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Iron Age Echoes: Prehistoric land management and the creation of a funerary landscape - the "twin barrows" at the Echoput in Apeldoorn
edited by David Fontijn, Quentin Bourgeois & Arjen Louwen
Groups of burial mounds may be among the most tangible and visible remains of Europe's prehistoric past. Yet, not much is known on how "barrow landscapes" came into being . This book deals with that topic, by presenting the results of archaeological ...
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £28.00
Blood is Thicker than Water: Amerindian Intra- and Inter-Insular Relationships and Social Organization in the Pre-Colonial Windward Islands
by Alistair Bright
This study represents a contribution to the pre-Colonial archaeology of the Windward Islands in the Caribbean. The research aimed to determine how the Ceramic Age (c. 400 BC - AD 1492) Amerindian inhabitants of the region related to one another and others at various geographic scales, with a view to better understanding social interaction and organisation within the Windward Islands as well the integration of this region within the macro-region. ...
Paperback. Price GB £34.00
Sharing Knowledge and Cultural Heritage: First Nations of the Americas. Studies in Collaboration with Indigenous Peoples from Greenland, North and South America
edited by Laura van Broekhoven, Cunera Buijs and Pieter Hovens
Sharing Knowledge & Cultural Heritage (SK&CH), First Nations of the Americas, testifies to the growing commitment of museum professionals in the twenty-first century to share collections with the descendants of people and communities from whom the collections originated. Thanks to collection histories and the documenting of relations with particular indigenous communities, it is well known that until as recently as the 1970s, museum doors - ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00
The Future of the European Union: Different Aspects of the EU as discussed during the SIB Leiden Conference
edited by C Stolte, T Buruma, R Runhardt, F Smits
On November 29th 2007, the Dutch United Nations Student Association (SIB Leiden) organized a Conference, titled: The Future of the European Union: How to Proceed in an Ever Closer Union? The conference was meant to offer students, young academics and professionals the opportunity to engage in a debate with prominent scholars and politicians on the Future of Europe. This book contains an overview of the various issues that were discussed during ...
Paperback. Price GB £22.00
Candi, Space and Landscape: A Study on the Distribution, Orientation and Spatial Organization of Central Javanese Temple Remains
by V.M.Y. Degroot
Central Javanese temples were not built anywhere and anyhow. On the contrary: their positions within the landscape and their architectural designs were determined by socio-cultural, religious and economic factors. This book explores the correlations between temple distribution, natural surroundings and architectural design to understand how Central Javanese people structured the space around them, and how the religious landscape thus created, ...
Paperback. Price GB £42.00
Rondom de mondingen van Rijn & Maas: Landschap en bewoning tussen de 3e en 9e eeuw in Zuid-Holland, in het bijzonder de Oude Rijnstreek
by Menno Dijkstra
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In de Vroege Middeleeuwen maakte het kustgebied van Zuid-Holland deel uit van West-Friesland. Van menselijke aanwezigheid in deze periode getuigen niet alleen enkele historische bronnen en oude plaatsnamen, maar vooral ...
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £60.00
A view to a kill: investigating Middle Palaeolithic subsistence using an optimal foraging perspective
by G L Dusseldorp
The sophistication of Neanderthal behavioural strategies have been the subject of debate from the moment of their recognition as a separate species of hominin in 1856. This book presents a study on Neanderthal foraging prowess. Novel ethnographic and primatological insights, suggest that increasing dependence on high quality foods, such as meat, caused the brain to evolve to a large size and thus led to highly intelligent hominins. From this ...
Paperback. Price GB £26.00
Of Plants and Snails: A collection of papers presented to Wim Kuijper in gratitude for forty years of teaching and identifying
edited by Corrie Bakels, Kelly Fennema, Welmoed A. Out and Caroline Vermeeren
This richly illustrated book contains 24 scientific articles on plants and molluscs written by 38 colleagues and former students of Wim Kuijper. The majority of these articles deal with one or a few species found on archaeological excavations, from corncockle via Glycymeris shells to forget-me-nots. A member of staff of the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University for 40 years, Wim has supervised students and advised colleagues in the fields ...
Paperback. Price GB £29.00
Living near the dead: The barrow excavations of Rhenen-Elst: Two millennia of burial and habitation on the Utrechtse Heuvelrug
edited by David R. Fontijn
The hills overlooking the north flank of the Rhine valley in the Netherlands are dotted with hundreds of prehistoric burial mounds. Only a few of them were ever investigated by archaeologists and even nowadays the many barrows preserved in the extensive forests of the Utrechtse Heuvelrug are the oldest visible witnesses of a remote but largely unknown prehistoric past. In 2006, a team of archaeologists of the Ancestral Mounds project of Leiden ...
Paperback. Price GB £28.00
The Expression and Perception of Space in Wayana
by Karen Hough
Until recently it was assumed that all cultures perceive and express space from the ego. However, this belief in a universal phenomenological bias is currently being challenged by many linguists from several disciplines, who believe that space can also be perceived intrinsically or absolutely. This ethno-linguistic analysis of the Cariban language, Wayana (still spoken in the dense rainforests of Suriname, French Guiana and Brazil), not only ...
Paperback. Price GB £26.00
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