European Prehistory
European Prehistory from Britain and Ireland to central and eastern Europe and the Atlantic seaboard, from the Palaeolithic, through Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, Neolithic farming and settlement and Bronze and Iron Age societies.
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Death Revisited: The excavation of three Bronze Age barrows and surrounding landscape at Apeldoorn-Wieselseweg [Hardback]
Arjan Louwen (Author); Prof. Dr. David Fontijn (Author)
£135.00ISBN: 9789088905810
Published by : Sidestone Press
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This book presents a group of small and inconspicuous barrows that were recently discovered in the forest of Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. They are part of an extensive barrow landscape of which little was yet known. Fieldwork carried out in and aro... .... Learn More -
A Taste for Green: A global perspective on ancient jade, turquoise and variscite exchange [Hardback]
Carlos Rodríguez-Rellán (Editor); Ben Nelson (Editor); Ramón Fábregas Valcarce (Editor)
Regular Price: £45.00
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ISBN: 9781789252743
Published by : Oxbow Books
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Often along vast expanses, ancient societies traded certain commodities that were considered valuable either for functional or symbolic reasons – or, rather, a mixture of both factors. A Taste for Green addresses latest research into the acquisiti... .... Learn More -
The Arras Culture of Eastern Yorkshire – Celebrating the Iron Age: Proceedings of “Arras 200 – celebrating the Iron Age.” [Paperback]
Peter Halkon (Editor)
Regular Price: £38.00
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ISBN: 9781789252583
Published by : Oxbow Books
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In 1817 a group of East Yorkshire gentry opened barrows in a large Iron Age cemetery on the Yorkshire Wolds at Arras, near Market Weighton, including a remarkable burial accompanied by a chariot with two horses, which became known as the King’s Ba... .... Learn More -
Ceremonial Living in the Third Millennium BC: Excavations at Ringlemere Site M1, Kent, 2002–2006 [Paperback]
Keith Parfitt (Author); Stuart Needham (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861592173
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 217
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The discovery in 2001 of an exquisite Early Bronze Age gold cup at Ringlemere Farm in Kent prompted an extensive survey and excavation of the site from 2002–2006. Excavation revealed a site with a long history of use, the most striking evidence be... .... Learn More -
Figurine Makers of Prehistoric Cyprus: Settlement and Cemeteries at Souskiou [Hardback]
Edgar Peltenburg (Editor); Diane Bolger (Editor); Lindy Crewe (Editor)
£48.00ISBN: 9781789250190
Published by : Oxbow Books
The Chalcolithic period in Cyprus has been known since Porphyrios Dikaios’ excavations at Erimi in the 1930s and through the appearance in the antiquities market of illicitly acquired anthropomorphic cruciform figures, often manufactured from picr... .... Learn More -
Personal Ornaments in Prehistory: An Exploration of Body Augmentation from the Palaeolithic to the Early Bronze Age [Paperback]
Emma L. Baysal (Author)
£38.00ISBN: 9781789252866
Published by : Oxbow Books
Beads, bracelets, necklaces, pendants and many other ornaments are familiar objects that play a fundamental role in personal expression and communication. This book considers how and why the human relationship with ornaments developed and continue... .... Learn More -
How's Life?: Living Conditions in the 2nd and 1st Millennia BCE [Hardback]
Marta Dal Corso (Editor); Wiebke Kirleis (Editor); Jutta Kneisel (Editor); Nicole Taylor (Editor); Magdalena Wieckowska-Lüth (Editor); Marco Zanon (Editor)
£120.00ISBN: 9789088908026
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
Volume: 4
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The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age saw many developments in metalworking, social structure, food production, nutrition, and diet. At the same time, networks in Europe intensified and human impact on the environment changed in character. What influe... .... Learn More -
How's Life?: Living Conditions in the 2nd and 1st Millennia BCE [Paperback]
Marta Dal Corso (Editor); Wiebke Kirleis (Editor); Jutta Kneisel (Editor); Nicole Taylor (Editor); Magdalena Wieckowska-Lüth (Editor); Marco Zanon (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9789088908019
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
Volume: 4
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age saw many developments in metalworking, social structure, food production, nutrition, and diet. At the same time, networks in Europe intensified and human impact on the environment changed in character. What influe... .... Learn More -
Tracing the Indo-Europeans: New evidence from archaeology and historical linguistics [Paperback]
Birgit A. Olsen (Editor); Thomas Olander (Editor); Kristian Kristiansen (Editor)
£25.00ISBN: 9781789252705
Published by : Oxbow Books
Recent developments in aDNA has reshaped our understanding of later European prehistory, and at the same time also opened up for more fruitful collaborations between archaeologists and historical linguists. Two revolutionary genetic studies, publi... .... Learn More -
Bell Beaker Settlement of Europe: The Bell Beaker Phenomenon from a Domestic Perspective [Hardback]
Alex M. Gibson (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9781789251241
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Prehistoric Society Research Papers
Volume: 9
European studies of the Bell Beaker phenomenon have concentrated on burial and artefacts that constitute its the most visible aspects. This volume concentrates on the domestic sphere – assemblage composition, domestic structures (how they differ, ... .... Learn More
