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Publisher
Archaeopress
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
On June 15, 1944, Afetna Point was called 'Yellow Beach 2' by the U.S. Marines and Army infantry braving Japanese resistance to establish a beachhead before capturing As Lito airfield in the following days. After 75 years, this book presents archaeological evidence, archival records, and respected elders' accounts from WWII.
5) How Did the Persian King of Kings Get His Wine? the Upper Tigris in Antiquity (C. 700 BCE to 636 CE)
Author
Publisher
Archaeopress
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
This book explores the upper valley of the Tigris during antiquity. The area is little known to scholarship, and study is currently handicapped by the security situation in southeast Turkey and by the imminent completion of the Ilısu dam that will lead to the destruction of many archaeological sites, some of which have not been investigated.
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Publisher
Israel Antiquities Authority
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
This volume is the third in a series describing the results of salvage excavations conducted in the northwestern part of the Western Wall Plaza. This third volume presents the small finds of the Early Roman to Byzantine periods, most of which originated in the 'Roman refuse dump', a fill deposited into an abandoned quarry during infrastructure work, and then sealed by the paving stones of the Eastern Cardo. The well-preserved and securely dated finds...
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Publisher
Archaeopress
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
South Yorkshire and the North Midlands have long been ignored or marginalized in narratives of British Prehistory. In this book, unpublished data is used for the first time in a work of synthesis to reconstruct the prehistory of the earliest communities across the River Don drainage basin.
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Publisher
Sidestone Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The book "Similar but Different. Bell Beakers in Europe" deals with a cultural phenomenon, known as the Bell Beaker culture, that during the 3rd millennium B.C. was present throughout Western and Central Europe. This development played an important role in the formation of the Bronze Age at the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC.This book consists of 10 chapters - in each a specific issue is discussed connected with Bell Beakers. The chapters...
Author
Publisher
Archaeopress
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
This book presents the preliminary results of the archaeological excavations carried out in the Grotta di Polla, in the province of Salerno, Italy. The challenges of speleoarchaeology are discussed, and the methodologies adopted for the preservation and conservation of archaeological materials and the results obtained are illustrated.
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Publisher
Archaeopress
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Two barrows in the parish of Tixall, north of Stafford, were excavated between 1986-1994. The results are important because little excavation of round barrows has been carried out in this area of North Staffordshire and these add considerably to the local corpus of knowledge concerning Early Bronze Age burial practices.
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Publisher
Open Agenda Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
This book is based on an in-depth conversation with Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Director of Research and Honorary Professor of Roman Studies in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. This conversation provides a detailed exploration of Wallace-Hadrill's research on Herculaneum, Pompeii, life in the ancient Roman world, Roman law, and details about the Herculaneum Conservation Project which he directs and his extensive archeological work...
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Publisher
Archaeopress
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Archaeological explorations in the area north of the Roman Villa of Casale in Piazza Armerina (Sicily) were carried out in 2013-2014. Investigations on the slopes of Monte Mangone and a survey carried out in the immediate surroundings of the hill in the Colla district provide valuable new evidence regarding the extension of the medieval town.
Author
Publisher
Archaeopress
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Archaeologist and award-winning photographer, Gavin McGuire, brings us on-site to the long-running (and ongoing) Sissi Archaeological Project, Crete, offering unique insights into every key stage of an archaeological excavation and the lives of the archaeologists living and working in often harsh conditions for several weeks at a time.
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