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Papers by Neil Faulkner

Revista Atlántica-Mediterránea de Prehistoria y Arqueología Social, 2021

International Workshop on the Pineal Gland and Cancer An International Workshop on the Pineal Gla... more International Workshop on the Pineal Gland and Cancer An International Workshop on the Pineal Gland and Cancer will be held on September 6-8, 1987 in Tübingen (FRG). The programme will include invited lectures and short communications (oral and poster) on the immunomodulatory role of the pineal gland and its relationship with cancer. For further information please contact:

Current Archaeology, 2014

Current archaeology, 2010

CARMELINDO MALISKA SINOPSE.-Foi determinada a massa eritrocitária circulante e. o volume sangüine... more CARMELINDO MALISKA SINOPSE.-Foi determinada a massa eritrocitária circulante e. o volume sangüineo em 16 cavalos puro sangue inglês, sendo li normais e 5 com anemia infecciosa eqüina, naturalmente adquirida, empregando-se eritrêcitos marcados com 51Cr. Os animais normais apresentaram massa eritrocitária de 40,64 ml e volume sangüíneo de 102,32 ml por kg de peso, e os portadores de anemia infecciosa eqüina, massa eritrocitária e volume sangüíneo de 21,13 e 107,71 mI/kg de peso. A diferença entre as médias das massas eritrocitárias dos dois grupos é estatisticamente significativa. A massa eritrocitária apresentou correlação significativa com o peso corpnral (r-0,89), nos animais sãos.

Current archaeology, 2009

Información del artículo The end of Roman Verulamium.

List of maps and plates Acknowledgements Introduction Note on ancient monetary values Maps Prolog... more List of maps and plates Acknowledgements Introduction Note on ancient monetary values Maps Prologue 1. The making of an imperial city-state, c 750-367 BC 2. The rise of a superpower, 343-146 BC 3. The Roman revolution, 133-30 BC 4. The Pax Romana, 30 BC-AD161 5. The decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire Timeline References Bibliographical notes Index and glossary

The great revolt by the Jews against the occupying Roman power in the first century AD ended in b... more The great revolt by the Jews against the occupying Roman power in the first century AD ended in bloody defeat. Neil Faulkner provides a blow-by-blow account of this long and bitter struggle, together with a shrewd analysis of the underlying issues. The author synthesises the evidence of written sources with that of archaeology to produce a narrative account of the revolt with full historical and cultural background. This event was a milestone in Jewish national consciousness. If you want a gripping, well-written, detailed story of insurrection against the might of Rome, supported by splendid illustrations, start here. Prof Peter Jones in The Sunday Telegraph.

Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History

This paper offers a critical reconsideration of the social, spatial and temporal dynamics of sixt... more This paper offers a critical reconsideration of the social, spatial and temporal dynamics of sixth- to eighth-century great hall complexes in England. The major interpretative issues and constraints imposed by the data are considered, and the sites are then subject to comparative analysis across long-term and short-term temporal scales. The former highlights persistence of antecedent activity and centrality, the latter the ways in which the built environment was perceived in the past, structured social action, and was a medium for the construction and consolidation of elite identity and authority. Within the broad similarity that defines the site-type there is evidence for considerable diversity and complexity of site history and afterlife.

Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 22, 2020

A Radical History of the World

Increasingly in our frenetic times history is seen as one damned thing after another. Neil Faulkn... more Increasingly in our frenetic times history is seen as one damned thing after another. Neil Faulkner's epic treatment, based on his Marxist understanding that mankind makes its own history but not under conditions of its own choosing, is both breath taking in its scope and, despite his modest claims, its exhaustive research. Most importantly it is highly readable. The interplay of natural, geographical, technological and sociological factors all provide circumstances in which and through which mankind can forge its destiny. These are however contested by the political systems under which men and women have laboured. The first great revolutionary breakthrough around 6000 BC came about when the shortage of hunted food forced people to turn to agriculture which itself became a surplus bearing economy when the iron age allowed the laborious hand held hoe to be replaced by the plough. Different economies and political systems arose in different parts of the world. Empires developed in...

Choice Reviews Online

What was it like to attend the Olympics in 388 B.C.? Would the experience resemble Olympic festiv... more What was it like to attend the Olympics in 388 B.C.? Would the experience resemble Olympic festivals as we celebrate them today? This remarkable book transports us back to the heyday of the city-state and classical Greek civilization. It invites us to enter this distant, alien, but still familiar culture and discover what the Greeks did and didn't do during five thrilling days in August 2,400 years ago. In the Olympic Stadium there were no stands, no shade-and no women allowed. Visitors sat on a grassy bank in the searing heat of midsummer to watch naked athletes compete in footraces, the pentathlon, horse and chariot races, and three combat sports-wrestling, boxing, and pankration, everyone's favorite competition, with virtually no rules and considerable blood and pain. This colorfully illustrated volume offers a complete tour of the Olympic site exactly as athletes and spectators found it. The book evokes the sights, sounds, and smells of the crowded encampment; introduces the various attendees (from champions and charlatans to aristocrats and prostitutes); and explains the numerous exotic religious rituals. Uniquely detailed and precise, this guide offers readers an unparalleled opportunity to travel in time, back to the excitement of ancient Olympia.

Preface vii Acknowledgements ix Dates, Names, Prices, and Wages xi Maps xii My understanding of t... more Preface vii Acknowledgements ix Dates, Names, Prices, and Wages xi Maps xii My understanding of the Russian Revolution has been shaped by countless lectures, meetings, and discussions involving hundreds of revolutionary activists. It is impossible to recall, let alone list, all those who, at different times and in different ways, have influenced my perspective. I should perhaps record that, from 1980 to 2010, I was an active member of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain. For much of that time, especially in the 1980s, I believe the SWP to have been a small but effective revolutionary organisation that punched above its weight. I also believe it to have been a powerhouse of Marxist theory. Its degeneration into a selfreferencing and self-perpetuating sect is, in my view, a tragic development in the history of the British Left. But it would be dishonest not to make it clear that most of what I know about revolution-both as historian and activist-I owe to the SWP of the 1980s. I therefore owe a deep debt of gratitude to all the SWP comrades alongside whom I fought the Nazis, supported the miners, refused to pay the poll tax, and, when we had time, debated the history of the international working-class movement. Since 2010, I have formed many new and rewarding political friendships, and these have contributed, I believe, to a richer, more nuanced understanding of the Russian Revolution. Not least, the degeneration of the British Left over the last two or three decades-which is a generic process, not something restricted to the SWP-has given me a clearer understanding that revolutionary parties are built by the masses themselves in x ◆ A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION struggle; that is, they do not arise from voluntarism, from acts of will by self-appointed revolutionary 'vanguards'; they do not arise from what has sometimes been called 'the primitive accumulation of cadre'. Revolutionaries should organise. But they should never proclaim themselves to be the party. Only the masses in struggle can create a party of revolution. I should give special thanks to two of those new friends, David Castle of Pluto Press and Nik Gorecki of Housmans Bookshop and the Left Book Club, for critical comments on the first draft of this book. The final version is, in consequence, much improved.

Current Archaeology, 2015

Faulkner N., Dennis M., Mckinnon K., Walker K., and Cross, P.J. (2014) “From Remote Prehistory to... more Faulkner N., Dennis M., Mckinnon K., Walker K., and Cross, P.J. (2014) “From Remote Prehistory to an Icenian Tribal Centre.” In Faulkner, N., Robinson, K. and Rossin, G. (eds.) Digging Sedgeford, A People’s Archaeology. Cromer: Poppyland Publishing. (ISBN: 978-1-909796-08-9). Contributions to Chapters 2 (noted above) and 5 (which discusses the woman-horse burial).