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The Distant Past of a Distant Past …: Perception and Appropriation of Deep History During the Iron Ages in Northern Germany (Pre-Roman Iron Age, Roman Iron Age, and Migration Period)
The reuse of ancient burial grounds in prehistory is a practice that has long been testified through archaeological investigations for several...
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A rock-cut tomb of the Mongol period in the Ilkhanid capital of Maraghe
By the time of Kublai’s death, the Mongol Empire had fractured into four separate khanates or empires including the Golden Horde [Kipchak] in the...
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Explaining Known Past Routes, Underdetermination, and the Use of Multiple Cost Functions
Explaining material traces of movement as proxies for past movement is fundamental for understanding the processes behind why people in the past...
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The Continuation of the Middle Ages in the Early Modern Print Period. With an Emphasis on Melusine and Till Eulenspiegel
It is highly fashionable today to project either a very negative or a very positive image of the Middle Ages. The invention of the printing press has...
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Nationalism and National Socialism in Romanian Archaeology in the Interwar Period and World War II (1918–1945)
World War I and the union with Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transylvania in 1918 reshaped the Kingdom of Romania. The territory and population of the...
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Milling Cereals/Legumes and Stam** Bread in Mauretanian Tamuda (Morocco): An Interdisciplinary Study
Recent archaeological excavations (2016–2019) in the city of Tamuda (northern Morocco) yielded evidence of commercial milling and bread-making...
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Cultural Crossroads in Toponymy: Case Study of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country that for centuries has been in an area where the influences of large cultural and civilizational spheres are...
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The Qasr at Baluʿa
The Qasr al-Baluʿa is a monumental Iron Age structure located at the highpoint of Khirbat al-Baluʿa, a 16-ha multi-period settlement with extensive...
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Fragments of an Archaeology of Late Roman Religion at Phaino (Khirbat Faynān, Southern Jordan)
This chapter presents the discovery of a remarkable sherd from a Late Roman period application-decorated bowl unearthed in the 2012 excavations at...
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Beautiful, Magic, Lethal: a Social Perspective of Cinnabar Use and Mercury Exposure at the Valencina Copper Age Mega-site (Spain)
Today, mercury is a matter of concern for health and environmental authorities across western countries, and legislation has been passed and programs...
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Holme I (Seahenge) and Holme II: ritual responses to climate change in Early Bronze Age Britain
Holme I and II were contemporary, adjacent Early Bronze Age (EBA) oak-timber enclosures exposed intertidally at Holme-next-the-sea, Norfolk, England,...
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Changing Urban Environments and the Impact on Coastal Cultural Heritage at Marsa Matruh, Egypt
This paper examines the impact of urban expansion on coastal heritage in and around the port-city of Marsa Matruh on the northwest coast of Egypt....
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The Application of Photogrammetric and Topographic Techniques to Investigate Submerged Caves: A Case Study of Georeferenced Point Installation at the Font of Ses Aiguades Cave (Alcúdia, Mallorca)
In recent decades geoarchaeological techniques have increasingly been used to document archaeological remains in terrestrial and underwater sites....
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A Sparrow in the Temple? The Ephemeral and the Eternal in Bede’s Northumbria
Like the brief passage of a sparrow through a winter’s hall, human life without meaning, without an idea of the everlasting, is fleeting....
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Public Spaces in ‘Colonized’ Urban Iberia
In the period between the eighth and sixteenth century CE, Iberian Peninsula experienced colonialism in a complex variety of forms. This chapter...
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A Review of Methods to Analyze Archaeological Lime Production: Investigating Raw Materials Selection and Firing Conditions
AbstractLime-based materials are found in archaeological contexts across many world regions. The earliest evidence of lime production was discovered...
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Visigothic Archaeology: An Example of the Influence of National Socialism in Spain?
This chapter will analyse the political use of archaeology in the years before, during and after the National Socialist takeover in Germany, using...
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Prehistoric Archaeology in Germany and National Socialism
This paper aims to examine the historical significance of National Socialism for the development of prehistoric archaeology in Germany. It surveys...
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Hungarian Archaeology in the Shadow of National Socialism (1920–1945)
Developments in Hungarian archaeology contemporaneous with National Socialist Germany need to be examined within the wider, ideologically decisive...