search for books and compare prices
cultural classification artifacts matches 62 work(s)
at beginning |
displaying 1 to 25 |
next 25 >
show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest
Product Description: Just as a single pot starts with a lump of clay, the study of a pieceâs history must start with an understanding of its raw materials. This principle is the foundation of Pottery Analysis, the acclaimed sourcebook that has become the indispensable guide for archaeologists and anthropologists worldwide...read more
Hardcover:
9780226923208 | 2 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, July 9, 2015), cover price $150.00 | About this edition: Just as a single pot starts with a lump of clay, the study of a pieceâs history must start with an understanding of its raw materials.
9780226711188 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 15, 1987, cover price $105.00
Paperback:
9780226923215 | 2 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, July 9, 2015), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Just as a single pot starts with a lump of clay, the study of a pieceâs history must start with an understanding of its raw materials.
9780226711164 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 2005, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: A rich and comprehensive sourcebook, PotteryAnalysis draws together diverse approaches to the study of potteryâarchaeological, ethnographic, stylistic, functional, and physicochemical.
Product Description: This is the most comprehensive guide to collecting fire-related antiques available, presenting a fascinating collection of functional items like helmets, parade trumpets, fire extinguishing grenades, alarm boxes, and lanterns. It also offers ranking and ceremonial effects such as badges, trophies, medals and awards, and ephemera that celebrate the culture and mystique of firefighting, including toys, artwork, movie posters, and much more...read more
Hardcover:
9780764346002 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, June 28, 2014, cover price $49.99 | About this edition: This is the most comprehensive guide to collecting fire-related antiques available, presenting a fascinating collection of functional items like helmets, parade trumpets, fire extinguishing grenades, alarm boxes, and lanterns.
Product Description: The Mary Rose carried a crew of naval officers and sailors, a fighting force of gunners and soldiers, a Barber-surgeon, several ship's carpenters and skilled navigators. Of nearly 500 men, fewer than 40 survived the sinking on 19th July 1545...read more
Hardcover:
9780954402945 | Mary Rose Trust, February 28, 2006, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: The Mary Rose carried a crew of naval officers and sailors, a fighting force of gunners and soldiers, a Barber-surgeon, several ship's carpenters and skilled navigators.
Product Description: The Abraham and Marian Sofaer collection consists of 4,000 coins and related objects produced by the peoples who inhabited the Holy Land from the Persian period in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE through the Crusader Kingdom in the 13th century of the modern era...read more
Hardcover:
9780897222839 | Amer Numismatic Society, April 30, 2013, cover price $190.00 | About this edition: The Abraham and Marian Sofaer collection consists of 4,000 coins and related objects produced by the peoples who inhabited the Holy Land from the Persian period in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE through the Crusader Kingdom in the 13th century of the modern era.
Product Description: The essays in this volume, which was originally published in 1983, present an innovative and unified approach to the archaeological analysis and interpretation of art and design. Together, they illustrate a variety of approaches to the discovery and systematic description of the underlying regularities in the organization of art forms...read more
Hardcover:
9780521234719 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 1983, cover price $64.95 | About this edition: The essays in this volume, which was originally published in 1983, present an innovative and unified approach to the archaeological analysis and interpretation of art and design.
Paperback:
9780521186841 | Updated edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 19, 2011), cover price $20.99
Paperback:
9780521186568 | Updated edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 19, 2011), cover price $22.99
Hardcover:
9780876612323 | Amer School of Classical, November 16, 2009, cover price $150.00
Hardcover:
9781842171820 | Society of Antiquaries of London, June 30, 2007, cover price $90.00
Product Description: Novgorod was a major medieval city and an important centre for trade routes between northern, central and western Europe and the Near East, and has been the subject of intensive investigation since the 1930s. This volume in a series devoted to the archaeology of medieval Novgorod, presents eleven studies of ceramic evidence in terms of chronology and technology, methodology of investigation, and international trade and contacts...read more
Hardcover:
9781598742152 | Ox Bow Pr, March 15, 2008, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Novgorod was a major medieval city and an important centre for trade routes between northern, central and western Europe and the Near East, and has been the subject of intensive investigation since the 1930s.
9781842172681, titled "The Pottery from Medieval Novgorod and Its Region" | Hardcover with CD edition (Oxbow Books Ltd, January 30, 2008), cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Novgorod was a major medieval city and an important centre for trade routes between northern, central and western Europe and the Near East, and has been the subject of intensive investigation since the 1930s.
9781844720859 | Cavendish Pub Ltd, May 28, 2006, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Novgorod was a major medieval city and an important centre for trade routes between northern, central and western Europe and the Near East, and has been the subject of intensive investigation since the 1930s.
Hardcover:
9780444528568 | Elsevier Science Ltd, August 10, 2007, cover price $125.00
Hardcover:
9780444521316 | Elsevier Science Ltd, August 22, 2006, cover price $136.00
Product Description: The Thomas Wheelock Collection is the largest private assemblage of works of Burkina Faso art in the world. Now accessible to the public for the first time, this book reveals the country's enormous artistic range. Featured here are examples of the intricate and brightly colored masks for which Burkina Faso is best known, and which are used throughout the country in traditional ceremonies and celebrations...read more
Hardcover:
9783791335148 | Prestel Pub, June 30, 2007, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The Thomas Wheelock Collection is the largest private assemblage of works of Burkina Faso art in the world.
Product Description: The Tlahuica were an Aztec ethnic group who lived just south of the Valley of Mexico in what is now the Mexican state of Morelos. Tlahuica Ceramics summarizes ceramic artifacts from numerous Tlahuica sites, including shards from domestic contexts and whole vessels from burials and offerings...read more
Paperback:
9780942041224 | Inst for Mesoamerican Studies, December 30, 2008, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The Tlahuica were an Aztec ethnic group who lived just south of the Valley of Mexico in what is now the Mexican state of Morelos.
Product Description: Vols. 11 and 12 of the Illerup publications present the largest known find of Roman sword blades, and the matching handles and sheaths. Here, as in the previous volumes, you will find full documentation of finds and contexts (supplemented by de luxe photos in Vol...read more
Hardcover:
9788788415384 | Aarhus Universitetsforlag, June 1, 2007, cover price $93.00 | About this edition: Vols.
Product Description: This book explores the emergence of ceramics in the Late Palaeolithic of China, Japan and Eastern Siberia, and the adoption and dispersal of this technology by hunter gatherer groups of Northern Eurasia. This book examines the practical impact of this had on forager communities, their health and diet, and assesses the role of ceramics as symbolic expression and a focus of social relations...read more
Hardcover:
9781844720804 | Cavendish Pub Ltd, April 30, 2007, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This book explores the emergence of ceramics in the Late Palaeolithic of China, Japan and Eastern Siberia, and the adoption and dispersal of this technology by hunter gatherer groups of Northern Eurasia.
Hardcover:
9780856687471 | Aris & Phillips, January 30, 2007, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: More than twenty years on from the publication of Trademarks on Greek Vases , this Addenda brings up to date the evidence from finds, improving on the cataloguing of the original, and adding in newly discovered examples, many sadly having surfaced via the antiquities market.
Hardcover:
9781598742251 | Left Coast Pr, December 30, 2006, cover price $110.00
9781844720811 | Cavendish Pub Ltd, September 30, 2006, cover price $140.00
Product Description: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's engraving Coup d'oeil du theatre Besancon, in which the architect's building is seen reflected in the eye of a viewer, is the centerpiece of in this intellectual archaeology. Rodolphe el-Khoury's close reading of Ledoux's celebrated icon uses it to excavate the foundations of architectural transparency, Modernism's most potent and lasting "invention," which is here traced back to an intellectual milieu that precedes the industrial revolution's glass and steel building technology...read more
Paperback:
9780974680088 | Oro Editions, September 30, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's engraving Coup d'oeil du theatre Besancon, in which the architect's building is seen reflected in the eye of a viewer, is the centerpiece of in this intellectual archaeology.
Paperback:
9781844831524 | Duncan Baird Pub, October 30, 2005, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Looks at the daily life, beliefs, and artistic achievements of ancient China.
Product Description: On Alexander the Great's abrupt death, his lieutenants divided his empire with the sword. One of the "successor kings" was Lysimachus, who managed to grab much of northern Greece and what is now Turkey. The history of Lysimachus' reign is unfortunately sketchy, but much of the evidence we do have has come from the very many coins Lysimachus struck, using the image of Alexander for political support...read more
Hardcover:
9780472110520 | Univ of Michigan Pr, September 30, 2005, cover price $59.50 | About this edition: On Alexander the Great's abrupt death, his lieutenants divided his empire with the sword.
Hardcover:
9781574324259 | Ill edition (Collector Books, December 15, 2004), cover price $29.95
Product Description: An investigative history of the spear used to pierce the side of Jesus as he hung on the cross, this examination explores the legends and myths surrounding its rumored supernatural and occult power. Noting the spear's capacity for both good and evil, this account exposes the powerful figures in history who have believed in its influence...read more
Paperback:
9780285636965 | Reprint edition (Souvenir Pr Ltd, April 28, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An investigative history of the spear used to pierce the side of Jesus as he hung on the cross, this examination explores the legends and myths surrounding its rumored supernatural and occult power.
Product Description: This volume presents selected material associated with potters' workshops and pottery production from some 14 Early Iron Age contexts northwest of the Athenian Acropolis that range in date from the Protogeometric through Archaic periods...read more
Paperback:
9780876615317 | Amer School of Classical, March 1, 2004, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This volume presents selected material associated with potters' workshops and pottery production from some 14 Early Iron Age contexts northwest of the Athenian Acropolis that range in date from the Protogeometric through Archaic periods.
Product Description: At a Pennsylvania country auction, Daniel Statnekov impulsively purchases a Peruvian whistling vessel. His personal and professional life is in shambles, and Daniel wonders what he is doing with his life. All that changes when he blows into the whistle: what might otherwise have been nothing more than another antique on his shelf becomes the gateway to a transcendent spiritual journey...read more
Hardcover:
9781556430015 | North Atlantic Books, June 14, 1999, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: At a Pennsylvania country auction, Daniel Statnekov purchases a Peruvian whistling vase.
Paperback:
9781556434631 | 2 sub edition (North Atlantic Books, July 1, 2003), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: At a Pennsylvania country auction, Daniel Statnekov impulsively purchases a Peruvian whistling vessel.
at beginning |
displaying 1 to 25 |
next 25 >