Thirteen papers on the main Mediterranean islands from West to East in Late Antiquity, including economy, politics and religion.

Ten papers draw on case studies in the Mediterranean and the Americas examining both how a culture studies its own past and how external people study a ‘foreign’ culture. Differing antiquarian traditions emerge that when merged produce new perceptions of the past.

This volume gathers the best of submissions to an international writing competition aimed at promoting archaeological writing to a popular audience, showing how the discipline can reach beyond academia. It includes interviews with leading figures and a stunning photo-essay from an archaeological site..

These case studies drawn from research in Asia, Africa, the Mediterranean, and Mesoamerica, tackle current theoretical and practical problems involved in interdisciplinary research into the archaeological contexts of early inscription..

People are drawn to places where geology performs its miracles: ice-cold spring waters gushing from the rock, mysterious caves which act as conduits for ancestors and divinities traveling back and forth to the underworld, sacred bodies of water where communities make libations and offer sacrifices.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines koine as 'a set of cultural or other attributes common to various groups' . This volume merges an academic career over a half century in breadth and scope with an editorial vision that brings together a chorus of scholarly contributions echoing the core principles of R.

The archaeological past exists for us through intermediaries. Some are written works, descriptions, narratives and field notes, while others are visual - the drawings, paintings, photographs, powerpoints or computer visualisations that allow us to re-present past forms of human existence.