Monumentality, Place-making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus

This book adopts an integrative approach to investigate the role of monumental architecture in shaping social dynamics and power relations on the island of Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age (LBA; c.1700-1050 BCE). Using such an approach, archaeologists studying ancient societies elsewhere can analyz...

Archaeology at Home

Hein B. Bjerck

Archaeology at Home combines contemporary and deep time archaeology by human-thing entanglements - how things remember when left by their people, and how the integration of human-things has lines that run from today to deep time. The author attempts to balance personal experiences and scholarly...

About Edom and Idumea in the Persian Period

Benedikt Hensel, Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana V. Edelman,

This volume highlights and advances new developments in the study of Edom and Idumea in eighteen essays written by researchers from different disciplines (History, Archaeology, Assyriology, Epigraphy, Memory Studies, and Hebrew Bible studies). The topics examined include the emergence of Idumea,...

Critical Approaches to Cypriot and Wider Mediterranean Archaeology

Sturt W. Manning

This volume brings together scholars to reflect on the work of Professor A. Bernard Knapp and on some of the challenges thrown down in his extensive scholarship. Knapp is a central figure in the pre and proto-history of the Mediterranean in the last generation, and the essays in this volume will...

Archaeology, Politics and Islamicate Cultural Heritage in Europe

David Govantes-Edwards

Archaeology, Politics and Islamicate Cultural Heritage in Europe responds to the wishes of specialists in the history and archaeology of Islamicate societies in Europe to explore the integration of these societies into historical narratives. In order to deal with the multiple implications and wid...

Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age

Nicola Lercari, Willeke Wendrich, Benjamin W. Porter, Margie M. Burton, Thomas E. Levy,

In late August 2015, international media outlets and cultural institutions reported that the Islamic State beheaded the Syrian scholar Khaled al Asaad and destroyed the 1st-century CE Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria. The world was horrorstruck. Apart from the human tragedy, archaeologists and the...

Animal Iconography in the Archaeological Record

Laerke Recht, Katarzyna Zeman-Wisniewska

Animals pervade our lives, both today and in the past. From the smallest bug through pets and agricultural animals to elephants and blue whales, the animals themselves, animal-derived products and representations of animals can be found everywhere in our daily lives. This book focuses on the repr...

Seaways to Complexity

Knut Ivar Austvoll

This book focuses on the sociopolitical development and the organisational differences between societies in northwestern Scandinavia in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (2350-1100 BCE). Grounded in a political economy approach, the book presents a theoretical model that emphases a dialec...

The Hunt for Ancient Israel

Ehud Ben Zvi, Kristin Joachimsen, Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Pauline A. Viviano

This volume celebrates the contribution of Diana V. Edelman to the field and celebrates her personally as researcher, teacher, mentor, colleague, and mastermind of new research paths and groups. It salutes her unconventional, constantly thinking and rethinking outside the box and her challenging...

Perspectives on Differences in Rock Art

Jan Magne Gjerde, Mari Strifeldt Arntzen,

Rock art is a global phenomenon with an enormous variation in shapes and figures and the research interest is wide and inclusive. The volume aims to explain differences observed in rock art through time and space, synchronically or diachronically. Differences can for example be in form, content,...