Recently added articles from Antiquity:
Editorial.(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2009; Carver, Martin ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * The archaeology profession, not yet half a century old, has had plenty of ups and downs. Is it now facing an abyss? Maybe it is time to reconsider how we ply our trade--whether what we do should be a function of the ...
The Lower Pleistocene lithic assemblage from Dursunlu (Konya), central Anatolia, Turkey.(Research)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; Gulec, Erksin ... Introduction Some of the most enduring questions in palaeoanthropology concern evidence for the repeated expansions of genes, populations and/or cultural practices from sub-Saharan Africa into Eurasia. The initial dispersals of Pliocene hominins and the dispersal of anatomically ...
Who was buried at Stonehenge?(Research)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; Pearson, Mike Parker ... The human remains at Stonehenge Stonehenge is Britain's largest cemetery of the third millennium cal BC and yet we know very little about who was buried there and when. Excavations across almost half of its area have yielded 52 cremation burials, many cremated fragments and over ...
The date of the Greater Stonehenge Cursus.(Research)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; Thomas, Julian ... Introduction The Greater Stonehenge Cursus was first identified in 1723 by William Stukeley, who famously supposed it to have been a Roman chariot-racing track (Stukeley 1740: 41). As well as the first cursus monument to have been recognised, it is also one of the largest. At ...
Exploiting a damaged and diminishing resource: survey, sampling and society at a Bronze Age cemetery complex in Cyprus.(Research)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; Webb, Jennifer M., ... Introduction Readers of Antiquity will be aware of the increasing destruction of archaeological sites through development and illegal excavation. Nowhere is this of greater concern than on the small Mediterranean island of Cyprus. There is a consequent imperative to develop ...
Aerial archaeology in Jordan.(Research)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; Kennedy, David ... History The earliest air photographs of archaeological sites in Jordan were taken by German aviators in 1917-18 and then, shortly after, by British and Australian pilots (cf. Kennedy 2002a). Although such photographs can be invaluable, occasionally preserving details now lost ...
River valleys and foothills: changing archaeological perceptions of North China's earliest farms.(Research)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; Liu, Xinyi ... Introduction In recent decades discussions of the beginnings of agriculture have increasingly drawn attention to developments in China (MacNeish 1991; Smith 1998; Bellwood 2004; Barker 2007). Global synopses, as well as those concerned specifically with East Asia (Yan 1992; ...
Recent archaeometric research on 'the origins of Chinese civilisation'.(Research)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; Jing, Yuan ... Introduction The origin of Chinese civilisation is an old and fraught question both in China and the West. What, for instance, does 'Chinese' mean in the context of Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age China? Should we speak of Chinese civilisation or Chinese civilisations? Did ...
A new approach to the archaeology of livestock herding in the Kalahari, Southern Africa.(Research)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; Lindholm, Karl-Johan ... Introduction Archaeologists in southern Africa disagree on how to identify livestock herders in the archaeological record: some stress that pastoralists produce sites with distinctive archaeological signatures, others that the identification of a pastoral package should be based ...
A new chronological framework for prehistoric Southeast Asia, based on a Bayesian model from Ban Non Wat.(Research)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; Higham, Charles ... Introduction As Movius observed of the European Upper Palaeolithic, 'Without ... a [chronological] framework the over-all picture becomes confused and, in certain instances, almost meaningless. Time alone is the lens that can throw it into focus' (Movius 1960: 355). The passage ...
Eung Tae's tomb: a Joseon ancestor and the letters of those that loved him.(Research)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; Lee, Eun-Joo ... Introduction After Buddhism was introduced into Korea in the fourth century, it remained the state religion for around 1000 years, during which time Buddhist thought was deeply rooted in the lives of the Korean people. By the latter half of the fourteenth century, however, there ...
Postscript.(Poem)
Mar 01, 2009 ... <Pre> Tears falling in drops, A path you tread is all the way to the other world With rain of falling azaleas, wearing white clothes You are going to the other world, ...
Nineteenth-century Apache wickiups: historically documented models for archaeological signatures of the dwellings of mobile people.(Method)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; Seymour, Deni J. ... Introduction An important but challenging task of archaeology is the identification of ephemeral structures, especially those temporary shelters erected by highly mobile people. Since the first Late Palaeolithic structures were defined in the Chatelperronian Layers X-IX by ...
A re-assessment of the larger fetus found in Tutankhamen's tomb.(Method)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; Hellier, C.A. ... Introduction Within the inner treasury of the tomb of Tutankhamen were two small coffins in the style used for high personages (Carter 1933). One of these contained the small mummy of a neonate preserved in accordance with eighteenth-dynasty burial customs, the other contained a ...
The invention of 'Tarentine' red-figure.(Method)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; Thorn, Jed M. ... Introduction The production centre of Apulian red-figure pottery is a subject on which the archaeological record is largely mute. The first century of this pottery's production has left no trace in the dozens of kilns and kiln dumps that have been excavated in South Italy over ...
A year at Stonehenge.(Debate)
Mar 01, 2009; Pitts, Mike ... You didn't need to be an archaeologist in 2008 to know that things were happening at Stonehenge. For years controversial plans to improve the Stonehenge environs (costed at 600m [pounds sterling]) had dominated media and much academic debate, but in November 2007 the British government ...
Symmetry and humans: reply to Mithen's 'Sexy Handaxe Theory.'.(Debate)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; Hodgson, Derek ... In reply to Machin's criticism of Kohn and Mithen's (1999) 'Sexy Handaxe Theory' in a recent Antiquity debate (Machin 2008: 761-6), Mithen (2008: 766-9) states that sexual selection is still relevant to the symmetry of Acheulean handaxes because this provides the only theory that can ...
Is there a crisis facing British burial archaeology?(Debate)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; Sayer, Duncan ... Introduction 2007 was an eventful year for the ethics of burial in Britain: the Science Museum returned the remains of Tasmanian Aborigines to their cultural home (Henderson 2007), the legal system governing the excavation of human remains was reinterpreted (Small 2008), The ...
How to make sense of treasure.(Debate)(From the Land of the Golden Fleece: Tomb Treasures of Ancient Georgia)
Mar 01, 2009; James, N. ... Treasures in themselves are fetishes. Only the admirer can make 'treasure' of a find in isolation; but to wonder about it as treasure opens apt questions about why the thing was valued, by whom and under what conditions. It was worrying, then, when the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge ...
Humans: a not so modest affair.(Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; Brothwell, Don ... ROB DESALLE & IAN TATTERSALL. Human origins: what bones and genomes tell us about ourselves. 216 pages, 113 colour illustrations. 2008. College Station (TX): Texas A&M University Press; 978-1-58544-567-7 hardback 20.50 [pounds sterling]. PAUL MELLARS, KATIE BOYLE, OFER BAR-YOSEF ...
