Archaeology

Zooarchaeology, the study of ancient animals, is a frequently side-lined subject in archaeology. This 'important and provocative' volume, now available in paperback, provides a crucial reversal of this bizarre situation - 'bizarre' because the...

This is the first English edition of a book first published very successfully in German in 2019. It is a translation of the revised third German edition. The central themes of Stefan Heid's book are the early Christian altar and the design and building...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783981826036Author Michael HudsonFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Islet-VerlagPublisher Islet-VerlagWeight(grams) 739gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 21mm

This book is a vivid reconstruction of the practical aspects of ancient Egyptian religion. Through an examination of artefacts and inscriptions, the text explores a variety of issues. For example, who was allowed to enter the temples, and what rituals...

This long-awaited new work offers an examination of the area now known as Gloucestershire in the later Iron Age and Roman periods. The last substantial book to consider this area and period was published in 1981; much has been discovered in the...

This interdisciplinary edited volume presents twelve papers by Roman historians and archaeologists, discussing the interconnected relationship between religion and the Roman economy over the period c. 500 BC to AD 350. The connection between Roman...

Apologies 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...

When and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When and why did our capacity for language or art, music and dance evolve? It is the contention of this pathbreaking and provocative book that it was the need for early humans to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899765157Author Albert SpeerFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Realhstorybooks@yahoo.Co.UKPublisher Realhstorybooks@yahoo.Co.UKWeight(grams)...

The relations between medieval East Anglia and countries across the North Sea examined from a variety of perspectives. East Anglia was a distinctive English region during the Middle Ages, but it was one that owed much of its character and identity to...

In 1922, as Egypt became an independent nation, the tomb of the young king Tutankhamun was discovered at Luxor, the first known intact royal burial from ancient Egypt. The excavation of the small but crowded tomb by Howard Carter and his team generated...

This book analyzes social ideology and social relationships in late Second Temple Judaea, studying a range of archaeological material and sites to better understand both communal and individual trends in Jerusalem and its environs. Using several...

Local Experiences of Connectivity and Mobility in the Ancient West-Central Mediterranean brings together a series of papers that explore theoretical and material approaches to connectivity and mobility in the ancient Central and Western Mediterranean...

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For thousands of years, the landscape of Wiltshire has played host to carefully concealed hoards of material wealth; from tools to weapons, jewellery to money. Over the last two hundred years, the discoveries of these previously hidden treasures have led...

Archaeology and the Modern World advances a new controversial theory of historical archaeology. Using new case studies, Martin Hall evaluates the major theoretical traditions in historical archaeology while contributing significantly to the debate. In...

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781407313733Author Nicholas CampionFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR PublishingWeight(grams) 1356g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788192510774Author Rajesh Kumar SinghFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Hari Sena Press Private LimitedPublisher Hari Sena Press Private...

The Earliest Europeans explores a fundamental question: how did Europe's first hominin occupants cope with the year-round practical challenges of life. To do so, the book adopts a 'year in the life' perspective that draws on the increasingly rich and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572584181Author Professor Jonathan GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Teach Services, Inc.Publisher Teach Services, Inc.Weight(grams)...

The second edition of Archaeological Investigation is even more ambitious than the first and reaches out into different kinds of archaeological investigation practiced the world over. Including updated theory, aims and methods of field archaeology in the...

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

This highly-illustrated book reveals a brand-new story of the royal castle of Lincoln - how it was imposed on the late Anglo-Saxon town and how it developed over the next 900 years in the hands of the king or his aristocratic associates. Today, we have...

The Emperor John II Komnenos (1118-1143) has been overshadowed by both his father Alexios I and his son Manuel I. Written sources have not left us much evidence regarding his reign, although authors agree that he was an excellent emperor. However, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916182011Author Paul KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Black Slash PublicationsPublisher Black Slash Publications

InRe-Constructing Archaeology, Shanks and Tilley aim to challenge the disciplinary practices of both traditional and the `new' archaeology and to present a radical alternative - a critically self-consious archaeology aware of itself as pracitce in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521239Author Viking Society for Northern ResearchFormat PaperbackPage Count 167Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society...

Princes of the Church brings together the latest research exploring the importance of bishops' palaces for social and political history, landscape history, architectural history and archaeology. It is the first book-length study of such sites since...

This book surveys the intersections between water systems and the phenomenology of visual cultures in early modern, colonial and contemporary South Asia. Bringing together contributions by eminent artists, architects, curators and scholars who explore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838136307Author Neil HagueFormat PaperbackPage Count 686Imprint Quester PublicationsPublisher Quester PublicationsWeight(grams) 943gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288524Author Gabriel MoshenskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

In the course of the fifth century, the farms and villas of lowland Britain were replaced by a new, distinctive form of rural settlement: the settlements of the Anglo-Saxons. This volume presents the first major synthesis of the evidence - which has...

The Frontier area of northern England is the most important and reliable source for archaeologists in existence. The perpetuation of the Roman imperial ideal, the survival of classical art and literature, and the spread of the Christian faith depended on...

How and where did our ancestors live during the 8000 years between the end of Ice Age and the arrival of the Romans in AD 43? In tracing the variety and development of prehistoric settlements from the hunter-gatherers of the Mesolithic to the tribes of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715635674Author David Kennedy, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The Roman fort at Bearsden and its annexe, together with areas beyond its defences, were extensively excavated from 1973 to 1982. The report on these excavations was published in 2016. This 'popular' account of the discoveries looks at the material...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781407301754Author Margherita CarucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 303Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR PublishingWeight(grams) 1208g

The Picts were a sophisticated and powerful people who dominated much of what is now Scotland for hundreds of years, before uniting with the Gaels to form the nation of Alba (later Scotland). Their language has all but disappeared, but their cultural...

Underwater archaeology paints a dramatic picture of life in the prehistoric past. The public perception of underwater archaeology is usually related to shipwrecks and yet there are thousands of submerged settlement sites from all periods. Most of these...