Rock-Art / Semiotics

Chariots in Antiquity
Essays in Honour of Joost Crouwel
£98.00
Editors:
Peter Raulwing, Stefan Burmeister, Gail Brownrigg, and Katheryn M. Linduff
Publication Year:
2023
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407361178
Paperback:
338 pages, Illustrated throughout in black & white, and colour.
BAR number:
S3159
Sub Title:
Essays in Honour of Joost Crouwel
This volume of essays honours Joost Crouwel, a leading expert on wheeled transport in antiquity. The editors and contributors are internationally acclaimed... More
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Theatres of Imagery
A performance theory approach to rock art research
£61.00
Author:
David M. Witelson
Publication Year:
2023
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356198
Paperback:
224 pages, Illustrated throughout in b&w, and colour.
Sub-series name:
African Archaeology, 98
BAR number:
S3149
Sub Title:
A performance theory approach to rock art research
This monograph applies performance theory to rock paintings in the Stormberg mountains of South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province-a rich rock art area to the... More
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£60.00
Author:
Simon Radchenko
Publication Year:
2023
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407353852
Paperback:
228 pages, Illustrated throughout in black & white, and colour. Links to collection of fifteen 3D models.
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of Prehistoric Art, 6
BAR number:
S3143
Kamyana Mohyla is Ukraine's largest and most prominent rock art complex and is located at least one thousand kilometers from other comparable rock art... More
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Celtiform Pendants from Pre-Columbian Costa Rica
Production, distribution, and experimental replication
£50.00
Author:
Waka Kuboyama-Haraikawa
Publication Year:
2023
Language:
English, with an abstract in Spanish
ISBN:
9781407314969
Paperback:
168 pages
BAR number:
S3138
Sub Title:
Production, distribution, and experimental replication
This volume elucidates the lapidary technologies and social organisation of pre-Columbian Costa Rica (500 BCE - 900 CE) by analysing the manufacturing and... More
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Rock Art Research in the Digital Era
Case Studies from the 20th International Rock Art Congress IFRAO 2018, Valcamonica (Italy)
£47.00
Editors:
Miguel Carrero-Pazos, Rebecca Döhl, Julian Jansen van Rensburg, Paolo Medici, Alia Vázquez-Martínez
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407360119
Paperback:
164 pages, Illustrated throughout in black & white, and colour.
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of Prehistoric Art, 5
BAR number:
S3098
Sub Title:
Case Studies from the 20th International Rock Art Congress IFRAO 2018, Valcamonica (Italy)
Rock Art Research in the Digital Era covers the research presented at the 20th International Rock Art Congress (IFRAO) held in Darfo Boario Terme,... 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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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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Ein heiliger Ort in der Ostwüste
Beitrag zur altägyptischen Religion am Beispiel eines Hirtenbildes
£40.00
Author:
Hartwig Hartmann
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
German
ISBN:
9781407359298
Paperback:
140 pages, Illustrated throughout. 39 figures.
BAR number:
S3086
Sub Title:
Beitrag zur altägyptischen Religion am Beispiel eines Hirtenbildes
Seit der 5. Dynastie wird die Geburt eines Kälbchens und dessen Säugung auf den Wandreliefs altägyptischer Gräber dargestellt. Auch Grabbeigaben und... 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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¡El Yunque se levanta!
Interdisciplinarity and activism at the La Mina petroglyph site
£37.00
Author:
Rhianna C. Rogers, James Schuetz and Rex Cauldwell
Publication Year:
2021
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356433
Paperback:
120 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 87 figures and 8 tables.
BAR number:
S3019
Sub Title:
Interdisciplinarity and activism at the La Mina petroglyph site
Archaeologists consider Puerto Rico a key geographical location for categorizing native occupations in the Caribbean. However, lack of funding, minimal... More
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Shepherds Who Write
Pastoral graffiti in the uplands of Europe from prehistory to the modern age
£69.00
Editors:
Marta Bazzanella and Giovanni Kezich
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407357140
Paperback:
256 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 7 tables, 228 figures.
BAR number:
S2999
Sub Title:
Pastoral graffiti in the uplands of Europe from prehistory to the modern age
In a number of significant sites of the vast ancient pasturelands of the Old World, generations of wandering shepherds have left their testimony in the form... 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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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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Design and Connectivity
The Case of Atlantic Rock Art
£63.00
Author:
Joana Valdez-Tullett
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407316628
Paperback:
286 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 172 figures (31 in colour), 61 graphs (39 in colour). With additional material online (figures and graphs).
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of Prehistoric Art, 1
BAR number:
S2932
Sub Title:
The Case of Atlantic Rock Art
Atlantic Rock Art is a rock art tradition which includes emblematic motifs such as cup-marks, cup-and-rings and lines, known to several countries on the... More
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£78.00
Author:
Roberto Basilico and Giovanni Beltramelli
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
Italian
ISBN:
9781407356419
Paperback:
406 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 204 figures
Sub-series name:
Hypogean Archaeology: Research and Documentation of Underground Structures, 13
BAR number:
S2924
Nel territorio dell'Alto Lario, zona settentrionale del Lago di Como, vi è una diffusa e importante presenza di incisioni rupestri schematiche e figurative.... More
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Equids and Wheeled Vehicles in the Ancient World
Essays in Memory of Mary A. Littauer
£59.00
Editors:
Peter Raulwing, Katheryn M. Linduff and Joost H. Crouwel
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407316437
Paperback:
232 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 261 figures (80 in colour), 19 tables.
BAR number:
S2923
Sub Title:
Essays in Memory of Mary A. Littauer
The essays in this volume were originally presented at a symposium in honour of Mary Aiken Littauer, la grande dame de l’hippologie ancienne. The papers... More
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Mucho más que barcos
Una aproximación teórica a las funciones, capacidades náuticas, bases materiales y dimensión social de la tecnología naval prehistórica
£35.00
Author:
Julián Moyano Di Carlo
Publication Year:
2018
Language:
Spanish with a 6 pg English summary
ISBN:
9781407316543
Paperback:
123 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 6 tables, 67 figures (1 in colour), 2 colour graphs
BAR number:
S2901
Sub Title:
Una aproximación teórica a las funciones, capacidades náuticas, bases materiales y dimensión social de la tecnología naval prehistórica
Este trabajo pretende convertirse en un modelo teórico que sirva de sustento a un proyecto de investigación futuro sobre tecnología naval prehistórica.... More
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Recorded Places, Experienced Places
The Holocene rock art of the Iberian Atlantic north-west
£63.00
Editors:
Ana M. S. Bettencourt, Manuel Santos Estevez, Hugo A. Sampaio and Daniela Cardoso
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407314846
Paperback:
222 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 122 figures (35 in colour), 3 tables (2 in colour)
BAR number:
S2878
Sub Title:
The Holocene rock art of the Iberian Atlantic north-west
This book springs from the compilation of papers and posters presented in 2013 and 2014 at the 2nd and 3rd Enardas Colloquia, entitled ‘Living Places,... More
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Espacio gráfico, visibilidad y tránsito cavernario / Graphic Space, Visibility and Cave Transit
El uso de las cavidades con arte paleolítico en la Región Cantábrica / The use of caves with Palaeolithic art in the Cantabrian region
£115.00
Author:
Blanca Ochoa
Publication Year:
2017
Language:
Spanish with partial English translation/summary
ISBN:
9781407316154
Paperback:
480 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 416 figures (292 in colour). Includes an Annexe of numeric dates.
BAR number:
S2875
Sub Title:
El uso de las cavidades con arte paleolítico en la Región Cantábrica / The use of caves with Palaeolithic art in the Cantabrian region
El punto de partida es definir si existen convergencias o divergencias en el posicionamiento del arte parietal a través del estudio combinado del arte... 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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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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£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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£92.00
Author:
Cl. Barrière avec la collaboration du Ali Sahly et des élèves de l'Institut d'Art Préhistorique de Toulouse. Translated by W.A. Drapkin
Publication Year:
1976
Language:
French text with English translations
ISBN:
9780904531473
Paperback:
454pp. Two volume set, Illustrated throughout, 144 figures. With additional material online (Parts i and ii: foldouts of figures).
Sub-series name:
Mémoires de l'Institut d'Art Préhistorique de Toulouse, 3
BAR number:
S14
Ce volume fait partie d'un ensemble de deux volumes: ISBN 9781407387376 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407387383 (Volume II); ISBN 9780904531473 (Ensemble des deux... More
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The Mousterian Legacy
Human Biocultural Change in the Upper Pleistocene
£53.00
Editors:
Erik Trinkaus
Publication Year:
1983
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542094
Paperback:
234pp, Illustrated throughout, figures.
BAR number:
S164
Sub Title:
Human Biocultural Change in the Upper Pleistocene
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Frontiers
Southern African Archaeology Today
£81.00
Editors:
M. Hall, G. Avery, D. M. Avery, M. L. Wilson and A. J. B. Humphreys
Publication Year:
1984
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542681
Paperback:
394pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliographies
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 10
BAR number:
S207
Sub Title:
Southern African Archaeology Today
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Papers in Italian Archaeology IV
The Cambridge Conference. Part ii: Prehistory
£74.00
Editors:
Caroline Malone and Simon Stoddart
Publication Year:
1985
Language:
English and Italian
ISBN:
9780860543138
Paperback:
332pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliographies
BAR number:
S244
Sub Title:
The Cambridge Conference. Part ii: Prehistory
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Symbolic Notation of Teotihuacan
Elements of writing in a Mesoamerican culture of the Classic period
£77.00
Author:
James C. Langley
Publication Year:
1986
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544005
Paperback:
370pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p341-355
BAR number:
S313
Sub Title:
Elements of writing in a Mesoamerican culture of the Classic period
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£77.00
Author:
Alfred Muzzolini
Publication Year:
1986
Language:
French
ISBN:
9780860544067
Paperback:
372pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p335-345. Index.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 16
BAR number:
S318
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£45.00
Author:
Anthony Manhire
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544548
Paperback:
198pp, Includes illustrations in black and white, maps.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 21
BAR number:
S351
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L'art rupestre du Fezzan septentrional (Libye)
Widyan Zreda et Tarut (Wadi esh-Shati)
£86.00
Author:
Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
French
ISBN:
9780860544739
Paperback:
418pp
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 22
BAR number:
S365
Sub Title:
Widyan Zreda et Tarut (Wadi esh-Shati)
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£56.00
Author:
Bryan C. Gordon
Publication Year:
1988
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860545040
Paperback:
246pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p104-143
BAR number:
S390
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£62.00
Author:
Arthur Segal
Publication Year:
1988
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860545422
Paperback:
272pp
BAR number:
S420
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The Eagle, the Cactus, the Rock
The Roots of Mexico-Tenochtitlan's Foundation Myth and Symbol
£41.00
Author:
Doris Heyden
Publication Year:
1989
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860546214
Paperback:
176pp
BAR number:
S484
Sub Title:
The Roots of Mexico-Tenochtitlan's Foundation Myth and Symbol
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Approaches to Swedish Prehistory
A spectrum of problems and perspectives in contemporary research
£83.00
Editors:
Thomas B. Larsson and Hans Lundmark
Publication Year:
1989
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860546412
Paperback:
400pp
BAR number:
S500
Sub Title:
A spectrum of problems and perspectives in contemporary research
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£62.00
Author:
Serra Durugönül
Publication Year:
1989
Language:
German
ISBN:
9780860546528
Paperback:
270pp, Includes illustrations in black and white, 1 map.
BAR number:
S511
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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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£53.00
Author:
Jesus Ruiz Cobo and Peter Smith with the collaboration of Mᵃ Teresa Aparicio, Magdalena Barril Vicente, Pedro Mᵃ Castaños Ugarte, Juan Corrin, Carmelo Fernández Ibañez, Antxoka Martínez Velasco and Antonio Sánchez Marco
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841711836
Paperback:
232pp
BAR number:
S975
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Pictish Studies
Settlement, Burial and Art in Dark Age Northern Britain
£53.00
Editors:
J.G.P. Friell and W.G. Watson
Publication Year:
1984
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542629
Paperback:
230pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliographies and index.
BAR number:
B125
Sub Title:
Settlement, Burial and Art in Dark Age Northern Britain
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£60.00
Author:
J. D. Richards
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544395
Paperback:
260pp
BAR number:
B166
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Four-Posters
Bronze Age Stone Circles of Western Europe
£55.00
Author:
Aubrey Burl
Publication Year:
1988
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860545804
Paperback:
238pp
BAR number:
B195
Sub Title:
Bronze Age Stone Circles of Western Europe
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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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Military Equipment and the Identity of Roman Soldiers
Proceedings of the Fourth Roman Military Equipment Conference
£77.00
Editors:
J. C. Coulston
Publication Year:
1988
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860545088
Paperback:
354pp
BAR number:
S394
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the Fourth Roman Military Equipment Conference
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Styles, techniques et expression graphique dans l'art sur paroi rocheuse (Styles, Techniques and Graphic Expression in Rock Art)
Proceedings of Session A11d of the 17th World Congress of the IUPPS (Actes de la session A11d du 17e Congrés mondial de l’UISPP) (Burgos 1-7 September 2014)
£60.00
Editors:
Marc Groenen and Marie-Christine Groenen
Publication Year:
2016
Language:
English and French
ISBN:
9781407314464
Paperback:
226pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white: 1 table, 174 figures (including 103 black and white photographs and 5 colour photographs)
BAR number:
S2787
Sub Title:
Proceedings of Session A11d of the 17th World Congress of the IUPPS (Actes de la session A11d du 17e Congrés mondial de l’UISPP) (Burgos 1-7 September 2014)
Research on rock art conducted during the last several decades has shown the skill and knowledge demonstrated by the painters, engravers and sculptors who... More
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£55.00
Author:
Christine Chataigner
Publication Year:
1995
Language:
French
ISBN:
9780860548058
Paperback:
240pp
Sub-series name:
Maison de l’Orient Méditerranéen
BAR number:
S624
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Gardens of Italy and the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire
Empire From the 4th century BC to the 4th century AD
£31.00
Author:
Linda Farrar
Publication Year:
1996
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548379
Paperback:
111pp. Includes 36 figures and 44 colour plates.
BAR number:
S650
Sub Title:
Empire From the 4th century BC to the 4th century AD
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The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in Central Europe
The record from the Bükk Mountain region
£47.00
Author:
Brian Adams
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548775
Paperback:
187pp. Includes numerous line drawings, tables, maps and 10 black and white photographs.
BAR number:
S693
Sub Title:
The record from the Bükk Mountain region
The book explores the issue of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Central Europe. The data sets used to investigate the... More
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£39.00
Author:
Maria M. Van der Ryst
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548935
Paperback:
168pp, Includes 37 figures and 5 photographs
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 43
BAR number:
S715
The aim of this book is firstly to establish chronology of Later Stone Age settlement in Waterber plateau and secondly to investigate the particular... More
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Cavidades en Extremadura (España)
Patrimonio natural y arqueológico
£23.00
Author:
Milagros Algaba Suárez, Hipólito Collado Giraldo and José María Fernández Valdés
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9781841711225
Paperback:
82pp
BAR number:
S826
Sub Title:
Patrimonio natural y arqueológico
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