Forthcoming Archaeology by Period or Region Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Ancient Egyptian Temple Ritual

   Performance, Patterns, and Practice

   By Katherine Eaton

   Series: Routledge Studies in Egyptology

   Large state temples in ancient Egypt were vast agricultural estates, with interests in mining, trading, and other economic activities. The temple itself served as the mansion or palace of the deity to whom the estate belonged, and much of the ritual in temples was devoted to offering a...

   To Be Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
2. From Prehistoric Villages to Cities

   Settlement Aggregation and Community Transformation

   Edited by Jennifer Birch

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   Archaeologists have focused a great deal of attention on explaining the evolution of village societies and the transition to a ‘Neolithic’ way of life. Considerable interest has also concentrated on urbanism and the rise of the earliest cities. Between these two landmarks in human cultural...

   To Be Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Etruscan World

   Edited by Jean MacIntosh Turfa

   Series: Routledge Worlds

   The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean, with such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and water tunnels, the development of the...

   To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity

   The Petrified Gaze

   By Johannes Siapkas, Lena Sjögren

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity investigates the study and display of ancient sculpture from archaeological, art history, and museum studies perspectives. Ancient sculptures not only give us knowledge about ancient Greek and Roman pasts, but they also mediate ideals that inform us about modern...

   To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge
5. Ancient Near East: The Basics

   By Daniel C. Snell

   Series: The Basics

   Ancient Near East: The Basics surveys the history of the ancient Middle East from the invention of writing to Alexander the Great’s conquest. The book introduces both the physical and intellectual environment of those times, the struggles of state-building and empire construction, and the dissent...

   To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
6. Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory

   Edited by Stella Souvatzi, Athena Hadji

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory addresses these two concepts as interrelated, rather than as separate categories, and as a means for understanding past social relations at different scales. The need for this volume was realised through four main observations: the ever growing interest in...

   To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
7. Science in the Study of Ancient Egypt

   By Sonia Zakrzewski, Andrew Shortland, Joanne Rowland

   There is a notable lack of archaeological science used in Egyptology and Egyptian archaeology today. The reasons behind this are twofold: one, the discipline started with the early translation of Hieroglyphs which, combined with the large amount of written and pictorial material available, has long...

   To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. Consumerism in the Ancient Mediterranean

   Imports and Identity Construction

   By Justin Walsh

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   Study of long-distance trade in Greek pottery traces its intellectual roots back to twentieth-century investigations of Greek colonization. Scholarship until 1980 tended to treat colonial interactions as a straightforward and one-way transmission of Greek culture to indigenous groups. In this model...

   To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Craft Traditions of the Ancient Mediterranean

   Material Culture, Knowledge Networks, and Technological Change

   Edited by Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Lin Foxhall, Ann Brysbaert

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   This edited volume investigates knowledge networks based on materials and associated technologies in Prehistoric Europe and the Classical Mediterranean. It emphasises the significance of material objects to the construction, maintenance, and collapse of networks of various forms – which are central...

   To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. Ancient Persia and Iranian Civilization

    By Clement Huart

    Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize...

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge