Archaeological Theory

Archaeological Theory in Dialogue presents an innovative conversation between five scholars from different backgrounds on a range of central issues...

Archaeology and its Discontents examines the state of archaeology today and its development throughout the twentieth century, making a powerful cas...

Archaeological Theory in Dialogue presents an innovative conversation between five scholars from different backgrounds on a range of central issues...

This book argues that the provenance of early modern and medieval objects from Islamic lands was largely forgotten until the long eighteenth centur...

Archaeology and its Discontents examines the state of archaeology today and its development throughout the twentieth century, making a powerful cas...

How can archaeologists interpret ancient art and images if they do not treat them as symbols or signifiers of identity? Traditional approaches to t...

After Discourse is an interdisciplinary response to the recent trend away from linguistic and textual approaches and towards things and their affec...

The study of the prehistory of East Asia is developing very rapidly. In uncovering the story of the flows of human migration that constituted the p...

This book argues that long-ignored, non-western political systems from the distant and more recent past can provide critical insights into improvin...

Past archaeological literature on cooperation theory has emphasized competition's role in cultural evolution. As a result, bottom-up possibilities ...

Strøby Toftegård: Halls, Hierarchies and Social Dynamics in Late Iron Age and Viking Age Denmark presents and considers the archaeological material...

This textbook offers a reasoned and accessible introduction to the philosophy of the environment and the current environmental crisis, designed for...

This textbook offers a reasoned and accessible introduction to the philosophy of the environment and the current environmental crisis, designed for...

In recent years scholars have re-evaluated the parting of the ways between Judaism and Christianity, reaching new understandings of the ways shared...

This volume adopts a practice-based approach to examine the different ways in which classification is communicated and negotiated in different envi...

This fresh approach to the study of Islamization proposes an innovative conceptual framework that treats the subject as a particular case of cultur...

In much recent thinking, social and cultural realms are thought of as existing prior toor detached fromthings, materiality, and landscape. It is of...

Critically Reading the Theory and Methods of Archaeology stands out as the most thorough and practical guide to the essential critical reading and ...

Critically Reading the Theory and Methods of Archaeology stands out as the most thorough and practical guide to the essential critical reading and ...

Archaeology is a vast subject - it is the study of human society everywhere in the world, from distant human origins 3-4 million years ago up to th...

Mutualist Archaeology proposes that the theory of mutualism can transform archaeology from what some to consider to be a discipline in crisis.This ...

Mutualist Archaeology proposes that the theory of mutualism can transform archaeology from what some to consider to be a discipline in crisis.This ...

Literary artefacts--the stories people tell, the songs they sing, the scenes they enact--are neither a by-product nor a side-issue in human culture...

Archaeological Theory: The Basics is an accessible introduction to an indispensable part of what archaeologists do. The book guides the reader to a...

Situated on an intersection between Material Culture Studies, History and Museum and Archival Studies, this book investigates the material world of...

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of gender archaeology, both theory and practice, and contributes a substantial and definitive referen...

Archaeological Perspectives on Burial Practices and Societal Change examines the relationships between burial practices and societal transformation...

The cultural developments of Early Christian Ireland have long been recognised and described. There have, however, been few attempts to date to exp...

This book examines the British soldiers on the Western Front and how they responded to the war landscape they encountered behind the lines and at t...

Now in a revised and updated second edition, this volume provides an authoritative account of the current status of archaeological theory, as pre...

The second edition of Archaeological Investigation thoroughly updates the theory, aims and methods of field archaeology in the academic and commerc...

The second edition of Archaeological Investigation thoroughly updates the theory, aims and methods of field archaeology in the academic and commerc...

The Past as Digital Playground: Archaeology, Virtual Reality, and Video Games collects the contributions to a two-day conference which illustrate a...

Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology documents how racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism affect the demographics of arc...

Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology documents how racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism affect the demographics of arc...

The sixth issue of Ex Novo explores how peripheral regions currently approach both the practice and theory of public archaeology placing particular...