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Gara - A Forgotten Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert

The Art of War in Ancient Assyria - The Sargonid Dynasty at War from Sargon II to Ashurbanipal (722 - 627BC)

In the 7th century BC, the Assyrians carved out the first great empire in history under the leadership of a line of powerful kings from t...

The World Before Us - How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins

'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusa...

Stone Circles in Britain

This fascinating picture of this important legacy from the prehistory of Britain will be of interest to all those who have seen and visit...

Islands and Cultures - How Pacific Islands Provide Paths toward Sustainability

A uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and h...

Mitra-Varuna - An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty

A classic text that develops one prong of DumÃ(c)zilâEUR(TM)s tripartite hypothesis of Indo-European tribes: the sacred sovereign. Â Geor...

Viking Weapons and Warfare

A history of Viking Weapons & Warfare

Buried - An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Tender, fascinating … Lucid and illuminating’ Robert Macfarlane Funerary rituals show us what people thought a...

Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic

By bringing together in one place specific objects, materials, and features indicating ritual, religious, or magical belief used by peopl...

The Little Book of Palaeontology - The Pocket Guide to Our Fossilized Past

This illuminating little book will introduce you to palaeontology, the study of fossilized animals and plants. Discover the key themes an...

Religions of Rome

This book presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world from the early Republic to the late Empire.

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...

Scarabs and Cylinders with Names - Illustrated by the Egyptian Collection in University College, London

This early work by the British archaeologist, Flinders Petrie, was originally published in 1917 and we are now republishing it with a bra...

Footmarks - A Journey Into Our Restless Past

'Lucid, poetic and fascinating' ALICE ROBERTS 'Engaging, authoritative and full of fascinating stories of the past' RAY MEARS 'A gentle, ...

The Mastery and Uses of Fire in Antiquity

The technological achievements that make contemporary society possible are the result of some ten thousand years of development of the in...

X Marks the Spot - The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries

'Fascinating' GREG JENNER 'I couldn't put it down' JANINA RAMIREZ 'Fabulous' NATALIE HAYNES 'Alive with the spirit of adventure' RANULPH ...

Agricultural Reason in the Shadow of Subsistence Capitalism - A Rural Ontology from Western India

Analysis of an agrarian society confronted with capitalism. This collection of essays on early 1980s India is one of the few anthropologi...

Becoming Somebody Else - Blackouts, Addiction, and Agency amongst London's Homeless

A study of homelessness and addiction exploring the void of drug-induced blackout and its impact on identity and time. What does it mean ...

Life at the Center - Haitians and Corporate Catholicism in Boston

"One could read Life at the Center multiple times and, with each reading, encounter new dimensions. Erica Caple James's work is exception...

War Virtually - The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future

"González's War Virtually expertly covers an incredible breadth of nuanced topics, from US policy on autonomous weapons to the Pentagon's...

Critical Public Archaeology - Confronting Social Challenges in the 21st Century

Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critica...

An Engraved Landscape: Rock Carvings in the Wadi Al-Ajal, Libya - 2 Volume Set

catalogue and analysis of Libyan rock art

Missions to the Calusa

This compilation of historical documents includes letters, reports, and accounts written by Europeans during the colonization of Southwes...

Excavations in and Around Mound 1, Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, Mexico - Paper No 87 Volume 87

Chiapa de Corzo is the Alpha and Omega of New World Archaeological Foundation (NWAF) research in Chiapas, Mexico, and Mound 1 in the Sout...

Making Sense - Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal

"Making Sense delves into the heart of what it means for people to understand each other when they cannot take communication for granted....

Subverted Kinship - Nurturing and Inhabiting Gender in Amerindian Philosophy

Through a rich narrative ethnography of domestic life, this book explores the philosophy of social relations among the Guna (Cuna), an Am...

Here and Now at Historic Sites - Pupils and Guides Experiencing Heritage

The study explores the meaning-making of cultural heritage in school field trips to five sites in the region Östergötland in Sweden. It t...

Royal Inscriptions on Clay Cones from Ashur now in Istanbul

The texts presented here were discovered by a German expedition to Ashur, capital of the Assyrians, more than half a century ago. They ha...

Quinine's Remains - Empire's Medicine and the Life Thereafter

"Written in a deeply engaging and accessible style, this pathbreaking book explores the world of plantation laborers, whose voices are ei...

Celtic from the West 3 - Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages -- Questions of Shared Language

The third volume in the influential Celtic from the West series questions the accepted status quo on the development and spread of Celtic...

We, Hominids - An anthropological detective story

The Dutch bestseller Nominated for Le Prix Nicolas Bouvier 'A masterclass in storytelling, exploring who we are and where we came from' D...

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...

Lookout Cave - The Archaeology of Perishable Remains on the Northern Plains

This fully illustrated volume sheds new light on Plains culture and the centuries old use of the well-hidden space at Lookout Cave.

So Much Stuff - How Humans Discovered Tools, Invented Meaning, and Made More of Everything

How humans became so dependent on things and how this need has grown dangerously out of control. Over three million years ago, our ancien...

Our Oldest Companions - The Story of the First Dogs

The unique relationship between dogs and humans has had huge evolutionary consequences, changing the physical, behavioral, genetic, and e...

The Pandemic Workplace - How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office

A provocative book arguing that the workplace is where we learn to live democratically. In The Pandemic Workplace, anthropologist Ilana G...

Futures after Progress - Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore

"How do people live in a time after promises of progress have revealed themselves to be empty? In Futures after Progress, anthropologist ...

Vermin in Graeco-Roman Antiquity - An Imaginary of Animals In and Out of Place

Cultural Burning

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

The Naked Neanderthal

In this acclaimed bestseller, an explorer and Neanderthal hunter takes us on a riveting journey of discovery 'With the style of a poet an...

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...

Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California

The influx of Spanish, Russian, and then American colonists into Alta California between 1769 and 1834 challenged both Native and non-Nat...

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...

An Examination of Prehistoric Stone Bracers from Britain

This volume present a detailed study of the thin, usually rectangular, pieces of pierced fine stone that occur in inhumation graves of Be...

Reconstructing Olduvai - The Behavior of Early Humans at David's Site

Reconstructing Olduvai: The Behavior of Early Humans at David's Site provides the necessary information for future generations of archaeo...

The Octagon of Arsinoë IV in Ephesos - A Ptolemaic Queen's tomb at the transition from a Hellenistic to a Roman Imperial city

Folgt man antiken Quellen, dann veranlasste Kleopatra ihren Geliebten Marcus Antonius im Jahr 41 v. Chr., ihre jüngere Schwester und Thro...

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...

Apalachicola Valley Archaeology, Volume 2 - The Late Woodland Period Through Recent History

Synthesizes the archaeology of the Apalachicola-lower Chattahoochee Valley region of northwest Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest ...

The Human Past - World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies

A more diverse author team brings a fresh perspective to a comprehensive text

Truth and Power in American Archaeology

Key writings of Alice Beck Kehoe provide students and scholars of anthropology an overview of methodological and ethical issues in Americ...

Conquering the Ocean - The Roman Invasion of Britain

This book provides an authoritative new narrative of the Roman conquest of Britain, from the two campaigns of Julius Caesar up until the ...

Kretek Capitalism - Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia

"At once illuminating and disconcerting, Kretek Capitalism offers an important critique of how governments and corporations still collude...

The Snettisham Hoards

First complete publication of one of the most important Iron Age sites in Europe at Snettisham, Norfolk. It will be essential reading for...