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…
Healing Power
Living Traditions, Global Interactions
Edited by Cunera Buijs & Wouter Welling | 2021
Hidden healing practices exert fascination and stimulate extensive scientific and public interest. It is a contested topic for many indigenous peoples. Throughout the ages, numerous spiritual healing forms have been marginalized or severely persecuted. Nowadays,…
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…
Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth
Cloth, Collections, Communities
Edited by Frances Lennard & Andy Mills | 2020
Barkcloth or tapa, a cloth made from the inner bark of trees, was widely used in place of woven cloth in the Pacific islands until the 19th century. A ubiquitous material, it was integral to…
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…
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…
Healing Power
Living Traditions, Global Interactions
Edited by Cunera Buijs & Wouter Welling | 2021
Hidden healing practices exert fascination and stimulate extensive scientific and public interest. It is a contested topic for many indigenous peoples. Throughout the ages, numerous spiritual healing forms have been marginalized or severely persecuted. Nowadays,…
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…
Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth
Cloth, Collections, Communities
Edited by Frances Lennard & Andy Mills | 2020
Barkcloth or tapa, a cloth made from the inner bark of trees, was widely used in place of woven cloth in the Pacific islands until the 19th century. A ubiquitous material, it was integral to…
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…
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