- After the Ice
- Steven Mithen
- 20,000 B.C., the peak of the last ice age--the atmosphere is heavy with dust, glaciers span vast regions, and people face the threat of extinction. But these people live on the brink of seismic change--10,000 years of climate shifts culminating in abrupt global warming that will usher in a fundamentally changed human world. This is the story of this momentous period--one in which a seemingly minor alteration in temperature could presage anything from the spread of lush woodland to the coming of apocalyptic floods--and one in which we find the origins of civilization itself.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006
- Ancient Literary Sources on Sardis
- John Griffiths Pedley
- Hardcover 1972
- Ancient Persia
- John Curtis
- Paperback 1990
- Approaching Australia
- Harold Bolitho, Editor
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Editor
- These papers, each by a notable Australian scholar, offer several approaches to the Australian experience, past, present, and future. The authors hail from different disciplines, but what they have in common is their familiarity with the United States and their experience in interpreting their homeland to an American audience. As they discuss poetry and politics, nationalism and feminism, Aboriginal society and urbanization, they also explore a common theme: the emergence of a distinctive Australian entity, and the contribution to it of the United States.
- Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999
- Athenian Bronze Allotment Plates
- John H. Kroll
- Hardcover 1972
- The Bath-Gymnasium Complex at Sardis
- Fikret K. Yegul
- Mehmet C. Bolgil, Contributor
- Hardcover 1986
- The Bog Man and the Archaeology of People
- Don Brothwell
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback
- The Byzantine Shops at Sardis
- J. Stephens Crawford
- Hardcover 1991
- Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs
- Nadia Maria El Cheikh
- This book studies the Arabic-Islamic view of Byzantium, tracing the Byzantine image as it evolved through centuries of warfare, contact, and exchanges. Including previously inaccessible material on the Arabic textual tradition on Byzantium, this investigation shows the significance of Byzantium to the Arab Muslim establishment and their appreciation of various facets of Byzantine culture and civilization.
- Paperback 2004
- City in the Desert
- Oleg Grabar
- Reneta Holod
- James Knustad
- William Trousdale
- Paperback 1978
- Classic-Period Cultural Currents in Southern and Central Veracruz
- Edited by Philip J. Arnold
- Edited by Christopher A. Pool
- This book explores the diverse traditions and dynamic interactions along the Mexican Gulf lowlands at the height of their cultural florescence. Best known for their elaborate ball game rituals and precocious inscriptions with long-count dates, these cultures served as a critical nexus between the civilizations of highland Mexico and the lowland Maya, influencing developments in both regions.
- Hardcover 2008
- Collecting the Weaver's Art
- Laurie D. Webster
- Foreword by Tony Berlant
- This is the first publication on a remarkable collection of sixty-six outstanding Pueblo and Navajo textiles donated to the Peabody Museum in the 1980s by William Claflin, Jr. Claflin bequeathed to the museum not only these beautiful textiles, but also his detailed accounts of their collection histories--a rare record of the individuals who had owned or traded these weavings before they found a home in his private museum.
- Paperback 2005
- Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece
- Marcel Detienne
- Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece looks at the anthropology of the Greeks and other cultures across space and time, and in the process discovers aspects of the art of comparability. Marcel Detienne tries to see how cultural systems react not just to a touchstone category, but also to the questions and concepts that arise from the reaction.
- Paperback
- The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
- Judith Snyder Schaeffer
- Nancy H. Ramage
- Crawford H. Greenewalt
- This collaborative work consists of three generously illustrated sections presenting the ceramic finds excavated at Sardis, but produced in the mainland Greek centers of Corinth, Athens, and Sparta. The authors' study of this material from the Harvard-Cornell excavations at Sardis offers new evidence of the taste for specific Greek wares and shapes in Anatolia before the time of Alexander the Great.
- Hardcover
- Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Volume 9, Part 1, Piedras Negras
- David Stuart
- Ian Graham
- The first of five volumes on the renowned monuments of Piedras Negras, Guatemala, describes the site and the history of exploration at this important center of Classic Maya civilization.
- Paperback 2005
- Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Volume 9, Part 2, Tonina
- Ian Graham
- This is the fourth of five anticipated volumes on the Classic Maya monuments of Tonina, which lie east of the town of Ocosingo in Chiapas, Mexico. The volume describes and illustrates thirty-six sequentially numbered sculptures, representing most of the remaining unpublished and largely intact sculptures at the site.
- Paperback 2006
- The Discovery of the Greek Bronze Age
- J. Lesley Fitton
- J. Lesley Fitton traces an exciting tale of archaeological discovery and weaves it into an engaging, in-depth portrait of Greek Bronze Age civilizations. The result is an elegant assimilation of vast historical detail and a fully illustrated tour of the art and artifacts, the grand palaces and tombs, the mythical heroes, and the Trojan treasures that form at least one cradle of our own civilization.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Early Chinese Civilization
- K. C. Chang
- Chang approaches the civilization of ancient China from the point of view of an anthropologist as well as from an archaeological perspective. This volume of nine studies deals with the Shang (1766-1122 BCE) and Chou (1122-221) civilizations and the prehistoric cultures from which they sprang.
- Hardcover 1976
- Egypt and Nubia
- John Taylor
- Paperback 1991
- Egyptian Life
- Miriam Stead
- Contrary to the popular view that they were a people obsessed with religion and death, the ancient Egyptians were in fact very much concerned with the enjoyment of life--so much so that they desired their civilized, often exuberant existence to be continued for ever in the afterlife. Thus they equipped their tombs with all the trappings of life on earth and decorated the walls with colorful scenes depicting their many activities, pleasures and pastimes. With the aid of a wealth of illustrations from the British Museum's rich Egyptian collections, Miriam Stead combines the evidence from the tombs with that of excavation and written sources to recreate a remarkably vivid and wide-ranging picture of life in ancient Egypt.
- Paperback
- El Niño, Catastrophism, and Culture Change in Ancient America
- Edited by Daniel H. Sandweiss
- Edited by Jeffrey Quilter
- This book summarizes research on the nature of El Niño events in the Americas and details specific historic and prehistoric patterns in Peru and elsewhere.
- Hardcover 2008
- Ephesos, Metropolis of Asia
- Edited by Helmut Koester
- This volume brings together studies of Ephesos--a major city in the Greco-Roman period and a primary center for the spread of Christianity into the Western world--by an international array of scholars from the fields of classics, fine arts, history of religion, New Testament, ancient Christianity, and archaeology.
- Paperback 2004
- The Etruscans
- Ellen MacNamara
- Paperback
- Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 1967-1975, Volume IV, The Iron Age Settlement
- Peter Magee
- Contribution by Peter Grave
- Introduction by C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
- Tepe Yahya provides a stratigraphic sequence that stretches some 6,000 years, from the Neolithic period to the early centuries ad. As a result, the site is critical for understanding cultural processes in southeastern Iran. In this fifth volume of results of the excavations at Tepe Yahya, Magee presents evidence from the Iron Age occupation of the site.
- Paperback 2005
- The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel
- Mary C. Stiner
- A decade of zooarchaeological fieldwork went into Mary Stiner's pathbreaking analysis of changes in human ecology from the early Mousterian period through the end of Paleolithic cultures in the Levant. Stiner employs a comparative approach to understanding early human behavioral and environmental change, based on a detailed study of fourteen bone assemblages from Hayonim Cave and Meged Rockshelter in Israel's Galilee.
- Paperback 2006
- Feeding the Ancestors
- Anne-Marie Victor-Howe
- Foreword by Rosita Worl
- Photographs by Hillel S. Burger
- Feeding the Ancestors presents an exquisite group of carved spoons from the Pacific Northwest that resides in the collections of Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Hillel Burger's beautiful color photographs reveal every nuance of the carvers' extraordinary artistry. Anne-Marie Victor-Howe provides a fascinating glimpse into these aboriginal subsistence cultures as she explains the manufacture and function of traditional spoons. This is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of Pacific Northwest Coast peoples and their art.
- Paperback 2007
- The Fires of Vesuvius
- Mary Beard
- Hardcover 2009
- Gifts of the Great River
- John H. House
- Foreword by Ian W. Brown
- In 1879 Edwin Curtiss set out for the wild St. Francis River region of northeastern Arkansas to collect archaeological specimens for the Peabody Museum. By the time Curtiss completed his fifty-six days of Arkansas fieldwork, he had sent nearly 1,000 pottery vessels to Cambridge and had put the Peabody on the map as the repository of one of the world's finest collections of Mississippian artifacts. House brings us a lively account of the work of this nineteenth-century fieldworker, the Native culture he explored, and the rich legacies left by both.
- Paperback 2005
- Greek and Roman Life
- Ian Jenkins
- Paperback
- The Hellenistic Pottery from Sardis
- Susan I. Rotroff
- Andrew Oliver
- Hellenistic art in Asia Minor is characterized by diverse cultural influences, both indigenous and Greek. This work presents a comprehensive catalogue of the Hellenistic pottery found at Sardis by two archaeological expeditions. The main catalogue includes over 750 items from the current excavations; in addition, material from some 50 Hellenistic tombs excavated in the early twentieth century is published in its entirety for the first time.
- Hardcover 2004
- Holon
- Michael Chazan
- Liora Kolska Horwitz
- Excavations at the open-air site of Holon, carried out by Tamar Noy between 1963 and 1970, were some of the first successful salvage projects in the region. This volume brings together the results of interdisciplinary research on the site of Holon--geology, dating, archaeology, paleontology, taphonomy, and spatial analysis--by a team of leading international researchers. This book will be an essential point of reference for students and specialists working in the archaeology of human evolution.
- Paperback 2008
- Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel, Israel
- Edited by Ofer Bar-Yosef
- Edited by Liliane Meignen
- The recent excavations at Kebara Cave in Israel have provided data crucial for understanding the cognitive and behavioral differences between archaic and modern humans. In this first of two volumes, the authors discuss site formation processes, subsistence strategies, land-use patterns, and intrasite organization. The research at Kebara Cave allows archaeologists to document the variability observed in the strategies of the Late Middle and early Upper Paleolithic periods in the Levant.
- Paperback 2008
- King Croesus' Gold
- Andrew Ramage
- Paul Craddock
- The fabulous wealth of the Lydian Kingdom (in what is now western Turkey) was renowned throughout the classical world--in fact, Lydia's kings created the world's first coinage. The Harvard-Cornell Sardis Expedition has unearthed a gold refinery from the time of King Croesus (the sixth century B.C.) where impure gold from the Pactolus River was treated to produce pure gold and silver. Though the ancient treasure is now gone, this volume illuminates the industry and technology that produced the riches and offers the first authoritative survey of early gold refining and assaying techniques from around the world.
- Hardcover 2000
- Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaika-a
- Watson Smith
- Watson Smith, an enthusiastic amateur archaeologist, was one of the Southwest's foremost archaeological scholars. In this classic volume, Smith reported on the remarkable painted murals found at Awatovi and other Puebloan sites in the underground ceremonial chambers known as kivas. Now reissued in a stunning facsimile edition, the volume includes color reproductions of the original serigraphs by Louie Ewing.
- Hardcover 2006
- Kourion
- Edited by A. H. S. Megaw
- More than fifty years after the earthquake of 365 destroyed Kourion, the seat of the Roman administration of Cyprus, a Christian basilica was built upon the remains of its pagan predecessor. Replete with mosaics and revetment, the basilica was the center of the ecclesiastical administration until its destruction in the late seventh century. In this long-awaited report, Megaw and colleagues present in full the results of excavations from the 1930s, 1950s, and 1970s.
- Hardcover 2008
- Letters from Sardis
- George M. A. Hanfmann
- Hardcover 1972
- Love for Lydia
- Edited by Nicholas D. Cahill
- Hardcover 2009
- Mathematics and Computers in Archaeology
- J. E. Doran
- F. R. Hodson
- Hardcover 1975
- Mesopotamia
- Julian Reade
- Paperback 1991
- The Middle East Garden Traditions
- Edited by Michel Conan
- This book unites new information and surprising results from the last fifteen years of garden research, at a remove from the clichés of Orientalism. Garden archaeology reveals the economic importance of Judean gardens in Roman times and the visual complexity of gardens created and transformed in Moorish Spain. More contemporary approaches unravel the cultural continuities, variations, and differences between gardens in the Middle East since Roman times and in the Islamic world.
- Paperback 2008
- Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting
- Emily Vermeule
- Vassos Karageorghis
- Here is a vividly written and fully illustrated assessment of the figured decoration on Late Bronze Age vessels from the Greek mainland, Cyprus, and the Aegean islands. It will become a standard source on the Mycenaean imagination.
- Hardcover 1982
- Neue Epichorische Schiftzeugnisse aus Sardis
- Roberto Gusmani
- Hardcover 1975
- The Neville Site
- Dena Ferran Dincauze
- Analysis of the Neville Site demonstrated early connections between the New England area and the Southeast. Current excavations in Manchester have reinvigorated interest in the archaeology of New Hampshire and created a demand for this facsimile edition of the original 1976 publication.
- Paperback 2005
- A Noble Pursuit
- Gloria Polizzotti Greis
- Photographs by Hillel S. Burger
- Gloria Greis incorporates previously unpublished correspondence and other archival documents in this colorful account of the Duchess of Mecklenburg and her work. The sites excavated by the Duchess, which encompass the scope of Iron Age cultures in Slovenia, form an important resource for studying the cultural history of the region. A Noble Pursuit presents a selection of beautifully photographed artifacts that provide an overview of the scope and importance of the collection as a whole and attest to the enduring quality of the Duchess's pioneering work.
- Paperback 2006
- Painted by a Distant Hand
- Steven A. LeBlanc
- Foreword by Rubie Watson
- Photographs by Hillel S. Burger
- Highlighting one of the Peabody Museum's most important archaeological expeditions--the excavation of the Swarts Ranch Ruin in southwestern New Mexico by Harriet and Burton Cosgrove in the mid-1920s--LeBlanc's book features rare, never-before-published examples of Mimbres painted pottery, considered by many scholars to be the most unique of all the ancient art traditions of North America.
- Paperback 2005
- Paradise Earned
- Yannis Tzifopoulos
- This is a study of the twelve small gold lamellae from Crete that were tokens for entrance into a golden afterlife. The lamellae are placed within the context of a small corpus of similar texts, and published with extensive commentary on their topography, lettering and engraving, dialect and orthography, meter, chronology, and usage. This work adduces parallels to the texts on the lamellae from the Byzantine period and modern Greece to illuminate the everlasting and persistent human quest for "earning Paradise."
- Paperback 2008
- Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the Nabataeans
- Jane Taylor
- The Nabataean Arabs, one of the most gifted peoples of the ancient world, are today known only for their hauntingly beautiful rock-carved capital--Petra. Here, in the wild and majestic landscapes of southern Jordan, they created some of the most prodigious works of man in the vast monuments that they chiseled from the sandstone mountains. For nearly two thousand years, their civilization has been lost and all but forgotten. This richly illustrated volume recounts the story of a remarkable but lost civilization and the capacity of its people to diversify their skills as necessity demanded.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2005
- A Photographic Guide to the Ethnographic North American Indian Basket Collection, Volume 2,
- Compiled by Susan H. Haskell
- Photographs by Jessica Wilson
- This updated volume catalogues the North American Indian baskets accessioned at the Peabody Museum between 1990 and 2004. The guide serves as a valuable tool and stimulus for further research into North American Indian baskets, of which the Peabody Museum holds more than 3,000 examples.
- Spiral 2005
- Priene
- Edited by Nikos A. Dontas
- Edited by Kleopatra Ferla
- Priene provides the researcher with an unusually clear and complete picture of life in an ancient Greek city of the late Classical and Hellenistic period. This study presents for the first time a comprehensive look at the architecture of the city, combining material from both the first excavation of 1894 and more recent work at the site. It is lavishly illustrated with specially redrawn architectural plans and reconstructions.
- Hardcover 2006
- A Principality of its Own
- Edited by José Luis Falconi
- Edited by Gabriela Rangel
- Foreword by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
- This collection of critical essays examines distinctive moments of the Americas Society's visual art program and its impact on the formation of a Latin American market in the United States. Founded in 1965, the Americas Society has played a pivotal role in Latin American art, from Pre-Colombian to modernism. A Principality of Its Own explores the achievements and experiments that modeled the institution from the Cold War to the present.
- Paperback 2007
- Remembering Awatovi
- Hester A. Davis
- Remembering Awatovi is the engaging story of a major archaeological expedition on the Hopi Reservation in northern Arizona. Centered on the large Pueblo village of Awatovi, with its Spanish mission church and beautiful kiva murals, the excavations are renowned not only for the data they uncovered but also for the interdisciplinary nature of the investigations. In archaeological lore they are also remembered for the diverse, fun-loving, and distinguished cast of characters who participated in or visited the digs.
- Hardcover 2008 / Paperback 2008
- Roman Art
- Susan Walker
- Paperback 1991
- The Roman Frontier in Central Jordan
- S. Thomas Parker
- Until the 1980s, the Roman frontier in modern Jordan was among the least studied of the empire's far-flung border regions. From 1980 until 1989, excavation focused on the late Roman legionary fortress of el-Lejjun as well as four smaller but contemporaneous forts. This report presents detailed results from the excavated forts, a broad range of material evidence from animal bones to bedouin burials, and provides a synthesis of the history of this frontier, which witnessed the first confrontation between the Byzantine Empire and the forces of Islam.
- Hardcover 2006
- Sardis from Prehistoric to Roman Times
- George M. A. Hanfmann
- Assisted by William E. Mierse
- Hardcover 1983
- Sasanian Remains from Qasr-i Abu Nasr
- Richard N. Frye
- Hardcover 1973
- The Singing Neanderthals
- Steven Mithen
- In The Singing Neanderthals, Steven Mithen draws together strands from archaeology, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience and musicology to explain why we are so compelled to make and hear music. Mithen explores music as a fundamental aspect of the human condition, encoded into the human genome during the evolutionary history of our species. The result is a fascinating work--and a succinct riposte to those who have dismissed music as a functionless evolutionary byproduct.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007
- Stonehenge
- Rosemary Hill
- Hardcover 2008
- Stránská skála
- Edited by Jirí Svoboda
- Edited by Ofer Bar-Yosef
- In this volume, a team of scholars reports on the results of the investigations at Stránská skála, a complex of open-air loess sites in the Czech Republic. The volume presents in-depth studies that break new ground in our understanding of early modern humans in central Europe.
- Paperback 2005
- A Survey of Sardis and the Major Monuments Outsides the City Walls
- George M. A. Hanfmann
- J. C. Waldbaum
- Hardcover 1976
- The Swarts Ruin
- Harriet S. Cosgrove
- C. Burton Cosgrove
- Introduction by A. V. Kidder
- Supplement by William White Howells
- Long out of print, this clothbound facsimile edition of the original classic volume is the Cosgrove's report of their Mimbres Valley Expedition seasons of 1924 to 1927. The excavation recorded nearly 10,000 artifacts, including an extraordinary assemblage of Mimbres ceramics. Hattie Cosgrove's meticulous line drawings of over 700 individual pots have long been an invaluable design catalog for contemporary Native American artists and serve as a rich resource for designers seeking Southwest inspiration in their work.
- Hardcover 2005
- Timewalkers
- Clive Gamble
- Gamble reconsiders the remarkable record of geographical expansion that began with the early hominids of sub-Saharan Africa. Through this astonishing dispersal of humans, which exceeds that of all other mammals, he traces calculated responses to variations in climate and environment.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- The Tomb of Agamemnon
- Cathy Gere
- Mycenae, the fabled city of Homer's King Agamemnon, leapt into the headlines in the late nineteenth century when Heinrich Schliemann announced that he had opened the Tomb of Agamemnon and found the body of the hero smothered in gold treasure. In this book, historian of science Cathy Gere tells the story of these extraordinary ruins.
- Hardcover 2006
- Toumba Tou Skourou
- Emily Vermeule
- Florence Z. Wolsky
- Hardcover 1991
- Variations in the Expressions of Inka Power
- Edited by Richard L. Burger
- Edited by Craig Morris
- Edited by Ramiro Matos
- Until recently, little archaeological investigation has been dedicated to the Inka, the last great culture to flourish in Andean South America before the sixteenth-century arrival of the Spaniards. Using a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, scholars from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities provide a new understanding of Inka culture and history.
- Hardcover 2008