Archaeological theory

An Archaeology of Materials sets out a new approach to the study of raw materials.

This book explores the expressly pictorial type of visual archaeology, the transcribing of three-dimensional materiality into two-dimensional depictions, and its influential history within the discipline.

Case studies on violent deaths from the past and present vividly illustrate how anthropologists construct meaning from the victim''s bones.

The intersection of law and religion is a growing area of study for academics working in both subject areas.

Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology documents how racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism affect the demographics of archaeology and discusses how knowledge that archaeologists produce is shaped by the discipline's demographic homogeneity.

This book explores the role of formal knowledge systems in small-scale oral cultures in both historic and archaeological contexts.

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Despite a growing literature on identity theory in the last two decades, much of its current use in archaeology is still driven toward locating and dating static categories such as ‘Phoenician’, ‘Christian’ or ‘native’.

Our Families, Our Values challenges both the gay community and American society to examine carefully the meaning of family values and the nature of social institutions such as marriage and the family.

Before the Military Revolution examines European Warfare in the Late Middle Ages from 1300 to 1490.

Place, Memory, and Healing: An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments investigates the complex and deep histories of places, how they served as sites of memory and belonging for local communities over the centuries, and how they were appropriated and monumentalized in the hands of the political elites.

Professor Smith uses Nubia as a case study to explore the nature of ethnic identity.

Communities across Borders examines the many ways in which national, ethnic or religious groups, professions, businesses and cultures are becoming increasingly tangled together.

Deer have been central to human cultures throughout time and space: whether as staples to hunter-gatherers, icons of Empire, or the focus of sport.

This important book explores strategies to enable clergy and lay persons to identify and help individuals suffering from depression.

As a result of recent methodological and theoretical developments in approaches to the human body in archaeological contexts, the theme has recently become a particularly dynamic research area.

The myriad ways in which colour and light have been adapted and applied in the art, architecture, and material culture of past societies is the focus of this interdisciplinary volume.

Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory provides new approaches and integrates a broad range of data to address a neglected topic, organic material in the prehistoric record.

The International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities offers a comprehensive guide to the current state of scholarship about men, masculinities, and gender around the world.

What the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living is a spiritual approach to health care that teaches the reader about values, hope, and faith through actual experiences of terminally ill persons.

The book focuses on the archaeology of the Late Geometric and Early Archaic North-Eastern Aegean through the emergence, manufacture, distribution and consumption of a regional pottery group known as G 2-3 Ware.

The beginning of the Neolithic in Britain is a topic of perennial interest in archaeology, marking the end of a hunter-gatherer way of life with the introduction of domesticated plants and animals, pottery, polished stone tools, and a range of new kinds of monuments, including earthen long barrows and megalithic tombs.

This book focuses on the relationship between the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology.

This latest volume in the TRAC Themes in Theoretical Roman Archaeology series takes up posthuman theoretical perspectives to interpret Roman material culture.

The essays collected together in this volume were written in honour of Professor Christopher Hawkes, in recognition of his stature as an international scholar and his generosity in encouraging the work of others.

This volume comprises papers presented to Wietske Prummel on the occasion of her retirement from the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (University of Groningen) in 2012.

The 2015 TRAC proceedings feature a selection of 14 papers summing up some of the key sessions presented at the conference held at the University of Leicester in March 2015, which drew over 180 delegates of 17 nationalities from a variety of universities, museums, and research institutions in the UK, Europe, and North America.

This book is an introduction to the study of artefacts, setting them in a social context rather than using a purely scientific approach.

The Object of Conservation examines how historic buildings, monuments and artefacts are cared for as valued embodiments of the past.

The study of funerary practice has become one of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of Roman archaeology in recent decades.

Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence.

What the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living is a spiritual approach to health care that teaches the reader about values, hope, and faith through actual experiences of terminally ill persons.

Money and market prices obscure an unequal global exchange of resources, which is a prerequisite to what we perceive as technological progress.

This book explores the relationship between cultural heritage and conflict, and its aftermath, through the use of new empirical evidence and critical theory.

Ideology dominates social research, encouraged by rejections of nature and the past, and often ignores the direct experience of actual people.

There are countless references to Cyprus in Venice: in palaces, primarily that of Queen Caterina Corner, in the church of Saints Giovanni e Paolo, where the skin of Mark Antonius Bragadin (the staunch defender of Famagusta) is guarded, in the spices, and especially in the wine of Cyprus (Commandaria), that is today still recalled in Venetian sayings.

This volume contains the great Separatist's solus writings from 1590-1591.

Edited by two pioneers in the field of sensory archaeology, this Handbook comprises a key point of reference for the ever-expanding field of sensory archaeology: one that surpasses previous books in this field, both in scope and critical intent.

The new interdisciplinary study of modern conflict archaeology has developed rapidly over the last decade.

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

The distinguished social anthropologist Alan Barnard explores the origins of the symbolic thought that is fundamental to human existence.

A novel, integrated approach to understanding long-term human history, viewing it as the long-term evolution of human information-processing.

Departing from more conscribed definitions, this book argues for an expansion of the concept of 'Creolization' in terms of duration, temporality, population, and importantly, in regional scope, which also impact climate and the practices of slavery that are typically included and excluded from consideration.

Stonehenge, Machu Picchu, Confederate statues, Egyptian pyramids, and medieval cathedrals: these are some of the places that are the subject of Making Sense of Monuments, an analysis of how the built environment molds human experiences and perceptions via bodily comparison.

The cultural developments of Early Christian Ireland have long been recognised and described.

In de Nederlandse bodem zijn de resten van oudtijdse bewoning zelden als opgaande structuren terug te vinden.

Interlacing varied approaches within Historical Ecology, this volume offers new routes to researching and understanding human-environmental interactions and the heterarchical power relations that shape both socioecological change and resilience over time.