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Vitreous Material in the Late Bronze Age Aegean: A Window to the East Mediterranean World
edited by Caroline Jackson and Emma Wager
The explosion of research in the field of ancient and historic glasses has opened up glass studies in recent years. However, our deeper understanding of the technology and provenance of Bronze Age Egyptian and Roman glasses in the Mediterranean has not been mirrored by our studies of glasses and other vitreous materials found in the Late Bronze Age Aegean. There are few studies which collate the material culture of the region and still fewer ...
Paperback. Price GB £32.00
Cyprus: An island Culture. Society and Social Relations from the Bronze Age to the Venetian Period
edited by Artemis Georgiou
This volume, introduced by Edgar Peltenburg, presents the results of latest research by young scholars working on aspects of Cypriot archaeology from the Bronze Age to the Venetian period. It presents a diversity excavation, material culture, iconographic and linguistic evidence to explore the themes of ancient landscape, settlement and society; religion, cult and iconography; and Ancient Cyprus and the Mediterranean. 256p, b/w illus (Oxbow ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Publisher's Price GB £40.00, Our Price GB £29.95
Fire, Water, Heaven and Earth: Ritual Practice and Cosmology in Ancient Scandinavia - An Indo-European Perspective
by Anders Kaliff
Archaeological excavations of prehistoric Scandinavian graves and ritual sites often reveal seemingly enigmatic and contradictory features. Interpretation from a comparative Indo-European perspective allows a partly new approach to material which at first sight seems fragmentary and anonymous. The interpretations in this book proceed from cosmological beliefs occurring in various Indo-European traditions. The author discusses mortuary practices ...
Paperback. Price GB £18.00
Midea: The Megaron Complex and Shrine Area - Excavations on the Lower Terraces 1994-1997
by Gisela Walberg
This volume presents the 1994-1997 excavation of the Lower Terraces of the Mycenaean citadel of Midea in the Argolid Plain of Greece. It compliments the author's previous volume on the Lower Terraces of Midea, which was published in 1998. A shrine and megaron were discovered on Terraces 9 and 10. The stratigraphy, architecture, pottery, lithics, small finds, and human and faunal remains dating from the Final Neolithic through Byzantine periods ...
Hardback. Price GB £86.00
Mochlos IIB: Period IV. The Mycenaean Settlement and Cemetery: The Pottery
by R. Angus K. Smith
Excavations carried out at two Late Minoan III sites at Mochlos in eastern Crete yielded a pottery assemblage from 31 tombs and 11 houses, which are cataloged, discussed, and illustrated together with petrographic analyses. The cemetery remains mirror the settlement remains, and the conclusions discuss how the two sites reflect each other. Rarely in Crete are a settlement and its cemetery both preserved, and it is extremely fortunate to be able ...
Hardback. Price GB £53.00
The Bronze Age Begins: The Ceramics Revolution of Early Minoan I and the New Forms of Wealth that Transformed Prehistoric Society
by Philip P. Betancourt
This book focuses on economic and social changes, particularly during the opening phase of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete. New developments in ceramics that reached Crete at the end of the Neolithic period greatly contributed to the creation of economic, technological, social, and religious advancements we call the Early Bronze Age.
The arguments are two-fold: a detailed explanation of the ceramics we call Early Minoan I ...
Paperback. Price GB £23.00
Mochlos IIA. Period IV: The Mycenaean Settlement and Cemetery, The Sites
by Jeffrey S. Soles
The results of excavations carried out at two Late Minoan III sites at Mochlos in eastern Crete are presented. The stratigraphy and architecture of a total of 31 tombs and 11 houses are discussed together with a complete list of artefacts, ecofacts, and skeletal remains from each context. The cemetery remains mirror the settlement remains, and the conclusions discuss how the two sites reflect each other. Rarely in Crete are a settlement and its ...
Hardback. Price GB £53.00
The Power of Technology in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean: The Case of the Painted Plaster
by Ann Brysbaert
This volume explores issues of power and status in craft specialization and the transfer of technology in the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean through a detailed case study of painted plaster. 16 sites were examined in detail, with iconographic and stylistic festures treated alonside technological ones, and comparative information analysed from around the Aegean. Ann Brysbaert finds a complex picture of technological transfer, and uses her ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00
Kavousi I: The Archaeological Survey of the Kavousi Region
by Donald C Haggis
Kavousi I is the initial volume of the Kavousi Excavation Series, which presents the final report of the Kavousi Project, a program of archaeological investigation near the modern village of Kavousi in eastern Crete. Subsequent volumes will publish the results of the 1987-1992 excavations at the Vronda and Kastro sites in the Siteia Mountains overlooking Kavousi and of the cleaning and new study of the excavations of Harriet Boyd in 1900 ...
Hardback. Price GB £53.00
Bronze Age of Southeast Asia
by Charles Higham
The bronze age of southeast Asia has been described as an enigma and a challenge. This is the first comprehensive study of the period to be placed within its broader regional context. The integration of distinct cultural areas within one book enables understanding of how regional diversity arises. 380p, 150 b/w figs (Cambridge UP 1996)
Paperback. Price GB £30.00
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