Tanbûr long-necked lutes along the Silk Road and beyond /
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This text is divided into two main parts: 'The Tanbûr Tradition' which discusses the origin, history, construction and playing techniques of tanbûrs; and 'The Tanbûr Family' which focuses on long-necked as a family of musical instruments. After a short introduction, the construction, playing technique, and musical traditions are briefly discussed.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (x, 186 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references and discography. :
9781789691702 (ebook) :
Imperial horizons of the Silk Roads : archaeological case studies /
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This volume centres on how the exchange routes transformed the frontier regions of the Silk Road. In doing so, it utilises a range of methods to reach an archaeological interpretation of the factors that linked people with the environment; movements, settlements, and beliefs.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803274058 (PDF ebook) :
Statio amoena : sostare e vivere lungo le strade Romane /
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New archaeological research and new studies on a rich and diverse body of extra-archaeological sources have recently reported the attention of the international scientific community on the subject of parking places, within the more general theme of the smaller settlements in the Roman world and their evolution in late antiquity and early medieval times. This volume brings together contributions from scholars from three different generations, starting from different sources and methodological approaches, converging towards the construction of an area of common reflection on a theme still relatively underdeveloped. The goal is to lay the foundation for a deepening of the interdisciplinary debate and to develop new research projects.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
Specialized. :
9781784914998 (ebook) :
Landscapes of movement : Trails, paths, and roads in anthropological perspectives /
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"Represents the results of the inaugural Penn Museum International Research Conference, 'Landscapes of Movement: Trails, Paths, and Roads in Anthropological Perspective' ... at the Penn Museum May 29-June 2, 2006." -- Pref. :
xviii, 364 pages : illustration, maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
193453613X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781934536131 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Road archaeology in the Middle Nile.
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Reports on the findings of rescue excavations carried out by SARS in 1994 in advance of the construction of the North Challenge Road, Sudan. The excavation area encompassed from opposite the Pyramids of Meroe to Atbara.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (xii, 182 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784916473 (ebook) :
Santa Cristina in Caio : la lunga durata di un insediamento pubblico viario tra età romana e medioevo /
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This volume collects the results of the 2009-2015 excavation campaigns in Santa Cristina in Caio (Buonconvento, Siena) and contextualises the site in the wider phenomenon of mansiones, Roman secondary settlements, and their reuse between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803273495 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
The Roman frontier with Persia in North-Eastern Mesopotamia : fortresses and roads around Singara /
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This volume investigates the Roman city of Singara and the fortifications and roads in the surrounding area. The Rome/Persia frontier has been little studied, in part because of the difficulty of access for scholars, but was of great importance because it separated the two major civilisations of the early first millennium CE.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (v, 135 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781803273433 (PDF ebook) :
The anti-landscape /
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There have always been some uninhabitable places, but in the last century human beings have produced many more of them. These anti-landscapes have proliferated to include the sandy wastes of what was once the Aral Sea, severely polluted irrigated lands, open pit mines, blighted nuclear zones, coastal areas inundated by rising seas, and many others. The Anti-Landscape examines the emergence of such sites, how they have been understood, and how some of them have been recovered for habitation. The anti-landscape refers both to artistic and literary representations and to specific places that no longer sustain life. This history includes T. S. Eliot's Wasteland and Cormac McCarthy's The Road as well as air pollution, recycled railway lines, photography and landfills. It links theories of aesthetics, politics, tourism, history, geography, and literature into the new synthesis of the environmental humanities. The Anti-Landscape provides an interdisciplinary approach that moves beyond the false duality of nature vs. culture, and beyond diagnosis and complaint to the recuperation of damaged sites into our complex heritage. This is the first volume in the new series Studies in Environmental Humanities .
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1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations (some color) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789401211697 :
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