Catálogo de libros: Arqueología

5050 Catálogo de libros: Arqueología

  • The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World
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    124,20 €

  • At Home in Roman Egypt
    Anna Lucille Boozer
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    137,36 €

  • Culture and History in the Pacific
    Jukka Siikala
    Culture and History in the Pacific is a collection of essays originally published in 1990. The texts explore from different perspectives the question of culture as a repository of historical information. They also address broader questions of anthropological writing at the time, such as the relationship between anthropologists’ representations and local conceptions.This republi...
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    41,45 €

  • Political Thought in Portugal and its Empire, c.1500-1800
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    35,21 €

  • Political Thought in Portugal and its Empire, c.1500-1800
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    101,49 €

  • Power from Below in Premodern Societies
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    124,08 €

  • Ethnographic Returns
    Anne Gustavsson
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    23,72 €

  • Good Taste, Fashion, Luxury
    Sarah Hayes
    Melbourne grew during the 19th century from its fledgling roots into a global metropolitan centre, and was home to many people from a range of social and cultural backgrounds. The Martin family arrived in Melbourne in 1839 and soon established themselves at the genteel Viewbank estate near Heidelberg.They were typical of the early, middle-class immigrants to Melbourne who broug...
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    29,13 €

  • Forming Identities
    Emilio Rodríguez-Álvarez
    This book focuses on the manufacturing techniques of Corinthian potters during the Archaic Period, as well as the relationships established with their natural environment. The results of this research show that the advent of the Black Figure pottery style was intrinsically related to the adoption by Corinthian potters of new manufacturing techniques and recipes for their paints...
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    80,07 €

  • Painted Pottery Production and Social Complexity in Neolithic Northwest China
    Ling-yu Hung
    This study focuses on Neolithic period Majiayao-style painted pottery from Northwest China, which is known for its high quality and beautiful décor. While much is known about the pottery, research on the associated Majiayao Culture has previously been limited to cultural histories that emphasize chronology and trait-list classification, leading to a static and simplistic view o...
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    106,31 €

  • 3D and 4D Cartography of Archaeological Stratigraphy
    Undine Lieberwirth
    This monograph focuses on one of the most interesting sections of the Main Forum of Ostia Antica, the ancient commercial port of Rome, during the 2nd-6th centuries AD. With a detailed 3D reconstruction of all collected information, it is possible to gain detailed insights into the development and destruction of the city centre during the transition from Antiquity to the Early M...
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    61,05 €

  • The Archaeology of Inequality
    Orlando Cerasuolo
    Brings together archaeologists, art historians, sociologists, and classicists to explore the origins and development of unequal relationships in ancient societies. ...
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    125,41 €

  • A Circular Argument
    Martin Cathcart Frödén
    Uniquely combining two parts, one critical in the form of a research piece, and the other creative in the form of a fictional novel, A Circular Argument spans creative writing, criminology and architecture to look at the ways in which power and hierarchies are explored and exploited in space. ...
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    45,96 €

  • Salt
    Anthony Harding
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    24,06 €

  • Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
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    37,91 €

  • Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Bronzes from Anatolia and Neighbouring Regions
    Ergün Laflı
    This volume focuses on bronze and other metal finds from several ancient sites of Asia Minor and other regions in the Mediterranean. The chapters include analysis of pre-Greek, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine bronzes from Anatolia, as well as studies of bronzes from Georgia, Greece, Iran, Italy, Serbia, and Slovenia. Key sites are covered, such as Allianoi, Arycanda and Olba, Roman...
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    208,60 €

  • Animal Classification in Central China
    Ningning Dong
    This monograph uses an archaeological approach to decipher folk classification of animals in ancient societies. Ningning Dong collates faunal data from three late Neolithic and early Bronze Age sites in central China and integrates multiple lines of evidence. The analyses demonstrate a folk taxonomy remarkably different from the Linnaean system. The results show that age might ...
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    75,99 €

  • A River In ’Drought’?
    John Burn
    While the idea of a catastrophic drought ending the Old Kingdom has been shown to be too simple an explanation, current research suggests that some climatic change was occurring at this time. Increasing aridity, developing since the third Dynasty, was punctuated with times of unseasonal rain, and both these events would have had some impact upon the environmental circumstances ...
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    97,16 €

  • Beyond Paradigms in Cultural Astronomy
    Cultural Astronomy is the endeavour to understand the role of the sky in past and present societies, and how these societies incorporated the sky into their culture. This broad ranging discipline is closely related to archaeology when investigating material remains of the past. Cultural Astronomy also explores the role of the heavens from the perspectives of the anthropological...
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    95,21 €

  • Sounds of Laughter, Shades of Life
    Lucy Wilson
    The Bau de l’Aubesier is a multi-layer rock shelter site, with deposits mainly from the later Middle Pleistocene and the Late Pleistocene, very abundant faunal and lithic remains, intense and extensive use of fire in some levels, and hominin remains from Neandertals and their predecessors. This book provides the geographic and geologic context of the site, then describes each l...
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    106,23 €

  • The Land of the Solstices
    Tomislav Bilić
    Following the recent upsurge of interest in ancient geography and astronomy, together with the ever-present fascination with myth, this book offers a fresh study of what is commonly but erroneously known as ’solar myth’. This subject has been at the margins of scholarly interest, mainly due to the now-outdated theories of myth that used solar phenomena as an interpretative key ...
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    96,21 €

  • Kom Tuman II
    Sabine A Laemmel
    This book presents a comprehensive study of the pottery from the Persian and Graeco-Roman periods at Memphis/KomTuman. The material analysed originates from a complex of administrative, residential, and artisanal quarters that lay at the foot of the palace of Apries mound in the northern part of the ruin field. The bulk of the ceramic finds consists of local Egyptian vessels, b...
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    223,14 €

  • Kom Tuman II
    Sabine A Laemmel
    This book presents a comprehensive study of the pottery from the Persian and Graeco-Roman periods at Memphis/KomTuman. The material analysed originates from a complex of administrative, residential, and artisanal quarters that lay at the foot of the palace of Apries mound in the northern part of the ruin field. The bulk of the ceramic finds consists of local Egyptian vessels, b...
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    141,69 €

  • Archaeology and Urban Settlement in Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia
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    46,06 €

  • The City of Babylon
    Stephanie Dalley
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    28,91 €

  • Native Americans in British Museums
    Jack Davy
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    23,91 €

  • The Origins of Concrete Construction in Roman Architecture
    Marcello Mogetta
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    135,62 €

  • Bannockburn and Stirling Bridge
    Murray Cook
    The Scottish Wars of Independence: a titanic struggle over the fate of the Scottish nation which made heroes of Robert the Bruce and William Wallace, and saw many clashes that have gone down as among the most significant in the country’s history. None, however, were to be quite as momentous as the epic Battles of Stirling Bridge and Bannockburn.In this book, archaeologist Dr Mu...
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    26,54 €

  • 13th International Council of Archaeozoology Conference, 2018
    Evangelia Pişkin
    This volume collects 10 papers presented at the 13th ICAZ International conference comprising of research from wide-ranging geographical and chronological contexts. A variety of topics are discussed including Neanderthal behavioural patterns, animal economy and exploitation, and biodiversity and extinction or expansion of a range of species. There are also chapters presenting o...
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    90,88 €

  • Heritage Tourism
    Yujie Zhu
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    23,85 €