This review calls for the definition of a landscape approach in archaeology. After tracing the
development of the landscape idea over its history in the social sciences and examining the …

Heritage is a concept to which most people would assign a positive value. The preservation
of material culture–objects of art and of daily use, architecture, landscape form–and …

This interdisciplinary book examines archaeology's engagement with semiotics, from its
early structuralist beginnings to its more recent Peircian encounters. It represents the first …

This paper thematically characterizes a large body of recent obsidian sourcing discourse as
a means of highlighting the current place of obsidian provenance studies in larger …

In a scene that may resonate with contemporary archaeologists as uncannily familiar, a sixth
century bc cuneiform tablet from Larsa, in modern Iraq, testifies to the incipient …

First published in 2005, this brief introduction to methods of studying rock art has become
the standard text for courses on this topic. It was also selected as a Choice Magazine …

Barrett's statement is exhortatory and programmatic; Stoddart's statement affirms that
contemporary archaeologists agree with Barrett's words, if not necessarily with the same …

Concerns with spatial dimensions and social inference have long histories in archaeology.
However, the two histories are not always conjoined. This article considers changing …

This volume is the first text to focus specifically on the archaeology of domestic architecture.
Covering major theoretical and methodological developments over recent decades in areas …

Lefebvre 1991; Soja 1996). Places, meanings, and memories are intertwined to create a
“sense of place” that rests on, and reconstructs, a history of social engagement with the …