Archaeological theory books

1474 books were found.

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 (Assistant Professor, Department of Visual and Media Anthropology, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Germany)
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 >>

Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain

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

Author: Gabriel Moshenska (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9780367786564
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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

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

Using an accessible style and innovative visual methods, The Living Inca Town illustrates how tourism can perpetuate...  Read More >>

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

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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 >>

Making Journeys: Archaeologies of Mobility

Making Journeys: Archaeologies of Mobility

Author: Catriona D. Gibson ,  Kerri Cleary
ISBN: 9781785709302
Format: Paperback
$120.00

Making Journeys explores new avenues of approach to the movement of people and ideas in the past through detailed...  Read More >>

Heritage in the Making: Dealing with the Legacies of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany

Heritage in the Making: Dealing with the Legacies of...

Author: Flaminia Bartolini (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781789698732
Format: Paperback
$129.38

The fifth volume of Ex Novo present selected papers from a workshop held at the University of Cambridge in December...  Read More >>

Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit

Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices...

Author: Philip J. Boyes
ISBN: 9781789255836
Format: Hardback
$129.38

Proposes a methodology for analysing the social context of writing systems.  Read More >>

Fifty Key Contemporary Archaeologists

Fifty Key Contemporary Archaeologists

Author: Marcia-Anne Dobres
ISBN: 9780415776998
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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After Discourse: Things, Affects, Ethics

After Discourse: Things, Affects, Ethics

Author: Bjørnar Olsen ,  Mats Burström
ISBN: 9780367190484
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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Fifty Key Contemporary Archaeologists

Fifty Key Contemporary Archaeologists

Author: Marcia-Anne Dobres
ISBN: 9780415776981
Format: Hardback
$179.00

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