Rock-Art / Semiotics

£23.00
Editors:
Luiz Oosterbeek, Abdoulaye Camara and Cristina Martins
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English and French
ISBN:
9781407312972
Paperback:
74pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XVI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Florianopolis, Brazil, 4-10 September 2011), 7
BAR number:
S2655
African Prehistory is at the core of UISPP concerns, namely due to its crucial role to understand the origins and evolution of humans,... More
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Neolithic and Copper Age Monuments
Emergence, function and the social construction of the landscape
£46.00
Editors:
Bettina Schulz Paulsson and Bisserka Gaydarska
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312606
Paperback:
164pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white & colour
BAR number:
S2625
Sub Title:
Emergence, function and the social construction of the landscape
The Neolithic and Copper age monuments in Europe, consisting of stone temples and circles, standing stones, henge monuments, long... 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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In concavis petrarum habitaverunt
El fenómeno rupestre en el Mediterráneo Medieval: De la investigación a la puesta en valor
£75.00
Editors:
Jorge López Quiroga and Artemio Manuel Martínez Tejera
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
Spanish with English abstracts
ISBN:
9781407312194
Paperback:
374pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 A.D.) (SERIES ASLAEME), 4
BAR number:
S2591
Sub Title:
El fenómeno rupestre en el Mediterráneo Medieval: De la investigación a la puesta en valor
This fourth volume (Proceedings 4) presents the results of an international conference held at the Museo de los Orígenes (Casa de San... More
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Ahlat 2008
Seconda campagna di indagini sulle strutture rupestri / Second campaign of surveys on the underground structures
£43.00
Editors:
Roberto Bixio, Andrea De Pascale and Nakis Karamagarali
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English and Italian
ISBN:
9781407311814
Paperback:
173pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2560
Sub Title:
Seconda campagna di indagini sulle strutture rupestri / Second campaign of surveys on the underground structures
Since 1991, the Centro Studi Sotterranei of Genoa has conducted the exploration, survey and documentation of rock-cut and underground... More
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£75.00
Editors:
Fanis Mavridis and Jesper Tae Jensen
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311791
Paperback:
361pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2558
This volume provides a welcome introduction to cave archaeology generally (or it may be used as a reader on aspects of cave research);... More
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Desert Boats
Predynastic and Pharaonic Era Rock-Art in Egypt’s Central Eastern Desert: Distribution, dating and interpretation
£41.00
Author:
Francis Lankester
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311647
Paperback:
155pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2544
Sub Title:
Predynastic and Pharaonic Era Rock-Art in Egypt’s Central Eastern Desert: Distribution, dating and interpretation
The aim of this study is to explore the rock-art of the Central Eastern Desert and has three objectives: to outline the petroglyphs'... More
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£43.00
Editors:
Marc Groenen
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
French
ISBN:
9781407311128
Paperback:
151pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XVI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Florianopolis, Brazil, 4-10 September 2011)
BAR number:
S2496
This book is the result of two symposia from the 16th World Congress of the IUPPS (Florianópolis, Brazil, 4-10 September 2011): 'The... More
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Rock Art in the Americas: Mythology, Cosmogony and Rituals
Proceedings of the 2nd REEA Conference Ritual Americas: Configurations and Recombining of the Ritual Devices and Behaviors in the New World, in Historical and Contemporary Societies Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) April 2-5, 2008
£39.00
Editors:
Françoise Fauconnier and Serge Lemaitre
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English and Spanish
ISBN:
9781407310527
Paperback:
138pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2448
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the 2nd REEA Conference Ritual Americas: Configurations and Recombining of the Ritual Devices and Behaviors in the New World, in Historical and Contemporary Societies Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) April 2-5, 2008
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Of Things Gone but not Forgotten
Essays in archaeology for Joan Taylor
£46.00
Editors:
J.R. Trigg
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310336
Paperback:
181pp. Includes illustrations in black and white
BAR number:
S2434
Sub Title:
Essays in archaeology for Joan Taylor
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£32.00
Editors:
Emmanuel Anati, Luiz Oosterbeek, Federico Mailland
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English and French
ISBN:
9781407309477
Paperback:
119pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XVI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Florianopolis, Brazil, 4-10 September 2011), 1
BAR number:
S2360
Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Florianopolis, Brazil, 4-10 September 2011). More
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Archaeology Soil- and Life-Sciences Applied to Enclosures and Fields
Proceedings of the Session ‘From microprobe to spatial analysis – Enclosed and buried surfaces as key sources in Archaeology and Pedology’. European Association of Archaeologists 12th Annual Meeting Krakow-Poland. 19th to 24th September 2006
£47.00
Editors:
Kai Fechner, Yannick Devos, Mathias Leopold, Jörg Völkel
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307800
Paperback:
171pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2222
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the Session ‘From microprobe to spatial analysis – Enclosed and buried surfaces as key sources in Archaeology and Pedology’. European Association of Archaeologists 12th Annual Meeting Krakow-Poland. 19th to 24th September 2006
Proceedings of the Session 'From microprobe to spatial analysis - Enclosed and buried surfaces as key sources in Archaeology and... More
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£69.00
Editors:
P. Bueno Ramirez, E. Cerrillo Cuenca, A. Gonzalez Cordero
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English and Spanish
ISBN:
9781407307770
Paperback:
275pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2219
The convergence of a number of research groups with common interests in an area little favored by the traditional hypotheses of the... More
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£133.00
Author:
Fernando Carrera Ramírez
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9781407307459
Paperback:
645pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white.
BAR number:
S2190
Sub Title:
Valoración, diagnóstico, conservación
The extensive work presented here takes a new look at the prehistoric art preserved on various megalithic monuments from the northwestern... More
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Pictures in Transformation
Rock Art Research between Central Asia and the Subcontinent
£29.00
Editors:
Luca Maria Olivieri in collaboration with Laurianne Bruneau and Marco Ferrandi
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307114
Paperback:
91pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
South Asian Archaeology 2007. Special Sessions, 2
BAR number:
S2167
Sub Title:
Rock Art Research between Central Asia and the Subcontinent
This book presents papres given at the “Pictures in Transformation. Rock Art Research between Central Asia and the Subcontinent”... More
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£63.00
Editors:
Maggie Morrow, Mike Morrow, Tony Judd and Geoff Phillipson
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307107
Paperback:
254pp. Illustrated with hundreds of black and white photographs, accompanied by a CD.
BAR number:
S2166
Sub Title:
Site Catalogue
We are used to thinking of Egypt, ancient and modern, in terms of the Nile valley: well-watered, green and fertile, a narrow strip of... More
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£39.00
Editors:
Juan Antonio Cámara Serrano, José Andrés Afonso Marrero and Liliana Spanedda
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English and Italian
ISBN:
9781407306926
Paperback:
156pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2151
Among other objectives, this collection of papers investigates the role that settlements surrounding necropolises have played in the... More
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£148.00
Author:
Mike Parker Pearson with Karen Godden, Ramilisonina, Retsihisatse, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Georges Heurtebize, Chantal Radimilahy and Helen Smith. With contributions by Irene de Luis, David Barker, Seth Priestman, Lucien Rakotozafy, Bako Rasoarifetra, Alan
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306803
Paperback:
768pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S2139
This book presents the results of archaeological research in the extreme south of Madagascar between 1991 and 2003, and provides a... More
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£48.00
Editors:
Marc Groenen and Didier Martens (C74), Jane Kolb
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306490
Paperback:
187pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), 35
BAR number:
S2108
The complete title of BAR S2108 is 'Methods of art history tested against prehistory: session C74. Spiral and circular forms: the most... More
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The Rock Art of Ometepe Island, Nicaragua
Motif classification, quantification, and regional comparisons
£47.00
Author:
Suzanne M. Baker
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305608
Paperback:
181pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
Sub-series name:
Paris Monographs in American Archaeology, 25
BAR number:
S2084
Sub Title:
Motif classification, quantification, and regional comparisons
This study presents a motif classification, quantification, and regional comparisons for engraved rock art from the Maderas Volcano on... More
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Mysterious Cup Marks
Proceedings of the First International Cupule Conference
£32.00
Editors:
Roy Querejazu Lewis and Robert G. Bednarik
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306346
Paperback:
129pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S2073
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the First International Cupule Conference
This book includes papers from the International Cupule Conference held in Cochabamba, central Bolivia, from 17 to 23 July 2007. More
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£87.00
Editors:
Rodrigo de Balbín Behrmann, Primitiva Bueno Ramirez, Rafael González Antón and Carmen del Arco Aguilar
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English, Spanish and French
ISBN:
9781407306193
Paperback:
350pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, photographs
BAR number:
S2043
A collection of papers on the rock carvings of the European and African Atlantic façade. 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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Rock Art of the Eastern Desert of Egypt
Content, comparisons, dating and significance
£38.00
Author:
Tony Judd
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305844
Paperback:
151pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S2008
Sub Title:
Content, comparisons, dating and significance
The objective of this research is to advance the understanding of the Egyptian Eastern Desert region petroglyphs by means of three steps:... More
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