Archaeology – Bücher, Blu-ray Discs, CDs und mehr, Seite 10

Richard Hodges
Butrint

Focusing on the archaeology and history of Butrint in southern Albania, this book begins by looking at its foundation in the Bronze Age period through to the contemporary era, where it is now a popular to…

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Michael B. Cosmopoulos
The World of Homer

Epic poetry, notably the Iliad and the Odyssey, stands as one of the most enduring legacies of ancient Greece. Although the impact of these epics on Western civilization is widely recognized, their origin…

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Antioch on the Orontes

Antioch on the Orontes was one of the most important cities of the ancient Mediterranean world. A hinge between the Mediterranean, Central Asia, and the Far East, its commercial and cultural prominence sp…

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Shelley Hales
Mirrors and Masks in the Roman Empire

This book explores the ways in which masks and mirrors mediated encounters, enabled performances and effected visual and social metamorphoses across the Roman empire.The complex and multifaceted roles pla…

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Anna Lucille Boozer
At Home in Roman Egypt

What was life like for ordinary people who lived in Roman Egypt? In this volume, Anna Lucille Boozer reconstructs and examines the everyday lives of non-elite individuals. It is the first book to bring a …

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Monica L. Smith
How Urbanism Changes Foodways

The advent of urbanism had profound impacts on landscape management, agricultural production, food preservation, and cuisine. This Element examines the 6,000-year history of urbanism through the archaeolo…

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Janet Carsten
Marriage and the Moral Imagination

This fresh and engaging book opens up new terrain in the exploration of marriage and kinship. While anthropologists and sociologists have often interpreted marriage, and kinship more broadly, in conservat…

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Nayantara Sheoran Appleton
Demographic Desires

Exploring the intertwined histories of hormonal contraception and population anxiety, in Demographic Desires: Medicine, Media, and Emergency Contraception in India, Appleton shows how historic discourses …

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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Georgia Mouroutsou
Aristippus of Cyrene, Pleasure and the Present

This Element offers a new historical account of Aristippus the Elder's views on pleasure and the present. Instead of treating Aristippus as merely proto-Cyrenaic or anachronistically modern, it uncovers i…

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Markus Eberl
War Owl Falling

Drawing on archaeological findings from the Maya lowlands, this book shows how innovation and creativity led to social change in ancient societies

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Julian Heath
Prehistoric Europe

A full-color examination of 50 fascinating and important archaeological discoveries from prehistoric Europe.

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Elizabeth A. Murphy
The Pottery Industries of the Roman East

What was the social experience of work in the ancient world? In this study, Elizabeth Murphy approaches the topic through the lens offered by a particular set of workers, the potters and ceramicists in th…

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Laura Rademaker, Sally K. May, Gabriel Maralngurra
Aboriginal Rock Art and the Telling of History

The rock art of Australia is among the oldest, most complex, and most fascinating manifestations of human creativity and imagination in the world. Aboriginal people used art to record their experiences, c…

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Tony Waldron
Palaeopathology

An evidence based account of how to recognise and diagnose pathological lesions in human remains.

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Alice L. Conklin
In the Museum of Man

В книге представлен новый взгляд на сложные взаимоотношения науки, общества и власти в период расцвета французского империализма и европейского расизма. Автор переносит нас в годы становления французской …

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Janet Carsten
Marriage and the Moral Imagination

This fresh and engaging book opens up new terrain in the exploration of marriage and kinship. While anthropologists and sociologists have often interpreted marriage, and kinship more broadly, in conservat…

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Shu-Li Wang
In Search of National Ancestors

This Element examines how international heritage discourses are internalized and reshaped in China, using the Yellow Emperor cults as a lens to explore broader themes of intangible heritage, religious res…

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Robin Derricourt
Five Innovations That Changed Human History

We live in an era of major technological developments, post-pandemic social adjustment, and dramatic climate change arising from human activity. Considering these phenomena within the long span of human h…

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