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Plant use in Mycenaean mortuary practice (2014)
Book Chapter
Smith, R. A. K., Dabney, M. K., Kotzamani, G., Livarda, A., Tsartsidou, G., & Wright, J. C. (2014). Plant use in Mycenaean mortuary practice. In G. Touchais, R. Laffineur, & F. Rougemont (Eds.), Physis: l'environnement naturel et la relation homme-milieu dans le monde égéen protohistorique. Peeters Publishers

Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in Ancient Greece (2014)
Book
JIM, T. (2014). Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in Ancient Greece. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198706823.001.0001

This book provides a comprehensive account of the offering all over the Greek world of so-called ‘first-fruits’ (aparchai) and ‘tithes’ (dekatai) from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period (c. 700 to 31 B.C.). Existing studies of Greek religion tend... Read More about Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in Ancient Greece.

Stesichorus: The Poems (2014)
Book
Stesichorus, . (2014). P. Finglass, & M. Davies (Eds.), Stesichorus: The Poems. Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Stesichorus' lyric poetry vividly recreates the most dramatic episodes of Greek myth: the labours of Heracles, the sack of Troy, the vengeance of Orestes, and more besides. It can be appreciated today as never before, thanks to the recent discovery o... Read More about Stesichorus: The Poems.

From hamlets to central places: integrated survey and excavation strategies for the social analysis of settlements in northern Europe, c. AD 400-1100 (2014)
Book Chapter
Loveluck, C., Strutt, K., & Clogg, P. (2014). From hamlets to central places: integrated survey and excavation strategies for the social analysis of settlements in northern Europe, c. AD 400-1100. In E. Stidsing, K. H. Nielsen, & R. Fiedel (Eds.), Wealth and complexity: economically specialised sites in Late Iron Age Denmark (213-251). Aarhus University Press

This article explores a range of archaeological approaches to the social analysis of rural settlements in northern Europe, dating predominantly from the first millennium AD, through the intensive use of superimposed archaeological survey and targeted... Read More about From hamlets to central places: integrated survey and excavation strategies for the social analysis of settlements in northern Europe, c. AD 400-1100.

Sociolinguistics (2014)
Book Chapter
Mullen, A. (2016). Sociolinguistics. In M. Millett, L. Revell, & A. Moore (Eds.), Oxford handbook of Roman Britain. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697731.013.032

This chapter begins by considering the motivations for undertaking sociolinguistic studies and discusses the range and quality of evidence that can be marshalled for early Britain. The pre-Roman linguistic situation and the advent and spread of Latin... Read More about Sociolinguistics.

The Palmyra Portrait Project (2014)
Journal Article
Kropp, A., & Raja, R. (2014). The Palmyra Portrait Project. Syria. Archéologie, art et histoire, 91,

Dead or alive?: investigating long-distance transport of live fallow deer and their body parts in antiquity (2014)
Journal Article
Miller, H., Carden, R. F., Evans, J., Lamb, A. L., Madgwick, R., Osborne, D., …Sykes, N. (in press). Dead or alive?: investigating long-distance transport of live fallow deer and their body parts in antiquity. Environmental Archaeology, 21(3), https://doi.org/10.1179/1749631414Y.0000000043

The extent to which breeding populations of fallow deer were established in Roman Europe has been obscured by the possibility that the skeletal remains of the species, in particular Dama foot bones and antlers, were traded over long distances as obje... Read More about Dead or alive?: investigating long-distance transport of live fallow deer and their body parts in antiquity.