Bronze Age
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Excavations at Cill Donnain: A Bronze Age Settlement and Iron Age Wheelhouse in South Uist [Hardback]
Mike Parker Pearson (Author); Marek Zvelebil (Author)
Regular Price: £45.00
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ISBN: 9781782976271
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides
Volume: 9
The SEARCH (Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides) project began in 1987 and covers the Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. The aim of the project is to investigate how human societies adapted ... .... Learn More -
Gristhorpe Man: A Life and Death in the Bronze Age [Hardback]
Nigel D. Melton (Editor); Christopher Knusel (Editor); Janet Montgomery (Editor)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9781782972075
Published by : Oxbow Books
In July 1834 excavation of a barrow at Gristhorpe, near Scarborough, Yorkshire, recovered an intact, waterlogged, hollowed-out oak coffin containing a perfectly preserved Bronze Age skeleton that had been wrapped in an animal skin... .... Learn More -
AMILLA: The Quest for Excellence. Studies Presented to Guenter Kopcke in Celebration of His 75th Birthday [Hardback]
Robert B. Koehl (Editor)
£55.00ISBN: 9781931534734
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 43
Contributions by 34 scholars are brought together here to create a volume in honor of the long and fruitful career of Guenter Kopcke who is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York ... .... Learn More -
Claimed by the Sea: Salcombe, Langdon Bay, and other marine finds of the Bronze Age [Paperback]
Stuart P. Needham (Author); Dave Parham (Author); Catherine Frieman (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781902771953
Published by : Council for British Archaeology
Series: CBA Research Report
Volume: 173
First discovered by sport divers in the 1970s, the two remarkable seabed finds of prehistoric bronze metalwork described here quickly became a testing ground for the new discipline of underwater archaeology, initially under the le... .... Learn More -
The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age [Hardback]
Anthony Harding (Editor); Harry Fokkens (Editor)
£120.00ISBN: 9780199572861
Published by : Oxford University Press
The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age is a wide-ranging survey of a crucial period in prehistory during which many social, economic, and technological changes took place. Written by expert specialists in the field, the bo... .... Learn More -
What are these Queer Stones?: Baetyls: Epistemology of a Minoan Fetish [Paperback]
Sam Crooks (Author)
£22.00ISBN: 9781407311296
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This monograph examines the aniconic cult stones, or baetyls, of the Aegean Bronze Age. Minoan baetyls are commonly understood by reference to the interpretive vocabularies of ancient Near Eastern traditions developed by comparati... .... Learn More -
Knossos Monastiriako Tomb and ‘Deposit’ [Hardback]
Laura Preston (Editor)
£56.00ISBN: 9780904887686
Published by : British School at Athens
Series: BSA Studies
Volume: 22
The archaeological sites on the Monastiriako Kephali hill analysed in this volume include the earliest known mortuary activity at the key Minoan centre of Knossos on the island of Crete. Two Bronze Age sites are presented, known a... .... Learn More -
Metalurgia y Sociedad en el Nordeste de la Península Ibérica (finales del IV – II milenio cal ANE) [Paperback]
Ignacio Soriano (Author)
£46.00ISBN: 9781407311180
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2502
This research focuses on prehistoric metallurgy and the key role it played for the human communities of the north-eastern Iberian Peninsula (the present-day area of the Autonomous Region of Catalonia and the Principality of Andorr... .... Learn More -
Female Burial Traditions of the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age : A pilot study based on modern excavations [Paperback]
£25.00ISBN: 9781407311111
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar BS
Volume: 581
This study examines female representation in British Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (2500 – 1500 BC) funerary practices. Chronology relating to the burial practices is studied, from large scale change over time through to... .... 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