Beyond Chiefdoms

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• Recent critiques of neoevolutionary formulations that focus primarily on the development of powerful hierarchies have called for broadening the empiri... Lees meer

Approaches to the Archaeological Heritage

Henry Cleere

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• This book undertakes a comparative study of the history and development of legislative and administrative systems in operation today for the protectio... Lees meer

Bad Year Economics

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• Bad Year Economics explores the role of risk and uncertainty in human economics within an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural framework. Drawing on a... Lees meer

Archaeology as Long-Term History

Ian Hodder

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• In marked contrast with the anthropological and cross-cultural approaches that featured so prominently in archaeological research this contributory vo... Lees meer

The Archaeology of Prehistoric Coastlines

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• The Archaeology of Prehistoric Coastlines offers a conspectus of recent work on coastal archaeology examining the various ways in which hunter-gathere... Lees meer

Quantifying Diversity in Archaeology

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• One of the enduring aims of archaeological research has been to explain why human material culture is so diverse, both across the world and through hi... Lees meer

Archaeological Theory

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• Since the l960s, archaeology has become increasingly taught in universities and practiced on a growing scale by national and local heritage agencies t... Lees meer

Time, Energy and Stone Tools

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• Time, Energy and Stone Tools aims to refocus archaeological and anthropological interest in technology by demonstrating that theory-building is possib... Lees meer

Symbolic and Structural Archaeology

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• This volume presents a searching critique of the more traditional archaeological methodologies and interpretation strategies and lays down a firm phil... Lees meer

Order, Legitimacy, and Wealth in Ancient States

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• In a very influential paper published in 1994, John Baines and Norman Yoffee produced the first analysis to examine the impact of wealth and high cult... Lees meer

Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• The presence of ancient road networks in the New World is a puzzle, because they predate the use of wheeled transport vehicles. But whatever their div... Lees meer

The Archaeology of Contact in Settler Societies

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• An international team of experts examines the historical archaeology of contact and its aftermath by considering the consequences of colonialism in se... Lees meer

The Origins and Development of the Andean State

Jonathan Haas, Shelia Pozorski, Thomas Pozorski

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• This volume brings together research on the evolution of civilisation in the Andean region of South America from the work of sixteen leading scholars,... Lees meer

Bad Year Economics

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• Explores the role of risk and uncertainty in human economics within an interdisciplinary an cross-cultural framework. Lees meer

Specialization, Exchange and Complex Societies

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• This book, a comparative study of specialized production in prehistoric societies, examines both adaptionist and political approaches to specializatio... Lees meer

Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• Archaeology has often been put to political use, particularly by nationalists. This timely collection ranges from propaganda purposes served by archae... Lees meer

Classical Greece

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• The archaeology of classical Greece developed in the shadow of Greek historical scholarship. Many modern developments in archaeology have been neglect... Lees meer

Farmers as Hunters

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• Farmers as hunters analyses from an essentially ethnographic perspective the role of hunters in small-scale farming societies. The twelve contributors... Lees meer

Archaeology, Annales, and Ethnohistory

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• This collection considers the relevance of the Annales 'school' for archaeology. The Annales movement regarded orthodox history as too much concerned ... Lees meer

Celtic Chiefdom, Celtic State

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• In this collection, archaeologists, historians, geographers and language specialists reexamine the structure and political development of Celtic state... Lees meer

The Ancient Mind

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• One of the most troubling problems in archaeology is to determine the manner and content of prehistoric thought. A fundamental challenge is to develop... Lees meer

Ideology, Power and Prehistory

Daniel Miller, Christopher Tilley

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• This book starts from the premise that methodology - the procedures for obtaining an 'objective' knowledge of the past - has always dominated archaeol... Lees meer

Ranking, Resource and Exchange

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• Ranked societies are characterized by disparities in personal status that are often accompanied by the concentration of power and authority in the han... Lees meer

The Archaeology of Rock-Art

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Archaeology
• Rock art--prehistoric pictures--gives us lively and captivating images of animals and people painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces. It... Lees meer