Archaeology by period / region

Jerome Murphy-O'Connor has lived in Jerusalem for 48 years, during which time he has taught graduate students its history and archaeology, and also compiled a bestselling archaeological guidebook for visitors.

Sticks, Stones, and Broken Bones: Neolithic Violence in a European Perspective presents an up-to-date overview of the evidence for violent injuries on human skeletons of the Neolithic period in Europe, ranging from 6700 to 2000 BC.

In the early 12th century, the Late Bronze Age Hittite empire collapsed during a series of upheavals which swept the Greek and Near Eastern worlds.

Ever since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in caves near the site of Qumran in 1947, this mysterious cache of manuscripts has been associated with the Essenes, a 'sect' configured as marginal and isolated.

The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful.

The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies is a unique collection of some seventy articles which together explore the ways in which ancient Greece has been, is, and might be studied.

'Of ways you may speak, but not the Perennial Way; By names you may name, but not the Perennial Name.

This book summarizes archaeological approaches to the contemporary past, and suggests a new agenda for the archaeology of late modern societies.

The excavation of settlements has in recent years transformed our understanding of north-west Europe in the early Middle Ages.

The targeted destruction of ancient sites and monuments in the Middle East provokes widespread outrage in the West.

From Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exert a timeless power over us.

The most wide-ranging, comprehensive, and up-to-date dictionary of archaeology available.

Fashion is a dynamic global industry that plays an important role in the economic, political, cultural, and social lives of an international audience.

Hieroglyphs were far more than a language.

The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement.

Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented.

Who were the Druids?

In this fully illustrated study, Niall Sharples examine the complex social relationships of the Wessex region of southern England in the first millennium BC.

For someone who has exercised such a profound influence on Christian theology, Paul remains a shadowy figure behind the barrier of his complicated and difficult biblical letters.

In Truly Beyond Wonders Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis investigates texts and material evidence associated with healing pilgrimage in the Roman empire during the second century AD.

The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful.

In contrast to Continental Europe, where the Iron Age is abundantly represented by funerary remains as well as by hill-forts and major centres, the British Iron Age is mainly represented by its settlement sites, and especially by houses of circular ground-plan, apparently in marked contrast to the Central and Northern European tradition of rectangular houses.

Fashion is a dynamic global industry that plays an important role in the economic, political, cultural, and social lives of an international audience.

Parks were prominent and, indeed, controversial features of the medieval countryside, but they have been unevenly studied and remain only partly understood.

There have been many accounts of prehistoric 'art', but nearly all of them begin by assuming that the concept is a useful one.

Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs is the first detailed consideration of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts.

The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies is a unique collection of some seventy articles which together explore the ways in which ancient Greece has been, is, and might be studied.

The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies responds to and celebrates the explosion of research in this inter-disciplinary field over recent decades.

Medieval bridges are startling achievements of design and engineering comparable with the great cathedrals of the period, and are also proof of the great importance of road transport in the middle ages and of the size and sophistication of the medieval economy.

This volume traces the rise of Rome and the extension of Roman power across Europe, from the viewpoints of both conquerors and conquered, and also Rome's barbarian heirs, covering the period from 1000 BC through to AD 400.

The decades between 1770 and 1840 are rich in exotic accounts of the ruin-strewn landscapes of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico.

From the sixteenth century, classical texts enabled Scottish and English authors and artists to imagine the character and appearance of their forebears and to consider the relevance of these ideas to their contemporaries.

'Of ways you may speak, but not the Perennial Way; By names you may name, but not the Perennial Name.

There are over 3,000 runic inscriptions on stone made in Scandinavia in the late Viking Age.

Cave art is a subject of perennial interest among archaeologists.

Ancient sport made a huge if indirect contribution to the literature of ancient Greece, since some sixty poems by Pindar and Bacchylides ('epinikian odes'), written to commemorate victories, survive from the Classical period.

The Alamanni and Rome focuses upon the end of the Roman Empire.

A collection of essays, by leading international scholars, on the history of the Greek theatre, and on the wider context of festival culture in which theatrical activity took place in the Greek world.

This important new study looks at the intersection of Greek and Egyptian art forms in the funerary sphere of Roman Egypt.

This book is the first attempt that has ever been made to give a comprehensive account of the religious life of ancient Athens.

Food and diet are central to understanding daily life in the middle ages.

This book introduces readers to the remarkable linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia.

For someone who has exercised such a profound influence on Christian theology, Paul remains a shadowy figure behind the barrier of his complicated and difficult biblical letters.

In medieval Britain people wore jewellery made of gold if they were rich, of base metal if they were poor; they might hoard their property, or give it away to guarantee that they would have friends when needed; and many of them paid tax on their possessions.

The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states.

This book brings together new and original work by forty two of the world's leading scholars of Indo-European comparative philology and linguistics from around the world.

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Of immense significance to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the Holy Land has been attracting visitors since the fifth century BC.

This innovative, extensively illustrated study examines how classical antiquities and archaeology contributed significantly to the production of the modern Greek nation and its national imagination.