Product Description: Papers from the session entitled Megalithic Quarrying presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: Preface (Chris Scarre); 1) Stony Ground: outcrops, rocks and quarries in the creation of megalithic monuments (Chris Scarre); 3) The Megalithic Building Site (Torben Dehn); 4) Hunebedden and Huenengräber: the construction of megalithic tombs west of the River Elbe (Jan Albert Bakker); 5) The Gallery Graves of Hesse and Westphalia, Germany: extracting and working the stones ( Kerstin Schierhold); 6) Beyond Stonehenge: seeking the start of the bluestone trail (Timothy Darvill); 7) Architectonique et esthétique des alignements de menhirs du sud de la Vendée (France) (Gérard Benéteau-Douillard); 8) Technologie des mégalithes dans lOuest de la France: la carrière du Rocher Mouton à Besné (Loire-Atlantique, France) (Emmanuel Mens); 9) Exploitation de la pierre et mise en uvre des matériaux sur le site néolithique du Souch en Plouhinec (Finistère, France) (Michel Le Goffic); 10) Transforming Stone: ethnoarchaeological perspectives on megalith form in Eastern Indonesia (Ron L...read more

This new text offers a comparative study of all the early civilizations both the old world and the new. It explores the ties and links between civilizations and analyses how environments, ideologies and institutions have shaped civilizations and contributed to their collapse.

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Discusses the ancient Minoan civilization of Knossos, Crete, as manifested by the excavations of that city by the archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans.

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With 350 stunning illustrations and photographs, this survey of the world's great ancient wonders spans the globe--from the Great Temple of the Aztecs to the Nazca lines of Peru--searching for answers to how this architecture was created, and for what purpose. (view table of contents)

The first volume in a profusely illustrated series of guides introduces readers to fifteen of the most famous, most significant accessible archaeological sites in Europe, describing the history and excavation of each site with the aid of full-color photographs. UP. (view table of contents)

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Uses maps, text, and illustrations to present the history of the Roman Empire, from its beginning as a modest village to its transformation into a Christian theocracy

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Product Description: Cambridge's new McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research owes its origin to the generosity of Daniel McLean McDonald, and it is an appropriate act of pietas that the Institute's first monograph should be a collection of his writings...read more

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