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Prehistoric - General

Great Excavations: Shaping the Archaeological Profession
edited by John Schofield
Great excavations inspire and capture the imagination of both the public and archaeologists alike; sites like Danebury, Sutton Hoo, Maiden Castle, Mucking and York conjure images of great discoveries and leaps in knowledge. But what was it like to participate in these excavations? What is the story of these projects, and what made them great? This is a fascinating and entertaining retrospective documenting some of the seminal British excavations, ...
Paperback. Price GB £36.00

Creating Communities: New advances in Central European Neolithic Research
edited by Daniela Hofmann and Penny Bickle
The aim of this book is to raise questions about the investigation of identity, community and change in prehistory, and to challenge the current state of debate in Central European Neolithic archaeology. Although the LBK is one of the best researched Neolithic cultures in Europe, here the material is used in order to further explore the interconnection between individuals, households, settlements and regions, explicitly addressing questions of ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £40.00, Our Price GB £12.95

Snails: Archaeology and Landscape Change
by Paul Davies
The remains of snails in ancient soils and sediments are one of the most important biological indicators of past landscapes, and have attracted study for well over a century. In spite of this, the only English-language textbook was published in 1972 and is long since out of print. Snails provides a comprehensive, up to date reference text on the use of snails as indicators of past environments in Quaternary landscape studies and ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00

The Rhyton from Danilo: Structure and Symbolism of a Middle Neolithic Cult-Vessel
by Omer Rak, translated by Theresa Alt and Wayles Browne
The so called rhyton from Danilo, an archaeological site near the coastal town of Sibenik in Dalmatia, Croatia, is a four-legged Neolithic vessel made of fired clay that according to the consensus of archaeological opinion was most likely a cult vessel used in rituals of unknown origin and content. "Danilo Culture" is the eponymous name bestowed on a culture flourishing in the period from about 5500-4500 BC at Danilo and at some ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00

From Surface Collection to Prehistoric Lifeways: Making Sense of the Multi-Period Site of Orlovo, South East Bulgaria
by John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska
The communities who lived in the Balkans between 7000 and 4000 Cal. BC have now been the focus of intensive and increasingly inter-disciplinary research for the last forty years. Dwelling between the warm, dry Mediterranean zones of the Aegean and Anatolia and the cooler and snowier Central European heartlands, these communities created distinctive social formations that left enduring marks on today's landscapes.
One of the key trends in ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00

Cult in Context: Reconsidering Ritual in Archaeology
edited by David A Barrowclough and Caroline Malone
Gods, deities, symbolism, deposition, cosmology and intentionality are all features of the study of early ritual and cult. Archaeology has great difficulties in providing satisfactory interpretation or recognition of these elusive but important parts of ancient society, and methodologies are often poorly equipped to explore the evidence. This collection of papers explores a wide range of prehistoric and early historic archaeological contexts from ...
Paperback. Price GB £40.00

Transitions in Prehistory: Essays in Honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef
edited by John J Shea and Daniel E Lieberman
This collection of papers celebrates the career of Ofer Bar-Yosef and his contribution to the study of prehistory. As professor at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University (1970-1988) and as MacCurdy Professor at Harvard University (1989-present), Ofer has had a huge impact on prehistoric archaeology, fostering multi-national research projects worldwide. With such wide-ranging research interests spanning his career, the editors of ...
Hardback. Price GB £20.00

Prehistoric Cooking
by Jacqui Wood
It is clear from this book that our ancestors had a surprisingly varied and much more sophisticated diet than perhaps we give them credit for. Archaeological evidence, along with Jacqui Wood's experimental work at her research centre in Cornwall, combine to make interesting reading. After a short chronological background history from hunter-gathering to the Iron Age, she begins her tour of the culinary delights of our ancestors; the wild and ...
Paperback. Price GB £16.99

Casting the Net Wide: Papers in Honor of Glynn Isaac and His Approach to Human Origins Research
edited by Jeanne Sept and David Pilbeam
This collection of essays and tributes to Glynn Isaac marks the 26th anniversary of Glynns premature death on October 5th, 1985. These contributions document the work of many of Glynns colleagues students and collaborators, and reflect their continuing respect for a great scholar 304p (Oxbow Books in association with the American School of Prehistoric Research, 2011)
Hardback. Price GB £20.00

Fengate Revisited: Further Fen-edge Excavations, Bronze Age Fieldsystems and Settlement and the Wyman Abbott/Leeds Archives
by Christopher Evans, with Emma Beadsmoore, Matt Brudenell and Gavin Lucas
At its core, this volume reports upon three large-scale excavations at Fengate, Peterborough. These cast new light on Briton's premier Bronze Age fieldsystem and their results lead to significant reappraisal of facets of Pryor's earlier interpretations and, also, approaches to the period's land-use generally. Reflecting upon such crucial issues as the character of settlement, landholding/territory and power, their discussion is furthered by the ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00