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Rethinking Materiality Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9781902937304
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2005
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Illustrations: 62 ills., 3 tables
Description:
What is the relationship between mind and ideas on the one hand, and the material things of the world on the other? In recent years, researchers have rejected the old debate about the primacy of the mind or material, and have sought to establish more nuanced understandings of the ways humans interact with their material worlds. In this volume alternative approaches are presented, deriving from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives.
RRP: £45.00
American Furniture 2004 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 316
ISBN: 9780972435345
Pub Date: 20 Jan 2005
Series: American Furniture Annual
Illustrations: 308 illus. (230 colour). 10 fig. Table. End-paper
Description:
Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the 17th century to the present.
Coinage and Currency in Eighteenth Century Britain Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 383
ISBN: 9781907427169
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2005
Imprint: Spink Books
Description:
This book, written by an expert in the field and drawing on recent research, aims to put Britain's eighteenth-century provincial token coinage into the context of the currency problems of the time. On the basis of a wide-range of both documentary and secondary sources it examines its major manufacturers and their intentions, and through profiles of many of the issuers involved it sets out to give a living dimension to a bygone monetary phenomenon.
RRP: £65.00
TRAC 2004 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 170
ISBN: 9781842171738
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2005
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: TRAC
Illustrations: b/w illus, tables
Description:
The fourteenth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference was held at the University of Durham Department of Archaeology, March 2004. The papers present and discuss information drawn from as wide a range of geographical regions of the Roman Empire as the scope of theoretical and methodological approaches applied. An equally wide selection of subject matter is illustrated, including the ancient economy, historiography and modern perceptions of the Roman world, production, supply and consumption of material culture, social identities and the experience of social space and the landscape.
RRP: £30.00
A Medieval Moated Site at Cedars Field, Stowmarket, Suffolk Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 33
ISBN: 9780860552796
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2004
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 2 b/w pls, 13 b/w figs, 13 tbs
Description:
The medieval moated site at Cedars Wood was investigated in 1980 and 1999, revealing occupation evidence from the Neolithic and Bronze Age, Roman and medieval periods. The latter forms the focus of this report although other finds are listed. Occupied from the 12th to 14th century, the site is thought to have belonged to the Broughton family and comprised an area of approximately one acre enclosed by a shallow moat.
EAA 107: Excavations at Stansted Airport, 1986-91 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 583
ISBN: 9781852812423
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2004
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: many b/w pls, illus, figs, tbs
Description:
This is an account of the archaeological work begun in 1985 in response to the development of Stansted as Londons third airport. Originally it was conceived as a medieval landscape project, focusing on the three known sites in the area two of which were thought to be Domesday Manors supplemented by fieldwalking of the entire development area. By 1991 the fieldwalking programme, coupled with large-scale excavations and watching briefs, had transformed our understanding of the settlement landscape of north-west Essex, with the discovery of extensive archaeological deposits dating back to the Neolithic.
Mitigation of construction impact on archaeological remains Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 91
ISBN: 9781901992472
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2004
Illustrations: 28 b/w illus
Description:
This volume will be an invaluable asset to all archaeologists involved in fieldwork and site management. In the modern environment of developer-funded archaeology, commercial development and site preservation, there are more and more cases where archaeological sites are being impacted upon by various forms of construction. In order to understand and protect the historic environment wherever possible, archaeologists are faced with the crucial task of making decisions on how best to combine the needs of development whilst maintaining our archaeological heritage.
RRP: £6.95
Roman Coins and Their Values Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 388
ISBN: 9780713478235
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2004
Imprint: Spink Books
Illustrations: black and white illustrations throughout
Description:
The original edition of this volume was published by Seaby thirty-six years ago and has been through three revisions (1970, 1974, and 1981). The only one-volume price guide to the coinage of Republican and Imperial Rome. It is an indispensable listing of all major types of gold, silver and bronze, issued over some seven hundred and fifty years by the greatest militaristic state the world has ever known.
Traces of Ancestry Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 162
ISBN: 9781902937250
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2004
Illustrations: b/w figs
Description:
In 1987, Colin Renfrew's Archaeology and Language challenged many perceptions about how one language family spread across large parts of the world. In doing so he re-invigorated an important exchange between archaeologists and historical linguists. At precisely the same time, a quite separate field, human genetics, was making considerable steps forward in the elucidation of human ancestry.
Byzantine Butrint Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 432
ISBN: 9781842171585
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2004
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Butrint Archaeological Monographs
Illustrations: 88 b/w pls, 169 b/w illus, 31 col pls, 16 col illus, tbs
Description:
The ancient walled town of Butrint sits at the crossroads of the Mediterranean. In its heyday it could command sea-routes up the Adriatic Sea to the north, across the Mediterranean to the west, and south through the Ionian islands. It also controlled a land-route into the mountainous Balkan interior.
Cistercian Abbey of St Mary Stratford Langthorne, Essex Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 198
ISBN: 9781901992380
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2004
Series: MoLAS Monograph
Illustrations: b/w and col illus
Description:
The Cistercian monastery of St Mary Stratford Langthorne once stood on land south of the new Jubilee Line station at Stratford. Excavations 1973-94 recorded large parts of the monastic church, cemetery and related buildings. Topics include the precinct arrangement, architecture and decoration, and the way of life of the inhabitants.
RRP: £18.95
Life and Death in London's East End Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 100
ISBN: 9781901992496
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2004
Illustrations: col pls
Description:
In 1991 Spitalfields Market in London's East End was relocated, paving the way for one of the largest and most complex excavations ever launched in London, taking place on a site measuring almost thirteen acres. This superb book tells the story of the excavation and the 2000-year history of the area from the Roman period to the present day. Details on the finds recovered, and the methods and recording systems used, are interspersed with a narrative history of the site.
Money on the Silk Road Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780714118062
Pub Date: 10 Dec 2004
Illustrations: 68 b/w illus, 8 maps
Description:
This book focuses on the money of Eastern Central Asia to c. AD 800, a period of over 900 years, across a vast geographical area with a very diverse population of different cultures and traditions. The only relevant historical accounts are those found in the Chinese dynastic histories, yet these contain few references to money in Eastern Central Asia.
A Frontier Landscape Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 273
ISBN: 9780954557560
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2004
Imprint: Windgather Press
Illustrations: 12 col pls, 77 b/w illus, 6 tbs
Description:
North west England has largely been neglected in studies of medieval landscapes in favour of the Midlands and East Anglia although it has much to offer. Described here as a `frontier landscape' encompassing the modern regions of Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside and Greater Manchester, the author discusses changes to the medieval landscape and why these occurred. He outlines and characterises the major period of expansion and economic boom that took place in the north west from 1086 to 1349 and asks why political and military matters seen to have had such an important role in landscape change.
Landscape Encyclopaedia Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 297
ISBN: 9780954557515
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2004
Imprint: Windgather Press
Illustrations: b/w figs and pls
Description:
Walking through the British countryside often leaves you with numerous questions and no means of finding the answers in one, readily accessible place. This new encyclopedia by Richard Muir contains almost 1,000 entries which provide explanations of terms, features and concepts connected with the history and archaeology of the landscape. Short definitions and descriptions are joined by longer discussions of themes, concepts and approaches such as the origins of the village green, the parish, milestones, and the meaning of words Dalloch, souterrain and watergate.
Lemmatized Index to the Icelandic Homily Book Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 204
ISBN: 9789979819875
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2004
Imprint: University of Iceland Press