Prehistoric Archaeology

Primera campaña de prospecciones arqueológicas en la comarca de Tarazona y el Moncayo. Avance preliminar de los resultados de la campaña de 2010

by Carlos García Benito

Co-authored with Óscar Bonilla Santander. Published in Salduie, 2010.

La falta de un estudio arqueológico integral de la Comarca de Tarazona y el Moncayo, junto con la ausencia de una... more La falta de un estudio arqueológico integral de la Comarca de Tarazona y el Moncayo, junto con la ausencia de una carta arqueológica comarcal de la zona, motivó el inicio de estas prospecciones arqueológicas con el objetivo de perdurar en el tiempo hasta completar totalmente la información arqueológica de esta comarca. En su primera campaña se han centrado en el paraje denominado Cañada Madre que comprende parte de los términos municipales de Tarazona, El Buste y Vera de Moncayo, obteniendo la identificación de yacimientos arqueológicos que abarcan desde el Paleolítico Medio hasta el siglo XX.

The absence of a comprehensive archaeological survey of the Comarca of Tarazona and the Moncayo, together with the absence of a local archaeological map of the area, prompted the initiation of these archaeological surveys in order to survive in time until to have the complete archaeological information of this region. In his first season we have focused on the area known as Cañada Madre that comprising part of the municipalities of Tarazona, El Buste and Vera de Moncayo, obtaining the identification of archaeological sites dating from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Twentieth century.

En busca de signos sonoros en el Arte Paleolítico

by Carlos García Benito

Co-authored with Alberto Lombo Montañés. Published in Esther López-Montalvo y María Sebastián López (Coord.) "El legado artístico de las sociedades prehistóricas. Nuevos paradigmas de análisis y documentación", Zaragoza: Universidad de Zaragoza

The Epipalaeolithic Foragers in Azraq Project: Prehistoric Landscape Change in the Azraq Basin, Eastern Jordan.

by Tobias Richter

L. Maher, T. Richter, M. Jones and J.T. Stock (2011). CBRL Bulletin 6: 21-27.

Early Bronze Age Metal Objects from Inland Western Anatolia. A Typological and Chronological Evaluation

by Erkan Fidan

B. Horejs, M. Mehofer, E. Pernicka, Metallhandwerker im frühen 3. Jt. v. Chr. - Neue Ergebnisse vom Çukuriçi Höyük, Westtürkei, Istanbuler Mitteilungen 60, 2010, 7-37.

by Mathias Mehofer

Neue Ausgrabungen auf dem Çukuriçi Höyük, Westtürkei, erbrachten zahlreiche Hinweise auf Metallwerkstätten, die in die... more Neue Ausgrabungen auf dem Çukuriçi Höyük, Westtürkei, erbrachten zahlreiche Hinweise auf Metallwerkstätten, die in die frühe Bronzezeit datieren. Fest installierte Öfen in großer Zahl erlauben die Lokalisierung dieser Werkstattareale im ursprünglichen Zentrum des Tells. Ein Raumkomplex der jüngsten Besiedlungsphase wird in seiner Datierung und dem dazugehörigen metallurgischen Ensemble vorgestellt und diskutiert. Das vielfältige Spektrum lässt auf unterschiedliche Gusstechniken in der Herstellung schließen. Darüber hinaus belegen Gussformen im Fundmaterial die Herstellung von Metallbarren für den weiteren Austausch. Erste Analyseergebnisse mittels Rasterelektronenmikroskopie und Röntgenfluoreszenzanalyse zeigen, dass die Metallhandwerker des Çukuriçi Höyük offenbar auch über metallurgisches Spezialwissen verfügten, wie am Beispiel eines Objektes aus einer Kupfer-Silberlegierung veranschaulicht wird. Funde mit ähnlicher Zusammensetzung und Zeitstellung finden sich vom Balkan bis Mesopotamien und lassen die Einbindung des Çukuriçi Höyük in ein weiträumiges Kommunikationsnetzwerk vermuten.

Technological style, chaine opératoire and labor investment of early Neolithic pottery

by Sarah McClure

with Joan Bernabeu

Das Problem der „Schwarzerden“ im Rheinland im archäologischen Kontext – Ein Resümee

by Eileen Eckmeier

Gerlach, R. & Eckmeier, E. (2012): Das Problem der „Schwarzerden“ im Rheinland im archäologischen Kontext – Ein Resümee. In: Stobbe, A., Tegtmeier, U. (eds.): Verzweigungen. Eine Würdigung für A.J. Kalis und J. Meurers-Balke. Frankfurter Archäologische Schriften 18: 105-124.

Secondary burial cemeteries, visibility and land tenure: A view from the southern Levant Chalcolithic period

by Rona Winter

Co-authored with Tal Svoray and Isaac Gilead, 2012, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

R. Jung - Ι. Μόσχος - M. Mehofer, Φονεύοντας με τον ίδιο τρόπο: Οι ειρηνικές επαφές για τον πόλεμο μεταξύ δυτικής Ελλάδας και Ιταλίας κατά τη διάρκεια των όψιμων μυκηναϊκών χρόνων, in Σ.Α. Παϊπέτης – Χ. Γιαννοπούλου (eds.), Πολιτισμική Αλληλογονιμοποίηση Νότιας Ιταλία και Δυτικής Ελλάδας Μέσα από την Ιστορία, Πρακτικά Συνεδρίου Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών, Πάτρα 2008, pp. 85-107.

by Ioannis Moschos

R. Jung - I. Moschos - M. Mehofer, Killing in the Same Way: Peaceful Relations on War between Western Greece and Italy... more R. Jung - I. Moschos - M. Mehofer, Killing in the Same Way: Peaceful Relations on War between Western Greece and Italy during the Late Mycenaean Times (in greek)

Western Achaea and the Ionian Islands are of strategic importance for maritime traffic and communication of all kinds between Greece and Italy. Controlling this region means to control the goods exchange between central and eastern Mediterranean. At the same time it also means to be the first area affected by military aggressors which originate in and operate from the Adriatic Sea.
Thus, it is not surprising to detect strong influence from Italy in the local Achaean and Cephalonian weapons technology during the 12th and 11th centuries BC and particularly in Naue II swords of types Cetona and Allerona, spearheads with cast socket, a dagger of Pertosa type and greaves with wire fittings.
A fundamental issue related to the weapons of relative Italian typology is their provenance, on which all further perspectives of interpretation depend. One of our research aims is to answer precisely the question if these Italian-type bronzes are imports from the Adriatic regions or local products made according to central Mediterranean prototypes. We do not study these weapons based only on their typology, but we also try to answer these questions taking in consideration the technological knowledge as well as the respective methods of the era.
On the one hand EDXRF as well as lead isotope analyses are made to get an overview over the chemical composition of the objects. These can give us information about the provenance of the metal and at least about the location of the ore deposit used for the production of the metal. On the other hand, we analyse the construction schemata of these weapons which are directly connected to the combat style. By these analyses of typology, archeometry and technology we aim at explaining the changes in fighting techniques from the 13th to the 11th century BC.

I. Moschos, Western Achaea During the Succeeding LH III C Late Period – The Final Mycenaean Phase and the Submycenaean Period

by Ioannis Moschos

Published in S. DEGER-JALKOTZY – A.Ε. BÄCHLE (eds.), LH III C Chronology and Synchronisms III. LH III C Late and the Transition to the Early Iron Age, Proceedings of the International Workshop held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences at Vienna, February 23rd and 24th, 2007, DenkschrWien 384 = Veröffentlichungen der Mykenischen Kommission 30 gemeinsam mit SCIEM 2000, Wien 2009, pp. 235-288.

Ι. Μόσχος, Αχαΐα. Ιστορικό και Αρχαιολογικό περίγραμμα. Προϊστορικοί χρόνοι, στο Α. Βλαχόπουλος (επιμ.), Αρχαιολογία - Πελοπόννησος, Εκδόσεις Μέλισσα, Αθήνα 2012, 300-307.

by Ioannis Moschos

I. Moschos, Evidence of Social Re-organization and Reconstruction in Late Helladic III C Achaea and Modes of Contacts and Exchange via the Ionian and Adriatic Sea

by Ioannis Moschos

Published in E. BORGNA – P. CÀSSOLA GUIDA (eds.), Dall’Egeo all’Adriatico: organizzazioni sociali, modi di scambio e interazione in età postpalaziale (XII-XI sec. a.C.) / From the Aegean to the Adriatic: Social Organisations, Modes of Exchange and Interaction in Postpalatial Times (12th–11th B.C.), Atti del Seminario internazionale (Udine, 1–2 dicembre 2006) / International Workshop (Udine, December 1st–2nd 2006), Studi e ricerche di protostoria mediterranea 8, Rome 2009, pp. 345-414.

Überraschungen aus der Tiefe. Das Moorprojekt Reichwalde

by Rengert Elburg

Elburg, R. & Van der Kroft, P.: Überraschungen aus der Tiefe. Das Moorprojekt Reichwalde. Archäologie Aktuell im Freistaat Sachsen 5, 1997, 90-95.

First publication about the late glacial drowned wood and the associated knapping places from the Federmesser period... more First publication about the late glacial drowned wood and the associated knapping places from the Federmesser period (final palaeolithic) of Reichwalde in eastern Germany.

Import trotz Überfluss – Bayerische Plattenhornsteine in Sachsen

by Rengert Elburg

Elburg, R. & Van der Kroft, P.: Import trotz Überfluss – Bayerische Plattenhornsteine in Sachsen. Arbeits- und Forschungsberichte zur sächsischen Bodendenkmalpflege 43, 2001, 285-288.

Martial Arts and Materiality: a Combat Archaeology Perspective on Aegean Swords of the Fifteenth and Fourteenth Centuries Bc

by Barry Molloy

in World Archaeology

Swords and Swordsmanship In the Aegean Bronze Age

by Barry Molloy

in American Journal of Archaeology

For Gods or Men? A Reappraisal of the Function of European Bronze Age Shields

by Barry Molloy

in Antiquity

Martial Minoans: War as social process, practice and event in Bronze Age Crete

by Barry Molloy

in Annual of the British School at Athens. In press 2012.

Aproximación experimental á obtención de bronce binario na Prehistoria do Noroeste Peninsular

by Jodok Lackinger

"End Master Work, in Máster de Historia Territorio e Recursos Patrimoniais directed by Beatriz Comendador Rey, Universiadade de Vigo, 2011"

End Master Work about archaeometallurgy and experimental archaeollogy, we have do some experimets of  bronze... more End Master Work about archaeometallurgy and experimental archaeollogy, we have do some experimets of  bronze obtain by cementation of tin ore and metallic copper, process to obtain charcoal and lost wax casting tecnique to make bronze archaeollogycal objects.
The didactic potential of those works was also suggested.

Reconstrucción virtual de un túmulo funerario neolítico.

by Francisco José López Fraile

Se presenta una infografía didáctica de la secuencia constructiva de un túmulo megalítico, siguiendo la tipología de las estructuras de época neolítica documentadas en Villaviciosa (Asturias). Se pueden distinguir en las sucesivas fases constructivas la cámara formada por megalitos, los estratos de compactación de bloques y las coberteras de tierra.