Archaeological theory books

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The Living Inca Town: Tourist Encounters in the Peruvian Andes

The Living Inca Town: Tourist Encounters in the Peruvian...

Author: Karoline Guelke
ISBN: 9781487508104
Format: Hardback
$115.00

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Towards a Social Bioarchaeology of the Mycenaean Period: A Biocultural Analysis of Human Remains from the Voudeni Cemetery, Achaea, Greece

Towards a Social Bioarchaeology of the Mycenaean Period:...

Author: Ioanna Moutafi
ISBN: 9781789254822
Format: Paperback
$103.50

Investigates the complex relationship between Mycenaean funerary treatment and wider social dynamics.  Read More >>

Conversations in Human Evolution: Volume 2

Conversations in Human Evolution: Volume 2

Author: Lucy Timbrell
ISBN: 9781789699470
Format: Paperback
$87.98

This second volume reports another twenty interviews with scholars at the forefront of human evolution research,...  Read More >>

Act and Image: The Emergence of Symbolic Imagination

Act and Image: The Emergence of Symbolic Imagination...

Author: Warren Colman
ISBN: 9780367862688
Format: Paperback
$67.99

How did humans develop the capacity for symbolic imagination? In this ground-breaking book, Warren Colman provides...  Read More >>

Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain

Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain...

Author: Gabriel Moshenska
ISBN: 9780367786564
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This study of the material worlds of wartime childhood offers a unique viewpoint into an extraordinary period in...  Read More >>

Act and Image: The Emergence of Symbolic Imagination

Act and Image: The Emergence of Symbolic Imagination...

Author: Warren Colman
ISBN: 9780367862671
Format: Hardback
$273.00

How did humans develop the capacity for symbolic imagination? In this ground-breaking book, Warren Colman provides...  Read More >>

Along the Indian Highway: An Ethnography of an International Travelling Exhibition

Along the Indian Highway: An Ethnography of an International...

Author: Cathrine Bublatzky
ISBN: 9780367785048
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book is an ethnographic study of the travelling art exhibition Indian Highway that presented Indian contemporary...  Read More >>

The Art and Archaeology of Bodily Adornment: Studies from Central and East Asian Mortuary Contexts

The Art and Archaeology of Bodily Adornment: Studies...

Author: Sheri Lullo ,  Leslie Wallace
ISBN: 9780367785642
Format: Paperback
$71.99

The Art and Archaeology of Bodily Adornment examines the significance of adornment to the shaping of identity in...  Read More >>

Archaeology and its Discontents: Why Archaeology Matters

Archaeology and its Discontents: Why Archaeology Matters...

Author: John C. Barrett (University of Sheffield)
ISBN: 9780367556457
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Critically examines the state of archaeology today and its development throughout the twentieth century. It makes...  Read More >>

Designing (Post)Colonial Knowledge: Imagining South Asia

Designing (Post)Colonial Knowledge: Imagining South...

Author: Priya Jha (University of Redlands) ,  Rajinder Dudrah (Birmingham City University)
ISBN: 9780367726119
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book contributes to a growing body of scholarship that examines material culture and its relationship between...  Read More >>

Ezinge Revisited: The Ancient Roots of a Terp Settlement: Volume 1 - Excavation; Environment and Economy; Catalogue of Plans and Finds

Ezinge Revisited: The Ancient Roots of a Terp Settlement:...

Author: Annet Nieuwhof
ISBN: 9789493194090
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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

Peopling the Landscape of Çatalhöyük: Reports from the 2009-2017 Seasons

Peopling the Landscape of Çatalhöyük: Reports from the...

Author: Ian Hodder
ISBN: 9781912090785
Format: Hardback
$168.19

Reports on ways that humans engaged in their material and biotic environments at Çatalhöyük.  Read More >>

The Living Inca Town: Tourist Encounters in the Peruvian Andes

The Living Inca Town: Tourist Encounters in the Peruvian...

Author: Karoline Guelke
ISBN: 9781487525668
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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Ontologies of Rock Art: Images, Relational Approaches, and Indigenous Knowledges

Ontologies of Rock Art: Images, Relational Approaches,...

Author: Oscar Moro Abadía ,  Martin Porr (University of Western Australia, Australia)
ISBN: 9780367337803
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Ontologies of Rock Art is the first publication to explore a wide range of ontological approaches to rock art interpretation,...  Read More >>

Social Complexity and Complex Systems in Archaeology

Social Complexity and Complex Systems in Archaeology...

Author: ies Daems
ISBN: 9780367478582
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Social Complexity and Complex Systems in Archaeology turns to complex systems thinking in search of a suitable framework...  Read More >>

Sumerian Religion: Introducing the Anunnaki Gods of Mesopotamian Neopaganism

Sumerian Religion: Introducing the Anunnaki Gods of...

Author: Joshua Free
ISBN: 9780578855165
Format: Hardback
$64.56

Secrets of Mesopotamian religion and Anunnaki mythology of Sumer and Babylon are revealed from the ancient cuneiform...  Read More >>

Interdisciplinarity and Archaeology: Scientific Interactions in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Archaeology

Interdisciplinarity and Archaeology: Scientific Interactions...

Author: Laura Coltofean-Arizancu ,  Margarita Díaz-Andreu
ISBN: 9781789254662
Format: Paperback
$99.00

Explores the relationships between archaeology and other branches of knowledge in the natural and social sciences....  Read More >>

Themes in Old World Zooarchaeology: From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic

Themes in Old World Zooarchaeology: From the Mediterranean...

Author: Umberto Albarella ,  Cleia Detry
ISBN: 9781789255348
Format: Hardback
$155.25

An overview of cutting-edge research in Old World zooarchaeology.  Read More >>

Going Underground: The Meanings of Death and Burial for Minority Groups in Israel

Going Underground: The Meanings of Death and Burial...

Author: Talia Shay
ISBN: 9781789696196
Format: Paperback
$51.75

This volume is about the attitudes towards death and burial in contemporary society. It provides information on...  Read More >>

Scratching Through the Surface: Revisiting the Archaeology of City and Country in Crustumerium and North Latium Vetus Between 850 and 300 BC

Scratching Through the Surface: Revisiting the Archaeology...

Author: Jorn Seubers
ISBN: 9789493194212
Format: Paperback
$211.20

This detailed study of Crustumerium's urban and rural settlement dynamics elaborates a new scenario on the relation...  Read More >>

The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices

The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing...

Author: Philip J. Boyes ,  Philippa M. Steele
ISBN: 9781789254785
Format: Hardback
$142.31

New ways of approaching the study of writing in the past.  Read More >>

Far from Equilibrium: An Archaeology of Energy, Life and Humanity: A Response to the Archaeology of John C. Barrett

Far from Equilibrium: An Archaeology of Energy, Life...

Author: Michael J. Boyd ,  Roger C.P. Doonan
ISBN: 9781789256031
Format: Hardback
$180.00

A critical examination and exploration of developments in archaeology inspired by John Barrett.  Read More >>

Professor Challenger and his Lost Neolithic World: The Compelling Story of Alexander Thom and British Archaeoastronomy

Professor Challenger and his Lost Neolithic World: The...

Author: Euan W. MacKie
ISBN: 9781784918330
Format: Paperback
$77.63

This book combines the two great passions of the author’s life: reconstructing the Neolithic mind and constructively...  Read More >>

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