Archaeology by period / region

Weapons and tools are frequently found depicted in rock art in many parts of the globe and different periods and in varying social contexts.

Weapons and tools are frequently found depicted in rock art in many parts of the globe and different periods and in varying social contexts.

Deeply stratified settlements are a distinctive site type featuring prominently in diverse later prehistoric landscapes of the Old World.

Deeply stratified settlements are a distinctive site type featuring prominently in diverse later prehistoric landscapes of the Old World.

Did the Exodus occur?

Did the Exodus occur?

In recent decades, there has been a new surge of interest in the history and legacies of the Silk Roads both within academic and public discourses.

In recent decades, there has been a new surge of interest in the history and legacies of the Silk Roads both within academic and public discourses.

Which ancient army boasted the largest fortifications, and how did the competitive build-up of military capabilities shape world history?

This edited volume delves into the current state of Iron Age and Early Medieval research in the North.

This edited volume delves into the current state of Iron Age and Early Medieval research in the North.

Late Antique artefacts, and the images they carry, attest to a highly connected visual culture from ca.

Late Antique artefacts, and the images they carry, attest to a highly connected visual culture from ca.

The first contacts between Greece, the Aegean and India are generally thought to have occurred at the beginning of the sixth century BC.

The first contacts between Greece, the Aegean and India are generally thought to have occurred at the beginning of the sixth century BC.

The intense bonds among the king and his family, friends, lovers, and entourage are the most enticing and intriguing aspects of Alexander the Great’s life.

The intense bonds among the king and his family, friends, lovers, and entourage are the most enticing and intriguing aspects of Alexander the Great’s life.

This book investigates the complex relationship between funerary treatment and wider social dynamics through a contextual analysis of human skeletal remains and associated mortuary data from Voudeni, an important Mycenaean (1450–1050 BC) chamber tomb cemetery in Achaea, Greece.

This book investigates the complex relationship between funerary treatment and wider social dynamics through a contextual analysis of human skeletal remains and associated mortuary data from Voudeni, an important Mycenaean (1450–1050 BC) chamber tomb cemetery in Achaea, Greece.

This richly illustrated book presents the first comprehensive study of the making and marketing of pottery in medieval Ireland.

This richly illustrated book presents the first comprehensive study of the making and marketing of pottery in medieval Ireland.

Clachtoll broch is one of the most spectacular Iron Age settlements on the northern mainland of Scotland.

This book tells a new story of the royal castle of Lincoln in the north of England, how it was imposed on the late Anglo-Saxon town, and how it developed over the next 900 years in the hands of the English king or his aristocratic associates, leaving us a surviving monument of three great towers, each with its own biography.

This memoir is not really about research questions or main conclusions.

This memoir is not really about research questions or main conclusions.

Over the past 30 years, research on archaeological textiles has developed into an important field of scientific study.

Over the past 30 years, research on archaeological textiles has developed into an important field of scientific study.

To date, Rome’s intervention to the West from the mid-second century BC has not really been looked at with any sense of overview.

For over a century our knowledge of Egypt’s Western Desert during the Third Intermediate Period relied almost entirely on the Greater and Smaller Dakhleh Stelae.

For over a century our knowledge of Egypt’s Western Desert during the Third Intermediate Period relied almost entirely on the Greater and Smaller Dakhleh Stelae.

The Journal of Roman Pottery Studies continues to present a range of important new research in the field by both established and early career scholars.

The Journal of Roman Pottery Studies continues to present a range of important new research in the field by both established and early career scholars.

By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an extremely diverse range of writing practices.

A study of archaeology and the early Church in Greece is long overdue.

A study of archaeology and the early Church in Greece is long overdue.

This is the only volume to present significant results of research into the Pleistocene of the Western Desert of Egypt.

This is the only volume to present significant results of research into the Pleistocene of the Western Desert of Egypt.

This volume brings together unpublished Italian and Albanian archaeological reports and new archaeological studies from recent fieldwork that throw new light on the archaeology and history of the Pavllas River Valley, the Mediterranean alluvial plain in the territory of Butrint, ancient Buthrotum, in southwestern Albania.

This volume brings together unpublished Italian and Albanian archaeological reports and new archaeological studies from recent fieldwork that throw new light on the archaeology and history of the Pavllas River Valley, the Mediterranean alluvial plain in the territory of Butrint, ancient Buthrotum, in southwestern Albania.

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The years c.

Archaeologists excavating burials often find that they are not the first to disturb the remains of the dead.

Archaeologists excavating burials often find that they are not the first to disturb the remains of the dead.

The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful ancient textiles series are the relationships between fiber resources and availability on the one hand and the ways those resources were exploited to produce textiles on the other.

The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful ancient textiles series are the relationships between fiber resources and availability on the one hand and the ways those resources were exploited to produce textiles on the other.

The book delivers a history from below for the first half of Egyptian history coveringthe earliest settlements, state formation and the pyramid age.

The book delivers a history from below for the first half of Egyptian history coveringthe earliest settlements, state formation and the pyramid age.

This is the third book on material studies in this series on medieval Novgorod and its territory, and deals with a substantial body of animal bones that has been recovered over the last decade.

This is the third book on material studies in this series on medieval Novgorod and its territory, and deals with a substantial body of animal bones that has been recovered over the last decade.

This book was inspired by the records made by Carolyn Heighway during the thirty years when she was archaeological consultant at Gloucester Cathedral.