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Ark of the Covenant (Hardcover, 2018 ed.): Jonathan Gray Ark of the Covenant (Hardcover, 2018 ed.)
Jonathan Gray
R1,210 Discovery Miles 12 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gift of the Sphinx (Hardcover): Sandy Esene Gift of the Sphinx (Hardcover)
Sandy Esene
R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Dead Men's Secrets (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Jonathan Gray Dead Men's Secrets (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Jonathan Gray
R1,072 Discovery Miles 10 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Once Holy Mountain (Hardcover): Mark H Sweberg Once Holy Mountain (Hardcover)
Mark H Sweberg
R1,012 R857 Discovery Miles 8 570 Save R155 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A History of the Island of Anglesey, From its First Invasion by the Romans, Until Finally Acceded to the Crown of England -... A History of the Island of Anglesey, From its First Invasion by the Romans, Until Finally Acceded to the Crown of England - Together With a Distinct Description of the Towns, Harbours, Villages, and Other Remarkable Places in It (Hardcover)
John Thomas
R796 Discovery Miles 7 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Collections Concerning the Scottish History, Preceeding the Death of King David the First, in the Year 1153. ... By Sir James... Collections Concerning the Scottish History, Preceeding the Death of King David the First, in the Year 1153. ... By Sir James Dalrymple, Bar (Hardcover)
James Dalrymple
R1,113 Discovery Miles 11 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Genuine History of Charles XII. King of Sweden - Containing all his Military Actions; now Translated Into English, by James... The Genuine History of Charles XII. King of Sweden - Containing all his Military Actions; now Translated Into English, by James Ford, Esq; Illustrated With the Effigies of the King, and Several Plans of the Battles and Sieges (Hardcover)
Gustavus Adlerfeld
R1,145 Discovery Miles 11 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Key Concepts in Public Archaeology (Hardcover): Gabriel Moshenska Key Concepts in Public Archaeology (Hardcover)
Gabriel Moshenska
R1,258 Discovery Miles 12 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Ecocriticism, Ecology, and the Cultures of Antiquity (Hardcover): Christopher Schliephake Ecocriticism, Ecology, and the Cultures of Antiquity (Hardcover)
Christopher Schliephake; Foreword by Brooke Holmes; Contributions by Anna Banks, Roman Bartosch, Hannes Bergthaller, …
R3,323 Discovery Miles 33 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Although current environmental debates lay the focus on the Industrial Revolution as a sociopolitical development that has led to the current environmental crisis, many ecocritical projects have avoided historicizing their concepts or have been characterized by approaches that were either pre-historic or post-historic: while the environmental movement has harbored the dream of restoring nature to a state untouched by human hands, there is also the pessimistic vision of a post-apocalyptic world, exhausted by humanity's consumption of natural resources. Against this background, the decline of nature has become a narrative template quite common among the public environmental discourse and environmental scientists alike. The volume revisits Antiquity as an epoch which witnessed similar environmental problems and came up with its own interpretations and solutions in dealing with them. This decidedly historical perspective is not only supposed to fill in a blank in ecocritical discourse, but also to question, problematize, and inform our contemporary debates with a completely different take on "nature" and humanity's place in the world. Thereby, a productive dialogue between contemporary ecocritical theories and the classical tradition is established that highlights similarities as well as differences. This volume is the first book to bring ecocriticism and the classical tradition into a comprehensive dialogue. It assembles recognized experts in the field and advanced scholars as well as young and aspiring ecocritics. In order to ensure a dialogic exchange between the contributions, the volume includes four response essays by established ecocritics which embed the sections within a larger theoretical and practical ecocritical framework and discuss the potential of including the pre-modern world into our environmental debates.

Ducatus Leodiensis - Or, the Topography of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leedes, and Parts Adjacent in the... Ducatus Leodiensis - Or, the Topography of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leedes, and Parts Adjacent in the West-Riding of the County of York. ... By Ralph Thoresby, (Hardcover)
Ralph Thoresby
R1,283 Discovery Miles 12 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Lives of the Great Commanders (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Quintus Curtius Lives of the Great Commanders (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Quintus Curtius
R849 Discovery Miles 8 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Quantum Physics Basic Principles - Discover the Most Mind Blowing Theories That Govern the Universe and the World Around Us... Quantum Physics Basic Principles - Discover the Most Mind Blowing Theories That Govern the Universe and the World Around Us (Hardcover)
Loew Kaufmann
R854 R738 Discovery Miles 7 380 Save R116 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Classifying the Aramaic Texts from Qumran - A Statistical Analysis of Linguistic Features (Hardcover): John Starr Classifying the Aramaic Texts from Qumran - A Statistical Analysis of Linguistic Features (Hardcover)
John Starr
R4,595 Discovery Miles 45 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Analysis of the scroll fragments of the Qumran Aramaic scrolls has been plentiful to date. Their shared characteristics of being written in Aramaic, the common language of the region, not focused on the Qumran Community, and dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE have enabled the creation of a shared identity, distinguishing them from other fragments found in the same place at the same time. This classification, however, could yet be too simplistic as here, for the first time, John Starr applies sophisticated statistical analyses to newly available electronic versions of these fragments. In so doing, Starr presents a potential new classification which comprises six different text types which bear distinctive textual features, and thus is able to narrow down the classification both temporally and geographically. Starr's re-visited classification presents fresh insights into the Aramaic texts at Qumran, with important implications for our understanding of the many strands that made up Judaism in the period leading to the writing of the New Testament.

Reclaiming the Hopewellian Ceremonial Sphere - 200 B.C. to A.D. 500 (Hardcover): A. Martin Byers Reclaiming the Hopewellian Ceremonial Sphere - 200 B.C. to A.D. 500 (Hardcover)
A. Martin Byers
R2,101 Discovery Miles 21 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Multiple Hopewellian monumental earthwork sites displaying timber features, mortuary deposits, and unique artifacts are found widely distributed across the North American Eastern Woodlands, from the lower Mississippi Valley north to the Great Lakes. These sites, dating from 200 b.c. to a.d. 500, almost define the Middle Woodland period of the Eastern Woodlands. Joseph Caldwell treated these sites as defining what he termed the ""Hopewell Interaction Sphere,"" which he conceptualized as mediating a set of interacting mortuary-funerary cults linking many different local ethnic communities. In this new book, A. Martin Byers refines Caldwell's work, coining the term ""Hopewell Ceremonial Sphere"" to more precisely characterize this transregional sphere as manifesting multiple autonomous cult sodalities of local communities affiliated into escalating levels of autonomous cult sodality heterarchies. It is these cult sodality heterarchies, regionally and transregionally interacting - and not their autonomous communities to which the sodalities also belonged - that were responsible for the Hopewellian assemblage; and the heterarchies took themselves to be performing, not funerary, but world-renewal ritual ceremonialism mediated by the deceased of their many autonomous Middle Woodland communities. Paired with the cult sodality heterarchy model, Byers proposes and develops the complementary heterarchical community model. This model postulates a type of community that made the formation of the cult sodality heterarchy possible. But Byers insists it was the sodality heterarchies and not the complementary heterarchical communities that generated the Hopewellian ceremonial sphere. Detailed interpretations and explanations of Hopewellian sites and their contents in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Georgia empirically anchor his claims. A singular work of unprecedented scope, Reclaiming the Hopewellian Ceremonial Sphere will encourage archaeologists to re-examine their interpretations.

Ajanta Cave No. 1 - Documented According to the Ajanta Corpus of Dieter Schlingloff (Hardcover): Rajesh Kumar Singh Ajanta Cave No. 1 - Documented According to the Ajanta Corpus of Dieter Schlingloff (Hardcover)
Rajesh Kumar Singh
R1,285 R1,091 Discovery Miles 10 910 Save R194 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Middle Atlantic Prehistory - Foundations and Practice (Hardcover): Heather A. Wholey, Carole L. Nash Middle Atlantic Prehistory - Foundations and Practice (Hardcover)
Heather A. Wholey, Carole L. Nash
R2,793 Discovery Miles 27 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Regional identities and practices are often debated in American archaeology, but Middle Atlantic prehistorians have largely refrained from such discussions, focusing instead on creating chronologies and studying socio-political evolution from the perspective of sub-regions. What is Middle Atlantic prehistoric archaeology? What are the questions and methods that identify our practice in this region or connect research in our region to larger anthropological themes? Middle Atlantic Prehistory: Foundations and Practice provides a basic survey of Middle Atlantic prehistoric archaeology and serves as an important reference for situating the development of Middle Atlantic prehistoric archaeology within the present context of culture area studies. This edited volume is a regional, historic overview of important themes, topics, and approaches in Middle Atlantic prehistory; covering major practical and theoretical debates and controversies in the region and in the discipline. Each chapter is holistic in its review of the historical development of a particular theme, in evaluating its contributions to current scholarship, and in proposing future directions for productive scholarly work. Contributing authors represent the full range of professional practice in archaeology and include university professors, cultural resources professionals, government regulatory/review archaeologists and museums curators with many years of practical and theoretical immersion in his/her chapter topic, and is highly regarded in the discipline and in the region for their expertise. Middle Atlantic Prehistory provides a much-needed synthesis and historical overview for academic and cultural resource archaeologists and independent scholars working in the Middle Atlantic region in particular.

A General and True History of the Lives and Actions of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-robbers, &c. To Which is... A General and True History of the Lives and Actions of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-robbers, &c. To Which is Added, a Genuine Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the Most Noted Pirates (Hardcover)
Daniel Defoe
R1,072 Discovery Miles 10 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Ducatus Leodiensis - Or, the Topography of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leedes, and Parts Adjacent in the... Ducatus Leodiensis - Or, the Topography of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leedes, and Parts Adjacent in the West-Riding of the County of York. ... By Ralph Thoresby, (Hardcover)
Ralph Thoresby
R1,280 Discovery Miles 12 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Everyday Life Matters - Maya Farmers at Chan (Hardcover): Cynthia Robin Everyday Life Matters - Maya Farmers at Chan (Hardcover)
Cynthia Robin
R2,033 Discovery Miles 20 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Interesting, strong, and timely. Everyday Life Matters is clearly and sharply written, and by targeting the archaeology of everyday life as an emerging field explicitly, it identifies and fills a real void in the field."--John Robb, author of The Early Mediterranean Village "An absolute must-read. Robin's thorough understanding of commoners and how they occasionally interacted with elites provides a solid foundation for social reconstruction."--Payson Sheets, coeditor of Surviving Sudden Environmental Change While the study of ancient civilizations most often focuses on temples and royal tombs, a substantial part of the archaeological record remains hidden in the understudied day-to-day lives of artisans, farmers, hunters, and other ordinary people of the ancient world. Various chores completed during the course of a person's daily life, though at first glance trivial, have a powerful impact on society as a whole. Everyday Life Matters develops general methods and theories for studying the applications of everyday life in archaeology, anthropology, and a wide range of related disciplines. Examining the two-thousand-year history (800 B.C.-A.D. 1200) of the ancient farming community of Chan in Belize, Cynthia Robin's ground-breaking work explains why the average person should matter to archaeologists studying larger societal patterns. Robin argues that the impact of the mundane can be substantial, so much so that the study of a polity without regard to its citizenry is incomplete. Refocusing attention away from the Maya elite and offering critical analysis of daily life elucidated by anthropological theory, Robin engages us to consider the larger implications of the commonplace and to rethink the constitution of human societies by ordinary people living routine lives.

The History of the Colony of Nova-Caesaria, or New-Jersey - Containing an Account of its First Settlement, Progressive... The History of the Colony of Nova-Caesaria, or New-Jersey - Containing an Account of its First Settlement, Progressive Improvements, the Original and Present Constitution, and Other Events, to the Year 1721 (Hardcover)
Samuel Smith
R1,147 Discovery Miles 11 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Developing Effective Communication Skills in Archaeology (Hardcover): Enrico Proietti Developing Effective Communication Skills in Archaeology (Hardcover)
Enrico Proietti
R5,836 Discovery Miles 58 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Communicating archaeological heritage at the institutional level reflects on the current status of archeology, and a lack of communication between archaeologists and the general public only serves to widen the gap of understanding. As holders of this specific scientific expertise, effective openness and communication is essential to understanding how a durable future can be built through comprehension of the past and the importance of heritage sites and collections. Developing Effective Communication Skills in Archaeology is an essential research publication that examines archeology as a method for present researchers to interact and communicate with the past, and as a methods for identifying the overall trends in the needs of humanity as a whole. Presenting a vast range of topics such as digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and heritage awareness, this book is essential for archaeologists, journalists, heritage managers, sociologists, educators, anthropologists, museum curators, historians, communication specialists, industry professionals, researchers, academicians, and students.

The Archaeology of the Cold War (Hardcover): Todd A Hanson The Archaeology of the Cold War (Hardcover)
Todd A Hanson
R2,005 Discovery Miles 20 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Cold War remains one of the twentieth century's defining events, possessing broad political, social, and material implications that continue to have impact. In this book, Todd Hanson presents nine case studies of archaeological investigations conducted at famous-and some not so famous-historic American Cold War sites, including Bikini Atoll, the Nevada Test Site, and the Cuban sites of the Soviet Missile Crisis. By examining nuclear weapons test sites, missile silos, submarine bases, fallout shelters, and more, Hanson illustrates how archaeology can help strip away myths, secrets, and political rhetoric to better inform our understanding of the conflict's formative role in the making of the contemporary American landscape. Addressing modern ramifications of the Cold War, Hanson also looks at the preservation of atomic heritage sites, the atomic tourism phenomenon, and the struggles of atomic veterans.

Biblical Bethsaida - A Study of the First Century CE in the Galilee (Paperback): Carl E Savage Biblical Bethsaida - A Study of the First Century CE in the Galilee (Paperback)
Carl E Savage
R1,231 Discovery Miles 12 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In his illuminating, well-researched book examining the site of Et-Tell, also known as Bethsaida, Carl E. Savage explores archaeological evidence to offer readers a portrait of the religious beliefs and practices of the community living near the north shore of the Sea of Galilee during the first century CE. In the study of the cultural and social matrix of the first century in the Galilee, scholars have commonly prioritized written sources over archaeological evidence because written sources seem to contribute more directly to an understanding of the religious beliefs and practices of a community. However, there exist many competing views of the landscape during that time due to the varying interpretations of the textual sources. Using archaeological data from Bethsaida itself, Savage investigates the material practices of Bethsaida's ancient inhabitants, describing these practices as significant indicators of their sense of place both ideologically and geographically. He evaluates the historical plausibility of various social reconstructions for the region, and finds that the image that emerges of first-century Bethsaida is one similar to those of other Jewish communities in the Galilee.

Digging through History - Archaeology and Religion from Atlantis to the Holocaust (Paperback): Richard A. Freund Digging through History - Archaeology and Religion from Atlantis to the Holocaust (Paperback)
Richard A. Freund
R1,054 Discovery Miles 10 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Digging through History follows rabbi and archaeologist Richard Freund's journey through some of the most fascinating archaeological sites of human history-including the mysterious Atlantis, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the long-buried Holocaust camp Sobibor. Each chapter takes readers through a different archaeological site, showing what we can learn about past religious life and religious faith through the artifacts found there, as well as what has given each site such strong "staying power" over time. Richard Freund and the research in Digging through History are featured in the National Geographic documentary Atlantis Rising, which premieres on National Geographic on Sunday, January 29, at 9/8 central. The documentary follows Oscar-winning executive producer James Cameron and Emmy-winning filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici as they investigate the myths and realities of Atlantis. Digging through History is the only book that details Freund's groundbreaking research on Atlantis that is featured in the film. A free app, "Archaeology Quest: Atlantis" is also available for iPhone and Android users who want to explore Freund's newest information on Atlantis.

Trading Zones of Digital History (Hardcover): Max Kemman Trading Zones of Digital History (Hardcover)
Max Kemman
R1,585 Discovery Miles 15 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Digital history is commonly argued to be positioned between the traditionally historical and the computational or digital. By studying digital history collaborations and the establishment of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Kemman examines how digital history will impact historical scholarship. His analysis shows that digital history does not occupy a singular position between the digital and the historical. Instead, historians continuously move across this dimension, choosing or finding themselves in different positions as they construct different trading zones through cross-disciplinary engagement, negotiation of research goals and individual interests.

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