Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Open Access Journal: Anabases: Traditions et Réceptions de l’Antiquité

[First posted in AWOL 20 December 2011. Updated 17 June 2026]

Anabases: Traditions et Réceptions de l’Antiquité
ISSN électronique: 2256-9421
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Depuis sa naissance en mars 2005, Anabases se veut une revue internationale, transdisciplinaire et comparatiste portant sur la réception et les traditions de l’Antiquité à travers le temps. En bref : qu’advient-il de l’Antiquité après l’Antiquité ?

La démarche interculturelle – qui est à la base des problématiques de l’équipe É.R.A.S.M.E. – sous-tend une perspective transversale dans trois registres d’analyse : 1) entre disciplines, comme l’histoire, la philosophie, les littératures, l’archéologie, les sciences politiques ; 2) entre aires culturelles touchant la Méditerranée, l’Europe, le Proche-Orient et le Moyen-Orient ; 3) entre périodes, depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’au très contemporain. 

Most recent open access number:

39 | 2024 

  • Historiographie et identités culturelles

  • Traditions du patrimoine antique

  • Archéologie des savoirs

  • Actualités et débats

  • L’atelier de l’histoire : chantiers historiographiques

  • Comptes rendus

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    Archibab 6. Archives paléo-babyloniennes : 150 ans de publication et d’études (1872-2022)

    Dominique Charpin et Antoine Jacquet (éd.) 
    Mémoires de N.A.B.U. 24, Paris, 2026, 590 pages, ISBN 979-10-97449-08-7.  
    Deux mois après sa parution papier, vous pouvez désormais télécharger la version PDF du dernier livre publié par la SEPOA :

    Le PDF est mis en ligne sous licence Creative Commons Attribution-Partage dans les mêmes conditions 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    Pour télécharger le volume, merci de passer par ici : Mémoires de NABU 24 (PDF)

     

    Entangled Africa: Intra-African Relations Between Rain Forest Mediterranean from Around 4,000 BCE to 1,500 CE

    Synopsis

    This volume presents the results of Entangled Africa (SPP 2143), a Priority Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG) coordinated by the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). Between 2018 and 2024, 13 interdisciplinary projects investigated intra-African interactions north of the equator between 4,000 BCE and 500 CE, a period marked by significant environmental, demographic, and socio-political transformations.
    The contributions highlight archaeological, linguistic, and environmental perspectives on the movement of people, goods, and ideas, and examine how these dynamics were shaped by and responded to ecological and material conditions. Case studies address topics ranging from ceramic technology and plant domestication to language contact, trade networks, and environmental modeling. Particular emphasis is placed on identifying concrete indicators of interaction and reassessing Africa’s role in broader historical processes.
    In bringing together these diverse approaches, the volume demonstrates the value of collaborative and interdisciplinary research, while contributing to a more differentiated understanding of Africa’s position within ancient global history.

    Published

    April 14, 2026

    Published

    April 14, 2026


     

     

    La ceramica di produzione locale di Selinunte: Nascita ed evoluzione

    Linda Adorno [Author]
     

    Tra i prodotti dell’artigianato di Selinunte, la ceramica rivestì un ruolo centrale nello sviluppo della città e nei contatti con la madrepatria Megara Iblaea, le altre colonie siceliote e i centri indigeni della Sicilia occidentale. Oggetto di questo studio è la ceramica di produzione locale rinvenuta nell’isolato est dell’agora, relativamente al periodo compreso tra l’ultimo quarto del VII e la fine del VI secolo a.C.

    La classificazione per tipologia e funzione si è basata su una selezione di oltre 1200 vasi provenienti da stratigrafie con cronologie attendibili, e ha permesso di rappresentare un inedito quadro d’insieme. Infatti, sebbene relativa a semplici oggetti di vita quotidiana, lo studio della produzione vascolare ha fornito dati essenziali per aggiungere un tassello alla comprensione della struttura sociale, economica e culturale della comunità selinuntina.

    Una parte consistente della ricerca è stata dedicata alle prime fasi di vita dell’insediamento coloniale, per delineare lo sviluppo nel tempo delle ceramiche prodotte dalle officine della città a partire dai loro modelli di riferimento. Nell’esame dell’evoluzione di queste produzioni sono stati considerati anche i fenomeni di imitazione strettamente correlati a modelli della tradizione corinzia e ionica, veicolati da Megara Iblea. Le conclusioni, infine, propongono una sintesi ricostruttiva dei sistemi, delle strutture tecnologiche e dell’organizzazione del lavoro che hanno caratterizzato il ›modello‹ dell’officina artigianale selinuntina.

    Published

    May 14, 2026

    Bibliographic Information and Reviews

    Details about the available publication format: Print-on-Demand

    Print-on-Demand

    ISBN-13 (15)

    978-3-447-12276-4

     

     

     

    Tuesday, June 16, 2026

    Obsidian and the Sea: Evidence, Concepts and Social Implications of its Maritime Transportation

    Maritime exchange and its social dimensions substantially defi ne global relationships in our modern world. Archaeology as a discipline has a long history investigating exchange and this research has been used to understand the extent of spheres of interactions between distant communities, risk minimisation strategies of communities living in unpredictable environments, advances in technology, cultural diversification, and emergence of social hierarchies and inequalities.

    Obsidian and the Sea elucidates the long-lasting human relationship with the sea, demonstrating the crucial role of the coast and open waters alike in the development of prehistoric coastal communities, human migration trajectories and island settlement in deep time. This book’s novel approach is to focus on one material in particular, obsidian, to explore how it reveals the use of the sea in prehistory across different times and places. The case studies presented here demonstrate especially well that, throughout history and across different regions, humans have engaged with obsidian exchange not solely as an economic activity, but, signifi cantly, in a symbolic way to denote social connectivity at great distances and o entimes in absentia, meaning without the need for face-to-face interactions. Obsidian’s unique physical attributes – brilliance, iridescence, transparency, colour – are an integral part of the human condition and have a strong emotional impact to its consumers. They facilitated the maintenance of mental maps of preferential routes and desired social networks diachronically with the sea functioning as a highway for communication.

    Published

    May 18, 2026

     

    • Foreword
      Clive Gamble
    • Introduction
      Christian Reepmeyer, Theodora Moutsiou
    • Maritime Interconnections in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Early Use of Obsidian
      Theodora Moutsiou
    • The Power of the Gift among Neolithic Farming Communities of the Central Mediterranean
      Kyle P. Freund
    • Unveiling source complexity
      The centrality of Monte Arci (Sardinia) obsidian circulation in the reconstruction of Western Mediterranean prehistoric interactions
      Carlo Lugliè, François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec, Ludovic Bellot-Gurlet, Marie Orange, Stéphan Dubernet
    • Obsidian Exchange and Sea-Level Rise
      A Case Study from Eastern Indonesian of Post-Ice Age Raw Material Transportation
      Christian Reepmeyer, Abdillah Irfan, Shimona Kealy, Sue O´Connor
    • Obsidian Exchange and Seafaring
      Evidence from Prehistoric Northeast Asia
      Yaroslav V. Kuzmin
    • Marine Transportation of Obsidian from Kozushima Island
      Evidence from the Provenance Study of Obsidian Artifacts in Mt. Ashitaka, Central Japan, Using EDXRF, p-XRF, and NAA Methods
      Michael D. Glascock, Nobuyuki Ikeya
    • Maritime Trade and Obsidian Use in Semporna, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
      Stephen Chia Ming Soon
    • Obsidian Distribution During Middle and Late Lapita
      Insight from Sourcing and Technological Analysis of Obsidian from Apalo and Amalut, Arawe Islands, and Implications for the Western Pacific
      Robert Henderson, Glenn R. Summerhayes, Anne Ford, Christina Pavlides, Chris Gosden
    • Hunter-Gatherer Maritime Conveyance of Obsidian on the Baja California Peninsula
      Lee M. Panich, Antonio Porcayo-Michelini, Matthew R. Des Lauriers
    • Ancient Maya Obsidian Trade along the Caribbean Coast
      The Late Postclassic – Early Spanish Colonial Periods at San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize
      W. James Stemp, Scott E. Simmons
    • The History of Insular Obsidian Source Exploitation in the Context of Global Island Colonization Studies
      Tristan Carter
    • Trade, Exchange, Interaction and Heirlooms
      Theorising the Distribution of Obsidian in Oceania
      Peter Sheppard
    • Obsidian and the Sea
      Evidence, Concepts and Social Implications of its Maritime Transportation
      Christian Reepmeyer, Theodora Moutsiou

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    Published

    May 18, 2026