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• Preface to the third edition
• 1. The problem
• 2. Processual and systems approaches
• 3. Structuralist, post-structuralist and semiotic archaeologies
• 4. Marxism and ideology
• 5. Agency and practice
• 6. Embodied archaeology
• 7. Archaeology and history
• 8. Contextual archaeology
• 9. Post-processual archaeology
• 10. Conclusion: archaeology as archaeology
• Bibliography
• Index.
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The third edition of this classic introduction to archaeological theory and method has been fully updated to address the burgeoning of theoretical debate throughout the discipline. Ian Hodder and Scott Hutson argue that archaeologists must bring to bear a variety of perspectives in the complex and uncertain task of constructing meaning from the past. While remaining centred on the importance of hermeneutics, agency and history, the authors explore cutting-edge developments in areas such as post-structuralism, neo-evolutionary theory and whole new branches of theory such as phenomenology. With the addition of two completely new chapters, the third edition of Reading the Past presents an authoritative, state-of-the-art analysis of contemporary archaeological theory. Also including new material on feminist archaeology, historical approaches such as cultural history, and theories of discourse and signs, this book represents essential reading for any student or scholar with an interest in the past.
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• Introduction
• Part I. ANALYTICAL METHODS: Introduction
• Methods of Visualisation
• Vibrational spectroscopy
• X-Ray methods
• Nuclear techniques
• Methods of separation
• Mass spectrometry
• Electrochemical techniques
• Part II. MATERIALS: Ceramics and enamels
• Glass
• Stone
• Gemstones/minerals
• Obsidian
• Pigments and dyes
• Icons and paintings
• Metals / corrosion
• Biomaterials
• Resins, bitumens, tar, coal
• Ivory and bones
• Wood
• Textiles
• Contemporary materials
• PART III: QUESTIONS: Identification
• Authentication
• Technology of production
• Provenancing
• Dating
• Degradation and conservation
• Dietary reconstruction
• Summary
• Index Analytical Archaeometry describes this interesting and challenging field of research - on the border between natural sciences (chemistry, spectroscopy, biology, geology) and humanities (archaeology, (art-)history, conservation sciences).
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• Introduction
• Part I. ANALYTICAL METHODS: Introduction
• Methods of Visualisation
• Vibrational spectroscopy
• X-Ray methods
• Nuclear techniques
• Methods of separation
• Mass spectrometry
• Electrochemical techniques
• Part II. MATERIALS: Ceramics and enamels
• Glass
• Stone
• Gemstones/minerals
• Obsidian
• Pigments and dyes
• Icons and paintings
• Metals / corrosion
• Biomaterials
• Resins, bitumens, tar, coal
• Ivory and bones
• Wood
• Textiles
• Contemporary materials
• PART III: QUESTIONS: Identification
• Authentication
• Technology of production
• Provenancing
• Dating
• Degradation and conservation
• Dietary reconstruction
• Summary
• Index.
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The book describes this interesting and challenging field of research - on the border between natural sciences (chemistry, spectroscopy, biology, geology) and humanities (archaeology, (art-)history, conservation sciences). It fills the gap between these two areas whilst focussing on the analytical aspects of this research field. The first part of the book studies the main analytical techniques used in this research field. The second part expands from the different types of materials usually encountered, and the final part is organised around a series of typical research questions. The book is not only focussed on archaeological materials, but is also accessible to a broader lay audience. It is aimed at academics as well as professionals in archaeology, art history, museum labs and conservation science.
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Analytical Archaeometry describes this interesting and challenging field of research - on the border between natural sciences (chemistry, spectroscopy, biology, geology) and humanities (archaeology, (art-)history, conservation sciences). It fills the gap between these two areas whilst focussing on the analytical aspects of this research field. The first part of the book studies the main analytical techniques used in this research field. The second part expands from the different types of materials usually encountered, and the final part is organised around a series of typical research questions. The book is not only focussed on archaeological materials, but is also accessible to a broader lay audience. Overall the book is clearly structured and gives insight into different approaches to the study of analytical providing extensive discussion on a wide range of techniques, materials, questions and applications. Due to the advances in analytical instrumentation and applications in this field, it is important to have all this information merged together. Academics as well as professionals in archaeology, art history, museum labs and conservation science will find this an invaluable reference source ensuring the reader is provided with the latest progress in this research field.
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Although comparative exercises are used or applied both explicitly and implicitly in a large number of archaeological publications, they are often uncritically taken for granted. As such, the authors of this book reflect on comparison as a core theme in archaeology from different perspectives, and different theoretical and practical backgrounds. The contributors come from different universities and research contexts, and approach themes and objects from Prehistory to the Early Middle Ages, presenting case studies from Western Europe, the Near East and Latin America. The chapters here also relate archaeology with other disciplines, like art studies, photography, cinema, computer sciences and anthropology, and will be of interest to a wide range of readers, not only archaeologists and those interested in the area of social sciences, but for all those interested in how we construct the past today.
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• New Frontiers in Archaeology - Kyra Kaercher and Monique Arntz
• Session 1: Strength in Numbers: Combining Old Datasets to Answer New Questions
• Strength in Numbers: Combining Old Datasets to Answer New Questions - Lucy Timbrell
• Hunting in the Neolithic: Zooarchaeological Meta-analysis of the Role of Wild Mammals in Eastern Europe 6500-3000 BCE - Giselle F. Rainsford-Betts
• The Relevance of Catalhoeyuk Reflexive Diaries - Gustavo Sandoval
• Multiple Datasets, Multiple Meanings? A Reanalysis of Multiple Internment Burials in Early Anglo-Saxon England - Caroline Palmer
• The Reuse of Archaeological Data: Grand Challenges and New Approaches to Southern Levantine Mortuary Archaeology - Sara Mura
• Session 2: Past and Future-Lifestyle and Inequality
• Past and Future-Lifestyle and Inequality - Sabrina Ki and Helena Munoz-Mojado
• Magdalenian Minds: Evaluating the Role of Cognition in Mobiliary Art of the Magdalenian - Molly Hardman
• Gathering Practices in Eastern-Central Sweden During the Middle and Late Mesolithic - Erik Solfeldt
• Missing Objects: New Perspectives to Tackle the Problem of Textile Activity - Patricia Rosell Garrido
• Session 3: Animal-Human Interactions: Becoming, Creating, Relating
• Animal-Human Interactions: Becoming, Creating, Relating - Izzy Wisher and Kevin Kay
• Beating the Dead Horse? Using Ethnography for Middle Palaeolithic Zooarchaeological Contexts in North-West Europe - Erica Priestley
• Hounds of Hel: How Did the Mythological Significance of Viking Age Dogs Affect their Social Position? - Jessica Cousen
• Hold Your Horses - Animals in Ancient Thrace - Stella Nikolova
• Seen but not Herd: Animals in La Tene Art in England and Wales - Rebecca L. Ellis
• Wolf vs. Dragon. What if Medieval Dragons Were Wolf-Headed Snakes from Antiquity? - Giuseppe Delia
• Session 4: Public Archaeology in the Light of Global Politics: New Challenges and Opportunities
• Public Archaeology in the Light of Global Politics: New Challenges and Opportunities - Nancy Bomentre
• Rights of Cultural Objects: Gypsy Girl Reuniting with Her Company - Elvin Akbulut Daglier
• Papa He'e Nalu: Two Surfboards from Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum - Joanna Tonge
• Session 5: New Frontiers in the Archaeology of Buildings
• New Frontiers in the Archaeology of Buildings - Xose L. Hermoso-Buxan
• Desert Kites: A New Frontier in Near Eastern Archaeology - Mariam Shakhmuradyan
• Peculiar Elements of the Built Environment: The Problem of 'Special Rural Settlements' and Identification of Rural Social Hierarchies. Archaeological Evidence from a Medieval Village in the Western Periphery of the German Central Uplands - Roman Zabolotnii
• The Fort-Towers in La Rioja (Central-Northern Iberia): Conservation Status and Rehabilitations - Isaac Martinez-Espinosa
• Session 6: New Frontiers in Archaeological Sciences: Trowel-Blazing at the Cutting Edge?
• Introduction: Really Cool Stuff in the Future of Archaeological Sciences - Ruairidh Macleod.
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This volume is the result of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference (CASA), held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research from September 13-15, 2019. CASA developed out of the Annual Student Archaeology Conference, first held in 2013, which was formed by students at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and York. In 2017, Cambridge became the home of the conference and the name was changed accordingly. The conference was developed to give students (from undergraduate to PhD candidates) in archaeology and related fields the chance to present their research to a broad audience. The theme for the 2019 conference was New Frontiers in Archaeology and this volume presents papers from a wide range of topics such as new geographical areas of research, using museum collections and legacy data, new ways to teach archaeology and new scientific or theoretic paradigms. From hunting and gathering in the Neolithic to the return of artefacts to Turkey, the papers contained within show a great variety in both geography and chronology. Discussions revolve around access to data, the role of excavation in today's archaeology, the role of local communities in archaeological interpretation and how we can ask new questions of old data. This volume presents 18 papers arranged in the six sessions with the two posters in their thematic sessions.
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This book is an important contribution to moral philosophy, and also to moral theology. It overcomes the dichotomising fragmentation of much contemporary moral philosophy which tends to take one aspect or component of moral activity, such as the consequences of actions, rules or intentions, and to make it the only one. The book employs an adaptation of Collingwood's scheme of 'scales of forms' to provide a synthesis which does justice to all aspects and components by placing each aspect, or c ...

• Excavations. Continous change: venturing into early Chalcolithic at C̦atalhöyük / Jana Anvari (and nine others) -- Salat Tepe: overview of the stratigraphic sequece and the early EBA levels excavated in the last two seasons / A. Tuba Ökse
• Arslantepe, Malatya: recent discoveries in the 2015 and 2016 seasons / Marcella Frangipane (and two others)
• The 2015-2016 seasons at Çadr Höyük on the north central Anatolian Plateau / Sharon R. Steadman and Gregory McMahon
• A key site in Urartian archaeology: recent fieldwork at the Ayanis Castle (Rusaḫinili Eiduru-Kai) / Mehmet Işikli -- The Neo-Hittite Citadel Gate at Tayinat (Ancient Kunulua) / Elif Denel and Timothy P. Harrison -- The Kerkenes Project 2015-2016 / Scott Branting (and nine others)
• Sinop Kalesi archaeological excavations, 2015-2016 field seasons / Owen Doonan (and eight others) -- Recent fieldwork at Tarsus-Gözlukule: the Medieval levels / Ash Özyar (anf three others) -- Excavation and analysis of the Kizilbrurun Column Wreck: construction processes of Doric Peristyle Columns in the late Hellenistic and early Roman periods / William Aylward and Deborah Carlson. Surveys. Houses on an island: Boğsak (Asteria i Isauria) in late antiquity / Günder Varinlioğlu and Mine Esmer -- Lower Gösku Archaeological Salvage Survey Project: the results of the 2015-2016 seasons / Tevfik Emre Şerifoğlu -- Lake-places, local hydrology, and the Hittite Imperial Projects in the Ilgin Plain: Yalburt Yaslast Archaeological Landscape Research Project 2015-2016 seasons / Ömür Harmanşh (and three others) -- Living on the margins: first results from the Dereköy Archaeological Survey of the Sagalassos Project in the western Taurus Mountains / Ralf Vandam (and two others) -- From the Konya Plain to the Bolkar Mountains: the 2015-2016 campaigns of the KEYAR Survey Project / Çiğdem Maner -- Revealing the topography of ancient Isaura through SFM photogrammetry / Nevio Danelon and Maurizio Forte -- Sampling the Ionian landscapes: an overview of the archaeological surveys in the Klazomenean and Teian CHorai / Elif Koparal (and three others).

This second volume in the Archaeology of Anatolia series offers reports on the most recent discoveries from across the Anatolian peninsula. Periods covered span the Epipalaeolithic to the Islamic, and sites and regions range from the western Anatolian coast to Van, as well as the southeast. Also included here are both reviews of recent work at ongoing excavations and data retrieved from the last several years of survey projects. This series presents a forum in which scholars report their most recent data to a global audience, allowing for productive engagement with others working in and near Anatolia. Published every two years, The Archaeology of Anatolia: Recent Discoveries Series is an invaluable vehicle through which working archaeologists may carry out their most critical task: the presentation of their fieldwork and laboratory research in a timely fashion.
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• Analytical Raman Spectroscopy of Inks
• Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of Romano-British Wall Paintings: A Comparison Between Geographically Different Sites at the Northern Fringe of the Roman Empire
• Evidence of Pentimenti for the Authentication of Paintings: A Challenge for Analytical Science at the Interface with Art History
• Dancing on Eggshells: A Holistic Analytical Study of a Ballet Dancer on Regency Porcelain
• Pigments and Colourants
• Micro Raman Spectroscopy of Epipalaeolithic Decorated Pebbles from Arroyo Moreras 2 (Parque Darwin, Madrid)
• Raman Microscopy as a Primary Technique for Identifying Micro-residues Related to Tool-use on Prehistoric Stone Artefacts
• Biological Materials of Significance to Cultural Heritage
• Discrimination of Contraband Ivories Using Long Wavelength Portable Raman Instrumentation
• Micro-Raman and Provenance Studies: The Case of Levantine Ceramics
• Raman Spectroscopy for the Identification of Materials in Contemporary Painting
• Application of Micro-spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy to Street Art Paintings
• Raman Spectroscopy as a Cultural Heritage Forensic Tool
• Outdoor Bronze and Its Protection
• Analysis of the Degradation of Medieval Mural Paintings in the Open Air Abandoned Church of Ribera, North of Spain
• Miniaturized Raman Spectrometers Applied to Gemstone Analyses on Works of Art
• New Case Studies: Diamonds, Jades, Corundum and Spinel
• The Cultural Meanings of Color: Raman Spectroscopic Studies of Red, Pink, and Purple Dyes in Late Edo and Early Meiji Period Prints
• Raman Spectroscopy Applied to the Analysis of Typomorphic Minerals in Various Provenance Investigations of Cultural Heritage Objects
• Pitfalls in Raman Spectroscopy Applied to Art and Archaeology: A Practical Survival Guide for Non-specialists
• Subject Index.
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Ten years after the first volume, this book highlights the important contribution Raman spectroscopy makes as a non-destructive method for characterising the chemical composition of objects with archaeological and historical importance. The original book was ground-breaking in its concept, but the past ten years have seen some advancement into new areas, consolidation of some of the older ones and novel applications involving portable instrumentation, on site in museums and in the field. This new volume maintains the topic at the cutting edge, the Editors have approached prominent contributors to provide case-studies sorted into themes. Starting with a Foreword from the British Museum Director of Scientific Research and an Introduction from the Editors, which offer general background information and theoretical context, the contributions then provide global perspectives on this powerful analytical tool. Aimed at scientists involved in conservation, conservators and curators who want to better understand their collections at a material level and researchers of cultural heritage.
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• Analytical Raman Spectroscopy of Inks
• Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of Romano-British Wall Paintings: A Comparison Between Geographically Different Sites at the Northern Fringe of the Roman Empire
• Evidence of Pentimenti for the Authentication of Paintings: A Challenge for Analytical Science at the Interface with Art History
• Dancing on Eggshells: A Holistic Analytical Study of a Ballet Dancer on Regency Porcelain
• Pigments and Colourants
• Micro Raman Spectroscopy of Epipalaeolithic Decorated Pebbles from Arroyo Moreras 2 (Parque Darwin, Madrid)
• Raman Microscopy as a Primary Technique for Identifying Micro-residues Related to Tool-use on Prehistoric Stone Artefacts
• Biological Materials of Significance to Cultural Heritage
• Discrimination of Contraband Ivories Using Long Wavelength Portable Raman Instrumentation
• Micro-Raman and Provenance Studies: The Case of Levantine Ceramics
• Raman Spectroscopy for the Identification of Materials in Contemporary Painting
• Application of Micro-spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy to Street Art Paintings
• Raman Spectroscopy as a Cultural Heritage Forensic Tool
• Outdoor Bronze and Its Protection
• Analysis of the Degradation of Medieval Mural Paintings in the Open Air Abandoned Church of Ribera, North of Spain
• Miniaturized Raman Spectrometers Applied to Gemstone Analyses on Works of Art
• New Case Studies: Diamonds, Jades, Corundum and Spinel
• The Cultural Meanings of Color: Raman Spectroscopic Studies of Red, Pink, and Purple Dyes in Late Edo and Early Meiji Period Prints
• Raman Spectroscopy Applied to the Analysis of Typomorphic Minerals in Various Provenance Investigations of Cultural Heritage Objects
• Pitfalls in Raman Spectroscopy Applied to Art and Archaeology: A Practical Survival Guide for Non-specialists
• Subject Index.
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Ten years after the first volume, this book highlights the important contribution Raman spectroscopy makes as a non-destructive method for characterising the chemical composition of objects with archaeological and historical importance. The original book was ground-breaking in its concept, but the past ten years have seen some advancement into new areas, consolidation of some of the older ones and novel applications involving portable instrumentation, on site in museums and in the field. This new volume maintains the topic at the cutting edge, the Editors have approached prominent contributors to provide case-studies sorted into themes. Starting with a Foreword from the British Museum Director of Scientific Research and an Introduction from the Editors, which offer general background information and theoretical context, the contributions then provide global perspectives on this powerful analytical tool. Aimed at scientists involved in conservation, conservators and curators who want to better understand their collections at a material level and researchers of cultural heritage.
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• Machine generated contents note: ch. One Specialized Occupation Despite Appearances. Function of the Buhot Late Glacial Site (Calleville, North-western France)
• ch. Two Use-Wear Characterization through Confocal Laser Microscopy: The Case of Wild vs Domestic Cereal Harvesting Polish / Jérémie Jacquier
• ch. Three Glossy Tools: Innovations in the Method of Interpretation of Use-Wear Produced by Plant Processing / J.J. Ibáñez / J. Gibaja / J.E. González-Urquijo
• ch. Four Turning the Wheel on Lithic Functionality / Davide d'Errico
• ch. Five Experimental Program for the Detection of Use Wear on Quartzite / Telmo Pereira / Rui Martins / Joao Marreiros
• ch. Six Micro-residues on Stone Tools: Morphological Analysis, Interpretation and Challenges / Andreu Ollé / Antoni Canals / Victoria Aranda
• ch. Seven Management of Heated Bladelets in the Southern Chassey Culture: Use-Wear Analysis and Efficiency Test / H.J. Geeske Langejans / Marlize Lombard
• ch. Eight Ornaments and Use-Wear Analysis, Methods of Study Applied to the Adaima Necropolises / Loic Torchy
• ch. Nine "Cereal polish": Diagnosis, Challenge or Confusion / Mathilde Minotti
• ch. Ten Ten Years of Use-Wear Analysis of Early Neolithic Macrolithic Tools from North-Western Europe: Limits and Contribution / Maria Gurova
• ch. Eleven Effects of Cleaning on Surface Roughness: Evaluating Sample Preparation Using Use-Wear Quantification / Caroline Hamon
• ch. Twelve Use-Wear Analysis on Quartz and Quartzite Tools Methodology and Application: Coudoulous I (Midi-Pyrénées, France) / Danielle MacDonald / Adrian Evans
• ch. Thirteen New Functional Data concerning Middle Palaeolithic Bifaces from Southwestern and Northern France / Flavia Venitti
• ch. Fourteen Use of Middle Palaeolithic Tools in San Quirce (Alar del Rey, Palencia, Spain) / Emilie Claud
• ch. Fifteen Flint Workshop or Habitat? Technological and Functional Approaches towards the Interpretation of Site Function in Bergerac Region Early Aurignacian / Marcos Terradillos Bernal / Ignacio Clemente-Conte / J. Carlos Diez Fernández-Lomana
• ch. Sixteen Camp of Upper Palaeolithic Hunters in Targowisko, (S Poland) / Joseba Rios-Garaizar / Iluminada Ortega Cordellat
• ch. Seventeen Contribution of Traceology and Lithic Technology in the Study of the Socio-economic Capsian of SHM-1 (Hergla, Tunisia) / Bemadeta Kufel-Diakowska / Jaroslaw Wilczynski
• ch. Eighteen Typology versus Function: Technological and Microwear Study of Points from a Federmesser Site at Lubrza (Western Poland) / Rym Khedhaier El Asmi / Lotfi Belhouchet / Simone Mulazzani
• ch. Nineteen Use-Wear Analysis of a Set of Geometric Projectils from the Mesolithic Context of Cocina Cave (Eastern Spain) / Jacek Kabacinski / Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka / Malgorzata Winiarska-Kabacinska
• ch. Twenty Late Mesolithic Notched Blades from Western Europe and North Africa: Technological and Functional Variability / Oreto Garcia Puchol / Niccoln Mazzucco / Juan F. Gibaja Bao / Joaquim Juan Cabanilles
• ch. Twenty One Experimentation and Functional Analysis of the Backed Point Tools from the Castello's Shelter at Termini Imerese (PA, Italy) Preserved from the Museo delle Origini (Rome) / Toomai Boucherat / Pierre Allard / Juan Francisco Gibaja / Bernard Gassin / Émilie Claud / Loic Torchy / Amelia Rodriguez / Ignacio Clemente / Colas Gueret / Jérémie Jacquier / Rym Khedhaier / Grégor Marchand / Niccolò Mazzucco / Antoni Palomo / Unai Perales / Thomas Perrin / Sylvie Philibert
• ch. Twenty Two Functional Analysis of a Magdalenian Site from the Spanish Northern Meseta: A Case Study of Endscrapers from La Peña de Estebanvela (Ayllón, Segovia) / Stefano Drudi
• ch. Twenty Three Proto-Aurignacian "Knives" of the Riparo Mochi (Balzi Rossi, Italy) / Ignacio Martin Lerma / Carmen Cacho Quesada
• ch. Twenty Four Microwear Analysis of Handaxes from Santa Ana Cave (Caceres, Extremadura, Spain) / Stefano Grimaldi
• ch. Twenty Five Stone Tool Hafting in the Middle Palaeolithic as Viewed through the Microscope / Andreu Ollé / Josep Maria Vergès / Luna Peña / Victoria Aranda / Antoni Canal / Eudald Carbonell
• ch. Twenty Six Lithic Technology and Tool Use in the North American Archaic: Bridging Technologies, Plants, and Animals / Veerle Rots
• ch. Twenty Seven Lithic Use-Wear Analysis from the Early Gravettian of Vale Boi (Southwestern Iberia) / April K. Sievert / Melody K. Pope
• ch. Twenty Eight Integrated Functional Studies of Badegoulian Lithic Industry: Preliminary Results of Le Pehau (Coimères, France) / Joao Marreiros / Juan Gibaja / Nuno Bicho
• ch. Twenty Nine Human Occupation of the High-Mountain Environments: The Contribution of Microwear Analysis to the Study of the Cova del Sardo Site (Spanish Pyrenees) / Amaranta Pasquini / Gilles Monin / Paul Fernandes
• ch. Thirty Wood Technology of Patagonian Hunter-Gatherers: A Use-Wear Analysis Study from the Site of Cerro Casa de Piedra 7 (Patagonia, Argentina) / Niccolò Mazzucco / Ignacio Clemente / Ermengol Gassiot
• ch. Thirty One Unmodified Quartz Flake Fragments as Cognitive Tool Categories: Testing the Wear Preservation, Previous Low Magnification Use-Wear Results and Criteria for Tool Blank Selection in Two Late Mesolithic Quartz Assemblages from Finland / Laura Caruso Fermé / Ignacio Clemente / Sylvie Beyries / Maria Teresa Civalero
• ch. Thirty Two Consideration of Burin-Blow Function: Use-Wear Analysis of Kamiyama-Type Burin from the Sugikubo Blade Assemblage in North-Central Japan / Noora Taipale / Kjel Knutsson / Helena Knutsson
• ch. Thirty Three Two Faces of Resharpening: Management and Use of Resharpening Flakes in the Middle Paleolithic at Cueva Morin / Akira Iwase
• ch. Thirty Four Looking for the Use and Function of Prismatic Tools in the Mesolithic of the Paris Basin (France): First Results and Interpretations / Talia Lazuén
• ch. Thirty Five Semi-product, Waste, Tool ... Are We Sure? Functional Aspect of Stone Age Morphological Flint Tools / Caroline Hamon / Sylvain Griselin
• ch. Thirty Six History of One Arrowhead from a Peat Bog Site in Central Russia (Technological and Use-Wear Studies) / Grzegorz Osipowicz
• ch. Thirty Seven Functionality of Palmela Points as Throwing Weapons and Projectiles: Use-Wear Marks / Natalia Skakun / Mikhail Zhilin / Vera Terekhina
• ch. Thirty Eight Arrowheads without Traces: Not Used, Perfect Hit or Excessive Hafting Material? / Carmen Gutiérrez Sáez / Ignacio Martin Lerma / Alba López del Estal / Charles Bashore Acero
• ch. Thirty Nine Projectile Experimentation for Identifying Hunting Methods with Replicas of Upper Palaeolithic Weaponry from Japan / Yvonne Lammers-Keijsers / Annemieke Verbaas / Annelou van Gijn / Diederik Pomstra
• ch. Forty Possibilities of Identifying Transportation and Use-Wear Traces of Mesolithic Microliths from the Polish Plain / Katsuhiro Sano / Masayoshi Oba
• ch. Forty One Use and Maintenance of Leaf-Shaped Points in the Late Upper Paleolithic in the Japanese Islands / Katarzyna Pyzewicz / Witold Gruzdz
• ch. Forty Two Projectiles from the Last Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers in the Eastern Cantabrian Region: Azilian Backed Points at the Site of Santa Catalina / Takuya Yamaoka
• ch. Forty Three Two Experimental Programs to Study the Bone Tools from the Middle Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers / Jesús González-Urquijo / Juan José Ibáñez / Eduardo Berganza
• ch. Forty Four All the Same, All Different! Mesolithic and Neolithic "45° Bevelled Bone Tools" from Zamostje 2 (Moscow, Russia) / Millán Mozota
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• Forty Five Recovering the Oldest Bone Tool Assemblage from Low Parana Wetland / Yolaine Maigrot / Ignacio Clemente Conte / Evgeny Gyria / Olga Lozovskaya / Vladimir Lozovski
• ch. Forty Six Traces on Mesolithic Bone Spatulas: Signs of a Hidden Craft or Post-Excavation Damage? / Natacha Buc
• ch. Forty Seven >Bone Tools Use-Wear in an Early Formative Pastoralist Site of Northern Chile: Weaving and Piercing at the Dawn of Herds / Sara Graziano
• ch. Forty Eight Atypical Use of Bone Objects of Known Forms from Some East European Upper Paleolithic Sites / Boris Santander
• ch. Forty Nine Investigating Neolithic Activities: The Contribution of Functional Analysis to the Reconstruction of Settlements' Economy in Central-Southern Italy / Natalia B. Akhmetgaleeva
• ch. Fifty Use of Flint Artifacts from Early Neolithic Levels at Atxoste (Basque Country): An Interpretation of Site Function through Use-Wear Analyses / Cristiana Petrinelli Pannocchia
• ch. Fifty One Use-Wear Analysis of Chipped Stone Assemblages from Neolithic Burial Caves in Portuguese Estremadura: The Case of Born Santo (Lisbon) / Unai Perales Barrón / Juan José Ibáñez Estévez / Alfonso Alday Ruiz
• ch. Fifty Two Comparative Analysis of Shell Tools from Two Neolithic Sites in NE Iberia: La Draga and Serra del Mas Bonet (Girona) / Juan Francisco Gibaja / António Faustino Carvalho
• ch. Fifty Three Investigating Pottery Technological Patterns through Macrowear Analysis: The Chalcolithic Village of Maccarese-Fiumicino (Italy) / I. Clemente-Conte / D. Cuenca-Solana / M. Oiva-Poveda / R. Rosillo-Turrà / A. Palomo-Pérez
• ch. Fifty Four Experimental Approach to Use-Wear Damage on Limestone Tools Comparing with Flint Tools / Vanessa Forte
• ch. Fifty Five Use-Wear Analysis of Early Neolithic Lithic Industry of Peiro Signado: A Pioneer Implantation in South of France / Laura Hortelano Piqueras / Paula Jardón Giner
• ch. Fifty Six Neolithic Sickle Haft from Costamar (Castellón, Spain) / Sylvie Philibert / François Briois / Claire Manen.

• Note continued: ch. Fifty Seven Perforation of Pottery using Seashells: An Experimental Approach / Juan F. Gibaja / Juan José Ibáñez / Enric Flors / Oreto Garcia
• ch. Fifty Eight Beyond Chaves: Functional Analysis of Neolithic Blades from the Ebro Valley / Renaud Gosselin
• ch. Fifty Nine Lithic Functional Studies in Ireland: A Case Study from Early Neolithic Rectangular Timber Houses / Rafael Domingo Martinez
• ch. Sixty Materiality of Funnelbeaker Burial Practices: Evidence from the Microscope / Sol. Mallia-Guest
• ch. Sixty One Funerary Adornments: Objects Belonging to the Living or to the Dead? A Few Examples from the Romanian Eneolithic / Annelou Van Gijn
• ch. Sixty Two Associating Residues and Wear Traces as Indicators of Hafting Methods: A View from the Chipped Stone Industries from the Island of Gavdos, Crete / Monica Margarit
• ch. Sixty Three Raw Material Selection for Pounding and Grain Processing in the Single Grave Culture of the Netherlands: The Site of Mienakker / Eleni Chriazomenou / Christina Papoulia / Katerina Kopaka
• ch. Sixty Four What are Prehistoric Tools with Very Rounded Edges Doing in Iron Age Storage Pits? / Virginia Garcia-Diaz
• ch. Sixty Five Flint Blade Use-Wear in Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic Collective Burials: Data from Pastora Cave (Eastern Spain) / Renaud Gosselin
• ch. Sixty Six Technology and Function of the Chalcolithic Dagger from Cabezos Viejos (Archena, Murcia, Spain) / Oreto Garcia Puchol / Juan Francisco Gibaja Bao / Joaquim Juan Cabanilles / Sarah B. McClure
• ch. Sixty Seven First Results on Use-Wear Analysis over Several Early Neolithic Contexts from Northwest Africa / C. Gutiérrez Sáez / I. Martin Lerma / J.A. Marin de Espinosa / J. Lomba Maurandi.

The significance of use-wear studies in archaeological research plays an important role as a proxy to prehistoric techno-cultural reconstruction. The present volume, divided into five thematic sections, includes chapters discussing various different research methods, techniques, chronologies and regions. As such, this volume will be of interest to both archaeologists and anthropologists.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements
• 1. Championing Placemaking
• 2. Virgil's long shadow
• 3. New identity? An excavated narrative.
• 4. A Short History of the Butrint Foundation
• 5. Eternal Butrint? Reflections on its future sustainability Notes References Index.
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Butrint has been one of the largest archaeological projects in the Mediterranean over the last two decades. Major excavations and a multi-volume series of accompanying scientific publications have made this a key site for our developing understanding of the Roman and Medieval Mediterranean. Through this set of interwoven reflections about the archaeology and cultural heritage history of his twenty-year odyssey in south-west Albania, Richard Hodges considers how the Butrint Foundation protected and enhanced Butrint's spirit of place for future generations. Hodges reviews Virgil's long influence on Butrint and how its topographic archaeology has now helped to invent a new narrative and identity. He then describes the struggle of placemaking in Albania during the early post-communist era, and finally asks, in the light of the Butrint Foundation's experience, who matters in the shaping of a place - international regulations, the nation, the archaeologist, the visitor, the local community or some combination of all of these stakeholders? With appropriate maps and photographs, this book aims to offer an unusual but important new direction for archaeology in the Mediterranean. It should be essential reading for archaeologists, classical historians, medievalists, cultural heritage specialists, tourism specialists as well as those interested in the Mediterranean's past and future.
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• Prefazione ; introduzione ; Capitolo 1
• Una metodologia multidisciplinare per lo studio della tecnologia ceramica ; Capitolo 2
• Il caso di studio archeologico: le comunità calcolitiche dell'area di Roma ; Capitolo 3
• Classi macroscopiche di pasta, tessuti petrografici e temperature di cottura ; Capitolo 4
• I protocolli sperimentali: raccolta di dati comparativi ed esperienziali ; Capitolo 5
• Tecnologia ceramica nelle aree residenziali ; Capitolo 6
• Tecnologia ceramica in contesti funerari ; Capitolo 7
• Gli aspetti sociali della produzione ceramica nelle comunità calcolitiche del territorio di Roma ; Bibliografia.

Ceramic technology is a topic widely explored in archaeology, especially for its social inferences. This volume addresses the social aspects of production and the role of potters within prehistoric communities. The book focusses on the Copper Age when social complexity was incipient and ceramic production was not considered a formalised activity.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; JOHN (BACON SAWREY) MORRITT, 1772-1843- BIOGRAPHY; JOHN MORRITT
• TRAVELS
• 1794-1796; JOHN MORRITT AND HIS LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP WITH SIR WALTER SCOTT; THE QUEST (THE SEARCH FOR TROY); SOURCES.

For many years I had wanted to write something about Troy and the Classical Age; ever since my earlier archaological 'digs' and flint knapping and an early essay on Troy, quite unplanned, that had my strict Headmaster quite aghast (and even myself). I expect it was something hidden within my psyche which knows a former life, I hesitate to go t here. Notwithstanding that, this book describes not just the story of 'Troy' but theories of whether it did exist, with recent archaeological 'finds'. The work done at Troy by Schliemann is portrayed, also the work of Dorpfeld, Blegen and more recently the modern methods of the recently deceased Professor Manfred Korfmann and the theories of Joachim Latacz are explored, with emphasis on the University of Tuebingen TROIA Project, which is consistently attracting international attention. Not only is Troy portrayed, but the travels of John Morritt to locate the site of Troy. The interesting way Morritt circumnavigated the Napoleonic armies makes one wonder if he was on a clandestine mission to record topography, as he later makes un-historical observations of military movements in an area the French navy were to invade to reach Egypt, etc. If the reader receives any benefit from this book, I will consider that I have done my part. If not, I recomend it wholeheartedly as a sure-fire cure for insomnia. Robert D. Morritt.
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