Art & Archaeology
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African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present: Techniques, Identification and Distribution [Paperback]
Anne Haour (Author); K. Manning (Author); N. Arazi (Author); O. Gosselain (Author)
£34.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781842179680
Published by : Oxbow Books
African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present considers ethnographic, museological and archaeological approaches to pottery-decorating tools called roulettes, that is to say, short lengths of fibre or wood that are rolled over the surface of a vess... .... Learn More -
The Ancient Red Sea Port of Adulis, Eritrea Report of the Etritro-British Expedition, 2004-5 [Paperback]
D. P. S. Peacock (Author); Evan Peacock (Author); Lucy Blue (Author)
£36.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781842173084
Published by : Oxbow Books
The port of Adulis was one of greatest significance in Antiquity. It is best known for its role in Aksumite trade during the fourth - seventh centuries AD. However it is also a major port of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea , a sailors' hand... .... Learn More -
Les mosquées ibadites du djebel Nafūsa: Architecture, histoire et religions du nort-ouest de la Libye (VIIe-XIIIe siècle) [Paperback]
Virginie Prevost (Author)
£30.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781900971416
Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
Series: Society for Libyan Studies Monograph
Volume: 10
The mosques of the Djebel Nafūsa, little known and under threat, personify the continuity of traditions and faith of the Ibadites, who have retained their grip over the centuries on this rugged landscape, despite their many trials and tribulations... .... Learn More -
Population and Ceramic Traditions: Revisiting the Tana Ware of Coastal Kenya (7th-14th Century A.D.) [Paperback]
Freda Nkirote M'Mbogori (Author)
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ISBN: 9781407313702
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2717
This research is a departure from the traditional archaeological pottery analysis in Kenya, where emphasis has been on decorations and forms. It uses a technological approach to offer additional information on Bantu pottery. Pottery decorations an... .... Learn More -
Building Colonialism [Hardback]
Daniel Rhodes (Author)
Regular Price: £65.00
Special Price: £20.00
ISBN: 9781472512598
Published by : Bloomsbury
Building Colonialism draws together the relationship between archaeology and history in East Africa using techniques of artefact, building, spatial and historical analyses to highlight the existence of, and accordingly the need to conserve, the ur... .... Learn More -
The Archaeology of Fazzan, Vol. 4 [Hardback]
David J. Mattingly (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781900971188
Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
Series: Society for Libyan Studies Monograph
Volume: 9
This is the concluding volume of the Archaeology of Fazzān series, bringing to press the combined results of two Anglo-Libyan projects in southern Libya: the pioneering work of Charles Daniels between 1958 and 1977 and the Fazzān Project directed ... .... Learn More -
Cyrenaica [Paperback]
Philip Kenrick (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9781900971140
Published by : Silphium Press, Society for Libyan Studies
This is the second volume in this series, which was launched to great acclaim in 2009. Cyrenaica (known to the Arabs as the Jabal Akhdar, the Green Mountain) has a terrain which resembles that of Greece or western Turkey. It was s... .... Learn More -
Travellers in Turkish Libya 1551-1911 [Paperback]
John Wright (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9781900971133
Published by : Silphium Press, Society for Libyan Studies
From Tripoli to the ancient ruins of Leptis Magna, from the slave markets to the farthest reaches of the Sahara: here is a mosaic of unknown places, handed down to us by the foreign visitors and travellers who experienced them first hand over four... .... Learn More -
Bringing Carthage Home: the Excavations of Nathan Davis, 1856-1859 [Hardback]
J. Freed (Author)
£50.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781842179925
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: UBC Studies in the Ancient World
Volume: 2
Adorning the north-west staircase in the British Museum is a group of brightly coloured figured mosaic pavements. Most were excavated for the Museum between 1856 and 1859 at Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, by a dilettante called Nathan Davis;... .... Learn More -
Archaeology of Fazzan, Vol 3 [Hardback]
David J. Mattingly (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9781900971102
Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
Series: Society for Libyan Studies Monograph
Volume: 8
The Archaeology of Fazzan is a major series of reports on the archaeology and history of Libya’s south-west desert region.
This volume contains reports and analysis on a series of excavations carried out between 1958 and 1977 b... .... Learn More
