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Representations

Addresses the types of written and non-written communication used during the Aegean Bronze Age.

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Towards a Social Bioarchaeology of the Mycenaean Period

Investigates the complex relationship between Mycenaean funerary treatment and wider social dynamics.

Markets and Exchanges in Pre-Modern and Traditional Societies

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Markets and Exchanges in Pre-Modern and Traditional Societies

Examines the role of markets, traders, economic interaction and 'money' in pre-modern societies.

£55.00

Trinacria, 'An Island Outside Time'

Collaborative papers discuss Sicily in the Bronze Age to Roman period.

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The Sacred Body

Investigates regional roles of body parts in mortuary rituals and as relics.

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The Birsay Bay Project Volume 3

A major multi-disciplinary report on Viking and early medieval sites on the Brough of Birsay, Orkney.

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Journal of Roman Pottery Studies

Presents a range of important new research on roman pottery.

£38.00

Growing Up in the Ice Age

Examines the economic, social, and political roles of Paleolithic children.

Textile Activity and Cultural Identity in Sicily Between the Late Bronze Age and Archaic Period

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Textile Activity and Cultural Identity in Sicily Between the Late Bronze Age and Archaic Period

Explores the role, significance and technological development of textile manufacture in 1st millennium BC Sicily.

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The Reredos of All Souls College Oxford

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Revelations of Byzantium

A colourful celebration of the monasteries and painted churches of Northern Moldavia.

£130.00

The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill

A hill dominating the Nemea Valley, Tsoungiza is located only 10 kilometers northwest of the citadel of Mycenae. Excavations there have uncovered the remains of a Late Helladic settlement that stood at its southern end. This volume presents an unprecedented study of a small settlement’s economy and society in the Mycenaean period.

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Bridging Social and Geographical Space through Networks

A collection of theoretically and methodologically grounded case studies on the relationship between human practices and their social and spatial dimensions.

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EAA 174: Provisioning Ipswich

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God on Earth: Emperor Domitian

An interdisciplinary volume on the emperor Domitian which re-evaluates his importance within Roman history and his reception thereafter.

£60.00

Poems without Poets

An examination of a wide array of anonymous Greek and Latin poetry from Homeric hymns to Virgilian pseudepigrapha, inscribed poetry to literary fragments.

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Environmental Humanities

This book addresses the question if the broad interdisciplinary arena of Environmental Humanities is an acceleration of the process of integration that is central in Landscape Archaeology?

£65.00

Peopling the Landscape of Çatalhöyük

Reports on ways that humans engaged in their material and biotic environments at Çatalhöyük.

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The Archaeology of East Oxford

Brings together the work of an award-winning, five-year lottery-funded university/community research project (‘Archeox’) on the landscape and history of East Oxford, part of the City of Oxford (UK).

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Understanding Relations Between Scripts II

Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.

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Nonsuch Palace

Nonsuch in Surrey was Henry VIII's last and most fantastic palace. Begun in 1538, at the start of the 30th year of Henry's reign, the palace was intended as a triumphal celebration of the power and the grandeur of Henry VIII and the Tudor dynasty. The site was chosen for its fine countryside and hunting potential.

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Mesolithic Settlement in the North Sea Basin

The archaeological remains at Howick consist of a Mesolithic hut site and an Early Bronze Age cist cemetery located on a modern cliff edge overlooking a small estuary. This volume is devoted solely to the reporting and interpretation of the Mesolithic remains.

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The City by the Pool

This volume offers a new and up-to-date synthesis of Lincoln's long history as a major city and regional capital, from prehistory to 1945. The 'City by the Pool' was a major religious centre long before the Roman invasion and from bronze-age shamans to early Baptists people have always been attracted here for spiritual as well as mundane purposes.

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Sandwich - The 'Completest Medieval Town in England'

To the casual visitor of today, Sandwich appears as simply a small inland market town on the bank of a modest river. But locals and historians have long known that in the Middle Ages it was a strategic and commercial seaport of great significance, trading with northern Europe and the Mediterranean and growing prosperous on this business.

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A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Pottery from Lincoln

Lincoln was the centre for a large Medieval pottery industry which flourished from the 9th to the 15th century. Pottery produced in Lincoln was traded over a large part of the east midlands and beyond - even as far as Birka in Sweden.

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Medieval Floor Tiles of Northern England

This study of the design, manufacture and use of medieval floor tiles shows the long-lasting influence achieved in the north of England, especially by the Cistercian monasteries. It serves to demonstrate how these monastic houses made use of the resources and contacts available to them.

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Building Memories

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Farmers, Monks and Aristocrats

The environmental archaeological evidence from the site of Flixborough (in particular the animal bone assemblage) provides a series of unique insights into Anglo-Saxon life in England during the 8th to 10th centuries.

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Ireland's First Settlers

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Romano-British Settlement and Cemeteries at Mucking

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Textile Production in Classical Athens

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Segedunum

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St Paul's Cathedral

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The Use and Reuse of Stone Circles

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The Tomb of Pharaoh’s Chancellor Senneferi at Thebes (TT99)

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Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe

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Social Change in Aegean Prehistory

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People with Animals

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