A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship
with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the …

We assess the scale and extent of the physical technosphere, defined here as the summed
material output of the contemporary human enterprise. It includes active urban, agricultural …

Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium provides an account of the changing world of
archaeological theory and a challenge to more traditional narratives of archaeological …

An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the
human body, from prehistory to the present. An increasingly influential school of thought in …

“This book exhorts the reader to embrace the materiality of archaeology by recognizing how
every step in the discipline's scientific processes involves interaction with myriad physical …

Humans, unlike any other multicellular species in Earth's history, have emerged as a global
force that is transforming the ecology of an entire planet. It is no longer possible to …

The application of method and theory from network science to archaeology has dramatically
increased over the last decade. In this article, we document this growth over time, discuss …

Although human lives towards the second half of the twentieth century became increasingly
mediated by objects and artifacts and have depended heavily on the functioning of technical …

Anthropogenic planetary disruptions, from climate change to biodiversity loss, are
unprecedented challenges for human societies. Some societies, social groups, cultural …

Introduction sir Mortimer Wheeler, that illustrious voice of a reasoned archaeological
imagination, never tired in asserting that archaeologists dig up people, not things (1954, v; …