Artefact Biographies from Mesolithic and Neolithic Europe and Beyond
Papers in honour of Professor Annelou van Gijn
Edited by A. Verbaas, G. Langejans, A. Little and B. Chan | 2024
This volume has been written in honour of Professor Annelou van Gijn in order to celebrate her distinguished career as an archaeologist and, above all, as an expert in the study of material culture. Annelou…
Five New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara
Maarten J. Raven | 2024
The five tombs dealt with in this book were explored between 2009 and 2017 by the Leiden-Turin Expedition in the New Kingdom necropolis of Saqqara. All of them can be described as minor tombs, constructed…
Community, Technology and Tradition
A Social Prehistory of the Great Orme Mine
Emma C. Wager | 2024
In the second millennium BC, mining for copper ore on the Great Orme, Wales, created one of Europe’s largest surviving prehistoric copper mines. The ore from the mine was smelted into metal that was cast…
Decoding the Jewels
Renaissance Jewellery in Scotland
Edited by Anna Groundwater | 2024
“The book is beautifully illustrated—almost excessively so … this is a brilliant addition to the literature on Renaissance jewellery, and a good demonstration of what a team of experts can create. […] It is a…
“Better Than We”
Landscapes and materialities of race, class, and gender in pre-emancipation Saba, Dutch Caribbean
Ryan Espersen | 2024
This study aims to understand the materiality of Saba’s ideological landscape during its pre-emancipation colonial period. This is accomplished by understanding the dialectics, or inseparable relationships, between Saba’s geography, locally-situated ideologies of class, race, and…
Byblos. A Legacy Unearthed
Edited by the National Museum of Antiquities (the Netherlands) / Ministry of Culture/Directorate General of Antiquities (Lebanon) | 2024
Byblos has played an extraordinary role in the history of the Mediterranean. From c. 3200 BC, it developed into the preeminent port of the region due to its strategic location at the foothills of the…
Plakkaatboek Kust van Guinea (Band 1)
Traktaten, Instructies, Reglementen en andere documenten betrekking hebbende op De Kust van Guinea, 1597/1611 - 1872
Edited by A. van Dantzig†, J.A. Schiltkamp† & J.Th. de Smidt†, met medewerking van T. van der Lee & H.J. van Dapperen | 2024
Het koloniale rijk van Nederland spreidde zich uit over de hele wereld. Ook in westelijk Afrika vestigde de West Indische Compagnie (WIC) handelsposten. De belangrijkste koopwaar betrof slaafgemaakten, ivoor en goud. Vanaf de vroege zeventiende…
Artefact Biographies from Mesolithic and Neolithic Europe and Beyond
Papers in honour of Professor Annelou van Gijn
Edited by A. Verbaas, G. Langejans, A. Little and B. Chan | 2024
This volume has been written in honour of Professor Annelou van Gijn in order to celebrate her distinguished career as an archaeologist and, above all, as an expert in the study of material culture. Annelou…
Five New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara
Maarten J. Raven | 2024
The five tombs dealt with in this book were explored between 2009 and 2017 by the Leiden-Turin Expedition in the New Kingdom necropolis of Saqqara. All of them can be described as minor tombs, constructed…
Community, Technology and Tradition
A Social Prehistory of the Great Orme Mine
Emma C. Wager | 2024
In the second millennium BC, mining for copper ore on the Great Orme, Wales, created one of Europe’s largest surviving prehistoric copper mines. The ore from the mine was smelted into metal that was cast…
Decoding the Jewels
Renaissance Jewellery in Scotland
Edited by Anna Groundwater | 2024
“The book is beautifully illustrated—almost excessively so … this is a brilliant addition to the literature on Renaissance jewellery, and a good demonstration of what a team of experts can create. […] It is a…
“Better Than We”
Landscapes and materialities of race, class, and gender in pre-emancipation Saba, Dutch Caribbean
Ryan Espersen | 2024
This study aims to understand the materiality of Saba’s ideological landscape during its pre-emancipation colonial period. This is accomplished by understanding the dialectics, or inseparable relationships, between Saba’s geography, locally-situated ideologies of class, race, and…
Byblos. A Legacy Unearthed
Edited by the National Museum of Antiquities (the Netherlands) / Ministry of Culture/Directorate General of Antiquities (Lebanon) | 2024
Byblos has played an extraordinary role in the history of the Mediterranean. From c. 3200 BC, it developed into the preeminent port of the region due to its strategic location at the foothills of the…
Plakkaatboek Kust van Guinea (Band 1)
Traktaten, Instructies, Reglementen en andere documenten betrekking hebbende op De Kust van Guinea, 1597/1611 - 1872
Edited by A. van Dantzig†, J.A. Schiltkamp† & J.Th. de Smidt†, met medewerking van T. van der Lee & H.J. van Dapperen | 2024
Het koloniale rijk van Nederland spreidde zich uit over de hele wereld. Ook in westelijk Afrika vestigde de West Indische Compagnie (WIC) handelsposten. De belangrijkste koopwaar betrof slaafgemaakten, ivoor en goud. Vanaf de vroege zeventiende…
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