Archaeology books

Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica is an interdisciplinary tour de force that...  Read More >>

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This book analyses pagan concepts of religious transgressions as expressed in Greek cultic regulations from the...  Read More >>

In this book the authors draw together work from cognitive science, linguistics, Paleolithic anthropology, art history,...  Read More >>

Archaeological science applies the scientific techniques of analyzing and dating the archaeological materials. It...  Read More >>

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In Ebla, Paolo Matthiae presents the results of 47 years of excavations at this fascinating site, providing a detailed...  Read More >>

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. In this vitally important...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1998, this book discusses three meanings of the word 'post’: the letters, those who carried...  Read More >>

Brings together leading archaeologists working across the American South to offer a comprehensive, comparative analysis...  Read More >>

A Congregational minister, Norman de Garis Davies (1865-1941) developed an interest in Egyptology, joining Flinders...  Read More >>

The grandson of a wealthy Manchester cotton manufacturer who had bought a Derbyshire estate, Thomas Bateman (1821-61)...  Read More >>

This short guide for travellers was published in 1851 by Charles Roach Smith, a prosperous London druggist and amateur...  Read More >>

This collection of excavation reports was privately printed in 1856 with an introduction by Charles Roach Smith....  Read More >>

Before George Smith's early death in 1876, he had almost finished this compilation of texts referring to Sennacherib....  Read More >>

This 1857 work was published as 'a companion to the Crystal Palace Egyptian Collections', and includes an introduction...  Read More >>

This two-volume 1881 work describes the archaeology of early Christian Scotland. Volume 1 considers the methods...  Read More >>

This highly illustrated book on the Iron Age in Scotland was published in 1883. The first two lectures consider...  Read More >>

Libyans had long been portrayed in ancient Egyptian art as a separate race, and this 1914 book attempts to identify...  Read More >>

John Abercromby, a soldier and keen archaeologist, published this two-volume work in 1898. Using the resources of...  Read More >>

This two-volume 1881 work describes the archaeology of early Christian Scotland. Volume 2 considers the apparently...  Read More >>

This highly illustrated 1886 work discusses the Stone and Bronze ages in Scotland: Bronze Age cairns, stone circles...  Read More >>

John Abercromby, a soldier and keen archaeologist, published this two-volume work in 1898. Using the resources of...  Read More >>