Archaeology

An international and multidisciplinary team addresses significant ethical questions about the rights to access, manage and interpret the material remains of the past.

Examines both the early modern reception and the ancient context of the Sumerian temple sculptures created during the Early Dynastic period.

This book brings together archaeological investigations of Eurasian regimes and revolutions ranging from the Bronze Age to the modern day.

Examines both the early modern reception and the ancient context of the Sumerian temple sculptures created during the Early Dynastic period.

This book brings together archaeological investigations of Eurasian regimes and revolutions ranging from the Bronze Age to the modern day.

In this book, Graham Connah offers an overview of archaeological authorship: its diversity, its challenges, and its methodology.

Explores the wider cultural framework in which we should study the housing in the Greek and Roman worlds.

In this book, Graham Connah offers an overview of archaeological authorship: its diversity, its challenges, and its methodology.

Explores the wider cultural framework in which we should study the housing in the Greek and Roman worlds.

An international and multidisciplinary team addresses significant ethical questions about the rights to access, manage and interpret the material remains of the past.

Case studies on violent deaths from the past and present vividly illustrate how anthropologists construct meaning from the victim''s bones.

This book analyzes the architecture of columbarium tombs and explains their unique design with the particular social experience of their non-elite occupants.

This book critically reviews theory, assumptions, methods and literature to examine the unique role of teeth in preserving records of human growth.

An important and wide-ranging collection of legal texts from ancient Egypt in translation with full elucidation by experts.

The first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the new climate science with the material history of humanity.

This book examines one of the thorniest problems of ancient American archaeology: the origins and domestication of maize.

This book surveys the archaeological record for stone tools from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago in the Near East.

A detailed interdisciplinary exploration of ancient glass, examining why and how glass was invented and various contexts of its subsequent development and use.

An eclectic Marxist approach reveals the centrality of conflict and ideological struggle in the socio-political and cultural changes in Archaic Greece.

An eclectic Marxist approach reveals the centrality of conflict and ideological struggle in the socio-political and cultural changes in Archaic Greece.

An interdisciplinary treatment of syllabic writing in ancient Cyprus and an invaluable resource for anyone studying Cypriot epigraphy or archaeology.

This book examines one of the thorniest problems of ancient American archaeology: the origins and domestication of maize.

This book surveys the archaeological record for stone tools from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago in the Near East.

A detailed interdisciplinary exploration of ancient glass, examining why and how glass was invented and various contexts of its subsequent development and use.

This book explores the cliché of ''the city of seven hills'' and how, since antiquity, it has shaped experience of the city.

This book explores the cliché of ''the city of seven hills'' and how, since antiquity, it has shaped experience of the city.

This book explores how Latin inscriptions were used in the Roman world and makes them accessible to students today.

This book provides a survey of the architecture and urbanism of Provence during the Roman era.

This book provides a survey of the architecture and urbanism of Provence during the Roman era.

This book explores how Latin inscriptions were used in the Roman world and makes them accessible to students today.

This book examines the first human colonization of Asia and particularly the tropical environments of Southeast Asia during the Upper Pleistocene.

This book examines the development of social complexity in late prehistoric and early medieval Ireland.

This book examines the first human colonization of Asia and particularly the tropical environments of Southeast Asia during the Upper Pleistocene.

This book examines the development of social complexity in late prehistoric and early medieval Ireland.

This book examines the functions of sculpture during the Preclassic period in Mesoamerica and its significance in statements of social identity.

The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, providing an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age society as revealed through the ancient text.

The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, providing an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age society as revealed through the ancient text.

This book examines the functions of sculpture during the Preclassic period in Mesoamerica and its significance in statements of social identity.

The distinguished social anthropologist Alan Barnard explores the origins of the symbolic thought that is fundamental to human existence.

An introduction to the archaeology and history of ancient Palestine, from the destruction of Solomon''s temple to the Muslim conquest.

The distinguished social anthropologist Alan Barnard explores the origins of the symbolic thought that is fundamental to human existence.

An introduction to the archaeology and history of ancient Palestine, from the destruction of Solomon''s temple to the Muslim conquest.

This book explores the roles of agricultural development and advancing social complexity in the processes of state formation in China.

An introduction to the earliest ideas of geography in antiquity and how much knowledge there was of the physical world.

An introduction to the earliest ideas of geography in antiquity and how much knowledge there was of the physical world.

This book explores the processes by which Virginia was transformed from a British colony into a Southern slave state.

This book explores the processes by which Virginia was transformed from a British colony into a Southern slave state.

Contributes to the debate about modern human origins by exploring the diets and foraging patterns of both Neandertals and early modern humans.

International archaeologists examine early Stone Age tools and bones to present the most holistic view to date of the archaeology of human origins.

Describes the culture of the Parakanã, a little-known indigenous people of Amazonia, focusing on conflict and ritual.