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Overcoming Ptolemy - The Revelation of an Asian World Region

Studies on global metageography are enjoying a revival, and in no way is this better referenced than against the geo-world system bequeat...

Veröffentlichungen aus dem Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum / Laurion - Interdisciplinary Approaches to an Ancient Greek Mining Landscape. Including Selected Papers Presented at the International Conference 'Ari and the Laurion from Prehistoric to Modern Times', Bochum, November 1st-3rd 2019

The cultural and historical significance of the Laurion as well as its exceptional position as one of the major sources of silver, lead a...

The Naked Neanderthal

A PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR In this acclaimed bestseller, an explorer and Neanderthal hunter takes us on a riveting journey of discovery ...

The Rough Guide to Tutankhamun - The King - The Treasure - The Dynasty

Who was Tutankhamun? Prom the opulence and riches of the royal court at Thebes, to the cult of the god Amun and the great heresy of Akhen...

Killers of the Flower Moon

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered be...

The legacy of Saint Stephen

Az elsősorban nem magyar olvasóknak szóló kötet első királyunk államalkotó tevékenységének azokat az elemeit emeli ki, amelyek révén tört...

From the Hunt to the Cave - Neanderthal Subsistence at K¿lna Cave during the Middle Palaeolithic Taubachian Phase: Analyses of the Faunal Remains from Level 11

Kulna is one of the largest cave sites in eastern Europe and contains evidence of repeated occupations by Neanderthals and modern humans....

Stonehenge - Sighting the Sun

This beautifully illustrated book shines new light on this most famous of ancient monuments, and is the first in-depth study of archaeolo...

Metropoleis in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt to Septimius Severus

This is the first monograph of metropoleis in Egypt from the Hellenistic age until high Empire. Metropoleis were capital units of nomes o...

Return from the World - Economic Growth and Reverse Migration in Brazil

"An anthropologist's investigation of why some Brazilians choose to leave behind a booming economy and return to their villages. In Retur...

In the Land of Ninkasi - A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia

In the Land of Ninkasi tells the story of the world's first great beer culture. In this authoritative but light-hearted account, archaeol...

The Making of the Middle Sea - A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World

An award-winning history of the Mediterranean from prehistory to the Classical world reissued with an extended new preface by the author.

The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World - The Great Monuments and How They Were Built

Expands on the traditional 'Seven Wonders' to examine an impressive number of ancient marvels from around the globe. How were the ancient...

Zainab's Traffic - Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders

"Zainab's Traffic is an exceptionally creative and multifaceted ethnography of a critical Muslim pilgrimage route across multiple nations...

The Archaeology of Southern Africa

"In this new edition, Peter Mitchell provides a comprehensive synthesis of Southern Africa's archaeology over more than three million yea...

Cultural Burning

This Element addresses a burning question - how can archaeologists best identify and interpret cultural burning, the controlled use of fi...

Carthage

This book traces the formation of the archaeological site of Carthage and how it re-emerged in the minds of European antiquarians and tra...

A Practitioner's Guide to Public Archaeology - Intentional Programming for Effective Outreach

This book walks you through the process from planning to implementation to assessment, with case studies and examples in each chapter. Le...

The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt - History, Archaeology and Society

"For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynas...

The Archaeology of Amazonia - A Human History

"This open access book looks at the archaeology of Amazonia. Reaching back to the earliest colonization of the Amazon basin during the la...

Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity - An Anthropology of Science

Objects of knowledge exist within material, immaterial, and conceptual worlds. Once the world is conceived from the perspective of others...

Exploring Archaeology - Archaeology as Humanities

This book looks inward to reveal and analyze problems in archaeology itself. The subject explored in this volume include humanistic attri...

Negotiating Migrations - The Archaeology and Politics of Mobility

"This open-access volume uses archaeological case studies mainly from the European Neolithic, but also from the Pacific, the US Southwest...

The Colossus of Rhodes - Archaeology of a Lost Wonder

In The Colossus of Rhodes, the first comprehensive examination of the Colossus, Nathan Badoud mobilises a large array of sources, ranging...

Writing Matters - Italy in the 1st Millennium Bce

The epigraphy of 1st-millennium-BC Italy has been studied for many years, but these studies have largely concentrated on the languages en...

From Midas to Cyrus and Other Stories - Papers on Iron Age Anatolia in Honour of Geoffrey and Françoise Summers

The period of Anatolian history between the death of the semi-legendary king Midas of Gordion ca. 700 BC and the advent of the Achaemenid...

The Highlands and Islands of Scotland - A New History

In rich and telling detail, Alistair Moffat relates the remarkable story of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. The north is being ren...

The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara

Texts and images from the Book of the Dead were widely used to decorate the walls of tombs during Egypt's New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BCE)....

Reassessing the Aztatlán World - Ethnogenesis and Cultural Continuity in Northwest Mesoamerica

Argues for the prominence of Aztatlán culture in Postclassic Mesoamerica

Stone Circles - A Field Guide

The definitive guide to the stone circles of Britain and Ireland

Muqarnas, an Annual on Visual, Material, and Architectural Cultures of the Islamic World - Fortieth Anniversary Volume

The fortieth-anniversary volume addresses the historical trajectory of Muqarnasand its sister series, Muqarnas Supplements, against the b...

Sacred Southwestern Landscapes - Archaeologies of Religious Ecology

"Archaeological investigations into the relationship between religion and landscape across the North American Southwest"--

The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization

"The Indus civilization in South Asia (c. 3200 - 1500BC) was one of the most important Old World Bronze Age cultures. This study offers n...

Identity Studies in Archaeology

Knowledge Discovery from Archaeological Materials

This volume highlights the employment within archaeology of classification methods developed in the field of chemometrics, artificial int...

Sinister and Righteous - Interpreting Left and Right in the Archaeological Record

In recent years, archaeologists have begun to consider the potential for left and right positioning of elements in the material record to...

Glorification Spells from a Priestly Milieu in Ancient Egypt

Glorification Spells from a Priestly Milieu in Ancient Egypt presents the first comprehensive edition of a collection of glorification sp...

Guide to Palaeolithic Artifacts and Features of the Americas

This book is the go-to reference guide for stone, bone, antler, ivory, and wooden artifacts of the palaeolithic era in the Americas.

Nautical Archaeology

"Originally published as L'archâeologie navale by Editions Errance/Actes Sud (Arles, France) in 2005, this new revised and expanded editi...

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Diet

Presenting research on the evolution and diversity of human diet from earliest ancestors to modern days, this Handbook is divided into 3 ...

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Experimental Approaches to Roman Archaeology

This volume is the first comprehensive overview of Roman experimental archaeology, exploring its key themes, methodologies and applicatio...