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Mesolithic on the Move: Papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe, Stockholm 2000
edited by Lars Larsson, Hans Kindgren, Kjel Knutsson, David Leoffler and Agneta Åkerlund
What do we know about the Mesolithic? What distinguishes the Mesolithic from earlier and later periods of human history? What do the Mesolithic cultures of Europe have in common, and what differentiates them from one another? This comprehensive volume contains 89 papers which attempt to answer the questions of the Mesolithic. The volume is divided into nine thematic sections: In territoriality, the authors discuss the diversity of ...
Hardback. Price GB £20.00

Mesolithic Horizons
edited by Sinéad McCartan, Rick Schulting, Graeme Warren and Peter Woodman
Mesolithic Horizons marks the publication of the proceedings of the seventh international conference on 'The Mesolithic in Europe' (Belfast 2005). The numbers attending these five-yearly conferences continue to grow - testimony to the growing interest in a period that less than fifty years ago was seen by many as either a 'hiatus' between two more interesting periods, or as a poorly understood phase of little consequence. This is an ...
Hardback. Price GB £150.00

Mesolithic Studies In The North Sea Basin And Beyond: Proceedings of a Conference Held at Newcastle in 2003
edited by Clive Waddington and Kristian Pedersen
The North Sea has acted as both physical barrier, separating regions from each other, and as the principal means of communication between the same. This duality can also be seen in its potential to be both yielding and destructive; providing food and resources, but also being capable of causing catastrophe. These paradoxical qualities are unlikely to have been lost on our hunter-gatherer ancestors, and they remain relevent to the way that the sea ...
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Experiment and Design: Archaeological Studies in Honour of John Coles
edited by A. F. Harding
These essays, in honour of John Coles, reflect his interests in experimental archaeology and in the exploration of wetland sites. Contents include: Palaeolithic Archaeology: Radiocarbon dating and the origins of anatomically modern populations in Europe (P Mellars); The Chauvet cave dates ( J Clottes); The archaeology of Scotland: The Hidden landscape: the Neolithic of Tayside (G J Barclay); The stony limits - rock carvings ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £55.00, Our Price GB £12.95

Bronze Age Connections: Cultural Contact in Prehistoric Europe
edited by Peter Clark
New and exciting discoveries on either side of the English Channel in recent years have begun to show that people living in the coastal zones of Belgium, southern Britain, northern France and the Netherlands shared a common material culture during the Bronze Age, between three and four thousand years ago. They used similar styles of pottery and metalwork, lived in the same kind of houses and buried their dead in the same kind of tombs, often ...
Paperback. Price GB £40.00

Materialitas: Working Stone, Carving Identity
edited by Blaze O'Connor, Gabriel Cooney and John Chapman
Stone monuments and objects are highly accessible today and formed a focus for engagement, transformation and re-use in the past. Stone is inextricably linked to ideas of monumentality and remembrance. It formed an active medium in the creation of identities and memory in a range of social contexts and practices, including the embodied, performative and incorporated practices of daily activities and traditions. It can be argued that the material ...
Hardback. Price GB £35.00

Shell Middens in Atlantic Europe
edited by Nicky Milner, Oliver E Craig and Geoffrey N Bailey
The archaeological investigation of shell middens has a long and rich history. By the mid 1830s, the presence of artefacts found with large accumulations of shell along the Danish coast had successfully demonstrated that these sites were the result of human activity rather than natural processes. At about the same time in other parts of Europe, shell middens were also being discovered and written about - a process which continued throughout ...
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Place and Memory: Excavations at the Pict's Knowe, Holywood and Holm Farm, Dumfries and Galloway, 1994-8
edited by Julian Thomas, with the assistance of Matt Leivers, Julia Roberts and Rick Peterson
This volume is concerned with the investigation of three complexes of prehistoric ceremonial monuments in the immediate environs of Dumfries in the south-west of Scotland, conducted between 1994 and 1998. These were the Pict's Knowe henge, the Holywood cursus complex, and the post alignments/cursus at Holm. The field research was designed in such a way as to recognise that prehistoric monuments often have complex and individual sequences of ...
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Shadows of a Northern Past: Rock Carvings in Bohuslän and Ostfold
by John Coles
This book is the outcome of a prolonged period of discovery and research into the Bronze Age rock carvings of Bohuslän (Sweden) and Ostfold (Norway). Over 100 of the most complex and varied sites, containing many thousands of images, are presented in new plans and photographs. The variety and precision of the methods of recording have revealed hitherto unknown carvings and new details on many of the sites, including some of the best-known ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £35.00, Our Price GB £10.00

Prehistoric Journeys
edited by Vicki Cummings and Robert Johnston
This collection of thirteen papers focuses on what it meant to be 'on the move' at different times in prehistory. Ideas of journeys and travel are integral to many traditions of interpreting the prehistoric archaeological record. Travel was after all the driving force behind the formation and transformation of identity. How ironic it is that this feature of prehistory has been so overlooked when the ancient world's 'discovery' in the ...
Paperback. Price GB £35.00