The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human
skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones …

The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century bc with one of the worst
calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key …

On Collecting examines the nature of collecting both in Europe and among people living
within the European tradition elsewhere. Susan Pearce looks at the way we collect and what …

The societies of the European Bronze Age produced elaborate artifacts and were drawn into
a wide trade network extending over the whole of Europe, even though they were …

The Bronze Age, roughly 2500 to 750 BC, was the last fully prehistoric period in Europe and
a crucial element in the formation of the Europe that emerged into history in the later first …

The book is the first to use the quantitative methods of historical demography to understand
the economic and social life of a peasant community. It examines ecological change and …

This major new textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing
an innovative and important account of how material culture is used in the construction of …

Evidence for the disposal of the dead is one of the most common classes of archaeological
data; in both prehistoric and historic contexts, archaeologists have long used the remains of …

The concept of ideology has figured centrally in recent accounts of the fundamental social
transformation sweeping Europe from the mid-fifth to second millennia BC. In particular …

The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of
Hispania. With no geographical raison d'être and no obvious roots in its Roman, Germanic …