From Maes Howe in Orkney to Stonehenge and souther England, an astonishing theme recurs in Britain's neolitihc landscapes. 'The Silbury Revelation'...

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....

In the autumn of 1944, around 70,000 people fled Estonia in the face of the Red Army advance. Most of them believed the Soviet occupation would be ...

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

The images in this volume are from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. The first one hundred im...

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 volume showcases the fieldwork undertaken at the Hampi-Vijayanagara site during the 1990s by the international teams of the Vijayanagara Resear...

The architectural inventory documents all the structures of the Sacred Centre of Vijayanagara, the great ruined Hindu capital on the Tungabhadra Ri...

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 ...

Beginning with a satirical romp through the archaeological Near East, this book proceeds to examine the subject of pschometry--reading encoded info...

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,...

The study "When the bad bleeds" examines the function of manticism in the English revenge tragedy of the Renaissance. Mantic elements are supernatu...