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Prehistoric Europe

Material Mnemonics: Everyday Memory in Prehistoric Europe
edited by Katina T. Lillios and Vasileios Tsamis
How did ancient Europeans materialize memory? Material Mnemonics: Everyday Practices in Prehistoric Europe provides a fresh approach to the archaeological study of memory. Drawing on case studies from the British Isles, Scandinavia, central Europe, Greece, Italy, and the Iberian Peninsula that date from the Neolithic through the Iron Age, the books authors explore the implications of our understanding of the past when memory and mnemonic ...
Paperback. Price US$70.00

Flint in Focus: Lithic Biographies in the Neolithic and Bronze Age
by A.L. van Gijn
Flint objects encapsulate biographies that reveal their roles in prehistoric life. Using raw material sourcing, technological analysis, experimental archaeology, microwear and residue studies, the author tells the story of flint from the Early Neolithic to its virtual demise in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, incorporating data from settlements, burials and hoards from the region of the present-day Netherlands. This richly illustrated book ...
Paperback. Price US$76.00

Prähistorische Lawinen: Nachweis und Analyse holozäner Lawinenereignisse in den Zillertaler Alpen, Österreich. Der Blick zurück als Schlüssel für die Zukunft
edited by Roland Luzian and Peter Pindur
An interdisciplinary research project on the detection and analysis of Holocene avalanches in the Zillertaler Alps, Austria. Chapters focus on spatial analysis and geo-spatial distribution and the detection, simulation and interpretation of actual avalanches. German text. 245p, 130 col illus. (Austrian Academy of Sciences 2008, Mitteilungen der Kommission für Quartärforschung 16)

Simulations, Genetics and Human Prehistory
edited by Shuichi Matsumura, Peter Forster, and Colin Renfrew
Data from molecular genetics have changed our views on the origin, spread and timescale of our species across this planet. But how can we reveal more detail about the demography of ancient human populations? For example, is it possible to determine when and how many people arrived at a certain continent, and which route they took from a choice of geographically plausible options? One of the most promising tools for such investigation is computer ...
Hardback. Price US$50.00

Archaeology in the East and the West: Papers Presented at the Sino-Sweden Archaeology Forum, Beijing in September 2005
edited by Anders Kaliff
The book presents papers from a conference that was held in Beijing on 26-27 September 2005, in collaboration between the Swedish National Heritage Board (NHB) and the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). The conference marked a fresh start for archaeological collaboration between Sweden and China. There is a long tradition of cooperation between China and Sweden in the field of archaeology and both the conference ...

Etruscan Bucchero in the Collection of the British Museum
by Philip Perkins
Bucchero is the most distinctive class of ceramic produced in Etruria, Italy, between the 7th and the 5th centuries BC. This publication aims to provide a complete up-to-date listing and description of the collection of bucchero in the British Museum; a collection that consists of over three hundred items including examples of all the important regional productions of bucchero. A previous partial publication of the collection in 1932 is now ...
Paperback. Price US$60.00

Eurasian Preshistory 5,2 (2007)
edited by Ofer Bar-Yosef and J.K. Kozlowski
This journal 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. The aim of this journal is to publish lengthy ...
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Rethinking the Human Revolution: New Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans
edited by P. Mellars, K. Boyle, O. Bar-Yosef and C. Stringer
Arising from a conference Rethinking the Human Revolution reconsiders all of the central issues in modern human behavioural, cognitive, biological and demographic origins in the light of new information and new theoretical perspectives which have emerged over the past twenty years of intensive research in this field. The 34 papers cover topics ranging from the DNA and skeletal evidence for modern human origins in Africa, through the ...
Hardback. Price US$70.00

Die jungpaläolithische Freilandstation Langmannersdorf an der Perschling, NÖ: Eine Neubewertung des "Lagerplatzes B"
by Sandra Umgeher-Mayer and Tina A. Salcher-Jedrasiak
At the beginning of the 20th Century, finds at Langmannersdorf an der Perschling induced heightened interest. After trial excavations in 1904-1907, Josef Bayer (Natural History Museum, Vienna) directed intensive excavations in 1919-1920, which brought to light a palaeolithic camp site. In 1953, Wilhelm Angeli (Prehistorical Department of the Natural History Museum, Vienna) published Bayer's logs and his own analysis of the findings, including ...
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Mittelneolithische Kreisgrabenanlagen in Niederösterreich: Geophysikalisch-archäologische Prospektion ein interdisziplinäres Forschungsprojekt
edited by Peter Melichar and Wolfgang Neubauer
In the middle Neolithic period (4850/4800-4600/4550 BC), all over Central Europe beyond the cultural boundaries, archeology has shown that monumental buildings were erected. These so called circular ditch constructions consisted of up to four circular, deep ditches creating an interior space fenced off by palisade walls. In
2003-2004, the central area of distribution in Lower Austria was examined by systematic geophysical - archaeological ...
Paperback. Price US$188.00