Prehistory
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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This previously unpublished chronicle from the mid-fifteenth century covers the English wars in France from 1415 to 1429.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 -
High Pasture Cave: Ritual, Memory and Identity in the Iron Age of Skye [Hardback]
S.A. Birch(Author); J.T. Mackenzie(Author); G. Cruickshanks(Author)
Regular Price: $75.00
Special Price: $56.25
ISBN: 9781785709500
Published by : Oxbow Books
High Pasture Cave, located on the island of Skye, Scotland, occupies a liminal location on the very edge of a settlement and appears to have been a focus for specific and special activities. Its extended period of use is indicated by ephemeral sig... .... Learn More -
Animating the Dead: Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney [Hardback]
Jane Downes(Editor)
Regular Price: $59.99
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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 -
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 -
Repeopling La Manche: New Perspectives on Neanderthal Lifeways from La Cotte de St Brelade [Hardback]
Rebecca Scott(Editor); Andrew Shaw(Editor)
Regular Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 9781789251524
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Prehistoric Society Research Papers
Volume: 10
The current geography of north-west Europe, from the perspective of long term Pleistocene climate change, is temporary. The seaways that separate southern Britain from northern France comprise a flooded landscape open to occupation by hunter-gathe... .... Learn More -
The Economy of a Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations at Mounds 2 and 2A Bornais, South Uist [Hardback]
Niall Sharples(Author)
Regular Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 9781789255386
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Bornais
Volume: 4
This book explores the economic evidence for the settlement at Bornais on South Uist. It reports in detail on the large assemblages of material found during the excavations at mounds 2 and 2A. There is important evidence for craft activity, such a... .... Learn More -
Ice Age Archaeology: The Record from the Ach and Lone Valleys of Southwest Germany [Paperback]
Nicholas J. Conard(Author); Michael Bolus(Author); Ewa Dutkiewicz(Author); Sibylle Wolf(Author)
$23.00ISBN: 9783935751322
Published by : Kerns Verlag
The Lone and Ach valleys on the Swabian Jura, and the surrounding areas, represent a remarkable archaeological landscape. In this volume, four archaeologists from the University of Tübingen present the current state of research from the cave ... .... Learn More -
The Beginnings of Art and Music: Ice Age Discoveries from the Caves of Southwestern Germany [Hardback]
Nicholas J. Conard(Author); Claus-Joachim Kind(Author)
$56.00ISBN: 9783935751339
Published by : Kerns Verlag
Series: Tübingen Publications in Prehistory
Over 40,000 years ago modern Homo sapiens spread across the European continent. Archaeological finds attributed to these early human beings were produced on the Swabian Jura in Southwest Germany, especially in the caves of the Ach and Lone valleys... .... Learn More -
Weapons and Tools in Rock Art: A world perspective [Hardback]
Ana M. S. Bettencourt(Editor); Manuel Santos-Estévez(Editor); Hugo Aluai Sampaio(Editor)
Regular Price: $80.00
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ISBN: 9781789254907
Published by : Oxbow Books
Weapons and tools are frequently found depicted in rock art in many parts of the globe and different periods and in varying social contexts. This collection of papers by leading rock art specialists examines the subjective and metaphorical value o... .... Learn More -
Forging Identities in the Prehistory of Old Europe: Dividuals, Individuals and Communities, 7000–3000 BC [Paperback]
John Chapman(Author)
$85.00ISBN: 9789088909481
Published by : Sidestone Press
Balkan prehistory conjures up images of the Exotic and the Other in comparison with the better-known prehistory of Western Europe - often written in unfamiliar languages about lesser known places. Combined with the information revolution in archae... .... Learn More
