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Amaravati The Art of an Early Buddhist Monument in Context
ISBN: PB: 9780861592074, Casemate, British Museum Press, October 2016
152 pp., 29x21 cm, 170 illus.
Buddhism originated in north India and spread to other parts of the subcontinent in the third century BCE. The Andhra region, located along the south-east coast of India, welcomed Buddhism and a stupa, probably built to house a relic of the Buddha fr...
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Problems of Canonicity and Identity Formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
ISBN: HB: 9788763543729, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2016
357 pp., 23.5x14 cm, 1 colour plate, 11 halftones, 20 tables
The term "canonicity" implies the recognition that the domain of literature and of the library is also a cultural and political one, related to various forms of identity formation, maintenance, and change. From the very earliest days of writing, text...
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Species and Speciation in the Fossil Record
ISBN: HB: 9780226377445, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 56 halftones, 26 line drawings, 12 tables
Although the species is one of the fundamental units of biological classification, there is remarkably little consensus among biologists about what defines a species, even within distinct sub-disciplines. The literature of paleobiology, in particular...
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Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections
ISBN: HB: 9788763543743, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2016
156 pp., 37.5x29.2 cm, 106 colour plates
Published here for the first time, the "Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections" presents an exhaustive assemblage of Egyptian funerary manuscripts in Danish collections. The volume features sixteen papyrus manuscripts, two of whi...
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Baule Monkeys
ISBN: HB: 9780300222449, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, August 2016
192 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 113 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.
The Baule people of the Ivory Coast are renowned for their refined sculptural work of masks and figures. This book is the first to focus exclusively on an antithetic aspect of Baule culture-rough zoomorphic sculptures representing monkeys. These awe-...
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Sagaholm North European Bronze Age Rock Art and Burial Ritual
ISBN: PB: 9781785702648, Casemate, Oxbow Books, August 2016
192 pp., 24x17 cm, 8 illus.
This major new study by one of Europe's leading prehistorians presents and discusses a series of rock art engravings from a Bronze Age barrow in Ljungarum parish, Jonkoping Lan, situated in the central part of southern Sweden. Sagaholm contains the l...
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Rock Art Through Time Scanian Rock Carvings in the Bronze Age and Earliest Iron Age
ISBN: HB: 9781785701641, Casemate, Oxbow Books, May 2016
144 pp., 22x18.7 cm
As in many other areas in south Scandinavia, the region surrounding the city of Simrishamn in south-east Scania has a great many Bronze Age mounds that are still visible in the landscape, and records from the museums demonstrate that the area is rich...
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£20,00
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Pharaoh King of Ancient Egypt
ISBN: HB: 9780300218381, Yale University Press, April 2016
176 pp., 29.2x27.3 cm, 280 colour illus.
"Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt" introduces readers to three thousand years of Egypt's ancient history by unveiling its famous leaders – the pharaohs – using some of the finest objects from the vast holdings of the British Museum. In an introductory...
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History Within The Science, Culture, and Politics of Bones, Organisms, and Molecules
ISBN: HB: 9780226347325, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 6 line drawings
Personal genomics services such as 23andMe and Ancestry. com now offer what once was science fiction: the ability to sequence and analyze an individual's entire genetic code – promising, in some cases, facts about that individual's ancestry that may...
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Show Me the Bone Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
ISBN: HB: 9780226332734, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones
Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty – "Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal!" Paleontologists such as Ge...
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