World Archaeology

ISBN: 9781407311135
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2497
A collection of recent studies on GIS applications in South America. For example, one contribution reports the location of archaeological materials from northwestern Andean Patagonia, Argentina, modelled using GIS and image proces... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900971140
Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
Series: Libya Archaeological Guides
This is the second volume in this series, which was launched to great acclaim in 2009. Cyrenaica (known to the Arabs as the Jabal Akhdar, the Green Mountain) has a terrain which resembles that of Greece or western Turkey. It was s... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923967
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Seminars
Volume: 9
The volume is the result of the eighth Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar, held on March 2-3, 2012. Seventeen speakers, from both the US and abroad, examined the interconnections between temples, ritual, and cosmology from a v... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407311012
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2487
This book presents research results on the interaction processes between societies that inhabited in the
Calchaquí Valley (Province of Salta, northwestern Argentina) and those from surrounding regions between
the 9th ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407310893
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2477
At present scantily populated, Suakin was the most prominent port on the Red Sea coast from the fifteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. It was an archetype of an Islamic urban built town which remained continu... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780957106017
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Throughout History, the Indian Ocean has been a zone of interaction between far-flung civilizations served by ports, and connected with the Mediterranean by the Gulf and Red Sea. The shows that were the vehicles of commercial and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407310794
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR
Volume: 2468
The Acheulean is the longest archaeological period in history, and was produced by different hominin species such as Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis. In this book the author examines the diagnostic stone tools of the Acheulean period, handa... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407310626
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2454
Contents: 1) Let not the 19th Century Paradigms Continue to haunt us! (B.B. Lal); 2) Reflections on “Dots on a Map” (C. Lamberg-Karlovsky); 3) T-Shaped Pillars and Mesolithic “Chiefdoms” in the Prehistory of Southern Eurasia: A Preliminary Note (M... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407310657
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2457
This book concerns the ways in which the adaption of a steppe innovation, the horse-drawn chariot, in Chinese society during the 12th – 3rd century BCE contributed profoundly to the development of Chinese political and social value. The importance... .... Learn More