Archaeology By Period/Region

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...

Transforming Townscapes details the results of a major archaeological project based on and around the historic town of Wallingford in south Oxfords...

The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure tells the story of the Staffordshire Hoards discovery and acquisition, and the six-year research ...

Mail armour (commonly mislabelled 'chainmail') was used for more than two millennia on the battlefield. After its invention in the Iron Age, mail r...

Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago...

Do shifts in material culture instigate administrative change, or is it the shifting political winds that affect material culture? This is the cent...

The papers published here are dedicated to the memory of Ellen N. Davis, one of the most valued and beloved Aegean scholars of her generation. All ...

Metamorphic Imagery in Ancient Chinese Art and Religion demonstrates that the concept of metamorphism was central to ancient Chinese religious beli...

They are among the most famous and compelling photographs ever made in archaeology: Howard Carter kneeling before the burial shrines of Tutankhamun...

An Introduction to Native North America provides a basic introduction to the Native peoples of North America, covering what are now the United Stat...

Lutes and Marginality in Pre-Modern China traces the complex history of lutes as they moved from the far west into China, and how these instruments...

Focused on the connections between archaeology and Israeli society, this book examines the development of Israeli archaeological research, taking h...

Recovered in 1755 during excavations in the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, the prosciutto sundial is the earliest known portable Roman sundial. P...

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

This volume explores human migration, communication, and cross-cultural exchange on the Silk Road, a complex network of trade routes spanning the E...

This book explores and critiques the underlying assumption that a binary gender system and patriarchal norms were universal in Bronze Age Europe th...

This book presents an overview of the exciting new developments in underwater research in North America, ranging from new approaches for discoverin...

This book argues that long-ignored, non-western political systems from the distant and more recent past can provide critical insights into improvin...

How much do we really know about Ancient Egypt? The pharaohs and pyramids are familiar history fodder, but what about the farmers, the soldiers, th...

How much do we really know about Ancient Egypt? The pharaohs and pyramids are familiar history fodder, but what about the farmers, the soldiers, th...

How much do we really know about Ancient Egypt? The pharaohs and pyramids are familiar history fodder, but what about the farmers, the soldiers, th...

Two First World War army camps at Seaford, East Sussex, were identified on 1940s and 1950s aerial photographs during the South Downs National Mappi...

The myriad ways in which colour and light have been adapted and applied in the art, architecture, and material culture of past societies is the foc...

Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in Cambridge explores the archaeology, art, and architecture of Cambridge in the Middle Ages, a city mar...

The Archaeology of Native North America presents the ideas, evidence, and debates regarding the initial peopling of the continent by mobile bands o...

This book brings together sources translated from a wide variety of ancient languages to showcase the rich history of pre-Roman Italy, including it...

This book is an outcome of the British archaeological association conference on Medieval Art, architecture and archaeology in the city and its vici...

It is widely believed that the practice of ancient Egyptian religion ceased with the end of pharaonic culture and the rise of Christianity. However...

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has become one of the standard tools in the archaeologist's array of methods, but users still struggle to understand...

The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory is an interdisciplinary volume that examines the application of cognitive theory to the stu...

An Archaeology of Ancash is a wellillustrated synthesis of the archaeology of North Central Peru, and specifically the stone structures of the Anca...

The study of food in the Hebrew Bible and Syro-Palestinian archaeology has tended to focus on kosher dietary laws, the sacrificial system, and feas...

This book focuses on the formative period of Church reform in the Middle Ages in Northern Europe, when the Church paved the way for the development...

Old Lands takes readers on an epic journey through the legion spaces and times of the Eastern Peloponnese, trailing in the footsteps of a Roman per...

These studies examine the physical remains of Frankish settlement in Palestine in the 12th and 13th centuries. In recent years the view that Franki...

The Archaeology of the Spanish Civil War offers the first comprehensive account of the Spanish Civil War from an archaeological perspective, provid...

First published in 2001, this is the first reference work to cover the archaeology of medieval Europe. No other reference can claim such comprehens...

The haunting funerary paintings on wood coffins found in Roman Egypt still represent some of the most vivid images that come to us from the ancient...

Human beings have speculated about whether or not there is life after death, and if so, what form that life might take, for centuries. What did peo...

York explores the archaeology, art, architecture and cultural heritage of the city in the late Middle Ages.In the years since the resurrection of t...

York explores the archaeology, art, architecture and cultural heritage of the city in the late Middle Ages.In the years since the resurrection of t...

This volume presents the results of archaeological survey and excavation at Eckweek, Somerset, which yielded one of the most important medieval rur...

Originally published in 1956, the well-known archaeologist here takes on the role of philosopher. The author argues that knowledge is a social phen...

The twenty-five papers in this volume arise from a conference jointly organised by the British Archaeological Association and the Museu Nacional dA...

Princes of the Church brings together the latest research exploring the importance of bishops palaces for social and political history, landscape h...