Art & Archaeology

ISBN: 9780715639054
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
This short incisive book focuses on Africa, examining the key issues and threats affecting the archaeological resource, including governance, neglect, conflict, climate change and globalisation. The authors examine the context of archaeology w... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407306360
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This volume investigates the colonial costal landscape of Tanzania, looking in depth at urban environments as well as a comparative case study of Mombassa. It examined interactions between humans and the natural environment, the maritime settin... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780714125923
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd
Part of the British Museum's Objects in Focus series, this compact book offers a well illustrated guide to the crowned bronze head unearthed at Ife in Nigeria in 1938. It places the head in its historical and artistic context, and introduces th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900971102
Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
Series: Society for Libyan Studies Monograph
Volume: 8
The Archaeology of Fazzan is a major series of reports on the archaeology and history of Libya’s south-west desert region.
This volume contains reports and analysis on a series of excavations carried out between 1958 and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407307084
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
15 papers originally given at a 2009 conference in Sheffield. There is a wide covereage both in terms of chronology and themes, ranges from the Pleistocene of Dogon country in Mali, to discussion of the development of archaeolgy and museums in ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842179680
Published by : Oxbow Books
African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present considers ethnographic, museological and archaeological approaches to pottery-decorating tools called roulettes, that is to say, short lengths of fibre or wood that are rolled over the surface of a vess... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842174036
Published by : Oxbow Books
The Upper Pleistocene era encompassed a period of dramatic cultural developments in the south-eastern Mediterranean basin. This book highlights and synthesizes the latest research and current scientific debate on the archaeology of this time pe... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781845119942
Published by : Tauris & Co Ltd
In this stimulating account of his life's experiences, renowned scholar and pioneer Africanist archaeologist Merrick Posnansky takes his readers on an unusual journey across the world, from his origins in a small Jewish community in Manchester ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407305974
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The aim of this research was to develop an understanding of the geomorphological processes that have affected the archaeological record in the South Luangwa National Park area of the Luangwa Valley in eastern Zambia and to determine the extent ... .... Learn More