Archaeological theory books

1474 books were found.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and...

Author: Sarah Tarlow (Professor of Historical Archaeology, University of Leicester) ,  Liv Nilsson Stutz (Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, Linnaeus University)
ISBN: 9780199569069
Format: Hardback
$363.95

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

Re-Presenting the Past: Archaeology through Text and Image

Re-Presenting the Past: Archaeology through Text and...

Author: Sheila Bonde ,  Stephen Houston
ISBN: 9781782972310
Format: Paperback
$64.69

The archaeological past exists for us through intermediaries. Some are written works, descriptions, narratives and...  Read More >>

Relational Archaeologies: Humans, Animals, Things

Relational Archaeologies: Humans, Animals, Things

Author: Christopher Watts
ISBN: 9780415525312
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Many of us accept as uncontroversial the belief that the world is comprised of detached and disparate products,...  Read More >>

Relational Archaeologies: Humans, Animals, Things

Relational Archaeologies: Humans, Animals, Things

Author: Christopher Watts
ISBN: 9780415525329
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Many of us accept as uncontroversial the belief that the world is comprised of detached and disparate products,...  Read More >>

Reclaiming Archaeology: Beyond the Tropes of Modernity

Reclaiming Archaeology: Beyond the Tropes of Modernity...

Author: Alfredo González-Ruibal
ISBN: 9780415673921
Format: Hardback
$504.00

The time is ripe for archaeologists to address a wider audience and engage in theoretical debates from a position...  Read More >>

From Prehistoric Villages to Cities: Settlement Aggregation and Community Transformation

From Prehistoric Villages to Cities: Settlement Aggregation...

Author: Jennifer Birch (University of Georgia, USA)
ISBN: 9780415836616
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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

The Politics of Islamic Reassertion (RLE Politics of Islam)

The Politics of Islamic Reassertion (RLE Politics of...

Author: Mohammed Ayoob
ISBN: 9780415830850
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Transformation through Destruction

Transformation through Destruction

Author: David Fontijn ,  Sasja van der Vaart
ISBN: 9789088901027
Format: Paperback
$194.06

Some 2800 years ago, a man died in what is now the municipality of Oss, the Netherlands. His death must have been...  Read More >>

Beyond Barrows: Current research on the structuration and perception of the Prehistoric Landscape through Monuments

Beyond Barrows: Current research on the structuration...

Author: David R. Fontijn ,  Arjan J. Louwen
ISBN: 9789088901089
Format: Paperback
$108.68

Europe is dotted with tens of thousands of prehistoric barrows. In spite of their ubiquity, little is known on the...  Read More >>

Griechische Grabbezirke Klassischer Zeit

Griechische Grabbezirke Klassischer Zeit

Author: Katja Sporn
ISBN: 9783777420349
Format: Hardback
$205.92

Norms and Regionalisms Files of the International Colloquium at the German Archaeological Institute, Athens Department....  Read More >>

Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture

Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture...

Author: Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen, UK)
ISBN: 9780415567237
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This exciting book takes a profound new approach to the study of four related disciplines and seeks to tie them...  Read More >>

Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture

Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture...

Author: Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen, UK)
ISBN: 9780415567220
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This exciting book takes a profound new approach to the study of four related disciplines and seeks to tie them...  Read More >>

Curating Human Remains: Caring for the Dead in the United Kingdom

Curating Human Remains: Caring for the Dead in the United...

Author: Myra Giesen (Contributor) ,  Charlotte Roberts (Contributor)
ISBN: 9781843838067
Format: Hardback
$207.00

The difficult and sensitive issue of how museums and other repositories should treat human remains in their possession...  Read More >>

Place as Material Culture: Objects, Geographies and the Construction of Time

Place as Material Culture: Objects, Geographies and...

Author: Dragos Gheorghiu ,  George Nash
ISBN: 9781443842617
Format: Hardback
$129.35

The present book explores the complexity of the past, by analysing the relationships between place, territory, the...  Read More >>

Under the Oracle

Under the Oracle

Author: Ben M. Ford ,  Daniel Poore
ISBN: 9781905905270
Format: Hardback
$64.69

Excavations carried out by Oxford Archaeology in advance of the building of the Oracle shopping centre revealed...  Read More >>

Neue Funde Archaischer Plastik Aus Griechischen Heilgtümern Und Nekropolen

Neue Funde Archaischer Plastik Aus Griechischen Heilgtümern...

Author: W -D Niemeier
ISBN: 9783777470412
Format: Hardback
$205.92

Neue Funde archaischer Plastik aus griechischen Heiligtümern und Nekropolen An astonishing number of new discoveries...  Read More >>

Archaeologies of Conflict

Archaeologies of Conflict

Author: John Carman ,  Richard Hodges
ISBN: 9781849668880
Format: Hardback
$160.00

The last two decades have seen the emergence of a specific set of archaeological approaches to war and conflict....  Read More >>

Archaeology and Apprenticeship: Body Knowledge, Identity, and Communities of Practice

Archaeology and Apprenticeship: Body Knowledge, Identity,...

Author: Willeke Wendrich
ISBN: 9780816507672
Format: Hardback
$158.40

This volume demonstrates how archaeology can benefit greatly from the understanding of the social dimensions of...  Read More >>

Veii. The Historical Topography of the Ancient City: A Restudy of John Ward-Perkins's Survey

Veii. The Historical Topography of the Ancient City:...

Author: Roberta Cascino ,  Helga Di Giuseppe
ISBN: 9780904152630
Format: Hardback
$219.94

During the nineteenth century, antiquarians such as William Gell and George Dennis visited the ancient city of Veii,...  Read More >>

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