Prehistoric Archaeology

Drawing on modern economic theory, this book provides new insights into the economic development of ancient economies and the sustainability of the...

The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods...

Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past introduces students to the wide ranging and fascinating world of archaeology and provides them with a co...

Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past introduces students to the wide ranging and fascinating world of archaeology and provides them with a co...

Letters from Old Babylonian Kish presents the primary publication of previously unstudied letters from the Old Babylonian Period. Drawing on intern...

'Western-Pontic Culture Ambience and Pattern: In Memory of Eugen Comsa' is dedicated to the memory of Eugen Comsa, an archaeologist whose work crea...

This volume presents the results of three seasons of excavations at Chogha Bonut, Lowland Susiana, in the modern-day province of Khuzestan, southwe...

This book brings together for the first time scholars working on the Bronze Age settlement patterns and material culture of the southern Ierapetra ...

The site of Knossos on the Kephala hill in central Crete is of great archaeological and historical importance for both Greece and Europe. Dating to...

In 1962, after a period of secret looting, the location of a shrine for the Greek Goddess Eileithyia was discovered by the police in south-central ...

A colossal basalt statue was uncovered through rescue excavation in downtown Amman, Jordan in 2010. Despite the statue's Roman period find context,...

This is primarily a book on architecture, and as such it seeks to bring forward the deeper forces that guide the work of all the sons and all the d...

The sixth edition of The Knossos Tablets brings for now to completion nearly 120 years of the study of the texts of the Linear B inscriptions from ...

This book completes the two-part series that serves as the final report for the excavation of the Cave of the Cyclops on the island of Youra in the...

Since the inception of Minoan archaeology, studies pertaining to tombs and tomb deposits have played seminal roles in our understanding of Minoan c...

While corridor houses such as the House of the Tiles at Lerna have provoked widespread discussion about the origins of social stratification in Gre...

Excavation of an important site for the early history of dyeing in Minoan Crete revealed a Middle Bronze Age natural dye workshop with several basi...

The Temple University Aegean Symposium was an annual event from 1976 until 1985 sponsored by the Department of Art History at Temple University in ...

Prof. James D. Muhly has enjoyed a distinguished career in the study of ancient history, archaeology, and metallurgy that includes an emeritus prof...

The publication of the Hagia Photia Cemetery is planned in three volumes. The first volume, which has already been published (Davaras and Betancour...

The transport stirrup jar was a vessel type used extensively in the Late Bronze Age III Aegean world. Found in a variety of contexts, the type was ...

This excavation of a Late Bronze Age town on the island of Mochlos in northeastern Crete includes the House of the Metal Merchant (with two large b...

The Celtic languages and groups called Keltoi (i.e. Celts) emerge into our written records at the pre-Roman Iron Age. The impetus for this book is ...

Archaeoacoustics, the study of sound in the past, is increasingly attracting attention. Although some work, particularly in musical archaeology, ha...

Located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the Caucasus region has played a critical role in the dissemination of languages, i...

Arm-rings are among the most common items of jewellery. From the earliest times, they have appeared in various shapes and materials. The wearing of...

This is an introduction to human prehistory written for complete beginners with a global perspective. It is written in a jargon-free style that cov...

People of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins over 6 million years ago to the first pre-industrial sta...

The papers published here are dedicated to the memory of Ellen N. Davis, one of the most valued and beloved Aegean scholars of her generation. All ...

This book explores and critiques the underlying assumption that a binary gender system and patriarchal norms were universal in Bronze Age Europe th...

Australia's human prehistory through more than 40,000 years is the challenging theme of this masterly survey. John Mulvaney and Johan Kamminga brin...

The Iron Age in Northern Britain examines the archaeological evidence for earlier Iron Age communities from the southern Pennines to the Northern a...

This book adopts a comprehensive approach, drawing from archaeology, physical anthropology, human genetics, linguistics, cultural anthropology, eth...

Continuing the work of publishing the excavations at the site of Ayia Irini on the Cycladic island of Keos, this volume focuses on the architecture...

House X is by far the largest and best appointed of the Minoan houses excavated at Kommos in south-central Crete, a Minoan harbor and settlement th...

This book provides the exciting results of a long-term project examining Bronze Age round barrow construction and burial practices in Orkney, Scotl...

Frontiers were an integral feature of every medieval polity, and their spaces were defined by opposing spheres of influence, contact and connectivi...

Power, Gender, and Mobility is situated at the intersection of diverse but complementary approaches to the investigation of prehistoric culture and...

There are many hundreds of stone circles around Britain. Most were built in the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age and they can be found throughout...

The finds from the cave at Hagios Charalambos in the Lasithi Plain illustrate secondary burial practices in Early and Middle Bronze Age Crete. The ...

Although occupied only relatively briefly in the long span of world prehistory, Scandinavia is an extraordinary laboratory for investigating past h...

Mutualist Archaeology proposes that the theory of mutualism can transform archaeology from what some to consider to be a discipline in crisis.This ...

Mutualist Archaeology proposes that the theory of mutualism can transform archaeology from what some to consider to be a discipline in crisis.This ...

Archaeological Perspectives on Burial Practices and Societal Change examines the relationships between burial practices and societal transformation...