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Rulership and Rebellion in the Anglo-Norman World, c.1066-c.1216: Essays in Honour of Professor Edmund King by Paul Dalton 9780367879150
RRP: €47.59€41.72The importance of the themes of rulership and rebellion in the history of the Anglo-Norman world between 1066 and the early thirteenth century is incontrovertible. The power, government, and influence of kings, queens and other lords pervaded and... -
Pottery in Archaeology by Clive Orton
RRP: €36.88€32.33This revised edition provides an up-to-date account of the many different kinds of information that can be obtained through the archaeological study of pottery. It describes the scientific and quantitative techniques that are now available to the... -
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization by Lars Brownworth
RRP: €20.23€11.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307407962Author Lars BrownworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The Significance of Monuments: On the Shaping of Human Experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe by Richard Bradley
RRP: €44.02€38.71The Neolithic period, when agriculture began and many monuments - including Stonehenge - were constructed, is an era fraught with paradoxes and ambiguities. Starting in the Mesolithic and carrying his analysis through to the Late Bronze Age, Richard... -
A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp by Daniel O. Sayers 9780813061924
€36.15In the 250 years before the Civil War, the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina was a brutal landscape--2,000 square miles of undeveloped and unforgiving wetlands, peat bogs, impenetrable foliage, and dangerous creatures. It was also a... -
Ortner's Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains by Jane E. Buikstra 9780128097380
RRP: €103.52€99.92Ortner's Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains, Third Edition, provides an integrated and comprehensive treatment of the pathological conditions that affect the human skeleton. As ancient skeletal remains can reveal a... -
Archaeology in British Towns: From the Emperor Claudius to the Black Death by Patrick Ottaway
RRP: €160.65€140.04Over the last twenty-five years archaeology has revolutionised our knowledge of the early history of British towns. Based on his day-to-day involvement in urban archaeology, Patrick Ottaway reviews the important discoveries and research themes of this... -
Finding Shakespeare's New Place: An Archaeological Biography by Kevin Colls
RRP: €23.79€17.28This ground-breaking book provides an abundance of fresh insights into Shakespeare's life in relation to his lost family home, New Place. The findings of a major archaeological excavation encourage us to think again about what New Place meant to... -
Deep Time: An Illustrated Exploration of 4.5 Billion Years of Time Through Artefacts, Places and Phenomena by Riley Black
RRP: €29.75€21.40Deep time is the timescale of the geological events that have shaped our planet. Whilst so immense as to challenge human understanding, its evidence is nonetheless visible all around us. Through explanations of the latest research and over 200... -
Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt by Jan Assmann
RRP: €45.22€40.07"Human beings," the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge." In his new book, Assmann explores images of... -
Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain by David M. Carballo
RRP: €22.00€18.94Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortes joined forces with tens of thousands of Mesoamerican allies to topple the mighty Aztec Empire. It... -
The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus by Paul Zanker
€40.59Art and architecture are mirrors of a society. They reflect the state of its values, especially in times of crisis or transition. Upon this premise Paul Zanker builds an interpretation of Augustan art as a visual language that both expressed and... -
The Palaeolithic Societies of Europe by Clive Gamble
RRP: €71.39€60.96Palaeolithic societies have been a neglected topic in the discussion of human origins. In this book, which succeeds and replaces The Palaeolithic Settlement of Europe, published by Cambridge University Press in 1986, Clive Gamble challenges the... -
Assembling Past Worlds: Materials, Bodies and Architecture in Neolithic Britain by Oliver J.T. Harris
RRP: €44.02€38.71Assembling Past Worlds draws on new materialism and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to explore the potential for a posthumanist archaeology. Through specific empirical study, this book provides a detailed analysis of Neolithic Britain, a critical moment... -
Ancient Egypt: A Social History by B. G. Trigger
RRP: €41.64€36.28The rich and extensive floodplain of the River Nile can claim to be the cradle of one of the earliest and most spectacular civilizations of antiquity. Ancient Egypt: A Social History, first published in 1983, presents an innovative perspective on the... -
The Dinosaur Artist: obsession, betrayal, and the quest for Earth's ultimate trophy by Paige Williams 9781911617907
RRP: €17.84€12.14New Yorker magazine staff writer Paige Williams delves into the surprisingly perilous world of fossil collectors in this riveting true tale. In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: 'a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton'. In fact,... -
The Compensations of Plunder: How China Lost Its Treasures by Justin M Jacobs
RRP: €28.56€27.41From 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... -
Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture by Patrick E. McGovern 9780691197203
RRP: €17.84€14.46A richly illustrated account of the story of ancient vinicultureThe history of civilization is, in many ways, the history of wine. This book is the first comprehensive account of the earliest stages of the history and prehistory of viniculture, which... -
The House of Augustus: A Historical Detective Story by T. P. Wiseman 9780691180076
RRP: €38.08€30.65A radical reexamination of the textual and archaeological evidence about Augustus and the PalatineCaesar Augustus (63 BC-AD 14), who is usually thought of as the first Roman emperor, lived on the Palatine Hill, the place from which the word "palace"... -
Desert Insurgency: Archaeology, T. E. Lawrence, and the Arab Revolt by Nicholas J Saunders 9780198722007
RRP: €41.04€36.50In the desert sands of southern Jordan lies a once-hidden conflict landscape along the Hejaz Railway. Built at the beginning of the twentieth-century, this narrow-gauge 1,320 km track stretched from Damascus to Medina and served to facilitate... -
Diving the Thistlegorm: The Ultimate Guide to a World War II Shipwreck by Simon Brown 9781909455375
RRP: €41.65€29.38Diving the Thistlegorm is a unique in-depth look at one of the world's best-loved shipwrecks, the World War II British Merchant Navy steamship, featuring award-winning underwater photography. In this highly visual guide, cutting edge photographic methods... -
Subterranean Stockport by Emma Brown
RRP: €19.03€12.91Subterranean Stockport reveals a hidden world beneath the streets of Stockport - a Greater Manchester town with a rich industrial past. It includes water tunnels from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - excavated to supply water-powered corn and... -
The Afterlives of Greek Sculpture: Interaction, Transformation, and Destruction by Rachel Kousser
RRP: €36.88€29.19The Afterlives of Greek Sculpture is the first comprehensive, historical account of the afterlives of ancient Greek monumental sculptures. Whereas scholars have traditionally focused on the creation of these works, Rachel Kousser instead draws on... -
Scilly's Archaeological Heritage by Jeanette Ratcliffe 9780906294536
RRP: €5.36€3.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906294536Author Jeanette RatcliffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 55Imprint Twelveheads PressPublisher Twelveheads Press -
Military Archaeology: How Detectorists and Major Finds Improve our Understanding of History by Tim Heath 9781399023238
RRP: €29.75€20.97Military and battlefield archaeology has always been viewed as a sub-discipline to that of traditional historical archaeology. Once considered the pursuit of learned history professors and their disciples today, military archaeology has flourished around... -
The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns by Bassey W. Andah
RRP: €65.44€58.69Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies in an Extraordinary range of... -
Rock Art and the Prehistory of Atlantic Europe: Signing the Land by Richard Bradley
RRP: €52.35€45.74Along the Atlantic seaboard, from Scotland to Spain, are numerous rock carvings made four to five thousand years ago, whose interpretation poses a major challenge to the archaeologist. In the first full-length treatment of the subject, based largely on... -
Industrial Archaeology of the Plym Valley by Ernie Hoblyn
RRP: €20.22€14.61In this new look at the Plym Valley, local author Ernie Hoblyn looks at the ruins of the industrial past and asks, 'Why did they build that here and what is it for?' Covering the valley running north from the Laira estuary to Clearbook, Industrial... -
Winds of Change: Environment and Society in Anatolia by Christopher H. Roosevelt
RRP: €57.12€54.73Understanding the varied and dynamic interactions between environment and society in Anatolia. In recent decades, the influences of environmental and climatic conditions on past human societies have attracted significant attention from both the... -
Interpreting Landscapes: Geologies, Topographies, Identities; Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 3 by Christopher Tilley
RRP: €57.11€50.23This book takes a new approach to writing about the past. Instead of studying the prehistory of Britain from Mesolithic to Iron Age times in terms of periods or artifact classifications, Tilley examines it through the lens of their geology and... -
Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skills from the Society of Primitive Technology by David Westcott
€25.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586850982Author David WestcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith IncWeight(grams) 658g -
Preventive Conservation in Museums by Chris Caple 9780415579704
RRP: €64.25€56.97Preventive Conservation in Museums makes available and comprehensible the diverse literature and ideas of preventive conservation to an audience with a limited scientific background, principally those studying museum studies or engaged in the museum... -
Ancient Roman Gardens by Linda Farrar 9780752464435
RRP: €29.75€22.54A history of the development of Roman gardens from humble vegetable patches to the sophisticated formats seen at the height of the empire. Domestic, public, town and country gardens are covered, and archaeological research is used to illustrate the value... -
Industrial Heritage Re-tooled: The TICCIH Guide to Industrial Heritage Conservation by James Douet
RRP: €45.21€40.20This volume comprises the authoritative work from the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage - the international group dedicated to industrial archaeology and heritage - detailing the latest approaches to the conservation... -
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... -
Culture and Society at Lullingstone Roman Villa by Caroline K. Mackenzie 9781789692907
€18.12Culture and Society at Lullingstone Roman Villa paints a picture of what life might have been like for the inhabitants of the villa in the late third and fourth centuries AD. The villa today, in the Darent Valley, Kent, has an unusual amount of... -
The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor 9780691245607
RRP: €20.22€15.96The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of classical mythologyGriffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants-these fabulous creatures of classical mythology... -
Rock Art and Ritual: Interpreting the Prehistoric Landscapes of the North York Moors by Alan A. Walker 9780752446349
RRP: €29.75€22.06Following a devastating fire in 2003, an area of moorland above Robin Hoods Bay on the North Yorkshire coast was laid bare, revealing a fascinating and previously unrecorded landscape. The authors have spent hundreds of hours locating and plotting the... -
Interpreting the Landscape from the Air by Mick Aston 9780752428468 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€3.28Drawing on written records, coins, inscriptions and other archaeological evidence, the authors present a detailed picture of how the Roman cavalryman and his horse were equipped.Book InformationISBN 9780752428468Author Mick AstonFormat PaperbackPage... -
Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions by Suzanne MacLeod 9780415676038
RRP: €57.11€50.23Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in building refurbishments and new gallery displays. This period has also seen...