Landscape Archaeology

Peatlands are regarded as having exceptional archaeological value, due to the fact the waterlogged conditions of these wetlands can preserve organi...

In the long history of documenting the material culture of the archaeological record, meaning and actions of makers and users of these items is oft...

The Northumberland Archaeological Groups (NAG) Wether Hill project spanned the years 19942015 and was located on the eponymous hilltop overlooking ...

For those that survive, the traumas of military conflict can be long lasting. It might seem astonishing that archaeology, with its uncovering of th...

This is an inter-disciplinary study of pathways to regional rulership and territorial lordship in early post-Roman Britain which takes as its start...

The Living Inca Town presents a rich case study of tourism in Ollantaytambo, a rapidly developing destination in the southern Peruvian Andes and th...

The Living Inca Town presents a rich case study of tourism in Ollantaytambo, a rapidly developing destination in the southern Peruvian Andes and th...

The Carlisle Northern Development Route (CNDR) is a major road around the western side of Carlisle. Prior to its construction, there was an extensi...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues ...

This book is the first to explore the archaeology of female monasticism in medieval Ireland, primarily from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries....

In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to li...

Wessex is famous for its coasts, heaths, woodlands, chalk downland, limestone hills and gorges, settlements and farmed vales. This book provides an...

Between c. AD 700 and 1100, Late Woodland people of the Upper Midwest used the topography and other features of the natural landscape to create vas...

This book charts and explains how human activities have shaped and altered the development of soils in many parts of the world, taking advantage of...

Landscape archaeology projects have had a significant impact on our understanding of the deep history of the Greek countryside, but have overwhelmi...

Landscape-archaeology projects have had a significant impact on our understanding of the deep history of the Greek countryside, but have overwhelmi...

Between 2018 and 2019, Cornwall Archaeological Unit undertook two projects at Mounts Bay, Penwith. The first involved the excavation of a Bronze Ag...

Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities argues exactly that. Round barrows do not just represent the death side of Early Bronze Age communiti...

Jutting out some thirty miles into the Irish Sea, from the western edge of Snowdonia, the Lln Peninsula, in north-west Wales, is renowned for its s...