scholarly journals Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah, Aelia Capitolina—Jerusalem in the Roman Period in Light of Archaeological Research (Mnemosyne Supplements – 432), Brill, Leiden–Boston 2019, 244 pp., 97 figs.; ISSN 2352-8656; ISBN 978-90-04-40733-6

Electrum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 259-261
Author(s):  
Edward Dąbrowa
Keyword(s):  
Roman Period ◽  
Archaeological Research

Wyroby ze szkła i fajansu egipskiego

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-119
Author(s):  
Sylwia Wajda ◽  
Beata Marciniak-Maliszewska
Keyword(s):  
Glass Bead ◽  
Glass Production ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Chemical Compositions ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Glass Making ◽  
Epma Analysis ◽  
Halophytic Plants

During archaeological research in the cremation cemetery in Żelazna Nowa, 106 glass and four faience artefacts were uncovered. Most of them were found in eleven cremation burials (1, 2, 19A, 33, 34, vicinity of 36, 37, 39, 44, 47, 54) dated between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD. The glass pieces are highly fragmented, melted, or fused with other elements of the pyre, with only one glass bead completely preserved (type 218c acc. to Tempelmann-Mączyńska). The faience objects have survived in better shape: these are two complete beads and two fragments, all representing type 171 (acc. to Tempelmann-Mączyńska). Chemical compositions of 12 glass pieces and one fragment of a faience bead were determined using EPMA analysis. All the analysed artefacts turned out to be sodium glasses, made using both mineral sodium (natron) and sodium from the ash of halophytic plants (one sample). Natron glasses represent three groups distinguished by varying contents of MgO and K2O. The differences in concentrations of these components indicate that sands from different deposits were added in the glass-making process. This corroborates a hypothesis positing multiple centres of glass production during the Roman Period.

scholarly journals La explotación de esmeraldas en el Egipto romano. Primeros resultados del Sikait Project

2019 ◽  
pp. 283-303
Author(s):  
Joan Oller Guzmán ◽  
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David Fernández Abella ◽  
Vanesa Trevín Pita ◽  
Orio l Achón Casas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Effort ◽  
Eastern Desert ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Trade Network ◽  
Initial Results

This paper presents initial results of the Sikait Project, an archaeological research effort focused on the study of the Mons Smaragdus area (in the Egyptian Eastern Desert) dedicated to beryl/emerald mining in the Roman period. Archaeological fieldwork at Sikait in winter 2018 furthered knowledge about the exploitation of beryl and the trade network that it created in Roman times

The archaeology of Samnite settlement in Molise

Antiquity ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 51 (201) ◽  
pp. 20-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Barker
Keyword(s):  
Roman Period ◽  
Middle Palaeolithic ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Stone Artifacts ◽  
Adriatic Coast ◽  
Historical Tradition

The province (or regione) of Molise is roughly the size of Lincolnshire or Devon, and stretches from the Apennine mountains to the Adriatic coast (FIG. I). In the Roman period Molise was occupied by the Samnite peoples and by related tribes such as the Frentani (Salmon, 1967, 25, map I). The historical tradition describes the Samnites as a rustic and warlike people, whom the Romans subdued only after the long series of savage wars in the last three centuries BC. Despite this historical evidence, however, the lack of previous archaeological research in Molise until the recent past meant that the archaeological record for this period in the province prior to 1974 was essentially confined to two major town sites of the Roman period (Boiano and Sepino), and two Samnite and Roman religious sanctuaries. For the same reason practically nothing was known about earlier prehistoric settlement. In the rest of Italy the evidence for early man built up by survey and excavation usually goes back at least as far as the Middle Palaeolithic, up to some 100,000 years ago. For Molise, however, there were in 1974 only chance finds of prehistoric flint and stone artifacts in local and national museum collections, most with little or no exact information about provenance. Molise was therefore virtually a blank area on the archaeological map of Italy.

Romeins Nijmegen

Lampas ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-240
Author(s):  
Harry van Enckevort
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Roman Empire ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Military Camp ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
History Of ◽  
Municipal Boundaries ◽  
Burial Grounds

Summary The Roman period in the history of Nijmegen starts in 19 BC with the construction of a large military camp on the Hunerberg and ends with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD. During this period of nearly 500 years the dynamic history of Nijmegen and the surrounding Batavian area was partly determined by well-considered decisions made by Roman emperors and their army commanders in the province. In addition, incoming Germanic tribes, rebelling Romans and natural events such as climate change and two pandemics each determined the course of this history in its own unique way. Since 1914 archaeological research within the municipal boundaries has uncovered the remains of various military fortresses and smaller camps, urban settlements, small hamlets, burial grounds and an aqueduct. The results of these excavations unravel parts of the history of the oldest city in the Netherlands, but much is still awaiting discovery in the Nijmegen soil and in the archaeological depots.

The journalist, the minister and the lost cairnfield of Cathkin Braes

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
Jim Mearns
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Biographical Information ◽  
Modern Work

This paper reviews the use of sources in archaeological research, with particular reference to antiquarian material. Specific attention is paid to antiquarian texts by the Rev. David Ure and Mr Hugh MacDonald relating mainly to the site of Queen Mary's Cairn, Cathkin Braes, south-east of Glasgow. Brief biographical information is provided about the two antiquaries and their different approaches to recording sites discussed. The paper also looks at more recent work on the area and compares the modern approaches to reporting with the antiquarian and notes the uses of antiquarian sources in modern work.

A Medieval Burial from Graham Street, Leith, Edinburgh

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-169
Author(s):  
Paul R. J. Duffy ◽  
Olivia Lelong
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Information ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Housing Development ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Physical Evidence ◽  
Research Division ◽  
The North ◽  
The Individual

Summary An archaeological excavation was carried out at Graham Street, Leith, Edinburgh by Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division (GUARD) as part of the Historic Scotland Human Remains Call-off Contract following the discovery of human remains during machine excavation of a foundation trench for a new housing development. Excavation demonstrated that the burial was that of a young adult male who had been interred in a supine position with his head orientated towards the north. Radiocarbon dates obtained from a right tibia suggest the individual died between the 15th and 17th centuries AD. Little contextual information exists in documentary or cartographic sources to supplement this scant physical evidence. Accordingly, it is difficult to further refine the context of burial, although a possible link with a historically attested siege or a plague cannot be discounted.

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