Art & Archaeology

ISBN: 9781842176726
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: UBC Studies in the Ancient World
Volume: 2
by Joann Freed
^DAdorning the north-west staircase in the British Museum is a group of brightly coloured figured mosaic pavements. Most were excavated for the Museum between 1856 and 1859 at Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, by a dilettante... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842176740
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: UBC Studies in the Ancient World
Volume: 2
by Joann Freed
^DAdorning the north-west staircase in the British Museum is a group of brightly coloured figured mosaic pavements. Most were excavated for the Museum between 1856 and 1859 at Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, by a dilettante... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407306360
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
By conducting a study of archaeology and the built environment within an East African context, this monograph aims to actively promote the conservation of culturally important and endangered environments, and to use archaeology to address funda... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780714125923
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd
Believed to represent a king, the beautiful bronze head in the British Museum is one of seventeen objects unearthed in 1938-9 at the town of Ife in Nigeria. The stunning naturalism and sophisticated craftsmanship of the objects challenged Weste... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407307084
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The book contains papers read at the conference West African archaeology, New developments, New perspectives, co-sponsored by the Nigerian Field Society and the Department of Archaeology of the University of Sheffield, with the support of the U... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780253221759
This is the first book devoted to the archaeology of African life on both sides of the Atlantic; it highlights the importance of archaeology in completing the historical records of the Atlantic world's Africans. Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900971102
Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
Series: Society for Libyan Studies Monograph
Volume: 8
The Archaeology of Fazzan is a major series of reports on the archaeology and history of Libya’s south-west desert region.
This volume contains reports and analysis on a series of excavations carried out between 1958 and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842179680
Published by : Oxbow Books
African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present considers ethnographic, museological and archaeological approaches to pottery-decorating tools called roulettes, or short lengths of fibre or wood that are rolled over the surface of a vessel f... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842174036
Published by : Oxbow Books
The span of time between 130,000 and 10,000 years ago, the Upper Pleistocene, encompassed a period of dramatic cultural developments in the south-eastern Mediterranean basin. This book highlights and synthesizes the latest discoveries on the mo... .... Learn More