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Living near the dead: The barrow excavations of Rhenen-Elst: Two millennia of burial and habitation on the Utrechtse Heuvelrug
edited by David R. Fontijn
The hills overlooking the north flank of the Rhine valley in the Netherlands are dotted with hundreds of prehistoric burial mounds. Only a few of them were ever investigated by archaeologists and even nowadays the many barrows preserved in the extensive forests of the Utrechtse Heuvelrug are the oldest visible witnesses of a remote but largely unknown prehistoric past. In 2006, a team of archaeologists of the Ancestral Mounds project of Leiden ...
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Between Foraging and Farming: An Extended Broad Spectrum of Papers Presented to Leendeert Louwe Kooijmans
edited by Harry Fokkens, Bryony J Coles, Annelou L van Gijn, Jos P Kleijne, Hedwig H Ponjee and Corijanne G Slappendel
For a long time Leendert Louwe Kooijmans has been the face of Dutch prehistory in a European context. This volume contains twenty-three papers on the Mesolithic and Neolithic presented to him by his Dutch and European colleagues and marks his ongoing process of retiring. 286p (Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 40, Leiden: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University 2008)
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Excavations at Geleen-Janskamperveld 1990/1991
edited by Pieter van de Velde
In the early 1990s another Bandkeramik settlement was excavated in the Graetheide microregion (Limburg, the Netherlands). This volume is the final report of the large-scale excavations of this early LBK settlement in sixteen chapters, including a final chapter on the Iron Age habitation on the same site. 278p (Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 39, Leiden: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University 2008)
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Màlsnes 1: An Early Post-Glacial Coastal Site in Northern Norway
by H P Blankholm
Màlsnes 1 is an early post-glacial site dating to c.9500 BP, amd located at the outlet of the Bardu Màlselv river system in Troms county, north of the Arctic circle, in northern Norway. It was discovered in 1998 and several years of meticulous excavation followed. This book reports on the results of the excavations. Detailed information on the lithic artefacts - their raw materials and typology - is presented along with an analysis and ...
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On the Margins of Southwest Asia: Cyprus during the 6th to 4th Millennia BC
by Joanne Clarke with contributions by Carole McCartney and Alexander Wasse
This book examines social change in Cyprus during the 6th to 4th millennia BC; a period that is traditionally viewed as one of prolonged cultural continuity and isolation from the mainland. Through the documentation and integration of technological practice and up-to-date climatic, ecological and environmental data, it is proposed that many of the observable differences between mainland southwest Asia and Cyprus during this period are the result ...
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Eurasian Prehistory 4,1 and 4,2 (2006)
edited by Ofer Bar-Yosef and J K Kozlowski
This journal will fill a large gap in the current repertoire of English-language archaeological journals concerning the Paleolithic and Neolithic of Asia and Europe, as the place to publish site reports and data-based studies. These are at present rarely accepted for publication in the majority of journals, as they prefer to publish general articles or syntheses of original archaeological sequences. Combined edition: 4:1 and 4:2. c.300p, b/w ...
Paperback. Price GB £16.00

Skilled Production and Social Reproduction: Aspects of Traditional Stone-Tool Technologies - Proceedings of a Symposium in Uppsala, August 20-24, 2003
edited by Jan Apel and Kjel Knutsson
During a five-day symposium in late August 2003, a group of archaeologists, ethno-archaeologists and flint knappers met in Uppsala to discuss skill in relation to traditional stone-tool technologies and social reproduction. This volume contains 20 of the papers presented at the symposium, and the topics range from Oldowan stone technologies of the Lower Palaeolithic to the production of flint tools during the Bronze Age. 454p, b/w illus ...
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Eurasian Prehistory 2.2
edited by Ofer Bar-Yosef and J K Kozlowski
Contents: End of the Palaeolithic in the Argolid (Greece): Excavations in Caves 4 and 7 in the Klisoura Gorge (J. Kozowski, M. Kaczanowska); Pebble Semicircle Structure from a Lower Palaeolithic Site in Southern China (Y. Fang, Y. Huang and C. Shen); Settlement Reorganization at the End of the Neolithic in Central Europe: Recent Research in the Körös River Valley, Southeastern Hungary (W.Parkinson, A. Gyucha, R. Yerkes, ...
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Europe's First Farmers
edited by T Douglas Price
A collection of essays, based on a symposium held at the SAA meeting at Minneapolis in 1995, discussing evidence for the transition from hunter-gathering to farming across Europe. Contents: Europe's first farmers (T Douglas Price); Southeastern Europe and the transition to agriculture in Europe (Ruth Tringham); Transition to agriculture in eastern Europe (Marek Zvelebil & Malcolm Lillie); Cardial pottery and the ...
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Late prehistoric Exploitation of the Eurasian Steppe
by Marsha Levine, Yuri Rassamakin, Aleksandr Keslenko and Nataliya Tatarintseva
The nomadic peoples of the great grasslands of the former USSR have left little in the way of settlement evidence, and archaeologists studying their history have had to rely on environmental remains to reconstruct their pasts. This book contains three major studies: The origins of horse husbandry on the Eurasian Steppe (M Levine); The eneolithic of the Black Sea Steppe: The dynamics of cultural and economic development 4500-2300 BC (Y ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00