Prehistoric Archaeology

Stones can serve an infinite array of functions both when they are worked and when they are left in a raw state. Depending on their function, stone...

In this book, Dr Vyron Antoniadis presents a contextual study of the Near Eastern imports which reached Crete during the Early Iron Age and were de...

Since their initial discovery in the nineteenth century, the enigmatic prehistoric lake-dwellings of the Circum-Alpine region have captured the ima...

Rivers have often been the gateway to natural wilderness and the first element of a natural landscape that humans made their own. Some rivers have ...

This book brings together the scientific contributions of a wide panel of Sicilian and mainland Italian specialists in prehistory. Taking inspirati...

This eagerly awaited volume documents the evidence for human activity in the Colne valley at Three Ways Wharf, Uxbridge in the Lateglacial and Ea...

Prior to the building of the new Bath Spa, in the centre of the World Heritage City of Bath, excavations were carried out to record the archaeologi...

Walking with the Unicorn Jonathan Mark Kenoyer Felicitation Volume' is an important contribution highlighting recent developments in the archaeolo...

Megalithic monuments from Neolithic Europe have long been considered as rough copies of the monumental architectures built by the first civilizatio...

Twenty sites were excavated on the route of a National Grid pipeline across Holderness, East Yorkshire. These included an early Mesolithic flint-wo...

Since absolute dating of rock art is limited, relative chronologies remain useful in contextualising interpretations of ancient images. This book a...

Dan Monah (11 February 1943 21 September 2013) was a specialist in the Neo-Eneolithic of Romania and, in particular, of the Precucuteni-Cucuteni-T...

This volume presents the proceedings of the session Intellectual and Spiritual Expression of Non-literate Peoples part of the XVII World UISPP Cong...

Colour defines our material world, operates as a communication tool and creates meaning. But despite the wealth of colour present in British Iron A...

The Bell Beaker phenomenon is one of the most fascinating horizons in European Later Prehistory, due to its vast geographical distribution, the int...

In this book Anne Teather develops a new approach to understanding the Neolithic flint mines of southern Britain. These mines include some of the e...

Eastern Sudan, like other regions far away from the Nile valley, has often been overlooked historically on account of a kind of prejudice towards a...

The Nordic Bronze Age Symposium began modestly in 1977 with 13 participants, and has now expanded to over 120 participants: a tenfold increase that...

This book contains a series of selected papers presented at two symposia entitled Scientific study of rock art, one held in the IFRAO Congress of R...

The Neolithic sites of Orkney include an impressive number of stone-built tombs, ceremonial monuments and uniquely for northern Europe contempora...

Architectures of Fire attempts to present the entanglement between the physical phenomenon of fire, the pyro-technological instrument that it is, i...

In this monograph the authors present the finds of four Mycenaean chamber tombs, from the rescue excavation of Ephor Mastrokostas at Aigion in 1967...

This book traces the socioeconomic and political development of the Galatas area and its relations with other areas of Crete during the Neolithic-O...

This book offers an analysis of archaeological imagery based on new materialist approaches. Reassessing the representational paradigm of archaeolog...

This is the first volume on the Late Minoan III necropolis of Armenoi in western Crete. It sets the scene, introduces the site and its topography, ...

Our prehistoric ancestors used flint tools every day; they were of vital importance for cutting and scraping, used for hunting, preparing food, mak...

This volume presents proceedings from the session Monumental Earthen Architecture in Early Societies: Technology and power display, part of the XVI...

Scholars who will study the historiography of the European Neolithic, more particularly with regards to the second half of the 20th century and the...

The Maltese Archipelago at the Dawn of History. Reassessment of the 1909 and 1959 excavations at Qlejga tal-Barija and other essays is a collection...

The papers gathered in this volume explore the economic and social roles of exchange systems in past societies from a variety of different perspect...

Rockshelter Excavations in the East Hamersley Range offers a detailed study of six exceptional rockshelter sites from the inland Pilbara Region of ...

This monograph is devoted to small forms of engraving on stone. It summarizes the archaeological material obtained during the course of excavations...

This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between indigenous peoples of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Gree...

Over 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers became the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found themselves in a world rich i...

Over 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers became the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found themselves in a world rich i...

The remarkable preservation of the Early Bronze Age village of Afragola on the Campania Plain of Southern Italy is unmatched in Europe. The site wa...

The research scope of this book is the human occupation of the northern Adriatic region at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (ca. 24,000- 20,000 ...

Although most of the animal remains recorded throughout the archaeological excavations consist usually of large assemblages of discarded and fragme...

Copper is the first metal to play a large part in human history. This work is devoted to the history of metallurgical production in Northern Eurasi...

This volume concerns the bioanthropological analysis and the investigation of Second Iron Age (also known as the La Tène period: 47025 BC) funerary...

The Herxheim enclosure, located in the German region of Palatinate, is one of the major discoveries of the last two decades regarding the Linear Po...

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early s...

Bronze ornaments of the Nordic Bronze Age (neck collars, belt plates, pins and tutuli) were elaborate objects that served as status symbols to comm...

In this volume, Douglas B. Bamforth offers an archaeological overview of the Great Plains, the vast, open grassland bordered by forests and mountai...

This volume surveys the archaeology of Native North Americans from their arrival on the continent 15,000 years ago up to contact with European colo...

Color versions of select print images available on the Resources tab (or here: www.cambridge.org/heymans). This book shows how money emerged and s...