Archaeology Books
Editions Skira Paris AlUla Wonder of Arabia Arabic edition
Book SynopsisAbdulrahman Alsuhaibani Associate Professor of Archaeology at King Saud University, Acting executive director of Collections at RCU (Royal Comission for AlUla). Laïla Nehmé, archaeologist and epigraphist, a specialist in Near Eastern archaeology, and a member of the Orient & Méditerranée research team at the CNRS (Paris). She was the co-curator of the exhibition AlUla, Wonder of Arabia at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris. As well as other specialists of the region.
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Springer The Poetics of Violence in Afroeurasian
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Springer International Publishing AG The Intersection of Sacredness and Archaeology
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Springer A Proposal for the Expanded Fruition of Cultural Heritage Sites
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. State Of The Art.- Chapter 3. Contribution.- Chapter 4. Objectives.- Chapter 5. Methodology.- Chapter 6. Applications.- Chapter 7. Results.- Chapter 8. Conclusions.
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Springer Storms Nations and Other Gods The Ongoing Evolution of Religious Thought
Book SynopsisFrom Our Earliest Beginnings: The Evolution of the Human Mind.- The Natural and the Supernatural: Spirits (and Ghosts and Deities).- The Group and the Shaman: The Group, The Shaman.- When Everything Changed: The Dawn of Domestication: Rainfall vs Irrigation Agriculture.- The Rise and Dominion of Complex Human Institutions: The Church, Social Institutions.- The Gods of Large States: The God’s Families, Moral Gods, Humanity’s Authority of Nature.- The Industrial Revolution and the Passing of the Old Gods.- The Modern Nation State: Reality, Perception.- Nation the God: Resolving the Contradiction, A New Kind of Deity.- Other Deities in the Modern Pantheon.
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Springer-Verlag GmbH The Contemporary Archaeology of Emotions ReFraming the Past and Present
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Springer A New Garbology Manifesto
Book SynopsisChapter 1. A Word Collage Created by a Dadaist Garbologist Who Picks Her Words from Landfills.- Chapter 2. Rear Window, Not the Hitchcock One.- Chapter 3. To Understand Garbage.- Chapter 4. Toward A Manifesto for New Garbology.
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Springer Weaving and Wearing Identity Personal Adornment in Past Societies
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction – The archaeology of adorning human bodies: Making, wearing and negotiating identity (Giulia Muti, Gabriella Longhitano, Sarah Hitchens, Alistair Dickey and Karina Grömer).- Part I: North and Central Europe.- Chapter 2. Wearing narratives of identity at the mid Upper Palaeolithic site of Grub-Kranawetberg (Austria) (Marjolein D. Bosch, Walpurga Antl Weiser, Aldona Kurzawska, Mathias Harzhauser, and Philip R. Nigst).- Chapter 3. Recreating Bronze Age clothing design in Central Europe – as evidenced by textile and pictorial sources (Kayleigh Saunderson and Karina Grömer).- Chapter 4. Male dress in the Roman Province Noricum, fourth and fifth century AD (Karina Grömer).- Chapter 5. “All that glitters ain’t gold’’ – Jewellery items and dress ornaments as “identity markers” in Avar-period funerary contexts (seventh-eighth century AD) from Eastern Austria: Theoretical and methodological considerations (Birgit Bühler).- Chapter 6. Textiles, feathers and dress identity in the Lombard period burial ground of Maria Ponsee, Austria (Anna Zimmermann and Karina Grömer).- Chapter 7. Faking purple, seeing red: Reconstruction of recipes and baselines for madder dyeing (Katrin Kania and Micky Schoelzke).- Part II: Mediterranean area.- Chapter 8. Wearing violence: Pre-Roman Central Italian weapons between practice and display (eighth to fifth century BC) (Elena Scarsella).- Chapter 9. Elements of identity to be worn: Reconstructing clothing culture in the Iron Age communities of Sicily through dress ornaments (Gabriella Longhitano).- Chapter 10. Jewellery fashion in the Greek colonies (Angeliki Liveri).- Chapter 11. Spinning on female identity in the Iberian culture (Patricia Rosell Garrido).- Part III: South West Asia and Africa.- Chapter 12. Bodies and behaviours: Archaeological material culture and the interpretation of identity at the Neolithic transition (Emma Baysal and Sera Yelozer).- Chapter 13. Dressed to connect: Ornamental strategies of affiliation in the third millennium BC, Cyprus (Rafael Laoutari).- Chapter 14. “You are what you wear from your feet to your hair”: Weaving narratives of identity at an Early Byzantine necropolis in Egypt (Kristin South).- Chapter 15. Concluding remarks (Anastasia Christophilopoulou).- Index.
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Springer Applied Bioarchaeology
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction (McKenzie).- Part 1. Using Past Experience to Inform Modern Behaviour and Health.- Chapter 2. Continuing Bonds: Using (Bio)Archaeology for Bereavement, Grief, and Wellbeing (Sutton-Butler et al).- Chapter 3. Bioarchaeology of Care Outreach: How Lessons from the Past May Help Improve the Present (Sáez).- Chapter 4. One Paleopathology: Raising Awareness and Advancing Knowledge (Buikstra et al).- Chapter 5. Using Bioarchaeological Data to Inform Diagnostic Criteria for Acquired Syphilis in Clinical Care and Public Health through Translational Science (Zuckerman et al).- Part 2. Developing Community-Led Research.- Chapter 6. Marching Forward Together: Towards a Decolonized, Collaborative Bioarchaeology in California (Tapia and Arellano).- Chapter 7. The Care Connection: Using Co-Production to Link Archaeology and Unpaid Carers (McKenzie et al).- Chapter 8. Child of A’ua’u, Returning Home: A Community-Led Repatriation Project to Mangaia, Cook Islands (King et al).- Part 3. Bioarchaeology and the Arts.- Chapter 9. Acting Queerly: Creative Collaboration in Applied Bioarchaeology (Charles and McDaniel). Chapter 10. “Interesting Characters Find Graves in the Potter’s Field”: The Value of Fictive Storytelling in Historical Bioarchaeology (Drew).- Chapter 11. Buried Threads: Weaving Narratives Through Art and Bioarchaeology at the Asylum Hill Cemetery Mack et al).- Part 4. A Way Forward.- Chapter 12. A Personal Reflection: We have come this far—but where do we go from here? (Tilley).
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Springer Canoes and Culture in a Guyana Swamp
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Heritage, Landscape, and Watercraft.- Chapter 3. Regional Context.- Chapter 4. History of the Warrau Canoe.- Chapter 5. Living on Imbotero Creek.- Chapter 6. The Technological Canoe.- Chapter 7. The Social Canoe.- Chapter 8. Canoes in the Landscape.- Chapter 9. Prospects for Imbotero’s Canoe Heritage.- Chapter 10. Conclusions: Entanglements of Canoes, Landscape, and Heritage.
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Kohlhammer W. Frühe Franken
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Kohlhammer Francois Mitterrand
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Harrassowitz Asyut - The Capital That Never Was
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Harrassowitz Agyptische Achtungsfiguren Und Achtungslisten Im
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Harrassowitz Verlag Der altorientalische Mensch in seiner Umwelt
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Harrassowitz Verlag Königsbilder Libationskuhlen und Steinbau
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Harrassowitz Verlag Frühes Christentum im Archäologischen Befund
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Harrassowitz Verlag Mulva VIII. Die wirtschaftlichen Grundlagen von Munigua
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Verlag Herder Das Biblische Israel: Geschichte - Archaologie -
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Die Epigraphische Kultur an Oberrhein Und Neckar
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Steiner Franz Verlag Johannes Lydos De magistratibus
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Coins and Economy in Magdala/Taricheae
Book SynopsisOn a monetary basis, Magdala must be considered as one of the most important and active settlements between the 1st century BC and most of the 3rd century AD on Lake Kinneret, a place of production and trade, of supply for military forces, certainly in contact with other trading centres, probably located on the Mediterranean coast, however in a 'market' perspective quite different from our current experience and even from the semantic content of this word, often abused with a semantic extension that does not correspond to the experience of the ancients. Its monetary decline started on the early 4th century, when the economic and monetary strategies of the Constantinian era shifted the flow of money to other routes, especially between the great port cities of the Mediterranean.The welcome contribution of Callegher's study derives from the new data published, which allows us to overcome "clichés" and a stereotypical view of both the archaeological site and the economy of the Upper Galilee.
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wbg Theiss Nach 1177
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Grin Publishing Luftbildarchäologie im Überblick
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BoD - Books on Demand Das Geheimnis von Grimmen
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Schnell & Steiner ROM in Rekonstruktionen
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V&R unipress Mehr als nur Buddeln
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Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Menschliches Verstehen: Die Archaologie Der
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Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Tibble Fullero Lilla Jore Saetrang
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Librum Publishers & Editors Esplorando Il Passato: Passeggiate Archeologiche
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Spectormag GbR Paul Virilio Bunker Archeology
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Springer Verlag, Japan Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Palaeolithic
Book SynopsisThis volume is motivated by the desire to explain why Neanderthals were replaced by modern humans, in terms of cultural differences between the two (sub-) species. It provides up-to-date coverage on the theory of cultural evolution as is being used by anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists and psychologists to decipher hominin cultural change and diversity during the Palaeolithic. The contributing authors are directly involved in this effort and the material presented includes novel approaches and findings. Chapters explain how learning strategies in combination with social and demographic factors (e.g., population size and mobility patterns) predict cultural evolution in a world without the printing press, television or the Internet. Also addressed is the inverse problem of how learning strategies may be inferred from actual trajectories of cultural change, for example as seen in the North American Palaeolithic. Mathematics and statistics, a sometimes necessary part of theory, are explained in elementary terms where they appear, with details relegated to appendices. Full citations of the relevant literature will help the reader to further pursue any topic of interest.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Experimental Studies of Cumulative Culture in Modern Humans: What are the Requirements of the Ratchet.- Factors Limiting the Number of Independent Cultural Traits That Can Be Maintained in a Population.- Inferring Learning Strategies from Cultural Frequency Data.- The Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans and the Diversity in Cultural Transition Patterns: a Theoretical Perspective.- Simulating Geographical Variation in Material Culture: Were Early Modern Humans in Europe Ethnically Structured?.- “Learning in the Acheulean: Experimental Insights Using Handaxe Form as a ‘Model Organism’.- Behavioral Modernity and the Cultural Transmission of Structured Information: The Semantic Axelrod Model.- Evolution of Culturally Transmitted Teaching Behavior.- Transmission of Cultural Variants in the North American Paleolithic.- Mobility and Cultural Diversity in Central-Place Foragers: Implications for the Emergence of Modern Human Behavior.
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A A Balkema Publishers Palaeohistoria 37/38 (1995/1996): Institute of
Book SynopsisVolumes 37 and 38 of this annual published since 1951 include excavational reports and analytical studies on archaeology, palaeobotany and archaezoology.
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A A Balkema Publishers Air Pollution and Cultural Heritage
Book SynopsisThis collection includes thirty-six important recent works on the effects of pollutants on heritage sites, including thirty papers delivered to the Seville International Workshop on Air Pollution and Cultural Heritage in 2003, and six invited new additions. All papers have been written by a team of leading international contributors and are divided into five subject areas to cover the main topics of interest today. This volume is aimed at archaeologists and molecular biologists as well as advanced students and researchers in the fields of biodeterioration, building materials, micro-organisms and cultural heritage.Table of ContentsForewordOrganizationPart 1. Aerosols, particulate matter and black crust characterizationPart 2. Effects of air pollution on materials and monumentsPart 3. Techniques for the study of air pollution and monument weatheringPart 4. Soiling and cleaningPart 5. Cultural Heritage policiesAuthor Index
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A A Balkema Publishers Palaeoecology of Africa, volume 14
Book SynopsisThis reference provides up-to-date information on research in many different disciplines which give an overall insight into the environmental history of Africa.
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A A Balkema Publishers Palaeohistoria: Institute of Archaeology,
Book SynopsisVolume 30 of Palaeohistoria, by the Institute of Archaeology, Groningen, the Netherlands in 1988. It will be useful for several research workers, a number of technical assistants, and research students of archaeozoology
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Sidestone Press From Golden Rock to Historic Gem: A Historical
Book SynopsisSt. Eustatius, a small island in the northeastern Lesser Antilles, was one of the busiest ports in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World. Contested between the Dutch, French, and English, the island attracted thousands of ships a year and became one of the most cosmopolitan places in the New World. Moreover, the island played an important role in the American War of Independence (1775-1783), during which large quantities of arms, ammunition, and gunpowder were shipped to the fledgling United States through St. Eustatius.Relics of this turbulent past are found all over the island and in its surrounding waters. These include warehouses in the historic port district, fortifications all around the island, sugar plantations in the countryside, and a variety of underwater archaeological sites such as shipwrecks, anchorage areas, and docks.Through extensive archaeological and documentary research, this study aims to provide a detailed analysis of the maritime cultural landscape of St. Eustatius over the past four centuries. It focuses on bridging the gap between the marine and terrestrial worlds and demonstrates that in order to truly make sense of the complex interactions, events, and processes that shaped this maritime world, both land and sea need to be studied in relation to each other.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction 1.1 Natural and environmental setting 1.2 Historical setting 1.3 Previous research 1.4 Research problem 2. Theoretical Framework 2.1 The development of theory in maritime archaeology 2.2 The maritime cultural landscape 2.3 The place of shipwrecks in the maritime cultural landscape 3. Research Methodology 3.1 Underwater archaeological research 3.1.1 Geophysical survey methods 3.1.2 SCUBA diving survey 3.2 The documentary record 3.2.1 Maps, charts, and artwork 3.2.2 Photographs 3.2.3 Wills, deeds, and probate inventories 3.2.4 Traveler’s accounts and ship logs 3.2.5 Newspapers 3.2.6 Public records 4. Economic Components 4.1 The commercial component 4.1.1 Lower Town 4.1.1.1 Archaeological research in Lower Town 4.1.2 Plantations 4.2 The transport and communication component 4.2.1 The roadstead 4.2.1.1 Documentary evidence 4.2.1.2 Archaeology 4.2.2 Shipwrecks 4.2.2.1 Documentary evidence 4.2.2.2 Shipwrecks in St. Eustatius’ archaeological record 4.2.3 From sea to shore 4.2.4 Discussion 4.3 The resource component 4.3.1 Water supply 4.3.2 Provisioning grounds 4.3.3 Fishing 4.3.4 Animal husbandry 4.3.5 Imports 4.4 Conclusions 5. Social Components 5.1 The civic component 5.1.1 Upper Town 5.1.2 Lower Town 5.1.3 Plantations 5.1.4 The roadstead 5.2 The cognitive component 5.2.1 Place names 5.2.2 Religious buildings 5.2.3 The deceased 5.3 The recreative component 5.3.1 Alcohol consumption 5.3.2 Smoking 5.3.3 Parties 5.3.4 Tours and picnics 5.4 Conclusions 6. Political Components 6.1 The defense component 6.1.1 The first fort 6.1.2 A ring of fortifications 6.1.3 The year 1781 6.1.4 Safety on the roadstead 6.2 The power component 6.2.1 Moveable objects 6.2.2 Plantations 6.2.3 Johannes de Graaff 6.2.4 Cemeteries 6.2.5 Military installations 6.3 Conclusions 7. Discussion 7.1 Differing timescales 7.1.1 The defense component 7.1.2 The commercial component 7.1.3 The power component 7.1.4 The resource component 7.1.5 The cognitive component 7.1.6 The civic component 7.1.7 The transport and communication component 7.1.8 The recreative component 7.2 The natural environment 7.2.1 The civic and commercial components 7.2.2 The recreative component 7.2.3 The transport and communication component 7.2.4 The defense and power components 7.2.5 The resource component 7.2.6 The cognitive component 7.3 Overlapping components 7.4 Regional and global context 7.4.1 Shipping and trade 7.4.2 St. Thomas and St. Barths 7.4.3 Bermuda 7.4.4 British North America 8. Conclusion Bibliography Appendix I: Bathymetric map Appendix II: Side scan sonar survey area Appendix III: Underwater survey transects Appendix IV: Underwater archaeological sites and artifacts Appendix V: Extent of the roadstead Appendix VI: Shipwreck site drawings, 1987-1988 Appendix VII: Text reference locations
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Sidestone Press Byblos
Book SynopsisByblos has played an extraordinary role in the history of the Mediterranean. From c. 3200 BC, it developed into the preeminent port of the region due to its strategic location at the foothills of the cedar forests of Mount Lebanon and its unique ties with the pharaohs of Egypt. An important religious center, Byblos was referred to as a Holy City in Hellenistic and Roman times. The city is synonymous with writing, a legacy that lives on through the Greek word for book. With a history that reaches back nearly 8900 years, this Lebanese coastal city is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Byblos: A Legacy Unearthed is the first anthology to be published on this remarkable city. This lavishly illustrated volume encompasses an extensive range of scholarly research, from the earliest archaeological expeditions to the latest discoveries. Its 43 chapters written by leading international experts, examine the city's history from its Neolithic origins to the Medieval era. This book is a coproduction between the National Museum of Antiquities (The Netherlands) and the Ministry of Culture/Directorate General of Antiquities (Lebanon).
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Sidestone Press Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers
Book SynopsisThis publication Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers is the first volume of the LIMES XXV's congress proceedings arranged around the original sessions, in order to form coherent thematical collections that make the vast output more accessible to generalists and specialists alike. This volume starts with a recap of the congress. Regarding the themes it deals with a contemporary feminist approach; new digital methodologies and computational modelling; three themes on archaeological heritage management dealing inter alia with preservation, protection, citizen science and World Heritage aspects, and a comparison between the Roman Limes and the Great Wall of China. It ends with an overview of the sessions and lectures of the congress in Nijmegen.Frontiers are zones, or lines, of contact and coercion, of exchange and exclusion. As such they often express some of the most typical elements of the socio-political spaces that are defined by them. Spanning some 6,000 km along rivers, mountain ranges, artificial barriers and fringes of semi-desert, the frontiers of the Roman empire offer a wide variety of avenues and topics for a very diverse community of scholars. They are the central subject of the International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies (or just Limes Congress after the Latin word for border'), organised every three years since 1949. This four-volume publication contains most of the papers presented at the 25th edition which was hosted by the municipality of Nijmegen in August 2022.
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Hannibal Books Amsterdam OnderUnder
Book SynopsisIrma Boom (born 15 December 1960) is a Dutch graphic designer who specializes in bookmaking. Boom has been described as the "Queen of Books", having created over 300 books and is well reputed for her artistic autonomy within her field. Her bold experimental approach to her projects often challenges the convention of traditional books in both physical design and printed content. Boom has been noted as the youngest recipient of the Gutenberg Prize, an award recognizing outstanding services to the advancement of the book arts. A selection of Boom's books are held in the permanent collection of MoMA,and a personalized Irma Boom Archive has been set up at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, showcasing Boom's work.
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Springer The History of Chinese Tomb Murals
Book SynopsisOverview.- Rebirth Belief in Chinese Tomb Murals - The Iconographic System of Chinese Tomb Murals.- The Contemporary Significance of Chinese Tomb Murals.- Introduction.- Tomb Murals of the Han Dynasty.
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Springer A Study of the Replication and Restoration of Chinese Musical Relics and Artefacts
Book SynopsisThe Chinese Miracles (?) The Study on Replication and Re-creation of Bianzhong (Bronze Chime Bells Set) of Marquis Yi of Zeng.- The Chinese Miracles (II): The Landmark Study, Replication and Re-creation of Jiahu Bone Flutes.- Musical Instruments in Yin-Shang Period (c. 1300 BC-c. 1046 BC): Sonorous Bronze Music.- Yuexuan (the Hanging System of Percussion Instruments) in Western Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC-771 BC): The Glory of Ritual and Music Culture.- The Spring and Autumn & Warring States Periods (770 BC-221 BC): Splendid Bronze Wonders.- Qingshang Music in Han and Wei Dynasties (206 BC-AD 265) Part I: Re-creation Project on Faux Jade Bianqing (20 pieces) from the Tomb of Jiangdu King in Western Han.
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Springer The PreAustronesian Liangdao Man
Book SynopsisThe Matsu Archipelago in The Maritime Archaeology.- The Archaeology of Matsu Archipelago.- Physical Anthropology of the Two 'Liangdao Man' Individuals.- DNA Analysis of 'Liangdao Man'.- The origins of the 'Liangdao Man' Population and its East Asian Descendants.- 'Liangdao Man' from Physical and Cultural Anthropological Perspectives.- Results and Conclusion.
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Oxford University Press Royal Coin Cabinet Stockholm Part V
Book SynopsisThis fully illustrated catalogue of coins of Edward the Confessor and Harold II in the superb collection of the Swedish Royal Coin Cabinet is a fundamental reference work for anyone studying or identifying late Anglo-Saxon coins. The volume catalogues and illustrates 1,280 coins of Edward the Confessor, the largest collection ever published, alongside detailed discussion of the moneyers'' names and commentary on a number of specific names. The majority of coins come from Swedish Viking-age finds, and the contents of 108 finds with coins of Edward the Confessor and Harold I are also surveyed. The volume includes a supplement to Part VI (Anglo-Norman coins) which publishes 72 additional coins from the Stockholm collection.
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Oxford University Press Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles Hermitage Museum St Petersburg Part IV
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OUP/British Academy Proceedings of the British Academy Volume 115
Book SynopsisVolume 115 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 20 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy and an essay on James Bryce (President of the Academy, 1913-1917). Memoirs of Fellows have previously been published in the same annual Proceedings volume as that containing the British Academy's Lectures. The Biographical Memoirs are henceforth to be published in a volume of their own, within the Proceedings sequence.Table of ContentsOBITUARIES
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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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