Outputs (390)

Produzione e circolazione del bronzo in Liguria nell’età del Ferro (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pearce, M., & Maggi, R. Produzione e circolazione del bronzo in Liguria nell’età del Ferro. Presented at LIII Riunione Scientifica: Preistoria e Protostoria della Liguria, Genoa, Italy

THE PRODUCTION AND CIRCULATION OF BRONZE IN IRON AGE LIGURIA - The paper discusses the lead isotope data available in the literature and in the OXALID online database for bronze artefacts from the Iron Age (third quarter of the 8th – beginning of the... Read More about Produzione e circolazione del bronzo in Liguria nell’età del Ferro.

A Scato-sexual Message: The Secundinus Stone with Phallus from Vindolanda (2023)
Journal Article
Meyer, A., Mullen, A., & Vanhala, J. (2023). A Scato-sexual Message: The Secundinus Stone with Phallus from Vindolanda. Britannia, 54, 305-320. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X2300020X

The Secundinus stone, with its combination of carved phallus and text, was found in 2022 in excavations within the stone fort at Vindolanda. We consider comparanda for the imagery from Vindolanda, Britannia and further afield, and textual parallels p... Read More about A Scato-sexual Message: The Secundinus Stone with Phallus from Vindolanda.

Brown bears in burials and entertainment in later prehistoric to modern Britain (c. 2400 BC – AD 1900s) (2023)
Book Chapter
O'Regan, H. (2023). Brown bears in burials and entertainment in later prehistoric to modern Britain (c. 2400 BC – AD 1900s). In O. Grimm (Ed.), Bear and Human Facets of a Multi-Layered Relationship from Past to Recent Times, with Emphasis on Northern Europe. Volume 1 (187-208). Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TANE-EB.5.134334

The brown bear, Ursus arctos, was a native British mammal, but is now extinct. This chapter briefly explores the history of the native brown bear before turning to the anthropogenic evidence for bears in prehistoric and later Britain. There are two m... Read More about Brown bears in burials and entertainment in later prehistoric to modern Britain (c. 2400 BC – AD 1900s).

The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor (2023)
Book
Stover, J., & Woudhuysen, G. (2023). The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor. Edinburgh University Press

This book rediscovers a lost history of the Roman Empire, written by Sextus Aurelius Victor (ca. 320-390) and demonstrates for the first time both the contemporary and lasting influence of his historical work. Though little regarded today, Victor is... Read More about The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor.

Changing Peoples and Practices: Exploring the Role of Cross-Cultural Contact in the British Neolithic-Bronze Age Transition (2023)
Book Chapter
BLOXAM, A. (2023). Changing Peoples and Practices: Exploring the Role of Cross-Cultural Contact in the British Neolithic-Bronze Age Transition. In F. Branka, & P. Marie Nicole (Eds.), Imperial Horizons of the Silk Roads: Archaeological Case Studies (36-55). Archaeopress. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.5329289.7

‘Why so high?’ Examining discrepancies between the Sr biosphere map and archaeological tooth data from the Peak District, England (2023)
Journal Article
O'Regan, H. J., Wilkinson, D. M., Wagner, D., & Evans, J. (2023). ‘Why so high?’ Examining discrepancies between the Sr biosphere map and archaeological tooth data from the Peak District, England. Journal of Archaeological Science, 157, Article 105826. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105826

The analysis of 87Sr/86Sr isotope ratios in human and nonhuman tooth enamel is used worldwide for archaeological and forensic purposes to establish if an individual is likely to have grown up in the area from which their remains were excavated. The E... Read More about ‘Why so high?’ Examining discrepancies between the Sr biosphere map and archaeological tooth data from the Peak District, England.

The Circulation of the Scholia Vallicelliana to Isidore (2023)
Journal Article
Woudhuysen, G., & Stover, J. (2023). The Circulation of the Scholia Vallicelliana to Isidore. Revue d'histoire des textes, 18, 409-416. https://doi.org/10.1484/j.rht.5.133022

This study brings together the evidence for the circulation of an important monument of early medieval scholarship, the Scholia Vallicelliana to Isidore, which Claudia Villa brilliantly attributed to Paul the Deacon in 1984. Starting from the Vallice... Read More about The Circulation of the Scholia Vallicelliana to Isidore.

Sparta in Plutarch's Lives (2023)
Book
Davies, P., & Mossman, J. (Eds.). (2023). Sparta in Plutarch's Lives. Classical Press of Wales. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.5053549

Plutarch (born before AD 50, died after AD 120) is the ancient author who has arguably contributed more than any other to the popular conception of Sparta. Writing under the Roman Empire, at a time when the glory days of ancient Sparta were already l... Read More about Sparta in Plutarch's Lives.

Equal contributors? Agesilaus and Lysander within Plutarch’s ‘ Spartan Cycle’ (2023)
Book Chapter
Davies, P. (2023). Equal contributors? Agesilaus and Lysander within Plutarch’s ‘ Spartan Cycle’. In P. Davies, & J. Mossman (Eds.), Sparta in Plutarch's Lives (93-112). The Classical Press of Wales. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.5053549.8

Plague, Climate and Faith in Early Medieval Western Britain: Investigating Narratives of Change (2023)
Journal Article
Comeau, R., Seaman, A., & Bloxam, A. (2023). Plague, Climate and Faith in Early Medieval Western Britain: Investigating Narratives of Change. Medieval Archaeology, 67(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2023.2204655

RECENTLY COMPILED DATASETS for hillforts and corn-drying kilns in the west of Britain, when subject to chronological analysis using Kernel Density Estimation (KDE), show a sharp and lasting fall-off in activity in the later 6th and 7th centuries. Thi... Read More about Plague, Climate and Faith in Early Medieval Western Britain: Investigating Narratives of Change.