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Imperial Horizons of the Silk Roads
This volume centres on how the exchange routes transformed the frontier regions of the Silk Road. In doing so, it utilises a range of methods to reach an archaeological interpretation of the factors that linked people with the environment; movements, settlements, and beliefs.
Pharaoh's Land and Beyond
Ancient Egypt was a rich tapestry of social, religious, technological, and economic interconnections among numerous civilizations from disparate lands. Ancient Egypt as perceived today was constantly changing-and changing the cultures around it. This work explores the diverse methods of interaction between Egypt and its neighbors during the pharaonic period.
Personal Ornaments in Prehistory
Beads, bracelets, necklaces, pendants and many other ornaments are familiar objects that play a fundamental role in personal expression and communication. This book considers how and why the human relationship with ornaments developed and continued over tens of thousands of years, from hunter-gatherer life in the cave to urban elites, from expedient use of natural resources to complex technologies. Using evidence from archaeological sites across Turkey, the Near East and the Balkans, it explores the history of personal ornaments from their appearance in the Palaeolithic until the rise of urban centers in the Early Bronze Age and encompassing technologies ranging from stone cutting to early g...
Das erste Gold
The unassuming name Ada Tepe stands for an archaeological sensation. Europe's oldest prehistoric gold mine was located in Bulgaria's Rhodope Mountains. From as early as 1500 B.C. until the end of the Bronze Age around 1000 B.C. the precious metal was mined here. In 2016 scholars from the Austrian and the Bulgarian Academies of Sciences began to study the finds. Selected artefacts from the largest Bronze-Age hoard are now on show for the first time in the exhibition "The First Gold." A virtual reconstruction and finds from the mine document the lives of the people who toiled there. The Valchitran Treasure which comprises gold objects weighing around 12,5 kilograms, forms the centre of the show. It symbolizes the wealth and the technical skills of the age. Masterpieces produced in the late Classical/Hellenistic period and during the Roman Empire document the importance of Bulgarian gold, which can look back on 3500 years of history. Exhibition: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria (07.03-25.06.2017).
Israel's Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective
The Bible's grand narrative about Israel's Exodus from Egypt is central to Biblical religion, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim identity and the formation of the academic disciplines studying the ancient Near East. It has also been a pervasive theme in artistic and popular imagination. Israel's Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective is a pioneering work surveying this tradition in unprecedented breadth, combining archaeological discovery, quantitative methodology and close literary reading. Archaeologists, Egyptologists, Biblical Scholars, Computer Scientists, Geoscientists and other experts contribute their diverse approaches in a novel, transdisciplinary consideration of ancient topography, E...
The Archaeology of Anatolia Volume II
This second volume in the Archaeology of Anatolia series offers reports on the most recent discoveries from across the Anatolian peninsula. Periods covered span the Epipalaeolithic to the Islamic, and sites and regions range from the western Anatolian coast to Van, as well as the southeast. Also included here are both reviews of recent work at ongoing excavations and data retrieved from the last several years of survey projects. This series presents a forum in which scholars report their most recent data to a global audience, allowing for productive engagement with others working in and near Anatolia. Published every two years, The Archaeology of Anatolia: Recent Discoveries Series is an invaluable vehicle through which working archaeologists may carry out their most critical task: the presentation of their fieldwork and laboratory research in a timely fashion.
South Arabia
This first of two volumes contains 22 articles from several renowned scholars which cover the most important aspects of the South-Arabian cultures. These contributions demonstrate that South Arabia was one of the major cultural corridors, connecting not only the different Near Eastern cultures, but also functioning as a hub to Africa and India. The book widens the scope of historic and cultural studies. South Arabia proves to be at the core of one of the earliest globalization processes.
Urgeschichte und Römerzeit in der Steiermark
Die "Urgeschichte und Römerzeit in der Steiermark" handelt von Jahrtausenden – und manchmal Jahrzehntausenden – der Interaktion von Mensch und Natur in der heutigen Steiermark. Das von Bernhard Hebert herausgegebene Buch ist Ergebnis einer mehrjährigen Teamarbeit: Fachleute vor allem der jüngeren Forscher/innengeneration haben alle greifbaren Erkenntnisse der Archäologie und ihrer Nachbarwissenschaften zusammengetragen und ausgewertet. So ist eine vielfach neue Sicht auf die ersten Jahr(zehn)tausende der Steiermark entstanden, die in der vorliegenden zweiten Auflage erweitert und nochmals aktualisiert wurde. An die archäologischen Quellen werden grundlegende Fragen gestellt: Welche Innovationen gab es wann? Welche Ressourcen wurden genutzt? Wie waren Besiedelung, Bevölkerung und Gesellschaftsstruktur? Zusätzlich vorgestellt sind die bedeutendsten Fundstellen und Funde, auch in Plan und Bild.
