Archaeology Books

Bedfordshire Archaeology Monograph Series No 4This volume on the archaeology of the English county of Bedford and its environs brings together the results of five excavations over a four year period in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It includes...

Abu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey Monograph 1Fishing forms an important activity in many societies throughout the world today and played a significant role in the life and subsistence of many prehistoric societies. Past archaeological research on...

Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 57Volume 57 in the Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology focuses on the problems of chronological interpretation of two "faciès" from the North African Epipalaeolithic: Typical and Upper...

This monograph presents a reassessment of the meanings and characteristics of Romanization. The research aims at challenging the predominant views on ethnic changes and Roman cultural dominations; exploring the Jewish perspectives on landscape as a means...

This volume represents a detailed study of the important town of Argos in the Peloponnese during Byzantine phases (4th-7th centuries AD). An introduction covers landscape and contextual history. Chapter one explores the major sites of the town (Agora,...

Proceedings of the symposium held at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland), May 26-29 2002In the wealth of literature concerning Bell Beakers, the present volume is the first broad treatment of issues relating to their northeast frontier. The...

Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Liège, Belgium, 2-8 September 2001SECTION 6 :  PALÉOLITHIQUE SUPÉRIEUR / UPPER PALAEOLITHICColloques / Symposia 6.2 & 6.5Upper Palaeolithic living sites and their associated...

Jerusalem has always been a unique city. Hundreds of millions of people, believers of the three main monotheistic religions Christianity, Islam and Judaism, have always looked forward to visiting, living, dying or even being buried in the Holy City...

This study of the interaction of the southern Iberian early Iron Age communities with the eastern Mediterranean colonisers is based on archaeological evidence from the Guadalquivir valley, the adjacent Mediterranean coast, and a number of sites along the...

Lithic analyses of all kinds have a long history in archaeological studies. For many years, morphological studies of tool-types and elaborate discussions of relative chronologies were a primary focus, but this has changed and the past few decades have...

In this volume's 18 chapters, diverse authors utilizing a variety of techniques explore elements of seigneurial domestic buildings (AD c.800-1600) on both sides of the English Channel. Among the contributors are scholars from as far afield as...

This book developed out of the need to address the issues surrounding the potential impact of urbanization and later, industrialization, on past human health in England. The main aims of the research were to assess differences in the levels of morbidity...

This book contains papers from the Proceedings of the International Congress on the Evolution and Palaeoepidemiology of the Infectious Diseases 3 (ICEPID) conference which took place at the University of Bradford on the 26th-31st July 1999 (under the...

This work is ostensibly a study of the archaeology and history of a single Roman landscape - the Fenlands of East Anglia. However, it was also the author's intention to consider the issues raised by the application of post-colonial theory to...

This monograph presents the results of an intensive site survey of three Prehistoric Bronze Age cemeteries in the vicinity of Marki Alonia in central Cyprus. These cemeteries contained around 370 pit and chamber tombs, and were in use from the Early...

The academic consensus that the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43 landed at Richborough, Kent, has been challenged in recent years. Proponents of the alternative hypothesis that it took place at or near Fishbourne, West Sussex, have claimed that this...

Papers presented at the 5th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics, Athens 1999This volume contains a selection of 43 papers presented at the 5th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics, at Athens in 1999. This regular meeting provides a forum for the...

The first five centuries of Christian pre-eminence in what is now modern Hungary present their own special questions. Among them, did the end of the 5th century mean a real break in the whole of the Christian world or only in Pannonia (modern Hungary),...

This book sets out the evidence for burial practices in the southern and western Peloponnese of Greece during the middle Helladic and early Mycenaean periods (c. 2000-1400 BC), and to interpret the evidence in terms of human action. In the first...

This monograph represents 15 years of research by the author and concentrates on the so-called South Scandinavian or Bronze Age petroglyphs from the municipality of Stjørdal (Trøndelag, central Norway, east of Trondheim). The book's...

The primary aim of this volume is to summarize and assess for the first time all available primary evidence for the earliest forms of monumental architecture built within a geographically discrete area of the British Isles - the chalk landscapes of...

Proceedings of the 28th Conference, Ljubljana, April 2000This volume contains the proceedings of the first conference ever of the two professional organizations, Computer Applications and Quantitive Methods in Archaeology (CAA), and the Union...

A selection of 17 papers from the first Symposium of "Current Research in Egyptology", held in Oxford in 2000. The Symposium was held to foster communication and exchange of ideas among students of Egyptology at UK institutions. The UK enjoys a...

The first volume in the series Studies in the History of Collections, this work places archaeology, history of art, and British antiquarianism in the wider context of Europe's cultural heritage. The Story focuses on antique sculpture, the principal...

J.D. Beazley's The Lewes House Collection of Ancient Gems (1920) was the first publication of engraved gems in what might be called the modern manner; indeed in many respects it remains a model few have even approached since and it is of an academic...

This collection of essays draws inspiration from the late James Deetz’s In Small Things Forgotten (1977). Deetz’s seminal work broke new ground by using structuralist theory to show how artefacts reflected the...

Accounts of past lost civilizations, strange aerialphenomena, unexplained encounters, and crypticcodes unquestionably continue to tease our mindswith their intrigue. While many of these puzzles,which often are passed down from one generation toanother,...

Journey into a look at ancient symbols with Chris Hegg as he presents the groundbreaking decipherment of the Phaistos Disc and the Magliano Disc usage, revealing their astonishing function as solar calendars using the solar analemma as a template, which...

Cultural heritage is a vital, multifaceted component of modern society. To better protect and promote the integrity of a culture, certain technologies have become essential tools. The Handbook of Research on Emerging Technologies for Architectural and...

Judean hagiographies are unusual.  Some surprise in their structure, resembling historical chronicles more than "traditional" hagiographies.  Others offer unexpected content, running counter to the stylizations of their time...

Societies of the Crow, Hidatsa, and Mandan Indians: Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History (1913) is a book written by Robert Harry Lowie. The book is a comprehensive study of the social structures, customs, and traditions of...

Shetland, Descriptive And Historical: Being A Graduation Thesis On The Inhabitants Of The Shetland Islands is a book written by Robert Cowie and originally published in 1874. The book is a detailed exploration of the Shetland Islands, located off the...

Il libro ""Saggio D' Alcune Voci Toscane D' Arti Mestieri E Cose Domestiche: Dialoghi E Discorsi D' Un Lombardo (1839)"" di Antonio Bresciani ����� una raccolta di dialoghi e discorsi che esplorano il linguaggio toscano utilizzato in vari settori, come...

""Records And Traditions Of Upton-On-Severn"" is a historical book written by Emily M. Lawson, first published in 1869. The book provides a detailed account of the town of Upton-On-Severn, Worcestershire, England, from its earliest history to the...

Memorials Of A Warwickshire Parish: Being Papers Mainly Descriptive Of The Records And Registers Of The Parish Of Lapworth (1904) is a historical book written by Robert Hudson. It provides a comprehensive account of the records and registers of the...

Lectures on Jewish Antiquities is a book written by David Tappan, a prominent American theologian and educator. The book is a collection of lectures that Tappan delivered at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, between 1802 and 1803. The...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

The Warden of Berkingholt: Or Rich and Poor is a novel written by Francis Edward Paget and published in 1843. The book tells the story of the Reverend Arthur Howard, the warden of Berkingholt, a small village in England. Howard is a kind and charitable...

Das Buch ""Von Dem Bev������lkerungsstand In Chur-Pfalz Vorzuglich In Mannheim"" wurde 1769 von Friedrich Casimir Medicus ver������ffentlicht. Es besch�����ftigt sich mit der Bev������lkerungsentwicklung in der Region Chur-Pfalz, insbesondere in Mannheim...

""The Archaeological Remains and Early Historical Associations of Streatham, Tooting and Balham"" is a book written by Thomas William Shore and published in 1903. The book provides an in-depth exploration of the history and archaeology of the areas of...

Il libro ""Le Veglie Piacevoli V1-4: Ovvero Notizie De Piu Bizzarri, E Giocondi Uomini Toscani (1762)"" di Domenico Maria Manni ����� una raccolta di storie divertenti e curiose su personaggi toscani. Diviso in quattro volumi, il libro narra le vicende...

Le Mont-Glonne V1-2: Ou Recherches Historiques Sur L�������Origine Des Celtes Angevins, Aquitains, Armoriques (1774) de Robin, Claude est un livre qui explore l'origine des Celtes dans les r�����gions d'Anjou, d'Aquitaine et d'Armorique. L'auteur, Claude...