Archaeology

This study traces and analyses the evolution of domestic space in Maltese vernacular and ''''polite'''' houses from medieval to contemporary times....

What are stone circles? When were they built, and why? How come so many of them egg-shaped, or geometrically flattened? What do they have to do wi...

By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge ...

From its first adoption of writing at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age, ancient Cyprus was home to distinctive scripts and writing habits, ofte...

This book reassesses the apparent collapse of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, through explicit reference to the archaeological record. The study of Anurad...

Scattered throughout Western Europe are the enigmatic monumental remains of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. The most famous of these is undoubtedly ...

Not unlike so many other vestiges of war that have infiltrated our cities and landscapes, WWII bunkers and fortifications appear unwilling to be ab...

Open area excavation on 14.45ha of land at Cambridge Road, Bedford was carried out in 2004-5 in advance of development. A background scatter of Ear...

Can you excavate a videogame? In its material sense we can. However, the concept of a videogame can also be studied from the archaeological thought...

This book offers a synthesis of the work conducted within the contemporary archaeology project A world crisis from below that studied the October C...

The valley floodplain landscape covered by the Gill Mill quarry, almost 130ha, was intensively exploited from about 300 BC at a variety of Iron Age...

Ever since the definition of the Neolithic Revolution by Vere Gordon Childe, archaeologists have been aware of the crucial importance of food for t...

Popular television programmes highlight the satisfaction that can be gained from investigating the history of houses, and there is always plenty of...

''There are huge gaps in our understanding of the lives of the Silures ... Despite what is in many instances a glaring lack of evidence, I''ve incr...

The Great British Dig brings history and archaeology closer to home than ever before. Each week a team of archaeologists (led by presenter Hugh De...

The history of cane sugar from its origins in the east to its status as a luxury foodstuff and even medicine in the medieval period to a commodity ...

A completely new account of the archaeological and historical evidence which relates to Delphi - the most important place in the ancient world. Eac...