Routledge Studies in Archaeology
Archaeology's Visual Culture: Digging and Desire
1st Edition
By Roger Balm
December 12, 2019
Archaeology’s Visual Culture explores archaeology through the lens of visual culture theory. The insistent visuality of archaeology is a key stimulus for the imaginative and creative interpretation of our encounters with the past. Balm investigates the nature of this projection of the visual, ...
Balkan Dialogues: Negotiating Identity between Prehistory and the Present
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By Maja Gori, Maria Ivanova
December 12, 2019
Spatial variation and patterning in the distribution of artefacts are topics of fundamental significance in Balkan archaeology. For decades, archaeologists have classified spatial clusters of artefacts into discrete “cultures”, which have been conventionally treated as bound entities and equated ...
Cultural and Environmental Change on Rapa Nui
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By Sonia Haoa Cardinali, Kathleen B. Ingersoll, Daniel W. Ingersoll Jr., Christopher M. Stevenson
December 12, 2019
Rapa Nui, one of the world’s most isolated island societies and home to the notable moai, has been at the centre of a tense debate for the past decade. Some see it as the site of a dramatic cultural collapse occurring before Western contact, where a self-inflicted ecocide was brought on by the ...
Dwelling: Heidegger, Archaeology, Mortality
1st Edition
By Philip Tonner
December 12, 2019
Dwelling: Heidegger, Archaeology, Mortality negotiates the discourses of phenomenology, archaeology and palaeoanthropology in order to extend the ‘dwelling perspective’, an approach in the social sciences particularly associated with Tim Ingold and a number of other thinkers, including Chris Tilley...
Exploring the Materiality of Food 'Stuffs': Transformations, Symbolic Consumption and Embodiments
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By Louise Steel, Katharina Zinn
December 12, 2019
From remote antiquity to contemporary contexts, food and the ‘stuff’ of food remains central to people’s daily experiences as well as their sense and expression of identity. This volume explores the materiality of foodstuffs past and present, examining humanity’s intriguingly complex relationships ...
Marking the Land: Hunter-Gatherer Creation of Meaning in their Environment
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By William A Lovis, Robert Whallon
December 12, 2019
Marking the Land investigates how hunter-gatherers use physical landscape markers and environmental management to impose meaning on the spaces they occupy. The land is full of meaning for hunter-gatherers. Much of that meaning is inherent in natural phenomena, but some of it comes from ...
Material Worlds: Archaeology, Consumption, and the Road to Modernity
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By Barbara J. Heath, Eleanor E. Breen, Lori A. Lee
December 12, 2019
Material Worlds examines consumption from an archaeological perspective, broadly exploring the intersection of social relations and objects through the processes of production, distribution, use, reuse, and discard. Interrogating individual objects as well as considering the contexts in which acts ...
New Perspectives in Cultural Resource Management
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By Francis P. McManamon
December 12, 2019
New Perspectives in Cultural Resource Management describes the historic developments, current challenges, and future opportunities presented by contemporary Cultural Resource Management (CRM). CRM is a substantial aspect of archaeology, history, historical architecture, historical preservation, and...
The Life of Trade: Events and Happenings in the Niumi�s Atlantic Center
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By Liza Gijanto
December 12, 2019
The Life of Trade utilizes archaeological and historical sources to address the dynamic nature of the Atlantic trade on the Gambia River. Taking a fresh multi-disciplinary approach, the book highlights the region’s atypical position as a commercial crossroads and access point for both interior and ...
Archaeology in Environment and Technology: Intersections and Transformations
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By David Frankel, Susan Lawrence, Jennifer Webb
December 10, 2019
Environments, landscapes, and ecological systems are often seen as fundamental by archaeologists, but how they relate to society is understood in very different ways. The chapters in this book take environment, culture, and technology together. All have been the focus of much attention; often one ...
Debating Archaeological Empiricism: The Ambiguity of Material Evidence
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By Charlotta Hillerdal, Johannes Siapkas
December 10, 2019
Debating Archaeological Empiricism examines the current intellectual turn in archaeology, primarily in its prehistoric and classical branches, characterized by a return to the archaeological evidence. Each chapter in the book approaches the empirical from a different angle, illuminating ...
From Prehistoric Villages to Cities: Settlement Aggregation and Community Transformation
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By Jennifer Birch
December 10, 2019
Archaeologists have focused a great deal of attention on explaining the evolution of village societies and the transition to a ‘Neolithic’ way of life. Considerable interest has also concentrated on urbanism and the rise of the earliest cities. Between these two landmarks in human cultural ...