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Dragoş Gheorghiu Editor

Dragos Gheorghiu is a cultural anthropologist, archaeologist and professional visual artist.

Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Miniature Figures in Eurasia Africa and Meso-America cover

Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Miniature Figures in Eurasia Africa and Meso-America

2 contributors - Paperback

£41.00

Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Hydrostrategies cover

Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Hydrostrategies

Dragoş Gheorghiu - Paperback

£29.00

Fire as an Instrument: The Archaeology of Pyrotechnologies cover

Fire as an Instrument: The Archaeology of Pyrotechnologies

Dragoş Gheorghiu - Paperback

£32.00

Experiments with Past Materialities cover

Experiments with Past Materialities

2 contributors - Paperback

£39.00

Architectures of Fire: Processes, Space and Agency in Pyrotechnologies cover

Architectures of Fire: Processes, Space and Agency in Pyrotechnologies

Dragoş Gheorghiu - Paperback

£30.00

Working with the Past: Towards an Archaeology of Recycling cover

Working with the Past: Towards an Archaeology of Recycling

2 contributors - Paperback

£25.00

Ceramic Studies cover

Ceramic Studies

Dragoş Gheorghiu - Paperback

£29.00

Artistic Practices and Archaeological Research cover

Artistic Practices and Archaeological Research

2 contributors - Paperback

£40.00

Material Virtual and Temporal Compositions: On the Relationships between Objects cover

Material Virtual and Temporal Compositions: On the Relationships between Objects

Dragoş Gheorghiu - Paperback

£29.00

Fire in Archaeology cover

Fire in Archaeology

Dragoş Gheorghiu - Paperback

£41.00

Anthropomorphism, Anthropogenesis, Cognition cover

Anthropomorphism, Anthropogenesis, Cognition

2 contributors - Paperback

£40.00