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Region: Italy

Catalogue of an exhibition that compares current excavation techniques with those of the past and the more careful stratigraphical methods now employed.

Region: Britain - Wales

Many standing stones, mostly dating from the Bronze Age, remain in West Wales set beside trackways, embedded in hedgerows or upright in in fields of corn.  The author describes many of these with accompanying photographs and site descriptions as well as links to local folklore.

Region: Egypt

Lavish sale catalogue issued by one the UK's leading antiquitiees dealers.  Fifty-nine of the finest examples of ancient art are illustrated in high quality colour photographs with accompanying descriptions of age, size and provenance.

Region: China/Japan/Korea

A catalogue of a comprehensive exhibition displaying artefact examples from pre-dynastic times through all dynasties up to the Yuan which is essentially an album of 99 large colour and b&w plates.

Region: Britain - Scotland

A detailed study of Fair Isle's landscape and social change from prehistory to the C20th including sections on field monuments, settlement patterns, boat construction, post-medieval agriculture and water mills.  A Gazetteer of 750 sites and an extensive Bibliography complete the book.

Theory & Practice: Maritime

An exhibition catalogue of a dozen C16th and C17th astrolabes.  Many recovered from shipwrecks or during dredging operations and each illustrated by large b&w plates with accompanying descriptions.  Paperback.  36 pages.  Very good condition.

Region: Israel

An illustrated guidebook to the archaeology, architecture and purpose of Herod's palace fortress dating from around 20 BC.  It fortifications, bath-houses and palace are described and accompanied by detailed site plans and aerial photographs.  Paperback.  48 pages.

Region: Israel

Attractive illustrated catalogue for the exhibition held at the Israel Museum in Summer 2010 to mark the renovations and re-opening of the Archaeology Wing featuring archive photographs and artefacts displayed to celebrate the pioneering work of Flinders Petrie, Conrad Schick and the Palestine Ex

Region: Italy

Short illustrated guide to the restoration and conservation of the large frescoes completed in 1466 by Piero Della Francesca.  A two page essay (in English) precedes eleven pages of high-quality colour photographs showing 'before' and 'after' examples in fine detail.  Paperback.

Region: Caribbean

A detailed long-delayed report of excavations undertaken during the 1970's on the island of Antigua in the Leeward Islands that aimed to establish a chronology of prehistoric settlement by seafarers moving northward from South America.