Art / Sculpture / Gems / Seals

Diving up the Human Past
Perspectives of maritime archaeology, with specific reference to developments in South Africa until 1996
£53.00
Author:
Bruno E. J. S. Werz
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549833
Paperback:
232pp, Includes several figures.
BAR number:
S749
Sub Title:
Perspectives of maritime archaeology, with specific reference to developments in South Africa until 1996
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Domus Tiberiana
Analyses stratigraphiques et céramologiques
£56.00
Author:
Marie-France Meylan Krause
Publication Year:
2002
Language:
French with a 3 page English summary
ISBN:
9781841714387
Paperback:
321pp. Includes 80 figures and 58 plates
BAR number:
S1058
Sub Title:
Analyses stratigraphiques et céramologiques
This study is concerned with the analysis of pottery collected during the excavation campaigns conducted by the Swiss Institute of Rome... More
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Down by the Water
Interdisciplinary Studies in Human-Environment Interactions in Watery Spaces
£59.00
Editors:
Veronica Walker Vadillo, Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz and Elisabeth Holmqvist
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407360218
Paperback:
208 pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white, and colour
Sub-series name:
Cultural Studies in Maritime and Underwater Archaeology, 4
BAR number:
S3108
Sub Title:
Interdisciplinary Studies in Human-Environment Interactions in Watery Spaces
Waterways have been key factors in the development of societies from prehistoric times, particularly due to their role as vectors for cultural interactions,... More
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£48.00
Author:
Patricia Witts
Publication Year:
2021
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407358987
Paperback:
208 pages
BAR number:
S3064
This fully-illustrated study brings together over 70 prints and drawings of mosaics from the collection of nearly 3,000 items formed by Richard Topham... More
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Dynastic Deeds
Hunt scenes in the funerary imagery of the Achaemenid Eastern Mediterranean
£51.00
Author:
Alessandro Poggio
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356389
Paperback:
174 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 89 figures.
BAR number:
S2974
Sub Title:
Hunt scenes in the funerary imagery of the Achaemenid Eastern Mediterranean
This study adopts a transregional approach that focuses on connectivity dynamics in order to present a wider picture of artistic, cultural and political... More
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£48.00
Editors:
John Higgitt
Publication Year:
1986
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543831
Paperback:
208pp
BAR number:
B152
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Early Medieval Wall Painting and Painted Sculpture in England
Based on the Proceedings of a Symposium at the Courtauld Institute of Art, February 1985
£66.00
Editors:
Sharon Cather, David Park and Paul Williamson
Publication Year:
1990
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860547198
Paperback:
286pp, Includes illustrations.
BAR number:
B216
Sub Title:
Based on the Proceedings of a Symposium at the Courtauld Institute of Art, February 1985
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Egipto y el Egeo a comienzos de la XVIII Dinastía
Una visión de sus relaciones, antecedentes e influencia iconográfica
£59.00
Author:
Inmaculada Vivas Sainz
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9781407312132
Paperback:
246pp. Includes 15 colour illustrations
BAR number:
S2585
Sub Title:
Una visión de sus relaciones, antecedentes e influencia iconográfica
This study is focused on the relations between Egypt and the Aegean during the early XVIIIth Dynasty, a period of close contact between... More
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£125.00
Author:
Ann Merriman
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407308340
Paperback:
505pp. Illustrated throughout, catalogue
BAR number:
S2263
The primary goal of this study is the reclassification of Egyptian watercraft models from the standard 1898 George Reisner Typology. The... More
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£78.00
Editors:
Juan Garcia Targa and Geiser Gerardo Martín Medina
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
Spanish and English
ISBN:
9781407357102
Paperback:
320 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 13 tables, 181 figures.
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of the Maya, 5
BAR number:
S2985
El paisaje urbano maya: del Preclásico al Virreinato lleva a cabo una reflexión en torno a ese término en el ámbito de la cultura maya. El volumen se... More
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En Shadud
Salvage Excavations at a Farming Community in the Jezreel Valley, Israel
£48.00
Author:
Eliot Braun with contributions by Shimon Gibson, Steven Rosen, Liora Kolska Horowitz, Tedy Mazzola and Baruch Brandl
Publication Year:
1985
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543206
Paperback:
206pp
BAR number:
S249
Sub Title:
Salvage Excavations at a Farming Community in the Jezreel Valley, Israel
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£45.00
Author:
J.D. Bateson
Publication Year:
1981
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860541448
Paperback:
192pp, Includes plans and a bibliography: p142-167
BAR number:
B93
Sub Title:
The Products and Techniques
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Engraved Magdalenian Plaquettes
a regional and stylistic analysis of stone, bone and antler plaquettes from Upper Palaeolithic sites in France and Cantabric Spain
£55.00
Author:
Ann Sieveking
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544777
Paperback:
242pp
BAR number:
S369
Sub Title:
a regional and stylistic analysis of stone, bone and antler plaquettes from Upper Palaeolithic sites in France and Cantabric Spain
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Equids and Wheeled Vehicles in the Ancient World
Essays in Memory of Mary A. Littauer
£59.00
Editors:
Peter Raulwing, Katheryn M. Linduff and Joost H. Crouwel
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407316437
Paperback:
232 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 261 figures (80 in colour), 19 tables.
BAR number:
S2923
Sub Title:
Essays in Memory of Mary A. Littauer
The essays in this volume were originally presented at a symposium in honour of Mary Aiken Littauer, la grande dame de l’hippologie ancienne. The papers... More
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Espacio gráfico, visibilidad y tránsito cavernario / Graphic Space, Visibility and Cave Transit
El uso de las cavidades con arte paleolítico en la Región Cantábrica / The use of caves with Palaeolithic art in the Cantabrian region
£115.00
Author:
Blanca Ochoa
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
Spanish with partial English translation/summary
ISBN:
9781407316154
Paperback:
480 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 416 figures (292 in colour). Includes an Annexe of numeric dates.
BAR number:
S2875
Sub Title:
El uso de las cavidades con arte paleolítico en la Región Cantábrica / The use of caves with Palaeolithic art in the Cantabrian region
El punto de partida es definir si existen convergencias o divergencias en el posicionamiento del arte parietal a través del estudio combinado del arte... More
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£84.00
Editors:
Donna Kurtz with Caspar Meyer, David Saunders, Athena Tsingarida and Nicole Harris
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407302843
Paperback:
338pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Beazley Archive - Studies in Classical Archaeology, 4
BAR number:
S1796
A collection of essays dedicated to the memory of Eleni Hatzivassiliou (1977-2007). The range of subjects reflects her broad circle of... More
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£38.00
Author:
César Fornis
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9780860549703
Paperback:
146pp. Includes 4 figures
BAR number:
S762
Sub Title:
Las sociedades corintia y argiva
The Peloponnesian War shows important differences compared with previous warfare since its campaigns are no longer seasonal affairs,... More
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£72.00
Editors:
Macarena Calderón Sánchez, Sergio España-Chamorro and Estefanía Alba Benito Lázaro
Publication Year:
2016
Language:
Spanish with abstracts in Spanish and English
ISBN:
9781407315638
Paperback:
276pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white: 4 tables, 287 figures (including 187 photographs)
BAR number:
S2818
El presente libro es la continuación de Estudios Arqueológicos del Área Vesubiana I. Ambos son recopilaciones de investigaciones - en su mayoría, españolas... More
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£129.00
Author:
Wim M. J. van Binsbergen and Fred C. Woudhuizen
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407308234
Paperback:
521pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2256
This book on ethnicity in Mediterranean protohistory may well be regarded as the main and final result of the project on the ethnicity of... More
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Ethno-Archaeology and its Transfers
Papers from a session held at the European Association of Archaeologists Fifth Annual Meeting in Bournemouth 1999
£36.00
Editors:
Sylvie Beyries and Pierre Pétrequin
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712697
Paperback:
139pp. Includes numerous figures, photographs, drawings and maps.
BAR number:
S983
Sub Title:
Papers from a session held at the European Association of Archaeologists Fifth Annual Meeting in Bournemouth 1999
8 papers on Ethno-archaeology and its transfers from a session of the European Association of Archaeologists conference at Bournemouth in... More
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Ethnoarchaeology: Current Research and Field Methods
Conference Proceedings, Rome, Italy, 13th-14th May 2010
£68.00
Editors:
Francesca Lugli, Assunta Alessandra and Stoppiello Stefano Biagetti
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English, French and Italian
ISBN:
9781407310831
Paperback:
339pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2472
Sub Title:
Conference Proceedings, Rome, Italy, 13th-14th May 2010
This volume is a collection of the contributions to the Ethnoarchaeology Conference 'Ethnoarchaeology: Current Research and Field... More
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£75.00
Author:
Véronique Wright
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
French with abstracts in English and Spanish
ISBN:
9781407302959
Paperback:
302pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Paris Monographs in American Archaeology
BAR number:
S1808
To the Mochica civilization, a pre-Inca society that developed on the north coast of Peru from the 1st to the 9th century AD, mural art... More
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£81.00
Author:
Julie Patrois
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
French
ISBN:
9781407302676
Paperback:
321pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs. 4 data Appendices
Sub-series name:
Paris Monographs in American Archaeology, 20
BAR number:
S1779
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£60.00
Editors:
Hildegard Wiegel and Michael Vickers
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311302
Paperback:
192pp. Illustrated in colour throughout
BAR number:
S2512
A collection of 16 papers to honour Arthur MacGregor and his work. More
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Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity
I Convegno Internazionale di Antichità – Università degli Studi di Roma 'Tor Vergata'
£75.00
Editors:
Armando Cristilli, Alessia Gonfloni and Fabio Stok
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English and Italian
ISBN:
9781407357409
Paperback:
308 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 143 illustrations
BAR number:
S3015
Sub Title:
I Convegno Internazionale di Antichità – Università degli Studi di Roma 'Tor Vergata'
This book represents research presented at the 1st International Conference on Classical Antiquities, held in Rome from 15th to 17th May, 2019 at the Tor... More
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£128.00
Editors:
Armando Cristilli, Fabio De Luca, Gioconda Di Luca and Alessia Gonfloni
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
Italian and English
ISBN:
9781407360096
Paperback:
522 pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white, and colour
BAR number:
S3107
Questo libro contiene i risultati del II° Convegno Internazionale di Antichità Classiche, svoltosi a Roma il 21/25 novembre 2021 presso il Dipartimento di... 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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£79.00
Author:
Dorin Alicu, Constantin Pop and Volker Wollmann translated from the Romanian by Nubar Hampartumian
Publication Year:
1979
Language:
English, translated from Romanian
ISBN:
9780860540502
Paperback:
388pp, Includes illustrations, plans, index.
Sub-series name:
Sarmizegetusa Monograph, 2
BAR number:
S55
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£43.00
Editors:
Jeanette F. Peterson
Publication Year:
1983
Language:
English (4 papers) and Spanish (4 papers)
ISBN:
9780860542216
Paperback:
182pp, Illustrated throughout, figures.
Sub-series name:
Proceedings 44 International Congress of Americanists/Congreso Internacional de Americanistas
BAR number:
S171
Sub Title:
Iconography and Function / Iconografía y Función
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£29.00
Editors:
Ann-Britt Falk and Donata M. Kyritz
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407301969
Paperback:
98pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1757
Nine papers from a session held at the EAA conference in Cork, Ireland, in 2005. More
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£53.00
Author:
Jong-Il Kim
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841718866
Paperback:
212pp. Includes 72 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 9 tables, 4 Appendices of data
BAR number:
S1450
This book provides the most up-to-date examination of the changing burial practices in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age South Germany,... More
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From Funeral Monuments to Household Pottery
Current advances in Funnel Beaker Culture (TRB/TBK) research: Proceedings of the Borger Meetings 2009, The Netherlands
£52.00
Editors:
J. A. Bakker, S. B. C. Bloo and M. K. Dütting
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310855
Paperback:
203pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2474
Sub Title:
Current advances in Funnel Beaker Culture (TRB/TBK) research: Proceedings of the Borger Meetings 2009, The Netherlands
In November 2009 an international conference on the Trichterbecher Kultur (Funnel Beaker culture; TRB) was held in Borger, the... More
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From Pella to Gandhara
Hybridisation and Identity in the Art and Architecture of the Hellenistic East
£53.00
Editors:
Anna Kouremenos, Sujatha Chandrasekaran and Roberto Rossi with a foreword by Sir John Boardman
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307794
Paperback:
213pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2221
Sub Title:
Hybridisation and Identity in the Art and Architecture of the Hellenistic East
Alexander the Great's campaigns in the East brought the Greek and Eastern worlds in closer contact than was possible in previous... More
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£66.00
Author:
Lucia Ţeposu Marinescu and translated from the Romanian by Nubar Hampartumian
Publication Year:
1982
Language:
English, translated from Romanian
ISBN:
9780860541585
Paperback:
288pp, Illustrated throughout.
BAR number:
S128
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Gem Engraving in Britain from Antiquity to the Present
with a catalogue of the British engraved gems in The State Hermitage Museum
£125.00
Author:
Julia Kagan
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305578
Paperback:
504pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings, photographs in colour and black and white. Catalogue. With additional material online (timeline).
Sub-series name:
Beazley Archive - Studies in Gems and Jewellery, 5
BAR number:
B514
Sub Title:
with a catalogue of the British engraved gems in The State Hermitage Museum
Dr. Julia Kagan, Curator of post-Classical engraved gems in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, has devoted a lifetime of... More
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Gem Mounts and the Classical Tradition
Supplement to A Collection of Classical and Eastern Intaglios, Rings and Cameos (2003)
£31.00
Author:
Claudia Wagner and John Boardman
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407304342
Paperback:
84pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, drawings and 22 colour plates
Sub-series name:
Beazley Archive - Studies in Gems and Jewellery, 4
BAR number:
S1951
Sub Title:
Supplement to A Collection of Classical and Eastern Intaglios, Rings and Cameos (2003)
This volume is intended to supply some supplementary information about the gems and cameos published in A Collection of Classical and... More
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Greek Bronze Hand-Mirrors in South Italy
with special reference to Calabria
£28.00
Author:
Fiona Cameron
Publication Year:
1979
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860540564
Paperback:
108pp
BAR number:
S58
Sub Title:
with special reference to Calabria
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£163.00
Author:
Rehab Assem Hema
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841717128
Paperback:
846pp. Two volume set, includes illustrations, ports.
BAR number:
S1413
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£86.00
Editors:
Attilio Mastrocinque, Chiara Maria Marchetti and Rossana Scavone
Publication Year:
2016
Language:
English & Italian with abs. in English & Italian
ISBN:
9781407315089
Paperback:
379pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Includes tables and 383 figures (86 in colour and 297 in black and white).
BAR number:
S2830
Grumentum, in the inland of Basilicata, was a Lucanian city and then a Roman colony. This volume publishes the papers presented at two conferences, held in... More
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Hadrianopolis IV
Early Byzantine mosaics and frescoes from northwestern central Turkey
£72.00
Author:
Sami Patacı and Ergün Laflı
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
English with abstracts in French, German, Italian & Turkish
ISBN:
9781407315263
Paperback:
328 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour an black and white. 25 tables, 304 figures (75 in colour), 23 colour plates.
BAR number:
S2928
Sub Title:
Early Byzantine mosaics and frescoes from northwestern central Turkey
Hadrianopolis is located on the principal western route from the Central Anatolian plain through the mountains to Bartın and the Black Sea, 3 km west of... More
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£98.00
Editors:
Sandra L. Olsen, Susan Grant, Alice M. Choyke, and László Bartosiewicz
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841719900
Paperback:
392pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1560
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Horses and Humans Symposium, held in 2000 at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History,... More
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Human Sacrifices for Cosmic Order and Regeneration
Structure and meaning in Moche iconography. Peru, AD 100-800
£35.00
Author:
Edward K. de Bock
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841717203
Paperback:
144pp, Includes numerous black and white plates.
BAR number:
S1429
Sub Title:
Structure and meaning in Moche iconography. Peru, AD 100-800
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£31.00
Author:
Arturo Rey da Silva
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9781407305141
Paperback:
111pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
BAR number:
S1982
A study of boat iconography in the Iberian Peninsular during Prehistory. More
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Image and Performance, Agency and Ideology
Representations of the Human Figure in Funerary Contexts in Anglo-Saxon Art, AD 400–680
£72.00
Author:
Lisa Brundle
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407316512
Paperback:
288pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 43 tables, 87 figures (40 in colour).
BAR number:
B645
Sub Title:
Representations of the Human Figure in Funerary Contexts in Anglo-Saxon Art, AD 400–680
This book investigates the topic of human imagery and hybrid human imagery rendered on metalwork of early Anglo-Saxon date recovered within eastern England... More
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Image and Ritual in the Aztec World
Selected papers of the ‘Ritual Americas’ conferences organized by the Société des Américanistes de Belgique in collaboration with the Red Europea de Estudios Amerindios Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), 2-5 April 2008
£35.00
Editors:
Sylvie Peperstraete
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English and Spanish
ISBN:
9781407303789
Paperback:
137pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures and drawings.
BAR number:
S1896
Sub Title:
Selected papers of the ‘Ritual Americas’ conferences organized by the Société des Américanistes de Belgique in collaboration with the Red Europea de Estudios Amerindios Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), 2-5 April 2008
Selected papers of the sesion Image and Ritual in the Aztec World from the 'Ritual Americas' conferences organized by the Société des... More
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Images of Piety
The iconography of traditional religion in late medieval Wales
£45.00
Author:
Madeleine Gray
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712086
Paperback:
191pp. Includes 67 pages of illustrations, index
BAR number:
B316
Sub Title:
The iconography of traditional religion in late medieval Wales
An interesting and unusual work on a little-explored field of study. By means of the iconographic evidence, the author aims to provide a... More
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£35.00
Author:
Iosif Moravetz
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841718811
Paperback:
144pp. Includes 9 tables, 50 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 27 black and white plates. Appendices of data
BAR number:
S1445
St Vincent's (Lesser Antilles, Caribbean) archaeological record is rich in images depicted by a variety of fired clay artefacts.... More
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£83.00
Editors:
Claudine Dauphin and Basema Hamarneh
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English & French with abst. in English, French, Italian, Arabic
ISBN:
9781407308159
Paperback:
331pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2248
Sub Title:
Celebrating his life and work
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