Forthcoming Archaeological Science & Methodology Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Archaeology in Environment and Technology

   Intersections and Transformations

   Edited by David Frankel, Susan Lawrence, Jennifer Webb

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   Environments, landscapes, and ecological systems are often seen as fundamental by archaeologists, but how they relate to society is understood in very different ways. The chapters in this book take environment, culture, and technology together. All have been the focus of much attention; often one...

   To Be Published April 18th 2013 by Routledge
2. An Archaeology of Land Ownership

   Edited by Maria Relaki, Despina Catapoti

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   Within archaeological studies, land tenure has been mainly studied from the viewpoint of ownership. A host of studies has argued about land ownership on the basis of the simple co-existence of artefacts on the landscape; other studies have tended to extrapolate land ownership from more indirect...

   To Be Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
3. From Prehistoric Villages to Cities

   Settlement Aggregation and Community Transformation

   Edited by Jennifer Birch

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   Archaeologists have focused a great deal of attention on explaining the evolution of village societies and the transition to a ‘Neolithic’ way of life. Considerable interest has also concentrated on urbanism and the rise of the earliest cities. Between these two landmarks in human cultural...

   To Be Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
4. Open-Air Rock Art Conservation and Management

   Edited by Timothy Darvill, Antonio Batarda Fernandes

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   While much has been achieved in understanding and managing weather effects and erosion phenomena affecting ancient imagery within the relatively protected environments of caves and rock-shelters, the same cannot be said of rock-art panels situated in the open-air. Despite the fact that the number...

   To Be Published July 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. Science in the Study of Ancient Egypt

   By Sonia Zakrzewski, Andrew Shortland, Joanne Rowland

   There is a notable lack of archaeological science used in Egyptology and Egyptian archaeology today. The reasons behind this are twofold: one, the discipline started with the early translation of Hieroglyphs which, combined with the large amount of written and pictorial material available, has long...

   To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Human Conflict

   Edited by Christopher Knüsel, Martin Smith

   If human burials were our only window onto the past, what story would they tell? Skeletal injuries constitute the most direct and unambiguous evidence for violence in the past. Whereas weapons or defenses may simply be statements of prestige or status and written sources are characteristically...

   To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory

   Investigating the Missing Majority

   By Linda Hurcombe

   To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge