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Shifting sand : journal of a cub archaeologist, Palestine 1964 /
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'Shifting Sand' is the journal of Julian Berry, then a 17-year-old archaeologist, written on-site during excavations in Jordan, 1964. The book provides a fascinating insight into the lives of archaeologists over 50 years ago, and the very close links between the European team, the Arab workmen, and the daily life in a simple mud-brick village.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (ii, 88 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784916602 (ebook) :
The life and works of W.G. Collingwood : a wayward compass in Lakeland /
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This well researched biography provides a comprehensive account of the life and works of William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932), a 19th century polymath whose story should be better known. He was a noted friend and colleague of John Ruskin, whose secretary he later became.
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Previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes index. :
1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784918729 (ebook) :
From Cambridge to Lake Chad : life in archaeology 1956-1971 /
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This title is about how the author became an archaeologist at a time when opportunities for employment were rare and how he worked as a field researcher in West Africa and wrote about his work there. It traces his archaeological training and employment at Cambridge and his practical experience on British excavations and explains how he became one of the pioneers of Nigerian archaeology during a decade in that country. It is not so much a study of the archaeology that was done, as an account of how it was done; its circumstances, organization, and economic and social and cultural context. As a result, it is both a professional and personal account, for these two aspects of life were inseparably intertwined, his wife Beryl becoming an integral part of the story. Other archaeologists and many non-archaeologists also feature in the account.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (xxii, 270 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784919597 (ebook) :
A history of the Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 1949-2022 : a retrospective to mark the 25th Congress in Nijmegen /
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This volume celebrates the twenty-fifth Congress of Roman Frontier Studies. It presents the history of the congress accompanied by photographs and reminiscences from participants, a story populated by many of the well-known archaeologists of the last 75 years and, indeed, earlier as the genesis of the Congress lies in the inter-War years.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (viii, 185 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781803273037 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, premier grand mayaniste de France /
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200 years ago, on September 8, 1814, in the northern French city of Bourbourg, a boy was born into a family of local entrepreneurs connected to the local political or judicial elite. The young Charles-Etienne Brasseur was lucky to spend days and days in the impressive library of Alexandre Nicolas Muchembled, the son of his godmother. The reading of exciting travel books there mapped out the course of his truly adventurous life to come. Although a rebellious schoolboy, he acquired a huge knowledge in many fields by his omnivorous reading of books and journals. He was also a very curious young man, delving into the private libraries of the local grand families, resulting in him contributing many historical articles to newspapers and learned societies. At the age of 24, while still in high school, he published his first novel. This text tells his story.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784910990 (PDF ebook) :
The life and works of Robert Wood : classicist and traveller (1717-1771) /
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'The Life and Works of Robert Wood' commemorates the Irish classicist and traveller on the 250th anniversary of his death and provides the general reader with a source book for the fascinating life and career of a much-neglected figure in the realm of Irish eighteenth-century travels and antiquarianism.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781803271774 (PDF ebook) :
Arthur Evans in Dubrovnik and Split (1875-1882) /
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This work presents details on the everyday life of Arthur Evans in Dubrovnik and Split as seen by the local people who wrote about him in newspapers, journals or books, material that is not easily available to those interested in Evans's pre-Knossos period.
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1 online resource (ii, 14 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803271804 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Bryan Faussett : antiquary extraordinary /
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A biography of Bryan Faussett, F.S.A., (1720-1776), pioneering Kent genealogist, archaeologist and antiquary who, at his death, had amassed the world's greatest collection of Anglo-Saxon jewellery and antiquities. The material was famously rejected by the British Museum, saved for the nation by a Liverpudlian philanthropist, and now resides in the Liverpool World Museum.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781784910853 (PDF ebook) :
Percy Manning : the man who collected Oxfordshire /
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This volume provides the first detailed biography of Percy Manning (1870-1917), an Oxford antiquary who amassed enormous collections about the history of Oxford and Oxfordshire.
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Previously issued in print: 2017.
Includes index. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784915292 (ebook) :
A life in Norfolk's archaeology : 1950-2016 : archaeology in an arable landscape /
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A personal history of Peter Wade-Martins archaeological endeavour in Norfolk set within a national context. It covers the writer's early experiences as a volunteer, the rise of field archaeology as a profession and efforts to conserve archaeological heritage.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (xviii, 380 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781784916589 (ebook) :
The archaeological activities of James Douglas in Sussex between 1809 and 1819 /
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James Douglas (1753-1819) was a polymath, well ahead of his time in both the fields of archaeology and earth-sciences. This text recounts his archaeological and other activities in Sussex during the first two decades of the 19th century.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (vi, 60 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784916497 (ebook) :
Well met! : friends and travelling companions of Rev. Thomas Bowles : journals of travels in Egypt, Petra and the Near East, 1854 /
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This volume follows Rev. Thomas Bowles on his travels from Sri Lanka to Egypt and the Levant. His travel journals record the places seen and the often harsh travel conditions. Bowles' notes are amplified by chapters offering additional context and biographies for the broad cross-section of fascinating people encountered along the way.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803274843 (PDF ebook) :
András Bodor and the history of classical studies in Transylvania in the 20th century /
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This volume focuses on the life and academic heritage of András Bodor (1915-1999), a classicist from Transylvania. Based on a large number of unpublished documents and the major works of Bodor, the book reconstructs the life of a classicist from the periphery of Europe, a region that changed many times during the 20th century.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789698350 (PDF ebook) :
A classical archaeologist's life : the story so far : an autobiography /
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Sir John Boardman is one of the foremost experts on ancient Greek art. His autobiography offers a mixture of scholarly reminiscence, reflection on family life, travelogue and critique of classical scholarship worldwide. Illustrated with pictures of travels, friends and home life, it reflects on his experiences of more than 90 years.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (271 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789693447 (ebook) :
Lost worlds of ancient and modern Greece : Gilbert Bagnani : the adventures of a young Italian archaeologist in Greece, 1921-1924 /
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This volume relates three years (1921-1924) in the life of Gilbert Bagnani, a young Italian archaeologist in Greece, based on his letters to his mother in Rome, at first as a non-partisan observer of, and later as an active participant in, some of the most tumultuous events in modern Greek history.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrations, maps. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789694536 (PDF ebook) :
Aleksei P. Okladnikov : the great explorer of the past.
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The second volume of the biography of prominent Soviet archaeologist Aleksei P. Okladnikov (1908-1981) concentrates on his works in 1961-1981, when he was a director at the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, in Novosibirsk. during this time he continued his active fieldworks in Siberia, Russian Far East, Central Asia and Mongolia.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes index. :
1 online resource (576 pages) : illustrations. :
9781789697087 (PDF ebook) :
The world of Disney : from antiquarianism to archaeology /
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Dr John Disney (1779-1857) was the benefactor of the first chair in archaeology at a British university. He also donated his major collection to the University of Cambridge. The sculptures continue to be displayed in the Fitzwilliam Museum. The Disney family traced its origins back to the Norman invasion of England, and the family home was at Norton Disney in Lincolnshire. Disney's father, the Reverend John Disney DD (1746-1816) left the Church of England to become a minister at the Unitarian Essex Street Chapel in London. A major sponsor of the chapel was Thomas Brand-Hollis of The Hyde, Essex, who bequeathed the house and his Grand Tour collection (formed with Thomas Hollis) on his death in 1804 to the Reverend John Disney. Disney inherited part of the classical collection of his uncle and father-in-law Lewis Disney-Ffytche, owner of the 18th century pleasure gardens, Le Désert de Retz, outside Paris.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (154 pages) : illustrations. :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789698282 (PDF ebook) :