Ancient Board Games in Perspective - Tapa dura

this book is alive with history and ideas and knock about debate. The sheer mixture and scope of topics is mind blowing... Interesting and satisfying academic writing that succeeds in being engaging and entertaining.'--Graham Brown "Graham Brown, 2007 "

Some things are worth waiting for, and this book falls well within that category [...] This is a book for the scholar as well as the inveterate gamester.'--Peter A. Clayton "Minerva, 2008 "

This beautifully-produced volume is a magnificent milestone in the study of ancient board games.'--Andrew Robinson "Current World Archaeology, 2008 "

All the contributors are experts, and they base their information on original sources. Particularly impressive is Micaela Soars discussion of board games and backgammon in ancient Indian sculpture [...] superbly illustrated...'--S.A. Riess, Northeastern Illinois University"Choice" (06/01/2008)

What might stand out most in this book is the wide variety of methodologies and goals... it is refreshing to see them rub shoulders in the same text. This book should have quite a broad appeal, not only to students and scholars of a wide range of cultures and civilizations, but also to individuals with an interest in board games.'--John Aveline"Bryn Mawr Classical Review" (09/01/2008)

For the reader who wants to learn everything about the origins, antiquity, spread of, and similarity between board games around the world from 10,000 BC to the twenty-first century AD, this impressive book will be more than satisfactory.'--Anne Draffkorn Kilmer, University of California, Berkeley "Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 65, 2009 "

Papers from the first international colloquium on the board games of antiquity, supplemented by additional papers.