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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.

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.

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

The Early Christian Archaeology of the Balkans (2019)
Book Chapter
Bowden, W. (2019). The Early Christian Archaeology of the Balkans. In W. R. Caraher, T. W. Davis, & D. K. Pettegrew (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology (537-556). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199369041.013.26

Textual sources attest to the early spread of Christianity across the Balkan region, and archaeological evidence demonstrates how the new religion transformed the built environment and material culture of the area in Late Antiquity, although dating a... Read More about The Early Christian Archaeology of the Balkans.

The origins of nomadic pastoralism in the eastern Jordanian steppe: a combined stable isotope and chipped stone assessment (2018)
Journal Article
Miller, H., Baird, D., Pearson, J., Lamb, A., Grove, M., Martin, L., & Garrard, A. (2018). The origins of nomadic pastoralism in the eastern Jordanian steppe: a combined stable isotope and chipped stone assessment. Levant, 50(3), 281-304. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2019.1651560

The circumstances in which domestic animals were first introduced to the arid regions of the Southern Levant and the origins of nomadic pastoralism, have been the subject of considerable debate. Nomadic pastoralism was a novel herd management practic... Read More about The origins of nomadic pastoralism in the eastern Jordanian steppe: a combined stable isotope and chipped stone assessment.

Ion of Chios: the case of a foreign poet in classical Sparta (2018)
Journal Article
Edmund, S. (2018). Ion of Chios: the case of a foreign poet in classical Sparta. Classical Quarterly, 68(2), 394-407. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838819000016

This paper aims to reassess one piece of evidence for the performance of music and poetry in classical Sparta: an elegy by the Chian poet Ion (fr. 27 West). It is argued here that this poem evokes the atmosphere of a Spartan festival and, specificall... Read More about Ion of Chios: the case of a foreign poet in classical Sparta.

A study of the glazing techniques and provenances of Tang sancai glazes using elemental and lead isotope analyses (2018)
Journal Article
Shen, J. Y., Henderson, J., Evans, J., Chenery, S., & Zhao, F. Y. (2019). A study of the glazing techniques and provenances of Tang sancai glazes using elemental and lead isotope analyses. Archaeometry, 61(2), 358-373. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12436

© 2018 The Authors Archaeometry published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of University of Oxford This study discusses the elemental compositions and lead isotope ratios of Tang sancai glazes unearthed from the Huangpu kiln, Huangye kiln and two... Read More about A study of the glazing techniques and provenances of Tang sancai glazes using elemental and lead isotope analyses.

Re-analysis of archaeobotanical remains from pre- and early agricultural sites provides no evidence for a narrowing of the wild plant food spectrum during the origins of agriculture in southwest Asia (2018)
Journal Article
Michael, W., Glynis, J., Michael, C., Emily, F., Eleanor, S., Vincent, B., …Catherine, P. (2019). Re-analysis of archaeobotanical remains from pre- and early agricultural sites provides no evidence for a narrowing of the wild plant food spectrum during the origins of agriculture in southwest Asia. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 28(4), 449–463. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-018-0702-y

Archaeobotanical evidence from southwest Asia is often interpreted as showing that the spectrum of wild plant foods narrowed during the origins of agriculture, but it has long been acknowledged that the recognition of wild plants as foods is problema... Read More about Re-analysis of archaeobotanical remains from pre- and early agricultural sites provides no evidence for a narrowing of the wild plant food spectrum during the origins of agriculture in southwest Asia.