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Region: Americas

A hugely detailed compilation and distillation of previous and current research into a single volume of all known facts regarding the remarkable pre-Columbian site of the Mississippian culture and its large number of earthen mounds.  Large format paperback.  245 pages.

Region: Ireland

Peat cuttings on Valencia Island have revealed traces of prehistoric cultures. Tracing through the land and these cuttings, the author has reconstructed in this fully illustrated text the different environments in which successive island inhabitants lived.

Theory & Practice: Ancient Books & Documents

Following the announcement in 1988 that Hereford Cathedral intended to auction the Mappa Mundi to raise funds for the cathedral's restoration an alternative proposal was made to establish a public company funded by share capital to which ownership of the map would pass via a Trust in exchange for

Theory & Practice: Technique

Practical techniques and case studies resulting from lectures given at a Symposium on Scientific Methods in Archaeology held in Palinuro, Italy in September 1986 and produced as a handbook for interdisciplinary research.

Region: Britain - S. England

Describes how the Roman house was discovered during routine rescue excavations in 1970 and illustrates, in colour, its uniquely preserved wall paintings.  Booklet.  16 pages.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 3375

Region: Turkey

A very comprehensive illustrated guide to the extensive Roman remains at Pergamon in West Turkey.  Paperback.  120 pages.  Includes a large number of colour photographs, site plans, a large fold-out map and a bibliography.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 3372

Theory & Practice: Art History

A massive survey of the work and techniques deployed to conserve one of Piero della Francesca's greatest works, that of the huge sequence of frescoes depicting the Story of the True Cross in the late medieval basilica of San Francesco at Arezzo, as well as his lesser known Madonna del Parto fresc

Theory & Practice: Art History

A personal reflection on the restoration projects undertaken by the author to damaged or deteriorating church frescoes in Florence, Pisa, Padua, Naples, Prato and Siena as well as at the ancient Mayan site of Bonampak in Mexico.  Many close-up photographs accompany the text and as do appendi

Region: Mediterranean

Special Issue devoted to the archaeology and history of Malta.  The first fifty pages comprise three separate papers on the Neolithic megaliths and 'cart ruts' of Malta and Gozo with many accompanying illustrations.  The following thirty pages are devoted to the order of Knights Hospita

Region: Africa

Exhibition catalogue of the modern tradition of wooden figurative sculpture by the Bantu of the Makonde plateau of Southern Tanzania and Northern Mozambiique which originated as the production of trade and tourist items but built upon the much older tradition of carving wooden Mapiko dance masks.