Archaeology

Third in the series of texts of the The Carlsberg Papyri. It contains a series of contributions on a variety of Demotic subjects including a new version of the Introduction to the Teachings of 'Onch-Sheshonqy, fragments of Demotic word lists, an ancient...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906294574Author Peter StanierFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Twelveheads PressPublisher Twelveheads Press

The volume reports the results of four seasons of excavation at Tell es-Sweyhat, an Early Bronze Age urban center located on the margins of the dry-farming zone in Syria. A goal of the project has been to integrate traditional archaeological methods and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931534116Author Philip P. BetancourtFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Institute for Aegean PrehistoryPublisher Institute for Aegean Prehistory

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Oxford Archaeology carried out an excavation in 1997 on a site alongside the north bank of the river Thames in King Stable Street, Eton, Berkshire. The evidence indicated that the site probably served as a working area for properties fronting the...

The New Armouries was built against the medieval inner curtain wall at the Tower of London in 1663-4 as a small arms store, and was later used for displays of the Royal Armouries collections. On the opposite side of the curtain wall a range of buildings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924171338Author Ellen L. KohlerFormat HardbackPage Count 458Imprint University Museum PublicationsPublisher University Museum Publications

This book contains a detailed analytical catalogue of 171 terracotta figurines and figural vessels. These are represented in every period at Gordion from the Early Bronze Age. The majority dates from the Late Phrygian/Hellenistic period when there was a...

This report presents the results of over 40 years of excavation, historic building survey and documentary research that has been carried out by Oxford Archaeology and others at the site of the Cistercian house of Rewley, a chantry founded in 1280. It...

^TAmerican (AJN 11) Journal of Numismatics 2001 ^DBook InformationISBN 9780897222785Author Richard G. McAleeFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint American Numismatic Society,U.S.Publisher American Numismatic Society,U.S.

This second edition includes revised and updated versions of three earlier publications: Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyph Handbook; New and Recent Maya Hieroglyph Readings; and A Resource Bibliography for the Decipherment of Maya Hieroglyphs...

The 105 seals and seal impressions in this catalog greatly expand the corpus of glyptic materials from northwestern Iran. The importance of this assemblage is enhanced by its discovery in a controlled stratified context. The distribution of the material...

The papers published in this volume were presented at a seminar on 'Recent Developments in Research and Management at World Heritage Sites' held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London. This was part of the Wiltshire-Malta World ...

Sardis was home to one of the earliest known Christian communities, appearing among the Seven Churches of Asia in the mid-first century AD. Between 1962 and 1973, the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis excavated two superimposed churches at the ancient...

The book examines the building, mosaics, objects, and mosaic inscriptions found at the site of a sixth-century monastery at Beth-Shan. The mosaic floors are described in particular detail, with reference to comparable mosaics elsewhere in Palestine...

Although the treasury of King Croesus held great quantities of gold and silver plate, the Lydians clearly loved fine ceramic wares imported from Greece. This preference was entirely appropriate for the capital of the expansive Lydian Kingdom, which...

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One hundred years in the life of a founding father's 5,000 acre ""retreat"". Thomas Jefferson once called his plantation Poplar Forest, ""the most valuable of my possessions."" For Jefferson, Poplar Forest was a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873513555Author Scott F. AnfinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

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Between the Murray and the Sea: Aboriginal Archaeology in South-eastern Australia explores the Indigenous archaeology of Victoria, focusing on areas south and east of the Murray River.Looking at multiple sites from the region, David Frankel considers...

Originally built in 1844 and rebuilt in 1907 after being gutted by fire during the 1903 water riots, the Red House has been the seat of Trinidad and Tobago's parliament for over one hundred years. As a result of archaeological discoveries made in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684818283Author Brian M. FaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 444gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Katherine Wells' obsession with petroglyphs (images pecked on stone) began in the 1960s. Three decades later, after careers as a teacher, a businessperson, and an artist in Southern California. Wells and Lloyd Dennis, her partner, purchased almost two...

Case studies of nineteenth-century sites from New York City to the American West The Archaeology of Prostitution and Clandestine Pursuits synthesizes case studies from various nineteenth-century sites where material culture reveals evidence of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692790137Author Jody Michael GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 556Imprint Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, TPublisher Digital Press at the...

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This book explores the relationship between prehistoric people and their food - what they ate, why they ate it and how researchers have pieced together the story of past foodways from material traces. Contemporary human food traditions encompass a...

In Materializing Colonial Identities in Clay, Jon Bernard Marcoux, Corey A. H. Sattes, and contributors examine colonoware to explore the active roles that African Americans and Indigenous people played in constructing southern colonial culture and part...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982897140Author Dr S KalyanaramanFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Sarasvati Research CenterPublisher Sarasvati Research CenterWeight(grams) 458g

Tools of the Trade: Methods, Techniques and Innovative Approaches in Archaeology presents a collection of academic papers from the 2005 Chacmool archaeological conference, which includes a wide range of contributions from international archaeologists,...

Mining played a prominent role in the shaping and settling of the American West in the nineteenth century. Following the discovery of the famous Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, mining became increasingly industrialized, changing mining technology,...

The tortuous canyon country of southeastern Utah conceals thousands of archaeological sites, ancient homes of the ancestors of today's Southwest Indian peoples. Late in the nineteenth century, adventurous cowboy-archaeologists made the first forays into...

Tijeras Canyon, between the eastern New Mexico plains and the Rio Grande Valley, is rich in records of the past. Possibly as early as 900 AD and intermittently for centuries after, peoples of the Southwest, attracted by the protected resources of the...

The Mimbres Valley and the NAN Ranch Ruin are located in southwest New Mexico, near Silver City. According to Harry Shafer, 'The site was named after the ranch cattle brand, NAN, by C.B. Cosgrove, who, with the help of his son, Burt Jr., in 1926, was...

North Carolina's written history begins in the sixteenth century with the voyages of Sir Walter Raleigh and the founding of the ill-fated Lost Colony on Roanoke Island. But there is a deeper, unwritten past that predates the state's recorded history. The...