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Rock-Art / Semiotics

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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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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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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£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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£49.00
Editors:
Primitiva Bueno-Ramirez, Rosa Barroso-Bermejo and Rodrigo de Balbín-Berhmann
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English and Portuguese
ISBN:
9781407302546
Paperback:
198pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
BAR number:
S1765
The spectacular physical presence of the rock engravings of the International Tagus raised in the 1970s the need to explain the symbolic... 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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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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£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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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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£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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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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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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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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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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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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£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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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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£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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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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£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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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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£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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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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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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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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