Prehistoric Archaeology

This edited volume presents a series of reviews, overviews and unpublished archives from several historic expeditions in the Naqada region of Upper...

Ireland's First Settlers tells the story of the archaeology and history of the first continuous phase of Irelands human settlement. It combines cen...

A synthesis of culinary practices of prehistoric Greece based on plant food ingredients In Plant Foods of Greece, Greek archaeologist Soultana Mari...

Based on archaeological research in Colorados Middle Parka high mountain basin initially encountered by Europeans in the early 1800s and occupied f...

Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel...

The contribution of Neandertals to the biological and cultural emergence of early modern humans remains highly debated in anthropology. Particularl...

Over recent years, a number of scholars have argued that the human mind underwent a cognitive revolution in the Neolithic. This volume seeks to tes...

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...

Trade before Civilization explores the role that long-distance exchange played in the establishment and/or maintenance of social complexity, and it...

Throughout prehistory the Circumpolar World was inhabited by hunter-gatherers. Pottery-making would have been extremely difficult in these cold, no...

From its first adoption of writing at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age, ancient Cyprus was home to distinctive scripts and writing habits, ofte...

This volume celebrates the work of Dr. Phil. h.c. Gerhard Milstreu in his 40th year as director of Tanum Museum of Rock Carving and Rock Art Resear...

Open area excavation on 14.45ha of land at Cambridge Road, Bedford was carried out in 2004-5 in advance of development. A background scatter of Ear...

The valley floodplain landscape covered by the Gill Mill quarry, almost 130ha, was intensively exploited from about 300 BC at a variety of Iron Age...

An Economist Best History Book 2017  History as it should be written.Barry Cunliffe, Guardian  Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing...

Food and drink, along with the material culture involved in their consumption, can signify a variety of social distinctions, identities and values....

The burial tumulus of Lofkend lies in one of the richest archaeological areas of Albania (ancientIllyria), home to a number of burial tumuli spanni...

This is the first book to survey the hidden half of prehistoric societies as revealed by archaeology from Australopithecines to advanced Stone Age...

The Neolithic in Britain was a period of fundamental change: human communities were transformed, collectively owning domesticated plants and animal...

A Forged Glamour, which takes its title from a poem, is an exploration of the lives and deaths of ironworking communities renowned for their specta...

The second conference report on the archaeological site of Petras, Siteia concerns the progress of research conducted about the very important and ...

What constitutes an island and the archaeology contained within? Is it the physicality of its boundary (between shoreline and sea)? Does this phy...

Alexander Marshack single-handedly revolutionized the field of Paleolithic art research. His astounding photographs of portable art objects caused...

The Bouros-Kastri peninsula at the south-eastern tip of the Greek island of Euboia has previously been overlooked in the archaeological literature....

Music is possessed by all human cultures, and archaeological evidence for musical activities pre-dates even the earliest known cave art. Music has ...

At the heart of this book is a comparative study of the stone rows of Dartmoor and northern Scotland, a rare, putatively Bronze Age megalithic typo...