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PREHISTORY
The LBK and Želiezovce Settlement Site of Vráble
Edited by Martin Furholt, Ivan Cheben, Johannes Müller, Alena Bistáková and Maria Wunderlich
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Series: Scales of Transformation
First volume on an exceptional early Neolithic site in south-west Slovakia.
The early Neolithic site of Vráble (5250–4950 cal BCE) is among the largest LBK settlement agglomerations in Central Europe. This volume presents the first part of the results of an international research project that was started in 2012 and aims to explore the social implications of settlement concentration in the context of early farming communities, on the background of subsistence patterns and landscape use.
Sidestone Press • 9789088908972 • Paperback • b/w and colour illus. 280 x 210mm • 350 pages • September 2020 • £65.00
ALSO AVAILABLE IN HARDBACK 9789088908989 • £195.00
Evaluating Indicators of Social Inequality, Demography, Oral Health and Diet During the Bronze Age Key Period 2200–1650 BCE in the Northern Caucasus
Insights into social inequality, oral health and dietary strategies of a Bronze Age population.
This volume delivers the first comprehensive data collection and investigation of the cemetery Kudachurt 14 that combines burial, osteological, palaeopathological, and stable isotope information, and achieves a connection between the living and the dead in this time and place.
Sidestone Press • 9789088909030 • Paperback • b/w and colour illus. 280 x 210mm • 440 pages • September 2020 • £80.00
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A Human Environment
Studies in Honour of 20 years Analecta Editorship by Prof. Dr. Corrie Bakels
Edited by Victor Klinkenberg, Roos van Oosten and Carol van Driel-Murray Series: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia
Examines the interdependent relationship between humans and the environment.
How do environmental constraints and opportunities influence human behaviour and what is the human impact on the ecology and appearance of the landscape? And what can archaeological knowledge contribute to the current discussions about the use, arrangement and depletion of our (local) environment?
Human Development in Landscapes Edited by Johannes Müller and Andrea Ricci Selected case studies examine human development within specific landscapes.
This book examines human development within specific landscapes, from the North Atlantic to the Persian Gulf and from Peru to the Near East. Events, processes and structures are described on local, regional and global scales as well as methodological developments on ecological and societal archives.
Sidestone Press • 9789088909245 • Paperback • 17 b/w and 37 colour illus. • 254 x 178mm • 200 pages • May 2020 • £40.00
ALSO AVAILABLE IN HARDBACK 9789088909252 • 120.00
The Masons' Marks of Minoan Knossos
By Sinclair Hood and Edited by Lisa Bendall Series: BSA Supplementary Volume Catalogues and discusses 1600 masons’ marks in the Palace of Knossos and surrounding buildings.
The signs known as ‘masons’ marks’ were carved on blocks of stone in Bronze Age Crete over a period of some 500 years from around 2000 BC until the middle of the 15th century BC. The greatest number of these signs occurs at Knossos, making this site of unique importance for their study and interpretation. These two volumes catalogue, record, and examine the typology, chronology and distribution of these marks and their meanings.
British School at Athens • 9780904887716 • Hardback • 310 illus. 304 x 203mm • 650 pages • Available now • £130.00
Stonehenge for the Ancestors
Part 2: Synthesis By Mike Parker Pearson, Joshua Pollard, Colin Richards, Julian Thomas and Kate Welham
Series: The Stonehenge Riverside Project
Examines results of the long-term fieldwork project at Stonehenge.
The Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003–2009) aimed to investigate the purpose of this unique prehistoric monument by considering it within its wider archaeological context. This is the second of four volumes which present the results of that campaign. It includes studies of the lithics, both from topsoil sampling and from excavated features, as well as of the petrography of the famous bluestones.
By Kutlu Aslıhan Yener Series: Prehistory Monographs Archaeometallurgy survey and excavation of an Early Bronze Age miners’ village and its associated tin mine.
This volume presents over fifteen years (1981–1996) of archaeometallurgy surveys and excavations of an Early Bronze Age miners’ village, Göltepe, and its associated tin mine, Kestel. The results of the surface surveys, test pit operations, profile trenches and excavation finds demonstrate that processing of cassiteriterich ore was the primary function of activities at Göltepe. This site represents the unique example of the highland production model – the industrial tier 1 of the extraction and processing of raw materials for the production of metal artefacts.
INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory) • 9781931534277 Hardback • 280 x 210mm • 600 pages • November 2020 • £55.00
Kleronomia: Legacy and Inheritance
Studies on the Aegean Bronze Age in Honor of Jeffrey S. Soles Edited by Joanne M.A. Murphy and Jerolyn E. Morrison Series: Prehistory Monographs Twenty-seven papers touching on themes Jeffrey Soles has influenced during his illustrious career.
The 27 papers presented in this volume, organised chronologically, harken to the wide range of themes that Jeffrey Soles has addressed and influenced during his illustrious career: ancestry, burial customs, religion, trade, jewellery, the development of Mochlos, and the rise and fall of Minoan Crete.
INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory) • 9781931534284 Hardback • 280 x 210mm • 310 pages • July 2020 • £55.00
The Minoan Shipwreck at Pseira, Crete
By Elpida Hadjidaki-Marder Series: Prehistory Monographs Describes the excavation of a Minoan shipwreck dated to 1725/1700 BC.
This volume describes the discovery in 2003 and excavation between 2004 and 2009 of a Minoan ship that sunk near the island of Pseira around 1725/1700 BC. The recovered cargo constitutes the largest known corpus of complete and almost complete clay vessels from a single Middle Minoan IIB deposit in several categories. The activity of each season is described, followed by a catalogue with extensive discussion of the pottery, a petrographic analysis and catalogues of weights and stone tools.
Making One's Way in the World
By Martin Bell
Addresses the topic of how to identify and interpret patterns of movement in prehistory.
Oxbow Books • 9781789254020 Hardback • 320 pages Available Now • £50.00
Seminar PapersNeolithic Studies Group
Houses of the Dead?
Edited by Alistair Barcla y, David Field and Jim Leary Explores the interface between the Neolithic structure of the living and the dead.
Oxbow Books • 9781789254105 Paperback • 216 pages Available Now • £40.00
The Bell Beaker Transition in Europe
Edited by Laure Salanova and Maria Pilar Prieto Martínez
New perspectives on the Bell Beaker transition across Europe.
Oxbow Books • 9781789253849 New in Paperback • 224 pages July 2020 • £35.00 Growing up in the Ice Age
By April Nowell Examines the economic, social and political roles of Palaeolithic children.
Oxbow Books • 9781789252941 Paperback • 256 pages December 2020 • £38.00
Art in the Eurasian Iron Age
Edited by Courtney Nimura, Helen Chittock, Peter Hommel and Chris Gosden
Explores Iron Age art at a Eurasian scale.
Oxbow Books • 9781789253948 Hardback• 256 pages
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The Social Context of Technology
By Sophia Adams, Joanna Brück and Leo Webley
Archaeological evidence for non-ferrous metalworking in the Bronze and Iron Ages of Britain and Ireland.
Oxbow Books • 9781789251760 Hardback • 288 pages June 2020 • £35.00
Wessex Archaeology Monography
A Prehistoric Burial Mound and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Barrow Clump, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire
Edited by Philippa Bradley
Excavations on the site of a large, partly extant Early Bronze Age burial mound.
Wessex Archaeology 9781911137122• Hardback 284 pages• Available Now £25.00
Tübingen Publications in Prehistory
The Beginnings of Art and Music
By Nicholas J. Conard and ClauJoachim Kind E n g l i s h t r a n s l a t i o n o f a n important work examining finds from Prehistoric Germany.
Kerns Verlag • 9783935751339 Hardback • 192 pages October 2020 • £46.00
Scales of Transformation
Megalithic Monuments and Social Structures
By Maria Wunderlich
An exploration of megalith building activities, supported by rich and varied case studies.
Sidestone Press • 9789088907869 Paperback • 450 pages Available Now• £90.00
Tübingen Publications in Prehistory
The Last HunterGatherers
By Kurt Felix Hillgruber Explores the first large-scale southwestern Syrian Palaeolithic survey and excavation project.
Kerns Verlag • 9783935751261 Hardback • 290 pages Available Now • £37.00
Magical, Mundane or Marginal?
Edited by Daniela Hofman
Papers on Early Neolithic depositional practices and what they can tell us about society, belief, and world views.
Sidestone Press • 9789088908613 Paperback• 250 pages
Available Now• £45.00
Tübingen Publications in Prehistory
Ice Age Archaeology
By Nicholas J. Conard, Michael Bolus, Ewa Dutkiewicz and Sibylle Wolf
Examines the current states of research in remarkable
archaeological landscapes.
Kerns Verlag • 9783935751322 Paperback • 276 pages October 2020 • £18.00
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Oxbow Books• 9781789254747 Paperback• b/w illus. • 240 x 170mm 192 pages • October 2020• £30.00
About the author:
Peter Feinman is the founder of the Institute of History, Archaeology, and Education. He advocates for the importance of local history in education and citizenship. Ever since he was a child he has wanted to know how Moses did what he did.
The Exodus
An Egyptian Story By Peter Feinman A real-world approach to understanding the Exodus using archaeological evidence.
Did the Exodus occur? This question has been asked in biblical scholarship since its origin as a modern science. The desire to scientifically resolve this question was a key component in the funding of archaeological excavations in the 19th century. Egyptian archaeologists routinely equated sites with their presumed biblical counterpart. Initially, it was taken for granted that the Exodus had occurred. It was simply a matter of finding the archaeological data to prove it. So far, those results have been for naught.
This book takes a very real-world approach to understanding the Exodus. It is not a story of cosmic spectaculars that miraculously or coincidentally occurred when a people prepared to leave Egypt. Instead, it tells the story of Exodus without reference to the Bible – as if the Bible did not even exist. It is told based on the archaeological record in Egypt and in nearby areas such as Canaan, the land of promise. Biblical passages are not quoted. Although when the archaeological data is put together it is done so with the Exodus in mind. The story isexamined from an Egyptian perspective.
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Pleistocene Research in the Western Desert of Egypt Edited by Maxine K. Kleindienst Series: Dakhleh Oasis Papers
Geoarchaeological and palaeo-environmental analyses from the Western Desert of Egypt.
This is the only volume to present significant results of research into the Pleistocene of the Western Desert of Egypt. The papers are focused on geoarchaeological and palaeo-environmental data, reporting on different aspects of the off-site fieldwork conducted in the oases. This volume will be a major contribution to the publication of the results of several decades of work in a region where fieldwork is now increasingly difficult.
Oxbow Books • 9781789255713 • Paperback • b/w illus. 297 x 210mm • 240 pages • November 2020 • £45.00
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The People of the Cobra Province in Egypt
A Local History, 4500 to 1500 BC By Wolfram Grajetzki A social history of the working population of the ancient province of Cobra, Egypt.
Delivers a history from below for the first half of Egyptian history covering the earliest settlements, state formation and the pyramid age. The focus is on the Wadjet province, about 350 km south of modern Cairo in Upper Egypt. Here, archaeological records provide an especially rich dataset for the material culture of farmers. The book investigates the life of people far from the centres of power and examines the interaction between farmers and the ruling classes.
Oxbow Books • 9781789254211 • Hardback • b/w illus. 240 x 170mm • 288 pages • Available Now • £55.00
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Lisa in Egypt
About a Ten-year-old Girl who went to an Archaeological Excavation in Egypt By Lisa Seldenthuis A story of a girl who goes to an excavation in Egypt, for ages 10–14.
Designed for children aged 10–14 and their teachers, this beautifully illustrated book tells the story of a ten-year-old girl who went to an archaeological excavation in Egypt. A learning tool for the home or the classroom, it explores key topics in archaeology, tells the tale of archaeologists excavating the desert, and the finds they come across.
Proceedings of an International Conference on Foreigners in Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Societies of the Bronze Age held in Prague, September 10–13, 2018 Edited by Jana Myná řová, Marwan Kilani and Sergio Alivernini
Interdisciplinary contributions from a conference which aimed to enhance the understanding of 'foreignness' in ancient societies between the end of the Chalcolithic period and the end of the Late Bronze Age. Some contributions approach the discussion from a theoretical perspective or explore theoretical frameworks to study ‘foreignness’. Others examine the sociocultural dimension involved in the presence of foreigners or their interactions with local communities.
Czech Institute of Egyptology • 9788073089283 • Hardback 265 x 210mm • 435 pages • Available Now • £66.80
Created for Eternity
The Greatest Discoveries of Czech Egyptology By Miroslav Bárta, Ladislav Bareš and Jaromír Krajčí Series: BSA Supplementary Volume
The activities of Czech Egyptologists and their most important discoveries.
In 2019 the Czech Institute of Egyptology celebrated the 100th birthday of Czech Egyptology. It was an important centenary for archaeology globally. For many years now Czech Egyptologists have been among world leaders in the field, making major breakthroughs (most recently the discovery of the tomb of the priest Kaires), and helping to set new international research trends. This book presents the most important discoveries of Czech Egyptologists and the range and variety of their activities.
Czech Institute of Egyptology • 9788073089276 • Hardback 275 x 210mm • 387 pages • Available Now • £26.60
The Persistence of Memory in Kush
Pianchy and His Temple By Anthony Spalinger A report on the military reliefs in the Great Temple at Gebel Barkal in Nubia.
This report is concerned with military reliefs in the Great Temple at Gebel Barkal in Nubia, the present Sudan. It includes important battle scenes in the Great Temple’s inner hall (B 502), as well as the outer hall (B 501).
Être et paraître, Statues royales et privées de la fin du Moyen Empire et de la Deuxième Période intermédiaire (1850–1550 av. J.-C.)
By Simon Connor Series: Middle Kingdom Studies
This volume presents an evaluation of late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period (c. 1850 to 1550 BC) sculpture. It touches on several aspects, including style, material, and dating. The book is well-illustrated, with over 100 black and white plates, and includes a catalogue of all statues of the period.
Golden House Publications • 9781906137663 • Hardback • c. 500 illus. 297 x 210mm • 500 pages • Available Now • £75.00
The Late Egyptian Language: Structure of its Grammar By Helmut Satzinger An in-depth account of the grammar and structure of Late Egyptian.
Late Egyptian – the vernacular idiom of the time of the Ramesside pharaohs (14th through 12th century BCE) – is a distinct episode in the history of the Egyptian-Coptic language. It has new vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling, and follows new grammatical rules. This account of its structure covers phonetics, spelling, morphology, and syntax.
Golden House Publications • 9781906137670 • Paperback 250 x 165mm • 170 pages • Available Now • £35.00
The Architecture of Mastaba Tombs in the Unas Cemetery
By Ashley Cooke Series: The Munro Archive Project. Studies on the Unas Cemetery in Saqqara
Explores tomb architecture in the late Old Kingdom by examining mastabas in the Unas Cemetery, Saqqara.
Until comparatively recently, there has been little attempt to produce a detailed study of the architectural make-up of multi-roomed mastaba tombs and the implications of these observations for understanding the ways in which this type of tomb was really used. This book considers the architectural components of tomb design that made an ideal burial and explores different aspects of the design and construction of mastabas in the late Old Kingdom (c. 2375–2181 BC).
Edited by Alice Stevenson and Joris van Wetering Series: GHP Egptology Argues that the Naqada region is worthy of renewed critical attention.
This edited volume presents a series of reviews, overviews and unpublished archives from several historic expeditions in the Naqada region of Upper Egypt. This includes 19th-century fieldwork led by Gaston Maspero, Jacques de Morgan and Flinders Petrie, through to surveys conducted in the 20th century and new initiatives in the region in the 2010s. It encompasses not just the better-known Predynastic finds, but also later Pharaonic era material as well as Coptic heritage.
Golden House Publications • 9781906137694 • Paperback 100 illus. • 297 x 210mm • 300 pages • May 2020 • £60.00
A Mesopotamian Miscellany
By Karen Polinger Foster and Benjamin R. Foster Series: Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East A collection of readings highlighting the diversity of Mesopotamian literature.
Drawn from Akkadian and Sumerian tablets in the Yale Babylonian Collection, many of them previously unpublished, this collection of readings brings to life the vibrancy of ancient Mesopotamian literature, beyond its better-known myths and epics. The book’s unique thematic structure presents a wide range of timeless subjects, while the individual selections open new perspectives, thanks to their vivid details. The texts include letters, poems, prayers, humorous sketches, dialogues, and proverbs.
Gorgias Press • 9781463240523 • Hardback • 229 x 152mm 174 pages • December 2020 • £52.00
Rest in Mesopotamian and Israelite Literature
By Daniel Kim Series: Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts Studies the concept of rest in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern literature.
This volume studies the concept of rest in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern literature. Through close examination of Mesopotamian texts and selections from the Deuteronomistic History and Chronicles, Kim delineates a concept of rest for each body of literature and employs a comparative approach to illuminate the rest motif in the Hebrew Bible in light of Mesopotamian literature.
