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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The Prehistoric Multicultural Settlement of Hajná Nová Ves (Slovakia): Cultural-historical, settlement-archaeological and archaeo-environmental contexts in Western Carpathia at the end of the early prehistoric and in the late prehistoric periods [Paperback]
Egon Wiedermann (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781407310947
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2482
The extensive archaeological excavations of multicultural sites in western Slovakia offer a remarkable amount of material that mostly consists of entirely new and unpublished finds. This monograph presents a multilateral synthesis... .... Learn More -
Tartessian: Celtic in the South-West at the Dawn of History [Paperback]
John T. Koch (Author)
£19.95ISBN: 9781891271199
Published by : Celtic Studies Publications
Volume: 13
Beyond the Aegean, some of the earliest written records of Europe come from the south-west, what is now southern Portugal and south-west Spain. Herodotus, the 'Father of History', locates the Keltoi or 'Celts' in this region, as n... .... Learn More -
Seeing Lithics: A Middle-Range Theory for Testing for Cultural Transmission in the Pleistocene [Hardback]
Gilbert B. Tostevin (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781842175279
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph
There is substantial debate over the extent to which the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and the dispersal of anatomically modern humans from Africa into Eurasia at the end of the Pleistocene were the result of the same pro... .... Learn More -
La explotación tecnoeconómica de las materias óseas en el Auriñaciense : Caracterización de las producciones del Paleolítico superior inicial en la Península Ibérica [Paperback]
José-Miguel Tejero Cáceres (Author)
£47.00ISBN: 9781407310800
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR
Volume: 2469
The Aurignacian is one of the Upper Palaeolithic techno-complexes that has generated much literature in recent years. One of the least known aspects of this period is the question of the exploitation of bones materials. The research presented in t... .... Learn More -
An Ahrensburgian Site at Zonhoven-Molenheide (Belgium) [Paperback]
Pierre M. Vermeersch (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9781407310824
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR
Volume: 2471
The late Palaeolithic Ahrensburgian site at Zonhoven-Molenheide was situated in a sandy podzol. It comprised several concentrations with more than 11,500 flint artefacts, of which more than 1,800 were refitted. Both horizontal and vertical distrib... .... Learn More -
NW Europe in Transition – The Early Neolithic in Britain and South Sweden [Paperback]
Mats Larsson (Editor); Jolene Debert (Editor)
£23.00ISBN: 9781407310879
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR
Volume: 2475
This book is concerned with the developments that followed on from the introduction of farming into Britain and Southern Scandinavia (Denmark and Southern Sweden), and the idiosyncratic social and cultural patterns that emerged as the revolutionar... .... Learn More -
Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind [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