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The Oasis papers 3; proceedings.
The 25 papers of this proceeding were first presented at the Third International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project, held in Clayton, Victoria, Australia in August of 2000. The international group of contributors, most of them archaeologists with the Project, presented analysis in the areas of prehistory, environment, the pharaonic period, and the Ptolemaic-Roman period at the Kellis cemetery. Among the topics of individual papers are decoration of Tomb 1 at Kellis, a mythological ostrakon from Kellis, editing of Coptic and Manichaean texts from Ismant el-Kharab, magnetic survey at 'Ain el-Gazzareen, hyaenas in Dakhleh Oasis II, and interregional contacts with the Sudan based on ceramic evidence from the mid- Holocene. Not indexed. Distributed in North America by the David Brown Book Co. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
The origins of Greek religion. (reprint, 1974)
In this key monograph, Dietrich (Greek, U. of Wales) examines how the elements of faith systems in the Bronze Age were interwoven in those of Middle Eastern cultures, then on to Minoan Crete and then as parts of the religious dialogues between pre-Greek Minoans and Greek Mycenaeans. From there he finds links to archaic Greek religious theories and practices and what he terms the "Dark Ages." Although there have been new findings since this monograph's original publication, Dietrich's work continues to be useful to scholars. This is a reprint of the original 1974 edition published by Walter de Gruyter and Company. Distributed in the US by David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
The Peak district; landscapes through time.
Prehistoric barrows, stone circles, Romano-British settlements, medieval fields, ancient drove-ways, and 19th-century lead mines are among the features described in Britain's' first National Park. The book was first published as The English Heritage Book of the Peak District: Landscapes Through Time by B. T. Batsford in 1997. Barnatt and Smith, respectively a senior survey archaeologist and the Cultural Heritage Manager for the Peak District National Park Authority, provide interpretive maps, a gazetteer of sites, and a comprehensive bibliography. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Perspectives for an architecture of solitude; essays on Cistercians, art and architecture in honour of Peter Fergusson.
The 34 articles of this collection honor Peter Fergusson (art history, Wellesley College, Mass.), who wrote, among other works, a seminal study of Cistercian architecture in 1984. The articles present recent research and complete case studies on Cistercian and other medieval monastic architecture, mainly in England and France, by art and architectural historians in the UK, the US, and Europe. Among the topics are Culross Abbey, Furness Abbey, the tower in Cistercian architecture in Britain and Ireland, the bell-founders pit at the Abbey of Grosbot (Charente), stained glass from Mariawald Abbey in the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the control of entry and access to be deduced from doorway and gate locations at the Augustinian Abbey of St-Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons. The volume is well illustrated with b&w and some color plates. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Planning in Iceland; from the settlement to present times.
Iceland offers a unique opportunity for a scholar of settlement and urban planning; it is small and sparsely populated, and eminently suited to studying how society, nature, and planning interact. Valsson (planning, U. of Iceland) starts with the first settlement in the year 874 and continues to the present, showing how settlement interacted with nature, how trade, religious and governmental systems and the land itself shaped development, how urban centers came to be, and how Reykjavik was a conscious choice for a capital city. He also describes how the country eventually developed national systems and plans based on social improvements that continue today. Valsson includes 1,200 illustrations, photos, and maps and a handy list of planners in Iceland. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Places of special virtue; megaliths in the neolithic landscapes of Wales.
Wales is barely mentioned if at all in discussions of prehistoric chambered monuments in Britain, but Cummings and Whittle (U. of Cardiff) find a rich, if distinctively Welsh, trove of them, and explores their landscape settings within a larger discussion of the significance of the neolithic Welsh landscape. Between chapters on theory, methodology, and conclusions, they survey in turn southwest, northwest, and southeast Wales. They provide many photographs, diagrams, and maps, including 15 color plates, but no index. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Preserving archaeological remains in situ?; proceedings.
The 36 papers of this proceedings were first presented at the 2nd Conference on Preserving Archaeological Remains in situ, held in London, the UK in September 2001. Archaeologists report from their own research experience on the effectiveness of re-burying archaeological sites to protect them. Case studies are included on the Tower of London; shipwreck sites; Tønsberg, Norway; Nydam Mose, Denmark; and on types of sites and materials such as bone, wetlands, and wood. Not indexed. Distributed in North America by the David Brown Book Co. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
The processional cross in late medieval England; the 'Dallye cross'.
Hourihane (art history, Princeton U.) examines crosses carried in religious processions during the late middle ages in England, which are simpler in design and structure and in iconography than their Continental counterparts. He considers the role of procession, other liturgical uses of the processional cross, and physical features and provenance and date of the crosses. Then he provides a catalogue of crosses known to exist now, with a list of those that are known to have existed once but are now untraceable. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis; v.2: The classical building. (maps included)
This massive volume (10.25x13.25 inches) contains five large fold-out drawings of sections and elevations in the back pocket and numerous fold-out ground plans, sections, and elevations and high quality b&w plates within the text. It presents in a comprehensive fashion the research carried out on the Propylaia by Dinsmoor (d.1973) and his son (d.1988), and edited for publication by the latter's widow. The volume is divided into two sections on the design and the building, with individual chapters on each sequence of the building design. The chapters on the parts of the building — including the foundation and platform, Doric columns, Doric entablatures, pediments, roofs, etc. — contain painstaking analysis of the evidence, with dimensions provided throughout. Many additional drawings, plans, and details fill the text, making this a rich resource for scholars and students of ancient Greek architecture. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Pseira IX; the archaeological survey of Pseira Island, part 2: The intensive surface survey.
The 9th in a series on the archaeological survey of Pseira Island, this volume includes the main results of an intensive surface survey that reveals how island residents used the land for agriculture, animal husbandry, water management, building, and other purposes. In part I, Betancourt (art history & archaeology, Temple U.) and colleagues present the methodology for the survey, followed by site data & pottery. Part II contains detailed individual studies of particular sites; discussion of pottery & other artifacts; and conclusions on distinct time periods, and on methodology. Final sections include the concordance of excavations numbers & survey site numbers, a site index, references, maps, 35 pages of illustrations of finds, and 44 black & white photographs of sites. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Pseira VIII; the archaeological survey of Pseira Island, part 1.
This volume presents the first of two parts of the archaeological survey of the island of Pseira (off the coast of Crete) carried out by the editors and contributing authors in stages from 1987-1990 as part of a joint archaeological project sponsored by Temple U. in Philadelphia, Penn. and the Archaeological Institute and Archaeological Society of Crete. Contextualizing essays are presented in this volume, with the survey itself presented in Part 2. Fourteen essays are divided into the topics of the island, previous work, and ethnology, with individual topics including modern toponyms, bedrock geology, soils and land use, traditional fishing practices, coastal trade, and traditional lime production. Slightly oversized: 8.75x11.25 inches. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
The published ivories from Fort Shalmaneser, Nimrud; a scanned archive of photographs. (CD-ROM included)
Scholars of the art and archaeology of the Ancient Near East will be the audience for this volume, in which the major part of the thousands of carved ivory plaques and fragments discovered at Fort Shalmaneser at Nimrud (in modern day Iraq) are depicted in small, b&w reproductions, organized by the location in which they were discovered. The images were taken from either photographs taken by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, which excavated the site, or published reproductions. Ground plans of the Fort are included. The CD-ROM contains JPEGs of the entire archive. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Radiocarbon and archaeology; proceedings.
These papers from the April 2002 symposium describe findings in radiocarbon calibration (including glacial radiocarbon age calibration), methodology (including techniques for lake sediments and non-destructive plasma-chemical extraction of carbon from organic artifacts), and several instances of high resolution dating, as well as applications in sites such as Siberia, the central Negev, New Zealand, the Ukraine, Jordan, Tuva, Coratia, Friesack, Lecce, east Flanders, and at the base of the Aghinolfi Castle in Italy. Distributed by the David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Read me; software art & cultures, 2004 ed.
The contributors to this collection are part of the software culture, where they not only work as programmers, designers and master users but also as theorists in digital society, as evidenced by this collection of work from the August 2004 Software Arts and Cultures conference held at the University of Aarbus. Contributors describe their work on social perspectives of software, its historical and cultural contexts, relationships between code and text, new visual and conceptual art traditions, and include case studies, applications and theoretical commentaries. Software art from the associated web site includes artificial intelligence, the art of the browser and code, and generative art. Distributed in the U.S. by David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Rethinking materiality; the engagement of mind with the material world.
Archaeologists from around the world reflect the change in the field from privileging either the mental or the material to a concern with interactions between human beings and material culture. They consider such aspects as collapsing the mind-matter dichotomy in material culture studies, the cognitive basis of material engagement, a Palaeolithic view of sedentism, architecture and Theaters of Memory in the Neolithic of Southwest Asia, the materiality of European megalithic monuments, the birth of Mesoamerican metaphysics, and materiality and sacred power in ancient Iraq. The 23 papers were presented to a March 2003 conference in Cambridge, presumably England. They are not indexed. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Rewriting the middle ages in the twentieth century.
The thought and career of 19 medievalists, some of whom are very well known figures in medieval history, philology, and literature — Ernst Kantorowicz, François Louis Ganshof, Georges Duby, Marc Bloch, and Etienne Gilson among them — are described in essays contributed by an international group of scholars. Derived from a conference, "Great Medievalists of the 20th century," held in Navarre, Spain in May 2003, the majority of the essays have been thoroughly revised and heavily annotated. Several of the essays are in French. The volume is not indexed. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Ribe excavations; 1970-76; v.5.
The National Museum of Denmark initiated excavation into the Viking-period town in 1955. Here 13 archaeologists who took part from 1970 to 1976 report the findings in their specialties, presenting the finds in catalogue form and commenting on them. Their topics include the human remains, glass bead making technology, smithing debris, pottery from the eighth and ninth centuries, and determinations of wood finds. There is no index. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Rievaulx Abbey; and its social context, 1132-1300; memory, locality, and networks.
Rievaulz Abbey, in the valley of the river Rye on the North Yorkshire moors, was one of the most important and largest of the Cistercian abbeys in England. Rather than simply narrating the history of the abbey for the two centuries, Jamroziak (U. of Edinburgh) focuses on the interaction between it and its social environment, which was formed by the various groups of neighbors, including patrons and their families, lay benefactors, people who lived near the estate of the abbey, and other monasteries in the area. The general interactions between lay society and monks during the High Middle Ages is her underlying context. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
The rock tombs of El Amarna; parts 1 and 2. (reprint, 1903 & 1905)
When excavators opened the 22 tombs of El Amarna, about 183 miles north of Cairo on the east banks of the Nile, they found Akhenaten's courtiers expected at least as much in the next life as they had enjoyed in this. In Part I of this classic text, Davies's narrative and plates describe the area of El Amarna and the tomb of Meryra, details of the sculptures, and transcripts of texts concerning the religion of the Aten. Part II includes descriptions of the site of the northern tombs and the tomb of Panehesy, details of the sculptures, descriptions of texts on Aten, and the Coptic remains. In this single volume The Egypt Exploration Society has reprinted its original Part I of 1903 and Part II of 1905. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
The rock tombs of El Amarna; parts 3 and 4. (reprint, 1905, 1906)
In Part III of this classic text, Davies's narrative and plates describe the tomb of Huya, including the "sun shade" of Tyi, the tomb of Ahmes, and the Greek graffiti found there. Both descriptions include architectural features, sculptures, and texts on the religion of the Aten. Part IV includes a description of the site of the southern tombs, and descriptions of the tombs of Penthu, Mahu, Apy, Rames, Nefer-Kheperu-Her-Sekheper and Suti, including the religious texts. In this single volume The Egypt Exploration Society has reprinted its original Part III of 1905 and Part IV of 1906. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
The rock tombs of El Amarna; parts 5 and 6.
Two female figures in garments rendered as sheer on stone raise their hands in worship; one now does not have a face. Boats rest, oars still, on flat water. A single guard stands armed with a slender reed. In Part V of this classic text, Davies's narrative and plates describe the tombs of May and Any, the small or incised tombs, the texts on the religion of the Aten, and the boundary stelae. Part VI includes a description of the tombs of Paranefer, Tutu, and Ay and photographs of the palace. In this single volume The Egypt Exploration Society has reprinted its original Part V and Part VI of 1908. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Roman brooches in Britain; a technological and typological study based on the Richborough collection.
The two well established archaeologists present the data from the traditional typological and the newer scientific analysis of some 3,500 brooches from various sites across Britain at the Ancient Monuments Laboratory beginning in the 1970s, and summarize and discuss the overall patterns. Using the two methods in conjunction revealed significant correlations between typology, alloy composition, and techniques of decoration. They provide special details on the 445 extant brooches from the Richborough site, the first ones to be so analyzed. The disk contains the analysis data in a form that readers can browse and search. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
