Promotion of the ICAA Monograph Series Nr. 2
THE COMPLEX OF TUMULI 9, 10 and 11 in the NECROPOLIS of APOLLONIA (ALBANIA) by Maria Grazia Amore
On April 20, 2010 in the hall “Aleks Buda” of the Academy of Sciences was held the promotion of the new publication of the ICAA Monograph Series
Changes were brought to the “Cultural Heritage Law”
Recently some important changes were brought to the “Cultural Heritage Law” approved in 2003.
ICAA Monograph Series Nr. 1
NEW DIRECTIONS IN ALBANIAN ARCHAEOLOGY edited by Lorenc Bejko and Richard Hodges, Tirana 2006.
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This volume is a collection of essays from a considerable number of Albanian and foreign scholars, focussing upon all time periods from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Ottoman era, as well as offering studies of methodological and historical nature arising from the changing circumstances in Albania today. It commemorates the 70th birthday of one of Albania’s most distinguished archaeologists, Professor Muzafer Korkuti. Over 40 scholars and young archaeologists present their studies and results of explorations from the very north (Shala Valley) to the very south (Konispol Cave) of Albania, often fruits of collaborations between the Institute of Archaeology, directed by Professor Korkuti for many years, and foreign Universities. |
ICAA Monograph Series Nr. 2
THE COMPLEX OF TUMULI 9, 10 and 11 in the NECROPOLIS of APOLLONIA (ALBANIA) by Maria Grazia Amore.
Special studies by Vangjel Dimo, Lorenc Bejko, and Lynne Schepartz
With contributions by S. Aliu, P. Pearce, A. Bardho, E. Bitri, L. Buchet, B.N. Damiata, V. Grimes, A. Powell, M.P. Richards, J. Southon and J. Stallo
BAR International Series 2059 (I) and (II) 2010
| In the books, after an overview on the importance of Apollonia in history and the state of knowledge on the necropolis before the ARAU project, are presented all the data gained by the excavation and the study of the Complex of Tumuli 9, 10 and 11. | ||
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A large section of the publication is devoted to the catalogue of graves, where each burial is illustrated by plan, picture, description, dating, list of grave goods and pictures of them (when present), so to have an understanding of the whole context. Each grave good can then be searched, thanks to an easy numerical code, in the pottery catalogue and in the small finds catalogue. Another fundamental part of the publication takes in consideration the dating method. Besides the traditional relative stratigraphical and comparative methods, again for the first time in Apollonia absolute dates with Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) have been performed on the bones of crucial individuals, such as the young adult male of the central grave of the Prehistoric tumulus T10, and others who came out pertaining to the Post-Medieval/Modern period. Thus we have now some absolute chronological points from the mid-3rd millennium B.C. to the 17th-19th c. A.D. which allow the reinterpretation of the history of the area before and after the colonization. |
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