Landscape and History in the Lykos Valley
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.
Little is known about Mesopotamian houses. This book addresses this gap by analysing houses in the third millennium, a critical period for early urbanization, relating their characteristics to the socio-economical history of the period.
While the destruction of archaeological sites in war often makes the headlines, lesser disputes about local heritage sites go unreported. This book focuses on conflicts between archaeological conservation and religious faiths which use archaeological heritage in their practices.
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.
This volume presents the results of archaeological research at Grotta Mora Cavorso, a cave in central Italy. Covering the Historic and Protohistoric periods, it reveals the cave’s complex, multi-layered use as a burial and ritual place, a hermitage, and even a war refuge.
Use-wear Analysis on Quartzite Flaked Tools
Despite its frequent use for stone tools, there is a lack of research on use-wear on quartzite. This handbook fills that gap, proposing a new method for students and analysts that uses scanning electron microscopy to overcome the obstacles posed by the rock’s irregular surface.
Defining the Fringe of Contemporary Australian Archaeology
This collection draws on the wealth of work currently being undertaken by contemporary archaeologists in Australia, contextualising the fringe dwellers that operate on the periphery of accepted academia.
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.
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.
The Orthodox Hegel
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.
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
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.
Archaeological Encounters
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.
Muge 150th
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.
The Elusive Aryans
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.
Complex Assemblages, Complex Social Structures
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.
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.
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.
Beyond War
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.
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.