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  • Chapter One - Introduction

  • Elizabeth A. Murphy, Florida State University
  • Book:
    The Pottery Industries of the Roman East
    Published online:
    20 March 2025
    Print publication:
    03 April 2025, pp 1-23

  • Summary

    Chapter 1 introduces the themes, objectives, and chronological and geographic parameters of the volume. It also argues for the importance of potters as a usual case study for everyday professions of the Romans. This is because, while we have relatively few textual accounts about potters, it is nonetheless a profession that has left extensive and easily recognized archaeological remains, as well as ubiquitous and well-studied products.

  • Social and Genetic Relations in Neolithic Ireland: Re-evaluating Kinship

  • Neil Carlin, Jessica Smyth, Catherine J. Frieman, Daniela Hofmann, Penny Bickle, Kerri Cleary, Susan Greaney, Rachel Pope
  • Journal:
    Cambridge Archaeological Journal / Volume 35 / Issue 3 / August 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 April 2025, pp. 435-455
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  • This paper re-evaluates recent kinship studies in Neolithic Ireland through a close analysis of biomolecular and fine-grained archaeological data. It outlines the rich possibilities these datasets offer when interwoven to enhance our understanding of diverse webs of social relationships. We synthesize a range of archaeological and scientific data to form a new model of kinship and its relationship to shifting traditions of megalith building and funerary and cosmological practices. This model is put in dialogue with recently published genetic data and used to test a variety of explanations for the patterns of biological relatedness revealed using these methods. We argue that the detected genetic patterning is best interpreted as reflecting a reconfiguration of social relations after 3600 bc linked to the consolidation of emergent social and religious communities.

Rome in the Tenth Century
  • A History in Art
  • John Osborne
  • Published online:
    01 April 2025
    Print publication:
    24 April 2025
  • This is the third and final volume in a series examining the history of Rome in the early Middle Ages (700–1000 CE) through the primary lens of the city's material culture. The previous volumes examined the eighth and the ninth centuries respectively. John Osborne uses buildings (both religious and domestic), their decorations, other works of painting and sculpture, inscriptions, manuscripts, ceramics, metalwork, and coins as 'documents' to supplement what can be gleaned from more traditional written sources such as the Liber pontificalis. The overall approach is particularly appropriate for tenth-century Rome, which has traditionally been considered a 'dark age', given recent research on standing monuments and the large amount of new material brought to light in archaeological excavations undertaken over the last four decades. This magnificent and beautifully illustrated volume provides a triumphant conclusion to a series which will be indispensable for all those interested in early medieval Rome.

  • Bronze Age cymbals from Dahwa: Indus musical traditions in Oman

  • Khaled A. Douglas, Nasser S. Al-Jahwari, Michel de Vreeze, Mohammed Hesein, Lloyd Weeks, Bernhard Pracejus
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 99 / Issue 404 / April 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    08 April 2025, pp. 375-391
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    April 2025
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  • Understanding the development and use of musical instruments in prehistory is often hampered by poor preservation of perishable materials and the relative rarity of durable examples. Here, the authors present a pair of third-millennium BC copper cymbals, excavated at Dahwa, Oman. Although they are the only well-contextualised examples from Arabia, the Dahwa cymbals are paralleled by contemporaneous examples from the Indus Valley and images in Mesopotamian iconography. Not only do the cymbals add to the body of evidence interpreted in terms of Indus migrants in Early Bronze Age Oman, they also suggest shared musical and potentially ritual practices around the Arabian Gulf at that time.

  • Small-Scale Migrations among Early Farmers in the Sonoran Desert

  • James T. Watson, Aaron Young, R. J. Sliva, Angela M. Mallard, Rachael Byrd
  • Journal:
    American Antiquity / Volume 90 / Issue 2 / April 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    03 June 2025, pp. 359-378
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    April 2025
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  • Migration played a significant role in shaping the Native populations of the southwest United States and northwest Mexico. Large-scale migrations into and across the region were underlain by small-scale (intraregional) population shifts affected by environmental fluctuations (declines and improvements) and social phenomena such as aggregation and the spread of sociopolitical spheres of influence within the region. We compare projectile point types, mortuary patterns, and biodistance information from Early Agricultural period (2100 BC–AD 50) sites to identify subtle differences in population composition associated with the arrival and spread of maize across the region. Small-scale migrations occurring around the foundation of farming communities in the Sonoran Desert may have established the basis of broad regional connectivity, shared historical ties, and subsequent migration patterns and practices. Rooted in early farming traditions and a shared language family, we argue that farmers expanded north and east from the borderlands, then eventually returned to ancestral homelands when environmental and incursive pressures pushed them back south.

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