Archaeology – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Tools versus Cores

Alternative Approaches to Stone Tool Analysis

Edited By: Shannon P. McPherron

£39.99

Is a stone artifact a tool or a core? This volume tackles this question by examining difficult cases from across the globe, challenging long-held assumptions and leading to a richer understanding of the past, less encumbered by modern categories.

Reconstructing Human-Landscape Interactions

Edited By: Pam Dickinson, Jason Jeandron, Lucy Wilson

£39.99

The landscape constrains human activity, and our actions leave traces. Geoarchaeology finds these traces to reconstruct how past peoples behaved, offering data that must contribute to the debate on the sustainability of present-day land use.

Security of Archaeological Heritage

Edited By: Nick Petrov

£24.99

"Security of Archaeological Heritage" covers heritage management in archaeology from England to Bangladesh. It reflects real international exchange experience, based on the proceedings of two recent meetings that took place in Ireland and Russia.

“Security of Archaeological Heritage” covers heritage management in archaeology from England to Bangladesh. It reflects real international exchange experience, based on the proceedings of two recent meetings that took place in Ireland and Russia.

Space – Archaeology’s Final Frontier? An Intercontinental Approach

Edited By: Dustin Keeler, Roderick B. Salisbury

£39.99

This book explores the cultural and social aspects of space in archaeology. Using cutting-edge spatial methods, it reveals how people have used space to subsist, recreate culture, and understand landscape, social relationships, and cultural heritage.

Early Farmers, Late Foragers, and Ceramic Traditions

On the Beginning of Pottery in the Near East and Europe

Edited By: Dragoş Gheorghiu

£39.99

Prominent scholars present new perspectives on the beginnings of pottery in Europe's late forager and early farmer societies. This collection of essays explores the rise of a new technology, offering a fascinating read for scholars and the public alike.

Prominent scholars present new perspectives on the beginnings of pottery in Europe’s late forager and early farmer societies. This collection of essays explores the rise of a new technology, offering a fascinating read for scholars and the public alike.

Taking Archaeology out of Heritage

Edited By: Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton

£39.99

Archaeology has long dominated “heritage” policy. This book asks whether archaeological data is actually heritage, and if archaeological knowledge reflects the values it carries for diverse communities. Academics and activists debate these critical issues.

Chronology and Evolution within the Mesolithic of North-West Europe

Proceedings of an International Meeting, Brussels, May 30th-June 1st 2007

Edited By: Philippe Crombé, Joris Sergant, Mark Van Strydonck

£64.99

These proceedings focus on the contribution of carbon-14 dates to Mesolithic research in North-West Europe. 40 papers cover themes like lithic industries, settlement patterns, burial practices, human impact on the environment, and neolithisation.

Written on Stone

The Cultural Reception of British Prehistoric Monuments

Edited By: Joanne Parker

£34.99

This book explores the history of Britain's prehistoric monuments: not their origins, but how they have been viewed over centuries. It investigates their impact on culture, from motivating artists and authors to inspiring 'New Age' religions.

This book explores the history of Britain’s prehistoric monuments: not their origins, but how they have been viewed over centuries. It investigates their impact on culture, from motivating artists and authors to inspiring ‘New Age’ religions.

Reimagining Regional Analyses

The Archaeology of Spatial and Social Dynamics

Edited By: Tina L. Thurston

£44.99

Reimagining Regional Analysis explores the interplay between new methods and theory. Using GIS, satellite imagery, and non-traditional data, this volume examines the contingent, recursive relationships between people, their social activities, and the environment.

Grahame Clark and His Legacy

Edited By: John Coles, Arkadiusz Marciniak

£39.99

Authorities assess the major contributions of Grahame Clark, a pioneer in prehistoric economies, ecology, and science-based archaeology. This book surveys his role in the development of 20th-century archaeology and the basis it provides for today's work.

Bronze Age China

Style and Material

Edited By: Wang Ying

£39.99

This anthology expands the definition of “style” in Chinese art beyond decoration. By considering function, material, and context, scholars investigate the lifestyles, social structures, and rituals of Bronze Age China using the latest excavated data.

The Lure of Olde Arizona

By: Robert D. Morritt

From £29.99

This book affords an in-depth history of Arizona from the Paleographical era up until Statehood. The book examines the early roots of the indigenous people, together with contemporary accounts of early settlers.

The Archaeology of Politics

The Materiality of Political Practice and Action in the Past

Edited By: Andrew M. Bauer, Peter G. Johanson

£44.99

This collection of essays examines political practice in the past through the analysis of material culture. It reconceptualizes politics not as a structure (like the State) but as a dynamic set of practices entangled with the material world of people and objects.

Archaeology Experiences Spirituality?

Edited By: Dragoş Gheorghiu

£39.99

This book goes beyond “material culture” to forge an archaeology of spirituality. Through a series of case studies, archaeologists use experientiality to approach the mystic experience of ancient peoples and ask how we can access the spirituality of the past.

Archaeological Encounters

Building Networks of Spanish and British Archaeologists in the 20th Century

By: Margarita Díaz-Andreu

£54.99

This book examines the relationship between British and Spanish archaeology from the 1920s to the 1970s. Based on the letters of archaeologist Luis Pericot, it explores the personal networks that shaped how knowledge was produced, transmitted, and received.

Place as Material Culture

Objects, Geographies and the Construction of Time

Edited By: Dragoş Gheorghiu, George Nash

£49.99

This book explores the relationships between place, materiality, time, and ritual. It challenges traditional norms that have trivialized landscape archaeology by exploring the symbolic meanings and human emotion bound-up in place.

The Power of the Line

Metaphor, Number and Material Culture in European Prehistory

By: Aleksander Dzbyński

£39.99

The development of material culture was a contribution to the mathematization of the human mind. This book distinguishes between two dichotomous development paths in Europe and the Near East: the measuring stick metaphor and the object collection metaphor.

The Elusive Aryans

Archaeological Search and Vedic Research; The Origin of the Hindus

By: Shrinivas Vasudeo Pradhan

£52.99

The elusiveness of the Aryans stems from their mysterious origins and their later assimilation in India. This book addresses both questions, re-examining archaeological material and Vedic literature to trace the transformation of their gods, rituals, and philosophy.

Ethics as Scales of Forms

By: Richard Allen

£44.99

This book overcomes the fragmentation of moral philosophy by synthesizing aspects like consequences, duties, and values. It proposes a scale where each component is fulfilled in the next, culminating in the unique person as a loving being, our highest end.

The Orthodox Hegel

Development Further Developed

By: Stephen Theron

£57.99

This book assesses the consequences of Hegelian thought for spirituality, showing how the Christian movement is Spirit itself impelling. Capturing absolute idealism for orthodoxy, it develops themes of logic, Trinity, incarnation, and the absolute.