Daily Life Archive
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Little women: gender and hierarchic proportion in Old Kingdom mastaba chapels
Posted on March 19, 2013 | No CommentsIn an initial attempt to investigate what variations in comparative scale meant to the ancient Egyptians who created and viewed Egyptian art, I have considered the limited case of the wife represented with her husband in reliefs and paintings in his tomb chapel. -
Shadow on the steps : time measurement in ancient Israel
Posted on March 17, 2013 | No CommentsWe find that the ancient Israelites had more than one calendar, more than one method of measuring intervals of time between events, and several different chronologies of its history. -
One accident too many?
Posted on March 8, 2013 | No CommentsPresentation of a skeleton discovered in the Sudan in the 1996/7 season of the Northern Dongola Reach Survey, sponsored by the Sudan Archaeological Research Society, in a small Kerma period cemetery (P37), south of Kawa. This skeleton exhibits an unusually interesting range of injuries, which are listed and discussed. -
Bronze Age pottery and settlements in southern England
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsWhat we need to do. Doctoral research involving artefact corpora appears to be unfashionable. However the compilation of such works for Food Vessels, accessory vessels and the Late Bronze Age styles is desperately needed; and the studies of Biconical Urns and MBA pottery (see above) need to be published. -
From rejection to incorporation: The Roman bathing culture in Palestine
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsThe importance of bathing as a daily ritual and focus point of the social life in the Roman world is well known and is attested by the large number and luxurious character of both the public and private Roman baths. -
Diadems: a girl
Posted on February 15, 2013 | No CommentsThe relationship between women and jewellery is a very intriguing one, not only in modern, but also in ancient times. -
The Goddess Hathor and the women of ancient Egypt
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsThis thesis aims to investigate the women of ancient Egypt with regards to their relationship with the goddess Hathor. Hathor is one of the most popular Egyptian deities, and arguably (until she was assimilated by Isis during later Egyptian history) the most popular deity among the women of Egypt. -
Inca Dice and Board Games
Posted on February 4, 2013 | No CommentsVery little is known of the games played in Precolumbian Andean cultures. Significantly none is mentioned in H. Murray -
Mancala in Roman Asia Minor?
Posted on February 3, 2013 | No CommentsIn Roman cities gameboards of different types engraved into the marble pavements of streets, public places and buildings can be observed. -
How to have a Roman hairstyle
Posted on January 24, 2013 | No CommentsJanet Stephens, an amateur archaeologist and hairdresser, has been able to recreate one these hairstyles - that of the Roman Vestal Virgins, who were priestesses of Vesta, goddess of the hearth.
