Theory
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From Pirate Base to Roman City: The Excavations of Antiochia ad Cragum in Rough Cilicia: An Interim Report [Hardback]
Michael Hoff (Author); Birol Can (Editor); Rhys Townsend (Editor)
Regular Price: £60.00
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ISBN: 9781789258950
Published by : Oxbow Books
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This volume reports on nearly two decades of excavation at the site of Antiochia ad Cragum in western Rough Cilicia, part of the larger Roman province of Cilicia that corresponds to the eastern half of the south coast of modern Turkey. Antiochia w... .... Learn More -
Cahokia: City of the Cosmos [Paperback]
John E. Kelly (Author); James A. Brown (Author)
Regular Price: £38.00
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ISBN: 9781785708855
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Volume: 6
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The large American Indian city of Cahokia sits amidst a diverse natural landscape within the larger central Mississippi river valley. Well positioned on the rich agricultural soils of the Mississippi river bottomlands of the Amercan Bottom it is a... .... Learn More -
Exploring Writing Systems and Practices in the Bronze Age Aegean [Hardback]
Philippa M. Steele (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789259018
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems
Volume: 7
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Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practised by people who have learnt its principles and acquired the tools and skills for doing it, in a particular context that affects what they do and how... .... Learn More -
Roots of Routes: Mobility and Networks between the Past and the Future [Paperback]
Henny Piezonka (Editor); Lutz Käppel (Editor); Andrea Ricci (Editor)
£30.00ISBN: 9789464261912
Published by : Sidestone Press
People and spaces have always been connected by routes: paths, trails, roads – on land, on water and sometimes even through the air, over hill and dale as well as over wooden planks, pavement and asphalt. Humans and animals followed them. The rout... .... Learn More -
Sentient Archaeologies: Global Perspectives on Places, Objects, and Practice [Hardback]
Courtney Nimura (Editor); Rebecca O’Sullivan (Editor); Richard Bradley (Editor)
£49.50ISBN: 9781789259322
Published by : Oxbow Books
Archaeology in the past century has seen a major shift from theoretical frameworks that treat the remains of past societies as static snapshots of particular moments in time to interpretations that prioritise change and variability. Though establi... .... Learn More -
Textiles in Motion: Dress for Dance in the Ancient World [Hardback]
Audrey Gouy (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9781789257984
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 41
Dress is at the core of dance. It adorns dancers, defines various roles and forms symbolic expressions that, for example, either bind people together or opposes them. It is a communicative tool that gives crucial information for understanding the ... .... Learn More -
Pilgrims in Place, Pilgrims in Motion: Sacred Travel in the Ancient Mediterranean [Hardback]
Anna Collar (Author); Troels Myrup Kristensen (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9788771845433
Published by : Aarhus University Press
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Pilgrims in Place, Pilgrims in Motion: Sacred Travel in the Ancient Mediterranean brings together exciting interdisciplinary scholarship on the connected poles of pilgrimage: the sanctuaries being visited, and the journeys to get there. C... .... Learn More -
Archaeology Without Digging: Connecticut History Uncovered by Ground-Penetrating Radar [Paperback]
Deborah Surabian (Author); Nick Bellantoni (Author); James Doolittle (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781789259261
Published by : Oxbow Books
Over the last 30 years, the Connecticut Office of State Archaeology and the Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Conservation Service have entered into a partnership employing ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to the study of the state’s arch... .... Learn More -
Ancient DNA and the European Neolithic: Relations and Descent [Paperback]
Alasdair Whittle (Editor); Joshua Pollard (Editor); Susan Greaney (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9781789259100
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers
Volume: 19
The current paradigm-changing ancient DNA revolution is offering unparalleled insights into central problems within archaeology relating to the movement of populations and individuals, patterns of descent, relationships and aspects of identity – a... .... Learn More -
Breaking Images: Damage and Mutilation of Ancient Figurines [Hardback]
Gianluca Miniaci (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9781789259148
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Societies (MAtAS)
Volume: 2
Archaeological remains are ‘fragmented by definition’: apart from exceptional cases, the study of the human past takes into account mainly traces, ruins, discards, and debris of past civilisations. It is rare that things have been preserved as the... .... Learn More
