Archaeology books

This book was written at a time when the older conventional diffusionist view of prehistory, largely associated...  Read More >>

Industrial archaeology is the study of early industrial buildings and machinery, particularly of the eighteenth...  Read More >>

Archaeological evidence here is used to help build up a picture of the lives led by the people of which it is a...  Read More >>

In the preceding 25 years to this book’s publication in 1985 there was an extensive and unprecedented burst of archaeological...  Read More >>

The twenty-six original contributions here represent the carefully selected work of progressive archaeologists around...  Read More >>

There has long been controversy about the nature and pace of the transformation from Roman Britain to Saxon England....  Read More >>

The climax of the Stone Age in Britain, the Neolithic period (4700-2000BC), was a period of startling achievement....  Read More >>

The analysis of tree-ring patterns, or dendrochronology, is a very exact science and an important dating technique....  Read More >>

Originally published in 1956, this concise book brought together wisdom from V. Gordon Childe based upon 10 years...  Read More >>

This book provides an account of the development of European culture and society during a period of remarkable innovation....  Read More >>

A practical guide to the various modern methods of discovery, excavation and recording of the remains left by prehistoric...  Read More >>

This book covers the whole range of West African archaeology to the arrival of the Portugese on the Guinea coast....  Read More >>

The archaeological monuments known as souterrains, particularly characteristic of eastern Scotland from Aberdeenshire...  Read More >>

In the period A.D. 400-1100, it is necessary to bring together the results of historical, archaeological and place-name...  Read More >>

This is a great work by one of the pioneers of modern archaeology. The period covered is from 1700 to 700 B.  Read More >>

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The object of this book is to enable archaeologists, even without relevant training, to deal with any problem in...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1956, this collection features chapters by well-known archaeologists on various archaeological...  Read More >>

The 1980s witnessed exciting developments in theoretical writing in Western archaeology. Where previous decades...  Read More >>

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The essays collected together in this volume were written in honour of Professor Christopher Hawkes, in recognition...  Read More >>

This volume is based on lectures given when the British Summer School of Archaeology was held at Bangor in August...  Read More >>

Based on lectures given at the Conference of the British Summer School of Archaeology at Edinburgh in 1954, this...  Read More >>

This study, first published in 1978, explores the evidence for pre-Roman settlement in Britain. Four aspects of...  Read More >>

Most practising archaeologists have preferred to leave the deep theories of what lies behind their methods and perceptions...  Read More >>