Central and South America and the Caribbean

£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 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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£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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£49.00
Author:
N.C. Christopher Couch
Publication Year:
1985
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543459
Paperback:
212pp
BAR number:
S270
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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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£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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The Eagle, the Cactus, the Rock
The Roots of Mexico-Tenochtitlan's Foundation Myth and Symbol
£41.00
Author:
Doris Heyden
Publication Year:
1989
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860546214
Paperback:
176pp
BAR number:
S484
Sub Title:
The Roots of Mexico-Tenochtitlan's Foundation Myth and Symbol
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£81.00
Author:
Francesca Balossi Restelli
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841719177
Paperback:
326pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and plates
BAR number:
S1482
Sub Title:
The 'Dark Faced Burnished Ware Horizon'
This work defines Neolithic Near East 'Dark Faced Burnished Ware (DFBW)', on the basis of new data, taking into account areas of... More
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£87.00
Author:
Peter Biro
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407308913
Paperback:
345pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2308
Over the past decade there has been substantial progress in understanding Maya hieroglyphic writing. This development led to the... More
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£101.00
Author:
Etan Ayalon
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841718958
Paperback:
412pp. Includes 79 figures, maps, plans, drawings, photographs and plates. Index and Catalogue.
BAR number:
S1457
This research deals with all “skeletal material” finds (bone, ivory and antler) from the work of the three teams excavating at Caesarea... More
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The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe XV
The Kaolin Clay Tobacco Pipe Collection from Port Royal, Jamaica
£51.00
Author:
Georgia L. Fox
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841711140
Paperback:
220pp
Sub-series name:
The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe, 15
BAR number:
S809
Sub Title:
The Kaolin Clay Tobacco Pipe Collection from Port Royal, Jamaica
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£67.00
Editors:
Peter Davey
Publication Year:
1983
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542254
Paperback:
296pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliographies
Sub-series name:
The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe, 8
BAR number:
S175
Sub Title:
America
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£39.00
Author:
Francisco Estrada Belli
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841711195
Paperback:
168pp
BAR number:
S820
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£62.00
Author:
Gabrielle Vail
Publication Year:
1988
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860545941
Paperback:
272pp
BAR number:
S463
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The Archaeology of an Ancient Seaside Town
Performance and Community at Samanco, Nepeña Valley, Peru (ca. 500-1 BC)
£55.00
Author:
Matthew Helmer
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407314129
Paperback:
208pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2751
Sub Title:
Performance and Community at Samanco, Nepeña Valley, Peru (ca. 500-1 BC)
Studies of social complexity increasingly recognize the role of maritime communities in the development of large sociopolitical systems.... More
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The Ancient Maya City of Blue Creek, Belize
Wealth, Social Organization and Ritual
£66.00
Editors:
Thomas Guderjan
Publication Year:
2016
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407320694
Paperback:
250pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white: 53 tables (including 10 colour tables), 33 colour figures (including 3 photographs), 49 black and white figures (including 11 photographs), 5 maps (including 1 colour map).
BAR number:
S2796
Sub Title:
Wealth, Social Organization and Ritual
This volume summarizes many aspects of more than twenty years of field research at the ancient Maya city of Blue Creek in northwestern Belize. Blue Creek... More
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Text and Image in Pre-Columbian Art
Essays on the interrelationship of the verbal and visual arts
£51.00
Editors:
Janet Catherine Berlo
Publication Year:
1983
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542308
Paperback:
222pp, Illustrated throughout, figures.
Sub-series name:
Proceedings 44 International Congress of Americanists/Congreso Internacional de Americanistas
BAR number:
S180
Sub Title:
Essays on the interrelationship of the verbal and visual arts
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Templo I de Tikal
Arquitectura y restauración
£47.00
Author:
Gaspar Muñoz Cosme
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
Spanish with an English introduction
ISBN:
9781841717630
Paperback:
188pp. Includes 10 colour plates, black and white figures and plates
BAR number:
S1557
Sub Title:
Arquitectura y restauración
Arquitectura y restauración More
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£38.00
Author:
Marcos Román Gastaldi
Publication Year:
2007
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9781407301051
Paperback:
143pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 6 colour plates, 13 data Appendices
BAR number:
S1670
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Technology and Methodology for Archaeological Practice / Technologie et Méthodologie pour la pratique en Archéologie
Practical applications for the past reconstruction / Applications pratiques pour la reconstruction du passé
£38.00
Editors:
Alexandra Velho and Hans Kamermans
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306063
Paperback:
151pp, 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), 37
BAR number:
S2029
Sub Title:
Practical applications for the past reconstruction / Applications pratiques pour la reconstruction du passé
This book includes papers from Session C04, 'Technology and Methodology for Archaeological Practice: Practical applications for the past... More
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£31.00
Editors:
Sara Cura, Jedson Cerezer, Maria Gurova, Boris Santander, Luiz Oosterbeek and Jorge Cristóvão
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English with one paper in French
ISBN:
9781407312996
Paperback:
109pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XVI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Florianopolis, Brazil, 4-10 September 2011), 10
BAR number:
S2657
Experimental Archaeology as an hypothesis contrast method, focusing on technological studies, is not new in archaeological research... More
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Symbolic Notation of Teotihuacan
Elements of writing in a Mesoamerican culture of the Classic period
£77.00
Author:
James C. Langley
Publication Year:
1986
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544005
Paperback:
370pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p341-355
BAR number:
S313
Sub Title:
Elements of writing in a Mesoamerican culture of the Classic period
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Studies in the Neolithic and Urban Revolutions
The V. Gordon Childe Colloquium, Mexico, 1986
£79.00
Editors:
Linda Manzanilla
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544494
Paperback:
388pp, Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S349
Sub Title:
The V. Gordon Childe Colloquium, Mexico, 1986
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Statues et statuettes en bronze de Cilicie
avec deux annexes sur la main de Comana et les figurines en bronze du Musée de Hatay
£29.00
Author:
Ergün Laflı and Michel Feugère
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
French with summaries in English Italian and Turkish
ISBN:
9781841717975
Paperback:
104pp. Includes 1 map, 35 black and white plates
BAR number:
S1584
Sub Title:
avec deux annexes sur la main de Comana et les figurines en bronze du Musée de Hatay
This work studies a rare collection of statues and statuettes from Cilicia, including an examination of a Dolichenian hand from Comana in... More
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£46.00
Author:
Astrid Nunn in cooperation with Hamido Hammade. Drawings by Cornelie Wolff.
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841710174
Paperback:
182pp. Includes 417 drawings, 1 photographic plate.
BAR number:
S804
A detailed catalogue of 417 seals belonging to the Tablets & Cylinder Seals Collection in the Near Eastern Department of the National... More
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Spondylus in Prehistory
New data and approaches. Contributions to the archaeology of shell technologies
£62.00
Author:
Fotis Ifantidis and Marianna Nikolaidou
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307749
Paperback:
250pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2216
Sub Title:
New data and approaches. Contributions to the archaeology of shell technologies
This volume offers a broad and up-to-date discussion of the Spondylus “phenomenon” in prehistory, in diverse archaeological contexts from Europe and two... More
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Space, Time, Place
Third International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology, 17th-21st August 2009, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
£115.00
Editors:
Stefano Campana, Maurizio Forte and Claudia Liuzza
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306599
Paperback:
458pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2118
Sub Title:
Third International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology, 17th-21st August 2009, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology held in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India, in August... More
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Socioeconomic Networks and the Rise of Maya Civilization
The web of complexity at Middle Preclassic Cahal Pech, Belize
£77.00
Author:
Sherman W. Horn III
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407357546
Paperback:
348 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 69 tables, 111 figures.
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of the Maya, 7
BAR number:
S3009
Sub Title:
The web of complexity at Middle Preclassic Cahal Pech, Belize
This study examines the origins of complex society in the Maya Lowlands during the Middle Preclassic period. Excavations at Cahal Pech - a mid-sized Maya... More
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£41.00
Editors:
Verónica A. Vásquez López, RogelioValencia Rivera, Eugenia Gutiérrez González
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English & Spanish with abs. in Spanish & English
ISBN:
9781407312545
Paperback:
151pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2619
The present volume was born from the interest to analyse the different modalities of the political strategies used by the dominant groups... More
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£53.00
Author:
Sorin Hermon
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407301860
Paperback:
212pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, tables, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1744
Sub Title:
A lithic perspective
This work summarizes a techno-typological analysis of Chalcolithic (c. 4500-3500 B.C.) lithic assemblages from Southern Levant (sites... More
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£32.00
Author:
Benjamin R. Vining
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841717289
Paperback:
136pp. Includes illustrations, maps.
BAR number:
S1461
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£26.00
Editors:
Cecilia Conati Barbaro and Cristina Lemorini
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309620
Paperback:
87pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2372
A collection of papers focusing on questions of Copper Age metallurgical contexts, outlining the importance of an integrated analysis of... More
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£35.00
Editors:
Sandra L. López Varela
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313290
Paperback:
109pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2683
Sub Title:
Papers in Honour of Charles C. Kolb
This volume celebrates and reveals the critical role of Charles C. Kolb in creating and sustaining the knowledge of ceramic studies... More
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£58.00
Editors:
David L. Browman, Richard L. Burger and Mario A. Rivera
Publication Year:
1984
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542476
Paperback:
254pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliographies
Sub-series name:
Proceedings 44 International Congress of Americanists/Congreso Internacional de Americanistas
BAR number:
S194
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Sociabilidad y Alimentación
Estudio de casos en la transición al siglo XIX en el Virreinato del Río de la Plata
£48.00
Author:
María Marschoff
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9781407313061
Paperback:
200pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white.
Sub-series name:
South American Archaeology Series, 21
BAR number:
S2664
Sub Title:
Estudio de casos en la transición al siglo XIX en el Virreinato del Río de la Plata
This book attempts to historize the construction of the dichotomy between “public” and “private” in Spanish colonial territories during... More
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£41.00
Editors:
Bruce Proudfoot
Publication Year:
1983
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542223
Paperback:
176pp, Illustrated throughout, figures.
Sub-series name:
Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology, 3
BAR number:
S173
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£33.00
Author:
Armando Anaya Hernández
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841711959
Paperback:
128pp, Includes black and white figures, tables
BAR number:
S994
Sub Title:
A GIS Approach
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Ships, Boats, Ports, Trade, and War in the Mediterranean and Beyond
Proceedings of the Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium 2018
£51.00
Editors:
Naseem Raad and Carlos Cabrera Tejedor
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407317021
Paperback:
176 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 22 tables, 81 figures, 3 charts
BAR number:
S2961
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium 2018
This volume gathers papers presented at the Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium, held in Oxford in 2018. The event was an Honor Frost Foundation... More
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£31.00
Author:
Andrew Turner
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313986
Paperback:
90pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white
Sub-series name:
Paris Monographs in American Archaeology, 41
BAR number:
S2739
The Moche art style is best known through its highly refined ceramic vessels, which frequently accompanied burials. Estimates suggest... More
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£61.00
Author:
Alec McLellan
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407357560
Paperback:
232 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 29 tables, 118 figures.
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of the Maya, 6
BAR number:
S3007
Sub Title:
Two Precolumbian Maya sites in Northern Belize
At Lamanai and Ka’kabish, two Precolumbian Maya centres in north-western Belize, archaeologists have researched the environment, architecture, and long-term... More
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Settlement and Subsistence in Tikal
The assembled work of Dennis E. Puleston (Field research 1961­1972)
£55.00
Editors:
Olga Stavrakis-Puleston
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407314198
Paperback:
205pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white
Sub-series name:
Paris Monographs in American Archaeology, 43
BAR number:
S2757
Sub Title:
The assembled work of Dennis E. Puleston (Field research 1961­1972)
From 1956 to 1970 excavations at Tikal, one of the most famous classical Maya sites, was carried out by the University of Pennsylvania... 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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£41.00
Editors:
Pedro P. Funari, Nanci Oliveira, Andrés Zarankin, Ximena Senatore and Lourdes Dominguez (C32) João Pedro Bernardes (C55) Fábio Vergara Cerqueira and Luciana Peixoto (S01) Fábio Vergara Cerquei
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305592
Paperback:
167pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), 34
BAR number:
S2083
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 34
This book includes papers from Session C32: Contemporary Issues in Historical Archaeology; Session C55: Romanization and Indigenous... More
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Sense and Nonsense in Homer
A consideration of the inconsistencies and incoherencies in the texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey
£22.00
Author:
John Wilson
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841710440
Paperback:
85pp
BAR number:
S839
Sub Title:
A consideration of the inconsistencies and incoherencies in the texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey
This book examines passages in the Iliad and the Odyssey which present semantic or logical difficulties, and those that might be thought... More
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Sémiologie du temple maya
Contribution à l’archéologie des centres cérémoniels des Basses Terres méso-américaines (200/900 ap. J.-C.)
£129.00
Author:
Aliénor Letouzé
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
French
ISBN:
9781407315744
Paperback:
610 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 29 tables, 331 figures (28 in colour), 5 maps (3 in colour) and 178 plans.
BAR number:
S2855
Sub Title:
Contribution à l’archéologie des centres cérémoniels des Basses Terres méso-américaines (200/900 ap. J.-C.)
Cette recherche de doctorat est le fruit d’une analyse innovante de l’architecture méso-américaine, et plus précisément de la planification urbaine et du... More
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Salt Effect
Second Arheoinvest Symposium: From the ethnoarchaeology to the anthropology of salt  20-21 April 2012, ‘Al. I. Cuza’ University, Iaşi, Romania
£67.00
Editors:
Marius Alexianu, Roxana-Gabriela Curca, Vasile Cotiuga
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407314228
Paperback:
292pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2760
Sub Title:
Second Arheoinvest Symposium: From the ethnoarchaeology to the anthropology of salt  20-21 April 2012, ‘Al. I. Cuza’ University, Iaşi, Romania
Salt is a biological and social necessity to human life. Salt has played a significant role in many ancient and modern processes, such as... More
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Rock Art, Water, and Ancestors
The semiotic construction of a sacred landscape in the central Andes (1800 BCE - CE 1820)
£78.00
Author:
Gordon Ambrosino
Publication Year:
2020
ISBN:
9781407356624
Paperback:
296 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 39 tables, 320 figures, 9 maps, 4 graphs
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of Prehistoric Art, 2
BAR number:
S2969
Sub Title:
The semiotic construction of a sacred landscape in the central Andes (1800 BCE - CE 1820)
As landscape art, the rock art of the central Andes offers clues regarding relationships between ancestor veneration and the negotiation of rights to water.... More
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Rock Art in the Landscapes of Motion
Proceedings of a session of the 20th International Rock Art Congress IFRAO 2018 in Valcamonica, Italy
£56.00
Editors:
Pawel L Polkowski and Frank Förster
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407359892
Paperback:
192 pages
BAR number:
S3092
Sub Title:
Proceedings of a session of the 20th International Rock Art Congress IFRAO 2018 in Valcamonica, Italy
This volume presents a collection of papers focusing on the dynamic relationship between rock art, movement and the surrounding landscape. The contributors... More
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