The impressive list of the achievements of the Neolithic of the southern Levant encompasses
village life, crop domestication, ceramic technology, and life-like plaster sculpture. Together …

Greek civilization and identity crystallized not when Greeks were close together but when
they came to be far apart. It emerged during the Archaic period when Greeks founded …

“This book exhorts the reader to embrace the materiality of archaeology by recognizing how
every step in the discipline's scientific processes involves interaction with myriad physical …

This is the first full-length treatment of food supply and food crisis in classical antiquity.
Hunger was never far away in the world of Greece and Rome, yet ancient historians have …

This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a
standard text in anthropology, sociology, and religion. Part of its fascination and success is …

During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response
to changing social and cultural conditions—most notably changes associated with the …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Theatre/Archaeology is a brilliant and provocative challenge to
disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both …

Surveying funerary rites and attitudes toward death from the time of Homer to the fourth
century BC, Robert Garland seeks to show what the ordinary Greek felt about death and the …

We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change,
large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean …

While human beings cope with the production and distribution of goods by trying to achieve
maximum efficiencies in energy expenditures, the basic way they symbolize power is …