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Major new re-examination of established theories concerning past societies on a global scale, presenting innovative research and new explanations towards resolving long-standing problems in regional archaeologies.

In Trinidad and Tobago, there is a community of music lovers known as the MIKE MEN. They are enthusiastic, dedicated roving public address system owners who operate a sound system consisting of a pair of funnel-type loudspeakers, strapped onto the hood of a motorcar. These men function at East Indian weddings, cooking nights and other assemblies. Their systems, which are still popular in some quarters today, are still used to make public announcements of various kinds including deaths, upcoming events, and store sales. This book details the life and times of this cultish group of men in Trinidad.

Beyond, and yet within, farm chores, forest walks, and seasons, there is meaning. This meaning peeks through the leaves, speaks through the livestock, sings at birth, and weeps at death - and never fully reveals itself. This book is about the glimpses and the whispers that hint at cherished depths that are never wholly understood. These short meditative essays express the author's search for meaning and the puzzles that remain.

Explores the progressive social and economic response of local prehistoric communities to sea level rise and environmental change based on evidence from Mount's Bay, Cornwall.

Explores ways of understanding animism and materiality in the religious life of ancient societies: relationships between humans, animals, plants and the land and perceptions of nature.

First English publication of a submerged Italian Neolithic lake village with exceptionally preserved remains including spoons, textiles, baskets, ropes, sickles, bows, plant remains and structural wood.

Explores recent multi-disciplinary approaches to analysis of early political organisation.

Perspectives on and approaches to problems of early writing in the ancient Mediterranean.

Excavation of a Scheduled burial mound on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor revealed an unexpected, intact burial deposit of Early Bronze Age date associated with an unparalleled range of artefacts. The cremated remains of a young person had been placed within a bearskin pelt and provided with a basketry container, from which a braided band with tin studs had spilled out. Within the container were beads of shale, amber, clay and tin; two pairs of turned wooden studs and a worked flint flake. A unique item, possibly a sash or band, made from textile and animal skin was found beneath the container. Beneath this, the basal stone of the cist had been covered by a layer purple moor grass which had been collected in summer. Analysis of environmental material from the site has revealed important insights into the pyre material used to burn the body, as well as providing important information about the environment in which the cist was constructed. The unparalleled assemblage of organic objects has yielded insights into a range of materials which have not survived from the earlier Bronze Age elsewhere in southern Britain.

The Tribal Hidage, attributed to the 7th century, records the named groups and polities of early Anglo-Saxon England and the taxation tribute due from their lands and surpluses.

Organised geographically into tours, this beautifully-illustrated book explores the best surviving medieval river bridges in Southern England.

Results of a major, community-based excavation of an Iron Age broch that collapsed in on itself after a fire, sealing a unique and undisturbed domestic assemblage.

Detailed analysis of the unique mosaic pavement beside the lost shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, fragments of the original shrine and the surrounding royal tombs.

An overview of Tell Ahmar - an Assyrian provincial capital on the Syrian Euphrates - its development, rise to power and the architectural and material culture reflections of its status.

Offers new insights into the archaeology and history of the westernmost region of the Roman Empire.

Presents details of five richly furnished communal tombs of the Bronze Age Wadi-Suq period (2000-1650 BC), including some exceptional grave goods such as electrum animal pendants, metalwork, beads and softstone artefacts.

First major synthesis by leading regional specialists of recent excavation results and new approaches to the study of megalithic monuments and their individual histories across Europe.

An extensive multi-disciplinary study of the marriage bed of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.

Presents a detailed study of the archaeology of Roman Macedonia and Aegean Thrace, the first eastern region to be incorporated into the Empire, highlighting unique features.

Istanbul, Europe's largest city, became an urban centre of exceptional size when it was chosen by Constantine the Great as a new Roman capital city.

Considers new theoretical and methodological approaches on the subject of how objects are valued and the relationship between material value and social and cultural factors.

An innovative study of the transmission of Roman religious ideas and practices to the northern provinces and the evidence for their cultural and spatial organisation.

A fascinating account of the development of archaeoastronomy, its impact on archaeological interpretation and its future potential for revealing human relationships with skyscapes in the past.