Archaeological theory books

The Ethics of Collecting Trauma offers an interdisciplinary dialogue on the ethics of contemporary museums that...  Read More >>

First published in 1992, this book (now with a new preface by the author) explains changes in the period up to AD...  Read More >>

The Ethics of Collecting Trauma offers an interdisciplinary dialogue on the ethics of contemporary museums that...  Read More >>

An overview of different topics covered by the field of archaeoacoustics, which seeks to advance the field through...  Read More >>

Case studies from Cyprus, Crete and Sardinia reconsider through evidence from archaeology, art, and history, assumptions...  Read More >>

This book examines the material and physical environment of the British soldiers on the Western Front (1914-1918)...  Read More >>

Museums as Assemblage offers a new way of thinking about the dynamism of art museums.  Read More >>

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of gender archaeology, both theory and practice, and contributes a...  Read More >>

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Working as Indigenous Archaeologists explores the often-contentious relationship between Indigenous and other formerly...  Read More >>

The concept for this book emerged from a public archaeology session at the 2019 Society for Historical Archaeology...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics investigates the archaeology of the contemporary world through...  Read More >>

Departing from more conscribed definitions, this book argues for an expansion of the concept of ‘Creolization’ in...  Read More >>

This book explores and critiques the underlying assumption that a binary gender system and patriarchal norms were...  Read More >>

Archaeological Perspectives on Burial Practices and Societal Change examines the relationships between burial practices...  Read More >>

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Sites, Traces, and Materiality proposes a new materialist model for archaeology that brings together the concept...  Read More >>

Taking as its point of departure the astounding longevity and ubiquity in our culture of so many themes, genres,...  Read More >>

Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology documents how racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism...  Read More >>

Mobile pastoralist activities occur at different scales across the landscape, including local, regional, and supra-regional...  Read More >>

Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology documents how racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism...  Read More >>

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The second edition of An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era explores the period between the late nineteenth and...  Read More >>

This book analyses aspects of the material culture of early modern Greece from an object-based perspective, using...  Read More >>