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The Lost Archive - Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue

"The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909-1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cai...

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...

Ur - The City of the Moon God. Archaeological Histories

The ancient Mesoptamian city of Ur was a Sumerian city state which flourished as a centre of trade and civilisation between 2800-2000 BCE...

Man sieht nur, was man weiß. Man weiß nur, was man sieht - Globalhistorische Perspektiven auf interkulturelle Phänomene der Mobilität./Festschrift für Hermann Parzinger zum 65. Geburtstag

Die Festschrift enthält ein Vorwort der Reihenherausgeber, ein Geleitwort, ein Schriftenverzeichnis des Jubilars, 47 Aufsätze und ein Ver...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Stone Circles - A Field Guide

The definitive guide to the stone circles of Britain and Ireland

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...

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...

The Middle Helladic Pottery

Mapping and Historical Archaeology - Beyond (Within, Through) the Grid

This book explores the intersections of mapping and historical archaeology and the ways in which mapping can generate new archaeological ...

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 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)....

Law in Light - Priestesses, Priests, and the Revitalization of Akan Spirituality in the United States and Ghana

"Brilliantly exploring spiritual terrains and orders, Lauren Coyle Rosen, in conjunction with Akan keepers of sacred knowledge, soul-craf...

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 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...

The Archaeology of Amazonia - A Human History

An examination of the untold human history of the Amazon rainforest, from earliest colonization to the present day.

Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity - Volume 1: Thematic Perspectives

This book presents current work on the archaeology of burial and memorial in late antiquity, with insights from excavation, science, and ...

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...

Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity Set

These books present current work on the archaeology of burial and memorial in late antiquity, with insights from excavation, science, and...

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

Argues for the prominence of Aztatlán culture in Postclassic Mesoamerica

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...

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...

Identity Studies in Archaeology

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...

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 ...

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...

Sacred Southwestern Landscapes - Archaeologies of Religious Ecology

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

How to Love a Rat - Detecting Bombs in Postwar Cambodia

"This inventive and beautiful ethnography offers powerful insights into the multispecies worlds created by warfare. Darcie DeAngelo's mov...

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.

Unruly Heritage - Archaeologies of the Anthropocene

According to UNESCO's definition, heritage is 'our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generatio...

Late Babylonian Administrative and Legal Texts, Concerning Craftsmen, from the Eanna Archive

More than three hundred previously unpublished texts from the Yale Babylonian Collection

Live Stock and Dead Things - The Archaeology of Zoopolitics between Domestication and Modernity

Reconceptualizes human-animal relationships and their political significance in ancient and modern societies. In Live Stock and Dead Thin...

Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity - Volume 2: Regional Perspectives

This book presents current work on the archaeology of burial and memorial in late antiquity, by region, from Britain to Egypt, looking at...

Forensic Anthropology Laboratory Manual

This manual provides students in academic lab courses with hands-on experience of the major processes of forensic anthropology. Designed ...

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...

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...

Aegeomania - Modern Reimaginings of the Aegean Bronze Age

This Element provides an overview of Aegeomania: the fascination, sometimes bordering on the obsession, with the Aegean Bronze Age, which...

Decolonizing Anthropology - An Introduction

Decolonization has been a buzzword in anthropology for decades. This groundbreaking volume offers not only an anthropology of decolonizat...

Biotraffic - Medicines and Environmental Governance in the Afterlives of Apartheid

"At last! A book that engages with the contradictions of access and benefit sharing, and its (neglected) embeddedness in the politics of ...

Wicked Problems for Archaeologists - Heritage as Transformative Practice

Can archaeologists help solve the 'Wicked Problems' that the world faces, such as climate change, conflict resolution, and social injusti...

Ayia Irini Periods I-III - The Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Settlements: Part 2: The Architecture and Stratigraphy

Continuing the work of publishing the excavations at the site of Ayia Irini on the Cycladic island of Keos, this volume focuses on the ar...

People of Ancient Daunia - Voicing the Statue-Stelae

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the statue-stelae of Early Iron Age Daunia (north Apulia, Italy), a group of stone slabs, each i...

Standing on the Edge of Being - Scotland 1850 to COP 26

Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history ...

Horton Kingsmead Quarry - Volume 1

Excavation at Kingsmead Quarry, Horton, Berkshire, has revealed a multi-period landscape with occupation dating back over 12,000 years. A...

From the Ground to the Sky - Ten Years of Skyscape Archaeology

Skyscape Archaeology, only recognised as such in 2014, as a method of investigating the connections between the ground and the sky, broug...

Creation and Separation - A Chinese Emperor's Six Stone Horses

"Taizong (Li Shimin), 2nd emperor of the Tang Dynasty, commissioned six statues of his favorite warhorses to be carved in stone and serve...

The Botanic Age - Planting the Seeds of Human Evolution

Identifying a period before the Stone Age that represents a key turning point in human evolution, The Botanic Age provides a fascinating ...

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...