A hoard discovered in the Netherlands presents an extraordinary first for continental Europe. The contents of this cache combine coins minted by…
By Claire Holleran Oxford University Press, £65.00 ISBN 978-0199698219 Researching for her PhD thesis, Holleran soon identified a gap in the…
Eds Rick J Schulting and Linda Fibiger Oxford University Press, £80.00 ISBN 978-0199573066 ‘Nasty, brutish, and short.’ Thomas Hobbes was not…
Garry J Shaw Thames & Hudson, £24.95 ISBN 978-0500051740 Garry Shaw’s guide to ancient Egyptian kingship is beautifully illustrated with colour photographs of…
Ian Hodder Wiley-Blackwell, £19.99 ISBN 978-0470672129 Are artefacts a backdrop to society, props used to reconstruct lost ways of life, or…
Do the outlines of hands in Spain’s El Castillo cave belong to Homo sapiens or to their earlier Neanderthal cousins?…
The Diablo Pyramid, in Guatemala, covers an earlier temple whose intricately decorated façade was carefully packed to preserve its huge stucco masks.…
How does the archaeological record reflect the vital role horses played in the development of civilisation?…
Is global trawling of fragile shipwrecks the greatest threat to underwater heritage today?…
What was life like under the shadow of the pharaohs? The realities of life and death under Egypt's rule…
When they were built in the 2nd century AD, the great watermills at Barbegal, in the South of France, were at the…
‘Expect the unexpected’ is a good maxim for any archaeologist. But nothing could have prepared Terry Hardaker and his team for their…
Why were the bodies of a dozen newborn babies placed around the edge of a 1,000-year-old tomb?…