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Case Studies in Archaeological Predictive Modelling
Dutch archaeology has experienced profound changes in recent years. This has led to an increasing use of archaeological predictive modelling, a technique that uses information about the location of known early human settlements to predict where additional settlements may have been located. Case Studies in Archaeological Predictive Modelling is the product of a decade of work by Philip Verhagen as a specialist in geographical information systems at RAAP Archeologisch Adviesbureau BV, one of the leading organizations in the field; the case studies presented here provide an overview of the field and point to potential future areas of research.
Spatial Patterns in Landscape Archaeology
This 43rd volume of the ASLU series presents a useful GIS procedure to study settlement patterns in landscape archaeology. In several Mediterranean regions, archaeological sites have been mapped by fieldwalking surveys, producing large amounts of data. These legacy site-based survey data represent an important resource to study ancient settlement organization. Methodological procedures are necessary to cope with the limits of these data, and more importantly with the distortions on data patterns caused by biasing factors. This book develops and applies a GIS procedure to use legacy survey data in settlement pattern analysis. It consists of two parts. One part regards the assessment of biases...
Archaeological Investigations on St. Martin (Lesser Antilles)
The Leeward islands constitute one of the last remaining gaps in our knowledge of the West Indies. This book describes archaeological research at three sites (the Norman Estate, Anse des Peres and the Hope Estate) which aimed to resolve some outstanding questions. After reporting on environmental and archaeological investigations at each of the sites, Jose Oliver turns to focus on the `La Hueca Problem', named after the site discovered in 1977 which totally overturned convential views of the colonization of the Antilles. In his controversial essay, Oliver discusses new perspectives on the dates and strategies of the earliest South American colonists.
Reconstructing the Settled Landscape of the Cyclades
The aim of this book is to offer a fresh approach to the history and archaeology of the Cyclades in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Early Middle Ages in light of current archaeological investigations. It is an attempt to interpret human-environmental interaction in order to read the relationship between islands, settlements, landscapes, and seascapes in the context of the diverse and highly interactive Mediterranean world. It offers an interdisciplinary approach, which combines archaeological evidence, literary sources, and observations of the sites and microlandscapes as a whole, using the advantages offered by the application of new technologies in archaeological research (Geographic Information Systems). The islands of Paros and Naxos are used as case-studies. The author traces how these neighboring insular communities reacted under the same general circumstances pertaining in the Aegean and to what extent the landscape played a role in this process.
Knowledge Networks and Craft Traditions in the Ancient World
This edited volume investigates knowledge networks based on materials and associated technologies in Prehistoric Europe and the Classical Mediterranean. It emphasises the significance of material objects to the construction, maintenance, and collapse of networks of various forms – which are central to explanations of cultural contact and change. Focusing on the materiality of objects and on the way in which materials are used adds a multidimensional quality to networks. The properties, functions, and styles of different materials are intrinsically linked to the way in which knowledge flows and technologies are transmitted. Transmission of technologies from one craft to another is one of th...
Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados
Collected papers on all aspects of Barbados' history, heritage, and archaeology, this volume will have considerable impact upon the wider context of Caribbeanist archaeology, history and heritage studies.
Creating Capitals
The creation of new capital cities are watershed moments in the lives of ancient empires. Assyria, arguably the most successful imperial state of the ancient Near East, repeatedly engaged in capital creation. 'Capital creation' denotes the development of a monumental capital, either in a new location or through the profound transformation of a pre-existing settlement. This volume focusses on the rationale, construction, and function of the imperial capitals of Assyria: Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta, Kalhu, Dur-Sarruken, and Nineveh.0By exploring three key questions - why was a capital created, how was a capital created, and what were the functions of the capital - this study presents a comparative ana...
The Island of Skyros from Late Roman to Early Modern Times
Archaeology in the Aegean region has mainly focused on the prehistoric and Greco-Roman periods, which has left us with relatively little knowledge of human activity in the area in the medieval period. Meanwhile, the archaeological research that has been conducted there has tended to deal primarily with art and architecture. This volume aims to fill that gap, using the ancient past as a background against which to examine continuity and change on the island of Skyros from the late Roman period onwards.
A Timeless Vale
Thirteen studies of varous disciplines on the Jordan Valley, in honour of Gerrit van der Kooij on the occasion of his retirement as lecturer in Near Eastern Archaeology at Leiden University
The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya
The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya is the first edited volume in a quarter century to provide an overview of this fascinating archaeological subarea of Mesoamerica, encompassing Pacific Nicaragua and northwestern Costa Rica. Inhabited by diverse peoples of Mesoamerican origin centuries before Spanish colonization, Greater Nicoya remains controversial in the twenty-first century as scholars struggle to achieve consensus on questions of geography, chronology, and cultural identity. Drawing on approaches ranging from ethnohistory to bioarchaeology to scientific and culture-historical archaeology, the book is organized into sections on redefining Greater Nicoya, projects and surveys, material cul...
