Books in the UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications series

Leading scholars demonstrate the importance of archaeobotanical evidence in the understanding of the spread of agriculture in southwest Asia and Europe.

How archaeologists communicate their research to the public through the media and how the media view archaeologists has become an important feature in the contemporary world of academic and professional archaeologists. In this volume, a group of archaeologists, many with media backgrounds, address the wide range of questions in this intersection of fields.

Written by one of the most renowned South American archaeologists, this book presents a study of the last ""undiscovered"" people of the Amazon. Through a comprehensive ethno-archaeological portrait of material culture ""in the making"", it makes methodological and conceptual advances in the interpretation of hunter-gather societies.

This book questions the value of the concept of 'agency', a term used in sociological and philosophical literature to refer to individual free will in archaeology using examples from European and Asian prehistory, classical Greece and Rome, the Inka and other Andean cultures.

Explores the evidence left by the use of axes on wooden beams and tools found in waterlogged archaeological sites dating over 2000 years old.

The volume describes methods of identifying parenchymous remains of roots and tubers in archaeological sites as a way of analyzing diet among ancient peoples.

This volume is a set of a dozen case studies of innovative programs designed to attract the public to both archaeological sites and exhibits of archaeological artifacts. Papers deal with general issues of interpretation and presentation and cover British, Australian, European, and American settings.

A collection of papers connecting theory and method of archaeology with related disciplines of neoecology, paleoecology, and environmental science.

A collection of research articles by European scholars assessing the state of environmental archaeology and its relationship to the field; along with discussions on how to present environmental issues in prehistory to the public.

This volume of original chapters written by experts in the field offers a snapshot of how historical built spaces, past cultural landscapes, and archaeological distributions are currently being explored through computational social science.