Catálogo de libros: Arqueología

5050 Catálogo de libros: Arqueología

  • Tea on the terrace
    Kathleen Sheppard
    A history of travel, tourism, and Egyptology, Tea on the terrace examines what Egyptologists did between home and the field site and how their activities in hotels and on dahabeahs impacted the development of the discipline at the turn of the twentieth century. ...
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    145,31 €

  • A History of World Egyptology
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    217,19 €

  • The Origins of Hilltop Enclosures
    Lorrae Campbell
    The Late Bronze Age in Britain (c. 1250-750 BC) was a period of major economic and social reorganisation: agricultural and settlement patterns, funerary and depositional practices all saw significant change. This book examines the evidence for the occupation and enclosure of hilltops in Atlantic western Britain during this formative period. Focussing on why communities started ...
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    98,64 €

  • Lithuanian Baltic Sea Coasts during the Holocene
    Lithuanian Baltic Sea Coasts During the Holocenefocuses on the relicts of the cultural and natural landscapes that survived in the Baltic Sea during the final Paleolithic-Middle Neolithic period in Lithuania. Using a combination of interdisciplinary research methodologies from archaeology, physical and biomedical sciences, with innovative use of underwater technologies, the con...
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    94,55 €

  • Rock Art in the Landscapes of Motion
    This volume presents a collection of papers focusing on the dynamic relationship between rock art, movement and the surrounding landscape. The contributors offer a wide range of theoretical perspectives from broad geographical and chronological contexts, encompassing case studies from three continents, and spanning a timeline from the European Palaeolithic to the Colonial Perio...
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    106,11 €

  • 3D Surveying Methods and Digital Information Management for Archaeological Heritage
    Angela Bosco
    3D Surveying Methods and Digital Information Management for Archaeological Heritage analyses in detail the methods and developments in 3D survey, with reference to the different areas of archaeological research. It examines the transition from traditional applications to 3D surveying, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages. Three-dimensional acquisition methods using ...
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    56,64 €

  • Ancient Oaxaca
    Gary M. Feinman / Richard E. Blanton / Stephen A. Kowalewski
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    102,18 €

  • Ancient Oaxaca
    Gary M. Feinman / Richard E. Blanton / Stephen A. Kowalewski
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    34,67 €

  • Nineveh and Its Remains, Volume 1
    Austen Henry Layard
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    62,89 €

  • Nineveh and Its Remains, Volume 2
    Austen Henry Layard
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    69,02 €

  • Nineveh and Its Remains, Volume 2
    Austen Henry Layard
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    47,33 €

  • Nineveh and Its Remains, Volume 1
    Austen Henry Layard
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    41,18 €

  • Reassessing Paleolithic Subsistence
    Eugène Morin
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    49,92 €

  • Neighbours and strangers
    Bernhard Zeller / Charles West / Francesca Tinti
    This book explores rural societies in western Europe from 700-1050. It focuses on the bottom of the social hierarchy, rejectingviews that see rural society exclusively through the structures of lordship and challenging the teleological idea of the residential group as the prototype of the late-medieval structured community. ...
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    44,04 €

  • Technical Arts in the Han Histories
    The first concerted attempt to analyze how the histories Shiji and Hanshu described the technical arts as they were applied in vital areas of the administration of pre-Han and Han China. ...
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    43,98 €

  • Inclusive Visions
    Raffaella Cecilia
    Inclusive Visions explores the embodied experience, situated interactions and identities of young blind and partially sighted visitors in the museum space. It investigates how they make meaning and form identities by physically encountering objects, resources and the environment with their companions and other visitors. The visit experience of blind and partially sighted partic...
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    102,46 €

  • Mesoamerican Codices
    Alessia Frassani
    Religious manuscripts from ancient and early colonial Mexico offer a direct pathway into indigenous worldviews through the uniquely Mesoamerican medium of pictography. During the thousands of years preceding Spanish invasion, a complex calendrical system developed in the region, forming the basic organizing principle of this pictorial language. This book offers new interpretati...
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    101,24 €

  • Dying Young
    Anna Rohnbogner
    Dying Young explores childhood morbidity and mortality during the 1st to 5th century AD. The detailed osteological analysis of 953 non-adult (0 - 17 years) skeletons from 15 sites paints a rich picture of the lived realities of Romano-British children in towns and settlements of the countryside. Health and disease are examined under the themes of infant mortality, growth, diet,...
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    94,88 €

  • A Categorisation of the Ships and Boats of the Egyptian New Kingdom
    Michael Allen Stephens
    This book - a continuation of the author’s previous BAR work 'A Categorisation and Examination of Egyptian Ships and Boats from the Rise of the Old to the End of the Middle Kingdoms' (BAR Publishing 2358, 2012) - brings together disparate strands of the study of ships and boats of the Egyptian New Kingdom. It collates previous categorisation systems for these watercraft and pre...
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    113,34 €

  • Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region of the Latrobe Valley
    Alexandra Dellios
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    24,06 €

  • Late Babylonian Letters
    R. Campbell Thompson
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    24,63 €

  • Late Babylonian Letters
    R. Campbell Thompson
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    41,71 €

  • ’Make it According to Plan’
    Michelle Hampson
    The tomb paintings and reliefs of Ancient Egypt constitute a major source of evidence for the historical and cultural reconstruction of this fascinating civilisation, but the compilation and detailed analysis of both the iconographic and textual data contained in such scenes in one volume is seldom undertaken. This book focuses on one of the main themes illustrated - craftsmen ...
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    215,13 €

  • Past Imperfect
    Sian Tiley-Nel
    This book interrogates the context, primary literature and silent gaps in the Mapungubwe Archive held at the University of Pretoria. It examines the multiple narratives and ignored indigenous histories of Mapungubwe in South Africa, prior to the scientific gold discovery of 1933. Using postmodern notions of archival theory and science as a central argument, the author demonstra...
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    69,63 €

  • Making a Medieval Stained Glass Window
    Laura W Adlington
    Medieval stained glass windows are relatively untapped sources of information about medieval technology and production because their architectural context usually prohibits sampling for chemical analysis. This volume presents a comprehensive study of York Minster’s Great East Window (1405-1408), investigating glass-making technology and provenance, and glass-painting craft orga...
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    129,76 €

  • Kilns in East and North Asia
    The start of ceramic industry is an important stage in mass production and is closely related to social complexity and social exchanges including the immigration of specialists. The introduction of high-temperature operations and varying firing regimes is a technological breakthrough in ceramic production. This book discusses the introduction and the background of kilns and adv...
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    129,84 €

  • A Walk Across Mongolia
    William C. Obl.S.B. Engels
    The book describes the adventures, encounters with the land and people, and psychological journey of the author during a trek across Mongolia from China to Russia in the summer of 2002. It offers the reader an adventure on both the physical and spiritual plane, with the second terra incognita possibly the more perilous of the two. It traces the author’s progress in coming to t...
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    22,92 €

  • Sky Raider
    Thomas Upson
    Do you want to know how it feels to be an Ace in a world at war?Defy gravity with Dr. Duke Thomas, WWI Flying Ace, in his open cockpit biplane as he survives the war-torn skies of Europe and Egypt.In this epic aviation and archaeological adventure, Duke, an American volunteer fighter pilot, and Archaeology PhD, is surprised and amazed by his own supernatural ability to survive...
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    11,29 €

  • 6000 BC
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    149,02 €

  • A New Golden Age of Archeology
    Michael Gfoeller
    This book uses both succinct, informative essays and beautiful, detailed photography to reveal how recent archeological discoveries in the ancient country of Armenia have transformed our understanding of the origins of human civilization and humanity itself. It also tells the story of a heroic team of Armenian archeologists who have singlehandedly created a new golden age of ar...
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    154,80 €