Product Description: Based on documentary evidence, the Priory Church of St Marys in Abergavenny has been a place of worship since the late 11th century; archaeological evidence though suggests that the site has a much earlier period of use. Over the past 1000 years the church has been radically altered to reflect its wealth, status and sometimes, its decline...read more

Product Description: Traditional in archaeological discourse is the need to describe place, albeit in an empiricist and banal way. Discourse is sometimes followed by a more fruitful and interpretive account. However, these accounts tend to ignore human emotion that is bound-up in place, for example the ritualized and symbolic meanings that place holds...read more

Product Description: This volume gathers many of the world's leading experts to reassess the enigmatic assemblage of Spanish Levantine rock art. Issues addressed include the controversial matter of chronology, how the rock art may have been integrated into the landscape, and questions relating to the type of panel or application techniques used...read more

Product Description: Place and territoriality have become key archaeological concepts over the last decade or so, and in this volume sixteen essays explore the ways in which place is created and how it reflects and shapes ancient societies. Case studies are mostly prehistoric with a global scope, including the phenomenology of rock art in New South Wales, the use of fire as a ritual marker of place in prehistoric Europe and Papua New Guinea, the design of irrigation systems in Chile, sacred space and heritage in Wisconsin, the transmission of symbols from late Mesolithic material culture to the Neolithic LBK, the siting of holy wells in medieval England, the organisation of space in late Bronze Age and Iron Age Slovenia, the siting of cursus sites, as well as more theoretical papers, which seek to define terminology and are in some cases critical of the way that place and territoriality have previously been used...read more

Product Description: The Archaeology of Semiotics and the social order of things is edited by George Nash and George Children and brings together 15 thought-provoking chapters from contributors around the world. A sequel to an earlier volume published in 1997, it tackles the problem of understanding how complex communities interact with landscape and shows how the rules concerning landscape constitute a recognised and readable grammar...read more

Product Description: This publication investigates the role of fire in prehistory. Dragos Gheorghiu is professor of cultural anthropology and prehistoric art at National University of Arts, Bucharest. Since 2000 he directed the Vadastra project on experimental archaeology focused on pyrotechnologies...read more

Product Description: In the early 16th century Weobley was described as a market town in Herefordshire, where is a goodly castell, but somewhat in decay. Less than a century later, and based on a plan made by Silas Taylor, all that remained of the castle were a few walls, a series of robbed construction trenches and, maybe two substantial timber framed buildings referred to by Taylor as dwellings anciently...read more

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Product Description: For those who know how to do the repair work, an old house can be a good investment. This book is aimed at home owners who want to renovate their houses with professional results, as well as the professional contractor who is serious about renovation...read more

Product Description: For those who love to live in old houses or want to invest in one, this completely revised and updated book levels no stone unturned. From evaluating a property to making foundation repairs to adding on a porch, it's a comprehensive guide to every aspect of making renovations and repairs--whether you already live in, or are contemplating buying, an older home...read more

Rock-art - the ancient images which still scatter the rocky landscapes of Europe - is a singular kind of archaeological evidence. Fixed in place, it does not move about as artefacts as trade objects do. Enigmatic in its meaning, it uniquely offers a direct record of how prehistoric Europeans saw and envisioned their own worlds. European Landscapes of Rock-Art provides a number of case studies, covering arange of European locations including Ireland, Italy, Scandinavia, Scotland and Spain, which collectively address the chronology and geography of rock-art as well as providing an essential series of methodologies for future debate. Each author provides a synthesis that focuses on landscape as an essential part of rock-art construction. From the paintings and carved images of prehistoric Scandinavia to Second World War grafitti on the German Reichstag, this volume looks beyond the art to the society that made it. The papers in this volume also challenge the traditional views of how rock-art is recorded. Throughout, there is an emphasis on informal and informed methodologies. The authors skilfully discuss subjectivity and its relationship with landscape since personal experience, from prehistoric times to the present day, plays an essential role in the interpretation of art itself. The emphasis is on location, on the intentionality of the artist, and on the needs of the audience. This exciting volume is a crucial addition to rock-art literature and landscape archaeology. It will provide new material for a lively and greatly debated subject and as such will be essential for academics, non-academics and commentators of rock art in general. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A series of 18 papers taken from a number of sessions between 1997 and 1999 at the TAG conference in Bournemouth and Birmingham and the IRAC in Portugal. The over-riding theme of this collection of papers is the relationship between rock art and the landscape or place, with case studies taken from the Americas, Italy, Spain, England, Norway and Siberia...read more

Product Description: A lavishly illustrated book that offers solid information on designing, planning, building, and maintaining a wooden fence. Color photos by veteran National Geographic photographer James P. Blair make it as beautiful as it is informative.

Product Description: A thought provoking collection of essays which take a cognitive approach to landscape, examining the phenomonology and symbolism of landscapes and monuments. The contributions are: Establishing a discourse: the language of landscape ( George Children and George Nash ); Monumentality and the landscape: long chambered tombs around the Black Mountains ( George Nash ); Places as timemarks- the social construction of prehistoric landscapes ( John Chapman ); Dancing in space: rock art of the Campo Lameiro Valley, Spain ( George Nash ); Towards a phenomonology of building: the Neolithic long mound at La Commune-Seche, Normandy ( Trevor Kirk ); From settlements to monuments: site succession in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Jutland ( I...read more

A comprehensive guide to rebuilding takes into consideration the idiosyncrasies of older structures with advice on structural evaluation and the installation of utility systems