Archaeology

Archaeology of Ancient Australia

By Peter Hiscock

This book is an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the eighteenth century AD. It is the only up-to-date textbook on the subject and is designed for undergraduate courses, based on the author's considerable experience of teaching at the Australian National...

Published October 15th 2007 by Routledge

Wretched Kush

Ethnic Identities and Boundries in Egypt's Nubian Empire

By Stuart Tyson Smith

Professor Smith uses Nubia as a case study to explore the nature of ethnic identity. Recent research suggests that ethnic boundaries are permeable, and that ethnic identities are overlapping. This is particularly true when cultures come into direct contact, as with the Egyptian conquest of Nubia in...

Published July 30th 2003 by Routledge

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

The Nubian Past

An Archaeology of the Sudan

By David N. Edwards

This cutting-edge synthesis of the archaeology of Nubia and Sudan from prehistory to the nineteenth century AD is the first major work on this area for over three decades. Drawing on results of the latest research and developing new interpretive frameworks, the area which has produced the most...

Published July 28th 2004 by Routledge

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

Forgotten Africa

An Introduction to its Archaeology

By Graham Connah

Forgotten Africa introduces the general reader and beginning student to Africa's past, emphasizing those aspects only known or best known from archaeological and related evidence. It covers four million years of history across the continent, examining important aspects of Africa's momentous human...

Published August 18th 2004 by Routledge

Southeast Asia

From Prehistory to History

Edited by Peter Bellwood, Dr Ian Glover

This comprehensive and absorbing book traces the cultural history of Southeast Asia from prehistoric (especially Neolithic, Bronze-Iron age) times through to the major Hindu and Buddhist civilizations, to around AD 1300. Southeast Asia has recently attracted archaeological attention as the locus...

Published April 2nd 2006 by Routledge