Social science / Archaeology

Food and Feast in Tudor England

by Alison Sim

A readable overview of Tudor food and eating habits.

Methodologies Applied to Archaeological Potential Predictivity

by Francesca Anichini

Cultural Variability in Context: Woodland Settlements

by Mark F. Seeman

Cultural Variability in Context, a collection of papers presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in April 1989, documents and explains the varied settlement and subsistence...

Come, Tell Me How You Live

by Agatha Christie Mallowan

To the world she was Agatha Christie, author of numerous bestselling mysteries and whodunits, arguably the most popular writer in the English language. But in the 1930s she wore a different hat, traveling with...

Surviving Sudden Environmental Change

by Payson Sheets & Jago Cooper

Archaeologists have long encountered evidence of natural disasters through excavation and stratigraphy. In Surviving Sudden Environmental Change, case studies examine how eight different past human communities-ranging...

Libya: An ancient country looks toward the future

by Giorgio Galanti

A captivating book dedicated to Libya of yesterday and today: a country with a thousand faces that is experiencing a dramatic moment. Through a wonderful selection of photographs accompanied by comprehensive...

In Ruins: A Journey Through History, Art, and Literature

by Christopher Woodward

In this enchanting meditation on ruins, Christopher Woodward takes us on a thousand-year journey from the plains of Troy to the monuments of ancient Rome, from the crumbling palaces of Sicily, Cuba, and Zanzibar...

Loot

by Sharon Waxman

A journey across four continents to the heart of the conflict over who should own the great works of ancient art

Why are the Elgin Marbles in London and not on the Acropolis? Why do there seem to be as many mummies...

The End of Days

by Zecharia Sitchin

Why is it that our current twenty-first century A.D. is so similar to the twenty-first century B.C.?

Is history destined to repeat itself?Will biblical prophecies come true, and if so, when?

It has been more...

The Gold of Exodus: The Discovery of the True Mount Sinai

by Howard Blum

Mount Sinai. For many, it is the most sacred place on Earth—the site where God descended to give Moses the Ten Commandments. Yet for centuries, mankind has not known its exact location. In this heart-pounding...

The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya

by Jeremy A. Sabloff

Nowadays, archaeological investigators don't just dig up the past They use high-tech equipment, chemical analyses, sampling strategies, and other modern means to gain a better understanding of why and how cultures...