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...