Old Habits Die Hard
Traces from the Past
Edited by Florian Schwake, Henriette Brandt, Fiona Walker-Friedrichs | 2025
Habits, as defined in this booklet, are recurrent, repetitive or routinely performed actions with minimal conscious effort. They play a crucial role in shaping legal, environmental and societal norms. The transition from informal norms to…
Verwurzelte Gewohnheiten
Neue Wege – alte Muster?
Edited by Florian Schwake, Henriette Brandt, Fiona Walker-Friedrichs | 2025
Gewohnheiten sind wiederkehrende, sich wiederholende oder routinemäßige Handlungen und Verhaltensweisen, die minimale mentale Anstrengungen erfordern. Sie spielen eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Gestaltung von rechtlichen, ökologischen und sozialen Normen und sind damit ein elementarer Bestandteil…
The lost mummy of Djedhor
Reconstructing the burial of a Ptolemaic priest from Thebes
Maarten J. Raven | 2025
In the rich archives of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities lies a fascinating manuscript dealing with the autopsy on an Ancient Egyptian mummy. This was performed in 1878 by the Museum’s curator Willem Pleyte. Thanks…
Beyond heterogeneities
New perspectives on social and cultural diversity from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin
Edited by Kata Furholt, Margaux L. C. Depaermentier, Michael Kempf & Martin Furholt | 2025
This volume presents various facets of recent archaeological investigations into Neolithic and Bronze Age societies in the Carpathian Basin spanning from the 7th and 2nd millennium BCE. It delves into population dynamics, settlement patterns, and…
The Late Roman Settlement of Umm al-Dabadib
A Remote Investigation
Edited by Corinna Rossi | 2025
How to investigate an archaeological site that became inaccessible? When the Egyptian Western Desert was closed for security reasons in 2016 just before the start of the first archaeological excavation at Umm al-Dabadib, in the…
Spaces and Meaning
Multimodal Communication in Ancient Egypt
Edited by Silvia Kutscher & Dina Serova | 2025
Multimodality – the integration of different semiotic resources in communication – plays a key role in the way people convey meaning. While much of the research has focused on multimodal communication in modern European and…
Tracing Transitions and Connecting Communities in the Archaeology of Southwest Asia
Papers in Honour of Roger Matthews
Edited by Claudia Glatz, Mónica Palmero Fernández, Amy Richardson & Michael Seymour | 2025
This book features a collection of papers produced in honour of Roger Matthews, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Reading. Roger previously taught at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology (2001–2010), before which he…
Old Habits Die Hard
Traces from the Past
Edited by Florian Schwake, Henriette Brandt, Fiona Walker-Friedrichs | 2025
Habits, as defined in this booklet, are recurrent, repetitive or routinely performed actions with minimal conscious effort. They play a crucial role in shaping legal, environmental and societal norms. The transition from informal norms to…
Verwurzelte Gewohnheiten
Neue Wege – alte Muster?
Edited by Florian Schwake, Henriette Brandt, Fiona Walker-Friedrichs | 2025
Gewohnheiten sind wiederkehrende, sich wiederholende oder routinemäßige Handlungen und Verhaltensweisen, die minimale mentale Anstrengungen erfordern. Sie spielen eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Gestaltung von rechtlichen, ökologischen und sozialen Normen und sind damit ein elementarer Bestandteil…
The lost mummy of Djedhor
Reconstructing the burial of a Ptolemaic priest from Thebes
Maarten J. Raven | 2025
In the rich archives of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities lies a fascinating manuscript dealing with the autopsy on an Ancient Egyptian mummy. This was performed in 1878 by the Museum’s curator Willem Pleyte. Thanks…
Beyond heterogeneities
New perspectives on social and cultural diversity from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin
Edited by Kata Furholt, Margaux L. C. Depaermentier, Michael Kempf & Martin Furholt | 2025
This volume presents various facets of recent archaeological investigations into Neolithic and Bronze Age societies in the Carpathian Basin spanning from the 7th and 2nd millennium BCE. It delves into population dynamics, settlement patterns, and…
The Late Roman Settlement of Umm al-Dabadib
A Remote Investigation
Edited by Corinna Rossi | 2025
How to investigate an archaeological site that became inaccessible? When the Egyptian Western Desert was closed for security reasons in 2016 just before the start of the first archaeological excavation at Umm al-Dabadib, in the…
Spaces and Meaning
Multimodal Communication in Ancient Egypt
Edited by Silvia Kutscher & Dina Serova | 2025
Multimodality – the integration of different semiotic resources in communication – plays a key role in the way people convey meaning. While much of the research has focused on multimodal communication in modern European and…
Tracing Transitions and Connecting Communities in the Archaeology of Southwest Asia
Papers in Honour of Roger Matthews
Edited by Claudia Glatz, Mónica Palmero Fernández, Amy Richardson & Michael Seymour | 2025
This book features a collection of papers produced in honour of Roger Matthews, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Reading. Roger previously taught at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology (2001–2010), before which he…
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