Archaeology and Geomatics
Harvesting the benefits of 10 years of training in the Iberian Peninsula (2006-2015)
Edited by Victorino Mayoral Herrera, César Parcero-Oubiña & Pastor Fábrega-Álvarez | 2017
Digital technologies have numerous applications in archaeology ranging from the documentation of the archaeological evidence and the analysis of research data to the presentation of results for a wider audience. This volume consists of various…
Archaeology of Touchstones
An introduction based on finds from Birka, Sweden
Martin Ježek | 2017
Did ancient Europeans truly believe in an active after-life, as modern Europeans would like to think they did? What purpose did grave-goods actually serve? Are archaeology and the historical sciences in general able to shed,…
The Coffins of the Priests of Amun
Egyptian coffins from the 21st Dynasty in the collection of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden
Edited by Lara Weiss | 2017
Ancient Egyptian coffins provided a shell to protect the deceased both magically and physically. They guaranteed an important requirement for eternal life: an intact body. Not everybody could afford richly decorated wooden coffins. As commodities,…
Strategies of Remembering in Greece under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD)
Edited by Tamara M. Dijkstra, Inger N.I. Kuin, Muriel Moser & David Weidgenannt | 2017
At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the…
Engraved Gems
From antiquity to the present
Edited by Ben van den Bercken & Vivian Baan | 2017
Many are no larger than a fingertip. They are engraved with symbols, magic spells and images of gods, animals and emperors. These stones were used for various purposes. The earliest ones served as seals for…
De stad en de dood
Archeologische perspectieven
Onder redactie van Roos van Oosten, Rachel Schats, Nico Arts & Jeroen Bouwmeester | 2017
Het is een wijdverbreid idee dat (post-)middeleeuwse steden een sterfteoverschot hadden en zij slechts in leven konden blijven door de toestroom van migranten; een fenomeen dat bekend staat als het ‘urban graveyard’-effect. Over details valt…
Fragmenting the Chieftain
A practice-based study of Early Iron Age Hallstatt C elite burials in the Low Countries
Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof | 2017
There is a cluster of Early Iron Age (800–500 BC) elite burials in the Low Countries in which bronze vessels, weaponry, horse-gear and wagons were interred as grave goods. Mostly imports from Central Europe, these…
Archaeology and Geomatics
Harvesting the benefits of 10 years of training in the Iberian Peninsula (2006-2015)
Edited by Victorino Mayoral Herrera, César Parcero-Oubiña & Pastor Fábrega-Álvarez | 2017
Digital technologies have numerous applications in archaeology ranging from the documentation of the archaeological evidence and the analysis of research data to the presentation of results for a wider audience. This volume consists of various…
Archaeology of Touchstones
An introduction based on finds from Birka, Sweden
Martin Ježek | 2017
Did ancient Europeans truly believe in an active after-life, as modern Europeans would like to think they did? What purpose did grave-goods actually serve? Are archaeology and the historical sciences in general able to shed,…
The Coffins of the Priests of Amun
Egyptian coffins from the 21st Dynasty in the collection of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden
Edited by Lara Weiss | 2017
Ancient Egyptian coffins provided a shell to protect the deceased both magically and physically. They guaranteed an important requirement for eternal life: an intact body. Not everybody could afford richly decorated wooden coffins. As commodities,…
Strategies of Remembering in Greece under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD)
Edited by Tamara M. Dijkstra, Inger N.I. Kuin, Muriel Moser & David Weidgenannt | 2017
At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the…
Engraved Gems
From antiquity to the present
Edited by Ben van den Bercken & Vivian Baan | 2017
Many are no larger than a fingertip. They are engraved with symbols, magic spells and images of gods, animals and emperors. These stones were used for various purposes. The earliest ones served as seals for…
De stad en de dood
Archeologische perspectieven
Onder redactie van Roos van Oosten, Rachel Schats, Nico Arts & Jeroen Bouwmeester | 2017
Het is een wijdverbreid idee dat (post-)middeleeuwse steden een sterfteoverschot hadden en zij slechts in leven konden blijven door de toestroom van migranten; een fenomeen dat bekend staat als het ‘urban graveyard’-effect. Over details valt…
Fragmenting the Chieftain
A practice-based study of Early Iron Age Hallstatt C elite burials in the Low Countries
Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof | 2017
There is a cluster of Early Iron Age (800–500 BC) elite burials in the Low Countries in which bronze vessels, weaponry, horse-gear and wagons were interred as grave goods. Mostly imports from Central Europe, these…
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