Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century explorers and travellers to South America brought back various ideas on the Maya ruins they had visited and/or discovered.
This paper reports on archaeological analysis carried out on assemblages recovered from two stratified cave sites on Campbell Island in the Montebello group in northwest Australia. These sites provide
A volume of studies in commemoration of E C L 'Inez' During Caspers who died in 1996. Forty papers on topics connecting the civilisations of the Indus and Mesopotamia, and India and the Gulf - a wide-
A study of mortuary practices in East Yorkshire from the fifth to the late seventh century BC. The author uses all the available evidence, from well-recorded modern excavations to briefly recorded nin
Keegan's analysis, a dissertation, of the ways in which the Roman emphasis on gender roles affected the burial of both sexes is based on data from four cemeteries which were all in use during the late
A report on excavations carried out by the Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit in the Valley of the River Tame in Staffordshire between 1997 and 1998.
The lengthy subtitle aptly describes the content of this volume as an 'Analysis of the morphology, manufacture and use of selected categories of domestic wooden artefacts with particular reference to
This work investigates the use of Old Red Sandstone from South Wales, Gloucestershire, Avon and Somerset during the Roman period, for rotary querns. It is based on detailed petrographic studies of the
Pottery and its decoration binds together the people who make and use it. The case study is based on 800 vessels from seven sites attributed to Iroquoian and Algonquian (Western Basin) groups; the gre
This work explores the interrelationship between humans and plants within the Princess Point culture (c.1570-970 BP). The basis of this study of the Princess Point is to explore the origins of agricul
The idea of organised mass travel is one that does not really come about until the High Middle Ages, and this study looks at the mechanics of travel before then. It asks questions such as who travelle
Prompted by two contradictory references to the nature and extent of woodlands in Cudham during the medieval period, Sue Harrington embarked upon a survey of the history of woodlands in this part of t
The aim of this volume is to publish letters and letter fragments from the Petrie excavations at Lahun in an accessible and affordable manner. The Middle Kingdom papyri are illustrated and, on the fac
This work is a survey of individual Beaker culture and Early Bronze Age burial methods in the French section of the Rhone basin, and its sphere of influence. It classifies the various forms and assess
Oxbow says: Henry's Mill was just one of thousands of sawmills established in Victoria (Australia) from the 1850s to the Second World War. Rather than focusing on industrial and technological aspects
Chandima Wickramasinghe provides the first comprehensive overview of historical slavery in Sri Lanka, and from a comparative perspective looks in detail at this and at the history of slavery in ancien
Cyrenaica is thought to have had extensive commercial links with the rest of the Greek world in the 4th and 5th centuries BC. This study aims to examine the nature, frequency and routes of trading bet
How did the Romans plan their great road to the north, Dere Street? In setting out to answer this question, and to produce a method for diagnosing the direction of Roman surveying and planning from th
