Egypt
Oxbow Books
- Why Are So Many Edited Volumes Worthless?
Publishing Archaeology (Michael E. Smith) I think that "worthless" is harsh, but I have been wondering why, recently, so many edited volumes that really don't seem to live up to the potential of the individual contributors are now so popular. Anyone...
- Luxury Products And Trade At Amara West
British Museum (Marie Millet) Though the majority of our finds, including pottery, stay in Sudan, each season we have the opportunity to bring back samples for scientific analysis, and also to borrow vessels of particular interest for conservation and...
- New Book: The Archaeology Of Mobility
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA The Archaeology of Mobility: Old World and New World Nomadism, Edited by Hans Barnard and Willeke Wendrich A majority of laymen, politicians and scholars consciously or subconsciously understand settled living as...
- Egyptian Glass Furnace Recreated
Science Daily Dr Paul Nicholson, of the University's School of History and Archaeology, is leader of an Egypt Exploration Society team working on the earliest fully excavated glassmaking site in the world. The site, at Amarna, on the banks of the...
- Second Hand Books
Three online book sellers have made their most recent catalogues of new, used and bargain books available by email or on their websites: Museum Books October 2007 book list (new and second hand) This autumn list has many interesting new and out of print...
Egypt
Oxbow Book News 73 (Winter 2007)
Oxbow Books
Oxbow have released their most recent catalogue. There are some great new and older titles if you dig around- here's a very biased selection of some of the ones that tempted me:
- Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Egyptologists (edited by J.-Cl. Goyon and C. Cardin)
- The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models (edited by J.G. Manning and Ian Morris)
- Lives of the Ancient Egyptians (by Toby Wilkinson)
- The archaeology of mobility: Nomads in the Old and New World (edited by Hans Barard and Willeke Wendrich)
- Egyptian Bestiary (by Phillipe Germond)
- New Kingdom Pottery Fabrics: Niile Clay and Nile/Marl Clay Fabrics from Memphis and Amarna (by Janine Bouriau, L.M.V. Smith and P.T. NIcholson)
- Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East
- Why Are So Many Edited Volumes Worthless?
Publishing Archaeology (Michael E. Smith) I think that "worthless" is harsh, but I have been wondering why, recently, so many edited volumes that really don't seem to live up to the potential of the individual contributors are now so popular. Anyone...
- Luxury Products And Trade At Amara West
British Museum (Marie Millet) Though the majority of our finds, including pottery, stay in Sudan, each season we have the opportunity to bring back samples for scientific analysis, and also to borrow vessels of particular interest for conservation and...
- New Book: The Archaeology Of Mobility
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA The Archaeology of Mobility: Old World and New World Nomadism, Edited by Hans Barnard and Willeke Wendrich A majority of laymen, politicians and scholars consciously or subconsciously understand settled living as...
- Egyptian Glass Furnace Recreated
Science Daily Dr Paul Nicholson, of the University's School of History and Archaeology, is leader of an Egypt Exploration Society team working on the earliest fully excavated glassmaking site in the world. The site, at Amarna, on the banks of the...
- Second Hand Books
Three online book sellers have made their most recent catalogues of new, used and bargain books available by email or on their websites: Museum Books October 2007 book list (new and second hand) This autumn list has many interesting new and out of print...