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This dissertation focuses on the use and significance of gemstones in Greece during the Mycenaean period, drawing largely on material from sites in the Argolid, Messenia and Attica.

This report on investigations carried out at the site of Mas Guso in Gerona, not far from the north-east coast of Spain, reveals a complex site with a series of occupation phases spanning thousands of years.

Merryn Dineley's thesis is based on the premise that the biochemical laws that govern the processes of malting, mashing and fermentation remain unchanged throughout the millennia'. She therefore uses the results of scientific experimentation to search for evidence of ale and brewing amongst Neolithic residues.

This detailed examination of the remains of 218 individuals from two late Roman cemeteries in use between the 4th and 6th century AD at Mazarron in Murcia provides important insights into a period that has not been well studied in Spain.

Richard Tabor's updated thesis analyses the relationship between regional survey sampling and the narratives, or archaeological story-telling', drawn from them. In essence he seeks to test how remote some interpretations are from the raw data through case studies based on surveys in Europe, Africa and North and South America.

This volume presents and compares palynological evidence from two Italian sites in order to reconstruct environmental and climatic conditions in the Lower Palaeolithic period.

This volume presents Mark Hinman's report on the 1999 excavation of a small farmstead accompanied by specialist finds reports. The excavations revealed that the original farmstead was first established c.AD 20 and had been used for some degree of pottery production.

Based on the author's doctoral thesis, this is a study of the transition from hunter-gathering to pastoralism-farming in the southern Iberian peninsular. Caceres' work involves detailed study of the fauna available in this region from the Pleistocene to the Holocene, especially in relation to human occupation and settlements.

This bibliography on the procurement and exploitation of chert resouces during prehistory does not aim to be exhaustive, although it is certainly extensive, but it intends to offer a broad range of publications for specialists from a variety of fields.

Drawing on archaeological and skeletal evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, Western Asia, Europe, Australasia and East Asia in turn, this revised thesis compares anatomical evidence across continents to determine the location of modern man's origins and so contribute to the great `Replacement vs. Multiregional' origins debate.

The influence of academic schools and concepts from Europe, notably from France, Germany and Britain, was profounf within Spanish archaeology of the 19th and early 20th century.

In addressing the question of whether economically specialised sites had specialised lithic technologies, Elefanti draws on evidence from three broadly contemporary sites in north-west and southern Greece.

This short study discusses the major problems in the conservation of mobile exhibits from archaeological excavations, for example issues of temperature, humidity, absence of light and oxygen.

The theme of this 15th seminar of research by the Unité Mixte de Recherches 154 du CNRS de Lattes, held in Lattes-Montpellier in 2000, is the archaeology of animals. The thirteen French and two English papers represent the work of groups of specialist individuals and projects working in the field of archaeozoology during the Holocene.

A detailed study of lithic assemblages from eleven sites in south-west Morocco noted for their rich surface deposits.

Lithic assemblages of the Mousterian in France have a number of local and regional characteristics, as well as shared affinities between different industries.

Gothic architecture was first introduced into Ireland by the 12th-century church reform movement and during the Anglo-Norman conquest in the 13th century. Little evidence survives to identify the imported workforce except for their individual signature marks which are not found before the conquest.

Un estudio de Arqueología Espacial en la Mesa de Ocaña, Toledo, España

A study of local ceramic production in north-east Catalonia, from the age of Augustus to the end of the 3rd century. Joaquim Tremoleda examines evidence for the location, organisation and operation of the workshops and their products.

The burial practices of Late Iron Age Finland, ninth to twelfth century AD, are complex and varied, with both cremations and inhumations, mound and flat cemeteries present. Deborah Shepherd explores the archaeological evidence for different funerary types, and provides interpretation of the ritual, symbolism and religious beliefs incorporated.

A study which examines the use of space and changing settlement patterns in the area of Luca in Northern Tuscany in the early Middle Ages.

An analytical study of the knapped obsidian and flint objects from the Catalhöyuek, the largest known Neolithic site in Turkey. James Conolly incorporates an analytical study with a wider social framework exploring technology and typological spatial and contextual patterning over time.

The approach of these papers is to evaluate the rapid environmental changes across the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary through its impact on human subsistence patterns.

Contextos cerámicos de la Antigüedad Tardía y Alta Edad Media (siglos IV- VIII d. C.) en los asentamientos rurales de la Lusitania Septentrional (Provincia de Salamanca, España)This work looks at ceramic contexts from Late Antiquity to Early Middle Ages (350-700), in rural settlements of Salamanca (Spain). It explores a whole series of ceramic contexts from six sites excavated in recent years, in the territory of Northern Lusitania (nowadays the province of Salamanca, Spain), covering the period between the end of the 4th century and the beginning of the 8th. The chronological frame of reference for the stratigraphy has been established by information provided by coinsand radiocarbon dates. The pottery of this period in the central Iberian Peninsula has remained little known, and this present study relating to its classification and chronology represents a significant development, providing initially a common terminology to designate the diverse pottery productions, usually considered as local ware.

This monograph presents a theoretical and methodological approach to the investigation of deflated surface stone artefact scatters beyond those that emphasise synchronic behavioural interpretations. The study is undertaken on Pine Point and Langwell Stations, two adjoining pastoral leases south of Broken Hill in arid western New South Wales, Australia. The main objective of the study is to investigate long-term accumulated patterns in stone artifact assemblage composition within archaeological deposits with known occupational chronologies. These are derived from the dating of charcoal from heat retainer hearths. It is argued that the Pine Point-Langwell assemblages represent multiple episodes of accumulation over the last 2,000 years. Therefore, the formation of the Pine Point-Langwell assemblages means they are ideal for the investigation of long-term accumulated patterns.

Proceedings of the first Oxford-Athens graduate student workshop organized by the Greek Society and the University of Oxford Taylor Institution, April 2005. Contents: 1) Framing the Aegean (Georgios Deligiannakis); 2) What's in a Word? The Manifold Character of the Term Koiné and its Uses in Aegean Prehistory (Yannis Galanakis); 3) An aspect of the 'Mycenaean koiné'? The Uniformity of the Peloponnesian Late Helladic III Palatial Megara in its Heterogeneous Context (Vassilis Petrakis); 4) The Dissemination of Attic Pottery During the Protogeometric and Geometric Periods (Fani K. Seroglou); 5) Domestic space in the Geometric and post-Geometric Aegean: An Attempt to Reconstruct Morphology and Function in 8th and 7th c. BC Houses in the Cyclades and the Eastern Aegean (Anastasia Christophilopoulou); 6) The Contexts of Archaic Cretan Terracotta Relief Plaques with a Note on the Oxford Plaques from Papoura (Oliver Pilz); 7) Extra-Urban Sanctuaries in Classical and Hellenistic Crete (Angelos Chaniotis); 8) Vogue and Utility: Terracotta Products with Ionian Kymation in Relief from the Aegean Shores of Thrace (Petya Ilieva); 9) Preliminary Report of the 'Halasarna Project': An Intensive Archaeological Survey of the Ancient Demos Halasarna on Kos (Konstantinos Kopanias); 10) The Coan Banquet Reliefs: Parallels in the Aegean Region (Chrysanthe Tsouli) 11) Stone Agricultural Implements from the Island of Kos. The Evidence from Kardamaina, the Ancient Demos of Halasarna (Eirene Poupaki); 12) Searching for Byzantine Model-Books based on Artists' Inscriptions from the Middle Byzantine Period (Lambros Travlos); 13) Coexistence in the Aegean under the Ottomans (Elizabeth A. Zachariadou); 14) The Dark Side of the Sun: Aegean Islands as Places of Exile, Desolation and Death in post-World War II Greek Poetry (Eirini Kotsovili); 15) The Concept of Authenticity in Managing Cultural Heritage Resources. The Aegean Paradigm (Stelios Lekakis).