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Theory and Method (general titles)

£43.00
Author:
S. L. McGowen
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306506
Paperback:
173pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans and figures. Catalogue
BAR number:
S2109
This study examines Roman sculpture across the provinces extending from the Rhine to the Pyrenees and Britain to understand better both... More
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£38.00
Author:
Guy D. Middleton
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306513
Paperback:
148pp. Illustrated with maps, plans and figures.
BAR number:
S2110
This monograph deals with the destruction and disappearance of the palaces and palace societies of Late Bronze Age or Mycenaean Greece... More
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The Conservation of Archaeological Materials
Current trends and future directions
£63.00
Editors:
Emily Williams and Claire Peachey
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306575
Paperback:
255pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2116
Sub Title:
Current trends and future directions
The genesis for this conference, and its subsequent proceedings, came from discussions held in the newly formed Archaeological Discussion... More
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From Tribe to Province to State
A historical-ethnographic and archaeological perspective for reinterpreting the settlement processes of the Germanic populations in Western Europe between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
£83.00
Author:
Paolo de Vingo
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306582
Paperback:
332pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans and figures
BAR number:
S2117
Sub Title:
A historical-ethnographic and archaeological perspective for reinterpreting the settlement processes of the Germanic populations in Western Europe between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
This study focuses on the diversity with which early medieval society formed not only among macro European zones but also within... More
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Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Miniature Figures in Eurasia, Africa and Meso-America
Morphology, materiality, technology, function and context
£41.00
Editors:
Dragos Gheorghiu and Ann Cyphers
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306797
Paperback:
164pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S2138
Sub Title:
Morphology, materiality, technology, function and context
The present volume is mainly the result of two symposia held at the European Archaeological Association meetings in Krakow (2006) and... More
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£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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The Western Roman Atlantic Façade
A Study of the Economy and Trade in the Mar Exterior from the Republic to the Principate
£76.00
Editors:
C.Carreras and R. Morais
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307060
Paperback:
304pp. Illustrated throughout.
BAR number:
S2162
Sub Title:
A Study of the Economy and Trade in the Mar Exterior from the Republic to the Principate
This book has attempted to collect evidence of the lively trade in the Atlantic from the 1st century BC up to 1st century AD, when the... More
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£32.00
Editors:
Jaime Almansa Sánchez
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
Spanish with abstracts and introduction in English.
ISBN:
9781407307121
Paperback:
119pp. Illustrated in black and white throughout.
BAR number:
S2168
This volume is a collection of papers given at a session at the JIA 2009 conference. The thread of the contributions focuses on two... More
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Stone Age Traditions of Meghalaya
A study of variation and continuity
£39.00
Author:
Abdullah Ali Ashraf
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307206
Paperback:
158pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
South Asian Archaeology Series, 12
BAR number:
S2176
Sub Title:
A study of variation and continuity
Human adaptation in relation to northeast India is relatively unknown; various general aspects have been studied and usually interpreted... More
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£40.00
Editors:
Maurizio Forte
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307213
Paperback:
162pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2177
This book collects articles from two different workshops organized in 2009 and 2010. The TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group) Conference... More
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Archaeological Invisibility and Forgotten Knowledge
Conference Proceedings, ?ód?, Poland, 5th–7th September 2007
£54.00
Editors:
Karen Hardy
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307336
Paperback:
214pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2183
Sub Title:
Conference Proceedings, ?ód?, Poland, 5th–7th September 2007
This World Archaeological Congress Inter-Congress was held at the University of Lódz, Poland in September 2007. One of the conference... More
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£48.00
Editors:
Simona Scarcella
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307480
Paperback:
177pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2193
This publication originated during a session organized for the 15th European Archaeologist Conference, held in Riva del Garda (Trento -... More
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Understanding the Past: A Matter of Surface-Area
Acts of the XIIIth Session of the EAA Congress, Zadar 2007
£45.00
Editors:
Geertrui Blancquaert, François Malrain, Harald Stäuble and Jan Vanmoerkerke
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307497
Paperback:
162pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2194
Sub Title:
Acts of the XIIIth Session of the EAA Congress, Zadar 2007
Resulting from one of the EAA 2007 sessions 'Large scale territorial development and connected archaeological investigations: methodology... More
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The Technological Study of Books and Manuscripts as Artefacts
Research questions and analytical solutions
£29.00
Editors:
Sarah Neate, David Howell, Richard Ovenden and A.M. Pollard
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307671
Paperback:
109pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2209
Sub Title:
Research questions and analytical solutions
The book (in this context any portable object whose prime purpose is to convey documentary information, including both images and text)... More
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Rethinking the Indus
A comparative re-evaluation of the Indus Civilisation as an alternative paradigm in the organisation and structure of early complex societies
£74.00
Author:
Edward Cork
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307718
Paperback:
295pp. Includes 218 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 13 tables
BAR number:
S2213
Sub Title:
A comparative re-evaluation of the Indus Civilisation as an alternative paradigm in the organisation and structure of early complex societies
In many ways, we are presented today with a situation much like that described for Indus Civilisation studies in the 1960s: a particular... More
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£61.00
Author:
Louise Calder
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307831
Paperback:
242pp, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
Sub-series name:
Beazley Archive - Studies in Classical Archaeology, 5
BAR number:
S2225
This study examines Greek archaeological and literary evidence between 600 and 300 BC, to discover how ancient Greeks regarded,... More
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£46.00
Author:
Christopher Thomas Green
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307961
Paperback:
165pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2234
Archaeology is fundamentally concerned with both space and time: dates, chronologies, stratigraphy, plans and maps are all routinely used... More
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Early Iron Age Pottery: A Quantitative Approach
Proceedings of the International Round Table organized by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (Athens, November 28-30, 2008)
£48.00
Editors:
Samuel Verdan, Thierry Theurillat and Anne Kenzelmann Pfyffer
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407308210
Paperback:
175pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2254
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the International Round Table organized by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (Athens, November 28-30, 2008)
Quantitative approaches in ceramology are gaining ground in excavation reports, archaeological publications and thematic studies. Hence,... More
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When did Antiquity End?
The Proceedings of an International Seminar held at the University of Trento on April 29-30, 2005 on Late Antique Societies, Religion, Pottery and Trade in Germania, Northern Africa, Greece, and Asia Minor
£47.00
Editors:
Redha Attoui
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English, Italian and French
ISBN:
9781407308395
Paperback:
169pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2268
Sub Title:
The Proceedings of an International Seminar held at the University of Trento on April 29-30, 2005 on Late Antique Societies, Religion, Pottery and Trade in Germania, Northern Africa, Greece, and Asia Minor
This book includes papers from an International Seminar held at the University of Trento on April 29-30, 2005. More
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New Approaches to the Study of Surface Palaeolithic Artefacts
A pilot project at Zebra River, Western Namibia
£90.00
Author:
Terry Hardaker
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407308449
Paperback:
364pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, data Appendices
BAR number:
S2270
Sub Title:
A pilot project at Zebra River, Western Namibia
This study of Palaeolithic Africa, an interim report, describes a large number of sites in the region of the Zebra River, Western... More
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Arqueología ambiental del Holoceno Temprano y Medio en la Puna Seca argentina
Modelos paleoambientales multi-escalas y sus implicancias para la arqueología de cazadores-recolectores
£69.00
Author:
Marcelo R. Morales
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
Spanish with abstracts in English and French
ISBN:
9781407308722
Paperback:
273pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
South American Archaeology Series, 15
BAR number:
S2295
Sub Title:
Modelos paleoambientales multi-escalas y sus implicancias para la arqueología de cazadores-recolectores
The research presented in this volume seeks to build a series of qualitative and quantitative multi-scale paleoenvironmental models of... More
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£84.00
Author:
Andrea Moreno Martín
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
Spanish with English abstract
ISBN:
9781407308753
Paperback:
337pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2298
Normally, in Archaeology, material culture tends to be the main object of study for past societies, especially those who have no written... More
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£25.00
Author:
Hans-Christian Grassman
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
German with English abstract
ISBN:
9781407308920
Paperback:
64pp. Includes 36 figures some in colour
BAR number:
S2309
Sub Title:
Erklärungen und Berechnungen
The author of this technical study, an engineer and specialist in industrial heating systems, developed this work from his interest in... More
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Geospatial Analysis and Data Integration for Cultural Resources Evaluation
A collection of articles on analytical geomatics and their applications
£29.00
Author:
Agata Lo Tauro
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407308968
Paperback:
103pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2313
Sub Title:
A collection of articles on analytical geomatics and their applications
A collection of articles on the use of analytical methods in studies concerning geospatial analysis and data integration for cultural... More
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Hidden Landscapes of Mediterranean Europe
Cultural and methodological biases in pre- and protohistoric landscape studi
£75.00
Editors:
Martijn van Leusen, Giovanna Pizziolo and Lucia Sarti
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309033
Paperback:
296pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2320
Sub Title:
Cultural and methodological biases in pre- and protohistoric landscape studi
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Theoretical and Methodological Considerations in Central European Neolithic Archaeology
Proceedings of the ‘Theory and Method in Archaeology of the Neolithic (7th - 3rd millennium BC)’ conference held in Mikulov, Czech Republic, 26th – 28th of October 2010
£41.00
Editors:
Jan Kolár and František Trampota
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309088
Paperback:
131pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2325
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the ‘Theory and Method in Archaeology of the Neolithic (7th - 3rd millennium BC)’ conference held in Mikulov, Czech Republic, 26th – 28th of October 2010
This book presents the proceedings of the 'Theory and Method in Archaeology of the Neolithic (7th - 3rd millennium BC)' conference held... 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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Modern Materials
The proceedings of CHAT Oxford, 2009
£38.00
Editors:
Brent Fortenberry & Laura McAtackney
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309507
Paperback:
135pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
Contemporary and Historical Archaeology, 8
BAR number:
S2363
Sub Title:
The proceedings of CHAT Oxford, 2009
This, the eighth volume in the series, brings together papers from the seventh CHAT Conference (2009), held at Keble College, Oxford on... More
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Settlement Patterns, Production and Trades from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages
ARCHAEDYN: 7 Millennia of Territorial Dynamics. Final Conference University of Burgundy, Dijon, 23-25 June 2008
£26.00
Editors:
Cristina Gandini, François Favory and Laure Nuninger
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309576
Paperback:
83pp. Illustrated throughout with colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2370
Sub Title:
ARCHAEDYN: 7 Millennia of Territorial Dynamics. Final Conference University of Burgundy, Dijon, 23-25 June 2008
This volume presents the contributions of the four workgroups involved in the collective research programme entitled 'ArchaeDyn. Spatial... More
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£124.00
Editors:
Guido Vannini and Michele Nucciotti
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
Italian, English and French
ISBN:
9781407309781
Paperback:
497pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
Limina/Limites: Archaeologies, histories, islands and borders in the Mediterranean (365-1556), 1
BAR number:
S2386
Volume 1 of a new BAR series entitled 'Limina/Limites: Archaeologies, histories, islands and borders in the Mediterranean (365-1556)'... More
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£40.00
Author:
Per Ditlef Fredriksen
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309798
Paperback:
147pp, Includes 35 figures, 5 tables
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 80
BAR number:
S2387
The two key themes in this work are 1) the meeting between knowledges about the material world, and 2) the intimate relationships between... More
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N-TAG TEN
Proceedings of the 10th Nordic TAG conference at Stiklestad, Norway 2009
£77.00
Editors:
Ragnhild Berge, Marek E. Jasinski and Kalle Sognnes
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309941
Paperback:
309pp. Illustrated in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2399
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the 10th Nordic TAG conference at Stiklestad, Norway 2009
This book includes papers from N-TAG TEN, the Proceedings of the 10th Nordic TAG conference at Stiklestad, Norway 2009. More
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£45.00
Editors:
Fernando López Sánchez
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309972
Paperback:
176pp. Illustrated throughout.
BAR number:
S2402
Cities have tended throughout history to be the preferred location for the minting and circulation of coins and coinage has in turn... More
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£36.00
Editors:
Ben Jervis and Alison Kyle
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310060
Paperback:
127pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2408
This volume derives from a session held at the 2010 Theoretical Archaeology Group conference (Bristol University). The aims of this... More
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£29.00
Editors:
Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw and Eleni Stefanou
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310077
Paperback:
107pp. Includes 9 illustrations
BAR number:
S2409
The idea for this volume emerged from critical self-reflection about diverse archaeological practices in a session presented at the 13th... More
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£36.00
Editors:
Juan F. Gibaja, António F. Carvalho and Philippe Chambon
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310152
Paperback:
131pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2417
With this book the contributors review funerary practices from the Mesolithic to the Chalcolithic in the Western Mediterranean, more... More
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Butua and the End of an Era
The effect of the collapse of the Kalanga state on ordinary citizens. An analysis of behaviour under stress
£98.00
Author:
Catharina van Waarden
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310190
Paperback:
393pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 82
BAR number:
S2420
Sub Title:
The effect of the collapse of the Kalanga state on ordinary citizens. An analysis of behaviour under stress
The Kalanga state Butua, which had dominated the Zimbabwe plateau (south central Africa) for four centuries, collapsed in the 1830s due... More
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Living in the Suburbs of Roman Italy
Space and social contact
£89.00
Author:
Geoff W. Adams
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310534
Paperback:
354pp. Includes 67 tables, 137 graphs, 8 maps, 143 figures
BAR number:
S2449
Sub Title:
Space and social contact
The central focus of this research (covering the period from the middle of the Second Century BC to the middle or late Second Century AD)... More
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Computer-Generated 3D-Visualisations in Archaeology
Between added value and deception
£66.00
Author:
Joyce Wittur
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310718
Paperback:
297pp. Illustrated throughout. With additional material online (hyperlinks).
BAR number:
S2463
Sub Title:
Between added value and deception
This study is primarily concerned with computer-generated reconstruction models of architecture. It offers a collection of possible... More
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£59.00
Author:
Shadia Taha
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310893
Paperback:
225pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2477
At present scantily populated, Suakin was the most prominent port on the Red Sea coast from the fifteenth century to the beginning of the... More
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£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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Anneaux et cultures du Néolithique ancien
Production, circulation et utilisation entre massifs ardennais et armoricain
£121.00
Author:
Nicolas Fromont
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
French with English summary
ISBN:
9781407311159
Paperback:
723pp. Includes 591 figures, 408 tables, 61 Appendices
BAR number:
S2499
Sub Title:
Production, circulation et utilisation entre massifs ardennais et armoricain
In this extensive research, the author's petrographical, technological, typological and use-wear studies of arm rings/bands from the... More
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Animals and Otherness in the Middle Ages
Perspectives across disciplines
£41.00
Editors:
Francisco de Asís García García, Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo and María Victoria Chico Picaza
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311166
Paperback:
159pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2500
Sub Title:
Perspectives across disciplines
This publication has its origin in the colloquium Animals and Otherness in the Middle Ages held at the Faculty of Geography and History... More
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£31.00
Author:
Annalisa Tasso
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
Italian with English abstract
ISBN:
9781407311425
Paperback:
104pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2524
This work focuses on the persistence of the 'Gates of Hades' iconographic theme among the peoples of the ancient Mediterranean. The... More
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£91.00
Author:
Jaume Garcia Rosselló and Manuel Calvo Trias
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
Spanish with English abstract
ISBN:
9781407311609
Paperback:
497pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2540
This book analyses the technological process of ceramic moulding. To this end, the work is organised into four sections: The first... More
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Models of Mesopotamian Landscapes
How small-scale processes contributed to the growth of early civilizations
£61.00
Editors:
T.J. Wilkinson, McGuire Gibson and Magnus Widell
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311739
Paperback:
291pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white and in colour
BAR number:
S2552
Sub Title:
How small-scale processes contributed to the growth of early civilizations
This volume demonstrates how models can contribute to an understanding of the development of ancient Mesopotamian settlement and... More
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£60.00
Author:
Martin Bommas
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
German
ISBN:
9781407311838
Paperback:
283pp. Includes 20 black and white plates
BAR number:
S2562
Based on a new edition of Moscow 314 Papyrus from the Middle Kingdom, this study identifies for the first time the ancient Egyptian... More
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Nómadas en la encrucijada
Sociedad, ideología y poder en los márgenes áridos del Levante meridional durante el primer milenio a.C.
£49.00
Author:
Juan Manuel Tebes
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
Spanish with English abstract
ISBN:
9781407311975
Paperback:
205pp. Illustrated throughout.
BAR number:
S2574
Sub Title:
Sociedad, ideología y poder en los márgenes áridos del Levante meridional durante el primer milenio a.C.
This work comprises several studies dealing with the society, economy, ideology and power among the mainly tribal, semi-pastoral... More
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