Fragments of the bronze age

Fragments of the Bronze Age

An analysis of the deliberate destruction of Bronze Age metalwork from a new perspective.

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End of the Bronze Age

The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century bc with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruct

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Age of Bronze

Continuing the award-winning historical graphic novel series of the Trojan War. With b/w illus. Ages: 16+.

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Bronze Age Worlds

Bronze Age Worlds brings a new way of thinking about kinship to the task of explaining the formation of social life in the Bronze Age Britain and Irel

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50 Bronze Age Finds

A fascinating selection of Bronze Age finds from across the country, from the Portable Antiquities Scheme.

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Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant

A richly documented and illustrated survey of the archaeology of a crucible of world culture, covering the earliest urban cultures and the emergence o

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Bronze Age Military Equipment

This book is a fascinating discussion of the development of the military equipment of the earliest organized armies.

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Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East

This study summons historical, archaeological, and iconographic data from Bronze Age Mesopotamia, the Levant, and Egypt to address the legacy of Amori

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Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age

The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age offers a comprehensive chronological and geographical overview of one of the most important civilizat

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House of Mystery: The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 3

Welcome to the House of Mystery, where bone-chilling (and rib-tickling) revelations haunt every dark and shadowed room--and people are dying to get in

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Iphigenia In Aulis, The Age of Bronze Edition

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Stone Age to the Bronze Age: The Lives of Ancient People

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Shaping of the English Landscape: An Atlas of Archaeology from the Bronze Age to Domesday Book

An atlas of English archaeology covering the period from the middle Bronze Age (c. 1500 BC) to Domesday Book (AD 1086), encompassing the Bronze and Ir

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Bronze Age Greek Warrior 1600–1100 BC

More than a century has passed past since German archeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered the treasures of Bronze Age Mycenae. Through a combined s

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Death and the Body in Bronze Age Europe

This book offers case-based analyses of the introduction and eventual dominance of cremation in temperate Bronze Age Europe. In turn it questions the

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Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery Traditions at the Margins of the Hittite State

The intent of this volume is to break through the boundaries usually imposed by the study of 2nd millennium BC pottery production in Anatolia. 12 pa

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Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Saxon Settlements Along the Route of the A43 Corby Link Road, Northamptonshire

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Sea Peoples of the Bronze Age Mediterranean c.1400 BC–1000 BC

Features historical and archaeological research into the mysterious and powerful confederations of raiders who troubled the Eastern Mediterranean in t

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Sleepers of Roraima a The Age of Rainmakers

In 1970 and 1971, Wilson Harris published two short story collections that explored the myths, fables and fragments of history of the Amerindian peopl

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Boy with the Bronze Axe

Set in the Stone Age village of Skara Brae on Orkney. A strange boy arrives in the village with a sharp axe of a type never seen before. Conflict soon

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Baden, Kostolac, Vučedol and Vinkovci - The Late Eneolithic, Transition Period, and Early Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin and the Western Balkans

The book treats three primary themes. The first covers the Baden, Kostolac/Bošáca and Vučedol cultures, demonstrating their genetic relationship and indigenous development. This development is marked by changes in distribution (the global horizontal stratigraphy) caused by the penetration of the Pit Grave Culture, our second theme. The third theme analyses the emergence o...

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Baden, Kostolac, Vučedol and Vinkovci - The Late Eneolithic, Transition Period, and Early Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin and the Western Balkans - Želimir Brnic

<p>The book treats three primary themes. The first covers the Baden, Kostolac/Bošáca and Vučedol cultures, demonstrating their genetic relationship and indigenous development. This development is marked by changes in distribution (the global horizontal stratigraphy) caused by the penetration of the Pit Grave Culture, our second theme. The third theme analyses the em...

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History Detective Investigates: Stone Age to Iron Age

A hands-on, investigative approach to history. Learn all about early settlers in Britain and the story of the Stone, Bronze and Iron Age during the la

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Magicians of the Gods

Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returned with the sequel to his seminal work filled with completely new, scientific and archaeological evidence, which has only rece...

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Archaeology of the Ionian Sea

A new, cutting-edge archaeological investigation into the Ionian Sea from the beginning of the Palaeolithic to the end of the Bronze Age.

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Dawn of the Horse Warriors

This title follows the development of chariot warfare in the great Bronze Age civilizations (Sumerian, Hittite, Egyptian, Assyrian, etc.) and its even

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Ancient Metrology, Vol I

Comprehensive overview of the system of measure found in Neolithic, Bronze, and Iron age Europe from the world's leading authority on ancient metrolog

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Timeline. The Archaeology of the South Wales Gas Pipeline

The excavations also produced evidence for Early Bronze Age houses and numerous examples of burnt mounds. Other discoveries comprised much new evide

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Troy: Lord Of The Silver Bow

- STEVEN PRESSFIELD"What a masterly imagining of Bronze Age Greece" - ***** Reader review"The story is thrilling and once you start, you can not stop.

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Interdisciplinary analysis of the cemetery 'Kudachurt 14'

This book provides detailed disciplinary and interdisciplinary insights into social inequality, oral health and dietary strategies of a Bronze Age pop

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History of the World Quiz Book

From the Bronze Age to the end of the Second World War, this quiz book covers 5,000 years of world history and provides the ultimate challenge for any

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Roman Religion and the Cult of Diana at Aricia

The sanctuary dedicated to Diana at Aricia flourished from the Bronze age to the second century CE. This 2007 book examines the history of Diana's cul

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Helen of Troy

the pin-up of Romantic artists. Focusing on the 'real' Helen - a flesh-and-blood aristocrat from the Greek Bronze Age - acclaimed historian Bettany

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Atlas of Classical History

This revised edition traces the period from Greece's Bronze Age to Rome's fall in the west through over 150 maps of ancient physical and human landsca

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Greece in the Ancient World

Balancing textual and archaeological evidence, this brand-new, single-voiced narrative paints a vivid picture of Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to

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Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece

This richly illustrated, four-colour textbook introduces the art and archaeology of ancient Greece, from the Bronze Age through to the Roman conquest.

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Life and Death of Ancient Cities

The story of ancient cities from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Ages: a tale of war and politics, pestilence and famine, tri

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Life and Death of Ancient Cities

The story of ancient cities from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Ages: a tale of war and politics, pestilence and famine, tri

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Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC

Presents an account of Greek history from the end of the Bronze Age to the Classical Period. This book offers a narrative which acknowledges the later

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The Sea is My Brother : The Lost Novel - Jack Kerouac

<p>'His first novel is a revelation ... the writing is vivid, serious and extraordinary ... wonderful' The Times The Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor in 1942. Lost during his lifetime, it is an intense portrait of friendship and brotherhood and a meditation on the desire to escape society, follow...

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Atlas of Classical History Taylor & Francis Ltd

This revised edition of the Atlas of Classical History traces the period from Greece´s Bronze Age to Rome´s fall in the west through over 150 maps of ancient physical and human landscapes from Britain to India. Each map is enriched by readily identifiable symbols and concise accompanying texts, as well as recommendations for further reading. With its vast geographical swe...

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Qidfa' 1: Excavation of a Late Prehistoric Tomb, Fujairah Emirate, United Arab Emirates

This volume presents results from the rescue excavations of the Qidfa' 1 site, a multi-period tomb (Wadi Suq-Late Bronze /Early Iron Age). The richnes

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Studies of Homeric Greece - Jan Bouzek

Anotace: Kniha je přepracovaným a doplněným přehledem archeologie a historie pozdně mykénského a geometrického Řecka a společenství geometrických stylů rané doby železné v Evropě a severní Eurasii, ve vztahu k egyptským a předovýchodním civilizacím: období od 13. do 8. století př. Kr., tzv. axiální době lidských dějin a počátkům přechodu od předfilozofického k filozofick...

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Studies of Homeric Greece - Jan Bouzek

<p>Kniha je přepracovaným a doplněným přehledem archeologie a historie pozdně mykénského a geometrického Řecka a společenství geometrických stylů rané doby železné v Evropě a severní Eurasii, ve vztahu k egyptským a předovýchodním civilizacím: období od 13. do 8. století př. Kr., tzv. axiální době lidských dějin a počátkům přechodu od předfilozofického k filozofické...

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Completely Normal Practice

Unravelling the logic behind the puzzling practice of selective metalwork deposition in the European Bronze Age.

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Aegean Art and Architecture

Beginning with the Neolithic period, pre-3000 BCE, and ending at the close of the Bronze Age and the transition to the Iron Age of Hellenic Greece (c1

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Knossos, Mycenae, Troy

Engagingly written history of the first Mediterranean Bronze Age civilisations, set against the backdrop of a series of natural disasters.

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Norse Ancient Origins

With an insightful introduction, this fascinating book traces the ancient origins of the Norsemen, from the Stone Age, through the Bronze Age, Iron Ag

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Death Revisited

Death revisited present the results of the excavation of three Middle Bronze Age barrows and the direct surroundings of two barrow groups at the Wiese

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Smile Stealers

An incisive and startling international review of the evolution of dentistry from the Bronze Age to the present day, presented in a beautifully crafte

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Il sito della Rocca di Oratino: dieci anni di ricerche

This volume presents excavation results pertaining to the final stages of occupation (late Subappennine period) of the Bronze Age site of Orantino-La

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Ancient Greeks at War

This book takes a thematic approach that analyses a broad range of military and social aspects of Greek warfare in the period from the Late Bronze Age

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Trojan War as Military History

Detailed study of the weapons, armour and tactics of Bronze Age warfare is enriched by the author's insights from experimental archaeology.

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Britain AD

Leading archaeologist Francis Pryor retells the story of King Arthur, legendary king of the Britons, tracing it back to its Bronze Age origins.

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Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe

This volume offers a review of major flint mines dating from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. The 18 articles were contributed by archaeologists from

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Burial Mounds in Europe and Japan

This book brings together specialists of the European Bronze and Iron Age and the Japanese Yayoi and Kofun periods for the first time to discuss buria

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Greeks in Asia

Recounting the influence of Greek communities and their culture through Central Asia, India and Western China, from the Bronze Age through to the rise

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Purpled World

During the Aegean Bronze Age, the spread of woolen textiles triggered an increased demand for color. In The Purpled World, Silver reveals how Minoan a

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Cuckoo's Flight

When Clio's town in Bronze Age Crete is threatened by seafaring raiders, she faces the greatest sacrifice of all. Can Clio, her herd of horses and a n

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Minoans

Bang up to date, and thoroughly researched, Rodney Castleden's Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete here sues the results of recent research to produce a

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