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Regional Settlement Demography in Archaeology by Robert C. Drennan
RRP: £29.00£27.60Archaeological analysis at the regional scale investigates the past by studying how people distributed themselves and their activities across a landscape of hundreds or thousands of square kilometers. Archaeological field survey methods developed over... -
The Archaeology of Kenilworth Castle's Elizabethan Garden: Excavation and Investigation 2004-2008 by Stephen Parry 9781784915742
£41.89As part of the Property Development Programme for Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire, English Heritage created an ambitious reconstruction of the Elizabethan garden which formerly stood on the north side of the castle keep. In order to achieve a reliable... -
National Galleries by Simon Knell
RRP: £37.99£33.38Are national galleries different from other kinds of art gallery or museum? What value is there for the nation in a collection of international masterpieces? How are national galleries involved in the construction national art?National Galleries is the... -
Museums, Moralities and Human Rights by Richard Sandell 9781138232013
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book explores how museums, galleries and heritage sites of all kinds, through the narratives they construct and publicly present, can shape the moral and political climate within which human rights are experienced. Through a series of richly-drawn... -
Urban Life in the Distant Past: The Prehistory of Energized Crowding by Michael Smith
RRP: £100.00£90.28In this book, Michael Smith offers a comparative and interdisciplinary examination of ancient settlements and cities. Early cities varied considerably in their political and economic organization and dynamics. Smith here introduces a coherent approach to... -
Ancient Knowledge Networks: A Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millennium Assyria and Babylonia by Eleanor Robson 9781787355965
£49.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787355965Author Eleanor RobsonFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 820g -
Cultural Heritage and the Challenge of Sustainability by Diane Barthel-Bouchier
RRP: £36.99£32.53For cultural and heritage institutions around the world, sustainability is the major challenge of the twenty-first century. In the first major work to analyze this critical issue, Barthel-Bouchier argues that programmatic commitments to sustainability... -
Archaeology Is a Brand!: The Meaning of Archaeology in Contemporary Popular Culture by Cornelius Holtorf
RRP: £36.99£32.53What impact is there on the field to recognize that archaeology is a regular feature in daily life and popular culture? Based upon the study of England, Germany, Sweden and the USA, Cornelius Holtorf examines the commonalities and peculiarities of media... -
Dictionary of Archaeological Terms: English/French - French/English by Tinaig Clodore-Tissot
£19.34This dictionary - an assemblage of more than 10,000 archaeological words and terms - is intended to assist in the reading of archaeological books and publications (from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages), and in the writing of papers and articles in... -
The Archaeology of Death by Robert Chapman 9780521110785
RRP: £30.99£20.94Evidence for the disposal of the dead is one of the most common classes of archaeological data; in both prehistoric and historic contexts, archaeologists have long used the remains of death and burial as a source for interpretations of society, culture... -
The Funeral Kit: Mortuary Practices in the Archaeological Record by Jill L. Baker
RRP: £37.99£33.38Studies of mortuary archaeology tend to focus on difference-how the researcher can identify age, gender, status, and ethnicity from the contents of a burial. Jill L. Baker's innovative approach begins from the opposite point: how can you recognize the... -
Trade before Civilization: Long Distance Exchange and the Rise of Social Complexity by Johan Ling
RRP: £105.00£95.31Trade before Civilization explores the role that long-distance exchange played in the establishment and/or maintenance of social complexity, and its role in the transformation of societies from egalitarian to non-egalitarian. Bringing together research... -
Affective Relations and Personal Bonds in Hellenistic Antiquity: Studies in honor of Elizabeth D. Carney by Monica D'Agostini
£68.18The intense bonds among the king and his family, friends, lovers, and entourage are the most enticing and intriguing aspects of Alexander the Great's life. The affective ties of the protagonists of Alexander's Empire nurtured the interest of the ancient... -
The Archaeology of Rock-Art by Christopher Chippindale
RRP: £30.99£27.17Pictures, painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces, are amongst our loveliest relics from prehistory. This pioneering set of sparkling essays goes beyond guesses as to what the pictures mean, instead exploring how we can reliably learn from... -
Subsistence and Society in Prehistory: New Directions in Economic Archaeology by Alan K. Outram
RRP: £98.99£85.36Over the last thirty years, new scientific techniques have revolutionised our understanding of prehistoric economies. They enable a sound comprehension of human diet and subsistence in different environments, which is an essential framework for... -
Ritual and rubbish in the Iron Age of Wessex: A Study on the formation of a specific archaeological record by JD Hill 9780860547846
£56.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860547846Author JD HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR PublishingWeight(grams) 718g -
Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory: Technology, Lifeways and Cuisine by Peter Jordan 9781107118249
RRP: £90.00£81.43Throughout prehistory the Circumpolar World was inhabited by hunter-gatherers. Pottery-making would have been extremely difficult in these cold, northern environments, and the craft should never have been able to disperse into this region. However,... -
Body, Cosmos and Eternity: New Trends of Research on Iconography and Symbolism of Ancient Egyptian Coffins by Rogerio Sousa 9781784910020
£67.88This volume, edited by Rogerio Sousa, is part of the scholarly ferment which has wheeled around the subject of 'coffin' during the last twenty years. Its magic and religious evaluation identifies it from time to time as body container, but at the same... -
Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory by Frances F. Berdan
RRP: £85.00£67.65This book provides an up-to-date synthesis of Aztec culture, applying interdisciplinary approaches (archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography) to reconstructing the complex and enigmatic civilization. Frances F. Berdan offers a balanced assessment of... -
Late Iron Age Calleva: The Pre-Conquest Occupation At Silchester Insula IX. Silchester Roman Town: The Insula IX Town Life Project: Volume 3 by Michael Fulford
£82.58The late Iron Age oppidum of Calleva underlies the Roman town at Silchester. Excavation (1997-2014) of a large area (0.3ha) of Insula IX revealed evidence of a rectilinear, NE/SW-NW/SE-oriented layout of the interior of the oppidum, dating from 20/10BC,... -
Ancient Ruins and Rock Art of the Southwest: An Archaeological Guide by David Grant Noble 9781589799370
RRP: £18.99£16.58This fourth edition of David Grant Noble's indispensable guide to archaeological ruins of the American Southwest includes updated text and many newly opened archaeological sites. From Alibates Flint Quarries in Texas to the Zuni-Acoma Trail in New... -
Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilisations: Archaeological, geological, astronomical and cultural perspectives by Mark E Bailey 9780860549161
£66.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860549161Author Mark E BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing -
Suburban Life in Roman Durnovaria by Mike Trevarthen 9781874350460
£10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874350460Author Mike TrevarthenFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Trust for Wessex Archaeology LtdPublisher Trust for Wessex Archaeology Ltd -
The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant: From Urban Origins to the Demise of City-States, 3700-1000 BCE by Raphael Greenberg
RRP: £106.00£90.88The Levant - modern Lebanon, southern Syria, Jordan, Israel and Palestine - is one of the most intensively excavated regions of the world. This richly documented and illustrated survey offers a state-of-the-art description of the formative phase of... -
Ark of Civilization: Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945 by Sally Crawford 9780199687558
£116.41In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Germany was at the cutting edge of arts and humanities scholarship across Europe. However, when many of its key thinkers - leaders in their fields in classics, philosophy, archaeology, art history, and... -
Lordship and the Landscape: A documentary and archaeological study of the Honor of Dudley c. 1066-1322 by St. John Hunt 9780860549246
£44.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860549246Author St. John HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing -
Travellers in Ottoman Lands: The Botanical Legacy by Ines Asceric-Todd 9781784919153
£91.73This collection of around twenty papers has its origins in a two-day seminar organised by the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) in conjunction with the Centre for Middle Eastern Plants at the Royal Botanic Garden,... -
Death and the Body in Bronze Age Europe: From Inhumation to Cremation by Marie Louise Stig Sorensen 9781009247399
RRP: £75.00£68.14This volume offers new insights into the radical shift in attitudes towards death and the dead body that occurred in temperate Bronze Age Europe. Exploring the introduction and eventual dominance of cremation, Marie-Louise Stig Sorenson and Katharina... -
The Graven Image: Representation in Babylonia and Assyria by Zainab Bahrani
£60.67Mesopotamia, the world's earliest literate culture, developed a rich philosophical conception of representation in which the world was saturated with signs. Instead of imitating the natural world, representation-both in writing and in visual images-was... -
World Heritage and Sustainable Development: New Directions in World Heritage Management by Peter Bille Larsen
RRP: £37.99£33.78In 2015, the General Assembly of State Parties to the World Heritage Convention passed a ground-breaking Sustainable Development policy that seeks to bring the World Heritage system into line with the UN's sustainable development agenda (UNESCO 2015)... -
Later Prehistoric Settlement in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly: Evidence from Five Excavations by Andy M Jones
£68.94Later Prehistoric Settlement in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly reports on the excavation between 1996 and 2014 of five later prehistoric and Roman period settlements. Three of the mainland sites - Killigrew, Nancemere and Higher Besore - are located in... -
Becoming Human: Innovation in Prehistoric Material and Spiritual Culture by Lord Colin Renfrew 9780521734660
RRP: £40.99£35.61The Upper Palaeolithic era of Europe has left an abundance of evidence for symbolic activities, such as direct representations of animals and other features of the natural world, personal adornments, and elaborate burials, as well as other vestiges that... -
Early Fine Wares in Roman Britain by Paul Arthur 9780860540410
£84.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860540410Author Paul ArthurFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing -
Lord and Pharaoh: Carnarvon and the Search for Tutankhamun by Brian Fagan
RRP: £37.99£33.38Both born to power and wealth, and raised by courtiers, they lived lives of aristocrats and landowners, in poor health and with uncertain futures. Though they lived over 3000 years apart, the lives of Egyptian King Tutankhamun and the fifth Lord... -
The Hinterland of Hadrian's Wall and Derbyshire by Lindsay Allason-Jones
RRP: £105.00£104.64Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani for Great Britain is an international project to catalogue all the decorated stonework from the Roman Empire. Any stone that has been carved with motifs of any sort, whether an altar, statue, relief, architectural... -
The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Indus Writing by Bryan K. Wells 9781784910464
£47.40The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Indus Writing is a detailed examination of the Indus script. It presents new analysis based on an expansive text corpus using revolutionary analytical techniques developed specifically for the purpose of deciphering the... -
The Last Civilized Place: Sijilmasa and Its Saharan Destiny by Ronald A. Messier
RRP: £23.99£21.24Set along the Sahara's edge, Sijilmasa was an African El Dorado, a legendary city of gold. But unlike El Dorado, Sijilmasa was a real city, the pivot in the gold trade between ancient Ghana and the Mediterranean world. Following its emergence as an... -
A Corpus of Religious Material from the Civilian Areas of Roman Britain by Miranda J. Green 9780904531275
£75.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780904531275Author Miranda J. GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 321Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing -
The Dodecanese: Further Travels Among the Insular Greeks: Selected Writings of J. Theodore & Mabel V.A. Bent, 1885-1888 by Gerald Brisch
£15.24A sequel to The Cyclades, a compilation of late-19th-century travel writings (with an archaeological/ethnographical bias) centred on the Greek Dodecanese islands (including Rhodes, Nissiros, Tilos, Karpathos, Patmos, and Astypalea). The authors are the... -
The Travel Chronicles of Mrs J. Theodore Bent. Volume III: Southern Arabia and Persia: Mabel Bent's diaries of 1883-1898, from the archive of the Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies, London by Mabel Bent 9781905739134
£56.94"If my fellow-traveller had lived, he intended to have put together in book form such information as we had gathered about Southern Arabia. Now, as he died four days after our return from our last journey there, I have had to undertake the task myself...