European Prehistory
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A Forged Glamour: Landscape, Identity and Material Culture in the Iron Age [Paperback]
Melanie Giles (Author)
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ISBN: 9781905119462
Published by : Windgather Press
A Forged Glamour, which takes its title from a poem, is an exploration of the lives and deaths of ironworking communities renowned for their spectacular material culture, who lived in modern-day East and North Yorkshire, between the 4th and 1st ce... .... Learn More -
Caves in Context: The Cultural Significance of Caves and Rockshelters in Europe [Hardback]
Knut Andreas Bergsvik (Editor); Robin Skeates (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781842174746
Published by : Oxbow Books
Caves in Context provides the thriving inter-disciplinary field of cave studies with a European-scale survey of current research in cave archaeology. It is unified by a contemporary theoretical emphasis on the cultural significance and diversi... .... Learn More -
Later Prehistoric and Romano-British Burial and Settlement at Hucclecote, Gloucestershire [Paperback]
Alan Thomas (Author)
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ISBN: 9780952319672
Published by : Cotswold Archaeology
Excavation in advance of a link road at Hucclecote in Gloucestershire revealed a series of alluvial deposits and occupation evidence from the Middle Bronze Age through to medieval period. The results of the excavation, radiocarbon dates, finds... .... Learn More -
Bodies of Clay: On Prehistoric Humanised Pottery [Paperback]
Heiner Schwarzberg (Editor); Valeska Becker (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785706967
Published by : Oxbow Books
Since the earliest use of pottery, vessels have been associated with both the general shape and specific parts of the human body. The production of human-shaped pottery might be understood as one element of the spectrum of figural art in prehistor... .... Learn More -
Engaging with the Dead: Exploring Changing Human Beliefs about Death, Mortality and the Human Body [Hardback]
Jennie Bradbury (Editor); Chris Scarre (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785706639
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Volume: 13
Engaging with the Dead adopts a cross-disciplinary, archaeologically focused, approach to explore a variety of themes linked to the interpretation of mortuary traditions, death and the ways of disposing of the dead. Nineteen papers highlight the c... .... Learn More -
An Upland Biography: Landscape and Prehistory on Gardom's Edge, Derbyshire [Paperback]
John Barnatt (Author); Bill Bevan (Author); Mark Edmonds (Author)
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ISBN: 9781911188155
Published by : Windgather Press
Gardom's Edge is an area of gritstone upland situated on the Eastern Moors of the Derbyshire Peak District. Like other parts of the Eastern Moors, Gardom's Edge has long been renowned for the wealth of prehistoric field systems, cairns and other s... .... Learn More -
Life and Death in the Mesolithic of Sweden [Paperback]
Mats Larsson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781785703850
Published by : Oxbow Books
Over the last 20 years a vast number of new and important Swedish Mesolithic sites have been excavated and published in different ways as articles, books and site reports. As yet there has been no study that tries to bring the loose ends together ... .... Learn More -
A Geography of Offerings: Deposits of Valuables in the Landscapes of Ancient Europe [Paperback]
Richard Bradley (Author)
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ISBN: 9781785704772
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Oxbow Insights in Archaeology
Volume: 3
More than quarter of a century ago Richard Bradley published The Passage of Arms. It was conceived as An Archaeological Analysis of Prehistoric Hoards and Votive Deposits, but, as the author concedes, these terms were too narrowly focused for the ... .... Learn More -
The Early Economy and Settlement in Northern Europe: Pioneering, Resource Use, Coping with Change: Volume 3 [Hardback]
Hans Peter Blankholm (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781781795170
Published by : Equinox
Series: Early Settlement of Northern Europe
This volume explores economy and settlement of the early post-glacial pioneers of Northern Europe. The articles present overviews and case studies from the Early and Middle Mesolithic of Northern Scandinavia in their wider northern European settin... .... Learn More -
Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory [Hardback]
Nathan Goodale (Editor); William Andrefsky (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781107026469
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Stone tool analysis relies on a strong background in analytical and methodological techniques. However, lithic technological analysis has not been well integrated with a theoretically informed approach to understanding how humans procured, made, a... .... Learn More
