Archaeology

Between 1985 and 2001, the collaborative research initiative known as the Bannu Archaeological Project conducted archaeological explorations and ...

The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognised elements of Celtic culture. But could it be that a significant non-Celtic influence...

This data-rich monograph provides new and stimulating perspectives on the Hohokam people and their mortuary practices. It breaks new ground by usin...

This volume represents the interest of the American Academy in Rome (AAR), its fellows, residents, and the larger international community who use i...

The present book aims to study the use of lithic raw materials on the coast of the San Matías gulf (Río Negro, Argentina) during the middle and lat...

This meticulous investigation, based around a famous rock image, the White Lady, makes it possible to take stock of the mythical presuppositions th...

The Yarnton landscape, extending from the floodplain of the Thames up onto the higher Second Gravel Terrace, has witnessed a long history of topo...

This volume presents the findings of the largest campaign of archaeological investigation yet undertaken along Liverpools historic waterfront, by O...

For more than four thousand years, empires have been geographically the largest polities on Earth, shaping in many respects the human past and pres...

Archaeological investigations advance current knowledge of prehistoric Andean societies with this groundbreaking study of Chinchawas, a small vill...

The Yale University Publications in Anthropology series is currently published jointly by the Yale University Department of Anthropology and the Y...

In his new book, The Glen Canyon Country, archaeologist Don D. Fowler shares the history of a place and the peoples who sojourned there over the co...

Archaeology - the study of human cultures through the analysis and interpretation of artefacts and material remains - continues to captivate and en...

Butrint has been one of the largest archaeological projects in the Mediterranean over the last two decades. Major excavations and a multi-volume se...

The site of 1 Poultry, excavated in the 1990s, is located near the Bank of England in the heart of the City of London. It lay immediately west of...

The city has killed most of your ancestors, and it's probably killing you, too - this book tells you why. Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 1...

Prehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Australopithecines, exis...

In The Origins of the Lost Fleet of the Mongol Empire, Randall Sasaki provides a starting point for understanding the technology of the failed Mong...

Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumours have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden deep in the Honduran interior. Ind...

The discovery of the resting place of the great Egyptian King Tutankhamun [Tut.ankh.Amen] in November 1922 by Howard Carter and the fifth Earl of C...

Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female war...

This two-volume survey of ancient Egypt explores all the main sites, temples and tombs, and investigates how mythology and religion underpinned thi...

The colonnaded axes define the visitor's experience of many of the great cities of the Roman East. How did this extraordinarily bold tool of urban ...

This volume is one of the most important works on ancient Athens in the last fifty years. The focus is on the early city, from the end of the Bronz...

Standing stones come in a variety of guises. Some are erected in circles; some make up megalithic tombs; some have intriguing patterns on them, or ...

This comprehensive survey of British colonial governors' houses and buildings used as state houses or capitols in the North American colonies be...

Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert mudlarker Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in the art of seeking. Tirelessly trekking across miles...

The Druids and the Arthurian legends are all most of us know about early Britain, from the Neolithic to the Iron Age (4500 BC-AD 43). Drawing on...

Adolf Island offers new forensic, archaeological and spatial perspectives on the Nazi forced and slave labour programme that was initiated on the C...

The city of Rome is the largest archaeological site in the world, capital and showcase of the Roman Empire and the centre of Christian Europe. Thi...

The Ashmolean Museum is fortunate in having the most comprehensive British collection of the art of the Indian subcontinent outside London. Especia...