Art

Music and the Cognitive Sciences

Over the last decade, cognitive science has increasingly come to be seen as offering an appropriate framework within which to explore and to explain issues in musical listening, performance, composition, development and analysis. There are a number of reasons for this.

Suggestology

Over the last decade, cognitive science has increasingly come to be seen as offering an appropriate framework within which to explore and to explain issues in musical listening, performance, composition, development and analysis. There are a number of reasons for this.

Archaeology of Images

An Archaeology of Images takes a fresh look at how ancient images of both people and animals were used in the Iron Age and Roman societies of Europe, 600 BC to AD 400.

Public Archaeology

This much-needed volume scrutinises in detail the relationship between archaeology, heritage and the public. Featuring case studies from around the world.

American Architectural History

This book presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times.

Archaeology of Personhood

The Archaeology of Personhood discusses what it means to be human and, by drawing on examples from European prehistory, discusses the implications that contemporary understandings of personhood have on archaeological interpretation

The Egyptian Revival

Professor Curl's magisterial survey is a definitive account of the ways in which artists and especially architects have brought Egyptian forms and images into the public eye.

Hominid Individual in Context

This book explores new approaches to the remarkably detailed information that archaeologists now have for the study of our early ancestors.

Ritual and Domestic Life in Prehistoric Europe

This fascinating study explores how our prehistoric ancestors developed rituals from everyday life and domestic activities. This book examines farming, craft production and the occupation of houses, which were all ritualized in prehistoric Europe.

Mycenaeans

The Mycenaean world: the stuff of legends and heroes who conquered Troy and who still stand at the heart of Greek identity today.