Eland's People: New Perspectives in the Rock Art of the Maloti-Drakensberg Bushmen Essays in Memory of Patricia Vinnicombe
ISBN: 9781868144983 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After Patricia Vinnicombe's death in 2003, Peter Mitchell and Ben Smith were called to the challenge of adding additional sections to the People of Eland. Both editors have brought together leading scholars in the field to write new sections to explain how early knowledge of San art has changed and how current research is still influenced by this landmark volume. The Eland's People is thus intended as a companion volume to People of the Eland and it is hoped that this new volume will provide a richer appreciation of the importance of Patricia Vinnicombe's original... After Patricia Vinnicombe's death in 2003, Peter Mitchell and Ben Smith were called to the challenge of adding additional sections to the People o... |
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181,35 zł |
The Copan Sculpture Museum: Ancient Maya Artistry in Stucco and Stone
ISBN: 9780873658584 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Copan Sculpture Museum in western Honduras features the extraordinary stone carvings of the ancient Maya city known as Copan. The city's sculptors produced some of the finest and most animated buildings and temples in the Maya area, in addition to stunning monolithic statues and altars. The ruins of Copan were named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1980, and more than 150,000 national and international tourists visit the ancient city each year. Opened in 1996, the Copan Sculpture Museum was initiated as an international collaboration to preserve Copan's original stone monuments.... The Copan Sculpture Museum in western Honduras features the extraordinary stone carvings of the ancient Maya city known as Copan. The city's sculp... |
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Pliny on Art and Society: The Elder Pliny's Chapters on the History of Art
ISBN: 9780415589017 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pliny sketches a theory of advancing moral decline and extravagance, in the course of which he gives a detailed account of six centuries of classical art and a fascinating sketch of the world of the rich Roman collector. Isager's is the first full treatment of this subject for over a hundred years.
Pliny sketches a theory of advancing moral decline and extravagance, in the course of which he gives a detailed account of six centuries of classical ...
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Cirencester Before Corinium: Excavations at Kingshill North, Cirencester, Gloucestershire
ISBN: 9781905905225 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Excavation by Oxford Archaeology in 2008 at Kingshill North on the north-eastern edge of Cirencester uncovered evidence for occupation that opens a remarkable window into Cirencester's prehistoric past. The earliest inhabitants lived during the late Neolithic. They dug storage pits, which over time were filled with decorated Grooved Ware, bone pins and awls, flint tools, stone axe fragments, animal bones and antler and the burnt remains of cereal, nuts and fruit. The evidence points to the seasonal gathering of people to exchange exotic objects and indulge in communal feasting. Two Beaker...
Excavation by Oxford Archaeology in 2008 at Kingshill North on the north-eastern edge of Cirencester uncovered evidence for occupation that opens a re...
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The Pottery from Karphi
ISBN: 9780904887631 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The site of Karphi, high above the Lasithi plateau, remains one of the most extensively investigated settlements of Early Iron Age Greece; it was excavated by the British School at Athens under the direction of John Pendlebury in 1937-39. In the report that swiftly followed, the pottery was not presented in detail, though much was discussed in a later article by Mercy Seiradaki. Consequently, there existed serious problems in dating the remains and understanding their meaning. This volume now presents a thorough study of the Karphi pottery, much hitherto unpublished, accompanied by copious...
The site of Karphi, high above the Lasithi plateau, remains one of the most extensively investigated settlements of Early Iron Age Greece; it was exca...
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478,55 zł |
PHILISTOR : Studies in Honor of Costis Davaras
ISBN: 9781931534659 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributions by 37 scholars are brought together here to create a volume in honour of the long and fruitful career of Costis Davaras, former Ephor of Crete and Professor Emeritus of Minoan Archaeology at the University of Athens.
Contributions by 37 scholars are brought together here to create a volume in honour of the long and fruitful career of Costis Davaras, former Ephor of...
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413,60 zł |
Iron Age Echoes: Prehistoric Land Management and the Creation of a Funerary Landscape - The Twin Barrows at the Echoput in Apeldoorn
ISBN: 9789088900730 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Groups of burial mounds may be among the most tangible and visible remains of Europe's prehistoric past. Yet, not much is known on how "barrow landscapes" came into being . This book deals with that topic, by presenting the results of archaeological research carried out on a group of just two barrows that crown a small hilltop near the Echoput ("echo-well") in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. In 2007, archaeologists of the Ancestral Mounds project of Leiden University carried out an excavation of parts of these mounds and their immediate environment. They discovered that these mounds are rare...
Groups of burial mounds may be among the most tangible and visible remains of Europe's prehistoric past. Yet, not much is known on how "barrow landsca...
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Van graven in de prehistorie en dingen die voorbijgaan
ISBN: 9789088900808 / Holenderski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. English Description: This book is a festschrift for the Dutch archaeologist Eric Lohof who retired in 2011. Friends and collegues from both academic institutions and archaeological companies contributed to this collection of articles on Dutch prehistoric archaeology.
English Description: This book is a festschrift for the Dutch archaeologist Eric Lohof who retired in 2011. Friends and collegues from both academic i...
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Bacton to King's Lynn Gas Pipeline: Volume 1 - Prehistoric, Roman and Medieval Archaeology
ISBN: 9780957228801 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A summary of discoveries made during archaelogical excavations carried out in 2003 along the route of a pipeline crossing Norfolk from east to west, which showed evidence of Neolithic settlements, Bronze Age activity, Iron Age practices, Roman dwellings, and a reordering of the landscape in the late medieval period.
A summary of discoveries made during archaelogical excavations carried out in 2003 along the route of a pipeline crossing Norfolk from east to west, w...
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125,94 zł |
Background to Beakers. Inquiries Into the Regional Cultural Background to the Bell Beaker Complex
ISBN: 9789088900846 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Background to Beakers is the result of an inspiring session at the yearly conference of European Association of Archaeologists in The Hague in September 2010. The conference brought together thirteen speakers on the subject Beakers in Transition. Together we explored the background to the Bell beaker complex in different regions, departing from the idea that migration is not the comprehensive solution to the adoption of bell Beakers. Therefore we asked the participants to discuss how in their region Beakers were incorporated in existing cultural complexes, as one of the manners to understand...
Background to Beakers is the result of an inspiring session at the yearly conference of European Association of Archaeologists in The Hague in Septemb...
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191,43 zł |
Rock Art in the Americas: Mythology, Cosmogony and Rituals
ISBN: 9781407310527 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contents: Introduction (FranCoise Fauconnier and Serge Lemaitre); 1) Rock art sites as spiritual places ? Canadian Shield rock art as part of the Algonquian sacred landscape (Daniel Arsenault); 2) Thunderbirds and Horned Snakes: Cosmogony at Canadian Rock Art Sites (Serge Lemaitre); 3) Cueva de la Serpiente: Interpretive Analysis of an Archaic Great Mural Rock Art Panel, MulegE, Baja California Sur, Mexico (Roberto MartInez, Larissa Mendoza and RamOn Vinas); 4) El Salto del Perro, Durango, MExico: La construcciOn de un paisaje sagrado en los confines de MesoamErica (Fernando Berrojalbiz y...
Contents: Introduction (FranCoise Fauconnier and Serge Lemaitre); 1) Rock art sites as spiritual places ? Canadian Shield rock art as part of the Algo...
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Painted Caves: Palaeolithic Rock Art in Western Europe
ISBN: 9780199698226 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Painted Caves, a beautifully illustrated introduction to the oldest art of Western Europe, charts the historical background to the acceptance of a Palaeolithic age for the very ancient paintings found in caves. Offering an up-to-date overview of the geographical distribution of the sites found in southern France and the Iberian Peninsula, and examples known in Britain, Italy, Romania, and Russia, Lawson's expert study is not restricted to the art in caves, but places this art alongside the engravings and sculptures found both on portable objects and on rock faces in the open air.
Written... Painted Caves, a beautifully illustrated introduction to the oldest art of Western Europe, charts the historical background to the acceptance of a Pal...
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The Cave and the Cathedral: How a Real-Life Indiana Jones and a Renegade Scholar Decoded the Ancient Art of Man
ISBN: 9780470373538 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What Are The Ancients Trying To Tell Us?
""Why would the Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherers of Europe expend so much time and effort to penetrate into deep, dark, and dangerous caverns, where they might encounter cave bears and lions or get lost and die, aided only by the dim glow of animal fat-burning stone candles, often crawling on all fours for distances of up to a mile or more underground . . . to paint amazing, haunting images of animals?"" Join researcher and scientist Amir D. Aczel on a time-traveling journey through the past and... What Are The Ancients Trying To Tell Us?
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Kos in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age
ISBN: 9781931534680 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Primitivism in Modern Art
ISBN: 9780674281875 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This now classic study maps the profound effect of primitive art on modern, as well as the primitivizing strain in modern art itself. Robert Goldwater describes how and why works by primitive artists attracted modern painters and sculptors, and he delineates the differences between what is truly primitive or archaic and what intentionally embodies such elements. His analysis distinguishes the romanticism of Gauguin; an emotional primitivism exemplified by the Brucke and Blaue Reiter groups in Germany; the intellectual primitivism of Picasso and Modigliani; and a "primitivism of the...
This now classic study maps the profound effect of primitive art on modern, as well as the primitivizing strain in modern art itself. Robert Goldwater...
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In concavis petrarum habitaverunt: El fenómeno rupestre en el Mediterráneo Medieval: De la investigación a la puesta en valor
ISBN: 9781407312194 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fourth volume (Proceedings 4) presents the results of an international conference held at the Museo de los OrIgenes (Casa de San Isidro) in December 2008. The work is divided into three parts: Four studies on general aspects of the 'rock world' in the Iberian Peninsula, the chronology of the caves artificially created, the 'troglodyte' in the Greco-Roman tradition, and the chronology of rock-cut tombs. The second part looks at eleven studies of various regions and 'rock complexes' in the Iberian Peninsula ('San VItor', in San Lorenzo da Barxacova, Parada del Sil, Ourense; 'El Bierzo';... This fourth volume (Proceedings 4) presents the results of an international conference held at the Museo de los OrIgenes (Casa de San Isidro) in De... |
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Women in Ancient America: Second Edition
ISBN: 9780806146287 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new edition of "Women in Ancient America" draws on recent advances in the archaeology of gender to reexamine the activities, roles, and relationships of women in the prehistoric Native societies of North, Central, and South America. Women and women s work have been crucial to the survival and success of American peoples since ancient times. And as hunting and foraging societies developed farming techniques and eventually created permanent settlements, women s roles changed. Karen Olsen Bruhns and Karen E. Stothert consider the various economic adaptations that followed, as well... This new edition of "Women in Ancient America" draws on recent advances in the archaeology of gender to reexamine the activities, roles, and relat... |
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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 worl
ISBN: 9781407312408 / Angielski / Miękka / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Open-air rock-art forms one of the most widely distributed categories of prehistoric culture with examples recognized across the Old and New Worlds. It is also one of the most threatened features of human heritage and is susceptible to accelerated decay as a result of natural processes. Considering the specific case of the COa Valley rock-art complex in Portugal, but also analysing case studies originating from other countries (Norway, Brazil, Southern USA and South Korea), this richly illustrated book addresses open-air rock-art natural degradation causes, suitable methods to assess... Open-air rock-art forms one of the most widely distributed categories of prehistoric culture with examples recognized across the Old and New Worlds... |
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450,71 zł |
Understanding Graffiti: Multidisciplinary Studies from Prehistory to the Present
ISBN: 9781611328677 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of original articles brings together for the first time the research on graffiti from a wide range of geographical and chronological contexts and shows how they are interpreted in various fields. Examples range as widely as medieval European cliff carvings to tags on New York subway cars to messages left in library bathrooms. In total, the authors legitimize the study of graffiti as a multidisciplinary pursuit that can produce useful knowledge of individuals, cultures, and nations. The chapters-represent 20 authors from six countries; -offer perspectives of disciplines as...
This collection of original articles brings together for the first time the research on graffiti from a wide range of geographical and chronological c...
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680,04 zł |
Understanding Graffiti: Multidisciplinary Studies from Prehistory to the Present
ISBN: 9781611328684 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of original articles brings together for the first time the research on graffiti from a wide range of geographical and chronological contexts and shows how they are interpreted in various fields. Examples range as widely as medieval European cliff carvings to tags on New York subway cars to messages left in library bathrooms. In total, the authors legitimize the study of graffiti as a multidisciplinary pursuit that can produce useful knowledge of individuals, cultures, and nations. The chapters-represent 20 authors from six countries; -offer perspectives of disciplines as...
This collection of original articles brings together for the first time the research on graffiti from a wide range of geographical and chronological c...
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191,37 zł |