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In three parts, on the form and development, decoration, and material culture of early modern West Country houses, these 17 essays originate from a Society of Post-Medieval Archaeology conference. They focus on the themes of recent work on vernacular buildings and include case studies of outstanding sites such as Marker’s Cottage, Broadclyst; Godolphin in Cornwall; and 41–2, High Street, Exeter. No jacket.

This introduction to Sardinia’s landscape, people and history explores some of its rich and varied archaeological sites: the prehistoric megaliths known as nuraghe, Bronze-Age towers, Roman ruins and medieval castles. Geographically arranged, and with 16 pages of colour photographs, it also celebrates the island’s distinctive cultural events such as Barbagia’s ghoulish carnival and Sedilo’s terrifying S’Ardia horse race.

Situated on the western bank of the Euphrates, the prehistoric mound Tille Höyük was the site of a local chieftain’s fortified residence during the 12th to 15th centuries CE. Focusing on that medieval phase of occupation, this volume reports on the excavation of buildings within the defensive wall and includes catalogues of pottery, coins and other household and agricultural items.

This is the first volume of reports on excavations carried out as part of the Bannu Archaeological Project in the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Analysing an extensive range of data and finds from the prehistoric village at Sheri Khan Tarakai, the authors set the site within its intra- and inter-regional contexts and discuss evidence for the inhabitants’ craft activities and subsistence strategies.

The excavations undertaken in 2002–8 at Ban Non Wat, a prehistoric settlement in Thailand’s upper Mun Valley, revealed the story of a community across 100 generations. This report presents findings on the site’s stratigraphy and chronology, its ten mortuary phases (from the Neolithic to the Iron Age) and its material culture, including stone adzes, ceramic vessels and bronze bangles.

For most of its history the Madra River Delta, a coastal region of western Turkey, had close connections with neighbouring Aegean islands. In this interdisciplinary collection of archaeological studies the authors cover not only the Delta’s geomorphology, climate and land-use patterns but also the ceramic evidence for cultural changes from the Bronze Age to the Ottoman period.

This volume reports on archaeological investigations at the largest of three mounds at Canhasan in south central Turkey, which revealed a series of settlements from the period c.5500–3000 BCE. David French, who excavated the site in the 1960s, describes his approach, provides information on the site’s stratigraphy and gives an overview of the structures uncovered at each level.

Based on the discovery that there has been a tendency to misdate the local pottery finds, Jodi Magness’s study reassesses what archaeological remains found in Palestine can tell us about the impact of the Muslim conquest in the 7th century. By taking a fresh look at the evidence, she argues that early Islamic settlement was a complex process that does not fit the current interpretive models.

‘London’, writes Thomas Williams, ‘is a city of spectres, of ghosts walking in the footsteps of other ghosts, and the Viking Age is perhaps its most forgotten hinterland’. This colourful account of the city in the centuries between 842 and 1016 – a period that saw over a dozen Viking attacks on London – describes how it withstood the ‘great heathen horde’; how it endured and prospered through to the time of Cnut; and how the Viking legacy lives on in the capital.

Discovered in 1979, the Roman fort at Elginhaugh near Dalkeith is now the most completely excavated timber-built auxiliary fort in the Roman Empire. Here, Professor Hanson describes the discovery, excavation and interpretation of the site and sets the findings in the wider context of the fort’s builders and the lives of its inhabitants. Slightly off-mint

Since the days of the conquistadors, rumours have circulated about a deserted city deep in the Honduran interior. Local people said it was cursed; a journalist who reached it in 1940 committed suicide on his return. In 2012 Doug Preston joined a team of scientists set on travelling to it; his account describes how – despite torrential rain, deadly snakes and a terrifying disease – they found a great metropolis beneath the rainforest, and explains the cause of its sudden abandonment.

This volume of nine essays aims to explore some of the possibilities offered by the study of borders, both real and imagined, from an archaeological point of view and to present some new perspectives informed by border theory. Among the geographical regions and chronological periods discussed are the 20th-century Iron Curtain or ‘Eastern Front’; the medieval Anglo-Scottish border; Neolithic cave use in the Mendip hills; and 10th- and 12th-century borderlands in northeast China.

The site at Mill Lane offered the chance of studying wetland and dryland zones of human activity as a single archaeological landscape. From the analysis of the site, this book develops a detailed picture of life on the edge of a flood plain between the late glacial and post-medieval periods.

This collection of essays illustrates how new theoretical approaches can inform study of the Bronze Age Aegean world. The authors examine material culture change at individual sites and compare processes of acculturation inspired by Minoan Crete and the Mycenaean mainland.

The first volume of this well-illustrated collection of essays comprises 15 studies on Westminster Abbey, with topics including the medieval and early Tudor topography of Westminster, the Romanesque monastic buildings, and polychromy at the Abbey, 1250–1350. In Volume II, eleven essays deal with the Palace of Westminster and its wider topography between the late 11th century and the devastating fire of 1834.

Covering phases of occupation from pre-castle settlement to a Second World War hospital erected on Castle Green, this is the final report of the long, but intermittent excavations at Launceston Castle which made important contributions to the settlement history and topography of Launceston itself as well as to castle studies.

This volume from the Scottish Burgh Survey offers the general reader a detailed and well-illustrated guide to the history and archaeology of Dunfermline as well as providing local authorities, developers and residents with reliable information to help protect and manage the archaeology and environment of this historic burgh and abbey.

When a casket was excavated near the India-Nepal border in 1898, archaeologist Dr Führer helped confirm that its inscription declared it to contain the Buddha’s ashes. This account of the discovery focuses on the ensuing scandal, in which a local British magistrate accused Führer of selling bogus relics from the site. Off-mint.

Covering a geographical area stretching from Greece, through Turkey, Syria, Israel and Iran to India, and a time span from the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages, the 17 papers in this volume demonstrate zooarchaeologists’ approaches to complex issues of diversity and identity in social systems. Slightly off-mint.

This introductory guide outlines the techniques used by archaeologists to discover, excavate and interpret sites. It also shows how much archaeological finds have taught us about the past inhabitants of England and Wales, from the first appearance of Homo sapiens to the coming of the Normans. Sixth edition.

The church of All Saints at Brixworth, dating from the eighth century, is a building of outstanding importance and it has been the subject of archaeological study since 1972. This volume is the meticulously detailed report of that 40-year-long project.

Bletchley Park and Blenheim Palace, Lindisfarne Priory, the Martyrs’ tree in Tolpuddle, and a water pump in Broadwick Street, Soho, are a few of the historically meaningful places that were nominated by the public and selected by Historic England’s experts for the Irreplaceable project. Arranged by ten themes, from science and discovery to protest, the book offers a richly illustrated, multi-faceted history of the country, explored through the landscapes and built environments around us today.

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Nam C Kim explores the origins of civilization in the Red River Delta of Vietnam and, in particular, the Co Loa settlement which was once the political capital of an ancient culture.

By studying the fragments of myth and ritual that have survived through Britain’s oral tradition, Tolstoy attempts to explain the human story behind the mysterious stones of Stonehenge. Reconstructing the significant aspects of British pagan ideology from the pre-Roman era, and studying the material remains of this lost civilization, Tolstoy presents Stonehenge as the ancient people’s ‘sacred centre’, where the birth, death and eventual rebirth of their island was celebrated.

These eleven papers concentrate on ecclesiastical architecture, with topics including evidence of early Christian monuments, Ewenny Priory, Llandaff Cathedral and the cloister arcade at Tintern Abbey.