World Archaeology
The archaeology of cultures and civilizations from the Americas, to Asia, Australasia and the Pacific.
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Ancestors, Artefacts, Empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish Museums [Hardback]
Gaye Sculthorpe (Editor); Maria Nugent (Editor); Howard Morphy (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9780714124902
Published by : British Museum Press
Museums across Great Britain and Ireland hold Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (collectively referred to as 'Indigenous') cultural heritage of exceptional value, but which is largely unknown, rarely seen and poorly understood. Gifted, sold, e... .... Learn More -
The Story of Xinjiang Revealed through Old Maps (1759-1912) [Paperback]
Yao Wang (Author); Lewis James Wright (Translator)
£30.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781626430747
Published by : Bridge 21 Publications
Xinjiang, named in 1759 by Emperor Qianlong (乾隆 1711-1799) of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty of China, was ruled by the Qing from the final phase of the Dzungar-Qing Wars when the Dzungar Khanate was conquered, and lasted until the fall of the imperi... .... Learn More -
People of Nanjing: A Cultural Perspective on a Historic Chinese City [Paperback]
Zhaoyan YE (Author); David Charles East (Translator)
£20.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781626430648
Published by : Bridge 21 Publications
Nanjing has a prominent place in Chinese culture and history as having been a capital city for ten times throughout the history. The city of Nanjing is a fine history textbook. If one pores over this city, one will evoke the history of China itsel... .... Learn More -
Objects as Insights: R.H. Codrington's Ethnographic Collections from Melanesia [Paperback]
Nick Stanley (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780861592357
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 235
Robert Codrington (1830-1922) trained to be a priest at Oxford University. He volunteered to work in Nelson, New Zealand, from 1860-4 and was appointed as headmaster of the Melanesian Mission training school on Norfolk Island in 1867. He spent the... .... Learn More -
Safer Gardens: Plant Flammability & Planning For Fire [Paperback]
Lesley Corbett (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781922454607
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
Destructive bushfires are increasing in frequency and intensity around the world. For people living in fire prone areas there are no reliable guides about which plants have low flammability and which are frighteningly flammable. Safer Gardens is t... .... Learn More -
Precious Treasures from the Diamond Throne: Finds from the Site of the Buddha’s Enlightenment [Paperback]
Sam van Schaik (Editor); Daniela De Simone (Editor); Gergely Hidas (Editor); Michael Willis (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861592289
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 228
The Mahābodhi temple at Bodhgayā in eastern India has long been recognised as the place where the Buddha sat in meditation and attained enlightenment. The site, soon identified as the ‘Diamond Throne’ or vajrāsana, became a destination for pilgrim... .... Learn More -
An Engraved Landscape - Volumes 1 and 2: The rock carvings of the Wadi al-Ajal, South West Libya [Paperback]
Tertia Barnett (Author)
£90.00ISBN: 9781900971379
Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
The Sahara contains one of the most extensive and enigmatic collections of rock art in the world. An Engraved Landscape represents the main report on the rock art of the Wadi al-Ajal, south west Libya. Based on extensive fieldwork directe... .... Learn More -
Cuban Studies 50 [Hardback]
Alejandro de la Fuente (Editor)
£50.50ISBN: 9780822946229
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Cuban Studies
Volume: 50
Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in English and Spanish and a large book review section. In publication since 1970, and under Alejandro de la Fuente’s editorial leadership since 2013... .... Learn More -
Images, Philosophy, Communication: Aesthetics and Thought in Japan and the World [Paperback]
Christopher Craig (Editor); Enrico Fongaro (Editor); Raffaele Milani (Editor); James Tink (Editor)
£19.99ISBN: 9788869773303
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Hasekura League Intercultural Studies Editions
Images represent a fusion of creativity, imagination, and symbolism and are crucial to the human quest to discover, invent, and experiment with ever-new visions. Philosophy plays a vital role in interpreting change in an era of rapid and dramatic ... .... Learn More -
The Funerary Domains in the Pyramid Complex of Sahura: An Aspect of the Economy in the Late Third Millenium BCE [Hardback]
Mohamed Ismail Khaled (Author)
£61.00ISBN: 9788073089986
Published by : Czech Institute of Egyptology
Series: Abusir Monographs
Volume: 26
The book presents the reader the richest corpus of Old Kingdom royal funerary domains. The core of the book represents catalogue of funerary domains retrieved during recent archaeological works by Egyptian team at Sahura’s causeway and of related ... .... Learn More
