Material Culture Books

New and Published Books

1. An Archaeology of Images

   Iconology and Cosmology in Iron Age and Roman Europe

   By Miranda Aldhouse Green

   Using archaeology and social anthropology, and more than 100 original line drawings and photographs, An Archaeology of Images takes a fresh look at how ancient images of both people and animals were used in the Iron Age and Roman societies of Europe, 600 BC to AD 400 and investigates the various...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. Landscapes of the Western Front

   Materiality During the Great War

   By Ross Wilson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

   This book examines the British soldiers on the Western Front and how they responded to the war landscape they encountered behind the lines and at the front. Using a multidisciplinary perspective, this study investigates the relationship between soldiers and the spaces and materials of the...

   Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
4. Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture

   Edited by Juliette Fritsch

   Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

   Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery interpretation...

   Published May 17th 2011 by Routledge
5. 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
6. The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial

   By Paul Pettitt

   Humans are unique in that they expend considerable effort and ingenuity in disposing of the dead. Some of the recognisable ways we do this are visible in the Palaeolithic archaeology of the Ice Age. The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial takes a novel approach to the long-term development of...

   Published October 12th 2010 by Routledge
7. History and Material Culture

   A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

   Edited by Karen Harvey

   Series: Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources

   Sources are the raw material of history, but where the written word has traditionally been seen as the principal source, today historians are increasingly recognizing the value of sources beyond text. In History and Material Culture, Karen Harvey embarks upon a discussion about material culture –...

   Published March 9th 2009 by Routledge
8. Archaeological Artefacts as Material Culture

   By Linda Hurcombe

   This book is an introduction to the study of artefacts, setting them in a social context rather than using a purely scientific approach. Drawing on a range of different cultures and extensively illustrated, Archaeological Artefacts and Material Culture covers everything from recovery...

   Published November 26th 2007 by Routledge
9. Cultural Heritage

   Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Edited by Laurajane Smith

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Cultural Heritage is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. Edited by Laurajane Smith of the University of York, UK, this four-volume collection brings together the essential Anglophone literature of heritage studies. Encompassing both...

   Published December 6th 2006 by Routledge
10. Matters of Conflict

    Material Culture, Memory and the First World War

    By Nicholas J. Saunders

    Matters of Conflict looks at the definitive invention of the twentieth century - industrialised war - and its vast and varied material legacy. From trench art and postcards through avant-garde art, museum collections and prosthetic limbs to battlefield landscapes, the book examines the First World...

    Published August 25th 2004 by Routledge