Archaeological theory

Bruce Trigger examines the history of archaeological thought from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective.

The Greco-Roman world is identified in the modern mind by its cities.

Beyond Thalassocracies aims to evaluate and rethink the manner in which archaeologists approach, understand, and analyze the various processes associated with culture change connected to interregional contact, using as a test case the world of the Aegean during the Late Bronze Age (c.

Widely regarded as major visible field monuments of the Iron Age, hillforts are central to an understanding of later prehistoric communities in Britain and Europe from the later Bronze Age.

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.

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Every day millions of people enter public buildings of many forms and functions: Notre-Dame in Paris, Grand Central Station in New York, the British Museum in London, that are decorated with recessed doorways.

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.

This volume celebrates the career of archaebotanist Professor Gordon C.

Waste represents a category of ‘things’, which is familiar and ubiquitous but rarely reflected in archaeological and cultural studies.

Economic archaeology is the study of how past peoples exploited animals and plants, using as evidence the remains of those animals and plants.

This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile the latest thinking about archaeological theory.

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How does "heritage" become objectified within public institutions and representative of a national past?

This book asks new and interesting questions about how our prehistoric ancestors survived and how they settled the world.

This volume uses the art of Rome to help us understand the radical historical break between the fundamental ancient pre-supposition that there is a natural world or cosmos situating human life, and the equally fundamental modern emphasis on human imagination and its creative power.

Mothering and Archaeology brings to light new insights connecting mothering in the past and present by exploring all aspects of this important but frequently under-valued and thus neglected subject and is underpinned by feminist theorizing of motherhood and mothering.

Music is possessed by all human cultures, and archaeological evidence for musical activities pre-dates even the earliest known cave art.

The twenty-third Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) was held at King’s College, London in Spring 2013.

Large state temples in ancient Egypt were vast agricultural estates, with interests in mining, trading, and other economic activities.

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Here is the first volume ever to focus on the issues of Jewish women in the context of counseling and psychotherapy.

In Theological Context for Pastoral Caregiving, Howard W.

Remembering Conquest: Feminist/Womanist Perspectives on Religion, Colonization, and Sexual Violence addresses the issue of sexual violence against women from feminist and womanist theological perspectives.

Pearson brings a cogent, well-argued case for the understanding of much prehistoric art as shamanistic practice.

This study examines the five extant large Imperial cameos of the Early Roman Empire as a coherent whole, revealing that these gemstones were a referential group with complex interrelationships.

The second edition of Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture continues the groundbreaking work of the original, exploring the territory between gay/lesbian studies, literary criticism, and religious studies.

This volume is the third in the series Corollaria Crustumina aimed at the publication of conference proceedings, doctoral theses and specialist studies concerning the Latin settlement of Crustumerium (Rome) and its place in central Italian protohistory.

Within archaeological studies, land tenure has been mainly studied from the viewpoint of ownership.

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

Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History looks at the global phenomena of the dead in world history, examining the phantasms and spirits of classical social science and philosophy.

Find out how communities can help people transcend their individual needs to live richer, fuller livesThe Spirituality of Community Life is a deeply personal analysis of community life and its importance in helping people develop to their full potential.

This fresh approach to the study of Islamization proposes an innovative conceptual framework that treats the subject as a particular case of cultural change.

The Archaeology of Caves in Ireland is a ground-breaking and unique study of the enigmatic, unseen and dark silent world of caves.

The prehistories of Britain and Ireland are inescapably entwined with continental European narratives.

For courses in Introduction to Archaeology Theory and Methods.

This book provides an important examination into the role of evolution of human traits of dominance as central to understanding social and political events, proposing a new view on human social evolution.

Find out how communities can help people transcend their individual needs to live richer, fuller livesThe Spirituality of Community Life is a deeply personal analysis of community life and its importance in helping people develop to their full potential.

An enlightening guide to bringing spirituality into the helping professions!

Archaeology's links to international relations are well known: launching and sustaining international expeditions requires the honed diplomatic skills of ambassadors.

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After Discourse is an interdisciplinary response to the recent trend away from linguistic and textual approaches and towards things and their affects.

What is Hadrian’s Wall made of, where did this material come from and how has it been reused in other buildings in the communities that emerged in the centuries after the Roman Empire?

The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion is the first volume dedicated to exploring ritual and religious practice in past societies from a variety of ‘environmental’ remains.

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

The analysis of animal bone assemblages from archaeological sites provides much valuable data concerning economic and husbandry practices in the past, as well as insights into cultural and symbolic or ritual activity.

The Ethics of Collecting Trauma offers an interdisciplinary dialogue on the ethics of contemporary museums that are involved in collecting moments of collective trauma.

This book is about the conflict which resolved the Greek-Turkish War of 1919-1922: the Great Offensive.