In prehistoric Europe hierarchic societies arose and developed technological systems and processes in the production of objects related to everyday use, on the one hand, and items of religious and symbolic character emulating prestige and luxury, on the other, while both types of objects may not always be clearly distinguishable.

This volume deals with questions of how artisans and other social groups, involved in these productive processes and social practices, reacted to and interacted with...

This volume describes, illustrates, and analysis the finds from the excavations at Dra Abu el-Naga, an important necropolis on the east bank of the Nile in Luxor (Egypt), which was in use from Middle Kingdom times until the early Christian era. Excavations of the site have been conducted by the German Archaeological Institute (DAI).

A wide variety of leather objects or objects with leather parts have been discovered, including footwear, musical objects, loincloths as well as parts of furnitur...

This volume honors the career and contributions of Andrew M.T. Moore. Moore's groundbreaking work at Abu Hureyra, Syria and excavations at Neolithic sites in Croatia have made him a pioneer in integrated interdisciplinary research in archaeology, expressing a deeply held conviction that developments in human culture can only be understood when embedded in an ecological approach. In this book, colleagues and former students of Moore, working in the Near East and Croatia, present current resear...

Every year thousands of archaeological objects and artefact scatters are discovered by the public, most of them by metal-detector users, but also by people whilst out walking, gardening, or going about their daily work. Once recorded, these finds hold enormous potential in helping us understand the past. In England and Wales these finds are reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), and since 2003 over one million finds have been recorded.This book explores the significance of PAS dat...

Henk Kars was appointed as first Chair of Archaeometry in The Netherlands in 1994. From 2002 he was full time professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, interim Director of CLUE, and founder and Managing Director of the Institute for Geo- and Bioarchaeology. This festschrift volume incorporates original publications in the field straddling the Sciences and Humanities produced by various former PhD-students, post-docs and colleagues.Landscape archaeology is described in the first cultural ...

The excavations of Gebel Adda (Lower Nubia) by the American Research Center in Egypt's Nubian Expedition (1962-1966, directed by Nicholas B. Millet) yielded large quantities of objects, including an impressive collection of leatherwork. The finds, which show a remarkable degree of preservation, date from the Meroitic Period (about AD 100-400) through the Christian (AD 641-1400) and Islamic Periods (AD 1400), and were mainly recovered from tombs.

The large variety of leather objects, currently...

Cet ouvrage documente le réseau commercial de la Guyane de l'Ancien Régime par l'analyse du mobilier archéologique issu des fouilles de six habitations guyanaises, de même que par l'exploitation des archives de la correspondance officielle de la Guyane entre 1688 et 1794 qui fournissent des informations essentielles quant au trafic maritime associé au port de Cayenne. Ces données apportent des renseignements nouveaux sur l'organisation commerciale de même que sur les liaisons extérieu...

Der "demographische Faktor" war zu allen Zeiten der Menschheitsgeschichte von Bedeutung für die soziale Organisation und für archäologische Theoriebildung. Nun werden erstmals Daten zu den Bevölkerungsverhältnisse der europäischen Bronze- und Eisenzeiten zusammenfassend vorgelegt und deren sozialarchäologische Relevanz untersucht.Dem Aufgabenbereich der Archäologie entsprechend zielt die Archäologische Demographie auf die Bedeutung der lokalen und regionalen Bevölkerungsverhältniss...

Cette thèse porte sur les pointes de flèches découvertes dans les tombes de la fin du Néolithique et de l'âge du Bronze ancien (2500-1700 av. n. è.) dans le Massif armoricain, dans le sud des îles Britanniques et au Danemark. Ces armatures sont envisagées sous l'angle de la typologie, des matières premières, de la technologie, de l'expérimentation et de la tracéologie. L'objectif de ces différentes approches est de caractériser les modes de production et les fonctions des flèch...

Onderzoekers en liefhebbers van de Steentijd brengen veel tijd door met het bestuderen en documenteren van stenen artefacten. Omdat het onmogelijk is om al deze artefacten fysiek te bestuderen is men in veel gevallen afhankelijk van afbeeldingen. Tekeningen zijn daarbij vaak het meest informatief aangezien in de lijnen en vlakken van zo'n tekening technologische informatie ontsloten wordt die de beschouwer vertellen hoe het afgebeelde artefact is gemaakt. Andersom is het maken van dergelijke ...