Archaeology
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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 -
Textiles in Motion: Dress for Dance in the Ancient World [Hardback]
Audrey Gouy(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789257984
Published by : Oxbow Books
Dress is at the core of dance. It adorns dancers, defines various roles and forms symbolic expressions that, for example, either bind people together or opposes them. It is a communicative tool that gives crucial information for understanding the ... .... Learn More -
Towards Skyscape Archaeology [Paperback]
Fabio Silva(Author)
$26.00ISBN: 9781782979555
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Oxbow Insights in Archaeology
Volume: 7
The study of beliefs and practices concerning the sky in the past and the uses to which people’s understanding of the sky was put has long been of great interest to archaeologists and the wider public, but also controversial. After the dispu... .... Learn More -
The Forth and Clyde Canal: A History [Paperback]
Thomas Dowds(Author)
$14.95ISBN: 9781912476435
Published by : Origin
The Forth and Clyde Canal, completed in 1790, was by far the largest engineering project that had ever been seen in Scotland. It allowed coal and machinery to travel East and grain to travel West. Passengers could travel between Glasgow and Edinbu... .... Learn More -
The Antonine Wall [Paperback]
David Breeze(Author)
$18.95ISBN: 9781912476930
Published by : Origin
As the most advanced frontier construction of its time, and as definitive evidence of the Romans' time in Scotland, the Antonine Wall is an invaluable and fascinating part of this country's varied and violent history. For a generation, from about ... .... Learn More -
The Briggers: The Story of the Men Who Built the Forth Bridge [Paperback]
Elspeth Wills(Author)
$28.95ISBN: 9781839830044
Published by : Origin
The Forth Bridge has long been recognised as one of the finest examples of Victorian engineering on the planet and has achieved an iconic status as one of the great feats of western civilisation since its official opening in 1890. Lavishly illustr... .... Learn More -
The Kyrenia Ship Final Excavation Report. Volume I: History of the Excavation, Amphoras, Pottery and Coins as Evidence for Dating [Hardback]
Susan W. Katsev(Editor); Laina W. Swiny(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785707520
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: The Kyrenia Ship Final Excavation Report
Volume: 1
The Kyrenia ship, a Greek merchantman built around 315 BC and sunk off the north coast of Cyprus 294-291 BC, was excavated between 1967 and 1972 under the direction of Michael Katzev. The importance of this ship lies in the extraordinary state of ... .... Learn More -
The First Stones: Penywyrlod, Gwernvale and the Black Mountains Neolithic Long Cairns of South-East Wales [Paperback]
William Britnell(Editor); Alasdair Whittle(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789257397
Published by : Oxbow Books
This book brings together the results of recent research on the Neolithic long cairns lying in the shadow of the Black Mountains in south-east Wales, focusing upon Penywyrlod and Gwernvale, the two best known tombs within the group, previously exc... .... Learn More -
Journal of Roman Pottery Studies XIX [Paperback]
Steven Willis(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789258257
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Journal of Roman Pottery Studies
Volume: 19
The main focus of this volume is upon pottery production sites. The major contribution comprises 'Excavations of Roman pottery kiln sites in Cantley Parish, South Yorkshire, 1956-1975' by Paul Buckland and the late John Magilton. Other contributio... .... 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
