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Rakita, Buikstra, a.o.: Interacting with the Dead: Perspectives on Mortuary Archaeology for the New Millennium. Paperback
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  • Interacting with the Dead: Perspectives on Mortuary Archaeology for the New Millennium. Paperback
  • edited by Gordon F. M. Rakita, Jane E. Buikstra, Lane A. Beck and Sloan R. Williams. 390 pages. 2008
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Ray: The Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asia. Paperback
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  • Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asia. Paperback
  • by Himanshu Prabha Ray
  • 350 pages, 4 line diagrams 10 half-tones 5 tables 4 colour figures 22 maps. 2003. By using archaeological data from the Red Sea to the Indonesian archipelago, she reveals how the early history of peninsular South Asia is interconnected with that of its Asian and Mediterranean partners in the Indian Ocean Region.

Reitz, Wing: Zooarchaeology. 2nd edition. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Paperback
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  • Zooarchaeology. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Paperback
  • by Elizabeth J. Reitz & Elizabeth S. Wing
  • 558 pages, figures, tables, bibliography, index. 2nd edition, 2008. This is an introductory text for students interested in identification and analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites. The emphasis is on animals whose remains inform us about the relationship between humans and their natural and social environments, especially site formation processes, subsistence strategies, the processes of domestication, and paleoenvironments.

Renfrew, Bahn: Archaeology Essentials. Theories Methods and Practice. Paperback
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  • Archaeology Essentials. Theories Methods and Practice. Paperback
  • Colin Renfrew & Paul Bahn
  • 304 pages, 190 illustrations. 2007. A concise version of the best-selling introduction to archaeology
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Renfrew, Bahn: Archaeology. The Key Concepts. Paperback
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  • Key Concepts: Archaeology. Paperback
  • edited by Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn
  • 288 pages. 2005. An invaluable resource, providing an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the key terms used in this discipline today.

Renfrew, Bahn: Archaeology. Theories Methods and Practice: 5th edition. Paperback
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  • Archaeology. Theories, Methods, and Practice: 5th edition. Paperback
  • by Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn
  • 656 pages, over 600 illustrations. 2004. New box features: Conflict and warfare, Politics of destruction; the Bamiyan Buddhas, and more. Addition of a new in-depth case study on the sophisticated hunter-gatherer society, the Calusa.

Renfrew, Morley: Becoming Human: Innovation in Prehistoric Material and Spiritual Culture. Paperback
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  • Becoming Human: Innovation in Prehistoric Material and Spiritual Culture. Paperback
  • by Colin Renfrew and Iain Morley. xviii, 282 pages. 2009

Renfrew, Zubrow: The Ancient Mind. Elements of Cognitive Archaeology
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  • Ancient Mind. Elements of Cognitive Archaeology
  • Edited by Colin Renfrew, Ezra B. W. Zubrow
  • 209 pages, 28 line diagrams, 13 half-tones, 15 tables, 6 maps. 1994. One direction has been to develop an ‘interpretationist’, anti-scientific, literary approach. Another has been to use a linguistic framework and develop a hermeneutic, semiotic approach. A third approach develops a new direction in prehistoric cognitive research which is rooted in the scientific tradition and in an empirical methodology.

Rice: Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook. Paperback
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  • Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook. Paperback
  • by Prudence M. Rice
  • xxiv, 558 pages. 2005. A comprehensive sourcebook, drawing together diverse approaches to the study of pottery - archaeological, ethnographic, stylistic, functional, and physicochemical. The author uses pottery as a starting point for insights into people and culture and examines in detail the methods for studying these fired clay vessels

Riley: Air Photography and Archaeology. Cloth
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  • Air Photography and Archaeology. Cloth. 22x28cm
  • D.N. Riley
  • 151 pages, 102 illustrations, bibliography, index. 1987

Roberts, Manchester: The Archaeology of Disease. Third Edition. Paperback
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  • Archaeology of Disease. Third Edition. Paperback
  • Charlotte Roberts and Keith Manchester 2010
  • x, 338 pages, with index, references, numerous illustrations
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Rockman, Steele: The Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes: The Archaeology of Adaptation. Paperback
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  • Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes: The Archaeology of Adaptation. Paperback
  • Edited by Marcy Rockman, James Steele
  • 272 pages, 40 line drawings, 8 photos. 2003. This innovative and important volume presents the archaeological and anthropological foundations of the landscape learning process.

Roskams: Excavation. Paperback
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  • Excavation. Paperback. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology
  • Steve Roskams
  • 323 pages, with 35 plates, 31 figures, bibliography, index. 2004. A clear account of contemporary techniques in the theory and practice of excavation

Rothenberg: Hand's End. Technology and the Limits of Nature. Hardcover
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  • Hand's End. Technology and the Limits of Nature. Hardcover
  • David Rothenberg
  • 256 pages, bibliography, index, illustrated. 1993. This text offers a philosophy of technology as the fundamental way in which humans experience and define nature - the tool as humanity extended. The book examines human inventions from the water wheel to the nuclear bomb and discusses theories of technology in the thought of various philosophers

Sanchez-Mazas: Past Human Migrations in East Asia. Matching Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics. Hardback
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  • Past Human Migrations in East Asia. Matching Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics. Hardback
  • Edited by Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, Roger Blench, Malcolm D. Ross, Ilia Peiros, Marie Lin
  • 504 pages. 2008. In uncovering the story of the flows of human migration that constituted the peopling of East Asia there exists widespread debate about the nature of evidence and the tools for correlating results from different disciplines.

Sanders: Bodies in the Bog And The Archaeological Imagination. Hardcover
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  • Bodies in the Bog And The Archaeological Imagination.
  • Karin Sanders
  • 320 pages, 63 halftones, 229 x 152 mm, 612 grams
  • 2009
  • In this remarkable account of their modern afterlives, Karin Sanders argues that the discovery of bog bodies began an extraordinary - and ongoing - cultural journey. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Sanders shows, these eerily preserved remains came alive in art and science as material metaphors for such concepts as trauma, nostalgia, and identity. Sigmund Freud, Joseph Beuys, Serge Vandercam, Seamus Heaney, and other major figures have used them to reconsider fundamental philosophical, literary, aesthetic, and scientific concerns. Exploring this intellectual spectrum, Sanders contends that the power of bog bodies to provoke such a wide range of responses is rooted in their unique status as both archaeological artifacts and human beings.
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Sauer: Archaeology and Ancient History: Breaking Down the Boundaries. Paperback
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  • Archaeology and Ancient History: Breaking Down the Boundaries. Paperback
  • Edited by Eberhard W Sauer 
  • 224 pages, 3 line drawings and 10 photos. 2004

Sayer: Ethics and Burial Archaeology. Paperback
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  • Ethics and Burial Archaeology
  • Duncan Sayer 2010
  • Paperback, 160 pages, illustrations, 216 x 135 mm
  • The investigation of human remains has always been central to archaeological, but archaeologists are not the only ones with an interest in their treatment. Political groups, religious organisations, descendant communities and disenfranchised interest groups are all becoming more vocal in expressing their opinions on this subject on a world stage. This book sets a new agenda for ethical studies in mortuary investigation, adducing a series of case studies which can be used to understand the questions facing burial archaeology.
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    Scarre: The Human Past: World Prehistory and The Development Of Human Societies. 2nd editiom, 2009. Paperback
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    • Human Past. World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies.  Second edition 2009. Paperback, 27.7 x 21.6 cm
    • Edited by Christopher Scarre. 784 pages. 770 illustrations, 219 in colour, 2009
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    Schmidt: Archaeologies of Sexuality. Paperback
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    • Archaeologies of Sexuality. Paperback
    • edited by Barbara L. Voss and Robert A. Schmidt
    • 304 pages, many figures and tables. 2000. A timely and pioneering work that demonstrates the challenges and rewards of integrating the study of sex and sexuality within archaeology, It draws on locations as varied as the ancient Maya Kingdoms, convict-era Australia and prehistoric Europe

    Schofield: Combat Archaeology: Material Culture And Modern Conflict. Paperback
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    • Combat Archaeology: Material Culture And Modern Conflict. Paperback
    • John Schofield
    • 144 pages, 8 illustrations. 2005. This study encapsulates a lively area of current debate: fascinating, challenging, controversial, contemporary and cross-disciplinary.

    Schrenk: The Neanderthals. Paperback
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    • Neanderthals. Paperback
    • Friedemann Schrenk
    • 128 pages, 55 line drawings. 2008. The Neanderthal is among the most mysterious relatives of Homo sapiens: Was he a dull, club-swinging muscleman, or a being with developed social behavior and the ability to speak, to plan precisely, and even to develop views on the afterlife?

    Schweeger-Hefel: Frühhistorische Bodenfunde im Raum von Mengao (Ober-Volta, Westafrika), broschiert
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    • Frühhistorische Bodenfunde im Raum von Mengao (Ober-Volta, Westafrika) 30x21cm, broschiert
    • Annemarie Schweeger-Hefel
    • 71 Seiten, 18 Figuren im Text, 8 Tafeln. 1965

    Sharma: Recent Perspectives on Prehistoric Art in India and Allied Subjects: Essays in Honour of Dr. Shyam Kumar Pandey. Cloth
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    • Recent Perspectives on Prehistoric Art in India and Allied Subjects: Essays in Honour of Dr. Shyam Kumar Pandey. Cloth, ca. 22x29cm
    • Editors: R.K. Sharma & K.K. Tripathi
    • xxxvi, 296 pages, with 71 halftone illustrations, 56 figures & maps. 1996

    Shennan: Genes, Memes and Human History. Darwinian Archaeology and Cultural Evolution
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    • Genes, Memes and Human History. Darwinian Archaeology and Cultural Evolution
    • Stephen Shennan
    • 304 pages, 47 illustrations. 2002. What is the history of human populations? How are cultural traditions maintained and changed over time? What led to the emergence of marked social inequalities? These and other questions are addressed and answered in this text, an application of neo-Darwinian evolutionary ideas to the human past

    Sivertsen: The Parting of the Sea: How Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Plagues Shaped the Story of Exodus. Cloth
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    • Parting of the Sea: How Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Plagues Shaped the Story of Exodus. Cloth
    • Barbara J. Sivertsen
    • 262 pages, 2 halftones, 3 line illustrations, 8 maps. 2009. In examining oral traditions and how these practices absorb and process geological details through storytelling, The Parting of the Sea reveals how powerful historical narratives are transformed into myth.

    Skeates: Debating the Archaeological Heritage. Paperback
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    • Debating the Archaeological Heritage. Paperback
    • by Robin Skeates. 128 pages. 2000.
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    Slingerland: What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture. Paperback
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    • What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture. Paperback
    • by Edware Slingerland
    • xv, 370 pages. 2008. In short, Edward Slingerland argues that in order for the humanities to progress, its scholars need to take seriously contributions from the natural sciences - and particular research on human cognition - which demonstrate that any separation of the mind and the body is entirely untenable.

    Sorensen: Gender Archaeology. Paperback
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    • Gender Archaeology. Paperback
    • by Marie-Louise Stig Sorensen
    • 248 pages, illustrations. 2000. This textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing an account of how material culture is used in the construction of gender.

    Spargo: Reading the Past. Readers in Cultural Criticism
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    • Reading the Past. Readers in Cultural Criticism
    • Edited by Tamsin Spargo
    • xii, 200 pages. 2000. Questions about how and why we read the past continue to demand the attention of cultural critics. This text introduces key debates about history, historiography, and historicism which have transformed approaches to the past in departments of History and Literature

    Stark: Archaeology of Asia. Paperback
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    • Archaeology of Asia. Paperback
    • by Miriam T. Stark
    • xvi, 364 pages. 2006. 2e, 2008

    Steane: The Archaeology of the Medieval English Monarchy
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    • Archaeology of the Medieval English Monarchy. Paperback
    • John Steane
    • 226 pages, with references and index, numerous illustrations and plans. 1998. This book restores many details of the lives and deaths of the great and powerful monarchs of the Middle Ages and reveals past public splendours as well as more private insights

    Stocks: Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology: Stoneworking Technology in Ancient Egypt. Hardcover
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    • Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology: Stoneworking Technology in Ancient Egypt. Hardcover
    • Denys A. Stocks
    • 336 pages, 200 photographs and drawings. 2003. Bring a fresh perspective to the puzzles of Egyptian craft and technology, and by combining the knowledge of a modern engineer with the approach of an archaeologist and historian, Denys Stocks examines the archaeological and pictorial evidence for masonry in ancient Egypt

    Stratton, Trinder: Twentieth Century Industrial Archaeology. Paperback
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    • Twentieth Century Industrial Archaeology. Paperback
    • by Barrie Trinder and Michael Stratton
    • 236 pages, indices of names, places, subjects, numerous illustrations. 2000. This book examines the industrial monuments of twentieth-century Britain. Each chapter takes a specific theme and examines it in the context of the buildings and structures of the twentieth century

    Struever: Koster. Americans in Search of Their Prehistoric Past. Paperback
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    • Koster. Americans in Search of Their Prehistoric Past. Paperback
    • By Stuart Struever and Felicia Antonelli Holton
    • 258 pages, 12 pages illustrations (Koster, Kampsville, Illinois)

    Swain: An Introduction to Museum Archaeology. Paperback
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    • Introduction to Museum Archaeology. Paperback
    • by Hedley Swain
    • xxiii, 368 pages. 2007. It provides a comprehensive survey and synthesis of all aspects of current museum practice in relation to the discipline of archaeology. Drawing heavily on examples it deconstructs the different challenges posed by trying to tell archaeological stories in museum buildings, and on related sites.

    Sweeley: Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology. Paperback
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    • Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology. Paperback
    • by Sweeley
    • 210 pages, 34 illustrations, index. 1999. Power relations among humans have likely been a topic of interest since long before any historical claims to its nature were proffered. This book recognizes that power and gender may be rooted in the experience of power in western society

    Thomas: Time, Culture & Identity. An Interpretive Archaeology. Paperback
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    • Time, Culture and Identity. An Interpretive Archaeology. Paperback
    • Julian Thomas
    • 267 pages, illustrated. 1998. Drawing on the work of Heidegger, Thomas develops a way of writing about the past in which time is seen as central to the emerging identities of people and things and the temporal structures of humans, places and artefacts as radically similar

    Thomas: Understanding the Neolithic: A Revised Second Edition of Rethinking the Neolithic. Paperback
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    • Understanding the Neolithic: A Revised Second Edition of Rethinking the Neolithic
    • by Julian Thomas
    • 266 pages, many maps and figures. 1999. Presents an investigation of the period 4000 - 2200 BC. Whilst examining the archaeological data of this region, the book exposes the assumptions which have shaped archaeologists' accounts of the past, and presents fresh interpretations informed by social theory and critical hermeneutics

    Townsend, Begon, Harper: Essentials of Ecology. Paperback
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    • Essentials of Ecology. Paperback
    • by Colin R. Townsend, Michael Begon, John L. Harper. xii, 510 pages. 3rd edition, 2008
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    Trigger: A History of Archaeological Thought. 2nd Edition. Paperback
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    • History of Archaeological Thought. 2nd Edition. Paperback
    • Bruce G. Trigger. 730 pages, illustrated. 2006. Now, in this new edition, he both updates the original work and introduces new archaeological perspectives and concerns. At once stimulating and even-handed, it places the development of archaeological thought and theory throughout within a broad social and intellectual framework.

    Trigger: Understanding Early Civilizations. A Comparative Study. Paperback
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    • Understanding Early Civilizations. A Comparative Study. Paperback
    • Bruce G. Trigger
    • 774 pages. 2007. This book offers the first detailed study of the seven best-documented early civilizations: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Shang China, the Aztecs and adjacent peoples in the Valley of Mexico, the Classic Maya, the Inka, and the Yoruba.

    Trumpler: The Past from Above. Paperback
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    • Past from Above. Paperback
    • edited by Charlotte Trümpler
    • 216 pages, 250 photos. 2006. Photographs, taken in more than fifty countries in Europe, North and South America, Asia, Australia, and Africa. This work covers subjects that range from the temple complex at Karnak to the Great Wall of China, from the Acropolis in Athens to the temples of Abu Simbel, from Aztec cult places in Mexico, and more.

    Tyldesley, Palmer, Pettitt: Unearthing the Past: The Great Discoveries of Archaeology from Around The World. Douglas Palmer, Paul Pettitt, Joyce Tyldesley. Hardcover
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    • Unearthing the Past: The Great Discoveries of Archaeology from Around The World. Hardcover
    • by Douglas Palmer, Paul Pettitt, Joyce Tyldesley
    • 176 pages. 2005

    Ucko: The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape. Shaping your landscape. Hardback
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    • Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape. Shaping your landscape. Hardback
    • edited by Peter Ucko and Robert Layton
    • 500 pages, numerous figures and tables. 1998. Contributes to the development of theory in archaeology and anthropology, providing new and varied case studies of landscape and environment from five continents

    Ucko: Theory in Archaeology: A World Perspective. Hardback
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    • Theory in Archaeology: A World Perspective. Hardback
    • Edited by Peter J. Ucko
    • 416 pages, 16 line drawings, 13 photos. 1995. What is the relationship between theory and practice? How does `World' archaeological theory differ from `European'? Can one be a good practitioner without theory?

    Vatsayana: Conservation of Rock Art. Hardback. Indian publication
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    • Conservation of Rock Art. Hardback
    • edited by Bansi Lal Malla, general editor Kapila Vatsyayan
    • 82 pages text and 9 colour plates. With a.o. Conservation and preservation of rock art in India. Conservation technique and long term planning for preservation of rock art in tropical countries. Conservation and management of rock art sites. The cultural dimension of rock art

    Wagner: Iron and Steel in Ancient China. Cloth
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    • Iron and Steel in Ancient China. Cloth
    • Donald B. Wagner
    • xvi, 575 pages, with numerous illustrations, tables, appendix, references, index and corrigenda. This book is a study of the production and use of iron and steel in China up to the second century B.C., and simultaneously a methodological study of the reconciliation of archaeological and written sources in Chinese cultural history.

    Wagner: Neolithikum und frühe Bronzezeit in Nordchina, vor 8000 bis 3500 Jahren. Die nordöstliche Tiefebene (Südteil) gebunden
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    • Neolithikum und frühe Bronzezeit in Nordchina, vor 8000 bis 3500 Jahren. Die nordöstliche Tiefebene (Südteil). Gebunden 21,5x30cm
    • Mayke Wagner
    • 2006. xviii, 374 Seiten, 285 Abbildungen, 8 Tabellen; Archäologie in Eurasien Band 21. Herausgegeben Deutsches Archäologisches Institut; Eurasien-Abteilung

    Waldron: Palaeopathology: Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Paperback
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    • Palaeopathology: Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Paperback
    • Tony Waldron
    • 298 pages. December 2008. Uses a novel approach to the diagnosis of disease in the skeleton which will ensure that the same criteria are used by all bone specialists. Information is soundly clinically based, using up-to-date medical knowledge