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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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Miscellania
Theory, Rock Art and Heritage
£31.00
Editors:
Luiz Oosterbeek and Cláudia Fidalgo
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English with 1 paper in Spanish
ISBN:
9781407313016
Paperback:
98pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XVI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Florianopolis, Brazil, 4-10 September 2011), 11
BAR number:
S2659
Sub Title:
Theory, Rock Art and Heritage
This volume brings together several papers delivered in different sessions that, for various reasons, were not completely published. Four... More
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Archaeology, Societies and Environments in Africa
£23.00
Editors:
Luiz Oosterbeek, Abdoulaye Camara and Cristina Martins
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English and French
ISBN:
9781407312972
Paperback:
74pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XVI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Florianopolis, Brazil, 4-10 September 2011), 7
BAR number:
S2655
African Prehistory is at the core of UISPP concerns, namely due to its crucial role to understand the origins and evolution of humans,... More
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Neolithic and Copper Age Monuments
Emergence, function and the social construction of the landscape
£46.00
Editors:
Bettina Schulz Paulsson and Bisserka Gaydarska
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312606
Paperback:
164pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white & colour
BAR number:
S2625
Sub Title:
Emergence, function and the social construction of the landscape
The Neolithic and Copper age monuments in Europe, consisting of stone temples and circles, standing stones, henge monuments, long... 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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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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Ahlat 2008
Seconda campagna di indagini sulle strutture rupestri / Second campaign of surveys on the underground structures
£43.00
Editors:
Roberto Bixio, Andrea De Pascale and Nakis Karamagarali
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English and Italian
ISBN:
9781407311814
Paperback:
173pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2560
Sub Title:
Seconda campagna di indagini sulle strutture rupestri / Second campaign of surveys on the underground structures
Since 1991, the Centro Studi Sotterranei of Genoa has conducted the exploration, survey and documentation of rock-cut and underground... More
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Stable Places and Changing Perceptions: Cave Archaeology in Greece
£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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Desert Boats
Predynastic and Pharaonic Era Rock-Art in Egypt’s Central Eastern Desert: Distribution, dating and interpretation
£41.00
Author:
Francis Lankester
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311647
Paperback:
155pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2544
Sub Title:
Predynastic and Pharaonic Era Rock-Art in Egypt’s Central Eastern Desert: Distribution, dating and interpretation
The aim of this study is to explore the rock-art of the Central Eastern Desert and has three objectives: to outline the petroglyphs'... More
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Expressions esthétiques et comportements techniques au Paléolithique / Aesthetic Expressions and Technical Behaviours in the Palaeolithic Age
£43.00
Editors:
Marc Groenen
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
French
ISBN:
9781407311128
Paperback:
151pp, 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)
BAR number:
S2496
This book is the result of two symposia from the 16th World Congress of the IUPPS (Florianópolis, Brazil, 4-10 September 2011): 'The... More
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Rock Art in the Americas: Mythology, Cosmogony and Rituals
Proceedings of the 2nd REEA Conference Ritual Americas: Configurations and Recombining of the Ritual Devices and Behaviors in the New World, in Historical and Contemporary Societies Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) April 2-5, 2008
£39.00
Editors:
Françoise Fauconnier and Serge Lemaitre
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English and Spanish
ISBN:
9781407310527
Paperback:
138pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2448
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the 2nd REEA Conference Ritual Americas: Configurations and Recombining of the Ritual Devices and Behaviors in the New World, in Historical and Contemporary Societies Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) April 2-5, 2008
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Of Things Gone but not Forgotten
Essays in archaeology for Joan Taylor
£46.00
Editors:
J.R. Trigg
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310336
Paperback:
181pp. Includes illustrations in black and white
BAR number:
S2434
Sub Title:
Essays in archaeology for Joan Taylor
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The Intellectual and Spiritual Expression of Non-Literate Societies
£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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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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From the Origins: The Prehistory of the Inner Tagus Region
£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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El arte parietal en monumentos megalíticos del Noroeste Ibérico
Valoración, diagnóstico, conservación
£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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Pictures in Transformation
Rock Art Research between Central Asia and the Subcontinent
£29.00
Editors:
Luca Maria Olivieri in collaboration with Laurianne Bruneau and Marco Ferrandi
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307114
Paperback:
91pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
South Asian Archaeology 2007. Special Sessions, 2
BAR number:
S2167
Sub Title:
Rock Art Research between Central Asia and the Subcontinent
This book presents papres given at the “Pictures in Transformation. Rock Art Research between Central Asia and the Subcontinent”... More
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Desert RATS: Rock Art Topographical Survey in Egypt's Eastern Desert
Site Catalogue
£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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Links between Megalithism and Hypogeism in Western Mediterranean Europe
£39.00
Editors:
Juan Antonio Cámara Serrano, José Andrés Afonso Marrero and Liliana Spanedda
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English and Italian
ISBN:
9781407306926
Paperback:
156pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2151
Among other objectives, this collection of papers investigates the role that settlements surrounding necropolises have played in the... More
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Pastoralists, Warriors and Colonists: The Archaeology of Southern Madagascar
£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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Methods of art history tested against prehistory: session C74. Spiral and circular forms: the most common rock art in the world?: session C81. European cave art: session C85. Euro-Mediterranean rock art studies: session S02. Global state of the art: sessi
£48.00
Editors:
Marc Groenen and Didier Martens (C74), Jane Kolb
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306490
Paperback:
187pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), 35
BAR number:
S2108
The complete title of BAR S2108 is 'Methods of art history tested against prehistory: session C74. Spiral and circular forms: the most... More
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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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Mysterious Cup Marks
Proceedings of the First International Cupule Conference
£32.00
Editors:
Roy Querejazu Lewis and Robert G. Bednarik
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306346
Paperback:
129pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S2073
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the First International Cupule Conference
This book includes papers from the International Cupule Conference held in Cochabamba, central Bolivia, from 17 to 23 July 2007. More
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Grabados rupestres de la fachada atlántica europea y africana / Rock Carvings of the European and African Atlantic Façade
£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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