British and European Archaeology
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The Archaeology of Britain
An Introduction from Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century, 2nd Edition
The Archaeology of Britain is the only concise and up-to-date introduction to the archaeological record of Britain from the reoccupation of the landmass by Homo sapiens during the later stages of the most recent Ice Age until last century. This fully revised second edition extends its coverage,...
Published December 6th 2009 by Routledge
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The British Palaeolithic
Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World
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
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Prehistoric Britain
2nd Edition
Series: Routledge World Archaeology
Britain has been inhabited by humans for over half a million years, during which time there were a great many changes in lifestyles and in the surrounding landscape. This book, now in its second edition, examines the development of human societies in Britain from earliest times to the Roman...
Published June 8th 2010 by Routledge
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The Vikings
Series: Peoples of the Ancient World
The Vikings provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the complex world of the early medieval Scandinavians. In the space of less than 300 years from the late eighth to the late eleventh centuries CE, people from what are now Norway, Sweden and Denmark left their homelands in...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Iron Age Myth and Materiality
An Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000
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 up until the coming of Christianity. It pursues an interdisciplinary interpretation of...
Published April 26th 2011 by Routledge
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The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade
Holy War and Colonisation
The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade explores the archaeology and material culture of the crusade against the Prussian tribes in the 13th century, and the subsequent society created by the Teutonic Order which lasted into the 16th century. It provides the first synthesis of the material culture...
Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
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The Archaeology of Celtic Art
More wide ranging, both geographically and chronologically, than any previous study, this well-illustrated book offers a new definition of Celtic art. Tempering the much-adopted art-historical approach, D.W. Harding argues for a broader definition of Celtic art and views it within a much wider...
Published May 2nd 2007 by Routledge
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The British Lower Palaeolithic
Stones in Contention
Taking as its central theme the issue of whether early Hominins organized themselves into societies as we understand them, John McNabb looks at how modern researchers recognize such archaeological cultures. He examines the existence of a stone tool culture called the Clactonian to...
Published July 26th 2007 by Routledge
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Contested Objects
Material Memories of the Great War
Contested Objects breaks new ground in the interdisciplinary study of material culture. Its focus is on the rich and varied legacy of objects from the First World War as the global conflict that defined the twentieth century. From the iconic German steel helmet to practice trenches on Salisbury...
Published July 23rd 2009 by Routledge
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Iron Age Communities in Britain
An account of England, Scotland and Wales from the Seventh Century BC until the Roman Conquest, 4th Edition
Since its first publication in 1971, Barry Cunliffe's monumental survey has established itself as a classic of British archaeology. This fully revised fourth edition maintains the qualities of the earlier editions, whilst taking into account the significant developments that have moulded the...
Published August 20th 2009 by Routledge
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The Iron Age in Northern Britain
Celts and Romans, Natives and Invaders
The Iron Age in Northern Britain examines the impact of the Roman expansion northwards, and the native response to the Roman occupation on both sides of the frontiers. It traces the emergence of historically-recorded communities in the post-Roman period and looks at the clash of cultures between...
Published August 25th 2004 by Routledge
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Britannia
The Creation of a Roman Province
This book completely re-evaluates the evidence for, and the interpretation of, the rule of the kings of Late Iron Age Britain: Cunobelin and Verica. Within a few generations of their reigns, after one died and the other had fled, Rome’s ceremonial centres had been transformed into the magnificence...
Published September 12th 2008 by Routledge
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Hadrian's Wall and the End of Empire
The Roman Frontier in the 4th and 5th Centuries
Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology
There is no synthetic or comprehensive treatment of any late Roman frontier in the English language to date, despite the political and economic significance of the frontiers in the late antique period. Examining Hadrian’s Wall and the Roman frontier of northern England from the fourth century into...
Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge
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The Roman Remains of Northern and Eastern France
A Guidebook
This book provides a thorough, area by area companion to the region's wealth of monuments, excavations and artefacts, from Paris and Boulogne-sur-Mer to Strasbourg and Lyon. Over ninety sites are treated in detail, including major attractions such as the parc archéologique in Lyon and the...
Published October 5th 2009 by Routledge
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Ritual and Domestic Life in Prehistoric Europe
This fascinating study explores how our prehistoric ancestors developed rituals from everyday life and domestic activities. Richard Bradley contends that for much of the prehistoric period, ritual was not a distinct sphere of activity. Rather it was the way in which different features of the...
Published February 23rd 2005 by Routledge
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The Megaliths of Northern Europe
The North European megaliths are among the most enduring structures built in prehistory; they are imbued with symbolic meanings which embody physical and conceptual ideas about the nature of the world inhabited by the first Northern farmers. The Megaliths of Northern Europe provides a much needed...
Published June 30th 2008 by Routledge
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Sheela-na-gigs
Unravelling an Enigma
Here Barbara Freitag examines all the literature on the subject since their discovery 160 years ago, highlighting the inconsistencies of the various interpretations in regard to origin, function and name. By considering the Sheela-na-gigs in their medieval social context, she suggests that they...
Published September 15th 2004 by Routledge
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Monuments and Landscape in Atlantic Europe
Perception and Society During the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age
Atlantic Europe is the zone par excellence of megalithic monuments, which encompass a wide range of earthen and stone constructions from inpressive stone circles to modest chambered tombs. A single basic concept lies behind this volume - that the intrinsic qualities encountered within the diverse...
Published April 17th 2002 by Routledge
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Archaeology of the Military Orders
A Survey of the Urban Centres, Rural Settlements and Castles of the Military Orders in the Latin East (c.1120–1291)
Including previously unpublished and little known material, this cutting-edge book presents a detailed discussion of the archaeological evidence of the five military orders in the Latin East: the Hospitallers the Templars the Teutonic Knights the Leper Knights of St Lazarus the Knights of St...
Published August 12th 2008 by Routledge
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Matters of Conflict
Material Culture, Memory and the First World War
Matters of Conflict looks at the definitive invention of the twentieth century - industrialised war - and its vast and varied material legacy. From trench art and postcards through avant-garde art, museum collections and prosthetic limbs to battlefield landscapes, the book examines the First World...
Published August 25th 2004 by Routledge
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Living on the Lake in Prehistoric Europe
150 Years of Lake-Dwelling Research
The chance discovery in 1854 of a prehistoric lake village on Lake Zurich triggered what we now call the 'lake-dwelling phenomenon'. One hundred and fifty years of research and animated academic disputes have transformed the phenomenon into one of the most reliable sources of information in wetland...
Published August 18th 2004 by Routledge