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Teaching and Learning the Archaeology of the Contemporary Era by Dr Gabriel Moshenska 9781350335639
RRP: £75.00£70.51The archaeology of the contemporary era is a lively and well-established field, contributing to studies of migration, climate change, consumption and violent conflict, as well as to the development of archaeological thought and practice more widely... -
Setting the Table: Ceramics, Dining, and Cultural Exchange in Andalucia and La Florida by Kathryn L. Ness 9781683400042
£96.06Examining ceramics from eighteenth-century household sites in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, and St. Augustine, Florida, Setting the Table opens up new interpretations of cultural exchange and identity in the early modern Spanish empire. To analyze and... -
The Chu Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan Province) (Volume One) by Li Ling 9789882370975
RRP: £107.00£99.42The Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan), are the only pre-Imperial Chinese manuscripts on silk found to-date. Dating to the turn from the 4th to the 3rd centuries BC (Late Warring States period), they contain several short texts concerning... -
Pompeii by Dr Alison E. Cooley 9781350125223
£73.28This second edition of Alison E. Cooley's accessible introduction to Pompeii takes into account the major new theories and discoveries that have emerged since the first edition was published 20 years ago. Italy's third most popular tourist destination,... -
Ancient Synagogues in Palestine: A Re-evaluation Nearly a Century After Sukenik's Schweich Lectures by Jodi Magness 9780197267653
£76.11Dozens of ancient synagogues have been discovered around the Mediterranean, most of which date to the fourth-sixth centuries CE and are concentrated in Palestine. In the 1930 Schweich Lectures, Eleazar Lipa Sukenik established a typology and chronology... -
Broughton, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire by Robert Atkins 9781907588068
£56.43Extensive excavations near the village of Broughton, which lies on the outskirts of Milton Keynes, revealed the fluctuating fortunes of neighbouring settlements from the Iron Age to the medieval period. A middle Iron Age 'hamlet' was succeeded in the 1st... -
Form and Order in the Anglo-Saxon World, AD 400-1100: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History Volume 16 by Sally Crawford 9781905905133
£54.21The aim of this volume is to explore Anglo-Saxon perceptions of form and order in their different manifestations, through two main strands texts of all kinds, and art, architecture and archaeology. Contributors come from many different specialisms, ... -
Taming the Great Desert: Adam in the Prehistory of Oman by Guillaume Gernez 9781789691801
£45.92Located at the margins of the Rub Al-Khali desert, a place of interactions between settled and nomadic populations, the Adam oasis occupies a pivotal role in the history of Oman. However, almost nothing was known about its foundation and early... -
Irish Fever: An Archaeology of Illness, Injury, and Healing in New York City, 1845-1875 by Meredith Linn 9781621908456
RRP: £65.00£64.74During the Potato Famine of the nineteenth century, about one million Irish people perished from starvation and disease, while more than two million fled the country in fear and desperation, with some 850,000 landing in New York City. After a difficult... -
The Real Mound Builders of North America: A Critical Realist Prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands, 200 BC–1450 AD by A. Martin Byers 9781666901276
RRP: £92.00£84.82The Real Mound Builders of North America takes the standard position that the cultural communities of the Late Woodland period hiatus—when little or no transregional monumental mound building and ceremonialism existed—were the linear cultural and social... -
Art in the Pre-Hispanic Southwest: An Archaeology of Native American Cultures by Radoslaw Palonka 9781793648730
RRP: £109.00£100.16In Art in the Pre-Hispanic Southwest: An Archaeology of Native American Cultures, Radoslaw Palonka reconstructs the development of pre-Hispanic Native American cultures and tribes in the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest. Palonka also examines the... -
Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland: Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise by John Soderberg 9781793630391
RRP: £85.00£78.10Clonmacnoise was among the busiest, most economically complex, and intensely sacred places in early medieval Ireland. In Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland: Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise, John Soderberg argues that animals are... -
An Archaeology of Ethnicity, Race, and Consumption in New York by Jordon D. Loucks 9781793611758
RRP: £81.00£74.50An Archaeology of Ethnicity, Race, and Consumption in New York examines the archaeological visibility of ethnicity within the confines of nineteenth-century material culture from across New York State. The author discusses the limits of archaeological... -
Private Lives, Public Histories: An Ethnohistory of the Intimate Past by Jacqueline Fewkes 9781793604309
RRP: £35.00£32.49Private Lives, Public Histories brings together diverse methods from archaeology and cultural anthropology, enabling us to glean rare information on private lives from the historical record. The chapters span geographic areas to present recent... -
The Marginalized in Death: A Forensic Anthropology of Intersectional Identity in the Modern Era by Jennifer F Byrnes 9781666923094
RRP: £105.00£96.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666923094Author Jennifer F ByrnesFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books -
Yotvata: The Ze'ev Meshel Excavations (1974–1980): The Iron I “Fortress” and the Early Islamic Settlement by Lily Singer-Avitz 9781646022298
RRP: £103.95£93.06This book presents the final report of the excavations at Yotvata, the largest oasis in the Arabah Valley, conducted by the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University in 1974–1980 under the direction of Dr. Zeʾev Meshel. The... -
Archaeological Thinking: How to Make Sense of the Past by Charles E. Orser 9781538177228
RRP: £69.00£62.92In the second edition of Archaeological Thinking, Charles E. Orser, Jr. provides an updated guide to the critical thinking skills archaeologists use to unravel the stories of history’s buried past.Book InformationISBN 9781538177228Author Charles E... -
Practicing Archaeology: A Manual to Cultural Resources Archaeology by Thomas W. Neumann 9781538159378
RRP: £135.00£118.50Here's the perfect one-stop for courses in field archaeology and archaeologists just beginning their initial field work. Current, up-to-date and comprehensive, this is how "it's really done" in the field.Book InformationISBN 9781538159378Author... -
Agricultural Beginnings in the American Southwest by Barbara J. Roth 9781498582018
RRP: £42.00£38.76How did agriculture come about in the American Southwest? What environmental and social factors led to the cultivation of plants? How, in turn, did the use of these new agricultural products affect the ancient peoples living in the region? In pursuit of... -
From Huhugam to Hohokam: Heritage and Archaeology in the American Southwest by J. Brett Hill 9781498570930
RRP: £95.00£87.12In From Huhugam to Hohokam: Heritage and Archaeology in the American Southwest, J. Brett Hill examines the history of O'odham heritage as it was recorded at the beginning of European conquest. A parallel history of scientific exploration is then traced... -
Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas: Alterity, Ontology, and Shifting Paradigms by Melissa R. Baltus 9781498555357
RRP: £85.00£78.10In Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas, Melissa R. Baltus and Sarah E. Baires critically examine the current understanding of relationality in the Americas, covering a diverse range of topics from Indigenous cosmologies to the life-world of... -
Reordering the Landscape of Wye House: Nature, Spirituality, and Social Order by Elizabeth Pruitt 9781498528238
RRP: £84.00£77.21This book examines early European American and African American gardening practices, social order, and material culture at the Wye House plantation. Located on the eastern shore of Maryland, this plantation housed the Welsh Lloyd family and hundreds of... -
Sicily and the Hellenistic Mediterranean World: Economy and Administration during the Reign of Hieron II by D. Alex Walthall 9781316511053
RRP: £100.00£90.88In Sicily and the Hellenistic Mediterranean World, D. Alex Walthall investigates the royal administration of Hieron II (r. 269-215 BCE), the Syracusan monarch who leveraged Sicily's agricultural resources to build a flourishing kingdom that, at one time,... -
A Critique of Archaeological Reason: Structural, Digital, and Philosophical Aspects of the Excavated Record by Giorgio Buccellati 9781107665484
RRP: £33.99£29.66In A Critique of Archaeological Reason, Giorgio Buccellati presents a theory of excavation that aims at clarifying the nature of archaeology and its impact on contemporary thought. Integrating epistemological issues with methods of data collection and... -
The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, Final Reports, Volume II: The East Greek, Island, and Laconian Pottery by Gerald P. Schaus 9780934718554
RRP: £41.00£39.58This volume includes a detailed illustrated catalogue of the East Greek, Island, and Laconian pottery from the sanctuary. The author uses the data to help establish the chronology for the founding and early development of this important Greek colony. ... -
The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, Final Reports, Volume I: Background and Introduction to the Excavations by Donald White 9780934718516
RRP: £41.00£38.98According to Herodotus, Cyrene was colonized by settlers from the island of Thera, later joined by other colonists from Crete, Samos, Laconia, and Rhodes. Traditionally the foundation date has been set at 631 B.C. The sanctuary began to develop within a... -
Roman Glass: Reflections of Everyday Life by Stuart J. Fleming 9780924171512
RRP: £14.00£13.46This lavishly illustrated book places glass in its social setting within the Roman household. The volume was written to accompany the traveling exhibition Roman Glass: Reflections on Cultural Change. Through a series of vignettes, the author tells the... -
'Finished Labour of a Thousand Hands' by Lynn Willies 9780904220605
£43.79The Combe Down Stone Quarries, which were the principal supplier of building stone for the great period of building in Bath during the 18th and 19th centuries, form a significant element of the wider landscape of the City of Bath World Heritage Site... -
The Excavation of a Medieval Rural Settlement at the Pepper Hill Lane Electricity Substation, Northfleet, Kent by Alan Hardy 9780904220285
£7.82The construction of a new electricity substation at Northfleet, Kent provided an opportunity to investigate the archaeological remains at the site. Excavations in 1999 revealed field boundaries, paddocks and structural remains dating to the 11th and... -
Historical Topography of Samarra by A. Northedge 9780903472173
£90.44This is the first fundamentally new work to come out in half a century on one of the world's most famous Islamic archaeological sites: Samarra, in Iraq. This capital of the Abbasid caliphs in the 9th century is not only one of the largest urban sites ... -
Samothrace: A Guide to the Excavations and Museum (6th ed.) by Karl Lehmann 9780876616628
£10.08The island of Samothrace in the north Aegean was home to one of the most famous panhellenic sanctuaries in the ancient world, the Sanctuary of the Great Gods. This official guide to the site was revised and updated by longtime excavation director James R... -
The Neville Site: 8,000 Years at Amoskeag, Manchester, New Hampshire by Dena Ferran Dincauze 9780873659031
RRP: £20.95£16.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873659031Author Dena Ferran DincauzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.Publisher Peabody Museum of... -
California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity by Terry L. Jones 9780759119604
RRP: £58.00£54.07Some forty scholars examine California's prehistory and archaeology, looking at marine and terrestrial palaeoenvironments, initial human colonization, linguistic prehistory, early forms of exchange, mitochondrial DNA studies, and rock art. This work is... -
War Paths, Peace Paths: An Archaeology of Cooperation and Conflict in Native Eastern North America by David Dye 9780759107465
RRP: £41.00£37.85Archaeologists, ethnohistorians, osteologists, and cultural anthropologists have only recently begun to address seriously the issue of Native American war and peace in the eastern United States. New methods for identifying prehistoric cooperation and... -
Handbook of Archaeological Theories by R. Alexander Bentley 9780759100336
RRP: £95.00£88.72This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile the latest thinking about archaeological theory. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the theoretical foundations by which archaeologists... -
Greek Papyri: An Introduction by Eric Gardner Turner 9780691649559
£99.48Historians, classicists, and archeologists will welcome Professor Turner's lucid introduction to the field of Greek papyrology. The relatively recent rediscovery of Greek (and Latin) texts on papyrus has made possible greatly improved editions of classic... -
Papyri in the Princeton University Collections, Volume II by Sherman LeRoy Wallace 9780691628653
£82.80Ninety-two documents of varied interest, all throwing light on the social and economic conditions of Roman Egypt. Each text is provided with ample commentary and critical notes. Originally published in 1936. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
Water, Life and Civilisation: Climate, Environment and Society in the Jordan Valley by Steven Mithen 9780521769570
RRP: £85.99£79.07A unique interdisciplinary study of the relationships between climate, hydrology and human society from 20,000 years ago to the present day within the Jordan Valley. It describes how state-of-the-art models can simulate the past, present and future... -
The Archaeology of the Pampas and Patagonia by Gustavo G. Politis 9780521768214
RRP: £85.00£77.00In this book, Gustavo G. Politis and Luis A. Borrero explore the archaeology and ethnography of the indigenous people who inhabited Argentina's Pampas and the Patagonia region from the end of the Pleistocene until the 20th century. Offering a history of... -
The Chora of Metaponto 2: Archaeozoology at Pantanello and Five Other Sites by Sandor Bokonyi 9780292721340
£69.01From 1974 to the present, the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin has carried out archaeological excavations in the ancient territory (chora) of Metaponto, now located in the modern province of Basilicata on the...