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The Curse of the pXRF: the Negative Consequences of the Popularity of Handheld XRF Analysis of Copper-Based Metal Artefacts (2019)
Journal Article
Pearce, M. (2019). The Curse of the pXRF: the Negative Consequences of the Popularity of Handheld XRF Analysis of Copper-Based Metal Artefacts. Metalla, 24(2), 81-85

In this paper I shall explore some of the negative consequences of the current popularity of portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) analysis. There is no doubt that this portable device, which can be taken to museums and sites, has revolutionised the stu... Read More about The Curse of the pXRF: the Negative Consequences of the Popularity of Handheld XRF Analysis of Copper-Based Metal Artefacts.

Latinization of the North-Western Provinces: Sociolinguistics, Epigraphy and Bilingualism. A Preliminary Study on The Area Of Nijmegen (2019)
Journal Article
Cotugno, F. (2019). Latinization of the North-Western Provinces: Sociolinguistics, Epigraphy and Bilingualism. A Preliminary Study on The Area Of Nijmegen. Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, LV, 48-59

The ERC research project LatinNow (Latinisation of the north-western provinces), is intended to be a broad-based investigation of linguistic change in the north-western Empire (namely Britain, Gaul, Germanies, Noricum, Raetia and Iberia). Drawing upo... Read More about Latinization of the North-Western Provinces: Sociolinguistics, Epigraphy and Bilingualism. A Preliminary Study on The Area Of Nijmegen.

Landscape, Monumentality and Expression of Group identities in Iron Age and Roman east Kent (2019)
Journal Article
Wallace, L., & Mullen, A. (2019). Landscape, Monumentality and Expression of Group identities in Iron Age and Roman east Kent. Britannia, 50, 75-108. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X19000308

The Canterbury Hinterland Project (CHP) has combined aerial photographic and LiDAR analysis, synthesis of HER and other data across east Kent with targeted survey south and east of Canterbury. We present possible hillforts, temples, large enclosures,... Read More about Landscape, Monumentality and Expression of Group identities in Iron Age and Roman east Kent.

»There’s nothing worse than athletes«: criticism of athletics and professionalism in the archaic and classical periods (2019)
Journal Article
Edmund, S. (2019). »There’s nothing worse than athletes«: criticism of athletics and professionalism in the archaic and classical periods. Nikephoros: Zeitschrift fuer Sport und Kultur im Altertum, 27(2014),

Victory in the great athletic games was widely seen in the Greek world as one of the summits of human achievement. Yet a surprisingly large number of texts present a negative view of athletics, including Xenophanes fr. 2 West and Euripides fr. 282 Tr... Read More about »There’s nothing worse than athletes«: criticism of athletics and professionalism in the archaic and classical periods.

Tippling but not toppling: Eubulus PCG fr. 123 (2019)
Journal Article
Thomas, O. (2019). Tippling but not toppling: Eubulus PCG fr. 123. Classical Quarterly, 69(1), 448-450. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000983881900048X

Proposes a new reconstruction of the text of Eubulus fr. 123 = Athenaeus 1.23b.

Frattesina: la prospettiva europea (2019)
Book Chapter
Pearce, M. (2019). Frattesina: la prospettiva europea. In A. M. B. Sestieri, P. Bellintani, & C. Giardino (Eds.), Frattesina: un centro internazionale di produzione e di scambio nella Tarda Età del Bronzo del Veneto. Accademia dei Lincei

In this paper I explore what makes Frattesina (Fratta Polesine RO) a key site in Europe during the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. Frattesina had an important role as an industrial and commercial centre, tied into a trade network that... Read More about Frattesina: la prospettiva europea.

Archaeological and biometric perspectives on the development of chicken landraces in the Horn of Africa (2019)
Journal Article
Woldekiros, H. S., D'Andrea, A. C., Thomas, R., Foster, A., Lebrasseur, O., Miller, H., …Sykes, N. (2019). Archaeological and biometric perspectives on the development of chicken landraces in the Horn of Africa. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 29(5), 728-735. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2773

Domestic chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus L., 1758) were integrated into agricultural systems in the Horn of Africa as early as the pre-Aksumite period (c. 2,500 years ago), after they were introduced from Asia through land and maritime trade and e... Read More about Archaeological and biometric perspectives on the development of chicken landraces in the Horn of Africa.

Pieter Houten: Rezension zu: Klär, Timo: Die Vasconen und das Römische Reich. Der Romanisierungsprozess im Norden der Iberischen Halbinsel. Stuttgart 2017. ISBN 978-3-515-11739-5 (2019)
Journal Article
Houten, P. (2019). Pieter Houten: Rezension zu: Klär, Timo: Die Vasconen und das Römische Reich. Der Romanisierungsprozess im Norden der Iberischen Halbinsel. Stuttgart 2017. ISBN 978-3-515-11739-5. H-Soz-Kult,

More from the Romano-British poets? A possible metrical inscription from East Farleigh, Kent (2019)
Journal Article
Mullen, A., & Tomlin, R. (2019). More from the Romano-British poets? A possible metrical inscription from East Farleigh, Kent. Britannia, 50, 367-374. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X19000084

A four-line inscription in Old Roman Cursive on a pot base found in excavations in East Farleigh, Kent, in 2010 appears to be written (at least in part) in metre and has close textual similarities with examples from Binchester, County Durham. We desc... Read More about More from the Romano-British poets? A possible metrical inscription from East Farleigh, Kent.

Was Latin epigraphy a killer? (2019)
Journal Article
MULLEN, A. (2019). Was Latin epigraphy a killer?. Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents Newsletter, 23, 2-5