Archaeology of three springs valley, california

Site reports and data analyses for LAn-807, -808, and -1031 (Los Angeles County), with a chapter comparing data from similar sites in southern California. This comparative study reassesses conclusions of earlier excavations and submits new hypotheses concerning various site functions

National archaeological museum, athens (english language edition)

Guide to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. It gives general information about all the collections, with emphasis on how they are displayed in the Museum. Illustrates works representative of collections and which demonstrate the quality and value of exhibits in the largest, most import...

Architecture of coexistence

This book investigates how architecture can shape an open-minded and inclusive society, highlighting three internationally renowned projects: the White Mosque in Visoko, Bosnia-Herzegovina (1980); the Islamic Cemetery Altach in Altach, Austria (2012); and the Superkilen public park in Copenhagen,...

Towards a global vision of the church, volume ii

This is the second of the two-volume set Towards a Global Vision of the Church, forming part of the work done by the ecclesiology study group of the WCC Commission on Faith and Order to broaden conversations with ecclesiological perspectives from various regions, especially Asia, Africa, and Lati...

National archaeological museum, athens (chinese language edition)

A guide to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, providing information about all the collections with emphasis on how they are displayed in the Museum. Illustrations of representative works which demonstrate the quality and value of exhibits in the largest, most important museum in Greece...

The archaeology of mobility

There have been books on the archaeology of nomadism in various regions, and there have been individual archaeological and anthropological monographs, but nothing with the kind of coverage provided in this volume. Its strength and importance lies in the fact that it brings together a worldwide co...

Moche tombs at dos cabezas

Moche civilization flourished on the north coast of Peru between approximately AD 100 and 800. This study focuses on five extraordinary Moche tombs that were archaeologically excavated at the site of Dos Cabezas and provide an unusual opportunity to understand aspects of Moche funerary practice t...

This fertile land

Far more than merely a catalogue of the exhibition, it offers for a wide readership an introduction to the art of late prehistory (around 4000 BC) in Iran and Iraq, by bringing together a range of expressive visual tools-seals, sealings and painted pottery.

Hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago. volume s fascicle 2

The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CHD) is a comprehensive, bilingual Hittite-English dictionary. The CHD reflects and illustrates the ideas and material world of Hittite society through its lexicon, and is the only such project in the English-speaking ...

The assyrian dictionary, volume 14, r

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and in...

From ideology to liturgy

Reprint with new Preface. This study examines Reconstructionism's interpretation and adaptation of the traditional Jewish liturgy and creation of new prayer texts to convey and express its changing ideology.

The birth of democracy

This is the catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Archives in Washington D.C. to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the beginnings of democracy in Athens, interpreted as the implementation of Cleisthenes' governmental reforms.

Tretise of miraclis pleyinge

"A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge," usually believed to have been written between 1380 and 1425, is the longest and most significant piece of dramatic criticism in Middle English. It reflects the hostility of Wycliffite (or Lollard) authors toward dramatic representation and related activity, espec...

Receptions of the ancient near east in popular culture and beyond

A celebration of the ways in which popular culture have consumed aspects of the ancient Near East to construct new realities: archaeologists, philologists, historians and art historians reflect on how ideas and interpretations of the ancient Near East have been reimagined within our shared cultur...

Love & marriage in late medieval london

Depositions (or testimony) in marriage cases brought before fifteenth-century English church courts reveal the attitudes and feelings of medieval people towards the marital bond.

Assyrian dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago, volume 16, s

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and in...

Sculpture ii

A catalogue of the sculpture discovered during excavations by the University of California at Los Angeles in the sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia. The sculpture ranges in date from ca. 100 B.C. to ca. A.D. 400, with most of the 107 pieces included belonging to the mid-2nd century.

Hebrew union college annual volume 46

The late byzantine palace of mistras and its restoration

This book presents the fascinating history of the Byzantine Palace of Mistras in the Greek Peloponnese, originally erected in the 13th century, which became the seat of the Despots of Mistras and centre of the final flourishing of the Byzantine Culture; documented here in an extensive photographi...

The silent revolution

How immune is the Gulf region to the changes that have engulfed the Arab world since 2011? This volume responds to this question by examining the impact of the Arab Spring on Gulf regimes and societies and contributing to debates on political participation and citizenship; sectarianism, gender an...

The symposium in context

This book presents the first well-preserved set of sympotic pottery which served a Late Archaic house in the Athenian Agora. The deposit contains household and fine-ware pottery, nearly all the figured pieces of which are forms associated with communal drinking.

The great islands

Gerald Cadogan is a British archaeologist whose contributions to the archaeology of the East Mediterranean relate to Crete and Cyprus. Contains 33 papers by an array of scholars who have been taught or examined by Cadogan or collaborated with him in the field or excavation workrooms over the last...

Acropolis (spanish language edition)

Designed to be a useful travel companion. Descriptions and interpretation show the monuments of Athens in a different way and help visitors to understand the historical, artistic and political events that contributed to their creation. 95 col. illus. Spanish language edition.