A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship
with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the�…

The literature on the archaeology of emotion and affect is mostly quite recent and is not
extensive. This review considers the main lines of approach taken so far and explores how�…

Archaeologists for the first time in the history of the discipline are beginning to be faced with
a wide variety of different theoretical perspectives on the past. The majority of these have�…

Archaeology impacts the lives of indigenous, local, or descendant communities. Yet often
these groups have little input to archaeological research, and its results remain inaccessible�…

Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium provides an account of the changing world of
archaeological theory and a challenge to more traditional narratives of archaeological�…

Bodies intrigue us. They promise windows into the past that other archaeological finds
cannot by bringing us literally face to face with history. Yet'the body'is also highly contested�…

Richard Hingley here asks the questions: What is Romanization? Was Rome the first global
culture? Romanization has been represented as a simple progression from barbarism to�…

This book addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history
of our species, the change from foraging (hunting and gathering) to farming. Ten thousand�…

This controversial book is a survey of how relationships between indigenous peoples and
the archaeological establishment have got into difficulty, and a crucial pointer to how to�…

The archaeology of religion is a much neglected area, yet religious sites and artefacts
constitute a major area of archaeological evidence. Timothy Insoll presents an introductory�…