This innovative study analyses the great cultural and economic changes occurring in the
Near East between 10,000 and 7,000 BC as Palaeolithic societies of hunter-gatherers gave …

The chemical study of archaeological materials Archaeological Chemistry, Second Edition is
about the application of the chemical sciences to the study of ancient man and his material …

The authors reconsider the origins of metallurgy in the Old World and offer us a new model
in which metallurgy began in c. eleventh/ninth millennium BC in Southwest Asia due to a …

Students of antiquity often see ancient Turkey as a bewildering array of cultural complexes.
Ancient Turkey brings together in a coherent account the diverse and often fragmented …

Archaeology: An Introduction looks behind the popular aspects of archaeology such as the
discovery and excavation of sites, the study of human remains and animal bones …

The intensification of fieldwork in northern Mesopotamia, the upper region of the Tigris-
Euphrates basin, has revealed two cycles of expansion and reduction in social complexity …

A major topic of debate in Old World prehistory is the relative importance of population
movement versus cultural diffusion in explaining the spread of agriculture into and across …

The obsidian sources of central Anatolia, the Aegean and central Europe have been studied
in detail over the past 50 years. Various analytical techniques have been employed to …

This article reassesses the timing, context, and impetus for the onset of sedentary, complex
hunter-gatherers, food production, and village life in the Near East during the Late …

When prehistoric archaeologists write accounts of the Epi-palaeolithic or Neolithic of
southwest Asia, they resort to an archaic narrative style of culture-history that was formulated …