Prehistory
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The Snettisham Hoard [Paperback]
Jody Joy(Editor); Julia Farley(Editor)
$80.00ISBN: 9780861592258
Published by : British Museum
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 225
For over 60 years, spectacular discoveries have been made on a wooded hillside at Snettisham, overlooking the northwest Norfolk coast, close to Hunstanton. The location of the discoveries, at Ken Hill, is known as the ‘gold field’ beca... .... Learn More -
Animating the Dead: Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney [Hardback]
Jane Downes(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789255584
Published by : Oxbow Books
This book brings together the results of the Orkney Barrows Project, initiated and directed by Jane Downes and funded by Historic Environment Scotland. The barrows sites detailed and discussed in the volume are Linga Fiold, a barrow cemetery in We... .... Learn More -
Horton Kingsmead Quarry Volume 1 [Hardback]
Gareth Chaffey(Author); Alistair Barclay(Author); Ruth Pelling(Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9781874350668
Published by : Wessex Archaeology
Series: Wessex Archaeology Reports
Volume: 32
Excavations at Kingsmead Quarry, Horton, Berkshire, have provided an opportunity to investigate a large multi-period site with occupation dating back over 12,000 years. The immediate landscape was one of braided river channels for much of later pr... .... Learn More -
The Soldiers' Chronicle of the Hundred Years War: College of Arms Manuscript M9 [Hardback]
Anne Curry(Editor); Rémy Ambühl(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783275144
Published by : Boydell Press
This previously unpublished chronicle from the mid-fifteenth century covers the English wars in France from 1415 to 1429. It is highly unusual in that it was written by two soldiers, Peter Basset and Christopher Hanson. William Worcester, secretar... .... Learn More -
Representations: Material and immaterial modes of communication in the Bronze Age Aegean [Paperback]
John Bennet(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789256413
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume presents a series of reflections on modes of communication in the Bronze Age Aegean, drawing on papers presented at two round table workshops of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology on ‘Technologies of Representation&rsquo... .... Learn More -
New Perspectives on Early Neolithic Enclosures [Paperback]
Jonathan Last(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789256314
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Neolithic Studies Group
Volume: 18
This volume originates from the Neolithic Studies Group meeting in November 2019. The main aims of the conference were: first, to showcase and explore the range of current work on causewayed enclosures and related sites across the academic and dev... .... Learn More -
Between and Beyond the Monuments: Prehistoric activity on the downlands south-east of Amesbury. [Hardback]
Andrew Powell(Author); Alistair Barclay(Author)
$43.51ISBN: 9781874350903
Published by : Wessex Archaeology
Series: Wessex Archaeology Monograph
Volume: 36
This book reports on the prehistoric archaeology revealed by investigations of a large area of Chalk downland south-east of Amesbury, Wiltshire. Excavations on the site between 1993 and 2015 revealed Neolithic monumental features, a significant nu... .... Learn More -
Textile Activity and Cultural Identity in Sicily Between the Final Bronze Age and Archaic Period [Paperback]
Gabriella Longhitano(Author)
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ISBN: 9781789255997
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles
Volume: 37
Clothing was an essential part of material culture in ancient societies both as a form of body protection and as house equipment. Besides a practical function, textiles played a crucial role in communicating various aspects of social and personal ... .... Learn More -
The Sacred Body: Materializing the Divine through Human Remains in Antiquity [Hardback]
Nicola Laneri(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789255188
Published by : Oxbow Books
The human body represents the perfect element for relating communities of the living with the divine. This is clearly evident in the mythological stories that recount the creation of humans by deities among ancient and contemporaneous societies ac... .... Learn More -
Interrogating Networks: Investigating Networks of Knowledge in Antiquity [Paperback]
Lin Foxhall(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789256277
Published by : Oxbow Books
Over the past decade network theory and methodologies have become central to exploring and explaining social, economic and political relationships and connections in past societies. However, as van Oyen (2017) has pointed out the use of networks h... .... Learn More
