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Rock Art, Water, and Ancestors
The semiotic construction of a sacred landscape in the central Andes (1800 BCE - CE 1820)
£78.00
Author:
Gordon Ambrosino
Publication Year:
2020
ISBN:
9781407356624
Paperback:
296 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 39 tables, 320 figures, 9 maps, 4 graphs
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of Prehistoric Art, 2
BAR number:
S2969
Sub Title:
The semiotic construction of a sacred landscape in the central Andes (1800 BCE - CE 1820)
As landscape art, the rock art of the central Andes offers clues regarding relationships between ancestor veneration and the negotiation of rights to water.... More
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Rock Art in the Landscapes of Motion
Proceedings of a session of the 20th International Rock Art Congress IFRAO 2018 in Valcamonica, Italy
£56.00
Editors:
Pawel L Polkowski and Frank Förster
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407359892
Paperback:
192 pages
BAR number:
S3092
Sub Title:
Proceedings of a session of the 20th International Rock Art Congress IFRAO 2018 in Valcamonica, Italy
This volume presents a collection of papers focusing on the dynamic relationship between rock art, movement and the surrounding landscape. The contributors... More
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£31.00
Author:
Eltayeb Sayed Abbas
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312354
Paperback:
105pp. Illustrated in black and white and with 8 colour plates
BAR number:
S2603
This study deals with the significance of ritual scenes on 21st Dynasty coffins. The images on these coffins are studied as texts... More
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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
£77.00
Editors:
Giorgia Baldacci and Ilaria Caloi
Publication Year:
2018
Language:
Italian (20 papers) & English (13 papers), Eng abstracts
ISBN:
9781407315331
Paperback:
328 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 11 tables, 185 figures (20 in colour)
BAR number:
S2884
Sub Title:
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
La presente raccolta contiene 33 articoli in italiano o inglese che, con differenti approcci e prospettive, si concentrano sull’archeologia minoica di... More
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£63.00
Author:
Kim McCorquodale
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311319
Paperback:
305pp. Includes figures, tables, indices
BAR number:
S2513
Sub Title:
Women and marriage
An investigation of the iconography and inscriptions in over 800 tombs and objects with provenances, from Old Kingdom Egypt throws light... More
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£45.00
Author:
Ahmed Abuelgasim Elhassan
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841713779
Paperback:
190pp, Includes illustrations, 1 map.
BAR number:
S1285
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£104.00
Editors:
Ergün Laflı and Sami Patacı with the assistance of Gonca Cankardeş-Şenol, Ahmet Kaan Şenol and Gülseren Kan Şahin
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
English and German
ISBN:
9781407314112
Paperback:
502pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2750
Recent studies on the Anatolian archaeology in this volume shows the great importance of the cultural and archaeological heritage of the... More
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Rebirth and Afterlife
A study of the transmutation of some pagan imagery in early Christian funerary art
£53.00
Author:
Sister Charles Murray
Publication Year:
1981
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860541189
Paperback:
232pp, Includes 39 illustrations
BAR number:
S100
Sub Title:
A study of the transmutation of some pagan imagery in early Christian funerary art
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Raqit
Marinus’ Estate on the Carmel, Israel
£83.00
Author:
Shimon Dar
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716503
Paperback:
329pp. Includes 175 figures, maps, plans, drawings, tables plates and photographs 3 colour plates
BAR number:
S1300
Sub Title:
Marinus’ Estate on the Carmel, Israel
Following the excavations at Sumaqa, Horvat Raqit was chosen as the second site for excavation and research on Mount Carmel. The... More
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£31.00
Author:
Annalisa Tasso
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
Italian with English abstract
ISBN:
9781407311425
Paperback:
104pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2524
This work focuses on the persistence of the 'Gates of Hades' iconographic theme among the peoples of the ancient Mediterranean. The... More
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Punctuated Insularity
The Archaeology of 4th and 3rd Millennium Sardinia
£47.00
Author:
Gary Webster and Maud Webster
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407316192
Paperback:
172 pages, Illustrated throughout in black and white. 80 figures
BAR number:
S2871
Sub Title:
The Archaeology of 4th and 3rd Millennium Sardinia
Sardinia preserves an exceptional record of its Final Neolithic and Copper Age cultures, with a diverse crafts repertory, henges and dolmens,... More
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£54.00
Author:
June Winfield and David Winfield
Publication Year:
1982
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860541967
Paperback:
236pp, Illustrated throughout.
BAR number:
S154
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Production and Distribution
A Ceramic Viewpoint
£83.00
Author:
Hilary Howard and Elaine L. Morris
Publication Year:
1981
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860541462
Paperback:
404pp, Illustrated throughout, figures.
BAR number:
S120
Sub Title:
A Ceramic Viewpoint
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Proceedings of the XXth International Congress on Ancient Bronzes
Resource, reconstruction, representation, role
£101.00
Editors:
Philipp Baas
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
English, German, French, Italian
ISBN:
9781407355894
Paperback:
416 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 28 tables, 25 diagrams, 270 figures.
BAR number:
S2958
Sub Title:
Resource, reconstruction, representation, role
Bronzes in the ancient world – from over-lifesize sculptures to small-scale utilitarian objects – were an omnipresent and integral part of everyday public... More
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£33.00
Editors:
Mary E. Lewis and Margaret Clegg
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407304014
Paperback:
135pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1918
Sub Title:
Department of Archaeology University of Reading 2007
This book presents the proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and... More
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Proceedings of the 4th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry
National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens 28-31 May 2003
£145.00
Editors:
Yorgos Facorellis, Nikos Zacharias and Kiki Polikreti
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English with Greek abstracts
ISBN:
9781407301884
Paperback:
698pp. Illustrated throughout (15 in colour) with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1746
Sub Title:
National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens 28-31 May 2003
The 4th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry was held at the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, from May 28 to 31, 2003. The 86... More
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Private Religion at Amarna
The material evidence
£93.00
Author:
Anna Stevens
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407300009
Paperback:
375pp. Illustrated throughout, complete with inventories and index
BAR number:
S1587
Sub Title:
The material evidence
In this study the author approaches the realm of 'private religion' in Egypt some 3,300 years ago. The two broad research questions that... More
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Preparing for Eternity
Funerary models and wall scenes from the Egyptian Old and Middle Kingdoms
£61.00
Author:
Georgia Barker
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407359175
Paperback:
262 pages. Illustrated throughout in black and white and colour. 107 figures and 2 tables.
BAR number:
S3070
Sub Title:
Funerary models and wall scenes from the Egyptian Old and Middle Kingdoms
During the late Old Kingdom to the end of the Middle Kingdom, there were two principal types of artistic representation in the ancient Egyptian elite tomb:... 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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£30.00
Author:
Anna Raduncheva and translated from the Russian by Caroline M. A. Schuck
Publication Year:
1976
Language:
English, translated from Russian
ISBN:
9780904531596
Paperback:
118pp, Illustrated throughout.
BAR number:
S13
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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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£29.00
Author:
David Ebert
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841715865
Paperback:
93pp. Includes 16 figures, maps, plans and illustrations, 2 colour pages, 47 tables
BAR number:
S1221
There are several reasons for archaeologists to develop and critically examine the use of archaeological predictive models (APM). APM has... More
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Postmedieval Boat and Ship Archaeology
Papers based on those presented to an International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology in Stockholm in 1982
£92.00
Editors:
Carl Olof Cederlund
Publication Year:
1985
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543275
Paperback:
452pp, Illustrated throughout, figures.
Sub-series name:
Swedish National Maritime Museum, Stockholm Report, 20
BAR number:
S256
Sub Title:
Papers based on those presented to an International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology in Stockholm in 1982
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£53.00
Author:
Tânia Manuel Casimiro
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407308784
Paperback:
213pp. Illustrated throughout, some in colour
BAR number:
S2301
The object of this research is to register, analyse, understand and interpret the presence of Portuguese faience in the British Isles are... More
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