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Grave Goods: Objects and Death in Later Prehistoric Britain [eBook (PDF)]
Anwen Cooper(Author); Duncan Garrow(Author); Catriona Gibson(Author); Melanie Giles(Author); Neil Wilkin(Author)
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ISBN: 9781789257502
Published by : Oxbow Books
Britain is internationally renowned for the high quality and exquisite crafting of its later prehistoric grave goods (c. 4000 BC to AD 43). Many of prehistoric Britain's most impressive artefacts have come from graves. Interred with both inhumatio... .... Learn More -
Cities as Palimpsests?: Responses to Antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean Urbanism [eBook (PDF)]
Elizabeth Key Fowden(Editor); Suna Çağaptay(Editor); Edward Zychowicz-Coghill(Editor); Louise Blanke(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789257700
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Impact of the Ancient City
Volume: 1
The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualize cities with deep, living pasts. This volume seeks to think through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see... .... Learn More -
Dynamic Epigraphy - When poetry comes to its senses: inscribed Roman verse and the human sensorium: New Approaches to Inscriptions [eBook (PDF)]
Eleri H. Cousins(Editor)
$0.00ISBN: 9781789257915
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume, with origins in a panel at the 2018 Celtic Conference in Classics, presents creative new approaches to epigraphic material, in an attempt to 'shake up' how we deal with inscriptions. Broad themes include the embodied experience of epi... .... Learn More -
Rome and the Colonial City: Rethinking the Grid [eBook (PDF)]
Sofia Greaves(Editor); Andrew Wallace-Hadrill(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789257823
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Impact of the Ancient City
Volume: 3
According to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying values of civilization in contrast to barbarism, di... .... Learn More -
Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City [eBook (PDF)]
Javier Martínez Jiménez(Editor); Sam Ottewill-Soulsby(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789258189
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Impact of the Ancient City
Volume: 2
The Greco-Roman world is identified in the modern mind by its cities. This includes both specific places such as Athens and Rome, but also an instantly recognizable style of urbanism wrought in marble and lived in by teeming tunic-clad crowds. Sel... .... Learn More -
Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit [eBook (PDF)]
Philip J. Boyes(Author)
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ISBN: 9781789255867
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: CREWS
Volume: 3
By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an extremely diverse range of writing practices. As well as two main scripts – alphabetic and logographic cuneiform - the site has also produced inscriptions in a wide range of scripts... .... Learn More -
Roman and Medieval Exeter and their Hinterlands: From Isca to Escanceaster: Exeter, A Place in Time Volume I [eBook (PDF)]
Stephen Rippon(Editor); Neil Holbrook(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789256185
Published by : Oxbow Books
This first volume, presenting research carried out through the Exeter: A Place in Time project, provides a synthesis of the development of Exeter within its local, regional, national and international hinterlands. Exeter began life in c. AD... .... Learn More -
Studies in the Roman and Medieval Archaeology of Exeter: Exeter, A Place in Time Volume II [eBook (PDF)]
Stephen Rippon(Editor); Neil Holbrook(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789256222
Published by : Oxbow Books
This second volume presenting the research carried out through the Exeter: A Place in Time project presents a series of specialist contributions that underpin the general overview published in the first volume. Chapter 2 provides summaries ... .... Learn More -
Early Greek Alphabetic Writing: A Linguistic Approach [eBook (PDF)]
Natalia Elvira Astoreca(Author)
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ISBN: 9781789258318
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS)
Volume: 5
Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece has focused on questions ar... .... Learn More -
The Semantics of Word Division in Northwest Semitic Writing Systems: Ugaritic, Phoenician, Hebrew, Moabite and Greek [eBook (PDF)]
Robert S.D. Crellin(Author)
$0.00ISBN: 9781789256802
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS)
Volume: 4
Much focus in writing systems research has been on the correspondences on the level of the grapheme/phoneme. Seeking to complement these, this monograph considers the targets of graphic word-level units in natural language, focusing on ancient Nor... .... Learn More
