Prehistoric Archaeology

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...

The area of the Judean Foothills the biblical Shephelah has in recent years become one of the most intensively excavated regions in the world. Nu...

** WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 ** 'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox 'Important reading not just for any...

Recipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize Occupied from around 7500 BC to 5700 BC, the large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement of Catalho...

Nearly 13,000 years ago millions of people and animals were wiped out, and the world plunged abruptly into a new ice-age. It was more than a thousa...

Please note: This product is a map. The Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site is internationally important for its outstanding prehistoric mon...

The Prehistory of Gold Butte uses a theoretical perspective rooted in human behaviour ecology and other foraging models to present the results of o...

Scattered throughout Western Europe are the enigmatic monumental remains of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. The most famous of these is undoubtedly ...

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

This extensively illustrated volume provides the first complete visual documentation and a pioneering iconographic analysis of Picture Cave, an eas...

The essays in Transforming the Dead: Culturally Modified Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest explore the numerous ways that Eastern Woodland Native Ame...