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Scandinavia

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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£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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Ala-Jalve
Spatial, technological, and behavioral analyses of the lithic assemblage from a Stone Age-Early Metal Age site in Utsjoki, Finnish Lapland
£37.00
Author:
Tuija Rankama
Publication Year:
1997
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549192
Paperback:
160pp, Includes 95 black and white figures
BAR number:
S681
Sub Title:
Spatial, technological, and behavioral analyses of the lithic assemblage from a Stone Age-Early Metal Age site in Utsjoki, Finnish Lapland
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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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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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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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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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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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£90.00
Author:
Rosario Acosta Nieva
Publication Year:
2003
Language:
French
ISBN:
9781841715629
Paperback:
356pp, Includes 132 figures, maps, plans and drawings, 28 graphs, 93 tables, 20 photographs, 3 Appendices
Sub-series name:
Paris Monographs in American Archaeology
BAR number:
S1197
Sub Title:
Une approche archéo-anthropologique
The site of Caseta in the Sayula Basin (Jalisco, Mexico) was discovered in 1992 and immediately became the focus for a rescue project... More
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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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Determining the Antiquity of Dog Origins
Canine domestication as a model for the consilience between molecular genetics and archaeology
£29.00
Author:
Michelle J. Raisor
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841718095
Paperback:
105pp. Includes 6 tables, 25 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs including 4 in colour
BAR number:
S1367
Sub Title:
Canine domestication as a model for the consilience between molecular genetics and archaeology
Archaeologists have favoured a date of 14,000-15,000 years before present (BP) for canine domestication. However, recent studies of mutations in the... 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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