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  • Horse and Rider in the late Viking Age

    Equestrian burial in perspective

    by Anne Pedersen, Merethe Schifter Bagge ...
    Papers from a conference Skanderborg 27-28th of June 2019 An equestrian burial from the 10th century with an exceptionally elaborate horse harness was discovered at Fregerslev near Skanderborg in eastern Jutland, Denmark in 2012. This formed the starting point for the Fregerslev Research Project initiated by Museum Skanderborg in 2017. Two years later, the museum held a conference to present the ... Read more

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  • Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered

    The Dark Ages Reconsidered

    by Peter S. Wells ...
    A rich and surprising look at the robust European culture that thrived after the collapse of Rome.The barbarians who destroyed the glory that was Rome demolished civilization along with it, and for the next four centuries the peasants and artisans of Europe barely held on. Random violence, mass migration, disease, and starvation were the only ways of life. This is the picture of the Dark Ages that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Women and Weapons in the Viking World

    Amazons of the North

    by Leszek Gardela ...
    "Invigorating . . . Gardeła reappraises the connections between women and violence in an early-medieval society that has left few texts to guide us." — Studies in Late AntiquityThis book sets out to investigate the idea of "the armed woman" in the Viking Age through a comprehensive and cross-cultural approach and weaves a nuanced picture of women's lives in the Viking world.The Viking Age (c. AD ... Read more

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  • The Viking World

    Edited by Stefan Brink, Neil Price ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field.Bringing together today’s leading scholars, both established seniors and younger, cutting-edge academics, Stefan Brink and Neil Price have constructed the first single work to gather innovative research from a ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

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  • How Ancient Europeans Saw the World

    Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times

    by Peter S. Wells ...
    The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate rituals and ceremonies. Yet as Peter Wells argues here, the visual world of these late prehistoric communities was profoundly different from those of ancient Rome's literate civilization ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Archaeology of Celtic Art

    by D.W. Harding ...
    More wide ranging, both geographically and chronologically, than any previous study, this well-illustrated book offers a new definition of Celtic art.Tempering the much-adopted art-historical approach, D.W. Harding argues for a broader definition of Celtic art and views it within a much wider archaeological context. He re-asserts ancient Celtic identity after a decade of deconstruction in English ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Textiles and Textile Production in Europe

    From Prehistory to AD 400

    Edited by Margarita Gleba, Ulla Mannering ...
    Series Book 11 - Ancient Textiles
    There is evidence that ever since early prehistory, textiles have always had more than simply a utilitarian function. Textiles express who we are - our gender, age, family affiliation, occupation, religion, ethnicity and social, political, economic and legal status. Besides expressing our identity, textiles protect us from the harsh conditions of the environment, whether as clothes or shelter. We ... Read more

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  • Silk for the Vikings

    by Marianne Vedeler ...
    Series Book 15 - Ancient Textiles
    The analysis of silk is a fascinating topic for research in itself but here, focusing on the 9th and 10th centuries, Marianne Vedeler takes a closer look at the trade routes and the organization of production, trade and consumption of silk during the Viking Age. Beginning with a presentation of the silk finds in the Oseberg burial, the richest Viking burial find ever discovered, the other silk ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of British Archaeology

    by Victoria Leitch, Lesley Adkins, Roy Adkins ...
    For over 25 years The Handbook of British Archaeology has been the foremost guide to archaeological methods, artefacts and monuments, providing clear explanations of all specialist terms used by archaeologists.This completely revised and updated edition is packed with the latest information and now includes the most recent developments in archaeological science. Meticulously researched, every ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe's Ancient Mystery

    by Miranda Aldhouse-Green ...
    The grisly story of the bog bodies, updated via details of archaeological discovery and crime-scene techniquesSome 2,000 years ago, certain unfortunate individuals were violently killed and buried not in graves but in bogs. What was a tragedy for the victims has proved an archaeologist’s dream, for the peculiar and acidic properties of the bog have preserved the bodies so that their skin, hair, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Textiles and the Medieval Economy

    Production, Trade, and Consumption of Textiles, 8th–16th Centuries

    Edited by Angela Ling Huang, Carsten Jahnke ...
    Series Book 16 - Ancient Textiles
    Archaeologists and textile historians bring together 16 papers to investigate the production, trade and consumption of textiles in Scandinavia and across parts of northern and Mediterranean Europe throughout the medieval period. Archaeological evidence is used to demonstrate the existence or otherwise of international trade and to examine the physical characteristics of textiles and their ... Read more

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  • Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture

    The archaeology and science of kitchen pottery in the ancient Mediterranean world

    Edited by Michela Spataro, Alexandra Villing ...
    The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social, political and economic contexts. Structured around main themes concerning technical aspects of ... Read more

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