Archaeology

This is an inter-disciplinary study of pathways to regional rulership and territorial lordship in early post-Roman Britain which takes as its starting point the East Anglian royal centre at Rendlesham and its contexts. This book examines the origins...

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In Roman History in Roman poetry (the 19th volume of PLLS) distinguished international scholars explore aspects of how historical and historiographical concerns were represented in or affected by Roman poetry. The essays, ranging chronologically from...

Costume can reveal a wealth of information about an individual's identity within society. Dressing the Part looks at the ways individuals in the ancient Americas used clothing, hairstyle, and personal ornaments to express status and power, gender...

A study of the ancient practice of Andean head shaping and its cultural connotations.Book InformationISBN 9781477331514Author Matthew C. VelascoFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Texas PressPublisher University of Texas PressWeight(grams)...

The first collection to incorporate the current trends in foodways archaeology using the concept of cuisine.Book InformationISBN 9780817322205Author Susan M KooimanFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The...

Megiddo VII reports in meticulous detail the archaeological findings from two elite, interrelated tombs from the Late Bronze I period, both exceptionally preserved and richly furnished: Tomb 16/H/50, a monumental masonry-constructed chamber tomb from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884023500Author Philip J. ArnoldFormat HardbackPage Count 526Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...

A thoughtful consideration of the storytelling and science behind ancient DNA discoveries. In recent years, discoveries brought to light through analysis of ancient DNA-or aDNA-have made headlines around the world. While ancient DNA studies may appear...

This book provides an up-to-date account of the archaeology, history, economy, urbanism, art, and architecture of the North African region of Tripolitania during antiquity. The essays by international scholars outline current research and the most recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793643803Author Fumi ArakawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

Shropshire, as one of the contributors to this volume notes, is simultaneously remote and well-connected ... which also means it is often (but wrongly) overlooked and underestimated. This volume of collected papers - newly commissioned and bringing...

The Oxford Handbook of Early China brings 30 scholars together to cover early China from the Neolithic through Warring States periods (ca 5000-500BCE). The study is chronological and incorporates a multidisciplinary approach, covering topics from...

'The true and fascinating story of Easter Island and its amazing statues' KEN FOLLETTWhere did they come from? How did they get there? Why did they carve the island's colossal iconic statues - and how? What happened to the civilisation they created?These...

Drawing on more than 20 years of archaeological study and investigation at Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham by a team from the University of Liverpool (led by Professor Steven Snape), this book paints a nuanced picture of daily life not only at this liminal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426904Author John F CherryFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Experiencing Childhood in Ancient Athens uses literary sources and archaeological and iconographic evidence to investigate children's identities throughout the ninth to fourth centuries BCE in Athens and Attica, the city's surrounding hinterland. The...

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the craft of antler, bone, horn and ivory working as it evolved within the pre-Viking emporia of northern Europe. Over the past few decades, studies of early medieval European trading settlements, known as...

This edited volume brings together an international group of scholars to address the lives, roles, myths, mythology, and lived experiences of Viking women as well as the impacts of change on women during the turbulent period of the Viking Age. Through...

Monumental spaces were fundamental in the construction of power, political order and community identities in the ancient and pre-modern world. It was for this reason that authorities invested heavily in the construction of ideal landscapes of power that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934774Author Barry RafteryFormat HardbackPage Count 572Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell

A Medieval Life: William de Felton and Edlingham Castle, 1260-1324 is a biographical fusion of history, geography and archaeology with a focus on landscape and castles studies, set in the reigns of Edward I and II in the context of early attempts to...

Barrier Canyon Style (BCS), primarily composed of Indigenous American pictographs that have survived for thousands of years in the canyon country of eastern Utah and far western Colorado, is among the most visually stunning pictograph traditions in the...

This second of two volumes presents archaeological and scientific studies of a wide range of materials from the unusually long-occupied Bronze Age and Iron Age site of Cladh Hallan on South Uist in the Western Isles of Scotland. These include...

The River Great Ouse in Cambridgeshire has a long history of water milling, stretching back to at least the 10th century and possibly to the Roman period. The authors use remote sensing (LiDAR), cartographic analysis, fieldwork, documents (especially...

Delves into two controversies from the French archaeological world to illuminate the tension between the discipline's scientific ambitions and its hunger for media attention. For well over a century, from Heinrich Schliemann's sensational discoveries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426836Author Tiffany Earley-SpadoniFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813079257Author Meredith ReifschneiderFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of FloridaWeight(grams)...

This open access book explores the role of textiles in death to investigate questions into how the body was prepared before the funeral, how the body was seen and perceived by its relatives and community, and the role of textiles in its metamorphosis...

We now live in the Anthropocene, the first epoch of our own making. We have altered the Earth's atmosphere, landscapes, and bodies of water. The burning of fossil fuels has warmed the planet enough to change weather patterns, melt glaciers, and raise sea...

The benchmark first edition of Forensic Radiology, published in 1998, was a milestone in the forensic community - a bestseller throughout the world and a standard reference for practitioners and educators alike. Like its predecessor, Brogdon's Forensic...

Since the dawn of archaeology, the study of funerary contexts has provided invaluable insights into past societies, a trend that persists in contemporary research. Ongoing discoveries, site re-evaluations and advancements in techniques like DNA analysis...

Commons are an important part of the English landscape. Survivors from a once more extensive network otherwise eroded by the inexorable progress of enclosure, they provide a taste of wildness, crucial habitats for wildlife and valued spaces for...

This volume presents innovative studies of how the emerging disciplines of archaeology and ancient history shaped the modern Middle East, and how they were in turn shaped by competing visions and agendas of empires and new nations. The Middle East was a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803278551Author Riia Elina TimonenFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Archaeopress ArchaeologyPublisher Archaeopress ArchaeologyWeight(grams) 390g

This book adopts a comprehensive approach, drawing from archaeology, physical anthropology, human genetics, linguistics, cultural anthropology, ethnology and ethnography, to explore the Austronesian link of 'Liangdao Man,' and the origins of Austronesian...

About 90 percent of archaeological activity in North America is driven by private-sector development. In the process, archaeology is often used to undermine the interests of those whose material culture it allegedly seeks to preserve and interpret...

Examining the archaeological material of the modern period, over a period of the last 500 years, this open access book presents a series of case studies that challenges the fallacy of Nordic egalitarianism. The widening gap between rich and poor Western...

This book explores routes of interaction and exchange in the Southern Maya Area, a zone that had both short- and long-distance trade and whose natural resources were exploited by merchants and rulers, colonists and entrepreneurs during Olmec,...

Material culture is the physical trace of what was used to construct and define identities in the past, and is therefore a key source of evidence for archaeologists and ancient historians investigating ancient identities. The focus of this volume is...