In this guide-that's-not-a-guide, metal detectorist cousins Ellie and Lucie explore their local landscape, getting to grips with the hobby, history and themselves along the way.
Winner of the 2024 Richard Jefferies Award for nature writingShortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on ConservationA Times Science Book of the Year'Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.
An absorbing travel book, a meditation on geology, photography, Romanesque art and the romance of physical decline, The Slow Breath of Stone throws a mirror on Europe of the Middle Ages and its hold on us today.
A brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of the survival of early medieval Europe's greatest treasure.
Schlachtfeldarchaologie: In Heft 1/2026 blicken wir auf die Schlachtfelder verschiedener Epochen, zu denen archaologische Funde wie Waffen, Ausrustung oder menschliche Uberreste vorliegen.
The Great Isaiah Scroll lives up to its present-day name: with its over 7 meters, it preserves a complete text of one of the most extensive Hebrew Bible books.
Combines anthropology s four subfields to explore what it means to be human Introduction to Holistic Anthropology invites students to rediscover anthropology as Franz Boas once envisioned it a unified discipline that integrates biological, historical, linguistic, and cultural perspectives to understand human diversity and commonality.
Reune un conjunto de investigaciones que reflexionan sobre la relevancia de la arqueologia como disciplina fundamental para enriquecer la comprension de la historia colonial de Mexico y America Latina.
LA CIVILIZACION MAS PODEROSA DE LA HISTORIA OCCIDENTALDurante mas de 500 anos, Roma fue la mas poderosa y avanzada civilizacion que el mundo habia conocido jamas.
Yuezhi Yatra: Kushan Empire's Foundations is a sweeping historical journey into the rise of one of the ancient world's most remarkable yet often overlooked empires.
In the shadow of the great empires of the ancient world — Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, and the Hittites — there lived a people whose civilization was as rich, as sophisticated, and as historically consequential as any of its more celebrated contemporaries.
Verheerende Naturkatastrophen haben auch die Menschen in Bayern immer wieder heimgesucht – insbesondere Hochwasser und Dürren, aber auch die Auswirkungen von schweren Erdbeben in den Nachbarländern.
En las ultimas decadas del siglo XX y comienzos del XXI, las sociedades han empezado a identificar, reconocer, estudiar y valorar el legado de las generaciones anteriores, en relacion con el trabajo, la tecnica y la apropiacion del paisaje a traves del trabajo.
In the fertile heartland of ancient Syria, along the banks of the Khabur River and its tributaries, there once stood an empire so powerful that the mightiest pharaohs of Egypt sought its daughters in marriage, so militarily formidable that Hittite emperors pressed their finest armies against its borders, and so diplomatically sophisticated that it helped architect the first true system of international relations the world had ever seen.
For too long, the story of ancient feminine power along the Nile has been told through a single face — the serene, iconic profile of Egypt's Nefertiti, whose limestone bust has become the universal symbol of ancient queenship.
Across the windswept expanse of the Eurasian steppe, where empires rose and fell not in stone and mortar but in leather and iron, one of history's most consequential and least celebrated civilizations forged a political tradition that would shape the course of an entire continent for a millennium.
El presente ensayo relata la historia y el contenido de una colección hallada hace años en la localidad de Huacalera, provincia de Jujuy, que acompañaba a un personaje de especial importancia para su etnia, a juzgar por lo nutrido de su inventario.
In the third century BCE, a boy born in exile, raised as a hostage in an enemy kingdom, and thrust onto the throne of a frontier state at the age of thirteen, did what no human being in the history of East Asia had ever accomplished: he conquered six rival kingdoms, unified a fractured civilization, and declared himself the First Emperor of China.
El presente volumen es el resultado de la colaboración interdisciplinar de un grupo de los más destacados especialistas en el estudio de la Prehistoria peninsular, que han combinado los más actuales conocimientos científicos sobre el tema para ofrecer una visión holística de un pasado que no siempre se interpreta exclusivamente a través de la cultura material.
An introduction to how life has colonized and shaped the Earth, turning it into the habitable planet of today Exploring the geological basis for life on Earth, Introduction to Geobiology systematically examines the interaction between the geosphere and the biosphere, including its evolutionary history.
Este libro expone los resultados de un reconocimiento regional sistemático en un área de 277 Km² que incluyó parte de los actuales municipios de Tunja, Motavita, Cómbita, Oicatá, Chivatá, Boyacá, Samacá, Sora y Cucaita, (Boyacá-Colombia).
Xia Dynasty Dawn: Mythical First Chinese Rule is a sweeping exploration of one of the most mysterious and fascinating beginnings in Chinese civilization—the legendary Xia Dynasty.
Aramean Arise: Semitic Kings of Levant is a sweeping historical exploration of one of the ancient Near East's most dynamic yet often overlooked peoples—the Arameans.
An introduction to how life has colonized and shaped the Earth, turning it into the habitable planet of today Exploring the geological basis for life on Earth, Introduction to Geobiology systematically examines the interaction between the geosphere and the biosphere, including its evolutionary history.
Zhou Bronze Age: China's Feudal Foundations is a sweeping exploration of one of the most formative eras in early Chinese civilization, tracing how the Zhou dynasty shaped the political, social, ritual, and moral foundations that would influence China for centuries.
Combines anthropology s four subfields to explore what it means to be human Introduction to Holistic Anthropology invites students to rediscover anthropology as Franz Boas once envisioned it a unified discipline that integrates biological, historical, linguistic, and cultural perspectives to understand human diversity and commonality.
'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote.
Bridges culture, nature, and sustainability through an anthropological lens on global environmental challenges Environmental anthropology offers powerful tools for making sense of today s pressing sustainability challenges, from climate change and biodiversity loss to environmental injustice and resource conflicts.
Bridges culture, nature, and sustainability through an anthropological lens on global environmental challenges Environmental anthropology offers powerful tools for making sense of today s pressing sustainability challenges, from climate change and biodiversity loss to environmental injustice and resource conflicts.
How Our Restless Ancestors Shaped the Interconnected World We Live in Today First Migrants Revisited: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective reveals how human and hominin migrations over the past five million years shaped the world we inhabit today.
How Our Restless Ancestors Shaped the Interconnected World We Live in Today First Migrants Revisited: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective reveals how human and hominin migrations over the past five million years shaped the world we inhabit today.
