The Age of Agade is the first book-length study of the Akkadian period of Mesopotamian
history, which saw the rise and fall of the world's first empire during more than a century of …

Abstract In the Bronze Age Mediterranean, trade was a key mechanism that defined the era's
political, social, and economic dynamism. This paper reviews recent methodological and …

The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and
clearly presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known, others undoubtedly …

Background To enhance and extend the knowledge about the global historical and
phylogenetic relationships between Merino and Merino-derived breeds, 19 populations …

The study of the exploitation of animals for traction in prehistoric Europe has been linked to
the 'secondary products revolution'. Such an approach, however, leaves little scope for …

In recent years, extensive archaeological studies have provided us with new knowledge on
wool and woollen textile production in continental Europe during the Bronze Age …

This is a highly original, interdisciplinary study of the archaic Greek word nomos and its
family of words. More recently used to mean simply'law'or'law-making', Thanos Zartaloudis …

For thousands of years, wool has been a valuable fibre for humans. Today, wool remains an
essential fibre in the textile industry and is suitable for a wide range of applications because …

Middle Egypt provides a unique insight into the organization of power, politics, economy,
and culture at the turn of the third millennium BC. The apparently easy integration of this …

This book brings together our present-day knowledge about textile terminology in the
Akkadian language of the first-millennium BC. In fact, the progress in the study of the …