Archaeology by Period or Region Books

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31. Past Human Migrations in East Asia

    Matching Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics

    Edited by Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, Roger Blench, Malcolm D. Ross, Ilia Peiros, Marie Lin

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia

    The study of the prehistory of East Asia is developing very rapidly. In uncovering the story of the flows of human migration that constituted the peopling of East Asia there exists widespread debate about the nature of evidence and the tools for correlating results from different disciplines....

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
32. Excavating Women

    A History of Women in European Archaeology

    Edited by Magarita Díaz-Andreu, Marie Louise Stig Sorensen

    Archaeologists are increasingly aware of issues of gender when studying past societies; women are becoming better represented within the discipline and are attaining top academic posts. However, until now there has been no study undertaken of the history of women in European archaeology and their...

    Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
33. The Roman City and its Periphery

    From Rome to Gaul

    By Penelope Goodman

    The first and only monograph available on the subject, The Roman City and its Periphery offers a full and detailed treatment of the little-investigated aspect of Roman urbanism – the phenomenon of suburban development. Presenting archaeological and literary evidence alongside sixty-three plans of...

    Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
34. Rome in the Pyrenees

    Lugdunum and the Convenae from the first century B.C. to the seventh century A.D.

    By Simon Esmonde-Cleary

    Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

    Rome in the Pyrenees is a unique treatment in English of the archaeological and historical evidence for an important Roman town in Gaul, Lugdunum in the French Pyrenees, and for its surrounding people the Convenae. The book opens with the creation of the Convenae by Pompey the Great in the first...

    Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
35. An Archaeology of Images

    Iconology and Cosmology in Iron Age and Roman Europe

    By Miranda Aldhouse Green

    Using archaeology and social anthropology, and more than 100 original line drawings and photographs, An Archaeology of Images takes a fresh look at how ancient images of both people and animals were used in the Iron Age and Roman societies of Europe, 600 BC to AD 400 and investigates the various...

    Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
36. Archaic Eretria

    A Political and Social History from the Earliest Times to 490 BC

    By Keith G. Walker

    This book presents for the first time a history of Eretria during the Archaic Era, the city's most notable period of political importance and Keith Walker examines all the major elements of the city's success. One of the key factors explored is Eretria's role as a pioneer coloniser in both the...

    Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
37. Scholars, Travellers and Trade

    The Pioneer Years of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, 1818-1840

    By R. B. Halbertsma

    Today, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden is internationally known for its outstanding archaeological collections. Yet its origins lie in an insignificant assortment of artefacts used for study by Leiden University. How did this transformation come about?Ruurd Halbertsma has delved into...

    Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
38. The British Palaeolithic

    Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World

    By Paul Pettitt, Mark White

    The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years ago) to the end of the Ice Age. Landscape and ecology form the canvas for an explicitly interpretative approach aimed at...

    Published January 16th 2012 by Routledge
39. The Atlantic Iron Age

    Settlement and Identity in the First Millennium BC

    By Jon Henderson

    It may be surprising to learn that this book is the first ever survey of the Atlantic Iron Age: this tradition is cited in archaeology frequently enough to seem firmly established, yet has never been clearly defined.With this book, Jon Henderson provides an important and much-needed exploration of...

    Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
40. The Archaeology of Ethiopia

    By Niall Finneran

    This book provides the first truly comprehensive multi-period study of the archaeology of Ethiopia, surveying the country's history, detailing the discoveries from the late Stone Age, including the famous 'Lucy' and moving onto the emergence of food production, prehistoric rock art and an analysis...

    Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge