Product Description: Illustrated with case studies of bog bodies and cannibalism, this book examines the major debates such as Neanderthal burial and monumentalising the dead, and studies what we can learn about how people live from the way they treat their dead?   Part of the very exciting new Themes in Archaeology series, I...read more

A lovingly illustrated tour of the world's most baffling mysteries spans the globe from Stonehenge to Sherwood Forest, from Bethlehem to the Dead Sea, and from Atlantis to the Minotaur, to explore these unusual sites and unexplained stories. (view table of contents)

A lovingly illustrated tour of the world's most baffling mysteries spans the globe from Stonehenge to Sherwood Forest, from Bethlehem to the Dead Sea, and from Atlantis to the Minotaur, to explore these unusual sites and unexplained stories. (view table of contents)

Product Description: he authors of this text, originally published in England in 1991, are young scholars who present no less than a "chronological revolution." After tracing the development of Old World chronology, James and his colleagues review archaeological evidence and the lack of it from the Dark Age, the centuries-long period at the end of the Late Bronze Age c...read more