Archaeological theory

Shows what humanity has borrowed and shared as a common heritage.

Traces the development of towns in Britain from late Roman times to the end of the Anglo-Saxon period using archaeological data.

Showcases the fundamental contribution that anthropology has made to our understanding of ancient Roman culture.

Showcases the fundamental contribution that anthropology has made to our understanding of ancient Roman culture.

An evidence based account of how to recognise and diagnose pathological lesions in human remains.

An evidence based account of how to recognise and diagnose pathological lesions in human remains.

Traces the development of towns in Britain from late Roman times to the end of the Anglo-Saxon period using archaeological data.

The first step-by-step guide to the quantitative analysis of archaeological data using the R statistical computing system.

The first step-by-step guide to the quantitative analysis of archaeological data using the R statistical computing system.

This book uniquely focuses on all aspects of archaeological soil micromorphology, based upon the authors'' joint sixty years of worldwide studies.

Economic circularity is the ability of a society to reduce waste by recycling, reusing, and repairing raw materials and finished products.

Highlights the achievements of prehistoric people in Britain and Ireland over a 5,000 year period.

Highlights the achievements of prehistoric people in Britain and Ireland over a 5,000 year period.

This book defines the concept of ''archaeological reason'', and provides a new approach to archaeological excavations, philosophical hermeneutics, and digital theory.

This book defines the concept of ''archaeological reason'', and provides a new approach to archaeological excavations, philosophical hermeneutics, and digital theory.

Challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies - past and present - collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation.

Challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies - past and present - collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation.

It considers research involving archaeological wood in all forms, ranging from fuelwood to ships'' timbers, from sites around the globe.

It considers research involving archaeological wood in all forms, ranging from fuelwood to ships'' timbers, from sites around the globe.

This book examines the relationship between several of the most prominent American biblical archaeologists and Zionism.

This book examines the relationship between several of the most prominent American biblical archaeologists and Zionism.

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

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

Interrogating Human Origins encourages new critical engagements with the study of human origins, broadening the range of approaches to bring in postcolonial theories, and begin to explore the decolonisation of this complex topic.

The Archaeology of Seeing provides readers with a new and provocative understanding of material culture through exploring visual narratives captured in cave and rock art, sculpture, paintings, and more.

The Archaeology of Seeing provides readers with a new and provocative understanding of material culture through exploring visual narratives captured in cave and rock art, sculpture, paintings, and more.

Bioarchaeology covers the history and general theory of the field plus the recovery and laboratory treatment of human remains.

This book is an introduction to theory in archaeology but with a difference.

This book is an introduction to theory in archaeology but with a difference.

The second edition of An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era explores the period between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries and reflects on the archaeological theory and practice of the recent past.

This book tells the story of both the ancient humans who made handaxes and the thoughts and ideas of scholars who have spent their lives trying to understand them.

This book tells the story of both the ancient humans who made handaxes and the thoughts and ideas of scholars who have spent their lives trying to understand them.

Global Social Archaeologies contributes to the active engagement of contemporary social archaeology through addressing issues such as postcolonialism, community heritage, and Indigenous rights.

The maintenance of human health and the mechanisms by which this is achieved - through medicine, medical intervention and care-giving - are fundamentals of human societies.

The maintenance of human health and the mechanisms by which this is achieved - through medicine, medical intervention and care-giving - are fundamentals of human societies.

Global Social Archaeologies contributes to the active engagement of contemporary social archaeology through addressing issues such as postcolonialism, community heritage, and Indigenous rights.

This unique book brings a fresh interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of ancient Chinese history, creating a historical model for the emergence of cultural mainstays by applying recent dramatic findings in the fields of neuroscience and cultural evolution.

This unique book brings a fresh interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of ancient Chinese history, creating a historical model for the emergence of cultural mainstays by applying recent dramatic findings in the fields of neuroscience and cultural evolution.

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

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

A Brief History of Archaeology details early digs and covers the development of archaeology as a multidisciplinary science, the modernization of meticulous excavation methods during the twentieth century, and the important discoveries that led to new ideas about the evolution of human societies.

This work investigates the material culture of public temperatures in New York City.

This work investigates the material culture of public temperatures in New York City.

This book provides a fresh and unique global perspective on the study of caravans by bringing together a wealth of up-to-date research that explores the similarities and divergences of caravan lifeways in Africa, Eurasia, the Near East, Southwest Asia, Mesoamerica, and the Andes.

This book provides a fresh and unique global perspective on the study of caravans by bringing together a wealth of up-to-date research that explores the similarities and divergences of caravan lifeways in Africa, Eurasia, the Near East, Southwest Asia, Mesoamerica, and the Andes.

Psychology and Cognitive Archaeology demonstrates the potential of using cognitive archaeology framing to explore key issues in contemporary psychology and other behavioral sciences.

Psychology and Cognitive Archaeology demonstrates the potential of using cognitive archaeology framing to explore key issues in contemporary psychology and other behavioral sciences.

Archaeology of Households, Kinship, and Social Change offers new perspectives on the processes of social change from the standpoint of household archaeology.

This book presents a conversation between two prominent archaeologists who have been exploring the concept of time in their discipline for several decades.

This book presents a conversation between two prominent archaeologists who have been exploring the concept of time in their discipline for several decades.