Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 467 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 0-521-79230-4. This book is the first comprehensive presentation of the archaeology of Syria from the end of the Paleolithic period to 300 BC. Although Syria has been the focus of intensive excavations for decades, no large-scale review of the results of these excavations has ever appeared until...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — xx + 347 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-0-521-88127-2. This book provides an up-to-date synthesis of Aztec culture, applying interdisciplinary approaches (archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnography) to the reconstruction of a complex and enigmatic civilization. Frances F. Berdan offers a balanced assessment of complementary...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 341 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-0-521-84811-4. This book presents a new interpretation of the prehistory of Britain and Ireland and is the first in many years to consider both regions together. Richard Bradley begins the account when Britain became separated from the Continent and ends with the integration of the two...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — xxiv + 424 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 0-521-25920-7. To outsiders ancient South America is synonymous with the Incas. Originally a small unremarkable group, the Incas, under their leader Pachacuti, conquered most of their known world within a single lifetime. But before the Incas there were some ten millennia of prehistory,...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — xxii + 533 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-0-521-84697-4. This book offers a critical synthesis of the archaeology of South Asia from the Neolithic period (c. 6500 BCE), when domestication began, to the spread of Buddhism accompanying the Mauryan Emperor Asoka’s reign (third century BCE). The authors examine the growth and...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 508 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 0-521-66779-8. Ethnoarchaeology in Action is a first and comprehensive study of what remains, despite its centrality and multiple linkages, one of anthropology’s lesser-known subdisciplines. First developed as the study of ethnographic material culture from archaeological perspectives, it has...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — xxiv + 548 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-0-521-84866-4. This book provides the first analysis and synthesis of the evidence of the earliest inhabitants of Asia before the appearance of modern humans 100,000 years ago. Asia has received far less attention than Africa and Europe in the search for human origins, but it is no...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 333 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-0-521-45664-7. Oliver Dickinson has written a scholarly, accessible and up-to-date introduction to the prehistoric civilisations of Greece. The Aegean Bronze Age, the long period from roughly 3300 to 1000 BC, saw the rise and fall of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilisations. The cultural...
Cambridge University Press, 1986. — 491 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 0-521-24514-1. A major new survey of the prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies of Europe, this book reviews the newest information and interpretations for scientific research. Palaeolithic studies are at an exciting point of transition. The explosion in ethnoarchaeological studies has...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 552 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 0-521-36477-9. The European Bronze Age, roughly 2500 to 750 BC, was the last fully prehistoric period and crucially important for the formation of the Europe that emerged in the later first millennium BC. This book provides a detailed account of its material culture, and focuses on the findings...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — xviii + 383 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-0-521-66006-8. In the first millennium AD, the Classic Maya created courtly societies in and around the Yucatan Peninsula, leaving some of the most striking intellectual and aesthetic achievements ot the ancient world, at large settlements like Tikal, Copan, and Palenque. This book...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 321 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-0-521-84780-3. This book provides an overview of Bronze Age societies of Western Eurasia through an investigation of the archaeological record. Philip L.Kohl outlines the long-term processes and patterns of interaction that link these groups together in a shared historical trajectory of...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 383 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-0-511-26996-7. This book is the first synthesis of the archaeology of the Urals and Western Siberia. It presents a comprehensive overview of the late prehistoric cultures of these regions, which are of key importance for the understanding of long-term changes in Eurasia. At the crossroads of...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 475 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-0-521-64310-8. 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 Paleolithic hunting-gathering groups,...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 309 p. — (Cambridge world archaeology). — ISBN: 978-0-521-86231-8. Encompassing a land mass greater than the rest of the Near East and eastern Mediterranean combined, the Arabian Peninsula remains one of the last great unexplored regions of the ancient world. This book provides the first extensive coverage of the archaeology of this region...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 370 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-0-521-88490-7. This is the first book-length study of the Yayoi and Kofun periods of Japan (c. 600 BC–AD 700), in which the introduction of rice paddy field farming from the Korean peninsula ignited the rapid development of social complexity and hierarchy that culminated with the formation...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 372 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 0-521-80181-8. Farmers made a sudden and dramatic appearance in Greece around 7000 bc, bringing with them domesticated plants and animals, new ceramics and techniques, and establishing settled villages. They were Europe’s first farmers, but Catherine Perlès argues that the stimulus for the...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — xviii + 354 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-0-521-78312-5. The foundations for the Maya and other civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica were laid down over 2,400 years ago during the early and middle phases of the Formative period. The most elaborate of these formative Mesoamerican societies are represented by the...
Second Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2016. — xxxviii + 513 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-1-107-09469-7. Elam was an important state in southwestern Iran from the third millennium BC to the appearance of the Persian Empire and beyond. Less well-known than its neighbours in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, the Levant or Egypt, it was nonetheless a region of...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. – 522 p. – (Cambridge World Archaeology). ISBN: 0-511-03831-3 eBook (Adobe Reader) ISBN: 0-521-56358-5 hardback ISBN: 0-521-56496-4 paperback From the middle of the third millennium BC until the coming of Cyrus the Great, southwestern Iran was referred to in Mesopotamian sources as the land of Elam. A heterogenous collection of...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 315 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-0-521-65188-2. This is the first book-length archaeological study of Micronesia, an island group in thewestern Pacific Ocean. Drawing on awide range of archaeological, anthropological and historical sources, the author explores the various ways that the societies of these islands have been...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — xvi + 541 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-1-107-01659-0. In The Archaeology of the Caucasus , Antonio Sagona provides the first comprehensive survey of a key area in the Eurasian land mass, from the earliest settlement to the end of the early Iron Age. Examining the bewildering array of cultural complexes found in the region,...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — xx+449 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-1-107-00669-0. The Maltese Archipelago is a unique barometer for understanding cultural change in the central Mediterranean. Prehistoric people helped to reshape the islands’ economy, and when Mediterranean maritime highways were being established, the islands became a significant lure to...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — xviii + 253 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-1-108-42292-5. 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...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — xxvi + 406 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-0-521-40745-8. This is the first book-length study of the archaeology of Australia's deserts, one of the world's major habitats and the largest block of drylands in the southern hemisphere. Over the last few decades, a wealth of new environmental and archaeological data about this...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 443 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 0-521-444764. Dr Whittle reviews the latest archaeological evidence on Neolithic Europe from 7000 to 2500 BC. Describing important areas, sites and problems, he addresses the major themes that have engaged the attention of scholars: the transition from a forager lifestyle; the rate and dynamics...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 225 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-0-521-62333-9. The Archaeology of the Caribbean is a comprehensive synthesis of Caribbean prehistory from the earliest settlement by humans more than 6,000 years ago to the time of European conquest of the islands, from the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. SamuelWilson reviews the...
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