Archaeological Method & Theory
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Art in Early-Modern Law: Evolving Procedures for Heritage Protection in 15th- to 18th-Century Europe [Paperback]
Chiara Mannoni (Author); Amedeo Ceresa Genet (Author)
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ISBN: 9789464261318
Published by : Sidestone Press
In the early modern centuries, several European states issued pioneering regulations to protect what they thought of as “heritage” – that is, antiquities, monuments, and paintings considered important for their country’s splendour. These early pro... .... Learn More -
Sex, Aging, & Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium [Hardback]
M. Teresa Tavormina (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780866983358
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.52 is one of the most important extant witnesses to vernacular medical and scientific writing in late medieval England. This two-volume collection of essays and texts opens with studies of the physical manuscript,... .... Learn More -
Early Animal Domestication and Its Cultural Context [Hardback]
Pamela Crabtree (Editor); Kathleen Ryan (Editor); Douglas V. Campana (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780924171963
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
The transition from hunting and gathering to food production is one of the most significant developments in all of human prehistory, since it led to profound changes in population, settlement patterns, and technology. The authors examine the proce... .... Learn More -
The Invention of the Western Garden: The History of An Idea [Hardback]
Matteo Vercelloni (Author); Virgilio Vercelloni (Author)
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ISBN: 9781849340397
Published by : Waverley Books
The invention of the Western garden has ancient roots. Myth, semantics, terminology and ideas have blended to give us the idea today of what the western garden is. We need to look back to Mesopotamia, Hebrew and Greek for the origins of the idea. ... .... Learn More -
Connectivity Matters!: Social, Environmental and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies [Paperback]
Johannes Müller (Editor)
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ISBN: 9789464270273
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Volume: 2
This book is a presentation of the basic concept of social, environmental and cultural connectivity in past societies, as embodied in a diversity of disciplines in the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS. Thus, rather pragmatically driven ideas of socio-e... .... Learn More -
The Value of a Human Life: Ritual Killing and Human Sacrifice in Antiquity [Paperback]
Karel Innemée (Editor)
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ISBN: 9789464260564
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: PALMA
Volume: 25
Throughout the millennia and all over the world people have been killed by others, not only in wars and as a result of murders, but also in a ritualised way, often called human sacrifice. Much has been written about this, and research and discussi... .... Learn More -
The Value of a Human Life: Ritual Killing and Human Sacrifice in Antiquity [Hardback]
Karel Innemée (Editor)
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ISBN: 9789464260571
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: PALMA
Volume: 25
Throughout the millennia and all over the world people have been killed by others, not only in wars and as a result of murders, but also in a ritualised way, often called human sacrifice. Much has been written about this, and research and discussi... .... Learn More -
Social Dimensions of Food in the Prehistoric Balkans [Hardback]
Maria Ivanova (Editor); Bogdan Athanassov (Editor); Vanya Petrova (Editor); Desislava Takorova (Editor); Philipp W. Stockhammer (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789250800
Published by : Oxbow Books
Ever since the definition of the Neolithic Revolution by Vere Gordon Childe, archaeologists have been aware of the crucial importance of food for the understanding of prehistoric developments. Numerous studies have classified and described cooking... .... Learn More -
Neighbours and Successors of Rome: Traditions of Glass Production and use in Europe and the Middle East in the Later 1st Millennium AD [Hardback]
Daniel Keller (Editor); Jennifer Price (Editor); Caroline Jackson (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781782973973
Published by : Oxbow Books
Presented through 20 case studies covering Europe and the Near East, Neighbours and Successors of Rome investigates development in the production of glass and the mechanisms of the wider glass economy as part of a wider material culture in Europe ... .... Learn More -
The Tundzha Regional Archaeology Project: Surface Survey, Palaeoecology, and Associated Studies in Central and Southeast Bulgaria, 2009-2015 Final Report [Hardback]
Shawn A. Ross (Editor); Adela Sobotkova (Editor); Julia Tzvetkova (Editor); Georgi Nekhrizov (Editor); Simon Connor (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789250541
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume presents the results of diachronic archaeological and palaeoecological research conducted in two study areas: the intermontane Kazanlak Valley along the Upper Tundzha River of central Bulgaria, and the Thracian Plain along the Middle T... .... Learn More
