Caribbean Figure Pendants: Style and Subject Matter
Anthropomorphic figure pendants of the late Ceramic Age in the Greater Antilles
Vernon James Knight | 2020
This work synthesizes art-historical and anthropological methods in the analysis of a large corpus of indigenous figure pendants, commonly called “amulets,” from the Greater Antilles and Bahamas. Figure pendants, ubiquitous in Caribbean collections, are small…
Past Societies
Human Development in Landscapes
Edited by Johannes Müller and Andrea Ricci | 2020
The Kiel Graduate School ‘Human Development in Landscapes’ has conducted research on socio-environmental issues of past societies during the last years. From the North Atlantic to the Persian Gulf and from Peru to the Near…
Maidanets'ke
Development and decline of a Trypillia mega-site in Central Ukraine
René Ohlrau | 2020
At the end of the 5th millennium BCE, some of the vastest settlements of the time emerged on the forest steppe north of the Black Sea. The largest of these sites were found between the…
A Human Environment
Studies in honour of 20 years Analecta editorship by prof. dr. Corrie Bakels
Edited by Victor Klinkenberg, Roos van Oosten & Carol van Driel-Murray | 2020
This volume is themed around the interdependent relationship between humans and the environment, an important topic in the work of Corrie Bakels. How do environmental constraints and opportunities influence human behaviour and what is the…
Magical, mundane or marginal?
Deposition practices in the Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik culture
Edited by Daniela Hofmann | 2020
This volume takes its starting point from the increasingly frequent discovery of deliberately placed deposits on Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik sites. This includes the placement of complete and still usable tools in the ground, as well…
Textiel uit Egypte
Geralda Jurriaans-Helle, Veerle van Kersen, Tineke Rooijakkers and Daniel Soliman | 2020
De Egyptische weeftraditie is eeuwenoud. Het goed bewaarde textiel uit het eerste millennium na Christus vormt hierin een bijzondere groep. Deze weefsels zijn hoofdzakelijk in graven teruggevonden. Aan de overledenen werden kledingstukken en ander textiel…
The Architecture of Mastaba Tombs in the Unas Cemetery
Ashley Cooke | 2020
Until comparatively recently, there has been little attempt to produce a detailed study of the architectural make-up of multi-roomed mastaba tombs and the implications of these observations for understanding the ways in which this type…
Caribbean Figure Pendants: Style and Subject Matter
Anthropomorphic figure pendants of the late Ceramic Age in the Greater Antilles
Vernon James Knight | 2020
This work synthesizes art-historical and anthropological methods in the analysis of a large corpus of indigenous figure pendants, commonly called “amulets,” from the Greater Antilles and Bahamas. Figure pendants, ubiquitous in Caribbean collections, are small…
Past Societies
Human Development in Landscapes
Edited by Johannes Müller and Andrea Ricci | 2020
The Kiel Graduate School ‘Human Development in Landscapes’ has conducted research on socio-environmental issues of past societies during the last years. From the North Atlantic to the Persian Gulf and from Peru to the Near…
Maidanets'ke
Development and decline of a Trypillia mega-site in Central Ukraine
René Ohlrau | 2020
At the end of the 5th millennium BCE, some of the vastest settlements of the time emerged on the forest steppe north of the Black Sea. The largest of these sites were found between the…
A Human Environment
Studies in honour of 20 years Analecta editorship by prof. dr. Corrie Bakels
Edited by Victor Klinkenberg, Roos van Oosten & Carol van Driel-Murray | 2020
This volume is themed around the interdependent relationship between humans and the environment, an important topic in the work of Corrie Bakels. How do environmental constraints and opportunities influence human behaviour and what is the…
Magical, mundane or marginal?
Deposition practices in the Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik culture
Edited by Daniela Hofmann | 2020
This volume takes its starting point from the increasingly frequent discovery of deliberately placed deposits on Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik sites. This includes the placement of complete and still usable tools in the ground, as well…
Textiel uit Egypte
Geralda Jurriaans-Helle, Veerle van Kersen, Tineke Rooijakkers and Daniel Soliman | 2020
De Egyptische weeftraditie is eeuwenoud. Het goed bewaarde textiel uit het eerste millennium na Christus vormt hierin een bijzondere groep. Deze weefsels zijn hoofdzakelijk in graven teruggevonden. Aan de overledenen werden kledingstukken en ander textiel…
The Architecture of Mastaba Tombs in the Unas Cemetery
Ashley Cooke | 2020
Until comparatively recently, there has been little attempt to produce a detailed study of the architectural make-up of multi-roomed mastaba tombs and the implications of these observations for understanding the ways in which this type…
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