Under the Mediterranean I
Studies in Maritime Archaeology
Edited by Stella Demesticha & Lucy Blue, with Kalliopi Baika, Carlo Beltrame, David Blackman, Deborah Cvikel, Helen Farr & Dorit Sivan | 2021
This volume is a collection of 19 articles in three sections reporting on recent research on the archaeology of shipwrecks, harbours, and maritime landscapes in the Mediterranean region. The shipwrecks section looks at excavated vessels…
Maritime connections across the North Sea
The exchange of maritime culture and technology between Scandinavia and the Netherlands in the early modern period
Asger Nørlund Christensen | 2021
Why are so many nautical words in Danish the same as in Dutch? Who taught the shipwrights in the Royal Danish Shipyard in Copenhagen to build carvel planked ships? How did the first Danish ships…
Goddesses of Akragas
A Study of Terracotta Votive Figurines from Sicily
Gerrie van Rooijen | 2021
The terracotta figurines from Akragas (Agrigento) with their chubby faces, splendid furniture, and rich adornments, depict a prosperous life in the late sixth and early fifth century BCE. The extensive jewellery on the figurines contains…
Archaeology in the Žitava valley I
The LBK and Želiezovce settlement site of Vráble
Edited by Martin Furholt, Ivan Cheben, Johannes Müller, Alena Bistáková, Maria Wunderlich & Nils Müller-Scheeßel | 2020
The early Neolithic site of Vráble (5250-4950 cal BCE) is among the largest LBK settlement agglomerations in Central Europe, and exceptional within the southwest Slovakian area. Geophysical surveys revealed more than 300 houses, grouped into…
Pots and practices
An experimental and microwear approach to Early Iron Age vessel biographies
Edited by Annelou van Gijn, Janine Fries-Knoblach & Philipp W. Stockhammer | 2020
This third volume of the BEFIM series addresses the life history of vessels from the Early Celtic hillfort settlements of Heuneburg and Vix-Mont Lassois, from a detailed examination of the manufacturing process to the use…
Landscapes of Survival
The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Jordan’s North-Eastern Desert and Beyond
Edited by Peter M.M.G. Akkermans | 2020
The ‘Black Desert’ begins just south of Damascus and comprises some 40,000 km2 of dark and desolate basalt fields, which stretch from southern Syria across north-eastern Jordan and reach the sand sea of the Nefud…
Crossing the Alps
Early Urbanism between Northern Italy and Central Europe (900-400 BC)
Edited by Lorenzo Zamboni, Manuel Fernández-Götz & Carola Metzner-Nebelsick | 2020
This volume offers the first comprehensive overview of the urbanisation processes that took place south and north of the Alps during the early first millennium BC, highlighting the interactions between the different geographical areas. The…
Under the Mediterranean I
Studies in Maritime Archaeology
Edited by Stella Demesticha & Lucy Blue, with Kalliopi Baika, Carlo Beltrame, David Blackman, Deborah Cvikel, Helen Farr & Dorit Sivan | 2021
This volume is a collection of 19 articles in three sections reporting on recent research on the archaeology of shipwrecks, harbours, and maritime landscapes in the Mediterranean region. The shipwrecks section looks at excavated vessels…
Maritime connections across the North Sea
The exchange of maritime culture and technology between Scandinavia and the Netherlands in the early modern period
Asger Nørlund Christensen | 2021
Why are so many nautical words in Danish the same as in Dutch? Who taught the shipwrights in the Royal Danish Shipyard in Copenhagen to build carvel planked ships? How did the first Danish ships…
Goddesses of Akragas
A Study of Terracotta Votive Figurines from Sicily
Gerrie van Rooijen | 2021
The terracotta figurines from Akragas (Agrigento) with their chubby faces, splendid furniture, and rich adornments, depict a prosperous life in the late sixth and early fifth century BCE. The extensive jewellery on the figurines contains…
Archaeology in the Žitava valley I
The LBK and Želiezovce settlement site of Vráble
Edited by Martin Furholt, Ivan Cheben, Johannes Müller, Alena Bistáková, Maria Wunderlich & Nils Müller-Scheeßel | 2020
The early Neolithic site of Vráble (5250-4950 cal BCE) is among the largest LBK settlement agglomerations in Central Europe, and exceptional within the southwest Slovakian area. Geophysical surveys revealed more than 300 houses, grouped into…
Pots and practices
An experimental and microwear approach to Early Iron Age vessel biographies
Edited by Annelou van Gijn, Janine Fries-Knoblach & Philipp W. Stockhammer | 2020
This third volume of the BEFIM series addresses the life history of vessels from the Early Celtic hillfort settlements of Heuneburg and Vix-Mont Lassois, from a detailed examination of the manufacturing process to the use…
Landscapes of Survival
The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Jordan’s North-Eastern Desert and Beyond
Edited by Peter M.M.G. Akkermans | 2020
The ‘Black Desert’ begins just south of Damascus and comprises some 40,000 km2 of dark and desolate basalt fields, which stretch from southern Syria across north-eastern Jordan and reach the sand sea of the Nefud…
Crossing the Alps
Early Urbanism between Northern Italy and Central Europe (900-400 BC)
Edited by Lorenzo Zamboni, Manuel Fernández-Götz & Carola Metzner-Nebelsick | 2020
This volume offers the first comprehensive overview of the urbanisation processes that took place south and north of the Alps during the early first millennium BC, highlighting the interactions between the different geographical areas. The…
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