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Lead in Human Bones and Teeth Reflecting Historical Changes in Lead Production: Rome and the Levant
This paper marks the culmination of two research journeys, one that began 35 years ago while I was studying with Clair C. Patterson at Caltech, and...
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Reconstructing Enclosed and Parcelled Out Landscapes from the First Millennium BC in Himmerland, Denmark: Arable Fields, Grazing Land and Settlement Patterns Examined in Three Micro-regions
For the Himmerland area in north-eastern Jutland, Denmark, extensive later prehistoric field systems have been mapped from aerial photographs....
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Collapse Studies in Archaeology from 2012 to 2023
The study of collapse in archaeology and history has continued to grow and develop in the last decade and is a respectable target of investigation in...
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The Poetics of Violence at Phaleron
This chapter will explore the lives and deaths of men interred in a cemetery located in the Phalero delta, beyond the walls of Athens, where Attica...
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Teardrops at the Lake: Chemistry of New Kingdom to Makuria Glass Beads and Pendants Between the First and Second Nile Cataracts
International expeditions extensively excavated Lower Nubia (between the First and Second Nile Cataracts) before it was submerged under the waters of...
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Measuring technical efficiency of banks vis-à-vis demonetization: an empirical analysis of Indian banking sector using CAMELS framework
The present paper examines the banking industry’s technical efficiency for the pre-and post-demonetization period, using the case of India. A...
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Agricultural Intensification and the Evidence from Offsite Survey Archaeology
The enhancement of crop yields through manuring has been attested since early farming prehistory in many parts of the world. This article reviews the...
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A Historical and Analytical Study of the Genoese Port in Annaba, Algeria and its Ancient Maritime Trade Routes with Genoa, Italy
This article represents the first historical study of the port site of Genoa Fortress located on the coast of the city of Annaba (عنابة) in Algeria....
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Walking on Egg Shells? Archaeology in Switzerland Torn Between Submission and Resistance from 1933 to 1945
Between 1933 and 1945, while support for archaeological research was growing in National Socialist Germany, the study of prehistory in Switzerland...
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Making Peoples: The Nabatean Settlement of the Dhiban Plateau and Beyond
The archaeological research in Ataruz and Dhiban Plateau regions has provided prolific data that focuses on the Nabatean settlements and history in...
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Islam and Muslims in the Perspective of Croatian Historiography
This chapter deals with the perception of Islam and Muslims in Croatian historiographic sources in the period between c. 1500 and c. 1990. Already in...
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The Formation of States and Changes in Restraint
Elias addresses the issue of long-term historical and period-transcending processes showing an accumulative character or directionality over multiple...
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In Search of an Acceptable Past: History, Archaeology, and ‘Looted’ Graves in the Construction of the Frankish Early Middle Ages
The Early Middle Ages have provided material for imagining selves and groups in a wide range of contexts since the earliest beginnings of the...
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Late Iron Age Whaling in Scandinavia
The use of marine mammal bone as a raw material in the manufacturing of gaming pieces in the Scandinavian late Iron Age has been observed and...
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Prehistory to History: A New Archaeological Approach to Knowledge Transmission and the Inception of Literacy in Central Europe
This paper reviews archaeological research on the transmission of writing knowledge between literate and pre-literate societies. It proposes the use...
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Bulgarian-German Relations in Archaeology Before and During the Time of National Socialism
Bulgaria has a long tradition of international relations with both Russia and Germany. Owing to the lack of a developed infrastructure for...
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Manifestation of Icon in the Idol of Goddess Durga in Bengal During the Pre-independent and Post-independent Period
This paper is an attempt to understand the artistic approaches in the Kumartuli vocabulary of ‘making’ Durga idolIdol, situating them in the...
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The Poetics of Power and Violence in Roman Iron Age Denmark
Violence as a phenomenon is a complex, intricate network of biopsychosocial, cultural, and environmental systems. Attempting to decipher how violence...
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Jerusalem’s Settlement History: Rejoinders and Updates
The article offers critical reviews on several recent publications, which deal with the archaeology of Jerusalem: The location of the Bronze and Iron...
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The Shell and the Skeleton: The Circumstances for the Transition in Shipbuilding Technologies in the Late-Antique Southern Levant
Current research on the transition from shell to skeleton in ancient Mediterranean ship construction concludes that due to the complex nature of the...