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1. US Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology

   Soft Power, Hard Heritage

   By Christina Luke, Morag Kersel

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   Archaeology’s links to international relations are well known: launching and sustaining international expeditions requires the honed diplomatic skills of ambassadors. U.S. foreign policy depends on archaeologists to foster mutual understanding, mend fences, and build bridges. This book explores how...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean

   By Louise Steel

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   The importance of cultural contacts in the East Mediterranean has long been recognized and is the focus of ongoing international research. Fieldwork in the Aegean, Egypt, Cyprus, and the Levant continues to add to our understanding of the nature of this contact and its social and economic...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Prehistory of Iberia

   Debating Early Social Stratification and the State

   Edited by María Cruz Berrocal, Leonardo García Sanjuán, Antonio Gilman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   The origin and early development of social stratification is essentially an archaeological problem. The impressive advance of archaeological research has revealed that, first and foremost, the pre-eminence of stratified or class society in today’s world is the result of a long social struggle. This...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
4. Hadrian's Wall and the End of Empire

   The Roman Frontier in the 4th and 5th Centuries

   By Rob Collins

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   There is no synthetic or comprehensive treatment of any late Roman frontier in the English language to date, despite the political and economic significance of the frontiers in the late antique period. Examining Hadrian’s Wall and the Roman frontier of northern England from the fourth century into...

   Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. Tracing Prehistoric Social Networks through Technology

   A Diachronic Perspective on the Aegean

   Edited by Ann Brysbaert

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   This volume investigates smaller and larger networks of contacts within and across the Aegean and nearby regions, covering periods from the Neolithic until Classical times (6000–323 BC). It explores the world of technologies, crafts and archaeological 'left-overs' in order to place social and...

   Published October 24th 2011 by Routledge
6. Roman Urban Street Networks

   Streets and the Organization of Space in Four Cities

   By Alan Kaiser

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   The streets of Roman cities have received surprisingly little attention until recently. Traditionally the main interest archaeologists and classicists had in streets was in tracing the origins and development of the orthogonal layout used in Roman colonial cities. Roman Urban Street Networks is the...

   Published February 21st 2011 by Routledge
7. An Archaeology of Materials

   Substantial Transformations in Early Prehistoric Europe

   By Chantal Conneller

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   An Archaeology of Materials sets out a new approach to the study of raw materials. Traditional understandings of materials in archaeology (and in western thought more widely) have failed to acknowledge both the complexity and, moreover, the benefits of an analysis of materials. Here Conneller...

   Published December 8th 2010 by Routledge