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From Hunter-Gatherers to Early Christians: The Archaeology of Ancient Societies in the Llŷn Peninsula [Paperback]
Julian Maxwell Heath (Author)
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Jutting out some thirty miles into the Irish Sea, from the western edge of Snowdonia, the Llŷn Peninsula, in north-west Wales, is renowned for its stunning beaches and countryside, with much of its landscape designated as an Area of Outstanding Na... .... Learn More -
The Archaeology of Wild Birds in Britain and Ireland [Hardback]
Dale Serjeantson (Author)
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The Archaeology of Wild Birds in Britain and Ireland tells the story of human engagement with birds from the end of the last Ice Age to about AD 1650. It is based on archaeological bird remains integrated with ethnography and the history ... .... Learn More -
Excavations Along Hadrian’s Wall 2019–2021: Structures, Their Uses, and Afterlives [Hardback]
Rob Collins (Author); Jane Harrison (Author)
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The Hadrian’s Wall Community Archaeology Project (WallCAP) conducted a series of fieldwork projects along the Hadrian’s Wall corridor between 2019 and 2021. The work focused on sites that were poorly understood or under particular threat and aimed... .... Learn More -
English Orchards: A Landscape History [Paperback]
Gerry Barnes (Author); Tom Williamson (Author)
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Old orchards have an irresistible appeal. Their ancient trees and obscure fruit varieties seem to provide a direct link with the lost rural world of our ancestors, a time when the pace of life was slower and people had a strong and intimate connec... .... Learn More -
The Norse Sorceress: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World [Hardback]
Leszek Gardeła (Editor); Sophie Bønding (Editor); Peter Pentz (Editor)
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Old Norse literature abounds with descriptions of magic acts that allow ritual specialists of various kinds to manipulate the world around them, see into the future or the distant past, change weather conditions, influence the outcomes of battles,... .... Learn More -
Fabric of the Frontier: Prospection, Use, and Re-Use of Stone from Hadrian’s Wall [Hardback]
Rob Collins (Author); Ian Kille (Author); Kathleen O’Donnell (Author)
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What is Hadrian’s Wall made of, where did this material come from and how has it been reused in other buildings in the communities that emerged in the centuries after the Roman Empire? By studying the fabric of Hadrian’s Wall using a geological ap... .... Learn More -
Knossos, Mycenae, Troy: The Bronze Age in the Aegean and its Shocking Epilogue [Paperback]
Natale Barca (Author)
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This work puts a particular emphasis on the mixing and osmosis of the first Mediterranean civilizations, with particular reference to the Minoan, Cycladic, Mycenaean, and Trojan, and on the causes of their decline, which are to be identified in a ... .... Learn More -
Tracking Cultural and Environmental Change: The Late Epipalaeolithic and Early Neolithic in the Seimarreh Drainage, Central Zagros: Excavations at Mar Gurgalan, Asiab and Ganj Dareh [Hardback]
Tobias Richter (Editor); Hojjat Darabi (Editor); Peder Mortensen (Editor)
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The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in Southwest Asia remains a key area of research for archaeologists. For many years, little intensive research was possible in the ‘eastern wing’ of the Fertile Crescent. This volume present... .... Learn More -
Broken Pots, Mending Lives: The Archaeology of Operation Nightingale [Hardback]
Richard Osgood (Author)
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For those that survive, the traumas of military conflict can be long lasting. It might seem astonishing that archaeology, with its uncovering of the traces of the long-dead, of battlefields, of skeletal remains, could provide solace, and yet there... .... Learn More -
Commemorating Classical Battles: A Landscape Biography Approach to Marathon, Leuktra and Chaironeia [Hardback]
Brandon Braun (Author)
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This is a study of the commemoration of Classical Greek battles, approaching monuments and other mnemonic practices as vital elements in the creation and curation of memories. It analyzes the diachronic development of battlefield, sanctuary, and c... .... Learn More
