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Rock-Art / Semiotics

¡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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£35.00
Author:
Richard Osgood
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548782
Paperback:
140pp, Includes various drawings, photographs and charts, one coloured plate.
BAR number:
S694
This study looks at a variety of evidence for warfare in the Late Bronze Age in North Europe: from revealing the evidence from actual combat damage... 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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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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£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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£60.00
Author:
J. D. Richards
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544395
Paperback:
260pp
BAR number:
B166
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The Rock Art of Ometepe Island, Nicaragua
Motif classification, quantification, and regional comparisons
£47.00
Author:
Suzanne M. Baker
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305608
Paperback:
181pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
Sub-series name:
Paris Monographs in American Archaeology, 25
BAR number:
S2084
Sub Title:
Motif classification, quantification, and regional comparisons
This study presents a motif classification, quantification, and regional comparisons for engraved rock art from the Maderas Volcano on... 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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£47.00
Author:
Marion Valerie Cutting
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841718712
Paperback:
185pp. Includes 33 tables, 70 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. Appendices of sites and data
BAR number:
S1435
Sub Title:
Household, community and the changing use of space
This research presents the qualitative and quantitative data collected from the architecture within ten Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic... 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 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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£32.00
Editors:
Emmanuel Anati, Luiz Oosterbeek, Federico Mailland
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English and French
ISBN:
9781407309477
Paperback:
119pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XVI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Florianopolis, Brazil, 4-10 September 2011), 1
BAR number:
S2360
Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Florianopolis, Brazil, 4-10 September 2011). More
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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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The Ecology and Evolution of Hominin Geographic Ranges
Setting a context for archaeological interpretation using comparative analysis
£47.00
Author:
Katharine MacDonald
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841719795
Paperback:
189pp. Includes 4 tables, 90 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. 5 data Appendices
BAR number:
S1550
Sub Title:
Setting a context for archaeological interpretation using comparative analysis
In this work the author uses an evolutionary and ecological approach to interpreting early hominin geographic ranges, specifically... More
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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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£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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£22.00
Author:
Mark G. Plew
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841718392
Paperback:
81pp. Includes 14 tables, 43 figures, maps, drawings, plans, photographs
BAR number:
S1400
This book is written for professional archaeologists, students of South American archaeology, heritage managers, museum staffs, and the... More
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£22.00
Editors:
Fernando Coimbra and Léo Dubal
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407302812
Paperback:
70pp, Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), 25
BAR number:
S1793
This book includes papers from the Symbolism in Rock Art session held at the XV UISPP World Congress, Lisbon, in September 2006. 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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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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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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£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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£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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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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