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Region: Americas

Paperback.  38 pages.  Neat name inscribed inside front cover, otherwise in good clean condition.  Cat No 5068

Region: Turkey

Paperback.  Very good condition.  56 pages.  Cat No 5059

Theory & Practice: Art History

A detailed catalogue of twenty-four historic Byzantine and Russian icons purchased as a single collection and now hanging in the National Gallery in Dublin.

Region: Britain - W. England

The original Ministry of Public Buildings leaflet describing the pre-Roman Iron Age settlement on the Penwith peninsular, the excavation and stabilisation of the site in 1964, and the enigmatic well preserved fougou whose ground plan is also illustrated.  6-page leaflet.

Region: Egypt

Professor Ucko’s monumental survey and analysis of figurines from ancient Egypt and Crete with his proposal that many of these had far less to do with goddess/deity associations and were more likely to be dolls, ancestor figures, talismanic pregnancy aids, tools for sex instruction and puberty ri

Region: Americas

A catalogue of an exhibition featuring a wide variety of pottery from Pre-Columbian cultures – Vicús, Chimu, Chavin, Mochica, Nazca, Tiahuanaco etc - collected over many years by the Brazilian Consul to Rotterdam.

Region: Americas

The texts of eight lectures delivered at Anthropological Society meetings - Territoriality Among Ancient Hunters; Paleo-Indian Site Utilization; An Ecological Interpretation of Anasazi Settlement Patterns; Archeological Systems Theory and Early Mesoamericaa; Hydraulic Agriculture, Economic Symbio

Region: Britain - Scotland

The official guide to this little known site. 24 pages. Illustrated with plans and 8 photographic plates plus a large fold-out site plan. Very good condition.  Cat No 4125

Theory & Practice: Technique

Probably the earliest practical guide to the technique of percussion flaking of a flint using a hammer stone to produce a usable arrow head as employed by the hunters of the Stone Age.  Detailed description of the stages involved with many useful diagrams.  Paerback.  40 pages.&nbs