Archaeology By Period/Region

The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods...

The human desire to adorn the body is universal and timeless. While specific forms of body decoration and the motivations for them vary by region, ...

Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past introduces students to the wide ranging and fascinating world of archaeology and provides them with a co...

Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past introduces students to the wide ranging and fascinating world of archaeology and provides them with a co...

The Oxford Handbook of Early China brings 30 scholars together to cover early China from the Neolithic through Warring States periods (ca 5000-500B...

This edited volume brings together an international group of scholars to address the lives, roles, myths, mythology, and lived experiences of Vikin...

Industrial Archaeology (1972) presents an in-depth investigation of the nature, methods and materials of the archaeology of industry in the UK, fro...

Letters from Old Babylonian Kish presents the primary publication of previously unstudied letters from the Old Babylonian Period. Drawing on intern...

This volume contains seven Aramaic manuscripts of a Jewish pseudepigraphic tradition from the Second Temple period that ascribes to Enoch, the bibl...

The authors explore multifaceted aspects of the competing cultural landscapes that comprise the northeast of Scotland. This interdisciplinary colle...

A joint IcelandicUS archaeological project in North Iceland examined the development of the farmstead settlement pattern from the initial Norse set...

From the Battle of Marathon to the Minotaur, from the Acropolis to Aristotle, from Theseus to the Theban hegemony, from slavery to Sparta, The Ency...

Rome may have fallen in the late fifth century CE, but more than 1,500 years later its mark on Europe and around the Mediterranean is still evident...

This book is a study of the Lapita Cultural Complex, a region spanning both Melanesia and Western Polynesia. The Lapita culture has been interprete...

Die Studie befasst sich mit einer bisher kaum beachteten Personengruppe aus der Zeit Amenhoteps III. (13901353 v.Chr.), die durch neuere Ausgrabung...

An unparalleled assemblage of Archaic black-figure painted pinakes (plaques) was uncovered near Penteskouphia, a village west of ancient Corinth, o...

Early-20th-century explorations of the Roman Forum at Ancient Corinth revealed a massive early imperial building now known as the Julian Basilica. ...

Tangatatau Rockshelter on Mangaia Island in the Southern Cook Islands, excavated by a multidisciplinary team in 1989-1991, produced one of the rich...

Issued in conjunction with an exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago, this is the first comprehensive study of birds...

The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) was established in 1962 to foster research into the history, languages, social systems...

The present volume comprises 6 highly original studies on material text cultures in different nontypographic societies stretching from the 3rd mill...

Lake Titicaca - the world's highest navigable lake - was home to some of the greatest civilizations in the ancient world. This lavishly illustrated...

'Western-Pontic Culture Ambience and Pattern: In Memory of Eugen Comsa' is dedicated to the memory of Eugen Comsa, an archaeologist whose work crea...

The results of two related fieldwork projects are presented: a brief salvage excavation at Plakari (a Final Neolithic site near the modern town of ...

Building on the work of Ronald J. Leprohon, to whom it is dedicated, contributions in this volume present an overview of our current state of under...

This book contains approximately fifty late Egyptian texts, published for the first time. The texts represent an interesting range of document type...

This volume offers the first comprehensive overview of the evolution over time of a foundational concept of the Egyptian afterlife beliefs: the Dua...

Even though Dorothy Thompson excavated the Agora Bone Well in 1938, the well and its remarkable finds have never been fully studied until now. Loca...

This is the second of three planned volumes in the final report on the cleaning and excavations at the Late Bronze Age site of Vronda near Kavousi ...

Between 491 and 1191 AD, Cyprus was influenced by various political and cultural centres that vied for dominance in the Eastern Mediterranean. This...

This volume presents the results of three seasons of excavations at Chogha Bonut, Lowland Susiana, in the modern-day province of Khuzestan, southwe...