Archaeology by period / region

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.

Rapid and knowledge-based agricultural origins and plant domestication in the Neolithic Near East gave rise to Western civilizations.

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''.

Discusses both the revolutionary cultural, social, and economic impact of Bronze Age textile production in Europe and innovative methodologies for future studies.

Discusses both the revolutionary cultural, social, and economic impact of Bronze Age textile production in Europe and innovative methodologies for future studies.

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

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

The most detailed glimpse to date of daily life in a small town at the end of the Roman Empire.

Traces the development of towns in Britain from late Roman times to the end of the Anglo-Saxon period using archaeological data.

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

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

Rapid and knowledge-based agricultural origins and plant domestication in the Neolithic Near East gave rise to Western civilizations.

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''.

Explores four key questions around Roman funerary customs that change our view of the society and its values.

Interprets the poetic meaning of the Iliad in relation to the heroic literature of the Ancient Near East.

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

A study of Ice Age Americans, highlighting genetic, archaeological and geological evidence that has revolutionized our understanding of their origins, antiquity, and adaptations.

Using a broad array of archaeology, art, and text, this book revolutionizes our understanding of the Roman sanctuary at Bath.

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

Explores the history and archaeology of two oases, remote but closely tied to the Nile valley for thousands of years.

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.

Showcases the fundamental contribution that anthropology has made to our understanding of ancient Roman culture.

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

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

Showcases the fundamental contribution that anthropology has made to our understanding of ancient Roman culture.

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.

Surveys the archaeology of food: its methods and its themes (economics, politics, status, identity, gender, ethnicity, ritual, religion).

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.

Shows how archaeologists gain knowledge about past ontologies, and explores the role that birds played in Bronze Age economy, ritual and religion.

Presents a new approach to heritage formation in Asia, conveying the power of the material remains of the past.

Uses primary evidence to ask anthropological questions about kinship and families in ancient Egyptian society.

A novel, integrated approach to understanding long-term human history, viewing it as the long-term evolution of human information-processing.

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

A unique and forward-thinking book that sheds new light on the origins, dynamics, and cosmopolitan culture of the Kongo Kingdom from a cross-disciplinary perspective.

A study of Ice Age Americans, highlighting genetic, archaeological and geological evidence that has revolutionized our understanding of their origins, antiquity, and adaptations.

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

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

Explores four key questions around Roman funerary customs that change our view of the society and its values.

Using a broad array of archaeology, art, and text, this book revolutionizes our understanding of the Roman sanctuary at Bath.

Shows how archaeologists gain knowledge about past ontologies, and explores the role that birds played in Bronze Age economy, ritual and religion.

Presents a new approach to heritage formation in Asia, conveying the power of the material remains of the past.

Uses primary evidence to ask anthropological questions about kinship and families in ancient Egyptian society.

A novel, integrated approach to understanding long-term human history, viewing it as the long-term evolution of human information-processing.