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Archaeology
Down from Olympus
By SuzanneL Marchand
Paperback
Published 06-Jan-2003
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Argues that nineteenth-century philhellenes inherited both an elitist, normative aesthetics and an ascetic, scholarly ethos from their Romantic predecessors; German "neohumanists" promised to reconcile these intellectual commitments, and by so doing, to revitalize education and the arts.
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Collapse of Complex Societies
By Joseph A Tainter
Paperback
Published 29-Mar-1990
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Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory.
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After the Ice
By Steven Mithen
Paperback
Published 04-Mar-2004
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A fantastic voyage through 15,000 years of history that laid the foundations for civilisation as we know it.
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Trees in Anglo-Saxon England
By Della Hooke
Paperback
Published 18-Apr-2013
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A powerful exploration of trees in both the real and the imagined Anglo-Saxon landscape.
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Stonehenge
By Robin Heath
Paperback
Published 01-Jan-2000
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Dark Age Economics
By Richard Hodges
Paperback
Published 14-Oct-2010
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Focuses on the archaeological, anthropological and historical models of gift and commodity exchange, pertinent to Europe during the seventh to ninth centuries, and shows how these debates shed new light on the evolution of the Early Medieval political economies.
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Aegean Art and Architecture
By Donald Preziosi
Paperback
Published 21-Oct-1999
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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 (c1000 BCE), this text is an introduction to the visual arts and architecture of the era. The historical and social context of the art is discussed.
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Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England
By Helena Hamerow
Hardback
Published 05-Jul-2012
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In the course of the fifth century, the farms and villas of lowland Britain were replaced by a new, distinctive form of rural settlement: the settlements of Anglo-Saxon communities.
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Oxford Classical Dictionary
By Simon Hornblower
Hardback
Published 29-Mar-2012
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Completely revised and updated, the fourth edition of this established dictionary offers entries on all aspects of the classical world. With reception and anthropology as new focus areas and numerous new entries, it is an essential reference work for students, scholars, and teachers of classics and for anyone with an interest in the classical era.
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Soviet Archaeology
By Leo S Klejn
Hardback
Published 13-Dec-2012
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Famous Russian rchaeologist Leo S. Klejn looks at the phenomenon that is Soviet archaeology and, even though under the veil of Marxist ideology, how it was divided into competing schools and trends. In the volume he traces the history and people behind archaeology in Russian from 1917 to beyond 1991.
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