Archaeology by period / region

Showcases innovative approaches to Latin literature, reading textual absence as a generative force for literary interpretation and reception.

This book interrogates post-Roman art, arguing for aesthetic variety as a cross-cultural concept in early medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.

Examines key technological innovations, knowledge transfer, connectivity and social meaning in the ancient and Medieval Sahara.

The Indo-European dispersal inalterably shaped the Eurasian linguistic landscape.

A pioneering study of Greek religion and cults at a key colonial frontier, with major consequences for antiquity at large.

Discusses how prehistoric humans responded to the environmental and climatic changes within the Nile Basin during the past million years.

Presents a landmark study combining key specialists around the region with well-established international scholars, from a wide range of disciplines.

The first book to explore the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society over 1,500 years.

Explains how recent scientific advances have revolutionised our understanding of prehistoric diet, economy and society.

One of the only guides to the prehistoric archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula that engages with key anthropological and archaeological debates.

Sheds light on the motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges that had to be overcome.

This book traces changing perceptions of Egypt''s monastic landscape through an analysis of archaeological and documentary evidence from late antiquity.

Reinterpretation of the Danube frontier in Late Antiquity, drawing on literary, archaeological, and numismatic sources.

This book reorients the study of sacrifice, examining the locus of ritual action - the altars of Republican Rome and Latium.

The economic, political and historical story of the Nile in ancient times is unearthed through its landscape.

Challenges contemporary understandings of ''globalization'' by focusing on the role of non-state prehistoric societies and their vast realms of connectivity.

The reuse of architectural and sculptural materials (spoliation) was common centuries earlier than previously realized, during the Roman empire.

Provides the first global analysis of the relationship between trade and civilisation from the beginning of civilisation until the modern era.

Reviews the complex relationship between Rome''s rich archaeology, changing cultural and ideological agendas, and its urban development.

This volume brings together scholars of Mediterranean archaeology, ancient history, and complexity science to advance the study of maritime connectivity.

Secret societies in tribal societies turn out to be key to understanding the origins of social inequalities and state religions.

Explores the tremendous discoveries historical archaeologists have made about English life in the Americas during the seventeenth century.

This book conceptualizes butchery as an expression of technological knowledge and culture embedded in action, defining the human-animal relationship.

Examines developments in the heartland of Greece after the reign of Alexander the Great, and rejects the usual pessimistic picture.

This book presents unique new insights into the development of human ritual and society through our heritage of play and performance.

This book focuses on the material practice of ancient literacy through a contextual examination of Roman writing equipment.

By taking a look at colonization and subalternity, this book offers a different view on Classical Greece and its modern legacy.

This book explores the nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age through developments in pottery, textiles, and metalwork.

This extraordinary selection of objects from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds illuminates the rich cultures of medieval history.

A detailed overview of the Eastern African stone tools that make up the world''s longest archaeological record.

This volume looks at the effects of interaction and the nature of identity construction in a frontier or contact zone through the analysis of material culture, especially in mortuary settings.

The first study of a crucial aspect of Roman stone sculpture, exploring the functions and aesthetics of non-figural supports.

The violence of war and sacrifice were not the antithesis of civilization at Shang Anyang, but rather its foundation.

Demonstrates that the pre-Islamic Sahara was a more connected region than previously thought, with trade an essential linking element.

Playful, popular visions of ruined cities demonstrate antiquity''s starring role in nineteenth-century culture, developing new models for understanding classical reception.

This book examines the poorly understood transformations in rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of ancient empires.

Takes one of the world''s longest continuously occupied urban neighborhoods and explores the trace of early development on the future space.

The author argues that Doric architecture originated in a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece.

The book describes a novel approach to early cities that is transdisciplinary, scientific, historical, and based on social-science knowledge.

Die Publikation stellt zwei beschriftete Granitblocke aus der Zeit Amenemhets II.

Diese umfassende Monographie uber die altagyptischen Hohlmae von der Fruhzeit bis zur griechisch-romischen Zeit fuhrt in komplexer Methode erstmals Fundobjekte, bildliche Darstellungen und Textbelege zum Th ema Hohlma unter Berucksichtigung anthropologischer, metrologischer und naturwissenschaftlicher Sachverhalte zusammen.

Das Synodaldekret aus dem Jahre 243 v.

Thema dieses Beihefts ist die Konzeptualisierung des Auges im alten Agypten von den ersten Schrift- und Bildbelegen bis in griechisch-romische Zeit.

Das Thema dieser Monografie ist die Erinnerungsarbeit der von libyschen Einwanderern abstammenden 22.

ALEXANDER BRAWANSKI, Die Falle 18 des Papyrus Edwin Smith ("e;Schadelhirntraumafalle"e;).

AWADALLAa, Atef: Une stele cintree de NS-Mnw Caire 22053.

Hartwig Altenmuller: Die Nachtfahrt des Grabherrn im Alten Reich.

HARTWIG ALTENMULLER: Das prasumtive Begrabnis des Siptah.