Prehistoric Archaeology

TV presenter Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investig...

***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER***'Hancock's books provide a fascinating, alternative version of prehistory. America Before, detailed and wi...

The Minoan site at Bramiana in southeastern Crete provides evidence for a Bronze Age economy based on trade, agriculture, and craftwork. This publi...

Brings the science of biological anthropology to bear on understanding how our evolutionary history has shaped a phenomenon everyone has experien...

This volume presents over fifteen years (1981-1996) of archaeometallurgy surveys and specifically the excavations of an Early Bronze Age miners' vi...

Metals, Minds and Mobility seeks to integrate archaeometallurgical data with archaeological theory to address longstanding questions about mechanis...

From the tombs of the elite to the graves of commoners, mortuary remains offer rich insights into Classic Maya society. In Mortuary Landscapes of t...

Despite their ubiquitous presence among prehistoric remains in Greece, ground stone tools have yet to attract the same kind of attention as have ot...

Although current environmental debates lay the focus on the Industrial Revolution as a sociopolitical development that has led to the current envir...

Although current environmental debates lay the focus on the Industrial Revolution as a sociopolitical development that has led to the current envir...

Named after an archaeological site discovered in 1951 in Zhengzhou, China, the Erligang civilization arose in the Yellow River valley around the mi...

Named after an archaeological site discovered in 1951 in Zhengzhou, China, the Erligang civilization arose in the Yellow River valley around the mi...

The Archaeology of Caves in Ireland is a ground-breaking and unique study of the enigmatic, unseen and dark silent world of caves. People have enga...

Often along vast expanses, ancient societies traded certain commodities that were considered valuable either for functional or symbolic reasons – o...

Weapons and tools are frequently found depicted in rock art in many parts of the globe and different periods and in varying social contexts. This c...

Traditions of sacrifice exist in almost every human culture and often embody a society’s most meaningful religious and symbolic acts. Ritual violen...

The human body serves as a symbolic bridge between communities of the living and the divine. This is clearly evident in mythological stories that r...

New research into the techniques of tablet weaving, sprang, braiding, knotting and lace is presented in this lavishly illustrated volume written by...

The papers in Karia and the Dodekanese, Vol. I, focus on regional developments and interregional relations in western Asia Minor and the Dodekanese...

Karia and the Dodekanese, Vol. II, presents new research that highlights cultural interrelations and connectivity in the Southeast Aegean and weste...

Clothing was an essential part of material culture in ancient societies both as a form of body protection and as house equipment. Besides a practic...

In the mid-1960s as a young high school student John Brumley visited Lookout Cave for the first time and knew immediately that the site was excepti...

Human beings depend more on technology than any other animal--the use of tools and weapons is vital to the survival of our species. What processes ...

The prehistoric native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States shared a complex set o...

Huaca Prieta—one the world’s best-known, yet least understood, early maritime mound sites—and other Preceramic sites on the north coast of Peru bea...

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