SOMA 2003 - Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology: Proceedings of the Seventh Meeting of Postgraduate Researchers at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 21st –23rd February 2003

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32 papers from the Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology held at the Institute of Archaeology, London in 2003. Front Cover Title Page Copyright CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF TABLES INTRODUCTION North Syria in the sixth century AD: coast and hinterland Intra-regional variation in long distance trading relationships on the northern Levantine coast – the key to site survival? The south Italic fighting technique The Necropolis of Capestrano: New Excavations and Finds Corn-mummies come to light The Tomb S1 of Cyrene: from the Hellenistic phase to Christian re-use Lilith across the ages Cycles of island colonisation in the prehistoric Mediterranean Adventures in Fields of Flowers: Research on contemporary saffron cultivation and its application to the Bronze Age Aegean. Votive niches in funerary architecture in Cyrenaica (Lybia) Ars Fullonia. Interpreting and contextualising Roman fulling GIS Study of the Rural Sanctuaries in Abruzzo: Preliminary Report. How monkeys evolved in Egyptian and Minoan art and culture The central place of religion in Chalcolithic society of the southern Levant Archaeology's Well Kept Secret: The Managed Antiquities Market New images of the Erechtheion by European travellers Mani: A Unique Historic Landscape in the Periphery of Europe The Hominid Dispersal into Mediterranean Europe during the Early to Middle Pleistocene: the Sabre-toothed cat connection Numismatics, Hellenism, and the Enemies of Alexander Jannaeus Gendering figurines, engendering people in early Aegean prehistory Naue II swords and the collapse of the Aegean Bronze Age Urban Development and Local Identities: The Case of Gerasa from the Late Republican Period to the Mid-3rd Century AD Burial customs and social change in Argos from the Protogeometric to the Late Roman Period (1100 BC - 500 AD) Open endings at Osteria dell’Osa (Lazio) : Exploring domestic aspects of funerary contexts in the Early Iron Age of Central Italy. A Scale of Identity in the Mycenaean Argolid Expressions of Ethnic and Gender Identities in Egypt during the Early 1st Millennium B.C.E. Altars and cult installations of Punic tradition in Western Sicily Sacred landscape and the construction of identity: Samnium and the Roman World Investigating Colonialism and Post-Colonialism in the Archaeological Museum Space: The Case of the Lebanon and France Ethnic Identity in Archaic Pompeii Monument Conservation in the Mediterranean: Issues and Aspects of Anastylosis The skull cult of the Ancient Near East. Problems and new approaches.