Explores ways of understanding animism and materiality in the religious life of ancient societies.

This book explores the wealth of evidence for settlement and houses throughout the Irish Neolithic in relation to Britain and continental Europe. It also incorporates the wealth of new, and often unpublished, evidence from developer-led archaeological excavations and large grey-literature resources.

This volume will throw new light on the intellect of the earliest English - the way they thought, the way they viewed the world, and the way they viewed worlds other than this.

New ways of approaching the study of writing in the past.

First English publication of a submerged Italian Neolithic lake village with exceptionally preserved.

A comprehensive architectural study of 87 temples and sanctuaries built in the Roman East in the 1st - 3rd centuries BC.

An ethnographic study of the monumental buildings from the prehistoric to early medieval periods in northern and northwestern Europe.

Textile production was a key part of all ancient societies, and the Ancient Near East stands out in this respect, in terms of raw materials, line of production, and distribution. This volume describes the developments and changes from household to standardised, industrialised and centralised productions which took place in this region.