Prehistoric Archaeology

The monograph is the first exhaustive publication of nine shelters with rock paintings documented by the Czechoslovak expedition in Lower Nubia in ...

Bor in-Nadur, on the south-east coast of the island of Malta, is a major multi-period site, with archaeological remains that span several thousand ...

More than 7000 years ago, groups of early farmers (the Linearbandkeramik, or LBK) spread over vast areas of Europe. Their cultural characteristics ...

Representing analyses of a wide range of archaeological themes, Muge 150th: The 150th Anniversary of the Discovery of Mesolithic Shellmiddens is di...

Situated south of the Dead Sea, near the famous Nabatean capital of Petra, the Faynan region in Jordan contains the largest deposits of copper ore ...

Through the Lens of Anthropology is a concise introduction to anthropology that uses the twin themes of food and sustainability to connect evolutio...

Many people who visit the ancient and magnificent Newgrange monument in the Boyne Valley are driven by some deep longing to connect with their most...

The Neolithic ('New Stone Age') marks the time when the prehistoric communities of Europe turned their backs on the hunter-gatherer lifestyle that ...

Recipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize The product of ten years of fieldwork at Little Lake Ranch in the Rose Valley, the southern gateway...

Massive yet elegantly executed masonry architecture and andenes (agricultural terraces) set against majestic and seemingly boundless Andean landsca...

Whether it is Hadrian's Wall, Kendal Castle or the beautiful fells of the Lake District for thousands of years people have found a certain eleganc...

A wonderful guide to the many megaliths of Britain's Neolithic and Bronze Age.Mike Parker Pearson, Professor of British Later Prehistory at UCLThis...

Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai...

The Orcadian archipelago is a museum of archaeological wonders. The Orcadian Neolithic is home to some of the best-preserved Neolithic sites in Eu...

A beautiful new edition of a classic work of landscape history, in which Alfred Watkins introduced the idea of ancient 'ley lines' criss-crossing t...

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 ...

Where did Native Americans come from and when did they first arrive? Several lines of evidence, most recently genetic, have firmly established that...

Healing springs have played a significant role in the folklore of many cultures in most geographical regions. In Scotland, these natural features a...

Contributions by 34 scholars are brought together here to create a volume in honor of the long and fruitful career of Guenter Kopcke who is the Ava...

The shift from Lower to Middle Palaeolithic in northwestern Europe (dated to around 300,000-250,000 years ago) remains poorly understood and undere...

An invigorating journey through Britain's prehistoric landscape, and an insight into the lives of its inhabitants. 'Highly compelling' Spectator, ...

Why did the ancient Bretons erect over 20,000 menhirs at Carnac? What was the purpose of the alignments, rectangles and dolmens? Was it all just fo...

Archaeologist and award-winning photographer Gavin McGuire's involvement with the Sissi Archaeological Project, where he conducted a seven year pho...

How do you predict eclipses at Stonehenge? Why do the Carnac alignments follow geological fault lines? Was Avebury intentionally sited precisely ...

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...

Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, the contributions gathered in this volume focus particular attention on early state formation, development...

Celebrating the rich heritage of archaeology and of archaeological research in Hertfordshire, the 15 papers collected in this work focus on various...

Neolithic Horizons investigates some of our most remarkable and iconic archaeological sites: the great public monuments at Stonehenge and Avebury a...

This second of two volumes on Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods focuses on the site excavations of towns and villages and what...