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Scandinavia

Belief in the Past
The Proceedings of the 2002 Manchester Conference on Archaeology and Religion
£35.00
Editors:
Timothy Insoll
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841715759
Paperback:
138pp. Illustrated throughout with plans, maps, photographs, tables and figures.
BAR number:
S1212
Sub Title:
The Proceedings of the 2002 Manchester Conference on Archaeology and Religion
This book includes papers from the proceedings of the Manchester Conference on Archaeology and Religion held at Ashburne Hall, The... More
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£23.00
Author:
Merryn Dineley
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841713526
Paperback:
96pp, Includes black and white figures
BAR number:
S1213
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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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Draupnir’s Sweat and Mardöll’s Tears
An Archaeology of Jewellery, Gender and Identity in Viking Age Iceland
£37.00
Author:
Michèle Hayeur Smith
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841713762
Paperback:
154pp, Includes 21 tables, 78 black and white figures
BAR number:
S1276
Sub Title:
An Archaeology of Jewellery, Gender and Identity in Viking Age Iceland
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Art du Paléolithique Supérieur et du Mésolithique / Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Art
Sessions générales et posters / General Sessions and Posters
£56.00
Editors:
le Secrétariat du Congrès
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English and French
ISBN:
9781841716602
Paperback:
223pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, tables and illustrations
Sub-series name:
Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Liège, Belgium, 2-8 September 2001, 8
BAR number:
S1311
Sub Title:
Sessions générales et posters / General Sessions and Posters
Art du Paléolithique Supérieur et du Mésolithique/Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Art. Section 8 of the Acts of the XIVth UISPP... More
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Death and Life-Giving Waters
Cremation, caste, and cosmogony in karmic traditions
£89.00
Author:
Terje Oestigaard
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716985
Paperback:
353pp. Includes 125 figures, maps, plans, drawings, photographs, 6 colour illustrations. 4 Appendices and Glossary
BAR number:
S1353
Sub Title:
Cremation, caste, and cosmogony in karmic traditions
In this original work, the author aims to develop a synthetic perspective for enhancing the understanding of the roles death and... More
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£31.00
Editors:
Christopher Clarkson and Lara Lamb
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841718514
Paperback:
133pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and illustrations.
BAR number:
S1408
This monograph takes a new look at various aspects of stone artefact analysis that reveal important and exciting new information about... More
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Legio XX Valeria Victrix
Prosopography, archaeology and history
£74.00
Author:
Stephen James Malone
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841719221
Paperback:
297pp. Includes 63 tables 26 figures, maps, plans and drawings, 14 black and white plates. Five catalogues and Appendices
BAR number:
S1491
Sub Title:
Prosopography, archaeology and history
This study of legio XX Valeria Victrix combines a personal, historical and archaeological approach to the study of the legion (roughly... More
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Anuradhapura
The British-Sri Lankan Excavations at Anuradhapura Salgaha Watta 2. Volume II: The Artefacts
£143.00
Author:
Robin Coningham
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841719429
Paperback:
738pp, Includes 25 maps, 51 tables, 58 plates including 4 pages of colour plates, 56 pages of figures, illustrations and drawings. Index
Sub-series name:
Society for South Asian Studies Monograph, 4
BAR number:
S1508
Sub Title:
The British-Sri Lankan Excavations at Anuradhapura Salgaha Watta 2. Volume II: The Artefacts
The site of Anuradhapura, NW Sri Lanka, is important, from two principal points of view. In the first place it has played a significant... 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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£69.00
Author:
Alejandro Fabio Haber
Publication Year:
2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407301273
Paperback:
279pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 3 data Appendices
BAR number:
S1689
Sub Title:
First and Second Millennia B.P.
This work presents a detailed study of the Puna de Atacama oasis (Antofalla, Argentina) across the first two millennia BP. More
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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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Aspects of Gender Identity and Craft Production in the European Migration Period
Iron Weaving Beaters and Associated Textile Making Tools from England, Norway and Alamannia
£38.00
Author:
Sue Harrington
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407302188
Paperback:
150pp
BAR number:
S1797
Sub Title:
Iron Weaving Beaters and Associated Textile Making Tools from England, Norway and Alamannia
Iron Weaving Beaters and Associated Textile Making Tools from England, Norway and Alamannia More
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£48.00
Editors:
Bernard Frischer and Anastasia Dakouri-Hild
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407302928
Paperback:
196pp. Illustrated throughout including 34 colour plates
BAR number:
S1805
This book is timely. As the contributions in it illustrate, 2D and 3D modeling of cultural heritage is no longer used just to illustrate... More
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Bucket-Shaped Pots
Style, chronology and regional diversity in Norway in the Late Roman and Migration Periods
£66.00
Author:
Asbjørn Engevik jr
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303024
Paperback:
257pp. Includes 19 tables, 250 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. 3 data Appendices
BAR number:
S1816
Sub Title:
Style, chronology and regional diversity in Norway in the Late Roman and Migration Periods
A study of bucket-shaped pots from 986 Norwegian graves. These graves include altogether 1179 bucket-shaped pots or fragments of pots.... More
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£59.00
Editors:
James Conolly and Matthew Campbell
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303130
Paperback:
229pp. Illustrated with maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
BAR number:
S1829
The four themes of seafaring and voyaging, colonization and abandonment, human ecology, and social interaction are explored in detail in... 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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An Investigation of the Common Cockle (Cerastoderma edule (L))
Collection practices at the kitchen midden sites of Norsminde and Krabbesholm, Denmark
£81.00
Author:
Eva M. Laurie
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303185
Paperback:
321pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, tables, drawings and photograp
BAR number:
S1834
Sub Title:
Collection practices at the kitchen midden sites of Norsminde and Krabbesholm, Denmark
The aim of this work is to determine to what extent the exploitation of cockles changed across the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition in... More
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£35.00
Editors:
Ina Berg
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303444
Paperback:
137pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group: Occasional Paper
BAR number:
S1861
In October 2006, the 3rd International Conference on Prehistoric Ceramics, entitled 'Breaking the Mould: Challenging the Past through... More
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£29.00
Editors:
Sandra Montón-Subías and Margarita Sánchez-Romero
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303451
Paperback:
105pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1862
A selection of some of the papers presented at two international workshops: Women and Maintenance activities in times of change and... More
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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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£55.00
Author:
Rupert Gerritsen
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303543
Paperback:
219pp. Includes 28 figures, maps, plans and drawings
BAR number:
S1874
In this work the author explores issues of the origin of agriculture in Australia such as the “failure” of agriculture to develop... 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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£31.00
Editors:
Mercourios Georgiadis and Chrysanthi Gallou
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407304076
Paperback:
127pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, plans, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1925
The present volume is the outcome of a session held at the 12th European Archaeological Association conference at Krakow in Poland, in... More
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Lithics in the Scandinavian Late Bronze Age
Sociotechnical change and persistence
£76.00
Author:
Anders Högberg
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407304144
Paperback:
305pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white and with fold-out plans and drawings. Indices
BAR number:
S1932
Sub Title:
Sociotechnical change and persistence
Some time just after 900 BC a tool was introduced with a shaft of wood and a knife blade of flint. It was manufactured and used for... 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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£46.00
Author:
Julie Wileman
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305165
Paperback:
181pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1984
The goal of this study is to examine the potential for the understanding and recognition of the processes and occurrence of prehistoric... More
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£35.00
Author:
Tove Hjørungdal
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305806
Paperback:
139pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S2004
The subject of this book is the archaeology of the Vestland cauldron. The Vestland cauldron counts among the true European connections in... 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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£22.00
Editors:
Mircea Babes and Marc-Antoine Kaeser
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English and French
ISBN:
9781407306223
Paperback:
54pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, photographs and colour plates
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006)
BAR number:
S2046
This book includes papers from session C75, Archaeologists without Boundaries: Towards a History of International Archaeological... More
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£22.00
Author:
Anna-Kaisa Puputti
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305769
Paperback:
83pp. Illustrated with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S2100
In this work the author describes the animal husbandry practices and the use of wild resources in early modern Tornio (northern Finland)... 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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£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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£56.00
Author:
Bo Jensen
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307138
Paperback:
223pp. Illustrated throughout. With additional material online (database).
BAR number:
S2169
Two hundered years of antiquarian and archaeological and archaeological interest has generated an archive of some 1350 Viking Age... More
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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 Significance of Trees
An archaeological perspective
£26.00
Author:
Peter Skoglund
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309071
Paperback:
77pp. Illustrated throughout.
BAR number:
S2324
Sub Title:
An archaeological perspective
This book investigates the practical and ritual dimensions of trees and timber in the Bronze Age and Iron Age of Scandinavia. The... More
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Theoretical and Methodological Considerations in Central European Neolithic Archaeology
Proceedings of the ‘Theory and Method in Archaeology of the Neolithic (7th - 3rd millennium BC)’ conference held in Mikulov, Czech Republic, 26th – 28th of October 2010
£41.00
Editors:
Jan Kolár and František Trampota
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309088
Paperback:
131pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2325
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the ‘Theory and Method in Archaeology of the Neolithic (7th - 3rd millennium BC)’ conference held in Mikulov, Czech Republic, 26th – 28th of October 2010
This book presents the proceedings of the 'Theory and Method in Archaeology of the Neolithic (7th - 3rd millennium BC)' conference held... 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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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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£108.00
Editors:
Joël Vital, Fabien Convertini and Olivier Lemercier
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
French
ISBN:
9781407310503
Paperback:
431pp. Illustrated throughout. With additional material online (Annexes).
BAR number:
S2446
Sub Title:
Résultats du Projet Collectif de Recherche 1999-2009
The results of research over a period of ten years into the question of the origins of the Early Bronze Age in south-eastern France. The... More
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Comparative Archaeology and Paleoclimatology
Socio-cultural responses to a changing world
£66.00
Editors:
Maximilian O. Baldia, Timothy K. Perttula, and Douglas S. Frink
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310640
Paperback:
317pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2456
Sub Title:
Socio-cultural responses to a changing world
Multidisciplinary Old and New World research, using high quality paleoenvironmental and archaeological data, looks for correlations... 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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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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£127.00
Editors:
Sophie Bergerbrant and Serena Sabatini
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311265
Paperback:
801pp. Illustrated in colour throughout
BAR number:
S2508
The book celebrates Professor Kristiansens's life and achievements with 88 papers by colleagues and friends from all over the world; they... More
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Landscapes of Gender, Age and Cosmology
Burial Perceptions in Viking Age Iceland
£41.00
Author:
Ruth Ann Maher
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311470
Paperback:
159pp. Illustrated throughout, maps and Appendices.
BAR number:
S2529
Sub Title:
Burial Perceptions in Viking Age Iceland
The purpose of this Viking-Age Icelandic study is to look beyond the catalogues of data already in the record and put the information in... More
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£52.00
Editors:
Felix Riede and Miikka Tallaavaara
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312316
Paperback:
206pp. Illustrated throughout.
BAR number:
S2599
The Lateglacial and Postglacial pioneer colonisation of northern Europe is a recurrent and ever-popular topic in archaeology. This volume... 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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£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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