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Contributor(s): Author: Joyce A. TyldesleyAuthor: Julian HeathSome of the most interesting and entertaining myths and legends from Ancient Egypt ar...

The chronological disjuncture, LBK longhouses have widely been considered to provide ancestral influence for both rectangular and trapezoidal long ...

DescriptionGreek Colonization in Local Context takes a fresh look at Greek colonies around Europe and the Black Sea. The emphasis is on cultural in...

DescriptionBefore the 1970s, discoveries of Roman material in Guernsey consisted of a few chance finds of coins, plus a handful of sherds of samian...

Over the past 25 years, major rock art research has been performed in the North American eastern woodlands - in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentuc...

Network theory and methodologies have become central to exploring and explaining social, economic, and political relationships and connections in p...

The construction of urban defences was one of the hallmarks of the late Roman and late-antique periods (300-600 AD) throughout the western and east...

Trinacria, the ancient name for Sicily extending back to Homeric Greek, has understandably been the focus of decades of archaeological research. Re...

All farming in prehistoric Europe ultimately came from elsewhere in one way or another, unlike the growing numbers of primary centers of domesticat...

This volume combines a comprehensive exploration of all vessel glass from middle and late Anglo-Saxon England and a review of the early glass with ...

The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse ...

DescriptionThe Earliest Europeans explores the early origins of man in Europe through the perspective of 'a year in the life' how hominins in the L...

The book delivers a history from below for the first half of Egyptian history covering the earliest settlements, state formation and the pyramid ag...

Karia and the Dodekanese, Vol. II, presents new research that highlights cultural interrelations and connectivity in the Southeast Aegean and weste...

The papers in Karia and the Dodekanese Vol. I focus on regional developments and interregional relations in western Asia Minor and the Dodekanese d...

The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful ancient textiles series are the relationships between fiber resour...

This book investigates the complex relationship between funerary treatment and wider social dynamics through a contextual analysis of human skeleta...