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God's Wife, God's Servant

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Mariam Ayad

Published 06/08/2009

Mariam F. Ayad explores how five women were elevated to a position of supreme religious authority. Drawing on a variety of textual, iconographic, and archaeological...

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The Babylonian World

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Gwendolyn Leick

Published 01/01/2009

The Babylonian World presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon.

Historicized by the New Testament as...

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Series Name: Routledge Worlds 

The Neanderthals

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Stephanie muller, Muller Stephanie

Published 10/14/2008

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...

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Series Name: Peoples of the Ancient World 

Local Responses to Colonization in the Iron Age Mediterranean

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Tamar Hodos

Published 10/10/2008

The first study to bring together such a breadth of data, this book compares responses to colonization in the Iron-Age Mediterranean.

From North Syria to Sicily...

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The Atlantic Iron Age

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Jon Henderson

Published 11/20/2007

It may be surprising to learn that this book is the first ever survey of the Atlantic Iron Age: this tradition is cited in archaeology...

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Rome in the Pyrenees

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Simon Esmonde-Cleary

Published 09/07/2007

Rome in the Pyrenees is a unique treatment in English of the archaeological and historical evidence for an important Roman town in Gaul, Lugdunum in...

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Series Name: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies 

The Babylonian World

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Gwendolyn Leick

Published 08/08/2007

The Babylonian World presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon.

Historicized by the New Testament as...

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Series Name: Routledge Worlds 

The British Lower Palaeolithic

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John McNabb

Published 08/02/2007

Taking as its central theme the issue of whether early Hominins organized themselves into societies as we understand them, John McNabb looks at how modern...

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Archaeology: The Basics

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Published 07/23/2007

This second edition from our successful Basics series presents another chance to delve into this increasingly popular subject. Fully updated, Archaeology: The Basics has also...

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Series Name: The Basics 

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