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1. Social Approaches to an Industrial Past

   The Archaeology and Anthropology of Mining

   Edited by Eugenia W. Herbert, A. Bernard Knapp, Vincent C. Pigott

   Social Approaches to an Industrial Past addresses the social issues of mining communities in research spanning a period of 4,500 years. The volume considers themes which are relatively new to archaeology: * the social context of production * gender * power and labour exploitation * imperialism and...

   To Be Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean

   Mobility, Materiality and Identity

   Edited by Peter van Dommelen, A. Bernard Knapp

   Material Connections eschews outdated theory, tainted by colonialist attitudes, and develops a new cultural and historical understanding of how factors such as mobility, materiality, conflict and co-presence impacted on the formation of identity in the ancient Mediterranean. Fighting against ‘...

   Published September 22nd 2010 by Routledge