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Material Cultures, Material Minds: The Impact of Things on Human Thought, Society, and Evolution by Nicole Boivin 9780521176132
RRP: £38.99£35.31Recent symbolic and social analyses have drawn much attention to the role of material culture in human society, emphasising the representational and ideological aspects of the material world. These studies have, nonetheless, often overlooked how the very... -
Oil, Wine, and the Cultural Economy of Ancient Greece: From the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era by Catherine E. Pratt
RRP: £79.99£73.16In this book, Catherine E. Pratt explores how oil and wine became increasingly entangled in Greek culture, from the Late Bronze Age to the Archaic period. Using ceramic, architectural, and archaeobotanical data, she argues that Bronze Age exchange... -
Vessels of Influence: China and Porcelain in Medieval and Early Modern Japan by Nicole Rousmaniere
£29.07"Vessels of Influence", while examining in depth the role of Chinese ceramics in Japan, also delves into the meaning, motivation for, and rapid development of Japanese porcelain from many angles, including archaeology, heirloom and documentary evidence... -
Ironwork in Medieval Britain: An Archaeological Study: v. 31: An Archaeological Study by Ian H. Goodall
£52.68Ironwork in Medieval Britain is the definitive survey of iron tools and other fittings in use during the period c1066 to 1540AD.ReviewsThe Goodall thesis is catalogue raisonee of the best sort, drawing on a great tradition begun by Ward Perkins with the... -
Displaced Things by Sandra H. Dudley
RRP: £37.99£33.38Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond looks anew at the lives, effects and possibilities of things. Starting from the perspectives of things themselves, it outlines a particular, displacement approach to the museum, anthropology and material culture.The... -
Art as Metaphor: The Prehistoric Rock-Art of Britain by Aron D. Mazel 9781905739165
£59.13Enigmatic, esoteric and fascinating, the rock-art of the British Isles has for a long time been a well-kept secret. However, over the last few decades hundreds of new rock art panels have been discovered and several regional surveys have been carried out... -
An Archaeological Perspective on the History of Technology by A. Mark Pollard 9781009184212
RRP: £17.00£14.72This volume represents an introduction to a new world-wide attempt to review the history of technology, which is one of few since the pioneering publications of the 1960s. It takes an explicit archaeological focus to the study of the history of... -
World Prehistory: The Basics by Brian M. Fagan
RRP: £18.99£16.87World Prehistory: The Basics tells the compelling story of human prehistory, from our African origins to the spectacular pre-industrial civilizations and cities of the more recent past.Written in a non-technical style by two archaeologists and... -
The Archaeology of Syria: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c.16,000-300 BC) by Peter M. M. G. Akkermans
RRP: £34.99£30.49This was the first book to present a comprehensive review of the archaeology of Syria from the end of the Paleolithic period to 300 BC. Syria has become a prime focus of field archaeology in the Middle East in the past thirty years, and Peter Akkermans... -
Stages and Screens: An Investigation of Four Henge Monuments in Northern and North-Eastern Scotland by Richard Bradley 9780903903387
RRP: £10.00£8.59Apologies 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... -
Scotland in Early Medieval Europe by Alice E. Blackwell 9789088907524
£34.00This edited volume explores how (what is today) Scotland can be compared with, contrasted to, or was connected with other parts of Early Medieval Europe. Far from a 'dark age', Early Medieval Scotland (AD 300-900) was a crucible of different languages... -
Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill 9780415086332
RRP: £39.99£35.06This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy and visual culture.This work explores such questions as:How and why is... -
York: Art, Architecture and Archaeology by Sarah Brown
RRP: £36.99£32.53York explores the archaeology, art, architecture and cultural heritage of the city in the late Middle Ages.In the years since the resurrection of the British Archaeological Association conference in 1976, the association has met in the city only once (in... -
British Museum Anglo-Saxon Coins I by Anna Gannon 9780714118239
£80.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714118239Author Anna GannonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint British Museum PressPublisher British Museum Press -
Down the Bright Stream: The Prehistory of Woodcock Corner and the Tregurra Valley, Cornwall by Sean R. Taylor
£77.84Down the Bright Stream: The Prehistory of Woodcock Corner and the Tregurra Valley reports on a series of fieldwork projects carried out in the Tregurra Valley, to the east of Truro, Cornwall. The work was undertaken over a period of seven years between... -
Living Images: Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum by Paul C. Roberts
RRP: £58.99£52.08The haunting funerary paintings on wood coffins found in Roman Egypt still represent some of the most vivid images that come to us from the ancient world. These paintings were first discovered by Flinders Petrie, father of modern archaeology, in his... -
The Knights Templar in the New World: How Henry Sinclair Brought the Grail to Arcadia by William F. Mann 9780892811854
RRP: £15.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892811854Author William F. MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Destiny Books,U.S.Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Marking Place: New Perspectives on Early Neolithic Enclosures by Jonathan Last
RRP: £38.00£34.91Much archaeological work is concerned with identifying gaps in our knowledge and developing strategies for addressing them; we perhaps spend less time thinking about how research should proceed when we already know, relatively speaking, quite a lot. The... -
Fabric of the Frontier: Prospection, Use, and Re-Use of Stone from Hadrian’s Wall by Rob Collins
RRP: £50.00£45.59What is Hadrian's Wall made of, where did this material come from and how has it been reused in other buildings in the communities that emerged in the centuries after the Roman Empire? By studying the fabric of Hadrian's Wall using a geological approach... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens by Jenifer Neils
RRP: £34.99£30.49Named for a goddess, epicenter of the first democracy, birthplace of tragic and comic theatre, locus of the major philosophical schools, artistically in the vanguard for centuries, ancient Athens looms large in contemporary study of the ancient world... -
Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon by Eric H. Cline 9780691166322
RRP: £30.00£23.69A vivid portrait of the early years of biblical archaeology from the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization CollapsedIn 1925, James Henry Breasted, famed Egyptologist and director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, sent... -
Prehistoric Europe: Theory and Practice by Andrew Jones 9781405125963
RRP: £33.95£30.38Prehistoric Europe: Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive introduction to the range of critical contemporary thinking in the study of European prehistory. Presents essays by some of the most dynamic researchers and leading European scholars in... -
The Goddess and the Bull: Catalhoeyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization by Michael Balter
RRP: £36.99£32.93Veteran science writer Michael Balter skillfully weaves together many threads in this fascinating book about one of archaeology's most legendary sites- Catalhoeyuk. First excavated forty years ago, the site is justly revered by prehistorians, art... -
Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory: Investigating the Missing Majority by Linda M. Hurcombe
RRP: £43.99£38.44Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory provides new approaches and integrates a broad range of data to address a neglected topic, organic material in the prehistoric record. Providing news ideas and connections and suggesting revisionist ways of... -
Purses in Pieces: Archaeological Finds of Late Medieval and 16th Century Leather Purses, Pouches, Bags and Cases in the Netherlands by Olaf Goubitz 9789089320049
RRP: £75.00£58.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789089320049Author Olaf GoubitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Stichting Promotie ArcheologiePublisher Stichting Promotie Archeologie -
Laying the Foundations: Manual of the British Museum Iraq Scheme Archaeological Training Programme by John MacGinnis
£40.10Laying the Foundations, which developed out of the British Museum's 'Iraq Scheme' archaeological training programme, covers the core components for putting together and running an archaeological field programme. The focus is on practicality. Individual... -
The Archaeology of the Gravel Terraces of the Upper and Middle Thames: The Early Historical Period: AD1-1000 by Paul Booth 9780954962753
£63.85The gravel terraces of the river Thames have revealed a wealth of archaeological information about the evolution of the landscape of the region, the development of the settlement pattern, and past human occupation. Much of this has come to light in... -
The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial by Paul Pettitt 9780415354905
RRP: £37.99£33.38Humans are unique in that they expend considerable effort and ingenuity in disposing of the dead. Some of the recognisable ways we do this are visible in the Palaeolithic archaeology of the Ice Age. The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial takes a novel... -
Histories in the Making: Excavations at Alfred's Castle, 1998-2000 by Christopher Gosden 9781905905324
£58.11Alfred's Castle is a small enclosed site south of the Ridgeway on the Berkshire Downs, excavated between 1998 and 2000 by a team from Oxford University. This was the third site excavated by the Hillforts of the Ridgeway project (after White Horse Hill... -
Dental Morphology for Anthropology: An Illustrated Manual by Heather J. H. Edgar 9781629585123
RRP: £37.99£33.38This work provides a new, comprehensive update to the Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System (ASUDAS). Drawing upon her extensive experience in informatics, curating data, and dental morphological data acquisition, Edgar has developed... -
Travelling Objects: Changing Values: The role of northern Alpine lake-dwelling communities in exchange and communication networks during the Late Bronze Age by Benjamin Jennings
£73.19Since their initial discovery in the nineteenth century, the enigmatic prehistoric lake-dwellings of the Circum-Alpine region have captured the imagination of the public and archaeologists alike. Over 150 years of research have identified hundreds of... -
Lost Gods of Albion: The Chalk Hill-Figures of Britain by Paul Newman 9780752449395
RRP: £20.00£15.44A uniquely British phenomenon, the thirty or so figures cut into the turf of southern England have excited antiquarians, archaeologists and the general public for generations. However, their origins are enigmatic. Paul Newman shows how hill-figures... -
Tomb Treasures of the Late Middle Kingdom: The Archaeology of Female Burials by Wolfram Grajetzki 9780812245677
RRP: £85.00£74.21During the late Middle Kingdom (about 1850-1700 B.C.E.), ancient Egyptian women of high standing were interred with lavish ornamentation and carefully gathered possessions. Buried near the pyramids of kings, women with royal connections or great wealth... -
Medicine and Healing Practices in Ancient Egypt by Rosalie David 9781837644292
£111.61Medicine and Healing Practices in Ancient Egypt provides a new perspective on healthcare and healing treatments in Egypt from the Predynastic to the Roman periods. Rather than concentrating exclusively on diseases and medical conditions as evidenced in... -
Museum Learning: Theory and Research as Tools for Enhancing Practice by Jill Hohenstein
RRP: £39.99£35.06As museums are increasingly asked to demonstrate not only their cultural, but also their educational and social significance, the means to understand how museum visitors learn becomes ever more important. And yet, learning can be conceptualised and... -
Burial, Landscape and Identity in Early Medieval Wessex by Kate Mees
RRP: £85.00£81.70Multi-disciplinary investigation of Anglo-Saxon funerary traditions. Burial evidence provides the richest record we possess for the centuries following the retreat of Roman authority. The locations and manner in which communities chose to bury their... -
Making Time: The Archaeology of Time Revisited by Gavin Lucas
RRP: £37.99£33.38Making Time grapples with a range of issues that have crystallized in the wake of 15 years of discussion on time in archaeology, since the author's seminal volume The Archaeology of Time, synthesizing them for a new generation of scholars. The general... -
The Archaeology of Roman Britain: Biography and Identity by Adam Rogers
RRP: £49.99£43.50Within the colonial history of the British Empire there are difficulties in reconstructing the lives of people that came from very different traditions of experience. The Archaeology of Roman Britain argues that a similar critical approach to the lives... -
Environmental Archaeology: Approaches, Techniques & Applications by Keith Wilkinson 9780752419312
RRP: £25.00£18.94What did the landscape of Stonehenge look like in its Neolithic heyday? How did Ancient Egyptians produce their food? Such questions can be addressed by environmental archaeology - the study of past people from biological remains and geological phenomena... -
The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery by James Adovasio
RRP: £19.99£16.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757044Author James AdovasioFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 302gDimensions(mm)...