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In this book Ian Hodder explores the ways in which material things draw us in, direct and define us. Using examples drawn from the early farming villages of the Middle East as well as from our daily lives in the modern world, he shows how things can and do entrap humans and societies into the maintenance and sustaining of material worlds. The earliest agricultural innovations, the phenomena of population increase, settlement stability, domestication of plants and animals can all be seen as elaborations of a general process by which humans were drawn into the lives of things.