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Scandinavia

Lowland Iron Age Communities in Europe
Papers presented to a conference of the Department for External Studies held at Oxford, October 1977
£48.00
Editors:
Barry Cunliffe and Trevor Rowley, prepared for publication by Sylvia Pryor
Publication Year:
1978
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860540281
Paperback:
206pp, Includes colour illustrations.
BAR number:
S48
Sub Title:
Papers presented to a conference of the Department for External Studies held at Oxford, October 1977
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£63.00
Author:
Peter A. Gendel
Publication Year:
1984
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542803
Paperback:
278pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p.163-185
BAR number:
S218
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Modern Archaeology and its Reflection in the Value System of Contemporary Culture
Based on anthropological/archaeological research conducted in Australia
£30.00
Author:
Boris Deunert
Publication Year:
1996
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548331
Paperback:
120pp, Illustrated throughout, maps.
BAR number:
S648
Sub Title:
Based on anthropological/archaeological research conducted in Australia
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Mucho más que barcos
Una aproximación teórica a las funciones, capacidades náuticas, bases materiales y dimensión social de la tecnología naval prehistórica
£35.00
Author:
Julián Moyano Di Carlo
Publication Year:
2018
Language:
Spanish with a 6 pg English summary
ISBN:
9781407316543
Paperback:
123 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 6 tables, 67 figures (1 in colour), 2 colour graphs
BAR number:
S2901
Sub Title:
Una aproximación teórica a las funciones, capacidades náuticas, bases materiales y dimensión social de la tecnología naval prehistórica
Este trabajo pretende convertirse en un modelo teórico que sirva de sustento a un proyecto de investigación futuro sobre tecnología naval prehistórica.... More
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N-TAG TEN
Proceedings of the 10th Nordic TAG conference at Stiklestad, Norway 2009
£77.00
Editors:
Ragnhild Berge, Marek E. Jasinski and Kalle Sognnes
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309941
Paperback:
309pp. Illustrated in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2399
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the 10th Nordic TAG conference at Stiklestad, Norway 2009
This book includes papers from N-TAG TEN, the Proceedings of the 10th Nordic TAG conference at Stiklestad, Norway 2009. More
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Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilisations
Archaeological, geological, astronomical and cultural perspectives
£66.00
Editors:
Benny J. Peiser, Trevor Palmer and Mark E. Bailey
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549161
Paperback:
257pp. Includes numerous drawings, photographs, charts etc.
BAR number:
S728
Sub Title:
Archaeological, geological, astronomical and cultural perspectives
Research in the field of neo-catastrophism and impact cratering has quickened its pace since the early 1980s. An increasing number of... 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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Non-Flint Raw Material Use in Prehistory / L'utilisation préhistorique de matières premières lithiques alternatives
Old prejudices and new directions / Anciens préjugés, nouvelles perspectives. Session C77
£68.00
Editors:
Farina Sternke, Lotte Eigeland and Laurent-Jacques Costa
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English and French
ISBN:
9781407304199
Paperback:
269pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006)
BAR number:
S1939
Sub Title:
Old prejudices and new directions / Anciens préjugés, nouvelles perspectives. Session C77
This book includes papers from the session 'Non-Flint Raw Material Use in Prehistory: Old prejudices and new directions' (Vol. 11,... More
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Norse in Newfoundland
A critical examination of archaeological research at the Norse site at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland
£26.00
Author:
Janet E. Kay
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309224
Paperback:
79pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2339
Sub Title:
A critical examination of archaeological research at the Norse site at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland
Explorer Helge Ingstad set out in the 1960s to search for the much hypothesized and mythical Norse land of Vinland. Vinland, originally... More
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NW Europe in Transition
The Early Neolithic in Britain and South Sweden
£31.00
Editors:
Mats Larsson and Jolene Debert
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310879
Paperback:
97pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2475
Sub Title:
The Early Neolithic in Britain and South Sweden
This book is concerned with the developments that followed on from the introduction of farming into Britain and Southern Scandinavia... More
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On the Hunt for Medieval Whales
Zooarchaeological, historical and social perspectives on cetacean exploitation in medieval northern and western Europe
£68.00
Author:
Youri van den Hurk
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407357201
Paperback:
256 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 8 tables, 90 figures.
Sub-series name:
UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series, 4
BAR number:
S2998
Sub Title:
Zooarchaeological, historical and social perspectives on cetacean exploitation in medieval northern and western Europe
Medieval cetacean (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) exploitation has frequently been connected to various medieval societies, including the Basques, Norse,... More
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Pagans and Christians - from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Papers in honour of Martin Henig, presented on the occasion of his 65th birthday
£107.00
Editors:
Lauren Gilmour
Publication Year:
2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407300276
Paperback:
424pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs including 2 in colour
BAR number:
S1610
Sub Title:
Papers in honour of Martin Henig, presented on the occasion of his 65th birthday
For weeks after his Christian baptism and confirmation into the Church of England Martin presented a vivid sight as he walked briskly... More
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£31.00
Editors:
Helen Lewis and Sarah Semple
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305790
Paperback:
125pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S2103
Sub Title:
Papers presented at Oxford 2003-5
This book derives from a seminar series held at the Oxford University Institute of Archaeology in 2003-2004 and a second brief series in... More
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Postmedieval Boat and Ship Archaeology
Papers based on those presented to an International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology in Stockholm in 1982
£92.00
Editors:
Carl Olof Cederlund
Publication Year:
1985
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543275
Paperback:
452pp, Illustrated throughout, figures.
Sub-series name:
Swedish National Maritime Museum, Stockholm Report, 20
BAR number:
S256
Sub Title:
Papers based on those presented to an International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology in Stockholm in 1982
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£33.00
Editors:
Emmanuel Anati
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English, French and Italian
ISBN:
9781407303529
Paperback:
135pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), 16
BAR number:
S1872
Sub Title:
Session C27
This book includes papers from the 'Prehistoric Art and Ideology' session (C27) held at the XV UISPP World Congress, September 2006. More
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Prehistoric Art: Signs, Symbols, Myth, Ideology
Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne 4-9 Septembre 2006) Vol. 27 Session C26
£43.00
Editors:
Dario Seglie, Marcel Otte, Luiz Oosterbeek and Laurence Remacle
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English, French and Spanish
ISBN:
9781407306056
Paperback:
170pp, 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), 27
BAR number:
S2028
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. 27 Session C26
This book includes papers from Session C26, 'Prehistoric Art: Signs, Symbols, Myth, Ideology', from the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon,... More
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Prehistoric Hunter-Fishers of Varangerfjord, Northeastern Norway
Reconstruction of settlement and subsistence during the Younger Stone Age
£61.00
Author:
M.A.P. Renouf
Publication Year:
1989
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860546245
Paperback:
266pp
BAR number:
S487
Sub Title:
Reconstruction of settlement and subsistence during the Younger Stone Age
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Prehistoric Imagery and Landscapes
Rock art in Stjørdal, Trøndelag, Norway
£53.00
Author:
Kalle Sognnes
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712796
Paperback:
206pp. Includes 146 figures, photographs, drawings, maps, plans and tables 18-page bibliography
BAR number:
S998
Sub Title:
Rock art in Stjørdal, Trøndelag, Norway
This monograph represents 15 years of research by the author and concentrates on the so-called South Scandinavian or Bronze Age... More
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Production and Distribution
A Ceramic Viewpoint
£83.00
Author:
Hilary Howard and Elaine L. Morris
Publication Year:
1981
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860541462
Paperback:
404pp, Illustrated throughout, figures.
BAR number:
S120
Sub Title:
A Ceramic Viewpoint
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£49.00
Editors:
R. Esmée Webb
Publication Year:
1988
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860545361
Paperback:
210pp
BAR number:
S416
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£67.00
Author:
Lene Melheim
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313689
Paperback:
279pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2715
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Regional Variation in the Material Culture of Hunter Gatherers
Social and Ecological Approaches to Ethnographic Objects from Queensland, Australia
£52.00
Author:
Anne Best
Publication Year:
2003
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841715193
Paperback:
203pp. Includes 60 tables, 96 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, site Gazetteer
BAR number:
S1149
Sub Title:
Social and Ecological Approaches to Ethnographic Objects from Queensland, Australia
The author's concern in this volume is the spatial organisation of hunters and gatherers and how this is manifested through... More
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Sailing Rock Art Boats
A reassessment of seafaring abilities in Bronze Age Scandinavia and the introduction of the sail in the North
£53.00
Author:
Boel Bengtsson
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407315690
Paperback:
172 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 6 tables (in colour), 97 figures (46 in colour)
BAR number:
S2865
Sub Title:
A reassessment of seafaring abilities in Bronze Age Scandinavia and the introduction of the sail in the North
This book argues that the use of sail as a complement to paddling would have formed an integral part of the development of centres of power in the early... More
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Sceattas in England and on the Continent
The Seventh Oxford Symposium on Coinage and Monetary History
£62.00
Editors:
David Hill and D. M. Metcalf
Publication Year:
1984
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542667
Paperback:
274pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliographies
BAR number:
B128
Sub Title:
The Seventh Oxford Symposium on Coinage and Monetary History
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£54.00
Editors:
Kristian Kristiansen
Publication Year:
1984
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542728
Paperback:
236pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliographies
BAR number:
S211
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Shepherds Who Write
Pastoral graffiti in the uplands of Europe from prehistory to the modern age
£69.00
Editors:
Marta Bazzanella and Giovanni Kezich
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407357140
Paperback:
256 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 7 tables, 228 figures.
BAR number:
S2999
Sub Title:
Pastoral graffiti in the uplands of Europe from prehistory to the modern age
In a number of significant sites of the vast ancient pasturelands of the Old World, generations of wandering shepherds have left their testimony in the form... 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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£48.00
Author:
Janet E. Levy
Publication Year:
1982
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860541516
Paperback:
204pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p163-171
BAR number:
S124
Sub Title:
An Analysis of Ritual Hoard Finds
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£28.00
Editors:
Sally Crawford and Christina Lee
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313108
Paperback:
88pp
Sub-series name:
Studies in Early Medicine, 3
BAR number:
S2668
The chronological and geographical focus of this volume is medieval northern Europe, from the 6th to the 15th centuries. The contributors... More
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Sources and Techniques in Boat Archaeology
Papers based on those presented to a Symposium at Greenwich in September 1976, together with edited discussion
£74.00
Editors:
Sean McGrail
Publication Year:
1977
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780904531824
Paperback:
330pp, Includes 115 illustrations
Sub-series name:
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Archaeological series, 1
BAR number:
S29
Sub Title:
Papers based on those presented to a Symposium at Greenwich in September 1976, together with edited discussion
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£69.00
Author:
Atle Omland
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306957
Paperback:
276pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2153
The main objective of this book is to discuss parts of the later life histories of burial mounds by studying local interests in them... More
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£33.00
Author:
Vykintas Vaitkevičius
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841713564
Paperback:
128pp, Includes black and white figures, maps
BAR number:
S1228
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£81.00
Author:
Vincent Gaffney, Branko Kirigin, Marinko Petric and Nikša Vujnovic. With a commentary on the classical sources for the island by Slobodan Cace
Publication Year:
1997
Language:
English and Croatian
ISBN:
9780860548515
Paperback:
333pp, Includes numerous illustrations.
Sub-series name:
Adriatic Islands Project, 1
BAR number:
S660
Sub Title:
The Archaeological Heritage of Hvar, Croatia
First in a series of titles dedicated to a thorough archaeological investigation of the islands of the Adriatic. This book explores and... More
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£53.00
Editors:
George Nash and George Children
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303178
Paperback:
213pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1833
The Archaeology of Semiotics and the social order of things is edited by George Nash and George Children and brings together 15... More
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The Archaeology of Value
Essays on prestige and the processes of valuation
£37.00
Editors:
Douglass Bailey with the assistance of Steve Mills
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549635
Paperback:
152pp
BAR number:
S730
Sub Title:
Essays on prestige and the processes of valuation
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£64.00
Editors:
Annie Milles, Diane Williams and Neville Gardner
Publication Year:
1989
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860546368
Paperback:
284pp, Illustrated throughout, figures.
Sub-series name:
Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology, 8
BAR number:
S496
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£37.00
Author:
Mats Larsson
Publication Year:
1985
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543367
Paperback:
152pp
BAR number:
S264
Sub Title:
Social and Economic Change 3000-2500 B.C.
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The Gendered Landscape
A discussion on gender, status and power in the Norwegian Viking Age landscape
£26.00
Author:
Marianne Moen
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307657
Paperback:
80pp. Includes 14 figures, extensive tables, catalogue
BAR number:
S2207
Sub Title:
A discussion on gender, status and power in the Norwegian Viking Age landscape
This study is the result of a long standing interest by the author in the expression of social identities of the past, perhaps more... More
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The Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods in the Southern Levant
New data from the site of Teleilat Ghassul Jordan
£68.00
Author:
Jaimie L. Lovell
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712635
Paperback:
269pp, Includes 38 plates, 102 figures, plans, drawings 3 maps
Sub-series name:
Monogr. of the Sydney Univ. Teleilat Ghassul Proj., 1
BAR number:
S974
Sub Title:
New data from the site of Teleilat Ghassul Jordan
Teleilat Ghassul (a few kilometres north east of the Dead Sea) is important in the archaeology of the southern Levant, offering as it... More
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The Life Biography of Artefacts and Ritual Practice
With case studies from Mesolithic-Early Bronze Age Europe
£41.00
Editors:
Mathias Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist and Peter Bye-Jensen
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356822
Paperback:
140 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 11 tables, 111 figures.
BAR number:
S2991
Sub Title:
With case studies from Mesolithic-Early Bronze Age Europe
Inspired by a session held at the EAA conference in Vilnius in 2016, The Life Biography of Artefacts and Ritual Practice focuses on creating biographies... More
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The Maglemose Culture
The reconstruction of the social organization of a mesolithic culture in Northern Europe
£25.00
Author:
Ole Grøn
Publication Year:
1995
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860547976
Paperback:
102pp, Includes 30 illustrations
BAR number:
S616
Sub Title:
The reconstruction of the social organization of a mesolithic culture in Northern Europe
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The Materiality of Death
Bodies, Burials, Beliefs
£41.00
Editors:
Fredrik Fahlander and Terje Oestigaard
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407302577
Paperback:
167pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, tables, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1768
Sub Title:
Bodies, Burials, Beliefs
16 papers presented from an EAA session held at Krakow in 2006, exploring various aspects of the archaeology of death. More
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The Moneyers of England, 973–1086
Labour organisation in the Late Anglo-Saxon and Early Anglo-Norman English mints
£62.00
Author:
Jeremy Piercy
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407353746
Paperback:
237 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, 111 tables, 30 figures (3 in colour), 9 colour maps. With additional material online (supplementary data and Appendix 1 in graphic format).
BAR number:
B650
Sub Title:
Labour organisation in the Late Anglo-Saxon and Early Anglo-Norman English mints
The book examines the moneyers, those men responsible for minting the king’s coinage, within developing urban society in England during the tenth and... More
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The Nordic Scimitar
External relations and the creation of elite ideology
£29.00
Author:
Ørjan Engedal
Publication Year:
2002
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841714318
Paperback:
96pp. Includes 35 figures, maps, tables
BAR number:
S1050
Sub Title:
External relations and the creation of elite ideology
The Nordic Bronze Age provides rich and well-preserved material, including large amounts of Central European bronze. It was the northern... More
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£52.00
Author:
Kalle Sognnes
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407315164
Paperback:
208pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white. 1 table and 118 figures.
BAR number:
S2837
This book examines the Northern (Stone Age) rock art of central Norway, which is dominated by images of marine and terrestrial motifs. It focuses on how... More
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The Old Wrecks of the Baltic Sea
Archaeological recording of the wrecks of carvel-built ships
£55.00
Author:
Carl Olof Cederlund
Publication Year:
1983
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542292
Paperback:
240pp, Illustrated throughout, figures.
BAR number:
S186
Sub Title:
Archaeological recording of the wrecks of carvel-built ships
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£76.00
Author:
Magdalena S. Midgley
Publication Year:
1985
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543312
Paperback:
348pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p309-330
BAR number:
S259
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The Origins of Hereditary Social Stratification
A study focusing on early prehistoric Europe and modern ethnographic accounts
£56.00
Author:
Malcolm McKay
Publication Year:
1988
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860545316
Paperback:
246pp
BAR number:
S413
Sub Title:
A study focusing on early prehistoric Europe and modern ethnographic accounts
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