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  • - Archaeology,Heritage and Ownership
    af John Carman
    410,95 kr.

  • - Context, Connoisseurship and the History of Roman Art
    af Elizabeth (Colgate University Marlowe
    1.320,95 kr.

  • af T. O'Keefe
    409,95 kr.

    Romanesque is the style name given to the art and architecture of Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries. This work subjects 'the Romanesque' to a theoretically-informed, archaeological inquiry. It deconstructs the constructs of 'Romanesque' and 'Europe', and reveals alternative strategies for interpreting Romanesque's constituent material.

  • af Robert Van de Noort
    412,95 kr.

    Shows how wetland studies can be contextualised within geographical, cultural and theoretical frameworks. This book discusses how wetland archaeological discoveries can be understood in terms of past people's perception and understanding of landscape, which was not only a source of economic benefit, but a storehouse of cultural values and beliefs.

  • - Hunter-gatherers, First Famers and the Modern World
    af Bill Finlayson & Graeme M. Warren
    411,95 kr.

    A new critical perspective on the dominant narratives of the 'Neolithic Revolution', with an emphasis on local histories and hunter-gatherer dynamics.

  • af Richard Hodges
    411,95 kr.

    In the DUCKWORTH DEBATES IN ARCHAEOLOGY series, an illustrated study of towns and trade in the age of Charlemagne which discusses urban continuity and discontinuity in Europe during the Dark Ages.

  • af Laurajane Smith
    413,95 kr.

    Traces the development of 'community archaeology', identifying both its advantages and disadvantages by describing how and why tensions have arisen between archaeological and community understandings of the past.

  • - From Pots to Pepper
    af Roberta Tomber
    415,95 kr.

    Features the archaeological findings from key ports throughout the Indian Ocean - the Red Sea, South Arabia, the Gulf and India - to offer a picture of the relations between East and West. This work focuses on ordinary artefacts that uncover a network of Romans, Arabs, Sasanians and Indians who participated in the trade.

  • - The Conceptual Challenge
    af Timothy A. Insoll
    410,95 kr.

    Presents a critical yet positive approach to how contemporary conceptual outlooks, if unacknowledged, can seriously influence our understanding of the past. This book presents an exploration and evaluation of conceptual categories, of significance to archaeology, such as: age, experience, emotion, the senses, distance, and colour.

  • af Peter S. Wells
    412,95 kr.

    Examines the visual aspects of the archaeological evidence to investigate the role that visuality - the visual quality of things - played in the expression of the self, in interaction between members of social groups, in ritual activity, and in the creation and experience of cultural landscapes.

  • - The Contested Islamic Past in Spain and Portugal
    af James L Boone
    413,95 kr.

    Al-Andalus, the Iberian Islamic civilization centred on Cordoba in the tenth and eleventh centuries, has been a 'lost' civilization in several respects. This book takes a comparative civilizations approach that puts the formation of Al-Andalus in context with corresponding developments elsewhere in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

  • - Art and Archaeology in Nineteenth-century Britain
    af Christopher Whitehead
    412,95 kr.

    Museums and museum politics were important elements in the development of the disciplines of Archaeology and Art History in nineteenth-century Britain. This title explores some of the key debates and events which led to the conceptual differentiation and physical separation of 'archaeological' and 'artistic' material culture.

  • af Robin Skeates
    412,95 kr.

    This introduction to contemporary debates surrounding their rival claims deals with defining, owning, protecting, managing, interpreting, and experiencing the archaeological heritage. How should the archaeological heritage be presented to the public?

  • - Material Culture and Modern Conflict
    af John Schofield
    413,95 kr.

  • af John Moreland
    411,95 kr.

    "Archaeology and Text" challenges traditional assumptions about the relationship between history and archaeology by re-evaluating the role of artefacts and documents in the reconstruction of the historical past.

  • af Stephen L. (Professor of Classics Dyson
    356,95 kr.

    Stephen Dyson provides a new synthesis, describing current research on the Roman countryside with a topological framework. Focusing on areas where some of the most innovative rural research has been conducted, he discusses what happened during the period of transition.

  • - Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe
    af Peter S. Wells
    411,95 kr.

    Who were the Iron Age peoples of Europe? Information about them comes from Greek and Roman writers - not from the native peoples themselves. This book examines the archeological evidence to understand how late prehistoric groups constructed and expressed their identities.

  • af Li Liu & Xingcan Chen
    414,95 kr.

    A study that makes use of an interdisciplinary approach to challenge traditional theories of state formation in China and promote debate on early Chinese history. Analyzing data from archaeology, geology, cultural geography and more, the authors show what drove the dynamics of state formation.

  • - The Transformation of the Roman Countryside
    af Richard Hodges & Riccardo Francovich
    356,95 kr.

    "Villa to Village" challenges the historical view that hilltop villages in Italy were first founded in the tenth century. Drawing upon recent excavations, the authors show that the makings of the medieval village lie in the demise of the Roman villa in late antiquity.

  • af Catherine Hills
    409,95 kr.

    National origins remain as important as they have ever been to our sense of identity. In this book Catherine Hills assesses how far it is really possible to understand when and how the people living in south and east Britain became 'English'.

  • - The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology
    af Colin Renfrew
    412,95 kr.

    Archaeology is being undermined by clandestine and unpublished digging of archaeological sites for gain. Unless a solution is found to this ethical crisis, our record of the past will be vastly diminished. This book attempts to lay bare the misunderstanding and hypocrisy that underlies that crisis.

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