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2023 Conferences and Events


Come say hello and meet us in person at our stand, at one of the upcoming events below:

International Congress of Egyptologists, Leiden, Netherlands,
6-11 August 2023 

EAA 29th Annual Meeting, Belfast, Northern Ireland
30 August - 2 September 2023


2023 Past Events Attended:

IMC 2023 Bookfair: Networks and Entanglements, Leeds, UK,
3 July - 6 July 2023

SAK - Standing Egyptology Conference, Cologne, Germany,
30 June - 2 July  

Europa Conference , Cambridge, UK
2-4 June 2023  

SAfA , Rice University, Texas
1-6 June 2023  

13th ICANNE , Copenhagen, Denmark
22-26 May 2023  

CIfA , Nottingham, UK
19-21 April 2023  

SAA , Portland, Oregon
29 March - 2 April 2023  


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BAR Publishing WINS the IPG PLS Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year award 2022

We are delighted to announce that we have won the IPG PLS Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year award 2022. We attended the award ceremony on the 27th April and had a fantastic day along with all the other independent publishers. Thank you so much to the IPG for a wonderful event. Winning this award is recognition of what the BAR team has achieved and acknowledges the particularly special community built up around author, publisher and libraries. 

For more information about the IPG award please click here.

“It’s a properly independent and well-run business that has mastered its niche,” said the judges.

Official IPG award photo


 



2022 Conferences and Events


EAA, Edinburgh, UK,
15-17 December 2022                Please meet us in person at our stand 

EAA, Budapest, Hungary,
31 August - 3 September 2022     Please meet us in person at our stand 

LIMES, Nijmegend, NL,
21-27 August 2022                       Please meet us in person at our stand 

WAC-9, Oxford, UK,
09-11 August 2022                       Please meet us in person at our stand 

WAC-9, Prague, Czech Republic, Slovakia
03-08 July 2022

International Medieval Congress 2022, Leeds, UK
4-7 July 2022

Europa Conference 2022, Bournemouth, UK
17-19 June 2022                          Please meet us in person at our stand 

SAA 87th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA

30 March – 3 April 2022






BAR OA Award 2021
Winner Announcement




CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNER OF OUR FIRST OPEN ACCESS AWARD



Katie Campbell
for her proposal


Cities and the Mongol Conquest
Urban Change in Central Asia from 1200-1400 AD

This work looks beyond the historical narrative of the Mongol Conquest itself to identify and consider long-term urban changes from the 12th to the end of the 14th century. The archaeological examination of urban change in the cites of Otrar, Kazakhstan, Barda, Azerbaijan, and Merv, Turkmenistan, challenges accepted narratives of traumatic conquests and Mongol destruction and slaughter in Central Asia. Detailed archaeological analyses found no evidence of cities razed or populations slaughtered. The lack of archaeological evidence for destruction attributable to intentional human actions in the conquest period does not correlate with historical reports of widespread devastation. Instead, the evidence demonstrates shifting occupation patterns and a complexity in urban dynamics that have not previously been recognised. This innovative work will be of widespread interest to archaeologists and historians across the region and further afield.

We aim to publish before the end of 2022.




SPECIAL RECOMMENDATION


Alessia Frassani

Mesoamerican Codices

Calendrical Knowledge and Ritual Practice in Indigenous Religion and History.

This promises to be an interesting and important study bringing together the ancient traditions of the Mesoamericans with the modern world. It translates, records, and transcribes ceremonies, chants, prayers, using ancient imagery, pre-colonial manuscripts, colonial text, rock art, imagery, rituals in order to reinterpret them as seen by its own people. The multidisciplinary study of history, archaeology, anthropology, mysticism and more, presented in text, images and audio makes Frassani’s work a unique type of study that successfully put the culture, history, and beliefs of the Mazatec’ indigenous people in a position to challenge the misinterpretation of colonial accounts.



THANK YOU

Thank you to all entrants who submitted their work. The number, quality and diversity of projects was exciting, and we hope to continue to work with many of the authors.

Thanks also to our judging panel – Timothy Darvill, Hatoon al Fassi, Cat Jarman, Innocent Pikarayi, Claire Smith.



BAR OA PROGRAMME

If you would like to know more about BAR Open Access programme please contact Editor-in-Chief, Jacqueline Senior (Jacqueline.senior@barpublishing.com)




  • Download the BAR OA Award Winner Announcement here.



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    BAR Publishing is delighted to announce that Neolithic and Bronze Age Funerary and Ritual Practices in Wales, 3600–1200 BC by Geneviève Tellier was nominated for the 2020 Current Archaeology Book of the Year award. 








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    BAR was delighted to sponsor the awards at the 2019 conferences below:

    Best presentation award and best poster award
    Graduate Archaeology at Oxford (GAO) Annual International Conference, Ioannou Centre, Oxford, UK, 11-12 March 2019

    Sponsor of the Archaeologist of the Year award
    Current Archaeology LIVE (CAL), Senate House, London, UK, 8-9 March 2019

    Society for American Archaeology student paper award prize
    The Society for American Archaeology's 84th Annual Meeting (SAA), Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 10-14 April 2019

    Poster award
    Early Medieval Archaeology Student Symposium - EMASS , Durham and Newcastle, UK, 11-13 April 2019



    Winner of the BAR-sponsored poster prize at EMASS 2019

    Poster prize winner at EMASS2019Many congratulations to Vanessa Reid of Durham University who won the BAR-sponsored poster prize at the Early Medieval Archaeology Student Symposium, that took place at the universities of Durham and Newcastle on the 11-13 April 2019.







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    Birgit at MAGS 2019BAR exhibits at the 2019 Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium

    Thank you to all of the organisers at the Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium (MAGS) that took place at the University of Southampton on the 29–31 March 2019. Here’s our Director, Birgit Thaller, at our stand ready to meet the delegates.







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    BAR author Simon Elliott appears on Channel 5’s programme ‘London: 2000 Years Of History’

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    BAR author Simon Elliott, who wrote B638 ‘Ragstone to Riches: Imperial Estates, metalla and the Roman military in the south east of Britain during the occupation’, talks about ragstone quarrying in London on Channel 5’s programme ‘ London: 2000 Years Of History’, that was aired on Tuesday 5th March 2019. To see the programme please click here (Simon features 25 minutes in).







    Posted 12.03.19


    Article on BAR S2911, by Omar Romero de la Osa Fernández, published in Diario de Huelva

    S2911On 9th March 2019, an article on 'Arquitectura religiosa en el espacio rural del Reino de Sevilla’ was published in Diario de Huelva. To read the article, please click here.










    Posted 10.03.19


    Presentation of new BAR S2916 ‘Antro delle gallerie, indagini di archeologia mineraria in Valganna (Varese)’ by Amedeo Gambini

    On Wednesday 27th February 2019, Maria Antonietta Breda and Gianluca Padovan, along with Amedeo Gambini and Alfredo Spaggiari, held a presentation for Amedeo Gambini’s new book S2916 ‘Antro delle gallerie, indagini di archeologia mineraria in Valganna (Varese)’ at the Urban Centre Milano. The presentation also discussed S1599 ‘Italian Cadastre of Artificial Cavities Part 1’, which is the first book in the Hypogean Archaeology sub-series. A film of the event can be viewed by visiting the milanourbancenter Facebook page. An article, edited by Ippolito Edmondo Ferrario, about the event, is also shown on the milanounderground website.


    Posted 08.03.19


    S2914On the 23rd February 2019, Noemí Raposo gave an interview for the newspaper ‘Huelva Buenas Noticias’ about her new book, La delimitación de los espacios públicos en Pompeya, which presents an unprecedented study of the public spaces in Pompeii. To read the interview please click here.









    Posted 26.02.19


    Presentation for Patrimonio Culturale, Paesaggi e Personaggi dell'altopiano ibleo (BAR S2874)

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    On the 28th December 2018, Santino Alessandro Cugno presented his book, Patrimonio Culturale, Paesaggi e Personaggi dell'altopiano ibleo (BAR S2874), with the collaboration of the Municipality of Canicattini Bagni, the Società Siracusana di Storia Patria and the Foundation Agnello.









    Posted 29.12.18


    40th Theoretical Archaeology Group conference

    TAG 2018 Our Director, Birgit Thaller, had a great time exhibiting at the 40th Theoretical Archaeology Group conference, on the 17th – 19th December 2018 at the University of Chester – our last conference of 2018! Many congratulations to Alan Hitchen, the lucky winner of the BAR prize draw, who won a £75 BAR book voucher.






    Posted 20.12.18


    Presentations for latest volumes in the Hypogean Archaeology: Research and Documentation of Underground Structures sub-series
    Presentations of the two latest volumes in the Hypogean Archaeology: Research and Documentation of Underground Structures sub-series took place in 2018. Le acque del passato: opere idrauliche dall’antichità al XX secolo (BAR S2907) Edited by Sara Fumagalli and Gianluca Padovan and Archeologia dell’Acqua Potabile a Milano (BAR S2894) by Maria Antonietta Breda and Gianluca Padovan were discussed at the Dragonesse, monumenti e acque del passato a Milano conference on the 30th November 2018 at the Urban Center Milano (Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II) and at the Il Sottosuolo Della Città conference on the 12th December 2018 at the presso la Centrale dell’acqua.

    S2907 Gianluca Padovan














    Posted 13.12.18


    Book Launch for 'Multi-period Occupation at Football Field, Worth Matravers, Dorset: Excavations 2006–2011', BAR No B643
    We were delighted to hear from Lilian Ladle that the launch of her new book, Multi-period Occupation at Football Field, Worth Matravers, Dorset: Excavations 2006–2011 (BAR No B643), was a great success. The book launch took place at the Worth Matravers Archaeological Excavation: Life, Death and Feasting, 5,600 Years of Occupation conference on the 1st December 2018 at the Dorford Centre in Dorchester.

    Lilian Ladle at book Launch Lilian Ladle's book launch










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    November 2018 publications

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    Council for British Archaeology (CBA), Wessex - 60th Anniversary Conference

    Presentation of prize drawOur Director, Birgit Thaller, had a very enjoyable and lively weekend exhibiting at the Council for British Archaeology (CBA), Wessex - 60th Anniversary Conference, at the University of Southampton on Saturday 3rd November 2018. Many congratulations to the winner of our BAR Prize draw, presented by Phil Harding, who won a £50 BAR book voucher!






    Posted 08.11.18


    October 2018 publications

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    September 2018 publications

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    BAR author, Maria Duggan, appears in BBC Two documentary ‘King Arthur’s Britain: The Truth Unearthed’

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    Maria Duggan appeared in a BBC Two documentary, 'King Arthur’s Britain: The Truth Unearthed’, on Sunday 16th September 2018. Maria was filmed showing the presenter, Alice Roberts, the imported pottery from the new excavation at Tintagel in Cornwall. The ceramics are the subject of Maria’s new book, Links to Late Antiquity: Ceramic exchange and contacts on the Atlantic Seaboard in the 5th to 7th centuries AD where she discusses the British finds within a wider Atlantic perspective.







    Posted 17.09.18


    20th annual British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO)

    BABAO 2018We very much enjoyed exhibiting at the 20th annual British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology conference that took place at Cranfield University this weekend where we displayed a selection of our Osteoarchaeology titles including the proceedings of several former BABAO conferences (please click here for further information).






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    August 2018 publications

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    July 2018 publications

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    June 2018 publications

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    May 2018 publications

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    April 2018 publications

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    Presentation of S2884 at the 17th International Aegean Conference

    Congratulations to volume editors, Giorgia Baldacci and Ilaria Caloi, for a wonderful presentation of their book BAR S2884, Rhadamanthys: Studi di archeologia minoica in onore di Filippo Carinci per il suo 70° compleanno/Studies in Minoan archaeology in honour of Filippo Carinci on the occasion of his 70th birthday, on Friday 20th April 2018 during the 17th International Aegean Conference, at the University of Venice in Italy.

    Giorgia Baldacci is reading a message on behalf of the volume editorsGiorgia Baldacci is pictured here reading a message on behalf of the volume editors








    Posted 24.04.18


    Frank Hole and Yukiko Tonoike, BAR S2827 11th ICAANE (International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East)

    We had a wonderful time this week exhibiting at the 11th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East at LMU Munich. We were delighted to see many BAR authors and Frank Hole and Yukiko Tonoike are shown here with their book, BAR S2827 Homesteads on the Khabur: Tell Ziyadeh and Other Settlements.







    Posted 10.04.18


    March 2018 publications

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    Interview on BBC Radio Orkney with BAR author, Rebecca Crozier

    B635Rebecca Crozier has given an interview with BBC Radio Orkney about her new book in the BAR British Series A Taphonomic Approach to the Re-analysis of the Human Remains from the Neolithic Chamber Tomb of Quanterness, Orkney and the significant finds that have been discovered.

    Click here to read the news story on the BBC news website.

    Click here to hear the interview on BBC Radio Orkney (at 24'01").






    Posted 27.03.18


    46th Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology conference

    We have had a busy few weeks exhibiting at the CAL, LAMAS and GAO conferences and we are looking forward to exhibiting at the 46th Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology conference next week at the University of Tübingen where titles in the CAA series will be on display as well as other computing and quantitative method titles. If you are attending, please do stop by our stand to browse through our titles where 40% discount will be on offer.

    Posted 15.03.18


    February 2018 publications

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    S2868_Instituto Alicantino de Cultura Juan Gil-Albert on 6th Feb 2018Presentation at the Instituto Alicantino de Cultura Juan Gil-Albert

    We send our congratulations to, Juan Antonio Mira Rico, for a wonderful presentation of Management Analysis of Municipal Castles in the Province of Alicante (Spain) at the Instituto Alicantino de Cultura Juan Gil-Albert on the 6th February 2018.

    Along with Juan Antonio Mira Rico, the speakers at the presentation were Dr. Joan Borja i Sanz (Director of the Instituto Alicantino de Cultura Juan Gil-Albert Publications and Research Department) and Dr. Rafael Azuar Ruiz (pictured here).







    Posted 09.02.18


    January 2018 publications

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    The Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium- MAGS

    We are delighted to be exhibiting at Ioannou Centre, University of Oxford on Saturday 3rd February 2018 at the Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium. If you are attending please do stop by our stand in the atrium of the centre.


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    December 2017 publications

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    November 2017 publications

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    Nautical Archaeology Society

    NAS 2017We were exhibiting at the Nautical Archaeology Society conference this weekend at the University of Portsmouth where the titles in the Nautical Archaeology Society Monograph Series were on display as well as many other maritime and underwater archaeology titles. Thank you to the organisers for such an interesting conference.





    Posted 21.11.17


    A Millennium: Settlement, Landscape and Society, 500 BC to 500 AD

    We are exhibiting at Rewley House, at the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford on Saturday 2nd December 2017 where the course ‘A Millennium: Settlement, Landscape and Society, 500 BC to 500 AD’ is taking place.

    Oxford University through its Department for Continuing Education offers frequent opportunities for learning and training in Archaeology, please click here for further details.


    Posted 10.11.17


    Nautical Archaeology Society

    If you are attending the Nautical Archaeology Society conference in Portsmouth on the 18–19 November 2017 do stop by our stand to browse through our titles and take advantage of our 40% conference discount.


    Posted 09.11.17


    October 2017 publications

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    The British MuseumScythians and early nomads from Siberia to the Black Sea

    We are exhibiting at the Scythians and early nomads from Siberia to the Black Sea conference today until the 29th October at the British Museum.










    Posted 27.10.17


    Frankfurt Book Fair

    Frankfurt Book Fair Our director, Birgit Thaller is busy at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week meeting many of our international agents and booksellers at our stand G72 in Hall 4.2.














    Posted 12.10.17


    3rd International Conference on the Solutrean 2017

    We are proud to support the 3rd International Conference on the Solutrean 2017 that is taking place this week at the Universidade do Algarve in Portugal. A selection of BARs are on display such as Solutrean Points of the Iberian Peninsula: Tool making and using behaviour of hunter-gatherers during the Last Glacial Maximum by Isabell Schmidt and a special 25% BAR conference discount is available for all of the delegates.

    Posted 12.10.17


    September 2017 publications

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    The Bountiful Sea: Fish processing and consumption in Mediterranean antiquity conference

    We very much enjoyed attending The Bountiful Sea conference at the Taylor Institution in Oxford on the 6-8 September 2017.

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    August 2017 publications

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    European Association of Archaeologists Conference

    We recently attended the European Association of Archaeologists conference in Maastricht on the 30 August–3 September 2017 where we exhibited our titles and met many of the delegates. Many congratulations to the winners of the BAR Publishing prize draw: Zsófia Rácz (1st prize, winning a BAR Publishing book voucher), Eloísa Ferratges Kwekel (2nd prize winner), Else Meyerink, (3rd prize winner). We hope that you enjoyed your prizes.

    EAA Prize draw








    Posted 4.9.17


    Ständige Ägyptologenkonferenz

    In July we also travelled to Göttingen University to exhibit at the Ständige Ägyptologenkonferenz. The lucky winners of the BAR Publishing prize draw were Ursula Selzer (1st prize winner), Carolin Dingeldein (2nd prize winner) and Gerhard Kuhnel (3rd prize winner).

    BAR stand at the Ständige Ägyptologenkonferenz

    Prize winners













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    International Medieval Congress 2017

    Thank you to everyone who visited our stand at the amazing International Medieval Congress in Leeds. We had a busy 4 days and it was wonderful to meet so many delegates.










    Posted 8.7.17


    International Association for Research on Pottery on the Hellenistic Period conference

    We had a great time exhibiting at the International Association for Research on Pottery on the Hellenistic Period conference in the beautiful town of Kaštela in Croatia.

    Thank you very much to the conference organisers for your wonderful hospitality.







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    May 2017 publications

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    A presentation of BAR S2847

    Many congratulations to Fernando Rodriguez Del Cueto who recently held a presentation about his new book, BAR S2847, Arquitectura, urbanismo y espacios domésticos en “El Castro”, Pendia (Asturias, España). Siglos IV a. C.–II d. C. at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Campus del Milán on the 3rd May 2017.










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    April 2017 publications

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    March 2017 publications

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    27th Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference

    We were delighted to attend the 27th Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference at the University of Durham.

    BAR authorPrize draw winner








    BAR author Sergio González Sánchez and Birgit with the winner of the BAR prize draw, Dr Matthew Mandich.






    Posted 3.4.17


    82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA)

    We had a busy few days at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Vancouver.

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    London Book Fair

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    Birgit had a very busy few days at London Book Fair, which is always a great event in the publishing calendar.








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    February publications

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    Current Archaeology Live conference

    Current Archaeology LiveMarking 50 years since the inception of Current Archaeology magazine, the 2017 conference was as busy as ever with two days of talks from a range of archaeological experts on the latest finds and ground-breaking research. The keynote speech was delivered by BAR author Mike Parker Pearson.



    Posted 22.2.17


    A successful book launch in Malta

    Malta and Water (AD 900 to 1900) Malta and Water launch We were delighted to hear from Keith Buhagiar that the book launch for Malta and Water was a great success, with an audience of over 100 and great interest shown in the book.






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    January publications

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