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A Seventh Century BCE Pendant, Ištar and Cross-Cultural Artistic Exchange Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-30 Taylor Gray
What is the proper approach that scholars should use for understanding cross-cultural artistic exchange in the ancient Near East? There are certainly a number of ways one group may borrow another group’s artistic motifs and incorporate them into their own system. This paper examines a seventh-century BCE silver pendant that was discovered at Tel Miqne-Ekron in 1992. Since the time of publication, the
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Sacred precincts in the Neolithic of the Near East? Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-30 Mattia Cartolano
The interpretations of unusual or special archaeological contexts in the Near Eastern Neolithic that might suggest the appearance of the first forms of religious belief in early sedentary communities have commonly been associated with magic practices or other concepts related to ritual performance or symbolism. The present work proposes alternative perspectives that focus on the term “sacred” as outlined
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Beyond Meaning: Employing an Artefact Approach to Study Figurines as Functional Items. A Case Study from Çatalhöyük (Turkey) Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-30 Monique Arntz
Even though figurines are a ubiquitous find on many Neolithic sites, some aspects of figurines are still poorly understood. Figurines have been studied as symbolic messages to be decoded, as art, and as ritual/cult objects. The main drawback of these interpretative frameworks is that they fail to analyse figurines as artefacts. Instead, figurines are treated primarily, or even exclusively, as images
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Writing and Social Diversity in Late Bronze Age Ugarit Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-30 Philip Boyes
Writing at Ugarit has received a great deal of scholarly attention for the wide range of languages and writing systems used, and especially for the city’s distinctive alphabetic cuneiform script which accounts for around half of the inscribed material from the site. The vast majority of the rest is in the Akkadian language and logo-syllabic cuneiform script. This written material is, justifiably, usually
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How to Create “Administrative” Iconographies? The Bestiary of the Sasanian Glyptic Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-30 Delphine Poinsot
This study focuses on the bestiary of Iran in late antiquity, in an administrative context of sealing (seals and bullae) and within an administration characterized by a close relationship with the Zoroastrian Church. Its objective is to understand how man's interrelationship with his environment enters into the production of images of an administrative nature. This study therefore compares the bestiary
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Artefacts and Their Texts: Contextualising Ancient Near Eastern Collections from Excavation to Display Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Annelies Van de Ven
Archaeological archives take up a significant amount of shelf space in any archaeological depot or museum, yet these are rarely presented as primary storytelling tools. As the public image of archaeology is still largely defined by the physical remains of sites and the finds that are associated with them, these are also often the focus of archaeological publications and displays, confining the purview
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Two Opisthographs and Scribal Practices in the Ancient Near Eastern World: Thoughts on Use and Reuse Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Ayhan Aksu
Recent scholarship has developed an increasing interest in the materiality of ancient manuscripts. Opisthographs, manuscripts that contain writing on both sides, are of special interest in this regard. This short study focuses on two papyrus opisthographs, originating from two different collections: the Oxyrhynchus Papyri and the Dead Sea Scrolls. These manuscripts each bear different compositions
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Late Holocene lithic points from a Southern Brazilian mound: The Pororó site Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 João Carlos Moreno de Sousa,Anderson Marques Garcia
Most lithic industries associated with hunter-gatherergroups in Eastern South America, especially the ones with points present, date tothe Early Holocene, with some minor industries and lithic points typologiespersisting until the Middle Holocene and, more rarely, until the Late Holocene.This is the case for the Garivaldinense lithic industry associated pointstypologies. In this article we present
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Digital Dilemma 2018: Digital Presentations in Biological Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 Lisa Monetti,Michael B C Rivera,Rachael M Carew,Suzanna White,Thomas J Siek
In academia, funding for conference attendance is limited, and both students and early-career researchers are therefore only able to attend a limited number of conferences. This means that, typically, researchers need to choose between attending multiple local and, at times, more affordable conferences, or one or two large, expensive, international conferences. Local and less expensive conferences
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Review of Conservation of Classical Monuments in the Mediterranean Region. A Study of Anastylosis with Case Studies from Greece and Turkey. BAR International Series, 2800, Oxford Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-11-09 Emma Payne
Conservation of Classical Monuments in the Mediterranean Region. A Study of Anastylosis with Case Studies from Greece and Turkey by Kalliopi Vacharopoulou, BAR International Series, 251 pages, Oxford, 2016, 28 bw as does a clear idea of the place of anastylosis within conservation strategies and provision for detailed practical guidance. These are the issues that she seeks to redress through her work
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Society of Archaeological Masters Students Annual Conference V Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-10-23 Nicole Barber
The Society of Archaeological Masters Students Conference is an opportunity for UCL Institute of Archaeology masters students to present their research. This year’s conference included papers from MA Cultural Heritage Studies, MSc Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology, MSc Archaeological Science: Technology and Materials, and MSc Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology students. The event
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Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2017 Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-10-23 Nicole Barber
‘Unravelling the Palaeolithic’ brings together research on all aspects of human evolution. This year’s conference was held at the University of Liverpool on the 11th and 12th February 2017, and included a diverse selection of papers on subjects including lithic analysis, Palaeolithic art, taphonomic analysis, and the role of ethnographic data in Palaeolithic studies.
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Review of Origins of the Islamic State: Sovereignty and Power in the Middle Ages Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-10-11 Maria Gajewska
The Origins of the Islamic State: Sovereignity and Power in the Middle Ages conference was hosted by the UCL Institute of Archaeology on the 16 th –17 th of February, 2017. As a part of the ‘Rethinking the Islamic State’ research initiative (links below), the conference explored the concept of the Islamic State both in the past and in the present, examining historical symbols of power, as well as their
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Review of Westward on the High-Hilled Plains. The Later Prehistory of the West Midlands Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-09-20 Carmen Martin Ramos
Westward on the High-Hilled Plains. The Later Prehistory of the West Midlands is the second volume of the project The Making of the West Midlands. This is an ambitious six-volume series which puts together the proceedings originally presented at the seminars held, between June 2002 and June 2003, under the title the West Midlands Regional Research Framework for Archaeology. This second book of the
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Review of Treasures from the Sea: Sea Silk and Shellfish Purple Dye in Antiquity, ed. H. L. Enegren and F. Meo Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-09-13 Kate Fulcher
Treasures from the Sea: Sea silk and shellfish purple dye in antiquity, ed. H. L. Enegren and F. Meo, Oxford; Havertown: Oxbow Books, 224 pages (Hardbound), £38, US$55, 2017, ISBN: 978-1785704352. This volume presents the proceedings of a conference in Lecce in 2013, which brought together several different approaches including archaeology, experimentation, scientific analysis, and terminology. This
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Review of Mrs Naunakhte and Family: The Women of Ramesside Deir el-Medina by Koenraad Donker van Heel Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-06-02 Kate Fulcher
This is the third book of this type published by Dr Donker van Heel. Each claims to be able to access the ordinary people of ancient Egypt via textual sources. This work is based on the ostraca and papyri from the New Kingdom village of Deir el-Medina. Whilst this work would have benefitted from the incorporation of more non-textual sources, the reviewer concludes that overall this is a thoughtful
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Interview with Dr. Alice Stevenson Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-04-25 Chloe Ward
Dr. Alice Stevenson is the newly appointed Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies at UCL Institute of Archaeology and the course coordinator for Collections Curatorship and Ancient Egyptian Archaeology. In this interview she reflects on her career in academia and museums to date, especially as the curator of the Petrie Museum , as well discussing some of the issues and challenges facing museums in the 21st
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Review of Making Nature: How We See Animals Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-04-13 Elizabeth Farebrother
The intensifying effect of climate change on our global environment has implications for humans and animals alike. Making Nature emphasises the symbiosis that has existed between humans and animals for thousands of years. Four separate rooms: ‘Ordering’, ‘Displaying’, ‘Observing’ and ‘Making’ combine to explore how human decision-making influences our classification of animals and our attitudes towards
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Preliminary Studies of Late Prehistoric Dog (Canis lupus f. Familiaris Linnaeus, 1758) Remains from the Iberian Peninsula: Osteometric and 2D Geometric Morphometric Approaches Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-04-13 Arantxa Daza Perea
This paper aims to highlight developments in archaeological knowledge relating to dog remains found in deposits from Late Prehistoric contexts at sites along the Iberian Peninsula. Preliminary results from ongoing osteometric and 2D Geometric Morphometric studies applied to these remains are here presented and discussed to contextualize future studies by the author.
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From Pests to Pets: Social and Cultural Perceptions of Animals in Post-medieval Urban Centres in England (AD1500 – 1900) Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-03-16 Rebecca Gordon
In the past, animals and their products were prominent features of urban life. How people utilised these animals as well as their relationships has continually changed. For example, cats, dogs, pigs and other animals lived in close proximity to people in post-medieval urban centres and were viewed in terms of their functional affordances. Cats were kept to deter rodents and exploited for their fur
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Imports and Isotopes: A Modern Baseline Study for Interpreting Iron Age and Roman Trade in Fallow Deer Antlers Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-03-16 David Osborne
The European Fallow deer ( Dama dama dama ) became extinct in the British Isles and most of continental Europe at the time of the Last Glacial Maximum, with the species becoming restricted to an Anatolian refugium (Masseti et al . 2008). Human-mediated reintroductions resulted in fallow populations in Rhodes, Sicily, Mallorca, Iberia and other parts of western Europe (Sykes et al. 2013). Eventually
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Exhibition Review of Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care Science Museum, London (29th June 2016–15th January 2018) Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-03-03 Thomas Siek
“Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care” is an exhibition being held at the London Science Museum. It is focused on the medical aspects and challenges experienced during the First World War. The exhibition also centres on the social implications that returning wounded or disabled soldiers faced, the charity efforts that began in response and the modern parallels today. This review summarizes the exhibition
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British Museum Exhibition Review: The Jericho Skull, Creating an Ancestor Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-03-02 Cara Hirst
The temporary exhibit at the British Museum, open 15 th December-19 th February, and located to the right of the main entrance in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gallery (Room 59); is dedicated to a single Neolithic crania from Jericho, known as the Jericho Skull. This exhibit demonstrates the value of relatively recent technologies in archaeological research, highlighting the previously hidden information
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Understanding the First Chalcolithic Communities of Estremadura: Zooarchaeology of Castro de Chibanes, Portugal. Preliminary Results Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-02-27 Vera Pereira, Joaquina Soares, Carlos Tavares da Silva
This study integrates archaeological, zooarchaeological and taphonomic results from the Chalcolithic, the earliest chronological period from the excavations at Castro de Chibanes (Palmela, Portugal). Preliminary results from the “Horizonte IA” (Phase IA1 and IA2), regarding the first half of the 3 rd millennium BC will be presented. The faunal assemblage consists of a total of 858 remains. These predominantly
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The Cattle Mandibles, Cranial Fragments and Metapodials from the Burgstraat in Ghent (Belgium) Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-02-20 Emmy Nijssen
The Burgstraat is an archaeological site which is located within the high-medieval part of the town of Ghent. Excavations conducted by BAAC Vlaanderen in 2011 revealed numerous structures, artefacts and ecofacts at the site - some of which date to the 12 th century. This paper focuses on SP141, a 13 th century waste deposit. The contents of SP141 are mostly zooarchaeological remains. The investigated
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Shells and Humans: Molluscs and Other Coastal Resources from the Earliest Human Occupations at the Mesolithic Shell Midden of El Mazo (Asturias, Northern Spain) Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-02-17 Asier García-Escárzaga, Igor Gutiérrez-Zugasti, Manuel R. González-Morales, Adolfo Cobo-García
Human populations exploited coastal areas with intensity during the Mesolithic in Atlantic Europe, resulting in the accumulation of large shell middens. Northern Spain is one of the most prolific regions, and especially the so-called Asturian area. Large accumulations of shellfish led some scholars to propose the existence of intensification in the exploitation of coastal resources in the region during
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The Corning Archaeological Reference Glasses: New Values for “Old” Compositions Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-02-17 Laura Ware Adlington
The Corning Archaeological Reference Glasses are widely used as standards in the chemical analysis of archaeological and historical glasses, as their compositions were designed to approximate those of major glass types in antiquity. Since their development in the 1960s, their compositions have been revisited and updated. This paper provides a brief overview of the Corning glasses, and addresses two
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Review of the 3rd Annual Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Research Student Symposium Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-02-17 Barney Harris, Elizabeth R. Davis, Victoria Newson
The third Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Research Student Symposium (NEBARSS) was held at the UCL Institute of Archaeology November 18th–19th, 2016. The conference explored how archaeological research can aid our understanding of social change during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age periods (c. 4000–1500 BCE) through the theme ‘anarchy in the UK?’. This theme challenged speakers to create pasts that
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Landscapes of the Medieval Commons in Villanueva, Asturias, Spain Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-02-17 Gabriel Moshenska, Jesús Fernández Fernández
This brief report provides an overview of the aims and preliminary findings of the first two seasons of excavation of fields and structural remains in Asturias, Spain, buried by a medieval flash flood. It also describes a workshop developed in collaboration between the La Ponte Ecomuseum in Villanueva, Asturias, and the UCL Institute of Archaeology based on the heritage and archaeology of the region
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Response to ‘Brexit, Archaeology and Heritage: Reflections and Agendas’ Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Gaygysyz Jorayev
This paper is a response to the Brexit, Heritage and Archaeology workshop, run at UCL in May 2017 and focuses on one of the areas where Brexit will affect heritage research and archaeology in practical terms – immigration. Discussing the potential consequences of implementing a points-based system for EU immigration to the UK, something which as a foreign national, the author has experienced.
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Paleopathology Association 2017 Meeting New Orleans Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Cara Hirst
The 44th annual North American meeting of the Paleopathology Association (PPA) was held in New Orleans on the 18 th –19 th of April. The conference included a range of themes including a podium symposium “Vitamin D Deficiency: New Perspectives Under Past Light”. The papers and posters presented at the conference detailed a range of applications of pathological research, methodological considerations
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Response to ‘Brexit, Archaeology and Heritage: Reflections and Agendas’ Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Lorna-Jane Richardson, Tom Booth
This research was presented at the UCL Brexit, Archaeology and Heritage workshop and here it is summarised as a response to the lead forum article ‘Brexit, Archaeology and Heritage: Reflections and Agendas’.
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MORPH17 Aarhus, Denmark Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Cara S. Hirst, Annabelle L. Lockey
MORPH17 was hosted by the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University. The two-day conference consisted of a day of workshops on the 4 th of May followed by podium presentations and a poster session on the 5 th . Presentations discussed a range of studies which utilised 2D and 3D Geometric Morphometric (GMM) methods to answer a series of archaeological questions. Conferences delegates
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Bones and Brexit: The Past and the Future Introduction to PIA Volume 26/27 Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Clare Lewis, Elizabeth Farebrother, Mariana Nabais, Chloe Ward
On behalf of the editorial team we are delighted to introduce volumes 26 & 27 of Papers from the Institute of Archaeology. The contributions in this joint volume were intentionally edited together to encompass the diverse range of research undertaken at UCL Institute of Archaeology. The context to this research environment is provided in the forum covering archaeological and heritage sector implications
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A Response to Gardner and Harrison: the Reasons for, and Implications of, Brexit from an Anthropological Standpoint Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Megan Arnot
This is a response to the Brexit, Archaeology and Heritage workshop held in May 2017 at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. On the 23rd of June 2016, the majority of the United Kingdom (UK) electorate voted in favour of leaving the European Union (EU), despite the implications of such a decision being unclear. Now, a year on, and with Article 50 signed, it is still no clearer what the terms of ‘Brexit’
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Brexit, Archaeology and Heritage: Reflections and Agendas Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Andrew Gardner, Rodney Harrison
This brief reflection considers some of the inter-relationships of, and implications for, archaeology and heritage in the narrow majority ‘Leave’ vote in the 2016 referendum on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, and the subsequent invocation of Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union by Theresa May’s administration in March 2017. We argue that heritage and archaeology
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Postcards from Qatar: Introduction Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Eleanor Preston
This report is the first of a series of ‘Postcards from Qatar’ aimed at providing information and updates on projects conducted by UCL Qatar in the region by both staff and students. This initial postcard provides an overview of UCL Qatar courses and facilities, an account of campus life, as well as a review of an exhibition for Doha’s Msheireb Museum created by the museum studies masters students
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Review of A Geography of Offerings: Deposits of Valuables in the Landscapes of Ancient Europe Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Bruno Vindrola-Padrós
A Geography of Offerings: Deposits of Valuables in the Landscapes of Ancient Europe , by Richard Bradley, Oxbow Books, 160 pp., 2017, ISBN: 978-1-7857-0477-2 In this article I review Richard Bradley’s latest book introducing the geographies of hoards and votive offerings in Northern and Western Europe that range from the Mesolithic period to Mediaeval times. Beyond the descriptive account of the deposits
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Review of Wonderful Things a History of Egyptology 2: The Golden Age: 1881–1914 Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2016-09-27 Clare Lewis
This publication is the second volume of Thompson’s survey of the history of Egyptology, the completed series of which is designed to be the first comprehensive English language treatment of the subject as a coherent whole. The volume in question covers a much shorter time frame than the first, which extended over three thousand years from Khaemwaset in the Nineteenth Dynasty to 1881 (Thompson 2015)
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A Spatial Distribution Study of Faunal Remains from Two Lower Magdalenian Occupation Levels in El Mirón Cave, Cantabria, Spain Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2016-08-31 Jeanne Marie Geiling, Lawrence G. Straus, Manuel R. González-Morales, Ana Belen Marín-Arroyo
Human behaviour can be reconstructed by analysing specific activities and campsite organization using spatial analysis. The dense occupation layers of the Lower Cantabrian Magdalenian in the Northern Spain reveal varied aspects of Upper Palaeolithic lifeways, including evidence of specific localized activities. The outer vestibule of El Miron cave has a particularly rich and intact Lower Magdalenian
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Camels on the Northeastern Frontier of the Roman Empire Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2016-08-15 Weronika Tomczyk
Ample iconographic, written, and osteological evidence for the occurrence of both dromedary ( Camelus dromedarius ) and Bactrian camels ( Camelus bactrianus ) is known from many Roman provinces. In contrast to the western provinces, osteological material from the northeastern frontier of the Empire has not yet been discussed collectively. There is a lack of information in the literature concerning
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Palaeoecology and Subsistence Strategies in Belgium and Northwestern Europe during the MIS 3 through the Reassessment of Forgotten Collections: A Methodological Approach Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2016-08-15 Elodie-Laure Jimenez
Palaeoecological reconstructions are fundamental for the understanding of interactions between all the mammalian communities in a given environment and their choices in terms of habitat, diet and migrations. During the Late Pleistocene in north western Europe, hyenas and human groups shared essentially the same ecological niche. A comparison of their crossed relationships could therefore yield important
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Trading Identities: Alternative Interpretations of Viking Horse Remains in Scotland. A Pierowall Perspective Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2016-08-15 Siobhan Cooke
Approximately seven per cent of the pagan Viking graves known in Scotland contained horse remains. This article presents a brief summary of the traditional interpretations of horse remains in burials of this period and presents an alternative interpretation of these remains with particular reference to the Viking cemetery at Pierowall, Westray, Orkney Islands which is dated c. AD 850–950. It is argued
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PIA at 25: A Retrospective Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2016-08-02 Joe Roe
On behalf of the editorial team I am delighted to introduce this 25th anniversary volume of Papers from the Institute of Archaeology . PIA was first published in 1990 by students at the Institute, in order to provide a means for postgraduate students to gain early experience in academic publishing, both as authors and editors. Over the last 25 years academic publishing, the Institute of Archaeology