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:
Mike Schurer joined the Archaeopress team in 2020 to be our lead editor, bringing with him a wealth of experience and knowledge related to archaeological publishing, having edited the popular Oxbow Book News magazine for over fifteen years. Dr David Davison MA MPhil DPhil FSA retired from day-to-day office work in 2022, but remains as a Director at Archaeopress and continues to offer invaluable editorial advice and support, drawn from some thirty years experience in the publication of archaeological research.
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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)
ed. Elie Essa Kas Hanna This book explores the Dead Cities region in Syria, its development in the Early Byzantine Empire, and its transformation under Muslim rule. It includes archaeological research, historical context, and unpublished photos of sites, some now damaged by war. READ MORE Paperback: £50.00 | eBook: £16.00 Andrea Arrighetti This book, through the European PROTECT project, explores how archeoseismology applied to architecture can impact seismic risk management. Focusing on Siena's historic centre, it presents new methodologies and findings, offering multidisciplinary insights into its urban and social context and its relationship with earthquakes. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 ed. Alexandra Bivolaru et al. This volume explores human-environment interactions in coastal lagoons through case studies from the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and Persian Gulf. Using methods like GPR and archaeobotany, it examines settlement, resource use, and landscape change, revealing ancient strategies for managing dynamic waterscapes. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | Open Access Vito Messina et al. This report details the Iranian-Italian Joint Expedition's research (2012-2018) at Kal-e Chendar, Khuzestan. It reveals a multifunctional religious complex from the Hellenistic and Parthian periods (3rd century BCE to 2nd century CE), with interconnected religious, funerary, and social functions. READ MORE Paperback: £85.00 | Open Access ed. Benjamin Sass et al. Dedicated to Tallay Ornan, a scholar distinguished in ancient Western Asian iconographic studies. It is divided into her major themes: New Discoveries and Approaches; The Human World; The Divine World. This discusses iconological and textual problems, in a chronological span from the third to first millennia BCE. READ MORE Paperback: £120.00 | Open Access ed. Gabriela Blažková et al. The fourth Europa Postmediaevalis conference took place in Warsaw, Poland, in the spring of 2024. This proceedings gathers 27 contributions from a total of eleven European countries. The book is divided into three thematic sections, all of which focus on post-medieval pottery. READ MORE Paperback: £65.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Roberto Dan et al. This volume details the first systematic study of 58 objects found in Yeghegnadzor in 1989, mainly metallic, including two notable bronze belts. The study, part of the Vayots Dzor Project, offers new insights into their cultural attribution, chronology, and discovery context, supported by detailed analysis and photographic documentation. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | eBook: £16.00 Peter Guest et al. Excavation at Caerleon (South Wales) revealed the first legionary store in the Roman Empire excavated to modern standards. Built c. AD 90–110, it served until the late 3rd century. Finds include coins, pottery, and rare military gear, offering insight into Roman military logistics and life in Isca before its post-Roman transformation. READ MORE Paperback: £50.00 | Open Access ed. Cassandra M. Donnelly ‘Extra-scribal’ writing encompasses a myriad of writing practices, from potmarking to graffiti to text erasure, often overlooked by scholars. This volume examines Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean and Aegean writing on atypical media, highlighting interdisciplinary insights from various fields and theoretical models. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | eBook: £16.00 Katia Margariti This book analyses the iconography of dogs in Athenian art, highlighting their roles as companions, hunters, pets, and status symbols. It explores their presence in various aspects of ancient Greek life, their association with gods and heroes, and their depiction in funerary reliefs, reflecting the deep human-canine bond. READ MORE Paperback: £65.00 | eBook: £16.00 Georg Cyrus Following the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, former monumental sites in northern Mesopotamia and the Zagros Mountains became long-lasting squatter settlements. This study compares four such sites, revealing creative reuse of space and framing squatting as a distinct cultural phenomenon of the 6th–5th centuries BCE. READ MORE Paperback: £55.00 | Open Access Giovanna Bianchi This study examines public estates in Tuscany's Maremma region from the 9th to 11th centuries, identifying material markers of royal properties. It explores the role of public lands, local aristocracies, landscape transformations, production, exchange, and rural economic growth before the 12th century. READ MORE Paperback: £65.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 Marc Groenen et al. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2008, the El Castillo cave (Cantabria, Spain) had not been the subject of a comprehensive study for over a century. With its multi-millennia of occupation and the quality and wealth of its cave art, this study posits the El Castillo cave as one of the major prehistoric sites on the Atlantic seaboard. READ MORE Paperback: £150.00 | eBook: £16.00 Rafael Barroso Cabrera et al. This book explores Duke Theudemir’s role in the fall of the Visigothic Kingdom and the shift of power to Arab rule. It examines southeastern Iberia’s political context from Byzantine to Arab control and considers Pla de Nadal as Theudemir’s possible seat of power. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 Christopher Pare A comprehensive account of the adoption of ironworking in Europe and Western Asia, based on archaeological evidence alongside written sources from the Near East. Southern Europe and the Near East are the focus, but the book also considers early ironworking in Central Europe, the North Pontic steppe and the regions north and south of the Caucasus. READ MORE Hardback: £70.00 | Open Access Rafael Barroso Cabrera et al. Hermenegild’s rebellion and conversion remain highly debated, seen either as ambition or defence of true faith. This study examines its causes, consequences, and role in unifying Goths and Romans, laying groundwork for Reccared’s Catholic conversion and sacralising Visigothic kingship. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 Héctor José Cardona Machado This study offerss a critical reflection on the concept of cultural heritage and its association with archaeological practice in Mexico during the nineteenth century. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 Robert A. Philpott et al. Port Louis, a key archaeological site in the Falkland Islands, was the main settlement for four colonial powers from 1764 to 1844. Abandoned in 1844, it has well-preserved remains. Surveys from 1994-1996 and 2023 used advanced technology to map the site, revealing its historical and geopolitical significance. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Gocha R. Tsetskhladze et al. Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities, (Thessaloniki, 2022), this volume brings together leading scholars from across Europe and beyond to showcase new research on the diverse cultures, interactions, and archaeological discoveries that shaped the Black Sea region in antiquity. READ MORE Paperback: £80.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Peter Stewart This volume explores India's connections with the Mediterranean and Western Asia during Graeco-Roman history, highlighting artistic exchanges. Based on the 2023 Oxford workshop, it includes insights from international scholars, refining our understanding of cross-cultural artistic currents and questioning underlying assumptions. READ MORE Paperback: £40.00 | Open Access Elle Clifford et al. This colourful book, aimed at younger readers, takes you on a highly illustrated journey through daily life in Ice Age Europe, and tells you the things you’d need to know to survive! Explore the types of houses, food, clothes and toys people created, and their relationship with the natural environment. Spanish language edition. READ MORE Paperback: £17.99 | eBook: £9.99 Elle Clifford et al. This colourful book, aimed at younger readers, takes you on a highly illustrated journey through daily life in Ice Age Europe, and tells you the things you’d need to know to survive! Explore the types of houses, food, clothes and toys people created, and their relationship with the natural environment. French language edition. READ MORE Paperback: £17.99 | eBook: £9.99 Ayelet Dayan This study examines Byzantine-period monasteries in the northern Judaean Shephelah and western Samaria Hills. It presents newly uncovered Christian sites, distinguishes site types, and explores monastery foundations, interactions with nearby settlements, and classification criteria. READ MORE Paperback: £30.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Barbara Seyock et al. This volume compiles significant articles from the BSEAA, updated for this volume. It covers the Japanese Paleolithic, protohistoric Yayoi and Kofun periods, and the beginnings of Japanese archaeology, offering new perspectives on cultural transmission, subsistence practices, and centralized societies. READ MORE Paperback: £55.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 Tomáš Alušík et al. This book transcribes Otto Rubensohn's unpublished texts and photos of small sanctuaries on Kounados Hill, Paros. It highlights Rubensohn's contributions to archaeology, despite his brief career, and aims to enhance understanding of Greek archaeology and the history of the field. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 ed. Giulia D'Alessio et al. This volume aims to provide a more accurate reconstruction of the ancient landscape through a comparison between the research of young scholars and that of more experienced figures, offering an overview of the current state of research and the methods applied in various archaeological contexts around the Mediterranean. READ MORE Paperback: £55.00 | Open Access Alexander R. Rumble Winchester in the Anglo-Saxon and early Norman periods was an important royal and religious centre. This volume comprises an edition and translation, with extensive commentary, of thirty-three Anglo-Saxon and Norman documents relating to the topography and minsters of early medieval Winchester. READ MORE Hardback: £58.00 | Open Access ed. Martin Biddle This volume provides a full edition, translation, and analyses of the Winton Domesday and of the city depicted therein, drawing on the evidence derived from archaeological excavation and historical research in the city since 1961, on personal- and place-name evidence, and on contemporary advances in Anglo-Saxon numismatics. READ MORE Hardback: £96.00 | Open Access John Vincent Bellezza Focusing on the Western half of Stod, this is the fourth 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: £175.00 | Open Access ed. Caroline M. Stuckert This volume traces the lives, health, and diseases of Winchester's inhabitants as seen in their skeletal remains from the mid-3rd to mid-16th century, a period of over 1,300 years. It offers a continuous chronological window, rather than a series of isolated studies, and is notable for the large sample of 8th-10th century Anglo-Saxon burials. READ MORE Hardback: £80.00 | Open Access Martin Biddle Over 6000 objects were recovered during the Winchester excavations (1961-1971), offering insight not only into the industries and arts, but the economic, cultural, and social life of medieval Winchester. This volume covers all the objects from the finest products of the Anglo-Saxon goldsmith’s skill to the iron tenter-hooks of the cloth industry. READ MORE Hardback: £195.00 | Open Access ed. Eva Lange-Athinodorou et al. This volume compiles papers from the 2021/2023 Delta Conferences, detailing archaeological work in northern Egypt. It includes reports on Predynastic sites, Wadi Tumilat surveys, and excavations at Tjaru and Tell el Basta, alongside studies of Ptolemaic and Roman sites. A BEAST project article explores population distribution across ancient times. READ MORE Paperback: £30.00 | eBook: £16.00 Michael Lapidge Following the translation of his relics from a conspicuous tomb into the Old Minster, Winchester, the massive rebuilding of the cathedral, and a vigorous publicity campaign by Bishop Aethelwold (963-84), St Swithun became one of the most popular and important English saints, whose cult was widespread in England, Ireland, Scandinavia, and France. READ MORE Hardback: £115.00 | Open Access ed. Emanuela Borgia This volume analyzes South-Eastern Anatolia's role as a cultural crossroads from the Hellenization phase to the Byzantine age, highlighting its strategic position and interactions with Cyprus and northern Syria. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 James Page Examines inland trade in Roman Northern Italy, revealing complex dynamics beyond the proximity of coastlines. Using datasets of amphorae, finewares, and marble, it highlights the importance of transport costs, river networks, and trans-mountain trade, showing diverse consumption patterns and the interplay between cost and consumer choice. READ MORE Paperback: £40.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Peter Arrowsmith This book details 12 seasons of excavations at Mellor, Stockport, revealing a multiperiod site from the Mesolithic to post-medieval periods. Key finds include Iron Age enclosures, medieval hall remains, Mesolithic lithics, and Romano-British artefacts, all contextualized within the wider region. READ MORE Paperback: £48.00 | eBook: £16.00 Valentina Purpura This study, in collaboration with the Superintendency of the Sea of the Sicilian Region, catalogs lithic, leaden, and metal anchors from Sicily's underwater environment. It includes historical research on anchor types, navigation, and ports, and lays the foundations to create a digital map of findings using GIS for future research. READ MORE Paperback: £40.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 Irina I. Razgildeeva et al. This book reviews the history of spatial analysis methods in Russian archaeology, focusing on Upper Palaeolithic complexes in Transbaikal. It introduces contextual analysis, examines the Studenoe 2 site, and includes an ethnographic section on northern frame dwellings. The study will be of interest for archaeologists, historians, and geologists. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Elsa Pacciani A multi-disciplinary investigation beneath the Uffizi Gallery in Florence uncovered an emergency burial site from the late 4th to early 5th century AD. Likely due to an epidemic, this discovery sheds new light on a dramatic, undocumented event in the city's history, revealing its historical and socioeconomic context. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Sofía Rojas Miguel et al. This book explores the archaeology of rural communities in the Iberian Peninsula, examining settlement organization, environment, beliefs, trade, resource use, and socioeconomic changes from Prehistory to today. It highlights unpublished data, historical interpretation, and archaeology's role in cultural tourism and public history. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 ed. Nathalie Kallas Volume 2 compiles papers presented in three enlightening sessions: Session 3 – Visual and Textual Forms of Communication; Session 7 – The Future of the Past. Archaeologists and Historians in Cultural Heritage Studies; and Session 8 – Produce, Consume, Repeat. History and Archaeology of Ancient Near Eastern Economies. READ MORE Paperback: £55.00 | Open Access Paul A. Yule et al. This study re-evaluates the Samad Late Iron Age (SLIA) and its context around 0 CE, highlighting its complexities and significance. It examines SLIA's relationship with Mleiha/PIR, covering burial practices, pottery, trade, and architecture, offering insights into pre-Islamic south-eastern Arabia and contributing to archaeological discourse. READ MORE Paperback: £65.00 | eBook: £16.00 Bernát Rácz In 2013, two large enamel plaques from a Mosan reliquary were found at Pétermonostora, Hungary. Despite the site's destruction by Mongols in 1241, these remains highlight a thriving medieval settlement and offer insights into high medieval East-Central Europe's art, culture, and history. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Enrique Soria Mesa et al. Recent studies reveal significant social mobility in 16th-17th century Spain, challenging previous beliefs. This book explores the rise of a powerful intermediate class, the mesocracy, including Jewish converts, who advanced through long-term family strategies and professional roles, contributing to Spain's economic power. READ MORE Paperback: £38.00 | Open Access ed. Mark Maltby et al. Papers honor Mark's research on urbanization and trade in Britain and Europe, and his contributions to museums and museology. In two sections, the first provides up-to-date reviews of Hamwic (Saxon Southampton) and the second offers post-excavation studies in Britain and Europe and also includes developments in the Museum and Heritage sectors. READ MORE Paperback: £40.00 | eBook: £16.00 David Parham et al. This volume details the discovery, excavation, and analysis of a 17th-century Dutch shipwreck, likely the Fame of Hoorn. Found in 1990 and re-discovered in 2006, it underwent extensive excavation. It is one of the most complete shipwrecks of its kind outside the Baltic, offering insights into its construction and life on board. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | Open Access James A. Harrell This book provides archaeologists with a clear and comprehensive explanation of how to recognize the archaeologically important rocks and minerals. It does this using only their macroscopic properties, which are those that can be observed with the unaided eye or, at most, with a low-power magnifying glass. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | eBook: £16.00 David S. Neal David S. Neal's autobiography chronicles his journey from a working-class boy in war-torn London to a renowned expert in Roman mosaics. His career spans from graphic design to archaeological illustration, leading excavations, and publishing significant works on Roman and medieval mosaics. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Heide W. Nørgaard et al. A collection of state-of-the-art articles which integrate new insights from the many advances in research on the subject into a new and up-to-date vision of the Bronze Age as a Europeanised or even globalised period. Papers revise current understanding of bronzization and bronzification in line with a holistic view of recent scientific advances. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | Open Access Francis M. Morris This volume documents the results from large-scale archaeological investigations at Holme Hall Quarry on the Magnesian Limestone ridge, South Yorkshire. The main occupation of the site occurred during the Roman period when two rural farmsteads were constructed and a field system with associated droveways and enclosures imposed across the landscape. READ MORE Paperback: £40.00 | Open Access Antonio Muñoz Herrera This study integrates landscape archaeology and cognitive neuroscience to explore ancient Egyptian funerary practices. It examines how landscapes influenced cultural evolution, using case studies in Umm el-Qaab and Thebes. The research redefines the cultural role of landscapes, highlighting their dynamic influence on ancient Egyptian culture. READ MORE Paperback: £52.00 | eBook: £16.00 Alkiviadis Ginalis A comprehensive study of Aegean harbours and maritime connectivity, focusing on both major and local infrastructures. It provides a framework for interpreting coastal facilities and examines the Byzantine East's port networks. Thessaly serves as a case study, with diverse maritime landscapes and activities from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. READ MORE Paperback: £55.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Peter Lacovara Helene J. Kantor (July 15, 1919-January 13, 1993) was one of the last of the great generalists of the ancient world. This volume celebrates her scholarship with articles covering her wide-ranging interests with important studies on ancient Egypt, the Aegean, Iran and Classical civilization. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Gillian E. Bowen et al. This tribute to Professor Fred Leemhuis reflects his diverse interests in Egyptology and Islamic studies, with a focus on al-Qasr in Dakhleh. Topics include medieval and Ottoman archaeology, burial practices, ceramics, rock art, Qur’anic translations, and modern Egyptian traditions, alongside accounts of WWI hostilities in the oases. READ MORE Paperback: £55.00 | eBook: £16.00Latest Publications
Villes mortes della Siria
Archaeoseismology in a Mediterranean City
Waterscapes Archaeology
Shami, Kal-e Chendar
Mortals, Deities and Divine Symbols: Rethinking Ancient Images from the Levant to Mesopotamia
Europa Postmediaevalis 2024
Regionalism and Internationalisation in the Urartian Period
Excavation in the Roman Legionary Fortress at Caerleon
Too Much Writing, Too Few Scribes: Extra-Scribal Writing in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean (1650-1100 BCE)
Dogs in Athenian Sculpture and Vase Painting of the Archaic and Classical Periods
Die Aneignung und Umnutzung von Herrschaftsräumen am Beispiel der Squattersiedlung der südwestasiatischen Eisenzeit
Archaeology of Public Estates
La grotte ornée d’El Castillo
Theudemirus Dux: The Last of the Goths
Iron and the Iron Age
Hermenegildvs Rex: Prince, Usurper, and Martyr
Patrimonio antes del patrimonio
Port Louis: An Archaeological and Historical Survey of the First Capital of the Falkland Islands
The Black Sea: Hub of Peoples and Cultures (8th Century BC–5th/6th Century AD)
Classical Art and Ancient India
Vivir en la Edad de Hielo
Vivre à l’âge de glace
Christian Settlements and Monasteries in the Northern Judaean Shephelah and the Western Samaria Hills during the Byzantine Period
Revelations in Japanese Archaeology
Otto Rubensohn's Excavations on Paros I
Landscape 4: una sintesi di elementi diacronici
Property and Piety in Early Medieval Winchester
Winchester in the Early Middle Ages
A Comprehensive Survey of Rock Art in Upper Tibet: Volume IV
The People of Early Winchester
Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester
Delta Reports 1
The Cult of St Swithun
South-Eastern Anatolia at a Crossroads
From the Adriatic to the Alps: Transport and Trade Networks in Roman and Late Antique Northern Italy
Between Peak and Plain: Excavations on a Multiperiod Site at Mellor, Stockport, 1998-2009
Instrumentum navis. Le àncore litiche e plumbee della Soprintendenza del Mare della Regione Siciliana
Spatial Analysis of Housing and Economic Complexes in the Upper Palaeolithic of Transbaikal (Southern Siberia)
A Dramatic Event in Late Roman Florence
Arqueología de las comunidades rurales en la Península Ibérica
Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue – Volume 2
At the Dawn of History: The Late Pre-Islamic Age in South-Eastern Arabia
The Twelfth-Century Mosan Reliquary of Pétermonostora
Conversos, Power and the Intermediate Groups in Golden Age Spain
Producers, Traders and Consumers in Urban Societies in Southern Britain and Europe
The Swash Channel Wreck
Archaeological Stones and Their Macroscopic Identification
A Mosaic of Recollections
Bronzization: Essays in Bronze Age Archaeology
Archaeological Excavations at Holme Hall Quarry, South Yorkshire
El paisaje en el antiguo Egipto
Harbours of the Aegean in Late Antiquity and the Medieval Period
A Legacy of Learning in Near Eastern Archaeology
The Oasis Papers 7