Theory
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Materiality and Social Practice: Transformative Capacities of Intercultural Encounters [Paperback]
Joseph Maran (Editor); Philipp W. Stockhammer (Editor)
£28.00ISBN: 9781782975410
Published by : Oxbow Books
Materiality and Social Practice investigates the transformative potential arising from the interplay between material forms, social practices and intercultural relations. Such a focus necessitates an approach that takes a transcul... .... Learn More -
Past Bodies: Body-Centered Research in Archaeology [Paperback]
Dusan Boric (Author); John Robb (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781782975427
Published by : Oxbow Books
Archaeology often struggles in envisioning real people behind the world of material objects it studies. Even when dealing with skeletal remains archaeologists routinely reduce them to long lists of figures and attributes. Such a fragmentation o... .... Learn More -
Counting People: A DIY Manual for Local and Family Historians [Paperback]
John Moore (Author)
Regular Price: £17.95
Special Price: £13.50
ISBN: 9781842174807
Published by : Oxbow Books
Local and family historians are often afraid to use numerical data (Statistics) in their research and writing. Yet numbers are an essential part of much historical work, obviously in population history but also in local studies of... .... Learn More -
Experimental Archaeology and Theory: Recent Approaches to Archaeological Hypotheses [Paperback]
Frederick W. F. Foulds (Editor)
Regular Price: £35.00
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ISBN: 9781842177662
Published by : Oxbow Books
Experimental Archaeology is a volume which aims to bridge the gap in archaeology between empirical testing and humanistic approaches to understanding the material record. The contributors explore a wide variety of different fields... .... Learn More -
The Archaeology of Household [Hardback]
Gabriella Kovacs (Editor); Marco Madella (Editor); Ivan Briz i. Godino (Editor); B. Kulcsarne-Berzsenyi (Editor)
Regular Price: £49.95
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ISBN: 9781842175170
Published by : Oxbow Books
From the simplest hunter-gatherer society to the most powerful Empire, all societies are built on basic daily life, developed day to day with its specific material conditions. Household archaeology looks at the detail of the livin... .... Learn More -
Re-Presenting the Past: Archaeology through Text and Image [Paperback]
Sheila Bonde (Editor); Stephen Houston (Editor)
Regular Price: £25.00
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ISBN: 9781782972310
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Joukowsky Institute Publications
Volume: 2
The archaeological past exists for us through intermediaries. Some are written works, descriptions, narratives and field notes, while others are visual: the drawings, paintings, photographs, powerpoints or computer visualizations ... .... Learn More -
Socio-Economic Aspects of Late Roman Mosaic Pavements in Phoenicia and Northern Palestine [Paperback]
Mark Merrony (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9781407311487
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2530
Mosaic pavements are typically analysed by their representational decoration to ascertain the meaning of individual scenes and how these relate to allegory, mythology, or symbolism. The approach in this work differs in that it vie... .... Learn More -
CAA 2010 : Fusion of Cultures. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Granada, Spain, April 2010 [Paperback]
F. Contreras (Editor); M. Farjas (Editor); F.J. Melero (Editor)
£47.00ISBN: 9781407311081
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2494
This volume contains the proceedings of the 38th Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) Conference, held April 6th-9th 2010, in Granada, Spain. The theme of the conference was ‘Fusion of Cultures... .... Learn More -
Geophysical Data in Archaeology: A Guide to Good Practice [Paperback]
Armin Schmidt (Author)
Regular Price: £15.00
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ISBN: 9781782971443
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Arts and Humanities Data Service Guides to Good Practice
Volume: 2001
Anyone who has tried to archive archaeological geophysics data will have wondered what might be the most comprehensive and practical approach. This question is addressed by this Guide’s extensively revised 2nd edition, which... .... Learn More -
Mobility, Meaning and Transformations of Things: shifting contexts of material culture through time and space [Paperback]
Hans Peter Hahn (Editor); Hadas Weis (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9781842175255
Published by : Oxbow Books
Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts. There are infinite ways for things to be mobile, not only in the era of globalisation but since the beginning of time, ... .... Learn More