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Period: Medieval

A festschrift of thirty-three essays on a wide variety of subjects related to Rigold's work as Principal Inspector of Ancient Monuments and Public Buildings to mark his death in 1980 and broadly reflecting his passion for medieval architecture and those examples from Kent in particular.

Region: Britain - Midlands

Gazetteer of well-known and lesser-known sites in Gloucestershire providing accurate descriptions, map references and visitor advice.  Line drawing illustrations.  Glossary and Bibliography.  Paperback.   48 pages.  Near new condition.  Cat No 3886

Period: Paleolithic

An illustrated exhibition catalogue documenting the hunting of animals during the Palaeolithic and the representation of the hunted animals in Palaeolithic art compared to actual excavated fossils, with particular focus on the scarce three-dimensional carvings of animals recovered from Palaeolith

Region: Australasia/Pacific

Short but detailed overview of Maori carving - on weapons, houses, and canoes.  Specific symbolism is examined - one-eyed figures, lizards, three-fingered hands, wakahuia, and spirals.  Paperback.  48 pages.  Illustrated throughout.  Good condition.  Cat No 3679

Region: Greece

The Ashmolean Museum contains one of the finest collections of terracottas from across the whole ancient Greek world - Attica, Boeotia, Taranto and Smyrna.  This picture book illustrates and describes forty-six fine examples of figures, busts and altars.  Paperback.  46 pages.

Period: Paleolithic

A synthesis of glacial and periglacial evidence from the East and North of Britain elucidate theories regarding the Quaternary.  Chiefly a geological approach the book also acts as a supplementary text for geographers and archaeologists.  Hardback.  267 pages.

Region: SE Asia

Published to mark an exhibition of Khmer ceramics in Singapore in 1981 this book includes 120 examples illustrated in full colour alongside a comprehensive text that examines: Finds from Angkor; Chinese and Indian influences; Ritual and utilitarian uses; and Kiln sites at Ban Kruat on the remote

Region: Britain - N. England

A survey of inland Yorkshire fisheries, principally monastic fish ponds, during the C12th and C13th with a case study of the ponds at Byland Abbey and Appendices covering the construction of medieval fish ponds and the fishing tackle used.  Paperback.  42 pages.  New condition.&nbs

Theory & Practice: Environmental

The first and definitive book discussing the full range of fieldwork sampling and analytical methods deployed in environmental archaeology - soils and sediments, pollen analysis, wood and charcoal, seeds, molluscs and insects, parasites and coprolites, animal bones, and fish remains.  Hardba

Region: Persia

This book reports on an excavation undertaken in Northern Iran in 1957 on the little known site of Barlekin from the third millennium BC.  Description of the site and its pottery, much of which is held by the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, is followed by the author's theories on cultural diffusion