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Mobility and Place Making in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Italy (2017)
Journal Article
Skeates, R. (2017). Mobility and Place Making in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Italy. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 30(2), 167-188. https://doi.org/10.1558/jmea.35404

This paper offers a revised overview and model of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene hunter-gatherers in Italy, one that questions and extends existing materialist, evolutionary and ecological perspectives through an emphasis on the socio-cultural d... Read More about Mobility and Place Making in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Italy.

Yahwistic Appropriation of Achaemenid Ideology and the Function of Nehemiah 9 in Ezra-Nehemiah (2017)
Journal Article
Janzen, D. (2017). Yahwistic Appropriation of Achaemenid Ideology and the Function of Nehemiah 9 in Ezra-Nehemiah. Journal of Biblical Literature, 136(4), 839-856. https://doi.org/10.15699/jbl.1364.2017.200013

The prayer of Neh 9:6–37, and particularly its final two verses, presents the imperial monarchy in a very negative light. This portrayal is far different from the depictions of the Achaemenids found everywhere else in Ezra-Nehemiah, where the Persian... Read More about Yahwistic Appropriation of Achaemenid Ideology and the Function of Nehemiah 9 in Ezra-Nehemiah.

Speusippus and Xenocrates on the Pursuit and Ends of Philosophy (2017)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S. (2017). Speusippus and Xenocrates on the Pursuit and Ends of Philosophy. In H. Tarrant, F. Renaud, ‎. D. Baltzly, & D. Layne (Eds.), Brill's companion to the reception of Plato in antiquity (29-45). Brill Academic Publishers

Constructing identity in the Middle Ages: relics, religiosity and the Military Orders (2017)
Journal Article
Gerrard, C., & Borowski, T. (2017). Constructing identity in the Middle Ages: relics, religiosity and the Military Orders. Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, 92(4), 1056-1100. https://doi.org/10.1086/693395

This paper examines the materiality and use of religious relics by the Military Orders. Examples taken from the Knights Templar, the Hospitallers and the Teutonic Order and across Europe and the Holy Land from the 12th to 16th centuries are explored... Read More about Constructing identity in the Middle Ages: relics, religiosity and the Military Orders.

From Above and on the Ground: Geospatial Methods for Recording Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (2017)
Journal Article
Rayne, L., Bradbury, J., Mattingly, D., Philip, G., Bewley, R., & Wilson, A. (2017). From Above and on the Ground: Geospatial Methods for Recording Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa. Geosciences, 7(4), Article 100. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences7040100

The EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa) project is a collaboration between the Universities of Leicester, Oxford and Durham; it is funded by the Arcadia Fund and the Cultural Protection Fund. This paper explores the de... Read More about From Above and on the Ground: Geospatial Methods for Recording Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa.

Shifting Identities: the human corpse and treatment of the dead in the Levantine Bronze Age (2017)
Book Chapter
Bradbury, J., & Philip, G. (2017). Shifting Identities: the human corpse and treatment of the dead in the Levantine Bronze Age. In J. Bradbury, & C. Scarre (Eds.), Engaging with the dead : exploring changing human beliefs about death, mortality and the human body (87-102). Oxbow Books

Spanning a period of over two thousand years, the Bronze Age of the Levant (c.3600–1200 BC) is characterised by the emergence of urban society, growth of social complexity and, in the latter half of the period, the florescence of citystates and ‘grea... Read More about Shifting Identities: the human corpse and treatment of the dead in the Levantine Bronze Age.

Towards an Archaeology of Everyday Aesthetics (2017)
Journal Article
Skeates, R. (2017). Towards an Archaeology of Everyday Aesthetics. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 27(4), 607-616. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774317000622

The concept of aesthetics has long been marginalized in archaeology. It was originally formulated in the eighteenth century as part of an appreciation of Greek art and was fundamentally concerned with appreciating a quasi-universal idea of beauty; an... Read More about Towards an Archaeology of Everyday Aesthetics.

An Identity Received from God: The Theological Configuration of Paul's Kinship Discourse (2017)
Journal Article
Barclay, J. M. (2017). An Identity Received from God: The Theological Configuration of Paul's Kinship Discourse. Early Christianity, 8(3), 354-372. https://doi.org/10.1628/186870317x15017545210224

Im Gegensatz zu jüngeren Paulusdeutungen, die den Standpunkt vertreten, dass der Apostel die Ethnizität der ,,Heiden" neu bestimme, zeigt eine Untersuchung zweier paulinischer Motive (,,Nachkommen Abrahams" und ,,Annahme als Söhne") die Vorstellung e... Read More about An Identity Received from God: The Theological Configuration of Paul's Kinship Discourse.

The archaeology of earthquakes: The application of adaptive cycles to seismically-affected communities in late medieval Europe (2017)
Journal Article
Forlin, P., & Gerrard, C. (2017). The archaeology of earthquakes: The application of adaptive cycles to seismically-affected communities in late medieval Europe. Quaternary International, 446, 95-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.06.030

The study of archaeseismology (or ‘earthquake archaeology’) focuses mainly on the analysis of earthquakes at an archaeological scale, either in order to reconstruct the parameters of past seismic events (ie. their intensity, chronology, magnitude, ep... Read More about The archaeology of earthquakes: The application of adaptive cycles to seismically-affected communities in late medieval Europe.

The fluvial evolution of the Holocene Nile Delta (2017)
Journal Article
Pennington, B., Sturt, F., Wilson, P., Rowland, J., & Brown, A. (2017). The fluvial evolution of the Holocene Nile Delta. Quaternary Science Reviews, 170, 212-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.06.017

The evolution of the Nile Delta, the largest delta system in the Mediterranean Sea, has both high palaeoenvironmental and archaeological significance. A dynamic model of the landscape evolution of this delta system is presented for the period c.8000–... Read More about The fluvial evolution of the Holocene Nile Delta.

Putting the Spotlight on Small Metal Age Pottery Scatters in Northern Calabria (Italy) (2017)
Journal Article
de Neef, W., Armstrong, K., & van Leusen, M. (2017). Putting the Spotlight on Small Metal Age Pottery Scatters in Northern Calabria (Italy). Journal of Field Archaeology, 42(4), 283-297-297. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2017.1332930

This paper presents the results of an in-depth multidisciplinary restudy of small Metal Age surface scatters recorded in earlier fieldwalking surveys in northern Calabria (Italy). Guided by a stratified sampling approach based on site types and topog... Read More about Putting the Spotlight on Small Metal Age Pottery Scatters in Northern Calabria (Italy).