Archaeology

By Michael Crawford with a chapter on the architectural reconstruction by Philip Stinson and contributions by Julia Lenaghan, Mustafa D. Somersan, Serra Somersan and Yaşar Demiröz

Diocletian’s Edict of Maximum Prices at the Civil Basilica in Aphrodisias
23 x 31 cm, 260 p., 36 Tafeln, hardback
89.00 €
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Diocletian’s Edict of Maximum Prices was inscribed on the façade of the city’s Civil Basilica in AD 301. The volume presents the history and background of the Edict, the detailed archaeology of its context on the Basilica, a new consolidated …

Kulte - Orte - Körperteile

Eine Neubewertung der Weihung anatomischer Votive in Latiums Heiligtümer

21 x 29.7 cm, 354 p., 5 Tafeln, hardback
68.00 €
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The study focuses on the phenomenon of anatomical votives dedicated into the sanctuaries of ancient Latium (Italy) in the 4th to 1st cent. BC. These anatomical votives have previously been understood as indicators of healing cult sites. For the first …

Von Blüten und Krisen

Eine wirtschaftsarchäologische Studie zum kaiserzeitlichen Südetrurien

23.7 x 33.5 cm, 330 p., 28 Tafeln, hardback
112.00 €
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The book is focused, on the one hand, on a historiographical analysis of the theoretical and methodological modelling of the structure and performance of the Roman economy. On the other hand, a polythetic bundle of economical proxies was devised as …

Ceramic Technology, Production and Use in an Urban Settlement on the Middle Nile

The Pottery Assemblage from Late Meroitic Hamadab, Sudan (2nd to 4th century A.D.)

21 x 29.7 cm, 426 p., hardback
128.00 €
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The presentation of a large ceramic corpus from Hamadab, an ancient town on the Middle Nile, provides an important contribution to the research on Meroitic pottery. The systematic analysis of kiln wasters and domestic assemblages of the 2nd to 4th …

Morgantina Studies VII. The City Plan and Political Agora

Results of the excavations conducted by Princeton University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Virginia

24 x 31.5 cm, 444 p., 11 Beilagen, cloth
159.00 €
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The orthogonal city plan was adopted in the mid-fifth century BCE and implies a democratic constitution. Almost entirely excavated, Morgantina’s large agora offers a detailed picture of the civic architecture of an early Hellenistic western Greek city. Ten major civic …

Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft im archaischen Süditalien

Ein Modell zu Identität und Hexis, ausgehend von Ripacandida und weiteren binnenländischen Gemeinschaften

21 x 29.7 cm, 304 p., 41 Tafeln, inkl. DVD, hardback
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The necropolis of Ripacandida in southern Italy (Apulia/prov. Foggia) is situated on a hill mediating between the uplands of the southern Apennines to the west and the Adriatic shore to the east. The local Archaic-Classical community (6th/5th century BCE) witnessed …

Craft Production in the Mongol Empire

Karakorum and its Artisans

21 x 29.7 cm, 428 p., 26 Tabellen, 76 Tafeln, hardback
99.00 €
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The book offers for the first time an in-depth study of craft production in the capital of the Mongol Empire, Karakorum. Workshops, installations, remains from production processes, and tools are analyzed. The analysis of the organization of craft production reveals …

A Layered History of Karakorum

Stratigraphy and Periodization in the City Center

21 x 29.7 cm, 352 p., 2 Tabellen, 12 Beilagen, hardback
70.00 €
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The up to 5 m thick stratigraphy in the center of Karakorum, the most important city of the Mongol Empire north of the Gobi, is analyzed with a combination of established stratigraphical methods and a novel software with special software …