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.
Archaeology and Society: Reconstructing the Prehistoric Past
1st Edition
By Grahame Clark
October 18, 2016
This reissue of the 1957 3rd edition of this book describes how archaeologists go about their work, how ancient sites are found, what methods are used to explore them, how finds are dated, and within what limits archaeological evidence is able to tell us how people lived before the dawn of recorded...
Archaeology by Experiment
1st Edition
By John Coles
October 18, 2016
Experimental archaeology is a new approach to the study of early man. By reconstructing and testing models of ancient equipment with the techniques available to early man, we learn how he lived, hunted, fought and built. What did early man eat? How did he store and cook his food? How did he make ...
Archaeology in England and Wales 1914 - 1931
1st Edition
By T.D. Kendrick, C.F.C. Hawkes
October 18, 2016
This survey of work carried out over a number of years synthesises the progress of archaeology, showing at a glance the changes within less than quarter of a century on the interpretation of and reflection on knowledge in the area. Entertainingly, written, this is a lasting introductory account of ...
Archaeology in the Holy Land
1st Edition
By Kathleen M. Kenyon
October 18, 2016
This classic book, extensively revised in 1979, includes the most important archaeological discoveries of that time made regarding both the pre-biblical and biblical history of Palestine. The earliest archaeological finds in Palestine reveal man’s presence as early as 9000 B.C., about 6000 years ...
Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn: The Technology of Skeletal Materials Since the Roman Period
1st Edition
By Arthur MacGregor
October 18, 2016
Artefacts made from skeletal materials since the Roman period were, before this book, neglected as a serious area of study. This is a comprehensive account which reviews over fifty categories of artefact. The book starts with a consideration of the formation, morphology and mechanical properties of...
Current Scientific Techniques in Archaeology
1st Edition
By P.A. Parkes
October 18, 2016
In the early 1980s several revolutionary new techniques were introduced to archaeological science - including accelerator C-14 dating, thermoluminescence dating of burnt flint and calcite, and the application of uranium series dating to Palaeolithic material. Developments in analytical chemistry ...
Field Archaeology
1st Edition
By R.J.C. Atkinson
October 18, 2016
During the years before this book was first published in 1946, and re-editioned in 1953, much had been written on the results of archaeological research, but no account had been published of the methods by which those results are obtained. This book provides a simple introduction to the principles ...
Field Archaeology in Britain
1st Edition
By John Coles
October 18, 2016
A practical guide to the various modern methods of discovery, excavation and recording of the remains left by prehistoric man in Britain. It stresses the vital role played by the amateur rescuing evidence of man’s past behaviour in these islands, and is illustrated by maps, site plans and sections,...
Hunters, Fishers and Farmers of Eastern Europe, 6000-3000 B.C.
1st Edition
By Ruth Tringham
October 18, 2016
Eastern Europe, in this book, embraces the area formally referred to as the ‘Marchlands of Europe’, sometimes as Eastern Central Europe, and which included, when this book was originally published in 1971, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Poland. This book ...
Industrial Archaeology: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Kenneth Hudson
October 18, 2016
Industrial archaeology is the study of early industrial buildings and machinery, particularly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. When this book was originally published in 1963, this was becoming a topic of lively interest and controversy among archaeologists, historians, architects and ...
Land-use and Prehistory in South-East Spain
1st Edition
By A. Gilman, J. B. Thornes
October 18, 2016
Based on a major research programme, and originally published in 1985, this book looked to provide an economic foundation for reinterpreting the Neolithic-Bronze Age sequence of South-east Spain in terms of emergent social complexity. The cultural evolution of the area had already been considered ...
Life and Death in the Bronze Age: An Archaeologist's Field-work
1st Edition
By Cyril Fox
October 18, 2016
This is a great work by one of the pioneers of modern archaeology. The period covered is from 1700 to 700 B.C. and is mainly concerned with the author’s field work in western Britain. It deals with burial ritual – dances, processions, "houses of the dead", the objects deposited, the building of the...