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A detailed study, based on a doctoral thesis, of the use of stone from the 7th to 3rd millennium BP in the region of Pais Valenciano along the east coast of Spain. The author looks at the history of investigation, the typology of stone artefacts, petrology, the acquisition of suitable raw materials, the production of objects and their function.

This study of change and continuity in the Central sierras of Argentina examines the affects of contact between the indigenous population and colonising Spaniards, at the end of the sixteenth century.

'Squared limestone and basalt blocks of enormous size pave the approach to it, reliefs of lions and sphinxes surround its exterior, rows of lions in protome standing more than two metres high once formed the facades..' - the great Iron Age temple of 'Ain Dara is one of the most striking monuments of northern Syria.

This report includes evidence from the pre-Roman (Iron Age II) period in the region of Segovia based on fieldwork carried out in the 1980s. It brings together information from various museum collections, with an investigation of archaeological sites of this period and a detailed excavation project in the castle square of Cuellar.

The Corinthian Aryballos, a perfume vessel, is the subject of this book and the author examines the place of the vessel within the cultural system of ties between East and West. Through an exhaustive artistic analysis of the vessel and all its characteristics, the author attempts to prove that the Aryballos can serve as a measure of the period between the 8th and 6th centuries BC. Corinth during this period was a dominant centre of ceramic production, more so than other important centres such as Crete orCyprus.

This volume arises from a session at the EAA conference in Lisbon in 2000. Its aim was to draw together the new data from Europe on prehistoric wooden palisaded enclosures. Wood was important to early humans yet the rarity of surviving wooden objects from prehistoric contexts means that it is a rarely studied and often ignored medium. However and wherever these wooden remains are tantalizingly discovered, there is common concern across Europe of the lack of understanding on them. However, an increasing amount of work is taking place across Europe on Neolithic palisade enclosures, in particular, and the number of sites is expanding. These sites present their own problems with horizontal stratigraphy and phasing, as well as the more obvious considerations of dating and scarcity of internal features. Questions such as 'what were they for?' are likely to remain unanswered for some while, but it is hoped that the five papers in this volume (discussing sites from Ireland to Romania) as well as presenting a large body of new data, will go some way towards shedding some light on the study of these enigmatic structures.

In this, the 16th issue of The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe, the subject matter returns to the east coast of the USA, last visited by the Chesapeake Bay volume (Number XII). A new, extended, typology for Colono pipes is presented, along with a detailed analysis of their chronology. A study of the archaeological evidence at these sites, together with a comparison of the stylistic elements present on the Colono pipes with examples from Mali in West Africa and from elsewhere in the African Diaspora outside North America, strongly supports previous arguments for an African ethnicity for the Chesapeake finds. The author links the increasing social hostility towards Africans in the area, as the century progresses, with changes in the styles observed onthe pipes "investing them with...a symbolic content...as a method of communicating cultural survival and ethnic solidarity." The work is of particular significance to prehistorians who lack the means of studying past societies using historical sources.

A wide-ranging study on theories and research of the Mousterian in Europe written by Marcel Otte, and a series of regional studies written in collaboration with other specialists in the field.

Examination of the Chartier sites, two stratified campsites on Kisis Channel near Buffalo Narrows, Saskatchewan, with detailed analysis of the surface collctions, mainly consisting of flints.

The bronze bull from Weltenburg and the owls on wheel linchpins from Manching are among the best known animal depictions among Bavaria's rich assemblage of Bronze and Iron Age metalwork. In addition to the aesthetic beauty of such pieces, they are particularly useful for identifying the ideologies and beliefs of the people who made them. Wagner examines the historical context, production techniques and symbolism of these Bavarian objects, using comparisons with contemporary fauna for reference. Wagner also considers emotional and practical relationships between humans and animals and how representations of these relationships in objects and art identify cultures. Concludes with an illustrated catalogue of over 200 items.

Studies of the Middle Palaeolithic in Northwestern Greece have relied heavily on evidence from rockshelter sites and a single open-air site, Asprochaliko. Papagianni's study aims to redress this and focuses on lithic assemblages recovered from open-air sites in the Epirus and Corfu areas.

In-depth study of coinage minted in Theodosian times, in particular the AE2 produced AD 379-381 under Gratian, Valentinian II and Theodosius I. This report analyses the circulation, supply and imitation of the AE2 and its distribution in Spain.

A detailed investigation of the reliability of marine shell for radiocarbon dating New Zealand, which compares paired charcoal and marine shell radiocarbon ages from archaeological sites, specifically excavated for this study, and from already dated deposits.

An innovative approach to the study of diet among the Minoans on Crete, combining archaeological, demographic and skeletal evidence with biochemical analysis of samples from excavations. In this study, Riley takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the analysis of cereals, olives and fish, the three main staple foods of the ancient diet.

Ce volume fait partie d'un ensemble de deux volumes: ISBN 9781841712611 (Volume I); ISBN 9781841712628 (Volume II); ISBN 9781841712598 (Ensemble des deux volumes).

The subject in this, Number 58 of the series of Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, is the range of fortifications on the East African coast. The author traces the development of defences from the 10th to the 19th centuries, from the beginnings of Islamicisation and the apogee of the city-states, to Portugese and Ottoman rule. This broad approach encompasses the main features of military architecture and its interaction with urban societies. As well as defensive structures, the Swahili sites also symbolise urban and non-military use. These appeared from the 10th century, a period where the employment of stone architecture became common. The Swahili centres have both a synchronous and diachronic value; they are witnesses to the political and economic relationships between contemporary settlements, and represent the evolution of urban living. Forts and fortifications reflected royal power, and their study provides a political dimension that affords an insight into the complex relations between the different city-states along this dynamic and vast coastline. The military edifices reflect the periodic tensions and grand events that have shaped the history of the African east littoral.

This book is related to the study of historical processes and transformations within peasant societies that occurred during recent Prehistory in the Spanish Northern Plateau. The work is focused on the Chalcolithic (3000-1900 cal BC) which remains poorlyunderstood in the area of the Arlanzón river valley because of its problematic archaeological record. The large amount of data collected over the last 30 years has led to new theoretical approach and research methodologies to explore the archaeological record. The recent finds have also generated discussion in historical terms of the material evidence.

This book focuses on the functional analysis of the lithic industries of Neanderthal caves of Grotta Breuil in Italy and La Combette in France. Through use-wear analysis of the stone artefacts, the conclusions were reached on the modalities of subsistence in the course of the Middle Palaeolithic and on behaviour and mental planning capacity of the Neanderthals.

Although oral narrations are the way in which history has survived in Mexican indigenous contexts, they have been long disregarded as a valid source of information for archaeological research. The Materiality of Remembering argues that orality as a tool for research does not only provide clues for exploring indigenous uses of space, but that these narrations become central when investigating the way materiality changes through the act of remembrance. It is then through oral histories that materiality becomes fluid-moves and changes-through the constant process of remembrance. Then, by exploring orality in Mixtla de Altamirano in the Zongolica Mountain Range, Flores-Muñoz provides a corpus of data that helps us explore the interwoven relationship established between people (in this case the Nahuas in Mixtla de Altamirano) and their material world in the process of accounting history.

Published for the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.Papers presented here offer an account of some of the results of recent settlement-pattern archaeology in Transdanubia (Western Hungary) from the Late Bronze Age until Late Roman times. They were specially selected for this volume and mark a significant development for, until recently, little attention has been paid to this aspect of Iron Age studies in Hungary.The common characteristic of these papers is an emphasis on transitional periods, hitherto neglected, and an attempt to break away from the single period-dominated approach. The papers utilize new data derived from intensive field work and from recent systematic excavations at Iron Age defended and open settlements and their related cemeteries. The work was carried out by the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.These explorations are an integrated part of other projects of the Institute aimed at discovering the total settlement-pattern of selected areas. The work includes a series of micro-regional studies, employing new surveying methods, which have been carried out in the framework of excellently functioning Hungarian-English cooperation.