This book presents the earliest evidence of the domestication of rice and of human settlement in the Neolithic Era discovered at the Shangshan site. The excavation of the Shangshan site has yielded insights into the origin of Chinese rice culture....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009677219)
This volume examines of how premodern societies produced and mobilized resources to support social, political, and religious institutions. Topics discussed include the the nature of productive self-sufficiency, forms of economic specialization, the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009739542)
This book, Nicholas Blackwell explores craft relationships by analyzing artisan mobility and technological transfer across certain sites. These labor networks offer an underexplored perspective for interpreting the periods geopolitical dynamics....Loe edasi...
This book, Nicholas Blackwell explores craft relationships by analyzing artisan mobility and technological transfer across certain sites. These labor networks offer an underexplored perspective for interpreting the periods geopolitical dynamics....Loe edasi...
Offering new insights into the forces that have shaped human societies for millennia, this volume provides readers reconstructions of past societies in all parts of the world. Using recently developed analytical approaches, the reconstructions prese...Loe edasi...
Robert Drennan, Christian Peterson, C. Adam Berrey
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009702737)
Offering new insights into the forces that have shaped human societies for millennia, this volume provides readers reconstructions of past societies in all parts of the world. Using recently developed analytical approaches, the reconstructions prese...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108481878)
The Archaeology of the Tibetan Plateau offers a comprehensive survey of past and recent research on the prehistory of the plateau. The first English language book-length study of the Tibetan past, it examines modern and ancient environments, histori...Loe edasi...
Archaeology and World Prehistory: Unearthing Our Past emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the field and its interconnectedness with the four fields of anthropology, sciences, humanities, and beyond. Readers new to arc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197572528)
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Body Modification explores the ways in which cultures worldwide have used body modifications to express cultural, social, and individual meanings. Including cranial shaping, teeth fi...Loe edasi...
This book summarizes the latest archeological findings on Liangzhu culture and outlines the rise and fall of Liangzhu society in terms of its environment, flora and fauna. In addition, it seeks to analyze the characteristics of animal breeding a...Loe edasi...
Involving contributions from archaeology, geology, ethnography, anthropology and prehistory, The World at 18 000 BP: Low Latitudes (second of the two volumes, and originally published in 1990) surveys the world scene 18,000 years ago. Follo...Loe edasi...
Involving contributions from archaeology, geology, ethnography, anthropology and prehistory, The World at 18 000 BP: High Latitudes (first of the two volumes, and originally published in 1990) surveys the world scene 18,000 years ago. Follo...Loe edasi...
This book approaches the study from architectural perspectives, analyzing the collection of brochs’ features and classifying them based on regional differences. By identifying regional standard models and hypothesizing design sch...Loe edasi...
Iron Age Lives provides the first integrated academic treatment of the Iron Age of Britain and Ireland. After considering the social changes that marked the end of the Later Bronze Age, it examines the environmental, economic, demographic...Loe edasi...
Iron Age Lives provides the first integrated academic treatment of the Iron Age of Britain and Ireland. After considering the social changes that marked the end of the Later Bronze Age, it examines the environmental, economic, demographic...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the submerged Pre-Pottery Neolithic C settlement of Atlit-Yam (dated to the end of the tenth millennium to end of the ninth millennium BP). Located off the Carmel coast of Israel, it is the earliest and best preserved of 23 su...Loe edasi...
Final Report of Excavations on the Hill of the Ophel by R.A.S. Macalister and J. Garrow Duncan 1923–1925 contains the publication of the finds from this excavation a century ago that have been curated and stored in the archives of the Pal...Loe edasi...
This is the second volume of a series containing the results of archaeological research at Grotta Mora Cavorso, a fascinating cave in the still pristine landscape of the Simbruini Mountains along the Upper Aniene River Valley, central Italy. This se...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691274089)
From the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C., a spellbinding account of the archaeological find that opened a window onto the vibrant diplomatic world of the ancient Near EastIn 1887, an Egyptian woman made an astonishing discovery...Loe edasi...
This book provides a synthesis of Late Neolithic / Early Chalcolithic imagery from South-Central Anatolia, encompassing both Central Anatolia and the Lake District....Loe edasi...
The story of the contest between humans and the sea, played out in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from early prehistory until AD 1500. For humans the sea is, and always has been, an alien environment. Ever moving and ever changing in mood...Loe edasi...
The first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. This was and remains the most fertile, populated and strategic part of Egypt and the topics covered range from settleme...Loe edasi...
This book presents detailed research regarding the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, including studies of inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells, bronzeware, bamboo scripts, and silk manuscripts, in order to demonstrate the main features of various...Loe edasi...
This volume brings together perspectives from different parts of the world that showcase the wide variety of practices, institutions, and ideologies that allowed for shared identities and coordinated actions across broad collectives. It shows that...Loe edasi...
This volume brings together perspectives from different parts of the world that showcase the wide variety of practices, institutions, and ideologies that allowed for shared identities and coordinated actions across broad collectives. It shows that...Loe edasi...
Limpopo Life introduces the reader to the material culture, oral histories, and the negotiation of conservation and landscape in an area now known as Limpopo National Park. Introducing the archaeology of a region that has not been surveyed or discus...Loe edasi...
This book outlines the preface of bronze civilization in East Asia, and traces back to the beginning of “Bronze China”. Dating back from more than 6,000 years ago to 3,000 years ago, this book...Loe edasi...
This Element considers historiography the extent to which insular prehistorians have integrated their findings with the archaeology of mainland Europe; and the ways in which scholars have drawn on British material. It shows how different parts of B...Loe edasi...
This book presents the earliest evidence of the domestication of rice and of human settlement in the Neolithic Era discovered at the Shangshan site. The excavation of the Shangshan site has yielded insights into the origin of Chinese rice culture....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009677219)
This volume examines of how premodern societies produced and mobilized resources to support social, political, and religious institutions. Topics discussed include the the nature of productive self-sufficiency, forms of economic specialization, the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009739542)
This book, Nicholas Blackwell explores craft relationships by analyzing artisan mobility and technological transfer across certain sites. These labor networks offer an underexplored perspective for interpreting the periods geopolitical dynamics....Loe edasi...
This book, Nicholas Blackwell explores craft relationships by analyzing artisan mobility and technological transfer across certain sites. These labor networks offer an underexplored perspective for interpreting the periods geopolitical dynamics....Loe edasi...
Offering new insights into the forces that have shaped human societies for millennia, this volume provides readers reconstructions of past societies in all parts of the world. Using recently developed analytical approaches, the reconstructions prese...Loe edasi...
Robert Drennan, Christian Peterson, C. Adam Berrey
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009702737)
Offering new insights into the forces that have shaped human societies for millennia, this volume provides readers reconstructions of past societies in all parts of the world. Using recently developed analytical approaches, the reconstructions prese...Loe edasi...
Celebrates Alison Sheridan’s influential research on Neolithic to Bronze Age material culture, pottery, and monumentality in Britain and Ireland.This third title in the new Oxbow Reflections series celebrates the academic career...Loe edasi...
This study examines the lithic technology of Lateglacial hunter-gatherer communities of the Hamburgian and the Federmesser-Gruppen from a social perspective. A major concern is to address factors that may not be apparent from a purely utilitarian and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108481878)
The Archaeology of the Tibetan Plateau offers a comprehensive survey of past and recent research on the prehistory of the plateau. The first English language book-length study of the Tibetan past, it examines modern and ancient environments, histori...Loe edasi...
Archaeology and World Prehistory: Unearthing Our Past emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the field and its interconnectedness with the four fields of anthropology, sciences, humanities, and beyond. Readers new to arc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783112229774)
This monograph explores how economic and social development occurred in the Cycladic Islands between the Late Bronze Age and the Persian Wars. The examination sets the remarkable 8th to 6th century development into a diachronic context. A comprehens...Loe edasi...
Excavation of Broxy Kennels Fort revealed a 6thcentury BC multivallate hilltop settlement later modified with a souterrain and new ditches in the 5th4th centuries BC. After a brief hiatus, an unenclosed settlement continued until the late 1st centur...Loe edasi...
This is a collection of papers from researchers dedicated to the study of megalithism and open-air rock art, all applying new methods to analyse and document monuments, clarifying their roles. Through interdisciplinary work they explore prehistoric...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197572528)
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Body Modification explores the ways in which cultures worldwide have used body modifications to express cultural, social, and individual meanings. Including cranial shaping, teeth fi...Loe edasi...
This book gives insight into the particularities of the development of social inequality in the Northern Carpathian Basin and formulates methodological constraints. This dissertation investigates the dynamics of social inequality in the Carpa...Loe edasi...
This dissertation investigates the dynamics of social inequality in the Carpathian Basin between the Late Neolithic and the Middle/Late Bronze Age (5200–1000 BCE) through a quantitative analysis of burial contexts. Employing statistical methods, incl...Loe edasi...
This study employs novel modeling and statistical techniques to analyse absolute population dynamics and land-use patterns in the South-Western Baltic region during the Neolithic and Bronze Age (4100 to 500 BCE). This work aims to study popul...Loe edasi...
This work aims to study population dynamics and land-use patterns in the South-Western Baltic region during the Neolithic and Bronze Age (4100 to 500 BCE). Understanding demography is essential for comprehending socio-cultural transformations, as dem...Loe edasi...
This monograph presents the results of excavations at an Iron Age wetland settlement at Black Loch of Myrton (BLM), located on the Machars peninsula in Wigtownshire, Scotland. Although first noted in the 1880s, the site remained unexamined until its...Loe edasi...
A report on the archaeological excavation and analysis of a well-preserved wetland settlement dating to the earlier Iron Age in South-West Scotland, UK. This monograph presents the results of excavations at an Iron Age wetland settlement at B...Loe edasi...
This study examines economic ties between Catuvellaunia and the Roman military in Gaul before AD 43, arguing that southern Britains grain surplus supplied Roman forces. Drawing on numismatic, textual, and archaeological evidence, it explores agricul...Loe edasi...
This book summarizes the latest archeological findings on Liangzhu culture and outlines the rise and fall of Liangzhu society in terms of its environment, flora and fauna. In addition, it seeks to analyze the characteristics of animal breeding a...Loe edasi...
This volume features 16 papers from the European Megalithic Studies Group, exploring monuments across Europe. Topics include mobility, social structures, and symbolism, using methods like isotopic analysis, 3D modelling, and excavation. It reveals n...Loe edasi...
THE INSTANT TIMES BESTSELLER Award-winning classicist and historian Emily Hauser takes readers on an epic journey to uncover the astonishing true story of the real women behind ancient Greeces greatest legends, and the real heroes of those...Loe edasi...
Involving contributions from archaeology, geology, ethnography, anthropology and prehistory, The World at 18 000 BP: Low Latitudes (second of the two volumes, and originally published in 1990) surveys the world scene 18,000 years ago. Follo...Loe edasi...
Involving contributions from archaeology, geology, ethnography, anthropology and prehistory, The World at 18 000 BP: High Latitudes (first of the two volumes, and originally published in 1990) surveys the world scene 18,000 years ago. Follo...Loe edasi...
This book approaches the study from architectural perspectives, analyzing the collection of brochs’ features and classifying them based on regional differences. By identifying regional standard models and hypothesizing design sch...Loe edasi...
This volume examines Beaker to Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age remains (c. 2400350 BC) from three developer-funded excavations on the Suffolk claylands. Four burnt mounds are presented alongside a Beaker roundhouse, Bronze Age enclosures and later pr...Loe edasi...
