A geography of offerings : deposits of valuables in the landscapes of ancient Europe / Richard Bradley.

More than quarter of a century ago Richard Bradley published The Passage of Arms. It was conceived as An Archaeological Analysis of Prehistoric Hoards and Votive Deposits, but, as the author concedes, these terms were too narrrowly focused for the complex subject of deliberate deposition and the per...

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Main Author: Bradley, Richard, 1946- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017.
Series:Oxbow insights in archaeology.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a Beginning again -- A chapter of accidents -- Faultlines in contemporary research -- Proportional representation -- The hoard as a still life -- The nature of things -- A kind of regeneration -- Vanishing points -- A guide to strange places -- Thresholds and transitions. 
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