Late Antiquity and Byzantium

Zabid Project Pottery Manual 1995
Pre-Islamic and Islamic Ceramics from the Zabid area, North Yemen
£30.00
Author:
Christopher Ciuk and Edward Keall
Publication Year:
1996
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548447
Paperback:
122pp
BAR number:
S655
Sub Title:
Pre-Islamic and Islamic Ceramics from the Zabid area, North Yemen
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Wooden Mosques of the Samsun Region, Turkey
from the Past to the Present in the Light of Surveys Carried Out in the Years 2001-2003
£43.00
Author:
E. Emine Naza-Dönmez
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303062
Paperback:
171pp. Includes 1 map, 161 figures, drawings plans, photographs
BAR number:
S1820
Sub Title:
from the Past to the Present in the Light of Surveys Carried Out in the Years 2001-2003
A unique study of 26 rare wooden mosques from Samsun, in the Central Black Sea Region, and as much a travel account of the author's... More
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£69.00
Author:
A. M. Klevnäs
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312071
Paperback:
307pp. Includes 129 figures
BAR number:
S2582
This work brings together all that is currently known of early medieval grave disturbance in Anglo-Saxon England and on the Merovingian... 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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War and Castros
New approaches to the northwestern Portuguese Iron Age
£90.00
Author:
Francisco Manuel Veleda Reimão Queiroga
Publication Year:
2003
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841715636
Paperback:
356pp. Includes 67 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 35 page bibliography, Appendices
BAR number:
S1198
Sub Title:
New approaches to the northwestern Portuguese Iron Age
From obscure beginnings at the end of the Bronze Age to the award of the Ius Latii to all the inhabitants of Iberia by the Emperor... More
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Upper Teesdale
the archaeology of a North Pennine Valley
£52.00
Author:
D. Coggins
Publication Year:
1986
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543701
Paperback:
226pp
BAR number:
B150
Sub Title:
the archaeology of a North Pennine Valley
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£68.00
Author:
Florian Himmler
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
German with English summary
ISBN:
9781407307534
Paperback:
274pp. Includes 23 plates, 11 in colour, index
BAR number:
S2197
A study of the role of riverine shipping in Late Roman defensive strategy along the Danube (300-600 AD). This work follows and draws... More
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£26.00
Author:
Marco Sfacteria
Publication Year:
2018
Language:
Italian with an English abstract
ISBN:
9781407316222
Paperback:
95 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 1 tagle, 65 figures (58 in colour)
BAR number:
S2883
Sub Title:
La via Catania-Agrigento
Il libro prende le mosse dall’utilizzo integrato delle geotecnologie applicate all’Archeologia dei Paesaggi, al fine di fornire una ricostruzione della... More
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£92.00
Author:
Paul Reynolds
Publication Year:
1995
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860547822
Paperback:
466pp, Includes illustrations.
BAR number:
S604
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£49.00
Author:
Isabel Sánchez Ramos
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
Spanish with English summary
ISBN:
9781407312378
Paperback:
204pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2606
This volume presents the current state of archaeological knowledge of the urban world in Hispania in the historical period between the... More
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Tîrpeşti
From Prehistory to History in Eastern Romania
£92.00
Author:
Silvia Marinescu-Bîlcu and translated from the Romanian by Georgeta Bolomey
Publication Year:
1981
Language:
English, translated from Romanian
ISBN:
9780860541257
Paperback:
448pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliographies
BAR number:
S107
Sub Title:
From Prehistory to History in Eastern Romania
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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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The Years without Summer
Tracing A.D. 536 and its aftermath
£45.00
Editors:
Joel D. Gunn
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841710747
Paperback:
176pp. Illustrated with maps, charts and line drawings.
BAR number:
S872
Sub Title:
Tracing A.D. 536 and its aftermath
“In the fall season of A.D. 536 Cassiodorus sat at his writing table…..” So Joel D. Gunn begins this interesting and unusual topic of... More
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£87.00
Author:
David Klingle
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310435
Paperback:
348pp
BAR number:
B569
The book systematically examines and compares a large sample of burials from the same region, Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire, in the... More
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£32.00
Author:
Julia Seiber
Publication Year:
1977
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860540007
Paperback:
124pp, Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S37
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The Significance of Portages
Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Significance of Portages, 29th Sept–2nd Oct 2004, in Lyngdal, Vest-Agder, Norway, arranged by the County Municipality of Vest-Agder, Kristiansand
£69.00
Editors:
Christer Westerdahl
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841719306
Paperback:
286pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1499
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Significance of Portages, 29th Sept–2nd Oct 2004, in Lyngdal, Vest-Agder, Norway, arranged by the County Municipality of Vest-Agder, Kristiansand
Conveying craft and their cargoes between navigable waterways (Portages) represents a hitherto neglected feature of past transport... More
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£75.00
Author:
Katia Cytryn-Silverman
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306711
Paperback:
304pp. Includes 100 plates of maps, drawing and figures in colour and black and white, Gazetteer
BAR number:
S2130
The term khan can refer to urban and rural hostelries, relay stations of the Mamluk royal mail, fortresses, farmhouses, warehouses, and... More
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The Resilience of the Roman Empire
Regional case studies on the relationship between population and food resources
£44.00
Editors:
Dimitri Van Limbergen, Sadi Maréchal and Wim De Clercq
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356945
Paperback:
152 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 26 tables, 38 figures.
BAR number:
S3000
Sub Title:
Regional case studies on the relationship between population and food resources
The Resilience of the Roman Empire discusses the relationship between population and regional development in the Roman world from the perspective of... More
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The Origin of White Porcelain
Transformation of ceramic technology in sixth century north China
£50.00
Author:
Shan Huang
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407360492
Paperback:
164 pages
Sub-series name:
UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series, 8
BAR number:
S3113
Sub Title:
Transformation of ceramic technology in sixth century north China
The sixth century saw a major transformation of ceramic technology. It initiated an era characterised by porcelain and polychrome decoration that overturned... More
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£29.00
Author:
Attilio Mastrocinque
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407359137
Paperback:
116 pages, Illustrated throughout in black & white and colour. 24 figures.
BAR number:
S3074
Why did the Romans worship a Persian god? This book presents a new reading of the Mithraic iconography taking into account that the cult had a prophecy. It... More
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The Making of the Tuoba Northern Wei
Constructing material cultural expressions in the Northern Wei Pingcheng Period (398–494 CE)
£39.00
Author:
Chin-Yin Tseng
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311883
Paperback:
130pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2567
Sub Title:
Constructing material cultural expressions in the Northern Wei Pingcheng Period (398–494 CE)
The Tuoba's success in the development of the Northern Wei as a conquest dynasty in fifth-century northern China is demonstrated as a... More
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£33.00
Author:
Ryan H. Wilkinson
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356839
Paperback:
120 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 21 figures.
BAR number:
S3006
Sub Title:
A prosopographical, numismatic, and ceramic synthesis (ca. 395-550 CE)
How did the ‘Fall of the Roman Empire’ change social and economic networks in eastern Gaul, and how did new ‘barbarian’ political frontiers shape those... More
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£48.00
Editors:
Demetrios Michaelides, Philippe Pergola, Enrico Zanini
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English, French and Italian
ISBN:
9781407311418
Paperback:
201pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
Limina/Limites: Archaeologies, histories, islands and borders in the Mediterranean (365-1556), 2
BAR number:
S2523
Sub Title:
Archaeology and history
The backbone of seafaring mobility of humans and goods during the historical longue durée of the Mediterranean basin was formed by... More
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The Impact of Rome on Settlement in the Northwestern and Danube Provinces
Lectures held at the Winckelmann-Institut der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in winter 1998/99
£43.00
Editors:
Stefan Altekamp and Alfred Schäfer
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
English, German and French
ISBN:
9781841712192
Paperback:
169pp. Includes numerous figures, plates, maps, plans and drawings.
BAR number:
S921
Sub Title:
Lectures held at the Winckelmann-Institut der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in winter 1998/99
The seven chapters in this volume were delivered at a cycle of lectures presented (at the Winckelmann-Institut der Humboldt-Universität)... More
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The Image of Orpheus in Roman Mosaic
An exploration of the figure of Orpheus in Graeco-Roman art and culture with special reference to its expression in the medium of mosaic in late antiquity
£75.00
Author:
Ilona Julia Jesnick
Publication Year:
1997
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548621
Paperback:
300pp. Includes 163 line drawings, black and white and colour photographs.
BAR number:
S671
Sub Title:
An exploration of the figure of Orpheus in Graeco-Roman art and culture with special reference to its expression in the medium of mosaic in late antiquity
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The Horace’s Villa Project 1997-2003, Volumes I and II
Report on new fieldwork and research. Volume I: The Reports. Volume II: Documentation
£191.00
Editors:
Bernard Frischer, Jane Crawford and Monica de Simone
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407300016
Paperback:
1,070pp. Two volume set, illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs, Index. With additional material online (Volume II: foldouts)
BAR number:
S1588
Sub Title:
Report on new fieldwork and research. Volume I: The Reports. Volume II: Documentation
“Horace’s Villa” is the name given to the site of a Roman country house near the hill town of ‘Licenza’ (Roma), which is located approximately 30 miles from... More
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The Golan
A profile of a region during the Roman and Byzantine periods
£61.00
Author:
Dan Urman
Publication Year:
1985
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543428
Paperback:
266pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p217-247
BAR number:
S269
Sub Title:
A profile of a region during the Roman and Byzantine periods
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£38.00
Author:
Carol Bell
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841719993
Paperback:
152pp. Includes 3 maps, 18 tables, 29 figures, plans, drawings and photographs, 2 in colour
BAR number:
S1574
Sub Title:
A study based on imported ceramics, bronze and its constituent metals
This work investigates the excavated archaeological record of the northern Levantine littoral for specific evidence of continuity or... More
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£45.00
Author:
Dan Gh. Teodor, translated from the Romanian by Nubar Hampartumian
Publication Year:
1980
Language:
English, translated from Romanian
ISBN:
9780860540908
Paperback:
196pp, Includes 64 figures.
BAR number:
S81
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The Domus del Ninfeo at Ostia (III, VI, 1-3)
Structure, Function and Social Context
£79.00
Author:
Alessandra Batty
Publication Year:
2018
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407316147
Paperback:
252 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 3 tables, 21 plates, 166 figures (53 in colour), 1 scheme. With additional information online (Plates 4 and 6-14)
BAR number:
S2909
Sub Title:
Structure, Function and Social Context
This book is the first in-depth analysis of one of the most remarkable monuments of Ostia, the ancient port town of Rome: The Domus del Ninfeo (III, VI,... More
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The Culture of Ancient Ferghana
VI century B.C.-VI century A.D.
£81.00
Author:
N.G. Gorbunova, translated from the Russian by A.P. Andryushkin
Publication Year:
1986
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543633
Paperback:
394pp
BAR number:
S281
Sub Title:
VI century B.C.-VI century A.D.
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The Coinage of Chersonesus
IV Century B.C. -XII Century A.D.
£48.00
Author:
V. A. Anokhin and translated from the Russian by H. Bartlett Wells
Publication Year:
1980
Language:
English, translated from Russian
ISBN:
9780860540748
Paperback:
202pp, Includes 32 illustrations
BAR number:
S69
Sub Title:
IV Century B.C. -XII Century A.D.
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£41.00
Author:
Carol A. M. Glucker
Publication Year:
1987
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860544180
Paperback:
180pp, Includes plans and a bibliography: p164-172
BAR number:
S325
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The City and Complexity: Volterra, Italy
Pottery production during the Hellenistic Etruscan period and the Late Roman to Late Antique period
£69.00
Author:
Rae Ostman
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716114
Paperback:
274pp. Includes 69 tables, 59 plates, 68 figures, maps, plans, drawings, Appendices
BAR number:
S1251
Sub Title:
Pottery production during the Hellenistic Etruscan period and the Late Roman to Late Antique period
Despite the great fascination that the collapse of past civilizations holds for the public, the process of decreasing social complexity... More
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£129.00
Author:
William Y Adams
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305363
Paperback:
520pp, Two volume set. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
Sub-series name:
Sudan Archaeological Research Society, 17
BAR number:
S2000
This is a study of the churches of Nobadia - the most northerly of the three medieval Nubian kingdoms. Since more than two-thirds of its... More
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£53.00
Author:
Arthur Segal
Publication Year:
1983
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542315
Paperback:
232pp, Includes illustrations, plans, bibliography: p207-208
BAR number:
S179
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The Byzantine Aristocracy
IX to XIII Centuries
£66.00
Editors:
Michael Angold
Publication Year:
1984
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860542834
Paperback:
288pp, Illustrated throughout, figures.
BAR number:
S221
Sub Title:
IX to XIII Centuries
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The Bioarchaeology of Continental Croatia
An analysis of human skeletal remains from the prehistoric to post-medieval periods
£32.00
Author:
Mario Šlaus
Publication Year:
2002
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841714028
Paperback:
118pp. Includes 42 figures photographs maps, plans and drawings, 200 tables
BAR number:
S1021
Sub Title:
An analysis of human skeletal remains from the prehistoric to post-medieval periods
This book presents the results of a decade of studying skeletal archaeological collections from continental Croatia. Results of the... More
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The Architectural Decoration of Marina el-Alamein
An analysis and catalogue of the late Hellenistic and Roman decorative architectural features of the town and cemetery
£36.00
Author:
Rafal Czerner
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407304229
Paperback:
147pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs 12 in colour. Catalogue of architectural features
BAR number:
S1942
Sub Title:
An analysis and catalogue of the late Hellenistic and Roman decorative architectural features of the town and cemetery
The present study focuses on the ancient architectural decoration of a particular form uncovered on the excavation site of modern Marina... More
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£95.00
Author:
Edward John David Pollard
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407303536
Paperback:
391pp, Includes 147 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 30 figures, 5 data Appendices Gazetteer
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 76
BAR number:
S1873
Sub Title:
The Middle Iron Age of the Region
This study seeks insights into the peoples and traditions of the Tanzanian coast, East Africa, during the 6th to 15th century through the application of... More
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£74.00
Author:
Ibrahim Musa Mohammed
Publication Year:
1986
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860543671
Paperback:
330 pages
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 14
BAR number:
S285
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£74.00
Author:
Athanassios Mailis
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407308951
Paperback:
293pp. Illustrated throughout, with catalogue
BAR number:
S2312
Sub Title:
Architecture and function
This study presents a synthetic approach to the study of architectural form and function of annexes to early Christian basilicas on the... More
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The Ancient Red Sea Port of Adulis and the Eritrean Coastal Region
Previous investigations and museum collections
£33.00
Author:
Chiara Zazzaro
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311906
Paperback:
121pp, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 85
BAR number:
S2569
Sub Title:
Previous investigations and museum collections
The book unveils documents and museum collections related to research and excavations conducted on the Red Sea coast and at Adulis in the 19th and 20th... More
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The Ancient Harbour and Anchorage at Dor, Israel
Results of the underwater surveys 1976 - 1991
£60.00
Author:
Sean A. Kingsley and Kurt Raveh with various contributions
Publication Year:
1996
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548072
Paperback:
264pp
BAR number:
S626
Sub Title:
Results of the underwater surveys 1976 - 1991
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Tell Timai, (Egypt) 2009-2020
The Ptolemaic–Roman north western temple zone and Roman city excavations
£66.00
Author:
James E. Bennett
Publication Year:
2023
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407360737
Paperback:
306 pages, Illustrated throughout in black & white, and colour
BAR number:
S3127
Sub Title:
The Ptolemaic–Roman north western temple zone and Roman city excavations
This monograph covers the excavations conducted at the Ptolemaic-Roman city of Tell Timai by the University of Hawaii from 2009 - 2020. It is divided into... More
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£172.00
Author:
Alejandro Villa del Castillo
Publication Year:
2021
Language:
Spanish, with a summary chapter in English
ISBN:
9781407358062
Paperback:
812 pages, two-volume set.
BAR number:
S3032
Sub Title:
Análisis arqueológico
En este trabajo se analiza, por primera vez en su conjunto, la producción escultórica cristiana hispana fechada entre los siglos VI y X. Frente a los... More
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Spatial and Religious Transformations in the Late Antique Polis
A multi-disciplinary analysis with a case-study of the city of Gerasa
£55.00
Author:
Charles March
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305134
Paperback:
217pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1981
Sub Title:
A multi-disciplinary analysis with a case-study of the city of Gerasa
This work looks at basic questions pertaining to sacred space and applies them to several well documented archaeological sites with... More
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Space, Hierarchy and Society
Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Area Analysis
£61.00
Editors:
Barry C. Burnham and John Kingsbury
Publication Year:
1979
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860540601
Paperback:
268pp, Includes 33 illustrations
BAR number:
S59
Sub Title:
Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Area Analysis
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