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The Chinese Neolithic: Trajectories to Early States by Li Liu 9780521811842
RRP: £98.99£85.36This book studies the formation of complex societies in prehistoric China during the Neolithic and early state periods, c. 7000-1500 BC. Archaeological materials are interpreted through anthropological perspectives, using systematic analytic methods in... -
The Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asia by Himanshu Prabha Ray 9780521804554
RRP: £97.99£88.31Prior to European expansion, communities of the Indian subcontinent had a strong maritime orientation. In this new archaeological study, Himanshu Prabha Ray explores seafaring activity, religious travel and political economy in this ancient period. By... -
The Early Neolithic in Greece: The First Farming Communities in Europe by Catherine Perles 9780521801812
RRP: £84.99£76.51Farmers made a sudden and dramatic appearance in Greece around 7000 BC, bringing with them new ceramics and crafts, and establishing settled villages. They were Europe's first farmers, and their settlements provide the link between the first agricultural... -
The Archaeology of Contact in Settler Societies by Tim Murray 9780521796828
RRP: £38.99£33.66Several decades of research into the archaeology of contact in North America have laid the foundations for the global exploration of the archaeology of European colonization. It is significant, however, that archaeologists, unlike historians and... -
Human Evolution and the Origins of Hierarchies: The State of Nature by Benoit Dubreuil 9780521769488
RRP: £90.00£72.17In this book, Benoit Dubreuil explores the creation and destruction of hierarchies in human evolution. Combining the methods of archaeology, anthropology, cognitive neuroscience and primatology, he offers a natural history of hierarchies from the point... -
The Colonial Caribbean: Landscapes of Power in Jamaica's Plantation System by James A. Delle 9780521767705
RRP: £75.00£61.56The Colonial Caribbean is an archaeological analysis of the Jamaican plantation system at the turn of the nineteenth century. Focused specifically on coffee plantation landscapes and framed by Marxist theory, the analysis considers plantation landscapes... -
Greeks and Barbarians by Kostas Vlassopoulos 9780521764681
RRP: £85.00£67.65This book is an ambitious synthesis of the social, economic, political and cultural interactions between Greeks and non-Greeks in the Mediterranean world during the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods. Instead of traditional and static... -
Organizing Bronze Age Societies: The Mediterranean, Central Europe, and Scandanavia Compared by Timothy K. Earle 9780521764667
RRP: £75.00£67.65The Bronze Age was a formative period in European history when the organisation of landscapes, settlements, and economy reached a new level of complexity. This book presents the first in-depth, comparative study of household economy and settlement in... -
The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, AD 271-855 by Hendrik W. Dey 9780521763653
RRP: £105.00£82.41This book explores the relationship between the city of Rome and the Aurelian Wall during the six centuries following its construction in the 270s AD, a period when the city changed and contracted almost beyond recognition, as it evolved from imperial... -
Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia: Long-Term Histories by Kathleen D. Morrison 9780521815727
RRP: £90.00£72.57In both South and Southeast Asia, many upland groups make a living - in whole or part - through gathering and hunting, producing not only subsistence goods but commodities destined for regional and even world markets. These forager-traders have had an... -
Order, Legitimacy, and Wealth in Ancient States by Janet Richards 9780521776714
RRP: £37.99£32.28Three terms, Order, Legitimacy and Wealth, delineate a comparative approach to ancient civilizations initially developed by John Baines, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford, and Norman Yoffee, Professor of Archaeology and Near Eastern... -
Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes: The Archaeology of Public Buildings by Jerry D. Moore 9780521675635
RRP: £39.99£33.26In this 1996 volume, Jerry D. Moore discusses public architecture in the context of the cultural, political and religious life of the pre-hispanic Andes. Archaeologists have invested enormous effort in excavating and documenting prehistoric buildings,... -
The Archaeology of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa by Timothy Insoll 9780521651714
RRP: £116.00£104.66This is the first general study of the impact of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa. Timothy Insoll charts the historical background as well as the archaeological evidence attesting to the spread of Islam across the Sudan, Ethiopia, Eastern Africa, Southern... -
Art and the Early Greek State by Michael Shanks 9780521602853
RRP: £30.99£26.43Widely known as an innovative figure in contemporary archaeology, Michael Shanks has written a challenging contribution to recent debates on the emergence of the Greek city states in the first millennium BC. He interprets the art and archaeological... -
The Abandonment of Settlements and Regions: Ethnoarchaeological and Archaeological Approaches by Catherine M. Cameron 9780521574693
RRP: £38.99£33.26All archaeological sites have been abandoned, but people abandoned sites in many different ways, and for different reasons. What they did when leaving a settlement, structure, or activity area had a direct effect on the kind and quality of the cultural... -
The Chaco Anasazi: Sociopolitical Evolution in the Prehistoric Southwest by Lynne Sebastian 9780521574686
RRP: £36.99£31.31In the tenth century AD, a remarkable cultural development took place in the harsh and forbidding San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico. From small-scale, simply organised, prehistoric Pueblo societies, a complex and socially differentiated political... -
Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes: The Archaeology of Public Buildings by Jerry D. Moore 9780521553636
RRP: £90.00£72.57In this 1996 volume, Jerry D. Moore discusses public architecture in the context of the cultural, political and religious life of the pre-hispanic Andes. Archaeologists have invested enormous effort in excavating and documenting prehistoric buildings,... -
Bad Year Economics: Cultural Responses to Risk and Uncertainty by Paul Halstead 9780521611923
RRP: £44.99£39.11Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Demography in Archaeology by Andrew T. Chamberlain 9780521593670
RRP: £75.00£63.71Demography in Archaeology, first published in 2006, is a review of current theory and method in the reconstruction of populations from archaeological data. Starting with a summary of demographic concepts and methods, the book examines historical and... -
Style and Society in Dark Age Greece: The Changing Face of a Pre-literate Society 1100-700 BC by James Whitley 9780521545853
RRP: £36.99£31.31In this innovative study, James Whitley examines the relationship between the development of pot style and social changes in the Dark Age of Greece (1100-700 BC). He focuses on Athens where the Protogeometric and Geometric styles first appeared. He... -
Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World by Elizabeth M. Brumfiel 9780521545846
RRP: £32.99£28.38Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Domestic Ceramic Production and Spatial Organization: A Mexican Case Study in Ethnoarchaeology by Philip J. Arnold 9780521545839
RRP: £37.99£32.28This pioneering ethnoarchaeological study is of contemporary ceramic production and consumption in several villages in the Los Tuxtlas region of Mexico. While many archaeologists have identified ceramic production zones in the archaeological record,... -
Ecology and Ceramic Production in an Andean Community by Dean E. Arnold 9780521543453
RRP: £40.99£35.21Following the theoretical perspective of his earlier book, Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process (1985), Dean Arnold's ethnoarchaeological study explores the relationships of ceramic production to society and its environment in the Peruvian Andes. The book... -
The Early Settlement of North America: The Clovis Era by Gary Haynes 9780521524636
RRP: £43.99£38.54The Early Settlement of North America is an examination of the first recognisable culture in the New World: the Clovis complex. Gary Haynes begins his analysis with a discussion of the archaeology of Clovis fluted points in North America and a review of... -
The Archaeology of Lydia, from Gyges to Alexander by Christopher H. Roosevelt 9780521519878
RRP: £90.00£72.57In The Archaeology of Lydia, from Gyges to Alexander, Christopher Roosevelt provides the first overview of the regional archaeology of Lydia in western Turkey, including much previously unpublished evidence as well as a fresh synthesis of the archaeology... -
The Mythology of Kingship in Neo-Assyrian Art by Mehmet Ali Atac 9780521517904
RRP: £111.00£95.20The relief slabs that decorated the palaces of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which emphasized military conquest and royal prowess, have traditionally been understood as statements of imperial propaganda that glorified the Assyrian king. In this book,... -
The Urbanisation of Etruria: Funerary Practices and Social Change, 700-600 BC by Corinna Riva 9780521514477
RRP: £90.00£72.57In this survey of the burial and settlement evidence of late Iron Age Etruria, Corinna Riva offers a new reading of the socio-political transformations that led to the formation of urban centres in Tyrrhenian central Italy. Through a close examination of... -
Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology by Philip L. Kohl 9780521480659
RRP: £90.00£72.57Archaeology has often been put to political use, particularly by nationalists. The case studies in this timely collection range from the propaganda purposes served by archaeology in the Nazi state, through the complex interplay of official dogma and... -
Archaeology in the Lowland American Tropics: Current Analytical Methods and Applications by Peter W. Stahl 9780521444866
RRP: £90.00£73.17The lowland American tropics have posed great challenges for archaeologists. Working in awkward terrain, in humid conditions where preservation is difficult, modern scholars pioneered new methods that increasingly influence archaeological practice... -
Classical Greece: Ancient Histories and Modern Archaeologies by Ian Morris 9780521456784
RRP: £43.99£38.14The archaeology of classical Greece developed in the shadow of Greek historical scholarship, and it has restricted itself too modestly to the study of individual artefacts. A wide variety of modern developments in archaeology have been neglected, and... -
Prehistory in the Pacific Islands by John E. Terrell 9780521369565
RRP: £38.99£33.26How, asks John Terrell in this richly illustrated and original book, can we best account for the remarkable diversity of the Pacific Islanders in biology, language, and custom? Traditionally scholars have recognized a simple racial division between... -
China's Cultural Relics by Li Li 9780521186568
RRP: £19.99£15.23China is the birthplace of one of the world's most ancient civilisations and an immense quantity and variety of cultural relics have been preserved on China's vast territory. Utilising a wealth of archaeological evidence, China's Cultural Relics provides... -
The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies by Michael E. Smith 9780521197915
RRP: £84.99£72.57Part of a resurgence in the comparative study of ancient societies, this book presents a variety of methods and approaches to comparative analysis through the examination of wide-ranging case studies. Each chapter is a comparative study, and the diverse... -
Prehistoric Rock Art: Polemics and Progress by Paul G. Bahn 9780521192781
RRP: £92.99£80.44Paul G. Bahn provides a richly illustrated overview of prehistoric rock art and cave art from around the world. Summarizing the recent advances in our understanding of this extraordinary visual record, he discusses new discoveries, new approaches to... -
Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World by Charles D. Trombold 9780521189804
RRP: £30.99£25.45The presence of ancient road networks in the New World is a puzzle, because they predate the use of wheeled transport vehicles. But whatever their diverse functions may have been, they remain the only tangible indication of how extinct American societies... -
Archaeology, Society and Identity in Modern Japan by Koji Mizoguchi 9780521187794
RRP: £33.99£29.35This bold and illuminating study examines the role of archaeology in the formation of the modern Japanese nation and explores the processes by which archaeological practice is shaped by national social and intellectual discourse. Leading Japanese... -
Prehistory and Pleistocene Geology in Cyrenaican Libya: A Record of Two Seasons' Geological and Archaelogical Fieldwork in the Gebel Akhdar Hills, with a Summary of Prehistoric Finds from Neighbouring Territories by C.B.M. McBurney 9780521109567
RRP: £36.99£31.71Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Eagle and the Spade: Archaeology in Rome during the Napoleonic Era by Ronald T. Ridley 9780521104807
RRP: £43.99£38.54This book is an account of an almost completely neglected archaeological epic, the uncovering and restoration of all the classical monuments of Rome during the French occupation (1809-14). This was the first large-scale archaeological programme in the... -
Artefacts as Categories: A Study of Ceramic Variability in Central India by Daniel Miller 9780521104791
RRP: £30.99£25.45The aim of Artefacts as Categories is to ask what we can learn about a society from the variability of the objects it produces. Dr Miller presents a comprehensive analysis of the pottery produced in a single village in central India, drawing together and... -
Problems in Neolithic Archaeology by Alasdair Whittle 9780521103893
RRP: £30.99£25.45Problems in Neolithic Archaeology is a notable contribution to the debate about how we can write prehistory. Drawing on both processual and post-processual approaches, it reaffirms the central role of theory and interpretation while accepting as...