Archaeology Books

New and Published Books

1. Reclaiming Archaeology

   Beyond the Tropes of Modernity

   Edited by Alfredo González-Ruibal

   Series: Archaeological Orientations

   Archaeology has been an important source of metaphors for some of the key intellectuals of the 20th century: Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Alois Riegl and Michel Foucault, amongst many others. However, this power has also turned against archaeology, because the discipline has been dealt with...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. From Prehistoric Villages to Cities

   Settlement Aggregation and Community Transformation

   Edited by Jennifer Birch

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   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...

   Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
3. Contested Objects

   Material Memories of the Great War

   Edited by Nicholas J. Saunders, Paul Cornish

   Contested Objects breaks new ground in the interdisciplinary study of material culture. Its focus is on the rich and varied legacy of objects from the First World War as the global conflict that defined the twentieth century. From the iconic German steel helmet to practice trenches on Salisbury...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Making

   Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture

   By Tim Ingold

   Making creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and potentials of human life. In this exciting book, Tim Ingold ties the four disciplines together in a way...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Routledge Handbook of Archaeological Human Remains and Legislation

   An international guide to laws and practice in the excavation and treatment of archaeological human remains

   Edited by Nicholas Marquez-Grant, Linda Fibiger

   Methodologies and legislative frameworks regarding the archaeological excavation, retrieval, analysis, curation and potential reburial of human skeletal remains differ throughout the world. As work forces have become increasingly mobile and international research collaborations are steadily...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
6. Archaeology in Environment and Technology

   Intersections and Transformations

   Edited by David Frankel, Susan Lawrence, Jennifer Webb

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   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...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Archaeology and Language I

   Theoretical and Methodological Orientations

   Edited by Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs

   Series: One World Archaeology

   Archaeology and Language I represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the first of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics...

   Published March 5th 2013 by Routledge
8. The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt

   By Richard Alston

   For those wishing to study the Roman city in Egypt, the archaeological record is poorer than that of many other provinces. Yet the large number of surviving texts allows us to reconstruct the social lives of Egyptians to an extent undreamt of elsewhere. We are not, therefore, limited to a history...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
9. Social Approaches to an Industrial Past

   The Archaeology and Anthropology of Mining

   Edited by Eugenia W. Herbert, A. Bernard Knapp, Vincent C. Pigott

   Social Approaches to an Industrial Past addresses the social issues of mining communities in research spanning a period of 4,500 years. The volume considers themes which are relatively new to archaeology: * the social context of production * gender * power and labour exploitation * imperialism and...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
10. Imagining the Pagan Past

    Gods and Goddesses in Literature and History since the Dark Ages

    By Marion Gibson

    Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain’s pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the scholarly world; often being seen as historically dubious, self-indulgent romance and, worse,...

    Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge