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Disentangling the effect of farming practice and aridity on crop stable isotope values: a present-day model from Morocco and its application to early farming sites in the eastern Mediterranean (2016)
Journal Article
Styring, A. K., Ater, M., Hmimsa, Y., Fraser, R., Miller, H., Neef, R., Pearson, J. A., & Bogaard, A. (2016). Disentangling the effect of farming practice and aridity on crop stable isotope values: a present-day model from Morocco and its application to early farming sites in the eastern Mediterranean. Anthropocene Review, 3(1), 2-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019616630762

Agriculture has played a pivotal role in shaping landscapes, soils and vegetation. Developing a better understanding of early farming practices can contribute to wider questions regarding the long-term impact of farming and its nature in comparison w... Read More about Disentangling the effect of farming practice and aridity on crop stable isotope values: a present-day model from Morocco and its application to early farming sites in the eastern Mediterranean.

The seeds of commerce: a network analysis-based approach to the Romano-British transport system (2016)
Journal Article
Orengo, H. A., & Livarda, A. (2016). The seeds of commerce: a network analysis-based approach to the Romano-British transport system. Journal of Archaeological Science, 66, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.12.003

Communication routes are an important subject in the study of the human past. They allowed interactions between communities and the dispersal of goods and ideas. Their study, therefore, can shed light on the way in which communities inhabited the lan... Read More about The seeds of commerce: a network analysis-based approach to the Romano-British transport system.

Assembling the Austrasian Letters at Trier and Lorsch (2016)
Journal Article
Barrett, G., & Woudhuysen, G. (2016). Assembling the Austrasian Letters at Trier and Lorsch. Early Medieval Europe, 24(1), 3-57. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12132

This article is a reconsideration of the Epistulae Austrasicae. We critique the widespread notion that the constituent letters were compiled by a courtier in the late sixth century at Metz as a book of models for use in the Austrasian chancellery. We... Read More about Assembling the Austrasian Letters at Trier and Lorsch.

'Bacchae' in the Modern World (2016)
Book Chapter
Van Zyl Smit, B. (2016). 'Bacchae' in the Modern World. In Looking at 'Bacchae'. Bloomsbury Publishing

Private lives and public power: Norwich merchants' houses between the 14th and 16th centuries (2015)
Book Chapter
King, C. (2015). Private lives and public power: Norwich merchants' houses between the 14th and 16th centuries. In Norwich: medieval and early modern art, architecture and archaeology. Maney Publishing

This chapter discusses the surviving examples of large merchants’ houses in the city of Norwich dating between the 14th and 16th centuries. These were the residences of families who dominated the economic and political life of the medieval and early... Read More about Private lives and public power: Norwich merchants' houses between the 14th and 16th centuries.

Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens (2015)
Book
Eidinow, E. (2015). Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199562602.001.0001

At the heart of this book are some trials conducted in Athens in the fourth century BCE. In each case, the charges involved a combination of supernatural activities, including potion-brewing and cult activity; the defendants were all women. Because o... Read More about Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens.

Greek hymnic spaces (2015)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2015). Greek hymnic spaces. In E. Barker, S. Bouzarovski, C. Pelling, & L. Isaksen (Eds.), New Worlds from Old Texts: Revisiting Ancient Space and Place. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199664139.001.0001

This chapter surveys how space is presented in a range of ancient Greek hymns, both literary and cultic. It proposes as a framework for analysis a distinction between the space of the god addressed, that of the human performers and audience, and that... Read More about Greek hymnic spaces.