Death / Burial / Cemeteries / Tombs

Tell Timai, (Egypt) 2009-2020
The Ptolemaic–Roman north western temple zone and Roman city excavations
£66.00
Author:
James E. Bennett
Publication Year:
2023
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407360737
Paperback:
306 pages, Illustrated throughout in black & white, and colour
BAR number:
S3127
Sub Title:
The Ptolemaic–Roman north western temple zone and Roman city excavations
This monograph covers the excavations conducted at the Ptolemaic-Roman city of Tell Timai by the University of Hawaii from 2009 - 2020. It is divided into... More
+

Territorial Appropriation during the Old Kingdom (XXVIIIth-XXIIIrd centuries BC)
The royal necropolises and the pyramid towns in Egypt
£75.00
Author:
Silvia Lupo
Publication Year:
2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407300115
Paperback:
296pp. Includes 8 tables, 8 maps, 32 figures, plans, drawings and photographs, two data Appendices
BAR number:
S1595
Sub Title:
The royal necropolises and the pyramid towns in Egypt
The concepts of 'territory' and 'territoriality' are analysed on the basis of anthropological and archaeological data. It is assumed that... More
+

The Aegean Bronze Age in relation to the Wider European Context
Papers from a session at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Cork, 5-11 September 2005
£31.00
Editors:
Helène Whittaker
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407301877
Paperback:
111pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1745
Sub Title:
Papers from a session at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Cork, 5-11 September 2005
This book includes five papers from the session 'The Aegean Bronze Age in Relation to the Wider European Context' presented at the... More
+

The Afterlife in Akhmim
Exploring El-Salamuni Tombs C1 and C3
£75.00
Author:
Wahid Omran
Publication Year:
2023
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407359991
Paperback:
238 pages, Illustrated throughout in black & white, and colour.
BAR number:
S3137
Sub Title:
Exploring El-Salamuni Tombs C1 and C3
The El-Salamuni mountain, the main necropolis of Akhmim during the Graeco-Roman period, is still relatively intact and largely archaeologically unexplored.... More
+

£45.00
Author:
Vladimir I. Kulakov
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841718019
Paperback:
173pp. Includes 92 figures, maps, plans, drawings, tables. 3 Appendices of sites and finds
BAR number:
S1356
This work is primarily devoted to the history of the Amber Lands in Roman times. It is based on archaeological data dating back to the... More
+

£64.00
Author:
Simona Dalsoglio
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407315676
Paperback:
236 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 9 tables, 75 plates
BAR number:
S3014
Sub Title:
Pottery, grave assemblages and the rite of cremation
The amphorae dating from the Submycenaean to the end of the Protogeometric period, brought to light in the Kerameikos cemetery, represent a high quality... More
+

The Archaeology of Value
Essays on prestige and the processes of valuation
£37.00
Editors:
Douglass Bailey with the assistance of Steve Mills
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549635
Paperback:
152pp
BAR number:
S730
Sub Title:
Essays on prestige and the processes of valuation
+

£39.00
Author:
Sheila McNally
Publication Year:
1996
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548232
Paperback:
162pp, Includes numerous figures and charts, 14 drawings.
BAR number:
S639
+

£48.00
Editors:
Eve D'Ambra and Guy P.R. Métraux
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841719634
Paperback:
193pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs including 6 colour pages
BAR number:
S1526
This collection of essays promises to make an important contribution to the field of Roman studies, particularly, by its concentration on... More
+

£43.00
Author:
Ezra L. Meyerhof
Publication Year:
1989
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860546795
Paperback:
182pp
BAR number:
S534
+

£33.00
Author:
Emma-Jayne Graham
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841719955
Paperback:
132pp. Includes 11 tables, 35 figures, maps, plans and photographs
BAR number:
S1565
The horror of the puticuli, the mass burial pits, and their traditional association with the poor, has often led to this socio-economic... More
+

£77.00
Author:
Věnceslava Karoušková-Soper
Publication Year:
1983
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542452
Paperback:
366pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p249-273
BAR number:
S192
Sub Title:
(2nd-1st millennium B.C.)
+

The Cemeteries at Marki
Using a looted landscape to investigate prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus
£74.00
Author:
Andrew C. Sneddon
Publication Year:
2002
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841714066
Paperback:
292pp. Includes 16 black and white plates, 92 tables, 157 figures plans, maps and drawings, 17-page bibliography
BAR number:
S1028
Sub Title:
Using a looted landscape to investigate prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus
This monograph presents the results of an intensive site survey of three Prehistoric Bronze Age cemeteries in the vicinity of Marki... More
+

The Chemical Analysis of Prehistoric Bones
A paleodietary and ecoarcheological study of Bronze Age West-Friesland
£54.00
Author:
L. T. Runia
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544715
Paperback:
236pp, Illustrated throughout, figures.
BAR number:
S363
Sub Title:
A paleodietary and ecoarcheological study of Bronze Age West-Friesland
+

The Chora of Metaponto 8, Parts i and ii
The factory and kiln deposit at Pantanello
£181.00
Editors:
Joseph Coleman Carter and Norma Ortíz Galindo
Publication Year:
2023
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407360898
Paperback:
690 pages, two volume set
BAR number:
S3146
Sub Title:
The factory and kiln deposit at Pantanello
This book presents the final report on the excavation and reconstruction of the buildings and kilns at Pantanello. It is accompanied by an extensive... More
+

£173.00
Author:
Maria Grazia Amore Special studies by V. Dimo, L. Bejko, and L. Schepartz with Contributions by S. Aliu, P. Pearce, A. Bardho, E. Bitri, L. Buchet, B. N. Damiata, V. Grimes, A. Powell, M. P. Richards, J. Southon, and J. Stallo
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305509
Paperback:
896pp. Two volume set, Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs in colour and black and white, with catalogue and conservation reports.
BAR number:
S2059
Between 2002 and 2006 the Albanian Rescue Archaeology Unit excavated at Apollonia, one of the most important Archaic Greek colonies in... More
+

The Copper Age in South-West Spain
A bioarchaeological approach to prehistoric social organisation
£70.00
Author:
Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407315096
Paperback:
287pp
BAR number:
S2840
Sub Title:
A bioarchaeological approach to prehistoric social organisation
The prehistoric communities in Iberia have never been investigated before using a cutting-edge and multidisciplinary approach. In this research, the latest... More
+

The Culture of Ancient Ferghana
VI century B.C.-VI century A.D.
£81.00
Author:
N.G. Gorbunova, translated from the Russian by A.P. Andryushkin
Publication Year:
1986
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543633
Paperback:
394pp
BAR number:
S281
Sub Title:
VI century B.C.-VI century A.D.
+

The Deceased's Life Cycle Rituals in Nepal
Present Cremation Burials for the Interpretations of the Past
£22.00
Author:
Terje Oestigaard
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841711355
Paperback:
74pp
BAR number:
S853
Sub Title:
Present Cremation Burials for the Interpretations of the Past
+

The Diffusion of Neolithic Practices from Anatolia to Europe
A contextual study of residential construction, 8,500–5,500 BC cal.
£48.00
Author:
Maxime Brami
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407315782
Paperback:
173pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 13 tables, 58 figures (15 in colour). With additional material online (primary data).
BAR number:
S2838
Sub Title:
A contextual study of residential construction, 8,500–5,500 BC cal.
How did farming spread into Europe, from its origins in the Near East? And what remained of the original Neolithic, once it spread beyond its initial... More
+

The Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries of East Yorkshire
An analysis and reinterpretation
£37.00
Author:
Sam Lucy
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549543
Paperback:
154pp, Includes black and white figures and and tables
BAR number:
B272
Sub Title:
An analysis and reinterpretation
+

£52.00
Author:
Philip Mason
Publication Year:
1996
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548287
Paperback:
228pp, Illustrated throughout, tables, maps.
BAR number:
S643
+

£37.00
Author:
Mats Larsson
Publication Year:
1985
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543367
Paperback:
152pp
BAR number:
S264
Sub Title:
Social and Economic Change 3000-2500 B.C.
+

£45.00
Author:
Dan Gh. Teodor, translated from the Romanian by Nubar Hampartumian
Publication Year:
1980
Language:
English, translated from Romanian
ISBN:
9780860540908
Paperback:
196pp, Includes 64 figures.
BAR number:
S81
+

£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
+

£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
+

£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
+

£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
+

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
+

£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
+

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
+

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
+

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
+

£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
+

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
+

£77.00
Author:
J. W. Hanbury-Tenison
Publication Year:
1986
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543985
Paperback:
350pp
BAR number:
S311
+

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
+

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
+

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
+

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
+

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
+

£86.00
Author:
Philip M. Vine
Publication Year:
1982
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860541844
Paperback:
418pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p138-151
BAR number:
B105
+

£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
+

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
+

£55.00
Author:
Bryan Feuer
Publication Year:
1983
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542261
Paperback:
244pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p216-234
BAR number:
S176
+

£76.00
Author:
Magdalena S. Midgley
Publication Year:
1985
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543312
Paperback:
348pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p309-330
BAR number:
S259
+

£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
+

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
+