archaeopress

Marine borers, particularly the shipworms, as destroyers of timber, par excellence, are well known from very ancient times. They attacked the woode...

Archaeological artifacts such as stone tools, ceramics, coins, metal implements, and ornaments like beads, are generally used to evaluate and under...

Slingers were an element in the Roman army over many centuries. Their activities are frequently reported in literary accounts of battles and sieges...

Papers from the 17th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, SOMA 2013 held in Moscow, 25-27 April 2013. Contents: A project proposal for the const...

The 18th annual meeting of the Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (SOMA) was held in Wrocaw-Poland, 24th to 26th April 2014. Since prehistoric ...

South Asian Goddesses and the Natural Environment is a multidisciplinary collection of 11 essays ranging from the pre-Vedic to the modern era and i...

This book is the first to closely examine the location of the earliest purpose-built Christian buildings inside the city of Rome in their contempor...

While one might say that prehistory of the Adriatic was always in transition, the rhythm of change was not always the same. On several occasions, a...

Stelae dating to the Epiclassic (650-900 CE) and Early Postclassic (950-1150 CE) from Tula, Xochicalco, and other sites in Central Mexico have been...

This book focuses on the characteristics and the development of the stone vessel industry in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian peri...

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

At the Unai Bapot Site of the Mariana Islands, new excavation has clarified the oldest known instance of a residential habitation prior to 1500 B.C...

Systemizing the Past takes the reader to the fascinating world of Caucasian archaeology demonstrating the essential role of the region in shaping t...

Tales of Two Cities tells the story of Old Sarum and Salisbury, from the middle of the tenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. The volume ...

The effects of tectonic processes on archaeological sites are evidenced by earthquake damage, volcanic eruptions, and tsunami destruction. However,...

The aim of this book is to study forms of territorial patterning and resource management in the middle Neolithic I and II, between 4500 and 3800 BC...

This book outlines the results of the 2018 archaeological survey at Tawi Said, located on the edge of the Sharqiyah desert in the Sultanate of Oman...

The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Indus Writing is a detailed examination of the Indus script. It presents new analysis based on an expansive text c...

The Archaeology of Anglo-Jewry in England and Wales 1656c.1880 is a comprehensive study of the urban topography of Anglo-Jewry in the period before...

The Archaeology of Nucleation in the Old World explores the role of the built environment in expressing and shaping community organization and iden...