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Demographic patterns in Hyllie Mosse (Scania, Sweden): Estimating absolute population between the Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Ages Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Giacomo Bilotti
SummaryThis paper reconstructs the population dynamics within the Hyllie Mosse region (Scania, Sweden) from 2400 to 1600 BC. South‐western Scania is particularly well‐known thanks to extensive archaeological work in the past decades, making it one of the most thoroughly investigated areas in Sweden. The Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age periods are of paramount importance in understanding the socio‐cultural
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Issue Information Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-16
No abstract is available for this article.
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BLOWING IN THE WIND: THE SEASONALITY OF FORAGING IN LATE BRONZE AGE CRETE Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Jennifer Moody
SummaryMost foraging, especially for wild edible plants, is a seasonal occupation, impacted by weather in the short term and climate change in the long term. In Crete today, foraging not only supplements the diet but is a valued inter‐generational social activity. Foraging activities are not directly mentioned in the Late Bronze Age Linear B tablets from Crete, suggesting that most were the purview
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HOW ELITIST WERE TYPICAL MYCENAEAN COMMUNITIES? INVESTIGATING RELATIVE STATUS IN MYCENAEAN DAMOI THROUGH THE LANDHOLDERS OF THE PYLOS EP AND EA SERIES Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Susan Lupack
SummaryAlthough traditionally the focus of Mycenaean studies has been the elite and the administrative centres referred to as ‘palaces’, nonetheless academics investigating Mycenaean society have increasingly turned their attention to nonpalatial sectors of society. This article investigates the different levels of society that are recorded within two Linear B land tenure series, specifically the Ep
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OUTSIDE THE NETWORK: FINDING ‘OTHERS’ AND THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE AEGEAN BRONZE AGE Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Senta C. German, Anna Simandiraki‐Grimshaw
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ON THE STRUCTURE OF RITUAL ACTIVITY AND THE COLLECTIVE DIMENSION OF FIGURINE USE AT MINOAN PEAK SANCTUARIES Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Céline Murphy
SummaryDespite the regular appearance of peak sanctuaries, for over a century, in discussions on the organization of Cretan Bronze Age society, uncertainty still looms over the precise position these places of congregation held in the island’s complex network of sites. One of the causes behind this academic situation is their methodological treatment. Particularly problematic is the customary scholarly
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EATING LIKE THE ELITE AT NEO‐PALATIAL KNOSSOS Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Argyro Nafplioti
SummaryDiachronic research of social status differences in diet reveals a dynamic interplay of cultural, economic, and technological forces that have shaped the food choices of individuals across the past centuries. In this paper we focus on food and related practices at Palatial Knossos on Crete in the mid‐second millennium BC and review palaeodietary stable carbon and nitrogen isotope (δ13C and δ15N)
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ONE WOMAN: THE DAILY LIFE OF A NON‐ELITE WOMAN IN FINAL‐PALATIAL CRETE Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Senta C. German
SummaryIn the tradition of people’s history, the following is a hypothetical reconstruction of the life of a textile worker from Final‐palatial Knossos (c.1375–1050 BC). This reconstruction is built upon a broad array of archaeological, philological, ceramic, ethnographic, palaeobotanical and osteological studies. Although hypothetical, this data‐based, multidisciplinary reconstruction is offered as
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Issue Information Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-16
No abstract is available for this article.
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AN AEGEAN MIRROR FROM HALA SULTAN TEKKE, CYPRUS Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Rainer Feldbacher, Laura E. Alvarez, Yuko Miyauchi, Kirsi Lorentz, Peter M. Fischer
SummaryThis study deals with the results of the 2023 fieldwork at the extramural cemetery of the Late Bronze Age harbour city of Hala Sultan Tekke. One of the three excavated tombs in 2023 was the undisturbed Chamber Tomb XX, which is dated around 1300 BC. It contained a riveted bronze mirror, a rare type in Cyprus at that time, which is part of a mortuary context of four individuals out of a total
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FREQUENCY, PHASES AND CHRONOLOGY OF ROCK ART: SPATIOTEMPORAL STUDIES OF THE ALTA ROCK CARVINGS, NORTHERNMOST EUROPE Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-07 Jan Magne Gjerde
The rock art of Alta, comprising more than 7000 rock carvings, is dated by shoreline chronology. It is unparalleled in Europe. The well-dated rock carvings make the material suitable for a temporal study of the rock art and the frequency of rock art production over c.5500 years. Based on new detailed elevation measurements performed by Alta Museum of the 92 panels with rock art and individual measurements
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HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE NAILS? A NEW, MULTI-PERIOD METHODOLOGY AND TYPOLOGY FOR RECORDING IRON NAILS Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Katie J B Manby
This paper sets out new recommendations for recording structural iron nails. Despite their ubiquity, iron nails have received limited analytical and interpretative attention and recording practices are highly variable. Too often current recording is time-consuming and costly without providing meaningful information. This paper proposes a new recording methodology, developed through analysis of the
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BALTIC AMBER IN HISPANIA DURING LATE ANTIQUITY. CONTACTS, NETWORKS AND EXCHANGE Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Elena Vallejo-Casas, Gisela Ripoll, Margarita Sánchez Romero, Mercedes Murillo-Barroso
Amber is a material of great social value that has been identified at various archaeological sites on the Iberian peninsula dating to Late Antiquity. The objects, mostly necklace beads, have been discussed to date with limited results in relation to a small number of studies. This article presents the characterization by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) of 52 amber beads from four Late
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THE EARLIEST ANATOLIAN ITEM MADE OF METEORIC IRON: AN AMULET FROM THE BODRUM KESIKSERVI EARLY BRONZE AGE I CEMETERY Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Ayşegül Aykurt, Kadİr Böyükulusoy, Ece Benlİ–Bağci, Seda Denİz
Much information about the early periods of south-western Anatolia consists of data obtained from graves and finds therefrom. The amulet of meteoric iron that is the subject of this article was found in the Kesikservi cemetery, on the Bodrum peninsula, and dates to Early Bronze Age I. It was unearthed in the pithos grave of a male aged between twenty and twenty-five years that is one of the richest
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Issue Information Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-21
No abstract is available for this article.
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NEW PRODUCTS, NEW TASTES? AGRICULTURAL INNOVATIONS AND CONTINUITIES BETWEEN THE NINTH AND FOURTH CENTURIES BC IN MEDITERRANEAN IBERIA Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Guillem Pérez-Jordà, Leonor Peña-Chocarro
The encounters between the immigrant populations of the Levant and the local communities of the south and east of the Iberian peninsula occurring from the beginning of the first millennium led to the transformation of diet and agricultural production. The arrival of new products such as chickpeas and different fruit trees, including in particular the vine, increased the variety and quality of the food
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Connections to the Pompeii water supply network: artisanal and commercial establishments as places that consume water Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Elena H. Sánchez López
Analyses of the urban distribution of the water supplied from aqueducts have generally focused on those elements directly referred to by Vitruvius (De Arch. 8.6.2): fountains, baths and houses. However, excavations in Pompeii, which has one of the best-preserved water supply networks from antiquity, have revealed that other places also benefited from these connections, including those with an artisanal
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MASSIVE PREHISTORIC PIT SITES IN SOUTHERN IBERIA: CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES AND LESSONS LEARNED Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 María José Armenteros-Lojo, Víctor Jiménez-Jáimez
Archaeological sites characterized by significant concentrations of pits (‘pit sites’) were widespread in prehistoric Europe. In southern Iberia, many pit sites date back to the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods (fourth-third millennia BCE), and often display massive numbers of pits. Deciphering the social, economic, and symbolic significance of such sites, composed of hundreds or even thousands
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THE VEGETATION HISTORY OF THE SHEPHELAH, SOUTHERN LEVANT: MIDDLE BRONZE AGE–HELLENISTIC PERIOD (c.2000–100 BC) Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Minji Jin, Oded Lipschits, Dafna Langgut
Although the Shephelah region (Israel) is of a great archaeological significance and has been intensively excavated, very little is known about its landscape history. This study presents two large-scale charred wood assemblages (>2300 items) that were recovered from Tel Azekah and Tel Lachish in order to reconstruct the ancient vegetation of the Shephelah. The two assemblages cover a temporal range
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PROVENANCE STUDIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY – MORE REFLECTIVE OF ‘QUALITY CONTROL’ WITHIN A RESOURCESCAPE THAN GEOCHEMISTRY? Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 A.M. Pollard, R. Liu
Despite the obvious methodological similarities between archaeology and geology, we argue here that the fundamental assumption in scientific provenance studies of inorganic artefacts provides an insufficient basis for the methodology. That assumption is that there is a geochemical link between the source of the raw material and the finished object. Although this is undoubtedly necessary, it is not
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OPPIDUM VOCANT, QUIDVIS CUM VALLO ATQUE FOSSA. SOME THOUGHTS ON OPPIDA, CENTRAL PLACES, AND SOCIAL COMPLEXITY IN THE EUROPEAN IRON AGE Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Samuel Nión-Álvarez
The following paper presents an analysis of the term ‘oppidum’, discussing its value for understanding social complexity in Iron Age Europe. Throughout this paper, the most relevant debates regarding the oppida and their value are synthesized from a semiotic point of view. Key features such as urban planning, social hierarchies and political centralization are analysed to frame research in terms of
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Issue Information Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-15
No abstract is available for this article.
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE: PALAEOLITHIC ICONOGRAPHY AS A TRAIT OF IDENTITY IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Miguel García-Bustos, Olivia Rivero
The study of the figurative repertoire of Palaeolithic artists allows us to approach aspects such as iconographic diffusion and cultural preferences. This paper presents an updated corpus of figurative rock art for the Iberian peninsula and analyses its distribution in the Cantabrian region, inland Iberia and the Mediterranean basin, three areas frequently used in the literature. This corpus contains
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A NARRATIVE TURN: HUMAN AGENCY IN ROCK CARVINGS AT NÄMFORSEN, NORTHERN SWEDEN Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Peter Skoglund, Michael Ranta, Tomas Persson, Anna Cabak Rédei, Jan Magne Gjerde
The idea to create pictorial narratives seems to have occurred long after humans learned to produce iconic images, that is, depictions based on visual similarity to external objects. In Scandinavia, e.g. in Gärde, Sweden or Stykket and Bøla, Norway, early Mesolithic images (e.g. rock carvings from before c.5000 BCE) often feature animals that are solitary or without suggestion of causal or narrative
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PIECING TOGETHER THE STORY OF A PAIR OF MAKRON’S FRAGMENTED CUPS Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 David W. J. Gill, Christos Tsirogiannis
In 2022, an Athenian red-figured cup attributed to Makron was returned to Italy by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The cup had been acquired in fragments, through purchase and gift, from multiple sources over several years, starting with two fragments from the restorer Fritz Bürki in 1978. A second cup, also attributed to Makron, was acquired in a parallel way. The sources for the fragments
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SECRETS OF THE DRAVA: BRONZE AGE METALWORK IN CONTINENTAL CROATIA Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Andreja Kudelić, Ana Franjić, Snježana Vrdoljak, Miljana Radivojević
The article presents a group of Bronze Age artefacts recovered from the Drava river wetlands in continental Croatia, examining their typological and chronological markers, and assessing the technological characteristics of the material through spectrometric and use-wear analyses. We discuss the context of the finds, types of items retrieved and deposition locations, and how these fit into the patterns
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Issue Information Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-13
No abstract is available for this article.
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Experiencing gloomy Dis: Tombs, tunnels and the phenomenology of the Roman Underworld in the Phlegraean Fields Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Tim Penn
Recent work in landscape archaeology has emphasized the importance of considering the experience of moving through landscapes and examining the place of burials within wider landscape contexts. This work recognizes that burial placement was often intended to create and curate experiences and meaning. While burials near roads and waterways have been discussed at length, burials near tunnels, which are
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VIVARIA IN DOLIIS. CERAMIC JARS FOR DORMOUSE FATTENING FOUND IN ARUCCI Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Javier Bermejo Meléndez, Juan M. Campos Carrasco
The excavation of the north house at the archaeological site of Arucci (Aroche, Huelva) has provided interesting data for understanding city planning in general, and domestic architecture in particular. Investigation of their environments has allowed the identification of the distinct functions for which they were intended, including two significant tabernae that were connected to one of the main thoroughfares
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THE ACEHÚCHE GOLD TORC: GOLD AND SACRED LAND ON THE SHORES OF THE TAGUS RIVER (CÁCERES, WESTERN SPAIN) Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Ana María Martín Bravo, Primitivo Javier Sanabria Marcos
This article describes the important discovery of a Late Bronze Age gold torc that was unearthed in a field of Acehúche (Cáceres, Spain). It was buried underneath some rocks at a site near a river crossing over the Tagus river. In its immediate vicinity, archaeological remains dating from the Copper Age to the Late Bronze Age have been found, which indicates the long use of this crossing. Until recently
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TWO BRONZE AGE MINIATURE WAGON AND WHEEL BURIALS IN ENCS (NORTH-EASTERN HUNGARY) Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Ákos Mengyán, Anett Gémes, Tamás SZeniczey, Tamás Hajdu
During an excavation of a Bronze Age, Füzesabony-culture cemetery at Encs (north-eastern Hungary), a clay wagon model with spoked wheels (grave 1290) and three miniature solid clay wheels were found (grave 1389). Miniature wagon and wheel models in burials began to appear in the Late Copper Age and lasted until the Iron Age in Central Europe. Their presence allows of several interpretations. These
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PEGGY PIGGOTT: WOMEN AND BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY (1930–1945) Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Rachel Pope, Mairi H. Davies
The 2021 film, The Dig, stimulated much interest in discovering more about Peggy Piggott, the archaeologist who first ‘struck gold’ at Sutton Hoo. Piggott was a leading British prehistorian, who produced over sixty published works for the field. Here we examine her early life and career, her training with the Curwens and the Wheelers, her marriage to Stuart Piggott, and her recognized expertise that
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Issue Information Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-13
No abstract is available for this article.
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IN SEARCH OF LOST SIGNS: A NEW APPROACH TO THE ISSUE OF WRITING AND NON-WRITING ON CRETAN HIEROGLYPHIC SEALS Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Silvia Ferrara, Barbara Montecchi, Miguel Valério
This article addresses a long-debated topic related to the hieroglyphic script from the island of Crete, namely the status of its sign-list. The signs of this script are predominantly image-based and as such their inherent position as bona fide signs of writing or, alternatively, decorative symbols with no specific relation to language has raised issues of inclusion or exclusion from the sign-list
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CUT ABOVE THE REST: A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY STUDY OF TWO SLATE KNIVES FROM FORAGER CONTEXTS IN COASTAL NORWAY Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Carol Lentfer, Marianne Skandfer, Sam Presslee, Richard Hagan, Harry K. Robson, Charlotte Damm
Slate was a prominent tool material in the Scandinavian Stone Age. However, details of tool function have relied on morphology and have added little to our understanding of their role in hunting and processing. Here, we demonstrate that it is possible to identify both the use-wear traces and residues from slate knives from northern Norway. By applying a multi-disciplinary approach incorporating experimentation
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A DOG’S LIFE IN THE IRON AGE OF THE SOUTHERN LEVANT: CONNECTING THE TEXTUAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Lidar Sapir-Hen, Deirdre N. Fulton
Studies of dog remains focused on the Iron Age southern Levant generally highlight their unique nature in the archaeological context, specifically in relation to their post-mortem exploitation. Here we review the published archaeological and textual data to evaluate the current understanding of dogs’ roles in their Iron Age settings. The analysis reveals that dogs are relatively common in the archaeological
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Correction Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-19
Correction to “Resistance and Authority at the Beginning of Urbanism: The Case of Tel Bet Yerah Broken Maceheads” Ashkenazi, H., and Rosenberg, D. (2022) Resistance and Authority at the Beginning of Urbanism: The Case of Tel Bet Yerah Broken Maceheads. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 41: 136– 151. Projekt DEAL funding statement has been added and copyright line was changed. We apologize for this error
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TREGIFFIAN: THE CHRONOLOGY OF AN ENTRANCE GRAVE Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Andy M. Jones, Derek Hamilton, Henrietta Quinnell
The Tregiffian project involved the analysis and dating of the archive from unpublished excavations in the 1960s and 1970s at an entrance grave in Penwith, Cornwall. A major aim of the project was to establish a robust chronological basis for the use of the entrance grave for burial: 10 samples of cremated human bone were submitted for radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling undertaken. The modelling
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Issue Information Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-01-11
No abstract is available for this article.
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MORE THAN ONE MONUMENT AT POZO MORO? NOTES ON IBERIAN ARCHITECTURAL DECORATION Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Jesús Robles Moreno
More than fifty years after the discovery of the first remains from Pozo Moro, new research has begun to question the arrangement, until now agreed upon, of the tower-shaped monument. The recent paper by García Cardiel and Olmos (2021) employs iconography to sketch the possibility that the reliefs and sculptures encountered in said necropolis do not belong to a single monument, but two or more. In
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SOCIAL CHANGE AND METALWORKING IN THE EARLY IRON AGE: AN APPROACH FROM NORTH-WEST IBERIA Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Samuel Nión-Álvarez, Francisco Javier González García
This paper analyses social transformations in the Early Iron Age based on a holistic and longue durée approach applied to the first fortified habitats in the Iberian north-west. Through a comprehensive review of two paradigmatic settlements of the EIA in the province of A Coruña (Galicia, north-west Iberia), Punta de Muros and A Graña, a comparison is drawn between the social and territorial dynamics
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INEQUALITY BEFORE THE BRONZE AGE: THE CASE OF CHALCOLITHIC CYPRUS Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Victor Klinkenberg, Bleda S. Düring
The emergence and nature of social inequality has been the topic of a substantial amount of research in recent years, with one group of scholars concluding that social inequality increased significantly with the rise of urbanism on the basis of the application of Gini measures, and another group arguing that social inequalities existed long before urbanism and that not all urban societies were class
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A TRADE ROUTE FROM THE PROPONTIS TO PHRYGIA: ASSESSING THE ECONOMIC STATUS OF KIOS BETWEEN THE ARCHAIC AND THE EARLY HELLENISTIC PERIODS Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Hüseyin Erpehlivan
This article proposes a reassessment of the role that Kios played as a nexus of trade between the northern Aegean, the Black Sea and inland north-west Anatolia. The city was founded as an emporium at the end of the seventh century BC and joined the Delian League in the following century. The autonomous city was subsequently ruled by a Persian dynasty during the fourth century BC, while retaining its
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THE LION ORTHOSTATS FROM HAZOR: AN ADDENDUM TO THE PAPER OF SHLOMIT BECHAR Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 David Ussishkin
In a paper recently published in this journal, Shlomit Bechar (2021) analyzed the appearance and use of basalt orthostats in Canaanite and Israelite Hazor. The present paper is an addendum to Bechar's paper, elaborating the subject of the basalt lion orthostats found at Hazor. These lion orthostats formed an inseparable component of the ‘orthostats architecture’ characteristic of several monumental
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Issue Information Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-13
No abstract is available for this article.
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THE PERISHABLE MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE PONTIC STEPPE SCYTHIANS: SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF A FOURTH-CENTURY BC KURGAN BURIAL AT BULHAKOVO, UKRAINE Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Marina Daragan, Leonid Leontyev, Miljana Radivojević, Luise Ørsted Brandt, Ina Vanden Berghe, Margarita Gleba
Using the organic artefacts from the fourth-century BC grave at Bulhakovo in southern Ukraine, this article discusses the economics of the perishable material culture of the Scythians of the Pontic Steppe region. Thanks to the survival of organic materials (wood, leather, textiles), the burial provides important information about the complex networks of production and exchange that existed in European
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A VIOLENT END OR A RESPECTFUL BEGINNING? CAVE 120 AT LACHISH REVISED Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Yosef Garfinkel, Eylon Cohen
Cave 120 and three adjacent caves at Tel Lachish in southern Israel produced the largest concentration of human crania ever unearthed in the Near East. The conventional interpretation associates this deposit with primary burials of victims of the city’s destruction by King Sennacherib of Assyria in 701 BC. Taking into consideration attitudes to human skulls, site formation processes and taphonomic
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WEIGHTS, CURRENCY BARS AND METROLOGY AT DANEBURY HILLFORT. FROM WEIGHING TO VALUE ASSESSMENT? Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Thibaud Poigt
This paper studies the metrological characteristics of a series of balance weights recovered at Danebury hillfort (Stockbridge, Hampshire). It is based on the use of 3D-digitalization to virtually reconstruct broken weights and statistical analysis to approach their metrology. The results of this investigation suggests the use of two weighing units during the Late Iron Age at Danebury, one of 309 g
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AMPHORAE FROM BAETICA. NEW DATA RELEVANT TO RURAL PRODUCTION IN THE GUADALQUIVIR VALLEY (FIRST CENTURY BC–FIFTH/SIXTH CENTURIES AD) Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Iván González Tobar
One of the most prolific areas of agrarian production of the Roman Empire was the Guadalquivir valley of Hispania Baetica. The current study was carried out in the region downstream from Corduba (Córdoba), the capital of Baetica. Knowledge of amphorae from this zone, often underrepresented at consumption sites, has in recent times undergone a complete renewal. This study thus offers an overview of
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YOUNG HANDS AT WORK. USING FINGER IMPRESSIONS TO EXPLORE THE DEMOGRAPHIC CONSTITUTION OF EARLY AND MIDDLE BRONZE AGE POTTERY-MAKING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Meredith Laing
Fingertip impressions preserved in the surface of clay artefacts can provide demographic details about the people who manufactured and decorated pottery vessels, and by extension allow exploration of the composition of communities of practice engaged in pottery manufacture. This paper describes the development of a method of measurement and analysis of fingertip impressions which were sometimes used
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Issue Information Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-13
No abstract is available for this article.
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EARLY ISLAMIC CRUDE HANDMADE WARE: NEW INSIGHTS ON THE TYPOLOGY, CHRONOLOGY AND PROVENANCE OF A SOUTHERN LEVANTINE HANDMADE POTTERY Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Itamar Taxel, Orit Shamir, Paula Waiman-Barak, Willie Ondricek, Etan Ayalon
This study presents new evidence about a class of Early Islamic ceramics that have been largely overlooked; namely, crude handmade ware, sometimes previously referred to as ‘Negebite’ Ware, typical of the southern portions of what is now modern-day Israel and Jordan. A large array of handmade vessels retrieved in excavations of an Early Islamic settlement in the Yotvata oasis of the ‘Arabah Valley
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COMPOSITE HUMAN-ANIMAL FIGURES IN EARLY URBAN NORTHERN MESOPOTAMIA: SHAMANS OR IMAGES OF RESISTANCE? Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Augusta McMahon
Urban growth in northern Mesopotamia in the early fourth millennium BC was accompanied by an increase in clay container sealings, reflecting the intensified movement and management of resources and manufactured items. The diverse imagery impressed into these sealings includes a human-ibex grasping a pair of snakes, a bird-human, and other composite figures. The human-ibex in particular has been identified
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THE SACRED REPRESENTATION OF A MINIATURE WORLD: RITUALS WITH FIGURINES AND SMALL AND MINIATURIZED POTTERY AT THE PHOENICIAN CULT PLACE OF KHARAYEB Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Ida Oggiano
The rituals performed in the Phoenician cult places have traditionally been reconstructed primarily on the basis of architectural remains and sculptural finds. However, even if the exact role ceramics or other objects played in the rituals is unknown, it was certainly not secondary. New work carried out at the cult place of Kharayeb by an Italian-Lebanese mission has produced unusually detailed documentation
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ATLANTIC HALBERDS AS BELL BEAKER WEAPONS IN IBERIA: TOMB 1 OF HUMANEJOS (PARLA, MADRID, SPAIN) Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Rafael Garrido-Pena, Raúl Flores Fernández, Ana M. Herrero-Corral, Pedro Muñoz Moro, Carmen Gutiérrez Saez, Rodrigo Paulos-Bravo
The recent discovery of an Atlantic halberd among other abundant and rich grave goods in the Bell Beaker double tomb 1 of Humanejos (Parla, Madrid) demonstrates that this type of weapon was part of the Beaker panoply. It is the first example of an Atlantic halberd in a Beaker burial context in Iberia and only the second one in Europe. The remaining halberds come from old and isolated finds in Early
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Corrigendum Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-06
In the following article,1 Figures 4, 5 and 8 need updating. The correct Figures are as follow: FIGURE 4 Open in figure viewerPowerPoint Types of notable deposits. FIGURE 5 Open in figure viewerPowerPoint Number of object categories in notable deposits. FIGURE 8 Open in figure viewerPowerPoint Association between houses and notable deposits. (a) Percent of notable deposits associated with a house,
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RE-SURVEY OF THE ANCHORAGE AT MARONI TSAROUKKAS, CYPRUS: DEFINING AND VIEWING A LATE BRONZE AGE COASTSCAPE Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Carrie E. Atkins, Sturt W. Manning
Directly offshore from the Late Cypriot (LC) site of Maroni Tsaroukkas on the south-central coast of Cyprus lie the remains of an anchorage with stone anchors, LC ceramics, and stone blocks. Initially surveyed in 1995–96, the anchorage was re-surveyed from 2017–19 to investigate and document fully the underwater site and to develop accurate underwater survey recording methodologies for defining this
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Issue Information Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-04-19
No abstract is available for this article.
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ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ‘IN-BETWEEN’ IN EARLY FOURTH MILLENNIUM SARDINIA Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Gary Webster
The appearance on Sardinia during the first half of the fourth millennium of an unprecedented and extraordinary cult edifice in the form of a monumental temple mound – the Red Temple at Monte d'Accoddi – was paralleled across the island by an outpouring of anthropomorphic cult imagery expressed in sculpture, inscription, and reliefs – equally unprecedented and unmatched locally. Based on a deeper reading
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VETTERSFELDE HOARD: DECONSTRUCTION OF THE ENSEMBLE Oxford Journal of Archaeology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Denis Topal
Among all the hoards containing ceremonial akinakai, (swords and daggers of Iranian origin), the assemblage of items discovered in 1882 near the village of Vettersfelde (Poland) is the most internally coherent. Judging by the motifs present on the golden objects richly decorated in the animal style – a fish-shaped plaque, a clover-shaped phalera and a sheath ornament of a sword – they make up a unified