Archaeology by period / region

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

A demographic history of Europe''s early human populations from 1.

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

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

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

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

This is the first application of the comparative approach of world-systems analysis in Mesoamerican archaeology.

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

This is the first application of the comparative approach of world-systems analysis in Mesoamerican archaeology.

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.

Explores the socio-economic background of people in the New Testament using papyrological evidence from Roman Egypt.

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

Explores the socio-economic background of people in the New Testament using papyrological evidence from Roman Egypt.

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

This book investigates the working mechanisms of public opinion in the politics of Late Republican Rome.

Cook demonstrates that we can better allow for affiliation of archaeological sites with living descendants by more fully examining the complexity of the past.

The Northern Black Sea in Antiquity brings together the latest research on an important region of the ancient Mediterranean world.

This conspectus brings together in an accessible and systematic manner a dizzy array of archaeological cultures situated between several worlds.

Cook demonstrates that we can better allow for affiliation of archaeological sites with living descendants by more fully examining the complexity of the past.

The Northern Black Sea in Antiquity brings together the latest research on an important region of the ancient Mediterranean world.

This conspectus brings together in an accessible and systematic manner a dizzy array of archaeological cultures situated between several worlds.

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

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

This book investigates the working mechanisms of public opinion in the politics of Late Republican Rome.

The book shows how the spread of farming across Europe was the result a population expansion from present-day Turkey.

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

The book shows how the spread of farming across Europe was the result a population expansion from present-day Turkey.

Deconstructs the early history of Britain, illustrating a transformative era with wide-ranging sources and an accessible narrative.

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

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

Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols.

Highlights the achievements of prehistoric people in Britain and Ireland over a 5,000 year period.

Highlights the achievements of prehistoric people in Britain and Ireland over a 5,000 year period.

Reconceptualizes economic theory as a tool for understanding the Roman monetary system and its social and cultural contexts.

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.

Reconceptualizes economic theory as a tool for understanding the Roman monetary system and its social and cultural contexts.

An interdisciplinary exploration of Roman cultural appropriation, offering new insights into the processes through which Rome made and remade itself.

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

An interdisciplinary exploration of Roman cultural appropriation, offering new insights into the processes through which Rome made and remade itself.

This book argues that Republican Rome and its component buildings were inextricably intertwined with government, which they perpetuated and challenged.

This book argues that Republican Rome and its component buildings were inextricably intertwined with government, which they perpetuated and challenged.

This book examines the nature of human mobility, attitudes to it, and constructions of place in Italy over the last millennium BC.

This book examines the nature of human mobility, attitudes to it, and constructions of place in Italy over the last millennium BC.

This edition of a Greek papyrus land survey presents a detailed picture of landholding in Upper Egypt under the Ptolemies.

This book sheds new light on funerary customs in Roman Syria, offering a novel way of understanding its provincial culture.

This book sheds new light on funerary customs in Roman Syria, offering a novel way of understanding its provincial culture.

A comprehensive account of the Palaces, control networks and spatial dynamics of Neopalatial Crete, the floruit of the Minoan civilization.

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

A comprehensive account of the Palaces, control networks and spatial dynamics of Neopalatial Crete, the floruit of the Minoan civilization.

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