Archaeology By Period/Region

The theatre of Diokaisareia (Cilicia, Asia Minor) has been partially excavated in 1993 by a team of Turkish archaeologists, when a large part of th...

The Celtic languages and groups called Keltoi (i.e. Celts) emerge into our written records at the pre-Roman Iron Age. The impetus for this book is ...

The Bronze Age of Greece was unknown until the end of the nineteenth century, when Heinrich Schliemann's excavations stunned the world by bringing ...

Archaeoacoustics, the study of sound in the past, is increasingly attracting attention. Although some work, particularly in musical archaeology, ha...

Located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the Caucasus region has played a critical role in the dissemination of languages, i...

Fenster sind multifunktionale Bauteile, die sich sowohl nach Innen als auch nach Außen richten. Sie geben uns durch ihre Zahl, Größe und Art ihrer ...

Fenster sind multifunktionale Bauteile, die sich sowohl nach Innen als auch nach Außen richten. Sie geben uns durch ihre Zahl, Größe und Art ihrer ...

The Political Machine investigates the essential role that material culture plays in the practices and maintenance of political sovereignty. Throug...

The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both i...

This volume reconsiders literacy and communication in pre-modern societies, focusing especially on how material form affects the way textual artefa...

This volume provides the first comprehensive text edition of the Egyptian language sections of P. Bibliothèque Nationale Supplément Grec. 574 (PGM ...

Crete offers rich material for investigating questions at the heart of research on social organization in ancient Greece. The essays in these proce...

The Viking Great Army that landed in East Anglia in late 865 had a lasting impact on English society, culture, politics, and economy. The Viking G...

This book brings together scholars from many disciplines to shed light on the long history of the Silk Roads, to redefine it, and to demonstrate it...

This novel work uses case studies of both familiar and unfamiliar materials, expanding consideration of ancient Egyptian elite culture to encompass...

Five hundred years before the Inca, the Middle Horizon period (A.D. 600-1000) was a time of sweeping cultural change in the Andes. Archaeologists h...

The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Archaemenid Empire is the first modern academic study to provide a synthetic, diachronic analy...

Ancient Southeast Asia provides readers with a much needed synthesis of the latest discoveries and research in the archaeology of the region, prese...

A small record consisting of six to seven lines that has been published by eminent epigraphists several times, would require a fresh interpretation...

Un-Roman Sex explores how gender and sex were perceived and represented outside the Mediterranean core of the Roman Empire. The volume critically e...

This is an introduction to human prehistory written for complete beginners with a global perspective. It is written in a jargon-free style that cov...

The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry offers a study of the construction and use of gold dental appliances in ancient Etruscan culture, and th...

Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture offers an historical overview of the civilizations of the ancient Near East spanning ten thousand years of...

This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the...

Artifacts are hybrids, both natural and cultural. They are also an essential component in the process of human evolution. In recent years, a wide r...

Twentieth-century war is a unique cultural phenomenon and the last two decades have seen significant advances in our ability to conceptualize and u...

Research on early medieval Cyprus has focused on the late antique golden age (late fourth/early fifth to seventh century) and the so-called Byzanti...

The author is an important but controversial figure in the history of Palestinian archaeology. This volume celebrates the centennial of the publica...

This volume offers a detailed case study of the internationally acclaimed online programmes in Egyptology at the University of Manchester, UK. It d...

This book brings together the cumulative results of a three-year project focused on the assemblies and administrative systems of Scandinavia, Brita...

The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interaction in the Americas brings together scholars from across the hemisphere to...

People of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins over 6 million years ago to the first pre-industrial sta...

How were space and movement in Roman cities affected by economic life? What can the study of Roman urban landscapes tell us about the nature of the...

Transhumance is a form of pastoralism that has been practised around the world since animals were first domesticated. Such seasonal movements have ...

This book focuses on the earliest surviving Christian icons, dated to the sixth and seventh centuries, which bear many resemblances to three other ...

The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removin...

Museums and the Ancient Middle East is the first book to focus on contemporary exhibit practice in museums that present the ancient Middle East. Br...

Travellers in Time re-evaluates the extent to which the earliest Mediterranean civilizations were affected by population movement. It critiques bot...

Exploring Irelands Viking-Age Towns discusses the emergence of towns, urban lifestyles, and urban identities in Ireland. This coincides with the ar...

Pasargadae is the location of the tomb of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Through the ages it was Islamised and the tomb was asc...

This book focuses on a forgotten placethe Khami World Heritage site in Zimbabwe. It examines how professionally ascribed values and conservation pr...