Archaeological Theory

This book is an introduction to theory in archaeology but with a difference. Archaeological Situations avoids talking about theory as if it was so...

This book: uses a range of geographically and temporally diverse case studies to explore complex issues around archaeological theory and contempora...

This book: uses a range of geographically and temporally diverse case studies to explore complex issues around archaeological theory and contempora...

Information and its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands explores the question of how information, broadly conceived, is acquired, stored, circulated, and...

Assembling Archaeology provides a radical rethinking of the relationships between teaching, researching, digging, and practicing as an archaeologis...

This volume combines scholarly contributions on the relation between values and cleaning processes in different places, cultures and times. The cor...

Archaeology of East Asia constitutes an introduction to social and political development from the Palaeolithic to 8th-century early historic times....

As a discipline, archaeology often provides amazing insights into the past. But it can also illuminate the present, especially when investigations ...

What is Hadrians Wall made of, where did this material come from and how has it been reused in other buildings in the communities that emerged in t...

Mirrors of Salt publishes the proceedings of the First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt, which took place at the Alexandru Ioan C...

Groma stems from the Department of History and Cultures (DISCI) of the University of Bologna and focuses on the different methodologies applied to ...

Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Using R is the first hands-on guide to using the R statistical computing system written specifically for archae...

This book deals with the documentation and interpretation of the rock sites located in La Mancha center (Spain), from the detailed study of the sym...

The Death of Archaeological Theory? addresses the provocative subject of whether it is time to discount the burden of somewhat dogmatic theory an...

This volume is the outcome of collaborative European research among archaeologists, archaeobotanists, ethnographers, historians and agronomists,...

The second edition of Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism, has been thoroughly updated and revised, and features top scholars wh...

The royal necropolis of New Kingdom Egypt, known as the Valley of the Kings (KV), is one of the most important--and celebrated--archaeological site...

The present book explores the complexity of the past, by analysing the relationships between place, territory, the material value of objects and la...

More than 7000 years ago, groups of early farmers (the Linearbandkeramik, or LBK) spread over vast areas of Europe. Their cultural characteristics ...

This book collects the contributions to the symposium The current state of evolutionary archeology in Argentina that was held in Buenos Aires, for ...

Through the Lens of Anthropology is a concise introduction to anthropology that uses the twin themes of food and sustainability to connect evolutio...

A detailed report on the excavation of prehistoric features at Forteviot in eastern Scotland by the University of Glasgow's Strathearn Environs and...

The modern-day Caribbean is a stunningly diverse but also intricately interconnected geo-cultural region, resulting partly from the islands shared ...

Archaeology: What It Is, Where It Is, and How to Do It has been written as a practical introduction on the investigation of the material remains of...

The importance of the Law of Treasure is largely the result of the spectacular growth in the activity of metal detecting which, starting in the 196...