The humble spoon. Without it we’d be sunk. Slurping soup would never be the same. Research shows the average household c......more
It is said of Orkney that if you scratch the surface, it bleeds archaeology.Orkney is a county just off the north of Sco......more
This is a comprehensive introduction to the social and cultural anthropology of South-East Asia. It provides an overview......more
This is a comprehensive introduction to the social and cultural anthropology of South-East Asia. It provides an overview......more
The Mongol conquests of China in the thirteenth century have typically been seen as a disaster for the subject Chinese p......more
Expertly taking readers through one of the most transformative periods in Ancient Egypt, Robert Morkot demonstrates how,......more
This book explores the human past in Egypt s capital zone the nexus of social activity located at the junction of the ......more
First major attempt to interpret Cahokia in the context of the occupational and cultural sequence of the wider physical ......more
Linda Hulin considers the relationship between the archaeological record and human past and examines the differences tha......more
Synthetic study of the results of 15 years of survey and excavation at a major, but little known, provincial city of Rom......more
The results of excavations into three key Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene sites in the Zagros Mountains...more
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The first major landscape study of Viking Age to Early Christian settlement patterns in Iceland based on archaeological ......more
Despite some achievements gained during the indigenous struggle for rights and recognition, many indigenous groups conti......more
Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the United States and Canada rarely experienced iconoclasm, the preme......more
Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the United States and Canada rarely experienced iconoclasm, the preme......more
It has been nearly 20 years since Haglund and Sorg introduced taphonomy to the forensic community as a dynamic, multidis......more
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This book offers a path-breaking survey of the various efforts to rethink, methodologically delimit, enact, and represen......more
This handbook presents the latest discussions on the role of humans in nature from prehistory to the contemporary world.......more
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Memory Studies will be the first major reference work in the rapidly developing field of Me......more
Established in the 1980s, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) enabled American Muslims to fulfill ......more
Established in the 1980s, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) enabled American Muslims to fulfill ......more
Debates over the constitutional, political, and cultural implications of book bans and censorship efforts in the USA hav......more
A man of many talents--naturalist, geographer, anthropologist, and political commentator--Alfred Russel Wallace made sem......more
Until a few decades ago, our understanding of medieval Rome was essentially based on information taken from written sour......more
Should anthropology, a discipline that originated in the colonial 19th century, still exist in the 21st? In the wake of ......more
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This book fills a gap in religious studies literature by providing a historical study of Black gospel music in Britain. ......more
This book provides a comprehensive perspective on discourses of love in contemporary India. It focuses on the multiple s......more
With growing popular and academic interest in the development and importance of three-dimensional modelling and technolo......more
This volume is an excavation report on the important Bronze and Iron Age site, Tel Nagila. The site was excavated in the......more
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Caves is an account of the scientific study of caves, both its history and its present contributions to the understandin......more
Caves is an account of the scientific study of caves, both its history and its present contributions to the understandin......more
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict critically analyses the relationship between cultural herita......more
From Tanya Talaga, the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Seven Fallen Feathers, comes a riveting explorat......more
Ranging from chattel slavery, through the New Deal to the Covid pandemic, a groundbreaking work that investigates how pi......more
The barricade of May ’68 in France has been historically determined by a number of local and transnational parameters. Y......more
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This is the extraordinary story of the discovery of the gene that makes us human. For readers of The Dawn of Everything ......more
Ten miles out to sea, Smuttynose Island, in the Isles of Shoals, is a kind of time machine. Native Americans hunted here......more
An important reanalysis of archaeological materials excavated and curated decades ago, with lessons for similar investig......more
The second revised and expanded edition of this successful handbook extensively explores the idea and practice of love f......more
Corruption is a process of degeneration activated or revealed by activities defined as illegal, immoral or deviant. Poli......more
Exploring the creative space made when artists and archaeologists work together, this ground-breaking book puts an estab......more
Exploring the creative space made when artists and archaeologists work together, this ground-breaking book puts an estab......more
The Malagasy World integrates the archaeology of Madagascar within linguistic, historic, and genetic inquiry and present......more
This book uses three communities - the Kaingaing, the Kukama and the Guarani peoples - as case studies to reveal pattern......more
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2025 SPORTS PERFORMANCE BOOK OF THE YEAR ’A fascinating and multilay......more
Experts from the field of Indigenous education offer inspiring and vital perspectives, wonders, and responses for transf......more
This handbook presents an overview of the wide range of scholarly endeavors and thinking of prominent pioneers and criti......more
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This book reports on the prehistoric archaeology revealed by investigations of a large area of Chalk downland south-east......more
Excavations at Kingsmead Quarry, Horton, Berkshire, have provided an opportunity to investigate a large multi-period sit......more
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Based on four years of ethnographic research, this book discusses the presence of Christianity on Areruya, an indigenous......more
Exploring the difficult and contested sites of deindustrialized society on the brink of transformation to either heritag......more
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Set in Gitxsan territory in Northern British Columbia, At the Crossroads provides a first-hand account of a cultural res......more
Set in Gitxsan territory in Northern British Columbia, At the Crossroads provides a first-hand account of a cultural res......more
Back in print after 30 years the underground classic that traces the roots of modern superstardom back to its shamanic r......more
From a necessary act of survival to some of the most disturbing crimes in history to its often sensationalized and misun......more
During the Cold War, humanitarianism became the focus of intense debates among intellectuals, politicians, and diplomats......more
During the Cold War, humanitarianism became the focus of intense debates among intellectuals, politicians, and diplomats......more
The Original Cycle is a fascinating journey through the ages of humanity, exploring how we lived in harmony with the pla......more
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The first edition of this book offered 600 photographs and case studies from around the world including Asia, Africa, an......more