Archaeology
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Exploring Writing Systems and Practices in Bronze Age Aegean [Hardback]
Philippa M. Steele(Author)
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ISBN: 9781789259018
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems
Volume: 7
Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practiced by people who have learnt its principles and acquired the tools and skills for doing it, in a particular context that affects what they do and how... .... Learn More -
Animating the Dead: Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney [Hardback]
Jane Downes(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789255584
Published by : Oxbow Books
This book brings together the results of the Orkney Barrows Project, initiated and directed by Jane Downes and funded by Historic Environment Scotland. The barrows sites detailed and discussed in the volume are Linga Fiold, a barrow cemetery in We... .... Learn More -
J3: a ship's boat from the Portus Magnus, Alexandria [Hardback]
Damian Robinson(Editor); Franck Goddio(Editor)
$70.00ISBN: 9781905905478
Published by : Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology
Series: Ships and boats of the Canopic Region in Egypt
Volume: 13
J3, a small boat around 6 meters long, was discovered by the Institut Européen d’Archéologie Sous-Marine (IEASM) in the Eastern Harbor of Alexandria, the ancient Portus Magnus. The boat, dating to the 1-2nd century AD, was disc... .... Learn More -
Breaking Images: Damage and Mutilation of Ancient Figurines [Hardback]
Gianluca Miniaci(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789259148
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Societies
Volume: 2
Fragmented and chipped artifacts have usually been associated with the idea of refuse, discard, abandonment, decay, pillaging or reshuffling, as opposed to objects preserved in their entirety which have been imagined as synonymous with intact, ori... .... Learn More -
Ancient DNA and the European Neolithic: Relations and descent [Paperback]
Alasdair Whittle(Editor); Joshua Pollard(Editor); Susan Greaney(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789259100
Published by : Oxbow Books
A current paradigm-changing aDNA revolution is offering unparalleled insights into central questions within archaeology relating to the movement of populations and individuals; patterns of descent; relationships; and aspects of identity – at... .... Learn More -
The Excavations at Ismant al-Kharab in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt: Volume 1 - Roman Period Cartonnage from the Kellis 1 Cemetery [Hardback]
Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo(Author); Colin A. Hope(Editor); Gillian E. Bowen(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789259049
Published by : Oxbow Books
Excavations by the Dakhleh Oasis Project at Ismant al-Kharab, ancient Kellis in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, revealed the presence of an extensive necropolis dating to the Roman Period, with hundreds of rock-cut tombs containing multiple burials. Ter... .... Learn More -
Art, Image, Power and Place: Contextualising the Stone Sculpture of Anglo-Saxon England [Hardback]
Sarah Semple(Editor); Jane Hawkes(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789258981
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Early medieval stone sculptures survive across Europe: at waysides, in architectural settings and in churches and graveyards, and provide an exceptional source for understanding the aesthetics and beliefs of early medieval communities. England is ... .... Learn More -
Cyprus in the Long Late Antiquity: History and Archaeology Between the 6th and the 8th Centuries [Hardback]
Panayiotis Panayides(Editor); Ine Jacobs(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789258745
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Cyprus was a thriving and densely populated late antique province. Contrary to what used to be thought, the Arab raids of the mid-seventh century did not abruptly bring the island’s prosperity to an end. Recent research instead highlights lo... .... Learn More -
The Submerged Site of La Marmotta (Rome, Italy): Decrypting a Neolithic Society: Woodworking, Basketry, Textiles and Other Crafts [Paperback]
Mario Mineo(Editor); Juan Gibaja(Editor); Niccolò Mazzucco(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789258714
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The shift from a hunting and gathering economy to a productive economy, based on the domestication of plants and animals, is one of the most important changes in human history. This change, which manifested itself in different forms and at differe... .... Learn More -
Prehistory and Protohistory in the Occidental Mediterranean [Hardback]
Eva Alarcón García(Editor); Antoni Ferrer(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789258226
Published by : Oxbow Books
The development of several cultural phenomena dating back to the Copper Age took place in Europe throughout the second and first millennia BC. It can be especially analyzed within the archaeological record of western Mediterranean sites, where sev... .... Learn More
