World Archaeology
The archaeology of cultures and civilizations from the Americas, to Asia, Australasia and the Pacific.
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Hongshan Jade Treasures: The Art, Iconography and Authentication of Carvings from China's Finest Neolithic Culture [Hardback]
David C. Anderson (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9788862442152
Published by : Tau editrice
Written from the perspective of a collector, this exceptionally well illustrated book presents some 340 jade carvings from the Hongshan culture of Neolithic China. As well as examining the iconography of Hongshan art, and celebrat... .... Learn More -
Memory Contested, Locality Transformed: Representing Japanese Colonial Heritage in Taiwan [Paperback]
Min-Chin Chiang (Author)
£36.95ISBN: 9789087281724
Published by : Leiden University Press
Min-Chin Chiang presents the extreme complexity of sharing the Japanese colonial past in postcolonial Taiwanese society. In this book she examines possibilities of decolonization through community-based heritage activities. Problems and ambigui... .... Learn More -
Travel Chronicles of Mrs J. Theodore Bent, Volume II [Paperback]
Gerald Brisch (Author)
£27.50ISBN: 9781905739370
Published by : Archaeopress
“At last we reached a circular enclosure among the grass and scanty trees. We rushed in and it was like getting into a tropical greenhouse with the roof off. There were tall trees and long creepers making monkey ropes, large flowers hanging, great... .... Learn More -
Butua and the End of an Era : The effect of the collapse of the Kalanga state on ordinary citizens. An analysis of behaviour under stress [Paperback]
Catharina van Waarden (Author)
£52.00ISBN: 9781407310190
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2420
The Kalanga state Butua, which had dominated the Zimbabwe plateau (south central Africa) for four centuries, collapsed in the 1830s due to repeated difaqane invasions, and its population became subject to Ndebele invaders. This work is a study of ... .... Learn More -
Human Adaptation in the Asian Palaeolithic [Hardback]
Ryan J. Rabett (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9781107018297
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book examines the first human colonization of Asia and particularly the tropical environments of Southeast Asia during the Upper Pleistocene. In studying the unique character of the Asian archaeological record, it reassesses ... .... Learn More -
The Taíno Settlement at Guayguata: Excavations in St. Mary Parish, Jamaica [Paperback]
Philip Allsworth-Jones (Author); Kit W. Wesler (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9781407310053
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2407
In 1998 the Authors of this report initiated a Jamaican Taíno archaeological project as a joint program of the Department of History, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, and Murray State University, Kentucky, USA. The objectives were to ... .... Learn More -
Cappadocia: Schede dei siti sotterranei: Records of the underground sites [Paperback]
Roberto Bixio (Editor)
£42.00ISBN: 9781407310114
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2413
This volume presents previously unpublished data (including inter alia plans, photographs, catalogues, sources, geological analyses, water/drainage, travellers’ reports) gathered from recent major archaeological investigations into a number of imp... .... Learn More -
Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families Open their Doors [Hardback]
Jeanne E. Arnold (Author); Anthony Graesch (Author); Enzo Ragazzini (Author); Elinor Ochs (Author)
£16.00ISBN: 9781931745611
Published by : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century cross-cuts the ranks of important books on social history, consumerism, contemporary culture, the meaning of material culture, domestic architecture, and household ethnoarchaeology. Far richer in infor... .... Learn More -
Re-exploring Canadian Space. Redécouvrir L’Espace canadien [Paperback]
Jeanette den Toonder (Editor); Bettina van Hoven (Editor)
£22.00ISBN: 9789491431050
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: Canada Cahiers
Volume: 14
A variety of productions and representations of Canadian identities are the central theme that runs through this book. The different contributions explore imagined spaces by considering Canadian music, poetry and novels; they engage with political... .... Learn More -
Material Knowledges, Thermodynamic Spaces and the Moloko Sequence of the Late Iron Age (AD 1300-1840) in Southern Africa [Paperback]
Per Ditlef Fredriksen (Author)
£29.00