SOMA 2012 : identity and connectivity: proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Florence, Italy, 1 - 3 March 2012 (original) (raw)
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With the intention of integrating the archaeology of the Mediterranean's different regions, the annual SOMA conference was held in 2003 at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. These thirty-two papers, which form the proceedings, are multi-disciplinary and consider evidence and sites from the Pleistocene through to Late Antiquity. Subjects range from the dispersal of hominids around the Mediterranean and ancient Near Eastern skull cults to Libyan funerary architecture and monkeys in Egyptian and Minoan art and culture. Other subjects include: the antiquities market; the south Italic fighting technique; north Syria in the 6th century AD; Roman fulling; religion in the southern Levant Chalcolithic; Hellenistic numismatics; burial customs in Argos; the Mycenaean Argolid; gender identities in Egypt; Punic altars; Samnium and the Roman world; archaeological museum space; monument conservation; ethnic identity in archaic Pompeii. All of the papers are in English. 170p, b/w illus (Archaeopress BAR S1391, 2005) 32 papers from the Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology held at the Institute of Archaeology, London in 2003. Contents: North Syria in the sixth century AD: coast and hinterland (N. Beaudry); Intra-regional variation in long distance trading relationships on the northern Levantine coast – the key to site survival? (C. Bell); The south Italic fighting technique (M. Burns); The Necropolis of Capestrano: New Excavations and Finds (M. Capodicassa); Corn-mummies come to light (M. Centrone); The Tomb S1 of Cyrene: from the Hellenistic phase to Christian re-use (L. Cherstich); Lilith across the ages (V. Danrey); Cycles of island colonisation in the prehistoric Mediterranean (H. Dawson); Adventures in Fields of Flowers: Research on contemporary saffron cultivation and its application to the Bronze Age Aegean (J. Day); Votive niches in funerary architecture in Cyrenaica (Lybia)(E. Di Valerio et al.); Ars Fullonia. Interpreting and contextualising Roman fulling (M. Flohr); GIS Study of the Rural Sanctuaries in Abruzzo: Preliminary Report (D. Fossataro et al.); How monkeys evolved in Egyptian and Minoan art and culture (C. Greenlaw); The central place of religion in Chalcolithic society of the southern Levant (E. Kaptijn); Archaeology's well kept secret: The managed antiquities market (M. Kersel); New images of the Erechtheion by European travellers (A. Lesk); Mani: A unique historic landscape in the periphery of Europe (K. Liwieratos); Numismatics, Hellenism, and the Enemies of Alexander Jannaeus (K. McAleese); The Hominid Dispersal into Mediterranean Europe during the Early to Middle Pleistocene: the Sabre-toothed cat connection (L. Marlow); Gendering figurines, engendering people in early Aegean prehistory (M. Mina); Naue II swords and the collapse of the Aegean Bronze Age (B. Malloy); Urban development and local identities: The case of Gerasa from the late Republican period to the mid-3rd century AD (R. Raja); Burial customs and social change in Argos from the Protogeometric to the Late Roman Period (1100 BC - 500 AD)(F. Ramondetti); Open endings at Osteria dell’Osa (Lazio). Exploring domestic aspects of funerary contexts in the Early Iron Age of Central Italy (E. van Rossenberg; A scale of identity in the Mycenaean Argolid (D. Sahlén); Expressions of ethnic and gender identities in Egypt during the Early 1st Millennium B.C.E. (H. Saleh); Altars and cult installations of Punic tradition in Western Sicily (F. Spagnoli); Sacred landscape and the construction of identity: Samnium and the Roman world (T. Stek); Investigating colonialism and post-colonialism in the archaeological museum space: The case of the Lebanon and France (L. Tahan); Ethnic identity in archaic Pompeii (E. Thiermann); Monument conservation in the Mediterranean: Issues and aspects of anastylosis (K. Vacharopoulou); The skull cult of the Ancient Near East. Problems and new approaches (A. Wossink).
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