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1	Peer Polity Interaction and Socio-Political Change more books like this by Colin Renfrew, John F Cherry add to wishlist Thirteen leading archaeologists have contributed to this innovative study of the socio-political processes - notably imitation, competition, warfare, and the exchange of material goods and information - that can be observed within early complex societies, particularly those just emerging into statehood. The common aim is to explain the remarkable ... see all copies from $23.61! new only from $23.61! \| SVS
2	Archaeologies of Sexuality more books like this by Schmidt Robert, Robert A Schmidt (Editor), Barbara L Voss (Editor) add to wishlist Status, age and gender have long been accepted aspects of archaeological enquiry, yet it is only recently that archaeologists have started seriously to consider the role of sex and sexuality in their studies. Archaeologies of Sexuality is the first volume to explore this original archaeological research and meet the challenges of integrating the ... see all copies from $19.04! new only from $53.14! \| SVS
3	Lines That Divide: Historical Archaeologies of Race, Class, and Gender more books like this by James A Delle (Editor), Stephen A Mrozowski (Editor), Robert Paynter (Editor) add to wishlist The division of human society by race, class, and gender has been addressed by scholars in many of the social sciences. Now historical archaeologists are demonstrating how material culture can be used to examine the processes that have erected boundaries between people. Drawing on case studies from around the world, the essays in this volume ... see all copies from $9.46! new only from $44.55! \| first editions
4	Theatre/Archaeology more books like this by Mike Pearson, Pearson Mike, Michael Shanks add to wishlist Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological framework. It facilitates a new way of investigating landscape and cityscape, and notions of ... see all copies from $37.46! new only from $37.46!
5	Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study more books like this by Bruce G Trigger add to wishlist This book offers the first detailed comparative study of the seven best-documented early civilizations: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Shang China, the Aztecs and adjacent peoples in the Valley of Mexico, the Classic Maya, the Inka, and the Yoruba. Unlike previous studies, equal attention is paid to similarities and differences in their ... see all copies from $24.29! new only from $27.91! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Iron Age Societies more books like this by Lotte Hedeager add to wishlist This book is a social, political and economic history of the 1200 years during which the tribal societies of Northern Europe evolved into the earliest Viking states. It offers an analysis and interpretation of the rich archaeological record and of the most recent results of environmental research. The book opens with a consideration of burials and ... see all copies from $20.45! first editions
7	Gender in Archaeology: Analyzing Power and Prestige more books like this by Sarah Milledge Nelson add to wishlist This new edition of the first comprehensive feminist, theoretical synthesis of the archaeological work on gender reflects the extensive changes in the study of gender and archaeology over the past 8 years. New issues - such as sexuality studies, the body, children, and feminist pedagogy - enrich this edition while the author updates work on the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.68! \| first editions \| SVS
8	People and Things: A Behavioral Approach to Material Culture more books like this by James Skibo, Michael B Schiffer add to wishlist The core of archaeology is the relationship between people and things. Left without informants and, in many cases, textual data, archaeologists strive to reconstruct past life through the window of artifacts: things made, used, and modified by individuals while participating in the activities of everyday life. According to behavioral ... see all copies from $18.32! new only from $18.33! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Gender Archaeology more books like this by Marie-Louise Stig Sorenson, Marie Louise Stig Srensen add to wishlist This major new textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing an innovative and important account of how material culture is used in the construction of gender. Throughout this lively and accessible text, Sorensen engages with the question of how gender is materially constituted, and examines the intersection of social ... see all copies from $12.29! new only from $33.74!
10	Archaeology of Asia more books like this by Miriam T Stark (Editor) add to wishlist This introduction to the archaeology of Asia focuses on case studies from the region's last 10,000 years of history. Comprising fifteen chapters written by some of the world's foremost Asia archaeologists, the book sheds light on many of the most compelling aspects of Asian archaeology, from the earliest plant and animal domestication to the ... see all copies from $34.83! new only from $34.83! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Reader in Gender Archaeology more books like this by Kelley Ann Hays-Gilpin (Editor), David S Whitley (Editor) add to wishlist This volume in gender archaeology presents 19 articles which confront and illuminate issues of gender in prehistory. It considers the question of gender difference and whether it is natural or culturally constructed. The articles here, which draw on evidence from a wide range of geographic areas, aim to demonstrate how all archaeological ... see all copies from $8.43! new only from $45.13! \| SVS
12 view cover	North American Archaeology more books like this by Emma Blake, Timothy R Pauketat (Editor), Diana DiPaolo Loren (Editor) add to wishlist This volume offers a rich and informative introduction to North American archaeology for all those interested in the history and culture of North American natives. It was organized around central topics and debates within the discipline. It was illustrated with case studies based on the lives of real people, to emphasize human agency, cultural ... see all copies from $37.27! new only from $37.27! \| SVS
13 view cover	The Interpretation of Archaeological Spatial Patterning more books like this by Ellen M. Kroll, T. Douglas Price add to wishlist see all copies from $49.72! new only from $49.72! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Archaeology of Rank more books like this by Paul K Wason add to wishlist Social archaeology is concerned with how one might use the archaeological record of the present to elucidate how social interactions were ordered in a past society. This requires a meaningful model of society, considerable archaeological data, and a reliable connection between them. A major goal of this book is to improve our understanding of one ... see all copies from $37.90! new only from $37.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Posing Questions for a Scientific Archaeology more books like this by Mr. Terry L Hunt, Carl P Lipo (Editor), Sarah L Sterling (Editor) add to wishlist This study focuses upon the interplay between theory, methods, and the generation of data from the archaeological record in pursuit of scientific explanations for historical change. It offers directions for building theoretically defensible results through exemplar case studies. see all copies from $11.95! new only from $11.95! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Archaeology of Class in Urban America more books like this by Stephen A Mrozowski add to wishlist No examination of contemporary urban communities would be complete without the discussion of class identity. But how did class identity inform the urban communities of yesteryear? Taking Newport, Rhode Island in the eighteenth century and Lowell, Massachusetts in the nineteenth century, at the peak of their economic powers when they represented ... see all copies from $73.05! new only from $75.70!
17 view cover	The Archaeology of the Colonized more books like this by Michael Given add to wishlist 'A commendable and exciting work...the author's interest in imperialism is bold and timely, as is his interest in promoting a bottom-up approach...a great opportunity to advance archaeological thought about imperialism.' Charles E. Orser Jr, Illinois State University '...a talented, innovative author...the topic is very interesting and important. ... see all copies from $37.43! new only from $37.43!
18 view cover	Earliest Italy: An Overview of the Italian Paleolithic and Mesolithic more books like this by Margherita Mussi add to wishlist This title offers a synthesis of Italian prehistory spanning more than 600,000 years beginning with the Lower Paleolithic and ending with the last hunter-gatherers. The author treats such issues as the development of social structure, the rise and fall of specific cultural traditions, climate change, and environmental adaptation and exploitation, ... see all copies from $87.85! new only from $87.85! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Darwinian Archaeologies more books like this by Herbert D. G. Maschner add to wishlist This unique work explores the fundamental importance of Darwinian theory to archaeology. Contributors describe the myriad of approaches that archaeologists have taken while investigating prehistory through a Darwinian paradigm. In addition, they provide an important theoretical and methodological foundation for the current state of the field. ... see all copies from $47.00! new only from $66.00! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	From Leaders to Rulers more books like this by Jonathan Haas add to wishlist What is the role of leadership in society? Why do people surrender their political autonomy to the decision-making authority of leaders and rulers? Why do people follow the commands of their leaders? Who gets to be king/chief/emperor and why? Why are some societies centralized while others are not? The papers in this volume draw on the ... see all copies from $46.94! new only from $46.94! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Archaeology of Everyday Life at Early Moundville more books like this by Gregory D Wilson add to wishlist This title defines household composition and social relationships at Moundville. Complex Mississippian polities were neither developed nor sustained in a vacuum. A broad range of small-scale social groups played a variety of roles in the emergence of regionally organized political hierarchies that governed large-scale ceremonial centers. Recent ... see all copies from $22.00! new only from $30.95! \| first editions
22 view cover	Agency in Archaeology more books like this by Dobres Marcia-A, Marcia-Anne Dobres (Editor), John E Robb (Editor) add to wishlist Agency in Archaeology is the first critical volume to scrutinise the concept of human agency and to examine in-depth its potential to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognise that humans make choices, hold intentions, and take actions. Their use offers archaeologists the means to move beyond broad structural or ... see all copies from $24.44! new only from $43.39! \| SVS
23 view cover	Houses and Households more books like this by Richard E Blanton add to wishlist The author presents a large comparative database derived from ethnographic and architectural research in Southeast Asia, Egypt, Mesoamerica, and other areas; proposes new methodologies for comparative analyses of houses; and critically examines existing methodologies, theories, and data. His work expands on and systematizes comparative and cross ... see all copies from $50.40! new only from $82.10! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Chaco Anasazi: Sociopolitical Evolution in the Prehistoric Southwest more books like this by Lynne Sebastian add to wishlist In the tenth century AD, a remarkable cultural development took place in the harsh and forbidding San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico. From small-scale, simply organised, prehistoric Pueblo societies, a complex and socially differentiated political system emerged which has become known as the Chaco Phenomenon. The origins, evolution, and ... see all copies from $26.73! new only from $36.22! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Material Culture and Mass Consumption more books like this by Daniel E Miller add to wishlist Drawing on a range of examples from Western and developing cultures, this book offers a re-reading of the contemporary society as the product of both individual and collective identity and behaviour. Marxist interpretations of the expansion in the range and number of material goods have tended to view people as estranged from the objects they ... see all copies from $23.42! new only from $29.90! \| SVS

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