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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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£33.00
Author:
Richard Lunniss
Publication Year:
2023
Language:
English, with chapter summaries in Spanish
ISBN:
9781407359953
Paperback:
108 pages
BAR number:
S3117
Sub Title:
A Reconstruction and Interpretation
The Late Formative site of Salango, on the central coast of Ecuador, functioned as a sacred centre of increasing influence from 600 BC to 100 BC. This... More
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£53.00
Author:
William A. Parkinson
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841717883
Paperback:
217pp. Includes 54 tables, 86 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1573
The research presented in this study focuses upon a 2,000 sq km area in the Körös River Valley, in northern Békés County, eastern... More
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The Taíno Settlement at Guayguata
Excavations in St Mary Parish, Jamaica
£38.00
Author:
Philip Allsworth-Jones and Kit W. Wesler, with contributions from Lisabeth Carlson Simon F. Mitchell, Sherene A. James, Ryan Ramsook, Marcella Phillips, Nicole L. Patrick, Anthony R. D. Porter and Ana Luísa Santos
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310053
Paperback:
139pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2407
Sub Title:
Excavations in St Mary Parish, Jamaica
In 1998 the authors of this report initiated a Jamaican Taíno archaeological project as a joint program of the Department of History,... More
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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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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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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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£31.00
Editors:
Maria Estela Mansur, Marcio Alonso Lima and Yolaine Maigrot
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312828
Paperback:
98pp, Includes illustrations (black and white), maps (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), 6
BAR number:
S2643
Sub Title:
Vol 6, Session XXXV
Since it was established as a formal discipline, use-wear analysis has become routine practice in archaeological research, under the... More
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£52.00
Author:
Chloé Pomédio, Grégory Pereira and Eugenia Fernandez-Villanueva
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
Spanish with English abstracts
ISBN:
9781407311371
Paperback:
217pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
Paris Monographs in American Archaeology, 31
BAR number:
S2519
Sub Title:
Cronología e interacción
The Bajío (West-Central Mexico) has been considered by various authors to be a key region for understanding the processes of interaction... More
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£26.00
Author:
Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407308036
Paperback:
87pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2239
Epigraphers of the Mayan hieroglyphic writing system have demonstrated that a single verb root lies behind a substantial array of royal... More
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£28.00
Author:
Natalia Moragas Segura
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9781407314280
Paperback:
83pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white and colour
BAR number:
S2767
In 1992, in the context of the Archaeological Project Teotihuacan 92-94 under the direction of Eduardo Matos Montezuma , two caves in the southeast of the... More
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Un estilo y su época
El caso de la cerámica Famabalasto Negro Grabado del Noroeste Argentino
£79.00
Author:
Valeria Palamarczuk
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9781407308074
Paperback:
317pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2243
Sub Title:
El caso de la cerámica Famabalasto Negro Grabado del Noroeste Argentino
This book presents a contextual study of the Famabalasto Negro Grabado pottery of the late period in the Calchaqui Valleys in northwest... More
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£61.00
Author:
Fabián Alejandro Bognanni
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
Spanish with abstracts in English
ISBN:
9781407313610
Paperback:
238pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white, with CD
BAR number:
S2710
Sub Title:
Provincias de Buenos Aires y Mendoza Argentina
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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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Underwater Archaeology, Coastal and Lakeside
Proceedings of the XVI IUPPS World Congress (Florianopolis 4–10 September 2011) / Actes du XVI Congrès Mondial UISPP (Florianópolis 4–10 Septembre 2011) Volume 5
£23.00
Editors:
Alexandra Figueiredo, Flavio Calippo and Gilson Rambelli
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312682
Paperback:
72pp, 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), 5
BAR number:
S2631
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the XVI IUPPS World Congress (Florianopolis 4–10 September 2011) / Actes du XVI Congrès Mondial UISPP (Florianópolis 4–10 Septembre 2011) Volume 5
This book presents a collection of peer-reviewed papers from the sixteenth UISPP / SAB, session VII, titled Underwater Archaeology,... More
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Unidad y diversidad en el Arco Atlántico en época romana
III Coloquio Internacional de Arqueología en Gijón, Gijón, 28, 29 y 30 septiembre 2002
£90.00
Editors:
Carmen Fernández Ochoa and Paloma García Díaz
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
Spanish and English
ISBN:
9781841718132
Paperback:
357pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, tables, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1371
Sub Title:
III Coloquio Internacional de Arqueología en Gijón, Gijón, 28, 29 y 30 septiembre 2002
20 papers from the Symposium: The Atlantic Arc in the Roman Age: Cultural Unity and Diversity, held in Gijón in September 2002. More
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Untermassfeld
A late Early Pleistocene (Epivillafranchian) fossil site near Meiningen (Thuringia, Germany) and its position in the development of the European mammal fauna
£35.00
Author:
Ralf-Dietrich Kahlke
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841717920
Paperback:
141pp. Includes 79 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. With additional material online (excavation maps)
BAR number:
S1578
Sub Title:
A late Early Pleistocene (Epivillafranchian) fossil site near Meiningen (Thuringia, Germany) and its position in the development of the European mammal fauna
The fossil site of Untermassfeld, near the town of Meiningen in Southern Thuringia, was discovered in 1978 and has been the subject of 25... More
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Urban Continuity in the Andes
A pre-historical planning tradition
£69.00
Author:
Lindsay Robert Hasluck
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305387
Paperback:
283pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S2002
Sub Title:
A pre-historical planning tradition
This work investigates the evolution of urban design in the Andes of South America to ascertain if there existed in pre-Hispanic times a... More
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Variación Esqueletal Humana y Contexto Arqueológico
Evaluación de Marcadores de Edad y Sexo en Colecciones Osteológicas del Noroeste Argentino
£53.00
Author:
María Carolina Barboza
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9781407313542
Paperback:
178pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white
Sub-series name:
South American Archaeology Series, 23
BAR number:
S2703
Sub Title:
Evaluación de Marcadores de Edad y Sexo en Colecciones Osteológicas del Noroeste Argentino
Reliable sex and age estimate on human bone remains is a fundamental aspect in bioarchaeological investigation since such estimates... More
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£29.00
Author:
Marien Béguelin
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9781407308203
Paperback:
105pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white.
Sub-series name:
South American Archaeology Series, 12
BAR number:
S2253
Sub Title:
Una Aproximación Morfométrica
This book assesses the patterns of morphological variation in Late Holocene human populations of Pampa and Continental Patagonia in... More
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£36.00
Editors:
Emily M. Stovel and Guillermo De La Fuente
Publication Year:
2016
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407314815
Paperback:
125pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white: 19 tables, 12 colour figures (including 3 photographs), 53 black and white figures (including 8 photographs), 8 black and white maps
BAR number:
S2808
This volume presents current trends in the application of scientific methods to ceramic analysis throughout South America. Reports from ongoing ceramic... More
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£70.00
Author:
Monica Rorison
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712277
Paperback:
282pp. Includes numerous maps, site drawings, tables and comprehensive gazeteer.
BAR number:
S933
The subject of this work is the 'vici' settlements of Gaul, or more precisely of the Three Gauls; Aquitania, Lugdunensis, and Belgica;... More
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£55.00
Author:
Maricarmen Vega
Publication Year:
2023
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407359359
Paperback:
192 pages, Illustrated throughout in black & white, and colour
BAR number:
S3124
This investigation shows the interaction between socio-political changes and climate crisis in the development of violence in the pre-Hispanic Peruvian... More
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Water Folk
Reconstructing an Ancient Aquatic Lifeway in Michoacán, Western Mexico
£38.00
Author:
Eduardo Williams
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312521
Paperback:
123pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2617
Sub Title:
Reconstructing an Ancient Aquatic Lifeway in Michoacán, Western Mexico
This study of subsistence activities (fishing, hunting, gathering, and manufacture) in the Cuitzeo and Pátzcuaro lake basins (Michoacán,... More
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When East Meets West, Volumes I and II
Chichen Itza, Tula, and the Postclassic Mesoamerican world
£230.00
Editors:
Travis W. Stanton, Karl A. Taube, Jeremy D. Coltman and Nelda I. Marengo Camacho
Publication Year:
2023
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407359717
Paperback:
984 pages. Two volume set.
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of the Maya, 12
BAR number:
S3134
Sub Title:
Chichen Itza, Tula, and the Postclassic Mesoamerican world
This volume represents the first large-scale reconsideration of the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic periods in broader Mesoamerica in 20 years. In part,... More
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