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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:
- Peer review
- In-house designers for book-layout (fees may apply)
- Full-colour printing throughout (fees may apply)
- Fast turnaround time (typically within 12 weeks from receipt of manuscript)
- Friendly and efficient team
- Dedicated sales and marketing support with worldwide distribution arrangements
- Simultaneous print and e-book publication
- Proof-reading and language assistance (fees apply)
- Open Access (fees apply)
Our Editorial Team is headed by Dr David Davison MA MPhil DPhil FSA, who has been actively involved in the publishing of archaeological research since the early 1990s. Mike Schurer joined the Archaeopress team in 2020, 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. Visit the About Us page to meet the full Archaeopress team.
Proposals
Please complete our proposal form and submit via email to info@archaeopress.com. Please provide as much information as possible, and feel free to provide accompanying sample chapters, if available. Our editorial team will advise on its suitability for publishing with Archaeopress, and where the final publication would be best placed amongst our range of imprints and specialist series.
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All Access Archaeology titles are available via the Archaeopress website as free-to-download PDF eBooks for personal use, or at a very low price for institutional use, as well as in traditional print format. The design and layout of Access Archaeology titles follows a fixed template, with a uniform cover design.
Journals
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)
See below a Selection of Titles from across Our Range of Imprints
Derek A. Welsby The first in a series of volumes publishing results of surveys and excavations in the region of the Fourth Cataract, chapters focus on the palaeoenvironment in the concession area between Amri and Kirbekan, on the flora and toponyms, and on the folklore, agricultural practices, architecture and the lifestyles of the Manasir and Shaqiya inhabitants. READ MORE Hardback: £65.00 | eBook: £16.00 Sofia Aziz This volume provides a medical and historical re-evaluation of the function and importance of the human brain in ancient Egypt. The study evaluates whether treatment of the brain during anthropogenic mummification was linked to medical concepts of the brain. READ MORE Paperback: £20.00 | eBook: £9.99 ed. Irving Finkel et al. A festschrift in honour of Jonathan Tubb, former Levant curator and Keeper of the Department of the Middle East at the British Museum. 44 contributions reflect Jonathan’s career and professional interests with a focus on the Jordan Valley and southern Levant, but also north Syria, Mesopotamia, and the protection of endangered cultural heritage. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | eBook: £16.00 Bülent Genç et al. This study publishes a newly discovered rock relief in the Mazıdağı Plain, at the western end of the Tur Abdin in southeastern Turkey. The preserved remains include an image of an Assyrian king, divine symbols and traces of three panels of cuneiform inscription. READ MORE Paperback: £20.00 | eBook: £9.99 David Kennedy This volume follows Rev. Thomas Bowles on his travels from Sri Lanka to Egypt and the Levant. His travel journals record the places seen and the often harsh travel conditions. Bowles' notes are amplified by chapters offering additional context and biographies for the broad cross-section of fascinating people encountered along the way. Paperback: £45.00 | eBook: £16.00 Aurore Schmitt et al. This volume gathers contributions from archaeologists, anthropologists and historians to present a rich interdisciplinary and diachronic reflection on the diversity of motivations that lead to the intentional deprivation of funerals. READ MORE Paperback: £29.00 | Open Access Juliet V. Spedding Using modern scientific methods, this book examines glass beads and vessel fragments dating from the Meroitic and Early Nobadia periods, providing a new assessment of glass from Nubia. Results reveal interrelationships between trade, technological understanding, and manufacturing choices across the cultures of Sudan, Egypt and the Mediterranean. READ MORE Paperback: £38.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Arlette David et al. This book assesses how Middle Eastern leaders manipulated visuals to advance their rule from around 4500 BC to the 19th century AD. In nine fascinating narratives, it showcases the dynamics of long-lasting Middle Eastern traditions, dealing with the visualization of those who stood at the head of the social order. READ MORE Paperback: £32.00 | Open Access Federica Maria Riso This study presents the results of a research project undertaken in collaboration with the University of Huddersfield. The project sought to identify and reconstruct the funerary space and rituals of the necropolis in Mutina (now Modena) in the period between the first century BC and second century AD. READ MORE Paperback: £30.00 | eBook: £16.00 Eleni Milka In this volume the archaeological, anthropological and radiocarbon data from selected sites of the Middle Helladic period are integrated to determine if there was variation between individual burials, groupings and cemeteries and to reconstruct change through time. This work was done for selective Argive sites, namely Lerna, Asine and Aspis. READ MORE Paperback: £65.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Lluís Pons Pujol et al. This book focuses on luxonomics, or the economy of luxury in Roman times, and how its study is an element that is essential to understanding the history of the period. Organised in chronological order, the evolution of the luxury economy is divided into areas of consumption, production, and criticism. READ MORE Paperback: £60.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 ed. Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo Devoted to the archaeological study of the societies and agrarian landscapes of Northwestern Iberia in the longue durée, this book brings together the results of some of the main projects carried out in recent decades from off-site records, providing a fresh perspective for the understanding of historical landscapes. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 ed. Wendy Beck et al. This volume presents the results of an investigation of wetland heritage in eastern Australia, with important contributions to the archaeology of the Tasmanian Midlands and the New England Tablelands. READ MORE Paperback: £70.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 ed. Philippe Pergola et al. The result of an international congress (Roquebrune-sur-Argens, October 2019) about the fortified hilltop settlements of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, papers present both brand new data and syntheses on wide contexts throughout the European continent, the Mediterranean basin and beyond. READ MORE Paperback: £70.00 | eBook: £16.00 Stefano Anastasio Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell (1879-1974) developed an early interest in Islamic architecture, considering photography as an essential tool for recording architectural artefacts. This volume presents the photographs that concern Mesopotamia, Syria and Jordan, kept today at the Biblioteca Berenson in Florence. READ MORE Paperback: £55.00 | eBook: £16.00 Alicia Espinosa This volume documents the Virú-Gallinazo and Mochica pottery traditions to understand both their origins, filiations, and contacts, studying the modes of manufacture of archaeological ceramics discovered at more than nine sites in the region, preserved at the Ministry of Culture of Peru and various Peruvian, French and American museums. READ MORE Paperback: £75.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 ed. Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo et al. This book provides an overview of the driving theories, methodologies and main topics that have been addressed to date regarding agrarian archaeology. The text is presented as an introduction for students, a critical reading guide for other scholars, and an informative instrument aimed at a wide audience. READ MORE Paperback: £42.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 ed. Scott Stripling et al. Khirbet el-Maqatir lies 16 km north of Jerusalem. The Associates for Biblical Research excavated 14 summer seasons and 5 winter seasons between 1995 and 2016. Volume 2 reports on the remains of a Late Hellenistic/Early Roman village, and a Byzantine ecclesiastical complex. READ MORE Hardback: £85.00 | Open Access Michael Heaney This book traces the history of morris dancing in England, from its introduction in the 15th century, through the contention of the Reformation and Civil War, when morris dancing and maypoles became potent symbols of the older ways of living, to its re-invention as an emblem of Victorian concepts of Merrie England in the 19th century. READ MORE Paperback: £29.99 | eBook: £16.00 Julia Kościuk-Załupka This volume explores the cultural meaning of ochre among the societies of the Late Epipalaeolithic/Mesolithic and the Early Neolithic from the Levant to the Carpathian Basin. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. David Michael Smith et al. This volume explores the myriad ways in which pottery was created, utilized, and experienced in the prehistoric Aegean, across a period of more than 4000 years between the Middle Neolithic and the Early Iron Age transition. READ MORE Paperback: £50.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Wannaporn Rienjang et al. This book considers Gandhāran art in relation to its religious contexts and meanings within ancient Buddhism. Addressing the responses of patrons and worshippers at the monasteries and shrines of Gandhāra, papers seek to understand more about why Gandhāran art was made and what its iconographical repertoire meant to ancient viewers. READ MORE Paperback: £30.00 | Open Access ed. François Djindjian The Côte d'Or in Upper Burgundy is a zone of passage between basins more than an area of permanent settlement, except in the most temperate periods of early prehistory. The Boccard cave, which has the most complete stratigraphic sequence in the region, is here the subject of a previously unpublished detailed monograph. READ MORE Paperback: £26.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Domenico Benoci et al. RACTA aims to provide a comprehensive overview of studies on Late Antique and Christian Archaeology, Art History, History, and Early Christian Literature being carried out by young scholars from all over the world. The variety of topics addressed by the 23 authors demonstrates an interdisciplinary methodological approach. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 ed. L. Alberto Polo Romero et al. Papers consider various sets of historical military-themed graffiti (representations of battles, armaments, infrastructure, warriors and soldiers, slogans or proclamations, etc.), all of them drawings and/or messages engraved in spaces linked to defence culture (the walls of castles, barracks, sentry boxes, prisons or bunkers, among others). READ MORE Paperback: £38.00 | eBook: £16.00 Ilaria Incordino This 2nd volume presents, documents and analyses a new selection of ceramics from the Egyptian site of Manqabad (Asyut). It aims to present the most significant ceramic typologies from Manqabad, while collecting as many references and parallels as possible deriving from several different monastic sites in Egypt. READ MORE Paperback: £40.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 Joy McCorriston A summary of archaeological work along the Dhofar plateau and its backslope into the Nejd of Southern Oman, this book documents survey and excavation of small-scale stone monuments and pastoral settlements. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | eBook: £16.00 Chris Chinnock Archaeological investigations by MOLA on land adjacent to Upthorpe Road, Stanton (2013-2014), revealed the remains of a prehistoric round barrow and a cemetery containing the remains of 67 inhumations with associated grave goods. This book provides detailed analysis of the archaeological features, skeletal assemblage and other artefacts. READ MORE Paperback: £48.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Yervand Grekyan et al. Dedicated to Pavel Avetisyan, a leading modern Armenian archaeologist with wide international recognition, 36 contributions take the reader to the fascinating world of Caucasian archaeology. The volume demonstrates the essential role of the region in shaping the prehistoric cultural landscape of the Ancient Near East. READ MORE Paperback: £80.00 | eBook: £16.00 David Rodríguez González This study intends to expose the typological and the technological characteristics of Iberian grey ware, its functionality and even its origin and symbolism for the people who made it. READ MORE Paperback: £48.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Martin Henig et al. This volume brings together a range of papers on buildings that have been categorised as ‘villas’, mainly in Roman Britain, from the Isle of Wight to Shropshire. It comprises the first such survey for almost half a century. READ MORE Paperback: £58.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Mirella Marini Calvani A report on excavations conducted at Palazzo Sanvitale, Parma (Italy) during 1983-7 and 2008-10, under the auspices of the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Emilia Romagna at the request of the Palazzo’s owner, at that time the Banca del Monte di Parma. READ MORE Paperback: £40.00 | eBook: £16.00 Dean Peeters This book sheds some necessary light on local economies from the (late) Hellenistic to the Late Roman period. The concepts of regions and regionality are employed to explore the complexity of ancient economies and (ceramic) variability and change in Boeotia (Central Greece), largely on the basis of the survey data generated by the Boeotia Project. READ MORE Paperback: £60.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Aram Kosyan et al. This special issue of ARAMAZD presents a collection of papers dedicated to Ruben S. Badalyan, a leading specialist in prehistoric archaeology of the Caucasus region. Paperback: £80.00 | eBook: £20.00 R. Alan Williams The Great Orme copper mine in North Wales is one of the largest surviving Bronze Age mines in Europe. This book presents new interdisciplinary research to reveal a copper mine of European importance, dominating Britain’s copper supply from c. 1600-1400 BC, with some metal reaching mainland Europe - from Brittany to as far as the Baltic. READ MORE Paperback: £60.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Lionel Marti et al. EMMS 2 is in two parts: Part 1 offers proceedings of a colloquium exploring the crisis of State and Monarchy between the 13th-10th centuries in northern Mesopotamia and Syria. The second part is dedicated to archaeological and textual studies from three archaeological sites that are currently being excavated in Iraqi Kurdistan. READ MORE Paperback: £85.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Jane Francis et al. The theme of this volume, presented in honour of G.W.M. Harrison, whose academic contributions have enriched our perspective of Roman Crete, is change and transition, a topic that challenges some of the earlier approaches to Hellenistic and Roman Crete, and which presents a different perspective on historical events and archaeological evidence. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | eBook: £16.00 Anthony Comfort This volume investigates the Roman city of Singara and the fortifications and roads in the surrounding area. The Rome / Persia frontier has been little studied, in part because of the difficulty of access for scholars, but was of great importance because it separated the two major civilisations of the early first millennium CE. READ MORE Paperback: £30.00 | eBook: £16.00 Juan Manuel Garrido Anguita Paying homage to José C. Martín de la Cruz, this volume considers Bronze Age intercultural connections in the Mediterranean area, investigates the first settlements and early food producing societies, examines our remote past and its natural environment, and closes with multidisciplinary prehistoric studies from a range of scientific fields. READ MORE Paperback: £50.00 | Open Access Vitaly A. Kashin et al. This volume combines details of discoveries of Palaeolithic sites in a vast region of Northeast Asia (covering mostly the northeastern part of modern Russia), and meticulous analysis of hypotheses, ideas, and concepts related to the Northeast Asian Palaeolithic. READ MORE Paperback: £30.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Colin A. Hope et al. Papers from the Fourth Australasian Egyptology Conference held at Monash University in 2016 and dedicated to Gillian E. Bowen who retired from Monash that year. The contributions include several on Egypt’s Western Desert where Monash has been engaged in fieldwork for many years in the the Dakhleh Oasis. READ MORE Paperback: £30.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Bülent Arıkan et al. Collected papers from the 3rd symposium of the the Society for Near Eastern Landscape Archaeology. Ranging from the Palaeolithic to the classical Near East, papers consider settlement and movement for trade with an overarching theme around the conservation of important archaeological landscapes and developing technology for the study of landscapes. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Laura Battini Ash-sharq is a journal devoted to short articles on the archaeology, history and society of the Ancient Near East. READ MORE Paperback: £50.00 ed. Jamie Hampson et al. Focusing on stunning paintings and engravings from around the world, 16 papers interrogate the driving forces behind global rock art research. Many of the motifs featured were created by indigenous hunter-gatherer groups; this book sheds new light on non-Western rituals and worldviews, many of which are threatened or on the point of extinction. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Federico Manuelli et al. The intent of this volume is to break through the boundaries usually imposed by the study of 2nd millennium BC pottery production in Anatolia.
12 papers of leading specialists working on relevant material offer, for the first time, the possibility of a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of painted pottery in the 2nd millennium BC. READ MORE Paperback: £55.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 Gina L. Barnes The effects of tectonic processes on archaeological sites are evidenced by earthquake damage, volcanic eruptions, and tsunami destruction, but these processes also affect a broader sphere of landform structures, environment, and climate. An overview of tectonic archaeology is followed by a detailed summary of geoarchaeological fieldwork in Japan. READ MORE Paperback: £80.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £9.99 ed. Guido Petruccioli John Marshall (1862-1928) was an antiquities expert hired by the Metropolitan Museum of New York. An attentive observer of the antiquities trade, Marshall's archive, photographs and annotations on more than 1000 objects, shines light on the secretive world of art dealing and how objects arrived at the largest museums of Europe and North America. READ MORE Hardback: £59.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. Touatia Amraoui et al. Algeria is largely open to the western Mediterranean, but links with its neighbouring regions are poorly understood. This book considers networks between Algeria and the south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, from pre-Roman times to the Middle Ages. Papers revolve around three themes: mobility; economic exchange; and cultural and knowledge transfer. READ MORE Paperback: £45.00 | Open Access Robert G. Bednarik Summarising 60 years of research by the author at the earliest human occupation site known in Austria (1962 to 2021), this book describes the strategies and methods of studying a Pleistocene cave site that had been regarded as fully excavated, and their long-term applications. READ MORE Paperback: £35.00 | eBook: £16.00 Anas Al Khabour Offering an overview of the phenomenon of illicit trafficking of cultural properties, this book serves as a reference point for governments, enforcement agencies, international organizations, stakeholders, and civil societies. The geographic focus is the Arab World: the countries in the Middle East, Gulf of Arabia, Horn of Africa and North Africa. READ MORE Paperback: £38.00 | eBook: £16.00 ed. St John Simpson This collection of essays offers an examination of the Sasanian empire based almost entirely on archaeological and scientific research, much presented here for the first time. The book is divided into three parts examining Sasanian sites, settlements and landscapes; their complex agricultural resources; and their crafts and industries. READ MORE Paperback: £75.00 | eBook: £16.00 Nicholas J. Molinari KOINON includes papers concerning iconography, die studies, provenance research, forgery analysis, translations of excerpts from antiquarian works, specialized bibliographies, corpora of rare varieties and types, ethical questions on laws and collecting, book reviews, and more. READ MORE Paperback: £50.00 | eBook: £20.00 ed. Gary M. Feinman et al. This volume draws attention to recent obsidian studies in the Americas and acts as a reference for archaeologists and scholars interested in material culture and exchange. Moreover, it provides a wide range of case studies in obsidian characterization, material application, and theoretical interpretations in the Americas. READ MORE Hardback: £35.00 | Open AccessLatest Publications
Archaeology by the Fourth Nile Cataract: Survey and Excavations on the left bank of the river and on the islands between Amri and Kirbekan, Volume I
The Human Brain in Ancient Egypt
‘To Aleppo gone …’: Essays in honour of Jonathan N. Tubb
The Assyrian Rock Relief at Yaǧmur (Evrihan) in the Tur Abdin
Well Met! Friends and Travelling Companions of Rev. Thomas Bowles
Sans sépulture: Modalités et enjeux de la privation de funérailles de la Préhistoire à nos jours
‘To See a World in a Grain of Sand’: Glass from Nubia and the Ancient Mediterranean
Picturing Royal Charisma: Kings and Rulers in the Near East from 3000 BCE to 1700 CE
Roman Funerary Rituals in Mutina (Modena, Italy)
Mortuary differentiation and social structure in the Middle Helladic Argolid, 2000-1500 B.C.
De luxuria propagata romana aetate. Roman luxury in its many forms
Agrarian Archaeology in Northwestern Iberia
Community Archaeology: Working Ancient Aboriginal Wetlands in Eastern Australia
Perchement et Réalités Fortifiées en Méditerranée et en Europe, Vème-Xème Siècles
Mesopotamia, Syria and Transjordan in the Archibald Creswell Photograph Collection of the Biblioteca Berenson
Filiaciones culturales y contactos entre las poblaciones Virú-Gallinazo y Mochica (200 AC – 600 DC, costa norte del Perú)
People and Agrarian Landscapes: An Archaeology of Postclassical Local Societies in the Western Mediterranean
The Excavations at Khirbet el-Maqatir: 1995–2001 and 2009–2016
The Ancient English Morris Dance
The Usage of Ochre at the Verge of Neolithisation from the Near East to the Carpathian Basin
The Wider Island of Pelops
Gandhāran Art in Its Buddhist Context
Le peuplement paléolithique de Côte d’Or (Bourgogne, France) dans son contexte regional
RACTA II 2021: Ricerche di Archeologia Cristiana, Tarda Antichità e Alto Medioevo
Soldados, Armas y Batallas en los grafitos históricos
Pottery of Manqabad 2
Persistent Pastoralism: Monuments and Settlements in the Archaeology of Dhofar
Bronze Age Barrow and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery: Archaeological Excavations on Land Adjacent to Upthorpe Road, Stanton Suffolk
Systemizing the Past
La cerámica ibérica gris: ensayo de tipología
Villas, Sanctuaries and Settlement in the Romano-British Countryside
Lo scavo a Parma sotto Palazzo Sanvitale
Shaping Regionality in Socio-Economic Systems: Late Hellenistic - Late Roman Ceramic Production, Circulation, and Consumption in Boeotia, Central Greece (c. 150 BC–AD 700)
Paradise Lost: The Phenomenon of the Kura-Araxes Tradition along the Fertile Crescent
Boom and Bust in Bronze Age Britain: The Great Orme Copper Mine and European Trade
Études Mésopotamiennes – Mesopotamian Studies: N°2 – 2022
Change and Transition on Crete: Interpreting the Evidence from the Hellenistic through to the Early Byzantine Period
The Roman Frontier with Persia in North-Eastern Mesopotamia
Conexiones Culturales y Patrimonio Prehistórico
The Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia
Australasian Egyptology Conference 4
Landscape Archaeology in the Near East
Ash-sharq: Bulletin of the Ancient Near East No 6 1-2, 2022
Powerful Pictures: Rock Art Research Histories around the World
Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery Traditions at the Margins of the Hittite State
Tectonic Archaeology
Ancient Art and its Commerce in Early Twentieth-Century Europe
D’une rive à l’autre: circulations et échanges entre la Maurétanie césarienne et le sud-est de l’Hispanie (Antiquité-Moyen-âge)
Gudenus Cave: The Earliest Humans of Austria
Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Properties in Arab States
Sasanian Archaeology: Settlements, Environment and Material Culture
KOINON V, 2022
Obsidian Across the Americas
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