Archaeological Orientations
About the Book Series
An interdisciplinary series that engages our on-going, yet ever-changing, fascination with the archaeological, Archaeological Orientations investigates the myriad ways material pasts are entangled with communities, animals, ecologies and technologies, past, present or future. From urgent contemporary concerns, including politics, violence, sustainability, ecology, and technology, to long-standing topics of interest, including time, space, materiality, memory and agency, Archaeological Orientations promotes bold thinking and the taking of risks in pressing trans-disciplinary matters of concern.
Shadow Archaeologies: In the Shadow of Antiquity or For Other Modes of Archaeological Worldmaking
1st Edition
Edited
By Assaf Nativ, Gavin Lucas
July 31, 2025
Shadow Archaeologies explores the modes of knowledge production which operate where the light of mainstream, historically oriented archaeology does not reach. It exposes the field’s underbelly and dwells on issues that standard practice ignores or glosses over, questioning what archaeology and the ...
Undoing Things: How Objects, Bodies and Worlds Come Apart
1st Edition
Edited
By Gavin Lucas, Shannon Lee Dawdy
May 27, 2025
Undoing Things explores all the ways in which things become undone, be they objects, bodies, places, or worlds. Although archaeologists have long attended to the productive dimensions of materiality and material culture as a coherent phenomenon—making objects, building things, constructing ...
Heritage Ecologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Torgeir Rinke Bangstad, Þóra Pétursdóttir
August 24, 2021
Heritage Ecologies presents an ecological understanding of heritage that furthers a concern for how its making and unmaking always involves a wide range of human and other-than-human actors. Recognizing the entangled nature-cultures of heritage is essential in the Anthropocene era, ...
Interrogating Human Origins: Decolonisation and the Deep Human Past
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Porr, Jacqueline Matthews
December 13, 2019
Interrogating Human Origins encourages new critical engagements with the study of human origins, broadening the range of approaches to bring in postcolonial theories, and begin to explore the decolonisation of this complex topic. The collection of chapters presented in this volume creates spaces ...
Reclaiming Archaeology: Beyond the Tropes of Modernity
1st Edition
Edited
By Alfredo González-Ruibal
November 10, 2016
Archaeology has been an important source of metaphors for some of the key intellectuals of the 20th century: Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Alois Riegl and Michel Foucault, amongst many others. However, this power has also turned against archaeology, because the discipline has been dealt with ...