapes. Scholars from Italy, the UK, the USA and Germany write about various projects based mainly in central Italy with seven of the papers describing aspects of John's major fieldwork project in the Sangro Valley, Abruzzo. ... Read more

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By the late Bronze Age the Irish had become masters in metalworking anf the range of objects produced was in stark contrast to those of the earlie Bronze Age. This study presents a comprehensive analysis and reconstruction of late Bronze Age metalworking practices through artefactual evidence and also experimental work and ethnography. Simon O Faolain's research draws on evidence of raw metal/ingots, clay crucible remains, moulds, wooden templates, metalworking equipment as well as the finished objects themselves, and archaeological evience for sites associated with metal production or associated ritual activities. (A catalogue of metalworking sites is given at the back.) Particular attention is paid to the production of late Bronze Age swords. All the evidence is then summarised and placed within the context of metalworking practices, technology, the organisation of production and late Bronze Age society, ... Read more

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"Villa to Village" challenges the historical view that hilltop villages in Italy were first founded in the tenth century. Drawing upon recent excavations, the authors show that the makings of the medieval village lie in the demise of the Roman villa in late antiquity. The book describes the lively debate between archaeologists and historians on this issue. It also examines the evidence for the first manorial villages of the Carolingian era and describes how these were transformed into the familiar feudal villages that are characteristic of much of Italy. ... Read more

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I'm surprised there are no other reviews on this little book. OK, it's a specialized topic, with quite a bit of historiography and the archeological equivalent. Nevertheless, I think this is a highly valuable book for anyone interested in the history of Europe between the end of the Roman empire and the eleventh century. The book is short, readable, packed with examples, and covers both history and archeology. Definitely worth checking out. One question I came way with was which came first, monasteries on hilltops or villages on hilltops, or did they both build there at the same time to get away from someone else. ... Read more

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This volume developed from a session on the role that environmental archaeology can play in integrated investigations of 'ritual' deposits, at the Association of Environmental Archaeologists (AEA) conference in Exeter, 2006. The session drew together a wide range of speakers, all of whom had a particular take or example of the use of environmental evidence in the study of 'ritual'. 1) Introduction: Integrating social and Environmental Archaeologies (M. Maltby and J. Morris); 2) The use of archaeological and zooarchaeological data in the interpretation of Dun Ailinne, an Iron Age royal site in Co. Kildare, Ireland (P. Crabtree, S. A. Johnston and D. V. Campana); 3) Associated bone groups: beyond the Iron Age (J. Morris); 4) Pits and wells (M. Maltby); 5) New light on an old rite: reanalysis of an Iron Age burial group from Blewburton Hill, Oxfordshire (R. Bendrey, S. Leach and K. Clark); 6) Structured Deposition or Casual Disposal of Human Remains? A Case Study of Four Iron Age Sites from southern England (A. Russell); 7) Bone modification and the conceptual relationship between humans and animals in Iron Age Wessex (R. Madgwick); 8) More ritual rubbish? Exploring the taphonomic history, context formation processes and 'specialness' of deposits including human and animal bone in Iron Age pits (C. Randall); 9) The politics of the everyday: exploring 'midden' space in Late Bronze Age Wiltshire (K. Waddington). ... Read more

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Together with the sites of Newgrange and Dowth, Knowth makes up the archaeological complex at Bru na Boinne. The book deals with prehistoric settlement at the site starting about 4000 years ago, when people first began to farm at the settlement. ... Read more

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This invaluable work of reference lists all the major excavated sites and all the major finds, including hoards, which are important to the study of Irish archaeology. Ranging in time from the Mesolithic period to the end of the Medieval era, it provides students and excavators alike with an authoritative overview of their subject. Ireland is particularly rich in archaeological remains. Newgrange, in County Meath, is perhaps the most famous and best excavated passage tomb in Europe. The country abounds in material both from prehistoric and historical periods, not least in religious sites. In addition to entries on all these, Laurence Flanagan also deals with subjects as diverse as mining, ordnance, standing stones, earthworks and hammers. ... Read more

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This volume presents the results of the analysis of the animal bone assemblage from recent excavations of the medieval settlement at Knowth, Co. Meath. The assemblage represents one of the largest excavated to date from this period, and the study therefore provided the opportunity to review the zooarchaeological evidence for Early Christian Ireland and to place the Knowth results in context. The principal conclusion drawn from the analysis is that the evidence from Knowth, along with that from other contemporary sites, shows that there was a major shift in the livestock economy of Ireland from the ninth century AD onwards. ... Read more

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The Iberians inhabited southern and eastern Spain between the Greek and Phoenician colonization beginning in the eight century BC and the Roman conquest. This was a period of urban growth, and the adoption of ideological symbols and technological innovations from the colonists created an important and unique Iron Age culture. The Archaeology of the Iberians is an up-to-date, theoretically informed synthesis of what is now known about the world of the Iberians and a fascinating case study of change within a specific complex society. ... Read more

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The studies that constitute this fourth volume in the "Excavations at Knowth" series of monographs evaluate the historical role of Knowth and Brugh na Boinne from the earliest references to the region in the seventh and eight centuries down to the present. The first chapter, by Catherine Swift and Francis John Byrne, deals with the earliest history of Knowth, from which it is clear that Knowth was an important place within the kingdom of North Brega, and indeed became the royal residence of the kings of that region. A significant part of this chapter is the comprehensive set of pedigress of the kings of Brega extending from the seventh to the twelfth century. Chapter I also considers the ogham and vernacular inscriptions found in the Knowth passage tombs - five scholastic oghams and sixteen personal names in the vernacular style.In Chapter II, Gillian Kenny focuses on the Medieval period. She begins with the demise of the old Brega kingship and its replacement by a new ritual and political structure following the arrival of the Cistercians in the area in 1142 and the establishment of the monastery at Mellifont.Knowth and the surrounding area were incorporated into the Cistercian land holdings in 1157; this resulted in transformation of agricultural practices and reforms of land-holding structure. The occupation of the area by the Anglo-Normans, under Hugh de Lacy, shortly afterwards brought more extensive changes and a new pattern of settlement. The Reformation led to the demise of that pattern of settlement and its associated religious practice, and with Mellifont's dissolution in 1539 its properties, including Knowth, were disposed of.In Chapter III, William Jenkins points out that the emergence of the Protestant landed gentry coincided with these changes. The Dowth area, however, remained in the hands of the old Anglo-Norman Netterville family. A consolidation of the landed gentry in the Brugh na Boinne area took place in the eighteenth century, alongside a phase of economic development that saw the construction of roads and a canal in the Knowth-Newgrange area.Jenkins examines the changes in the settlement, landscape and society of the area through the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the acquisition by the Irish state of the large mound at Knowth, the programmes of excavation and conservation at the site and development of Brugh na Boinne as a place of mass tourism. ... Read more