Dorestad was the largest town of the Low Countries in the Carolingian era. As a riverine emporium on the northern edge of the Frankish Empire, it functioned as a European junction, connecting the Viking world with the Continent. In 2019, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden hosted its quinquennial international congress based around Dorestad, located at present-day Wijk bij Duurstede. This third edition, ‘Dorestad and its Networks’, coincided with the fiftieth birthday of finding ...

Cette monographie se propose de réaliser la synthèse des travaux menés entre 2000 et 2010 sur les productions de haches dans la vallée de la Seine à l’ouest de Paris.

Le premier chapitre présente l’historiques des recherches, le cadre chrono-culturel et situe ces productions au sein de celles du Bassin parisien. Le second chapitre présente le cadre de l’étude et la documentation.

La minière de Flins-sur-Seine, lieu d’extraction et de production de haches en silex bartonien, f...

Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll societies, traditional and modern! This book presents a multidisciplinary, retrospective analysis of a Pacific Atoll People living in several countries but held together as a diaspora through notions of kinship.

The People have ancestral, cultural, social and continuing residential c...

Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities argues exactly that. Round barrows do not just represent the death side of Early Bronze Age communities placed in set-a-side ritual landscapes, but were instead central to existence in many ways. This study of the Rother Region, where the Weald meets the Wessex massif, reports the results of the People of the Heath project, 2014–18. It integrates a wealth of data from comprehensive field study of all relevant sites in the region with that from e...

Dit publieksboek (3de druk) vertelt het verhaal van één van de belangrijkste, maar minst bekende archeologische vindplaatsen van Europa: Doggerland. Slechts weinigen weten dat onze stranden aan de rand liggen van een enorm verdwenen landschap. Een prehistorische wereld die bijna een miljoen jaar menselijke bewoning documenteert en die gedurende het grootste deel van die tijd droog lag.

Het is de plek waar meer dan 900.000 jaar geleden de eerste voetstappen van vroege mensachtigen in Noord-...

One hundred years ago, Howard Carter, working for Lord Carnarvon, made one of the most important archaeological discoveries of all times in the Valley of the Kings (Luxor, Egypt): the nearly intact tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun (ca. 1335-1325 BC). In addition to the king’s body, the tomb contained well over 5000 objects, which were recovered, conserved and recorded by Carter and his team. The fabulous treasures, such as the gold coffins, funerary mask, jewellery, as well as the ...

Nicolaus Westendorp (1773-1836) was een dominee in Nederlandse romantische traditie. Zo als veel van zijn collega’s begon hij zijn literaire leven als dichter. Hoewel het dominee zijn altijd zijn hoofd doel bleef werd hij landelijk bekend als oudheidkundige.

Als kind van de Nederlandse Romantiek stond hij met zijn voeten in het Verlichtingsdenken. Oudheidkunde was voor hem een praktische studie waarmee het net ontstane koninkrijk der Nederlanden een stevige basis kon krijgen. Het diende er ...

This popular-science book tells the story of one of the most important, but least known major archaeological sites in Europe: Doggerland. Few people know that the beaches along the North Sea lie on the edge of a vast lost world. A prehistoric landscape that documents almost a million years of human habitation and lay dry for most of that time.

Doggerland is where early hominids left the first footprints in northern Europe, more than 900,000 years ago. Later, for hundreds of thousands of year...

Bradley J. Parker made numerous contributions to the field of archaeology and Assyriology on a broad array of topics spanning six millennia of archaeological history in both ancient Mesopotamia and the Andes. His varied research interests included the archaeology of empires and imperial dynamics, frontiers and borderlands, households and micro-archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, aerial drone mapping, and the politics of archaeology and nationalism.

This volume contains a collection of essays from...

Archaeology has gone digital for some time now! Topics such as GIS databases, 3D models, drone photography, meta- and para-data, semantic mapping, text mining, simulation, and social network analysis have become commonplace in archaeological discourse and practice. Digital and technological advancements seemingly offer limitless promises for data recording, analysis and dissemination. Yet, after several decades of innovation, we must ask ourselves which of these promises are actually fulfille...