Archaeology Books

How far has the Western intellect come since Homer and the earliest Greek philosophers? Nearly three millennia have passed and in our own eyes we have made enormous progress since those times, especially in the last five centuries. But this, of course,...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

London Life At The Police Courts is a historical non-fiction book written by W. H. Watts in 1864. The book provides a detailed account of the daily proceedings and cases heard at the police courts in London during the mid-19th century. The author, who...

State And Family In Early Rome is a historical book written by Charles William Louis Launspach in 1908. The book explores the relationship between the state and the family in the early Roman civilization. It delves into the social, political, and...

Prestonpans and Vicinity: Historical, Ecclesiastical, and Traditional is a book written by P. McNeill in 1902. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the history, culture, and traditions of Prestonpans, a small town in Scotland, and its...

Stonehenge And Its Barrows (1876) is a book written by William Long. It is a detailed study of the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge and the surrounding burial mounds or barrows. The book covers the history of the site, its construction, and the many...

Prehistoric archaeologists cannot observe their human subjects nor can they directly access their subjects' ideas. Both must be inferred from the remnants of the material objects they made and used. In recent decades this incontrovertible fact has...

Inclusive Visions explores the embodied experience, situated interactions and identities of young blind and partially sighted visitors in the museum space. It investigates how they make meaning and form identities by physically encountering objects,...

Dying Young explores childhood morbidity and mortality during the 1st to 5th century AD. The detailed osteological analysis of 953 non-adult (0 - 17 years) skeletons from 15 sites paints a rich picture of the lived realities of Romano-British children in...

Seit der 5. Dynastie wird die Geburt eines Kälbchens und dessen Säugung auf den Wandreliefs altägyptischer Gräber dargestellt. Auch Grabbeigaben und Amulette bilden die Geburt ab. Dabei lässt sich ein für Ägypten typisches Brauchtum erkennen, das...

Este libro se centra en el estudio del comportamiento humano magdaleniense. Se han perseguido dos objetivos fundamentales. En primer lugar, la creación de una base de datos y de nuevos códigos alfanuméricos, aplicables a los estudios arqueozoológicos. En...

The book is the result of a three-year investigation on the Aeolian Islands, a volcanic archipelago consisting of seven islands in north-eastern Sicily, Italy. The author provides new information on the use of vegetal resources and exploitation of the...

Both the perceived successes and failures of the Maya are often linked to their relationship with the local environment and their response to episodes of climate change over a period of nearly 2000 years. However, our understanding of human responses to...

Archaeologists consider Puerto Rico a key geographical location for categorizing native occupations in the Caribbean. However, lack of funding, minimal focus on petroglyph research, and limited historical records has reduced Puerto Rico's contributions...

This book includes papers from a congress that took place at the University of Leuven from the 19th to 21st September, 2005.

The British chariot burials, mainly concentrated in East Yorkshire, reveal a strong link with continental Europe, which has led some scholars to believe that this burial rite was introduced by immigrants from northern Gaul. Other scholars do not accept...

This study seeks insights into the peoples and traditions of the Tanzanian coast, East Africa, during the 6th to 15th century through the application of archaeological survey and excavation techniques in the vicinity of the two important trading centres...

Religious manuscripts from ancient and early colonial Mexico offer a direct pathway into indigenous worldviews through the uniquely Mesoamerican medium of pictography. During the thousands of years preceding Spanish invasion, a complex calendrical system...

This book - a continuation of the author's previous BAR work "A Categorisation and Examination of Egyptian Ships and Boats from the Rise of the Old to the End of the Middle Kingdoms" (BAR Publishing 2358, 2012) - brings together disparate strands of the...

Arqueología del Medio Asón (Cantabria, España)

A comprehensive study of all known fortifications in Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece has so far been lacking. This work attempts to fill the gap and, through individual examinations, to arrive at a complete picture of the development of these sites in...

The stylised naked female figures carved in stone and wood found upon medieval churches and tower houses, known as sheela-na-gigs, have long attracted both academic and popular attention. Consequently, a diverse body of literature on the subject exists,...

A celebration of Patricia Smith's distinguished career, the papers presented in this Festschrift focus on a region and research topics that have fascinated and challenged her since her student days. The broad intellectual and geographic range covered by...

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,...

Purchase Of Women, Part 1: The Great Economic Blunder is a book written by Elizabeth Blackwell and first published in 1887. The book is a scathing critique of the legal and economic system that allowed men to purchase women for marriage, a practice that...

""M�����moire sur les corv�����es, 1785"" est un livre �����crit par J. Percheron La Galaisi�����re. Il s'agit d'un document historique important qui traite des corv�����es, un syst�����me de travail forc����� impos����� aux paysans sous l'Ancien...

Dunno's Originals, Part 1 is a book written by an author named Dunno and was first published in 1821. The book is a historical account of the antiquities of Dunstable, a town located in the county of Bedfordshire in England, and its surrounding areas...

Le livre intitul����� ""Etude sur les mis�����res de l'Anjou aux XV et XVI si�����cles"" a �����t����� �����crit par Joubert, Andr����� en 1886. Ce livre est une �����tude approfondie sur les conditions de vie difficiles dans la r�����gion de l'Anjou en...

Das Buch ""Das Patois in der Umgebung von Baume-Les-Dames (1888)"" von Otto Martin ist eine linguistische Studie �����ber das Patois, eine regionale Sprachform, die in der Umgebung von Baume-Les-Dames gesprochen wird. Martin untersucht die Sprache in...

Memorials of London and London Life, in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries is a historical book written by Henry Thomas Riley. The book provides a detailed account of London and its people during the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth...

""Marriage Licenses From The Official Note Books Of The Archdeaconry Of Suffolk: Deposited At The Ipswich Probate Court, 1613-1674"" is a book compiled by the Church of England Archdeaconry in 1904. The book contains a collection of marriage licenses...

This volume seeks to foreground a “borderless” history and geography of South, Southeast, and East Asian littoral zones that would be maritime-focused, and thereby explore the ancient connections and dynamics of interaction that favoured the...

Die in der Nordägäis gelegene, relativ unbekannte griechische Insel Lemnos hat eine großartige vorgeschichtliche Vergangenheit vorzuweisen. Vor 5000 Jahren entwickelte sich hier eine bedeutende Hochkultur mit eindrucksvollen Stadtanlagen, mächtigen...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Archäologie, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Rund 500 Jahre Urgeschichte von etwa 1300/1200 bis 800 v. Chr. passieren in dem Taschenbuch Die Schweiz in der Spätbronzezeit in Wort und Bild Revue. Es befasst sich...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Archäologie, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Rund 700 Jahre Urgeschichte von etwa 2300 bis 1600 v. Chr. passieren in dem Taschenbuch Die Schweiz in der Frühbronzezeit in Wort und Bild Revue. Es befasst sich mit den...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Archäologie, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Rund 400 Jahre Urgeschichte von etwa 1600 bis 1200 v. Chr. passieren in dem Taschenbuch Österreich in der Mittelbronzezeit in Wort und Bild Revue. Es befasst sich mit...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Archäologie, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Geradezu schlagartig haben in der Jungsteinzeit vor rund 5.500 Jahren die Ackerbauern und Viehzüchter in Nordwestdeutschland eine völlig neue Bestattungssitte übernommen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Archäologie, Note: 2,0, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Vorderasiatische Archäologie), Veranstaltung: Mittelseminar: Kilikien - Archäologie einer...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Archäologie, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Behandelt werden in diesem Vortrags Skriptum die wichtigsten griechischen Feste wie die Panathenäen, die Panhellenischen Spiele und die dionysischen Feste. Der...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Archäologie, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Als die bedeutendste und fundreichste Kulturstufe der Neanderthaler in der mittleren Altsteinzeit gilt das Moustérien vor etwa 125.000 bis 40.000 Jahren, das in Europa,...

Scientific analysis of ancient ceramic materials is a core topic in archaeological studies. This book provides a concise introduction into the critical aspects of analytical pottery studies and demonstrates their significance with four detailed case...