Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology
About the Book Series
Reissuing works originally published between 1930 and 1996, this set presents a rich selection of renowned and lesser-known scholarship across the subject. Classic previously out-of-print works are brought back into print here in this set of research, guidance and surveys. It includes works of theory and of practical research, ranging over a wide range of themes from archaeology and place-names to industrial archaeology to the rock art of Africa.
A Season's Work at Ur, Al-'Ubaid, Abu Shahrain-Eridu-and Elsewhere: Being an Unofficial Account of the British Museum Archaeological Mission to Babylonia, 1919
1st Edition
By H.R. Hall
January 30, 2025
This classic work from 1930 describes the archaeological mission to Iraq which was a huge leap in the understanding of Mesopotamian history. It chronicles the journey, the excavations and the findings in a personalised account, heavily illustrated with maps, photographs of the locations and the ...
Ancient Egyptian Jewellery
1st Edition
By Alix Wilkinson
January 30, 2025
First published in 1971, this book was the first major survey ever made in this field. It includes all the main museum collections in the world, and enables comparative study of almost all the known jewellery from predynastic times to the end of the XXVIth Dynasty (525 B.C.) to be made. The ...
Celtic Craftsmanship in Bronze
1st Edition
By H.E. Kilbride-Jones
January 30, 2025
This book is primarily concerned with the craftsmanship of the Bronzesmiths of Britain and Ireland during the period from the beginning of the first century AD until the end of the seventh century. The period covered takes in a number of eras: the pre-Occupation era of the first century; the ...
The Iron Age in Lowland Britain
1st Edition
By D.W. Harding
January 30, 2025
This book was written at a time when the older conventional diffusionist view of prehistory, largely associated with the work of V. Gordon Childe, was under rigorous scrutiny from British prehistorians, who still nevertheless regarded the ‘Arras’ culture of eastern Yorkshire and the ‘Belgic’ ...
The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain
1st Edition
By Derek A. Roe
January 30, 2025
This book deals with the earliest period of human settlement in Britain, proposing a series of archaeological stages for the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic periods. An introduction on the problems and methods of studying the Palaeolithic and Pleistocene periods leads into the technical argument, a ...
The Prehistoric Settlement of Britain
1st Edition
By Richard Bradley
January 30, 2025
This study, first published in 1978, explores the evidence for pre-Roman settlement in Britain. Four aspects of the prehistoric economy are described by the author – colonisation and clearance; arable and pastoral farming; transhumance and nomadism; and hunting, gathering and fishing. These aspects...
Analytical Archaeology
1st Edition
By David L. Clarke
October 18, 2016
This study was well-established as a pioneer work on archaeological methodology, the theoretical basis of all archaeological analysis whatever the period or era. The first edition of the book presented and evaluated the radical changes in methodology which derived from developments in other ...
Ancient Ireland: A Study in the Lessons of Archaeology and History
1st Edition
By R.A.S. Macalister
October 18, 2016
Archaeological evidence here is used to help build up a picture of the lives led by the people of which it is a record. The contents include a description of primitive settlements, leading up to an account of the art, trade and civilization generally of early ages prior to the Celtic invasion and ...
Antiquities of the Irish Countryside
1st Edition
By Seán P. Ó Ríordáin
October 18, 2016
No country is as rich in field antiquities as Ireland, and this work gives an account in simple language of the origin, purpose, date and distribution of all classes of monuments with the exception of ecclesiastical remains and medieval castles. It provides the general reader with all the ...
Archaeological Theory in Europe: The Last Three Decades
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Hodder
October 18, 2016
The 1980s witnessed exciting developments in theoretical writing in Western archaeology. Where previous decades were dominated by the Anglo-American perspective, or "New Archaeology", the recent years showed the European debate grow in confidence and vitality. This book, published in 1991, captures...
Archaeology After Structuralism: Post-structuralism and the Practice of Archaeology
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Bapty, Tim Yates
October 18, 2016
Most practising archaeologists have preferred to leave the deep theories of what lies behind their methods and perceptions on one side. Now archaeologists have faced up to the difficult task of making (or not making) the connections between the past, interpretation and the present. The writers of ...
Archaeology and Place-Names and History: An Essay on Problems of Co-ordination
1st Edition
By F.T. Wainwright
October 18, 2016
In the period A.D. 400-1100, perhaps more than in any other, it is necessary to bring together the results of historical, archaeological and place-name studies. Each provides information that is either badly preserved or not preserved at all in the other two, but it is not always realised how great...