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Africa

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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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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Diving up the Human Past
Perspectives of maritime archaeology, with specific reference to developments in South Africa until 1996
£53.00
Author:
Bruno E. J. S. Werz
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549833
Paperback:
232pp, Includes several figures.
BAR number:
S749
Sub Title:
Perspectives of maritime archaeology, with specific reference to developments in South Africa until 1996
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Determining the Antiquity of Dog Origins
Canine domestication as a model for the consilience between molecular genetics and archaeology
£29.00
Author:
Michelle J. Raisor
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841718095
Paperback:
105pp. Includes 6 tables, 25 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs including 4 in colour
BAR number:
S1367
Sub Title:
Canine domestication as a model for the consilience between molecular genetics and archaeology
Archaeologists have favoured a date of 14,000-15,000 years before present (BP) for canine domestication. However, recent studies of mutations in the... 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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£46.00
Author:
Andrew James McGregor
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712857
Paperback:
183pp, Includes 5 maps, 19 plates.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 53
BAR number:
S1006
Sub Title:
Problems in historical reconstruction
Volume 53 in the series of Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology focuses on the old sultanate of Darfur, in the westen part of... 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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Culture, History and Identity: Landscapes of Inhabitation in the Mount Kilimanjaro Area, Tanzania
Essays in Honour of Paramount Chief Thomas Lenana Mlanga Marealle II (1915-2007)
£79.00
Editors:
Timothy A. R. Clack
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407304496
Paperback:
315pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1966
Sub Title:
Essays in Honour of Paramount Chief Thomas Lenana Mlanga Marealle II (1915-2007)
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Culturas en contacto: conflicto, asimilación e intercambio
Proceedings of the Third Postgraduate Conference in Studies of Antiquity and Middle Ages, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 23–25th November 2016
£56.00
Editors:
Núria Pacheco Catalán, Ignacio Díaz Sierra, Marina Fernández Monterrubio, Isaac Lampurlanés Farré, Ariadna Martínez Guimerà, Marc Mendoza Sanahuja, Manel Pica Torné, Montserrat Rovira Rafecas and David Vázquez Ruiz
Publication Year:
2018
Language:
Spanish, 2 papers in Italian, 1 paper in English, Spanish and English abstracts
ISBN:
9781407316307
Paperback:
177 pages, Illustrated throughout in black and white. 3 tables, 18 figures, 1 map, 1 graph
BAR number:
S2887
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the Third Postgraduate Conference in Studies of Antiquity and Middle Ages, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 23–25th November 2016
Este volumen contiene las actas de las III Jornadas Predoctorales en Estudios de la Antigüedad y la Edad Media, celebradas en la Universidad Autónoma de... More
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£29.00
Author:
V. Emenike Chikwendu with contributions by M.O.E. Iwala, S.G.H. Daniels, D.C. Nwankiti and A.C. Onyeagocha
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549215
Paperback:
116pp, Includes black and white photos and line drawings.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 44
BAR number:
S734
Sub Title:
Excavations in Afikpo
Excavations at the Ugwuagu Rockshelter and the Ugwuagu Abandoned Village Sites, all in Afikpo, form the basis of this book. The excavations were carried out... More
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£53.00
Author:
Jean-François Pasty
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
French
ISBN:
9780860549871
Paperback:
234pp
BAR number:
S758
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Connected Hinterlands
Proceedings of Red Sea Project IV: Held at the University of Southampton September 2008
£62.00
Editors:
Lucy Blue, John Cooper, Ross Thomas and Julian Whitewright
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306315
Paperback:
249pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, photographs
Sub-series name:
Society for Arabian Studies Monographs (now British Foundation for the Study of Arabia Monographs), 8
BAR number:
S2052
Sub Title:
Proceedings of Red Sea Project IV: Held at the University of Southampton September 2008
This book includes papers from the conference Connected Hinterlands (Proceedings of Red Sea Project IV) held at the University of... 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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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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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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£68.00
Author:
Joséphine Lesur
Publication Year:
2007
Language:
French with English abstract
ISBN:
9781407300191
Paperback:
270pp, Includes 105 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 49 tables, 3 data Appendices
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 68
BAR number:
S1602
The main goal of this research is to know the exploitation of the faunal diversity during the Holocene in the Horn of Africa, especially... More
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£69.00
Author:
Joseph W. Michels
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841718828
Paperback:
273pp, Includes 55 tables, 59 figures, maps drawings plans and photographs. 6 Appendices of data
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 64
BAR number:
S1446
In this volume the author takes a regional perspective to examine Aksumite sites (the Horn of Africa) from 700 BC to 850 AD in their... More
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Ceramic Ecology Revisited 1987, Parts i and ii
The Technology and Socioeconomics of Pottery
£116.00
Editors:
Charles C Kolb
Publication Year:
1988
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860545620
Paperback:
674 pages. Two volume set. Illustrations in black and white, maps.
BAR number:
S436
Sub Title:
The Technology and Socioeconomics of Pottery
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£23.00
Author:
Emanuela Fabbricotti
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
Italian with an English abstract and resume
ISBN:
9781841711829
Paperback:
90pp, Includes 20 black and white plates
BAR number:
S962
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Case Studies in Archaeology and World Religion
The Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference
£47.00
Editors:
Timothy Insoll
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549567
Paperback:
187pp. Includes numerous photographs and drawings.
BAR number:
S755
Sub Title:
The Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference
Each of the twenty papers presented in this book is a case study utilising archaeological research, or the results thereof, as a means of... More
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Carved in Stone
The archaeology of rock-cut sites and stone quarries
£48.00
Editors:
Claudia Sciuto, Anaïs Lamesa, Katy Whitaker and Ali Yamaç
Publication Year:
2021
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407358093
Paperback:
192 pages
BAR number:
S3054
Sub Title:
The archaeology of rock-cut sites and stone quarries
The study of marks left by humans on stone outcrops is an interdisciplinary endeavour that entails geology, history of techniques, ethnography as well as... More
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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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Butua and the End of an Era
The effect of the collapse of the Kalanga state on ordinary citizens. An analysis of behaviour under stress
£98.00
Author:
Catharina van Waarden
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310190
Paperback:
393pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 82
BAR number:
S2420
Sub Title:
The effect of the collapse of the Kalanga state on ordinary citizens. An analysis of behaviour under stress
The Kalanga state Butua, which had dominated the Zimbabwe plateau (south central Africa) for four centuries, collapsed in the 1830s due... More
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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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