Creative Spirits
Bark Painting in the Washkuk Hills of North New Guinea
Ross Bowden | Forthcoming
The art of painting on bark was once widely found in many parts of the Pacific, including the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea, the home of the Kwoma people who are the subject…
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…
Durrington Walls and Woodhenge
A place for the living
Mike Parker Pearson, Joshua Pollard, Colin Richards, Julian Thomas, Chris Tilley & Kate Welham | Forthcoming
For many centuries, scholars and enthusiasts have been fascinated by Stonehenge, the world’s most famous stone circle. In 2003 a team of archaeologists commenced a long-term fieldwork project for the first time in decades. The…
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Creative Spirits
Bark Painting in the Washkuk Hills of North New Guinea
Ross Bowden | Forthcoming
The art of painting on bark was once widely found in many parts of the Pacific, including the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea, the home of the Kwoma people who are the subject…
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…
Durrington Walls and Woodhenge
A place for the living
Mike Parker Pearson, Joshua Pollard, Colin Richards, Julian Thomas, Chris Tilley & Kate Welham | Forthcoming
For many centuries, scholars and enthusiasts have been fascinated by Stonehenge, the world’s most famous stone circle. In 2003 a team of archaeologists commenced a long-term fieldwork project for the first time in decades. The…
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