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Early Riders: Beginnings of Mounted Warfare
by Robert Drews
It would be easy to make the link that once man learned to control the horse, it was a straightforward and relatively rapid step to using them as mounts for warfare. This assumption has spawned a great deal of scholarship but in his new book Robert Drews argues that many have made this link far too back in history. In this controversial study of when, where and why military riding first took place, Drew refutes and disproves claims that date back ...
Hardback. Price GB £65.00
Mongol Warrior 1200-1350
by Stephen Turnbull
`Fighting in territory ranging from the frozen Steppes to the wilderness of Palestine, and from the jungles of Java to the great rivers of China', the Mongols were a highly successful and much feared fighting force. This study looks at the lives, achievements and psyche of Mongol warriors and warfare under Genghis Khan and his successors. Turnbull looks in turn at their historical background, recruitment and training, weaponry, armour and dress, ...
Paperback. Price GB £10.99
Piri Reis and Turkish Mapmaking after Columbus: The Khalili Portolan Atlas
by Svat Soucek
A detailed analysis of the Khalili Portolan Atlas. 194p. (Studies in the Khalili Collections 2, 1996)
Hardback. Price GB £23.00
The Archaeology of Korea
by Sarah M. Nelson
A survey of Korean history from the earliest palaeolithic settlers, through the formation of the Three Kingdoms to the creation of the United Silla in 688 AD, when the peninsula was largely united for the first time. The author considers the development ...
Paperback. Price GB £20.95
The Archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East: A Survey
by Rachel Mairs
This book is intended as an introduction to the archaeology of the easternmost regions of Greek settlement in the Hellenistic period, from the conquests of Alexander the Great in the late fourth century BC, through to the last Greek-named kings of ...
Paperback. Price GB £26.00
Inconvenient Heritage: Erasure and Global Tourism in Luang Prabang
by Lynne M. Dearborn and John C. Stallmeyer
The major international recognition of a World Heritage Site designation can bring important preservation efforts and a wealth of tourist dollars to an impoverished areabut it can also have destructive side effects. In a revealing study with lessons for ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £66.50
Pictures in Transformation: Art Research between Central Asia and the Subcontinent
edited by Luca Maria Olivieri
8 papers on the rock art of Central Asia and the Subcontinent, with a particular focus on the relatively underexplored west Himalayan region of Ladakh. Issues addressed include problems connected to interactions between local styles, cults and cultures ...
Paperback. Price GB £27.00
Ports and Political Power in the Periplus: Complex Societies and Maritime Trade on the Indian Ocean in the First Century AD
by Eivind Heldaas Seland
This study aims at exploring the significance of maritime commerce to societies on the Indian Ocean rim, by examining how rulers adjusted their policy in order to control and profit from trade. The point of departure is the anonymous Greek first century ...
Paperback. Price GB £29.00
Relief Plaques of Eastern Eurasia and China: The Ordos Bronzes, Peter the Great's Treasure, and their Kin
by John Boardman
Renowned Classical archaeologist John Boardman here turns his attention to a rather different class of artefact - the Ordos Bronzes, a group of objects found in the borderlands of north China. Boardman deals in particular with what have traditionally been ...
Paperback. Price GB £48.00
Past Human Migrations in East Asia
edited by Alicia Sanchez-Mazas et al.
The study of the prehistory of East Asia is developing very rapidly. In uncovering the story of the flows of human migration that constituted the peopling of East Asia there exists widespread debate about the nature of evidence and the tools for ...
Hardback. Price GB £95.00
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