Archaeology books

Archaeology often struggles in envisioning real people behind the world of material objects it studies. Even when...  Read More >>

Meols, on the north coast of the Wirral Peninsula (north-west England), is one of Britain's richest and most fascinating...  Read More >>

A major re-assessment of Roman brooches from Britain, some previously unpublished. The accompanying CD contains...  Read More >>

More than in any other area of archaeology, the patterns of long-term change, revealed from studying the past, have...  Read More >>

A study of men and administration at the Assyrian capital in the eighth century BC.  Read More >>

This volume presents an illustrated account of the archaeological, artefactual and documentary research on the Uffington...  Read More >>

This study of the design, manufacture and use of medieval floor tiles shows the long-lasting influence achieved...  Read More >>

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Phytoliths - rigid microscopic bodies that occur in most plant species - have gone a long way since that day when...  Read More >>

Novgorod has probably the most comprehensive collection of excavated wooden objects and structures from any site...  Read More >>

The nature and causes of the transformation in settlement, social structure, and material culture that occurred...  Read More >>

The volume is the first in nearly a decade to focus a wide range of scholarship on one of the most compelling periods...  Read More >>

The NESAT symposium has grown from the first meeting in 1981 which was attended by 23 scholars, to over 100 at the...  Read More >>

The Balawat gates were made in the reign of King Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BC). This book presents two sets of elaborate...  Read More >>

The excavation of two of the famous playhouses of Tudor London, the Rose and the Globe, provided the first concrete...  Read More >>

This volume presents an account of archaeological research into the origins and development of Oxford, from the...  Read More >>

Between 1999 and 2003, the University of Southampton conducted excavations at the site of Quseir al-Qadim. This...  Read More >>

Contains papers presented at an international conference organised in Athens on May 11-14, 2004. This volume focuses...  Read More >>

The excavations in Raunds between 1977 and 1987 formed part of the Raunds Area Project - a major programme of archaeological...  Read More >>

The East Smithfield Black Death cemetery was founded in 1348/9, it was one of two emergency burial grounds established...  Read More >>

Written sources from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, from the third to the first millennia BC,...  Read More >>

The phrase 'from Persepolis to the Punjab' refers to the Iranian empires of the Achaemenids (550-331 BC), Parthians...  Read More >>

A selection of twenty-eight articles that represent some thirty years of engagement with the nature of Assyrian...  Read More >>

The upgrade and extension of the East London Line created an opportunity for archaeologists to discover more about...  Read More >>

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