Global Perspectives on Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology
Tracing the Origins of Wine in the Ancient Mediterranean
1st Edition
By Luke Gorton
September 08, 2025
This book examines the origins and spread of wine from its earliest beginnings until the time of the Roman Empire, with a special focus on heretofore-underexamined lines of evidence. Building upon the extraordinary body of research conducted within the past thirty-plus years on the origins and ...
Landscapes and the Augustan Revolution: The Transformation of the Western Provinces between the Republic and the Early Empire
1st Edition
Edited
By Sergio España-Chamorro, María del Carmen Moreno Escobar
July 09, 2025
This book centres on the transformation of landscapes, focusing on the Western Mediterranean during the end of the Roman Republic and the Early Roman Empire. This volume brings together diverse contributions that utilise both theoretical and practical approaches from landscape studies and ...
Elite Masculinity and Warfare in Cisalpine Gaul, c. 400-50 BCE: What it Means to be a Man
1st Edition
By Alastair R. Lumsden
June 27, 2025
This volume explores the relationship between how elite masculinity was expressed and warfare in Cisalpine Gaul between c. 400 and 50 BC. The first half of the book demonstrates that material changes in funerary assemblages reflected broader socio-political and military developments. The second ...
Dynamics and Developments of Social Structures and Networks in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus
1st Edition
Edited
By Teresa Bürge, Laerke Recht
May 27, 2025
This volume substantiates the island of Cyprus as an important player in the history of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, and presents new theoretical and analytical approaches. The Cypriot Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age are characterised by an increasing complexity of ...
Water in Ancient Mediterranean Households
1st Edition
Edited
By Rick Bonnie, Patrik Klingborg
May 06, 2025
This book provides the first detailed study of the water supply of households in antiquity. Chapters explore settings from Classical Greece to the Late Roman Empire across a wide variety of environments, from dry deserts and moderate Mediterranean zones to wet and temperate climates further north. ...
Mediterranean Collections in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Perspectives from Afar
1st Edition
Edited
By Candace Richards, Elizabeth Minchin
April 04, 2025
This volume brings together academics and museum professionals responsible for ancient Mediterranean collections across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to report on their collections’ legacies and their ongoing value for research, education, and community engagement in the twenty-first century. ...
Birds in Roman Life and Myth
1st Edition
By Ashleigh Green
November 28, 2024
This book explores the place of birds in Roman myth and everyday life, focusing primarily on the transitional period of 100 BCE to 100 CE within the Italian peninsula. A diverse range of topics is considered in order to build a broad overview of the subject. Beginning with an appraisal of omens, ...