Archaeology books

This volume brings together scholars from archaeology, historical linguistics and comparative mythology to explore...  Read More >>

The Ancestral Footsteps: The Astonishing Fossil Discovery That Redefined Human Origins For decades, the story of...  Read More >>

An exploration of the ways in which masks and mirrors mediated encounters, enabled performances and effected visual...  Read More >>

An in-depth exploration of the craft of antler, bone, horn and ivory working as it evolved within the pre-Viking...  Read More >>

For more than a century, over sixty sacred Indigenous artifacts-carved, stitched, and shaped by the hands of ancestors-sat...  Read More >>

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands explores the clandestine...  Read More >>

Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands explores the clandestine...  Read More >>

What if collapse is not sudden, but cumulative? This book examines environmental risk through systems thinking,...  Read More >>

A new Caesar emerging from the stroboscope of interdisciplinary cooperation and combining looks through the eyes...  Read More >>

This volume explores how boundaries were created, perceived, and experienced in past societies. Bringing together...  Read More >>

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What if everything you thought you knew about ancient Egypt's afterlife was only the surface of a far deeper, far...  Read More >>

Hunting and Extinctions in Southwest Asia and North America explores communal game traps for harvesting ungulate...  Read More >>

What if the story of humanity didn't begin with pyramids or philosophers, but with clay tablets, starlit rituals,...  Read More >>

Roman Names on Crete: Immigration, Enfranchisement, Integration utilizes the evidence of Roman names in order to...  Read More >>

Step inside the hidden world of stolen history. Artifact Thieves uncovers how tomb raiders, smugglers, and private...  Read More >>

For thousands of years, the domestic cat has lived in our homes, hunted in our barns, slept at our feet, and ruled...  Read More >>

A compelling portrait of post-disaster imaginaries of repair in Nepal. In a world of cascading disasters, what...  Read More >>

In Tesori Sacri del Cristianesimo, il lettore intraprende un viaggio affascinante tra le grandi reliquie e i luoghi...  Read More >>

A compelling portrait of post-disaster imaginaries of repair in Nepal. In a world of cascading disasters, what...  Read More >>

A vivid portrait of how divine and human intimacies sustain colonization in the Amazon. On Brazil's Amazonian...  Read More >>

Anthropology: Understanding Humans, Culture, and Civilization offers a clear, comprehensive, and systematic exploration...  Read More >>

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This Element seeks to characterize key aspects of the cult and culture of the Judean populace at large, in Judea...  Read More >>