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The Hypogeum of the Aurelii: A new interpretation as the collegiate tomb of professional scribae by John Bradley 9781789690477
£56.53The Hypogeum of the Aurelii: A new interpretation as the collegiate tomb of professional scribae' examines the frescoes of one of the most enigmatic funerary monuments of ancient Rome. The three chambers of the Hypogeum of the Aurelii, so-named from an... -
Before Writing, Vol. II: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens by Denise Schmandt-Besserat 9780292726703
RRP: £48.00£42.72Before Writing gives a new perspective on the evolution of communication. It points out that when writing began in Mesopotamia it was not, as previously thought, a sudden and spontaneous invention. Instead, it was the outgrowth of many thousands of... -
Sites of Prehistoric Life in Northern Ireland by Harry Welsh 9781784917937
£74.71Much has been written about the history of Northern Ireland, but less well-known is its wealth of prehistoric sites, from which most of our knowledge of the early inhabitants of this country has been obtained. Until recently, the greatest sources for... -
Working with the Past: Towards an Archaeology of Recycling by Dragos Gheorghiu 9781784916299
£48.40Recycling is a basic anthropological process of humankind. The reutilization of materials or of ideas from the Past is a process determined by various natural or cultural causes. Recycling can be motivated by a crisis or by a complex symbolic cause like... -
Athens from 1920 to 1940: A true and just account of how History was enveloped by a modern City and the Place became an Event by Dimitris N. Karidis 9781784913113
£34.65During the short interwar period of the early 20th century, Athens entered into a process of meteoric urban transformation which gave her a unique place among European capital cities of the time. The implementation of a settlement programme for hundreds... -
Gnathia and related Hellenistic ware on the East Adriatic coast by Maja Mise 9781784911645
£61.29Gnathia ware is a painted Hellenistic type of ware with yellow, red and white decorations on the black surface of the vessels. Due to a decoration technique simpler than that on the previous Red-figure vases, Gnathia ware became the most widespread type... -
Argonauts of the Stone Age: Early maritime activity from the first migrations from Africa to the end of the Neolithic by Andrzej Pydyn 9781784911430
£69.46This is an important book. Too often in the past archaeologists have ignored or underestimated sea travel in early prehistory but the evidence has been growing and now it is presented to us in full in this thought provoking study. No longer can those... -
Cultural Resource Management in the Great Basin 1986-2016 by Alice M. Baldrica 9781607816805
£60.35Cultural Resource Management (CRM) refers to the discovery, evaluation, and preservation of culturally significant sites, focusing on but not limited to archaeological and historical sites of significance. CRM stems from the National Historic... -
Egypt: History and Treasures of an Ancient Civilization by Giorgio Ferrero 9788854416161
RRP: £18.99£13.75For centuries, we have been fascinated with the iconic architecture, mystical religious beliefs, and once-thriving societies of the ancient Egyptians. Starting with a detailed chronology and ending with a comprehensive glossary of terms and bibliography,... -
Taino Indian Myth and Practice: The Arrival of the Stranger King by William F. Keegan 9780813068725
RRP: £27.95£19.21Applying the legend of the "stranger king" to Caonabo, the mythologized Taino chief of the Hispaniola settlement Columbus invaded in 1492, Keegan examines how myths come to resonate as history--created by the chaotic interactions of the individuals who... -
Archaeological Semiotics by Robert W. Preucel 9781405199131
RRP: £35.95£31.67This interdisciplinary book examines archaeology's engagement with semiotics, from its early structuralist beginnings to its more recent Peircian encounters. It represents the first sustained engagement with Peircian semiotics in archaeology, as well as... -
Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete: A Perspective from Archaeomythology and Modern Matriarchal Studies by Joan M. Cichon 9781803270449
RRP: £45.00£44.98Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete: A Perspective from Archaeomythology and Modern Matriarchal Studies offers a very different perspective of Crete than is usually found in academic writing; making a compelling case for a matriarchal Bronze Age Crete. ... -
Embracing Bell Beaker: Adopting new Ideas and Objects across Europe during the later 3rd Millennium BC (c. 2600-2000 BC) by Jos Kleijne 9789088907555
£56.96This book deals with the question how communities across Europe during the later 3rd millennium BC adopt and transform the Bell Beaker phenomenon differently. By looking at these processes of change from the perspective of settlements and settlement... -
Rhodes in Ancient Times: First Published in 1885, a revised edition with additional material by Cecil Torr 9780953992362
£30.82"Not the shadow of a smile disturbs the dry exposition of the scholarly Englishman [Cecil Torr] who has given us the best historical monograph on the island... Read him and you will see why..." (Lawrence Durrell, "Reflections on a Marine... -
The Petroglyph Calendar: An Archaeoastronomy Adventure by Hubert A. Allen 9780964169470
RRP: £19.95£11.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964169470Author Hubert A. AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Hubert Allen & Assoc.Publisher Hubert Allen & Assoc.Weight(grams) 212g -
The Catalogue of Ivories from Hasanlu, Iran: Hasanlu Special Studies, Volume II by Oscar White Muscarella 9780934718332
RRP: £25.20£23.85Any consideration of the Iranian plateau must include the important site of Hasanlu in northern Iran. The Museum carried out excavations from 1956 through 1977. A major aspect of the research focused on the Iron Age settlement. This fortified town was... -
People in the Mountains: Current Approaches to the Archaeology of Mountainous Landscapes by Andrzej Pelisiak 9781784918170
£68.24Mountain landscapes were first exploited by farming populations at the very beginning of the Neolithic. However, there are controversies regarding when and where these specific types of human behaviour developed as a result of adaptation processes to... -
'Our Lincolnshire': Exploring public engagement with heritage by Carenza Lewis 9781789691306
£85.27'Our Lincolnshire' (2015-16) was devised as a robust, multi-vocally informed exploration of the attitudes of residents and visitors in Lincolnshire to the county's heritage and the ways in which they engage with it. The context for this was the... -
Blood, Faith and Iron: A dynasty of Catholic industrialists in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England by Paul Belford 9781789690682
£51.47The Ironbridge Gorge is an iconic industrial landscape, presented as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and so part of a national narrative of heroic Protestant individualism. However this is not the full story. In fact this industrial landscape... -
Remembered Places, Forgotten Pasts: The Don Drainage Basin in Prehistory by Tim Cockrell 9781784917012
£62.05South Yorkshire and the North Midlands have long been ignored or marginalized in narratives of British Prehistory. In Remembered Places, Forgotten Pasts, largely unpublished data is used for the first time in a work of synthesis to reconstruct the... -
Social complexity in early medieval rural communities: The north-western Iberia archaeological record by Juan Antonio Quiros Castillo 9781784915087
£60.65This book presents an overview of the results of the research project DESPAMED funded by the Spanish Minister of Economy and Competitiveness. The aim of the book is to discuss the theoretical challenges posed by the study of social inequality and social... -
Once upon a Time in the East: The Chronological and Geographical Distribution of Terra Sigillata and Red Slip Ware in the Roman East by Philip Bes 9781784911201
£77.12In this book Philip Bes summarises the results of his PhD thesis (Catholic University of Leuven) on the analysis of production trends and complex, quantified distribution patterns of the principal traded sigillatas and slipped table wares in the Roman... -
Landscapes of Pilgrimage in Medieval Britain by Martin Locker 9781784910761
£83.97This book seeks to address the journeying context of pilgrimage within the landscapes of Medieval Britain. Using four case studies, an interdisciplinary methodology developed by the author is applied to four different geographical and cultural areas of... -
Athyrmata: Critical Essays on the Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honour of E. Susan Sherratt by Yannis Galanakis 9781784910181
£82.99Over her career Susan Sherratt has questioned our basic assumptions in many areas of the later prehistory of the Mediterranean and Europe, deploying a canny eye for detail, but never losing sight of the big picture. Her collected works include... -
How did the Persian King of Kings Get His Wine? The upper Tigris in antiquity (c.700 BCE to 636 CE) by Anthony Comfort 9781784919566
£32.29How did the Persian King of Kings Get His Wine? the upper Tigris in antiquity (c.700 BCE to 636 CE)' explores the upper valley of the Tigris during antiquity. The area is little known to scholarship, and study is currently handicapped by the security... -
Gifts, Goods and Money: Comparing currency and circulation systems in past societies by Dirk Brandherm 9781784918354
£65.42The papers gathered in this volume explore the economic and social roles of exchange systems in past societies from a variety of different perspectives. Based on a broad range of individual case studies, the authors tackle problems surrounding the... -
Ras il-Wardija Sanctuary Revisited: A re-assessment of the evidence and newly informed interpretations of a Punic-Roman sanctuary in Gozo (Malta) by George Azzopardi 9781784916695
£36.41The secluded sanctuary on the coastal promontory of Ras il-Wardija on the central Mediterranean island of Gozo (near Malta) constitutes another landmark on the religious map of the ancient Mediterranean. Ritual activity at the sanctuary seems to be... -
The Archaeological Activities of James Douglas in Sussex between 1809 and 1819 by Malcolm Lyne 9781784916480
£28.70James Douglas (1753-1819) was a polymath, well ahead of his time in both the fields of archaeology and earth-sciences. His examinations of fossils from the London Clay and other geological formations caused him to conclude that the Earth was much older... -
A Time of Change: Questioning the "Collapse" of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka by Keir Magalie Strickland 9781784916329
£54.56This book reassesses the apparent collapse of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, through explicit reference to the archaeological record. The study of Anuradhapura's terminal period has long been dominated by an over-reliance upon textual sources, resulting in the... -
The Geography of Trade: Landscapes of competition and long-distance contacts in Mesopotamia and Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period by Alessio Palmisano 9781784919252
£67.85From the mid-20th century onwards, consolidated study of the merchant archives from the Old Assyrian trading colony at Kanes (Ku ltepe) has not only transformed our understanding of the social, economic and political dynamics of the Bronze Age Near East,... -
Current Research in Egyptology 2017: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Symposium: University of Naples, "L'Orientale" 3-6 May 2017 by Ilaria Incordino 9781784919054
£86.60Current Research in Egyptology 2017 presents papers delivered during the eighteenth meeting of this international conference, held at the University of Naples "L'Orientale", 3-6 May, 2017. Some 122 scholars from all over the world gathered in... -
Buildings in Society: International Studies in the Historic Era by Liz Thomas 9781784918316
£61.01Buildings in Society: International Studies in the Historic Era presents a series of papers reflecting the latest approaches to the study of buildings from the historic period. This volume does not examine buildings as architecture, but adopts an... -
The Classification of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Copper and Bronze Axe-heads from Southern Britain by Stuart P. Needham 9781784917401
£41.55This work presents a comprehensive classification of the morphology of early metal age axe-heads, chisels and stakes from southern Britain. It is illustrated by a type series of 120 representative examples. Despite their relative simplicity, flat and... -
The Mycenaean Cemetery at Agios Vasileios, Chalandritsa, in Achaea by Konstantina Aktypi 9781784916978
£82.40The Mycenaean chamber-tomb cemetery at Agios Vasileios, near Chalandritsa in Achaea, was first investigated by Nikolaos Kyparissis in the late 1920s, followed by small-scale research in 1961 by Efthimios Mastrokostas. In the years 1989-2001 more rescue... -
Mesoamerican Religions and Archaeology: Essays in Pre-Columbian Civilizations by Aleksandar Boskovic 9781784915025
RRP: £22.00£21.91Our understanding of ancient Pre-Columbian civilizations has changed significantly as the result of archaeological research in the last fifty years. Major projects during this period included dealing with cultural change in different contexts (Valley of... -
The White Lady and Atlantis: Ophir and Great Zimbabwe: Investigation of an archaeological myth by Jean-Loic Le Quellec 9781784914707
£86.60This meticulous investigation, based around a famous rock image, the 'White Lady', makes it possible to take stock of the mythical presuppositions that infuse a great deal of scientific research, especially in the case of rock art studies. It also... -
Potamikon: Sinews of Acheloios: A Comprehensive Catalog of the Bronze Coinage of the Man-Faced Bull, with Essays on Origin and Identity by Nicholas J. Molinari 9781784914011
£92.76Potamikon attempts to solve a question that has perplexed scholars for hundreds of years: Who exactly is the man-faced bull featured so often on Greek coinage? It approaches this question by examining the origin of the iconography and traces its... -
Medieval Rural Settlements in the Syrian Coastal Region (12th and 13th Centuries) by Balazs Major 9781784912048
£100.25This book is the result of more than a dozen years of research in the field of the hitherto unstudied medieval settlement pattern of the Syrian coastal region in the 12th and 13th centuries. The conclusions presented in this work were reached with the... -
Aegean Mercenaries in Light of the Bible: Clash of cultures in the story of David and Goliath by Simona Rodan 9781784911065
£41.48The story of the duel of David and Goliath, the Philistine champion, is narrated in the Bible in several versions. While its symbolic importance in Judaism and later in Christianity gradually came to represent the battle between good and evil, true faith... -
Technology of Sword Blades from the La Tene Period to the Early Modern Age: The case of what is now Poland by Grzegorz Zabinski 9781784910280
£100.83This book assesses the results of recent metallographic examination of 45 sword blades (mid-2nd century BC to early-16th century) from the territory of what is now Poland. Pre-Roman blades were usually made from one piece of metal of varying quality...