World Archaeology
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Along the Yangzi River: Regional Culture of the Bronze Age from Hunan [Paperback]
Chen Jianming (Author); Jay Xu (Author); Fu Juliang (Author)
Regular Price: £25.00
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ISBN: 9780977405466
Published by : China Institute
The middle bank of the Yangzi River is one of the most significant cradles of Chinese civilization and an important locus for the study of Chinese bronze culture. Several important excavations in the past few decades have illuminated some of the l... .... Learn More -
Dawn of the Yellow Earth: Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection [Paperback]
Regina Krahl (Author)
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ISBN: 9780965427036
Published by : Art Media Resources
This catalogue of pre-Han pottery presents a variety of regional ancient cultures and reveals China's early civilizations through 63 fine examples of ceramic artworks from the Neolithic period through the Western Zhou dynasty drawn from the renown... .... Learn More -
Bir El Knissia at Carthage [Hardback]
Susan T. Stevens (Author)
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Published by : John Humphrey
A report on two campaigns of excavations of an early Byzantine basilica and its annexes and associated burials. .... Learn More -
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Daily Life of the Aztecs [Paperback]
Jacques Soustelle (Author)
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ISBN: 9781842125083
Published by : Weidenfeld & Nicholson
A social history of the everyday life of the Aztecs: cities, society, rites of passage, leisure, lifestyle, war. .... Learn More -
The Origins of Ancient Vietnam [Hardback]
Nam C. Kim (Author)
Regular Price: £54.00
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ISBN: 9780199980888
Published by : Oxford University Press
Long believed to be the cradle of Vietnamese civilization, the Red River Delta of Vietnam has been referenced by Vietnamese and Chinese writers for centuries, many recording colorful tales and legends about the region's prehistory. One of the most... .... Learn More -
Inventing Africa: History, Archaeology and Ideas [Paperback]
Robin Derricourt (Author)
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ISBN: 9780745331058
Published by : Pluto Press
Inventing Africa is a critical account of narratives which have selectively interpreted and misinterpreted the continent's deep past. Writers have created alluring images of lost cities, vast prehistoric migrations and golden ages of past civilisa... .... Learn More -
The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention [Hardback]
Alexander Monro (Author)
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ISBN: 9780307271662
Published by : Alfred A Knopf
This is the story of how paper, a simple Chinese invention, has wrapped itself around our world, with history's most momentous ideas etched upon its surface. The emergence of paper in the imperial court of Han China brought about a revolution in t... .... Learn More -
Eyes of the Ancestors: The Arts of Island Southeast Asia at the Dallas Museum of Art [Paperback]
Reimar Schefold (Author); Stephen G. Alpert (Author)
Regular Price: £29.99
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ISBN: 9780804848589
Published by : Tuttle Publishing
Lavish photography and groundbreaking new texts unlock the magic of the island cultures of Indonesia, Malaysia, and East Timor through examples of textiles, sculpture, and metalwork from this prestigious collection. Eyes of the Ancestors takes an ... .... Learn More -
Scientific Research on Historic Asian Ceramics: Proceedings of the Fourth Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art [Hardback]
Blythe McCarthy (Editor)
Regular Price: £65.00
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ISBN: 9781904982463
Published by : Archetype
Asian ceramics in their many forms and functions - utilitarian, aesthetics, and religious - are the subject of this volume. Through analysis of their composition, technology, typology, and use, researchers from all over the world who met for a con... .... Learn More
