Archaeological theory

The book discusses the creative mental processes of the prehistoric and contemporaryartists, as well as of the archaeologists studying them from the perspective ofcognition and art.

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More wide ranging, both geographically and chronologically, than any previous study, this well-illustrated book offers a new definition of Celtic art.

This book is a comprehensive study of the intersection of religion, Indigenous culture, and community life, featuring an in-depth examination of the Orang Asli in Malaysia and the Santals in Bangladesh that aims for a socially inclusive, harmonious, and peaceful society.

Recently, Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology has been breaking boundaries worldwide.

Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature examines the deep connections between the romantic rebellion against modernity and ecological concern with modern threats to nature.

This book traces the archaeological trajectory of the expansion of Buddhism and its regional variations in South Asia.

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This book is a biography and reception history of the Lithuanian-American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994).

This book addresses the problems of identifying human actions behind finds of bones in settlement archaeology, exemplified with the identification of ritual deposits.

Assembling Past Worlds draws on new materialism and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to explore the potential for a posthumanist archaeology.

Ancient Art Revisited develops new perspectives on ancient art by weaving together diverse strands within archaeology and art history, exploring it through recent developments in archaeological theory.

Archaeology and Intentionality explores perhaps one of the most overlooked topics in archaeology, that of intentionality.

Marking the Land investigates how hunter-gatherers use physical landscape markers and environmental management to impose meaning on the spaces they occupy.

Through the Lens of Anthropology is a concise introduction to anthropology that uses the twin themes of food and sustainability to connect evolution, biology, archaeology, history, language, and culture.

Socialising Complexity introduces the concept of complexity as a tool, rather than a category, for understanding social formations.

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

This book offers an analysis of archaeological imagery based on new materialist approaches.

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 the front.

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Fifty Stars of the Western Union is the general title of an inclusive- descriptive encyclopedia for juveniles and kids; this volume covers some key elements of Massachusetts state!

Gods, deities, symbolism, deposition, cosmology and intentionality are all features of the study of early ritual and cult.

Understand the spiritual and psychological stages of human life!

This book focuses on material culture as a subject of philosophical inquiry and promotes the philosophical study of material culture by articulating some of the central and difficult issues raised by this topic and providing innovative solutions to them, most notably an account of improvised action and a non-intentionalist account of function in material culture.

After more than a century of research, an enormous body of scientific literature in the field of El Argar studies has been generated, comprising some 700 bibliographic items.

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Dogs in the North offers an interdisciplinary in-depth consideration of the multiple roles that dogs have played in the North.

Before the 1970s, "e;biblical archaeology"e; was the dominant research paradigm for those excavating the history of Palestine.

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Outlines the ecological fundamentals, assumptions, and techniques for reconstructing past environments using fossil animals from archaeological and paleontological sites.

The investigation of human remains has always been central to archaeological, but archaeologists are not the only ones with an interest in their treatment.

This volume provides a narrative of early hominin evolution, linking material aspects of the early archaeological record with social, cognitive and symbolic landscapes.

This book offers approaches to the study of Byzantine dress of elites and non-elites, in sacred and secular modes, from the beginning of the Empire in the fourth century until the fifteenth century.

In this book, Graham Connah offers an overview of archaeological authorship: its diversity, its challenges, and its methodology.

This book offers an overview of iconographic methods and their application to archaeological analysis.

Beads, bracelets, necklaces, pendants and many other ornaments are familiar objects that play a fundamental role in personal expression and communication.

This work puts a particular emphasis on the mixing and osmosis of the first Mediterranean civilizations, with particular reference to the Minoan, Cycladic, Mycenaean, and Trojan, and on the causes of their decline, which are to be identified in a jumble of natural and human causes, and in a long-lasting, slow, but irreversible crisis.

A down-to-earth look at the spiritual power of sexSex and the Sacred examines the spiritual dimension of human sexuality in a way that is free of religious affiliation but still open to traditional religion and belief in God.

The environment has always been a central concept for archaeologists and, although it has been conceived in many ways, its role in archaeological explanation has fluctuated from a mere backdrop to human action, to a primary factor in the understanding of society and social change.

The ability to accumulate and store large amounts of goods is a key feature of complex societies in ancient times.

Time and History in Prehistory explores the many processes through which time and history are conceptualized and constructed, challenging the perception of prehistoric societies as ahistorical.

This textbook offers a reasoned and accessible introduction to the philosophy of the environment and the current environmental crisis, designed for scholars and students in both philosophy and the natural and environmental sciences.

A huge collection of papers on scientific analysis in archaeology from a conference held in Liverpool in 1995.

The investigation of human remains has always been central to archaeological, but archaeologists are not the only ones with an interest in their treatment.

An Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but poorly understood aspect of material culture studies: the active rejection of the material world.

This book argues that long-ignored, non-western political systems from the distant and more recent past can provide critical insights into improving global governance.

An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era approaches the contemporary age, between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, as an archaeological period defined by specific material processes.

This book contains most of the papers presented at the final LASHIPA workshop in St Petersburg, Russia 2-4 November 2009.

Material Worlds examines consumption from an archaeological perspective, broadly exploring the intersection of social relations and objects through the processes of production, distribution, use, reuse, and discard.

This book provides a general self-reflexive review and critical analysis of Scandinavian rock art from the standpoint of Chris Tilley’s research in this area over the last thirty years.