Archaeological theory

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

Many of us accept as uncontroversial the belief that the world is comprised of detached and disparate products, all of which are reducible to certain substances.

Broken Bodies, Places and Objects demonstrates the breadth of fragmentation and fragment use in prehistory and history and provides an up-to-date insight into current archaeological thinking around the topic.

Abuse, although often not detected or reported, existed in every facility we surveyed.

The development of complex cultural behaviour in our own species is perhaps the most significant research issue in modern archaeology.

Human migration tends to involve more than the odd suitcase or two - we often carry other organisms on our travels, some are deliberately transported, others move by accident.

Bringing together a wealth of research in social and cultural anthropology, philosophy and related fields, this is the first book to address the contribution that an understanding of personhood can make to our interpretations of the pastApplying an anthropological approach to detailed case studies from European prehistoric archaeology, the book explores the connection between people, animals, objects, their societies and environments and investigates the relationship that jointly produces bodies, persons, communities and artefacts.

This unique collection applies globalization concepts to the discipline of archaeology, using a wide range of global case studies from a group of international specialists.

Just six miles from the center of Belfast, County Down, on the plateau of Ballynahatty above the River Lagan, is one of Ireland’s great Neolithic henge monuments: the 200 m wide Giant’s Ring.

Crafting Communities explores the interface between craft, communication networks, and urbanization in Viking-age Northern Europe.

Archaeological remains are ‘fragmented by definition’: apart from exceptional cases, the study of the human past takes into account mainly traces, ruins, discards, and debris of past civilizations.

Any inference drawn from plain remains recovered from archaeological sites is based on the classes of such remains that are, at present, possible to identify.

East Anglia has long been known for its internationally significant cultural and environmental Palaeolithic archaeology, often overshadowing the potential of its Holocene resource.

The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology seeks to reappraise the place of archaeology in the contemporary world by providing a series of essays that critically engage with both old and current debates in the field of public archaeology.

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

Henry Barrow and John Greenwood are the fathers of Elizabethan Separatism.

Violence and Gender in Ancient Egypt shifts the focus of gender studies in Egyptology to social phenomena rarely addressed through the lens of gender - war and violence, exploring the complex intersections of violence and gender in ancient Egypt.

The study of monasteries has come a long way since late the late 19th century.

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.

Care-giving is an activity that has been practiced by all human societies.

This dissertation delves into the reconstruction of past vegetation at the most detailed level.

This book explores the role of ritual in social life, human evolution, and religion.

Multispecies Archaeology explores the issue of ecological and cultural novelty in the archaeological record from a multispecies perspective.

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

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 also in the wider Old World.

The human body serves as a symbolic bridge between communities of the living and the divine.

Two Spirit People is the first-ever look at social science research exploration into the lives of American Indian lesbian women and gay men.

Techno-logic & Technology is an ambitious effort to develop a new framework for studying the development of stone tool technology, with the goal of integrating humanity's earliest and longest-lasting technology into a comprehensive questioning of the interaction between humanity and the material world.

Margarita Diaz-Andreu offers an innovative history of archaeology during the nineteenth century, encompassing all its fields from the origins of humanity to the medieval period, and all areas of the world.

It is beyond doubt that the climate is changing, presenting us with one of the biggest challenges in the twenty-first-century.

A volume of essays on communicating archaeology by every imaginable means provides an excellent tribute to the work of Bill Putnam - always a communicator.

As a discipline, Archaeology has developed rapidly over the last half-century.

Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations breaks new ground in our understanding of the challenges faced by heritage practitioners and researchers in the contemporary world of mass migration, where people encounter new cultural heritage and relocate their own.

Drawing on love studies and research in material cultures, this book seeks to re-examine love through materiality studies, especially their recent incarnations, new materialism and object-oriented philosophy, to spark a debate on the relationship between love, objects and forms of materializing affection.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology.

The excavations at Ezinge between 1923 and 1934 are among the most famous excavations in the history of Dutch archaeology.

The studies in this volume originated from an international conference on 'Community, Identity and the State' held at Tel Aviv University in 2001.

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

The impacts of climate change on human societies, and the roles those societies themselves play in altering their environments, appear in headlines more and more as concern over modern global climate change intensifies.

This book explores the central role of religion in place-making and infrastructural projects in ancient polities.

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

The Oxford Handbook of Wetland Archaeology is the most comprehensive survey of global wetland archaeology ever published.

Archaeoastronomy and the Maya illustrates archaeoastronomical approaches to ancient Mayan cultural production.

Is current archaeological theory stuck at an impasse?

This volume provides fresh insight into northern human-animal relations and illustrates the breadth and practical utility of archaeological human-animal studies.

The region of Rough Cilicia (modern area the south-western coastal area of Turkey), known in antiquity as Cilicia Tracheia, constitutes the western part of the larger area of Cilicia.

The archaeological past exists for us through intermediaries.

Quality Management in Archaeology deals with the effects of the profound changes that have had an impact on the discipline of archaeology all over the world.

Many new and fruitful avenues of investigation open up when scholars consider forgery as a creative act rather than a crime.