Castulo, Jaen, Espana, II: el conjunto arquitectonico del Olivar.

Castulo, Jaen, Espana, II: el conjunto arquitectonico del Olivar. JOSE MARIA BLAZQUEZ MARTINEZ & MARIA PAZ Paz? , Octavio 1914-1998.Mexican writer whose essays, including The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950), and volumes of poetry, such as Sun Stone (1957), often explore the Mexican identity. He won the 1990 Nobel Prize for literature. GARCIA-GELABERT PEREZ.Castulo, Jaen, Espana, II: el conjunto con��jun��to?n. pl. con��jun��tos1. A dance band, especially in Latin America.2. A style of popular dance music originating along the border between Texas and Mexico, characterized by the use of accordion, drums, arquitectonico del Olivar (BARInternational Series 789). 389 pages, 53 figures, 80 plates. 1999.Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-106-3 paperback 59 [pounds sterling]. Messrs HALKON & MILLETT present the results of work throughmost of the 1980s and '90s in 6 [multiplied by] 4 [km.sup.2] on andaround Holme-on-Spalding Moor. The report concentrates on settlementpatterns detected by aerial survey and field walking and on excavationsof industrial sites (iron production and potting). Also reported aresample excavations of a round house in a square enclosure: few findswere made of either artefacts or plant remains, so that attribution tothe Iron Age depends largely on the form of the site. More fruitful weretrenches dug along the route of the Market Weighton by-pass, revealingpart of a settlement occupied during the later Iron Age and into theRoman period but shifting after the 2nd century. The earlier occupationwas associated with farm enclosures. Enough pottery was recovered toproduce a refined typology typology/ty��pol��o��gy/ (ti-pol��ah-je) the study of types; the science of classifying, as bacteria according to type. typologythe study of types; the science of classifying, as bacteria according to type. for the Roman period. As in parts of England further south, the landscape was intenselyused during the later Iron Age. The transition to Roman culture wasgradual. The evidence of pottery suggests that the economy subsidedduring the 4th century; and, no doubt, that helps to explain C.Loveluck's methodologically careful interpretation of the Saxonevidence as probably the remains of Continental immigrants. The study is especially valuable for its context in a district thathas enjoyed a long history of research. The project was part of earlierand continuing investigation involving local archaeologists who havebeen working, through the East Riding Archaeological Society, withDurham University since 1983 -- an admirable example of local anduniversity workers in cooperation. Further publications are expected. The `CAS' has devoted the latest volume of its Proceedings tothe long-awaited summary of the results of Dr ALEXANDER'sexcavations on Castle Hill, Cambridge. The principal discoveriesincluded houses and ditches from the last generations before the Romaninvasion of the 1st century AD, traces of ditches from a probable Romanfort of later in the same century, small houses of the 2nd century, anapparently ritual pit of the same period -- decidedly `Celtic' -- afragmentary frag��men��tar��y?adj.Consisting of small, disconnected parts: a picture that emerges from fragmentary information.frag hypocaust hypocaust(hī`pəkôst): see heating. , perhaps of a way station (mansio), and remains ofa town wall of the 4th century. Along with previous finds, they confirmthat Cambridge was what romanists now call a `small town'.Helpfully included are remarks by C. Evans on implications of otherrecent work for the route (a cricket ball's throw from theANTIQUITY office) of the trunk road to Godmanchester. The concludingdiscussion by A. Taylor offers invaluable (if interpretive in��ter��pre��tive? also in��ter��pre��ta��tiveadj.Relating to or marked by interpretation; explanatory.in��terpre��tive��ly adv. ) guidancethrough the larger part of the report, the main findings of which remaindifficult to draw out of the details. The project was a preoccupation ofDr ALEXANDER's which influenced his thinking on both urbanism andtechniques of excavation. Like HALKON & MILLETT's project, itinvolved scores of local people (both willing and less than willing),and many Cambridge University Cambridge University,at Cambridge, England, one of the oldest English-language universities in the world. Originating in the early 12th cent. (legend places its origin even earlier than that of Oxford Univ. graduates and extra-mural students tooremember their days on the Hill. The Olivar site lay within the large late Iron Age settlement(oppidum) of Castulo, in southern Spain, and remained in occupationduring the Roman period into the Middle Ages and even beyond. It was aRoman spa in its heyday. In the light of further work in 1985-6 and1991, the new report by BLAZQUEZ & GARCIA-GELABERT revises earlierconclusions about the buildings and finds published after excavations in1971. The highlight is the plans of successive phases of baths. The bookcould have been produced more cheaply.