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Ceramics Before Farming
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 46.95A long-overdue advancement in ceramic studies, this volume sheds new light on the adoption and dispersal of pottery by non-agricultural societies of prehistoric Eurasia. Major contributions from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia make this a truly international work that brings together different theories and material for the first time. Researchers... more...
Interpreting Landscapes
Left Coast Press 2012; US$ 46.95This book takes a new approach to writing about the past. Instead of studying the prehistory of Britain from Mesolithic to Iron Age times in terms of periods or artifact classifications, Tilley examines it through the lens of their geology and landscapes, asserting the fundamental significance of the bones of the land in the process of human occupation... more...
Images Out of Africa
University Press of America 2011; US$ 36.99In 1938, Virginia and Ray Garner began making films in the Belgian Congo and French Cameroons. This book features Virginia Garner's diaries, which highlight the challenges of making films in Africa in the 1930s and include rich descriptions of cross-cultural interactions and micro-negotiations with chiefs, headmen, and villagers. more...
Coexistence and Cultural Transmission in East Asia
Left Coast Press 2011; US$ 36.95This is the first volume to introduce the data, theory and methodology of contemporary archaeological work in Japan and other parts of East Asia archaeology in English to western audiences. It also introduces a new theoretical concept to archaeologists interested in the relationship between ancient cultures—coexistence. Archaeologists traditionally... more...
Lost World of the Agharti
Souvenir Press 2011; US$ 11.65One of the world's oldest legends tells of a vast network of underground tunnels and passageways linking the continents to a subterranean kingdom. This utopia is said to be inhabited by an ancient race of people who have lived in seclusion for centuries, hidden from the sight of mankind but aware of eberything happening on the surface of the earth.... more...
Flexible Stones
Indiana University Press 2010; US$ 41.95Despite their ubiquitous presence among prehistoric remains in Greece, ground stone tools have yet to attract the same kind of attention as have other categories of archaeological material, such as pottery or lithics. Flexible Stones provides a detailed analysis of the material discovered during the... more...
Trekking the Shore
Springer 2011; US$ 139.99Human settlement has often centered around coastal areas and waterways. Until recently, however, archaeologists believed that marine economies did not develop until the end of the Pleistocene, when the archaeological record begins to have evidence of marine life as part of the human diet. This has long been interpreted as a postglacial adaptation,... more...
Protecting Çatalhöyük
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 36.95They are essential to every major archaeological excavation but rarely acknowledged by the visiting researchers once the artifacts have been shipped. As part of the innovative, multivocal output from the famous Turkish Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, we hear from one of the site guards, Sadrettin Dural, who tells the story of the excavation... more...
European Prehistory
Springer 2011; US$ 169.99European Prehistory: A Survey traces humans from their earliest appearance on the continent to the Rise of the Roman Empire, drawing on archaeological research from all over Europe. It includes the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. Throughout these periods, the major developments are explored using a wide range of archaeological... more...
Grandfather's Storytelling
Shell Education 2005; US$ 6.99In this Reader's Theater script, a young boy and his family talk about what happened on the night the boy was born, as well as how the boy overcame the challenges of blindness. The boy asks his grandfather to retell the stories and to help him remember them so he can carry them with him even after his grandfather is gone. The social studies connection... more...









