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The Religious Life of Palmyra. A Study of the Social Patterns of Worship in the Roman Period (2002)
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Kaizer, T. (2002). The Religious Life of Palmyra. A Study of the Social Patterns of Worship in the Roman Period. Franz Steiner Verlag

This study of the social patterns of worship in Palmyra (Syria) investigates how aspects of the city’s religious life contributed to the way in which its society was built up and worked. The validity of the model of ‘civic’ vs ‘tribal’ forms of worsh... Read More about The Religious Life of Palmyra. A Study of the Social Patterns of Worship in the Roman Period.

Visual Culture and Archaeology: Art and Social Life in Prehistoric South-East Italy (2005)
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Skeates, R. (2005). Visual Culture and Archaeology: Art and Social Life in Prehistoric South-East Italy. Duckworth

This book draws on the complementary fields of visual cultural studies and interpretative archaeology to examine how successive generations transformed their visual culture to construct themselves, exploring this process through an extended case-stud... Read More about Visual Culture and Archaeology: Art and Social Life in Prehistoric South-East Italy.

The Book of Tobit : texts from the principal ancient and medieval traditions : with synopsis, concordances, and annotated texts in Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Syriac (2004)
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Weeks, S., Gathercole, S., & Stuckenbruck, L. (2004). The Book of Tobit : texts from the principal ancient and medieval traditions : with synopsis, concordances, and annotated texts in Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Syriac. De Gruyter

The relationships between the many different versions of Tobit present a famous and important problem for text-critics and historians of Judaism; however, study of the subject has been hindered by the lack of any single, reliable collection. This boo... Read More about The Book of Tobit : texts from the principal ancient and medieval traditions : with synopsis, concordances, and annotated texts in Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Syriac.

Sasanian and Islamic pottery from Ras al-Khaimah: classification, chronology and analysis of trade in the Western Indian Ocean (2004)
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Kennet, D. (2004). Sasanian and Islamic pottery from Ras al-Khaimah: classification, chronology and analysis of trade in the Western Indian Ocean. Archaeopress

During the course of a preliminary surface survey of the island of Hulaylah in Ras al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates in 1991, it became clear that, although understanding of the ceramic sequence from the Bronze Age until about the 4th century AD in th... Read More about Sasanian and Islamic pottery from Ras al-Khaimah: classification, chronology and analysis of trade in the Western Indian Ocean.

Paisaje y señorío: la casa conventual de Ambel (Zaragoza). Arqueología, arquitectura e historia de las órdenes religiosas del Temple y del Hospital (2003)
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Gerrard, C. (2003). Paisaje y señorío: la casa conventual de Ambel (Zaragoza). Arqueología, arquitectura e historia de las órdenes religiosas del Temple y del Hospital. Institución Fernando el Católico

This volume considers the archaeological, architectural and historical information for a preceptory of the Military Orders in NE Spain between the 11th to the 19th centuries. Among the themes examined are the evidence for Templar and Hospitaller hous... Read More about Paisaje y señorío: la casa conventual de Ambel (Zaragoza). Arqueología, arquitectura e historia de las órdenes religiosas del Temple y del Hospital.

The Collecting of Origins: collectors and collections of Italian prehistory and the cultural transformation of value (1550-1999). (2000)
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Skeates, R. (2000). The Collecting of Origins: collectors and collections of Italian prehistory and the cultural transformation of value (1550-1999). British Archaeological Reports

This book examines the strategic re-production and re-working of the cultural values and meanings of prehistoric objects by collectors over the last five hundred years. It does so in the light of those collectors’ individual beliefs and aspirations,... Read More about The Collecting of Origins: collectors and collections of Italian prehistory and the cultural transformation of value (1550-1999)..

Medieval Archaeology. Understanding traditions and contemporary approaches (2003)
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Gerrard, C. (2003). Medieval Archaeology. Understanding traditions and contemporary approaches. Routledge

This exciting new introduction to medieval archaeology looks critically at the discipline and analyses how it differs from prehistoric archaeology. It asks why we study it and how its study has made an impact on the public consciousness in films, boo... Read More about Medieval Archaeology. Understanding traditions and contemporary approaches.

From Midas to Cyrus and Other Stories. Papers on Iron Age Anatolia in honour of Geoffrey and Françoise Summers (2023)
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Draycott, C. M., Branting, S., Lehner, J. W., & Özarslan, Y. (Eds.). (in press). From Midas to Cyrus and Other Stories. Papers on Iron Age Anatolia in honour of Geoffrey and Françoise Summers. British Institute at Ankara

The period of Anatolian history between the death of the semi-legendary king Midas of Gordion ca 700 BC and the advent of the Achaemenid Persian Empire ca 550 BC is dominated by certain narratives: the rise of the Mermnad Lydian Kingdom, from Gyges t... Read More about From Midas to Cyrus and Other Stories. Papers on Iron Age Anatolia in honour of Geoffrey and Françoise Summers.