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Method & Theory

The Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains
edited by Rebecca Gowland and Christopher Knüsel
Human bones form the most direct link to understanding how people lived in the past, who they were and where they came from. The interpretative value of human skeletal remains (within their burial context) in terms of past social identity and organisation is awesome, but was, for many years, underexploited by archaeologists. The nineteen papers in this edited volume are an attempt to redress this by marrying the cultural aspects of burial with ...
Paperback. Price US$70.00

CAD Guide to Good Practice
by Harrison Eiteljorg II, Kate Fernie, Jeremy Huggett, Damian Robinson
This new Guide to Good Practice is designed to provide direction for individuals and organisations involved in the creation, maintenance, use, and long-term preservation of CAD-based digital resources in the humanities. From archaeological field work to heritage organisations and museums, increasingly CAD files and three-dimensional CAD models comprise a unique component of our digital archives - and one which may not be possible to ...
Paperback. Price US$30.00

Archiving Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing Data: A Guide to Good Practice
by Robert Bewley, Danny Donoghue, Vince Gaffney, Martijn van Leusen and Alicia Wise
This guide aims to set out the principles of 'good practice' in the creation and maintenance of digital resources related to aerial photography (including both optical and infra-red images), satellite and airborne remote sensing and the archaeological interpretations made form such data. The suggestions offered here aim to ensure that these digital resources can be re-used, and consequently archiving advice is included. Available on-line and in ...

Experiment and Design: aological Studies in Honour of John Coles
edited by A. F. Harding
John Coles is one of Europe's leading prehistorians, and has also been a major force int he development of British theoretical archaeology. His career has been associated with wetland archaeology, particularly the Somerset Levels Project. The uniquely preserved organic remains from these contexts have also led to his adventures in experimental archaeology. This coleection of papers reflects his wide-ranging interests. Contents include: ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$110.00, Our Price US$19.98

Past Bodies: Body-Centered Research in Archaeology
edited by Dusan Boric and John Robb
Archaeology often struggles in envisioning real people behind the world of material objects it studies. Even when dealing with skeletal remains archaeologists routinely reduce them to long lists of figures and attributes. Such a fragmentation of past subjects and their bodies, if analytically necessary, is hardly satisfactory. While material culture is the main archaeological proxy to real people in the past, the absence of past bodies has been ...
Hardback. Price US$60.00

Mesolithic Studies at the Beginning of the 21st Century
edited by Nicky Milner and Peter Woodman
The term 'Mesolithic' was born in the nineteenth century from the need to label a 'hiatus' period and was not generally accepted as a useful term by many scholars until around fifty years later. It has been championed by some, but still concerns others because of the difficulty of defining what it represents. This volume highlights the enthusiasm for Mesolithic studies in the 21st century and the feeling that there is a need to explore the many ...
Paperback. Price US$60.00

Archaeology and Anthropology: Understanding Similarity, Exploring Difference
edited by Duncan Garrow and Thomas Yarrow
This book focuses on the relationship between the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. Both disciplines arose from a common project: a desire to understand human social and cultural diversity. However, in recent years, archaeology's interest in anthropology has remained largely unreciprocated. To date, the causes and consequences of this imbalance have received little attention, particularly within anthropology.

Including papers ...
Paperback. Price US$70.00

Material Mnemonics: Everyday Memory in Prehistoric Europe
edited by Katina T. Lillios and Vasileios Tsamis
How did ancient Europeans materialize memory? Material Mnemonics: Everyday Practices in Prehistoric Europe provides a fresh approach to the archaeological study of memory. Drawing on case studies from the British Isles, Scandinavia, central Europe, Greece, Italy, and the Iberian Peninsula that date from the Neolithic through the Iron Age, the books authors explore the implications of our understanding of the past when memory and mnemonic ...
Paperback. Price US$70.00

The Archaeology of the Dead: Lectures in Archaeothanatology
by Henri Duday, translated by Anna Maria Cipriani and revised by John Pearce
Henri Duday is Director of Research for CNRS at the University of Bordeaux. The Archaeology of the Dead is based on an intensive specialist course in burial archaeology given by Duday in Rome in November 2004. The primary aim of the project was to contribute to the development of common procedures for excavation, data collection and study of Roman cemeteries of the imperial period. Translated into English by Anna Maria Cipriani and John ...
Paperback. Price US$60.00

From Mine to Microscope: Advances in the Study of Ancient Technology
edited by Andrew Shortland, Ian C Freestone and Thilo Rehren
These twenty papers dedicated to Mike Tite focus upon the interpretation of ancient artefacts and technologies, particularly through the application of materials analysis. Instruments from the human eye to mass spectometry provide insights into a range of technologies ranging from classical alum extraction to Bronze Age wall painting, and cover materials as diverse as niello, flint, bronze, glass and ceramic. Ranging chronologically from the ...