Archaeology by period / region Books
British Museum Press The Queen of the Night
Book SynopsisA concise and beautifully designed book exploring the symbolism behind an exquisite Ancient Babylonian plaque found in southern Iraq. This spectacular terracotta plaque was the principal acquisition for the British Museum''s 250th anniversary, and in 2004 was exhibited in various museums around the UK. Made between 1800 and 1859 BC, it is made from baked straw-tempered clay and modelled in high relief. It probably stood in a shrine and could represent the demoness Lilitu, known in the Bible as Lilith, or a Mesopotamian goddess. The figure wears the horned headdress characteristic of a Mesopotamian deity, and holds a rod and ring of justice, symbols of her divinity. Her long multi-coloured wings hang downwards, indicating that she is a goddess of the Underworld. The book explores the history and symbolism behind this beautiful and highly unusual relief.
£13.08
Lutterworth Press Jerusalem From the Bronze Age to the Maccabees
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£34.00
The History Press Ltd Ancient Ice Mummies
Book SynopsisAncient human bodies, melted from their glacial time-capsules, present unique sources of highly detailed information of lives spent long ago. One example of particular note has been dubbed by the world's media Ötzi the Iceman'. Deservedly celebrated from the moment of his incredible discovery, his fame has only increased with the realisation of his murder. Found high in the Alps shot in the back by an arrow, Ötzi lived some 5,200 years ago and represents the oldest and coldest of cold cases. The hectic and violent last few days of his life have been revealed by various analyses of his gut contents which can be likened to an encoded diary and a map. Pollen and coarse remains of plants including mosses have been crucial in these respects. DNA analysis has revealed details of his diet. Stable isotopes have indicated two homelands. This is a detective story unparalleled in scientific archaeology. In this engaging and fully illustrated new book, one of the world's foremost
£30.65
American Society of Overseas Research Preliminary Excavation Reports Sardis Bir Umm
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£56.25
The University Press of Kentucky Boonesborough Unearthed
Book SynopsisThroughout the Revolutionary War, Fort Boonesborough was one of the most important and defensively crucial sites on the western frontier. Boonesborough Unearthed: Frontier Archaeology at a Revolutionary Fort is the result of more than thirty years of research by archaeologist Nancy O'Malley.
£17.10
University of Arizona Press Of Marshes and Maize
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£27.69
University of Arizona Press Precolumbian Water Management
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£58.50
University of Arizona Press Classic Maya Provincial Politics Xunantunich and
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£72.90
University of Arizona Press Constructing Community
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£56.05
University of Arizona Press Mimbres Life and Society The Mattocks Site of
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£81.70
University of Arizona Press Painting the Skin
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£72.90
University of Arizona Press SeventeenthCentury Metallurgy on the Spanish
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£20.85
University of Alabama Press Stability and Change in Guale Indian Pottery
Book SynopsisThrough a comprehensive study of changing pottery attributes, this text documents the clash of Spanish and Native American cultures in the 16th-century southeastern United States. By studying the ceramic traditions of the Guale Indians, it provides evidence of change in Native American lifeways.
£29.95
The University of Alabama Press Setting the Agenda for American Archaeology The
Book SynopsisThis collection elucidates the key role played by the National Research Council seminars, reports, and pamphlets in setting an agenda that has guided American archaeology in the 20th century.Trade ReviewThese documents have long been out of print and they mark a period of 'renewal' for eastern archaeology in the crucial post-World War I years. - Stephen Williams Harvard University
£38.95
The University of Alabama Press Medicine Creek Seventy Years of Archaeological
Book SynopsisIn Southwest Nebraska, a stretch of Medicine Creek holds a remarkable concentration of late Paleoindian and late prehistoric sites. This volume contains the written research that originated in a conference celebrating the 50th aniversary of the 1947 River Basin Survey.
£29.95
The University of Alabama Press Woodland Potters and Archaeological Ceramics of
Book SynopsisExamines the manner in which pottery traits cross-cut taxonomic types, tests the proposition that communities of practice existed at several scales, and questions the fundamental notion of ceramic types as ethnic markers. This study intends to interpret the meaning of pottery as an indicator of social activity on the North Carolina coast.
£33.95
University of Alabama Press Mound Excavations at Moundville Architecture
Book SynopsisA study of excavations undertaken at the Moundville site in west central Alabama, one of the largest and most complex of the mound sites of pre-contact North America. It explores the significance of Moundville's monumental architecture, including its earthen mounds; and the associated middens that reveal the culture of Moundville's elites.Trade Review"Moundville is one of the most important ancient sites in North America, and this book brings our understanding of it to an entirely new level. Knight's research is absolutely first-rate. Apart from what the book teaches us about Moundville's history, it also describes mound-excavation methods that are innovative and will be emulated by archaeologists for years to come. Simply put, this work is destined to become a landmark of North American archaeology." - Vincas P. Steponaitis, author of Ceramics, Chronology, and Community Patterns: An Archaeological Study at Moundville and coeditor of Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom"
£64.00
The University of Alabama Press Circular Villages of the Monongahela Tradition
Book SynopsisBetween AD 1000 and 1635, the inhabitants of southwestern Pennsylvania and portions of adjacent states - known as the Monongahela Culture or Tradition - began to reside in ring-shaped village settlements. These circular settlements consisted of dwellings around a central plaza. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of circular village forms.Trade ReviewA fine contribution to Monongahela settlement in particular, and methods for analyzing circular village forms in general. Its main contribution is in developing models of settlement and showing the diversity of Monongahela village organizations. - Marvin T. Smith, author of Coosa: The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom ""Innovative and unique, this work could become a classic in Eastern Woodlands archaeology literature."" - John P. Hart, author of Current Northeast Paleoethnobotany
£29.95
The University of Alabama Press Crossing the Borders New Methods and Techniques
Book SynopsisCaribbean scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly developed and employed different methods and techniques for the study of archaeological materials. This volume describes various methods and techniques in the study of archaeological materials from the Caribbean. It illustrates each of the approaches with a case study.Trade ReviewThis comprehensive and current archaeometric study of the islands provides a wealth of data and enhances communications between European and New World archaeologists working in the Caribbean. It is an important and much-needed example of collaboration cross-cutting national boundaries in the multi-national region of the Caribbean. - L. Antonio Curet, The Field Museum
£38.95
The University of Alabama Press Acorns and Bitter Roots
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£25.95
University of Pittsburgh Press Happiness in Premodern Judaism Monographs of the
Book SynopsisHava Tirosh-Samuelson shows that rabbinic Judaism regarded itself primarily as a prescription for the attainment of happiness, and that the discourse on happiness captures the evolution of Jewish intellectual history from antiquity to the seventeenth century.Trade Review""Her exposition of difficult and arcane philosophical ideas is exemplary."" Charles Manekin, University of Maryland
£999.99
Society of Antiquaries of London Excavations at BroughonHumber 195861 25 Research
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£22.94
Society of Antiquaries of London Mediaeval The Outer Bailey and Its Defences v 3
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£57.96
Society of Antiquaries of London Excavation of Khok Phanom Di Vol 3 The Material
Book SynopsisThe prehistoric site of Khok Phanom Di in central Thailand, occupied c.2000-1500 BC, was particularly rich in material culture. This volume focuses on the non-ceramic objects, all of which are discussed, catalogued and illustrated.
£59.54
Society of Antiquaries of London The Excavation of Khok Phanom Di A Prehistoric
Book SynopsisThis is the fourth in a series of volumes repporting on the material recovered from the excavation of the prehistoric site of Khok Phanom Di. The author worked throughout on the recovery of botanical remains. Most came from the flotation of soil samples taken from all cultural contexts, but such were the conditions for preservation, that wood, charcoal. rice and possible fabric remains were also found. The interpretation is enhanced through a consideration of traditional harvesting and crop processing techniques creating a picture of a dynamic and changing environment in which the cultivation of domestic rice was undertaken.
£61.40
Society of Antiquaries of London Landscape and Settlement in the Vale of York
Book SynopsisTaking a thematic approach, this volume examines archaeologically a landscape in the north of England that has been used, in various forms, by communities from the end of the last Ice Age up to the modern day.Trade Review…a coherent story of the settlement and utilisation of a somewhat plough-eroded landscape is presented. * Current Archaeology *The quality of this publication maches the significance of the landscape it concerns. * Archaeological Journal *Table of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Summary; Resume; Zusammenfassung; Chapter 1 Landscape assessment - evaluating archaeological site evaluation; Chapter 2 Landscape resources - nature and culture; Chapter 3 Bounded landscapes - enclosure, delineation and movement; Chapter 4 Productive landscapes - food production; Chapter 5 Productive landscapes - specialist manufacture; Chapter 6 Domestic landscapes - structures and household activities; Chapter 7 Consumption in the landscape - import, use and discard; Chapter 8 Ideological landscapes - human burial, monumentality and other specialised deposition; Chapter 9 Transitions in the landscape - change within and between conventional periods; Notes; Abbreviations and bibliography; Index
£35.00
Aris & Phillips Ltd Excavations at Ana
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£57.55
Egypt Exploration Society Greek Ostraca in the Bodleian Library v 1
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£39.63
Egypt Exploration Society Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of
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£84.17
Egypt Exploration Society Hatnub
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£999.99
The Egypt Exploration Society (UK) Sais I The RamessideThird Intermediate Period at Kom Rebwa Excavation Memoirs
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£999.99
Egypt Exploration Society The Delta Survey 20092015
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the results of recent explorations carried out by Jeffrey and Patricia Spencer for the Egypt Exploration Society''s Delta Survey. The sites considered here were identified in the course of preliminary inspections to possess some features worthy of additional investigation by magnetometer survey or by limited excavation.
£999.99
Egypt Exploration Society BEC 4
Book SynopsisThe 4th British Egyptology Congress (BEC 4) was held in September 2018 at the University of Manchester, allowing scholars from around the world to present their latest and ongoing research to their peers. Eighty-two papers were presented, including four keynote speeches, covering the full spectrum of Egyptology, archaeology, museology, and the history of travel along the Nile. The 13 papers included in this volume are representative of the wide variety of research discussed during BEC 4, reflecting the current studies of their authors. It is hoped that providing a publication platform through these Proceedings will stimulate further dialogue and investigation.Trade ReviewA representative selection of thirteen of the eighty-two papers and six posters presented at the congress have been chosen by Graves for inclusion in this volume and are attractively reproduced with full colour photographs. * Ancient Egypt *Table of ContentsCarl Graves and Rosalie David, Foreword 1. Averil Anderson, The collectors and collection in the McManus Art Galleries and Museum, Dundee: Rev. Colin Campbell, the Egypt Exploration Fund, Sir James Caird and Thomas Wise 2. Gordon Dicks, Competition, conflict and control: suggestions of motive in the use of petroglyphs recorded from the Kom Ombo Basin 3. Anne Drewsen, The elephant’s shroud 4. Dina Ezz el-Din and Sahar el-Kasrawy, Pomegranates of ancient Egypt: representations, uses and religious significance 5. Roger J. Forshaw, Why was a minor dislocation included amongst the more serious cases listed in the Edwin Smith papyrus? 6. Faten Kamal, SR. 12191: An example from the collection of hieratic ostraca from Mond’s excavation at Sheikh Abd el- Qurna 7. Pauline Norris, Egyptomania – some erotica and vandalism 8. Colin D. Reader, The geomorphological evidence for the Early Dynastic origins of the Great Sphinx of Giza: a response to Drs Lehner and Hawass 9. Marina Sartori, Art as writing, writing as art: selected case studies from New Kingdom Theban tombs 10. Marisol Solchaga, Gardens and agricultural elements in soul Houses 11. Ian Taylor, Changing faces: the revising of three images of Seth 12. Alexandre Vassiliev, Upper Retenu and Lower Retenu 13. Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, The text and traditional context of the ‘Hay cookbook’ and associated magical texts on leather Conference papers not included in this volume
£999.99
British Museum Press Torajan Ricebarn 72 British Museum Press
Book SynopsisA study of the Torajan ricebarn, a traditional Indonesian structure where the rice crop is stored, and where the main social life of the village takes place. This paper was stimulated by the construction of a ricebarn for the Museum of Mankind at the British Museum in 1987.
£19.77
British Museum Press Acropolis Restored 187 British Museum Research
Book SynopsisThe individual contributors to these papers tell the story of the dedicated and detailed efforts to understand the work of previous generations on the Acropolis and then to restore the buildings as nearly as possible to their original architectural state. The result is a story of engagement with the extraordinary problems associated with these world heritage monuments and the challenges to preserve and present them for future generations. This book represents a milestone in the history of the collaboration and friendship between the Acropolis Restoration Service and the British Museum.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Ian Jenkins) 35 Years’ Restoration Work on the Acropolis (Charalambos Bouras) The Surface Conservation Project of the Acropolis Monuments (Evi Papakonstantinou-Ziotis) The Anastelosis of the Temple of Athena Nike (Dionysia Michalopoulou, Civil Engineer, Director of the restoration work) The Restoration of the Propylaia (Tasos Tanoulas) Parthenon Restoration Project (Nikos Toganidis) Interventions Past and Present on the North Side of the Parthenon (Lena Lambrinou) The Restoration of the Erechtheion (1979–87) (Fani Mallouchou-Tufano)
£39.23
British Museum Press Malaita
Book SynopsisMalaita traces the history and culture of a Pacific island from the 19th to 21st centuries through over 600 images drawn from the archives of the British Museum and public and private photographic collections around the world.
£61.94
British Museum Press Ceremonial Living in the Third Millennium BC
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the rich array of structural and artefactual evidence spanning a few thousand years of prehistory at the site of Ringlemere, Kent. Evaluation of form and associated material culture steers interpretation away from the purely domestic and contributes to the ongoing debate about the place of ceremony in third millennium Britain.Trade ReviewThis, then, is a fine report on a fine programme of excavations at a remarkable site. * The Archaeological Journal *Table of ContentsForeword Summary Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction (Keith Parfitt) Chapter 2: Pre-mound land surface, associated structures and activity (Stuart Needham and Keith Parfitt) Chapter 3: Enclosure and Mound (Stuart Needham and Keith Parfitt) Chapter 4: Post-mound: cultivation, cemetery, land demarcation and warren (Keith Parfitt and Stuart Needham) Chapter 5: The finds, environmental and dating evidence (Frances Healy, Alex Gibson, Nigel Macpherson-Grant, Gill Varndell, Ralph Jackson, Rob Ixer, Jen Heathcote, Wendy Carruthers, Louise Martin and Paul Linford) Chapter 6: Phasing the site sequence (Stuart Needham and Keith Parfitt) Chapter 7: Ceremonial living in the third millennium BC (Stuart Needham) Bibliography Index
£63.61
Michigan State University Press Modeling Archaeological Site Burial in Southern
Book SynopsisThis study examines relationships between regional and local scale fluvial system evolution and the deep burial of archaeological sites in floodplain and coastal contexts. Monaghan and Lovis have compiled and synthesized available data on deeply buried archaeological sites in southern Lower Michigan.
£27.08
University of Wisconsin Press Aztalan Northern Outpost of the Mississippian
Book SynopsisAttempts to unlock some of the mysteries, providing insights and information about the group of people who first settled in Aztalan in 1100 AD. Filled with maps, drawings, and photographs of artifacts, this volume examines a time before modern Native American people settled in this area.
£12.82
American School of Classical Studies at Athens The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and its
Book SynopsisThis detailed report describes archaeological fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 1997 in rural northeast Crete. Excavations were made in two locations: a metallurgy workshop (abandoned in EM III) and a nearby rural habitation site, perhaps a farmhouse (used until LM III).Trade Review...is a good model for all those whose excavations and surveys remain long unpublished...' -- Ancient West & East Ancient West & East
£75.27
American School of Classical Studies at Athens Lamps from the Athenian Agora 9 Agora Picture
Book SynopsisAt night, the darkness of the ancient Agora would have been pierced by the lights of oil lamps, and thousands of fragments of these distinctive objects have been found. This booklet presents the development of different styles of lamps and includes a very useful identification guide.
£999.99
American School of Classical Studies at Athens Greek and Roman Coins in the Athenian Agora 15
Book SynopsisOver 75,000 coins have been found during excavations at the Agora, many minted in the city but others brought from Athens's far-flung commercial contacts. In addition to the mostly bronze and copper coins themselves, a building that may have served as the Athenian mint is described in this booklet.
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American School of Classical Studies at Athens Amphoras and the Ancient Wine Trade
Book SynopsisAmphoras were used in the ancient world to transport various different types of products, including wine and oil. This booklet is based on broken pottery found during the excavation of the Agora in Athens, but the author ranges far beyond the confines of Athens in her discussion of the purpose and significance of different amphora types.
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American School of Classical Studies at Athens Horses and Horsemanship in the Athenian Agora
Book SynopsisThis concise and beautifully illustrated book demonstrates the many roles played by the horse in the lives of the Greeks, from its place in myth and early history to its significance as a marker of social status and its use in warfare, transportation, games, and festivals.
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American School of Classical Studies at Athens A Guide to the Palace of Nestor Mycenaean Sites
Book SynopsisThis beautifully illustrated colour guide surveys the Mycenaean buildings known as the Palace of Nestor, discovered in 1939 above the modern town of Pylos in southwest Greece. It reconstructs life in the citadel and its associated tombs, and also describes the surrounding landscape.
£999.99
American School of Classical Studies at Athens Samothrace
Book SynopsisThe island of Samothrace in the north Aegean was home to one of the most famous panhellenic sanctuaries in the ancient world, the Sanctuary of the Great Gods. This official guide to the site was revised and updated by its longtime excavation director, and is copiously illustrated and includes four foldout plans to help the reader navigate the site.
£13.78
American School of Classical Studies at Athens Greek and Roman Coins in the Athenian Agora Revised and updated edition
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American School of Classical Studies at Athens A History of the American School of Classical
Book SynopsisA chronicle of the second 50 years in the life of the American School (originally founded in 1881). Conceived as a companion volume to Louis Lord's 1947 history of the first 50 years, it outlines the activities of the School both in Greece and in the USA, beginning with an absorbing account of the affairs of the School during World War II.
£999.99
