PROOFS for our Jewels book with the National Museums of Scotland look amazing!!! You can still order a copy with preorder discount!
Chapter 5 of 19. Still a lot of work to do, but it is coming along nicely!
Out Today: Death at the Dunnu. Investigating Funerary Variety at Middle Assyrian Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria. By Keshia Akkermans.
This book presents an in-depth, comparative analysis of forty-one Late Bronze Age graves found at the Middle Assyrian dunnu at Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria.
Read for free at: https://www.sidestone.com/books/death-at-the-dunnu
OUT NOW | Echoes from the Deep. Inventorising shipwrecks at the national scale by the application of marine geophysics and the historical text by Innes McCartney
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ABSTRACT | In a process analogous with the impact of aerial photography on landscape archaeology, marine geophysics is locating the remains of thousands of shipwrecks across the seabed of the globe. This research project set out to establish whether all of the shipwrecks in a given geographic region could be identified by name through the mutual study of the 3D models of the shipwrecks, alongside the historic text of shipping losses in the same area.
All of the 273 shipwrecks in a 7,500sqm study area in the Irish Sea were surveyed using multibeam echosounder. The methodologies subsequently developed to identify the wrecks enabled names to be given to 80% of the unknown ships, verified by their dimensions, their geographic position, and archival descriptions of the sinking of each ship. In all 87% of the ships in the study are now identified.
In historic terms, the newly identified wrecks included myriad vessels from trawlers, cargo vessels, submarines, through to the largest ocean liners and tankers. They include rare ship designs, losses of national importance, and naval graves. Several of the wrecks uncovered have potential environmental concerns. The accurate dating of so many wrecks in one area has a major impact on the study of seabed dynamics and site formation processes, creating better models for the placement of windfarms and tidal generators.
This research is important because the seabed of the world is being increasingly mapped in detail, and shipwrecks are being located in large numbers. This research developed a low-cost means of inventorising shipwreck datasets across entire national zones without costly physical interaction with each wreck site. It should be of key interest to marine scientists, environme
COMING SOON | Following the success of our Dutch volume with the same name, we are thrilled to announce that we will be publishing an English DOGGERLAND due to popular demand! 🌊
📙 Pre-order now to get €5,- off: https://www.sidestone.com/books/doggerland-lost-world-under-the-north-sea
This popular-science book – edited by Luc Amkreutz Rmo & The Overdressed Archeologist of Rijksmuseum van Oudheden – tells the story of one of the most important, but least known major archaeological sites in Europe: Doggerland. Few people know that the beaches along the North Sea lie on the edge of a vast lost world. A prehistoric landscape that documents almost a million years of human habitation and lay dry for most of that time.
Doggerland is where early hominids left the first footprints in northern Europe, more than 900,000 years ago. Later, for hundreds of thousands of years, it was the scene of ice ages. A world of woolly mammoths and rhinoceroses, horses and reindeer and the successful Neanderthals who hunted them, including Krijn: the first Neanderthal from Doggerland.
At the end of the last Ice Age, the first modern humans also left their traces here, including the famous Leman-and-Ower-Banks spearhead – the first documented Doggerland find – and some of the oldest art in the region. With the onset of the Holocene, our current era, Doggerland’s inhabitants were increasingly confronted with climate change and rising sea levels, just as we are today.
The Mesolithic hunter-gatherers lived in a rich, but constantly changing world – to which they successfully adapted. Ongoing submergence and a huge tsunami around 6150 BC marked the beginning of the end. A few centuries later, the last islands disappeared under the waves and with them, the story of Doggerland was lost in time. This book brings this vanished world back to the surface.
(please note that this is not an exact translation of the Dutch version, nor is it a full-colour publication)
OUT NOW | Congrats to Dr. de Vries on her successfull doctoral defence and publication of her thesis – a study into the social meaning of norm and variation in housebuilding, general and special deposition practices on (Roman) Iron Age settlement sites of the northern Netherlands!
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