Archaeology from JimsOldBooks

Truro: Cornwall Archaeology Unit, 1994. A veritical fold to outside edge of the front cover, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this spiral-bound soft-cover book. Looks at the remains of the houses and farm buildings dating from between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries on the now uninhabited island of Samson in the Scilly islands. … Ler mais sobre este item

Truro: Cornwall Archaeology Unit, 1989. A good clean tight copy, with no creasing to te spine or covers, of this large-format soft-cover book. A report commissioned by English Heritage on the archaeological remains on the Isles of Scilly, the report was intended to (a) describe the character, distribution and importance of the various sites, (b) assess access to, and… Ler mais sobre este item

London: B T Batsford, 1997. Minor scuffing to spine ends and corners, "Orkney July 1998" written inside front cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Deals with ancient monuments in Orkney from earliest times until the Pictish period in the early centuries AD. 128pp, 11 colour and 95… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Odhams, 1961. Some creasing and a couple of small tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends of red boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. The author's account of her time in Kandahar province, Afghanistan in the late 1950s when she worked on the archaeological dig at Mundigak, a… Ler mais sobre este item

Dundas, Ontario: Copetown Press, 1995. A very good clean tight copy of this soft-cover spiral-bound book. Deals with the excavations carried out at the Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons site near Midland, Ontario. This was the site of a seventeenth century Jesuit Mission from 1639 to 49, but the area was occupied by Huron people from 1200AD onwards. … Ler mais sobre este item

Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 1989. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, some yellowing to outer pages, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the archaeology of the Delmarva Peninsula, which is shared by Delaware, Virginia and Maryland, from around 10,000BC up to early contact with Europeans in the 1600s.… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Leicester University Press, 1996. The tiniest bit of creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, otherwise a very good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Based on the work of the Neothermal Dalmatia Project in the Zadar lowlands in western Croatia between 1982 and 1986, an archaeological and palaeo-environmental study of sites dating from the Neolithic to the… Ler mais sobre este item

Lerwick, Shetland: Shetland Islands Council, 1991. No dustwrapper (as issued), a tiny bit of bumping to top corner of front cover and bottom end of spine, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Written for primary school children (aged from about 7 to 11), a basic introduction to archaeology in Shetland. 74pp, b&w illustrations… Ler mais sobre este item

Taunton: E Goodman & Sons, 1956. Some minor creasing to edges of cover, minor scuffing to spine ends, some foxing to lower edge of covers, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim soft-cover book. Contains articles on aspects of local Somerset history, archaeology and natural history. 156pp, 2pp b&w drawings of flints and pottery shards..… Ler mais sobre este item

Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2011. No dustwrapper (as issued), slight bumping to spine ends and corners, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Contains twenty-six pieces by various authors on aspects of archaeology on sites wholly or partly underwater, including areas whish were dry land in the mesolithic period. Mostly deals with sites in northern Europe,… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Batsford, 1982. Paperback edition from 1982. Minor creasing to spine, a crease to the first page, some pencil notes and underlining in the text by a previous owner, otherwise a good tight copy of this soft-cover book. Deals with the architecture of the Roman Empire from the time of Augustus in the first century AD up to… Ler mais sobre este item

Florence: Origines: Studi e Materiali Pubblicati a cura dell'Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protoistoria, 1996. A very good clean tight copy in similar dustwrapper of this hard-cover book. Originally published in Italian in 1980 as ''Le pitture preistoriche della grotta di Porto Badisco''. Deals with the neolithic cave paintings at Porto Badisco, to the south of Otranto in… Ler mais sobre este item