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The Oldest Book in the World: Philosophy in the Age of the Pyramids by Bill Manley
RRP: £25.00£15.47A brand-new translation of a philosophical classic of the ancient world, The Teaching of Ptahhatp, written in Egypt 4,000 years ago. The Teaching of Ptahhatp, composed two millennia before the birth of Plato, is the oldest surviving statement of... -
Uriel's Machine: Reconstructing the Disaster Behind Human History by Christopher Knight
RRP: £12.99£9.09* What is the standard view of history is completely wrong? * What if science and writing developed from an advanced prehistoric civilisation in the British Isles? * What is written evidence in the Dead Sea Scrolls records megalithic history and provides... -
The Archaeology of Wild Birds in Britain and Ireland by Dale Serjeantson
£71.46Renowned 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... -
Ethics and Burial Archaeology by Duncan Sayer 9780715638934
£26.43This book sets a new agenda for ethical studies in mortuary investigation, adducing a series of case studies which can be used to understand the questions facing burial archaeology. Who owns the dead - not just their bodies but also their stories? Do the... -
Lancashire's Sacred Landscape: From Prehistory to the Viking Age by Linda Sever 9780752455877
RRP: £14.99£11.55Lancashire, 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... -
Tracing Lost Railways by Trevor Yorke
RRP: £8.99£6.96The 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 Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers: The Foraging Spectrum by Dr. Robert L. Kelly 9781107607613
RRP: £29.99£24.56In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging... -
Set Adrift Upon the World: The Sutherland Clearances by James Hunter 9781839830303
RRP: £14.99£10.77Winner of Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were - thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were the... -
Arthur's Britain by Leslie Alcock 9780141390697
£19.45We are all familiar with the legendary tales of King Arthur: the sword in the stone, the Holy Grail, the great deeds and high enchantments. But what evidence is there for a real historical figure beneath the myth and romance? This book assembles a wealth... -
Poisoned Legacy: The Fall of the Nineteenth Egyptian Dynasty by Aidan Dodson 9789774167522
RRP: £12.99£11.01After the death of RamesesII, the Nineteenth Dynasty, soon fell into decline and familial conflict, culminating in a final civil war that ended with the accession of a new dynasty. Sethy I and Rameses II's promotion of a concept of a wider 'royal family'... -
The Picts: A History by Tim Clarkson
RRP: £10.99£7.32The 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... -
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: £12.99£9.09Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a... -
Flag Fen: Life and Death of a Prehistoric Landscape by Francis Pryor 9780752429007
RRP: £25.00£18.54The 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... -
Ruins, Remains and Relics: Sussex by Christopher Horlock
RRP: £15.99£10.85Sussex is a fascinating county, saturated with history, legends and mysteries. Everywhere there are remains of these stories: a curious relic preserved in a church, an unusual grave outside, some ruinous building down the road, or a bizarre artefact in... -
Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael A. Cremo 9780892132942
£42.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892132942Author Michael A. CremoFormat HardbackPage Count 914Imprint Bhaktivedanta Book TrustPublisher Bhaktivedanta Book TrustWeight(grams) 1545g -
What is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity by Jean Clottes
RRP: £18.00£15.40Was 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... -
Making Sense of Monuments: Narratives of Time, Movement, and Scale by Michael J. Kolb
RRP: £39.99£35.06Stonehenge, 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 Land of the White Horse: Visions of England by David Miles
RRP: £24.95£16.75The 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 Mesolithic in Britain: Landscape and Society in Times of Change by Chantal Conneller
RRP: £35.99£32.09The 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: £35.99£31.69Southend, 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... -
Roman Imperialism: A Concise History of the Rise and Expansion of Ancient Rome by Dexter Hoyos 9781780762753
RRP: £14.99£13.45Rome - 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... -
Archaeology, Heritage, and Wellbeing: Authentic, Powerful, and Therapeutic Engagement with the Past by Paul Everill 9781032021669
RRP: £39.99£35.06Archaeology, 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... -
The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations by Paul Collins 9781789144154
RRP: £18.00£12.96The 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... -
A History of Ancient Egypt by Marc Van De Mieroop
RRP: £40.95£36.29Explore 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... -
The Finnish-Soviet Winter War 1939-40: Stalin's Hollow Victory by David Murphy
RRP: £15.99£13.33This 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... -
The Spartans by Andrew J. Bayliss
RRP: £12.99£9.09The 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... -
Stonehenge: A Brief History by Professor Mike Parker Pearson
RRP: £19.99£16.70Stonehenge 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... -
The Eleanor Crosses: The Story of King Edward I's Lost Queen and her Architectural Legacy by Decca Warrington 9781909930650
RRP: £14.99£13.64The 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... -
Formative Britain: An Archaeology of Britain, Fifth to Eleventh Century AD by Martin Carver
RRP: £36.99£34.13Formative 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... -
Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE by Christopher Ehret
RRP: £22.00£17.36A 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... -
The Maya: Lost Civilizations by Megan E. O'Neil 9781789145502
RRP: £18.00£13.36This 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... -
Personifying Prehistory: Relational Ontologies in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland by Joanna Bruck
£24.53The Bronze Age is frequently framed in social evolutionary terms. Viewed as the period which saw the emergence of social differentiation, the development of long-distance trade, and the intensification of agricultural production, it is seen as the... -
The Hittites: Lost Civilizations by Damien Stone
RRP: £18.00£12.96An accessible introduction to the Bronze Age culture in Asia Minor.Famed for their skill in battle, the Hittites flourished in central Anatolia from the seventeenth to the thirteenth century BC. They were much more than a military power, however - their... -
The Staffordshire Hoard by Kevin Leahy
RRP: £5.99£5.82On 5 July 2009 a metal-detectorist started to unearth gold objects in a Staffordshire field. Thus began the discovery of the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found. Consisting of over 1600 items - including fittings from the hilts of swords,... -
Britannia: The Failed State: Tribal Conflicts and the End of Roman Britain by Stuart Laycock 9780752446141
RRP: £22.00£16.84Attempts 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 Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £31.49£23.51Brilliant 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... -
The Viking Ship by Gareth Williams
RRP: £9.99£6.80The Viking ship is one of the most iconic images of the Vikings and the longship in particular has been central to our understanding of the Viking Age. The Vikings used their shipbuilding skills to command the sea and their famous ships permittedthe... -
An Anthropology of Landscape: The Extraordinary in the Ordinary by Christopher Tilley 9781911307440
RRP: £22.99£20.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911307440Author Professor Christopher TilleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 680g -
The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings by Richard H. Wilkinson
RRP: £44.49£41.58The royal necropolis of New Kingdom Egypt, known as the Valley of the Kings (KV), is one of the most important--and celebrated--archaeological sites in the world. Located on the west bank of the Nile river, about three miles west of modern Luxor, the... -
Dressel 20 inscriptions from Britain and the consumption of Spanish olive oil: With a catalogue of stamps by Pedro Paulo A. Funari 9780860548393
£36.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860548393Author Pedro Paulo A. FunariFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing