Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
A. Bernard Knapp | 2018
Seafaring is a mode of travel, a way to traverse maritime space that enables not only the transport of goods and materials but also of people and ideas — communicating and sharing knowledge across the…
Landscape, Land-Change & Well-Being in the Lesser Antilles
Case Studies from the coastal villages of St. Kitts and the Kalinago Territory, Dominica
Charlotte Eloise Stancioff | 2018
In the Caribbean region, landscape change is part of the region’s history. The Caribbean exemplifies man-made changes to landscape, beginning with Amerindians, continuing to the importation of exotic species through the colony area, extreme land…
‘The most prominent Dutchman in Egypt’
Jan Herman Insinger and the Egyptian collection in Leiden
Maarten J. Raven | 2018
Jan Herman Insinger was a well-known character in the history of Egyptology, mainly because his name has been linked forever with a famous demotic wisdom papyrus now in Leiden. Although he is mentioned by many…
From Microcosm to Macrocosm
Individual households and cities in Ancient Egypt and Nubia
Edited by Julia Budka & Johannes Auenmüller | 2018
As reflected in the title “From Microcosm to Macrocosm: Individual households and cities in Ancient Egypt and Nubia”, both a micro-approach introducing microhistories of individual sites according to recent archaeological fieldwork incorporating interdisciplinary methods as…
Palaeolithic Italy
Advanced studies on early human adaptations in the Apennine peninsula
Edited by Valentina Borgia & Emanuela Cristiani | 2018
The picture of the Palaeolithic adaptations in the Italian Peninsula has always been coarse-grained compared to various well-researched regional hotspots in central and western Europe, as a result of historical research bias preventing the application…
Beauty en Fashion
De laatste trends uit het Oude Rome
Dorothee Olthof & Martine Teunissen | 2018
‘Mooi zijn is kunst met een geheim’, zo schreef de Romeinse dichter Ovidius tweeduizend jaar geleden. Romeinse vrouwen wilden graag net zo mooi zijn als Venus, de godin van de liefde. Romeinse mannen moesten, volgens…
Chariots in Ancient Egypt
The Tano Chariot, A Case Study
Edited by André J. Veldmeijer & Salima Ikram, with contributions by Ole Herslund, Lisa Sabbahy & Lucy Skinner | 2018
Chariots, the racing cars of the ancient world, first appeared in Egypt about 1600 BC, and quickly became not only the preferred mode of transport for royalty and the elite, but also revolutionised military tactics…
Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
A. Bernard Knapp | 2018
Seafaring is a mode of travel, a way to traverse maritime space that enables not only the transport of goods and materials but also of people and ideas — communicating and sharing knowledge across the…
Landscape, Land-Change & Well-Being in the Lesser Antilles
Case Studies from the coastal villages of St. Kitts and the Kalinago Territory, Dominica
Charlotte Eloise Stancioff | 2018
In the Caribbean region, landscape change is part of the region’s history. The Caribbean exemplifies man-made changes to landscape, beginning with Amerindians, continuing to the importation of exotic species through the colony area, extreme land…
‘The most prominent Dutchman in Egypt’
Jan Herman Insinger and the Egyptian collection in Leiden
Maarten J. Raven | 2018
Jan Herman Insinger was a well-known character in the history of Egyptology, mainly because his name has been linked forever with a famous demotic wisdom papyrus now in Leiden. Although he is mentioned by many…
From Microcosm to Macrocosm
Individual households and cities in Ancient Egypt and Nubia
Edited by Julia Budka & Johannes Auenmüller | 2018
As reflected in the title “From Microcosm to Macrocosm: Individual households and cities in Ancient Egypt and Nubia”, both a micro-approach introducing microhistories of individual sites according to recent archaeological fieldwork incorporating interdisciplinary methods as…
Palaeolithic Italy
Advanced studies on early human adaptations in the Apennine peninsula
Edited by Valentina Borgia & Emanuela Cristiani | 2018
The picture of the Palaeolithic adaptations in the Italian Peninsula has always been coarse-grained compared to various well-researched regional hotspots in central and western Europe, as a result of historical research bias preventing the application…
Beauty en Fashion
De laatste trends uit het Oude Rome
Dorothee Olthof & Martine Teunissen | 2018
‘Mooi zijn is kunst met een geheim’, zo schreef de Romeinse dichter Ovidius tweeduizend jaar geleden. Romeinse vrouwen wilden graag net zo mooi zijn als Venus, de godin van de liefde. Romeinse mannen moesten, volgens…
Chariots in Ancient Egypt
The Tano Chariot, A Case Study
Edited by André J. Veldmeijer & Salima Ikram, with contributions by Ole Herslund, Lisa Sabbahy & Lucy Skinner | 2018
Chariots, the racing cars of the ancient world, first appeared in Egypt about 1600 BC, and quickly became not only the preferred mode of transport for royalty and the elite, but also revolutionised military tactics…
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