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Oceans without History? Marine Cultural Heritage and the Sustainable Development Agenda (2019)
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Henderson, J. (2019). Oceans without History? Marine Cultural Heritage and the Sustainable Development Agenda. Sustainability, 11(18), 5080. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11185080

This paper aims to set out the role Marine Cultural Heritage (MCH) can play in informing responses to global challenges and enhancing the sustainable development of coastal zones. This requires recognition of the importance of MCH as a knowledge base... Read More about Oceans without History? Marine Cultural Heritage and the Sustainable Development Agenda.

Inner Nature and Outward Appearance in Euripides' Electra (2019)
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STEWART, E. (2022). Inner Nature and Outward Appearance in Euripides' Electra. PHOENIX, 73(3-4), 237-261. https://doi.org/10.1353/phx.2019.0017

This paper presents a new interpretation of Euripides’ Electra centred on the issue of hereditary excellence. The question of how nobility is to be defined and recognised forms a unifying theme of this work and is of crucial importance for the develo... Read More about Inner Nature and Outward Appearance in Euripides' Electra.

The ‘Copper Age’ – a history of the concept (2019)
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Pearce, M. (2019). The ‘Copper Age’ – a history of the concept. Journal of World Prehistory, 32(3), 229-250. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-019-09134-z

The idea that there was a Copper Age between the Neolithic and Bronze Age was inspired by the discovery of copper use in prehistoric North America. Its currency in European prehistory owes much to the 1861 observations by William Wilde that copper ar... Read More about The ‘Copper Age’ – a history of the concept.

The Ocean Decade Heritage Network: Integrating Cultural Heritage Within the UN Decade of Ocean Science 2021–2030 (2019)
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Trakadas, A., Firth, A., Gregory, D., Elkin, D., Guerin, U., Henderson, J., …Viduka, A. (2019). The Ocean Decade Heritage Network: Integrating Cultural Heritage Within the UN Decade of Ocean Science 2021–2030. Journal of Maritime Archaeology, 14(2), 153-165. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-019-09241-0

The Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021–2030 is a UN initiative that promotes a common framework for supporting stakeholders in studying and assessing the health of the world’s oceans. The initiative also presents a vital opportu... Read More about The Ocean Decade Heritage Network: Integrating Cultural Heritage Within the UN Decade of Ocean Science 2021–2030.

The Curse of the pXRF: the Negative Consequences of the Popularity of Handheld XRF Analysis of Copper-Based Metal Artefacts (2019)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Archaeological and biometric perspectives on the development of chicken landraces in the Horn of Africa (2019)
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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)
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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)
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MULLEN, A. (2019). Was Latin epigraphy a killer?. Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents Newsletter, 23, 2-5

The origins of nomadic pastoralism in the eastern Jordanian steppe: a combined stable isotope and chipped stone assessment (2018)
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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)
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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.