November 2006 Issue
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The Luttrell Psalter ..... how about a facsimile? We're very excited about the new Luttrell Psalter Facsimile that the British Library have produced. A complete and colourful reproduction of the original, and it's on offer until next year... The perfect Christmas present for someone special! | |||||||
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With global warming and climate change in the news practically every day, attention seems to be focussed towards the future, but perhaps we should be looking to the past and what it can tell us about long-term climatic and environmental change, what we can expect to happen, and what we can do to try and stem the pace and direction of change. | |||||||
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Brace yourselves - it's another damaged book sale! We should really be more careful...but if we were, you wouldn't have another bumper crop of bargains to buy! | |||||||
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Gieben Bargains up for grabs... These are some great bargains on the Classical World...but time is of the essence. | |||||||
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Of all the new books that have passed over the desks of the Oxbow staff this month, these, for whatever reason, are the ones that grabbed their attention.
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Parts and Wholes: Fragmentation in Prehistoric Context
This is a highly original work that attempts to take fragmentation studies further towards integrating archaeology, social anthropology and material culture, and concerns the relationship between whole objects and broken ones. The authors construct a new ‘fragmentation premise’ and examine its implications for the Balkans in the Neolithic, using case studies taken from the Balkans and Greece. Key issues covered include a ‘biographical’ method of considering objects and their relation to the creation of personhood; methodological issues of site formation; a questioning of the assumption that excavated data is a more or less accurate reflection of the operation of past social practices; and a discussion of what happened to pieces missing from an assemblage. It concludes by seeking to put Balkan prehistory ‘back together again’ by looking at variations in social practices and the construction of personhood at different socio-spatial levels. |
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Trademarks on Greek Vases: Addenda
More than twenty years on from the publication of Trademarks on Greek Vases, this Addenda brings up to date the evidence from finds, improving on the cataloguing of the original, and adding in newly discovered examples, many sadly having surfaced via the antiquities market. It contains a completely new catalogue of finds, and supplementary text. It is richly illustrated with line drawings of the marks and photographs of some of the vases. |
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Conferences we will be attending TAG 2006: THE THEORETICAL ARCHAEOLOGY GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE |
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