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This multi-disciplinary book is the first to investigate the significance of Kiribati coconut fibre armour and explore the histories surrounding its presence in UK museum collections.

This multi-disciplinary book is the first to investigate the significance of Kiribati coconut fibre armour and explore the histories surrounding its presence in UK museum collections.

The original circumstances in which archaeological remains came into being are crucial for the interpretation of the material record. Burials are first and foremost a result of a very traumatic event in a society - the death of one of its members.

Between 2008 and 2011 excavations were undertaken by the Cornwall Archaeological Unit at Tremough, near Penryn, Cornwall. The site is situated on a plateau overlooking the Carrick Roads, historically one of the busiest waterways in Cornwall.

Jacob van Breda de Haan is known as the author of the name Phytophthora nicotianae n.sp., the causal agent of 'black shank', an important disease of tobacco. Who was he? Where did he work? What did he publish? He published in Dutch, 1896, in a Dutch colonial report series.

Los mercados de la Mixteca son colectividades vibrantes y dinamicas que funcionan y forman parte del macrocontexto de la globalizacion, desde el consumismo hasta el movimiento mundial de productos y personas. Por lo general, la historia economica mas formal deja mudos a los actores que definen esta economia: los comerciantes.

In 1670 the 22-year old Adriaan van Berkel left the Dutch city of Leiden to join a trading vessel headed for Guiana in the West Indies (South America). This book is a new English translation as well as a full transcription of Van Berkels' travel journal, originally published in 1695 under the title of Amerikaansche Voyagien.

Water & Heritage ... tells the story of water heritage in all its diversity. It reveals the technical ingenuity that water heritage has always inspired, and it presents the challenges that this heritage faces, along with possible solutions. -Irina Bokova (Director-General of UNESCO)

This volume explores how ancient plant, animal, and human remains from Ancient Egypt should be studied, and how, when they are integrated with texts, images, and artefacts, they can contribute to our understanding of the history, environment, and culture of ancient Egypt in a holistic manner.

Based on ceramic analyses it is argued in this study that the Corded Ware Culture represents an economic alliance, a dynamic totality as well as a network linking regional groups - each with a distinct economic base, material culture and ideology.

The study of belief, faith and religious practices can provide a deep insight into historical societies. Through archaeological research it is possible to gain an understanding of popular religion of medieval and early modern times and also to draw conclusions about religious ideas that are not written in documents.

The study of belief, faith and religious practices can provide a deep insight into historical societies. Through archaeological research it is possible to gain an understanding of popular religion of medieval and early modern times and also to draw conclusions about religious ideas that are not written in documents.

In the context of European prehistoric crafting, this book highlights the daily lives of people of so-called distinct social classes who interacted with each other through creative crafting and, as such, produced both items of varying qualities and meanings, and also specific and multiple identities alongside these exquisite material remains.

In the context of European prehistoric crafting, this book highlights the daily lives of people of so-called distinct social classes who interacted with each other through creative crafting and, as such, produced both items of varying qualities and meanings, and also specific and multiple identities alongside these exquisite material remains.

This volume incorporates original publications in the field straddling the Sciences and Humanities in honour of Prof.dr. Henk Kars, who held the first Chair of Archaeometry in The Netherlands since 1994.

This volume incorporates original publications in the field straddling the Sciences and Humanities in honour of Prof.dr. Henk Kars, who held the first Chair of Archaeometry in The Netherlands since 1994.

Where the romances have been printed, they have normally been reproduced as critical editions in their original language, or translated into heavily abridged children's versions, but few have been published as scholarly close line translations with notes.