Bryony J Coles (6 results)

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Paperback, 2019). 2019 1st edition. Square 8vo paperback (200 x 240mm). Ppvi,113. Colour and b/w photographs and maps, bibliography. Fine new copy. "This book provides and introduction to beavers, based on the author's own work in European beaver territories. It then traces their history in Wales from very early times to the present, often through the writings of well-known Welshmen such as Gerald of Wales and Thomas Pennant. The archaeological, historical and environmental evidence builds a picture of the presence and significance of beavers in Welsh landscape and culture. Based on this, a strong case is made for their return to the wild in Wales." Chapters include: The ecology and archaeology of beavers: The prehistoric evidence from Wales; Evidence from the medieval period; An awareness of beavers in Wales, from the Tudors to the Victorian era; Beaver place-names and a search for new beaver field-evidence; Beavers in Wales, past and future; Return and restoration. .…

First Edition. Fine copy in cloth boards, with a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series; Ancient peoples and places (Thames and Hudson), v. 106. Physical description; 215 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. Contents; Decades of discovery. Early warnings -- Two fruitful decades : 1855-1875 -- Extending the search. Irish crannogs -- Robert Munro and the Scottish crannogs -- Ehenside Tarn -- Glastonbury -- Terps : mounds of the north European coasts -- Court of the Pile-dwellers -- Reinterpreting the lake-dwellings -- New projects in northern Europe -- Living by the sea. America -- Late Mesolithic coastal sites of northern Europe -- Britain -- North European coastal Neolithic -- Later prehistory -- Pioneers of the inland waters. Freshwater foragers -- Foraging farmers -- Timber and time, or peripatetic peasants -- Settling down? -- Neolithic material culture -- Lake-dwellers. Circum-Alpine chronology -- Settlements -- How long was a village occupied? -- Subsistence -- Bronze Age material culture -- Riverside and floodplain -- Fens and Flag Fen -- Biskupin -- Glastonbury and Meare -- New work on crannogs -- Elsewhere in the world : a postscript on potential -- Reaching the far side. Travel and transport over the bogs -- Sweet Track -- Corlea : an Irish roadway -- Tibirke roads -- Bourtanger Moor -- Lower Saxony -- Travel and transport upon the water -- Bogs and bodies. Into the pool -- Gifts to the bogs -- Tollund man -- Preservation -- Clothing -- Death in the bog -- Ritual deposits -- War booty -- Wooden figures. Subjects; Lake-dwellers and lake-dwellings. Bog bodies. Wetland archaeology. Excavations (archaeology), Europe. Prehistoric peoples, Europe. 1 Kg. …

4°. X, 286 Pages. Original Flexible Boards. Library-stamp [dropped out] cover-inside. Otherwise very good Condition with only minimal Signs of Usage at the Cover. No Markings in the Text! No Underlinings! No private Owner's Note! No Library-Button! (Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia, Volume 40).

Condition: Minor wear. VG. TWENTY-FOUR [24] PIECES. Weighs 1600 grams. This is a collection of 24 extracts, offprints and reports authored by British archaeolgists John Coles and Bryony Coles, either separately or as co-authors. Most bear authors' presentation inscriptions. Each separately bound in original wrappers. Several are xerographic copies. Running between 2 to 126 pages each. Includes: The Dancer on the Rock: Record & Analysis at Järrestad, Sweden; The Meare Heath Trackway: Excavation of a Bronze Age Structure in the Somerset Levels; Dendrochronology of the British Neolithic; The Excavation of a Neolithic Round Barrow at Pitnacree,Perthshire, Scotland; : Rock Art as a Picture Show; Precision, Purpose & Priorities in Wetland Arxchaeology; Elk & Ogopogo: Belief Systems in the Hunter-Gatherer Rock Art of Northern Lands; The Dying Rocks; Rock Carvings,Rubbings & Lichen; From the Waters of Oblivion; Trisantona Rivers: A Landscape Approach to the Interpretation of River Names; Further thoughts on the impact of beaver on temperate landscapes; Anthropomorphic Wooden Figures from Britain & Ireland; Waterlogged Wood: Guidelines on the Recording, Sampling, Conservation & Curation of Structural Wood; etc.…