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Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The African Frontiers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 96

Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The African Frontiers

The Roman military remains in North Africa are remarkable in their variety and preservation. They include towers and forts, stretches of defensive lines of stone and earth with ditches broken by gates, and roads, sitting amidst amazing scenery. Readers of this book will enjoy learning more about North Africa’s remarkable Roman inheritance.

Villas, Sanctuaries and Settlement in the Romano-British Countryside
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

Villas, Sanctuaries and Settlement in the Romano-British Countryside

This volume brings together a range of papers on buildings that have been categorised as ‘villas’, mainly in Roman Britain, from the Isle of Wight to Shropshire. It comprises the first such survey for almost half a century.

Politics and the Histories of International Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 513

Politics and the Histories of International Law

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-07-19
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This book brings together 18 contributions by authors from different legal systems and backgrounds. They address the political implications of the writing of the history of legal issues ranging from slavery over the use of force and extraterritorial jurisdiction to Eurocentrism.

Trade in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 469

Trade in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond

Demonstrates that the pre-Islamic Sahara was a more connected region than previously thought, with trade an essential linking element.

Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 506

Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

The seventeen contributions to this volume, written by leading experts, show that animals and humans in Graeco-Roman antiquity are interconnected on a variety of different levels and that their encounters and interactions often result from their belonging to the same structures, ‘networks’ and communities or at least from finding themselves together in a certain setting, context or environment – wittingly or unwittingly. Papers explore the concrete categories of interaction between animals and humans that can be identified, in what contexts they occur, and what types of evidence can be productively used to examine the concept of interactions. Articles in this volume take into account literary, visual, and other types of evidence. A comprehensive research bibliography is also provided.

Legion of the Lancasters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

Legion of the Lancasters

Söthe had already decided to use his nose armament against the 4-mot [four engined bomber]. He looked out and focused on a black shape of the Britisher. Small, bluish exhaust flames made it easier to keep the target in sight. Four engines, twin tail were recorded almost subconsciously. No sudden movement that might attract their attention. Calm now! Guns armed? Night sight switched on? Everything OK! Now he could see that it was a Lancaster, crossing gently from starboard to port. He applied a little more power and approached cautiously. Now he was exactly behind him at about 100 metres’ range. The rear turret was clearly recognisable. Brönies kept silent. ‘Pauke! Pauke!’ [‘Kettled...

The Chora of Metaponto 4
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

The Chora of Metaponto 4

This volume in the Institute of Classical Archaeology's series on rural settlements in the countryside (chora) of Metaponto presents the excavation of the Late Roman farmhouse at San Biagio. Located near the site of an earlier Greek sanctuary, this modest but well-appointed structure was an unexpected find from a period generally marked by large landholdings and monumental villas. Description of earlier periods of occupation (Neolithic and Greek) is followed by a detailed discussion of the farmhouse itself and its historical and socioeconomic context. The catalogs and analyses of finds include impressive deposits of coins from the late third and early fourth centuries AD. Use of virtual reality CAD software has yielded a deeper understanding of the architectural structure and its reconstruction. A remarkable feature is the small bath complex, with its examples of window glass. This study reveals the existence of a small but viable rural social and economic entity and alternative to the traditional image of crisis and decline during the Late Imperial period.

Swansea Copper
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 243

Swansea Copper

This insightful book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the historical roots of globalization and the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon.

An Engraved Landscape: Rock carvings in the Wadi al-Ajal, Libya
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1149

An Engraved Landscape: Rock carvings in the Wadi al-Ajal, Libya

An Engraved Landscape is a contextual analysis of a substantial new corpus of engravings from the Wadi al-Ajal, situated in the Central Saharan region of south west Libya. The wadi is renowned as the heartland of the Garamantian civilization, which emerged from local mobile Pastoral communities in the 1st millennium BC, and dominated trans-Saharan trade and politics for over a thousand years. Extensive archaeological and palaeoenvironmental investigations in recent years have provided detailed insight into the later prehistory and protohistory of the wadi and surrounding areas. However, prior to the fieldwork detailed in this work, only a handful of carvings had been recorded in the wadi. Th...

Mobile Technologies in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 533

Mobile Technologies in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond

Examines key technological innovations, knowledge transfer, connectivity and social meaning in the ancient and Medieval Sahara.