Archaeology: Recent submissions
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ATHENIANS. Surviving the Catastrophe: the peoples' response to the invasion, and the threat of becoming stateless (apolis) in the case of the Persian Wars
Published 2017-01-01The Director of the Athenian Agora Excavations (1946-1967), Homer A. Thompson, said the following regarding the Persian-led destruction of Athens: "people's reaction to disasters is more indicative of a nation's character ...Open AccessThesis -
A Critical Analysis of Gendered Approaches to Funerary, Settlement and Public Space Archaeology in the Classical World
Published 2016-01-01This thesis is a critical analysis of the methods and application of gendered research in classical archaeology, with specific focus on funerary, settlement and public space archaeology. This study concentrates on the ...Open AccessThesis -
Temples, Tombs and Trees: Towards A Reconstruction of the Neolithic Temples of Malta
Published 2018-03-29The Neolithic “temples” of Malta from the 7th – 5th millennia BP have been objects of curiosity for European scholarship since the 18th century. What has pre-occupied architects and been discussed by archaeologists is the ...Open AccessThesis -
Deathly Depictions and Descriptions: Understanding Attic Representations of the Deceased in the Afterlife in Text and Image during the 6th and 5th Centuries BC
Published 2018-03-08This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of Attic conceptions of the deceased in the afterlife. It thereby aims to identify and explain how the deceased were represented in a specifically selected corpus of textual and ...Open AccessThesis -
Human Life in Early Bronze Age I Jericho: A Study of the Fragmented Human Skeletal Remains from Tomb A61
Published 2018-03-07This Honours research thesis takes an in-depth look at the human skeletal remains from an Early Bronze Age I Jericho tomb, excavated by Kathleen Kenyon in the 1950’s. Tomb A61 contains highly fragmented and commingled human ...Open AccessThesis