Asia
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Collecting Kamoro: Objects, Encounters and Representation on the Southwest Coast of Papua [Paperback]
Karen Jacobs (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9789088900884
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: MEDEDELINGEN VAN HET RIJKSMUSEUM VOOR VOLKENKUNDE
Volume: 40
The story of ethnographic collecting is one of cross-cultural encounters. This book focuses on collecting encounters in the Kamoro region of Papua from the earliest collections made in 1828 until 2011. Exploring the links between ... .... Learn More -
Aramaic Documents from Ancient Bactria [Hardback]
Joseph Naveh (Author); Shaul Shaked (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781874780748
Published by : Khalili Collections
Series: Studies in the Khalili Collection
First publication of a group of thirty documents on leather in Imperial Aramaic, dating to the fourth century B.C.E. and reflecting the practice of the Achaemenian administration in Bactria and Sogdiana. Eighteen inscribed wooden sticks, for use a... .... Learn More -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Lithic Production and Early Urbanism in China: A Case Study of the Lithic Production at the Neolithic Taosi Site (ca. 2500-1900 BCE) [Paperback]
Shaodong Zhai (Author)
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Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors: Volume I: Catalogue; Volume II: Studies (Box set) [Hardback]
Susan Cahill (Author); Lothar Von Falkenhausen (Editor); Suzanne Cahill (Editor)
£285.00ISBN: 9780974516882
Published by : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Series: Monumenta Archaeologica
Volume: 25
The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors is a co-publication of the Cotsen Occasional Press and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. Volume I, The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors: Catalogue, incl... .... Learn More -
Multifaceted Studies in South Asian Archaeology. Arpitam. Festschrift for Professor Vidula Jayaswal [Paperback]
S Rama Krishna Pisipaty (Author)
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Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan I: Legal and Economic Documents. Revised edition [Hardback]
Nicholas Sim-Williams (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781874780922
Published by : Khalili Collections
Series: STUD. IN KHAL. COLL.
Volume: 3.1
During the last twenty years, more than 150 documents in Bactrian, the language of pre-Islamic Afghanistan, have come to light. These documents provide unique information on the history of Afghanistan and neighbouring lands in the 4th to 8th ce... .... Learn More