Archaeology

Previously published as The King's Grave.NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SALLY HAWKINS AND STEVE COOGAN.The official inside story of the discov...

How do we understand religious spaces? What is their role or function within specific religious traditions or with respect to religious experience?...

An illuminating exploration of early Southern African hunters and herders.In First People, archaeologist Andrew Smith examines what we know about S...

''Coffin roads'' along which bodies were carried for burial are a marked feature of the landscape of the Scottish Highlands and islands - many are ...

The frontiers of the Roman empire together form the largest surviving monument of one of the worlds greatest states. They stretch for some 7,500 km...

Tourism in Sardinia is booming, yet there is nothing else in print that deals with the island''s incredibly rich history and culture, which stretch...

Roman Britain is usually thought of as a land full of togas, towns and baths with Britons happily going about their Roman lives under the benign ga...

1001 years as a continuous settlement, 100 years as a modern city, Cairo in the 1970s is a complex metropolis. Janet Abu-Lughod traces the social a...

The mainstays of the RAF's bomber force in the 1970s and '80s were the distinctive Avro Vulcan and the slightly less well-known Blackburn Buccaneer...

An invigorating journey through Britain's prehistoric landscape, and an insight into the lives of its inhabitants. 'Highly compelling' Spectator, ...

As world powers realign their cultural, economic and political outlooks, there is no better time to consider how Afro-Eurasias complex network of a...

The remains of the worlds most famous passenger liner, RMS Titanic, were discovered off the coast of Newfoundland in 1985, seventy-three years afte...

The Marlborough Mound has recently been recognised as one of the most important monuments in the group around Stonehenge. It was also a medieval ca...

For more than 5,000 years the Ancestral PuebloansNative Americans who flourished long before the first contact with Europeansoccupied the Four Corn...

Shamans of the Lost World bridges the gap between recent work in the cognitive sciences and some of humankind's oldest religious expressions. In th...

In the 660s BC Egypt was a politically fragmented and occupied country. However, this was to change when a family of local rulers from the city of ...

In Excavating the Afterlife, Guolong Lai explores the dialectical relationship between sociopolitical change and mortuary religion from an archaeol...

This important book [...] is a helpful guide to thinking with things and teaching with things. Each entry challenges the reader to approach objects...

This comprehensive reference book addresses the questions and problems of cultural resource archaeology for graduate students and practicing archae...

In Incidental Archaeologists, Bonnie Effros examines the archaeological contributions of nineteenth-century French military officers, who, raised o...

Intended to delight and provoke, these short, beautifully crafted essays, enlivened with photos and illustrations, explore how humans have engaged ...

This source book offers a comprehensive treatment of solitary religious lives in England in the late Middle Ages. It covers both enclosed recluses ...

A study of the material culture of Egypt during the period of Achaemenid Persian rule, c. 526-404 BCEProvides a clear overview of the archaeologica...