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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.

Viking Weapons and Warfare

A history of Viking Weapons & Warfare

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...

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...

Land of Water, City of the Dead - Religion and Cahokia's Emergence

Explores the embodiment of religion in the Cahokia land and how places create, make meaningful, and transform practices and beliefs

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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 ...

Missions to the Calusa

This compilation of historical documents includes letters, reports, and accounts written by Europeans during the colonization of Southwes...

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....

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...

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 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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Who Killed Jules Crevaux? - Murder in the Bolivian Chaco

The first book to explore the deaths of explorer Jules Crevaux and his crew from an Indigenous perspective. In 1882, the celebrated Frenc...

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...

The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age

The definitive book on what is known about the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene archaeological record in the Southeast

Boyne and Beyond - Essays in Appreciation of George Eogan

The UNESCO World Heritage site of Brú na Bóinne in the Boyne Valley is home to Ireland's finest passage tomb complexes of Knowth, Dowth a...

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

Wie blickte die griechisch-römische Antike auf typische Ungeziefertiere von Maus bis Mücke? Anhand dieser oft vernachlässigten Tiere legt...

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.

The Jaguar Within - Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art

An important new way of viewing the prehistoric art of the Americas, The Jaguar Within demonstrates that understanding a work of art¿s co...

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 Human Past - World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies

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

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...

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...

Working Women in Jordan - Education, Migration, and Aspiration

"Across the world as here in the US, education and economic opportunity often go hand in hand. But at the same time that education create...

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...

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...

Cultural Burning

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

Identity Studies in Archaeology