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Prehistoric Rock Art in the Northern Dales by Paul Brown
RRP: €32.73€24.61This book presents a wealth of information on the rock art of the dales that straddle the ridge of the Northern Pennines and Cumbria fells, the authors present details of their new discoveries together with an up to date account of the known archaeology... -
The Medieval Horse and its Equipment, c.1150-1450 John Clark 9781843836797
RRP: €29.74€25.35Over 400 recent finds associated with horses and excavated in London, from the utilitarian to the highly decorated, illustrated and discussed. Whether knight's charger or beast of burden, horses played a vital role in medieval life. The wealth of... -
Interpreting the English Village: Landscape and Community at Shapwick, Somerset by Mick Aston 9781905119455
RRP: €35.64€34.19An original and approachable account of how archaeology can tell the story of the English village. Shapwick lies in the middle of Somerset, next to the important monastic centre of Glastonbury: the abbey owned the manor for 800 years from the 8th to the... -
The Prehistory of Music: Human Evolution, Archaeology, and the Origins of Musicality by Iain Morley 9780198827269
RRP: €38.07€35.40Music is possessed by all human cultures, and archaeological evidence for musical activities pre-dates even the earliest known cave art. Music has been the subject of keen investigation across a great diversity of fields, from neuroscience and psychology... -
Living on the Edge of Empire: The Objects and People of Hadrian's Wall by Rob Collins 9781783463275
RRP: €29.75€20.97Dr Rob Collins and the curators of the remarkable collections from Hadrian's Wall present a striking new contribution to understanding the archaeology of a Roman frontier. This highly-illustrated volume showcases the artefacts recovered from... -
Olympia: A Cultural History by Professor Judith M. Barringer
RRP: €41.65€33.01A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and political sites in the ancient Greek and Roman worldThe memory of ancient Olympia lives on in the form of the modern Olympic Games. But in the ancient... -
The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology by Alexis Catsambis
RRP: €70.21€67.84The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology is a comprehensive survey of the field as seen through the eyes of nearly fifty scholars at a time when maritime archaeology has established itself as a mature branch of archaeology. This volume draws on many... -
The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction by Pat Shipman
RRP: €23.74€19.18A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekApproximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe-descendants of a much earlier migration of the... -
An Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Sobekmose by Paul F. O'Rourke
RRP: €29.69€20.65The 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 Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity Georgios Boudalis 9781941792124
RRP: €26.78€25.80The transition from roll to codex as the standard format of the book is one of the most culturally significant innovations of Late Antiquity. The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity examines surviving evidence in order to better understand how this... -
Rise of the Hyksos: Egypt and the Levant from the Middle Kingdom to the Early Second Intermediate Period by Anna-Latifa Mourad 9781784911331
€58.20Manetho's obscure reference to a race of invaders has been a constant source of debate and controversy. But who are these invaders? They are named the 'Hyksos' - a Greek modification of the Egyptian expression HqA xAs.wt 'ruler of foreign lands'. The... -
The Origins of the World's Mythologies by E. J. Michael Witzel
RRP: €71.40€45.28In this comprehensive book Michael Witzel persuasively demonstrates the prehistoric origins of most of the mythologies of Eurasia and the Americas ('Laurasia'). By comparing these myths with others indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa, Melanesia, and... -
Viking Identities: Scandinavian Jewellery in England by Jane F. Kershaw
RRP: €49.37€45.41Viking Identities is the first detailed archaeological study of Viking-Age Scandinavian-style female dress items from England. Based on primary archival and archaeological research, including the analysis of hundreds of recent metal-detector finds, it... -
Abandoned Ireland by Dominic Connolly 9781838863159
RRP: €23.79€18.15An ancient island with a romantic history and lush green landscape, Ireland's culture stretches back to the time of St Patrick and the first Christian monks and includes the Norman invasion, clan wars, mass emigration and partition in the early 20th... -
Tausret: Forgotten Queen & Pharaoh of Egypt by Richard H. Wilkinson 9780199740116
€62.21One of only a few women who ruled ancient Egypt as a king during its thousands of years of history, Tausret was the last pharaoh of the 19th dynasty (c. 1200 BCE), the last ruling descendent of Ramesses the Great, and one of only two female monarchs... -
The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison Nicholas Guyatt 9780861542215
RRP: €14.27€9.03'Beguiling.' The Times 'Compelling.' Wall Street Journal 'A vivid portrait.' Daily Mail Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race. It's 1812 - Britain and America are at war. British... -
An Anthropology of Landscape: The Extraordinary in the Ordinary by Christopher Tilley 9781911307440
RRP: €27.36€24.41Apologies 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 -
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City by Andrew Lawler
RRP: €32.13€20.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385546850Author Andrew LawlerFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
Yokosuka D4Y 'Judy' Units by Mark Chambers
RRP: €17.84€13.03In 1938, the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal, acting under the requirements issued by the Kaigun Koku Hombu for a Navy Experimental 13-Shi Carrier Borne specification for a dive-bomber to replace the venerable 'Val' aboard carriers. The resulting... -
Commemorating Conflict: Greek Monuments of the Persian Wars by Xavier Duffy 9781784918392
€58.62This 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
€92.09In 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... -
The Nile and its People: 7000 Years of Egyptian History by Charlotte Booth
RRP: €20.22€15.40The Nile and its People is an ambitious title, covering 7000 years of Egyptian history, from the time of the first settlers in Egypt through to the modern day, with the Nile being the constant element throughout. Changes through history of the culture... -
Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World by John Baines 9781800500266
€42.39Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World offers linked essays on uses of the past in prominent and diverse cultures in ancient civilizations across the world. The contributors are leading experts in Ancient Near Eastern... -
The Great Archaeologists by Brian Fagan
RRP: €15.46€10.23A gripping account of 200 years of archaeological research, excavation and thought, told through the life stories of 70 of the world's greatest pioneers and practitioners. Brian Fagan has assembled a team of some of the world's greatest living... -
Cathedral Architecture by Martin S. Briggs
RRP: €8.32€6.03The landmark of many cities is the cathedral. Some had their beginnings as monastic buildings, have stood for nearly a thousand years, and remain essential icons, or even emblems, of a city's character. Yet not all cathedrals look alike, and indeed these... -
A Little History of Archaeology by Brian Fagan
RRP: €13.08€10.75A "learned and lively" (Wall Street Journal) history of archaeological adventure-with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe-for readers of all ages What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind... -
Cladh Hallan: Roundhouses and the dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age, Part I: stratigraghy, spatial organisation and chronology by Mike Parker Pearson 9781789256932
RRP: €41.65€38.35This first of two volumes presents the archaeological evidence of a long sequence of settlement and funerary activity from the Beaker period (Early Bronze Age c. 2000 BC) to the Early Iron Age (c. 500 BC) at the unusually long-occupied site of Cladh... -
The Medieval Stained Glass of Herefordshire & Shropshire by Robert Walker
RRP: €29.75€25.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839546Author Robert WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
Heritage, Museums and Galleries: An Introductory Reader by Gerard Corsane 9780415289467
RRP: €47.59€42.20Bringing the reader the very best of modern scholarship from the heritage community, this comprehensive reader outlines and explains the many diverse issues that have been identified and brought to the fore in the field of heritage, museums and galleries... -
Hidden History: Ancient Aliens and the Suppressed Origins of Civilization by Jim Willis
RRP: €42.83€32.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578597109Author Jim WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press -
The Museum Experience Revisited John H Falk 9781611320459
RRP: €45.21€39.72The first book to take a "visitor's eye view" of the museum visit when it was first published in 1992, The Museum Experience revolutionized the way museum professionals understand their constituents. Falk and Dierking have updated this essential... -
Pitt Rivers: The Life and Archaeological Work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers by Mark Bowden 9780521106221
RRP: €36.88€22.66A flamboyant polymath, General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900) was influential in four fields during his lifetime: military training, anthropology, archaeology and public education. Yet very little is known about his career, character, or... -
Settlement in the Irish Neolithic: New Discoveries at the Edge of Europe by Jessica Smyth
RRP: €29.74€26.98The Irish Neolithic has been dominated by the study of megalithic tombs, but the defining element of Irish settlement evidence is the rectangular timber Early Neolithic house, the numbers of which have more than quadrupled in the last ten years. The... -
Early Ireland: An Introduction to Irish Prehistory by Michael J. O'Kelly 9780521336871
RRP: €65.44€56.03Engagingly written and packed with illustrations, Early Ireland offers an authoritative introduction to the riches of Irish prehistory - a span of eight thousand years from the end of the Ice Age to the first centuries of the Christian era. It provides a... -
Gilded City: Tour Medieval and Renaissance London by Duncan Smith 9781914414848
RRP: €29.75€21.06Throughout London's two-thousand-year history, architecture has expressed the identity of the city's diverse communities. From Franciscan friars to merchant bankers, royal dynasties to grocers and tailors, the ideals and wealth of these groups have been... -
Sacred Sites, Sacred Places by David L. Carmichael 9780415152266
RRP: €49.97€43.73Sacred Sites, Sacred Places explores the concept of 'sacred' and what it means to people in differing cultures. Archaeologists, legislators and those involved in heritage management sometimes come into conflict with local populations over sites which... -
The Elgin Marbles: The Case for Restitution by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: €17.84€16.36The Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and executed by Pheidias to adorn the Parthenon, are perhaps the greatest of all classical sculptures. In 1801, Lord Elgin, then ambassador to the Turkish government, had chunks of the... -
Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England by Warner, Kathryn 9781399098328
RRP: €23.80€17.01Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England allows the reader a peek beneath the bedsheets of our medieval ancestors, in an informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality in England from 1250 to 1450. It examines the prevailing attitudes towards male... -
Fifty Works by Fifty British Women Artists 1900 - 1950 by Sacha Llewellyn
RRP: €23.80€17.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993088483Author Sacha LlewellynFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Liss LlewellynPublisher Liss Llewellyn -
A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World by Alexander Jones
RRP: €69.02€31.34In 1901 divers salvaging antiquities from a Hellenistic shipwreck serendipitously recovered the shattered and corroded remains of an ancient Greek gear-driven device, now known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Since its discovery, scholars relying on direct...