It might seem obvious that time lies at the heart of archaeology, since archaeology is about
the past. However, the issue of time is complicated and often problematic, and although we …

Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers.
This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices …

This work takes as its starting point the role of fieldwork and how this has changed over the
past 150 years. The author argues against progressive accounts of fieldwork and instead …

Is archaeology an art or a science? This question has been hotly debated over the last few
decades with the rise of archaeological science. At the same time, archaeologists have seen …

An up-to-date and critical analysis of how archaeologists study past societies, Archaeologies
of Complexity addresses the nature of contemporary archaeology and the study of social …

This book collects published and unpublished work over the last dozen years by one of
today s most distinguished and provocative anthropologists. Johannes Fabian is widely …

The first book to integrate fully the archaeological study of the landscape with the concerns
of colonial and postcolonial history, theory and scholarship, The Archaeology of the …

Traditionally story has been viewed as less than narrative. Narrative requires plot, as well as
coherence. To narrative theory, story is folksy, without emplotment, a simple telling of …

The study of the collapse of past societies raises many questions for the theory and practice
of archaeology. Interest in collapse extends as well into the natural sciences and …

The concept of an archaeological culture rarely features in any surveys of the literature of
modern archaeology, especially in the Anglo-American world. When it does …