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Sampling in Archaeology
by Clive Orton
A straightforward guide to the theory and practical implementation of statistical sampling which aims to bring professional and academic archaeologists up to date with this important aspect of their work. Orton presents the information from both a site and a national perspective and evaluates the value of the data that can be retrieved from informal and formal sampling. This highly readable manual is aided by large numbers of diagrams and charts. ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00

Creating Digital Resources for the Visual Arts: Standards and Good Practice
by Catherine Grout, Phil Purdy and Janine Rymer
This guide provides advice on legal issues such as Copyright and Rights Management when creating and using digital picture resources, technical advice on software and producing good quality images, standards for data documentation, project management, storage and preservation, and innovative creative techniques, including web design and virtual reality. 144p (Visual Arts Data Service/Oxbow Books 2000)
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £18.00, Our Price GB £2.95

TRAC 2003: The Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Theoretical Archaeology Conference, Leicester 2003
edited by Ben Croxford, Hella Eckhardt, Judy Meade and Jake Weeks
This volume presents twelve of the thirty-two papers given at the thirteenth Theoretical Roman Archaeological Conference, held at the University of Leicester in April 2003. The first three papers are concerned with material culture, consumption and identity and were given by Andrew Gardner. Two present new approaches to pottery assemblages while the third focuses on the specific pottery form (mortaria) and small finds. The next four papers focus ...
Paperback. Price GB £28.00

Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology
edited by Philip L. Kohl and Clare Fawcett
A collection of articles which attempt to describe the complex relationship between archaeological research and `evidence' and its use for political and nationalistic purposes. This century has already seen much abuse of the ancestral record, and the introduction to this book points out that "the blatantly political manipulation of archaeological data is particularly acute today in those areas...which are experiencing ethnic wars associated ...
Paperback. Price GB £24.99

People and Places: Essays in Honour of Michael Aston
edited by Michael Costen
This volume of thirteen essays came out of a conference in December 2004 at Bristol University, to celebrate the career of Mick Aston on the occasion of his retirement. They reflect his enthusiam for landscape and monastic archaeology in particular, and range in time from prehistory to the nineteenth century. Mick's ability to communicate archaeology to the masses has rightly seen him earn the title of 'The Ambassador of British Archaeology'. ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £50.00, Our Price GB £15.00

Loot Legitimacy and Ownership
by Colin Renfrew
Here Colin Renfrew engages on a forthright moral crusade against those who are de-valuing and destroying our archaeological heritage, and rightly so. The unpublished, unprovenanced objects which are part of a growing illicit antiquities market add nothing to our knowledge of past societies and this lucrative trading encourages further clandestine looting from sites. Rather than merely outlining the problems and issues, Renfrew admirably states ...
Paperback. Price GB £11.99

The Nostratic Macrofamily and Linguistic Palaeontology
by Aharon Dologopolsky
Do all or most languages in the world descend from a single proto-language ? And if so what can we tell from linguistic analysis about the speakers of this ancient tongue ? These are the two questions at the heart of this controversial book and the themes clearly outlined by Colin Renfrew in his introduction. The theory of a Nostratic proto-language is not new, but the extremely detailed presentation of historical linguistic evidence provided ...
Paperback. Price GB £20.00

Labyrinth Revisited: Rethinking Minoan Archaeology
edited by Yannis Hamilakis
`Minoan' Crete is one of the most intensively investigated archaeological cultures in the world, and one that has often captured the public imagination. It is a Bronze Age Aegean society, but it has been intimately connected with the Classical Greek myth of King Minos and his Labyrinth since Sir Arthur Evans excavated and restored (some would say `rebuilt') the important site of Knossos, more than a century ago. Yet many archaeological ...
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Handbook of Geophysics in Archaeology
by Alan Witten
Geophysics is used in dealing with problems from academic to practical interest. Applications can include, an understanding of the structure of the Earth, resource exploration, environmental and construction concerns, as well as archaeology, palaeontology, law enforcement, and counter-terrorism. The nature of this science makes it inaccessible to all but those with rigorous training in mathematics and physics. While there are a great many ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00
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Agency Uncovered: Archaeological Perspectives on Social Agency Power and Being Human
by Andrew Gardner
This book questions the value of the concept of `agency', a term used in sociological and philosophical literature to refer to individual free will in archaeology. On the one hand, it has been argued that previous generations of archaeologists, in explaining social change in terms of structural or environmental conditions, have lost sight of the `real people' and reduced them to passive cultural pawns; on the other, introducing the concept of ...
Paperback. Price GB £28.50