Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Museum Basics: The International Handbook by Timothy Ambrose
RRP: €47.59€42.91This fourth edition of Museum Basics has been produced for use in the many museums worldwide that operate with few professional staff and limited resources. The fourth edition has been fully updated to reflect the many changes that have taken place in... -
Clachtoll: An Iron Age Broch Settlement in Assynt, North-west Scotland by Graeme Cavers 9781789258479
RRP: €41.65€38.35Clachtoll broch is one of the most spectacular Iron Age settlements on the northern mainland of Scotland. When it became clear that the structure was threatened by coastal erosion, community heritage group Historic Assynt launched a major programme of... -
Divine Fertility: The Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in Northeast Africa by Sada Mire
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book uniquely explores the impact of indigenous ideology and thought on everyday life in Northeast Africa. Furthermore, in highlighting the diversity in pre-Christian, pre-Islamic regional beliefs and practices that extend beyond the simplistic... -
Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs: A Guide to Nahuatl Writing by Gordon Whittaker
RRP: €29.75€19.60For more than three millennia the cultures of Mesoamerica flourished, building the first cities of the Western Hemisphere and developing writing systems that could rival those of the Eastern Hemisphere in their creativity and efficiency. The... -
Bredon Hill: Archaeology, History, Folklore & Villages by Brian Hoggard
RRP: €8.32€7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906663186Author Brian HoggardFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 8mm -
Medieval York by Gareth Dean 9780752441160
RRP: €26.78€19.98York is one of the most visited cities in England - above all for its medieval heritage: the Minster, the city walls and the streets where many elements of the medieval city are still visible. Drawing on a mass of unpublished excavations over the last 35... -
In Search of the Labyrinth: The Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete by Nicoletta Momigliano
RRP: €27.36€23.93Shortlisted for the European Association of Archaeologies 2023 book prize In Search of the Labyrinth explores the enduring cultural legacy of Minoan Crete by offering an overview of Minoan archaeology and modern responses to it in literature, the... -
'The Hotties': Excavation and Building Survey at Pilkingtons' No 9 Tank House, St Helens, Merseyside by M. Krupa 9780904220322
€33.55The remains of Pilkingtons' No 9 Tank House represent a unique survival from the 19th century, an period of rapid development within the glass industry characterised by innovative but short-lived design. These remains are now recognised as the most ... -
The Material Culture Reader by Victor Buchli
RRP: €35.69€31.70Material culture has finally earned a central place within anthropology. Emerging from the pioneering work done at University College London, this reader brings together for the first time seminal articles that have helped shape the anthropological study... -
The Vandals by Andrew Merrills
RRP: €35.64€31.67The Vandals is the first book available in the English Language dedicated to exploring the sudden rise and dramatic fall of this complex North African Kingdom. This complete history provides a full account of the Vandals and re-evaluates key aspects of... -
The Assyrian Rock Relief at Yagmur (Evrihan) in the Tur Abdin by Bülent Genç 9781803274225
€23.80The Assyrian Rock Relief at YaGmur in the Tur Abdin publishes a newly discovered rock relief in the Mazidagi Plain, at the western end of the Tur Abdin in southeastern Turkey. The preserved remains include an image of an Assyrian king, divine symbols and... -
Prehistoric Britain by Professor Timothy C. Darvill 9780415490276
RRP: €47.59€42.20Britain has been inhabited by humans for over half a million years, during which time there were a great many changes in lifestyles and in the surrounding landscape. This book, now in its second edition, examines the development of human societies in... -
The Complete Archaeology of Greece: From Hunter-Gatherers to the 20th Century A.D. by John Bintliff 9781405154192
RRP: €41.59€37.16The Complete Archaeology of Greece covers the incredible richness and variety of Greek culture and its central role in our understanding of European civilization, from the Palaeolithic era of 400,000 years ago to the early modern period. In a single... -
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism by Cathy Gere 9780226289540
RRP: €21.42€18.33In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With... -
The Sumerian World by Harriet Crawford 9781138238633
RRP: €54.73€47.75The Sumerian World explores the archaeology, history and art of southern Mesopotamia and its relationships with its neighbours from c.3,000 - 2,000BC. Including material hitherto unpublished from recent excavations, the articles are organised... -
1982 Uncovered: The Falklands War Mapping Project by Timothy Clack 9781803273822 [USED COPY]
RRP: €35.69€18.17War and its legacy are traumatic to individuals, communities, and landscapes. The impacts last long beyond the events themselves and shape lives and generations. Archaeology has a part to play in the recording of, and recovery from, such trauma. The... -
1982 Uncovered: The Falklands War Mapping Project by Timothy Clack
€36.09War and its legacy are traumatic to individuals, communities, and landscapes. The impacts last long beyond the events themselves and shape lives and generations. Archaeology has a part to play in the recording of, and recovery from, such trauma. The... -
Neolithic Scotland: Timber, Stone, Earth and Fire by Gordon Noble 9780748623389
RRP: €44.03€40.47This is an account of the Neolithic period in Scotland from its earliest traces around 4000 BC to the transformation of Neolithic society in the Early Bronze Age fifteen hundred years later. Gordon Noble inteprets Scottish material in the context of... -
The Archaeology of the Roman Economy by Kevin Greene
RRP: €36.89€28.60Kevin Greene shows how archaeology can help provide a more balanced view of the Roman economy by informing the classical historian about geographical areas and classes of society that received little attention from the largely aristocratic classical... -
When Bishops Meet: An Essay Comparing Trent, Vatican I, and Vatican II by John W. O'Malley
RRP: €28.50€22.78From one of our foremost church historians comes an overarching analysis of the three modern Catholic councils-an assessment of what Catholicism was and has become today.Catholic councils are meetings of bishops. In this unprecedented comparison of the... -
Theory and Practice of Archaeology: A Workbook by Thomas C. Patterson
RRP: €64.25€61.36For courses in Introduction to Archaeology Theory and Methods.Intended for the Introductory Archaeology course with the goal of teaching students how to think like archaeologists, this workbook includes activities that challenge students to interpret and... -
The South American Camelids by Duccio Bonavia
€13.48One of the most significant differences between the New World's major areas of high culture is that Mesoamerica had no beasts of burden and wool, while the Andes had both. Four members of the camelid family--wild guanacos and vicunas, and domestic llamas... -
Aksum and Nubia: Warfare, Commerce, and Political Fictions in Ancient Northeast Africa by George Hatke
RRP: €53.55€46.62Aksum and Nubia assembles and analyzes the textual and archaeological evidence of interaction between Nubia and the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum, focusing primarily on the fourth century CE. Although ancient Nubia and Ethiopia have been the subject of... -
Treasure Hunter: Diving for Gold on North America's Death Coast by Robert MacKinnon
RRP: €22.62€20.22For more than four decades, world-renowned diver and treasure hunter Captain Robert MacKinnon has reclaimed sunken caches from the dangerous shallow waters along the Atlantic coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Known as the Death Coast for its... -
Archaeology – Why It Matters by AB Stahl
RRP: €11.89€10.65History lies beneath our feet and in the landscapes around us. In contrast to the history that comes from studying texts, archaeology is the study of history through objects, monuments, and other traces of past lives: history that extends beyond the... -
Ireland's First Settlers: Time and the Mesolithic by Peter Woodman
RRP: €41.65€39.38Ireland's First Settlers tells the story of the archaeology and history of the first continuous phase of Ireland's human settlement. It combines centuries of search and speculation about human antiquity in Ireland with a review of what is known today... -
Logic and Theism: Arguments for and against Beliefs in God by Jordan Howard Sobel
RRP: €45.21€40.97This is a wide-ranging 2004 book about arguments for and against beliefs in God. The arguments for the belief are analysed in the first six chapters and include ontological arguments from Anselm to Goedel, the cosmological arguments of Aquinas and... -
Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man by Kenneth P. Oakley
RRP: €52.35€45.74This is the first book to appear which correlates within a single volume the relevant data for both archeological and geological dating of human fossil remains. The author was trained both as a geologist and as a prehistorian, and has written this book... -
Angkor and the Khmer Civilization by Michael D. Coe 9780500284421
€26.58The Classic-period kings ruled over the Khmer empire from AD 802 for more than five centuries, and this book, newly available in paperback, examines the massive architectural achievements of this period, including the huge capital city of Angkor, with... -
Bowmont: An Environmental History of the Bowmont Valley and the Northern Cheviot Hills, 10000 BC - AD 2000 by Richard Tipping 9780903903493
RRP: €11.90€10.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903903493Author Richard TippingFormat HardbackPage Count 253Imprint Society of Antiquaries of ScotlandPublisher Society of Antiquaries of Scotland -
Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood by Brenna Hassett 9781472975720
RRP: €15.46€11.65Brings the science of biological anthropology to bear on understanding how our evolutionary history has shaped a phenomenon everyone has experienced - childhood. Tracking deep into our evolutionary history, anthropological science has begun to... -
The Archaeology of Skye and the Western Isles by Ian Armit 9780748606405
RRP: €36.89€34.14From the Callanish stones and the great ritual monuments of the Neolithic, the broch towers and the wheelhouses of the Iron Age, through to the arrival of the Norse and the Lords of the Isles, this book explores the history of human settlement and... -
Digging for Hitler: The Nazi Archaeologists Search for an Aryan Past by David Barrowclough 9781781555002
RRP: €29.75€22.54* A band of Nazi archaeologists on a secret mission to Tibet* Others searching for Atlantis the 'home of the Nordic race'* Excavations in Czechoslovakia to find 'Germanic culture'* Sacred Sanskrit texts as keys to Nordic roots and Ancient Indian... -
Paris Then and Now (R) by Peter Caine
RRP: €17.84€12.02Paris Then and Now captures the changes that have taken place in the French capital from the heady days of the Belle Epoque through to the 1940s. Matching classic archive images with the same viewpoint taken today the book provides a stunning... -
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola 9780691210773
RRP: €19.03€15.36How the legendary debate between a civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism illuminates America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic... -
Silchester: Life on the Dig by Jenny Halstead 9781909747081
RRP: €17.84€12.82The Roman Town at Silchester, Calleva Atrebatum, was a working archaeological dig - the University of Reading Field School - which took place every summer for eighteen years. Taking advantage of the last opportunity to record 'life on the dig' in 2014,... -
Biomolecular Archaeology: An Introduction by T. A. Brown 9781405179607
RRP: €42.78€38.16Illustrated thoroughly, Biomolecular Archaeology is the first book to clearly guide students through the study of ancient DNA: how to analyze biomolecular evidence (DNA, proteins, lipids and carbohydrates) to address important archaeological questions... -
Darkness Visible: The Sculptor's Cave, Covesea, from the Bronze Age to the Picts by Ian Armit 9781908332172
RRP: €35.70€26.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of The Saltire Society Scottish Research Book of the Year 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781908332172Author Ian ArmitFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Society of... -
Man Makes Himself by V. Gordon Childe 9780851246499
RRP: €19.04€18.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851246499Author V. Gordon ChildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksWeight(grams) 408g -
Oceans Rising - A Companion to "Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation" by Daniela Zyman
€27.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956796098Author Daniela ZymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 785gDimensions(mm) 298mm * 232mm...