Archaeology Books

""Hieroclis In Aurea Carmina Commentarius"" est liber exaratus a Hierocle, philosopho Graeco, qui commentarios scripsit in Aurea Carmina, poema Pythagoreum cuius auctor est Pythagoras ipse. In hoc libro, Hierocles explicat et interpretatur versiculos...

Everyday Life On The Railroad is a book written by William John Gordon and published in 1898. The book provides a detailed and insightful look into the daily lives of workers on the railroad during the late 19th century. It covers a wide range of topics,...

Essays And Fables Written In The Vernacular Of The Creoles Of British Guiana (1899) is a book written by Michael McTurk. The book is a collection of essays and fables written in the vernacular of the Creoles of British Guiana. The Creoles were...

Eastern Manners and Customs is a book written by William King Tweedie and first published in 1870. It is a comprehensive guide to the customs, traditions, and social norms of the people of the Eastern world, including India, China, Japan, and the Middle...

Discurso sobre el Luxo de las Se�����oras, y Proyecto de un Trage Nacional: De Orden Superior (1788) es un libro an������nimo que aborda el tema del lujo en la vestimenta de las mujeres y propone un proyecto para un traje nacional de alta calidad. El...

Il libro ""Dissertazione Istorico-Etrusca Sopra L�������Origine, Antico Stato, Lingua, E Caraterri Della Etrusca Nazione"" ����� stato scritto nel 1758 da Giuseppe Maria Riccobaldi Del Bava. Questo testo ����� una dissertazione storica sull'origine, lo...

Costumen Van Het Princelick Leen-Hof Van Den Burgh Van Brugghe (1767) is een historisch boek geschreven door Laureyns Van Den Hane. Het boek beschrijft de gebruiken en tradities van het Princelick Leen-Hof van de stad Brugge in de 18e eeuw. Het behandelt...

The potential of ancient pit ovens to yield important information about the human past has been recognized only recently in the U.S. Ovens implicate cooking and diet as well as food procurement and construction of large, complex features. Such behaviors...

The First Sealand period in Babylonia has long been obscure, despite the major changes that occurred in the area at that time. The defining characteristics of its ceramics are almost unknown, making identification of its sites through surface survey...

Knidos was renowned for its nude statue of the goddess Aphrodite. This book is about searching for Aphrodite, a memoire exploring the authorês involvement with the excavation of the huge city, while his own life was transformed from adolescent gaucheness...

This book aims at synthesizing the available archaeological evidence for the Bell Beaker phenomenon, a large archaeological culture which extends from Ireland to Poland and from southern Scandinavia to northern Maghreb, mostly during the second part of...

Reconstructing an actual, conceptual and documented Wiltshire landscapeThe main argument of this thesis is that the landscape and locality of Clarendon Forest and Park (some 6 km east of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England) were strongly influenced by the...

On the death of Dan Urman in 2004, his colleagues set about completing his unfinished manuscripts, including this volume: Rafid on the Golan (its ruins remain in a demilitarized zone controlled by United Nations forces), one of Dan Urman's last...

Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Liège, Belgium, 2-8 September 2001. Section 1Publication of the General Sessions and Posters from the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Liège, Belgium, 2-8 September 2001.   ...

This study focuses on an area which up until now has not been studied in any great detail, and this is mainly due to a lack of any major visible archaeological remains. This study takes a thematic approach, first listing previous research and models for...

An extensive study of city planning in the Greek Archaic colonies (Sicily and Southern Italy) from Hippodamus and beyond. The author sets out to consider the legacy of the great planner and those projects he may have contributed to. The first section of...

Kom el-Hisn is located near the western edge of the Nile delta, midway between Cairo and Alexandria, and about 13 km west of the Rosetta branch of the Nile. It is composed of primarily Old Kingdom deposits (Dynasties V and VI, ca. 2500-2290 BC) but the...

Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Liège, Belgium, 2-8 September 2001Colloque / Symposium 9.45 papers from the session on Atlantic Megaliths from Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Liège, Belgium, 2-8 September...

This study is the first gendered study of the prehistoric rock art of Naquane National Park in Valcamonica, northern Italy. Its purpose is to identify and describe gendered representations and imagery in the rock art of Naquane, in order to reconstruct...

With contributions by Caroline Cartwright, Rosa Ma Flores Ramírez, Catherine Liot,  Elizabeth López Rincón, Ma Teresa Ramírez Herrera and Gerardo Villanueva

The author presents a report on Canaanite animal husbandry practices, diet, butchery methods, and animal sacrificial rituals. This information comes primarily from faunal remains that were retrieved from Middle Bronze IIB/C (1800/1750-1550 B.C.) strata...

This volume is derived from a symposium entitled "Theory and Practice in Chinese Pleistocene Archaeology" at the 65th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology 2000, in Philadelphia, PA. The 12 papers include: Current Research in...

From the Early Minoan period to the Late Minoan IB destruction in Crete                                  

In contrast to traditional stereotypes of the prehispanic culture of the Chontals of Oaxaca, architectural sites and artifacts along the Pacific coast indicate that there were more complex societies, well integrated into southeastern Mesoamerican...

This study looks at the changing landscape of the Yorkshire Wolds from the Late Bronze Age up until the period prior to the Norman Conquest. This is a very large area so only a small section of this is studied in depth, namely the central Wolds area to...

This book grew out of a symposium session entitled "Continuity and Change: The Role of Analytical Scale in European Archaeology" for the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meetings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in April 2000. The basic...

Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit Monograph Series 3A summary of rescue excavations at the Romano-British Shrine site at Rocester, Staffordshire, dating from the late first to mid-second centuries AD. Parts of two enclosures identified as...

This work centres on one central question: should the passage from the Late Bronze II to the Iron I Age in Palestine, from the 13th to the 11th centuries BCE, be viewed, as is classically accepted, simply as a period of transition characterised by...

In this work, the author aims to arrive at a meaningful frame of reference for the earliest occupation of Eurasia. The basis for this endeavour, and the subject of the first part of this study, is a solid chronology of occupation founded on a critical...

Detailed report on rescue excavations on the Roman and Byzantine village of Sumaqa. The excavations unearthed remains of a synagogue, several residential areas, workshops, extraordinary oil and wine presses, and burial caves. All finds are discussed with...

This study is based on analysis of sandstone tools from thirty or so early Neolithic settlement sites from the Paris Basin, Hainaut and Hesbaye, dating to the Bandkeramik (Rubané) and Villeneuve-Saint-Germain cultures. Almost ten thousand objects,...

Acts of the Xth Session of the EAA Congress, Lyon September 2004This volume represents the proceedings (with later additions) of a session held at the EAA Congress, Lyon, in September 2004. The session looked at continuing exchanges between educators and...

Basal-looped spearheads were prevalent in the British Isles during the later part of the Middle Bronze Age. Their main period of use covered the Taunton and Penard industrial phases in Britain, and the contemporary Bishopsland phase in Ireland, dating to...

The manuscript which eventually came to be called "Domesday Book" is a product of the enterprise originally known as the "Descriptio totius Angliae", the survey carried out in 1086, twenty years after the Norman Conquest, by order of...

This book investigates for the first time the complex processes involved with the occurrence and development of Eneolithic and Bronze Age architecture over the extent of Azerbaijan. The study also investigates the important questions left unanswered in...

Papers from a Session held at the European Association of Archaeologists Ninth Annual Meeting in St. Petersburg 2003                      

This volume is the product of a Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference session (held at Lampeter, Wales, in December 2003) entitled Mentalités and Identities in Motion. Included here are all the papers held there, and more besides. The...

Excavation and Survey in the Parish of Ridge, Hertfordshire, undertaken by Archaeological Services and Consultancy LtdThis volume is a result of a combination of a series of separate fieldwork projects undertaken in the late 1990s and early 2000s brought...

The Peloponnese forms an approximate cultural province. The precise delimitation of a cultural province, even for a restricted archaeological period, is not always easy to define. Over a time-span of some three thousand years, which witnessed probably...

Despite the great fascination that the collapse of past civilizations holds for the public, the process of decreasing social complexity has received surprisingly little attention from archaeologists, especially when compared to the voluminous research on...

Merida was founded in the years immediately preceding the birth of Christ on the Roman crossroads linking Toledo and Lisbon, with Salamanca and Seville. Known at its peak as a miniature Rome, its monuments, temples, and public works make it the site of...

This volume presents the results of a statistical approach applied to assemblages of grave goods (and a use-wear analysis of the stone artefacts) found in the Neolithic settlements of Ca n'Isach (Girona, Spain), the storage pits of Bòbila...