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The Social Lives of Figurines: Recontextualizing the Third Millennium BC Terracotta Figurines from Harappa (Pakistan) [Hardback]
Sharri R. Clark (Author)
Regular Price: £20.00
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ISBN: 9781842174555
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: AMERICAN SCHOOL OF PREHISTORIC RESEARCH MONOGRAPH
After more than 80 years of research, the Indus Civilization (ca. 2600–1900 BC) remains largely enigmatic. In this geographically extensive civilization, which still has no known monumental art and undeciphered texts, the la... .... Learn More -
Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions: Contributions to Current Research in Indology Volume 2 [Paperback]
Giovanni Ciotti (Editor); Alastair Gornall (Editor); Paolo Visigalli (Editor)
Regular Price: £28.00
Special Price: £21.00
ISBN: 9781782974154
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: PUSPIKA
Volume: 2
Puspika 2 is the outcome of the second International Indology Graduate Research Symposium and presents the results of recent research by young scholars into pre-modern South Asian cultures with papers covering a variety of topics ... .... Learn More -
Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions: Contributions to Current Research in Indology Volume I [Paperback]
Nina Mirnig (Editor); Peter-Daniel Szanto (Editor); Michael Williams (Editor)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £28.50
ISBN: 9781842173855
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: PUSPIKA
Volume: 1
It is perhaps commonplace to say that India is one of the world's richest and most enticing cultures. One thousand years have passed since Albiruni, arguably the first "Indologist", wrote his outsider's account of the subcontinent and two hundr... .... Learn More -
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 occupati... .... Learn More -
Silk Roads of the Northern Tibetan Plateau during the Early Middle Ages: (from the Han to Tang Dynasty) [Paperback]
Tao Tong (Author)
£34.00ISBN: 9781407311395
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2521
The excavation of Tuyuhun-Tubo (Tibetan) elite graves at Dulan and Delingha in the modern province of Qinghai has necessitated a rewriting of the history of the Silk Road of the north-western China, especially during the 5th-8th c... .... Learn More -
The Principles of Arab Navigation [Hardback]
William Facey (Editor); Anthony R. Constable (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 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 -
A Million Years of Hominin Sociality and Cognition: Acheulean Bifaces in the Hunsgi-Baichbal Valley, India [Paperback]
Ceri Ben Kersey Shipton (Author)
£26.00ISBN: 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 -
South Asian Archaeology 2007 : Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeology Ravenna, Italy, 2-6 July 2007. Volume I. Prehistoric Periods [Paperback]
Dennys Frenez (Editor); Maurizio Tosi (Editor)
£46.00ISBN: 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 -
Chariots in Early China : Origins, cultural interaction, and identity [Paperback]
Hsiao-yun Wu (Author)
£28.00ISBN: 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 -
The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor: Volume V: the Excavation of Ban Non Wat: the Bronze Age [Hardback]
Charles Higham (Editor); A. Kijngam (Editor); Ampham Kijngam (Editor)
£100.00ISBN: 9789744176271
Published by : Fine Arts Department of Thailand
Series: The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor
Volume: 5
Ban Non Wat is a large, moated prehistoric settlement in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Northeast Thailand. Excavations in 2002-8 revealed a cultural sequence that began with a group of hunter-gatherers, followed by 10 mortuary phases covering the Ne... .... Learn More