"Through time people have lived with darkness. Archaeology shows us that over the whole human journey people have sought out dark places, for burials, for votive deposition and sometimes for retreat or religious ritual away from the wider community. Thirteen papers explore the P…
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These 35 papers stretch beyond the standard zooarchaeological topics of economy and ecology, and consider how zooarchaeological research can contribute to our understanding of human behaviour and social systems.
From grave-goods as "personal possessions" to debates about "who owns the past?", concepts of ownership pervade archaeology. This anthology makes the case that, although the language of owning is so widespread that it passes unquestioned, it causes us to make fundamental assumpt…
This collection of original articles compares various key archaeological topics--agency, violence, social groups, diffusion--from evolutionary and interpretive perspectives. These two strands represent the major current theoretical poles in the discipline. By comparing and contr…
