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Mediterranean

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Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, The Cyclades and Apulia
by Patience Gray
The author has for the last 20 years shared her life with a sculptor whose appetite for marble and sedimentary rocks has taken them to Tuscany, Catalonia, Naxos and Apulia. She has written a passionate autobiographical cookbook, Mediterranean through and through and as compelling as a first class novel.

It is not like any other book written in the past 50 years and its memory will stay forever. - Theodora Fitzgibbon. 375p, 120 ...



The Mediterranean from 50,000 to 25,000 BP: Turning Points and New Directions
edited by Marta Camps and Carolyn Szmidt
The passage between the periods which we call Middle and Upper Palaeolithic has long held a special fascination for Palaeolithic archaeologists, but over the past ten years or so it has gone right to the top of the list of 'hot' research topics. Underpinning it all is genuine and apparently enduring public interest in what actually happened at this point in human history. Why so much public interest? Well, it's us, isn't it? - bright, clever, ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$160.00, Our Price US$39.98


Pompeii - Art, Industry and Infrastructure
edited by Kevin Cole, Miko Flohr and Eric Poehler
More than 250 years after its discovery, Pompeii continues to resonate powerfully in both academic discourse and the popular imagination. This volume brings together a collection of ten papers that advance, challenge and revise the present conceptions of the city's art, industry and infrastructure.

The discussions of domestic art in this book, a perennial topic for Pompeian scholars, engage previously neglected subjects such as wall ...

Paperback. Price US$70.00


Corpus der Minoischen und mykenischen Siegel: Band IV: Oxford Ashmolean Museum
by Helen Hughes-Brock, John Boardman, edited by Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz
English and German text. 2 volumes, 715p, illus.
(Philipp von Zabern 2009)

Hardback. Publisher's Price US$315.00, Our Price US$252.00


KOINE: Mediterranean Studies in Honor of R. Ross Holloway
edited by Derek B. Counts and Anthony S. Tuck
The Oxford English Dictionary defines koine as 'a set of cultural or other attributes common to various groups'. This volume merges an academic career over a half century in breadth and scope with an editorial vision that brings together a chorus of scholarly contributions echoing the core principles of R. Ross Holloway's own unique perspective on ancient Mediterranean studies. Through broadly conceived themes, the four individual sections ...
Hardback. Price US$80.00


A Mediterranean Valley: Landscape Archaeology and Annales History in the Biferno Valley
by Grahame Barker
This extensive study documents the long-term human settlement history of the Biferno Valley in central-southern Italy, from its earliest occupation in the Stone Age right up to the present day. Integrating the techniques of archaeology, history and geography, Barker shows how settlement in the Valley is inextricably linked to the parallel story of landscape development, his themes and subjects including: Approaches to Mediterranean landscape ...
Hardback. Price US$80.00


Late Roman Fine Wares 1: Solving Problems of Typology and Chronology: A Review of the Evidence, Debate and new Contexts
edited by Miguel Cau Angel, Paul Reynolds and Michel Bonifay
In November 2008, an ICREA/ESF Exploratory Workshop on the subject of late Roman fine wares was held in Barcelona, the main aim being the clarification of problems regarding the typology and chronology of the three principal table wares found in Mediterranean contexts (African Red Slip Ware, Late Roman C and Late Roman D). The discussion highlighted the need to undertake a similar approach for other ceramic classes across the Mediterranean ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$60.00, Our Price US$48.00


Transport Stirrup Jars of the Bronze Age Aegean and East Mediterranean
by Halford W. Haskell, Richard E. Jones, Peter M. Day, and John T. Killen
The transport stirrup jar was a vessel type used extensively in the Late Bronze Age III Aegean world. Found in a variety of contexts, the type was used both to transport and to store liquid commodities in bulk. The peak of the production and exchange of this jar corresponded with the time of economic expansion on the Greek mainland. On Crete, stirrup jars appeared at most major centers on the island. Their presence in large numbers in storerooms ...
Hardback. Price US$80.00


Die Fassade des Hauses IX 1, 20 in Pompeji: Gestalt und Bedeutung
by Hans Lauter
193p (Philipp von Zabern 2009)
Hardback. Price US$89.00


Mediterranean Crossroads
edited by Sophia Antoniadou and Anthony Pace
This book contains the thirty papers delivered at the International Archaeological Conference in Athens, 10-13 May 2005. These papers are selected essays from the conference which was organised within the framework of the project Crossings: Movements of People and Movement of Cultures - Changes in the Mediterranean from Ancient to Modern Times, a project that had been initiated by the Pierides Foundation. All contributors to this volume ...
Paperback. Price US$80.00

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