Archaeopress Livres

Ces deux volumes regroupent les contributions des membres de l'Union Internationale des Sciences Prehistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP), a un projet lance en 2017, avec le soutien de l'Union Academique Internationale (UAI), sous le titre Les societes humaines face aux changements climatiques dans la prehistoire et la protohistoire: des origines de l'Humanite au debut des temps historiques . Le premier volume concerne la prehistoire des origines a la fin du pleistocene, il y a douze mille ans. Les societes humaines ont connu depuis trois millions d'annees une grande alternance de periodes glaciaires et interglaciaires. Quels climats ont-ils ete les plus favorables aux peuplements humains ? Quels climats ont-ils ete les plus defavorables aux peuplements humains et ont-ils entraines des abandons de territoires, des effondrements de societes et des extinctions de la population humaine ? Quand et sous quels climats les groupes humains ont-ils colonise l'ensemble des continents de la planete ? Une periode d'amelioration climatique avec un climat chaud et humide est-elle plus ou moins favorable au developpement des societes humaines qu'une periode de pejoration climatique ? Le changement climatique est-il un facteur d'evolution pour les societes humaines, les forcant a s'adapter et a trouver des solutions durables ?

Presents papers presented at an international workshop dedicated to the study of Roman common ware pottery in the Near East held in Berlin on 18th and 19th February 2010.

This monograph contains fifteen chapters written by leading scholars from around the world dealing with the archaeological and historical aspects of the Muristan from the Iron Age through to Ottoman times. číst celé

Proceedings from the session held at the XVII World UISPP Congress, Burgos, 2014. The session considered the various manifestations of the relationship between Neolithic enclosures and tombs in different contexts of Europe, notably through spatial analysis.

This volume presents the long history of Syria through a jouney of the most important and recently-excavated archaeological sites. The sites cover over 1.8 million years and all regions in Syria; 110 academics have contributed information on 103 excavations for this volume číst celé

This is the first review of the archaeology of this important landscape - from Palaeolithic to medieval times by contributors all routed in the archaeology of Sussex.

Seven articles discuss different aspects of immigration and foreign influences in medieval Norway, from the viewpoint of different academic disciplines. The book will give the reader an insight into how the population of medieval Norway interacted with the surrounding world, how and by whom it was influenced, and how the population was composed.

Human skeletons are widely studied in archaeological, anthropological and forensic settings to learn about the deceased. This book focusses on identified skeletal collections and discusses how and why collections were amassed and shows the vital role they play in improving methods and interpretations for archaeological and forensic research.

Excavations in North Uist dating from 1974-1984 identified two cists with human remains in kerbed cairns, many bowl pits dug into the blown sand, two late Neolithic structures and a ritual complex.

Archaeological interventions in European rural settlements have largely focussed on villages abandoned during the last millennium. Most hamlets and villages of medieval origin remain inhabited, however, and excavations have been scarce. This book details excavations of inhabited sites in the UK, the Netherlands, France, Scandinavia and Spain.