The published history of a set of silver and gold objects acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1975 contains an unusual reference to a gold coin, supposedly found with the set but not purchased by the museum. The coin, which is both rare and well dated, ostensibly offers a date and location for the ancient deposition of the silver service.…[Read more]

The late medieval wall of Rimini is an important monumental presence in the present-day fabric of the city, bounding its historic center. However, even though a good knowledge exists through written sources about it, the subject has not been checked enough from the archaeological point of view. This article intends to take stock of the situation…[Read more]

The late medieval wall of Rimini is an important monumental presence in the present-day fabric of the city, bounding its historic center. However, even though a good knowledge exists through written sources about it, the subject has not been checked enough from the archaeological point of view. This article intends to take stock of the situation…[Read more]

Abstract:
Three-dimensional modeling is a process that can be applied to various archaeological purposes, either as a supplement for traditional recording, for providing virtual access to collections, or for sharing the research results. Among the available methods, Structure from Motion (SfM), an image-based modeling technique, is a friendly…[Read more]

A short note on a 2012 find from Göbekli Tepe – a seated figurine with an animal on its shoulder.

Book review, Journal of Roman Studies

This chapter explores the creation of a narrative of ‘isolation’ between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing on the presentation of rural communities in Scotland, Wales and Ireland as passive and isolated from the cut and thrust of the metropolis. This narrative trope can be found in examples of travel writing and eth…[Read more]

The Great Eastern Railway Company’s viaduct in East London was one of the earliest, and most substantial, railway structures in London, transporting huge quantities of goods and people entering and leaving central London. Rather than considering the official use of the viaduct, however, this chapter will focus on the unofficial, parallel uses of t…[Read more]

This PhD thesis has used building recording techniques, documentary research and oral history testimonies to explore how concepts of the modern and new between the 1870s and 1930s shaped the urban built environment, through the study of a particular kind of infrastructure that was developed to meet the needs of expanding cities at this time – s…[Read more]

This article considers a recent critical problematisation of the discussion of ›Otherness‹ in Merovingian archaeology (Halsall 2017), and extends this problematisation to the early mortuary archae- ology of post-Roman/early Anglo-Saxon England. The article first examines the literary goals of Gildas’ De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, and espec…[Read more]

Editorial/Introduction to themed issue of Internet Archaeology on Digital Creativity in archaeological practice, with links to contributors

This chapter presents an elaboration on one section of my 2014 book, “Consumerism in the Ancient World: Imports and and Identity Construction.” It focuses on an analysis of Greek vases found in the south of France, dating to ca. 600-300 BCE. Variances in the consumption and use of Greek vases are mapped, quantified, and considered as evidence for…[Read more]

Review of The Imagery of the Athenian Symposium, by K. Topper. In the Journal of Hellenic Studies 134.

Review of The Construction of Value in the Ancient World (Cotsen Advanced Seminar Series Vol. 5). J.K. Papadopoulos and G. Urton, eds. UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. In the American Journal of Archaeology 119 (4).

Review of Les céramiques d’usage quotidien à Thasos au IVe siècle avant J.-C. (Études Thasiennes XX), by F. Blondé, with M. Picon (École Française d’Athènes 2007). In the American Journal of Archaeology 114 (4).

Review of Vessels and Variety: New Aspects of Ancient Pottery (Acta Hyperborea 13), H. Thomasen, A. Rathje, and K. Bøggild Johannsen, eds. In the American Jour-nal of Archaeology 118 (2).

While the international community has acted forcefully since WorldWar II to protect sites and objects of cultural or historic significance on Earth, little attention has been paid to the same kinds of sites and objects in space. There are important ethical and scholarly reasons for wanting to preserve sites and in situ objects in off-Earth…[Read more]

Forvm MMX is an interdisciplinary team whose members come from a variety of backgrounds (e.g., conservation, topography, biology, computer science, public dissemination, education), and whose work will offer open-access results in a digital format to other researchers and educators interested in a holistic global analysis of the documentation…[Read more]

This chapter is presented from the perspective of a professional archaeologist who specializes in Greek archaeology, intercultural contact and exchange, and the ethics of cultural heritage. His chapter investigates the mandates for discard and “design for demise” of space objects in the wider context of cultural phenomena from all cultures. The…[Read more]

The site of Morgantina, located on a ridge in the rolling landscape of east-central Sicily about 60 km from the Ionian Sea coast, has been the locus of continuous archaeological investigation
since 1955 (fig. 1).1 The ridge controlled the western end of the fertile Plain of Catania and stands above the source of the Gornalunga River. Farther…[Read more]