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 …

Despite the ethnographic importance of the Southeast Asian house and household, an
explicitly Southeast Asian “household archaeology” is still in its infancy. Nevertheless …

House societies have become popular with archaeologists in recent years, due to (among
other things) their conspicuous material basis (wealth, heirlooms and the houses …

The Colonial Caribbean is an archaeological analysis of the Jamaican plantation system at
the turn of the nineteenth century. Focused specifically on coffee plantation landscapes and …

Considerable attention has been devoted to the architecture and art history of Cambodia's
Angkor Wat temple in the last century. There has, however, been little research on the …

Infrastructure makes up a considerable portion of the material culture that archaeologists
study. Whether measured in terms of spatial extension or just sheer mass, infrastructural …

Archaeologists have focused a great deal of attention on explaining the origins of village
societies and the transition to a Neolithic way of life. Considerable interest has also …

Abstract During the Middle Woodland period, from 200 BC to AD 600, southeastern societies
erected monuments, interacted widely, and produced some of the most striking material …

A new theoretical approach to medieval rural settlement, built on the concept of intensity, is
proposed. It is argued that analysing settlements as intensive spaces creates new …

Monumental architecture has long been associated with the rise of the State and societal
inequality, yet recent studies have shown some small and relatively egalitarian societies …