Britain & Ireland
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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 -
Hunter-Gatherer Ireland: Making connections in an island world [Paperback]
Graeme Warren(Author)
Regular Price: $23.00
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ISBN: 9781789256819
Published by : Oxbow Books
This book explores the Irish Mesolithic - the period after the end of the last Ice Age when Ireland was home to hunter-gatherer communities, mostly from about 10,000-6,000 years ago. At this time, Ireland was an island world, with striking similar... .... Learn More -
Fragments of the Bronze Age: The Destruction and Deposition of Metalwork in South-West Britain and its Wider Context [Hardback]
Matthew G. Knight(Author)
Regular Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 9781789256970
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Prehistoric Society Research Papers
Volume: 13
The destruction and deposition of metalwork is a widely recognized phenomenon across Bronze Age Europe. Weapons were decommissioned and thrown into rivers; axes were fragmented and piled in hoards; and ornaments were crushed, contorted and placed ... .... Learn More -
Marking Place: New perspectives on early Neolithic enclosures [Paperback]
Jonathan Last(Editor)
Regular Price: $55.00
Special Price: $41.25
ISBN: 9781789257090
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Neolithic Studies Group
Volume: 14
Latest in the Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers series arising from the NSG conference of November 2019. This collection showcases and explores the wide range of current work on causewayed enclosures and related sites, and assesses what we st... .... 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 -
Grave Goods: Objects and Death in Later Prehistoric Britain [Hardback]
Anwen Cooper(Author); Duncan Garrow(Author); Catriona Gibson(Author); Melanie Giles(Author); Neil Wilkin(Author)
Regular Price: $80.00
Special Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781789257472
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 -
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 -
Animating the Dead: Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney [Hardback]
Jane Downes(Editor)
Regular Price: $59.99
Special Price: $44.99
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 -
Cladh Hallan: Roundhouses and the dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age, Part I: stratigraghy, spatial organisation and chronology [Hardback]
Mike Parker Pearson(Author); Jacqui Mulville(Author); Helen Smith(Author); Peter Marshall(Author)
Regular Price: $49.99
Special Price: $37.49
ISBN: 9781789256932
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides
Volume: 8
This first of two volumes presents the archaeological evidence of a long sequence of settlement and funerary activity from the Beaker period (Early Bronze Age c. 2000 BC) to the Early Iron Age (c. 500 BC) at the unusually long-occupied site of Cla... .... Learn More -
Ireland's First Settlers: Time and the Mesolithic [Paperback]
Peter Woodman(Author)
Regular Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 9781789256888
Published by : Oxbow Books
Ireland's First Settlers tells the story of the archaeology and history of the first continuous phase of Ireland’s human settlement. It combines centuries of search and speculation about human antiquity in Ireland with a review of wha... .... Learn More
