This book presents original and provocative views on the complex and dynamic social lives of Indigenous Australians from an historical perspective....

The Stone Age occupations of Qeqertarsuup Tunua (Disko Bugt) are among the most thoroughly surveyed and best known in Greenland. This volume presen...

Australian physicist and photographer, Peter Elliston, packed his cumbersome camera and travelled over many years to eighteen countries on four con...

This study is devoted to the fascinating story of the drinking horn and how it was used in western culture from Antiquity to modern times. In speci...

Supplement to Pre-Islamic Coinage

Archaeologist James Cunkle is researching the Raven Site ruin the White Mountains of Arizona and from that site is putting back together the pieces...

The Information Society is an evolving project, with new 'ensembles' of social practices and of information and communication technologies (ICTs) e...

In this study Mikkel Sørensen introduces a new dynamic technological methodology to Arctic Archaeology. By means of an investigation of the lithic ...

This book is published to mark the exhibition at Te Papa of the remarkable third century BC funerary statues excavated from the astounding archaeol...

This study is a comparison of the book of Ezekiel with the well-known city lament genre of ancient Mesopotamia. Nine shared features are analyzed a...

For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, Melbourne's Little Lonsdale Street - locally known as 'Little Lon' - was notorious as a foul slum and brot...

The iconic minaret of Jām stands in a remote mountain valley in central Afghanistan, the finest surviving monument of the enigmatic 12th-century Gh...

A new and radically different biography of the Australian-born archaeologist and prehistorian, Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957). In his early life he...

An important part of the heritage of Count Eigil Knuth (1903-1996) is his archaeological archive including contextual information on prehistoric si...

This book provides a modern, scholary edition of the runic inscriptions, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon, discovered in the Isle of Man. All are carv...

Years ago, few people understood the value of the submerged cultural resources beneath the waters of the Chesapeake region. Recently, the search fo...

Tradition – from the Latin tradere, literally to hand over or hand down – has many meanings and as a concept has a long history in Western culture....

A user-friendly guide to the identification and classification of the many types of pottery created by prehistoric peoples of the Southwest.

Upon this Foundation. - The 'Ubaid Reconsidered

Providing a comparative treatment of four cities of the eastern Roman empire in the period 50 BC-AD 250 -- Aphrodisias and Ephesos in Turkey, Athen...

Reflecting in 1769 on the manners and customs of the South Sea islands, Joseph Banks remarked that 'in every expedient for taking fish they are vas...

Addressing topics of production and distribution, iconography, regional studies, and museum collections, this volume sheds new and important light ...

The European coastal areas and the lands around the rivers had great importance for the local populations but also for the Vikings, who settled in ...

The complete wall decorations of 3 Theban tombs (No. 77, No. 175 and No. 249) are here published for the first time. The graves at Thebes in Egypt,...