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One World Archaeology

About the Book Series

The One World Archaeology series brings together the ideas of archaeologists, anthropologists and academics in a host of related disciplines from around the world. Integral to this unique, worldwide interdisciplinary approach are the contributions made by non-academics from a wide variety of cultures - Inuit, Australian Aborigine and Native American, the result is a contemporary global, cross-cultural approach.
The fourth World Archaeological Congress will be held in Cape Town, South Africa in January 1999, with the Right Honourable Nelson Mandela as Patron.

42 Series Titles


Time, Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology

Time, Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology

1st Edition

Edited By James McGlade, Sander E. van der Leeuw
June 29, 2010

In a discipline which essentially studies how modern man came to be, it is remarkable that there are hardly any conceptual tools to describe change. This is due to the history of the western intellectual and scientific tradition, which for a long time favoured mechanics over dynamics, and the study...

The Emergence of Agriculture A Global View

The Emergence of Agriculture: A Global View

1st Edition

Edited By Peter White, Timothy Denham
December 26, 2006

This volume, the first in the One World Archaeology series, is a compendium of key papers by leaders in the field of the emergence of agriculture in different parts of the world. Each is supplemented by a review of developments in the field since its publication. Contributions cover the ...

Archaeological Heritage Management in the Modern World

Archaeological Heritage Management in the Modern World

1st Edition

Edited By Henry Cleere
May 19, 2005

Representing the latest thinking in this fast-moving and often emotive field, this book offers a remarkably comprehensive international coverage of the public aspects of archaeology. The process of survey and inventory, rescue and archaeology, conservation and protection have until now been studied...

The Dead and their Possessions Repatriation in Principle, Policy and Practice

The Dead and their Possessions: Repatriation in Principle, Policy and Practice

1st Edition

Edited By Cressida Fforde, Jane Hubert, Paul Turnbull
August 25, 2004

Inspired by a key session for the World Archaeological Congress in South Africa, The Dead and their Possessions is the first book to tackle the principle, policy and practice of repatriating museum artefacts, rather than cultural heritage in general. Increasingly, indigenous people world-wide...

Sacred Sites, Sacred Places

Sacred Sites, Sacred Places

1st Edition

Edited By David L. Carmichael, Jane Hubert, Brian Reeves, Audhild Schanche
November 07, 1997

Sacred Sites, Sacred Places explores the concept of 'sacred' and what it means to people in differing cultures. Archaeologists, legislators and those involved in heritage management sometimes come into conflict with local populations over sites which these communities consider to be sacred. This ...

From the Baltic to the Black Sea Studies in Medieval Archaeology

From the Baltic to the Black Sea: Studies in Medieval Archaeology

1st Edition

Edited By Leslie Alcock, David Austin
June 27, 1997

Offers a rare insight into the closed world of medieval Eastern Europe and opens up a neglected archaeological tradition to English-speaking readers. Sections focus on early European ethnic formations and states, the demography of medieval populations and the nature of rural settlement and urban ...

Social Construction of the Past Representation as Power

Social Construction of the Past: Representation as Power

1st Edition

Edited By George C. Bond, Angela Gilliam
April 17, 1997

Social Construction of the Past examines how mainstream scholarship constructs the past and, in creating a people's cultural history, appropriates it and turns it into a form of domination by one group over another.Acknowledgements of the intellectual and scholarly contribution of subjugated ...

Centre and Periphery Comparative Studies in Archaeology

Centre and Periphery: Comparative Studies in Archaeology

1st Edition

Edited By Tim Champion
November 15, 1995

There has recently been much interest among geographers, historians and political theorists in concepts of centre and periphery. In this book a wide range of studies consider how such concepts can be used to clarify our understanding of pre-capitalist societies....

Domination and Resistance

Domination and Resistance

1st Edition

Edited By Daniel Miller, Michael Rowlands, Chris Tilley
November 15, 1995

The nature of power - one of the central concerns in social science - is the main theme of this wide-ranging book. Introducing a much broader historical and geographical comparative understanding of domination and resistance than is available elsewhere, the editors and contributors offer a wealth ...

The Archaeology of Africa Food, Metals and Towns

The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns

1st Edition

Edited By Bassey Andah, Alex Okpoko, Thurstan Shaw, Paul Sinclair
March 28, 1995

Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies in an Extraordinary range of environmental situations. At long last the archaeology ...

The Excluded Past Archaeology in Education

The Excluded Past: Archaeology in Education

1st Edition

Edited By Robert MacKenzie, Peter Stone
March 28, 1995

A ground-breaking book that examines the uneasy relationship between archaeology and education. Argues that archaeologists have a vital role to play in education alongside other interpreters of the past. Contributors from different countries and disciplines show how the exclusion of aspects of the ...

Signifying Animals

Signifying Animals

1st Edition

Edited By Roy Willis
October 18, 1994

A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation....

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