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Anthropology and Archaeology: A Changing Relationship by Chris Gosden
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Anthropolgy and Archaeology provides a valuable and much-needed introduction to the theories and methods of these two inter-related subjects. This volume covers the historical relationship and... -
Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction by Chris Gosden
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.22Prehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Australopithecines, existed in Africa. But this is relatively recent... -
Collecting Colonialism: Material Culture and Colonial Change Chris Gosden 9781859734087
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66Colonialism has shaped the world we live in today and has often been studied at a global level, but there is less understanding of how colonial relations operated locally. This book takes... -
Archaeology and Colonialism: Cultural Contact from 5000 BC to the Present by Chris Gosden
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Archaeology is the only discipline that allows us to take a long-term view across all forms of colonialism, from the Uruk cities of early Mesopotamia, through the empires of the Romans and the... -
The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99A Telegraph Book of the Year A remarkable, unprecedented account of the role of magic in cultures both ancient and modern -- from the first known horoscope to the power of tattoos.'Fascinating,... -
Archaeology and Colonialism: Cultural Contact from 5000 BC to the Present by Chris Gosden 9780521782647
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £71.09Archaeology is the only discipline that allows us to take a long-term view across all forms of colonialism, from the Uruk cities of early Mesopotamia, through the empires of the Romans and the... -
Magic: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250800152Author Chris GosdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador... -
Knowing Things: Exploring the Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum 1884-1945 by Chris Gosden 9780199225897
RRP: £137.50Booksplease Price: £117.51This book explores the early history of the Pitt Rivers Museum and its collections. Many thousands of people collected objects for the Museum between its foundation in 1884 and 1945, and together... -
Social Being and Time Christopher Gosden (La Trobe University) 9780631190233
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £37.12The nature of time is one of the continuing mysteries of human life. This is of particular relevance to archaeology with its unique focus on the social development of the human species from its... -
Histories in the Making: Excavations at Alfred's Castle, 1998-2000 by Christopher Gosden 9781905905324
Booksplease Price: £57.07Alfred'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... -
Segsbury Camp: Excavations in 1996 and 1997 at an Iron Age Hillfort on the Oxfordshire Ridgeway by Gary Lock 9780947816681
Booksplease Price: £62.45This volume describes the two seasons of excavation at Segsbury Camp which form a part of Oxford University's Hillforts of the Ridgeway Project . It contains background material and a series of... -
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World - and Us by Patrick Roberts
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.44'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees'A fascinating story and a crucial revision of the momentous importance of tropical... -
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped World History by Patrick Roberts
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees'A fascinating story and a crucial revision of the momentous importance of tropical... -
The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £43.49Booksplease Price: £42.36Archaeology is a vast subject - it is the study of human society everywhere in the world, from distant human origins 3-4 million years ago up to the present day. The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology... -
Time and Temporality in the Ancient World by Ralph M. Rosen 9781931707671
RRP: £28.50Booksplease Price: £28.31Considering the topic of time in antiquity, juxtaposing cultures and societies, yields remarkable intersections, continuities, and discontinuities in the ways people have engaged with temporality. ... -
Dwelling: Heidegger, Archaeology, Mortality by Philip Tonner 9780367887636
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Dwelling: Heidegger, Archaeology, Mortality negotiates the discourses of phenomenology, archaeology and palaeoanthropology in order to extend the 'dwelling perspective', an approach in the social... -
Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture Elizabeth Edwards 9781845203245
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow... -
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs 'Fascinating... -
Prehistoric Europe: Theory and Practice Andrew Jones (University of Southampton) 9781405125963
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £31.46Prehistoric 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... -
Prehistoric Europe: Theory and Practice by Andrew Jones 9781405125970
RRP: £91.95Booksplease Price: £80.76Prehistoric 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... -
The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory Emma Blake (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) 9780631232681
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £37.42This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of Mediterranean prehistory and an essential reference to the most recent research and fieldwork. Only book available to offer... -
The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory by Emma Blake 9780631232674
RRP: £110.95Booksplease Price: £96.91This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of Mediterranean prehistory and an essential reference to the most recent research and fieldwork. Only book available to offer... -
The Shaping of the English Landscape: An Atlas of Archaeology from the Bronze Age to Domesday Book by Chris Green
Booksplease Price: £46.36The Shaping of the English Landscape is an atlas of English archaeology covering the period from the middle Bronze Age (c. 1500 BC) to Domesday Book (AD 1086), encompassing the Bronze and Iron Ages,... -
The Political Machine: Assembling Sovereignty in the Bronze Age Caucasus by Adam T. Smith 9780691211480
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.60The Political Machine investigates the essential role that material culture plays in the practices and maintenance of political sovereignty. Through an archaeological exploration of the Bronze Age... -
The Political Machine: Assembling Sovereignty in the Bronze Age Caucasus by Adam T. Smith
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.85The Political Machine investigates the essential role that material culture plays in the practices and maintenance of political sovereignty. Through an archaeological exploration of the Bronze Age... -
Technologies of Enchantment?: Exploring Celtic Art: 400 BC to AD 100 by Duncan Garrow 9780199548064
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £106.70While Celtic art includes some of the most famous archaeological artefacts in the British Isles, such as the Battersea shield or the gold torcs from Snettisham, it has often been considered from an... -
The Museum in the Cultural Sciences: Collecting, Displaying, and Interpreting Material Culture in the Twentieth Century by Peter N Miller 9781941792162
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £51.35In early twentieth-century Berlin, the museumsdebate was set into motion with Wilhelm von Bode's sweeping proposal to reorganize a group of the city's museums. Between 1907 and 1910, two particularly... -
Art in the Eurasian Iron Age: Context, Connections and Scale by Courtney Nimura 9781789253948
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £45.91Since early discoveries of so-called Celtic Art during the 19th century, archaeologists have mused on the origins of this major art tradition, which emerged in Europe around 500 BC. Classical... -
Legible Bodies: Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asia by Clare Anderson 9781859738603
Booksplease Price: £36.82From the late eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, the British incarcerated tens of thousands of prisoners in South Asian jails and transported tens of thousands of convicts to penal settlements... -
The Last Island On Earth: The True Story of Easter Island Mike Pitts 9781526667250
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53'The true and fascinating story of Easter Island and its amazing statues' KEN FOLLETTWhere did they come from? How did they get there? Why did they carve the island's colossal iconic statues - and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology by Dan Hicks 9780521619622
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £40.79The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology provides an overview of the international field of historical archaeology (c.AD 1500 to the present) through seventeen specially-commissioned essays... -
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China Jessica Rawson 9780141994512
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombsThe three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the... -
A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace by Lynn Meskell
RRP: £39.49Booksplease Price: £25.42Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to... -
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China by Jessica Rawson
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.90A Prospect Book of the YearAn epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombsThe three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in... -
A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace by Lynn Meskell 9780197503188
Booksplease Price: £22.38Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to... -
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations by Eric H. Cline 9780691192130
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.71In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed-why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why...