Archaeology

Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field.Bringing together today's leading scholars, both established...

Since 1997 the Portable Antiquities Scheme has recorded almost 1.5 million objects found in England and Wales, the vast majority discovered by members of the public rather than professional archaeologists. Among these finds are more than 10,000 early...

The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe marks the arrival of early modern material culture studies as a vibrant, fully-established field of multi-disciplinary research.The volume provides a rounded, accessible collection of work...

In this book, Guy D. Middleton explores the fascinating lives of thirty real women of the ancient Mediterranean from the Palaeolithic to the Byzantine era. They include queens and aristocrats, such as the Pharoah Hatshepsut and the Etruscan noblewoman...

We see the Green Man half-hidden on the walls of many of our old churches, a face surrounded by leaves. This beautifully illustrated and well-researched Pitkin Guide looks at this fascinating creature, its history, and where to find him. Look out for...

Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium provides an account of the changing world of archaeological theory and a challenge to more traditional narratives of archaeological thought. It charts the emergence of the new emphasis on relations as well as...

This breakthrough scientific masterwork - and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - reveals the underlying forces that have shaped human history and will secure our future...'Masterful. Galor answers the ultimate mystery' Lewis Dartnell The stunning advances that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932813732Author David Hatcher ChildressFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams)...

The current paradigm-changing ancient DNA revolution is offering unparalleled insights into central problems within archaeology relating to the movement of populations and individuals, patterns of descent, relationships and aspects of identity - at many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846825576Author Paul MacCotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Stretching 73 miles from coast to coast and reaching a height of about 13 feet, Hadrian's Wall should have been counted as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Today, a World Heritage site, it stands as the most imposing monument north of the...

Aristocratic dynasties have long been regarded as fundamental to the development of early modern society and government. Yet recent work by political historians has increasingly questioned the dominant role of ruling families in state formation,...

Northumberland has a great many attractive sites that are well-recorded, and are frequently visited and written about. However, in this new book Dr Stan Beckensall focuses upon places that are off the beaten track, not so well known, but all of enormous...

Longlisted 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...

The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979214851Author John ArgubrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint John ArgubrightPublisher John ArgubrightWeight(grams) 151gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Coinage - it is one of the most successful and consistent technologies ever invented. Nothing else we still use in everyday life has a history quite like it. Look around at all the things that would bewilder a Greek, Roman, or Renaissance ancestor; then,...

The Indus civilization flourished for half a millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BC, when it mysteriously declined and vanished from view. It remained invisible for almost four thousand years, until its ruins were discovered in the 1920s by British and...

Built around AD122, Hadrian's Wall was guarded by the Roman army for over three centuries and has left an indelible mark on the landscape of northern Britain. It was a wonder of the ancient world and is a World Heritage Site. Written by a leading...

If all the portable artefacts of Ancient Egypt were in a single location, the lives of students, historians and connoisseurs would be immeasurably simpler - but the objects are scattered in museums and collections all over the world. This book brings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860540489Author Nicholas MayhewFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

The unmissable new mystery in the bestselling DI Wesley Peterson crime series'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The Times__________________Serpent's Point in South Devon is the focus of local legends. The large house on the headland is...

A 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...

This fully updated sixth edition of a classic classroom text is essential reading for core courses in archaeology.Archaeology: An Introduction explains how the subject emerged from an amateur pursuit in the eighteenth century into a serious discipline...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781407309293Author Dionisius A. AgiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652295200Author Leah LofenfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 378g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841714707Author John HookerFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR PublishingWeight(grams) 495g

Archaeological Theory: The Basics is an accessible introduction to an indispensable part of what archaeologists do. The book guides the reader to an understanding of what theory is, how it works and the range of theories used in archaeology.The growth of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632651938Author Philip CoppensFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint New Page BooksPublisher New Page BooksWeight(grams) 152g

From the 1790s until World War I, Western museums filled their shelves with art and antiquities from around the world. These objects are now widely seen as "stolen" or "plundered" from their countries of origin, and demands for their return grow louder...

The Book of the Dead of Sobekmose, in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, New York, is one of the most important surviving examples of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead genre. Such 'books' - papyrus scrolls - were composed of traditional...

The Archaeology of Nuragic Sardinia is a comprehensive synthesis of evidence bearing on current understandings of Sardinian prehistory from the 23rd through 8th centuries BC. Within a culture-historical framework recent findings on chronology,...

This book offers a new interpretation of the spatial-political-environmental dynamics of water and irrigation in long-term histories of arid regions. It compares ancient Southwest Arabia (3500 BC-AD 600) with the American West (2000 BC-AD 1950) in global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781407313238Author Anke HeinFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

David Rohl continues his quest to reach the historical kernel lying at the heart of some of the greatest unsolved problems and mysteries of Old World history and archaeology. He reveals what really happened in seven famous myths and legends bequeathed to...

A powerful exploration of trees in both the real and the imagined Anglo-Saxon landscape. Trees played a particularly important part in the rural economy of Anglo-Saxon England, both for wood and timber and as a wood-pasture resource, with hunting...

This book sets out the discussion on how cities can contribute solutions to some of the challenges the urbanised world is facing, such as the pressure of growing populations, mitigation of effects of, and adaptation to globally changing environmental,...

Museums are public places where objects, images and memories are kept and shared. They exist in infinite variety and contradiction. They can be places of great excitement and great boredom, sharply insightful and hopelessly bland. Museums are anything...

An in-depth and wide-ranging approach to the study of older adults in societyTaking a holistic approach to the study of aging, this volume uses biological, archaeological, medical, and cultural perspectives to explore how older adults have functioned in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922343215Author Gordon SawyerFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Linellen PressPublisher Linellen PressWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...