This book focuses on the archaeological evidence, allowing fresh perspectives and new approaches to the fate of the Roman West.

This volume addresses the origin of the human genus Homo, a major transition in human evolution and associated with major changes in brain size, locomotion, and culture, but one with many unanswered questions.

In this book, first published nearly two decades ago, Binford provided students and general readers with an introduction to his challenging and provocative ideas about understanding the human past.

In a critique of Max Weber's influential ideas about the Mediterranean region in late antiquity, Jairus Banaji shows that the fourth to seventh centuries were in fact a period of major social and economic change, bound up with an expanding ...

Including more than 300 illustrations, accompanied by quotes from the artist that illuminate the passionate thinking behind the work, Hockney’s Pictures shows the evolution and diversity of Hockney’s paintings, drawings, watercolors, ...

In this book, portraits by artists such as Jean-Honore Fragonard, Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir enter into dialogue with renowned contemporary artists such as Michael Borremans, Marlene Dumas and Luc Tuymans, comparing epochs and ...

Analyzing classic texts on evolution by Darwin and Keith as well as relatively recent accounts by Dart, Robinson and Tobias, the book reveals that they have a common narrative form based on the universal hero tale.

A beautifully illustrated study of Celtic arts -- style, development and revival - and the relationship between art objects and identity, covering 2500 years of history.

This book examines a number of themes relating to housing in Late Antiquity. Two extensive bibliographic essays provide an overview of published literature relating to housing in this period.

Biddle Twenty-three wide-ranging contributions on Europe in the first millennium AD. One theme examines the interaction of Roman and native in Gaul, the Rhineland and Britain (6)