Patina on Historic Glass
A world-first study of patina on glass from Cossack, Western Australia. It reveals how its internal structures can date glass for archaeology, determine geochemical processes, and unravel local climate patterns, while also pointing to problems in recycling glass.
The mysterious petroglyphs of Northumberland are more than ancient art. They are a prehistoric star atlas, depicting the night sky 4,500 years ago with stunning accuracy. This book decodes their messages and provides a field guide to interpreting the rocks for yourself.
Place as Material Culture
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.
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 presents papers from the “Methodology and Archaeometry” conference. It covers topics in archaeometry and archaeological methodology, including non-destructive archaeology, artifact analysis, and experimental archaeology, providing new insights and approaches.
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.
These articles offer invaluable insights into the results of different interactions between “Romans” and Others. They cover a huge geographical area, from Britain, across Europe to the Near East, and provide information on the Roman Empire as seen through the eyes of foreigners.
Reimagining Regional Analyses
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.
Religion in Early Assam
This volume offers a fresh approach to religion in Early Assam, bringing together archaeology, history, and heritage. It reconstructs the sacred landscape of the Prāgjyotiṣa and Kāmarūpa kingdoms, illustrating implications for Assam’s history and identity.
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.
Sacred Monuments and Practices in the Baltic Sea Region
Over recent decades, the scope of church archaeology has expanded immensely. This book provides a convincing testament to this development, with every chapter giving a distinctive perspective on the theme of sacred monuments and practices written by leading experts in the field.
“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.
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.
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.
Data on gravity reveal a fascinating hidden world, allowing us to “see” under glaciers or beneath desert sands. This book explores subglacial Antarctica, Saharan paleolakes, and ocean-bottom craters, and analyses gravity fields to help find oil and gas with higher probability.
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.
That Was Then, This Is Now
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.
The Amerindian Microcosm
Explore the epic history of the Americas, from hunter-gatherers to vast cities. This book uses revolutionary genomic science to trace the past, present, and future of Native peoples, uncovering a story essential to all humankind.
The Archaeology of Anatolia
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.
The Archaeology of Anatolia Volume II
This second volume in the Archaeology of Anatolia series offers reports on the most recent discoveries from across the Anatolian peninsula. Periods covered span the Epipalaeolithic to the Islamic, and sites and regions range from the western Anatolian coast to Van.