Offers an introduction to archaeology. This work offers coverage of the major developments in archaeological method, science, technology and theory, including gender archaeology, agency, materiality and engagement theory, and the latest GIS and survey techniques. It discusses topics such as genetics and linguistics and advances in dating methods.

The essays in this volume document trails, paths, and roads across different times and cultures, from those built by hunter-gatherers in the Great Basin of North America to causeway builders in the Bolivian Amazon to Bronze Age farms in the Near East, through aerial and satellite photography, surface survey, historical records, and excavation.

Examines how the notion of memory can significantly structure the research efforts in the empirical field of archaeology. This book covers a diverse set of regional case studies and focuses on a range of prehistoric and classical case studies in the Eurasian regional contexts.

What do we value about the past? In formulating policies about heritage preservation, that is the inevitable question, and deals not only with economic value but also the intangible value to individuals, communities and society as a whole. This title defines and assesses heritage values on a local, national and global level.

This volume provides a forum for debate between varied approaches to the past. The authors, drawn from Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, represent many different strands of archaeology.

An overview of the major ideas and concepts in archaeological theory. This book takes a historical approach and examines the roots of late-1990s debates in the development of archaeology since the 1970s. Topics discussed include the differences between processual and post-processual archaeology.

The goddess is the most potent and persistent feature in the archaeological records of the ancient world. In this volume the author resurrects the world of goddess-worshipping, earth-centred cultures, bringing ancient matriarchal society to life.

Diverse Legacies of the Cold War. Draws on artistic responses to the Cold War, defining them as being archaeology in a broad sense.

Using computer simulations of the ancient skies to crack the millennial code that the monuments transcribe, the authors set out a new theory concerning the Pyramid Texts and other archaic Egyptian scriptures.

This work is intended as an approachable introduction aimed at students of archaeology, history or museum and heritage studies. It attempts to take a fresh approach by providing an introduction to themes in the field of heritage as it relates to the material legacy of our past.

This book starts from the premise that methodology has always dominated archaeology to the detriment of broader social theory.

This book develops a new direction in prehistoric cognitive research which is rooted in science and empirical methodology.

From Black Land to Fifth Sun is an engrossing look at a dramatic new generation of archaeological discoveriesmade possible by cutting-edge sciencethat are transforming our understanding of the inner lives of ancient people everywhere.

This fourth edition of a highly popular title for beginners covers all the major topics in archaeology, and has a new regularly updated companion website with information and links.

This volume assesses current archaeological theories and considers how they relate to our understanding of the past.

Provides an illustrated analysis by a distinguished archaeologist of why the processes of archaeological investigation and discovery have been paralleled by the installations and art works of many artists, from the beginning of the 20th century.

Provides a fundamental examination of the conceptual framework within which archaeology is practised today. The relation between theoretical paradigms and everyday archaeological practice is critically explored.

A theory of ceramics that elucidates the complex relationship between culture, pottery and society.

Prehistoric archaeologists cannot observe their human subjects nor can they access their subjects' ideas. Both must be inferred from the remnants of the material objects they made and used. This fact has encouraged partisan approaches to the history and method of archaeology. This work challenges partisan versions of developments in archaeology.