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The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 26.00This is the first book-length study of the archaeology of Australia's deserts, exploring the cultural and environmental history of these drylands. more...
Lost World of the Kimberley
Allen & Unwin 2006; US$ 31.81Explores one of the world's least known mysteries: who were the first-ever human beings to find their way to Australia, where did they come from and how and when did they arrive? more...
Europe before Rome
Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 34.99Werner Herzog's 2011 film Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the painted caves at Chauvet, France brought a glimpse of Europe's extraordinary prehistory to a popular audience. But paleolithic cave paintings, stunning as they are, form just a part of a story that begins with the arrival of the first humans to Europe 1.3 million years ago, and culminates... more...
Lost World
Atria Books 2010; US$ 19.99For decades the issue seemed moot. The first settlers, we were told, were big-game hunters who arrived from Asia at the end of the Ice Age some 12,000 years ago, crossing a land bridge at the Bering Strait and migrating south through an ice-free passage between two great glaciers blanketing the continent. But after years of sifting through data from... more...
The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial
Taylor & Francis 2011; US$ 35.95The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial offers an engaging contribution to the debate on modern human origins. It is illustrated throughout, includes up-to-date examples from the Lower to Late Upper Palaeolithic, including information hitherto unpublished. more...
The British Palaeolithic
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 42.95The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years ago) to the end of the Ice Age. Landscape and ecology form the canvas for an explicitly interpretative approach aimed at understanding the how different hominin societies... more...
Balkan Prehistory
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 44.95Douglass Bailey's volume fills the huge gap that existed for a comprehensive synthesis, in English, of the archaeology of the Balkans between 6,500 and 2,000 BC; much research on the prehistory of Eastern Europe was inaccessible to a western audience before now, because of linguistic barriers. Bailey argues against traditional interpretations of the... more...
Prehistory of Denmark
Routledge 1983; US$ 80.00This synthesis of archaeological research in Denmark divides into four sections: the hunters and gatherers; the first farmers; towards a new era; and the chiefdoms of the Iron Age. more...
Prehistory
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 9.99Many of the familiar aspects of modern life are no more than a century or two old, yet our deep social structures and skills were in large measure developed, many millennia ago. This book wonders what the darkest recesses of our past can teach us about our future. more...
The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory
Wiley 2008; US$ 142.95This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of Mediterranean prehistory and an essential reference to the most recent research and fieldwork. Only book available to offer general coverage of Mediterranean prehistory Written by 14 of the leading archaeologists in the field Spans the Neolithic through the Iron Age, and draws... more...









