Prehistoric Archaeology

This excavation of a Late Bronze Age town on the island of Mochlos in northeastern Crete includes the House of the Metal Merchant (with two large b...

The Celtic languages and groups called Keltoi (i.e. Celts) emerge into our written records at the pre-Roman Iron Age. The impetus for this book is ...

Archaeoacoustics, the study of sound in the past, is increasingly attracting attention. Although some work, particularly in musical archaeology, ha...

Located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the Caucasus region has played a critical role in the dissemination of languages, i...

Arm-rings are among the most common items of jewellery. From the earliest times, they have appeared in various shapes and materials. The wearing of...

This is an introduction to human prehistory written for complete beginners with a global perspective. It is written in a jargon-free style that cov...

People of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins over 6 million years ago to the first pre-industrial sta...

The papers published here are dedicated to the memory of Ellen N. Davis, one of the most valued and beloved Aegean scholars of her generation. All ...

This book explores and critiques the underlying assumption that a binary gender system and patriarchal norms were universal in Bronze Age Europe th...

Australia's human prehistory through more than 40,000 years is the challenging theme of this masterly survey. John Mulvaney and Johan Kamminga brin...

The Iron Age in Northern Britain examines the archaeological evidence for earlier Iron Age communities from the southern Pennines to the Northern a...

This book adopts a comprehensive approach, drawing from archaeology, physical anthropology, human genetics, linguistics, cultural anthropology, eth...

Continuing the work of publishing the excavations at the site of Ayia Irini on the Cycladic island of Keos, this volume focuses on the architecture...

House X is by far the largest and best appointed of the Minoan houses excavated at Kommos in south-central Crete, a Minoan harbor and settlement th...

This book provides the exciting results of a long-term project examining Bronze Age round barrow construction and burial practices in Orkney, Scotl...

Frontiers were an integral feature of every medieval polity, and their spaces were defined by opposing spheres of influence, contact and connectivi...

Power, Gender, and Mobility is situated at the intersection of diverse but complementary approaches to the investigation of prehistoric culture and...

There are many hundreds of stone circles around Britain. Most were built in the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age and they can be found throughout...

The finds from the cave at Hagios Charalambos in the Lasithi Plain illustrate secondary burial practices in Early and Middle Bronze Age Crete. The ...

Although occupied only relatively briefly in the long span of world prehistory, Scandinavia is an extraordinary laboratory for investigating past h...

Mutualist Archaeology proposes that the theory of mutualism can transform archaeology from what some to consider to be a discipline in crisis.This ...

Mutualist Archaeology proposes that the theory of mutualism can transform archaeology from what some to consider to be a discipline in crisis.This ...

Archaeological Perspectives on Burial Practices and Societal Change examines the relationships between burial practices and societal transformation...