Archaeology by Period or Region Books

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1. The Prehistory of Iberia: Debating Early Social Stratification and the State

   Edited by María Cruz Berrocal, Leonardo García Sanjuán, Antonio Gilman

   The origin and early development of social stratification is essentially an archaeological problem. The impressive advance of archaeological research has revealed that, first and foremost, the pre-eminence of stratified or class society in today’s world is the result of a long social struggle. This...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-88592-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Childhood in Ancient Athens

   By Lesley Beaumont

   Lesley Beaumont offers an in-depth study of children and childhood in ancient Athens. It concentrates not only on a child's experience of childhood, but also examines the perceptions of children and childhood by Athenian society. Iconographical study is placed in a socio-historical...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-24874-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome, 2nd Edition

   By Charles Gates

   Ancient Cities brings to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence recovered by archaeological excavations from the Mediterranean basin and south-west Asia. It provides surveys of the cities of the ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds, from an...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-49864-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Iron Age Myth and Materiality: An Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000

   By Lotte Hedeager

   Iron Age Myth and Materiality: an Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000 considers the relationship between myth and materiality in Scandinavia from the beginning of the post-Roman era and the European Migrations around AD 400 up until the coming of Christianity around AD 1000. It pursues an...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-60604-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. An Archaeology of Materials: Substantial Transformations in Early Prehistoric Europe

   By Chantal Conneller

   An Archaeology of Materials sets out a new approach to the study of raw materials. Traditional understandings of materials in archaeology (and in western thought more widely) have failed to acknowledge both the complexity and, moreover, the benefits of an analysis of materials. Here Conneller...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-88130-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Atlas of Medieval Britain

   By Christopher Daniell

   Christopher Daniell's Atlas of Medieval Britain presents a sweeping visual survey of Britain from the Roman occupation to 1485. Annotated throughout with clear commentary, this volume tells the story of the British Isles, and makes visually accessible the varied and often complex world of the...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-60223-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The First Maya Civilization: Ritual and Power Before the Classic Period

   By Francisco Estrada-Belli

   When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century A.D., inaugurating the Classic period of Maya history that lasted for six centuries and saw the rise of such famous cities as Palenque, Copan and Yaxchilan, Maya civilization was already nearly a millennium old...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-42994-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial

   By Paul Pettitt

   Humans are unique in that they expend considerable effort and ingenuity in disposing of the dead. Some of the recognisable ways we do this are visible in the Palaeolithic archaeology of the Ice Age. The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial takes a novel approach to the long-term development of...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-35490-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. The Roman Empire around 200 C.E.

   Edited by RICHARD TALBERT

   Routledge Wall Maps for the Ancient World provide both students and scholars with detailed and exacting geographic information of the ancient world. Using the world renowned geographic data from the Ancient World Mapping Centre, the sweeping views of the ancient world allow students to understand...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-58439-5 | Wall Map (Routledge)

10. Italy in the Mid First Century CE

    Edited by RICHARD TALBERT

    Routledge Wall Maps for the Ancient World provide both students and scholars with detailed and exacting geographic information of the ancient world. Using the world renowned geographic data from the Ancient World Mapping Centre, the sweeping views of the ancient world allow students to understand...

    September 2010 | 978-0-415-58440-1 | Wall Map (Routledge)