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Smakkerup Huse
Aarhus University Press 2005; US$ 46.40Traditionally, the Mesolithic was regarded as a time of cultural regression in northern Europe but new evidence in the last 30 years has led archaeologists to think of the early postglacial foragers that lived in the Mesolithic as complex, sedentary coastal dwellers who lived in an era of innovation, interaction, and successful adaptation to a rapidly... more...
The Early Mediterranean Village
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 97.00Robb brings together the archaeological evidence on a wide range of aspects of life in Neolithic Italy. more...
Transitions Before the Transition
Springer 2007; US$ 109.99Modern human origins and the fate of the Neanderthals are arguably the most contentious arenas in paleoanthropology. This book discusses the archaeological record of the Middle Paleolithic and the Middle Stone Age. It aims to challenge notions about the mode of cultural evolution and the processes that underlie the emergence of modern behavior. more...
The Atlantic Iron Age: Settlement and identity in the first milennium BC
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95It may be surprising to learn that this book is the first ever survey of the Atlantic Iron Age: this tradition is cited in archaeology frequently enough to seem firmly established, yet has never been clearly defined.With this book, Jon Henderson provides an important and much-needed exploration of the archaeology of western areas of Britain, Ireland,... more...
Studien zur Lebenswelt der Eisenzeit
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 335.00The papers in this volume deal with fundamental areas of life in the Iron-Age from a cultural studies perspective. Fields covered include social orders, the role of women, weapons and the organisation of warriors, tools and implements, burial, religion and rituals, art. more...
The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences
Springer 2008; US$ 249.99Using cemetery data, it has been possible to identify the signature of a previously unknown demographic process associated with the transition from a hunter-gatherer to an agricultural economy. Characterized by a dramatic increase in the birth rate, and consequently of the population growth rate, over a period of less than a millennium following the... more...
People, Population Change and Policies, 2
Springer 2008; US$ 179.99This two-volume work presents social cohesion and demographic challenges that are associated with low birth rates and population ageing. It does so from the perspective of citizens and key policy actors. The work analyses peoplesa (TM) attitudes about demographic trends and expectations towards private networks and public policies. It places these... more...
Cognition and Material Culture
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2008; US$ 40.00The 15 papers in this volume explore how human beliefs have been externalized and "stored" in material form, thus making very intangible ideas exist in a permanent form. more...
The First Africans
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 32.00A synthesis of the record left by Africa's earliest inhabitants combining archaeology, genetics and palaeo-environmental science. more...
The Cave of Fontéchevade
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 86.00Summary of recent Paleolithic excavations at Fontéchevade, France, and their archaeological and paleontological implications. more...









