Prehistoric Archaeology

Discovering World Prehistory introduces the general field of archaeology and highlights for students the difference between obtaining data (basic a...

The definitive archaeological record and what is known or speculated about the ancient Apalachicola and lower Chattahoochee Valley region of northw...

The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this centur...

This is not a book about archaeological sites. We shall come across flint tools, bones, skulls, surprising structures, and layers of earth that we ...

Archaeological investigation ahead of residential development was undertaken on land adjacent to Upthorpe Road, Stanton between November 2013 and M...

He should have been wary of it, scared of this strange character grinning out at him, looking from one world into another. But he wasn't. He knew w...

Were prehistoric people like us? How did they live, what did they think and how did they see their world?3000 BC was a moment of great significance...

'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, autho...

This volume offers a ground-breaking reassessment of the destructions that allegedly occurred at sites across the eastern Mediterranean at the end ...

With a Foreword by Matthew C. Lamanna and a New Afterword by Tom Rea Less than one hundred years ago, Diplodocus carnegii - named after industriali...

Cazadores-recolectores del Holoceno medio en las sierras de Tandilia oriental (Argentina) is the result of doctoral research on the hunter-gatherer...

The end of the 3rd millennium was a time of significant transformation in south-east Arabia (the United Arab Emirates and northern Oman). The cultu...

In the ancient civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean, textiles were generally much more costly than foodstuffs, animals or bronzes; it is very...

The Soconusco region, a narrow strip of the Pacific coast of Mexico and Guatemala, is the location of some of the earliest pottery-using villages o...

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

Contact, Circulation, Exchange collects ten articles focusing on worked hard materials of animal origin (shell, tusk, bone, antler) ranging chronol...

Robert Koehl has long considered processions to have played an integral role in Aegean Bronze Age societies. Therefore, when assembling a volume to...

What was life like in Scotland between 4000 and 2000 BC? Where were people living? How did they treat their dead? Why did they spend so much time b...

This book provides an overview of the sites of Mycenaean pottery finds in Egypt and Nubia. Data from thirty-six sites in Egypt and twelve sites in ...

As the most important ancient cultural relics in prehistory, rock art have become a direct basis for the reproduction of human history and ideologi...

Northwest Syria during the Neolithic period has been less well studied than the rest of the northern Levant, where Neolithisation first took place ...

Niamh Whitfield is a leading authority on the metalwork of early Medieval Ireland and Scotland . Celtic metalwork of the seventh to twelfth centuri...

This book collects recent works on the subjects of sacrificial offerings, ritualised violence and the relative values thereof in the contexts of Sc...

In Rewriting History, Dennis Harding addresses contemporary concerns about information and its interpretation. His focus is on the archaeology of p...

From MM III until the end of the LH/LM period, the entire Aegean area was an integral part of a network of trade contacts that included all the maj...