European Prehistory
European Prehistory from Britain and Ireland to central and eastern Europe and the Atlantic seaboard, from the Palaeolithic, through Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, Neolithic farming and settlement and Bronze and Iron Age societies.
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Ice Age Art [Hardback]
Jill Cook (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780714123332
Published by : British Museum Press
The accompanying title to the major exhibition at the British Museum: Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind, 7 February - 26 May 2013.
This is a thought-provoking exploration of the masterpieces of sculpture, drawing and... .... Learn More -
Tin in Antiquity: Its Mining and Trade Throughout the Ancient World with Particular Reference to Cornwall [Paperback]
R D Penhallurick (Author)
£19.50ISBN: 9781906540197
Published by : Maney Materials Science
Tin in Antiquity is the first comprehensive history of the early metallurgy of tin, a mine of information on this rare, highly prized metal so vital to the developing civilization of the Bronze Age. The origins of tin have always been a mystery, b... .... Learn More -
The Prehistory of Metallurgy in the British Isles [Paperback]
R. F. Tylecote (Author)
£19.50ISBN: 9780901462961
Published by : Maney Materials Science
Series: matsci
Originally published by the former Institute of Materials, now the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Reprinted in 1990, this book is based upon the author's Metallurgy in Archaeology (1962). Incorporating the results of work done between... .... Learn More -
Early Metallurgical Sites in Great Britain [Paperback]
C. R. Blick (Editor)
£14.50ISBN: 9780901462848
Published by : Maney Materials Science
Series: matsci
This highly illustrated book documents fifteen archaeologically authenticated sites of importance in the history of metallurgical development in Britain from prehistory to the Middle Ages. .... Learn More -
The Value of an Archaeological Open-Air Museum is in its Use: Understanding Archaeological Open-Air Museums and their Visitors [Paperback]
Roeland Paardekooper (Author)
£48.00ISBN: 9789088901034
Published by : Sidestone Press
There are about 300 archaeological open-air museums in Europe. Their history goes from Romanticism up to modern-day tourism. With the majority dating to the past 30 years, they do more than simply present (re)constructed outdoor s... .... Learn More -
The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies [Paperback]
Christopher Scarre (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780500290644
Published by : Thames and Hudson
The scope of this book is immense, as is its contribution to the study of archaeology. Within nineteen broad geographical sections, numerous specialists survey the span of human prehistory, examining key social developments, new and emerging t... .... Learn More -
A Forged Glamour: Landscape, Identity and Material Culture in the Iron Age [Paperback]
Melanie Giles (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781905119462
Published by : Windgather Press
A Forged Glamour, which takes its title from a poem, is an exploration of the lives and deaths of ironworking communities renowned for their spectacular material culture, who lived in modern-day East and North Yorkshire, between t... .... Learn More -
Exchange Networks and Local Transformations [Paperback]
Maria Emanuela Alberti (Author); Serena Sabatini (Author)
£38.00ISBN: 9781842174852
Published by : Oxbow Books
Throughout the local Bronze and Iron Age, European and Mediterranean societies appear to have been involved in complex systems of exchange networks which invariably affected local customs and historical developments. Archaeological evidence su... .... Learn More -
Companion to Gender Prehistory [Hardback]
Diane Bolger (Editor)
£130.00ISBN: 9780470655368
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This large and impressive volume serves both as an overview of gender prehistory as it stands today, and as a stimulating reminder of the importance of gendered perspectives in archaeological research and a rejoinder to those wh... .... Learn More -
Britain Begins [Hardback]
Barry Cunliffe (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780199609338
Published by : Oxford University Press
Impressive in every way this hugely ambitious and assured book takes as its subject the entire history of the British Isles from their physical emergence as islands at the end of the last Ice Age all the way down to the Norman Con... .... Learn More