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ISBN: 9781603440646
Published by : Texas A&M University Press
For almost a millennium, a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serce Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. The ship, now excavated by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M Universit... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781585445677
Published by : Texas A&M University Press
A clear, well designed introduction to human evolution and how we know what we know written by two of the curators at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The authors integrate traditional palaeoanthropology with the newer scienc... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781585443918
Published by : Texas A&M University Press
Many references to ships and seafaring are scattered throughout Homer's two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey . Here, Samuel Mark offers a book-length study of seafaring from c.850-750 BC based on Homer and additional archaeological and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781585444519
Published by : Texas A&M University Press
The interesting history of a range of boats, from the sewn-plank boats of the ancient world and Micronesia to Viking ships, Mediterranean caravels, nineteenth century ocean clippers, and steamships, this book will be of interest to historians, ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780870744891
Published by : Texas A&M University Press
At the heart of this study of the relationship between Greek vases and their decoration - and between the decoration and the function of the vase - is a very well presented catalogue of 43 Greek and Etruscan vases exhibited in the National Arch... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781932792010
Published by : Texas A&M University Press
This book is based on the premise that Jewish belief in 'one people, one God, one cult, one sacrificial site' heavily influenced its building forms. Peter Richardson's discussion is divided into three main parts which examine the architecture o... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781585443130
Published by : Texas A&M University Press
This book is dedicated to J Richard Steffy, a leading figure in the study of ancient shipbuilding, and draws heavily upon his conceptual approach to ship design and construction which places emphasis on the shipwright's personality, culture, te... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781585442720
Published by : Texas A&M University Press
Shanidar Cave in the Zagros Mountains, with its 26 burials containing 35 bodies, `is the oldest prehistoric site with the longest history of occupation in Iraq'. This volume provides an archaeological overview of the site, which dates to the 11... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780918954886
Published by : Texas A&M University Press
In 2002 an inscribed limestone ossuary or burial box was taken from a private collection and revealed to the world. The most astonishing thing about this ossuary was the inscription which read `James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus'. This book... .... Learn More