Author: Thomas Knopf
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789690080
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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 burial mounds in a comparative context. The book aims to strengthen knowledge of Japanese archaeology in Europe and vice versa.
Burial Mounds in Europe and Japan
Author: Thomas Knopf
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789690080
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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 burial mounds in a comparative context. The book aims to strengthen knowledge of Japanese archaeology in Europe and vice versa.
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789690080
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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 burial mounds in a comparative context. The book aims to strengthen knowledge of Japanese archaeology in Europe and vice versa.
The Dolmens and Burial Mounds in Japan
Author: William Gowland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mounds
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mounds
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Archaeology of Body and Thought
Author: Tomasz Gralak
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 180327722X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This study explores what we as people can do with our bodies, what we can use them for, and how we can alter and understand them. With analysis based on artefacts found in graves, anthropomorphic images, and written sources, it considers the ways in which human groups from the Neolithic to the Migration Period have perceived and treated the body.
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 180327722X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This study explores what we as people can do with our bodies, what we can use them for, and how we can alter and understand them. With analysis based on artefacts found in graves, anthropomorphic images, and written sources, it considers the ways in which human groups from the Neolithic to the Migration Period have perceived and treated the body.
Ancient Civilizations
Author: Chris Scarre
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042968438X
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 929
Book Description
Ancient Civilizations offers a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world’s first civilizations and how they were discovered, drawing on many avenues of inquiry including archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and both historical and ethnohistorical records. This book covers the earliest civilizations in Eurasia and the Americas, from Egypt and the Sumerians to the Indus Valley, Shang China, and the Maya. It also addresses subsequent developments in Southwest Asia, moving on to the first Aegean civilizations, Greece and Rome, the first states of sub-Saharan Africa, divine kings and empires in East and Southeast Asia, and the Aztec and Inka empires of Mesoamerica and the Andes. It includes a number of features to support student learning: a wealth of images, including several new illustrations; feature boxes which expand on key sites, finds, and written sources; and an extensive guide to further reading. With new perceptions of the origin and collapse of states, including a review of the issue of sustainability, this fifth edition has been extensively updated in the light of spectacular new discoveries and the latest theoretical advances. Examining the world’s pre-industrial civilizations from a multidisciplinary perspective and offering a comparative analysis of the field which explores the connections between all civilizations around the world, this volume provides a unique introduction to pre-industrial civilizations in all their brilliant diversity. It will prove invaluable to students of Archaeology.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042968438X
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 929
Book Description
Ancient Civilizations offers a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world’s first civilizations and how they were discovered, drawing on many avenues of inquiry including archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and both historical and ethnohistorical records. This book covers the earliest civilizations in Eurasia and the Americas, from Egypt and the Sumerians to the Indus Valley, Shang China, and the Maya. It also addresses subsequent developments in Southwest Asia, moving on to the first Aegean civilizations, Greece and Rome, the first states of sub-Saharan Africa, divine kings and empires in East and Southeast Asia, and the Aztec and Inka empires of Mesoamerica and the Andes. It includes a number of features to support student learning: a wealth of images, including several new illustrations; feature boxes which expand on key sites, finds, and written sources; and an extensive guide to further reading. With new perceptions of the origin and collapse of states, including a review of the issue of sustainability, this fifth edition has been extensively updated in the light of spectacular new discoveries and the latest theoretical advances. Examining the world’s pre-industrial civilizations from a multidisciplinary perspective and offering a comparative analysis of the field which explores the connections between all civilizations around the world, this volume provides a unique introduction to pre-industrial civilizations in all their brilliant diversity. It will prove invaluable to students of Archaeology.
Megaliths of the World
Author: Luc Laporte
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803273216
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1436
Book Description
Bringing together the latest research on megalithic monuments throughout the world, 150 researchers offer 72 articles, providing a region-by region account in their specialist areas, and a summary of the current state of knowledge. Highlighting salient themes, the book is vital to anyone interested in the phenomenon of megalithic monumentality.
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803273216
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1436
Book Description
Bringing together the latest research on megalithic monuments throughout the world, 150 researchers offer 72 articles, providing a region-by region account in their specialist areas, and a summary of the current state of knowledge. Highlighting salient themes, the book is vital to anyone interested in the phenomenon of megalithic monumentality.
The Japan Daily Mail
A Bibliography of the Japanese Empire
Author: Friedrich von Wenckstern
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The Monumental Cemeteries of Prehistoric Europe
Author: Magdalena S. Midgley
Publisher: Revealing History (Paperback)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Drawing on archaeological evidence, Magdalena Midgley explores the cultural and social shifts from the late Mesolithic hunter-gatherers to early farming communities. Emphasizing the importance of ceremonial and monumental landscapes as points of social interaction and the focus of beliefs, she examines the location, construction, internal arrangement, graves and burials, grave goods, human remains, and ritual treatment of the deceased.
Publisher: Revealing History (Paperback)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Drawing on archaeological evidence, Magdalena Midgley explores the cultural and social shifts from the late Mesolithic hunter-gatherers to early farming communities. Emphasizing the importance of ceremonial and monumental landscapes as points of social interaction and the focus of beliefs, she examines the location, construction, internal arrangement, graves and burials, grave goods, human remains, and ritual treatment of the deceased.
Nature
Author: Sir Norman Lockyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1362
Book Description
The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal
Author: Stephen Denison Peet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description