Archaeological theory books

1421 books were found.

Fashioned Selves: Dress and Identity in Antiquity

Fashioned Selves: Dress and Identity in Antiquity

Author: Megan Cifarelli
ISBN: 9781789252545
Format: Paperback
$115.00

Presents a wide ranging examination of the social roles of dressed bodies in ancient contexts, texts, and images....  Read More >>

Historical Ecologies, Heterarchies and Transtemporal Landscapes

Historical Ecologies, Heterarchies and Transtemporal...

Author: Celeste Ray ,  Manuel Fernández-Götz
ISBN: 9780815347750
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Historical ecology draws from archaeology, archival research, ethnography, the humanities, and the biophysical sciences...  Read More >>

The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art: Materials, Power and Manipulation

The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art:...

Author: Grażyna Jurkowlaniec ,  Ika Matyjaszkiewicz
ISBN: 9780367359720
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency...  Read More >>

The Secret Life of Memorials: Through the Memory Lens of the Australian South Sea Islanders

The Secret Life of Memorials: Through the Memory Lens...

Author: Julie Mitchell
ISBN: 9781789690958
Format: Paperback
$93.15

Focussing on the Australian South Sea Islander minority community this volume employs a variety of theoretical arguments...  Read More >>

Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets

Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method...

Author: Lewis R. Binford
ISBN: 9780520303409
Format: Paperback
$82.95

Presents a description of the author's methodology and its significance for understanding hunter-gatherer cultures...  Read More >>

Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain

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

Author: Gabriel Moshenska
ISBN: 9781138565265
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

Atlas of Ceramic Fabrics 2: Italy: Southern Tyrrhenian. Neolithic – Bronze Age

Atlas of Ceramic Fabrics 2: Italy: Southern Tyrrhenian....

Author: Sara T. Levi ,  Valentina Cannavo
ISBN: 9781789691177
Format: Paperback
$90.56

‘Atlas of Ceramic Fabrics 2. Italy: Southern Tyrrhenian. Neolithic – Bronze Age’, the second in a series of atlases...  Read More >>

Public Archaeology: Theoretical Approaches & Current Practices

Public Archaeology: Theoretical Approaches & Current...

Author: Isilay Gursu
ISBN: 9781912090808
Format: Hardback
$77.63

This volume explores the relationship between archaeology and contemporary society, especially as it concerns local...  Read More >>

The Beaker People: Isotopes, Mobility and Diet in Prehistoric Britain

The Beaker People: Isotopes, Mobility and Diet in Prehistoric...

Author: Mike Parker Pearson ,  Alison Sheridan
ISBN: 9781789250640
Format: Hardback
$150.00

A unique and fundamentally important exploration of the origin, mobility, diet and cultural relationships of Beaker-using...  Read More >>

An Archaeology of Skill: Metalworking Skill and Material Specialization in Early Bronze Age Central Europe

An Archaeology of Skill: Metalworking Skill and Material...

Author: Maikel Kuijpers
ISBN: 9780367271008
Format: Paperback
$92.99

An Archaeology of Skill identifies skill as the linchpin of – and missing link between – studies on craft, creativity,...  Read More >>

Architectural Energetics in Archaeology: Analytical Expansions and Global Explorations

Architectural Energetics in Archaeology: Analytical...

Author: Leah McCurdy ,  Elliot M. Abrams
ISBN: 9781138088566
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Architectural Energetics in Archaeology assembles an international array of scholars who have analyzed architecture...  Read More >>

The Patriot Behind the Pot: A Historical and Archaeological Study of Ceramics, Glassware and Politics in the Dutch Household of the Revolutionary Era: 1780-1815

The Patriot Behind the Pot: A Historical and Archaeological...

Author: Wytze Stellingwerf
ISBN: 9789089320261
Format: Paperback
$175.56

At the end of the 18th century numerous Dutch people used all kinds of ceramic and glass items in their household...  Read More >>

TephroArchaeology in the North Pacific

TephroArchaeology in the North Pacific

Author: Gina L. Barnes (Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies, Durham University) ,  Tsutomu Soda
ISBN: 9781789691726
Format: Paperback
$155.25

‘TephroArchaeology’ (from the Japanese, kazanbai kōkogaku – lit. volcanic ash archaeology), refers to a sub-discipline...  Read More >>

Archaeological Theory in Practice

Archaeological Theory in Practice

Author: Patricia Urban ,  Edward Schortman (Kenyon College, USA)
ISBN: 9781138202719
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book bridges the gap between theory and practice by looking in detail at how the authors and their colleagues...  Read More >>

Funerary Archaeology and Changing Identities: Community Practices in Roman-Period Sardinia

Funerary Archaeology and Changing Identities: Community...

Author: Mauro Puddu
ISBN: 9781789690002
Format: Paperback
$103.50

This book analyses in detail the funerary evidence from burial sites in southern and central Sardinia, proposing...  Read More >>

Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments: Fundamentals, Assumptions, Techniques

Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments: Fundamentals, Assumptions,...

Author: J. Tyler Faith (University of Utah) ,  R. Lee Lyman (University of Missouri, Columbia)
ISBN: 9781108480352
Format: Hardback
$271.69

This book is targeted to students and professionals in archaeology, paleontology, and paleoecology. The reconstruction...  Read More >>

Beyond the Romans: Posthuman Perspectives in Roman archaeology

Beyond the Romans: Posthuman Perspectives in Roman archaeology...

Author: Irene Selsvold ,  Lewis Webb
ISBN: 9781789251364
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Explores post-humanist approaches to re-examine Roman material culture and interactions between human and non-human...  Read More >>

Personifying Prehistory: Relational Ontologies in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland

Personifying Prehistory: Relational Ontologies in Bronze...

Author: Joanna Brück (Professor of Archaeology and Head of the School of Archaeology, Professor of Archaeology and Head of the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin)
ISBN: 9780198768012
Format: Hardback
$190.95

This book draws on the wealth of new evidence for Bronze Age burials, settlements, and landscapes to explore the...  Read More >>

Zeitschrift Fur Orient-Archaologie

Zeitschrift Fur Orient-Archaologie

Author: Ricardo Eichmann ,  Margarete Van Ess
ISBN: 9783786128298
Format: Hardback
$298.32

Die Zeitschrift fur Orient-Archaologie (ZOrA) wird seit 2008 von der Orient-Abteilung des Deutschen Archaologischen...  Read More >>

Reinventing Sustainability: How Archaeology Can Save the Planet

Reinventing Sustainability: How Archaeology Can Save...

Author: Erika Guttmann-Bond
ISBN: 9781785709920
Format: Paperback
$75.00

Discusses the potential significance for the reintroduction of ancient technologies in modern sustainability.  Read More >>

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