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Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit [eBook (PDF)]

Philip J. Boyes(Author)

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ISBN: 9781789255867
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: CREWS
Volume: 3
By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an extremely diverse range of writing practices. As well as two main scripts – alphabetic and logographic cuneiform - the site has also produced inscriptions in a wide range of scripts... .... Learn More

Roman and Medieval Exeter and their Hinterlands: From Isca to Escanceaster: Exeter, A Place in Time Volume I [eBook (PDF)]

Stephen Rippon(Editor); Neil Holbrook(Editor)

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ISBN: 9781789256185
Published by : Oxbow Books
This first volume, presenting research carried out through the Exeter: A Place in Time project, provides a synthesis of the development of Exeter within its local, regional, national and international hinterlands. Exeter began life in c. AD... .... Learn More

Studies in the Roman and Medieval Archaeology of Exeter: Exeter, A Place in Time Volume II [eBook (PDF)]

Stephen Rippon(Editor); Neil Holbrook(Editor)

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ISBN: 9781789256222
Published by : Oxbow Books
This second volume presenting the research carried out through the Exeter: A Place in Time project presents a series of specialist contributions that underpin the general overview published in the first volume. Chapter 2 provides summaries ... .... Learn More

The Earliest Europeans: A Year in the Life: Survival Strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic [eBook (PDF)]

Robert Hosfield(Author)

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ISBN: 9781785707643
Published by : Oxbow Books
The Earliest Europeans explores the early origins of man in Europe through the perspective of ‘a year in the life’: how hominins in the Lower Palaeolithic coped with the year-round practical challenges of mid-latitude Europe with its d... .... Learn More

The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent: Excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan [eBook (PDF)]

Roger Matthews(Editor); Wendy Matthews(Editor); Kamal Rasheed Raheem(Editor); Amy Richardson(Editor)

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ISBN: 9781789255294
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Central Zagros Archaeological Project
Volume: 2
The Eastern Fertile Crescent region of western Iran and eastern Iraq hosted major developments in the transition from hunter-forager to farmer-herder lifestyles through the Early Neolithic period, 10,000-7000 BC. Within the scope of the Central Za... .... Learn More

Dariali: The 'Caspian Gates' in the Caucasus from Antiquity to the Age of the Huns and the Middle Ages: The Joint Georgian-British Dariali Gorge Excavations and Surveys of 2013–2016 [eBook (PDF)]

Eberhard Sauer(Author)

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ISBN: 9781789251951
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies, Archaeological Monograph Series
Volume: 6
The Huns, invading through Dariali Gorge on the modern-day border between Russia and Georgia in AD 395 and 515, spread terror across the late antique world. Was this the prelude to the apocalypse? Prophecies foresaw a future Hunnic onslaught, via ... .... Learn More

Farmers, Monks and Aristocrats: The environmental archaeology of Anglo-Saxon Flixborough [eBook (PDF)]

K. M. Dobney(Author); D. Jaques(Author); James Barrett(Author); Cluny Johnstone(Author)

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ISBN: 9781782974864
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Excavations at Flixborough
Volume: 3
The environmental archaeological evidence from the site of Flixborough (in particular the animal bone assemblage) provides a series of unique insights into Anglo-Saxon life in England during the 8th to 10th centuries. The research reveals detailed... .... Learn More

Rural Settlement, Lifestyles and Social Change in the Later First Millennium AD at Flixborough, Lincolnshire: Anglo-Saxon Flixborough in its Wider Context [eBook (PDF)]

Christopher Loveluck(Author)

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ISBN: 9781789254372
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Excavations at Flixborough
Volume: 4
Between 1989 and 1991, excavations in the parish of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, unearthed remains of an Anglo-Saxon settlement associated with one of the largest collections of artefacts and animal bones yet found on such a site. In an unprec... .... Learn More

Sandwich - The 'Completest Medieval Town in England': A Study of the Town and Port from its Origins to 1600 [eBook (PDF)]

Helen Clarke(Author); Sarah Pearson(Author); Mavis E. Mate(Author); Keith Parfitt(Author)

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ISBN: 9781842177310
Published by : Oxbow Books
To the casual visitor of today, Sandwich appears as simply a small inland market town on the bank of a modest river. But locals and historians have long known that in the Middle Ages it was a strategic and commercial seaport of great significance,... .... Learn More

The City by the Pool: Assessing the Archaeology of the City of Lincoln [eBook (PDF)]

D. Stocker(Author); Alan G. Vince(Author)

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ISBN: 9781789254389
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Lincoln Archaeology Studies
Volume: 10
This volume offers a new and up-to-date synthesis of Lincoln's long history as a major city and regional capital, from prehistory to 1945. The 'City by the Pool' was a major religious centre long before the Roman invasion and from bronze-age shama... .... Learn More