Archaeology

Conservation of monuments and historic sites is one of the most challenging problems facing modern civilization.

This manual works equally well for the novice brewer, the advanced brewer, and food historians or Living History enthusiasts.

This manual works equally well for the novice brewer, the advanced brewer, and food historians or Living History enthusiasts.

The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland provides a comprehensive overview of this exciting period, covering the last few hundred years of the Mesolithic and the arrival and spread of the Neolithic up to the start of the early Beaker period: roughly 2000 years of prehistory.

A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history.

A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history.

This book is the first in-depth study of food in talmudic literature in its geographical and cultural contexts.

This volume includes many of the papers given at the 1997 conference of the British Archaeological Association.

Keramat, holy graves and shrines, represent physical markers of Singapore's history as a multi ethnic maritime trading center.

Dorothy Eady's life is one of the most extraordinary tales of the 20th century-a story that blurs the line between history, spirituality, and reincarnation.

What do we really know about how and where religions began, and how they spread?

This book examines the communication and interaction between archaeologists and the non-archaeological public in a digital age.

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of gender archaeology, both theory and practice, and contributes a substantial and definitive reference work by bringing together state-of-the-art research, theoretical overviews, and the latest debates in the field.

A shipwreck is a time capsule.

The archaeological investigation and the architectural survey conducted at Villa Arianna at Stabiae between 2010 and 2019 form the core of this book.

This volume is a compilation of papers presented in British Archaeological Association's annual conference in 1992.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology offers comprehensive perspectives on the origins and developments of the discipline of archaeology and the direction of future advances in the field.

Decolonization has been a buzzword in anthropology for decades, but remains difficult to grasp and to achieve.

Die antike Welt birgt unzählige Schätze, die im Laufe der Zeit verloren gingen – zerstört durch Kriege, Naturkatastrophen oder den Lauf der Geschichte.

In 1953 the schoolboy Alan Garner rediscovered a wooden shovel originally found in the Alderley copper mines in 1875.

Identities in Antiquity is a multi-disciplinary platform for the synthetic study of ancient identities, set in a more rounded and inclusive notion of antiquity.

This book compiles the papers presented at the British Archaeological association conference held in 2001, which concentrated on the Roman and medieval art, architecture and archaeology of the city and county.

This manual provides students in academic laboratory courses with hands-on experience in the major processes of forensic anthropology.

This book is a collective reflection on the relationship between theory and methods, as practiced by American archaeologists of the Byzantine period in Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, and Egypt between the 1990s and 2020s.

The nineteen papers collected in this volume explore a notable phenomenon, that of retrospection in the art and architecture of Romanesque Europe.

The Roman Near East has been a source of fascination and exasperation - an immense area, a rich archaeological heritage as well as documents in several local languages, a region with a great depth of urbanisation and development .

The Cippus of the Forum is reviewed in a new light thanks to the results of laser scanning commissioned by the Soprintendenza di Roma.

The excavations at Vindolanda have revealed some of the most precious and unique artefacts in Roman history.

Gathered together here are the fruits of 60 years of research by the late Sir Laurence Kirwan into the history and archaeology of the mid 1st millennium AD in the Middle Nile Valley, papers previously scattered through a wide range of publications.

Im trockenen Küstengebiet Nordperus erhebt sich ein archäologisches Wunder: Die Pyramiden von Túcume, eine der beeindruckendsten und geheimnisvollsten Stätten präkolumbianischer Baukunst.

This book presents the latest research on the cities monuments from the arrival of Willibrord and Boniface and the establishment of the Bishopric.

Although archaeologists are using GIS technology at an accelerating rate, publication of their work has not kept pace.

This volume marks a new approach to a seminal work of the modern scientific imagination: Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species (1859).

Major re-examination of issues of island identity and interaction with case studies from Crete, Cyprus and Sardinia covering a long time span and key cultural periods.

Sites, Traces, and Materiality proposes a new materialist model for archaeology that brings together the concept of site ontology from geography, a novel analysis of archaeological materiality as traces, and engagement with the concept of animacy hierarchy, in order to explore how geological materials can be reconceived as active.

Sites, Traces, and Materiality proposes a new materialist model for archaeology that brings together the concept of site ontology from geography, a novel analysis of archaeological materiality as traces, and engagement with the concept of animacy hierarchy, in order to explore how geological materials can be reconceived as active.

Professor Spieser deals here with a number of the transformations that took place in the world of Late Antiquity - and early Christianity - focusing upon notions of space.