Asia
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At the Decisive Point in the Sinai: Generalship in the Yom Kippur War [Hardback]
Jacob Even (Author); Simcha B. Maoz (Author)
£66.50ISBN: 9780813169552
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Foreign Military Studies
The Yom Kippur War pitted Israel against Syria in the north and Egypt in the south in October 1973. Caught by surprise and surrounded by enemies, Israel relied on the flexibility and creative thinking of its senior field commanders. After Israeli ... .... Learn More -
Early Microlithic Technologies and Behavioural Variability in Southern Africa and South Asia [Paperback]
Laura Lewis (Author)
Regular Price: £51.00
Special Price: £36.00
ISBN: 9781407315522
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2861
Microlith production is a distinctive and significant stone tool technology. However, inter-regional comparative analyses of microlithic industries are rare, and tend to homogenise these industries by focussing analytical attention on retouched to... .... Learn More -
First Islanders: Prehistory and Human Migration in Island Southeast Asia [Hardback]
Peter Bellwood (Author)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £45.00
ISBN: 9781119251545
Published by : Wiley-Blackwell
Incorporating research findings over the last twenty years, First Islanders examines the human prehistory of Island Southeast Asia. This fascinating story is explored from a broad swathe of multidisciplinary perspectives and pays close attention ... .... Learn More -
Water in Kentucky: Natural History, Communities, and Conservation [Hardback]
Brian D. Lee (Editor); Tricia Coakley (Other); Jeffrey W. Stringer (Other); Emma Whitt (Other); Jamey Wiglesworth (Other)
£41.50ISBN: 9780813168685
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Home to sprawling Appalachian forests, rolling prairies, and the longest cave system in the world, Kentucky is among the most ecologically diverse states in the nation. Lakes, rivers, and springs have shaped and nourished life in the Commonwealth ... .... Learn More -
Amaravati: The Art of an Early Buddhist Monument in Context [Paperback]
Akira Shimada (Editor); Michael Willis (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9780861592074
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 207
Buddhism originated in north India and spread to other parts of the subcontinent in the third century BCE. The Andhra region, located along the south-east coast of India, welcomed Buddhism and a stūpa, probably built to house a relic of the Buddha... .... Learn More -
The Emergence of Pottery in West Asia [Hardback]
Akiri Tsuneki (Editor); Olivier Nieuwenhuyse (Editor); Stuart Campbell (Editor)
£70.00ISBN: 9781785705267
Published by : Oxbow Books
Over the past fifty years or so early pottery complexes in the wider region of West Asia have hardly ever been investigated in their own right. Early ceramics have often been unexpected by-products of projects focusing upon much earlier aceramic o... .... Learn More -
Hill of Prosperity: Excavations at Khok Charoen, Thailand: A Burial Site at the Stone-Metal Junction [Paperback]
Helmut Loofs-Wissowa (Author)
Regular Price: £73.00
Special Price: £55.00
ISBN: 9781407315065
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2844
Khok Charoen (Hill of Prosperity) is a neolithic burial ground in Central Thailand, excavated in the 1960s and 70s by the Thai-British Archaeological Expedition, but because of the substantial Australian contribution these excavations can rightly ... .... Learn More -
With Alexander in India and Central Asia: Moving east and back to west [Paperback]
Claudia Antonetti (Editor); P. Biagi (Editor)
Regular Price: £40.00
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9781785705847
Published by : Oxbow Books
Alexander conquered most parts of the Western World, but there is a great deal of controversy over his invasion of India, the least known of his campaigns. In BC 327 Alexander came to India, and tried to cross the Jhelum river for the invasion, bu... .... Learn More -
Archaeology of East Asia: The Rise of Civilisation in China, Korea and Japan [Paperback]
Gina L. Barnes (Author)
Regular Price: £36.00
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9781785706677
Published by : Oxbow Books
Archaeology of East Asia constitutes an introduction to social and political development from the Palaeolithic to 8th-century early historic times. It takes a regional view across China, Korea, Japan and their peripheries that is unbounded by mode... .... Learn More -
South Asian Religions and Visual Forms in Their Archaeological Context [Paperback]
Vincent Lefevre (Editor)
Regular Price: £55.00
Special Price: £38.00
ISBN: 9782503568041
Published by : Brepols
Series: Indicopleustoi
Volume: 12.2
This volume reflects the new directions of research in South Asian archaeology and art. Priority is given to work with primary sources: results of recent fieldwork, including the study of museum collections, results of previous unpublished field w... .... Learn More
