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Book SynopsisCollective Winner of the 2019 Highland Book Prize Under the ravishing light of an Alaskan sky, objects are spilling from the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village to its hunter-gatherer past. In the shifting sand dunes of a Scottish shoreline, impressively preserved hearths and homes of Neolithic farmers are uncovered. In a grandmother's disordered mind, memories surface of a long-ago mining accident and a 'mither who was kind'. For this luminous new essay collection, acclaimed author Kathleen Jamie visits archaeological sites and mines her own memories - of her grandparents, of youthful travels - to explore what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. As always she looks to the natural world for her markers and guides. Most movingly, she considers, as her father dies, and her children leave home, the surfacing of an older, less tethered sense of herself. Surfacing offers a profound sense of time passing and an antidote to all that is instant, ephemeral, unrooted.Trade ReviewNature in Jamie's writing is immediate, domestic and, well, natural... a book whose impact is accretive and, eventually, astonishing. -- Alex Preston * Observer *Notes detailing chance encounters, fleeting relationships and a shared pull towards a specific world, (are) deepened with autobiographical anecdote, then shaken up with a vivid and urgent present-tense noticing that electrifies her connections and surroundings. It is as if Jamie, wherever she goes, functions as a lightning rod, drawing past, present and future together * New Statesman *Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie really stood out -- Sinéad Gleeson * Irish Times, Books of the Year 2019 *"A beautifully produced essay collection that spirals back through interests and themes traced over the past 40 years of Jamie's career, as well as forwards into an unknown future... To read a Jamie essay is to be given a fresh lens through which to view the world -- Amanda Bell * Irish Times *
£8.99
HarperCollins Publishers Secret Gardens: of the National Trust
Book SynopsisA whimsical and beautiful book celebrating these hidden gems of the National Trust – from specially made secret gardens to overlooked corners of famous gardens and re-discovered lost gardens. Stunning photography is accompanied by a wealth of fascinating historical and botanical details. A whimsical and beautiful book celebrating these hidden gems of the National Trust – from specially made secret gardens to overlooked corners of famous gardens and re-discovered lost gardens. Stunning photographs of the Trust’s idiosyncratic gardens are accompanied by a light text meditating on the magic of the secret garden, and bringing in fascinating historical and botanical details. The book will include secret mazes, hidden corners, walled gardens, lost gardens, gardens that are only open one day a year, follies, orchards, dens, memorials, strange statues, stumperies, huts, ice houses, wendy houses, fairy gates and pixie houses. The gardens featured include the palm-filled Overbeck’s in Devon, Peckover House in Cambridgeshire, which bursts with exotic specimens found on Victorian plant-hunting expeditions, and Monk’s House in East Sussex, where the garden proved a refuge for Virginia Woolf.
£14.24
Birlinn General The Antonine Wall
Book SynopsisAs the most advanced frontier construction of its time, and as definitive evidence of the Romans' time in Scotland, the Antonine Wall is an invaluable and fascinating part of this country's varied and violent history. For a generation, from about AD 140 to 160, the Antonine Wall was the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire. Constructed by the Roman army, it ran from modern Bo'ness on the Forth to Old Kilpatrick on the Clyde and consisted of a turf rampart fronted by a wide and deep ditch. At regular intervals were forts connected by a road, while outside the fort gates clustered civil settlements. Antoninus Pius, whom the wall was named after, reigned longer than any other emperor with the exception of its founder Augustus. Yet relatively little is known about him. In this meticulously researched book, David Breeze examines this enigmatic life and the reasons for the construction and abandonment of his Wall.Trade Review'This is a distinguished book on all levels, eminently readable for a lay public but essential too for scholars' -- Colin Martin * History Scotland *
£13.49
Kapon Editions Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece (English
Book Synopsis2nd edition (2017) revised and enlarged, updated to include new historical and archaeological research and new photographic material from the many sites and monuments where excavation and restoration works have provided fresh insights. This book celebrates the athletes, the games, the sanctuaries, the cities and, above all, the inspiring spirit of the ancient Greeks over a span of a millennium and a half—from the earliest mentions of athletics in Homer’s Iliad and other literary sources, through the Classical age, and into the Hellenistic, Roman and late antique periods. Modelled on the physical exercises and competitions that existed in earlier Near Eastern cultures, hundreds of athletic games took place in Greek antiquity, extending across every area of the Mediterranean in which Greek culture flourished. In these five games the magnificent culture and ideology of Greek antiquity flourished, and the spectacle of the games gave rise to a sporting tradition that engages the world to this day.Table of ContentsForeword Sir John Boardman Acknowledgments Publisher’s Note Preface Introduction Athletics and Religion The Prehistory of Athletics Great Festivals and Games Οlympia The Site Olympia And the Olympic Games Zeus Οlympia Over the Centuries 3rd And 2nd Millennia BC Prehistoric Elis And Olympia 11th–8th C. BC The Establishment of the Sanctuary and the Early Period 8th C. BC The Foundation of The Olympic Games 7th–6th C. BC The Period of Great Development 5th C. BC The Glory of the Classical Period 4th C. BC The Late Classical Period 3rd–2nd C. BC The Hellenistic Period 1st C. BC–2nd C. AD The Roman Intervention 3rd–4th C. AD Olympia in Late Antiquity Delphi The Site Foundation Myths and Legends Apollo Delphi Over The Centuries 16th–11th C. BC The Prehistoric Settlement 10th–8th C. BC The Arrival of Apollo 7th–6th C. BC The Great Development of the Sanctuary and the Amphictyony 6th C. BC The Archaic Period 5th–4th C. BC Classical Period 3rd–2nd C. BC The Hellenistic Period 1st C. BC–4th C. AD Roman Times Ιsthmia The Site Foundation Myths and Legends Poseidon Isthmia Over The Centuries 11th–6th C. BC Early History of The Sanctuary 5th–4th C. BC The Classical Period 3rd–2nd C. BC The Hellenistic Period 1st C. BC–3rd C. Ad Roman Times Νemea The Site Foundation Myths and Legends Nemea Over The Centuries 6th C. BC The Early History of the Sanctuary 5h C. BC The Classical Period 340/30–270/60 BC The Return of the Games to their Cradle Panathenaia Foundation Myths and Traditions Athena The Organisation and Conduct of the Festival The Panathenaic Procession Other Greek and Roman Games Local Games in Greece Games in the Hellenistic East The Games and the Roman Emperors Games in the East in Roman Times The Olympic Games of Antioch The End of the Ancient Games The Events, Rules and Great Champions Bibliography Illustration Credits Index
£48.60
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Ptolemais City of the Libyan Pentapolis 90
Book SynopsisPresents detailed excavation reports on a villa of the early Roman period, a public building on the Street of the Monuments and the City Bath of the Byzantine period and also attempts a survey of Ptolemais of the Libyan Pentapolisas a whole.
£34.00
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Excavations in the Plain of Antioch. Volume II
Book SynopsisThe second volume of The Excavations in the Plain of Antioch describes a series of excavations in the Syro-Palestinian region. The three sites included in the report are Çatal Hueyuek, Tell al-Judaidah and Tell Tayinat, all situated in the central part of the Amuq valley around the city of Rihaniyyah.
£39.47
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Inscriptions from Tell Abu Salabikh 99 Oriental
Book SynopsisIncludes all the cuneiform tablets excavated at Tell Abu Salabikh in 1963 and 1965 with the exception of a very few illegible fragments. All other tablets are represented by a copy, by a photograph, or by both. Except for the copies of especially fragile tablets made in the field, preliminary copies were prepared from casts and photographs.
£54.43
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Sumerological Studies in Honor of Thorkild
Book SynopsisA collection of synthetic articles covering the field of Sumerology, including: Nissen on the geography of Sumer, Tom B Jones on the administrative archives, Edzard on the Sumerian oath, Diakonoff on writing, Civil on lexicography, and Sjöberg, Hallo, and Wilcke on different aspects of the Sumerian literary corpus.
£13.00
The History Press Ltd Cosmetics and Perfumes in the Roman World
Book SynopsisPresents a survey of the perception and reality of the use of cosmetics and perfumes under the Roman Empire. This work, a companion to Roman Clothing and Fashion draws on literary, non-literary, visual and archaeological evidence to show, among other things, the importance of cosmetics and perfumes for health.
£21.92
Egypt Exploration Society Tutankhamuns Regent
Book SynopsisA revised and slightly expanded edition of the 1989 volume, The Memphite Tomb of Horemheb, Commander-in-Chief of Tutankhamun (vol. I. The Reliefs, Inscriptions, and Commentary), with changes made to reflect finds and publications of the intervening years. It includes a small new chapter on the tympanum and jambs Louvre C68-70 [N221], on Louvre pieces bearing the names and titles of Horemheb as a state official, before he ascended the throne.
£71.25
American School of Classical Studies at Athens Birds of the Athenian Agora 22 Agora Picture Book
Book SynopsisAs well as the Little Owl or glaux, so often seen accompanying the goddess Athena, many other birds played an important role in Greek art and symbolism. This booklet describes the ways in which the Greeks viewed birds, from useful hawks and fowl to exotic parakeets and peacocks.
£7.71
Museum of New Mexico Press Blurred Boundaries
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£44.19
University of Pennsylvania Museum Textiles from Beneath the Temple of Pachacamac A
Book SynopsisA careful examination of the collection of textiles from this famous Peruvian site. The author examines categories of textiles by their possible use and technique of manufacture, as well as reexamines the field notes of Uhle''s expedition. Extensive attention to weaving and sewing techniques.University Museum Monograph, 30
£13.99
Egyptological Seminar of New York Studies in Memory of James F. Romano
Book SynopsisJames F. Romano, curator of Egyptian art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, was a leading figure in the study of ancient Egyptian art. This volume honors his memory with major studies in Egyptian art, religion, and archaeology by sixteen of his friends and colleagues, as well as a remembrance and bibliography.Table of ContentsDiana Craig Patch, James F. Romano: Scholar, Colleague, and Friend Daphna Ben-Tor, Scarabs of the Middle Kingdom: Historical and Cultural Implications Edward Bleiberg, The Coffin of Weretwahset/Bensuipet and "Scribal Errors" on Women's Funerary Equipment Madeleine E. Cody, An Unusual Faience Group Statuette in the Brooklyn Museum of Art Marianne Eaton-Krauss, The Art of TT 100, the Tomb of the Vizier Rekhmire Biri Fay, Padihor's Block Statue Richard A. Fazzini, Some New Kingdom Female Images Zahi Hawass, Royal Figures Found in Petrie's So-called Workmen's Barracks at Giza Marsha Hill, Hepu's Hair: a Copper-Alloy Statuette in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens Jack A. Josephson and Rita E. Freed, The Status of the Queen in Dynasty XII Peter Lacovara, A Forged Head of Khasekhem Bojana Mojsov, Osiris and the Number Seven Adela Oppenheim, A New Boundary Stela of the Pharaoh Netjerikhet (Djoser) Found in the Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III, Dahshur Paul O'Rourke, A Fragmentary Book of the Dead in Brooklyn, Cambridge, and Moscow and a Note on the Early History of Egyptology Elena Pischikova, Relief Fragment with an Ankh-Bouquet in the Collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art Seth Richardson, The Many Lives of a Brooklyn Figure Gay Robins, The Decoration of the Inner Doorway in the Tomb Chapel of Amenemhab (TT 85) Diane Bergman, Bibliography of James Frank Romano
£40.38
Egyptological Seminar of New York Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar Volume 19
Book SynopsisDorothea Arnoldâs career in Egyptology is distinguished by the scope of her scholarship and by her understanding its detailed messages.Table of ContentsJames P. Allen, The Advent of Ancient Egyptian Literature Susan J. Allen, An Offering to Mentuhotep, Son of Mentuhotep-ankhu, Found at Thebes - MMA 26.3.316 Hartwig Altenmüller, Tausret als Königin und Pharao in den Abbildungen ihres Königsgrabes Dieter Arnold, Some Thoughts on the Building History of the Temple of Mentuhotep Nebhepetre at Deir el-Bahri Felix Arnold, The Temple of Ramses II in the Precinct of Hathor at Memphis Part I: Reconstruction and Meaning Holeil Ghaly, The Temple of Ramses II in the Precinct of Hathor at Memphis Part II: Hathor-Headed Columns Joan Aruz, The Nude Female and the Iconography of Birth David A. Aston, The Faces of the Hyksos: Ceramic Sculpture in the Fifteenth Dynasty Bettina Bader, Disc-Shaped Ornaments of the Early Middle Kingdom Miroslav Bárta, A Reassembled False Door from the Time of Nyuserra Daphna Ben-Tor, Scarabs from Hatshepsut's Foundation Deposits at Deir el-Bahri: Insight into the Early 18th Dynasty and Hatshepsut's Reign Robert Steven Bianchi, A Hippopotamus for Hera Manfred Bietak and Bettina Bader, Canon and Freedom of Fringe Art: à propos the Fish Bowls in the Second Intermediate Period Janine Bourriau and Will Schenck, The Last Marl C Potter: Sedment 276A Betsy M. Bryan, Just Say No: Iconography, Context, and Meaning of a Gesture Emilia Cortes, From Weft Fringes to Supplementary Weft Fringes: Thoughts and Discussion on Weaving Evolution in Egyptian Textiles Denise Doxey, The Family of Sehetepibra: A Pair of Unpublished Stelae in New York Marianne Eaton-Krauss, The Original Owner of Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 46600 Biri Fay, Ancient Egyptian Art History is Dead: Long Live Ancient Egyptian Art History Richard Fazzini and Mary McKercher, An Interesting Pottery Vessel from the Temple of Mut at South Karnak Peter Feinman, The Tempest in the Tempest: The Natural Historian Marjorie Fisher, A Recently Discovered Fragment of Senenmut's Sarcophagus Laurel Flentye, Royal Statuary of the Fourth Dynasty from the Giza Necropolis in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo Rita E. Freed, The Bersha Procession in Context Part I: An Art Historical Examination Pamela Hatchfield, The Bersha Procession in Context Part II: Conservation History and Technical Study José M. Galán, 11th Dynasty Burials below Djehuty's Courtyard (TT 11) in Dra Abu el-Naga Ogden Goelet, Jr. Verse Points, Division Markers, and Copying Zahi Hawass, Newly Discovered Scenes of Tutankhamun from Memphis and Rediscovered Fragments from Hermopolis Marsha Hill, A Statuette of Two Men and a Boy from the Amarna Period Part I: Face Facts for Understanding the Sculpture Ann Heywood, A Statuette of Two Men and a Boy from the Amarna Period Part II: Materials Analysis and Imaging Salima Ikram, A Torso from the Gayer-Anderson Museum, Cairo Sameh Iskander, Building Phases of the Temple of Ramesses II at Abydos Peter Jánosi, Bringing the Choicest of Haunches and Fowl... Some Thoughts on the Tomb of Rehuerdjersen at Lisht-North W. Raymond Johnson, Sexual Duality and Goddess Iconography on the Amenhotep IV Sandstone Colossi at Karnak Jack A. Josephson, Reevaluating the Date of the Abydos Head (MMA 02.4.191) Janice Kamrin, The Egyptian Museum Database, Digitizing, and Registrar Training Projects: Update 2012 Nanette B. Kelekian, The Resurrection of Reniseneb Peter Lacovara, The Menkaure Valley Temple Settlement Revisited David T. Mininberg, One Snake or Two: Determining the True Symbol for Medicine Paul T. Nicholson, Phillip Parkes, and Caroline Jackson, A Tale of Two Tiles: Preliminary Investigation of Two Faience Bricks David O'Connor, Who was Merika? A Continuing Debate Diana Craig Patch, An Exceptional Early Statuette from Abydos Elena Pischikova, The Second Tomb of the Vizier Nespakashuty Nicholas Reeves, Tutankhamun's Mask Reconsidered Catharine Roehrig, Two Tattooed Women from Thebes Ann Macy Roth, Upper Egyptian Heliopolis: Thebes, Archaism, and the Political Ideology of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III Wafaa el Saddik, A Head for Amenemhat III's Heb-sed Triad? Phyllis Saretta, Of Lyres, Lions, Light, and Everything New Under the Sun: An Amarna Relief in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Deborah Schorsch, Bastet Goes Boating Gerry Scott, An Old Kingdom Monkey Vase in the Collection of the San Antonio Museum of Art Friederike Seyfried, Ein weiterer Beleg für ein Gebäude- bzw. Tempelteil, namens RwD-anx(.w)-Jtn in Amarna zur revidierten Lesung eines Blockes in Privatbesitz Hourig Sourouzian, Lion and Sphinx Varia in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo Rainer Stadelmann, Ptah who Listens to Prayers in the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III at Thebes Paul Edmund Stanwick, Caracalla and the History of Imperial Sculpture in Egypt Isabel Stünkel, Notes on Khenemet-nefer-hedjet Weret II Miroslav Verner, Two Vigilant (Pyramids): The Small One and the Large One On the First Cult Pyramid in a Queens Pyramid Complex Malcolm H. Wiener, Oh, No Not Another Chronology! Kei Yamamoto, Iconography of the Sledge in Ancient Egyptian Funerary Art Christiane Ziegler, Note sur la peinture « aux vases » (Louvre D 60 bis) Irit Ziffer, Pyramid Myths: Israel in Egypt
£77.90
Sydney University Press Animal Bones in Australian Archaeology: A Field
Book SynopsisZooarchaeology has emerged as a powerful way of reconstructing the lives of past societies. Through the analysis of animal bones found on a site, zooarchaeologists can uncover important information on the economy, trade, industry, diet, and other fascinating facts about the people who lived there. Animal Bones in Australian Archaeology is an introductory bone identification manual written for archaeologists working in Australia. This field guide includes 16 species commonly encountered in both Indigenous and historical sites. Using diagrams and flow charts, it walks the reader step-by-step through the bone identification process. Combining practical and academic knowledge, the manual also provides an introductory insight into zooarchaeological methodology and the importance of zooarchaeological research in understanding human behaviour through time.Trade Review‘Animal Bones in Australian Archaeology is a welcome contribution to Australian zooarchaeology ... Fillios and Blake have created a clear and concise Australian faunal reference guide, ideal not only for students, heritage consultants and non‐specialists who only require a simple guide, but also for more experienced faunal analysts, who may find it a useful companion to their reference collections. This handbook can – and should – become a standard tool in the arsenal of all archaeologists working on Australian sites.’ -- Carly Monks * Archaeology in Oceania 51(3) *Table of ContentsList of figures Foreword Acknowledgements Glossary Introduction Bone identification 1011. Mandible2. Scapula3. Humerus4. Radius5. Ulna6. Pelvis7. Femur8. Tibia 9. The extremities: hands and feet Theoretical and practical applications in zooarchaeology Works cited Further reading Index
£25.20
University of Wales Press Rethinking the Ancient Druids: An Archaeological
Book SynopsisAncient Classical authors have painted the Druids in a bad light, defining them as a barbaric priesthood, who 2,000 years ago perpetrated savage and blood rites in ancient Britain and Gaul in the name of their gods. Archaeology tells a different and more complicated story of this enigmatic priesthood, a theocracy with immense political and sacred power. This book explores the tangible 'footprint' the Druids have left behind: in sacred spaces, art, ritual equipment, images of the gods, strange burial rites and human sacrifice. Their material culture indicates how close was the relationship between Druids and the spirit-world, which evidence suggests they accessed through drug-induced trance.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Preface PROLOGUE: The untouched Cave CH. 1: Time and Space: contextualizing Druids in the ancient world CH. 2: Barbarians and Wise Men: rethinking Classical texts CH. 3: Spiritual Spaces: rites and beliefs in Iron Age Britain and Gaul CH. 4: Images and Symbols: sacred art and the Druids CH. 5: Welsh Connections: spotlight on Druidic Wales CH. 6: A Holy War: Boudica and the Druids against Rome CH. 7: Reading Runes and Telling Spoons: divining the divine CH. 8: Druids and Deities: changing spirits in Roman Gaul and Britain CH. 9: Ideas of Afterlife: death, burial and reincarnation EPILOGUE: The Untouched Cave Revisited BIBLIOGRAPHY
£42.75
Old Street Publishing Fallen Glory The Lives and Deaths of Twenty Lost
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£22.50
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA Moche Fineline Painting From San Jose De Moro
Book SynopsisMoche civilization flourished on the north coast of Peru from AD 200 to 800. Although the Moche had no writing system, they left a vivid artistic record of their beliefs and activities on intricately painted ceramic vessels, several thousand of which are scattered in museums and private collections throughout the world today. Unfortunately, nearly all were looted by grave robbers so their origin and context are unknown. In recent years, however, through a combination of archaeological excavation and stylistic analysis, it has been possible to identify more than 250 painted vessels from the site of San Jose de Moro. To date, this is the largest sample of Moche art from a single place and time. Thus it provides a unique opportunity to identify a distinct sub-style of Moche ceramics, and to assess its range of artistic and technological variation. Moreover, within the sample it is possible to identify multiple paintings by 18 different artists, thus elucidating the range of subject matter that an artist would paint, as well as the variation in the way he would portray the same scene. By discussing and illustrating more than 200 painted vessels from San Jose de Moro, this volume provides insights about a community of ancient Peruvian potters who shared a distinctive painting style and left a fascinating record of their achievement.
£16.62
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence in the Art
Book SynopsisWarfare, ritual human sacrifice, and the rubber ballgame have been the traditional categories through which scholars have examined organized violence in the artistic and material records of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. This volume expands those traditional categories to include such concerns as gladiatorial-like boxing combats, investiture rites, trophy-head taking and display, dark shamanism, and the subjective pain inherent in acts of violence. Each author examines organized violence as a set of practices grounded in cultural understandings, even when the violence threatens the limits of those understandings. The authors scrutinize the representation of, and relationships between, different types of organized violence, as well as the implications of those activities, which can include the unexpected, such as violence as a means of determining and curing illness, and the use of violence in negotiation strategies.
£17.50
Lockwood Press Carl W. Blegen: Personal and Archaeological
Book SynopsisCarl Blegen is the most famous American archaeologist ever to work in Greece, and no American has ever had a greater impact on Greek archaeology. Yet Blegen, unlike several others of his generation, has found no biographer. In part, the explanation for this must lie in the fact that his life was so multifaceted: not only was he instrumental in creating the field of Aegean prehistory, but Blegen, his wife and their best friends, the Hills ('the family'), were also significant forces in the social and intellectual community of Athens. Authors who have contributed to this book have each researched one aspect of Blegen's life, drawing on copious documentation in the United States, England and Greece. The result is a biography that sets Blegen and his closest colleagues in the social and academic milieu that gave rise to the discipline of classical archaeology in Greece. Trade Review ‘Effectively illustrated with photographs and drawings, this book illuminates the interpersonal and professional relationships of Blegen and his associates and provides insights important for both students and scholars.’ Mary C. Sturgeon, American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 121, No. 4 (October 2017) ‘This handsome volume [offers] many pleasures that normal biographies rarely provide. For one thing its generous illustrations include facsimiles of correspondence and reproductions of Piet de Jong's wonderful cartoons of famous Aegean scholars (one of these forming the cover of the book). [...]The main service provided by this book is to remind us all that real advances in our understanding of the ancient world are always, to a greater or lesser extent, archaeological; that archaeological fieldwork requires determination, application, cultural sensitivity and a skill set (in excavation and stratigraphy) that few classicists possess.’ James Whitley, Cardiff University, Journal of Hellenic Studies 'The contributions...[include] praise, some light-duty prosopography linking Blegen and friends to their equally distinguished peers (and occasionally to students), some veiled references to Blegen household arrangements (and equally broad assurances), and enough references to intrigue Blegenophiles and historians of American archaeology alike.' (Bill Caraher, The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, March 11, 2015) Table of ContentsIllustrations "On His Feet and Ready to Dig": Carl Willaim Blegen Jack L. Davis and Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan The Life of Carl W. Blegen from a Grass Roots Perspective Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan From the Mud of Peirene to Mastering Stratigraphy: Carl Blegen in the Corinthia and Argolid Ioulia Tzonou-Herbst Tge "Govs" of Mycenaean Archaeology: The Friendship and Collaboration of Carl W. Blegen and Alan J.B. Wace as Seen through Their Correspondence Yannis Fappas The Blegens and the Hills: A Family Affair Robert L. Pounder "Islanders vs. Mainlanders", "The Mycenae Wars", and Other Short Stories: An Archival Visit to an Old Debate Yannis Galanakis The House at 9 Ploutarchou Street: A Grape Arbor and a Dense Shadow of Beautiful Meetings Vasiliki Florou Και ε?ς ?ν?τερα: The Govs in the 1930s Elizabeth W. French Carl Blegen and Troy Brian Rose "His Eyes Took on a Far Away Look When he Spoke of Pylos": Carl Blegen and the Excavations at the Palace of Nestor as Seen in the Greek and Foreign Press Nektarios Karadimas Blegen and the Palace of Nestor: What Took So Long? Jack L. DAvis Contributors Index
£33.25
University Museum Publications The Roman Peasant Project 2009-2014: Excavating
Book SynopsisThis book presents the results of the first systematic archaeological study of Roman peasants. It examines the spaces, architecture, diet, agriculture, market interactions, and movement habitus of non-elite rural dwellers in a region of southern Tuscany, Italy, during the Roman period. Volume 1 presents the excavation data from eight non-elite rural sites including a farm, a peasant house, animal stall/work huts, a ceramics factory, field drains, and a site of uncertain function, here framed as individual chapters complete with finds analysis. Volume 2 examines this data synthetically in thematic chapters addressing land use, agriculture, diet, markets, and movement. The results suggest a different, more sophisticated Roman peasant than heretofore assumed. The data suggests that Roman peasants particularly in the first century BC/AD built specialized sites distributed throughout the landscape to maximize use of diverse land parcels. This has important implications for the interpretation of field survey data, the estimate of rural demographics from that survey, and assumptions about the long-term changes to human settlement. It also points to an important moment of agricultural intensification in this period, a contention beginning to be supported by other studies. The project also identified sophisticated systems of land use, including crop rotation and an important investment in animal agriculture. This work presents the first systematic data from Roman Italy for rural consumption, tracking the fine wares made at a production site to local sites nearby. This supports the largely theoretical problematizing of the so-called consumer city model and suggests the potential importance of rural aggregate demand. Movement studies, based on finds from the sites themselves, describe a more mobile population than anticipated, engaged in quotidian and long-distance movement patterns, supported by the small but steady stream of imports and exports into and out of this seemingly liminal region. The book concludes by addressing the implications of this new data for major questions in Roman social and economic history.Trade Review"This volume is the rich and complex publication of an even richer and more complex project...The Roman Peasant Project shows just how far archaeological evidence can be pushed, especially in collaboration with archaeological scientists, and how much farther it goes when all the separate strands of evidence are combined, and considered together, rather than occupying catalogues at the end of a volume. The work is a milestone in the history of Roman agriculture in Italy." * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
£90.90
Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited The Kailash Temple at Ellora: Magnificent
Book SynopsisThe KailashTemple at Ellora is considered to be a pinnacle of ancient Indian art, architecture and sculpture. Built by Rashtrakuta king Krishna I in the eighth century CE, the temple is part of the Ellora Cave complex near Aurangabad in Maharashtra. Carved out of rock from the hills, the temple is dedicated to Shiva. On its walls teem innumerable sculptures depicting gods, goddesses, animals, birds, men and women.The splendour of these frozen figures, and the meticulous thought and planning that went into creating this temple by cutting through sheer rock, is a story every child needs to know. In this book, which is filled with photographs and illustrations,Tilottama Shome lucidly explains concepts of Hindu temple architecture, narrates tales from history, folklore and mythology, and brings to life this magnificent example of art and architecture for a young reader.
£14.99
BAI NV Ancestors & Rituals
Book SynopsisFrom Sumatra to Java, from the Moluccas to Papua, across the whole of Indonesia, ancestors have played and still play a leading role. The cults and representations are evidence of an enormous diversity, power and poetry. This unique introduction to Indonesia starts from a cultural heritage perspective, but also poses topical questions about the place of traditions and rituals in contemporary society. Never before exhibited archaeological and ethnographic treasures are brought together with unique footage and interviews. In collaboration with the National Museum in Jakarta and numerous collections from all four corners of the archipelago.
£32.62
Ratna Pustak Bhandar,Nepal The Traditional Architecture of the Kathmandu
Book SynopsisThhis book is a result of several years research by author during his stay in Nepal as a German volunteer assigned to the building Department (Housing and Physical Department) of Nepal Government. It is a study of the Government. it is a study of buildings in the Kathmandu Valley best described as 'traditional Nepalese style'
£30.88
Oxford University Press Rome
Book SynopsisThe city of Rome is the largest archaeological site in the world, capital and showcase of the Roman Empire and the centre of Christian Europe.This guide provides: Coverage of all the important sites in the city from 800 BC to AD 600 and the start of the early middle ages, drawing on the latest discoveries and the best of recent scholarship Over 220 high-quality maps, site plans, diagrams and photographs Sites divided into fourteen main areas, with star ratings to help you plan and prioritize your visit: Roman Forum; Upper Via Sacra; Palatine; Imperial Forums; Campus Martius; Capitoline Hill; Circus Flaminius to Circus Maximus; Colosseum and Esquiline hill; Caelian hill and the inner via Appia; Lateran to Porta Maggiore; Viminal hill; Pyramid to Testaccio; the outer via Appia; other outlying sites; Museums and Catacombs. Introduction offering essential background to the history and culture of ancient Rome, placing the city in the context of the development of the empire, highlighting the nature of Roman achievement, and explaining how Rome came to be the largest city in the ancient world. Comprehensive glossaries of Rome''s building materials, techniques and building types, a chronological table of kings, emperors, and the early popes, information about opening times, references and suggestions for further reading and a detailed user-friendly index. For this new edition the original text has been extensively revised, adding over 20 more sites and illustrations, the itineraries have been re-organized and expanded to suit the many changes that have taken place in the past decade, and the practical information and references have been fully updated.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Historical Overview ; Documentary Sources ; Glossary ; The Roman Forum ; The Upper Via Sacra ; The Palatine ; Imperial Forums ; Field of Mars (Campus Martius) ; Capitoline Hill ; Circus Flaminius to Circus Maximus ; Colosseum Valley and Esquiline Hill ; Caelian Hill and the inner Via Appia ; Lateran-Porta Maggiore ; The Viminal ; Pyramid-Testaccio ; Across the Tiber ; Parks of the Appia Antica ; Other Sites outside the Walls ; Museums ; Catacombs ; Chronological Table ; Opening Times and Charges ; References and Further Reading ; Index
£23.84
Anness Publishing Illustrated Encyclopedia of Archaeology
Book SynopsisA hands-on resource for the amateur, student or volunteer as well as a reference for those interested in the world's greatest archaeological finds and the people who discovered them.
£18.00
Wordwell Boyne and Beyond: Essays in appreciation of
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£16.99
Otago University Press Artefacts of Encounter: Cook's Voyages, Colonial
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Snoeck Publishers Pou Hakanononga
Book SynopsisIn 1934-1935, a major ethnographic and archaeological expedition to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) was organised by the Musée de l''Homme in Paris and the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels. In addition to the important scientific data recorded, the mission also led to the donation to Belgium of a statue (moai) called Pou Hakanononga, which is now known to be one of the oldest produced on the island. This book tells the story of this astonishing statue, which has been on display at the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels since 1935, and is the first in a new series PLUS - Masterpieces of the Royal Museums of Art and History.Nicolas Cauwe, a Doctor in Art History and Archaeology from the ULiège, is Acting Head of Department and Curator of the Prehistoric and Oceanic collections at the Royal Museums of Art and History. He is also a guest lecturer at the UCLouvain, a full member of the Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences, and a corresponding member
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HarperCollins Publishers The Worlds Heritage
Book SynopsisBestselling guide to all UNESCO World Heritage sitesFully updated to include the latest sites added to the World Heritage List. The List is managed by the World Heritage Committee and each site is judged under strict criteria only the world's most spectacular and extraordinary sites make it on to the List.UNESCO World Heritage sites include some of the most famous places in the world, such as the ancient Nabatean city of Petra in Jordan, the legendary Acropolis in Athens, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, and Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas', in Peru.Descriptions of all the UNESCO World Heritage sitesLocation map for every siteMore than 850 colour photographsBackgroundThe World Heritage List includes properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value. In 1972 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted the Convention concerning the Protecti
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Taylor & Francis Inc In the Beginning
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPART I: BACKGROUND TO ARCHAEOLOGYChapter 1: Introducing Archaeology Chapter 2: The Beginnings of Scientific Archaeology: Sixth Century B.C. to the 1950s Chapter 3: The Many-Voiced Past: Archaeological Thought from the 1950s to NowPART II: THE BASICS Chapter 4: Matrix and Preservation Chapter 5: Doing Archaeological Research Chapter 6: Culture, Data, and Context Chapter 7: How Old Is It? PART III: RECOVERING THE DATA Chapter 8: They Sought It Here, They Sought It There: Finding the Past Chapter 9: How to Excavate PART IV: ANALYZING THE PAST: ARTIFACTS AND TECHNOLOGY Chapter 10: Classifying Artifacts Chapter 11: Technologies of the Ancients PART V: STUDYING ENVIRONMENTS AND PEOPLE Chapter 12: Ancient Environments Chapter 13: What Did We Eat?Chapter 14: The Living Past Chapter 15: Landscape and Settlement Chapter 16: Interactions: People of the Past Chapter 17: Archaeology and the Intangible PART VI: MANAGING THE PAST Chapter 18: Cultural Resource Management and Public Archaeology Chapter 19: Archaeology and Contemporary Society PART VII: CAREERS AND RESOURCES Chapter 20: So You Want to Become an Archaeologist?
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The University of Chicago Press Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization
Book SynopsisDrawing on the work of modern economic geographers, the author explores how the unique river-based ecology and geography of the Tigris-Euphrates alluvium affected the development of urban civilization in southern Mesopotamia.Trade Review"Outstanding.... This book is the single best treatment available in discussing the complex issues involved in bringing about Mesopotamian civilization, offering a model of approach for anyone interested in the emergence of civilization." (Choice)"
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The University of Chicago Press How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today
Book SynopsisFrom the stages of Broadway and London to university campuses, Paris, and the bourgeoning theaters of Africa, Greek tragedy remains constantly in production. This title explains how Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles conceived their works in performance. It summarizes what we know about how their tragedies were actually staged.Trade Review"Simon Goldhill's new book is enthralling. A 'can't put down' and a 'forever reread.' His detailed analyses of so many past productions are rare and exciting. His unfolding of the Greek texts and the many different translations is both instructive and exhilarating. He reveals the contradictions within the specific structures of the characters, and also of the chorus, in a way that every actor will be grateful for. I never saw any of the productions he describes, explains, and analyzes, but I have an unforgettable secondhand memory of them, thanks to his own knowledge and keen joy in his subject." - Vanessa Redgrave"
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The University of Chicago Press Experimental Determination of Stone Tool Uses A
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The University of Chicago Press Mana of Mass Society Chicago Studies in Practices
Book SynopsisWe often invoke the magic of mass media to describe seductive advertising or charismatic politicians. In The Mana of Mass Society, William Mazzarella asks what happens to social theory if we take that idea seriously. How would it change our understanding of publicity, propaganda, love, and power? Mazzarella reconsiders the concept of mana, which served in early anthropology as a troubled bridge between primitive ritual and the fascination of mass media. Thinking about mana, Mazzarella shows, means rethinking some of our most fundamental questions: What powers authority? What in us responds to it? Is the mana that animates an Aboriginal ritual the same as the mana that infuses a rioting crowd, a television audience, or an internet public? At the intersection of anthropology and critical theory, The Mana of Mass Society brings recent conversations around affect, sovereignty, and emergence into creative contact with classic debates on religion, charisma, ideology, and aesthetics.
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The University of Chicago Press Principles of Geology Volume 2
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The University of Chicago Press Life and Land Use on the Bahrain Islands The
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The University of Chicago Press Bottleneck Moving Building and Belonging in an
Book SynopsisIn Bottleneck, anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks as an entry point to a wide-ranging study of the concept of mobility in contemporary urban Senegal a concept that she argues is central to both citizens' and the state's visions of a successful future. Melly opens with an account of the generation of urban men who came of age on the heels of the era of structural adjustment, a diverse cohort with great dreams of building, moving, and belonging, but frustratingly few opportunities for doing so. From there, she moves to a close study of taxi drivers and state workers, and shows how bottlenecks physical and institutional affect both. The third section of the book covers a seemingly stalled state effort to solve housing problems by building large numbers of concrete houses, while the fourth takes up the thousands of migrants who annually attempt, often with tragic results, to cross the Mediterranean on rickety boats in search of new opportunities. The re
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The University of Chicago Press Bottleneck Moving Building and Belonging in an
Book SynopsisIn Bottleneck, anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks as an entry point to a wide-ranging study of the concept of mobility in contemporary urban Senegal a concept that she argues is central to both citizens' and the state's visions of a successful future. Melly opens with an account of the generation of urban men who came of age on the heels of the era of structural adjustment, a diverse cohort with great dreams of building, moving, and belonging, but frustratingly few opportunities for doing so. From there, she moves to a close study of taxi drivers and state workers, and shows how bottlenecks physical and institutional affect both. The third section of the book covers a seemingly stalled state effort to solve housing problems by building large numbers of concrete houses, while the fourth takes up the thousands of migrants who annually attempt, often with tragic results, to cross the Mediterranean on rickety boats in search of new opportunities. The resulting book offers a remarkable portrait of contemporary Senegal, the constraints and hopes of its urban citizens, and a means of theorizing mobility and its impossibilities far beyond the African continent.
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The University of Chicago Press How Lifeworlds Work Emotionality Sociality and
Book SynopsisMichael Jackson has spent much of his career elaborating his rich conception of lifeworlds, mining his ethnographic and personal experience for insights into how our subjective and social lives are mutually constituted. In How Lifeworlds Work, Jackson draws on years of ethnographic fieldwork in West Africa to highlight the dynamic quality of human relationships and reinvigorate the study of kinship and ritual. How, he asks, do we manage the perpetual process of accommodation between social norms and personal emotions, impulses, and desires? How are these two dimensions of lived reality joined, and how are the dual imperatives of individual expression and collective viability managed? Drawing on the pragmatist tradition, psychology, and phenomenology, Jackson offers an unforgettable, beautifully written account of how we make, unmake, and remake, our lifeworlds.
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The University of Chicago Press Writing the World of Policing The Difference
Book SynopsisAs policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it is also a growing area of ethnographic research. Writing the World of Policing brings together an international roster of scholars who have conducted fieldwork studies of law enforcement in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods on five continents. How, they ask, can ethnography illuminate the work and role of the police in society? Are there important aspects of policing that are not captured through its usual approach through interviews and statistics? And how does the study of law enforcement enlighten the practice of ethnography in general? Can such inquiry into policing enrich our understanding of the epistemological and ethical challenges of this method? Beyond these questions of crucial interest for both criminology and the social sciences, Writing the World of Policing provides a timely discussion of one of the most problematic institutions in contemporary societies.
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The University of Chicago Press Writing the World of Policing
Book SynopsisAs policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it is also a growing area of ethnographic research. Writing the World of Policing brings together an international roster of scholars who have conducted fieldwork studies of law enforcement in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods on five continents. How, they ask, can ethnography illuminate the work and role of the police in society? Are there important aspects of policing that are not captured through its usual approach through interviews and statistics? And how does the study of law enforcement enlighten the practice of ethnography in general? Can such inquiry into policing enrich our understanding of the epistemological and ethical challenges of this method? Beyond these questions of crucial interest for both criminology and the social sciences, Writing the World of Policing provides a timely discussion of one of the most problematic institutions in contemporary societies.
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The University of Chicago Press Constellations of Inequality Space Race and
Book SynopsisIn 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcantara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 Afro-Brazilians from coastal land to inadequate inland villages, leaving many more threatened with displacement. The project was a vast undertaking, and the decades since its 1990 completion have seen it mired in controversy. Constellations of Inequality tells that story, offering a uniquely insightful ethnography of Brazil's inequality politics. Sean T. Mitchell analyzes conflicts over land, ethnoracial identity, mobilization among descendants of escaped slaves, failures and military-civilian conflict in the launch program, and international intrigue. Throughout, he illuminates inequality and political consciousness. How people conceptualize and act upon the unequal conditions in which they find themselves, he shows, is as much a cultural and historical matter a material one. Deftly broadening our understanding of STS, economic issues,
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The University of Chicago Press Constellations of Inequality Space Race and
Book SynopsisIn 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcantara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 Afro-Brazilians from coastal land to inadequate inland villages, leaving many more threatened with displacement. The project was a vast undertaking, and the decades since its 1990 completion have seen it mired in controversy. Constellations of Inequality tells that story, offering a uniquely insightful ethnography of Brazil's inequality politics. Sean T. Mitchell analyzes conflicts over land, ethnoracial identity, mobilization among descendants of escaped slaves, failures and military-civilian conflict in the launch program, and international intrigue. Throughout, he illuminates inequality and political consciousness. How people conceptualize and act upon the unequal conditions in which they find themselves, he shows, is as much a cultural and historical matter a material one. Deftly broadening our understanding of STS, economic issues,
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The University of Chicago Press Universalism without Uniformity Explorations in
Book SynopsisOne of the major issues in cultural psychology is how to take diversity seriously while also acknowledging our shared humanity. This collection brings together leading figures in the field of cultural psychology to consider that question, addressing the complex issues that underpin the interconnections between culture and the human mind. The contributors to Universalism without Uniformity make two fundamental points: first, that as humans we are motivated to find meaning in everything around us; and, second, that the cultural worlds we live in are constituted by our involvement in them. Therefore, we exist as human beings specifically because we interpret and make sense of the events and experiences of our lives and we do so using the meanings and resources we draw from the cultural worlds that we have created through our thoughts and actions. Offering empirically driven research that takes psychological diversity seriously, Universalism without Uniformity breaks new ground in the inte
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The University of Chicago Press Universalism without Uniformity Explorations in
Book SynopsisOne of the major issues in cultural psychology is how to take diversity seriously while also acknowledging our shared humanity. This collection brings together leading figures in the field of cultural psychology to consider that question, addressing the complex issues that underpin the interconnections between culture and the human mind. The contributors to Universalism without Uniformity make two fundamental points: first, that as humans we are motivated to find meaning in everything around us; and, second, that the cultural worlds we live in are constituted by our involvement in them. Therefore, we exist as human beings specifically because we interpret and make sense of the events and experiences of our lives and we do so using the meanings and resources we draw from the cultural worlds that we have created through our thoughts and actions. Offering empirically driven research that takes psychological diversity seriously, Universalism without Uniformity breaks new ground in the inte
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The University of Chicago Press World in Guangzhou Africans and Other Foreigners
Book SynopsisMere decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the world go to make new lives, find themselves, or further their careers. A large number of those migrants are small-scale traders from Africa who deal in Chinese goods often knock-offs or copies of high-end branded items to send back to their home countries. In The World in Guangzhou, Gordon Mathews explores the question of how the city became such a center of low-end globalization and shows what we can learn from that experience similar transformations elsewhere in the world. Through detailed ethnographic portraits, Mathews reveals a world of globalization based on informality, reputation, and trust rather than on formal contracts. How, he asks, can such informal relationships emerge between two groups Chinese and Sub-Saharan Africans that don't share a common language, culture, or religion? And what happens when Africans move beyond their statu
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