Princeton University Press, 1992. — 518 p. This is an anthropological study of the role of hieroglyphic writing in the prehispanic Aztec, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Maya states. First, Joyce Marcus compares the four systems with regard to eight major themes: calendrics, the naming of nobles, the naming of places, royal marriages, accession to the throne, divine ancestors, warfare,...
Princeton University Press, 1992. — 518 p. This is an anthropological study of the role of hieroglyphic writing in the prehispanic Aztec, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Maya states. First, Joyce Marcus compares the four systems with regard to eight major themes: calendrics, the naming of nobles, the naming of places, royal marriages, accession to the throne, divine ancestors, warfare,...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 293 p. — (BAR International Series 2732). Proceedings of the Third BICANE Colloquium held at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge 26-27 March 2011 Shishak and Shoshenq: A chronological cornerstone or stumbling-block? Shoshenq I: A conventional(ish) view Shoshenq I and the Levant: Synchronising chronologies Dead-reckoning the Start of the 22nd Dynasty: From...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 633 p. — (BAR International Series 2735). The Valley of Sagittarius and the Peligna Dell between the fourth and first centuries BC: Trends and Delvelopments of Romanization. In the Peligna Valley, there is a poor understanding of Romanization as a phenomenon. The state of the documentation is very substantial but it is fragmentary and unsystematic in...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 253 p. — (BAR International Series 2736). The research in this book is the result of work begun in the summer of 2003 when the author became involved with the research team investigating the harbour area of Classe, in a joint project of the Department of History, Culture, Civilisation (then Department of Archaeology), the Superintendence of...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 393 p. — (BAR International Series 2737). This book presents the rich and varied archaeological record from excavations carried out between 2004-2010 in the Saja river basin, Cantabria, northern Spain.
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 91 p. — (BAR International Series 2739/Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 41). The Moche art style is best known through its highly refined ceramic vessels, which frequently accompanied burials. Estimates suggest that there are over 100,000 Moche vessels in museum and private collections worldwide (Donnan 1976: 13). The vessels, often decorated in...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 261 p. — (BAR International Series 2740/British Foundation for the Study of Arabia Monographs 16). Two silver vases of Greco-Roman style from the ‘treasure of wādī Ḍuraʾ’ (Yemen) Qatabanian jars in the port of Sumhuram: notes on the trade by sea in South Arabia Snake, copper and water in south-eastern Arabian religion during the Iron Age: the Bithnah and...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 131 p. — (BAR International Series 2741). Proceedings of the international conference, Iaşi, Romania, November 6-10, 2013 Archaeological heritage helps to define the age and origins of a culture, the history and traditions of a nation, a country or a certain ethno-cultural space in relation to other states or cultural spaces. Today, archaeological goods...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 203 p. — (BAR International Series 2742). In this publication the results of an archaeological research project conducted by the Department of Medieval Archaeology of the University of Tübingen, Institute for Prehistory and Medieval Archaeology, under the leadership of Barbara Scholkmann during the years 2003 to 2009 in the ruins of Panamá la Vieja...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 187 p. — (BAR International Series 2743). Evolutionary and ecological processes are important for modelling the patterns of morphological variation among human populations. Within the ecological dimensions, diet plays a key role in craniofacial variation, due both to the effect of the type and amount of nutrients consumed, on skeletal growth and the...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 475 p. — (BAR International Series 2744). This book is a study of the agricultural economy of Limousin in France, from the Iron Age to the modern era.
ANU Press, 2019. — 528 p. — (Terra Australis 52). This volume comprises 23 chapters that focus on the archaeology of Lapita, a cultural horizon associated with the founding populations who first colonised much of the south west Pacific some 3000 years ago. The Lapita culture has been most clearly defined by its distinctive dentate-stamped decorated pottery and the design system...
ANU Press, 2016. — 236 p. — (Terra Australis 44). Religious change is at its core a material as much as a spiritual process. Beliefs related to intangible spirits, ghosts, or gods were enacted through material relationships between people, places, and objects. The archaeology of mission sites from Tanna and Erromango islands, southern Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides), offer...
ANU Press, 2016. — 236 p. — (Terra Australis 44). Religious change is at its core a material as much as a spiritual process. Beliefs related to intangible spirits, ghosts, or gods were enacted through material relationships between people, places, and objects. The archaeology of mission sites from Tanna and Erromango islands, southern Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides), offer...
ANU Press, 2017. — 404 p. — (Terra Australis 45). This volume brings together a diversity of international scholars, unified in the theme of expanding scientific knowledge about humanity’s past in the Asia-Pacific region. The contents in total encompass a deep time range, concerning the origins and dispersals of anatomically modern humans, the lifestyles of Pleistocene and...
ANU Press, 2017. — 512 p. — (Terra Australis 46). Kuk is a settlement at c. 1600 m altitude in the upper Wahgi Valley of the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, near Mount Hagen, the provincial capital. The site forms part of the highland spine that runs for more than 2500 km from the western head of the island of New Guinea to the end of its eastern tail. Until the...
ANU Press, 2017. — 499 p. — (Terra Australis 47). Western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory, has a rich archaeological landscape, ethnographic record and body of rock art that displays an astonishing array of imagery on shelter walls and ceilings. While the archaeology goes back to the earliest period of Aboriginal occupation of the continent, the...
ANU Press, 2018. — 378 p. — (Terra Australis 48). The central Indonesian island of Sulawesi has recently been hitting headlines with respect to its archaeology. It contains some of the oldest directly dated rock art in the world, and some of the oldest evidence for a hominin presence beyond the southeastern limits of the Ice Age Asian continent. In this volume, scholars from...
ANU Press, 2018. — 378 p. — (Terra Australis 48). The central Indonesian island of Sulawesi has recently been hitting headlines with respect to its archaeology. It contains some of the oldest directly dated rock art in the world, and some of the oldest evidence for a hominin presence beyond the southeastern limits of the Ice Age Asian continent. In this volume, scholars from...
ANU Press, 2019. — 212 p. — (Terra Australis 49). Drawing in the Land offers an important contribution to the field of rock art research and Australian archaeology. It provides a detailed study of the previously under-examined rock art of the Hawkesbury/Nepean area of New South Wales. The study presents a detailed historiography of Australian rock art research and, through the...
ANU Press, 2019. — 252 p. — (Terra Australis 50). This monograph reports the results of archaeological investigations undertaken in the Northern Moluccas Islands (the Indonesian Province of Maluku Utara) by Indonesian, New Zealand and Australian archaeologists between 1989 and 1996. Excavations were undertaken in caves and open sites on four islands (Halmahera, Morotai, Kayoa...
ANU Press, 2019. — 252 p. — (Terra Australis 50). This monograph reports the results of archaeological investigations undertaken in the Northern Moluccas Islands (the Indonesian Province of Maluku Utara) by Indonesian, New Zealand and Australian archaeologists between 1989 and 1996. Excavations were undertaken in caves and open sites on four islands (Halmahera, Morotai, Kayoa...
ANU Press, 2019. — 227 p. — (Terra Australis 51). Island Melanesia is a remarkable region in many respects, from its great ecological and linguistic diversity, to the complex histories of settlement and interaction spanning from the Pleistocene to the present. Archaeological research in Island Melanesia is currently going through a vibrant phase of exciting new discoveries and...
ANU Press, 2019. — 227 p. — (Terra Australis 51). Island Melanesia is a remarkable region in many respects, from its great ecological and linguistic diversity, to the complex histories of settlement and interaction spanning from the Pleistocene to the present. Archaeological research in Island Melanesia is currently going through a vibrant phase of exciting new discoveries and...
ANU Press, 2020. — 306 p. — (Terra Australis 53). This volume presents ground-breaking research on fortified sites in three parts of Wallacea by a highly regarded group of scholars from Australia, Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States. In addition to surveying and dating defensive sites in often remote and difficult terrain, the chapters provide an important and...
ANU Press, 2020. — 306 p. — (Terra Australis 53). This volume presents ground-breaking research on fortified sites in three parts of Wallacea by a highly regarded group of scholars from Australia, Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States. In addition to surveying and dating defensive sites in often remote and difficult terrain, the chapters provide an important and...
ANU Press, 2024. — 318 p. — (Terra Australis 56). The Indonesian island of Sumatra is part of a chain of islands making up Sunda and the Malay Archipelago. Sumatra is one of the largest islands in the world, housing unique and globally important tropical rainforests, a diverse array of rare plants and magnificent animals, and a population of 60 million who speak a range of...
ANU Press, 2024. — 450 p. — (Terra Australis 57). This edited volume of invited chapters honours the four decades of fundamental research by archaeologist Glenn Summerhayes into the human prehistory of the islands of the western Pacific, especially New Guinea and its offshore islands. This area helped to shape and direct many ancient dispersal events associated with Homo...
ANU Press, 2025. — 428 p. — (Terra Australis 58). This book explores the human past in West New Guinea (otherwise known as Indonesian Papua, West Papua, or Irian Jaya). The western part of New Guinea and its surrounding islands were critical for the early peopling of the Pacific region over 50,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens moved out of Africa and into Asia, seafaring through...
Sidestone Press, 2025. — 290 p. The human past is unimaginable without the horse. From our ancestors hunting and painting horses in the Upper Palaeolithic, to the earliest riders, the rise of equestrian empires, and the critical role of horses in war, settler colonialism, and modern state formation, human history is undeniably equestrian. Because of the deep and varied...
Assimil, 2021. — 131 p. — (Les cahiers d'écriture). Ce cahier d’écriture a été spécialement conçu pour vous permettre d’apprendre à tracer les hiéroglyphes les plus complexes. Les signes imprimés de la classification de Gardiner servent de modèle et sont reproduits de façon schématique et cursive pour une écriture plus fluide. Pas à pas, crayon en main, vous vous entraînez à...
Charles E. Nichols, 2008. — 154 p. This book is written for high school students and beginners. It avoids using complicated grammar. The examples are kept simple. In many cases the hieroglyphs are "unrolled" - each hieroglyphic word is presented to the student one hieroglyph at a time, just as we write an English word one letter at a time. Each hieroglyph is treated as if it...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 415 p. — (Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 46). Script Switching in Roman Egypt studies the hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, and Old Coptic manuscripts which evidence the conventions governing script use, the domains of writing those scripts inhabited, and the shift of scripts between those domains, to elucidate the obsolescence of...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 416 p. — (Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 46). Script Switching in Roman Egypt studies the hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, and Old Coptic manuscripts which evidence the conventions governing script use, the domains of writing those scripts inhabited, and the shift of scripts between those domains, to elucidate the obsolescence of...
Walter de Gruyter, 2024. — 924 p. Luwian and the closely related Hittite are the oldest known languages of the Indo-European group. Luwian is written in two scripts: Cuneiform and its own Hieroglyphic, which survives mostly on stone monuments collected from Turkey and Syria. The texts fall into two main groups, those of the Hittite Empire (c. 1400–1200 B.C.), and those of the...
Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2025. — 573 p. — (ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ 6). Per una storia della venetizzazione linguistica dell’Istria: prospettive metodologiche per una sociolinguistica diacronica (“Studi Mediolatini e Volgari” 1975, 23: 59-100) Storia linguistica dell’Istria preromana e romana (Rapporti linguistici e culturali tra popoli dell’Italia antica: Pisa, Giardini Editori e...
Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2024. — 245 p. — (ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ 5). Questo lavoro si propone di presentare un’analisi dei testi di carattere magico-religioso provenienti dalla Sicilia e databili al periodo compreso tra III e VIII secolo dell’era volgare, che si ispira ai principi e ai metodi della sociolinguistica storica. La raccolta integrale di questo corpus documentario si...
Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2023. — 166 p. — (ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ 4). I 51 testi in dialetto istrioto nella variante di Valle d’Istria che qui si propongono, esemplati e tradotti in lingua italiana, sono tratti dai primi tre Quaderni manoscritti di Giovanni Obrovaz, il quale, tra la metà degli anni Sessanta e Settanta del secolo scorso, si dedicò con cura alla compilazione di questi e...
Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2020. — 141 p. — (ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ 2). La scrittura è una tecnica pervasiva che deve tale caratteristica alla necessità di produrre modelli testuali; la padronanza e l’uso di questi modelli contribuiscono in maniera decisiva a formare nuovi specialisti, diversi da quelli legati all’oralità. Una tecnica pervasiva, che tende ad occupare tutti gli spazi...
Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2018. — 174 p. — (ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ 1). Contini Riccardo - Introduzione / Introduction Buzi Paola - Egypt, crossroad of translations and literary interweavings (3rd-6th centuries). A reconsideration of earlier Coptic literature Bausi Alessandro - Translations in Late Antique Ethiopia Camplani Alberto - Sulla multifunzionalità del tradurre in copto: note...
Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2023. — 259 p. — (ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ 3). Il volume raccoglie i contributi di alcuni tra i maggiori specialisti italiani di quest’ambito di studi, che in Italia vanta una lunga tradizione. L’obiettivo dell’opera è duplice: da una parte, ricostruire il quadro complessivo dei rapporti che sono intercorsi fra i sistemi di scrittura attestati a Creta e a Cipro...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 349 p. Writing from Invention to Decipherment contains a wealth of global scholarship on ancient writing systems from China, Mesopotamia, Central America, and the Mediterranean, to more recent newly created scripts such as the Rongorongo from Easter Island, the Caroline Island scripts, as well as the alphabet. The aim is to dig into the...
Oldenbourg Verlag, 2004. — 416 S. — (Schriften des Historischen Kollegs. Kolloquien 54). Frank Kolb/Andreas Thomsen - Forschungen zu Zentralorten und Chora auf dem Gebiet von Kyaneai (Zentrallykien): Methoden, Ergebnisse, Probleme John Bintliff/Phil Howard - A Radical Rethink on Approaches to Surface Survey and the Rural Landscape of Central Greece in Roman Times Michèle Brunet...
Akademie Verlag, 1998. — 216 S. — (Studienbücher Geschichte und Kultur der Alten Welt). Alte Geschichte, einschlie lich der fr hen byzantinischen Geschichte, und exemplarische Ph nomene des Weiterlebens der Antike sind Themen der Reihe. Wirtschafts-, Sozial-, Rechts-, Religions- und Geistesgeschichte werden dabei besonders ber cksichtigt. Der Vordere und der Mittlere Orient...
Philipp von Zabern, 2005. — 431 S. — (Archaeologie in Eurasien 18/Studien im Thrakien-Marmara-Raum 2). Band 2 der Reihe „Studien im Thrakien-Marmara-Raum“ befasst sich mit der wichtigsten Fundgruppe des Siedlungshügels, der Keramik. Im ersten Teil unterzieht Hermann Parzinger die gesamte zwischen 1993 und 1998 aus den mittel- und spätneolithischen Schichten von Asagi Pinar...
Philipp von Zabern, 1997. — 273 S. — (Kulturgeschichte der antiken Welt 75). Hunderttausende von Soldaten ständig und zuverlässig durch ausreichende Verpflegung in Einsatzbereitschaft, bei Gesundheit und nicht zuletzt bei Laune zu halten stellte unter den logistischen Verhältnissen des Altertums eine gewaltige Herausforderung dar. Enorme Mengen von Lebensmitteln mußten...
Philipp von Zabern, 2006. — 517 p. — (Aphrodisias: results of the excavations at Aphrodisias in Caria 2). Aphrodisias is an unusally well preserved Greek city of the Roman period in inland Caria (S.W. Turkey) and has a remarkable body of surviving carved marbles with excavated contexts - statues, monuments, reliefs. A large proportion of the statues produced were portraits...
3. Auflage — Philipp von Zabern, 2016. — 382 S. Pergamon, eine der bedeutendsten archäologischen Stätten der Antike, spielte als Residenz der Attaliden von etwa 280 bis 133 v.Chr. eine wichtige Rolle in der Geschichte der Alten Welt. Berühmt wurde Pergamon vor über 100 Jahren, als Archäologen dort den Pergamon-Altar ausgruben, der heute die Hauptattraktion des nach ihm...
Dr. Ludwig Reichert, 2012. — 360 p. The anthology takes a comparative approach to reconstructing the perceptions that the Armenians and Georgians developed of their Mongol conquerors in the 13th and 14th centuries. The focus lies on the perception of the historical outcomes of nomadic / sedentary interactions from the perspective of both the mundane and the clerical nobility....