The archaeology of xenitia

In this volume, new archaeological data from Epeiros, Kythera, Keos, the Southern Argolid and the Nemea Valley highlight the effects of emigration, and data from Colorado, Philadelphia and Sydney illustrate the effects of immigration.

A historical and economic geography of ottoman greece

This innovative study of the southwestern Peloponnese or Morea combines the study of unpublished Ottoman documents, other historical sources and the results of archaeological fieldwork to explore the historical and economic geography of a particular region of Greece in the early 18th century.

Between venice and istanbul

The 13 papers in this volume survey the different regions of Greece from an archaeological as well as a documentary perspective, attempting to reveal common themes in the development of landscapes and sites between 1500 and 1800.

Excavations at gilund

Reveals insights into the Ahar-Banas Cultural Complex in Rajasthan, India, offering comprehensive analysis of artifacts from a five-year excavation project. Contributors explore early farming villages, trade networks, and the transition from Chalcolithic to Iron Age, providing a broader understan...

Ban chiang, northeast thailand, volume 2

Explores the metallurgical evidence from Ban Chiang, Thailand, offering a comprehensive look at copper production, exchange, and metal consumption, mining and smelting practices, lead-isotope sourcing, and the social and economic context of metallurgy in the region. The findings challenge convent...

Talepakemalai

This book is a study of the Lapita Cultural Complex, a region spanning both Melanesia and Western Polynesia. The Lapita culture has been interpreted as the archaeological manifestation of a diaspora of Austronesian-speaking people (specifically of Proto-Oceanic language) who rapidly expanded from...

Ban chiang, a prehistoric village site i

Details human skeletal remains from Ban Chiang, covering 2100 B.C. to A.D. 200, the study sheds light on Homo sapiens' history in Asia, offering insights into settlement patterns, health, and subsistence strategies. The Ban Chiang people show continuity in their broad-based subsistence strategy, ...

Origins of agriculture in western central asia

Explores the advent of agriculture east of the Caspian Sea. Focused on Turkmenistan, the book synthesizes archaeological, genetic, and environmental data, shedding light on the Neolithic period, particularly at Jeitun. Reveals early agropastoralists cultivating crops, raising animals, interacting...

In the hills of tuscany

Explores two decades of excavation at the Etruscan site of Murlo. Authored by the excavator, the book looks into the site's functions, offering insights into the mysteries of the Etruscans. Annotated bibliography included. A valuable resource for scholars and enthusiasts.

Votive reliefs

This volume includes all of the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman votive reliefs found to date in the excavations of the Athenian Agora. In addition to providing a catalogue of the reliefs arranged according to their subjects, the author treats the history of their discovery, production, workmans...

The sanctuary of demeter and kore: the inscriptions

Excavations in the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth, 1961-1975, produced more than 170 inscribed objects of stone, bronze, bone, lead weights, pottery (graffiti and dipinti), clay pinakes, magical lead tablets, and in a mosaic. This new Corinth volume presents all of these inscriptions.

Triumph over time (north american edition)

A 1947 documentary commissioned by the ASCSA shows Greece rebounding from the horrors of World War II and the staff of the American School hard at work preparing archaeological sites for presentation to post-war tourists. An accompanying essay describes the making of the movie and its place in th...

Hephaistus on the athenian acropolis

This volume discusses the Acropolis bronzes. The introduction reflects on the history of the relevant scholarship vis-à-vis the life of the bronzes in various museums and collections in Greece and elsewhere. The six essays then provide overviews, reinterpretations, and critical discussions as wel...

The metal objects, 1952-1989

Objects made from bronze, iron, copper, gold, silver and lead, recovered from the sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia, are published in this volume. Many of the pieces were recovered from the debris of the Archaic Temple of Poseidon and belong to the formative phase of the sanctuary during the 7th a...

Pseira i

This is the first volume in a series of final publications on the joint American-Greek archaeological excavations at Pseira in northeast Crete. The site is a seaport dating from the end of the Final Neolithic until the Late Minoan period. This volume presents a series of houses whose main period ...

Debris from a public dining place in the athenian agora

In 1972 a large deposit of pottery and other finds from the mid-5th century B.C. were found in a pit just west of the Royal Stoa in the Athenian Agora. A complete catalogue arranges the finds by type and in chronological order.

The ancient greek world

Kavousi iv (2-volume set)

This two-volume set presents the results of the excavation of two cemeteries at the site of Vronda Kavousi in East Crete: the cemetery of tholos tombs belong to the Subminoan to Protogeometric periods and the cemetery of enclosure graves with cremation burials belonging to the Late Geometric to L...

The tiled-roof phenomenon in early helladic greece

This study presents the Early Helladic (EH) II ceramic roofing tile fragments from Zygouries, a site excavated by Carl Blegen more than a century ago. It is the first publication of an entire assemblage of EH roof tiles, an often neglected find on archaeological sites.

Sculpture: the reliefs from the theater

The remodelling of the theatre at ancient Corinth in the 2nd century A.D. included lavish decorations, the chief of which were three dramatic friezes. In publishing them this book presents the most ambitious sculptural program known among theatres on the Greek mainland.

Dogs in the athenian agora (greek language edition)

In this book, readers are shown how dogs fit into ancient Greek society with material from the last 90 years of excavations at the Athenian Agora. Anyone curious about dogs in antiquity and how they relate to dogs in the present day will be sure to find interesting material in this portable, affo...

Richard berry seager

Studies in archaic corinthian vase painting

Two important contributions to Greek pottery studies.

Inscriptions: horoi, poletai records and leases of public lands

The three types of inscription from the Athenian Agora presented in this volume are all concerned with important civic matters. The three main sections of the book are followed by combined concordances and indices, with photographs of all stones not previously published.

The cretan collection in the university museum, university of pennsylvania ii

The Minoan town at Gournia flourished from the Early Bronze Age until its destruction at the end of the Late Minoan IB period. It was later resettled before being abandoned again in LM IIIB. This book presents the pottery found during Gournia's excavation in 1901, 1903 and 1904.

Vrysaki (greek language edition)

Central Athens was transformed by the expropriation and demolition in the 1930s of the Vrysaki neighbourhood at the foot of the Acropolis, to facilitate the excavation of the ancient Agora. This book details the expropriations, as well as the history of the neighbourhood, providing a vivid recrea...

The cretan collection in the university museum, university of pennsylvania i

The historical greek village

This volume presents the Protogeometric through Hellenistic material (ca. 970-175 B.C.) from ASCSA excavations conducted in the 1950s at Lerna in the Argolid, one of the most important prehistoric sites in Greece.

Amphora stamps from thasos

This volume presents the Thasian amphora stamps of the Agora collection, contextualized in a broader discussion of their interpretation and chronology.

Pseira iii

This third volume in the series of publications on the Minoan site of Pseira focuses on the Plateia building discovered in 1986.

Pseira ii

Pseira, in northeast Crete, was a port dating from the end of the Neolithic until the Late Minoan. This, the second volume on the recent joint American-Greek archaeological excavations, reports on the new researches on building AC, the Late Minoan I shrine, first excavated in 1907.

Theoroi and initiates in samothrace

As one of the most famous religious centres in the Aegean, the island of Samothrace was visited by thousands of worshippers between the 7th century B.C. and the 4th century A.D. This book presents all known inscriptions listing or mentioning Samothracian initiates and theoroi (a total of 169 texts).

Agora excavations, 1931-2006

A pictorial history of the archaeological work in the Athenian Agora, the civic centre of classical Athens, illustrated with many archival photographs and primary documents. It focuses on some key moments in the Agora's history including the reconstruction of the Stoa of Attalos and the restorati...

Topography and architecture

This volume provides the fullest possible picture of the temenos of Poseidon in Greek and Roman times, including the closely related stadia and the sanctuary of Palaimon and several monuments excavated to the west of the sanctuary: the Sacred Glen, the West Foundation, and the Hippodrome.

The extramural sanctuary of demeter and persephone at cyrene, libya, final reports, volume i

Göltepe excavations

This volume presents over fifteen years (1981-1996) of archaeometallurgy surveys and specifically the excavations of an Early Bronze Age miners' village, Göltepe and its associated tin mine, Kestel, in the central Taurus Mountains in southern Turkey.

Petra's temple of the winged lions volume 1

Volume One of Petra's Temple of the Winged Lions brings to publication the results of long-term archaeological projects in the ancient Nabataean heartland. Petra's Temple of the Winged Lions, named for its distinctive column capitals, has been excavated and conserved for 40 years.

Humayma excavation project, 3 (two volumes)

Humayma, ancient Hawar or Hawara, began life as a small Nabataean settlement in the Hisma desert of Southern Jordan, 80 km south of Petra. This third publication of the Humayma Excavation Project provides the most thorough excavation report and analysis of a Roman frontier fort yet published. Pub...

Equipment for horses from the period ivb level (ca. 1000-800 bce) at tepe hasanlu, iran

This book presents for the first time the complete corpus of equipment for horses excavated by the Hasanlu Project in the Iron II level at Hasanlu Tepe, Iran. The equipment is varied, extensive and in a context sealed as buildings collapsed during the violent surprise attack and resulting fire ...

Where kingship descended from heaven

This volume presents a wide array of studies on the excavated material remains from Kish, located on the floodplain of the Euphrates River in modern Iraq approximately 80 kilometres south of Baghdad. It includes studies of cuneiform texts, animal figurines, human remains, lithics, figural stucco ...

Landscape archaeology in southern epirus, greece 1

The first in an anticipated two-volume set presents the results of the Nikopolis Project that was conducted between 1991 and 1996; the first large-scale, systematic survey in this region of Greece.

Amphoras and the ancient wine trade

Amphoras were used in the ancient world to transport various different types of products, including wine and oil. This booklet is based on broken pottery found during the excavation of the Agora in Athens, but the author ranges far beyond the confines of Athens in her discussion of the purpose an...

East of the theater

This volume presents the first attempt at Corinth to analyse the entire corpus of glass found in a single area, that located just east of the Theatre This ground-breaking study provides a tantalizing glimpse into the lives of everyday Corinthians, advancing glass studies both within Greece and th...

Inscriptions from the athenian agora

Many types of written records are found in the Agora, and this booklet presents a sample of the more than 10,000 inventoried inscriptions written on stone. The texts illustrated include diplomatic agreements, commemorative plaques for athletic victories, records of court judgement and boundary st...

On the edge of a roman port (2-volume set)

This volume presents the final results of an investigation of an array of Early Roman buildings and burials at Kenchreai, the eastern port of ancient Corinth. It paints a picture of a Corinthian community, small but prosperous, actively participating in an urban elite culture expressed through de...

Aegyptiaca

This volume publishes a selection of the papers presented at a symposium entitled "Religion, Politics, and Culture in the Mediterranean from the 8th to the 6th Centuries BC" held in December of 2016 at the University of the Aegean's Department of Mediterranean Studies.

The archaeology of political organization

The Archaeology of Political Organization is an examination of settlement in the rich coastal plain of lowland Mesoamerica, a region which was wealthy by Mesoamerican values, with fertile soil and tropical commodities such as jaguars, cacao, avian species with bright plumage, and cotton.

Textiles from beneath the temple of pachacamac, peru

A careful examination of the collection of textiles from this famous Peruvian site. The author examines categories of textiles by their possible use and technique of manufacture, as well as reexamines the field notes of Uhle's expedition. Extensive attention to weaving and sewing techniques.

Paso de la amada

This monograph reports on large-scale excavations at Paso de la Amada, an archaeological site in the Soconusco region of the Pacific coast of Mexico, which was among the earliest sedentary, ceramic-using villages of Mesoamerica.

Iraq's marsh arabs in the garden of eden

Edward Ochsenschlager’s book looks at the material culture of peoples living near the excavations at al-Hiba, in what is now southern Iraq, from 1968 to 1990. It focuses on the ethnoarchaeological question of what can the present tell us about the past.

The archaeology of midas and the phrygians

Research at Gordion, the ancient Phrygian capital, provides insights into its landscape evolution, settlement patterns and environmental constraints. With a century of excavation history, the site offers solutions in conservation methodology. The artifacts illuminate political and economic relati...

Excavations at the palatial complex

This volume documents the results of the excavations of the Palatial Complex at the city on the Kerkenes Dağ in the high plateau of central Turkey. It was a new Iron Age capital, very probably Pteria, founded in the later seventh century BC, put to the torch in the mid-sixth century and then aban...

Gordion excavations, 1950

This study focuses on the ceramic evidence from the Early Phrygian period at Gordion, presenting a comprehensive catalog and discussion of shapes, wares, and decorative motifs. It places the pottery in its broader cultural context, with extensive illustrations including profile and roll-out drawi...

Ancient corinth (text in modern greek)

This is the first official guidebook to the site of ancient Corinth published by the ASCSA in over 50 years, and it comes fully updated with the most current information, colour photos, maps, and plans. It is an indispensable resource for the casual tourist or professional archaeologist new to th...

Guide to the etruscan and roman worlds at the university of pennsylvania museum of archaeology and anthropology

Between philology and archaeology

This volume celebrates the scientific and academic career of Massimiliano Marazzi, professor of Aegean and Anatolian History and Philology at the University of Naples. The essays, contributed by colleagues and friends, honour his scholarly contributions in the do­­main of Anatolian and ancient Ne...

Untersuchungen zur g÷tterwelt des altsumerischen stadtstaates von lagas

Peoples and crafts in period ivb at hasanlu, iran

This volume explores Iron Age technology, emphasizing color and texture variations in ancient products. Topics include wooden furniture fragments, charred textiles, glassmaking, archaeometallurgy of Hasanlu IVB bronzes, bladed weapons, and skeletal injuries, with additional insights from DNA anal...

A new boundary stone of nebuchadrezzr i

Catalogue of ivories from hasanlu, i

Hasanlu in northern Iran is a crucial site on the Iranian plateau. Excavations from 1956 to 1977, focused on the Iron Age settlement, revealed a fortified town attacked around 800 B.C. The aftermath preserved a wealth of objects and materials in their original contexts, offering unique insights i...

Gordion excavations, 1950-1973 (set of 2 books in slipcase)

G. Kenneth Sams' study on Early Phrygian pottery at Gordion offers a detailed catalog and discussion of shapes, wares, and motifs. This richly illustrated volume provides insights into Anatolian archaeology and pottery development.

Tepe gawra

Gordion special studies, volume i

These nonverbal marks do not form identifiable words but provide clues to the literacy and daily life at Gordion from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic Period. The corpus is presented by type with description, interpretation, and functions of the various categories.

Subsistence and settlement in a marginal

Four seasons of excavation at an Early Bronze Age urban center in Syria, integrating various methods, the findings illuminate the site's strategic location, emphasizing its significance in exploiting upland pastures. Includes archaeobotany, zooarchaeology, geomagnetic mapping, pottery analysis, r...

Mount machaerus

The Citadel of Mukawer, or Machaerus to the ancient world, is a site redolent with the narrative of history and faith, occupying a strategic point overlooking the Dead Sea in modern Jordan. This volume makes the history of Machaerus, today an abandoned hilltop with its faded, once-magnificent for...

The extramural sanctuary of demeter and persephone at cyrene, libya, final reports iv

This volume in the Cyrene series contains sections on the assorted small finds (bronzes, iron, etc.), the glass, and the faunal remains. All add interesting information into the uses and ritual practices at the Sanctuary.

Excavations at tepe hissar, damghan

Mathematical, metrological, and chronological tablets from the temple library of nippur

Incised drawings from early phrygian gordion

This volume of Gordion Special Studies focuses on stone blocks with incised drawings from early Phrygian structures at Gordion, particularly from the likely temple, Megaron 2. It covers excavation details, analyzes the drawings, discusses potential sources, and proposes hypotheses on their origin...

Nippur at the centennial

Letters to cassite kings from the temple archives of nippur

Guide to the etruscan and roman worlds at the university of pennsylvania museum of archaeology and anthropology

Archaeology from every angle

Archaeology from Every Angle brings together a wide range of scholars whose work has been influenced by Richard Zettler's career in Near Eastern archaeology. The volume includes work from various archaeological specialties including ceramics, small finds, seal impressions, mortuary practice, soci...

The 'ur-nammu' stela

Bone and ivory objects from gordion

This publication unveils diverse bone and ivory artifacts from Gordion, providing insights into crafts, manufacturing, and unique Phrygian cultural developments. From utilitarian to intricately decorated pieces, the collection spans the Bronze Age to the Medieval period, offering a glimpse into d...

The extramural sanctuary of demeter and persephone at cyrene, libya, final reports, volume iii

This volume includes descriptive catalogues for several classes of small finds from the site including many photographs and drawings. A useful section of the conservation of the material is useful for field conservationists and excavators. The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cy...

Tell abada

This volume documents excavations in the Hamrin Basin area in the east-central part of Iraq. The two sites covered in these excavations are Tell Abada and Tell Rashid, dating back to the Ubaid period in the fifth millennium BC.

Marlik

Tablettes du princeton theological seminary

The temple of ayia irini

This volume presents the remarkable terracotta statues excavated at the site of Ayia Irini in the 1960s. The author describes the discovery and construction of the statues and then presents a catalogue of the fragments in detail and fully illustrated.

Marcus aurelius

An important inscription, found in the Roman market place in Athens, is here published for the first time. Although fragmentary, it preserves the text of a formal letter from Marcus Aurelius directed to the Athenians in the year A.D. 174/5.

The paleolithic prehistory of the zagros-taurus

The excavations in assyria and babylonia

Hasanlu, volume i

The excavations at Hasanlu in northern Iran, conducted by the Museum from 1956 to 1977, yielded valuable insights into the Iron Age settlement. A catastrophic attack around 800 B.C. caused the rapid collapse of public buildings, preserving a rich array of objects and materials in their original c...

Pseira vi

Richard B. Seager excavated the Minoan cemetery at Pseira in 1907, but the work was never published. Pseira VI publishes the methodology that was employed for the investigation, the topography of the cemetery area, the ceramic petrography for the cemetery pottery, and the results of the intensive...

Pseira vii

The results of the cemetery excavations on the small island off the northeast coast of Crete are published in two volumes: Pseira VII presents the results from the excavation and cleaning of the 19 tombs that still exist at the Pseira cemetery.

Reports on the vrokastro area, eastern crete, volume 3

Power and place in the prehistoric aegean and beyond

The title and thematic orientation of this book demonstrate an attention to power inequalities in the past, particularly as manifested through social access to architectural spaces and landscapes.

Bramiana

The Minoan site at Bramiana in southeastern Crete provides evidence for a Bronze Age economy based on trade, agriculture and craftwork. This publication uses a new system of organizing the pottery by petrography-sorting it by materials and workshop practices, revealing a trade network of cooking ...