Ritual / Religion / Temples

Bronze Age Anthropomorphic Figurines from Umm el-Marra, Syria
Chronology, visual analysis and function
£38.00
Author:
Alice Petty
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841717890
Paperback:
150pp. Includes 203 figures, maps, plans and drawings, 5 black and white plates of photographs. Catalogue
BAR number:
S1575
Sub Title:
Chronology, visual analysis and function
The subject of this volume is the corpus of 203 Bronze Age anthropomorphic clay figurines and figurine fragments recovered from various... More
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£38.00
Editors:
J. Andrew Overman and Daniel N. Schowalter
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307633
Paperback:
135pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs, appendices of coins
BAR number:
S2205
Sub Title:
An Interim Report
This volume details the excavation of a Roman temple complex in northern Galilee. The site is known as Omrit, although the origin of the... More
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£38.00
Author:
Terje Oestigaard
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307909
Paperback:
133pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2228
Death and the life-giving waters of the Nile were intimately interwoven in ancient Egyptian religion. The principal objective of this... More
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£38.00
Editors:
Kerry Muhlestein and John Gee
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309903
Paperback:
135pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2397
This book includes papers from an international Egyptological conference entitled Evolving Egypt: Innovation, Appropriation, and... More
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£38.00
Author:
Maria Emilia Cavaliere
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
Italian with English summary
ISBN:
9781407310916
Paperback:
129pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
Young Lukanian Archaeologists (YLA), 1
BAR number:
S2479
The first volume of Young Lukanian Archaeologists (YLA) sub-series examines monumental votive offerings (tripods or pedestals which... More
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Kult bei der Arena
Nemesis-Heiligtümer im Kontext römischer Amphitheater
£38.00
Author:
Tim Wittenberg
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
German with English summary
ISBN:
9781407312460
Paperback:
125pp. Includes 53 figures, Catalogue
BAR number:
S2615
Sub Title:
Nemesis-Heiligtümer im Kontext römischer Amphitheater
The book looks at the worship of the goddess Nemesis within the context of the Roman ludi and offers the first entire collection and... More
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£38.00
Author:
Arnaud F. Lambert
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312743
Paperback:
128pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white
Sub-series name:
Paris Monographs in American Archaeology, 35
BAR number:
S2637
One of the most interesting issues in the study of Olmec-style art, especially in the southern Gulf Coast lowlands, has been the debate... More
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Constructing 'Commoner' Identity in an Ancient Maya Village
Class, status, and ritual at the Northeast Group, Chan Belize
£38.00
Author:
Chelsea Blackmore
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312842
Paperback:
134pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2645
Sub Title:
Class, status, and ritual at the Northeast Group, Chan Belize
Research at the Northeast Group explores how the malleability of commoner identity is crucial to interpretations of ancient Maya society.... More
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£37.00
Editors:
Roberta Gilchrist and Harold Mytum with contributions by C J Bond, L A S Butler, T P O'Connor, P H Cullum, S Moorhouse, D M Palliser, J Schofield, D Stocker, J Stopford and S H Ward
Publication Year:
1993
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860547464
Paperback:
152pp, Includes illustrations.
BAR number:
B227
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The Aegean and its Cultures
Proceedings of the first Oxford-Athens graduate student workshop organized by the Greek Society and the University of Oxford Taylor Institution, 22-23 April 2005
£37.00
Editors:
Georgios Deligiannakis and Yannis Galanakis
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305073
Paperback:
158pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs 3 colour plates
BAR number:
S1975
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the first Oxford-Athens graduate student workshop organized by the Greek Society and the University of Oxford Taylor Institution, 22-23 April 2005
Proceedings of the first Oxford-Athens graduate student workshop organized by the Greek Society and the University of Oxford Taylor Institution, April 2005.... More
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£36.00
Author:
Sonia Puttock
Publication Year:
2002
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712901
Paperback:
142pp. Includes 17 pages of ancient and modern sources.
BAR number:
B327
This work on personal ornament in Roman Britain began as an analysis of, and a comparison between, the types of and styles of jewellery... More
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£36.00
Editors:
Borja Antela-Bernárdez and Jordi Vidal
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313115
Paperback:
124pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2665
Central Asia is a wide subject of research in the archaeological and historical studies of the Ancient World. Scholars have usually... More
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Inhumation Rites in Late Roman Britain
The Treatment of the Engendered Body
£35.00
Author:
Sarah L. Keegan
Publication Year:
2002
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841713052
Paperback:
146pp
BAR number:
B333
Sub Title:
The Treatment of the Engendered Body
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£35.00
Author:
Maurya Jyotsna
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841710679
Paperback:
136pp. Includes 10 figures
BAR number:
S864
India encompasses a lot of hidden treasures, such as amulets, pendants, etched and eye beads - distinct beads. Besides being used for... More
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Belief in the Past
The Proceedings of the 2002 Manchester Conference on Archaeology and Religion
£35.00
Editors:
Timothy Insoll
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841715759
Paperback:
138pp. Illustrated throughout with plans, maps, photographs, tables and figures.
BAR number:
S1212
Sub Title:
The Proceedings of the 2002 Manchester Conference on Archaeology and Religion
This book includes papers from the proceedings of the Manchester Conference on Archaeology and Religion held at Ashburne Hall, The... 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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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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£35.00
Author:
Maria Milvia Morciano
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
Italian with English abstract
ISBN:
9781407309262
Paperback:
125pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2343
In this work the cult of the Capitoline Triad is examined from a viewpoint that varies from the traditionally public and official one. A... More
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£35.00
Editors:
Kurt D. Springs
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313603
Paperback:
117pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2709
This volume of papers broadly investigate what a landscape can reveal about its people, and how peoples adapt their cultures and... More
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Dediche votive private attiche del IV secolo a.C.
Il culto di Atena e delle divinità mediche
£35.00
Author:
Francesca Giovagnorio
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
Italian
ISBN:
9781407313818
Paperback:
110pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2726
Sub Title:
Il culto di Atena e delle divinità mediche
This work examines the development of votive offerings at Athens during the fourth century B.C., as well as the social and artistic... More
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The 'Weather-God' in Hittite Anatolia
An examination of the archaeological and textual sources
£35.00
Author:
Hilary J. Deighton
Publication Year:
1982
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860541745
Paperback:
134pp, Includes 12 figures.
BAR number:
S143
Sub Title:
An examination of the archaeological and textual sources
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£35.00
Author:
Miranda J. Green
Publication Year:
1978
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860540328
Paperback:
144pp, Illustrated throughout.
BAR number:
B52
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£35.00
Author:
George Williams
Publication Year:
1988
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860545859
Paperback:
140pp, Includes illustrations, maps, plans.
BAR number:
B197
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£34.00
Author:
Raquel Martínez Romero
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9781407360171
Paperback:
106 pages
BAR number:
S3112
En este trabajo se analiza la relación entre los modos de vida y las herramientas líticas de dos yacimientos arqueológicos (‘El Trobal’ en Jerez de la... More
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£33.00
Author:
Eberhard Sauer
Publication Year:
1996
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548164
Paperback:
128pp, Illustrated throughout.
BAR number:
S634
Sub Title:
The example of the Mithras cult
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£33.00
Author:
Vykintas Vaitkevičius
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841713564
Paperback:
128pp, Includes black and white figures, maps
BAR number:
S1228
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£33.00
Author:
Kent D. Fowler
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716633
Paperback:
131pp. Includes 17 figures, maps, plans, drawings, 35 tables
BAR number:
S1314
This volumes applies the theory and methods developed in the study of mortuary remains by Americanist archaeologists to the earliest farming societies of... More
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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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£33.00
Editors:
Claudine Bautze-Picron
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303680
Paperback:
131pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
South Asian Archaeology 2007. Special Sessions, 1
BAR number:
S1888
The papers included here address various issues that reflect manifold ways of approaching study of the Buddha image. Most were presented... More
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Materializing Memory
Archaeological material culture and the semantics of the past
£33.00
Editors:
Irene Barbiera, Alice M. Choyke and Judith A. Rasson
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305097
Paperback:
135pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1977
Sub Title:
Archaeological material culture and the semantics of the past
This book includes papers based on a session presented at the 10th EAA conference in Lyon in 2004. More
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Continuity and Destruction in the Greek East
The Transformation of Monumental Space from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity
£33.00
Editors:
Sujatha Chandrasekaran and Anna Kouremenos
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407314297
Paperback:
110pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white and colour
BAR number:
S2765
Sub Title:
The Transformation of Monumental Space from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity
The papers included in this volume were presented at the 2011 international academic conference 'Continuity and Destruction in Alexander's East: the... 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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£33.00
Author:
Richard Lunniss
Publication Year:
2023
Language:
English, with chapter summaries in Spanish
ISBN:
9781407359953
Paperback:
108 pages
BAR number:
S3117
Sub Title:
A Reconstruction and Interpretation
The Late Formative site of Salango, on the central coast of Ecuador, functioned as a sacred centre of increasing influence from 600 BC to 100 BC. This... More
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Grave Matters
Eight studies of First Millennium AD burials in Crimea, England and southern Scandinavia. Papers from a session held at the European Association of Archaeologists Fourth Annual Meeting in Göteborg 1998
£32.00
Editors:
Martin Rundkvist
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841710013
Paperback:
121pp. Includes 63 figures and photographs.
BAR number:
S781
Sub Title:
Eight studies of First Millennium AD burials in Crimea, England and southern Scandinavia. Papers from a session held at the European Association of Archaeologists Fourth Annual Meeting in Göteborg 1998
Collection of eight papers which treat three different areas of study: Late Scythian cemeteries, Anglo-Saxon England and southern... More
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£32.00
Author:
Wolfram Grajetzki
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712864
Paperback:
122pp. Includes drawings, plans, tables, 8 black and white plates
BAR number:
S1007
The Middle Kingdom (c. 2000 - 1500 BC) is in many respects the classical period of ancient Egyptian history and culture. During the two... More
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£32.00
Editors:
Dragos Gheorghiu
Publication Year:
2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407300313
Paperback:
128pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1619
This volumes presents 13 papers based on a session held at the EAA meeting in St Petersburg in 2003, and offers a 'material' perception of fire, which will... More
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Memory and the Mountain
Environmental Relations of the Wachagga of Kilimanjaro and Implications for Landscape Archaeology
£32.00
Author:
Timothy A R Clack
Publication Year:
2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407301174
Paperback:
119pp, Includes 26 maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 3 Appendices
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 72
BAR number:
S1679
Sub Title:
Environmental Relations of the Wachagga of Kilimanjaro and Implications for Landscape Archaeology
This book considers the relationships between memory, experience and landscape from insights gained conducting ethnographic research; its... More
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Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Evolutionary Archaeology / Questions théorétiques et méthodologiques en archéologie évolutive
Toward an unified Darwinian paradigm / Vers un paradigme Darwinien unifié, Vol. 20, Session WS22
£32.00
Editors:
Hernán Juan Muscio and Gabriel Eduardo José López
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303987
Paperback:
121pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), 20
BAR number:
S1915
Sub Title:
Toward an unified Darwinian paradigm / Vers un paradigme Darwinien unifié, Vol. 20, Session WS22
This book includes papers from the session 'Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Evolutionary Archaeology' presented at the XV UISPP... More
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Symbolic Spaces in Prehistoric Art / Espaces symboliques dans l'art préhistorique
Territories, travels and site locations / Territoires, déplacements et localisation des sites
£32.00
Editors:
François Djindjian and Luiz Oosterbeek
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
French and English
ISBN:
9781407305332
Paperback:
129pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006)
BAR number:
S1999
Sub Title:
Territories, travels and site locations / Territoires, déplacements et localisation des sites
This book includes papers from the session (Vol. 40, Session C28) 'Symbolic Spaces in Prehistoric Art', presented at the XV UISPP World... More
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£32.00
Editors:
James Morris and Mark Maltby
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306384
Paperback:
123pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S2077
This volume is a collection of papers presented at the Association of Environmental Archaeologists conference in Exeter, 2006. The nine... More
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Egypt in its African Context
Proceedings of the Conference held at The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, 2-4 October 2009
£32.00
Editors:
Karen Exell
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307602
Paperback:
118pp. Illustrated in black and white
BAR number:
S2204
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the Conference held at The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, 2-4 October 2009
This volume forms the proceedings of the conference, Egypt in its African Context, which took place at The Manchester Museum, University... More
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£32.00
Author:
Kerry Muhlestein
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407308760
Paperback:
118pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2299
This book is hoped to be only the beginning of explorations of the ancient Egyptian notion of upholding Order (Ma'at) through violence.... More
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£32.00
Author:
Julia Seiber
Publication Year:
1977
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860540007
Paperback:
124pp, Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S37
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£31.00
Author:
I.M. Ferris, L. Bevan and R. Cuttler with contributions by A.S. Esmonde Cleary, A. Hammon, K. Hartley, C. Hewitson, T. Joyce, D.F. Mackreth, A. Monckton, R.S.O. Tomlin, D. Williams, S. Willis. Illustrations by M. Breedon and N. Dodds
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712055
Paperback:
112pp, Includes 34 figures, 15 tables, 16 plates
Sub-series name:
Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit Monograph Series, 3
BAR number:
B314
A summary of rescue excavations at the Romano-British Shrine site at Rocester, Staffordshire, dating from the late first to mid-second... More
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£31.00
Author:
Olaf Swarbrick
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309606
Paperback:
112pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
B558
A Gazetteer representing practical field observations of most of the prehistoric Standing Stones in Great Britain and some 'Other Stones'... More
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£31.00
Editors:
Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Brian W. Schneider
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311586
Paperback:
108pp. Includes 12 figures
BAR number:
B584
Since its establishment in 1985 the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies has regularly hosted international, interdisciplinary... More
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Una Fundación de Valencia (Hispania)
Antítesis de la tesis actual
£31.00
Author:
Miquel Ramon Marti Matias
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9781841717265
Paperback:
110pp. Includes black and white figures and plates
BAR number:
S1443
Sub Title:
Antítesis de la tesis actual
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Amun Temples in Nubia
A typological study of New Kingdom, Napatan and Meroitic Temples
£31.00
Author:
Caroline M. Rocheleau
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303376
Paperback:
111pp. Includes 3 tables, 42 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, Gazetteer of sites
BAR number:
S1850
Sub Title:
A typological study of New Kingdom, Napatan and Meroitic Temples
The aims of this study are to observe patterns in the spatial configuration of Egyptian and Kushite temples dedicated to Amun in Nubia;... More
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