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¿Son invisibles las ciudades tardoantiguas? Este volumen contribuye a la investigación sobre las ciudades en la península ibérica y en el norte de África y, por tanto, a la historia social del poder, entre la Antiguedad tardia y la Alta Edad Media. Ofrece una seleccion de diez estudios de casos de ambas regiones, basados en la evidencia arqueologica, los monumentos epigraficos y la transmision literaria, para el periodo comprendido entre el 300 y el 800. Presta especial atencion al vinculo entre los cambios en el espacio urbano y las estructuras sociopoliticas, un proceso que es el resultado, por un lado, de la manifestacion material del cristianismo y, por otro, de la adaptacion a las cambiantes condiciones externas, como el establecimiento de la dominacion visigoda, vandala y, finalmente, omeya.

This book tells the big story of the city of York by exploring the small remnants of past lives. It will tell ancient stories that are a daily part of the modern city, such as the Tudor staircase still in use in an office building, and the medieval gargoyles watching people go by from their perches on the eaves of coffee shops.Yorks story unfolds through six sections. Protection explores how the city has survived centuries of threats through resilient architecture and infrastructure. Passageways examines its snickelways and spiritual routes, both physical and symbolic. Looking Down and Looking Up reveal hidden treasures often missed, from newly uncovered cobblestones to discoveries of ancient settlements and lost churches. Past Lives highlights influential figures whose legacies still shape the city, including the posthumous fame of Guy Fawkes. Years of Welcome turns to modern York, celebrating its pubs, cafes, and communal spaces. All of this rests on deep historical context reaching back to the citys beginnings.Join us for a journey where its all about the little things!

A century ago, Charles Leonard Woolley directed the first excavations at Amarna site M50.14-16, identifying it as a workshop for glass and faience. However, the archaeological record and its publication in The City of Akhenaten I were somewhat superficial. New excavations conducted by the Amarna Project in 2014 and 2017 yielded extensive evidence of glass-, faience-, stone-, and metalworking, reaffirming the sites role as a workshop. These investigations also illuminated its domestic character, uncovering valuable data on houses and other structural remains. This volume presents a near-complete record of the site, offering a comprehensive archaeological and architectural evaluation alongside in-depth analyses of material culture, including archaeobotany, charcoal, animal bones, ceramics, and other artefacts. The individual chapters reconstruct the chaines operatoires of various craft production activities. Additionally, the organisation of production and the concept of cross-craft interaction are explored, as the site is situated within the broader industrial network of Amarna. This volume furthermore provides an in-depth examination of the inhabitants roles and daily lives, enriching our understanding of this significant site.

Just in time for the centennial of the discovery of Tutankhamuns tomb, this volume of studies dedicated to the leading expert on the "boy king" brings together scholars from all over the world to celebrate the career of C. Nicholas Reeves. It includes a biography and bibliography of Reeves along with cutting-edge discussions of a wide variety of topics concentrating on New Kingdom Egypt and Tutankhamun.

I would recommend this to readers of Barbara Erskine and if you enjoyed the TV series Vikings 5 reader reviewOnce again, Christina Courtenay takes us to the heart of the Viking world with an epic romantic tale of love and adventure NICOLA CORNICKBrimming with romance, adventure and vivid historical detail, Christina Courtenay does for the Vikings what Diana Gabaldons Outlander and Clanlans does for Scottish history............................................................................Time is no barrier for a love that is destined to be. When jewellery designer Sara Mattsson is propelled back to the ninth century, after cutting herself on a Viking knife she uncovers at an archaeological dig, she is quick to accept what has happened to her. For this is not the first Sara has heard of time travel. Although acutely aware of the danger she faces when she loses the knife - and with it her way to return to her own time - this is also the opportunity of a lifetime. What better way to add authenticity to the Viking and Anglo-Saxon motifs used in her designs? As luck has it, the first person Sara encounters is Rurik Eskilsson, a fellow silversmith, who is also no stranger to the concept of time travel. Agreeing that Sara can accompany him to Jorvik, they embark on a journey even more perilous than one through time. But Fate has brought these two kindred spirits together across the ages for a reason..............................................................................Just some of the rich praise for Christina Courtenay:Whispers of the Runes is the best Christina Courtenay book yet. It held me captive as I read and stayed in my mind whenever I had to put it down SUE MOORCROFTA wonderful dual timeline story with captivating characters and full of vivid historical detail bringing the Viking world alive, I didnt want it to end! CLARE MARCHANTI love how the historical detail is sure and authentic but never at the expense of a rollicking-good story and romance. If you like beautifully written timeslip, this is definitely one for you. Oh, and did I mention hot Vikings? Whats not to like! GEORGIA HILL This epic romance is sure to sweep you off your feet!TAKE A BREAKAn absorbing story, fast-paced and vividly imagined, which really brought the Viking world to life PAMELA HARTSHORNEA love story and an adventure, all rolled up inside a huge amount of intricately-detailed, well-researched history. Thoroughly enjoyable KATHLEEN MCGURLPrepare to be swept along in this treasure of an adventure! With a smart, courageous heroine and hunky, honourable hero at the helm, whats not to like? KATE RYDERSeals Christina Courtenays crown as the Queen of Viking Romance CATHERINE MILLER

Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland explores the interaction of human populations with the land, waters, forests and wildlife. This volume spans 450 years that saw profound transformation in Scotlands environment. It begins in the fifteenth century, when the Golden Age of the early 1200s was but a fading folk memory in a land gripped by the gathering grimness of a little ice age. Colder, wetter, stormier weather became the new normal, interspersed with brief episodes of warmer but still moist conditions, all of which brought huge challenges to a society on the knife-edge of subsistence. Viewing the religious and political upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries against the cycles of disease and dearth that were ever-present into the later 1700s, the book explores the slow adoption and application of the ideas of Improvement and the radical disruption of Scotlands environment that ensued. Reformation, revolution and rebellion were the background noise to efforts to subsist and succeed through a hostile age, in which Scotlands environment was an adversary to be tamed, mastered and made polite. As the last, bitter decades of the little ice age were ground out in foreign wars, forced clearances and potato famines, Scotland prepared itself to embrace the Industrial Age.

From 1923 to 1933, the Chicago Field Museum and the University of Oxford conducted archaeological excavations at the site of Kish, located on the floodplain of the Euphrates River in modern Iraq approximately 80 kilometers south of Baghdad. Over the course of ten years of work, the expedition explored seventeen different mounds both inside and outside the ancient boundaries of Kish. The finds were divided at the end of each season, with the Iraq Museum retaining half of the objects and any one-of-a-kind items and the two excavating institutions splitting the remainder. Beginning in 2004, the Field Museum undertook a reevaluation of its Kish holdings. To highlight new research and insights into the material culture from Kish and our understanding of the importance of the site to Mesopotamian archaeology, the Field Museum held a symposium in 2008 that brought together an international group of scholars who presented papers on various aspects of the ancient city. This volume, which grew out of that symposium, presents a wide array of studies on the excavated material remains from Kish, including cuneiform texts, animal figurines, human remains, lithics, figural stucco wall decorations, and more.

Learn about the fascinating history of Bears Ears and the Colorado Plateau in this illustrated chapter book that spans from the formation of buttes millions of years ago to today!Over 300 million years ago, the beautiful buttes of Bears Ears formed on the Colorado Plateau in what would one day become known as the Four Corners, which is where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet. The first humans in this areathe Clovis peopleappeared 13,000 years ago. Since then, the Bears Ears region has been home to many important Indigenous groups, including the Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Zuni Tribe, and Ute Indian Tribe. After centuries of their land being mistreated and vandalized, these five tribes came together and asked the United States government to protect the land of Bears Ears by making it a national monument. In 2016, their vision became a reality when President Barack Obama established Bears Ears National Monument, protecting 1.3 million acres of sacred land. Young adventurers, junior geologists, and future archaeologists will love this incredible book about the rich history of this special American landscape.

Tropical floodplains are notoriously hostile to mass agriculture. Heavy monsoons rapidly leach vital nutrients from the topsoil, while seasonal standing water suffocates and rots crop root systems. Yet, pre-Columbian societies in the Llanos de Moxos transformed these inhospitable wetlands into highly productive agricultural engines capable of sustaining hundreds of thousands of people.The solution lay in the massive "camellones" or raised field networks. By piling earth into geometric mounds, indigenous farmers elevated crop roots above the floodwaters while simultaneously creating deep, permanent drainage canals. These adjacent trenches functioned as massive aquaculture traps, cultivating fish and capturing organic silt. When the dry season arrived, this nutrient-rich, phosphorus-heavy muck was manually dredged and applied directly to the mounds, creating a self-sustaining, closed-loop fertilizer system that defied the nutrient-poor reputation of the Amazon.Unearth the biochemical mastery of tropical agronomy. Grasp how ancient populations engineered the topography of an entire basin to manipulate soil drainage and completely subvert the limits of jungle farming.

Weseretkau "Mighty of Kas," honors the life and career of Professor Cathleen "Candy" Keller, a truly extraordinary teacher, scholar, Egyptologist, and polymath. The contributors to this volume were Professor Kellers students, friends, and colleagues. Though much of the research presented here centers around the honorees two primary passions--Egyptian art and the study of the village of Deir el-Medina--the range of topics reflects her broad Egyptological interests, including religious organization, artistic technique, museum collections, textual analyses, historical events, and archaeological studies at sites throughout Egypt.

Examines the Anunnaki gods evolving relationships with humanity, their power struggles, and the details of their nuclear war on Earth Analyzes the crisis and rationale behind the Anunnaki decision to nuke 5 cities in the Jordan plain, resulting in the obliteration of Sumerian civilization Draws upon the work of Zecharia Sitchin, the Book of Genesis, Sumerian clay tablets, and archaeological evidence such as ancient radioactive skeletons Examines the Anunnakis lack of higher consciousness, their reliance on technology, their sacred power objects and sacred geometry, and the possibility of Anunnaki bases on Mars in the distant pastThe detonation of nuclear weapons in the 20th century was not the first time humanity has seen such terrible destruction. Drawing upon the work of Zecharia Sitchin, the Book of Genesis, Sumerian clay tablets, and archaeological evidence such as ancient radioactive skeletons, Chris Hardy reveals the ancient nuclear event that destroyed the Sumerian civilization and the power struggles of the gods that led up to it.The author explains how the Anunnaki came to Earth from the planet Nibiru seeking gold to repair their ozone layer. Using genetic engineering, they created modern humanity to do their mining work and installed themselves as our kings and our gods. Anunnaki god Enki had a fatherly relationship with the first two humans. Then Enlil, Enkis brother, took over as Commander of Earth, instating a sole-god theocracy and a war against the clan of Enki and humanity for spoiling the Anunnaki bloodlines through interbreeding. This shift imposed a blackout not only of the very human nature of the Anunnaki gods but also of humanitys own ancient past on Earth.Two of Enlils attacks against the Enki clan and humanity are described in the stories of the Deluge and the Tower of Babel. His final attempt, after coercing the Assembly of the Gods into voting yes, was the nuclear bombing of 5 cities of the Jordan plain, including Sodom and Gomorrah, which resulted in the destruction of the Sumerian civilization and the Anunnakis own civilization on Earth, including their space port in the Sinai. The author reveals how, after each attempt, humanity was saved by Enki, chief scientist Ninmah, and Enkis son Hermes.The author explores how the Anunnakis reliance on technology and their recurrent wars caused them to lose touch with cosmic consciousness. And she reveals how we will be doomed to repeat this dynamic until humanity awakens to our true origins.

Between 1931 and 1939, central Athens was transformed by the expropriation and demolition of the Vrysaki neighborhood at the foot of the Acropolis. In these few years, more than 5,000 inhabitants were displaced and 348 properties were torn down so that the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) could excavate the ancient Agora; the scale of the project and the degree to which it was documented make this a unique episode in the history of Greek archaeology. Using materials from the ASCSA Archives and a large collection of photographs from the 1930s, this volume details the history of the negotiations, the expropriations, and, most importantly, the Vrysaki neighborhood itself. Illustrating its streets, shops, houses, names, and faces, the author provides a vivid recreation of the community that was Vrysaki.

Cet ouvrage collectif présente des articles et des chapitres d’ouvrages publiés en langue anglaise dans les années 1970 et traduits en français. Ces articles constituent des contributions importantes

Scattered across the Scottish Highlands are the ruins of ancient Celtic hillforts that defy the fundamental laws of geology. Their massive stone walls were not just stacked; they were subjected to temperatures so extreme that the granite literally melted, fusing the individual rocks into a solid mass of black glass.This process, known as vitrification, requires sustained temperatures exceeding 1,000 degrees Celsius. Achieving this level of thermodynamic intensity in an open-air environment using Iron Age technology is practically impossible. Archaeologists have debated for centuries whether this was a brilliant, deliberate architectural technique designed to strengthen the walls, or the result of apocalyptic, destructive fires set by invading armies during brutal tribal warfare.This book investigates the bizarre thermodynamics of ancient Scottish architecture. You will explore the complex chemical reactions required to melt solid rock, the modern experimental archaeology attempting to replicate the phenomenon, and the violent historical context of the Iron Age.Uncover the fiery mysteries of the ancient Celts. Discover how extreme thermodynamics created glass fortresses that continue to baffle modern structural engineers and geologists.

Archaeology isnt just for academics and television presenters its for everyone. And it is all around us. Get your boots on and explore Britains national and local archaeology sites for yourself with this revised and updated, easy-to-read, fully illustrated guide.Follow our islands history in this step-by-step introduction. Discover what life was like from the earliest days of human habitation right through to the world wars. Then get out to visit the best sites and see what features each era left behind for us to find and find out how to spot archaeology for yourself in the most surprising places.Be warned: you may never look at an empty field, a stone monument or an old building in the same way again!

For over half a millennium, the megalithic ruins of Tiwanaku in the highlands of the Andes mountains have stood as proxy for the desires and ambitions of various empires and political agendas; in the last hundred years, scholars have attempted to answer the question "What was Tiwanaku?" by examining these shattered remains from a distant preliterate past. This volume contains twelve papers from senior scholars, whose contributions discuss subjects from the farthest points of the southern Andes, where the iconic artifacts of Tiwanaku appear as offerings to the departed, to the heralded ruins weathered by time and burdened by centuries of interpretation and speculation. Visions of Tiwanaku stays true to its name by providing a platform for each scholar to present an informed view on the nature of this enigmatic place that seems so familiar, yet continues to elude understanding by falling outside our established models for early cities and states.

Se recogen en este anejo de Archivo Español de Arqueología las contribuciones que se presentaron a la reunión científica que, bajo la rúbrica que sirve de título al volumen, tuvo lugar en el Instituto de Arqueologia de Merida en diciembre de 2008. Se estudian en ellas los asentamientos de poblacion en Hispania en epoca tardoantigua y altomedieval, y se reconstruye su proceso de formacion a partir de datos procedentes de excavaciones y de prospecciones arqueologicas. La investigacion sobre los poblados rurales revela entre lineas la transformacion del campo que tuvo lugar en la epoca de transicion entre la Antiguedad tardia y la Alta Edad Media, la situacion del campesinado y las caracteristicas de los espacios de produccion agricola y ganadera. El analisis de otros modelos de poblamiento, como el del territorio de Toledo, realizado a partir de restos de escultura decorativa, permite conocer, al menos en sus lineas maestras, los rasgos urbanisticos de la urbs regia, la antigua capital del reino visigodo.

Seit Jahrhunderten zieht die Legende der versunkenen Stadt Vineta Historiker, Abenteurer und Archaologen in ihren Bann. Eine bluhende Handelsmetropole, die in den Tiefen der Ostsee verschwunden sein soll - prachtvoll, geheimnisvoll und bis heute ein Ratsel. Ist Vineta nur ein Mythos, oder gibt es wissenschaftliche Beweise fur ihre Existenz?In diesem Buch geht Herold zu Moschdehner auf eine faszinierende Spurensuche. Mit neuen archaologischen Funden, entdeckten Geoglyphen und tiefen Einblicken in die Uberlieferungen des Ostseeraums entwirft er ein lebendiges Bild von Vineta und ihrer moglichen Geschichte. Mit akribischer Forschung und spekulativen Theorien dokumentiert Moschdehner Expeditionen, mysteriose Phanomene und erstaunliche Funde - und nimmt den Leser mit auf eine Reise in die Vergangenheit und in die unergrundlichen Tiefen des Meeres.Konnte Vineta eine reale, versunkene Zivilisation gewesen sein? Dieses Buch wagt einen Blick auf eine der altesten Legenden Nordeuropas und offnet neue Perspektiven auf das, was tief im Wasser verborgen liegen konnte. Eine Pflichtlekture fur alle, die an das Mysterium und die verborgenen Geschichten der Ostsee glauben.

Consacré à une réflexion sur la pratique de larchéologie urbaine, cet essai sattache à définir les limites imposées à la recherche par les sources historiques (écrites, archéologiques, planimétriques