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BAR Publishing is an award-winning independent publisher dedicated to academic archaeology.

Over the past 48 years we have built an international reputation for publishing specialist research across all areas of archaeology. We now have a huge catalogue of 3,700 titles in five languages across our British and International Series, and continue to publish over 70 new, peer reviewed books each year.


The BAR Digital Collection, the world’s largest collection of academic archaeology, was launched in 2020 and encompasses all periods from prehistory, through classical archaeology, to 20th century archaeology.