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Past in Prehistoric Societies
Bradley, Richard
How did ancient people view their past? What was the role of monuments, oral traditions and material culture in creating and representing the past? In this new book, Richard Bradley presents a lucid discussion of how archaeologists have studied, and currently approach `the past in the past'. Refreshingly based on archaeological case studies rather than ethnography, including Neolithic Central and Northern Europe, Bronze Age Dartmoor, monument ...
Paperback. Price GB £21.99

The Archaeology of Iberia
edited by Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Simon Keay
A large-scale synthesis of the state of archaeology in Spain and Portugal which comes out of a session at the Theoretical Archaeology Group conference in 1992. Two of the articles are of relevance. Simon Keay looks at the dynamics of cultural change ...
Hardback. Price GB £75.00

Kurgan Studies: An environmental and archaeological multiproxy study of burial mounds in the Eurasian steppe zone
edited by Akos Peto and Attila Barczi
Kurgans are the burial mounds of Bronze and Copper Age societies that can be traced back to the 4th Millennium cal BC. The Kurgans of the Eurasian steppe zone preserve palaeosoils and represent a fantastic resource for investigating Holocene environmental ...
Paperback. Price GB £57.00

Miscellania: Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006), Vol 47
edited by Luiz Oosterbeek and Cláudia Fidalgo
Paperback. Price GB £55.00

Conceptualising Space and Place
edited by Ana M.S. Bettencourt, M. Jesus Sanches, Lara B. Alves and Ramon Fbregas Valcarce
This volume contains papers from two sessions at the 15th uispp congress - The creation of 'significant places' and 'landscapes' in the Northwestern half of the Iberia, during Pre and Proto-historic times. Theoretical, recording and interpretation ...
Paperback. Price GB £36.00

Integrating Social and Environmental Archaeologies: Reconsidering Deposition
edited by James Morris and Mark Maltby
This volume explores the role that environmental archaelogy can play in integrated investiagtions of 'ritual' deposits. Topics include studies of types of deposits, such as pits and wells, or bone groups, as well as specific case studies such as an Iron ...
Paperback. Price GB £31.00

ARTeFACT: Festschrift fur Sabine Rieckhoff zum 65. Geburtstag
edited by Susanne Grunwald, Julia Katharina Koch, Doreen Molders, Ulrike Sommer and Sabine Wolfram
This large, two volume festschrift, contains a diverse range of papers, focusing in the main on prehistoric Germany. German text. 2 vols, 787p, 15 pls (Verlag Dr Rudolf Habelt 2009)
Hardback. Price GB £159.00

Karia and the Hekatomnids: The Creation of a Dynasty
by Anne Marie Carstens
Using predominantly archaeological evidence this study looks at the strategies employed by the Hekatomnids to build and bolster their dynasty. Carstens examines architecture, sculpture coinage and inscriptions to reveal a systematic attempt to create a ...
Paperback. Price GB £35.00

Keramik Jenseits von Chronologie
edited by Philipp Stockhammer
These essays make a case for various significant aspects of the interpretation of pottery as an archaeological and historical sources, beyond its usefulness in establishing chronology. Case studies focus in the main on prehistoric european ceramics. ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00

Metals and Societies: Studies in Honour of Barbara S Ottaway
edited by Tobias L. Kienlin and Ben W. Roberts
32 papers on prehistoric metallurgy, including theoretical papers and case studies focusing in the main on early Bronze Age Europe, and examining the social context of metallurgy and mining. 468p b/w illus (Verlag Dr Rudolf Habelt 2009)
Paperback. Price GB £90.00