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Shifting occupation dynamics in the Madriu–Perafita–Claror valleys (Andorra) from the early Neolithic to the Chalcolithic: The onset of high mountain cultural landscapes (2014)
Journal Article
Orengo, H. A., Palet Martínez, J. M., Ejarque, A., Miras, Y., & Riera-Mora, S. (2014). Shifting occupation dynamics in the Madriu–Perafita–Claror valleys (Andorra) from the early Neolithic to the Chalcolithic: The onset of high mountain cultural landscapes. Quaternary International, 353, 140-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014.01.035

The Madriu–Perafita–Claror valleys (MPCV) (Eastern Pyrenees, Andorra) were the focus of a multidisciplinary microregional landscape research project that aimed to study the long term shaping of this UNESCO World Heritage Site in the category of cultu... Read More about Shifting occupation dynamics in the Madriu–Perafita–Claror valleys (Andorra) from the early Neolithic to the Chalcolithic: The onset of high mountain cultural landscapes.

The archaeobotany of Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete: synthesis and prospects (2014)
Journal Article
Livarda, A., & Kotzamani, G. (2014). The archaeobotany of Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete: synthesis and prospects. Annual of the British School at Athens, 108, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068245413000063

This paper explores the full potential of archaeobotanical research in the investigation of issues such as agricultural practices and resource management and mobilisation in shaping the social dynamics of Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete, through a syn... Read More about The archaeobotany of Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete: synthesis and prospects.

Phemius Suite (2014)
Journal Article
Thomas, O. (2014). Phemius Suite. Journal of Hellenic Studies, 134, https://doi.org/10.1017/S007542691400007X

This article examines four connected aspects of Phemius’ performance in Odyssey 1. The first section examines the poet’s unusual technique in relating Phemius’ music to other, simultaneous sounds in the ‘soundscape’ of Odysseus’ hall. The second argu... Read More about Phemius Suite.

Khoris oikountes and the obligations of freedmen in late classical and early hellenistic Athens (2014)
Journal Article
Lewis, D., & Canevaro, M. (2014). Khoris oikountes and the obligations of freedmen in late classical and early hellenistic Athens

This article addresses the riddle of the identity of the khoris oikountes or 'dwellers apart' mentioned by Demosthenes (4.36-7) as a group subject to the navy draft. Many scholars view the term as a designation for slaves who lived separately from th... Read More about Khoris oikountes and the obligations of freedmen in late classical and early hellenistic Athens.

The Augustan temple and forum of the colony of Barcino: a 90 degree turn (2014)
Journal Article
Orengo, H. A., & Cortés, A. (2014). The Augustan temple and forum of the colony of Barcino: a 90 degree turn. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 33(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/ojoa.12028

The Augustan Roman temple at Barcino has been a key element during the last 60 years in the research of the colony's urban development. Its peculiar elongated and narrow plan, first proposed in 1835, and its location at the highest point of the ancie... Read More about The Augustan temple and forum of the colony of Barcino: a 90 degree turn.

Culture, Education and Politics: Greek and Roman Comedy in Afrikaans (2014)
Book Chapter
Van Zyl Smit, B. (2014). Culture, Education and Politics: Greek and Roman Comedy in Afrikaans. In S. D. Olson (Ed.), Ancient Comedy and Reception (984-999). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511250.984

Afrikaans became an official language of the Union of South Africa in 1925. Many works of the Western canon that had been brought to the country by the colonial powers were translated into the new language. To boost the prestige of the language and t... Read More about Culture, Education and Politics: Greek and Roman Comedy in Afrikaans.

‘Kalos kagathos’ and Scholarly Perceptions of Spartan Society (2013)
Journal Article
Davies, P. (2013). ‘Kalos kagathos’ and Scholarly Perceptions of Spartan Society. Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 62(3), 259-279. https://doi.org/10.25162/historia-2013-0013

In the course of his exhaustive study regarding the development of the term kalos kagathos, Félix Bourriot has proposed a specifically Spartan usage of the term, with a narrow military meaning. Here, I critically examine his arguments for this Sparta... Read More about ‘Kalos kagathos’ and Scholarly Perceptions of Spartan Society.

Northwest Europe in the Early Middle Ages, c. AD 600-1150: a comparative archaeology (2013)
Book
Loveluck, C. (2013). Northwest Europe in the Early Middle Ages, c. AD 600-1150: a comparative archaeology. Cambridge University Press (CUP). doi:10.1017/CBO9781139794725

Christopher Loveluck's study explores the transformation of Northwest Europe (primarily Britain, France and Belgium) from the era of the first post-Roman 'European Union' under the Carolingian Frankish kings to the so-called 'feudal' age, between c.A... Read More about Northwest Europe in the Early Middle Ages, c. AD 600-1150: a comparative archaeology.

The origins and persistence of Homo floresiensis on Flores: biogeographical and ecological perspectives (2013)
Journal Article
Dennell, R. W., Louys, J. L., O'Regan, H. J., & Wilkinson, D. M. (2014). The origins and persistence of Homo floresiensis on Flores: biogeographical and ecological perspectives. Quaternary Science Reviews, 96, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.031

The finding of archaeological evidence predating 1 Ma and a small hominin species (Homo floresiensis) on Flores, Indonesia, has stimulated much research on its origins and ancestry. Here we take a different approach and examine two key questions – 1)... Read More about The origins and persistence of Homo floresiensis on Flores: biogeographical and ecological perspectives.

Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain (2013)
Journal Article
Madgwick, R., Sykes, N., Miller, H., Symmons, R., Morris, J., & Lamb, A. L. (2013). Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-013-0120-0

This paper presents new carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotope data for European fallow deer (Dama dama dama) in Roman Britain and discusses results in light of evidence from classical texts, landscape archaeology, zooarchaeology and the limited availa... Read More about Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain.

The spirit of the sword and spear (2013)
Journal Article
Pearce, M. (2013). The spirit of the sword and spear. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 23(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774313000048

From the Norse sagas or the Arthurian cycles, we are used to the concept that the warrior’s weapon has an identity, a name. In this article I shall ask whether some prehistoric weapons also had an identity. Using case studies of La Tène swords, early... Read More about The spirit of the sword and spear.

Oracular consultation, fate and the concept of the individual (2013)
Book Chapter
Eidinow, E. (2013). Oracular consultation, fate and the concept of the individual. In V. Rosenberger (Ed.), Divination in the Ancient World: Religious Options and the Individual. Franz Steiner Verlag

This chapter examines the significance of the conception of the self for our understanding of the ritual practice of oracular consultation in ancient Greece, focusing primarily on the evidence of the question tablets from the sanctuary at Dodona, aug... Read More about Oracular consultation, fate and the concept of the individual.

Thucydides and Hesiod (2013)
Journal Article
Finglass, P. (2013). Thucydides and Hesiod. Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, https://doi.org/10.1400/222506

The puzzling reference by Thucydides, during his account of Demosthenes’ Aetolian campaign in 426, to the death of Hesiod, can be explained as an instance of foreshadowing through myth: Hesiod’s tragic end prepares the reader for the tragic consequen... Read More about Thucydides and Hesiod.