An Economist Best History Book 2017 “History as it should be written.”—Barry Cunliffe,
Guardian “Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our …

I want to claim the right to look. This claim is, neither for the first nor the last time, for a right to
the real. 1 It might seem an odd request after all that we have seen in the first decade of the …

This article reviews the archaeological and documentary evidence for stone towers built in
rural and urban Greece in classical and Hellenistic times. The history of scholarship reveals …

Using archaeology and social anthropology, and more than 100 original line drawings and
photographs, An Archaeology of Images takes a fresh look at how ancient images of both …

" A Better Ape explores the evolution of the moral mind from our ancestors with
chimpanzees, through the origins of our genus and our species, to the development of …

In Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World archaeologist Catherine M. Cameron
provides an eye-opening comparative study of the profound impact that captives of warfare …

Excavations at the late Hallstatt/early La Tène (6th–4th century BC)“princely seat” of the
Glauberg (Hesse, Germany) revealed exceptionally furnished graves in monumental …

A combination of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of collagen and radiogenic
strontium isotope analysis of tooth enamel was used to investigate diet and mobility at the …

Captives were found in societies of all social levels throughout much of history and
prehistory. They were frequently women, and they could be potent agents of culture change …

While some researchers continue to focus fruitfully on traditional issues, in recent years new
perspectives, some strongly revisionist, have developed within European Iron Age …