Archaeology by period / region

An exploration of the tremendous impact of the vast desert territories outside the Nile Valley on ancient Egyptian civilization.

An exploration of the tremendous impact of the vast desert territories outside the Nile Valley on ancient Egyptian civilization.

The aim of the Element is to provide a comprehensive comparison of the basic organization of power in Mesoamerica and Egypt.

The aim of the Element is to provide a comprehensive comparison of the basic organization of power in Mesoamerica and Egypt.

Explores ancient Egyptian concept of collective identity, and processes of ethnogenesis among inhabitants of the land of the pharaohs.

This book zeroes in on hidden writing and alternative systems of graphic notation, exploring writings that deflect attention from language.

Explores ancient Egyptian concept of collective identity, and processes of ethnogenesis among inhabitants of the land of the pharaohs.

This Element seeks to demonstrate how ceramics forward study of Egyptian society writ large, identifying key research questions and qualitative and quantitative methods.

This Element seeks to demonstrate how ceramics forward study of Egyptian society writ large, identifying key research questions and qualitative and quantitative methods.

Offers a new approach to ancient Egyptian images informed by interdisciplinary work in archaeology, anthropology, and art history.

Rock outcrops were once decorated with images featuring people, animals, weapons and boats.

This book zeroes in on hidden writing and alternative systems of graphic notation, exploring writings that deflect attention from language.

Provides a diachronic account of the changing roles of surplus oil and wine in the economies of pre-classical Greek societies.

Provides a diachronic account of the changing roles of surplus oil and wine in the economies of pre-classical Greek societies.

The book studies examples of destruction of Ancient Greek cities and provides examples of human resilience and economic recovery following catastrophe.

In a pre-industrial world, storage could make or break farmers and empires alike.

The book studies examples of destruction of Ancient Greek cities and provides examples of human resilience and economic recovery following catastrophe.

In a pre-industrial world, storage could make or break farmers and empires alike.

Ground-breaking analysis of the Linear B undeciphered signs shedding light on the writing system and the activities of its writers.

Petroglyphic rock art in Mongolia''s Altai Mountains is used to study the intersection of prehistoric culture and paleoenvironment.

Interdisciplinary examination of the transmission process of Linear A to Linear B script.

Explores the formation of power during secondary polity formation by integrating multifaceted ceramic and material analyses of Gordion.

Petroglyphic rock art in Mongolia''s Altai Mountains is used to study the intersection of prehistoric culture and paleoenvironment.

Focuses on the economic history of the community of Rome from the Iron Age to the early Republic.

Focuses on the economic history of the community of Rome from the Iron Age to the early Republic.

This ground-breaking volume pushes back conventional dating of the earliest sedentarisation, urbanisation and state formation in the Sahara.

Explores the formation of power during secondary polity formation by integrating multifaceted ceramic and material analyses of Gordion.

This ground-breaking volume pushes back conventional dating of the earliest sedentarisation, urbanisation and state formation in the Sahara.

An up-to-date, systematic depiction of Bronze Age societies of the Levant, their evolution, and their interactions and entanglements with neighboring regions.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, institutions, religious rituals, and politics.

Analyses the evolution of a provincial Byzantine urban settlement based on the results of an interdisciplinary collaborative project.

This book applies anthropological concepts of social structure and evolutionary theory to Ancient Greece.

This book applies anthropological concepts of social structure and evolutionary theory to Ancient Greece.

Offers an innovative theory for ancient art and its creativity, demonstrated through the rich material and visual culture of the protohistoric Aegean.

The first book on the origin of clothes shows why climate change was crucial - for the origin of agriculture too.

Offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of the southern Levant (modern day Israel, Palestine and Jordan).

Offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of the southern Levant (modern day Israel, Palestine and Jordan).

Applies the ''life history'' of objects approach to China''s prehistoric, early dynastic and more recent material culture.

Examines how people in the Roman past thought about even earlier ruins and material remains—it examines incidents that could be described as ''archaeology in antiquity''.

A comprehensive analysis on the development of Egyptian urbanism during the Third Intermediate Period (1076–664 BCE).

Examines how people in the Roman past thought about even earlier ruins and material remains—it examines incidents that could be described as ''archaeology in antiquity''.

Examines some of the types of sacrifice and ritual killing of human beings through history.

A comprehensive analysis on the development of Egyptian urbanism during the Third Intermediate Period (1076–664 BCE).

Is the most up-to-date treatment of ancient Egyptian as a spoken language.

Places burial traditions at the centre of Saharan migrations and identity debate, with new technical data and methodological analysis.

This volume brings together two groups engaged with understanding the relationships between religion and violence.

The first book on the origin of clothes shows why climate change was crucial - for the origin of agriculture too.

This first comprehensive study of pre-Archaic Greek temple architecture combines architecture, society, and material culture.

Challenges the widely held assumption that the Neolithic saw an overall cognitive revolution.