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“laure salanova”

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  • The Bell Beaker Transition in Europe

    Mobility and local evolution during the 3rd millennium BC

    Edited by Maria Pilar Prieto Martínez, Laure Salanova ...
    Could the circulation of objects or ideas and the mobility of artisans explain the unprecedented uniformity of the material culture observed throughout the whole of Europe? The 17 papers presented here offer a range of new and different perspectives on the Beaker phenomenon across Europe. The focus is not on Bell Beaker pottery but on social groups (craft specialists, warriors, chiefs, extended or ... Read more

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    Political Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca during the Xoo Phase

    by Michael Lind, Javier Urcid ...
    Series series Mesoamerican Worlds
    The Valley of Oaxaca was unified under the rule of Monte Albán until its collapse around AD 800. Using findings from John Paddock’s long-term excavations at Lambityeco from 1961 to 1976, Michael Lind and Javier Urcid examine the political and social organization of the ancient community during the Xoo Phase (Late Classic period).Focusing on change within this single archaeological period rather ... Read more

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  • Europe before Rome

    A Site-by-Site Tour of the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages

    by T. Douglas Price ...
    Werner Herzog's 2011 film Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the painted caves at Chauvet, France brought a glimpse of Europe's extraordinary prehistory to a popular audience. But paleolithic cave paintings, stunning as they are, form just a part of a story that begins with the arrival of the first humans to Europe 1.3 million years ago, and culminates in the achievements of Greece and Rome. In ... Read more

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  • The First Farmers of Europe

    An Evolutionary Perspective

    by Stephen Shennan ...
    Series series Cambridge World Archaeology
    Knowledge of the origin and spread of farming has been revolutionised in recent years by the application of new scientific techniques, especially the analysis of ancient DNA from human genomes. In this book, Stephen Shennan presents the latest research on the spread of farming by archaeologists, geneticists and other archaeological scientists. He shows that it resulted from a population expansion ... Read more

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  • Celtic from the West 3

    Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages — questions of shared language

    Edited by John T. Koch, Barry Cunliffe ...
    Series series Celtic Studies Publications
    The Celtic languages and groups called Keltoi (i.e. ‘Celts’) emerge into our written records at the pre-Roman Iron Age. The impetus for this book is to explore from the perspectives of three disciplines—archaeology, genetics, and linguistics—the background in later European prehistory to these developments. There is a traditional scenario, according to which, Celtic speech and the associated group ... Read more

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  • The Megalithic Architectures of Europe

    Edited by Luc Laporte, Chris Scarre ...
    Megalithic monuments are among the most striking remains of the Neolithic period of northern and western Europe and are scattered across landscapes from Pomerania to Portugal. Antiquarians and archaeologists early recognized the family resemblance of the different groups of tombs, attributing them to maritime peoples moving along the western seaways. More recent research sees them rather as the ... Read more

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  • Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture

    The archaeology and science of kitchen pottery in the ancient Mediterranean world

    Edited by Michela Spataro, Alexandra Villing ...
    The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social, political and economic contexts. Structured around main themes concerning technical aspects of ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial

    Edited by Sarah Tarlow, Liv Nilsson Stutz ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which focus on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading, international scholars in the field, it ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age

    Edited by Anthony Harding, Harry Fokkens ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age is a wide-ranging survey of a crucial period in prehistory during which many social, economic, and technological changes took place. Written by expert specialists in the field, the book provides coverage both of the themes that characterize the period, and of the specific developments that took place in the various countries of Europe. After an ... Read more

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  • Cave Art (World of Art)

    by Bruno David ...
    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    An archaeological exploration of the mysterious world of cave art through the agesDeep underground, some of humanity’s earliest artistic endeavors have lain untouched for millennia. The dark interiors of caves, wherever they may be found, seem to have had a powerful draw for ancient peoples, who littered the cave floors with objects they had made. Later, they adorned cave walls with sacred symbols ... Read more

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  • Not Just for Show

    The Archaeology of Beads, Beadwork, and Personal Ornaments

    Edited by Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer, Alice M. Choyke ...
    Beads, beadwork, and personal ornaments are made of diverse materials such as shell, bone, stones, minerals, and composite materials. Their exploration from geographical and chronological settings around the world offers a glimpse at some of the cutting edge research within the fast growing field of personal ornaments in humanities’ past. Recent studies are based on a variety of analytical ... Read more

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  • The Prehistory of Iberia

    Debating Early Social Stratification and the State

    Edited by María Cruz Berrocal, Leonardo García Sanjuán, Antonio Gilman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Archaeology
    The origin and early development of social stratification is essentially an archaeological problem. The impressive advance of archaeological research has revealed that, first and foremost, the pre-eminence of stratified or class society in today’s world is the result of a long social struggle. This volume advances the archaeological study of social organisation in Prehistory, and more specifically ... Read more

    $64.99 USD