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International Conference on Use-Wear Analysis

Use-Wear 2012

Edited By: Nuno Bicho, Juan F. Gibaja

£73.99

This volume explores use-wear studies as a proxy for prehistoric techno-cultural reconstruction. Discussing various research methods, techniques, chronologies, and regions, this book will be of interest to both archaeologists and anthropologists.

How Do We Imagine the Past? On Metaphorical Thought, Experientiality and Imagination in Archaeology

Edited By: Paul Bouissac, Dragoş Gheorghiu

£41.99

Archaeology’s objective approach has been revealed as a subjective process. This book considers the question: how does the archaeologist think today? Through personal narratives, archaeologists describe their methods in the process of imagining the past.

From West to East

Current Approaches to Medieval Archaeology

Edited By: Scott D. Stull

£47.99

A sweeping overview of new research in medieval archaeology. This collection unites cutting-edge theory with global case studies—from Viking Vinland and Irish castles to Byzantine sites and the medieval diet. A vital look at the latest work in the field.

PoCA (Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology) 2012

Edited By: Hartmut Matthäus, Bärbel Morstadt, Christian Vonhoffm

£62.99

This volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to Cypriot archaeology and material culture, from the 3rd millennium B.C. to modern times. Contributions illuminate various aspects of the island's history, with a special focus on the formative Bronze Age.

This volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to Cypriot archaeology and material culture, from the 3rd millennium B.C. to modern times. Contributions illuminate various aspects of the island’s history, with a special focus on the formative Bronze Age.

Complex Assemblages, Complex Social Structures

Rural Settlements in the Upper and Middle Thames Valley 100BC to AD100

By: Wendy A. Morrison

£52.99

This monograph examines the rural settlements of Late Iron Age and Early Roman Britain through the lens of Cultural Theory in order to provide a picture of a more nuanced and diverse human landscape.

Lemesos

A History of Limassol in Cyprus from Antiquity to the Ottoman Conquest

Edited By: Angel Nicolaou Konnari, Chris Schabel

£73.99

This is the first scholarly work in English on the history of Limassol, Cyprus, from antiquity to the 1570 Ottoman conquest. Six scholars explore Limassol’s political, social, economic, artistic, and cultural history.

The Archaeology of Anatolia

Recent Discoveries (2011-2014) Volume I

Edited By: Gregory McMahon, Sharon R. Steadman

£52.99

This volume brings together the latest reports on archaeological projects from every region of Anatolia. Scholars present their most recent data, providing results years ahead of final publication and ensuring a timely presentation of their fieldwork and research.

Muge 150th

The 150th Anniversary of the Discovery of Mesolithic Shellmiddens—Volume 1

Edited By: Nuno Bicho, Cleia Detry, T. Douglas Price

£57.99

This first volume of Muge 150th focuses on the Mesolithic structures of the Muge and Sado Valleys. Contributions cover a wide range of archaeological and anthropological themes, including diet, migration, settlement, technology, and social complexity.

International Symposium on East Anatolia—South Caucasus Cultures

Proceedings I

Edited By: Mehmet Işıklı, Birol Can, Mehmet Işikli

£57.99

The Southern Caucasus is a historically vital but under-researched region. This publication presents 75 selected articles from an international symposium, exploring the area's cultures from earliest times to the Middle Ages through archaeology and art history.

The Southern Caucasus is a historically vital but under-researched region. This publication presents 75 selected articles from an international symposium, exploring the area’s cultures from earliest times to the Middle Ages through archaeology and art history.

Muge 150th

The 150th Anniversary of the Discovery of Mesolithic Shellmiddens—Volume 2

Edited By: Nuno Bicho, Cleia Detry, T. Douglas Price

£52.99

This book brings together papers on the Mesolithic period and its transition to the Neolithic across Europe. Including theoretical discussions, it also ventures outside Europe with case studies on shell middens from Patagonia and the Red Sea.

Muge 150th

The 150th Anniversary of the Discovery of Mesolithic Shellmiddens—Volumes 1 and 2

Edited By: Nuno Bicho, Cleia Detry, T. Douglas Price

£73.99

This publication explores a number of archaeological themes, and is divided into two volumes, with the first focusing on Mesolithic finds in the Muge and Sado valleys. The second volume discusses the general Mesolithic period and its transition to the Neolithic across Europe.

International Symposium on East Anatolia—South Caucasus Cultures

Proceedings II

Edited By: Janette Tripp Bailey, Birol Can, Mehmet Işikli

£62.99

Despite its great historical and cultural importance, the Southern Caucasus has been inadequately researched. This two-volume publication compiles 75 articles from an international symposium exploring the region's cultures from earliest times to the Middle Ages.

Despite its great historical and cultural importance, the Southern Caucasus has been inadequately researched. This two-volume publication compiles 75 articles from an international symposium exploring the region’s cultures from earliest times to the Middle Ages.

That Was Then, This Is Now

Contemporary Archaeology and Material Cultures in Australia

Edited By: Anne Clarke, Ursula K. Frederick

£47.99

This title represents a compendium of innovative research into the ideas, experiences, and iconographies embodied in materialities of the recent past. Drawing upon a variety of disciplines, the contributors examine themes of relevance to the contemporary world.

Something Out of the Ordinary? Interpreting Diversity in the Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik and Beyond

Edited By: Luc Amkreutz, Fabian Haack, Daniela Hofmann

£62.99

Using a case study of the archaeological phenomenon of the Linearbandkeramik as a starting point, this title brings together contributions by international specialists tackling the notion of cultural diversity and its explanatory power in archaeological analysis more generally.

Beyond War

Archaeological Approaches to Violence

Edited By: Albert García-Piquer, Assumpció Vila-Mitjà

£47.99

The studies gathered here present the necessity of rethinking the concept of “violence” in archaeology, in order to overcome the old conception that limits violence to its most evident expressions in war and intra- or extra-group conflict.

Landscape and History in the Lykos Valley

Laodikeia and Hierapolis in Phrygia

Edited By: Francesco D’Andria, Celal Şimşek

£61.99

This book probes archaeological excavations and investigations into the history of the Lykos valley, Turkey. It concerns, among other things, discoveries at the Ploutonion of Hierapolis, the excavations of the tabernae in Tripolis, and the marble origins used in Hierapolis.

Rethinking Comparison in Archaeology

Edited By: Joana Alves-Ferreira, Ana Vale

£61.99

Although comparative exercises are used both explicitly and implicitly in a large number of archaeological publications, they are often uncritically taken for granted. As such, the contributors here reflect on comparison as a core theme in archaeology from different perspectives.

Cremation, Corpses and Cannibalism

Comparative Cosmologies and Centuries of Cosmic Consumption

By: Anders Kaliff, Terje Oestigaard

£61.99

Cremation was not the final rite. The archaeological record shows the dead—flesh and bone—were incorporated in other rituals. Bones leave traces of practices unseen in the contemporary world, including cannibalism. This book fleshes out prehistoric religions in Scandinavia.

Humans and the Environment in Northern Baikal Siberia During the Late Pleistocene

Edited By: E.M. Ineshin, A.V. Teten'kin

£64.99

For the first time in English, this volume presents three decades of research on Bol’shoy Yakor’ I, a key Late Pleistocene site in Eastern Siberia. Through detailed study of lithic production and hunting, it reveals the seasonal cycles of prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory

Sourcing, Processing and Distribution

Edited By: Xavier Terradas Batlle, Telmo Pereira

£80.99

This collection presents state-of-the-art approaches to the use of inorganic raw materials in the period known as prehistory. It focuses on stone-tools, adornments, colorants and pottery from Europe, America and Africa.