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After 1177 B.C.
The Survival of Civilizations
AvEric H. Cline
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
207 kr
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In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed—why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever“A landmark book: lucid, deep, and insightful. . . . You cannot understand human civilization and self-organization without studying what happened on, before, and after 1177 B.C.”—Nassim Nicholas Taleb, bestselling author of The Black SwanAt the end of the acclaimed history 1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in ruins, undone by invasion, revolt, natural disasters, famine, and the demise of international trade. An interconnected world that had boasted major empires and societies, relative peace, robust commerce, and monumental architecture was lost and the so-called First Dark Age had begun. Now, in After 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the compelling story of what happened next, over four centuries, across the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean world. It is a story of resilience, transformation, and success, as well as failures, in an age of chaos and reconfiguration.After 1177 B.C. tells how the collapse of powerful Late Bronze Age civilizations created new circumstances to which people and societies had to adapt. Those that failed to adjust disappeared from the world stage, while others transformed themselves, resulting in a new world order that included Phoenicians, Philistines, Israelites, Neo-Hittites, Neo-Assyrians, and Neo-Babylonians. Taking the story up to the resurgence of Greece marked by the first Olympic Games in 776 B.C., the book also describes how world-changing innovations such as the use of iron and the alphabet emerged amid the chaos.Filled with lessons for today's world about why some societies survive massive shocks while others do not, After 1177 B.C. reveals why this period, far from being the First Dark Age, was a new age with new inventions and new opportunities.
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Ancient Cities
The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece, and Rome
AvCharles Gates,Andrew Goldman
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
726 kr
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The third edition of Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman worlds from the perspectives of archaeology and architectural history, bringing to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on archaeological evidence.Urban form is the focus: the physical appearance and overall plans of cities, their architecture and natural topography, and the cultural and historical contexts in which they flourished. Attention is also paid to non-urban features such as religious sanctuaries and burial grounds, places and institutions that were a familiar part of the city dweller’s experience. Objects or artifacts that furnished everyday life are discussed, such as writing systems, pottery, sculpture, wall paintings, mosaics, and coins. Ancient Cities is unusual in presenting this wide range of Old World cultures in such comprehensive detail, giving equal weight to the Preclassical and Classical periods, and in showing the links between these ancient cultures. In this new edition, in which Andrew Goldman has joined Charles Gates in updating the volume, readers and lecturers will be delighted to see a major revision of the chapters on Greek cities in South Italy and Sicily, the Etruscans, the development of the capital city, Rome, during the Republic as well as the Empire, and the end of the ancient city.This new edition includes several new and updated user-friendly features, such as:Clear and accessible language, assuming no previous background knowledgeLavishly illustrated, with almost 350 line drawings, maps, and photographs, including new contributions from Neslihan Yılmaz Tekman adding to her already acclaimed illustrationsSuggestions for further reading for each chapterA companion website with images, study guides, and an interactive timeline. With its comprehensive presentation of ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern cities, its rich collection of illustrations, and its companion website, Ancient Cities remains an essential textbook for university and high school students across a wide range of archaeology, ancient history, and ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Classical Studies courses.
Bohusläns historia : från järnålder till 1658
AvTomas Andersson
Inbunden, Svenska, 2021
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(10)
291 kr
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»För den historiskt intresserade är boken en veritabel guldgruva.« Kungsälvs-posten
Bohuslän har varit skådeplats för många stormiga strider under århundradenas lopp. Danska och norska stormän har kämpat om herraväldet, vikingar har gett sig ut på Nordsjön för att kolonisera de brittiska öarna, Island och Grönland. Men här blomstrade också Kungahälla, Norges mest betydande stad under 1100-talet, och en rad andra livliga handelsplatser utmed älven och kusten.
På Bohus fästning tar flera färgstarka personer plats på scen - kung Magnus Eriksson, som under 1300-talet regerade över både Norge och Sverige, och senare unionsdrottningen Margareta. Heliga Birgitta dyker också upp, både i rollen som bröllopsgäst och lärare åt Magnus Erikssons hustru, Blanka av Namur.
Tomas Andersson är arkeolog, historiker och författare. I Bohusläns historia - som tar avstamp i yngre järnålder och sträcker sig fram till freden i Roskilde 1658 - riktar han allt strålkastarljus mot landområdet som på 1300-talet hade kunnat utvecklas till ett eget mellannordiskt kungarike. För första gången i bokform får området sin egen historia berättad, fri från norska, danska och svenska övertoner.
Sophögen i Oxyrhynchos : grekiska papyrustexter
Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(6)
285 kr
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Sophögen i den gamla staden Oxyrhynchos i Egypten grävdes ut av brittiska arkeologer kring sekelskiftet 1900 och visade sig rymma enorma skatter: en halv miljon grekiska papyrustexter av väldigt olika karaktär. Utifrån de sextusen hittills dechiffrerade texterna har Karl Dunér gjort ett rikt och varierat urval som fördjupar vår bild av antikens liv. Översatta privatbrev blandas med tidigare okända dikter och dramer, besvärjelser med köpekontrakt, efterlysningar med obscena komediscener – man kommer rakt in i enskilda liv för tvåtusen år sen och möter poeter som man inte visste fanns.
Sophögen i Oxyrhynchos innehåller också essäer av forskarna Ingela Nilsson, Denis M. Searby, Alexander Andrée och Paul Linjamaa. Här finns även ett flertal återgivningar av papyrus-fragment.
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Aegean Art and Architecture
AvDonald Preziosi,Louise A. Hitchcock
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
271 kr
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The amazing discovery of the 'first European civilization' in Crete, Greece and the Aegean islands during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was beyond what anyone had imagined. Beginning with the Neolithic period, before 3000 BCE, and ending at the close of the Bronze Age and the transition to the Iron Age of Hellenic Greece (c.1000 BCE), this is the first comprehensive introduction to the visual arts and architecture of this extraordinary era. This book introduces the reader to the historical and social contexts within which the arts - pottery, gold, silver, and ivory objects, gravestone reliefs, frescoes, and architecture - of the Aegean area developed. It examines the functions they served, and the ways in which they can be read as evidence for the interactions of many different peoples and societies in the eastern Mediterranean. It also provides an up-to-date critical historiography of the field in its relationship to the growth of ancient art history, archaeology, and museology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, giving a contemporary audience a clear appreciation of what has been at stake in the uncovering and reconstruction of this ancient society.
Europas mödrar : de senaste 43 000 åren
AvKarin Bojs
Storpocket, Svenska, 2023
3,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(5)
159 kr
Mycket har hunnit hända inom DNA-forskningen sedan Karin Bojs skrev Augustprisvinnaren Min europeiska familj - de senaste 54 000 åren (2015) och uppföljaren Svenskarna och deras fäder - de senaste 11 000 åren (2016).
Bland annat börjar forskare kunna urskilja hur vandringsmönstren har skilt sig åt för Europas fäder och mödrar.
En hel del, visar det sig.
Karin Bojs borrar i äldre påståenden om folkvandringar och könsroller, och visar vad den allra senaste vetenskapen kan säga.
Resan går från regnskogens schimpanser till Nordens sköldmör. Via bland annat neandertal-sex, de första hundarna, den första metallen, de första tama hästarna och ett 5000 år gammalt incestfall på Irland.
Tusen år i Uppåkra : en järnåldersmetropol uppgång och fall
AvDick Harrison
Inbunden, Svenska, 2022
4,6 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(40)
357 kr
I Uppåkra utanför Lund breder odlingsfälten ut sig över den skånska slätten. Men i över tusen år fanns här ett rikt maktcentrum stort som en stad, med hövdingahall, tempel och mängder av hantverkshus och gårdar. Det var en unik plats i den skandinaviska järnålderns historia, betydligt större än de mer kända Birka och Hedeby, med långväga kontakter ut i världen. Än har bara ett par promille av området grävts ut, ändå har fantastiska fynd hittats som förändrar vår syn på historien.
I "Tusen år i Uppåkra" berättar Dick Harrison om staden som försvann och föll i glömska och ger samtidigt en levande bild av livet i Norden, så som det såg ut på sagornas och hjältedikternas tid – från förromersk järnålder till vikingatid.
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Europe Between the Oceans
9000 BC-AD 1000
AvBarry Cunliffe
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(3)
343 kr
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A sensational, interdisciplinary work which entirely reorients our understanding of Europe from 10,000 BC to the time of the VikingsIn this magnificent book, distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe reframes our entire conception of early European history, from prehistory through the ancient world to the medieval Viking period. Cunliffe views Europe not in terms of states and shifting political land boundaries but as a geographical niche particularly favored in facing many seas. These seas, and Europe’s great transpeninsular rivers, ensured a rich diversity of natural resources while also encouraging the dynamic interaction of peoples across networks of communication and exchange. The development of these early Europeans is rooted in complex interplays, shifting balances, and geographic and demographic fluidity.Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, and history, Cunliffe has produced an interdisciplinary tour de force. His is a bold book of exceptional scholarship, erudite and engaging, and it heralds an entirely new understanding of Old Europe.
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Ancient Scandinavia
An Archaeological History from the First Humans to the Vikings
AvT. Douglas Price
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
1 499 kr
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Although occupied only relatively briefly in the long span of world prehistory, Scandinavia is an extraordinary laboratory for investigating past human societies. The area was essentially unoccupied until the end of the last Ice Age when the melting of huge ice sheets left behind a fresh, barren land surface, which was eventually covered by flora and fauna. The first humans did not arrive until sometime after 13,500 BCE. The prehistoric remains of human activity in Scandinavia - much of it remarkably preserved in its bogs, lakes, and fjords - have given archaeologists a richly detailed portrait of the evolution of human society.In this book, Doug Price provides an archaeological history of Scandinavia-a land mass comprising the modern countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway-from the arrival of the first humans after the last Ice Age to the end of the Viking period, ca. AD 1050. Constructed similarly to the author's previous book, Europe before Rome, Ancient Scandinavia provides overviews of each prehistoric epoch followed by detailed, illustrative examples from the archaeological record. An engrossing and comprehensive picture emerges of change across the millennia, as human society evolves from small bands of hunter - gatherers to large farming communities to the complex warrior cultures of the Bronze and Iron Ages, which culminated in the spectacular rise of the Vikings. The material evidence of these past societies - arrowheads from reindeer hunts, megalithic tombs, rock art, beautifully wrought weaponry, Viking warships - give vivid testimony to the ancient humans who once called home this often unforgiving edge of the inhabitable world.
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Against the Grain
A Deep History of the Earliest States
AvJames C. Scott
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
4,4 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(5)
233 kr
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An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available that contradicts the standard narrative for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations An Economist Best History Book 2017 “Scott is one of those rare academics whose writing is a thing of beauty.”—Rana Dasgupta, The Week “Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our ancestors paid for civilization and political order.”—Walter Scheidel, Financial Times Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative. The first agrarian states, says James C. Scott, were born of accumulations of domestications: first fire, then plants, livestock, subjects of the state, captives, and finally women in the patriarchal family—all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction. Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding plants, animals, and grain, and why all early states are based on millets and cereal grains and unfree labor. He also discusses the “barbarians” who long evaded state control, as a way of understanding continuing tension between states and nonsubject peoples.
Palestine
A Four Thousand Year History
AvNur Masalha
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(3)
156 kr
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This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history.Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Palestine and its Palestinian identity have evolved over thousands of years, from the Bronze Age to the present day. Drawing on a rich body of sources and the latest archaeological evidence, Masalha shows how Palestine’s multicultural past has been distorted and mythologised by Biblical lore and the Israel–Palestinian conflict.In the process, Masalha reveals that the concept of Palestine, contrary to accepted belief, is not a modern invention or one constructed in opposition to Israel, but rooted firmly in ancient past. Palestine represents the authoritative account of the country's history.
Ghost ships : Östersjöns okända historia
AvCarl Douglas,Jonas Dahm
Inbunden, Svenska, 2020
4,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(61)
447 kr
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I denna magnifika fotobok får vi följa med dykarna Jonas Dahm och Carl Douglas till de mest spektakulära vraken i Östersjön. Detta unika hav rymmer närmare 100 000 vrak – det kalla vattnet och avsaknaden av skeppsmask har skapat en skattkista för vrakletare. Det är regalskepp från stormaktstiden, ståtliga träskepp från 1700-talet, lastfartyg från 1800-talet och ubåtar från andra världskriget. Ombord på dessa sjunkna skepp har tiden stått stilla – ofta känns det som om besättningen nyss lämnat fartyget. Vraken blir ett slags tidsmaskiner, en märklig blandning av brutal dramatik och det mjukt insomnade.
Dessa fantastiska bilder av vrak har väckt uppmärksamhet över hela världen och de visas här för första gången i riktigt stort format.
Min europeiska familj : de senaste 54 000 åren
AvKarin Bojs
Storpocket, Svenska, 2023
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
159 kr
Vinnare av Augustpriset 2015 och utnämnd till "Årets bok om svensk historia 2015" av Nättidningen Svensk Historia
Vetenskapsjournalisten Karin Bojs bestämde sig för att släktforska på djupet och låta DNA-trådarna knyta ihop henne själv med forntidens människor. Hon läste studier, intervjuade forskare och reste i ett tiotal länder för att följa spåren bakåt. Sedan 1980-talet har DNA-tekniken genomgått en enastående utveckling. Den har revolutionerat såväl kriminalteknikers arbete som biologisk och medicinsk forskning, och har på senare år börjat bidra till ny kunskap inom arkeologi och historia. Till och med släktforskande privatpersoner har börjat använda DNA som verktyg. Med hjälp av små variationer i DNA-sekvensen går det numera att hitta kusiner, sysslingar och bryllingar, och även släktingar som levde för mycket länge sedan – under den senaste istiden och ännu längre tillbaka. Resultatet av Karin Bojs arbete blev en bok om hennes ursprung och hennes familj. Men också om oss andra. Vi är ju släkt. Någonstans, någon gång levde vår senaste gemensamma förmoder och förfader. DNA-trådarna knyter ihop oss alla.
Magicians of the Gods
Evidence for an Ancient Apocalypse
AvGraham Hancock
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
4,6 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(11)
188 kr
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*Ten-year anniversary edition with new introduction from the author*Star Reader Reviews -" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Captivating, necessary and enlightening." "⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Essential. Wonderfully researched.""⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book is as good, if not better, than "Fingerprints of the Gods.""⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Read this book. Change your perspective." Graham Hancock - star of Netflix's ANCIENT APOCOLYPSE - is author of the global bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods. A book which remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization.Magicians of the Gods, the sequel to his seminal work, explores how, at the end of the last ice age, fragments from a giant comet caused a global cataclysm, on a scale unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs, wiping out an advanced civilization from the earth. Making us a species with amnesia, forced to begin again like children with no memory of what went before. This book is filled with completely new evidence, new travels to the world's most mysterious archaeological sites, new insights based on the latest scientific evidence.The impacts, from the comet fragments (a mile wide approaching at more than 60,000 miles an hour) generated huge amounts of heat which instantly liquidized millions of square kilometers of ice, destabilizing the Earth's crust and causing the global deluge that is remembered in myths all around the world.A second series of impacts, equally devastating, causing further cataclysmic flooding, occurred 11,600 years ago, the exact date that Plato gives for the destruction and submergence of Atlantis.But there were survivors - known to later cultures by names such as 'the Sages', 'the Magicians', 'the Shining Ones', and 'the Mystery Teachers of Heaven'. They travelled the world in their great ships doing all in their power to keep the spark of civilization burning, settling at key locations: Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, Baalbek in the Lebanon, Giza in Egypt, ancient Sumer, Mexico, Peru and across the Pacific. Everywhere they went these 'Magicians of the Gods' brought with them the memory of a time when mankind had fallen out of harmony with the universe and paid a heavy price.A memory and a warning to the future... For the comet that wrought such destruction may not be done with us yet. Astronomers believe that a 20-mile 'dark' fragment of the original giant comet remains hidden within its debris stream and threatens the Earth. An astronomical message encoded at Gobekli Tepe, and in the Sphinx and the pyramids of Egypt, warns that the 'Great Return' will occur in our time...
Lost Voices of Pompeii
The Final Day in Seven Lives
AvDr Jess Venner
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
199 kr
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'Delightful … Venner builds an excellent narrative of a city that was thriving and bustling with life at the very point it was snuffed out.' The Times We all know how the people of Pompeii died. But what about how they lived? __________ In 24 hours, Pompeii will vanish. The morning of the eruption was a day like any other. Julia Felix opens her tavern for another day of business, defying every convention that says a woman can't succeed alone. Petrinus, newly freed from slavery, wrestles with an impossible decision about his future. Politician Gaius Cuspius Pansa prepares to host the Plebian Games, a spectacle that will cement his power forever. In 24 hours, seven lives will change forever. Drawing on the latest archaeological discoveries, Dr Jess Venner brings the ancient streets to life through the eyes of those who lived, worked, loved and ultimately met their fate in Pompeii. Here is a community more complex, diverse and human than we ever imagined.Pompeii is remembered for its destruction, but here we discover the vibrant lives that came before. Richly evocative and immersive, The Lost Voices of Pompeii vividly recreates the final twenty-four hours before the eruption, reminding us exactly what – and who – was lost in 79 AD. This is the story of everything, and everyone, that was lost. __________ For anyone who has ever walked the ruins of Pompeii and wondered what lives beneath the ash, this is the book that answers that question.
Mythica
A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It
AvEmily Hauser
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
169 kr
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A MUST-READ AS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S EPIC FILM 'THE ODYSSEY' SAILS ONTO MOVIE SCREENS THIS SUMMER! THE INSTANT TIMES BESTSELLERAward-winning classicist and historian Emily Hauser takes readers on an epic journey to uncover the true story of the real women behind Ancient Greece’s greatest legends in Homer's epic poems, the Iliad and Odyssey . . . 'Bold and intellectually thrilling.' TOM HOLLAND, historian and co-host of 'The Rest is History' podcast'Absolutely blew me away . . . this book is quite wonderful.' ELODIE HARPER, author of The Wolf Den'A wonderful, beautifully written and important book.' DAN JONES, author of Henry V'A book the world has been waiting for . . . I loved it.' BETTANY HUGHES, author of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient WorldContrary to perceptions built up over three thousand years, ancient history is not all about men – and it's not only men's stories that deserve to be told.In Mythica Emily Hauser tells, for the first time, the extraordinary stories of the real women behind some of the western world’s greatest legends. Following in their footsteps, digging into the history behind Homer’s epic poems, piecing together evidence from the original texts, recent astonishing archaeological finds and the latest DNA studies, she reveals who these women – queens, mothers, warriors, slaves – were, how they lived, and how history has (or has not – until now) remembered them.A riveting new history of the Bronze Age Aegean and a journey through Homer’s epics charted entirely by women – from Helen of Troy, Briseis, Cassandra and Aphrodite to Circe, Athena, Hera, Calypso and Penelope – Mythica is a ground-breaking reassessment of the reality behind the often-mythologized women of Greece’s greatest epics, and of the ancient world itself as we learn ever more about it.
Källhagen : en bortglömd stenåldersboplats i forna Bråviken, Östergötland
AvTom Carlsson
Inbunden, Svenska, 2026
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
129 kr
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Augusti 1999 får Norrköpings stadsmuseum att brev från Bonni Rehnqvist i Falkenberg. Hon frågar om museet är intresserat av en större fyndsamling från Källhagen utanför Norrköping. Samlingen visar sig bestå av drygt 720 föremål, bland annat ett hundratal stenyxor, från en 7000 år gammal och helt okänd stenåldersboplats.
Bibeln och arkeologerna : om tro, myter och historia
AvHans Furuhagen
Häftad, Svenska, 2024
236 kr
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I Bibeln och arkeologerna beskriver Hans Furuhagen hur arkeologiska utgrävningar i Heliga landet och Mellanöstern har visat lämningar av platser och företeelser som omnämns i Bibeln.

I dag har nya tekniska förutsättningar och ett nytt sätt att se på fyndens kontext påverkat tolkningarna, men många gånger har fynden också blivit omstridda. Både i omgivningen och bland arkeologerna själva har det funnits religiösa, politiska och ekonomiska biavsikter. Arkeologiska fynd blev exempelvis en viktig faktor i samband med staten Israels tillblivelse och fornfynden väcker fortfarande diskussion i detta område.
After the Ice
A Global Human History, 20,000 - 5000 BC
AvSteven Mithen
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
217 kr
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A fantastic voyage through 15,000 years of history that laid the foundations for civilisation as we know it by award-winning science writer Steven Mithen.Twenty thousand years ago Earth was in the midst of an ice age. Then global warming arrived, leading to massive floods, the spread of forests and the retreat of the deserts. By 5,000 BC a radically different human world had appeared. In place of hunters and gatherers there were farmers; in place of transient campsites there were towns. The foundations of our modern world had been laid and nothing that came after - the Industrial Revolution, the atomic age, the internet - have ever matched the significance of those events. AFTER THE ICE tells the story of climate change's impact during this momentous period - one that also saw the colonisation of the Americas and mass extinctions of animals throughout the world. Drawing on the latest cutting-edge research in archaeology, cognitive science, palaeontology, geology and the evolutionary sciences, Steven Mithen creates an evocative, original and remarkably complete picture of minds, cultures, lives and landscapes through 15,000 years of history.
Europas mödrar : de senaste 43 000 åren
AvKarin Bojs
Inbunden, Svenska, 2022
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(21)
270 kr
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Mycket har hunnit hända inom DNA-forskningen sedan Karin Bojs skrev Augustprisvinnaren Min europeiska familj - de senaste 54 000 åren (2015) och uppföljaren Svenskarna och deras fäder - de senaste 11 000 åren (2016).
Bland annat börjar forskare kunna urskilja hur vandringsmönstren har skilt sig åt för Europas fäder och mödrar.
En hel del, visar det sig.
Karin Bojs borrar i äldre påståenden om folkvandringar och könsroller, och visar vad den allra senaste vetenskapen kan säga.
Resan går från regnskogens schimpanser till Nordens sköldmör. Via bland annat neandertal-sex, de första hundarna, den första metallen, de första tama hästarna och ett 5000 år gammalt incestfall på Irland.
Prehistory Decoded
AvMartin Sweatman
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
229 kr
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Nearly 13,000 years ago, a catastrophic cosmic event wiped out millions of people and animals, plunging the world into a sudden ice age. Humanity struggled to survive.At Göbekli Tepe in present-day southern Turkey, the descendants of those who witnessed this devastation built a monumental stone sanctuary, encoded with symbolic carvings. These structures were not random decorations; they were a sophisticated record of a forgotten global catastrophe. Soon after, agriculture emerged, civilization began, and human history changed forever.In Prehistory Decoded, Dr. Martin Sweatman reveals how ancient people preserved scientific knowledge through monumental architecture and symbolic art. Drawing on evidence from archeoastronomy, the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, and coherent catastrophism, he shows how early civilizations recorded celestial cycles, solstices, precession, and cosmic threats long before modern science.This groundbreaking book explores:The astronomical significance of Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe The origins of the zodiac and ancient constellationsHow early proto-writing encoded cosmic knowledge The real meaning behind ancient symbols and cave art Why myths of floods and destruction are rooted in real eventsFrom the Lion-Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel to the Great Sphinx of Giza, this book deciphers a hidden code embedded across ancient cultures worldwide. A code that reveals humanity has faced cosmic disasters before and may face them again.Prehistory Decoded challenges conventional views of history and exposes a far more dangerous ancient world than we’ve been taught. It is a compelling, evidence-based exploration of the true origins of civilization, early science, and humanity’s long memory of cosmic catastrophe.
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Mjälleborgen på Frösön
AvOve Hemmendorff
Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
190 kr
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Mjälleborgen är en fornborg som under 300-talet eller 400-talet byggdes på Frösön. Borgen var ett gigantiskt bygge av jord, stenmurar och timmer. Den fick en dramatisk historia med flera nedbränningar innan borgberget övergavs någon gång under 700- eller 800-talet. Fornborgen var den enda i det inre av Nordskandinavien. Andra fornborgar fanns däremot i jordbruksbygderna västerut kring Trondheimsfjorden och österut vid norrlandskusten. Vilka byggde borgen och varför? Vilka använde den och hur såg den ut? Dessa frågor gav upphov till det största arkeologiska utgrävningsprojektet någonsin i Jämtland. Arbetena utfördes på 1980-talet av Jamtli länsmuseum och Umeå Universitet. Ove Hemmendorff ledde undersökningarna. Här sammanfattar han utgrävningarna, berättar om nedbrända husrester, raserade murverk och förkolnade befästningsdetaljer. Men även om föremål, matrester i form av ben och sädeskorn, spår av järntillverkning och smide med mera, Borgens historia sätts i ett Mittskandinaviskt perspektiv med utblickar mot den samtida utvecklingen i Tröndelag respektive vid Bottenvikskusten.
Kindred
Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
AvRebecca Wragg Sykes
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
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** WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 **'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.’ Yuval Noah HarariKindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins.Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside clichés of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval.Much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. Kindred does for Neanderthals what Sapiens did for us, revealing a deeper, more nuanced story where humanity itself is our ancient, shared inheritance.
Carthage
A new history of an ancient empire
AvEve MacDonald
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
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The empire behind the legendCarthage was a power that dominated the western Mediterranean for almost six centuries before its fall to Rome. The history of the realm and its Carthaginians was subsumed by their conquerors and, along the way, the story of the real Carthage was lost. An ancient North African kingdom, Carthage was the home of Hannibal and of Dido, of war elephants and enormous power and wealth, of great beauty and total destruction.In this landmark new history, Eve MacDonald tells the essential story of the lost culture of Carthage and of its forgotten people, using brand new archaeological analysis to uncover the history behind the legend. A journey that takes us the Phoenician Levant of the early Iron Age to the Atlantic and all along the coast of Africa, Carthage puts the city and the story of North Africa once again at the centre of Mediterranean history. Reclaimed from the Romans, this, for the very first time, is the Carthaginian version of the tale.
Europas mödrar : de senaste 43 000 åren
AvKarin Bojs
E-bok
Svenska, 2022
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Mycket har hunnit hända inom DNA-forskningen sedan Karin Bojs skrev Augustprisvinnaren Min europeiska familj - de senaste 54 000 åren (2015) och uppföljaren Svenskarna och deras fäder - de senaste 11 000 åren (2016).
Bland annat börjar forskare kunna urskilja hur vandringsmönstren har skilt sig åt för Europas fäder och mödrar.
En hel del, visar det sig.
Karin Bojs borrar i äldre påståenden om folkvandringar och könsroller, och visar vad den allra senaste vetenskapen kan säga.
Resan går från regnskogens schimpanser till Nordens sköldmör. Via bland annat neandertal-sex, de första hundarna, den första metallen, de första tama hästarna och ett 5000 år gammalt incestfall på Irland.
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War before Civilization
AvLawrence H. Keeley
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized societies alone. Prehistoric warfare, according to this view, was little more than a ritualized game, where casualties were limited and the effects of aggression relatively mild. Lawrence Keeley's groundbreaking War Before Civilization offers a devastating rebuttal to such comfortable myths and debunks the notion that warfare was introduced to primitive societies through contact with civilization (an idea he denounces as "the pacification of the past").Building on much fascinating archeological and historical research and offering an astute comparison of warfare in civilized and prehistoric societies, from modern European states to the Plains Indians of North America, War Before Civilization convincingly demonstrates that prehistoric warfare was in fact more deadly, more frequent, and more ruthless than modern war. To support this point, Keeley provides a wide-ranging look at warfare and brutality in the prehistoric world. He reveals, for instance, that prehistorical tactics favoring raids and ambushes, as opposed to formal battles, often yielded a high death-rate; that adult males falling into the hands of their enemies were almost universally killed; and that surprise raids seldom spared even women and children. Keeley cites evidence of ancient massacres in many areas of the world, including the discovery in South Dakota of a prehistoric mass grave containing the remains of over 500 scalped and mutilated men, women, and children (a slaughter that took place a century and a half before the arrival of Columbus). In addition, Keeley surveys the prevalence of looting, destruction, and trophy-taking in all kinds of warfare and again finds little moral distinction between ancient warriors and civilized armies. Finally, and perhaps most controversially, he examines the evidence of cannibalism among some preliterate peoples.Keeley is a seasoned writer and his book is packed with vivid, eye-opening details (for instance, that the homicide rate of prehistoric Illinois villagers may have exceeded that of the modern United States by some 70 times). But he also goes beyond grisly facts to address the larger moral and philosophical issues raised by his work. What are the causes of war? Are human beings inherently violent? How can we ensure peace in our own time? Challenging some of our most dearly held beliefs, Keeley's conclusions are bound to stir controversy.
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Horse, the Wheel, and Language
How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
AvDavid W. Anthony
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
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Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the roots of the Aryan race. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language lifts the veil that has long shrouded these original Indo-European speakers, and reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language and transformed civilization. Linking prehistoric archaeological remains with the development of language, David Anthony identifies the prehistoric peoples of central Eurasia's steppe grasslands as the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European, and shows how their innovative use of the ox wagon, horseback riding, and the warrior's chariot turned the Eurasian steppes into a thriving transcontinental corridor of communication, commerce, and cultural exchange.He explains how they spread their traditions and gave rise to important advances in copper mining, warfare, and patron-client political institutions, thereby ushering in an era of vibrant social change. Anthony also describes his fascinating discovery of how the wear from bits on ancient horse teeth reveals the origins of horseback riding. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries--the source of the Indo-European languages and English--and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past.
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Living Goddesses
AvMarija Gimbutas,Miriam R. Dexter
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
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The Living Goddesses crowns a lifetime of innovative, influential work by one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable scholars. Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original--and originally shocking--interpretation of prehistoric European civilization. Gimbutas flew in the face of contemporary archaeology when she reconstructed goddess-centered cultures that predated historic patriarchal cultures by many thousands of years. This volume, which was close to completion at the time of her death, contains the distillation of her studies, combined with new discoveries, insights, and analysis. Editor Miriam Robbins Dexter has added introductory and concluding remarks, summaries, and annotations. The first part of the book is an accessible, beautifully illustrated summation of all Gimbutas's earlier work on "Old European" religion, together with her ideas on the roles of males and females in ancient matrilineal cultures. The second part of the book brings her knowledge to bear on what we know of the goddesses today--those who, in many places and in many forms, live on.
I liv och död : Skeletten från Vasa berättar
AvAnna Maria Forssberg,Fred Hocker
Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
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När skeppet Vasa förliste i augusti 1628 följde omkring 30 personer med ner i djupet. Båtsmän, hustrur och barn hörde till dem som omkom. Men vilka var de, och vad gjorde de ombord? När vraket bärgades och grävdes ut hittades kvarlevor av 15 personer, och under de senaste årens forskning har historiker, osteologer, DNA-forskare och experter på isotopanalys kommit dessa personer nära. Nu vet vi inte bara hur de dog utan även något om hur de hade det i livet. Möt paret som dog i varandras armar, pojken med de fina skorna och många fler.

Medverkande författare: Marie Allen, Kimberly Andreaggi, Anna Kjellström, Kerstin Lidén, Al Saguto, Anna Silverulw och Andreas Tillmar samt redaktörerna Anna Maria Forssberg och Fred Hocker.
De dödas bok : den fornegyptiska dödsboken
AvNils Billing
Inbunden, Svenska, 2016
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"För själens långa resa efter döden brukade egyptierna, bland andra föremål i graven, också förse sina döda med en papyrusrulle som vore det ett skriftligt pass, vilket skulle säkerställa ett välvilligt mottagande vid de många portarna i de himmelska trakterna och hemvisterna." Med dessa ord inleder den preussiske egyptologen Carl Richard Lepsius sin utgåva från 1842 av Iufanchs papyrus i Turin, ett nära 20 meter långt dokument som han valde att kalla den egyptiska dödsboken. Här fanns beskrivningar av vad en människa ansågs behöva känna till inför sin resa till de dödas rike. Än idag gör Lepsius till synes kompromisslösa titel textsamlingen till det mest kända verket ur Egyptens rika gravlitteratur. Nu föreligger den för första gången i svensk översättning från de fornegyptiska originaltexterna, därtill med innehållsliga kommentarer. En inledning ger bakgrunden till Dödsbokens uppkomst och dess roll i det samtida egyptiska samhället, samt varför den i västerlandet alltjämt väcker en sådan nyfikenhet i mötet med forntidens tankevärld. Nils Billing är fil. dr i egyptologi, teol. dr i religionshistoria och verksam som docent vid Teologiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet. Han har tidigare på samma förlag givit ut Egyptens pyramider - Evighetens arkitektur i forntid och nutid.

Arkeologiska perioder och områden

Arkeologiska perioder och områden

After 1177 B.C.

Ancient Cities

Bohusläns historia : från järnålder till 1658

Sophögen i Oxyrhynchos : grekiska papyrustexter

Aegean Art and Architecture

Europas mödrar : de senaste 43 000 åren

Tusen år i Uppåkra : en järnåldersmetropol uppgång och fall

Europe Between the Oceans

Ancient Scandinavia

Against the Grain

Palestine

Ghost ships : Östersjöns okända historia

Min europeiska familj : de senaste 54 000 åren

Magicians of the Gods

Lost Voices of Pompeii

Mythica

Källhagen : en bortglömd stenåldersboplats i forna Bråviken, Östergötland

Bibeln och arkeologerna : om tro, myter och historia

After the Ice

Europas mödrar : de senaste 43 000 åren

Prehistory Decoded

Mjälleborgen på Frösön

Kindred

Carthage

Europas mödrar : de senaste 43 000 åren

War before Civilization

Horse, the Wheel, and Language

Living Goddesses

I liv och död : Skeletten från Vasa berättar

De dödas bok : den fornegyptiska dödsboken