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Prehistoric Europe

Material Mnemonics: Everyday Memory in Prehistoric Europe
edited by Katina T. Lillios and Vasileios Tsamis
How did ancient Europeans materialise memory? Material Mnemonics: Everyday Practices in Prehistoric Europe provides a fresh approach to the archaeological study of memory. Drawing on case studies from the British Isles, Scandinavia, central Europe, Greece, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula that date from the Neolithic through the Iron Age, the book's authors explore the implications of our understanding of the past when memory and mnemonic ...
Paperback. Price GB £35.00

Flint in Focus: Lithic Biographies in the Neolithic and Bronze Age
by A.L. van Gijn
The biographies of flint objects reveal their various and changing roles in prehistoric life. Using raw material sourcing, technological analysis, experimental archaeology, microwear and residue studies the author tells the story of flint from the Early Neolithic to its virtual demise in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, incorporating data from settlements, burials and hoards from the region of the present-day Netherlands. This richly ...
Paperback. Price GB £38.00

Simulations, Genetics and Human Prehistory
edited by Shuichi Matsumura, Peter Forster, and Colin Renfrew
Data from molecular genetics have changed our views on the origin, spread and timescale of our species across this planet. But how can we reveal more detail about the demography of ancient human populations? For example, is it possible to determine when and how many people arrived at a certain continent, and which route they took from a choice of geographically plausible options? One of the most promising tools for such investigation is computer ...
Hardback. Price GB £25.00

Archaeology in the East and the West: Papers Presented at the Sino-Sweden Archaeology Forum, Beijing in September 2005
edited by Anders Kaliff
The book presents papers from a conference that was held in Beijing on 26-27 September 2005, in collaboration between the Swedish National Heritage Board (NHB) and the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). The conference marked a fresh start for archaeological collaboration between Sweden and China. There is a long tradition of cooperation between China and Sweden in the field of archaeology and both the conference ...
Paperback. Price GB £18.00

Etruscan Bucchero in the Collection of the British Museum
by Philip Perkins
Bucchero is the most distinctive class of ceramic produced in Etruria, Italy, between the 7th and the 5th centuries BC. This publication aims to provide a complete up-to-date listing and description of the collection of bucchero in the British Museum; a collection that consists of over three hundred items including examples of all the important regional productions of bucchero. A previous partial publication of the collection in 1932 is now ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00

Eurasian Preshistory 5,2 (2007)
edited by Ofer Bar-Yosef and J.K. Kozlowski
The aim of this journal is to publish lengthy site reports with many illustrations and other data-based articles. Contents: O. Jöris, D. S. Adler, and S. W. G. Davies: Setting the Record Straight: Toward a Systematic Chronological Understanding of ...
Paperback. Price GB £16.00

Rethinking the Human Revolution: New Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans
edited by P. Mellars, K. Boyle, O. Bar-Yosef and C. Stringer
Arising from a conference Rethinking the Human Revolution reconsiders all of the central issues in modern human behavioural, cognitive, biological and demographic origins in the light of new information and new theoretical perspectives which have emerged over the past twenty years of intensive research in this field. The 34 papers cover topics ranging from the DNA and skeletal evidence for modern human origins in Africa, through the ...
Hardback. Price GB £35.00

Nord-Süd, Ost-West. Kontakte während der Eisenzeit in Europa: Akten der Internationalen Tagungen der AG Eisenzeit in Hamburg und Sopron 2002
edited by Erzsébet Jerem and Martin Schönfelder
Two major international conferences were organised in 2002, in Hamburg (Germany) and Sopron (Hungary), which focused on the cultural relations of Late Iron Age Europe, after the Celtic occupation. The volume contains 21 exciting and original articles exploring the various themes of the conferences in detail. As the title suggests (North-South, East-West), the articles take a close look at the diverse and far-reaching relations whose traces are ...
Hardback. Price GB £85.00

Eurasian Prehistory Volume 6 no. 1-2 (2009): A Journal for Primary Archaeological Data
edited by Ofer Bar-Yosef and J.K. Kozlowski
This journal is a joint venture endorsed by the American School of Prehistoric Research at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Institute of Archaeology at Jagiellonian University in Poland. The aim of this journal is to publish lengthy site reports with many illustrations and other data-based articles on aspects of the palaeolithic and neolithic of Eurasia. c.234p, b/w and col illus, tabs (Peabody Museum Publications ...
Paperback. Price GB £16.00

Enclosing the Past: Inside and Outside in Prehistory
edited by Anthony Harding, Susanne Sievers and Natalie Venclova
This volume explores how and why people built enclosures in European prehistory, from their first appearance in the Neolithic to the creation of elaborate fortifications in the Iron Age. The articles here originated as a session at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, in 2001, and are written by well-known prehistorians from around Europe. They bring new evidence from new discoveries, and new ideas about old ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00