Archaeology

This book recounts the fascinating lives of thirty real women of the ancient Mediterranean from the Palaeolithic to the Byzantines.

Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted, in 1969, a suspect in President John F.

Peter Dale Scott has written extensively on the Kennedy assassination and other dark corners of the American political scene.

Originally published in 1995, and in the same classic investigative style of Whitewash and Case Open, Harold Weisberg turns his sharp investigative eye towards the events surrounding the autopsy of John F.

Being an outlaw in the Old West was a dangerous, grisly businesstwenty-three gunshot wounds and living to tell the tale, falling out of a moving train, decapitation due to a hanging gone wrong, life on the lam, horse thievery, illegal alcohol trade, and more.

This book studies Natha sampradaya through archaeological evidence for the first time.

Explores Britain''s most prominent armaments firms and their relationships with the British Government and foreign states from 1855 to 1955.

This book explores the place of birds in Roman myth and everyday life, focusing primarily on the transitional period of 100 BCE to 100 CE within the Italian peninsula.

This book explores the place of birds in Roman myth and everyday life, focusing primarily on the transitional period of 100 BCE to 100 CE within the Italian peninsula.

This volume presents the various ways in which the study of gender makes a difference in archaeological research, the archaeological academic milieu and the wider public's thinking about gender and considers avenues of future development.

Questo saggio divulga quanto la ricerca ha finora appurato sulla celebre Sindone di Torino, non ha il fine d’indurre a credere che il Lenzuolo di Torino abbia davvero avvolto il corpo di Cristo un paio di millenni fa.

Reculturing Museums takes a unified sociocultural theoretical approach to analyze the many conflicts museums experience in the 21st century.

This volume follows the changes that occurred in central Palestine during the longue duree between the 7th to the 11th centuries.

This volume follows the changes that occurred in central Palestine during the longue duree between the 7th to the 11th centuries.

African Islands provides the first geographically and chronologically comprehensive overview of the archaeology of African islands.

African Islands provides the first geographically and chronologically comprehensive overview of the archaeology of African islands.

This book explores the complex relationship between production, trade, and connectivity in pre-Roman Italy, confronting established ideas about the connections between people, objects, and ideas, and highlighting how social change and community formation are rooted in individual interactions.

This book explores the complex relationship between production, trade, and connectivity in pre-Roman Italy, confronting established ideas about the connections between people, objects, and ideas, and highlighting how social change and community formation are rooted in individual interactions.

Reculturing Museums takes a unified sociocultural theoretical approach to analyze the many conflicts museums experience in the 21st century.

The Object of Conservation examines how historic buildings, monuments and artefacts are cared for as valued embodiments of the past.

The Object of Conservation examines how historic buildings, monuments and artefacts are cared for as valued embodiments of the past.

Amongst the Ruins explores the loss of ancient civilizations, the collapse of ruling elites, and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions.

This volume examines the power relationships between the rulers of the Late Bronze and Iron Age and their subjects in the Levant through the lens of "e;cultural hegemony.

This book interrogates post-Roman art, arguing for aesthetic variety as a cross-cultural concept in early medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.

This volume examines the power relationships between the rulers of the Late Bronze and Iron Age and their subjects in the Levant through the lens of "e;cultural hegemony.

'THE BEST BOOK ON ROMAN BRITAIN I'VE READ IN AGES' TOM HOLLAND'A masterly evocation of the bloodiest year in British history.

This book presents an archeological interpretation of the history of Chinese civilization.

Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors, and priests.

Over the last 30 years, the Connecticut Office of State Archaeology and the Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Conservation Service have entered into a partnership employing ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to the study of the state’s archaeology and history.

This facsimile reissue of Flinders Petrie’s extensive catalog of buttons and scarabs describes and illustrates over 1500 examples, along with an appendix on additions to the ‘Scarabs and Cylinders’ volume published earlier.

Facsimile edition of the 1972 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1914 pioneering typological catalog of Egyptian Shuabtis, one of a number of such catalogs to be reissued in this new series.

Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s fully illustrated 1927 description and catalog of personal and everyday Egyptian and Roman objects in his collections.

This innovative book takes the concept of translation beyond its traditional boundaries, adding to the growing body of literature which challenges the idea of translation as a primarily linguistic transfer.

This is the story behind Rome's greatest frontier - Hadrian's Wall.

A Scottish historian provides an original, fascinating, and comprehensive account of the Isle of Arran from the prehistoric era to the 20th-century.

Follow the sensational lives of four Georgian Era royals through scandal, corruption, and coronation in this revealing family biography.

Follow the sensational lives of four Georgian Era royals through scandal, corruption, and coronation in this revealing family biography.

An archeological study of burial grounds across England, shedding light on pagan executions, the Black Death, and much more.

A "e;wonderful"e; account of the raising of a sixteenth-century warship, and answers to the long-running mysteries surrounding her loss (Naval Historical Foundation).

"e;Reading with all the innate and iconoclastic dramatic flair of a well scripted novel .

"e;Reading with all the innate and iconoclastic dramatic flair of a well scripted novel .

How prehistoric humans coped with the end of the last Ice Age-and catastrophic global warming.

"e;An intriguing look into the past through The National Archives .

A "e;wonderful"e; account of the raising of a sixteenth-century warship, and answers to the long-running mysteries surrounding her loss (Naval Historical Foundation).

The transport stirrup jar was a vessel type used extensively in the Late Bronze Age III Aegean world.

This in-depth history of medieval Scottish warfare highlights the rivalries between the Norse warlords and the early Scottish kings.