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ISBN: 9783700173885
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Sanskrit Texts from the Tibetan Autonomous Region
Volume: 11
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ISBN: 9783515103213
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Megacities and Global Change / Megastädte und globaler Wandel
Volume: 7
Access to public space is an essential asset of urban livelihoods. Pavements, street spaces, vacant plots, public parks and city squares are used intensively for all kinds of activities. As open space in rapidly growing and poorly planned conurbat... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407310626
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2454
Contents: 1) Let not the 19th Century Paradigms Continue to haunt us! (B.B. Lal); 2) Reflections on “Dots on a Map” (C. Lamberg-Karlovsky); 3) T-Shaped Pillars and Mesolithic “Chiefdoms” in the Prehistory of Southern Eurasia: A Preliminary Note (M... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407310657
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2457
This book concerns the ways in which the adaption of a steppe innovation, the horse-drawn chariot, in Chinese society during the 12th – 3rd century BCE contributed profoundly to the development of Chinese political and social value. The importance... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789744176271
Published by : Fine Arts Department of Thailand
Series: The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor
Volume: 5
Ban Non Wat is a large, moated prehistoric settlement in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Northeast Thailand. Excavations in 2002-8 revealed a cultural sequence that began with a group of hunter-gatherers, followed by 10 mortuary phases covering the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789088900884
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: MEDEDELINGEN VAN HET RIJKSMUSEUM VOOR VOLKENKUNDE
Volume: 40
The story of ethnographic collecting is one of cross-cultural encounters. This book focuses on collecting encounters in the Kamoro region of Papua from the earliest collections made in 1828 until 2011. Exploring the links between ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781874780748
Published by : Khalili Collections
Series: Studies in the Khalili Collection
First publication of a group of thirty documents on leather in Imperial Aramaic, dating to the fourth century B.C.E. and reflecting the practice of the Achaemenian administration in Bactria and Sogdiana. Eighteen inscribed wooden sticks, for use a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700171447
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Sitzungsberichte der phil.-hist. Klasse
Volume: 833
Turkmenen treten in der Literatur zu Zentralasien konsequent als archetypische Nomaden, Räuber und Sklavenhändler in Erscheinung – die Frage nach dem Ursprung dieser Bilder steht im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung zur... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515102827
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Megacities and Global Change / Megastädte und globaler Wandel
Volume: 6
English Description: The rapid urbanization process in India leads to a strong overprint of the physical and social environment with far-reaching implications for the health of the urban population. Burden of disease varies depend... .... Learn More