Humanities & Culture
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Petra Great Temple: Volume III - Brown University Excavations 1993–2008, Architecture and Material Culture [Hardback]
Martha Sharp Joukowsky(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785706127
Published by : Oxbow Books
Deeply nestled in the rift valley, the hundreds of tombs and extensive remains of the Nabataean metropolis that was once that nation’s capital city of Petra, evokes a sense of geographic protection and isolation from the outside world. With ... .... Learn More -
Care in the Past: Archaeological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives [Paperback]
Lindsay Powell(Editor); William Southwell-Wright(Editor); Rebecca Gowland(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785703355
Published by : Oxbow Books
Care-giving is an activity that has been practiced by all human societies. From the earliest societies through to the present, all humans have faced choices regarding how people in positions of dependency are to be treated. As such, care-giving, a... .... Learn More -
Archaeologies of Waste: Encounters with the Unwanted [Paperback]
Daniel Sosna(Editor); Lenka Brunclíková(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785703270
Published by : Oxbow Books
Waste represents a category of ‘things’, which is familiar and ubiquitous but rarely reflected in archaeological and cultural studies. Perception of waste changes over time and practices associated with waste vary. The ambiguity of was... .... Learn More -
Dury and Andrews’ Map of Hertfordshire: Society and landscape in the eighteenth century [Paperback]
Andrew Macnair(Author); Anne Rowe(Author); Tom Williamson(Author)
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ISBN: 9781909686731
Published by : Windgather Press
This book is about the map of an English county – Hertfordshire – which was published in 1766 by two London mapmakers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews.
For well over two centuries, from the time of Elizabeth I to the late 18th century,... .... Learn More -
Treasure: Finding Our Past [Paperback]
Richard Hobbs(Author)
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Heritage Transformed [Paperback]
Ian Baxter(Author)
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ISBN: 9781842174579
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How does "heritage" become objectified within public institutions and representative of a national past? This book proposes a model for this process and contains five case studies that explore variety in the transformation of heritage. T... .... Learn More -
Wörterbuch der mittelalterlichen indischen Alchemie [Paperback]
Oliver Hellwig(Author)
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ISBN: 9789077922620
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: eJIM Supplements
Volume: 2
English summary: English summary: Between 900 and 1500 C.E., the knowlegde of Indian alchemy was codified in a group of Sanskrit texts that deal with the ideas and the methods of this scientific tradition. The dictionary explains about 400 technic... .... Learn More -
Die Kasseler Gärten: Raffinierte Perspektiven [Hardback]
Ehrenfried Kluckert(Author)
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ISBN: 9783777434353
Published by : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
The Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel, the Karlsaue in the Fulda valley and the Wilhelmsthal Park are among the most excellent examples of European park and landscape architecture. This volume traces the history of these parks and presents them in spect... .... Learn More -
Mitigation of construction impact on archaeological remains [Paperback]
M. J. Davis(Author); Kasia Gdaniec(Author); M. Brice(Author); White(Author)
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ISBN: 9781901992472
Published by : MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
This volume will be an invaluable asset to all archaeologists involved in fieldwork and site management. In the modern environment of developer-funded archaeology, commercial development and site preservation, there are more and more cases where a... .... Learn More -
Nostratic: Examining a Linguistic Macrofamily [Paperback]
A. Colin Renfrew(Author); Daniel Nettle(Author)
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ISBN: 9781902937007
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: Papers in Historical Linguistics
This volume of essays examines the claim that a linguistic macrofamily can be identified which includes not only the Indo-European and Afroasiatic language families but also the Kartvelian, Uralic,Altaic and Dravidian families. The Nostratic case ... .... Learn More
