A Telegraph Book of the Year A remarkable, unprecedented account of the role of magic in cultures...

Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. T...

Anthropolgy and Archaeology provides a valuable and much-needed introduction to the theories and ...

Ranging from the Uruk cities of early Mesopotamia, through the empires of the Romans and the Azte...

Archaeology is the only discipline that allows us to take a long-term view across all forms of co...

Colonialism has shaped the world we live in today and has often been studied at a global level, b...

Prehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when ou...

The Handbook, written by 35 leading experts, provides an authoritative guide to the full range of...

Archaeology is a vast subject - it is the study of human society everywhere in the world, from di...

Storia della magia. Dall'alchimia alla stregoneria

An Oxford professor of archaeology explores the unique history of magic-the oldest and most negle...

Chris Gosden presenta una visión comparativa de más de 5.000 años de colonialismo. Al definir el ...

Since early discoveries of so-called Celtic Art during the 19th century, archaeologists have muse...

This volume represents an introduction to a new world-wide attempt to review the history of techn...

This book explores the early history of the Pitt Rivers Museum and its collections. Many thousand...

Based on The English Landscapes and Identities project, this volume synthesises major available d...

This book tackles the issues of subsistence in its social context by focusing on food as a cultur...