Libros de la editorial OXBOW BOOKS

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  • THE ROOTS OF ASIAN WEAVING "THE HE HAIYAN COLLECTION OF TEXTILES AND LOOMS FROM SOUTHWEST CHINA"

    BOUDOT, ERIC

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-144-3
    • EAN: 9781785701443
    • Páginas: 480
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.105,00 €

    Disponible en 10 ó 15 días

    Extensively illustrated in colour with beautiful full-page photographs of stunning examples of textiles This ground-breaking book documents the weaving traditions and textiles of one of Asia's most ethnically diverse areas, placing them in a regional ...

  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEOLITHIC HOUSE SOCIETIES IN ORKNEY

    JONES, RICHARD

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-909686-89-2
    • EAN: 9781909686892
    • Páginas: 512
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.61,00 €

    Disponible en 10 ó 15 días

    Considering that Orkney is a group of relatively small islands lying off the northeast coast of the Scottish mainland, its wealth of Neolithic archaeology is truly extraordinary. An assortment of houses, chambered cairns, stone circles, ...

  • ROMAN CRETE "NEW PERSPECTIVES"

    FRANCIS, JANE E.

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-095-8
    • EAN: 9781785700958
    • Páginas: 288
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.79,00 €

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    The last several decades have seen a dramatic increase in interest in the Roman period on the island of Crete. Ongoing and some long-standing excavations and investigations of Roman sites and buildings, intensive archaeological survey ...

  • GARDENS AND GARDENERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD "HISTORY, MYTH AND ARCHAEOLOGY"

    FARRAR, LINDA

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-909686-85-4
    • EAN: 9781909686854
    • Páginas: 305
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.42,16 €

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    From the earliest of times people have sought to grow and nurture plants in a garden area. Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World traces the beginning of gardening and garden history, from Ancient Egypt ...

  • INCOMPLETE ARCHAEOLOGIES: ASSEMBLING KNOWLEDGE IN THE PAST AND PRESENT

    MILLER BONNEY , EMILY

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-115-3
    • EAN: 9781785701153
    • Páginas: 176
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.62,00 €

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    Incomplete Archaeologies takes a familiar archaeological concept - assemblages - and reconsiders such groupings, collections and sets of things from the perspective of the work required to assemble them. The discussions presented here engage with ...

  • FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS: CONSERVATION OF A TUDOR MARITIME COLLECTION

    JONES, MARK

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-155-9
    • EAN: 9781785701559
    • Páginas: 160
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.44,00 €

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    The Mary Rose, one of the first great British warships and Henry VIII's flagship, sank in 1545, taking all her contents and most of her crew to the bottom of the sea. The conservation of ...

  • WOVEN THREADS "PATTERNED TEXTILES OF THE AEGEAN BRONZE AGE"

    SHAW, MARIA C

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-058-3
    • EAN: 9781785700583
    • Páginas: 264
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.65,12 €

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    Artistic and archaeological evidence indicates that textiles played essential practical and social roles in Minoan and Mycenaean societies
    This volume investigates evidence for patterned textiles that were produced by two early Mediterranean civilisations: the Minoans ...

  • CHILDREN, SPACES AND IDENTITY

    SÁNCHEZ ROMERO, MARGARITA

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-78297-935-7
    • EAN: 9781782979357
    • Páginas: 336
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.83,39 €

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    How do children construct, negotiate and organize space? The study of social space in any human group is fraught with limitations, and to these we must add the further limits involved in the study of ...

  • FLINT DAGGERS IN PREHISTORIC EUROPE

    FRIEMAN, CATHERINE

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-018-7
    • EAN: 9781785700187
    • Páginas: 176
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.68,55 €

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    Presents details of important flint dagger corpora not previously published together, with superb illustrations The present volume brings together papers that address questions of the regional variability and socio-technical complexity of flint daggers and their ...

  • THE SANCTUARY OF DEMETER AND KORE "THE GREEK LAMPS AND OFFERING TRAYS"

    BOOKIDIS, NANCY

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-87661-187-6
    • EAN: 9780876611876
    • Páginas: 350
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.173,80 €

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    This volume continues the publication of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth. It incorporates two bodies of material - Greek lamps ...

  • THE MATERIALITY OF MAGIC "AN ARTIFACTUAL INVESTIGATION INTO RITUAL PRACTICES AND POPULAR BELIEFS"

    HOULBROOK, CERI

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-010-1
    • EAN: 9781785700101
    • Páginas: 152
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.60,84 €

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    The subject of 'magic' has long been considered peripheral and sensationalist, the word itself having become something of an academic taboo. However, beliefs in magic and the rituals that surround them are extensive - as ...

  • A HANDBOOK OF GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR INVESTIGATING LANDSCAPES AND SETTLEMENT SITES

    FRENCH, CHARLES

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-091-0
    • EAN: 9781785700910
    • Páginas: 144
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.31,11 €

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    A basic handbook of good practice, with case studies and examples, of the basics of geoarchaeological approaches to past site and landscape interpretation Geoarchaeology is a major branch of archaeological science, involving the combined study ...

  • JOURNAL OF ROMAN POTTERY STUDIES Vol.16

    WILLIS, STEVEN

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-074-3
    • EAN: 9781785700743
    • Páginas: 200
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.83,20 €

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    The Journal of Roman Pottery Studies continues to present a cross-section of recent research not just from the UK but also Europe. Volume 16 carries papers on a variety of subjects from Britain and the ...

  • DECODING NEOLITHIC ATLANTIC & MEDITERRANEAN ISLAND RITUAL

    NASH, GEORGE

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-050-7
    • EAN: 9781785700507
    • Páginas: 304
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.87,00 €

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    Presents important new research into socio-religious aspects of Neolithic island archaeology in the Atlantic and Mediterranean regions
    The papers presented here explore the physicality, and levels of insularity of individual islands and island groups during ...

  • ARCADIAN VISIONS "PASTORAL INFLUENCES ON POETRY, PAINTING AND THE DESIGN OF LANDSCAPE"

    RUFF, ALLAN R.

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-909686-66-3
    • EAN: 9781909686663
    • Páginas: 288
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.67,38 €

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    This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generations and their vision of the landscape, as well as the implications this has had for its design and management. ...

  • MATISSE DRAWINGS "CURATED BY ELLSWORTH KELLY FROM THE PIERRE AND TANA MATISSE FOUNDATION COLLECTION"

    STOMBERG, JOHN

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-9890835-2-2
    • EAN: 9780989083522
    • Páginas: 128
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.50,22 €

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    Although Ellsworth Kelly and Henri Matisse never met in person, their shared dedication to drawing and the art of "seeing" often provokes comparison. Inviting Kelly to play the role of curator provides fresh insights to ...

  • ROMAN MILITARY ARCHITECTURE ON THE FRONTIERS

    COLLINS, ROB

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-78297-990-6
    • EAN: 9781782979906
    • Páginas: 208
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.69,89 €

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    The Roman army was one of the most astounding organizations in the ancient world, and much of the success of the Roman empire can be attributed to its soldiers. Archaeological remains and ancient texts provide ...

  • THE MEGALITHIC ARCHITECTURES OF EUROPE

    LAPORTE, LUC

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-014-9
    • EAN: 9781785700149
    • Páginas: 248
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.94,26 €

    Disponible en 10 ó 15 días

    Considers the individual building and use-histories of monuments and their significance in architectural, social and symbolic terms
    This volume provides new insight by focusing on the construction and design of European megalithic tombs - on ...

  • URBAN SPACE, IDENTITY AND POSTMODERNITY IN 1980S SPAIN "RETHINKING THE MOVIDA"

    USOZ DE LA FUENTE, MARITE

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-909662-44-5
    • EAN: 9781909662445
    • Páginas: 0
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.126,49 €

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    During the 1980s, the urban youth movement known as la movida transformed the Spanish cultural landscape, particularly in the country's capital, Madrid.
    After a four-decade long dictatorship, artists and thinkers sought to make the most ...

  • A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SIXTEEN SHIPWRECKS

    GORDON, STEWART

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-61168-540-4
    • EAN: 9781611685404
    • Páginas: 290
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.52,57 €

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    Stories of disasters at sea, whether about Roman triremes, the treasure fleet of the Spanish Main, or great transatlantic ocean liners, fire the imagination as little else can. From the historical sinkings of the Titanic ...