Considering that Orkney is a group of relatively small islands lying off the northeast coast of the Scottish mainland, its wealth of Neolithic archaeology is truly extraordinary. An assortment of ...

Incomplete Archaeologies takes a familiar archaeological concept - assemblages - and reconsiders such groupings, collections and sets of things from the perspective of the work required to assemble them. The ...

Las aportaciones al mejor conocimiento de la Mezquita de Córdoba realizadas por Félix Hernández y otros estudios más recientes realizados durante el siglo pasado constituyen el contenido del libro de ...

How did small-scale societies in the past experience and respond to sea-level rise? What happened when their dwellings, hunting grounds and ancestral lands were lost under an advancing tide? This ...

How do children construct, negotiate and organize space? The study of social space in any human group is fraught with limitations, and to these we must add the further limits ...

Artistic and archaeological evidence indicates that textiles played essential practical and social roles in Minoan and Mycenaean societies This volume investigates evidence for patterned textiles that were produced by two ...

New geoinformatic technologies have recently had a transformative effect on landscape archaeology, particularly by facilitating the high resolution acquisition and analysis of data over large areas. These techniques have fundamentally ...

Professor Rodrigo de Balbín has played a major role in advancing our knowledge of Palaeolithic art, and the occasion of his retirement provides an excellent opportunity to assess the value ...

Il y a 110 000 ans, en Normandie, l'homme a marché sur la dune ! Une vingtaine d'empreintes de pas et de mains associées à plusieurs niveaux d'occupation relevés sur ...

The first volume in many years to synthesise results from the Çatalhöyük Research Project. The volume reports on the exciting new discoveries and advances that are being made in the ...

ART// For too long the Neanderthals have been seen as dim-witted evolutionary dead-enders who looked and behaved completely differently from us, but in recent years their story has been transformed ...

A basic handbook of good practice, with case studies and examples, of the basics of geoarchaeological approaches to past site and landscape interpretation Geoarchaeology is a major branch of archaeological ...

Presents details of important flint dagger corpora not previously published together, with superb illustrations The present volume brings together papers that address questions of the regional variability and socio-technical complexity ...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, growing numbers of tourists and scholars from Europe and America, ascinated by new discoveries, visited the Near East and Egypt - attracted ...

The subject of 'magic' has long been considered peripheral and sensationalist, the word itself having become something of an academic taboo. However, beliefs in magic and the rituals that surround ...

From antiquity onwards people have opted to live near rivers and major watercourses. Both freshwater and navigable routes provide the obvious reasons for settling near a river, but there are ...

Manual de campo del arqueólogo proporciona todas y cada una de las herramientas necesarias para desarrollar una intervención arqueológica. Este minucioso libro está pensado para arqueólogos y arqueólogas que deseen ...

In the past, Bronze Age painted plaster in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean has been studied from a range of different but isolated viewpoints. This volume brings both technological ...

Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping, scientific history of life on Earth. Recounting the adventures behind ...

Archaeological analysis at the regional scale investigates the past by studying how people distributed themselves and their activities across a landscape of hundreds or thousands of square kilometers. Archaeological field ...