UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
Tracing Early Agriculture in the Highlands of New Guinea: Plot, Mound and Ditch
1st Edition
By Tim Denham
August 14, 2020
In this book, historical narratives chart how people created forms of agriculture in the highlands of New Guinea and how these practices were transformed through time. The intention is twofold: to clearly establish New Guinea as a region of early agricultural development and plant ...
Ceramics of the Merv Oasis: Recycling the City
1st Edition
By Gabriele Puschnigg
July 02, 2020
Our knowledge of many groups or periods has benefited from systematic ceramic analysis, however as yet the Sasanian Empire of ancient Persia (224-651 AD) has not be subjected to the same examination. Merv, an expansive ancient city located in an oasis in the Central Asian steppes, was for millennia...
Buddhist Landscapes in Central India: Sanchi Hill and Archaeologies of Religious and Social Change, c. Third Century BC to Fifth Century AD
1st Edition
By Julia Shaw
June 30, 2020
The “monumental bias” of Buddhist archaeology has hampered our understanding of the socio-religious mechanisms that enabled early Buddhist monks to establish themselves in new areas. To articulate these relationships, Shaw presents here the first integrated study of settlement archaeology and ...
Palaeoepidemiology: The Measure of Disease in the Human Past
1st Edition
By Tony Waldron
June 30, 2020
How do we identify and measure human disease in the past? In the absence of soft tissue, paleoepidemiologists have developed ingenious ways of assessing illness and mortality in archaeological populations. In this volume, the key methods of epidemiology are outlined for non-specialists, showing the...
Placing Animals in the Neolithic: Social Zooarchaeology of Prehistoric Farming Communities
1st Edition
By Arkadiusz Marciniak
June 30, 2020
This book presents a new perspective on the social milieu of the Early and Middle Neolithic in Central Europe as viewed through relations between humans and animals, food acquisition and consumption, as well as refuse disposal practices. Based on animal bone assemblages from a wide range of sites ...
Roman Coins from India
1st Edition
By Paula J Turner
June 30, 2020
This book is a detailed collation of the recorded finds of Roman coins on Indian soil, divided into Republican, Julio-Claudian and post-Julio-Claudian coins. It also includes chapters on the historical significance of the scarcity of Roman finds, the absence of base metal issues in the early empire...
Silver Economy in the Viking Age
1st Edition
Edited
By James Graham-Campbell, Gareth Williams
June 30, 2020
In this book contributions by archaeologists and numismatists from six countries address different aspects of how silver was used in both Scandinavia and the wider Viking world during the 8th to 11th centuries AD. The volume brings together a combination of recent summaries and new work on silver ...
The Identification of Northern European Woods: A Guide for Archaeologists and Conservators
1st Edition
By Jon G Hather
June 30, 2020
This technical and well-illustrated guide for archaeologists and conservators aims to `provide a methodology for the identification of the woody taxa used to manufacture artefacts recovered from archaeological excavations', to provide the anatomical descriptions of the taxa and to present a list of...
Living Images: Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum
1st Edition
Edited
By Janet Picton, Stephen Quirke, Paul C Roberts
January 03, 2018
The haunting funerary paintings on wood coffins found in Roman Egypt still represent some of the most vivid images that come to us from the ancient world. These paintings were first discovered by Flinders Petrie, father of modern archaeology, in his excavations in the Egyptian Fayum during the ...
The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants in Southwest Asia and Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Sue Colledge, James Conolly
December 18, 2017
In this major new volume, leading scholars demonstrate the importance of archaeobotanical evidence in the understanding of the spread of agriculture in southwest Asia and Europe. Whereas previous overviews have focused either on Europe or on southwest Asia, this volume considers the transition from...
Cultures of Commodity Branding
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Bevan, David Wengrow
August 31, 2012
Commodity branding did not emerge with contemporary global capitalism. In fact, the authors of this volume show that the cultural history of branding stretches back to the beginnings of urban life in the ancient Near East and Egypt, and can be found in various permutations in places as diverse as ...
Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Jordan
August 31, 2012
This unique volume aims to break down the lingering linguistic boundaries that continue to divide up the circumpolar world, to move beyond ethnographic ‘thick description’ to integrate the study of northern Eurasian hunting and herding societies more effectively by encouraging increased ...