The most popular archaeology books of 2025

Proto

Laura Spinney

The Hidden Lives of Viking Women

Kevin P. Smith, Anne Irene Riisøy, Shane McLeod, Unn Pedersen, Tara Athanasiou, Karen Bek-Pedersen, Olof Sundqvist, Leszek Gardeła

All the Emperor's Men Roman Soldiers and Barbarians on Trajan's Column

J. C. Coulston

André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology, Evolution, and Social Life A Selection of Texts and Writings from the 1930s to The 1970s

André Leroi-Gourhan

Ravenna, AD 400–800

Neil Christie, Thomas Brown, Andrea Augenti

Economy and Commodity Production in the Aegean Bronze Age

Catherine E. Pratt

Megiddo VII The Shmunis Excavations of a Monumental Middle Bronze Tomb and Its Environs

Israel Finkelstein, Matthew J. Adams, Melissa S. Cradic

Bronze Mirrors in Ancient China Artistry and Technique

Kin Sum Li

Late Bronze Age Metal Artifacts Off Hahotrim, Israel

Shelley Wachsmann

Latin American Art at The Museum of Modern Art The Power of the Canon

Miriam Basilio, Miriam Margarita Basilio Gaztambide

Lookout Cave The Archaeology of Perishable Remains on the Northern Plains

John H. Brumley

Christopher Hill The Life of a Radical Historian

Michael Braddick

Jurassic Coast

Katie Chanez

Greek Mythology From Creation to First Humans

Carolina López-Ruiz

The Archaeology of Early Colonial Manila A Hybrid City in Global History

Ellen Hsieh

54 Souidias

Jenifer Neils

Beneath Our Feet Everyday Discoveries Reshaping History

Michael Lewis, Ian Richardson, Mackenzie Crook

Human and Aquatic Beings

Christina Tsouparopoulou, Laerke Recht

What the Bones Tell Us An Anthropologist Examines the Evidence in an Attempt to Unravel Ancient Mysteries and Modern Crimes

Jeffrey H. Schwartz

Thebaid in Times of Crisis

Ralph Birk, Laurent Coulon

The Archaeology of the Cyclades in the Roman and Late Antique Periods Globalization, Christianization and Resilience

Rebecca Sweetman

Bone Histology

Clay Figurines of Olbia Pontica Part I. Collection of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine

Tetiana Shevchenko

Tuspa The Capital of Urartians

Erkan Konyar, Bülent Genç