Archaeological Method & Theory
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Somerset's Peatland Archaeology: Managing and Investigating a Fragile Resource [Hardback]
Richard Brunning (Author)
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ISBN: 9781842174883
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The Somerset Levels and Moors are part of a series of coastal floodplains that fringe both sides of the Severn Estuary. These areas have similar Holocene environmental histories and contain a wealth of waterlogged archaeological landscapes and dis... .... Learn More -
Embodied Knowledge: Historical Perspectives on Belief and Technology [Hardback]
Marie Louise Stig Sorensen (Editor); Katharina Rebay-Salisbury (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781842174906
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The body is the main forum for learning about how to do, think and believe and it is a starting point for the granting and forming of many forms of meaning. Fourteen papers explore the relationship between knowledge and the body through a serie... .... Learn More -
Archaeologies of Text: Archaeology, Technology, and Ethics [Paperback]
Matthew T. Rutz (Editor); Morag Kersel (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781782977667
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Series: Joukowsky Institute Publication
Volume: 6
Scholars working in a number of disciplines – archaeologists, classicists, epigraphers, papyrologists, Assyriologists, Egyptologists, Mayanists, philologists, and ancient historians of all stripes – routinely engage with ancient textual sources th... .... Learn More -
Textile Production and Consumption in the Ancient Near East: archaeology, epigraphy, iconography [Hardback]
Marie-Louise Nosch (Editor); Henriette Koefoed (Editor); Eva Andersson Strand (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781842174890
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Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 12
In the past, textile production was a key part of all ancient societies. The Ancient Near East stands out in this respect with the overwhelming amount of documentation both in terms of raw materials, line of production, and the distribution of fin... .... Learn More -
The Strait Gate: Thresholds and Power in Western History [Hardback]
Daniel Jutte (Author)
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ISBN: 9780300211085
Published by : Yale University Press
A prize-winning scholar offers a sweeping exploration of the role doors have played in history Exploring a chapter not yet probed in the cultural history of the West, The Strait Gate demonstrates how doors, gates, and related technologies such as ... .... Learn More -
Ancient Bodies Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology [Paperback]
Rosemary A. Joyce (Author)
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ISBN: 9780500287279
Published by : Thames and Hudson
The ancient Greeks saw men and women as expressing varying degrees of a single sexual potential; many Native American societies considered sexual identity as something that changed and developed during a lifetime, and recognised three or four cate... .... Learn More -
Exploring Writing Systems and Practices in Bronze Age Aegean [Hardback]
Philippa M. Steele (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789259018
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Series: Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems
Volume: 7
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Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practised by people who have learnt its principles and acquired the tools and skills for doing it, in a particular context that affects what they do and how... .... Learn More -
From Pirate Base to Roman City: The Excavations of Antiochia ad Cragum in Rough Cilicia: An Interim Report [Hardback]
Michael Hoff (Author); Birol Can (Editor); Rhys Townsend (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789258950
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This volume reports on nearly two decades of excavation at the site of Antiochia ad Cragum in western Rough Cilicia, part of the larger Roman province of Cilicia that corresponds to the eastern half of the south coast of modern Turkey. Antiochia w... .... Learn More -
The Submerged Site of La Marmotta (Rome, Italy): Decrypting a Neolithic Society [Paperback]
Mario Mineo (Editor); Juan Gibaja (Editor); Niccolò Mazzucco (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789258714
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The shift from a hunting and gathering economy to a productive economy, based on the domestication of plants and animals, is one of the most important changes in human history. This change, which manifested itself in different forms and at differe... .... Learn More -
Mining and Quarrying in Neolithic Europe: A Social Perspective [Paperback]
Anne Teather (Editor); Peter Topping (Editor); Jon Baczkowski (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789251487
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Series: Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers
Volume: 16
The social processes involved in acquiring flint and stone in the Neolithic began to be considered over thirty years ago, promoting a more dynamic view of past extraction processes. Whether by quarrying, mining or surface retrieval, the geographic... .... Learn More
