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Prehistoric Mediterranean

Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
by Vassos Karageorghis, in collaboration with Joan R Mertens and Marice E Rose
A superbly illustrated catalogue of Cypriot antiquities from the Cesnola Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, published to coincide with the opening of the Museum's four permanent galleries for ancient Cypriot art. The works featured date from the prehistoric, Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods, and include sculpture and figurines, vases and lamps, sealstones and jewellery, and much more. 305p, many col pls ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £35.00, Our Price GB £12.95

Landscape and Land Use in Postglacial Greece
by Paul Halstead and Charles Frederick
These 11 essays are taken from a Round Table meeting held in Sheffield in 1999 on the subject of `Postglacial Environmental Change in Greece'. Contents: Holocene Alluvial History of Northern Pieria (A Krahtopoulou); Palynological evidence for human influence on the vegetation of mountain regions in Northern Greece (A Gerasimidis); Local vegetation and charcoal analysis (M Ntinou & E Badal); Holocene climate change in ...
Paperback. Temporarily out of stock at publishers - will be delayed. Orders will be recorded. Price GB £50.00

Ancient Ammon
edited by Burton MacDonald and Randall W Younker
The ancient Ammonites occupied the north-central Trans-Jordanian plateau from the 2nd to the mid 1st millennium BC and are best known for their struggles with the Biblical Israelites. This book brings together evidence and research on these peoples and their homeland of Ammon. Ten papers discuss their kingdoms, sites, ceramics, domestic and monumental architecture, burial customs, religion, texts and language and the history of archaeological ...
Hardback. Price GB £125.00

Sicily Before History: An Archaeological Survey from the Palaeolithic to the Iron Age
by Robert Leighton
This long-awaited synthesis of the island, whose varied history has left a rich spectrum of archaeological finds has finally arrived! It charts the island's prehistoric cultures from the Palaeolithic to the Greek/Phoenician settlement of the 8th century BC, with fresh interpretative approaches to Mediterranean archaeology provided as context, and with numerous illustrations. 256p, 140 illus (Bristol Classical Press 1998)
Paperback. Price GB £16.00
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A Rough and Rocky Place The Landscape and Settlement History of the Methana Peninsula, Greece
edited by Christopher Mee and Hamish Forbes
The Methana peninsula lies at the entrance of the Saronic Gulf south of Corinth and Mycenae. The landscape is extremely harsh being formed by volcanic activity. Because of its remoteness the area has often been neglected, hence the need for this archaeological survey which was undertaken by the University of Liverpool. Separate chapters examine the settlement history of the peninsula in all periods of human occuption and the sites and churches ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £65.00, Our Price GB £14.95

The Coming of the Greeks
by Robert Drews
Subtitled `Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East' this book combines a review of Indo-European problems (and people) with particular reference to Anatolia with an account of the development of wheeled vehicles and particularly the development of the chariot which revolutionized the ancient world in the second quarter of the second millennium - both leading to the arrival of the Bronze Age Greeks into Greece. `Into the ...
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Transition. Le Monde égéen du Bronze moyen au Bronze récent
edited by Robert Laffineur
Proceedings of the 2nd International Aegean conference at the University of Liège, 1988. 272p, 65 plates (Université de Liège 1989)
Paperback. Price GB £52.00

PACT 20: Navies and Commerce of the Greeks, the Carthaginians and the Etruscans in the Tyrrhenian Sea
edited by Tony Hackens
Proceedings of the European Symposium at Ravello, Jan 1987. Chapter headings: Study of Literary and Epigraphical Sources; Ports and Relays; Ships; Study of the Amphorae; Other Products of Commerce; Numismatic Sources. Papers in Italian, French, and English. 512p, b/w illus, pls (PACT 20, 1988)
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £65.00, Our Price GB £19.95

Eurasian Prehistory 2,1
edited by Ofer Bar-Yosef and J K Kozlowski
This journal, which is a joint venture endorsed by the American School of Prehistoric Research at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Institute of Archaeology at Jagiellonian University in Poland, aims to provide the rapid publications of site reports, articles and syntheses on aspects of the palaeolithic and neolithic of Eurasia. 100p, illus (Eurasian Prehistory, Peabody Museum 2004)
Paperback. Price GB £16.00

Tradition and Originality: a Study of Exekias
by E. Anne Mackay
Exekias inscribes his signature on several of his vases, and so he is one of the relatively few archaic painters whose real name is known to us. He is arguably one of the most accomplished and innovative of all black-figure vase-painters working in Athens ...
Paperback. Price GB £75.00