Archaeological Theory

Why are some things valuable while others are not? How much effort does it take to produce valuable objects? How can one explain the different appr...

This volume explores the part played by different metals in use from the fourth millennium BC to the Early Iron Age, not only in the Aegean but als...

Archaeological remains are fragmented by definition: apart from exceptional cases, the study of the human past takes into account mainly traces, ru...

Dress is at the core of dance. It adorns dancers, defines various roles and forms symbolic expressions that, for example, either bind people togeth...

Cyprus was a thriving and densely populated late antique province. Contrary to what used to be thought, the Arab raids of the mid-seventh century d...

Archaeoastronomy and archaeology are two distinct fields of study which examine the cultural aspect of societies, but from different perspectives. ...

This book explores the role of material culture in the formation of corporeal aesthetics and beauty ideals in different past societies and thus con...

Renowned archaeologist, Dale Serjeantson, tells the story of human engagement with birds from the end of the last Ice Age to around AD 1650. In thi...

According to one narrative that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important ...

The Domesday Book, commissioned in December 1085 by order of William The Conqueror, is generally thought to have been used to assess wealth and ass...

In this expansive new biography of George Reisner, Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian examines the life and work of America's greatest archaeologist....

The present volume gathers the communications of the three sessions organized under the auspices of the Commission History of Archaeology at the XV...

Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature is an inquiry into the empty spaces encountered not just on the pages of printed b...

The site of medieval Euchaïta, on the northern edge of the central Anatolian plateau, was the centre of the cult of St Theodore Tiro ('the Recruit'...

Palaeopathology is an evidence-based guide to the principal types of pathological lesions often found in human remains and how to diagnose them. To...

This book provides an up to date introduction to the exciting, but complex, new scientific methodologies that are increasingly used in archaeologic...

In A Critique of Archaeological Reason, Giorgio Buccellati presents a theory of excavation that aims at clarifying the nature of archaeology and it...

Clothing was crucial in human evolution, and having to cope with climate change was as true in prehistory as it is today. In Climate, Clothing, and...

Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments outlines the reconstruction of ancient climates, floras, and habitats on the basis of animal fossil remains reco...

Clothing was crucial in human evolution, and having to cope with climate change was as true in prehistory as it is today. In Climate, Clothing, and...

Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments outlines the reconstruction of ancient climates, floras, and habitats on the basis of animal fossil remains reco...

Sustainability strives to meet the needs of the present without compromising the future, but increasingly recognizes the tradeoffs among these many...

A survey of the theory and methods of conservation from the nineteenth century to the present day, highlighting future pathways. The origins and u...

The difficult and sensitive issue of how museums and other repositories should treat human remains in their possession is here addressed through a ...

In the 1930s the famous Smithsonian archaeologist Henry B. Collins discovered 2000 year old Eskimo cultures by excavating ancient sites in the Beri...

Focusing on the geographies between the Mekong and the Indus, this book brings objects to the centre of enquiry in the understanding of modern Asia...

Archaeology and Archaeological Information in the Digital Society shows how the digitization of archaeological information, tools and workflows, an...

This collection of essays explores the history, implications, and usefulness of phenomenology for the study of real and virtual places. While the i...

Making Time grapples with a range of issues that have crystallized in the wake of 15 years of discussion on time in archaeology, since the author's...

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

This book is a general introduction to archaeological site management and museology in Egypt. It was written with the aim to let archaeologists and...

This book demonstrates how the political economy of mercantilism was not simply a Western invention by various cities and kingdoms during the Renai...

The Hadrians Wall Community Archaeology Project (WallCAP) conducted a series of fieldwork projects along the Hadrians Wall corridor between 2019 an...