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.
Material Culture and Text: The Art of Ambiguity
1st Edition
By Christopher Tilley
October 18, 2016
Originally published in 1991, this is the first book-length exploration of post-structuralist discourse theory in archaeology. It tackles the most basic problem of historical and archaeological analysis - the relationship between text and artefact – in an analysis of prehistoric art fusing theory ...
Models in Archaeology
1st Edition
Edited
By David L. Clarke
October 18, 2016
This major study reflects the increasing significance of careful model formation and testing in those academic subjects that are struggling from intuitive and aesthetic obscurantism toward a more disciplined and integrated approach to their fields of study. The twenty-six original contributions ...
Nationalism and Archaeology in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Timothy Champion
October 18, 2016
Archaeologists from many different European countries here explore the very varied relationship between nationalistic ideas and archaeological activity through the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The resurgence of nationalism was one of the most prominent features of the European ...
Neolithic Britain: New Stone Age sites of England, Scotland and Wales
1st Edition
By Rodney Castleden
October 18, 2016
The climax of the Stone Age in Britain, the Neolithic period (4700-2000BC), was a period of startling achievement. The British Isles are rich in Neolithic sites, which give us evidence of a complex and surprisingly developed archaic society. The author surveys 1100 secular and ceremonial sites in ...
New Light on the Most Ancient East
1st Edition
By V. Gordon Childe
October 18, 2016
This book offers a detailed survey on major archaeological discoveries in the Near and Middle East. This classic account focuses on the findings in three great centers of ancient civilization: Egypt, Sumer, and the Indus valley. Professor Childe discusses the excavation of the three cities of ...
People of Ancient Assyria: Their Inscriptions and Correspondence
1st Edition
By Jørgen Læssøe
October 18, 2016
Was Assyria merely a more brutal, more uncivilized and less interesting offshoot of the culture created by Sumerians and Babylonians in Southern Mesopotamia at the dawn of history? Do the Assyrian reliefs that fill our museums give a complete picture of the phenomenon that was Assyria? Was the ...
Piecing Together the Past: The Interpretation of Archaeological Data
1st Edition
By V. Gordon Childe
October 18, 2016
Originally published in 1956, this concise book brought together wisdom from V. Gordon Childe based upon 10 years of his lectures on the principles of archaeological classification, terminology and interpretive concepts. It examines meanings of technical terms and methodologies used in prehistoric ...
Prehistoric and Early Wales
1st Edition
Edited
By I. Ll. Foster, Glyn Daniel
October 18, 2016
This volume is based on lectures given when the British Summer School of Archaeology was held at Bangor in August 1959. It is a summary account of current knowledge then about ancient Wales written for archaeologists, historians and others, covering the Old Stone Age, Neolithic Wales, the Bronze ...
Recent Archaeological Excavations in Britain: Selected Excavations, 1939-1955
1st Edition
Edited
By R.L.S. Bruce-Mitford
October 18, 2016
Originally published in 1956, this collection features chapters by well-known archaeologists on various archaeological sites explored in the previous decade, as examples of the techniques being used and finds being made. Mostly from the lowland zone of Britain, the chapters nonetheless offer a ...
Roman Britain to Saxon England: An Archaeological Study
1st Edition
By C.J. Arnold
October 18, 2016
There has long been controversy about the nature and pace of the transformation from Roman Britain to Saxon England. Some scholars argue that there were few instances of major conflict and that the transition took place relatively peacefully over a long period of time. Others argue that the ...
Surveying for Archaeologists and Other Fieldworkers
1st Edition
By A.H.A. Hogg
October 18, 2016
The object of this book is to enable archaeologists, even without relevant training, to deal with any problem in surveying. The book is arranged by technique for ease of reference. Thus one part is devoted to Chain Surveying, which has evolved over centuries into the simplest and quickest way of ...
The Ancient Burial-mounds of England
1st Edition
By L.V. Grinsell
October 18, 2016
First published in 1936 and rewritten in 1953, this book embodies the results of the author’s extensive researches and fieldwork. Part one considers types of barrows and dating, their building and the cult of the dead from Palaeolithic to Saxon times. A chapter is dedicated to maps and another to ...