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Cooking with plants in ancient Europe and beyond: Interdisciplinary approaches to the archaeology of plant foods [Hardback]
Soultana Maria Valamoti (Editor); Anastasia Dimoula (Editor); Maria Ntinou (Editor)
Regular Price: £170.00
Special Price: £165.00
ISBN: 9789464270341
Published by : Sidestone Press
Plants have constituted the basis of human subsistence. This volume focuses on plant food ingredients that were consumed by the members of past societies and on the ways these ingredients were transformed into food. The thirty chapters of this boo... .... Learn More -
Secret Stories on the Silk Road: Symbols, Architectures and Myths between Italy, the Middle East and China [Hardback]
Alessandro Coscia (Author); Sergio Coppola (Author)
£24.99ISBN: 9788869773396
Published by : Mimesis International
This volume offers a fascinating journey into the world of symbols, architecture and myths, both familiar and less well-known. The road it takes is sometimes the caravan trail, others a Roman road from the classical world, and i... .... Learn More -
Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean: Practices and Adaptations [Hardback]
Philippa M. Steele (Editor); Philip J. Boyes (Editor)
£50.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789258509
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems
Volume: 6
Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes – from a tool used by elites to contr... .... Learn More -
The Archaeology of Roman Macedonia: Urban and Rural Environments [Paperback]
Vassilis Evangelidis (Author)
£39.50Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789258011
Published by : Oxbow Books
Macedonia is a region that provides its own intriguing questions due to its position on the fringe of the classical Greek world. It is also an area that is of special interest to students of history and archaeology of Roman period Greece, since it... .... Learn More -
Crossing Continents: Between India and the Aegean from Prehistory to Alexander the Great [Paperback]
Robert Arnott (Author)
£34.99Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789255546
Published by : Oxbow Books
The first contacts between Greece, the Aegean and India are thought to have occurred at the beginning of the sixth century BC. There is now evidence of much earlier indirect connections, starting in the middle of the third millennium BC, but great... .... 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)
Regular Price: £48.00
Special Price: £43.00
ISBN: 9789464270068
Published by : Sidestone Press
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 [Hardback]
Markus Wild (Editor); Beverly A. Thurber (Editor); Stephen Rhodes (Editor); Christian Gates St-Pierre (Editor)
£145.00ISBN: 9789464270075
Published by : Sidestone Press
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 -
Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity: A Global Archaeological Perspective [Paperback]
Hannah V. Mattson (Editor)
£38.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789255959
Published by : Oxbow Books
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 -
Interrogating Networks: Investigating Networks of Knowledge in Antiquity [Paperback]
Lin Foxhall (Editor)
£16.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789256277
Published by : Oxbow Books
Network theory and methodologies have become central to exploring and explaining social, economic and political relationships and connections in past societies. However, in archaeology, the deployment of networks has sometimes been more descriptiv... .... Learn More -
Interdisciplinarity and Archaeology: Scientific Interactions in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Archaeology [Paperback]
Laura Coltofean-Arizancu (Editor); Margarita Díaz-Andreu (Editor)
£29.99Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789254662
Published by : Oxbow Books
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
