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Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World

This book highlights new cross-cultural and comparative scholarship and methodological approaches to ancient seals and sealing.

Introduction to Forensic Anthropology

This book provides coverage of key methods and issues in forensic anthropology. Using terminology and best practices recommended by the S...

Strategies of Obsidian Procurement, Knapping and Use in the First Farming Societies - From the Caucasus to the Mediterranean

This edited volume gathers papers which follow innovative approaches in obsidian studies in order to revive the debate on procurement str...

Egyptian Name Scarabs from the 12th to the 15th Dynasty - Geography and Chronology of Production

The Late Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period were the heyday for scarab seals with names in Ancient Egypt. During this time...

Der Kaukasus zwischen Osteuropa und Vorderem Orient in der Bronze- und Eisenzeit: Dialog der Kulturen, Kultur des Dialoges - Internationale Fachtagung für die Archäologie des Kaukasus und Humboldt-Kolleg (5.-8. Oktober 2015, Sankt Petersburg)

Der Kaukasus war immer eine wichtige Brücke zwischen den Kulturen des Vorderen Orients, der eurasischen Steppenzone und Europas. Seit dem...

Lithic technology - making and using stone tools

Frontmatter -- Introduction / SWANSON, EARL ¿. -- PART ONE: Lithic Technology and Taxonomy -- Lithic Reduction Sequences: A Glossary and ...

Man sieht nur, was man weiß. Man weiß nur, was man sieht - Globalhistorische Perspektiven auf interkulturelle Phänomene der Mobilität./Festschrift für Hermann Parzinger zum 65. Geburtstag

Die Festschrift enthält ein Vorwort der Reihenherausgeber, ein Geleitwort, ein Schriftenverzeichnis des Jubilars, 47 Aufsätze und ein Ver...

The Egyptian Amduat - The Book of the Hidden Chamber

In the Amduat, the night-journey of the Egyptian Sungod is divided into twelve hours, each of them containing an enormous amount of insig...

Hommes, terroir et territoires - Le Paléolithique en Bourgogne méridionale

La Bourgogne méridionale, située entre Dijon et Lyon, compte parmi les régions paléolithiques les plus importantes de France depuis les t...

Die mittelneolithische Kreisgrabenanlage von Ippesheim, Kreis Neustadt/Aisch-Bad Windsheim

This volume is the first final publication of the research projects on Neolithic circular enclosures at FU Berlin. The excavation of the ...

Wege zur frühen Schrift: Niltal und Zweistromland - Die Anfänge der Kulturtechnik Schreiben im 4. und frühen 3. Jt. v.Chr.

Schrift scheint allgegenwärtig. Mitunter wird sie als ein definierendes Merkmal von "Zivilisation" gepriesen, in der Vergangenheit wie in...

Stone Age Borderland Experience: - Neolithic and Late Mesolithic Parallel Societies in the North European Plain

These conference proceedings contain a foreword by the editors, 26 papers of an international conference at Niedersächsisches Landesmuseu...

Time and Materiality - Periodization and Regional Chronologies at the Transition from Bronze to Iron Age in Eurasia [1200-600 B.C.E.].

Der Tagungsband zur gleichnamigen 1. Internationalen Tagung vom 19.-21.03.2018 an der FU Berlin enthält ein Vorwort, eine theoretische Ei...

Rondels revisited - Recent research on Neolithic circular enclosures in Central Europe 5000-4500 cal. B.C.

Circular enclosures [Kreisgrabenanlagen] or rondels have raised the interest of archeologists for more than a century. During the past tw...

Zwischen Kontinenten und Jahrtausenden - Festschrift für Andreas Müller-Karpe zum 65. Geburtstag

Der Band enthält Vorwort, Grußwort des Landesarchäologen, Schriftenverzeichnis des Jubilars und 29 Aufsätze. Die Beiträge behandeln ein B...

Beyond Urnfields - New Perspectives on Late Bronze Age - Early Iron Age Funerary Practices in Northwest Europe

BEYOND URNFIELDS presents the results of an international network project on Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age urnfields from northwest ...

The World of Stonehenge

Stonehenge, a UNESCO World Heritage site, stands at the center of a rich archaeological landscape. Accompanying a groundbreaking exhibiti...

Siedlungs- und Küstenforschung im südlichen Nordseegebiet - Settlement and Coastal Research in the Southern North Sea Region

The volume contains seven papers covering the prospection, documentation, analysis, interpretation and conservation of archaeological fea...

Wasser für Carnuntum - Versorgung, Entsorgung, Badekultur im Römischen Reich und in der Stadt an der Donau. BAND I: Im Römischen Reich

Im Laufe der Ausgrabungen zwischen dem 18. und 21. Jahrhundert (also heute) wurden im einstigen Legionslager Carnuntum mehrere öffentlich...

Veröffentlichungen aus dem Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum / Laurion - Interdisciplinary Approaches to an Ancient Greek Mining Landscape. Including Selected Papers Presented at the International Conference 'Ari and the Laurion from Prehistoric to Modern Times', Bochum, November 1st-3rd 2019

The cultural and historical significance of the Laurion as well as its exceptional position as one of the major sources of silver, lead a...

Wasser für Carnuntum - Versorgung, Entsorgung, Badekultur im Römischen Reich und in der Stadt an der Donau. BAND II: Carnuntum

Im Laufe der Ausgrabungen zwischen dem 18. und 21. Jahrhundert (also heute) wurden im einstigen Legionslager Carnuntum mehrere öffentlich...

The Scythian Empire - Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China

"A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient world. In the late 8th and early 7th centurie...

Life on Our Planet - Accompanies the Landmark Netflix Series

With over 200 images from the groundbreaking Netlix series, we learn about life's epic battle to conquer and survive on planet Earth. Fro...

Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind

One hundred thousand years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our sp...

Scarabs and Cylinders with Names - Illustrated by the Egyptian Collection in University College, London

This early work by the British archaeologist, Flinders Petrie, was originally published in 1917 and we are now republishing it with a bra...

Age of Wolf and Wind - Voyages through the Viking World

Age of Wolf and Wind provides a new introduction to the Viking Age that capitalizes on recent archaeological discoveries and breakthrough...

Ur - The City of the Moon God. Archaeological Histories

The ancient Mesoptamian city of Ur was a Sumerian city state which flourished as a centre of trade and civilisation between 2800-2000 BCE...

Horse, the Wheel, and Language - How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

"If you want to learn about the early origins of English and related languages, and of many of our familiar customs such as feasting on h...

Evolution - The Human Story

Travel back in time almost eight million years to explore the roots of the human family tree. Written and authenticated by a team of expe...

Sapiens (10 Year Anniversary Edition) - A Brief History of Humankind

A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensation INCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARI What mak...

The Good Book of Human Nature - An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible

The Bible is the bestselling book of all time. It has been venerated -or excoriated,as God's word, but so far no one has read the Bible f...

Kindred - Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

"Kindred is important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity...

Carthage

This book traces the formation of the archaeological site of Carthage and how it re-emerged in the minds of European antiquarians and tra...

Stonehenge - A Brief History

Stonehenge is one of the world's most famous monuments. Who built it, how and why are questions that have endured for at least 900 years,...

Educating the Tudors

Education during the Tudor era was a privilege and took many forms including schools, colleges and apprenticeships.

Niedergermanischer Limes / Neder-Germaanse Limes / Lower German Limes - TOP 100 Funde / Vondsten / Finds

Außergewöhnliche Funde vom nassen Limes Der Niedergermanische Limes reichte vom Vinxtbach bei Bad Breisig (Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland) ...

Blood and Mistletoe - The History of the Druids in Britain

Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. This captivating ...

The Escape Artist - The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

In April 1944 nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became the first Jews ever to break out of Auschwitz. Under el...

X Marks the Spot - The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries

'If you love Indiana Jones, this is the real thing' DAN SNOW 'Fascinating' GREG JENNER 'A thrilling investigation' SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB 'An ...

A Short History of Humanity - How Migration Made Us Who We Are

Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We've survived and thrived because we've never stopped moving... In this eye-opening bo...

Welt-kult-ur-sprung - World origin of culture

Eiszeitjäger schufen vor 40 000 Jahren in den Höhlen des Ach- und Lonetals, den Nebentälern der Donau westlich und östlich von Ulm, die e...

The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRI...

Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind

One hundred thousand years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our sp...

Utopia - The Influential Classic

What we can learn from a Renaissance nowhere In 1516, a book was published in Latin with the enigmatic Greek-derived word as its title. U...

The Splendid and the Vile - Churchill, Family and Defiance during the Bombing of London

On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and...

The Escape Artist

April 1944. Nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became two of the very first Jews to successfully escape Auschwi...

The Splendid and the Vile

On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and...

The Escape Artist

In April 1944 nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became the first Jews ever to break out of Auschwitz. Under el...

Signs - Letters - Alphabets - Thirty-Thousand Years of the Alphabet

A könyv logikai láncolatra fűzve és egyértelmű írásmaradványokkal bizonyítja, hogy a geometrikus jelekből álló ABC már 30.000 évvel ezelő...

Ötzi, the Iceman - The Full Facts at a Glance

Old and exhausted, with an arrowhead lodged in his shoulder - this is how the Iceman met his death 5,300 years ago. Since the discovery o...

Signs - Letters - Alphabets

A könyv logikai láncolatra fűzve és egyértelmű írásmaradványokkal bizonyítja, hogy a geometrikus jelekből álló ABC már 30.000 évvel ezelő...

The Canadian Residential School System and Cultural Genocide

Essay from the year 2017 in the subject World History - Early and Ancient History, grade: 98.3%, University of Waterloo, language: Englis...

The Living Language of the Stone Age - The ""nostratic"" language of prehistoric times

Eurázsia nyelvei egyaránt őrzik a "nosztratikus"-nak nevezett kőkorszaki nyelv töredékeit. A könyv mottója: "A KŐKOR SZAVA KÉP". A kőkor...

The Persians

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and ...

Our words from the past

“And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech”. (Genesis I.11.1) Where did this language develop? What kind of language...

The Rough Guide to Tutankhamun - The King - The Treasure - The Dynasty

Who was Tutankhamun? Prom the opulence and riches of the royal court at Thebes, to the cult of the god Amun and the great heresy of Akhen...

Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity Set

These books present current work on the archaeology of burial and memorial in late antiquity, with insights from excavation, science, and...

Glorification Spells from a Priestly Milieu in Ancient Egypt

Glorification Spells from a Priestly Milieu in Ancient Egypt presents the first comprehensive edition of a collection of glorification sp...

Golden Excess - Art and the Aesthetics of the Incredible in Neronian Rome

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology offers comprehensive perspectives on the origins and developments of the discipline of ...