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Flintknapping: Making and Understanding Stone Tools [Paperback]
John C. Whittaker (Author)
Regular Price: £22.99
Special Price: £18.99
ISBN: 9780292790834
Published by : University of Texas Press
Series: pa-lith
A fourth reprinting shows that this book is very popular as well as being the most detailed and extensive handbook on flintknapping currently available. Written from the archaeological perspective of interpreting stone tools as well as making ... .... Learn More -
Understanding Relations Between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems [Paperback]
Philippa Steele (Editor)
Regular Price: £36.00
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ISBN: 9781785706448
Published by : Oxbow Books
Understanding Relations Between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems arises from a conference held in Cambridge in 2015. The question of how writing systems are related to each other, and how we can study those relationships, ... .... Learn More -
The Medieval Postern Gate by the Tower of London [Paperback]
David Whipp (Author)
Regular Price: £7.95
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ISBN: 9781901992601
Published by : MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
Series: MoLAS Monograph
Volume: 29
This long-awaited publication elucidates a remarkable monument, now preserved in situ beside the Tower of London. Excavations at Tower Hill in 1979 uncovered substantial reamins of the medieval postern gate at the junction of the City's defens... .... Learn More -
Ancient Egyptian Coffins: Past – Present – Future [Hardback]
Julie Dawson (Editor); Helen Strudwick (Editor)
Regular Price: £70.00
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ISBN: 9781785709180
Published by : Oxbow Books
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This collection of papers by leading international experts on the subject of ancient Egyptian coffins, builds on a project based at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, to study and record in detail its collection. Papers address a series of topics ... .... Learn More -
Making Journeys: Archaeologies of Movement [Paperback]
Catriona Gibson (Editor); Catherine Frieman (Editor); Kerri Cleary (Editor)
Regular Price: £40.00
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ISBN: 9781785709302
Published by : Oxbow Books
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Despite notable explorations of past dynamics, much of the archaeological literature on mobility remains dominated by accounts of earlier prehistoric gatherer-hunters, or the long-distance exchange of materials. Refinements of scientific dating te... .... Learn More -
In a Monastery Library: Preserving Codex Sinaiticus [Paperback]
Scot McKendrick (Author)
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ISBN: 9780712349406
Published by : British Library
A concise exploration of the Codex Sinaiticus, which contains the earliest complete New Testament, detailing its production, its division and dispersal, and its remarkable survival. .... Learn More -
To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology [Hardback]
Marina Belozerskaya (Author)
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ISBN: 9780393065541
Published by : W W Norton
A popular survey of the extraordinary career of Cyriacus of Ancona, a fifteenth century merchant who made the first serious studies of Classical buildings, inscriptions, and sculpture, a pioneer in the field of archaeology. As well as his tireless... .... Learn More -
The University and College Libraries of Cambridge: Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues [Hardback]
Peter D. Clarke (Editor)
Regular Price: £145.00
Special Price: £24.95
ISBN: 9780712347730
Published by : British Library
The medieval university at Cambridge was a centre for the circulation of books. Colleges came to own collections of books for the use of their fellows, and in the late Middle Ages many colleges built library-rooms to house their b... .... Learn More -
Letters of Saint Peter Damian, 1-30 (Fathers of the Church vol.1) [Hardback]
Owen J. Blum (Author)
Regular Price: £34.50
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ISBN: 9780813207025
Published by : Catholic University of America Press
Peter Damian (1007-1072), an eleventh-century monk and man of letters, left a large and significant body of correspondence. Over one hundred and eighty letters have been preserved, principally from Damian's own monastery of Fonte ... .... Learn More -
Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London: Their Lives and their Marks [Hardback]
David M. Mitchell (Author)
Regular Price: £125.00
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ISBN: 9781783272389
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
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Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London is one of the most important works of silver scholarship in recent years. Taking the first surviving makers' mark plate in the archives of the London Assay Office as its starting point, David Mitchell'... .... Learn More
