Archaeological Theory

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, ...

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

Just six miles from the center of Belfast, County Down, on the plateau of Ballynahatty above the River Lagan, is one of Irelands great Neolithic he...

The Northumberland Archaeological Groups (NAG) Wether Hill project spanned the years 19942015 and was located on the eponymous hilltop overlooking ...

The Living Inca Town presents a rich case study of tourism in Ollantaytambo, a rapidly developing destination in the southern Peruvian Andes and th...

The Beaker People: isotopes, mobility and diet in prehistoric Britain presents the results of a major project that sought to address a century-old ...

The Living Inca Town presents a rich case study of tourism in Ollantaytambo, a rapidly developing destination in the southern Peruvian Andes and th...

In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to li...

Our understanding of the construction processes involved with British Neolithic architecture needs further investigation. The people were prelitera...

'Wicked Problems' are those problems facing the planet and its inhabitants, present and future, which are hard (if not impossible) to resolve and f...