Prehistoric Archaeology

The Neolithic --a period in which the first sedentary agrarian communities were established across much of Europe--has been a key topic of archaeol...

Monumental spaces were fundamental in the construction of power, political order and community identities in the ancient and pre-modern world. It w...

From the first steps taken into the darkness of High Pasture Cave, it was clear that this complex site would challenge current thinking on cave use...

The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age presents a broad overview of current understanding of the archaeology of Europe from 1000 BC through t...

Drawing on modern economic theory, this book provides new insights into the economic development of ancient economies and the sustainability of the...

The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods...

Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past introduces students to the wide ranging and fascinating world of archaeology and provides them with a co...

Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past introduces students to the wide ranging and fascinating world of archaeology and provides them with a co...

Letters from Old Babylonian Kish presents the primary publication of previously unstudied letters from the Old Babylonian Period. Drawing on intern...

'Western-Pontic Culture Ambience and Pattern: In Memory of Eugen Comsa' is dedicated to the memory of Eugen Comsa, an archaeologist whose work crea...

This volume presents the results of three seasons of excavations at Chogha Bonut, Lowland Susiana, in the modern-day province of Khuzestan, southwe...

This book brings together for the first time scholars working on the Bronze Age settlement patterns and material culture of the southern Ierapetra ...

The site of Knossos on the Kephala hill in central Crete is of great archaeological and historical importance for both Greece and Europe. Dating to...

In 1962, after a period of secret looting, the location of a shrine for the Greek Goddess Eileithyia was discovered by the police in south-central ...

A colossal basalt statue was uncovered through rescue excavation in downtown Amman, Jordan in 2010. Despite the statue's Roman period find context,...

This is primarily a book on architecture, and as such it seeks to bring forward the deeper forces that guide the work of all the sons and all the d...

The sixth edition of The Knossos Tablets brings for now to completion nearly 120 years of the study of the texts of the Linear B inscriptions from ...

This book completes the two-part series that serves as the final report for the excavation of the Cave of the Cyclops on the island of Youra in the...

Since the inception of Minoan archaeology, studies pertaining to tombs and tomb deposits have played seminal roles in our understanding of Minoan c...

While corridor houses such as the House of the Tiles at Lerna have provoked widespread discussion about the origins of social stratification in Gre...

Excavation of an important site for the early history of dyeing in Minoan Crete revealed a Middle Bronze Age natural dye workshop with several basi...