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A reprint with updated material of the author's 1991 research into villas and farms and rural economy in the Late Roman era (Britain, Gaul, Italy, Spain and Gallia Belgica in the 3rd to 5th centuries AD). The volume challenges the assumption that the period studied was one of dramatic decline, and analyses the archaeological evidence in a wide-ranging survey.

An examination of the assumption that there were extensive trade links along the western coasts of the British Isles. Particular attention is focussed on the links between Britain and Ireland, Gaul and beyond. Wooding argues that the links were sporadic and small scale. Full use is made of archaeological and textual sources. Details of routes, cargoes, links with Gaul and the Meditteranean and sites like Whithorn and Tintagel.

An account of the pre-Islamic hill top fortress of Shahr-i Zohak and its many turrets as recorded by Allchin and Professor Codrington in 1951, and these and other defensive sites in the Bamiyan Area visited by Baker in 1975 and 1988. Numerous photos, a few plans and sections; some pottery.

La conoscenza archeologica della Calabria nel Medioevo è ancora poco approfondita rispetto al resto dell'Italia meridionale, e questo rende difficile giudicare il ruolo che questa regione ha assunto nella crescita del nuovo Mediterraneo medievale dopo la disgregazione del mondo antico. L'area denominata "Altopiano del Poro", nell'odierna provincia di Vibo Valentia, è al centro di questo studio. Questo libro presenta una serie di dati raccolti per ricostruire le caratteristiche di questo territorio in fasi storiche omogenee. Lo studio definisce le tipologie degli insediamenti, le reti di siti esistenti al suo interno, le loro relazioni ed evoluzioni nel corso dei secoli. È accompagnato da uno studio campionato di materiale ceramico importato e locale. The archaeological knowledge of Calabria in the Middle Ages is still not very thorough compared to the rest of the Southern Italy, and this makes it difficult to judge the role that this region assumed in the growth of the new medieval Mediterranean after the shattering of the ancient world. The area called "Hilltop of Poro", in the modern province of Vibo Valentia, is the focus of this study. This book presents a series of data collected to reconstruct the features that characterized this territory in homogeneous historical phases. The study defines the types of settlements, the networks of sites existing within it, and their relationships and evolutions over the centuries. It is accompanied by a sampled study of imported and local ceramic material.

This collection of papers is based on a conference on urban monasteries held at York in 1989.

Third-Seventh Century CE. Proceedings of Symposium, University of Haifu, May 1987.

Spine title: L'art rupestre du Sahara Central.

Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.--University of Oxford, 1986)

Papers from a symposium held Dec. 17-18, 1980, at the Archaeological Institute, Free University of Amsterdam.

Art and Archaeology in Byzantium and Beyond consists of 21 papers, which represent the breadth of the research interests of Sophia Kalopissi-Verti and Maria Panayotidi-Kesisoglou, to whom this volume is dedicated. The chapters have been divided into four sections and each is set in chronological order. The first section is dedicated to Byzantine and Post-Byzantine painting, including papers on wall-paintings and icon paintings. The second section contains four papers on Byzantine sculpture, showcasing examples from different regions of the Byzantine Empire. The third section concerns material culture (coinage and minor arts). The fourth and final section concerns architecture and topography in Byzantium and beyond. It tackles matters of topography in Byzantine cities and pilgrimage sites and investigates aspects of Byzantine architecture and its perception. Overall, this volume offers new perspectives on familiar topics, as well as new material for discussion. The book includes abstracts in Greek.

Il volume raccoglie i contributi di un convegno organizzato nel 2019 presso l'Università di Pisa in sinergia con la Consulta Universitaria di Topografia Antica. Gli interventi propongono una panoramica molto ampia sulle metodologie applicate allo studio del paesaggio antico. Vengono poste a confronto metodologie più tradizionali - che si inseriscono nel solco della tradizione italiana inaugurata da Rodolfo Lanciani - e tecnologie recenti come il LIDAR, le prospezioni geofisiche e le analisi di laboratorio. Le ricerche presentate sono frutto delle indagini di giovani dottorandi provenienti da università italiane e europee, raccolte in quattro sessioni. Ogni sessione è introdotta da un docente di rilevanza internazionale.This volume collects chapters based on papers presented during a conference held at the University of Pisa in 2019. It offers a wide-ranging overview of the methodologies applied to the study of the ancient landscape through the results of doctoral researchers from Italian and European universities.

Il ritrovamento agli inizi del XX secolo di un deposito votivo nelle campagne di Monticchio resta a lungo dimenticato negli archivi e nei magazzini della Direzione Provinciale per le Antichità della Basilicata. La riscoperta avviene combinando la ricerca documentale e la reindividuazione delle cassette, con una catalogazione minuziosa del materiale archeologico seguita da una nuova verifica sul campo nella presunta area di ritrovamento. L'indagine si estende poi al Monte Vulture, per inquadrare le forme di sacralità attive in quest'area, e cerca confronti tra fenomeni naturali e santuari nel contesto italico.This book is an archaeological study of an unpublished votive deposit (IV-III centuries BC) found at the beginning of the twentieth century in the northwest of Basilicata in Italy. It includes an overview of the volcanic Mount Vulture area and presents evidence of natural phenomena and sanctuaries.

The diplomat and writer on Persia, Sir Denis Wright developed his interest in intagli while serving in Trebizond in 1941. His collection of 59 items, catalogued in depth here for the first time, is of particular importance and interest as the provenance of about 40 of the engraved gems is known: more than 30 were acquired in Turkey and 8 come from Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia. There are also several unusual gems among those without a provenance. The Turkish material includes the earliest gem in the collection, a rare 5th century BC Phoenician green jasper scarab from the Black Sea area. The catalogue features indices on materials, provenances, subjects, and inscriptions.The diplomat and writer on Persia, Sir Denis Wright developed his interest in intagli while serving in Trebizond in 1941. His collection of 59 items, catalogued in depth here for the first time, is of particular importance and interest as the provenance of about 40 of the engraved gems is known: more than 30 were acquired in Turkey and 8 come from Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia. There are also several unusual gems among those without a provenance. The Turkish material includes the earliest gem in the collection, a rare 5th century BC Phoenician green jasper scarab from the Black Sea area. The catalogue features indices on materials, provenances, subjects, and inscriptions.

La vallée du Rhône, grand couloir de circulation Nord-Sud, lieu de passage entre l'Europe du Nord et le monde méditerranéen, a joué un rôle majeur dans le peuplement de toutes les gorges et vallées affluentes. Sa position charnière, entre le domaine tempéré continental à l'Ouest (Massif-Central) et le domaine montagneux à l'Est (Vercors et Alpes de Haute-Provence), explique son rôle d'enclave où les microclimats ont favorisé la persistance des occupations humaines tout au long des périodes glaciaires successives (apparition tardive du renne par exemple). Riche en cours d'eau, gorges et plateaux calcaires renfermant de nombreux abris, cette région fut propice à l'installation des hommes du Paléolithique. Elle concentre en effet un très grand nombre de sites moustériens, la plupart se trouvant en contexte karstique, sous la forme d'abris-sous-roche et de porches de grottes. En ce qui concerne les sites étudiés dans ce travail, la plus grande partie est regroupée en Ardèche méridionale, excentrant au Nord le site de Payre (Ardèche du Nord), et au Sud-Est le site des Peyrards (Vaucluse). Dans la partie aval des gorges se situent la grotte Saint-Marcel, l'abri du Maras, la grotte du Figuier, le Ranc Pointu et la Baume d'Oullens et, à quelques kilomètres à vol d'oiseau, la Baume Flandin s'ouvre dans un petit vallon du plateau d'Orgnac, à la limite avec le département du Gard et enfin, plus au Nord, dans la Moyenne vallée de l'Ardèche, on trouve la grotte des Barasses (Balazuc). Le contexte chronologique de ces sites est le Paléolithique moyen, lié, dans le Sud-Est, aux premières grandes vagues de peuplements humains. Le peuplement qui nous intéresse est donc celui de l'homme de Néanderthal, qui semble avoir occupé la région jusqu'à la veille de l'arrivée des premiers hommes modernes (Chauvet, intervalle de 32 000-30 000 BP pour les plus anciennes, Valladas et al., in Clottes (Ed.), 2001). Les études archéozoologique et taphonomique menées ici sur les assemblages osseux des petits, moyens et grands herbivores et quelquefois des Carnivores, permettent d'analyser l'état de conservation des ossements et la part de responsabilité des hommes et des Carnivores dans les dépôts et dans les modifications de surface, de restituer le contexte climatique, environnemental et chronologique existant lors des nombreuses venues des hommes grâce à la diversité des espèces représentées, et enfin d'aborder les stratégies de chasse et les habitudes alimentaires, concernant la matière carnée, des groupes de Néanderthaliens. Par-delà les inégalités, tant dans la représentativité des séries que dans les cadres environnementaux, il a été possible de discerner trois grandes tendances dans leurs types d'exploitation du milieu animal et de fait dans leurs modes d'occupation des sites. Reste à savoir quelle a été l'emprise des contraintes environnementales, des pratiques culturelles et des critères fonctionnels sur ces différents styles d'approvisionnement.

The main aim of this study is to examine the methods through which the managers of Nigeria's past have presented the country's heritage to the Nigerian public, how effectively this has been done, and how the current situation can be improved by 'marketing' archaeology to the public. The book's nine sections cover an examination of those institutions responsible for Nigeria's past, an ethnohistory of the Igbo, a review of the archaeological discoveries, conclusions and suggestions.The main aim of this study is to examine the methods through which the managers of Nigeria's past have presented the country's heritage to the Nigerian public, how effectively this has been done, and how the current situation can be improved by 'marketing' archaeology to the public. The book's nine sections cover an examination of those institutions responsible for Nigeria's past, an ethnohistory of the Igbo, a review of the archaeological discoveries, conclusions and suggestions.