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Summary.This paper covers two aspects of an unusual Palaeolithic sanctuary located in a small recess in the cave of Nerja. The first shows the way in which the artist or artists took advantage of a spectacular group of tilted and tightly packed folds in painting their sides, hollows and edges. The second stresses the musical effect obtained when striking the edges with a wooden stick, in the manner of a percussion or lithophone. Some edges have been broken at various heights of old and their worn appearance testifies to their repeated use. We believe the sound effect to have been part of some kind of ritual taking place deep inside the cave, which may have been associated with the painted signs and symbols.

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1984.tb00112.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary.Fragments of ceramic sieves constitute a widespread, but littleknown element in the ceramic inventories of Linear Pottery sites in temperate Europe. These sieves appear to have functioned as strainers for separating curds from whey in cheese production, on the basis of parallels with later archaeological cultures and ethnographic examples. Archaeozoological data support the hypothesis that dairy production has a greater antiquity than has been hitherto accepted. The sieves played an important role in early dairy production, for the manufacture of cheese was an essential step in the exploitation of milk by populations who possibly had a high level of lactose intolerance.

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1984.tb00113.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary.Homeric passages bearing on the location of the Achaean camp at Troy are re‐examined in the light of new scientific data on the time‐scale for the alluviation of the Trojan plain. The new data confirm the accuracy of Strabo's account of the plain, and in particular of the shore‐line having come close to the Hisarlik site (Novum Ilium) in Hellenistic times. In the era of Troy VI/VII, c. 3,250 years BP, the shore‐line appears to have run west by south of the site, and a broad marine embayment lay between the city and the Sigeum ridge. It is therefore no longer possible to accept the received view (deriving from Schliemann and Leaf) that the Achaean camp was sited on the present shore‐line by the Hellespont. A new site is proposed for the camp on the lower slopes of the Sigeum ridge about four miles west of Hisarlik. It is argued that the indications in the Iliad are not inconsistent with such a siting, and in fact suit it better than the received view. This is shown with regard to the course of the Scamander, evidently pictured by Homer as running between camp and city, and also with respect to the general axis of the fighting on the plain, which is indicated to lie in an east‐west rather than a north‐south direction. The Besika Bay site, first proposed in 1912, is rejected as inconsistent with the Homeric data and unsatisfact

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1984.tb00114.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary.Elements of iconography on some black‐figure vases of the Tyrrhenian Group from the middle of the sixth century BC pose problems if all of the vases of the Group are to be seen as purely Attic productions. In addition, non‐Attic letter‐forms appear in nonsense inscriptions on some of the vases. Although some of the painters were certainly trained in Athens, it is possible that the Tyrrhenian workshop was established elsewhere. Similarities between some Tyrrhenian and some Eretrian imagery and letter‐forms may point in the general direction we should look for the home of that w

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1984.tb00115.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary.Excavations at the settlement site of Krautacker in the outskirts of Sopron (NW Hungary) have produced evidence of pottery manufacture from LT B to LT C. Three kilns of updraught type were discovered. Their technology is discussed. Stamp‐decorated wheel‐turned ware was produced throughout. The contexts and distribution of these vessels are conside

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1984.tb00116.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary.This paper is concerned with aspects of the Roman Conquest of Belgic Gaul in the first century BC which might be discerned through the study of the precious metal coinages issued by the indigenous inhabitants. Die studies are used as a basis for quantifying the output of the wartime coinages in relation to their predecessors, and the probable impact of the war in terms of the quantities of valuables which were permanently removed from circulation. The continued striking and use of native coinage after the war is also discussed and the material evaluated as a source of information on political arrangements and social conditions in the period preceding the implementation of Augustus’administrative reform

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1984.tb00117.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

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Summary.The Hope Herakles, hitherto thought to be a Roman copy of a statue by Skopas, is here shown to be a pastiche. The head is tentatively recognised as a classicising portrait, while the body type, having come down to us in a variety of reproductions carrying a different head, is associated with the Argive School of the late 5th c BC. A dating of the latter's prototype close to the plague of 429 as well as the Attic provenance of some of the copies suggest a possible connection with Hageladas’Herakles Alexikakos at Melit

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1984.tb00118.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY