New Releases by Royal Ontario Museum

This catalogue discusses Etruscan pottery in non-Greek and non-Roman styles with a particular focus on a large collection of impasto vessels of 8th- to 6th-century BC from Chiusi. The author proposes some new dating methodology and there are catalogue descriptions, good photos and profile drawings of the pieces.

"The publication of the final reports of the late Dame Kathleen Kenyon''s excavations of ancient Jerusalem takes a significant step forward with the appearance of this volume. It concentrates on finds outside the walls of the Iron Age city, of which the most important are the enigmatic deposits in Caves I and II on the south-east hill. Itzhak Eshel''s study provides a thorough comparative analysis of the large quantity of pottery found in them, as a basis for establishing their date and purpose. Supplementary studies of the pottery and other material from these caves, not least variations between the deposits found in them, throw further light on their function." "Among the varied information on extramural cemeteries assembled here, the late third millennium cemetery on the Mount of Olives, first discovered over a century ago, particularly adds to our knowledge of Jerusalem in antiquity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Greek, Roman and Related Metalware in the Royal Ontario Museum Aby John W Hayes Metal vessels, lamps, containers and furniture fittings dating from 8th C BC to 6th C AD Egypt and the Mediterranean are catalogued in this well-illustrated volume.

This catalogue traces black-glaze'' ceramics from the early Ionion cups'', through the true black-glaze'' of Classical Athens and its derivatives, to Roman Republican Campana wares and other Greek and Italian pots with added paint, including Gnathia ware. In his descriptions and introduction the author shows how disparate the types commonly referred to as black glaze'' really are. The 295 examples are well illustrated in line drawings and b/w photos.

Study of the fossil fauna of the Delorme platform facies of dolostone and argillaceous limestone in the Mackenzie mountains of Yukon.

Throughout history people have been captivated by the exploration of civilizations foreign to their own familiar sights and sounds. Nowhere is this more evident than in the exhibition Silk Roads--China Ships, which unveils objects that chronicle the cultural, economic, political, and social effects of trade between the Orient and the West through nineteen centuries.--pg. vi.

Description of the traditional clothing and lifestyle of Indians who inhabited the North Pacific coast from northern California to southern Alaska.

Describes the traditional lifestyle and clothing of the Plains Indians, who inhabited an area extending from central Alberta almost to the Gulf of Mexico.

"The objects described and depicted range from late Classical and Byzantine examples to art nouveau and art deco statuettes for the early 20th century. The pride of the collection, however, consists of Renaissance and Baroque statuettes representing the development of the art in Italy, German, France, the Netherlands, Spain and England."--Jacket.

Conodonts have been recovered from two sections through the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary beds of the upper Rabbitkettle Formation, near the headwaters of the Broken Skull River, western Mackenzie Mountains. This report contributes towards a biofacies evaluation of Cambrian-Ordovician boundary bed conodonts and illustrates the probable limitations on a highly resolved conodont-based correlation of this interval between strongly constrasting lithofacies.

The seven-hundred year period beginning with the Six Dynasties and ending with the Five Dynasties may be likened to a germination stage in Chinese ceramics. Styles and techniques developed during those centuries made possible the incomparable excellence of Sung Dynasty stonewares which followed.--Introduction.