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Antiquity
Antiquity is a quarterly journal that was founded in 1927. The publication issues peer-reviewed articles on world archaeology. Antiquity is published by Antiquity Publications, Ltd. It is owned by the Antiquity Trust. Headquarters is in York, United Kingdom. The journal is edited by Martin Carver, emeritus professor of archaeology at the University of York. It is also produced by members of the directors of the Antiquity Publications, Ltd., including Chris Evans, Roger Guthrie, Martin Millett, Nicky Milner, Cameron Petrie, Mike Pitts and Andrew Rogerson
Articles from Vol. 69, No. 263, June
A Cache of Hippopotamus Ivory at Gao, Mali; and a Hypothesis of Its Use
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The cache of hippopotamus ivory at Gao The city of Gao is located on the Niger Bend within the Sixth Region of the Republic of Mall, approximately 1100 km from the capital, Bamako [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED]. Although Gao developed as a terminus...
Accelerator Radiocarbon Dating of the Initial Upper Palaeolithic in Southeast Siberia
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Introduction The timing of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition (Binford 1989; Klein 1992; Knecht et el. 1993; Mellars 1989a; 1989b; White 1982) is not entirely clear, since it lies at or just beyond the limit of radiocarbon (14C) dating, 5030,000...
A Site in History: Archaeology at Dolni Vestonice/Unterwisternitz
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Introduction Whatever the journalist's definition of eastern Europe might be, let us state, as introduction to this Special Section, that Czechoslovakia is a country in Central, not Eastern, Europe. It is somewhat controversial to speak about its 'return...
Beyond Lifetime Averages: Tracing Life Histories through Isotopic Analysis of Different Calcified Tissues from Archaeological Human Skeletons
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Isotopic measurements on human skeletons The ratio of 13C to 12C, 15N/14N, 87Sr/86Sr and many other isotopes varies in a patterned fashion in the geosphere and biosphere. The composition of body tissues derives from foods eaten in life, so that isotopic...
Cave Art without the Caves
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A series of major discoveries over the past 15 years have transformed our conception of the parietal art of the last Ice Age in Europe, confirming what had long been suspected by some researchers - that the well-known art surviving in roughly 300 caves...
Dromedaries in Antiquity: Iberia and Beyond
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The enigmatic dromedary The camel is an enigmatic domestic species; its systematic status (and, accordingly, its nomenclature) is unclear (Kohler 1981; Mason 1984).(1) Though the Arabian peninsula is thought the likely origin of the domestic dromedary,...
From a Science Future to a Fantasy Past
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One can learn a lot about fantasy by visiting Victoria Station. The W.H. Smith bookstall there carries a large range of paperbacks. One display book-case has been allotted to erotic fiction, another to romance, another to horror and three to crime, but...
Local Histories and Global Theories in Colombian Pacific Coast Archaeology
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History matters. It provides the facts which help to test theories (Gould 1986; 1992). New data become relevant in the degree that they support or refute a theoretical framework. History generates the raw information (data) that serves to explore the...
Macedonia Then and Now: A Comment on Brown
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Brown's recent article (ANTIQUITY 68 (1994): 784-96) characterizes the bias held by some contemporary anthropologists when dealing with the 'Macedonian Question'. The failure of objectivity leads Brown to misrepresent crucial events and overlook major...
Mesolithic Mortuary Ritual at Franchthi Cave, Greece
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Franchthi Cave, on the east shore of the Gulf of Argos in southern Greece, is a key site for European prehistory. The cave's complex stratigraphic sequence spans at least 25,000 years, from the Upper Palaeolithic through the Neolithic, with indications...
Microburins and Microliths of the Levantine Epipalaeolithic: A Comment on the Paper by Neeley & Barton
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In their recent contribution to ANTIQUITY, Neeley & Barton (1994) propose a novel approach for examining and interpreting inter-assemblage variability in the Levantine Epipalaeolithic. Their paper is provocative and it is probably an understatement...
Pacbitun (Belize) and Ancient Maya Use of Slate
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Introduction The ancient Maya built and maintained their numerous population centres with large-scale masonry architecture and intensive agriculture, using a technology limited to stone tools. They created masterpieces in cut stone which ranged from...
Recent Academic Development at the London Institute of Archaeology
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The Institute of Archaeology was founded in 1934 as part of the University of London. In the subsequent six decades it has grown from a small research institute into a large and diverse department with 50 academic staff and some 400 students. When the...
Technology or Typology?: A Response to Neeley & Barton
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In a paper published in the June 1994 issue of ANTIQUITY, Neeley & Barton develop an argument purporting to demonstrate that differences in microlith morphology observed in Epipalaeolithic assemblages from the Near East are the product of technological...
The Cleaven Dyke: A Neolithic Cursus Monument/bank Barrow in Tayside Region, Scotland
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The Cleaven Dyke is a complex earthwork running in an almost straight line for about 2 km across a flat river terrace bounded by the confluence of the rivers Isla and Tay, and the Lunan Burn, in Perth and Kinross District, Tayside Region, Scotland [ILLUSTRATION...
The End of Mithraism
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The origin of the cult of Mithras in the Roman Empire has been the object of considerable enquiry. The circumstances in which Mithraism met its last end have aroused less interest, though the evidence for the finaldays of Mithraism could shed light on...
The 'Passio Sanctorum Quattuor Coronatorum': A Petrological Approach
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The Passion of the Four Crowned Saints Until the recent publication of ostraca from Mons Claudianus, the Passio Sanctorum Quattuor Coronatorum was the only document of substance bearing on life in a Roman quarry (Bingen et al. 1992; Delehaye 1910)....
Why Teach Heisenberg to Archaeologists?
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At the beginning of the academic year, one of the many pleasures of being Head is to welcome new students to the Department. In my introductory remarks, I like to challenge the new undergraduates to name a science which has no relevance to archaeology....
