Routledge Studies in Archaeology
Citizen Science in Southern European Archaeology
1st Edition
Edited
By Jesús Bermejo Tirado, Mattia Sanna Montanelli, Antonio Giorri
June 30, 2025
This book presents a valuable exploration of the potential for citizen science in archaeology within southern Europe. The examination of citizen science in archaeology has been heavily influenced by case studies and theories from Anglophone countries, where a distinctive policy and social framework...
Archaeological Perspectives on Burial Practices and Societal Change: Death in Transition
1st Edition
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By Frida Espolin Norstein, Irene Selsvold
November 07, 2024
Archaeological Perspectives on Burial Practices and Societal Change examines the relationships between burial practices and societal transformations in the past. This book highlights the centrality of burials as archaeological material for the understanding of societal change. It critically ...
An Archaeological History of Hermitages and Eremitic Communities in Medieval Britain and Beyond
1st Edition
By Simon Roffey
October 08, 2024
Many hermitages and eremitic communities are recorded throughout the medieval period, yet to date, there has been no comprehensive archaeological study. This richly illustrated book will consequently discuss a range of hermitages and introduce the reader to their architectural forms, spaces, ...
The Hydraulic State: Science and Society in the Ancient World
1st Edition
By Charles R. Ortloff
May 06, 2022
The Hydraulic State explores the hydraulic engineering technology underlying water system constructions of many of the ancient World Heritage sites in South America, the Middle East and Asia as used in their urban and agricultural water supply systems. Using a range of methods and techniques, some...
Archaeological Networks and Social Interaction
1st Edition
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By Lieve Donnellan
December 13, 2021
Archaeological Networks and Social Interaction focuses on conceptualisations of human interaction, human-thing entanglement, material affordances and agency.Network concepts in the archaeological discipline are ubiquitous these days. They range from loose concepts, used as metaphors to address a ...
Cognitive Archaeology: Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond
1st Edition
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By David S. Whitley, Johannes H.N. Loubser, Gavin Whitelaw
August 02, 2021
Cognitive Archaeology: Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond aims to interpret the social and cultural lives of the past, in part by using ethnography to build informed models of past cultural and social systems and partly by using natural models to understand ...
Researching the Archaeological Past through Imagined Narratives: A Necessary Fiction
1st Edition
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By Daniël van Helden, Robert Witcher
August 02, 2021
Archaeological interpretation is an imaginative act. Stratigraphy and artefacts do not tell us what the past was like; that is the task of the archaeologist. The diverse group of contributors to this volume address the relationship between archaeology and imagination through the medium of ...
Making Sense of Monuments: Narratives of Time, Movement, and Scale
1st Edition
By Michael J. Kolb
June 30, 2021
Stonehenge, Machu Picchu, Confederate statues, Egyptian pyramids, and medieval cathedrals: these are some of the places that are the subject of Making Sense of Monuments, an analysis of how the built environment molds human experiences and perceptions via bodily comparison. Drawing from recent ...
Alternative Iron Ages: Social Theory from Archaeological Analysis
1st Edition
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By Brais X. Currás, Inés Sastre
April 01, 2021
Alternative Iron Ages examines Iron Age social formations that sit outside traditional paradigms, developing methods for archaeological characterisation of alternative models of society. In so doing it contributes to the debates concerning the construction and resistance of inequality taking place ...
Visualising Skyscapes: Material Forms of Cultural Engagement with the Heavens
1st Edition
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By Liz Henty, Daniel Brown
March 31, 2021
Above the land and its horizon lies the celestial sphere, that great dome of the sky which governs light and darkness, critical to life itself, yet its influence is often neglected in the archaeological narrative. Visualising Skyscapes captures a growing interest in the emerging field of skyscape ...
Travellers in Time: Imagining Movement in the Ancient Aegean World
1st Edition
By Saro Wallace
August 14, 2020
Travellers in Time re-evaluates the extent to which the earliest Mediterranean civilizations were affected by population movement. It critiques both traditional culture-history-grounded notions of movement in the region as straightforwardly transformative, and the processual, systemic models that ...
Archaeologies of Us and Them: Debating History, Heritage and Indigeneity
1st Edition
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By Charlotta Hillerdal, Anna Karlström, Carl-Gösta Ojala
December 12, 2019
Archaeologies of “Us” and “Them” explores the concept of indigeneity within the field of archaeology and heritage and in particular examines the shifts in power that occur when ‘we’ define ‘the other’ by categorizing ‘them’ as indigenous. Recognizing the complex and shifting distinctions between ...