Archaeopress is devoted to publishing academic work on all aspects of archaeology quickly and efficiently. Our flagship imprint, Archaeopress Archaeology, currently publishes 70-100 titles a year in traditional print and e-pdf editions. Open Access options are available. Our Access Archaeology imprint offers a different publishing model for specialist academic material that might traditionally prove commercially unviable.
We publish books covering the full range of archaeological topics, including all time periods and geographic locations. We also consider proposals in related arts, humanities, and heritage-based subject areas. We pride ourselves in a flexible approach to publishing, meaning there is a rarely a 'one size fits all' approach, but below is a guide to the services and support we typically offer our authors:
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Our growing range of journals currently includes the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, the Journal of Greek Archaeology, the Journal of Hellenistic Pottery and Material Culture, KOINON: The International Journal of Classical Numismatic Studies, الشرق Ash-sharq. Bulletin of the Ancient Near East: Archaeological, Historical and Societal Studies, Aramazd: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies and EX NOVO: Journal of Archaeology.
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies (ISSN 0308-8421)
The Journal of Greek Archaeology (ISSN 2059-4674; eISSN 2059-4682)
The Journal of Hellenistic Pottery and Material Culture (ISSN 2399-1844; eISSN 2399-1852)
الشرق Ash-sharq. Bulletin of the Ancient Near East: Archaeological, Historical and Societal Studies (ISSN 2513-8529; e-ISSN 2514-1732)
Aramazd: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies (ISSN 1829-1376)
EX NOVO: Journal of Archaeology (ISSN 2531-8810)
KOINON: The International Journal of Classical Numismatic Studies (ISSN 2631-5874)
François Djindjian Collected papers from a symposium organized by the International Academy of Prehistory and Protohistory (AIPP) in Paris, 2023. The chosen theme “Determinisms in prehistoric societies: climate change, environments, functional constraints and cultural traditions” is part of the project “Human societies in the face of climate change”. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | Open Access Peter Stewart This book offers an introduction to Gandharan art and the mystery of its relationship with the Graeco-Roman world of the Mediterranean. It presents an accessible explanation of the ancient and modern contexts of Gandharan art, the state of scholarship on the subject, and guidance for further, in-depth study. Chinese language edition. READ MORE Paperback: £24.99 | Open Access Matthew S. Hobson Finds from a Roman cremation cemetery in Carlisle offer an important study of burials and identity in the region. Excavated graves, including rare richly furnished burials, reveal cultural ties to the Nervii of Gallia Belgica and suggest a Nervian presence in early Roman Carlisle linked to military recruitment and local pottery production. READ MORE Paperback: £40.00 | Open Access Anna M. Davies-Barrett et al. This volume covers bioarchaeological findings from the Sudan Archaeological Research Society’s 1997-2018 Kawa excavations, focusing on human and animal bones. Human skeletons were meticulously documented and preserved, while archaeozoologists studied fragile animal bones. Additional materials supplement Volume I for context on Kawa's cemetery. READ MORE Hardback: £60.00 | Open Access ed. Ines Asceric-Todd et al. This volume has a special focus on the Ottoman Balkans and Anatolia as seen and described by travellers from both within and outside the region. 26 papers shed valuable light on the topics of Christian-Muslim and East-West relations, and the transition from the Ottoman Empire to successor nation-states in the 19th and early 20th centuries. READ MORE Paperback: £70.00 ed. Derek A. Welsby This volume documents the Sudan Archaeological Research Society’s 1997-2018 excavations at Kawa, Sudan, with topographical mapping and digs across urban sites and the Kushite cemetery. Recovered artefacts, from pottery shards to dressed stone blocks, highlight the site’s diverse material culture and ancient rituals. READ MORE Hardback: £90.00 | Open Access ed. Charikleia Diamanti The Halasarna Workshop on Cos Island reveals insights into Late Antique (5th-7th c.) imperial policy via stamped amphorae. Research finds LRA 1 stamps marked at city level, LRA 13 at state level, under imperial oversight. Excavations show Cos’s quaestor exercitus controlled LRA 13 production, offering key historical and archaeological context. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | eBook: £16.00 Sarah V. Graham This book re-examines the Greek Dioskouroi, Kastor and Polydeukes, exploring their roles in image, myth, and cult. Case studies focus on their homelands in myth – Sparta, Messene, and Argos – and areas where Greek mariners sought their protection. Findings suggest that, for the Greeks, the term ‘Dioskouroi’ may have held a specific votive meaning. READ MORE Paperback: £48.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Dirk Brandherm et al. Proceedings from the 2022 Metal Ages colloquium in Ankara. Topics include water supply and management, copper metallurgy, pottery, and combat techniques, spanning the Chalcolithic to Late Iron Age across Iran to Iberia, with a focus on artefact archaeometry. READ MORE Hardback: £50.00 | Open Access Riia Elina Timonen The Argive Plain was central to Late Bronze Age Mycenaean culture. Renowned for its settlements and treasures, less is known about its agricultural sustainability. This study examines Mycenaean farming in the Argive Plain and its societal implications, investigating if resource depletion contributed to the Bronze Age collapse. READ MORE Paperback: £48.00 | Open Access Paul Frodsham et al. The first comprehensive survey of the archaeology of the North Pennines, from Mesolithic to modern times. Traces of 10,000 years of human activity survive today, including flint scatters at Mesolithic campsites, earthworks of prehistoric and later settlements and field systems, and extensive remnants of the post-medieval ‘miner-farmer’ landscape. READ MORE Paperback: £48.00 | eBook: £16.00 Michael J. Jones A uniquely personal account of how a record of the city of Lincoln's rich archaeology was recorded from the time of the early antiquaries through to the commercially funded professional teams of today, by someone who was closely involved in a senior capacity for over half a century. READ MORE Paperback: £25.00 | eBook: £9.99 Günther E. Thüry A selection of fifty papers produced over the course of fifty years, supplemented here with epilogues considering developments in the field since first publication. They cover a wide range of topics in antiquity; Roman provincial archaeology; classical philology; epigraphy; numismatics; archaeobiology; history of medicine; and history of sexuality. READ MORE Paperback: £65.00 | eBook: £16.00 Valentina Tumolo Sealing practices were widespread across the Mediterranean and Southwest Asia from prehistoric to historic times. This study is based on the author’s analysis of the large assemblage of impressed ceramics from the site of Ḫirbet ez-Zeraqōn in northern Jordan. READ MORE Paperback: £105.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. José Javier Martínez García et al. 11 papers analyse magic and witchcraft in their different aspects and forms in the ancient world from an international and multidisciplinary perspective. Case studies come from Egypt, the Greek and Roman world and from Late Antiquity, and even cover the reception of ancient magic in the modern world. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 ed. Antonino Cannata et al. The second Hyblaea highlights interesting new elements on different themes relating to the archaeology and ancient topography of the southern cusp of Sicily, with reference to a broad chronological span that reaches from prehistory to the end of the Iron Age and the first phases of Greek penetration. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 ed. Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom et al. Volume 7 of JHP, an independent learned journal dedicated to the research of ceramics and objects of daily use of the Hellenistic period in the Mediterranean region and beyond. READ MORE Paperback: £50.00 María Teresa Muñoz Espinosa This book proposes an interpretation of the iconographic elements and an iconological analysis of the Huastec sculpture of the so-called "Adolescente de Jalpan", which seems to be related to the iconography and iconology associated with the god Quetzalcoatl and his twin brother, Xolotl. READ MORE Paperback: £30.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 Dario Calderone Using various research methods and sources, the author identifies natural pathways in Milena, central-southern Sicily, that were likely used throughout prehistory to reach the coasts from this inland region that continued to be used in more recent historical periods, including the Roman period and the Middle Ages. READ MORE Paperback: £30.00 ed. Marco Valente et al. How is Portuguese archaeological cultural Heritage reflected today as traces of its colonial expansion through the World? The editors gathered 25 contributors from a wide variety of countries to explore this theme: Brazil, Cape Verde Islands, China, India, Japan, México, Morocco, Namibia, Portugal, Saint Thomas & Prince Islands and Spain. READ MORE Paperback: £70.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 Ireneusz Łuć A historical and prosopographical study of the Romans who held the military rank of tribune and served between the 1st century BC and the 3rd century AD, presented across three volumes. This volume (I) presents a catalogue of 285 Romans, divided into Tribuni militum in exercitu and Tribuni militum in praetorio. Paperback: £45.00 | Open Access ed. Silvia Berrica et al. This book aims to connect the domestic spaces of rural settlements from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages periods with other rural contexts, such as cemeteries or production areas, which were also part of the living and organisational dynamics of the communities that inhabited them. READ MORE Paperback: £38.00 ed. Romina Della Casa et al. Vol. 21 of Antiguo Oriente for 2023. AntOr is the annual, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal published by the Center of Studies of Ancient Near Eastern History (CEHAO). The journal publishes manuscripts related to the history of societies of the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean from the Paleolithic to the Early Islamic Period. READ MORE Paperback: £50.00 Marion Dowd et al. Combining archaeology, local and military histories, community recollections, and landscape studies, this groundbreaking study, the first excavation of a Civil War site in Ireland, facilitates a wider discussion of the role of dugouts in guerrilla warfare and offers a unique view on the Irish revolutionary period at a regional and national scale. READ MORE Hardback: £38.00 | Open Access James Fairclough et al. Archaeological excavations at Little Paxton Quarry, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire were undertaken by MOLA 2017-2021 reveal evidence of Neolithic pits, a middle Bronze Age cremation cemetery, and more. Permanent occupation took place from the middle Iron Age period, with one settlement continuing into the middle Roman period. READ MORE Paperback: £38.00 | eBook: £16.00 Anthony J. Frendo This book foregrounds the principles of interpretation that scholars employ when reading ancient inscriptions. In order to better come to grips with Canaanite, such as Phoenician, inscriptions, we need to first understand how people wrote and read texts in the ancient Mediterranean world, including that of the Greeks and Romans. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | Open Access Radosław Karasiewicz-Szczypiorski et al. An accessible summary of the history of the Roman Frontier in Georgia, placed into its wider context by a supporting essay from David Breeze looking at the whole Roman Frontier as an interconnected world heritage site. READ MORE Paperback: £19.99 | Open Access ed. Andrea Bellotti et al. Spring Archaeology provides young researchers and professionals working in Italy with an opportunity to showcase their work. The presentations and posters focus on the application of new technologies in archaeology, the study of material culture, public archaeology projects, advances in research, and considerations on methodological issues. READ MORE Paperback: £55.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 ed. Marie Nicole Pareja et al. This book evaluates the evidence for indirect connections between the Aegean and the Indus extending back to the third and fourth millennia BCE, particularly commodities such as tin and lapis lazuli, and discusses recently discovered objects, new methods of materials analysis techniques and topics, as well as iconographic investigation. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Vanessa Campanacho et al. A collection of papers from AnthroEthics 2021 consider ethical issues related to biological anthropology. It combines views from people working in various countries and continents, allowing for a worldview on ethical discussions within biological anthropology. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 David J. Breeze et al. This volume celebrates the twenty-sixth Congress of Roman Frontier Studies. It presents the history of the congress accompanied by photographs and reminiscences from participants, a story populated by many of the well-known archaeologists of the last 75 years and, indeed, earlier as the genesis of the Congress lies in the inter-War years. READ MORE Paperback: £38.00 | Open Access ed. L. Dogaer et al. Collecting 22 selected papers from the twenty-third Current Research in Egyptology conference, topics include language and literature, archaeology and material culture, society and religion, archival research, intercultural relations, reports on archaeological excavations and methodological issues, regarding all periods of Ancient Egypt. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 ed. Silvia González Soutelo This book is focused on the role of thermal establishments with mineral-medicinal waters in the different territories of the Roman Empire, including their symbiosis with the landscape as well as the ways in which their construction was adapted to give greater comfort to those who came to take advantage of their health-giving properties. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | Open Access John Vincent Bellezza Focusing on the Eastern half of Stod, this is the third in a series of five volumes that comprehensively document rock art in Upper Tibet. It examines a panoply of graphic evidence found on stone surfaces, supplying an unprecedented view of the long-term development of culture and religion on a large swathe of the Tibetan Plateau. READ MORE Paperback: £160.00 | Open Access William S. Hanson et al. This book has three main aims: to make more widely available the data from the numerous geophysical surveys that have been undertaken at sites on the Antonine Wall over the last 20 years; to re-analyse this data and provide more focused interpretations; and to offer some wider archaeological and geophysical conclusions. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | Open Access ed. Eleni Filippaki Proceedings of the 7th Symposium Hellenic Society for Archaeometry includes a selection of contributions, covering a wide range of fields in archaeological science, such as provenance and technology of archaeomaterials, geo- and bio-archaeology, dating and landscape studies, as well as papers illuminating the origins of archaeometry in Greece. READ MORE Paperback: £70.00 | Open Access ed. Alkiviadis Ginalis Beyond general approaches to the study of Byzantine harbour archaeology, contributions in this volume offer a representative picture of harbour activities across the historical and geographical boundaries of the Byzantine Empire, providing the basis for future comparative research on a local, regional, and supra-regional level. READ MORE Paperback: £38.00 | eBook: £16.00 Eduardo Williams This book explores material culture and human adaptations to nature over time, with a focus on ceramics. The author also explores the role of ethnoarchaeology and ethnohistory as key elements of a broad research strategy that seeks to understand human interaction with nature over time. READ MORE Paperback: £70.00 | eBook: £16.00 Catalina Martínez Padilla et al. This book presents the study of a natural region, the Alto Almanzora, in the north of the province of Almería (Spain), in which 6 campaigns of systematic archaeological prospection were carried out. The study considers the societies that occupied the territory for more than 4000 years until the end of the Roman occupation. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | Open Access Philip Murgatroyd et al. The Battle of Mantzikert had profound consequences for both Byzantine and Turkish history, yet the historical sources for this campaign contain significant gaps. This book presents the results of a project that seeks to demonstrate the important role computer simulation can play in the analysis of pre-modern military logistics. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | Open Access Sanjeev Kumar A reference for history enthusiasts, scholars and collectors alike, this book offers a comprehensive guide to Gupta Dynasty numismatics. The 2nd edition sees all known Gupta coin issues documented, with updated classifications and notes on their rarity. A revised chronology is presented, using data from coins, inscriptions, seals and copper plates. READ MORE Hardback: £120.00 | eBook: £16.00 Walter D. Ward This book provides a comprehensive examination of the evidence for the economy of the later Roman province of Third Palestine, which roughly corresponds to southern Jordan, the Negev desert in Israel, and the Sinai Peninsula. READ MORE Paperback: £34.00 | eBook: £16.00 Piotr Dyczek et al. The inextricability of the connection between the Roman limes and the lands it ran through is easily observed and perfectly illustrated in Bulgaria. For a considerable distance it follows the Danube; both a major natural obstacle and at the same time a convenient communication route, it was easily defendable and facilitated control of trade routes. READ MORE Paperback: £19.99 | Open Access Stephanie Döpper In the Early Bronze Age, monumental stone and mud-brick structures known as towers appeared in Oman. This book aims to update the long-standing discussions on these towers and to assess their chronological depth of more than a millennium. The book also reassesses their possible functions in the light of recent archaeological research. READ MORE Paperback: £48.00 | Open Access Raquel Rubio González This book is a study of the architecture and decoration of the mosaic floors of the Roman private spaces of Bulla Regia, located in the northwest of Tunisia. The book is divided into six chapters which offer a complete overview of both the city in general and the domestic architecture and mosaic decoration of each of the domus. READ MORE Paperback: £58.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Hadrian Cook et al. Telling the story of Old Sarum and Salisbury, from the mid-10th century to the start of the 20th, this book brings together the most up-to-date thinking on the archaeological evidence, and, through analysis of the rich documentary record, provides a fresh take on the story of this most illustrious cathedral city in the heart of southern England. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | Open Access Stephen Morris MOLA carried out a programme of archaeological investigations at Magna Park, Lutterworth, Leicestershire (June 2020-March 2021). This work included the recovery of 30 middle Bronze Age cremations at one location, the second largest cemetery of this period yet found in the county. READ MORE Paperback: £55.00 | eBook: £16.00 A.S. Bhalla This book examines similarities and differences between art in ancient Indian (Indus) civilizations and that of the Aegean civilizations. The comparison raises questions about possible cross-cultural influences, which became more significant following Alexander’s invasion and the subsequent adaptation of Indian art under the Indo-Greek kingdoms. READ MORE Paperback: £32.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Martin Henig et al. Julian Munby has gained a reputation over half a century in many branches of archaeological and historical knowledge. His lively and warm character and sense of fun has made him many friends who also in some sense feel they are his pupils, and this collection of papers has been assembled as a tribute in honour of his 70th birthday. READ MORE Paperback: £58.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Fabiola Salcedo Garcés et al. A varied collection of scientific works on cultural phenomena and historical issues concerning North Africa as a whole, with special interest in Africa Proconsularis, this book contains diverse themes and methodologies that are indicative of the multidisciplinary orientation that brought together the Spanish-Tunisian collaborators. READ MORE Paperback: £48.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Dragoş Gheorghiu et al. Anthropomorphism could be described as a production of analogies generated by human cognition. It is present in the imaginary, mythologies, religions, and material culture of all ages. This book approaches anthropomorphism from the moment of anthropogenesis, tracing its presence in nature and material culture in prehistory and Antiquity. READ MORE Paperback: £40.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Matthew Johnson et al. The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the longest continually running academic forum for the presentation of cultural heritage research on the Arabian Peninsula. Subjects include archaeology, epigraphy, history, ethnography, art, architecture, linguistics, and literature from prehistory to the early twentieth century. READ MORE Paperback: £69.00 | eBook: £16.00 Malcolm Scott Hardy Three detailed studies consider British naval and military, diplomatic and commercial activity in the eastern Adriatic during the Napoleonic wars, drawing on original research in various British archives. READ MORE Paperback: £24.99 | eBook: £16.00 Ajay Pratap This book argues that the development of symbols and signs informing scripts, mainly the idea of coding thoughts through symbols and images, has always been uniquely ‘historical.’ Rock art abuts and occupies long periods of time in which the translation of indigenous thoughts was perfected through numerous mnemonic practices. READ MORE Paperback: £38.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Martin Biddle et al. Excavations at the site of the medieval chapter house of St Albans Abbey in 1978 uncovered fragments of decorated floor tiles of the Anglo-Saxon abbey and associated burials, along with the magnificent floor of relief-decorated tiles of the medieval chapter house, and the graves of 16 known figures of the late 11th-to 15th-century abbey. READ MORE Hardback: £110.00 | Open Access Iain Ferris This study considers the relationship between geography and power in the Roman world, most particularly the visualisation of geographical knowledge in myriad forms of geography products: geographical treatises, histories, poems, personifications, landscape representations, images of barbarian peoples, maps, itineraries, and imported foodstuffs. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | eBook: £16.00Latest Publications
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Life and Death in Roman Carlisle
Gematon: Living and Dying in a Kushite Town on the Nile, Volume IV
Travellers in Ottoman Lands II
Gematon: Living and Dying in a Kushite Town on the Nile, Volume II
Late Antique Stamped Amphorae as Evidence for Imperial Policy
In Search of the Dioskouroi. Image, Myth and Cult
Water Supply and Water Management in the Metal Ages
Plain of Plenty: Farming Practices, Food Production, and the Agricultural Potential of the Late Bronze Age (1600–1200 BCE) Argive Plain, Greece
The North Pennines from Prehistory to Present
Digging Lincoln
Ausgewählte kleine Schriften zur römischen Antike (1974–2024)
The Early Bronze Age Seal-Impressed Vessels from Ḫirbet ez-Zeraqōn
Magia y brujería en el Mundo Antiguo
Hyblaea: Studi di archeologia e topografia dell’altopiano ibleo. Volume 2
Journal of Hellenistic Pottery and Material Culture Volume 7 2023
Adolescente de Jalpan
On the Paths of Prehistory
Multicultural Mankind: An Exploration of Portugal’s Worldwide Archaeological and Cultural Heritage
Roman Military Tribunes (First Century BC to Third Century AD): A Historical and Prosopographical Study. Volume I
Mirroring Worlds: Rural Domestic Spaces through Multidisciplinarity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Antiguo Oriente: Vol. 21 2023
An Irish Civil War Dugout: Tormore Cave, County Sligo
Archaeological Excavations at Little Paxton Quarry Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire
How to Read Ancient Texts
Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Roman Frontier in Georgia
Spring Archaeology: Atti del Convegno, Siena 27-29 ottobre 2022
There and Back Again: Afro-Eurasian Exchange in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Periods
Coming of Age: Ethics and Biological Anthropology in the 21st Century
A History of the Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 1949-2024
Current Research in Egyptology 2023
Thermalism in the Roman Provinces
A Comprehensive Survey of Rock Art in Upper Tibet: Volume III
Exploring the Antonine Wall with Terrestrial Remote Sensing
Proceedings of the 7th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry
Harbours of Byzantium
Pots, Pans, and People: Material Culture and Nature in Mesoamerican Ceramics
Prehistoria y Antigüedad en el Alto Valle del Río Almanzora (Almería, España)
Modelling the Logistics of Mantzikert
Treasures of the Gupta Empire
The Economy of the Later Roman Province of Third Palestine
Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Lower Danube Limes in Bulgaria
Landmarks of Identity: Bronze Age Towers of the Oman Peninsula
Las domus de Bulla Regia (Túnez): arquitectura y decoración musiva
Tales of Two Cities: Settlement and Suburb in Old Sarum and Salisbury
Archaeological Mitigation at Magna Park, Lutterworth, Leicestershire
Art of Ancient India and the Aegean
‘a hole worlde of things very memorable’
Dinámicas históricas, religiosas e iconográficas en el norte de África
Anthropomorphism, Anthropogenesis, Cognition
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 53 2024
The British in the Adriatic, 1800-1825
Ideas and Images: A Historical Interpretation of Eastern Vindhyan Rock Art, India
St Albans Abbey: The Excavation of the Chapter House 1978
A Map of the Body, a Map of the Mind: Visualising Geographical Knowledge in the Roman World