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Rock-Art / Semiotics

£148.00
Author:
Mike Parker Pearson with Karen Godden, Ramilisonina, Retsihisatse, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Georges Heurtebize, Chantal Radimilahy and Helen Smith. With contributions by Irene de Luis, David Barker, Seth Priestman, Lucien Rakotozafy, Bako Rasoarifetra, Alan
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306803
Paperback:
768pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S2139
This book presents the results of archaeological research in the extreme south of Madagascar between 1991 and 2003, and provides a... More
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£133.00
Author:
Fernando Carrera Ramírez
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9781407307459
Paperback:
645pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white.
BAR number:
S2190
Sub Title:
Valoración, diagnóstico, conservación
The extensive work presented here takes a new look at the prehistoric art preserved on various megalithic monuments from the northwestern... 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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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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£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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£87.00
Editors:
Rodrigo de Balbín Behrmann, Primitiva Bueno Ramirez, Rafael González Antón and Carmen del Arco Aguilar
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English, Spanish and French
ISBN:
9781407306193
Paperback:
350pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, tables, photographs
BAR number:
S2043
A collection of papers on the rock carvings of the European and African Atlantic façade. More
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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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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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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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£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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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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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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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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£75.00
Editors:
Peter J. Parr with contributions by L. Barnetson, S. Campbell, L. Copeland, † P.G. Dorrell, J.A.J. Gowlett, C. Grigson, J. Hackman, L. Marfoe, V.T. Mathias, A.R. Millard, L. Moffett, P.J. Parr and C.S. Phillips
Publication Year:
2003
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841715070
Paperback:
298pp. Includes 14 chapters, well Illustrated with graphs, tables, drawings, maps, plans, photographs and diagrams.
BAR number:
S1134
This study looks at the settlement site of Arjourne, situated on a low rise overlooking the Orontes River just South of Lake Homs in... More
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£75.00
Editors:
Fanis Mavridis and Jesper Tae Jensen
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311791
Paperback:
361pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2558
This volume provides a welcome introduction to cave archaeology generally (or it may be used as a reader on aspects of cave research);... More
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In concavis petrarum habitaverunt
El fenómeno rupestre en el Mediterráneo Medieval: De la investigación a la puesta en valor
£75.00
Editors:
Jorge López Quiroga and Artemio Manuel Martínez Tejera
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
Spanish with English abstracts
ISBN:
9781407312194
Paperback:
374pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 A.D.) (SERIES ASLAEME), 4
BAR number:
S2591
Sub Title:
El fenómeno rupestre en el Mediterráneo Medieval: De la investigación a la puesta en valor
This fourth volume (Proceedings 4) presents the results of an international conference held at the Museo de los Orígenes (Casa de San... More
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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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£69.00
Editors:
P. Bueno Ramirez, E. Cerrillo Cuenca, A. Gonzalez Cordero
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English and Spanish
ISBN:
9781407307770
Paperback:
275pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2219
The convergence of a number of research groups with common interests in an area little favored by the traditional hypotheses of the... 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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Natural Processes in the Degradation of Open-Air Rock-Art Sites
An urgency intervention scale to inform conservation: The case of the Côa Valley world heritage site, Portugal
£68.00
Author:
António Pedro Martins da Mota Batarda Fernandes
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312408
Paperback:
335pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2609
Sub Title:
An urgency intervention scale to inform conservation: The case of the Côa Valley world heritage site, Portugal
Open-air rock-art forms one of the most widely distributed categories of prehistoric culture with examples recognized across the Old and... More
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£63.00
Editors:
Maggie Morrow, Mike Morrow, Tony Judd and Geoff Phillipson
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307107
Paperback:
254pp. Illustrated with hundreds of black and white photographs, accompanied by a CD.
BAR number:
S2166
Sub Title:
Site Catalogue
We are used to thinking of Egypt, ancient and modern, in terms of the Nile valley: well-watered, green and fertile, a narrow strip of... 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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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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Kay Pacha
Cultivating earth and water in the Andes
£62.00
Editors:
Penelope Dransart
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
English and Spanish
ISBN:
9781841719139
Paperback:
255pp. Illustrated throughout with tables, figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
BAR number:
S1478
Sub Title:
Cultivating earth and water in the Andes
This volume derives from a symposium held at the University of Wales, Lampeter, in April 1998. The 24 papers cover a wide range of... More
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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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£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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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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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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£60.00
Author:
J. D. Richards
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544395
Paperback:
260pp
BAR number:
B166
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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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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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Art du Paléolithique Supérieur et du Mésolithique / Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Art
Sessions générales et posters / General Sessions and Posters
£56.00
Editors:
le Secrétariat du Congrès
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English and French
ISBN:
9781841716602
Paperback:
223pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, tables and illustrations
Sub-series name:
Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Liège, Belgium, 2-8 September 2001, 8
BAR number:
S1311
Sub Title:
Sessions générales et posters / General Sessions and Posters
Art du Paléolithique Supérieur et du Mésolithique/Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Art. Section 8 of the Acts of the XIVth UISPP... More
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Occupation and Abandonment of Middle Bronze Age Zahrat adh-Dhra' 1, Jordan
The behavioural implications of quantitative ceramic analyses
£56.00
Author:
Ilya Berelov
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841719245
Paperback:
233pp. Includes 118 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 90 tables
BAR number:
S1493
Sub Title:
The behavioural implications of quantitative ceramic analyses
In his study of the inhabitants of Zahrat adh-Dhra' 1 on the Dead Sea Plain of Jordan, the author presents a behavioral study of a Bronze... More
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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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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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£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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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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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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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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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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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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£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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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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