Search results for 'maritime culture of the north'
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Wulfstan's Voyage: The Baltic Sea Region in the early Viking Age as seen from shipboard [Hardback]
Anton Englert (Author); Athena Trakadas (Author)
$106.00ISBN: 9788785180568
Published by : Viking Ship Museum
Series: Maritime Culture of the North
Volume: 2
After the successful edition of the book on the voyages by the Norwegian Ohthere, Ohthere's Voyages , the Viking Ship Museum now presents the lesser-known travelogue which accompanies Ohthere's report in the Old English version of Orosius' worl... .... Learn More -
Archaeology and the Sea in Scandinavia and Britain: A Personal Account [Hardback]
Ole Crumlin-Pedersen (Author)
$90.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9788785180056
Published by : Viking Ship Museum
Series: MARITIME CULTURE OF THE NORTH
Volume: 3
Half a century ago, archaeology entered a new field of work with the excavation of ancient ships found under water. A new discipline emerged: maritime archaeology.
In this book, Ole Crumlin-Pedersen, the Danish pioneer of maritime arc... .... Learn More -
Ohthere's Voyages: A late 9th Century Account of Voyages along the Coasts of Norway and Denmark and its Cultural Context [Hardback]
Anton Englert (Author);Janet Bately (Author)
$70.00ISBN: 9788785180476
Published by : Viking Ship Museum
Series: Maritime Culture of the North
Volume: 1
At some time in the late 9th century, a Norwegian seafarer by the name of Ohthere [Oht-her-e] told the West Saxon king Alfred of his voyages along the coasts of Norway and Denmark. Ohthere's report made such an impression at the court of King Alfr... .... Learn More -
The Articulation of a 'New Neolithic': The meaning of the Swifterbant Culture for the process of neolithisation in the western part of the North European Plain (4900-3400 BC) [Paperback]
D C M Raemaekers (Author)
$54.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9789076368030
Published by : Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden
Raemaekers aims in his thesis to bridge the gap between the site-oriented reports and the general supra-regional discussions of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition through a systematic description of the material remains from the sites of the ... .... Learn More -
North Korean Culture and Society: Papers from the British Museum/British Association for Korean Studies Study Day 2001 and BAKS Study Day 2002 [Paperback]
Jane Portal (Author); Beth McKillop (Author)
Regular Price: $40.00
Special Price: $9.98
Out of stock
ISBN: 9780861591510
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 151
The publication follows on from the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and visits there by scholars from the British Museum and British Library. The papers from the two days of study provide a ... .... Learn More -
The Maritime Ex-Voto: A Culture of Thanksgiving [Paperback]
Isabelle Borg (Author)
$9.95ISBN: 9789993270102
Published by : Midsea Books
Throughout the Maltese Islands one can find a substantial number of ex-voto paintings in older sanctuaries and rural churches. These paintings are in fulfilment of vows made by those who had found themselves in peril on the sea or otherwise st... .... Learn More -
Landscape and Culture in the Siberian North [Hardback]
Peter Jordan (Author)
$100.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9781844720798
Published by : Cavendish Publishing Ltd
This timely volume assembles the work of leading anthropologists who have engaged in recent ethnographic fieldwork to explore the creation and persistence of sacred landscape geography amongst indigenous groups in the Siberian north. Why a foc... .... Learn More -
Alexandria and the North-Western Delta: Joint Conference Proceedings of Alexandria: City and Harbour (Oxford 2004) and The Trade and Topography of Egypt's North-West Delta: 8th century BC to 8th century AD (Berlin 2006) [Hardback]
Damian Robinson (Editor); Andrew Wilson (Editor)
$90.00ISBN: 9781905905140
Published by : Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology
Series: OCMA MONOGRAPH
Volume: 5
This monograph contains the joint proceedings of the first two conferences organised by the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology. It contains 23 papers that cover land-based and underwater excavation and survey in the area of the North-Wester... .... Learn More -
Shaping Culture: Making Pots and Constructing Households [Paperback]
Bill Sillar (Author)
$117.50Out of stock
ISBN: 9781841711515
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Subtitled `An ethnoarchaeologica; study of pottery production, trade and use in the Andes', this study explores the role of pottery within the wider cultural setting of present-day Andean society. Sillar shows that economic, social and ritual a... .... Learn More -
North-Western Thrace from the Fifth to First Centuries BC [Paperback]
Nikola Theodossiev (Author)
$85.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9781841710600
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Drawing on a variety of sources of evidence and over-coming many difficulties with the data, this study provides a good factual account of the Late Iron Age in North-West Thrace. It is at this time that the Thracian tribes reached the peak of t... .... Learn More