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From Joseph to Joshua;: Biblical traditions in the light of archaeology (The Schweich lectures of the British Academy) by Harold Henry Rowley, 1952
Canhasan Sites I: Canhasan 1: Stratigraphy and Structures (British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monographs) (v. 1) by David French, 1998-12-01
Romano-British Mosaics (Shire Archaeology) by Peter Johnson, 2008-03-04
Maritime Archaeology and Social Relations: British Action in the Southern Hemisphere (The Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology) by Virginia Dellino-Musgrave, 2010-11-02
Upper Zohar, an Early Byzantine Fort in Palaestina Tertia (British Academy Monographs in Archaeology) by Richard P. Harper, 1996-12-26
Ultrecht-Britain and the Continent: Archaeology Art and Architecture (British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions) (BAA CONFERENCE TRANSACTIONS SERIES) by Elisabeth de BIEVRE, 1996-12-31
King's Lynn and the Fens: Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology (British Archaeological Association (BAA) Conference Transaction Series)
Industrial Archaeology of Galloway (Industrial Archaeology of British Isles) by Ian Donnachie, 1971-04-15
A Thesaurus of British Archaeology by Lesley Adkins, Roy A. Adkins, 1982-06
British archaeological thesaurus: For use with British archaeological abstracts and other publications with British archaeology (Practical handbooks in archaeology) by Cherry Lavell, 1989
Archaeology in British Towns: From the Emperor Claudius to the Black Death by Patrick Ottaway, 1996-06-25
The Industrial Archaeology of Dartmoor (Industrial Archaeology of the British Isles) by Helen Harris, 1987-09
Archaeology in Sussex to A.D. Fifteen Hundred (Research report / the Council for British Archaeology)
Medieval Towns: The Archaeology of British Towns in their European Setting (Studies in the Archaeology of Medieval Europe) by John Schofield, Alan G. Vince, 2005-12-31

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British Archaeology, No 19, November 1996: Features
Mark Roberts discusses why was Europe colonised by hominids half a million years ago. Published in the Journal of British Archaeology in 1996.
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba19/ba19feat.html#roberts

Extractions: The first farmers may have grown barley to brew ale. Merryn Dineley reports Our traditional view of the Neolithic is that it was the period in which people first learned to grow cereal crops, such as barley, in order to make bread and porridge. In a recent article in British Archaeology , however, the archaeological scientist Mike Richards wrote that, on the evidence of bone analysis, meat was more important than grain in the British Neolithic diet ( `First farmers with no taste for grain' , March). He postulated an animal-based Neolithic economy, but pointed nevertheless to the evidence for small-scale grain production. This grain, he suggested, was grown for ritual purposes - but he hazarded no guesses as to what these rituals actually involved. Might the grain have been grown, in fact, for brewing ? And might ale have been a significant part of these rituals? My research suggests that brewing could well have been an important part of British Neolithic domestic and ritual life. We know that the Sumerians were making ale in the 3rd millennium BC and that the Egyptians were fermenting date wine and ale at a similar time. The Sumerians had a goddess of brewing, Ninkasi, and a tablet inscribed with a verse singing her praises has been found at Nippur, dated to c 1800BC. It seems to describe Sumerian brewing methods; and this `recipe' was followed by Solomon Katz and Fritz Maytag of the Anchor Breweries of California in 1991, producing a drinkable and effective brew that was aptly called `Ninkasi'. More recently, Scottish and Newcastle Breweries, in association with researchers from Cambridge University, made Tutankhamun Ale, again a drinkable and sweet brew.
British Archaeology - Media UK
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British Archaeology, No 26, July 1997: Features
An article by Andrew Chamberlain from British Archaeology discussing Paleolithic mortuary practices in Great Britain.
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba26/ba26feat.html#cavern

Extractions: For most of prehistory, people buried their dead in caves. Andrew Chamberlain reports Natural caves - dark, damp, often inhospitable places - might not appeal today as sites for burying the dead. Yet for much of prehistory, caves, fissures and rock shelters seem to have been favoured burial places in Britain and elsewhere. Many of the earliest hominid remains in Britain have been found in caves - such as the Neanderthal bones from Pontnewydd in North Wales, dating from c 225,000BC - suggesting the practice of cave burial is as old as humankind. Since the last Ice Age ended about 10,000 years ago, people appear to have been continuously buried in caves right up to the Iron Age and Romano-British period, with a single apparent gap in the Late Mesolithic between c 5900-3900BC, when no cave burials have been found. A recent programme of radiocarbon dates on human bones from caves suggests the practice was most common in the Neolithic. After c 3900BC - the start of the Neolithic period - the numbers of people buried in caves increased dramatically, just at the time when people began also to be buried in monuments such as chambered tombs and long barrows. In all, at least 256 individual Neolithic burials have been found in 70 caves in Britain, dated either directly or by association with Neolithic artefacts.
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British Archaeology, No 12, March 1996: Features
Bone analysis suggests Neolithic people preferred meat to cereals, writes Mike Richards in British Archaeology.
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba12/ba12feat.html#richards

Extractions: Bone analysis suggests Neolithic people preferred meat, writes Mike Richards The Neolithic period is traditionally associated with the beginning of farming, yet in Britain - by contrast with much of the rest of Europe - the evidence has always been thin on the ground. Where are the first farmers' settlements? Where are the fields? The almost complete absence of this kind of evidence has led some archaeologists, over recent years, to question the view that people in Britain actually grew most of their food in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC. Now, a scientific study of Neolithic human bone seems to point in the same revisionist direction. The small-scale study - the first of its kind - of the bones of about 23 Neolithic people from ten sites in central and southern England, suggests that these `first farmers' relied heavily on animal meat for food, or on animal by-products such as milk and cheese, and that plant foods in fact formed little importance in their diet. The bones date from throughout the Neolithic, c c The study was based on the idea that our bodies are made up of organic and inorganic components derived from the foods we have eaten. There are a number of ways of tracing the original food source of some of our tissues, and one way is to look at the relative ratios of certain elements, known as `stable isotopes', in bone protein.
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British Archaeology Magazine, August 2001
Article by Tim Eaton in British Archaeology on the way in which abandoned Roman sites in Britain were plundered for stone by Anglo-Saxon church builders.
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Extractions: Howard Williams on 'forgetting' at Bronze Age funerals On sources of water at hillforts, and cannibalism For education read archaeology, writes George Lambrick Regular column Two on Hadrian's Wall reviewed by Paul Birdwell One on Neanderthals reviewed by Paul Pettitt Two on Gladiators reviewed by Rosalind Niblett And one on King Arthur's Round Table reviewed by Paul Stamper ... Bob Bewley's was a collared urn in a cremation pit. ISSN 1357-4442 Editor Simon Denison Abandoned Roman sites in Britain were plundered for stone by Anglo-Saxon church builders. Tim Eaton investigates When Roman troops were withdrawn from Britain at the beginning of the 5th century, in response to insecurity at the heart of the Empire, they left behind a landscape littered with abandoned settlements - small military outposts and large walled forts, humble farmsteads and sumptuous villas, unpretentious towns and monumental regional capitals.
British Archaeology | Heritage Key
Jon Cannon writes about old places in general and teaches medieval architectural history in particular. He teaches at the University of Bristol and frequently gives talks and
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Extractions: Search this site: FAQ SITE NEWS ABOUT CONTACT ... Find Us... Attribution: James O Davies Jon Cannon Expert and writer on British heritage British Archaeology magazine. He has worked in the heritage industry for nearly 15 years, including working for the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, and English Heritage. He went freelance in 2003. In 2001 he was shortlisted for the David Watt Memorial Prize. He also presented How to Build a Cathedral on BBC4 and is author of Cathedral: The Great English Cathedrals and the World That Made Them (Constable, 2007). He lives in Wiltshire with his wife, the author Liu Hong, and two children. Related content Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art Derry Brabbs Dr Paul G Bahn Images Put your Flickr photos of this object into the Heritage Key group , and tag them with heritageexpert-4850 , to see them here! Tags "We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did."
British Archaeology, No 35, June 1998: Regions
The Vikings transformed culture and society in 9th-11th century East Anglia, writes Andrew Rogerson in British Archaeology.
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba35/ba35regs.html

Extractions: ISSN 1357-4442 Editor: Simon Denison REGIONS The Vikings transformed culture and society in 9th-11th century East Anglia, writes Andrew Rogerson The Vikings arrived in force in East Anglia in 866, and in 870 they killed the East Anglian king, Edmund. However, it was not until after the Treaty of Wedmore in 878, agreed between Alfred the Great of Wessex and Guthrum of Denmark, that Viking settlement of East Anglia began in earnest. As the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle put it, Guthrum's Viking army proceeded to `share out' the land, which remained part of the Danelaw for the next 40 years. The great questions that have always been asked about this Viking settlement include how numerous the newcomers were, and how much of the land they `shared out'. Were new settlements established by wholesale migration of farmers, with indigenous agricultural communities displaced, or was an upper class of warriors and their families imposed on a densely populated land? The likelihood, in my view, is that the actual number of settlers was relatively small, even though their cultural influence in the region was large. Archaeological evidence from East Anglia over recent years shows that, whatever the number of immigrants, Scandinavian-influenced artefacts achieved very wide circulation in the 9th-11th centuries. More remarkably, evidence from towns in the region shows that the arrival of Vikings provided a kick start to English urbanisation after the long Anglo-Saxon lull, mirroring evidence from elsewhere in eastern England.
British Archaeology — Blogs, Pictures, And More On WordPress
Simon McBurney and the incomprehensibility of archaeology. The Guardian’s Review section yesterday featured an interview with Complicite director Simon McBurney, whose operatic
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Welcome To The Newport Ship
The Council for British Archaeology lends its weight to the local campaign to save a medieval ship discovered in Newport, South Wales. Details of how to support the cause through emails.
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/sosnewport/
Introducing The March/April 2008 Issue Of British Archaeology : The Megalithic P
The top destination for Megaliths and Prehistory worldwide. Introducing the March/April 2008 issue of British Archaeology Prehistoric grave of a Dutchman in Scotland?
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British Archaeology, No 40, December 1998: Comment
The new plans for Stonehenge deserve support, writes Francis Pryor in British Archaeology.
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba40/ba40comm.html

Extractions: ISSN 1357-4442 Editor: Simon Denison COMMENT The new plans for Stonehenge deserve support, writes Francis Pryor Sun temple, waymarker, computer, observatory, Tess's rendezvous, New Age icon, witness of 5,000 years, World Heritage Site, traffic jam - Stonehenge is a universe of identities. It is also, according to the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee, a national disgrace. One of the oldest, most mysterious buildings in the world is today bracketed by noisy roads, approached via a dismal concrete subway, and displayed like a beast in a third-rate zoo. When bemused visitors depart few realise that they have been standing in the midst of an astonishing ceremonial landscape. After years of dithering by successive Governments, Culture Secretary Chris Smith has unveiled proposals which aim to redeem the disgrace. The Stonehenge `Masterplan' provides for closure of the A344 alongside the stones, burial of the A303 in a tunnel, removal of the nearby carpark and visitor facilities, and the creation of a new visitor centre outside the World Heritage Site. Frequent shuttle buses would carry visitors free of charge along existing roads to a point about half a mile from the stones, whence all but the less able would walk. Anyone disinclined to use the visitor centre would be free to enter the landscape on foot. Since distance will be a deterrent to rapid visits, pressure on the stones will be relieved.
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Extractions: BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources Home Search Subject Menus Countries ... Z Titles Descriptions Archaeology Commissions Archaeology Data Service CBA Guide to UK Archaeology Online Directory of British Archaeology Comments: bubl@bubl.ac.uk Details of work, research and projects funded by English Heritage, including the work of the Maritime Archaeology Team and the Historic Environment Commission. Information is given on surveys, coastal audits, landscape assessments, excavation records, scientific technique, the promotion of characterisation, and grants, policy and guidance. Also has a set of external links.
British Archaeology Magazine, March 2003
An article from British Archaeology magazine arguing for an astronomical motive for the building of some cursus monuments in prehistoric Britain.
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba69/feat1.shtml

Extractions: Anna Ritchie recalls the great Viking excavation at Jarlshof Saxon zoos, copperas, and how long Britain stayed Roman George Lambrick on broader history education after age 14 Regular column Garrison Life at Vindolanda by Anthony Birley Grahame Clark by Brian Fagan The Archaeology of Mills and Milling by Martin Watts The Roman Shore Forts by Andrew Pearson ... David Longley on his first undisturbed archaeological site ISSN 1357-4442 Editor Simon Denison Antiquaries thought they were ancient race-tracks. Later they were seen as processional routes. But cursuses might have been both these things and a whole lot more, writes David McOmish Few monuments, from any period in history or prehistory, are as enigmatic as cursuses. These long - often ludicrously long - Neolithic enclosures have turned the concept of 'mystery' into an art form. Few have been properly excavated, and those that have, generally produced pitifully little by way of internal features, artefacts or dating evidence.
British Archaeology, No 45, June 1999: Features
In an article for British Archaeology magazine, space researcher Duncan Steel argues that Stonehenge was built to predict meteor showers.
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba45/ba45feat.html#steel

Extractions: ISSN 1357-4442 Editor: Simon Denison FEATURES A boy buried 24,000 years ago proves the two species did interbreed, writes Paul Pettitt The relationship between modern humans and Neanderthals has been the subject of vigorous debate for many years. Did the two species inter-breed? Did they come into contact at all, during the tens of thousands of years of their co-existence on Earth? (See BA March , and Letters , May.) In 1996, DNA from the original Neander valley Neanderthal remains was extracted and analysed. This work demonstrated that there were at least 500,000 years of evolutionary divergence between our own species and the c 40,000 year old Neanderthal in question, diminishing the likelihood that the two species intermixed. Now, however, direct evidence has come to light from Iberia, demonstrating unequivocally that contact took place and was probably quite extensive on the peninsula. The evidence was the discovery in November last year of an Early Upper Palaeolithic burial, over 24,000 years old, at the Abrigo do Lagar Velho in central western Portugal. The burial was of a young boy who was part Neanderthal, part modern human. His discovery has dramatically changed our perspective on Neanderthal extinction and the spread of our own species across Europe. The Ebro river, which runs NW-SE across the neck of the Iberian peninsula, has recently come to be seen by some researchers as a major environmental boundary in the Upper Pleistocene. The earliest anatomically modern human colonists - dating to
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British Archaeological Association - Art, Architecture And Archaeology: Roman To
For the study of archaeology, art and architecture. Annual conference at an important medieval center, collating recent research on the major building(s) thereof, published as BAA Conference Transactions (list of titles online). Lecture program, scholarships.
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Extractions: Art, Architecture and Archaeology: Roman to post-medieval Founded in 1843 All those interested in archeology, art and architectural history and related disciplines are welcome to join the Association. The range of activities and the benefits of membership are set out in this site. Last annual conference was in Newcastle , and our next annual conference is in Cracow Conference site Enquiries about archaeological excavations should be addressed to the Council for British Archaeology: 66 Bootham, York YO30 7BZ ( www.britarch.ac.uk The British Archaeological Association is grateful to the Council for British Archaeology for the opportunity to make this information available on the Internet. This page is updated by Karen Impey, e-mail

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