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Insights into the economic organization of the Phoenician homeland: a multidisciplinary investigation of the later Iron Age II and Persian period Phoenician amphorae from Tell el-Burak (2018)
Journal Article
Schmit, A., Badreshany, K., Tachatou, E., & Sader, H. (2018). Insights into the economic organization of the Phoenician homeland: a multidisciplinary investigation of the later Iron Age II and Persian period Phoenician amphorae from Tell el-Burak. Levant, 50(1), 52-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2018.1547004

This paper details the results of a large-scale multi-disciplinary analysis of Iron Age pottery from a settlement in the core of the Phoenician homeland. The research presented is centred upon a large corpus of Phoenician carinated-shoulder amphorae... Read More about Insights into the economic organization of the Phoenician homeland: a multidisciplinary investigation of the later Iron Age II and Persian period Phoenician amphorae from Tell el-Burak.

A last word: the study of later medieval archaeology (2018)
Book Chapter
Gerrard, C. (2018). A last word: the study of later medieval archaeology. In C. Gerrard, & A. Gutiérrez (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain (982-996). OUP

Embracing New Perspectives (2018)
Book Chapter
Graves, C., & Gerrard, C. (2018). Embracing New Perspectives. In C. Gerrard, & A. Gutiérrez (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain (38-51). OUP

Looking South: Spain and Portugal in the Middle Ages (2018)
Book Chapter
Gerrard, C., & Gutiérrez-González, J. (2018). Looking South: Spain and Portugal in the Middle Ages. In C. Gerrard, & A. Gutiérrez (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain (964-981)

Ernestine S. Elster , Eugenia Isetti , John Robb and Antonella Traverso , eds. The Archaeology of Grotta Scaloria: Ritual in Neolithic Southeast Italy (Monumenta Archaeologica 38. Los Angeles: The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. 2016, 446 pp., 230 figs, 121 tables, hbk, ISBN 978-938770-07-4) (2018)
Journal Article
Skeates, R. (2018). Ernestine S. Elster , Eugenia Isetti , John Robb and Antonella Traverso , eds. The Archaeology of Grotta Scaloria: Ritual in Neolithic Southeast Italy (Monumenta Archaeologica 38. Los Angeles: The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. 2016, 446 pp., 230 figs, 121 tables, hbk, ISBN 978-938770-07-4). European Journal of Archaeology, 21(1), 136-139. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2018.78

Overview: People and Projects (2018)
Book Chapter
Gerrard, C. (2018). Overview: People and Projects. In C. Gerrard, & A. Gutiérrez (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain (3-19). OUP

The Qanat in Spain: Archaeology and Environment (2018)
Book Chapter
Gerrard, C., & Gutiérrez, A. (2018). The Qanat in Spain: Archaeology and Environment. In J. Berkin (Ed.), Water management in ancient civilizations. Edition Topoi. https://doi.org/10.17171/3-53-8

This article defines the elements of qanat technology in Spain and describes some recent projects that have advanced our understanding there. A brief bibliography is presented that reveals some of the confusion surrounding the classification, nomencl... Read More about The Qanat in Spain: Archaeology and Environment.

A geo-archaeological approach to the study of hydro-agricultural systems in arid areas of Western Syria (2018)
Journal Article
Geyer, B., Braemer, F., Davtian, G., & Philip, G. (2019). A geo-archaeological approach to the study of hydro-agricultural systems in arid areas of Western Syria. Journal of Arid Environments, 163, 93-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2018.11.005

Over the last 30 years, geoarchaeological surveys undertaken in the Near East have offered a powerful way of studying, inter alia, water supply systems at a microregional to regional scale. However, efforts to synthesize the results of surveys at a s... Read More about A geo-archaeological approach to the study of hydro-agricultural systems in arid areas of Western Syria.

CARIA, CRETE AND FOUNDATION MYTHS. (N.) Carless Unwin Caria and Crete in Antiquity. Cultural Interaction between Anatolia and the Aegean. Pp. xx + 266, ills, maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. (2018)
Journal Article
Draycott, C. M. (in press). CARIA, CRETE AND FOUNDATION MYTHS. (N.) Carless Unwin Caria and Crete in Antiquity. Cultural Interaction between Anatolia and the Aegean. Pp. xx + 266, ills, maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Classical Review, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009840x18002652

Evidence for Neolithic settlement in the foothills of the Western al-Hajar Mountains (2018)
Journal Article
Bretzke, K., Parton, A., Lindauer, S., & Kennet, D. (2018). Evidence for Neolithic settlement in the foothills of the Western al-Hajar Mountains. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 29(2), 103-114. https://doi.org/10.1111/aae.12118

Systematic prospection and excavations in the Rustaq region of northern Oman, approximately 45 km from the coast in the foothills of the Western Hajar Mountains, have revealed an unexpectedly dense record of Neolithic sites. Besides surface scatters... Read More about Evidence for Neolithic settlement in the foothills of the Western al-Hajar Mountains.

THE SOIL SCIENCE & ARCHAEO-GEOPHYSICS ALLIANCE (SAGA): going beyond prospection (2018)
Journal Article
Cuenca-Garcia, C., Armstrong, K., Aidona, E., De Smedt, P., Rosveare, A., Rosveare, M., …Lowe, K. (2018). THE SOIL SCIENCE & ARCHAEO-GEOPHYSICS ALLIANCE (SAGA): going beyond prospection. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 4, Article e31648. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.4.e31648

Archaeological sites can be discovered and recorded in a high-resolution and non-invasive manner using geophysical methods. These measure the spatial variation of a range of physical properties of the soil which may be representative proxies of the s... Read More about THE SOIL SCIENCE & ARCHAEO-GEOPHYSICS ALLIANCE (SAGA): going beyond prospection.

Human and Deltaic Environments in Northern Egypt in Late Antiquity (2018)
Journal Article
Wilson, P. (2018). Human and Deltaic Environments in Northern Egypt in Late Antiquity. Late antique archaeology, 12(1), 42-62. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134522-12340066

Exclusively teaching the receptive skill of reading texts in a foreign language with no training in language production might seem to be a pedagogical relic and to contradict the communicative approach in foreign language teaching. However, it is a m... Read More about Human and Deltaic Environments in Northern Egypt in Late Antiquity.

Tales from the outer limits: Archaeological geophysical prospection in lowland peat environments in the British Isles (2018)
Journal Article
Armstrong, K., Cheetham, P., & Darvill, T. (2019). Tales from the outer limits: Archaeological geophysical prospection in lowland peat environments in the British Isles. Archaeological Prospection, 26(2), 91-101. https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1725

In order to systematically investigate the potential of conventional near surface geophysical techniques to locate waterlogged archaeological targets in peatlands, the authors applied four conventional geophysical methods – earth resistance, ground‐p... Read More about Tales from the outer limits: Archaeological geophysical prospection in lowland peat environments in the British Isles.

Making meaning of myth. On the interpretation of mythological imagery in the Polyxena Sarcophagus and the Kızılbel Tomb and the History of Achaemenid Asia Minor (2018)
Book Chapter
Draycott, C. M. (2018). Making meaning of myth. On the interpretation of mythological imagery in the Polyxena Sarcophagus and the Kızılbel Tomb and the History of Achaemenid Asia Minor. In L. Audley-Miller, & B. Dignas (Eds.), Wandering myths : transcultural uses of myth in the ancient world (23-70). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110421453-004

Drinking on the Periphery: The Tell Nebi Mend Goblets in their Regional and Archaeometric Context (2018)
Journal Article
Kennedy, M., Badreshany, K., & Philip, G. (2020). Drinking on the Periphery: The Tell Nebi Mend Goblets in their Regional and Archaeometric Context. Levant, 52(1-2), 103-135. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2018.1442076

This paper explores the late 3rd millennium BC goblet corpus from Tell Nebi Mend in the upper Orontes Valley, Syria, by comparing the form, size, petrographic and chemical composition of these drinking vessels. The available evidence suggests that Te... Read More about Drinking on the Periphery: The Tell Nebi Mend Goblets in their Regional and Archaeometric Context.