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Rainforest Foraging and Farming in Island Southeast Asia: the Archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak [Hardback]
G. Barker (Editor)
£62.00ISBN: 9781902937540
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: MCDONALD INSTITUTE MONOGRAPHS
The cathedral-like Niah Caves of Sarawak (Borneo) have iconic status in the archaeology of Southeast Asia, because the excavations by Tom and Barbara Harrisson in the 1950s and 1960s revealed the longest sequence of human occupation in the regi... .... Learn More -
Spong Hill IX: Chronology and Synthesis [Hardback]
Catherine Hills (Author); Sam Lucy (Author)
£59.00ISBN: 9781902937625
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Spong Hill, with over 2500 cremations, remains the largest early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery to have been excavated in Britain. This volume presents the long-awaited chronology and synthesis of the site. It gives a detailed overview of the arte... .... Learn More -
Being an Islander: Production and Identity at Quoygrew, Orkney, AD 900-1600 [Hardback]
James H. Barrett (Editor)
£56.00ISBN: 9781902937618
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Quoygrew - a settlement of farmers and fishers on the island of Westray in Orkney - was continuously occupied from the tenth century until 1937. Focusing on the archaeology of its first 700 years, this volume explores how 'small worlds' both refle... .... Learn More -
Why cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological Approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in Southeast Asia [Hardback]
Graeme Barker (Editor); Monica Janowski (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9781902937588
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: MCDONALD INSTITUTE MONOGRAPHS
Does it make sense to understand the prehistory, history and present-day patterns of life in Southeast Asia in terms of a distinction between two ways of life: "farming" and "foraging"? This is the central question addressed by the anthropologi... .... Learn More -
The Upper Palaeolithic Revolution in global perspective: Papers in honour of Sir Paul Mellars [Hardback]
Katherine V. Boyle (Editor); Ofer Bar-Yosef (Editor); Clive Gamble (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781902937533
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: MCDONALD INSTITUTE MONOGRAPHS
The Palaeolithic is the only period in archaeology that can be studied globally. In the last half century one prehistorian, Sir Paul Mellars, has changed the shape and direction of such studies, adding immeasurably to what we know about humanit... .... Learn More -
Mortuary Customs in Prehistoric Malta: excavations at the Brochtorff Circle at Xaghra, Gozo (1987-94) [Hardback]
Caroline Malone (Author);David H. Trump (Editor);Simon Stoddart (Author);David Trump (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9781902937496
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Amongst the earliest stone architecture in the world, the Neolithic temples and hypogea of Malta testify to a sophisticated island culture. Explored in the early twentieth century, the subterranean burial temple, the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, ... .... Learn More -
Grounding Knowledge/Walking Land: Archaeological Research and Ethno-historical Identity in Central Nepal [Hardback]
Christopher Evans (Author);Judith Pettigrew (Author);Yarjung Kromchain Tamu (Author);Mark Turin (Author);J Pettigrew (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781902937502
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: MCDONALD INSTITUTE MONOGRAPHS
Tracking knowledge down to ground concerned with trail-based archaeology, journeys and histories, this is a volume of both firsts and thick context. At face-value it documents almost a decade of groundbreaking investigations within the Annapur... .... Learn More -
Simulations, Genetics and Human Prehistory [Hardback]
A. Colin Renfrew (Author);Peter Forster (Author);Shuichi Matsumura (Editor)
£25.00ISBN: 9781902937458
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Data from molecular genetics have changed our views on the origin, spread and timescale of our species across this planet. But how can we reveal more detail about the demography of ancient human populations? For example, is it possible to deter... .... Learn More -
Horizon: A Colloquium on the Prehistory of the Cyclades [Hardback]
A. Colin Renfrew (Author);Colin Renfrew (Author);Neil Brodie (Editor);Jennifer Doole (Author);Giorgos Gavalas (Author);Giorgios Gavalas (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9781902937366
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
The Cycladic Islands of Greece played a central role in Aegean prehistory, and many new discoveries have been made in recent years at sites ranging in date from the Mesolithic period to the end of the Bronze Age. In the well-illustrated chapte... .... Learn More -
Prehistoric Landscape Development and Human Impact in the Upper Allen Valley, Cranborne Chase, Dorset [Hardback]
Charles French (Author);Helen Lewis (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781902937472
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
This volume concerns the palaeo-environmental and archaeological investigations of the upper Allen Valley of Cranborne Chase, Dorset, between 1998 and 2003, which revealed sequences of landscape development which contrast with those previously... .... Learn More