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Le prime esperienze di metallurgia in Sardegna (2020)
Book Chapter
Pearce, M. (2020). Le prime esperienze di metallurgia in Sardegna. In C. Lugliè, & T. Cossu (Eds.), La preistoria in Sardegna: Il tempo delle comunità umane dal X al II millennio a.C (198-202). Ilisso

The paper reviews the evidence for early metallurgy on the Italian island of Sardinia

Le origini e la diffusione della metallurgia nel Mediterraneo occidentale (2020)
Book Chapter
PEARCE, M. (2020). Le origini e la diffusione della metallurgia nel Mediterraneo occidentale. In C. Lugliè, & T. Cossu (Eds.), La preistoria in Sardegna: Il tempo delle comunità umane dal X al II millennio a.C (194-197). Ilisso

The paper reviews the origins and spread of metallurgy in the western Mediterranean

Experiencing North American Bears in post-medieval Britain (2020)
Book Chapter
O'Regan, H. (2020). Experiencing North American Bears in post-medieval Britain. In H. A. Lapham, & G. A. Waselkov (Eds.), Bears: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Perspectives in Native Eastern North America. University Press of Florida

North American bears have had cultural significance outside the United States. This chapter explores the role of black, brown and polar bears in Britain, focussing on the period following the founding of the Hudson Bay Company in the late 1600s. Both... Read More about Experiencing North American Bears in post-medieval Britain.

Liguria: aperture e chiusure di un’isola fra due pianure (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maggi, R., Binder, D., Panelli, C., Gabriele, M., Pearce, M., Rossi, S., & Rowley-Conwy, P. Liguria: aperture e chiusure di un’isola fra due pianure. Presented at LI Riunione Scientifica dell’Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Forlì

This paper discusses Neolithic and Copper Age Liguria, Braudel’s ‘island’, a mountain chain situated between the Mediterranean and the Po plain. The Neolithic colonisation of western Liguria and the Mediterranean coasts of France happened a short ti... Read More about Liguria: aperture e chiusure di un’isola fra due pianure.

Houses and Society in Norwich, 1350-1660: Urban Buildings in an Age of Transition (2020)
Book
King, C. (2020). Houses and Society in Norwich, 1350-1660: Urban Buildings in an Age of Transition. Boydell and Brewer. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv105bbb4

Norwich was second only to London in size and economic significance from the late Middle Ages through to the mid-seventeenth century. This book brings together, for the first time, the rich archaeological evidence for urban households and domestic li... Read More about Houses and Society in Norwich, 1350-1660: Urban Buildings in an Age of Transition.

The Profession of Mousikē in Classical Greece (2020)
Book Chapter
Edmund, S. (2020). The Profession of Mousikē in Classical Greece. In E. Stewart, E. Harris, & D. Lewis (Eds.), Skilled labour and professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome. Cambridge University Press

Oppian's "Halieutica": Charting a Didactic Epic (2020)
Book
Kneebone, E. (2020). Oppian's "Halieutica": Charting a Didactic Epic. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108892728

Oppian's Halieutica is a dazzling five-book Greek didactic poem about the sea and its wily, chaotic inhabitants. This book offers the first sustained reading of the poem as a didactic epic that meditates on the place of human beings within the cosmos... Read More about Oppian's "Halieutica": Charting a Didactic Epic.

The Impact of a Six‐Year Climate Anomaly on the “Spanish Flu” Pandemic and WWI (2020)
Journal Article
More, A. F., Loveluck, C. P., Clifford, H., Handley, M. J., Korotkikh, E. V., Kurbatov, A. V., McCormick, M., & Mayewski, P. A. (2020). The Impact of a Six‐Year Climate Anomaly on the “Spanish Flu” Pandemic and WWI. GeoHealth, 4(9), Article e2020GH000277. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GH000277

The H1N1 “Spanish influenza” pandemic of 1918–1919 caused the highest known number of deaths recorded for a single pandemic in human history. Several theories have been offered to explain the virulence and spread of the disease, but the environmental... Read More about The Impact of a Six‐Year Climate Anomaly on the “Spanish Flu” Pandemic and WWI.

The Tabula Lugdunensis: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary (2020)
Book
Emperor of Rome, 10 B.C.-54 A.D., C. (2020). The Tabula Lugdunensis: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108682091

Unearthed in 1528 at Lyon, the Tabula Lugdunensis preserves the longest speech of a Roman emperor to survive in epigraphic form. In AD 48 Claudius addressed the senate to press a petition by elites of north-western Gaul to hold senatorial rank and of... Read More about The Tabula Lugdunensis: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary.

Aurelius Victor And The Ending Of Sallust's Jugurtha (2020)
Journal Article
WOUDHUYSEN, G., & Stover, J. (2020). Aurelius Victor And The Ending Of Sallust's Jugurtha. Hermathena, 93-134

Abstract: In his De Caesaribus, the historian Aurelius Victor drew a comparison between the emperor Diocletian and the Republican general and consul Marius: two ambitious individuals from humble backgrounds who had dressed in an excessively extravaga... Read More about Aurelius Victor And The Ending Of Sallust's Jugurtha.

Isotopic investigations of Chinese ceramics (2020)
Journal Article
Henderson, J., Ma, H., Cui, J., Ma, R., & Xiao, H. (2020). Isotopic investigations of Chinese ceramics. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 12, Article 201. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01138-7

This chapter provides insights into Chinese ceramic technologies of both bodies and glazes as well as provenance by using isotopes applied to a number of case studies. The use of Sr isotopes to investigate Chinese high fired Celadon wares and Blue an... Read More about Isotopic investigations of Chinese ceramics.

Writing and Power in the Roman World: Literacies and Material Culture. By H. Eckardt. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2018. Pp. 282, illus. Price: £80.00. isbn9781108418058 (bound); 9781108284172 (ebook) (2020)
Journal Article
Willi, A. (2020). Writing and Power in the Roman World: Literacies and Material Culture. By H. Eckardt. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2018. Pp. 282, illus. Price: £80.00. isbn9781108418058 (bound); 9781108284172 (ebook). Britannia, 51, 535-536. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068113x20000215

Rural Life, Roman Ways? Examination of Late Iron Age to Late Romano-British Burial Practice and Mobility at Dog Hole Cave, Cumbria (2020)
Journal Article
O'Regan, H. J., Bland, K., Evans, J., Holmes, M., McLeod, K., Philpott, R., Smith, I., Thorp, J., & Wilkinson, D. M. (2020). Rural Life, Roman Ways? Examination of Late Iron Age to Late Romano-British Burial Practice and Mobility at Dog Hole Cave, Cumbria. Britannia, 51, 83-116. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X20000136

The scarcity of Romano-British human remains from north-west England has hindered understanding of burial practice in this region. Here, we report on the excavation of human and non-human animal remains and material culture from Dog Hole Cave, Haverb... Read More about Rural Life, Roman Ways? Examination of Late Iron Age to Late Romano-British Burial Practice and Mobility at Dog Hole Cave, Cumbria.

From 'House of Caves' to nexus of central England: Nottingham, c. AD 650-1250 - Future Research Directions’ (2020)
Journal Article
LOVELUCK, C., Davies, G., Knight, D., & Lomax, S. (2020). From 'House of Caves' to nexus of central England: Nottingham, c. AD 650-1250 - Future Research Directions’. Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, 123, 55-75

Nottingham, as one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw, a key strategic pre-Conquest borough, and the most important royal governmental hub in central England by the time of the Angevin kings, from Henry II to John (1154–1216), is a city with a fasci... Read More about From 'House of Caves' to nexus of central England: Nottingham, c. AD 650-1250 - Future Research Directions’.

Structural and chemical heterogeneity in ancient glass probed using gas overcondensation, X-ray tomography, and solid-state NMR (2020)
Journal Article
Rigby, S. P., Stevens, L., Meersmann, T., Pavlovskaya, G. E., Rees, G. J., Henderson, J., Bryant, S. J., Edler, K. J., & Fletcher, R. S. (2020). Structural and chemical heterogeneity in ancient glass probed using gas overcondensation, X-ray tomography, and solid-state NMR. Materials Characterization, 167, Article 110467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2020.110467

Rare ancient glasses have complex, multi-scale structures requiring more sophisticated and non-destructive pore characterisation techniques than usual. Homotattic patch models for nitrogen adsorption gave better fits to the isotherm data, more accura... Read More about Structural and chemical heterogeneity in ancient glass probed using gas overcondensation, X-ray tomography, and solid-state NMR.