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  • Des climats et des hommes

    Series series Recherches
    Climatologues, glaciologues, archéologues et historiens confrontent leurs travaux pour ébaucher une histoire du climat sur plusieurs millions d'années et appréhender les effets des variations climatiques sur les sociétés humaines.Les changements climatiques ont-ils favorisé le peuplement de la planète ? À quelle époque le Sahara s'est-il désertifié ? Comment les civilisations de l'Antiquité se ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Analytical Archaeology

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology
    This study was well-established as a pioneer work on archaeological methodology, the theoretical basis of all archaeological analysis whatever the period or era. The first edition of the book presented and evaluated the radical changes in methodology which derived from developments in other disciplines, such as cybernetics, computer science and geography, during the 1950s and ‘60s. It argued that ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Uncorking the Past

    The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages

    In a lively gastronomical tour around the world and through the millennia, Uncorking the Past tells the compelling story of humanity's ingenious, intoxicating search for booze. Following a tantalizing trail of archaeological, chemical, artistic, and textual clues, Patrick E. McGovern, the leading authority on ancient alcoholic beverages, brings us up to date on what we now know about the creation ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • LOST IN THE ANTİKÇAĞ

    İnce Kapak

    Series Book 5 - 5
    Yazıttan anlaşıldığı gibi Asur kralı Hubuskia ülkesinden geçerek Urartu başkentine ulaşmıştır.Bu açıdan baktığımız zaman bölgenin Asur ile Urartu arasında tampon bölge olduğu anlaşılmaktadır. Bunun yanı sıra Hubuskia ülkesinin kontrolünün Asur un elinde olmaması Urartular açısından büyük önem taşımaktadır. Zira bu ülkeyi kontrol altında tutan düşmana karşı daha üstün bir konuma gelmektedir. ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest

    James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago.In 1901 he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the university, where he continued to concentrate on Egypt. In 1905 Breasted was promoted to professor, and was the first chair in ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battle of Hastings 1066: The Uncomfortable Truth

    Revealing the True Location of England's Most Famous Battle

    This historical study upends the traditional narratives surrounding the Norman Conquest by revealing the true location of its most important battle.The Duke of Normandy’s victory at the Battle of Hastings on October 14th, 1066, was one of the most important events in English history. As such, its every detail has been analyzed by scholars and interpreted by historians. Yet one of the most ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (Text Only Edition)

    From the best-selling author of THE DINOSAUR HUNTERS and THE LOST KING OF FRANCE comes the story of how our modern world was forged – in rivets, grease and steam; in blood, sweat and human imagination.The nineteenth century saw the creation of some of the world's most incredible feats of engineering. Deborah Cadbury explores the history behind the epic monuments that spanned the industrial ... Read more

    $4.49 USD $0.99 USD

  • The Orion Mystery

    Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids

    A revolutionary book that explains the most enigmatic and fascinating wonder of the ancient world: the Pyramids of Egypt.In 1993, German robotics engineer Rudolf Gatenbrink discovered a sealed door within the Great Pyramid of Giza--a door left unopened for 4,500 years. With this discovery, Robert Bauval--who spent the decade prior to the discovery researching the pyramids--and Adrian Gilbert used ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Footmarks

    A Journey into Our Restless Past

    by Jim Leary ...
    'Lucid, poetic and fascinating' ALICE ROBERTS'Engaging, authoritative and full of fascinating stories of the past' RAY MEARS'A gentle, personal and very readable book' JULIA BLACKBURN AUTHOR OF TIME SONG' A triumph!' JAMES CANTON, AUTHOR OF THE OAK PAPERS'I loved this book' FRANCIS PRYOROn paths, roads, seas, in the air, and in space -... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ebb and Flow of the Ghūrid Empire

    The iconic minaret of Jām stands in a remote mountain valley in central Afghanistan, the finest surviving monument of the enigmatic 12th-century Ghūrid dynasty. The rediscovery of the minaret half a century ago prompted renewed interest in the Ghūrids, and this has intensified since their summer capital at Jām became Afghanistan’s first World Heritage site in 2002.Two seasons of archaeological ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Climate Change and the Course of Global History

    A Rough Journey

    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    Climate Change and the Course of Global History presents the first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the new climate science with the material history of humanity. Part I argues that geological, environmental, and climatic history explain the pattern and pace of biological and human evolution. Part II explores the environmental circumstances of the rise of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • An Inconstant Landscape

    The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala

    Presenting the results of six years of archaeological survey and excavation in and around the Maya kingdom of El Zotz, An Inconstant Landscape paints a complex picture of a dynamic landscape over the course of almost 2,000 years of occupation. El Zotz was a dynastic seat of the Classic period in Guatemala. Located between the renowned sites of Tikal and El Perú-Waka’, it existed as a small kingdom ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • La costurera que encontró un tesoro cuando fue a hacer pis

    Y otras historias de la arqueología en España

    Tesoros de leyenda, yacimientos milenarios, robos y expolios… un recorrido apasionante por los hitos de la arqueología de nuestro paísTesoros de leyenda, yacimientos milenarios, robos y expolios… un recorrido apasionante por los hitos de la arqueología de nuestro paísDesde hace algún tiempo, los artículos y reportajes en ***El Pais***de V icente G. Olaya sobre cuestiones relacionadas con la ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Israel in Egypt

    The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition

    Scholars of the Hebrew Bible have in the last decade begun to question the historical accuracy of the Israelite sojourn in Egypt, as described in the book of Exodus. The reason for the rejection of the exodus tradition is said to be the lack of historical and archaeological evidence in Egypt. Those advancing these claims, however, are not specialists in the study of Egyptian history, culture, and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Queering the Museum

    Series series Museums in Focus
    Queering the Museum develops a queer analysis of the ways in which museums construct themselves, their core business, and their publics through the, often unconscious, use of inherited ways of knowing and doing.Providing a critique of both the practices and conventions associated with the modern public museum, and the ontological assumptions that inform them, the authors consider recent discourse ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Egyptian World

    Edited by Toby Wilkinson ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    Authoritative and up-to-date, this key single-volume work is a thematic exploration of ancient Egyptian civilization and culture as it was expressed down the centuries.Including topics rarely covered elsewhere as well as new perspectives, this work comprises thirty-two original chapters written by international experts. Each chapter gives an overvi ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Museums in a Digital Age

    Edited by Ross Parry ...
    Series series Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
    The influence of digital media on the cultural heritage sector has been pervasive and profound. Today museums are reliant on new technology to manage their collections. They collect digital as well as material things. New media is embedded within their exhibition spaces. And their activity online is as important as their physical presence on site.However, ‘digital heritage’ (as an area of practice ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Die Reise unserer Gene

    Eine Geschichte über uns und unsere Vorfahren

    Migration und Wanderungsbewegungen sind keine Phänomene der Neuzeit: Seit der Mensch den aufrechten Gang beherrschte, trieb es ihn aus seiner Heimat Afrika in die ganze Welt, auch nach Europa. Bis vor Kurzem lag diese Urgeschichte noch im Dunkeln, doch mit den neuen Methoden der Genetik hat sich das grundlegend geändert. Johannes Krause, einer der führenden Experten auf dem Gebiet, erzählt ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Accounting and Order

    Series series Routledge Studies in Accounting
    This book draws on ancient Egyptian inscriptions in order to theorize the relationship between accounting and order. It focuses especially on the performative power of accounting in producing and sustaining order in society. It explores how accounting intervened in various domains of the ancient Egyptian world: the cosmos; life on earth (offerings to the gods; taxation; transportation; ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • When Writing Met Art

    From Symbol to Story

    An archaeologist and art historian examines the impact of literacy on visual art during the early urban period in the Near East.Denise Schmandt-Besserat opened a new chapter in the history of literacy when she demonstrated that the cuneiform script invented in the ancient Near East in the late fourth millennium BC—the world's oldest known system of writing—derived from an archaic counting device. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arquitectura y Arqueología

    Metodologías en la cronología de Yucatán

    by Collectif ...
    Series series Études mésoaméricaines
    Ponencias y contribuciones de reconocidos investigadores del área maya norte que intercambiaron reflexiones acerca de los estilos arquitectónicos de las zonas Río Bec, Chenes y Puuc ; así como cronología, estratigrafía o seriaciones arqueológicas. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Weapons, Warriors and Battles of Ancient Iberia

    Translated by Elizabeth Clowes ...
    This book describes and analyses all their military equipment – weapons, armour, horse tack, fortifications, etc., as well as their tactics and warrior society.In ancient times, the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) was home to warriors of great renown. Iberian and Celtiberian warriors, both infantry and cavalry, served as the backbone of the Carthaginian armies that terrorized Italy under ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leyendas de Tartessos

    Mitos, leyendas e historias de la primera civilización de Occidente

    Un libro fundamental para adentrarse en el conocimiento de Tartessos a través de sus bellos mitos y leyendas.Tartessos, la primera civilización de Occidente, se debate entre el mito y la historia. Su eco nos llega a través de textos y leyendas clásicas y se perfecciona con el trabajo de los arqueólogos. Todavía hoy, genera un vivo debate entre los historiadores y guarda muchos secretos por ... Read more

    $6.06 USD

  • Painting Pots – Painting People

    Late Neolithic Ceramics in Ancient Mesopotamia

    Archaeologists have recently made tremendous advances in understanding the early ceramic traditions of the prehistoric Near East. Over the past decade there has been a huge increase in research focusing on various aspects of ceramic production, its origins and evolution, distribution and consumption in the Late Neolithic (ca. 7000–5000 cal. BC). Fieldwork brings new and exciting finds every year ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus