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The Emergence of Pottery in West Asia [Hardback]
Akiri Tsuneki(Editor); Olivier Nieuwenhuyse(Editor); Stuart Campbell(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785705267
Published by : Oxbow Books
Over the past fifty years or so early pottery complexes in the wider region of West Asia have hardly ever been investigated in their own right. Early ceramics have often been unexpected by-products of projects focussing upon much earlier aceramic ... .... Learn More -
Archaeology of East Asia: The Rise of Civilisation in China, Korea and Japan. [Paperback]
Gina L. Barnes(Author)
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ISBN: 9781785706677
Published by : Oxbow Books
Archaeology of East Asia constitutes an introduction to social and political development from the Palaeolithic to 8th-century early historic times. It takes a regional view across China, Korea, Japan and their peripheries that is unbounded by mode... .... Learn More -
The archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak: Volume II [Hardback]
Graeme Barker(Editor); David Gilbertson(Editor); Tim Reynolds(Editor); Lucy Farr(Editor)
$94.00ISBN: 9781902937601
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: Archaeology of the Niah Caves
Volume: Volume II
This book is the companion volume to Rainforest Foraging and Farming in Island Southeast Asia: the Archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak. Together they present the results of new fieldwork in the caves and new studies of finds from earlier excava... .... Learn More -
Amaravati: The Art of an Early Buddhist Monument in Context [Paperback]
Akira Shimada(Editor); Michael Willis(Editor)
$75.00ISBN: 9780861592074
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 207
Buddhism originated in north India and spread to other parts of the subcontinent in the third century BCE. The Andhra region, located along the south-east coast of India, welcomed Buddhism and a stūpa, probably built to house... .... Learn More -
Ming China: Courts and Contacts 1400–1450 [Paperback]
Craig Clunas(Editor); Jessica Harrison-Hall(Editor); Yu-ping Luk(Editor)
$70.00ISBN: 9780861592050
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 205
Awarded the 2017 Specialist Publication Accolade by the International Convention of Asia Scholars
This ground-breaking, beautifully illustrated publication is the outcome of the conference ‘Ming: Courts and Contacts 1400–1450’... .... Learn More -
Krishna in the Garden of Assam: the history and context of a much-travelled textile [Paperback]
T. Richard Blurton(Author)
$14.99ISBN: 9780714124872
Published by : British Museum
This beautiful and rare textile, now in the British Museum, was produced in the late seventeenth century in the wake of the remarkable outflow of Krishna veneration resulting from the ministry of the great eastern Indian saint, Sankaradava (died 1... .... Learn More -
Indian Art close-up [Paperback]
Anna L. Dallapiccola(Author)
$21.99ISBN: 9780714124865
Published by : British Museum
Series: Art close-up
This beautiful book offers a striking and unusual view of a wide array of Indian art. It highlights – close up and in colour – outstanding examples of design, workmanship and craft in dramatic sculptures of metal, stone and wood as wel... .... Learn More -
Heliacal Phenomena: An Astronomical Introduction for Humanists [Paperback]
Salvo De Meis(Editor)
$35.00ISBN: 9788857516349
Published by : Mimesis International
Heliacal Phenomena is a parallel to the author's Eclipses, being another astronomical introduction for Humanists. The aim is that of providing Humanists with a general overview on the importance of heliacal phenomena from the standpoints of histo... .... Learn More -
Tying the Threads of Eurasia: Trans-regional Routes and Material Flows in Transcaucasia, eastern Anatolia and western Central Asia, c.3000-1500BC [Paperback]
Toby C. Wilkinson(Author)
$85.00ISBN: 9789088902444
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Sidestone Press Dissertations
The famous ‘Silk Roads’ have long evoked a romantic picture of travel through colourful civilizations that connected the western and eastern poles of Eurasia, facilitating the exchange of exotic luxury goods, peoples, pathogens and ide... .... Learn More -
Rainforest Foraging and Farming in Island Southeast Asia: the Archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak [Hardback]
G. Barker(Editor)
$124.00ISBN: 9781902937540
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
The cathedral-like Niah Caves of Sarawak (Borneo) have iconic status in the archaeology of Southeast Asia, because the excavations by Tom and Barbara Harrisson in the 1950s and 1960s revealed the longest sequence of human occupati... .... Learn More
