Archaeology category: 3529 books
Moving on in Neolithic Studies
Understanding Mobile Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Mobility is a fundamental facet of being human and should be central to archaeology. Yet mobility itself and the role it plays in the production of social life, is rarely considered as a subject in its own right. This is particularly so with discussions of the Neolithic people where mobility is often...
Westward on the High-Hilled Plains
The Later Prehistory of the West Midlands
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
The West Midlands has struggled archaeologically to project a distinct regional identity, having largely been defined by reference to other areas with a stronger cultural identity and history, such as Wessex the South-West, and the North. Only occasionally has the West Midlands come to prominence,...
Archaeological Sediments and Soils
Analysis, Interpretation and Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
A collection of papers focusing on the links between archaeology and the study of geological sediments and soils.
Life on the Edge
Human Settlement and Marginality
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Throughout history some areas have been less attractive for living and farming than others. These areas are identified as marginal because of environmental, economic or socio-political factors. How can we recognise marginality in the archaeological record? How particularly can environmental remains...
by Dr Christina Riggs
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
First runner-up for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies 2015.
In ancient Egypt, wrapping sacred objects, including mummified bodies, in layers of cloth was a ritual that lay at the core of Egyptian society. Yet in the modern world, attention has focused...
Current Research in Egyptology 2011
Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
The twelfth annual Current Research in Egyptology symposium aimed to highlight the multidisciplinary nature of the field of Egyptology. Papers in these proceedings reflect this multidisciplinarity, with research based on Archaeology, Linguistics, Cultural Astronomy, Historiography, Botany, Religion...
Cyprus: An island culture
Society and Social Relations from the Bronze Age to the Venetian Period
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This volume, introduced by Edgar Peltenburg, presents the results of latest research by young scholars working on aspects of Cypriot archaeology from the Bronze Age to the Venetian period. It presents a diversity excavation, material culture, iconographic and linguistic evidence to explore the themes...
by Assaf Yasur-Landau
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
In this study, Assaf Yasur-Landau examines the early history of the biblical Philistines who were among the 'Sea Peoples' who migrated from the Aegean area to the Levant during the early twelfth century BC. Creating an archaeological narrative of the migration of the Philistines, he combines an innovative...
Old Kingdom, New Perspectives
Egyptian Art and Archaeology 2750-2150 BC
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Recent research on all aspects of the Old Kingdom in Egypt is presented in this volume, ranging through the Pyramid Texts, tomb architecture, ceramics, scene choice and layout, field reports, cemetery layout, tomb and temple statuary. The contributions also show how Egyptology is not stuck in its...
by Edgar Peltenburg, T.J. Wilkinson, Eleanor Barbanes Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The city of Carchemish in the valley of the Euphrates river can be regarded as one of the iconic sites in the Middle East, a mound complex known both for its own intrinsic qualities as the seat of later Hittite power and Neo-Hittite kings, but also because its history of excavations included well...
The Tourists Gaze, The Cretans Glance
Archaeology and Tourism on a Greek Island
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
As researchers bring their analytic skills to bear on contemporary archaeological tourism, they find that it is as much about the present as the past. Philip Duke’s study of tourists gazing at the remains of Bronze Age Crete highlights this nexus between past and present, between exotic and mundane....
Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice
Cultural Encounters, Material Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2006
Ethnographic perspectives are often used by archaeologists to study cultures both past and present - but what happens when the ethnographic gaze is turned back onto archaeological practices themselves? That is the question posed by this book, challenging conventional ideas about the relationship between...
The state of the Late Neolithic Pottery of Domuztepe in the Turkish Eastern Mediterranean
Published in Origini n. XXXIX/2016. Rivista annuale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità – “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche – Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Published in Origini n. XXXIX/2016. Rivista annuale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità – “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche – Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations | The geographic definition of the Turkish Eastern Mediterranean...
by Michael J. Decker
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
The Byzantine Dark Ages explores current debates about the sudden transformation of the Byzantine Empire in the wake of environmental, social and political changes. Those studying the Byzantine Empire, the successor to the Roman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean, have long recognized that the mid-7th...