Biological Sciences
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Care or Neglect?: Evidence of Animal Disease in Archaeology [Paperback]
László Bartosiewicz (Editor); Erika Gál (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785708893
Published by : Oxbow Books
Animals have always been integral to culture. Their interaction with humans has intensified since the onset of domestication resulting in higher incidences of animal disease due to human intervention. At the same time, human care has counter-balan... .... Learn More -
Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend [Paperback]
William W. Fitzhugh (Editor); Martin T. Nweeia (Editor)
£33.00ISBN: 9780996748018
Published by : International Polar Institute
Few animals on the planet inspire the sense of wonder evoked by the narwhal. The ‘Arctic unicorn’ is everyone’s version of “awesome” and “cool.” Explorers, aristocrats, artists and scientists celebrate this elusive whale and its extraordinary tus... .... Learn More -
The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion [Hardback]
Alexandra Livarda (Editor); Richard Madgwick (Editor); Santiago Riera Mora (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785708282
Published by : Oxbow Books
The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion is the first volume dedicated to exploring ritual and religious practice in past societies from a variety of ‘environmental’ remains. Building on recent debates surrounding, for instance, performa... .... Learn More -
Barely Surviving or More than Enough?: The environmental archaeology of subsistence, specialisation and surplus food production [Hardback]
Maaike Groot (Editor); Daphne Lentjes (Editor); Jørn Zeiler (Editor)
£135.00ISBN: 9789088904769
Published by : Sidestone Press
How people produced or acquired their food in the past is one of the main questions in archaeology. Everyone needs food to survive, so the ways in which people managed to acquire it forms the very basis of human existence. Farming was key to the r... .... Learn More -
Mortal Wounds: The Human Skeleton as Evidence for Conflict in the Past [Hardback]
Martin Smith (Author)
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ISBN: 9781473823181
Published by : Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Human beings have a violent past. Physical hostilities between people are at least as old as humanity and the roots of such behaviour go very deep. Earlier studies have been based on a range of sources including written documents, as well as archa... .... Learn More -
Children, Death and Burial: Archaeological Discourses [Paperback]
Eileen Murphy (Editor); Mélie Le Roy (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785707124
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Childhood in the Past Monograph
Volume: 5
Children, Death and Burials assembles a panorama of studies with a focus on juvenile burials; the 16 papers have a wide geographic and temporal breadth and represent a range of methodological approaches. All have a similar objective in mi... .... Learn More -
Economic Zooarchaeology: Studies in Hunting, Herding and Early Agriculture [Hardback]
Peter Rowley-Conwy (Editor); Dale Serjeantson (Editor); Paul Halstead (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785704451
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 -
Death as a Process: The Archaeology of the Roman Funeral [Paperback]
J. Pearce (Editor); J. Weekes (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785703232
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Volume: 12
The study of funerary practice has become one of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of Roman archaeology in recent decades. This volume draws on large-scale fieldwork from across Europe, methodological advances and conceptual innovatio... .... Learn More -
Mammoth Cave Curiosities: A Guide to Rockphobia, Dating, Saber-toothed Cats, and Other Subterranean Marvels [Paperback]
Colleen O'Connor Olson (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9780813169255
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Sir Elton John, blind fish, the original Twinkie, President Ronald Reagan's Secret Service detail, and mummies don't usually come up in the same conversation -- unless you're at Mammoth Cave National Park! Home to the earth's longest known cave sy... .... Learn More -
Archaeozoology of the Near East 9 [Hardback]
Marjan Mashkour (Editor); Mark Beech (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781782978442
Published by : Oxbow Books
This two part volume brings together over 60 specialists to present 31 papers on the latest research into archaeozoology of the Near East. The papers are wide-ranging in terms of period and geographical coverage: from Palaeolithic rock shelter ass... .... Learn More
