Prehistory
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Exploring Celtic Origins: New Ways Forward in Archaeology, Linguistics, and Genetics [Paperback]
Barry Cunliffe (Editor); John Koch (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789255508
Published by : Oxbow Books
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Exploring Celtic Origins is the fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics, and archaeogenetics over the past ten years. This team works towards the goal of a better understanding of the background in the Bro... .... Learn More -
The Competition of Fibres: Early Textile Production in Western Asia, Southeast and Central Europe (10,000–500 BC) [Paperback]
Wolfram Schier (Editor); Susan Pollock (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789254297
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 36
The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful ancient textiles series are the relationships between fiber resources and availability on the one hand and the ways those resources were exploited to produce textiles... .... Learn More -
Farmers at the Frontier: A Pan European Perspective on Neolithisation [Hardback]
Kurt J Gron (Editor); Lasse Sorensen (Editor); Peter Rowley-Conwy (Editor)
£45.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789251401
Published by : Oxbow Books
All farming in prehistoric Europe ultimately came from elsewhere in one way or another, unlike the growing numbers of primary centers of domestication and agricultural origins worldwide. This fact affects every aspect of our understanding of the s... .... Learn More -
A Taste for Green: A global perspective on ancient jade, turquoise and variscite exchange [Hardback]
Carlos Rodríguez-Rellán (Editor); Ben A. Nelson (Editor); Ramón Fábregas Valcarce (Editor)
£45.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789252743
Published by : Oxbow Books
Often along vast expanses, ancient societies traded certain commodities that were considered valuable either for functional or symbolic reasons – or, rather, a mixture of both factors. A Taste for Green addresses latest research into the acquisiti... .... Learn More -
Art in the Eurasian Iron Age: Context, Connections and Scale [Hardback]
Courtney Nimura (Editor); Helen Chittock (Editor); Peter Hommel (Editor); Chris Gosden (Editor)
£48.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789253948
Published by : Oxbow Books
Since early discoveries of so-called Celtic Art during the 19th century, archaeologists have mused on the origins of this major art tradition, which emerged in Europe around 500 BC. Classical influence has often been cited as the main impetus for ... .... Learn More -
Beyond the Cyclades: Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context from Mainland Greece, the North and East Aegean [Hardback]
Marisa Marthari (Editor); Colin Renfrew (Editor); Michael J. Boyd (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789250602
Published by : Oxbow Books
This second volume on Early Cycladic (and Cycladicising) sculptures found in the Aegean, examines finds from mainland Greece, along with the rarer items from the north and east Aegean, with the exception of those discovered in the Cyclades (covere... .... Learn More -
Collapse or Survival: Micro-dynamics of crisis and endurance in the ancient central Mediterranean [Hardback]
Elisa Perego (Editor); Rafael Scopacasa (Editor); Silvia Amicone (Editor)
£45.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789251005
Published by : Oxbow Books
In the present-day world order, political disintegration, the faltering of economic systems, the controversial and yet dramatic consequences of global warming and pollution, and the spread of poverty and social disruption in Western countries have... .... Learn More -
Personal Ornaments in Prehistory: An Exploration of Body Augmentation from the Palaeolithic to the Early Bronze Age [Paperback]
Emma L. Baysal (Author)
£38.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789252866
Published by : Oxbow Books
Beads, bracelets, necklaces, pendants and many other ornaments are familiar objects that play a fundamental role in personal expression and communication. This book considers how and why the human relationship with ornaments developed and continue... .... Learn More -
Economic Zooarchaeology: Studies in Hunting, Herding and Early Agriculture [Paperback]
Peter Rowley-Conwy (Editor); Dale Serjeantson (Editor); Paul Halstead (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789253405
Published by : Oxbow Books
Economic archaeology is the study of how past peoples exploited animals and plants, using as evidence the remains of those animals and plants. The animal side is usually termed zooarchaeology, the plant side archaeobotany. What distinguishes them ... .... Learn More -
Pantalica in the Sicilian Late Bronze and Iron Ages: Excavations of the Rock-cut Chamber Tombs by Paolo Orsi from 1895 to 1910 [Paperback]
Robert Leighton (Editor); Rosa Maria Albanese Procelli (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789253023
Published by : Oxbow Books
Pantalica is a large limestone promontory in southeast Sicily known chiefly for a series of extensive cemeteries comprising thousands of chamber tombs cut out of the rock, dating mainly between the 13th and 7th centuries BCE. A UNESCO World Herita... .... Learn More
