Why did the ancient artists create paintings and engravings? What did the images mean?
This careful study of rock art motifs in the Trans-Pecos area of Texas and a small area in …

Over the (slightly more than) two decades that the European Journal of Archaeology
(formerly the Journal of European Archaeology) has been in print, we have published a …

Present in the Trans-Pecos rock art of west Texas are many motifs intelligible within hunter-
gatherer ontological frameworks. These motifs—including human figures missing heads and …

Changes in funerary practices are key to the understanding of social transformations of past
societies. Over the course of the Nordic Bronze Age, funerary practices changed from …

Responding to recent advances in knowledge about the first arrival of woollen sheep in
Europe and linked investigations of textile remains on the Continent, this paper argues that …

In this paper we present new data from the monumental Bronze Age cairn of Selkäkangas,
Nakkila, excavated by the Department of Archaeology of the University of Turku in 1978 …

Archaeological investigations in the Oman Peninsula conducted over the last forty years
have highlighted dramatic socioeconomic transformations characterizing the transition from …

This article explores the potential of studying the social dimensions of old age and aged
bodies in the past. Because old age is relative to life-expectancy figures, diet and lifestyle …

T his article highlights and discusses the challenges of recreating the clothing of a wealthy
Bronze Age woman from Winklarn in Austria. She was buried with jewelry and dress fittings …

The article presents a new sub-discipline of archaeology which is archaeology of the body.
Studies in the body in archaeology emerged on the ground of the postprocesual …