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"This book explores changing settlement and subsistence in the Northern Great Lakes from the perspective of food-processing technology and cooking. Susan Kooiman examines precontact Indigenous pottery from the Cloudman site on Drummond Island on the far eastern end of Michigan's Upper Peninsula to investigate both how pottery technology, pottery use, diet, and cooking habits change over time and how these changes relate to hypothesized transitions in subsistence, settlement, and social patterns among Indigenous pottery-making groups in this area"--from publisher's website.

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To better understand the ancient Nabataean capital of Petra, it is important to consider its rural surroundings as well. The city's unfavorable geostrategic location makes this already clear: Situated in a deep valley and flanked by high mountain ranges, Petra's urban development was only possible through a well-structured organization of its surrounding landscape.0This study presents a first comprehensive archaeological and culture-historical characterization of the Petraean hinterland and researches overall strategies of the spatial organization of the city's rural environs.0Based on an extensive set of archaeological survey data from the Petra region, this study explores a variety of archaeological site types and features diachronically. While the main chronological focus is clearly set on the Nabataean and Roman periods, it also considers the preceding Iron Age and Hellenistic periods, as well as the subsequent Byzantine period.0The aim is to examine rural settlement patterns and subsistence strategies, aspects of rural water management, the extensive infrastructural network, the funerary and religious landscape, the military disposition, as well as the industrial potential of rural Petra.0Following a unique landscape archaeological approach, this study provides a differentiated analysis of the various archaeological sites and features for a broad, regional understanding of the Petraean hinterland and offers new insights into the socio-political and administrative, military, economic and infrastructural development of Terra Petraea through time.

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Die eisenzeitliche Siedlung von Francavilla Marittima im Norden Kalabriens gehort zu den wichtigsten Kontaktorten zwischen der lokalen Bevolkerung und den Griechen und Levantinern, die im fruhen 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. nach Italien expandierten. Seit ihrer Entdeckung und ersten Erforschung durch die italienische Archaologin Paola Zancani Montuoro nimmt der Ort zusammen mit der zugehorigen Nekropole auf dem Plateau der Macchiabate eine Schlusselstellung ein in der Diskussion um die fruhen kulturellen Austausch- und Aneignungsprozesse im westlichen Mittelmeerraum. Massgeblich ist dabei die Tatsache, dass um 720/10 v. Chr. in rund 10 km Entfernung von Francavilla Marittima und damit in Sichtdistanz die griechische Kolonie Sybaris gegrundet wurde. Wie sich diese permanente griechische Prasenz auf die Rolle und das Selbstverstandnis der einheimischen Bevolkerung im Hinterland der Kolonie ausgewirkt hat, ist Gegenstand einer andauernden Kontroverse. Dem Modell eines schnellen und radikalen Wandels des einheimischen Kulturraums in eine griechische Chora steht die These eines allmahlichen Verschmelzens der einheimischen mit der griechischen Welt gegenuber. Namentlich die Graber spielten dabei als geschlossene Kontexte eine wichtige Rolle. Die Basler Ausgrabungen in der Nekropole verfolgen das Ziel, neue Grundlagen fur die Beurteilung des kulturellen Transformationsprozesses an der Schwelle von der Eisenzeit zur kolonialen Epoche zu liefern. Im vorliegenden Band werden die Ausgrabungsergebnisse der Jahre 2009 - 2016 in den Bestattungsarealen Strada und De Leo veroffentlicht. Sie zeugen von der Vielfalt der Reaktionen auf das Fremde im einheimischen Grabritual und legen zugleich die Annahme nahe, dass die dauerhafte Niederlassung von Griechen an der Kuste das einheimische Kulturgefuge im Hinterland tiefgreifend verandert hat. Obschon punktuell in der Nekropole auch im 7. Jahrhundert v. Chr. noch neue Graber angelegt wurden, belegt der Abbruch der Bestattungstatigkeit im Areal Strada um 700 v. Chr., dass sich die einheimische Siedlungsgemeinschaft zu dieser Zeit im Umbruch befanden. Die vorliegende Publikation liefert damit einen Beitrag zur Erforschung fruher Migrations- und Mobilitatsprozesse im Mittelmeerraum und der damit verbundenen Frage von kultureller Identitat. The Iron Age site of Francavilla Marittima in northern Calabria is one of the most important points of contact between the local population and the Greeks and Levantines who expanded to Italy in the early 1st millennium BC. Since the discovery and initial research of the settlement and its necropolis on the Macchiabate plateau by the Italian archaeologist Paola Zancani Montuoro, the site has played a key role in the discussion about the early processes of cultural exchange and appropriation in the western Mediterranean. The decisive factor here is the fact that around 720/10 BC, in about 10 km distance from Francavilla Marittima and thus within sight, the Greek colony Sybaris was founded. How this permanent Greek presence has affected the role and self-image of the indigenous population in the hinterland of the colony is the subject of ongoing controversy. The model of a rapid and radical change of the native cultural area into a Greek chora is contrasted with the thesis of a gradual merging of the native with the Greek world. The graves in particular played an important role as closed contexts. The Basel excavations in the necropolis aim to provide a new basis for assessing the cultural transformation process on the threshold from the Iron Age to the colonial era. In this volume, the excavation results from 2009-2016 in the burial areas Strada and De Leo are published. They testify to the variety of reactions to the foreign in the indigenous burial ritual and suggest that the permanent settlement of Greeks on the coast has profoundly changed the indigenous cultural fabric in the hinterland. Although there were some spots in the necropolis with new graves dating to the 7th century BC, the Strada area proves the discontinuation of burial activities around 700 BC. Conversely, the local settlement community was in a state of upheaval at this time. The present publication thus makes a contribution to researching early migration and mobility processes in the Mediterranean region and the related question of cultural identity.

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This monograph presents a significant portion of the scientific results of the archaeological excavations at the Bronze Age settlement site of Punta di Zambrone on the Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria (southern Italy). These excavations were conducted from 2011 to 2013 in an Italian-Austrian cooperation. The book is the first in a series dedicated to the final publication of those excavations and focuses on the later part of the settlement history (13th-12th cent. BCE). Major topics include the topography of the site (including a harbour bay), its chronology, investigations into the economic basis of the Bronze Age society and its local, regional and interregional interactions. The new data from Punta di Zambrone are evaluated in comparison with new research results from coeval sites in Italy and Greece, which forms the basis for a historical contextualization of the settlement and thus contributes to the broader reconstruction of Mediterranean history at the end of the second millennium BCE. These coeval sites are presented by their excavators or investigators. The authors conducted geophysical and bathymetric surveys as well as underwater archaeological investigations, typological analyses of artefacts, a definition of the relative and absolute chronology, archaeobotanic and archaeozoological studies, aDNA analysis, Sr isotope analyses on human and animal teeth, chemical and Pb isotope analyses on metal artefacts, provenance analyses of pottery vessels, amber and stone artefacts (from Zambrone and other sites).

Excavations (Archaeology)