Books from Archaeopress
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Middle Iron Age Warfare of the Hillfort Dominated Zone C. 400 BC to C. 150 BC.
By Jon Bryant FinneyThe purpose of this study is to define the nature of warfare within the Middle Iron Age of the hillfort dominated zone of lowland Britain (400-50 BC) from the archaeological...
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Bronze Age Landscape and Society in Southern Epirus, Greece
By Thomas F. TartaronIn this work the author focuses on the social and other non-material dimensions of life that are increasingly integral to landscape archaeology. Although the geographical focus of the study is...
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Excavations Alongside Roman Ermine Street, Cambridgeshire, 1996: The Archaeology of the A1(M) Alconbury to Peterborough Road Scheme
By Peter EllisBirmingham University Field Archaeology Unit - Monograph Series 1Written by Peter Ellis, Gwilym Hughes, Peter Leach, Catharine Mould and Jon SterenbergDescribes the results of archaeological investigations at a number of...
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Functional Analysis of Space in Syro-Hittite Architecture
By Marina PucciThis work focuses on the analysis of the architecture in the Syro-Hittite centres that developed in northern Syria and south-eastern Turkey from the early Iron Age until the Assyrian conquest...
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Roman Art, Religion and Society: New Studies from the Roman Art Seminar, Oxford 2005
By Martin HenigThis volume contains a range of papers from a seminar held in Oxford in 2005. What did 'art' in its widest sense mean to 'them', the Romans, and what might...
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Kbor Klib and the Battle of Zama
By Duncan RossAn analysis of the monument in Tunisia and its possible connection with the battle waged between Hannibal and Scipio in 202BCIn the remote countryside of north-central Tunisia, between the cities...
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Ancient Greek Colonies in the Black Sea 2
By Dēmētrios V. Grammenos, Elias K. PetropoulosThis extensive publication aims to communicate to the widest possible readership a collection of papers that, for the main part, deal with established work in progress at sites of ancient...
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The Bioarchaeology of Continental Croatia: An Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains from the Prehistoric to Post-medieval Periods
By Mario ŠlausThis book presents the results of a decade of studying skeletal archaeological collections from continental Croatia. Results of the analyses of 786 skeletons from 21 sites are presented by site...
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The Neolithic Pottery Sequence in Southern Greece
By William W. Phelps, Bill PhelpsThe Peloponnese forms an approximate cultural province. The precise delimitation of a cultural province, even for a restricted archaeological period, is not always easy to define. Over a time-span of...
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Sex, Metaphor, and Ideology in Moche Pottery of Ancient Peru
By Andrew David TurnerThe Moche art style is best known through its highly refined ceramic vessels, which frequently accompanied burials. Estimates suggest that there are over 100,000 Moche vessels in museum and private...
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The Image of Orpheus in Roman Mosaic: An Exploration of the Figure of Orpheus in Graeco-Roman Art and Culture with...
By Ilona Julia JesnickThis book first examines the figure of Orpheus in Graeco-Roman art and culture before exploring how he has been employed in late antique mosaic. Wide-ranging with lots of line-drawings and...
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Great Witcombe Roman Villa, Gloucestershire: A Report on Excavations by Ernest Greenfield, 1960-1973
By Peter E. Leach, Lynne BevanThe basis of this book are excavations undertaken by Ernest Greenfield at the site of a Roman villa at Great Witcombe. The excavations and the finds are presented in detail....
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Nabataean Aila (Aqaba, Jordan) from a Ceramic Perspective: Local and Intra-regional Trade in Aqaba Ware During the First and Second...
By Benjamin J. DolinkaFor the history of Nabataean Aila, the importance of antiquities cannot be underestimated: the pottery recovered from the excavations of the Roman Aqaba Project (RAP) has provided much more information...
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The Development of Pottery Technology from the Late Sixth to the Fifth Millennium B.C. in Northern Jordan: Ethno- and Archaeological...
By Nabil AliThis study is divided into two main parts. Part one presents the ethnoarchaeological study that has been conducted on (late-Sixth to Fifth Millennium BC) pottery production in northern Jordan (the...
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Occupation and Abandonment of Middle Bronze Age Zahrat Adh-Dhra' 1, Jordan: The Behavioural Implications of Quantitative Ceramic Analyses
By Ilya BerelovIn his study of the inhabitants of Zahrat adh-Dhra' 1 on the Dead Sea Plain of Jordan, the author presents a behavioral study of a Bronze Age community and provides...
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Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Settlement Patterns of the Coast Lands of Western Rough Cilicia
By Richard E. BlantonThis volume forms the report of an archaeological survey project carried out in an area of the coastal strip of southern Turkey. Tha aims of the project were to identify...
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Weapons, Warriors and Warfare in Early Egypt
By Gregory Phillip GilbertThis research is a study of the development of weapon technologies in Early Egypt (the interval from earliest times until the end of the 2nd Dynasty of the Egyptian state)...
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Children, Childhood and Society
By Sally Elizabeth Ellen Crawford, Gillian B. ShepherdUniversity of Birmingham IAA Interdisciplinary Series: Studies in Archaeology, History, Literature and Art. Volume IThe IAA Series is an interdisciplinary volume reflecting the wide geographical, chronological and disciplinary range of...
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The Construction of the Saxon Shore Forts
By Andrew F. PearsonThe author has undertaken a study of the construction of the Saxon Shore Forts, a series of late Roman coastal installations built on the south and east coasts of Britain...
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Landscape and Identity: Archaeology and Human Geography
By Kurt D. SpringsThe Chalcolithic wedge tombs of Ireland represent a dramatic re-emergence of megalithism over a millennium after most Neolithic megaliths were built and many centuries after most had gone out of...