Routledge Studies in Archaeology
Knowledge Networks and Craft Traditions in the Ancient World: Material Crossovers
1st Edition
Edited
By Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Ann Brysbaert, Lin Foxhall
December 10, 2019
This edited volume investigates knowledge networks based on materials and associated technologies in Prehistoric Europe and the Classical Mediterranean. It emphasises the significance of material objects to the construction, maintenance, and collapse of networks of various forms – which are central...
Open-Air Rock-Art Conservation and Management: State of the Art and Future Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy Darvill, Antonio Batarda Fernandes
December 10, 2019
While much has been achieved in understanding and managing weather effects and erosion phenomena affecting ancient imagery within the relatively protected environments of caves and rock-shelters, the same cannot be said of rock-art panels situated in the open-air. Despite the fact that the number ...
Sharing Archaeology: Academe, Practice and the Public
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Stone, Zhao Hui
December 10, 2019
As a discipline, Archaeology has developed rapidly over the last half-century. The increase in so-called ‘public archaeology,’ with its wide range of television programming, community projects, newspaper articles, and enhanced site-based interpretation has taken archaeology from a closed academic ...
The Archaeology of Bronze Age Iberia: Argaric Societies
1st Edition
By Gonzalo Jimenez, Sandra Subías, Margarita Romero
December 10, 2019
After more than a century of research, an enormous body of scientific literature in the field of El Argar studies has been generated, comprising some 700 bibliographic items. No fully-updated synthesis of the literature is available at the moment; recent works deal only with specific ...
The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions: Strategies for Investigating Anthropogenic Landscapes, Dynamic Environments, and Climate Change in the Human Past
1st Edition
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By Daniel Contreras
December 10, 2019
The impacts of climate change on human societies, and the roles those societies themselves play in altering their environments, appear in headlines more and more as concern over modern global climate change intensifies. Increasingly, archaeologists and paleoenvironmental scientists are looking to ...
The Maritime Archaeology of a Modern Conflict: Comparing the Archaeology of German Submarine Wrecks to the Historical Text
1st Edition
By Innes McCartney
December 10, 2019
Over the last 30 years, hydrographical marine surveys in the English Channel helped uncover the potential wreck sites of German submarines, or U-boats, sunk during the conflicts of World War I and World War II. Through a series of systemic dives, nautical archaeologist and historian Innes McCartney...
The Prehistory of Iberia: Debating Early Social Stratification and the State
1st Edition
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By María Cruz Berrocal, Leonardo García Sanjuán, Antonio Gilman
December 10, 2019
The origin and early development of social stratification is essentially an archaeological problem. The impressive advance of archaeological research has revealed that, first and foremost, the pre-eminence of stratified or class society in today’s world is the result of a long social struggle. This...
An Archaeology of Skill: Metalworking Skill and Material Specialization in Early Bronze Age Central Europe
1st Edition
By Maikel Kuijpers
March 28, 2019
Material is the mother of innovation and it is through skill that innovations are brought about. This core thesis that is developed in this book identifies skill as the linchpin of – and missing link between – studies on craft, creativity, innovation, and material culture. Through a detailed study...
The Archaeology of Roman Britain: Biography and Identity
1st Edition
By Adam Rogers
September 18, 2018
Within the colonial history of the British Empire there are difficulties in reconstructing the lives of people that came from very different traditions of experience. The Archaeology of Roman Britain argues that a similar critical approach to the lives of people in Roman Britain needs to be ...
An Archaeology of Land Ownership
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Relaki, Despina Catapoti
August 23, 2018
Within archaeological studies, land tenure has been mainly studied from the viewpoint of ownership. A host of studies has argued about land ownership on the basis of the simple co-existence of artefacts on the landscape; other studies have tended to extrapolate land ownership from more indirect ...
Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory
1st Edition
Edited
By Stella Souvatzi, Athena Hadji
August 23, 2018
Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory addresses these two concepts as interrelated, rather than as separate categories, and as a means for understanding past social relations at different scales. The need for this volume was realised through four main observations: the ever growing interest in...
Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean
1st Edition
By Louise Steel
May 31, 2017
The importance of cultural contacts in the East Mediterranean has long been recognized and is the focus of ongoing international research. Fieldwork in the Aegean, Egypt, Cyprus, and the Levant continues to add to our understanding of the nature of this contact and its social and economic ...