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Egyptologists, art historians, philologists, and anthropological archaeologists have long worked side by side in Egypt, but they often fail to understand one another’s approaches. This book aims to introduce students to the archaeological side of the study of ancient Egypt and to bridge the gap between disciplines by explaining how archaeologists tackle a of problems. Douglas Brewer edited editedvariety by by colin colin renfrew renfrew // paul paulJ.g. g. bahn bahnintroduces the theoretical reasoning for each approach, as well as the methods and techniques applied to support it. This book is essential reading for any student considering further study of ancient Egypt. • Focuses on solving the mysteries of ancient Egypt through archaeological method and theory • Contrasts the different types of archaeology conducted in Egypt, and presents conclusions based on archaeological data • Encourages interpretation of artifacts, rather than a simple observation of the artifacts themselves. • Bridges the gap between archaeology and other disciplines concerned with the study of Egypt (e.g., Egyptology, art history, philology) “…A comprehensive, but also accessibly written, introduction to the ways in which archaeology is being practiced in Egypt today. Making use of a series of valuable case studies presented in an engaging personal style, the book is of tremendous value both to students and to others seeking perspective on the field of Egyptian archaeology.” – JOSEF WEGNER, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA DOUGLAS J. BREWER is [emeritus] professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois. He is the author (with Emily Teeter) of Egypt and the Egyptians, as well as of nunmerous other books and articles on Egypt.
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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCIENT EGYPT
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCIENT EGYPT
Africa, South and Southeast Asia and thePHARAOHS Pacific BEYOND
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“Professor Brewer is a great storyteller. His many years of experience in the field allow him to explain the concepts of archaeology in a clear and accessible manner. We can almost hear him speaking to his students in a classroom. This is a great introduction to archaeology.” – RONALD J. LEPROHON, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
DOUGLAS J. BREWER
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ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCIENT EGYPT BEYOND PHARAOHS
Ancient Central China Case Studies in Early Societies
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COVER ART: Doorway at the Temple of Kom Ombo. Photo credit: © Terraxplorer / iStockphoto.com Cover designed by Joseph Piliero.
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Archaeological science 2 Archaeological theory and methods 2 Prehistory 3 Archaeology of Europe and the Near and Middle East 7 Archaeology of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Pacific 10 Egyptology 13 Classical archaeology 14 Archaeology of the Americas 21 Historical archaeology 23 Archaeology (general) 24 Also of interest 25 Information on related journals Inside back cover
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Archaeological science / Archaeological theory and methods
Archaeological science Ancient Glass An Interdisciplinary Exploration Julian Henderson University of Nottingham
This book provides a detailed interdisciplinary exploration of ancient glass from its invention some 4,500 years ago to the seventeenth century AD. Using a wide a range of sources, it examines why and how glass was invented, and the ritual, social, economic and political contexts of its subsequent development. 2013 253 x 177 mm 436pp 119 b/w illus. 5 maps 11 tables 978-1-107-00673-7 Hardback £70.00 Publication January 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107006737
Understanding the Archaeological Record Gavin Lucas University of Iceland, Reykjavik
This book explores the diverse understandings of the archaeological record in both historical and contemporary perspectives, while also serving as a guide to reassessing current understandings. Gavin Lucas calls for a rethinking of the nature of archaeological evidence and the kind of history and narratives written from it. 2012 228 x 152 mm 320pp 21 b/w illus. 6 tables 978-1-107-01026-0 Hardback £65.00 978-0-521-27969-7 Paperback £19.99 eBook available
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Pottery in Archaeology Second edition Clive Orton University College London
and Michael Hughes British Museum, London
This book explains the value of the study of pottery for the archaeologist. It shows how evidence about the production, trade and use of pottery can be obtained from a wide range of techniques, and gives practical advice about the initial study and archiving of excavated pottery. It is illuminated by case studies and backed up by an extensive bibliography. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology
2013 253 x 177 mm 285pp 58 b/w illus. 3 maps 9 tables 978-1-107-00874-8 Hardback c. £65.00 978-1-107-40130-3 Paperback c. £25.00 Publication March 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107008748
Archaeological theory and methods Appropriating the Past Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology Edited by Geoffrey Scarre University of Durham
and Robin Coningham University of Durham
In this book an international team of archaeologists, philosophers, lawyers and heritage professionals addresses significant ethical questions about the rights to access, manage and interpret the material remains of the past. The
Archaeological theory and methods / Prehistory book covers a range of hotly debated topics in contemporary archaeological practice, focusing particularly on the relationship between academic archaeologists and indigenous communities. 2012 228 x 152 mm 300pp 5 b/w illus. 978-0-521-19606-2 Hardback £65.00 978-0-521-12425-6 Paperback £19.99 Publication December 2012 www.cambridge.org/9780521196062
Prehistory The Body in History Europe from the Paleolithic to the Future Edited by John Robb University of Cambridge
and Oliver J. T. Harris University of Cambridge
This book is a long-term history of how the human body has been understood in Europe from the Palaeolithic to the present day. Drawing on the work of a team of experts, the authors examine how the body has been treated in life, art and death, and what this tells us about who we are today and who we have been in the past. 2013 253 x 177 mm 500pp 179 b/w illus. 27 colour illus. 3 maps 978-0-521-19528-7 Hardback c. £70.00 978-0-521-12411-9 Paperback c. £24.99 Publication May 2013 www.cambridge.org/9780521195287
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The Cambridge World Prehistory Edited by Colin Renfrew University of Cambridge
and Paul G. Bahn
The Cambridge World Prehistory provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa two million years ago to the beginnings of written history, which in some areas started only two centuries ago. Written by a team of leading international scholars, the volumes include both traditional topics and cutting-edge approaches, such as archaeolinguistics and molecular genetics, and examine the essential questions of human development around the world. The volumes are organised geographically, exploring the evolution of hominins and their expansion from Africa, as well as the formation of states and the development in each region of different technologies such as seafaring, metallurgy and food production. The Cambridge World Prehistory reveals a rich and complex history of the world. It will be an invaluable resource for any student or scholar of archaeology and related disciplines looking to research a particular topic, tradition, region or period within prehistory.
Africa, South and Southeast Asia and the Pacific
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Africa, South and the Pacific east and asiaSoutheast and the Asia americas
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Contributors: Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn, Peter Forster, Paul Heggarty, Zeray Alemseged, David R. Braun, John Fleagle, Frederick Grine, Christopher Henshilwood, Marlize Lombard, John Parkington, Jean-Loïc Le Quellec, Peter Breunig, Manfred Eggert, Shadreck Chirikure, François-Xavier FauvelleAymar, François Bon, Stan Hendrickx, Dirk Huyge, Salima Ikram, Jacke Phillips, Katragadda V. Paddayya, Russell Ciochon,
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Prehistory Roy Larick, Timothy Reynolds, Ryan Rabett, Dorian Fuller, Jonathan Kenoyer, Dilip Chakrabarti, Rasmi Shoocongdej, Dougald O’Reilly, Daud Tanudirjo, Victor Paz, Peter White, Tim Denham, Caroline Bird, Geoffrey Clark, Stuart Bedford, Patrick V. Kirch, Pamela Chester, Michael Shunkov, Ludmila Lbova, Junko Habu, Mayke Wagner, Pavel Tarasov, David Cohen, Robert Murowchick, Francis Allard, Margarete Pruech, Gina Barnes, Andrei Tabarev, Michael Collins, David Anderson, Hugo Yacobaccio, Michael Love, Tom Dillehay, Dolores Piperno, Linda Manzanilla, Ann Cyphers, Andrew Balkansky, David Freidel, Daniel Sandweiss, Richard Burger, William Isbell, Terry D’Altroy, Roberto Lleras, Anna Roosevelt, Lidia Garcia, Arie Boomert, Charles Riggs, Terry Jones, Linea Sundstrom, Timothy Pauketat, Elizabeth Chilton, Meredith Hardy, Ronald Williamson, Gonen Sharon, Anna Belfer-Cohen, Nigel Goring-Morris, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Yossi Garfinkel, Peter Akkermans, Joan Oates, Mehmet Özdogan, Asli Özyar, Philip Kohl, Viktor Trifonov, Lloyd Weeks, Hermann Parzinger, Vyacheslav Molodin, Natalya Polos’mak, Georgina Herrmann, Olaf Jöris, João Zilhão, John Chapman, Peter Bogucki, Oliver Dickinson, Alison Sheridan, Anthony Harding, Bryan Hanks, Anthony Snodgrass
The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers
2013 280 x 216 mm 1892pp 659 b/w illus. 190 maps 14 tables 978-0-521-11993-1 3 Volume Hardback Set c. £450.00 On offer at £410.00 until three months after publication. Full price: c.£450
This book surveys the archaeological record for stone tools from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago in the Near East. Intended for archaeology students and professional archaeologists, it contains detailed descriptions, definitions and illustrations of stone tools from all the major periods of Stone Age prehistory.
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The Foraging Spectrum Robert L. Kelly University of Wyoming
In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and that downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. 2013 253 x 177 mm 450pp 58 b/w illus. 1 map 29 tables 978-1-107-02487-8 Hardback c. £60.00 978-1-107-60761-3 Paperback c. £21.99 Publication May 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107024878
Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East A Guide John J. Shea State University of New York, Stony Brook
2013 228 x 152 mm 350pp 93 b/w illus. 7 maps 53 tables 978-1-107-00698-0 Hardback £60.00 Publication February 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107006980
Prehistory The Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia Regimes and Revolutions Edited by Charles W. Hartley University of Chicago
G. Bike Yaziciogˇlu University of Chicago
and Adam T. Smith Cornell University, New York
For thousands of years, the geography of Eurasia has facilitated travel, conquest and colonization by various groups, from the Huns in ancient times to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the past century. The authors examine a wideranging series of archaeological studies in order to better understand the role of politics in the history and prehistory of the region. 2012 228 x 152 mm 486pp 65 b/w illus. 7 maps 11 tables 978-1-107-01652-1 Hardback £65.00 Publication December 2012 www.cambridge.org/9781107016521
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Early Earthquakes of the Americas Robert L. Kovach Stanford University, California
Early Earthquakes of the Americas investigates the relationship between historical earthquakes in the Americas and structural damage at archaeological sites. It is written at a level that will appeal to students and researchers working in the emerging discipline of archeoseismology, and in the fields of Earth science, archaeology, and history.
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Review of the hardback: ‘… a very companionable initiation into the complexities of teasing out meaningful information on early earthquake experience in the Western Hemisphere. It will serve as a stimulus for anyone who is interested in, and prepared to tackle, the difficult challenges of unravelling the earthquake past in the particular and special circumstances of the Americas.’ Geoscientist 2012 244 x 170 mm 286pp 978-1-107-41049-7 Paperback £46.00 Also available 978-0-521-82489-7 Hardback £105.00 www.cambridge.org/9781107410497
From Chiefdom to State in Early Ireland D. Blair Gibson El Camino Community College, Los Angeles
This book examines the development of social complexity in late prehistoric and early medieval Ireland. Using a range of methods and techniques, particularly data from settlement patterns, D. Blair Gibson demonstrates how Ireland evolved from constellations of chiefdoms into a political entity bearing the characteristics of a rudimentary state. 2012 253 x 177 mm 341pp 81 b/w illus. 26 maps 15 tables 978-1-107-01563-0 Hardback £65.00 eBook available
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Lithic Technology Measures of Production, Use and Curation Edited by William Andrefsky, Jr Washington State University
This volume brings together essays that measure the life history of stone tools relative to retouch values, raw material constraints and evolutionary processes. Collectively, they explore the association of technological organization with facets of tool form such as reduction sequences, tool production effort, artifact curation processes and retouch measurement. Review of the hardback: ‘The different approaches to lithic analysis proposed by the authors will be of great value in broader archaeological interpretation as issues raised in the volume are explored in the future … The authors in this volume present us with interesting ideas and a healthy debate.’ Geoarchaeology
genetics and neuroscience, considering the explosion of art, religion and language that lies at the heart of what makes us human. 2012 228 x 152 mm 208pp 14 b/w illus. 978-1-107-02569-1 Hardback £48.99 978-1-107-65109-8 Paperback £16.99 eBook available
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Headhunting and the Body in Iron Age Europe Ian Armit University of Bradford
Across Iron Age Europe the human head carried symbolic associations with power, fertility, status, gender, and more. Evidence for the removal, curation and display of heads ranges from classical literary references to iconography and skeletal remains. This book examines the beliefs and practices associated with headhunting and head-veneration across a range of diverse and fragmented Iron Age societies.
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Genesis of Symbolic Thought Alan Barnard University of Edinburgh
Symbolic thought is fundamental to human existence. If social anthropology cannot explain it, what can? Alan Barnard applies ideas from social anthropology to questions being explored in archaeology, linguistics,
Stone Tools and Fossil Bones Debates in the Archaeology of Human Origins Edited by Manuel DomínguezRodrigo Universidad Complutense, Madrid
The stone tools and fossil bones from the earliest archaeological sites in Africa have been used over the past fifty years to create models that interpret how
Prehistory / Archaeology of Europe and the Near and Middle East early hominins lived, foraged, behaved and communicated and how early and modern humans evolved. In this book, international archaeologists examine early Stone Age tools and bones to present the most holistic view to date of the archaeology of human origins. 2012 228 x 152 mm 376pp 25 b/w illus. 1 map 9 tables 978-1-107-02292-8 Hardback £65.00 eBook available
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The Archaeology of Japan From the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise of the State Koji Mizoguchi Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Japan
This is the first book-length study of the Yayoi and Kofun periods of Japan (c.600 BC–AD 700), in which the beginning of rice paddy-field farming ignited the rapid development of social complexity and hierarchy that culminated with the formation of the ancient state. A mustread for those interested in Japanese and East Asian history and archaeology, state formation, the history of archaeology, and archaeological theory. Cambridge World Archaeology
2013 228 x 152 mm 575pp 94 b/w illus. 3 tables 978-0-521-88490-7 Hardback c. £75.00 978-0-521-71188-3 Paperback c. £25.99 Publication March 2013 www.cambridge.org/9780521884907
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Archaeology of Europe and the Near and Middle East The Black Sea and the Early Civilizations of Europe, the Near East and Asia Mariya Ivanova Universität Heidelberg
Presents the first comprehensive overview of the Black Sea region in the prehistoric period. This book cuts across disciplines and combines sources published in Eastern European languages with Western scholarly literature to give the Black Sea its rightful place in contemporary archaeological discourse. 2013 253 x 177 mm 260pp 76 b/w illus. 8 maps 3 tables 978-1-107-03219-4 Hardback c. £65.00 Publication June 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107032194
Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East Ömür Harmans¸ah Brown University, Rhode Island
This book investigates the practice of constructing cities in the ancient Near East. City building was an important component of how Assyrian and Syro-Hittite rulers of the Early Iron Age (ca. 1200–850 BCE) constructed their political identity. A unique contribution
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Archaeology of Europe and the Near and Middle East to its field, it brings together architecture and cultural history with the study of antiquity in the Near East. 2013 253 x 177 mm 358pp 51 b/w illus. 9 maps 978-1-107-02794-7 Hardback c. £65.00 Publication March 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107027947
Commerce and Colonization in the Ancient Near East Maria Eugenia Aubet Universitat de Barcelona
In this analysis of the first colonialisms in history, the eastern roots of the Phoenician colonial system in the first millennium BC are traced and the metropolis of Tyre is established as the final link in a long chain of colonial experiences in the ancient Near East. The book further develops the ongoing debate about the place of the economy in the ancient world. 2013 228 x 152 mm 350pp 75 b/w illus. 20 maps 978-0-521-51417-0 Hardback c. £65.00 Publication February 2013 www.cambridge.org/9780521514170
The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture An Archaeology of the Early Dynastic Temple Jean M. Evans University of Chicago
This book examines both the early modern reception and the ancient context of the Sumerian temple sculptures created during the Early Dynastic period (2900–2350 BC). Chronicling the intellectual history of ancient Near Eastern art history and
archaeology at the intersection of sculpture and aesthetics, it also engages with the archaeology of the Early Dynastic temple to consider the meaning and function of these sculptures. 2012 253 x 177 mm 322pp 71 b/w illus. 1 map 978-1-107-01739-9 Hardback £60.00 www.cambridge.org/9781107017399
The Archaeology of the Holy Land From the Destruction of Solomon’s Temple to the Muslim Conquest Jodi Magness University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
This book provides an introduction to the archaeology and history of ancient Palestine – modern Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories – from the destruction of Solomon’s temple in 586 BCE to the Muslim conquest in 640 CE. Special attention is paid to the archaeology of Jerusalem and the Second Temple period, in the time of Herod the Great and Jesus. 2012 253 x 177 mm 397pp 188 b/w illus. 13 maps 978-0-521-19535-5 Hardback £60.00 978-0-521-12413-3 Paperback £19.99 eBook available
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Archaeology of Europe and the Near and Middle East The Meroitic Language and Writing System
Reassessing Paleolithic Subsistence
Claude Rilly
The Neandertal and Modern Human Foragers of Saint-Césaire Eugène Morin
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
and Alex de Voogt Museum of Natural History, New York
This book provides an introduction to the Meroitic language and writing system that was used between ca. 300 BC and 400 AD in the kingdom of Meroe, which existed in what is now Sudan and Egyptian Nubia. This book details advances in the understanding of Meroitic, a language that until recently was considered untranslatable. 2012 228 x 152 mm 262pp 14 b/w illus. 3 maps 237 tables 978-1-107-00866-3 Hardback £65.00 eBook available
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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. 2012 253 x 177 mm 350pp 112 b/w illus. 4 maps 61 tables 978-1-107-02327-7 Hardback £65.00 eBook available
Mobile Pastoralism and the Formation of Near Eastern Civilizations Weaving Together Society Anne Porter University of Southern California
In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. 2012 253 x 215 mm 400pp 28 b/w illus. 9 maps 6 tables 978-0-521-76443-8 Hardback £65.00 eBook available
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Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age Reconsidering Fertility, Maternity, and Gender in the Ancient World Stephanie Lynn Budin Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey
A study of the woman-and-child motif – known as the kourotrophos – as it appeared in the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean. 2011 253 x 215 mm 390pp 46 b/w illus. 978-0-521-19304-7 Hardback £63.00 www.cambridge.org/9780521193047
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Archaeology of Europe and the Near and Middle East / Archaeology of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Pacific The Archaeology of Cyprus From Earliest Prehistory through the Bronze Age A. Bernard Knapp University of Glasgow
Situated amidst the Near East, Europe and Africa, the archaeology and culture of Cyprus are central to an understanding of the ancient Mediterranean world. This book treats the archaeology of Cyprus from the firstknown human presence during the Late Epipalaeolithic (c.11,000 BC) through the end of the Bronze Age (c.1000 BC). Cambridge World Archaeology
2013 253 x 177 mm 672pp 134 b/w illus. 5 maps 3 tables 978-0-521-89782-2 Hardback £60.00 978-0-521-72347-3 Paperback £19.99 Publication February 2013 www.cambridge.org/9780521897822
Archaeology of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Pacific Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar Material Signs and Traces of the Dead Zoë Crossland Columbia University, New York
Nineteenth-century highland Madagascar was a place inhabited by the dead as much as the living. Ghosts, ancestors and the possessed were important historical actors alongside local kings and queens, soldiers, traders and missionaries. This book considers the challenges that such actors pose for writing history, and draws on archaeology, landscape study, oral history and textual sources to trace the many encounters between living and dead. 2013 253 x 177 mm 325pp 45 b/w illus. 6 maps 978-1-107-03609-3 Hardback c. £65.00 Publication April 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107036093
Archaeology of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Pacific Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba
Human Adaptation in the Asian Palaeolithic
Ife History, Power, and Identity, ca. 1300 Suzanne Blier
Hominin Dispersal and Behaviour during the Late Quaternary Ryan J. Rabett
Harvard University, Massachusetts
McDonald Institute, Cambridge University
In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife and the striking ways that ancient Ife artworks inform society, politics, history and religion. Yoruba art offers a unique lens into one of Africa’s most important and least understood early civilizations, one whose historic arts have long been of interest to local residents and Westerners alike because of their tour-de-force visual power and technical complexity. Among the complementary subjects explored are questions of art making, art viewing and aesthetics in the famed ancient Nigerian city-state, as well as the attendant risks and danger assumed by artists, patrons and viewers alike in certain forms of subject matter and modes of portrayal, including unique genres of body marking, portraiture, animal symbolism and regalia. This volume celebrates art, history and the shared passion and skill with which the remarkable artists of early Ife sought to define their past for generations of viewers.
This book examines the first human colonization of Asia and particularly the tropical environments of Southeast Asia during the Upper Pleistocene. In studying the unique character of the Asian archaeological record, it reassesses long-accepted propositions about the development of human ‘modernity’.
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The Life of the Longhouse An Archaeology of Ethnicity Peter Metcalf University of Virginia
The remarkable longhouses of Borneo remain mysterious. This book provides an answer by integrating the oral histories of communities with colonial records. The key factor was a trade system stretching to China, via the ancient trading city of Brunei, which shaped the political and religious institutions of longhouse communities. 2012 229 x 152 mm 358pp 978-1-107-40756-5 Paperback £31.00 Also available 978-0-521-11098-3 Hardback £56.00 eBook available
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Archaeology of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Pacific Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa
The Archaeology of China
Archaeological Perspectives Edited by J. Cameron Monroe University of California, Santa Cruz
From the Late Paleolithic to the Early Bronze Age Li Liu
and Akinwumi Ogundiran
Stanford University, California
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
and Xingcan Chen
This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using both historical and archaeological tools, this collection of essays sheds light on how involvement in the commercial revolutions of the early modern period dramatically reshaped the regional contours of political organization across West Africa.
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
2012 253 x 177 mm 400pp 69 b/w illus. 33 maps 978-1-107-00939-4 Hardback £65.00 eBook available
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The Archaeology of Australia’s Deserts
This book explores the roles of agricultural development and advancing social complexity in the processes of state formation in China. Over a period of about 10,000 years, it follows evolutionary trajectories of society from the last Palaeolithic hunting-gathering groups, through Neolithic farming villages and on to the Bronze Age Shang dynasty in the latter half of the second millennium BC. Cambridge World Archaeology
2012 253 x 177 mm 482pp 97 b/w illus. 42 maps 11 tables 978-0-521-64310-8 Hardback £65.00 978-0-521-64432-7 Paperback £23.99 eBook available
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Mike Smith National Museum of Australia, Canberra
This book looks at the deep history of Australia’s deserts and the cultural history and archaeology of the Aboriginal people that inhabit these hard lands. It is a masterly survey of the field and a profoundly interdisciplinary study that forces archaeology into conversations with history and anthropology, economy and ecology, and geography and Earth sciences. Cambridge World Archaeology
2013 228 x 152 mm 350pp 80 b/w illus. 10 maps 45 tables 978-0-521-40745-8 Hardback c. £60.00 978-0-521-72870-6 Paperback c. £19.99 Publication February 2013 www.cambridge.org/9780521407458
Ancient Central China Rowan K. Flad Harvard University, Massachusetts
and Pochan Chen National Taiwan University
This book is an archaeological study of regional landscape in the upper and middle Yangzi River region of Central China. The book reviews anthropological perspectives on interregional interaction and landscape and provides an upto-date synthesis of archaeological
Archaeology of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Pacific / Egyptology discoveries in the region, including the recently flooded Three Gorges Dam area. Case Studies in Early Societies
2013 228 x 152 mm 408pp 63 b/w illus. 16 maps 978-0-521-89900-0 Hardback £60.00 978-0-521-72766-2 Paperback £20.99 Publication January 2013 www.cambridge.org/9780521899000
Egyptology The Material World of Ancient Egypt William H. Peck University of Michigan, Dearborn
This book examines the objects and artifacts, the representations in art, and the examples of documentation that together reveal the day-to-day physical substance of life in ancient Egypt. Drawing on these diverse sources, William H. Peck illuminates the culture of the ancient Egyptians from the standpoint of the basic materials they employed to make life possible and perhaps even enjoyable. 2013 253 x 177 mm 200pp 93 b/w illus. 978-0-521-88616-1 Hardback c. £55.00 978-0-521-71379-5 Paperback c. £18.95 Publication July 2013 www.cambridge.org/9780521886161
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The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt Beyond Pharaohs Douglas J. Brewer University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Egyptologists, philologists and archaeologists have long worked side by side in Egypt, but they often fail to understand one another’s approaches. This book aims to introduce students to the archaeological side of the study of ancient Egypt and to bridge the gap between disciplines by explaining how archaeologists tackle a variety of problems. 2012 228 x 152 mm 210pp 70 b/w illus. 11 maps 6 tables 978-0-521-88091-6 Hardback £60.00 978-0-521-70734-3 Paperback £18.99 www.cambridge.org/9780521880916
Amenhotep III Egypt’s Radiant Pharaoh Arielle P. Kozloff
This book follows the life story of Amenhotep III, one of the most important rulers of ancient Egypt, from his birth and into the afterlife. Amenhotep III ruled for thirty-eight years, from ca.1391–1353 BC, during the apex of Egypt’s international and artistic power. 2012 228 x 152 mm 370pp 55 b/w illus. 5 maps 978-1-107-01196-0 Hardback £60.00 978-1-107-63854-9 Paperback £19.99 eBook available
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HELLENISTIC WEST Rethinking the Ancient Mediterranean
Classical archaeology
Classical archaeology
shipsheds. This book provides the first comprehensive catalogue of known shipsheds and associated constructions and analyses their functions and historical context.
Cities of God
2013 280 x 210 mm 1000pp 100 b/w illus. 3 maps 978-1-107-00133-6 Hardback c. £110.00 Publication December 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107001336
The Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain Edited by David Gange University of Cambridge
and Michael Ledger-Lomas University of Cambridge edited by
Jonathan R. W. Prag and Josephine Crawley Quinn
The nineteenth century was the great age for the rediscovery and excavation of cities prominent in the Bible. This innovative and stimulating collection of essays explores the profound consequences for debates about biblical authority and archaeology’s contribution to attempts to reimagine and reform the cities of a rapidly urbanizing Britain. 2013 247 x 174 mm 368pp 49 b/w illus. 2 maps 978-1-107-00424-5 Hardback c. £60.00 Publication December 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107004245
Shipsheds of the Ancient Mediterranean David Blackman Kalliopi Baika Judith McKenzie Boris Rankov Henrik Gerding Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
and Jari Pakkanen Royal Holloway, University of London
Warships were crucial to maintaining the maritime power which was a prerequisite of military, political and commercial influence in the ancient Mediterranean, and they required well-constructed and maintained
The Hellenistic West Rethinking the Ancient Mediterranean Edited by Jonathan R. W. Prag University of Oxford
and Josephine Crawley Quinn University of Oxford
In this book, fourteen historians and archaeologists come together to tackle the role of the western Mediterranean in what is conventionally known as ‘Hellenistic’ history. Their essays challenge the centrality of the East in the ‘Hellenistic World’, the focus on Rome in accounts of the West, and the concept of the ‘Hellenistic’ itself. 2013 247 x 174 mm 475pp 110 b/w illus. 16 colour illus. 9 maps 978-1-107-03242-2 Hardback c. £70.00 Publication July 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107032422
Classical archaeology Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean World Thomas Tartaron University of Pennsylvania
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Contributors: J. J. Pollitt, Anne Chapin, Jeffrey Hurwit, Stephan Steingräber, Mark Stansbury-O’Donnell, Stella G. Miller, Agnès Rouveret, Irene Bragantini, Roger Ling
In this book, Thomas F. Tartaron presents a new and original reassessment of the maritime world of the Mycenaean Greeks of the Late Bronze Age.
2013 276 x 219 mm 470pp 237 b/w illus. 140 colour illus. 6 maps 978-0-521-86591-3 Hardback c. £150.00 Publication May 2013 www.cambridge.org/9780521865913
2013 253 x 177 mm 350pp 71 b/w illus. 25 maps 11 tables 978-1-107-00298-2 Hardback c. £65.00 Publication April 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107002982
Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre
The Cambridge History of Painting in the Classical World Edited by J. J. Pollitt Yale University, Connecticut
Painting was one of the major achievements of the Classical world. This book examines the development of mural and panel painting in the Classical world from the earliest Minoan and Cycladic frescoes of the Aegean Bronze Age to late Roman painting, from approximately 1800 BC to AD 400. It provides a comprehensive study of major monuments, including exciting new material that has been discovered in recent years and has transformed the field. It also offers a critical overview of scholarly debates and controversies on aspects of style, iconography, technique and cultural context. This volume provides an up-to-date and muchneeded overview of the monuments that are now known and of the ideas that have been generated about them.
University of Colorado, Boulder
This book offers a radical new approach to understanding the Achaemenid Persian Empire and imperialism more generally. Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre shows how the rulers of the empire constructed a system flexible enough to provide for the needs of different peoples within the confines of a single imperial authority and highlights the variability in response. 2013 253 x 177 mm 400pp 131 b/w illus. 20 maps 3 tables 978-1-107-01826-6 Hardback c. £65.00 Publication April 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107018266
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Classical archaeology Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communities and Persistent Landscapes Antikythera in Long-Term Perspective Andrew Bevan Institute of Archaeology, University College London
and James Conolly Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario
Builds upon a detailed, interdisciplinary program of archaeological fieldwork, archival research and scientific analysis to consider the long-term human history of Antikythera, a small Greek island that lies among key routes of maritime passage. The authors consider patterns of the island’s human settlement, land use, and interaction with the wider world and use this case study as a means for offering more general observations. 2013 253 x 177 mm 275pp 47 b/w illus. 31 colour illus. 6 tables 978-1-107-03345-0 Hardback c. £60.00 Publication April 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107033450
Ostia in Late Antiquity Douglas Boin Georgetown University, Washington DC
Ostia in Late Antiquity is the first book to narrate the life Ostia Antica, Rome’s ancient harbor, during the later empire, a period often synonymous in popular imagination with the ‘fall of Rome’. Drawing on new archaeological research, this book offers a dynamic
picture of what it was like to live during this transformative period. 2013 253 x 177 mm 308pp 57 b/w illus. 1 map 978-1-107-02401-4 Hardback c. £65.00 Publication March 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107024014
The Mosaics of Roman Crete Art, Archaeology and Social Change Rebecca J. Sweetman University of St Andrews, Scotland
This book examines the rich corpus of mosaics created in Crete during the Roman and Late Antique eras. It provides essential information on the style, iconography and chronology of the material, as well as discussion of the craftspeople who created them and the technologies they used. 2013 253 x 177 mm 400pp 65 b/w illus. 6 maps 1 table 978-1-107-01840-2 Hardback c. £70.00 Publication March 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107018402
The Roman West, AD 200–500 An Archaeological Study Simon Esmonde Cleary University of Birmingham
The traditional story of the decline and fall of the western Roman Empire has been derived from the written evidence. The development of archaeology with different sources and new analyses allows an alternative reading of events
Classical archaeology and a critique of notions of ‘crisis’ and ‘decline and fall’. 2013 247 x 174 mm 576pp 95 b/w illus. 978-0-521-19649-9 Hardback c. £75.00 Publication March 2013 www.cambridge.org/9780521196499
The Demography of Roman Italy Population Dynamics in an Ancient Conquest Society 201 BCE–14 CE Saskia Hin Max-Planck-Institut für demografische Forschung, Rostock
This book investigates demographic behaviour and population trends in Italy during the emergence of the Roman Empire. It unites literary and epigraphic sources with demographic theory, archaeological surveys, climatic and skeletal evidence, models and comparative data, and also features a chapter on climate change in Roman times. 2013 228 x 152 mm 372pp 19 b/w illus. 3 maps 22 tables 978-1-107-00393-4 Hardback c. £60.00 Publication February 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107003934
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Greek Sculpture Nigel Spivey University of Cambridge
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Contents: List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Introduction: the study of Greek sculpture; 2. ‘The Greek revolution’; 3. Daedalus and the wings of Technê; 4. Anathêmata: gifts for the Gods; 5. Heroes apparent; 6. Temple stories; 7. In search of Pheidias; 8. Revealing Aphrodite; 9. Royal patronage; 10. Portraits and personifications; 11. Graecia Capta; 12. Afterlife. 2013 247 x 174 mm 384pp 176 b/w illus. 8 colour illus. 978-0-521-76031-7 Hardback c. £60.00 978-0-521-75698-3 Paperback c. £19.99 Publication January 2013 www.cambridge.org/9780521760317
Roman Architecture in Provence James C. Anderson, jr. University of Georgia
A survey of the architecture and urbanism of Provence during the Roman era. Provence, or ‘Gallia Narbonensis’ as the Romans called it, was one of the earliest Roman colonies in Western Europe. This book focuses on the remains of buildings that can still be seen, exploring decorative elements and their influence from Rome and local traditions, as well as their functions within the urban environment. 2012 253 x 177 mm 276pp 155 b/w illus. 3 maps 978-0-521-82520-7 Hardback £65.00 eBook available
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In this well-illustrated survey, Spivey explains the social function of Greek sculpture as well as its aesthetic achievement. The connoisseurship of this great art – from c.750 BC to the end of antiquity – is sympathetically unravelled as new approaches are reconciled with traditional modes of study.
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Classical archaeology Divining the Etruscan World The Brontoscopic Calendar and Religious Practice Jean MacIntosh Turfa The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar is a rare document of omens foretold by thunder. It long lay hidden, embedded in a Greek translation within a Byzantine treatise from the age of Justinian. The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, this book provides an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age society as revealed through the ancient text, especially Etruscans’ concerns with the environment, food, health and disease. 2012 253 x 177 mm 432pp 24 b/w illus. 978-1-107-00907-3 Hardback £65.00 eBook available
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Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean The Archaic and Classical Greek Multiethnic Emporia Denise Demetriou Michigan State University
The ancient Mediterranean basin was a multicultural region with a great diversity of linguistic, religious, social and ethnic groups. This study provides a new understanding of it by examining identity construction in multiethnic commercial settlements located throughout the region and explores literary, epigraphic and archaeological
evidence to investigate cross-cultural interactions. 2012 247 x 174 mm 312pp 17 b/w illus. 3 maps 978-1-107-01944-7 Hardback £60.00 www.cambridge.org/9781107019447
The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy Alison E. Cooley University of Warwick
A thorough and up-to-date introduction for anyone who wishes to appreciate the contribution of Latin inscriptions to our understanding of Roman history in all its aspects, whether social, political, economic or cultural. Technical guidance is also provided on deciphering inscriptions face-to-face and handling specialist epigraphic publications. 2012 247 x 174 mm 554pp 100 b/w illus. 1 map 978-0-521-84026-2 Hardback £65.00 978-0-521-54954-7 Paperback £27.99 eBook available
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Stone Vessels and Values in the Bronze Age Mediterranean Andrew Bevan University College London
In this book, Andrew Bevan considers individual stone vessel industries in great detail. He also offers a highly comparative and value-led perspective on production, consumption and exchange logics throughout the eastern Mediterranean over a period of two
Classical archaeology millennia during the Bronze Age (ca.3000–1200 BC). Review of the hardback: ‘… should be in every serious library.’ American Journal of Archaeology 2012 244 x 170 mm 316pp 978-1-107-40661-2 Paperback £28.00 Also available 978-0-521-88080-0 Hardback £69.00 eBook available
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Mycenaean Greece, Mediterranean Commerce, and the Formation of Identity
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Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers Studies in the Demographic History of Roman Italy 225 BC– AD 100 Luuk de Ligt Universiteit Leiden
Aimed at ancient historians and archaeologists, this book argues that Republican Rome had a unique demographic system which made it possible for it to recover quickly from large-scale losses of manpower and that the establishment of the pax Romana resulted in fast population growth. 2012 228 x 152 mm 408pp 2 maps 11 tables 978-1-107-01318-6 Hardback £65.00 www.cambridge.org/9781107013186
Bryan E. Burns Wellesley College, Massachusetts
The impact of long-distance exchange on the developing cultures of Bronze Age Greece has been a subject of debate since Schliemann’s discovery of the Shaft Graves at Mycenae. In this book, Bryan E. Burns offers a new understanding of the effects of Mediterranean trade on Mycenaean Greece by considering the possibilities represented by the traded objects themselves in their Mycenaean contexts. 2012 228 x 152 mm 258pp 41 b/w illus. 9 maps 2 tables 978-1-107-69741-6 Paperback £24.99 Also available 978-0-521-11954-2 Hardback £61.00 www.cambridge.org/9781107697416
Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in the Iron Age and Roman Periods Alex Mullen All Souls College, Oxford
The Celtic-speaking communities of Southern Gaul interacted with the ancient Mediterranean world during a period of constantly evolving cultural configurations. Using sociolinguistics and archaeology, this book investigates evidence for multilingualism and multiple identities from the foundation of Greek Marseille in 600 BC to the final phases of Roman Imperial power. Cambridge Classical Studies
2013 247 x 174 mm 350pp 31 b/w illus. 5 maps 13 tables 978-1-107-02059-7 Hardback c. £60.00 Publication April 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107020597
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Classical archaeology The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome Edited by Paul Erdkamp Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. This book introduces and explores all aspects of life there, from the monuments and the games to the food and water supply, from policing and riots to domestic housing, from death and disease to pagan cults and the impact of Christianity.
Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity Lin Foxhall University of Leicester
Investigates the ideals, practices and performance of gender in the ancient classical world, exploring archaeological, visual and written sources. Essential reading for gender specialists from a wide range of disciplines and an ideal introduction for undergraduate and postgraduate readers studying gender in the past.
Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
Key Themes in Ancient History
2013 228 x 152 mm 640pp 39 b/w illus. 10 maps 978-0-521-89629-0 Hardback c. £65.00 978-0-521-72078-6 Paperback c. £24.99 Publication March 2013 www.cambridge.org/9780521896290
2013 228 x 152 mm 210pp 18 b/w illus. 1 map 3 tables 978-0-521-55318-6 Hardback c. £50.00 978-0-521-55739-9 Paperback c. £18.99 Publication October 2013 www.cambridge.org/9780521553186
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy
Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Edited by Walter Scheidel
Michael Scott
Stanford University, California
University of Warwick
Thanks to its exceptional size and duration, the Roman Empire offers one of the best opportunities to study economic development in the context of an agrarian world empire. This volume, which is organised thematically, provides a sophisticated introduction to and assessment of all aspects of its economic life.
This book uses a full range of literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence in order to demonstrate the many different ways in which spatial analysis can illuminate our understanding of Greek and Roman society and the ways in which these societies thought of, and interacted with, the spaces they occupied and created.
Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
Key Themes in Ancient History
2012 228 x 152 mm 456pp 6 b/w illus. 1 map 1 table 978-0-521-89822-5 Hardback £60.00 978-0-521-72688-7 Paperback £23.99 www.cambridge.org/9780521898225
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Classical archaeology / Archaeology of the Americas The Cambridge Ancient History Plates to Volumes VII, Part 2 and VIII Second edition Edited by Christopher Smith British School at Rome
The Cambridge Ancient History is the most authoritative history of the ancient world. This volume is the partner to the volume of plates illustrating the Hellenistic East and provides an authoritative selection of illustrations for the early history of Rome and the development of the city of Rome, as well as all the regions of Italy and the West, including North Africa, Spain, Sicily and Gaul. It covers a period in which Rome began to expand westwards and illustrates both Rome’s own transformation and the impact on the West, including the consequences of the Punic Wars and the destruction to Carthage. All aspects of material culture are considered, with a particular focus on the development of coinage, as well as monumental building, the archaeology of naval and land warfare and the fascinating mixtures of languages and scripts represented in epigraphy. This will become a standard reference work for the period. Contributors: Christopher Smith, Guy Bradley, S. P. Oakley, Alastair Small, R. J. A. Wilson, S. J. Keay, Greg Woolf, Jonathan Williams The Cambridge Ancient History Plates
2013 247 x 174 mm 300pp 353 b/w illus. 978-0-521-25255-3 Hardback c. £90.00 Publication April 2013 www.cambridge.org/9780521252553
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Archaeology of the Americas Maize Origin, Domestication, and Its Role in the Development of Culture Duccio Bonavia
This book examines one of the thorniest problems of ancient American archaeology: the origins and domestication of maize. Using a variety of scientific techniques, Duccio Bonavia explores the development of maize, its adaptation to varying climates and its fundamental role in ancient American cultures. This book follows the spread of maize from South to North America and eventually to Europe and beyond. 2013 228 x 152 mm 570pp 24 b/w illus. 978-1-107-02303-1 Hardback £70.00 Publication February 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107023031
Iconographic Method in New World Prehistory Vernon James Knight, Jr University of Alabama
This book offers an overview of iconographic methods and their application to archaeological analysis. Providing a truly interdisciplinary approach, Vernon James Knight, Jr demonstrates how iconographic methods can be integrated with the scientific methods that are at the core of much archaeological inquiry. 2012 228 x 152 mm 214pp 45 b/w illus. 978-1-107-02263-8 Hardback c. £60.00 www.cambridge.org/9781107022638
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Archaeology of the Americas Sculpture and Social Dynamics in Preclassic Mesoamerica Julia Guernsey University of Texas, Austin
This book examines the functions of sculpture during the Preclassic period in Mesoamerica and its significance in statements of social identity. Julia Guernsey focuses specifically on an enigmatic type of public, monumental sculpture known as the ‘potbelly’ that traces its antecedents to small domestic ritual objects. The potbellies became central to the physical representation of new forms of social identity and expressions of political authority during the development of the first state-level societies in Mesoamerica. 2012 279 x 215 mm 245pp 125 b/w illus. 2 maps 1 table 978-1-107-01246-2 Hardback £65.00 eBook available
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An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl Michel Launey Université de Paris VII (Denis Diderot)
Edited and translated by Christopher Mackay University of Alberta
A comprehensive grammar of classical Nahuatl, offering a complete and clear treatment of the language’s structure, grammar and vocabulary. 2011 228 x 152 mm 474pp 1465 exercises 978-0-521-51840-6 Hardback £60.00 978-0-521-73229-1 Paperback £24.99 eBook available
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Monuments, Empires, and Resistance The Araucanian Polity and Ritual Narratives Tom D. Dillehay Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
Drawing on anthropological research, this book examines the resistance strategies of the Araucanians to unite against the Spanish. Both theoretically and empirically informed, this fascinating account will be welcomed by students and scholars interested in the colonial history and ethnography of South America and colonial archaeology. Review of the hardback: ‘… I recommend this book to readers interested in South American archaeology and ethnography, as well as to those interested in other mindbuilding cultures … an empirically rich contribution to explorations of heterarchy, political economies and ‘corporate’ polities in prehistory. The book should stimulate creative thinking about shamanism, moundbuilding and the nature of political ties in other mound-building societies both in the ancient New World and further afield.’ Cambridge Archaeological Journal Cambridge Studies in Archaeology
2012 254 x 178 mm 506pp 978-1-107-40774-9 Paperback £30.99 Also available 978-0-521-87262-1 Hardback £81.00 eBook available
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Archaeology of the Americas / Historical archaeology Ancient Inca Alan L. Kolata University of Chicago
This book provides a detailed account of the Inca Empire, describing its history, society, economy, religion and politics, but most importantly the way it was managed. It offers a sophisticated new interpretation of Inca power politics and especially the role of religion in shaping an imperial world of great ethnic, social and cultural diversity. Case Studies in Early Societies
2013 228 x 152 mm 300pp 69 b/w illus. 10 maps 2 tables 978-0-521-86900-3 Hardback c. £60.00 978-0-521-68938-0 Paperback c. £20.99 Publication April 2013 www.cambridge.org/9780521869003
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Review of the hardback: ‘… one can only be grateful to Forbes that decades of experiencing the cultures of Methana from the inside allow him to share with us here both the ‘language’ and ‘literature’ of its landscapes.’ Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2012 229 x 152 mm 462pp 978-1-107-41070-1 Paperback £31.00 Also available 978-0-521-86699-6 Hardback £69.00 eBook available
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The Archaeology of Class in Urban America Stephen A. Mrozowski
Historical archaeology New in Paperback
Meaning and Identity in a Greek Landscape An Archaeological Ethnography Hamish Forbes University of Nottingham
This study explores how Greek villagers have understood and reacted to their landscapes over the centuries. Based on data gathered over 25 years, Hamish Forbes’ study combines the rich detail of ethnographic field work with historical and archaeological time. Written for archaeologists, human geographers and historians of ancient Greece.
University of Massachusetts, Boston
This study vividly reconstructs the material reality of workers’ lives in some of the earliest centres of capitalism. Providing an interdisciplinary approach, it offers unique insights into factors determining class identity. Supported throughout by illustrations, tables and graphs, this is essential reading for historical archaeologists and social scientists. Review of the hardback: ‘The processes of class formation and distinction are ongoing in American cities. For those interested in those processes, The Archaeology of Class in Urban America is a ‘must read’.’ Cambridge Archaeological Journal Cambridge Studies in Archaeology
2012 244 x 170 mm 212pp 978-1-107-40763-3 Paperback £25.00 Also available 978-0-521-85394-1 Hardback £64.00 www.cambridge.org/9781107407633
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Historical archaeology / Archaeology (general) New in Paperback
The Archaeology of Improvement in Britain, 1750–1850 Sarah Tarlow University of Leicester
In this innovative study, Sarah Tarlow shows how the archaeology of this period manifests a widespread and cross-cutting ethic of improvement, one of the most current concepts of eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain. Written primarily for archaeologists, this book will also be of interest to social historians and historical geographers. Review of the hardback: ‘[Tarlow] produces an extremely useful synthesis of much archaeological and historical research, demonstrating that people in this period made many significant changes to their material world which they described as ‘improvement’. … Tarlow has many useful and original things to say about the archaeology of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. … this book is well worth reading, and also extremely easy to read – Tarlow writes with clarity and, at times, elegance. … this is a stimulating and provocative read.’ Landscape History Cambridge Studies in Archaeology
2012 254 x 178 mm 238pp 978-1-107-40729-9 Paperback £27.00 Also available 978-0-521-86419-0 Hardback £60.00 eBook available
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Archaeology (general) Becoming an Archaeologist A Guide to Professional Pathways Joe Flatman University College London
Becoming an Archaeologist is an engaging handbook on career paths in the area of archaeology. It outlines in straightforward fashion the entire process of getting a job in archaeology, including the various options; the training that is required; and how to get positions in the academic, commercial and government worlds. ‘Anyone considering a career in the discipline should read this – unlike most books on archaeology, it will tell you the future.’ Current Archaeology Current Archaeology Book of the Year Award 2012 – Winner 2011 228 x 152 mm 248pp 26 b/w illus. 10 tables 978-0-521-76772-9 Hardback £53.00 978-0-521-73469-1 Paperback £17.99 eBook available
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Archaeology (general) / Also of interest Interpreting Ancient Figurines
Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, 47
Context, Comparison, and Prehistoric Art Richard G. Lesure
2012 229 x 152 mm 338pp 978-1-107-40647-6 Paperback £28.00 Also available 978-0-521-85656-0 Hardback £105.00
University of California, Los Angeles
eBook available
This book examines ancient figurines from several world areas to address recurring challenges in the interpretation of prehistoric art.
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2011 253 x 215 mm 260pp 95 b/w illus. 6 maps 6 tables 978-0-521-19745-8 Hardback £63.00 eBook available
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Also of interest Human Identity and Identification Rebecca Gowland University of Durham
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The First Boat People S. G. Webb Bond University, Queensland
Challenging current theories of how modern humans emerged, this book argues for an early entry of humans into Australia. It explores how, why and when people migrated across the world in the Pleistocene, and what happened to the megafauna of Australia when they got there. Review of the hardback: ‘Steve Webb is an excellent expert of the Australian Biological Anthropology. The First Boat People concerns how people travelled across the world to Australia. It traces movements from Africa to Australia, offering a new view of population growth at that time, challenging current ideas and underscoring problems with the Out of Africa theory of how modern humans emerged. A most interesting book which describes all facets of the topic.’ Journal of Comparative Human Biology
and Tim Thompson Teesside University
Reflecting upon recent developments in research on the relationship between the body, environment and society, this book examines the role of the body in human identification and in the forging of identities. It integrates biological perspectives with current discourse in the social sciences, focusing particularly on bioarchaeology and forensic science. 2013 247 x 174 mm 248pp 9 b/w illus. 4 tables 978-0-521-88591-1 Hardback £75.00 978-0-521-71366-5 Paperback £29.99 Publication January 2013 www.cambridge.org/9780521885911
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Also of interest New in Paperback
The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World Edited by Walter Scheidel Stanford University, California
Ian Morris Stanford University, California
and Richard P. Saller Stanford University, California
In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic performance, and chronological, with coverage of the whole of the Greek and Roman worlds extending from the Aegean Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. The contributors move beyond the substantivist-formalist debates that dominated twentieth-century scholarship and display a new interest in economic growth in antiquity. New methods for measuring economic development are explored, often combining textual and archaeological data that have previously been treated separately. Fully accessible to non-specialist, the volume represents a major advance in our understanding of the economic expansion that made the civilisation of the classical Mediterranean world possible. Review of the hardback: ‘By presenting current scholarship and its prospective future course, the editors have produced a
very important work. Prodigious bibliography … Summing up: highly recommended.’ Choice
Contributors: Ian Morris, Richard Saller, Walter Scheidel, Robert Sallares, Bruce W. Frier, Dennis P. Kehoe, Helmuth Schneider, John Bennet, Michael Dietler, Robin Osborne, Peter R. Bedford, John K. Davies, Astrid Möller, Sitta von Reden, Robartus J. van der Spek, Joseph G. Manning, Gary Reger, Jean-Paul Morel, William V. Harris, Neville Morley, Willem M. Jongman, Elio Lo Cascio, Philippe Leveau, Susan E. Alcock, Dominic W. Rathbone, David Cherry, Andrea Giardina 2012 228 x 152 mm 958pp 28 b/w illus. 24 maps 15 tables 978-1-107-67307-6 Paperback £40.00 Also available 978-0-521-78053-7 Hardback £153.00 www.cambridge.org/9781107673076
The Hills of Rome Signature of an Eternal City Caroline Vout University of Cambridge
Rome is ‘the city of seven hills’. This book explores what’s at stake in this cliché and how it has helped countless people think about Rome holistically. Embracing evidence from Varro, Virgil and Claudian to sixteenth-century frescoes and nineteenth-century engravings, it proposes a new way of seeing the city. 2012 228 x 152 mm 302pp 72 b/w illus. 27 colour illus. 1 map 978-1-107-02597-4 Hardback £60.00 eBook available
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Greek Art and the Orient Ann C. Gunter Northwestern University, Illinois
For over a century, scholars have recognized an ‘orientalizing period’ in the history of early Greek art, in which Greek artisans fashioned works of art under the stimulus of Near Eastern imports or resident foreign artisans. In this study, Ann Gunter interrogates the categories of ‘Greek’ and ‘Oriental’ as problematic and shifts emphasis to modes of contact and cultural transfers within a broader regional setting. 2012 253 x 177 mm 272pp 51 b/w illus. 3 maps 978-0-521-18299-7 Paperback £18.99 Also available 978-0-521-83257-1 Hardback £59.00 www.cambridge.org/9780521182997
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Roman Phrygia Culture and Society Edited by Peter Thonemann University of Oxford
This multidisciplinary collection of essays transforms our understanding of ancient inner Anatolia, one of the most fascinating and understudied regions of the Roman empire. With essays on law, religion, architecture and art history, this book will be essential reading for all social and cultural historians of the Roman world. Greek Culture in the Roman World
2013 247 x 174 mm 348pp 78 b/w illus. 3 maps 978-1-107-03128-9 Hardback c. £65.00 Publication October 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107031289
Syllabic Writing on Cyprus and its Context Edited by Philippa M. Steele Magdalene College, Cambridge
The first comprehensive account of syllabic writing in ancient Cyprus, tackling epigraphic, archaeological and historical problems relating to the island’s writing systems in the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age and challenging some longstanding or traditional views. Invaluable for scholars studying Cypriot epigraphy or archaeology. Cambridge Classical Studies
2013 216 x 138 mm 224pp 13 b/w illus. 7 tables 978-1-107-02671-1 Hardback c. £55.00 Publication January 2013 www.cambridge.org/9781107026711
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Index A Amenhotep III........................................13 Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar........................................10 Ancient Central China............................12 Ancient Glass...........................................2 Ancient Inca...........................................23 Anderson, jr., James C.............................17 Andrefsky, Jr, William................................6 Appropriating the Past.............................2 Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, The..........13 Archaeology of Australia’s Deserts, The...12 Archaeology of China, The......................12 Archaeology of Class in Urban America, The.....................................................23 Archaeology of Cyprus, The.....................10 Archaeology of Improvement in Britain, 1750–1850, The..................................24 Archaeology of Japan, The........................7 Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia, The...........................................5 Archaeology of the Holy Land, The............8 Armit, Ian.................................................6 Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba................11 Aubet, Maria Eugenia...............................8
B Bahn, Paul G............................................3 Baika, Kalliopi........................................14 Barnard, Alan...........................................6 Becoming an Archaeologist....................24 Bevan, Andrew................................. 16, 18 Black Sea and the Early Civilizations of Europe, the Near East and Asia, The.......7 Blackman, David....................................14 Blier, Suzanne.........................................11 Body in History, The..................................3 Boin, Douglas.........................................16 Bonavia, Duccio.....................................21 Brewer, Douglas J...................................13 Budin, Stephanie Lynn..............................9 Burns, Bryan E........................................19
C Cambridge Ancient History, The...............21
Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome, The...........................................20 Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy, The......................................20 Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World, The.....................26 Cambridge History of Painting in the Classical World, The.............................15 Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy, The.....................................................18 Cambridge World Prehistory, The...............3 Chen, Pochan.........................................12 Chen, Xingcan........................................12 Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East..................................7 Cities of God..........................................14 Commerce and Colonization in the Ancient Near East..................................8 Coningham, Robin...................................2 Conolly, James.......................................16 Cooley, Alison E......................................18 Crossland, Zoë.......................................10
D de Ligt, Luuk..........................................19 de Voogt, Alex..........................................9 Demetriou, Denise..................................18 Demography of Roman Italy, The.............17 Dillehay, Tom D.......................................22 Divining the Etruscan World....................18 Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel....................6 Dusinberre, Elspeth R. M.........................15
E Early Earthquakes of the Americas............5 Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia..........................15 Erdkamp, Paul........................................20 Esmonde Cleary, Simon..........................16 Evans, Jean M..........................................8
F First Boat People, The.............................25 Flad, Rowan K........................................12
Index Flatman, Joe...........................................24 Forbes, Hamish.......................................23 Foxhall, Lin.............................................20 From Chiefdom to State in Early Ireland....5
G Gange, David.........................................14 Genesis of Symbolic Thought....................6 Gerding, Henrik......................................14 Gibson, D. Blair........................................5 Gowland, Rebecca.................................25 Greek Art and the Orient........................27 Greek Sculpture.....................................17 Guernsey, Julia.......................................22 Gunter, Ann C.........................................27
H Harmans¸ah, Ömür....................................7 Harris, Oliver J. T.......................................3 Hartley, Charles W....................................5 Headhunting and the Body in Iron Age Europe..................................................6 Hellenistic West, The...............................14 Henderson, Julian.....................................2 Hills of Rome, The...................................26 Hin, Saskia.............................................17 Hughes, Michael.......................................2 Human Adaptation in the Asian Palaeolithic..........................................11 Human Identity and Identification...........25
I Iconographic Method in New World Prehistory............................................21 Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age............................................9 Interpreting Ancient Figurines.................25 Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, An......22 Ivanova, Mariya........................................7
K Kelly, Robert L..........................................4 Knapp, A. Bernard..................................10 Knight, Jr, Vernon James.........................21
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Kolata, Alan L.........................................23 Kovach, Robert L......................................5 Kozloff, Arielle P......................................13
L Launey, Michel.......................................22 Ledger-Lomas, Michael...........................14 Lesure, Richard G....................................25 Life of the Longhouse, The......................11 Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers, The.............4 Lithic Technology......................................6 Liu, Li.....................................................12 Lives of Sumerian Sculpture, The...............8 Lucas, Gavin.............................................2
M Mackay, Christopher...............................22 Magness, Jodi..........................................8 Maize....................................................21 Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean World..................................................15 Material World of Ancient Egypt, The......13 McKenzie, Judith....................................14 Meaning and Identity in a Greek Landscape...........................................23 Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communities and Persistent Landscapes.........................................16 Meroitic Language and Writing System, The.......................................................9 Metcalf, Peter.........................................11 Mizoguchi, Koji.........................................7 Mobile Pastoralism and the Formation of Near Eastern Civilizations......................9 Monroe, J. Cameron...............................12 Monuments, Empires, and Resistance......22 Morin, Eugène..........................................9 Morris, Ian.............................................26 Mosaics of Roman Crete, The..................16 Mrozowski, Stephen A............................23 Mullen, Alex...........................................19 Mycenaean Greece, Mediterranean Commerce, and the Formation of Identity...............................................19
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Index N Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean.....................................18
O Ogundiran, Akinwumi.............................12 Orton, Clive..............................................2 Ostia in Late Antiquity............................16
P Pakkanen, Jari........................................14 Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers...............19 Peck, William H.......................................13 Pollitt, J. J...............................................15 Porter, Anne.............................................9 Pottery in Archaeology..............................2 Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa..................................................12 Prag, Jonathan R. W................................14
Q Quinn, Josephine Crawley.......................14
R Rabett, Ryan J........................................11 Rankov, Boris.........................................14 Reassessing Paleolithic Subsistence..........9 Renfrew, Colin..........................................3 Rilly, Claude.............................................9 Robb, John...............................................3 Roman Architecture in Provence.............17 Roman Phrygia.......................................27 Roman West, AD 200–500, The..............16
S Saller, Richard P......................................26 Scarre, Geoffrey........................................2 Scheidel, Walter................................ 20, 26 Scott, Michael........................................20
Sculpture and Social Dynamics in Preclassic Mesoamerica.......................22 Shea, John J.............................................4 Shipsheds of the Ancient Mediterranean.14 Smith, Adam T..........................................5 Smith, Christopher..................................21 Smith, Mike............................................12 Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean....19 Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds.....................................20 Spivey, Nigel..........................................17 Steele, Philippa M...................................27 Stone Tools and Fossil Bones....................6 Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East................................4 Stone Vessels and Values in the Bronze Age Mediterranean..............................18 Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity....20 Sweetman, Rebecca J.............................16 Syllabic Writing on Cyprus and its Context...............................................27
T Tarlow, Sarah.........................................24 Tartaron, Thomas....................................15 Thompson, Tim.......................................25 Thonemann, Peter..................................27 Turfa, Jean MacIntosh.............................18
U Understanding the Archaeological Record.2
V Vout, Caroline........................................26
W Webb, S. G.............................................25
Y Yaziciogˇlu, G. Bike....................................5
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