Archaeology

Christopher Catling / Archaeology step-by-step (Coffee Table Book)

A comprehensive illustrated handbook for the keen amateur and new student with more than 600 photographs demonstrating skills and artefacts. A professional field guide and practical companion to...

Susan Whitfield / Aurel Stein on the Silk Road (Coffee Table Book)

In 1900

Nora Chadwick - The Celts - HB Slipcased Folio Edition - 2001

The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation...

Tim Taylor / Digging the Dirt with "Time Team" (Coffee Table Book)

A new Ti

John Romer / Great Excavations: John Romer's History of Archaeology (Coffee Table Book)

With the discovery of Carbon 14 dating in

R.A.S MacAlister - Ancient Ireland - HB - 1935

First edition, subtitled a study in the lessons of Archaeology and History, publsihed by Methuen UK.  A solid copy in green cloth, with gilt motif to front cover, the dustjacket has period tape...

Anthony Murphy - Ireland : Land of Legend - BRAND NEW

Mark Clinton - Carrickmines Castle : Rise and Fall - HB - BRAND NEW

The Walshes were rooted in south County Dublin from the late fourteenth century. By the early 1600s members of the family had become actors in the theatre of war across Europe. These were times of...

John Pendergast / The Bend in the River (Coffee Table Book)

  A Prehistory and Contact Pe

Peter Drewett / Field Archaeology (Coffee Table Book)

Since it

Robert D. Ballard / The Lost Wreck of the Isis (Coffee Table Book)

In the summer of 1988 Robert Ballard and his team discovered the remains of an ancient Roman ship in the deep Mediterranean. In 1989 they returned to explore the shipwreck site with a high-tech...

Clive Waddington - Mesolithic Settlement in the North Sea Basin : A Case Study from Howick, North East England - HB

Large format hardcover, published by Oxbow Books, 2007.  The archaeological remains at Howick consist of a Mesolithic hut site and an Early Bronze Age cist cemetery located on a modern cliff edge...

Colin Breen - Lords of the Sea : An Archaeology of the Medieval Gaelic Maritime World - HB - BRAND NEW

Hardcover, published by Cork University Press, May 2026, BRAND NEW.  Illustrated throughout in colour, with maps, period art, illustrations, castle and archaeological plans etc.  Lords of the Sea...

Geddes and Grosset / Dictionary of Egyptology

A pocket guide to Egyptian people, places

D.M Waterman ( With C.J Lynn) - Excavations at Navan Fort 1961-1971

Large format paperback, published by the Northern Ireland Statrionery Office in association with the Department of the Environment.  Not that this is not NAVAN in County Meath, it;s the Navan fort...

J.N.L Myres - The English Settlements - ( The Oxford History of England Volume II) 1986 -

Hardcover, A standalone Volume II in the multi volumeOxfordHistory of England Series, published 1985.  A detailed account of an obscured period in British hsitory - the 2 centuries from the collapse...

David Sweetman - The Medieval Castles of Ireland - BRAND NEW

While ‘an Englishman’s home is his castle’, in Ireland virtually all castles were built for defensive purposes. The medieval castles of Ireland traces the development of the Irish medieval castle,...

Martin Walters / Bloomsbury Illustrated Dictionary of Prehistoric Life

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Henry Cairnes Lawlor - Ulster : Its Archaeology and Antiquities - HB 1928

Hardcover, published 1928  by Carswell & Sons, Queen Street Belfast. illustrated throughout, a history and archaeology of the province ( or perhaps more accurately what was then the newly formed...

R.A.S Macalister - Ireland in Pre Celtic Times - HB 1921

Hardcover, rebound in covers, partly using the original illustrated boards, titles in gilt to black spine. First edition, Maunsel & Roberts 1921, London & Dublin.  "Ireland In Pre-Celtic Times"" is a...

John Wymer - The Paleolithic Age - PB - 1984

Paperback, published by Croom Helm Publishing, 1984.  John Wymer was a prominent British archaeologist known for his extensive research and publications on the Paleolithic Age (Stone Age) in Britain,...

Lawrence Guy Straus, Berit Valentin Eriksen, Jon M Erlandson & David Yesner ( Editors) Humans at the End of the Ice Age: The Archaeology of the Pleistocene―Holocene Transition (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) - HB

Humans at the End of the Ice Age chronicles and explores the significance of the variety of cultural responses to the global environmental changes at the last glacial-interglacial boundary...

R.A.S MacAlister - The Archaeology of Ireland - HB - 1928

Hardcover, first edition, published by Methuen, London, 1928.  Internally solid, unmarked, not ex library, no underling or notes, pencilled price to blank front endpage.  The dustjacket is edgeworn...

John Waddell - The Celtic World - A History - HB - BRAND NEW

At the dawn of history the Celts occupied a vast swathe of Europe from Ireland in the west to lands south of the Black Sea in asia Minor. The study of this Celtic past has often been a dispited and...

Oscar Garcia Marina / Around the Patagonian Picaderos: Notes from an Arrow Tip Hunter (Large Paperback)

Notes from an arrow tip hunter   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing...

European Journal of Archaeology (August 2002) (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Larry Barham / In Search of Cheddar Man (Large Paperback)

This book puts Cheddar Man into a wider archaeological context and explains the scientific detective work behind the headlines which made him an international celebrity nine millennia after his death...

Alasdair Whittle - Europe in the Neolithic : The Creation of New Worlds - PB - 1996

Published by Cambridge University Press, larger format paperback, 1996.  Picture The Quiet Man - An Illustrated Celebration is the result of four years work of collecting photographs, facts and...

Sarah Milliken / A Very Remote Period Indeed: Papers on the Palaeolithic presented to Derek Roe (Coffee Table Book)

This is a volume no Palaeolithic archaeologist should be without. It is offered to Derek Roe by his friends and colleagues as a tribute to his enthusiasm, support and encouragement over many years...

Hillary K. Murray / A Tale of the Unknown Unknowns: A Mesolithic Pit Alignment and a Neolithic Timber Hall at Warren Field, Crathes, Aberdeenshire (Coffee Table Book)

The site of Warren Field in Scotland revealed two unusual and enigmatic features; an alignment of pits and a large, rectangular feature interpreted as a timber building. Excavations confirmed that...

Birgitta Hardh / On the Road: Studies in Honor of Lars Larsson (Coffee Table Book)

Travel can take us to new places, but also to new knowledge. We can travel in time as well as in space, and traveling is by no means solely a phenomenon belonging to the present. On the Road is a...

D.Q. Bowen / A Revised Correlation of Quaternary Deposits in the British Isles (Coffee Table Book)

Realization that continental records of Quaternary rocks were more complex than hitherto believed came with the re-interpretation of oxygen isotope stratigraphy in the late 1960s and early 1970s...

Maxine McBrinn / Social Identities Among Archaic Mobile Hunters And Gatherers in the American Southwest (Coffee Table Book)

The mobile hunters and gatherers of the Archaic US Southwest were members of at least three different kinds of social bands, endogamous marriage groups, and a risk-sharing economic network. By...

C.R. Wickham-Jones / Scotland's First Settlers (Coffee Table Book)

The nomads first arrived in Scotland some 9,000 years ago during the Stone Age, and their hunting and gathering way of life persisted for at least four millennia. A combination of archaeological,...

Harry Lourandos / Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in Australian Prehistory (Coffee Table Book)

This book challenges traditional perceptions of Australian Aboriginal prehistory: that environment is the major determinant of hunter-gatherers; that Aborigines were egalitarian and culturally...

Nicholas Barton / Stone Age Britain (Coffee Table Book)

This introduction to Palaeolithic archaeology, which focuses on Britiain, asks questions about when and how Europe was inhabited, whether the Neanderthal was a club-wielding brute or a pacifist, and...

Miriam S. Balmuth / Sardinian and Aegean Chronology (Coffee Table Book)

Balanced between the Aegean and West Mediterranean worlds, Sardinia offers a perfect laboratory for the investigation of interaction between societies from the Palaeolithic to Roman period. This work...

Ronald Singer / The Lower Paleolithic Site at Hoxne, England (Coffee Table Book)

At the edge of the small Suffolk village of Hoxne lies whatis arguably the single most important Middle Pleistocenearchaeological site in Europe. Here the deposits contain notonly prehistoric...

Michael Baillie / A Slice Through Time: Dendrochronology and Precision Dating (Coffee Table Book)

Dendrochronologists can now provide a wood sample for any calender date over the last seven millennia from two continents. The author discusses the latest developments.   This book is second hand,...

Kenneth Thomson / Mapping Doggerland: The Mesolithic Landscapes of the Southern North Sea (Coffee Table Book)

12,000 years ago the area that now forms the southern North Sea was dry a vast plain populated by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. By 5,500 BC the entire area had disappeared beneath the sea as a...

Per Karsten / In the Wake of a Woman: The Pioneering of North-Eastern Scania, Sweden, 10,000-5000 BC: The Årup Settlements (Coffee Table Book)

Flint material and settlement remains from the Late Palaeolithic Ahrensburg culture, as well as the Early and Middle Mesolithic from a newly excavated site is presented and interpreted in detail. The...

Hans Kindgren / Mesolithic on the Move: Papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe, Stockholm 2000 (Coffee Table Book)

What do we know about the Mesolithic? What distinguishes the Mesolithic from earlier and later periods of human history? What do the Mesolithic cultures of Europe have in common, and what...

Joakim Donner / The Quaternary History of Scandinavia (Coffee Table Book)

During the Quaternary Period, Scandinavia's mountains were the source for repeated glaciation that covered much of eastern, central and western Europe. With a particular emphasis on Denmark, Norway,...

Ruth Charles / Dorothy Garrod and the Progress of the Palaeolithic: Studies in the Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East and Europe (Coffee Table Book)

Dorothy Garrod opened many doors; not only was she the first female professor at Cambridge University, but she illuminated - and in some cases initiated - some of prehistoric archaeology's most...

Douglas J. Kennett / Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture (Volume 1) (Coffee Table Book)

This innovative volume is the first collective effort by archaeologists and ethnographers to use concepts and models from human behavioral ecology to explore one of the most consequential transitions...

R.C. Preece / Island Britain: A Quaternary Perspective (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Anna Ritchie / Exploring Scotland's Heritage - Shetland (Coffee Table Book)

Examining Shetland's archaeological heritage, this work includes a look at an 18th-century fort in Lerwick, a Viking-age farm beside Sumburgh Airport, Scotland's best-preserved iron-age broch on the...

Peter Topping / Neolithic Landscapes (Coffee Table Book)

Reprint of another classic Neolithic Studies Group volume. 'It is a sign of the intellectual health of a specialist study group that its deliberations can generate collections of papers of general...

Douglass W. Bailey / Unsettling the Neolithic (Coffee Table Book)

This book takes a fresh look at the European Neolithic and asks pertinent questions about the way in which we study it. By unsettling accepted notions regarding sedentism and the onset of farming,...

Peter Rowley-Conwy / Animal Bones, Human Societies (Coffee Table Book)

At a time when archaeology is uncertain about its future, it is hoped that this book will illustrate some of the achievements and the future potential of zooarchaeology'. Twenty specialists...

H.P. Blankholm / Målsnes 1: An Early Post-Glacial Site in Northern Norway (Coffee Table Book)

Malsnes 1 is an early post-glacial site dating to c.9500 BP, amd located at the outlet of the Bardu Målselv river system in Troms county, north of the Arctic circle, in northern Norway. It was...

Stephen Aldhouse-Green / Neanderthals in Wales: Pontnewydd and the Elwy Valley Caves (Coffee Table Book)

The final publication of results of the excavations at Pontnewydd cave in northeast Wales has been eagerly awaited. The site was investigated as part of the Palaeolithic Settlement of Wales Research...