Modern, Industrial Archaeology

Architettura Militare di Fine Ottocento: La Difesa Costiera e Limpiego Delle Batterie Dello Stretto di Messina [Paperback]

Armando Donato (Author)

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ISBN: 9781407314648
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2784
The permanent system of coastal batteries of the Strait of Messina was erected in the late nineteenth century according to newly discovered plans of the defences of the Kingdom of Italy. Already conceptually obsolete during construction and progre... .... Learn More

Turning Stone to Bread: A Diachronic Study of Millstone Making in Southern Spain [Paperback]

Timothy J. Anderson (Author)

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ISBN: 9780992633653
Published by : The Highfield Press

Millstone quarries are the sites where hard and abrasive stones were extracted to be fashioned into the querns or millstones to grind flour for bread, the staple food of our ancestors. These stones equipped the different grinding mechanisms, ... .... Learn More

Victims of Irelands Great Famine: The Bioarchaeology of Mass Burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse [Hardback]

Jonny Geber (Author)

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ISBN: 9780813061177
Published by : University Press of Florida
With one million dead, and just as many forced to emigrate, the Irish Famine (1845-52) is among the worst health calamities in history. In 2006, archaeologists discovered a mass burial containing the remains of nearly 1,000 Kilkenny Union workhous... .... Learn More

Shipwrecked in Paradise: Cleopatras Barge in Hawaii [Hardback]

Paul F. Johnston (Author)

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ISBN: 9781623492830
Published by : Texas A&M University Press
The first oceangoing yacht ever built in America, Cleopatra's Barge , endured many incarnations over her eight-year life, from Mediterranean pleasure cruiser to a Hawaiian king's personal yacht. The famed ship, at times also a Christian missionary... .... Learn More

La Explotacion Inglesa de las Minas de Cerro Muriano (Cordoba, Espana): Una Historia de Colonialismo Economico de Principios del Siglo XX [Paperback]

Juan Manuel Cano Sanchiz (Author)

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ISBN: 9781407313795
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2724
Cerro Muriano is a small population centre situated 16 km to the north of the city of Córdoba, between the municipalities of Córdoba and Obejo (Andalusia, Spain). This territory is situated over a large field of copper veins, which has been exploi... .... Learn More

Riverside Exchange [Paperback]

Phil Andrews (Author)

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ISBN: 9781874350842
Published by : Wessex Archaeology
Excavations in Sheffield revealed post-medieval remains including unique evidence for early steelmaking. Documentary, map and archaeological evidence have been used to reveal a picture of the development of the Naylor Vickers works, later becoming... .... Learn More

What the Victorians Threw Away [Paperback]

Tom Licence (Author)

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ISBN: 9781782978756
Published by : Oxbow Books
The people who lived in England before the First World War now inhabit a realm of yellow photographs. Theirs is a world fast fading from ours, yet they do not appear overly distant. Many of us can remember them as being much like ... .... Learn More

Steelworks, Crucible Furnaces and Workers' Housing [Paperback]

Andrew Powell (Author)

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ISBN: 9781874350798
Published by : Wessex Archaeology
Archaeological excavations have revealed significant evidence for crucible steelmaking; documentary research has helped elucidate details of this industry that made Sheffield world famous for the production of cutlery and tools in... .... Learn More

Digging the Trenches [Paperback]

Andrew Robertshaw (Author); David Kenyon (Author)

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ISBN: 9781473822887
Published by : Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Modern research methods - archaeological, historical, forensic - have transformed our view of the past. This is especially true of the history of the Great War. In this, the first comprehensive survey of this exciting new field, A... .... Learn More

'Remember Me To All' [Hardback]

Louise Loe (Author); Caroline Barker (Author); Kate Brady (Author); Margaret Cox (Author); Helen Webb (Author)

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ISBN: 9780904220759
Published by : Oxford Archaeology
Volume: 23
During the First World War, 250 soldiers were buried behind enemy lines in unmarked mass graves on the outskirts of the village of Fromelles, Northern France. They were among several thousand Australian and British soldiers who were killed in the ... .... Learn More