Archaeology

Nearly 13,000 years ago millions of people and animals were wiped out, and the world plunged abruptly into a new ice-age. It was more than a thousa...

Prehistoric Lifeways of the Great Basin Wetlands examines how the earliest inhabitants of the Great basin in Nevada, Utah, and Oregon made use of a...

Howard Carter's excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 was one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. The n...

This book is the companion volume to Rainforest Foraging and Farming in Island Southeast Asia: the Archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak. Together...

Humanity is by many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over its three million years ...

The cathedral-like Niah Caves of Sarawak (Borneo) have iconic status in the archaeology of Southeast Asia, due to the excavations by Tom and Barbar...

The Hittites in the Late Bronze Age became the mightiest military power in the Ancient Near East. Yet their empire was always vulnerable to destruc...

Griffins, Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vi...

This volume examines long-term processes of social change and settlement practices in later prehistoric and early medieval Wales. As a case-study, ...

The invention of the wheel is often highlighted as one of humankinds most significant inventions. Wheels do not exist in nature, and so can be view...

The Athapaskan departure from the Canadian Subarctic centuries ago and their subsequent arrival in the American Southwest has remained the subject ...

The civilization of ancient Egypt has been a source of fascination for explorers and scholars for centuries, and has occupied a special place in th...

From the 1790s until World War I, Western museums filled their shelves with art and antiquities from around the world. These objects are now widely...

A wide-ranging study of the significance of swords throughout the whole Anglo-Saxon period, offering valuable insights into the meaning of and atti...

Examines the social, cultural and ethical dimensions of heritage research and practice, and the underlying international politics of protecting cul...

Count Eigil Knuth succeeded in finding a Palaeo-Eskimo settlement named Old Nuulliit on the well-known Nuulliit site in the Thule area. This site w...

A new account of the famous site and story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman EmpireTwo thousand years ag...

The relics of medieval knights' manors still shape the landscape of Poland today. The anonymous hills contain the remnants of wooden buildings, som...

How West African gold and trade across the Sahara were central to the medieval worldThe Sahara Desert was a thriving crossroads of exchange for Wes...

Archaeological research has revealed much about Oregon''s history in the last twenty years. Oregon Archaeology incorporates this new knowledge, t...

Just a century ago, scholars believed that civilization in the Indus Valley began three thousand years ago during the Vedic Age. But in the autumn ...

Throughout its long history, stretching from the 25th Dynasty (c. 752-656 BC) to the Ottoman Period (c. 1500-1811 AD), Qasr Ibrim was one of the mo...

HEROM is a peer-reviewed online journal presenting innovative contributions to the study of material culture produced, exchanged, and consumed with...

Operation Idris provides the unofficial story behind the British Administrations cultivation of Sayyid Mohammed Idris as the figurehead for their p...

The tomb of Kahai and his family was previously published only in black and white photographs by Moussa and Altenmüller under the title of The Tomb...

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Author Tammy Stone focuses on a number of general deliberations on the archaeology of middle-range society and the prehistory of the American South...

Deze bundel vormt de neerslag van de 1e Nederlandse Metaaltijdendag, gehouden op 18 oktober 2013. Hierbij werd een rijke doorsnede aan recent metaa...

For over a hundred years people had searched for the Roman amphitheatre of London. In 1988, during a dig at the City's medieval Guildhall, the as...

Did an invasion of the Sea Peoples cause the collapse of the Late Bronze Age palace-based economies of the Levant, as well as of the Hittite Empire...

The first of three volumes of John Neal's collected works. Not only is the megalithic system largely ignored by archaeologists, it is opposed - ev...