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Disease and the Ancient World: Proceedings of an International Symposium held at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, on 21-23 September 2017 [Hardback]
Robert Arnott (Editor); Rupert Breitwieser (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789255300
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This volume is the proceedings of an international symposium on the subject of Disease in the Ancient World, is based on a collaboration between the Universities of Oxford and Salzburg, aimed at understanding the role of disease and epid... .... Learn More -
Cahokia: City of the Cosmos [Paperback]
John E. Kelly (Author); James A. Brown (Author)
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ISBN: 9781785708855
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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 ... .... Learn More -
Crossing Continents: Between India and the Aegean, from Prehistory to Alexander the Great [Paperback]
Robert Arnott (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789255546
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The first contacts between Greece, the Aegean and India are generally thought to have occurred at the beginning of the sixth century BC. There is now, however, growing evidence of much earlier but indirect connections, reaching back into prehistor... .... Learn More -
Bones at a Crossroads: Integrating Worked Bone Research with Archaeometry and Social Zooarchaeology [Hardback]
Markus Wild (Editor); Beverly A. Thurber (Editor); Stephen Rhodes (Editor); Christian Gates St-Pierre (Editor)
£145.00ISBN: 9789464270075
Published by : Sidestone Press
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Bone tool studies are at a crossroads. A current path is to go beyond the concatenation of methods or concepts borrowed from other disciplines and aim instead at a truly integrated approach that is more in line with the objectives of interdiscipli... .... Learn More -
Bones at a Crossroads: Integrating Worked Bone Research with Archaeometry and Social Zooarchaeology [Paperback]
Markus Wild (Editor); Beverly A. Thurber (Editor); Stephen Rhodes (Editor); Christian Gates St-Pierre (Editor)
£48.00ISBN: 9789464270068
Published by : Sidestone Press
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Bone tool studies are at a crossroads. A current path is to go beyond the concatenation of methods or concepts borrowed from other disciplines and aim instead at a truly integrated approach that is more in line with the objectives of interdiscipli... .... 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 the... .... Learn More
Interrogating Networks: Investigating Networks of Knowledge in Antiquity [Paperback]
Lin Foxhall (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789256277
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Over the past decade network theory and methodologies have become central to exploring and explaining social, economic and political relationships and connections in past societies. However, as van Oyen (2017) has pointed out the use of networks h... .... Learn More
Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity: A Global Archaeological Perspective [Paperback]
Hannah V. Mattson (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789255959
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Objects of adornment have been a subject of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic study for well over a century. Within archaeology, personal ornaments have traditionally been viewed as decorative embellishments associated with status and w... .... Learn More
Interdisciplinarity and Archaeology: Scientific Interactions in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Archaeology [Paperback]
Laura Coltofean-Arizancu (Editor); Margarita Díaz-Andreu (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789254662
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The aim of this book is to explore the interdisciplinary relationships between archaeology and other branches of knowledge in Europe and elsewhere. Interdisciplinary cooperation has been essential in the development of archaeology as we know it to... .... Learn More
Goddesses of Akragas: A Study of Terracotta Votive Figurines from Sicily [Paperback]
Gerrie Van Rooijen (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9789088909009
Published by : Sidestone Press
The terracotta figurines from Akragas (Agrigento) with their chubby faces, splendid furniture, and rich adornments, depict a prosperous life in the late sixth and early fifth century BCE. The extensive jewellery on the figurines contains strikingl... .... Learn More
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