Catálogo de libros: Arqueología

5050 Catálogo de libros: Arqueología

  • Parthian Stations by Isidore of Charax
    Wilfred H. Schoff
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    9,73 €

  • Parthian Stations by Isidore of Charax
    Wilfred H. Schoff
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    27,98 €

  • Interactions, Trade, and Mobility in Archaeology
    Angela Falezza
    The Graduate Archaeology at Oxford (GAO) International Conference 2021 provided early career researchers with the opportunity to share their work and ideas in regard to interaction, trade and mobility in archaeology. Over the three-day conference, this topic was analysed from different perspectives: social interactions, economy and trade, and maritime network. The array of pape...
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    111,45 €

  • Archaeology as Festival
    ’This is one of the most delightful and innovative conference proceedings I have read. The book has a wonderful variety of creative contributions where each paper pops like a wild flower in the green field of a rock festival. There are continuities and common threads (place making, networks, phenomenology), but each paper unravels a world of its own.’ Kostis Kourelis, Franklin ...
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    90,19 €

  • Technological Knowledge in the Production of Neolithic Majiayao Pottery in Gansu and Qinghai
    Evgenia Dammer
    This book is the first comprehensive study of the technological knowledge needed to produce Neolithic Majiayao-style pottery (5300-4000 cal yr BP) which is famous for its painted designs in black and red. It examines the technological choices in the production of fine and coarse Majiayao-style pottery found across three river valleys, all located near the border area of Chinese...
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    113,01 €

  • The Archaeology of South Asia
    Robin Coningham / Ruth Young
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    56,64 €

  • The Sequence of Late Formative Ceremonial Structures at Salango, Coastal Ecuador
    Richard Lunniss
    The Late Formative site of Salango, on the central coast of Ecuador, functioned as a sacred centre of increasing influence from 600 BC to 100 BC. This period saw eight main episodes of construction and use of an elaborate sequence of Middle and Late Engoroy phase ceremonial floors, houses, and platforms. Complementing the author’s previous work ’Cultural Identity, Transition, a...
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    68,65 €

  • Projectile Points, Hunting and Identity at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey
    Lilian Dogiama
    In this book Dr Lilian Dogiama considers the role of hunting at the Neolithic community of Çatalhöyük and its significance in shaping personal and communal identities by focusing on its stone projectile points. Wild faunal remains indicate that hunting remained in practice, even though domesticated animals and plants comprised the staple diet of the people of Çatalhöyük. Huntin...
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    96,25 €

  • Human Prehistory
    Deborah Barsky
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    145,04 €

  • Death in the Iron Age of Eastern England
    Michael Legge
    Death in the Iron Age of Eastern England explores the treatment of the non-cremated dead from 800BC - c.AD60 in what is now eastern England. The research presented identifies large-scale patterns in post-mortem treatment, furthering existing debates around excarnation practices, inhumation traditions and the ’invisible dead’. The region has seen comparatively little in-depth st...
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    115,53 €

  • The Origin of White Porcelain
    Shan Huang
    The sixth century saw a major transformation of ceramic technology. It initiated an era characterised by porcelain and polychrome decoration that overturned the earlier pattern of earthenware and stoneware production that had been used for thousands of years. However, the process of this dramatic transformation has been unclear.The Origin of White Porcelain focuses on the typo-...
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    94,46 €

  • Becoming an Archaeologist
    Joseph Flatman
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    126,43 €

  • Becoming an Archaeologist
    Joseph Flatman
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    41,69 €

  • Space and Function
    Liqun He
    Space and Function is a study of Buddhist State Monasteries in medieval East Asia. The research is based on archaeological evidence and focuses on how the monastery’s layout developed with the evolution of Buddhist philosophy and practice.Building on earlier literature regarding the development of Buddhist monastery layouts, Dr He relies on his two decades of excavation experie...
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    93,03 €

  • Down by the Water
    Elisabeth Holmqvist
    Waterways have been key factors in the development of societies from prehistoric times, particularly due to their role as vectors for cultural interactions, material exchange, and transmission of knowledge. The fluidity of these highways of transport and communications is tightly linked to the presence of transit points: spaces with unique geographical characteristics that acte...
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    99,80 €

  • Beyond Death
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on the BAR Digital platform. A wide-ranging treatment on the meaning of death, and its juxtaposition with life, from biological, cultural, and spiritual perspectives. Dozens of case studies accompany the principal essays written by scholars, Indigenous com...
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    77,97 €

  • The Hellenistic and Roman Harbours of Delos and Kenchreai
    Ioannis Nakas
    This book proposes a new approach to the Hellenistic and Roman harbours of the Aegean, based on the combined study of harbours and contemporary ships, seamanship, and commerce. It focuses on the capacity of harbours to accommodate and serve certain numbers of ships, their cargo, their crews, and their passengers. This is achieved through the study of a variety of archaeological...
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    100,57 €

  • Late Antiquity and Early Christianity in the Roman Provinces of Moesia Prima and Dacia Ripensis
    Olivera Ilic
    This book discusses recent archaeological research along the Middle Danube Limes, as well as cities and fortifications in the hinterland of the Limes. This research sheds light on the process of Christianisation through the discovery of sacral architecture, sepulchral monuments and religious objects devoted to liturgical practice. An extensive catalogue of early Christian relig...
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    54,71 €

  • Rock Art Research in the Digital Era
    Julian Jansen van Rensburg / Rebecca Döhl
    Rock Art Research in the Digital Era covers the research presented at the 20th International Rock Art Congress (IFRAO) held in Darfo Boario Terme, Valcamonica (Italy), from 29 August - 2 September 2018. With a broad understanding of digital archaeology, a diverse range of specialists demonstrate how digital technologies can benefit the study of rock art in a variety of contexts...
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    89,08 €

  • Life and Death in Early Rural Otago
    Hallie Buckley / Peter Petchey
    This book describes the investigation of St John’s Cemetery near Milton in Otago, southern New Zealand, that was carried out in 2016 as part of a wider study of early settler graves in the region. The cemetery was used between 1860 and 1926 and contains the burials of some of the first European (predominantly British) settlers in the area. In collaboration with a local group of...
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    67,87 €

  • Innovative Approaches to Archaeology
    The volume brings together the innovative contributions presented at the Graduate Archaeology at Oxford 2020 conference ’Innovative Approaches to Archaeology’. Rather than organising contributions by traditional archaeological sub-disciplines, this book groups them for their innovative theoretical and methodological approaches: Investigating materiality and material interaction...
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    92,86 €

  • Civilisation Recast
    Michael Rowlands / Stephen Feuchtwang
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    35,85 €

  • Homo Migrans
    Megan J. Daniels
    Addresses the revolutionary impact of genetics, isotopes, and data science on the study of migration and mobility in past human societies. ...
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    46,38 €

  • The Rise and Decline of Druce Farm Roman Villa (60-650 CE)
    Lilian Ladle
    Results from the excavation of this high-status Roman villa confirm its occupation throughout the Roman period and beyond, illuminating lifestyle and landscape through detailed analysis of its architecture, finds and environmental remains. This site includes rectilinear enclosures and associated Roman style buildings dating from the mid-1st century, and represents the earliest ...
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    187,12 €

  • Facing the Enemy?
    Andrew Tibbs
    Facing the Enemy is a GIS-based examination of the relationship between Roman fortifications occupied during the Flavian period (AD 77-86/90), and their Scottish landscape setting. It undertakes spatial analysis of the positioning, orientation, intervisibility and interconnectivity of the early legionary fortresses, forts, fortlets, camps and towers. The study combines mapping ...
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    100,66 €

  • Political Change and Material Culture in Middle to Late Bronze Age Canaan
    Shlomit Bechar
    Examines the relationship between politics and material culture during the transition from the Middle Bronze Age to the Late Bronze Age in the southern Levant by studying architectural and ceramic changes. ...
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    216,52 €

  • The Bannock Burn
    Ian McNeish / Murray Cook
    Winding from Earl’s Hill to the River Forth, to follow the Bannock Burn is to chart the twists and turns of Scotland’s history. Over the centuries, its shores have seen duns and brochs, mills and lime kilns, Romans and redcoats, and much more besides. Its meandering waters have driven industry, provided sustenance and played witness to some incredible stories.In this book, Dr M...
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    26,54 €

  • Communal Solitude
    Francesca Breeden
    The Carthusians were a small monastic order founded in France in the late 11th century. Their dedication to the hermit lifestyle required a unique living situation that included individual housing for each monk, and a group of lay brothers who carried out the day-to-day tasks and interacted with the local community.This volume examines the Carthusian Order in Great Britain and ...
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    58,56 €

  • The Archaeology of Conflicts
    For the first time, this volume brings together an international group of experts on the topic of early modern military encampments in Northwestern Europe. Despite the flourishing of conflict archaeology across the continent, the discipline lacks a consistent terminology and adequate typology for describing and interpreting the large variety of structures in encampments and the...
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    116,49 €

  • The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant
    Raphael Greenberg
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    37,78 €