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Palaeopathology by Tony Waldron 9781108730884
RRP: €40.45€35.30Palaeopathology is an evidence-based guide to the principal types of pathological lesions often found in human remains and how to diagnose them. Tony Waldron presents an innovative method of arriving at a diagnosis in the skeleton by applying what he... -
The Aegean Bronze Age by Oliver Dickinson 9780521456647
RRP: €57.11€49.11Oliver Dickinson has written a scholarly, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to the prehistoric civilizations of Greece. The Aegean Bronze Age, the long period from roughly 3000 to 1000 BC, saw the rise and fall of the Minoan and Mycenaean... -
Handbook of Landscape Archaeology by Bruno David
RRP: €59.49€52.96Over the past three decades, "landscape" has become an umbrella term to describe many different strands of archaeology. From the processualist study of settlement patterns to the phenomenologist's experience of the natural world, from human impact on... -
Political Thought in Portugal and its Empire, c.1500-1800: Volume 1 by Nuno Goncalo Monteiro
RRP: €36.88€27.19Showcasing texts by Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian authors, this volume demonstrates the wealth of the political thought of early modern Portugal and its empire. Gathering together important texts on social order, government, and politics by authors who... -
The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis by Alice M. W. Hunt
€48.90The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis draws together topics and methodologies essential for the socio-cultural, mineralogical, and geochemical analysis of archaeological ceramic. Ceramic is one of the most complex and ubiquitous... -
Ancient Mesopotamia by Susan Pollock
RRP: €30.93€25.57This book is an in-depth treatment of the antecedents and first florescence of early state and urban societies in the alluvial lowlands of Mesopotamia over nearly three millennia, from approximately 5000 to 2100 BC. Susan Pollock's approach is explicitly... -
Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain by D. F. Mackreth
€90.90The result of forty years of study, this book offers an overview of the most common find, after coins, on sites in Roman Britain – the brooch. Used basically to hold outer clothing together, it was always on view and was usually decorative. This... -
The Mysteries of Stonehenge: Myth and Ritual at the Sacred Centre by Nikolai Tolstoy
RRP: €29.75€20.74Stonehenge presents us with one of the greatest archaeological mysteries from prehistory. With each new breakthrough in field research and technological innovation, the full scale and significance of the ancient site only deepens. In this new magisterial... -
The Road to Ruins by Ian Graham
€45.08For anyone who ever wanted to be an archaeologist, Ian Graham could be a hero. This lively memoir chronicles Graham's career as the ""last explorer"" and a fierce advocate for the protection and preservation of Maya sites and monuments across Mexico,... -
Ancient Maya: The Rise and Fall of a Rainforest Civilization by Arthur A. Demarest 9780521533904
RRP: €30.93€25.75In this new archaeological study, Arthur Demarest brings the lost pre-Columbian civilization of the Maya to life. In applying a holistic perspective to the most recent evidence from archaeology, paleoecology, and epigraphy, this theoretical... -
Houses and Monuments of Pompeii - The Work of Fausto and Felice Niccolini by Roberto Cassanelli 9780892366842
RRP: €77.35€66.82The discovery of and excavation at Pompeii in the second half of the 18th century not only provided historians with a trove of information about ancient Roman civilization but also fired artists' imaginations and inaugurated the vogue for "Pompeian... -
Gender in the Ancient Near East by Stephanie Budin
RRP: €40.45€35.70Gender in the Ancient Near East is a wide-ranging study through text and art that presents our current understanding of gender constructs in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Cyprus, and the Levant, and incorporates current trends in gender theory... -
Finding Shakespeare's New Place: An Archaeological Biography by Kevin Colls
RRP: €23.79€16.99This 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... -
Archaeological Surveying and Mapping: Recording and Depicting the Landscape by Philip Howard 9780415306638 [USED COPY]
RRP: €47.59€4.94A comprehensive and practical guide to surveying for archaeologists, with clear instructions in archaeological mapping, recording field work and detailed case studies from the UK, Europe and the US. Philip Howard provides a user's guide to methods and... -
Archaeological Surveying and Mapping: Recording and Depicting the Landscape by Philip Howard
RRP: €47.59€42.20A comprehensive and practical guide to surveying for archaeologists, with clear instructions in archaeological mapping, recording field work and detailed case studies from the UK, Europe and the US. Philip Howard provides a user's guide to methods and... -
Ireland by Andy O'Halpin
RRP: €44.61€42.89Ireland is a country rich in archaeological sites. Ireland: An Oxford Archaeological Guide provides the ultimate handbook to this fascinating heritage. Covering the entire island of Ireland, from Antrim to Wexford, Dublin to Sligo, the book contains over... -
Cultural Identity and Archaeology: The Construction of European Communities by Paul Graves-Brown
RRP: €64.25€55.78Cultural identity is a key area of debate in contemporary Europe. Despite widespread use of the past in the construction of ethnic, national and European identity, theories of cultural identity have been neglected in archaeology. Focusing on the... -
Forbidden Archeologist: The Atlantis Rising Magazine Columns of Michael A. Cremo by Michael A. Cremo 9780892133376
RRP: €26.17€16.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892133376Author Michael A. CremoFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Bhaktivedanta Book TrustPublisher Bhaktivedanta Book TrustWeight(grams)... -
The Sanctuary at Bath in the Roman Empire by Eleri H. Cousins 9781108717458
RRP: €33.31€30.52The Roman sanctuary at Bath has long been used in scholarship as an example par excellence of religious and artistic syncretisms in Roman Britain. With its monumental temple, baths, and hot springs, its status as one of the most significant Roman sites... -
Digging the Trenches: The Archaeology of the Western Front by Andrew Robertshaw 9781473822887
RRP: €17.84€15.09'The book is an excellent introduction to the subject, covering how archaeology is carried out, what it can tell us about the conditions in the front, and ending with poignant tales of four men whose remains were uncovered in the course of archaeological... -
The Emergence of Agriculture: A Global View by Peter White
RRP: €160.65€140.04This volume, the first in the One World Archaeology series, is a compendium of key papers by leaders in the field of the emergence of agriculture in different parts of the world. Each is supplemented by a review of developments in the field since its... -
The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process by Stephen D. Houston
RRP: €36.88€32.33Ancient writing gives us our first glimpse of history, people and institutions, and yet its origins remain mysterious. This book offers a treatment and examination of the origins of ancient writing. It studies often neglected writing systems, such as... -
In the Footsteps of King David: Revelations from an Ancient Biblical City by Yosef Garfinkel
RRP: €29.69€27.52King David is a pivotal figure in the Bible, which provides stirring accounts of his deeds, including the slaying of the Philistine giant Goliath and the founding of his capital in Jerusalem. However, no certain archaeological finds from the period of... -
Peasant Perceptions of Landscape: Ewelme Hundred, South Oxfordshire, 500-1650 by Stephen Mileson 9780192894892
RRP: €136.85€124.81Peasant Perceptions of Landscape marks a change in the discipline of landscape history, as well as making a major contribution to the history of everyday life. Until now, there has been no sustained analysis of how ordinary medieval and early modern... -
Roman Warships by Michael Pitassi
RRP: €29.74€24.87An examination of Roman naval development, drawing upon archaeological evidence, documentary accounts and visual representation. The Roman Imperial Navy was the most powerful maritime force ever to have existed, prior to the European naval development... -
Greeks and Barbarians by Kostas Vlassopoulos 9780521148023
RRP: €36.88€30.98This book is an ambitious synthesis of the social, economic, political and cultural interactions between Greeks and non-Greeks in the Mediterranean world during the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods. Instead of traditional and static... -
Burial in Early Medieval England and Wales by Sam Lucy
RRP: €49.97€44.21This volume brings together a series of studies concerned with aspects of the archaeology of burial in early medieval England and Wales during the period c. A.D. 400-1100. The demographic composition of cemeteries, burial rites and mortuary behaviour are... -
Museums, Equality and Social Justice by Richard Sandell 9780415504690
RRP: €52.35€46.22The last two decades have seen concerns for equality, diversity, social justice and human rights move from the margins of museum thinking and practice, to the core. The arguments - both moral and pragmatic - for engaging diverse audiences, creating the... -
The Archaeology of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt: From the Predynastic Period to the End of the Middle Kingdom by Nadine Moeller
RRP: €44.02€34.96In this book, Nadine Moeller challenges prevailing views on Egypt's non-urban past and argues for Egypt as an early urban society. She traces the emergence of urban features during the Predynastic period up to the disintegration of the powerful Middle... -
Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology by Paul T. Nicholson 9780521120982
RRP: €69.01€56.58This is a study of the procurement and processing of raw materials employed by the ancient Egyptians over the five millennia of the Predynastic and Pharaonic periods (c.5500-332 BC). During this time, not only were there variations in the preferred... -
The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel: Literature of the Yucatan Mayans; the Religion, Calendar and Legends of the Maya Civilization by Ralph L Roys 9781789871906
RRP: €16.64€15.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789871906Author Ralph L RoysFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Hadrian's Wall: Archaeological Walking Guides by Clifford Jones
RRP: €23.80€17.90The frontier of Hadrian's Wall, once the most heavily fortified border of the Roman Empire, is an ever-popular destination for both walkers and those fascinated by the remarkable remnants of Rome's occupation. In this guide, the reader is invited on an... -
Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica by Christopher A. Pool
RRP: €36.88€30.74The foundations for the Maya and other civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica were laid down over 2400 years ago during the early and middle phases of the Formative period. The most elaborate of these formative Mesoamerican societies are represented by the... -
Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization by Graham Hancock 9781400049516
RRP: €33.32€24.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400049516Author Graham HancockFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)... -
Stages and Screens: An Investigation of Four Henge Monuments in Northern and North-Eastern Scotland by Richard Bradley 9780903903387
RRP: €11.90€10.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903903387Author Richard BradleyFormat HardbackPage Count 195Imprint Society of Antiquaries of ScotlandPublisher Society of Antiquaries of... -
Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England by Warner, Kathryn 9781399098328
€24.44Sex 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... -
The Archaeology of Medieval Ireland by Terry B. Barry
RRP: €45.21€39.72`This eagerly awaited book is an outstanding and right up-to-date summary of every excavation and investigation undertaken in Ireland into the earthworks, castles, ecclesiastical buildings and towns of the period from the arrival of the Anglo-Normans to... -
Men of Terror: A Comprehensive Analysis of Viking Combat by William R Short
RRP: €59.50€38.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594163609Author William R ShortFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm)... -
Isurium Brigantum: an archaeological survey of Roman Aldborough: 81 by Rose Ferraby
RRP: €41.65€38.35Modern-day Aldborough, in North Yorkshire, lies on the site of Isurium Brigantum, the former administrative capital of the Brigantes, one of the largest indigenous tribes of Roman Britain. Strategically located on Dere Street, by the second century AD it... -
Ancient Metrology, Vol II: The Geographic Correlation: Arabian, Egyptian, and Chinese Metrology by John Neal 9781906069148
RRP: €20.22€16.80The second of three volumes of John Neal's collected works. "Ancient metrology - once the playground of Newton, but now largely ignored even by archaeologists - ought to cease to be a pariah subject and regain its place at the centre of the study of...