Community, Technology and Tradition
A Social Prehistory of the Great Orme Mine
Emma C. Wager | 2024
In the second millennium BC, mining for copper ore on the Great Orme, Wales, created one of Europe’s largest surviving prehistoric copper mines. The ore from the mine was smelted into metal that was cast…
“Better Than We”
Landscapes and materialities of race, class, and gender in pre-emancipation Saba, Dutch Caribbean
Ryan Espersen | 2024
This study aims to understand the materiality of Saba’s ideological landscape during its pre-emancipation colonial period. This is accomplished by understanding the dialectics, or inseparable relationships, between Saba’s geography, locally-situated ideologies of class, race, and…
Byblos. A Legacy Unearthed
Edited by the National Museum of Antiquities (the Netherlands) / Ministry of Culture/Directorate General of Antiquities (Lebanon) | 2024
Byblos has played an extraordinary role in the history of the Mediterranean. From c. 3200 BC, it developed into the preeminent port of the region due to its strategic location at the foothills of the…
Hayonim Cave
From the Early to the Middle Palaeolithic in the Levant (Israel)
Edited by Liliane Meignen & Ofer Bar-Yosef | 2024
The research presented in this book results from an international interdisciplinary research program in Hayonim cave (Israel) from 1992 to 2000, directed by Prof O. Bar-Yosef (Harvard University) and L. Meignen (CNRS, France), and focusing…
Alles bleibt anders
Transformationsprozesse in Raum und Zeit
Edited by Wiebke Kirleis, Johannes Müller, Anna E. Reuter | 2024
Keine Gesellschaft lebt ewig. Diese Tatsache mag erst einmal für Aufregung sorgen – dabei stellt dies den normalen Verlauf der Geschichte dar, denn Gesellschaften und ihre Umwelten verändern sich ständig. Transformationen bestimmen, wer wir sind,…
Alternative Egyptology
Critical essays on the relation between academic and alternative interpretations of ancient Egypt
Edited by B.J.L. van den Bercken | 2024
From a mummy on board the Titanic to the pyramids’ alignment with the stars, from psychoactive mushrooms to the lost realm of Atlantis: alternative interpretations of ancient Egypt, often summarised as ‘alternative Egyptology’, have always…
Archéologie en musée et identités nationales en Europe (1848-1914)
Un héritage en quête de nouveaux défis au 21e siècle
Edited by Catherine Louboutin & Anne Lehoërff | 2024
Des spécialistes de l’ensemble de l’Europe décrivent les enjeux politiques et scientifiques auxquelles a présidé la fondation des musées d’archéologie entre 1848 et 1914. Au travers de personnalités éminentes, le livre restitue un tour d’horizon…
Community, Technology and Tradition
A Social Prehistory of the Great Orme Mine
Emma C. Wager | 2024
In the second millennium BC, mining for copper ore on the Great Orme, Wales, created one of Europe’s largest surviving prehistoric copper mines. The ore from the mine was smelted into metal that was cast…
“Better Than We”
Landscapes and materialities of race, class, and gender in pre-emancipation Saba, Dutch Caribbean
Ryan Espersen | 2024
This study aims to understand the materiality of Saba’s ideological landscape during its pre-emancipation colonial period. This is accomplished by understanding the dialectics, or inseparable relationships, between Saba’s geography, locally-situated ideologies of class, race, and…
Byblos. A Legacy Unearthed
Edited by the National Museum of Antiquities (the Netherlands) / Ministry of Culture/Directorate General of Antiquities (Lebanon) | 2024
Byblos has played an extraordinary role in the history of the Mediterranean. From c. 3200 BC, it developed into the preeminent port of the region due to its strategic location at the foothills of the…
Hayonim Cave
From the Early to the Middle Palaeolithic in the Levant (Israel)
Edited by Liliane Meignen & Ofer Bar-Yosef | 2024
The research presented in this book results from an international interdisciplinary research program in Hayonim cave (Israel) from 1992 to 2000, directed by Prof O. Bar-Yosef (Harvard University) and L. Meignen (CNRS, France), and focusing…
Alles bleibt anders
Transformationsprozesse in Raum und Zeit
Edited by Wiebke Kirleis, Johannes Müller, Anna E. Reuter | 2024
Keine Gesellschaft lebt ewig. Diese Tatsache mag erst einmal für Aufregung sorgen – dabei stellt dies den normalen Verlauf der Geschichte dar, denn Gesellschaften und ihre Umwelten verändern sich ständig. Transformationen bestimmen, wer wir sind,…
Alternative Egyptology
Critical essays on the relation between academic and alternative interpretations of ancient Egypt
Edited by B.J.L. van den Bercken | 2024
From a mummy on board the Titanic to the pyramids’ alignment with the stars, from psychoactive mushrooms to the lost realm of Atlantis: alternative interpretations of ancient Egypt, often summarised as ‘alternative Egyptology’, have always…
Archéologie en musée et identités nationales en Europe (1848-1914)
Un héritage en quête de nouveaux défis au 21e siècle
Edited by Catherine Louboutin & Anne Lehoërff | 2024
Des spécialistes de l’ensemble de l’Europe décrivent les enjeux politiques et scientifiques auxquelles a présidé la fondation des musées d’archéologie entre 1848 et 1914. Au travers de personnalités éminentes, le livre restitue un tour d’horizon…
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