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Economic Circularity in the Roman and Early Medieval Worlds is available now on Casemate Academic.

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For Women's History Month, read "The Norse Sorceress". A multidisciplinary study providing new insights into the reality of magic and its agents in the Viking world, beyond the pages of medieval texts.

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"Islands and Communities" is a Major re-examination of issues of island identity and interaction with case studies from Crete, Cyprus and Sardinia covering a long time span and key cultural periods.

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#ICYMI: Seven wooden piles near Rákóczifalva reveal remains of a medieval ferry crossing, illuminating a centuries-old riverside transport network. (via. Heritage Daily)

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In the Maritime Encounters project, a highly international cross-disciplinary team has embarked on a diverse range of research goals to provide a more detailed and nuanced story of how prehistoric societies realised major and minor sea crossings.

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In this anthology, a number of writers discuss the image of Sweden past and present, both within and outside the country's borders.

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The volume will be of interest for a broad readership in academia & beyond, & for the first time brings poignant essays from philosophy to archaeology into conversation, which comment on, continue, or critique the scholarship Raymond embodies.

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Eva Lange-Athinodorou, the director of the Tell Basta Project, a German-Egyptian archaeological mission at Bubastis, provides a vivid summary of its archaeological remains, combining old results with the latest research conducted by the project.

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#Reviews are in for "Sentient Archaeologies", a text providing an in-depth discussion on the evolution of archeology.

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#ICYMI: Recent storms exposed rare 2,000-year-old human and animal footprints at Lunan Bay, dating to the Roman era and Boudicca’s time. (via Phys.org)

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This second volume focuses on diet, food practices, water management, and the organization and use of space within monastic complexes and landscapes.

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"Coins, Riches, and Lands" is a collection of papers that sheds light on how coins, riches, and lands were gained and distributed among soldiers, warriors, and mercenaries.

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"The Rise and Fall of the Department for International Development" traces DFIDs trajectory from its origins to its unravelling, distilling timely lessons for government aid institutions in the UK and beyond.

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Grayson Perry’s centrepiece to this fascinating journey is a major artwork, this book takes us to the fantasy world of a contemporary artist who never fails to challenge and unsettle his audience.

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This is the first dedicated book on the Picts that covers in detail both their archaeology and their history. It examines their kingdoms, culture, beliefs and everyday lives from their origins to their end.

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Roman Urbanism in Italy presents new evidence for the development of commerce and inter-regional trade through survey and analysis of urban layout and architecture.

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#ICYMI: An Anglo-Saxon sword was unearthed by archaeologists at a cemetery near Canterbury. The well-preserved weapon dates to the 6th century A.D. & features a silver and gilt hilt and a blade inscribed with runic inscriptions.

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This volume compiles published surveys and new satellite data on over 2,400 rural structures in nine Tripolitania regions, dating from the 1st century BC to the 7th century AD.

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"Ancient India" traces the development of Jain, Buddhist, and Hindu religious imagery in Ancient India, highlighting symbolic to human forms between 100 BCE and 600 CE.

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Check out what's new from Casemate Academic for the month of February!

Our latest blog highlights new books from Oxbow Books, Sidestone Press, the British Museum, Barkhuis, and Bokforlaget Stolpe!

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"Appropriating Height" is now available on Casemate Academic. The essays in this book focus on archaeological approaches to the utilization of highland regions in southwestern and central Asia.

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"Boundless Frontiers" represents an attempt to speak to a broad public in order to challenge 'common sense' and easy narratives on the complex issue of migration.

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This book reports on the excavation of a number of monumental collective tombs that were built there and used through the early part of the 2nd millennium.

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#ICYMI: Archaeologists say they have discovered a stone wall built by hunter-gatherers more than 7,000 years ago off the coast of France.

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Chariots on Fire, Reins of Power presents the first comprehensive overview of 5th century BC elite graves from the Lower Rhine-Meuse region.

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This book sketches the first archaeological history of the lower Sirwan/upper Diyala river valley of north-east Iraq and adjacent landscapes over a period of c. 12,000 years, from the earliest signs of human presence until the mid-first millennium BCE.

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This volume present early medieval Winchester not as a city alone, but a city emmeshed in wider political, social, and cultural movements and provides examples of authority and power that are representative of early medieval England as a whole.

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This volume examines the traces of ritual acts performed during less affluent burials, focusing on the use of 'offering-trays' as a case study.

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This study explores how the Handle Core Pressure Concept in Mesolithic Europe reveals patterns of mobility, technological choice, and knowledge transmission across Northern Europe.

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This study sheds new light on this question with an innovative approach to ceramics. Ceramics bear traces of the production techniques which potters learned and applied to create them.

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#Ceramics #PotteryTechniques #CeramicsStudy