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Select proceedings of the 5th University of Chester Archaeology Student Conference (31 January 2020) reflect on the shifting and conflicting meanin...

Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History (ASSAH) is an annual journal concerned with the archaeology and history of England and its neighbour...

A biography of Dr John Disney (1779-1857), the benefactor of the first chair in archaeology at a British university. He also donated his major coll...

The theme for the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference (CASA) 2019 was New Frontiers in Archaeology and this volume presents papers from...

Culture and Society at Lullingstone Roman Villa paints a picture of what life might have been like for the inhabitants of the villa in the late thi...

Proceedings of a 2020 symposium organised by students of the University of Siena (held online due to COVID-19). Papers consider many facets of arch...

This colouring book offers a short introduction to the world of the contemporary archaeologist, exploring new approaches and theories of investigat...

This volume aims to show networks of cultural interactions by focusing on the latest lithic studies from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans, bringing ...

Dedicated to Martin Bell (University of Reading), this book outlines how wetland and inland environments can be related and investigated using mult...

This volume gathers documentation, unpublished material and the principal results of studies, prospections, excavations and surveys carried out on ...

9 papers consider landscape transformations from a diachronic perspective. The volume addresses the landscape as a complex and dynamic entity chara...

17 papers take a holistic view of beekeeping archaeology (including honey, wax, associated products, hive construction, and trade) in one large int...

Description'Tanb r Long-Necked Lutes Along the Silk Road and Beyond' explores the origin, history, construction, and playing techniques of tanb rs,...

'In Context: the Reade Festschrift' is a collection of invited and peer-reviewed essays by friends and colleagues of Julian Edgeworth Reade, someti...

ODJ has a concerted focus on the Anglo-Welsh borderlands alongside wider themes, debates and investigations concerning boundaries and barriers, edg...

ODJ has a concerted focus on the Anglo-Welsh borderlands alongside wider themes, debates and investigations concerning boundaries and barriers, edg...

This volume presents a corpus and discussion of seventy-one Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy containers from forty-nine sites across England dating to the ...

This book attempts to show through documentary and archaeological evidence how Birmingham evolved from a village into its present role as the secon...

Engraved Gems and Propaganda in the Roman Republic and under Augustus deals with small, but highly captivating and stimulating artwork - engraved g...

The reconstruction of the technical systems of ceramic production and of its 'chaine operatoire' is a means of exploring certain social structures ...

This volume brings together the best presentations from the 8th and 9th Archaeology of the Douro Valley meetings, held in Avila (2018) and Astorga ...

Presents papers resulting from the EPNet project (Production and Distribution of Food during the Roman Empire: Economic and Political Dynamics) whi...

30 papers explore a wide range of topics such as women's voices in archaeological discourse; researching race and ethnicity across time; use of div...

DescriptionGreek myths abound in images of beauty and perfection: charming gods, attractive goddesses, and handsome heroes, all of them standards o...

Like previous series entries, this volume covers rock art research and management all over the world over a 5-year period, in this case 2015-19. Co...

14 papers reflect on how the wielders of power, be they religious, social or political, shape the discourses that justify their power within the fr...

Publisher: ArchaeopressAuthor(s): Kim (Director of the Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley) SheltonPublicati...

Twenty-eight contributions pay tribute to one of the most remarkable historians of ancient Greece, Professor P. J. Rhodes, to celebrate his life an...

The second volume of the biography of prominent Soviet archaeologist Aleksei P. Okladnikov (1908-1981) concentrates on his works in 1961-1981, when...

This volume is an archaeological exploration of the conflict landscapes encountered by volunteers of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civi...

Using over 400 colour figures of a diverse range of artefact types and archaeological periods from 50 countries worldwide, this book outlines the m...

This book relates three years (1921-1924) in the life of Gilbert Bagnani, a young Italian archaeologist in Greece, based on his letters to his moth...

This volume presents a report on the archaeological excavation of a small building on the Norfolk coast, locally known as 'Blakeney Chapel', in adv...

This book explores the subsistence strategies that ancient Mesoamericans implemented to survive and thrive in their environments. It discusses the ...

This is the first comprehensive synthesis of burial types, practices, and evidence for societal collapse in the growing field of bioarchaeology of ...

This book presents a detailed overview of the firearms used in Oman over the last four centuries. Portable firearms, rifles and cannons are all dis...

Lionel Sims has produced an influential body of work that has challenged existing narratives about British prehistoric monuments and provided innov...

SOMA 2016 focused on the archaeology of the Northern Black Sea; while rich in archaeological sites, the region is also subject to active industrial...

This concise dictionary is intended to be helpful in the reading of archaeological books and publications, and in the writing of papers and article...

This book, organised into 14 well-crafted chapters, charts the archaeology, folklore, heritage and landscape development of one of England's most e...

Mapping Doggerland documents the methodology and results of an innovative project to investigate a large area of the Southern North Sea, submerged ...

This book brings together specialists of the European Bronze and Iron Age and the Japanese Yayoi and Kofun periods for the first time to discuss bu...

Presenting the results of a decade-long archaeological investigation at Bar Pasture Farm, Pode Hole Quarry, Peterborough, this book represents one ...

Omani men carried personal weapons until relatively recently. Swords and daggers were part of daily life attire and are still worn in social events...

An atlas of English archaeology covering the period from the middle Bronze Age (c. 1500 BC) to Domesday Book (AD 1086), encompassing the Bronze and...

This volume publishes the first round of fieldwork and research (2008-2013) at Goeytepe, a key site for understanding the emergence and development...

This volume presents the results of archaeological work at the Neolithic site of Tinqueux 'la Haubette' (Marne) dated to the 'Blicquy/Villeneuve-Sa...

Growing out of a colloquium organised in Sao Paulo in March 2016, here Nine papers approach the potential of materiality in Ancient Egypt based on ...

This book examines spatialised practices of remembrance and its role in reshaping societies from prehistory to today; it presents a reflection on t...

This book collects and republishes 14 key academic works by Dai Morgan Evans FSA (1944-2017). Spanning early medieval studies, the management and c...

Offering a wide and expansive new treatment of the role water played in the lives of people across the Roman world, papers consider ports and their...

This study of K'awiil analyses one of the most important deities of the Maya pantheon, and allows us to approach the religious thought of this peop...

This book offers a groundbreaking analysis of Neolithic art and architecture in Orkney, focussing upon the incredible collection of hundreds of dec...

This volume is dedicated to the Archaeological Mission in Cyrenaica, starting with the reports and researches of the seasons from 2006 to 2008. The...

This study investigates the development of urbanism in the north-western provinces of the Roman empire. Key themes include continuity and discontin...

Drying kilns, corn-dryers and malting ovens are familiar features in post-Roman, Anglo-Saxon and medieval archaeology, yet few works of synthesis a...

Two decades of strontium isotope research on Neolithic European burials - reinforced by high-profile ancient DNA studies - has led to widespread in...

This volume assesses the importance and nature of the Assyrian presence in the kingdom of Hamat (northwest Syria) to determine whether there is a l...

A technological analysis of lithic assemblages from southern France and Northern Italy, this work aims to reconstruct the entire reduction sequence...

Contributions in honour of John J. Dobbins, Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology at the University of Virginia, offers new readings of archaeolog...

This book addresses perhaps the most famous episode in Classical mythology: the Wooden Horse of Troy. Through analysis of words, images and wrecks,...

Eight papers consider the neolithisation of the Iberian Peninsula; faunal exploitation in early Neolithic Italy; the economic and symbolic role of ...

Prof. Daniel Arsenault, a leading exponent of Canadian Shield rock art, sadly passed away in 2016. This book contains 14 thought-provoking chapters...

This book studies the archaeological record of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, surveying past excavations as well as recent research carried out ...

Studies on the Capsian culture have been considerably enriched in recent years, but have not yet been properly synthesised to establish the current...

Unlike official history, which takes long and impersonal strides through the past, this book describes individual human destinies that convey the s...

Description'Rethinking the Concept of 'Healing Settlements' Water, Cults, Constructions and Contexts in the Ancient World' brings together papers d...

Publisher: ArchaeopressAuthor(s): Dr Stephanie (Postdoctoral Researcher, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main) DoepperNumber of page...

This volume publishes accounts of archaeological exploration carried out in the Sudanese Eastern Desert. A pioneering programme of expeditions alon...

Antiquarian interest in the Roman period mosaics of Britain began in the 16th century. This book is the first to explore responses and attitudes to...