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The Prehistory of Denmark
ISBN: 9780415119573 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This synthesis of archaeological research in Denmark divides into four sections: the hunters and gatherers; the first farmers; towards a new era; and the chiefdoms of the Iron Age.
This synthesis of archaeological research in Denmark divides into four sections: the hunters and gatherers; the first farmers; towards a new era; and ...
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cena:
236,00 |
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Landscapes of Settlement : Prehistory to the Present
ISBN: 9780415119689 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Rural settlements underlie today's cities and still hold over half the world's population. This text excavates the changing forms and functions of these settlements, exploring their origins, development and their future. Settlement is the physical reflection of the social organization of space. Starting with the human dwelling, settlement aggregates into farmsteads, hamlets, villages, towns and cities. Patterns of development can be traced, contours by which a history of a land and its people can be read.
Rural settlements underlie today's cities and still hold over half the world's population. This text excavates the changing forms and functions of the...
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295,01 |
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Centre and Periphery: Comparative Studies in Archaeology
ISBN: 9780415122535 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. There has recently been much interest among geographers, historians and political theorists in concepts of centre and periphery. In this book a wide range of studies consider how such concepts can be used to clarify our understanding of pre-capitalist societies.
There has recently been much interest among geographers, historians and political theorists in concepts of centre and periphery. In this book a wide r...
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245,84 |
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The Red and the Black : Studies in Greek Pottery
ISBN: 9780415126601 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume covers the major stages in the history of Greek pottery production, both figured and plain, as they are understood today. It provides an up-to-date evaluation of ways of studying Greek pottery and encourages new approaches. There is a detailed analysis of the subject matter of figured scenes covering some of the main preoccupations of ancient Greece: myth, fantasy and everyday life. Furthermore, it sets the artefacts in the context of the societies that produced them, highlighting the social, art historical, mythological and economic information that can be revealed from their...
This volume covers the major stages in the history of Greek pottery production, both figured and plain, as they are understood today. It provides an u...
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cena:
762,24 |
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The Red and the Black: Studies in Greek Pottery
ISBN: 9780415126618 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Red and the Black covers the major stages in the history of Greek pottery production, both figured and plain, as they are understood today. It provides an up-to-date evaluation of ways of studying Greek pottery and encourages new approaches.
There is a detailed analysis of the subject matter of figured scenes covering some of the main preoccupations of ancient Greece: myth, fantasy and everyday life. Furthermore, it sets the artefacts in the context of the societies that produced them, highlighting the social, art historical, mythological and economic information that can be... The Red and the Black covers the major stages in the history of Greek pottery production, both figured and plain, as they are understood toda...
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cena:
201,58 |
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Theory and Practice in Archaeology
ISBN: 9780415127776 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The new developments in archaeological theory and its application to archaeological data are explored in this text. The author aims to break down the separation of theory and practice and to reconcile the division between the intellectual and the dirt archaeologist. Through a series of examples - from excavation and heritage issues to site reports - the book demonstrates that an interpretive archaeology must be applied to archaeological data in order to contribute to modern social practice. Faced with a rapidly diminishing past, archaeology urgently needs a clear image of itself, able to gain...
The new developments in archaeological theory and its application to archaeological data are explored in this text. The author aims to break down the ...
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cena:
206,49 |
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Archaeology in Latin America
ISBN: 9780415133081 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This pioneering and comprehensive survey is the first overview of current themes in Latin American archaeology written solely by academics native to the region, and it makes their collected expertise available to an English-speaking audience for the first time.
The contributors cover the most significant issues in the archaeology of Latin America, such as the domestication of camelids, the emergence of urban society in Mesoamerica, the frontier of the Inca empire, and the relatively little known archaeology of the Amazon basin. This book draws together key areas of research in Latin... This pioneering and comprehensive survey is the first overview of current themes in Latin American archaeology written solely by academics native to t...
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cena:
476,96 |
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The Archaeology of Ethnicity: Constructing Identities in the Past and Present
ISBN: 9780415141574 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. Indigenous and nationalist claims to territory, often rely on reconstructions of the past based on the traditional identification of cultures from archaeological remains. However, many argue that such associations of remains with past ethnic groups is hopelessly inadequate. This study calls into question how such evidence is used and what conclusions can legitimately be drawn from it. Sian Jones responds to the need for a reassessment of the ways in which social groups are identified in the archaeological record,...
The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. Indigenous and nationalist claims to territory, often rely on reconstru...
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cena:
762,24 |
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The Archaeology of Ethnicity: Constructing Identities in the Past and Present
ISBN: 9780415141581 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. Indigenous and nationalist claims to territory, often rely on reconstructions of the past based on the traditional identification of cultures from archaeological remains. However, many argue that such associations of remains with past ethnic groups is hopelessly inadequate. This study calls into question how such evidence is used and what conclusions can legitimately be drawn from it. Sian Jones responds to the need for a reassessment of the ways in which social groups are identified in the archaeological record,...
The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. Indigenous and nationalist claims to territory, often rely on reconstru...
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cena:
206,49 |
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The Archaeology of Early Rome and Latium
ISBN: 9780415143608 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The archaeology of early Rome has progressed rapidly and dramatically over the last century; most recently with the discovery of the shrine of Aeneas at Lavinium and the reports of the walls of the Romulan city discovered on the city slopes of the Palatine Hill. The Archaeology of Early Rome and Latium presents the most recent discoveries in Rome and its surroundings: princely tombs, inscriptions and patrician houses are included in a complete overview of the subject and the controversies surrounding it.
This comprehensively illustrated study fills the need for an accessible... The archaeology of early Rome has progressed rapidly and dramatically over the last century; most recently with the discovery of the shrine of Aeneas ...
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226,16 |
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Archaeology in British Towns: From the Emperor Claudius to the Black Death
ISBN: 9780415144209 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this authoritative volume, Patrick Ottaway draws on his extensive experience of urban archaeology to show how our conception of the early history of British towns has been radically changed over the last twenty five years.
Based on his day to day involvement in the field, this study highlights some of the most important discoveries and research themes of recent years, showing how long term urban research projects have revealed new information about towns and the lives of their inhabitants. Well illustrated and highly readable, this volume offers a series of engaging and evocative... In this authoritative volume, Patrick Ottaway draws on his extensive experience of urban archaeology to show how our conception of the early history o...
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270,43 |
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The Celtic World
ISBN: 9780415146272 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 864 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This study of the Celts ranges from the first evidence of them in the archaeological and historical record to the early post-Roman period. It looks at archaeology, language, literature, towns, warfare, rural life, art, religion and myth, trade and industry, political organizations, society and technology. Material from all over pagan Celtic Europe is drawn together, and there are contributions from British, European and American scholars. The book addresses some important issues - Who were the ancient Celts? Can we speak of them as the first Europeans? In what form does the Celtic identity...
This study of the Celts ranges from the first evidence of them in the archaeological and historical record to the early post-Roman period. It looks at...
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250,75 |
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The European Iron Age
ISBN: 9780415151399 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This ambitious study documents the underlying features which link the civilizations of the Mediterranean - Phoenician, Greek, Etruscan and Roman - and the Iron Age cultures of central Europe, traditionally associated with the Celts. It deals with the social, economic and cultural interaction in the first millennium BC which culminated in the Roman Empire.
The book has three principle themes: the spread of iron-working from its origins in Anatolia to its adoption over most of Europe; the development of a trading system throughout the Mediterrean world after the collapse of Mycenaean Greece... This ambitious study documents the underlying features which link the civilizations of the Mediterranean - Phoenician, Greek, Etruscan and Roman - and...
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226,16 |
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The Significance of Monuments: On the Shaping of Human Experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe
ISBN: 9780415152037 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Neolithic period, when agriculture began and many monuments - including Stonehenge - were constructed, is an era fraught with paradoxes and ambiguities. Starting in the Mesolithic and carrying his analysis through to the Late Bronze Age, Richard Bradley sheds light on this complex period and the changing consciousness of these prehistoric peoples.
The Significance of Monuments studies the importance of monuments tracing their history from their first creation over six thousand years later. Part One discusses how monuments first developed and their role in developing a new... The Neolithic period, when agriculture began and many monuments - including Stonehenge - were constructed, is an era fraught with paradoxes and ambigu...
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762,24 |
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From the Baltic to the Black Sea: Studies in Medieval Archaeology
ISBN: 9780415152259 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This study offers an insight into the closed world of medieval Eastern Europe and opens up a neglected archaeological tradition to English-speaking readers. Sections focus on early European ethnic formations and states, the demography of medieval populations and the nature of rural settlement and urban development. The book challenges the intellectual assumptions of medieval archaeology and questions its relationship to history and prehistory. It seeks to expose the limitations of a strictly empirical approach to studying the period when written history began and the early medieval states...
This study offers an insight into the closed world of medieval Eastern Europe and opens up a neglected archaeological tradition to English-speaking re...
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cena:
245,84 |
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The Pyramid Builders of Ancient Egypt: A Modern Investigation of Pharaoh's Workforce
ISBN: 9780415152921 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text presents the Egyptian builders of the pyramids as simple people, leading ordinary lives while they are engaged on building the great tomb for a Pharoah. The text is aimed at the general reader, offering a picture of a community that lived in Egypt and built one of the pyramids, some 4000 years ago.
This text presents the Egyptian builders of the pyramids as simple people, leading ordinary lives while they are engaged on building the great tomb fo...
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206,49 |
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Architecture and Order: Approaches to Social Space
ISBN: 9780415157438 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Architecture is a powerful medium for representing, ordering and classifying the world, and understanding the use of space is fundamental to archaeological inquiry. Architecture and Order draws on the work of archaeologists, social theorists and architects to explore the way in which people relate to the architecture which surrounds them. In many societies, houses and tombs have encoded cultural meanings and values which are invoked and recalled through the practices of daily life.
Chapters include explorations of the early farming r archi*eye of Europe, from before the use of... Architecture is a powerful medium for representing, ordering and classifying the world, and understanding the use of space is fundamental to archaeolo...
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236,00 |
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Interpreting Archaeology : Finding Meaning in the Past
ISBN: 9780415157445 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume provides a forum for debate between varied approaches to the past. The authors, drawn from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, represent many different strands of archaeology. They address the philosophical issues involved in interpretation and a desire among archaeologists to come to terms with their own subjective approaches to the material they study. The book also recognizes how past researchers have also imposed their own value systems on the evidence which they presented.
This volume provides a forum for debate between varied approaches to the past. The authors, drawn from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, repr...
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cena:
206,49 |
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The Landscape of Britain
ISBN: 9780415157452 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text explains the processes at work in the evolution of the landscape, pointing out examples of surviving evidence from the past. The landscape of late 20th-century Britain is the end product of some 10,000 years of human effort directed not only towards satisfying basic physical needs for food and shelter, but also towards expressing profound spiritual and intellectual aspirations, whether by means of burial mounds or churches, schools or monasteries. Michael Reed shows how each generation makes its own individual contribution without being able entirely to erase those of its...
This text explains the processes at work in the evolution of the landscape, pointing out examples of surviving evidence from the past. The landscape o...
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cena:
206,49 |
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Excavating Women: A History of Women in European Archaeology
ISBN: 9780415157605 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Archaeologists are increasingly aware of issues of gender when studying past societies; women are becoming better represented within the discipline and are attaining top academic posts. However, until now there has been no study undertaken of the history of women in European archaeology and their contribution to the development of the discipline.
Excavating Women discusses the careers of women archaeologists such as Dorothy Garrod, Hanna Rydh and Marija Gimbutas, who against all odds became famous, as well as the many lesser-known personalities who did important archaeological... Archaeologists are increasingly aware of issues of gender when studying past societies; women are becoming better represented within the discipline an...
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cena:
663,88 |