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
  • Landscape in Mind
    George Dimitriadis
    The contributors to the present volume were asked to variously address its central theme from perspectives offered by jointly anthropological and archaeological approaches, as well as to engage some of the philosophical implications of landscape as highly interdisciplinary concept - one, which can and does draw upon a range of life and physical sciences. ...
    Disponible

    66,60 €

  • From Space to Place
    Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop, CNR, Rome, Italy, December 4-7, 2006In 2001, UNESCO and the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the 'Open Initiative on the Use of Space Technologies to Monitor Natural and Cultural Heritage of UNESCO Sites'. The 'Open Initiative' is a framework of cooperation to assist countries to improve the observation, monitor...
    Disponible

    260,27 €

  • The Burial of the Urban Poor in Italy in the Late Roman Republic and Early Empire
    Emma-Jayne Graham
    The horror of the puticuli, the mass burial pits, and their traditional association with the poor, has often led to this socio-economic group being viewed as somehow ‘different’ to the rest of the ancient urban community in the Italy of the Late Roman Republic. This is the theory questioned by the author of this volume. Why should this part of the community care so little about...
    Disponible

    64,06 €

  • The Role of Foreigners in Ancient Egypt
    Charlotte Booth
    To determine the role that foreign immigrants held in Egyptian society, the author looks in this study at what it meant to be Egyptian and how foreign immigrants differed. Her analysis covers a discussion on ethnicity, nationalism and citizenship, particularly in relation to Asiatics, Syrians, Libyans, Nubians, Minoans, and Indians. Selected catalogues of finds and other materi...
    Disponible

    49,22 €

  • The Role of the Chantress (Šmyt) in Ancient Egypt
    Suzanne Lynn Onstine
    This study looks at what is meant by the term 'Smyt', or 'chantress', in ancient Egypt (including New Kingdom, Third Intermediate Period, Middle Kingdom, Late and Ptolemaic Periods). Very little is known about the specifics of the title or the types of people who held it. Both men and women could hold the title, but the female version is by far the more prevalen...
    Disponible

    80,29 €

  • Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Hydrostrategies
    Dragos Gheorghiu
    Section 10: Âge du Cuivre au Proche Orient et en Europe / Copper Age in the Near East and EuropeColloque / Symposium C 10.2The main emphasis of this book is water and its importance in prehistoric societies, and it looks at how people in the period from the Chalcolithic to the Early Bronze Age exploited water in various ways. This ranges from the large scale utilisation of wate...
    Disponible

    54,95 €

  • Agriculture and Pastoralism in the Late Bronze and Iron Age, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan
    Ruth Young
    An integrated study of the archaeological plant and animal remains from rural and urban sites, using modern ethnographic information to develop a model of economic organisation and contactBradford Monographs in the Archaeology of Southern Asia 1This study compares two environmentally very different regions in The North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, during the Late Bronze ...
    Disponible

    58,57 €

  • The Canaanite Cultic Milieu
    Joel D. Klenck / Joel DKlenck
    The author presents a report on Canaanite animal husbandry practices, diet, butchery methods, and animal sacrificial rituals. This information comes primarily from faunal remains that were retrieved from Middle Bronze IIB/C (1800/1750-1550 B.C.) strata at the site of Tel Haror, 20 km northwest of Beer Sheva in Israel. The work includes discussions on the origins of Canaanite ci...
    Disponible

    136,29 €

  • Fields of Conflict
    Proceedings of a conference held in the Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow, April 2000.The 25 papers published in these proceedings are the outcome of a conference held at Glasgow University in 2000. The objective of the event was to emphasise the unique contribution archaeology can make towards explaining actions (individual and corporate) and reactions to a rang...
    Disponible

    149,81 €

  • Conflicts of the Forth
    Jim Roche / Murray Cook
    Explore the tumultuous battlegrounds of Stirlingshire and Scotland’s Forth Valley in 'Conflicts of the Forth', a gripping journey through centuries of historic warfare. Archaeologist Dr Murray Cook and military history enthusiast Jim Roche bring to life the epic clashes that shaped the destiny of a nation. From William Wallace’s heroic stand at Stirling Bridge to the strategic ...
    Disponible

    20,52 €

  • Tea on the terrace
    Kathleen Sheppard
    Offering a history of travel, tourism and Egyptology, Tea on the terrace follows Egyptologists between home and field sites, revealing how their activities in hotels and on dahabeahs impacted the development of the discipline. ...
    Disponible

    41,93 €

  • Heritage and healing in Syria and Iraq
    Zena Kamash
    This book explores what to do with heritage that has been destroyed in conflict in Syria and Iraq. Drawing on research into trauma and trauma recovery, it challenges existing modes of cultural heritage reconstruction and envisages gentler, creative and ethically-driven ways to use heritage for healing. ...
    Disponible

    157,20 €

  • Indo-European Interfaces
    Current scientific advances are reshaping our understanding of prehistory, offering unprecedented insights into the movements and kinship patterns of prehistoric populations. These new advances provide us with detailed information on several aspects of the early speakers of Indo-European and their lives. However, the prehistoric humans that we know through bones and potsherds w...
    Disponible

    24,07 €

  • Myth and the Making of History
    Sheds new light on the relationship between myth and history in ancient China and the central role they have played in shaping early Chinese thought. ...
    Disponible

    126,81 €

  • Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas XIV
    This volume represents a collection of papers resulting from the Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia Working group meeting held in Barcelona in 2019, when early-career and well-established researchers debated on nearly 10,000 years of adaptation and change in human-animal interactions. The 14 chapters in this volume range from the Neolithic to the Byzantine period, travelling thro...
    Disponible

    137,23 €

  • Diggin’ Dewil Valley
    Llenel De Castro
    Since 2004, the Dewil Valley in El Nido, Palawan, Philippines has been home to the Palawan Island Palaeohistory Research Project (PIPRP). Dewil is a landscape dotted with limestone towers, each of which has their own archaeological story to tell. Excavations at Ille Cave, the main archaeological site, have revealed a changing landscape and evidence of tigers in the Philippines,...
    Disponible

    76,20 €

  • WWII Bombing of British Cities and Contested Remembrance
    John Sharrock
    Current conflict in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza highlights the terrible price that is paid by civilians in war. This book focuses on the myth of the Blitz as experienced today, especially in the context of civilian deaths. It contends that the substantial civilian toll of the bombing of British cities in WWII has become marginalised by the evolution, political deployment, and reso...
    Disponible

    105,09 €

  • Delivering the Deep
    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.Delivering the Deep: Maritime archaeology for the 21st century, originated from work presented at IKUWA 7 conference in Helsinki, and offers a comprehensive look at state-of-the-art research being undertaken by maritime scholars...
    Disponible

    133,38 €

  • Rock, Bone, and Ruin
    Adrian Currie
    ...
    Disponible

    33,46 €

  • Cultural Burning
    Bruno David / Michael-Shawn Fletcher / Simon Connor
    ...
    Disponible

    26,06 €

  • Cultural Burning
    Bruno David / Michael-Shawn Fletcher / Simon Connor
    ...
    Disponible

    78,27 €

  • Writing Early China
    Edward L. Shaughnessy
    Considers what unearthed documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China. ...
    Disponible

    47,87 €

  • After Alexander
    John Tidmarsh
    After Alexander: The Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods at Pella in Jordan details the excavation of Hellenistic and Early Roman period horizons carried out at Pella in Jordan by the University of Sydney since 1979. It deals with both the stratigraphy of the Hellenistic and Early Roman levels at Pella, and catalogues the pottery recovered from them. Short summaries of relevant...
    Disponible

    103,68 €

  • The Progress of Ethnology
    John Russell Bartlett
    Excerpt from The Progress of Ethnology Of the first class of works, it has been sufficiently demonstrated, that a small proportion were intended for works of defence that another portion were sacred places, or in some way connected with religious or superstitious rites, while a third and much the larger number are entirely inexplicable in our present state of information. John ...
    Disponible

    14,20 €

  • Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes
    Arnau Garcia-Molsosa
    Explores mountain regions as cultural landscapes that have been shaped by long-term human-environment interactions. ...
    Disponible

    53,12 €

  • Archaeology at Colonial Brunswick
    Stanley South
    In Archaeology at Colonial Brunswick, Stanley South recounts the decade-long excavation of this important North Carolina colonial port. He provides historical context and detailed interpretation of the many hundreds of objects uncovered. South’s narrative guides the reader through a town and a way of life that ended more than two centuries ago. The experience is enhances by 196...
    Disponible

    24,59 €

  • Three-Dimensional Tree Reconstruction Based on Archaeological Evidence
    Adolfo Miguel Martins
    This research focuses on the development of digital methodologies to identify evidence of timber supply and selection for traditional shipbuilding through the examination of the archaeological ship timbers. Traditions of archaeological ship timber recording are reviewed and developed, with particular reference to the capture of information regarding the raw material (wood) used...
    Disponible

    78,66 €

  • Genes of the Past
    Christer Jansson
    In the mid-1960s, a well-preserved hominin fossil is discovered in the Moroccan desert. Examination of the fossil, known as Fat Man, shows it to be around 550,000 years old. Decades later, DNA and protein analyses of the Fat Man skull in the OMICS National Laboratory in the U.S.A. reveal proteins of unknown function. The proteins are classified as olfactory receptors but distin...
    Disponible

    45,25 €

  • Echoes of Ancient Civilizations - Rediscovering Lost Histories and Technologies
    Viruti Shivan
    Unveiling the Mysteries of Forgotten WorldsDive into the enigmatic realms of history with 'Echoes of Ancient Civilizations - Rediscovering Lost Histories and Technologies.' This compelling book takes you on a journey through the sands of time, exploring the rise and fall of ancient societies and their innovative technologies that have mystified historians and archaeologists for...
    Disponible

    21,35 €

  • Local Experiences of Connectivity and Mobility in the Ancient West-Central Mediterranean
    Local Experiences of Connectivity and Mobility in the Ancient West-Central Mediterranean brings together chapters that explore theoretical and material approaches to connectivity and mobility in the region.The diverse contributions span the period from the Late Bronze Age through the Late Roman period, focusing on case studies drawn from across the west-central Mediterranean ba...
    Disponible

    171,86 €


Primera 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 Última