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Motherhood and Infancies in the Mediterranean in Antiquity

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Motherhood and Infancies in the Mediterranean in Antiquity

This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to explore the social and cultural constructions of motherhood and childhood throughout prehistoric and classic societies in Antiquity.

Social Dimensions of Food in the Prehistoric Balkans

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Social Dimensions of Food in the Prehistoric Balkans

Presents a multi-disciplinary approach to the archaeological exploration of the social dimensions of food production and consumption in the Balkans from the Mesolithic to Early iron Age.

£38.00

Lands of the Shamans

Lands of the Shamans, through carefully selected case studies from Europe, uses the archaeological evidence to construct the shamans’ worldview, landscape and cosmology.

£30.00

Clifton Quarry, Worcestershire

Presents new evidence for Neolithic activity in the form of Grooved ware pits with important environmental data, and for Early–Middle Iron Age floodplain settlement represented unusually by over 100 four-post granaries and 130 pits in a floodplain location in the central Severn Valley.

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Roman Guernsey

Presents reports of major excavations in St Peter Port, with a gazetteer of Roman finds from almost 100 sites in Guernsey and Herm.

£35.00

Cille Pheadair

A ground-breaking multi-disciplinary account of the archaeology of a single Norse farmstead on South Uist in the Outer Hebrides.

£38.00

Buildings of Medieval Europe

Discusses aspects of architectural tradition, archaeology and functionality of vernacular, administrative and religious buildings in medieval Europe

£60.00

Relentlessly Plain

Presents a multi-disciplinary analysis of a crucially important, assemblage of Neolithic pottery , radiocarbon dated to the 7th millennium BC, from the Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria, which demonstrates development from the earliest adoption of ceramics to local production.

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Late Antique and Early Medieval Hispania

Examines the transformations of the urban and rural landscapes of the Iberian Peninsula between the disappearance of the Roman Empire and the arrival of Islamic troops (c. AD 400-711).

£50.00

Crossing the Threshold

Presents a highly illustrated discourse on the symbolism and role of recessed entranceways in religious and other public buildings from the Neolithic to the present time

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Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic Glyphs and Stamp Seals in the British Museum

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Gill Mill

The valley floodplain landscape covered by the Gill Mill quarry, almost 130ha, was intensively exploited from about 300 BC at a variety of Iron Age settlements.

£63.00

The Marble Finds from Kavos and the Archaeology of Ritual

£50.00

Bronze Age Settlement and Land-Use in Thy, Northwest Denmark, vol 1+2

This two volume monograph about the region of Thy in the early Bronze Age provides a high resolution archaeological and ecological model of the organisation of landscape, settlements and households during the period 1500-1100 BC.

£15.00

A Romano-British-Roadside Settlement near Beanacre, Wiltshire

Excavations have revealed part of a large, previously unknown, Romano-British settlement along the road between the Roman towns of Aquae Sulis and Cunetio. The ceramic and metal finds are indicative of a highly Romanized settlement.

£60.00

The Cunetio and Normanby Hoards

This edition provides the two hoards in one volume with a note on more recent work on the radiate coinage of AD 253-96 and notes to aid identification by Sam Moorhead.

£95.00

The Historical Greek Village

This volume presents the Protogeometric through Hellenistic material (ca. 970–175 B.C.) from ASCSA excavations conducted in the 1950s at Lerna in the Argolid, one of the most important prehistoric sites in Greece

£45.00

The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project

This volume represents the product of 25 years of study conducted by the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project in western Messenia in Greece.

Spotlight on Roman Society Monographs

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New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain Volume 3: Life and Death in the Countryside of Roman Britain

Focuses upon the people of rural Roman Britain – how they looked, lived, interacted with the material and spiritual worlds surrounding them, and also how they died, and what their physical remains can tell us.

£36.00

The Rural Economy of Roman Britain: New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain Volume 2

This second volume considers the rural economy of Roman Britain through the lenses of the principal occupations of agriculture and rural industry.

£36.00

A Late Roman Town House and its Environs

This report publishes the 1937–8 excavations in Colliton Park, Dorchester, Dorset, which revealed one of the best preserved late Roman town houses so far discovered in Roman Britain.

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Silchester

Characterising urban life, City in Transition is the second volume reporting on the archaeology of the continuing excavation of Silchester Insula IX, taking the story down to the early 2nd century.

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Life and Labour in Late Roman Silchester

The Society of Antiquaries' excavation of Silchester's Insula IX in 1893-4 left most of the stratigraphy undisturbed. A new programme of work has shown that the Insula underwent radical change, c.

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Fosse Lane, Shepton Mallet 1990

A detailed excavation report on the Shipton Mallet site excavated on the edge of the Mendip Hills in 1990.

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Longthorpe II

This volume describes the pottery-making depot attached to the pre-Flavian vexillation fortress of Longthorpe near Peterborough and and throws light on the problems of supply of the Roman army during the conquest campaigns.

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Medieval Childhood

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Dragons, Serpents, and Slayers in the Classical and Early Christian Worlds

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Seabed Prehistory

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My Roman Britain

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Environment, Society and the Black Death

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Life in the Limes

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Cliffs End Farm Isle of Thanet, Kent

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