Böcker i Monumenta Archaeologica-serien

"Excavations at ancient Methone, a settlement with a crucial role in the economic and political history of Classical Greece as well as the prehistory of the north Aegean, uncovered remains from the Late Neolithic period through the fourth-century destruction by king Philip II of Macedon. This volume presents results of the project in selected artefacts, burials, and structures representing the chief phases of the city, in chronological order"--

This book describes the multi-disciplinary research of the Koeroes Regional Archaeological Project in southeastern Hungary. Centred around two Early Copper Age villages in the Great Hungarian Plain, the research incorporated excavation, surface collection, geophysical survey and soil chemistry to investigate settlement layout and organization.

This book is a study of the Lapita Cultural Complex, a region spanning both Melanesia and Western Polynesia. The Lapita culture has been interpreted as the archaeological manifestation of a diaspora of Austronesian-speaking people (specifically of Proto-Oceanic language) who rapidly expanded from the New Guinea region into Remote Oceania.

This monograph reports on large-scale excavations at Paso de la Amada, an archaeological site in the Soconusco region of the Pacific coast of Mexico, which was among the earliest sedentary, ceramic-using villages of Mesoamerica.

The highlands of southern Yemen are explored in this final report of survey and excavations by the Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia Project. It addresses the development of food production and human landscape documenting some of the earliest water management technologies in Arabia.

This book describes the discovery and excavation of a major new Wari site (Espiritu Pampa), in the subtropical region of Vilcabamba (Cuzco), in Peru. The Wari State was the first expansionistic power to develop in the Andean highlands; emerging in the area of modern Ayacucho around AD 650, the Wari expanded to control much of the central Andes.

Few sites have the same complexity and diversity of deposits, as was found at the site of Solvieux in southwest France. The history of the project, methodologies, results and analysis of finds arepresented, with drawings, outlines of typologies and essays on Upper Palaeolithic traditions and the contribution of the Solvieux results in this regard.

One of the most important works on ancient Athens in the last fifty years. The focus is on the early city, from the end of the Bronze Age - ca. 1200 BCE - to the Archaic period, when Athens became the largest city of the Classical period, only to be destroyed by the Persians in 480/479 BCE. It offers a treasure trove of information for archaeologists who work in this period.

Collection of independent studies and final reports on smaller excavations. Incl. overviews of archaeological research in Jaffa, historical and archaeological studies of Medieval and Ottoman Jaffa, reports on excavations at the Postal and Armenian Compounds, and studies of the excavations of Jacob Kaplan and Haya Ritter-Kaplan in Jaffa.

The Neolithic is thought to have arrived in Egypt via diffusion from an origin in southwest Asia, relatively late compared to neighbouring locations. The authors of this vvolume suggest an alternative approach to understanding the development of food production in Egypt based on the results of new fieldwork in the Fayum.

Tangatatau Rockshelter on Mangaia Island in the Southern Cook Islands, excavated by a multidisciplinary team in 1989-1991, produced one of the richest stratigraphic sequences of artifacts, faunal assemblages, and archaeobotanical materials in Eastern Polynesia. More than seventy radiocarbon dates provide a tight chronology from AD 1000 to European contact in about 1800.

The first English-language monograph that describes seasonal and permanent Late Bronze Age settlements in the Russian steppes, this is the final report of the Samara Valley Project, a US-Russian archaeological investigation conducted between 1995 and 2002.

This book presents the results of the extensive excavation of a small, rural village from the period of emerging cities in upper Mesopotamia (modern northeast Syria) in the early to middle third millennium BC.

First of 3 vols reporting on excavations at Formative-period sites in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico. Excavations at Amomoloc, Tetel, and Las Mesitas and La Laguna are reported. Ceramics are described in detail. An innovative approach to the classification of figurines is presented, and a Formative chronology for the region is proposed.

The burial tumulus of Lofkend lies in one of the richest archaeological areas of Albania. In addition to artifacts, the recovery of surviving plant remains, bones, and other organic material contribute insights into the environmental and ecological history of the region.

This comprehensive and important volume challenges the current scholarly consensus concerning the emergence and historicity of the Iron Age polity of biblical Edom and some of its neighbours, such as ancient Israel.

This is the final report of the 1997-2003 excavations at the Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement of Catalhoyuk in Anatolia, focussing on the lives and life histories of houses and people, the use of digital technologies in the archaeological process, the senses of place, and the nature of cultural heritage and our public responsibilities.

Now called K'axob, this 800 B.C. Mayan community in northern Belize grew and prospered through Formative and Classic times. A millennial-long record of life has been investigated archaeologically by peeling back the closely stratified layers of homes. An accompanying CD includes comprehensive data sets, over 1,000 images, a tour of K'axob.

The twenty-five contributions to this work constitute the first major book-length publication to address the archaeology of Jaffa in more than sixty years since excavations were initiated at the site.

The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors is a co-publication of the Cotsen Occasional Press and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.

The Shala Valley Project presents the highlanders in the full complexity of their lives, and unveils a new, deeper history for the region, back to an unexpected fortified Iron Age site. For archaeologists, historians, and students of kinship, of the built landscape, of world-systems theory and sustainability science, and more..

The project devoted five seasons of fieldwork (1992-1997) to an intensive archaeological survey in the north-central foothills of the Troodos Mountains on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Provides a comprehensive data set including lithics, pottery, site types, and radiocarbon dates. Full colour GIS maps and many colour illustrations.