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Time and Materiality - Periodization and Regional Chronologies at the Transition from Bronze to Iron Age in Eurasia [1200-600 B.C.E.].

Der Tagungsband zur gleichnamigen 1. Internationalen Tagung vom 19.-21.03.2018 an der FU Berlin enthält ein Vorwort, eine theoretische Ei...

Niedergermanischer Limes / Neder-Germaanse Limes / Lower German Limes - TOP 100 Funde / Vondsten / Finds

Außergewöhnliche Funde vom nassen Limes Der Niedergermanische Limes reichte vom Vinxtbach bei Bad Breisig (Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland) ...

Stone Age Borderland Experience: - Neolithic and Late Mesolithic Parallel Societies in the North European Plain

These conference proceedings contain a foreword by the editors, 26 papers of an international conference at Niedersächsisches Landesmuseu...

Beyond Urnfields - New Perspectives on Late Bronze Age - Early Iron Age Funerary Practices in Northwest Europe

BEYOND URNFIELDS presents the results of an international network project on Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age urnfields from northwest ...

Zwischen Kontinenten und Jahrtausenden - Festschrift für Andreas Müller-Karpe zum 65. Geburtstag

Der Band enthält Vorwort, Grußwort des Landesarchäologen, Schriftenverzeichnis des Jubilars und 29 Aufsätze. Die Beiträge behandeln ein B...

Lithic technology - making and using stone tools

Frontmatter -- Introduction / SWANSON, EARL ¿. -- PART ONE: Lithic Technology and Taxonomy -- Lithic Reduction Sequences: A Glossary and ...

Xantener Berichte Band 41 - Zwischen Töpfer und Verbraucher / Between Potter and Consumer

Die Themen des internationalen Kolloquiums, das vom 27.-29. März 2019 im LVR-RömerMuseum stattfand, fächern ein breites Spektrum aktuelle...

Rondels revisited - Recent research on Neolithic circular enclosures in Central Europe 5000-4500 cal. B.C.

Circular enclosures [Kreisgrabenanlagen] or rondels have raised the interest of archeologists for more than a century. During the past tw...

Siedlungs- und Küstenforschung im südlichen Nordseegebiet - Settlement and Coastal Research in the Southern North Sea Region

The volume contains seven papers covering the prospection, documentation, analysis, interpretation and conservation of archaeological fea...

Hommes, terroir et territoires - Le Paléolithique en Bourgogne méridionale

La Bourgogne méridionale, située entre Dijon et Lyon, compte parmi les régions paléolithiques les plus importantes de France depuis les t...

A Practitioner's Guide to Public Archaeology - Intentional Programming for Effective Outreach

This book walks you through the process from planning to implementation to assessment, with case studies and examples in each chapter. Le...

Mapping and Historical Archaeology - Beyond (Within, Through) the Grid

This book explores the intersections of mapping and historical archaeology and the ways in which mapping can generate new archaeological ...

Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity - Volume 1: Thematic Perspectives

This book presents current work on the archaeology of burial and memorial in late antiquity, with insights from excavation, science, and ...

From Midas to Cyrus and Other Stories - Papers on Iron Age Anatolia in Honour of Geoffrey and Françoise Summers

The period of Anatolian history between the death of the semi-legendary king Midas of Gordion ca. 700 BC and the advent of the Achaemenid...

Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity Set

These books present current work on the archaeology of burial and memorial in late antiquity, with insights from excavation, science, and...

Reassessing the Aztatlán World - Ethnogenesis and Cultural Continuity in Northwest Mesoamerica

Argues for the prominence of Aztatlán culture in Postclassic Mesoamerica

Muqarnas, an Annual on Visual, Material, and Architectural Cultures of the Islamic World - Fortieth Anniversary Volume

The fortieth-anniversary volume addresses the historical trajectory of Muqarnasand its sister series, Muqarnas Supplements, against the b...

Glorification Spells from a Priestly Milieu in Ancient Egypt

Glorification Spells from a Priestly Milieu in Ancient Egypt presents the first comprehensive edition of a collection of glorification sp...

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Diet

Presenting research on the evolution and diversity of human diet from earliest ancestors to modern days, this Handbook is divided into 3 ...

Sacred Southwestern Landscapes - Archaeologies of Religious Ecology

"Archaeological investigations into the relationship between religion and landscape across the North American Southwest"--

Unruly Heritage - Archaeologies of the Anthropocene

According to UNESCO's definition, heritage is 'our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generatio...

Veröffentlichungen aus dem Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum / Laurion - Interdisciplinary Approaches to an Ancient Greek Mining Landscape. Including Selected Papers Presented at the International Conference 'Ari and the Laurion from Prehistoric to Modern Times', Bochum, November 1st-3rd 2019

The cultural and historical significance of the Laurion as well as its exceptional position as one of the major sources of silver, lead a...

From the Ground to the Sky - Ten Years of Skyscape Archaeology

Skyscape Archaeology, only recognised as such in 2014, as a method of investigating the connections between the ground and the sky, broug...

Man sieht nur, was man weiß. Man weiß nur, was man sieht - Globalhistorische Perspektiven auf interkulturelle Phänomene der Mobilität./Festschrift für Hermann Parzinger zum 65. Geburtstag

Die Festschrift enthält ein Vorwort der Reihenherausgeber, ein Geleitwort, ein Schriftenverzeichnis des Jubilars, 47 Aufsätze und ein Ver...

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Experimental Approaches to Roman Archaeology

This volume is the first comprehensive overview of Roman experimental archaeology, exploring its key themes, methodologies and applicatio...

Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity - Volume 2: Regional Perspectives

This book presents current work on the archaeology of burial and memorial in late antiquity, by region, from Britain to Egypt, looking at...

The Egyptian Amduat - The Book of the Hidden Chamber

In the Amduat, the night-journey of the Egyptian Sungod is divided into twelve hours, each of them containing an enormous amount of insig...

The Persians

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and ...

Roman Mythology - Tales From the Roman Pantheon

ROMAN MYTHOLOGY Why did the Roman Empire fall? The theories are numerous, including the rise of Islam, lead in the drinking water, inflat...

Horse, the Wheel, and Language - How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

"If you want to learn about the early origins of English and related languages, and of many of our familiar customs such as feasting on h...

Sinister and Righteous - Interpreting Left and Right in the Archaeological Record

In recent years, archaeologists have begun to consider the potential for left and right positioning of elements in the material record to...

The Colossus of Rhodes - Archaeology of a Lost Wonder

In The Colossus of Rhodes, the first comprehensive examination of the Colossus, Nathan Badoud mobilises a large array of sources, ranging...

The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization

"The Indus civilization in South Asia (c. 3200 - 1500BC) was one of the most important Old World Bronze Age cultures. This study offers n...

Religions of Rome

This book presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world from the early Republic to the late Empire.

The Scythian Empire - Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China

"A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient world. In the late 8th and early 7th centurie...

Carthage

This book traces the formation of the archaeological site of Carthage and how it re-emerged in the minds of European antiquarians and tra...

Identity Studies in Archaeology

Der Kaukasus zwischen Osteuropa und Vorderem Orient in der Bronze- und Eisenzeit: Dialog der Kulturen, Kultur des Dialoges - Internationale Fachtagung für die Archäologie des Kaukasus und Humboldt-Kolleg (5.-8. Oktober 2015, Sankt Petersburg)

Der Kaukasus war immer eine wichtige Brücke zwischen den Kulturen des Vorderen Orients, der eurasischen Steppenzone und Europas. Seit dem...

The Making of the Middle Sea - A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World

An award-winning history of the Mediterranean from prehistory to the Classical world reissued with an extended new preface by the author.

Horton Kingsmead Quarry - Volume 1

Excavation at Kingsmead Quarry, Horton, Berkshire, has revealed a multi-period landscape with occupation dating back over 12,000 years. A...

Live Stock and Dead Things - The Archaeology of Zoopolitics between Domestication and Modernity

Reconceptualizes human-animal relationships and their political significance in ancient and modern societies. In Live Stock and Dead Thin...

Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow

Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow explores how cutting-edge archaeological theories have implications not only for how we study the past...

Law in Light - Priestesses, Priests, and the Revitalization of Akan Spirituality in the United States and Ghana

"Brilliantly exploring spiritual terrains and orders, Lauren Coyle Rosen, in conjunction with Akan keepers of sacred knowledge, soul-craf...

Ur - The City of the Moon God. Archaeological Histories

The ancient Mesoptamian city of Ur was a Sumerian city state which flourished as a centre of trade and civilisation between 2800-2000 BCE...

Welt-kult-ur-sprung - World origin of culture

Eiszeitjäger schufen vor 40 000 Jahren in den Höhlen des Ach- und Lonetals, den Nebentälern der Donau westlich und östlich von Ulm, die e...

Killers of the Flower Moon

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered be...

The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara

Texts and images from the Book of the Dead were widely used to decorate the walls of tombs during Egypt's New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BCE)....

How to Love a Rat - Detecting Bombs in Postwar Cambodia

"This inventive and beautiful ethnography offers powerful insights into the multispecies worlds created by warfare. Darcie DeAngelo's mov...

The Splendid and the Vile - Churchill, Family and Defiance during the Bombing of London

On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and...

The Splendid and the Vile

On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and...

Wasser für Carnuntum - Versorgung, Entsorgung, Badekultur im Römischen Reich und in der Stadt an der Donau. BAND II: Carnuntum

Im Laufe der Ausgrabungen zwischen dem 18. und 21. Jahrhundert (also heute) wurden im einstigen Legionslager Carnuntum mehrere öffentlich...

Wasser für Carnuntum - Versorgung, Entsorgung, Badekultur im Römischen Reich und in der Stadt an der Donau. BAND I: Im Römischen Reich

Im Laufe der Ausgrabungen zwischen dem 18. und 21. Jahrhundert (also heute) wurden im einstigen Legionslager Carnuntum mehrere öffentlich...

The Botanic Age - Planting the Seeds of Human Evolution

Identifying a period before the Stone Age that represents a key turning point in human evolution, The Botanic Age provides a fascinating ...

Ötzi, the Iceman - The Full Facts at a Glance

Old and exhausted, with an arrowhead lodged in his shoulder - this is how the Iceman met his death 5,300 years ago. Since the discovery o...

Life on Our Planet - Accompanies the Landmark Netflix Series

With over 200 images from the groundbreaking Netlix series, we learn about life's epic battle to conquer and survive on planet Earth. Fro...

The World of Stonehenge

Stonehenge, a UNESCO World Heritage site, stands at the center of a rich archaeological landscape. Accompanying a groundbreaking exhibiti...

Pernil Alto - An agricultural village of the Middle Archaic period in Southern Peru

As of yet, little is known about the emergence of agriculture in the Central Andes. The results of the investigations of the Middle Archa...

The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRI...

Guide to Palaeolithic Artifacts and Features of the Americas

This book is the go-to reference guide for stone, bone, antler, ivory, and wooden artifacts of the palaeolithic era in the Americas.

Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography - The 'Plupast' from Herodotus to Appian

This book offers case studies of the past embedded in the past as a window into the ancient historians' workshop.