Archaeological theory books

This Handbook reviews the state of mortuary archaeology and its practice with forty-four chapters focusing on the...  Read More >>

Interrogating Human Origins encourages new critical engagements with the study of human origins, broadening the...  Read More >>

Cognitive Archaeology: Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond interprets the social and cultural...  Read More >>

This volume clarifies the role of women in Egyptian society during the first millennium BCE, allowing for more nuanced...  Read More >>

Dwelling: Heidegger, Archaeology, Mortality negotiates discourses in phenomenology, archaeology and palaeoanthropology...  Read More >>

Material Worlds examines consumption from an archaeological perspective, exploring the intersection of social relations...  Read More >>

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The archaeology of the recent or contemporary past has grown fast during the last decade. This development has been...  Read More >>

The contributors use a variety of theoretical arguments to advance the case for the value of a reflexive engagement...  Read More >>

Proceedings of a conference held at St. Mary’s University in Notre Dame, Indiana (2017), this volume presents a...  Read More >>

The impacts of climate change on human societies, and the roles those societies themselves play in altering their...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the Greek pottery consumed by people in the western Mediterranean and trans-Alpine Europe from...  Read More >>

This edited volume investigates knowledge networks based on materials and associated technologies in Prehistoric...  Read More >>

Archaeologists have focused a great deal of attention on explaining the evolution of village societies and the transition...  Read More >>

Environments, landscapes, and ecological systems are often seen as fundamental by archaeologists, but how they relate...  Read More >>

Debating Archaeological Empiricism examines the current intellectual turn in archaeology, primarily in its prehistoric...  Read More >>

Drawing on previous scholarship on the interrelation of memory and materiality, this book applies recent theories...  Read More >>

Interrogating Human Origins encourages new critical engagements with the study of human origins, broadening the...  Read More >>

This volume collects 33 papers from an international conference held at Charles University in 2015. Contributions...  Read More >>

This book offers a new explanation for the spatial-political-environmental dynamics of water and irrigation in the...  Read More >>

A critical review of recent trends in the archaeological and anthropological theory of technology from processual...  Read More >>

Incorporating Nonbinary Gender into Inuit Archaeology: Oral Testimony and Material Inroads explores gender diversity...  Read More >>

Death Spoke traces the murder of an archeologist, a WWII atrocity, forged prehistoric art, and lives torn by sexual...  Read More >>