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Africa

The Coinage of the Roman World in the Late Republic
Proceedings of a colloquium held at the British Museum in September 1985
£46.00
Editors:
A.M. Burnett and M.H. Crawford
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English (x8), French (x1), German (x1), Italian (x1)
ISBN:
9780860544203
Paperback:
200pp, Illustrated throughout, figures.
BAR number:
S326
Sub Title:
Proceedings of a colloquium held at the British Museum in September 1985
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Fishermen, Hunters and Herders
Zooarchaeology in the Fayum, Egypt (ea. 8200- 5000 bp)
£46.00
Author:
Douglas J. Brewer
Publication Year:
1989
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860546153
Paperback:
200pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p173-186
BAR number:
S478
Sub Title:
Zooarchaeology in the Fayum, Egypt (ea. 8200- 5000 bp)
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The Years without Summer
Tracing A.D. 536 and its aftermath
£45.00
Editors:
Joel D. Gunn
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841710747
Paperback:
176pp. Illustrated with maps, charts and line drawings.
BAR number:
S872
Sub Title:
Tracing A.D. 536 and its aftermath
“In the fall season of A.D. 536 Cassiodorus sat at his writing table…..” So Joel D. Gunn begins this interesting and unusual topic of... More
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The Kintampo Complex
The Late Holocene on the Gambaga Escarpment, Northern Ghana
£45.00
Author:
Joanna Casey
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712024
Paperback:
176pp, Includes 80 figures, maps, plans, line drawings, 32 tables.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 51
BAR number:
S906
Sub Title:
The Late Holocene on the Gambaga Escarpment, Northern Ghana
The Kintampo Complex is the first settled, sub-Sahelian complex in West Africa, and central to our understanding of West African... More
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£45.00
Author:
Ahmed Abuelgasim Elhassan
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841713779
Paperback:
190pp, Includes illustrations, 1 map.
BAR number:
S1285
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£45.00
Author:
Randi Barndon
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716572
Paperback:
189pp, Includes 11 figures, maps and plans, 31 plates, 5 Appendices of glossaries, chronologies sites and other data
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 61
BAR number:
S1308
This work is a comparative study of iron smelting practices among the Pangwa and Fipa peoples of Tanzania. The author discusses local... More
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Late Roman African Urbanism
Continuity and Transformation in the City
£45.00
Author:
Gareth Sears
Publication Year:
2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407301310
Paperback:
178pp. Includes 27 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1693
Sub Title:
Continuity and Transformation in the City
This book examines the transformations occurring in the cities of Latin North Africa in the Roman Empire in the course of the late third,... More
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West African Archaeology
New developments, new perspectives
£45.00
Editors:
Philip Allsworth-Jones
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307084
Paperback:
180pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white and colour
BAR number:
S2164
Sub Title:
New developments, new perspectives
This book contains papers read at the conference “West African archaeology, New developments, New perspectives”, co-sponsored by the... More
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£45.00
Author:
Anthony Manhire
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544548
Paperback:
198pp, Includes illustrations in black and white, maps.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 21
BAR number:
S351
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Beyond Paradigms in Cultural Astronomy
Proceedings of the 27th SEAC conference held together with the EAA
£45.00
Editors:
A. César González-García, Roslyn M. Frank, Lionel D. Sims, Michael A. Rappenglück, Georg Zotti, Juan A. Belmonte, Ivan Šprajc
Publication Year:
2021
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407358222
Paperback:
182 pages
BAR number:
S3033
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the 27th SEAC conference held together with the EAA
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... More
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Imprints of the Archaeology of Northern Nigeria
Landscape, society and crafts around Kirfi, Bauchi region
£45.00
Author:
Abubakar Sule Sani
Publication Year:
2021
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407358925
Paperback:
180 pages
Sub-series name:
African Archaeology, 94
BAR number:
S3062
Sub Title:
Landscape, society and crafts around Kirfi, Bauchi region
Abubakar Sule Sani’s pioneering book combines archaeological, ethnographic and historical data to construct a compelling narrative about the people of the... More
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£43.00
Author:
Akinwumi O. Ogundiran
Publication Year:
2002
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841714684
Paperback:
171pp, Includes 42 tables, 47 figures, maps, plans and drawings, 27 black and white plates, 16-page bibliography, Index
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 55
BAR number:
S1090
The focus of this study (number 55 in the Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology) is the impact of developments from the 13th-19th... More
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£43.00
Author:
Intisar Soghayroun Elzein
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716398
Paperback:
169pp, Includes 11 maps, 94 figures, plans, drawings, 15 black and white plates
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 60
BAR number:
S1289
The Middle Nile Basin, which is in effect the present Republic of the Sudan, from the 7th century CE accepted Islam through influences... 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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Session C68 (Part II): Monumental Questions: Prehistoric Megaliths, Mounds, and Enclosures
Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne 4-9 Septembre 2006) Vol.8
£43.00
Editors:
David Calado, Maxilian Baldia and Matthew Boulanger
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English, French and Spanish
ISBN:
9781407306643
Paperback:
173pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), 8
BAR number:
S2123
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.8
This book includes papers from Session C68 (Part II) of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). More
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The Lower Palaeolithic of the Maghreb
Excavations and analyses at Ain Hanech, Algeria
£41.00
Author:
Mohamed Sahnouni
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548751
Paperback:
180pp, Includes numerous line drawings, three photographs.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 42
BAR number:
S689
Sub Title:
Excavations and analyses at Ain Hanech, Algeria
The excavations at Ain Hanech in Algeria, one of the oldest archaeological sites in North Africa. Includes a report on North African Lower Palaeolithic,... More
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£41.00
Author:
Anne Haour
Publication Year:
2003
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841715063
Paperback:
165pp, Includes 58 figures, maps, plans, drawings, photographs (including 5 in colour), 13 tables.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 56
BAR number:
S1133
Sub Title:
The site of Kufan Kanawa
The need for archaeological research in the Hausa area is very real. What work has been done is often casual and cursory. Considering... More
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Traditions céramiques, Identités et Peuplement en Sénégambie
Ethnographie comparée et essai de reconstitution historique
£41.00
Author:
Moustapha Sall
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
French
ISBN:
9781841718507
Paperback:
166pp, Includes 82 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 14 tables
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 63
BAR number:
S1407
Sub Title:
Ethnographie comparée et essai de reconstitution historique
This study determines the possible connections between the various ceramic traditions of Senegal and Gambia, with special references to... More
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£41.00
Author:
Nicholas David with contributions by Judy Klassen, Scott MacEachern, Jean Maley, Gerhard Müller-Kosack, Andrea Richardson and Judy Sterner
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303147
Paperback:
167pp. Includes 37 tables, 69 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. With additional material online (figures and tables)
BAR number:
S1830
The dry stone structures that are the subject of this book are located in the Mandara mountains of the Extreme North province of Cameroon... More
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£41.00
Editors:
David Calado, Maxilian Baldia and Matthew Boulanger
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English, French and Spanish
ISBN:
9781407306636
Paperback:
167pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), 7
BAR number:
S2122
This book includes papers from Session C68 (Part I) of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). More
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Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Miniature Figures in Eurasia, Africa and Meso-America
Morphology, materiality, technology, function and context
£41.00
Editors:
Dragos Gheorghiu and Ann Cyphers
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306797
Paperback:
164pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S2138
Sub Title:
Morphology, materiality, technology, function and context
The present volume is mainly the result of two symposia held at the European Archaeological Association meetings in Krakow (2006) and... More
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Early Hominid Scavenging Opportunities
Implications of Carcass Availability in the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Ecosystems
£41.00
Author:
Robert J. Blumenschine
Publication Year:
1986
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543657
Paperback:
176pp
BAR number:
S283
Sub Title:
Implications of Carcass Availability in the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Ecosystems
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£41.00
Author:
Luisa Sernicola
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407314747
Paperback:
150 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white: 81 figures (40 in colour)
BAR number:
S2860
This English version of the author's PhD dissertation, revised and updated in the light of the latest research and interpretation, aims to reconstruct the... More
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Ethno-Archaeology in Jenné, Mali
Craft and status among smiths, potters and masons
£40.00
Author:
Adria LaViolette
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841710433
Paperback:
156pp, Includes 41 plates with black and white photographs, maps
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 49
BAR number:
S838
Sub Title:
Craft and status among smiths, potters and masons
This is an ethnoarcaheological study exploring social and economic lives of specialized producers: blacksmiths, potters and masons,... More
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Du couteau au sabre / From Knife to Sabre
Armes traditionnelles d’Afrique 2 / Traditional Arms of Africa 2
£40.00
Author:
Tristan Arbousse Bastide
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
French and English
ISBN:
9781407302539
Paperback:
163pp. Includes 160 figures, maps, plans and drawings.
BAR number:
S1764
Sub Title:
Armes traditionnelles d’Afrique 2 / Traditional Arms of Africa 2
In this second volume dedicated to the study of African edged weapons (see BAR 1098, 2003 for volume 1), the author focuses on... More
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£40.00
Author:
Laurel Phillipson with an introduction by Rodolfo Fattovich
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407304083
Paperback:
161pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 77
BAR number:
S1926
In this book the author presents the results of more than ten years of systematic fieldwork and analysis of the stone tool assemblages in... More
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£40.00
Editors:
Fabio Cavulli. Archaeometry edited by Maria Isabel Prudêncio and Maria Isabel Dias
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306216
Paperback:
161pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, photographs
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), 32
BAR number:
S2045
Sub Title:
Session WS28 and Sessions C69, C70 and C71
This book includes papers from Session WS28 'Defining a Methodological Approach to Interpret Structural Evidence', AND papers from... More
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£40.00
Editors:
Ben Marwick and Alex Mackay
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407308470
Paperback:
142pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2273
The aim of this volume is to present papers applying recent insights from the organization of technology to the interpretation of stone artefact assemblages... More
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£40.00
Author:
Per Ditlef Fredriksen
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309798
Paperback:
147pp, Includes 35 figures, 5 tables
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 80
BAR number:
S2387
The two key themes in this work are 1) the meeting between knowledges about the material world, and 2) the intimate relationships between... More
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£40.00
Editors:
François Djindjian and Sandrine Robert
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English and French
ISBN:
9781407311616
Paperback:
151pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XVI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Florianopolis, Brazil, 4-10 September 2011), 4
BAR number:
S2541
This book includes papers from the session 'Understanding Landscapes, from Land Discovery to their Spatial Organization' from the 16th... More
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Ein heiliger Ort in der Ostwüste
Beitrag zur altägyptischen Religion am Beispiel eines Hirtenbildes
£40.00
Author:
Hartwig Hartmann
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
German
ISBN:
9781407359298
Paperback:
140 pages, Illustrated throughout. 39 figures.
BAR number:
S3086
Sub Title:
Beitrag zur altägyptischen Religion am Beispiel eines Hirtenbildes
Seit der 5. Dynastie wird die Geburt eines Kälbchens und dessen Säugung auf den Wandreliefs altägyptischer Gräber dargestellt. Auch Grabbeigaben und... More
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£39.00
Author:
Maria M. Van der Ryst
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548935
Paperback:
168pp, Includes 37 figures and 5 photographs
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 43
BAR number:
S715
The aim of this book is firstly to establish chronology of Later Stone Age settlement in Waterber plateau and secondly to investigate the particular... More
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£39.00
Author:
Kathryn Holmes
Publication Year:
2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407300139
Paperback:
158pp. Includes 16 tables, 20 figures, maps, plans and illustrations, 2 data Appendices
BAR number:
S1597
In order to understand fully Plio-Pleistocene hominid migrations, a whole gamut of interacting factors must be examined. It has been... More
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£39.00
Editors:
Timothy Insoll
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303345
Paperback:
153pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 74
BAR number:
S1847
This work presents and evaluates internal perspectives on the profile of archaeology in the University of Ghana, Legon, internationally,... More
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£39.00
Author:
Augustin F. C. Holl
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313023
Paperback:
212pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 87
BAR number:
S2660
Archaeology of Mounds clusters in West Africa aims to understand the dynamics that enhanced and sustained the settlement systems made of distinct but close... More
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£39.00
Author:
Judith Sealy
Publication Year:
1986
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543763
Paperback:
162pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 15
BAR number:
S293
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Modelling Water Use at Great Zimbabwe
An ethnohistoric, ethnoarchaeological, and GIS landscape analysis at an ancient African city
£39.00
Author:
Tendai Treddah Musindo
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407353975
Paperback:
136 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 82 figures.
Sub-series name:
African Archaeology, 92
BAR number:
S2952
Sub Title:
An ethnohistoric, ethnoarchaeological, and GIS landscape analysis at an ancient African city
This book combines GIS aided landscape analysis with an examination of both historical and ethnoarchaeological data to provide new insights on the link... More
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Traditional Weapons of Africa (Billhooks, Sickles and Scythes)
A regional approach and technical, morphological, and aesthetic classification
£38.00
Author:
Tristan Arbousse Bastide
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English and French
ISBN:
9781407306902
Paperback:
151pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2149
Sub Title:
A regional approach and technical, morphological, and aesthetic classification
This book is the third in a series prepared by the author on traditional weapons from the African Continent. The first volume focuses on... More
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Recherches archéologiques sur la capitale de l’empire de Ghana
Etude d’un secteur d’habitat à Koumbi Saleh, Mauritanie. Campagnes II-III-IV-V (1975-1976)-(1980-1981)
£37.00
Author:
Sophie Berthier
Publication Year:
1997
Language:
French
ISBN:
9780860548683
Paperback:
156pp, Includes 34 plates of maps and drawings, 64 photographs and one plate in colour
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 41
BAR number:
S680
Sub Title:
Etude d’un secteur d’habitat à Koumbi Saleh, Mauritanie. Campagnes II-III-IV-V (1975-1976)-(1980-1981)
Detailed analysis of excavations undertaken at Koumbi Saleh in today’s Mauretania. With stunning results, the author argues that the architectural remains,... More
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Imperialist Archaeology in the Canary Islands
French and German Studies on Prehistoric Colonization at the End of the 19th Century
£37.00
Author:
A. José Farrujia de la Rosa
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841713946
Paperback:
156pp
BAR number:
S1333
Sub Title:
French and German Studies on Prehistoric Colonization at the End of the 19th Century
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Islam, Archaeology and History
Gao Region (Mali) ca. AD 900 - 1250
£37.00
Author:
Timothy Insoll
Publication Year:
1996
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548324
Paperback:
152 pages
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 39
BAR number:
S647
Sub Title:
Gao Region (Mali) ca. AD 900 - 1250
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£37.00
Author:
Vassilios Christides
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841711331
Paperback:
156pp. With additional material online (foldout of map I)
BAR number:
S851
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£35.00
Author:
Silke Schierenbeck
Publication Year:
2002
Language:
German
ISBN:
9781841713014
Paperback:
148pp, Includes 94 black and white illustrations, black and white figures, tables
BAR number:
S1012
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£35.00
Author:
Said Ennahid
Publication Year:
2002
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841714394
Paperback:
136pp. Includes 38 figures, tables
BAR number:
S1059
Sub Title:
An archaeological-historical approach
The field of Islamic archaeology in Morocco has grown substantially during the last two decades. The establishment of the Institut... More
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Belief in the Past
The Proceedings of the 2002 Manchester Conference on Archaeology and Religion
£35.00
Editors:
Timothy Insoll
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841715759
Paperback:
138pp. Illustrated throughout with plans, maps, photographs, tables and figures.
BAR number:
S1212
Sub Title:
The Proceedings of the 2002 Manchester Conference on Archaeology and Religion
This book includes papers from the proceedings of the Manchester Conference on Archaeology and Religion held at Ashburne Hall, The... More
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The Morocco Maritime Survey
An archaeological contribution to the history of the Tangier peninsula
£35.00
Author:
Elarbi Erbati and Athena Trakadas
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303703
Paperback:
138pp. Includes 5 tables, 78 maps, plans, drawings and photographs. Appendices including catalogue of finds
BAR number:
S1890
Sub Title:
An archaeological contribution to the history of the Tangier peninsula
The Morocco Maritime Survey (MMS) was initiated in 2001 in order to investigate the coasts of the Tangier peninsula in northern Morocco.... More
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Chinese Porcelain Marks from Coastal Sites in Kenya
aspects of trade in the Indian Ocean, XIV-XIX centuries
£35.00
Author:
Caroline Sassoon
Publication Year:
1978
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860540182
Paperback:
144pp, Includes 160 illustrations
BAR number:
S43
Sub Title:
aspects of trade in the Indian Ocean, XIV-XIX centuries
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£35.00
Author:
J. M. Feely
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544869
Paperback:
146pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 24
BAR number:
S378
Sub Title:
Before A.D. 1870
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