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Children and death in the Bronze and early Iron Age Aegean (2020)
Book Chapter
Gallou, C. (2020). Children and death in the Bronze and early Iron Age Aegean. In L. Beaumont, M. Dillon, & N. Harrington (Eds.), Childhood in antiquity: perspectives and experiences of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean. Routledge

The study of children and childhood remains largely marginalised in the archaeology of the prehistoric Aegean. Thus, this study aims to make Mycenaean children visible in archaeological research by discussing the treatment of non-adults at death in m... Read More about Children and death in the Bronze and early Iron Age Aegean.

Caves and rock shelters, burials and smelting (2020)
Journal Article
Pearce, M. (2020). Caves and rock shelters, burials and smelting. Metalla, Sonderheft 10, 17-21. https://doi.org/10.46586/metalla.v.2020.i10

This paper is an extended abstract for the International Conference on Resources and Transformation in Pre-modern Societies, Bochum 19–21 November 2020, 11 December 2020 and 15 January 2021. It discusses the world view of Copper Age and Early Bronze... Read More about Caves and rock shelters, burials and smelting.

Late Archaic Funerary Painting in Greek and Native Apulia (2020)
Book Chapter
D'Angelo, T. (2020). Late Archaic Funerary Painting in Greek and Native Apulia. In G. Zuchtriegel, & A. Meriani (Eds.), La tomba del Tuffatore: Rito, arte e poesia a Paestum e nel Mediterraneo d'epoca tardo-arcaica. Edizioni ETS

Review of Albore Livadie C., Vecchio G. a cura di, Nola - Croce del Papa: un villaggio sepolto dall’eruzione vesuviana delle Pomici di Avellino, Collection du Centre Jean Bérard 54, Centre Jean Bérard, Napoli, 2020 (2020)
Journal Article
Pearce, M. (2020). Review of Albore Livadie C., Vecchio G. a cura di, Nola - Croce del Papa: un villaggio sepolto dall’eruzione vesuviana delle Pomici di Avellino, Collection du Centre Jean Bérard 54, Centre Jean Bérard, Napoli, 2020. Origini, 44(2020), 197-200. https://doi.org/10.48235/1006

Aspects of urbanism in later Bronze Age northern Italy (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Pearce, M. (2020). Aspects of urbanism in later Bronze Age northern Italy. In Crossing the Alps: Early Urbanism between Northern Italy and Central Europe (900-400 BC) (19-25)

This paper askes the question whether towns may be said to be visible in the archaeological record of northern Italy before the Iron Age. It argues that we should not use the forms of urbanism of the Greek, Etruscan and Roman cities as criteria for i... Read More about Aspects of urbanism in later Bronze Age northern Italy.

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). Nuoro (Sardinia, Italy): Ilisso

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

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). Nuoro (Sardinia, Italy): Ilisso

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

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)
Journal Article
Maggi, R., Binder, D., Panelli, C., Gabriele, M., Pearce, M., Rossi, S., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2020). Liguria: aperture e chiusure di un’isola fra due pianure. Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche, 70(S1), 83-97

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 Mousik? in Classical Greece (2020)
Book Chapter
Edmund, S. (2020). The Profession of Mousik? 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: 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., …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: 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, 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.