Archaeological theory

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of change in long-distance exchange systems during the collapse of Mycenaean Greece.

Large-scale disasters mobilize heritage professionals to a narrative of heritage-at-risk and a standardized set of processes to counter that risk.

This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting to bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, as well as academics from contingent disciplines, but also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds.

This handbook is a completely revised version of the first edition, which was published in 2012.

Humans are unique in that they expend considerable effort and ingenuity in disposing of the dead.

Most practising archaeologists have preferred to leave the deep theories of what lies behind their methods and perceptions on one side.

People with Animals emphasizes the interdependence of people and animals in society, and contributors examine the variety of forms and time-depth that these relations can take.

This collection of essays from a diverse group of internationally recognized scholars builds on the work of Steven J.

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

Counseling for Spiritually Empowered Wholeness is an introduction to Wholeness Counseling (also called Growth Counseling), a whole-person approach to pastoral counseling, psychotherapy, and education as developed by Howard Clinebell.

In Hidden Addictions: A Pastoral Response to the Abuse of Legal Drugs, you'll find that beneath the gruesome, more public face of illegal drug abuse lies another less hideous, but just as destructive, layer of addiction--the addiction to prescribed drugs.

The 1980s witnessed exciting developments in theoretical writing in Western archaeology.

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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.

In many regions of Europe and beyond fortifications belong to the most impressive of archaeological remains.

Dit boek bevat vijf langere en twee korte artikelen, die los van elkaar staan.

Contemporary Archaeology and the City foregrounds the archaeological study of post-industrial and other urban transformations through a diverse, international collection of case studies.

Within the colonial history of the British Empire there are difficulties in reconstructing the lives of people that came from very different traditions of experience.

Entanglement theory posits that the interrelationship of humans and objects is a delimiting characteristic of human history and culture.

Large-scale disasters mobilize heritage professionals to a narrative of heritage-at-risk and a standardized set of processes to counter that risk.

Two prehistoric cave sites on the Bird's Head of western New Guinea provide a detailed narrative of 26,000 years of human occupation of this area.

This work takes as its starting point the role of fieldwork and how this has changed over the past 150 years.

This volume in the ICAZ series deals with the technical advances made over the last twenty years in the field of ageing and sexing animal bones.

How did humans develop the capacity for symbolic imagination?

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

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

Heritage Ecologies presents an ecological understanding of heritage that furthers a concern for how its making and unmaking always involves a wide range of human and other-than-human actors.

Southern Anthropological Society James Mooney Award - Honorable MentionDrawing on new methods and theories, Edward Gonzalez-Tennant uncovers important elements of the forgotten history of Rosewood.

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

The Northumberland Archaeological Group’s (NAG) Wether Hill project spanned the years 1994–2015 and was located on the eponymous hilltop overlooking the mouth of the Breamish Valley in the Northumberland Cheviots.

Heritage under Pressure examines the relationship between the political perspective of the UK government on 'soft power' and the globalising effect of projects carried out by archaeologists and heritage professionals working in the historic environment.

Network theory and methodologies have become central to exploring and explaining social, economic, and political relationships and connections in past societies.

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

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.

Until now, the church has been unaware of the need for ministry to those suffering from pregnancy loss.

In this book, Carr unravels the biography of the archaeologist Tessa Verney Wheeler, a charming, tiny woman whose untimely death left her archaeological career overshadowed by her distinguished husband, Sir Mortimer Wheeler.

Gain a new perspective on the international implications of our aging population!

Originally published in 1971 Evolution - Revolution is an interdisciplinary volume examining inquiry around the central topic of evolution and revolution.

In many regions of Europe and beyond fortifications belong to the most impressive of archaeological remains.

Originally published in 1991, The New Evolutionary Paradigm provides an innovative and cross disciplinary look at evolution.

Ancient Alterity in the Andes is the first major treatment on ancient alterity: how people in the past regarded others.

An exploration of how the evolution of behavioral differences between humans and other primates affected the archaeological stone tool evidence.

The book draws on the evidence of landscape archaeology, palaeoenvironmental studies, ethnohistory and animal tracking to address the neglected topic of how we identify and interpret past patterns of movement in the landscape.

Museums and Archaeology brings together a wide, but carefully chosen, selection of literature from around the world that connects museums and archaeology.

With case studies from North America to Australia and South Africa and covering topics from archaeological ethics to the repatriation of human remains, this book charts the development of a new form of archaeology that is informed by indigenous values and agendas.

Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing.

Originally published in 1991, this is the first book-length exploration of post-structuralist discourse theory in archaeology.

The role of the pastoral psychotherapist requires balance between the individual, the community, and God.

This volume investigates smaller and larger networks of contacts within and across the Aegean and nearby regions, covering periods from the Neolithic until Classical times (6000-323 BC).

From the earliest of times people have sought to grow and nurture plants in a garden area.