Oceania
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The Dystopia in the Desert: The silent culture of Australia’s remotest Aboriginal communities [Paperback]
Tadhgh Purtill(Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9781925333862
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
The Ngaanyatjarra Lands, deep in Western Australia, are home to Australia’s most remote Aboriginal communities. Beset by social problems, the communities and their residents are detached from mainstream Australia by factors of distance and c... .... Learn More -
Australia’s Ancient Aboriginal Past: A Global Perspective [Paperback]
Murray Johnson(Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9781925003710
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
This book places the Aboriginal occupation of Australia within a broad framework of human evolution and habitation. The author discusses the pioneering studies that delve into the mists of antiquity, and he engages with current controversies, incl... .... Learn More -
Aesthetics, Applications, Artistry and Anarchy: Essays in Prehistoric and Contemporary Art: A Festschrift in honour of John Kay Clegg, 11 January 1935 – 11 March 2015 [Paperback]
Jillian Huntley(Editor); George Nash(Editor)
$56.00ISBN: 9781784919986
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
Scholar and artist John Clegg made a pioneering contribution to the study of rock art. He was the first in the Australian academy to teach rock art research as a dedicated subject (Sydney University 1965-2000), supervising the firs... .... Learn More -
Afetna Point, Saipan: Archaeological Investigations of a Latte Period Village and Historic Context in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands [Paperback]
Boyd Dixon(Author); Cherie Walth(Author); Kathy Mowrer(Author); Danny Welch(Author)
$72.00ISBN: 9781789691764
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
When Ferdinand Magellan first anchored off the island of Guam in 1521, the inhabitants of the small Chamorro village at Afetna Point on the southwest coast of Saipan were likely unaware. Archaeological investigations of the traditi... .... Learn More -
Art of the Ancestors: Spatial and temporal patterning in the ceiling rock art of Nawarla Gabarnmang, Arnhem Land, Australia [Paperback]
Robert G. Gunn(Author)
$240.00ISBN: 9781789690705
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
This volume presents a new systematic approach to the archaeological recording and documentation of rock art developed to analyse the spatial and temporal structure of complex rock art panels. Focusing on the ceiling art at Nawarla... .... Learn More -
Roman Warships [Paperback]
Michael Pitassi(Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9781783274147
Published by : Boydell Press
The Roman Imperial Navy was the most powerful maritime force ever to have existed, prior to the European naval development of relatively recent centuries. It was able to deploy huge fleets and dominate the seas around western Europe, north Africa,... .... Learn More -
Burial, Landscape and Identity in Early Medieval Wessex [Hardback]
Kate Mees(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783274178
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
Volume: Volume 35
Burial evidence provides the richest record we possess for the centuries following the retreat of Roman authority. The locations and manner in which communities chose to bury their dead, within the constraints of the environmental and social milie... .... Learn More -
Resonant Histories: Pacific artefacts and the voyages of the HMS Royalist 1890-1893 [Paperback]
Alison Clark(Editor); Eve Haddow(With); Christopher Wright(With)
$85.00ISBN: 9789088906299
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 6
This book explores a complex relational assemblage, a collection of 1481 Pacific artifacts brought together by Captain Edward Henry Meggs Davis, during the three voyages of HMS Royalist between 1890-1893. The collect... .... Learn More -
Resonant Histories: Pacific artefacts and the voyages of the HMS Royalist 1890-1893 [Hardback]
Alison Clark(Editor); Eve Haddow(With); Christopher Wright(With)
$255.00ISBN: 9789088906305
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 6
This book explores a complex relational assemblage, a collection of 1481 Pacific artifacts brought together by Captain Edward Henry Meggs Davis, during the three voyages of HMS Royalist between 1890-1893. The collect... .... Learn More -
Tiki: Marquesan Art and the Krusenstern expedition [Paperback]
Dr. Elena Govor(Editor); Nicholas Thomas(Editor)
$85.00ISBN: 9789088906909
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 5
Created across the six islands of a remote archipelago in eastern Polynesia, the art of the Marquesas is one of the world’s most distinctive and remarkable art traditions. Though exhibited in major museums around the world, M... .... Learn More
