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The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia
by Robin Dennell
Asia has received far less attention than Africa and Europe in the search for human origins, but is no longer considered of marginal importance. Indeed, a global understanding of human origins cannot be properly understood without a detailed consideration of the largest continent. In this study, Robin Dennell examines a variety of sources, including the archaeological evidence, the fossil hominin record, and the environmental and climatic ...
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The First Africans: African Archaeology from the Earliest Toolmakers to Most Recent Foragers
by Lawrence Barham and Peter Mitchell
Africa has the longest record - some 2.5 million years - of human occupation of any continent. For nearly all of this time, its inhabitants have made tools from stone and have acquired their food from its rich wild plant and animal resources. Archaeological research in Africa is crucial for understanding the origins of humans and the diversity of hunter-gatherer ways of life. This book is a synthesis of the record left by Africa's earliest ...
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Cognitive Archaeology and Human Evolution
edited by Sophie A. de Beaune
Seeking to understand the conditions that led to the development of a variety of cognitive processes during evolution, this collection uses evidence from empirical studies and offers theoretical speculations about the evolution of modern thinking as well. The twelve essays, written by an international team of scholars, represent an eclectic array of interests, methods, and theories about evolutionary cognitive archaeology. Collectively, they ...
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The Glaciations of Wales and Adjacent Areas
edited by Colin A Lewis and Andrew E Richards
Fifteen leading geographers and Quaternary scientists have combined in this book to present the latest information on the Quaternary development (and particularly the glaciations) of Wales, the Cheshire-Shropshire lowlands, Severn Valley, South West Peninsula, the east coast of Ireland and the Irish sea and adjoining Celtic Sea basins. This area is divided into ten regions, each of which is the subject of a chapter. The book is interdisciplinary ...
Paperback. GB £25.00, GB £9.95
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The English Countryside Explored
by Peter Fowler and Ian Blackwell
A reprint for Fowler and Blackwell's 1998, The Land of Lettice Sweetapple. Peter Fowler and his team of archaeologists, historians and scientists have investigated the landscape of the parishes of West Overton and Flyfield over 39 years, not merely as local history but as a microcosm of the English countryside. In setting out to answer the question 'How has this landscape come to look as it does?', they have made use of fieldwork, aerial ...
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Bloody Meadows: Investigating Landscapes of Battle
by John and Patricia Carman
Battles as events are a major focus of military history in all periods, and battlefield sites are increasingly being taken up as part of the nation's cultural heritage. Bloody Meadows takes and exciting new approach to this aspect of military history and archaeology. It looks at the physical landscapes of battles, exploring reasons behind the choice of site and exposing assumptions about how war should be conducted. Drawing on several ...
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Meaning and Identity in a Greek Landscape: An Archaeological Ethnography
Forbes, Hamish
Oxbow says: This excellent study combines ethnographic fieldwork carried out by the author on the small Greek peninsula of Methana, with archaeological survey and historical research on 19th century documents. Meaning and Identity in a Greek Landscape seeks to explore, and try to understand, the meaning of the rural landscape to the people of Methana, providing both an insiders and outsiders perspective of Methana and the ...
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Securing the Past: Conservation in Art, Architecture and Literature
by Paul Eggert
We all have a stake in the past and in its tangible preservation, and we trust professionals to preserve our cultural heritage for the future. However, restoration in all its forms is entangled in many contemporary theoretical debates and problems. This book is the first concerted effort to examine together the linked philosophies of the different arts of preserving and uncovering the past: the restoration of buildings, conservation of works of ...
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Birds
by Dale Serjeantson
This book serves as a guide to the methods of study of bird remains from the past and covers a wide range of topics, including anatomy and osteology, taphonomy, eggs, feathers, and bone tools. It examines the myriad ways in which people have interacted with birds in the past. The volume also includes discussion on the consumption of wild birds, the domestication of birds, cockfighting and falconry, birds in ritual and religion, and the role of ...
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Cosmopolitan Archaeologies
edited by Lynn Meskell
The essays in this volume address archaeological ethics, exploring the obligations to local communities which archaeologists increasingly observe, and the global political contexts in which they operate, drawing on recent developments in cosmopolitan theory and ethics. The contributors examine the ways in which archaeology interacts with local contexts and struggles over cultural heritage, as well as conservation and ecological movements, and ...
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Archaeology of Islands
by Paul Rainbird
Archaeologists have traditionally considered islands as distinct physical and social entities. In this book, Paul Rainbird discusses the historical construction of this characterization and questions the basis for such an understanding of island archaeology. Through a series of case studies of prehistoric archaeology in the Mediterranean, Pacific, Baltic, and Atlantic seas and oceans, he argues for a decentering of the land in favor of an ...
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Memory and Material Culture
by Andrew Jones
Oxbow says: This book explores how memory can be studied archaeologically by focusing on the relationship between people and artefacts and trying to understand how this material world provides a framework or map for remembrance. Using examples from across Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Europe, though predominantly drawing on evidence from Scotland, Andrew Jones presents a very interesting discussion on our perceptions of objects, ...
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Hardback. GB £49.00
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Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology
edited by Philip L. Kohl and Clare Fawcett
A collection of articles which attempt to describe the complex relationship between archaeological research and `evidence' and its use for political and nationalistic purposes. This century has already seen much abuse of the ancestral record, and the introduction to this book points out that "the blatantly political manipulation of archaeological data is particularly acute today in those areas...which are experiencing ethnic wars associated ...
Paperback. GB £28.99, GB £9.95
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Backbone of History: Health & Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere
Steckel, Richard H
This collection of twenty-two papers, which originated in the 1988 meetings of the Economic History Association in Detroit, provides an interdisciplinary assessment of health and nutrition among Native Americans, Euro-Americans and African-Americans across North, Central and Southern America. The papers, written by archaeologists, anthropologists, historians and archaeo-pathologists, include methodological papers, studies of specific populations ...
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Hardback. GB £60.00
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Palaeopathology
by Tony Waldron
This book is designed to help bone specialists with the diagnosis of diseases in skeletal assemblages. It suggests an innovative method of arriving at a diagnosis by applying what are referred to as operational definitions. The aim is to ensure that all those who study bones will use the same criteria for diagnosing disease, which will enable valid comparisons to be made between studies. The book is based on modern clinical knowledge and provides ...
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Hardback. GB £53.00, GB £12.95
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John Aubrey and Stone Circles
by Aubrey Burl
This engaging biography tells the story of John Aubreys colourful life, with a definite focus on his pioneering archaeological work. Although in his own day he was better known for his often scurrillous Brief Lives, Aubrey (1626-97) was responsible for the first systematic study of Britains stone circles, surveying monuments up and down the country. It was this innovation of fieldwork, Burl argues which made Aubreys work so important, as well as ...
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Lost Gods of Albion: The Chalk Hill-Figures of Britain
by Paul Newman
A volume of fascinating insights into the enigmatic figures carved into the hills of southern Britain. Newman has created more than a gazetteer by investigating the historical treatment of the figures, as well as attempting new interpretations of their intrinsic significance. Lots of illustrations - watch out for the novel viewing point for the Cerne Abbas giant if you are easily shocked! 216p, many b/w illus (1987, The History Press revised ...
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Catalogue of the 'Germanic Antiquities
Orlinska, Grayzna
Gustav Friedrich Klemm was a 19th century scholar and collector of antiquities. Part of his collection which was purchased by the British Musuem in 1868, forms the subject for this book. It largely comprises a catalogue of material from the Old Germanic Confederation, with objects dating from the Neolithic to post-Medieval period. The catalogue is preceded by a discussion of the cultural and historical context of the objects and of the collection ...
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Gods of the Celts
by Miranda Green
Spanning the period between 500 BC and 400 AD and dealing with the whole of the Celtic world from Ireland to Austria, this useful source book explores such subjects as the cults of sun and sky; fertility and the Mother-Goddess; war, death and the underworld; water gods and healers; animals and animism; symbolism and imagery. The study is now available again as a handy paperback. 244p, 26 col and b/w pls (Sutton 1986, 2nd edn 2004, repr ...
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Ancient Warfare
edited by John Carman and Anthony Harding
A number of books on warfare have been published recently, although these focus largely on the Roman and medieval periods - prehistoric warfare is often viewed as problematic, the evidence patchy and difficult to interpret. With this in mind, Ancient Warfare should be seen as making a major contribution to the study of the theory, archaeology and history of warfare. Taken largely from the 1996 'Ancient Warfare' conference held in Durham, ...
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Art of the Celts: 700 BC to AD 700
by Felix Muller
Although ostensibly an exhibition catalogue, this beautifully produced volume serves admirably as a considered exploration of the history, art and archaeology of the Celts in its own right. Well over half of the book is occupied by an extended essay which places Celtic art in its context, outlining stylistic and symbolic developments alongside a narrative of socio-economic and political change. The catalogue contains only 40 pieces, but each is a ...
Hardback. GB £45.00, GB £14.95
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The Cave of Fontechevade: Recent Excavations and Their Paleoanthropological Implications
by Philip G. Chase, Andre Debenath, Harold L. Dibble and Shannon P. McPherron
A summary of the discoveries made during the course of excavations at the Paleolithic cave site of Fontéchevade, France, between 1994 and 1998. The excavation team address major problems raised by earlier excavations at the site from 1937 to 1954. These earlier excavations produced two sets of problematic data : first, the Lower Paleolithic stone tool industry, the Tayacian, that differs in fundamental ways from other contemporary ...
Hardback. GB £50.00, GB £14.95
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The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia
by Philip L Kohl
This book provides an overview of Bronze Age societies of western Eurasia through an investigation of the archaeological record. Philip Kohl outlines the long-term processes and patterns of interaction that link these groups together in a shared historical trajectory of development. Interactions took the form of the exchange of raw materials and finished goods, the spread and sharing of technologies, and the movements of peoples from one region ...
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Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia
by Bryan K. Hanks and Katheryn M. Linduff
Through a thematic investigation of archaeological patterns ranging from monument construction and use and production and consumption of metals to the nature of mobility among societies, the essays in this volume provide the most up-to-date thinking on social and cultural change in prehistoric Eurasia. Collectively, they challenge broader theoretical trends in Anglo-American archaeology, which have traditionally favored comparative studies of ...
Hardback. GB £56.00, GB £17.95
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Social Archaeology of Households in Neolithic Greece
Souvati, Stella
The study of households and everyday life is increasingly recognized as fundamental in social archeological analysis. This volume is the first to address the household as a process and as a conceptual and analytical means through which we can interpret social organization from the bottom up. Using detailed case studies from Neolithic Greece, Stella Souvatzi examines how the household is defined socially, culturally, and historically; she ...
Hardback. GB £66.00, GB £19.95
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