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  • The Origins and Spread of Domestic Animals in Southwest Asia and Europe

    Edited by Sue Colledge, James Conolly, Keith Dobney, Katie Manning, Stephen Shennan ...
    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
    This volume tackles the fundamental and broad-scale questions concerning the spread of early animal herding from its origins in the Near East into Europe beginning in the mid-10th millennium BC. Original work by more than 30 leading international researchers synthesizes of our current knowledge about the origins and spread of animal domestication. In this comprehensive book, the zooarchaeological ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants in Southwest Asia and Europe

    Edited by Sue Colledge, James Conolly ...
    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
    In this major new volume, leading scholars demonstrate the importance of archaeobotanical evidence in the understanding of the spread of agriculture in southwest Asia and Europe. Whereas previous overviews have focused either on Europe or on southwest Asia, this volume considers the transition from a pan-regional perspective, thus making a significant contribution to our understanding of the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • The First Farmers of Europe

    An Evolutionary Perspective

    by Stephen Shennan ...
    Series series Cambridge World Archaeology
    Knowledge of the origin and spread of farming has been revolutionised in recent years by the application of new scientific techniques, especially the analysis of ancient DNA from human genomes. In this book, Stephen Shennan presents the latest research on the spread of farming by archaeologists, geneticists and other archaeological scientists. He shows that it resulted from a population expansion ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Bell Beaker Transition in Europe

    Mobility and local evolution during the 3rd millennium BC

    Edited by Maria Pilar Prieto Martínez, Laure Salanova ...
    Could the circulation of objects or ideas and the mobility of artisans explain the unprecedented uniformity of the material culture observed throughout the whole of Europe? The 17 papers presented here offer a range of new and different perspectives on the Beaker phenomenon across Europe. The focus is not on Bell Beaker pottery but on social groups (craft specialists, warriors, chiefs, extended or ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture

    The archaeology and science of kitchen pottery in the ancient Mediterranean world

    Edited by Michela Spataro, Alexandra Villing ...
    The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social, political and economic contexts. Structured around main themes concerning technical aspects of ... Read more

    $34.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Prehistory of Asia Minor

    From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies

    by Bleda S. Düring ...
    In this book, Bleda Düring offers an archaeological analysis of Asia Minor, the area equated with much of modern-day Turkey, from 20,000 to 2,000 BC. During this period human societies moved from small-scale hunter-gatherer groups to complex and hierarchical communities with economies based on agriculture and industry. Dr Düring traces the spread of the Neolithic way of life, which ultimately ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Not Just for Show

    The Archaeology of Beads, Beadwork, and Personal Ornaments

    Edited by Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer, Alice M. Choyke ...
    Beads, beadwork, and personal ornaments are made of diverse materials such as shell, bone, stones, minerals, and composite materials. Their exploration from geographical and chronological settings around the world offers a glimpse at some of the cutting edge research within the fast growing field of personal ornaments in humanities’ past. Recent studies are based on a variety of analytical ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age

    Edited by Anthony Harding, Harry Fokkens ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age is a wide-ranging survey of a crucial period in prehistory during which many social, economic, and technological changes took place. Written by expert specialists in the field, the book provides coverage both of the themes that characterize the period, and of the specific developments that took place in the various countries of Europe. After an ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Wild Harvest

    Plants in the Hominin and Pre-Agrarian Human Worlds

    Edited by Karen Hardy, Lucy Kubiak Martens ...
    Series series Studying Scientific Archaeology
    Plants are fundamental to life; they are used by all human groups and most animals. They provide raw materials, vitamins and essential nutrients and we could not survive without them. Yet access to plant use before the Neolithic can be challenging. In some places, plant remains rarely survive and reconstructing plant use in pre-agrarian contexts needs to be conducted using a range of different ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • AGRUMED: Archaeology and history of citrus fruit in the Mediterranean

    Acclimatization, diversifications, uses

    Edited by Véronique Zech-Matterne, Girolamo Fiorentino ...
    Series series Collection du Centre Jean Bérard
    The book brings together 16 contributions on the ancient and recent history of citrus fruits. Although they represent the main fruit production on a worldwide scale, very little is known about their original domestication and routes of introduction into the Mediterranean and temperate Europe: few organic remains identified as citrus have been found on archaeological sites. Nevertheless, evidence ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Black Sea and the Early Civilizations of Europe, the Near East and Asia

    by Mariya Ivanova ...
    The Black Sea lies at the junction of three major cultural areas: Europe, Central Asia and the Near East. It plays a crucial role in enduring discussions about the impact of complex Near Eastern societies on European societies, and the repercussions of early urbanization across Eurasia. This book presents the first comprehensive overview of the Black Sea region in the prehistoric period. It ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

  • Social Zooarchaeology

    Humans and Animals in Prehistory

    by Nerissa Russell ...
    This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human-animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused on the role of animals in the human diet and subsistence economy. This book, however, argues that animals have always played many more roles in human societies: as wealth ... Read more

    $63.19 USD