Biblija u svjetlu arheoloških nalaza

Biblia ex archaeologia illustrata. — Seliguntur quaedam momenta archaeologiae biblicae ut exhibeatur quomodo ex archaeologia Biblia illustratur. Et quidem: 1) Brevis conspectus historia excavationum; 2) Monumenta Hetitarum; 3) Diluvium biblicum et traditiones mesopotamicea; 4) explicatio Gen 11 ex archaeologia; 5) Idololatria canaanitica ex Ugarit illustrata; 6) invasio Assyriorum anno 722. a. Chr

PREFACE

You will find seven articles and one book review in volume 26 of Archaeologia Baltica. The chronology and the themes they cover range from the Final Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. The volume is divided into two main sections; the first is devoted to papers read at the 18th UISPP World Congress in Paris (4 to 9 June 2018), sub-session 18-2 ‘The Final Palaeolithic in the East Baltic’. Eight papers, looking at Latvia, Lithuania and the Kaliningrad Region, were presented at this session, and it was decided to publish them in a volume of Archaeologia Baltica. However, only three articles were submitted for this issue, and we are very pleased to be able to publish them here. Anyone interested in the congress can access all the sessions, the themes of the presentations and abstracts of them on the official congress website: https://uispp2018.sciencesconf.org

Local churches and the conquest of the North : elite patronage and identity in Saxo-Norman Northumbria

The social implications of the Saxo-Norman transition are particularly intriguing in Northumbria, where Anglian, Scandinavian, and Norman social structures, identities, and traditions of material culture converged. In the north, where royal control was less secure and there was a history of political independence, negotiating the transition required a calculated balance of imposed authority and regard for the institutions of the past. Local churches, already established as a focal point of religious and secular manorial life, were one of the primary arenas in which this dialogue of power was carried out. Through an examination of the evidence for stone church buildings and funerary monuments in eleventh and twelfth-century Northumbria, this paper demonstrates how the elite utilized church patronage to negotiate authority and identity in a period of acute transition, and how the particular political and cultural characteristics of Yorkshire, County Durham, and Northumberland could affect this process

Pratarmė

Malonaus skaitytojo rankose iš pirmo žvilgsnio eilinis, tačiau gerokai pasikeitęs 16-asis „Archaeologia Lituana“ tomas. Vienas iš svarbių leidinio pokyčių – vyriausiojo redaktoriaus pasikeitimas. 2015 m. vasario 6 d. jungtiniame Archeologijos katedros ir „Archaeologia Lituana“ redaktorių kolegijos posėdyje vietoj atsistatydinusio ilgamečio leidinio vyriausiojo redaktoriaus prof. habil. dr. Mykolo Michelberto išrinktas doc. dr. Algimantas Merkevičius. Naudodamasis šia proga, dėkoju profesoriui už ilgametį sunkų ir atkaklų darbą kasmet išleidžiant po tomą, ne visada palankiomis leidiniui sąlygomis. Žemaitiškas užsispyrimas, atkaklumas ir didelis autoritetas neabejotinai padėjo šiame sunkiame ir atsakingame darbe. [...

Dates, Diet, and Dismemberment: Evidence from the Coldrum Megalithic Monument, Kent

We present radiocarbon dates, stable isotope data, and osteological analysis of the remains of a minimum of 17 individuals deposited in the western part of the burial chamber at Coldrum, Kent. This is one of the Medway group of megalithic monuments – sites with shared architectural motifs and no very close parallels elsewhere in Britain – whose location has been seen as important in terms of the origins of Neolithic material culture and practices in Britain. The osteological analysis identified the largest assemblage of cut-marked human bone yet reported from a British early Neolithic chambered tomb; these modifications were probably undertaken as part of burial practices. The stable isotope dataset shows very enriched & 15N values, the causes of which are not entirely clear, but could include consumption of freshwater fish resources. Bayesian statistical modelling of the radiocarbon dates demonstrates that Coldrum is an early example of a British Neolithic burial monument, though the tomb was perhaps not part of the earliest Neolithic evidence in the Greater Thames Estuary. The site was probably initiated after the first appearance of other early Neolithic regional phenomena including an inhumation burial, early Neolithic pottery and a characteristic early Neolithic post-and-slot structure, and perhaps of Neolithic flint extraction in the Sussex mines. Coldrum is the only site in the Medway monument group to have samples which have been radiocarbon dated, and is important both for regional studies of the early Neolithic and wider narratives of the processes, timing, and tempo of Neolithisation across Britai