Death / Burial / Cemeteries / Tombs

£55.00
Author:
Michael Stammers
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303857
Paperback:
227pp. Includes 9 maps, 23 tables, 164 figures, 5 data Appendices. With additional material online (Figures and Maps).
BAR number:
S1903
This study investigates the drivers for the development of the elite Late Period tombs of the necropoleis of Memphis. It studies their... More
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£60.00
Author:
Tertia Barnett
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549710
Paperback:
237pp, Includes numerous drawings, maps and tables.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 45
BAR number:
S763
This book, based on reviews of existing evidence and on original ethnographic and archaeological data, addresses the issue of when, how... More
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£41.00
Author:
R. M. Chapple with appendices by Sean Denham, Catherine M. Dunne, Meriel McClatchie Maria B. O’Hare artefact illustrations by Stephanie Godden
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English with abstract in German and French
ISBN:
9781407307244
Paperback:
167pp. Includes 77 figures, 75 plates, 12 tables
BAR number:
B521
This volume details the excavation of a remarkably well preserved, enclosed Middle Bronze Age cemetery in the townland of Gransha, Co... More
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£31.00
Author:
Dunja Glogovic
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313375
Paperback:
106pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2689
The book presents finds from twenty-four Late Iron Age graves excavated between 2001 and 2003 on the hillfort Dragišić located in the... More
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The Funerary Landscape at Knossos
A diachronic study of Minoan burial customs with special reference to the warrior graves
£35.00
Author:
Madelaine Miller
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307572
Paperback:
125pp
BAR number:
S2201
Sub Title:
A diachronic study of Minoan burial customs with special reference to the warrior graves
During the last century's archaeological investigations of the advanced Bronze Age culture maintained by the so-called Minoans on the... More
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£66.00
Author:
Yasemin Er Scarborough
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407315287
Paperback:
289pp
BAR number:
S2846
This book is an investigation of the funerary monuments of Rough Cilicia and Isauria. Rock-cut tombs, tower tombs, temple tombs, house graves,... 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 Hongshan Papers
Collected Studies on the Archaeology of Northern China
£39.00
Author:
Sarah M. Nelson
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312538
Paperback:
124pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white & colour
BAR number:
S2618
Sub Title:
Collected Studies on the Archaeology of Northern China
The papers gathered together in this volume represent over a dozen years of research on the Hongshan period in north-eastern China.... More
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The Imagination of Matter
Religion and Ecology in Mesoamerican Traditions
£53.00
Editors:
Davíd Carrasco
Publication Year:
1989
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860546566
Paperback:
230pp
BAR number:
S515
Sub Title:
Religion and Ecology in Mesoamerican Traditions
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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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The Lake of Knives and the Lake of Fire
Studies in the topography of passage in ancient Egyptian religious literature
£32.00
Author:
Eltayeb Sayed Abbas
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306858
Paperback:
123pp. Includes 40 figures
BAR number:
S2144
Sub Title:
Studies in the topography of passage in ancient Egyptian religious literature
This research is an investigation into the safe passage of the deceased over water as exemplified in the early Egyptian legends involving... More
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£77.00
Author:
J. W. Hanbury-Tenison
Publication Year:
1986
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543985
Paperback:
350pp
BAR number:
S311
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The Life Biography of Artefacts and Ritual Practice
With case studies from Mesolithic-Early Bronze Age Europe
£41.00
Editors:
Mathias Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist and Peter Bye-Jensen
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356822
Paperback:
140 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 11 tables, 111 figures.
BAR number:
S2991
Sub Title:
With case studies from Mesolithic-Early Bronze Age Europe
Inspired by a session held at the EAA conference in Vilnius in 2016, The Life Biography of Artefacts and Ritual Practice focuses on creating biographies... More
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The LMIII Cemetery at Tourloti, Siteia
The ‘Xanthoudidis Master’ and the Octopus Style in East Crete
£29.00
Author:
Constantinos Paschalidis, with a contribution by P.J.P. McGeorge
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English with summaries in Greek and Italian
ISBN:
9781407304007
Paperback:
108pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs including 4 colour plates
BAR number:
S1917
Sub Title:
The ‘Xanthoudidis Master’ and the Octopus Style in East Crete
Halfway along the mountainous route between the Ierapetra isthmus and Siteia, on the northern limits of the western mountain range of the Siteia province... More
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The Making of the Tuoba Northern Wei
Constructing material cultural expressions in the Northern Wei Pingcheng Period (398–494 CE)
£39.00
Author:
Chin-Yin Tseng
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311883
Paperback:
130pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2567
Sub Title:
Constructing material cultural expressions in the Northern Wei Pingcheng Period (398–494 CE)
The Tuoba's success in the development of the Northern Wei as a conquest dynasty in fifth-century northern China is demonstrated as a... 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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The Napatan Cylindrical Sheaths
A catalogue and analysis of precious objects from the royal cemetery of Nuri
£33.00
Author:
Amarillis Pompei
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407355498
Paperback:
116 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 28 figures, 19 plates (12 in colour).
BAR number:
S2948
Sub Title:
A catalogue and analysis of precious objects from the royal cemetery of Nuri
The Napatan Cylindrical Sheaths provides a complete analysis of the precious finds discovered at the royal cemetery of Nuri (Sudan) for the first time. This... More
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£86.00
Author:
Philip M. Vine
Publication Year:
1982
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860541844
Paperback:
418pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p138-151
BAR number:
B105
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£69.00
Author:
William W. Phelps
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716176
Paperback:
283pp. Includes 4 chronological charts, 4 maps, 60 pages of drawings, 8 colour plates, 30 black and white plates
BAR number:
S1259
The Peloponnese forms an approximate cultural province. The precise delimitation of a cultural province, even for a restricted... More
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The Neolithic-Bronze Age Transition in Britain
A critical review of some archaeological and craniological concepts
£30.00
Author:
Neil Brodie
Publication Year:
1994
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860547716
Paperback:
120pp
BAR number:
B238
Sub Title:
A critical review of some archaeological and craniological concepts
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£55.00
Author:
Bryan Feuer
Publication Year:
1983
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542261
Paperback:
244pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p216-234
BAR number:
S176
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£76.00
Author:
Magdalena S. Midgley
Publication Year:
1985
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543312
Paperback:
348pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p309-330
BAR number:
S259
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£32.00
Author:
István Kiszely and translated from the Hungarian by Catherine Simán
Publication Year:
1978
Language:
English, translated from Hungarian
ISBN:
9780860540298
Paperback:
124pp, Includes 41 illustrations
BAR number:
S50
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The Outcast Dead
Historical and archaeological evidence for the effect of the New Poor Law on the health and diet of London’s post-medieval poor
£29.00
Author:
Brittney K. Shields Wilford
Publication Year:
2018
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407316093
Paperback:
104 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 17 tables, 46 figures (1 in colour)
BAR number:
B634
Sub Title:
Historical and archaeological evidence for the effect of the New Poor Law on the health and diet of London’s post-medieval poor
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this work presents an integration of osteological and historical evidence to examine the detrimental impact of the... More
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