Bronze Age and Iron Age

Bronze Weapons of the Qin Terracotta Warriors
Standardisation, craft specialisation and labour organisation
£66.00
Author:
Xiuzhen Li
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407316901
Paperback:
239 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 36 tables, 137 figures.
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of East Asia, 3
BAR number:
S2992
Sub Title:
Standardisation, craft specialisation and labour organisation
Over 40,000 lethal bronze weapons were discovered with thousands of terracotta warriors in the tomb complex of the Qin First Emperor (259-210 BC). This book... More
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The Life Biography of Artefacts and Ritual Practice
With case studies from Mesolithic-Early Bronze Age Europe
£41.00
Editors:
Mathias Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist and Peter Bye-Jensen
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356822
Paperback:
140 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 11 tables, 111 figures.
BAR number:
S2991
Sub Title:
With case studies from Mesolithic-Early Bronze Age Europe
Inspired by a session held at the EAA conference in Vilnius in 2016, The Life Biography of Artefacts and Ritual Practice focuses on creating biographies... More
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£74.00
Authors:
Oleksandr Shelekhan
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356440
Paperback:
304 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 10 tables, 81 figures.
BAR number:
S2989
Oleksandr Shelekhan comprehensively examines Scythian bladed weapons belonging to farmer tribes who lived in the East European Forest-Steppe from the 7th... More
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Tibetan Silver, Gold and Bronze Objects and the Aesthetics of Animals in the Era before Empire
Cross-cultural reverberations on the Tibetan Plateau and soundings from other parts of Eurasia
£53.00
Author:
John Vincent Bellezza
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407354316
Paperback:
184 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 2 tables, 148 figures, 2 maps.
BAR number:
S2984
Sub Title:
Cross-cultural reverberations on the Tibetan Plateau and soundings from other parts of Eurasia
This archaeological and art-historical study is woven around rock art and ancient metallic articles attributed to Tibet. The silver bowls, gold finial, and... More
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£54.00
Author:
Susan E. Poole
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407354286
Paperback:
202 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 4 tables, 209 figures. With additional material online (Appendices I, II and III, additional tables and illustration of Part II)
Sub-series name:
UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series, 3
BAR number:
S2980
This monograph analyses human figures that appear in Aegean Bronze Age art, considering the roles and relations between genders, and interpreting... More
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£38.00
Author:
Aleksandar Bulatović
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356907
Paperback:
133 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 86 figures, 20 plates.
BAR number:
S2978
This volume presents the finds from an Early Bronze Age necropolis in the Južna Morava Basin in the heart of the Balkans holding exclusively incinerated... More
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Dynastic Deeds
Hunt scenes in the funerary imagery of the Achaemenid Eastern Mediterranean
£51.00
Author:
Alessandro Poggio
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356389
Paperback:
174 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 89 figures.
BAR number:
S2974
Sub Title:
Hunt scenes in the funerary imagery of the Achaemenid Eastern Mediterranean
This study adopts a transregional approach that focuses on connectivity dynamics in order to present a wider picture of artistic, cultural and political... More
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Bronze Age Combat
An experimental approach
£52.00
Author:
Raphael Hermann, Rachel J. Crellin, Marion Uckelmann, Quanyu Wang, and Andrea Dolfini
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407355719
Paperback:
158 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 7 tables, 270 figures.
BAR number:
S2967
Sub Title:
An experimental approach
The Newcastle-led Bronze Age Combat project presents its results from innovative combat experiments with replica Bronze Age swords, spears and shields. The... More
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£31.00
Author:
Chong Yu
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407316871
Paperback:
108 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 13 tables, 20 figures
Sub-series name:
Archaeology of East Asia, 2
BAR number:
S2959
Cattle (Bos taurus), domesticated from the extinct aurochs (Bos primigenius), has been an important animal to many human societies since prehistoric times.... More
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Proceedings of the XXth International Congress on Ancient Bronzes
Resource, reconstruction, representation, role
£101.00
Editors:
Philipp Baas
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
English, German, French, Italian
ISBN:
9781407355894
Paperback:
416 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 28 tables, 25 diagrams, 270 figures.
BAR number:
S2958
Sub Title:
Resource, reconstruction, representation, role
Bronzes in the ancient world – from over-lifesize sculptures to small-scale utilitarian objects – were an omnipresent and integral part of everyday public... More
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Incontri e Mobilità nel Mediterraneo preistorico
Le necropoli siciliane di Cozzo del Pantano e Matrensa
£68.00
Editors:
Davide Tanasi and Carlo Veca
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
Italian with an English summary
ISBN:
9781407356457
Paperback:
253 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 22 tables, 50 figures.
BAR number:
S2950
Sub Title:
Le necropoli siciliane di Cozzo del Pantano e Matrensa
L’Età del Bronzo Medio (meta’ XV - meta’ XIII secolo a.C.) rappresenta un momento cruciale per lo sviluppo culturale delle comunità indigene siciliane,... More
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The Napatan Cylindrical Sheaths
A catalogue and analysis of precious objects from the royal cemetery of Nuri
£33.00
Author:
Amarillis Pompei
Publication Year:
2019
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407355498
Paperback:
116 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 28 figures, 19 plates (12 in colour).
BAR number:
S2948
Sub Title:
A catalogue and analysis of precious objects from the royal cemetery of Nuri
The Napatan Cylindrical Sheaths provides a complete analysis of the precious finds discovered at the royal cemetery of Nuri (Sudan) for the first time. This... More
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