Asia
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Kentucky Heirloom Seeds: Growing, Eating, Saving [Hardback]
Bill Best (Author); Dobree Adams (Author); A. Gwynn Henderson (Author); Brook Elliott (Other)
£30.00ISBN: 9780813168876
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Saving seeds to plant for next year's crop has been key to survival around the globe for millennia. However, the twentieth century witnessed a grand takeover of seed producers by multinational companies aiming to select varieties ideal for mechani... .... 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)
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ISBN: 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 -
With Alexander in India and Central Asia: Moving east and back to west [Paperback]
Claudia Antonetti (Editor); P. Biagi (Editor)
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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)
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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 -
Fitful Histories and Unruly Publics: Rethinking Temporality and Community in Eurasian Archaeology [Hardback]
Kathryn O. Weber (Editor); Emma Hite (Editor); Lori Khatchadourian (Editor); Adam T. Smith (Editor)
Regular Price: £136.00
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ISBN: 9789004324978
Published by : Brill
Fitful Histories and Unruly Publics re-examines the relationship between Eurasia’s past and its present by interrogating the social construction of time and the archaeological production of culture. Traditionally, archaeological research in Eurasi... .... Learn More -
Tying the Threads of Eurasia: Trans-regional Routes and Material Flows in Transcaucasia, eastern Anatolia and western Central Asia, c.3000-1500BC [Hardback]
Toby C. Wilkinson (Author)
£195.00ISBN: 9789088903878
Published by : Sidestone Press
The famous ‘Silk Roads’ have long evoked a romantic picture of travel through colourful civilizations that connected the western and eastern poles of Eurasia, facilitating the exchange of exotic luxury goods, peoples, pathogens and ideas. But how ... .... Learn More -
The Technology of Large-Scale Zinc Production in Chongqing in Ming and Qing China (British Archaeological Reports International Series) [Paperback]
Wenli Zhou (Author)
Regular Price: £34.00
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ISBN: 9781407315515
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2835
This book presents the analyses, technical interpretation and socio-economic contextualisation of the production remains of zinc distillation from three Ming sites in Fengdu and one Qing site in Shizhu, Chongqing, southwest China. Zinc ore, zinc m... .... Learn More -
Archaeological investigations in the Niah Caves, Sarawak, 1954-2004 [Hardback]
Graeme Barker (Editor); Lucy Farr (Editor)
Regular Price: £65.00
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ISBN: 9781902937601
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Volume: 2
This book is the companion volume to Rainforest Foraging and Farming in Island Southeast Asia: the Archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak. Together they present the results of new fieldwork in the caves and new studies of finds from earli... .... Learn More -
Lamak: Ritual objects in Bali [Hardback]
Francine Brinkgreve (Author)
£195.00ISBN: 9789088903915
Published by : Sidestone Press
A lamak is a long narrow ritual hanging that is an essential requirement at almost all rituals in Bali. It is hung from altars and shrines at temple festivals and on festive holy days. Made usually of palm leaves, it is by nature ephemeral and it ... .... Learn More
