Across Western Asia, the astonishing increase in the availability of durable ceramic containers in the seventh millennium BCE had significant societal repercussions – so much so that vital social, economic, and symbolic activities became dependent upon the availability of pottery containers. These early ceramic containers, however, established themselves alongside flourishing pre-existing container traditions, with vessels made in a wide range of materials including clay, bitumen, basketry,...

This study aims to understand the materiality of Saba’s ideological landscape during its pre-emancipation colonial period. This is accomplished by understanding the dialectics, or inseparable relationships, between Saba’s geography, locally-situated ideologies of class, race, and gender in Saba’s social environment, and the processes behind these ideological relations that contributed to the material things that are found across Saba’s social landscape.

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During the Bronze Age the new, eponymous, highly-desired metal spread widely across Europe. It changed labour sectors, networks, worldviews and societies, and brought with it different transformations in diverse areas of life and death. With this book, all changes from the Bronze Age for the area of Schleswig-Holstein were put under the spotlight.

In this framework of research, the Mang de Bargen site near Bornhöved (district of Segeberg), once the target of gravel works, developed into one ...

Expeditie Egypte verhaalt de geschiedenis van twee eeuwen fascinerende archeologische ontdekkingen en de totstandkoming van de Egyptische collectie vanhet Museum Kunst & Geschiedenis in Brussel. In de negentiende eeuw leefde er in Belgische diplomatieke en industriële kringen een grote belangstelling voor het verleden van Egypte, dat toen een belangrijke plaats bekleedde in de internationale politiek en economie. In de eerste decennia van de twintigste eeuw speelde de flamboyante egyptoloo...

Tussen 9000 en 5000 v.Chr. was een groot deel van de provincie Drenthe bedekt door uitgestrekte oerbossen, her en der onderbroken door open plekken en graslanden. Tal van riviertjes en beken zochten hun weg door het glooiende landschap naar drassige, laaggelegen gebieden en uiteindelijk naar de Noordzee, die op dat moment nog honderden kilometers voorbij de horizon lag. In dit oerbos tierde het leven welig met veel voor ons bekende dieren, zoals bevers, herten, vogels en knaagdieren, maar ook...

Although household goods are a well-establish topic in Medieval and Early Modern archaeology, more recent research is overcoming simple typological and technological aspects and pointing to broader approaches, which relates to the understanding of goods’ production, consumption strategies, other economic activities and structures of social organization. Thus, the understanding of past societies and cultures relies heavily in the study of their household goods to understand people, groups an...

Before the introduction of Roman temples in the Low Countries, there used to be ‘open air cult places’ in the Iron Age. That is at least the assumption based on descriptions given by classical writers and several structures typified as sanctuaries that were excavated in France.

Several of these French sanctuaries portray long usage, modifications, disarticulated human remains, and depositions of animal bones and Iron Age weaponry. However, the regularly encountered rectangular structures...

Mit der Bronzezeit verbreitete sich das begehrte neue Metall über ganz Europa. Es veränderte Arbeitssektoren, Netzwerke, Weltanschauungen und Gesellschaften und brachte unterschiedliche Transformationen in diversen Lebensbereichen mit sich. Mit diesem Buch werden alle Transformationsprozesse der Bronzezeit für den Raum Schleswig-Holstein in den Blick genommen.

In diesem Forschungsrahmen entwickelte sich die Fundstelle Mang de Bargen bei Bornhöved (Kreis Segeberg), einst Ziel von Kieswerke...