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Cover of Dr Jose C. Carvajal (Lecturer in Islamic Archaeology, University of Leicester, UK) Lopez: Islamization and Archaeology

Dr Jose C. Carvajal (Lecturer in Islamic Archaeology, University of Leicester, UK) Lopez: Islamization and Archaeology

This fresh approach to the study of Islamization proposes an innovative conceptual framework that treats the subject as a particular case of cultural change. The aim of the volume is to make …

Cover of Luca Giorgi & Pietro Matracchi: The Cathedrals of Pisa, Siena and Florence

Luca Giorgi & Pietro Matracchi: The Cathedrals of Pisa, Siena and Florence

The construction techniques and concepts of the cathedrals of Pisa, Siena and Florence are examined in detail, based on new data and using a methodological architectural diagnostics approach. New d …

Cover of Martyn (Northumbria University, UK.) Hudson: Visualising Worlds

Martyn (Northumbria University, UK.) Hudson: Visualising Worlds

This book examines the social production of our world, of the worlds of the past and of the worlds of the future, considering the ways in which worlds are created in both actuality and imagination. B …

Cover of Annabeth Headrick & Rex Koontz: Landscape And Power In Ancient Mesoamerica

Annabeth Headrick & Rex Koontz: Landscape And Power In Ancient Mesoamerica

From the early cities in the second millennium BC to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan on the eve of the Spanish conquest, Ancient Mesoamericans created landscapes full of meaning and power in the …

Cover of Tim Thomas: Theory in the Pacific, the Pacific in Theory

Tim Thomas: Theory in the Pacific, the Pacific in Theory

Theory in the Pacific, the Pacific in Theory explores the role of theory in Pacific archaeology and its interplay with archaeological theory worldwide. The contributors assess how the practice of a …

Cover of Oliver J.T. (The University of Leicester, UK) Harris: Assembling Past Worlds

Oliver J.T. (The University of Leicester, UK) Harris: Assembling Past Worlds

Assembling Past Worlds draws on new materialism and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to explore the potential for a posthumanist archaeology. Through specific empirical study, this book provides a …

Cover of Jacqueline (University of Western Australia) Matthews & Martin (University of Western Australia, Australia) Porr: Interrogating Human Origins

Jacqueline (University of Western Australia) Matthews & Martin (University of Western Australia, Australia) Porr: Interrogating Human Origins

Interrogating Human Origins encourages new critical engagements with the study of human origins, broadening the range of approaches to bring in postcolonial theories, and begin to explore the decolon …

Cover of Thomas (University of Luxembourg) Kolnberger & Christoph Klaus Streb: The Materiality and Spatiality of Death, Burial and Commemoration

Thomas (University of Luxembourg) Kolnberger & Christoph Klaus Streb: The Materiality and Spatiality of Death, Burial and Commemoration

Death, dying and burial produce artefacts and occur in spatial contexts. The interplay between such materiality and the bereaved who commemorate the dead yields interpretations and creates meanings t …

Cover of Scott W. Schwartz: An Archaeology of Temperature

Scott W. Schwartz: An Archaeology of Temperature

This work investigates the material culture of public temperatures in New York City. Numbers like temperature, while ubiquitous and indispensable to capitalized social relations, are often hidden awa …

Cover of David Radford: The Archaeology of Oxford in 20 Digs

David Radford: The Archaeology of Oxford in 20 Digs

From the remains of a tenth/eleventh-century massacre at St John’s College through to the biggest exposure of medieval buildings yet seen in Oxford at the Westgate Shopping Centre, excavations in …