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Perspectives on Early Andean Civilization in Peru Interaction, Authority, and Socioeconomic Organization during the First and Second Millennia B.C.
ISBN: PB: 9780913516300, Yale University Press, February 2020
192 pp., 24.7x17.1 cm, 121 black&white illus.
This Yale University Publications in Anthropology volume presents investigations of Peruvian archaeological sites, focusing on early developments in coastal, highland, and cloud forest environments. The contributors provide new perspectives on early...
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Phantom Image Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome
ISBN: HB: 9780226648293, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
328 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 25 colour plates, 71 halftones
Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fr...
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£45,00
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Palmyra Mirage in the Desert
ISBN: PB: 9781588396310, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2018
160 pp., 25.4x20 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
In this important and timely publication, top international scholars present current research and developments about the art, archaeology, and history of the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Syria. Palmyra became tragi...
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Palmyra An Irreplaceable Treasure
ISBN: PB: 9780226600055, ISBN: HB: 9780226427829, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
128 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 13 colour plates
Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless of its actual origins, it was an influential c...
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Pistiros VI The Pistiros Hoard
ISBN: PB: 9788024633015, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2017
246 pp., 29.8x20.9 cm, 57 colour plates, 12 maps, 46 line drawings
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This sixth and final installment in the Pistiros series devoted to excavations in that former Greek emporium in inland Thrace (today Bulgaria) closes an extraordinary, three-decade-long co...
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£26,50
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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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£49,00
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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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Prehistoric Rock Art in Scandinavia
ISBN: PB: 9781785701191, Casemate, Oxbow Books, November 2015
160 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm
Scandinavia is home to prolific and varied rock art images among which the ship motif is prominent. Because of this, the rock art of Scandinavia has often been interpreted in terms of social ritual, cosmology, and religion associated with the maritim...
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Pottery Analysis A Sourcebook (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226923215, ISBN: HB: 9780226923208, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
592 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 90 halftones, 124 line drawings, 49 tables
Just as a single pot starts with a lump of clay, the study of a piece's history must start with an understanding of its raw materials. This principle is the foundation of "Pottery Analysis", the acclaimed sourcebook that has become the indispensable...
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£41,50
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£120,00
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Paleobiological Revolution Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology
ISBN: PB: 9780226275710, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
568 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 13 line drawings, 6 tables
"The Paleobiological Revolution" chronicles the incredible ascendance of the once-maligned science of paleontology to the vanguard of a field. With the establishment of the modern synthesis in the 1940s and the pioneering work of George Gaylord Simps...
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