The modern discipline of archaeology developed in tandem with the expansion of European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cyprus, ruled by Britain between 1878 and 1960, is a fascinating example of how archaeology was practiced and developed in a specific colonial context. This volume explores the mechanisms, the institutions and the characters who contributed to the development of Cypriot archaeology, often within a fraught political environment.

The 23 papers in this volume addre...

This book discusses the lithic technology of the neighboring sites of Ruien and Kerkhove (Belgium). The Final-Palaeolithic occupation of Ruien took place during the harsh climatic conditions of the Younger Dryas. The Early and Middle Mesolithic hunter-gatherers from Kerkhove on the other hand lived in the temperate and forested environments of the subsequent Early Holocene period. The aim of this work is more precisely to gain a better understanding of how the practice of flintknapping evolve...

In Zeiten zunehmender Krisen und Konflikte möchte diese Studie Orte der Demokratiegeschichte und Momente der Hoffnung auf eine alternative Zukunft aufzeigen. Die Republik Freies Wendland, ein im Mai 1980 von Landwirt*innen und Anwohner*innen in Niedersachsen bei Gorleben gegründetes Protestdorf, wird archäologisch untersucht, um seine Bedeutung über den bloßen Widerstand gegen ein Atommüllendlager hinaus zu verstehen. Das Dorf diente als Ort präfigurativer Politik und als Demonstration...

Geographical Information Systems has moved from the domain of the computer specialist into the wider archaeological community, providing it with an exciting new research method. This clearly written but rigorous book provides a comprehensive guide to that use. Topics covered include: the theoretical context and the basics of GIS; data acquisition including database design; interpolation of elevation models; exploratory data analysis including spatial queries; statistical spatial analysis; map...

Drenthe kent een lange bewoningsgeschiedenis. De oudste sporen van menselijke aanwezigheid gaan zeker 50.000 jaar terug, misschien wel meer dan 100.000 jaar. In die lange periode voltrekken zich grote veranderingen. Gedurende het grootste deel van die eindeloze tijd leven de bewoners als jager-verzamelaars. Vanaf 5000 v.C. nemen ze zeer geleidelijk agrarische praktijken uit zuidelijker streken over. De invloed op het landschap wordt steeds groter. Er worden akkers aangelegd en opvallende graf...

In Van Neanderthaler tot rendierjager nemen we het publiek mee naar een bijzondere periode uit de rijke geschiedenis van de provincie Drenthe: de Oude Steentijd. De tijd van ijstijden, rendierjagers én Neanderthalers; die immer boeiende andere menssoort, die circa 40.000 jaar geleden uitstierf en ons als Homo sapiens alleen achterliet. De resten van de aanwezigheid van deze oermensen zijn door (amateur-)archeologen overal in de provincie gevonden. Hun vuurstenen werktuigen, resten van hun ka...

Textiles from the early medieval period that are occasionally found in excavations are the scarce remains of garments, household fabrics, sails etc. Although several authors have published textile finds from the Netherlands in the past,systematic research of these finds has not been conducted yet. Where the surrounding countries have witnessed a development in which textile archaeology has become a fundamental part of archaeological research, a similar development has been lacking in the Neth...

The 35th volume of the ASLU series develops and applies a new approach to study Aegyptiaca Romana from a bottom-up, Roman perspective. Current approaches to these objects are often still plagued by top-down projections of modern definitions and understandings of Egypt and Egyptian material culture onto the Roman world. "Egypt beyond representation" instead argues that these artefacts should be studied in their own right, without reducing them from the onset to fixed (Egyptian) meanings. Start...

One of the most puzzling phenomena of the European Bronze Age, is that many communities buried or otherwise hid large numbers of valuable bronze objects, but never returned to retrieve them. This book focuses on the metal finds of one small European region, the southern Netherlands and the adjacent part of North Belgium.Fontijn considers the question of why so many elaborate bronze objects have been found in watery locations in this landscape, such as rivers, streams, and marshes, while so fe...