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  • Megalithic Tombs in Western Iberia

    Excavations at the Anta da Lajinha

    Edición de Chris Scarre, Luiz Oosterbeek ...
    Western Iberia has one of the richest inventories of Neolithic chambered tombs in Atlantic Europe, with particular concentrations in Galicia, northern Portugal and the Alentejo. Less well known is the major concentration of tombs along the Tagus valley, straddling the Portuguese-Spanish frontier. Within this cluster is the Anta da Lajinha, a small megalithic tomb in the hill-country north of the ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Megalithic Architectures of Europe

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Ancient Civilizations

    The Emergence of States and Empires

    de Chris Scarre, Charles Golden, Shadreck Chirikure ...
    Ancient Civilizations: The Emergence of States and Empires offers a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world’s first civilizations and how they were discovered, drawing on many avenues of inquiry including archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and both historical and ethnohistorical records. This book covers the earliest ... Leer más

    $171.99 USD

  • Ancient Civilizations

    de Chris Scarre, Charles Golden ...
    Ancient Civilizations offers a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world’s first civilizations and how they were discovered, drawing on many avenues of inquiry including archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and both historical and ethnohistorical records.This book covers the earliest civilizations in Eurasia and the ... Leer más

    $165.99 USD

  • Engaging with the Dead

    Exploring Changing Human Beliefs about Death, Mortality and the Human Body

    Edición de Chris Scarre, Jennie Bradbury ...
    Series Libro 13 - Studies in Funerary Archaeology
    Engaging with the Dead adopts a cross-disciplinary, archaeologically focused, approach to explore a variety of themes linked to the interpretation of mortuary traditions, death and the ways of disposing of the dead. Nineteen papers highlight the current vitality of ‘death studies’ and the potential of future research and discoveries. contributors explore changing beliefs and practices over time, ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World

    The Great Monuments and How They Were Built

    Edición de Chris Scarre ...
    Expands on the traditional "Seven Wonders" to examine an impressive number of ancient marvels from around the globe.How were the ancient wonders of the world built? How many people did it take to build the Great Wall of China or the Sphinx at Giza? The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World answers these and many more questions, examining antiquity's most spectacular feats of engineering and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Monuments and Landscape in Atlantic Europe

    Perception and Society During the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age

    Edición de Chris Scarre ...
    Atlantic Europe is the zone par excellence of megalithic monuments, which encompass a wide range of earthen and stone constructions from inpressive stone circles to modest chambered tombs. A single basic concept lies behind this volume - that the intrinsic qualities encountered within the diverse landscapes pf Atlantic Europe both informed the settings chosen for the monuments and played a role in ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Palace of Minos at Knossos

    de Chris Scarre, Rebecca Stefoff ...
    Series series Digging for the Past
    On March 23, 1900, Arthur John Evans and his staff began to excavate on Crete, looking for the fabled site of Knossos, where an extraordinary civilization, a precursor to classical Greece, was rumored to have existed. Almost from the first shovel stroke, artifacts began to emerge. Evans realized that here was "an extraordinary phenomenon, nothing Greek, nothing Roman. A wholly unexplored world." ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

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  • Celtic from the West 3

    Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages — questions of shared language

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Minoan Archaeology

    Perspectives for the 21st Century

    Edición de Sarah Cappel, Ute Günkel-Maschek, Diamantis Panagiotopoulos ...
    Series series AEGIS
    More than 100 years ago Sir Arthur Evans' spade made the first cut into the earth above the now well-known Palace at Knossos. His research at the Kephala hill as well as contemporary fieldwork at further sites on Crete saw the birth of a new discipline: Minoan Archaeology. Since these beginnings in the first decades of the 20th century, the investigation of Bronze Age Crete has experienced ... Leer más

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  • The First Maya Civilization

    Ritual and Power Before the Classic Period

    de Francisco Estrada-Belli ...
    When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century A.D., inaugurating the Classic period of Maya history that lasted for six centuries and saw the rise of such famous cities as Palenque, Copan and Yaxchilan, Maya civilization was already nearly a millennium old. Its first cities, such as Nakbe and El Mirador, had some of the largest temples ever raised in ... Leer más

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  • The Bell Beaker Transition in Europe

    Mobility and local evolution during the 3rd millennium BC

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

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