Archaeology By Period/Region

This volume draws together the ground-breaking work of researchers and archaeological practitioners, working in multiple countries, to explore and ...

This volume draws together the ground-breaking work of researchers and archaeological practitioners, working in multiple countries, to explore and ...

The period from the death of Alexander the Great to the rise of the Islam (c. late fourth century BCE to seventh century CE) saw a significant grow...

The first major synthesis of African archaeobotany in decades, this book focuses on Paleolithic archaeobotany and the relationship between agricult...

Chromatius of Aquileia and the Making of a Christian City examines how the increasing authority of institutionalized churches changed late antique ...

Hunter-gatherer societies are constrained by their environment and the technologies available to them. However, until now the role of culture in fo...

First published in 1928, this volume contains six sequential lectures delivered by H.R. Hall in 1923 detailing the archaeological remains of Bronze...

Paris: The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City considers the various forces royal, monastic and secular that shaped the art, architecture and to...

The Liangzhu Culture (3,300-2,300 BC) represented the peak of prehistoric cultural and social development in the Yangtze Delta. With a wide sphere ...

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

The study of the prehistory of East Asia is developing very rapidly. In uncovering the story of the flows of human migration that constituted the p...

Long before the emergence of Roman historical writing, the societies of Iron Age Italy were actively engaged in transmitting and using their past. ...

The Viking Age was a period of profound change in Scandinavia. As kingdoms were established, Christianity became the encompassing ideological and c...

The Iron Age in Northern Britain examines the archaeological evidence for earlier Iron Age communities from the southern Pennines to the Northern a...

Reconstructing a Maritime Past argues that rather than applying geo-ethnic labels to shipwrecks to describe Greek or Roman seafaring, a more intrig...

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

This book explores the medieval art, architecture and archaeology of the city of Cracow and the surrounding region of Lesser Poland. It highlights ...

This book explores routes of interaction and exchange in the Southern Maya Area, a zone that had both short- and long-distance trade and whose natu...

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

Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius is a forensic examination of two of the most famous letters from the ancient Mediterranean world: Pliny the Youn...

A critical examination of the history of Israel. When did Israel begin? The origins of ancient Israel are shrouded in mystery, and those hoping to ...

Glory, Trouble, and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology chronicles the seminal contributions, tumultuous history, and recent...

This book reveals the medieval Mediterranean region as a richly nuanced space of places and peoples connected by a body of water, but far from unif...

This book reveals the medieval Mediterranean region as a richly nuanced space of places and peoples connected by a body of water, but far from unif...

This is one of the first single-authored books to utilise Critical Disability Studies and the lens of embodiment to comprehensively unveil, explore...

Phoenician and Punic archaeology have long been overlooked by Mediterranean archaeologists, who focused their attention on Greek and Roman cultures...

This is the second volume in a four-book set covering all Egyptian pottery, ranging from the earliest (Fayum A) ceramics to modern pottery made in ...

Tell Hamoukar is one of the largest Bronze Age sites in northern Mesopotamia. The present volume presents the results of three seasons of field sur...

The Basilica B in the archaeological site of Philippi dates back to the middle, approximately, of the sixth century AD and is an enigma in the hist...

The history of ancient Greece, beyond the sites with great names and famous histories, has been the focus of the work of the Athens Branch of the A...

This book adopts a comprehensive approach, drawing from archaeology, physical anthropology, human genetics, linguistics, cultural anthropology, eth...

Strøby Toftegård: Halls, Hierarchies and Social Dynamics in Late Iron Age and Viking Age Denmark presents and considers the archaeological material...

Includes 114 illustrations, some in colour. Recent scholarship on the Roman Empire has focused on the nature of its economy, including sites that s...

This is not simply a guidebook to the Acropolis Museum: by presenting the works of art exhibited in the museum, it endeavours to resynthesize the h...

This book provides an overview of medieval monasticism in Iceland, from its dawn to its downfall during the Reformation.Blending the evidence from ...

These Hittite text fragments are part of a large collection found during the early Turkish-German excavations at the Hittite capital Hattusa before...

This volume celebrates the contribution of Diana V. Edelman to the field and celebrates her personally as researcher, teacher, mentor, colleague, a...

Muzahim Hussein's 1989 discovery of tombs of Neo-Assyrian queens in the palace of Ashurnasirpal in Nimrud (Kalhu/Calah) was electrifying news for a...

A new perspective on the dynamics of dynastic rule in the southernmost province of Egypt, from the Old Kingdom to the New KingdomThe First Upper E...

This volume represents the product of 25 years of study conducted by the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, a multidisciplinary, diachronic arc...

This volume honours McGuire Gibson and his years of service to the archaeology of Mesopotamia, Yemen and neighbouring regions. Professor Gibso...

Mycenae, in the north-eastern corner of the plain of Argos in Greece, built atop a natural stronghold, became the preeminent centre of the advanced...