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East Asia

Rice Bowls and Dinner Plates
Ceramic artefacts from Chinese gold mining sites in southeast New South Wales, mid 19th to early 20th century
£52.00
Author:
Virginia Esposito
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313160
Paperback:
218pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2674
Sub Title:
Ceramic artefacts from Chinese gold mining sites in southeast New South Wales, mid 19th to early 20th century
This volume details the results of the first intra-site examination of Chinese gold miners' camps in Australia and the compositional... More
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£49.00
Editors:
Akira Ono, Michael D. Glascock, Yaroslav V. Kuzmin and Yoshimitsu Suda
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312552
Paperback:
200pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2620
This volume is a collection of papers related to different aspects of obsidian studies (mainly geology, geochemistry, and archaeology) in... More
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The Hongshan Papers
Collected Studies on the Archaeology of Northern China
£39.00
Author:
Sarah M. Nelson
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312538
Paperback:
124pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white & colour
BAR number:
S2618
Sub Title:
Collected Studies on the Archaeology of Northern China
The papers gathered together in this volume represent over a dozen years of research on the Hongshan period in north-eastern China.... More
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Natural Processes in the Degradation of Open-Air Rock-Art Sites
An urgency intervention scale to inform conservation: The case of the Côa Valley world heritage site, Portugal
£68.00
Author:
António Pedro Martins da Mota Batarda Fernandes
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312408
Paperback:
335pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2609
Sub Title:
An urgency intervention scale to inform conservation: The case of the Côa Valley world heritage site, Portugal
Open-air rock-art forms one of the most widely distributed categories of prehistoric culture with examples recognized across the Old and... More
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Millets, Rice and Farmers
Phytoliths as indicators of agricultural, social and ecological change in Neolithic and Bronze Age Central China
£47.00
Author:
Alison Ruth Weisskopf
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312170
Paperback:
186pp. Illustrated throughout. With additional material online (Phytolith reference collection)
BAR number:
S2589
Sub Title:
Phytoliths as indicators of agricultural, social and ecological change in Neolithic and Bronze Age Central China
Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Central China was the scene of important cultural developments which impacted on agricultural... More
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Chariots in Early China
Origins, cultural interaction, and identity
£43.00
Author:
Hsiao-yun Wu
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310657
Paperback:
149pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2457
Sub Title:
Origins, cultural interaction, and identity
This book concerns the ways in which the adaption of a steppe innovation, the horse-drawn chariot, in Chinese society during the 12th -... More
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Lithic Production and Early Urbanism in China
A case study of the lithic production at the Neolithic Taosi Site (ca. 2500–1900BCE)
£48.00
Author:
Shaodong Zhai
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309767
Paperback:
193pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2384
Sub Title:
A case study of the lithic production at the Neolithic Taosi Site (ca. 2500–1900BCE)
This work investigates the contribution of economic activity to Chinese early urbanization, through a case study of the lithic production... More
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£40.00
Editors:
Akira Ono and Masami Izuho
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309385
Paperback:
155pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2352
The Japan Association for Quaternary Research (JAQUA) and the Geological Survey of Japan (GSJ), National Institute of Advanced Industrial... More
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Ancient Society and Metallurgy
A comparative study of Bronze Age societies in Central Eurasia and North China
£53.00
Author:
Liangren Zhang
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309118
Paperback:
210pp. Illustrated throughout.
BAR number:
S2328
Sub Title:
A comparative study of Bronze Age societies in Central Eurasia and North China
Focusing on Bronze Age societies in Central Eurasia and North China, this book presents a new scenario of early social evolution.... More
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£61.00
Editors:
Yaroslav V. Kuzmin and Michael D. Glascock
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306940
Paperback:
243pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2152
The original idea for developing this book as Proceedings from the Symposium on Obsidian Source Studies in Northeast Asia, held at the... More
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The Relief Plaques of Eastern Eurasia and China
The ‘Ordos Bronzes’, Peter the Great’s Treasure, and their kin
£47.00
Author:
John Boardman
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306872
Paperback:
250pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2146
Sub Title:
The ‘Ordos Bronzes’, Peter the Great’s Treasure, and their kin
'The 'Ordos bronzes' are well known to collectors and many museums, named for the many finds in and around the Ordos plateau in north... 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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