The making of Bronze Age Eurasia

This book provides an overview of Bronze Age societies of Western Eurasia through an investigation of the archaeological record. The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia outlines the long-term processes and patterns of interaction that link these groups together in a shared historical trajectory of development ...

Les celtes de l'Âge du Fer

Qui sont les Celtes, ces populations qui, au ler millénaire avant J.- C., ont occupé l'Europe, des Alpes à la mer du Nord et de la Slovaquie à l'Atlantique ? Les origines, les limites, les caractéristiques mêmes de ces peuples font débat depuis l ...

Paisajes fortificados de la Edad del Hierro

las murallas protohistóricas de la meseta y la vertiente atlántica en su contexto europeo. Actas del coloquio celebrado en la Casa de Velázquez (Octubre de 2006)

INDICE: Las fortificaciones prrotohistóricas de la Hispania céltica:Cuestiones a debate.Luis Berrocal-Rangel y Pierre Moret. Las fortificaciones tartésicas en el Suroeste peninsular.Martín Almagro- Gorbea y Mariano Torres. Las fortificaciones coloniales en la Península Ibérica:de los modelos orientales a los sistemas púnico-helenísticos.Fernando ...

Sport and spectacle in the Ancient World

This work by a well-published scholar and award-winning teacher provides an introduction to the history of sport and spectacle in the ancient world from the Ancient Near East through Greek and Hellenistic times and into the Roman Empire. The book introduces readers to ancient sport ...

Plague and the end of Antiquity

the Pandemic of 541-750

Plague was a key factor in the waning of Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages. In this volume, the first on the subject, twelve scholars from a variety of disciplines - history, archaeology, epidemiology, and molecular biology - have produced a comprehensive account of the ...

War and peace in the ancient world

This book is the first to focus on war and peace in the ancient world from a global perspective. Nineteen distinguished scholars, all of whom are experts in their fields, discuss different aspects of this fascinating subject in relation to a large number of early ...

Comercio y colonialismo en el Próximo Oriente Antiguo

los antecedentes coloniales del III y II milenios a.C.

Con Roma y Mesopotamia abrimos una nueva serie en la colección Los Diccionarios del Arte dedicada a las Civilizacones Antiguas. Se trata de culturas fascinantes, que nos ha legado un riquísimo caudal de arte, arquitectura y restos arqueológicos y cuya influencia puede presenciarse en buena ...

Wu

la emperatriz china que intrigó, sedujo y asesinó para convertirse en un dios viviente

Esta es la historia de Wu, la concubina que llegó a ostentar personalmente el poder imperial y fue proclamada dios viviente. Hija de un comerciante de madera, entró en el palacio como una más de las concubinas del emperador Taizong. Sobrevivió en medio de las ...

India

the ancient past: a history of the indian sub-continent from c. 7000 BC to AD 1200

This carefully crafted study presents the fascinating story of the development and establishment of India's culture and civilization from early pre-history through to the early second millennium. Encompassing topics such as Harappan Civilization, the rise of Hindu culture, the influx of Islam in the ...

The history of the ancient world

from the earliest accounts to the fall of Rome

This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while giving weight to the characteristics of each country. This narrative history employs the ...

The Druids

Ronald Hutton's latest book is the first comprehensive study of what people have thought about the ancient Druids and why. Written in a racy and accessible style, it is essential reading for everyone interested in exploring our mysterious past. Most books written on the ...

Agrarian change in late antiquity

gold, labour, and aristocratic dominance

The economy of the late antique Mediterranean is still largely seen through the prism of Weber's influential essay of 1896. Rejecting that orthodoxy, Jairus Banaji argues that the late empire saw substantial economic and social change, propelled by the powerful stimulus of a stable ...

Travel, geography and culture in ancient Greece, Egypt and the near east

This collection of essays looks beyond the focus of existing works on ancient travel and its documentation, to examine its social and cultural implications. For travel (and the reasons behind it) offers a window on to many features of ancient societies - sense of place, perceptions ...

L'Âge d'Or de l'Inde classique

Au terme du premier grand empire de son histoire - celui des Maurya (fin IVe siècle-début IIe siècle av. J.-C.) -, l'Inde connaît, du Ier au IIIev siècle de notre ère, les puissants pouvoirs des Kushâna, au nord, et des Sâtavâhana, au sud. Mais c ...

Espacios de infertilidad y agamia en la antigüedad

Este volumen se centra en el estudio de las atokusai o mujeres infértiles de la Antigüedad y en los espacios de agamía, es decir, algunos de los diferentes momentos de la vida de la mujer en los que el matrimonio o el contacto sexual reglado ...

Choix d'écrits

Louis Robert (1904-1985) fut l#un des plus grands savants du XXe siècle dans le domaine de l#Antiquité. Directeur d#études à l#École Pratique des Hautes Études (1933-1974), professeur au Collège de France (1939- 1974), cet historien eut une réputation internationale incontestée, et ...

Fear of slaves-fear of enslavement in the ancient Mediterranean

peur de l'esclave-peur de l'esclavage en méditerranée ancienne (discours, représentations, pratiques). Actes du XXIXe Colloque du Groupe International de Recherche sur l'Esclavage dans l'Antiquité (GIREA), Rethymnon, 4-7 novembre 2004

Centré sur la problématique de la peur et de l'esclavage le 29e colloque du GIREA qui s'est tenu à Rethymnon en novembre 2004 s'est voulu un rassemblement international d'antiquisants qui a porté son attention sur une thématique qui incitait à l ...

War in late antiquity

a social history

War in Late Antiquity is the first book to focus on the social impact of warfare and the Roman army from the third to the early seventh century AD. Drawing on the rich and varied source materials for the period, Doug Lee investigates how the ...

The mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam

a sourcebook

In recent decades it has become obvious that mathematics has always been a worldwide activity. But this is the first book to provide a substantial collection of English translations of key mathematical texts from the five most important ancient and medieval non-Western mathematical cultures, and ...

Mysteries of the oracles

the last secrets of antiquity

How did the ancient oracles operate - and how were they used and abused for treacherous, deceitful and dangerous ends? The oracles are one of the great mysteries of the ancient world. Doorways to the underworld, foretellers of the future, decision-makers for kings and paupers alike ...