Archaeology By Period/Region

Were prehistoric people like us? How did they live, what did they think and how did they see their world?3000 BC was a moment of great significance...

Arising from a conference organized by the British Archaeological Association in Palermo in 2012, this book includes 16 papers that explores points...

Hong Kong is the twenty-first-century century paradigmatic capital of consumerism. Of all cities, it has the densest and tallest concentration of m...

Magic, dreams, and prophecy played important roles in ancient Egypt, as recent scholarship has increasingly made clear. In this volume, eminent int...

65,000 years ago, modern humans arrived in Australia, having navigated more than 100 km of sea crossing from southeast Asia. Since then, the large ...

This volume presents recent research on all aspects of the Old Kingdom in Egypt, ranging through the Pyramid Texts, tomb architecture, ceramics, sc...

This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that...

'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, autho...

In 2016, construction workers in Philadelphia unexpectedly uncovered a long forgotten burial ground. Archaeologists quickly discovered this was the...

In this revealing book, Roman historian and archaeologist Andrew Tibbs uncovers the earliest Roman fortifications in Scotland and examines the land...

Theban Tomb 188 is the sole archaeological site in the ancient Theban necropolis securely dated to the reign of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten (1353...

This book assesses the relationship between clerics and Scandinavian-influenced laity in the Irish Sea area through the placement of furnished grav...

This volume is both a companion to the editors' Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404-323 BC, and a successor to the later part of the Selection of Gr...

On a cold winter morning in January of 1851, a small group of people approached the monumental façade of an ancient rock-cut burial cave located no...

The third volume of reports on the excavations of noblemens tombs from the Kushite PeriodThis is the third and final volume in the Tombs of the Sou...

This illustrated book is the culmination of a project to document and conserve the tomb of Menna, one of the most beautiful and complex painted tom...

This volume offers a ground-breaking reassessment of the destructions that allegedly occurred at sites across the eastern Mediterranean at the end ...

An innovative account of the careers of the Nubians who occupied the Egyptian throne, written by a leading Egyptologist and author of Tutankhamun, ...

For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, Melbourne's Little Lonsdale Street - locally known as 'Little Lon' - was notorious as a foul slum and brot...

The dramatic story behind the 3,200-year-old colossal Grand Egyptian Museum Ramesses statueKing Ramesses II ruled Egypt for an extraordinary sixty-...

The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptolo...

The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptolo...

Nefertitis current world dominion as a cultural and artistic icon presents an interesting contrast with the way in which she was actively written o...

The Colossus of Rhodes is both the most famous and the least well-known monument of Ancient Greece. Numbered among the Seven Wonders of the World, ...

Impact of Tectonic Activity on Ancient Civilizations: Recurrent Shakeups, Tenacity, Resilience, and Change observes a remarkable spatial correspond...

The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Womans Work in Archaeology is the first book-length biography of Margaret Alice Murray (18631963), one of the ...

Archaeologists seldom study ancient art, even though art is fundamental to the human experience. The Archaeology of Art in the American Southwest a...

This two-volume set presents the results of the excavation of two cemeteries at the site of Vronda Kavousi in East Crete: the cemetery of tholos to...

This volume reports on sites excavated in southwest Utah, three near St. George, three in Zion National Park, and two in Johnson Canyon, east of Ka...

With a Foreword by Matthew C. Lamanna and a New Afterword by Tom Rea Less than one hundred years ago, Diplodocus carnegii - named after industriali...

The Hadrians Wall Community Archaeology Project (WallCAP) conducted a series of fieldwork projects along the Hadrians Wall corridor between 2019 an...

De lobjet à la société romaine brings together some twenty contributions grouped into five parts: - De l'atelier à l'objet: artisanats, productions...

South Asian Goddesses and the Natural Environment is a multidisciplinary collection of 11 essays ranging from the pre-Vedic to the modern era and i...

Afrika gilt heute vielen immer noch als »schriftloser« Kontinent, obwohl bereits in der Antike dort mehrere Schriftkulturen existierten. In dem vor...

The end of the 3rd millennium was a time of significant transformation in south-east Arabia (the United Arab Emirates and northern Oman). The cultu...

The foundation of archaeometallurgy is the study of excavated assemblages of metals and related remains. This volume presents in detail how the met...

The emergence and adoption of metallurgy is one of the seminal topics of investigation in the history of archaeology, particularly in the history o...