{"title":"Fiona Candlin, Toby Butler, and Jake Watts. Stories from Small Museums (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022, 205 pp., pbk, ISBN 978-1-5261-6688-3).","authors":"Oliver Betts","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2024.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2024.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141054222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EAA volume 27 issue 2 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2024.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2024.21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141042527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sanne Hoffmann. Between Deity and Dedicator: The Life and Agency of Greek Votive Terracotta Figurines (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2023, 347pp, 85 illustr., hbk, ISBN 978-3-11-076887-9)","authors":"Tulsi Parikh","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2024.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2024.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141025231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EAA volume 27 issue 2 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2024.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2024.22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141047047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paul Everill and Karen Burnell, eds. Archaeology, Heritage and Wellbeing: Authentic, Powerful and Therapeutic Engagement with the Past. (London and New York: Routledge, 2022, xvii and 283 pp., 31 b/w figs, 11 tables, hbk, ISBN: 978-1-032-01265-2).","authors":"Claire Nolan","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2024.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2024.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141029215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ben Pears, Andreas Lang, Dan Fallu, Mark Roberts, David Jacques, Lisa Snape, Chiara Bahl, Kristof Van Oost, Pengzhi Zhao, Paolo Tarolli, Sara Cucchiaro, Kevin Walsh, Antony Brown
{"title":"Lynchet-Type Terraces, Loess, and Agricultural Resilience on Chalk Landscapes in the UK and Belgium","authors":"Ben Pears, Andreas Lang, Dan Fallu, Mark Roberts, David Jacques, Lisa Snape, Chiara Bahl, Kristof Van Oost, Pengzhi Zhao, Paolo Tarolli, Sara Cucchiaro, Kevin Walsh, Antony Brown","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2024.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2024.6","url":null,"abstract":"Lynchets, often the defining component of historic agricultural landscapes in northern Europe, are generally associated with soft-limestone geologies and are particularly well developed on loess-mantled landscapes. To understand their formation and chronology, the authors present their geoarchaeological analyses of lynchet soils and loess deposits at Blick Mead and Charlton Forest in southern England, and Sint Martens-Voeren in Belgium. The lynchets date from the late prehistoric to the medieval periods and were constructed by plough action at the English sites, and by both cut-and-fill and ploughing in Belgium. This has resulted in the preservation of highly fertile loessic soils across chalk slopes, lost elsewhere. Although each example is associated with local/regional agricultural histories, the lynchets’ effective soil-retention capacities allowed them to survive as important heritage features with environmental benefits over millennia.","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140634454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Racial Discourses in Aegean Prehistory c. 1900: The Case of the Cupbearer Fresco at Knossos","authors":"Anne Duray","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2024.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2024.3","url":null,"abstract":"This article traces characterizations of the Cupbearer fresco, named after the large vessel the figure holds and uncovered at the site of Knossos in 1900, in light of the research agendas about the ‘races’ of the prehistoric Aegean and traditions of racial science current in late Victorian Britain. The head of the Cupbearer was compared to Classical Greek art, modern Cretan populations, and cranial remains from prehistoric contexts. Drawing from academic publications, articles in the press, and reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the author situates the discourse surrounding the Cupbearer in the context of scholars seeking the origins of ‘European’ civilization in prehistory, and the creation of racial typologies, especially using cranial measurements and photography. The Cupbearer gained a dual status as a racial portrait comparable to past and present human populations, but also as a work of art that prefigured the later achievements of Classical Greece.","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140301198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linda Chapon, Juan Jesús Padilla-Fernández, Alberto Dorado-Alejos, Antonio Blanco-González
{"title":"Iron Age Connectivity Revealed by an Assemblage of Egyptian Faience in Central Iberia","authors":"Linda Chapon, Juan Jesús Padilla-Fernández, Alberto Dorado-Alejos, Antonio Blanco-González","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2024.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2024.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research concerning transactions in the early first millennium <span>bc</span> in the westernmost Mediterranean has tended to focus on colonial coastlands occupied by scattered Levantine outposts, whereas cross-cultural interactions in hinterland regions have remained ill-defined. This article presents an assemblage of Egyptian vitreous artefacts, namely beads, a Hathor amulet, and further items from the seventh-century <span>bc</span> rural village of Cerro de San Vicente (Salamanca) in the interior of Spain. Macroscopic and chemical analyses demonstrate their likely manufacture in Egypt during the Middle and New Kingdom (second millennium <span>bc</span>), attesting to a far-reaching Phoenician maritime network that connected both ends of the Mediterranean. The authors interpret the items as liturgical objects, rather than mere high-status trinkets, that formed part of a widely shared Mediterranean world view and associated ritual mores. They consider the impact of cultural syncretism, which reached even remote and allegedly isolated peripheral settings in Iberia.</p>","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140171170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chalcolithic Tattooing: Historical and Experimental Evaluation of the Tyrolean Iceman's Body Markings","authors":"Aaron Deter-Wolf, Benoît Robitaille, Danny Riday, Aurélien Burlot, Maya Sialuk Jacobsen","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2024.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2024.5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Tyrolean ice mummy known as Ötzi presents some of the earliest direct evidence of tattooing in the human past. Despite decades of study, it remains unclear how the Iceman's tattoos were created and what tools and methods were used. Popular discussions of the Iceman describe his tattoos as having been made by incision, first cutting the skin and then rubbing in pigment from the surface. The authors review the scholarly literature on the Iceman's tattoos and summarize ethnographic, historic, and anthropological research on global patterns of tattooing to contextualize the Iceman's marks within pre-electric tattooing traditions. The results of recent experimental tattooing studies are then compared to the physical signature of the Iceman's marks to evaluate existing claims and provide informed hypotheses as to how those tattoos were created.</p>","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140115182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tools of Different Trades? Merging Skill Sets in Metalworking at Viking Age Kaupang","authors":"Jessica Leigh McGraw, Axel Mjærum","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2023.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2023.42","url":null,"abstract":"In Old Norse poetic literature, the <jats:italic>smiðr</jats:italic> was a master of the arts, able to control and shape multiple materials into various kinds of objects. While the mythological <jats:italic>smiðr</jats:italic> has been regarded as separate from the real-world blacksmiths and metalworkers of gold, silver, and copper alloys, the archaeological evidence recovered in towns and workshops of the Viking Age, as well as medieval written sources, provide a different perspective. In 2015, a hitherto unknown, well-preserved workshop was excavated in the Viking town of Kaupang in Norway, containing evidence of complex metalworking requiring the skills of blacksmiths and workers of soft metals. In this article, the authors venture beyond the Old Norse myths, into the world of the proficient smiths as multi-crafters and their tools of the trade.","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139765096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}