Prehistoric Archaeology

This book brings to complete and final publication two past excavations conducted at the site of Ramat Rael. A major part of the report is devoted ...

This popular-science book tells the story of one of the most important, but least known major archaeological sites in Europe: Doggerland. Few peopl...

For over 60 years, spectacular discoveries have been made on a wooded hillside at Snettisham, overlooking the northwest Norfolk coast, close to Hun...

The prehistoric settlement of Ayia Irini on Kea, one of the Cyclades islands of Greece, is the site of an ancient settlement dating back to the lat...

This study examines MiddleLate Bronze Age (c. 1750600 BC) domestic settlement patterns in Ireland. Recent archaeological investigations have extend...

Recumbent Stone Circles are a distinctive architectural style of British stone circle. Built circa 2500 BC, they dominated the Late Neolithic lands...

This is the fifth volume in the series Rock Art Studies: News of the World. Like the previous editions, it covers rock art research and management ...

In the third millennium B.C.E., the Oman Peninsula was the site of an important kingdom known in Akkadian texts as Magan, which traded extensively ...

The carnyx, an animal-headed bronze horn, once echoed across Iron Age Europe. The book presents a full picture of this dramatic instrument for the ...

Although humans in the Southwest were hunter-gatherers for about 85 percent of their history, the majority of the archaeological research in the re...

Caithness, the most northerly county in mainland Britain, is one of the richest cultural landscapes in Europe. The relative geographical isolation ...

The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean offers new insights into the material and social practices of many different Medi...

In this worldwide survey, Clive Gamble explores the evolution of the human imagination, without which we would not have become a global species. He...

The Black Sea lies at the junction of three major cultural areas: Europe, Central Asia and the Near East. It plays a crucial role in enduring discu...

This book examines one of the thorniest problems of ancient American archaeology: the origins and domestication of maize. Using a variety of scient...

In this book, Julia Guernsey examines the relationship between human figuration, fragmentation, bodily divisibility, personhood, and community in a...

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...

Clothing was crucial in human evolution, and having to cope with climate change was as true in prehistory as it is today. In Climate, Clothing, and...

Clothing was crucial in human evolution, and having to cope with climate change was as true in prehistory as it is today. In Climate, Clothing, and...

Sited at the furthest limits of the Neolithic revolution and standing at the confluence of the two great sea routes of prehistory, Britain and Irel...

Generations of scholars have grappled with the origins of 'palace' society on Minoan Crete, seeking to explain when and how life on the island alte...

The Neolithic period is one of the great transformations in human history - when agriculture first began and dramatic changes occurred in human soc...

Sustainability strives to meet the needs of the present without compromising the future, but increasingly recognizes the tradeoffs among these many...

Practice and Prestige: An Exploration of Neolithic Warfare, Bell Beaker Archery, and Social Stratification from an Anthropological Perspective inve...

The bog bodies of north-western Europe have captured the imaginations of poets and archaeologists alike, allowing us to come face-to-face with indi...

The current geography of north-west Europe, from the perspective of long-term Pleistocene climate change, is temporary. The seaways that separate s...

The new volume of the long-running Journal of Roman Pottery Studies will include conference proceedings of the 2019 conference held at Atherstone, ...

Archaeology of Body and Thought explores what we as people can do with our bodies, what we can use them for, and how we can alter and understand th...