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The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time by Hugh Raffles
RRP: €26.17€17.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241734Author Hugh RafflesFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture Publications -
Britain in the Middle Ages: An Archaeological History by Francis Pryor
RRP: €15.46€9.90As in 'Britain B.C.' and 'Britain A.D.' (also accompanied by Channel 4 series), eminent archaeologist Francis Pryor challenges familiar historical views of the Middle Ages by examining fresh evidence from the ground. The term 'Middle Ages'... -
The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe by Barry Cunliffe 9780198820130
RRP: €22.60€16.67Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland... -
Doggerland: Lost World under the North Sea by Luc W.S.W. Amkreutz
RRP: €41.65€39.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464261134Author Luc W.S.W. AmkreutzFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Sidestone PressPublisher Sidestone Press -
Drawing Somerset's Past: An Illustrated Journey through History by Time Team Artist Victor Ambrus and Steve Minnitt by Victor Ambrus 9780750967860
RRP: €21.41€16.34This book tells the story of Somerset's archaeology and history, from the earliest times up to the twentieth century. Generously illustrated with drawings by the internationally renowned artist Victor Ambrus, best known for his appearances on Channel 4's... -
Lost City of the Incas by Hiram Bingham
RRP: €13.08€8.81First published in the 1950s, this is a classic account of the discovery in 1911 of the lost city of Machu Picchu.In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to Peru in search of the legendary city of Vilcabamba,... -
The Archaeology of Wild Birds in Britain and Ireland by Dale Serjeantson
RRP: €71.40€57.88Renowned archaeologist, Dale Serjeantson, tells the story of human engagement with birds from the end of the last Ice Age to around AD 1650. In this book, she integrates the study of archaeological bird remains with ethnography and the history of birds... -
Lancashire's Sacred Landscape: From Prehistory to the Viking Age by Linda Sever 9780752455877
RRP: €17.84€13.42Lancashire, situated in the north west of England, does not at first tend to conjure up an images of 'a sacred' landscape. But look at bit deeper and one will discover a vast array of sites of ritual and early worship. Archaeological remains of... -
The Tribe of Witches by Stephen James Yeates 9781842173190
RRP: €30.94€25.07Until now the old religions of Britain have only been looked at in a piecemeal way. This book presents a detailed and focused investigation of the religion of the Dobunni and the Hwicce peoples who occupied the Severn valley and the Cotswolds... -
Depicting the Dead: Self-Representation and Commemoration on Roman Sarcophagi with Portraits by Stine Birk 9788771240184
RRP: €41.65€36.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788771240184Author Stine BirkFormat HardbackPage Count 333Imprint Aalborg UniversitetsforlagPublisher Aarhus University PressWeight(grams) 1370g -
Tracing Lost Railways by Trevor Yorke
RRP: €10.70€8.03The drastic railway closures of the 1960s led to the slow decay and re-purposing of hundreds of miles of railway infrastructure. Though these buildings and apparatus are now ghosts of their former selves, countless clues to our railway heritage still... -
The Spartans by Andrew J. Bayliss
RRP: €14.27€10.03The image of Sparta, and the Spartans, is one dyed indelibly into the public consciousness: musclebound soldiers with long hair and red cloaks, bearing shiny bronze shields emblazoned with the Greek letter lambda. 'This is Sparta!', bellows Leonidas on... -
Fingerprints Of The Gods by Graham Hancock 9780517887295
RRP: €29.75€19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780517887295Author Graham HancockFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 737gDimensions(mm)... -
Reshaping Museum Space by Suzanne MacLeod 9780415343459
RRP: €45.21€39.72Reshaping Museum Space pulls together the views of an international group of museum professionals, architects, designers and academics highlights the complexity, significance and malleability of museum space, and provides reflections upon recent... -
The Picts: A History by Tim Clarkson
RRP: €11.89€9.72The Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their historical importance, they remain shrouded in myth and misconception. Absorbed by the kingdom of the Scots in the ninth century, they... -
Flag Fen: Life and Death of a Prehistoric Landscape by Francis Pryor 9780752429007
RRP: €29.75€22.07The Fens of eastern England form a very distinct environment which has produced particular patterns of prehistoric occupation. Dr Francis Pryor, the Director of the Flag Fen Archaeological Trust, gives his own personal account of his discovery and... -
What is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity by Jean Clottes
RRP: €16.07€15.51Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of the walls, as they flickered by firelight? Or was it... -
Anglo-Saxon Runes by John M. Kemble 9781898281634
€21.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898281634Author John M. KembleFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Anglo-Saxon BooksPublisher Anglo-Saxon BooksDimensions(mm) 214mm * 148mm * 5mm -
Roman Imperialism: A Concise History of the Rise and Expansion of Ancient Rome by Dexter Hoyos 9781780762753
RRP: €17.84€16.01Rome - Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks... -
Making Sense of Monuments: Narratives of Time, Movement, and Scale by Michael J. Kolb
RRP: €47.59€41.72Stonehenge, Machu Picchu, Confederate statues, Egyptian pyramids, and medieval cathedrals: these are some of the places that are the subject of Making Sense of Monuments, an analysis of how the built environment molds human experiences and perceptions... -
The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations by Paul Collins 9781789144154
RRP: €21.42€15.42The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world's earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BC. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing and the wheel, and... -
Commemorating Conflict: Greek Monuments of the Persian Wars by Xavier Duffy 9781784918392
RRP: €30.94€25.07This study is concerned with how the Greek peoples, of primarily the classical period, collectively commemorated the Persian Wars. The data presented here are public monuments, which include both physical and behavioural commemorations. The aim of this... -
Wroxeter, the Cornovii and the Urban Process. Volume 2: Characterizing the City. Final Report of the Wroxeter Hinterland Project, 1994-1997 by R. H. White 9781905739615
RRP: €59.50€48.92In the mid 1990s, the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum at Wroxeter, Shropshire, was subjected to one of the most intensive campaigns of geophysical survey ever carried out on a Roman town. The result was a complete plan of the city using... -
Facing the Sea of Sand: The Sahara and the Peoples of Northern Africa by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: €35.70€26.12Northern Africa is dominated by the Sahara Desert, stretching across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. This book is about the people who lived around the edges of the Desert and the different ways in which they responded to its... -
The Mesolithic in Britain: Landscape and Society in Times of Change by Chantal Conneller
RRP: €42.83€38.19The Mesolithic in Britain proposes a new division of the Mesolithic period into four parts, each with its distinct character.The Mesolithic has previously been seen as timeless, where little changed over thousands of years. This new synthesis draws on... -
Burton Dassett Southend, Warwickshire: A Medieval Market Village by Nicholas Palmer 9781032430010
RRP: €42.83€37.71Southend, one of five medieval settlements in Burton Dassett parish, Warwickshire, was the site of a market promoted by the manorial lord Bartholomew de Sudeley, with a charter being obtained in 1267. The settlement prospered, becoming known as Chipping... -
The Land of the White Horse: Visions of England by David Miles
RRP: €29.69€19.93The White Horse at Uffington is an icon of the English landscape - a sleek, almost abstract figure 120 yards long which was carved into the green turf of the spectacular chalk scarp of the North Wessex Downs in the early first millennium bc. For... -
The Eleanor Crosses: The Story of King Edward I's Lost Queen and her Architectural Legacy by Decca Warrington 9781909930650
RRP: €17.84€15.86The Eleanor Crosses begins in November 1290 with the untimely death in a Lincolnshire village of Queen Eleanor of Castile, beloved consort of King Edward I of England. A sombre journey of more than 200 miles must follow, to transport the queen's body to... -
The Finnish-Soviet Winter War 1939-40: Stalin's Hollow Victory by David Murphy
RRP: €19.03€15.86This informative study explores the Soviet invasion of Finland, detailing the events of the Winter War of November 1939 to March 1940. The invasion was expected to be swift and decisive, however, the fighting qualities of the Finnish Army blunted the... -
Archaeology, Heritage, and Wellbeing: Authentic, Powerful, and Therapeutic Engagement with the Past by Paul Everill 9781032021669
RRP: €47.59€41.72Archaeology, Heritage, and Wellbeing fills an important gap in academic literature, bringing together experts from archaeology/ historic environment and mental health research to provide an interdisciplinary overview of this emerging subject area.The... -
Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE by Christopher Ehret
RRP: €26.18€20.22A panoramic narrative that places ancient Africa on the stage of world historyThis book brings together archaeological and linguistic evidence to provide a sweeping global history of ancient Africa, tracing how the continent played an important role in... -
A History of Ancient Egypt by Marc Van De Mieroop
RRP: €48.73€43.19Explore the entire history of the ancient Egyptian state from 3000 B.C. to 400 A.D. with this authoritative volume The newly revised Second Edition of A History of Ancient Egypt delivers an up-to-date survey of ancient Egypt's history from its origins to... -
A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World by Alexander Jones 9780190931490
RRP: €26.17€19.04From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Terracotta Army, ancient artifacts have long fascinated the modern world. However, the importance of some discoveries is not always immediately understood. This was the case in 1901 when sponge divers retrieved a lump of... -
Arran: A History by Thorbjorn Campbell
RRP: €15.46€10.64Arran is an archaeological and geological treasure trove of stunning scenic beauty. Its history stretches back to the great stone circles, more than 5,000 years old, whose remnants still decorate the plains of Machrie. Runic inscriptions tell of a Viking... -
Stonehenge: A Brief History by Professor Mike Parker Pearson
RRP: €23.79€19.46Stonehenge is one of the world's most famous monuments. Who built it, how and why are questions that have endured for at least 900 years, but modern methods of investigation are now able to offer up a completely new understanding of this iconic stone... -
Formative Britain: An Archaeology of Britain, Fifth to Eleventh Century AD by Martin Carver
RRP: €44.02€40.61Formative Britain presents an account of the peoples occupying the island of Britain between 400 and 1100 AD, whose ideas continue to set the political agenda today. Forty years of new archaeological research has laid bare a hive of diverse and... -
Cille Pheadair: A Norse Farmstead and Pictish Burial Cairn in South Uist by Mike Parker Pearson 9781785708510
RRP: €41.65€37.15Cille Pheadair is one of more than 20 Viking Age and Late Norse settlements discovered on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), off the west coast of Scotland. Its unusually well-preserved stratigraphic sequence of nine phases... -
The Maya: Lost Civilizations by Megan E. O'Neil 9781789145502
RRP: €21.42€15.90This book reveals how the ancient Maya - and their buildings, ideas, objects and identities - have been perceived, portrayed and exploited over 500 years in the Americas, Europe and beyond. Engaging in interdisciplinary analysis, the book summarizes... -
Britannia: The Failed State: Tribal Conflicts and the End of Roman Britain by Stuart Laycock 9780752446141
RRP: €26.18€19.62Attempts to understand how Roman Britain ends and Anglo-Saxon England begins have been undermined by the division of studies into pre-Roman, Roman and early medieval periods. This groundbreaking new study traces the history of British tribes and British... -
The Declaration of Arbroath: 'For Freedom Alone' by Edward J. Cowan
RRP: €11.89€11.28The Declaration of Arbroath, 6 April, 1320, is one of the most remarkable documents to have been produced anywhere in medieval Europe. Signed by 51 Scottish nobles, it confirms Scotland's status as an independent sovereign state with the right to use...