Archaeology by period / region

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.

This book highlights new cross-cultural and comparative scholarship and methodological approaches to ancient seals and sealing.

This book highlights new cross-cultural and comparative scholarship and methodological approaches to ancient seals and sealing.

In this book, ethnographical and archaeological perspectives on tradeoffs help the reader to think about hard choices, and how to make better decisions today and tomorrow.

In this book, ethnographical and archaeological perspectives on tradeoffs help the reader to think about hard choices, and how to make better decisions today and tomorrow.

Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece questions many long-held ideas and provides a deeper understanding of particular artists and architects.

Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece questions many long-held ideas and provides a deeper understanding of particular artists and architects.

Playful, popular visions of ruined cities demonstrate antiquity''s starring role in nineteenth-century culture, developing new models for understanding classical reception.

This book sets Prudentius'' martyr poetry within the religious, social, and visual contexts of late antique Spain.

This book sets Prudentius'' martyr poetry within the religious, social, and visual contexts of late antique Spain.

A comparative and interdisciplinary study of ancient and medieval Eurasian empires using historical, philological and archaeological evidence.

A comparative and interdisciplinary study of ancient and medieval Eurasian empires using historical, philological and archaeological evidence.

This book examines the poorly understood transformations in rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of ancient empires.

Writing and the Ancient State is a comparative study of the use of writing to create and maintain order in early states.

Pathbreaking essays challenging the traditional focus on the eastern Mediterranean in the Hellenistic period and on Rome in the West.

A study of the Trojan War as retold in carved images and texts at the dawn of the Roman Empire.

Pathbreaking essays challenging the traditional focus on the eastern Mediterranean in the Hellenistic period and on Rome in the West.

A study of the Trojan War as retold in carved images and texts at the dawn of the Roman Empire.

A unique collaboration between archaeologists and a range of specialists in ritual and religion, looking at the role of religion in early human societies.

Examines the relationship between social networks and religious transmission to reappraise how new religious ideas spread in the Roman Empire.

This book examines the intersection of art, risk and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife.

The first book to focus on the role of Southern Asia and Australia in our understanding of modern human origins and the expansion of Homo sapiens.

In this worldwide survey, Clive Gamble explores the evolution of the human imagination, without which we would not have become a global species.

This book provides an up-to-date synthesis of Aztec culture, applying interdisciplinary approaches (archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography) to reconstructing the complex and enigmatic civilization.

A unique collaboration between archaeologists and a range of specialists in ritual and religion, looking at the role of religion in early human societies.

Examines the relationship between social networks and religious transmission to reappraise how new religious ideas spread in the Roman Empire.

This book examines the intersection of art, risk and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife.

The first book to focus on the role of Southern Asia and Australia in our understanding of modern human origins and the expansion of Homo sapiens.

In this worldwide survey, Clive Gamble explores the evolution of the human imagination, without which we would not have become a global species.

This book provides an up-to-date synthesis of Aztec culture, applying interdisciplinary approaches (archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography) to reconstructing the complex and enigmatic civilization.

In revealing the secrets of Linear B it offers a valuable survey of late Minoan and Myceanean archaeology, uncovering fascinating details of the religion and economic history of an ancient civilisation.

The Cambridge World Prehistory provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world.

This book provides the first detailed description of the prehistory of the Loango coast of west-central Africa over the course of more than 3000 years.

An original and unprecedented analysis of urbanization and state formation in Rome and Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era.

This book provides the first detailed description of the prehistory of the Loango coast of west-central Africa over the course of more than 3000 years.

An original and unprecedented analysis of urbanization and state formation in Rome and Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era.

The Cambridge World Prehistory provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world.

Analysing ten different archives of cuneiform tablets, this book describes the society and economy of the Middle Assyrian state.

The first comprehensive treatment of the languages and scripts of Cyprus, from the Late Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Period.

This book shows how, in unearthing biblical cities, archaeology transformed nineteenth-century thinking on the truth of Christianity and its role in modern cities.

Reviews the palaeoenvironmental evidence and its incorporation with landscape archaeology across the Mediterranean, from the Early Neolithic to the end of the Roman period.