Writing at Ugarit has received a great deal of scholarly attention for the wide range languages and writing systems used, especially city’s distinctive alphabetic cuneiform script which accounts around half inscribed material from site. The vast majority rest is in Akkadian language logo-syllabic script. This written is, justifiably, usually seen as scribal, that stems state bureaucracy profess...

Pumice fragments recovered from an archeological excavation on the Greek mainland have been correlated by means of index of refraction measurements with the Late Bronze Age volcanic eruption on the island of Thera (Santorini) in the Aegean Sea. Pottery from the strata containing the pumice dates from the 15th century B.C.

This article is based on an EAA session in Kiel 2021, which thirteen contributors provide their response to Robb and Harris's (2018) overview of studies gender the European Neolithic Bronze Age, with a reply by Harris. The central premise 2018 was opposition ‘contextual gender’ ‘cross-contextual Age gender’, created uneasiness among four co-organizers meeting. Reading original leaves impression...

Classification, Study and Analysis of Animal Bones in Shirtel Area Qazvin Plain from Bronze Age to Mid-Iron

There is archaeological evidence that coal was used in the Bronze Age, 3,000-4,000 years ago, in ancient China and in Roman Britain. But over the millennia, while human and animal labour and wood burning were the principal energy sources, coal played a minor role. In the pre-industrial age, reflected in the novels of Thomas Hardy and the paintings of the Old Masters, energy supply was local and...