A Companion to Archaeology features essays from 27 of the world's leading authorities on different types of archaeology that aim to define the field and describe what it means to be an archaeologist.

• Shows that contemporary archaeology is an astonishingly broad activity, with many contrasting specializations and ways of approaching the material record of past societies.
  
• Includes essays by experts in reading the past through art, linguistics, or the built environment, and by professionals who present the past through heritage management and...

Archaeology of Populus Monograph in Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes Series. Population trends and demographics in general are discussed through a variety of case studies based in Mediterranean Europe. The range of archaeological techniques and methods of analysis includes regional field surveys, artifact scatter analysis, palaeoanthropology, historical and documentary sources, and studies of cemeteries.

The Boeotia Survey in Greece is widely recognized as a milestone in Mediterranean landscape archaeology due to the sophistication and rigor of its methodologies and the scale of the 25-year investigation. This first volume of the project's publication deals with the landscape that formed part of the territory of the ancient city of Thespiai.

Papers from a conference organised at the University of Corfu in 1998. Contents: 1.1) Three Forts in a Sea of Mountains: The Lidoriki District and the Medieval History of Aetolia (Sebastiaan Bommelje); 1.2 Byzantine and Ottoman Maritime Traffic in the Estuary of the Strymon: Between Environment, State and Market (Archibald Dunn); 1.3 The Strymon Delta Project: The Palynological Evidence (Margaret A. Atherden and Jean A. Hall); 1.4 Settlement Patterns in Medieval and Post-Medieval Sphakia: Issues from the Archaeological and Historical Evidence (Lucia Nixon, Simon Price, Oliver Rackham and...

The Complete Archaeology of Greece covers the incredible richness and variety of Greek culture and its central role in our understanding of European civilization, from the Palaeolithic era of 400,000 years ago to the early modern period. In a single volume, the field's traditional focus on art and architecture has been combined with a rigorous overview of the latest archaeological evidence forming a truly comprehensive work on Greek civilization.

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The theme of this book is the appropriate methodology for the study of the history of life on earth. In particular, it focuses on the interplay between form and structure: the things that we might predict and model and the things that we cannot predict - the arbitrary and the contingent - which may be as important, or even more important, than the way in which life on earth has evolved.

This collection of essays reflects Anthony Snodgrass's wide-ranging research interests: Greek prehistory, the Greek Iron Age and Archaic era, Greek texts and Archaeology, Classical Art History, societies on the fringes of the Greek and Roman world, and Regional Field Survey.

Few major Classical cities have disappeared so completely from view, over the centuries, as Thespiai in Central Greece. Only the technique of intensive field survey, carefully adapted to a large urban site and reinforced by historical investigation, has made it possible to recover from oblivion much of its life of seven millennia.