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Egypt and the Classical World : Cross-Cultural Encounters in Antiquity /

Table of Contents: “…From Thutmoses III to Homer to Blackadder: Egypt, the Aegean, and the "Barbarian Periphery" of the Late Bronze Age World System / Jorrit M. Kelder -- Mediterranean Encounters: Greeks, Carians, and Egyptians in the First Millennium BC / Alexandra Villing -- "I Am Isis": The Role of Speech in the Cult of Isis / Martin Bommas -- The Creation of New "Cultural Codes": The Ptolemaic Queens and Their Syncretic Processes with Isis, Hathor, and Aphrodite / Martina Minas-Nerpel -- The Kellis Mammisi: A Painted Chapel from the Final Centuries of the Ancient Egyptian Religion / Olaf E. …”
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Synchronized chronology rethinking Middle East antiquity : a simple correction to Egyptian chronology resolves the major problems in Biblical and Greek archaeology / by Henry, Roger, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-- Foundations of conventional chronology -- The exodus and the end of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt -- The conquest and the time of the judges -- The 18th dynasty and the United Kingdom -- The wars of Egypt and Israel -- Israel and Damascus at war : part 1 of the Tell el Amarna letters -- Jerusalem in the time of Akhnaton : part 2 of the Tell el Amarna -- The end of the Bronze Age -- New light on the Greek dark ages -- The rise of Assyria : part 3 of the Tell el Amarna letters -- Samaria as a benchmark for archaeology -- The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt -- Who were the Hittites? …”
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Synchronized chronology rethinking Middle East antiquity : a simple correction to Egyptian chronology resolves the major problems in Biblical and Greek archaeology / by Henry, Roger, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-- Foundations of conventional chronology -- The exodus and the end of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt -- The conquest and the time of the judges -- The 18th dynasty and the United Kingdom -- The wars of Egypt and Israel -- Israel and Damascus at war : part 1 of the Tell el Amarna letters -- Jerusalem in the time of Akhnaton : part 2 of the Tell el Amarna -- The end of the Bronze Age -- New light on the Greek dark ages -- The rise of Assyria : part 3 of the Tell el Amarna letters -- Samaria as a benchmark for archaeology -- The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt -- Who were the Hittites? …”
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Archaeology and memory

Table of Contents: “…: remembering and dismembering dead bodies at Vlasac / Dušan Borić -- Forgetting and remembering the digital experience and digital data / Ruth Tringham -- Layers of meaning : concealment, containment, memory, and secrecy in the British early Bronze Age / Andy Jones -- Constructing the warrior : death, memory, and the art of warfare / Bryan Hanks -- Memory and microhistory of an empire : domestic contexts in Roman Amheida, Egypt / Anna Boozer -- The depiction of time on the Arch of Constantine / Adam Gutteridge -- Archaeology and memory on the Western Front / Paola Filippucci -- Terra incognita : the material world in international criminal courts / Lindsay Weiss -- YugoMuseum : memory, nostalgia, irony / Mrđan Bajić -- Memory, melancholy, and materiality / Victor Buchli.…”
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Archaeology and memory

Table of Contents: “…: remembering and dismembering dead bodies at Vlasac / Dušan Borić -- Forgetting and remembering the digital experience and digital data / Ruth Tringham -- Layers of meaning : concealment, containment, memory, and secrecy in the British early Bronze Age / Andy Jones -- Constructing the warrior : death, memory, and the art of warfare / Bryan Hanks -- Memory and microhistory of an empire : domestic contexts in Roman Amheida, Egypt / Anna Boozer -- The depiction of time on the Arch of Constantine / Adam Gutteridge -- Archaeology and memory on the Western Front / Paola Filippucci -- Terra incognita : the material world in international criminal courts / Lindsay Weiss -- YugoMuseum : memory, nostalgia, irony / Mrđan Bajić -- Memory, melancholy, and materiality / Victor Buchli.…”
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Chinese martial arts from antiquity to the twenty-first century / by Lorge, Peter Allan, 1967-

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Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum / by Wohl, Birgitta, 1934-, Bussiere, Jean

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Chinese martial arts from antiquity to the twenty-first century / by Lorge, Peter Allan, 1967-

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Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum / by Wohl, Birgitta, 1934-, Bussiere, Jean

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Ancient Carved Ambers in the J. Paul Getty Museum / by Causey, Faya

Table of Contents: “…-- The properties of amber -- Ancient names for amber -- Color and other optical characteristics: ancient perception and reception -- Ancient literary sources on the origins of amber -- Amber and forgery -- The ancient transport of amber -- Literary sources on the use of amber -- Amber medicine, amber amulets -- The bronze age -- Early iron age and the orientalizing period -- The archaic and afterward -- The working of amber: ancient evidence and modern analysis -- The production of ancient figured amber objects -- Catalogue -- Technical essay: analysis of selected ambers from the collections of the J. …”
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Ancient Carved Ambers in the J. Paul Getty Museum / by Causey, Faya

Table of Contents: “…-- The properties of amber -- Ancient names for amber -- Color and other optical characteristics: ancient perception and reception -- Ancient literary sources on the origins of amber -- Amber and forgery -- The ancient transport of amber -- Literary sources on the use of amber -- Amber medicine, amber amulets -- The bronze age -- Early iron age and the orientalizing period -- The archaic and afterward -- The working of amber: ancient evidence and modern analysis -- The production of ancient figured amber objects -- Catalogue -- Technical essay: analysis of selected ambers from the collections of the J. …”
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The archaeology of caves in Ireland / by Dowd, Marion

Table of Contents: “…People in caves, caves in people -- Excursions into places of fearful darkness : 300 years investigating caves -- Caves and cave archaeology in Ireland -- Gathering the dead : the Mesolithic (8000-3900 BC) -- Thresholds to transformation : the Neolithic (3900-2400 BC) -- Journeying deeper into darkness : the Bronze Age (2400-600 BC) -- Eyes full of darkness : the Iron Age (600 BC-AD 400) -- Out of the darkness, into the light : the early Medieval period (AD 400-1169) -- Silent spaces or speaking volumes? …”
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The archaeology of caves in Ireland / by Dowd, Marion

Table of Contents: “…People in caves, caves in people -- Excursions into places of fearful darkness : 300 years investigating caves -- Caves and cave archaeology in Ireland -- Gathering the dead : the Mesolithic (8000-3900 BC) -- Thresholds to transformation : the Neolithic (3900-2400 BC) -- Journeying deeper into darkness : the Bronze Age (2400-600 BC) -- Eyes full of darkness : the Iron Age (600 BC-AD 400) -- Out of the darkness, into the light : the early Medieval period (AD 400-1169) -- Silent spaces or speaking volumes? …”
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Chinese concepts of privacy

Table of Contents: “…McDougall -- PART II: EXPERIENCING PRIVACY -- Solitude, Silence and Concealment: Boundaries of the Social Body in Ming Dynasty China -- Charlotte Furth -- Privacy in Dream of the Red Chamber -- Cathy Silber -- PART III: INSCRIBING PRIVACY -- Studying the Private Sphere of the Ancient Chinese Nobility through the Inscriptions on Bronze Ritual Vessels -- Maria Khayutina -- Privacy and Letter Writing in Han and Six Dynasties China -- David Pattinson -- PART IV: NEGOTIATING PRIVACY -- The Origins of Modern Chinese Concepts of Privacy: Notes on Social Structure and Moral Discourse -- Peter Zarrow -- Functions and Values of Privacy in the Correspondence between Lu Xun and Xu Guangping, 1925-1929 -- Bonnie S. …”
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French Rococo Ébénisterie in the J. Paul Getty Museum /

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Chinese concepts of privacy

Table of Contents: “…McDougall -- PART II: EXPERIENCING PRIVACY -- Solitude, Silence and Concealment: Boundaries of the Social Body in Ming Dynasty China -- Charlotte Furth -- Privacy in Dream of the Red Chamber -- Cathy Silber -- PART III: INSCRIBING PRIVACY -- Studying the Private Sphere of the Ancient Chinese Nobility through the Inscriptions on Bronze Ritual Vessels -- Maria Khayutina -- Privacy and Letter Writing in Han and Six Dynasties China -- David Pattinson -- PART IV: NEGOTIATING PRIVACY -- The Origins of Modern Chinese Concepts of Privacy: Notes on Social Structure and Moral Discourse -- Peter Zarrow -- Functions and Values of Privacy in the Correspondence between Lu Xun and Xu Guangping, 1925-1929 -- Bonnie S. …”
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French Rococo Ébénisterie in the J. Paul Getty Museum /

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Anthropological approaches to zooarchaeology complexity, colonialism, and animal transformations /

Table of Contents: “…Kelly -- The organization of animal production in an early urban center : the zooarchaeological evidence from early Bronze Age Titriş Höyük, southeastern Turkey / Adam Allentuck and Haskel J. …”
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Anthropological approaches to zooarchaeology complexity, colonialism, and animal transformations /

Table of Contents: “…Kelly -- The organization of animal production in an early urban center : the zooarchaeological evidence from early Bronze Age Titriş Höyük, southeastern Turkey / Adam Allentuck and Haskel J. …”
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Fonthill Recovered : A Cultural History by Dakers, Caroline

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