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1. Understanding Medieval England: A new social history and archaeology 1000-1550

   By Neil Rushton, Colin Platt

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-39722-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. An Archaeology of Land Ownership

   Edited by Maria Relaki, Despina Catapoti

   Within archaeological studies, land tenure has been mainly studied from the viewpoint of ownership. A host of studies has argued about land ownership on the basis of the simple co-existence of artefacts on the landscape; other studies have tended to extrapolate land ownership from more indirect...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-88618-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Forensic Anthropology: An Introduction

   Edited by Maria Theresa Tersigni-Tarrant, Natalie Shirley

   Written by experts in their respective fields, this introductory textbook provides a detailed history of forensic anthropology. Comprehensive, user-friendly, and with more than 300 color photographs, the book presents an explanation of the methodology, includes up-to-date analytical techniques, and...

   June 2011 | 978-1-4398164-6-2 | Hardback (CRC Press)

4. 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)

5. Greek Archaeology for Historians

   By Gillian Shepherd

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-41481-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Field Archaeology: An Introduction, 2nd Edition

   By Peter Drewett

   Peter Drewett's comprehensive survey explores every stage of the dig process, from the core work of discovery and excavation to the final product: the published archaeological report. Main topics covered are: how an archaeological site is formed finding and recording archaeological...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-55119-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. 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)

8. Ontology of the Material: Engaging Critical Realism and Archaeological Theory

   By Sandra Wallace

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-59127-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. 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)

10. Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture

    Edited by Juliette Fritsch

    Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture will publish the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery interpretation...

    February 2011 | 978-0-415-88575-1 | Hardback (Routledge)