Mobility and Pottery Production
Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives
Edited by Caroline Heitz & Regine Stapfer | 2017
For many past and present societies, pottery forms an integral part of material culture and everyday practice. This makes it a promising case example to address human-thing-relations on a more general level, as well as…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
Archaeology and Geomatics
Harvesting the benefits of 10 years of training in the Iberian Peninsula (2006-2015)
Edited by Victorino Mayoral Herrera, César Parcero-Oubiña & Pastor Fábrega-Álvarez | 2017
Digital technologies have numerous applications in archaeology ranging from the documentation of the archaeological evidence and the analysis of research data to the presentation of results for a wider audience. This volume consists of various…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
Archaeology of Touchstones
An introduction based on finds from Birka, Sweden
Martin Ježek | 2017
Did ancient Europeans truly believe in an active after-life, as modern Europeans would like to think they did? What purpose did grave-goods actually serve? Are archaeology and the historical sciences in general able to shed,…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
The Coffins of the Priests of Amun
Egyptian coffins from the 21st Dynasty in the collection of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden
Edited by Lara Weiss | 2017
Ancient Egyptian coffins provided a shell to protect the deceased both magically and physically. They guaranteed an important requirement for eternal life: an intact body. Not everybody could afford richly decorated wooden coffins. As commodities,…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
Strategies of Remembering in Greece under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD)
Edited by Tamara M. Dijkstra, Inger N.I. Kuin, Muriel Moser & David Weidgenannt | 2017
At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
Engraved Gems
From antiquity to the present
Edited by Ben van den Bercken & Vivian Baan | 2017
Many are no larger than a fingertip. They are engraved with symbols, magic spells and images of gods, animals and emperors. These stones were used for various purposes. The earliest ones served as seals for…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
De stad en de dood
Archeologische perspectieven
Onder redactie van Roos van Oosten, Rachel Schats, Nico Arts & Jeroen Bouwmeester | 2017
Het is een wijdverbreid idee dat (post-)middeleeuwse steden een sterfteoverschot hadden en zij slechts in leven konden blijven door de toestroom van migranten; een fenomeen dat bekend staat als het ‘urban graveyard’-effect. Over details valt…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
Mobility and Pottery Production
Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives
Edited by Caroline Heitz & Regine Stapfer | 2017
For many past and present societies, pottery forms an integral part of material culture and everyday practice. This makes it a promising case example to address human-thing-relations on a more general level, as well as…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
Archaeology and Geomatics
Harvesting the benefits of 10 years of training in the Iberian Peninsula (2006-2015)
Edited by Victorino Mayoral Herrera, César Parcero-Oubiña & Pastor Fábrega-Álvarez | 2017
Digital technologies have numerous applications in archaeology ranging from the documentation of the archaeological evidence and the analysis of research data to the presentation of results for a wider audience. This volume consists of various…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
Archaeology of Touchstones
An introduction based on finds from Birka, Sweden
Martin Ježek | 2017
Did ancient Europeans truly believe in an active after-life, as modern Europeans would like to think they did? What purpose did grave-goods actually serve? Are archaeology and the historical sciences in general able to shed,…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
The Coffins of the Priests of Amun
Egyptian coffins from the 21st Dynasty in the collection of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden
Edited by Lara Weiss | 2017
Ancient Egyptian coffins provided a shell to protect the deceased both magically and physically. They guaranteed an important requirement for eternal life: an intact body. Not everybody could afford richly decorated wooden coffins. As commodities,…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
Strategies of Remembering in Greece under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD)
Edited by Tamara M. Dijkstra, Inger N.I. Kuin, Muriel Moser & David Weidgenannt | 2017
At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
Engraved Gems
From antiquity to the present
Edited by Ben van den Bercken & Vivian Baan | 2017
Many are no larger than a fingertip. They are engraved with symbols, magic spells and images of gods, animals and emperors. These stones were used for various purposes. The earliest ones served as seals for…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
De stad en de dood
Archeologische perspectieven
Onder redactie van Roos van Oosten, Rachel Schats, Nico Arts & Jeroen Bouwmeester | 2017
Het is een wijdverbreid idee dat (post-)middeleeuwse steden een sterfteoverschot hadden en zij slechts in leven konden blijven door de toestroom van migranten; een fenomeen dat bekend staat als het ‘urban graveyard’-effect. Over details valt…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
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