Archaeology

MATERIALS IN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY THROUGH THEIR INFRARED SPECTRA introduces students and professionals in archaeology, conservation, chemistry, and ...

Many ancient, even prehistoric, monuments and temples around the world show an amazingly sophisticated understanding of the heavens. They reflect t...

The Dutch bestseller Nominated for Le Prix Nicolas Bouvier 'A masterclass in storytelling, exploring who we are and where we came from' Danielle...

Berkshire contains places of great beauty, and a market town, Thatcham, that may be the longest continuously inhabited settlement in the British Is...

This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 7001050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constitute...

About 12,000 years ago, a major river ran from the Sevier Basin to the Great Salt Lake, feeding a wetland delta system and creating riparian habita...

An exploration of small early folk communities prior to the eleventh century, showing their development and sophistication. All communities have a...

Until very recently Viking and Norse assembly sites were essentially unknown, apart from a few select sites, such as Thingvellir in Iceland. The Vi...

This volume comprises the authoritative work from the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage the international gr...

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

The long history of field research at Grasshopper, a massive, 500-room pueblo in an isolated mountain meadow in east-central Arizona, has produced ...

Edited by Michael S. Foster and Shirley GorensteinArchaeologyMesoamerican studies, as they are still practiced today, are framed by the Spanish co...

Since the late 1800s, when professional fossil hunters vied with each other to bring the largest and most complete specimens to the museum market, ...

Egyptomania, the West's obsession with the strange and magnificent world of Ancient Egypt, has for centuries been reflected in architecture, lit...

This volume presents the combined proceedings of two complementary sessions of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (49 June 2018, Paris, France): Sessio...

This book introduces readers to the belief and symbolism present in the prehistoric art of the Bering Strait region. For about a century, the archa...

New insights into the trade and processing of mineral raw materials for glass making This book presents a reconstruction of the Hellenistic-Roman g...

The 12th Egypt and Austria conference (Zagreb, 1722 September 2018) was organised by the Egypt and Austria Society and the Faculty of the Croatian ...

Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwid...

The first book of its kind to be published for a general readership from youngsters upwards, Hidden in the Sands: Uncovering Qatar's Past is the fa...

The White Horse at Uffington is an icon of the English landscape a sleek, almost abstract figure 120 yards long which was carved into the green tu...

The drastic railway closures of the 1960s led to the slow decay and re-purposing of hundreds of miles of railway infrastructure. Though these build...

Algeria is a large country, rich in visual remains of its long and complex history. The monuments of the Roman period are particularly impressive. ...

Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical ...