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Ethnoarchaeology / Anthropology

Name and Identity
Selected studies on ancient anthroponymy through the Mediterranean
£54.00
Editors:
Cristina de la Escosura Balbás, Anamarija Kurilič, Giuseppe Eugenio Rallo
Publication Year:
2024
Language:
English, with chapters in Italian, Spanish, and French
ISBN:
9781407360973
Paperback:
200 pages, Illustrated throughout in black & white, and colour.
BAR number:
S3161
Sub Title:
Selected studies on ancient anthroponymy through the Mediterranean
This volume analyses the importance of onomastics and its impact on the ancient world (i. e. Greek, Roman, Graeco-Roman, and various indigenous onomastic... More
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Prehistoric Imagery and Landscapes
Rock art in Stjørdal, Trøndelag, Norway
£53.00
Author:
Kalle Sognnes
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712796
Paperback:
206pp. Includes 146 figures, photographs, drawings, maps, plans and tables 18-page bibliography
BAR number:
S998
Sub Title:
Rock art in Stjørdal, Trøndelag, Norway
This monograph represents 15 years of research by the author and concentrates on the so-called South Scandinavian or Bronze Age... More
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Arqueometalurgia de un naufragio del siglo XVIII
La corbeta de guerra HMS Swift (1770), Puerto Deseado provincia de Santa Cruz (Patagonia)
£53.00
Author:
Nicolás C. Ciarlo
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
Spanish with English summaries
ISBN:
9781407312286
Paperback:
219pp. Illustrated throughout, with 5 fold-out plans.
BAR number:
S2596
Sub Title:
La corbeta de guerra HMS Swift (1770), Puerto Deseado provincia de Santa Cruz (Patagonia)
This book presents the research results carried on the metallic artifacts from the British HMS Swift, lost off Puerto Deseado (Province... More
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£53.00
Editors:
Roel Brandt and Jan Slofstra
Publication Year:
1983
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542377
Paperback:
230pp, Illustrated throughout, figures.
BAR number:
S184
Sub Title:
Spheres of interaction
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£53.00
Author:
Anne M. Compton
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407315843
Paperback:
189 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 111 tables, 84 figures (13 in colour).
BAR number:
S2857
The Bono Manso region of central Ghana was occupied from the late 12th to mid-18th centuries CE, spanning much of the zenith of the sub-Saharan and Atlantic... More
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Sailing Rock Art Boats
A reassessment of seafaring abilities in Bronze Age Scandinavia and the introduction of the sail in the North
£53.00
Author:
Boel Bengtsson
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407315690
Paperback:
172 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 6 tables (in colour), 97 figures (46 in colour)
BAR number:
S2865
Sub Title:
A reassessment of seafaring abilities in Bronze Age Scandinavia and the introduction of the sail in the North
This book argues that the use of sail as a complement to paddling would have formed an integral part of the development of centres of power in the early... More
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Tibetan Silver, Gold and Bronze Objects and the Aesthetics of Animals in the Era before Empire
Cross-cultural reverberations on the Tibetan Plateau and soundings from other parts of Eurasia
£53.00
Author:
John Vincent Bellezza
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407354316
Paperback:
184 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 2 tables, 148 figures, 2 maps.
BAR number:
S2984
Sub Title:
Cross-cultural reverberations on the Tibetan Plateau and soundings from other parts of Eurasia
This archaeological and art-historical study is woven around rock art and ancient metallic articles attributed to Tibet. The silver bowls, gold finial, and... More
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Change and Continuity in the Prehistoric Rock Art of East Siberia
An archaeological and anthropological exploration into ethno-cultural identity, belonging, and symbolism
£53.00
Author:
Irina A. Ponomareva
Publication Year:
2021
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407358765
Paperback:
222 pages
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of Prehistoric Art, 4
BAR number:
S3057
Sub Title:
An archaeological and anthropological exploration into ethno-cultural identity, belonging, and symbolism
The volume covers a huge region of East Siberia, considering prehistoric ethno-cultural and social processes through the development of rock art styles and... More
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Mesoamerican Codices
Calendrical knowledge and ceremonial practice in Indigenous religion and history
£53.00
Author:
Alessia Frassani
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407359670
Paperback:
186 pages, Illustrated throughout in black & white and colour. 115 illustrations.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.30861/9781407359670
BAR number:
S3085
Sub Title:
Calendrical knowledge and ceremonial practice in Indigenous religion and history
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on the BAR Digital... More
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£52.00
Author:
Gerhard Kapitän,Gerald Grainge in association with Somasiri Devendra
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407304137
Paperback:
203pp, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white and with fold-out plans and drawings. Indices
Sub-series name:
Nautical Archaeology Society Monograph Series (NAS), 2
BAR number:
S1931
Gerhard Kapitän, born in Meissen (Dresden, Germany) on the 23rd April 1924, is a scholar whose main field of study is maritime... More
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£52.00
Author:
Kalle Sognnes
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407315164
Paperback:
208pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white. 1 table and 118 figures.
BAR number:
S2837
This book examines the Northern (Stone Age) rock art of central Norway, which is dominated by images of marine and terrestrial motifs. It focuses on how... More
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In the Wake of the ya’ áats’ xaatgáay ['Iron People']
A study of changing settlement strategies among the Kunghit Haida
£51.00
Author:
Steven Acheson
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549482
Paperback:
220pp, Includes 11 maps, 43 figures
BAR number:
S711
Sub Title:
A study of changing settlement strategies among the Kunghit Haida
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Text and Image in Pre-Columbian Art
Essays on the interrelationship of the verbal and visual arts
£51.00
Editors:
Janet Catherine Berlo
Publication Year:
1983
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542308
Paperback:
222pp, Illustrated throughout, figures.
Sub-series name:
Proceedings 44 International Congress of Americanists/Congreso Internacional de Americanistas
BAR number:
S180
Sub Title:
Essays on the interrelationship of the verbal and visual arts
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Contested Heritage
Relations between contemporary Pagan groups and the archaeological and heritage professions in Britain in the early 21st century
£51.00
Author:
Will Rathouse
Publication Year:
2021
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356969
Paperback:
176 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 37 figures
BAR number:
B661
Sub Title:
Relations between contemporary Pagan groups and the archaeological and heritage professions in Britain in the early 21st century
This book examines the sometimes fraught interactions and relationships between contemporary Pagan groups and archaeological heritage managers in the first... More
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Past Environments and Plant Use in Holocene Southern Africa
A study of charcoal and seed remains from the Late Stone Age sites of Toteng (Botswana), Leopard Cave and Geduld (Namibia)
£50.00
Author:
Malebogo Mvimi
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407357171
Paperback:
214 pages. Illustrated throughout in black and white and colour. 71 figures and 25 tables.
Sub-series name:
African Archaeology, 95
BAR number:
S3072
Sub Title:
A study of charcoal and seed remains from the Late Stone Age sites of Toteng (Botswana), Leopard Cave and Geduld (Namibia)
This book uses macrobotanical analysis (charcoal and seeds/grains) from Later Stone Age sites in Botswana and Namibia to address past climatic and... More
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Technologie de l'ivoire au Paléolithique supérieur
Caractérisation physico-chimique du matériau et analyse fonctionnelle des outils de transformation
£49.00
Author:
Marianne Christensen
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
French
ISBN:
9780860549840
Paperback:
218pp, Includes numerous black and white figures and plates.
BAR number:
S751
Sub Title:
Caractérisation physico-chimique du matériau et analyse fonctionnelle des outils de transformation
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Museums, Archaeologists and Indigenous People
Archaeology and the public in Nigeria
£49.00
Author:
Pamela Ifeoma Eze-Uzomaka
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712000
Paperback:
220pp. Includes 27 figures, 16 tables, 22 plates
BAR number:
S904
Sub Title:
Archaeology and the public in Nigeria
The main aim of this study is to examine the methods through which the managers of Nigeria's past have presented the country's heritage to the Nigerian... More
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£49.00
Author:
Sarah Phear
Publication Year:
2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407300603
Paperback:
222pp. Includes illustrations (some colour), maps.
BAR number:
S1626
Sub Title:
A landscape perspective
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£49.00
Author:
Freda Nkirote M'Mbogori
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313702
Paperback:
154pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 89
BAR number:
S2717
This research is a departure from the traditional archaeological pottery analysis in Kenya, where emphasis has been on decorations and... More
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The Salt of the Earth
Ethnoarchaeology of Salt Production in Michoacán, Western Mexico
£49.00
Author:
Eduardo Williams
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313801
Paperback:
154pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2725
Sub Title:
Ethnoarchaeology of Salt Production in Michoacán, Western Mexico
The present study offers new information on salt production in Michoacán, broadening our perspectives on the role played by common salt,... More
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Archaeological Investigations in the Yap Islands, Micronesia
First Millenium B.C. to the Present Day
£49.00
Author:
Michiko Intoh and Foss Leach
Publication Year:
1985
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543534
Paperback:
212pp
BAR number:
S277
Sub Title:
First Millenium B.C. to the Present Day
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The Materiality of Remembering
An ethnographic study of the living spaces in a Nahua municipality in Veracruz, Mexico
£49.00
Author:
Julieta Flores-Muñoz
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407357034
Paperback:
172 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 86 figures, 12 maps.
BAR number:
S3002
Sub Title:
An ethnographic study of the living spaces in a Nahua municipality in Veracruz, Mexico
Although oral narrations are the way in which history has survived in Mexican indigenous contexts, they have been long disregarded as a valid source of... More
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Innovative Approaches to Archaeology
Proceedings of the Graduate Archaeology at Oxford Conference 2020
£49.00
Editors:
Emanuele Prezioso and Marcella Giobbe
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407359915
Paperback:
168 pages
BAR number:
S3095
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the Graduate Archaeology at Oxford Conference 2020
The volume brings together the innovative contributions presented at the Graduate Archaeology at Oxford 2020 conference ‘Innovative Approaches to... More
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Carved in Stone
The archaeology of rock-cut sites and stone quarries
£48.00
Editors:
Claudia Sciuto, Anaïs Lamesa, Katy Whitaker and Ali Yamaç
Publication Year:
2021
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407358093
Paperback:
192 pages
BAR number:
S3054
Sub Title:
The archaeology of rock-cut sites and stone quarries
The study of marks left by humans on stone outcrops is an interdisciplinary endeavour that entails geology, history of techniques, ethnography as well as... More
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Estudio traceológico de la industria lítica achelense de Thiongo Korongo (Garganta de Olduvai, Tanzania)
Aproximación experimental y arqueológica a la gestión económica a partir del análisis de filos
£48.00
Author:
Patricia Bello Alonso
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9781407359212
Paperback:
208 pages. Illustrated throughout in black and white and colour. 95 figures and 13 tables
BAR number:
S3073
Sub Title:
Aproximación experimental y arqueológica a la gestión económica a partir del análisis de filos
En este libro se presentan los resultados obtenidos a partir del análisis arqueológico de las huellas de uso documentadas en el material lítico asociado al... More
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Case Studies in Archaeology and World Religion
The Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference
£47.00
Editors:
Timothy Insoll
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549567
Paperback:
187pp. Includes numerous photographs and drawings.
BAR number:
S755
Sub Title:
The Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference
Each of the twenty papers presented in this book is a case study utilising archaeological research, or the results thereof, as a means of... 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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£47.00
Author:
Santino Alessandro Cugno
Publication Year:
2016
Language:
Italian with abstract in English
ISBN:
9781407314945
Paperback:
151pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white: 27 tables, 168 figures (including 144 black and white photographs and 22 colour photographs)
BAR number:
S2802
This volume is the result of a research project that, since 2008, has had the objective of studying and understanding the spatial planning and dynamics of... More
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Patrimonio Culturale, Paesaggi e Personaggi dell'altopiano ibleo
Scritti di archeologia e museologia della Sicilia sud-orientale
£47.00
Author:
Santino Alessandro Cugno con il contributo di Ray Bondin, Franco Dell’Aquila, Iorga Ivano Prato, Paolo Daniele Scirpo e la prefazione di Lorenzo Guzzardi
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
Italian with English abstract
ISBN:
9781407316031
Paperback:
171 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 118 Figures, 28 Tavolas (24 in colour)
BAR number:
S2874
Sub Title:
Scritti di archeologia e museologia della Sicilia sud-orientale
Questo libro è una raccolta di 10 saggi su vari temi di archeologia e museologia della Sicilia sud-orientale. I primi quattro capitoli sono incentrati su... More
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Archaeoastronomy in Archaeology and Ethnography
Papers from the annual meeting of SEAC (European Society for Astronomy in Culture) held in Kecskemét in Hungary in 2004
£46.00
Editors:
Emília Pásztor
Publication Year:
2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407300818
Paperback:
183pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs 3 in colour
BAR number:
S1647
Sub Title:
Papers from the annual meeting of SEAC (European Society for Astronomy in Culture) held in Kecskemét in Hungary in 2004
This book includes papers from the annual meeting of SEAC (European Society for Astronomy in Culture) held in Kecskemét in Hungary in 2004. More
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£46.00
Author:
Lilian Dogiama
Publication Year:
2023
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407358246
Paperback:
162 pages, Illustrated throughout in black & white, and colour.
BAR number:
S3116
In this book Dr Lilian Dogiama considers the role of hunting at the Neolithic community of Çatalhöyük and its significance in shaping personal and communal... More
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£45.00
Author:
Anja Naschinski
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
German with a 6 page English summary
ISBN:
9781841711782
Paperback:
194pp, Includes 6 colour plates, 81 black and white figures, tables
BAR number:
S959
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£45.00
Author:
Randi Barndon
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716572
Paperback:
189pp, Includes 11 figures, maps and plans, 31 plates, 5 Appendices of glossaries, chronologies sites and other data
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 61
BAR number:
S1308
This work is a comparative study of iron smelting practices among the Pangwa and Fipa peoples of Tanzania. The author discusses local... More
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£45.00
Author:
Harry Joseph Lerner
Publication Year:
2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407301266
Paperback:
178pp. Includes 46 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 11 tables. 2 data Appendices
BAR number:
S1688
Sub Title:
An example from northwestern New Mexico
Chipped stone tools are a truly dynamic medium of material culture. From initial reduction to contemporary excavation, lithic artifacts... More
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West African Archaeology
New developments, new perspectives
£45.00
Editors:
Philip Allsworth-Jones
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307084
Paperback:
180pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white and colour
BAR number:
S2164
Sub Title:
New developments, new perspectives
This book contains papers read at the conference “West African archaeology, New developments, New perspectives”, co-sponsored by the... More
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Exploring the Limits
Frontiers and Boundaries in Prehistory
£45.00
Editors:
Suzanne P. De Atley and Frank J. Findlow
Publication Year:
1984
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542896
Paperback:
198pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliographies
BAR number:
S223
Sub Title:
Frontiers and Boundaries in Prehistory
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£45.00
Editors:
N. Moloney, L. Raposo and M. Santonja
Publication Year:
1996
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548362
Paperback:
198pp
BAR number:
S649
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Lost Paradise...?
Some New Approaches to the Bell Beaker 'Phenomenon' : Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the 'Association Archéologie et Gobelets' Feldberg (Germany), 18th-20th April 1997
£45.00
Author:
Marion Benz and Samuel van Willigen
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
English (12 papers), German (2 papers)
ISBN:
9780860549284
Paperback:
202pp
BAR number:
S690
Sub Title:
Some New Approaches to the Bell Beaker 'Phenomenon' : Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the 'Association Archéologie et Gobelets' Feldberg (Germany), 18th-20th April 1997
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Imprints of the Archaeology of Northern Nigeria
Landscape, society and crafts around Kirfi, Bauchi region
£45.00
Author:
Abubakar Sule Sani
Publication Year:
2021
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407358925
Paperback:
180 pages
Sub-series name:
African Archaeology, 94
BAR number:
S3062
Sub Title:
Landscape, society and crafts around Kirfi, Bauchi region
Abubakar Sule Sani’s pioneering book combines archaeological, ethnographic and historical data to construct a compelling narrative about the people of the... More
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£43.00
Author:
Todd A. Koetje
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544456
Paperback:
186pp
BAR number:
S346
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£43.00
Author:
Clara Boulanger
Publication Year:
2023
Language:
English with an abstract in French.
ISBN:
9781407356815
Paperback:
144 pages, Illlustrated throughout in black & white, and colour.
BAR number:
S3153
Island Southeast Asia is one of the world’s marine biodiversity hotspots. Marine environments with dense concentrations of fauna rich in fatty acid... More
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£41.00
Author:
Richard John Bourne
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712505
Paperback:
163pp. Includes numerous, tables and figures.
BAR number:
S963
Relations between the separatist regime of Marcus Postumus (in about 260 AD) and the Central Empire have been the subject of academic... More
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Theoretical and Methodological Considerations in Central European Neolithic Archaeology
Proceedings of the ‘Theory and Method in Archaeology of the Neolithic (7th - 3rd millennium BC)’ conference held in Mikulov, Czech Republic, 26th – 28th of October 2010
£41.00
Editors:
Jan Kolár and František Trampota
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309088
Paperback:
131pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2325
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the ‘Theory and Method in Archaeology of the Neolithic (7th - 3rd millennium BC)’ conference held in Mikulov, Czech Republic, 26th – 28th of October 2010
This book presents the proceedings of the 'Theory and Method in Archaeology of the Neolithic (7th - 3rd millennium BC)' conference held... More
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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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Ethno-Archaeology in Jenné, Mali
Craft and status among smiths, potters and masons
£40.00
Author:
Adria LaViolette
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841710433
Paperback:
156pp, Includes 41 plates with black and white photographs, maps
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 49
BAR number:
S838
Sub Title:
Craft and status among smiths, potters and masons
This is an ethnoarcaheological study exploring social and economic lives of specialized producers: blacksmiths, potters and masons,... More
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£40.00
Editors:
Chen Shen and Susan G. Keates
Publication Year:
2003
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841715469
Paperback:
157pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings, photographs
BAR number:
S1179
This volume is derived from a symposium entitled “Theory and Practice in Chinese Pleistocene Archaeology” at the 65th annual meeting of... More
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£40.00
Author:
Per Ditlef Fredriksen
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309798
Paperback:
147pp, Includes 35 figures, 5 tables
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 80
BAR number:
S2387
The two key themes in this work are 1) the meeting between knowledges about the material world, and 2) the intimate relationships between... More
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£40.00
Author:
Genevieve M. LeMoine
Publication Year:
1997
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549185
Paperback:
172pp
BAR number:
S679
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