Catálogo de libros: Arqueología

5050 Catálogo de libros: Arqueología

Humanidades / Arqueología
Libros Eliminar filtro Inglés Eliminar filtro Humanidades Eliminar filtro Arqueología Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • The Archaeology and Architecture of Farm Buildings at Saumarez Station, Armidale, New South Wales
    Graham Connah
    This book is an analysis of nineteenth and early twentieth-century farm buildings dating from Australia’s rural pioneering period. Based on field recording during the 1980s, its historical value is now particularly significant because similar buildings in Australia have since often deteriorated or vanished completely. Construction techniques, the use of materials, mainly timbe...
    Disponible

    78,05 €

  • Stonehenge and Middle to Late Neolithic Cremation Rites in Mainland Britain (c.3500-2500 BC)
    Christina Willis
    Neolithic Britain is characterised by its wide diversity in funerary and mortuary rites. However, a shift c.3500BC led to a rise in cremation burials associated with circular monuments and by c.3000BC, cremation was the dominant funerary rite. This book provides a comprehensive re-analysis of 628 cremation deposits from 84 sites across mainland Britain, including those from St...
    Disponible

    171,67 €

  • Visitor Experiences and Audiences for the Roman Frontiers
    Nigel Mills
    This edited volume explores developing practice in the public presentation of the World Heritage of the Roman frontiers. Written by leading European practitioners the emphasis is on developing experiences that are visitor focused rather than academic, whilst respecting authenticity. The originality of the book lies in this visitor-centric approach and in the combination of str...
    Disponible

    105,65 €

  • Drawings of Roman Mosaics in the Topham Collection, Eton College Library
    Patricia Witts
    This fully illustrated study brings together over 70 prints and drawings of mosaics from the collection of nearly 3,000 items formed by Richard Topham (1671-1730). Some are the only known records of mosaics that no longer survive, and many are published here for the first time. The book includes a detailed biographical chapter on Topham himself. The drawings, mostly by Francesc...
    Disponible

    102,15 €

  • Everyday Life in the Aztec World
    Frances Berdan / Michael E. Smith / Michael ESmith
    ...
    Disponible

    39,25 €

  • Early Mesoamerican Cities
    ...
    Disponible

    124,00 €

  • Rethinking Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic Architecture in Central Anatolia
    Jana Anvari
    This book evaluates the epistemology by which archaeology has translated the architectural record at Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic (6500-5500 BC) sites in central Anatolia into interpretations of social organisation. The first part of the book provides a summary of existing knowledge on the study region, architecture in particular. The second part conducts a content ana...
    Disponible

    163,26 €

  • Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Microblade-based Industries in Northeastern Asia
    Meng Zhang
    The rise and fall of microblade technology during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene is not only a part of the panorama of global microlithization, but also a key question linked to human adaptive change in the face of climate fluctuation. This monograph creatively uses Lewis Binford’s macroecological approach developed from his book Constructing Frames of Reference (2001)...
    Disponible

    121,10 €

  • Imprints of the Archaeology of Northern Nigeria
    Abubakar Sule Sani
    Abubakar Sule Sani’s pioneering book combines archaeological, ethnographic and historical data to construct a compelling narrative about the people of the Bauchi region in northern Nigeria. It deploys a social theory of frontier to understand how Borno and other Hausa states impacted on the development of cultural process that have evolved to dominate across the Savannah region...
    Disponible

    95,12 €

  • Bows and Arrows of the Greenland Thule Culture (1200-1900 AD)
    Sebastian J. Pfeifer
    This book presents the bows and arrows attributed to the Greenland Thule culture in the archaeological and ethnographic collections of the National Museum of Denmark. It contains a catalogue with comprehensive visual and metric data. Supplemented by material from other collections and written sources accessed through the literature, both regional variability and chronology are ...
    Disponible

    63,17 €

  • Africa, Egypt and the Danubian Provinces of the Roman Empire
    This volume is the product of the symposium, ’Africa and the Danubian Provinces of the Roman Empire’ (July 29-30, 2018), which took place in Timișoara and was organized by the National Museum of Banat Timișoara, the Center for Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies (Babeș-Bolyai University) Cluj-Napoca, and the West University Timișoara. One of the keynote speakers was the Di...
    Disponible

    56,90 €

  • Change and Continuity in the Prehistoric Rock Art of East Siberia
    Irina A. Ponomareva / Irina APonomareva
    This book covers an extensive region of East Siberia, considering prehistoric ethno-cultural and social processes through the development of rock art styles and traditions. It addresses the questions of why rock art is created, why specific styles and traditions emerge and why changes in rock art occur. These questions are explored through anthropological perspectives on ethnic...
    Disponible

    112,52 €

  • Victims’ Experiences of The Criminal Justice Response to Domestic Abuse
    Emma Forbes
    Victims’ Experiences of The Criminal Justice Response to Domestic Abuse: Beyond GlassWalls provides a unique perspective on how victims of domestic abuse experience the justice process. ...
    Disponible

    61,16 €

  • The Book of the Dead (Hardback)
    E. A. Wallis Budge / EAWallis Budge
    The Book of the Dead was intended to assist the deceased in the afterlife and comprised a collection of hymns, spells and instructions to allow the deceased to pass through obstacles in the afterlife. ...
    Disponible

    6,83 €

  • Ancient Pottery, Cuisine, and Society at the Northern Great Lakes
    Susan M. Kooiman
    This innovative archaeological study of diet and cooking technology sheds light on ancient cuisine.Ancient cuisine is one of the hot topics in today’s archaeology. This book explores changing settlement and subsistence in the Northern Great Lakes from the perspective of food-processing technology and cooking. Susan Kooiman examines precontact Indigenous pottery from the Cloudma...
    Disponible

    145,53 €

  • Ancient Pottery, Cuisine, and Society at the Northern Great Lakes
    Susan M. Kooiman
    This innovative archaeological study of diet and cooking technology sheds light on ancient cuisine.Ancient cuisine is one of the hot topics in today’s archaeology. This book explores changing settlement and subsistence in the Northern Great Lakes from the perspective of food-processing technology and cooking. Susan Kooiman examines precontact Indigenous pottery from the Cloudma...
    Disponible

    66,57 €

  • The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt
    Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom / Darlene LBrooks Hedstrom
    ...
    Disponible

    37,86 €

  • ENDEAVOR 5
    Michelle Snyder
    ENDEAVOR is FREA’s quarterly publication. ENDEAVOR tells the story of Dr. Enzmann and his wife Joanna Enzmann - he a world-class geologist, historian, linguist, astronomer, engineer, and physicist , and she a skilled mathematician and programmer who worked on the first computers and some classified projects - and how they worked together to create the skin in which the space pr...
    Disponible

    32,02 €

  • The Place of Stone
    Douglas Hunter
    Claimed by many to be the most frequently documented artifact in American archeology, Dighton Rock is a forty-ton boulder covered in petroglyphs in southern Massachusetts. First noted by New England colonists in 1680, the rock’s markings have been debated endlessly by scholars and everyday people alike on both sides of the Atlantic. The glyphs have been erroneously assigned to ...
    Disponible

    50,86 €

  • Recovering Convict Lives
    Richard Tuffin
    The World Heritage-listed Port Arthur penitentiary is one of Australia’s most visited historical sites, attracting over 400,000 visitors each year. Designed to incarcerate 480 men, between 1856 and 1877 thousands of convicts passed through it.In 2016, archaeologists began one of the largest ever excavations of an Australian convict site. Recovering Convict Lives: Historical Arc...
    Disponible

    56,33 €

  • Carved in Stone
    The study of marks left by humans on stone outcrops is an interdisciplinary endeavour that entails geology, history of techniques, ethnography as well as experimental archaeology. Moreover, the investigation of carved landscapes contributes to the understanding of the complex relationship between human groups and their environments. This volume represents an overview of differe...
    Disponible

    101,48 €

  • Iron Age Chariot Burials in Britain and the Near Continent
    Greta Anthoons
    The British chariot burials, mainly concentrated in East Yorkshire, reveal a strong link with continental Europe, which has led some scholars to believe that this burial rite was introduced by immigrants from northern Gaul. Other scholars do not accept migration as the key explanation for cultural changes and argue that new rites and customs may also be adopted through social n...
    Disponible

    138,58 €

  • Latin Lexicon of Textiles
    Elena Miramontes Seijas
    As a Latin lexicon, this volume pursues two main objectives: to create a broad corpus of Latin terms related to textiles, accessories and personal care and to collect all data in a comprehensible and practical format. Texts and visual sources were consulted, dating from the 3rd century BC up to the 4th AD, describing materials and trends from all regions within the Roman Empire...
    Disponible

    123,62 €

  • The Maya and Environmental Stress from Past to Present
    Eva Jobbová
    Both the perceived successes and failures of the Maya are often linked to their relationship with the local environment and their response to episodes of climate change over a period of nearly 2000 years. However, our understanding of human responses to environmental stress has mostly been shaped by a narrow focus on drought as a cause for societal collapse, even in relatively ...
    Disponible

    117,01 €

  • Human-Environment Dynamics in the Aeolian Islands during the Bronze Age
    Claudia Speciale
    The book is the result of a three-year investigation on the Aeolian Islands, a volcanic archipelago consisting of seven islands in north-eastern Sicily, Italy. The author provides new information on the use of vegetal resources and exploitation of the insular landscape by human communities between the end of the third and the end of the second millennium BC. Archaeological data...
    Disponible

    90,88 €

  • Everyday Life in the Aztec World
    Frances Berdan / Michael E. Smith
    ...
    Disponible

    119,07 €

  • Archaic Tracks Round Cambridge
    Alfred Watkins
    Archaic Tracks Round Cambridge was published in 1932, and was the last book by Alfred Watkins, who died in 1935. Watkins is still well known today as the original writer about ’ley lines’ through his influential topographical study, The Old Straight Track, and his other works including The Ley Hunter’s Manual. This is the first new edition of his Cambridge book, exploring topog...
    Disponible

    20,21 €

  • China Memories
    Ian W. Brown / Ian WBrown
    These memories derive from a journey that the author took in China in February and March of 1999 as a member of the Zhong Xian Archaeological Project. His trip largely focused on the province of Sichuan, but several days were spent in and around Beijing. An archaeological study of salt was the purpose of the expedition, but in the process of traveling hither and yon, Dr. Brown ...
    Disponible

    19,95 €

  • Village and Colony Asylums in Britain, Ireland and Germany, 1880-1914
    Gillian Allmond
    This book analyses the buildings, interiors and landscapes of asylums for the insane poor in the early part of the twentieth century, exploring the ways in which environments were seen as therapeutic. An innovative type of asylum layout - the village or colony asylum - is considered in detail. Gillian Allmond offers an original approach to asylum analysis, using field observati...
    Disponible

    148,06 €

  • Art and Archaeology in Byzantium and Beyond
    Dionysios Mourelatos
    Art and Archaeology in Byzantium and Beyond consists of 21 papers, which represent the breadth of the research interests of Sophia Kalopissi-Verti and Maria Panayotidi-Kesisoglou, to whom this volume is dedicated. The chapters have been divided into four sections and each is set in chronological order. The first section is dedicated to Byzantine and Post-Byzantine painting, inc...
    Disponible

    126,01 €


Primera 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Última