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Archaeology
Ancient Near East
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A History of Hittite Literacy
Writing and Reading in Late Bronze-Age Anatolia (1650–1200 BC) Theo van den Hout | University of Chicago For all those interested in literacy and script usage in general and in the ancient world in particular. As the first, comprehensive overview, it sketches the development of literacy and of literature in Hittite Anatolia (2000/1650–1200 BC) and situates them in the history of the kingdom.
453pp 51 b/w illus. 1 map 35 tables Mar. 2022 9781108816496 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 Jan. 2021 9781108494885 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108860161
Ancient Gordion
Lisa Kealhofer | Santa Clara University, California This study of an iconic Iron Age site in Turkey, Gordion, integrates for the first time nearly 70 years of fieldwork and analysis to address key questions of political group formation and identity.
Case Studies in Early Societies
350pp Sep. 2022 9781108748391 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Sep. 2022 9781108490313 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108780681
The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant
From Urban Origins to the Demise of CityStates, 3700–1000 BCE Raphael Greenberg | Tel-Aviv University A richly documented and illustrated survey of the Archaeology of a crucible of world culture, covering the earliest urban cultures and the emergence of states. This book is a key resource for students of the Ancient Near East and the Bronze Age Mediterranean, and a valuable reference work for scholars in related disciplines.
Cambridge World Archaeology
431pp Aug. 2022 9781107529137 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781316275993
Archaeological science
Wood in Archaeology
Lee A. Newsom This volume will interest readers and students of Archaeology, historical ecology, paleoecology, and wood science, especially as concerns understanding the vital role of wood and timber resources to past human societies.
Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology
300pp Jan. 2022 9781107666894 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jan. 2022 9781107052062 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781107280335
Archaeological theory, method
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Civilisation Recast
Theoretical and Historical Perspectives Stephan Feuchtwang | London School of Economics and Political Science Civilisation is a debated concept. Is it indelibly associated with the prerogatives of the ‘West’, colonial histories or, as is emerging, a new global politics? How do we understand these new forms of identity politics and claims to possessing longterm histories? The book is intended for courses in humanities and social science.
224pp Oct. 2022 9781108706186 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jul. 2019 9781108484343 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108594875
Archaeology (general)
Becoming an Archaeologist
A Guide to Professional Pathways Second edition Joseph Flatman Becoming an Archaeologist is an engaging handbook on career paths in the area of Archaeology. It outlines the entire process of getting a job in Archaeology, including the various career options; the training required; and how to get positions in the academic, commercial, government and charity sectors.
275pp Oct. 2022 9781108797092 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 34.99 Oct. 2022 9781108495608 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108850490
Heritage and Design
Ten Portraits from Goa (India) Pamila Gupta | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg This Element looks at the relationship between heritage and design by way of a case study approach. It offers up ten distinct portraits of a range of heritage makers located in Goa, a place that has been predicated on its difference, both historical and cultural, from the rest of India.
Elements in Critical Heritage Studies
75pp Sep. 2022 9781108744171 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108881579
Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region of the Latrobe Valley
Alexandra Dellios | Australian National University, Canberra This Element argues that community-initiated migrant heritage harbours the potential to challenge and expand state-sanctioned renderings of multiculturalism in liberal nation-states. In this search for alternative readings, community-initiated migrant heritage is positioned as a grassroots challenge to positivist state-multiculturalism.
Elements in Critical Heritage Studies
75pp Mar. 2022 9781108826495 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108919937
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Archaeology of Asia, SubSaharan Africa, Pacific
Ghosts and Religious Life in Early China
Mu-Chou Poo | The University of Hong Kong The idea of ghost is more than an enduring source of imagination, fear, and even entertainment in human society. It is an alternative key to deconstruct the nature and character of a society. Mu-chou Poos explores the ghosts of ancient China, the ideas that they nurtured, and their cultural role.
350pp Jan. 2022 9781316514672 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009086523
Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China
Paul Nicholas Vogt | Indiana University, Bloomington Using ritual and social theory to explain Western Zhou history, this book traces how the traditions of pre-modern China were born, how a ruling dynasty establishes and holds on to power, how religion and politics can support and restrain each other, and how ancient peoples made, used, and assigned meaning to art and artifacts.
350pp Sep. 2022 9781316517611 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009042741
Archaeology of Europe, Near and Middle East
Archaeology and the Genetic Revolution in European Prehistory
Kristian Kristiansen | Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden This Element was written to meet the theoretical and methodological challenge raised by the third science revolution and its implications for how to study and interpret European prehistory.
Elements in the Archaeology of Europe
75pp Aug. 2022 9781009228688 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009228701
Archaeology, Nation, and Race
Confronting the Past, Decolonizing the Future in Greece and Israel Raphael Greenberg | Tel-Aviv University Archaeology, Nation, and Race is a must-read book for students of Archaeology and adjacent fields. It demonstrates how Archaeology and concepts of antiquity have shaped, and have been shaped by colonialism, race, and nationalism. Structured as lively dialogue between two leading scholars, the volume compares modern Greece and modern Israel.
234pp Mar. 2022 9781009160254 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 Mar. 2022 9781009160230 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 eISBN 9781009160247
Death and the Body in Bronze Age Europe
From Inhumation to Cremation Marie Louise Stig Sørensen | University of Cambridge This book offers case-based analyses of the introduction and eventual dominance of cremation in temperate Bronze Age Europe. In turn it questions the role of the familiar as a conservative force. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of European prehistory and Archaeology.
350pp Jan. 2023 9781009247399 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009247429
Megasites in Prehistoric Europe
Where Strangers and Kinsfolk Met Bisserka Gaydarska | Durham University This Element is about some of the largest sites known in prehistoric Europe – sites so vast that they often remain undiscussed for lack of the theoretical or methodological tools required for their understanding. The authors use a relational, comparative approach to identify not only what made megasites but also what made them so special and large.
Elements in the Archaeology of Europe
75pp Oct. 2022 9781009096607 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009099837
Plant Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture in the Ancient Near East
Shahal Abbo | Hebrew University of Jerusalem This book is about the origins of agriculture and plant domestication that occurred in the Neolithic Near East 10,500 years ago. It is directed not only to an academic audience but to students, a broad readership of knowledge-seekers, and we believe it may be relevant to modern plant breeders, agronomists and farmers.
288pp Mar. 2022 9781108493642 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108642491
Reassessing Paleolithic Subsistence
The Neandertal and Modern Human Foragers of Saint-Césaire Eugène Morin | Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario The contribution of Neandertals to the biological and cultural emergence of early modern humans remains highly debated in anthropology. Particularly controversial is the long-held view that Neandertals in Western Europe were replaced 30,000 to 40,000 years ago by early modern humans expanding out of Africa. This book contributes to this debate by exploring the diets and foraging patterns of both Neandertals and early modern humans.
384pp 112 b/w illus. 4 maps 61 tables Jul. 2022 9781009125062 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781139150972
Archaeology of the Americas
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Ancient Maya Politics
A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period 150–900 CE Simon Martin | University of Pennsylvania Ancient Maya Politics is distinctive in constituting the first book-length treatment of this issue using original texts to be published in over four decades. With a rich body of new data and a wide-ranging theoretical analysis, it debunks some long-held ideas and suggests fresh ways to look at this longenigmatic society.
542pp 81 b/w illus. 9 maps 8 tables Jun. 2022 9781108705233 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 37.99 Jun. 2020 9781108483889 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781108676694
Ancient Oaxaca
The Monte Albán State Second edition Richard E. Blanton | Purdue University, Indiana Oaxaca, Mexico, is one of the world’s important places where state-building and urbanism first appeared. This account, written by prominent archaeological researchers, provides a highly readable yet comprehensive path to acquaint readers with one of the earliest and best-known examples of Native American state formation.
Case Studies in Early Societies
216pp Jul. 2022 9781108926188 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 Jul. 2022 9781108830973 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 eISBN 9781108921954
Early Mesoamerican Cities
Urbanism and Urbanization in the Formative Period Michael Love | California State University, Northridge This volume presents new data, case studies, and models for approaching the subject of early Mesoamerican cities. It demonstrates how the study of urbanism in Mesoamerica, and all ancient civilizations, is entering a new and dynamic phase of scholarship.
350pp Jan. 2022 9781108838511 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108975124
War, Spectacle, and Politics in the Ancient Andes
Elizabeth N. Arkush | University of Pittsburgh Drawing on the rich archaeological record of fortifications, skeletal injury, and artwork, this book traces changing configurations of power and violence through time, leading up to the Incas, the last great Andean empire.
350pp Mar. 2022 9781316510964 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009039130
Classical Archaeology
Etruria and Anatolia
Material Connections and Artistic Exchange Elizabeth P. Baughan Explores what the striking similarities in Etruscan and Anatolian material culture reveal about contact and exchange between these distant regions in the Mediterranean. Identifies shared practices, common visual language and movements of objects and artisans in both directions and presents a complex picture of connectivity’s modes and implications.
348pp 34 b/w illus. 47 colour illus. 3 maps Nov. 2022 9781009151023 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009151016
Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete
A History through Objects Andrew Shapland This book provides a new way of understanding some of the most famous examples of Minoan art, long admired for their naturalism, as the outcome of human-animal relations, drawing on approaches from anthropology and Human-Animal Studies.
Old Testament Theology
290pp May. 2022 9781009151542 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009151535
Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age
Representation and Ritual Context in Aegean Societies Sarah Murray | University of Toronto Why and when did the male nude come to occupy such an important place in ancient Greek culture? This book investigates the earliest evidence for nude males in the first-millennium Aegean and reconstructs a new scenario for the ritual and ideological origins of nudity in Greek art and culture.
350pp Sep. 2022 9781316510933 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009039079
Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome
Maggie Popkin | Case Western Reserve University, Ohio Shows how souvenirs constructed memory, knowledge, and cultural affinities in the Roman Empire and demonstrates how material culture reveals the experiences and aspirations of ordinary ancient Romans. It will appeal to scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in classical studies, art history, Archaeology, and related disciplines.
346pp Apr. 2022 9781316517567 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009042628
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A History Jean-Claude Poursat The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age offers a comprehensive chronological and geographical overview of one of the most important civilizations in human history. It will be of interest to students and researchers working in Archaeology, art history, and classics.
578pp Jun. 2022 9781108471343 Hardback GBP 195.00 / USD 255.00 eISBN 9781108630672
The Lives of a Roman Neighborhood
Tracing the Imprint of the Past, from 500 BCE to the Present Paul Jacobs This book is for readers interested in Rome’s history, urban development, and environmental studies. It explores a Rome neighbourhood’s development over 2500 years, how new development is drawn to a space notwithstanding environmental challenges, and how the memory and imprint of the earlier neighbourhood persists through later alterations.
300pp Nov. 2022 9781316512630 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009067942
The Making of the Doric Temple
Architecture, Religion, and Social Change in Archaic Greece Gabriel Zuchtriegel | Archaeological Park of Pompeii, Italy On the basis of old and new archaeological data, some which presented for the first time, the author argues that Doric architecture originated in a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece and has nothing to do with a wood-to-stone evolution, as maintained in the past.
350pp Feb. 2023 9781009260107 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009260114
The Origins of Greek Temple Architecture
Alessandro Pierattini | University of Notre Dame, Indiana This book offers a comprehensive study of the evolution of pre-archaic Greek temple architecture from the eleventh to mid-seventh century BCE. It will be a resource for scholars and students of Archaeology, Greek religion, ancient history, architectural history, art history, and construction history.
350pp Sep. 2022 9781108499477 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108583046
Egyptology
Ancient Egypt in its African Context
Economic Networks, Social and Cultural Interactions Andrea Manzo | Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’ This Element discusses the relations between Egypt and its African neighbours. The setting and historical dynamics are discussed, as well as the different kinds of interactions, their effects on the lives of individuals and groups, and the related cultural dynamics.
Elements in Ancient Egypt in Context
75pp Apr. 2022 9781009074544 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009070638
Egyptian Archaeology and the Twenty-First Century Museum
Alice Stevenson This Element addresses the cultural production of ancient Egypt in the museum as a mixture of multiple pasts and presents that cohere around collections; their artefacts, documentation, storage, research, and display.
Elements in Ancient Egypt in Context
75pp Sep. 2022 9781009074377 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009070348
Power and Regions in Ancient States
An Egyptian and Mesoamerican Perspective Gary M. Feinman | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago The aim of the Element is to provide a comprehensive comparison of the basic organization of power in Mesoamerica and Egypt. How power emerged and was exercised, how it reproduced itself, how social units (from households to cities) became integrated into political formation and how these articulations of power expanded and collapsed over time.
Elements in Ancient Egypt in Context
75pp Mar. 2022 9781108816229 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108907361
The Archaeology of Egyptian Non-Royal Burial Customs in New Kingdom Egypt and Its Empire
Wolfram Grajetzki | University College London This Element provides a new evaluation of burial customs in New Kingdom Egypt, from about 1550 to 1077 BC, with an emphasis on burials of the wider population.
Elements in Ancient Egypt in Context
75pp Feb. 2022 9781009073509 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009064521
