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Explores the relationship between wild birds and people in Britain from the Mesolithic to AD 1600.

The first volume to analyse the fabric of Hadrian's Wall in relation to its geological background..

Offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and contextualised investigation of the figure of the völva, situating her in the wider context of pre-Christian Nordic religion, culture, and ritual practices.

Charts the rise, interplay between and fall of the key civilizations of the Mediterranean Bronze Age against the backdrop of a series of natural disasters.

The first volume to examine the commemoration of military events in the ancient world using landscape biography..

In the long history of documenting the material culture of the archaeological record, meaning and actions of makers and users of these items is often overlooked. The authors in this book focus on rituals exploring the natural and made landscape stages, the ritual directors, including their progression from shaman to priesthood, and meaning of the rites. They also provide comments on the end or failure of rites and cults from Paleoindian into post-DeSoto years.  Chapters examine the archaeological records of Cahokia, the lower Ohio Valley, Aztalan Wisconsin, Vermont, Florida, and Georgia, and others scan the Eastern US, investigating tobacco/datura, colour symbolism, deer symbolism, mound stratigraphy, flintknapping, stone caching, cults and their organisation, and red ochre. These authors collectively query the beliefs that can be gleaned from mortuary practices and their variation, from mound construction, from imagery, from the choice of landscape setting. While some rituals were short-lived, others can be shown to span millennia as the ritual specialists modified their interpretations and introduced innovations.

Major new re-examination of established theories concerning past societies on a global scale, presenting innovative research and new explanations towards resolving long-standing problems in regional archaeologies.

Explores the progressive social and economic response of local prehistoric communities to sea level rise and environmental change based on evidence from Mount's Bay, Cornwall.

Explores ways of understanding animism and materiality in the religious life of ancient societies: relationships between humans, animals, plants and the land and perceptions of nature.

This book charts and explains how human activities have shaped and altered the development of soils in many parts of the world, taking advantage of five decades of soil analytical work in many archaeological landscapes from around the globe. The core of this volume describes and illustrates major transformations of soils and the processes involved in these that have occurred during the Holocene and how these relate to human activities as much as natural causes and trajectories of development, right up to the present day. This is done in two ways: first by examining a number of major processes and impacts on the landscape such as Holocene warming and the development of woodland, clearance and agricultural activities, and second by examining the trajectories of these changes in soil systems in different palaeo-environmental situations in several diverse parts of the world. The transformations identified are relevant to prevalent themes of today such as over-development and soil, land and environmental degradation and resilience. The studies articulated relate to Britain, southeastern Europe, the Mediterranean basin, East Africa, northern India and Peru in South America.

First English publication of a submerged Italian Neolithic lake village with exceptionally preserved remains including spoons, textiles, baskets, ropes, sickles, bows, plant remains and structural wood.

Explores recent multi-disciplinary approaches to analysis of early political organisation.

Perspectives on and approaches to problems of early writing in the ancient Mediterranean.

Excavation of a Scheduled burial mound on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor revealed an unexpected, intact burial deposit of Early Bronze Age date associated with an unparalleled range of artefacts. The cremated remains of a young person had been placed within a bearskin pelt and provided with a basketry container, from which a braided band with tin studs had spilled out. Within the container were beads of shale, amber, clay and tin; two pairs of turned wooden studs and a worked flint flake. A unique item, possibly a sash or band, made from textile and animal skin was found beneath the container. Beneath this, the basal stone of the cist had been covered by a layer purple moor grass which had been collected in summer. Analysis of environmental material from the site has revealed important insights into the pyre material used to burn the body, as well as providing important information about the environment in which the cist was constructed. The unparalleled assemblage of organic objects has yielded insights into a range of materials which have not survived from the earlier Bronze Age elsewhere in southern Britain.

Organised geographically into tours, this beautifully-illustrated book explores the best surviving medieval river bridges in Southern England.

Results of a major, community-based excavation of an Iron Age broch that collapsed in on itself after a fire, sealing a unique and undisturbed domestic assemblage.

Detailed analysis of the unique mosaic pavement beside the lost shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, fragments of the original shrine and the surrounding royal tombs.

An overview of Tell Ahmar - an Assyrian provincial capital on the Syrian Euphrates - its development, rise to power and the architectural and material culture reflections of its status.

Offers new insights into the archaeology and history of the westernmost region of the Roman Empire.

Presents details of five richly furnished communal tombs of the Bronze Age Wadi-Suq period (2000-1650 BC), including some exceptional grave goods such as electrum animal pendants, metalwork, beads and softstone artefacts.

First major synthesis by leading regional specialists of recent excavation results and new approaches to the study of megalithic monuments and their individual histories across Europe.

An extensive multi-disciplinary study of the marriage bed of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.

Presents a detailed study of the archaeology of Roman Macedonia and Aegean Thrace, the first eastern region to be incorporated into the Empire, highlighting unique features.

Istanbul, Europe's largest city, became an urban centre of exceptional size when it was chosen by Constantine the Great as a new Roman capital city.