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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 and forthcoming volumes

2024  

Bookcover for Methods and Methodologies in Heritage Studies - UCL Press (2024, Eds. Rachel King and Trinidad Rico), with a blue background, white and yellow text (title and editors names) and a b&w reel of a man riding a horse going across the cover

Methods and Methodologies in Heritage Studies - UCL Press (2024, Eds. Rachel King and Trinidad Rico)

Red book cover with central image of figurines for the volume Gianluca Miniaci, Miniature Forms as Transformative Thresholds. Faience Figurines in Middle Bronze Age Egypt, Nubia and the Levant (2100-1550 BC).

Faience Figurines in their Archaeological and Museological Contexts (Egypt, Nubia, and the Levant, 2100-1550 BC). The Catalogue Raisonné - Peeters, Leuven (2024, Gianluca Miniaci)

Red bookcover (with white text and misc. brown clay figures) for the volume Clay Figurines in Context: Crucibles of Egyptian, Nubian, and Levantine Societies in the Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BC) and Beyond, MKS 17, GHP London 2024.

Clay Figurines in Context: Crucibles of Egyptian, Nubian, and Levantine Societies in the Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BC) and Beyond - Golden House Publications (2024, Eds. Gianluca Miniaci et al)

Museums, Identity and Family Practices by Theano Moussouri (Routledge, 2024) - bookcover with colourful abstract shapes with white box in centre with book title

Museums, Identity and Family Practices - Routledge (2024, Theano Moussouri)

Naeser, C. (2024) Der Alltag des Todes: Funeräre Praktiken in Deir el-Medine im Neuen Reich, GHP Egyptology 35 (blue bookcover with an image of  a piece of wood on which hieroglyphs have been painted. The wood is part covered by a light-coloured cloth

Der Alltag des Todes: Funeräre Praktiken in Deir el-Medine im Neuen Reich - Golden House Publications (2024, Claudia Naeser)

Two tone green bookcover with white text of the volume Dalla ceramica alla storia economica. Il caso di Palermo islamica by Viva Sacco (2024)

Dalla ceramica alla storia economica. Il caso di Palermo islamica - École française de Rome (2024, Viva Sacco. Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome 415)

WWII Bombing of British Cities and Contested Remembrance (John Sharrock, BAR, 2024) - blue bookcover with image of a brick memorial

WWII Bombing of British Cities and Contested Remembrance - BAR Publishing (2024, John Sharrock. UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series, 10)

Black bookcover with white text and multi-coloured central image for new volume Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice. Edited by Cara Krmpotich and Alice Stevenson. UCL Press, 2024

Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice - UCL Press (2024, Eds. Cara Krmpotich and Alice Stevenson)

Book cover showing a landscape of green hilly terrain and a lake/water source with an archaeological site in the foreground. The book details are in black text (top), the publisher's logo in white text (bottom)

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

Two tone grey bookcover of Writing Matters: Italy in the First Millennium BCE (2024, Bloomsbury Academic) authored by Ruth Whitehouse with an image of a black (wood/pottery?) artefact inscribed with letters/characters

Writing Matters: Italy in the First Millennium BCE -  Bloomsbury Academic (2024, Ruth Whitehouse. UCL Institute of Archaeology World Archaeology Series 2)

  
2023  

Bookcover with black background, an image of an ancient stone figure covering its eyes. Book title and sub-title in white and yellow text

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

A blue bookcover with an image of a stone statue of a man covered in red paint. White text (booktitle, editors and publisher)

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

Red book cover with central image of figurines for the volume Gianluca Miniaci, Miniature Forms as Transformative Thresholds. Faience Figurines in Middle Bronze Age Egypt, Nubia and the Levant (2100-1550 BC).

Miniature Forms as Transformative Thresholds. Faience Figurines in Middle Bronze Age Egypt, Nubia and the Levant (2100-1550 BC) - Peeters, Leuven (2023, Gianluca Miniaci)

Red bookcover with white text indicating book title, author etc. Central image of human bones.

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

Black bookcover with white and yellow text indicating author, title etc. Main image of shelves of paper files (archive)

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

Blue bookcover with a central image of a coastal/island landscape

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)

Bookcover with a black background and an image of a scientific instrument

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

Bookcover with an image of a map (top) and black background with text of title of book and author

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)

A brown book cover with a central image, a drawing in coloured pencils of a bare slope affected by rain and another of a fence in a trench acting as a dam

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)

Red book cover with white text indicating title, author etc. Central image of three light-coloured china/pottery vessels

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)

Bookcover with picture of an ancient stone monument at top and black panel at bottom with book details (white text)

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 Hamilton, Ruth 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

Blue bookcover with white text indicating title, author etc. Central image of purple heather and green fields with the sea and coast in the background (Wales)

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)