LIBROS DEL AUTOR: william y adams

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  • Kulubnarti I
    William Y. Adams / William YAdams
    Sudan Archaeological Research Society. Publication Number 18In 1998 and 1999 volumes II and III of the reports on the University of Kentucky excavations at Kulubnarti were published by the Sudan Archaeological Research Society as numbers 2 and 4 in its monograph series. Kulubnarti III was also available through British Archaeological Reports in its International Series no. 814....
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    104,23 €

  • The Kinship Wars
    William Y. Adams
    In the later nineteenth century, a number of learned scholars discovered, independently of one another, some basic principles of human kinship organization that had previously gone unrecognized. They noticed the existence of matrilineal descent (reckoning descent and inheritance through the mother rather than the father), exogamy (the necessity of marrying outside ones group), ...
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  • The Kinship Wars
    William Y. Adams
    In the later nineteenth century, a number of learned scholars discovered, independently of one another, some basic principles of human kinship organization that had previously gone unrecognized. They noticed the existence of matrilineal descent (reckoning descent and inheritance through the mother rather than the father), exogamy (the necessity of marrying outside ones group), ...
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    9,72 €

  • The Boasians
    William Y Adams / William Y. Adams / William YAdams
    This book is a study in depth of the work of Franz Boas and twenty of his students at Columbia University in the early years of the twentieth century. Collectively they laid the entire institutional as well as the intellectual foundations of American anthropology as it exists today. ...
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    55,30 €

  • The Churches of Nobadia, Volume II
    William Y Adams
    This is a study of the churches of Nobadia - the most northerly of the three medieval Nubian kingdoms. Since more than two-thirds of its territory has now been flooded by the successive Aswan dams, and much of the remainder has been surveyed by archaeologists, there is probably not a great deal remaining to be learned. The time therefore seems appropriate for a summary overview...
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    130,97 €

  • The Churches of Nobadia, Volume I
    William Y Adams
    This is a study of the churches of Nobadia - the most northerly of the three medieval Nubian kingdoms. Since more than two-thirds of its territory has now been flooded by the successive Aswan dams, and much of the remainder has been surveyed by archaeologists, there is probably not a great deal remaining to be learned. The time therefore seems appropriate for a summary overview...
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    134,99 €

  • Archaeological Typology and Practical Reality
    Ernest W. Adams / Ernest WAdams / William Y. Adams / William YAdams
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  • The West Bank Survey from Faras to Gemai
    William Y. Adams / William YAdams
    Sudan Archaeological Research Society, Publication Number 14This is the second in a series of volumes detailing the results of an archaeological survey carried out in the most northerly part of the Sudan, between 1960 and 1965. The present volume deals exclusively with sites dating from the Christian Nubian period, between approximately AD 580 and 1500. In brief, the survey cov...
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    105,72 €

  • The West Bank Survey from Faras to Gemai
    William Y. Adams / William YAdams
    Sudan Archaeological Research Society, Publication Number 13This volume is the first of a series that will report on surveys and excavations carried out in the most northerly portion of Sudanese Nubia, in the years between 1960 and 1963. Specifically, the area covered comprised the west bank of the Nile between the villages of Faras and Gemai, and adjacent islands of the Second...
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    93,83 €

  • Meinarti III
    William Y. Adams
    This is the keenly awaited third of a projected five volumes, presenting the results of excavations carried out at the Nubian site of Meinarti in 1963 and 1964. (Before its inundation, Meinarti was a low-lying alluvial island situated at the foot of the Second Nile Cataract, about 10km to the south of the town of Wadi Halfa.) The present volume carries the story forward through...
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    88,81 €

  • Meinarti II
    William Y. Adams
    This is the second of a projected series of five important volumes presenting the results of excavations (1963-4) carried out at the Nubian site of Meinarti (near the Second Nile Cataract, about 10km to the south of modern-day Wadi Halfa). Occupation of the site covers some 18 levels, ranging from perhaps 200 AD to the early Post-Christian periods, or approximately 1600 AD. Thi...
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    86,87 €

  • Meinarti I
    William Y. Adams / William YAdams
    Before its inundation in 1965, the island of Meinarti was situated at the foot of the Second Nile Cataract, 10km south of the town of Wadi Halfa. It was the last place that could be reached, at all times of the year, by large watercraft travelling upriver, a circumstance clearly important in shaping the history of the settlement. The total excavation work covered 18 occupation ...
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    61,21 €

  • Kulubnarti III
    Dennis P. Van Gerven / Dennis PVan Gerven / Nettie K. Adams / Nettie KAdams / William Y. Adams / William YAdams
    This is a third in a series of definitive publications on the excavations of medieval sites in Nubia. It is concerned with the funerary remains uncovered in two cemeteries, one on the island of Kulubnarti, the other on the adjacent left bank of the Nile.The report includes detailed descriptions of grave types which are set within their Nubian medieval context. Special attentio...
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    64,56 €