New Books in Archaeology

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Andrew Smith, "First People: The Lost History of the Khoisan" (Jonathan Ball, 2022)
Jun 3, 2025 – 01:18:34
Robert Garland, "What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jun 2, 2025 – 53:49
Richard D. Oram, "A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400-1400" (Birlinn, 2025)
May 24, 2025 – 01:01:12
Annalisa Marzano, "Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome" (Cambridge UP. 2022)
Apr 27, 2025 – 49:23
Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts
Apr 17, 2025 – 58:33
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, "The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity: A Study in Resilience" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Apr 16, 2025 – 01:15:19
Roland Mayer, "The Ruins of Rome: A Cultural History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Apr 7, 2025 – 01:16:30
Rune Nyord, "Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Mar 29, 2025 – 52:55
Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, "The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2023)
Mar 23, 2025 – 43:07
Selena Wisnom, "The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Mar 13, 2025 – 38:29
Vera Tiesler, "Ancient Maya Teeth: Dental Modification, Cosmology, and Social Identity in Mesoamerica" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Mar 5, 2025 – 47:05
Ashish Avikunthak, "Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science and Past in Postcolonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jan 21, 2025 – 01:10:36
Caitlín Eilís Barrett, "Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jan 8, 2025 – 01:42:22
Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)
Dec 31, 2024 – 26:14
A. L. McClanan, "Griffinology: The Griffin's Place in Myth, History and Art" (Reaktion, 2024)
Dec 14, 2024 – 46:28
Persistent Pastoralism: Monuments and Settlements in the Archaeology of Dhofar
Dec 7, 2024 – 51:15
Jeffrey M. Pilcher, "Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 6, 2024 – 52:27
Andrew Fleming, "The Gravity of Feathers: Fame, Fortune and the Story of St Kilda" (Birlinn, 2024)
Nov 24, 2024 – 42:30
Nicolas Delsol, "Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study" (UP of Florida, 2024)
Oct 28, 2024 – 59:33
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, "Desert Ascetics of Egypt" (ARC Humanities Press, 2020)
Sep 30, 2024 – 01:01:37
William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)
Sep 29, 2024 – 01:03:56
John Schofield, "Wicked Problems for Archaeologists: Heritage as Transformative Practice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 15, 2024 – 01:07:56
Theodore Papakostas, "How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator" (William Collins, 2024)
Sep 14, 2024 – 28:13
Paul J. Kosmin, "Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Sep 7, 2024 – 01:16:00
Richard D. Oram, "Where Men No More May Reap Or Sow: The Little Ice Age: Scotland 1400-1850" (Birlinn, 2024)
Jul 30, 2024 – 01:13:57
Rubina Raja, "Shaping Archaeological Archives: Dialogues Between Fieldwork, Museum Collections, and Private Archives" (Brepols, 2023)
May 19, 2024 – 38:54
Bryan K. Miller, "Xiongnu: The World's First Nomadic Empire" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 1, 2024 – 01:03:13
Stefanos Geroulanos, "The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins" (Liveright, 2024)
Mar 31, 2024 – 01:14:58
Whitney Nell Stewart, "This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations" (UNC Press, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024 – 01:30:50
Mpho Ngoepe and Sindiso Bhebhe, "Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts: Recalling the Pasts" (Routledge, 2024)
Mar 2, 2024 – 46:25
What Can We Learn From A Pottery Shard? Uncovering the Ancient Past Through Biblical Archeology with Professor Aren Maeir
Jan 17, 2024 – 34:59
Seth Bernard, "Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Jan 7, 2024 – 35:32
Martyn Whittock, "American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
Jan 5, 2024 – 31:40
Douglas Hunter, "Beardmore: The Viking Hoax That Rewrote History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)
Dec 30, 2023 – 01:10:40
Yaron Eliav, "A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Dec 17, 2023 – 01:20:20
Megan Nutzman, "Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Nov 5, 2023 – 52:37
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale, "Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality" (Hurst, 2023)
Nov 3, 2023 – 01:14:36
Christopher P. Barton, "The Archaeology of Race and Class at Timbuctoo: A Black Community in New Jersey" (UP of Florida, 2023)
Oct 25, 2023 – 42:03
Trenton W. Holliday, "Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Oct 23, 2023 – 42:33
Jonathan Downs, "Discovery at Rosetta: Revealing Ancient Egypt" (American University in Cairo Press, 2020)
Oct 15, 2023 – 56:22
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Sep 12, 2023 – 32:44
Jason Thompson, "Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology" (AU of Cairo, 2018)
Aug 14, 2023 – 50:48
Jack Green and Ros Henry, "Olga Tufnell’s 'Perfect Journey': Letters and Photographs of an Archaeologist in the Levant and Mediterranean" (UCL Press, 2021)
Aug 2, 2023 – 01:06:01
Marnie Feneley, "Reconstructing God: Style, Hydraulics, Political Power and Angkor's West Mebon Visnu" (National U of Singapore Press, 2022)
Aug 1, 2023 – 47:14
Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
Jul 29, 2023 – 01:24:15
Archaeology and Nomadism in the Russian Empire: An interview with Ismael Biyashev
Jul 29, 2023 – 54:34
Nayanjot Lahiri, "Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand" (SUNY Press, 2023)
Jun 29, 2023 – 47:40
Graham Harman and Christopher Witmore, "Objects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology" (Polity Press, 2023)
Jun 10, 2023 – 01:04:18
Timothy R. Pauketat, "Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America" (Oxford UP,
Apr 27, 2023 – 46:33
Claudia Brittenham, "Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Mar 24, 2023 – 56:05