Archaeological Theory

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...

Excavations at the site of the burial ground of the old Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, revealed the largest assemblage of individual burials yet reco...

The Ethics of Collecting Trauma offers an interdisciplinary dialogue on the ethics of contemporary museums that are involved in collecting moments ...

The Ethics of Collecting Trauma offers an interdisciplinary dialogue on the ethics of contemporary museums that are involved in collecting moments ...

THE PERFECT READ FOR TROUBLED TIMESFrom the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places comes this inspiring and beautifully...

HANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCES A modern and comprehensive introduction to methods and techniques in archaeology In the newly revised Second Ed...

Water may separate islands and the mainland, but the sea also offers a vital link. This volume is one of three major outputs of the research and pu...

Death matters and the matters of death are initially, and to a large extent, the decaying flesh of the corpse. Cremation as a ritual practice is th...

The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics investigates the archaeology of the contemporary world through the lens of its most distinguishi...

Sites, Traces, and Materiality proposes a new materialist model for archaeology that brings together the concept of site ontology from geography, a...

Sites, Traces, and Materiality proposes a new materialist model for archaeology that brings together the concept of site ontology from geography, a...

Rivers have often been the gateway to natural wilderness and the first element of a natural landscape that humans made their own. Some rivers have ...

The second edition of An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era explores the period between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries and reflect...

Colour defines our material world, operates as a communication tool and creates meaning. But despite the wealth of colour present in British Iron A...

'As indispensable to an archaeology student as a trowel ... every student, or indeed any interested amateur, should really find a space on their sh...

The papers gathered in this volume explore the economic and social roles of exchange systems in past societies from a variety of different perspect...

New geoinformatic technologies have recently had a transformative effect on landscape archaeology, particularly by facilitating the high resolution...

The chapters in this volume are organised in such a way as to provide windows onto constructing, remaking, and dismantling sacred landscapes in cit...

Copper is the first metal to play a large part in human history. This work is devoted to the history of metallurgical production in Northern Eurasi...

A recent trend concerning archaeological research has focused on producing a real-time methodology for 3D digital models as archaeological document...

Economic circularity is the ability of a society to reduce waste by recycling, reusing, and repairing raw materials and finished products. This con...

Archaeology has gone digital for some time now! Topics such as GIS databases, 3D models, drone photography, meta- and para-data, semantic mapping, ...