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The UCL Institute of Archaeology Bookshelf highlights forthcoming and recently authored and edited books by members of the Institute community.

Recently published volumes

2024  

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Materialising the Roman Empire - UCL Press (2024. Eds. Jeremy Tanner and Andrew Gardner)

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2023  

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Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica - University Press of Colorado (2023. Eds. Susan Milbrath and Elizabeth Baquedano)

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Critical Heritage Studies and the Futures of Europe - UCL Press (2023. Eds. Rodney Harrison, Nélia Dias, and Kristian Kristiansen)

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Urbanism and its Impact on Human Health - BAR Publishing (2023, Anna C. Moles. UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series, 9)

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Life-writing in the History of Archaeology: Critical perspectives - UCL Press (2023. Eds. Clare Lewis & Gabriel Moshenska)

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Repeopling La Manche: New Perspectives on Neanderthal Archaeology and Landscapes from La Cotte de St Brelade - Oxbow Books (2023, Eds. Beccy Scott, Andrew Shaw, Katharine Scott, Matthew Pope. Prehistoric Society Research Papers, Volume 10)

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Ancient Egyptian gold: Archaeology and science in jewellery (3500–1000 BC) -  McDonald Institute Monograph (2023, Eds. Maria F. Guerra, Marcos Martinón-Torres & Stephen Quirke)

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Between The Twittens: From Iron Age Origins To Burh and Borough. Excavations in Lewes, East Sussex - Spoilheap Publications (2023, Dan Swift)

 

 

 

2022  

Making a Medieval Stained Glass Window by Laura W. Adlington (BAR PhD Series, 2022)

Making a Medieval Stained Glass Window: An archaeometric study of technology and production - BAR Publishing (2022, Laura W. Adlington. UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series, 6)

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Inspired geoarchaeologies: past landscapes and social change. Essays in honour of Professor Charles A. I. French - Oxbow Books/Casemate Academic (2022, Eds. Federica Sulas, Helen Lewis & Manuel Arroyo-Kalin. McDonald Institute Monograph Series)

Inclusive Visions by Raffaella Cecilia (BAR PhD Series, 2022)

Inclusive Visions: The Museum Experience of Young Blind and Partially Sighted Visitors - BAR Publishing (2022, Raffaella Cecilia. UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series, 7)

Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood by Brenna Hassett (Bloomsbury, 2022) - bookcover

Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood - Bloomsbury (2022, Brenna Hassett)

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The Origin of White Porcelain. Transformation of ceramic technology in sixth century north China - BAR Publishing (2022, Shan Huang. UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series, 8)

Tracing Gestures: The Art and Archaeology of Bodily Communication bookcover (Bloomsbury 2022; UCL Institute of Archaeology World Archaeology Series 1)

Tracing Gestures: The Art and Archaeology of Bodily Communication -  Bloomsbury
(2022, Eds. Amy J. Maitland Gardner & Carl Walsh. UCL Institute of Archaeology World Archaeology Series 1)

The Treasure of the Egyptian Queen Ahhotep and International Relations at the Turn of the Middle Bronze Age (1600- 1500 BCE) - Golden House Publications (2022, Gianluca Miniaci & Peter Lacovara (Eds.))

The Treasure of the Egyptian Queen Ahhotep - Golden House Publications (2022, Eds. Gianluca Miniaci & Peter Lacovara)

The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000-1550 BC). Contributions on archaeology, art, religion, and written sources. Vol. III. Edited by Gianluca Miniaci and Wolfram Graketzki (bookcover)

The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000-1550 BC). Contributions on archaeology, art, religion, and written sources. Vol. III - Oxbow Books (2022, Eds. Gianluca Miniaci & Wolfram Grajetzki)

Breaking Images: Damage and Mutilation of Ancient Figurines. Edited by Gianluca Miniaci (bookcover)

Breaking Images: Damage and Mutilation of Ancient Figurines - Oxbow Books (2022, Ed. Gianluca Miniaci)

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Stonehenge for the Ancestors: Part 2 - Synthesis - Sidestone Press (2022, Mike Parker Pearson, Joshua Pollard, Colin Richards, Julian Thomas, Chris Tilley & Kate Welham)

The Oxford Handbook of Museum Archaeology - Ed. Alice Stevenson, 2022 (bookcover)

The Oxford Handbook of Museum Archaeology - Oxford University Press (2022, Ed. Alice Stevenson)

 

Ancient Egypt in Context - Alice Stevenson (Cambridge University Press, 2022) - bookcover

Egyptian Archaeology and the Twenty-First-Century Museum - Cambridge University Press (2022, Alice Stevenson)

2021  

Cladh Hallan (2021, Oxbow Books)
 

Cladh Hallan: Roundhouses and the dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age, Part I - Oxbow Books (2021, Mike Parker Pearson, Jacqui Mulville, Helen Smith, Peter Marshall)

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity - Penguin (forthcoming 2021, David Wengrow)

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity - Penguin (2021, David Graeber & David Wengrow)

The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology (2021, OUP) bookcover

The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology - OUP (2021, Eds. Bethany Walker, Timothy Insoll & Corisande Fenwick)

Reimagining Museums for Climate Action (eds. Rodney Harrison & Colin Sterling)

Reimagining Museums for Climate Action - Museums for Climate Action (2021, Eds. Rodney Harrison & Colin Sterling)

The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia: Evolution, Organisation and Consumption of Early Metal in the Balkans (2021, Archaeopress)

The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia: Evolution, Organisation and Consumption of Early Metal in the Balkans - Archaeopress (2021, Eds. Miljana Radivojević, Benjamin Roberts, Miroslav Marić, Julka Kuzmanović-Cvetković, Thilo Rehren)

The Wandering Herd: The Medieval Cattle Economy of South-East England c.450-1450 (Windgather Press, 2021)
The Wandering Herd: The Medieval Cattle Economy of South-East England c.450-1450 - Windgather Press (2021, Andrew Margetts)
2020  

A Consideration of Gender Roles and Relations in the Aegean Bronze Age Interpreted from Gestures and Proxemics in Art 2020 (BAR) - bookcover

A Consideration of Gender Roles and Relations in the Aegean Bronze Age Interpreted from Gestures and Proxemics in Art - BAR Publishing (2020, Susan Poole. UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series 3)

A Short History of the Etruscans by Corinna Riva, Bloomsbury 2020 (bookcover)
A Short History of the Etruscans - Bloomsbury (2020, Corinna Riva)

Deterritorializing the Future 2020 (Open Humanities Press) - bookcover
Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene - Open Humanities Press (2020, Eds. Rodney Harrison & Colin Sterling)

Digging up Jericho 2020 (Archaeopress) - bookcover
Digging up Jericho: Past, Present and Future - Archaeopress (2020, Eds. Rachael Sparks, Bill Finlayson, Bart Wagemakers, Josef Briffa)

Early Islamic North Africa 2020 (Bloomsbury) - bookcover
Early Islamic North Africa: A New Perspective - Bloomsbury (2020, Corisande Fenwick)

Etruscan Literacy in its Social Context 2020 (Accordia) - bookcover
Etruscan Literacy in its Social Context - Accordia (2020, Ed. Ruth Whitehouse)

Heritage Conservation and Social Engagement 2020 (UCL Press) - bookcover
Heritage Conservation and Social Engagement - UCL Press (2020, Eds. Renata F. Peters, Iris L. F. den Boer, Jessica J. Johnson & Susanna Pancaldo)

Heritage Futures 2020 (UCL Press) - bookcover
Heritage Futures - UCL Press (2020, Rodney Harrison, Caitlin DeSilvey, Cornelius Holtorf, Sharon Macdonald, Nadia Bartolini, Esther Breithoff, Harald Fredheim, Antony Lyons, Sarah May, Jennie Morgan & Sefryn Penrose)

The Horse Butchery Site: A high resolution record of Lower Palaeolithic hominin behaviour at Boxgrove, UK 2020 (Archaeology South-East/SpoilHeap Publications) - bookcover
The Horse Butchery Site:
A high resolution record of Lower Palaeolithic hominin behaviour at Boxgrove, UK - Archaeology South-East/SpoilHeap Publications
(2020, Matt Pope, Simon Parfitt & Mark Roberts)

The Medieval Hospital of St Mary's and other Features: Excavations at Friary Place, Strood, Kent 2020 (Archaeology South-East/SpoilHeap Publications) - bookcover

The Medieval Hospital of St Mary's and other Features: Excavations at Friary Place, Strood, Kent - Archaeology South-East/SpoilHeap Publications (2020, Giles Dawkes. Occasional Paper 11)

The Middle Kingdom Ramesseum Papyri Tomb and its Archaeological Context (Gianluca Miniaci, 2020) - bookcover
The Middle Kingdom Ramesseum Papyri Tomb and its Archaeological Context, Kitab – Egyptology in Focus 1 - Nicanor Books (2020, Gianluca Miniaci)

Neolithic Spaces Vol. 1 (Accordia, 2020) bookcover
Neolithic Spaces: Social and Sensory Landscapes of the First Farmers of Italy, Vol. 1 - Accordia (2020, Sue Hamilton & Ruth Whitehouse)

Neolithic Spaces Vol 2 (2020, Accordia) bookcover
Neolithic Spaces: Social and Sensory Landscapes of the First Farmers of Italy, Vol. 2 - Accordia (2020, Sue HamiltonRuth Whitehouse & Mike Seager Thomas)

On the Hunt for Medieval Whales: Zooarchaeological, historical and social perspectives on cetacean exploitation in medieval northern and western Europe (2020, BAR) - bookcover

On the Hunt for Medieval Whales: Zooarchaeological, historical and social perspectives on cetacean exploitation in medieval northern and western Europe - BAR Publishing (2020, Youri van den Hurk. UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series 4)

The Pasts and Presence of Art in South Africa: Technologies, Ontologies and Agents - Cambridge McDonald Institute Monograph (2020, Chris Wingfield, John Giblin & Rachel King)
The Pasts and Presence of Art in South Africa: Technologies, Ontologies and Agents - McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (2020, Chris Wingfield, John Giblin & Rachel King)

Stonehenge for the Ancestors: Part 1 (Sidestone Press, 2020) bookcover
Stonehenge for the Ancestors: Part 1 Landscape and Monuments - Sidestone Press (2020, Mike Parker Pearson, Joshua Pollard, Colin Richards, Julian Thomas, Chris Tilley & Kate Welham

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Land, People and Power in Early Medieval Wales. The cantref of Cemais in comparative perspective - BAR Publishing (2020, Rhiannon Comeau. UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series 5)

 
2019  

Ancient Maya Settlement and the Alacranes Bajo: Landscape and communities in the Three Rivers Region, Northwestern Belize - BAR Publishing (2019, Gail A. Hammond. UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series 2)

Anglo-Saxon Towers of Lordship - Oxford University Press (2019, Michael Shapland)

The Beaker People: isotopes, mobility, and diet in prehistoric Britain - Oxbow Books (2019, Eds. Mike Parker Pearson, Alison Sheridan, Mandy Jay, Andrew Chamberlain, Michael Richards & Jane Evans)

Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas - Brill (2019, Eds. G. Papantoniou, D. Michaelides and Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou)

Heritage, Photography and the Affective Past - Routledge (2019, Colin Sterling. UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series)

Living by the creek: Excavations at Kemsley, Sittingbourne, Kent - Archaeology South-East/SpoilHeap Publications (2019, Giles Dawkes. Occasional Paper 10)

Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain - Routledge (2019, Gabriel Moshenska)

Pattern and Process in the Material Culture of Anglo-Saxon Non-elite Rural Settlements - BAR Publishing (2019, Hana Lewis. UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series 1)

Polity and Neighbourhood in Early Medieval Europe - Brepols Publishers (2019, Eds. Julio Escalona, Orri Vésteinsson & Stuart Brookes)

Scattered Finds: Archaeology, Egyptology and Museums - UCL Press (2019, Alice Stevenson)

View From The Edge: Archaeological Investigation on the Manhood Peninsula, Selsey for the Medmerry Managed Realignment Scheme - Archaeology South-East/SpoilHeap Publications (2019, Pip Stephenson & Kristina Krawiec. Monograph 20)

Beyond the Wantsum: Archaeological investigations in South Thanet, Kent - Archaeology South-East/SpoilHeap Publications (2019, Giles Dawkes, Diccon Hart, Kathryn Grant & Dan Swift. Monograph 22)

2018  

Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People - UCL Press (2018, Amara Thornton)

The Archaeology of Medicine and Healthcare - Routledge (2018, Eds. Naomi Sykes & Julia Shaw. Special volume of World Archaeology 50(3))

The Arts of Making in Ancient Egypt. Voices, Images, and Objects of Material Producers 2000–1550 BC -  Sidestone Press (2018, Eds. Gianluca Miniaci, Juan Carlos Moreno García, Stephen Quirke and Andréas Stauder)

The Boxgrove Wider Area Project: Mapping the early Middle Pleistocene deposits of the Slindon Formation across the coastal plain of West Sussex and eastern Hampshire - Archaeology South-East/SpolHeap Publications (2018, M.B. Roberts & M.I. Pope)

Cille Pheadair. A Norse Farmstead and Pictish Burial Cairn in South Uist - Oxbow (2018, Mike Parker Pearson, Mark Brennand, Jacqui Mulville & Helen Smith)

Far from the Hearth: Essays in Honour of Martin K. Jones - McDonald Institute for Archaeology Research Monographs (2018, Eds. Emma Lightfoot, Xinyi Liu & Dorian Q Fuller)

The First Farmers of Europe: An Evolutionary Perspective - Cambridge University Press (2018, Stephen Shennan. World Archaeology Series)

How Houses Evolved: Houses in the Eastern High Weald of Sussex 1350–1750 2018 (Archaeology South-East/SpoilHeap Publications) - bookcover

How Houses Evolved: Houses in the Eastern High Weald of Sussex 1350–1750 - Archaeology South-East/SpoilHeap Publications (2018, Jane Briscoe, Barbara Martin, David Martin & Christopher Whittick. Monograph 19)

In Life and Death: Archaeological Excavations at the Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy, London - Archaeology South-East/SpoilHeap Publications (2018, Lucy Sibun & Paola Ponce. Monograph 17)

Museum Learning: Theory and Research as Tools for Enhancing Practice - Routledge (2018, Jill Hohenstein & Theano Moussouri)

Profane Egyptologists. The Modern Revival of Ancient Egyptian Religion - Routledge (2018, Paul Harrison. UCL Critical Cultural Heritage Series)

Revolutionizing a World: From Small States to Universalism in the Pre-Islamic Near East - UCL Press (2018, Mark Altaweel and Andrea Squitieri)

Things that Travelled: Mediterranean Glass in the First Millennium AD - UCL Press (2018, Eds. Daniela Rosenow, Matt Phelps, Andrew Meek & Ian Freestone)

Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present - UCL Press (2018, Eds. Mark Altaweel & Yijie Zhuang)

WEALDBǢRA: Excavations at Wickhurst Green, Broadbridge Heath and the Landscape of the West Central Weald. Archaeology South-East/SpoilHeap Publications (2018, Andrew Margetts. Monograph 18)

2017  

The Aghlabids and their Neighbors: Art and Material Culture in Ninth-Century North Africa - Brill (2017, Eds. Glaire D. Anderson, Corisande Fenwick & Mariam Rosser-Owen. Handbook of Oriental Studies 122)

Ancient Ivory: Masterpieces of the Assyrian Empire - Thames & Hudson (2017, Georgina Herrmann)

 

Archaeology and Environmental Ethics. Special Volume of World Archaeology 48(4) -  Routledge (2016-17, Ed. Julia Shaw)

Beside the River Trent: Archaeological Investigations at Shardlow Quarry, Derbyshire - Archaeology South-East/SpoilHeap Publications (2017, K. Krawiec, A.J. Howard & B.R. Greary)

Between Memory Sites and Memory Networks. New Archaeological and Historical Perspectives - Topoi (2017, Eds. Kerstin Hofmann, Reinhard Bernbeck & Ulrike Sommer. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 45)

Between Thames and Medway: Archaeological Excavations on The Hoo Peninsula & Its Environs - Archaeology South-East/SpoilHeap Publications (2017, Giles Dawkes. Monograph 13)

Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums and Liberal Government - Duke University Press (2017, Tony Bennett, Fiona Cameron, Nélia Dias, Ben Dibley, Rodney Harrison, Ira Jacknis & Conal McCarthy)

Crossing the Human Threshold: Dynamic Transformation and Persistent Places during the Middle Pleistocene - Routledge (2017, Eds. 
Matt Pope, Clive Gamble & John McNabb)

Key Concepts in Public Archaeology - UCL Press (2017, Ed. Gabriel Moshenska)

Museums in the Second World War: Curators, Culture and Change -  Routledge (2017, Catherine Pearson with Suzanne Keene (Ed.))

Uncivilised Genes: Human Evolution and the Urban Paradox - Independent Thinking Press (2017, Gustav Milne)