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Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete by Rodney Castleden
RRP: £37.99£33.38Thoroughly researched, Rodney Castleden's Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete here sues the results of recent research to produce a comprehensive new vision of the peoples of Minoan Crete.Since Sir Arthur Evans rediscovered the Minoans in the early 1900s,... -
Techniques of Archaeological Excavation by Philip Barker 9780415151528
RRP: £47.99£42.21Immediately hailed as the standard work and one of the most widely used archaeological field manuals, this survey of current excavation techniques, now in its third edition, remains an in-dispensible guide for archaeologists. his text has been written by... -
Archaeological Situations: Archaeological Theory from the Inside Out by Gavin Lucas
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book is an introduction to theory in archaeology - but with a difference. Archaeological Situations avoids talking about theory as if it was something you apply but rather as something embedded in archaeological practice from the start.Rather than... -
The Archaeology of Lancashire by David C. A. Shotter 9781862200104
RRP: £9.95£8.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781862200104Author Richard NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint University of LancasterPublisher University of Lancaster -
Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs by Nadia Maria El Cheikh 9780932885302
RRP: £16.95£13.54This book studies the Arabic-Islamic view of Byzantium, tracing the Byzantine image as it evolved through centuries of warfare, contact, and exchanges. Including previously inaccessible material on the Arabic textual tradition on Byzantium, this... -
Landscapes of the Norman Conquest by Rowley, Trevor 9781526724281
RRP: £25.00£17.62For a long time, the Norman Conquest has been viewed as a turning point in English history; an event which transformed English identity, sovereignty, kingship, and culture. The years between 1066 and 1086 saw the largest transfer of property ever seen in... -
The History of Phoenicia by Josette Elayi
RRP: £32.50£30.81The history of the Phoenicians, explorers and merchants, is little known. What a paradox for this ingenious people, who invented the alphabet, to have left so few written traces of their existence. Their literature, recorded on papyrus, has disappeared... -
The Smart Neanderthal: Bird catching, Cave Art, and the Cognitive Revolution by Clive Finlayson 9780198797524
RRP: £21.49£15.67Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a 'cognitive revolution' (C.50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our species spread and eventually replaced all existing... -
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped World History by Patrick Roberts
RRP: £10.99£7.12'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees'A fascinating story and a crucial revision of the momentous importance of tropical forests to human history' Lewis Dartnell, author of... -
Dervish Dust: The Life and Words of James Coburn by Robyn L Coburn
RRP: £32.00£23.13Dervish Dust is the authorized biography of "cool cat" actor James Coburn, covering his career, romances, friendships, and spirituality. Thoroughly researched with unparalleled access to Coburn's friends and family, the book's foundation is his own words... -
The Minority of James V: Scotland in Europe, 1513-1528 by Ken Emond
RRP: £70.00£48.43The defeat of the Scots in the Battle of Flodden in 1513 left many of the leaders of Scottish society, including King James IV, lying dead on the battlefield. The long and complex minority of King James V which followed is explored in detail in this... -
Living off the Land: Agriculture in Wales c. 400-1600 AD by Rhiannon Comeau 9781911188391
RRP: £34.99£29.21This is the first book for a generation on medieval agriculture in Wales, presenting evidence which is of considerable relevance to those studying the development of the early medieval landscapes of England and Ireland. This collection of essays... -
Mammal Bones and Teeth: An Introductory Guide to Methods of Identification by Simon Hillson
RRP: £58.99£51.48This guide is designed as an introduction to the basic methods for identifying mammal bones and teeth. It is intended to highlight for beginners the main points on which identifications can be made on the bulk of bones and teeth from a small range of... -
A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya by David Freidel 9780688112042
£21.73The mystique of the pre-Columbian Maya has prompted much speculation about the nature of this sophisticated people. With the breaking of their elaborate hieroglyphic code, Schele and Freidel, Mayan scholars of note, provide a new look at the Maya... -
Roman Forts in Britain by Paul Bidwell 9780752441078
RRP: £25.00£18.15More than a tenth of the Roman army's total strength was stationed in Britain. Focusing on the auxiliary forts that were occupied from the second century onwards, this work looks at: the plans and functions of forts; the everyday life of officers and... -
BATH - I Walked Every Street by Andrew 'Able' Lawrence 9781839526541
RRP: £19.99£14.28This is a book about the city of Bath, but as experienced by a resident who over several years walked every street, path and alley of the city. It describes the beautiful variety of buildings, the splendid views from all over the city, and the... -
From 'LUGAL.GAL' TO 'Wanax': Kingship and Political Organisation in the Late Bronze Age Aegean by Dr. Jorrit Kelder 9789088908002
RRP: £75.00£70.51In this book the much-debated problem of political organization in Mycenaean Greece (ca. 1400-1200 BC) is analysed and contextualised through the prism of archaeology and contemporary textual (Linear B, Egyptian and Hittite) evidence.From the early 14th... -
The Vikings by Neil Price 9780415343503
RRP: £32.99£29.16The Vikings provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the complex world of the early medieval Scandinavians.In the space of less than 300 years, from the mid-eighth to the mid-eleventh centuries CE, people from what are now Norway, Sweden, and... -
Ancient Egypt: The Basics by Donald P. Ryan
RRP: £18.99£16.87Ancient Egypt: The Basics offers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the history, archaeology and influence of this fascinating civilization. Coverage includes: A survey of Egyptian history from its earliest origins to the coming of Islam ... -
Ortner's Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains by Jane E. Buikstra 9780128097380
RRP: £86.99£79.10Ortner'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... -
Intangible Heritage and the Museum: New Perspectives on Cultural Preservation by Marilena Alivizatou
RRP: £37.99£33.38In this comparative, international study Marilena Alivizatou investigates the relationship between museums and the new concept of "intangible heritage." She charts the rise of intangible heritage within the global sphere of UN cultural policy and... -
Roman Working Lives and Urban Living by Ardle Mac Mahon 9781842171868
RRP: £34.00£28.02The ordinary people who made up the largest section of the population in the cities and towns in the Roman world were largely ignored by contemporary writers and have often been marginalised in traditional studies of Roman urbanism, but research into... -
The Hoard and its History: Staffordshire's Secrets Revealed by Robert Sharp 9781858585475
£15.19No satisfactory explanation has been given for the burial of a large Saxon gold hoard found in Hammerwich, Staffordshire in 2009. Speculation on who buried the treasure has led to many ideas based on battles, warriors and plundering kings. An alternative... -
Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt by Jan Assmann
RRP: £38.00£33.05"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... -
Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian by Leonora Neville 9780190939892
RRP: £28.49£22.37Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for two things: plotting to murder her brother to usurp the throne, and writing the Alexiad, an epic history of her father Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) that is a key historical source for the era of the First... -
Pasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism by Tony Bennett 9780415247474
RRP: £37.99£33.38Contributing to current debates on relationships between culture and the social, and the the rapidly changing practices of modern museums as they seek to shed the legacies of both evolutionary conceptions and colonial science, this important new work... -
Representing the Nation: Heritage, Museums, National Narratives, and Identity in the Arab Gulf States by Pamela Erskine-Loftus 9780367193089
RRP: £43.99£38.44The 1970s saw the emergence and subsequent proliferation across the Arabian Peninsula of 'national museums', institutions aimed at creating social cohesion and affiliation to the state within a disparate population. Representing the Nation examines the... -
Rulership and Rebellion in the Anglo-Norman World, c.1066-c.1216: Essays in Honour of Professor Edmund King by Paul Dalton 9780367879150
RRP: £39.99£35.06The 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: £30.99£30.73This 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: £17.00£9.94Apologies 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: £36.99£32.53The 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
£25.95In 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... -
Archaeology in British Towns: From the Emperor Claudius to the Black Death by Patrick Ottaway
RRP: £135.00£117.68Over 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: £19.99£14.28This 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: £25.00£17.98Deep 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... -
The Circular Archetype in Microcosm: The Carved Stone Balls of Late Neolithic Scotland by Chris L. Stewart-Moffitt
RRP: £60.00£49.64The Circular Archetype in Microcosm is the culmination of seven years research into the Carved Stone Balls of Late Neolithic Scotland. It is the first study of these enigmatic artefacts since that undertaken by Dorothy Marshall in 1977 and includes all... -
Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain by David M. Carballo
RRP: £17.49£15.11Mexico 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 Palaeolithic Societies of Europe by Clive Gamble
RRP: £59.99£53.18Palaeolithic 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: £36.99£32.53Assembling 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 Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture by Patrick E. McGovern 9780691197203
RRP: £14.99£11.87A 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...