Archaeology
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Cahokia: City of the Cosmos [Paperback]
John E. Kelly(Author); James A. Brown(Author)
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ISBN: 9781785708855
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Volume: 6
The large American Indian city of Cahokia sits amidst a diverse natural landscape within the larger central Mississippi river valley. Well positioned on the rich agricultural soils of the Mississippi river bottomlands of the Amercan Bottom it is ... .... Learn More -
Conversations between Objects [Paperback]
Linda Hulin(Author)
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ISBN: 9781789250039
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Oxbow Insights in Archaeology
Volume: 5
Linda Hulin considers the relationship between the archaeological record and the human past and examines the differences that arise between the practice of excavating material culture and the models for thinking about it. Two common themes emerge:... .... Learn More -
Chariots, Swords and Spears: Iron Age Burials at the Foot of the East Yorkshire Wolds [Hardback]
Mark Stephens(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789255423
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume brings together recent excavations at two sites in Pocklington, East Yorkshire. The main focus of the Volume will be examining Iron Age burials, which included chariots, sword and spears and will also include earlier Prehistoric and la... .... Learn More -
Exploring Ancient Textiles: Pushing the Boundaries of Established Methodologies [Paperback]
Alistair Dickey(Editor); Margarita Gleba(Editor); Sarah Hitchens(Editor); Gabriella Longhitano(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789257250
Published by : Oxbow Books
Over the past 30 years, research on archaeological textiles has developed into an important field of scientific study. It has greatly benefited from interdisciplinary approaches, which combine the application of advanced technological knowledge to... .... Learn More -
The Marriage Bed of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York: A Masterpiece of Tudor Craftsmanship [Hardback]
Peter N. Lindfield(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789257922
Published by : Oxbow Books
The Henry VII and Elizabeth of York marriage bed, rediscovered in 2010, is an exceptional piece of late medieval English royal furniture: no other equivalent example of secular domestic furniture is known to have survived, and, indeed, precious li... .... Learn More -
The Bronze Age Collective Graves of Qarn al-Harf, Ras al-Khaimah (UAE): Southeast Arabia at the Dawn of the Second Millennium [Hardback]
Derek Kennet(Author); Alyson Caine(Author); Anna Hilton(Author); Lloyd Weeks(Author)
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ISBN: 9781789257953
Published by : Oxbow Books
The end of the 3rd millennium was a time of significant transformation in south-east Arabia (the United Arab Emirates and northern Oman). The cultural homogeneity of the preceding Early Bronze Age, Umm an-Nar period (c. 2700-2000 BC) came to an en... .... Learn More -
The Megalithic Architectures of Europe [Paperback]
Luc Laporte(Editor); Christopher Scarre(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789258097
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Megalithic monuments are among the most striking remains of the Neolithic period of northern and western Europe and are scattered across landscapes from Pomerania to Portugal. Antiquarians and archaeologists early recognized the family resemblance... .... Learn More -
Maritime Archaeology on Dry Land: Special sites along the coasts of Britain and Ireland from the first farmers to the Atlantic Bronze Age [Paperback]
Richard Bradley(Author)
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ISBN: 9781789258196
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This book is about two islands off the coast of Continental Europe, the seas that surrounded them, and the ways in which they were used over a period of three thousand years. Instead of the usual emphasis on finds in the intertidal zone, it focuse... .... Learn More -
Extracting Stone: The Archaeology of Quarry Landscapes [Paperback]
Anne S. Dowd(Author); Mary Beth D. Trubbitt(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785706240
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Volume: 5
This exciting new addition to the the American Landscapes series provides an in-depth account of how flintknappers obtained and used stone based on archaeological, geological, landscape, and anthropological data. Featuring case studies from three... .... Learn More -
Scientific Dating in Archaeology [Paperback]
Seren Griffiths(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789255621
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Studying Scientific Archaeology
Volume: 5
A variety of techniques have been developed to provide scientific chronologies of archaeological sites and material culture. These chronologies under-pin the narratives that are generated for prehistoric and other periods. The application of Bayes... .... Learn More
