Archaeology

To secure a comfortable afterlife, ancient Egyptians built fortress-like tombs and filled them with precious goods, a practice that generated stagg...

A major exploration of one of the most important early artistic cultures of the ancient Americas Considered the mother culture of Mesoamerica, th...

Centered in the Dordogne region of southwestern France, one of Europe''s most concentrated regions for Neandertal and early modern human occupation...

Human beings are killing the planet and themselves in the process. Cecile Pineda asks a simple question: Why? An urgent reframing of current ecolog...

In A Dark Pathway: Precontact Native American Mud Glyphs from 1st Unnamed Cave, Tennessee, Jan Simek and his colleagues present two decades of rese...

A learned and lively (Wall Street Journal) history of archaeological adventurewith tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing di...

Californias Channel Islands are a chain of eight islands that extend along the states southern coastline from Santa Barbaras Point Conception to th...

The Mesa Verde region is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world and is an area fraught with complexities, anomalies, and layers ...

People have been visiting and living in the Victorian Grampians, also known as Gariwerd, for thousands of generations. They have both witnessed and...

In early Hawaii, kuaaina were the hinterlands inhabited by kuaaina, or country folk. Often these were dry, less desirable areas where much skill an...

The essays in Transforming the Dead: Culturally Modified Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest explore the numerous ways that Eastern Woodland Native Ame...

Archaeologists have long admired the naturalistic animal art of Minoan Crete, often explaining it in terms of religion or a love of the natural wor...

In this deeply researched and multifaceted study, Marco G. Meniketti demonstrates how the landscape of the small Caribbean island of Nevis preserve...

The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the little-known geometric images that accompany most cave art around the worldthe first indicatio...

While the subject of citizenship has often been examined from a sociological, historical, or legal standpoint, historical archaeologists yet to ful...

When soldiers of the Roman 9th Legion arrived in AD 70, they built a fortress and this huge military camp formed the foundation of the modern city ...

Our knowledge about Stonehenge has changed dramatically as a result of the Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003-2009), led by Mike Parker Pearson, an...

Enduring Motives examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and r...

Shovel Ready provides a comprehensive lens through which to view the New Deal period, a fascinating and prolific time in American archaeology. In t...

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

Reclaiming the Past examines the post-antique history of Argos and how the city's archaeological remains have been perceived and experienced since ...

A significant contribution to the literature on Mesoamerican and material culture studies since it treats the iconography, archaeology, and social ...

Wiltshire contains some of the most important archaeological sites in Britain.Its Prehistoric remains include the breath-taking Stonehenge, awesome...

50 Roman Finds From the Portable Antiquities Scheme highlights some of the most important and interesting Roman objects recorded by the Portable An...

Exploring emerging and suppressed evidence from archaeology, anthropology and biology, Frank Joseph challenges conventional theories of evolution, ...

The farming community of Chan thrived for over twenty centuries, surpassing the longevity of many larger Maya urban centers. Between 800 BC and 120...

By contextualizing classes and their kinship behavior within the overall political economy, Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship provides an example o...

We may be due an Ice Age any day now as the earth wobbles through its complex long-term cycles of axial tilt, precession, and eccentricity. Not onl...

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsi...

Where did the first Americans come from and when did they get here? That basic question of American archaeology, long thought to have been solved, ...

The Indus civilization flourished for half a millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BC, when it mysteriously declined and vanished from view. It remain...

From Maes Howe in Orkney to Stonehenge and souther England, an astonishing theme recurs in Britain''s neolitihc landscapes. ''The Silbury Revelatio...

Weik''s comprehensive survey of the archaeology of freedom represents a critical contribution to African Diaspora studies, and serves as an admirab...

Human violence is an inescapable aspect of our society and culture. As the archaeological record clearly shows, this has always been true. What is ...