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Divided into thematic sections, these collected papers celebrate the career and research interests of Lindsay Allason-Jones, who has been at the forefront of small find and Roman frontier research for 40 years. Newly printed into paperback.

Papers on the study of wool and other fibers in ancient textile production.

A review of the latest research into the Neolithic settlement of northern England/southern Scotland.

A broad collection of archaeological case studies and historical essays that analyze how political competition, strategic considerations, and violent encounters affected Greek Sicily.

This atlas, produced in the Historic Towns Trust's large portfolio format, traces the origins and growth of Oxford from prehistory to a city dominated by churches and university buildings.

Examines the economic, social, and political roles of Paleolithic children.

Explores how we identify and interpret patterns of movement in prehistory.

Explores Iron Age art at a Eurasian scale, as well as its long-distance connections.

"For almost the first time in Mr Battestin's book religion has its full innings in the reinterpretation of eighteenth-century literature. Perhaps his greatest contribution is his recovery of a number of divines and their writings and his employment of them as an intellectual rather than a merely antiquarian resource"" - Paul Fussell,

A major research project which examines and explores decorative elements applied to over 600 Egyptian coffins of the 21st Dynasty with a discussion on symbolism, chronology and status.

A major overview of the imperial Roman army: its soldiers, weapons, equipment and history.

Investigates craft communities, workshop organizations and networks responsible for the sophisticated terracotta decoration of temples in Italy, 600-100 BC, in a wider Mediterranean context.

First systematic study of Late Bronze Age burial traditions in south-eastern Peloponnese, Greece with examining landscapes of death, burial architecture, funerary, post-funerary customs and rituals

Archaeologists and textile historians bring together 16 papers to investigate the production, trade and consumption of textiles in Scandinavia and across parts of northern and Mediterranean Europe throughout the medieval period. New in paperback.

Explores the interface between craft, communication networks, and urbanization in Viking-age Northern Europe employing new theoretical and analytical approaches to artefacts, technology and the processes of craft specialisation in developing economies.

The Earliest Europeans explores the early origins of man in Europe through the perspective of 'a year in the life', moving through the seasons to see what the evidence for early man in the Lower Palaeolithic tells us about how they survived, their behaviour, what resources were available to them, using the latest research techniques.

Susan Rose presents a fascinating new exposition on the role of the wool trade in the economy and political history of medieval England.

Presents a holistic study of an outstanding group of monuments - mosaic pavements, tombs and shrines - in their historical architectural and archaeological context

Examines cultural interaction, transformation and the repercussions and local reactions to Greek colonization in social, religious, economic and cultural terms in a series of case studies from around the Mediterranean and Black Sea.

The latest archaeological research on the Battle for Gaul and its aftermath, exploring the consequences of the war on the Iron Age communities of north-west Europe through archaeology and numismatics.

Comprehensive introduction to the effects of sea-level change on prehistoric landscapes and the techniques and methods of interpretation applicable to the study of submerged archaeology illustrated by case studies.

Addresses 'Minoanisation' through examining the adoption of Cretan weaving technology throughout the southern Aegean.

A comprehensive analysis of the city of considered 'cosmological centre of the universe' by the Native Americans.

First in a series of four volumes presenting the results of excavation of the Kyrenia ship, the best preserved and dated example of a Greek merchantman wrecked in the early 3rd century BC.

A cross-disciplinary examination of literary, epigraphical, numismatic, and archaeological evidence for changing ways in which communities commemorated their past and their ancestors.

The nature and causes of the transformation in settlement, social structure, and material culture that occurred in Britain during the Later Iron Age (c. 400-300 BC to the Roman conquest) have long been a focus of research.

The latest in the British Historic Towns Atlas series explains the history of Winchester, a city which has played such an important part in English history from Roman times onwards. A series of large format maps show how Winchester was at key points in its history, charting its development and changing shape.

Major new series of studies combining latest scientific analysis techniques with archaeological data in a series of case studies covering technological, social and symbolic attributes of beads in prehistoric cultures.

Study of the Roman army as a non-military entity, and the crucial role its soldiers played as engineers, builders, administrators, policemen, a fire-fighting force and farmers.