Ancient Art, Architecture and Archaeology
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From Prehistoric Villages to Cities
Settlement Aggregation and Community Transformation
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
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Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity
The Petrified Gaze
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 March 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Roman Archaeology for Historians
Series: Approaching the Ancient World
Roman Archaeology for Historians provides students of Roman history with a guide to the contribution of archaeology to the study of their subject. It discusses the issues with the use of material and textual evidence to explain the Roman past, and the importance of viewing this evidence in context....
Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
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Roman Urban Street Networks
Streets and the Organization of Space in Four Cities
Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology
The streets of Roman cities have received surprisingly little attention until recently. Traditionally the main interest archaeologists and classicists had in streets was in tracing the origins and development of the orthogonal layout used in Roman colonial cities. Roman Urban Street Networks is the...
Published February 21st 2011 by Routledge
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Resurrecting Pompeii
Resurrecting Pompeii provides an in-depth study of a unique site from antiquity with information about a population who all died from the same known cause within a short period of time. Pompeii has been continuously excavated and studied since 1748. Early scholars working in Pompeii and other...
Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
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Monemvasia
A Byzantine City State
This lavishly illustrated book stands out in its field as the only book currently available on the best-preserved Byzantine city in the Peloponnese – Monemvasia. Haris A. Kalligas, a world authority on Monemvasia’s history and architecture, here explores the city’s foundation, its status as a...
Published June 22nd 2009 by Routledge
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Ancient Turkey
Series: Routledge World Archaeology
Students of antiquity often see ancient Turkey as a bewildering array of cultural complexes. Ancient Turkey brings together in a coherent account the diverse and often fragmented evidence, both archaeological and textual, that forms the basis of our knowledge of the development of Anatolia from the...
Published March 9th 2009 by Routledge