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Scandinavia

Archaeology as Festival
Virtual wanderings through festivalCHAT during Covid-19
£48.00
Editors:
Rachael Kiddey and William R. Caraher
Publication Year:
2023
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407360539
Paperback:
146 pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white, and colour.
Sub-series name:
Contemporary and Historical Archaeology, 9
BAR number:
S3120
Sub Title:
Virtual wanderings through festivalCHAT during Covid-19
What if academic conferences were reimagined? This book provides a sample of the papers given at festivalCHAT, a conference qua festival convened in 2020... More
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Lithuanian Baltic Sea Coasts during the Holocene
Sea Level Changes, Environmental Developments and Human Adaptations
£50.00
Editors:
Algirdas Girininkas and Vladas Žulkus
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407359878
Paperback:
168 pages
Sub-series name:
Cultural Studies in Maritime and Underwater Archaeology, 3
BAR number:
S3089
Sub Title:
Sea Level Changes, Environmental Developments and Human Adaptations
Lithuanian Baltic Sea Coasts During the Holocenefocuses on the relicts of the cultural and natural landscapes that survived in the Baltic Sea during the... More
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£65.00
Editors:
Jorge López Quiroga, Luis Ríos Frutos
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407359939
Paperback:
250 pages
Sub-series name:
Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 A.D.), Monographs, 4
BAR number:
S3088
Bioarchaeology of Injuries and Violence in Early Medieval Europe presents evidence and documents forms of violence and injuries in skeletal remains. Its... More
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Commemorating Coal Mining Worldwide
International museums, heritage centres and sites related to coal mining
£115.00
Author:
Margaret Lindsay Faull
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407358123
Paperback:
504 pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white, and colour. 452 figures.
BAR number:
S3076
Sub Title:
International museums, heritage centres and sites related to coal mining
This book contains descriptions of 432 coal-mining museums, heritage centres, archives and memorials, and preserved colliery sites in 48 countries in... More
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Shepherds Who Write
Pastoral graffiti in the uplands of Europe from prehistory to the modern age
£69.00
Editors:
Marta Bazzanella and Giovanni Kezich
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407357140
Paperback:
256 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 7 tables, 228 figures.
BAR number:
S2999
Sub Title:
Pastoral graffiti in the uplands of Europe from prehistory to the modern age
In a number of significant sites of the vast ancient pasturelands of the Old World, generations of wandering shepherds have left their testimony in the form... More
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On the Hunt for Medieval Whales
Zooarchaeological, historical and social perspectives on cetacean exploitation in medieval northern and western Europe
£68.00
Author:
Youri van den Hurk
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407357201
Paperback:
256 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 8 tables, 90 figures.
Sub-series name:
UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series, 4
BAR number:
S2998
Sub Title:
Zooarchaeological, historical and social perspectives on cetacean exploitation in medieval northern and western Europe
Medieval cetacean (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) exploitation has frequently been connected to various medieval societies, including the Basques, Norse,... More
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The Life Biography of Artefacts and Ritual Practice
With case studies from Mesolithic-Early Bronze Age Europe
£41.00
Editors:
Mathias Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist and Peter Bye-Jensen
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356822
Paperback:
140 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 11 tables, 111 figures.
BAR number:
S2991
Sub Title:
With case studies from Mesolithic-Early Bronze Age Europe
Inspired by a session held at the EAA conference in Vilnius in 2016, The Life Biography of Artefacts and Ritual Practice focuses on creating biographies... More
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Mucho más que barcos
Una aproximación teórica a las funciones, capacidades náuticas, bases materiales y dimensión social de la tecnología naval prehistórica
£35.00
Author:
Julián Moyano Di Carlo
Publication Year:
2018
Language:
Spanish with a 6 pg English summary
ISBN:
9781407316543
Paperback:
123 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 6 tables, 67 figures (1 in colour), 2 colour graphs
BAR number:
S2901
Sub Title:
Una aproximación teórica a las funciones, capacidades náuticas, bases materiales y dimensión social de la tecnología naval prehistórica
Este trabajo pretende convertirse en un modelo teórico que sirva de sustento a un proyecto de investigación futuro sobre tecnología naval prehistórica.... More
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Digging for Words
Archaeolinguistic case studies from the XV Nordic TAG Conference held at the University of Copenhagen, 16–18 April 2015
£28.00
Editors:
Rune Iversen and Guus Kroonen
Publication Year:
2018
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407316420
Paperback:
99 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2888
Sub Title:
Archaeolinguistic case studies from the XV Nordic TAG Conference held at the University of Copenhagen, 16–18 April 2015
This volume offers a selection of case studies on the interface between linguistics and archaeology. These case studies were presented at a session titled... More
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Sailing Rock Art Boats
A reassessment of seafaring abilities in Bronze Age Scandinavia and the introduction of the sail in the North
£53.00
Author:
Boel Bengtsson
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407315690
Paperback:
172 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 6 tables (in colour), 97 figures (46 in colour)
BAR number:
S2865
Sub Title:
A reassessment of seafaring abilities in Bronze Age Scandinavia and the introduction of the sail in the North
This book argues that the use of sail as a complement to paddling would have formed an integral part of the development of centres of power in the early... More
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£56.00
Editors:
Alice M. Choyke and Gerhard Jaritz
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407315720
Paperback:
217 pages, Illustrated throughout in black and white: 20 tables, 74 figures
BAR number:
S2858
Urban space constitutes a place where people and animals live together in close proximity with each other, creating changing landscapes of co-existence,... More
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£52.00
Author:
Kalle Sognnes
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407315164
Paperback:
208pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white. 1 table and 118 figures.
BAR number:
S2837
This book examines the Northern (Stone Age) rock art of central Norway, which is dominated by images of marine and terrestrial motifs. It focuses on how... More
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£67.00
Author:
Lene Melheim
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313689
Paperback:
279pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2715
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£28.00
Editors:
Sally Crawford and Christina Lee
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313108
Paperback:
88pp
Sub-series name:
Studies in Early Medicine, 3
BAR number:
S2668
The chronological and geographical focus of this volume is medieval northern Europe, from the 6th to the 15th centuries. The contributors... More
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Natural Processes in the Degradation of Open-Air Rock-Art Sites
An urgency intervention scale to inform conservation: The case of the Côa Valley world heritage site, Portugal
£68.00
Author:
António Pedro Martins da Mota Batarda Fernandes
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312408
Paperback:
335pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2609
Sub Title:
An urgency intervention scale to inform conservation: The case of the Côa Valley world heritage site, Portugal
Open-air rock-art forms one of the most widely distributed categories of prehistoric culture with examples recognized across the Old and... More
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£52.00
Editors:
Felix Riede and Miikka Tallaavaara
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312316
Paperback:
206pp. Illustrated throughout.
BAR number:
S2599
The Lateglacial and Postglacial pioneer colonisation of northern Europe is a recurrent and ever-popular topic in archaeology. This volume... More
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Landscapes of Gender, Age and Cosmology
Burial Perceptions in Viking Age Iceland
£41.00
Author:
Ruth Ann Maher
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311470
Paperback:
159pp. Illustrated throughout, maps and Appendices.
BAR number:
S2529
Sub Title:
Burial Perceptions in Viking Age Iceland
The purpose of this Viking-Age Icelandic study is to look beyond the catalogues of data already in the record and put the information in... More
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£127.00
Editors:
Sophie Bergerbrant and Serena Sabatini
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311265
Paperback:
801pp. Illustrated in colour throughout
BAR number:
S2508
The book celebrates Professor Kristiansens's life and achievements with 88 papers by colleagues and friends from all over the world; they... More
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Tough Times: The Archaeology of Crisis and Recovery
Proceedings of the Graduate Archaeology at Oxford conferences in 2010 and 2011
£46.00
Editors:
Elsbeth M. van der Wilt and Javier Martínez Jiménez with help from Guido Petruccioli
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310909
Paperback:
177pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2478
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the Graduate Archaeology at Oxford conferences in 2010 and 2011
This volume contains the combined proceedings of two consecutive conferences (2010 and 2011) organised by Graduate Archaeology at Oxford... More
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NW Europe in Transition
The Early Neolithic in Britain and South Sweden
£31.00
Editors:
Mats Larsson and Jolene Debert
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310879
Paperback:
97pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2475
Sub Title:
The Early Neolithic in Britain and South Sweden
This book is concerned with the developments that followed on from the introduction of farming into Britain and Southern Scandinavia... More
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Comparative Archaeology and Paleoclimatology
Socio-cultural responses to a changing world
£66.00
Editors:
Maximilian O. Baldia, Timothy K. Perttula, and Douglas S. Frink
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310640
Paperback:
317pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2456
Sub Title:
Socio-cultural responses to a changing world
Multidisciplinary Old and New World research, using high quality paleoenvironmental and archaeological data, looks for correlations... More
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£108.00
Editors:
Joël Vital, Fabien Convertini and Olivier Lemercier
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
French
ISBN:
9781407310503
Paperback:
431pp. Illustrated throughout. With additional material online (Annexes).
BAR number:
S2446
Sub Title:
Résultats du Projet Collectif de Recherche 1999-2009
The results of research over a period of ten years into the question of the origins of the Early Bronze Age in south-eastern France. The... More
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N-TAG TEN
Proceedings of the 10th Nordic TAG conference at Stiklestad, Norway 2009
£77.00
Editors:
Ragnhild Berge, Marek E. Jasinski and Kalle Sognnes
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309941
Paperback:
309pp. Illustrated in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2399
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the 10th Nordic TAG conference at Stiklestad, Norway 2009
This book includes papers from N-TAG TEN, the Proceedings of the 10th Nordic TAG conference at Stiklestad, Norway 2009. More
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Norse in Newfoundland
A critical examination of archaeological research at the Norse site at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland
£26.00
Author:
Janet E. Kay
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309224
Paperback:
79pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2339
Sub Title:
A critical examination of archaeological research at the Norse site at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland
Explorer Helge Ingstad set out in the 1960s to search for the much hypothesized and mythical Norse land of Vinland. Vinland, originally... More
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Theoretical and Methodological Considerations in Central European Neolithic Archaeology
Proceedings of the ‘Theory and Method in Archaeology of the Neolithic (7th - 3rd millennium BC)’ conference held in Mikulov, Czech Republic, 26th – 28th of October 2010
£41.00
Editors:
Jan Kolár and František Trampota
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309088
Paperback:
131pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2325
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the ‘Theory and Method in Archaeology of the Neolithic (7th - 3rd millennium BC)’ conference held in Mikulov, Czech Republic, 26th – 28th of October 2010
This book presents the proceedings of the 'Theory and Method in Archaeology of the Neolithic (7th - 3rd millennium BC)' conference held... More
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The Significance of Trees
An archaeological perspective
£26.00
Author:
Peter Skoglund
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309071
Paperback:
77pp. Illustrated throughout.
BAR number:
S2324
Sub Title:
An archaeological perspective
This book investigates the practical and ritual dimensions of trees and timber in the Bronze Age and Iron Age of Scandinavia. The... More
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The Gendered Landscape
A discussion on gender, status and power in the Norwegian Viking Age landscape
£26.00
Author:
Marianne Moen
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307657
Paperback:
80pp. Includes 14 figures, extensive tables, catalogue
BAR number:
S2207
Sub Title:
A discussion on gender, status and power in the Norwegian Viking Age landscape
This study is the result of a long standing interest by the author in the expression of social identities of the past, perhaps more... More
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£56.00
Author:
Bo Jensen
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307138
Paperback:
223pp. Illustrated throughout. With additional material online (database).
BAR number:
S2169
Two hundered years of antiquarian and archaeological and archaeological interest has generated an archive of some 1350 Viking Age... More
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£69.00
Author:
Atle Omland
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306957
Paperback:
276pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2153
The main objective of this book is to discuss parts of the later life histories of burial mounds by studying local interests in them... More
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£31.00
Editors:
Helen Lewis and Sarah Semple
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305790
Paperback:
125pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S2103
Sub Title:
Papers presented at Oxford 2003-5
This book derives from a seminar series held at the Oxford University Institute of Archaeology in 2003-2004 and a second brief series in... More
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£22.00
Author:
Anna-Kaisa Puputti
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305769
Paperback:
83pp. Illustrated with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S2100
In this work the author describes the animal husbandry practices and the use of wild resources in early modern Tornio (northern Finland)... More
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£22.00
Editors:
Mircea Babes and Marc-Antoine Kaeser
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English and French
ISBN:
9781407306223
Paperback:
54pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, photographs and colour plates
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006)
BAR number:
S2046
This book includes papers from session C75, Archaeologists without Boundaries: Towards a History of International Archaeological... More
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Prehistoric Art: Signs, Symbols, Myth, Ideology
Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne 4-9 Septembre 2006) Vol. 27 Session C26
£43.00
Editors:
Dario Seglie, Marcel Otte, Luiz Oosterbeek and Laurence Remacle
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English, French and Spanish
ISBN:
9781407306056
Paperback:
170pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), 27
BAR number:
S2028
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne 4-9 Septembre 2006) Vol. 27 Session C26
This book includes papers from Session C26, 'Prehistoric Art: Signs, Symbols, Myth, Ideology', from the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon,... More
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£35.00
Author:
Tove Hjørungdal
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305806
Paperback:
139pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S2004
The subject of this book is the archaeology of the Vestland cauldron. The Vestland cauldron counts among the true European connections in... More
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£46.00
Author:
Julie Wileman
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305165
Paperback:
181pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1984
The goal of this study is to examine the potential for the understanding and recognition of the processes and occurrence of prehistoric... More
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Non-Flint Raw Material Use in Prehistory / L'utilisation préhistorique de matières premières lithiques alternatives
Old prejudices and new directions / Anciens préjugés, nouvelles perspectives. Session C77
£68.00
Editors:
Farina Sternke, Lotte Eigeland and Laurent-Jacques Costa
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English and French
ISBN:
9781407304199
Paperback:
269pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006)
BAR number:
S1939
Sub Title:
Old prejudices and new directions / Anciens préjugés, nouvelles perspectives. Session C77
This book includes papers from the session 'Non-Flint Raw Material Use in Prehistory: Old prejudices and new directions' (Vol. 11,... More
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Lithics in the Scandinavian Late Bronze Age
Sociotechnical change and persistence
£76.00
Author:
Anders Högberg
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407304144
Paperback:
305pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white and with fold-out plans and drawings. Indices
BAR number:
S1932
Sub Title:
Sociotechnical change and persistence
Some time just after 900 BC a tool was introduced with a shaft of wood and a knife blade of flint. It was manufactured and used for... More
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£31.00
Editors:
Mercourios Georgiadis and Chrysanthi Gallou
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407304076
Paperback:
127pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, plans, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1925
The present volume is the outcome of a session held at the 12th European Archaeological Association conference at Krakow in Poland, in... More
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Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Evolutionary Archaeology / Questions théorétiques et méthodologiques en archéologie évolutive
Toward an unified Darwinian paradigm / Vers un paradigme Darwinien unifié, Vol. 20, Session WS22
£32.00
Editors:
Hernán Juan Muscio and Gabriel Eduardo José López
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303987
Paperback:
121pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), 20
BAR number:
S1915
Sub Title:
Toward an unified Darwinian paradigm / Vers un paradigme Darwinien unifié, Vol. 20, Session WS22
This book includes papers from the session 'Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Evolutionary Archaeology' presented at the XV UISPP... More
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£55.00
Author:
Rupert Gerritsen
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303543
Paperback:
219pp. Includes 28 figures, maps, plans and drawings
BAR number:
S1874
In this work the author explores issues of the origin of agriculture in Australia such as the “failure” of agriculture to develop... More
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£33.00
Editors:
Emmanuel Anati
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English, French and Italian
ISBN:
9781407303529
Paperback:
135pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), 16
BAR number:
S1872
Sub Title:
Session C27
This book includes papers from the 'Prehistoric Art and Ideology' session (C27) held at the XV UISPP World Congress, September 2006. More
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£29.00
Editors:
Sandra Montón-Subías and Margarita Sánchez-Romero
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303451
Paperback:
105pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1862
A selection of some of the papers presented at two international workshops: Women and Maintenance activities in times of change and... More
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£35.00
Editors:
Ina Berg
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303444
Paperback:
137pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group: Occasional Paper
BAR number:
S1861
In October 2006, the 3rd International Conference on Prehistoric Ceramics, entitled 'Breaking the Mould: Challenging the Past through... More
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An Investigation of the Common Cockle (Cerastoderma edule (L))
Collection practices at the kitchen midden sites of Norsminde and Krabbesholm, Denmark
£81.00
Author:
Eva M. Laurie
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303185
Paperback:
321pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, tables, drawings and photograp
BAR number:
S1834
Sub Title:
Collection practices at the kitchen midden sites of Norsminde and Krabbesholm, Denmark
The aim of this work is to determine to what extent the exploitation of cockles changed across the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition in... More
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£53.00
Editors:
George Nash and George Children
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303178
Paperback:
213pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1833
The Archaeology of Semiotics and the social order of things is edited by George Nash and George Children and brings together 15... More
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£59.00
Editors:
James Conolly and Matthew Campbell
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303130
Paperback:
229pp. Illustrated with maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
BAR number:
S1829
The four themes of seafaring and voyaging, colonization and abandonment, human ecology, and social interaction are explored in detail in... More
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Bucket-Shaped Pots
Style, chronology and regional diversity in Norway in the Late Roman and Migration Periods
£66.00
Author:
Asbjørn Engevik jr
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303024
Paperback:
257pp. Includes 19 tables, 250 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. 3 data Appendices
BAR number:
S1816
Sub Title:
Style, chronology and regional diversity in Norway in the Late Roman and Migration Periods
A study of bucket-shaped pots from 986 Norwegian graves. These graves include altogether 1179 bucket-shaped pots or fragments of pots.... More
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£48.00
Editors:
Bernard Frischer and Anastasia Dakouri-Hild
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407302928
Paperback:
196pp. Illustrated throughout including 34 colour plates
BAR number:
S1805
This book is timely. As the contributions in it illustrate, 2D and 3D modeling of cultural heritage is no longer used just to illustrate... More
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