Dorestad and Everything After
Ports, townscapes & travellers in Europe, 800-1100
Edited by Annemarieke Willemsen & Hanneke Kik | Forthcoming
Dorestad was the largest town of the Low Countries in the Carolingian era. As an inland port on the edge of the Frankish Empire, it functioned as an international hub, connecting the North Sea World…
Mapping Medieval Merv
An Exploration into the Application of Cartographic Analysis and Urban Morphological Theory to an Urban Archaeological Site
Loren V. Cowin | Forthcoming
Situated within the vast Karakum desert of western Central Asia, the Merv oasis exhibits a trove of archaeological sites, owing to its rich ancient and medieval history. Likely due to its strategic location along the…
Mudbrick Settlements of the Oman Peninsula
Inhabited – Abandoned – Re(dis)covered
Edited by Stephanie Döpper, Birgit Mershen, Josephine Kanditt, Irini Biezeveld & Thomas Schmidt-Lux | Forthcoming
Caught between the poles of remembering and forgetting, glorification and neglect, the abandoned mudbrick settlements (ḥārāt) of Oman are a vital object of conflicting processes of interpretation and negotiation. Adopting a diachronic perspective, the multi-disciplinary…
Silver Beyond Empire
The transition between late Roman and early medieval Europe
Edited by Alice E. Blackwell, Fraser Hunter, Andreas Rau & Martin Goldberg | Forthcoming
Power and prestige in Europe during the first millennium AD were predominantly expressed in two portable materials: silver and gold. These precious metals underpinned the emergence of early Medieval kingdoms in Europe by providing the…
A Social Archaeology of Kinship in Iberia and Beyond
Recent Multistranded Approaches from aDNA to Household Archaeology
Edited by Antonio Blanco-González & Eva Alarcón-García | Forthcoming
The study of kinship from archaeology has been fluctuating. At the end of the 20th century archaeologists were reluctant or skeptical about its relevance and viability. However, in recent decades it has gained prominence and…
Bodies that Mattered
Ancient Egyptian Corporealities
Edited by Dina Serova & Uroš Matić | Forthcoming
Bodies are immanent element of socio-cultural negotiation. Since the 19th century, Egyptology has produced vast knowledge on the ancient Egyptian bodies (human, divine, animal), however, mainly by focusing on funerary aspects of ancient Egyptian culture.…
Heligoland Flint in Prehistoric Europe
Characteristics, Typology, Distribution, Symbolism and Provenance
Jaap Beuker, Erik Drenth, Klaus Hirsch, Moritz Mennenga & Martin Segschneider | Forthcoming
During a considerable part of prehistory stone tools were indispensable. Flint in particular had properties that made it very suitable for making razor-sharp implements and could often, but not always, be collected locally. Hunters, gatherers…
Dorestad and Everything After
Ports, townscapes & travellers in Europe, 800-1100
Edited by Annemarieke Willemsen & Hanneke Kik | Forthcoming
Dorestad was the largest town of the Low Countries in the Carolingian era. As an inland port on the edge of the Frankish Empire, it functioned as an international hub, connecting the North Sea World…
Mapping Medieval Merv
An Exploration into the Application of Cartographic Analysis and Urban Morphological Theory to an Urban Archaeological Site
Loren V. Cowin | Forthcoming
Situated within the vast Karakum desert of western Central Asia, the Merv oasis exhibits a trove of archaeological sites, owing to its rich ancient and medieval history. Likely due to its strategic location along the…
Mudbrick Settlements of the Oman Peninsula
Inhabited – Abandoned – Re(dis)covered
Edited by Stephanie Döpper, Birgit Mershen, Josephine Kanditt, Irini Biezeveld & Thomas Schmidt-Lux | Forthcoming
Caught between the poles of remembering and forgetting, glorification and neglect, the abandoned mudbrick settlements (ḥārāt) of Oman are a vital object of conflicting processes of interpretation and negotiation. Adopting a diachronic perspective, the multi-disciplinary…
Silver Beyond Empire
The transition between late Roman and early medieval Europe
Edited by Alice E. Blackwell, Fraser Hunter, Andreas Rau & Martin Goldberg | Forthcoming
Power and prestige in Europe during the first millennium AD were predominantly expressed in two portable materials: silver and gold. These precious metals underpinned the emergence of early Medieval kingdoms in Europe by providing the…
A Social Archaeology of Kinship in Iberia and Beyond
Recent Multistranded Approaches from aDNA to Household Archaeology
Edited by Antonio Blanco-González & Eva Alarcón-García | Forthcoming
The study of kinship from archaeology has been fluctuating. At the end of the 20th century archaeologists were reluctant or skeptical about its relevance and viability. However, in recent decades it has gained prominence and…
Bodies that Mattered
Ancient Egyptian Corporealities
Edited by Dina Serova & Uroš Matić | Forthcoming
Bodies are immanent element of socio-cultural negotiation. Since the 19th century, Egyptology has produced vast knowledge on the ancient Egyptian bodies (human, divine, animal), however, mainly by focusing on funerary aspects of ancient Egyptian culture.…
Heligoland Flint in Prehistoric Europe
Characteristics, Typology, Distribution, Symbolism and Provenance
Jaap Beuker, Erik Drenth, Klaus Hirsch, Moritz Mennenga & Martin Segschneider | Forthcoming
During a considerable part of prehistory stone tools were indispensable. Flint in particular had properties that made it very suitable for making razor-sharp implements and could often, but not always, be collected locally. Hunters, gatherers…
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