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A Late Iron Age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides
The settlement at Bornais consists of a complex of mounds which protrude from the relatively flat machair plain in the township of Bornais on the island of South Uist. This sandy p ...
Visualising the Neolithic
Prehistoric imagery is enigmatic and has been largely overlooked by archaeologists; it is only in the last two decades that it has garnered serious academic attention. This volume ...
Living the Lunar Calendar
Lunar calendars suffer from an inherent uncertainty in the length of each month and the number of months in the year. Variable atmospheric conditions, weather and the acuity of the ...
A Corpus of Roman Pottery from Lincoln
This is the first major analysis of the Roman pottery from excavations in Lincoln (comprising more than 150,000 sherds). The pottery is presented in seven major ware groups. Fine w ...
Embodied Knowledge
Fourteen papers explore the relationship between knowledge and the body through a series of historical and archaeological case studies. More specifically, it considers the concept ...
Is There a British Chalcolithic?
The Chalcolithic, the phase in prehistory when the important technical development of adding tin to copper to produce bronze had not yet taken place, is not a term generally used b ...
The First Farmers of Central Europe
From about 5500 cal BC to soon after 5000 cal BC, the lifeways of the first farmers of central Europe, the LBK culture (Linearbandkeramik), are seen in distinctive practices of lon ...
The Anglo-Saxon Church of All Saints, Brixworth, Northamptonshire
All Saints’ Church, Brixworth lies 7 miles north of Northampton. The core of the church is Anglo-Saxon and the research published here provides an unprecedented account of one of ...
Using Images in Late Antiquity
Fifteen papers focus on the active and dynamic uses of images during the first millennium AD. They bring together an international group of scholars who situate the period’s visual ...
Settlement in the Irish Neolithic
The Irish Neolithic has been dominated by the study of megalithic tombs, but the defining element of Irish settlement evidence is the rectangular timber Early Neolithic house, the ...
Environmental Reconstruction in Mediterranean Landscape Archaeology
Contents include: Introduction ( K Walsh ); Palynology ( S Bottema ); A database for the palynological recording of human activity ( V Andrieu, E Brugiapaglia, R Cheddadi, M Reille ...
A Concordance to Biblical Gothic
Includes all Gothic texts in Biblical Gothic, and the Gothic calendar and the Deeds from Naples and Arezzo. Complete with Introduction, Texts and Concordance.
Economy and Exchange in the East Mediterranean during Late Antiquity
The results of recent archaeological excavation, systematic rural survey and detailed studies of pottery distributions have revealed the extent and complexities of the economy in t ...
The Gaysh
The Gaysh tells the story of the emergence of an army following early attempts to protect the trade routes in and through Aden. From the first commercial treaty with the Abdali Sul ...
Counter-Strike From the Sky
The militarily acclaimed Fireforce conceptFireforce as a military concept dates from 1974 when the Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) acquired the French MG151 20mm cannon from the Portugu ...
Fireforce
The horror of guerrilla warfare in Africa Fireforce is the compelling, brutal but true account of Chris Cocks’s service in 3 Commando, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, during Zimbabwe ...
First In, Last Out
From the 25 pounder to the devastating G5 and G6 guns—to the Valkirie 127mm multiple-rocket launcher and M5 mortar.This work covers all operations of the Border War in which the So ...
Kenya Cowboy
“This is an interesting book written by an objective observer who has witnessed the gradual decline of a country that showed so much promise”— Dries Brunt, Citizen Originally publi ...
Out Of Action
The powerful sequel to FireforceOriginally published as Survival Course in 1999, now long out of print, Out of Action is a reworked and updated edition, the sequel to the best-sell ...
A Long Long War
This is the story of the Troubles in Northern Ireland told from the perspective of the British soldiers who served there between 1969 and 1998. This was a war against terrorists w ...
Warrior of God
Jan Zizka (1370–1424) was a formidable figure whose life and military career was set amidst the whirlwind of monumental revolutions – military, religious, political and social – th ...
Defending Heaven
Defending Heaven brings together, for the first time in one volume, a complete history of the Jin, Song and Ming dynasties’ wars fought against the Mongols. Lasting nearly two cent ...
Beyond the Reach of Empire
In the early 1880s the Mahdi unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. Early in1884 Cairo bowed to British pressure to wit ...
The Dragon's Teeth
When Mao Zedong proclaimed The People’s Republic of China in 1949, China was a poor and wrecked society after years of continuous wars. For centuries, in fact, China had been seen ...
7 Leadership Lessons of the American Revolution
This book is about leadership. It tells the dramatic story of seven defining leadership moments from the American Revolution. On these pages you learn about real people facing hi ...