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Ritual and Domestic Life in Prehistoric Europe
by Richard Bradley
The lack of clarity over the use of the term ritual by archaeologists has led to a great deal of inference and supposition which creates a tendency to want to put it in inverted commas. Whilst investigating and critiquing the way in which ritual has been studied and presented, Richard Bradley sheds some light on the way forward. He argues that once we accept that ritual is a form of practice which can occur in a variety of settings, including the ...
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Le Dernier Interglaciaire et les occupations humaines du Paleolithique moyen
edited by Alain Tuffreau and Wil Roebroeks
This volume is the outcome of a workshop dedicated to the geology and archaeology of the last interglacial, oxygen isotope stage 5e. The authors address various aspects of the fossil record of this warm-temperate stage, which was for a long time considered to be a good analogue for our current interglacial. This volume shows, not unexpectedly, that this assumption is not correct, and that within the no-analogue environments of the Eemian humans ...
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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 ...
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Mujeres y Hombres en Espacios Domesticos
by Pedro V. Castro-Martinez
Detailed investigation of the Alpha Building of Puig Morter in Son Ferragut on the island of Mallorca provided the opportunity to study not only a domestic setting dating to between c.700 and 500 BC, but also to build a picture of different social activities and gender relations during this period. This large volume presnts a description of the building itself before looking at the activities taking place within it, such as the slaughter, ...
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Plants in Archaeology
by Rowena Gale and David Cutler
An `Identification manual of vegetative plant materials used in Europe and the southern Mediterranean to c.1500'. This large volume includes detailed anatomical descriptions of more than 160 species of plants and trees that have either been identified in archaeological remains or those that are known to have been used in the past. Described as a working manual, the book is aimed at botanists, archaeologists, conservators and students researching ...
Hardback. Price GB £75.00

Patterns in Prehistory
by Robert J Wenke
This fifth edition of Wenke's Patterns in Prehistory remains one of the best guides to the history of mankind and an essential undergraduate text. The reader is 'invited to stroll through three million years of human history', beginning with early man and human origins, the colonisation of the Americas, The origins of agriculture, the evolution of complex societies in Southwest Asia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, China and later states of the ...
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Two Studies on Early Shamanism
by János Makkay
These Two studies focus on, first, a fourth millennium BC seal from Cyprus that depicts a scene which some have argued has parallels with the Sumerian precursor of Tablet XII of the epic of Gilgamesh - the ,,hulupu-tree'. The second part addresses certain details of the interpretation of the masked human figure in the Palaeolithic cave painting at Trois Frères. 71p, 2 figs (János Makkay, Budapest 1999)
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Drowned Landscape: The Occupation of the Western Part of the Frisian-Drentian Plateau, 4400BC - AD 500
by Harry Fokkens
During the Holocene the lower parts of the coversand landscape of the Netherlands gradually disappeared under water or under layers of peat, clay, or sand as a consequence of the rising sea level. For the occupants this drowning caused a continuous displacement to (still) dry land. Within this ecological setting, Fokkens studied the occupation of a part of the drowning landscape, largely the province of Friesland in the north of the Netherlands. ...
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Licht am Ende des Tunnels: Planung und Trassierung im antiken Tunnelbau
by Klaus Grewe
A superbly illustrated study of tunnels and tunneling in the Classical World- developped from the author's previous work on aqueducts. The qanats of the Near East lead to the tunnels dug as aqueducts on Near Eastern sites and in the Greek and Roman world; these are reviewed in detail, as are tunnels built for other purposes: drainage, flood relief, roads and warfare. Discusses technological prblems, and surveying and planning. 218p, 149 col, ...
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A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments
by Christopher Tilley
This `extended photographic essay' about topographic features of the prehistoric landscape integrates philosophical approaches to landscape perception with anthropological studies of the significance of the landscape in small-scale societies. Tilley argues that the architecture of Neolithic stone tombs acts as a kind of lens focussing attention on landscape features such as rock outcrops, river valleys, and mountain spurs in their immediate ...
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