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 -
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 -
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
Special Price: $37.49
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
Special Price: $37.49
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 -
Archaeology of Caves in Ireland [Paperback]
Marion Dowd(Author)
Regular Price: $49.99
Special Price: $37.49
ISBN: 9781789255706
Published by : Oxbow Books
The Archaeology of Caves in Ireland is a ground-breaking and unique study of the enigmatic, unseen and dark silent world of caves. People have engaged with caves for the duration of human occupation of the island, spanning 10,000 years. In ... .... Learn More -
Landscapes Revealed: Geophysical Survey in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Area 2002–2011 [Hardback]
Amanda Brend(Editor); Nick Card(Editor); Jane Downes(Editor); Mark Edmonds(Editor); James Moore(Editor)
Regular Price: $49.99
Special Price: $37.49
ISBN: 9781789255065
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume brings together several years of work devoted to the wider landscape of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. It documents the results of a programme of geophysical and related survey across an area of c. 285 hectares betw... .... Learn More -
Burials and Society in Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Ireland [Paperback]
Cormac McSparron(Author)
$49.00ISBN: 9781789696318
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
Series: Queen's University Belfast Irish Archaeological Monograph
Volume: 1
The Single Burial Tradition is the name given to a set of burial practices found in Ireland from the later Chalcolithic Period through the Early Bronze Age. The tradition commenced in the decades after 2200 BC and continued until about 1600 BC. Du... .... 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 -
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
