Archaeology

Thomas McErlean, Rosemary McConkey & Wes Forsythe ( Editors) - Strangford Lough - An Archaeological Survey of the Maritime Cultural Landscape - HB

Hardcover, published by Blackstaff Press, 2002 Lacks the original dustjacket. Otherwise very good.  Strangford Lough in County Down has been officially designated an Area of Outstanding Beauty. For thousands of years, however, its appeal was much...

Alasdair Whittle - Europe in the Neolithic : The Creation of New Worlds - PB - 1996

Published by Cambridge University Press, larger format paperback, 1996.  Picture The Quiet Man - An Illustrated Celebration is the result of four years work of collecting photographs, facts and stories about The Quiet Man. Des reveals that his first...

Iain Zaczek / The Art of the Celts: Origins, History, Culture (Coffee Table Book)

Explains who the Celtic peoples were, where they lived, when they thrived, and presents their art and artefacts - metalwork, jewellery, stonework and carving - in the religious and cultural context of their time. Images of many beautifully crafted...

Venceslas Kruta / The Celts of the West (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Steven A. Rosen / Lithics after the Stone Age: A Handbook of Stone Tools from the Levant (Coffee Table Book)

Steven A. Rosen's Lithics After the Stone Age is the first in-depth analysis of post-Stone-Age tools. For Near Eastern archaeologists, he provides the first comprehensive typology and description of post-Neolithic tools including subtypes, function,...

Sarah Milliken / A Very Remote Period Indeed: Papers on the Palaeolithic presented to Derek Roe (Coffee Table Book)

This is a volume no Palaeolithic archaeologist should be without. It is offered to Derek Roe by his friends and colleagues as a tribute to his enthusiasm, support and encouragement over many years. The twenty-seven papers range from Africa to the Near...

Jonathan Benjamin / Submerged Prehistory (Coffee Table Book)

Major events of human prehistory such as the post-glacial recolonization of Northern Europe and the spread of agriculture through the Mediterranean took place on landscapes that are now, at least partially, underwater. Large parts of this submerged...

Hillary K. Murray / A Tale of the Unknown Unknowns: A Mesolithic Pit Alignment and a Neolithic Timber Hall at Warren Field, Crathes, Aberdeenshire (Coffee Table Book)

The site of Warren Field in Scotland revealed two unusual and enigmatic features; an alignment of pits and a large, rectangular feature interpreted as a timber building. Excavations confirmed that the timber structure was an early Neolithic building and...

Robert Preucel / Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: A Reader (Coffee Table Book)

This reader presents an easily accessible collection of seminal articles in contemporary Anglo-American archaeological theory for use in introductory undergraduate classes as well as graduate level seminars. If focuses upon the period from 1980 to the...

Birgitta Hardh / On the Road: Studies in Honor of Lars Larsson (Coffee Table Book)

Travel can take us to new places, but also to new knowledge. We can travel in time as well as in space, and traveling is by no means solely a phenomenon belonging to the present. On the Road is a book about travels and about travelers.The fifty-three...

D.Q. Bowen / A Revised Correlation of Quaternary Deposits in the British Isles (Coffee Table Book)

Realization that continental records of Quaternary rocks were more complex than hitherto believed came with the re-interpretation of oxygen isotope stratigraphy in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This necessitated a comprehensive re-evaluation that has...

Maxine McBrinn / Social Identities Among Archaic Mobile Hunters And Gatherers in the American Southwest (Coffee Table Book)

The mobile hunters and gatherers of the Archaic US Southwest were members of at least three different kinds of social bands, endogamous marriage groups, and a risk-sharing economic network. By comparing the geographic distributions of conological and...

Andrew S. Fairbairn / Plants in Neolithic Britain and Beyond (Coffee Table Book)

Plant-centred issues are fundamental in the definitions and explanations of the Neolithic as a phenomenon.The meeting of the Neolithic Studies Group from which this volume developed aimed to provide a forum for the wide range of approaches now applied to...

Hugo Anderson-Whymark / Continental Connections: Exploring Cross-Channel Relationships (Coffee Table Book)

The prehistories of Britain and Ireland are inescapably entwined with continental European narratives. The central aim here is to explore ‘cross-channel’ relationships throughout later prehistory, investigating the archaeological links...

C.R. Wickham-Jones / Scotland's First Settlers (Coffee Table Book)

The nomads first arrived in Scotland some 9,000 years ago during the Stone Age, and their hunting and gathering way of life persisted for at least four millennia. A combination of archaeological, environmental, and geomorphological evidence reveals vital...

John J. Lowe / Reconstructing Quaternary Environments (Coffee Table Book)

Examines the various forms of evidence used to establish the history and scale of environmenal changes during the Quaternary. The evidence is extremely diverse, ranging from landforms and sediments to fossil assemblages and isotope ratios, bringing the...

R.L. Jones / Pleistocene Environments in the British Isles (Coffee Table Book)

Recent developments in Pleistocene research have prompted the authors to produce this up-to-date, concise account of environmental changes during the past two million years. Well-illustrated and referenced, it possesses a unique position in the...

Dimitra Papagianni / Time and Change: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on the Long Term in Hunter-Gatherer Societies (Coffee Table Book)

This volume explores long-term behavioral patterns and processes of change in hunter-gatherer societies from the Lower Palaeolithic to the present. In doing so, this volume questions the disciplinary distinctions between fine and coarse-grain...

Geoff Bailey / Mesolithic Europe (Coffee Table Book)

This book focuses on the archaeology of the hunter-gatherer societies that inhabited Europe in the millennia between the Last Ice Age and the spread of agriculture, between 10,000 and 5,000 years ago. Traditionally viewed as a period of cultural...

Terry P. O'Connor / Extinctions and Invasions: A Social History of British Fauna (Coffee Table Book)

Eight thousand years ago, when the sea cut Britain off from the rest of the Continent, the island's fauna was very most of the animals familiar to us today were not present, whilst others, now extinct, were abundant. Over the course of millennia humans...

Harry Lourandos / Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in Australian Prehistory (Coffee Table Book)

This book challenges traditional perceptions of Australian Aboriginal prehistory: that environment is the major determinant of hunter-gatherers; that Aborigines were egalitarian and culturally homogeneous; that they experienced few economic and...

Chris Stringer / In Search of the Neanderthals: Solving the Puzzle of Human Origins, with 183 Illustrations (Coffee Table Book)

Portrayed as club-wielding cavemen, the Neanderthals have become the archetype of all that is primitive and uncultured. But were the Neanderthals the ancestors of modern humans, or an evolutionary dead end, replaced by fully modern people from Africa?...

Nicholas Barton / Stone Age Britain (Coffee Table Book)

This introduction to Palaeolithic archaeology, which focuses on Britiain, asks questions about when and how Europe was inhabited, whether the Neanderthal was a club-wielding brute or a pacifist, and if Neanderthal burials actually had an element of...

Oliver E. Craig / Shell Middens in Atlantic Europe (Coffee Table Book)

The archaeological investigation of shell middens has a long and rich history. By the mid 1830s, the presence of artefacts found with large accumulations of shell along the Danish coast had successfully demonstrated that these sites were the result of...

Torben C. Rick / Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: A Global Perspective (Coffee Table Book)

Archaeological data now show that relatively intense human adaptations to coastal environments developed much earlier than once believed―more than 125,000 years ago. With our oceans and marine fisheries currently in a state of crisis, coastal...

Anne Brigitte Gebauer / Smakkerup Huse: A Late Mesolithic Coastal Site in Northwest Zealand, Denmark (Coffee Table Book)

The archaeological site of Smakkerup Huse is located at the headwaters of a former fjord known as the SaltbAek Vig on the northwest coast of the island of Zealand, Denmark. Excavations took place in 1989 and again from 1995 to 1997 by a team of Danish...

Charles Bronk Ramsey / Radiocarbon and Archaeology: Fourth International Symposium, St Catherine's College, Oxford (Coffee Table Book)

Radiocarbon dating covers the most recent span of geo-archaeological time, back to c.55,000 years BP. The list of applications and disciplines it can be used for is wide-ranging and burgeoning. It is used widely in dating aspects of the Earth's...

Frederick W. Foulds / Wild Things: Recent advances in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic research (Coffee Table Book)

Recently, Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology has been breaking boundaries worldwide. Finds such as the Mesolithic house at Howick, the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome, and the recently discovered footprints at Happisburgh all serve to indicate...

Stefan Karol Kozlowski / Thinking Mesolithic (Coffee Table Book)

Studies of the European Mesolithic have gone through a renaissance since the seminal Warsaw conference on the subject in 1973, and Stefan Kozlowski has been at its heart. This book presents a comprehensive, reedited selection of his most important...

Miriam S. Balmuth / Sardinian and Aegean Chronology (Coffee Table Book)

Balanced between the Aegean and West Mediterranean worlds, Sardinia offers a perfect laboratory for the investigation of interaction between societies from the Palaeolithic to Roman period. This work has, however, been hampered in the past by...

Kristian Pedersen / Mesolithic Studies In The North Sea Basin And Beyond (Coffee Table Book)

The North Sea has acted as both physical barrier, separating regions from each other, and as the principal means of communication between the same. This duality can also be seen in its potential to be both yielding and destructive; providing food and...

Ronald Singer / The Lower Paleolithic Site at Hoxne, England (Coffee Table Book)

At the edge of the small Suffolk village of Hoxne lies whatis arguably the single most important Middle Pleistocenearchaeological site in Europe. Here the deposits contain notonly prehistoric artifacts but also extraordinary records offossil flora and...

Michael Baillie / A Slice Through Time: Dendrochronology and Precision Dating (Coffee Table Book)

Dendrochronologists can now provide a wood sample for any calender date over the last seven millennia from two continents. The author discusses the latest developments.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Norman Hallendy / Inuksuit: Silent Messengers of the Arctic (Coffee Table Book)

The mysterious stone figures known as inuksuit can be found throughout the circumpolar world. Built from whatever stones are at hand, each one is unique. Inuksuit are among the oldest and most important objects placed by humans upon the vast Arctic...

Caroline Wickham-Jones / The Landscape of Scotland (Coffee Table Book)

From the top of the highest mountain to the bottom of the deepest peat bog, the landscape of Scotland bears the mark of the people who have lived and worked on the land for generations. It is the role of archaeology to recognise and interpret these...

Mariana Mondini / Colonisation, Migration, and Marginal Areas: A Zooarchaeological Approach (Coffee Table Book)

  Human migration tends to involve more than the odd suitcase or two - we often carry other organisms on our travels, some are deliberately transported, others move by accident. This volume of 12 papers offers a zooarchaeological approach to...

Kenneth Thomson / Mapping Doggerland: The Mesolithic Landscapes of the Southern North Sea (Coffee Table Book)

12,000 years ago the area that now forms the southern North Sea was dry a vast plain populated by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. By 5,500 BC the entire area had disappeared beneath the sea as a consequence of rising sea levels. Until now, this unique...

G.N. Bailey / Shell Energy : Mollusc Shells as Coastal Resources (Coffee Table Book)

Shell middens are ubiquitous archaeological features on coastlines throughout the world that have been variously analysed and interpreted as mounds of food, burial places, or simply as convenient receptacles for the preservation of stratified remains...

Per Karsten / In the Wake of a Woman: The Pioneering of North-Eastern Scania, Sweden, 10,000-5000 BC: The Årup Settlements (Coffee Table Book)

Flint material and settlement remains from the Late Palaeolithic Ahrensburg culture, as well as the Early and Middle Mesolithic from a newly excavated site is presented and interpreted in detail. The well preserved remains give new insights into everyday...

Hans Kindgren / Mesolithic on the Move: Papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe, Stockholm 2000 (Coffee Table Book)

What do we know about the Mesolithic? What distinguishes the Mesolithic from earlier and later periods of human history? What do the Mesolithic cultures of Europe have in common, and what differentiates them from one another? This comprehensive volume...

Joakim Donner / The Quaternary History of Scandinavia (Coffee Table Book)

During the Quaternary Period, Scandinavia's mountains were the source for repeated glaciation that covered much of eastern, central and western Europe. With a particular emphasis on Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, this text describes how these...

G.N. Bailey / The Archaeology of Prehistoric Coastlines (Coffee Table Book)

The Archaeology of Prehistoric Coastlines offers a conspectus of recent work on coastal archaeology examining the various ways in which hunter-gatherers and farmers across the world exploited marine resources such as fish, shellfish and waterfowl in...

Graeme Warren / Mesolithic Lives in Scotland (Coffee Table Book)

This is an in-depth study of Mesolithic Scotland, with chapters on landscape change, hunting and gathering, crafts and skills, scales of community, and senses of time and place. Graeme Warren takes the reader through the transition from Mesolithic to...

Richard Bradley / Interpreting the Axe Trade: Production and Exchange in Neolithic Britain (Coffee Table Book)

Interpreting the Axe Trade documents the changing character and context of stone axe production and exchange in the British Neolithic. Drawing on a variety of studies, the authors explore some of the problems and potentials that attend archaeological...

Joshua Pollard / Prehistoric Britain (Coffee Table Book)

Informed by the latest research and in-depth analysis, Prehistoric Britain provides students and scholars alike with a fascinating overview of the development of human societies in Britain from the Upper Paleolithic to the end of the Iron Age...

Paul Pettitt / The British Palaeolithic (Coffee Table Book)

The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years ago) to the end of the Ice Age. Landscape and ecology form the canvas...

Ruth Charles / Dorothy Garrod and the Progress of the Palaeolithic: Studies in the Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East and Europe (Coffee Table Book)

Dorothy Garrod opened many doors; not only was she the first female professor at Cambridge University, but she illuminated - and in some cases initiated - some of prehistoric archaeology's most central issues. The quiet yet self possessed woman was best...

Douglas J. Kennett / Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture (Volume 1) (Coffee Table Book)

This innovative volume is the first collective effort by archaeologists and ethnographers to use concepts and models from human behavioral ecology to explore one of the most consequential transitions in human the origins of agriculture. Carefully...

Peter Woodman / Mesolithic Studies at the Beginning of the 21st Century (Coffee Table Book)

The term 'Mesolithic' was born in the nineteenth century from the need to label a 'hiatus' period and was not generally accepted as a useful term by many scholars until around fifty years later. It has been championed by some, but still concerns others...

R.C. Preece / Island Britain: A Quaternary Perspective (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Anna Ritchie / Exploring Scotland's Heritage - Shetland (Coffee Table Book)

Examining Shetland's archaeological heritage, this work includes a look at an 18th-century fort in Lerwick, a Viking-age farm beside Sumburgh Airport, Scotland's best-preserved iron-age broch on the island of Mousa, tombstones, and storehouses that...

Peter Topping / Neolithic Landscapes (Coffee Table Book)

Reprint of another classic Neolithic Studies Group volume. 'It is a sign of the intellectual health of a specialist study group that its deliberations can generate collections of papers of general interest. The topical issue of landscape is addressed,...