Central and South America and the Caribbean

£48.00
Author:
José M. Capriles
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312293
Paperback:
203pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2597
The domestication of South American camelids (llamas and alpacas) transformed the use of the Andean landscape. In the central altiplano... More
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£93.00
Author:
Helen Wilkins
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305950
Paperback:
371pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings, figures, tables and photographs
BAR number:
S2020
This study investigates the relationship between the thermal performance of building assemblages (classes of buildings) and the social... More
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£49.00
Author:
N.C. Christopher Couch
Publication Year:
1985
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543459
Paperback:
212pp
BAR number:
S270
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£49.00
Author:
C. Wayne Smith
Publication Year:
1997
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549147
Paperback:
212pp, Includes 51 illustrations
BAR number:
S675
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The Final Revival of the Aegean Bronze Age
A case study of the Argolid, Corinthia, Attica, Euboea, the Cyclades and the Dodecanese during LH IIIC Middle
£95.00
Author:
Marina Thomatos
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841719290
Paperback:
388pp. Includes 608 figures, plans, drawings and photographs, 1 colour illustration, 15 charts, 23 tables, 19 maps
BAR number:
S1498
Sub Title:
A case study of the Argolid, Corinthia, Attica, Euboea, the Cyclades and the Dodecanese during LH IIIC Middle
This work examines the post-palatial phase of Late Helladic IIIC middle. During this phase in Greek prehistory, Greece undergoes... More
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£77.00
Author:
Tessa C. S. Machling
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309354
Paperback:
309pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2349
This study examines the development and decline of the 17th and 18th century English/British fortifications of Nevis, West Indies. The... More
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The Imagination of Matter
Religion and Ecology in Mesoamerican Traditions
£53.00
Editors:
Davíd Carrasco
Publication Year:
1989
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860546566
Paperback:
230pp
BAR number:
S515
Sub Title:
Religion and Ecology in Mesoamerican Traditions
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£29.00
Author:
Francesco Menotti
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549253
Paperback:
95pp. Includes black and white photos and line-drawings. With additional material online (colour photographs).
BAR number:
S735
This book examines Inka stone masonry, a major hallmark of their culture, as a whole, from stone block extraction to drressing... More
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£32.00
Editors:
Emmanuel Anati, Luiz Oosterbeek, Federico Mailland
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English and French
ISBN:
9781407309477
Paperback:
119pp, 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), 1
BAR number:
S2360
Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Florianopolis, Brazil, 4-10 September 2011). More
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£66.00
Author:
Ghattas Jeries Sayej
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716749
Paperback:
259pp. Includes 96 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 64 tables
BAR number:
S1329
This work has as its main objective to clarify the nature of the early Neolithic period in the Southern Levant, in as much as this... More
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The Materiality of Remembering
An ethnographic study of the living spaces in a Nahua municipality in Veracruz, Mexico
£49.00
Author:
Julieta Flores-Muñoz
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407357034
Paperback:
172 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 86 figures, 12 maps.
BAR number:
S3002
Sub Title:
An ethnographic study of the living spaces in a Nahua municipality in Veracruz, Mexico
Although oral narrations are the way in which history has survived in Mexican indigenous contexts, they have been long disregarded as a valid source of... More
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The Maya and Environmental Stress from Past to Present
Human response and adaptation to climate change in the Maya lowlands
£55.00
Author:
Eva Jobbová
Publication Year:
2021
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407357287
Paperback:
236 pages
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of the Maya, 8
BAR number:
S3055
Sub Title:
Human response and adaptation to climate change in the Maya lowlands
Both the perceived successes and failures of the Maya are often linked to their relationship with the local environment and their response to episodes of... More
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£62.00
Editors:
J. de Durand-Forest
Publication Year:
1984
Language:
English (7 papers) and French (3 papers)
ISBN:
9780860542612
Paperback:
274pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliographies
Sub-series name:
Proceedings 44 International Congress of Americanists/Congreso Internacional de Americanistas
BAR number:
S204
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The Olmeca-Xicallanca of Teotihuacan, Cacaxtla, and Cholula
An archaeological, ethnohistorical, and linguistic synthesis/El Epiclásico en la región poblano-tlaxcalteca
£32.00
Author:
Robert E. L. Chadwick. With a contribution by Angel García Cook
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
Spanish and English
ISBN:
9781407311029
Paperback:
113pp, Illustrated throughout.
Sub-series name:
Paris Monographs in American Archaeology, 30
BAR number:
S2488
Sub Title:
An archaeological, ethnohistorical, and linguistic synthesis/El Epiclásico en la región poblano-tlaxcalteca
Olmeca-Xicallanca, 'People from the Land of Rubber, People from the Land of Canoes' - the Nahuatl name of these ethnic groups invokes the... More
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The Paiján People
Burials and Paleoindian human remains from coastal Peru
£35.00
Authors:
Jean-Paul Lacombe and Claude Chauchat
Publication Year:
2023
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407361215
Paperback:
114 pages, Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S3156
Sub Title:
Burials and Paleoindian human remains from coastal Peru
From 1972 to 1997, archaeological research was undertaken on open air early sites on the north coast of Peru (Cupisnique region: about 7°30 south latitude).... More
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The People Before
The geology, paleoecology and archaeology of Adak Island, Alaska
£86.00
Author:
Dixie West, Virginia Hatfield, Elizabeth Wilmerding, Christine Lefèvre and Lyn Gualtieri
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309057
Paperback:
345pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2322
Sub Title:
The geology, paleoecology and archaeology of Adak Island, Alaska
From the Introduction: 'North Adak Island is a dichotomy of brute, natural beauty and a horrific example of what modern humans and war... More
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The Pottery Figurines of Pre-Columbian Peru
Volume I: The figurines of the North Coast
£110.00
Author:
Alexandra Morgan
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407304212
Paperback:
439pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, tables, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1941
Sub Title:
Volume I: The figurines of the North Coast
Pre-Columbian pottery figurines from Peru occur in astonishingly large numbers in museum and private collections. However in the... More
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The Pottery Figurines of Pre-Columbian Peru
Volume III: The Figurines of the South Coast the Highlands and the Selva
£123.00
Author:
Alexandra Morgan
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310459
Paperback:
491pp. Includes 17 figures, 36 tables, 82 figures, 8 maps
BAR number:
S2441
Sub Title:
Volume III: The Figurines of the South Coast the Highlands and the Selva
Volume 3 in this series on Pre-Columbian figurines concentrates on pottery figurines from the south coast, the highlands and the 'Selva' (tropical rain... More
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The Pottery Figurines of Pre-Columbian Peru
Volume II : The Figurines of the Central Coast
£131.00
Author:
Alexandra Morgan
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407315232
Paperback:
631pp
BAR number:
S2845
Sub Title:
Volume II : The Figurines of the Central Coast
The set of 3 volumes (this book, together with S1941 and S2441) aims to provide a comprehensive catalogue of Peruvian Pottery Figurines, from their first... More
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£41.00
Author:
Agapi Filini
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716329
Paperback:
165pp. Includes 67 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 4 charts, 6 tables
BAR number:
S1279
Sub Title:
A world-system perspective
Until recently it was thought that West Mexico was isolated from the cultural region defined as 'Mesoamerica', especially during the... More
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The Reconstruction of Archaeological Landscapes through Digital Technologies
Proceedings of the 2nd Italy-United States Workshop. Rome, Italy, November 3-5, 2003, Berkeley, USA, May 2005
£68.00
Editors:
Maurizio Forte
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841718194
Paperback:
279pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, tables, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1379
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the 2nd Italy-United States Workshop. Rome, Italy, November 3-5, 2003, Berkeley, USA, May 2005
23 papers from the Proceedings of the 2nd Italy-United States Workshop (Archaeological Landscapes through Digital Technologies), Rome.... More
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The Rock Art of Ometepe Island, Nicaragua
Motif classification, quantification, and regional comparisons
£47.00
Author:
Suzanne M. Baker
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305608
Paperback:
181pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
Sub-series name:
Paris Monographs in American Archaeology, 25
BAR number:
S2084
Sub Title:
Motif classification, quantification, and regional comparisons
This study presents a motif classification, quantification, and regional comparisons for engraved rock art from the Maderas Volcano on... More
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£54.00
Author:
Michelle Cave
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716305
Paperback:
221pp. Includes 63 figures, 24 tables
BAR number:
S1277
This work explores the way in which novel chemical criteria can be used to identify charred remains of grains of small-grained grasses... More
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The Salt of the Earth
Ethnoarchaeology of Salt Production in Michoacán, Western Mexico
£49.00
Author:
Eduardo Williams
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313801
Paperback:
154pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2725
Sub Title:
Ethnoarchaeology of Salt Production in Michoacán, Western Mexico
The present study offers new information on salt production in Michoacán, broadening our perspectives on the role played by common salt,... More
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