Prehistoric Archaeology

Rock Art and the Wild Mind presents a study of Mesolithic rock art on the Scandinavian Peninsula, which often depicts human confrontation with big game and can be explained as a product of the Mesolithic mind "in action". In the final stages of the Mesolithic this ‘animic’ rock art eventually gives ..

Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory addresses these two concepts as interrelated, rather than as separate categories, and as a means for understanding past social relations at different scales. The volume is a response to the dissatisfaction with traditional views of space and time in prehist..

The Archaeology of Bronze Age Iberia offers a much-needed, comprehensive overview of Argaric Bronze Age societies, based on state-of-the-art research. In addition to expounding on recent insights in such areas as Argaric origin and expansion, social practices, and socio-politics, the book offers ref..

Alasdair Whittle's new work argues powerfully for the complexity and fluidity of life in the Neolithic, through a combination of archaeological and anthropological case studies and current theoretical debate...

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This volume advances the archaeological study of social organisation in Prehistory, and more specifically the rise of social complexity in European Prehistory. Within the wider context of world Prehistory, in the last 30 years the subject of early social stratification and state formation has been a..